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Show ..';:..... ' "I '.:..'' - - - - - - . , ' "l ' '' THE OGDEN .:. ' ?,y i - . . . STANDARD-EXAMINE- SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1921. R . ' Pfln They Battled for the Freedom of me Matrimonial eas Until the Crui se of the Author Who Wrote Happy Endings" Finished : j ' , r - cy ' " ' ' v " - - : :"' .... ' ' V . : V .m- i . aboard wife," Bays he. "He's the most darllnsest man," eays she, adding; "And we are awfully happy." "But not together," they chorus In unlsonl He ts II. II. Van Loan, author, and scenario writer. She Is his wife, the former - AUyn Cameron, granddaughter of Colonel W. D. Cameron, financier and legal lifht In New York. HaYing told the denouement of their romance. Us Inception may be recounted with all propriety. It began six years ago la New York. Van Loan had been a perfectly respectable newspaperman. He had been reporter and feature writer, and was Incidentally brother of the late Charles EL, the other Van Loan, who wrote fiction and made the hall of fame. Our Van Loan sought for fields to conquer and found them in fiction. At first he wrestled with lore themes built along polite lines demure damsels who nerer strayed; highbrow young men who were strictly proper and other rare and colorless characters. But finally he came to Melos. His fiction was printed In our best magazines ia the ereme of monthlies. And then. Van Loan, sought still wider fields, where the appeal was broader and the scope of his talent likely to be rewarded by larger financial returns. Van Loan turned scenario writer. He turned scenarios out with machinelike precision and speed. He sent them out regularly and recelred them back Jut as be communed wfih I regularly.ana- Whereupon started au orer again. hlmselt "My stories lacked punch," he admitted subsequently. 'There was missing the element of human nature, due probably to the fact that I bd nerer been In lore and knew nothing la particular of womankind." Bo ht fell In lOTt. The object of his admiration was AUyn Cameron, then sweet sixteen. Bhe was pretty, demure, chic, charming, delightful to the eye and a few ether thinge accordinganto Van Iran's alexpectant world legations deliTered to the day of his wedding, s courtship, Van Loan re i And with his doubled literary efforts. He wrote and wrote. Ha burned the midnight electric , light He turned 'em out by the yard. And he sold them. f The film companies began to bid for his work. A big company offered him a Hera-tire contract to become. publicity manager a the New York office, Incidentally writing a ecenano in netween announcements, van Loan accepted, and straightway perpe-trated his first publicity stunt Ho went Into conference with Miss Cam- "But atvthat moment Mr. Van Loan and hi lovely bride cared little for admirals and A they stood on the deck of the New York, with the booming its salute and the sunshine gleaming on 'the Hudson, they must have felt the world was theirs and the entire United States Nawf ' sea-dog- s, six-pound- er r --- . :.... , ' 4 "vv ..,..,. .... " - , . - ; k A . . . ? , , ;i t v - - - (, -.. - ..- ; . ; y, V ' " . ; - - f' , . - ' x - . they just separated I "She's the tacit wonderful ttrl. Is my 1 v . ' No, they did not tight ever after L ... : i: v .(-- U - i ' j " f - . . ....... vev were married ''II tHeY tleihfp New York! i X - ' If v ' - ' i -.- , . l .... - ' ' r . . '."?'"' " " x U ' V" v - J, - ; .,- .- .- -- Mr. and Mn. H. H. Van Loan and Their Baby, When the Joys of Matrimony Had Not Staled and Their Romance Wai Still In the Secondary Honeymoon Stage. 'W::Ms: X A v - " On the !.., ' 'MO ft! . . ". , Cameramen from the film 'company and news photographers flocked by the dozen to the captain. quarters. It was iodeei an eTentful day in the Ufa of n. H. and A.lyn. and Van Loan's reputation as a press a (eat reached par and beyond. So they were married. Could any bride hare desired a more romantic setting? Weddings at fashion-ablSt. ThomasX with all their befiwked and begowned luxury, with all their (lowers and fragrance and pealing oigan notes could not compare to the scent on the U. S. Battleship New York that diy. A bore them the blue sky mado a canopy, by towering mists and ropes Instead of cathedral arches. The altar was a cabin morw spick and span than any church nare. They adTacced across a spotless deck between rankis of s drawn up at stiff salute. And. as they raised their eyes at the minis' ers injunction to Join hands, they could see the shimmering Hudson and the faroS hazy hills of New Jersey. Just at that moment, as the whole ship's company centered Its gate on the open door and the pair beyond, it seeiaed the harsh lines of the New York beam softer. The battleship was cot a battleship, but a bower, "And I pronounce you man and wire!" came the roice of the officiating clergyman. Mr. Van Loan took the new Mrs. Tan Loan In his arms. The sailors gavi a The bind mighty marine "Hurrah!". broke Into the wedding march and, f xsaa one of the huge slxpoundtrs Yawning from a porthole burst a puff of smoke the e criss-crosse- , A 1 u -- y a ' ri-V&y-- y ' - J ' ' S : d X U.. blue-Jacket- bridal salute! In the Captain's Cabin Aboard the Battleship New York They Were Married and They Lived Happily After, for a Time. of Stamboui." ta wh!cli Frlsciila Dean atarred. Mrs, Van Loan added a maid or two and a car and a chauffeur to her menage, and Van Loaa wrote with accelerated speed to pay the bills Then came a rift Just how It all happened, neither Mr. cor Mrs. Van Loaa will reYeat But little by little they edged apart, thotigh Bring under the same rocL He went to affairs In Hollywood: she attended social function i without hint, Last May they parted, he going to a hotel, she remaining in their bungalow. Of course, the gossips began their whispering. DfTorce rumors filled the nsUwoxS air and loth dtnJd any mtcnUco cf sp- -' sealing to the law. tat "Why should t think of getting a divorce from the beautiful girl cf my dreamsT" aked Van Loan in reply to a direct truee-tlo- a as tr nls intentions. "I would do anything for elm," sugg st4 Mrs. Van Loan. "Fhe's a msit wpr.derfnl g!r1, is ny wife," a!d Van Loan.- "Happy 7 We couldut he Verily. Dsn Cupid mutt bare erored with triumph at that moment. Pertaps the shades of Nelson, of Drake, of Farra-ra- t and Perry and a hundred other ralant Abaters looked down on the scene irlth horror. A battleship, the bulldog of the seas, girea orer to such serene and snU-mentmatters as lore acd matrirncnyf What, asked Drake of Farragut, Is this awful world coming toT Did you eTsr, demanded Ferry of Admiral Nelson, tear' of such a thing? A wedding on a ba happier," name of Dary Jones! "He's the most darHncett man and we're But at that moment Mr. Van Loan and most haypy," assented Mrs. Vsn Loan, his lorely bride cared little for admirals "But not together," thty barmaslied ia As they stood on the ceck un sou. and of the New York, with the "Ye, we did separate added Mrs, Van Uon. "I hist think the world or Oar Van. booming its salute and the sunshine gleaming on the Hudson, they must hare felt tut I do like my cory l!ttl bungalow, and the world was theirs and the entire 3oi Van Juet adores hotels, you know," - ted States Nary. And then, to rrcTe bow ouch she loYed Neither one for a moment eontided her home, she remarked that he wis going that a wedding on a battleship may be away ca a. trip to New York. Cuba and I arls. more prophetic cf war than of peace. muuonea caiaiuj bk icar- Tm going alcne." she explained, "Van it nas aoea rift go it cure tor ioyo ana ice van uwns Kies Hollywood- - I doat know when I win seem to hare experienced something of this return. reaction. At least they did not lire hippl- - - -- We have separated all right" Van Loan eron. . ly erer after, for "erer" ts a long time la added, "It's all a Question cf black and terms of matrimony. They went weit to white. When I thrught It was black, she Would she object? UnlYerial Xlty, mhere the bridegrwsm thought it was wnue. uai at tr.at, she is Er well, If he Insistedoh, well yesl And so It happened that the next day ? wrote .scenarios, the while Mrs. Van loaa a fine little crepe hanger!" And then Van Loan launched Into a In 1915 the newspapers chronicled the kept houe. bouiht groceries, argued Prita a and mothered Van IL H. cf the art cf scenario msnufactura. Loan butcher of Miss the and dandy taby. Allyn wedding "Lore should be the underlying thtrae Van Loan wrote one screen success lifter Cameron, aboard the battleship New York, street, la the Hudson. another, the best known being "The Virgin lying Is rather rood, don't you think of then off Ninety-sixtQreat Britain Itlghta B rrd. (CI 1111, International Feature Eerrlca, Inc. al - . tie-sh- ip -- sea-dog- s. 1 slx-pouid- -- n every story. Lcys ts the taoit Impelling force ia the world it impels you into conjugal slavery. Without lore, what would w "be? Free from the matrimonial yoke. Yet Ioy Is all necessary. Othtrwlii there could be no motion picture plays and then, where would I make a living? The second Cfseotia! for a good morie ts a plot showing a recalcitrant wife who anerU fclsck Is plak and that her tcttscd. who should be a famous scenario writer, doMcot like New York and Cuba and FarU. Cf course, to make atmotphere. they shcutd be married ca a bitt!oMp Mf, the Kew Vcrk. ft lbT a battlfihjp earned Ue Rmo? Of that the fatrcr.t re ice ihlr? Then Ib'r? should be a tucch of interfering ne1jl.l or acd rslalitr s ar.d iniects cf that !rp tn tie husband rs!-- f ratle. Oh. I aisxott forgot: Of corse, the husband U as ceaily pertert as a scenario writer can make lilm. He csftr Crink. srmkes. s wet r tor strays. "WII! :rh a scenario pais the centers? Ten crrrr n fll. Yea im, Jhere's a acla? and taMfs ar f.lgh! Itrjprrr-cording io the rew rode, VtrHy. this it a tlnful wor',4 sr. d I am ecUreJy too saintly to be a cerurto writer." "If I etrr write a scenario tuggeitc'dj Mrs, Van La a, "It wi'.l t the lf Is the sslct I know more about wiring than Van dwt. His pcll!y has been buiricd-tec- . and he's made a fclootser cf that. I nerer sail btack was pink. 1 reajr ba? hinted that thre are sereral shades ef Mack, but baring artistic ir.itlr.cts. 1 know that there is ro such thing as rlnk.h'aek. I0T3 is co'or Mind and what differ-eccT3eId does tt make whether black cr plsk are the primary colors? My lata cf the ideal scenario is one ta w hlcb the hutfcand tends the baby, washes dishes, makes the bed and does th real Yroric Acfb-odcan write a rsetloa nlctur. tt take genius ttof to writs one. 3r,t. tt is try to restrain the dirirr urge, st E- -t urRisr its ltcf.it let a man try ts run a hu5choIdi Thank goodcess, I'm ecl r-- ak c-- e e fit w-t- jl a scenario writer." |