The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-15
COULDN'T DARN
SOCKS, SHE QUITS
DANIEL FR0HMAN
Margaret Ellington, Actress,
Craving DOmesticity, Parts
from Husband.
STOCKING INTENDING
AMBITIONS AP0GEE
Is to Become Wife of Rich Realty
Man on Coast, II Is
Said.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.-Because
she craved home life is the chief reason
why Margaret Ellington is seeking a
legal separation from her husband,
Daniel Frohman, according to an inter-
view which she rave out at the Clara
bon Hospital, in this city, where she is
taking the rest cure. The actress does
not deny that she will marry Edward
]. Bowes when she has obtained a di-
vorce from Frohman.
Miss Ellington made the following
statement of her reasons for seeking a
separation from her husband:
Il am to get a divorce from Mr..
Frohman, and would love to tell you
that [ am to marry Mr.. Bowes when I
am free. but l can't say that now, you
know. But I did not leave Mr.. 'Froh-
mar for Mr.. Bowes or any one-I left
him because l could not be happy on
the stage. The life of an actress Is
abnormal; l crave domesticity, home
life, children; l want to darn socks.
From the first | told Mr.. Frohman that
l wanted a home; a domestic life.
But he wanted to make a great star
out of me. L wanted to stay at home
and darn his socks. Mr.. Frohman is
thirty years older than l am. I lived
in New York with his three sisters,
who are maiden ladies from twenty
five to thirty-fve years older than L.
How l used to envy them as l would
go to the theatre every night and cave
them to do homework and darn socks.
always l wanted domestic life and
children. | wanted to lead the life Of
a normal woman The stage life might
be we'll for the woman born to it, but
you know 1t is abnormal. Think of 1t,
1 played The Thief for fourteen
months.
MY life was on railroads, in trunks,
cabs and hotels. When l found that
Mr.. Frohman intended to keep me on
the stage always my life died. 1 saw
then no chance of the domestic lie I
c:aved. So we parted.
Eyes, Mr.. Frohman knows Mr.. Bowes
and admires him highly" said Miss
Ellington, concluding the Interview.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Daniel Froh-
man, the theatrical manager, has issued
a statement, in which he announced
that Mrs. Frohman, who was Miss Mar
garet Ellington, the actress, n himself
had decided upon a separation, with the
view to an ultimate divorce. Mrs. Froll-
man is al present in California. where
she is recovering her health following a
breakdown from her arduous work on
the stage. Mr.. and Mrs. Frohman were
married in November, 1903. His state
ment follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Frohman have de-
elded upon. a separation. with a view to an
ultimate divorce. Mrs. Frohman and l
agreed to this recently. She desires to take
up her residence permanently In California;
where the climate agrees with her, and
where she has always been well, even when
acting. She has retired permanently from
the profession and Will remove with her
parents to the Pacific coast, where their
relatives are, and will live with. them.
There is no scandal involved in this disa-
greement-no man or woman is the cause OF
it. In fact. the arrangement Is far more
amicable than hostile on either part. The
decision was arrived at recently. Mrs.
Frohman. though in good physical health, IS
at present resting at a health resort In Call
fornia, where. after a few weeks quiet, she
will be entirely restored. She came to New
York from California a few weeks ago, APP
entirely recovered from her break
down In The Thief but the Eastern ell
mate did not agree with her. She finds So
lace and health In the air of the Pacific
slope, and there she has decided to live for
the future. We have been married nearly
six years.