Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-08

lVl to marry twice None include in their
ambitions the wish to be married
twice within a week to the same young man.
Yet that curious fate befell Iris Tree, the
youngest, and some have it the most gifted
daughter of the actor knight, Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree.
In the smart circles of New York the story
Is told with wonder and laughter. In
studios and theatres it is repeated with
smiles.
''She is a chip of the old block, is said
admiringy of the gifted daughter of gifted
sire. But Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, fore
most figure of the English stage, retorts,
''Not at all She is a block of her own max
ing | believe in sacred unpublicity in mar
rlagc. Her mother and | believed so thor
oughly in sacred unpublcity that she went
down to the country and lived for two weeks
with my parents, in the home in which our
wedding occurred. F"
Iris Tree is nineteen. To nineteen much
is forgiven. Iris Tree is a poet Of poets
we do not expect the heavy trudge along the
path of common usage The young man
whom she honored and made happy with her
hand, Curtis Moffat, is painter There is
the license of the artist But if you asked
the bride why she married twice within a
week, indeed, within four days. she would
reply in her low. eXquisitely modulated
voice, and i'll her manner overlaid with Eng
lish calm: at just happened. Don't you
know"
1t just happened that Miss Tree was alone
III New York Alone, that is, in so far as the
important factor of parenthood was con-
cerned. True she was paying protracted
visit to her friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph W.
Sanger. But Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
was playing his distinguished repertoire in
I
don, engaged in many activities of relief
work.
Miss Tree had been wooed and won by
the promising young artist, Curtis Moffat,
and Sir Herbert knew all about it. Com
prised in Sir Herbert s staggeringly large
budget of general information of this world
and its curious waggings, was the fact that
Mr.. Moffat and Miss Tree had met at a
social assemblage in London and had been
mutually attracted: that the wooing had
progressed on the shores of Gloucester.
Mass, while he painted portraits and
landscapes, and She sitting beside him on
the sands, had criticised his paintings
Criticised them gently, but capably for
while she is poet, she is likewise an artist
The English actor-manager knew of the en-
gagement that ensued, and approved of it.
"You can come to Chicago and be mar
ried under my wing" he had said and went
on playing Cardinal Wolsey in Henry
VIII" in Chicago.
But the English actor reckoned without
the American sport. Probably being
conscientious artist, engrossed in the multi
tudinous details of his life as actor-manager,
he did not know that New York possesses a
sprightly Mayor, aye and romantic one
A Mayor who tangoes well.
Quite as Miss Tree would say. cit Just
happened. - First it happened that the
betrothed pair was among the guests at a
dinner given by Mrs. Belmont Tiffany 1t
happened that beside Miss Tree and her
fiance and her ever present chaperon, Mrs.
Sanger, Mayor and Mrs. Mitchell were
guests.
The date, mark you, was December IS.
Now let us proceed. Strictly speaking let
us tango-beside the Mayor. His partner is
young English girl. Past them whirls Mr..
Moffat, tangoing with Mrs. Sanger
81 understand you and Mr. Curtis Moi
fat are soon to be married. tangoed and
spoke the Mayor.
Yes was Miss Trees reply, a sufficient
one.
''When and where7"
'fIn Chicago"
"Married in Chicagof" Hurt civic pride