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Nora Bayes on Lovers
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“Thirty-six in the trenches and two at home,” said Nora Bayes without batting a lash.
And carefully, painfully she bored it into my heavy head that love to Nora Bayes of the nowadays is a flame of the spirit and a rapture of the soul.
“If I had found my religion sooner,” she went on. “Jack and I could have been comfortably parted long before we were. Oh, not that we ever quarreled ! We never did that. Every morning we woke up laughing.
“But now all my husbands and I are friendly. Two of them, my first and third, wrote to me last week and I got their letters in the same post. Jack, too, has nothing but the best wishes for me.”
‘T heard a story the other day ”
“I don’t know what it is. but it isn’t true.” she laughed. “All the off-color stories are attributed to me. If you want to get an audience in the Lambs’ Club all you have to do is say, ‘Here is one that Nora Bayes told.’
“Why, one day an actor told an awful storv in the Lambs’. Said it was one of mine. And who does he pick on to tell it to but my second husband, Harry Clarke.”
“Did Harry kill the actor?”
“No; none of my husbands are violent men. But Harry convinced the actor that I couldn’t have told him the story at the time specified — because I wasn’t in town when the specified thing happened.
“Not that it worries me a little bit,” she ran on. “My worrying days are over. Now not even an opening night rattles me. That’s where my philosophy and religion come in. I ask myself: ‘Is there any sane reason why God shouldn’t love you on Monday night