Show wl what t tt JV think about I Idolatry of Self SANTA IONICA MONICA CALI CALIF CALn Once O Once upon tipon a time ther was a strange race that while in some sonie vas va's ways quite civilized yet worshiped a murderous and a monstrous god Now this god demanded hunan hunan hunan hu- hu nan sacrifice s. He lie had luaU high priests who vho ministered to his Images he had hatI countless counties devotees devotees devotees devo devo- tees who traveled about gathering InS in inthe inthe the victims to feed reed S his cravings The feeble and the careless careless care care- less hess the age aged dodderer dodderer dod dod- derer lerer un nod and the tue unwary un un- un- un V wary n ft r y child these child these were the favorite offspring Yet the collectors 5 spared par e d none at all neither Irvin IrvInS S. S Cobb the strong nor the halt hatt nor the help help- less Often In hi their madness they destro destroyed e one another Each year ear earthe the cruel tally mounted mounted so so many thousands dead so many hundreds of thousands crippled and broken en These hese curious people lived in a il place called calle America and the god they worshiped was called Speed Spee S The World Problem I JM TM I CONSTANTLY CONSTANTI Y running Into somebody who knows exactly what's wr Dir with the world worl and what ou ought ht to be done bout It but cant can't make up his mind whether er or to have his eg eggs s fried on on one onesi si side e or turned over At lunch toda today I encountered one gentleman who could coul diagnose nose all an allour allour our political an and economic ills just ills Just like that and I-an I and name the remedies too In fact he lie did name quite a afew afew afew few while white I was looking after aCter the check And yet et I know for a it t positive positive posE posE- tive fact that his wife wont won't let him pick out his own neckties and he lie cant can't be trusted to cross the street by himself o ln owing to not beIn being being be be- In ing n able le to decide off-hand off which automobile he prefers to be hit lilt b by S S S The Passing of Kipling II I VENTY TY years ears ago I visited Rudyard Kipling at nt his home In Sussex Gracious in his hospitality he nevertheless was al already already al- al ready showing signs of the mania for seclusion which following ln the death of his only son In the World war ma made e of or him an entrenched reel recluse use lie He shunned people he shunned things shunned the pa pageantry of life Ufe lIe He developed an active dislike dis like Uke for Americans the Americans the people whom he lie once loved ove an and who constituted con con- perhaps his most loyal fol Col- fol- fol lowing He became that most la lamentable lamentable la- la of figures among literary folk the folk the spot marked D denoting denoting denot denot- ing where a quenched genius was last seen Most of us who shio write are but as- as an and assemblers Here was a real creator and antI real creators creators creators crea crea- tors dont don't happen often Ills His jungle bool books s nn and his room barrack ballads ballads bal bal- lads latIs his and his Kim Kim Kim- these will live while men read En English Eng Eng- lish and antI speak It May that be be balm to his passing passin soul I 1 I Acting fo for t the c Movies OUT O UT here on this lot were we're finishing fin fin- up the first moving pIcture picture pic plc- ture In which Ye Scribe has had a n areal real chance to give his all to art The pictures picture's to be called Ol Old Man that ManU that Is unless the producers producers producers pro pro- change their minds at the thelast thelast thelast last minute as Is customary and anti re title It The folIo Rollo no Boys s 's In an Igloo or something None of ot us seemed to feel It while we were shooting scenes but If It everybody ev ev- y is as tired as ns the ol old manis man manIs manIs Is they wont won't have hare to rock anybody to sleep The head cameraman goes goeson on a rest 5 cure ure soon and the directors director's directors director's tors tor's wife Just telephoned that she's a little bit worried about him him lie he keeps hearing brass bands playing nn and a wh while le ago he hue ran out oit and tried to stop a runaway horse that wasn't there S S Tattooed Ladies I Ix TX N A theatrical l paper I read that A one of or the most copiously Illustrate Illustrated Illustrated Illus Illus- tattoo tattooed d ladles ladies In the business Is fixing to be be divorced from a husband hus bus band who's also of the ln profession I remember the lad lady well sitting on a platform and In response to to requests to-requests requests slowly turnIng turnIng turning turn- turn Ing around s the audience could see what she had haul to say on the tile theother theother other side Well every man maui to his taste but 1 1 Pvc Ive always figured life would be kind of or fascinating with a tattooed lady for a helpmate An Any time you ou got tired of you on could ask her to let you look at the pictures S S Na Namesakes s of Heroes ITS IT'S I ITS IT'S TZ getting so so you ou can tell teJ when A twenty twenty one One ne years ears have Passel passed since some great groat national figure fiure figurea a president or r maybe be a a military hero was hero was at at the tle peak of or his larity Its It's when wilen a lot hot of pf his namesake namesakes name name- sakes sake get too ol old for tor the reform school an and are ore just the right age e for Cor the penitentiary Once in a while one of the crop goes Into the ministry but apparently not enough of them to make much difference IRVIN S. 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