Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-15

Inc NlaJOr ana the SeXtette leader sat
alone in n corner Of the orange room.
Betty Palmer had tired for tho day Of her
chaperonng. "It's OF no use, anyway"
she said. ~ can restrain your speech.
But can't keep you from looking as
though you'd like to eat each other"
Tho Major was too good a tactician to
lose his-this hcaven-sent or Bettyaf-
forded--opportunity. He told her he had
loved her from the moment his eyes met
hers.
II was standing on the steps of the Hotel
Astor and you and your friend were pass.
ing"
ITO a rehearsal ut the Forty-fourth
Street Theatre" she assented.
THE moment saw you my heart leaped
up to my throat. l said: There is the
only girl in the world for me-"
"And well, liked you, too"
''But you know what Miss Palmer says"
''Dont mind her. Betty says SO many
things
Still you agreed with her when she told
me that first day ut tea that you said YOU
were going to follow Miss Texsmith You
would be the first girl from the new sex
tette to marry millionaire. am only
an army officer"
"Rut you're worth millions to NO." Miss
Lores's voice dropped SO that he had to
bend his head across tho table to hear. He
blushed ecstatically as she ended tho SEN
tence, dear"
Whereupon n small purple velvet case
was pushed across the table by hand
protruding from the sleeve Of a uniform
The leader of the sextette opened It and
breathed joyously at the sight BY the
exercise OF strategy he recovered the box,
secured her small hand under the screen
Ing table cloth, and placed\ the ring upon
her finger
And so. as the novels delightedly say,
they were engaged" They met In March,
became engaged In April, and were welded
in July. Miss Lores continued to lead the
sextette only SO long as 1t required to
select her trousseau and have 1t made to
her liking.
The marriage occurred In an old church
on Broadway and Eighty-sixth street Betty
Palmer was the bridesmaid. There was n
wedding supper on the breeze wooing root
Of the Hotel Majestic. They went to
Canada for their wedding journey. All this
time they are furnishing their new home
in smart Long Island suburb
The ma ior is the owner of a farm Jour.
nal published in Des Moines. But he will
not take his bride to the western city.
1T Is too far from Broadway for you
my darling" he said.
Ethel LoreS Clark thinks she will not
return to the stage. If her romance runs
true to form. she will live happy ever
after. None OF the original sextetters ever
came back to the footlights they forsook
Vaughn TexSmith motors to New York now
and then to "see show" Marie Wilson
another of tho originals. who cleared a
million on Wall Street by means Of tin
furnished her by the late James r. Keene
married Frederick Gebhnrdt, Daisy Green
the large-eyed brunette. who followed Miss
Texsmith on and off the stage in the
mincing steps which punctuated ut Might
AS Well BE you fingered for time on
the stage. But broker in Denver induced
her to leave broadway forever behind her
Agnes Wayburn the ,tallest OF the sex
letters, she who followed Miss Green In
the nightly procession across tho Casino
stage. was, while sextetter, tho wife OF
the stage director, Ned Wayburn. She
divorced the director. Soon after she mar.
ried a multi-m;llionaire OF Johannesburg
She lives in the African city.
Marjorie Relyea they called the little
widow of the seXtette, her husband, VIII.
lam Davis Holmes, Andrew Carnegie's ne.
phew. having dropped dead i'll the foyer OF
a New York hotel while his wife was out
Of town on a preliminary tour of Florodora
After several years she married Albert
Stokes and enjoys her ease from stage
cares.
Elaine Selover. one OF the most be-
witching members of the sextette. mar
ried Francis Quincy Smith, clubman and
an officer OF society's crack Troop in
Philadelphia. She died before the revival
OF Florodora. Margaret Walker resides in
Atlantic City.
Miss Ethel Lores is the first to be miss
Ing from among tho lavender ghosts.