San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

tering heart, waiting, waiting for the mo-
ment of the day when he and happiness
walked along the road. The road is so
alluring now. 1t beckons for another
walk, and as hear a street car approach
ing turn eagerly, for the moment almost
expecting to see the same trim Hetty step
off, smiling.
"The car stops. A couple of men get
off. An old woman Some children. But
no Hetty.
"Hetty is gone. So is the lad with the
,frock coat and cane"
1t was in the days when Charlie Chaplin
was very poor and eking out bare living
in burlesque skit, "a Night in a London
Music Hail." Charles act consisted in
falling out of box upon the stage. Hetty,
like her sister, was a dancing girl in
music hall with troupe of English girls
named, oddly enough, "The Yankee-Doo-
die Girls" Ithappened that both the acts
appeared at one music hall, the famous old
Karno's, the same week. There Hetty and
Charlie first met.
eve were working for very small sal
aries" he said; "indeed, we hardly knew
what money was but we fell in love with
each other and spent long hours together
and through the eyes of youth we visioned
the day when we would have fame and
fortune within our grasp. She believed in
me. She was an inspiration.
Edith was already winning prominence
as dancer, but Hetty and | were in deep
obscurity. Then came my chance to come
to America in that same skit-'A Night
in a London Music Hail."
This was back in 1909. Charlie took
the chance At that time he had not the
slightest idea of going into the motion
pictures-that came about by accident
later. But he did think that he would be
able to make enough money to go back to
London, able to marry Hetty,
She babe him god-speed and a long and
tender farewell. Charlie came to Amer
lea. Letters between them crossed the At.
lantic weekly, and months went b., Charlie
slowly winning toward success-not the
success, of course, which was later to be
his, but success as compared to his pre-
vious struggles.
But a great change had come in the for
tunes of Hetty Sister Edith had married
Frank Gould, the somewhat eccentric mil
ionaire son of Jay Gould, and Hetty had
gone along with her as a companion.
Charlie knew of this, but in the crowded
life that he was living he gave it little
thought. Their letters, however, became
less frequent, but not for an instant did
his love for her diminish, nor, as it later
turned out, did hers for him.
At last Chaplin's engagement in Amer
lea ended and he made post-haste for Eng
land, with more money in his pockets than
he had ever had before. Hetty had been
told of his coming, and there was to be
joyful reunion.
But Hetty, alas, had too great sense
of the dramatic.
When Charlie had left her, her wardrobe
had been little more than her street dress
and her dancing dress, and it was as this
poor little Hetty' Kelly that Charlie still
visualized her 1t was this picture of her
that he had been carrying around in his
heart for nearly two years. He knew, of
course, that poverty no longer harried her.
but still that was the picture that he had
of her. Anxiously he awaited for her to
arrive.
And Hetty did arrive-arrived dressed
all in silken garments fit for duchess,