Show r o j T R Rai ai 4 t L O i Q a on t tW II W p Mystery of th the Gay B Butterfly Whom Whoa Y y if r yr a 1 W i ff lr J f t 1 I w 1 With W-dh and anda J Broadway Petted Played a K g s c- c l L-J L y a 4 7 ti 4 p D Dr r Q a r Q b J avret x f wM f K Killed W While Her Friends W M t t fry f v ey t z N Jf lt 4 s J v J oar Main Street Fondly Believed R 1 1 1 Ws J ll r m mv v wr riY Jt U it t t piS I ill in Her der ee and a n rt rr U f fJ I J r ro tl rJ d a tk 1 Div w a w r I If f J Zi ff 1 f i l 0 r z r r li t r r t t S Sr l rv 6 ss pp Jt 1 r 1 H Hono Honorably ono y W r t lt B F Y li jl iDi F i J f 1 l e e 0 K r If f r 3 Jn r t A l L J td s 1 a iJ fr rM f o or 1 r w v HsI Success pp k t i t tY t Y Y t i M p r rf f t Wl f I r i s a 0 7 s i ir r ta ps j jm m t L f i tJ 7 t f y 4 I l 1 y yr t r r iw e to 3 G i sa e f foN A J AI Z a kI 5 oN lr Fr t e eG R lj r X J m J d j Y Y a f i T f W r rj t j m hJ ix 3 rt N e fl k 5 b r J W r i f S Sf lq M f L 7 a J 1 t o v pK yr yc o S A 5 f 7 b a t t t 1 rJ- rJ rt gj 7 u Y V F a j r y 14 Kp y f al my 1 y Jw mx P L r e vv t r q i-q- f Nt v rr t r t gin G Ji t Ii f a aNt Il il f l fr l 54 Is 4 v ar w mw P I ft wi M i W l e t l r I 6 J ir 1 m i f j J f p Y if f r F 1 f v t ar W v X d Ir c cae ae 1 Y Yx x e ti y i 1 Ii 1 t f Jt r r Ji j J 7 3 v 1 k kas as r 1 j s 's 1 fie a a ti s 's w t J if Ji 1 u Q 1 f J 1 v J f t The dull drab Main MaID Street of Walnut Springs rex fex Louise Loue Lawson found a as s f J w SN sW f a r rable I able after her first glimpse of livelier places and from wl-kl wl she fled to the bright lights t I f gi f M 4 s 's Y 4 lY pt 56 q g bl JS o and reckless gayeties of New Yorks York's Broadway Boadway I f J HO the men were who deceived WHO J prett pretty young oung Louise Lawson T into admitting them ahem into her New ew York apartment t the e other ther morning before she was dressed or fairly awake ahe and then strangled her hOer to death is a mystery the police and her friends have ha not yet solved and probably never vill- vill hill But the life of the dead girl as it t has been revealed by her millionaire ers ers and Broadway and nerds f In her old home borne town toNi to in Texas holds a mas mys- ms- ms mystery mastery tery that seems to be even more unfathomable unfathomable than her hr cruel death Who was the real Louise Lawson anyhow any any- anyhow 11 how That is the greater y n The two widely different nt versions versions of her life story which Ih the police bave have pa- pa patiently patiently pa patiently pieced together since h her r death show her to ha have hae e been possessed posse ed of o t two o almost as wl widely widey ey different personalities as the Dr Jekyll and Mr Dir Hyde of Robert Loins Stevenson's immortal story Which of the directly opposite natures that inhabited this Southern beautys beauty's p curving flesh and called them them- themselves themselves selves by her name was the real Louise Lawson That isa is I a a question t to to puzzle not DOt only oily the police but grave gra psychologists psychologists and medical scientists ts Was the real Loul Louise e Lawson the one who ho is mourned on the Main Street of her native Texas villace e village as an Innocent minded minded high girl who met net an unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate nate death while making a perfectly honorable struggle for fame and fortune In the big city Or was the real Louise Lawson the girl gul Broadway thinks it a knee knew a very sophisticated young woman a girl who had the easiest way andas and was as liv- liv liv rg in m idle studded diamond-studded luxury by matching her smiles es and kisses against the desires of men willing to pay high for them 1 There can be no question of the sin sm- sincerity sin sincerity of either cither a or Main Mam Streets Street's belief nor ot of the soundness ls of the evidence on which each belief is 1 based But Dut Broadway thinks Main Mam Streets Street's conception of the real LouI Louise Lawson rason son so absurd that it is really amusing amus amus- amusing ing mg and Main Mam Street thinks Broadway s sa a cruel slander on the memory of one of orits its It fairest flowers of innocent youn young womanhood In the restaurants along Broadway La and ard where whore r LaV Larv oi 1 danced and nibbled at eI live ve food foods and sped rare ure wives wines she and aAl the fate that overtook her alre already dy are almo almost t forgotten The apartment where here she was murdered has been ben stripped of It furnishings Other butterflies since began spreading their their wings to attract the attention of some of oC the pien nen en about town from whose generosity Louise Lawson had made mad her her- herself har self such a a soft vest nest Broadway will remember her if It does docs at all for the speed with Ith which sh she attained the ability to live without nork or or marriage Only six years ago she came me to York YorI quite unknown n and yet for several years lIe us lie had been wear wear- wearing wearing ing Dg Pans Paris gowns riding in limousines and continually flitting from one onn pleasure ure place to another Her diamonds and aud other jewelry jewel were valued at Sho She had plenty of money in il the ban bans banon on which she drew her checks In n a Wall Street Sheet hou house e she sha had hada a comfortable o little lp fortune to her ber credit asia as a II result of tips on the tha market which winch f nerds had kindly given gl r h r A fast worker is Broadways Broadway's corn COM r I went ment How flow far tar she might have gone U it ithe Uhe he had not been killed I In Walnut Springs Tex a little town r r- rnear near Waco in 10 the heart of what used t Texas ry Was 11 the days Y 3 ta n she knew there was anything more than a r ta the simple hon 1 n a aV V c 1 e a eat pleasures of 7 t k t t Si b i r ro s n 56 d b the rairie vii vii- l l lase ase where she n sFa 3 tv v raw m r x t sara r Z y r c was born 1 rf y f y si a t f ei r ra a d to i ir r r ry rl y l y ya a y i 5 a f n nr r r j j is r rr A t kj ry f y f 7 P t r ox i r i iY a A V Vr Vr Va r a d C ka k t 4 Tl J 1 Y IHA y iJo ta A I f 3 s Y C Ca a a a r S C i k tJ r rC t A tr 3 y t n r u uS uSvia t f via tr a F J n a aJ J AJ 4 s a CY ij l 6 l lva va i r f k j v p pk k P C C i c FM x M I 1 v k iv t v I I SH r t spa ri Miss Louise Lou Lawson the murdered Texas beauty who was one ones f r woman on Broadway and quite another enother GAVE UP T Tand s v vl l ir t r a on the Plain Main Street o of her Iter home town town- and nobody knows which was her self FORTH On the right 1 J rai d tr t tf f J si 4 scene cene from the a film Way Down ry F r t a y S x Jf A ei aS A i ai East ff with tho- tho S Sa fJ a av v cr r sg t st I j af i arrow indicating ty et vl fN p b v Lou Louise Lawson in inan m an extras fat A K t r n kin 4 1 L Lx Lt 4 r x t part part Lone nc of the rAM J few times she e wee r x Jt v j r c a was employed eP n toYed rt y w n f d during Q r i in n g the six d 7 af a Sr Aa dab Y L s rd t af fig tM years when she sheA r v v x 4 t a or a t M t tt tf f t was to tobe t i r A may d y f t a l at A be getting well wella saga a rn k x nM y est a bUshed nn g fin thet the stage t g e t tJ be the Texas cow countr country that is where here the memory of o louise Lawson Lawso i kites lues here I It will III be bB a as long ong liS as the men and aid women who oho ho knew her herreman remain reman alive The day her body nag as was brought brought hack from Km York the mo monin n gathered from millS miles l to shed tars of ii yi id f fon un on h It asit aid to pay py their of or love and to the gIrl who was as they Ihl lio hr always a credit tl b t hir h r l ho hoire tue tHI loan n ii end woo no no some fax ja ure s-ure 0 lid have trade irate J JamOUR t famous amOUR Walnut loved ed LUI Larsen for her innocence and charm harm Aeo so A I r admired her for her hr her musical ability and hr ambition U to ac h great things in life From the tre dayI day I when when b n II li stood up In inthe the choir of the Baptist church and sarg her hymn she had been the towns town's one nc great musical prodigy If It MalY Garden rarden sang liOy anymore more divinely it was only because b she had had more mor training Walnut Springs was WitS supremely confident int that shi was this de destined for tr a place amor- amor the worlds world's orld's great prima donnas When she found it possible to go to New York to her hET musical stud stud- studies les ies her friends were wele delighted They watched eagerly for letters telling of her progrESS off on on the road to sue success ISS and when bhe she returned for tor brief visits they hung on every word she had to say about her life and work in III the far away metropolis me- me metropolis me metropolis S w y r- r the expensive lve gown 0 n ad dd ewe Is s LOII Lawson wore now stirred no Eu lIlt her s I l Ili hv v regarded re- re re regarded them only as liS additional that al te t-P rr was scoria tic Ire t e b b tl t sic sic- e ess they thc hey Iad ad en en wuen the girl vas r as dud and the newspapers were ere describing dp ne ue as some some- something something thing quite qUill different from a music IO ate ate- stu student dent orI or a n hard harrl sli singer singer ger Walnut Springs refuted refund to believe that its idol had feet pet of oi 11 tiny It Il called th se n se allega allegations a- a lions lies lie IH ard and and looked w with JIh horror hono on the depravity ofa of ofa ofa a city that could permit them To show how its abiding faith in the dead girl the to ton towns town's n schools and places of business WEre WE're clo closed ed the th day of her herf f meral The church I where hete a 11 clergyman eulogized her nd and held U up her life hie as a pattern for other girls to i f l How flow was Idled to overflowing mg Two thousand grieVing friends followed her body to fl 3 y Only some one who l has known well both the Ihu dull drabness ofa of a town lake Walnut Springs and the reckless gayety of ofa a city like lIe New York car can can understand what tempted Louise Lawson to pay the Ute fi i p r a J v vs vilia s ilia r z f l o Maino The final journey joney jo ney from Broadway back to MainSheet Main Street Sheet J t price sue she d d to e exchange the theone pe peone one for Ol ti II othol and at atthe atthe atthe the then w ss n tame lp Ip decline nor ner 1 I q town t rend into ins hin she was leaning leaning i f a life utterly the fhe ore one t I 1 nai Proud to b to ncr ner B oady ay dY ch ais The Min in Strict ut II ut of tec tac Texas Te I rs t of all aU at cuti ull stress men s sarc are arc to Ic fc t contortions on lom font Jon Ion since since discard discard- discarded discarded discarded ed cl e ece e c-e ni III e ed There IS little or nothing to stir the enthusiasm of an al auy girl nuh less Ip s one Oll as look good ing and talented as Louise Lawson The n r for tor a girl who must moot live II lien he whole life on tin Main Street Streetie is 18 to dilly all knowledge of the livelier world that exists outside This LoUl Louise e Lawson failed to do Her first dissatisfaction lon with the stern stem limitations lon of Mann Main Street Strett came liS as asa asa II a young when she went ent to a dance at tl the l nearby town of Marlin Springs where the New York Giants Q of the Na- Na National National Na National League were having their spring training She met men and women from Crom New York Chicago and other cities that were ere only ague Lague names to her and was Va fh f fa by the glimpses they gave her of the l life e they enjoyed there I V From that time on she 11 hied li pd Iron front year to dear e ear r in anticipation of the return of oft the t Giants to Marlin Springs and the chance lh o to he ha h he e a little tittle of the gayety Jayet tho b t b Laici Latel she to stud stud- stud stud stud-at fat at Baylor Ur n s s s ty t 13 Cy Ly Ip t v time she he had hlll finis fin fin fin- is couise ih sh hid irid grown grown to abhor her tc r thin HIlD Street with its rail ram ram- ha le a store stores and its dusty Dad that ut led to no nowhere except o the klie dreary sun baked prairie Its people too ere era v ero no longer the the gills with Ith their downy dO lIY lothes cothes othes and the boys boy oy with Mith their hair cat Colt round over their ugly red red brick necks The fact that she hc had hail musical talent furnished her her Ier wI witha with h hI 1 a I means of escape She induced her father to supply enough money to pay her expenses in New Ne York York for for a few months By then she J assured him she Ehe would be able to take care of herself But Louise Lawson found a as count count- countless le less leas s other amb ambitious IQ s young girls have found that turning ones one's musical nl ability into cash I is not so easy There were so many g girls rl who bo could sing and playas play as aswell aswell well as she he and lind what what was wag most discouraging aging many of thein could bring to bear financial and other influence ence v which luch she lacked t l She worked faithfully at her musi music i A and made what hat her teachers called gratifying progress pros In her spare time she made the rounds of the theatrical offices She managed to secure one or two small parts on the stage but the engagements were short and led to nothing better In desperation she turned tl to toI I the pictures She appeared as an extra in m Way Vay Down East and 1 several other oller films but in m this field also she was unable to gam anything like a permanent foothold A At t last she reached a point t e she must have money or go back defeated to the monotony monotony ony oily and crudities of Main Mam Street She could not bear to think returning there for tor two reasons the After Arter of New York life the dull drabneSs of the Texas town was more loa loathsome some than ever Also Abo she hated t td admit th that t she a nten woman There was as ns Louise LO son Lawson had been leng enough on Broadway to know very ery well ell mother Brother way a out of her dilemma dilemma- a way that man many girls of her ance ance tad ad taken taen At first the idea of in ur lu luxury ury on ov 0 the bounty t-Dunty of if f nhat hat hatas nas as called a heavy sugar papa h hail had leI ic cited hoi hel every ery instinct but hIlt grad rad gradually a as her Lion grew more des des- desperate desperate des desperate she Crew rew reconciled to It it Soon she was as the petted mistress ofa of a lu iy furnished little tUe I with Ith rot a C in the world x ex ept t to snake herself herselt mote mOH and more attractive get et the fun she coati out of oi l life e and keep keep the fols foPs back home homo thinking she was she was still pursuing her musical studies and forging to success on the stage herbest e e in m New Now York who nho knew her best say suy that no one could have been any happier more completely ed satisfied 1 with lue We Yet 1 hiding bitter pel perhaps haps she was was as only regrets Perhaps she kept the truth about her life hie so carefully cur from her old town home only becaJ because e she Ehe roped some day clay to go become penitently back to Man SIan Street and md be bl come Iome again agam the they thought and a st still l think thank she always was nas ciS V Vf l f |