Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-21
A SOCIETY STARTLER.
Minnie Seligman Married to One of
New York's Swell Club Men.
LIVINGSTON CUTTING THE GROOM,
And He appears 10 Re the Happiest Man in
the retrorolis.
THE COUPLE NOW ON THEIR HONEYMOON
rsPEcrAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH


NEW YORK, Aug 20-The tongues Of
people of fashion, not only in this city, but
at the summer resorts, will be wagging to-
morrow as they have not wagged for months.
1t became known tonight that Robert
Livingston Cutting, Jr., the well known So
ciety man, club man, and amateur actor,
had married the still better known Minnie
Seligman, the actress. Anything that a
scion OF the Cutting family does is of inter-
est to society, but the news that Cutting,
and Livingston Cutting, too, had married
an actress, q divorced actress, was start
ling.
The marriage ceremony took place in the
house of Rev. DR.. Frank L. Humphreys, an
Episcopal clergyman, at Monmouth Beach
on July %. Mr.. Cutting met Miss Selig-
man for the first time on July 2. So rapid
was the courtship that before four weeks
elapsed Miss Seligman had become Mrs.
Cutting. No one, not even the closest
friends of the bride and groom, knew any
thing about the marriage until August 8,
when Mr.. Cutting went to Saratoga TO tell
his father. and Mrs. Cutting came to this
city to visit friends.
Just Starting on Their Honeymoon.
Mr.. Cutting returned from Saratoga on
August 10, and since then he and his wife
have been living with friends at the San
Reno Hotel. This afternoon Mr.. and Mrs.
Cuttings sisters house, at 119 West
SeventY-eighth street, and after three
hours visit there they left town on what
Mr.. Cutting terms their honeymoon.
Mr. Cutting was seen at his sister in-law's
house before he and his wife went away.
"I went to Long Branch on July 2" he
said, ''for a few days rest I Twas quite
alone. I stopped at the West End Hotel
1t so happened that Miss Seligman,
now nv wife, Mrs. Cutting, was at the
same place. She was under the cbaperon-
age of DR.. and Mrs. Baruch. 1t was quite
lonely down there, so on july DR.. Baruch
presented me to Miss Scligrnan. What
happened from July to July % is, of
course, out of place here, but at o'clock
on the evening Of July 2S Miss Seligman
and drove over to Rev. Dr.. Humphreys
house and were married. The ceremony
was performed between and 9 o'clock.
After the ceremony we drove back to the
West End Hotel and stayed there until
August 3, when I started for Sarntoga and
Mrs Cutting came to her fathers house, at
192 West Ninety-seventh street.
Knrw Ills Wife rs an Actress.
.Dia you know Miss Seligman before
you met her on July AZ" was asked.
81 have seen her frequently" said Mr..
Cutting, after due deliberation, but I
never knew her personally. However,"
he added, with emphasis, 81 knew her rep
utation as an actress, and all about her"
'Did your father know you were going
to marry her?" was asked
mo, he did pot," said Mr.. Cutting. 81
went up to Saratoga to see him on August
8. You know he is up there for his health.
He was slightly vexed because 1 had not
told him, but he offered no other objec-
tion."
"Did he know Miss Seligman7"
"Oh, yes, he knew her before did. And
then, of course, like everybody else, he
knew her as an actress. He was not very
angry. stayed at Saratoga with him over
a week, Then came back to my wife We
have since been staying with friends. We
are going away to-day" he continued, 'to
be gone some time. We are not going to
Bar Harbor or Saratoga, bat are going away
for quiet honeymoon.
"What are Mrs. Robert Livingston Gut
ting, Jr's, plans for the coming season."
was asked. "Will she keep her engage
ment with Frank w. Ssnger?"
Plans Settled on, but Not Given Out.
"We have settled our plans as far as to
that contract with Mr. Sanger. cannot
say what we will do after that.
''Are you going on the professional
stage?" was asked.
Mr.. Cutting started nervously. II can
not speak just now about that. Our plans
are not definitely settled" he replied.
Speaking OF his family. Mr.. Cutting re-
peated the story of his fathers reception of
the news, renarking "that he hoped he
would come around all right" His mother,
he said, was in Europe, and did not yet
know of his marriage. OF his clubs and
club friends, he said that he was member
of the Union, Racquet and Fencers' Clubs.
'sYou can tell my club friends that have
nothing to say to them about my marriage"
said Mr.. Cutting.
At the Union Club the members were in
clined to discredit the story of Mr.. Cut
ting's marriage. "Cutting is full of fun,"
said one of the members, "and it may be
that this is all joke"
Minnie Seligman's life has been full of
romance, as the lives OF actresses 60 She
has been before the public only little
more than five years, and in all that time
it has been the boast of her friends that she
never made failure. In few weeks, II
her marriage has not interfered, she is to be
D full-fedged star, with brand new play,
q big company, and a shrewd manager in
Frank w. Sanger, late of the Broadway
Theater.
Something of the Brides Life.
Minnie Seligman Is a German Hebrew,
The daughter Of s. j. Seligman, of this city.
she is not vet 80. In 1886 she be-
came the wife of DR.. Eugene j. Kaufman,
who was at that time "a years old. He had
been boyish friend of Miss Seligman, and I
their families had long known each other.
By and BY there were actual outbreaks in
the Kaufman household. There were
charges and counter-charges by husband
and wife, and after awhile there was an ap-
plication for absolute divorce. The
wife filed it in the court, and
DR.. Kaufman, after o spirited re-
ply, suddenly withdrew all opposition to
The suit On Tuesday, May 13, 1890, Min
ME Seligman received an absolute divorce
from Judge Andrews in the Supreme Court.
By the decree DR.. Kaufman was forbid.
den to marry again in this State until the
death or marriage of Miss Seligman. He
found way to circumvent the always elastic
divorce law. On the afternoon of the day
the divorce he drove to Mayor
Office in the City Hall, Jersey
City, and there the Mayor married him to
Miss Mary Helena Sykes, q tall and very