The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-25

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closes the fact that Sir Conan Doyle
is sixty-three- We thought so. Those
/ between fifty-seven and sixty-five are
the dangerous years.
Harriette Underhiu refers to a re-
cent picture as the best thing Mae
Murray has done. We are not familiar
with Miss Murray's work in connec-
picture surpasses the performance she
gave last winter at a dinner in Phil
adelphia it is humdinger.
Miss Murray came to the dinner at
tended by one cavalier. There were.
perhaps. 200 men present. Within
thirty seconds after her entrance 169
of them were trying to follow her
around.
The publishers have sent US a copy
of B. L. It's posthumous book, The
So-Called Human Race" and express
the hope that We will mention it. We
WILL and have now done So Ine
CoIumnist's Union has agreed that b
L. T. was the best in the business. II
you are crazy about columns you can
get an amazing amount of cerebratloh
from B. L. It's.
As for us. we don't dast read It, ~
we did so we should unconsciousiS
assimilate some OF it. Later on, TINS
unconscious assimilation would tind
be accused of stealing B. l. rs stuIl-
We don't mind being accused OF
initiating Ring Lardner-the lucky
stiff-but we should hate to have ~
said of us that we leaned too heaViiy
on B. L. T.
which reminds us that. Just the
other day, a reader up Easton way
accused us of trying to initiate Mars
Twain And gosh. we only wish We
could.
Most of the ruinous legislation IS
like that.
In our town in the middle west one
of the leading reformers and saVlofs
of the people was gentleman named
Brown. Brown was conspicuous
figure in the Taxpayers League
chairman of committee, vice presi-
dent or something. Watching MS
gyrations and listening to his ulula-
tons, we reached the conclusion that
Brown had been grievously Wrongeu
by the tax burdens he had been com
PEELED to bear. AS a matter of curl
even on the tax rolls. He had never
paid taxes in any amount, large or
small.
Most of the bowling proceeds from
an equivalent source.
That joyous and unconfined hiiar-
ity you heard around 10 O'Clock last
night: that probably was the laughter
of the audience gathered to watch the
presentation of 'Liliom."
And. undoubtedly. the thing that
delighted them was the court scene in
heaven.
If the miners will pardon a sug-
gestion. it is that they call in coro-
ners jury. If we are able to recog-
nize the signs of rigor morris their
strike has died on their hands.
We just remarked to an editorial
colleague that there is nothing in the
world to write, And we think We
have proved it.
'why. TO be trasical." writes one
who disa grees in some particulars
with the columns estimate of LII
ioIn," did Julie have to make her
self so utterly hideous?"
It seemed to us-and upon that
point we are as adamant-that jules
expression of the sartor-
ial obligation which bear upon her is
one of the triumphs of "Liliom." She
dresses precisely as a. lady of her class
and station would have been dressed.
The frumpy waist Nand sagging skirt
IF her last scene are epics of sartoriai
restraint.
'Liliom," alas and aIack. soon is to
% on itH way, and We shall then be
Inder the necessity of finding some
hing else to write about
Word from Miss Elizabeth HOOD
alta is to the effect that she adheres
o her original position. IT was Miss
atlas notion, you will recall. that
hose who employ certain expletives
10 SO because of weak and pindling
ocabulary. But, unfortunately, Miss
alta, in the message which reached
his desk, suggested no Wofds or
hrases to take the place OF the ex-
letives which she deplores.