Show I II EN WEEKEND PARTY H I A group of the most celebrated American authors is contributing to to- The Time Telegram a a series of entertain entertain- ipg articles telling whom they would Invite from all aU the worlds world's fiction characters as guests at ata 4 a week end part party This is the third of or the series of which one article artcle appears In The Telegram each Sun Sun- day Copyright 1924 Jn n U. U S. S and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Alliance Alance All AU rights re reserved re- re served sered FANNIE HURST'S GUESTS Lily Liy LiY from The he House of Mirth Young Lochinvar Cleopatra Sappho Becky Sharp Romeo Juliet Julet The Dark Lady L of ot the Sonnets Don Quixote Adonais Pandora S BY FANNIE HURST In In choosing my guests for a house party first of all I all I should never choose them Few human beings can cn survive the perils of propinquity Once you rou have associated a a friend frend wih with the sight of a slightly underdone underdone underdone under under- done morning egg ess or encountered him in a checkered bathrobe I through the dim lit lt corridors of the morning moring after after- ater I prefer my friends from dinner to dawn if it I its it's Is I's a sufficiently gay party part but but never from dinner to dinner I havo have never had I am a not not having and shall never have a house party so 80 In choosing choosing- my fiction guests i for lor a house party nothing i Is quite quie so much fiction as tho house part party I 1 itself lf The is 18 probably the most epic of ot house parties partes It I lived to be expurgated I English literature has most carefully carefully care care- cae- cae fully fostered the house party I can think of or no more tragic re result reul re- re cult sult ul of this pernicious practise of at imposing human beings one upon the other than tan Mrs Whartons Wharton's Lily Liy of ot The House of Mirth rth Frail Frai Lily Liy who was wa tossed from rom roni house party part to house party because it I was easier casler to be bored than to pa pay board I Since under uder all aU a conditions even cven I S C S S St Ill I'll t L 1 p 4 S ak 5 5 49 4 i 4 s i t k S St St t t mt fJ S I. I S L LL L S If I c If Romeo and Juliet had only eloped but they w were re lovers says Fannie Hurst Hurst I with ih the aristocracy of ot fiction present pros pres I ent eat a a house party can cami be little littlemore I I more than a device for the prevention I tion ton of at human beings enio enjoying ing I one I another I think if i I had my choice I I would choose just just offhand for or the fiction c characters of ff my house party I I 1 Mrs Warton's Whartons Wharton's Lily She Sho has the habit Young Lochinvar Every age age- age boasts its Rudolph Valentino Loch Loch- is the Valentino Valentine of all al time Cleopatra Although I doubt if I I could put h her r up in the style to which she has been accustomed Sappho is just sufficiently myth ical Iral to present an interesting interesting- pos pos- If I she Is a sufficiently real person she wont won't accept If I she isn't a real person one doesn't take much of a chance in inviting her hem hEl Becky Sharp of course She is the tho one house guest who could make that bad hour half-hour even the slightly underdone morning morning- egg ess en en- en durable By contrast Than Becky Sharp over the breakfast table with wih her yolk colored eyes half hal open there could be no crueller crueler morning after Romeo and Juiet two of ot the most lovers in the history of fact tact or fiction might be a valuable valuable valuable val val- addition to a a house party of toda today By contrast to this pair of young people who would not flee together when the most obvious moment In the history of all al dramatic literature presented itself Iselt but preferred to die dlo in tombs etc the modern and much maligned flapper would come into her own JULIET VS THE FLAPPER The famous younger generation of ot today may be open to a thousand Indictments but hut compared to Romeo Romeo Ro Ro- meo race and Juliet Julet Is up and doing ina in ina a a. fashion that makes the tho famous pair pall of ot the balcony seem by contract contrast con con- tract a sorry pair of go getters go Indeed The Dark Lady of the Sonnets There always has to bo be someone to bear the the- brunt brnt of ot the sonnets that may ma result from a moonlit terrace after coffee and it might I as well be she ahe wel Don Quixote A genial madman who when the party part bores ca can al always always always al- al ways tilt tt at windmills Carlyles Carlyle's Caryle's I t think any house party pary today needs i good antidote like Uk this enemy o of a all al shams Adonais Shelley Sheley wept for far him By inviting him hint to my my house party paty I can too Pandora who Pandora who kept her troubles in a a box boc box Next Sunday Samuel Hopkins x Ad Adams ms |