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FATE AND: EVELYN. I says to her, ‘““ Why, Marie!” And she says to me, “ Why, Evelyn!” And I come out from behind the counter and we hugged each other and kissed each other, and I took her upstairs to where we was living over the store and showed her the baby. And I says to her, I says, “ Well, how’s everything?” She began to cry, and says everything was rotten. She says she and Jim Farns- worth come on to New York and she learned how to sing, and he got a show and starred her and went broke, and she says now they are living down in a room on Seventy-Eighth Street, and for a littie while they have had just enough money to gei enough to eat on. Only Jim had one farm left that he couldn’t sell before, and he just sold it, and pretty soon they wouid have three thousand dollars. Then she cried some more, and said her husband was a swell guy, and she was sorry she got him mixed up in the show business, and if she had just liked him as well when she met him as she did now she would never have learned to sing and he would have kept his money and ey would have been happy. U PEAY -HIFsS U ad 837 So I says to bring Jim over to see us, and we would shut up the store early and set around and have a couple of drinks and have a good time. So he come over, and he got to talking to Louie and Louie got to talking to him, and then when they. got done talking they had fixed it up that Jim Farnsworth was going to put in the three thousand dollars that he was going to get and have a half interest in the business and we would move into the bigger place across the street in the next block and make a lot of dough. So we did. And now we got three stores, and we are making a lot of dough, and we both got cars, and we hire people to stay in the stores and run them so we can get out and have a good time once in a while. And we got a place on the beach dewn on Staten Island where we go in the summer time. And I got another baby now, and Marie has got one too, and we have a lot of fun. And sometimes I sit and think to myself ain’t it queer? If Marie hadn’t come up to me that time when we was rehearsing with the “ Broadway Babe,” maybe none of it might have happened. And why do you suppose she done it? It’s queer, ain’t it? It’s Fate! That’s what it is! U FROM ARGOSY-ALLSTORY PROM time to time we have told you of beoks that have been made from Arcosy- A.tsTory serials and movies that have been derived from the same source, but we have said little or nothing of the plays that owe their being to plots that first saw the light be- tween the pages of this magazine. There is now running m New York, at a leading Broadway theater, a piece that is so highly successful as to inspire us with the desire to take our readers into our confidence with regard to this other by-product from our pages. “The Nervous Wreck,” a farcical adventure in the Far West, by Owen Davis, was based on © The Wreck,’ by the late E. J. Rath, that ran in Arcosy-Attsrory from December 3, 1921, to January 7, 1922. ‘The critics were lavish in their praise, and so great is the demand for seats that it looks as if the play would stay at the Sam H. Harris Theater for a year’s run at the very least, while other companies are being organized for Chicago and London, The theatrical version, which was made by the man who won the Pulitzer prize last spring with © Icebound” as the best play of the year, follows the story very closely and was summed up by one reviewer in these words— The funniest play of the season, ably written, clean, and expertly played.” The leading réles are acted by Otto Kruger and June Walker, and the piece is the first producing venture of Lewis & Gordon. ** Is not the only | ‘The Nervous Wreck shop.” ‘ best seller ” drama to come out of our That. shatterer of run records a season or two ago, Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, was founded on “ The Circular Staircase,” " literary by Mary Roberts by Mrs. Rinehart, The Bat,” that ran its course in The Al/-Story Afagaszine from November, 1907, to March, 3908. 7A CoOmicooolkSssc@ G