The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-14
EOLL|ES GIRL s
! / URE FOR MEN
MYSTERY
Mrs. Catherine Tribe, Once one
Herself Discusses Life on
Great White Way
By WILLIAM PARKER.
Cosmopolltan News Service staff
CORES rOmGlGnf.

gCopyright, 1923, BY COsnopolitan'
News Service. IL
Los ANGELES, Calf, March IA.
I have often wondered why II
IS that ssF0llies" girl holds such
fascination for mem In New York
there seems To be- some sort Of
social distinctions at least along
that street so aptly called The
Great White Way. to be seem id
the company De FOliiesa or
s1yinter Garden beauty
Mrs. Catherine Tribe was talking
with the Cosmopolitan News Servs
Ice correspondent In the apartment
where she was found in her self
Imposed exile. Mrs. Tribe IL the
young Follies beauty who had
Little PhiI'' AIguin. alleged Los
Angeles murderer deported from
Mexico, her husbands liberty from
the Los Angeles city Jail being her
reward.
But Mrs. Tribe is now trying to.
determine whether to go back to
Aer husband Or obtain a divorce.
81 know / used to get u thrill
myself, = continued Mrs. Tribe
when would go into the fashion
able Ritx-C Carlton Hotel and other
exclusive hotels In New York and
hear somebody remark in low
bilt audible tone. There goes one
of the Follies girls
And IN dancing at the Ritz, the
Cafe de Paris. the Palais ROyale
and such popular cafes Il would
often hear peopIe say, There goes
one Of the dancers we saw tonight
nt the Xiegfeld Follies
Reason fOr tlne GIamOr.
suppose this glarnor IS due to
consflerabIe degree to there being
~ many transients iii New York,
people who have come there on
business or pleasure. Back home
they had been. suppose, Viewing
the Follies and the Winter Garden
two peculiarly New York institu-
tons As something afar OFF, gilt
fering realm beyond the common
place Of their lives. and they had
surrounded the girls with the
glamOr and Injuries or Oriental
Queens; and associated their private
llxes with the tabled extrayagarice
o. Egyptian court life. am always
thankful that my sense or .l1umOr
comes to my rescue whenever I
think Of the exaggerated ideas peO-
pie have of an actress life, and the
hero worship which Is n part of
their lives.
Stage people are keenly sensitive
70 this hero worship. And let me
ray that this hero worship il fatal
20 many stage girls. 1t must be
viewed as irnpersonaI. for next year
there IS always q new crop of beau
ties on Broadway III il pififul iii
the extreme To see some of these
One-time famous show girls after
their beauty and popularity both
have waned
Once petulaut, temperan1entaT
and high strung. the toast Of the
town they become bitter. haggaFd
and Outlines the victims OF drugs,
q futile striving for a stimulant to
revive for the moment the Thoughts
Df their glorious yesterdays.
Girls who have taken an imper-
gpnm view OF their beauty and pOpu-
laxity. have. IN many instances,
graduated to important musical and
dramatic roles, or else have married
well and are now living happily,
The mothers Of families.
Incident Of Hero Worship.
Hero worship is. as say,
strange and mystifying thing 1
want to relate an incident which,
= ~. -
even as familiar az anyone in the
stage profession becomes to public
admiration, was novelty to me.
Some months ago, just before
ROdolph Valentino went East, I was
81 the tea room OF one of the big
Los Angeles hotels with two married
eOuples from q city near. New York.
IT had previously met Valentino,
several years ago and before he be-
came celebrity. Also i had been
casually introduced to Constance
Talnaadge. When mentioned this
20 the women in our party they
insisted ] should at once take them
over to the tables where Valentino
and Miss Talmadge were seated ana
introduce them. OF course, any
reasonably minded person would not
ask such a thing. My friends.