The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-12-24
LETTER II

Dear Monm:
The first thing got to explain is
that l have changed my name again.
The fashions in names changes very
fast and you think you have a good
one but you find it is a flop. But l
never was altogether pleased with
ISABEL and have decided to make it
Rosabelle. / think it is much pref
tier because when you say Rosabelle
Riggs both the words begins with
the same letter and a gentleman told
me that is called ALTERATION and
name is much sweller when it is IL
hterate; all the movie stars are do
ing it they say you can't get into the
movies at all unless you have got an
llllterate name. The new girl at our
place is named Mary May Marie, and
that is nice too only you have to
say the last name French fashion,
IF you DON'T" l says to her, cit
sounds like hint to the gentlemen"
1t is getting to be swell to have
French names. Ada Higgins has
changed hers to Adaire and then
Hattie Schoenstein she says, "What
shall / make mine?" and l saws,
"Why not try Hotaire?" and that is
how | get into trouble being too
bright altogether.
want you to please explain to
Pop, so that he will not have his
feelings hurt that l do not like the
good Old-fashioned honest label of
Name that he gave me. This is not
an Old-fashioned beauty parlor that
work in and you can't expect to
know what is considered shief if you
spend your whole life in the gas
house district of Camden, New Jer-
sey. And / know Nom how you gave
up a glorious stage career for your
little ones, and this little one is much
obliged but I got my own career to
make now and sure don't want no
| enemy to paste the label of Name on
to me. But of coure Pm always the
same to the home folks yours affec-
tionately.
P. S. Well, have just got back
from dinner with my new gentleman
friend. / will not say much for q
Greek restaurant. 1t seems that the
way you tell Greek cooking is thai
everything is swimming in the juices
of baby lamb only when it gets q
little cold it seems like what we al
home used to call mutton suet Mr.
Edgerton explains that the Greeks is
a pastoral people they have only
Sleeps and goats. But l would of
thought they would of learned the
uses Of beefsteak when they come to
the good old U. S. A. But l suppose
they have got to be different as that
is called local color" when you go
out Summing or dining with a gen
/ tleman friend.
But oh Nom the conversation was
/ the most intellectual that l ever lis
/ tened to and l am so excited I can
/ hardly make my letters good. 1t was
! just like going to Hollywood and be-
ing took in behind the scenes where
/ you could watch Mary PickfOrd put
ting on her makeup. You that has
/ been a stage queen can understand
how it is everything is so different
behind the scenes you would hardly
know that it is the same show at
all. l always thought l was the lit
tie wise girl and nobody could put
nothing over on me but now l am
behind the scenes of the political
show and oh my God to think that ]
was ever one of the boobs that sat
out in front of the curtain and laugh
ed and cried over them old, old gags!
First Mr.. Edgerton put me wise to
the leading gentleman that is called
the Spokesman. Mr.. Edgerton has tC
spend a lot of time with Him every
day, teaching Him His role, and he
told me all about it, and it was just
like l was there in the great white
house where He acts
1t seems that this Spokesman wa,
born and raised in the State of Flor
ida and that is a very cold state
with a great lot of mountains thai
is covered with snow most of the
time. 1t is very rocky ground anC
hard to raise anything on and so the
people in Florida has got to worl
hard for a living all the time anC
they are very saving and apt to b,
stingy for which Mr.. Edgerton say
you can't blame them, seeing hoV
nature has been a step-mother Il
them all. So this Spokesman's on,
idea is to save pennies and when H,
was the governor of this State o.
Florida He used to live in one hote
room and when the bankers and tn,
big business men thought that wa.
not dignified enough and He wanted
to show them that He could be a!
swell as they was He took two hote
rooms.
The Spokesman is a little Man
kind of stoop-shouldered and pinched
uplike and He is very much worried
because He is not imposing lookins
like He had ought to be to fit int,
that big white house that He has go
to act in. Him and Mr. Edgerton haC
many consultations about it and Nh
Edgerton told Him to face it out an,
make a joke out of it and tell Hi
visitors that He was like a singed ca
a lot better than He looks. At frs
that hurt His feelings but He mus
of thought it over and decided it wa
His best bet and now He says it t,
His visitors. His face is kind of wiz
ened and some nasty woman said tina
He had been weaned on a pickle bu
Mr.. Edgerton amt ever advised Hin
to say that to His visitors.
Well now He is the Spokesman an,
He has got the job of telling tn
American people what to do an,
what to think. And it seems a quee
lob for Him Mr. Edgerton says be
cause if He had His own way H