The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-24
Last Season Record Breaker for
Matrimonial Mergers.
THE YEARBOOK ISFULL
The Sensational Nesbit and
ThaW Millions Episode.
The CarstaiEs Hurry Up Change
of Love and Divorce.

Theatrical matrimonial mergers have
broken all records during the season
just. closed, according to a chronicler
who has carefully compiled statistics
Of runs from the stage door to the 'tlit-
tie church around the corner or to
the nearest justice of the peace. More
than two score marriages have been
celebrated since the curtains went up
last September, it is estimated "And
some of them are still in effect" adds
the compiler, Just to show the depth
of his research into the records.
In this matrimonial year book, of
course, are included the union of
Evelyn Nesbit to the heir Of the Tha.w
millions and the capture of Annie Rob
dnson, the American stage beauty, by
the earl of Rosslyn. Then another en-
gagement which thus far is only ''un-
derlined' is the announcement of May
Leslie of the Lew Fields company and
Charles Rogers. The latter's papa is
president of a Weu-knOWn company
that condenses milk and expands gold
The delectable wedding feast of milk
and honey is delayed by q. divorce de-
cree which has not yet arrived. There
IS a certain Mortimer Thompson
OmeWhere whose name Miss Leslie
still legally bears, although she left
him two years after marriage. But a.
convenient court is expected soon to
remove this trihing but annoying i'm
pediment.
only a month ago Betty Belknap,
actress, welded Charles S. Carstairs,
more or less millionaire It is record
ed that they first met some years ago
on a steamer when Miss Belknap was
on her way to England to appear with
Mrs. Carter in "Zaza," and that it
looked like case of love at first sight.
But then Mr.. Carstairs was accom-
panied by a Mrs. Carstairs. Mrs. Q.
of that day is now Mrs. Felix Tucker
man. Miss Belknap (she may have
been q Mrs. Somebody in real life) of
that day is now the Mrs. Carstairs.
We learn that another of the pink
pajama girls-Miss Mabel Kipp-has
discarded the midnight attire Of man
for the beruhied and belaced robe de
mutt of her own sex. She has also
gone into cotton-not cotton night
gowns. Heaven Forbid Nor yet into
the cotton which some of her sisters
of the stage find necessary in the
makeup. Heaven forget it! She has
married g New Orleans cotton broker
who can give her silks for nOonttme,
Junetime, nighttime or any old time.
Ninette Thultou of the Willie Collier
com edies and aged % last fall captur-
ed a Cleveland business man of much
wealth and 81 years. HOnOrs were
even, for she had been divorced in San
Francisco and he had furnished a SEN
satiOn in Cleveland divorce case.
One of the marriages which is not
'stiu in effect is that OF pretty
Oh orus girl, Mabel Frenyears to a
y
light man, Thomas r. Finucane. Just
before Christmas they electrified their
friends, but it is all over now. The
light was put out by the courts, it
being on a short circuit.
The former Mr.. Edna. May, privately
known as Fred Titus, married a girl
from Jersey March 10.
Some return engagements were play
ed, according to the list.
Several years ago the press agents
told Of one of the original pretty
rnafdens''- there have been 50 many
of them=of the f'Florodora" sextet
coping out something like 100000
in Wall street from judtcious tips by
an injudicious gentleman friend Of the
street. She shook the merry merry
and went abroad with her husband
she had one at the time-Harry
Winsett. On their return there was a
separation-not from the coin. but
from each other. Recently, however,
they met in New York, the old inter
est was revived-she is said still to
have S8O0.OOO-and they were remar-
ried.
After a divorced period of two years
Arnold DAILY and Maize Blythe came
together in California and got a min
lister to make it all up
Last February Rosemary Glasz re-
married Race Whitney, critic, at
Portland