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Show ?K Jar f w 1 ft; W N CTI i H wfi i ?e Very Extraordinary Metamorphosis That France's Suffering Has Wrought in One of the Gayest of the Gay "War Has Purged My Soul of Love' Says Anna Held 'It Is Silly for a Woman to Worry About So Little a Thing as an Affair of the Heart" l'-f;ir'- 'l e Very Extraordinary SMiiMlfk France's Suffering lJJ'f "'""''''-"'''"'V '! 0" e Gayest of th ItiVv "VK$ Purged My Soul of ViA;--,'; t 'V-l Says Awa Held "It -V i - or a Woman to , V r? &oa 5o Lz7e a TTn : n Affair of the He, "It take s::tw:w now 'eSS ' "''S'fStlflP take. Do y x.i&BW'':.ii'-i happiest in " "' : SBIls i Sit- t-Sy't:t yWfyJ&MWiJ. to come ? I f0M!W0Sl: make the yi'Ci'itiSff ? S i;?-Vsi:-":rVT-:: -"-0: ;1k predated b; ::f;:Sn::f;S had so mu( y0'ii0Si-ir J: least bit ol J:f-i5S:;?:S sommer at S!iJlp they have JSillilllilil the Ktag o :J'ii:i :5; n '-.Sw1-.': i Belgian no! !5?sS:ii .V..i4i:fef':'; f iv:;" ily by the dinner vr. -immmmmmmimMmu-vr think of i r-;i; .; iy, -s-jii&:Kv.vrK T&ra; "I want the world to know that I am not the Anna Held of old. I am another woman a woman with a mission and serious motives," declares the new superwoman of the French Republic, l'lwlo by Fach. 1 tsX0 USED (o worry about If 1 love aflairs. C'est vrai '. if IT !" 11 seems utterl5' absur1 C I now. but it is a fact, Ja and it shows how fool- A I !h istl 011c 0311 e ouc 'S "" could be sillier thnn tor a woman to worry about an affair of the heart." Xow who do you think said that? AVho would believe that Anna Held who brings to the mind's eye the blaze o color, the bouquet of song and the carnival of dance has become a moraliste? Indeed, JIuie. Anna is her old exquisite, charming self. There is the same lure in tue mellow tones of her voice and the same naughty wink in her eyes, but now she can "make them behave." "1 have passed through the fire," says Mine. Anna, "and my heart and soul are purged." They call her the modern Jeanne d'Arc ln Paris because of the wonderful things she has done for the French war relief. Wherever she went she gave benefits, singing sing-ing at charity bazaars, soliciting and raising rais-ing money In scores of ways for the French war charities in aid of the wounded, the widows and the orphans, for whom, she says, her "heart bipeds." Last summer she organized a little vaudeville troupe and gave performances iu the hospitals for the wounded and for (he soldiers along the front line of trenches, even risking the Are of the German cannon to provide an hour's recreation for the "poilcus" 'I have grown a hundred years younger," sajs the new Anna Held. "Before "Be-fore the war I had worries; and they were telling on me. "But the war, the suffering of France, iJie heroism of my people, the agony of the wounded, the cries of the widows and the little children in want those things I have .seen and heard and passed through, as oue passes through a fiery furnace, and they have purged my heart and soul of all the petty worries and troubles that used to bother me and make my life miserable." There are some who believe Mme. Anna refers to the heart flutlerings of her youth she has a child, you know, born while she wns climbing upward toward stardom others say she is thinking of her unhappy romance with Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., theatrical theat-rical producer, now the husband of BUUe Burke; yet others declare that since her divorce from Ziegfeld she has had several love affairs and that it is these she is putting put-ting out of her life. On one occasion of late she was reported engaged; at another time it was said she had been remarried. It may be safely said that the latter report was not true. Four years after becoming the wife of Ziegfeld Mme. Anna gave an interview in Paris which showed how much love then meant to her happiness, and which set the tongues of gossip to wagging. It was the first inkling the public had that her married mar-ried life was unhappy. "If Mr. Ziegfekl wants to fceep his wife he'd better come to Paris," she said at the time. In .spile of a smile she was deadly in earnest. "I'm tired of work; I want to piny, and, like my song, I must have 'Some One to Play Wiz.' I'm living alone, but I can't go out, because it doesn't look right without my husband. I can't receive attentions at-tentions from othet men, so my life isn't happy." But now, though she is free to 'receive attentions' Mme. Anna says she doesn't want them her "heart and soul are purged." In divorce proceedings, which she filed in 1012, the actress testified that she came to New York in to appear in "The Parlor Par-lor Match," and a short while later, in the presence of friends, she aud Ziegfeld "just agreed" to be husband and wife there waa no actual ceremony. The referee decided that the agreement constituted a legal marriage. mar-riage. It was similar, she said, to the "common "com-mon law" form of marriage in which a man and a woman, desiring to be husband and wife, make an agreement to that effect, and are regarded as married in the eyes of tho law. But to return to the wonderful change that has come over Mme Anna remarkable, remark-able, indeed, when you consider that previous pre-vious to the war she was wont to talk mostly of trifles, marrons glace, powder puffs, milk baths and the tike. "I want the world to know that I am not the Anna Held of old," she declares. "I am another woman a woman with a mission mis-sion and serious motives. It is not easy to show tlmt in musical comedy.' If I had my way I should appear before the world in emotioual or dramatic roles. Oh, no! nothing frivolous no dancing, no songs, and I would move you to tears and not to laughter. "It takes very little to make me happy now less than I ever dreamed it would take. Do you know that when this war is over the French people are goiDg to be the happiest in the world for years and years to come? It is because It takes so little to make them happy. Happiness is only appreciated ap-preciated by contrast, and the French have bad so much suffering to endure that the least bit of comfort or pleasure fills them with joy. "I will recount an experience I had last summer at Havre. Tou know at Havre f they have created r little principality for the King of Belgium, where a number of j. Belgian nobility have found refuge. ""When I visited there a wealthy fam-ily fam-ily by the name of Hill gave a very grand dinner, and I was among the guests. The dinner was served on aolid gold plates :: think of it! The idea ot such luxury iu :: hosk That ' M ght in War Has M IjWl d ins, the soldiers without hands and feet )) ' ls joking with each other gayly in the hospi- . Cr Ax. 18 tals, the orphans with their little white, . ' (yO rs dazed faces they caunot understand it alL to r ,,atTat. i.nn, 1. ins, the soldiers without hands and feet joking with each other gayly in the hospitals, hospi-tals, the orphans with their little white, dazed faces they caunot understand it alL I never knew what my France was before, what it was to live and suffer. Europe has been drenched in agony, humanity has been .put on the rack, aud yet my France has never wavered. It smiles while its heart is torn asunder. "And the bravest of the brave often are the men who in the old days were regarded as effeminate dandies of the boulevards oh, I know hundreds of them, wounded, crippled, blinded in battle, who before the war never performed any more serious labor than going to the Jockey Club and mixing a glass of absinthe, who have shown themselves to be as great heroes as ever fought on a battlefield ; and I have seen them in hospitals, maimed and ill pain, just as cheerful, just as debonair as they used to be when I met them at Chan-tilly Chan-tilly before the war. "Do you wonder that I wjis. filled with reverence for my countrymen, that I became be-came transformed with inspiration, and that I sang for them with a strange happiness hap-piness in my heart as I never sang before? "Life has changed me. but it has changed the whole world, too. Although you may not realize it in America as yet, you will in time. What has already happened hap-pened alters the whole future course of history, his-tory, pats a new face on civilization, cre-ntes cre-ntes new ideals for al! humanity, but it may require many years before this is all clearly understood. Iu the meantime, let us all do our duty toward humanity. I am trying to do mine." It is difficult to believe that the woman who says these things is the Anna Held of old. Her friends declare that were you to sit under the batteries of her flashing eyes, kindled with the light that comes from a woman's soul, and listen to the passionate, thrilling tones her voice unconsciously takes when she tells you of her love of country, you would forget all about the old Anna in this new superwoman of the French Eepubllc, and catch some of the inspiration in-spiration and enthusiasm for her cause. The gap between the Anna of yesterday and the Anna of today between the piquant songbird and the gloritled, sublimated subli-mated queen of variety just measures the change that has come over the life of humanity hu-manity since August. 3914. Copyright, 1916, by J. Keeley.J ty Vf'i , they used to be when I met them at Chan- Anna in this new superwoman of the tlliy before the war. , French Eepubllc, and catch some of the In- ''iSj'ij;.' frOf I & "I'o you wonder that I wcs. filled with splratlon and enthusiasm for her cause. kL.? sJt!W SBJSfl reverence for my countrymen, that I be- The gap between the Anna of yesterday s "si came transformed with inspiration, and and the Anna of today between the .: t i:; iff M that I sang for them with a strange hap- piquant songbird and the gloritled, subU- fjESjllgSl feS l plness in my heart as I never sang before? mated queen of variety just measures the !:::BiSl2s 65?" h "Life has changed me. but it has change that has come over the life of hu- ilfitS pmp$JSfg changed the whole world, too. Although inanity since August. 1914. j3p5 If LaaaA"3'' you may not realize it in America as yet, Copyright, 1916, by J. Keetey. II I ' vH-fjf wvUaws t , - rs J3 wfil If rnmf $ i s " v v-' ,r - v mm 1 wlgsk'vr w - iC4 I ff blKlllf--h ; !V I " & t- jr s i S "i A " f ' Anna Held, "the modern Jeanne Y ? t oj ,t ) j ' TArc of France," marching at the V 6 , J i 1 f j , f f ,.t head of her troop of Boy Scouts in Hi I - re Paris. The scouts are all singers ? i i r Y trained by Miss Held and are on $ jj f'AX&f M !d their way to a concert hall where V. 19 they sing for war charity. fe'SS fs-. 8 iJl ,r9 Photo by Cderwood & Cndencood. H g 1 jpS MiN d the midst of starving war refugees, want Wjf,,, u L' and misery filled me with repugnai:ee. I stmnlv coiilrt nnr fQt n ttt "ro nnil Anna Held, "the modern Jeanne d'Arc of France," marching at the head of her troop of Boy Scouts in Paris. The scouts are all singers trained by Miss Held and are on their way to a concert hall where they sing for war charity. Photo hy Underwood d Cndencood. the midst of starving war refugees, want and misery filled me with repugnance. I simply could not eat pate de fois gras and roast quail on: golden plates while starving women and babies clamorc . outside for foud, so after a little deliberation I pushed my plate away, rose from the table and left the room. "The hostess rushed over to me as I was going out and asked me what the trouble was. 1 told her I was leaving because I did not approve of eating off gold plates with the cries of hungry people in the street outside in my ears.' There you have an example of the new Anna Held. Her heart beats time, sympathetically, sym-pathetically, to the sufferings of her fel-lowman. fel-lowman. I am so happy 'hat it does! "Yes, I have grown a hundred years younger. I have been imbibing of the eiixir of youth. My tonic is the pride I have iu Frnnee the inspiration her brave men and women and children have given me. Ah if you could only see the blind men laugh- Better Chance for Married Bliss if You Are Homely T'.IE happiest married couples are often Just plain, homely people, lirauiiful dull-baby faces and handsome, manly features fea-tures do not insure a happy married life. In fact, a great many homely couples have gone through life as happy as two moths (not butterflies), while many a marriage has been ranked a failure because husband or wife (or both) possessed too many masculine mas-culine or feminine phy'en! charms. A "stunning couple," or even just when either man or wife is handsome, s:art out with a natural handicap. When both are unusually good looking there Ls always a little flame of jealousy and each one ls anxiously watching the other. And tho spirit of jealousy is even increased when only one of them, either husbaud or wife, is fine looking aud .the other homely. Eut when two people are absolutely homely or hopelessly plain j-alouy is at once eliminated. elimi-nated. The homely couple start forth upon the sea of matrimony unhampered by the germ of evil Jealousy. When an outsider is pleasant to either of tbe;n no matter bow unconventional or bow gracious neither nei-ther suspects it is because of some physical cha rm. |