Life — August 20, 1925 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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32 LIFE A Ray of Hope for the Drama “Tuat son of mine who graduated from the University of Wisconsin this year has decided to be a_play- wright, but I tell him he don’t know enough profanity.” Amadece Billings, the Jonesville hardware merchant, was speaking. “Of course, the boy can swear some, but not near enough for a stage, success. “He says there is a lot in a success- jul play of to-day besides swearing; and I said maybe there was and I hadn't noticed it, as I am getting a little hard of hearing. One of his arguments is that play that'll tell the real truth of white men in the tropics has never been written, and I gather from him that he'll consider writing it if he has sufficient inducement. “I told him that I got a great idea for a play when I was at the hardware dealers’ convention in New York last spring, and that if he would let me col- laborate I'd stake him to a year of playwriting. My idea is to have a play in which the people in the audience will be allowed to do half the swearing, just picking out places here and there to suit themselves. I told the boy I thought that would be a knockout, but he got mad and said I didn’t understand art. “His mother says to Ict him go ahead because he wants to write his war pl. first. He's going to give the low-down on the war. She says considering he was only fourteen when the war was over, the hest way for the family as a whole is to give him all the encourage- ment he needs and Iet him go to it. And I guess maybe she's right.” McC. H. Listen In Tourist: Is there a mechanic in town? Native: Wal, to hear him tell it, ye'd think there was, MEN-~Stop Falling Hair! Is GOOD For repatring eht- na plasswai tele + a + trac, meerchaum; Up- ping billiard cues. Be per _ bottle. Rubber and Leath- er Cement: per bottle at dealers. Lire’s Fresh Air Fund The Sicge of the Tenements! 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