The age-herald., 1902-03-30
IS NOT MRS. cHAs. FRoHMAN.
Story Circulated to the Effect That
 Maude Adams Is Married.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Press agents invent weird tales about the theatres, and some of them are more gauzy than the draperies of the stars whom they exploit. But for downright absurdity none of these connections can compare with some of the romances which theatregoers themselves build out of whole cloth and circulate by word of mouth among the orchestra chairs concerning popu- lar favorites. Nobody knows where these tales spring from, but auditors repeat them to each other with all the confidence in the world and they re- ceive explicit credence by half of the people who hear them. They do not often get into the newspapers because most of them wilt under the investiga- tion which every careful newspaper demands before publication. But sometimes one of them crops out in an unusual way.
 A curious and persistent instance is the story that Maude Adams is the wife of Charles Frohman, her manager. 1t has been repeated for two or three years, with all sorts of alleged con | firmatory details, and must have got into every newspaper office in the country for investigation.
 It came down to Brooklyn one sum- mer from the Catskills in the mouth of woman who was convinced that she had seen Mrs. Frohman's baby among the mountains. Considering the brief vacations which Miss Adams takes from the footlights, the woman who could believe that story could be- lieye anything, but this one spread her tale through quite a credulous circle.
 Last fall the story came in again from Rochester with so many con firmatory details that the Eagle sent out a reporter and exploded 1t. A Rochester girl visited this city just before Maude Adams played here and told her girl friends most convinc- ing tale of dachshund, Miss Adams and MT. Frohman, which would have been printed all over the country be- fore this time if it were true.
 A Rochester girl missed her dachs- Lund while out shopping and when she found him Maude Adams stood on the street betting the dog. A con- versation ensued, which included an invitation to call at Miss Adams rooms in the hotel, bring the dog and put him through his tricks. Is there girl in these United States who would not jump at an invitation to call on Miss Adams? Hardly, and the mere fact of such a call must have made the Rochester girl heroine in her own set. But in the course of the visit, according to the story, a man entered whom Miss Adams presented as My husband, MT. Frohman," with the explanation i've were married a fortnight ago."
 The dachshund petted by Miss Adams straightway became a favorite in Rochester society and the story must have received wide circulation by word of mouth, as the Rochester engagement was before the long run of Quality Street" on Broadway.
 Nevertheless 1t reached Brooklyn with so many earmarks of genuine l ness that 1t was worth submitting to MT. Frohman and it received the prompt denial of that busy manager Actors, of course, frequently conceal their marriages for business reasons, but an actress whose marriage is thus being concealed hardly introduces one of the most prominent men in America as her husband to an ac- quaintance of an hohr,s standing. Nevertheless hundreds of women all over the country will go on believing that Miss Adams is Mrs. Frohman.