The Savannah morning news., 1903-01-18
By ANNA S. RICHARDSON.
Copyright, 1903, by Anna S. Richardson.

ulluy Lul iio AlNl III lAClNC III NAN IA
rection of the benighted. youth, soci-
ETY. shrugs it's shoulders and exclaims,
| 1T is a shame, when he is so delight
| full; but then, you know, she is quite
! impossible" And the fight for social
recognition is on.
A sensation-loving public is largely
responsible for these conditions. The
domestic infelicities of the profession
| have ever proved salable readings. a
| fair Divorce will find her photographs
in as many boudoirs as bachelor halls.
| The mass of theater-goers prefer to
think Of the players as an emotional
class, given to hysteria and heroics
| off the stage as we'll as on, and it
| positively resents the idea-of a chorus
| girl enjoying any fare save Holsters
and champagne, while the joys of
! five-room fiat and bath are not for a
| real soubrette.
The omnipresent press agent is
| largely responsible for this false con-
| ception of the actress in private life.
He does not employ stories of do
mestric tranquility to draw money into
the box office. He is bound by rivets
of iron to the champagne-lobster
| divorce idea, and society, as it is
| popularity understood, is even less
catholic in its views. The only diff
| ference between the two is that the
press agent knows better, but has his
| salary to earn. Society does not know
| better, for 1t is too madly engaged in
its own little schemes for attaining
| social precedence to interest itself in
! any class of humanity which will not
| further these schemes.
The ambitious American actress of
to-day is trained in a stern school.
She is not satisfied with the old ad-
| vice to begin at the bottom and work
her way up, gathering practical ex-
perience as she goes. The stage is
too narrow a school-room. to meet
| her requirements. Her life is given
over to study-the languages, music,
| dancing, history and the drama from
its earliest beginnings, She studies
the people she meets in all cities
where she plays, and she is past-mis-
! tress of the arts of grooming and
gowning. She must know how to
carry her gowns as well as to design
| them. She realizes that to succeed in
| the modern play one must be the
modern woman, not only behind the
| footlights but in everyday life. She
cannot be a sloven at home and a
fashion plate at the theater. Thus it
is that the training of the twentieth
| NSAAbuiS 1CNlCoo pIdClICdi-
| ly to that of a daughter of the mil
| lionaire previous to her entrance into
| society.
The financial success which comes
4 to popular star makes it possible
for her to live in excellent if not lux
! urious style. She takes as much pride
in the appointments of her home and
understands as thoroughly the man
| agement of her servants as does Mi
| lady Millionaire. And if she takes it
into her balanced head to marry
man whom society has always
claimed as it's own, she feels that she
is admirably equipped for taking her
position at his side and managing her
| household.
| Mrs, George GOuId's Ideal Home Life
The exceptional position of George
Gould as head of a great family and
as a financier with whom all multi
millionaires must reckon, has given his
marriage with member of the pro-
fession more than ordinary promi-
hence. What the world said when his
engagement to Edith Kingdom was
announced and what 1t says to-day OF
his singularly happy domestic life
would make entertaining read, If ar
ranged in parallel columns-a veri.
table case of before and after"
While Mrs. Gould has attained hel
| SOSASNA e"AAAbAtiOhSp oAAC mas IlOI lIdQt
one false or theatric move. Her as
cent has been gradual, but absolutely
sure. And though the spectacular
was always expected of her. she left
eccentricity and constant striving fol
unexpected effects to her rivals who
had never trod the boards.
The home life of the George Goulds
is quoted as a worthy example to EN-
ulate by the good, old-fashioned, and
| vol oil
tan society. Women who, none toe
sure of their own positions, once look.
ed askance at Edith Kingdom Gould
now regard it as a special honor il
they are invited to the weekend gath.
erings at Georgian Court. The Goulds
Lakewood home is their favorite, and
here Mrs, Gould is rearing her children
in an elegant simplicity which puts tt
shame the charge of tawdriness and
artificiality usually laid at the profes-
sional woman's door.
While ii is not given to every actress
who marries into private life and re.
tires from public view to score any
such success as Mrs. Gould has, there
are scores of women whose names
once adorned the play-bills in large
type who are now happy in a quiet
domestic atmosphere, and, further, are
making equally happy the men who
braved popular tradition and married
professionals.
Is the American public so tickle as
to have forgotten Mary Anderson and
Julia Arthur, both of whom retired
from the calcium glare to bask in the
softer glow of the hearth?
Actors Less Apt to Marry Outside
the Profession.
Actors are less apt to marry out.
side their profession. This may be be-
cause a man who succeeds on the stage
is so entirely centered in his work and
hirIself-for there is no denying the
fact that an actor is almost invaria-
bly, self-centered-tha he meets few
women from the other side of the
footlights. Matinee girls he regards as
useful principally as swelling the box
office receipts. He is more apt TO find
his recreations at his club than in the
drawing room of some social dame
who would lionize him.
In England, actors of prominence
lead a social sort of existence. When
their long London run is established
they go in for te9-drinking and visit
ing to an extent which would seem a
waste of time to the American actor
The latter counts that day lost when
he has not laid one stone in the foun-
dalton of his future success, when he
has not given his press agent excuse
for manipulating the ever-ready type
writer. If he strays into the social
highway, it is in the direction of some
function In which his own profession
is interested
He goes to the horse show and to
charity bazars given in prominent