Judge — December 8, 1923 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN SAID— by Walter Prichard Eaton E HAVE been reading reminis- cences, Reminiscences are nothing more, really gossip—and of course nobod who didu't like to hear v The best gossip always contains a few things it is better to repeat in a lowered voice, with a glance toward the children, Unfortunately, the reminiscences we hy been reading can nearly all be repeated in aloud tone, Still, we've enjoyed ourself, Samuel Goldwyn (né Goldfish) stopped selling gloves about ten years ago and organized a company to produce feature films—pictures up to that time being at most only two reels long. He has been a prominent figure in the motion picture world ever since, He knows Doug and Mary and Charlie—talks about ‘em just like that! He persuaded Geraldine Farrar nd Mary Garden and Maxine Elliott to t before the camera (and in the latter two cases wished he hadn't). In fact, he has become such a great man that he’s just had to write about it, and the result, “Behind the Screen” (Doran), is a naif but entertaining volume. We ourself got »ssip. most — entertainment from = Ma Mayo’s retort to Mary Garden. didn’t like the way they staged *” and when she saw the film, she wept. “Imagine a saint dying like that!” she cried, Miss Mayo regarded her at some length. Then she responded, “You would have a hard time, Miss Garden, proving to any- one that you were a saint.” Subtle, what And when Eleanor Glyn met Charlie Chaplin, she said, “Dear, dear, so this is Charlie Chaplin. Do you know, you don’t look nearly so funny as I thought you would.” To which Charlie snapped right back, “Neither do you.” Gorenony calling himself "NX" has SS written a book called “Myself Not Least” (Henry Holt) & Co.), which gossips about literary and. political per- sons and events in’ London, Paris and various Balkan capitals. 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JV THE new generation is in for another whack, or, rather, our generation (assuming that you, like are middle-aged) is in for a whack bee we've made the youngsters what they arc to-night, and we are far from satisfied Alfred E. Stearns, headmaster of Phillips Ando ademy, in “The Challenge of Youth” (W. A. Wilde Co.), has written a book for parents, about their boys. Stearns was one of the finest all ‘round athletes in] America in the early "90's As coach and then as headmaster, he has heen connected with Andover, one of the two largest prep schools in the country. for twenty-five years. He speaks, then one having authority. And what he ys in effect is, not that the modern boy is any worse than his predecessors, but that his parents are. There is a base side, or call it a bodily side, to adoles- cence, and it is the job of the home, the school, society, to see that this side is not appealed to, that the boy is safeguarded from himself, and disciplined into self- reliance and confidence in’ his better tearns seems to think the home is in a bad way, the stage movies, literature, in a worse way, and the modern boy isn’t disciplined to a respect for law, for womanhood, ct cetera. One nice Saturday afternoon, it seems. all the 634 boys in P| hillips Academy went to see Theda Bi “Cleopatra.” In the 1890's, he dec they would have been playing tennis or haseball. Well, we aren't a headmaster, but we went to Phillips-Andover in the we can assure Mr. Stearns that on and sundry nt afternoons a great many boy's, even in those happy regenerate days, weren't pl ball. ‘They were reading the novels of a certain Albert Ross (such as “The *), or Town Topics, or—but we mercifully draw the veil. As for the petting parties in automobiles, which Mr. Stearns complains of, we can only | ask him if he has quite forgotten the path “And a little child shall lead them!” comicbooks.com