The San Francisco call., 1909-06-10
Defends MARRIED
LIFE. OF ACTRESS
Star of "The Blue Mouse"
Scores FrOhman's Wife for
Domestic Desire
Mrs. Fiske to Appear in New
Drama by Young Amer
ican Playwright
By WALTER ANTHONY

Elsa Ryan. the star of The Blue
Mouse" cast soon to appear at the
American theater. has sent some things
TO the press. She is married and happy
and she wants the world to know that
she doesn't approve of Mrs. Daniel
Frohman, who. as Margaret Ellington,
was star here about a year ago. The
heroine of The Thief is not popular
with the heroine of The Blue Mouse"
and Miss Ryan has this to say of the
lady who, according to the columns of
this paper, is now in Reno awaiting the
time when she can secure a divorce
from her theatrical and devoted man
ager. Daniel Frohman:
If an actress wants the joys of
should have them. 1t is her privilege
She shouldn't go around Dragging
abut the matter. Mrs. Frohman would
be a more picturesque spectacle if she
had retired from the stage in order to
enjoy those privileges than she is now
after denouncing stage life and defam-
ing the regulations of those who still
are on the stage. / have been married
for eight years. I have baby too. a
fine. healthy and happy youngster. I'm
happy, my husband is happy, and the
baby is happy, too. Married life on the
stage is quite like married life else
where. Some are happy and some are
not. The discreet do not advertise
their unhappiness. whether they are
stars or whether they are mattresses"
Just a year ago, almost to the day,
Mrs Fiske appeared here in Ibsen's ir-
= IL
"Rosmersholm." This time she gives
US a new drama by an American play
wright new TO the business of writing
plays. His name is Edwin beg par
don-Edward Sheldon. and he is re-
cent graduate. But graduates nova
days learn more in less time than for
merly, and so Sheldon's drama is called
divine comedy of the slums. and 1t
certainly has caused comment and
criticism favorable and otherwise.
Mrs Fiske plays the role of Nell
/ Sanders, a scrubwoman, who is said TO
do more than Rebecea West did-en-
gage the sympathies and lure the af-
! fectiens.
Carlyle has said that genius may
/ manifest itself in many ways, and that
+ Napoleon might have been a poet had
he been pleased to be, just as Shakes
peare might have been a great general
had he selected the lines of war instead
of verse. Marie Doro's press agents
/ have not lost sight OF this hypothesis
! for the star who is about TO claim at
tention at he Van Ness heaer in The
Morals Of Marcus" is not only an
actress, but a literary woman. More
over, she is a musician. The proof
of her literary attainments is evidenced
in the fact that she is writing theatri-
cal articles for a newspaper syndicate,
and the fact that she is composer is
evidenced in THE Morals of Marcus,
wherein a waltz is being played which
she wrote herself. incidentally. the
pretty Marie dances to the strains OF
/ her onw dance.
Thurlow Bergen, who will be the
/ leading man for Florence Roberts dur
/ ing her stock star engagement at the
! Alcazar was last here in February
when he was leading man for the Cali
| fornia star who he still supports. Ber-
gen is a native of Washington, d. C.
and is a graduate from Princeton col
/ lege After studying law for three
years he selected the stage the me-
/ dunn for his talent His first engage.
/ ment was as a member of the late So
! Smith Russelrs company in "A Bach
4 elor's Romance" After z season or tive
he supported Rose Geghlan in her FRS
vaudeville engagement. Then he played