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Show I Ui? i rw- wiiMSM di I hbulifte Lord ik,) i&lriS I I ; , One jury Has Already Returned a M I " " Her for Stealing a iB & I . Affection, and Now A;. JW I; ' T Have Decided Not lo Allow You to Take the Car to Boston. Whoever Heard of Such ;t Handsome Man Riding Around All Alone? The Car's Out." From a Letter Mrs. Harris Says Paulina Lord Wrote lo Mitchell Harris. IVXE of the most effective moments in "Anna yJ Christie," the Eugene O'N'eil play now running run-ning in New York, come.- when Pauline Lord staggers against the back-drop and tells the world what she thinks about men. "I hate 'em!" 8hc moans and the audience, thoroughly wound up with compassion over the wrongs that have been visited on Anna, hates 'em along with her. This bit of theatricalism is all the more re-j re-j markable because it represents the exact reverse i of Miss Lord's real sentiments, according to two angry wives who feel that they have reason for not liking Bffsi Lord. They believe Miss Lord was more in character last year when she played the part of an enchantress in "Samson and Delilah" De-lilah" and snared the affections of a Swedish furniture fur-niture dealer. Recently Miss Lord has twice been named as defendant in an alienation suit. The first plaintiff was Mrs. Nellie Roche, who in IOI.j got a $5000 judgment against Miss Lord on the ground that the actress had stolen her husband's affections. The recent action of Miss Roche Avas brought for the purpose of forcing the payment of this judgment. judg-ment. To that end she caused Miss Ixird's salary to be garnishced and the sh riff is now collecting the judgment at the rate of S.30 a week. Tell-Tale Epistles On the heels of this action Mrs Mitchell Harris, Har-ris, wife of the well-known actor of that name, brought suit for $50,000 against Miss Lord. She, too, declared that Miss Lord had lured her husband hus-band away from her. To prove her charges Mrs. Harris produced a number of letters which she had found in her husband's suit-case These letters were couched in the picturesque dialect of babyhood baby-hood sometimes affected by lovers, with an occasional occa-sional injection of Robert W. Service rough-stuff. On Sept. 10, 1920, Miss Lord is alleged to have written this one: "Darlene : "Enclosed a picture of dogs. I don't believe you rehearsed However I shall knit on until I prove you faithless. Honestly my darleno I did not realise what an imposition it was to make such a request of you this morning. I dont wonder you were a little annoyed- It's typical of me, don't misunderstand it. I would have asked God had he been nigh. "Tonight everyone is out. Darlene, I miss you, oh so much You think I should get used to being without you and 'It you my I tweedy?' and it you lobe me? an how much an it you my darlene? and it you my pie and it you nice and for my sake and your sake destroy this. Love. PAULINE." A ietter addressed to "Meanie" bearing a later date goes as follows: "It's a wise dame who knows hei man. So you see I'm in a quandary. If I don't write I get awful wires and if I do I have to be dern kerfcil what I say so I've concluded to make 'em short and say little "Ever thine Goody " In another one charged against Miss Lord che declared "Lord knows I never did obey any of my men like this," and in still another she bursts into poetry as follows: "Darlene: The sea hath its pearl.-,. The Heaven hath its stars, But my heart my heart. My heart hath its love "You know w:.a;. i don t fee good. I'm all busted up like. 1 wish you were here that I might sob on your shoulder. Mother is indifferent. in-different. Faith doesn't care, father doesn't understand and I'm not on speaking terms with mother's son. ... I have decided not to allow you to take the car to Boston Whoever heard of such a handsome man riding rid-ing around all alone'' The car's out. Write tne soon, dear heart. Thine. "PAULINE Miss Lord doesn't deny writing these letters She simply declares they mustn't be taken at their face value "I was only kidding Mr. ILirris," sho said. Mrs. Harris, however, when she found the letters let-ters in Mr. llama's suitcase upon his return from a trip to Boston, couldn't see the joke. According Ac-cording to her allegations Miss Lord began to lure her husband away from her back in 1918. They were separated for a while but she finally prevailed pre-vailed upon him to leave Miss Lord and return to her. At that time, so Mrs. Harris declare-. Karri? promised fervently to be good. Bu( not long after he had been restored to his proper conjugal con-jugal standing Mrs. Harris charges that Miss Lord again surted plying her seductions upun him and he fell a second time. Therefore she ask3 the courts for solace to the amount of $50,000. When asked about all this Miss Lord said she was innocent and pictured herself as "the football foot-ball of misfortune." - ' ' N fv " ' ' ' ' I I I; ' il3 " ' ' v! Mitchell Harris, the Actor, Whom l'auline Lord Says She Was "Only Kidding" When She Called Him "Darlene," "Meanic" and Other Sweet Things in Letters. "I dont want to sling mud at Mrs. Harris," she declared, "but she hasn't lived with her husband hus-band for years. He is suing her lor divorce or at least is planning to do so, and will name several sev-eral men as co-respondent.-, I believe. This suit against me was her idea of. getting in the first L:ow. "I mean to fight this alienation suit to the finish. When it is over there will be plenty who will be sorry it ever was started. I believe the right will always triumph and the day will conic wnen those who wronged me will be th losers. "I could have settled Mrs. Harris's suit ori- vau-.y for $6000. She ol).?:cd me tiiat en J nee many times. But I vr.s not guiity of her charges and I saw no reason why I should give her the money. .of course, I know her husband. He has keen to our npariinent and I have been out with 1 i with my mother and father and sister and brother I have been good friends with him. That is all - years Mr. Harris f riod to put up with his wife's actions for the fake of the:r daughter. Finally they had a separation agreement " "Undesigning, Unyampish, Homey" Iiss Lord bitterly denies any vampish pro-c' pro-c' .- ties. She refers all Inquirers to her domestic background. She lives with hev family her mother and brothers in an apartment. When jrking she loves to mingle with the carroti in the kitchen. She is as simple as beef stew, ac- r cording to her claim, and as unpredatory asa boiled potato. Mrs. Harris knew rtll this, according to Miss Lord knew tull well that she was undesigning. ' unvampish and homey. ' 'Ru' she dared to do this, said the Anna Christie" star, "because of that other unfortunate trouble I had when I was just a young girl." Thi "trouble" was the earlier suit brought bv Mrs. Nellie Roche, wife of Billy Roche, the prize-fight referee. Miss Lord, it appears, met Mr Roche when she was playing in California Some time after his acquaintance with Miss Lord began to develop Roche hceamc estranged from his wife. Mrs. Roche held Miss Lord responsible for this family smash up and brought suit for alienation of affections. Miss Lord did not fight the suit and judgment was rendered against her in the amount of $5146. This was in 191.". The years rolled around and Pauline Lord gradually emerged from the obscurity ob-scurity of small stock company parts to luminous stardom. In a production of "The Deluge," several sev-eral years ago, she first attracted the notice of critics, but for some reason dropped from view when the play failed. She reappeared as co-star with Ben-Ami in "Samson and Delilah." Then, so the story goes, Arthur Hopkins, the producer, obtained the rights to Eugene O'Ncil's play, "The Old Dav '" 1' read it over and -npaged Miss Lord. The play was renamed "Anna Christie." In this play Miss Lord is the daughter of "I'm Simp as Beef Stew, 1 Lnprciatory M led Potato " Lord Clan !lea Old 6CUi.uin;iuaii sea dog wnom tbl seen since childhood. I develops thai ' r the faiher. has had her kept on the J of relatives in Minnesota, because he wafj keep her away from the sea the Old Dlj which has been a s rt or maliirnant fate h life and the life of all hi3 ancestors. But in sending her to Mmne.-'.'ia he hM troduced her to a worse fat ?: :s wronfj "r her eouins and finally takes up a 111 shame. At the opening of the nl:y she bail to met her father, who is ignorant of her T!r- takes her ou: on the bargo 0f which he it, tain. One night some shipwreck---.! ai'orsarel on board. One of them a a hnuckling.1 man fall-- in love with Ann;: Sue i ; detei to refuse him because she doesn't want to telE what 6he has been. The fat ire r is also tfl the man because he is a sailor. Anna final comes infuriated at the hickerinrs of th men and bursts out with her whole story, wil up with a fiery denunciation of all men. ! hct father and her lover are bowied and promptly wander off to get howling d-",j But they finally return and he -'-jS undertakes to marry her. anyhow, i :e wffl him, because he thinks "the pov t streS him" can keep her straight T playM a note of doubt with the old ba-ge captain ing out to sea and mntterin to himself'! "the Old Davil " Garnishees Her Salary Meanwhile, m real life Mrs. Roche ceived no money from Miss Lord so she it legal action in the -New York courts and? Lord's salary was garnishced. Speaking Roche affair Miss Lord declared: "I did not know when I met Mr. Roebt tk was married. I let Mrs. Roche's case fO j fault in California. I was called elsewh my work and could not be there at the taai what is the use of bringing all that op? j Harris simply thought she could point W and because of it her story would be more 1 to be believed." But Miss Lord continues her portraf "Anna Christie." Each night she against the back-drop and tells the WflH hates all men. And perhans, as a New I paragrapher remarked the other day, the 1 it now. I |