El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-25
New Type Of Star Boarder
By DOROTHY DIX.


4 WESTERN woman got a divorce
~ from her husband on the grounds
- - Of mental cruelty and non
support" She has now taken him in
to board with her. and report says that
the plan is working admirably. and that
the dove Of peace has taken up its
roOsting place in that once discordant
household.
Fine business. There are many men
who are well nigh intolerable hus-
bands. but who would make delightful
bOarders And there are also many
women who are disagreeaable wives.
but who would be charming landladies.
The mere fact that certain people are
tied together makes them fight like the
Kilkenny cats. but they could get along
amiably enough il they knew that they
were free TO pack their trunks and
leave whenever they liked.
Many women don't get divorces from
niggardly and abusive husbands be-
cause they are bound to have what
money they can screw out of said hus
band to support them. Many men re-
main tied to hateful wives, who fret and
aEgravate them almost TO death. be-
cause. with all their faults their wives
are still superlative cooks. and they
can't bear to tear themselves away from
the creature comforts to which they are
accustomed
Solves the Problem.
This western woman has cut the
GOrdian knot of these difficulties and
showed the unhappily married how to
eat their cake and have it. too. as 1t
were; how to hold on to husbands
money and wifes pies, and stiH be
free. 1t is to exhange the uncOngenial
roles Of husband and wife for landlady
and boarder.
The avantages OF the situation are
manifest at glance. Let husband be-
nd ut q
sumes company manners, for no boarder
would feel free to talk to his landlady
in the tone Of voice in which the average
husband addresses his wife. Nor would
he feel at liberty to knock the food and
the general way in which the estab-
lishment was run.
As a boarder a man would not. OF
course, assume the right to dictate to
his landlady about her private affairs.
On the contrary. realizing that all
boarding house chickens have as many
legs rs centipede. and only an inf
Intestinal portion of white meat. also
that there is real cream and near cream.
and likewise skinned milk that mas
querades as cream. and that the helps
OF the pudding differ as one star diff
feTeth from another star in glory, and
that IL rests with the landlady which
of these a boarder gets, he would ex-
ert all of his arts and Wles, and
Establishments and caiOleries to stand
zee HlBn Win lue dIplltI u MS ueS-
tiny.
It is equally easy to see. too how
many man would find his wife much
more agreeable as a landlady than he
go into pictures-t of his great dis
like for the pictures and speaks Of his
hopes of having the play accepted so
he can be released from n picture con-
tract with a prominent firm. The actor
playwright leaves with the promise
that his play will be read
Soon the young wife Of the prOmi-
nent actor enters with a scenario OF n
moving picture: she suggests that she
and her husband read it; he refuses on
the ground that he is an actor" not
movie" But his wife finally per-
suades him to read it. Lights go out.
and then begins the stOry-partly acted
in real life by Irene FenwiciS and Vim
cent Serrano and partly portrayed on
the screen. Each of the scenes is in
troduced by a screen flashing moving
picture title" which means word in
PRODUCTION 20 the picture
It is in these titles, with their Won
derful vein of seriousness and stilted
English. that the audience finds many
of the screams OF laughter that punctu-
ate the performance.