The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-10
The Leading Man and Wondn Of To-day Throw
 Some Sideliehfs On le Motl1er-In-La7v Question
By DoLLY DALRyMPLE
The old storN-

H, DOLLY DALRyMpLE
 The old story
 That love and congenial married ifa doesn't exist among the people Of the stage Is utterly refuted in the case of MT. and Mrs. George Donald MacQuarrie dlelen Mackellar). the leading man and woman of the powerful drama, Today. '' by George II Broadhurst and Abra ham Schooner now playing ronud at the Jeff ferson
 The MaeQuarries have been married four years-and neither of them has ever played on a company that the other wasn't in.
 Wonderful offers have been made to each of them.
 But
 Nothing doin' has always been the answer
 | And
 So
 In the two tremendously dramatic roles that they are playing now, and of which Il each talks so Interestingly, is the latest Triumph for these happy young people who perhaps made their biggest hit on the stage in Bought and Paid Fora play which will live forever in the minds and hearts of theatregoers l had the pleasure of meeting Mir. and Mrs. MacQuarie at the Tutwler short time after their arrival yesterday, and We chatted for an hour CT more about al! sorts of things-for they are unusually attractive, charming people-dstinct types rarely met.
 Mrs. MacQuarrie's dainty blonde beauty is very fascinating, while MT. MaeQuar- rie with his sturdy Scotch lineage pro- claiming h,m the polished, elegant, gentle man that he is, and his finely chlseled features and handsome physique making him splendid foil for the wnsome pret- tiness of his attractive young wife.
 How to reduce the mother-in-law evil" began, 'I know sounds like recire in country newspaper for making pies and preserves, but, you see, I've read the play Today. I've read about it, and I want to get your views on the mother-in-law situation. pictured there, knowing that a woman's views on the subject will be very different from man s.. ! Mrs. MacQuarre smiled prettily and 1 said:
 I'm afraid I'm very much in sympa- thy with tho young wife Lily Wasner, and that have very little sympathy with the mother-in-law 1 believe if she had let Lilly alone she would have been I very different woman but she was go nagging. so interfering, SD tremendously prejudieed that it was little short of catastrophe the havoc she brought about"
 And you?" I asked turning 10 Mir. | MacQuarrie.
 q think that the mother-in-law evil is one that is ensting tho attention of thousands of people," he said T don't mean by that the young husband with his wife's mother. but the young wife with the husbands. The trouble is just this: The average mother has never yet learned how to give up her son gracefully. Personally, I feel very sorry for Lily Wagner l believe she was good at heart, but most of the women will say that she was driven to her doom by a nagging mother-in-law
 You sec Mrs. MacQuarre took up the conversation. 'the ge-sse mother Is jealous of the woman who supplants her in her sons affection.
 But old Mrs. Wagner" I said. isn't she what you'd call cat'-a real mean, prying old woman?"
 No, not cat" MT. MacQuarrie inter- rupted. fShe really wasn't that; she was economical, saving. had her sons inter- | daughter-in-law all the fine clothes and money she spent that her son worked | so hard for. You see, the mother-in-law had forgotten that she once was young and loved pretty clothes and parties and amusemcnts, and she couldn't stand quiet ly by and her sons wife make slave of him. A great many women would call her cat but that is such mean sort of word. man sees the dear old | lady merely as a loving mother jealouslv | guarding her sons interests. You see there is just this difference between the | mans and the womans view of mothers in-law: A man will excuse his mother in-low for interfering with him because he knows it is on account of the love she bears her daughter, but a woman will not brook any interference from her l husbands mother because women are all jealous of each other
 "On the other hand' Mrs. MacQuarrie ventured, mo man has any right to ask his young wife to let his parents live | with her. She wants to be queen of her | own household and she doesn't want any | body looking at the marks inside of her | frocks to see what modiste has made 1 them and thereby guage the, price. The | young wife wants to be perfect in the | eyes of her husband but this she finds impossible if his mother is living in the house with her. clever wife can al l ways cover up her defects and short | comings to her husband and remain his dream wife, his ideal but she could never | do this with his mothers eyes constantly upo nher, looking for faults and magni- flying them outrageously." | ''Od MT. Wagner I suggested, some how the father-in-law always has more sense or tact or whatever you'd call it. | than the mother-in-law, and he got on l famousy with Lily"
 | MT. Wagner understood the situation quite as well as did Mrs. Wagner between