The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-22
FAMILIES APPROVED
Minister'S Daughter Reached the
Stage Through the Chorus.
ARISTOCRATIC BOSTON RECRUIT
Miss ManEasarian and Miss Breed
Begin Stage Careers With
Parental Blessings.

Special to The Journal
Chicago, Feb. 22.-Mangasar NJ. Mangasa-
rian, one of the best-known and most promi-
nent OF the preachers and lecturers on reli-
gion in Chicago, has a daughter in the must
cal comedy, '"nhe Messenger Boy" which
comes to the Illinois theater next week.
Miss Mangasarian did not have to run
away from, home to go on the STAGE as most
preachers daughters are supposed to do when
they begin to yearn for hstrionic honors.s She
went with her fathers blessing and her ia
theirs encouragement, and she began at the
bottom, IN the Happy. Happy Chorus"
without word of objection disapproval
from him or from her mother.
She learned to dance and firt her petticoats
and make eyes at the gallery and to wear
picture hats and trailing chiffon frocks or
jaunty caps and abbreviated petticoats, with
out causing a family shipwreck. In one year
she worked up from the chorus and began to
sing parts, and now she is something ola star
in the musical comedy line and has reached
the place where she doesn't have to wear
short petticoats unless she wants to-. .. ~
Far from being ashamed OF having a daugh-
ter the stage, DR.. Mangasaran is very
proud Of it, and is frankly and openly pleased
and elated at her success. He relates with
great pride how she pushed forward from the
back row into the front row Of the chorus,
and how she was graduated from the front
row into small parts. and how from small
parts she was raised to big parts, until last
year she saw the fulflment of the hopes she
expressed when she sang II Want to Be a
Leading Lady" for she then was given the
name part IN the New York production OF
"San Toy"
Miss Mangasarian Is not yet % years old
and is extremely chic and pretty. Her father
| is we'll known in Chicago from his liberal
views on all questions. He is the lecturer
of the independent religious society which
meets every Sunday at the Grand opera
house
Miss Breed ON the Stage.
Another budding actress from we'll -known
| family in whose development Chicago had
some part Is Miss Florence Breed of Lynn,
Mass, who is in Elsie DeWolfs company,
now playing 1.-The Way of the World in
| New York. Miss Breed is the daughter Of
| Mrs. Alice Ives Breed, pioneer clubwomar
of Massachusetts; and at one time vice presi-
| dent of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs. It was Mrs. Breed over whom wal
was waged so fiercely at the Denver biennial
and she was defeated by the present presi
dent, Mrs. Rebecea Lowe.
| The Breeds are among the best-knoWn. ole
| aristocratic families Of Massachusetts,, anc
| they live in a beautiful country place on the
| seashore in the suburbs OF Lynn. Miss Flor
| ence went on the stage with the full consent
and appreciation of her family. She studied
l
Vance Cheney's school in Chicago. She be-
came imbued with Mrs. Cheney's sociological
views also, and interested herself in many O.
the humanitarian movements of the city dur
! ing her residence there.
| Miss Breed Is beautiful and aristocratio II
! brearing, although free from all affectatior
and snobbishness. On her arrival In New
York, after playing few weeks with Miss
| DeWolfe in the smaller cities, Clyde Fitcl
4 saw her for the first time in his play. HI
1 was very much pleased with her and assured
her that she had escaped most of the fault:
1 Of beginners. The stage has been her ain
I for several years, but, as it was not necessary
for her to earn her living, she was encour
| aged to remain at home Owing to financial
losses, II became desirable that she should
take care OF herself, and the stage was de
cided upon for her as affording more of {
! future than teaching or her professions opeI
| to her. = -
sad little romance adds to the interest IL
| Miss Breeds plans She was the lfancee o
| the clever son Of Rev Minot j. Savage, Wht
! died last year. The young man was secretary
to Herbert Putnam. now librarian of the con
! ,gressional library. and was promising
l fer,