Show j I Cant Kc e Hard Luck of Monsieur Maurice those Life Lif Up to Date Is Is Just One Charming Dance Partner i n 4 tH t y 4 1 Lost After r k kr r the dancers whose er attuned to grace e efA r public a r r fA never be able to admire k F again 4 k j r 1 t b 4 w fj LS 4 r- r ft A F- F Ff r rJ r t J t ts s rr by i f Lf f 25 o tI I 2 5 0 0 c K des i f t r t fl i- i I As AI A strangely assorted a weddin party as you ever saw Seno saw Basualdo the radiant bridegroom Leonora Hughes the happy bride and Maurice the bride disconsolate admirer and forme dancing partner E Lady Chapel of St Patricks Patrick's THE Cathedral in New York was filled with the fragrance of springtime glowers and the soft chiming of wedding bells Here comes the bride the organ pealed and toward the altar walked a 1 radiant radiant blonde young woman in bridal attire to meet a haired dark dark Latin gentleman J I The Tha solemn marriage marriage ceremony was beginning when another haired dark dark young oung man seated alone in one of the pews suddenly bent his head on the rail in front of him and started sobbing wildly The sound of ot his grief rang out above the words words of the priest I cannot bear it he moaned over and over again The The stricken grief-stricken man was Maurice the dancer He had been un- un unable un unable able to suppress his anguish at the wed wedding ding of Leonora Leonera Hughes his latest dancing dancing ing partner to Don Carlos Ort z Basualdo a wealthy Sympathetic friends lifted Maurice up and ministered to him He drew out a daintily handkerchief and tried vainly to muffle his sobs Oh it is terrible I he lie groaned How could she do this to me When the marriage ceremony was over the bride proceeding down the aisle with her husband stopped beside the pew where Maurice sat in his tears and flung her arms about him She kissed kissed him him kissed him as fer- fer fervently fer fervently venti vently several onlookers thought as she might have kissed the millionaire whose wife she had just become Ah Maurice she murmured ten ten- tenderly ten tenderly derly Dont take it like this Maurice sobbed on The bridegroom stood ill at somewhat ease ease somewhat perplexed as any bridegroom might well have been At last he put one arm around his bride and with the other patted Maurice con con- consolingly consolingly con consolingly on the back There there old man he said But Maurice refused to be comforted Isis His tears were still streaming when the bride took him with her herr in a taxicab to the hotel where the wedding breakfast waited The groom followed in another cab alone alone What did the former dancing partners talk about on their way to the wedding breakfast The contract which Leonora was breaking in order to marry or her love jor or her South Ameri Ameri- American I can husband Carlos is b the only man I ever ever really oved heard to say la later er And with that poor Maurice had to be content There was hardly time after the wed wed- wedding wedding ding breakfast for the little bride to change to a gray traveling traveling suit suit trimmed with silver fox fox- Then the whole party hastened to the station where the Twentieth Twentieth Century was to bear the newly newly- newlyweds newlyweds weds newly weds to California for a honeymoon and then to their Buenos Aires Aires home When the time came for good bys bys the bride again threw her arms around her ller former partner There were more kisses Dont forget me mel she cried As the train slipped away the dancer broke down and wept again What will I do he lamented There is no other girl anywhere who dances like Leonora Leonora- I am ruined My patrons at the club will be disappointed How glow sad they will be never to see Leonora and Maurice dance together again It is to too much And it has all happened before 1 S 4 r r rY t u Y A- A Joan Sawyer the partner who left the arms of Maurice to marry many another man Maurices Maurice's grief did indeed awaken much sympathy among the patrons of the smart supper supper club where each night his nimble feet have glided A strange fatality has pursued him in the loss of his dancing partners Three times Maurice has trained a girl to be the partner of his dreams only to have her herlease lease leae him And each time it is another man who lures her her from the dancers dancer's arms His first partner was Joan Sawyer beautiful and graceful Together she and Maurice danced themselves into fame both here and in Paris They were the best of friends but friendship did not prevent Joan from breaking up the partnership when she decided to get married Maurice was disconsolate but finally found solace in the charms of Florence Walton Maurice did not like the idea of being left after all those months in which they had patiently learned to tofit tofit tofit fit their steps together so he married Florence to make the partnership more secure But marriage proved no more effective than friendship as a means of retaining his elusive partners He and Miss Walton were soon separated by divorce and shortly afterward she mar mar- married married ried Tied again Then Leonora Hughes came into the dancers dancer's life It is not so many years ago that she sat in the telephone ex- ex exchange exchange ex exchange change at Greenpoint Long Island a pretty prelly little person person who confused num num- numbers num- num numbers numbers bers and that gave annoying Busy sign just as so many other telephone operators do But Greenpoint and the switchboard proved too small a field for tor Leonora She brought her twinkling toes to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and there found fame and for for- for fortune tune and tune and Maurice They met by accident when guests at ata ata ata a dinner party Maurice wag wai attracted by Leonora's elfin blonde beauty stillmore stillmore still more interested when ho he learned that she was a dancer i Ah Alm but lut sighed Maurice to himself so many of them have ha that delusion 1 I Then they danced together Leonora dancing was not like other girls It was like having a 11 bunch of roses J 1 rr in your arms Maurice says Wherever she went it was springtime Maurice was rapturous ous At last he felt he had found the perfect partner for whom he had sought all these years It is very difficult he explains There are many girls who can candance candance dance and dance well x but they do not feel it in their theirl l hearts hearts The true dancer must feel every movement in her heart Otherwise she is no t dancer no matter how hert her feet move r But a girl dancing does docs not feel these things unless there J t is some one to make her feel f them That is my part Thatis Thatis That sais is why Leonora was such a wonderful partner She felt always what I felt Mindful of his other un un- un unfortunate km C was w fortunate experiences Maurice was careful to preserve the amity of r the tho partnership h he soon for f formed o r me m e d with Miss Hughes He lIe had tried friend friend- friendship friendship ship and he be had tried mar mar- marriage both both unsuccessfully Ah but it was different with Leonora Theirs was a pure and lofty and seemingly unbreakable platonic affection I loved her like a brother he exclaimed ex- ex exclaimed ex exclaimed and I claimed on her wedding day know she loved me How lIow could she have done this terrible thing Maurices Maurice's plight when is Indeed tragic Losing your our dance comrade comrade is much worse than losing your busin business ss partner or your wife he says If you lose your partner you carry on your business somehow If It your wife leaves you you go on on with your our work even if it your our heart is broken But when a mans man's dancing partner leaves him his heart and his business both go smash From the station Maurice came back to begin his search for Leonora's successor suc- suc successor suc successor cessor Girls came by the hundreds hundreds- hundreds tall girls short girls brunettes blondes Maurice danced with everyone every one Now and then his dark eyes looked out wistfully wistfully fully over the spectators as he piloted his would-be would partners through simple dance steps He lIe was thinking of the lost Leonora who had been like a bunch of roses in his arms Some of the aspirants were beautiful many of them were good dancers but they lacked somehow that elusive charm which Maurice demands in his partners They rhey have no fire he mourned Their feet move but their hearts never I could not make dancers of them not them in a hundred years But Maurice was hopeful I do not know myself whom I shall select select he said but I know I shall meet her where somewhere somewhere where I do not know Maybe lunching at the Ritz or oron oron oron on the street or on the dance floor I will have none but an American girl They do not get fat at Ah I want one just as much like Leonora as pos pos- possible pos possible sible She must come just here he indicated his shoulder and she must not weigh more than pounds Yes pounds is best boat Leonora was getting a little fat at She weighed That is too much My new part part- partner partner partner ner must be small and slim and she must dance dance-ah dance ah she must dance like the wind in the willows 1 I As the we weeks ks went on it seemed that Monsieur was a hopeless quest There were so few girls in New York r n II I YorkA A K k 3 f SS I 1 I f fI A jf j jt fI y y r R 4 f AM f t on 10 i r T J d tp t 4 I t I rF I H I d I i P m a Florence Florence W Walton the partner whom Maurice tried to keep in his arms for f W y ft ever by making her ber his wife but the plan didn't work On thee the right Maurice and his bis latest partner Barbara Bennett whom he hopes to ta hold onto at least j k r ra i a little f f longer I longer anger k l than than her ber iff L t three predecessors pre- pre predecessors fJ d t pj who danced f like the wind x f in th the wil- wil willows wil willows lows p Finally y came the an an- an ann n flounce flounce- o u n c e ment that Barbara Bennett Ben- Ben inett s nett was tobe tobe to be Maurices Maurice's g partner His Ilis friends shrugged and sighed Poor Maurice hes he's in for trouble again they said For Ii little tt I e Miss Bennett comes of a avery avery avery very lively family Her father is Rich Rich- Richard Richard Richard ard Bennett the 4 a actor e tor an and her Adrienne l-l l 1 eo i I j 1 Y Ys l s y ual ta tt M t y 4 W t M 0 r r i son is an actress The Bennett family is full lull of temperament Indeed at one time it became so rampant that Mr and Mrs Bennett in- in invented invented in invented vented what they called the four blocks divorce She moved to Fifty Fifty- fourth Fifty fourth street and he to Fifty-eighth Fifty We love each other dearl dearly they k Feu F In mn- mn n explained to their friends but we cant can't live Jive in the same house comfortably But the four blocks divorce didn't come up to its inventors expectations and culminated this spring in a full full- full fledged fledged divorce instituted by Mrs Bennett The actor was so overcome with grief J that ho he a poem to his wife as follows ITC Iye made no DO promises promise c my deAr That Ive I've not Dot tried Hold th that t thought in memory of me me- me me All of my own sowing With heartache I 1 must mutt reap The younger Bennetts have ha also found their lives somewhat complicated by the famous temperament Constance Bar Bar- Barbara's baras bara's older sister startled her family and friends at seventeen by a 11 rapid fire with a Chicago school boy only a year her senior The marriage was quickly annulled Since then she has been the reputed heroine of romances ro- ro romances ro romances mances with Philip Plant and other rich young men A Barbaras Barbara's career so far has not been as meteoric as that of the rest of the family but she too has her share of the family temperament as was evi- evi evidenced evi evidenced by her hasty departure from her fathers father's house one night when he ventured venture to remonstrate with her about the lateness of a party she had been attending That even en more than her beauty and grace made her attractive in the Latin eyes of or Monsieur Maurice My partner must be more than a good dancer She must have fire ho he says Barbara all her friends concede has plenty of fire But will not this very quality plunge the tle unlucky Maurice into the same difficulties he has has had with wi his previous partners I do not know Maurice replies simply No Ishall I 1 shall not try to keep her by flone herby contract What are contracts when It fl one loves Nor by marrying her nor even by loving her like a brother I have tried them alland all and they do not work These These things that happen happen that is all z-o z one can tell what the future holds A man must take what comes to him I believe in fn destiny but oh it is hard to have a charming partner snatched from your armors arms when all the world is yours and hers It makes you ou feel foel eel that destiny after all is not so BO kind to kind to dancers J i 1 |