Show Driven to Slash His Wrists Witha With a Razor RazorBlade RazorBlade RazorBlade Blade When the Flirtatious Film Beauty Refused to Marry I Ift Him lm After ter a Five Five- lve 1 t d K Days A Ardent dent V Can Courtship Can Courtship i 1 l You Beat Ito It 4 y S L y M y y wi Miss Bow giving Draper Daugherty son of the former Attorney General of the United States a alesson alesson lesson leuon in the of art make up HEN Robert S Savage son off of WHEN the thc Duluth Minnesota steel millionaire was a football hero at Yale he was known as a man who never lost his head bead at a crucial moment Now that he is out on what the preachers of baccalaureate sermons are fond of calling the gridiron of life te le is be be- be becoming becoming coming famous as a man who is always losing his heart This tendency to fall faU deeply and fre- fre frequently fre frequently in love would not be so menacing men men- menacing acing neing to young Mr Savages Savage's life tife and so alarming to his friends if it were not for the unfortunate fact that he takes all his love affairs very seriously and Is tremendously heart-broken heart when the beauty he has bas set his heart beart on wont won't have him The latest object of Mr Savages Savage's de- de devotion de devotion was Clara Bow the young Holly Holly- Hollywood Hollywood I wood film actress When she refused to marry him after a five days ardent cOUrt courtship he be slashed his wrists wrista with a razor blade and behaved in other ways so strangely that his bis friends had Ms Ma sanity inquired into Savage has never forgotten his love for Geneva Mitchell the young Broad way Broad way stage beauty with whom h he fell feU in inlove inlove inlove love as she che danced across the stage one D night and a few hours later hurried away to an early morning marriage This love match was quickly annuled on the ground that Miss Mitchell was too young to enter into a legal legat matrimonial contract This was the first real heart break for forthe forthe forthe the former fonner football tar star tar He Ha burled buried him nit eel elf in the wilds of for a year ear in inthe inthe the hope of forgetting the charms of the bride he had lost but it just jut couldn't lie he bedone done To this day wherever he goes he Is continually searching arc ing the faces of the pretty women he sees for some ome signs of ofa ofa ofa a resemblance to his beloved Geneva neva 1 It was because he e thought he e saw such auch a resemblance lanc In Clara now flow that he b be- be became be became came so enamoured of the film actress 1 Mr bir lr sava Savage ravage e got sot his first rat glimpse of Clasa Bows Bow's piquant face when he saw law her on the screen at a movie theater He turned to the college chums who sat eat beside him bim awl ad exclaimed the girl of Dr my dreamt dreame I She's another Geneva and Mitchell Mitchell and Im I'm going to marry her When his friends looked and laughed their their Incredulity at this statement the tho young man came earn back buck at them with this You dont don't believe It Well Ill I'll tel tell you what Ill I'll do just to make It a sport sport- sporting sporting In ing proposition Ill proposition Ill I'll bet you ou that I can win her promise to marry me with within in a week after anu our first meeting A A wager was made and to show how bow perfectly serious he was about the whole matter Savage the next morning boarded a train bound for the Pacific Coast t and His Ilia friend Frank Gay the motion picture director was at the sta- sta station sta station tion to meet him and through Gays Gay's he be quickly arranged for an introduction to Clara Bow And then the love race which Mr Savage thought could be trio tri triumphantly tri triumphantly ended within a week was on The fact that Miss Bow was reported reported reported-I P engaged to Gilbert RolAnd Holand the Elm actor did not bother Savage in the least leat This was to be a courtship that would leave all other contenders gasp ing for breath no matter how secure lecure the hold anyone any one of them might have c 4 on the movie sw stars star's heart beart On the right Geneva Mit Mit- Mitchell Mitchell Mitchell chell in the fetching Po Pogo go costume she he was wear wear- wearing wearing wearing ing the night when she and Mr Savage fell in love and ran away to be married Their introduction introduction introduction tion was followed by a fur furious Iou s round of visits to the most popular popular lar c cafes caf a f e sand s and dancing clubs of Hollywood and Los A An Angeles n gel e s Within two days Savage was be- be beginning beginning be beginning ginning to whis whis- whisper whisper per words of love lovein lovein lovein in Miss Misa Bows Bow's pretty ear and hinting broadly at marriage It was then as the ac- ac actress ac actress tress later testified testified testified fied that she be- be began be began gan to fear the young oung man was taking their short acquaint acquaint- hip too seriously and sought soucht a lit lit- littie lit tl tl tie respite from his persistent at at- attentions attentions tendons This action on her part precipItated the love poem stage of tile the wooing Sav Says ago age retired t to the seclusion of hi his hotel suite nd up quires 0 of the hotel hotti station Wt 1 gJ y vo voI voi I Jf v H r 1 j t 1 Ji tk 4 i I ri t fl IJ I w i I f tt I l ery jn in n writing I verses de designed to make the ac- ac ac at actress tres tress look with favor on his hi l suit The first of these effusions was waa called My Serenade and was dedicated to that little imp Clar Bow It started out like this You lovely thing thine I lik to lo sing Of 10 lee and such uch to you fOU Such maid Id I'd With fervent ardor ador trues truel truelAnd And yet y t t to mo me m DO no balcony Could ever CTT satisfy The poet art that th l from Irom tho lb heartT heart T To you OU la in song eng Id I'd cry Several other similar pieces of poetry seemed to have the desired effect on the flaming claming flapper of the screen as Clara Bow is known She Invited him to spend the evening at at her bungalow At Miss Bows Bow's suggestion they went to the back porch and seated th themselves In the hammock They thought they were alone there in the California moon moonlight light but but as was war revealed later at the sanity trial they were being spied on onby onby onby by Gus Gns Patterson Savages Savage's best friend What Patterson saw an and heard was wasas wasas wasas as exciting a petting party as was ever described In a California court courtroom courtroom courtroom room And through it all according to T his testimony Clara Bow wes was the active aggressor in the love making The wit wit- witness witness ness nus was particularly impressed with the quality of the kisses which he said the young oung woman pressed on Savage In great number Ho Jle described them as blistering She kissed him so 80 hard hard he testified that his lip lips were sore Bore for two days He could hardly eat Clara Bow denied the blistering kisses and the other details of the ham ham- hammock hammock hammock mock petting party as described by Pat Pat- Patterson Patterson terson but when Savage took the wit wit- witness witness ness neu stand he ho reluctantly corroborated his bis friends friend's testimony Those Thoe hours bours in the hammock on the bungalow porch made Savage all the themore themore themore more eager to win and marry young the the young woman he had bet he could win in a week His llis much kis kissed d lips ups pained him with a pain than thai was really a pleasure for the love sick young man to bear bur and perhaps it was this pain that suggested the Idea of using some vigorous cave caveman caveman caveman man tactics in his wooing The next day Savage and Clara lunched together A leisurely driva drha through Beverly Hills followed during daring which the young man pleaded his suit As a result the drive ended at the office of a Los Angeles lawyer who was W asked in Ins hr M 1 J j iT 1 y 4 1 t i 1 r I i Yo r gi l 9 df 9 h AYe IM I'M t k J J V Vt 1 N 1 o n A 1 4 4 o o 1 1 f r n Y I tt A AZ Z 4 I iP 11 iIi o U o t 7 r 10 i Yo v Jd 5 d r i V v l o oi o 1 I h P t i iI 1 fA J I Ji t- t I k t I r V I r 1 Iw j t h r J J i 1 Jt r rT T- T L Miss Misi Clara Bow the film beau Savages Savage's impassioned love toe poem blistering kisses and and then then-br then did not care caro to for expert advice in the matter of ob- ob obtaining ob obtaining a marriage license With the necessary information the pair emerged from the office building only to find finda find a traffic policeman beside their car They had bad parked in a for for- forbidden forbidden for forbidden bidden zone A lengthy argument en- en ensued en ensued sued and by the time they had made their peace with the law it was nearly five o'clock closing time for the marriage mar mar- marriage mar marriage license bureau They reached theoffice the theoffice theoffice office just five minutes too late Because I 1 thought there was no time like the present to convince her I told her I was I going downtown to get lOot a license explained Savage later Maybe she Iho thought it was a joke but butI butI I was in earne earnest earnet t It was I all my own Idea I told her that if we wo got the license then I could do my convincing stuff later by dragging some minister out after her Getting a license is Ie half the you battle battle battle- you cant can't do much without one But Clara branded the whole thing a joke I only met him three days daye ago ago she said Its ridiculous Then Savages Savage's poetic urge found expression ex- ex ex expression in a poem entitled To Clara the closing lines linea of which were as follows In Alaskan Alaan Ala l n land a cabin stands On the tho ban bank banki ofa of a rivulet Where we wo will go 10 wed tweet Clara Bow And seek ek and aDd love lore and get ret That olden tryst that in life WOy weTa weve missed mined And then well wll w ll happy b be- be be With the tho moonlit night the tho palo pale tar star tar light Th The stream jut tream ju t you and me Two nights later Savage was found lying on a couch both wrists Slashed deep witha with a razor razor the tho blood dripping onto a large picture of Clara Bow that lay on the floor Rushed to a hospital nearly dead from loss of blood he attributed his attempted suicide to Miss Bows Bow's refusal to yield to his love pleadings and marry him Of course coune I 1 am terribly sorry such sucha a thing should happen said Miss Bow when word of her suitors suitor's act reached her Mr bir Savage is a very n nice ce boy boy- boy just a trifle impulsive and a little too temperamental I only knew him less leu than a week He lIe tried to sweep me off of Toy my feet with his speed The first thing I knew he be he was pro pro- proposing proposing pro proposing posing marriage and driving me mo down downto downto downto to the courthouse to get a marriage r lea y who patiently listened to Mr gave him so he says saya several his heart by saying that sh his bride license I simply laughed at him He says he tried to suicide because I turned him down gave down gave him the ga gate he calls it it Let me tell you when this this when a man tries to kill kill himself over a woman he doesn't cut his wrists with a safety razor razorblade razorblade razorblade blade and then drape himself over a couch No they dont don't do it that way That might work vork out all ri right ht in pictures but men dont don't think of when dramatics they kill themselves They use a pistol Then those poems of his Really he heIs heis heIs Is wonderful in that respect I am wild over poetry and he be knew It but as a faras faras far fars as s being in love with somebody him him tell another funny one ones onel I All I can say about Bob that Is-that is that as a lover he lie is a wonderful poet s But from Savage as he gazed at the bandages on his wrists came a renewed avowal of his love I hope to tell you I tried to kill my- my myself my myself self he said I am simply wild over Miss never Bow Bow never loved a girl so much in all my life Ufe Say she may say Bay a real nian man would shoot himself but believe me it takes a lot of ot nerve to cut your wrists and then watch the blood flow now Why the doctor who sewed up my wrists said if they had been fifteen minutes later In Jetting getting me to the hospital I would have passel P out of the picture And then she he saS sa'S says I didn't have nerve Just wait wait until I get out of the hos- hos hospital hos hospital pital Ill I'll show Miss Migs Bow I 1 have plenty of nerve You see lee it was like this I Iwas Iwas Iwas was out with some of my Yale frater frater- fraternity fraternity brothers We had been to a movie In which Clara Bow appeared I 1 made madea a bet with the fellows that In just one week I could make her love me Well a mutual friend introduced usI us usI I fell head over heels in love with herin her herin herin in barely two days days time I thought she returned the love but I 1 guess she didn't She threw me down down cold and I was desperate At the inquiry into Savages Savage's sanity Clara Bow testified that it was out of the question for her to think of marry marrying ing Bob Savage because he possessed the very thing she hated most of all In Ina Ina ina a man man-an man an ego complex The Thc judge and the learned alienists composing the lunacy commission were puzzled to know what she meant by this and asked her herto herto herto to define the phrase A person with an ego complex ex- ex explained ex explained Clara Bow Is s one who thinks t e z I It t pt 1 r r N b r t Robert S Savage who has so soI I alarmed his friends by his unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate tendency to take his love loveI I affairs too seriously that everything they do and everything their family does Is of paramount Im Importance Im- Im Importance importance It is what makes a spoiled bo boy such as Mr Savage is Within forty-eight forty hours after she met Savage the actress informed the court he was was urging her to accompany him to the marriage license bureau She said she repeatedly told him that she didn't love him and would never marry him but this had no effect in stopping his pursuit of her Savage finally became very much of If Ifa ofa ofa a caveman the pretty witness declared and spoke harshly to her saying I can make you love me after the ve theare weare are married I dont don't care If you are en- en engaged en engaged to another man My name is 13 laSavage Savage and I 1 take after my name After all the evidence concerning Savages Savage's e extraordinary love affair the lunacy commission commission pronounced him sane The luckless lover breathed a deep sigh of relief at this verdict and cast one last long Ions look at the flaming flapper who sat a few feet away What a sap I 1 have been said Savage Sav Sav- Sav Savage age as he made his way out of the crowded court room what a worlds world's champion sap j And when the alienists composing the lunacy commission heard those words they felt more certain than ever that they had been right in pronouncing the young man sane |