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tween tte aentlmenU of amMaon, flower. Tab character Ten 1at mnat int.t,.. : ' :X:mxAyj'''
ed at blm wltk hope,, ,f r"5V:r ??f
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tade and lore m U forced upon the beautiful
young woman ; who ,.' suddenly achletea dlattn
gulated tuccesa upon the atace. It la faTorlte
theme of norellBtaj tli real life of the worW'a
changeful, of tropical Intensity and beauty, and
wiux ui UKnininj nasnes 01
bad said and ahe bad looked
in Bar area. . . v
creat theatrical centres Is constantly derelopln . - T101 omance,"; tte atory In action, of - tT ' Zll ,i
. : v-.. . a s. Dart DT the dramatla Ufa nf T,ln Puniitari i '
liinatratlon. Which mar be outlined thai:
'. The beautiful youns actress who' baa. leaped . ,
Into fame because a successful young dramatist
- bellered In her Is urged by a multi-millionaire
. to- bring her career into the safe barber of bia :
name- and millions. - : -r",
"But my author baef made me, she objeota. .
i 1 am the character bia genjlus created for met
Bow can I forsake It and blmt .Where would he
my gratitude r; , t '' ' n
. "Tush! Ton bare filled Tour author! pocket;
four debt of gratitude la fully paid.": s. --
"I would haTe. to leare the play wnlcbt waa r
' written for me, which fits me like a glore, which ,
toas wrought the aatlafactlon of my amMtloo." : .
. 'Can one play go n foreTerr demands tbe,
muiu-muuonaire. TAren t'tnere outer auuora
j? carried It to the managera. He talked with then ' ;
, 'ftbout U." AU saw la It possibilities of suoceas.
C But when he added something they shook their
beada... ' ; . .. ;s.,v;- .;:
;.- "I haTe chosen my Caralllna. Kb one may
Play the part but Doris Keane." "Choose a bet-
ter known actress," said they. "One with
Broadway reputation." : fj,. . :
' BrM&wtiT reputation in 'ay
night to this part" ; ' - : ,
; . rron Mgp y naaager be went Always
he waa dismissed j with the ominous head '
: shake until he reached the nffiM
Brothera. They accepted Doris Keane with
J-JaSfcl!1 1 "or Prediction wail
SSSJS1 b8Cal'j topic otNewt
wstn other piaysr uenma we ouiwa 01 v "ri; mTr.t we : toast. of .
fortune yon are aafe." y'tj
"No." says the beautiful young actress, 1
can't step out of the play that baa , mad me.
whe,w ewaa.nnhard ofmpoMlWc".
."Feryrwell,- saysthe multHnllllonaIrev,TlI ,c ; Ka";.5-h?-!!
buy the play with yotf lnlt", ym.Wr ttZ
And tfiat is. lust what this multt-mmionalre
costumes, star and company; himself the real
frlnttonJ pStw'
TThus are rudelr broken eff-the tntfmate tto-ts-; ;? ""I??' . ' ctress. as.
Thus are rudely broken off the Intimate pro-
feselonal relations between the young actress
. and the author who "dlsoorered and made her..
. The sentiment of gratitude la Jarred, romance re-.
celrea a shook and a. multitude of theatre-goers
1 are set to wondering whether there Ss really a'
Jore atory, and, if so, which hero baa the better
chances. v . .'; .5;;' .
- While they are asking . this question they are
. learning how mysterious are some women. Is
Doris Keane, who rose to fame and became the
fashion In .fRomanoe," old-fashioned and roman
tic? Or Is she modern and calculating? ; Will
her head or her heart rule In the present most
Important crisis of her Ute? .;, Vfv . - '
. Beautiful, gifted, of Infinite charm, woman .
irresistible as the prima donna Cayalllna, the
' character she portrays In the drama "Romance,"
; was lrrelBtlble, M38S Keane Is refuting the .
charge that there lino romance In 1913. . Nerer
was woman at so serious a parting of the ways
as the star of that play.; Merer was woman eon '
fronted by such" a dilemma of the emotions.
' Never has she had to consider so many phaaea .1
of a sUaatlon, nor hare advantagea . been ss
n STenly balanced.' ; .-.irr
A year ago Doris Keane was looking for work
as any working woman seeks It, by way of agents
and managers' offices, through friends who knew
managers who had plans. But she waa nnsuo
cessful In the search and behind her lay two years
' of Idleness of talents corroding through . lack
of exercise. Bhe took Inventory of her self. She
was young, less than thirty. - She was beautiful.
Her worst enemy could not deny that ; She had
talent , ghe knew that although some of the
. managers did not recognise It ' She had played a
love-lorn' English maiden In ."The Hypocrites,"
and been an Indifferent success. In "The Deo-
' orating of Clementine" ahe had played a different
part that? of a " coquettish ' French ; bride. It
s ; seemed that she had succeeded but straightway
the purblind, short-memoried managers, had .lor
gotten. She was poor and burning' with ambi
u Hon. V. ' - 1
' Consider the youth. He was twenty-three when J
sne met Aim ana naa oeen- Dut a year ouv 01
Harrard. Yet at twenty-two he bad written
"Salvation Nell", and "The Nigger," and Just
then- he' was writing JThe Boss." He was Tory
handsome, ' very ' earnest ' and . he had admired
her. . A week after hla first meetixuTwlth her It
was ' pleasantly .. whispered about that Edward
Sheldon, whom Mrs. Fiske had characterized as
"'That wonderful pink-faced boy," had fallen In
love with Doris Keane,- r:''-;f-:,"'r3W'-,,?,'r;''
Consider' the man. -. : Howard Gould was tt
multi-millionaire, : a mail of .the world, an ad
mirer of beautiful women and a patron of dra-
' matlo art 1 Like ' his brothers he admired
Actresses, i like George and Frank Gould, he had
married an actress.-: That Katharine Clemmons
had divorced him was a mere Incident as the
lives of men go. v Beautiful Kathryn Hutchinson
' had been often-seen In his company. It was
. rumored that she might become Mrs. Gould, and
pen enter Doris. Keane. " ' ' "
: Edward Sheldon, with youth, as he has said
m "Romance," lying "like a" wreath upon'
- his hair," Instantly admired Miss Keane. He la-
t stantly - recognised her talent . Recognition Is
1 passing sweet , to one who has been but coolly
T and faintly recognized. He talked of a play for
her. a nlay which should fit her personality.' She
thrilled at his words, f "Was It possible that" -
. lame lay not without ner, grasp i" .wouia uus
sitting ; at the . piano, rery ?
vumi .ana : rery ioteiy m
her costume of sixty years ;
' ago, she listened to the lead--5
Ing man's lore-making. I
. "I nerer knew what lore
Is until now," said William '
: Courtenay, his eyes on her
lprely face. She plays a
- ?.llttl, Idly, as she watches &
v ; him, according to. the plSy."1
He turns and leans on the ?
piano that he might see that
V face more clossly in the fire. C
-v"An J' loora to your "
4v: the asks. i v'.v . ';
He leans toward her and 5
' Paksr eagerly: -iw . -ife
, "It's finding the woman
7 We the woman whoU i
.Toothe .right way.
add.JoUow it with you.
knowing shell be with
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we've done It well."
O. my frlen' dat lo-ore It la for some but
not for me. For-r me lore is Just a leetle light
' In all dla dari-tinn! UntAi lltrht In all aim e.nr
leetle flame dat burn not long and den go
v y . , . ( '-.f out- A star dat come an Is so bee-eautlful it
... bre-ena tears, an. Then re drr de eves an look
p araln le star Is xone. "I'tlnk It Is to be a
ll leaffa41affa . 'ft. t Stf 1 AtMWAA AfA A ha , Waa .j. WaTa - a MA AA4
MU DoHt Keane, Uie Oiariitfar Yom2
f ' Star, Suspended Between (. GraK- a
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m man. 1 "It Is understood," an organ of the m
theatrical prof easion saya, "that, Howard Gould
Is behind nils purchase." The Gould 'interests
are represented In the smart.little Globe Theatre
of which Mr. Dillingham Is manager. , - i i . .
Enter the multl-mlllionalre. Is that the. cue
for the playwright to exit? All Broadway won at
1 While Miss Keane was In England last Sunv ,
mer, Howard Gould paid her so many attentions c t
that stage and society were both guessing the a v ;
outcome. A-,.' - fxl'''"-- ''-', ?;:',''.' : '.r.?
"Will he'marrr'an'actressr ,; r:3
"He married one and : wasnt he engaged .to .
another, Kathryn Hutchinson, of course?"
rwill Doris Keane give up the stage? She la v
the most ambitious of actresses? Would she push '..
the honey of success from her lips after one - .
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All these conjectures and then someone, this;,
one of the stage, remembered the "pink-faced
wonderful boy" of Mrs. Flske's chsracterization.1
It was cn the lawn under the fine old apple tree .
where the Favershams serve tea at their place," .
the. Old Manor; at Chlddingfold, Surrey. The;
boy had often drunk tea with them there and
the apple blossoms recalled his youth, his fresh...,,
ness and the springlike romance of him.
"What about Sheldon?" asked one who. ray
membered." ' v ', ; i,, wf i ;t
"More tea? Who knowa?" - . -.. ,
"He'll ret his royalties lust the same. No one
Miss Keane by rroicy can take went from him," saia anoiner one wno
' In ' "RnminM " had lived long and grown unromantlc. -
f'But Sheldon made her." s - . - ,
"We've, done. our. work "He did give her her. chance In New YorTc,
together, dear, and I think but Gould will give her her chance on the Road. -
Mr. Sheldon Wooing
' (i.' i i'X.'v, ,":-', - v leedle-'appler togedder den Ten re are apart
I-- ' i'vVvict rou at your, Joarner'B end when you're old and ' ron leetle moment to forget my Irlen' and dat
TberOTBief .i-ahe's' old and .when you can' smile end look J, .'Is alL" ".-. f ...... :-:yh!y- .
Mra. Howard. mto each othera eyes and sa:; , .'We've don aiii . The nlay. was. chief of the season's successes.
- Gould, i ' -worli: together, dear-and I think We're lone it " . . It ran for nearly a yearln New York.: Came the
WUWm- , l"l'lren i " ' v 4f . 1 ' 1 Summefa 'rest and the swift subtle . changes '
vvno vyas . . -jhls speech.alwaysbmughthanddapptag from''; i wrought In the sailing weather In the managers
' llherine) tthe audience., It brought handkerchiefs to wipe - i .offices, where hope, is Stilled In many a breast
Clemmons. i y furtive tears. f Well was It -understood be-!!,v";her.t,et high hopes. ? y;,h$...!e'-y
an Actress 1 'b,n,, cene -that' by v this--'r speech;'' uongh'.'.r'TRomance't' was' sold.' 'The Shubert Brothers a
, . ,i , spoken.-by another, Edward Sheldon was wooing '. bad derived the profits of Its long-metropolitan ?
., na .; ,4 the -stage idol -whomh:haA created, the.CSndefK'.'iYran. :iTh?a,'Tsjne.laBd.'rThe Boad.T-ls al.'.
, atacteaqM , alia he. had taken front her ashes with a princely , ;,ways a bogie looming uncertainly ' on the man- (
t-' tms ' ' ' callantry. i He ; was making lore by.proxy. i.'s . iager's horizon.' - Often the , Road. Is a heretic,
HiMtif X ' B" k to ' those behind, the ' scenes there 1 was r '" 'T: flinging back . harshly 1 a metropolitan success, '
.wcabajf . r something foreboding, a shadow, upon the young. ' curling the lip of scorn at the New York taste. '
.' ' . . i ... dramatist's lore, la the prima., donna's'. reply, ; The Shuberts sold ."Romance" to Charles Dllllng
','..' , - . r -'"hloh he had written for. her., ,.'.'. . am of Uo rival theatrical camp. There enters4
'The world is only half conquered If you're un-rv
known on the Road." - -
i "But a play cannot last always none but Rip
Van Winkle' and the 'Old Homestead. Sheldon;'
might write her another play." ,'
"But one success does not mean another. The
hardest thing for an author to do Is to lire up
to his own reputation. i.: Ths next might be a',."
' cropper." , , , ' , .
' "And, as1 Mazlne Elliott Is fond of - saying.
'there Is bo condition In life which money docs,!. ',
not ameliorate. Well, we shall see." , ' ... t .
And so we shall, at Mlas Keane's will. Or
"when she knows her, wilt ' With lovely Sphinx-, . .
u, like face she stands as Laura Jean Libbey would
I ; say, "Between Two Loves." .;' Boy playwright or
, middle-aged multl-mllUonalre. Gratitude to tbe
i youth who made success possible for her or a-i-V-bltlon
still further to be fulfilled my the un i
: who Is willing to play the "angel" for a thoatri- "
- cal company that Is setting out at thU 111114 t i
conquer the frozen north, whence Harry Th v
-;.bas been ejected la tears. While the com;-? -7
travels from city to city In that waste of etr 1
: r snows, the star has time to reflect For v '
-will she shine for life? On boy drTt-- -t t
: man of millions? That Is the rl : . r t ,
Rlalto.
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