Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1923, Page 15

Dflllglltfl' s of Desire | ONE A CHILD OF THE STREETS THE OTHER AN ARISTOCRAT OF ARISTOCRATS —uyet, Sisters under the skin” The two most amazing heromes in modem fiction, created by two master analysts of women “The Golden Ladder” THE LATEST AND GREATEST NOVEL BY Rupert Hughes What a girl is Betty Bowen as Rupert Hughes reveals her— flamingly. Born to the scarlet she achieved the purple. Bred in the gutter with the dregs of humanity she lived to become the inti- mate of royalty—an American girl whose career has never been paralleled in the social annals of this country. “Marriage?’’said she; “Whats marriage?” Her point of view toward life is crystallized in that perplexed inquiry. In all the company of women Rupert Hughes has made known to the readers of his novels he has never before portrayed such a girl as Betty. Dashing, alluring to every man whose path crossed hers, and of an unquenchable vivacity— The color of her life was scarlet Yet she never pretended. Gold and jewels were flung at her feet —famous men bowed before her; yet strange as it may seem her story is real —=TRUE~—QOF RECORD. Her creed was “Sufficient unto the day is the love thereof,” and by that creed she lived. Men's souls were her play toys She ]uggled them, up and down, and in and out. Now and again she dropped them and they shattered at her little {cct. And then finally came the day— But you must read this astonishing creature’s story as Mr. Hughes tells it in his new novel, which is destined to be the most talked- of work of fiction of this fall and winter— “Blue Blood” THE FIRST SERIAL NOVEL IN THREE YEARS BY ‘Owen Johnson Regally proud —an aristocrat of the aristocrats —viewing the exalted life about her from her high social throne, Rita Kilblaine, Owen Johnson’s heroine, was envied by every other woman in New York’s ultra-exclusive society. What she did the others did —Ilater. Then one day, out of a clear sky Appeared the man she hated She hated him because of what had occurred between them months before at their first meeting. Yet hating him she realized that on her tottering throne he alone might help her. So— She offered herself for money “There is the check,” said Haggerty; “it's yours to do with as you wish.” And Rita Kilblaine took it. : . “It’s a bargain,” went on the man she hated — hated now even as never before. “And you will come when I call.” Rita Kilblaine did not answer in words. She inclined her aristo- cratic head. That was all. But Haggetty knew she would keep her word. She waited for his summons Anyhow it might come and then one day he appeared before her, side by suie w1th the man she loved. Rita leblame s heart almost ceased to bea No other Amencan novelist could create and carry through so tremendous a situation with the skill that Owen Johnson, the famous author of “The Salamander” and “Foolish Wives,” does in this great story. Both these absorbmg novels begin in the September issue of THE RED BOOK Jor SEPTEMBER - On sale everywhm Twenty jive cents s=-Important Notice to Newsdealers: sz “‘““:s.":‘.:i“*"“"“ Smdammhalhdw&.hath.tannmmmdm; for the next—the October—issue should be !lnmdhuly [ 4] % oy bamd?hkd&okMa(abnwflmddnedmexmhmwmfiflmdm ly until INE