Show Valentines Valentine's Valentino sOwn Own Story of Life G I I ST L EXT Copyright 1926 1026 by New Nw York Evening Graphic All rights re- re rese reserved re reserved se served ved My sitter sister Maria Marla was as In when the war broke broko out Before her death quite quit a a little while be- be before tore bo-tore fore rore my mother had gone gon to France for or her health Three years ears later sho she passed away and my sister sinter only twenty years ot of age was left there III alone ene with ev- ev everything Cv cv to attend to All that loneliness and trouble had changed chanced her a great treat deal She was a kid kill when I left loft her and I 1 round found her ber a serious young oung woman with some of tho the light quenched In her dark eyes Maria Mirla and Natacha and I finally settled down to a lang talk In- In Involving In Involving plang plans for Marias Maria's future Wo We decided that sho she must mutt gO EO to toNice toNice toNice Nice to Mr and M Sirs Mrs s and andrest relit for tor a year at least While she shola is 19 with them she sh will go so up to the mountains for lor another change chanse She SheIa Shela 1 Ia not very ery strong In constitution and I told her firmly that she must not think of o working again for tor II a year ear at least WORKING hEARD HARD She has lIas been holding bolding down the tho Joh joI oC ot general secretary to a large firm of ot silk and cotton collon manu- manu rs and It was a a position of trust responsibility and hard worle for a Kirl ot 24 Sho Shio Is a hard liard worker and with that and the damp climate her health has suffered terribly Now that I am In a 0 position to help her herI I nm ani going to see sec that sho gets getson getson on her feet so to speak before she undertakes anything again She told me that she aho he wants to do some something that she would loathe being idle and In tn that I 1 agreed with her She Is much like the American girls In her desire to tobo ho doing something something-something something on her own account Cn CRAVES INDEPENDENCE NJ However comfortable I might make her she wouldn't feel the I same as if sho were Ivero doing something some some- thing thine for tOI herself by her own et- et of torti ef forts A girl ciri Is i like a 0 man In that respect nowadays After Atter she abe had worked for tor six years she would never bo content sitting around in inId Id idleness lelles Natacha and I told her Ier to It all over o during this coming year of quiet and ond rest and try to decide what sho silo would most like to do In order 10 tO bo be Independent and busy Then I want her to rely on her herself self I want her to be s1 self ol r auf suf- sufficient suf sufficient I believe In that for Cor won run en cn Quito In the tile same way I be- be be in It for But tho ho first sho ha has let get to todo todo todo do Is to tu get yet her health in ono works on a II shaky Lou when one works with an rc cl ll body There Ther is no In that A YEAR TEAR OF REST Wo Ye finally concluded that put part of the tho conversation by the decision for tor Maria Marla to stay a year car with tile resting and vacationing and at tho the end of or that time tim I would help her it if necessary to get Into the tho Kind hint of o work sho should decide upon Of 0 course sIlo sho lie asked me nil all kinds of questions about my roy work and I told again the tho th story of my arrival In tn America tho the lass dah lay of starvation and discouragement the beginning that seemed to get no- no nowhere no nowhere where tho the final landing on my feet She wanted to know all about how pictures are made about the stars the directors the th studios She wanted to hear all II about June Mathis and the th part she ho had played and nd played so definitely In lamy my discovery and then told me that she had never neYr seen a picture of mine had buS gained rained all her knowledge of o activities my-activities through the magazines and newspapers I Iliad lId hind sent her and from my letters She Intimated that she sho got cot most of her knowledge from the tho maga- maga magazines magazines zincs maea-zincs and newspapers Like Lik most or of my sex I am I suppose neither a very frequent nor a a very prolific letter writer hER HEn FIRST FILM 1 The Tho third day we were In Milan MilanI I arran arranged ed to have havo my sister see The Four Horsemen I asked an official connected with the In- In Industry industry In Industry to have lave a copy of the film shown her and through his cour- cour courtesy t sy tesy it was run for her But the projection room had no light and the picture was so badly cut that my aunt who was with us said she was glad clad she had seen it In Rome But my sister slater none non too critical was enchanted She had she naively Informed me no idea that I was as good as that I felt that after all the years I had struggled to win from her that look of ot admiration and respect The Four Horsemen had finally done dOlle the trick for me where my early smoking and other feats teats had dismally failed ailed Tomorrow tuc to tile Great Lover re re- re rc TaL how liow 1 to rage race nt at limo tho ogling 1 by l r an officer of the 10 bId lie he prepares to I fight |