South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-04-30
In The Realm Of The Woman Reader
By MABEL HERBERT URNER.

company and the notice. This picture
passed by the board OF censors." was
now flashed on the screen. The title
OF the next sketch, The Bankers
Som.
Scene in a banking house. evidently
at night. Clerk taking ledger from
safe. Chances around fearfully and
alters entry. Discovery of theft.
Group Of bank officials bending over
ledger. Guilty clerk at desk, unsus-
pected.
Next letter on the serena bank
presidents son asks father for $500
| loan. The son suspected. ARRESTED
Stern father refuses to shield him.
Prison scene. Bankers son visited
by his fiance. Then the girl seeks de-
tective and implores aid. Detective
| follows clerk. Finds him betting on
races. Clerk arrested - CCnfesses.
Bankers son liberated. Touching
scene-father repentant. consents 10
wedding.
But. dear" whispered Helen. why
don't they have more realistic stories ?
The pictures are so good, they're so
steady and so wonderfully taken. 3ut
it's all unreal"
Don't want realism in place like
this. Romance and melodrama is
what they're after. Most of these
Il
| But / do object to "A hundred dollar
| butler in a thirty-seven dollar fiat"
as new picture now showed the in
terror of what was evidently cheap
Harlem fiat.
A young woman seated self-con-
ciOusly at the piano, while a solemn
faced butler, who had graced Fifth
av. mansion brought in the mail and
with naughty dignity laid it on the
| cheap-loOking table.
That's great" laughed Warren.
Buffers go well with golden-oak in
lstallment house furniture. I'll wager
| this is supposed to be a milliOnaire's
hOme-they're always a scream"
And even Helen could not help
! laughing at the absurdity OF butler
among such furnishings.
The next was another western story.
, More cowboys and pistols and gallop-
| ing ponies, and the inevitable western
girl in her SLOUGH hat, short riding
skirt and leggins.
Huh" grunted Warren. IF the
automobile drives out the horse, they'll
always breed 'em for moving pictures"
And all the time the girl at the
l piano was grinding out pathetic or
lively airs to suit the character of the
| scenes. Helen wondered how she
could keep it up. how long she had
| played that day. and how much longer
would she have TO play. Plainly the
management thought the music gave
an atmospher to the pictures, and so
| ii was continuous
Had about enough" asked War
rem.
But just then there flashed on some
scenes from India. Washington the
Sacred Elephants in the Ganges."
ooh wait dear I do want 10 see
these. This is really wonderful"
So steacy and clear We're the pic
lures that one could see the sides Of
| the hugh beasts rise and fall with each
breath, as they lay, submissive while
| the half-nake9 natives crawled over
/ them vigorously scrubbing their thick
creased hides.
| As they passed out Helen was enthu-
siastic in her praise of the last pic
lures.
Don't you see, how interesting and
| instructive il was? Why don't they
have more like that? Travels and
scenes from foreign lands?"
Cause they're not popular. These
people want their emotions stirred"
But in all these cheap melodrama-
tics-the situations are so impossible,
| Why don't they have something more
real" Helen persisted. something that
could actually happen ?"
You'd better write out a few
scenarios" sarcastically. They bring
| big mOney-fifty dollars apiece"
We'll, l think l could write some
| thing that would be more real than
| these hair breadth escapes" insisted
Helen. stoutly Just simple story
of everyday life-Im sure it could be
made more interesting, at least to-
women"
That's all very we'll in theory
scOned Warren. But these things
have 10 be told by action. The action
must be darned obvious too-subtle-
ties and psychology don't go. And
there has TO be something doing every
minute Guess if YOU had TO write
them for a living you'd be mighty glad
to fall back on the pistol and the
forged check"