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TITE SUXDAT OltEGONTAN. PORTLAXD. MARCH 4. 1917. Bioia leant ifnl Mm. Dudley Z. Broira, Who Baye Her 'lailxad Left He on .yiiTtKtTMna Day; and Who Inm Unee .Accented a ienaratioM A er m. m 3 - 5 I ..I .' V-. Puzzling Multiplicity of Cases Wliere Charms That Produced Infatuations Fail to Guarantee a Lasting Devotion on the Part of Even Deeply Sniitten Husbands 0v x. - A -As J J ' , r ' " S V V 3 From a Photomph of -" . jK S' - r-V'iar IT Mrm. Brown Takes Before i - 4. ...m V. St-'.N K ''Ws Hn.band. Kra. Reaa Porter, Admired br Artlata aa a Sledel. bat Smrferina: Uie Loh ( Her HaabaadV all thing-a except physical BT MJLRGUERITH NORSE. 'HEN divorce lawyers count that day lost whose low-descending lua fails to record the visit of '?. least one beanty who seeks to 4suaere ther marital woes in widow- ,")od, is it any wonder that men and noises, too pause for an Instant and u,'lc themselves a few questions pertl- nt to the potency of pulchritude? . Jin. the drama of Life as it Should "3. hasn't the feminine charm of face ' ad form been tragically overplayed? Is beauty the supreme magnet that & and fiction and popular imagination , ould have the wayfarer believe? '-''And if it isn't, why isn't It? Consider the reasons why beauty ao 'ten makes a failure in marriage and . en take cognizance of a few of the ost recent Instances where renowned !auties have bad, but failed to bold, husband. .Abandon at once the suggestion that . auty of face a ad form has any con . sction with character. The heart of ' e beautiful has the same tenderness, sponds to the same impulses, aa the aart of those to whom nature has not ?en so generous in apportioning the , lies and winsomeness of woman. JCip ng was thinking of general averages. - at personalities, when he said. "The 3lonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are eters under their skins." ' The Plain and the Beatrttral. The beautiful and the non-beautl- il begin the Journey, as an average. equal In charm. They begin in democratic equality. and in the same general direction Beauty soon takes the lead. Non beauty, realizing its . handicap, seeks to make up for it by other accom plishments; music and art, perhaps, if not, maybe literature, or cooking and sewing. Though their dispositions and in clinations be the same, there would still be the same tendency for their paths to diverge. Beauty and non beauty might both want to see all the shows arM attend all the balls, but the former is more likely to get the necessary invitations, and while Beauty drinks a toast to her fair host ess, or glides gracefully on- waxen floors, or gurgles with Joy through three acts of musical nonsense, Judy O'Grady, not always from choice. Is at home engaged in mastering the finer arts, or in the more utilitarian house hold activities. Add to this difference in their days as debutantes, this more striking fact. Men very - frequently marry women for their beauty. When they wert one who is not beautiful it is almost & fore gone conclusion that they are marry ing for love. Beauty fades and men may tire of beauty. Love never dies. The Fame ef Beanty. All these reasons are intensified when the woman in the case happens to be a renowned beauty, for most nowned beauties are actresses or mod els and subject to the temptations pe culiarly constant 1 their professions. If it were possible to comollo sta tistics on the subject, poesibly there wouldn't ba a great difference in the general average for women, whether homely or pretty, usually make happy wives to happy husbands but it does seem exceptional and is so recorded, when a renowned beauty succeeds in going through life with Just ona hua- oana. With remarkable and sometimes frightful facility beantv can iret a. hus band, but It seems to take something more to noia one and there's the rub! wot even the pleas and the stratea-y or tneir little girl could effect a recon ciliation between Mrs. Diamond Brown and her husband, Dudley L. Brown, executive head of a prosperous) Indus trial corporation In Mew York. Mrs. Brown, young and beantfful. auegea that her husband had abas doned her and their child on last Christ mas day, and then had returned, while she was not present, and had taken the little girl away with him. Mrs. Brown sued out a writ of habeas corpus requiring her husband to pro duce the child in court. Prior to the hearing Mrs. Brown took the child to a lunch counter and bought her a eake. Clutching it in her hand, she rushed over to ner xatner. "Come on papa." she cried, dragging him toward her mother. "I want to be wttn notn or yon. The father put aa arm around the child's neck. Little Dudley slyly took bold or her mother's hand and put it around her neck and then withdrew. leaving xaiaar . ana mother holding hauus. She smiled at the smo cess of her strategy, and her Joy was Increased when her parents began talk ing but her happiness . was of short duration. Father and mother agreed on separation. They will share custody of the child and Mr. Brown will give his wife a- liberal allowance, it is declared. Here romance was stabbed in two places. Neither beauty nor the baby could hold the husband. Even more remarkably illustrative of beauty's helplessness in holding a husband are the experiences of Mrs. Reba Porter, formerly a model, whose profile appears on many of the Cana dian coins and who Is eald to be a per fect classical type of beauty. Mrs. Porter has just divorced her husband, Henry A. Porter, whose habi tat at the time of divorce was unknown. In her complaint she described an In termittent honeymoon. After three weeks she charged that Porter sent her home to her parents. Thereafter, she explained, her husband had periods of affluence, alternating with periods of poverty. When he had money he sent for her. When It was gone she was sent away. Following is a partial rec ord of their married life: She spent five days with him in a prominent hotel in Philadelphia and then was home a month; was with him at another hotel in Philadelphia six weeks, and then was sent home for three months; with Mm two months in a hotel at Princeton, .N. J., and then home again for six months. She men tioned Hartford. Provtdenoe, Green field, Mass.. Washington, D. C and WllllamsDort. Pa.. .a cities from which he had snt for ner. They were married in 190t and have a daughter. 9 years old. Mrs. Porter's present home is in New Jersey, but she was a student at two Georgia col leges. Consider also the ease of Mrs. Mar lon DeLaire Sullivan: She is described aa having wide In nocent eyes, crinkly and attractive yellow hair, unimpeachable features and a complexion akin to pink pearls. She was pretty enough to pose for Coles Phillips, artist. Sometimes she sat for C. D. Williams and often she was the central figure in a Harrison Fisher picture. In 1115. at the age of 21, she raa away and married, but with all her beauty and charm she could not hold her husband a year, according to sev eral witnesses who testified that they had seen him with a woman not his wife. He did not even d fend the di vorce suit. Beautiful enough to be sought as a model by artists everywhere but her beauty could not hold a husband. PORTLAND SINGER STUDYING IN NEW YORK HERALDED AS ONE OF FOREMOST CONCERTISTS Continued From First Page.) something of the country Itself. How ever, no performance or production should be mads to suiter comparisons of any sort. Miss Garden's Thais will never be effaced, no more will the Athanael of the superb- Renaud, but that is no reason for treating lightly the very interesting Interpretation of Miss Farrar or the extraordinary achievement of Amato, Vho was prac tically out of a sick bed rather than disappoint the direction. It was to be regretted that there was so little of the part of Palemon, so admirably sung by Rothler, the truly French ex positor of the Massenet music and tongne of the cast. There was also less of ruiciaa than would have been welcome, as It was sung by Botta. who brought a charm or personality into the part, in which grace and debonair were the leading tones. Miss Farrar la always interesting and created a Thais quite her own. In which the Ger aldine Farrar elements were strong. She was more spasmodic in the dra matic moments and less subtle in a demonstration of the transformation of the reigning courtesan into the spiritualized creature who must have been the idol of Massenet as she was of Athanael than one would have Im agined that she would be, but it will be more interesting to note what she will do with later performances of the work, which is one into which one perhaps must grow spiritually as well as technically. Aaato Pleaaea Andlemea, . Amato gave an unusually fine per formance of the part Intrusted to his skill and Judgment, one which bad re ligious fervor, the passion of love as well as that of religion and the char acteristics of sorrow 'Over his own showing of human weakness. He brought also to the part that rare and lovable personality which is more than half of his success even though with It he brings one of the most beautiful voices of the stage. Outside of the charm of Botta's Im personation a special word must be said for the beauty of his singing, which was very marked througrhout. In the smaller roles Mabel Garrison and Raymonds Delaunois were heard as Crobyle and Myrtale as they mocked the horrified Athanael of the first act, and Kathleen Howard- was beautiful and sang effectively the muslo in the part of the Mother Alblne. Wherever a place can be made for the dainty, elf-like Rosina Galli, she makes It more than worth while by the loveli ness of her person, the grace of her movements and the dazzling fleetness of bar feet aa. aha flies through the mazes of what one feels to be her own creations. With Mr. Bonfigllo, who usually dances with her when a part ner is necessary, she enhanced im mensely the second act, where the bal let was a great feature. Too much commendation cannot be given Mr. Polacco for what he achieved with the performance. He lost no ef fect which could have made for the success of the Massenet work and one forgot the words "old." "new," "anti quated," "ultra-modern," in fact one only thought of pleasure. Mr. Nas truccl, first violin of the orchestra, nat urally came in for a wild demonstra tion after his playing of the well known "Meditation." No doubt "Thais" will help out considerably during tHie remaining weeks of the present season, where the absence of Frieda Hempei will mean much. e e e William Wade HInehaw has awak ened anuch interest among the Amer ican composers from the fact that he has extended the time for submitting opera scores from April 1 to the first of next October. Perhaps Mr. Hinshaw has heightened the interest among would-be contestants by the Judges. They are David Bispham, Victor Her bert. Madame Homer, Giorgio Polacco and Walter Henry Kothwell, mm MIscha Elman, whose sensational success on his last appearance-with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra un der Josef Stransky when he played the Beethoven concerto Is still fresh In the minds of those who heard him, had an other opportunity to rejoice Sunday evening when he played for the third time this season at --the Metropolitan Opera-House. Elman delighted an au dience which filled every corner of the auditorium. Including full capacity of standees, by a dazzling performance of the Bruch G minor concerto and small er numbers by Ernst and Auer togeth er with encores. Marie Rappold, one of the greatest favorites with concert au diences, was also received with a royal welcome, and the third soloist was Fer nando Carpi, Italian tenor. - Richard Hageman gave excellent accompani ments and also offered a number of In teresting orchestral selections. Mrs. Henry Metzger, a young society woman from Portland, Or., has been astonishing musical Judges and society people in New York by the extraor dinary beauty of her voice and her great skill in presenting a song. Mrs. Metzger has been In New York for several months' studying with Mr. and Mrs. Rotbwell and her voice has blos somed Into one of the most beautiful voioea of the stage. While Mrs. Meta- ger has no aspirations for the public, those who have heard her hardly be lieve that one with her equipment should not take it out from beyond the confines of her home. She was heard in aonga and arias at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rothwell and those who heard her were delighted with her success. She sang the Vlssl d'Arte aria from "Tosca" and some German lieder. in all of which she aroused the utmost enthusiasm. HEIR HUNTED 3000 MILES Woman Fonnd Is Declared Not to Be Entitled to $ 1 2,000 Bstate. NEW YORK, March 8 Judge Oswald Bauer, acting Surrogate of Rockland County, returned to Yonkers with court attaches and lawyers the other day after taking them 8000 miles to trace the owner of a 112,000 estate. Henry D. Smith, of No. 230 East One Hun dred and Tenth street. Manhattan, claimed the money bequeathed George D. Smith In 1892 by Andrew J. Smith, a millionaire. Attorney-General Woodbury opposed the claim on the ground that the ben eficiary had a wife in Topeks, Kan. A widow named Mrs. Oeorge D. Smith was found, but It is claimed that she la not the wife of the beneficiary. Strike Prohibition Opposed. WASHINGTON, March 8. Represent ative George R. Smith denounced tha provision in the amendments to tha Naval appropriation act empowering the Government to seize private ship yards and factories during a war, which proposed to make It unlawful to induce a workman to leave one of these yards or factories. "The work lnsrman'a only capital Is his labor," said Judge Smith. "This provision is unfair, and It Is unjust and on-American to incorporate a section of this character In any legislation by aa American Congress." f: 3 UIU1 111 i& if" MS TVfSV?,. cAsk, mm loUjjourJZgure Ayf . into j-asntonables lines utj vuecLuing BON TON 1 JJack JLace andJro7ilJth.ce CORSETS
