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Show ! ' Jh'Umrt '" of Just What J f KVi yfcr3 Happened After the i The Steamship "La France " Its Promenade Deck Was the- - 1 Louise Groody, the Dancer Who B Consoled the Fair Owner When the B Diamonds Disappeared. B twtHKN Fascinating Jeanno Bagels, all H nJ kinds of a star, tripped down the H gangplank transatlantic H liner, ship news reporters Rave tier an ap- H pieciative squint, noted the latest cut in H Parts skirts, and then asked one another H - why Miss Lagels somehow Beamed "dif H Hfl It wasn't her face pink and piquant HH as wasn't her manner she H bubbled about her wonderful time abroad. BkJ frock nor her dashing hat But she did lack something ah! the ship m news sleuths observed that Miss Eagles. HHH famous for her taste in shimmering jew H elry, wore not a single bauble A slight H omission, but there might be a story in H it For when Miss Eagels sailed for Eu HH tope a few weeks before, she had rather H 3arzled the boys by her gorgeous diamond i Tings and her $30,000 rope of diamonds. HH "My necklace9 Oh. behave'" H But keen ryes caught a flush on Miss HH Eagels' cheeka. and casual inquiry at tho H Customs revealed' no necklace, taxed or BBBll HHHj! "There were some platinum rings." re- H marked the inspector, "that is. wrecks of B rings. All crushed up like a steam roller H' lilt them She raid it was somebody H rausta been big feet. I'll tell the world. HH Jlo dulv It happened when she went over. I You're welcome, boys." B And there the story might have died HH jf the notion of those crushed rings and H the missing necklace hadn't persistently H piqued the curiosity of the ship news gang. H And HH: tervicw a few of the people v. ho i rosscd H, to France with Jeanne Eagels. thej un HHHH earthed a sea mystery as battling at the H story of the Flying Dutchman or any other H ocean legend and much more romantic. H i They located the necklace after a fash- Ion It Is somewhere it the oozy bottom of the Atlantic o- adorning a mermaid, or reposing in the lining of some fish no' to rhoosj about hi diet Ami they confirmed what happened to Ihe rings It was feet feet furiously Jumping up and down that cracked them ani crushed them ana grounrl them into tho promenade deck yf in-. Steamship Ld Prance Bir what th -hip news reporters repor-ters can't find out and what a lot of Broadway gossipers would like to know 1. whose hand plucfceJ tie necklace fron Miss Eagels" slim throa and flung it fort fathom-; d'ep in v se feet performed I lib dug un i Eagels' other sparklers ! More a m c 7 i r p 1 y mysterious still, what could, possibly have been the idea of making anyone mad enougb to fling fortune tc the fishes 3Dd cut his patent-leather patent-leather pump? ali up. kicking diamonds dia-monds around Miss Eagels, it is established, was the center of n ca litt'e group aboard La France Then A was Hlfton Webb, the danc r, and Clifton Webb's mother, an I f. Louise Groody, another Broadwuv ' star And there also was sailing at the last minute Jimmy Audi tore. Now York's "millionuh e stevedore," as bluff and democratic democra-tic as when he used lo show banana crates along the East River docks, before he built a fortune out of the business. Much of the gaye'.y, say ob.-emng pas rengers. was contributed by. Mi Audltore. who was an old friend of Miss Eagels and who had s spacious stateroom and a phonograph and a pleasant habt' of Invit iug everybody to a party after thi iteami r got well out to sea It was early one morning after such a merrymaking that Miss Eagels derided to take u stioll Just what happened above decks then, only the stars and the sea know I'nless you count Miss Eagels and the mysterious Jennne - t he Threshold of He- Aitiatic Corccr. owner of the hands and feet Miat did such dreadful things to all her Tiffany pretties. But below decks a few minutes later, this did happen, according to passengers on "La France." . . Louise Groody. in silky negligee, was stifling a awn and adjusting her boudoir cap before the mirror of her stateroom, when a iusIi of feathery footsteps sounded in the pa.-s.ige and some one hammered wildly at her floor Miss Groody leisurely turned the key, opened the door, and uttered a little C) 1023. International Koaiure ?erv shriek of surprise. For there stood Jeanne Eagels, a picture hair streaming, cheeks burning, eyes blazing, lips moving bu'. saying nothing. "Is it a wreck?" gasped Miss Groody. But it wasn't a wreck of ships, anyway. any-way. Occupalits of neighbor staterooms. aVakcned ano more than eagerly Interested, Inter-ested, heard what they later described as "a mean monologue. ' It vent, they say. something like this: The brute the brute' Ho grabb d DM .t Inc. Great nntalu ItlrhM Bwerred like 1 was a sck of something aid jerked (;he necklace right off my neck and threw it overboard! He threw it overboard my diamond necklace! Oh, dear the brule' And he jerked my rlru;s off my lingers and threw them on the deck and stamped on them and stamped on them." j The slam of a floor muffled the monologue mono-logue just when it a getting most interesting, inter-esting, and though Miss Gi .ody's neighbors neigh-bors almost split their ears a-st raining, they got nothing after that but a lo.v mur mur ,no tnai was an in 6 snip new? report- ijjjj era got, too, when they began their little investigation U So the fair Jeanne la mourning the loss Hg of her glittering trinkets right now. though not mourning very hard, appar-. ently. for diamonds or no diamonds Je? she Is making bewildering social appear-j anc?s In New York as though nothing had1 happened to mar the serenity of her young life. , 1 At the Sixty Club dances in the Bitz. into which the story of the, WM far-flung necklace has trickled, no- i 71 Ikki- In 'titers even ,, expr. - iu- 1 ?athieS for Miss Eagels is tlm Vjj most admired of the beautiful' fl women there, and her slender Dccicl Is attractive enough without any! -s trimmings. PH Miss Groody. who recently gol mBU her divorce and announced her en Hfl nt to a Wall Street broker, I Siggles when asked about the mari- I time episode, and says she never talks publit i i ion , , B M;ss Eagels. with a pretty frown, say J H it La deplorable that a girl can't be as'oT elated with tho stage without becoming: the subject of all Borts of wild rumors Su the ship news reporters wpnt to M' private due, ove loree 0f the liuo r&fl that operates the La France. No co -l Plaint had been entered of anv injujry,, to Muss Plagels-not even to her teeUmrJl O es. one of the ship's officers had turned in a verbal recital of the necklace story as it wa? buzzed about on board ship. but no ofTicial cognizance had been taken- J Bl SSBTfl And there the story rests, up in Hi H f'r- tho necklace rests, at H the bottom of1 the sea HH Miss Eagels most recent N'ew York engagement was in "The Night Watch- in which she was the heroine of a sea (melodrama on board an ocean ship a? midnight. .None ot the ship news reporter remembered that, which shows that even 'ship news reporters area t iutuJhble. BB |