The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-09
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| goes on. The growth of stock compan-
| les give the opportunity for husbands
and wives to be in the same organiza-
ton, and 1 have yet to hear of such
| a condition decreasing the artistic ex-
| cellence of either Yes. theatrical peo-
pie should certainly marry when they
| meet those whom they can really love
| and respect in their own profession
| ASK me something easy" said Thorn
as q. Seabrooke, one Of the numerous
actors who are paying alimony. How
| do l know whether or not theatrical
people should marry? l suppose some
of them should, and then others
shouldn't. | know some people who
| have proved themselves everlasting
idiots by permitting themselves to get
| entangled in the so-called holy bonds
| of wedlock. 1t would certainly be
| whole lot of money in their pocket if
they never had married. and my ld-
| vice to any person contemplating the
| step. either in or out of the profession
would be to take a good hard think be-
fore doing anything of the kind. There
rs whole lot in the argument that. as
rule, if two professional people marry,
either one or the other will prove a
| drag. Managers will want one of the
! couple and not the other, and the re-
suit is that if they stick together the
! better of the two will have to take
| a poor engagement. There is one good
| thing about theatrical marriage. and
that is divorce-I mean when it is COM
ing your way. and when the alimony
J proposition is on the other side. Look
| ing at the question in the abstract |
can only quote Patrick Henry on the
| subject. That celebrated gentleman
said: AS for me, give me liberty, or
| give me DEATH and / have yet to dis
cover dictionary in which marriage
| is described as liberty
Il regard marriage" said Marie
| Dressler. "as something like cham
| payne. 1t agrees with some people and
others it makes deadly sick. I haven't
word to say against those who want
| to go and get married. Everybody has
| got right to be foolish at least once
| in their lives, and as long as they don't
| go around raking society up by the
| roots, there is no reason why they
should necessarily be sent to Bloom
| ingdale. AS for me, have no use for
| a lord and master. / am quite capable
of taking care of myself without being
| bossed around and l don't see why /
| should have to look sorrowful because
some man happens to have a toothache.
don't think that people are altogether
| sane when they deliberately go and get
married, or else they would not do 1t.
1t is a temporary insanity of a kind
| that is easily cured by Abe Hummel.
Do you know he's about the greatest
little man that ever was invented, and
| some of these days the grateful profess
sion will raise a monument to him
bigger than the obelisk. He has done
more to insure real peace among stage
folk than all the ministers in the world
have done to disturb 1T, and if that
| isn't great record, pray what is 1T?
OF course resumed Miss Dresser, Il
don't set myself up as paragon of
wisdom. / have several married people
among my acquaintances, and / never
hurt their feelings by telling them
how foolish ] think they are. On the
other hand, l try to humor them and
make them believe they are really sane
and are being punished without due
| and sufficient process of law. On the
other hand, | don't want them to be
| extensively effusive about welded bliss,
I and to have them try to make me be
lieve / don't know when / am well off.
I'll let them alone if they will let me,
and there you are
Walter Jones approves of the matri-
monial idea. Get married? Why I
should say so, old chap. Maybe not in
The profession, you know, but get mar
ried if you meet the right woman any
how. | think you put the question in too
restricted a form. You shouldn't force
theatrical people to marry each other
any more than you would make doctors
marry doctors daughters, Then again,
as l have said, it all depends upon
whom you want to marry Wen, as l
riage ought to be a corking good thing,
and the wrong kind of a marriage
ought to be the worst ever ! admit
that 1T takes man good while some
times to find the right woman, or a
woman to find the right kind of a man,
but when they do they should just throw
out grapplers and get tied up together
as strong as the law allows. Don't
construe these remarks to mean that /
have thrown out kedge anchors, but
well, If you want to say anything at
all about me. you can say that l haven't
got thing to say against marriage,
and don't propose to hunt around look
ing for anything to say against it,
either. Why, l know lots of people
on the stage who are married.
1t is quite probable. says the New
York Evening Sun, that Miss Reha
will not remain member of the Daily
company after next season. Her health
has been poor for a long time, the
death of Mr.. DAILY being a tremendous
shock to her, and her heart has never
been in the melodramatic role which
she played in THE Great Ruby" If
Ada Rehan consents to create the lead
ing role in the melodrama which is 10
be produced in London in September,
1t will he because she desires to carry
out the plans of her dead manager as
far as it lies within her power. But it
would be too much to expect of any
actress of Miss Rehan's standing that
she should consent permanently to
bury her splendid art in rubbishy ,dra-
matte roles. What Miss Rehan needs
now is a powerful modern play and
unfortunately she is far likeler to find
it in England than on this side of the
water.
Raphael Joseffy will make a tour COW
ering the principal cities of the United
States. commencing the early part of
November, appearing in recitals only
The programme selected from his ax-
tensive repertoire will be interesting as
well as instructive. as he will combine
the classics with novelties. He will
be heard in works which have not been
played by any other pianist before. L.
H. Ruben of the Metropolitan opera
house. who is arranging the Joseffy
recital tour states that Joseffy will