The Photo-Play Journal (Jul 1919-Feb 1921)

60 Photo-Play Journal A Wife Too Many Into the hotel lobby walked a beautiful woman and a distinguished man. Little indeed did the gay and gallant crowd know that around these heads there flew stories of terror — of murder — and treason — that on their entrance half a dozen detectives sprang up from different parts of the place. Because of them the lights of the War Department in Washington blazed far into the night. About their fate was wound the tragedy of a broken marriage, of a fortune lost, of a nation betrayed. It is a wonderfuLstory with the kind of mystery that you will sit up nights trying to fathom. It is just one of the stories fashioned by that master of mystery CRAIG KENMW flheAmerican Sherhch.Holmes\y\^-py \ ARTHURBREI flTieAnertean Congn Boyle ^»| He is the detective genius of our age. He has taken science — science that stands for this age — and allied it to the mystery and romance of detective fiction. Even to the smallest detail, every bit of the plot is worked out scientifically. Such plots — such suspense — with real, vivid . people moving through the maelstrom of life I Frenchmen have mastered the art of terror stories. English writers have thrilled whole nations by their artful heroes. But all these seem oldfashioned — out-of-date — beside the infinite variety — the weird excitement of Arthur B. Reeve's tales. FREE— Poe 10 Volumes To those who send the coupon ^, promptly, we will give FREE a set of Edgar Allan Poe's masterpieces in 10 volumes. When the police of New York r{ failed to solve one of the most fearful murder mysteries of the time, Edgar Allan Poe — far off in Paris ; — found the solution. The story is in these volumes. This is a wonderful combination. Here are two of the greatest writers of mystery and scientific detective stories. You can get the Reeve at a remarkably low price and the Poe FREE. HARPER & BROTHERS Established 1817 Harper & Brothers, 248 Franklin Sq., New York Send me, all charges prepaid, set of Arthur B. Reeve — in 12 volumes. Also send me, absolutely tree, the set of Edgar Allan Foe — in 10 volumes. If both sets are not satisfactory I will return them within 5 days at your expense. Otherwise I will send you $3.50 within 5 days and $3 a month for 12 months. NAME ADDRESS OCCUPATION Ph.P. Jour. 11-20 Alice — Lady of the Lake (Continued from Page 23) roles that would demand the best there was in me." Alice says that was one of the turning points of her life and that since then she has found herself. "I did 'The Lion's Den' with Mr. Lytell, and 'Full o' Pep' with Hale Hamilton. But the biggest role was in my next picture with Bert Lytell, in 'Lombardi, Ltd.," which led up to my being featured by Metro. I have since then featured in 'Should a Woman Tell?' 'Shore Acres' and 'The Misfit Wife.' In my next picture, 'Body and Soul,' by William Hurlbut, my role is that of the American art student in Paris who has lost her identity in an accident and becomes a demi-mondaine in the feverish underworld of Paris." We parted from the Metro star, but not before we had received an invitation to call that same evening at her home. This, we told ourselves, would give us just the chance we wanted to see her in a new phase. And did we? Not a bit of it. The same irrepressible, debonair miss in quest of happiness, who left all the cares of the household to her impeccable cook and maid, and who persisted in exploding the fallacy we had long cherished that all actresses, upon leaving the glitter of the footlights or the glow of the Cooper-Hewitts, subsides into meek domestic creatures who loved nothing better than to watch a steak reduced, over the stove, to an epicurean dish. There was a crowd of young people inside dancing to phonograph music. "You do give a lot of time to dancing, Miss Lake," we began, remembering that she had danced that very afternoon. "I believe in the line 'On with the dance.' Why not? Work the phonograph overtime, and let trouble go the other way. If there's any unhappiness in this section of the world, I know this will send it a-packing. "Besides, I genuinely and sincerely love to dance. You know, it was my first position. When I was sixteen I was already a professional dancer, and I danced in one of my early pictures. It is part of me. In fact, my great ambition was to go on the stage in musical comedy where I would have been able to combine acting with dancing." And for the so-called domestic virtues, Alice Lake says "Nay," with hearty gusto. She will have none of them. ''But isn't it considered very womanly to love these things?" I queried. "That's wrong, utterly wrong. Feminine qualities should have nothing to do with the stagnation that comes from remaining at home and forgetting the world. There are other ways of expressing womanliness. I feel that people who are forced to become drudges make a virtue of necessity. Many of my high school friends have utterly ceased to exist because of that, and while they may be happy and contented in their homes, I would never be able to follow them. For me happiness lies, above all, in acting, dancing, music and out-door sports. "Every age has its own ideals, and the twentieth century, so far as woman is concerned, permits her to free herself from the swaddling bonds of the past and be herself." Alice Lake is not only "happy-go-lucky" by temperament; her philosophy of life follows it very closely. She believes that nothing is gained by taking life too seriously and spoiling one's happiness by worry. "I don't mean that life is not to be taken seriously. It should, and one's work should be the object of infinite pains. But what I mean is that so many people trouble themselves about things that are petty. 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