The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-20
DOMESTIC COMEDY
Of NOTED ACTRESS
MARGARET ELLINGTON, NIECE OF
MRS. III. N. SWARTWOOD OF
THIS VALLEY, TIRED OF FOOT
LIGHTS,

Miss Margaret Ellington, as she is
called on the stage, but in reality
Mrs. Daniel Frohman, is given al
great deal of publicity in the public
prints. She says that she is tired
of the footlights and wants domestic
ity. Her position is ridiculed by Mrs.
Leslie Carter, who says that Miss Ill
ington is old-fashioned.
Miss Ellington is a niece of Mrs.
H. N. Swartwood of this city. She
| is daughter or Mrs. Swartwooi's
sister and the Swartwoods have al
ways made it point to visit hoy
when she has appeared on the Coast:
| She is one of the most talented prod
ucts of the modern stage; but there
| is something horribly fascinating
about the frankness and abandon
with which she, Daniel Frohman and
E. J. Bowes are discussing the inn
pending divorce between the two for
mer and the contemplated marriage
of the first and the last named actors
in this charming domestic drama
Maggie says there is nothing the
matter with Dan. He is all right and
good provider, but she wants to
"have children and darn socks" 1t
is quite evident that Dan has been
patronizing that Never-Wear-Out
Sock company which gives new
pair for every hole in the toe, If it
appears before six months of wear.
This explains why the actress has
no socks to darn, and her statement
ment that Dan is 80 years her senior
renders it doubtful if she can ever
hope to establish kindergarten with
the progeny of Daniel and herself.
The actress says that she would
love to tell the public that she is to
marry E. ]. Bowes, wealthy Taco
ma club man, as soon as the divorce
is granted, but thinks such an an
nouncement would be in bad taste at
|
that Mr.. Frohman thoroughly ap-
proves of Mr.. Bowes"
This leads to the belief that Dan
will give the bride away when Mar
garet marries Bowes, delicate at
tention upon his part, which both of
the high contracting parties should
greately appreciate. He has been
married to Marga&et for six years and
is satisfied that she will make Bowes
a good wife.
AS for Bowes, who can blame him?
The following is a description Of Miss
Ellington in her present surroundings:
"The actress was found in a COM
modious room on the second floor of
the hospital. She was half reclining
against pillows that were supported
by rest. A bed stand swung over
the white counterpart. On it was
a cluster of pale yellow acacia bios
SONS with which Miss Ellington
toyed as she talked. She wore
heavy silk peignoir over her pink
beribboned muslin. Her dark brown
hair was enjoying unfettered liber-
ty, screening her forehead, framing
her flushed cheeks and barring her
dark brown eyes at times with
flimsy web. Her rounded forearm
reached out from the silken sleeves
that the jeweled fingers might play
with the acacia blossoms. A spark
ling jeweled bracelet with an incred-
ible number of brilliant facets circled
her left wrist, and on a finger of her
left hand huge amethyst ring smol-
iered with it's violet light"
This indicates that Bowes is a
lucky man and that Frohman knows
| it.
David Belasco, the greatest rival
of Frohman in the theatrical bust
ness, sees lesson in good manners
as well as a charming comedy in the
way the Frohmans have arranged
/ their domestic affairs. He says: cit
has developed a plot for comedy of
manners that would be piquant
and pertinent to modern life. The
chief characters would be three-the
elderly man of wealth and power,
who would be able to place his wife
on the topmost pinnacle of the pro-
| fession which she had chosen. The
younger man of quieter success and
of a calmer circle, who has a home
to offer The brilliant actress, fresh
from national triumphs, who rejects
the life offered by her husband that
she may live the life of normal wo-
man, have homes cares and be a
mother"
There is no doubt that the COM