Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-12

left no marks upon her, and that when
the dishes were overturned in Atlanta
none of them hit her. He seemed en-
ragged at her and at the press reports
a combination of the two. His income
while he was with her, she said, was
sufficient" She did not know what
1t had been since that time.
In the redirect examination of Mrs.
Taber by Mr.. Stickney, she stated that
she had not received a single dollar
from her husband since January, 1897.
Fred Stinson, now dead, was the act
i've manager of Julia Marlowe for sew
eral years, and his shrewd business
methods did much to make the actress
a financial success, as previous to his
assuming control of her business af-
fairs a large amount of money had
been lost in the effort to establish her
as a paying star. Col. Robert E. j.
Miles, one of the lessees Of the Bijou
Theater, in this city, gave Miss Mar
lowe an opportunity to play Parthenia
in "Ingomar" at a matinee on October
q, 1887. The young girl had been
coached by Ada Dow Currier. She was
praised warmly by the critics.
A Sixth venue restauranter furnish
ed $4,000 to finance a subsequent star
ring tour. The money was lost quick
ly. Other hackers appeared, and a
photographer of this city, tia is said,
even mortgaged his studio and its con-
tents to prove his belief in Miss Mar
loves ability. Then Fred Stainson was
employed, and the studio was free from
membranes and profits amounting
to S40.0 900 were divided annually be-
tween those controlling the actresses
tours.
Robert Taber, a Princeton graduate,
scion of a Staten Island family, had
taken to the professional stage after a
successful career as an amateur, and
was engaged by Stinson as the leading
man for Miss Marlowe. Stinson, the
astute manager, quickly noticed signs
of affection OF his stars part for her
handsome leading man, and ~foreseeing
the Inevitable result, declined to renew
Mr.. Taber's contract. In a delicate
way he limited his reasons to Miss Mar
lowe. Whatever the conversation be-
tween them was, it seemed satisfactory,
and the manager, at the end of the
season in '93, retired to his cottage on
Nantucket Island.
Three guests were at dinner with him
there one day when a telegram was
handed to him. He left the island by
the next boat. 81 shall not be gone
long" he said to his guests; probably
not more than three days"
Four weeks passed before his guests
heard from him directly, though vague
rrmors penetrated even to that isolated
spot.
The same steamer that had borne
Miss Marlowe to Europe on her annual
trip, also had carried Robert Taber.
Stinson had reached New York in time
to see the actress before she sailed and
had learned the news that meant the
ruin of his hopes. The trade mark,
Julia Marlowe," that he had worked
so assiduously to develop and which
conservatively represented a valuation
of half a million dollars, had been hand
ed as a present 10y a woman to the man
she loved.
When Stinson reappeared in Nan
tucket he had aged twenty years, and
was seriously i'll for a long time. But
he kept his contract faithfully, dying
two weeks after its expiration, in June,
1895.
When the theatrical season was re-
sumed in the fall of 1892, Taber was not
a member of the Marlowe Company,
but at the end of the tour in May, 1894,
he met Miss Marlowe in Philadelphia,
and they were married there on May
27, in St. James Church.
Julia Marlowe" a lost to the pub
lie for two years, as 'fMr. and Mrs. Ia
ber'' were the words spelled in big
black letter on the bill boards, and such
plays as "Ingomar," "Pygmalion and
Galatea'' were shelved, when the bare
announcement, preyiousl-., that Miss
Marlowe would appear in them was suf-
fcient to sell every seat in the thea
ire.
Plays that gave Mr.. Taber
prominence than his wife were sub
stituted, as the loving woman in the
fullness of her affection was not only
willing but anxious to bestow every