The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-26
GOTHAM GOSSIP
CRy Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y)

the former admirers of Edna May, the once sprightly diva of musical comedy, discern a sly dig at Ethel Barrymore, Viola Allen and Margaret Ellington, who after marrying rich men and vowing that they would be happy ever afterward darning socks and attending to kiddies, gave it up as a bad job and returned to the glamour of the foot lights.
 Miss May who in private life is the wife of Oscar Lewinson, a million, aire mining man. declares the tage she would not exchange her place now for the most worshiped prlma donna before the foot lights. What makes her views on this subject par ticuiariy interesting at this time IS the fact that the former stage Ia vorite has been married to MT. Levin son for more than four years, which is considered by stage persons as more than ample to cure one Of her pre- conceived notions concerning the at tractiveness of the domestic life. In her giddy days Miss May, who Is sinewy blond. with big baby blue eyes was generally credited with being welded to her art and to be. about the last person one would imagine as like ly to become reconciled to the prosaic career Of a married woman of leisure As the wife of Fred Tyson, former champion bicycle rider, she cherished none of the goody-goody domestic views she now expresses and continued
 
 Hammersteins production of "santa Maria until the inevitable break with hubby came and the courts were was what Dooley might call "a mere scrub of a girI' and could not have had much luxury at her disposal If she left the stage and depended upon Ghe Income of her bicycle man Now 4he lives in almost regal splendor and 1s able to gratify every whim. In this however. she is no different than than sell Colt, son Of the president of the rubber trust" Margaret Ellington, who divorced Daniel Frohman. the theatrical manager, in order to mar " William Bowles. a well to do Wes- tern lawyer and Viola Allen who mar ried one of the wealthy Duryea fam these popular actresses turned al. of fering an opportunity to get away from the monotony and grinding artificial ina ftfsefr dream Of domestic bliss was after all only dream and not the substantial reality they believed coyery they quickly returned to the foot Iiehts for that excitement" which the drudgery of mending the virtues in hubbys garments ana car pig. ldg i'
 Mrs. Lewinson. who has handsome home outside of London and anotner in Scotia nd. has been here for a week and as she says has been just ounned to death by her old friends of musi cal comedy days who ask her how she can stand the strain of the quiet life of a rich business man. To such in ouries she replies her life is fuller and more active than theirs and that ike Mary Anderson (Mrs. Antonio de ;nJavarraO she was never as hapoy on the g age as she is now. even when sU the gay ble des of London and New York were .pestering her with atten- lions. diamonds and lobster suppers when she was the vogue as the Sal va ton Army lass in "The Belle of New York"
 In passing upon the disposition of the child of a divorced couple the laid down the judicial dictum that ell n1en and women. guilty of transgres- sfonE against the marital vows are not necessarily wicked and bad His those of the courts here and generally elsewhere establishes something of legal precedence and is the subject of considerable discussion among both fhe Iaitv and members of the bar. In giving his decision Cn the case at is- sue the chancellor said he would solution of the Steel Trust. than de- ternine SO delicate and vital a ques- ton as separating a mother from her child The Ia ter was five year old Viola de Ia Motte, whose father re- gently obtained a decree of divorce from her mother and sought her perm anR1t cuSLOOy-
 The court f1fnaIly directed that the child live with the fathers parents in the school months and with the moth CTS parents in yaca tioTs, ta6eer tn ino ana her at will. Mrs. De la Motte cried over the -deci~'on but her frierds as- sured her that it was the judgment
 @I know marital infidelity is a sin and crime" the Vice Chancellor said. ''but there are worse things I whom T would trust my life. and I have seen others incapable of that crime with whom would not trust anything This mother has strsved dence made this woman the mother. I feel that I am acting in place ot Providence, but am rot wise enoueh to sav that because the woman was I1rfaithfu' to tt,e husbsrd she wcu'd corrupt the child or. that the ch'ld should re removed for all time from
 viola will attend sc-ooI in B~oo'-lyn and Go her playing in South Orange
 The insfste~ce win which Tom. ouofe f7fr1 on hts attitude toward the Presidential nomination has forced Colonel Rooseve | to cari5uIate 70 rne til a week ago. the Colonel has shown aversion to the chu-chu- car by for bidding it's entrance to Saeamore HIl, his country estate at C'ysrer BaV L. T.. where he is now permanently dorn- hciTed In his tri~s to s-d from church he has always used a big carryau drawn by horses and for FIs T,e-sora, recreation has a so'-i-ed sad die horse on which he takes long Journeys sHout the country generally alone. on these days v-Fen he 's not forced to come to the city on tus'no ss. On the latter occa siors it has heen his habit of comire to town on the train. Fr1+ so many persons pe~~ist cd in tsIkirg to him there on pclitf- cal subJects ard then reoresent +ne him as ga wing things. witch if he 6'd say were rot to re rereated, that he found firT Ee1f in con irral hot wa fer and obliged to work over-+i~ne eIe~tfnR his fel ow citizens to the An arfss Club.
 Thee e%reriences recan7e 90 snrov- ing that the Colonel came to @'s-ru~t every one he r7et ard in self defence 6ecsded to escFew the train for all future trins to the city. An auto lle