| Show At y Mt Y B the v q 3 WIlY Why the Ark st is Sure His Talented French j 1 Is I tile the y I I 14 Y f v Beauty s a asip sip Ideal Love Mate 1 4 w H He e Missed in 4 T Three American Ht F r t Brides s On the left Car Car- Carlotta Carlotta lotta Monterey the thelast last of the three 1 pre previous v i 0 u a wives ak whom Mr Barton t t I a ay found lacking the thet r J y per perfection f chon h he e IS is I f posItive hIs fourth wife possesses 4 r j i t d v i i f j J ft Y i fJ t 1 hj S 'S 4 j Y V If t n t n 0 r v 1 J- J JL L 1 M- M V 1 t r it t A t tK i lr I f i r 55 t S 1 i iA s n 55 S S l W J s i It 0 F M V t t rl-I rl i S J r Jf fj 1 t Y Id I'd like to lay a little RALPH bet that you marry again within with- with within in a year said Theodore Dreiser the novelist to Ralph Barton the caricaturist as the two sat at din din- dinner dinner din dinner ner a few weeks ago Dont be silly Theodore replied Mr Barton Darton Three times is out in the game ame of marriage so far as I am con con- concerned con concerned but Ill I'll be glad to take some of your hard earn hard earned cd coin twelve months from to-day to Im I'm betting on a sure thin thing so Ill I'll give you odds five odds five to one five Twenty five dollars of my money against 5 of yours Thus spoke the artist whose divorce from Carlotta Monterey the stage beauty last March had llad been preceded b by divorces fr from m two other Mrs Bartons Anne and Marie Jennings The very cry next day he met Germaine the French composer of modernist music and lost his heart And when after a whirlwind courtship of less than three weeks he made the beautiful and talented Parisian Mrs Barton the fourth he also lost his Ilis bet Well what's the explanation Ralph asked some of the artists artist's friends who had heard him say Never again often and emphatically ally since he ho and Carlotta Monterey dissolved partnership Many of them less wise than Mr Dreiser had believed he meant what he said When I saw Mlle Mile I changed my mind replied the caricaturist caricaturist all alL She explains every every- everything everything thing This is posit positively ely my last venture in matrimony The knot is tied good and tight this time and andI I never want to see it untied The man who gets a good French wife is the luckiest of husbands No other woman can take care of a man so sowell sowell sowell well nor make him so 50 happy and con con- contented contented contented tented as ns one born and bred in France I have found the perfect wife at last The story of haw how Mr Barton chanced to meet the talented beauty to whom he promptly lost his heart and and how ho he heso hoso so 50 swiftly made her his bride is as ns ro- ro romantic ro romantic mantic mantle as his famous drawings are amus amus- amusing amusing amusing ing Mr Barton had been bidden to a party given by Mr and Mrs Alfred Knopf But he was busy and tired and had telephoned his regrets He would be sorry sorry to miss hearing Paul Robeson and Clara Smith sing but he just must get t to bed and catch up on his sleep But nut on the night of the party two artist George friends friends George Lepape and Bernard Ber- Ber Bernard Bernard nard Boutel de invaded Monvel-invaded Monvel invaded his New York studio and carried the object object- objecting objecting objecting ing ing artist off to the Knops apartment In the th s hotel suite suito where Mile Taille- Taille Taille ferre was preparing to retire after a ahard ahard ahard hard days day's work ever her music a similar affair was going on for tor she too had thanked the and ex- ex explained explained ex explained that she was much too tired to attend their soiree So the two unwilling guests who knew w I 1 each other only by reputation reputation rep- rep went to the party party They bot b bo o t h planned to get away aWnY early early and store up the sleep that working hard hard creative artists must have ha to do their best work When the tired cari earl caricaturist saw the tired composer he forgot all about his beckoning s bed and the work wait wait- waiting waiting k ing to be done on the morrow He lie forgot too the the bet he had made with Theodore Dreiser only a few v hours before During the evening he saw a great deal of Mademoiselle Taille Taille- ferre He was sorry when the time came to say good night to his hosts who never ne suspected that a Franco Franco- Franco American American compact was being born under their very noses and that inless in less than three weeks they would be con congratulating congratulating lating the artist on his fourth matri matri- matrimonial matrimonial matrimonial venture It If f Ralph felt like that about the mademoiselles why in blazes didn't ho he marry one in the first place He knows the lingo ani and ani must have met a lot of them during his visits to France one of the artists artist's friends asked another I guess he just didn't meet me t his par par- particular particular particular id ideal al or maybe he was too busy falling for lor American women to put h his s theories into practice was the others other's exceedingly sensible guess I 1 might describe my feeling for France and the French says Mr Bar Bar- Barton Barton Barton ton after long and sober reflection and anda nd a desperate effort to remain calm and matter of fact as a sort of ot blind adora adora- adoration adoration adoration tion If the country is not an earthly paradise for civilized souls and if the people possess any faults that are not virtues I am moonstruck and delirious The word Frenchy seems to sum up the average Americans American's idea of France And its it's all wrong It conjures pictures of very short skirts crossed crossed legs and pink knees brazenly bared to the tho e eyes es of tourists strolling along the boulevards of flashing bI bIck black ck e eyes es and crimson pout pout- pouting pouting ing lips that lure butter and But Dut that is not the real France for tor forthe forthe the average French woman is really very fashioned old fashioned according to American standards When she is in a public place her skirts are aro modestly pulled do down over her knees She has no eyes for any one ono except her husband husband- The Tte American flapper is an almost unbelievable type to the French They cannot understand hows how's how a girl can be so immodest in dress manner and her easy and free easy with men menThe The Tho typical French parents would cut their throats in shamo shame if their daughters daughter I r 1 y sg I 5 I o j 5 t S 'S b s r e i s Ca d t 1 Y I f Q l I n I r II I II rr e et t a t X f I 1 t rS S tit it itt t r j Ij I I 1 1 A snapshot of the cN new Mrs Barton arriving fro from rn France on a visit to w were ere known to go joy joy- joyriding joyriding riding with boy friends and pet and drink as so sot t r w many of our girls do As blooded hot and snappy as the people of ti t A France are supposed to tobe be they are actually much too moraL moal Why M it is as much as a French Frenchwoman's womans woman's reputation is worth f for r her to be seen een t sitting at a table in a sidewalk cafe and only the women who do not eye care take such chances The The French woman 9 makes a wonderful wife ife She has studied men u as uthe the women Omen of no other othelo h nation have She puts puts sF her personal happiness v 1 aside to work for the theman f fr s r r man her aim is to make a pleasant home for her husband not to dicker about 50 60 arrango- arrango J ments or noisily cam cam- campaign to for what has been f r termed economic equal ity An impression of Mr Barton by his fel- fel She takes marriage low caricaturist Covarrubias the Mexican very very seriously and artist is almost invariably the soul of loyalty loyally to her husband And should he be make mako an occasional social nocial error she is liberal in her attitude The Theart Theart art art of ot making n n-en n en happy in wedlock is isa Isa isa a delicate art and the women of Franco are past masters mastera at it it Mr Barton speaks French like ana a na- na natine na native tive tine of Paris and his courtship was con con- conducted conducted conducted ducted entirely in the language of the beauty he was He is s sure that HT nr br by 1 she ahe would have become the fourth d Barton Darton even if it they had lacked a n corn com common neon mon medium of expression but is not s certain that the tho courtship would been rushed through in so 80 short a had he been forced to work with an interpreter In Interpreter or a French-English French Besides loving her tor for herself th artist greatly respects the brilliance o 0 ohis ohis his wife as h pianist and composer composer Shohon Sh rt Tetu IM inn t I is world w famous as a n member of the French Group des Six that little band of French modernist composers whose works have a regular place in the pro pro- programs programs grams of Americas America's finest symphony orchestras And she die looks upon him ns as the worlds world's worlds world's cleverest caricaturist We cant can't help being happy together says Mr Barton as if to quash the un- un unuttered un ut uttered red doubts and fears of friends who have naturally come to look upon him himas himas himas as a sort of matrimonial jumping bean Weare creative both both creative artists with plenty of work to do My J wife will have no notime notime notime time to sit around feeling neglected when I have o to o spend hours at the draw draw- drawing drawing ing board She has even en had a muted piano installed in a room iff ff f my studio so that her playing will not distract mo me from my work If she were an actress I might feel a qualm of two about our continued hap hap- happiness happiness for acting is not creative work but calling I have ha no desire to be advertised as the Nat Goodwin of Goodwin-of of the art world and time will prove that I speak the tr truth th when I say EIlY hn hat I hav have at last found the perfect wi wife e Proba Probably ly my friend Henry was at least right hall half when ben he wrote me After a brief meet meet- meeting meeting ing with the lady I hereby prophesy that you will stay put this time tim and end have five children There are those however howe who dis- dis discount dis discount count the judgment of ot Mr as asa a they read a little poem that the much much- much married a married Mr Barton recently wrote for his book Science in Rh Rhyme Without Reason It goes like this S In all the tho world theres there's there none 10 so faIr f to me mo as AI a my Carlotta a But Bt Perkins favor Claribel Im I'm Y The former r 55 7 Mlle Mile Germaine the the charming French French musical composer who who has become the fourth fourth wife of Ralph Barton after an acquaintance of less than han three weeks I glad flad Id he has bao ba got cot her her And there those who are aro choose cooie a blonde And those tho e who like brunettes brunette brunettes And there are those whore who're only fond Of Titian Titian-h Titian haired ired soubrettes And there are chief chiefs in Africa who wed their wives in bevies bevie And show how a predilection for the be dark dark- darkest darkest darkest est heavies super Andall And all these the e varied tastes tute a le are right No matter how bow fantastic For perfect taste in beauty quit quite Conveniently elastic clastic The Tho happiness and contentment of I Mr Barton with his charming channing little French bride is not to be doubted His emphatic assertions that he he has at last found the perfect wife after consider considerable able experimentation in the uncertain science of matrimony has convinced those Al- Al AlJ who J know him him th he iA n ll L- L believes th t qt really be- be he has made dc his last fast trip to the and altar and the divorce court But the tho gentleman who so gallantly salutes France as ns an earthly paradise where the fairest and most desirable of women flourish as blossoms in a n garden Is the same gentleman who wrote In all the world theres there's none Done so fair tair to tome mo as my Carlotta theline He likewise is responsible for the line For perfect taste in beauty quite conveniently elastic clastic And because he has demonstrated this very theory in his exploded romances with three Ameri Ameri- American American American can women each noted for her beauty it is not to be wondered at that that his talk of living happily over ate after falls on a few afew doubting ears anyway it is Mr Ir Bar Bar- Barton Barton Barton ton has been approached with other one five to five to-five wagers quite different from Novelist Dreiser's gamble against a sure thing thingS S |
