The Elbert County tribune., 1906-12-27


go, beautiful woman with apparently
everything to make her contented in
life-youth. beauty an income suff-
cient to buy the lovely things that
make the feminine heart glad-shot
her husband and then herself. A few
days later both bodies were brought
to New York for interment. and as the
solemn words, ashes to ashes, dust
to dust" were spoken. the general
npublic said: Another stage-struck
Bgirl who brought dishonor on a good
family, and undeserved death to a
good man" For it is generally un-
derstood that the fatal quarrel be-
tween husband and wife started over
the oft-discussed question as to
whether Mrs Delaney should resume
her stage name of Bessie Mortimer
and return to the footlights. The hus-
band had refused his consent, and the
woman had brooded until obsessed by
the homicidal mania.
Another tragedy of the woman and
the footlights has passed into history
and will soon be forgotten But the
question remains: What is this mys-
terious call of the footlights which
blinds woman who has once an
swered 1t to all other allurement and
mode of living? Wealth, love, luxury,
the admiration of society, all these
count as nothing against the call of
the stage"
Goldie Mohr, through the death of
her millionaire husband, Alan w
Wood, of Pittsburg, has Iow an indie
pendent fortune. a daily income lar
ger than that which she once earned
on the stage in a week, or perhaps
month, and yet she will soon appear
in vaudeville, playing twice day
May Irwin. who will soon rival
many wealthy persons in her real es-
tate holdings in New York, is back,
giving eight performances. or 80 hours
of hard work, suffi icient to drain her
energy, every week, says the New
York World.
Minnie Seligman, whom Wall street
men describe as a sure money-maker
in stocks, has dropped this profitable
field, with all it's possibilities of
amassing great fortune, for the un-
certainties of her old stage career
and she, too, is playing twice a day
IN the vaudeville theaters.
Case of Hope Booth.
A most interesting case is that of
Hope Booth, who is married to Rem
mold Wolf one of the leading writer's
ON theatrical subjects in New York
For several years Mrs. Wolf was ex-
tremely happy in her private life. 1t
was recognized among newspaper
workers that she was her husbands
best critic and greatest inspiration
Their interests were one, and wher-
ever he went on first nights, etc, she
went, too, and yet to-day she is back
on the stage, playing vaudeville in
THE Little Blonde Lady" twice a day
She does not play every wek-just at
intervals in or near New York-but
she says she had to do 1t, she had to
answer the call just once in so often,
and between engagements she is
quite satisfied at home. One week
you will see her in a box. clad in vel
vets and furs, and the next week you
will see her playing humble stenog-
rapher and working like a Trojan for
the applause which on that other
night she gives to other players.
Maude Adams is a shrewd business
woman, and her investments would
yield sufficient income to keep her in
luxury Further, she is so delicate
that acting drains her very vitality so
that she must forego all social pleas
ures. and yet the call of the stage
draws her back each fall from Alpine
heights or Adirondack camps.
Ethel Barrymore could shine among
the 400 and sit in the great horse
shoe of the Metropolitan Opera
House, or round cut her days in Lon
dons exclusive set If she would heed
the call of Cupid instead of the call
of the stage.
The Sunday World has tried to find
out. and herewith presents statements
from those who have viewed the ques-
tion from a personal or intimate
standpoint. And, having read them,
you will understand why. after all,
YOU, theater-goer, sound the real call
of the stage.
Minnie Seligman says: II am back
because acting is the one line CT work
in which | am absolutely cohtented,
perfectly en- rapport. During my two
years of retirement / have had plenty
to occupy mere time. but not to round
out my existence. In the first place,
/ was busy training down. Tie pub
lie has wearied of the voluptuous
typo of stage beauty and demands
sle.sl erness. Very well, | went into