Show I I I I OF J H INTEREST J N T ERE E S I J T TOW 0 MEN Ii I fye Love tove Rewards Girl Who Preferred Modest Banquets i r 1 1 1 1 To I 0 Lobster Palace Perils I I j 11 fly June Dl nhon DIon on Truth Is stranger than fiction Likewise truth Is 18 more morn ft ing than fiction It Tt Is n more noro oro more nt more more versatile and more Irrevocably OC Irro ably a part and parcel of the tho human hu hU- hU- hU man heart This Is o orio one o of ot six truisms from real life Ufo having to do with six rca real girls who havo b benz bor in and out of or ormy my thoughts lately It li IL Is a 0 few chapters from the b book k of Mary Mary came to tho city from some someplace someplace place in the Middle West She was sweet and gentle ana good as Indeed she he still BUll Is There had been a 0 disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment one of ot those quick tiona Uon which burn out like Ilko the heat lightning of ot a sultry aultry summer Bummer evening and are arc about a as as' empty as 88 the torrid flash Mary I ry was more are than a n little disillusioned She found love e Is not always the b beautiful faithful honest thing thinK about abouL which p poets poes ets rave e a She decided and and- rightly the best antidote for disagreeable conclusions conclusions conclusions con con- Is 18 agreeable work So bo Mary decided she would go on th the stage To make a 0 decision is one thing thins to keep that decision is another Mary had not been In the city long lone before she sho discovered there re some several thousands girls and women from eVer every conceivable ble cranny of the tho country and from ever every calculable nook in Sn life with the same idea 2 Mary Iary had acquired a bit of or experience ex ox- ex- ex penance from front trouping with a astock astock stock company campan- in her home town townS I Sh She tried to tell weasel faced un ng men with wasp waists waists- types to managerial of offices of- of ices about about how much she he knew and how eager she sha was as to learn I more She just naturally cra craved ed edI I work work hard hard work Tho The weasel faced young oung men I with the asp wasp waists ts sympathized ed with her and Invited In her to dine j with wl h. them them them-at at a u. swell red red ink JoInt I i Willing To After Atter sl six months of ot promised en enI en- en I each ath one of oC which hadUs had its Us own ugly story slon Mary lary landed in a cheap stock stuck company pl playing ing j bit bit It IL waa U better than being hungry or n tt u f u diet or and canne beans or fruit which after a time stunt th the or OC even so 80 hardy hard a plant as ambition from from- this point on the story Is Isone isone one of ot those Interminable struggles glet gleb of or Innate cl cleanness anness bound- bound le lew Ie ambition and some talent against aCi the hazards of ot a profession nun none too high principled at its best beit There were parts with prices on lh them t prices price May Mary was nut willing to ta pay a There here were plays plays' that opened am and anil closed before the first anvil an chorus of ot the critics reached Its rc resounding note There were long tagging fogging hours 01 Of rehearsal In clammy hot or clammy cold eold halls with nothing but a. a weary brain bratin and boll body in payment for effort eUort There were sallies into split Split week vaudeville brief Spans Spans' spans pans in which fly fIt by night productions started for the tho coast and progressed pro pro- gressed d as far as Hobo n before the Lbs sheriff pounced d on the trunkS There were wele absconding managers mana inana- j gers gera r and on leading men f and women women of f the kind who can rever forgive e one of their sex for retaining the pearls purls of price rice they have ha exchanged for worthless Class ilal's gewgaws 1 Fate has a a. heartbreaking WI way of concentrating on those whose hose metal she sho would try Kate Irate concentrated on Mary tar I Along Alon with making the stage lase a aj j road of or hot ploughshares she sent a. a goodly share of ot the ills that huI human hu hu- hu- hu j I man n flesh is heir to I 45 As 5 for Cor Instance the season Mary Marv secured her first really good role roleon roleon on tho strength of the tact that sue she I the th feminine star who I had hed shone shone- in the part for t two O seasons soft set sons on Broadway Fate sneaked I Into the dressing roon room I l in a tank town lown In Indiana and andI I tagged Mary Iary for tor a long dangerous I siege o of Influenza 0 o Inkling of t lh The folks back ck home had no Inkling Inkling Ink Ink- ling of or the tho flames names licking at the soul and nd body of Mar Mary l I It was her fight tight and she wa was too proud to al allow allow al- al low lo thorn them any part parl of oC iu ll Besides those of ot her kin close enough to help had their own obligations friends who witnessed the struggle advised Mary May to give gl It up Youre roure a Jinx lar 1 Mary they told her ler Tr Try something else Any number of ot girls she met f hue there had another solution solution solution tion toMary problem Youre a Mary they confided a pretty pretty pretty pret pret- ty girl like you ou mooning up nero nere i in tn your our room Come on out with us this evening Were We're going to a agular port party Dont Don't be he so particular ular Heavens ens this Is la the twentieth twentieth twentieth century Speed up Grab rab omo e-omo live lI man and quit worrying I Mary laughed with them but she shedid shedid shedid did not gp 9 with thorn them Tho The men eho she Knew were the sort who In In- her to dine and did not act as if the she had picked th their lr I i because e she voiced a desire to 10 be bo home homo before belore midnight Any girl who has made tho the choice between n nl dinner l at the Ritz with a 0 wealthy undesirable and a supper In Ina ina a 1 hall hail bedroom with herself Will appreciate the stuff tuft of ot which Mary is us made when they consider she averaged 3 four lour to five banquet banquets ban ban- a a week And kindly remember all this happened in the tiso midst of or the tho bright light district where pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- ure is king of kings and god of or gods and where the only unforgivable able I. sin is failure to lo slip with the merry throng I I Mary Iary always alays looked welL elL She Sho I achieved wod unbelievable frocks out ot of mere mero nothing though sho often orten sat Bat over the needle all night to do itI it I 1 wonder what the critic of ot an nn Eastern city who declared her wardrobe was waR one of ot the daintiest and most fascinating ever eyer soon seen In Ina a 1 local theatre would say I If t he knew she had made every stitch of or f fit i it herself through sweltering August August Au Au- gust JOust days and nights and that ItI It was built entirely from rom tho the castoff cast cast- I off nrc clothes cloth of or the actress who hai I originated d the part In the New NewYork York production lo to Hundred I Up to now there l is nothing unUsual unusual un un- usual 1 in this story It happens to hundreds of those who seek fame or fortune or through tho the stage ta o door What hat hat makes it tt different Is that Mary STUCK Tho The cocktails of ot high lifo life did not go co to her head In Inthis Inthis Inthis this you will admit she sho was something something something some some- thing of ot an anomaly A A. few tew ow weeks ago Mary burst a bomb In the tho camps of the cynics She announced her engagement to toa toa ton a n man high in the service or the United States government a regular regular regu regu- lar Jar l two fisted follow fellow whose popularity larity Is countrywide and who whose e cleverness and acumen havo have no boundaries Tho The man h has given Mary all th th love of oC his bl big honest heart II lie I met her quite casually they casually they were at a n tea somewhere or other othel and and the Iho spark which fires and fuses was lit struck ruck instantaneously No No not luck Fate Pate rewarding a loyalist I I love Mary l because Use she he Is th the sort of or girl Irl I did not believe exist exist- wh who reminds me 0 of m my mother My 1 friends have been beon trying to marry m me oft off for years vears Lon Long ago i decided de dO- to play safe sare and remain a I. I bachelor But I simply must have Mary 11 ry The Tho Ideals Mary h hAd d elected to keep unsoiled through five years eus of or struggle were etched on her hor face Shone In her eyes Another soul came camo and re rend read d them it worth while Ile asks lar 1 Mary from the tho sunny par garden en of or her br great nl happiness I T have hav met the theman theman man I t love I can go to him wIthout without with with- out fear r or regret ret I am so glad so proud I c cn can n offer him what he hed d deserves deserves eleAnne Cleanness 8 and honesty How miserable I would reel to cheat the one who moans means more to tome tome tome me than all 11 the world It Jt was not always 1 easy to keep to the narrow road but bul I knew sooner or later It would lead lend Into the tho spangled flower meadow And hero I nm knee nm-knee knee deep In the meadow mcadow Mary r Jl will have one of oC the finest homes money can buy and one of th the happiest love can build Should any tny of or the time good girls who listed her as a I sill silly little littIe little lit lit- tle tIe fool happen across her hey threshold threshold thres thres- hold perhaps they the will wonder If after Reter all th y might not ha hava hae been wrong about Mar Mary |