The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-28

. Jl0n. But now ana then some menu
bers of the force have occasion to
learn something of what the S r. has
to endure every day out of the year
There IS a would-be society leader
in Topeka who likes to have her own
and her family's doings chrOnicled in
few days and asks for the S. r. Then
she tells the S. R. an item and insists
upon the S. r. repeating 1t to her. Now
the s. r. is no repeater-not when
she's l0oking-sO she has had many a
set-to with the W B. 5. l.. and the
latter has taken her grievances to the
managing editor and even stopped
her paper" However, she came back
again and is still telephoning in items
and asking to have them read over to
her in order that there may be no
mistakes. Now there is nothing that
makes a reporter so furious as this re-
quest. For one thing time is the most
precious commodity around A news
pOrters gather in the city room until
the paper goes to press. For another,
II the item cant be trusted to trans
mission over the telephone why doesn't
the person seeking publicity write it
and send it in?
Recently the w b. S L. telephoned
when the 5. R. was out. She thought
this extremely careless of the s. r.
put commanded the reporter who an
swered the phone to take an item.
This happened to be the police court
reporter who is not used to being
tfiffed with. Therefore imagine his
rage and fury when the w. B. s. L.
gave him two items, both about her
self and her family and closely con-
nected but demanded that they be
printed in two paragraphs and
separated Then she wanted the items
read to her and the police court re-
porter who thinks nothing of bluffing
the chief of police, read them with
outward meekness but with murder in
mis- heart. When the S. R. came in She
found them lying on her desk with
these comments by the police court
reporter written below
p. S.@Nery fussyI"
b. S--To H with society"
A Topeka man who recently returned
from Atlantic City was asked bv a
friend If it was true that the women
at the resort We're riding on the street
cars in bathing suits and socks" Be
Alg perfect lady he was naturally
seriously offended and answered with
great dignity, 4 never noticed
Jane Oaker (Mrs. Hale Hamilton is
going to play Zaza at Elitch's Gardens.
Denver, next week Which annOunce-
ment occasioned the following COM
ments by the dramatic critic of the
When that interesting player. in her
radiant beauty. first came before
Broadway audiences a few years ago. /
somehow imagined she could play in
nothing but the coolest and most cor
rect characters. She seemed a sort of
Vestal virgin. She looked the part
ana, doubtless. lived it. And now nv
Idol IS just a little bit shattered. when
think Of her coming out of the beau
tl1ut Gardens, next Sunday. and play
ing that very ordinary drab. whose ef-
forts were merely to hunt decorum
down 1t does not quite seem right.
But then. as Mr.. Bernard Shaw oh
served; GU never can tell or. as
Grant Allen remarked: "Au men and
women in America are born free and
unequal" ''1
Perhaps Miss Oaker can play "zaza''
better than Mrs Carter Once more.
You never can tell.
But. somehow or other. cannot
ters growing Historically and madIv
emotional. She doesn't seem nnite
lAat KIND of a woman I always
Morshlped 0aker, from a distance liiSe
GA Mary Anderson in my bovbood
Gays. as tone Of those women Who
could get up in the morning and make
now 10 her conscience"
~ omen will, Of course. flock to see
ne new 1aza' and she is reasona blv
sure Of bic matinees.