Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-08-11
PLAYER FOLK IN
 \ REAL ROMANCE a Lit ? Dan Cupid Invades Ranks of Theatrical Pro- tession for Subjects and Is Successful.
NIECE OF J. G. BLAINE
Dainty Auburn. Haired Member of Front Row of Chorus Assumes I'll. tie of Mrs. Musical. .DirectOr.Gus. tavus Temple.

Patrons of the summer park the ater during the engagement Of the Allen Curtis Musical Comedy com- pany. now holding the boards at this popular resort, have persistently commented on the splendid efficiency of the chorus and its work, says the Shreveport Times To many, an ex- plantation may be offered in the an- nouncement that the musical director and the dainty little auburn-haired fairy in the front row have just been made man and wife.
 The glare and the glamor of the atrical life, hard though it proves at times, and the bright tinsel of the chorus garb, with the grease paint and crow-harks of the makeup artist, all failed to dismay Dan Cupid, and he became a very busy little god shortly after the dainty chorus girl made her advent. Miss Dorothy Blaine, the chorus maiden, is not a beautiful girl. She is clever, agree able, educated, refined and altogether one in a thousand that is found in the chorus ranks behind the foot lights.
 Incidentally, the name she bears is rightly her own. Her father was a nephew of Maine's grand old man, James G. Blaine, the man whom Grover Cleveland defeated for the presidency when Democracy came in to it's own after quarter of cen- tury of fighting and waiting.
 Inherits Uncle's Gifts.
 Miss Blaine inherits much of her famous second-uncle's wonderful dl- plomacy. She is the youngest of three sisters, the only member of the family to enter the theatrical profess sion, and the last of the girls to take unto herself a husband.
 The musical director, one of the cleverest of musical comedy manip- ulators, is Gustavus Temple, a scion of nobility in Hamburg, Germany, whose life and ambition have been wrapt up in music-until dainty Dor othy Blaine coaxed the grand passion into being to even overshadow his remarkable devotion to his art,
 Many years ago, although Gus Temple is still a young man, he left the military school in Hamburg covered with marks of honor receiv- ed in dueling in the academy, and came to America. Here he pursued his studies and became the musical di- director for Weber and Fields in the hey-day of their joint successes in their own theater in New York. Af- ter two years of this kind of work, he was sent on the road with the Weber and Fields productions, and has written and arranged many successful compositions of his own.
 Beginning of Romance.
 Seven weeks ago petite Dorothy Blaine joined the Allen Curtis Mu- sical Comedy company. She left the Herald Square Opera company to join the organization now appearing at the summer park theater. From her first appearance she has been a distinct favorite with all the mem- bers, and the one particular favorite of the musical director. Six weeks ago, just one week after her advent, Gus Temple began to pay devoted at tention to her, and became her verita- ble shadow at every opportunity.
 The other members of the company watched the progress of the pretty romance, for all the world loves lover, and last night attested their appreciation of both principals in the quiet little wedding that occurred in Shreveport by demonstration during the performance of "A New York Girl" that was not on the bills Those who attended the performance were treated to a pleasing bit of side play that they were brought to fully understand and appreciate, and they. too, joined in the congratulatory demonstration to the happy pair.
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