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H e w as so thwarted and rejected
He made comic exits from her
that he sent her home alone. She
presence, swearing he would never
was grateful for that.
see her again, and comic returns
She toiled all the while at her own But Mem would only flirt with him.
technic.
When she finished the 1 and with anyone else who amused
short comedy with Ned Ling she was her.
drawn hack to the Bertuond studio for I Tom Holby came back front the
the principal role in a big picture, desert browner than ever, leas subtle.
She was not yet to be starred, bu, ¡more uudeni.hto , L ‘X . 7 e fot^lu
Divorces are loathsome "
"They™ pretty popular, though
They re more decent than the old way
- a n d divorces are as ancient as the
world. Moses brought down
heaven the easiest system '*
"Yes, but Christ said—”
"Christ
man
"ever said
’X l u nothing
T ^ i , about
from
Zh
she was to be featured with a young hard for her In the spirit of the hero He only allow ed a
*"
He only alio
man to get It on
man. t live Cleland. who was spoken he was playing at the time, a man one ground.'
of as Tom Holby's successor.
who acted on the theory that the
He look her in his arms, but Ment
Young Cleland fell a prey to her cave man is woman's Ideal und that
was not in a jumbling mood, and
growing fascinations, but he was ' she prefers above all things to be
withdrew henwnlf. She wanted to
so much her business rival and their caressed with a club.
ponder a while longer.
pro fessio n al love MMM »,'rr such
Bui th e se h.ghlv ad v ertise ,! tactics,
- . . .
duels for points, that she could no, were no, to M em ', liking, at leas, a,
When she was under Tom Holby's
~
iour in
m love,
m e moment.
m om ent. When
w n e n be
he grew
grew fierce I «twill
<> convinced th .I
think
of him M
as uu
an «uM
amateur
love. J the
spell, eho
she w .s easily
herself
Autuors, actors, directors
Iloti assem b led
She felt as titty as J ami wages. hardships and dl», o u tein .
all Instead of niarriuge they tulkmt she looked to Ute farthest girl lit th
sltmpless malaise, and bad press
poverty.
ultimate seat up under the hack notices.
No one had talked hard tltnna rafters.
And site tsntlil have flung h er u n its
longer or loudad than Itormond
. . . . .
■ — I Sh’' pi'foted the little apeeeh dial iibout him and kissed him.
H aving heard hl... croak of disaster tler.nond s publl, tty m an has w rit,
ell
M
littisv \l
A lisiin lions w as ut Hie sta tio n to
so il long.
Ml I lent .. assumed is . Iter contract .1 for her and
afterward w ondered set, .Mett! off
F o r Ills lust fling hl,
would be canceled. Ileruiond sent for what she hud
said. There was a rilltul Iter d raw lin g room with flow er«
her and she went prepared for the cloudburst of
handclapplng an,I ,,
poor things that died ami w ere
i guillotine. He said;
stilv,, from the orchestra dial swept flung from the p latfo rm by III,, p orter.
"I like you. Miss Kteddon. You've Iter front lit,, slug,, into lit,» wings.
latng after their spell had been
worked hard I flntl that the ex
Ami that was that*
forgotten. Hie sad ga«e of lions ns
hibitors are wiring In tllve us more
She did not know that one of Hie
Steddon stuff. Why don't you slur town's wealthiest men was lolling he cried giioilhy haunted her
She hud murmured to him, "When
Iter
What the exhibitors say goes
In a fauteull down front and that I make a n o th e r p ic tu re or two I mar
—as far as It can.
her beauty and Iter terror smote him decide to he sensible, and then tf
W e ca n 't s ta r von now
Hut I be
Ills motto hail been. •'Ho after you are still
liev e In you
I w ant people to know
wltat you want, and bring II horn,
"I shall he walling." said lloas.
you
And
™ when th e good Utiles com e He prided htm
s.df on
himself
on he,ng
being a u go
go And he gave up with a groan "Marry
.
So .. I . I, . go on navlng
von v.,,‘7 . ------ I «’’Her who
V.'*’ liuil
“ “ ‘V not
" ’A often
° f“ ’n conn- bi ba<k in,, anyway and have voiir career,
S o II I go on p aying you your sa la ry
fo ,.............
Mem am , he w en,
t,M, I’ll pm my money Into your
company I II hack you to the limit "
and .end you on a tour of personal ! »f,er her
He was still willing
*‘PP**rBUf««-
I bring her home
k n MYou«
, k , „ * . ’«»I r P'<T ‘e ‘OOk"
“
There
•>'»'< ulty about
, B
yoU;
l
ubine
East—,O
P hlllv ( ’h i
,
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. \ a T y : , „ : ; ’ g , / ; : ‘z
New
York
n il • », » h i «»
and
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;\ x ,,w'
Boston. I
h,,T
ly —
7 "' . .
..
A ustin lloaa cam e hum bly to Mem
« • . 1
Philly, ( hi., all the hlg clthm, and let
i » e HhOl1 W“
awake“^
,n her j fist that had .tou t muscles for a and an actress S b . had been of a picture,
.....
"
T PrelenSe
th‘S raW| dr‘VinK bttr> and SHe br° URh‘ ,he »>'"« ">«> »‘‘tress made the per eci
" e l l pay -V
your
tra v e lin g
..
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7 - ......
, -
ln a t
made the P‘,rlec’
perfect
l,ur 'raveling
youth was Tom's successor.
' e blood
•
-
-
-
I
lb ^ i
“° Se
* Sl“ h ° f her cotob,naUon- Claymore had left his and HO -vour
•’»" «>’
Holby was out in the Mojave ' elbow.
, autograph
o u r guest"
g u est
elDOW
autoaranh „„
on her
h e. .«„■
lour
desert on location, and his absence I She railed at his awkward con- ' Then a rich man fell Into her orbl,
"O f course'
co u rse! Mem
„
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* r,cn
>eti into her orbit
M, m , cried
pleaded for him like a sUll. small fusion, but
thereafter she was ou, and wanted to put "big money" back -ver so kind of you."
voice that interfered with i the mur- when he called
called.
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At B uffalo and ( ’l«,v»»lan,l nhe
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to conn* bt'foro
e huge
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Mom for a m an w hose nam e
1 .
I dalntineHH Met him nuulver.
e x p en ses , Bhy
,,hy. ashamed
o h a l n „(, ()f
expenses
<)W„
lie was
" he» »he renched C hicago ah,• found
a w aitin g her a long le tte r from the
m a n ag e r of the m oving picture house
lit , ’ulverlv
lie Im plored h e r to visit
her old hom e tow n und m ake a n ap-
penrunce u, his th e a te r lie prom ised
tliu, eVerylMsly would be th ere.
T h is was, success Indeed! To up-
p ear In New York w h s triu m p h , but
to appear In h e r n a tiv e village was
alm o st a divine vengeance
«1<’»K • •¡h e r o ic beauiv; and Mem was lack
dated d
. ....
,0 find herself feeling sorry for him
"A nd I te Plty was a dangerous mood for her
He might have won Mein via pity.
T h e ab an d o n ed su ito rs of Mem If he had no, trie,I to win her from
her career. He was a monopolist by
T O BE C O N C L U D E D
every sort.
Inheritance, anil he wnuted all there
an old actor and accepted his apol i talked so large that he frighten,«1 of, humiliated devotion
She had fallen out of love with ogles and his company home.
was of Mem Boas had one terrific
Do ns well by your children as
( her love.
I „
herself.
Bermond sent
bushel
of ,l<
flowers rival, the many headed monster.
, __
.
,
w i n a a uu
sn et ot
"How wonderful." she said on the
your
parents did by you. Munday
business
was
driving
. Io , her drawingroom.
I This . . love
.v -o u
ess
w as
driving lin.*
„ n ., r.-..i>
tn
Mannerisms
that
directors
or o _,
.
, u siu a11
und
He
ni m 7 7
r7V
* ,OVOd bV Mem frantlC-
th”
“°w fruit
o
It Is not hunt to pry nn actress School ut Hie Methodist t'hurch
It ilia, there were reporters from the stage, bu, It Is hard to keep every Sunday at » «5.
critics pointed out, or that she dis one man for fifty years!
ndvt.
had played, as In the traditions of ,o "giy'e her
covered for herself, vexed her to
a good send-off.
“I could love you for a hundred." her girlhood, love was a thing that
her off
There Is a courtship thnt
distraction. It was a strange thing Tom groaned. "Let's get married
the public alone can offer, and no 1 H«a Toneil« Ou, Edwin Brown,
cfinie once and never came arain < o -
»
<_
to recognise in herself a fault that and quit wasting so much time."
~
t
1 a<ain.
Soon after her arrival the puDeni one man can give her ns much up- son of Mr and Mrs. Il E Brown, of
Good
women
knew
their
true
fate-
•
xr
%
.
»
»
ahe detested in others and was yet
"I wouldn't give up my career for mates a, once and never swe v m ,
plause ns a nightly throng That Dexter, hud his tonsils removed at
T " ! pUb,,!,h,n* h’ r
unable to eradicate.
Striving ,« all the happiness in the world."
in their devotion
eye’ - ‘h* b" ,b<,“rd"
ab<>‘" form of polyandry Is Irreslstable to j a local physician's office Monday.
avoid these recurrent tricks, she
v»,
.w
.
town w,,re announcing her. and In most of the women who have b,««»n |
“I don't suppose any woman ever
e was. passionately paragraph and advertisement she lucky enough to ge, on the stage or I Estate ,,f Mortimer L. Haibrouck.
grew self-conscious, and people said gave up her career when she got
interested in several men. finding wag celebrated But so ninny others
she was getting a swelled head when married."
the screen and Io win success there. D eceased.
each of them fascinating Just so fa r.' were
N O T IC E T O C R E D IT O R S
she was most in a panic. What they
also claiming the public eye!
“How do you mean?"
One day Bertnnnd summoned her
and faultful thereafter. Instead of
N otice 1« hereby given that L. G
took for conceit was the bluff of a
"Most women have been brought giving herself meekly to the bliss ot Other new-comers and favorites In to his New York office and said:
Hulln has been by the County Court
rabbit at bay.
Impregnable esteem.
she was UBDElinr
debating its
- up for the career of . housekeeping.
. .
“ A matrimony, ouv
"How about getting bark to work of the State of Oregon, In and for
And all the while the longing for ?
a 0'
tbem ’ hat “> « ’visabiUty. practlblllty. and profit
People who had come from <’al-
for you l^ine County, appointed administrator
a home, a single love, a • irtnal do and scolded them when they did She must be at hear, a bad woman- verly were claiming Mem as a fellow- again? I've got n great story
t
.
o t ,ho
” f Mortimer I, Has
and
they
need
you
buck
at
the
studio brouck. deceased
average life, alternated with in sets something else. They learned how ' one of those adventuresses
citizen and feeling that they gained
On your way hack you can make | All persons having claims against
of cynical defiance for the conven ‘o ®a>te dresses and sew and cook.
Then came The Pause Hard times some mystic authority from mere personal uppeurances a, four or five
’■state are hereby notified to
tions.
and that was their business. When 9trUck the movies so hard that in vicinage. Some of them called upon cities, but 1,'s back on the Job for '
,he,.," am®’ duly "‘“ted and
She was in a marriage mood and they married they Just moved th e ir , the studios they became no times her In person or by telephone und
you. eh? That’, right*
That’s u j
‘h'"
her heart and her friends gave her shop over to their husband’s h om e,1 at all.
set her heart agog
«"’’d
«>r>"
!
L.
0
.
HULIN,
conflicting counsel: Don’t marry an and expected him to provide the raw
Most of the motion picture fac-
The night her own picture was
Bermond offered
Mem neither ' Administrator of the Estate of
actor!
Don't marry an author* stock and tell them what to do with tories disarmed entirely, and the rest
shown she stepped out before what ease or devotion—-except devotion to
’ *“ rbr,iu<' k ' D eceased
Don’t marry a business man! Don't It and scold them if they didn’t do It. of them nearly. The Bermond Studios seemed to be the world In conven-
her publication
He offered her loll
"
"
^ ' z V' d B I’ l9 -‘g
marry anybody.*
or spank them.’
kept one at work, and It was not
Ned Ling was one of Mem's most
“But you’d be hugging other girls Mem's company. She was stricken
abject worshipers. He had taught before the camera—and other men with terror as she confronted her
her the mechanics of comedy, and would be hugging me."
problems.
helped her tragedy thereby. With
“As long as it didn’t mean any
What could she do now—not to
out being able to laugh at himself, thing.”
perfect her shame, but to make a
he had taught her to ,augh at herself
“But it might come to—”
living? She would be poorer than
and at him.
‘‘Well, for the matter of that, a her father. She would have to dis
He grew morbid for her. He cast lot of hugging goes on in a lot of continue tthe Installments of that
away his fears of love and his horror homes—and outside of them. No i "conscience fund" which she had
of marriage and his sense of humor guaranty ever went with marriage been sending to Doctor Bretherlck.
at the .same time. He flew into tem that was good for anything, and
She could not even pay the install
pests of anger at her unresponsive there's none now.
We’ve got as ments on the numerous vanities she
ness and became a tragic clown at good a chance as anybody.”
had bought for herself at the shops.
whom she could not help smiling.
But what if we should fall out?
Her lovers were as defutured as
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