Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-05
1T Can't be D0ne''
By FREDERIC ARNOLD RUNNER

/ only in pictures. but on the stage.
but none Of these wouid-he vamrs
ever got anywhere. You see, Lew
has a wife-a plain, middle-aged
woman, but sharp ~ n terrier. she'd
check him up, quick enough. III he
ever tried TO wonder from the family
fireside- Between YOU and me. he's
a bit sfraid OF her"
Again Jimmy Reese INDUCED in his
cynical smile, quite -unconvinccd BY
Tony's arguments.
"Old stuff, my boy-old stuff.
When did checking up a husband
ever help to hold him What you've
just told me about his wife makes
him an easier mark than / thought.
Don't tell me about these gay old
birds with Jealous wives. l know
them
The look ~ anxiety on Tony
Hull's face d~eepened. His fingers
shook a trifle "a he lit another Gig
arctic.
Look here. Jimmy he asked.
Are you keeping anything back y
To hear you talk. Davidson is bound
ID make a fool of himself, just be-
cause Irene Shirley has given him a
4 AUGEAt va UABt stats MAJ n tA@
big idea, anyway ?"
There isn't any, except what I've
told you. lin not keeping back "a
thing. But | know Ircne-know her
methods-and so do you. A lot bet
ter than ] 40, for that matter I've
been watching her, ever since she
came with the lnter-Ocean-have
met her. over and over. ne parties
and the like, and ! can see she's
made up her mind to vanip some
body-anyhody-who can help her
become a star. Fe~s-that's her am
bition, even III IL does hand you a
laugh. She tried IL on Sam kess-
Ter. last year, but Sans only 40, with
a young wife who keeps him busy rs
= hen on q hot griddle looking after
her needs, 20 IL didn't work. And
she tried il on old man Roth. Of the
All-Star. too, but he told her he'd
put on carpet slippers. when he got
70 be so, and decided not to make
any bigger fool of himself than God
Almight had already done for him.
You remember how dippy he was
over Stella Adair, a few years ago. I
guess he learned his lesson-and
paid a fat price for VI. too. But Da-
wilson's seven or eight years young
or, and just ripe for some sweetie
who'll tell him she doesn't find
young boys interesting because they
are 30 raw and crude-that only men
Of experience can give her the men
tai thrills shes after"
Mental thrills Irene+ Good
Lord"
Exactly. That's her latest line.
She hasn't enough real grey matter
to annlyze half one one per cent, but
she's a whiz when il comes To play
ing her own particular game. ! had
a long talk with her one day. down
az the beach. She was sitting I'M
der N big umbrella reading-what
do you think+Ulysses.' I don't
suppose she gets much out Of i'll
couldn't, myself-but this highbrow
pose goes we'll with schoolgirl dress
es. and no makeup. If some wise
cracking vamp be~ins 10 ask you
about 'Jur~en.' or Tainted Wells, or
Women In Love- you naturally think
she's out to talk dirt. But let some
sweet and innocent young thing pull
that stuff on you-On "a man like
Davidson, say-and want to know
what it's all about, and ten chances
ia one he'll jump to the conclusion
that it's bis duty to protect her from
The cruel world. Wesi-that's Irene's
new line. James Branch Cabell in
words Of one syllable Its N mighty
dangerous line. Tony. believe me.
That's why ] say what ! have about
Davidson. But after all, suppose
Irene does hook him What differ
| ence does X make 90 you-now? ~
"None. Jimmy-not In the way you
mean don't give a tinker's dam
what Irene does or doesn't do-per-
sonally. But il so happens that our
company may decide. pretty soon, 10
make a new star. and I'm rather hop
ing to see a young woman We have
with US now get the contract. Jane
Dare's her name. Know herr"
Reese shook his head.
~Not personally. But I've seen
her, in some Of your productions.
Very pretty but a trifle-well-cold.
I thought"
Nonsense. She hasn't had a
chance. that's all. B~Ianketed. Alice