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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1912)
The Omaha Sunday-, Bee Magazine Pag Copyright, lm.'by tb Star Company. Great Britain Right Reserved. r' "So Cupid is once more to take the pair on his shoul ders and endeav or to carry them unstable slack wire of matrimo- : , 1 - 1 7K A' safely' along the . Mo.. 1 i v 1 AM i . Lady Decies, Who ; Was Vivien 1 Gould, and .J .Whose Title May, ; " 7 Some Day, ' Be Kilty Gordon's. " , , 1 , i'3 P f "ll" 1 A j Hpw- the Most Beautiful Back on the Stage, "Winch Was Turned Away for Years from Her Husband, Lady Decies (Vivien Gould's) Brother-ih-Lawv W Turn Back to Him and Aristocracy AgainIf His Test Works Out it if J: V' .N 4?? - prtoro CAH.pftM.fc! ft V ( '""A KITTY GORDON'S beautiful back maybe it's the most - beautiful back in the world will soon be but an en chanting memory to the theatre going public. She is about to with draw it from the public stage and if her moBt inteiestlng experiment succeeds exhibit it henceforth only in polite, even aristocratic, social circles. . It is, in fact, an aristocratic back, alas! Before it had ever been discovered by American play goers a marriage ceremony had made it the conjugal property of the Honorable Henry Beresford, younger brother to Vivien Gould's ' Lord Decies as is duly set forth in the book of British Peers. That it ever gladdened the hearts of play-goers was wholly due to the accident of. a conjugal misunder standing which it seems that the Honorable Beresford now regrets. "The stage is a bore, anyway," says the Honorable Mrs. Beres ford, yclept Kitty Gordon, 1 having discovered some regrets on her own account So Cupid is once more to take the pair on his shoulders and endeavor to carry them 'safely along the un stable slack-wire of matrimonial life. ., Will the experiment succeed? Or will Cupid's foot slip again, and restore to the stage that most beau tiful of backs? Will the British aris tocracy receive that" beautiful back back? Will Lord Decies and Lady Vivien welcome it home to the an cestral estates? Will it warm other noble English hearts, as it warmed that, organ in plebeian bosoms at the theatre and in the music halls? Who can say? Let the Sequel de termine. Behind that beautiful back is a story, not of bones and flesh and muscle, but of hearts. Can strained or broken bonds be mend ed? Can sundered hearts be re joined? One rude, practical phil osopher said they could not He even drew & parallel He said, "Broken china always shows the crack.". : : Kitty Gordon flouts saws and laughs at philosophers. She be-' lleves that severed hearts can re unite and beat as fondly as before. And that brings us to the story. Kitty Gordon is trying, matrimony again, and with the same spouse. There are trial marriages, trial courtships, trial almost everything, but this is the first couple on rec ord to attempt a trial reconciliation. My husband, the Hon. Henry Beresford and myself were never di .vorced," he said to friends in New York before starting on tour with The Enchantress," in which, it goes without saying; she plays and sings the J title, role. "That is a mistake.' We talked of It and even started It, but' never, secured one. In our hearts I don't believe thatlther of us ever wanted one. He has come over here and we will : stay for two . or three months. If we get along, as we are pretty sure to do we are older now we wll remain husband and wife. There will be no divorce." . The Honorable Henry Beresford is therefore on probation, as.lt were. So, too, is his radiantly" beautiful wife. Will he keep his temper! Will she control hers? That is the question in the minds of each. For it was .temper ' that strained the bonds, 'and finally caused the separa tion, of the Interesting- pair, Miss Gordon's spouse in securing ; his divorce. Count De Tries re turned, to his diplomatic post. In London. The men were careful 1 not to meet at their clubo. ; .'' ' : : ', . ' Meanwhile the angei- of Kitty Gor don's husband slowly . cooled.' - He even brought himself to look at the pictures of his wife taken In gowns of extreme rear decolletage in the American newspapers.-" , Having glanced, he lingered .to; admire. - It was always thus with Miss Gordon's pictures and Miss Gordon's, self.; Mi :mwhil , too, , Miss Gordon,) in New York, and especially on tour, . reflected upon the past Thoughts are vagrants. They would not" ceo-, tre upon her husband's temper,' and , the bitter things he said . while-the St :.- f2t If ,:fri f it "A vv. t "It was about nothing in partlcu-: ; tempest of that temper was. raging. lar," said the Honorable Mrs. Henry Beresford, -a bit tearfully, to her friends. ' ' ': " 1 "I started with 'nothing, but quar rels usually do,'' said, the Honorable Henry, who is but one remove from Lord Decies. "But she vouldn't give in.". ! --t 1 ' - Nor did she. ' Instead she sailed for America, and her husband heard by cable of her success, and her newly revealed back In the States. At the latter news he swore. . How should he know that all this was a part of the exactions of the Commercial theatre in , the. sordid Btates, and had in it no element of the . personal, that indeed Miss Gordon protested against the rev elation of those lovely back lines to the waist but that she yielded to the demands of art and the coax ings of , salary? He was a very angry young man, was the Honor able Henry Beresford, and began action for divorce. But all men are not of views so narrow as the Honorable Henry. Of these was Count Maurice De Vrles, an Austrian, who admired the chic and candor of Viennese women, and who was not dismayed by the glories of Miss Gordon's back, only dazzled and delighted. The Count met Miss Gordon in London. He followed her to ro mantic Paris. The ill-tempered and unreasonable Honorable Henry fol lowed him. He even played the dog in the manger to such an extent that he challenged the Count to a duel in the early morning in the . damp Bols. "It was duecedly uncomfortable at that hour," Count Maurice said. "Damp and draughty." . . Count De Vries only lost his cof fee and got a few scratches that -soon healed, for he is young and healthy. Undeterred by the duel and the watchful Jealousy of Hon orable Henry Beresford, he accoin-; , panled his "Enchantress", to this country. Their marriage was only deferred by the dilatorlness of The thoughts travelled back to. the early years of their married JJie, -to the perfect days of courtship.;; And prsently, greatly to ner own 'sur- prise, Miss Gordon found herself ' weeping. " '?' ' a ';!"-v'' ;' While Miss Gordon was in England -for her vacation Jastyaarher'ab:? ' sentee lord and master wrote asking ; if he might call.c. 8he received, him ,w conventionally an! chilUly, as she" might any casual caller. There were, several present, and she handed him a cup of tea with Impartial " atten tion, 'ine ;-ers left first, and when they had gone the husbind and wife ' "talked things over." " There was no quarrel nor hint of a quarrel. "We might try again and -see if ' we can make it a go," he suggested.: as Je prolonged his farewell.' ' ' "We are older now,", assented his v wife. "We may have more, patience, Come along with . me. to America. You have always wanted: to go." , ' "I can't go now, Constance.": Her -name isn't really Kitty except on the stage. "But I will follow "you : in a .' .fortnight' 'V.:'f '- '."'' . "At least, if we cannot get along we will be no worse off than we are now," said his wife. "Right-o," .responded his - Bear- J lordship. ..'-' -w;.r,y- 'j'.'.f He came. Every night at v the stage door wherever "The Enchant-' ress" is playing, appears a tall, : quiet mannered man with a soldier- ." ly air, who puts the star Into a cab, 4 , steps in . after her and. closes the door. ; .' ' "One of them fool Johnnies?" ask the doorkeeper. " "This Johnnie is a. wise one," re-' plies the "props." who travels with the company. . ''Gueas he's perm a- . nent'" . . , ." So Kitty Gordon -will leave the ; stage after another season or two. ' She will go to the Beresford. home : forty miles from Ascot She and the Honorable Henry and their lit- tie daughter, Vera, who Is at school -. In England, will live quietly after, the manner of gentry, except when A- ;f $ i r Wit I ' 4 - v; 'v " X 'jr. ..... I" f ' ' . . J - - .4 ' m 4 L -1 ! , ' 1 I. ' t V ' , lJr r v The Honorable Mrs. Beresford, Sister-in-Law of Lady Decies Known on the ..' Stage as ttey run up to London to see the new -plays and to enter Mayfair, it the ex-actress is bidden. The fam ous "osck will be for her family and for society, if It wishes it Their cousin, Lady Decies, once Vivien Gould, may cast the deciding vote, for the Beresford family- has never been quite sure what to do with an actress. ' But.MIs8 Gordon win no longer be au actress, fche will be ttn Hon Mrs. Beresford, and some time, per haps, Lady Constauce Decies. That is, if, as her husband says, they "make , - it a go" this time. , MON.HENR.Y- berejford; KITTYS ' HUfBAND V.' , , V vrf ? v ft f ft' ' Kitty Gordon. VERA BEREcTFORD ' !. : KITJYjT,tDAU CUTER.