The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-14
ALL IN THE MOVIES.
It's Tough, Tough Luck, Our Girl Re-
porter Can't Be Kidnapped When
She Wants to Be.
tBUDA STEPHENS in the Detroit News)

(BUDA STEPHENS in the Detroit News.)
Dear City Editor: 1 am pretty mad. At
first 1 was only indignant. 1 do not know
if it is your fault, or if this is a city insu-
lated against adventure. 1 feel that am
being cheated. Not once has my hair been
raised or my cheek paled. l have not been
kidnapped, lured into den, pushed off a
bridge or choked by a Chinese. 1 know
that l should be choked If my reportorial
life is to be neatly rounded out.
The reason I know this is because 1 have
lust seen motion picture entitled: The
oine in that had all of these things hap
pen to her
While she spent a gay and festive life
tails, | was spending duh hours lodging
short-hai reformers, and while they
We're offering her poison to keep the story
out of print, L was being offered weak tea
with lemon to put Il story in print.
Shew as kidnapped, mistaken for a prin-
cess; she ''dolled" herself up in gorgeous
clothes while no ever offered to kid
nap me, darn it, and the highest form of
social celebrity l was ever mistaken for was
chists; and my salary wouldn't buy the
nice white spats that Dorothea Desmond
THAT was the creatures name) wore in af-
fluent calmneSs through the mud.
The star Reporter never rescued me
from anything. and in fact would prob
ably be glad if l was kidnapped so he
fectly good stories. You never put your
arm around me as the motion picture edi-
tor did with that Dorothea, and nobody
in the editorial room ever stopped smok-
ing Tor offered me one) or took their feet
off the desk when 1 came around.
While Dorothea crawled through secret
doors and sliding panels in haunted cas-
ties, have to crawl through ranks of ba-
bies at health shows and the nearest ever
came to a castle was the art museum. TIC
be sure, maybe this is not your fault; may
be we have no Tong wars in Detroit OF
slain heiresses, and it Is possible there are
no opium dens for me to wander into, but
at least you might provide me with al
down from second story windows. Doro-
thea had both of these things.
l have been working for you for some
time; but so far you have shown no dis
position to send me to Europe to inter
view a few old kings and to be made love
to by handsome young princes in tight
pants and feathered hats. All of this, yoJ
understand, happened to Dorothea in two
short reels. l could reel around from the
river to breakfast and nothing like thai
to seem insistent, but if you cannot ar
range to have me kidnapped. shot or chok
ed inside of "a hours l shall tender my
resignation and go into more thrilling
career such as riding herd on kinder
garten class. l must, will and shall have
thrills and it is up to you to provide them
so therei Yours Indignantly,
BUDA STEPHENS.
p S,-That creature in the pictures sim
pered once and the Star Reporter prompt
all over this office and the Star Reporter
and all the rest of them have proposed
that for the love o. Mike / get out of theil
way l don't want to be married, but
feel sighted
2. P. S.-You need not mention this last
to the staff B.
Tho hill Of tho Novalty the fire.