New Britain herald., 1925-05-15
"QlITT THE THING TO
DO"-TO US

Nt course, no person with sense any longer believes any theatrical story that the star of tNe company lost tto,ooo in grwoIs, either due 10 y thteyery or ahsontmtNdcdncss 4 Nigh s"ared member ot the intel ljgcntsia, such as wo have in our degenerate days, merely scoffs when he reads such a yarn; he has roal too many like them, Hc has 10 road rcj.cra'lons ot the same yarn for three or four days before he begins to suspect it might he true. Sometimes the police and do- 'criiros arc tocKcyed into looking Tor the missing jewels. l. perhaps is coincidence Of fate and logic that they are never found.
 Perhaps Now Yorl moods 10 ho 0un5od in order 10 believe some thing, Carping critics in the stjcNs 'ake an inordinate delight in do- bunkinr Now York, and as there is SO much of l' -- na moan both of Now York ard the bunk the C, rs have work for a lifetime. Since tho days of Barnum --- the man who contributed 10 the hnowl- edge Of nations by saying a sucker is born every minute - mc,ropoIi- ian theatrical producers have not ably improved their technic, They even know more than Barnum did, for they are convinced by this time that two suckers are born every minute In the course of time, as 'ho population increases, the rate probably will De three suckers a minute.
 l. would take a book ot large dimensions 10 coi,ale, classify and codify all the bunk that has been spun around the stellar stars of the stage during the past generation.
 Only recently VIC had a male opera
 star pushing a female opera star
 off the stage; another opera s'ar--
 or was it the same one? - having
 snakes for pets; composer wearing
 a purple skirt, rod uochtia and
 sporting hobby cane and one eye
 glass, also a banIana handkerchief,
 so that he wouldn't attract much
 attention; writers who refuse 10 n1c with their husbands or their wives
 so as not 10 be bothered by any
 thing moro pa+ejonata than ra- tonic marriage stat; wives whc hold tight 10 their madden name sc as not 10 De inferior; a woman or, , chcs,ra conJuctor who disappcoro- before a lug coaecr. Cher puoIicry asen, immediately thereafter got 2 bigger Jo1 with 2 nir rbcatrloa cou cern). Dumbbci editors ever or .he alert 10 prevent advertising from creeping into tho ro5ular news col, I umns. play up Inc stories with tho , ayiduy of wild anlma.s looking fol . prey.
 Bu, it remains for 'ho Princes Maria Carml Da,cuaOclI, I'aIaI 9 beauty, 10 tell a fltchlng story oI l Morris Gcst. producer. We don' know whether 70 believe the stor. ] or regard it as another Of ,hos n posky rubhcity punts. Anyhow Y seems that Gvst "causcd the nlW2 papers to be iuformcd' that th
 princess was trying 10 force Lad
 Diana Manners, another sc'rea'
 out O. the role, The two played th
 role OIL alternate nights. The prln cess protested against the stori'' , sho says, and was informed ina ', .ns kind of publicity was "Qaj. ~ Inc thing to do" m America. No she is suing Gost Tor $5o"0"o. ., In employing two actresses :' 
 -ae sam ro!c. .o br p.ayol iF ii"
 on alternate nights, the p'"'
 must have boon grra', Mo. Ges' F. 10 Le co#Srauuat,d upon G"'n ,a ,ne extra salary outlay haC" m 1T .v e9sa o' th's extra puhdcfy