| Show I Betty Y Compson Tells i 4 it s f. f J it f. f s Salt Lake Star Pines for Home I I I I Ever Iver since her remarkable rise to stardom nt 1 1 tame fam tn ta Loane Loan Tuckers Tucker's s Miracle Man Han Betty Compson the little star has haa 1 1111 talking to 1 li her friend Miss Ills Grace Orace WH Wil- I i tOX ox or ot back horn home That back home honie lome is Salt Sail Lake ake the home of ot so many nany state stage arni screen stars At the suggestion u of ot The rhe Tel Tele- Tele grant gram alias Wilcox has lias written the lie tory story of ot Betty Bettys a departure from Salt It JM Lake ae e eBy iJ By Grace Grace Wil of nv n v years a ago o Betty Compson A s ook a tUttle futile little fist fis at the r re receding receding re- re ceding sk v si-v skyline line of Salt Lake Lak City aul eJ e nevet come boric back to jou Until Ivo ma made e good you beautiful gleaming hing arrived d' d lit fit thi Betty Comp I liC if ut ey eyes s. s of all tl itoe Who saw sw The Miracle Man rr cra cf iho re eat t and roost most a ap appealing pealing ig yet but i f c d but t ta in ri her own opinion she has Ms' not yet vet tipp d the top so so ad she j s not ready to to pay paya a personal per Ier- Ier visit tp her het native Out at the Brunton studios in Hollywood hollywood Holly holly- wood Betty Bettj Compson heads head her own compani compan and nd Is just now engaged In trio making of another feature picture which ev to rival in popularity an ann ana 1 punch ht her r last vehicle fe George Geqrge Tuckers Tucker's The rhe Miracle Man ManIn In her room with Its Us cheerful and amid gray furI fur fur- she sho talked glowingly he the other otner day dav shout about her home t town town- wn I Salt alt take Lake City is in an tn with nie me mei she ahe explained BETTY WEEPS I 1 The Time day clay I tee leff It with Hie the tears tears' POUl ing I down my face 1 looked back fromm i ithe the tile windows of the train and said tr ti my elf You shall know Im I'm alive before before be be- bei i j fore 1 I 10 Li and ou ou and when t t. t do rio come back there will be no darns dams In iii lY l I With my violin under m mj my arm I watched until the outlines of time the buildings build bullo In ings s faded awa sway away as unknown and un unacknowledged unacknowledged un- un acknowledged 1 started on on my may first fust adventure ad ad- un-I un venture outside my own city a vaudeville ville engagement In San an Francisco I It It seems such such- sucha a short time tinie ago ngo that thai I i was playing rn m my ill one of ot tle tie small Salt Lake theatres at night and ando o big Ing to high school In the tile daytime she observed Ed with a t. t look in her I great gray eyes ejes I have not yet jet grown accustomed t to tomy tomy I my good fortune so the little girl gin who I felt t a tiny n bt s sensitive tI because a she 1 had I Ito i J to to w work r when none J of of- i. i her schoolmates did Is more real to me than the present Betty Compson I SHE'S COMING COMING BACK BACK Of Or course I have been back home on n the screen but I have not et achieved wh what t I feel feet Is a genuine success so i 1 ishall ishall I shall not return In leal eal life until I have justified my my highest ambitions Just here Miss Misa Compson's Compson s e eyes eves es suddenly suddenly sud sud- I denly twinkled and the twisted little grin of ot Rose lose of The Miracle Man I twitched the tile corners of her mouth upward upward up ward as she said I It really Isn't because I still have to wear darned stockings that I Im I'm m keeping I away from Salt Lake Lake Lake-I I have quite qute afew n. n t tI few extra pa pairs pairs but bg but I h have yet vet to prove I d myself to m my mown own satisfaction satisfaction amid rIS and I whenever I see the sparkling white white domes dome and slender spires of pf my mi own ci City cly In my mv minds mind's ey eve eye I J I know the best f I can give Is la not not good enough and so I J postpone o my visit I I Salt I Lake you u know w was s literally I wrested from tIle the sands of the desert arid and there must have been something hard I I determined solid and Invincible in th the characters of ot the tile men and women who I dreamed of a rose-blooming rose garden where I 2 only the dust blew day after dav day X I have n noticed ced that thai mall many of the I Ins sons ns and daughters of ot those pioneers have el i distinguished themselves out in the worl 1 and It u. u may reay be their Inheritance of I strength from their ancestors rs who not acknowledge failure In the face of the most pitiless of ot natural conditions TO HER FRIENDS I I 1 want my old old friends Wends To o know tint that i Ii am eagerly rl anticipating a visit home and amid i that In another eai J or or orso so so 1 I hope 10 lo be able ablo to re realize mv my my highest Ideals of If success One O a cannot e C ll e tile the top alone amid and aud audI I I lam Iam am Yer verj lery fortunate te hi In i that t others other have hav I Intel e te ted themselves in tn my behalf and ami w are aie a assisting ro to attain m my i ambitions ambition through h Just here the ue a fl old kindly d face peered tn in open and a solicitous voice Inquired concerning 9 Miss Com Com- l sons son's That's a pet Joke she slie he exclaimed merrily They all conspire to Induce I me to e eat t midday meal I never want food rood when I am working but what can Call 1 I do When they assure me fliS it is for m mj my own good goody To prove that she was not insensible to the sug suggestion offered she hastily swallowed a glass gias of that had been been- wa waiting ting on a little all during dur dur- ing the interview I Ishall shall have a a. home In Salt Lake yet et she continued for tor in III my ny new new- picture Im I'm lri having havin- fl a a wonderful f chance nc to male make good and lit life is such fun n Then she snapped her dressing room I loot 1001 shut and hurried away to he her set set set- this lovable joyous Betty Compson who has lias already alread arrived to everyone's satIsfaction sat sal except her own |
