Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-03-01
StarHgh 7
By the Noted Author
IDAH M'GLONE GIBSON
Virginia, Maud and Theodore

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Theo remarked: 'She couldn
have eaten anything"
| 1 glanced at her. Poor thing
she is i'll. Don't you see, Theo, tina
even her makeup does not cove
her pallor and the drawn lool
around her eyes"
Virginia, child" replied Thet
dore irrelevantly, mo one eYei
called me, Theo before"
What do they call your"
rejoined, gladly pursuing the
turn he had given me to the con
versation.
why, my dear, must I tel
you? Well, my father. who was
New England minister, named
me Joshua, because you know
that Joshua commanded the sun
to stand still. Now"
l interrupted Theo, saying:
"And you have made the whole
world stand still and look at you
upon the screen. That is won
derful triumph, Theo-so wonder
full that / cannot understand why
you, who might aspire to the
loves of princesses should"
ooh, my darling, my baby
child! Can't you understand
what your freshness, your inno-
cence, your sincerity, mean to a
world-weary man like me? You
are a princess!"
Tied" Maud Sanson's voice
cut the atmosphere about us with
a sound like the swish and crack
Of a whip. 1 shrank, for I al
most felt it upon my shoulders.
III you have finished your fir
tation perhaps we can go on with
the scene"
I'm going to luncheon now.
Did you eat while you were out.
Maud?"
"No. I went to my dressing
room and then thought l would
wait to eat with you and Miss
Winston"
'T don't care for any lunch" I
said hurriedIy. ''If you will ex-
cuse me 1 think I will go to my
dressing room and lie down.
am not as accustomed to this
kind Of acting as you are, Miss
and l confess that the
lights, the director, the eye of the
camera, and you two clever ac-
tors, rather frighten me-"
l was perfectly honest about
this, consequently I did not un-
1erstand the contemptuous curl
about Maud Sanson's lips and the
quiet smile about the mouth OF
Theo until we were all back on
The set and Theo remarked:
And you are clever, Baby Child!
[ never dared hope that with all
The rest you would have clever
ness. Now, don't look at me as
though you didn't understand
what | meant. No woman could
have made that remark to Maud
N all innocence"
"But 1t was In all innocence
f you call it that. I was tired |
md l didn't want any lunch and
am frightened"
you don't mean, Baby Child,
hat I frightened you? Why
wouldn't harm you for the world.
Why l love you, child, love you,
owe you as I never thought
ould love again!"
A little cold hand clutched my
leart. l shook 1t off saying to
myself;
"Of course he has loved others
must not care. Why should a
want to he his only love?
Ill woman can ask Is to be a
ian's last love-"
A little deVil-at my ear whis-
cred:
1.-THE last love until the next"
1 felt my eyes filling with
BARS.
what is the matter, Baby
hild2 Surely, when l tell you
lat | love you 1t doesn't make
ou weep"
81 guess I am crying because
am so happy" The words were
OF spoken before l knew that l s
as lying. 1t was the first in '
nation that I had had that low
IS were the greatest liars on the t
ice OF the earth. /
They do not say the things
lat they think or believe. They d
lly say the things they think a
le loved one wants to hear. c
All through the afternoon the
.tion dragged. While at first II p
as lovely to be able to picture /,
les love scenes, yet the constant
iteration of them sandwiched
,tween the raucous command of "
70 director and the quiet cutting "
rcasm of Maud Samson began to .
ear my nerves. The last hour ="
so before we stopped for the
" l knew that l was walking
rough my part alphabetically. 1
rs just waiting for Theo to ask
e to go to dinner with him. l
anted to be alone with him. I
IS SO tired. oh so tired, of max l
g love before the world. 3