Arizona republican., 1914-08-02

 birds in Phoenix it is seldom that the public has the opportunity to cooperate with the generous hearted theatrical people in making some ones load of trouble lighter. This afternoon. however, there is such an opportunity and the Columbia the ater should be packed to the doors 10 help Miss Fanny Donovan back to Chicago where she may be with her sick husband and help him in his grim struggle against the great white plague.
 Every theater in town is helping the cause, the theatrical community is always ready to help. The com plete bills of both the Columbia and Empress theaters will be given in addition to special acts, while River side Park is sending up contIibu- ton of tickets to be sold among the audience, the proceeds to go to Miss Donovan. Here is a real chance to do good and at the same time en- joy yourself Every cent taken ln goes to Miss Donovan, the theaters get nothing.
 Every time we get a fresh copy Of Vanity Fair we feel like digging deep into it's attractive pages, grabbing great blobs of the fascinating gossip one always finds there and spreading them over this page as our own.
 In the August number of this breezy magazine there is an article on "Hoot- Owlry," in contra distinc- ton from High -Browism," by James l.. Ford which is gem.
 After describing the genus and most favorable breeding grounds of the High Brows MT. Ford goes on tc say:
 But, within the past few years a new type of being has sprung up in New York, allied to the High Brow hut great deal more deadly. l al . Jude to the Hoot-Owl. a species which is now spreading with alarm ing rapidity in our best society He is the foster child of the High Brow. but differs radically from his parent in a number of ways. He is less ambitious, intellectually, but much more communicative He is tlSO less III HIS dHlIl OpOiO5i- cal type, and invariably presents a strange. uncouth, and usually shaggy appearance, when mingling in socie- ty. He is wasteful and voracious feeder. He is intensely sociable and flou-ishes best in salons and dining rooms. He is ferocious only when hungry. tired or thwarted in eating.
 The Hoot-Owl is regarded by wo men in society with the same favor that they bestow upon lap dogs. His growing popularity in the best social circles is. it would seem, due partly to the advances of feminism
 Within the memory of persons now living it was a rare thing to meet in metropolitan society women who openly drank cocktails. smoked cigarettes or had met any actors so- cially. Roughly speaking. they knew but one kind of men and one kind of women.
 As this type of woman became, with the approaches of Femnism more and more daring, she threw off one after another, the shackles of social convention, until, to the hor- TOT of her elders, she developed craze for meeting Interesting Men," and even for meeting Men Who Do Things" In her lexicon these phrases did not mean men who are engaged in building an East River bridge. discovering a new mineral, or irrigating desert, but only in- cluded such activities as writing-it matte-ed not what; acting-no mat Ter how and harassing honest folk by means of a variety of musical instruments
 Association with these Interest ing Men" gradually brought into ex- istence multitude of Brilliant Wo- men,, who may always be known by their habit of giving a serious Iplift even to the most frivolous and entertaining conversation, by the in :. Production of what they call "prob- lems' Most of these problems re- late, Tn one way O. another, to sex
 The hoot-owl loves to hoot about the stage and, on that topic, seldom fails to excite the wide-eyed interest Of his feminine hearers The pose of understanding the dramatists art, the most difficult of all the arts, al- ways seems to be a popular one with rim. When he assumes it he in Variably deplores the present low state of the drama, but is slightly cheered by the knowledge that a