New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-24
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forty one, in which we learn that Great
is truth and mighty above all things"
1t took US some time to discover that
this does not apply to men who write
columns of any sort for newspapers
We have been told that when such a
man writes IN manner to convince and
enllghten the subscribers he receives,
every now and then, letter saying ~
read all your stuff" This pleases him,
but it is of no material assistance in
helping to fill his allotted space. On the
contrary, if the lucky conductor of a
column chance to fall in error, long let
ters come to him from rYacn who truly
know the world and its affairs and he
may complete his stint with paste and
shears. Having pretty we'll botched a
number of facts concerning Charles E.
Chaplin in a review of his book, which
is called Charles f. Chapin's Story,
it is our privilege. to-day to step aside
and offer the following letter from q
Frank Ward O'Malley, of Brielle, N. J..
who seems to be a retired newspaper
reporter:
"Mr. Hayward Brown,
"The Tribune,
Times Square,
"Ncw York City.
"My dear Br. Brown
He you say of Charley Chaplin,
always had an eye open for talent
which was not yet recognized, and he
captured as cubs such men as Irwin
Cobb, Martin Green, Bob Richie and
Lindsey Denson.'
II am reminded, Mr.. Brown, of a re-
mark Mr.. Sammy Newman made one
night across the table at Churcl,ills to
Mrs. Helen Green Van Camper: Helen,
the more you argue the more you get
more wronger and wronger'
"Charley Chaplin always had his eye
open for talent so thoroughly recognized
that it was simply smeared with fame
by the time Charley begun to send let
tiers and personal couriers to the talent
with the request that the talent drop
IN some day and talk things over
I'm not sure about Martin Green. I
know next to nothing about his cub
days. But | do know Charley Chapin's
whole history and methods, therefore,
without looking at my hand and before
| draw cards, III bet all the chips in
front of me that Martin Green had made
one wolloping hit somewhere or other
before Charley sent him word to drop
in some day and talk things over.
"But as for Irv Cobb, Bob Richie
and Lindsey-or isn't it LindsAy-or
isn't it?-as for these! When Irv was
making newspaper literature as the
star reporter on The Evening Sun with
his daily stuff about the humanity
humorous side of the Japanese Russian
peace conference at Portsmouth; when
Dcnison was the great star of The Sun
at a time when--as Lord Northcliff
described The Sun of those days to me
The Sun was the best written news
paper in any language in the world;
when Bob, now Robert Welles Richie,
was Sun reporter whose stuff about
news events of international interest
was making the output Of the Best
Seller Novelists Special Correspondents
look like graduation essays read by
Tilic at the high-school commencement
exercises in Town Hall on a hot day
well, TO throw the paragraph back
into second, the only excuse l can make
for you, Mr.. Brown, is your beautiful
youth. l think the whole trouble is that
when Cobb, Bob and Denny, years be-
fore Charley Chaplin got up nerve
enough to try to win them. were daily
making Art in the old Sun building
you were at that lovely age which gives
too much time to holleyinG in tones that