The Washington times., 1922-09-16
TOLD HER
To LEAVE
AFTER HIS
LOVE DIED
Called Him at Sons Birth, But
He Came With Lawyer-Her
Romance Gone.

By courtesy Of the Los Angeles
Examiner the Cosmopolitan NeWs
Service is able today to give the
first interview Mrs. William S.
Hart has granted to any ne,Ds-
paper since she separated from the
famous portrayer of heroic West
ern roles IN motion pictures.
BY r. ID. KNICkERBOCKER.'
Copyrighted. 1879. by Los Angeles
Exsminer.)
Reproduction prohibited.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 16.
a loved my husband with a
passionate and sublime devotion
that comes to a woman but once
in her lifetime. 1t was a love
based upon respect for his re-
markable accomplishments and
his seemingly genuine affection
and universal kindness"
Tells Of Their Break.
In a flower-filled room Of the
Santa Monica home Of her mother,
overlooking the booming surf Of the
Pacific, with her ten-day-old son In
dainty crib beside her, the beau
tiful twenty.year-old bride Of film
doms most famous Western hero
told Of the resulting sorrow of their
break"
1T was one Of the saddest disil.
lusionments of my life that Mr..
Hart, in company with his attorney.
should have come to his baby's birth
chamber about a week following it's
birth, and after remaining but a
few minutes, should have seen fit
to rush madly out and give to the
public the sacred confidence Of thai
moment" she said.
Her big, deeply fringed brown
eyes, in such startling contrast to
the mass of curling corn-colored
hair that fell over her shoulders in
two long braids, slowly filled with
tears as she turned to the eleven
pound boy peacefully sleeping in the
ribbon .bedecked crib. unconscious OF
the trials and tribulations of his
noted parents.
Thought Husband Joking.
why. I thought my husband was
joking wehn he ordered me from
his house." continued the young
mother. after reaching into the folds
Of beautiful pink silk negligee to
procure lace-bordered handker.
chief scarcely larger than the palm
Of young Mr.. Hart's hand.
I'VE had had difficulties. but I
am sure that II 1t had not been for
the return of his sister, Miss Mary
Hart. we would have been able to
adjust our troubles. But nothing
did seemed to please him-or, rather,
his sister.
But conditions in that house were
terrible"
"Besides"-and once again two
glistening tears rolled down her
cheeks-"as told you at first. I
love Bill. I loved him even after
we had separated. Why, just before
our baby was born. sent for him to
come and see me. Even after the
humiliation he had caused me I
wanted him back.
Love Burned Itself Out.
1.-THE cruelist part OF this whole
affair is the stories that have been
circulated to the effect that I en-.
shared an old man into a marriage
for the sake of his money. It Is
true that my husband is much older
than I, but he has all Of the at
tributes Of a man many years his
Junior There was no SAVIOR Of May
and December IN our marriage.
81 might have been q ten-year.old
child as far as the position I held
In my husbands home was con-
cerned.
"If ever a man reigned as king in
a woman's heart that man was Bill
Hart. ! worshipped the very ground
he walked on. But the protestations q
Of love that he shvwered on me dur.
ing his courtship and the early days
OF our marriage apparently soon
burned themselves out"
Surrounding the bed and on the
various places OF furniture were
many felicitations and gifts Of
flowers, but as Mrs. Hart sadly ad.
mitted. there were none from 'Biil." Z"