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at IT mm mi mi i.i'lSiSiH: At Hi 1 r-1 American Legion's Choice as "the suls Sweetest Girl in the World, 39 mi hi Who Lately Inherited Vast 0 Fortune, Must Marry Before She Is Twenty-Five or Forfeit Four Million Dollar 'j. 5- 'X' The letters to Miss Foy, like pleading hands ex tended, come from all over the United States. In the etching two are reproduced, one from Cleveland, On and the other from Baltimore rest would be easy, 'cause love la what centers In the cams of matrlmonv darn Is it any wonder this charming girl, Gloria Foy, who must marry to inherit her uncle's vast fortune, is deluged with proposals? the Many express pity for poor, husband-less Gloria, and offer rather condescendingly to help her out of her predicament Thus, from a gallant youth In Baltimore: "I understand you are unable to gat a husband and I thought would write you anu we iiiiaub ukuiuv Bviuuukvu. If you are interested and will Oome here we might give each other the once if -u- AW ft ---V secretary will show them to you, but please don't mention any of the names of the writers. They are from all classes lawyers, doctors, farmers, students and hoboes.

Come back again and see me. Au revoir." rpiIE secretary was found standing near (he box ofiW and grinned broadly when the letters were mentioned. "It's no Joke," he reassnud us. There were four sacks at MUwauuiee; flva sacks st St. Louis; five mail seeks at Columbus, eight at Clneiuiati.

and as for Detriot, wo wore deluged with them." "You mean to say truly that there were thirteen sacks of mail sent to Ohio theatres," we Interrupted. "Why that's the home of the new Amalgamated Order of Confirmed Bachelors." We climbed upstairs and entering the theatre manager's office were confronted by the 'sacks' of proposals before referred to. They certainly were Intriguing documents. Some ware cynical, others sentimental, many businesslike, the majority of them obviously sincere; an, really, were writtfj to the hope of winning the fair Gloria hand and fortune. HERE Is an extract, for instance, from a young banker of a large Southern city, who writes facetiously as to his and ends up with the con-salon: "Hal I love "How, really, I'm not as dumb as this latter seems.

I can talk sensibly most of, the time. If you are really in earnest about this proposition, and after exchanging pictures, correspondence, etc-, and seeing each other, if that will fur-tush the sensation of LOVE, than the Nearly every morning Miss Foy awakes to find her self literally covered with a counterpane of proposals from would-be swains all over the country who are eager to make her happy Estate 4 her; no synthetic English accent such as is so often met with in the speech of musical comedy stars. "Dont you find the thousands of proposals which you are receiving amusing What sort of men propose by mail and what makes them propose?" were the next questions hurled at the much-wooed star, after she had finished saying nice things about the boys of the C. A. L.

"No, I don't think they are amusing at all. It is rather pathetic to realise there art so many thousands seeking such elusive romance," she replied thoughtfully. "Yru know the whole thing started twe months ago," she continued, "when we were playing in Pittsburgh and I received word from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that my uncle, Richard Foy, a wealthy American planter, had died and left me his sole heir to fortune which the Government Appraisers of Estates there value at nearly.four million dollars. Nicanor Gomez, my uncle's lawyer, came on to see me, and advised me that in order to inherit this fortune I would have to marry before I reached the age of twenty-five. Reporters got hold of the story, and the male part of the population seem to think I am desperately In need of a husband." TN ANSWER to a question as to whaP A made Uncle Richard insert such an unusual condition.

Mils Foy answered after soms thought. 1 have been so busy that I haven't really given the matter much consideration. But Uncle Richard was a bachelor and I suppose as he grew older he was lonely, and thought that a home and family were the most precious things in the world. I only saw him once when I was a Small child attending the Richards And from the wild and woolly Watt comes a caveman crude wooing: Just a few lines to say I want a chanot) to win a woman like you," he lndltta oq brilliant, yellow notepaper, probably a specialty of the general store. "I would 4' 1 7 not want your money, I want your lcva so please, Miss Gloria Foy, girt ma chance to win your love.

I'm just a' good as gold. I may be Just what you want. Write soon I can make you It SI '5- It would entail so many responsibilities. Certainly, I wouldn't marry in order to get it. am twenty-two years old now, and have three years more to find the right man, anyway.

At present I'm not worrying about it." "If you do find the right man will you leave the stage and live happy over afterward?" it was suggested. INDEED. I am going to re main eiffht years more on tne stage; then I am going to retire to a beautiful, glorified farm in California and raise cows and chickens and children. I will be able to do that with my earned money." "What about the letters? Who sends them? Do you answer them?" "It would take a large corps of secretaries to answer them," she replied laughingly. "That Impossible.

My Jjtam Company happy." From the blue grass of Kantttdy comes a letter from a mora exacting DroDOaari Savs he: "I would nut propose to von knu)a any conditions unless I could esnrfslt 'X-. with you for a reasonable length tJoM in oroer to aecioe waotntjg: are tooia care for each -m -miss roy must no a juateut penan, When Miss Foy's show comes to town the postman knows that he has a busy time ahead, for she receives more letters in a day than do many business houses THHEN the reigning belle of the social ieson boasts of receiving "stacks" of proposals, she usually means that any number up to a score of aspiring swains have begged the honor of leading her to the altar. If she were honest about it, too, she would confess that the majority of these came at irresponsible moments, that they were quite impromptu affairs, in spit of the fact that she had used every strategy at her command during a hectic succession of teas and dances, and that finally the coveted eligible had succumbed under the mesmeric rays of moonlight or to the tune of subdued music and soft-shaded lamps. To Gloria Foy, musical comedy star, belongs the distinction of breaking all records in receiving literally stacks of written proposals. By telegrams, special delivery and regular letters, they arrive by the hundreds.

At present the number of proposals received by the winsome little star amounts to ten thousands, little star amounts to ten thousand. She also has the distinction of being acclaimed the sweetest girl in the world by the American Legion in Chicago. It was just before the evening performance of the musical comedy in which Miss Foy is touring the country, in her dressing room of a St. Paul, theatre, that this pet target of Cupid's darts was corralled and interviewed on the subject of her matrimonial mail. "lent It amazing?" she queried as she carefully applied a tinted rabbit's foot to her make-up.

"You don't mind if I go right on, do you? There la only twenty minutes before the curtain roes up." Miss Fos speaking voice is- a pleasing one and she manages to intro-ttaee the most charming trills In it when tke talks. There is no affectation about to please with such a field to elect tVc Just what is her ideal man eon- eluded our investigation of the ings of four hundred hungry hearts, aad turned to the accommodating secretary! V5 "Come back to the stage replied. "It's JuBt about the and of the i first act and Miss Foy has sevttal minutes before she goes on again. 4 "And your ideal?" Miss Fey -ins asked. "Tell us that and well our inquisition." TTE MUST bo a family man, wfflln if J-A to settle down with ma for purely domestic life.

The trouble witfc CtT f': the country today la that saarriag is taken too lightly. Most youna; tf4kfS'- think of marriage as of HrUo xaore i V' importance than the purchaso of a aw ,1 gown or tha obtaining of a now When I get married, and I havt plonty i of time to think of It, you may rtrt School in Cincinnati. My parents were professionals and were known on the stage as 'Foy and and I was brought up in boarding schools. Later, I went to the convent of the Holy Angel, at Fort Lee, N. and studied dancing with Zan Fertza, a famous ballet dancing master in New York.

I had no intention of going on the stage and only studied dancing because I was passionately fond of it." As for the winning of the millions, Miss Foy said: "It all depends on whether I meet the right man. If I don't I won't marry; that's final. I don't need millions to make me happy. If I don't carry out my uncle's wishes, he has arranged for the money to be used in a perfectly good way. "So far as I am concerned, I should find such a large income quite a burden.

Osprrtchl. 1114. ay Public sured that It will be for mi lore few real man.1 ft-. af a-r- kW.