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Show PEGGY LEARNS OF REAL LOVE BUTTOO LATE Fickle Actress Discovers She Really Cared for Man Who Took His Own Life; Ideas Are Changed i PARIS. March I (By I". P.) "I liked i to pull the airings. I llkrd to plsy with sll of them. Now I'm through with, men." It wss midnight In Peggy Hopkins' Joyce's boudoir. Ths most fsinous j i vsmp of modern times, for whose love two men are said to hae killed them-j j selves, who has been four times msr-1 i rled and aa many times divorced, and ' who has run through fortunes total-' Ing 13.000 000 In twrlye years, laid bare; her soul. Nhe wept because shs couldn't tell the recret of her fstHl fssclna- llon. "I liked their sdmirnllon.' Peggy cried. "It ass life to me " I Havlshlngly gowned In blue neall-! ree. propped up In a bed decorated with lace and silks, the former show girl, dl- i vorced wife of .1. Htnnley Joyce, drank ( beer and brandy, "by the doctor's or- j der to strengthen my nerven." end nmnked Inreaxsnlly ss shs talked of her conquests of men and their msny tragic I end. I "I don't know why men run sfter me." the girl who has had the weslthl-i est snd most Influential men of four continents at her feet, declared In an-I swer to a quesilon. "I cannot tell you !hs secret of my fasclnstlon. ' "Never, no never, did I deliberately try to lure them Into my net. I never meant to mln their Uvea" The latest of Peggy's victims, sc-cordlng sc-cordlng to her claims, Is young William Krrarnssrl, Chilean youth, who shot I himself in the rooms next to her suite :on Hyndsy, because, srrording to I Peggy, she refused to marry him. I The blow has rhsnged her life, the I "million-dollar siren" declsred. LOVED BILLY. I "I've lesrned thst I loved Billy." she isnld. speaking of the Chilean youth. "And now ill's too late. I loved him.! but I ployed with him. I dangled him, on a string. Just as I did msny others. Oh. why did I do It? "I'm young. I'm In love with life. .11 ought to have been contented with tho msn I loved and who loved- me to distention, dis-tention, j "But that's the wsv of the genie. Tou plsy with them all and then you don't know where to stop. I loved the chase, to have them pursue me. I msde Billy dance the same tune ss the rest, and! now he's dead." Peggy sut up In her luxurious bed. a fetching flgura despite her recent be. resvenient, and called to her maid to bring In her two tiny poms. Then shs msde them romp snd do tricks on the lacy coverlet, showing how one liked cigarette smoke and ths other "Just loved blsck coffee with a little brandy In It." "Hee." she cried gayty. "they are Just like" the men who lovs me. They do their tricks heraus I spplaud them. They Just ask my sdmlrstlon, whlls I." she thrust out her beautiful srms In a descriptive gesture: "I Inslut that they worship me." Peggy was asked to tell what she considered kept the hearts of wealthy men always st her feet. "The secret of my charm? 1 cannot tell. Probably Cleopatra, or thoss other women before me could have told NOT THE REAL ME. "Most men are sttrsrtrd by mv clothes, my Jewels, my face, my person some Just because I'm I'eggy Joyce. They don't csre for ths real me. "Billy did and now he's gona for-ever. for-ever. If ever I marry again," and here shs seemed to sinils remlnlscently at the memory of four husbands of ths past. "I shsll tell ths man I cannot glvs him real love. That has gone from my life forever. "I've lesrned bv lesson." she declsred. de-clsred. not too emphatically, as her maid came In to tuck her In for the night, and tha Interview closed. "I'm through playing with men. Mv philosophy of life la changed. I'm going go-ing back to America and go Into the sinvtes." Word waa received from Berlin thatl Jack liempsey. who la reported to ba I interested In a film with Peggy, ts re-, turning to meet her In Maris, and that i they may appear together In a picture to be made In America. |