The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-09-03
Scandals

ture. bat we feel that in this instance
doing so i, justi6ab.e. Scandal" is
the title Of a fl e-ree, picture shown
at a local amusement house last night,
and pity it is that every man, woman
and child within reach Of the city
could not have seen it. And here's a
tip for some organization-church or
therwise-that wishes to raise some
money by a legitimate entertainment;
(and We take it that a benefit per-
formance" at motion picture house
Is legitimate form of entertainment
let this organization arrange for
benefit performance at one of the
local theaters and then have the man
agement of that house arrange for a
return show of Scandal" You ought
to make killing" out of it.
Contram to the general rule, the
scandal episode had it beginning
with gossip about a high-toned, ap-
parently honest and sincere gentleman.
The slim ytrail extended across tbs
doorsill of his own home and prompt
ed his wife to leave him, wrecking two
lives to start with. The stenographer
with whose name he was connected by
the vipers, TOO, was driven from her
home. Later she was married, and
perfectly happy life she and her hus-
band and their child were liv-
ing til, one da7 the scandal
monger found here 1t was not
long then until the end, and most
tragic end, resulting in the husbands
suicide, the death of his old mother
from broken heart and the crush
ing of the life of his innocent wife and
the casting of a cloud upon their
child.
There was absolutely no foundation
for the scandal" A long-tongued wo-
man and a 'jolly" bunch of fellows
at the club got to looking about and
seeing things which they misconstrued.
They gave tongue to the Shiny trail
with a vengeance and followed it to
its terrible ending. Quite a bit of
truth is there in the text from which
the play" was written, the text being
a sentence from an editorial in a pop
ular Sunday paper, reading something
like the following: "Sit behind the
window of any fashionable club and
in the course of a half-hour you can
hear more gossip than you would hear
at sewing circle in whole after
noon"
There are no clubs of this sort in
Anderson, but there are the street cor
ners on which men may loaf and make
remarks about other men, and some
times women, as they pass. And we
suppose they do, that is, if Anderson
is like any other town on the top side
of the earth. We read once of the
origin of the scandal monger, and the
story ran something like this: When
God had finished making the hyena,
the skunk, the rattlesnake, the buzzard
and the toad there were lot OF little
scraps and chunks left over. And ne
said unto himself, "If l leave these
scraps here to the elements they will
tester and rot and set up stencil that
will choke the nostriIs Of mankind. l
must make something out Of them So
God took them and made the man
who lolls on the street corner and
makes dirty remarks about women as
they pass.
Those pictures that teach good les
son are all right, as l have had occa-
sion to remark aforetime. And l am
pleased to say that the manager of the
; play house in Newberry always tries to
get that class of pictures, and If he
knows it, does not accept any other.
But what | wanted to say in this con-
nection is, that I saw an advertisement
in some of the Columbia papers the
other day that the play house down
there, or one of them at least, was
going to put on picture of Leo Frank
and his wife and his mother and Gov
ernor Slaton and his wife and all that
sort OF thing. And heard one of the
party that went on the booster trip
say that the same play was being ad-
vertised in Spartanburg on Saturday
last while the party was in Spartan
burg. Now, it seems to me, that that