Show t. t n HAS WOMANS WOMAN'S CH CHANGING NGING WORLD BROUGHT HER GREATER CALAMITIES Co Conventions Set Up by Men L For Protection of Women X Still Good Enough for Many j What's happened in womans woman's world that she rue has flu become such a mater mal b. b of headlines That's Thais the tho question to which Helen Heln Telegrams Telegram's special L writer seeks the th answer in a series of articles on ilL Ladies diu in Distress of cf which is the th first the th following By HELEN IER Woman always ys has demonstrated an an unenviable talent unenviable talent for getting get get- ting ling into hot water She has been at it ever since Eve asked Adam to see if the fruit at the top of the forbidden tree was wasa a Golden 2 Grimes or a Rambeau And in recent weeks the diversity as aswell well weIl as the number of her calamities have become to appalling without reading another in installment installment in- in that you ou cant can't pick up a newspaper of somebody's distress story Currently Mary Astor is the victim of distress Helen Hayes Eleanor Holm Hoim Jarrett the women flogged at Clarendon N. N C C. and those embattled in Sp Spain's ins civil wars arc conspicuous examples of womans woman's troubled world There are the women too who gave their dreams to the ragman at th recent minimum wage law decision decision decision de de- de- de in New York There are plenty of others No you cant can't say cay ay that the world is any too healthy for women these days Are re these the tho old problems of Womanhood from Eves Eve's day that recur rec recur re re- re- re c cur r now Do Dowe we have a ii new set of conditions These are q questions that deserve our Dur attention The Thc modern economic setup may be bemore bemore more more conducive to trouble The twentieth century system of Df communication communication com corn and transportation ton which makes everybody's tro troubles bles everybody else's concern may have something to do with it too Lets Let's look at Mary Astor's case first The The cinema star dar and her former former for for- or- or mer husband Dr Franklyn Th Tt ic ic told all aU the scandal they knew about bout each other in the hopes that th the judge would decide that one wasn't as fit fit or or unfit unfit unfit-as as the other forthe forthe for forthe the custody of their ch child ld Miss Astor having revealed rc what she knew of her former husbands husband's al alleged alleged alleged al- al trysts with ather other women women heard her own diary with its well described love affairs read back to tobe her be S Mary Astor got herself into this trouble In the first place she went against the tho conventions if if if the diary stories are true true that that society has set up as a protection for wo wo- wo- wo men inca Secondly she herself opened up the case and presented it it- to the tIie public rather than being contented with a former former- settlement concerning concerning concerning concern concern- ing her child She dared public scorn com that no woman would have risked 20 years ago With the the- so social social social so- so cial taboos of C that period the the details details details de de- de- de tails of her affairs might never have bave been widely publicized even if the story had bad broken then In the third place she he kept a diary c Demanding Verdict Verdict- Women before this have broken faith with their husbands taken lovers out of had a procession processIon procession pro pro- cession of illicit romances Miss Astor isn't outdoing the medieval vampires by even one hour of love She is at a disadvantage though compared to the ladies of of- the e courts of the Louises The films have made h her r a national figure Now that the public has expressed a a desire for clean love the studios have placed morality clauses in their thet con con- tracts She has more to lose by ridIng riding rid ride ing around in an open carriage with somebody else's husband just before before before be be- fore dawn than her predecessors had bad There There- have always been a few emotionally saturated women Life was comfortably safe s fo for them a awhile awhile while back Kings and statesmen r who led the gentle genUe ladies of oC the court or the countryside into forbidden forbidden forbidden for for- bidden ways protected them The lack Jack of privacy in the present put Miss Astor to a disadvantage at once Any Any- woman who indulges in marital extra-marital romance risks the com corn of society She forgets forgets' that the f few W moral laws we have were dr drawn wn up by men to protect p women Why throw them away If It you do hurdle them you can cati expect blackeyes black blackeyes eyes and bruised knees Miss Astor played the game if the sta story y is a atrue true one and then by her open play for her child asked for society's Verdict Benvenuto Benvenuto Cellini and Don Juan could climb In and out of balconies B and d know that only the neighbors would know The whole world reads about such agility today L Modern l Viewpoint The diBI diary the third mistake was t the e actress' actress own risk C Certainly not qt one ane man among her heart throbs asked to be immortalized in a sentimental sentimental sen zen lavender inscribed volume Chivalry inthe velvet coated sense being dead when Miss Astor's book go got out of her hands hands' it stayed away away It went to court for the world to read However if society Is is' isso so organ organ- today that women have a more difficult time In facing life some women are doing it with wIlli increasing grace as is typified in the reaction of pC Mrs George Kauffman fe of the noted playwright play when when she was informed that her husband had been one of of Miss Astor's purported purported ro ro- ro- ro mances From c London ondon Mrs Kautman Kaufman Kauf Kaut- man sent word that there want wasn't anything unusual In fn a flirtation between be be- tween an actress and a playwright that she knew about it and saw no terrible harm in it Her enlightenment enlightenment enlightenment enlighten enlighten- ment speaks extraordinary restraint Some of ot the women who are arc in distress this summer got themselves into their own troubles Others didn't Mary Astor did |