Show J L e 1 T f st N V F y Dorothy Dorothy Sunshine the 9 year old adopted daugh- daugh daughter ter for whom Mr Brown Brown- Browning Browning ing was seeking a sister and playmate S Mary Spas the possessor Is I's of a truly hypnotic smile Is she able through the influence radiated by that smile of hers bers to make men forget for fora a time the stern stem realities and do things they would otherwise never think thirk of doing As every render reader of this page probably knows nary Mary Spas is the rather worldly wise daugh- daugh daughter ter of humble immigrant par par- parents parents who recently upset Edward W. W Brownings Browning's apparently innocent and praiseworthy plans for selecting from eager and for the most part probably deserving applicants a sister and playmate for his adopted daughter year old Dorothy Sunshine Brown Brown- Browning ing Mr Browning confesses and psychologists psychologists believe that it was Marys Mary's smile which turned the New York millionaire from Crom his laudable purpose and dragged him down from his heroic pedestal to be an object of pity and ridicule and of severe scrutiny b by the eyes ees of the law Other rich men in innumerable innumerable numerable have beer fascinated by b women women's smiles and impelled to todo todo do things they later wished the t h e y hadn't v done But these corn com compelling f smiles have almost al- al almost most invariably been those of women of ex- ex extraordinary beauty Now its it's qui quito to otherwise other other- otherwise wise with Mary Spas who played the role of C Cinderella i n d ere II a to Mr Brownings Browning's fairy prince for a few calamitous I days She is by no nomans fin mans a beautiful young woman In fact good judges of feminine pulchritude de- de she is not even pretty Her face in repose is not one that would arrest many discerning glances glance s sto or hold their gaze for very long Its I to toc features are arc plain in some cases to the th c verge erge of ugly coarseness Around the th e mouth in particular are arc lines which dig dis- distress s- s treSs the artistic minded observer But when Diary's smile lights up her he r eyes and softens the rather hard lines lines- line s- s a 8 difference Her face is corn com completely transformed It becomes a countenance of mystery and compelling power one that seems easily capable of o making slaves of men just as it did for fora fo foa r a brief time with Mr Browning Artists say eay there is something ex- ex extraordinary about the smile of this hum hum- humbly humbly bly born immigrant girl who confronts confronted I Irich rich Mr Browning in his office one on e morning and almost instantly convinced convince I him that she was better fitted for the th e of little Dorothy Sunshine e than any of the candidates he h S Shad had been considering They see in it some elusive y which they cannot define but whir which strongly reminds them of t the enigmatic c expression which the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci put on the face of o ohis f his immortal Mona Lisa That smile o oMary of t Mary Spas is they say just as much of ofa o oa t a riddle just as teeming with intriguing g m Ai Md d Was It Really Hypnotic in Its lis nn Mysterious Power to Deceive u t 4 the Millionaire Into hito Thinking Mary Spas a Quite Different Y Young Woman From What f All Her der Friends Knew 4 Her der T To Be W l t 4 r rI I w M 4 A l o 4 i 4 t tk f I 4 t r lEt vy 4 v e L 1 J ti 1 nth A I t dt X T i I t I I IAn v jj y k An affectionate pose of Mr Browning and Mary during the th e brief period when they were legally father and da daughter mystery as the half smile which for six s' s Ix centuries has made the face of Mona MonaLisa a Lisa a countenance to be wondered at atas a aas as much as it is admired And not a few psychologists believe c that th there re is something actually c about this smile of Mary Spas some thing mysteriously compelling whit which h swayed Dir Mr Browning from frem his y good judgment and made him for a time tim e its obedient slave Call CalI it hypnotism or personal snag mag- neti m or what will how you else can ca n you ou explain that a man of Mr Brown Brown- Brownings Browning's togs tog's intelligence and astuteness came cam cameto to be deceived as lIe he was into making himself an object of widespread con con- tion Mr Browning is a millionaire The Th e fortune he inherited from a 8 clothing g making family has been greatly aug aug- augmented by his profitable investments in i n real estate and other ventures He ha has s long been reputed one ot of the shrewdest t e i Mrs E. E W. W Browning and t t. t the other othel- adopted child Margery whom the S courts gave to her at 4 h the t time i m e of the r J Browning divorce f Jj men In in New 1 York ork nt at it driving a ri piece c a of bargain profitable a for forit v property property And this success success- successful tut ful man of affairs N. N was tricked by Mary MaryS Mary'S S 'S Spas Spas' s m mil i I o e into adopting her as hIS a daughter and thereby making a not at all alI desirable spectacle of B himself and perhaps wr aon dom damage to tb the young oung woman herself It was her smile that won me said Mr Browning in ex- ex explaining explaining how he happened to select for his adopted daughter a girl who admitted ad- ad admitted sixteen nearly years twice the age of little Dorothy Sunshiny Sunshine and four years above the limit ho he had specified In his widespread publicity With enthralled ears Mr Drowning Browning listened to Marys Mary's accounts of how she had nearly completed a high school course mastered stenography in a busi- busi business business ness college had Do a try at the movies and danced for several months in the ballet school where the ballet dancers for the Metropolitan Opera House are arc trained So compelling was the smile which she flashed on him as she recounted all these things that he never realized how impossible it would have been for this immigrant girl to have crowded all these experiences Into sixteen years ears Mary Diary Spas smiled on an Mr Brown Bro jag ing ng was lulled into a delicious sense of security that all was well that ho he had found the sister a slid d playmate he wanted all alI along for little Dorothy Sunshine Then came the rude awakening Perhaps luckily for Mr Browning the magnetism of Marys Mary's smile was not high powered enough to affect the judg- judg judgment meat ment ot of innumerable newspaper raphers reporters and renders readers Col t i U L 10 r J Ii tv Mary Spas and the smile which reminds artists so strongly of Mona Lisas Lisa's and which psychologists sus- sus suspect suspect may actually possess a powerful hypnotic influence When they saw how deeply the mil mil- millionaire millionaire was succumbing to its hypnotic influence they raised loud cries of in- in incredulity incredulity credulity and protest cries so loud that soon the law itself was prompted to see seewhy seewhy why Mr Browning was selecting a mn- mn mature ture and sophisticated young oung woman to fill the role of playmate for his nine nine- old old daughter Neighbors and school records record supplied evidence that Mary Spas was five years ears past the sweet sixteen which her vr smile had made Mr Browning accept as gospel truth A plumbers plumber's helper and the other young oung men recounted romantic episodes episode s in which Mary Diary Spas had b been n the heroine a 8 heroine who was once promised in marriage Many other facts bets were vere uncovered to show how ill fitted the young woman was for the role of sister to a year nine old girl Her unfitness was so obvious that the ties authorities thought best to s start an in investigation in- in investigation to see whether in adopting Mary Spas Mr Browning was not Interested in securing himself a corn com companion panion to take the place of the wife he had lost through divorce than in finding a 1 playmate for Dorothy Sunshine This Investigation and the news news- newspapers newspapers' newspapers newspapers' papers papers' searching inquiries laid bare baro the whole deception which had been practiced tired on Mr Browning At last the spell which Mary Spas Spas' smile had cast over Mr Browning was wa s broken by these revelations revelation lie He had to admit that the fascination the smile had thrown over him had blinded his eyes to t o the truth and made him do things ho he otherwise never would have done It was a more mor tragic outcome than Mary Spas had dreamed of when she sh e let down her hair one morning put on her most becoming dress and made the tho long trip to Mr Drowning's Brownings office Whether or not Mary Spas had any an y idea of the power of her smile and what it could accomplish when directed against Mr Browning may never be known But Dut certain it is that she had no idea her conquest would prove prom so ridiculously ridiculously easy elsy ITer age was she knew her greatest 1 handicap She never dreamed that the millionaire would instantly ac- ac acquiesce acquiesce to the idea of adopting a girl who admitted being four years I above the age limit ho he had specified J Jall all along She greatly feared that he would at once see ace that she was really a young woman of twenty twenty- I one almost old enough to be little Dorothy Sunshine's mother If Mary knew she had a hypnotic smile she sho underestimated its power For as she sho has since confessed she i iwas was amazed to see how speedily y it smoothed out every difficulty that lay iII in the way of the opportunity she coveted Under its influence this million million- millionaire aire man of the world a real estate operator known for his shrewd shrewd- shrewdness ness became the helpless victim of Marys Mary's guile lIo IIo swallowed Un unquestioningly t questioningly her fibs about her I age forgot all about Dorothy Sun Sun- Sunshine's Sunshine's shines shine's needs for lor a sister lister of somewhere e near her own years and adopted Iary 1 Mar y Spas with a suddenness that fairly took too k her breath away If there really is something hypnotic c about Mary Spas Spas' smile she belongs in i ia n cn a very distinguished company of women One of the most eminent of them one oneto on onto e to whom the tho most marvelous hypnotic c powers are ascribed is the late Hole Helen r n Petrovna the self styled d priestess of the Wisdom Religion sat said d to be the most ancient of all alI the worlds world S cults Madame wes an extraordinarily nerdy ugly almost repulsive person But Bu Butin Buin t in her smile even in the glance of her he r eye there dwelt a mysterious power po ve which drew people to her In spite of o f themselves and made them do her bid bid- ding Some of her bitterest enemies hays have confessed that they felt their dislike e of her lessening md and their doubt of her he r claimed supernatural powers changing to belief when they faced the peculiarly y penetrating gaze of her great rolling roiling pale blue eyes And when she smiled smiled- well then this woman so completely complete y lacking In comeliness became a creature creator e quite irresistible A r f a iI Y N I F P I 1 1 11 j h w 1 Mr Browning in his office sur- sur surrounded rounded by photographs of little candidates for adoption Lorenza Feliciani wife of the famous Comte di Cagliostro is another woman to whose smiles and glances glances' hypnotic powers have long been attn bated buted But unlike Madame she was vas an exquisite beauty She is described as having eyes like the trans trans- transparent parent shadows of a lagoon hair of prison cd sunlight and lips to have ex- ex hausted the similes of nn an Arabian poet I Many writers who have given us ac- ac accounts accounts counts of the be beautiful Lorenza as they knew her have hs testified to the magnetic power other of her smile It was one of them says sas capable of making men her slaves without ever granting u a favor of which the vainest might boast One thing Mary Spas ought to be thankful for and that is that she is living in the days when witchcraft not aft was Vas a matter of popular belief and and dread In those days daS any woman who deceived n a man as she did Dir Mr Browning surely have been punished as would one of worst of witches the |