SANTA CLAUS BRINGS RUTH GORDON A NEW PAIR OF LEGS

CHICAGO. Dec 24—Santa Claus has filled Ruth Gordon’s stockings with a stage pair of legs. Mrs. Gordon famous as the “baby talk lady” in Booth Tarkington’s “Seventeen” is speedily recovering at a local hospital following having both legs broken and reset so she should no longer be bow-legged. “Oh, it hurt,” said Mrs. Gordon, “But it will be worth the suffering.”

Let Mrs. Gordon tell why she did it. “I was walking in a state street department store and saw a pair of legs coming towards me in the mirror. They were so funny, I laughed and when I got closer—they were mine.”

Mrs. Gordon was reminded that her bow legs did not show when she appeared on the stage and was told the public never knew her deep, dark secret. “Of course not. I trained myself to stand so my bow legs would not show.” The baby talk lady with her legs all done up in plaster paris cast said she had not been so happy in three years. Her youthful husband, Gregory Kelly, who played the boy in “Seventeen” is at her bedside constantly. He approved of the operation.