The Washington times., 1921-11-06
F course. everybody knows what a

W SouioC' S'Oiy oouJ hSS"S "N~N
~ "vamp" is in the movies She has
a wicked little swagger in her gait,
she uses her eyes with a deadly effect, and
she has that engaging way Of lifting her
shoulders.
The "vamp,"as we know her in the movies,
is always after somebody or something for
herself She is ogling and entrapping the
rich young man because she wants his
money. Usually she is working her wiles
to their full capacity to ensnare the young
man into matrimony.
There is almost always another wo-
man" The other woman of course, is
sweet, pure, simple-minded girl of high
cbaracter whom the audience hopes the
young man will marry instead of falling
victim to the rather crude and very obvious
Vaccinations Of the vamp. Everyone in
the audience sees and understands the
tricks and wiles OF the vamp-but the rich
young man is entirely blind 10 her horrid
tricks.
Everybody who goes to the movies knows
Gloria Swanson. She has given the movie
audiences many interpretations Of her own
idea of how a vamp does her vamping.
But the charming screen vampire pow
stands accused in the California courts Of
having played vamp part in real life
And the unusual thing about this court
proceeding is that it Is alleged that Gloria
Swanson used her vamping wiles not for
herself but to hook rich man as husband
for Glorias mother!
The situation as set forth in the legal
papers in the suit in the Los Angeles Pro-
bate Court to upset the will OF the late
husband OF Gloria's mother is a novel one.
No scenario writer has ever thought of
quite such situation. There is no movie
on the screen which shows a vamp using
her own personal charms and Vaccinations
20 catch a rich man for her mother.
or course, Gloria Swanson and her
mother who is the widow of the late Mat
thew p Burns, who owned a chain of shoe
stores in Los Angeles, deny in vehement
chorus that either Gloria or Mamma Swan
son ever thought Of such a thing as vamp-
ing the old shos merchant. They protest
that 1t is outrageous to say that Gloria
vamped old Burns until he was crazy about
her, and then suddenly sprang on the old
man the fact that Gloria was married and
that his hopes and ambitions could never
be resliZed-and then whispered In his ear
that Mamma Swanson was q lovely lady.
and 10 he would only marry mamma Gloria
could come and live In the house and be
such nice daughter that 1t would be the
next best thing to marrying Gloria herself.
II Is the sister, the nephew and two
brothers OF the late Matthew P. Burns, the
shoe store magnate, who are bringing the
suit to break the will which leaves about
all of the Burns money to the widow,
Gloria's mother How much the Burns
estate will finally turn out to be is not
exactly known. But anybody who has
bought pair of shoes in the last few years
will have no doubt that man who oper.
ated eleven shoe stores certainly ought to
have piled up money In bales.
The story of the shoe man, his wife, bis
pretty movie-stsr daughterin.law and his
indignant poor relations is a study in con.
trasts. Gloria Swanson might have a see.
mario man put It In shape for a movie and
work In her mother In the widows part
and make quite a novel film Of 1t all.