Show I BILLIE RHODES BILLIE RHODES RHODES WANTED TO BE BETRICK BETRICK BETRICK TRICK RIDER IN CIRCUS RING Miss i Billie Rhodes the graceful and charming little comedienne who has made such a hit hil in the new Strand Strand- Mutual series of comedies camo came within with with- in an ace of going life AS a aI bareback rider with a circus I Miss Rhodes is an accomplished equestrienne and is very fond of I horses In her childhood she was so in love with the circus and circus people people- that her mother used to take tale her herto- herto to to every ery performance s so- so Ion long a as 1 the big tents remained in San ran Frau cisco By the time that Miss Rhodes was wasIS' wasIS wasS IS' IS S 8 years old she had an extensive acI acquaintance acquaintance ac ac- ac- ac among circus folk foU esI es- es I j I pe among amonS' the tho equestrienne di- di division division I vision whose dressing tents she was wan permitted to invade with her mother Mine Mme Devine who was part o oWner of the Cole DeVine circus offered her I parents a contract to let liUe little Billie Billio go 10 with the show and learn to be a aI I bareback performer Miss was Rhodes was in good standing I at school however and her lieu parents would not permit her to lo interfere with I her education which proceeded until she she was graduated from the Lady of I Lourdes academy By that time while still sUB an enthusiastic equestrienne equestrienne eques eques- trienne Miss Rhodes had turned from the circus to the tIme stage She was given iven her lien first engagement with the Orpheum circuit and her first big hig hit was Vas in Babes in |