| Show By Dy VIRGINIA J SWAIN o NEA Service Writer NEW Lady YORK YORK Lady Luck Is a I wise jade She has proved pro again as-aln that nobody holds the winning hand against as her to lo the end For she has hils brought Gerturde oe Lythgoe styled self-styled queen of o the runners therum-runners runners rum who dared every hazard of storm and sea een and hu- hu human human hu human man vengeance to her knees at last Gertrude Gertrud Is quitting the game that In three thre years year brought ht her Paris gowns cowns and jewels jewel as biG ashen as bene eggs and the respect of the hardest hardest- hardest boiled boiled bootleggers on th the Atlantic seaboard because seaboard she thinks her lucky star has set A jinx has tracked her down don from her whisky throne In Nassau Nas Nas- Nassau Nassau sau through the th most luxurious hotels hotel of European ci through glamorous clamorous newspaper publicity through h hectic ro- ro romances romances ro romances mances to 10 the loneliness of a aNew aNew aNew New York hotel suite where she came to o hide hido from the world and recover her hr lost nerve and her health attended only by Ly her deaf mute mut sister She I Is thin and wan with lack lack- lackluster lackluster lackluster luster eyes that even e the bril- bril brilliance bril brilliance liance of diamond earrings and I collar cannot enliven And she sits sils rigid In her chair smoking andI I Interminable In a 0 serpentine serpentine tine bolder Im Im I'm out of oC o It for tor good tood 1 she rays MYS I just beat my jinx be- be before before fore It got tot me m It was wa terrible to watch It coming I 1 saw the the time that I left Nassau with my last cargo In 1925 I wasn't w on rum a 0 running rum deal that time Iwas I IVa Iwas was Va just taking some som whisky from Nassau Nasau to another British Island In my own boat the th Venture And the th boat went down In Inthe inthe the lIke harbor harbor that 1 She snapped her fingers Later they said they found a hidden reef But I know It was my jinx that wrecked that boat Misfortune followed tollo fast In Allam Miami I where hero rho ho went after atter be- be beams be Ing rescued fro from the th ship she ams was arrested form tor girl tirl who had passed bad checks In I a store The court exonerated her but butth the attend attendant lint publicity tipped lipped off the United States government to her and she sh was ar- ar arrested arrested ar arrested rested for tor conspiracy in the Im- Im Importation importation of ot contraband whisky from Havana to New Orleans It was Will my whisky but It had been stolen from me sh she la- la laments la 10 laments ments I never got sot a a cent tor for forit It it Finally cleared of o that charge she went ent back to Miami But she shedid shedid shedid did not return to Nassau nor did she ahe enter any ony new liquor deals For Gertrude Lythgoe was scared She knew her career as queen of rum row was ended Miss Lythgoe likes like men She has found them loyal charm charming Ins Ins- tello fellows however rough h their trade But she says she will Ill never marry never Ive TV Ive I've made mad my way from Crom a 0 public stenographers stenographer's desk In the Palace F Hotel San lien Francisco to Honolulu to Alaska to Europe and nn- the th West Indies First I Isane pay sang In choirs to pay my way Then I made mad connections with an English Ens liquor firm and the rest was easy casy Ive TV Ive I've stood on my own feet teet and Im I'm ashamed o of nothing Im I'm myown my myown myown own boss boSit bos and Ill I'll never take tak a husband to boss boas me But Ive I've had plenty of proposals from a whiskered count down to common sailors sailor In Nassau Nl Gertrude Lythgoe Is proud of ot oft t her past PaAl But for tor t r the th future she wants a quiet life lite a bungalow In California or a villa 1110 In the th Rivie Rivie- Riviera Riviera ra She Sir moan means to write writ autobiography and fiction lIEU COLOR COLOn And she Is shopping tor for s new clothes on Fifth avenue avenue all all In mauve and lavender For purple is her lucky color And Gertrude Gertrudo Lythgoe needs all the th luck there lis to la-to to protect her from that dogging dog dog- dogging doc ging nemesis that drove her ber from the tho Indies She Sh Isn't sure lure sur It has finished with her yet et And In of the th night she sho sh likes to have havo a alight light close clos by her bed bd and a acom com comforting at nt hand She can sleep only In ID the th day day- daytime daytime daytime time |
