The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-05-18
WILL SETTLE DOWN
in COMFY" HOME LIFE
After Two False Starts Win
Devote Talents in Making
Millionaire Angel" Happy
fBy Associated Presso

New York, May 1S.-Word OF Fay |
ITenpleton's retirement from the stage |
was passed along Broadway today and |
lat the matinee performance at the |
Grand opera house almost a ton of |
flowers was passed over the footlights |
to the inlmitable comeHenne WHO has
amused American play-goers these !
many years. Tonight. It is positively
annceneed, Miss Templeton makes her
final bow to the public, and tnat she |
| win be given splendid farewell goes |
without saying.
The reasons which usually bring |
about the retirement of women of the |
stage do not hold good in the case OF
Miss Templeton. She can well afford |
to laugh at the unkind fortune which |
| has bestowed upon her a superabund-
ance of avoirdupois and removed GER
tain of the graces and charms which
once made her the queen of comic
opera. Miss Templeton retires in the
height of her success TO enjoy life as
1.-THE wife of Pittsburg millionaire,
William Patterson, by name, to whom
she was welded last August.
/ Il seems not so many years ago, but
by actual count it is "a good many, that
Fay capered nimbly in "Evangeline'
or earlier still in the Mascot and
l"Ollvette' to the delight of tho chap
Ipies who thronged the theatres TO
shower applause and roses upon her.
Old-timers on Broadway remember her
wei, in the pretentious production OF
Ed Rice, with its lone fisherman and
Dixey as the hind legs of he heifer.
! They remember the pretty soubrette
with her shapely form and stunning
ways and all around charms of man
ner and Appearance. who reigned as a
time as the idol of the Johnnies. It
was Fay Templeton, the same little
: girl who away back in 1878 or perhaps
earlier started ont In her fathers the
ater in ST. Joseph. Mo, as a child
Z wonder. She had appeared in many
pieces in juvenile parts, but it was not
+ until about 1878 that an angel came
: TO the frcnt tobaclS an operate troupe
I with Fay Templeton as the star. Her
) parents too were I'm the cast, but they
c0ntented themselves with humble
parts and mcager lines and gave pret-
, ty Fay the center of the stage and all
the calcium entrances.
Marrles "BiIly" West
In time she marrled and she chose
from the ranks II her own profession.
The lucky man, enyied of all the chap
pies for a brief moment, was William
] West, the minstrel, but for some mex
plicable reason the union was fail
, ure They lived together just one day
! and then they went their separate
| Mays and later West secured divorce.
Fay went on her triumphant course,
moving down hearts and reaping fresh
, iaurels in every part she attempted,
J Rice produced "Eyangelino" and In
, thst she made her greatest hit. She
. became the talk of New York and as
|. such attracted the favorable attention
OF Howell Osborn, the son of wealthy
mamma, who was doing his best to
J spend his allowance and let everything
} else go TO the very old duce and the
dickens. His mother had fortune of
S. 100000 and Howell was her pride
!, and joy until he took up with Fay
, lTempleton. That almost broke the
old lady's heart.
Fay gave the glad hand TO the gilded
, youth aud after he had squandered q
/, small fortune on her in New York they
! suddenly eloped 10 Paris, and from
: across the eaters came occasional
y otoAlNo VI AhNiA say hihANH va tAN R'NtN
= wards and Of how Fay and her husband
z were enjoying the gay life OF The
, capital.
c Tho Shattered Will
D Then Mrs Osborn died leaving hei
D immense fortune and a peculiar will
a Sho gave her son, Howell 100000 n
= trust and an additional 100000 which
! he could do with as he saw nt excep
: thai IL could not be willed 70 the issue
Of any wife who had sung, acted ol
Z dauced professionally on the stage fol
= hire. This. Of course, was aimed a.
: lI7ay. In 1895 howell Osborn died an.
" his win left Fay 100000. The In
, stlment was attacked In court b,
n oiSSer members of his family, who hell
! thai he had been improperly influenced
= TO make the w!ll and that The clause II
= Mrs. Osborn's wiz preelrded that dis
! position Of his money The m2tter wa'
fought out In the courts for severa
, years and Fay finally won. hnt ne
b victory did not avail her much, fol
! upon final settlement II was found tha
|. Oshorn's estate amounted 10 less thar
Z lSi0.00e.
Fay took 10 the stage again and a.
= one of the stars OF the Weber q Fields
I company she achieved new triumphs
4 Al the Tpentyninth street music hal
4 her imilationa Of leene Nanbugh
! Ethel barrymore Annie Rpesell ami
2 other well known ACTRESSES were an o
. them wonders Ia their way. aid hal
she been gQptgnted 70 remaln With "a