Show LOVE WINS AFTER AFfER 30 YEARS N REUNITED COUPLE MARRIED 01 A l a N P r y 4 t r i anA 1 aYer ins lna Jus ked en at 4 oMen rice e Mr and Mrs John Cray By Dy 1 E l Service AKRON Moonlight O 0 Moonlight and playing on rippling w Wd wa water ten ter In a warm spring night are as a In Insubstantial as the shadows hadl ws or of ofa oa a a dream Yet out ot of o them can cnn be woven a web stronger than all the strEngth of ot years stronger years ear stronger than life Ufo Itself a shimmering net that can hold tho the kingdom and the PO power er and the glory forever forc bright and untarnished And that that- Is la why Nl Naomi Knowlton a haired gray-haired grand grand- grandmother grandmother grandmother mother has at last become the bride of of John Gray w whom mom she learned to love 30 long years ago years ago It was n a warm summer summer night In InJune June 1835 1896 and a big round moon was building misty shadows on onI I the dreamy campus of Wooster college at nt Wooster ooster Ohio An ardent lover and his sweetheart stood Blood on a wooden bridge and watched the moonbeams on the dark water below The girl Irl was Naomi Knowlton She Sho was telling the tho boy John Gray that she had finished mak malt makIng making ing her wedding gown And And he told her that they would be mar mar- married married married ried as soon as nil he ho was ns grade graduated The time timo was only a few weeks away The wind rustled the tho leaves eaves of othe the trees by the tho quiet creek and andall andall andall all the wide world narrowed to lo I the tiny or orbit lt that held these th se two seI I The wedding was as not held The to play piny sate ate and not to try anything any any- thin thing thins any that had not been tried be- be before be before fore fare n It was this lack of ot novelty th lack or of o a really funny funny comedian or com comedienne that were conspicuous by their absence I and unquestionably mitigated against the tho success success of the the enter I enter entertainment However aa as any producer will gladly testify a comedian manor man manor manor I or woman l Is not only the most expensive but the rarest com corn commodity on the theatrical market There Thero Is an old saying among managers that one laugh Is worth 1000 and most managers believe i It it The number of ox actors who cnn can create creato laughter with their own material Is b 1 absurdly L ema ma and many of ot these have havo gone over o to pictures where they re- re receive re receive salaries that no producer can afford to pay As for instance In- In In Instance stance let us take talce the tho case of W C Fields Ields who while he WIl was acting In fn last Follies heard the tho call of or the movie meg megaphone phone With he was reported to receive b but t a paltry 2000 a week and probably probably probably i ably had to pay for his own gas gas- gasoline gasoline gas gasoline oline but for his silent labors In Inthe Inthe Inthe the films I I understand his weekly week week- weekly weekly ly emolument Is and every possIble prerequisite dreamed or of orby by man in In his most moments Under such condItions l It any wonder that the cast Nax ot of Nax of ot 1926 1925 or of or any other musical show Is sa not bulging with comics who aro are truly comic I There were all kinds kinds of ot dancing d easily the tho most successful successful hooter hoofer being Nat Nazzaro Jr whose specialty dances In la both acts acl were greeted greeted- with enthusiastic applause and oven even lusty Of the tho ladles ladies who danced Miss Ir Irmo me Olsen easily carried oft off the first honors In addition to her heT good looks Miss Olsen OIson has much grace graco and ab an and l as a singing and dancing soubrette would be a distinct attraction In any musical show In her b best st number Oh Daddy for tor which Rico Rice wrote the music she was assisted by bythe the 16 chorus girls who danced prettily and afew afew a I few or of whom later on did vidual victual stunts that were highly creditable There wa was also aiso a very ery ambitious number called The Sun Kissed and Roso Rose Good By Dy In which Katherine and Ralph RIggs did did some Bomo classic dancing and posturing l and did It fairly well As Aa to the sketches they fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed the formula now In vogue In all the revues and as In those of their rl rivals val were chiefly ad- ad admirable ad admirable mirable for tor their brevity A few of them were humorous and oth- oth others oth others ers made mado desperate efforts to be suggestive but tho the good taste that pervaded l the entertainment some some- somehow tome how how seemed always to interfere at the tho crucial moment and asa result the suggestive line fine or situ situation atlon carried no conviction and was lost In the tha clean and decent girls girl's father a clergyman object object- o objected objected jeet- jeet I ed though the wedding date had been set The engagement was wasI I broken For a month the girl was very ilL H Her r wedding gown was put away In a trunk Time brought a a measure ot of healing The two lovers went their ways Each was married The Tho boy wrote one last letter letter- letter Ill think ot of you always as you OU I stood that night on the bridge bridge- bridge then their pat pathways ays drifted away I It It It was 1923 In New York Tork John Gray was ns made widower by tho the death or of o the wife he had bad taken after his youthful romance was broken I In Akron Naomi Knowlton Knowlton- I then Naomi burled burIed buried the man her father had chosen chesen for tor her husband Neither widow nor wIdower widower knew or of ot th the others other's ex- ex existence ex existence But Dut neither had had ever for tor- forgotten gotten tor-gotten gotten that June Juno night that was I burled far back In the tho dead past In Juno June of this Oils year Wooster college colle go mailed to its It graduates In- In InvItations Invitations In Invitations to its Ils commencement ex- ex exercises exercises ex exercises John Jolin Gray In New Y York saw the namo name ot of his old sweet sweet- sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart There wore Were telegrams telegrams- letters Here are two of the let let- letters letters let letters that came west from NewYork NewYork New York i My ly Dear there thero are those who will say there Is no God And we can cnn re- re re resume sumo Mime this deep and lasting emo emo- emotion emotion tion lion ju just t where It it was years ears ago You are just an nn adorable pal All the world loves a lover and a lover loves all the th world Wo Ve will We-will will work together as pals pOlIs In Inthe Inthe Inthe the highest noblest sense tor for our children Always Always John Naomi I Naomi Dear Our Our own lives Naomi are much richer and swee sweeter er than they were ere In the theda's days das before we suffered Muttered I dont don't know how I can explain my abrupt departure dear dear- Perhaps Perhaps I can when we wo talk tC- tC to- to together to together gether I know I-know know that some some- somethIng something thing went out ot of my my- my life and that part of or was me-was mo was wll dead I I know I have havo always loved you and will go e back to you OU as to a shrine shrine And so- so so BO the tho other day there was a wedding In a quiet little church here Bride and groom had gray hair and the bride wore wOle a gown that had been made 30 years ago aeo It was lust just a bit out ot of style but style but then It ft had lain Ina In Ina Ina a trunk for three t long dec decades des Tho bride was radiantly happy A glint of o forgotten was In her eyes which were somehow a trifle misty Time groom The groom groom walked with the tho springy step ot of o a a man lan halt hair his age age And And so BO as the tho story tory books say they were married And a 0 adream adream dream that was dreamed under unde the light of ot a June moon 30 80 years 80 years ago came true |