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Show Karyl Norman in one of the bewitchingty femin- ' ' ' ' 'Xl ine costumes which he doesn't know how he'd ever manage to get into without his devoted ' mama's help A UTH BUDD, known in vaudeville fy as "The Girl With the Smile," and Karyl Norman, the female impersonator, imper-sonator, who calls himself "The Creole Fashion Plate." were very much in love with each other. Their romance, begun years ago in the theaters of Australia, had survived the journey across the Pacific and grown more ardent than evei after they both began to win fame and fortune here in America. But Miss Budd and Mr Norman, besides be-sides being so fond of one another, also were tremendously devoted to thru mothers. The two mamas have alwa s been their talented children's con stant companions traveling with them, sharing the same hotel suites, helping them put on and take off their costumes 1 and watchfully waiting in tbc wings f' twice a day while they do their acts. - , Even while Karyl was courting Ruth ' the two fond, mothers were constantly ' it bjj hovering close by. The two young peo ple, however, were too deeply in love to realize that this maternal devotion to !iji which they were so well accustomed was the very rock on which their romance was going to smash One day last spring the fate that pre-I pre-I ; I . 6ides over the destiny of sweethearts brought these two together on the name AMI vaudeville bill. This gave Karyl Nor- ijijjvjj man the opportunity to ask Ruth Budd jj? fW a question he long had been wanting to. And her answer was just what he had I' 1 hoped it would be a smiling "Yes." Before their lips had fairly ended the rapturous kiss with which they plighted their troth Ruth Budd, woman-like, was !g busy with eager plans for the wedding tIIII'I ano" honeymoon that were to come in the month that rhymes so conveniently Ruth Budd Wanted Her Mother to Go HHP I On the Bridal Trip but Wouldn't tfHnk yf j 1 Let Karyl Norman Take His R . ' ' 1 And this is K how young for the song writers with "spoon" and "moon." "It will be just glorious," she said as nhe pictured the tour together the booking book-ing office would arrange for the newly-wed?. newly-wed?. "Mama will enjoy it so much." "So will my mother," said Karyl Norman, Nor-man, never dreaming that with those four words he was beginning the blight that bo suddenly worked the ruin of his romance. "But of course your mother won't go 'on the honeymoon with us," said Ruth Budd. "I'd like to know why not," replied her sweetheart with some spirit. "Two mamas on the honeymoon!" cried the girl. "Why, that's absurd. We should be the laughing stock of everybody. every-body. I must take mine along to look after me, just as, she does now, but it's ridiculous for you to think of taking yours. I'd never consent to such a thing never in this world." "I can't help what anybody thinks," protested Karyl Norman. "Whether married or single, I would never attempt to get along without ma. I need her a .r' ' r WW?. great deal more than you need your mother. P act is, there's nobody who can hook me up in the back, keep my lingerie in order and put the finishing touches to my make-up quite as well as she " So the argument went from bad to worse. Ruth Budd insisted that one mama was quite enough to be included in their honeymoon plans, and that tin one should be hers. Karyl Norman Wat just as determined that his devoted ma should continue to be his personal maid ju3t as she has been ever since he went on the stage. Winnll? tV. rtnfrAvfircT rrnu en I. i M (.r that the meetings of the lovers were attended by more tears and angry words than kisses and love pats. In vain their friends, distressed to see the fate that menaced this pretty romance, urged them to make mutual concessions Nothing could make Ruth Budd willing to see more than one mama taken on the honeymoon, honey-moon, and nothing could induce Karyl Norman to consent to his mother being separated from him. Thus matters stood when the exigencies exigen-cies of vaudeville separated the quarreling quarrel-ing lovers and sent them to play in different dif-ferent cities. June came and the date that had been set for the wedding was only a few days away. One morning while Ruth Budd was having her breakfast in bed her telephone tele-phone bell jingled. It was a long distance dis-tance call, with Karyl Norman at the other end of the wire. In what she alleges al-leges to have been a rather cruelly abrupt ab-rupt fashion he told her that he never could tolerate separation from his mother, and that unless Ruth would consent con-sent to having the honeymoon include the two mamas, just as ho had urged from the first, their marriage would have to be called off. "Never!" cried Ruth Budd, hanging up the receiver with a bang and looking anything but the sweet-faced "Girl With the Smile." "The effeminate thing!" she exclaimed a moment later. "I'll bet that mother to whose apron strings he's so hopelessly hopeless-ly tied was standing right at his elbow, telling him what to say." Apparently Miss Budd saw not the slightest inconsistency in the fact that this comment was addressed to her own mother, who was, a3 always, close by her 1 Miss Ruth 3udc? whose engagement to Karyl Norman was broken because she was determined to have a mother's care but not a mother-in-'av s when she was married talented young daughter's side. This is how it happened that about the day when Ruth Budd should have been tripping joyfully to the marriage altar on Karyl Norman's arm she marched instead to a lawyer's office to tell her troubles and arrange ar-range to have a breach of prom- & ise suit brought. I Fifty thousand dollars is the Vjj amount of the damages the little vaudeville star claims as the result re-sult of her former sweetheart's insistence on having both their mama's included in the honey-m honey-m null Pnners in the suit already I have been served on Norman and he has givn bonds for his appear- - ance in court. Karyl Norman's real name is George Peduzzi. Anybody who has ever been him on the stage can readily apprcciato how he may very well be dependent for a large measure of his success on his mother's aid and why he cannot bear to be separated from her not even for the sake of pretty Ruth Budd's love. Certainly Cer-tainly few if any young men actors ever succeeded in making themselves look so completely feminine, and it is easy to see how only the skillful touch of a woman's wo-man's hand -could make him, from head to toe, such a perfect image of a devastating de-vastating vamp. Tired business men in his audiences never have an inkling of how completely they arc being deceived until the very last minute of the act. when Karyl Norman Nor-man jerks off his alluring wig and shoutfl in a deep, bass voice: ' I thank you!" It was back In 1917, when Norman and Miss Budd were appearing in Australia, Aus-tralia, that the two vaudevillians first met and were instantly drawn to one another. an-other. Then, as now, Mrs. Norman was her son's constant companion and the one who helped him dress for the stage twice a dav In similar fashion Mrs. Budd was her daughter's ever-present chaperon and maid do luxe. When the youthful femalo impersonator impersona-tor began showing pretty Ruth Budd numerous attentions, taking her on motor trips and to jolly after-theater suppers, Mrs. Norman and Mrs. Budd always went along. Karyl Norman grew 10 accustomed to carrying on his courtship under their watchful eyes that he says he never had the slightest sus- f' : I picion of Ruth's having any objection to both mamas being included in the honeymoon. honey-moon. He fully expected that the four of them would settle down to be happy together in one little love nest. Ruth Budd is an extremely versatile young lady. She sings and dances and does difficult feats on the trapeze and flying fly-ing rings. And besides having a smile that has made her famous on two continents, conti-nents, she is the posessor of a pair of lower limbs that look exceedingly alluring allur-ing in snow white tights. The romance had not reached the engagement en-gagement stage when her fame spread to America and she received an irresistible offer from a manager here. After her departure Karyl Norman found Australia Austra-lia an unbearably lonesome place, and he and Ma Norman were not long in following fol-lowing the Budd mother and daughter across the Pacific. The romance thrivod here even Setter than it had under Australian skiee. and nobody who watched its progress was at all surprised to hear the announcement an-nouncement of the young people's engagement en-gagement a few months ago. And such a charming romance it was, bringing together to-gether two hearts which seemed so well adapted to each other, that it seems a shame it should have to go to smash over the indispensable mamas I W J Mis Budd, who wanti j Karyl Norman to pay v; $50,000 for jilting her, I in an attractive stage I cottume Tins is Diobably the first I "Jr. I tlme n problem of just this kind B j T nas bcen raised in connection 1 . I with a suit for breach of prom- I V ise and there is great interest J to see what view of it the J courts wiil take Very pot- W P- sibly the whole thing may hinyi I $ , on hcnv indispensable -to her son'i i professional success Mr? Norman I can be shown to be. Perhaps before the c&ae is ended I the mother will have to give la I court a demonstration of the sir- J vices she renders the young man twice a ' day in his theater dressing room cloth- ' ing his slender figure in the daintiest of lingerie, compresssing his waist into tVfl ionable corset, doing his hair, ronf- J ing his cheeks and lip? ar.d hooking Bp I the buck of his very decollete eveniagv gown. i If it can he shown that he really could''S not get along without her assistant 1 then ii may not be difficult to prove that ;J Ruth Budd was quite unreasonable in re- 1 fusing to let Mr. Norman take his A mother on their honeymoon In thil 1 event her suit for damages may be j thrown out of court. How man ,' manias are essential to the M success of a honeymoon? If the bride- j to-be insist? on having the companion- 'j ship of her mother when she begins her 3 matrimonial voyage, is the young mm in the case entitled to claim tho time r right fur himself? And Is the refusal of m tl ia right sufficient cause for calling the i engagement off9 These are the qu- ;1 tions with which judges and juries soon j will be wrestling. Whatever ;hr .ut.-onie of Ruth Budd'l j iuit for damages, the position occupiw J by hn mother and hers certainly w is unique. In all the long record of nlial devotion it is doubtful if 3 - n other case? can be found J where women's children have been J so attached to them that they were 1 unwilling to bo separated even for 1 t lioir bridal journey. According to the gossip of raodi- ville circles there were other difBcultierJ which aggravated the one that aroie over the question whether one or two J mamas is the proper number for a J , honeymoon. Mr.-. Budd, it is said, md K the grave mistake of suggesting now she thought her prospective son-m-U J might improve his act; and Mrs. Normrt made an equally grave one in enticing entic-ing the vaudeville performance of nan prnspt-ctivi' daughter-in-law. This started serious trouble for bow Mrs. Budd and Mrs. Norman, devotea mothers as they are; feel that tht child's work on the stage is boin cism. And it made young Mr Norm , all the more unwilling to j Norman left out of the honeymoon Students of heredity will be aw pointed to hear that the love . tween Karvl Norman and Kutn d all off. With a father Pse5Sthll 4 many feminine characteristics young female impersonator 1 mother as mascuhnely muscular t Budd, the children might easii markable in more ways than on - j But tho chances arc that KU W,1I never be Mrs. Karyl mother-in-law problem that nw m so many romances after m.ml ruined this one before. ..I |