The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-03
WIFE OF EDITOR, WILL
 BE 51 TOMORROW

At last Lillian Russell. has entered into d permanent matrimonial ar engagement This statement is made on the authority of tie hardest of American stage perennials. No more yiH impertinent paragraphers ask, Why do men marry Lillian Russe1l?'' At last sine has captured THE man. Miss Russell will celebrate her fifty fret birthday tomorrow. but age would be no bar to future matrimonial ac- Iivities if she cared to indulge in such, Miss Russell is now the wife of Alexander F. Moore, editor and publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader. It is well known fact that news papermen make the best husbands, and it is safe to assume that the gifted actress has found the matrimonial first she didn't succeed tried, tried again, instead of mourning because she found it not.
 the present Mrs. Moore has had about IS large collection of names as any living woman. Born in Clinton, Iowa e Leonard, proprieebr of the Clinton Herald and pynthia Leonard, ,.. a Leonard. She was educafed in a, Chi cago convent, eang for time in church choir, and then went to New ! first stage appearance was in 1873, when she appeared in the chorus of -Pinafore'' company Harry Rraham was the musical director of the com pany and he fell in love with the con vent-bred girl and married her. That dream of love didn't last long, and stage drawing fifty per for singing ballads in Tony Pastors theatre. It was Tony who suggested that she adopt the stage name of Lillian Rus <zan znd she aCfa6 his advice Thus at nineteen she had had three names and there were more to follow
 On May S. 1884, Miss Russell was given a decree of divorce from Harry Braham, and, four days later, she be- came the bride of Edward solomon, leader of the orchestra at the Casino. where she had been. playing in ,'sThe Sorcerer'' and ssTl4e Princess of Ire bizende.'' MT. and Mrs. solomon went peared in two operas written by her husband They renained abroad for two years. until one Lillie Gray, music hall s, singer, alleged that hat ,e11e she lost husband. So it came about that Miss Russell returned to America min us a husband. and many years passed before she again threw her hat into the matrimonial ring Eventually her marriage with Solomon was declared miEdeal and legally annulled, and Miss Russell was given the custody of her daughter In 1894 she married Gio- yanni Perugini. who, as John Charter ton, was a well known tenor For time Lillian was happy with her sweet voiced Signor, but after year or two they separated, and another visit to the divorce courts left the fair ac- tress free to seek and be sought. With age came wisdom and Miss Russell reached the conclusion that the male children of the stage were not the raw material of which good husbands could be made AS editor of 8 beauty column's in a syndicate of newSpape Miss Russell had come into contact with many newspapermen and she found all Of them to be handsome, brilliant. kindly, considerate, temper ate intellectual. charming, polished, witty and altogether desirable There remained but the matter of making choice between the eligibles, and Alex ander P Moore of the Pittsburgh Leader was the fortunate man