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Show WOULD HI BONDS Family Infelicities of Movie Star to Be Filmed in Divorce Court. NEW" YOKK. Ke'j. -o. C.ee' sh'ls. isn't it tough? Francis Xavier Uiishnian. the movie super-matinee idol, whose name and fame have sot many- a "susceptible" feminine heart a-flutter, whose narrow escapes from a horrible death at "the hands of the villain eur-r-rse him" have wrung many a gasp of fear from thousands of ; pretty throats in the movie theaters of this country and others, whose masculine beauty has drawn thousands of mush-letters mush-letters from girls all over the world That same Francis Xavier Bushman is a married man! And net alone that, but he has live children! , And add to that, that his wife seeks a divorce! , And, on top of all. that tr.e wife aJ-Irtres, aJ-Irtres, in the papers she lias hied in the circuit court at Tow son. Md., that Bushman Bush-man has been living jn an expensive New York apartment with a woman member of his company, whose name, or course, is not meiuioned. Now, isn't that fierce? Mrs. Bushman's divorce suit has revealed re-vealed what the actor himself has tried to keen secret very successfully, too for years. The fact that he is married j would have hurt him professionally. In other words, if the thousands of admiring fans throughout the country knew their hero Francis X.. had a wife and five little" Bushmans at home in Green Sprint vallev Marviand well. it might have hurt" Francis N.'p triO.OOO per year. But now the cat's out of the bag. so were going to tell you all about Mr. Bushman s family history. ."From Virginia, Suh." In the first place, ho is a native of Norfolk. Va. t the ase of 4 vears he and his Tamil Tam-il v went to Baltimore. There he tirst became an actor when he played te.e mob or part of it in a scene in the "Ladv of Lvons." His sister, you see. was 'the -ladv herself, and, as a social favor to Francis, she rang him in as one of the mob. That settled Francis' career. After taking a course at Amendale college. col-lege. Marviand, he branched out into the histrionic line. inserted the X in his name where ho had never used it before to make it look nicer and set out to become be-come th1 nation's super-maunee idol. He started on the legitimate stage, regarding re-garding the movies as a joke for they were, in those days. John Albaugh gave him a job at his Baltimore onei-a house, where he played with Fa wee 1 1 and Percy Has well, a "Washington stock favorite, for a season or two. Then he went on tours with several companies, and gained some tarn. Finally he reached Camden. N. .T., whrre he took the step that made him famous. There he was offered a position with the Kssunav company In the movie business at a salary double that he was getting on the stage. Francis jumped at it, "but only intended to stay for a week or two. still regarding the whole thing as a joke. Joke Was on Bushman. But the joke was on Bushman for he became so famous that he just couldn't quit the movies. And he's been, there ever since. His first picture, "Lost Years." which depicts him in the role of a man who served thirty years in prison for something some-thing he never did. made such a hit that the Kssanay company promptly tacked a feT more figures on his salary envelope. This happened several times, and finally Bushman became probably the best-known best-known ''movie star in A merica. Then came golden year for Francis Fran-cis X. Jt was in this year that the nationwide nation-wide movie -idol popularity contest was urn off and in it Francis X. polled a majority ma-jority of h34."0O votes over his nearest competitor for the title of the most popular motion picture a-'tor. Just t' ir k of i; in a total of 1 ", Ol'O. people in the United states about tieO'V'OO sisr-nified sisr-nified their -desires as to who was to be the leading man in a play where the hero was the ideal young American. And out of this avalan'-he of b'VJiVt.Orn vots Francis X. Bushman's 634. "0-i majority proclaimed him the king of photoplay-ers. photoplay-ers. And all the time he was married! In Wilmineton. Del., on June 2. 1 f 0 2 sixteen years aeo! iT'nink of it, sirls) he was married. At that time Francis made more or less money at odd jobs, and Mrs. B. helped increase the family income by working herself, she stated in her suit. . j Wealth, Rock of Discord. j Thev lived happily for a long time, j hut finally prosper itv butted in and; ruined domestic !.h'My, she de'-lares. In: 1M 5 Bushman bovci.t Bush Mainjr at I Green Sprit: ? valU-v, Maryland, nPr" spending many months at studios In t'rtli- forma, where he mad.. some of his inu.-t famous pictures. ! Before ih pur-"a.--e she had not i- d changes In Francis's attitude toward iV-r, and afrpr the home was bou!,:. she a ! -IhseF. this unbearable conduct i - m acErrftva t in?. He even hf-ame "xtrein'j-y "xtrein'j-y Tuel and brutal," says tiie wife. His visits to Bush Manor, she ailer-became ailer-became mure and mor1 in frequent . a r.d final'v thf star showed th" grate.t in- W. H. WHITE 7 i ;';0'":J;.:':r:'-'' r-;:-H : r-. '. .. .-..V--- . "-"'r' .'; X : -, i"-... : ..mem , Salesmauager Inter-Mountain Motor ' company, KisselKar, Selden trucks. difference toward his wife and five children chil-dren Ralph B., 15 ; Josephine F., lo ; Virginia L., 12: feonore C, i. and Frank B.. 7. To top off her charges Mrs. Bushman asserts that her husband rented a large and expensive apartment in New York and has continued to live there for ihe greater pan of his time, occupying th? apartment with a member of the company com-pany ith which he is en hatred. Tuc name of this member Mrs. Bushman does not reveal. Speaks of His 'Nerve. ' She also stated tiiat Francis had the nerve to bring this object ionable person to Bush Manor on several occasions, which seemed to peeve her more than anything else, for sue lays great stress on this point in her papers. She ae-m.iiuls ae-m.iiuls an injunction to prevent Francis X. from bringing her there again. Bushman is now at the head of his own company, with Beverly Payne as hU co-star. He left the Kssanay company. ' with which he got his first start in the l movie field, in 1915, and after he hail I been acclaimed the most popular movie idol exam. This popularity he capitalized in the formation of his own com pa ny. a n 1 his w ife's suit aHoires that he is now mak- j ing between ?'.;o,u.'0 and $7t'.vau yan . i She seeks s a week alimony in addi- tion to the $1000. which she says is due her on hi promise to pay her a certain i sum weekly when they parted two yea rs ago. after his actions had become un-beaiable un-beaiable to his wife. As for Bushman himself, he adopts the truly film heroic attitude when talking of liis wife's allegations, and responds: " 'Tis falte!" At Baltimore, at the Hotel Belvedere, where lie was interviewed, he stated his anxiety to settle all differences with his wife without Publicity or notoriety of any kind. His wife, he said, "had now frustrated frus-trated his attempts in this dire-"tion, as a result of which he intended to bare eve ry thing." Sensation Promised. So iir.eres-in revelation-' into the home li ff of t lie most famous mo Jo idol are looked for. "1 have not yet bad a conferf-n-e witli my attorney." s:id Mr. Bushman. I lis attorney is Y. Calvin Chestnut of BaFhnore. "I cannot, therefore, dis -lose the details de-tails o: tiie testimony I will brin out to : show tiie falseness of tho accusations against me." he went on. "I must dny thosA allegat ions which relate to bru- tahty on my part, or threatened brutality. bru-tality. 1 hr:vo never been Pruial to a woman in my life, and I ha . e never threatened to be brutal." j |