Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1923, Page 17

XN i ' SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1922, _—* FOR SALF’—A Great Novel CHAPTER, LY (Continued) jometimes: the: letter: unconsciously conveyed) more landscape, and char ter than @ laborious author could nieve, and carried) with it an air of heipiess doom) that. was, hearbreak- ing, There many of the. following nort DEAR: MISS: STEDDON: Mary TD interduce: my, seif: to Im @ Uttle Arizona, Gir, an: Ll want to. know how to be, come a Movie Stars WH you, Ditace, take A few min- utes of your time, an) teil me. ail about it. Does. it takes, lots of money to be come & Movie, Star, very: since: Ti was. 1h years olf: Ive raved! to, be a star My people. Objected very much. When, I was, 17 T began Work & when 19 D married. I Am husband seperated, so Now Im on the plains with my fauther an Mather, [ havea 2 months Qld baby hoy. I) bee 21) in Feb. Im. cail a disenoint: brunette, Ty weight 17-5 ft. 4 in, 1 hink: TI) send) you; & little Pioture. of myself’ 80> YOU, CAN seq. for yournelf sow 1 looks Im, & itty geod) dancir, Aw I was ity buisy my self; TI: must go, Please take a few minutes: An. drop me a few Unes; about: this, Yours: truly, MRS; JACOB LAYTON. Youth might break through the hesps.of fato though Mem: couid only answer that thousands of experienced ctresses were out of work and there little. chance. There. was less ope still for the dowdy middleagers who wrote from. mid-western, villages wi nolosing photographs that would have enced their chances if they. had hed any; but they wanted: to. know how to get: famous. quick. Sotors without experience, authors ould) not speil, people of every inabie, and) unimaginebie diab ty, sent their pleas. to. this new god: jess and she was as. helpless to. grant n ay the gods above have. always on to the petitions that rain to- wards them fram the nic fines, of moiten hearts of this world, Mem could) not answer even with advice. And) she felt that she was making enemies everywhere faster then friends. ne, too, hes its income, “ax to pay: and) the rate: {screases, by. the . same doubling and trebiing with which, Ue, government: punishes: uc s in the form of money, Writhing at the humiliations of ob- ecurity, Mem) wae coming: swiftly up into the humiliations: of conspicuity. The letter from. the. holdup, man followed by anothen less terr but: no loss beilttiing to ber . She had just. been. glowing the: first: thrill) off the: first: re- for. her photograph and autograph, paid) for in. advance by flattery. not postage, when, her eyes met this, from) Yume-— written, by a landtady who, oarr'ed her: hash-maiting: propensities: into her wnglishi: USS REMEMBER STBEYDON, nee MRS. JOHN: WOODVILLE Bermond) Studios, Los Angeles: DEAR: MADAME: Seeing as I seen your piteure at the theater here last nihgt and reo: ognized) you as the lady who left a trunk here sayin gshe woultt send for it as segm as, she and her hus » band) got theirseives, located: and you never done so and) geing. to the moov- ng pitoure the other nihgt as I sey I saw you, or so, Ti beileve on the screne ae: Miss Steddon and very pret: ty you was to, IT must admit, and so how: about: your: trunk. is what I am asking and their is storage charges onto, it and Mrs. Drissett, who ‘s still with me, and) seen, the Pitoure with me says: to ask, you, do you, remember her asking: you about being a Wood: ville and) your saying you. was, ash: amed of our husbands folks or rather that he dident have no folks at ail and she notices as you. used: another name and hoping to. hear: from you seon with yuests if and do what: is right is my, motto and I expect other folks to do the same, Yours, respeofuly MRS: CLEM: SOAT, Mom's, own behavior had heen more inelegant than Mrs. Sloatis syn tax Her whoie life, indeed) hed been ungrammatioal to. the Inst do- Sree, She had slunit away from Tume with all the. lgmobility. of a ooyote, and this: sudtien searchiight restored her to, her craven: memories. She liad) crept from, dark: to, dark hen, Dut now she was) both wriesiass and) the ight, the, vietim of her fame, the aptive rather than the captain of! the soul she had for sale, the tremen: lously advertised’ soul she had for} pale. Helen, of Trey found: the: face that launched) a thousend ships a most embarrassing; possession, for the housand ships. went: after: her anc reselged) her, And now Mom's, past coming up in) all: directions: like s of siege. She wondered now. who would) be he. next to, confront her with some \alf-forgotten, distoyion of the truth. | She wondered if every step sho, had talten) and) was to take would leave & velrified footprint Mike. the fossilined races: af a primeval insect for oternty: She could) not: decide what answer to Maite to. other letter, and so, made rone at ail) The writer naturally sup» posed: hen guilty: of inidifference, and contempt for her feelings, but her silences was actually due. to: contempt for herself: and: her inability: to devise & decent excuse. Now*and) then, she. sought escape from breading: in. spurts of sayety. She went: about with, Tom: Holby: and Ned) Lingt and) with: other suitors among the various pieasanoes of Low She danced at the Alexan <3 Angelos. drig, to, the bewitching: fda) ot Minx. Fischer}, and) at the Cocoanut Grove in. the 4mbassedon made. part ginoun eddy of: human: srt Hickman’ the muc ollow the; prisoner: off the| ally She missed) no. Wednescay night) st the. Sunset: Inn, andi an one, occa- ‘ion almost won a dancing prize with onderfnt lounge: lizard. Thursday | nights, found her at: the Hoilywood hotel: She was dancing: flerceiy, but never quite: a: y from: her past. | know: the Mexican: dishes, con chile. and! the tamales Spanish Kitchen, She went through the. inevitable nhase. of! looking up| odd: Dirces: to. eat and enjoying poor | food because it was quaint. She joined the horseback: rides. thet set out from the, Beverly: Hills hote! | and threaded the canyons. till they: came upon breakfast apread in a gion, She motored to Santa Barbara add heard the nightingale at El Mirasel, or Sati on the. terrace, of the moonilt Samarkand) and dreamed herself) in Persia, She motored to San Diego and beyonG, tasting the rival delights of the old Spanish Mission at San Juan Capistrano, and) the gambiing scrose, the Mexican border in ‘Tin Tene, She took a course, of Philharmonic concerts: heard world-famous singers ad Insrumentalisie, and. regrated jo tongueless, career she had adopted, | But she: learned) to, chatter af art:| and music in Uttle grouns of devotees, | composers, painers, seulptors, verse nakers, story writers: that make. up| the countless, clubs. of a city already ws big and as busy as helf a dozen Athenses, She was broadening and) deepening sr mind and her heart, and aerating, volatizing her spirit, | She toiled ail the while at her own | technic: When sip finished the short | comedy with Ned) Ting she was irawn back to the Bermond: stu: | dio for the principal mie in a big) picture, She wae not yet to be starred | young man, Clive Cleland, whe was but she was to. be “featured” with « spoken of as Tom Hoiby’s successor. Young Cleland fell prey to her) growing fascinations, but he was so much her business rival and) their professional’ love scenes: were suot| luels. for points, that she could not | think of him as an amateur in love. Besides, an unsuspected loyalty to Tom Holby was wakened in. her heart by the pretence that this. raw youth was ‘Tom's. “successor.” ‘Tom Hoiby was out in the Mojave Jesert on. loation, and his, absence) pieaded) for him Ike @ still, smail’! voloe that interfered with the mur-| murs of nearer lovers, he carne at the! She was fnil of impattences of every: sort. She had fallen ont: of: love with) her- self, Mannerisme that directors or crit- o* pointed ont, or that she discovered fom herseify vexed: her to istraction, Tt was a strange thing to. recognize n herself a fault that she detested n others and was yet unabie to erad: loxte, Striving to avoid) these, recur- ‘ent tri she grew self-conscious | ind people said that she was getting ‘a swelled head when she was: most: in @ panic, What. they, took: for conceit was the biuff of a rabbit at bay And ail the while the longing for a home; a single loys, @ normal ayerage | life, alternated with oneets. of cynical defiance for the conventions. | While nature wad clamoring: in. her bivor for: mating: and) motherheed, her | new: freedom) drove, her: to, anarchic | protests. acminst submission to the fnnetions. of the beasts. Mem: was: in chaos morally. She wes at) her spring, ail hen sense aleap with Youth and) desire and) a wilftng joy. in. breaking through oid) rules. The moralities were to her the that the April) brooks sweep aw: and the torrents meit; the, grim: white ioe of winter that freees life and: puts love and art and beauty asiven, She wae, so, horrified: by the inde | cencits: of the. Puritans: and) the cen: sors: and’ the, critios: of her career, that: reveiry became a duty. The May- pois, was a iberty pole. But the dramatio: work® had ite) Puritans as the reifgious, world hes te synsies. n. the picture she was melting at this time the role of her rival) for the love of the lover was played) by a Mies, Bevan, who made.such a parade of; her undenied) virtues, that they. be- | camp vices in the eyes of her col: | ARNIS. now Mem had parted so far her early training: thet: she, had lett of what she, would once called: common decency, She went extremely decollette to dances; she ailmbed: the mountains, n| Dredches, and) putters, and on the | stage: she wore what she was told) to | wear, left off whet she was toit to | leave off, without thought: of protest: | Miss Bevan, however, was of an op- posite mind: She considered her per son, entirely her own and! her future husband's, She refnsed to wear one | from Uttle have J gown Deemuse it was too low in the and! another because it was too She refused to be ac him nook high: In: the: skint. vhotographed: actually. Iissing tor on. the lps. She. would pretend to, press his mouth ‘her cheek, and) she would. hitie face behind his—tut: no. more. in, one, scene she had to run: out} into, a high) wind) in a frenzy off ter. | rer, The. airplane propeilor twirled her skirts, about her and) displayed the shapely knees the Lord hed wast: e@ on. her, She forgot the overwhelm: | | ing emotion, of her roig- and: bent: to cinteh down her spiraling. skirts. When. the director shouted “Cut! | aha, was, distraught: with sheme and demanded: that he retaite the seene and temper the wind to her shorn | trook. Te refneed: with disgust. She | insisted: then that the picture ba out before the wind dispiayed her—her {nbs an Ipt "The director answered: “U1! out the just before you began to hie “m-- not: because. the public: is: interaster in your legs, but because I've got to) get. you through the door, Miss, Bovan was frantic. She, ran| Mem and) poured out her woe, | ‘TD think that director he most nie yerson, in: th to s work, mus the Turkish, Village she. drank: the thick, sweet giue called coffee and hatted with Lucille She learned to.| v | camera and) mocki | some other: marriage, | actor who m Mem snapped. ‘Gut I think: you. ar H Mom, despised) prudery. and) feit that: such maniac modesy could oniy, he. due to. the ffenny, of: a mind: eter- | nelly thiniting: evil. Women like Miss: Bevan seemed te; her to. squander) Mportant energies: on a battle with lint, like fanatto housewives: who, Ge- ing their homes: clean: that: they, have no time to accompilsh anything: else. | Mom: had devoted) her body and hen to, her public. in, office: hours. | But there: still) remained much idle! time for mischief and in. these hours, and in tho days and weeks between pictures she found) love: nagging hen insufferabiy. She wae in the hu: mor of the “Florodorm’' maidens whose motto rang through her mind, “I really must love some one and it might as weil be you,” The “you! was almost any attrac- tive man: she chanced) to, be with ai the time. And men were: frequent: ing: her increasingly, as they have al- wayn flocke’t about actresses, since actresses are the peaches at the top of the basket. The stage and the mo- tion, pictures: offer opportunity, to beauty as the army. to bravery, the) rch) to. piety, the Inw to, probity, and fimence: to. ingenuity: Mom's face wae her fortune and her mind was its steward, Mer per- fection of mien drew peopie to her as & lamp draws a wayfarer or a pilgrim or a moth, Seekers after a night's, lodging, a month's, flirtation, or a Iife's companionship, saw her from afar and ran, to-herwards. She was in a marriage mood and her: heart and) her friends. gave. her conflicting: counsel: Don't) merry actor! Don't marry an author! Don't marry. a business: man! Don't: marry anybody! But the “Floredora’ tune kept tin- Kling in her heart, She really must wed) some one, Nod) Ling was one of Mom's most abject worshipers. He had taught her the mechanics of comecy, and helped her tragedy thereby. Without being, able to laugh at himeeif, ho taupht her to laugh at herself and at him He grew morbif) for her, He cast away his fears of love and his hor rer of marriege and his sense of hu: mor at the same: time: He clung to. her hand) and played| with her fingers, !oiled against her with his head on her breast and im- Dior her to be his mistress, his | wife, his. rsscuer from. despondency. But his: caresses, were, like the fum: Ding of fd at a maternal bosom nl his, wildest: prayers were mere Hildish: naughiiness to. her; ‘The oniy love that: she coulé feel) for him: was & sente. off amusel motherhood, and he did not want: that. I » flew into tempests. of anger at em unresponsiveness and) became tragic: clown, at whom, she: could help: smiling He made comic exits from, her pres: enos, swearing he would never see her again, and comic returns: But Mem would oniv flirt with him, and: with anyone else who amused her, She oame in at 4 one morning: af ter & party given to celebrate Char- Ne Chapiin's return from. his. royal | progress through Eurome, a triumph that seemed to lift the whole motion icture. world in the nerson of its re- presentativs The film: peapie felt that: they were at: last a nation tind: Ing reeoynition, as when. the em s- ary of a republic: fs accepted: as. an ambassador The wns innocent enough, devoted to dances, charades, im: premptn speeciies, {mitations, son: meralic burlesques, and) an alm puerile ity, but it 'rsted: almost to the hour when, good) children getting out of bed: While Mem, was, naseing through this, phase of moral: and) romantic skepticism, and experiment, enacting preten: of devout love hefore the at love dutside ts range, and her mother: was not quite sure that she had) not quite me to the devil; her first otures were going about the world like min | sionaries winning proselytes to. her shrines The whim: to. be married: recurred to her incessantly and grew to a fixed a purnose. It appeaied’ to. her varidus, moo | im various ways, When she ¥ y un lpr the spell) of her home. training rriage Was @ sacramental du When. she heard’ it disoussed with eyniciem or read: of the shipwreok of it stirred: he sporting: Diced; she wanted: to bet she could) make a sucesss, of it When che. was in an amorous fever it reo- ommentied) itself’ as an assurance. of 2bundant: warmth and) sefety, Whon she was lonely, it was companion: ship, When she was, shocked by the recklessness of others or by her own remorse, it was, respectability. But it Was: always something unitnown | that she wanted to know. No ex: perienos of Iife could: be complete without: its ‘Tom Holby oame hack from. the desert browner than ever, less, subtic more undeniable, than ever, He fought: hard. for her in. the: spirit: of the here he was playing: at the time & man who acted on the theory that the caveman {is woman's {deal and that she: prefers above: all) things) to be oarsesed: with a alub, But these highly advertised: tactios were not to Mom's liking, at least at the moment, When he grew too fierce she struck him in the mouth with « fist thet had stout muscles for a driving ber, and she brought: bioed) to, his nose with & slash of her elbows Sho. railed at his: awkward confn: sion, but thereafter she was out when | he called CHAPTER: LYT “Eventually she met Holby at the doldeon-wedding anniversary of an. oid had been on the stage sinee bayhood) had marriec a young and pretty actress at 21, and waa still married to. her after haifa century of Pilgrimage slong the dramatic hw here were, other old c souplas at the feart, and they mav to so much, of their days: to. keep: | pom, Casper Sunday Borning Crivune BY RUPERT HUGHES PAGE | FIVE. of Alollywood Life edlock. looks: ike, a. good investment. tounding: guess at the. truth. 'T don’t suppose. any we v “Trav ay i@ ovcasion: was, oxceedingly: henign| “Kong va mel" he. grumbiod, ent ith Her; caroer: wien: sh: got|or-Tecttireras or; soln, on nemamaen naw: Walve, got: aa; good a. chartos snd\ Mem, was)so,gentled that sie ac-| And) that: waa. ti Neither of} “How co, you, mean?" a eedine) ancl ein hee ‘ sm E ' > : rom) marrying, and heif th ves pented: Tam, Haiby's: apologies: and his| them. ever alluded again, to. the. suis rrig pedi idly: “But f we mids f ? company) home. ect: Deenly. rankled } oo Merle 25 . os a feasts aie . Deeply t rankied in. bot! iow D ya mee t 2 - n io. you. mean ner or the: winter or on long visits,’'| 2!vor oathsome.”* ‘How: wonderfnl;’" she. sald) on) the, ‘Heir Hearty, they were wise oneugh| “Most women haye n brought! “nut vould peer faite Rabireniae Gres ete tan toalendte tciptinoecria th oti : MOUSE SoD | gait awa: be. nursing other: sinks thous Mattes seansy Spay Sitios stata" Babe Ital mits‘ ofe webate Ealing orcee mr Muthen, {Ud thee ee. Gy) Mfore: the: camene-—and: other mon nt than: the, olf ‘LE could love: you, for hundred nagined: he doggedly: persisted: | do, and) scolded them, when they aid, Uw %® useing me rrapianseitie > groaned: “Let's get’ marricd & get married.” something else. They learned ) Aa long as it didn't mean any ie and quit wasting so, much. time.” apite, af-—"* to, make dresses: and sew and hing” Sumetiing impeiled hor to, think spite, of everything!” he storm: andi that was. their business. When) “But it might come. to—" Tay; tut f aioud: ‘Tomorrow is, the. nearest, day they married they, just’ moved) their) “Woll, for the matter of thet about: & wom: “You're determined to. play the s."" shop, over to. their husband's. home, | ltomes--andi outside. of them. T was | eatail, Ho simple, Seotimus, after. ailj. in. spite oved: him) for that impetuous and axpected: him: to pravide the naw lot of hussinss ape ple: heise ures by ote Canes loft the: censors.” determination of his. He swept her] stook anc tel! them: what to do and reading that most aie arsa th sii foali lees; than: She. regretted: the mad: indiscretion! PA aside ae she had seen him. con-| scold ‘am if they didn't do. ity or street were ruined nh doretic we ’ 1 pretents an instant too late. To'by, was star) iver other abstacies evanelies, | spsnit. ‘om," hembermaids and cooks. are | ‘2 ng to @ church—or ever didi T tled| and’ startied: her by: his quick: de | thus, wild animais, terrors. that This: struck Mem as a new way of pretty Gangerous. thin around) 9. | WA Fesding: that: only a. third: off the beesifey daunted most: men. putting: an: oid) storys, but ale. saw) house for husbands, and husbands rec ohge ae hepa ge <p ‘You don't: mean: that you. are about:) She offered a weakening resistance: one. gr Ufference hem. And doctors, and preachers | UP Row: onnite-rum thie conn tes to—that: you are. going to—to—" “What chance. of happiness could) “But that wife lived! at: home, and) dangerous, to. wives. It's not a nice | UY ‘8 ahurch, expecially while the “No,” she. said: “but—" we have? husband knew where, to. find her.) thing to say. but it's true. Then there | CUUFehes, don't agree on any one Like a chil) or a dog, the simnie @ much as anybody.” And) he wouldn't rer dO. business he, stencsraphers: in: the offices | ns We'd have to have a. Hoense Holby: occasionally had an instinctive) She had Pp an old-fashioned with any other customer, In our he saiesiadies in. the @,,andi| Crem !f¢ @ clergyman: should! marry un¢erstanding of somoethir un;/ struggle, but her reasons were. mod: f we lt m together, ‘he joait. modeis: and cashiers and—| spoken;. He. astounded: Mem: by: say-| ern: and would ba, away fram: home sm Dusy little world and it's| Mom was shocked by the possibil+ Inge ‘wouldn't give up my career for) haif the time. siwayn been so. The oid patriarahs| ‘ty of a civil marriage. Tt would: not “So. that's why you were hiding! ail happiness. in. the. world." ‘So. is the average. husband, with! had’ (heir concubines and thelr slaves | De at ail, unless a parson in; Balm: Springs, with: that. phony| Ho. had) evide meen thinking) his store and. his lodge anw his club.”| and their extra wives. No gnaranty | S@notified (t Holby broke in upon eeditiinee: tits" natter over a long while, for he en there's tho travel, when| over went: with merritge thet was! her musings: “Tom! site oried: aghast was positively, gids I'd) be.” sped) for anything, and there ‘ ( nued xt Sunday Special Money Saving Prices Are Now Applying on the Great Western Electric Washing Machines is Making Wonderful appeal to the Housewives an Actual SAVING OF FROM $12.00 TO $15.00 And Gives You Win a Washer Free This Opportunity Chance: to been oma washing machine. 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