Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-26

| n touch with matters ID society anC
stageland there are soon to be two
more of the ties that bind" to weave
closer the connection between stage
and society.
Furthermore, these wise ones are
not at all backward in naming GER
tan offspring of the houses of Gould
and Astor as the bridegrooms in these
| two particular cases. There are hints
| galore about the love which Capt
William Aston ChanIer shows for one
OF the prettiest and most winsome girls
Of the stage. And, O course. she is
| wilIing-she would no be human if
she were not-after SD gets a divorce
Capt Chanler not ,ly has more
money than he can { i'd, but he is
bound by blood ties she real arts
tocracy of America, was gallant
soldier in the war with Spain and be-
came a member Of congress before he
was 80 years old.
Of course. there is only one of the
Gould boys whose name could now be
coupled in talk of marriage with a
divinity of the stage. This is young
Frank, the pet Of his brothers and sis
tiers.
He has developed a remarkable fond
ness for the society of actresses, and
why shouldn't he, with the beautiful
romances of his brothers George and
Howard constantly before him. If
there are two men in New York who
are happily married they are George
and Howard Gould, and both went to
the stage for their brides.
George Gould was the most persistent
and most ardent wooer seen in years
after he got glimpse of and an in
PRODUCTION to pretty Edith Kingdom.
This thoroughly charming and talent
ed little woman was the most fortu-
nate of all actresses when it comes to
talking about the winning of wealth.
Miss Kingdom was an amateur act
ress in Brooklyn before she found an
engagement at Days theater. There
her stay was brief, for George Gould
saw her before the late lamented
Augustin DAILY got much of a chance
to show what he could do in the way
Of making a Bernhard or a Rehan of
her. Now she has her Georgian court
at Lakewood, her city mansion, her
box at the opera, millions on millions
Of dollars, a devoted husband, and a
group of the brightest and protest
children to be found anywhere.
One of the stateliest beauties who
ever trod the boards" in America was
Katherine Clemmons, now Mrs. How
ard Gould. Her name before seeking
stage honors was Dayan, and she lived
in San Francisco. Early in her
career she attracted the attention of
Buffalo Bill (Col. William F. Cody,
who thought he saw in her a bud of
great genius, and he lost quite a sum
of money in starring her in this coun-
try.
1t was while she was acting, how
ever, that she made the success of her
life, for Howard Gould fell in love
with her as he saw her from the other
side of the footlights. The names Of
the two had been coupled for about
four years, until one day Miss Glenn
mons mother made the announce
ment in San Francisco that her daugh-
ter was to be we'd to Howard Gould
within a year. Sure enough, when
the year came around there was a
wedding, and they are still as happy
as a whole flock Of turtle doves.
Still another member Of the Gould
family was, according to all reports,
within a deuce of making a stage mar
riage Before Anna Gould became the
Countess CastelIane she was described
as having fallen in love with towhead-
ed young Harry Woodruff, who, while
he calls himself an actor, has been
too much petted and pampered to ever
become one in the full acceptance Of
the term.
George Gould is generally credited
with having broken off the match
which the youngsters contemplated.
With these examples before him, no
thing would be more natural than that
Frank Gould should cast his eyes
stageward for a mate. There must be
something Thespianish in the blood of
the Goulds.
Next to the actresses who married
GouIds, May Yohe probably comes first
IN prominence. In the achievement of
social station no player has ever
equaled this daughter of the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch. Her elevation is one of
the real romances of the stage. She
will soon be a Duchess Of England.
The daughter of Pennsylvania
tavern keeper, May Yohe drifted to the
stage without any particular qualifca-
ton for it. She was a chorus girl in
comic opera, drifted to Hoyt & Nc
Kee forces, then played small roles in
opera, until having exhausted her OPP
portunities for employment in New
York she went to London. There she
somehow attracted Lord Francis Hope,
and Of a sudden they were married.
Although the young lords marriage
to the deep-voiced actress was bitterly
opposed by his blue-blooded relatives,
Lady Francis has proved herself
worthy of being numbered with the
diplomats Of Europe. She has COM
pletely won over her motherin-law,
the dowager duchess Of Newcastle.
and they are seen together almost con-
stantly.
The marriage of Julia Arthur to
Benjamin P. Cheney was an unusual
result of the business alliance exist
ing between a theatrical angel and
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