The New York herald., 1921-08-07

the serenity OF the married life OF Lou
Tellegen and Geraldine Farrar 1t Is oil
recent development. Only year ago. on
July 4, 1920. Mrs. 'Tellegen said that she
and her husband were as happy as on
their wedding day and that go per cent.
Of the reason lis that my husband and
I are brutally honest with eacn other
She described how she had their home
as a club for her husband when he
wished 10 use 1t AS such and how when
he felt like 1t he brought his men friends
nome and sat with them uhtil o'clock
in the morning.
Friends who see that we are really
happy come to ask the secret" Mrs
Tellegen said. For all those who apply
and as their environment directs it is
very simple-stick to facts and Use com
mon sense"
Last Spring she and Lou Fellegen
planned going to Europe together this
summer. She was excused by Director
Gatti-Casazza from singing VIII the
Metropolitan Opera Company in Atlanta,
where she Is a great favoritc. as she
was anxious to fill some concert engage
ments and then go abroad. IL was to be
her first trip abroad in five years. In
the previous summers she had posed for
the camera in Hollywood Cal. This
summer she was to make the acqualnt-
ance OF her husbands family in Holland.
They expected to be in Holland about
six weeks. Then 1t was announced that
owing to the illness Of her mother Miss
Farrar had decided to stay in the
United States. Passage that mad been
booked for the Tellegens IVES cancelled.
Lou Tellegen accepted the leading role
in Henry Bataille's 'L'Homme la
Rose" which the Selwyns are to produce
at the Garrick Theatre. Miss Farrar
told her friends recently that her aus
band had taken a shack" at Long
Beach and was there in order TO nave
the quietude necessary TO learn the long
role in his new play. From the office of
Frank Reicher, who Is the stage man.
ager of this production for the Theatre
Guild, which controls the Garrick The
atre, there came last week an announce
ment that Miss Farrar was selecting the
Spanish music for the play in which her
husband was 10 be the star.
Plays Failed I'm New York.
1t long has been the subject of COM
ment in theatrical circles that Miss
Farrar so patiently continued her in
terest in Tellegen's enterprises. Not a
single one of them has met with success
in New York He was last seen in a
play by Augustus Thomas called The
Blue Devil" which failed so completely
that 1t was never seen in this city.
Tellegen did not act at all Last winter
here, although he was announced to act
in Blind Youth" outside the city In
this play he acted before at the Republic
Theatre. Later he took the Thirty-Einth
Street Theatre on rental basis and
acted there throughout a long season
1t was said at the time that the venture
had cost $4,000 by the time the actor
left New York.
Equally unsuccessful here was "A
King of Nowhere which Tellegen pro-
duced at Maxine Elliotts Theatre. This
was the actors first new part after their
marriage and Miss Farrar, assuming a
costume of the period of the play and a
wig, went to the theatre on the first
night and appeared on the stage with
Tellegen in response to the applause of
the audience.
Nor was the actor much more sue
cessful in the movies. He appeared here
at the Strand. Later he became direc-
tor of picture plays and appeared for the
last time in film with Miss Farrar.