Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-05-07 | Page 9 | 'I'm Coming Back!" May Yohe Dreams

69 0 9 Im I'm Coming Back o May Yo he Dreams t 6 3 r A r r rr r t 7 i May today left and as she 30 years ago wh when n she was Lady Francis Hope BOSTON Mass May 3 NEA NEA- NEA I In a n an an unassuming little apartment on busy Columbus a avenue avenue ve ue where the the- tides ides of ot traffic ebb and flow low May hums strains of ot lIon Honey y Ma Honey and muses over the he the mosaic of her memories An Ana And And- tIm t- t Im coming back she dreams dream A mirror helps it discloses no lines Ines A plastic surgeon has seen to that hat that And my voice Listen May comm commands TO COME COM E EBACK BACK Its It's Honey Ma Ia Honey she Is is singing She sang it Jt around the world with international romances as interludes Im going to New York she tells ells tells Im going to see the booking agencies Im I'm going to show them that May Yo he is young again I Far places and famous names are woven into the gossamer of May yesterdays yesterday There are tinted rose d yesterdays and some that are ashen But forthe for forthe forthe the latter she asks asIes no sympathy Ive been a law unto myself she explains WED LORD HOPE May scarcely was was 15 when from a ach ch chance nce New York theatrical engagement en- en engagement engagement en en- she sang and danced her herway herway herway way triumphantly across the continent conti conti- nent At 18 while I winning London's plaudits she married into English nobility You will find her In I Who's Who as as the first wife wire of Lord Henry Francis Pulham Clinton Clinton Clinton Clin Clin- ton Hope Castle Blayney in County Monaghan Monaghan Monahan Mona- Mona ghan han Ireland became her home The Hope diamond of fort four forty four karats was among the jewels she wore the world wanted to hear hear henr Honey Ma Honey And In 1902 the singing of It brought May back to New YorkI York I 1 tossed everything away then she will tell you WAS WORLD SENSATION The newspapers heralded the sensation sensation sensation sen sen- that May wife of or the British nobleman had eloped with Captain Putnam Strong of the United United United Unit Unit- ed States army Lord Francis obtained a divorce in a few years rears Then in a registry office in South America May and Captain Strong were married There were few tew highways of the world left lert for the comedienne to travel But Dut she sought them out She divorced Strong and In London London London Lon Lon- don married Captain John Smuts who ho had fought with the English In Inthe inthe inthe the Boer Ber war In Bombay In in Pretoria In Hong Hong- kong in San Francisco she sang Then with Captain Smuts she turned farmer in California But Dut the soil soli too was unkind A tea room In New Hampshire was next It was destro destroyed ed b by fire WORKED AS JANITRESS Captain Smuts is employed employed- by a cement Importing company In Bos Bos- ton During the World war he worked In shipyards and when he became ill with Ith influenza the May who had been Lady Francis Hope worked as a janitress from midnight to 8 a ar a. a m. m dally daily to keep the rent paid Life she observes mostly Is worth only the living of it It Dr H H. B D. Bernstein era eraSed crated ed many of oJ the years from May face faceIn faceIn facein In a plastic surgery operation re re- re And now musing on the mosaic of her memories she dreams of fame again The melody of Honey Ma Ia Honey echoes through the unpretending i little apartment as she dreams the melody and its wistful words words- Oh come my love to me me me- Oh come m my love to me me- me You may nestle on my breast And dream a while and rest While we listen to the music To the Ue music music far far away away