Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-17
Southern Beauty Is One
of Leading Film Actresses
Miss Gertrude Mccoy Delin-
Gates Roles With Graceful
ly Natural Realism.
"A Real Helpmate"

Guy Maxwell was the brain of Gill
bert Reade's architectural establish
ment, but he received exceedingly
small compensation for his work. Nor
did the fact that his employer was his
wife's uncle have any effect on his
pay check Marion was a woman of
force and initiative, and when she saw
how her husbands talents We're being
taken advantage of by her uncle she
concluded that his future chance lay
in another direction. So one day when
he came home, discouraged with his
prospects, she advised "Give this place
up, Guy. 1t is foolish for you to slave
there any longer. You can make a
start for yourself and succeed"
Stimulated by Marion's insistence
and wise advice, Guy acted on her
suggestion and left Mr.. Reade's estab-
lishment. He went into business in
dependently and made good.
Some three years after his indie
pendent beginning he was working
feVerishly on plans for the new court
house in order to get them finished
within the set time. Marion watched
his work interestedly and was careful
that no home disturbances interfered
with him. Guys former employer,
Reade, was also Interested in winning
the courthouse contract, but he found
his chances considerably lessened, due
to the fact that his assistant did not
show the brilliancy or originality of
Guy Maxwell. He was further dis
turbed by the idea that Guy was in
terested in the competition and he
feared for his own plan in contrast
with that Of his clever young rivals.
Five days before the time limit ex-
PRED. Guy, In investigating some
problems of building, fell down an
opening in a scaffold and was seri-
ously injured. At home after he was
bandaged and put to bed his unfin-
ished plan was the common anxiety
of Marion and himself.
Marion was not easily daunted,
however and as soon as opportunity
offered she slipped away to the little
suite of offices and set to work maxi
Ing the final copy of the plan which
was to be submitted In the contest.
When Reade heard of the accident
he resolved on a desperate bit of de-
oeption. Taking his kodak he went
to the Maxwell home. He announced
that he would walt until Marion re-
turned, when told she was out, and
fell into conversation with the small
daughter, who was perched on the
piano bench. Soon he asked the child
to show him the little room where
papa worked and she led him to the
studio. where the final draft of the
plan was spread out on the drawing
board. He babe the child hold the
sheet up in front of her and he took
q picture of the plan. Then he decid-
ed he would not walt for Marion and
hurried off to his Office.
The closing day of the contest the
judges met to consider the submit
ted plans. The third one looked at
was Reade's and so exactly suited
them that they did not bother to ex-
anime any of the others.
Marion and Guy eagerly looked for
the newspaper account of the court
house decision, where they found Gill
bert Reade announced as the winner,
with the picture of the winning plan
an exact duplicate of theirs. Still
Marion was not crushed. She went
Immediately to Reade's office, where
she found the assistant alone, and by
feminine cajolery succeeded in secur-
ing from him print of the picture
that had been taken of the plan.
That afternoon Marion took her
small daughter and made q call on
the court house building committee,
on which Reade was now serving
also. The gentlemen of the commit
tee manifested q skeptfcal spirit
toward ner description Oh nef NUS
bands plan and her claims on the one
accepted. But when she presented
her clinching argument, the picture of
the drawing sheet with a child's
fingers at each corner and a ribon
bow peeping up at the top, and then
took a sheet lying near and put in the
child's hands, duplicating the atti-
tude, the opinion of the gentlemen
was altered. Maxwells plan was
hunted out and Mr.. Reade FASTENED
to disappear from sight,