The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-19
N ewlyweds Will Try to Be Happy
By Not Being Well Acquainted
Girl Gives
bOhemianS
Big Shock
Especial to The Times)

| tie Sirl lS years old mas brought
brand new theory about marriage
TO Greenwich Village from Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Marie Centlivre, born of French
parents in Indiana, has sung in
concerts and been on the stage at
home for three years.
She saved her money to come to
New York City. She arrived the
first day OF spring, March 81, and
registered at the Brevoort.
She got job the day she arriv-
ed with a Broadway production.
She's been busy rehearsing every
day since then. But even at that
she has taken time to get &C
quainted with Greenwich Village.
She had read about it out in
Fort Wayne.
Will Try Out Theory
| Within five weeks after she ar
rived she and Ira Mallory Remsen,
portrait painter by profession and
dramatist by avOcation, announced
their marriage.
More, they declared they were
going to try out Marie's theory
about how to be happy though
married.
It's a simple theory really. 1t
cosists in this: Don't live together.
But Marie says that means lot
more than just having separate
residences. 1t means having sep
arate interests, separate friends,
separate existences In every way.
Don't take a chance on get
ting tired of each other" she says,
that's the whole thing in a nut
she'll"
Mrs. Remsen let's her husband
call her by his name, but she is
still registered at the Brevoort as
Marie Centlivre.
Thought Ii a Joke
Greenwich Village was inclined
to take the marriage as a joke at
first, but Remsen finally man
aged to convince his friends that
he and his bride are quite serious
about II, and now he is working on
the thereto of an opera in which
Marie will sing the leading part.
Il think" Marie says in explain
ing her theory of matrimony,
that I'll have my children live
with me till they are 7 years old
or SO. After they aer years old
between their father and me. But
I'm going to be sure they eat the
right food and take enough baths
and clean their teeth before let
them think of living with their
father. He's likely to be careless,
I'm afraid.
You see I think the trouble
with married people is they know
each other too we'll. They get too
well acquainted. You can't be
crazy about any one who fries po-
tatoes for you or shores in his
chair in front of you.
All Very Informal
II think people should marry
when they don't know each other
and then never, never, never get
acquainted. That's the way lovers
are, and lovers are always happy"
The formal Introduction, pro-
posal, engagement, wedding and
honeymoon of Marie Centlivre and
Ira Mallory Remsen is interesting
in so far as it conforms with the
brides ideals OF matrimony.
In the first place there are no
formal introductions in Green
wich Village. Remsen proposed
quite casually because they knew
so little about each other.
just Casually
Then next afternoon Remsen |
was serving a reception committee
at tea at the Players Club. He
says It occurred to him that while |
he was wearing his best suit they |
might as we'll marry.
So he called up Marie and she
promptly put on her best white
dress and met him. II was his |
suggestion that they be married at
a notary's. Marie agreed. Then
after the ceremony they shook
hands and parted, to meet later
that night for dinner in one of the
Greenwich Village restaurants.
Been married" Remsen an
nounced.
"What?" cried everybody.
| We'll, not fully married." ex-
planned Marie. He took me to a
notary's this afternoon and I'll
take him to the Little Church
Around the Corner tomorrow.
While Remsen has been satisfied
for many years to live in bachelor
lodgings at the Benedick in Wash
ington Square and go over to the
Brevoort for breakfast he has now
added unto himself a private stu
do where we can eat breakfast
by ourselves" he says.
Not Going to Spoil II
But mightn't we get awfully
well acquainted that way" Marie
wanted to know.
mo, no." he answered, "we'll
be careful about that, of course.
But IL I'm going to write operas
for you and design costumes for
you and make all your stage sets
and all that I've got to have a lit
tie chance to study you, you know.
But we won't spoil our fairy tale
by anything so mundane as get
ting acquainted-not we."
And Greenwich Village is won
dering how Marie's new theories
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