The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-04-22
.TALMADGE HERE
IN NEW PICTURE
Constance Talmadge is Dixie Theatre
Offering Tor Next Mon
day, April %.


While laws have been passed linn
iting in a measure the practice of
rent gouging and profiteering, some
thing should be done to bring relief
to poor working girls, teachers and
others who in order to beat the high
cost of living are compelled to do
their cooking in their own rooms at
the risk on being dispossessed, ac-
cording to Constance Talmadge.
The screen Coincidence reached
this conclusion after making some
interesting discoveries while in
search for a one-room apartment in
a cheap boarding house to take a
scene for Good References" her
latest First National picture, which
will be shown at the Dixie Theatre
Monday, April %.
why, | never dreamed that so
many girls We're secretly cooking
their own meals on gas jets, electrical
equipment and so on until we went
on hunt for a good place to take
Set" she said. II believe now
that most of the working girls in
New York who are not living in their
worst of it is that in so per cent
of the places without kitchens or
kitchennettes where this sort of
thing is going on, the landlords
forbid the practice on pain of ex-
polling their tenants. l met several
girls who told me they could not
afford to buy all their meals out and
that their salaries were not large
enough to permit the renting of
kitchenette apartments.
but it was also very funny to
learn how many of these girls man
aged to keep their cooking activities
hidden from their landlords. Some
used various preparations, which
drive away all odors of cooking,
and practically all have very good
hiding places. They put their gas
plates or electric grils and dishes
behind clocks, in bureau drawers
under mattresses, and many other
strange places. One company which
manufactures a powder to drive
Iaway cooking odors is said TO be
tpiling up fortune as a result OF
this condition
II think that laws should be
passed protecting girls and Others
who are compelled to do their owr
cooking in these places where cook
ling is forbidden. OF course, il 6
girl is a poor cook and causes al
unsanitary condition, | cannot blame
"a landlord for wanting to get rio
of her. But / think that little harm
is done in most cases, and that thu
courts at least should pass on eacl
case before any tenant is turned on
for her cooking activities"
In an effort to combat the higl
cost of boarding, Constance Tai
: madge, playing the part of an OF
phaned daughter of struggling
novelist in Good References, %
tempted to prepare meal over on
of these trick" cookers, by no mean
a. novel practice, but productive @
VERY novel results,
= Shifting cookery in the house, an
rightly suspecting the feminin
boarder, the lanlady made a flyin
q raid on Mary Waynes room, BIT
: Mary heard her coming and unde
the bed went the little cooker
about three shakes the bed was i
flames, and Mary was rudely sep;
rated from one weeks board--pai
in advance-and her room.
But the clouds, by freak of fat
turned out their silver lining Il
Mary.
"This little situation" said Mis-
Talmadge, was very funny, b,
Ithere are many others very niue
like it being enacted in real lii
every day. 1t isn't very funny, HOY
ever, for the poor girl who has
actually live it,"