The Washington times., 1920-08-15

The Major and the sextette leader sat
alone In a corner of the orange room.
Betty Palmer had tired for the day OF her
chaperoning. "Ifs of no use, anyway"
she said. 81 can restrain your speech.
But j. can't keep you from looking as
though you'd like to eat each other" = /
The Major was too good a tactician to
lose his-this heaven-sent or Betty-af-
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 at the Forty-fourti
Street Theatre" she assented.
"The moment saw you my heart leaped
up to my throat. I said: There is the
only girl in the world for me-"
"And well, liked you, too" -
But you know what Miss Palmer says"
Don't mind her. Betty says so many
things" .-. 4
still you agreed with her when she told
were going to follow Miss TexsmithI You
would be the first girl from the new sex
tette to marry a millionaire / am only
an army officer" o.u
'But you're worth millions to me-" Miss
Lores's voice dropped so that he had to
bend his head across the table to hear. He
blushed ecstatically as she ended the SEN
tence, dear" -.
Whereupon a 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 it required to
select her trousseau and have it made to
her liking.
The marriage occurred in an old church
on Broadway and Eighty-sixth street. Betty
Palmer was the bridesmaid There was a
wedding supper on the breeze wooing roof
of the Hotel Majestic. They went to
Canada for their wedding journey. All this
time they are furnishing their new home
in a smart Long Island suburb. ,,.
The major is the owner Of a farm Jour-
hal published in Des Moines. But he will
not take his bride to the western city.
at is too far from Broadway for you,
my darling" he said.
Ethel Lores Clark thinks she will not
return to the stage. II 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 a show" Marie Wilson,
another OF the originals, who cleared a
million on Wall Street by means of a tip
furnished her by the late James R. Keene,
married Frederick Gebhardt, Daisy Green,
the large-eyed brunette, who followed Miss
Texsmith on and off the stage in the
mincing steps which punctuated 1T Might
AS Well Be you" fingered for a 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 the Casino
stage, was, while sextetter, the wife of
the stage director Ned Wayburn She
divorced the director. Soon after she mar.
ried multi.millionaire of Johannesburg
She lives in the African city. .a
Marjorie Relyea they called the little
widow Of the sextette, her husband, Will
lam Davis Holmes, Andrew Carnegie's ne
phew, having dropped dead in the foyer of
a New York hotel while his wife was out
OF town on 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 Gurney Smith. clubman and
an officer OF society's crack Troop A 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 the lavender ghosts.