Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-04-13
By
Gabby Is
Here
Marjorie Rambeau Tries
to Make Star of New
Husband Omahans
In the Column
By GABBY DETAILS

Marjorie Ranlbeau, whose latest
sensation was her marriage with
a sailor lad, whose path to stardom
was as obscure as was Miss Mar
4 jorie's herself, before she met her
magic genii-her first husband-Wil-
lard Mack.
Five years ago Willard Mack, the
actor. manager, dramatist, as wizard
of yorc waved his wand over the
Z head of Marjorie Rambeau, then q
little actress in the unknown back.
woods Of the drama,
"You have talent" he said, II will
develop it,
And so it was. Marjorie not only
had beauty, success, but unto all
these love was added, as the next
step in the shower of the gods gifts.
She became Mrs. Willard Mack, wife
Of the dramatiSt whose plays were
sought far and near-but only on
the condition that his wife play the
important parts.
One Of those elusive stars to
which SO many chariots are at
tached--a future" was predicted,
and most gloriousfy,. conspicuousiy
was il fulfilled But with the last gift
Of the gods and fate-that of fame
their previous gift, love, alas.
lessened.
A divorce came. Mr.. Mack remar-
red, but Miss Rambeau still sought
the last and most coveted posses
sion--happiness-and she sought IT
this time alone.
AS suitors appeared she smiled
srfriendlily and sent them away. The
suitors returned and returned. One
of them, multimillionaire, less
easily discouraged than the rest, an
nounced his intention to play q
waiting game. The would-be hus-
band canlped, it is said, at the door
of Cove House, Miss Rambeau's
home at Pelham, as suitors gathered'
at Penelope's home when it. was
thought Ulysses was lost.
Then came the surprise that near
" stunned the street of thousand
surprises. Miss Rambeaii visited the
city hall in the simplest fashion, as
her own maid might have done, and
married.
Whom do you suppose? Not the
waiting 1nuftimillionaire. Not a the
atrical nagnate who had long been,
enamored of her. Not one Of the
large group Of thu faithful that had
waited long for a smile Of encom-
agement. Simply, in the presence of
two friends of the pair, she was
welded to Z common sailor.
Wearied, perhaps of the glitter,
the filter of titles. position, wealth,
she tried as did her husband before
to experience tina feeling of making
others successful.
The sailor, with no commission,
no position, she married. He had
been guard when some of the sail
ors in his company rescued Mrs.
Marjorie Rambeau-Mack from her
favorite launch "Maribee," from
which she had fallen.
She invited him to dinner at CO.
vent House. He accepted. And then
he too sailed away--to war.
The war was over. Hugh Dillman,
the sailor, returned, and with only
the experience of an extra" in Bel
asco's company in California, he
called On Miss Rambeau.
But the star stretched forth her
hand and clasped his. In her smile
was assurance of future of which
!. he had not dreamed. As love had
stretched forth its hand to her she
was offering it to the actor on the
lower rung.
Miss Rambeau's second and what
she likes to think is her real love
story and permanent marriage,
us as romantic as any matinee
girl who sits in the third row front
and watches her with adoring eyes
could wish for her idol. 1t is a mix
ture of patriotism and poetry. 1t is
as sudden as the climax of the play
in which she reached stardom, THE |
Eyes os Youth"
In four days they were engaged. |
Four weeks later came the hasty |
marriage.
"We went down to City Hall tot
get our marriage license said Miss |
Rambeau, "and when we. got there / !
said, why not marry now and save |
the fuss and bother? So we went to |
! little chapel on the second floor |
and were married by the chief clerk |
in what / cali the criminal court |
building. My husband gently cor
rects me and says it was the Munich |
pal Building. We walked down the |
stairs TO avoid curiosity seekers.
I'VE went to the Knickerbocker
hotel for luncheon with our two wit
nesses, Lester Donahue. the pianist,
and Teresa Murray, an old friend of /
mine. There we met Irving Berlin,
one of my best friends. l said, Irv-
ing, | caifst keep the secret any
longer. We're married. Irving sang
q bar or two Of derision, Rsaid. It's
true In an hour all Broadway
knew it,"
And so she who had beauty, tai
ent, success, fame. sought to bring
success to another.
The success story of one may be
repeated by the other. But even if
Marjorie Rambeau does succeed |
IN making popular star OF her new
unknown actor-husband, will she
be insaring her own happiness?
r I PANS ofttimes to cultivate the
4 niceties and proprieties and inst