| Show Yes I Know I Shall Marry Again Says Clara Smith Hamon 9 o o y o o Life ot of f Tragedy Fails to Halt H Her r Qu Quest st for Happiness By RUSSELL J. J BIRDWELL NEA Service Writer BEVERLY HILLS Cal July 3 Yes I know I shall shaH marry again I dont don't know who he will be but I Iam Iam Iam am certain that I vas was destined to find natural companionship and love somewhere in the world Five Fi years ears ago the name of Clara Smith was emblazoned on the front pages of nearly every paper paper paper pa pa- per In the country She had shot to death Jake Hamon multimillionaire oil king and political boss of homa She was a woman whose tragic story of love and murder intrigued the interest of a d ri nation Now Clara has come out of her retreat In the peaceful surroundings of these California hills to again step into the spotlight A divorce decree was granted her from John Gorman film director whom Clara married when she took to the films to picture the story of ofer her er life Ufe This alone was enough to to carry Clara back into the news columns But she added Interest when she announced that she would marry marry again For a life Ufe strewn with tragedy has now embittered Clara against the world She feels tl that at somewhere ere there Is happiness and anda a home It was in 1920 when Clara shot and killed Jake Hamon Hamori His Ills millions millions mil mil- lions Hons had carried him far in political political cal importance and she was soon to tobe tobe tobe be discarded so she thought She fled to Mexico after her crime and for weeks kept herself successfully successfully successfully success success- success success- fully hidden away from authorities In the adobe huts of friendly cans Pursued by po police and detectives she finally decided to give herself up and she returned to Oklahoma homa where she faced trial on a first de degree degree de- de I gree murder charge Acquitted she came to California to forget and be forgotten She had drunk deeply from the bitter cup of experience She offered her lifes life's story to the Hie movies and under the direction of John Gorman the picture picture pic plc- ture history of her life Ilfe was filmed But this was not to be as Will Hays czar of the cinema ruled that the picture should never b ba be shown the public Shortly afterwards Clara became the wife wiM of ot Gorman I th thought the happiness I I t had longed had had at at last last she come says No lone one will ever know to what d depth I devoted myself in being being being be be- ing a a. worthy wife I wanted to make a go of it and anIbe be happy In a home that I might call my own But after three years ot of trying to make things end with a happy finish we we separated Urn Tm crazy about babies bables But It is too top late for tor me If I had had had hada a b baby b years ago ago ago- when I dreamed of one it ft would have hav been marvelous it might have changed the whole course of my life What is IS' IS the reaction of this woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man who for nine years bossed the millions that poured into the hands of Jake Hamon as she lives today in an unpretentious unpretentious' house and counts the pennies which pay the grocers grocer's bill Theres no price tags of repentance repentance repentance repent repent- ance now labeled on anything in my home proudly answers the woman woman woman wo- wo man through whose fingers slipped sUpped a fortune which sh she she- lavished on playthings and foibles of idle life I am happy here she smiles I do not permit my mind to dwell on what people term tragedies I 1 have have had had my fun Yes I have had my sorrow But I am content and happy now for the first time In years I feel reborn I think that theres there's lots to live forA forA forA for A woman can come back She can tight fight all the way back and win the respect of the world And to the woman so fighting who thInks she beholds nothing but darkness I can most certainly assure assure as assure as- as sure her that the road that that- leads beyond the station of Comeback is filled with many happy rewards Edna Ferber Sails for Europe Miss Edna Ferber has packed her pencils and yellow copy paper and sailed for Europe rather edly On the day of her departure she telegraphed her publisher I Iam Iam am sailing tonight at midnight and andam andam andam am Just as much surprised as you are For For several months Miss Ferber had been at work whipping Into shape the material for a new novel but there were so many in interruptions interruptions in- in so many invitations to join alluring vacation parties partle that she found it Increasingly difficult to to- get ahead with her story In Europe she can shut herself vay atay from all tempting digressions and devote herself en entirely rely to o her work AMBER LEE M MARRIED The identity of Amber Lee who e frank self revelation In The Woman I Am Seltzer is obviously obvious ious Iy ly derived from autobiographic experIence experience ex ex- perie ce has been arousing considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable discussion A certain dentist dentist dentist den den- is known cnown to be inducing his mor more sophisticated patients to buy the book in order that a discussion of Jt tt may lighten the curious and ingenious means of torture which his calling demands bu but which his tender heart deprecates The consensus consensus con con- census out of this informal forum seems to to be that Amber Lee Is Isan Isan an interesting woman whom it would be well vell or or- or dangerous according ac ac- cording to the sex of the patient to know It has been learned that Miss Lee is no no noa no-a a respected happily married woman who lives in Springfield Mass AmerI American an Film Star Star Fifty thousand thousand thou thou- s sand n dollars were offered me to stay stav In England Inquiring Reporter Did the of offer f- f fer come from England or America America Amer Amer- ica Z 1 i CLARA SMITH MOt MON HAMON AS SHOT 1101 JAKE HAMON SHE FLED TO RETURNED AND SHE LOOKED WHEN SHE- SHE IN 1920 MEXICO TO HIDE WAS I r 1sT 5 f 4 M I i I 9 CLARA s A-s POSED LIFES LIFE'S MARRIES 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