The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-10

several times. and each time I discharged
you. but it seems as ii my leniency had
done you no good"
The old actor. with tears IN his eyes,
pleaded in a trembling voice:
Please release me this time. / promise
you / will not trouble you any more. |
cannot drink much. and the little | take
affects me so that 1 loce all control over
Magistrate Crane looked at the man a mo-
ment and replied:
L will let you go. l hope that you do
reform and that you will never be before
me again
The actor bowed his head, thanked the
court aud left the room.
A New York writer tears the mask off
the love business on the stage in the fol-
lowing manner: Under the argument of
similia similibus c%urantur it frequently hap
pens that actors who love each other
vehemently on the stage hate each other in
the greenroom. We have observed Jean De
Reszke embracing Nine. Nordica tenderly
in the opera when he would as lief have
kissed any other prima donna. For nigh a
dozen years Herbert Kelley and Georgia
Cayvan were violently enamored of each
other in the play, but in private life no
shatchen of genius could make a match be-
tween them. TIL number of times that
John Drew protested that he loved Ada
Rehan passed all telling, yet he married
another and left Miss Rehan d spinster,
with indeed no pangs at the loss of her
ancient Wooer. While they held the center
OF Wallack's stage and sighed themselves
into a fever Of passion Tor each other,
Annie Robe and Kyrle Bellew were dead
ly enemies off the scenes. Yet there are
exceptions TO this as to other rules, and
occasionally it is to be noted that actors
carry out in private life what they profess
in public. While she was acting in The
Dancing Girl E. II. Sothern fell in love
with Virginia Harmed, and was as good
as his word TO her when the play was over.
When he was engaged as her tenor Signor
lian Russell that she began by wishing that
heaven had made her such a man and
ended by arguing that HEAVIER. had. Fritz
Williams and Katherine Florence, having
long loved each other in the series of Ly-
ceum comedies, finally took the matter to
heart and got married in reality. This the
alter also affords the latest instance of the
fact that a gallant young fellow cannot love
a beautiful young woman without eventual
ly declaring his intentions and carrying her
TO the altar. 1t was only a few months ago
that Shatchen trohman introduced James
X. Hackett to Mary Manner1ng and set
them to love making, with consequences
that appear as natural to us as they are
~discomfting to the matchmaking manager.
But Mr.. Erohman has only himself to
blame for the accident that has upset his
calculations, because no man of sentiment
could learn, even in the play, that SO sweet
a maid as Mary Mannering Is enamored of
him without reciprocating her passion.
Therefore, while sympathizing with Daniel
Frohman in the prospective loss Of one
of his actors, we think it serves him right,
and though he may stop his paper and re-
fuse to give us further passes Tor the play,
this journal continues to sing, in the words
and music of Richard Wagner, Hail to- the
Bridegroom and TO the Bride and means
to have rice and slippers in hardness for
the happy event"