Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-26
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CUPID WINS VICTORY
OVER STAGE AMBITION
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terday afternoon at the Lankershim
hotel when Miss Carrie Kneenower,
better known by her stage name, Car
RE Monroe, became the bride Of Thomas
Swope Smith, millionaire mining man
of Nevada.
Until last May Miss Monroe was a
member Of Weber and Fields New
York company ana when she resigned
1t was rumored that she might devote
her time to the preparation of a we'd
ding trousseau. Miss Monroe only
laughed and said nothing, but 1t later
proved that all the surmises were true.
The pretty favorite of the burlesque
troupe of beauties met Mr.. Smith in
san Francisco, where she played n
weeks engagement with 1.-THE Red
Feather" company. Miss Monroe came.
Mr.. Smith saw, and Cupid conquered.
Miss Monroe went back to New York
and the two were separated, but an i'm
tervention Of Providence, or some other
equally good power, caused the earth
to shake in San Francisco and the
house in which Mr.. Smith lived to
become heap of ashes He was only
waiting for some good excuse to allow
him to answer the call of his heart, and
the day after the earthquake he was
off for New York with a grim determi-
nation to win the maid of his choice.
1t was early in May that he arrived,
and not long afterward Miss Monroe
said farewell to her companions at the
theater and started a raid on New York
shops that would result in trousseau
calculated to delight the heart of any
maid.
After a few weeks in New York she
and her mother, Mrs. Mary Kneeflower.
came to Los Angeles and they have
been passing the summer at the Lam
l<ershim hotel. A few days ago Mr..
Smith arrived from Bullfrog, New, to
claim his bride, and the wedding took
place yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock
in the red room at the Lankershim.
Bride roses and ferns were used in
great quantities to deck the room, and
the couple stood under a canopy of
ferns and flowers while Rev. Hugh *.
Walker performed the ceremony.
The bride wore a wedding gown of
white messaline satin and lace made
with long train, and she carried bride
roses and ferns. A cluster of lilies of
the valley was caught in her hair, and
her ornaments we're diamond rings, the
gift of the bridegroom, and a large
diamond brooch.
At the conclusion of the wedding an
elaborate breakfast was served and
the couple left for Catalina and other
beach resorts, where they will spend
their honeymoon. After the middle of
October they will go to Hotel Mont
gomery at Beatty, where they will be
at home.
1t is a far cry from New York play
house to a Nevada mining town, but it
is safe to predict that the bride will
shine even more luminously as star
in Beatty than she did on Broadway.
Farjeon's Scratch Explained
A group of theatrical people were
standing in the corridor at the AleXan-
dria last night, when the eavesdropper
overheard this interesting experience:
Herbert Farjeon, stage director Of.
the Grand, was nursing painful
thumb with an ugly scratch upon it,
and his companions wanted to know
where he got it.
"Oh. it's nothing at all; nothing al
all, l assure you,' declared Mr.. Far
jeon, but in a manner that convinced
those who heard that the stage director
was not telling quite all he knew.
They were insistent and he told. 4
REALLY, 1t is nothing, but | will tell
you about it," he continued II was
at the branch postoffice on New High !
street today trying to buy some stamps
The place was crowded, and suddenly |
heard thud in one corner of the
room, and In less than minute all the
people were crowded into that corner |
''I heard some one asking what to
do and some one else asking why some
one did not do something SO L followed |
the crowd and investigated.
IT found q woman who must have |
been at least 300 pounds in weight !
lying on the floor. Two men We're |
pumping her arms up and down, as if |
they were trying to revive her from
drowning. and the people were crowded
in so thickly that there was not a
breath of air.
"I have a slight medical knowledge. |
and 81 there was no one who seemed TO |
know what to do, I took charge.
81 put two men to chafing her hands, |
sent one for doctor and another for
some aromatic spirits of ammonia. 1t
was clearly a case of heart failure. and |
we worked and worked, but did not
seem to get any results. I took off one
of her shoes and began to rub her foot, |
and then | put my hand inside her
cIothes and discovered that the reason
we could get no blood circulating to
her heart was because she was so tight |
ly encased i'm her armor that there was
no room for circulation. / unfaStened
the-er-armor and Immediately she
began to revive. Suddenly she sat up
and saw me with her shoe In my hand. |
'''Give me that shoe this minute. |
Who dared to unfasten my clothes? |
she demanded
II pleaded guilty and she gave me |
look that l will never forget.
"'How dare your she said. and with !
that she gave her clothes jerk, a most
remarkable jerk, and sailed out of the
door,
81 got the scratch from a pin 1 en-
countered in trying to unfasten the
aforesaid clothes. Now you know ALL
Personal Notes
d. Fl. Jackson. mining man from
Bullfrog, New, is at the Lankershim.
William H. owen and Frank Keogh,
lumber men of Seattle, are at the An
gelus.
Frank A. Vail of San Francisco, a
member of the firm of Sanborn & Vail,
is at the Alexandria.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles Sonntag
of San Francisco are at the Angelus.
Colonel Sonntag is a retired army
officer.
Mrs. Frank Lang and her two daugh-
ters, Miss Birdie and Miss Laura Lang,
prominent society people of Sacra-
mento, are at the Westminster.
DR.. and Mrs. j. A. McAllister are at