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6 — Advertisement
WHAT BECOMES OF "MISSING GIRLS?"
Says Captain John Ayres, head of the Bureau of Missing Persons of New York City: "Few girls run away to go on the stage any more; Hollywood calls a few. But by far the greater number of girl 'runaways' leave home because of what may be termed 'unadjusted home conditions'.'"
In 1922 alone there were 1550 girls between the ages of fourteen and twenty reported lost or missing in the city of New York, and these it became the job of Captain Ayres and his men to ferret out.
Read Captain Ayres' astonishing reminiscences of these girls who run away from home and into trouble. He tells why girls go wrong and how they may "come back." Just one of the features in
DECEMBER "REAL LIFE STORIES"
Since this book is a faithful mirror of life as it is really lived, we are giving you stories of people whom you have heard and read about — people who figure prominently in the day's news. In Real Life Stories you will get the "inside story" on many an unusual occurrence which the newspapers only hint at.
THE AMAZING STORY OF GILDA GRAY
"This is a tale of love where fickle women and cynical men clash arms and fight to the finish, where sin is rampant and goes unchallenged — where the white lights of Broadway burn their fiercest. It is a tale of poverty, ambition, love and success, and the greatest of these is love. A love that is undying in its loyalty, a love that knows no failure and whose very intensity has been the buttress of a gigantic success — " <
In fact, the story of Gilda Gray, from the time, five years ago, when she landed on Ellis Island, a forlorn little Polish immigrant girl, until now, when she shines, the brightest star on Broadway.
AND FOURTEEN OTHER GOOD STORIES
Wynn Holcomb, known in the "Big Town" simply as Wynn, one of the cleverest cartoonists in New York, tells a hair-raising yet amusing story of his experience with a ghost in Paris, where he had been studying. And Wynn illustrates his story in his own inimitable style.
Here are the titles of the stories that make up the best issue yet — the best issue of any magazine which purports to tell real stories of real people:
FOREVER TRAUMEREI THE HIGH HEART A HOME-TOWN GIRL REDEEMED
THE VILLAGE DRESSMAKER
MY DISCARDED WIFE
We feel proud of the December issue. It looks great. And we want you to be looking forward to it — on all newsstands November 15. In addition to the above stories and features, there will be four pages of lovely portraits, printed in the warm sepia tints of rotogravure, and four pages of theatrical and screen gossip, fairly plastered with pictures of favorite players — also in the pleasing tints of rotogravure.
REAL LIFE STORIES
THE TIDE GOES OUT RED ROSES— OR WHITE? THE FLAPPER MENACE THE MOON CHILD KING'S X
THE MISSIONARY'S WIFE
Out November 15
For December
25 cents the copy