New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-09

WV , HAT will the American
U q | League Of Authors do for
wv a topic when the fapper
V grows up? The poor girl
has become q regular meal
ticket, soup bone. for the potboilers.
/ Perhaps that is why. in spite Of all that
! has been written about her, she re-
mains so wan and vague, so insub-
stantial. IL is possible that we don't
I know the half Of IL. for what we do
/ know Of her amounts 10 no more than
a half hour OF casual observation would
supply. in real life And we have been
| told that little so often-that the flap
Der smokes. drinks. bobs her hair, rolls
her stockings. checks her corsets,
/ jazzes furiously and has no respect for
her elders hearing II once more. we
either turn away stated or are inclined
TO say. Eyes, yes, 90 on" These items
! OF information do not reveal a charac-
/ ter. nor hardly a Fundamental type;
they are only a catalogue Of contempt
rary msnnerisms.
Mr. Gibbs tries TO 90 on with his
| Cherry Mohun, heroine Of THE House
OF Mohun." lie adds that she was a
good girl at heart, and would have
/ been better II any one had taught her
how. He blames the happer's naughty
ways on the indifference Of her parents.
! Cherry's mother was a pretty, silly,
selfish woman, who lived By her vanity
case and for the Social Register. Her
/ fath0r was a money-making machine.
/ Having lowered their child with wealth
and beauty, what more could be ex-
pected Of them? Unfortunately, the
elder Mohun's for.ane went 10 smash
in the depression following the war,
and his health WI il. Poor Cherry
found herself confronted by the neees-
sity OF earning a living, with no prac-
teal equipment for the task. That Is
very sad; but IL is what about GO
per cent Of American girls face; and
I Cherry is described as robust erea-
ture. To do her justice, Cherry did
get on the job as a model in depart
ment store, and made good AZ II. In
/ time she might have found more in
teresting work and discovered self
support TO be pleasant in a Spartan
way; but for the sake OF the story n
/ faithful lover had 10 come 10 the res
cue. His rich aunt made this possible.
Relatives are 20 obliging-in fiction.
So after all the Victorian tradition
/ triumphed over the modern girl.
The story appeared as a magazine
serial. and conforms 10 the Median-
Persian magazine standards OF style,
which means an agreeable medioerity.
II would be e1igeant 20 ask more; but
/ will not Mr.. Gibbs or some other kind
author explain 10 n puzzled female OF
I the elder generation why a happer
wears eorsets at all II she intends 20
I leave them az the first hotel check
room7 with the present styles, It IS
simpler 20 omit them In the first place,
as every woman knows IL she weighs
in uader a hundred and thirty.
A MOTHER theme which has been
"a employed before. though never to
Z the point Of staleness, is treated in
THE Case Of Sir Edward Talbot" Not
all the progress Of science can rob the
black art OF its horrifying thrill. The
most skeptical reader finds himself in
the position Of the man who did not be-
lieye in ghosts. but was afraid OF them.
| II isn't true nor possible, Of course
but II Il werel That is Mr. Goldrie's at
titude. He does not commit himself
70 a decision whether Sir Edward Tai
bot was a eunninEly vicious lunatic or
n real master Of the forces Of evil; but
ne makes the problem an absorbing one.
Sir Edward claimed 10 be that Edward
Kelley whom history mentions In pals-
ing as an assistant 20 the famous DR..
Dee. astrologer and crystal gaIer ex-
traordinAry 70 Queen Elizabeth, and he
showed a pair Of cropped ears, souvenir