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44 Pauline Frederick
or fickle. Generally they live in an atmosphere of feverish excitement, with natures that crave continual change, with highly strung and overwrought nerves causing them to be bored after a few months with one mate, and to dispel the ennui, begin seeking adventures elsewhere. They are adventuresses and courtesans at heart. Pauline Frederick was not in the least reconcilable with any of these types. The reason for her many changes of mates is a rather pathetic one. She was searching for an ideal that she never found — twice she had it within her grasp but it was torn from her; in the one instance by a craving that could not be overcome, and in the second, by death which stepped in and claimed the man before she had a real chance to enjoy him. Nor in searching for this ideal was she striving for the moon. Pauline was essentially the type of woman who must have someone to lean upon. Despite all her varied experiences in life she was never able to become self-sufficient or self-reliant. Difficulties with managers are proverbial in the theatre or opera world and Pauline's experiences were of the worst. Being a very bad business woman and knowing it, she was forced to rely too much upon managers who, almost without exception, feathered their own nests and eventually brought financial ruin to her. Therefore, she sought in a husband, someone upon whose judgment she could rely; a man who would give her a home in which her intensely domestic soul could revel; a man who could advise her upon her selection of plays and, above all, take care of her financial affairs in a manner that would assure her future. It would not seem that she was asking for anything very great or unusual in her men. There are thousands of such men in the world. That she did not find a mate to fulfil these requirements was her greatest misfortune. Had she found one such, Pauline Frederick would have had but one husband.