Pictures and the Picturegoer (April - September 1915)

PIC'I'UKHS AND THE PiCTUREGOER 462 E ENDINO Sept. r;; :o;.s Bister, so you arc legally my V. it'.'." The astounded girl almost fainted, then she burst into tears. " i shan't foe yonr wife/' Bhe said. "There is nothing for u> to do but to get a divorce; ami meanwhile don't y< u d:i re speau to me." " At least 3 ou will let me dm e j ' 'ii li' ime ? " said Murray, rly. •• ( Ine needs rausl « hen the devil dri\ i s " retorti d t he girl, h e capriciousness had been increased l)j the recent incident. The journey home was quiet -uid wit-boul incident. Murray proved himself an excellent i achman, gnd se^ era 1 hours later he drove up to Sir Wil[iam's residence. Dolly went into the hpuse, but an unpleasant surprise awaited her. Sir William encountered her in the hall, and that gentleman, whose temper had not abated in the interval, turned on her fiercely. " There is no longer room for you in this house. You have forfeited your fortune — go and star\e with your jockey husband!" Dolly's temper broke loose also. ''If my husband is a jockey, he is at least a gentleman ! " she replied, cuttingly ; and without more ado she went down the steps and looked a little helplessly at her newlymade husband, who smiled as though he knew all that had happened. Dolly accompanied the young man to the large boardinghouse where he had taken rooms, and after interviewing the landlady, she turned to the young man who followed her about like her shadow. "The landlady will put me np for the night, and I need no issisl ance from you." Murray looked nonplussed. He had hoped for some sign of relenting in the wilful maid; but he recovered himself and said calmly — ■ • As your husband, I will be always at your service ; until alter the divorce." 1 1 is sadness was a little lightened when on rising the next morning he found a bunch of flowers on his dressing-table. On making inquiries, he was told that his landlady had left the Bowers there, but Murray knew too much about landladies to Buspect them of this form of generosity. His friend Hooker, to whom he toldhis adventures of the previous day. laughed heartily, as he said — •' Well, you won the thousand pounds all right, but you must admit it was an accident. But all the same, old man. Dolly Erskine is your wife, and 1 think it is your business now to teil her who you really are." " 1 shall if she doc, not sign the divorce-papers," replied \l array. Dolly, after reflection, would have liked to have dropped all mention of divorce; but having said she would have one. a London solicitor was hroughl up to Earrogate to prepare the necessarj documents. He called on Sir William for the purpose of interviewing Doll) 's guardian, and on sir William inquiring the \ isitor's business, the solicitor replied — '■ My name is I Vol ty w i-e. and lain come from London to ee Mass Dolly Erskine and the Earl of Basseti about this di\orce affair." Dolly's Sacrifice for her Sister. Having married the riding-master. Dolly is "turned oat" by the Baronet— , _M III. %,"■ t \ ! ■ ■ gsk iP^F' 1 i Br § / Wit P • 9 •' ^ : 5feT: 9 "illA '*" • "" -s ■ • Wr *n —but when it i> discovered that slie lias really married an Earl and not a poor riding-master, all ends happily. G. A. St ill well: -Colonel keeper." Martin Reagan; and "His Wife." Julia Walcptt Y> u mean Miss Erskine i, id Murray, the ridiiiL'-mar--. corrected sir William. " No, 1 mean -kine and Lord Basseti." replied the solicitor firmly. "Then who i Mr. Murray • " asked Sir William in bewilderment. ■ II -'. the Earl uf Bassett," replied the lawyer with a dry smile. "He is my client, and somewhat e, Btric in his habits. He left London pe the matchmaking mammas there, and apparently into a trap here, and his wii formerly Miss I oily Erskh. wishes to divorce him." "Say nothing further about a divorce" replied the astute Sir William. 1 think it will 1 e all right." The. solicitor 1 owed and Sir William hurried to his wife. "It was all a mistake a' Murray, my dear. Dolly has married the Earl ..f Bassett." -Then if Murray is the Earl of Bassett. Dolly does not her money after all," said Millie delightedly. The preparations for dn immediately collapsed. ; Murray, or rat her Lord Bassett. conducted his courtship on his own lines, and be was the only one who knew that hi wife loved him. not so much as Lord Bassett. but as Murray, the handsome riding-master. The full cast of plaj this roma n tie and charming production is as follow "Dolly Erskine." Marguerite Clark : "Sir William Chetwynde." Arthur Stoops; " Lady Chetwynde." Helen Lutrelf; "Lord Trevor." Lester Chambers; "Earl of Bassett," W. Merkyl: "Captain Cardiff." Hooker." .1 A Hall: " Inn YOU CAN'T DIDDLE " B1LLIE." DURING the production of "Editions de Luxe" at the Reliance-Majestic studios. Producer Joseph Belmont decided that " Hillie " West would play at her highest efficiency as a feminine crook in an arrest scene if he made her think she was arrested in real earnest ju.-t before the scene. He entered into close conflab withe young nan. and a little later informed Miss Wesl that she was wanted in a distant corner of the studio. She went there, but found no one at first. Suddenly a hand fell upon her shoulder. She looked up. to be confronted by a young man she had n ver seen, who seemed to bear the unmistakable imprints "i a detective. " You're under arrest," said he. " You're wanted for murder in New York." " Hillie" West looked the stranger up and down, and then she laughed, " Now run along, little boy." she said tantisingly, "you're just one of Joe Helm nt 's desires for atmosphere." Hut thej do say that Miss West appeal's really frightened in the arrest scene in "Editions de Luxe."