Show C Bohemian Life of the Theatre B Background d of House of Joy Dutch Translation t fells Tells of Girls Girl's Sacrifice for Stage Career Portrayal Faithful By Charles harles W. W Smith What Is Is the time allure allura of ot the Uie theatre Join a ail g gathering of ot three 01 or oi- more persons persons persons-nd and n begin th the siow show bu business hi ss and one of or the will express a desire to go on on the st stage c More M re often tl two ot of the three reo o will express such a a- There Is something fascinating about the lights an and tho the music and the crowds out front that tha grips on one and conjures ConjureR up that strange strang desire t to become be a a. a mime Those rhose hose who have o been In the racket swear that they will wUl get et out of it the We first chance the they get gel and once out rush back into it atthe at ut atthe the very ery cr first opportunity Somehow Somehow Some Some- how it is next to impossible to lo wash the grease grease- greasepaint paint off oft the tho actors actor's face In latter da days s 's the theatre has become be become be be- come comae come a gigantic Industry employing hundreds of ot thousands It has hll bunt built up Its own caste caste Its o own on n social scale Its us people aro arO accepted Inthe in inthe inthe the most niost fashionable circles It Its It's is In the vernacular of or the 1116 stage a WO V hit lilt But ut that has not always always' been the th thC C ease case 8 Thero was once a a time when no rio decent d seU pers person i engaged engaged- In tho the show business People Peo Peo People pie of the theatre were social oUts out casts Th They were Jo looked hooked ked upon as libertines as immoral cleat creat creatures rs s whose whose only duty w was ls to amuse decent de de decent decent cent people and to stick sUck to them them- sd selves yes It Is Iso of that era of f doln that Jo van vanA van Kuller in her I Ine new ne novel 1 Time The House of oC Joy O Translated the time Dutch this adventures of of a ap story deals with th tho p pert rt little Amsterdam girl who vIii sacrificed sac ho home ie te family and fr friends for tot tota fOra fora a a career in th the house of ot Joy the Joy the t theatre 1 n Jenny not at all an unlike thousands of girls In our o own United States Ii an- an price for tor was vas w s willing to xo to pay any success behind the footlights When her her family objected to of or her the pretty little Jenny took matters in her own hands and but U tho o story bel be belOngs belOngs' belongs be be- l longs lOngs' to tho reader t for I no pleasure can ean be derl derived d from irom reading a n story y the time plot lot of which has IM is already been divulged Bo Do that as es It it nay may The Tho House of or J Joy y pres presents nt a faithful picture of f the tho European stage tago and It its morals and whether tho the reader Jendor looks upon upon- its characters har a as immoral beings or merol merely creatures who adopted for th themselves s years ago the tho socIals social s standards which have In n the pres present pres pres- ent cut dl day been virtually universally b accepted depends upon the tIme viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point taken in reading reading- the story tory A word about th the theauthor author Miss Kuller Ammers-Kuller had done I several novels but only one has b becom bo- bo come com universally known In n the United States That Is The Rebel Generation ot of a couple of ot years ago In Jim that work vork sho painted a n. n word woid old picture of or time the modern younger sener generation which was quite different from the tue general run lun of oC like novels which were being belnE tur turned ed from the American b book book- ok mm mills Likewise wise in The House I of Joy tho time author had managed mar ls d to lo Inject a different atmosphere hito Into her story of ot the tho stage which makes the tIme volume quite lun readable readable and and enjoy enjoy- able abIe The I story js Is E. E p P. P Buttons Button's prize e eno no novel el for tor July Jul It Is recommended for rOl all aU Interested d In th the tho theatre and amid that includes almost everyone everone |