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Show Death Ends Revels in Maniac's Harem The surest sign of a man's mental dissolution, pbychologists tell us, 13 flung out when .he indulges in magnificent mag-nificent dissipation. Nero had his hanging gardens. Louis XVI. had his Versailles with its love courts .and counties other rulers and men of power have had their pavilions, their pleasure palaces and their retreats, secret and otherwise. Decadent modern millionaires have their "studio. " .imj mountain lodges, concealed until some tragedy reveals their existence to the public. In view of this it is only naturai that the authors au-thors of "Blue Blood." a Selexart drama starring Howard Hickman, should have devised a like form of indulgence in-dulgence for the principal character in their play. He is Spencer Wellington, ihc-last of a long line of supposedly aristocratic ancestors, who marries a ,1 I girl of fortune without telling her of l the taint of madness in his blood, i In a secluded pari of his estate there is erected a building of marble and gilt. Inside all the luxury of the Orient is recreated for the jaded young man. I including a veritable harem of girls i The end of his orgies occurs in a mad f revel, the like of which is never seen in public, preceding the dealh of the pitiable wreck of manhood. Wellington's Welling-ton's foly is said to have been insplr- i ed by the life of a California prodigal whose exploits are known everywhere. |