The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-14
TOO MUCH HUSBAND.
A MANAGERS VIEW OF ACTRESSES
AND THEIR IMPEDIMENTA.

Helpmates of stars Who Seek to Aid
Them-SOme Thrash the Stage
People. Others Pour Out Money.
A Plague and a Terror to the
Managerial Mind.
From the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
The Ancient Manager Ono relation
whatever to the Ancient mariner) was
in reminiscent mood. A young wom-
an who was once on his salary list
but is now in Ugh sassiety," had lust
called on him to request that he send
her some people to play secondary
parts in some private theatricals she
was going to give She'll have the
center of the stage this time" chuck
! led the Ancient Manager, as he eraned
his neck to watch her brougham drive
| off. No bossing Juliet this trip. She
can die all over the stage, If the spir-
it moves her. I'm to send her a stage
| manager, but I don't think he'll cut
much ice there. do you?" and the old
man made a wry face.
'The first time l saw her she was a
slip of girl in shoe-top skirts She
was taking dancing lessons in my the
alter building. Then she got a place
| among our silent beauties who walk on
and do the think act in Venetian mar
ket squares and French ballroom
scenes. She was handsome and had a
mother who was born to command and
didn't intend to give up her birthright
Mamma kept right on commanding I'M
til Miss Juliet-whose name isn't that
of course-had graduated from a court
lady into an ingenue. She was prettier
| than ever then, and as the mother
continued to command with great vigor
and perseverance Juliet smiled shyly
when the Johnnies lined up outside
the stage door to see her come out aft
er the performance, and sent back all
| their presents-so Juliet's mother
said"
The Ancient Manager threw his head
back, put his patent leather extremi-
ties on the edge of his desk and titled
his valuable person back at a perilous
angle.
ooh. don't worry about me-" he said
clamly, as he caught sight of his WISH
tors look of alarm. IT can take care
of Joshua l. Smith. I haven't faced
an angry first-night audience or dick
cred with 800 disgruntled ballet girls
or got a spectacular pantomime into
how to take care of my own life and
limbs in my own office. But frank
ly." and the Ancient Manager looked
as solemn as the glowering picture OF
Edwin Booth over his desk, Il don't
think anything in my professional ca
| reer has ever faxed me except hus-
bands"
a Plague of Husbands.
"Husbands?''
Il mean the individuals leading la
dies marry
"OhI
I'D like to cut them all OUT he SOL
EMMY averred. But he didn't mean it
| in a gay cavalier sense.
when they marry as Juliet did one
can stand il. Her husband has money
enough to run an all-star cast if he
wanted to, and Juliet left the stage
as soon as he married her by MANI
mas command. It's the stage women's
| husbands I'm sore on, and so is every
| manager. It's the greatest mistake in
| the world to think that these gentle
men are nonentities or silent partners
or merely Miss So-anSo's husband.
| They are a menace to every manager S
peace of mind. They are the mischief
makers behind the scenes. the disturb
ers of managerial peace, the discords in
the harmony between star and astrono-
mer.
81 have a cheerful memory of one
| husband who played in the same COM
pany in which his wife was leading
lady. They got $40 between them.
He called his salary $S5 and hers $75'
| but as a matter of fact he was down
! on the books for $40. and was worth
about $3.50. We simply took him be-
cause we wanted her and she insisted
that he travel with her. Well. we
started out by smuggling a property
| man one night because his wife's prop
erty letter for the second act wasn't
| forthcoming. We close our eyes when
| Props gets it. He's the umpire OF
the stage. But when in one week that
pugiistic husband got in a row with
! hotel keeper and kept the whole
company waiting while his wife bailed
| him out of Jail, and then picked a row
with the leading man and merely made
calf'sfoot jelly of him, we had TO
draw the line. Our leading mans
beauty was an important asset to us,
so we decided we'd have to part with
the wife in order to get rid of her hus-
band l broke the news TO him. 1t
| was up TO me then. | was informed
that / had insulted lady and a gem
tleman and would have to pay for it.
l paid for IT," admitted the Ancient
Manager in a far-away voice.
The Terror of Managers.
HE was very strong young man,
trained athlete, although a bad ac-
tor. He had been on a football team
when at college. His wife. like Des-
demona. loved him FOR the dangers he
had passed through She stuck TO him,
always dragging him with her where
ever she Travelled, and he became the
terror and bugbear OF managers all
| over the country. She got her reward
az last He got a tip in Wall street
and treated the market just as he
treated everyone else-knocked spots
out OF a. lie became a broker and
| they live in afluence and harmony
now. lie bought a play for Desdemona
and she made q big hit and IL now
one ~ our best known stars and called
| a great beauty. he appears az his
Wife's hrst nights ana sits IN boa
and applauds. ! sat right under him
ono night You bet I applauded, t00''
A. fulr actresses marry men Wh0
| "re nor very prosperous. don't fhey9
$500 tno NlflforF illuminating query.
! Well feN iufI frH. aHsenfed
.hr Ola mauHFrt dryly They ufud.
lF Monty hHi HffUff ! used az fhirk
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