Show F rJ r J J Jb b bo 4 a l I tl A ti Did H g L I W A l y w I 9 4 How the Sudden Death of ofa a Gaby Deslys Has Revealed Her Hern r n Consuming Desire to Be Be- Known r as a Great Tragedienne Instead r i rr of Merely a Music Hall Favorite r rr y n V i l t 41 The Ethereal Gaby q Y Who Vho Declared I I want j my public to know me as asI I I really am the Gaby with a soul sow By Helen Hester ester Hill 1 VERY girl who e ever r thought of the sta stage a EVERY has w v. wanted rated ted to be a Juliet just Juliet just as every struck stage young young man has wanted to bea bew be w a Romeo Love The real thing set In the most romantic romantic romantic ro- ro mantic way Love that dies tTa tragically caly There r you sou have hav it Something ng to make them all adore you and cry about you ou 1 J Well no stage sU person no actor or actress secure secure secure se- se cure in some ot other cr line of expression ever loses the wish to climb to the supreme level And even the adorable Gaby Deslys was no ex- ex She was just naturally something else elsea else a sprite maybe a flickering fairy of the stage But she wanted to be a- a Juliet It was the dream of her life The more they laughed and applauded her as something else the tho more she ahe longed to be that ecstatic Shakespearean heroine to to play o opposite a real to honest Romeo to express in a 3 passionate simplicity of ot stage art the classic Instance of young innocent first love She brooded o over er the ambition more than any I knew except her intimates It is these intimates intimates- who declare that she really died broken t mated Hearted ait 11 For or she never did get to be a 3 Juliet Life Was Her Greatest Love One day she came to New York with a 3 hundred hundred hun hun- dred hats and heaven knows how many gowns owns Yet wearing them all was not her central thought IIer Her central thought was that America might make c her a Juliet But it After all her triumphs she went ba back k to Paris very very cry Un uni happy To UTo me mc she said ald to her friends Juliet typifies fies lies the perfect exaltation of tho the noblest of passions passions passions pas pas- To die for love what a wonderful privilege privilege l lege gel lege But this romantic role was denied d he her in death 7 as had been the Uc one she longed to portray in life For Gaby knew no great consuming love save Ih her love of life It was as her chief charm She radiated and md bubbled and effervesced with it from finger tips and toe tips It curled her bowed lip lips lipsin in winsome smiles it haunted her witching ways and naughty naught pranks and gave ave sinuous grace to her amazing gowns and nodding plumes To have seen cen Gab Gaby bounding with feline leaps leapson on the stage or stepping with repressed half-repressed ferocity ferocity fe fe- rocity through the amorous paces of th the murderous murder murder- ous Apache dance To remember her voice purling purling purl purl- ing lug through some lilting French Chanson To To have seen her beautiful hair tumbling over her rosy little ears and into her limpid eyes ayes a alight ight with the inspiration of her audience and then to say that disappointment at being unable to play playa I a role so different so opposite was even partially responsible for the death of this beautiful joyous girl seems ridiculous r And had there been en nothing more In life lite for l' l her than mere song and dance such an idea would appear as foolish as it sounds Versions as to Gabys Gaby's birthplace and early station in life lire are as various as they are numer numer- ous Some accounts even state that she hailed from Hungary with a distinctly Hungarian name Bat But Bat she always s said she camo came from Marseilles of good food parentage and md she ought to know J Basking in Royalty's Smiles fr- fr lf How she ever endured her bounding vitality to remain bottled up in a convent until antil the age age of t oJ 16 is a mystery but she eventually ran away and against her fathers father's wishes went upon the variety variety va va- stage at the munificent salary of lOa week And so BO began a career that rivalled in tho the realm of the theatre of love and the adulation of the public the glittering li lifes life's ei history of tho the bC beauties who reigned over the imagination of ot poets and artists and rulers in the golden age ae of ot Greece and Rome w And in those early enly days of or her triumph there was no hint of the tho tragedy of or the great shadow that was so prematurely to overtake her youth 1 J r f yf L 4 r i d eu f it r rr r 11 k t tr r r y N 4 h L V i p r S I p k kh J 1 ra d ti Fr T f I I It t a yh r w Q 1 a l r a 11 S 4 t r r rI I TI The Pa Pampered eyed and Bewitching Gaby Who Knew No Great Consuming Love Lovev v Save Her Love of Life 4 s' s 1 r c 4 r tt e. e if ie r 3 y p r I s c 4 I y l 1 fe Mi ii of i ir r 4 I I J a sr It K- K W t Kt I If f. f S t CC fC C by br Pm 0 r S The Frivolous Gaby in Her Piece One Bathing Suit Photographed at Deauville the Fashionable French Bathing Resort Nor did she have hale the least yearning then to impersonate tragedy on the stage It t was the joy of success success' that held her in its P J r f grip and intoxicated her And the joy JoS of her het spirit held heM her long line of suitors enthralled and enmeshed And what a romance unfolds itself in the tho personalities per tonalities and personnel of those extravagant admirers admirers ad ad- Not since the days when Thais and Phryne held sway in Alexandria and Athens have guts g ts of such imperial value and beauty been showered upon any stage favorite Heads crowned with kingly diadems with the white hair of age and with youths youth's romantic fervor fervor fer fer- vor the flippant and serious alike all an fell feU under the spell of her flashing wit and beauty and radiant radiant radi ant good nature It is too universally reported to be entirely discounted discounted discounted dis dis- counted that the formers former orme King Manuel of Portugal Portugal gal al lost his head and his crown and the price of fabulous pearls to the winsome Gaby Nor was the more phlegmatic Saxon Anglo-Saxon temperament proof against her wiles that is the male temperament For Queen Mary with the instance of her royal Portuguese relative still very fresh in mind had a t heart to heart talk with her ber royal son the Prince of or Wales the morning after he had been noticed to applaud the fair Gaby in her Music Hall performance with a far from royal reserve rese And the throne immediately thereafter called upon the bishops of or the church to deliver a ukase against immorality in the Musk Music Halls British literature then rushed into the breach with George Bernard Shaw and Sir James Barrie chief spokesmen for the much discussed Gaby and they seem to have carried off oft the honors This pampered darling of the gods was even shielded from the occasional frowns of the sun Mirrors and stained glass lass windows were so fully arranged over the wonderful gold bed in the tho exquisite bedroom of Gabys Gaby's London house that no matter how dismal the rain or fog there was wasa a constant pla play of delicate light throwing a curious curious curi curl ous iridescence about the room something like the rainbow after liter a summer storm One Wish Nish That Came True But though gentle and winsome to all an she felt no particular call caU for any special One of her many admirers And tho the more moro they clamored at her door the greater became her longing to do something Something some something Some Some- thing really worth while to make her name live livo in the annals of the stage I III am tired of being known as lS the Beautiful Gaby who v-ho wears vears pretty gowns I want to be areal a areal real actress in a real play I want my public to know me mo as I really am the Gaby with a souL 1 want to play J Juliet Then camo came her opportunity in Infatuation the motion picture play that created a a furore X w r Future Sent Iu 1920 1 c and from that moment her every ambition in life was subordinated to her resolve to give the world her version of Juliet that heroine of matchless love Jove triumphing in the very absence of its con con- summation One other emotion also consumed and well well- nJ nigh h obsessed the beautiful Gaby She had a horror horror hor hor- of growing old and perhaps ugly and even penniless It was her consuming desire to go out in a aflame aflame flame of glory at the tho pinnacle of her youth and beauty and fame and strangely enough she had her wish And no now she lies fn n her last rest much mach as lay laythe laythe laythe the Juliet she so 50 passionately loved clad In a simple sim sim- simple pIc white gown of tulle and chiffon on a n bed of white roses with the medal of tho the blessed Virgin she never went without the sole ornament on her breast And of her as of the lovely Juliet it may be beI I said ald The liThe air that had drunk in her words and her last long looks still hung about tho the co corners rs l I Y y r L Q i r J r r. r c The he Famous ramous Love Lore Scene from Romeo and Juliet From Juliet From the tine Painting by Hans Markel I as the air air where a rose has bloomed holds a lit little Jet while the memory of its breath 1 And i if you OU who read this story still think It tj f nonsense nonsense for Gaby to ha have a wanted to act in tragic roles to stake her reputation on the part of Juliet so very cry different from anything she had ever done you may be sure she was not riot alone in such a desire 1 g For tor nearly rail all of us ns have the secret feeling that we could do something else better than the the thing we are arc doing if we wc could only get to it tt r Other Souls with Unsatisfied Longings r The Tho waiter alter whose eye cye you can never catch f when you ou arc nrc fretting for the catsup with your ham and eggs is leaning over some table behind you like as not scrawling an unflattering likeness likeness like- like ness Hess of yourself on the of bill What d dhe does does 1 he care for your appetite or anything about you yon except your tip when his whole soul is filled with art and the thc sound of dishes and the tho smell of food F disgusting CAnd I t tAnd And the the circus chens clown takes your applause with bitterness bitterne s in his heart while you wonder that his tumbles and falls dont don't break his back And he almost wishes it would for he that be c the greatest of all Hamlets if only given a t i chance must spend his days instead grovelling grovelling- in the tho sawdust t And the sum of all an this dissatisfaction is they th the sum of human progress It explains why we get geton geton i ion on instead o of ruminating with the cows J. J But Gaby W was S all the while enacting a role fa- fa life lite far more morn heroic than the thc make-believe make out ant ont I she so coveted A role that left behind her a truly lasting memorial mem i In the tho midst of the deafening applause that that t ther her performances never failed to evoke she aha al always al' al ways said But I dance for the poor i And Andler her ler will disclosed what she had mean meant j for she left all of her fortune somo some together with her magnificent jewelry worth 1 again that amount to found a model asylum for motherless bh girls in Marseilles her birthplace 1 So that these little waifs homeless homeless' but for tar her beautiful generosity will some day rise i. i t call can her blessed f ft j |