Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-28
81 Never Loved Him!
Never! Never!!
Never IL" She Cried
at Least 100 Times
as the Stage Heroine
of a Divorce Play
When the Stage
Lawyer Asked Her If
She Loved the
Stage Correspondent
land the Stage
Jury Acquitted Her
ffTvTELL." said Miss Mabel
w Montgomery. when pa
w pers were seryed upon

her calling for her to answer to her
husbands divorce suit In the New
York Supreme Court. well. that
oughtn't to DO very hard for me to
do
ain fact she continued. 7 shall
know just exactly what to do.
Lawyers won't be able TO browbeat
me. won't be too much In awe OF
the court and I'll know Just how
20 appeal to the jury. There's really
nothing TO IT,"
It'll Just go on the stand and tes-
tify in my own behalf" she con-
cluded In burst OF con fidence.
For had not Miss Montgomery ap-
peared time after time as the in
fortunate heroine, Peggy Admas.
ton" in Louis Walters successful
play Of divorce, The Butterfly on
the Wheel" and matinee after
matinee and night after night she
had gone upon a stage stand in
stage court room and had explained
away whole series OF compromis-
ing stage circumstances to the salts
faction Of stage Jury. which had
finally acquitted her triunphantly?
She had indeed.
WHAT" said MISS Montgomery to
herself, what woman ever was go
lucky. Here ! know all about Just
whs, to say end what to answer and
what TO do. For OF course what
goes on the stage will 60 in real
life. Isn't the stage Just the mir
ror OF real HE anyway? OF course"
"Beeides that" said friend.
VIVA, they saw about you, Mabel,
II just exactly almost what they said
about Peggy. SO you won't have
TO learn any new lines even, Mabel"
isn't It uue3 Lovely" said Miss
Montgomery.
But the tack remains that Mics
Montgomery or Mrs. Augustus Ger.
lenbach as she IS in real life. lost!
The real lie jury didn't acquit her
at oil. Miss Montgomery, II can
only be inferred, forgot her lines.
Miss Montgomery is q very fine
actress indeed She has played In
the greatest OF roles and is Of SUI.
nciently striking personality, which
makes II ali the harder to under
stand how she could forget. There
was a buzz Of interest in the New
York court room when sic took the
stand.
Butterfly on the Wheel" went
tho whisper. John F. Mcintyre, the
famous attorney for former Lieu.
tenant Becker and u figure In many
other equally notorious cases. had
the Butterfly on his mind too. eyi-
IDENTIFY. Miss Montgo merry had
started off all right, answering
readily and with complete com.
posure the questions hurled at her.
Mr. Mcintyre suddenly changed his
limo OF cross questioning.
year or more ago you were
engaged In the play called "A But.
terfiy on the Wheel were you not 2"
he asked. Miss Montgomery flushed
end paused.
A. Yea. sir, she finally answered.
The dialogue ran on.
G. You remember in that play
there was a court scene and q di.
Torce suit. 60 YOU remember?
A. Yes. sir.
Q. And In that divorce scene Won
played and testified, did you notY
A. | believe so. | don't reinem
Der ny parts very long, MIR. Nc.
lntyre. have 70 study so many;
generally forget them az soon as
finish playing them. At that time
had TO take up such big work.
y. In the play OF The Butterfly
on the Wheel" you took one of the
principal Characters In that play?
A Yes, sir.
.. Among other Things, you had
TO figure more or less prominently
IN the divorce scene that was staged
In that play?
A. ] believe so.
Here Mr. Mcintyre dropped tho
subject--but right here Miss Mont
gomeTy seems 10 have begun 10 for
get nor coaching in the play. Per
maps Mr.. Mcintyre was, himself.
satisfied THAI Miss Montgomery had
really forgotten the lines. Had he
pursued this line OF examination
further he would have deyelopet
that in many respects the part that
Miss Montgomery took in the plav
was practically identical with the
one she was then playing IN actual