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UIIIVI JUUSV.Married Many Years.The piny teaches the lesson of how hunt It Is for an actor and an actress to be happy, though married. Charles and Kate had been married since 1S73 and had lived together happily, except at such times as they were members of different companies, which was about nine and one-half tenths of the time. It was that way in 1001. when Stevenson was loading man with Mrs. Leslie Carter, and Kate Cluxton. it in pretty safe to assume, was playing • I'anchon. the Cricket, or Louise, in i “The Two Orphans.’’In that year he asked Judge Cook for n divorce and got it. on the ground of desertion, without his wife’s knowledge. Tip to last April she still thought he was hers, and when he undertook to marry Frances Riley, she confronted thorn and said. Stop. but he had the papers and she was foiled.ltetweon the ilrst and second act the first judge is elected mayor, and Judge Vandeventer takes his place. Suit is filed to annual the divorce on the ground of fraud. A demurrer to the suit is llletl on behalf of the husband. IIn the third act is the great trial scene, in which Kate Clnxton portrays the Injured and suffering wlfo-that-wjs, without speaking a lino. The judge Is 011 the bench and the lawyers make their arguments. The leading lady occupies a chair inside the rail and as she listens to the eloquence of the pleaders she has all kinds of emotions.Advanced in Years.The most affecting part is where the lawyer, tears in his voice, depicts the injured wife as a woman well advanced hi years. As he utters these words tho actress half rises, Is if she must speak, but sinks back In her chair. It is a line bit of repression.The climax of the act comes when Judge Vandeventer says severely: The demurrer is overruled. The defendants will he given until Monday to file an answer to the plaintiff's petition.As tin* curtain descends, I*op'\ tho 1 lawyer, starts to leave the courtroom, lie lias t* pass the place where tho leading ladv is sitting. She rises and lacos him. Aha. she says.All of which means that Stevenson wil! have to :nako such defense as ho can lo the allegation of Mrs. Stevenson that the divorce was obtained by fraud, and that if the divorce is annulled, Stevenson will dm! himself with one wife too many.
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The Citizen Republican
Scotland, South Dakota, US
Thu, Dec 22, 1910
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