Putnam patriot., 1918-05-31

Romance got another jolt for three
Putnam young misses who started out
Saturday to follow in the footsteps of
Lillian Russell, Edna May or any 9TH
er star who reached her zenith via the
front row in the chorus The girls,
aged respectively II. Is and 10,
caught the glamor of the footlights
from the Yankee Doodle Girls. com
pany which held the boards of the
Bradley theatre three days last week.
According to the police the girls look
ed good to some of the male members
Of the company, who paid them some
attention, and there were promises of
a job in the pony ballet-if half
dozen understood young women make
up pony according to the
stories told.
OF course parents were not consult
/ ed, for parents are apt to be old fash
toned and would not appreciate their
ehildren's charms and histrionic abil-
ity as would strangers. So without
consulting any OF their relatives the
trio disappeared.
Worried parents notified the police
and it was learned that local public
service driver had taken the three flu
ture stage stars to Pemfret, where
they boarded a train for Willimantic.
This is where the Yankee Doodle girls
were displaying the same charms to
the front row bald heads of the
Thread City as were displayed to
those of Putnam
There were telephone messages to
the Willimantie police department,
and in response thereto an investiga-
ton, but it was learned that the
troupe playing at the opera house had
not become famous at a bound by the
addition Of three Putnam aspirants TO
spot light honors
The Yankee Doodle Girls left Viii.
limandc Sunday morning for a town
up in the Bay State and when, minus
their make up and wearing their real
hair, they passed through Putnam,
Captain Ryan boarded the train and
interviewed the management to see if
the chorus was any larger-in num-
bers--than when it played in Putnam.
No Putnam girls had signed contracts
with large salaries attached and
nothing was learned from any mem
Der Of the troupe. But a brakeman
on the train told the captain that he
had seen a trio Of young ladies get
ting their modish footwear shined at
the Willimantic railroad station boot
black stand. More communicating
with Chief Killourney developed that
the girls had left that city for New
London accompanied by three sol
diers
Then the scene of activities chang
ed to the Whaling City and the police
there were notified to be on the look
out for the three Putnam romancers.
Just what happened has not been
told, but something did happen, and
one of the trio came home on the 3
o'clock train, and then there were but
two.
The returned wanderer told the po-
lice that her companions were still in
New London, and Monday Captain
Ryan was notified that the duo were
in the custody of the police. The cap
tain hired the same chauffeur that
took the trio to Pomfret to bring back
the duo to Putnam, and he went along
to accompany them home.
He learned from the girls that a
wedding had been planned. Accord
ing to their story the two soldiers,
whom they accompanied, told them
they were orphans and very lonesome.
They proposed marriage. The girls
at first told their ardent suitors that
il was impossible and absurd as they
had known them less than twenty
four hours and it was 80 sudden. "
But romance was still in the air and
/ if they couldn't have the spot light
and glamor of the footlights they
could hear the wedding bells and en-
/ Joy the roseate future Of soldier
wives. Anyhow it was finally agreed
that If the soldier boys could get a