Evening capital news., March 12, 1916, Image 15

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The Husband Who Guards His
Wife's Dressing Room and Inter
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By Clara Morris
BSERVATION show* that every
explosion is followed by a loud
report, a cloud ot stifling dust
and an unpleasant odor—phenomena
most strongly marked in the case of
theatrical matrimonial explosions.
But, alas, again We find ourselves quot
lng the old-time clown's famous first
line, "Here we are again." For in the
words of one of their friends, "James and
Clara Young have let their domestic
menage go to the demnitlon bow-wows."
Nobody is better known in the movies
than Clara Kimball Young. In the courts
ehe now asks to be released from her
marital partnership with her husband,
James Young. Her future promises bet
ter, looks brighter without him. The
question has been asked, "Is a husband a
detriment to an actress?"
! And now that this matrimonial explo
sion has filled the air with dust, It may
be long before it settles, if Mr. Young
presses his suit for damages against Mr.
Belznick, the well-known motion picture
producer. Thus the theatrical profession
will receive another black eye, while to
the legal profession profit will accrue.
For as "the young lions do seek their
meat of God," so many lawyers seem to
seek their meat of the theatres, and find
It in goodly chunks, by way of injunction,
broken contracts, back royalties', dis
puted film rights, divorces, separations,
but never, never by breach of promise
suit.
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In Clara Kimball Young's suit against
her husband she complains that James
assailed her, grasping her and choking
her, thereby bruisring her arms and neck
and causing her pain and anguish. On
one occasion, so she alleges, her husband
grasped her by the neck and hurled her
from him.
But this can hardly be the whole story.
In the millions of feet of motion picture
reels of this charming actress she has
been in just such situations, no doubt,
and worse. For a motion picture actress
to be dragged around by her hair and
choked and bruised is all in the dqy's
work. The hero or the villain or some
body does this sort of thing to the
heroine in almost every reel.
It is in the complaint of James Y'oung
In his suit against Manager Selznick that
we discover an illuminating sidelight. In
the husband's explanation of what has
been going on we find this paragraph in
s »worn complaint:
"Since March, 1914, the defendant (Mr.
Belznick), wrongly contriving and intend
lng to injure the plaintiff and deprive him
of the society and comfort of his wtfe,
and willfully and maliciously intending
to destroy her affection for the plaintiff,
wrongfully and falsely represented to her
that the plaintiff was a detriment to her
artistic advancement and career and was
not fit to be her husband and compan
' Ion."
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Here we have (he question raised in
this court proceeding as to whether this
particular husband was a detriment to
this particular actress.
As bearing directly upon this point Mr.
Young proceeds in his complaint as fol
lows:
"And the defendant promised that he
would promote Clara Kimball Young's
advancement and career and promised to
enter into a contract with her for per
sonal services in posing, and particu
larly in making photo-plays, but. on the
express condition that she must leave the
bed And board of
"Pursuant to a
did enter into a contract with her to
appear under «the defendant's manage
ment and did instigate her to bring in
this court an action for a legal separa
tion from this defendant."
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this- plaintiff,
scheme, «ne defendant
Eggs Fresh from Farm Not Always Fit to Eat
HERE is a popular impression that eggs are a food that
is absolutely safe and pure to use;-that because it Is en
closed in a shell an egg must of necessity be all that it
should be always, of course, barring the kind more or less near
to the chicken stage.
Yet in experiments made by Dr. Lippincott of the Iowa State
College of Agriculture a direct and immediate relationship was
proved between the raw material fed to the hen and the makeup
of the egg. Every poultry man knows that a diet composed
partly of onion will cause the onion odor and flavor in the eggs
produced by hens so fed, just as well as the dairyman knows
how quickly onions eaten by cows will taint their milk.
Professor Lippincott succeeded in coloring both the whites
and the yolks of the eggs by dyes fed in capsule form. On a
given Sunday night at 6 o'clock the capsules were fed and the
yolk of an egg laid at 10 a. m. on the following Tuesday had a
distinct band of color around it, thus demonstrating how quickly
the food eaten is converted Into egg material.
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Clara Morris Discusses This Interesting Question
Which the Matrimonial Shipwreck of
Clara Kimball Young Has
Brought Before the Courts
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But James Young seems not to be of
the laissez faire type, nor yet "too proud
t0 flght." He has made Mr. Selznick the
toad under the harrow of his suit for
damages. And if Mrs. Clara Kimball
Young were not so very pretty a woman
R ( le might be tempted to return and throw
f herself into the arms of me nusband,
who, after possessing her affections five
years, pays her the public compliment of
holding them still at a $100,000 valuation.
Only think what a revenge he might
have taken by asking for damages so
email as to have covered the delinquent
wife with ridicule. But a woman cannot
serve two masters, and naturally such
beauty has the first call upon real love
and devotion. For, be tt known, "Vanity
finds its heaven in endless adulation."
Its purgatory is obscurity, while "Vanity
unfed dan be more cruel than hate." And
now, anent this inconsequent breaking
ot the marriage bond, we are asked,
"Is a husband a detriment to an actress?"
Then why under heaven does the
actress take so many of them? This
pronouncement is doubtless the result of
research work, of careful investigation.
Such a discover:' shows how slow' must
have been the mental processes of those
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It is proper to say that Mr. Selznick
has made answer denying all these
charges. But there is the question—is
an actress's husband a bothersome nui
sance?
The actor marries every time. He is
too gallant to break his promise to a
woman. Besides, in his sprightly way,
he realizes that a divorce is more eco
nomical than a suit for breach, particu
larly when, again gallant, he allows the
lady to get it. There is a certain element
of surprise in this» Young case that lends
it interest, for actors almost never bring
suits for alienation.
If a fair one transfers her affections to
another, generally he dwells upon the
quality of those fish yet in the sea, ana
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Now, If a coloring matter be conveyed to the egg so quickly
it seems quite clear that other substances will be oenveyed
with equal speed. The quality of the egg may be considered
therefore to be determined by what the hen eats. If iter food is
and how eggs are produced. Unquestionably the great bulk
good, clean, sound and healthful grasses, meats, etc., the result
ing eggs will be fit for human consumption.
Now, what are the facta? To get at them consider where
of eggs are produced on the-general purpose farms all over
the country, where flocks of hens are kept as a sort ot necessary
evil, whereby the' women folks may earn thetr pin money.
In the main, hens forage for themselves. They roam over
the farm, living on grasses, bugs, worms and waste grains,
etc., in season. Buch food 4s entirely natural and capable of
being converted into perfectly good eggs. But, and here Is
the fly in the ointment, they have one spot which they dearly
love, the barnyard, with its heaps of decaying refuse. There
they dig and scratch and_eat things that are calculated to
taint the egg product.
actors of old, some of whose names are
■' cut deep on marble, bronze or brass, and
others are "written In water," who were
content in private life to be good citizens,
to live on with the mate taken In mar
riage. And so lacking were they In tem
perament that they sometimes sacrificed
their personal happiness to the honor of
the profession they served, and actually,
from the Kean, Kemble, Siddons, the
second Kean. Jenny Lind, Macready, Lady
Martin down to our own Jefferson, Hol
land, Meader, Farren, Conway, Daven
port, Booth, Barrett and Couldock, not
one actor or actress knew that marriage
was detrimental to stage gtory and last
ing success. They steadily went their way,
respecting every contract mqde, whether
theatrical or matrimonial.
But now that a husband (s a detriment,
I keep asking myself why—and again
why? If he Is a parasite, refusing to act
even as a combination courier, valet,
publicity agent and husband, devoting
himBelf to billiards and cigarettes—yes,
he may be a detriment.
Again, It is conceivable that a husband
with an enlarged but lightly furnished
head, might kick against managerial au
f thorlty, being incapable of understanding
that an actress goes where the manager
sends her to, and rehearses when he com
mands her to, and that there can he, for
her, no "divided duty" between ^nanager
and husband. Friction and irritability
follow.
The accused in a French court once
explained to the Judge, "No, monsieur,
she was not unfaithful. She was a good
woman, but, really, she made herself so
fatiguing T killed her," Nowaday» when
the actress's husband proves too "fatigu
ing" she—shakes him as a detriment to
her success.
Bui there are dozens of ex-husband»
w'ho were neither parasites nor trouble
makers. Just consider this list of fair
women, dramatic and operatic, who in
the dance matrimonial have so exactly
followed the "calling off", of "Indies
change. Balance all. Cheat your partner
and swing to corners."
It -would he discourteous not to begin
with the dean of the marriage game, the
ever fair Lillian Russell—but then, with
her the making collection^ has always
been a fad.
Where Is Jobyna Howland's author
husband; Sarah Truax's actor mate;
Fritzie Schelfs novelist spouse; Mary
Blythe's actor; Mary Mannering's actor
and business man; Julia Sanderson's fa
mous jockey; Rose Stahl's actor com
panlon (not, as tt proved, for life); Mme.
Nordica's business man first," singer sec
ond, banker, third; Maggie Teyte's law
yer; Patti's aHstocrat-Marquis; Emma
Eames's artist; Julia Marlowe's actor;
Mune. Schumann-Heink's business man?
It's like sadly saying over a rosary of
names Instead of prayers. Now what
was wrong with them all—these mar
riages? These women all loved, or
thought they did, and yet "divorce" is
deeply carved on the gravestone of each
dead love, and each of these separations
has done its share to lessen the good re
pute of the fine old profession, for whose
honor no one seems to "care a hang."
The conditions of stage life are not
conducive to domestic happiness and con
tinuous marriage, but they are not neces
sarily fatal to them. As witnesses/
whereof I set down the first half-dozen
names that come to mind ot permanent
ly married professionals. There is Mr.
John Drew, who married the lovable and
charming little MisB Baker, of Phila
deiphia, and they are happily living again
in their young daughter. James O'Neill
married one of Cleveland's boasted beau
ties, and, together with two stalwart
sons, they lead a family life. Mr. Will
lam Seymour married Miss May Daven
port, and the union has lasted long
enough for them to give in marriage
their daughter, who is a startling replica
of her beautiful aunt, the late Fanny
Davenport.
The dark-eyed, Intense Miss Arthur
and the blond and charming Miss George
are tooth in the continuous marrlagi
game and were never more popular with
the public than at this immediate mo
ment. While Miss Barrymore, having
"given hostages to fortune" in the shape
of three sturdy and. winning little ones,
. certainly seems to toe on the way to con
tinuous marriage.
There are others, thank God, but these
names are known of all men and best
hear witness that permanent marriage
is not impossible In theatrical life. Then
where does the fault He for «11 these
broken vows and bonds?
First, let us consider that the price of
'"outside" happy and permanent marriage
the whole world over is much self-control
and some ^elf-sacrifice. There cannot be
successful married life without paying
this price for it.
If. as Shakespeare claims, "A friend
should bear his friend's infirmities," how
much more should love be willing to bear
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It causes
greatness and importance,--which in turn
produces arrogant selfishness. Public
applause ts an Olympian cocktail that
urns many heads, and this exaggerated
ego, when the thrill and novelty of mar
rlage is gone, discovers that a husband
is a detriment to the career,
in two or three cases women In the
foregoing list have been forcèd, through
cruel disloyalty, to ask freedom of the
courts, but there are others who, having
married simply on impulse, because they
are human, and were women before they
were actresses, who can give no other rea
son for unmarrying than that childishly
feminine, all Inclusive, "Oh, because."
But it is not fair to charge these
broken marriages to the hard conditions
0 { theatrical life, its temptations and the
miseries of "the road" alone, for if an
actress wants to stay married, she will,
tossing up her chin at a whole brigade
0 f scowling managers- Holding the lius
(band s hand she would steadily walk a
twelve-inch plank across the burning pit.
just to be with him. Ambition is a most
worthy thing. To work for it, to sacri
flee much for it. Is noble. But no one
j a justified in sacrificing the happiness
and honor of another person to further
his or her own ambition,
if only these young worshippers of the
scorching light of publicity will show a
grain of gratitude to the profession that
gives them everything worth having; if
they will cease thinking that for them
"Law, life, love, joy, impulse, are one
thing;" which is "angels' law," not un
tresses'; if they will give their ego the
rest cure—there will be fewer smudges
arid black marks against the honor of a
profession which is so worthy of loving,
reverent service.
Lillian Russell, t||§
Who Tried Three
Husbands and Dis
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As Being of No Ad
vantage to Her Career.
But, can
love's Infirmities!
one Imagine one of these
any
marriage breakers evpr asking
"Who am I that I should demand
perfection in my husband?
many of them, quietly thinking back a ^
bit, can say "I did my best?" It is not
only the hard conditions of stage life,
but the exaggerated ego of the women
themselves that cause these brief bitter
How
sweet marrylngs.
Only those who have tasted public ap
plause can imagine what a powerful intox
icant it is. It exalts, it inflates, like the "in
sane root that takes the reason prisoner."
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The defendant, willful
ly and maliciously intend
ing to destroy her affec
tion for the plaintiff
wrongfully' and falsely
represented to her that the
plaintiff was a detriment
to her artistic advance
ment and career and was
not fit to be her husband
and companion.
From James Young's
complaint in his suit fou
$100,000 damages against
Manager Selznick.
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