Show P R r I l I Ia a P- P m P yi n-yi 5 1 x r t. t x I 4 r Xi i iI I OTTO KRUGER t LA LATEST TEST THEATRICAL DISCOVERY I I I r d 4 J 1 t I j 4 eft K s i e 4 i rd j i 3 y H s i f e I x 1 t 1 I n r rt M t r- r j r r rI ii I t i r lr i s Sli f r j r 4 hr h M r s i iy 1 y r 5 e w s 4 Jk fr 4 f r Photo toto Moffet Studio IT gIS brief career offers offer cne ene of th the tho most acute contrasts in theatrical history Ii HIS HS He opens the season of 1916 as lead in two important plays Two years ago he was starving u An Ohio boy with stage tage aspirations and a a little barnstorming experience he came to New York in 1914 For months he besieged the managers managers' offices in vain Actually penniless he wa was reduced to stifling his appetite with a diet of beer and pumpkin pic pie The combination made him too ill to eat Luck Lucie t turned Cohan Har Harris is started him His work and personality in Young America caught the eye of Belasco That astute judge borrowed him for the best part in In the tryout of his latest venture Seven Chances Ho made good 8 d i Now fortune overwhelms him Not Noi only will you find him in in the best role role of Seven Chances when it opens open at the tho Cohan Cohn Theatre Aug 10 but four weeks later he has to create the tho leading part in Buried Treasure in an another nother Broadway theatre Otto Kruger is jUf just t twenty He studied three years at the University of Michigan He is unmarried slender and handsome in a degree I I adequate to the most fervid descriptions of his man many fair admirers admirer 1 n r t fY o Ili R rf f How Handy Made Good George W. W Handy is a son of a Do German German German Ger Ger- man army officer and a a. naturalized citizen of the United States Trained in a German technical school s seasoned sea zoned as a soldier in German Southwest Southwest South South- west Africa twenty odd add years ago ho left his country for good After that he was was in turn cowboy in Texas miner in South Africa trader ana antt traveller in Mexico and California Finally in fn Alaska he settled down there as M a mining engineer Such was the man who was with misgivings as to his fitness accepted as a member of the Mount Blackburn expedition As As' it went on he proved his worth It was wa-s Handy who encouraged the tho wind-beaten wind and snow blinded men when they faltered on their upward road It was Handy who when u they ey were forced to sleep in snow huts with the thermometer at 16 below was al always always always al- al ways cheerful and seemingly It was Handy who o as food grew scarcer and storms fiercer was merely inspired to greater daring and deter doter One by one the other six men lost their courage or their their strength strength and had bad to be left behind till at last ast Dora Keen and Handy and the log dos were left alone They TIley pl plodded on in constant constant constant con con- stant imminent danger from avalanches avalanches ava- ava lanches and crevasses crevasses There came the time when the man saved the woman from destruction inthe in inthe inthe the They Thoy waited then to breathe a moment moment- an and to steady shaken nerves then once more resumed resumed re re- resumed re- re the climb At last they stood together on the summit where no two human beings had ever stood od together before Tho The Storys Story's Surprising Sequel They came down again Handy went back to his mining work Miss Keen return returned d to Philadelphia and wrote wrote the story of her climb It is a a. long bare baro unadorned account a simple statement of facts If in her heart the woman oman was making the man the hero of it no na one had discernment enough to read as much between the the the I lines linos J Is M There was no gossip of romance in Philadelphia 1 Four years went by Society had hadr forgotten the Mount Blackburn I ex-I ex t And then this June Miss Keen set out once more for Alaska taking her sister ister Florence along with her A few weeks later society was sur sur- Miss Florence Keen had gone gone along to be a bridesmaid In McCarthy Alaska within sight sight- of the pinnacle of Blackburn where where- their middle aged romance began so F. F strenuously Dora Keen and George Georgo W. W Handy were married |