New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-06
.ROGERSS TRAITS TODAY
SEEN IN HIS BOYHOOD
His Neglect Wrung Heart of Mother, Charlotte lhomp-
son. Popular Actress, and His Lack OF Good Con-
duct Marks at School Disappointed Father.

West 59th st.. where he received his
early education.
He was naturally brilliant. but the
reports Of his standing IN ms various
studies was the cause of much mental
unrest 10 his parents. Each fortnight,
lv message from the principal carried
its little quota of pain TO CnatloI'c
Racers Conduct was the classification
that consistently received the lowest
marks. In the reports of Lorlys kog-
ers. in that respect, the words "eNeel-
lent" and very good seldom aP-
peared. III
often, when the famous actress mad
finished a performance IN city many
hundreds of miles from nome ~heh
the theatre had rocked with applause
and when she should have smlleu WIN
Measure. woman friends found her SOD
bling on her dressing table with leI'e'
from Lorlys clutched IN her hand q,
She was patient. She admonlsheu
him gently. She pleaded with hlm TO
be more considerate OF her l0'e Ioi
him. She told him how lonely, sne was ;l.
so far from him. and how much MS le'-
ters meant to her. ,r,-,..
1t grew to be an old story. lhoughU-
less acts and careless, hasty letters
car,e IN 10 the rule. not the exception.
And vet the attitude OF the molhei
tov,rd ber son never varied. lie al
WAYS was "her darling Lorlys,' ana
with logged persistence she iostereu
The hone that everything would come
out all right in the end.
His Redeeming instincts.
As n successful actress the earnings
90 Cb.rlotto Thompson Rogers were
large for those days, and she bougnt
little farm in Suffern, where she might
rost with her family on the rare coca
sions when il was possible lhei'
Iorlvs spent much of his time, some
times with one parent, sometimes WIN
both. His sister Patty, then attend
ING the Ossining Institute Tor louhE
Ladies. loved the place and was there
through all her holidays.
An of what has gone before must
not be understood as an attempt 10
picture Lorlys Rogers IN false llgH''
lie had many redeeming instincts hi5
nature was essentially affectlonate' ana
tLore were occasions when his appar-,
ortlv dormant love of his parents anu
lister flashed forth in striking con-
trast TO his usual attitude.
He would carry expressions OF re-
pentance almost 10 absurd lehgths;
when actually convinced that ne had
hurt those 70 whom he was dear; Bup
according to family intimates, the I'M
mise of Standardization renamed sg,
preme. as it has appeared TO De III al
his later days. rorairo
Through these trying years, Lorraine
Rogers. as q theatrical manager anu
his wife. in her professional capacity,
worked happily together, Ihere was
an unusual harmony IN their love ioi
each other. Between them was thaI
rare blessing. q perfect understanding.
No detail. domestic or financial, was
too trihing TO be taken up with the
other. Together or apart, these TWO
led "a married life that was marVel 10
those who knew them.
Associated with Charlotte Thompson
during her career were such stageIoIN
ms Mrs. Sophie Edwin, John McCui-
Iouch. Mrs. judah, Henry Edwards, W;
A Nestaver. Nellie Wetherlll ana
Claude Burroughs. Lorraine Rogers
vas connected with the old California
Theatre. in San Francisco, for a long
time. and also with Lawrence Barrett
IN tho management of the varieties
Theatre, in New Orleans. -,
Iorlvs Rogers had showed an incli-
nation to a theatrical career, but when
he was about twenty years old ms
father took up his residence on the
Esperanza plantation, near Mont
eomery. The place was owned oy
Lorlvs's mother and covered four thou
sand acres of cotton land.
In Montgomery young Rogers en-
tered the law office of Senator John d.
Roouemore. and eventually became a
member of the firm of Roquemore &
Rogers. The firm went out Of exist
ence with the death Of Senator Rogue
more. 1t was his partners daughter
who became Lorlys Rogers's first wife
and who is the mother of his nineteen
vear-old son. They are among the suf-
ferers from the disgrace that Rogers
has brought upon himself.
This has been confined to the boy
hood surroundings of Lorlys Rogers.
In spite of the pitfalls attending a
theatrical life, both his parents came
through unscathed Therefore it may
be assumed that the thoroughbred
element was there, as a stanch foun-
dation on which the boy could and
might be expected to build What freak
of fate has been responsible for his
waste of opportunity is the harassing
question in the study OF the unfortu-
nate man.