Show I 1 i iA A v r How Both the Charming Binney V Sisters Have Completed the 1 J t r Round Trip Thus Proving That the Lure of Love w and a A and Life in in the Wealthy i t s Smart Set Can Be Stronger f Than That of Artistic Jy J y 41 t k v n 4 Ambition ix p pf f Y z u-z u Miss Below Constance C Constance v A t a aa a Binney in one of e BIDney who her successful mo has forsaken tion picture roles films and foot a a lights and is to be- be bet t t come a figure t r soci ety f fagain again as the wife of Y 1 a Charles E Golfing the wealthy I Boston banker x t r N the settled never-settled debate of the IN I importance of heredity versus en environment en- en environment those in favor of the for for- former former mer will now be able to use the charming Binney sisters as an argument It will be as potent as the old story of the young Indian who was sent to college when the betterment of the red redman redman redman man was of paramount interest lIe He was received everywhere because he was so likeable He made the football team attended the proms wore formal even evening in attire H u night regularly every II affected spats and a cane chi I civi and altogether was wu as w a product as u the college boasted In due course of time he i 1 was graduated A year later some of his former class class- classmates mates making a trip West Nest decided to look him up They pictured him as a leader of his race compelling the others to dress for dinner Indeed there were no heights to which their fancy did not soar They sought BOught their man Presently they ran across a splendid specimen of Indian in old and soiled clothing His lIis T- T hair 1 gar nair was un k He had gar nair was un unkempt emp e a neglected the niceties of civi civilization in every way He stopped them with welcoming words and they stared aghast at their college brother In one short year he had forgotten n the the evening clothes the top hat hat the cane and was I the Indian of the tribe And so it is with Constance and sod Faire Binney Heredity has proved stronger than environment and fashionable ble so- so society society so society has gathered both to itself once more For Constance is to wed Charles E Cotting Boston banker graduate of Harvard World War captain member of Boston's smartest clubs and owner of ofa ofa ofa a show place at Berlin Berin Massachusetts where he conducts a model fruit and stock farm Faire already is Mrs David Carleton Sloane of Philadelphia where she u is pouring tea at at homes receiving receiving ing log at dances dav ald and giving luncheons for debutantes And that for two young girls who de- de declared de declared they were not nat interested in so society so- so society ci tr that they must have ha career that the stage needed recruits from the ranks of the exclusive circles I IThe The honestly meant it it toO at the be time Constance Canstance knew princesses by the dozen ann and was frankly bored by bythe bythe bythe the titled girls Faire knew none ou out outside t side the innermost circles circles the doors t to o which had been unlocked for them by bythe b byth y the keys of birth and ancient lineage Yet they declined to enter that world and set out to conquer another one The family of these fortunate young girls started so far back that it is jest jest- jest Ing jestingly said its members must have called upon Adam and Eve or at least have sent them bon voyage cards At any rate it i iwas t was an established family in rs by the time the first fint assembly ball baIl was w as given in 1718 18 and the forefathers and an anN d N fore foremothers mothers of Constance and Faire Fair o were asked to the famous ball that began begs n at candlelight inan in old an warehouse on o othe n the riv river r that ripples by the Quaker Cit City All of which establishes beyond a L J o I 1 I r v a t t r k 1 The former Faire Binney in a film 6 m scene with Georges Carpentier the famous s French pugilist 0 peg doubt the prestige of the family and shows why Constance and as Fritzle Fritzie the family call her Frederica being her real name and Faire her screen name were only were eligible as they grew to the dancing classes organized for the chil- chil chil children dren of society the theater parties ar- ar arranged arranged ar arranged ranged for the school set tho the holiday dances for the sub-debs sub By the time they were grown they could have havo gone to all the inner inner-clr inner inner-cirelo inner parties in Philadelphia Boston and New NewYork NewYork York and eve even to Washington functions for Basil Miles then in charge of Rus Rus- Rus-rian Rus 6 sian an affairs in Washington is Washing On Uncle Basil their mothers mother's brother and would do anything for his nieces In fact by the time they were Town grown there had been so 80 many Intermarriages inter with prominent persons of other cities that the girls had the entree to all the important social socia affairs in all the im im- im important important eastern cities The girls mother mather now naw Mrs IL H It Wil- Wil Willard Willard Willard lard Gray Cray of New York wa was was Gertrude Miles of Philadelphia When she was a tiny girl in her first dancing class in the staid old I i city beloved by William Penn she sho wanted to be a dancer But it was about like every small boys boy's wanting to tobe tobe be a policeman and she soon forgot it in inthe the conventional routine of her world About the time of her debut she met Binney a rising young New York and after acter collecting a trous trous- trousseau trousseau seau Beau from all corners of the world she married him When their first born Constance was about four years ears old she was enrolled enrolled in ina ina ina a Washington Square dancing class in instructed strutted by the sister ister of Isadora Isadore Duncan whO had bad taught Isadora the art Four years later Constan Constance e was ent entered red in another exclusive class the teacher of which was said t be the best dancer oft off the stage in New York Constance was fired tired with the ambition to surpass that peerless youn young teacher She practiced ardently She spent ent long on hours pirouetting and kicking She SheI I saw every celebrated dancer who ap- ap app appeared ap appeared p ared on the New York stage All this time the various members of of the family Camily were looking forward Ito to the little little ittle girls girl's debut She was the oldest of her generation the daugh daugh- daughters daughters of her mothers mother's contemporary relatives being younger and natu- natu naturally natu naturally rally there was much interest evi- evi evidenced evi evidenced in plans for Cor Connies Connie's sub deb sub and debutante parties The interest the plans failed ailed to I change Constance's intention to be a professional dancer In this she was I abetted by only one member of the en en- en I tire clan her mother who remembered remembered I her little girl dreams By the time tima Constance was four fourteen i iteen 1 teen and indifferent to the nth degree to the school set sets set's dances and parties the family rose as s one person even eYen evento evento i ito to the remote western branches and demanded that Horace Binney Dinney whO by that time had risen to great j heights do something about it I Horace said there never had been professional proCessional dancers in the family family- family only he said FAMILY like liko that as I did the rest of the clan And said aid he we wont won't begin now Connie will go to school in Europe where she will forget this nonsense A few weeks later ater Constance found herself hersel in a school near Paris where her students students fellow were princesses and mar mar- marquises marquises and countesses It was the sort of place a mer mers American could not enter ordinarily but the CornU Cam Cam a former Miss lIss Binney Dinney used her influence as did Marquis de Horace Binney's closest friend friend whom Connie called Uncle Pierre He lIo had married a Miss Storer of C Chicago whoso brother married a sister of Nicholas Nichoas Longworth husband of Alice Roosevelt Even Evon in Europe it will be teen seen little Connie had prestige But the princesses and d the other titled 7 p A jt S H e s girls bored Connie to tears and many and frantic appals were made to the obdurate Horac Binney The only thing that interested her was the dancing class that met twice weekly In a week she was solo dancer toy for the class the next she was acting as assistant instructor and showing the princesses how to turn handsprings and stand on their toes Even that did not help much and just justas justas as she had made up her mind something desperate would have to bedone be done and was seriously considering running away and trying to swim out to a home going home steamer she was found to have appendicitis appendicitis Instead of being frightened Connie was jubilant She stood on her head bead and D Jr M robles r lee IK I a I The former Frederica Binney known as Faire Binney on stage and screen creen who delighted her fashionable family by giving up her pro pro- professional professional career career marrying David Carleton Sloane and returning to society life did a few Sops flops ops in celebration and made ready for far the operation which wad wa per per- performed performed per performed formed in London Then she was sent to pass the summer with Binney rea rely rely- rela- rela fives in Scotland Scotland That was the the summer summers s the war began So Connie g v came home only to find tr yv fc h herself enrolled IId in a lah fash- fash fashionable rp of finishing school in int t Westover Connecticut The Boston relatives promised to look after alter the young girl during vaca- vaca vacations vaca vacations They carried her heroff heroff oft off to their home at Easter and put her heron heron heron on the program of a charity entertainment entertain entertain- entertainment entertainment ment in which they were int interested rested That was Constance's opportunity al- al although al although though she was unaware of it for no less lessa lessa a personage than Winthrop Ames tho theatrical producer was waa in the audience At the tho conclusion of the show Ames offered the young girl a two years con con- contract con contract tract and a vcr Yer very lucrative salary to ap appear pear on the professional stage For two years she appeared in musical comedies steadily refusing all offers from motion mation picture corporations that were made her saying she had grown used to an audience and could not bo be happy without it One day a big producer asked her to reconsider her refusal and she replied You would not want me if you saw my sister Frederica She is really ador ador- ador- ador adorable adorable able abe Bring her in said Mid the motion pic- pic picture picture pic picture ture man Id like to have a look at ather ather ather her Fritzie was taken to see the motiOn picture magnate You are arc right in one thing he told Constance and wrong in an another ather She is adorable but I still want you in the tho picture Ill I'll have the scenario scenario rewritten and star you both Such an eight weeks as those girls put in Constance especially They bad had to tobe tobe tobe be on location as early as some some- sometimes sometimes sometimes times miles away from their home They could not stop working until and Constance had to be at the theater at But the eight weeks passed and Frederica became leading lady for John Barrymore and Constance settled back into the comparative quiet of eight the the- theatrical the theatrical appearances a week During one of her herr engagements Con Con- Constance Constance stance went to Philadelphia with her company One of the relatives who had hoped to entertain Connie as a debutante pounced upon her and arranged for tor her Quaker City introduction This relative was Mrs George A Dunning Aunt 1 little to Constance and mother of a popular sub-deb sub Such a wonderful tea as they staged at their home on South Twenty first Twenty Street near Walnut in the heart of the tho fashionable section I It seemed as if the f entire Assembly was present as well as th the members of the for cast cast for loyal little ittle Connie refused to attend the tea unless Aunt Mittie asked the entire company During the company's campany's stay in town tawn Aunt Aunt Mittie saw to it that Connie at- at attended attended tended at tended an Assembly ball and the fancy dress meeting of Mrs Wurts dancing class and many were the luncheons and theater theater after suppers given in the dancers dancer's honor That was just seven years ago During DurIn Dur- Dur During In ing that period Constance has bas divided her time timo between the stage and screen and passed from screen to musi- musi musi comedies cal It was was while she was ro- ro re recently playing in Philadelphia that Mrs Dwight Robinson socially prominent matron of New York wrote her younger brother in Philadelphia asking him to call on the daughter of her time long long friend Young David Carleton Sloane a grad graduate of Annapolis and successful in the oil business called took Miss Binney to dinner and saw saw the show shaw By the end of the last act his mind was made up lie He meant to marry sweet little Faire Hp Hf waited an entire week before propos propos- proposing proposing ing seeing teeing her constantly however and when he asked the great Teat question Fritzie said yes and they were married a week later A fortnight after their wedding trip the little brido bride was in the midst of the debutante social circle circe receiving at all the teas giving luncheons for the buds and chaperoning the theater parties which the mothers giving them did not care to attend The stage was forgotten and Fritzie Fritsie was in the thick of society And now Connie is to retire to private life Furthermore she is to go back to back to staid old Boston the city that gave her her first prore professional ional opportunity And Andall Andall Andall all the Binney connections the families tha that were BO so disgruntled because they could cO not give Connio Connie her out coming coming parties are arc ago agog agoff with interest an anc and I de delight light To them it seems like liko im en an occasion fOr the fatted calf and the merrymaking At any rate Connie Is slipping back into her old inherited groove and ald shortly will be giving luncheons for the young girls of fashionable Back Ba Bay society receiving at the teas and chaperoning the giving theater parties that the mothers ing them find it inconvenient to attend Heredity has won In the case of the Binney sisters it has once more been proved d that the lure of of social socIa position and the gay life lifo of the wealthy smart Of set can be stronger than that of artistic when ambition when it has added to it the power of love Will they always be satisfied with the choice they have made or will they some day someday wish they had kept on with the careers that were opening up so 50 prom prom- promisingly for them The what has bas happened with not a few young women f I e |