The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-16
DAILY SHORT STORY.
IN LOVE WITH AN ACTRESS.
BY Don AID ALLEN.

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Once upon Il time a man OF some
financial substance, but of a good deal
more dignity. saw in the papers that the
Son of a man a great deal like him had
married an actress and thereby broken
his mothers heart and caused his faith
er to hang his head in shame The .'aC-
fress" was chorus girl on salary of
slt a week, and she spent her money for
chocolates and left her poor husband to
bear all the expenses of the fat on his
ten. When lie could no longer do So
having been dsowncd by his father, the
wife ran away with butcher who
wouldn't give even his best customer Il
chunk of cat meat
Mr.. Erayne dimt take on so very
much about this affair. it being his
busy day, but when he read the
same sort of affair again three months
later with the addition that the ruined
husband had hung himself to a bedpost
h." turned to his wife.
And we've got son growing up"
h said.
Yes and he's POW twelve years old, :"
WAS sighed.
DO You thinE I had letter speak to
him about it,
Il would. You cannot begin with
boy too early.
And 50 young Harry Frayne was called
into the library and told these two
cases. and learned that they were only
two out Of hundreds of like ones and
then the question was put to him with all
parental sternncss.
Young man, would you marry an &C
trcssH''
But never saw one. papa" was
tn" puzzled ;,nSwcr.
ks Il -n,llH
YOU
II guess not"
IF you ever DO, sir. 1 shall disown
you
Then I won't
No one in the Frayne household. unless
it was the cook, would have married an
actor right off and taken her chances
Of being chopped mp with an AK the next
week. ever attended a theater. 1t there
fore happened that when young Harry
had reached the age of twenty-one and
was starting for Chicago to enter
railroad office. his father did not think
it necessary to post him on any more
tragedies of the theatrical profe ssion.
Il shouldn't hang around the vestibule
Of thcatcr If l were yOu,'' he said by
way of advice.
No sir
Because an actress in front of the
house IS just as dangerous as one on the
stage"
Even if YOU don't speak to her."
Even so
rs Miss barrymore dangerous"
i have said that they arc all danger
GUS
But why are they. father
Pc careful. SIT. or l shall think YOU
are taking an interest. ] will answer
this one question for Won. II is because
they eat late surprrs and receive bOu-
DUETS from brokers. If Won do not care
20 read evenings, there is the Y. NJ. c.
A"
A woodcn-h"aded man would I've pre-
pared for the natural sequence. The
evening Of the Young mans arrival was
spent in lis room. The next on" found
him at a th,atcr. He entered with fear
and trembling. lie rather surprised
mat at least sN actresses were not on
hand to welcome him. Such were in
the play on the Stage acted with just
as much PROPERTY. and he quickly OBJ |
served that they We're far better looking
than those Of the audience.
WHY, there arc rich people here and |
nice people" said Voting Frayne tn him /,
self as he looked tn" house over. II
wonder what father ana mother are so
down OF actresses foI.
And for the next year. except when his
father visited Chicago. # was always
two nights a week at the thcater and |
sometimes three and then the young .
man had an actress pointed out to him
on the street or in r"sta ant. but he
thought them moro reserved than any
other class. It was months before ne
happened TO Ice introduced to one, and
then by accident and not by her stage
name They had \ few minutes talk
and though her face and voice seemed
familiar il WAS when he saw her on
the stage again that he fully identified
her. II
Young Frayuc had good society back
ing. and the NOR" he talked with people
Of social standing about theatrical people
the more he wondered at the opinions
held by his parents. 1t was at a gather
ing of distinction that he again met Miss
Bell and they sat together long enough
to become quite veil acquainted.
II was then that the Young man
learned from her own lips that he had
made the acquaintance OF an actress and
no chill ran over him. nor did he find ,
himself gasping for breath. He found
her not only winsome but broad-minded
and well educated and well posted ,
And ever since my boyhood 1 have ,
been taught TO dread them" he said to
himself as he walked home that night
His father and mother arranged that
when he had had his summer vacation
dav in July found them at a Lakeside
hotel A day or two later brought Miss
Bell, though she had no idea that he
was there. There were guests that knew
her, and people were discussing her be-
fore young Frayne had . hint Of her
presence. II came from his father and
mother first
.swen." said the former as the THO
sat by themselves. IT was given to un- .
derstand that this was q select hotel"
They seem very nice people," replied
Harry.
you don't mean that a lot OF foreign
ers have arrived?"
81 mean that at least one actress has
arrived, and the guests are gathering
around her like fies about sugar" II
Mercy me- Ii
ct believe that most Of the theatrical y
>Aanla taks . summer vocation" aid