Show S r rr r t u Certain Fe Features ew Cur Curious ous Parallel Between 1 tures d r a ar ar r r I p d a of Her Husbands Husband's Car Career er and 1 1 i iI 1 I 7 ir 1 l IV I tt c 1 J t tf f 1 r Mr T That Tat at of f the Famous M 1 l J f Story the She Helped l k t I l fj l 4 r r rt V t i ox 4 t FOl ff S 'S r 3 j 0 i Ji a r Jy 7 Jya r W ti y k i E t T tl II v 1 f e v f irl l- l t o ft p J f lf J k 1 i J 1 y y 1 JJ it r NA v i t a t N f h f tYRe tYRes U s g f ft I Ia J t x It f y 1 j ja a S owr r vY v tt I yeW I j f Aj A Aw w i 4 a hor Ss o r x s tt y j lt e x t s s so so i 1 o o o r pM 0 r l l If I I tr t x J 1 J l t a S rS r i Z 1 I f w t J t t i a v ve r If t f i i Jd d a pl e Z 1 y 9 Mn M Mr James Vail Converse who may take the tho place in the movies left vacant by Sister Glorias Gloria's mar mar- marriage marriage to Mr Vanderbilt ia W T TAS AS the new Mrs Reggy Vander wv Vander-wv WAS Vander bUts bits romance inspired by the tho famous novel she helped to tomake tomake tomake make Into a film drama in the days when she forsook the gay society world to work vork as a humble movie mOVle e extra Was her attitude toward to the million millton- millionaire aire alro when hen he came to lay his heart at ather ather ather her feet influenced by the knowledge of life she had gained gamed from her peep Into the tho heart of tho the millionaire hero of Ibanez's story Enemies of Women These Tho T se sa are questions that can hardly f fail lI to arise in the minds of those who ponder the problem of why pre pret pretty ty young Gloria Morgan should have hase flung herself so the arms of a man al- al already already al already ready parted many years from one wIfe and the father of a daughter as ns old as GlorIa herself And Andery ery sery reasonable questions they seem ones ones whose answers may very possIbly supply the right clue to this puzzling romantic mystery For there un- un undoubtedly undoubtedly un undoubtedly is a curious parallel between certain features of the character and ca- ca career ca career reer of Ibanez's hero and those of the thes theman s- s man Gloria Morgan has married Regi married Regi Reginald C Vanderbilt t Every reason there was as why this story should have left an indelible impression on the girls girl's mind and why she should have made the lesson it teaches part of her 0 own n philosophy of life to be put to practIcal use at the first opportunity At the time when hen the plot of the Span Span- Spanish Spanish Spanish ish novelists novelist's story may easily have ex- ex exerted ex exerted a powerful influence on Gloria Mor Mor- Morgan Morgan gan she was at the tho most ImpressIonable period of a girls girl's life She craved for romance and to satisfy this craving she had boldly cut loose from the fashion fashionable able surroundings of New York and the European capitals in which she had been reared Plunging as determinedly into the workaday world as any daughter of the tho tenements ever eser did she sought here there and everywhere a place in m the tho that that fascinating make belie make so world where so many girls rich and nd poor alike would deem it a favor even to bo allowed to scrub floors before the nil all all seeing immortalizing camera After weeks of discouraging rebuffs from gruff directors she was hiS delighted by the promise of a place in one of the big movie companies Her lIer youth and good looks had done the trick aided b by that well bred bred eU-bred air which for all nU her de- de determination de determination termination to get a job on her own mer mer- merIts mer- mer merits merits its and not just lust because she was as a fash fash- fashIOnable fash- fash fashionable fashionable society bud she sho could not lose or hide Of course it was only a minor place an I inexperienced girl like Gloria just got got that of a humble tra e But that was no fly In m the ointment of her JOY oy To her herIt herit herit It was vas a glorious opportunity one that promised the thrills she sho craved and opened up glittering vistas of fame She was pleased to find that the film for which she sho had been engaged was based on a novel she had read Enemies of Women by Vicente Blasco Ibanez the great Spanish novelist Of course the film lm version had he been en changed a good deal particularly in the matter of Its it ending which the scenario writer just had hall to make happy But Gloria didn't mind this She had thought it rather horrid of Senor Ibanez to doom his pretty heroine to such an unpleasant unpleasant unpleasant ant death jut just v when hen she had brought so much happiness into the heros hero's life i ithe I the 1 he filming of the tho story began Day after day Gloria sat in m the studio watch watch- watching watching watching ing the acting and patiently waiting her turn to do some small bit As she and waited the high lights of the Ibanez story were ere flashed so con eon continually into her impressionable young brain bram that soon lIoon it must have seemed as ns I is sV w s 4 S rY a aI x r t d y I s sa sT ti h ti qt Py x s 6 g q d 4 k t r S 'S r a T V 1 o l 4 9 r ry I y x q J j f fr fr r r rY Y 4 4 o 1 1 y R 4 r t d u a p a d ip j t a r ry rl rt y l r t y j 4 a x Y R 4 t C Cy H 8 y s y r rr 4 M P y yit to r it itA itt f t tI I 9 A t t tt A Ra iS yr q s I i Ca f frK rK r G Gt t V I R R vY y Fy Y P a a y re Y yr rss c y n f y A k kA y rY t A scene from the film version of 2 Enemies of Women in which f s sla la l wi kia Gloria Morgan appeared as ass a humble bumble extra a er ti If she were actually tal- tal y ting ing part in the incidents t ty the novelist described She heard beard the dIrector i ba bawl 1 through his Ius mega mega- phone over and over y again agam the details of the ther r s plot She saw the highfi hIgh 1 i 1 i fi 1 salaried stars play the bIg s b s t r s scenes In n a way ay that sent o i f 3 5 i ers of excitement N through her body and and I g o s p ar l tf R r ri i d k 4 O now no and then probably t d Ar t y yd yEt tears to her ber ees eyes Prom ry 4 G ww- ww morning to night she breathed the tho atmosphere Ibanez k g b b bJ J The new Mrs Vanderbilt as she he looked when appearing before the movie camera created and thrilled wIth the same sarno d a in ina a film drama whose theme may have changed the whole course of her ber life pangs of love and hate his char Et c iz and that of her millionaire husband L U d L U actors aders had felt To her dying day the tho former GlorIa Morgan can hardly fail fall to remember the striking high lights of the story etory that marked her memorable e experience in the films ta They were ver were briefly these The atmosphere of great wealth A young oung man who had inherited inherit inherit- cd ed not earned his millions Friends as idle as himself himself- himself elt- elt a luxury horses and the race track beautiful women omen Days and nights of tm killing tinge e amusement And at last lest the heros hero's awakening a through love his transformation und under undera r ra a charming omans oman's young v ennobling m- m in influence fluence into a n man alive to the real values of life Only a short time before this GlorIa Morgan had met in m a ay cabaret Reginald Vanderbilt who inherited mil mil- millions mil millions lions who ho first flashed into the public limelight as a high stakes player at Can fields Can fields field's famous gambling house whose hose horses borses won prizes who employed private orchestras to play for him who ho enter enter- entertained entertained tamed women of beauty and grace graco and passed his time timo on the lawn in m front of hA lA hA L H n hA lA hA L H th the e house louse where the rest of the world v was at nt work worl Of course she knew only too well Regi Reginald Vanderbilt's story She had been brought up on such stories stones from the nur- nur nursery nursery nur nursery as less fashionable sery little girls are aro aroon on the stories stones of Cinderella and the tho FaIry Prince The book of lifo Ufo is open to these daughters of society at an age ag when your girl of the plain home is merely ve weeping V coping mg over LIt Little tIe Men and Little Women from that meeting with nth the min m of millions and of pleasure Gloria Mor Mor- Morgan Mor- Mor Morgan Morgan gan went sent ent to the studio and there in film life met again ngam and learned earned to know the hero bero of the nos no nod d cl J I d habit of enter enter- v taming a wide r varIety of guests C vIOlinist y ya a A young oung r- r ris is hi pleases him at ath f a r b Monte ome Carlo and 3 Iti iome d dy y b becomes i his pro pro pro- tege A troupe dl of women is aIWa'S always al- al al'S S 'S SD 9 J WaS Wa'S ways in m his train tram 4 His Ilia n nearest ear 0 s t de dog de- de described friend as o- o oy y g A Sz scribed by himself him- him y y self Belt filled thIs specification S-a S Ho has all aU the thes the es do- do defects H de-H s vices but no fr He knows y everything If It he would only only stick to one oner r 3 thing It If ho would only work Another intimate of his was a n young Mr Reginald C Vanderbilt and man of fashion who life Ilia charming channing second bride the former Gloria lived at the best Morgan hotels dressed to the tha minute and always Let Ibanez his creator introduce the tho prince The Prince was a n man still in his youth fresh with Ith the well controlled well Igor that is ms furnished by a n life of phys phys- phys phys- physical physical ical leal exercise e The scattered gray hairs at his temple seemed even more numer numerous ous in contrast with Ith the tho blue-black blue of the tho thorest thorest rest A number of premature wrinkles around the eyes e eves es and tv two 0 deep furrows furro s running from the wide nostrils to the tho corners of the mouth were the first indi medi- medications indication cation of wear weariness mess in m a powerful po or- or organization or organization that seemed to have lived bred too intensely In the mistaken confidence that its Ils reserve of strength was as endless This prince of millions was in the had money but had no 1 means of t whatever At his palace in III Rus Rus- Russia Russia sia at his villa at nt Monte Carlo in Paris rich man the the typical very prince was as with willi no single aim aun in III life tossed about b by the social storms that he himself cre- cre created created cre created One might substitute New York Newport and Palm Beach for RussIa Paris and Monte Carlo and never miss missa missa a beat in the measure of a life of rich idleness And his thIs phIlosophy philosophy this man manof manof manof of undoubted ability and latent character who ho knows s was as was the philosophy of one th that t he ho has hils been courted for money We We must give something to Vice ho he suggests Vice I What the devil Without vices lifes life's not worth living i I And the notions of the master of mil mil- millions mil millions lions regarding women omen were also drawn from his unreal life Of them he says You aro not ignorant of what II a woman is In the great majority of peoples on the earth there arc are only fe- fe females females fe females males There Thero are young females and old females but there are arc no women Women as wa 13 w e understand the w word rd aro the artificial product of CIvilization which somewhat some like hothouse flowers ers have reached their maturity with a com com- complex complex complex plex beauty Only in the larger cities that have come to be decadent be- be because because be because cause they have havo reached their limits do you find women Not being mothers ers like the females they give gl all of theIr time of love There you have hale the tha creatures personally I 1 am afraid of They will seek me use out through curios curios- curiosity curiosIty curiosity ity on remembering my past life or gleed on thinking of my wealth All that talk about love lo being a dISInterested thing was wag made up by poor people who are aro satisfied with imitation There IS the glitter of gold at tho the bottom of every passion This man maintained a private jewelry shop for the making of trinkets that ho he bestowed upon his fair fa favorites lie Ho dazzled them with rich g gifts ts lIe He theo theo- theorized theorized theorized that when one po pays s for society is a II matter of more moro ease case to make mako II a break brenk away Ho Ile had always al lived apart from the tho world orld Ignoring its sufferings and toil toll and he be was as merely on the margin of humanity when the story that bungs brings him into the tho life lifo of GlorIa Morgan gets its Ita motion picture start She Sho saw this man thus reared and thus living suddenly awaken under the thrill of a n womans woman's touch In tho book she h lid had d been a bad woman but the tho megaphone as In her ller death instance r I drew a curtain about the frailties of the thess oman ss in life as it did about the misery of her ending What Gloria siw was as only a woman who was beautiful a women who bo a lo loved a woman who had also been of the rich social set all of her and life life and she brought this man to ton toa toa n a point where here ho threw aside his in- in indolent indolent in indolent dolent life for the tho steel helmet of the tho trench and heard her commend him And perhaps for the fist fust time in all of her young life Gloria Morgan l heard hearda bearda a wor woman orAan hn of fashion enunciate the idea There are many beautiful things in inthe inthe inthe the world for which money is not necessary necessary necessary sary Then as she watched the man with the megaphone marshal the hosts of nc- nc ac action tion again agam she saw the man who who had been an idler in m active a seI sen ice a real man on equal terms terras with the rest of the human race fighting race fighting and struggling sixth Ith his hii own o kind in the open She heard the tho stentorian of the tho director summon the woman to receive hIm when hen he lie came home triumphant and watched them drop together to a n seat seaton seaton seaton on a n marble slab and join jom in that holy com communion mUllion of hearts that spells ro- ro romance ro romance mance manco in m its highest form That is what they did not do in the book but it is what the movie men did to make male a 11 picture fit the tho American conscience It t was Gloria Morgans Morgan's first pIcture and picture ands and also perhaps her first analysis of life from the viewpoint ot of the Big World When she left the studio to meet the prince of American pleasure lovers again ngam did she see in m him som something more v than she found before Did she eho pic picture ture Vi what hat he ho might be doing when hen the reveille sounded Did she feel that ho hJ heM held great grent reservoirs of good waiting to be released from the dam of moneyed lack of necessity |