The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-22

IhuhN HOu DchutYs NOW, beauty w.
rs what almost any minimizing girl
would name ns tho first requirement
and almost tho last-for getting
rrl on and back OF tho fooughts Gilda had
beauty, too but It hadn't gotten her far In the arts
Yet PansyB looks had carried hor along into the
homes and tho gathering places Of tho elect ono
would think that just "lools" didn't count much
among the best people, and II Ia true that II It
always did somo OF thom wouldn't he there
l'ut the truth Is that personal charm can open
almost any door for woman except the stage
door. On tho boards beauty is an asset-but It's
market yaluo is S35 a week 70 90 heyond that.
one must havo ability. talent, and that great indo.
Enable quality-pcrsonality
man In society may bo fascinated by q lovely
woman and he may take hcr In with him, 80 that
she may lean on his prestige and solid standing.
But no one can establish a woman IN the theatre
unless that woman have the combination Of requl-
site faculties BECAUSE there the pubic-mllllons Of
lmpgrsonn stranEers-must be taken I'm as the um-
frc, and the populace has n way of picking it's own
winners, in the face OF press agentry ancestry,
every vile and camOuflago that may bo Contrived
in support Of an ambitious misflt.
Crandall Hall. of the Gfamercy Park Halls had
become enamored of Pansy. And that quite
natural. too. She willowy, goden,ha,red
angel. Moreover she had about her all the allure
OF the theatre which is irrosstible to every In
greater less degree, and Hail had her first
after seeing her scintilatng In a romantic role ani
thereafter IN other leading woman situations made
TO order TO enhance her attractions,
Given the concentrated advantages OF doviiishiy
cunning makeup the expertly blended illumination
of intriguing lights, daring gowns or quaint cos.
tunes the central symppthy OF Bome astute prob
lem play or clutching love story, and almost any
pretty woman would cause reaction in almost any
human man.
Hall quite human though quite rich and
Established" and he began peltlng punsy with
orchids and invitations. She being by means
foron or lonesome. gave up tln attentions Of all
other men Immediately she met" Crandal Han.
for he spelled to her the only thing that she
wanted from any man-social. l.patronago.
Money meant no thrill -she earned more than
most bank presidents, Marriage2 Maybe, She
had been proposed at hundreds of times but had
never gotten hay fever of the heart from antici-
patory whffs of orange blossoms. Love? She
must have known a good deal about It. and been
ablo TO feel # to "A high ybratory current or she
could not have conveyed its intricate modulAtions
with such tamuusSfncsse.
pansy Quiycred with a desire TO shit from the
dramatic columns TO the society page. The stage
had given her all that she had asked of t. and that
was all she wanted Of it. And now It had given
her enuee, by way Of the mfatuaton of Crau-
dan liall into the inner precincts which she had
thereunto contemplated only In mind pictuNes
this side OF tho massive aud inhospitabe doors
Criucs had said that Pinsy Lawtord was at her
BEST in drawing ROOM plays--she registered man
ner. Such "noticos' she had cherished In her
bosom She the daughter of Il brokeu-down old
Character woman who now getting second
rate "aunt parts only the strength of being tho
mother Of the distinguished Papsy had the STREAK"
All that remained was the lucky chance to
crash the barriers. aud that had comet
Pansy had an hut forgotten Gida Farnsworth.
who had COME and luttered and gone out. A year
or moro had elapsed since she had retired giving
m health and social exactions as the cause. In
truth, Guda had ialled miserably to "cs,ch ou"
and in three minor parts had drawn brilliant first
ugh.s and nothing the second nights.
She had been On one company with Pansy, play.
ing her sister Gtda had scomtully accepted the
supporting role, though obviously incensed that
shea FAIusVorth--should be RELOCATED 70 feed"
"a common person like this lawforl woman After
the fi..f rehearsal, when Pan5ys praCtscd eve and
somehow ubou instinct had made out that Gllda
was dramatically impossibe that this schoolod and
hioOdod blue book debutante missed fire portrayiug
her very self on the stage, whereas Pansy could
thrill oven tho holies OF Fifth avenue by her rem.
dition OF one OF them Pansy got an idea.
She beckoned Gilda 10 her after dismissal for
1.-The day and huted to her that her conception of
the role wouldn't do Gilda farod MP, despite tho
two failures she had undergone before What was
this? Shea Farnsworth-was h0lmpetent TO
portray society girl? Pansy nodded-just that.
you're absurd Miss Lawford," answered GIlda
my department is correct. YoNgs is specious
Among my people your presentation os an aristo-
crat would be preposterous."