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Show THE -i- SO, 1025v iJi-- tha Girl Who Jilted She Lived - B qcause She - Astonishing the-M- HERALD, AUGUST Sl-XDA- s tory an ..Believed Broadway ; Promises;; How: She 7 $ Below Fbototraph of Gloria Chrbty Taken m She- Looted Wh r fcht First ' r r - El til ... I History at Then; Y r l and-rWh- I "I " went Into a dtUK.ttor.e and bought some poison. 1 hen 1 went home , : ' and drank It." s " vl 1 . grind and I was getting toowheri. I wasn't makin(enough money to keep debt and I pie, I was always a fcttlQ-iwas always tired.- - I realized that I had made a mistake v In entering my profession without sufficient Jtrair.ingt I had no singing voice and my, dancing was just fair. At the end of three years just recently I found wyself jujt where I was whon l rtartcd. "Just as rnucS aldne, It seemed just as poor,- and terribly tired. I had lost the man who "wanted to marry me. What could I'do! I had no homo up; My family had split " " to go back to. We were rehearsing a new revue. Oh, tut4t was hot. One night I was Standing in the wings, brooding. Dur- ing . the past year I had found myself growing more bitter and discontented. Some girls nearby were laughing and talking. The stage manager turned to roe."Shut Op, you l he shouted "I wasn't talking," I said. "Don't tell ..me !"; ,. ;. In 8 momcntwe were arguing. I had a sudden feeling of hatred toward the man; be was the one who had - If fi M ' Miss Christy in Street tVo Other Dress. " Interesting Photograph! of T 7 Gloria Christy. f prttty girl comet to New eajre fo malf a aamtf or herself on tha street ot shining lights She lands job in tha J, k list J r f rHE , chorus, works hard, studies and-4hnight comes when tha prima donna is taken ill. Tha chorus girl steps into ; her place ind makes good. t Erery reader knows that.ftorfla iction, On rare occasions it is fact.. Tha following is another , tale, one that is seldom told, the true story of one who made the , pilgrimage and what happened.' o ... By GLORIA CHRISTY. yean ago I came to New a. job on the stage. I had Ic family in Kansas City and I didn't s soul on Broadway. I aoon found I wa of hundreds of girls with the same ambition, of us pounding the pavements. It ." was August and very hot. I' shall always remember that time. I was so young nd fresh and full of hope. I was, in fact, eighteen. was not fool enough to think my course- - would be asy. But I was heaitny ana. quite pretty. ... 1 had a plan, too. 1 meant to capture the attention of one of the moat famous h producers of musical i comedies in New York. I had been Jn New York about two weeks and every day I had gone to his office and waited.1 In the anteroom every day he had walked by without seciiie me. But ona Am fe topped.- looked and aald, ''Com THREE vy Silhouetted Skyline jIP '.: n" Ik .sr- - A week waa out i talked fast whfl he sat afcH. desk, going through papers, not look-b- ir at me.. Suddenl? he elanm rm d eh&nci Take this to Mr. Blank at the Alcazar Theatre." He scribbled sbmethine on piece of ,paper and I walked: out. ) the "ponies." The stage manager drilled ua, hour by hour. When I went homo each night I was dead tirsd, but happy, Xha : . O Gloria Christy, as She Looks' Today After a Three YearsT Battle wita Broadway, . 2L. lines to speak. :: . "That "Oh, yes," he Raid. Will come later. Something will hanpea, your chance will come. Y i lation as soon as the how opene4 But by now everyone on Broadway m used t a such scenes and almost all the revues bave them. ' I waa known as the model girl, because I led the show girls. And I found that af ter the opening night neither I nor the other girts minded the exposure yerf much. ;It was all very im personal, the audience, was simply a hazy blur across thef footlights, and a heavy curtain was run around back stage to hide us from the view of the stage hands. The management gave .strict orders that no one was to bother us. " A life-si- z photograph of me ""was ; lung tig' fn the lobbx. . . 1Kow,MrI Jthought, "they'll give me a cbapfij at a speaking part soon. .They're playing me' up 83 the leading show girl and something is bound V1 ,. to fiome of It. i ' I approfichei fbe stag itnanagot again ana m-it tu won rrtmfl inotl.' . anvel mjt flint rknA Then I; nwt .41 .young man; lie was good- looking ami I Eked aim. He wis not rich, but he made enough to support me,'. Be asked me tot , you stick" ' I felt very much encouraged. . Iho, day ef the die rehearsal .arrived. It was a new revue, tje first of a series that has since" made history. "The producer"was cut'vf front sitting beside the . stage manager; I led the show girls and during one sceney1 which showed an Irttef i studio, we were to walk dowq a tairca3e and pass, in front of the artist.'- - We were supposed to be models and were dressed in " .whitelflowing jobes, 1 lit, vuuj dcviic ine proaucer was ' aissaiunea wiui it all . lie had been fusslnjg and fuming about " afternoon. , Suddenly be made; a suggestion and the stage K 't&S.l manager came forward. He ordered ns to slipl star, r the robes from' 6Qr shoulders and drop them, hadn't the stage manager premised me en oppor :, to out waists. The girls were aghast We looked tunity very eoonT i turned down my young man. at one nother and hesitated. Then one girl Ue came to see me for a while after that, then' gave a little laugh and obeyed. The rest of he dropped out of sight. I don't know where be " us followed and we walked down the staircase fc new f v: .. nude to the waist ; But when t U ,'..' '. we reached our dressing rooms hadn't come and chance 'A yeat assed.tMyf we wept and, some of the girls was simply one of fifty still I gh-show a was I declared they would aujt rather were paid te look pretty. , than go through it before an V who ' tired eacb night as I went home to my I t 'was audience. However, none of them hotel and I was lonely. The people ! met were quit and every one of ue did ga g kind who merely more generally of the through it every night for . " than1 a year. invited me on, their parties to help make the "I'm describing this episode in ' 'J e'enhigs gay. : I didn't want to drink; I had seen - detail too many of the girls around lose their health beeause of the effect it . . bad on me and On the revues in; through the- night life. . tired of the theatre. It was in general. The scene waa ten ,.I began to grow " . ; -- .. 1 " Hi i f ' ' ' UJtT' - A v , . - '"'.-- ,! ! ; '..' '; promised ma so much and Jiad broken his promAnd now ises. he . was accusing 1 mo, unjustly, flared up and said I didn't fired me. It was night' and I walked toward my boarding house in tears. Suddenly a thought came to me and I ' was foolish enough, to follow it. I felt that I didnt want to live any more : I'd show that stage manager t . , my tears, went into a drug store and i driedsome bought. poison, men 1 went home and things' mean. He arphk-tt- .. ff . ...'.'.:,'..;! - i 1 , "ThrTeW"wareMy" lay's "whllen wen: to tneineatre, presented my note and was accepted by a stage manager who was rehearsing a new revue. I was assigned to Uie show girl, group because of my height. rtiu, my uantintf was noi good enough to put me with later I fat Just . t the girls - were friendlymeand., I was a stage manager told very pretty girL When he said that,! plucked up courage to ask whether 4her was any chance of my gettinj a few, the country recovering. The days went by like light doads in ' the bine sky." . - - ' ( New Tork. ; : I awoke In a hospital. 1 learned h'w iny.room- mate bad come to the hotel and found mo uncon a doctor. . . - She. Jiadoned sc18- for , . . . Wfiek . ihe countrv. re covering. The days went By ime the ngnt ciouas In the blue sky, The people I had known in the theatre eame to my "rescue and paid my way. Everyone was very kind and I began to wonder ' why I had tried to die, Then the day carae when I returned to Broadway.- WeU, a strange thing had happened. The newspapers had printed my" pictures and it seemed that everyone had beard of me. I was famous at last ..f'v, 7:,'l job' by a movie company, , I was oftered a goodI've been given a speaking but, bettej than that, and it's ironic, but part in the revue. It's Icurious it's true the chance worked for and pleaded because I made a for has come to me, finally, stir by tryin to die. Which la one of the rea-o,. !,..! '. I'm glad I'm alive. :, '. i 1 ' m ns , & - ' v ' 1 3 . i " |