The Washington times., 1923-08-31
HER
500TH LOVE,
AFFAIR
This Record of Rosemary
Theby's Is Made
on Screen.
By WILLIAM PARKER.
Cosmopolitan News Service.

By WILLIAM PARKER.
Cosmopolitan News Service.
Copyright 1928. Cosmopolitan News
Service.)
HOLLYWOOD, Cal. Aug. 81
Cleopatra had nothing on Rosemary
Theby
Miss Theby has just had her five
hundredth love affair, and has lost
her lover, as usual.
Miss Theby boasts that she has
been loved and Tilted by almost every
actor of any Importance in the
cinema realm. This is not to be
taken literally, however. 1t is only
professional speaking, for Miss
Theby has been kept so busy being
made love to that she has never had
real love affair.
Enters Pictures in 1911.
This week, on completing her work
in the Jackie Coogan production.
Long Live the King" she packed
up her snal1y dresses and wondered
who her next wooer would be.
Back in 1911, when a thousand
foot film was considered feature
production, Miss Theby entered pic
lures as a member of the Vitagraph
Stock Company, in Brooklyn, N. 7.
Four to five pictures were made
every week, and practically every
member Of the stock company work
ed in each picture. Sometimes Miss
Theby played q leading role, other
times q character part. again a
heavy, and even an extra" at times.
But, with all of her versatility,
Miss Theby has invariably lost the
man who loved her.
Loves" Are Screen NOtables.
The roster Of men that Miss Theby
has loved and lost-in the films-iS
practically complete list of all the
famous and near-famous men stars.
The list includes Maurice Costello,
Earl Williams, Henry Walthall, Irv-
ing Cummings and House Peters.
She has lost House Peters. she
counted today, at least ten times,
and Earl Williams eight. George
Seigman, when he was slender and
handsome, was one Of her most con-
sistent wooers on the screen, but
with all Of his persistency he went
the way Of her other lovers, back
to the denure little girl in gingham,
or the noble wife.
Courtney Foote started on three
"clandestine" journeys with her only
to change his mind, once on seeing
a baby's slipper, and twice when a
photograph Of his wife fell out of
his suitcase.
Even as a "wife" Miss Theby has
lost in love. She has been, in turn,
married" to Stuart Holmes, Noah
Beery, Frank Glendenning, Philo
Mccullough and House Peters. In
her most recent release, 1.-The Girl
Of the Golden West" Miss Theby
loses J. Warren Kerrigan, a man
| she lost with uncanny persistency
| when he was an idol some six years
ago.
Last to Fade Out.
OF all the scores Of actors whom
Miss Theby has loved and lost she
can recall only three whom she
managed to hold onto until tho
final fade out in these 500 pictures
These were Harry Meyers, with
whom she appeared in a series o1
domestic comedies for the old Lu
bin company; House Peters, whose
| film wife she was in Lost and
Found" a recent South Sea island
production; and Willard Mack il
Your Friend and Mine" Strangely
| enough, too. in this latter case
she was pitted against a foremost
participant in the matrimonial
sweepstakes, Willard Mack. AnG
now, in the Jackie Coogan picture
she sees herself losing the love o1
Alan Hale Miss Theby is the
Countess Olga Lobschek" AMI
cherishes q hopeless love for the
king Of Karnia."
Naturally, when a woman loses
500 wooerS she hesitateS about
marrying. Perhaps that is why she
has never married. only she justi
fies her single-blessedness by say
ing that her work occupies too
great q place in her heart for her
to find room for a mans love.
She Draws a Moral.
Asked to comment on her expe
rience as a scream heart-breaker
| Miss Theby said:
1.-The one moral that comes home
to me in all Of these 500 <unfor
tunate' loves is that on the screen
as in life, the good girl gets the
man. There SENS to be q certain
period in the life Of some men
when they permit their hearts tC
wander afield. Sometimes they really
think they are in love with another
woman, but If n wife is patient
and resourceful she will get her
husband back.
And a husband once won back
forever afterwards appreciates the
sterling qualities Of a good wife"
IWARSHIP IN LAKE Is NOT