Show 10 Jj f K III I r- r I u. I I t Y t tN I t f 1 t Y Ca Carlos los Cortez whose marriage marriage and was his bride such a the blow former to MaurIce Leonora Hughes r t i i 1 Q j 3 jIs Is Louis Going i iS t to t S Snatch nate h a Ch Charming t J t 4 L t L i Dancing 0 Partner Away f tl I i s j f oJ Fro From Maurice Ce Just as ask 5 I l r t. t f r w k His Brother Carlos Did i. i U w g When then His nis Persistent Wooing Won the P f i Heart of Leonora Leonora 1 y 1 j I H Hughes h r. r 1 ug es 1 Y a c M Maurice and his i latest da dancing cing partner who will Paris is suspects suspect not k be hIs very much longer I l 1 Dy By C. C DE VIDAL HUNT PARIS that yon were a dancing I 1 SUPPOSE p gentleman whose graceful pere pere- peregrinations over the worlds world's polished ballroom floors called for the continual I presence by your our side of a young oung anti and charming charmin woman partner whose bod body I was trained to swa sway glide and trip about in pe perfect harmony with yours ours I And suppose that time after time just when you had such a partner trained right down to a money making perfection you ou had seen her snatched worn from your our arms by f some ome soft spoken love pirate who knew how to make his kisses seem more desirable d than fame as a dancer You decide that a stop must be put to the love thefts that arc proving so di dins dins- s- s trous to your our artistic career You search i and search and at last you find a girl whose wings seem se m to be as properly clipped as her French bob and whom you Ou think you can hold to a dancing career just as long as you wish And then just when you h have ve her nicel nicely trained and you think the dilli that have been so sorel sorely trou- trou troubling bling you are satisfactorily settled you discover a vel et velvet eyed ed young oung man from South America waving a marriage lie Ii- and a fat income in your our part part- partners partner's partners partner's ners ner's face Now would not all all- this make you ou be- be become become come acutely irritated If you ou were Monsieur Maurice would you not swear to yourself that life isn't at all what it itis itis is cracked up to be even though a man manis is one of the worlds world's most admired dancers On the other hand suppose you were a charming girl gir named Barbara Bennett eighteen talented having as yet et no nor noI r I laurel wreaths to hang on tile the walls of your our hotel bedroom and no press book full of complimentary notices but yearning earning to make a big name for your your- our self S I You are accepted as the famous 1 Maurices Maurice's pupil and dancing partner A contract is signed sib by which you agree to stick to him for two years It is you ou and all your friends think the golden chance of a lifetime this op- op opportunity opportunity to be taught by Maurice and I to become as celebrated as those who have danced with him before you You accompany Maurice to Paris and dance with great success at the Theatre des Champs rr And then just as your our triumphant career seems assured along comes a ayoung young oung and very good looking South American millionaire who falls madl madly in love lo with you and wants you ou to give up your our profession at once and dance through life as his bride If you ou stood in Barbara Bennetts Bennett's dancing slippers and faced a situation like this what would your attitude be Would you be inclined to regard your contract with Maurice as just a scrap of paper or wouldn't you ou I am going to give you OU the benefit of my Interviews with two of the principals in this interesting conflict bet een love and a career and let you ou decide how you ou would feel about it it- if you were little Miss liss Barbara ed Mon Mon- Monsieur Monsieur or light light-foo light Maurice In trying to verify the rumors of Barbara Bennetts Bennett's engagement to Louis Louis' of Buenos Ayres I began by hunting down Monsieur Maurice I found him in his pajamas at the Hotel Chambord It was 1 o'clock in inthe inthe the afternoon and he was just getting up lie He was evidently in a a morose state of mind for he glared at me in the bathroom mirror Why should I give you ou an interview he said stroking his spare hair into a semblance of amplitude when I get 2000 from American newspapers for every ery story I give them Do you think Im I'm craz crazy I assured Monsieur l Maurice that I had the greatest confidence in his com com- complete complete s sanity nit and without giving him a chance to object further I plunged right int my questioning how do you know a girl is going to tobe he be a good dancer just looking at ather ather her I ventured irrelevantly Another annihilating glance hit me meL meby L by way of the mirror after aCler barel barely miss miss- missing missing ing Maurices Maurice's own image That would be telling you the secrets of m my profession he parried Am I asking you ou how you write newspaper articles No said J I meekly but you Ou might tell me how to get 2000 for them A dry desultory snort was his only answer Do tell me I pressed soothingly what you would do if Barbara Bennett should suddenly announce to you that she is through with dancing and is going to get married contract or no con con- contract contract tract J Maurice was now lathering his some some- somewhat somewhat what fatigued countenance and came d dangerously near soaping his eye as he turned to me pooh Contracts pooh he ex- ex exclaimed exclaimed claimed swallowing some ot of the lather Contracts are arc worthless in n my case If a girl is mad and wants to marry contracts wont won't hold her You might as aswell aswell well try to break an eel over your knee or catch catch the moon with your teeth lIe Ilse paused and started shaving So far as Barbara is concerned he continued presently she is giving me more trouble than an any partner I ever had She has an ungovernable temper for one thing and then then-ah what's the use Its too bad I said cally Is there anything to this story about Louis Nothing at all s sd d Maurice with witha a wave of the hand Louis came to our table one evening at Ciros Ciro's and then danced with her Nothing to that is there I reminded him that Louis Louis' brother had taken Leonora Hughes the dancers dancer's partner away from him in ex- ex exactly exactly the same circumstances md and married mar mar- married ried her It seemed to me rather an in unfortunate thing if two brothers should so interfere with his plans especially after he had devoted so much time and energy to the girls girls' training Rotten luck he retorted all If Barbara should go off and marry Id I'd simply o looking for another another one Where Oh in England or America of course Not in France that's sure surl french girls haven't the right kind of dancin dancing legs They're good to look at the girls I mean but when it comes to dancing give me an Ameri American an or an English girl every time He stopped shaving I abruptly Look here he almost shouted are you ou trying to interview me Im I'm afraid you'll have to excuse me Whereupon I wished him a good da day and departed Twenty minutes later later I was at the Hotel St. St Regis where Miss Barbara Bennett is staying I found her in her cozy little bedroom on the third floor It is considered quite proper in France for girls to receive callers in their hotel bedrooms I had often seen Miss Bennett Dennett dance darice with Maurice at the Theatre The des Champs and had admired her lithe young grace and beautiful e eyes es At close range in a simple black frock she looked even more attractive She de Glared she had never been Interviewed before and her ver very red lips were smil- smil smiling smiling ing expectantly Maurice tells me youre you're rather tem tem- temperamental temperamental I began Legan what abo about t it come I I come from a temperamental race she said in a slow and well modulated voice and I can fly off the handle at a moments moment's notice l Maurice c L by the wa way has a little temper of his own So its it's fifty fifty-fifty you see Have a cigarette Barbara smoked rather daintily jr Tell me about t Louis I asked Arc oU g going 0 i n g to marry rN him 1 him she r laughed Wh Why that would be robbing the cradle I dont don't think the boy is Miss Barbara Bennett who is being so strongly more than twenty urged to tear up her dancing contract and become And you the bride of a young South American millionaire Oh Im eight eight- eighteen een she said with a serious toss of the The dancer whose place in Maurices Maurice's head and wouldn't think of marrying arms Miss Bennett took Leonora a mere child Resides Besides I am going to Hughes had talked in a very ery similar stick to my job str strain in when she was asked whether she you give up dancing if a had any idea of abandoning her career rich and handsome suitor came along for marriage And yet et in spite of Barbara thought a moment taking a Leonora's vigorous denials she became few short puffs at her cigarette a bride in New York n a few months ago I 1 would have to love him she said while Maurice looked on dejected al- al finall finally and if he asked the me to give up most to the point of tears my work well I dont don't really know It seems perhaps a little significant as what I should do to what may happen to Barbara Bennett Louis has a lot of money and is a that the man who is so eager to have marvelous dancer but I dont don't love him her tear up her dancing contract and If I did I might marry him despite his marry him is a brother of Carlos Bau Bau- tender years ears and dance with him saldo who married Miss Leonora through a little stretch of life but but- Hughes Barbara spoke with great wisdom Falling in love with dancing partners And then Ive I've got a contract with of Maurice is becoming a habit with Maurice you know l I would woul have to the young men of the family give him two months months' notice No there And Barbara Bennetts Bennett's suitor Louis is no clause in the contract preventing is just as persistent in pursuit me from falling in love As if a con con- conof of his hearts heart's desire is as his brother tract could stop me-I me ask you ou Carlos was Louis is making love to me of What piques the curiosity of the Paris course but that doe doesn't nt mean an anything thing gossips still still more is the recent arrival All men make love to professional in Paris of Leonora Hughes the former women and If they stop doing it then dancing partner of Maurice theres there's something the matter with us This is believed to herald Leonora's And that mustn't happen dissatisfaction with married life as she shee We e must pla play our parts parts' on and off has found it unde under the guidance of Senor the he boards While eve ve are young we Carlos and her desire to re- re must talk like wise old matrons and sume her dancing career as soon as when were we're fat and forty we must do she can be freed from the ties of love the baby act Am I not right and and domesticity I had no opinion to otTer offer on the sub sub- After the wedding in New York that jeer I wanted the beautiful young girl grieved Maurice so much Leonora and to tell me something about her mar mar- her husband loitered across the conti- conti plans So I put it squarely nent on a leisurely honeymoon trip Would you after making a big suc suc- When they reached Los Angeles md and cess with Maurice ln In the capitals of settled down there for what seemed to Europe forsake your our CAreer and marry be a long stay there were rumors that thata n a rich man say Louis the they were seeking lucrative contracts in MalT Marry LouIs she giggled Why the films Ive just told you that hes he's only a child If any such contracts were planned Although Barbara Bart ara Bennett spoke with or hoped for they never materialized ever every show of of sincerity she left me Leonora Leono and her husband soon oon resumed strangely unconvinced There were their honeymoon journey journe to the Argen- Argen many things to encourage my doubts as tine to live as they said in the finest to whether thoughts of marrying ing Louis house in the land the mansion in which were quite so far from her the Prince of Wales will he be entertained mind as she tried so hard to have me when he comes there believe Apparently the life liCe in the South I o b r z iJ J J i 0 v. v Ji f 1 t jF I I v f i M i ii s t s. s 1 I Barbaras Barbara's ardent suitor Louis 1 brother of Carlos and andson son of the wealthy Argentine family American capital did not suit Leonora Hughes She had been accustomed to more libert liberty than the wealthy aristocrats r f of the Argentine prescribe for their heir particularly daughters wh when n it is known that they forsook professional dancing careers when the they walked to the marriage altar Leonora Leo ora is reported to have found life in her husbands family irksome in the extreme And finally she is said to have kicked up her heels higher than she ever did on the ballroom floor and fled to Paris Now that she is here lere everybody is wondering whether Maurice is going to Iwin I Iwin win back from the n a dancing partner just as he gives ives them another one But what effect will the reported de de- desertion of her husband by Leonora Hughes have on little Miss Bennett That is the question Will it make her any more anxious to try her luck as a member of the family or w will ll pretty Barbara also think that the life of a profeSSional dancer is the one to be preferred C I. 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