The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-05-05
SOME PEOPLE
SHUN TELEPHONE
CONCEDED THOUGH THAT GREAT
MASS OF BUSINESS CAN'T DO
WITHOUT 1T.
East Side Babies Rented Out to People
in New York, Do Service for
Persons Arrested.
BY Carlton Ten Eyck.

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negative. Then ask any business mar
you meet, whether you know him OF
not, how long his business would last
if he didn't have a telephone You'd
probably be surprised if you hit one
man in thousand by mere chance, and
he replied:
"Why, don't have a telephone in my
place of business. 1t would ruin me
in no time"
And there you are. It's a true story.
There are some several hundred or
more men in big New York who quake
every time they hear the word tele-
pone. They are men who conduct
studios of dramatic instruction. One
such individual, few days ago. told
why he wouldn't have a telephone.
Too Busy to Talk.
"You see, it's this way he explained
1.-THE ten or twelve hours day that l
am in my studio giving lessons, are all
busy hours. The work of instructing
would-be actors and actresses, and
coaching those who have made their
name, is not like other work. In other
lines, a man can very easily drop his
work for the nonce, pick up the tele-
phone for chat, and then resume his
work where he had left off.
There's just the rub. In my work,
| have to carry through what is start
ed. Imagine getting a pupil into the
proper atmosphere of some strongly
emotional piece of acting and just at
the crisis, suddenly the telephone bell
jingles. I can't say, Hold that pose
for few minutes, please 1t would
not only ruin the scene, but would
throw a damper on the pupil whether
novice or professional, that couldn't be
remedied. Then, too, a student of the
drama. one who really wants to make
his living by acting, must learn early
that the work on the stage is real
work. The hardest part of that work
is regularity. You know, any other !
business man, excepting a newspaper
reporter (and few reporters are good |
businessmen can get to his office a |
little late and speed up to make up for |
lost time. Not so with an actor |
Imagine one rushing onto the stage !
even two minutes late after his cue
had come, and hurriedly saying his
lines fast enough to catch up with the
others.
Must Learn Punctuality.
well the point is this. The dramat-
ic student must learn punctuality and
regularity in attendance. If he knows
there is telephone at the studio he
will be more likely to call up to say he
will be a few minutes late, or that he
can't get around today and to ask that
the lesson be postponed. That's the
reason | wouldn't have a telephone
about the place. I've had experience
are essential to almost
every other line of work, but they are
a big hindrance with teachers of dra-
matte art"
New Use for Babies.
They've found a use for babies over
on the crowded east side. On the
east side, heretofore east side babies
generally were merely a drug on the
market, so to speak They got in the
way. They cost lot of money to take
care of. There were so many of them
hat when one of the little tots died,
nobody cared very much excepting
perhaps the mother or father. Even
hese two, many times were glad baby {
lad gotten away from the east sides
'ordidness and misery. But now it's
Babies are now a source
If income.
They are rented OUT to those who :
lave none, for few hours at time,
IS property" in the tragedies Of the
asst side. The authorities, since max
ng the discovery a few days ago, have
ried to stop it. They may succeed :
nut here's the story.
Used Them i'm Police Court. !,
Chief Magistrate McAdoo, after
oxen or more minor cases against
yomen had been called, began to won
er where all the babies, each one had,
anne from. He had noticed one, big
yed pudgy little girl in particular
mong seven that one defendant had
18th her when she appeared to answer
} a charge of keeping an unsanitary
ONE. The woman didn't deny that
er kitchen and bedrooms and other
0oms were unsanitary. She meakly
nd dolefully pointed to the flock of
hildren who hung to her skirts and
aid they kept her so busy she had
tile time to do any fancy cleaning
bout her house. The chief magistrate
It her off with suspended sentc zee,
nagine the judges supreme surprise
W minutes later, when another wom- V
1 appeared on somewhat similar III
large with large flock of children "
her skirts and one big-eyed, pldgy w
tile girl in her arms "Is that your pe
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