Life — June 24, 1926 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Pub “While there is Life there's Hop. ed by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 98 M Curastes Dawa Ginson, Pres R. E. Snenwooo, Editor F. D. Casey, Art Editor GOVERNOR SMITH’‘S t married. It daughter able was a very lacking hd be contributed wedding, nothir that ¢ by Church State or newspapers. It was the kind of wed ding that could happen only once in any family, If ( threatened with another like it, it is recommended to him to consult the Al General Philip Schuyler, whose daug wernor Smith should be archives in any about the family of ters, when it came time for them to take off, dutifully and considerately eloped, ene with Alexander Hamilton and the rest with other men able gentle- Whether the Governor's presidential prospects will be forwarded by this resounding social adventure it would be indelicate to discuss, as also whether the red train which carries the Car- dinals and other ecclesiastical delegates to the Eucharistic Congress at Chi will make theesort of noise as it crosses the country that will make for Smith delegates to the next Democrat vention, But he seems at least to have survived the wedd . Which is a con- siderable achievement in itself, and matter for rejoicing GOOD deal of about presidential conver ought is taken ns just now and most of it no de abt is pre- mature If it is true, as the World says, that Charley Ross is at last found, he may be a ¢ date. He has an interesting record, and be ng only recently identificd as himself, can have no enemies. When we see the new Senate (prospectively will’ do) we ! shall know more about the mind of the lison Av 1, New York Cate Maxwett, Vice-President Lancnoane Ginsox, Secretary and Treasurer a antry so far as it has one, and pos- sibly be better able to compute what it w s. With Pepper beaten in Per sylvania and Cummins in lowa and matters so doubtful in] Massachusetts and so animated in New York and Ohi crumbling, but whether it is Mr. Cool- Republican orceme . it looks as if something was idge’s popularity or the riff policies, or Volstead en is still all highly speculat tors of politics are observin ve. The doc- the symp. toms but they do not pronounce yet on the diagnosis, The increasing candor of political iscourse is very comforting. Dr. Murray Butler and Senator Wa worth talk with that freec cially about rum laws, that you would never know they were Republicans Senator Wadsworth, running for re- nm, agrees with Dr. Butler in ask- ing for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Mr. Wadsworth would have an amendment increasing the pow M, espe clectic ers of Congress to deal with rum and go on from that to provide for situa tions as they exist or develop. The only real alternative to Prohibition is gov- ernment control of the sales of i oxi- cants. That is the Quebec system, which is under observation and so far looks better than any other. The Drys ew York State have a candidate, Cristman, whom they expect. to run, and we are likely to have an interesting campaign of it with an open discussion of Wet and Dry issues which will go all over the country in the news- papers T is announced that the Evening Post is to have a new Editor, Mr. Julian Mason, now or lately the managing editor of the Herald Tribune, An © paper somewhat different from rk would be very welcome. The more successful eveni 1y now prevalent in New Y ones are too big and carry more ad- vertising than the tired business man i the of the cares to go through at the en overhaul from thirty to fifty newspaper pages in order to get the evening news is more of a luxury than most people can afford. Possibly Mr. Mason will be able to make an inter- esting editorial page in the Evening Post. It has been done in times past There is more need of good eve k because ning papers in New Ye 1s quality of the Persons who stay at home of the present hazar¢ theatres. and read the paper are reasonably safe from) moral infection. Persons who take their chances in the white-light district of Broadway seem to be ex- able hazards, Heaven knows where the shows are coming out, but at present they are passing throt gh a curic nd somewhat amus- ing stage of experiment to discover if there remains any public sense of pro- pricty, and if so, what are its bound- aries, In this quest the showmen seem to know no other way t til it hurts, which they high rates of admission » give un- do faithfully at il courts, police or censors conclude that they have passed the limit which current taste proves, and hold them up a matter of custom rather than of morals, but morals themselves are matters of custom, and for us they h clothes. Paris rical spectacles, and they do so go in Paris, and quite decent people, men and women, go to see them, and some of Gar are complicated w says girls may go bare in the: these observers report. themselves as “thrill The highly respectable London Spe tator lately conducted a discussion of theatri Here it not been much discussed in print, " by the beauty of these shows. this issue al nudity has but with it in practice on Broadway E. S. Marti ne hears of constant experiment ll comicbooks.com