The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-24
That Case,

NEW YoRK, Nov. 2S.-Thcatrical Man.
acer Edward Hume has instructed Law
yer Edmund E. Price to begin an action
for divorce against his wife, Charlotte
Behrens, the actress, and Robert Man
tell is named as correspondent. Al
though until yesterday Mr.. Hume be.
lieyed that all knowledge OF tho matter
was confined to Lawyer Price and him
self, half the players in and out OF town
have made common gossip OF it for
weeks.
1t promises to be one OF tho most rO-
markablo actions OF the kind ever ca!en-
dared in a New York court. Misc BEN
rens is an uncommonly handsome and
attractive person. Mr.. Hume, who is
also fine looking, is q manager OF excel
lent reputc. He is, aud has been for q
season or two, manager OF "lhe Fire
Patrol." OF course he and she arothe
central figures in this particular case,
but there are others equally well known
among players who are interested i'll
the contest between Mr.. and Mrs. Hume.
In fact, Robert Mantell, Charlotte
Behrens, Mr.. Hume and Mrs. Mantell
are all mixed up in this matrimonial
ola proIrida, while Rose Coghl N serves
as q sort Of rabasco sauce to season the
ingredients OF the bubbling stew. This
il not altogether fresh Jews to the MEM
bors OF tho players fraternity, for it has
been leaking out in dPiblets ever since
MIR. ManlolI appeared rs Orlando in the
Arcadian performance OF "As You Like
It,"under themanagementof "Johnny"
Hickey and Harry Lee in Saratoga last
fall.
Ono divorce, another on the books
and a shocked actress made up the
story OF the drama that viii be played
in the courts under the commonplace
title oil Hume ". Hume, and if all those
capable OF giving spicy evidence are
called, it will indeed be q hummer. AS
the story goes, Miss Behren+. who has
for two or three seasons been Mr..
Mantelfs leading woman, accompanied
him to Saratoga. lie was lonesome and
wanted an amanuensis, but when he
tried 10 induce Messrs. Lee and Hickey
to loot the bills of his fair companion,
those who happenedto he standing by
declare that Mr.. Hickey's vehement re-
fusal might have been heard in Con-
necticut. AS Miss Behrens had no con-
nection with "As You Like It," except
as Orlaudo's companion. the manage
ment would not pay her hotel bill or
railroad fares. In consequence OF that
decision a glacier some fifty feet thick
and nobody knows how high wasquick-
" formed between Mr.. Lees partner on
one side and Mr.. Mantell and Miss
Behrens IN the other.
Mise Coghlan has engaged to play
Rosalind 10 Mr.. M%antelts Orlando. She
is said to be a great stickler for the pro.
prieties, and che was so nightly grieved
by the presence of Miss Behrens at a
breakfast takle adjoining her own in the
Grand Union Hotel that she tlnunced
out OF the room in high dudgeon.
"Here's a howdy dol" said the actors
about town, Miss Rose is becoming
representative"
The story was a nine days wonder,
and if Miss Coghlan really know how
the players made merry owe her flight
from feminine contamination she might
have the laughers up with q round
legal term. Mrs. Manlell heard Of her
husbands didos with Miss Behrens in
Saratoga, and as it wal not his first
fault she brought suit to have her mar
rage annulled, naming Miss Behrens
as Correspondent. As Mr.. Mantell did
not oppose his wife's action she OBJ
tanned a divorce.
Mr.. Hume, who was seen in Port
chester last night, said: ut is true
that l have begun suit for divorce from
my wife, Miss Behrens. / have not
seen her since September 90, 1892,
when she came to see me in Buffalo.
We stayed two days in the Iroquois
Hotel. Then she went away. ! have
not seer her since. Mr.. Mantell and
she were ~inseparable. My first doubts
we're raised when I heard of her accom-
panying Mantell to Saratoga. a little
later two OF her sisters told me some
sad things about her. Yes, Mantell will
be named as correspondent. Yes, we
had one child-a girl. Thank God, she
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