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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
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"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
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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 .'
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. "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
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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. ,
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