The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
DOCTORS WIFE JOINS NAUGHTY
 MARIETTA 60. ,
In Stunning Gowns Bridgeport Beauty Makes Broadway Hit as Leading Show Girl
Mrs. Meria Phalen WeidI;ch For merly Figures in Local Enter tainments in Which She Created Sensation

Mrs. Meria Phalen Weidlich, wife o1
 Dr. H. c. Weidlich, a prominent den.
 tist of 1925 Main street. has answered
 to the lure of the mask. and forsaken
 the comforts of her home life at 1007
 Central avenue to enter the field of
 comic opera. Mrs. Weidlich's steI
 was not thoroughly in accord with her
 husbands ideas. but being a young
 woman of very decided views. her
 wishes. she said. came first. and she embraced what she considered an ex-
 cellent opportunity for entering upon a professional career
 That Mrs. Weidlich should seek a stage career is not considered strange by her admirers in this city. Blessed with many charms of face and figure and 8 soprano voice of much range and strength. she is expected to make her mark.
 About a month ago Mrs Weidlich fidence. She had decided. she said, that home life did not appeal to her so strongly as the prospects of a stage career. She had a. number of valu- able acquaintances in the theatrical world, whose offices she invoked to se- cure her a position.
 Mrs. Weidlich secured a position in Naughty Marietta. which is now one of the reigning successes of the met ropolitan theatres. Playing at the New York Theatre. Broadway and 45th street. the production has met with unqualified success. Emma Trentini. the former grand opera star. whose Fritzi Scheff. from the fact that both first achieved success in Grand Opera and turned to the lighter musical plays for continued fame. has made the hit of her career, according to the critics, inthis production.
 is one of the most important of the minor roles. Her tall. well propor- toned figure admirably fitted her to the part of the principal show girl of the production. Wearing several stun ming gowns during the production. she Is attracting much attention from the large audience that nightly throngs the big New York theatre.
 Predictions that the show will have D long continued run at the New York are rife among the New York critics and managers. Admirers of Mrs. Weidlich are confident that she will find her advancement in the thea trical profession easy. for the train Ing she is receiving at present 'is of the best. She has already been given an important understudy.
 Meria Phalen, Mrs. Weid1ich. achier- ed considerable fame locally. She sang in a number of church choirs, though not regularly, and figured in B. number of entertainments. among them a concert she arranged herself at Warner hall. Her first musical was received at the fashion able Catholic seminary. Mt. St. Joseph. and of which she is an and 1t was completed under other instructors.
 Shortly before the San Francisco disaster Miss Pha1en figured in sen- sational automobile smash-up in Jer- one avenue. the Bronx. when she suf- tered fracture of the skull. and for several weeks she lay in a critical con- lition at Fordham hospital. When a benefit was arranged in this city for the San Francisco sufferers. Miss Pha- en created no little surprise by ap- bearing in automobile togs and sing ing a rollicking automobile number which proved quite the hit of the en- 
 Dr. Weidlich is known to have stren- 1ously oposed his wife's plans. He could not be seen when a reporter called at his office this afternoon.