Evening star., 1933-01-04

and took full swing at an imaginary
golf ball. Up to the time she left she
never was wholly able to convince the
attendant teacher that her intention
had not been to brain one of her fellow
pupils A year ago this last October
Miss Davis entered school at Farming
ton. Conn, but left because Of illness
and never went back, due to her
mothers death.
Start Of the Romance.
'I suppose you know" she said, "how
my father met my mother. A young
reporter had written highly fiattering
piece about her. My father noticed 1t
and commented on it. He said he never
had seen the lady Of whom the re-
porter had writtenT but that surely II
he should see one lovely enough to
inspire such praise he, too, would be-
come one of her admirers. Some one
showed this to mother as tribute from
well known writer"
Miss Davis said that a few nights
later Bessie Mccoy was in Rector's
with Frank Ward OMalley, whe1'
Richard Harding Davis came in with
Granville Fortesque, himself q war cor
respondent, who won the Army rank OF
major.
"They were introduced" continued
Miss Davis, smiling. but guess the
introduction was none too plain, be-
cause he thought she was dancer and
she understood his name as Davidson
But I suppose names didn't matter
because next evening father visited
mother In her dressing room at the
theater and asked her to marry him."
Miss Davis said that when, her
mother was in the little hospital at st.
Jean de Luz the only two beggars In
the village, to whom she used to give
money, and the street cleaner, whose
donkey she used TO feed carrots, came
each day to ask for her.
Bessie Mccoy became thoughtful,
serious woman" said Miss Frey. II
never saw her reading light novels, and
I don't believe Hope here ever did In
were all the sort that improve your
mind.
II remember well how she got her
first New York chance, when Fred
Thompson opened the Hippodrome
They asked her when something hap
pened to Elfie Fay If she could play
Aurora. They thought she was pretty
| small and they wanted q blond. Sc
| that is how she became q blond; hel
hair was really brown, and she coulC
| fix 1t in great braids which hung dowT
to her waist. At first she thought SHE
would wear a wig. but then she decided
to bleach her own thick hair. Ant
she made her entrance driving two
white horses to chariot"
When the Airplane Stuck.
"That wasn't the original plan fol
her entrance" interrupted Hope Davis
"She used to tell me that A Message
From Mars had been playing in New
York, and that it was planned to have
her and perhaps Marceline and Slivers
| the clowns, who were stars in thai
show, enter In an airplane. The plant
was to slide down a wire from the roof
The first time they rehearsed 1t some,
thing stuck, and mother was suspended
| in the plane for hours before the firt
| department could get her down."
So that was why the girl who hat
| played In a sister act as Lizzie Mccoy
who had wished TO change her name II
! Muriel and who had been prevented
from doing so and billed as Bessie Nc
Coy by Charles Dillingham;, made he
| first big entrance in a chariot. MOI
was this without its thrills. She wa!
so short they put box in the charioI
| for her to stand on, and 1t tipped ant
swayed with the bumps encountered
by the wheels. SO Bessie Mccoy was II
| constant danger OF falling.
That low, husky voice, one OF he
assets, originally gained its tone from
throat strain. There Is a stosy tina
| to make her speak loudly enough on,
OF the producers OF the show went Ia