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Will Turn Back to Him and Aristocracy Again—ls His Test Works Out Kitty Gordon’s beautiful back- -maybe it’s the most beautiful back in the world—will soon be hut an en chanting memory to the theatre going public. She is about to with draw it from the public stage and — if her most interesting experiment aucceeds-—exhibit it henceforth only in polite, even aristocratic, •ociai 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 Denies-—as is duly set forth in th* book of British Peers That it ever gladdened the hearts of play-goers was tvholly 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, 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 Decles 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 •’ory, not of bones and flesh and ■miscle, 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 •ven drew a parallel. He said, "Broken china always shows the •rack.” Kitty Gordon flouts saws and iaughs at philosophers. She be lieves that severed hearts can re unite and beat as fondly as before. And that brings us to the story. Kitty Gordon is trying matrimony •gain, and with the same spouse. ! here gre trial marriages, trial courtshipk, 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," she said to friends in New tork before starting rm tour with The Enchantress.” in which, it goes o ' ' 1,11 " ... _ _. -p rT-. ~-’~ ——- _ ... _ ■ ~ ■— - > ..... ■■ ■ - A,P ;„ iv . .... .. . ■ ~, .:. ... .. 'V ... , J without saying, she plays and sings the 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 that either of us ever wanted one. He has come over here and we wilt stay for two or three months. If we get along, as we are pretty sure to do —we are older now —we will remain husband and wife. There will be no divorce.” The Honorable Henry Beresford Is therefore on probation*, as it were. So, too. is bls 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 ’■■ends, and finally caused the separa tion. of the interesting pair. “It was about nothing in particu lar,” said the Honorable Mrs Henry Beresford, a bit tearfully, to her friends. •1 started with nothing, but quar rels usually do,’’ said the Honorable Henry, who is but one remove from Lord Decies. "But she ouldn’t give in.” 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 States, 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 rhe 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. Os these was Count Maurice De Vries, 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 Bois. "It was duecediy uncomfortable at that hour,” Count Maurice said. "Damp and draughty.” Count De Vries onlj’ 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 accom panied his "Enchantress" to this country. Their marriage was only deferred by the dilatoriness of Miss Gordon’s spouse in securing his divorce. Count De Vries re turned to his diplomatic post in London. The men were careful not. to meet at their clubs. Meanwhile the anger 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. M< inwhll , too. Miss Gordon, in New York, and especially on tour, reflected upon the past. Thoughts are vagrants. They would not cen tre upon her husband's temper and the bitter things he said while the tempest of that temper was raging. The thoughts travelled back to the early years of their married life, to the perfect days of courtship. And presently, greatly t< her own sur prise. Miss Gordon found herself weeping. While Miss Gordon was tn England for her vacation last year her ab sentee lord and master wrote asking if he might call. She received him conventionally an’ chillily, as she might any casual caller. There were several present, and she handed him i cup of tea with impartial atten tion. 'Hie o! .ers left first, and when they bad gone the husband 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 ue prolonged hfs farewell. "We are older now,” assented his wife "We may have more patience. Come along with me to America. Yon 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 yon in a fortnight.’’ “At least, if we cannot get along we will be no worse off than we are now,” said his wife. •'Rlght-o,” responded bis near iorasnip. He came. Every night at 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, s'eps 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. "Guess he’s perma nent •’ So Kitty Gordon will leave the si age 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 AX v MS' W>.. . I II • * . g l J N. . f Bi H ! Si it wwH I S 11 '7P\X ißmbp r I wff ■ ‘ W UON.I-IENRY W Ml BEREJTOkD. W ■ ' ■ KITTYiT _ -*V -W** • HUJBANO c Id W y w i W "Z' " OMOTO W ■- 1 -A - ‘ - I The Honorable Mr*. Beresford, Sister-in-Law of Lady Decies—Known on the they run up to London to see the peen quite sure what to do with an c._„ new plays and to enter Mayfair, if actress otage as , ______ the ex-actress ia bidden. The fam- But Miss Gordon will no longe. Kitfv oue back will be for her family ne an actress. She will be th? Hou ty < -’ ordon - VERA BERET FORD and for society, if It wishes it. Their Mrs Beresford, and some time, per- 1 -r-v <->»a i»y i i-rr- cousin, Lady Decies, once Vivien haps. Lady Constance Decies That KIITYJ, UAUuH 1 LIL, Gould, mav ca. the deciding vote. is, if, as her husband says, they "make for the Beresford family has never it a go” this time.