New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-19
JULIA MARLOWE AND
F. H. S0THERN MARRIED
Wedding Is Announced by Actor
in a Cable Dispatch Sent
from London.
NEWS LONG EXPECTED HER
Reports of Engagement First
Circulated About the Time
Miss Harmed Obtained Di-
vorce from Player.

The wedding Of f. H. Sothern and
Julia Marlowe, which has been expected
in theatrical circles for nearly a year,
was announced yesterday in brief bile
dispatch from London. sent by Mr..
Sothern to Lee Shubert. The dispatch
gave only the bare fact. Of the marriage.
1t was sent on Thursday, and said that
Mr.. Sothern and Miss Marlowe had been
married that morning. Mr.. Shubert re-
ceived the dispatch yesterday morning.
The report that Mr.. Sothern and Miss
Marlowe were 10 be married was first
circulated at about the time Virginia
Harmed got her divorce from Mr.. Soth-
ern. in Reno in October, 1910. The day
before the trial of the suit Judge Pike,
by whom the case was heard. recely ID
an unsigned letter, saying. In part:
Julia Marlowe arrives from Europe
this week. She will continue with f. II.
sothern in a Joint starring tour. the sea-
son to open in Boston. I have it from
reliable sources that as soon as Sothern
and Virginia Harmed are free from the
bonds Of matrimony an announcement
will be forthcoming that Sothern will
take Miss Marlowe TO church"
Miss Harmed got her divorce on the
grounds Of desertion and non-support,
and she was much annoyed at the name
Of Miss Marlowe being brought into the
case. The rumors persisted, however,
and when Mr.. Sothern and Miss Mar
lowe went abroad in July IL was gen.
orally believed that they would be mar
ried before they returned to this coun-
try. They sailed for Europe soon after
the hot weather brought their projected
midsummer Shakespearian engagement
at the Broadway Theatre to a close.
They opened in Macbeth" on July 3, in
tending TO give two weeks to Shake
spearian repcrtory, but on July a
placard in the lobby Of the theatre an
nounced the sudden closing OF the en-
gagement. because Miss Marlowe had
been made Ill by the excessive heat.
Miss Marlowe and Mr.. Sothern have
been associated in their theatrical work
since 1904. In that year they starred
together under the management OF
Charles Frohman, and continued under
bis management until 1907. when they
put themselves under the Shubert man.
agement. and appeared in The Sunken
Bell" Jeanne dare" and John the
Baptist" in addition to a series Of
Shakespearan plays. They played an
engagement of six weeks in London Il
the spring Of 1907, and starred sepa-
rately for the two seasons following.
They joined forces again in the autumn
OF 1909. and since then have played
an exclusively Shakespearian repertory.
Miss Harmed testified in her suit for
divorce that Mr.. Sothern earned $780,
coo for a season OF forty weeks.
E. II. Sothern married Virginia Harmed
in Philadelphia In 1896. They starred
their home at No. 80 West 9th street.
They separated in 1906. Mr.. Sothern
going to live at the Hotel Netherland.
He gave as the reason for their separa-
tion that Miss Harmed did not care for
the Shakespearian plays to which he was
anxious to devote his whole time.
-'iss Harmed first applied for a divorce
in July. 1908. Papers in the suit. which
was brought in Nevada. were served on
Mr. Sothern at the NetherIand, and two
weeks later he sailed for Europe. When
the ease came for trial neither Miss
III. Il nor Mr.. Sothern appeared In
CO... and the suit was dismissed on the
ground that Miss Harmed had not estab-
lished a legal residence In Nevada.
In the spring Of 1910 Miss Harmed took
UP her residence in Nevada. and after
living there the necessary six months
once more brought her suit which was
this time successful. At the time of the
trial Miss Harmed said that she did not
know her husbands age. but thought he
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