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'b'liE STORY SO FAR:
MAY SEYMOUR. whose hus-
band killed himself heeeues of
her love elair with no“ III.
returns to her home town attu'
a year's absence .Bhe sells hr
property. and with her whole
tiny fortune in cash. I.“ 0" b
and and marry a men with
money. .
M Atlantic (llty she
HERBERT WATWY and
DAN SPRAOUE through a di- .
voreee. MRS. CARLOTTA
PROLKING. his! sets her all
for Waterbury. whom she be-
lleves to be rich. WM he wo-
poses she accepts him. slid turns
over to him all her afioey for
investment. no im-
mediately. and the money with
him!
Psnniless, May sells her Jewel-
ry to buy a railroui ticket to Ins
Altos. Calif.. where Carlotta
Ill-es. 0n the way she stops off
in her own town to visit her
friends. DICK and aware
GREGORY. There she meets a
wealthy widower. ULYBSES
FORGAN. He tells in.love with
May and asks hereto be his wife.
But May refuses. explaining that
she likes him too much to marry
hi withoutlove.
enshegoestolmAliosto
visit Carlotta. but" stays there
only a few days owing to Carlot-
ta'a evident unwillingness to let
her live at her house without
paying hoard.
May drifts to Los Angeles.
fails to get work. and finally
wires Ulysses Forgen asking him
to send her enough money to
buy a railroad ticket back home.
When she arrives. she goes to
the Gregorys. intending to make
her home with them for a time.
Gloria gives a party for her and
May is surprised to and that all
her old friends are glad to see
her. Later Gloria plans a Christ
mas party. and invites Ulysses
Forgan for May.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
AY awakened late on Christmas
- morning and lay in bed for a
long time. lazily listening to the
‘cheerful sounds of life in the Greg.
orys' little house.
In the baby's room across the hall,
Dicky Junior was making wild.
gurgling noises over his first tiny
Christmas tree. Every now and
then May could hear Dick‘s deep
voice telling him that “this is a rat-
tle! . . . And see the horseyl"
From the kitchen downstairs came
the faint hum of an egg heater in
action. That. May knew. was Gloria
>’ hard at work making cake for the
party this afternoon.
“I suppose," she' thought yawn-
ing. "I ought to go down and help
her. . . ." .
But it was an hour later before
she mado her appearance in Gloria’s
kitchen. By that time there were
four layer cakes cooling on the table.
and Gloria had begun to make this
sandwiches.
She stopped her work to get May's
brealttast. and had a cup of coffee
with her, standing at the kitchen
sink.
“I Just love to get. ready for ’s
party," she said happily, her eyes
shining, and her cheeks pink with
heat and excitement. “it used to
cost us so much to give one that we
were dead-broke all the time. But
now that I've learned how to cook.
it's awfully inexpensive."
May shook her head. "1 don’t see
how you manage it all“. . . the
housework. and the cooking. and the
baby. with no one to help you but
that little nurse-maid." she declared.
"And you used to be so lazy that you
wouldn't hang up your own clothes!
I never knew anyone to change the
way you have, Glory!" .
Gloria's eyes were grave as she
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dare to talk to me like this."
piled the cake pans and May’s break-
fast dishes into the dishpan and be-
gan to wash them.
"Everybody changes." she said
“That‘s what life is for . . . to
bang us and bump us into something
better than we were."
"It certainly has banged and
humped me enough!” May cried, with
a bitter little smile hidden some
where in her. eyes. "And it hasn't
changed me a bit. . . . I'm just the
same old May that I always was."
“Oh. no. you aren‘t!" Gloria con-
tradicted. "You've changed it lot the
lest year or two. May. You're more
serious. and you pay more attention
to what people say than you once
did. In the olddays you did exactly
what you pleased, and if people
didn't like it they could go to.tho
dickens for all you caredi’ .
”That's true." May answered
shortly. watching Gloria stutf the
Christmas turkey with sage dress-
ing. “But the real change in me is
one that you'd never guess. . . .
"Remember how I used to hate the
thought of being married and set‘
tied down? Well, now my idea of
earthly Paradise is a little house like
this, and e. husband and a family!
Now. what do you think of that?"
Gloria smiled a bit witsfully. "I
think it's the most natural thing in
the world for you to want." she said.
"And I wish with all my heart that
you had what you want. . . . May.
isn't there any man anywhere for
whom you care at. all?"
May considered this for several
minutes before she answered.
Then she said thoughtfully: "Yes,
there is one man in the world I care
for. But not in the chllis-and-fever
way that a woman ought to care for
the man she marries. This man is
Just my good friend . . . and I love
him as my good friend, not as my
lover. Do you see?"
Gloria laughed. "Yes. i see per-
fectly!" she answered. “That was
the way I loved Dick . . . as my
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you changed your mind? . . . And
will you marry me?" -
May drew her hands away. Then
suddenly she laid them in Ulysses'
palms again. “I want you . . ..
only as a friend." she said. "I never
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“You stop right there, Ulysses Forgan! How do you
good friend. And that's real love.
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'you silly goose! Tile chllls-and-fever
stuff is just infatuation!"
She waited for s‘moment to let
went on: "Girls are given the wrong
dope about love, anyway. The
movies and the plays and IIlJ :vels
all tell us that unless love shakes us
to pieces like an earthquake, it isn't
love at all. As a matter of fact. real
love is as peaceful and quiet as twi-
light."
May went upstairs wondering if
as "peaceful and quiet as twilight."
She didn't know. . . .
But the thought of seeing him that
afternoon brought a deep sense of
satisfaction to her. She . -:1 her-
self carefully. so as to seem as beau-
tiful to him as possible . . . water-
woving her hair, polishing her nails.
delicately making up her :aco.
And after dinner willie Gloria was
washing the dishes. she lay down for
an hour’s sleep, so that she would be
fresh and sparkling for him.
O I O
E came at five o'clock when the
H little house was packed with
people who had dropped in to
wish Dick and Gloria "Merry Christ-
mas."
With him was his daughter «Sally
and her latest admirer: a callow
youth who blushed when he was
spoken to, and whom Sally intro-
duced as “Mister Zcz Tompkins."
"I don't know where she picked
him up." Ulysses confided to May.
and his tono.was ’worried. "She
gathers around herself the ‘quserest
looking birds I've ever seen. And
then threatens to leave home when 1
question her about them! . . . Gad-
zooks! I don't know what to do with
her. 'I swear I don't!"
They were sitting in a quiet cor-
ner of the dining room out of ear-
shot of the gay crowd across the
ball. And suddenly Ulysses turned
and took May's hands in his.
"Look here," he said when he had
.story or her life since Dr. John's
this sink into May's mind. and than '
hor feeling for Ulysses Forgun wast
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dreamed of having a good friend like
you. But . . . that's all.” ‘
He made a queer. gruff sound in
his throat. and May went on:
“Through all these last terrlhls
months . . . and I give you my
word they've been terrible for me
. . . you've been a wonderful friend
to me. even though we barely knew
each other. And oh. I've been so un-
happyl" Bile shook her head tragi-
cally. and slowly told him the whole
Palace Theatre
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Cal. Dean and His Sorority Girls
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death.
"Do you know why you've been
unhappy?" Ulysses asked. peering at
her over the top of his eyeglasses.
May shook her head. "Beoause
you've lived a thoroughly selfish
life." he surprised her by replying.
She sat up very still and straight.
questioning him with her eyes.
"Why. what do you mean?" she
asked at lest.
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Four Other Big Vaudeville Acts
"Just what I :7." Ul'iyyege ‘ehs. —. also m ‘
swered. calmly. " ot on r
last tw years. but always." ,
He cleared his throat again and GEORGE WALSH
went on with the air of a man who in
has something "on his‘ chest" and
intends to get it. off!
"I wouldn't talk like this to you.
May, if you hadn't said you were un-
happy. I say you're unhappy be-
cause you're soltish. You live for no
one but yourself. . . 5 You take
yourself too seriously."
He broke off for a second, startled
at the blue of anger that darned
into May's eyes. A flush mantled.
her cheeks like a scarlet danger sig-
flat.
But Ulysses went on with what he
had long wanted to say to May Scy-
mour:
“For instance. you make up your
mind that what you most want is a
millionaire husband who can give you
all the playthlngs you want. You're I
like a spoiled child. . . . You don't
think of What you can give to the
man you marry. but of what he can
give you!"
May held a warning hand.
“You stop right there, Ulysses
Forgan!" she cried in a voice that
shook with fury. "How do you dare
to talk to me like this! . . . What
I do is none of your business! Re-
member that!"
Ulysses surprised both of them by
laughing suddenly. "Sure it's my
business." be said, "because I love
you. I hate to see you unhappll. and
so l‘m telling you how to be happy!
. . You'll never be contented so
long as you go through life asking
people to give you things . . . ask-
ing them to take care of you. . . ." . .
"Why. what do you mean?" May ' .» ‘ ' "
,mmupm. ... never “k mm“. . The personalglft that carrles With lt the true
of anybody. . . sentiment of Chrlstmas—the glft that is you—your
Ulysses raised his heavy brows. photograph.
"You just finished telling me that
you never paid your friend. Carlotta. . .
It’s tlme now to arrange for an appomtment—
to avoid the holiday rush. '
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"And before that you told me how
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“AMERICAN PLUCK”
An appealing story of a typical American youth
Regent Theatre
LAST TIMES TODAY
“THAT ROYLE ' GIRL”
Another D. W. Griffith Masterpiece
Picture performances will be omitted .Friday because of
High School students production “ The Charm School"
you had tried to marry a man
named Waterbury because you
thought he had money and could
give you the things you wanted! . .
Right now. you ought to be making
some sort of effort to support your-
self instead of living here with the
Gregorys. . . .“
May put a hand to her throat, and
pressed her fingers against the pulse
um beathldly within it.
. . . Could it be true that she
was a parasite—that she was “living
on" the Gregory-e when she ought to
be taking care of herself?
in a flash she realised that they
really couldn't afford to feed an extra
mouth . . . that she had no right
to add extra expense to their little
household budget.
But the fact that what Ulysses had
said was the truth did not make her
admire lllm for it . . . or like him.
Indeed. at that moment. she hated
him with all her soul.
lie had ilurt her, shamed her.
She turned_to him. and spoke with
a visible effort. -
"If that's the kind of woman you
think I am . . . the kind of we-
man who lives on her friends be-
cause she's too buy to work . . ..
why did you ask me to marry you?"
she asked.
“For the best reason in the world,“
Ulysses answered in a level tore.
"Because I love you."
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FAIRBANKS IS
COMING IIERE- .
IN “DON Q”
the Palace and Regent theaters un-
der the ownership of Andrew J.
tender romance. daredevil stunts.
with lightning like whiplash, com-
edy nobody can resist. rapid adven-
ture high conspiracy. mystery plots
are all found in "Don Q." The dash-
ing daring Don 0 bars all worry and
you live in laughs and thrills. 'Re-
member this feature will be at the
Palace. -
At the Regent on next Monday
and Tuesday. glorious Gloria Swan-
son is presented in "Stage Struck."
What girl hasn't dreamed of fame
and fortune behind the foolights'!
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Tailored or lace trimmed, in
pastel shades, at interesting
prices. .
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80 Washington Street
The usual weekly tests for people
seeking automobile operator's li-
censes were held at Dodge Brothers’
headquarters on West avenue today.
A state policeman from the Ridge-
fleia barracks conducted the exam-
instions.
Most people think the world is all
wrong because they get into trouble
when they do things they shouldn't.
I'
ing these two great productions. is
in keeping with the policy of Mr-
Collins and Mr. Hamilton to give the
public stellar attractions at popular
prices. The same will hold true in
the presentation of vaudeville pro-
grame. -
On Monday and Tuesday of next
week Douglas Fairbanks, will no
offered at the Palace theater in
shlon role. Luxuriously produced,
with many gorgeou scenes in natur-
al Technicolor. Company includes
Ford Sterling. Gertrude Aster end
Gloria’s handsome new leading man.
Lawrence Gray.
The man who doesn't talk much
may be keeping his mouth closed so
“Don Q Son of Zorro." Swift action. you can't see he has a lot of sense.
Palace and Regent Theatres
hammering the reopening of the Palace and Regent Theatres on
Monday, December 7, under the ownership of A. :1. Collins. Both theatres
under the personal management of Albert Hamilton.
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IIonday and headay, December llaud 8
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,GLORIA SWANSON
“STAGE STRUCK”
Laughs, Gowns, (leaps. and Gloria
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Charlie (llaplin
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NOW PLAYING
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AT THE PALACE.
Snappy Musical licvuc lll‘uds \‘amlc-
\‘llle Bill—Tho I'll-tul'c.
A complete new \‘iludul'lllu Illll
opens today at the Palace Theater.
The bill is headlined by Cal. Dcun , “0,3 I ‘1’
and his Sorority Girls in u. Hilappy. W 93‘; Joe”. I
witty musical l‘CVUL‘. This \clllclc Broadway
has been constructed for laughs and
is one of the best or its lllnd to play
at the theater during the season. A
bevy of pretty girls with the not on-
tcrtain With real singing and danc-
was young-
ing. There are four other big Broad-
ONDlWllla .
wuy acts on the bill. . -
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As an extraordinary attraction to 1
round out the vaudeville program. e ' i
the picture. "American Pluck." star. W dow ‘
I U CIGIfiLleyafi
ring the popular George Walsh. is
-—will will your Ili‘ill'l us llt'\'L‘i‘
offered. This is one of the big pic-
tures of the year and is a story of a
before in illis'gi‘vl'gcous roman-
tic comedy, sci, Ill lllv day
typical youth with plenty of advent-
when Old B 1' (l :l dx'll y was
llI‘i’S.
young and guy. A picture
you’ll never forgot —— the
charming successor to “Little .4
Old New York.” .1
AT THE REGENT.
Griffith's Picture, “That Royle Girl,"
Shown for Lost Times Today.
Today is the last times the people
of NOI‘WlIIk have the opportunity of
seeing the wonderful picture, "That
Roylo Girl." which is being shown
at the Regent Theater.
The picture stars Carol Dempster.
COMING SOON
W. C. l-“iclds. James Klrkwood and THE BLACK ANGEL
Harrison Ford. who are ably sup-
ported with a splendid cast. The l
picture depicts life among the crooks 1'3“
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Romance and thrills in lights of old
Broadway.
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umph. "Lights of Old Broadway,” ‘
now playing at the Bialto theater. Today, Friday and Saturday
The stirring and hilarious story of a
ICVO that flowered amidst the con MUTT 3.
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ropolis in the making. A brilliant JEFF
picture from a great stage success. , .,
Adapted by Corey Wilson from the A Greater Cartoon Musicale .’
play "Merry Wives of Gotham," by P Th ‘
Laurence Eyre. .urlesque an
The famous doings at Tony Pas- "Bringing Up Father"
tor‘s theater; the tumultuous 0r-
angclnl-nt's riot; the Fifth flanked
with shanlies and traversed by harl—
som cabs and cabriolcis—New York
of the early seventies restored in all
its quaintllcss. beauty and simplicity
for "The Lights of Old Broadway."
a love story of not so long ago.
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