The Washington times., 1921-06-08
GAY SPR|TE WAS
PEGGY, SAY MAIN
Street GOSS|PS

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Well, well, well. I'll have to look
into this thing"
But can't tell you much about
Margie. She was just like other
children. / reckon. She like to play
when she was little. We had big
tree In our yard in Berkeley, and
the yard and play with other girls,
and boys. She was good girl and
she liked nice clothes"
''She used to play like she was on
the stage, and some people said she
would make a good actress. She had
nice manners and people liked her.
She would do anything in the world
TO please ANYBODY and she never cried
unless she was sick"
CALLED ~CAPN SAM A..
Since Sam Upton has been separated
from Peggy's mother, he has spent
most of his time away from Norfolk.
He was born in North Carolina, and
after his divorce, he went to Eden
ton N. c., and remained sometime.
Then he went to Farmville where ne
opened a barber shop and is earning
good living. He says he Is doing
"tolerable well" which means he Is
eating three times a day and some
OF his customers call him captain.
MIR. Upton was proprietor OF the
only barber shop In the town OF
Berkeley when Peggy, who was then
Marguerite Upton, was running
around In ginKknm dresses and play
Ing with other little girls Upten'S
shop was the gathering place for
practically every man In town who
did not shave himself OF cut his own
hair. IL wss the headquarters for
sossiJ, political arguments and
neigh borhood news. Margie visited
the shop on numerous occasions.
Som etimes she brought her fathers
or q dl~e for her trouble. Then shs
would run there many times for
pennies. In those days . penny would
buy q stick Of candy, . deushaut or
a bun.
PEGGY UNEDUCATED.
As Marguerite Upton. the now IA
nous actress and divorcee did not
get much of an education, but her
father Is not to blame for that. He
sent her to the only school in town.
1t was then known as the Sixth
Street School" Today IL bears the
name of George Washington. Mar
gle only went through the grammar
grades. BY the time she was II
she began to crave for the stage and
TO see the sights. Her mother and
father were sepaAated. There was
little left for her. She had her own
way to make in the world and she
has made 1t.
She has attained higher honors In
the world, IL money and notoriety
can be called houors, than any 9TH
err girl who ever left Berkeley. She
baited her hook for big fish and
she caught them. IL she has missed
any fish she went out to catch no.
body down this way has heard any
thing about II. Her father says
she had a way of her own" about
doing things. II she did not like
the food set before her at home she
and persuasion her parents used
would not change her mind. She
had way of her own" and she
would not change 1t to suit others.
The strongest possession, one that
made her many friends. and probably
helped her to win four millionaire
husbands, was her good nature and
desire to please everybody. She was
full of life. She could smile under
almost any conditions and she did
not take offense easily.
People who knew her when she
was little girl and watched her
grow up into young womanhood. de-
clare she always sought to better her
condition in life despite hcr humble
environments. When she was invited
to parties she always made friends