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Show Fatness Actress Says She Head the Great Western ' Story Twice; It was an Absorbing Narrative. ; ' -. . S. JflABXE CATTTT.Ti, J , The famous' actress. ' "IVsj read 'Blindfolded' twice," says Mkrie Cahill, the star in "Marrying "Marry-ing Mary," at Daly's theater in Nw York. "The first time I rushed through it to see how it would end. A woman usually loka at the ending of a story first and reads ' backward. But I had been warned not to do it, and so used all my will power to keep from peeping peep-ing at the last pages while I was in the-early the-early chapters. I usei to close the book and try to guess how it was going to turn out. I always gave it np. though. It's the most absorbing thing." "Blindfolded!" For once the title hits the nail of the story on the head. "Blindfolded" the reader will find himself him-self on the very first pages of Earle Ashley Walcott's story, and the bandage ban-dage is not removed until the last. It is an exciting game of 'Blind Man s Buff' from start to finish. You may think yon have your man a dozen times, but a dozen times he will elude you in short, there is a shiver for every page, a shock and surprise f ot every chapter ending. The setting is weird, the seamy-side of San Francisco. There are some good characters old Mother Borton of the lodging-house, who befriends the hero, and who might have come out of Pickens, and the mysterious Doddridge Knapp, "king of the street," with the face of a wolf, in whose employ the hero finds himself, with a eheck book good for millions, to buy or sell at the mining exchange. "Blindfolded" begins In Satnrday'i TELEGRAM and In each issue of THE TELEGRAM thereafter, daily Installments Install-ments will be published. Don't miss it. |