Show I t r i ta tar tay tab r of Pleasure the y r b SJ 4 Reckless Pursuit a q French Resort Explained r by Rich Henri j r Anxiety to Find Distraction aA r rw w y K Painful Memories M r i From the 14 td of his Two Shattered c Romances f bk raaf iS iSy y l l PK x q r ry x 1 j b y Rt k C a tk 1 4 ya a e y jL a ref w 4 2 t dt t e d r t nay rD D ka es f c yr s r rT T x r 4 i fh a ai af f 1 t i e ee e t y x to eC t 4 3 rs tY 19 vs iS v vb 5 t r a P a tl a v 4 E Q r icy GH u i w x k x P a Y tl r p ai i a L t tl r FV pl eA Yi f fi fx x A x aa a er t r A yf i rat y rv a aN a f p wd t t ty N a aX X f y 1 f fi i e y yr r i J a tt z r r Y w d f tk s sar ar 3 Mme fl r l Marthe a of c s b I tl er v vi ra r the fashion v n o F able Parisian s 's d a as b u J k ke beauty e s fr Y r K a aa Qa s w h ho o divorced a r r Henri Letellier when j v iw Y i neta love with 7 vy fell in x he m sS x y t t r F f w R w Peggy Gillespie the win rr if from Pitts a vA 4 M w rs some tittle girl burgh who is now dead b Q t t c cs cC ct A fo fot t lA B s C i l i Km Cc sM 1 H t t I t M Comuche the uncrowned king of Deauville seated at the head of the table at a luncheon given to celebrate the inauguration ofa of a de dc train service from Paris and above h x 01 the th- left the real power behind throne Herri Letellier one of the J Jh r s richest and most miserably unhappy of men 1 yea 4 he ha found in that oft of his still adored e and lamented Martha Marthe and Peggy f jar Only Hen H if e n r I f S hisa most ik ka intimate friends y t tik r a understand t te tho te e t tragic r rag a g i c secrets e i which lie he hidden hidden e m in his heart and y jf which v explain the tho ther r r r Yo o real reason for fory Y Y nr N his enthusiastic w A 5 If Torts to mako A a w wj J Deauville a still f madder and mad mad- Mary Corday the American dancer adding her charms to the cosmopolitan I I a collection of loveliness that gathers on the sands of Deauville F ALL the many seashore resorts OF to which the rich and fashionable fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable able flock fiock Deau Deauville on the coast of Normandy in m France is undoubtedly the one v where here pleasure is pursued led most madly with the most moat prodigal careless careless- carelessness carelessness carelessness ness of expense and often with the most shocking disregard of the conventions that rule the more staid and sober rest of the orld At Deauville the bathing costumes and the evening d collet are always more daring the orgies of drinking dancing and gambling wilder and the crop of scandals that I 13 is harvested every ery season far larger and spicier than anywhere else And the prices charged for every every- everything everything thing soar to heights that bring gasps of astonishment e even en to the lips of the most freely spending of American mil nul- millionaires mil millionaires The uncrowned ned kin king kine of this realm of reckless pleasure is Eugene COl nuche a former Parisian dishwasher who oho now runs Deauville's leading hotel and is piling up a fortune from the exorbitant prices that obtain there a aBut But although Cornu he is called Deau Deau- Deauville's Deauville's villes ville's king the real power behind the throne on which he Sits Bits Is Henri Letellier Letellier lier her the multi millionaire French news news- newspaper newspaper newspaper paper proprietor and one of the worlds world's most famous connoisseurs of womans woman's beauty v r Letellier it was who took from tho pots poh and pans of a Paris Pans hotel hokl hokland and established him Dim in the Hotel Nor Nor- Nort Nori j t i mandy Letellier it is who ho is contin contin- continually continually dc devising ISing new and more extravagant forms of pleasure to attract to Deauville the ga gayest et spenders not only of Europa but of America and every Cry other part of the earthLike earthLike earth earthLike Like his prot ge Comuche Henri Le- Le Letellier Letellier Lc tellier must be reaping enormous divi divi- dividends divi- divi dividends dividends from Deauville but it is 15 not be- be because because be because cause of its money-making money possibilities possibilities ties that he ha is 15 so interested in the resort re- re resort re resort sort Deauville is only one of ot the playthings with which he tries to distract distinct his mind front from the torturing memories of the 10 loses lo es esho ho has lost of lost of beautiful lIme Marthe the wife Ife who ho divorced him and of Peggy Gillespie the winsome little American gill whom death took from his arms within a few hours after he had made her his Ills wife The madder he can make Deau Deauville's ga gayety ety and the the whirl hITI of Its life the better chance he thinks he has of healing the wounds left in m his heart by these thee t two 0 love tragedies tragedies-or tragedies at least of finding some orne measure of for for- forgetfulness forgetfulness for for tI tl cir pain Also it is believed this connoisseur of beauty nurses the hope that some day inthe In Inthe inthe the cosmopolitan array of beauty 1 hick his genius as a promoter of extravagant extravagant extravagant gant pleasure attracts to the sands of Deauville and into its caf cafes s and gambling casino he may finda find a woman whose loveliness lo can give him something like the supreme satisfaction der pleasure resort To others he seems a completely carefree man of the world orId spending the millions that pour like magic into his pocket from everything ever he touches in the pursuit of pleasure and the gratification of his highly tastes Letellier keeps himself continually sur- sur surrounded surrounded sur surrounded rounded by many of the worlds world's most beautiful women an assortment of love love- loveliness loveliness liness large and varied enough to have haves s any uny amorous old Sultan of the Arabian Nights Tho The gossips have in interesting stories stones to tellof tell of his innumerable innumerable ble flirtations and even mOl mole e serious tf- tf affairs af affairs fairs with these beauties But no none no of them has led the multi millionaire to anything like the ovel whelming 10 love lovo e with which his heart was as filled by the sweet s sweethearts hearts and wives wises he has lost Henn Letellier married his first wife Ife early in m life soon after he came camo Into the great fortune v his father athel l l- l ft and which he has been so successful In She increasing She came camo from a fa fashionable family In Inthe inthe inthe the Faubourg St Germaine and v was as c ex- ex beautiful In In fact to this day she is rated one of the greatest beau beau- beauties beauties beauties ties in m P Paris I Letellier and his bride avers Hr supremely happy until one day there floated within the range of his appreciative eye a dainty little American girl gul named Peggy Gil- Gil Gillespie Gillespie lespie lespie She had only recently arrived m in France from the United State States where her fragile Dresden like china beauty had flowered amid the smoke and soot Boot of Pittsburgh From the moment he lie saw Peggy 1 I is ri e et t And this is Mlle s ss s Jacqueline s Campbell the d ds talented vivacious young young and andY Y French tc lv whose blond beauty M Letellier y tier lier admires r very much in- in indeed indeed In Indeed deed but not yet quite enough to make her Gt ks his wife l S v v c cx x y ya t a K heart was no longer completely Marthes Marthe's And yet he is said to have found too tle problem of deciding which of the 0 beauties he 10 loved ed the better the most difficult one of his life lIfo As soon as ns spirited high Marthe Letellier Le- Le Letellier tellier learned how captivated her hus hug husband band was by the little Pittsburgh beauty she insisted that ho he choose bet between een the theto t o She Sho would not be part of a love triangle not even when her husband as- as assured assured as assured her that he still loved her After long and painful deliberation Letellier finally solved the problem his Ius wife Ife forced upon him by choosing Peggy lie He did this his friends say not because he loved Marthe Martho any less than when he married her but because he flIt felt he lie loved th newcomer from America more lie Ile settled a fortune on Marthe and she ho obtained a divorce Then he lie snuggled snug snug- snuggled snuggled do down don n his new mate in m a 1 rious love nest and for eight years ears found with Ith her what hat seemed to be bethe bethe bethe the height of bliss The end to what hat hat ever everybody even body thought night prove a lifelong honeymoon came tragically when v hen Peggy fell a of consumption and the great great- greatest greatest greatest est specialists were ere unable to do moro than add a few da days s to her life and andL make her end less painful As she khe he lay on her death bed Henn Letellier gave the greatest 1100 pi of 1 his devotion by having per per- performed performed formed the ceremony that gave gaved c d her the legal and moral right rightA t to be called Mme Ime Kent Letell er i and to be buried burled with all due due 1 honor in n the magnificent LetellIer y lier her family mausoleum at nt Passy t It was seven years ago that Peggy Gillespie died and e er ever r then Letellier of Peggy since in spite all his appearance of may devil may devil care gayety gaiety ga ety has been one of the unhappiest of ol men The me mey c y heart that th t was as so sorely wrenched when he ha was forced to choose bet between een Marthe l and Peggy was as quite broken v when hen death robbed him of his pretty little American sweetheart S 1 Since Peggy Gillespies Gillespie's death J there have been repeated ru- ru rumors rumors ru 1 1 mors that Letellier would wel d I 1 5 come reconciliation a 1 with his hisT divorced dl wife Ife but there seems I hardly a chance In i-i the world orld of anything tins Ilka-tins happening I J a t Of course couise COUI se a man so v wealthy 1 and brilliant as Henri Henn Letellier IS a favorite subject for the matchmakers and nobody knows how many ambitious beauties are continually plotting and scheming to lure his inter inter- interest interest interest est into v what hat they think a proper ap- ap appreciation appreciation ap appreciation of their charms Hardly a week goes by without the thc rumor of his coming engagement to some someone someone someone one or other of the blond beauties he is isso isso isso so fond of ha having mg around him When Peggy Hopkins Joyce was in m Europe she was frequently reported about to become his fiancee Another beauty whose name Is still stillmore stillmore stillmore more frequently linked with Letellier's In Inthe inthe inthe the matrimonial rumors is Mile Jacque Jacque- Jacqueline Jacqueline line Campbell a pretty French actress in- in inseparable inseparable in inseparable who is the multi millionaires millionaire's almost separable companion Some cynic has remarked that Letellier and end might as well be married since they quarrel as bitterly and mako inako up as read read- read ilyas Ily as if the they were n t nut Cut those thoe who ho know Henri Letellier burled buried in best think his heart too deeply Peggy Gillespies Gillespie's grave for thre th Te to be much likelihood of his again becoming L a husband It is admitted however ho e Cr that be different story to tell there night n ight a Letellier should how Ilo If Mme Marthe any sign of forgiveness eess or if the multi multimillionaire millionaire should discover Cr in m the whirl of life in Deauville or Pans Paris some beauty almost as perfect as whom horn he thought the t two 0 5 sweethearts he has lost Jost Until something of this SOl soil t happens Letellier will undoubtedly continue to tr try to forget the love lobe tragedies that hose ha clouded his life I by lly y making Deauville the maddest pleasure resort in the world Ilene is believed behe ed to own about aboLt all the e a eis ais ais is in m Deauville from the roulette wheels heels that whirl v in m the gambling casino to the permanent v wave e a makers in is the beauty parlors But Cut his investment at nt the resort large as it must be is a nerd nere drop in the mighty bucket budet which his for for- fortune fortune for fortune tune fills to overflowing He lie also owns 0 ns the greatest ne newspaper spa per in Pari Pans Pang oil fiel fieh J Jm m in Mexico and Rumania mines mmes in m tl the e Ruhr Rul r factories in Belgium baccarat rooms in m South menca merica hotels in Africa n a fleet of twenty automobiles a half half- half dozen dozen airplanes and one of the finest racing stables in Europe Besides being a n great business genius this remarkable man I If is an artist who ho could have made himself elf famous in any anyone anyone one of halt half a n dozen lines lilies The rhe luxurious limousines in v which ho takes his favored blond beauties riding are of hi his 0 own n design both as to their novel coach work and their rich Tich upholstery upholstery story The rhe wonderful interior or decora decora- decorations decorations decorations in his Pans Paris mansion in Rue Spon tim and in m the library theater and restaurant which have a place in his newspaper ne building were ere planned by him But it if It IS is in the designing of charming hats and gowns that his Ius artistic talents find the he bent they like best Not a Jew few of the most admired fash fashions ons of recent years cars have originated in III the fertile brain bram of this beauty lover lo When Peggy Gillespie v was as alive alne aln 13 1 to It liked nothing better tt an to make maka the rounds of the famous with her herand herand herand and have one ono after the other of them adorn her like flower beauty with hats J Jand and gowns of his own on creation Since her death unhappy Henri Henn Letellier er has been unable to find either In is rind mad Dean Deau- villo Deau-villo villo 1110 or anywhere an hero else another woman oman whom v horn he thinks so worthy of his genius 11 as a n creator of fashions i iU |