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Show mmmW IKgt V Why the French Pugiiisi jjB I Would Rather Have Him Fightk Even Though Badly Beaten Mfefr JmmmTF 1l . Than Exposed to All the Man I "Gorgeous Gorges" 1 Carpentier at ' he appeared in Jersey City several . hours before one John Dempsey put fjgp him to sleep and so die-figured die-figured his handsome features that his wife decided he had had enough of boxing m f "HIS Is the story of a man and a I woman and another woman and I several men, and oh, well, it's a 6tory. And, of course, every well-bred story must have a hero and a heroin and a villain and a vamp and exciting happenings and things. That's why it's called a story; otherwise it would be just a novel. Anyway, this story relates to a eharm-lng eharm-lng woman who had a famous husband who got licked thoroughly In a fight and who tried to please his own wife and got the worst of it and is now won-I won-I dcring what the dickenj will happen next. And the villain made half a mil-H. mil-H. lion dollars by licking the hero and lived happily ever after. And the beautiful beau-tiful but innocent vamp nearly got drowned and was saved by the hero, and the hero got blazes for saving the vamp, and there you are! To begin at the beginning, the lady in the case is Mmo. Georges Carpentier. She is young and charming, Even if she were not, we'd lie like a trooper, for her husband fa ex light-heavyweight cham-j cham-j pion of this here well known world, and we'ro not taking chances. So pet us right, Mmc. Carpentier is attractive and delightful. She is chic, vivacious and has smiling eyes. Having thus squared ourselves with Friend Husband, we can proceed with a tolerable degree of safety. Georges Is young and charming, even though not beautiful and we won't take back the latter, now, then! He carries car-ries a good wallop in either hand and has proved his courage in war, in marriage mar-riage and in the ring. And Mme. Carpentier Car-pentier is justly proud of her husband; also, she is a trifle a wee bit jealous bat then, what woman would not be, with such a husband? Georges was not so handsome just after his misadventure at Boyle's Thirty Acres, in Jersey C.ty, that noted Amcr- I lean summer resort. A certain Jack Dempsey dented Georges's midribs, cut his starboard eye and did other impolite things to him and all for a paltry $300.-000! $300.-000! Such is man's inhumanity to man ah, me! And now we reach the plot. Of course, having a plot in a story is a novelty ' in itself. The plot is simple. Picture Georges's rural home in sunny France. The birdies are singing the national anthem. On the front fence sits a jt rooster, crowing in the sheer delight of living. Pigs gallivant about the farmyard. farm-yard. It Is an idyllic picture such as one sees only on the screen. Inside the house sits Mme. Curpenticr. ! Near her is the baby. We do not recall I Us eex, but, anywa; , it's a baby. Tho 1 j door opens softly. A manly form throws a shadow. Mme. Carpentier jumps up with n cry of joy and flings herself into her husband's arms. Pre-fumably Pre-fumably they kiss, but there is no authentic au-thentic record of thh and so mention must necessarily be omitted. "Oh Georges!" cried the madanie, "Where did you get that shiner?" ("Shiner" is a word of ancient Norman descent meaning "black eye.") Georges explains. It was that Dempsey Demp-sey who did it. And the cut on the forehead? fore-head? That same Dempsey. Mmc. Carpentier Car-pentier talks. The sun has begun to set. Mme. Carpentier is still talking. Dusk is well along. Mme. Carpentier is talking Night falis with a dull thud. Madame is talking. Later madame has stopped talking. talk-ing. Georges promises her solemnly, sol-emnly, crosses his heart, hopes to die, if ho ever enters a ring again and permits some foreigner to disfigure his manly man-ly beauty, and all that ! Tim passes. Time has an outrageous out-rageous habit of passing. Georges is restive. He longs for action. Married life in rural Prance is not what it used to be. The war is over. Peace reigns. "Ma cherie," says Georges, "ma cherie. what shall I do for n living, now that you won't let me S ". . ' ..." ' X Mme. Carpentier, who decided aftel reading of Georges' heroic rescue of Mile. Le Breton that the ring would be better than the movies for her husband after all fight even Friend Beckett?" "Why not the cinema?" asks Mme. Carpentier. Georges is delighted with the idea. He puts on his hat, boards the next train for Paris and takes his place at the foot of the line of applicants for work at the motion picture foundry. He 13 told that they have plenty of " tras" that day and returns home, crestfallen. crest-fallen. No work a men million in the bank and poverty knocking on the door! Finally he gets a job to appear in a '..-"" . ;'. iV' an v ' ' y. '''i7'f' ' -' " y na ,. ' :v5 ' ' ' x ca . ' c- K , Thr coach, tached to I ,v js across tho mead The coach star ' eras On the si 1 ... i Mile. Flora Le Breton, the French film star, to whom Carpentier is said to have been greatly attracted, in the flood scene which might have ended disastrously disas-trously had not the handsome Georges daringly saved her from a watery grave picture called "Love's April," though it was made in July. He does not like the job until he sees Flora Le Breton. Flora is young. Flora is beautiful, is tres chic. Georges likes his job. He goes home and tell madanie all about hia lucky day, shows her his contract but nevery mention:. Flora. M en are SO forgetful at timet. Madame is delighted. She predicts a glowing future for her hush .nd. "Some day you will be a great actor like Lemaitre and Lew Fields and Al Jolson and will earn rea' money. And then we can sell the old farm and live Zr The former lighl-heavy weight champion in the Louis XIV costume in which he played many of his "heavy" scenes opposite the beautiful Mile. Le Breton in Paris like city folk and enjoy life." For some unknown reason Georges was the firt to reach the studio the next morning. For some unknown reason he was in an awful hurry to put on his white wig and the apparel of the time of Louis XIV. The director calls tho company into action. Georges plays opposite op-posite Flora all day. Repeatedly he has to take her in his arm; it's all actinjr, remember. And when the duy's work is done he rushes home slowly and says nonchalantly : "It was a tiresome day. T am glad I'm home apain." And then he goes into the garden and picks a daisy and, one by one, pulb off the petals, intoning a strange incantation sounding something - VJL '" r like "She does: she don't." Anil each day thereafter Georges goes to work, carrying carry-ing his dinner pml like a union man. Each day he returns, bemoaning his luck in having to perform per-form such tiresome work. And then . comes the Great Day. The Great Scene of the play is on. The Great Director Di-rector has selected Great Meadow for the scene of action. It i near the Great Beaulieu Canal. Flora is to ride in a Great Carriage of I state. The villain is I to turn on the wa- . ! ter. The water is to turn on Flora and I nearly drown her. I Then Georges is to I rescue her. But man may ' propose and nature plays her dirty tricks. It so happened hap-pened with Georges. The scene had been rehearsed without e water several times d all was well. The di-ctor di-ctor had ordered all nds to their posts. Two mera men were ready. , with whiti horses at-:he at-:he bow and with Flora rior decoration, started ow. ted, and so did the cam-de cam-de lines stood Georges, r . i c.n -it- l . nuajcu as a uj ji in.- nciu, "is oeauiy arrayed as a lily of the field. The white horses broke into a gallop and drew the coach across the field of green. The director signalled to a man at the canal lock to turn on the water. Thtf man was strong. He was very strong. He took hold of the lock, or tin-key tin-key to the lock, and gave it a mighty turn. The sluices were opened and the water, increased by two days' rain, rushed across the field in an ever increasing in-creasing torrent. In the mean time the coach and Flora and the horses and the driver had reached a spol about half-way across the meadow, when the rush of waters struck the rear of the carriage. The coach swirled to one side, the horses, startled by tho water playing about their feet, leaped to one side. The coach swayed, then righted itself, the while tho cameras cam-eras clicked and Flora displayed emotions emo-tions not mentioned in the .scenario. More water, and then some more. and Mil J .-r Breton in 1 cf their rnfl scenes tojoS which so aroa - C -rpentier that fll ordered hubby to return to the nil field Tl i oarh fl j M fcty and Flora yelled in KrJ Flora yelled loudly. Flora yelled 1 director heardfl I ' ! Nj ".ly else. H Then Georg topp d gesticalH I .( Is, he m !! 1 1 re-v off hill the tu the fair lady's rescue te ( rg managi d : get thedoorH .'. hIdl v. and and SWM 'ic'nt iB , .-iiuino stn :b-J I mo t ol Phe i!;c. t'" papers devoted considerable P"H Georges' heroic exploit. ''is I i i ' " -' 4 a pentier was a bit peeved. '",J V how it i navaB in. rr - !. The - - erlaineB l!-mJ al rights. Wasn't she just H v.-hy it neB who was Flora, anyway? to praH at tM of the eleventh round. th.it you'll nevei wfl responded MmH pent - a me M PASH Georges praniised. And he had little trouble fulfillH 1 romise. There wa? the veteran H to meB 1- i . i I". ;tt i.!-.: ''I'fCi-H lowed himself to be knocked out-M I There was joy in the CarpentH nage after the encounter. N'oH ly. (i'-oi-L-- .ncd, 1 will he a"B l-'.urr ti i r. .ir.ema. But madftfJj i l',f orge! was given to under -tar j tB must look for new laurel? in So once again he soupht a w0B ponent. and after iiiu-'h -'irchJB found one Battling Siki. What ha i historB J worm turned. Siki the aavaR e gorgeous f'porB I o itfought him aBjH him look ridiculous. ,1 But Mme. Carpentier still urH to put o nthe gloves abain. JB a fighter for a husband, even bad' 1 a f'irn aCH P-.-e.! to so many ravishing Tk charms. |