The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1920, Page 13

- GRLHOOD FRENDS RECALL EARLY DAYS © TFOLWE THOMAS daaineifpeionn {Continued From Third Page.) ' ' ' oy m4 * 1 Olive finally got away from ft, married Harry M. raifroad conductor. Oir years old. She was in school at leroi for the next two years, and of a change in Mr. Van run the family moved to Olive Van Ae years of her the Blaine Public School. But few people living in the town her intimately, #U8T LIKE OTHER GIRLS, OLD | ACQUAINTANCE SAYS. as just like other girls,” sald me Christiansen of No, 317 Ch Street, who said she knew Olive intimately, “except for the fact a she preferred to go with girls ‘old than she was, and that she as they did. For instance, she was fourteen sho dressed her! hair like a girl of twenty and ‘Was often taken to be several years older than she really was, And she ‘was fourteen when, dressed like that, she got a job at the gingham counter pr Horne’s where she made $3 Smack: Tt was while she was at lorne’s that she met Krugh Thomas, 1 introduced them and they, were Married when she was sixteen.” her marriage to Thomas the fouple went to live with the latter's Parents, Mr. and Mrs, Joe Thomas, at x 404 Woodward Avenue, West “L felt so sorry for her then,” sald Qhelelder Mrs, Thomas, “She didn’t javp hardly any clothes when Krugh ropght her home, April 1, 1911, and evety time I'd make her a gingham dross she'd go perfectty wila with de~ light, They were happy, though I thought they were both going out too ugh for their own good. Everybody thought she was beautiful and she fe friends everywhere she went. T awfully fond of her and took care of her as if she were my own chil until she and Krugh returned a vacation, I thought she was chahged after that. She was no longer satisfied with simple dresses, Bu as we could fi \ no je remarks afte that her dresses were not as nice as mebody else's she was with. ing as a time- give her any better clothes than she Was wearing. She used to worry me @n awful lot talking about fine clothes and the friends she had down- town, s0 finally 1 made Krugh take @ house of their own, It was just about this time that she first talked of goin gon the sta home one day and met,an actress downt sald, she could get me @ job on the in New York,’ and I wa: tified I screamed. Then she wh went to their own house, at No, ,427 Russellwood Avenue, West es and Olive ‘Thomas lived to- ‘ CK PSAPAGBREM Wieser ater asic f SU NAR cecmamcraiE ae. a 4 Te se * 3 x “ : ile operating {t her mother met wether until Sept. 5, 1913. Shortly after this, the elder Mrs, Thomas said, she and gnother girl took a trip to New York for a week. Olive then went to the home of her mother, liv~ ing at that time in Alexander Avenue, MecKees Rocks, and a few weeks later | No. was employed in a fashion show at Kaufman's, a Pittsburgh department store, with a score of models, She waa there as long as the show lasted, which wasa week. She lived with her mother until the winter of 1918, when she went again to New York, earning her living by posing for photograph- ers and artists unt!] the next autumn, when Florenz Ziegfeld picked her from a crowd of girls for “The Foll- jes of 1914,” in which her beauty brought her such great popularity that in six months, it ts sald, sho became the highest paid show girl on Broaaway, She did not return to McKees Rocks until Feb. 25, 1915, when she Was granted an uncontested suit for divorce from her husband( whom she charged with cruelty and neglect, She visited there again In July, 1919, to attend the funeral of her brother James’ wife. Jack Pickford accom panied her on this trip—they had been married in the fall of 1917—and the two went calling on many old ac- quaintances of Olive. . “We found ner the same’ as ever, sald one of these acquaintances. “She said she was happy; that Jack was good to her, and that she was having the time of her life.” Mrs, Van Kirk and her husband had been living in the West, at Angeles and other cities during the preceding yehr. They returned to McKees Rocks two months ago, but went to live at No, 450 Batley Ave-~ nue, Mount Washington, another sub- urb, where they remained until about three weeks ago, leaving no ad- dress, but saying they were going either to Philadelphia or to Youngs- town to make their home, “Olive was good to her mother,” said a former neighbor of theirs, who lived near Alexander Avenue, “She was always sending her presents, and for a good while—all the time, I guess —sent her $100 a ,week spending money.” These are the memories McKees Rocks has of Olive,Thomas, whom it remembers as one of its poorest girls, whose beauty took her from poverty to luxury, and whose end it belleves was caused by a desire for good times that were denied her in any measure when she was a child. EMPLOYER INSURED OLIVE THOMAS'’S LIFE Film Company Carried $400,000 | Risk on Popular Cinema Favorite. The life of Olive Thomas, the motion picture star who died in Paris from mercurial poisoning, was insured by the fim company for whom she acted for $400,000, {t was revenied to-day. Under the long-term contract with the popular actress, the corporation expended large sums of money in picture productio: vance for elaborate York Life Insurance Company, The policies were said to cover ever; possible contingency, including accident, suicide or death from natural causes, An official of the New York Life Is satd to have cabled for full particulars re- specting Miss Thomas's death. SSPE 2S) SER ‘What doYouNeed to Know About Tubes | THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTE OLIVE THOMAS'S ‘ FRIEND POISONED 0: ik Maaton, twenty-five, of t 40th Street, motion pie- ress and friend of Olive movie star, who died of mer- olsoning in Paris recently, was taken to Bellevue Hospital last night, her throat seared by some acid ‘#he told the police she had taken by Her husband informed the had brooded over the deaths baby and Miax Thomas, Mra, Suet 177th Street this morn home at12.48 and] pital sunimerihg fe writhing on the floor. | skull trolman Curtin, who ob- = d milk And gave them | Woolen Wilts Heaume With Half Their while awaiting an am- . Dr. Front of Bellevue sald leved ahe had awallowed a large from & fractute mille of the American Waglen Com: whieh hut down From Fifth Floor Window, p Smith, thirty-six years old, of No, 222 Btst 177th Street, fell from a firth floor window to the yard at ‘BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM, GLUNS &G FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN ‘ore the plants can THE experienced motorist, there is more in knowing who makes his automobile tubes than how many layers they are, made of or how the valve patch is applied. U. S. Red Tubes are made by the United States Rubber Com- pany—the oldest and | organization in the world, And for that reason the most experienced—and with the greatest stake in quality. An Extraordinary Sale Tuesday Women’s Silk Tricolette Dresses Handsomely Embroidered in Self Tone est rubber Beautiful quality Tri- colette, developed in two ultra-smart, slen- der and graceful tunic models, in the newest Autumn vogue, sim- ply yet richly embroid- ered. (See illustration) Short or long sleeve. 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