The Washington times., 1923-04-11
MISSOURI SHE|K
FREED; GETS
FILM JOB
Wife Of Oil Millionaire Visits
Admirer in JaiI-0blects
to Screen Career.

LOS ANGELES, April 1.-THE
Missouri "Sheik' was freed today to
accept any one of three offers made
to him to star i'm motion pictures,
but Mrs. Lucille Orchard, wife of a
Los Angeles oil millionaire, is said
10 be strenuoualy objecting to the
Sheik taking up a screen career or
even an abode in Hollywood.
Will Hays is to be asked, Holly
wood hears, IL the circumstances
which elevated the "Sheik" to public
notice are of such q nature that his
picture would be unacceptable to the
censor boards.
Accused Of EmbezzIemeEt.
Graham c. Polk, the six-foot, 900
pound hotel clerk of Excelsior
Springs, Mo-. was released from Jail
last evening shortly after Mrs. Or
chard and her attorney visited him
@t the city Jail. They left the Jail
with him. Polk had been held charged
with the embezzlement OF 81 400 from
the Films Hotel in Excelsior Springs.
Mrs. Orchard would not say il she
put up the money to replace the al
legged shortage. 1T was at the Elms
Hotel that Polk met Mrs Orchard.
At a party one night Polk Jokingly
told friends he and Mrs. Orchard were
married. and friends accepted the
statement as true until they learned
Mrs Orchard already had q husband.
Lyndol Young, attorney for Or
chard, said today that the Orchards
were permanently separated" be-
cause of Polk, but he would not say
q divorce was impending.
The motion picture offers to the
Missouri 'sheilk" were yelled some
what in mystery. Grant Carpenter,
q prominent member of the Authors
League OF America, admitted today
that an offer had been made him to
write q romantic story around Polk,
using the persons involved as the
central characters.
III. III. Van Loan, a we1l-known
scenario writer, said cinema d..
rector had asked him to write
serial type Of story for Polk. What
would be the title?" Van Loan was
asked.
1T might be secrets of a Hotel
Clerk but l hardly think SO,
smiled Van Loan,
When freed from Jail, Polk i'm.
mediately retrieved letters and tele-
grams signed Lucille" which the
police had taken from him. One
letter, on expensive paper, which
bore the kalogram Lucille Orch.
ard" was dated Los Angeles and
addressed Darling Boy" Is.
Tells Of Her Love,
The letter Is as follows.
Darling Boy: your letter with
your sisters enclosed came this
morning and 1t was surely well
come missive. For two whole days
+fedtdn't hear and my! How long
the time stands still when / don't
hear. Your sister must be q lovely
girl. In fact. am in love with
your whole family already. i know
shall love all of them II for no
other reason because they are a
part of you.
you know. it has been said,
Mans love is of mans life, q thing
epart-'tis woman's whole exist
ence.' And love everything you
love, for you who out of all the
world are dearest to my heart, more
precious than the soul which quick
ems me or the eye that lights my
path. There is nothing, my darling,
dearer than life, and yet you, yes,
you, are thousand times more
dear.
81 love you so dearly that 1 fear
something will happen before my
dream can ever be realized, for with
you. to be loved by you, owned by
you, would be heaven here, And
when / think OF it, I grow cold with
fear that something might happen.
II it does, / hope God takes me be.
fore could take myself, for with
out you don't want to live.
tSigne6 your Lucille"