The Washington herald., 1918-12-13

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York, Dec. l2.-Poor Geraldine
Farrar! The life of triller OF golden
notes is not one of orchids and ter,
rapin. She had no sooner recovered
from an accident in a moving picture
studio in the West and reached New
York when scandal mongers began to
protrude the forked tongue.
1t became necessary for her TO sue
theatrical weekly to hush a story
! that she had separated from the
Apolloesque Lou Teliegen. The storv
would crop out anew every day and
would bring forth denial and 50
persistent were the mongers that Miss
Farrar decid ID on court action.
The truth is that Miss Farrar and
Mr.. Tellegen are extremely happy,
living quietly in an APARTMENT in the
West Seventies. They are together
constantly.
About the biggest lie of all, how
ever. was spread by a weekly society
sheet that delights in firing front
page malodors at people in the pub
lie eye. The sheet is a trifie too dirty
for decency and too epicene for ag-
g:essive immortality.
1t peddles a dreary waste of inane
NANNAN- NdNlit dttil IIlt hOtlSS anu Iliio-
doings of the great upper circle. In
its recent issue it had a paragraph in
which it said in speaking of Miss
Farrar at a theatrical premiere that
she 'chewed gum conspicuOusly and
enthusiastically throughout the play.
The gum which so agitated the
critic happened to be throat lozenSes
which were carried in a small silver
box and circulated freely among the
| members of her party. The idea evil
IDENTIFY was to convey to the reader
that the beautiful Miss Farrar was
guilty of such breach of good man.
ners as gum chewing in public.
However such attacks are the fruits
of greatness. There are little scandal
mongering sheets that use the stuffed
club for advertising and when they
fail to get it they vent their spleen
by attempting to hold up the great
to Tidicule.
The city is thinking of building
| bridge over the heavy cross section of
traffic at Forty second street and
Fifth avenue. 1t would be a welcome
relief to the timOrous, vacillating pc
destrienne to be lifted high above
the vagaries of chauffeurs whose en-
| ployers are late for appointment. The
| Fifth avenue chauffeur believes in
! the law women first"-that is he be-
I lleves in chasing the women first
| from the middle of the street to the
curb. Traffic on Fifth avenue is no
| longer a problem. 1t has become a
calamity. Not a day passes but what
at least five persons are run down.
Capt. Bairnsfathcr's colorful car
/ tOOns of trench life in England and
! France resulted il the play. The
| Better Ole" now on Broadway. Not
| to be outGone. Harvey O'Higgins has
written a play entitled When n
| FelIer Needs a Friend" based on
the cartoons of Clare Briggs. 1t will
| appear shortly.
| New York just now is dealing with
| The Woman Who Wants to Work.
| She is not the kind who adyertises in
| the daily situations Wanted" COL
umns. She is the woman with an
| income and a daughter at Bryn
/ Mawr and she feels that life is so
! futile. She must be doing something.
! She belongs only to three bridge
/ clubs. she SubsCIibes to the sym
! phonies and has regular seats at the
/ opera. She IS seven leagues ahead of
! the circulating libraries and is a daily
visitor TO the tea rooms of the Ritz
or Plaza. She has taken up stenogra-
! ply, not because she needs the money
/ but because she wants to be doing
| something worth while. She wants TO
! feel as il she were a necessary cog
! in the great coSmic machine She
I does so admire her female friends
! Vho have to earn their own livings.
1t must be wonderful. Existence is
so flat and stale when one has money
ard 30 few things to do.