The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-07
TO WE'D A MILLIONAIRE
Success of HiIda Clark Succeed
ed by Brilliant Marriage
other News of the Theaters
and Players

king Of Wal street
The situation is not new. yet interest
In it never pals.
This time the siren IS charming and
popular; the knight is worthy and
wealthy. terms that have been synony-
nous in the house Of Flower since "
first gave to the state a governor. says
the New York Journal in telling the
love story Of the Kansas prina donna
who lived at Leavenworth-
The late Roswell P. Flowers nephew
Frederick s. Flower. has suceumbed
to the lovely prima donna who Is
known to tleater goers as Hilda Clark
Current gossip vouches for this al
least For the rest the young couple
in the fashion OF the day, are coy.
Ask the lady and she Will say; I'll
neither affirm nor deny"
Ask the gentleman and he win hest
tate. twirl his mustache and-decline
to answer.
Yet
The gossips declare there isn't a
doubt that they are engaged
Why should there be2
Hilda Clark won the hearts Of the
public long before the late Roswell P
Flowers nephew became her slave.
She sang her way into favor in stage
write this climax to the greatest of her
own
All America knows her Graceful she
is, and charming, with a voice of mu-
SIC. a daughter Of the gods divinely
fair
one may add, too. more than com
mon tall for IIilda Clark measures
as high as tn average man
The manner of her carriage the grace
of her movement give the general i'm
preston that she IS no taller than a
woman should be. Neither is she. If ali
women had the grace to carry them
selves as does Hilda Clark.
Her admirers claim for her five feet
ten inches height that fitted her adj
mirably for The Highwayman. IN
which she became famous as Lady Sin
clair. and exguisitely for Maid Marian.
the heroine OF Robin Hood, in which
she made her first real hit.
Possibly Fred" Flower saw her then
In common with the great public, who
night after night hailed the new prima
donna who had been selected to sue
coed Camille DArville, then reIgning
favOrite-
This was more than six years ago.
Camille D Arville had had some trouble
with the Bostonians, and had left
them.
In Leavenworth. Kan. there was a
charming society belle dancing and
singing her way into the hearts of the
lOngsd TO what IS known as the fash
ionable set She was young and beau
utul, she was uncommOnly tail. with
masses Of curls that looked like gold
when the rays of the sun struck them.
She sang her way to the top notch OF
popularity.
The army men used to desert their
barracks 10 listen to Hlda Clark when
she sang for the benefit of some pet
charity or in school exhibitions of
which she was the leading feature
Like many girl with or without
talent she dred1nr of the day when
her public should be gathered from be-
yOnd the confines of LeaVenworth and
the little world that claimed her as
our Hilda."
Her fame unknown to her had spread
and when she came to New York in the
season Of 1893 she had no difficulty in
obtaining a hearing.
Not long afterward she found her
SELF 2 n eInber of the celahra ted re-
dOubtable. uneXcelled Bostonians She
had stepped with a bound into the
shoes OF the leading woman She had
replaced Camille D'Arville as the primn
donna OF one OF the most famous light
opera Organiza tions in America
How they rejOiced in LeavenWorth
Htldas old homei How they went
about saying to one another over and
over again, Didn't we know2 Didn't
We always say sou
Tire quality for success was born
with Hilda Clark She had a natural
10
She captivated without effort She
seemed to win the hearts of people as
easily as she smiled. and as she sr7fleI
constantly You can calculate for YOUR
SELF how many hearts she must have
conquered
Therefore no one was in the least
surprised when it first came to be ru-
mored that Fred Flower. the young
the Kansas siren.
So many people could understand
Just why.
They smiled approval when thew
heard that Miss Clark. ACCOMPANIED bv
her mother and sister. had accepted IN
invitation to go yachting with volIne
ar. ttoWer on his new boat. the Yer
CANA
They predict that at the end of the
Sacnting season the wedding bells will
ring and the Bostonians viii have to re-
place their captivating prima donna
Lou4ss MT rloWer, nephew and chief
netr Of the late governor and EaT
street ulasnale, IS an ACKNOWLEDGED
power in the banking house where T3os
wen p Flower once reigned stnrer7e
~ the terms of his uncle's Will he v-as
~ only created partner. but endow-
cd with a fortune.
Inc future Of Hilda Clark looks a.
bright as her friends believe If sho,,is
clouded- H
She IS too pretty and popular to have
mac only admirers.
There are those who will remember
an episode that once gave her the
pseudonym Of the rival prima donna ,
As she had once been called r. ~ar9lsC.s
camille ID Arville. so once was the lat
ter called upon to replace her.
The opera was The Hfghvvavrnar, 80
. De koVen and Smith For the first
one hundred performances Hilda Clark
appeared in the leading role of I.adv
Sinclair Then suddenly without. AZ far
as the public could understood 49,
or reason. il was announced +n3+ -
would be replaced 1bv Camille ~ -
a merry war ensued Miss CLARK
since she had contract for the seaso4,
VS. e receive her salary and fal.s r.