The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-12-28

New York.-On Friday, November
%. Mrs. James H. Delaney. of Chica-
90. a beautiful woman with apparently
everything To make her contented IN
life-youth, beauty. an income sum
Client to buy the lovely things that
make the feminine heart glad-shot
her husband and hen herself 4 few
DAYS later both bodies were brought
10 New York for interment. and as the
solemn words. ashes 10 ashes. dust
20 dust we're spoken. the general
public said: Another stage-struck
girl 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 IS 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 f%ootlights has passed into history
and will soon be forgotten But the
question remains: What is this mys.
FERROUS call Of the footlights which
blinds a woman who has once an
severed it to all other allurement and
mode Of living? Wealth. love, luxury
the admiration OF society. all These
count as nothing against the call o.
the stage
Goldie Mohr. through the death OF
her millionaire husband. Alan W
Wood. OF Pittsburg. has now an indie
pendent fortune. a daily income lar
ger than hat which she once earne'
on the stage in a week. or perhaps
month. and yet she will soon appea.
in vaudeville. playing twice a day
MAY Irwin. who will soon riva
many wealthy persons in her real es
tate holdings in New York. is back
giving eight performances. or - hour.
OF hard work. sufficient u drain he
energy. every week. says the New
York World.
Minnie Seligman. whom Wall stree
men describe as a sure money-make
in stocks. has dropped this proftabl
field. with all its possibilities @
amassing a great fortune. for the M
~certainties OF her old stage career
and she. too. is playing twice a da
in the vaudeville theaters-
Case Of Hope Booth.
4 most interesting case IS that {
Hope Booth. who is married 70 Re
mold Wolf. one OF the leading writer
on theatrical subjects in New Yorl
For several years Mrs. Wolf was e
tremely happy in her private life.
was recognized among newspap'
workers that she was her husband
best critic and greatest inspiratio
Their interests were one. and whe
ever he went on first nights. etc. 81
went. too. and yet today she is baC
on the stage. playing vaudeville
The Little Blonde Lady twice a da
She does not play VERY wek-just
intervals IN or near New York-b
she says she had TO do IL. she had
answer the call just once in so otte
and between engagements she
quite satisfied at home. One We
you will see her in a box. clad In "
vets and furs. and the next week y
will see her playing a humble stenc
rapher and working like a Trojan I
the applause which on that oth
night she gives to other players.
Maude Adams is a shrewd busine
neaw.., 81 hnw Investment Won
WELD sufficient income TO keep her
luxury. Further. she is so delica
that acting drains her very vitality
that she must forego all social pie
a and yet the call of h sta
dr. her back each fall from Alpi
he his or Adirondack camps.
+ n Barrymore could shine m
the 100" and sit in the great hor
shoe II the Metropolitan Op'
House or round out her days in l.
don's arclusive set ii she would he
the CA n Cupid instead OF the G
OF The tage.
The lnday World has tried 70 I
ont. and herewith presents statemeI
from those who have viewed the qu
ton from a personal or mum
standroint. And. having read th'
o win Understand why. after
you. thea er-goer. sound the real
Of the STAGE.
Minnie Seligman says. Il am b
because acting is the one line of W
in which ] am absolutely content
perfectly en- rapport. During my
years Of retirement l have had pie
TO OCCUPY mere time. but not to rol
out my existence. In the arst ri;
was busy training down. The
lic has wcaried Of the voluptu
trre Of stave beauty and dema
slenderuess Very well. / went