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THE STORY SO FAR:
GWNA GORDON. beautiful
iisppc. marries DICK Glliztl.
OBY. I struggling lawyer. Her
idea of marriage is fun and line
clothes . . . but no work or
children.
She refuses to cook and keep
house. She hires RANGHILD
BWANSON to do it for her. al-
though Dick says they can't
Ilord a maid. And she swamps
him with debts for her clothes
and an automobile.
Gloria becomes lnfatuated with
STANLEY WAYBUIIN. an so-
for. She and Weyhurn, with
MAT SEYMOUR and JIM 0A-
REWE, make I .ioiiy foursome.
Weyhurn ls oflered slob in New .
York, as leading man for I Rue-
slnn auras. SONYA CHOTEK.
He needs money. Gloria lends
him 8200 of Dick's money. which
she ceases from his secretary.
MISS BRIGGS.
Dick is ill with pneumonia.
When he recovers. DB. JOHN
SEYMOUR. husband of the
flighty May. sends him away for
a rest. Gloria refuses to go
along because Dick's mother.
whom she hates. is going.
As soon as they leave on their
trip. Gloria sets out for New
lork. Site goes straight to Way-
burn. But he spurns her, and
tells im- hs has Just married
Sonya Cholek. For two weeks.
Gloria tries to land I job. but
falls. [dually she comes home
to Dick. He takes her back. but
tells her she will have to prove
to him that she intends to be I
better wife. if she wants to stay.
He feels sure that the only rea.
son she came back to him was
because Weyhnrn had married.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
FIIHE next morning Gloria was
: awakened by a loud knocking on
‘ the door of her room.
"Ye—es.” she called in I thick
sleepy voice. She had been dream
ing that‘she was still in the lonely
hotel room in New York. .
Then she heard Dick's voice.
"Better get up. Glory." he was
eating. “There's no Ranghild to
but» vou brerthast this morning.
You know."
Giotto didn't answer at once. The
door was not locked. . . . Why
didn't Dick come in to say “hello" to
her?
"Thanks. I'll get .up when I feel
like it!" she said. But the old snap
and tnirit had gone out of her voice
There was silence for a few sec-
onds then the soft pad-pad of Dick'-
foot coin: down the stairs.
Before he had reached the bottom.
Gloria was out of bed on her bare
feet.
Dirk looked up in surprise as she
ran down into the hall.
."I think you might have been a
sport and made some coffee for me."
she raid to him.
"Do you?" Dick asked politely
"Yes. I do." Gloria cried “i think
it's mean of you to treat me like a
red headed stenchlld when I've come
back and told you I'm sorry. ' Do
you know you haven't spoken a kind
wori me since the night i showed
you Stan Wavbitrn’s letter? . . . l
suppose you never had a letter from
a woman in your life! Isupposs you
never did anything you're ashamed
of "o-v'ro n darned pure!"
Womanllks she seized upon the
ho! ”forgotten letter incident as e
pen to hang all her discontent upon,
now.
Dirk didn't answer. He crossed
the room to his old writing desk . .
the onlv hit of furniture that he had
broughtwith him from his old home
0 O C
E took from it a bundle of let
tors and photographs. and
tossed them down on the table
Without a word. There was a queer
cold smile on his face . . . as he
went out. _
The front door banged. in the
stillness that settled down over the
house. Gloria could almost hear her
heart beating.
Did Dick mean that she was to
look at the letters? Was there an
answer to her question in them? Was
that what the smile on Dick's face
had meant?
She picked them up. and loosed the
rubber bands that held them to-
gether.
i
The letter that lay on the top of
the pile was the one she read first. it
was written in blue ink on dull blue
paper, end it smelled faintly of vio-
lets.
“Dick dearest." it naid. “1 am sick
of tearing up the letters that i write
to you. i am tired of pretending—-
and so I am going to tellthe truth
to you. I love you. Dick. i love
you. It is hard for me to write this
letter. . . . Lucie."
Under “Lucie‘s” love notes was
another package of letters. These
were all from a woman who signed
herself “Roxie." Rosie’s letters
were passionate. to say the least.
"She must have been reading Eli
nor Glyn." said Gloria to herself
with amusement. To think of good
old Dick having a love affair with a
woman like Roxie! . . . (llorla gig
gled inwardly.
But her laughter died when she
came to the photographs that had
been tied up with the letters.
NE was a picture of a lovely
blond with bobbed heir. '
Bobbed heir! Then Dick
must have known her within the
last few years. Sll‘ll‘e bobbed heads
had become the fashion!
The other picture was an enlarged
snapshot of Dick and a tail. sweet
faced brunet. Both of them were in
white sports clothes and carried
tennis rackels. Dick had his arm
across the shoulders of the girl, Al
the bottom was written. “Gilchrist'a
house party. June. 1923."
Only two years ago!
"Well!" Gloria said to herself. a
little out of breath. "what do you
know about that!"
She wondered if the girl in the
snapshot were "Roxie” or ”Lucie."
She pondered all morning as she
oent amund the house with a silly
feather duster that only stirred up
the dust in the rooms instead of
clearing it away.
A dozen times she came brick to
the living room table to look at those
two pictures. She wasn't worried
about the “Roxie" letters . . . but
the girl who had written the "Lucio"
letters had evidently cared deeply for
Dick.
Had he cared for her. Gloria won
dered?
She couldn’t think of Dick carton
for any woman save herself. She
couldn't bear the thought of his hold
lng another woman in his arms and
telling her that he loved her. . . .
And yet. of course, he had! He must
have! Not only one but two women
Otherwise they would never have
written him all these love letters
. .. . They wouldn't have dared.
O O O
HE took the letters with her out
into the kitchen. and read them
again while she ate the cold
canned salmon that was all the lunch
she had. She propped the two photo
craphs up against the mirror of her
dressing-table while she dressed late
in the afternoon.
She had never thought of any
other women being in Dick's life. be
fore she met him. And yet there
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It was not until then that she saw that Dick was not alone.
must have been. of course. . . .-. But
he had been so madly in love with
tier from that first night when he
had kissed her that she had never
dreamed of any other women . ., .
While she sat there brushing her
hair. the telephone rang.
"Hello. Glory." it was Dick's
voice. "Are we going to have din-
ner at home tonight?“
Gloria gasped. "Who’s going to
cook it?" '
"Why don‘t you make a stab at
it?" Dick asked. "No time like the
present. \ou know."
"Oh, no." Gloria objected. "I
couldn‘t. And besides there's not I
thing in the house."
"All right. suit yourself." Dick's
voice was remotely polite. "I'll eat
downtown then. if you don't mind.
Goodby."
But Gloria did mind. She minded
very much. . . There was nothtna
she enjoyed more than having I
meal downtown. And Dick knew ltl
Gloria stamped her foot. What did
lilck think (he was. anyway? some
kind of a doormnt that he could
trample on?
Well. she'd show him where to
head in! . . She would get dressed
this very minute. and march straight
downtown to his oflicc! She would
go out to supper with him or know
the reason why. . . .
"‘liiema goes where pupa woes.
0t papa don't go out tonight.”
sang Gloria at the top of her voice.
as she turned on the faucets in the
bathtub. Then she remembered that
the song was Stanley Wayburn’e fa
vorite ballad. She stopped singing.
She wanted never to think of Stan
Wavburn again. so long as she
lived!
For the last six months Gloria
had thought that she was in love
with Stan. There had been some
min»: in him that called to her . . ,
his devil-may-care quality. his sver~
lasting cheerfulness.
But when she found out that he
didn't love her. it had not broken her
heart It hadn't even touched her
heart: . . it had hurt only her
pride. That was the thing that
cowered in her. ashamed . . . the
thing that wouldn't lift its head. Her
pride in herself. Her vanity.
O O O
1‘ six o'clock Gloria was on her
way to Dick's office.
it was the first white hour
the twilight. but the hall within the
building was dark.
There was a light in Dick's office
Gloria could see it through the frost
ed glass pane of the door. But the
door. itself. was locked. Strange.
she thought.
She knocked. She knocked again.
Theic was no answer.
"0h, bother!" Gloria said, on
asperated. “I've missed him. He‘s
gone!"
But Dick had left a light burning
in his office. That must mean that
he was coming back there to work.
after he had had his supper.
Suddenly Gloria made up her mind
to telephone Miss Briggs.
Miss Briggs would be able to tell
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her where Dick usually ate when he
was downtown. And then she would
hunt Dick up. . . . She hated to
eat alone. And besides, she wanted
to ask Dick who the "Lucie" of the
letters was! She couldn’t draw I
peaceful breath until she knew that!
She went into a cigar store and
looked up Miss Brigga' telephone
number. She called it.
A women with quaverlng old voice
answered the phone. Miss Briggs
wasn't at home. she said.
"This is Mrs. Briggs . . . Miss
lirigg’s mother." the old voice went
on. “I think Susy's working late.
You could probably get her at the
office. . ., . Who is this talking.
please?"
But Gloria nod hung up.
She stood silent as a statue in the
telephone booth.
Was Dick having supper some
where with Susan Briggs? . . Her
first suspicion of him flicked her
brain for an instant. Then it was
gone. . . .
Oh. no . . .not Dick! He wasn't
the kind of man who made dates
with his secretary! He. wouldn't do
such a thing. ,- . She put the
thought aside.
- Gloria was very hungry.
There was a little restaurant near-
by where the food was delicious. She
made up her mind to go titers for e
Then. afterward. she would
run up to nick's office and surprise
him at his work.
0 D O
N her way. Gloria bought a
movie magazine. She looked
through it. sitting at a corner
table of the cozy restaurant with its
shaded lamps and smell of savory
food.
The waiter brought her soup . . .
mock turtle soup. thick and steam-
lng. Gloria ate it hungriiy. She set
back and looked around her. as she
buttered a hot muffin.
She was the only person in the
mom who was alone.
At the other tables were little
moons of two. or three. Two. for
the most part ‘. . . the eternal duo
of a man and a woman.
"You can always tell the married
couples from the ones that aren't
married." Gloria giggled to herself.
"The married ones ususilv have I
newspaper to road. They never talk.
and they’re always gluml"
Then her eye was caught by the
familiar look of a man who sat with
his back toward her. in the farthest
corner of the restaurant. There was
something about him that made her
think of Dick. . . . It was Dick)
Gloria stood up to go ‘0 him.
it wasn’t until then that she saw
llliil Dick was not alone.
Across the table from him eat I
woman. A woman with blue. shin-
ing eyes and a mouth which might
have been too large if it had not
been so fine and firm . . . Susan
Briggs!
Gloria stared at them. Miss Briggs
raised her eyes and saw her‘. stand-
ing there. She leaned across the
'able and spoke to Dick.
(To Be Continued)
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LAST TIMES TODAY
S—BROADWAY VAUDEVILLE ACTS—S
———and—-—-
Reginald Denny in “Where Was I?”
SUNDAY ONLY
“Lefty” Flynn in “0. U. West”
News -:- Comic
SATURDAT
Henry B. Welthall
Gertrude Astor and
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“Kentucky Pride”
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Sunday, Monday, Tuesday!
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“Black Cyclone”
Special school children's matinee
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school children ten cents. 17‘ "
Snappy Hawaiian Songs
and Dances -
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY
Five Extraordinary Vaudeville Acts
O’Brien Sisters. Revue
THREE OTHER BIG ACTS
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“MARRY ME”
With Florence Vidor and Edward Horton
Farrell-Taylor Trio
\{uslcai Comedy Burlesque
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“Life‘s Greatest Game"
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“0. U. West"
Monday, Tuesday
“Arc Parents People”
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Betty Bronson and
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AT Tl") III‘IGI‘ZN'i'.
Picture It Showings today.
"Life‘s Greatest Game." a story
in which a forest lire plays a prom.
iucnt part, comes to the ltogcnt
theater for today only. The picture
stars Johnny Walker. the man who
won instant success in flimland.
The picture. for Sunday will be
"0. 1;. West" featuring Letty Flynn.
This picture has plenty of action
and depicts the West in an unusual
manner. In addition there will be a
comic and a news.
Monday at the Regent. "Are Par-
ents People," opens for a two day
run. The picture is a modern farce
with cast composed of Adolphe
Mcnjou.-Betty Bronson and Flor-
ence V'idor.
or me: mat/m.
Gertnidc Astor featured in “Ren-
tucky Pride" I gripping screen
drama.
"Kentucky Pride." now playing
at the Rialto theater with Henry
B. Walthall and Gertrude Astor. is
a. story to thrill you. amaze you.
hold you spellbound to make you
grip the arm of your theater chair
and feel the mighty drama.
For thre'e days beginning- to-
morrow night "Roz." the wonder
horse will be featured in "Black Cy-
clone." Unbridled. land untamed,
born to the wilds, unafraid. as fear-
less as a Knight. "Black Cyclone."
awaited' the coming of his enemy.
Besides him stood "Lady," her white
coat. gleaming in the sunlight like
the robe of a bride! How she adored
this mate. this valiant. and Regal
"Black Cyclone." It is a picture so
big. so gripping. so filled with the
things that stir the heart that you
will sit spellbound. held enchanted
by the magic of its story.
AT THE PALACE.
Harbor View State win many new
friends in Vaudedile.
Today is the last opportunity lo-
cal theater patrons have of seeing
Norwalk‘s own
"Stephens' and Brunclle" of Harbor
View at the Palace theater .Mr. and
vaudeville stars
Mrs. Stephens. as they are known
to friends here. are appearing in an
not 'entitled "A Cycle
which has won many more friends
for the. couple among theater goers.
of Songs"
In addition, there are four other big
>~‘J—Iecte on tbe_bili. The feature picture
HAROLD LLOYD
BECOMES QUITE
A COLLEGIATE
H I s Latest Offering,
‘ ‘ T h e Freshman,”
F a l l .3 Somewhat
Short of Past Stand-
ard
Mtw \‘(ifli~\:.—~:‘?:p: 26.——iiarold
Lloyd, having reached that peak in
entertainment where his pictures
are not fairly cotuparoblil With
thor c of othm tomcdizins iltc guugc
must. be his out-i prmious efforts.
Anti hylltat standard. his latest
"l‘lie Ficshmuh“ fails somewhat
shorL
it is slow in selling under nay.
and then" are spots “'hti‘t" tho zuc~
cltanlcs oi iho funny business are
obotruslwl) c\itionl———a little over-
lliDOlt'fl. tonlihed.
And the gags are on the “hole
is “Where Was 1" featuring l’tegim
nltl Donny.
Sunday the feature picture will be
"i". U. West." on original story
starring "lefty" Flynn. Tho plots
lius plenty of fast action. lots of
laughs and has a good cast in ad-
dition to tho star.
A complete change of vaudeville
program takes place Monday; Man-
.lohnny “’aikor is Star of stirring inking Director Doric] Eslcrson hav-
ing booked in five new acts which
come direct from Broadway. In ad-
dltion. Jame Cruze's rural comedy
"Marry Me" will be shown. This
picture depicts Florence filler and
Edward liveterett Horton in the
leading roles and is adapted from
Anne Caldvi'cll’s sparkling stage
success, “The Nest Egg."
The two headline acts tin the
coming vaudeville program consists
of the O‘Brien Sisters in snappy
Hawaiian revue with lots of songs
and dances. The l~‘arrcil-Taylor Trio
appear in a musical comedy burles-
quo revue.
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Next Week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.”
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DAYS
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I'riccs
not so bright and hilarious as in his
preceding two or three pictures.
it proxldes, nevertheless. an
hom‘p excellent diversion, particu-
larly for those blithe young things
who are making the oelkln ring
with the current ditty, “We‘re Col-
logiale.”
Lloyd is a freshman whose no-
tions of college life have been gar-
nered largely from the motion and
from the lirank Mcrriweli school of
fiction. His commendable purpose is
to be the most. popular man of the
university he has honored with his
presence. The consumatlon of his
intent is delayed by various hilar-
ious \lclssitudee—-such classtuen
made and provided for importiilcnt
freshmen.
At a dance given by him-he dis-
covers that he is really the laughing
stock of the college, and that what
he has thus far aceptetl as popular-
ity is only a wry tribute to his
spending facility. ‘
The humiliation is complete
when a hurriedly tailored suit. falls
from “Speedy“ piece by piece dur-
ing the “hop."
Only his girl, Jobyua Raislon. is
left to sustain him. And for her he
desperately attempts to retrieve re-
spect on the football field.
Taken on as a water boy. 'Speeoy'
bolleves ho is a substitute player.
and when opportunity arrives in a
gami- of many casualties. he. as the
last available man. wins the clay.
it is in this football sequence,
first as the "goal." or the. practice
squad. :mrl than as the ludicrous
touchdown hero, that Lloyd is in
top form as tho laugh master.
The long field run. out of which
lite bewildered subsiituic emerges
to heroism and happiness. is a thing
to see. and to luck away in memory
with other memorable pieces of
screen comedy.
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