San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30
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PARIS, August %.


w Vile was just stepping out of the
\church to live happily ever after
ward when a stiff, furry object hit him
in the neck and fell at his white-spatted
feet. 1t was a cat that had been dead
some time.
Looking around in horror for the giver
of this unwelcome wedding present, the
groom saw that the bride seemed to be
/ blushing only on one side of her lovely
face. He had just time to realize that
this phenomenon had been caused by a
ripe tomato striking her, when sudden
darkness blotted out further horrors.
The groom thought he had tainted or
died, and wondered why he still stood on
his feet while his ears told him that other
atrocities were going on. This also had
simple explanation. Some one had
raped him with cane, driving his high
silk hat down over his eyes.
This occurred the other day in Paris,
where love is taken very seriously and
most anything can happen. As might be
guessed the groom had been making love
to another woman, who thought she ought
to be there in the bridal regalia. Paul
Vile admits this, but has an alib.
M. Vile is an actor who has been play
ing for some time at the Danou Theatre
\ in a play called "Le Petit Choc." He
was the handsome leading man and of
course did all the lovemaking to Mile.
Regina Flory, the star, and real Partisan
beauty of extraordinary genius.
Nobody denied that he was conscien-
tious and competent in his work; in fact,
that was the whole trouble. He did his
work so well that the star took him seri-
ously and was soon convinced that his
heart was in his love speeches.
He must be in love with her, and as
soon as he dared would say so, off stage,
privately Mile Florey had sound reasons
for thinking this. All her leading men al
ways fell in love with her, and as this
young mans lines were uttered with the
well-known ring of sincerely she wanted
him to fall in love.
The star gave the man little hints, but
Vile continued deaf and blind as well as
dumb. This was annoying. To have to
prod a laggard at love is embarrassing,
but since the war and the scarcity of men
women have often found it necessary to
resort to emergency measures. The star
and the leading man were called Tor
rehearsal, and when the director who was
10 have rehearsed them failed to appear
the young man marvelled that the star
should be so good-natured about it,
She complimented Vile on his work,
and told him that he was so convincing
z in certain of his scenes that she always
forgot she was in the theatre and really
believed they were both in love. He
| thanked her, praised her in turn, and stat
ed that he felt exactly the same way.
The star inquired about his feelings
after he left the theatre, at home, in the
lonely watches of the night, etc. As to
that, why he never thought about his work
outside the theatre. He put it on and off
with his makeup. If that was the case
il must mean that he was in love with
some one, all young men are in love, she
told him.
M. Vile must have known that awful
things happen to people who do not tell
the truth, yet he looked her right in the
eve and maintained that he cared for no.
body in the world-which was a decep-
ton. She believed because he was a good
actor and because she wanted to believe,
and decided that he was merely cold, his
passions asleep and needed but to be
warmed and awakened. The star, so stage
gossip ran, informed her leading man that