The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-24
The Sweetest Girl In Paris"

The story of THE Sweetest Girl in
Paris" which is to be the attraction
at the Gennett theater tomorrow night
is the love story of an American girl,
studying music in Paris, and a yoGng
Pitts5urg dilettante travelling in Eu-
rope. And their romance winds in and
out among several other love-affairs.
Mary Blake, the sweetest girl, and
her flirtatious chaperone, an aunt, Mrs.
Ned Radcliffe, are shown in the gay
French capital, where Mary is study
ing music. She is being ardently WOO
ed by a broken-voiced Italian opera
singer, Luigi Cobosso, who, knowing
she IS sole heir to American millions.
is anxious to win her in marriage. He
plans, with the aid of her money, to
have his throat doctored by Partisan
specialists, and, after regaining lis
voice, returns to his beloved La Scala
opera house, Milan, where, before los
ing it, he had been worshipped by the
people and petted by the king.
His suit finds favor with Mrs. Rat
cliffe, but Mary, believing his preten-
| sions to being such noted songster
false, repeatedly turns him down. Dur
ing Il spirited scene in which CobCs
has given her bouquet of roses,
claiming to have picked them from his
own garden, and, having been reused
! by Mary for the sixth time that week,
Jimmy Armstrong "a young American,
makes his appearance. He is just in
time to save Mary from the embarrass-
| &c ho, }h1 toll
her by the florist from whom Cabosso
had purchased them: the flower-seller
having followed him to reclaim them,
because of misrepresentation on c.
| bOsso's part, in order to gain credit.
Mary, however, is determined that
the man she is to marry must be a
worker; one who gives to the world
the equivalent of what he takes, and
not The recipient of a fortune made
by someone else. 1t is this determina-
ton on her part that forces Armstrong
| into giving what money he has with
him, about 100000 francs, to his Ital-
! ian rival, on condition, however, that
| as soon as Cobosso regains his voice,
he shall return the money. Then he
cables his American bankers to allow
him, under no condition, to have any
money for one year.
AS soon as this is all done, and Arm
strong is entirely out of funds, a res
tauraltuer appears to collect from
him for dinner party given by hin, to
the members of the company pla ing
in the Opera-Lyrique. Armstrong; ex-
PLANTATION for his inability to pay not
being believed, he is Immediately Ar
rested, but is later released on his
promise to work out the debt as wal
ter When he appeals to Cobosso for
help, the willy Italian ignores his plead
ings, insisting that the money of which
he has so mysteriously come into pos
session, is a legacy from an uncle q
member of the Italian aristocracy.
Armstrong philosophically starts to
work as a waiter, soliloquizing: "Ev-
erything comes to him who waits
Then comes a cablegram that Mary S
father has lost all in a failure of the
New ork stock market. She aud 'ler
aunt find themselves stranded in Par
is, when Armstrong offers assistance
AS quickly as his offer is accepted
does he realize that he too is broke
and in debt.
They appeal to Cobosso. but he
thinking they can be of no further use
to him, turns them off.