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Show BLANCHE BATES AND DICK HOTALING. The many local friends of Blanche Bates and Dick Hoteling will be interested in a story which recently appeared in Town Talk, as follows: Because Blanche Bates Is There. It is singular how trivial coincidences are sometimes magnified until they seem to present phenomena of tremendous significance. Richard Hotaling, millionaire, bachelor and olubman, started for St. Louis the other day, and it was Immediately remarked that Blanche Bates was rlaying Yo San in that city. A World's. Fair is the principal attraction in St. Louis at present, and people are flocking to it from all parts of the country, but Dick Hoteling's friends thought only of his trip there being coincident with Blanche - Bates' theatrical engagement. Dame Grundy does not hesitate to declare that the inspiration of the Hoteling journey is the talented Californian actress, and she has gone so far as to give cur- 4f rency to the rumor that their engagement will soon be announced. I earnestly hope that she knows what she is talking about, for I should hate to believe that Dick Hotaling was an irredeemable irre-deemable bachelor. No doubt many people will smile incredulously over the rumor, believing as they do that Blanche Bates is wedded to her art. They will recall that she gave matrimony a trial, but found it wearisome and quickly wandered back to her profession. Perhaps if she had been congenially mated the allurements of the stage would not have been so potent. Since that marriage mar-riage she has risen to the topmost rung of the professional ladder, and she has sounded all the depths of a histrionic career. Who knows but that she has been sated with its diversions and its glamour, and would prefer the comforts of a luxurious home to the inconveniences and makeshifts that are encountered along the theatrical the-atrical highway by the most prosperous and successful suc-cessful of mummers? & t & Her Interesting Career. Blanche Bates is too sensible a woman to be caught irretrivably by the footlights' glare. She has a fondness for the social whirl, and every chance she gets she partakes of its pleasures. And every chance Dick Hotaling gets he ministers min-isters to her tastes. She has frequently been a guest under chaperonago at his suburban home, and during her periodical visits to this city they have seen a groat deal of each other. Blanche Bates is as fascinating off as on the stage, and she has many friends in local society, especially in the Bohemian element. She is a woman of culture and nimble mind, and though she always hnd a predilection for the stage she was trained for a pedagogical career. She graduated from the Normal School among the first three of a very largo class, and on her certificate was elected a teacher in the School department. She taught in one of the schools for awhile, and at the same time was a member of St. Paul's church choir, and taught in the Sunday school of the same church. But her thoughts wore ever of the stage, and I have heard that when she was a school teacher she was forever displaying her histrionic talent During the luncheon hour it was her delight de-light to entortaln the other teachers by lotting down her hair and reciting "The Maniac." She made her debut In a small part and she made rapid rap-id strides in the profession, but she did not attract at-tract much attention until she returned to the stage after her brief matrimonial career. Though no explanation was ever given of her desertion of her husband, Lieutenant Davis, it has been understood that her proud and independent spirit rebelled against the snobbishness encountered at the Presidio. j jt & Dick Hotaling is one of the wits of the Bohemian Bo-hemian Club and one of the brightest and most successful of San Francisco's young business men. He is the manager of the estate of his father, fa-ther, A. P. Hotaling, and he is the treasurer cf the Electric Light and Power Company which John Martin promoted, and which is in control of all the big electric plants In the central and northern part of the State. |