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There will always he a part for Mabel in the Ballin productions. This shows her as she appears in "Jane Eyre."
THE other girls in the show used to get presents of candy and flowers and all that sort of thing, but Hugo always sent me milk and eggs because it worried him that I was so thin. Mr. Dillingham— he was the manager of the show I was in — used to joke me about it, and finally one night he said, '.Seems to me that man Ballin cares a lot about keeping you alive. Bet he wants to marry you.'
'"And sure enough he did, but I didn't find it out very soon."
"She should have," Hugo Ballin spoke up. "I'd known it long enough, goodness knows. Ever since I first met her — must have been weeks before."
"But you didn't tell me," smiled Mabel with a twinkle in her eyes that said, "Go on; I dare you to tell her about it."
Hugo changed the subject. Not even imder the beguiling influence of perfectly cooked soft-shell crabs and the romantic strains of a hidden orchestra could he be persuaded to tell anything about when he asked Mabel Crofts to become Mabel Ballin.
You can hardly blame him, for it all happened back in the days when, distinguished as he was, he was not
Romances of
Hugo Ballin was a painter, and Mabel courted, and were married. And how a producer of pictures and her a
By Helen
inured to being interviewed about his private affairs — affair, rather — for there never was any one for him but Mabel. Hugo Ballin was a painter in those days, a highly successful young artist on whom many honors had been showered. He was one of the youngest men to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he had won the Thomas B. Clarke prize for the best figure composition by an American. Altogether he was a most impressive person — but little INIabel Crofts, who was then playing in a Broadway musical comedy, didn't hold it against him. She liked his nice, frank eyes and his sensitive, sympathetic mouth, and she found him so congenial that right at their first meeting she found herself confiding a longcherished, secret ambition to him. She wanted to study at the Art Students' League ! He thought it was funny for any one to continue on the stage, if what they really wanted to do was study art, and told her so.
She laughed at that. After a while,
The Ballin Home in Westport, Connecticut, where the two thought they had gone into retirement from the struggles of active life — ;;/;/// the movies called them.