Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-11

him about love running on a single
track He was a mailman before 1t
was over and il all but broke up our
happy camp. Teddy went out into
the night in huff and it took a lot
of coaxing on Dempsey's part to bring
Teddy back.
Ruth Roland became the apple of
his eye. They were seen together
often. making a striking pair as they
moved about in evening clothes. I'll
say this for Dempsey My tailors
simply poured him into the best
fitting evening buds any man ever
wore. Never vas a clothes horse like
Dempsey, and 1 challenge them from
Beau Brummel down to the present
day.
Bebe Daniels was the next. She
was beautiful, &, wonderful girl. He
made no mistake there, and for a long
time all the movie colony took it for
granted that they would put on the
old yoke. But, I've pointed out, he
moved into and out Of hearts with
reckless abandon. Bebe Daniels vas
the sweetest of them all so far as I
could see. Besides that she was g.
brilliant star, one of the finest in the
movie world.
suppose when it came to the seri-
Gus question, she looked over his head
to future and fame. She didn't need
Dempsey to carry her along.
Fought Against Marriage.
May Fields was his next object of
alteration. sShe was in the pictures
and a corking girl. too. A great fell
low They we're seen together a lot
and, of course. the old bugaboo Of
marriage doomed up again. Naturally
I was against that while he was
champion. "A man can't settle down
to the old kindling wood "a nd feed-the
canary routine while he is heavy
weight champion. 1t has never been
done and I didn't expect Dempsey to
change history. | don't expect him TO
change it now.
So you see. with every new light of
his life that fiared up, your Uncle
Doc f1ared up, too. I was the great
est match smasher in history, I sup
pose. ] dare say a hundred beautiful
and deserving women can blame me
for breaking up what might have
been. Some day they may come
around to thinking that I did them
a favor. But when love is blind as
Paddy's pig, what are you going to
do about it?
1t never was necessary for me to
go to the woman in question and
chase her off the reservation. That
wouldn't have been diplomatic. and
il would have only cemented an af-
fair that I was trying to break up. 7
had to use the old bean. ! didn't try
ridicu,e That's as bad as chasing
them. A fellow in love doesn't want
to be shown the path. You can kill
him off with sending in the other fell
low. Two and three can play at love
with the same gal. and l worked this
on his nibs aplenty. The minate he
thought that the field wasn't all his
own he moved out had that al
ways TO work on. He had the NOV
ing habit He loved as he lived, al
ways on the go, go, go. so.
guess that 1t was that spirit tina
carried him beyond the charms of
the beautiful SO long. There was his
restless spirit to trade on. and made
the most Of it. I guess the girls knew
that was old bluebeard in the watch
tower so tar az their phone calls and
their mash notes were concerned. for
they tried every scheme known to
feminine ingenuity to get by the bar
riers.
Guards His BankrolI.
admit that D Gagged him up. Why
should cage MIN up: lie was mil.
lion dollar asset. He was mine be.
fore he was theirs If for on other
reason than business reasons. So I
stand by my actions. He had to be
showed away from the vamps. He
had to be tormented into dropping this
Que and that. We used cruel meth
DDS, my friends and I. when we
thought him hooked dee per than US
ual and in the end we did him
service. He was a man in the lime
light and prey for hero worshipers.
Some Of the letters he got and never
got were killing. Say | used TO lay
In bed in the morning when they We're
turned over to me for censorship and
I'd fall out of the trundie cot some
times laughing over some of the
siush.
When one of them got 100 internal
ly mushy Ed show 1t to Jack telling