| Show H i I. I 2 2 Acting Lo looked as Miss Hiss eked She Herself a aMan's aMans When fr r ho hoMan Lm m b a o f Rn oin l v t 1 Mans Man's 8 Part Partin Part in ope Opera r J. J 1 l a 1 J a I liI r n. n s Sad Predicament of Claude i r 7 uN 1 f Bede e Married Beautiful zd l J ar i il e by l r i Jeanne Because He Het 4 t 7 Looked Like Napoleon and 1 r i II o r 1 ry r f. f Now Divorced Because Well V v LY 5 She e Was Very Fond of L Yi I Napoleon AT a 7 eo n t I t l ri Sl 0 r 1 t V 4 7 k fit r 1 S' S h x r ri C I A A y tr T 1 tf fil J A 3 f J r r w if S K rl Ss I H i sy Y i 1 I sr r F I 3 OJ c- c 4 3 a n woman as talented S SUPPOSE as she was beautiful should frankly declare that YOU YOU YOU-ot of all men In the world world approximated approximated her Ideal In look manner speech and character and YOU seeing In herthe her herthe herthe the flesh and blood embodiment of ot all aU your our our romantic dreams replied to her avowal with certain business of ot endearment endearment en dearment that should follow tollow such a 3 situation I Suppose that your marriage promIsed promised prom prom- leed to be one perfect golden goMen song lores lore's perfumed garden a 0 harmony of f souls who whose e mating should bring a B anew anew new and revealing glory to the word Forever and all aU that sort of thing Suppose that after a period In Ely Ely- Mum Blum YOU suddenly awoke to the cruel fact that YOU were not the theman theman man Inan who had the soul sout of your our wife that she sho adored another personality entirely a entirely entirely-a a personality that hilt hAnn to rn A A YOU but who was ly IT apart from YOU and that though you yon On were not he YOU wore were In effect he BO ItO tar far ae as the law Is la concerned In other words how would you like Uke to be ti Phantom Husband 7 The answer rightly may be bo that ft a aman man nan BO ISO placed Is never entirely sure of as himself elt aa to who he really reany Is for tor a oman woman governs her marriage and her divorce alike aUke by what sho she thinks a B man Is Claude Bede Bedo could illuminate with the deft art of ot actor and singer all aU of of these points from froma a m most t peculiar personal experience He is one of the stage Idols of Paris Ho lIo Is Jeanno Jeanne shattered domestic Idol dol No ND Fireside Napoleon Monsieur Bede Bode has been scores of different men on men on the tile stage and 1 If It f ho he had been as ns skilled an actor off ot IB IlS on OD ho he might not have undergone many painful embarrassments and now perhaps be In beatified J possession posses posses- Ion sion of ot a fascinating wife Instead of ot being completely wiped d from her matrimonial slate Right Might on this lo a scientific au authority saya says th that t a n. well balanced man though ho he assume as assume sume sums hundreds of ot stage characters character seldom will win consciously or otherwise carry these characterizations Int 0 real life life t It Is really such a n. C relaxation to become himself again Whereas on the tho other hand worn en who are arc by nature actresses a aall at atall atan all an times might very readily carr carry the stage Illusions Into real life an and be profoundly proud of ot the tho achievement achieve achieve- ment Any An clever at alii attractive tl active wom worn woman an observes Mark Telfair who f fat la Is e at nil all Inclined to conquest and conquest and I have yet to find one who is not nol nol- would love Jove to think that in her were v combined all an of or tho the wit It wisdom an and I witchery of ot every woman who ha has s ever left her mark In the fading records records rec rec- orda of ot time His Undying Love Monsieur Benedict known to th the e stage as Claude Bede who though he bears a re resemblance A to fn nn and plays Napoleon with reality i enough to deceive any of ot tho the Old Guard if It they still survived cannot play Napoleon while In the COB cosy atmosphere of home his feet In carpet slippers and embraced embrace d in the velvet case ease of a smoking Jacket He did not even tr try it ft And yet 1 it t was Monsieur Napoleon Bedo wh who o fascinated his w wife fe at first sight Jeanne the Belgian contralto contralto contralto con con- and member of the tho tan Opera Company She Sho is still sUIl Miss Mias for tor sh she has Just been given a divorce by th the American courtn courts I am a n gallant man Monsieur r Bede Dede said to his wife's wIres lawyer wh who o had called to carr carry out certain details detail s of ot tho the suit I 1 will salute her the wife wite e I 1 lovo o so dearly doyly even cven though sh she sho p ep has brought against me this cruel de do mand I love my wife very much And though she has made me so GO very unhappy I will preserve e in m my heart hear t forever only the memory of he her r sweetness Sho She Is a great actress Indeed Monsieur Bedo Bede concedes concede s the art of ot the woman whom ho sU still 1 loves to be ba far tar greater than his hla and r tp Miss in Der CIDer If it this unusual professional abasement abasement abase abase- ment meat does not spell love lout says sas ono one of ot his friends It comes close to It And It if he had been content with a a. phantom phan plies tom wife it a all might havo have been different different dif dif dif- ferent but ho he loved Jeanno Mau bourg and not any of ot the characters with which he Is said to have havo averred she sho confused contused herself herselt It was the lawyer n again aln who la Is tho the authority for tor the tho statement that Bede said his wife wito had acted her marriage life lito as she ahe would play pInyon on the stage stages that sho had forgotten the serious part of marriage and ancI forgotten forgotten for tor- gotten that though sho she was an actress actress act act- ress Tess and ho he an actor yet et both were real people and were married liko any other people Shortly after the singer thought she Bho had become the of n a man eon sho she told how her hor happiness happi happl ness sass helped her art how Joyously Jl happy hap hap- py she nho was and how the tho courtship and tho the marriage camo came about Sho She told too how his Image imago was before her as she sho sang In opera and wrote It to music as an odd autographic declaration which she sho animatedly rendered thus Her Own Dear Husband Now when I am cast aa DS SIebel In Faust It Is not of or Marguerite I am nm thinking as I sing Tell of or my tenderness ton ton- declare my lovo non o It Is hi of or m my own dear husband Ile He first heard and saw taw me inc In tho the opera 1 slip she repeated repealed No Shall I Ite Itell itell te tell you what really happened Eh bien blen It was In Brussels myown my myown myown own home I was in a n logo loge at tho the t ti i Pd 1 y 4 Claude Bede asHe as asHe asHe He Looked in the Character of 4 Napoleon Fragment of the Jewel Song from Faust Quoted to fu Her Husband by Jeanne Shortly After Their Marriage theatre to witness the comedy o ot of Madame Sans Sans Gene Gene as played b by y the company en voyage from m ym Paris I saw in tho the Napoleon apoleon a man ma manhat n what hat you ou call masterful yet ret t to tome o me mc most host veritable sympathetic a veritable artist comedian I was way glad of ot a personal Introduction and then I pree pre pre- 5 e 1 It f nl nH 1 tn mv 11 Tn p u LV 60 such a serious wa way are all affairs o 0 otho tho the heart conducted with us In Et Eu Europe rope Then I did not know M. M Benedic was himself and ho lie had no n that flint I 1 was as I. I You Yon understand 1 J 1 mean we wc were not acquainted wit witt h each pach other professionally That was wai wasa a delightful experience Both being bein artists of ot the theatre destiny Joined joint our lives JJ together And yet et this same am theatre with the tho engagements II 11 It bound us both to was as a a. delay to th the o realization of or our grand engagement the tho matrimonial one But Dut not for to too 0 long Jong longI I came camo to New Ne York In October r for m my Metropolitan season my flance flan fian ce broke away from the Chatelet i in n Paris to follow me here and according accord according ing to promise we wc were married No Nov 2 by bI that Jersey City magistrate e- e the civil marriage I believe you call It I am nm cr very happy now that w ware we weare weare e are together and the they all nIl say Aay I sin sing g better than ever in my mv roles Selects Select His Photograph u u. u 1 my s a stage Villas name Is is Bede Dede and m my family name Is Goffaux I have a n Belgian royal decoration n as artiste which I can wear for Cor show If I wish but I much more rejoice Inthe in inthe inthe the friendly applause of music loving Americans which will always as remain romain ro- ro main maln as an echo In my heart Have you OU m my caricature as drawn dran by Caruso on the tho stage No r 01 Then I am so glad for tor it is how you OU call can fierce and I shall shan so much rather be bo published as my real photograph In company with my husband as Napoleon apoleon Note the Napoleon But do not laugh for tor frequently these love fan whimsical In their Deeming have ha the depth of ot tragedy And who shall sa say that a full measure ot of It Jt has not been given to the woman who thought the tho man Napoleon and aad to the tho man who knew he ho was not You have probably laughed at George Ados Ado's clover clever utilization of or this very er idea ot of the man who started stalled out deliberately to be Napoleonic in look and manner r. r Well WeB it la is a scream as ns George himself might t say And had Bede cde played e Napoleon apEl on t r rEIJI ra rw a EIJI w Y 1 I 1 1 a 1 at his own fireside It likewise might have been funny funny hut but ho And It were probably well wen that no farce penetrated an otherwise other other- wise artistic atmosphere Ados Ado's man who had the Napo n obsession was legitimately funny funn- for ho looked more like liko a sardine Sandwich Sand fand- L t. t Tin h. 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C en u u u f it is saddest from Jeanne daub lau ung's point of ot view that though h ho he looked like mea Napoleon had force torce of t and an iron will Monsieur Bede i 1 did not come an any where near l tho the Ideal In the tho mind of his i 1 wife wHo She manifestly ado adored rod what heI ho he I i Jeanne Who r Is Accused by Her Husband J 1 of Having Married an Idol t i That Was Not Really Himself Q looked like not what be he really reany was This Illustrates a 8 curious fact Cael regarding regarding regarding re re- Ravine Ra Ra- garding the sexes says Pierre vine e in noting this fact A man nan desires to enjoy the tho dishes that the bill of ot fare offers A woman Is often satisfied with the mere mero menu card No woman really reaBy gets a as a husband husband husband hus hus- band the man she thinks he is declares declares de de- clares dares Alicia Cassard She becomes the bride of a man to whom she may maybe maybe mayhe be he an entire stranger d during rin their whole married life lite It is the tho illusion the the Phantom Husband that Husband that takes her in his arms This phantom maybe may maybe maybe be Napoleon Caesar Caesar Alexander Alexandcr Launcelot or Romeo or any Imaginary ary unnamed character and It Is la 1 Y A r fv r sr f g u r rJ J s sk L s J S. 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H I b bC c C rr this very Illusion that makes for tor happiness hap ha p places In many an otherwise unpropitious unpropitious unpropitious union If It the tho soul of every overy man going Into Into into In In- to marriage were laid bare and h he e stood beCore before tho world without deception de de- then th th n there would be f fewer r marriages And of course the tho fet re re- t la fa 1 tr-nn tr a- a 1 Vir wt a n ft man men nello 11 a j V jj 11 A U u i AA 0 11 takes a more more practical view about women If It If Monsieur Bede did not prove prote to tobe tobe tobe be Napoleon apoleon In hl his ails o own n home he has surely ono claim to distinction because because because be be- cause of ot the nice appreciation that made him realize his wife had hod sue suc fI d where he had failed that feho she bo was a great actress on the stage nd even a greater one off oft for it s something of or transcendent art to make yourself believe that Pity Is reality and everyday things n D era ly dream phases That Mrs rs Bed Bedo Bede forgot that she ghe and her husband both were real peo peo- people pie and were married like any other people Is nothing against her We have entirely too to-o mu much h of the t cold bold hard realities as It is and a little more of ot this sort of ot romantic would bring back Into lutot our lives s much of that sweetness of o the olden times Umes when all things s dealing i with love o were dreams A World of or Phantoms f frem I 1 can only remind you you rem remarked Dr Carleton Simon often otten called aa ns a medico-legal medico expert In tn cases r df dIfficult difficult dif dl- psychology ogy that it WI wits tha thO clever Frenchman man Chateau Chateaubriand nand rian who said that In the tho mind bf ot the the theman man an there thero was always t the tho rf l t c Ideal idea of ot a a woman an Ideal nover never realized La he ho call called pd d her Every woman likewise has n on nh ideal Meal dimly back In h her r consciousness or sharply to the fore Ask your wife who hers is and I It you O are very good friends friends' I at the time sio will deny you the tho satisfaction of owing YOU may humbly consider yourself your your- yourself self small enough to go throng the eye of ot a 3 needle or big enon to elbow elbow el el- el- el bow most people eople oft off the earth earCh but YOU will never he the same YOU that your wife pities ties or This Thise is duo due tt to no Idiosyncrasy of or the dear good goad wife but to the fact tact that It la is ps psychologically Impossible The Bode Bedo case stands n. n i i h ft i 1 s IJ w tuure i o fire are 1 o concerned 1 in It Ita a 0 charming nn and talented singer and anda a n handsome popular actor who con cnn make mako love Joe but as a matter of fact tact the world under p Pl ant a- a nt social social so so- cial usages and habits of ot thought Is la full fuU of ot not only Phantom Bride Bridegrooms Bridegrooms grooms but Phantom Brides as well |
