Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-26
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Recently Divorced from the scoics
Lmssio and Married 60 One OF tho
Chorus-AlI Playing in the same
Company

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Mecenuy Divorced from the scoicS
Eassie and Married 60 one OF she
Chorus-All Playing in the Same
Company.
Apropos OF Miss JEANNE Winston and
Arthur Bell, both of whom are members
of the Academy Opera Company, and
were heard in leading roles during
Its engagement here, writer in the
Philadelphia Press about 10 days ago
gives the folio wing romance, the truth uf
which is youched for BY the members OF
the same company:
The marriage IN New York yesterday Of
Arthur He'll to Miss Annie Carmen is the
latest and not the lens, interesting chapter
in romantic story of which JEANNE
Winston the priml donnn, is the heroine
aud leading character Miss Winston had
left her native heather, bnt was still little
more than a bonnie, tall, Scotch lassie,
dulighting rough audiences in far-off
Australia and New Zn,dAiid with her ring
ing voice, qntint eouccits of acting and
her sturdy personal Independence, when
she met Arthur Bell, u young and good
looking Son OF well-known English
family. His pleasant face and lowland
grRces won the lovely Highland singers
heart, aud, ms Jennie WINSTON and her
husband, y Mrs. and Mr.. dell continued
the fayorites Of the Australasian public.
Finally they sought other lands, and at
length in California, renewed their tri-
umpbs. Mrs. Bell became the acknowl-
edged queen of the Pacific Slope, singing
through all the mining towns and even up
into Oregon and Washington Territory.
Bell developed an ability to sing about
so-so, act rather cleyerly and manage q
stage very well.
All this time the couple were as affec-
tionate as feathered songsters on st. VAL
entine's Day. A model wife and husband
delighting in nothing SO much as in set
Ting down in one place long enough TO
rent-or, las was not infrequent, accept from
some admirer the use OF little cottage,
where Mrs. Bell exercised housekeeping
and home-making talents that made ad-
mittance to the family board treat as
eagerly sought as freely extended.
A few years ago Mr.. and Mrs. Bell first
appeared in the east, and Mrs. Bells sue
cess was gratifyingly rapid. Rather
strangely, however, it was with the ladies
and not with the men, that she was the
chief faNorite. In all the large cities she
became an object of the respectful adora.
ton of scores of school girls, and ever
females of maturer growth, who wor.
shipped at her shrine in much the same
manner as that in which the dudes bow
down before the average light opera prime
donna. Most of her flowers came from
the ladies, and of the abundant more sub
stantial offerings that she received, fully
nine-tenths bore the cards of feminine ad
mirers. This was as true and probabl,
more true in Philadelphia than anywhere
else, unless it might be Baltimore, wher,
her friends of the gentler sex were 8,
numerous that she was compelled to Sc
apart one day in each week as reception
day for them, and has been visited by Al
many as 80 in one such day. Her las
engagement in Philadelphia was tive
seasons ago, when she sang in McCaulr
company at Haverly's Theatre all winter
The next season she returned with he
husband to Portland, Oregon. where the,
opened new theatre, and sang in LON
repertoire of light opera until late las
spring, renewing her old Pacific slop
triumphs in the best theatrical season eve
known there outside of San Francisco
One token she received was an elegan
watch and chain, formally presented {
Mr.. and Mrs. Bell returned fro1
Oregon together, but separate. Mr.
Bells friends say she had outgrown hin
Mr.. Bells friends say it was simply
gradual drifting apart and into mutui
agreement TO disagree. Both say this
there was no quarrel or scandal connecte
with it. Both engaged for a season ,
baltimore and Washington, she as prin
df,yHnQ and hn ao efa T.. A
company the, played together withoI
the slightest friction. Mr.. Bell direete
Miss Winston as to her entrances m
exits, her poses and movements, an
Miss Winston consulted Mr.. Bell abol
the music or business of her part
coolly and indifferently as though thu
had never been anything more TO ca.
other than stage manager and star. Whe
her roll required it Miss Winston thre
herself into Mr.. Bells arms with the CHI
passion of Mary Anderson, and M
Bell pressed upon her ruby lips q care
as Underwent as though he were ten
with-a wife in the lower box. Outside
the theatre they never spoke.
In their social relations the promine
feature was a general rivalry as to wi
could be most circumspect. Miss Wi
ston was ice to male admirers. Mr.. B.
resented with maiden coyness the s
ogles of the ardent chorus girl. If al
worm preyed at the heart of either. tn,
appearance did not show it. Miss Wi
ston gained new weight and color. n
Bell was more gracious and smiling til
ever.
Mr.. Bells maidenly reserve prov
than that of his nominal wife no
ever, and early this fall it becal
appSxent that Cupid's arrow had OIL
more pierced his heart winged this til
with the short blonde locks of pleasai
plump Miss Annie Carmen of Brook,
~ one of the chorus girls. Their engal
ment was formally announced some ii
ago, though just how the thing was goi
to happen nobody seemed to know, in
much as there was already one Mrs. B
in the land of the living.
A mutual agreement is said to have
fected the removal of this obstacle il
New York court yesterday morning, 9
in the afternoon Miss Cameron beca
Mrs. Bell, the original IN that role lego
gaining what she had some time assum
the right to be known as Miss Jean
Winston.
Mr.. Bell and Miss Winston and n
Carmen have re-engaged in the compa
and play together in every performar
They look at their separation in a bl
ness point of view and never let it in
fere with their work or make their
pleasant differences noticeable to
audiences. A careful spectator
notice, however, that only when the |
requires it does the one give an ear OF
eye to the work of the other. They
tOOafhar no mora than 10 raa,ui
Although they travel by same coach
Miss Winston frequently dimes at
same table with her former husband
his wife, they never stop over n
at the same hotel.
The Short Hair Craze.
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