Show t L be II Robbed of Her er Beloved Patrick Patrick y-Patrick I Somerset tile the Actress Tastes the he Same Sams Bitter Biller ir Medicine Medici Her p Own Love Theft l i b t Made for Mar Mar- Mare e 61 II j t J 61 Ban Ban- 0 J v garet 1 0 nerman I r I f I 4 s y Je t kak l d J fi J J 4 7 q I lIS j Ni 0 t i t o I d- d 1 k I V r I I L Sr t 1 i 6 f j r j t 1 1 a at 1 t J Jj f 1 i 00 ti 1 ij t JI 1 t r- r rd fW f Y 4 b r f J o d Y 1 k ti tl j f f 1 I I i VJ f w bl tW Y Jf 1 j j iV iVr r r Girlish Mrs Irene Martin Gallagher Galagher the he v vr III latest woman to be charged with stealing a if II fascinating Pat Somerset's Somerset heart from tl J b its iti lawful owner r t r r 1 N Neye eye rye for an an eye rye and a tooth AN L 11 for a tooth that tooth that was the basis on which punishment i was meted out in the stern Old Testament Testa Testa- Testament Testament i ment days And Edith Day the well known actress is finding out to her dis dis- disI dis- dis dismay dismay I I I disI p may that in these modern times the f guilty are sometimes served in exactly i the same way way i Miss Day showed no compunctions comp a afew afew few years ago about stealing Pat Somerset away from frog his wife Margaret Bannerman a much admired English 11 actress Even the fact that she was wasi i wasi i herself married to o Carle Carleton did not deter her fl frill l making oft olt with Pat after he and she hadI had I I been together for some's sometime some s 's time in a theater i iNow Now Edith Day is getting getting get- get getting ting a tal e tn to to of the same lame I It K t I medicine which she administered ad- ad ff ministered to MargaretI Margaret l Bannerman The Pat I she s stile stoe J e has been stolen from from stolen stolen by Irene Irener 1 r 1 Martin Martin Martin the girlish wife we of v Richad d Skeets Gallagher Gal- Gal GalL L the actor I As a result of the love I theft theft V in that puta puts Miss Day in precisely the same position 4 tion SMargaret in which she put 1 i w Margaret Bannerman two divorce sui suits are arc in pr g- g gress ress w ress resa Skeets Gallagher is issuing suing suing his wife for tor divorce naming naming nam- nam sing ing Pat Somerset as co co- co respondent and in the Minne Minne- Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota sota courts Edith Day seeks a divorce from the Pat she so recently stole Edith Day now filling a theatrical engagement in London makes a a brave show of not caring at all about being the victim of a love robbery From the l comments she ane mates makes on it one would would think that the winning or losing ofa of a iPat i Pat meant little or nothing in her life She expresses only a firm disdain for forthe forthe the young woman who has haa made off with i her husband just as aa she did with Mar Mar- Margaret garet Bannerman's I should mould think she said the other day Pat might have done better than that considering the number of really T smart women ia lit the United States who are really mad about him But all Edith Days Day's disdain all her r nonchalant air of not caring a rap about the whole affair cannot deceive her friends into believing that she is not it very keenly grieved over the loss of the Pat she sho stole Those who know how grieved she was when Somerset was wasp w p threatened with deportation from the United States as an undesirable alien L know how deeply in love she was with the Pat she stole from Margaret t Dan Ban DanI DanI Bai I I j iii right M s On the right Mar ar garet Banne Bannerman the English stage b be beauty e aut y who lost Pat when Edith D Day walked eft away wih hi with him after er an night all cham chamer champagne party at the D Duke u e of M Manchester's v w wF wA A F 3 4 A honeymoon snapshot of Edith Day and Pat Somerset Somerset-a pic- pic picture ture with which everything is all wrens n nerman and how really grieved she sha must mus be over the loss of the good looking English actor But Edith Day should have one con con- consolation consolation cor If U the tho playwrights ever fa fato fail to supply her with a satisfactory vehicle she has has only to refer them to the story of her own career It was already re- re remarkable r enough to make ake the most mOlt thrilling of dramas and this theft of the th e husband she stole adds a chapter that th should supply even a mediocre medio re dramatist with material for a most fascinating play ploy The opening curtain of such a drama might rise on the motion picture studio where only a few years ago the now high star V was working as asan asan an extra extra-an extra an obscure little figure in the movie world earning only 5 6 a week wee Even this pittance was welcome to the struggling beauty With the 10 weekly 4 f l F t ta tashe she earned doing stunts for fora fora foi a news weekly it gave her i a abare abare i bare living She had been a Minne Minne- Minneapolis Minnet t r apolis girl until she be- be became bex became x i be came struck stage-struck An AnAl Al AI Jolson Joson show was play play- pay pay- paying playing ing her home city when p pone one of its women women mem mem- members members bers was taken suddenly ill and Edith her Day Day he rl t ti youth and beauty corn com com com- compensating i 7 in the mana mans manager manst i t tl ger gers ger's ey eyes for her lack of o rix 7 was experience experience was given the ther th r vacant place The show traveled travee-d on onto o to New York and when it i finally closed there the young g actress found herself unable t to get another place on the stage None of the producers seemed to have any opportunity for a girl of such limited experience e While While searching for another engage meat ment her Finally small stor store of money was ex- ex exhausted ex e hausted Finally she was wag forced to tali tak take e what the extra in the movies movie s es and the news weekly stunts offered or o r go back to Minneapolis and admit her her- herself herself he self defeated in her quest of a stag stage e career Into the studio where she was waa work work- working ing Sag as a humble extra came one day da y Carlo Carle Carleton a successful successful movie di- di director di director rector lie Ile caught a glimpse of the dark dark- haired eyed blue-eyed girl and was instantly Y attracted When he was introduced to her he was wasas wa s as favorably oraby impressed with her personality person as he had been with her looks II lIe e decided that she had great possibilities s as an actress and he promptly off ere d her an important part in The Grain o oDust nf of t Dust Dust the David Graham Gr ham Phillips sto storY ry he was then casting for the movies She made good Carleton was ing im pleased p with her so her so pleased please d that he began to think that quite pos pos- possibly po es s sibly she was more than a good movie movi o actress copyright 1515 So e b by Edith Day S beautiful heroine her- her heroine heroine oine ofa of a more surprising surprising drama in real life than she lever acted on the stage One day he took her to a famous Ne New NewYork w York music teacher who assured him that Edith Day hada had a wonderfully sweet and strong singing voice Carleton pro pro- procured procured cured her a part in Follow Me where sh she was understudy to the great Ann Anna a Held and scored a tremendous hit with h her unique Toe Tickle dance number r Her success convinced Carleton the t musical comedy was the thing for which whit she she was ideally fitted He decided to i t o link his fortunes with hers and to tl try to make her a n famous star in musical l plays of his own production James Jame Jam s Montgomery was engaged to weave a an n operetta about Edith Days Day's personality and the tha result was Irene This play bounced the former a 5 week extra into fame and fortune with wit h amazing quickness The dictionary diction try hardly held enough words for tor the praise the critics had for the charm of the th e dainty stars star's song about the sweet little e Alice Blue as gown gown as well as the tho ap- ap appealing B a pealing picture she made in Sn it Of course Edith Day was 1 with all aU her heart and soul to Carle Carl e Carleton How could she help being 7 He had lifted her from obscurity an and d downright poverty to fame anda and a salary sal try r of 2600 2500 2600 a week I like liko you better than any man I know she said to Carleton one ono night nigh Let Lets get married Carleton was quite agreeable to this thi a proposal anda and a few nights later the they th y surprised their friends by slipping over ove ovi C overto to Staten Island and being quietly mar mar- married ma ried tied The producer had been divorced divorce d from one wife wife Vera Vera Sheffield a Wo Wor- Wor Worcester r cester caster Massachusetts girl Ho lIe had ha h Li eloped to St Louis with her after alter being bein g challenged to a du duel l by a rival suitor r A few months later Carleton took his hi 1 s wife and Irene to London There Ther e both the show and and its ita star afar repeated their the r New York success Edith Day became beam e the petted darling of fashionable Eng Eng- En g- g Engish fish lish ish society And with amazing sudden sudden- suddenness n- n ness Hess she also became the petted darlin darling g of the leading man her husband had hi him m self chosen for tor the London production n of at her Pat play play Pat Somerset Carleton and his wife Somerset an md d many titled and untitled members of London's smart smart- bohemian set were in ii to spend a a week end at the t he Duke of Manchester's country estate estat te e Long past midnight midnight of what had bee been a a a hilarious very evening very somebody su sug- sug g that the men and women of the t he party be paired off by chance and that thc at each couple hide themselves away in tho a moonlit reaches of the park surround surround- surround tamer Future I p t 11 oJ J lag ing the Dukes Duke's home to share a last fast bottle of champagne Everybody agreed to this romantic plan and Fate sent Somerset and Edith Day out into the moonlight together Carleton himself paired with a a titled English lady of course made no objection objection tion to this arrangement But he ho did very seriously object when he and his titled companion a little later found found all the other guests guesta returned to the house his except his wife and Pat Somerset For hours Carleton waited growing more frantic every minute for the re- re return return re return turn of the missing pair When they finally put inan in an appearance there was wasa wasa a dramatic scene almost scene almost a tragedy Edith Day later declared that her hus- hus husband band threatened to shoot her and him hira- himself self Soon after sitar what seemed like a s compete com com- plate pete reconciliation between husband and wife Edith Day vanished from Lon Lon- London London don Carleton was so upset that he was threatened with a serious nervous breakdown And about the same time Margaret Bannerman sued Pat Somer Somer- Somerset set for divorce naming Edith Dal Carleton went to Scandinavia finish finish- ing by himself what he had intended to tobe be a honeymoon journey The follow follow- following following ing Sag season he returned to London and begged Edith Day Doy to come come back to him He promised her complete forgiveness He told her of the new pay play he had bought and how he would make her a amore more popular stage favorite than ever After weeks of this thi pleading Edith Day promised to do as he wished and followed him to America But she failed to keep her Mr promise Carleton waited wafted for six months and then getting getting no reo re to his repeated cables he engaged Julia Sanderson for the leading role in Tangerine Tangerine and brought suit against his wife for divorce I am nm doing it so she can be free to marry the man she loves oves he said I guess she married me only out of gratitude lode tude Edith Day in London was frankly pleased when she learned of the suit I admit everything everything she said I love p Pat t Somerset We intend to spend the rest of our lives together The next act oct in the remarkable rea real life drama came camo after Edith Day returned ro re- re turned tamed to America to star in a n musical play Pat Somerset who was to be e her leading man followed a few weeks later And Carlo Carleton apparently regretting his previous generosity to I 1 h i J I i tS 4 c 45 At 5 S i- i ii i v vW h fit x k jr j r F Fyn f t yn r W ir i- i t Richard Skeets Sheets Gallagher the comedian husband whom lit lit- little lit little tle Irene Martin deserted when she stole Pat Somerset away from his hi wife his former wife wile and th the the husband she had stolen from another woman appealed to the immigration authorities to have Somerset deported as an as undesirable I r alien This action brought many days of anxiety to Edith Day and Pat Somer Somer- Somerset Somerset set act But at the eleventh hour Carleton relented for for the sake of Edith's child he said He lIe withdrew his charges against Somerset and the immigration authorities authorities ties t ties lea ies set the English actor free from the tho pen on Ellis Island After playing with her husband here for some time Edith Day returned to England Pat Somerset went to the Pacific coast to seek work in the pie pie- pic pictures tures tutee There he met young Irs hrs Gallagher who seems to have promptly promptly taken as great a liking for him himas himas himas as Edith did Day years before Mrs husband filling the theatrical the the- theatrical engagements in the East heard disturbing his wife's behavior He employed detectives and largely as asa result of what they saw on a midnight to the bungalow occupied by Somer Somer- and Mrs flies Gallagher Galagher he filed suit for e Almost simultaneously Edith Day who sailed failed away away way only a short time be- be be ore declaring that she and her Pat more devoted than ever and could be bo parted sued him for divorce The one who one who seems to be bo the most grieved lver over this latest steal steal- st a of Pat rat Somerset's fickle heart is Skeet Gallagher He remains quits quite over the loss lass of his hia wife wife |