Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 4 | French Intrigue after Revolution Vividly Portrayed

French Intrigue After Revolution Vividly Portrayed Once Fascinating Dancer DancerS S Central Figure in Pa by Cheke By VICTOR MARKS A well and simply told tale ot of France In the days das Immediately following the revolution and the ot of a democracy lee by Marcus Cheke males makes a delightful two hours reading and at the same time gives a clearer of the France of that period pe- pe nod than man other many volumes to t toor or three times as heft hefty It is a story of the dancer who had held all Vienna spellbound thIrty years before and who had loved eleven kings in her mad extravagant youth But now is old and ugly and the legs that once carried her slim I desired body across the stage hive ve been amputated following a peculiar peculiar liar accident There is but one lovely thing about that Isher is isher her voice While Robin Arlington young handsome and English was with he was held spellbound spellbound spell spell- bound by her voice When he was vas away from her she was repugnant to him and her attentions for she was much in love with Robin were obnoxious ob ob- noxIous Robins Robin's connection with household was unique He was engaged engaged en- en as physical instructor in her I School ot of the Principles of Libert LIberty This kept him near and also near her daughter whom RobIn Rob Rob- in loved Then Robins Robin's friend the Duchess de Chateau Luca cs wanted RobIn there for years ago her son Arnaud had made love loveto loveto to s so that he might In turn be near another daughter of ot the dancers dancer's whom he loved The duchess wanted to find out what had become of the child born to her son and the dancers dancer's daughter for both mother and child had disappeared disappeared dis- dis appeared and Arnaud had been killed In a duel So Robin Hobin played at his triple game in the maelstrom or mad society society so- so in the second phase of the French revolution Then Georges daughter was by a man who sought her hand only that he might obtain the huge fortune fortune for for- tune of the dancer Robin Hobin and his friends staged a mad race through a stormy night nigh t and succeeded succeed d in rescuing Georges just before a marriage ceremony was about to tobe be performed Then Georges and Robin grew to love each other more until one day Georges saw Robin kiss the lips of All this time the Duchess was gathering facts and information She appeared one morning at Pa- Pa place with a woman prematurely prematurely pre pre- maturely aged by years ears of suffer suffer- ing This was real daughter daugh- daugh ten ter and Georges was established as the dancers dancer's granddaughter This was too much for who not notable notable able to bear the stigma of having havinga a granddaughter at her ller age collapsed collapsed col- col lapsed In her mechanical chair and died So Robin and Georges were married mar mar- ned ried and the dancers dancer's huge fortune fortune for for- tune went to Georges despite the fact that no less than one eighty people produced offspring which they claimed were illegitImate babies of that remarkable woman William WilHam Morrow l and Company New York