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Show POLICE MAKE STARS STOP 41 SPOIL TWO STAGE CAREERS Right to Left, Addie McLeod and Gertrude Casey. Girls Run Away to Be Bernhardts, but Telegraph Is Too Speedy. NEW YORK, Sept. 1:'. If Broadway suffers a dearth of actresses this winter no one but the New York police department will be to blame. Those horrid policemen U was real mean of them lo take cltarge of pretty Gertrude Casey, brunette and 15, and golden-haired Addie McLeod of the same age. as they stepped off the Newport New-port boat at Its New York pier. This is the way it happened, according accord-ing to the girls. Newport, where the girls live in adjoining houses, is a pretty poky place, that is unless you are in the social swim, and Gertrude and Addle were not. so they made up their minds to leave Newport flat, and come to New York, where real art would be appreciated. appre-ciated. Of course, they had fully decided de-cided to go on the stage. Every young girl who determines to run away from home starts out to make Sarah Bernhardt Bern-hardt look like a small-time variety performer. per-former. After buying their tickets on the steam er they had left a working capital of $4.02. Gertrude, being the taller, took charge of the i, while Addle carried the 2 cents and a box of crackers. Somewhere Some-where between Newport and New York the Si mysteriously disappeared from the handkerchief In which Gertrude had carefully care-fully wrapped it. Telegrams from the Newport police sent two detectives to the pier and the girls were taken In charge when they came down the gangplank, Their parents took them back to Newport. |