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Show -- ZZZ:...-.. THE SUNDAY IIEEALD, SUNDAY.JUXE 20, . mmix Mr V Right: tin. George J. Gould (Gloria's Mother) After She Gave-T- p d the Stare v - fiecame a Lenit U the - . "Jroar ' Himdrt-d.- " f.ft.V j What Happened ; When the Daughter jof i rr H'Jii li i . Left: Glork ' GouW BUhop in Oremlli , EmtwbU J Interior Decor to of he Embidojr of Which 8h Wu Also ;r Mil : EdiijiKindqri fmdto RqptuK. (K?) i wamatic Xj lories that tit - ri! !!! i . MptherlGab? Up When She Married Into Ihe ''400. u.. 1 Ai 4 At Right: A Chumlhf Portrait 6 " Gloria Gould, Taken Jtefore Her 'Sl&rriaffe to Henry Bishop. When She Wan Soriety'a 'v Most Popular "Deb," Fiitlinjr About aa ChaJifa Star Puni! : and an Amateur Dancer of Unusual Talent. ,. Jr,. -- 't VJ i VP,. ?:!-- ' tr ' - i 't 1 w' it v'..v 0 4 t,. sr 'ji ':?.. ,'....::; v ' .. ' , . Edith Kingdon Gould and the Late Kyrle ieilew in a Scene from One of the Few Society Playa That Mrs. Gould. Tok Part in After liiving Up the Stage to Marry- George Jay Gould, f.:; Anoves The Beautiful - rl J a 'i LL the Gould millions have ' fitpd to purchase a round trtj:froA Broadway to Fifth ? 'Avenue ..... i' 'A i (feneration arro' Edith Kinrdon left the stan to marry Georfire J. Gould.tiirty nillion dollars and the leadership of New York society! And now her daughter, Gloria Gould Bishop, htt failure in n attempt to trade back her aocia position for'her mother's footlight fame. "Society is the bunk, said the Gloria shortly after her brilliant marriage to A. Bishop, Jr. So she decided to adopt Henry -stae jcareer and sacrifice the society functions, the ease of wealth and the. Social Register friends that her mother .had married, and given up the stan to obtain.' But perhaps professional Broadway is a little more finicky about society than society is about the stage these- - days.V At any Tate, wnlle Edith Kmgdon'had society at her feet a year after she 4uittthe stage, her' daughter, Gloria Gould , Bishop, failed to make it "back to Broadway" after a lifetime of effort. She now states that the is tired of society, tired of dancing, tired of the stage and Intends to spend the rest of her v life bringing up her child- was back in 1886 that Edith Kingdon, a it, newcomer in DatyVeompanyJ was recognized as a great comedy actree,-.- A storm" of applause following the first night performance cf 'Love on Crutches'' dragged her confusedjand astonished from her dressing room onto the stage. So hurriedly in fact did she come, that she did not hare time to finish dressing, but was compelled throw a shawl over her slim bare shoulders. to " As she peeped out in front of the curtain Edith KingdoJt tasked so fascinating in her improvised costume and blushes that George J. Gould' immediately lost his heart to her,. In spite tf WTather'a disapproval, the two were .married shortly afterwards. As that wife of one of the wealthiest men in America at that time, Edith Kingdon' Gould was the center of a storm of society gossip and inta st Fw weeks the leading question waa as to how the "Four Hundred would receive her.-;- ' But she quickly settkd all doubts oft that score. Quitting the stage she set out ' to make the trio from Broadwnv to PiftVi Ayetuie in record time.. And in one short Campaign1, she won the ssme recognition ' 'from thersmart set that she had obtained pnbliet-".-front thef theatre-goim- r Th: first step Kingdon Gould's Social career w& to prove to (the blu,b1oods that in spite of her dramatic interlude, her pedigree was -' qutte as pure as thetei; . To this en(T she js suppose to have spent more waa iiitji tnovsana .qoiiars m genea and toe logical investigations of "The fiook of thg Eiblicatiom Every entry in the record book is backed by letters from the English College of r Ud-mi- ts ft blue-blood- fa 4 jr it . " ! ?' V. If was In 1902 when she christened a private theatre ahe had had built at Georgian Court, the Gould's Lakewood v palace, with society theatricals The naughty Duke of Man j$& cheater was only one of" tht many prominent personage who supported Mrs. Gould in the cast of the initial comedy,, Her second appearance wa. fp&.-- 4 Hotel in New In this enterprise the former Edith Kinjrdon was supported bj a number of ta leading lights of the "Fout Hundred" and several prom' , 't Below: Gloria Gould Bishoo and Her Daughter, Gioia, with Whom She Has Gone to Paris and to Whose Education and ; Bringing-Up- , Mrs. Gould Says, She Will Devote the , . - , ar h ed - that,-..onceth- , in -- 1 - iff ; 1 " i i1 k - . s - - ' 1 fit x J1 , , '''': ' . -- m . ." her-ehild. - . blue-blood- ed e. mm - , old Arms, from churchea-'anrecords in England.; And they all go to: prove that the noble lineage of Edith Eingdon Gould U traceabie back to twelfth century kings. 1, Onc Mrs, Goild had embarked- on her social campaign she Abandoned all interest lit the stage which had been her ii " d - ' nw ihe -- - . after tho birth of Jier daughter, Mrs. Bishop that perhaps she could benefit the stage the executive of nee .more than from the dramatic angle. At my rate, her next rttack pn Broadway came rwith the announcement that she would take over the' complete management of the Embassy Theatre. . It seems that she had met that .nice Major Edward Bowes, of Kitz-Carlt- In fact, during her entire later life she made but two appearances behind thd footlights. The first I Sliortly t hor stage ambitions cropped t)ut r. again. Corporation. at a- This time -- her drive on the dance. While resting her feot she had proceeded of a form the took public nightly to explain to him just how she thought a moving appearance ' as ' a nrofebsional picture theatre should be run. . Gould Gloria her in dancer Room the of the film, daughter, ing picture Crystal The. upshot of .the conversation was Gloria's" . Hotel, Bishop, was apparently just a anxious to performance- was a gala appointment; as manager of the new theatre social event withl representatives of the Ilarn- give tp sficiety for the pall of the stage,. which the corporation was opening. Gloria was At the agf of ten Gloria Gould triads her. marf, ij&rexe' WAinwright, Storrs and Cudahy photographed painting the theatre's woodwork, first theatrical appearance. It was in the , , families present in foroer besides most of the was quoted at length on her idea of running the members of iiew York's younger social set. The form tt a playM cailed"the "Lost Child, 'written and staged, by herself and produced j performance twas hailed as an artistic success in ..; theatre with tmly women employes throughout, , and' the opening night came as another social Court TheBtre for the ben the society dolurmis of tie- newspapers and it at the Geor-'jaevent of importance. , efit of the American Efei Cross. With n seemed for a time1 as though Gloria Gould Bishop But where Gloria's mother had rejected A had been given a royal Bend off on the path of audience and a cast, made Up of million-doll, offer by tuff movies, (gloria is reher ambitions. :' Ulonafs "playmates, which incltfded-ti ported to have received only a paltrjr two hun-.drDreaiel children and many others 'of the j ; jn- -. in But'a'nlghply appearance terpsichorean and fifty. a week, the price of a good press ' wlcacles must have palled, either on the Gould surrounding fashionable neighbors, .it is not; agent, for managing the new picture house. And to be wondered at that the performance; ! heiress or on' society at large. At any rate the even vat . theatre was opfrned netted over a hundred jfbllars to charity. ' series of perfmanees-dwindle-d away Uioria was seen 4es3 and less, in the management. returhed-t- o, In 1&X9 Gloria made ha first appear-- v, dancing school for a few This essay at the. theatrical life'was Gloria's ' x . . more lessons. j.,.-- 7rf -' ' fast to. date and may be the last that any Gould , ance as a classical dancer; Bfer next essay at the professional life was a line along which for years .will, everc make. Hot .Gloria Gould Bishop's theatl-ica- l wheh 1 she had -- completed a 'special -- teacher's she hoped to muke her pro ambitions seem to have come into fessional entrance to the with- her matrimonial happiness and. both,. Course at the Chalif dancing school and bad been flict ' r awarded a silver medal for her hard work. She stage. - The affair Va a may have been bruised In the crash charitable one for' the then. announced thafrh wouluLppen a dancing' " ; OrilyJrecWtlytwhea she Sailed for Europe she benefit of the Belgian school, at tha smart PaffrLane Hotel through ' uttered --the ambiguousi statement, I think it . children and was given at - ' which he hoped to teach America how to live ,.'7 would be great fun to gel a divorce.f Marriage ' th rhythmic liffc : Her classes, she announced, Carnegie Hall, ew York. is so stupid. My husband hated all my activities, would be restricted totudents with Vivid "Thcf entertainment ,wag He WouMirt have me do a thing "if ho had his " her She had associated with : provided by forty dancing I intend to get a divorce . own-- way about it would as student dance and which of Chalif of the students permit plenty some time. J doh t' think anyone ought to stay the hall was entirely sold,', of individual) instruction for. the students and married more than, two or throe years." at the same time allow Mrs. Bishop" to continue out to society mothers 'and Whiie there' has bejn no action to further : her "personal JpraciceVOt as the box holders' list re-confirm the divorce rumor of the Gould heiress, q.' sembled that of the Metfrom Psris comes word that Gloria intends to deFor a time the daweing echool; was a great' vote the rest of her life in quiet living and the ropolitan Opera House, , success. To be sore, some of the entrance resolo were dances a had to be ignored and a few chil- - "'OpVririging of gloria's - "I am - quirements ''much applauded success. drem -- hicking vitidiress but compensated for quite throujh with social gaieties, with the ephemeral glories f the stage and With the this lack by the bluest of For a time Gloria had a fling at society pedigrees, were admitted. But for one' entire season the fashion! says Gloria. empty 'pompousness-JO- f and devoted the majority of her time to " And -now knows that the Gould heiress Broadway Glorlr GiJuTd Bishop's solo dance life; ' dasses--anthe hectic activities-o' has at last discarded- her ambitions to back-trea- d were social events of prime importance, even But hortly after the briUjnnt marriage of. hef mother's trail and achieve the glory the fiould heiress in to Henry A."- - - if the rhythmicjife did not grip the imcination ' that Edith Kingdon abandoned for a social career. .bf the general public,. ; - x "v. - . Bishop, Jr., grandson of a railroad magnate, ' y '.' : i 7 ', t ', if The-opening- Life. V mim. '"' . thi-oug- of Her Best - s ...(rtepaing-stpn- v Mi . , l&J&i2--- J - , de-ud- ed -: ' , Jf't t i - York. inent professionals.-- '' "V But whilevMra Gould" was quite willing to give up a stage career for society leadership, and "while it is even reported that a fw years ago she rejected an offer of an even mil- -' lion dollars to star in one mov-- I v,4 five years later at a charity performance given at the Waf dorf-Astor- i', S i Mill I m UW' TkJ 4 l AVWJ S i?n .. .. J-J- r in I ifVSyUJv i r. ..; |