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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTL.AXD, OCTOBER 20. 1916. Pan fdfn Soy Sad Proof That You Never Can Be Sure That You Are Going to Live Happily Ever After, Even With a Hero V Al It I V , W m IB li i I it. il II ,., , ?&agp .IV. The Former Mrs. Henry Hntt, Who Says Her Hasband Called Her the Most Beautiful Woman in the World and Then Choked Her. ( " X x7- f 'Li Mrs. Iin B. Horter. 1 " s I" 7 feats pointing In tho general direction of an affinity, than any other married man, and she fails to comprehend a elngrle reason why an artist's wife should allow any more liberties to her hasband than the woman next door al lows to the real estate dealer whom she has sworn to "love, honor and obey." There are those, principally the geniuses themselves, who say that due allowances should be made for a genius, whether he be painter, sculp tor, actor or author; that temperament Is Inseparable from genius, and one cannot dictate Just what turn or twist that temperament shall take, and, therefore, should not be held to strict accountability if his actions are not in perfect accord with the accepted social or ethical standards. Certainly the records show the perils of marrying temperament, and one who ventures into wedlock with genius must do so either with the determina tion to make due allowance for many La Belle Titcomb, Who Learned the Perils of Marrying an Actor With Temperament. i and she had left Mr. Moore as soon as she ascertained the true circumstances. Miss Gates, prior to that time, had been divorced from the celebrated dra matist, Richard Walton Tully, author of "The Bird of Paradise," "Omar the Tentmaker" and "The Flame." Mr. Tully brought suit, charging desertion, and after obtaining a divorce married again. When Miss Gates heard that Mr. Tully had sued, she said:, "He probably expected me to bring suit, but any suit I would start in New York would have to involve a woman's name. He is bringing suit in Califor nia, where the law is a little more mer ciful and allows a divorce on a sensible ground." The remarkable, inexplicable antics that temperament will play on a wedded couple were never so graphically and picturesquely illustrated as in the case of Henry Hutt, the celebrated artist. Not satisfied with declaring that his wife. Mrs. Edna G. Hutt, was the hand somest woman in America or In all the world, he solemnly and seriously in sisted that she was "more beautiful than Venus de Milo" the one woman of art or life more perfect in face and figure than the world's masterpiece of sculpture. But when, a short while later. Mrs. Hutt sued for and obtained a divorce, she charged her husband with "Intem perance, violence and extreme cruelty." She said that when she went to the seaside on the doctor's advice and with the approval of her husband, he ran sacked their New Tork apartments, and when she returned she found her apartments bare and her husband gone. She says that Hutt had left none of her son's clothing Just two baby car riages, and these he had ordered the Janitor to give to the ashman, "as there will be no further use for them." As a climax to her charges, the wo- a. Richard Walton Tully, Dramatic Gen ius, Who Didn't Find Happiness Wedded to Eleanor Gates, Literary Genius. celebrated conception of "Dawn." An accommodating friend of the wife watched for three months before ob taining the evidence necessary for a divorce on the ground of unfaithful ness. If artists have genuine rivals for temperament honors, they are the actors, famous for their many wives, and as with artists so with actors, tem perament hits both the high and the low. Tou would think if any actor would be free from It. rt would be a tramp comedian but La Belle Titcomb, who used to do the most entrancing, most wonderful things while riding her snow-white horse In the musical halls of Europe and this continent, will tell you that her husband, Nat M. Wills, the famous "tramp" monologlst. had more temperament than a whole troupe of Shakesperean players. When he first married her, he took her to Europe. He lavished money on her like an early-day Klondlker, put a limousine at her disposal, and added a chauffeur, maid and foreign villa in their menage. In Paris nothing would do for La Belle but an apartment in one of the most expensive hotels; in Carlsbad he rented a whole bathhouse, and in London only a mansion in Mary lebone road would suffice for his queen. Returning to America he engaged suites at the fineBt of the metropolitan hotels and bought waiters by the dozen. Then all of a sudden, temperament stepped in. Wills left the beautiful, the bewitching La Belle, and served notice on her that she wasn't his wife at all because she, having been a divorcee, had married him before the lapse of a year, and the Illinois law declared such a second marriage was not valid. The Illinois law didn't happen to be in New York, but shortly thereafter Aa Belle filed divorce proceedings on her own account, naming a chorus girl as co-respondent. The Wills tempera ment evidently took on more twists, for man who was "more beautiful than .iv ,,, . .-v - -"r" ... . t - V x ' - ' l ?. ' ' -5 .' .. - 1 li x J 'w- I ? 'v j V, .... --""v J Claudia Scott, Pretty Show Girl, Who Was Accused of Stealing Away the Love of Compris, the Painter, From His Wife. Henry Hutt, Artist. WHEN one marries genius, should one expect the same even, quiet, happily romantic life that would follow a wedding to the groceryman, the groceryman's clerk, . or the insur ance agent? Or -should it be expected and taken In the natural course of events, that such things as these will happen? Your husband making sketches on the Brooklyn bridge in the early morn while attired in evening dress. Coming home in the early morn with his dress suit bearing hairs from erne sort'of lur and also some powder. Explaining away the hairs by saying he bad been fondling a kitten, but fall ing to account for the powder. Whipping their boy on Christmas and shutting him in a room. Failing to, send her any Christmas remembrance. Artists as Husband. These are some of the things which Mrs. Elin B. Horter charges in the di vorce petition she filed against her artist husband and they are not all. Mrs. Horter can't see that an artist has any more excuse for deserting his wife, or performing a number of suspicious eccentricities, or else with the knowl edge that she is speculating in happi ness with the odds somewhat heavy against her. A Temperamental Tramp." - It is true that artists are confronted with greater temptations than" others, for their models naturally and neces sarily are beautiful in face and form. Sometimes the models are from the stage, as in the case of Maurice Com pris, the famous mural painter, whose wife recently divorced him on the ground that Claudia Scott, the actress, was more to him than a model for his there have been Beveral Mrs. Wills' since La Belle had the Job. And then, there are cases where genius marries genius, or tempermanet weds temperament, if the two state ments should happen not to mean ex- Venus de Milo ' alleged that she was awakened once by being choked by her husband; and that later on he threw her against the wall. These are a few of the stories of ill fated romances with genius. It may be of a Scotch town have organized even ing classes among their office force for the study of tire Russian language. What have American manufacturers done in this line? The Journal re peats that the trade of the Russian em pire is the greatest commercial prize on earth, and one of which the United States ought to get a large share. But it will get a small share or none at all - unless our merchants and manu facturers reach out to the new field as systematically as the Germans did and as the Scotch are doing. Unless Araerl- ' can firms can send out representatives who understand the language, the needs and the market prejudices and preferences of the Russian people, as well as any rivals. American goods will make, slow headway. How Oysters Produce Pearls actly. the same thing. Only a few tnat tne same tnings would nave nap weeks ago came the announcement that pened If the principals had not been Eleanor Gates, author . of "The Poor Little Rich Girl" and "We Are Seven." had asked for the annulment of her marriage to Frederick F. Moore, au thor of "The Devil Admiral." Both Are Divorcee. Both are divorcees, and in each case the decree had been an interlocutory one and had not been made absolute. She said they were ignorant of the law. artists, actors or authors, but those who read, who keep up with the husbands of the Lillian Russells and the wives of the Nat Goodwins, know that where there is much genius there usually is considerable temperament, and where excess of temperament abounds con nubial peril stalks close by. Abuse of the Roulu Language. Chicago Daily Journal. The tweed and hosiery manufacturers IN Japan there is a great 6yster farm where the bivalves are taught to make pearls. It was Dr. Mikimoto, a well-known scientist, who conceived the idea that oysters might be edu cated and made to work for man. After many years of cosily experimentation, he discovered the method in use today. The farm has an area of about 50 square miles and the water varies in depth from five to 15 fathoms. ' The farmer selects the spots where the larvae of oysters are most numerous and then he plants small rocks and stones. These are soon covered with oyster-spat. They are then removed and placed in special beds, where they lie undisturbed until the third vear. It is said that an oyster will not produce a pearl unless it be irritated by some foreign substance. As soon as it feels this it proceeds to cover it with nacre, layer on layer, until after a few years it has made a pearl. When large enough the oysters are taken from their beds and carefully opened; a tiny speck of some foreign substance is introduced into their bodies, and they are replaced in the sea. By the end of from three to five years the oyster has coated the foreign substance with nacre and this has become a pearl. All the work on this oyster farm is done by women, says and English writer, who visited this "farm." What the Old Man Meant. Puck. He Has your father said anything about me? She Yes. He said that you ought to have been a big league manager. He Did he say why? She Yes. Because you are always explaining why you aren't doing any thing this year and boasting about what you are going to do next year. A