Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-05
WHY STARS AND THEIR
WIVES PLA Y SEPARATED

| her husband can engage the woman
best suited TO the leading parts in his
play.
i've another case in mind that |
think is going to have troublesome
ending before the husband realizes that
! II would DE better for him to have
some other leading woman than his
vito. She Is not suited to most of the
roles those Of the sentimental hero
| ine-that she win have to act. and her
policy is to make her husband refuse
an the plays that do not contain a part
| FOR her
THE consequence is that this par
ticular star is even harder to fit with a
| play than most of the others. His
wife influences him to refuse every
drama submitted in which the heroine
| Is not just what she should be-a senti-
mental young woman
THE style Of his wife Is rather sou
| brettish and hoydenish. and that Is the
| kind Of heroine she likes her plays to
| have. And as an actress she would
never have rot to such position. She
| Is his leading woman only because she
| happens to be his wife"
Julia Murlowe's great financial sue
cess began only after her appearance
as a separate star without the support
of her husband Robert Taber But
| that happy change was probably due
less to the fact that she was travelling
! without her husband In her company
| than to the change in the repertoire
after she went under other manage
| mont,
one Of the crimes charged against the
| theatrical syndicate was that It forced
! Robert Tabor and his wife who were
| a al
| companies. As they were divorced a
short time after this artistic separa-
! ton occurred, the separation could not
| have been very difficult To bear.
Miss Marlowe's position is better now
! than 1t ever was, and Mr.. Taber is one
! of the most successful London actors
today. No American has indeed. done
| half so well in London for such long
time. Were he in this country, he
would certainly be star
zone English actor who came to thfs
country" said an importer of foreign
talent, might have had a very differ
ent fate had he not insisted that his
wife must be his leading woman.
she was not in the least beautiful
| that's about all that can be said about
her. Even in London, where ideas of
beauty are different from those held
here, she had not been accepted.
I'm one play acted here she had to
! look into a brook and observe how
| beautiful she was. The audience tit
| tered every time she did this.
Before this actor came over, his
managers intimated to him that II
might be a good idea to bring some
other actress as his leading woman. But
the actor had his wife as the leading
woman, and encountered one of the
! most disastrous tours Of any foreign
| actor In this country"
Difficulties In finding plays for CO.
stars have always troubled managers
! and ultimately lead to the artistic sep
aration OF the actors. Louis Mann
| and Clara Lipmann, who We're married
before they made their first success in
"The Girl From Paris" tried for four
| years TO get a play that would suit
both Of them and met with this very
moderate success, Now they have sep
| arated, and prosperity once more perch
es on their banners,
Kyrle Below has been much more
| successful actor during the last few
| years than he ever was during the days
of his artistic partnership with Mrs.
| Potter, And she has Jared better since
they have been travelling In single har-
ness.