The Washington herald., 1922-12-08
By LOUIS w. FEHR.
Internstional News Service

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NEW YORK, Dec. t. How
Eugene v. Brewster, millionaire
movie ownF, sought TO justify to
his wife, Eleanor Van Voss
Brewster, his infatuation for Cor
liss Palmer II shown In Q letter
obtained exclusively by the New
York American today.
In this letter Brewster told his
wife, who had RECENTLY borne him
q SON:
There Is something about
motherhood that Is almost an
tagonistic to romantic love-"
CALLS OORLISS HIS STAR.
OF Miss Palmer. Brewster wrote
to his wife, then at the Pine Forest
Inn, in South Carolina:
with her as my star and helper,
l am bound to succeed. Without
to 80 on. My one ambition is to
great star and me as her creator
and director. Now there is no cause
for you to dislike this or her. You
are entirely wrong In what you in
sinuated. She loves you"
The letter in part follows:
Sunday, January Is, 1921.
Dear Eleanor: Your long letter
received and am very sorry that
you are unhappy. 1t looks to me
a. though you had been OVERRIDING
matters somehow and are un-
strung. Everything looks exagger-
ated to you. Perhaps you have
been eating too much and your
liver is torpid Or, perhaps you
have been staying up too late
nights and have been having too
much excitement. Anyway. some
thing is the matter, because you
do not see things from the right
angle.
Regarding the pistol, I have al
ready adopted your suggestion, al
though think your suspicious
are entirely unfounded. It IL now
out Of harms way.
CALLS WIFE SPOILED.
1 am quite moved over your at
utude regarding my film enter
prises. The main trouble with YOU
is that you have been spoiled. /
have never been anywhere with
out you.
have never been a clubman
or a mans man and you always
know just where l am at every
minute Of the day and night.
Other men go to clubs, stay up all
night, playing poker; take hunt
ing trips, visit midnight frolics,
val hut -
ways a home body and always
with you.
You have been spoiled. / did
not do 1t for your sake, but be-
cause i wished to do IL. I found
more pleasure at home and with
you than i did with men and with
other women. clubs. stag parties.
etc. Besides. my business kept
me tied down more or less, and
every night I found something to
do that was directly or indirectly
connected with my business. The
time came when ] was getting
rusty-worn out, If you please
with the eternal continuous grind
and I demanded some sort Of a
change-a long vacation, a tour,
trip somewhere. SO I could see
new faces and follow new paths.
1 could not go without you. for
I would not have been happy
you know that.
NEVER CEASED TO LOVE"
A year ago last fall about one
and a half years ago. as you con-
seqeuently stated Virgil took pos
session of your time and atten-
ton. and this was just about the
time when / became interested in
the film business. You say that
about this time / began to become
less romantic and gradually ceased
to show the affection for you that
I formerly showed. That is prob
ably true. but never have ] ceased
to care for you just as much as
/ ever did. l may not have been
demonstrative, and l may not
have told you loved you as
much and az often as I formerly
did. but shere was no change in
your heart.
You We're becoming mother
No reason why a mother cannot
be a lover, 1t is true. but there is
something about motherhood that
IL is almost antagonistic with ro-
mantle love. / think love is deeper
but II is not the gushing kind.
I think / have learned to Id
mire much more and think much
more Of you since you began to
wear the crown Of motherhood,