The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-04
GIRL
REVEALS
WARNINGS
IN DIARY
Bride = to Have Been Slashes
Wrist When Young Millionaire
Gives Her Gate.

Mary Luqo. PRETTY sho,0-qiri. tDlto
had expected that today she Wds to
be the bride of millionaire Gordon G..
ThoTne in Chicago, has giuen to the
Chicago Herald and Examiner and
The Washington Times for e9ctusive
publication the story of her career,
as told By her diary.
After tpo efforts to end her life,
Miss Lygo's love tragedy toas eli
ma1ed when Gordon ThoTne an
nousced he had decided he VouLd
not marry Miss Lygo in Difference to
tho tcisles of his mother, Mrs. Billy
Camp, tDido1o of William c. Thorae,
once che pfce president Of Mont
gonsery Ward e Co. .-.'. 3
teopyrisht 1924. by Chicago Herald and
Exsrniner.)
Chapter I.
MAY 21--The theater is going to
open again with a stock show COM
-pany for the summer months. Now
] am sure I will be able to convince
mother it is all right for me to go on
the stage. Why should she object?
] am a big grown-up girl, sixteen
years Of age, and / always have
wanted to be an actress. My, how
strange 1t feels to put ones thoughts
down in a little book! II am goirg
10 be a great actress some day l will,
Of course, want to remember the
happy times I had here at home.
MAY 23-Several of my chums keep
diaries. Why. it is getting to be a
great fad here.
We lived, when l was a child. in a
great big house in the city-in--.
Ohio. The movies, two and three
times a week. Several Of the girls
would make up a party after school
dnd go to the movies. oh. how / ad.
nired Mary Pickford and her sweet
little sad parts, and her wonderful
curls! Flora Finch and the others
were great favorites with the girls.
Craved Automobiles.
Or course we all kept saying we
wanted to be actresses and wear those
beautiful gowns, and ride around in
big limousines and have servants ard
I've In great big mansion. We were
silly lot Of girls in those days, most
OF us. But of all the girls in my set
] think / am the only one who really
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stage.
MAY 24-They are placarding the
town with announcements of the
great season they are to have at the
theater. The pictures on the bill.
boards show they are going to have a
real beautiful leading lady. How won.
derful 1t must feel to have your pic.
ture printed on those big signs all
over the city!
MAY 25-I have seen her-the
beautiful leading lady. Why, the
pictures do not give her half enough
credit She is simply adorable! What
grand airs she carries! / was sitting
in the drug store having a soda with
Mary Bennett when she walked in.
She had the air of a queen. They
say she has all of her gowns made in
Paris. She must receive an enormous
salary to dress the way she does.
Gee! can just imagine how thrill
ed they will be when she plays the
heroine in East Lynne" I can
hardly wait to see the manager Of
the company. He has been delayed
In New York on business was told
at the theater today.
Given Permission.
Mamma has given me permission to
attempt to get on the stage. She
thinks I am foolish, but I don't think
SO. ] don't want to be a school teach
er or anything like that. They are
all old maids.
MAY 26-There was a big fire to-
day. The whole Amery block burned
down. One of the poor girl clerks
was nearly burned to a cinder. II 1t
hadn't been for Will La Pearl she
would never have come out alive.
She was up on the second floor in
the dry goods department when the
flames shot up through the ceiling.
I almost tainted when they carried
her out.
MAY at am an actress! I am
an actress! The manager hired me.
He II such a nice man. He asked me
II had had any experience and /
told him that had played many
parts In the amat' ur theatricals we
rave at high school. Then he wanted
to know n I could recite. recited