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...eviction of Imogene marks a serious break in theatrical tradition. Heretofore chorus girls, particularly Follies girls, were supposed to get themselves into the newspapers. Newspapers or separation papers?it all came to the same thing. The public reads and runs to the box office. Witness Countess Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner who can neither act nor sing nor dance. Simply by her extraordinary endurance and ability to keep on getting married and keep on getting in the newspapers she keeps on getting star's situations in expensive musical revues...
Sued for Separation. Gosta Morner, 26, Swedish Count, President of a toothpaste plant in Chicago, by Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 30, on grounds of nonsupport. Morner denied the charge, asserted that she married him for his title. Said she: "I didn't give a damn for his title. If I wanted one, I could have been a princess or something...
...World War definitely to judge of its general benefits to mankind, yet the victory did result in preventing domination by autocracy, with all of its disastrous effects upon civilization, and the evidence is clear that the free peoples of the world will unite in resisting such domination." Upton Sinclair, "U. S. Bolshevik": "The world gained by the World War an opportunity to learn thoroughly that capitalist governments are incompetent to manage civilized communities, and that national competition for raw materials and foreign markets will wreck civilization during the present generation, if it is not checked by a system of international...
Political bands have learned a new tune, The Ladies are Coming. Four years ago women were first recognized by the National Republican organization. The form of the recognition consisted chiefly in the appointment of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton as Vice Chairman of the National Executive Committee. Next Fall Mrs. Upton is going to run in the 19th Ohio district as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congressman. Meanwhile she offered her resignation as Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee...
...Associated Press for the benefit of seniors interested in that business. As the advisory season is now on, I write to say that it should have been an apology. Those interested should by all means before committing themselves glance at the other side of the picture as exhibited in Upton Sinclair's "Brass Check". Sinclair's picture is just as exaggerated as the A. P. man's, but I know from experience that it's just as true...