The New York herald., 1922-05-14

While they may not pause 10 Won-'
der over the part that sex insists on
playing In their business lives, there
are plenty OF other observers to stand
on the side lines and ponder-not to
themselves, OF course-but audibly
enough to be heard by those who are
listening for all possible solutions to
sociological Investigations, especially
those with q sex angle.
To us It would SEEM. however, that
che woman In business nowadays finds
herself no more worried by the ques-
ton Of her sex than any man In
business. She finishes her work, shuts
her desk. goes homo and dresses her
self in accordance with her means and
taste quite as any man would do. She
goes out to dinner or stays at home,
iust as a man does, in accordance with
her means and her desires. With
bobbed hair and cosmetics and skirts
60 the knee, woman IN business seems
nowadays to find no difficulty at all
IN attending to her duties and re-
maining quite conscious OF her sex.
But that view, Of course. OFFERS no
Aeld to the playwright. Mrs. Meyer
has chosen to draw heroine VINO
Finds the combination of love ana
con,merce SO constantly irritating that
ahe finally succumbs to the emotion
%I,a+ makes her the wife Of her part
NOR Such q solution Of her difficulty
* Of course. natural enough. one
ra.her suspects, however, that Mrs
-save- has made her heroine
largo figure In the business OF adver-
fising merely for the purpose OF bring
ing up to date an admired device OF
the playwright. The partner she loves
shows ni-nseif highly susceptible 10
+ba dress and other wiles Of the merely
SOCIAL Young woman. II he invites her
IN lunch she Will retaliate by accept
ing the invitation to dinner given py
her business client. sauce TOT the
goose has for years been sauce LOT
the gander-especially on the stage.
Business life adds a new background
20 the fable. a..
Mrs. Meyer seems unjust to the
-von,en OF social life when she BLOWS
ra- heroine to imply that they are no
more than what their coutourieres
make them. Are not men VINO ENJOY
dinners and dances just as much the
rasult of their tailors' effortsY is the
social women different from the socia'
y,,ale9 Must either necessarily be no
,,ore than a high grade moron? Sucn
sv 70 he sure. tie prevailing view Oh
>be playwrights. Yet 1t propaoly
,rrou,d be found that fools are no more
limited to one world than they are 10
cna sex. Men and women are prop
hbly just about as likely, one OF 'ne
other, to 90 or say things tnat sounu
foolish. 1t IL unjust on the part or
any playwright TO make the uninteih-
gent either men or women or put
khexn all into society or business.
revival of "BiIIetted."
There were other theatrical enter
vrises that bear out the sage remark
81 A. T.. Erlanger, who was asked
earlier in the season to explain some
a, the unpreccdented phenomena OF
an unusual year. Iie remarked la
conically wars led men to do strange
things and that the theater was no
exception to the rule. So "Billeteo' is
revived on the stage Of the Greenwicn
Village Theater, which lends Itself TO
so much that Is freakish and amateur.
There were some clever young per-
formers In the comedy. however,
vhich may have been by way OF ex-
PLANTATION. Miss Margaret Anglin
acted the comedy for long season at
the Playhouse and then Miss Billie
Burke made the public still further
acquainted with It's charms by playing
IN Il as cinema. TLen our old
friend. "Hiudle Wakes" appeared at
the Vanderbilt Theater on Thursday.
Stanley Houghton's interesting play
Ia now called "Fanny Hawthorn" 1t