, 1925-02-01
Actors Plan
Make War
OnRadioF Fan
Contented Man Offers
Subject of Worry,
They Declare.
BY ROBERT t. SMALL.

Copyright. 1925, Consolidated Press
Association.)
NEW YORK. jar. 3f.-The con-
tented mar In the home is to be
made the next subject OF general at
tack. No man should stay home by
the fireside in the evening. He is
both a threat and a menace In short
he is something to worry about.
This is the dictum of the Ameri- |
can actors, who are going to set
about to do all in their power to
make the men of the United States
disconnected. The actors are going to
try to make the man leave home.
Heretofore, 1t has been thought that
actresses might do such a thing.
in exceptional cases. of course. but
now the entire profession. male and
female, is to make a general assault
upon him who Is SNUG and salts
fled sitting by the fire or close to
the piping radiator, reading his eve
ming paper. doing his cross word
puzzle, or cross brain puzzle. US
some people are calling them these
days.
Above all, the profession proposes
to smite hip and thigh him who is
content to listen in on his bloom
ing radio.
How to mike a man unhappy at
home is the great puzzle which CON
fronts the actors and actresses as
they start their campaign under the
slogan Of don't drown the drama
It is a movement akin in a way 10
the .'buy-a,baie-of-cotton moveme
of war days or the save-a-lifc league
or the animal rescue society. Fer
hans It is q bit of all these thrown
together.
But don't drown the drama" is
the important thing at the moment.
Evidently the poor old 'drammer
is In danger OF being pitched into
the pond or snuffed out with chloro-
form.
Gene Buck, the sons writer n
head OF the new movement. is re-
spon.ible for the discovery of the
fact hat the contented man at home
is the real trouble with the theater.
Attacking specifically the radio put
having cross words in mind as wen
as in tho mouth. Gene rose up
exclaimed to the assembled artists
that anything that keeps a mar at
home and satisfied Is something Tor
actors TO worry about.
That statement is rather a sweep
ing one and naturally 1t covers a
vast mount of territory. There has
been plenty of discussion In the past
as to why men as well as girls leave
home. The big question of today is
what keeps men at home Evidently
the actors don't consider good COOK
ing as their enemy. Performances
are arranged so as to interfere as
little as possible with meal hours.
It is what happens after the meal In
the evening that worries the actors.
The radio is the black beast most
factors have in mind, but there ore
philosophers in the profession VINO
realize there are other things TO
blame as well. There he's been no
catalog made as yet OF these "otner
things" but apparently they have a
fascination above that of the
Why should a man stay at home
here in New York and be contenteo
and satisfied and find pleasure In
other pursuits when he can go to one
theater for instance and find RECALLED
before him as ugly a story OF oe-
generacy as human brain ever de-
vised? why stay at homo when you
can see a son at intrigue with his
stepmother? Why stay at home
when, in the same show. you can
sec a baby killed in its crib in or
der hat guilty mother and father
may-"carry one?" That all comes IN
der the head of strong stuff and
represents the emancipation of the
metropolitan stage. But the average
citizen. after an evening at play like
this, is. only too glad to get home n
stay there.