The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-03
Oashing Leading Lady Has Stunned
Coast Gd||ants
MAY NOW MARRY PREACHER ANDY MILLS
ACTRESS WHO DAZzLED THE ES.
TRAYS OF WALlA WALLA
STILL TALKED ABOUT.

leading lady in the Redmond COM
pany, and a prime favorite with Wal
la Walla theare -goers, is figuring in
the limelight at San Jose again where
the Redmond company is playing this
season.
Dashing Alta breaks into print every
once in while and the latest piece of
gossip is that she is to wed a preacher,
Rev. Anthony Mills, pastor of the
Unitarian church at San Jose, al
though the petite Alta denies the
story. The San Francisco Call, under
a San Jose date line tells of Alta
and her latest mash"
Marriage Tales.
Alta Phipps is to resume her po-
sition as leading lady at the Red
mond theatre in this city the last of
next week-and thereby hangs a tale
of a pastor, a commercial traveller and
an actress.
Miss Phipps, who is handsome
young San Jose actress, seemingly as
fascinating off the stage as on, left
with the ostensible purpose of going
to Seattle. 1t was known at the time
the circumstances that she intended
to marry a well-known travelling man,
who had yielded to the charms of the
beautiful ingenue.
Painful Surprise.
"At about the same time that Miss
Phipps took her departure Rev. An
thony Mills, pastor of the Unitarian
church in this city, resigned his pas
lures new. 1t is said that he had
learned of the salesman and discov-
cred to his painful surprise, that,
while he had been paying his devo-
lions to Miss Phipps, winning and din
ing her in regal style, she had at the
same time been receiving the devoted
attentions from the man of the SAM
pie case
I'm the meantime the salesman had
gone north. When the parson went
to join his father, Rev. B. Fay Mills,
at Venice, a serio-comic recreation
place and religious Mecca established
by him in Southern California. Miss
Phipps renowned the stage with all
its gayeties and announced that she
was going to adopt the domestic life.
He Had Heard.
But she reckoned without her host.
The travelling man had heard of the
somewhat Bohemian life which had
been led by the reverend lover and the
young soubrette, and the latter, so it
is said, was given a hot and cold re-
ception that sent her scurrying back
to San Jose.
"And SO Miss Phipps will again
weep and smile and smoke stage Gig
arettes behind the footlights. In ang-
ling for two, she lost both. The sales
man has had his fond hopes sadly
shattered, and the Rev. Anthony, son
of the erstwhile great evangelist and
nephew of the pastor Of the Second
church of this city, has
sought the parental roof tree. He is
now his fathers press agent, and the
joys of his far from puritanical life
in this city are his no more"
Her Own Version,
Miss Phipps does not agree with
the above dispatch in any important
particulars. Speaking of the story
she says:
why, it is all absurd. There is no
truth in it at all. When 1 reached
home yesterday call home where
ever the Redmond company is, you
someone called my atten-
ion to the story in the paper, 1 was
never more surprised in my life.
vas so sorry, too, that Mr.. Mills
name was mixed up in it. He is a
lice little fellow" she added reflect
vely
Then there was nothing in the re-
BORT that you and Mr.. Mills were en-
ragged to be married?"
Most certainly 1 never thought OF
,etting married to him or anyone else.
have been married once, you know"
he said with unnecessary emphasis.
mo. / hadn't heard that you had
'een married. Is,-er-is-er-Mr. Phipps
err"
mo, he isn't '-er,' nor he isn't Mr..
ohipps. There is no Mr.. Phipps.'
AVE been married and divorced, thank
,O,1 Put that hammered Gonna firpo