The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-10-13

least it is known for its summer
homes, and eastern Vermont is
we'll and favorably known, judg.
ing from the following editorial
in the Burlington Free Press:
There was time when all person
had to do to become celebrity OF, to
attain distinction in any particular
line was to "pass through Brattle-
boro." The late Maxwell Evarts who
entertained Theodore Roosevelt on
Vermont trip, helped to develop the
Windsor zone along different lines and
the literary colony of which Winston
Churchill was a bright particular
star spread the magic influence across
the Connecticut into Cornish. Doro-
thy Garfield Fisher and other literary
lights have brought historic Ben
nington and the region round about
into the realm of magic sway. In
stances might be multiplied galore.
Apparently Vermont has reached a
point where to have merely sum-
mer home within its talismanlc boun-
diaries is conducive to genius or dis
tinction in various directions. Inc
Brooklyn Eagle tells of such an in
stance. 1t says:
A Brooklyn girl has conquered Man
haitian over night. Unheard OF and
unknown week ago, she has scored
an instantaneous success on the
Rialto and her many friends at
Berkeley Institute and St. Johns
Episcopal Church have discussed
little else since Dreams for Sale had
it's premier at the Playhouse. She is
Miss Helen Gahagan, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Walter H Gahagan, who is
only 81 years old She was discover
ed by William A Brady when playing
a minor part in Manhattan last
Nav. John Cromwell, stage manager
for Mr. Brady, saw her in this short
lived production and sent for Brady
at once.
BRADY after seeing her work, an
nounced She is the coming Ethel
Barrymore, and signed her at once
for a fve-year contract Critics one
and all united in praising Helen
Gahagan the morning after Mr. Brady
presented her in Dreams for Sale.
Without any heralding or advance
publicity, quietly and as one who
comes into her own world as of
right, the Brooklyn girl became over
night a star in the theatrical heaven.
The Gahagans are we'll known IN
Brooklyn. Mr. Gahagan, who is mem
Der of the Montauk and Brooklyn
clubs, is president of the firm of W H
Gahagan, Inc, construction engln-
GERS"
The Brooklyn contemporary re-
serves its explanation of all this for
the last. 1t concludes: "Their coun-
try home is at Lake Morey, Falrlee,
VT"
Vermont does not aim to rival Hol-
lywood, but if one Graves wholesome
success along wholesome lines, be
sure to get this Vermont atmosphere.
The American Bankers Asso=
citation convention in New York
last week heard many argu-
ments for cancellation of the
war debts but the country does
not take kindly to the idea.
Paying for dead war horses
doesn't come any easier than
paying for any other kind OF a
defunct equine.
We have been wont to say that
an Irishman loved a fight for the
fights sake-winning or losing.
Now it looks like De Valera had
enough of it. He's only half
Irish anyway so winning fight
is the kind he stays with.
The appointment of a woman
to the United States Senate
ought to be taken with a grain
of humor by the women. She is
to serve the state of Georgia dur
ing the recess and no doubt she
will do it ably.
The smell of smoke is abroad
in the land and Gov. Baxter has
done we'll to prohibit hunting in
the Maine woods as the forest
fire situation is critical.
October is being mighty good
to the coal bins and the wood
pile. AS heating plant, old Sol
beats all the furnaces in the
world.
Greece may sizzle but the
Turks are going to get Thrace,
it seems.
Both feed and care of 100000 hens
giving no returns were saved in 1921,
reports to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture show, when farm
women, practicing for the first time
the methods of identifying nonlayers
demonstrated by agricultural extern