A Another Sharon Beauty Elopes£fc
SVELTE
Characteristic Dancing I’oie of Petits
VVillette Allen Smith in an Egyptian
Number. Her Runaway Match Was
Disapproved by patrician Family.
I ^|**^ L N off 'to Kuiio and g-.-t liiaf
noil!" 'semis to be the duunt
; . -loran of the lively and
trc.lc.-y rat ic “Charon iivh" ol Man
I rain:.-co.
1 .mt months ago, I'huiier-s Sharon
alien violently upset the eqtiuuimity
o’ her conservative ami patrician fain
.ly Ly eloping v. .tii Janies L'oud. a de
scendant of a Monterey cattle baron
,\n l i.o.\ her. : .f.teF,' \\ iiletLi—--peppy,
petite and precoeiou.—litis- hopped of.
' > tin Nevada divorce Mecca and mar
iced Robtit Cooke limit.i. Id. a b>c)
Mort-i realtor, with poetic and ar.ti.--.Uc
tcfidciuiic.' on the side. Willette is
only twenty-throe and the ciders of her
ciati, resentful and leaf fled, are boiling
l<I.• an overdue tea kettle.
It isn't the fir.-t time V> iliette has
aroused their p ; .eminent, either. Hack
I ;cM, ■a ll,' ll ,-i- iMirdlv ninoniici-d p
- • eg to nlauenrat1 a car or a> a
■ ii<-. r. tin- Siiaror. ■ maiiii.-.-l d uun:>
a liable Signs ill hoi 0-.. Uiii.futi.au. It
.dll'! _ t ill- I ll tiling, I.IOA M-l V. ,1
lt ,,mI bci n ill on '-'I ! i become a
i , 1 o toes oy watching Use stage
cork of lit-h lovvlv young oou-m, L'la
S i.'nson. who man'--.I Carl Randall,
also a “hoofer.'’ Ileobeying parental
.l ets, the.' ran oil and.' were secretly
MitiTif-ilV Later L!a sued lor drvvrcc.
Ci-.arg.iig. desert,on.
Mfiny and iiiipa- .on, d were tin
im'u to \\ ill,-tie t.oin In.r wealthy
iiio.Uu-t, Mrs. I lorcnce Sharon ITrowii.
i-ol in lower t.ie fninify standard.-, by
i.aiMfnig' »it! her foot at a cjiiai'L r to
-i\. arid to the. e pleas Were ; dded the
la.'.iei.tai oils of hoi grandmother, state
l\ o'd wol.ow ■ pf Senator W . I. Sharon
1 attic! Willette promptly signed up
(' a iveith-Orpheuiu circuit headliner
.’ii i the next thing she knew Andreas
I'avina, of tlie Chicago Opera Company,
made her .premiere dun.-eu.-c of In -
-so! ir> and whoopee! toe glittering
fi-.t.h to ITltoile Opera Moure m Paris
:.d In To.-i'ru Regis. Mexico City, whs*
The ABC's of General Knowledge
Now Willeite Upsets Patrician Dignity by
Running Off and Dancing
. m
in a Hotel
?v .!'(!y paved for Wiitatte’s capering
toes.
Juft at the time that the agitated
Sharons were awaiting Frances’s re
turn from llcno, Willettc came back
home and signed up to do Her stuff at
the Hotel Mark Hopkins. During the
six months that she danced there she
met Smith. Manned, the Sharon clan
tided to discourage lvis ardent suit, hut
perversely Willettc kept on seeing him
— more and more.
Then one morning the family dis
covered to their horror that the self
willed girl had “lit out;’’ been married,
and \\a- horn ymoiming .in Del
Monte. jm
Said Mi-. .Sharon
llrown: “That man will
never be welcomed into
my home.” Said Mrs.
Helen M. Sharon, the
grandmother: “Oh!”
and ke 'led over l'rom
shock, physicians said.
T£e honeymoon war
HONEYMOONING
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cooke Smith #•» Ihrv
Looked During Their Bridal Star at Del
Monte, Cal. He It 42; She, 23.
litslrt.-rmg i vent. Mr?.
Myra K. Smith, first
wife of the realtor
son net eer-painter, ap
peared on the scene,
enunciating “Gimme!
Gimme!” She v.as ic
fi-rn'njr to the $100 a
month alimony *— for
ten months—that she
claimed the new bride
C r o o in owed her.
«<
Mrs. Helen M. Sharon,
Widow of Senator
W. E. Sharon, Who
Looks Grim Whenever
Anyone Mentions Her
Granddaughter's Reno
Wedding to Smith, the
Rea! tor-Pa inter-Poct.
Iran a ‘•cnnuior oi run
nel, i t e pi rpetual play
buy,- and a hia'l'i-powered
sale.man. “Me really
.oughtn't to have married
acrai ii,” she concluded.
“He's not the inatrimom
aIIy perfect type."
“Alimonyqueried Mi:
Smith,. No. 1, with a light
laugh anil a loss of her
head—and something
su.
S.iuth. m co-urt, .’nook his head sadly.
“I'm broke,” he aiiiniitcd. Gillette, he
:i<iticil proudly, was "a self-support,!!)?'
. jj'vii.'” Me dug into Ins pockets and ex
humed fifty dollars, which lie meekly
handed over to Myra. ‘‘Its all I have,
no said,
The (slightly) enriched Myra gave
liu personal views on the honeymooner
>,ie had sued to recover back alimony
•:i the Superior Court presided over by
Judge Frank II. Dunne. She labeled
pieiously like a twinkle iji her . |>':it k!-in'*j
eye-. "Alimony7 Don’t mention the
word to me. 1 o pay aliniony you have
to have money. And Smith hasn't not
anything, or at lea.-l muvh, to pay
with.
"Ha ought to get out of i :-b:t
of getting martied. HeA a time fellow,
but he'll always be a playboy. Me?
Yes. 1 had quite a tot oi mtflfeyO'hen
I uiai ried him, but it didn't, jtf -J,' ery
long."
< urru lty War
manifest'1! by
the interviewer
ns to M r
Smith'd status
a- idi "artist, author and polo
('layer," terms which had
been frequent))' used to describe him
;iid hu activities. “Well, {hut’s a
s!i~ht exaggeration,” commented the
first- Mrs. Smith. “It's true that he
lias written a few :-umiet,- and has done
a few little drawings for hi; own
amusement. I admit that he’s talenter
and it is a : name that he ha accom
plished ••o little with those talca.l . l.s
sentially, he’s a hlgh-po.v.ered salmi
imin.”
While the Sharon family In 'd pe
nm tie conferences in the eclusion of
t err handsome home. Willelic re
a.amed blissfully indifferent to tie,- ,
worries over her hastily made match.
She returned from. Inc honeymoon
An Effective Clb»c-up of WiDelte
Allen Smith, EmphaiitiriR Her Girluh
Charm and Smiling Demeanor.
radiating happiness and very sanguine
about her future.
Even Sister Ira mi (of all peopled
il'.-appioval of the Ueno-inade marriage
failed to diin the .sunlight of her snul*
I lie darn er and her adoring husband
tool; a small downtown apartment an 1
Willette re-tuui'il hot \xotk at the Hotel
Mark Hopkins, thrilling onlookers with
h< r Mtiuous Egyptian numbers and ai
t.stieally scanty costumes. The
AnolH»r Striking
Pate of Willotto
Doing Her Egyptian
Stuff in • San
Franciaco Hotel.
intimations of ratty
people. that .rhr* had
horn forced to re.-mrt
to "hoofing” again be
cause of. her husband's
skimpy funds.
Over at the .Sharon
house, where Willette
"tad a I way had everything shewanted,’*
tioubt was expressed about her future
happim . Hoiv would she live? Where
would the money come from? Could a
irul r.-tate salesman earn enough to
buy all those tine clothes to which she
had become aermtouted 'x
“I uppo-o Wiljette will keep on
with lirrilancing career,” was the re
signed omtnerit of her mother. “Other
" i c, I can’t for the life of me set
how she',- going to make out.'
I'll ■ mood of Sister France.'—hcr
'<‘!f « well-known eloper—waa similar.
Her criticisms w-ere restrained in tone,
hut .1 was plainly apparent that ;hs
t fought Willette'.; lleno excursion Itatl
been an error.
Willette her. elf took nil this with
commendable good nature. “Of
cmii.e,” .-he laughed. ‘‘And families
got mad when their children marry
without their coh.-ent. That’s not tin
'u uat. As . oon as I arrived in .Suit
Francisco, mother rang me up and
wi.-hed me every happiness. She .till
don't approve of Mr, Smith and has
ielu.-rd to men hint, but I'm sure it
will all come right in the chid,”
Smith, meanwhile, was reported to
be wry-active down Del Monte way
i cal - c- tat ing. liven though temporar
ily separated by “injuriotis di.-tauce,”
the Smiths are b''thely happy.
lint the elder Sharons—? Old Men
hiJoom sure is Kitting on their door
step.
Health, Ability, Iitfeitey Are Essential to Success—Mitchell *
AS president of tli" National City
'Janh, Charles L. Mitchell lias for
\fcars been the leader of Amer
ica's largest financial institution, di
rect in;: its manifold interests through
out the world. With the recent allilia
tioh of that organization with the
I'armcrs’ Tru.-t Company, Mr. Mitchell
b, came the chairman of the board. He
i- otic of the mo.-1 progressive business
men in the country, and ha- long been
a recognized leader in constructive
finance.
His business life slatted with the
CHARLES E. MITCHELL.
( liuirinaii of ihr Itoairl of the
^attunul 1 ilv (hzuiiittitutn.
Western Electric Company. He joined
the Trust Corny,ny of America and
later formed his own banking firm. He
"us offered the vice presidency of the
National City Bank in It)lt> when that
old institution decided to organize its
•wn company for the nation-wide di.
tribution of bonds. In ltfiM he \va
electcd president, which post he held
until the recent merger, when he be
came chairman of the board.
"Health, character and high ideal*,
personality, education and the pursuit
of knowledge, unceasing industry and
decision and, of course, ability, by
which 1 mean knowledge and under
standing, are the essential and basic
qualities needed to gain a high place in
the competition of life,” savs Mr.
Mitchell.
"The fundamental quality is health.
The physical body, the most delicate oi
all mechanisms, will stand a lot of
wear and strain if, anil only if, it be
given reasonable attention; Common
sense must be shown in what one cals
and drinks. Moderation and regularity
will govern the habits of the man who
knows that his body is the basis bri
which his success and career must be
predicated. Immoderation surely will
take its toll. Regular sleep arid exer
c lU.y, lu:«!uaUun4l btitUi, luc. Uiltaiii Rights
i'iit’C c.'Si-nlial. They may bore you,
but tile rowanj U ciiofiTout. You mu;,
tto.-.-e.-s all the qualitr« for suiaa■ -
known to main, hut if tliov mu.-t o|><■ r
a*-o through a deficient body tJie handi
cap <annot be overcome.
‘The next basic quality is characte*.
Honesty a man must have in his deal
ings with others, but, above all, with
himself. You may at tunes be able to
‘put something over’ on others, hut
don t be such a fool as to fool your
sell. ^ ou must he vour own most crit
i**l lodge; your verdict must be backed
by honesty. Then you fnust be loyal to
the best standards, and you must de
velop courage to do and dare physically
and mentally, remembering that con
servatism will save many a mistake.
" I imii there i- that great f.-.-er t..:!
of pcrnriiiijity which a man require- a
hundredfold if hi would lilt his head
above the crowd. It : difficult to do
>ei ibe , tlie quahtii of pi i -.oiiahtv - o
•many of thorn pm haps ate God-given
Yet such tilings ;ta gran on ness ol
niun net. democracy, good fellowship
in tiio he.-t sense of the word, presence,
hearing, the selection of appropriate
language and expression—and a dozen
other qualities are the weather vanes
of character that indicate personality.
They can he developed, and -when- vim
find them lacking there is usually some
Haw- in character or Gaining.
“Personality reflects character, and
if vour character be right your person
ality will, to a great extent, be right.
“Without education a man cannot
advance in the banking business. I
Know of no profession that demands
the never-ending study that is de
manded by tha banking profession.
Rut at tin' bottom of everything mu.t
In/ industry—the determination, the
will to vucreed against all odds, tha
will to study. It is initiative and de
rision perhaps more than any other
quality that will earn’ a man above
the crowd. It takes initiative to find
new methods—the courage to get away
front the beaten track—-to offer new
idea* and to stand for them if you be
lieve them to he right.
"Ahility without industry, or indus
trv without ahility, is useless. On*
without the other is worth nothing.
Brilliance may carry a man forward
very rapidly, but his position cannot
be sustained without industry, and in
dustry may carry a man to a certain
point, but never higher unless ha can
add brilliance.’’
By Clare Murray, New Girl Poet-Artist
A LADY 01 LE1SI KE
(On (hr llivcrhank)
fhi Iii sirei [is life sired
V\ tilt a furious broom.
Air! <i ftW lour stragglei s
■''rutile tor .shelter.
I. sive and war.n.in tun Union me, roll.
1 ndiffereutbj on my way..
What die storms-—
\ ■> matter haw violent?
I am- protected here
Where for yearn I had leniy'd. to be.
I scarcely remember
Those turbulent days of my !"bor.
Ambition, awl fear....
My failure....
TJir shuddering timet....
My trembling despair....
I welcomed the way of escape.
I.usury I never could earn is mine.
Yet l am a briny walking in..strep.
Whose footfalls leave no marie, no sound;
.1 briny serene, unmoved,
Thoujh chasms open and yawn.
I am imply, devoid of emotion,
Is my body divorced from my soul?
Maybe the croon of my senses
Has lulled my soul into stupor...,
"A being walking
in »!eep, whone footfall leave* n#
mark, ao lound.”
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