The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-02
why CHORUS GIRLS MAKE GOOD
MILLIONAIRESSES

It is not half so surprising that so
many chorus girls marry mililonaires
as It is that so many of them remain
happily married.
why is It that chorus girls make
good millionEiresses?
The question was put to Edna May
of Belle of New York" fame, who is
now Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn.
Her married life has been ideally
happy-of which she is far more proud
than her success on the musical COM
edy stage. Before she made her great
success as the Salvation Army lassie
in THE Belle of New York" she was
an obscure chorus girl and her hus-
band is a member of the rich Lewisohn
family of bankers with several million
dollars in his own right.
"In these days of quick marriage and
quicker divorce of rich men and wom-
en- of the stage it is difficult to lay
down any rule or recipe for their mari
tai happiness" said Mrs. LewisOhn
when interviewed at the st. Regis dur
ing her recent visit here. "But j an
sure if couples lived as Mr.. Lewiston
and l live there wouldn't be an UNI
happy marriage. We live a simple,
wholesome, outdoor life, spending the
greater part of our time in the coun-
try. We fish, we hunt, we drive and
We play golf. Always we are together.
Occasionally we go into town to see
a new play, but most of our time is
spent in the open air,
THE reason why marriages of rich
men and women Of the stage are oc-
casionally unhappy is their unwilling
ness to live simply. They have every
thing in the world to make them happy
to start with, but the feveTiLh life in
a great city with it's round of pleasures
is not conductive to good health.
Life in the country, with occasion
al excursions in the gayeties of the
city, is the only solution. Only by liv-
ing simple outdoor life can a woman
retain her youth and vivacity. Only
by such a life can the rich husband Of
a stage favorite be kept happy
"Of course before all this there must
be real love on botn sides, similar
tastes and common aims, I have
known many couples who were really
in love with each other to drift apart
because of the unnatural city life.
Their health was undermined by dis
sipation and their late hours and lack
of exercise made them nervous and
irritable. The country has a soothing
effect on the nerves, and for couples
who have the means to crafty their
merest whim3 it is the only place for
them to live to be happy.
THE brilliant matches made by
Gaiety girls-chorus girls in George
Idwardes's Gaiety Theatre companies
have long been famous. Many OF
them have married peers of England
and nearly all the marriages have turn
ed out happily for the realon that they
have lived outdoor lives in the coun
try"
Three American chorus girls have
married titled Englishmen, and so fan
their marriages have been very happy
Lady Ashburton, VIII was formerl!
Frances Belmont, one of the prettl
maidens in "Florodorl," is now on {
visit here. Eva Darlington, who wa'
in THE Chinese Honeymoon" is thu
, Baroness de Clifford. And the mar
riage of Camille Clifford, who was il
the chorus of The Prince of Pilsen,
to the Hon. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce
son of Lord Aberdeen, is still fresh il
the minds of most newspaper readers
Here in America there have beer
several unhappy marriages of million
aires and chorus girls. The marriages
of Felix Isman, the Philadelphia anC
New York real estate man, and Irene
Frize'le, a chorus girl at Weber &
Fields, and of Roy Pierce, the son o