Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-27
CONFESSIONS
OF 4 STAR
AS Told to
INEZ KLUMPH
CHAPTER v

nERRY and l had planned to go to
~ the movies that night; they have a
! terrible grip on you when you're in
them, YOU know; I suppose it's like the
fascination the scene of his crime has
for Il murderer.
But when I got home l found mes
sage from Isabel waiting for me. 1t
said that she needed me terribly. and
wouldn't | come over that evening.
"Why not go to see her right after
dinner, and I'll stop there for you and
take you to the second show" Derry
suggested, when l told him. So we ar
ranged to do that and ! went over to
lsabeIs as soon as l could.
She was in the living room-hcr eyes
hadn't been burned at all, of course
and when l came in she clutched me
with both hands.
"Di, I'm in such a mess. :" she cried,
and she really looked as if she were
terribly frightened. Il went motoring
last night with Phil Craney and we
stopped for supper ana had blowout
on the way home, and--well, anyway,
And this morning who do you sup
pose appeared on the scene? Ills wife,
'But-were you going to marry him,
or what is it that makes that so awful
Aou shouldn't have gone. of course, but
If you explained to hcr-'
'Oh. ! don't know whether 1 was
going TO marry him or not. He wants
to get Il divorce-she's never under
stood him. anyway she's just stood still
l u'h hn ri ItI hn' l.
Gus of him and says she'll sue him for
separation and tell about my being out
with him-and if she couldn't hold him
sho ought TO let him gO-and anyway !
was just doing the things he taught me
to do. and he should have known better
| than to fall for them
Isabel Heath, you know perfectly
we'll that that's an Orl story, about
mems wives not understanding them -
! told her, feeling very old and sOphiS-
| ticatcd. but if his wife is Il sensible
person at all she'll understand that you
didn't mean to do anything wrong
She isu't sensible" walled Isabel
And he says she's misunderstood him
before this, when he Just went for n
little joyride-and this'll simply kill me
in pictures if she makes II lot of
trouble"
We'll. | could see that fast enough.
L
wild people in the motion picture in
dustry that their regulations bcsmirchcd
all the rest of us. People would never
forget that Isabel Heath had come be-
tween man and his wife, If this
thing got out as she seemed TO think it
would.
The evening paper came as We sat
there talking. And sure enough spread
across the front sheet in big headlines
was the announcement, "Movie Di-
rector JOyridcs with Pretty Star"
lThe sensational papers always call
any movie actress star in the head
lines
Well, Isabel simply ragged when she
read that story. She stamped up and
down the room and sworC that she'd 90
to Mrs. Craney and make her say the
story was Il lie, and wCpt and stormed
and acted as if she'd lost her mind.
1T isn't true at all; ! Just went
for Iittls ride with hlm--and | never
knew knew tilI last night that he was mar
ricd-and he says that unless | have
experience can't art-and he never
even held my hand :" she raved. "Rut
just because she has all those children
Of course public sympathy will be with
her, and my name will be- mud. "
"iuhlic sympathy ought to be with
hcr, answered. "Any woman who's
taken IN drCSsmaking to help n man to
gel, along. and has brought up three
children and done all the other things
she SAYS she has, ought 10 have pcon7c
Sympatht&c with her, I'm sorry for
yon and ~ do all l can to hclp you
get out of this sCrape--"
Just then somebody rang the bell and
before | could say she wasn't at homa
n young man came in. lie seemed so
be nice enough. and Isabel sat down
and smoothcd her hair and was awfuIIy
civil to him at first. Then she hIatT
up-for he announced that he wps "
reporter from the paper that had run
that story. ''n
She insisted that the story wasn't