The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-10
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY e. HOUSE. 4
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgerl'
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Sir-Since Homer nodded. one
mustn't be surprised that you slipped,
too. I'd let it pass, only think you
know better and sinned with your eyes
open. You said the public lost inter
est in Francis x. Bushman when it
found out about his wife and kids
How could you? Are you trying to
deter the "fillum" stars from the mar
riaige ring. Doesn't everybody know
that Farrar and Tellegen are married,
yet they act together. 1t doesn't hurt
either, tho If l were Nine. Jerry" I'd
advise hubby to stay off the screen.
His face registers 'hatchet" in the
picters. No the public panned Bush
man not when it discovered his hidden
cribs and Mrs. b. grooming over them,
but when he deserted her and those
BARNS and faded away with Mademoi-
seile Bayne. 1t was a real "fadeout'
for those real actors. Somehow the
film public wants its favorites more
moral than the stage public does, A
stained marriage sheet is enough to
| hang a big star on the silver sheet.
! Have you ever noticed how anxious
Theda Bara's promoters are TO impress4
the thought that off the screen she is
! very very good, tho on she is horrid.
Rubber heels prevent skidding.
w. w. w.
There is no question that the Glen
!
| demands high moral standards. That.
we take 1t, is the reason the Penn
| sylvania board of censorship cut the
screen version of that vicious and i'm
moral novel. "Huckleberry Finn"
The cat occasionally fails to do so.
but the discarded safety-razor blade
always turns up.
It's long since we pulled a jape so
lice -. II
possible we're growing kittenish as the
years mount one upon the other?
The death of the gentleman who
owned Town Topics is noted. He had
distinction of a sort: he ran what is
probably the dullest and. most unin-
teresting publication in the world. At
long intervals and from time to time
we perused copies of Town Topics. So
far as our observation extended, it
never printed clever line. The sor-
did, petty gossip with which it filled
it's pages was never relieved by the
CLINT Of hume or the faintest indiea-
, ton of Intelligence. But 1t had a con-
siderable and devoted clientele.
We print the foregoing reference to
a dull periodical for the sake of this
moral we wish to write over its door.
. 1t is that if you have SCOT to sell the
public will buy it, provided you can
deliver it to your customers in a law
PROOF package.
! Two vagrant thoughts plug in upon
US as we read the burblings of the
New York reporters touching the case
! of Fannie Brice and her erring hus-
band. One of them appertains to
Hungarian goulash.i Il didn't make
!. it," said Miss Brice as she stripped theI
last glittering jewel from her fingg<
: in order to pay her husband ou15f
jail, "but 1 taught the cook how.
+. We. for one, regard the dissemination
! of the formula for Hungarian soulash
as one of the very minor achievements.
| The other thought is, that Miss Brice
has confessed to a Knowledge of
Z cookery, such as It is. Very few wo-
! men nowadays are able to steel them
selves to such an admission.
5 for the purpose OF reforming the
can't get one she Joins a rnovem cnt
! for the purporse of reforming the
! men.
why" writes old Ed Howe. why
doesn't Owen Moore get married 20
We haven't the slightest notion. but
his dilly-dallying may be due to the
fact that he has been married.
Meanwhile, it will be interesting TO
note whether Mr.. Moore's late wife.
Miss Mary Piclsford, is able to hold
: and sustain the interest the public has
t Douglas Fairbanks is also a matter
: for idle speculation. 1t is a curious
: thing that the public demands of its
petted and pampered favorites at
least the appearance of celibacy. The
, moment a performer becomes con-
: spicuous by reason of his matrimonial
tics the public loses interest in him.
! Francis X. Bushman. we believe.
would testify in support of the notion
advanced in the preceding paragraph
The public was crazy over Francis
until it learned he had a wife and
seven children.
There Is, as we have hitherto OBJ
! served, gesture Of politics SO ef-
fective as that of hurting a hypothet-
ical javelin at a purely speculative
target