Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-17

be mad that they weren't invited"
II know a story" says Mrs Bloodgood
suddenly. It's about a woman in New
York whom everybody knows and every
one will recognize her, and she'll hate me,
but she does anyway; but I'll tell you IL
you won't ask me to tell another one about
my friends 1 couldn't do that really, al
though know some rippin' ones.
This woman was the type who always
says she's been to a function II you weren' [
there. and IL you were she tells you that
she was invited and couldn't go. Some
body spoke one day OF a dinner party and
she said. oh, yes. was invited there, but
I couldn't CO.
"You were invitedP said some one. in
creduleusly
Yes, was invited she said again.
That's funny said the other. for It
was a stag dinner
Don't think" says Mrs. Bloodgood, that
believe in chronic lying; not at all. l
can't imagine anything more unsettling
than to live with a person not one of whose
statements you could believe without hunt
ing up proof.
'Of all the lies that the heroine in Truth
told there were only two that were thor
oughly reprehensible. one where she ac-
cuses the other woman of being a liar in
order to get herself out OF a scrape and the
other to her father in regard to her husband
that she tells because she is afraid to con-
fess her own misdeeds. They were both
malicious lies, but the rest were merely
silly falsshoods. I think one of the most
touching places in the play is in the scene
between father and daughter when he says,
Becky, you're lying. know the look in
your eyes when you are not telling the
Some lies I think are very noble I
don't think It is lie for a woman to wear
false hair she looks better for 1t. even
though the Lord didn't provide her with
the quantity needed. Yet there are some
people whO say that this is a sin.
'"women. believe, keep their faith in
sentimental matters better than men do.
while man Will be absolutely upright IN
business matters and think nothing of tell
ing a dozen lies day to q woman. Woman,
on the contrary, not having been brought
up with a proper understanding OF the
Importance OF commercial integrity, will
do an sorts Of reprehensible things in bust
ness that a man cannet understand or for
give.
You watch crowds OF women in places
Nike the waldorf-Astoria, matinees. shops.
you will find that women OF the Becky
nave ks VI inc IN
ward tergiversations. I show this In the
play. In the beginning everything that
Becky wears is little crooked; her curls
are awry. her skirts. her grimaces. When
she sits she sprawis. While she Is under
going the process OF regeneration she combs
her hair so that II suggests certain up
rightness. and her gown has simple.
straight lines.
In Becky Warder." says Mr.. Fitch, 'T did
not intend to suggest a universal type
rather a character too prevalent. perhaps.
She is a brook OF Hes running over the
stones Of fact, and her life runs smoothly
enough until the storm comes and the
banks are too narrow to contain the over
now"
'Tt is funny" says Mrs Bloodgood, but
Truth makes a more popular matinee than
an evening performance. Women would
rather see 1t without a man escort When
II was running in the evening women
used to turn and say to their husbands or
sweethearts:. I don't see where Clyde Fitch
ever found that type OF woman; she Is 50
exaggerated At the matinee they love
every minute Of It and you never hear the
word 'overdrawn' used. Each woman be
lleves she knows half a dozen woman
friends whom the character Of Becky
warder exactly portrays."
In the foyer and dressing room this fact
The first time I saw her after the marriage
I wondered how the combination would