Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1913 — LOVE COMEDY NEARLY TRAGIC [ARTICLE]

LOVE COMEDY NEARLY TRAGIC

Noted Actress Could Not Marry a Man Who Only Had One Leg.

Madrid. —A love comedy that la on its why. to become a tragedy is exciting the best families in Madrid. It relates to Gomez Lopez del Mavarette, a well-known diplomat of Barcelona, who fell in love with the actress Dolores Rivero de Domanones. She is the daughter of an aristocratic Spanish family whose name she brought into great notoriety by taking to the stage. . _ A famous young surgeon, Dr. ’Dorado del Pozo, was also a suitor for Dolorez, and her affections wavered so uncertainly as td cause a duel between the young men, in which the diplomat was wounded in the leg Immediately Dolorez was at his side and nursed him devotedly. Several doctors were consulted,' but the legs, became worse. At last Dolorez (persuaded her lover to consult his ri•val, the brilliant young surgeon. He •did so and Dr. Dorado del Pozo said that amputation would alone save his |life, as gangrene had set in. More persuasion by the actress, who assured him that her affections were now fixed, was needed before the [young diplomat would consent'to the operation. The Operation was eventually performed and Senor Mavarette provided with an artificial leg. In spite of her previous protesta'tions, Dolorez had to confess that she , could never marry a man with one leg. Not long after she married the young surgeon.