The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-13

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l. of the world and from every
phase OF life. They may fut.
ter around it while and try to re.
s1st, but sooner or later it has them.
When a woman once makes UP he1
mind to go on the stage, she goes
Husbands have tried to prevent, for.
tunes have tempted, professions Of
other kinds have stood in the way, pa.
rents have threatened and irnplored
1t never made any difference, what
ever influence was brought to bear
A woman will give up everything else
in the world for the footlights
Every season brings its sensation
on account of some million-dollar heir
ess giving up society for the labors of
the stage. 1t has come to be an every
day affair for belledom to be ex-
changed for stardom. Sometimes a
stern parent offers a daughter the
choice between his millions and her
chosen profession, and it is no new
thing for her to take the profession.
One of this seasons thrills is TAX
ing place in San Francisco, where
Miss Joan Hadenfeldt is becoming
Joan Haden, for the reason that she
is to see her name on vaudeville bills.
The young LADY, has been known to
the western world of giddiness and
wealth, and her vaudeville debut is a
thing to be talked about
Il had to do it, she says. give
danced till m tired. I've been Queen
of Mardi Gras, the highest social
honor that San Francisco can bestow.
| want to work at my profession"
So she left the fun that most girls
are signing for and has gone to peg
glng away as other actor folk have to
do. She will know the discomforts
of the road, which must exist even for a
wealthy star. She will know the rou-
tine of rehearsal and the unpleasant
closeness of a theatrical dressing
room. She is not going into the
thing blindly. She has looked and
she has leapt
Blanche Bates has risen to the place
where she now is on the strength of
giving up profession, position and
husband. She is entirely fancy free.
She had to be. The stage had fas-
cination that she could not resist.
She comes of a theatrical family,
and she was ordained by them to keep
away from the stage. 1t struck them
that it would be very ladylike thing
for Blanche to teach school. So she
was made a school marin, and for
some time she herded half hundred
grubby youngsters and pursued them
with jangling bell and censored their
arithmetic.
'I was the worst teacher that the
public schools of this free and equal |
country ever permitted to hold po-
sition," she says. 81 couldn't teach |
B c, but somehow I was allowed |
20 keep on failing until I got out
IF the profession myself"
The next thing she did was to
marry. She married a dashing army
officer, and she went to live at the San
Francisco Presidio Here she had So
,iety. She was thrust into a social
position that plenty of people envied.
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oand. And s... gave it all up-school
eaching, army life, husband. She
yravitated to the stage with sure
less that was not even slow.
An Arizona cattle ranch, with its
breezy charm, ought to be enough to
lold girl who loves horses and
handles them like a mana girl who
an throw a rope and loves the sport
If it. Jennie Hawley had some re-
,rets when she turned her back upon
t. But she turned it, nevertheless,
nd although she peeped back over
Ter shoulder now and then, she never
bought seriously of returning.
She joined the Bostonians and went
IF to sing with them as she had on
he old ranch. There is a cowboy
Who knew her then still living on the
anch, and he said the other day:
ut makes the old ranch a different i