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P R O P O S E
By GORDON R. SILVER
said she was "just his ideal type of girl" and he was sure that he was "just her ideal type of man!" He further stated that if she would marry him he would always "love, honor and obey her."
jLIVE BORDEN'S strangest proposal came from an Indian chief of the Susquehanna tribe. The warrior had fallen in love with her in several pictures. He wrote to her, telling her of his love and of his great power as an Indian chief. He also sent her a leather engagement ring which he declared had been cut from the sheath that held his hunting knife.
Miss Borden did not reply to the letter. Several weeks passed and then came another letter from the chief. This time he asked the return of his ring. ". . . not having heard from you," he wrote, "I allowed my eyes to wander among my own people and I have now chosen a lovely Indian maid for the honor of becoming my wife,"
Frances Lee received so many proposals from a certain gentleman that she had him looked up. Imagine her emotions on finding him a resident of a state lunatic asylum!
Alice White has proposals from nearly every country in the world, but her prize is one from a Chinese Priest who guarantees she will have to do no laundry work.
Olive' answered this letter, returning the ring together with a wedding gift for the chief and his bride.
IRENE RICH received a long letter from a man in Sweden who had seen her in a picture in which the actor who portrayed the part of Miss Rich's husband died. The Swede said he felt so very sorry for Miss Rich's sad fate in losing such a nice "and devoted husband that he had wept when she sobbed over her husband's body! The letter went on to say that he would like very much to come to America and marry
If you're planning on marrying Clara Bow you'll just have to line up and wait, for this young lady has a storeroom full of proposals. In fact, she is said to have the largest collection in Hollywood, but through it all she has managed to stay single.
Miss Rich and he would await steamer passage and his railroad fare with great pleasure. He ended up with: "I am sending here a photograph of myself. You do not need to send me one of yourself because I hope to see you with my own eyes very soon. Perhaps you will not love me at first as well as you did your former husband (meaning the screen actor who had died in the picture!) but I strongly believe I shall like you very much."
FREDRIC MARCH recently received a proposal from a wife of a college professor in the middle west. The wife said that ever since she first saw Fredric on the talkie screen she did not love her husband the least bit and in fact, did not have anything more to do with him! She concluded her letter by saying that she was settling up her affairs and was coming to Hollywood in the fall and wanted him to be sure to be waiting for her, ready to marry her. March hasn't [Cout/nued on page 84 1
Constance Bennett has a letter from a world traveler who asks her to forget her career for a life of roving with him. He believes they could live quite comfortably on Miss Bennett's fortune.