Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-23
ACTRESS md BEAUTY
Miss Marian Stone, OF Marshall.
town and New York. Be-
coming Famous.
San Francisco Paper Devotes
Whole Page to Charms and
Accomplishments.
Tells About Her Thoroughbred
Horses, Yachts and Acquaint-
ance With Princes.

| Stone, who recently entered upon q
theatrical career after some time spent
in study in New York, is becoming ia
nous on the Pacific coast. She is a
member of the Neill company now
playing there, and this company evil
IDENTIFY possesses an advertising N ana
| ger who has an eye to business. Last
| Sundays issue of the San Francisco
Examiner, one of w. r. Hearst's pa
pers, devotes q whole page to Miss
Stone and her career. The article is
profusely illustrated, and some of the
matters related will be Interesting news
to Marshautown and Rock Rapids
friends The Examiner story is az: fol-
lows, minus portion of the interview
concerning some of her thrilling expert
ences in breaking some OF her Ken
lucky colts:
Miss Marian Stone, the new beauty
of the James Neill company, now
playing at the California Theater,
is one of the most daring and expert
horsewomen in the United States. She
owns string of thorougnbreds anc. has
broken them to the saddle herself. She
breaks horses TO the harness with equal
skill. 1t is quite logical to add that Miss
Stone is Kentuckian.
California has always had keen
rival in Kentucky as a producer of I'M
commonly lovely women. California's
reputation in the matter OF horses is
| Al yha i ny1f,
but in all the length and breadth of
either state there is not a horse of any
breed that Miss Stone would fear to
ride, be it mustang or thoroughbred.
"She has broken bronchos repeatedly.
and without breaking her own beauu-
full neck-else she would not be in San
Francisco for the Neill season, imported
direct from New York by Mr.. NELL,
who knew the v;Aue of her attractive
ness to any company, for Miss Stone Is
q Young woman of extraordinary fttsci-
nation.
Moreover, she has an interesting
history as well as an engaging person
ality. In fact, the history is the natural
result of possessing such a personality.
She is a heart breaker as well as horse
breaker
"Her face and figure typify the
American siren made famous by
Charles Dana Gibson. Had Miss Stone
posed for the uch-exploited Gibson
girl the resemblance could not be more
exact. She Is the Gibson ideal made
real. Feature, expression, poise of
head, height, figure and carriage all
suggest the aristocratic but athletic
ev1N f,yr ORG
ated by the artist when he put per and
ink to work to express what he saw In
the upper feminine world Of wealth and
fashion.
1T was from this same world of
wealth and fashion that Miss Stone, the
Kentucky beauty, came when she broke
the social and domestic letters that
bound her, said goodbye to her friends
and her stable of thoroughbreds. and
adopted the strenuous life of the stage.
She didn't so much mind parting from
the friends. One can exist among
strangers, and even make friends of
them in time. But she wept on the
necks of her fine animals as tho her
heart would break, and they turned as
tonished eyes upon their handsome
mistress and whinnjed sympathy, tho
what it was all about they could not
neigh. They're waiting in the stable
at Versailles, KY. for their owner to
come back.
Meanwhile Miss Stone is signing
with longing to have her equine friends
with her. She would like to ride to the
Cliff before breakfast these May morn
ings on horse-a different horse for
nSra ncy,t, t,, f1a hot el,n
has had the satisfaction of breaking
to the saddle herself.
suppose ] shall never be cured Of
my love for horses unless horse kills
me while am training him. says Miss
Stone And speaking of such cheerful
subjects as fatal accidents, I have come
about as near being sacrificed to my
passion for horsef1esh as could and
escape without injury.
"'Several times have been thrown
and so severely stunned that I was
picked up for dead. But tyat is to be
expected when one undertakes so diff
cult a task as mounting an animal that
has never before been ridden by any
one. Each time the creature that threw
me has been much more frightened
than I. Indeed, I really do not know
what nervousness is on horseback. L
have been used to horses ever since I
can remember anything at all. I was
rropped up bareback almost as soon as
was introduced to high chair and
bib
81 miss my horses more than any
other of my belongings that I am COM
PEELED to part with while on the stage
and it is the greatest joy to me when
can get brief glimpses of them en- route
or renew companionship with them be-
tween seasons.
Marian Stones eyes would dim An
ma Held's," wrote an enthusiastic New
York critic who saw the owner of the
eyes in Henry James play olsen
gagged when she had the role of Mrs.
Jasper. The eyes in question are
large, luminous and so darkly gray
that they seem quite black at times.
They made such havoc with the affec-
tons of prominent society and club
man in Kentucky when Miss Stone was
a school girl of sixteen that he lapsed
into morbid Trace of mind upon being
refused her hand and straightway COM
United suicide by taking poison.
"Since then the Kentucky beauty has
been admired of men on two continents
from Lii Hung Chang. whom she en-
tertained once upon time on board
her private yacht in Hong Kong, to
Prince Henry of Prussia, whom she
met at a banquet in New York given
by a club of prominent Germans. She
has also been the guest of honor on