The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-19
She WANTS TO
ACT AGAIN.
Helen BauWay Once More Seeks
the Glare Of Stags|and.
WIFE OF NAVY LIEUTENANT.
First Husband Was John Montgomery Ward
Tho Noted PiiChsr Ct tae Old Providence
Baseball Team
WIFE OF NAVY LIEUTENANT.

New York Jan. 1s.-Helen Dauvray.
once an actress and wife of John Mont
gomery Ward, pitcher for the Providence
National baseball team and later captain
OF the New York baseball team. but who
left the stage for domestIcity as the
spouse of Lieut.. A. G. Wiltenhalten. u. S.
n, after divorcing the balltosser. longs
to again hear the fiutter OF admiring APP
plause as 1t accompanies the full play of
the calcium over the footiights. To be
explicit, she Is seeking another theatrical
engagement
Miss Dauvray created excitement In
the offices OF several Broadway managers
yesterday or rather her clothes did. with
the modest aid OF an extensive array OF
diamonds. Nothing quite so gorgeous as
she was gladdens the atmosphere or
these dens this late day In the season.
That Miss Dauvray drove up with a
carriage and pair and two liveried SER
wants, helped produce symptoms of heart
failure.
Miss Dauvray, after making herself
known and remarklng that her address
for an indefinite period is the Waldorf
Astoria. explained that she does not care
TO return to the stage permanently.
FOR \ SHORT IIME ONLhs
She is merely revertlug TO II as q
means of lighting of enuui for couple
OF years while her husband Is In the
Orient on business for the flag. She has
tened to state n has been no awaken
Ing from her second loves young dream
and that no legal proceedings Will follow
her reassuming Of the mantle of Thespis.
Her latest marriage. she says, has
proved most happy and peaceful. too, In
spite OF the fact that she followed her
husband into the waters Of Cuba, Manila
and China when his ship carried him
there i'm the recent unpleasantness.
Miss Dauvray received encouragement
from two managers. and she may act IN
New York before the end OF many weeks.
They listened readily when it developed
she did not desire to star. The personal
adornment and the equipage at the door
had raised doubts What she wishes Is a
good part I'm which she may prove her
self as winsome a comedenne as when
she captured the stern heart of the ball
player.
In those days, ten or twelve years ago,
Helen Dauyray WAS accounted one of the
| most popular actresses I'm this city. She
| has retained much OF her former beauty
| of face and form.
SHE rs RELATED TO DE YOUNG.
| MISS l)auNray came 10 4NtW ioEh run
! San Francisco. She Is niece OF NJ n.
| dc Young proprietor OF the Chronicle OF
| the California city. and has much money
| i'm her own right. Her marriage with
! Ward attracted almost national attention,
! for at that time baseball was I'm its hey
| dey OF popularity, and Ward was one OF
| It's most famous opponents, known from
| one end of the country 10 the other.
| The union was digcordant almost from
| the start Mrs Ward returned 10 the
stage soon after the wedding, though she
had intended retiring There were recon-
! citations twice, but each time domestic
! dissensions soon developed The end was
| that she secured a divorce.
! Mrs. Ward and Wiltenhalten were mar
| ried eight years ago Since that time she
| has accompanied him all over the world.
! They arrived here "a week ago from
! Greece, whence they had gone from Ma
| nila.
Wiltenhalten was az once appoihtSc ex-
ecutive officer of the cruiser Albany,
| which had been ordered TO the Orient 10
| remain there indefinitely. The ex-actress
| concluded she had had\enough seafarlng
| and strange land excitement to last a
lifetime She heard the footliGhts calling
! and concluded she would repose in their
| feverish glare while her husband took
| this voyage.