New-York tribune., 1922-08-18
Cllpiel's Court
Bursts Inn Flare
OF Publicity
Women Take to Cover From
Newspaper Lir,,eligllt and
Hammonton Venture Ends
Matchmaking Sessions
Sponsors Go Fis h i N q
Books Film
Matrimonial Failures as
Towns Next Attraction
By Frederick B. Edwards

HAMMoNToN, N. j., Aug. IT,
Cupid's court has busted. Mrs. Helen
Long Rodgers has resigned as Cupid's
chief Justice. "You may say that my
resignation is permanent" Mrs. Rodg-
ers said this afternoon. "You may say
that for me, too" said Mr.. Rodgers,
who has been thinking things over
since the newspapers were delivered
yesterday,
Cupid's jury has discharged itself
from further duty. "I just went into is
as joke" said Mrs. Clyde Smith. "Me,
too" chorused Mrs. Theodore DUNCAN,
who Is Mrs. Smiths daughter. Fore
man of the Jury "How- Much Does She
Weigh" 0'Donnell, who earned lis
new entiSlement by the assiduity with
which he sought for details of the
avoirdupois of candidates presented at
the Wednesday session, has gone to
Atlantic City to talk over the political
situation. Chief of Police Harry Mat
tolo is keeping himself north Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad tracks we'll out
of Editor Delkers orbit.
And Then there Is Henry J. Culshaw,
the impresario. Impresario Culshaw
owns the Palace Motion Picture Thea
ter, in which the Wednesday sitting
was held.
There will be no more Cupid's
Court damfoolishness in my theater
except they do it over my dead body"
said lnlpresario Culshaw this after
; noon. And we never saw healthier
. locking man in all our life.
Conley Is Going Fishing
; Remains only Lew Conley, the Babe
Ruth in his day of southern New Jer-
sey. The obvious uncasiness of Lew
/, Conley, who is president and treasurer
OF the Lovers Cooperative Union, was
increased tenfold this morning as he
gazed upon the ruins of the court.
! He positively fidgeted. The thing was
just started as joke Lew Conley said
| over and over to himself. Lew Conley
I IS going fishing tomorrow.
But in the midst of the ruins the
leonlne head and massive frame of
Editor Thomas Bancroft Delker
reared itself True to the traditions
OF "The South Jersey STAR of which
he is sole proprietor, Editor Delker re-
manned to the last, independent but
not neutral" He displayed his inde-
pendence this morning when he toneue-
! iashed the ribald reporters who had
made game OF his pet scheme and
brought derision and disintegration
! upon his plans. In spite of all, thund-
cred Editor Delker, the good work
, would go on. It must 20 on, he said
and added "Why, men. think! Think
OF an the sorrow, desolatiun and suf-
1erlng to thousands of lonely hearts
which would ensue if this whole thing
were called off"
Books Matrimonial Failures"
That was the end. Impresario
Henry ]. Culshaw appeared with a
grim expression on his face and
snapped the paddock on the door of the
| Palace Motion Picture Theater. He
gazed briefly at the artistic workman
ship of Russell Montgomery, the sign
painter, . which proclaimed to the
world: "Cupid's Court in Session To-
day" Plainly he was thinking of the
great JOY it would give him to tear
down with his own hands these fiaunt-
ing posters y have booked 'Matri-
monial Failures for showing in the
near future he said thoughtfully.
1t was evident that all was not we'll
with CuDid's Court when the reporters
arrived. The court should have been
in full swing by then, but instead there
were present only Editor Delker, Jerry
Patten, the retoucher; Mrs. Pointer,
who serves on the jury because she 4
Editor Delkers private secretary, and
Lew Coaley, looki-g more than ever as
man looks who, unable to swim, has
been dropped into twenty feet of ice
tconanned en- paes faur)