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#+ ~iha s 4 ~iha s 4 #i i1 220000 ge ce "‘â€""' ~She toiled all the while at her own technic. When sheâ€"finished the short comedy with Ned Ling she was drawn back to the Bermond studio for the principal role in a big picture. She was not yet to ~be starred, but she was to be "featured" with a young man, Clive Cleland, who was spoken of as Tom Holby‘s successor. ‘Young Cleland fell prey to her growing fascinations, but he was so much her business rival and their professional love scenes were such duels for points, that she could not think ‘of him as an amateur in love. Besides, an unsuspected loyalty to Tom Holby was wakened in her heart by the pretense that this raw youth was Tom‘s "successor." Holby was out in the Mojave Desâ€" ert on location, and his absence pleaded for him like a still, s;nall voice that interfered with the murâ€" He was so thwarted and rejected that he sent her home alone, _She was grateful for that. f hes She had fallen out of love with hM. semine Amea is eout, B ioice ts uC 4 a+ murs of nearer lovers. â€" _ . Bhe was full of impatience of every sort. _ % herself, vexed her to distraction. It was a strange thing to recognize in herself a fault that she detested in others and was yet unable to eradiâ€" cate. Strivingâ€"to avoid these recurâ€" rent tricks, she grew selfâ€"conscious, and people said that she was getting a swelled head when she was most in a panic. â€" What theyâ€"tookâ€"forâ€"conâ€" ceit was the bluff of a rabbit at bay. her heart and her friends gave her conflicting counsel: Don‘t marry an actor!â€"Don‘t marry an author! Don‘t marry a business man! < Don‘t marry anybody! § es FItis: Mannerisms that directors or,critics And all the while the longing for a home, a single love, a normal averâ€" age life, alternated with onsets of cynical defiance for the conventions. Ned Ling was one of Mem‘s most abject worshipers. He had taught her the mechanics of comedy, and helped her tragedy.thereby. â€"Without being able to laugh at himself, he tan:ht her to laugh at herself and AWay his fears of love and his horâ€" ror of marriage and his sense of humor at the same time. ~He flew into tempests of anger~ at her unâ€" responsiveness and became a tragic clown at whom she could.not help Tom Holby came back from the desert -~ wner than ever, btl no indeniable Phi BVer. $¢. fought hard for her in the spiritâ€"of the hero he was playing at the time, ~He made comic â€" exits â€"from . her presence, ~swearing â€"he â€"wouldnever see her again, and..comic returns. But Mem would only flirt with him, and with anyone else who amused her. SQULS,* ze But these highly advertised tacties were not to Mem‘s liking, at least at the moment. When he grew too fierce she struck himâ€" in the mouth with â€"a fistâ€"that had stout muscles the blood to his nose with a slash of her elbow. a man who acted on the theory that the cave man is woman‘s ideal and that she prefers above all things to be. caressed with a club. , She railed at his awkward â€"confuâ€" sion, but thereafter she was out when he called. . â€""How wonderful," she said on the palmâ€"gloomed way, "to be loved by one man for fifty years!" o ast s Eventually she met him again at the golden wedding anniversary of an_ old actor and accepted his apolâ€" ogies and his company home. a "T could love you for a hundred," Tom groaned. "Let‘s get married and quit wasting so much time." _ "I don‘t suppose any woman ever gave up her career when she got married." â€"*"*How do you mean?" â€"~â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" "Most women have been brought Wfim@ifil‘mm_m A father or mother told them what to do, and scolded them when they did something else. .They learned how to make dresses and sew and cook, and that was their business. When they married they just moved their shop over toâ€" their husband‘s home, and expected him to provide the raw stock â€"and â€"tellâ€"themâ€"whatâ€"toâ€"doâ€"and seold ‘em if they didn‘t do it, or spank "But you‘d be hugging other girls before the cameraâ€"and other men would be hugging me." * * thing." : e "But it might come toâ€"*" "Well, for the matter of that, a lot of hugging goes on in a lot of homesâ€" â€" and outside of them. â€" No guaranty ever went with marriage "that was good for anything, â€" and there‘s none now. We‘ve got as good a chance asâ€"anybody." f "They‘re pretty popular, thonzh(i wayâ€"andâ€"divorces are as ancient as the world. Moses brought down from heaven the easiest system." "Yes, but Christ saidâ€"" . % "Christ said nothing about a woâ€" man everâ€"getting a divorce at all. He.only.allowedâ€"a ~+»00 "But what if we should fall out? Divorces are so loathsome." ow "one ground." <~He took her in his arms, but Mem was ~not in a gambling mood, and withdrew : hetselt.â€"â€"Sheâ€" wanted .: to ponder a while longer. 2 !,l'*,ii. il ! !I‘ ..I Ill'. ! !! ;! the ‘eal bar rSmyigs COnvinced _LnNal l - .":I"P”"!'- “l"\.. ctor and an actress. She had been of a mind that actress and director made "I wouldn‘t give up my career for When she was under Tom Holby‘s ILLUSTRATED _BY _ DONALD â€" RILBY /+« CECCP RES S anw lpooplo see you when they see the Then a rich man fell into her orbit and wanted to put "big money" back of her, organize The Remember Stedâ€" don Productions, Inc., and make picâ€" tures exclusively for her. â€" But he talked ‘so large that he frightened off her loves â€"<=~ seA tevae@ Yet here she was, passionately inâ€" terested in several gentlemen, finding each of them fascinating just so far, and faultful thereafter. Instead of giving herself meekly to the bliss of matrimony ‘she was debating its adâ€" visability, practicability, and profit. She â€"must be at heart a bad woman; one of those adventuresses. T a% What could she do nowâ€"not to perâ€" fect her shame, but to make a living ? She would be poorer than her father. She would have to discontinue the inâ€" stallmentsâ€"of_thatâ€""conscienceâ€"fund" which she had learned to expect from Doctor ~Bretherick.. She could not even pay the installments on â€" numerâ€" ous vanities she had bought for herâ€" self from the shops. .â€"Most of the motionâ€"picture factorâ€" ies disarmed entirely, and the rest of them near!z. oo ~a.'s“B°r- ond Studios Kept one company at work, and it was not Mem‘s company. = the perfect combination.. Claymore had left his autograph on her sgoul. â€"â€"This love business was driving Mem frantic. In all the pictures she had played, as in the traditions of her girlhood, love was a thing that came once and never came again. Good women knew their true fateâ€"mates at once and never swerved in their devotion. struck the movies so hard that tllxle studios they became no times all. k She was <strickenâ€"with terror as she confronted her problems. _ _ herself. .Authors, actors, direetorsâ€" allâ€"instead of marriage they talked poverty. M on d S We e dr 2 ts ‘I like you, Miss Steddon. You‘ve worked hard. I find that the exhibiâ€" tors are wiring in: ‘Give us more Sreddon stuff?: Why don‘t ‘you star ..No one had talked hard times longerâ€"or louder than Bermond. Havâ€" ing heard him croak of disaster so long,â€"Memâ€"assumedâ€" her contract would be canceled. Bermond sent for her and she went prepared for the guillotine. He said: f her?‘ What the exhibitors say goes â€"2s far as it can. * «Your last picture ~looks â€"like a| ~ "How about getting to work again knockâ€"out. I‘m going to take down)I‘ve got a great story for you an« Clive Cleland‘s name and feature| they need you at the studio. O yours alone. "I want you to go East] your way back you can make per ~â€"â€"LO AN C W KX O 4(6 :,-V 3) + P PB Â¥ OB DDe 0 +. We OUL....OF ... JA V N [ ET DT (3 ind 1¢ ne} c bu it on the job fol "We can‘t star you now. But I believe in you. I want people to know you. And â€"when the good times them. So I‘ll go on paying you your salaryâ€"and sendâ€"you out on â€"a tour of m P ' !".m m a > ree:s _':'; T .T:"..',}.j:...'.'. CHHYC in at The abandoned suitors of Mem made a sorry squad at the Santa Fe station. They stared at her with huâ€" miliated devotion. £ea â€"..Bermondsent a. bushel of flowers to give her a good sendâ€"off. _ "We‘ll pay your traveling expenses andâ€"so_your _ mother . canâ€"go â€"along as our guest." . 3 #zst "Of course!" Mem cried. "And it‘s ever so kind of you." Austin Boas came humbly to Mem to pay his respects, and his enormous daintiness set him aquiver. He was shy, ashamed of his own lack of ‘heroicâ€"beauty;~ and â€"Mem was â€"dazed to find herself feeling sorry for him. Pity â€"was a dangerous mood for her. Soon after ‘her arrival the papers of New York were publishing her enâ€" gaging eyes, the billboards all about town were announcing her, and in paragraph and advertisement she was celebrated. But so many others were also claiming the public eye! other newâ€"comers and favorites in impregâ€" ~~People who had> comeâ€"from ~Calâ€" verly were claiming Mem as a felâ€" lowâ€"citizen and feeling that . they gained some mystic authority from mere vicinage. ~ Some of them called upon her in person or by telephone and set her heart agog. The night her own picture was shown she stepped out beforeâ€" what seemed to be the world in convention assembled. She felt as tinÂ¥ as: she looked to the farthest girl in the ultimate seat up under the back rafâ€" ters,. * : s . 4. cloudburst of handclapping and a salvo from the orchestra that swept her from the stage into the wings. And that was that! . ‘ ; She â€"didâ€"not knowâ€" thatâ€"one â€"ofâ€"the town‘s wealthiest men was lolling in beauty and her terror smote him. â€"â€" She parroted the little speech that Bermond‘s . publicity man had writâ€" ten for her and afterward wondered what she had said.. There was a Heâ€"prided â€" himsel{â€"on â€"beingâ€"a â€"goâ€" getter who had not often come back foiled. He wanted Mem and he went after ‘her. He was willing even to bring her home. _ __â€"â€" â€" _ ~His motto: had been, "Go after what you want, and bring it home!" ~â€".There was no difficulty about meetâ€" ing Mem. for a man whose name spelled of millions honestly amassed and gracefully dispersed. es m Itâ€"is â€"not â€"hard to seduce an actres: from the stage, but it is hard to keeq her off.:. Thereâ€"is ~aâ€"courtship ~tha the public alone can offer, and n man can give her as much applaus« as a nightly throng‘s. â€" That form 0: polyandry is irresistible to most o the women who ~have been uck: He might have won Mem via pity if he had not tried to win her fron her career. He was a monopolis! by inheritance, and he wanted: al there was of Mem. Boas had one terâ€" rific rival, the manyâ€"headed monster. screen and to win success there. â€"â€"One â€"day â€"Bermond . summoned he to his New York office and said: â€"â€"~ (Continued on following page) e JjO