The Washington herald., 1921-03-15
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NEW YORK, March .l4.-Dhzziins,
salaries paid to motion picture
stars fairly stagger the average
man. who Is managing to keep
about two jumps ahead of the sher-
IN these days. And yet the over
head" of a celluloid Circe Is some
thing to contemplate. I know q d.
rector who is married to one whose
fame is worldwide.
: In his less anluent days we lived
In the same boarding house and
cut our own hair. Today the poor
fellow cannot dress without q valet
and he has a private barber and
masseur who come every morning
to doll him up. for the rigors of the.
day. But he is only a director and
his. expenses are trivial. compared
to that of his wife.
Her salary. / imagine. 10 one of
the reasons the employees of the
mint are never laid on. In round
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thousands. Mine Is also in a round
number. Zero.
One item of her expenses alone
last year was Sis.oUo. This sum
represented an expenditure for
photographs OF herself and the
mailing cost to thousands of her
admirers In all parts of the world.
No request for q photo Is ever de-
MED.
Stars realize that the young boy
and girl waiting at the cross roads
postoffice for a photo are the real
life blood Of the movies. Eighty
per cent of the movie fans are chill
dren and she receives 5000 letters a
month-mostly from young people.
To some she sends a photograph
that costs, postage and container
included. ~ cents. To others she
sends a photograph that costs Sl.13
Her wardrobe for private wear cost
her s2s.ooo last year. 1t SO hap
pened that she had flock Of fur
coats and SO II was a light year.
She believes that her success de-
pends upon appearing smartly
dressed in public. Her face Is so
well-known that people recognize
her and IL she looks, as her husband
termed. "dowdy" some of her pres
tige would vanish.
Being public favorite 70 Is
| necessary to entertain extensively
and the expense OF this amounts to
vast sums. In fact the admission
was made that just about enough
was left from last years salary to
pay the income tax.
Health officers swooped down on
a Park Row lodging house the
1 other day after q Chinese seaman
had died there of suspected ty-
| phus. 1t was a l0-cent fop Joint,
filled with drunken seamen and the
riff ram of the Bowery. The walls
and floors were alive with vermh
and the stencil was so terrible that
two medical men became nauseated.
And yet all the dodgers were sleep
ing soundly and had to be prodded
to awaken them. The proprietor. Il
developed. Is owner of a prosperous
manufacturing business in another
section of New York and moves in
good circles socially.
The sleek young Lyendecker
types with the polished airs of a
Tiffany clerk are quitting their jobs
in q chain of New York cigar stores
and seeking other pursuits. Safety
nrst" is their motion. Every day
one or more awakens in a back
room, bound and gagged. with a
large welt on the head as the result
of a hold-up. Husky types are sup
planting them and each carries a
"gat."
Bouncers and booze went toEeth-
er. But the bouncer has not dis
appeared. He is to be found in
nearly all of the remaining caba-
rets, and he has more to do than
ever. The peculiar brand Of liquor
lightning has developed a species
that thinks he can lick the world,
The bouncer is usually able TO prove
to him that he Is wrong.
Paris awakening in song has
nothing on a block in West Forty
eighth street. 1t is filled with
voice teachers who begin their in
structions early. At first there were
protests but fnally,a a court decided
you couldn't suppress song after
o'clock in the morning and so while
many tenants moved out other voice
teachers moved in.
A new vaudeville house ha:
shortened the name vaudeville" tC
"vodvil" in a huge electric sign thai
spans its front. The word wa.
coined by popular approval from &
word coined by pronunciation from
a French word. Incidentally Ther,
are no actors in 'vodvil." They ar,
all artists because the program.
say SO.
Now a song has been dedicated
to q Ghetto Queen-those pictures.
que maids of the East Side whs
wear and 1o-cent store jewelr,
and smash rollicking young hearts
1t Is called "Vamping Rose" and 4.
going the vaudeville and music hal
rounds. The chorus runs:
There's certain person, she's 1
Ghetto dream,
Such fancy, from Delaney, like 4
moving queen,
How she grabs the fellows, evel
time they meet,
She looks like Theda Bara, all ex,
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