Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-12-18
ON BROADWAY
Side Lights on Fashion
and Fancy
By Lucy Jeanne Price.

gOdS are coming pack. FOR season
after season, their departure from
our, theatres has been bemoaned.
Actors declared the best of their
inspiration was gone, without these
articulate and enthusiastic factors
in the audiences. Plans are at last
under way to restore the old joys
of the seats at the top of the house
from which hey can applaud or hiss
to their hearts content. Albert
Sullivan, a retired actor, has an
nounced that he isbu sy forming the
Peanut Gallery League. The
League will hold mass meeting in
the nearfut ure to determine what
can be done about it.
At last we have the final assur-
ance that Mr.. Emmil Cou is coming
to town. Ever since we read the
first book about him published in
Paris, we have been reading items
telling us that we would probably
have him with US before long, but
we hadn't become sufficiently i'm
.bued with the power of the thought
to depend upon these reports until
the announcement was made in de-
finite form, with names and dates,
those ecessary adjuncts of any news
to the doubling American public.
On January 10, he will land here,
and two days later, give his first
address at the Town Hall, under the
auspices of such people as the
League for Political Education,
the Mcdowell Club, Oliver S. Ly-
ford and a dozen othres of promi-
hence. Mr.. Cou has become almost
household word in this country,
he will find, because of the many
Americans who have sought relief
from ills through going to talk to
him at his home in Nancy; France,
and have found that "auto-suggest-
ion" is very real thing when it
can remove pain and sickness. M.
Cou insists that he doesn't cure
anyonp-he just shows them how
to cure themselves, teaching them
self-healing through the use of the
unconscious mind. That is why he
refuses to take any personal renum-
Grafton for his work. Among New
Workers interested in his work are
Mrs. W.. X. Vanderbilt, Miss Elsie
De Wolfe, Judge F. D. Wells, Mrs.
H. B. Duryea, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Beecher Stowe. He will remain in
this country for only two weeks.
We deHar7 somdtintes from the
standardes of those stern, freedom
loving people who founded our gov
ernment and our country, but l be-
lieve we do appreciate them after
all. A collection of autographs,
letters and portraits of the signers
of the Declaration of independence,
was sold at auction here the other
night for $19,750.
All my life, I've heard that
woman mustn't be too clever-or at
least mustn't seem to be clever-or
else no man would seek her hand
and heart in marriage. And here
comes Julius Berman, of Brooklyn
that borough of homes s-and
asks for annulment of his marriage
because he says his wife can't do
arithmetic! It's all wrong. Nobody
knows how to act if men upsets ira
dition that way. There was a prac-
ical motive in his objection. He
says that because she couldn't add,
she couldn't conduct the financial
affairs of the household. Mrs.
Berman proved after all, have some
idea of figures, by asking substan
tial alimony and counsel fees pend
ing the outcome of the cult.
When so penetrating a thinker
and adept a writer as Fereno Moi
mar takes so absorbing subject as
neckties and cheeses in their rela-
tion to society and weaves a play
about it, we listen attentively. Such
is the production of Fashions for
o. P. Heggie in the title role. In
this gay comedy of human fraility
and consuming appurrtenances of
life, another very recent luminary
of the stage appears, But a few
weeks ago, Helen Gahagan, was un-
known to us. Yet with he'd appear
ance in an unheralded play, and a
very bad play as it is remembered.
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