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The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Gossip of the Hotel Lobbies
Broadway Welcomes the Plantation-Mrs. Bessie Nc
Coy Davis Scores at Knickerbocker Grill.

Judging from the nightly attendance
at the new Plantation, at Broadway and
Fiftieth street New York has taken the
Southern form of entertainment seri-
ously Lieut.. Tim Brymm and his
darkies furnish pleasing music
Mrs. Bessie Mccoy Davis. the famous
Yama Yama girl, after a long absence
from New York, delighted her admirers
last Wednesday night at the Knicker-
booker Grill. Broadway and Forty-sec-
ond street
Each night at the Club Durant atop
OF Delmonico's. Miss Mary McCord and
Basil Durant give exhibition dances.
Whiteman and his orchestra are the
principal attraction at the Palais Royal
Gardens of Versailles"
Billy Arnold and his new edition, 1.-The
Society Circus" continue to fll the
Moulin Rouge every night.
Topping the bill at the Club Maurice.
which celebrated it's formal opening his
week under new management, is Veron-
lea, formerly of Paris, who interprets
South Sea Island dance She is as
sisted by an octet, of native Hawaiiaus.
The English Coffee Room adjoining
the Knickerbocker Grill is now open
for dinner as well as luncheons Vege-
tables in season are grown by the pro-
prietor at his Woodmanston Inn in
Westchester.
Coincident with the annual Mardi
Gras Carnival at New Orleans a minia-
ture carnival will be staged in the Gold
Room atop the Cafe des Beaux-Arts next
Tuesday night.
The Chateau Thierry at Riverside
Drive and Eighty-fifth street is now
under the management of Gus Innocente,
formedly of the Plaza.
The finals in the Eastern States one
step contest will be held at the Terrace
Garden Dance Palace this afternoon
when the championship will be awarded
Sophie fuckers unusual popularity in
practically every large city in the
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
Talmadge Girls in
Tom; Constance
Defends Pictures
Cinema Folk at Hollywood
Hard Working Lot, Says
Film Star.

The Talmadge girls are back in town,
with a defence of the motion picture
sc!ony at Hollywood. Misses Norma
and Constance, accompanied by Joseph
NJ. Schenck, head Of the companies in
which the girls star; j. ID. Williams,
manager of Associated First National
Pictures, Inc, and Felix Feist, head OF
their booking department arrived here
from Los Angeles. whittier they went
from New York six months ago to make
productions at the United Studios.
After staying here about a week they
will go for a vacation of three weeks at
Palm Beach, where they will be Joined
by their mother. Mrs. Margaret Tai
madge, who recently preceded them to
New York. They are staying at the
Ritz. Being fresh from the region Of so
much investigation, as well as having
only short time ago been in New
York, they could compare notes on the
two localities. Miss Constance said:
Nowadays the movies get blamed for
everything. Fifteen years ago the
stage was considered the worlds worst
road to wickedness, and if Mollie
Brown left her Main street home ir
Quincy, Ill. to join the chorus of a
musical show in the big city Mollie
was thought to have lost her chances
of heaven for all time. But to-day
when college bred girls go on the stage
and society women give up dancing an6
bridge for a dramatic career, even the
Quincy aunts and uncles look up the
stage as greatly improved, and regard
Mollie's chances as at least fifty-fifty
This changed attitude is because the
narrow minded have a new bugbear-
the movies
Now, il Is true that there are some
Mollie Browns in the movies whose
path has turned out gilded one, but
the same can be said of certain per.
centage of young women in every pro.
fession in the world. But what the
public forgets is that for every unfor.
tunate Mollie who goes under there
are thousands OF other Mollies in the
movies whose path is a long uphill way
20 success. And success is only reached
by genuine ambition and persever
ance.
Norma and have been working II
cinema studios since our early teens
Yet in all those early years neither o.
us ever heard or saw anything which
would justify the present day criticism
of the motion picture industry. All Of
The people l have met in the movies
whether in New York or California
were trying desperately to get ahead
Many are the main support of fam
iiies. At Hollywood, especially the
cinema players lead an unusual,
healthy outdoor life
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

United States is strikingly borne out
nightly at Reisenweber's where she is
now playing her annual engagement.
AT every performance in the famous
broadway cafe there are present from
six to a dozen parties of Miss fuckers
friends and admirers from other cities.
Chicago visitors are somewhat in the
majority, Miss Tucker having played a
record breaking seven months engage
ment there last season.
The New York herald., 1922-02-26
The Terrific Flood.

Then came tense, thrilling moments-the
escape. "the sting of the wild honey" the
cowartrs confession, the plot, the ex-
plosion of the dam, the terrible flood, the
rescue and, finalIy-happiness
The New York herald., 1922-02-26

Your situation Wanted Ad IN Tho
Want Ad. Section of THE NEW YORK
HERALD should put you IN touch t1ith
lust the sort Of people Nth tohom you
toouId nke to connect. TRY one. TeIe-
phono Worth 10000.
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well worth the attention of those who
have arrived as we'll 1t is essentially
fair book, being neither brief for the
author on the one hand nor for the pub
Usher and editor on the other. Such a
book is needed. There is entirely too
much misconception of the ethics gov
erning the relations between the man
who writes to sell and the man who buys.
In all politeness, the Authors League of
America, admirable institution as it is,
has occasionally given the impression Of
being inclined to see only one side of the
case. The author, no matter how eminent
he may be or how obscure he may be, is
entitled to courtesy. consideration and
fairness. But also the right kind of au-
thor never forgets to be punetilious in
himself showing courtesy. consideration
and fairness.
A FTER all, it is the little things that
L count, and there is a great deal
more in the trivial matter of inclosing
return postage in sending an unsolicited
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manuscript than appears on the surface.
All that "The Business of Writing has
to say about the case is the bracketed
tprovided return postage has been in
closed with it,. But what the inexper-
enced writer sometimes does not under
stand is that the insistence on return
postage is not an expression of meanness
but demand for fair dealing. That is
something that the writer who has been
found worth while never forgets. For
example, merely for the sake of illustra-
tion, suppose Mr.. Booth Harrington were
to send story to a magazine without any
previous understanding. He will know
perfectly well that the opening of the
envelope will bring a thrill in the maga-
zine office, yet you may be perfectly sure
that the envelope will enclose stamps for
return, as well as a letter that will be
very polite and will take nothing for
granted. To be even more concrete, Mr..
Mason. whose book has just been under
discussion, has from time to time been
a contributor to this section. He knows
Just how welcome any article from him
Will be. yet no article of his has ever
reached this office without the inclosed
stamped envelope.
A MOTHER little point of good manners
with which The business of Writ
ing" deals is the chapter Approaching
the Modern Editor Every magazine
editor has encountered the would be con-
tributor who says: Tell me the kind of
stories and articles you want. 1 haven't
had time to read your publication" A
form of approach which is obviously
neither diplomatic nor fair. The advice
OF Messrs. Holiday and Van Rensselaer,
is: do not send manuscripts to a mag
azine until you have an idea of the kind
OF thing that magazine uses" note
The New York herald., 1922-12-24
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT s.s11f4E By AE1#vR Ms''R,cr

Fable for Critics James Russell Lowell
had couplet about Yankee Doodle:
That American Punch" like the English.
no doubt,
Just the sugar and lemons and spirit left
out
The life of Yankee Doodle was brief
one. and in 1852 John Brougham started
DiogeRes hys LaRterne. For eighteen
months the lantern glimmered dimly and
then fiickered entirely out. The third
attempt was Vanity Fair. no relation to
the present journal of the name. That
began in January. 1859. and did not sue
cumb until 1868, when Artemus Ward
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

was its editor. He is said to have re-
marked: They told me l could write
comic copy; I wrote a lot of it-and the
paper died"
ONCE upon time men of letters took
~ themselves and their trade seri-
ously and other persons accorded them
rather more consideration than in these
days of literary cOmmercialsm and the
chapter of The Neweomes yes, it was
just before the paragraph that contained
the words: when Washington was lead
ing the American rebels with a courage
worthy of better cause" which so
stirred up our cOuntrymen in the eighteen
ffties-recalled the golden days of yore
when "to see Mr.. Brown, the author of
the latest romance, in the flesh, walking
In the park with his umbrella and Mrs.
Brown, was an event perfectly to be re-
membered till the end of time" To real
ize that that spirit is not entirely gone
turn in Our American HumOrists" to the
chapter on Ellis Parker Butler, who,
whatever else he may write. will never
live down pigs Is Pigs" Thus Mr.
Butler is quoted: II would rather be
George AIDE than Rockefeller, and Ma
poleOn has never seemed to me worth
one of Burners short stories would
rather see Booth Harrington from across
a wide street than spend a month with
President Harding as guest of honor"
MIR MASSON'S book tells the story Of
A'1 those who have decidedly "ar-
rived" The Business OF Writing"
George II. Doran Company. by Robert
Cortes Holiday and Alexander Van
Rensselaer,. is designed primarily for
those who hope some day to arrive" but
II contains some very sound information
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

something like this turns UP every once
in while in publishing Office: This
is the first fiction story / have ever fin
ished up and made a definite effort to
sell. l have submitted it to Metropolitan
and EUerybodys, for which realize it is
entSrely unified" What a confusion of
objectives is revealed in another letter!
1t begins: 81 inclose herewith an article
entitled The Unknown Soldier l have
sent it to the Atlantic, Judge, the Ladies
Home Journal, all of which publications
have declined to accept it,
THE chapter why Be an Author"
throws light in a general way on
the earnings of men and women of let
ters, subject always of interest both
to the professional and the amateur. Ad
vertisements proclaiming that there are
thousands of dollars TO be made by writ
ing stories, the authors of "The Business
of Writing" point out, put very false no
tions into the heads of many people
The relatively few authors of great popu-
larity do, of course receive very substan-
tial incomes from their work, 'but the
income derived from the writing of
numerous authors of very fair popularity
Is not sufficient for their needs
In fact the payment for writing in gen
eral is ridiculously small Five cents
word is high pay indeed for a writer
with more or less of a name. Anything
over two cents a word is doing pretty
we'll Many magazines pay one cent
word or less. Some actual prices paid
by well known publications are here
given: Twelve dollars for $500 word
story; twelve dollars for 1900 word
story, paid on publication: ten dollars
for 1000 word story that had been re-
jected by more than score of editors;
twenty-five dollars for a 1000 word
story"
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years the editor of Life. has written
a book called Our American HumOrists'
(Moffat, Yard & Col. In a "foreword"
ne emphasizes the importance of the
column" in our daily newspaper pabu-
um, and places upon Ben Franklin the
responsibility for the institution. Poor
Richards Almanac" according to Mr..
Mason, is the North American progeni-
tor Of the Column" and from Frank
Inns time the eolumnist has always
Aourished in American newspapers
"Artemus Ward might be called a sort of
travelling columnist. He exhibited on his
own account. His column was a sep
arate affair, conducted by himself indie
pendently." Then came Bill Nye. who
at the high water mark of his afiuence
received the then unheard OF sum OF
$500 a week for his letters" Il hap
pen to know this" writes Mr.. Mason,
for at that time was young cub edi-
tor. and his beautifully written copy
passed through my hands and thence on
to the syndicate of papers" But it was
not many years later that Peter Finley
Dunno was receiving over a thousand
dollars week for his ''Dooley" letters.
MIR. MASSON has a high opinion Of
4'A the work of Eugene Field. He
had all the qualities Of columnist, and
more. He had genuine pathos and gen.
uine humor. And, in addition. he bad
touch Of genuine comedy. which Is, /
think, the rarest trait in the world At
least we are entitled to think so when
we consider how few in all the history
Of the world have possessed IL. You ask
me what comedy is, in contrast to humor,
aud my reply is that it would take too
long to explain. and even then my ex-
PLANTATION would be mysterious and prob
ably inadequate | can only refer you
to George Meredith's essay on the sub
jeet. Comedy. TO my mind, is essentially
Greek in its origin: it is paganism with
an aura. Whatever il is, Gene Field un-
doubtedly had it. His verses-many Of
them exquisite in their admirable fooling
still linger with us" Then in turn
Mr.. Mason pays his tribute to Bert
Lesion Taylor. the eolumnist of the Chi
eagO Tribune. and what he calls 'the, big
bOw-wOw humOrists," such as George
AIDE, Ring Lardner and Irwin Cobb.
MARX TWAIN, according to Mr.. Mas
Nv
son. was all right until he began
wearing those white flannel suits Then
he degenerated as a humorist because he
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

VNHEN the simple facts about the return
= that a published book brings to it's
author Here again there is very general
misconception. Messrs. Holiday and
Van Rensselaer, sum up the matter as
follows: "The price of a novel to-day is
about two dollars. Usually the author
receives a royalty of about twenty cents
copy on the first two thousand copies
sold and perhaps thirty cents on each
copy thereafter. A novel which sold up
ward of fifty thousand copies would then
bring the author something like s14 900.
Many men make as much as $4,000 by
a years work at some other business or
profession than authorship. But authors
who make that amount in year, or any
thing near that amount, are exceedingly
rare. book is regarded by the pub
Usher as highly successful if it sells from
five to ten thousand copies. Far and
away the greater number of books pub
lished do not sell as many as fifteen hun
dred copies Many far less. A recently
published book which received a very
cordial press has had an uncommon
oAAoWAl VI anu the duN6TllSe-
ments of which announce that it is in
its fourth printing has after about halt
a year earned for its author perhaps a
thousand dollars
A CCORDING to the monthly score in
the January BoOkmdn the novels
most in demand are:
1. This Freedom" Hutchinson.
2. "Babbitt," Lewis
2. "The Breaking Point" Rinehart
t. Robin" Burnett.
.. "rhe Glimpses of the Moon," Wharton.
6. "If Winter Comes" Hutchinson.
7. Certain People of Importance, Nor
ris.
s. "One of Ours" Gather.
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IN one OF his chapters Mr. Mason re-
= calls the several attempts-long be-
fore the days OF Life. Puck and Judge
to start American comic journals in the
spirit Of London Punch, which Mr.. Mas
son considers 'the most solidly estab-
lished comic paper in the world" Punch
was founded in 1s41, and half a dozen
years later appeared the American imi-
tatiOn called Yankee Doodle In his
The New York herald., 1922-12-24

was its editor. He is said to have re-
marked: They told me l could write
comic copy; I wrote a lot of it-and the
paper died"
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MARX TWAIN. according to Mr.. Mas
A'A son. was all right until he began
wearing those white flannel suits. Then
he degenerated as a humorist because he
had become self-eOnscious, whereas previ-
ously his very innocence had made him
effective. Says Mr.. Mason: And
must interrupt the proceedings to tell a
story about him. 1 hope il is true. You
know that at one Of the most distressing
periods OF his lfe-when he had fnan-
cially failed-his friend Rogers came to
his rescue. Strengthened out bis accounts
and put him on his feet generally. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers naturally came TO be
very fond of Mark. He visited them in
their Adirondack camp. on one occa-
sion he dolled himself up in a white fan
mel suit Mrs. Rogers, seeing him thus
aeeOutered for the first time, cOmpli-
mented him on his appearance. Mark
was very vain. You like me in it?' he
asked. You never looked better Then
I shall always wear it, And so his white
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-05
RADIO PROGRAM

PALLADIUM STATION
Saturday, May 9, ESQ p. m.
ST Was Born In Michigan"
(Brunswick) Thermometers quar-.
Z. s. weather forecast.
"Waves of the Danube" (Edison)
.......... HempeI
After dinner stories.
Radio news service, current events
"Virginia Blues" (Gennett) -.
..... .Ladd's Black Aces
Today's talk.
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taken. Miss Lora Henly left Mon
day morning for indianapolis to take
six weeks course at Miss Bakers
school. :. Mr.. James Pearce of Clay
ton, Indiana spent part of last week
with his daughters Mrs. John Cope
land and Mrs. Arthur Conner. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Myers took dinner
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jake N.Y.
ers at Cambridge City,. Mr. and
Mrs. Oren Miller and daughter of
Indianapolis spent the weekend with
his brother Horace Miller and family
-. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson
and son have returned to their home
In Anderson after two weeks visit
here with Irwin Goswell and family.
-. Leonard Champe has gone to Co.
lumbus, Ohio where he has taken a
position. >. Mrs. Elizabeth Wallace
attended the funeral of a friend at
Greenfield Sunday. Mrs. Ida Swain
has moved in part of Mrs. Bradway's
house. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Scott
have moved into the room she vacat-
ed. Leonard Dean is here for an
indefinite stay with Mrs. Dean.
The stewards of the NJ E. church will
have a market Saturday, May 6, be-
ginning at 10 a. m. Rev. A. G.
Turner attended the M. e. district
meeting at Richmond Wednesday. ;.
Mrs. Martha Butler is spending this
week with her daughter and family
at Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Oler and daughter spent Sun
day with Mr. Henry Boles near Fal-
mouth. -. The Martha Washington
club met with Mrs. Fricker Wednes-
day afternoon. 1t was guest day and
the Home Makers club was invited.
The program was Madame Butter
fly. Those that took part were: Mrs.
j. G. Johnson, Mrs. Frank Oler, Mrs.
T. j. Butler, Mrs. Forest Macy, Mrs
Raymond Hunnicutt, and Mrs Albert
Ferris. :. /. Mrs. Frank Elliott has gone
to Martinsville sanitarium for two
weeks treatment. ;. Mrs. Edna Oh
NIT and daughter and Mrs.Ira Slant
and daughter and Mrs. Frank Smith
and children were in Richmond. y.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H Oler and grand
son spent Sunday with Mr.. w. E.
Oler and family at Economy. Mrs
Mary Helm has returned to Lafayette
after few weeks visit with her son
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Helm. Mr..
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-05
FINAL PREPARATIONS
FOR FESTIVAL MADE

Final preparations for a great May
Festival chorus are being completed
with the first concerts only a little
over week away. The event is alb
sorbing the attention of the children
in the schools, who are working hard
to memorize every line before the per
Torrance.
Group rehearsals are being held
several times a week and final re-
hearsals will be held next week in
the tabernacle. The combined grade
school orchestra will meet Monday
after school in the high school audi
forum and the choruses from all the
schools will meet in the tabernacle
Wednesday and Thursday.
The third and fourth grades meet
Wednesday and the fifth and sixth
Thursday after school. The huge
choir loft at the tabernacle affords
an opportunity for much larger
choruses than have ever been heard
before in Richmond and approximate
ly 1900 children will take part in the
performance Monday afternoon, May
Is.
The large seating capacity of the
tabernacle also enables the Civic Music
association to lower the admission
prices to % cents for adults and Is
cents for children. Children, however,
will not be admitted unless accom-
panied by their parents or teachers.
Teachers from grade schools will &C
company all children from their re-
spective schools who wish to attend
concerts.
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If KIDNEYS AND
BLADDER BOTHER
Start with Natures Herbs and Roots
to Flush Kidneys and
Neutralize Acids.

Help your kidneys-don't overtax
them. Tighten your diet little; eat
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milk; avoid rich food.
Our blood is filled with uric acid and
Toxins which the kidneys strive to fill
ter out; they weaken from overwork,
become sluggish; thus the pores get
clogged and create all sorts of distress,
resulting in kidney trouble or bladder
weakness and eventually In Bright's
Disease Diabetis or Gravel. If YOU
have the slightest pain in the kidney
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DR.. Carey's PRESCRIPTION No. iii
also neutralizes irritating acids. thus
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Suburban

WEST RIVER, Ind-Mr. and Mrs.
John Lumpkin and daughter Mary
Ann and son Paul entertained Friday
evening as their guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Clampet and children.
George and Miss Margaret and Ray
Driscoll. -. Miss Clarcie Benson was
in Losantville Saturday. Mrs. Will
lookout and her sister from Muncie
visited Mrs. Winifred King and
daughter Mae Saturday. Elmer
Lumpkin called on Robert Beckerdite
and Hicks Durbin Saturday. Those
who attended the Billy Sunday meet
ing at the tabernacle at Richmond
Wednesday were Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Beeson, Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Driscoll
and son Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. EN-
erson Benson and children Clarcie and
Charles. Frank D. King was in
Hagerstown on business Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lumpkin and
Mrs. Robert Lumpkin were in Muncie
last week. Grandma Paul went to
Muncie to spend the weekend. N.
B. Driscoll called on Mrs. Frank
King and Mae Thursday Irving
Lilly spent Sunday evening with Miss
Freedith Delight Holcomb.. :. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Beeson called on Mr.. and
Mrs. Job Dennis Thursday. Mr..
and Mrs. Job Dennis attended the fun
eral of Clarence Smith of Newcastle
Thursday. ..M Mrs. Myles Lamar is
very i'll with pneumonia. Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Davidson and Mrs. Ma
bic Lamar and son John Donald and
Mrs Eva Lamar and children Vivian
and Harold and daughter Cora Sun
day.. Mr.. and Mrs. John Denny Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Carrie Wickersham
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred David
son and children, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Davidson and children of Day
ton, Harry Ulrich, John Clarie, FL
mer Ball of Millville, Ind, Emmett Pal
lit of Brownsville visited Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Davidson and son Omar
Mr.. Acel Lamb visited Mr..
and Mrs. John c. Smith Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Lamar and chill
dren and Miss Novella Nobblitt Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Myles Lamar Sun