Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1923)

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Howell Laboratories, Inc. 730 Chestnut St., St. Louis For the enclosed $1.00 send Vanitine to Name Address 42 The Indiscretions of a Star Continued fr happens, and working with Graham won't hurt her." "But I don't want her to do it !" he insisted. "Darn it all, anyhow, I love her. Can't you understand that? I didn't realize it till I found that she'd disappeared last night." "I'm afraid that it doesn't matter what you want just now, so far as she's concerned," I told him. "Just wait a bit. and we'll get this thing straightened out." "But I don't want to wait !" he protested. A week or so later they came in together. They had met by accident. Cecile said ; a glance at Barry told me how accidental it had been. Her face was radiant, however, and Barry looked unusually happy. Their romance sped along on swift feet after that. It was almost as if they feared that something was ahead of them that would interfere with their happiness. They spent most of their time together, and three weeks later they rushed in to tell me that they were engaged — and expected me to be surprised ! I've never seen a happier girl than Cecile was ; she walked on air. The only difficulty was that she still had her contract with Stewart Graham, to appear in his vaudeville act with him. So there was nothing for her to do but to go on with the act ; Graham said that he would release her as soon as he could get some one else. And then, one afternoon, Barry came tearing into my house, with a face so white and stern that I was afraid that something had happened to Cecile. "Something has happened to her," he told me, when I asked. "Our engagement is broken — or will be as soon as I see her." With difficulty I got him calmed enough to get the story out of him. "She couldn't see me last night." she said, "because this darned act of hers was opening over in Jersey, and she had to be there. I went over to see it, and then I couldn't get up nerve enough to, somehow, at the last minute. So I went for a walk. "And later, when I called at the theater for Cecile, the doorman said she'd gone. So I started for the railway station, and on the way I passed through a little park. There were Cecile and Stewart Graham sitting on a bench, talking. She seemed to be trying to argue with him — about her contract. I supposed — and she got up and started off, and he rushed after her, and took her in his arms and kiss -J her — and she om page 64 put her arms around his neck — and by Heaven! I'll kill both of them!" "Barn-, you're an idiot!" I told him. "Keep your temper and w-ait till Cecile comes. She said she'd try to come home this afternoon for a few minutes — though of course you know that !" "Sure I do — that's why I'm here," he retorted. She came at last, radiant as ever, and her eyes fairly glowed when they rested on Barry. She ran toward him, her arms outstretched. Then she stopped short, and stared at him. '"What is it?" she asked. He told her, brutally brief about it. "But we were just rehearsing — we hadn't done it right on the stage " she began. He shrugged his shoulders disbelievingly. "But it's true," she said again. "That's what happened. There wasn't any other place — we couldn't use the theater, of course, or the hotel parlor, at that hour, and he wanted to show me while it was fresh in his mind." "It'll be fresher when I get through with him !" Barry muttered. "All right — be stubborn !" she exclaimed. "I have something to sav, too — I was going to wait and do it later, but I don't believe I will, now. Perhaps you'll say that you just forgot to tell me that you're still married to Lolita Lorraine !" Barry's jaw dropped. He stared as if he hadn't heard what she said. She repeated it. "Oh — I'm not married to her — I'll explain that," he began, but she interrupted him. "I don't care for explanations — you've just shown me how useless they are. And Miss Lorraine told me just this noon about her marriage to you, and that she didn't believe the anullment was really legal. She's coming to see you about it." Barry went through a bad half hour then. He didn't really get it straightened out until Lolita arrived, and they wired a lawyer out West and had a grand time generally. "For goodness' sake get married immediately," I begged him. when matters were right at last. "If you don't, something will happen and you never will. Be discreet this time." "It's the one thing on earth that I want to do !" he assured me. And when I drove to the Little Church Around the Corner with them that afternoon and saw his face as he said. "I will !" I knew that Barry Stevens' indiscretions were over for all time.