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Evening star., 1922-06-25
Y DIPS INTO THE DEPTHS
Hunts Dramatic Material I'd Avenue After Facing Unfoled Fold
ing Typewriter for Six Days Without Working Up Thought Which
Wasn't Dead the ToddleTop Homebrew JokeOn the
Trail of Characters That row and and SnarExpermens
With Humanity the Raw" Fail Produce Story That Would
Wiring Hearts-Nle for Comedy" Says Barry

enough for a horne. And It's all on
account Of that arty temperament of
yours. / know. I've seen you like this
before. And It's perfectly. OF course.
you can't jump right into your work
and strike the same gait you were hit
ting when You were all speeded up.
You've had your brain in dead storage
SO long that the valves stick and the
piston rings are gummed. You've got
to get going gradually, not try to jam
her into high the moment you turn on
the switch"
Sounds -asonable," he agrees, but
I'm SO far down in the dumps l don't
know how to begin
Tried walking down an ideac" !
asked You used to do that, you know"
so I did," says he. DO you sup
pose
Sure I do" says l. Come along
I'll go as peacemaker and keep you
from humping into wild taxis at the
corners. Here's your hat And what
a hat that is. A near-Panama that
you wore all last season. It hasn't
even been given lime and lemon
juice treatment. either. Say. lid like
Evening star., 1922-06-25

shop girls and prosperous buttonhole
makers. But q few blocks east Of here
you can pick up specimens, though.
Suppose we try I'd avenue"
"Of COURSE" says he. That's what
I meant"
+
co over tnere we went And I'll say
it was messy and dirty and dinsy
enough. Have you been along East
14th street lately: ] don't know why
it's torn up, OF how long 1t has
been that way. or what's happened to
the street-cleaning gang over there. but
several blocks look about as tidy as an
ash dump. In fact. almost anywhere
east of 9Th avenue and you can find
Uttered, smelly streets that simply
swarm with what Barry likes to call
humanity in the raw" They're raw
enough, I'll say. and suppose they're
human. But Barry seemed as pleased
and enthusiastic as il he was dlscov-
ering a new race.
Look at them, Trilby May" he ex-
claimed. Real people. with real sor-
rows and sufferings written on their
faces"
Evening star., 1922-06-25

The sisters Of st. Vincent de Paul
turned out to be full up when she az
rived.
SQuirm No. ..
Entirely legitimate.
They admitted Miss c. to their
classes and recommended her to =
woman who took a few boarderA
The woman was full up" too.
Squirm No. 8.
Absolutely legitimate.
She gave Miss c. table board,
the use OF her sitting room and found
for her this charming attic.
ut slants. you see; but 1t 10 10 quiet
and peaceful"
It costs her to live thus some SIS
per month. not including laundry, car
fare. books or extras.
For the same price. or less. she
could have-but what's the use:
She has her attic.
Beneath its slantinE roof dvelis an
ideal
where the attic bird
Trills her thick-warbled notes the
summer long!
Evening star., 1922-06-25

Miss. Thanks, don't mind II do"
While she was finishing tho last
Of the cake shot one inquiring
glance over at Barry. He seemed
to understand. Anyway. he shrug-
ged his shoulders and shook his head.
So a moment later I limited to Mrs.
shucklin that the party was over.
In fact, waved her toward the door.
IF I were you. Mrs. shucklin," I
suggested. II think I should stay
away from Bill and his wife"
Maybe I'd better." says she. "He
said next time he'd finish the Job. IL
he went to the chair for it. I guess
I'll lay of 'em both. But say.
dearie-"
As she was leaning against the
doorway and leering foxily at me
again I knew she had something
moro to say.
"Yes7" says I.
"You couldn't spare mo a dollar or
two. could you. dearie7" she asked.
'No," says I: "But Mr.. Plat might
this once. How about It, Barry"
And he seemed willing enough to
speed her on tho way at the price.
"Bah! says he, a. the door closed
after her,
"Indicating bitter mirth. or sad
sweetness2" says I. "And did you
get story that would wiring their
hearts, Barry boy?"
II got cured, that's what I got,"
says he. "O'Brien can have her and
all her kind. He's welcome I
wouldn't put anything rs soggy ana
sordid as that on the stage II ! could.
Ne for comedy"
II hope you stick to it, Barry" says
Il "That 10, If you're planning a part
for me- I don't think I'd be a great
hit as Mrs shucklin, and know I'd
hate being -poked in the eye every
night Como on. Let's 20 around to
Tortoni's and forget the depths"
Copyright, 1e.2 bJ SeMeu Eosd.l
Evening star., 1922-06-25
BY STERLING HEILIG.
PARIS, June Is, 1922.
ri n Y people had the usual idea
!" about Paris" she said. For
VI a girl to go to Paris alone

M about Paris" she said. For
Vy q girl to go to Paris alone
meant making straight for
the lower regions. They gave their con-
sent reluctantly. only on condition that
I find In advance q suitable French fam
lily to live with
She sat In her lonely Paris attic and
rubbed her nose meditatively.
Il have not yet found that family"
she said.
Is Miss c. unreasonable in her
ideals of a suitable French family?
Perhaps, because there arc hundreds
such families, since the war and propa
ganda of our girl war workers. Is she
special? Or perhaps merely ignorant OF
present conditions favorlng American
students in Paris?
Neither, because there are hundreds
like her, in a similar situation, some
times in <.ttics. sometimes in ramshackle
studio.. sometimes keeping up an ap-
pearance in hotels too dear for them to
eat meals also. Yet never was SO much
| being done for American girl students
as at present
y x
DARENTS. at home, who desire to
get into direct correspondence on
this subject, perhaps to have their
daughters write and make arrangements
in advance. can freely address the fol-
lowing: The American Students Home
(for girls), II Rue Ferou. near tho Lux
embourg Gardens, run by tho American
Welfare Center; the American Art
Students Club tgirls), of the Rue de
Chevreuse, originally established by
! Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. The address Is
No. 4. It is opening again since the
war.
And for French families, whose cul-
ture and niceness are guaranteed and
whose one ambition Is to receive Amer
ican girl students al boarders. write to:
The International Guild (for students Of
the French language in particularly. 6
Rue de Ia Sorbonne. It IL connected with
the university and patronized by the
American and British ambassadors. And
the American University Union, Rue
Fqeurus. It is a great and up-to-date
students technical center. dealing with
French university and government It
grew out Of a wartime organization Of
principal American colleges, and among
fifty other things, 1t (like the 1nterna-
tional Guild, maintains a revised list
of French families.
Hundreds Of American girl students
Evening star., 1922-06-25
BY SEwELL FORD.

wv" ::, =: =; g.: :::. r: ;::. II:
the other day. as We
were clearing away the luncheon
dishes in our East Eide studio
She's a lovely girl. Inez. and she has
her good points. but I wouldn't 20 SO
far as to say she was 100 per cent
perfect, No. For instance. this way
she has Of tacking that" to the names
Of people she don't care much about is
sometimes bit raw. especially when
they're your best friends. But, know
ing Inez, I stand for it.
Where do you grab Off the idea there
IS anything the matter between US,
Gnez?" I demands.
We'll. he don't come around so much
now" suggests Inez You amt mad
with each other; eh. Trilby May?'
No, lnez." says I. IF 1t will re-
lieve your mind any. I will assure you
that our long-distance romance has not
as get gone on the rocks 1 hope It
isn't going to disappoint you. either, to
Learn that our little affair, so far as I
Evening star., 1922-06-25

that is enough to discourage real genius.
Now tho first thing We do will be to
go over to Broadway and get your
noble brow fitted to q brand-new straw
kelley"
NF course, don't know the psy-
chology Of 1t, but man in a new
was sitting on the world. or about to.
And If he looks that way he must feel
something of the sort Anyway, after
Barry had picked out glistening new
split sennit with a not too fancy band
he did hold his chin a trif1e high. And
he was able to talk bit more ration
ally about his work.
You know, Trilby May" says he,
I'm not going to do another Of those
silly comedies. Absolutely not I mean
to try for something real and big and
vital this time, not some pifning thing
in three acts that the critics will call a
pleasant evenings entertainment Any
one can write that stuff. What I'm
after is strong. gripping theme: scenes
that will show real life-life in the raw !;
and tense. primitive emotions. No
smooth, clever dialogue. My characters
will growl and snarl and curse each
other, for L going down into the depths
after 'em. For that's where you find
real tragedy, and genuine humor. The
laughs will be ghastly. though They'll
come from british lips. from souls
writhing in agony. from minds numb
with fear. Some of the scenes may be
bloody. I hope they will. l like to
have the whole play fairly drip blood. +"
Wouldn't tnat be perfectly lovely -
says I. And I know just the thing,
Barry. Up on East 57th street is big
slaughter house. You might dramatic
that You could call the piece Cory
Cory. Swift and Armour or something
of the kind. and you could
please, Trilby May" he protested.
Cant you see I'm very much in earnest
about this? If you can't listen seriously
let's go back
Sorry" says L "I'll be good. And
see exactly what you're aiming at.
Something after tho style Of those
snockers O'Brien has been putting out. :"
WELL" admits Barry. perhaps I am
working along the same general line.
But only because he dips into the
depths after his people, as I shall for
mine"
Then where's the hitch?" I asks.
why not 60 ahead and dip?"
But I don't know any such char
acters," says Barry. "One doesn't find
them at a brownstone front boarding
house such as Mrs. wellby's. or parad-
ing up and down 5th avenue. If /
could only get hold of some real miser-
able, wretched human beings; study
them at close range. until had wrung
from them the intimate details Of their
soggy, sodden lives-that would be ma
terial worth while"
"why not do as q painter would -
I asks Hunt up a model"
"Eh?" says he, gawking.
AN artist" I goes on. wouldn't
think Of trying to draw a down-and-
outer without getting some one who
looked like the real thing to pose for
him. Why shouldn't q playwright do
the same? Find your human wretch,
buy his sin-soal1ed story. and then 20
to it. Simple enough, isn't itT'
II say!" says Barry. Frightening mp.
II hadn't thought Of that. don't $50
Why It couldn't be done. Just 60 out
and pick up . model. sh? And then do
the play straight from life Las
let's look around"
"Not on this part Of Sth Gyenue.
Though. Barry" says I. Here we are
in the midst Of gay throng Of smart
Evening star., 1922-06-25
One of Natures Dredges.

TRATERS OF old volcanoes whose
tricks are still unknown. and
craters that have Just taught mon
with unusual care. Interesting ex-
periences have been common. Hardly
one Of the reports of scientists on
volcanoes Is without some tale Of
adventure In which the human side
appeals even more strongly than the
scientific. Here Is the story Of the
adventure one party had on Mont
some years ago.
They were passing on their return
trip over the rugged. lava-like mud
flows, when three sharp peals Of
thunder rang through the air. Roll
ing up over the mountain top was q
great brown, convoluting cloud. It
ascended in dark, rounded masses.
stately yet with great speed. thou
sands and thousands OF twisting.
worming globules. brain shaped.
caulihower-topped. dark almost to
blackness.
As it shot direct from the crater.
this menacing shape spread out and
charged toward the party down the
mountainside.
Running would, It was at once
realized, be useless. The eruption
and its nearness held the men In
wonder and dread, so that they did
not call to their companions below.
but waited until they had labored
halfway up the slope. when the
shout went up, Look at tho noun
tain" and a scramble was made for
the highest point on the nat above.
As the leader of the party gained 1t
In hard breath and looked back a
black thing jumped from behind
bend in the canyon.
With q heavy. earthly roar, . plung-
ing wall Of blackish stun hurled itself
with fearful speed against the side
Of the ravine. bounded to the oppo-
site slope and tore 1t down. It lashed
and tore away the earth like paper.
The men saw the banks melt away
as in a nightmare. Sand. pebbles and
masses Of rock dew into the air be-
fore the resistless onslaught, and
fell into the raging hood and were
borne away like chan. They could
feel the shock Of the ponderous mass
plowing through the ground. ~ when
. train at high speed grinds the rails.
Looking down in wonder. awe and.
perhaps. fright, not one Of the party
had spoken q word.
In twenty minutes the sixty-foot
channel of tho main stream was dug
four feet below the mouth Of = trib-
utary, which. DOSING In silent. mo-
lasses-like surges. dropped in 4 mud
fall into the river.
The men watched for half an hour.
by which time the stream had de-
creased q third. and the erosion Of its
banks was nearly ended. Already.
however, the catastrophe had dredged
the channel to = depth Of ten feet
and had carried on this vast load
into the sea- And when. In the gath
erinH darkness. the party reached
the coslesced mouths Of the two riv-
ers, the Sechs and the blanche. the
dead Of the 0uerin sugar works.
were sending out such heavy volume.
of steam that the party's sioop hae
left her moo-ing ana was standing
well cfshore.
Evening star., 1922-06-25

know. is just where It has been for
the last six months. We haven't gone
in for any secret nuptials, and there's
been no grand crash. We've just been
drifting along as good pals.
HUH" says Inez. If I had fel-
Ter"
Yes. I know" says I. But yours
IS a passionate nature. You either love
EN- or leave 'em. I'm not that kind.
I will admit that I'm rather fond Of
Barry. He's a nice boy, and all that
But for some reason that I haven't had
psycho-analyzed 1 am not yet ready to
tag him as the only man in the world
and 60 bounding into matrimony as
Mrs. Barry P1att. I prefer to remain
Trtlby May Dodge a while longer
single, jobless and unfettered."
'Hun!' echoes Inez, with doubt
showing IN her big gray eyes.
"Oh. very WE'LL" says L "Tll call
him up on the phone and tell him to
come around and report. I know the
answer. though. He's been plugging
away at play which he wants to have
ready for Ames Hunt to read early
next month. and when Barry gets to
burning the midnight kilowatt he's no
more socially inclined. than a dog wor-
rying Q bone. However, it will do him
rood to break loose for a few hours
III see If car get him now
* ***
could There was nothing chiri1y
about his tone as he agreed to dro-
around in an hour or SO and stay for
dinner, and when he did finally come
dragging into the studio ne was quite
as cheerful as the left-hand hind plume
on a fearse BY way Of merry greet
ing he sighed and slunped into a chair.
why ali the hilarity, old dear"
asked. you've got a face like a yard
Of crere, your mouth corners are sag
xed and your eyes are as bright as
couple Of boiled onions. Run out your
tongue and let's see how thick the
fur is
Don't kid me, Trilby May" says
he. "If you do II shall blubber.
What I need now is kind words and
plenty of EN-
That's a big order from bankrupt
Arm" says l. I'll have to think it
over first Now just what is the
trouble:"
You couldn't guess. That is, you
could't unless you have acquired a
Greenwich Village disposition some
where and have had the same synp-
toms. 1t may sound foolish and uncon-
vincing to you. too, but all that had re-
duced Barry from a bright and snappy
young sport In a checked suit to a sal
,ow-faced human wreck was the fact
that for six days he had been facing
an unfolded folding typewriter without
having been able to write a word.
"Its an awful thing to confess. Tril-
by May" says he. but I've run dry"
AFTER producing one whole play?
asked.
Ye nodded "I know" says he. that
The Prince and the Flapper wasn't
such a tremendous magnum opus that
it should exhaust any ordinary brain.
but that's the way it looks. And when
| came back from two months va
cation last week 1 thought my head was
lust full Of brilliant ideas. I was mis-
taken. Day after day I've sat at my
desk. and night after night. without
working up q thought that wasn't ~
dead as the toddls-top or a hcme-brew
Joke. So must be false alarm,
washout, q genuine hop. decided that
night before last. That's Why haven't
been around. didn't have the faca"
RA -
..I1-ELL. you've got face enough
w now. Barry boy says I Face
Evening star., 1922-06-25

Not to mention more or less whis-
kers and traces of yesterdays dust"
says !. What fat women and girls!
At least, they're a we'll nourished lot.
How do the poor get that way, I won
der?"
II don't know" says Barry. And
expect Nearly all foreigners, aren't
they? Even the signs in the shop
windows are foreign. And while most
of these men are rough and coarse
featured. few of them are exactly
we'll, the british kind"
And the farther he walked the more
disappointed he was. About the only
really villainous face he found was on
young tough who was driving a taxi
and we figured that hiring him to pose
would be too expensive. But Barry
wouldn't give up the hunt, and at last,
just as I was making up my mind to
drop out, he gripped me excitedly by
the arm.
Look, Trilby May!" he whispered.
"The female coming toward us!"
+ X 4 4
THAT'S about what she was. = fe-
male person. And q more be-
draggled, forlorn, woe-begone spsci.
men would be hard to ind. She was
thin and gaunt and middle-aged. Her
rusty black skirt hung saggy and
wrinkled to her runover shoes. and .
dingy black veil fell from q dusty
black bonnet over her sagged shoul-
ders. AS a final touch she had q black
bruise under one eye and her lids were
red from weeping.
That's Just the type Two been look.
ing for" says Barry. as she hesitated
tinidly at a street crossing. I'll bet
she could tell a. story Of wrongs and
neglect and sufferings that would
wiring the hearts Of any audience who
saw it staged If I could only get It
out Of her."
"Ought to be simple enough" says
I. SHE looks like tho kind who would
just jump at chance to tell her
troubles to some one" t.
But how" asks Barry, ''can I 60
about"
"If that's all that bothers you." says
I, leave it to me-" ~-.
That's certainly .bully Of you" says
he, land I'm going to take you up on
it. But listen, Trilby May, you mustn't
go about it as IL you were lawyer
cross-examining a witness. To get
what I want this poor woman must
be handled gently, tenderly. with sym
pathy. It must be real sympathy, too
Just think! Here is q soul battered
by the bludgeonings OF fate. . bit Of
human wreckage that has been tossed
about In storms Of hate and love
There's no guessing from what heights
she may have fallen. or how long shs
has dropped: no measuring the sad
sweetness she may have tasted, or the
bitter mirth she may have known. So
when you speak to her"
II get you," says I. Better days
stuff, somebody's mother, ard all that
I'll remember. Here abe comes"
The lady with the black eye was
stunning uncertainty across the street
toward US when I nudged Barry one
side, stepped straight In front Of her.
held both hands and gave her one Of
my well known twisty smiles.
IT it isn't dear MrA PepperfeltI !"
says L
NATURALLY she was surprissd.
~ Also she stopped. She had Nto
But after ono good stare at me- out of
hsr watesy eyes she trisd 70 sdgs
around mo and 60 on. None o thA6
miss she muttered.. ~.
But l blocked her again. aud in my
81 .lf Fl u
Evening star., 1922-06-25
TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF
AMERICAN GIRL STUDENTS IN PARIS

Sterling Heg Writing From French Capital Says Girls Received Never
Such Care Now But That the Problem RemansLe AcKeep
Up Appearances and Obtaining Food Afternoon Tease
Board and Lodging With French Families
Evening star., 1922-06-25

NATURALLY she was surpF1ssd.
- Also she stopped. She had TO
But after ono good stare at me- out of
hsr watesy eyes she trisd 70 sdgs
around mo and 60 on. None o tha6
miss, she nuttered., a..
But l blocked her again. aud in my
Evening star., 1922-06-25

you've got face enough
w now. Barry boy" says I Face
Evening star., 1922-06-25

UpUT couldn't keep away. It
amt natural should. guess
q mothers gotta right to see how
her own sons bein' treated. And
anyway. I didn't know he was COM
in homo 80 early that night. He
caught me tellin' Lisxie few things.
Che was sniflin', she was 10 mad. And
/ expect that's why, Bill soaked me
this last one. I thought was killed.
Dragged mo down two flight Of stairs,
too. he did. and threw mo out in the
street, with all the nsighbors lookin'
on.
~oh, WELT Az I tell MrA Greble.
.tis . hard life ws women lead.
Nothin' but trouble. from cradle to
the grave. M-m-m. That's good cake.
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