The Washington times., 1922-08-14
SCREEN STAR
WAS PROMISED
CHILD s KISSES
Herbert RaWlinson vividly
visualizes caresses Of IL
Year-OId Sweetheart.

"To kiss or not TO kiss"-that
Is the question: sVhich absorbs the
attention of Herbert RaiUliHson,
the motion picture star, IN thus,
the sirth instalment Of his letters
to Dorothy Clark, the child t0hoBl
he began 10 1000 s0heR she Uds
sIeUep year old.
RaplitsoR, ,oritiag from Ne,0
York IN 1918 and 1919, Is sttu an
Royed OveT the thought Of Doro-
thy's lips receiving the earssses
of her California friends, bat he
vfvidly visualizes the pleasure he
would feel at receiving her ca
resses himself. The screen stars
loVe letters lDiu be continued IN
The Washington Times tomorrow.
tCevyrixht. Isa2, New York American.
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81 will save all my kisses for
you-if you want them"
Thus Dorothy Clark promised
Herbert Rawlinson, when she
wrote to him in the winter of
1918 and the motion picture stars
10y at the girls promise was SO
great that he begged her not to
suggest again that he did not de-
sire them.
The first letter of the install
ment today, reveals the thirty
eight-year-old actor as rather de-
pressed because the girl has not
written in several days.
From the Lambs on December 6.
1913, Rawlinson wrote:
MY Darling:
81 haven't heard from you in
several days, but 1 think 1 know the
reason. There Ia some hold-up on
the mail coming In from the coast.
probably a heavy snowstorm or an
accident of some kind. Anyway,
dear, know 1t isn't because you
have not written; that 1 know. It's
getting awfully cold now and wish
/ was back in California with you).
"I am all wrong today, Dot.
Nothing seems to be going right, and
California seems as far off as ever.
dear, but feel must SIT down and
write you just a few lines. That in
itself cheers me to a certain extent.
How I wish l could see you this
afternoon. I feel like getting all
cuddled up in a big armchair in front
of a great big fire and leave the
world outside to roll on its merry
old way.
IT do hope you are happy. dearest,
and that everything Is going well
with you. Please excuse this short
and somewhat disconnected note.
I'll write as soon as feel better.
y "All my love. dear girl, and be
happy.
always yours. ,
About kissing.
Dorothy had written to Rawlin-
son that she will indulge in no
more kissing games and an ecstatic
letter follows, written by him In
pencil from his dressing room while
he is waiting for his "act" to be-
gin. 1t IL postmarked December
IS, 1918, and reads:
my Own Darling Dorothy
This is the first time I have
ever written you from my dress
ing room and 1t seems rather nice,
as 1t takes me back to those days
in u. City when you used to come
down to see me to while away q
pleasant hour with me. All. but
IOSo NSio thS hopPy N~Se'
they, darling? ,
And as l sit here writing I
can almost fancy I am back in
my old room, and q little tap comes
at the door, and then you say:
Can ! Come in?' and there you are
In, and giving me a big kiss and
sitting on my lap.
Speaking Of kisses-in your
last dear letter which I received
the day before yesterday, you re-
lieved my mind a great deal by
saying you would not indulge in
any more kissing games.
Dorothy, you are very wise,
dear, in doing that, as that real
ly is dangerous. my sweetheart,
and besides, am jealous. That
is all wrong, too. ! shouldn't be
but l am: and yet it's very selfish
kiss anybody else, and yet I can't
be there to give them to you my
self. Now, that is unkind Of me,
isn't 1t, dear? But you know best
what to do, dear, and l want you
to use your own judgment.
"And then you say, I will save
all my kisses for you IF YOU
STILL WANT THEM How could
you say that, baby? II you only
knew how much 1 wanted them
oh, so much. So please don't ask
me that any more.
'T LOVE YOU"
Dorothy, love you-oh, so much,
and the reason ! ask you to do these
things for me is because 1 don't want
TO see you get in wrong. You know
that, dear, and you are just at the
age when YOU must know right from
wrong. No one ever succeeded by
playing the game THE WRONG
WAY. Yes. there are a few that
have, but how are they regarded?
It's terribly hard to play this game
we are in straight, but II CAN be
done. and ! know you are one that