The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24

and bOundVg9 love, Fhr never puts on nTA over hcr
priceless accomplishments and Godgiyon genius.
But ~ a Jane can Rick hor left leg. or sing song
she doesn't understand without being arrested or
read lines she could never comprehend after men
have gono loco teaching hor which Ia fcr right foot
and which IS her scnse OF drama or mako up an
ordinary oct of features 20 look pasaablo in tho
wing light Of hc foots and the spot, do "imita-
tlonr" that are us ths side OF slaudors wrlggle
her urdcf.dcvcoped head and wlgge her oyerox-
posed torso 10 un intriguing tune devised by some
one she neyor taw, or lisp spocous baby talk, or
fake high note or hoof Chicago and get money
for ito! she is an inspired superbeng. her nerves
are a.szzle, she must be addressed and humored
az an "ertlate" she takes weird compleHes.
eocentriciues and folblos.
In other words It requires temperament to
qualify for n s3o.o-wook stoge Job. but to be the
dean Of a great school, to be the secretary to a
great man. 10 be the wifc OF crab to be tho
mother Of President, to be a famllys angelpack.
borsewatchdog swcetheart.cow flower football saint
oh can't she be reasonable and please quit
squawkngH
Lydia Thorndyke tnee Jennie Klotzberg) an
"nctress" She had been n shIngeshaped girl
raised in rlckety cottage In Peokskill. In hor
youth there had Btil been that institution known
as the cash girl" and Jennie had become ono Of
those nt 81 tho week rs soon her mother had
been able TO lio certificate from her teacher that
Jennie was fourteen, which was when she was
twelve. In time she had grown into "saeslady"
I'm waists Because her mother was sloppy and
slabsided, Jennie grew tall and svete. And she
sort of just slid into modelling in womens wear
A buyer who know manufacturer who was
backing ticket-scalper who was favorng show
manager took a shine to Jennie, and her boob eyes
opened wide when he insinuatngly suggested that
he could place her "on the stage-he had infooence
Very soon she was his and tho Job was hers-as
n shnwgir Jennie became Lydia, and hacked away
for two or three seasons making chanses' and
struttng lackadalscally past audiences In fashion
parades and ensembles. In road show she was
given an understudy because she the senior
member OF the chorus. She was lucky enough to
have the principal" get drunk or break leg or
get married suffer some other for,utous calam-
ity. and Lydia got tho part and $40 weekly raise.
She was no furore, but she got by. Any woman
with fair appearance two feet. superficial knowl-
edge of cosmetics and enough gall to attempt some
thing she wasn't ever meant for, could have done
well.
Nobody threw anything at hor. so she went along
getting parts TO play and establishing name"
In any other business on earth may do his or
her work well and faithfully and not dream that
tho world Is paying any conspicuous attention: but
IN the show business. when mediocre performer
has appeared repeatedly, the performer will bet
you that the public would 90 Miles through bliz-
yards 70 see him or her again Managers pay money
for this, though they know better In their hearts.
for they are in the profession and they cannot help
being inooulated beyond the aid of reason with
many OF its egotistcal absurdtes and preposterous
preteusions.
Therefore Lyda's salary rose, her diosyncracies
Increased her yaingorous solfworship swelled,
until she believed that the came up each morn
Ing Just TO annoy her whom she wanted to Sleep
that newspapers were edited with reference 10
glorlfying or outrageously lbeng her. that theatres
were built on foundation OF her popularity that
all mon adored ner aud all women copied her. She
wasn't insane or a freal5-lust fairly successful
leading woman, true to typo.
She bulldo1ed all the players beneath her hated
with carbo'lc jealousy all players Of lofter rocog
ntion, affected hlghstrung organism of brand
never even heard OF IN Peoksill and eniranchsed
herself with privileges that scorned the Declaration
OF Independence, the law Of the land the code OF
the book the Ten Commandments. Hoyle. the un
written statutes and an written contracts, her word
of honor the rights OF any other mortal all other
mortals.
In truth her colleagues dospisod her though they
usually Welded before her colossal pretonsions
The public at large didn't know she was alive the
critics had 10 refer back to printed programmes tc
place her name hut SHE waited herself along In
her seltmade universe with tho set deuslon-of
greatness that America WAS divided into two un
equal parts Lydia Thorndybe and all the rest.
Her moral ethics were as hent her disposition
II Lydia fell I'm love with man who was scuryy
aud uniuvtnE, she told herself It Just to bring
relief from the mlllionaires whom she could have
had 81 she wanted 10 be as common" as other
actresses II man Of some consequence was at
tacted TO hor-wcll wasn't that natural enough7
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