The producers news., 1927-03-11

He thinks for a while and then he
says, "Miss Riggs | am going to ex-
plain something to you that at first
you may find hard to understand.
There is difference between public
life and other life and there rs a
kind of truth for each. ! think may
be it will be asier for you to under
stand because you tell me that your
mother was once an actress
"Yes," says, "she was a great ac-
tress she played Eliza in Uncle Toms
Cabin for many years"
Well he says, then you must
of been to plays and maybe behind
the scenes and you know that play
can be true as a play and yet it don't
have TO be true in other ways. For
instance suppose your mother IS
playing the part of a young girl well
she makes up that way and she pre-
tends to be happy and the audience
is all delighted and they get a truth
out of that play But it may be that
really yout moher is older and has |
got children at home and one of them
has got the Group believe you told /
me one of them had-and your moth
er is not feeling happy that night at
all yet she has got to play that she !
is happy because that is the play |
truth but if she was to act the real |
truth and cry on the stage why she |
would spoil the show and the audi !
ence would not get the truth Of the
play at all and they would go home
sore"
OF course | can see that. But |
says, "This that we are talking about
/ is real life
"But are you sure?" he says. Sup
! pose you was to get behind the
scenes and discover that this game
Of politics is another kind Of q play
and that everybody in it has got to
pretend that they are different from
their real selves"
Well OF course | am kind Of stun
ned and he can see it my my face and
he says, docs that shock you so
much 2" he says. Don't you see that
the people have got to have ideals
they have got to believe in great
men 2"
"Yes," | says, "but aren't there no
real great men 2"
There is now and then a great
man." he says, "but he is very scarce
and most generally you will find that
he is not available for Spokesman
There can be a thousand different
reasons maybe he is not acceptable
to the Knights of Columbus or may
be he was born in Kishineff or may
be he believes in evolution or maybe
his wife has divorced him or maybe
none of the big bankers is ever met
J him. So you have got to take some
j body that has been careful and not
made no enemies and then when you
have got him you have got to do
the best you can by him and the
! daughter Of a famous actress should
r ought to understand how much q
n sldllful makeup and the right cos
n times can do to say nothing of &
e highly skilled press agent and 6
good lady assistant" he says with {
o bow
But his little compliment don't hell
d him for | says, "Then you are all tn,
n time fooling the plain peopel" | says
it Miss Riggs" he says, "you are
It serious young lady and | want you {,
f stop and think what would happen e
u this country if the people was to los,
e their reverence for the Spokesman
d that lives up in the big white hous,
z and tells them what to think ant
n what to do ?"
Well of course ! cant think wha
Z would happen but Mr.. Edgerton h
s. says, "Look here / have got a piec
ID out Of a paper from town in tn
At middle west and there was ma
TO from that town that come to Wash
ne ington and he shook the hand of tn
it Spokesman and then he went bac
IN home and when the word got out tina
is I've had actually shook the hand of tn
ed Spokesman the members of his lodg
nd passed a resolution and they stoo
at him up hv the door and every on
i'll of the seventy-five men in the lodp
C filed by him and shook the hand thf
US had shook the hand of the Spolei
so man. And that is what you call Fait
ne Miss Riggs that is having an ide.
a end if all them seventy-five men ws
lis to lose 1t what would happen to the
he the whole seventy-five would =,
en- drunk md go home and beat the
"a wives"
ng AMI he goes on, "Yes, Miss Riggs
ey he says, "it would mean riot and r,
a revoluticn. You can go and ask an
an ot then Boshivilds if there is an
,he thing Trey would like better than
have The American people pet q
me idea that the Man they have got f
ar Spokesman is a poor little Fell
.ou with carroty hair and a sallow 81,
ire that suffers from constitutional tin
"a dity and has got where He is by
I'VE ways waiting for His mind to
ow made up for llim-just you ask The
Bolshivilis and hear them who
OPP with delight"
he Mr. Edgerton," says, "you mt
ave know ! have never met no Bolshivl
will and don't never expect to-
up There is a plenty of them."
md says right here in Washington d.
ne some of them is in the Senate ant
cell you it puts a grave responsible
u ON YOU and me and other loyal Am,
you leans. Because this is what has ha
es- pened Miss Riggs right in the mid,
to on the SHOW the leading Gentlem
Idc. had went and died and the Understu
on has took His place and it Is the mn
awful job that has ever feel onto
~ theatrical management i'm the ent
ain history of the American DRAMA"
ree says Because in this here politi
of play there is no way that the Und
'ars study can ever have a chance TO
heatse with the rest of the compa
of one minute He is just sort of ci