The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-01
Judge Massngae a. Anson) Dodo Dore
spinning fairy tale" about her unhappy girlhood
Owen johnson Explains the New Sort Of
Woman Who Uses the Great White
Way as the Straight and Narrow
Path---and Gets Away With 1t

girl Is a creature Of fact or fiction
her actual appearance on the stage OF
the Harris Theatre will serve to nx
attention upon her.
Dore Baxter, the heroine of owen
Johnsun'S story The Salamander. %
known to her intimates as "Dodo.' is
young woman living in New York
boarding house who has no resources
but her youth, beauty and quick Wit.
An alluring creature, her declaration of
faith involves an Unsuitable desire TO
know but not experience" wherein she
learns a good many things about diff
ferent types of men, and becomes a
sympathetic, appealing figure after she
has reclaimed the derelct Garry Linda %
berry and searched and found the pure
metal in her own character and heart.
She is a woman with the art to make
herself adored and she plays with mems
passions as she would with toys. Be
hind her baby stare there is a WONDER
ful plan TO live on nothing a year.
Broadway has bred a bunch of queer
THINGS. But perhaps the queerest Of
them all Is the salamandcr. She Is "out
for good time" but she IS not willing
TO pay for it. II You have ever met her
You will naturally be OF those arguing
her rcality-that is to say If YOU are
frank enough to admit the acquaint-
ance. And perhaps that is one Of the
reasons why there have been so many
persons ready To proclaim that this
different sort Of girl Is not a real girl
at all. For the salamander uses the
Gay White Way as the straight and
narrow path-and she gets away with
il too.
owen Johnson, at any rate, Is willing
to stand by his character. lie thinks
that this new sort Of girl eXlsts-or he
says he does.
Il think" he says, most women will
| understand her without the slightest
strain upon the mental processes.
How much they will admit they-un-
| derstand to their lords and masters is
! another thing. think likewise that the
| average man pillar Of responsibility
after 800 will rise in Indignation.
THE thing he won't forgive or per-
| NIT Is that Dodo ends by becoming a
| loyal little hausfrau and an advocate OF
| conventionality. Very well. II | had
| lain across her shoulders the fate OF
poor Becky Sharpe! q have always
| quarrelled with Thackeray on that
| Becky was much too clever not to have
ended at respectable tea table in high
est Vanity Fair) That Dodo can
emerge through stress and Storm evolve
10 a nobler type and, good heavens, actu-
ally forget what she has left behind
that is what is to Mr.. Man rank heresy
| socialism and all other isms No, Stree
Woman must be held to strict account
ability in fction-and then think OF the
effect on the whole Insurgent sex!
cot course, II YOU catch him unaware.
and jog his elbow in a club confidence
and say:
"Llfe's a queer, shifting affair, ism
it, old boy? Curious how we sprout nj
develop? What gets us men through
some pretty sticky golng-a sort o
soaring instinct, eh?"
| He will answer sublmely:
"'Sure. That's the word. We wGrl
up always. We do live through-wcl
experiences, and forget them. When tn
right woman Comes-we settle down
get the feeling OF home-kids toe
That's right what you say-we do forget
It's wonderful masculine quality
Growth and change, Look at me. Yo
would never guess what went throug
around twenty. BY Jove! / don't be
lieve they really happened,'
"But suggest that woman--the quie
LITTLE wife with the kids alone-mu