The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-22


 go to the movies just to gaze at his Grecian profile. Many of you, even if you won't admit it, used to swoon at the idea of even meeting this super-being, this demi-god who could make his love scenes so con- vincing that one could hear little hearts go pit-a-pat. And now if you still like him you may have chance to buy him.
 Fer Francis X. Bushman, for mer movie idol, has tumbled from his pedestal of fame and riches and may put himself on the mar ket to be purchased by woman of means. For still handsome Frank, who is so hard up that he is even braving the terrors of Chi cago to act in stock there, is fed up with love marriages He has 1 made two and neither of them took, despite the second one being cited as the romance that was to , end all romance for others. It certainly did for Bushman, for his marriage to Beverly Bayne was not a success. Despite all the glam- or and publicity attendant on it, it failed just as had his first mar riage to the woman who bore him i five children. And so, few can blame Bushman for trying to mix mammcn with his next matri- monial venture.
 Romance Thrills
 Bushman is AT years old and has crowded a couple of life times of romance, thrills and vicissi- tudes into his existence He has climbed the golden ladder of fame twice, and twice he has tumbled to the inky pit of failure, despair ] and poverty that sprawls gaping at the bottom rung. Perhaps if he decides to allow some wealthy woman to endow him, he may be able to clutch at the straws of fame once more. But he would no doubt attract very different audience. For judging by his whole-hearted endorsement of the gigolo, he may become the idol of all the women who include the gigolo among their household pets. And as anyone who goes round in social circles here and on the con- tinent knows, their number is con- siderable-quite sufficien to make a new fan army for Bushman.
 If Bushman ever runs the adver- tisement as he framed it, there should be plenty of response, if not rush of applications. He terms himself as millionaire, athletic, gives weight and height, describes his health as perfect and his ap- pearance as intact. His tastes, he says, or perhaps warns, are eX- pensive, his bridge he describes as fairly good and he terms himself sportsman by preference, actor by necessity. None of which reads very much like the blurbs that the publicity writers used to put out about him in the good old days
 Lived High
 When Bushman was at the pin nacle of his fame in the years 1916 to 1918, he lived high and luxuri- ously. The finest apartments in the best hotels, regal suites on palatial steamships, private railroad cars, all these were routine affairs for the Bushman entourage. His automobile knocked filmdom for goal It was lavender and his chauffeur and footrnan were at tired in lavender liveries to tone with the enormous car. Romance, 1 riches, renown, these were Bush mans three R's and he made the most of them. He and his co-star, Beverly Bayne, were the prime heart palpitaters of the movie world and public. But after his first wife, Josephone K. Bushman divorced him in 1918 and his sub sequent marriage to Beverly, his fame began to decline Movie fans of that period wanted the nice, virtuous good chaps that the mov- ies featured and villains were not in vogue. But later Bushman be- gan to ascend the ladder again and from 1921 to 1924 made quite comeback In the latter year, while he was in Italy, Beverly Bayne divorced him and another perfect romance went on the rocks. Since then he has spent his own money trying to produce his own pictures. But the tide of success had turned from him.
 Defends Gigolo
 That Bushman has learned to interpret life in ultra-m CT n