The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
JULIA MARLOWE IS Az TOMORROW, TO LEAVE
 STAGE IN TWO YEARS

Miss Julia Marlowe, perhaps the greatest of living Shakespearean ae- tresses, will be forty-two years old. tomorrow, having been born in the village of Caldbeck, Cumberlandshire England, on August F, 1870. Some reference works give Miss Marlowe's birth date as Novembers. 1885. but this we are assured, is an error. Those who have. seen Miss Marlowe in her recent tours with her husband, E.. H. Sothern, will agree that she could not possibly be forty-seven, and it is diff ficuH to believe that she has reached the forties. MT Sothern has recently announced that he and his gifted wife will spent but two more seasons on the stage During the coming sea- son the distinguished pair will be seen in 'Much Ado About Nothing," in ad- dition to their repertoire Of last sea- son. and in the year following they propose to produce "Cymbeline," Miss Marlowe and MT. Sothern say they wish to leave the stage while they are doing their best work, and before they are relegated to the 'tbush leagues and the kerosene circuit It is likely that they will make their home in England, where Miss Marlowe was born and where MT. Sothern's brother and sister reside. A voyage around the world is also among their plans for the future.
  was Sarah Frances Frost, came to America with her parents in 1875. when she was five years old, and lived in Kansas two years, later moving to Cincinnati. AS a student in the pub lie schools of that city Miss Marlowe amateur production. She Twas only twelve when she joined "Pinafore" company that made a tour of the South and West She adopted the stage name of Fannie Brough, but few years later changed it to the more dignified name of Frances Brough Ada Dow a woman who had won success on the English stage, saw Miss Marlowe, and undertook to de- vefop- the latent genius of the girl Miss Dow took her find to her home in Ioboken, N. J., and for three years lahored constantly with her charge, giving her the benefit of all her knowl- morning until noon the girl read Shakespeare, and in the afternoon im- personated the characters in the plays of the great Bard of Avon. During these three years of preparatory train ing the young girl also had the aid and advice of Col. Robert G. Inger- soil, rhe famous lawyer and orator, who was deeply interested i'll Shakes peare.
 Miss Marlowe's New York premiere was made in 1887, and the following year she made tour of the country with Shakespearean plays. Her first husband was Robert Taber, whom she married in 1894, and they appeared for a season as joint stars, but soon agreed to disagree. They were di- vorced in 1900 and MT. Taber died four years later. The Sothern- Mar lowe joint starring arrangement be- gan during the season of 1905-6 and was a great success both in America and England.
 Besides the Shakespearean roles in which she has made her greatest repu- tation, Miss Marlowe has appeared in 'Colljnette,'' Barbara F'rietchie," ]" ''When Knighthood Was in Flower" ;" Bonnie Prince Charlie,'' and a mum Der of other dramas. In an era giv- en over to frothy musical comedy, nauseous dramas and villainous vau- deville. Miss Marlowe and MT. Soth- ern have kept alive the best traditions of the stage, and the mature woman has more than fulfilled the predictions made for the girl by Ada Dow and Col. Ingersoll