Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-23
Actresses Win or Lose When Wed


TT has been quite while since two
marriages of so much interest in
the theatrical world as that of Mrs.
Carter and that of Fay Templeton have
body that is at all interested in the
theatrical business is interested in each
of these marriages. because on the
stage marriage has always been, and
! probably always Will be. one of the
most powerful influences that can shape
| the career of an actor or an actress.
| Naturally much attention is paid by the
| managers and by the fellow players
| of either of the contracting parties
whenever marriage is contracted.
In the show business 1t is a truism
that many actors have been made by
marriage. while just as many others
have been unmade. This is a way the
sharps in the business have of saying
, that actors cannot be too careful whom
they marry and how often. Frequency
of marriage never injured Lillian Rus
sells professional career. She has had
eight husbands. She is seemingly as
beautiful as ever, has a good service
able voice, and can command about as
high a salary as any vaudeville per-
former.
1t is doubtful whether Minnie Mad
dern, the auburn haired soubrette
would ever have become one of the
most wonderful emotional actresses on
the American stage, the head of one of
the finest companies. and a producer
and stage manager eXcelled by few if
she had not met and married Harrison
Grey Fiske. Then Minnie Maddern be-
came Mrs. Fiske, and she ard her hus-
band, each of whom is abundantly sup
piled with temperament, scholarship
and ambition, worked together and got
to the position that is now theirs.
While marriage did a great deal for
Mrs. Fiske it did not prove so felicitous
for Julia Marlowe. She married Robert
Taber, a handsome and accomplished
was unhappy and they were divorced,
and it is not everybody that remem-
bers that the statuesque Julia was once
billed as Julia Marlowe Taber
Edna May attained her present prom
inence through no help of ma atrimony
although her marriage was a good
thing for her husband He was Fred
Titus once a champion bicycle rider
When Edna May went to London in
1897 with "The Belle of New York"
Titus went along as a member of the
chorus. One of the most charming
cases of mutual help in the show bust
ness is that of Cecil Lean, the leading
comedian of the La Sale theater stock
company and his wife Florence Hol-
brook, the soubrette of that organiza-
ton. They have been in choruses to-
gether, and when they were first mar
ried they promised each other that they
would always play in the same com
pany no matter whether one was a
nj a Il Of
chorus or not. They have kept their
word, although at different times it has
been Mr.. Lean that was in the chorus
and then his wife.
OF course it helps an actress a great
deal to marry manager. Grace
George in marrying William A. Brady
advanced her professional career great
ly. as Mr.. Brady spent thousands and
thousands of dollars, and sometimes in
the face of most discoruaging circum-
stances, in his effort to make the public
accept Miss George as a star of the
first rank. Margaret Ellington married
Daniel Frohman. The husband of Hen.
rietta Crosman is Maurice Campbell
who manages her tours and writes
press notices about her. Although Nat
Goodwin and his wife, Maxine Elliott,
do not act in the same company any
more the marriage was of great help
to Miss Elliott, who before she became
Mrs. Goodwin was more of a beauty
than an actress. Joseph Hart. who Is
one of the most successful of the
younger musical comedy producers and
managers, has done wonders for his
wife, Carrie De Mar. He has taught
her dancing and singing and elocution,
and she has well repaid him by becom-
ing an adroit and charming actress
whose services are always in demand
A theatrical marriage with an ele-
ment Of oddly IN 1t vas the marriage