Show THE OGDEN ST A ND ARD-E- X AMINER SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 2 192a v3 ofr 11 I If ©ft ' Modern A n t'f WK 00 1 : -- "I ti U C W no oi' ' ' toy Li m Am El 1 if'- : fan Dinner' Jacket and 1 All IV 11 A Piping for II is Devotees From Drawing by Leonard 'I llolton v" 4' V X"' - MM) 1L 1 -- s" HTiZe B8M H k-- n I I u r ii Ii M li ii M 55! MM & ii U : n f bV n rf: i N h S 1 t51 fS I5 l r5 1 8 1 H i S H of His II ii in th W$v ' U'S'XlGHTLY v -1- 5i 11i ts K1 a I 5s H R I § n N 'l H M is 1 y I I 1 I £ M ills I! ii I! 11 ?i4 MM m m mr- - m m it f was when the of America seekto bring new thrills ing nerves were to sensation-jade- d credited with inventing pastimes which might have found votaries amon$r devotees of BacAnd nather chus or Rabelais members of the population of reading in the public prints of tXj unrestrained goings-o- n the celebrities were thrilled or horrified or both Alas a recent surve"y has revealed that despite the impression that the mentally emancipated from New York to Holly wood lead a fast and dizzy life the reverse la the TRUTH! American sophisticates are amusing themselves with1 games most of them of the "kiddy" variety! Not only are the highbrows playing jrames but they are inventing new ones A New York paper recently assigned a reporter to the task of discovering what was going on among members of the literary and artistic upper crust The reporter questioned novelists poets ' painters illustrators editors sculptors and stage to I celebrities One said "Yes occasionally go night clubs but they bore me" t Several others announced that they ''hadn't been inside a night club in a year" "Well what do you do for fun?" the reporter i asked "We read" came tho answer Moi we plav - '! games" Then the Investigator learned the names of some of the curious games) There were "Stunt Chowder" "That Awkward Moment' and 'Rockefeller's Dime" just to name three ot the new ones In fact the situation and the games were considered so striking that a New York publisher brought out a glossary of them It is particularly noted that professional men and women are prone to select amusements which offer the most complete relaxation or change from their daily routine and this perhaps is the most important reason why certain of the games which at a cursory glance seem to offer little that is stimulating are enjoying unIt is also pointed out precedented popularity that this fondess for innocent amusement is not an innovation of the Twentieth Century but that literary and artistic lights ef sother periods felt and yielded to the same urge Turgenev Flaubert and Henry James used to play charades What games are the modern highbrows playing? To answer this question by a mere table of liames of games would mean nothing There are perhaps more than a hundred games enjoying popular favor and the names by which they are known convey no idea of their possibilities It is possible however to offer description of many of these games so that the reader may explore their potentialities at leisure One of the least complicated games is spon- - 2" ' J" f j X - - 4 14 and "Little Outalah Daughter of the Great Sheik Caste tier Eyes Sorrow fully Upon the Palm Trees Where Last She Saw Her Beloved" currently offered by our motioD picture producers One of the player takes his station beside the piano and recites an The pianist imaginative title plays appropriate music prefi erably some old themes well known to the other guests and thus a continuity is built up "Musical Telepathy" is another Interesting variation in whfeb a deep psychological influence may be traced although the result? of the game are primarily amusing In "Musical Telepathy" one of a person noteo xor an Then another guest is excellent memory tie ot tna rejected to report the "murder leaves the room and returns in tew momenta There follow a description of how the guest came apoo the body of ome friend known by all In any condition so lone as 'the discoveryis wa made on the premises where the party being given The guest who makes the "discovery may fabricate any sort of yarn implicating one ox more of those" present The District Attorney then calls upon those implicated In the murder to explain their connectionn or eswousD m utui nimseu vmaicating each guest attempts to tighten the bonds about until the some other gams aas become e rery -- publisher) A Thrilling Moment in "Adverbs" as Pictured in "Whatll We Do Now" 1 3 I — 4 ' ti In- tense amusement! To play "Murder" the craests select a "Dis-- tThlt PrawtoB ar n Kour Olhert on ry Reproduced Paite This Courtasy ol Rimon and Schuster TIME & a "ii : - f fer unlimited possibilities for excitement and itrtrt Attornev" usually 1 - is "t """i S SiySSE'-SiS- '"7i'VV Some of the Sonhlstlcates Highbrows and Celebrities Cited is Endorsing Playing and inventing the finiM nescrthMt An Thl Pasre ThOKO Above Aret L Lmn Fontanne Intellectual Actress 2 Pegg Wood Actress Intellectual X Alfred Lnnt Actor and ilusband of Lynn ' Fontanne: L Will Durrant Condenser of the u CAiiuur it iv juts t raiiusupuies New York's Play tfoj Mayor Is a lire ton upi v urace Moore Grand Opera Star 8 John Oarrymoro Don Joan of Stage and Screens 9 Otto IL Kahn Uanker and Artistic Altruist 10 Marion Daviea Screen Star 11 Trader Horn Ad vent aret from Africa 12 Fanny Brie Comedienne 13 George Gershwin Blue Composer and 14 ConsUnce Talmadge ' Screen Star t 1 h a 5 ¥ Land Private Sleuthing Revealed : That They Inventing Kiddy Worthy :— — i 1 a a b 1 1 the Wild "Whoopee' of Celebrities Swept the H H if & 10 the Wear and Tear s H of Were Relaxing From TMkttWy N U h h 5ores I J ' '' ' ' I ' - 4 " ''"' i I 1 A A 4 V ii or the guests : say Jr i 1 con-stan- ce "iTalma'dge leaves the room While she is absent the other guests— perhaps Gershwin Otto Kahn P e ff e y George ' - Wood Lunt Eyed Con-npl- ly and a UhhamKIi I2ma Al iVft Charades always a popular V favorite stand bigh tn the list of games and u played along the conventional tines observed oy generations past The "Pictureless Movie Is another and the Lengthy Ml Uobert Sherwood Americanl Private Session ot Dramatist Engaged lo "In Your Oat" Game ot His Own Invention 9 gvsy i sored by Robert Sherwood humorist and authoxj of "The Road to Rome" one of last year's suc- cessful plays The game known as "In Your Hat" require? merely the conventional bowler f sometimes called derby) and deck of play t The player 'specified cumber tng cards of feet from the upturned hat and attempts tO flip the caeds one by one into the receptaclefi This game which Mr Sherwood proudly admits be thought op all by nimsen derives from quoita which In turn derives from horseshoe pitching Another game la "Soap Box" ThI' is sponsored by a person no (ess versatile than Mr Heywood Broun novelist and nationally known columnist and Is of simple construction It is played at a ' witn --several otiier games under the title Musical Evenings" and is spon- sored bv Mr Deems Tav or rlPhratfd ' composer The "Pictureless Movie" relies tor Itr piich on the droll subtitles such I i ' i1 ff Xv' 1 jf H U If g fl ff ' jT wX Th Zrfr - t - r V- f - I - VK- V- - V - ' ' -- -- per- f : - ' ' 'cVl r yv-""- --' " tv wish form when she returns "''-- i-- v M they her to f ' "se- some particularly difficult stunt which 1 ( m Jf Ihh V-- One- - lect U S a Psr Al- fred 'W'ri - " A " fa-- " of- - For Instance in the game glossary !t fa sttgw gested that the absent guest upon returning be required to sit beneath an opened umbrella and Once the guest read aloud from Shakespeare playing "Musical Telepathy" has returned to the room where the other guests await him he' starts trying to discover what be is supposed' to do Do they tell him 7 Mercyr col That would spoil everything He must get his clues from the music Softly the pianist skids through tonic triads cuiu uujt&a Ii I XIJ X sr A AJ Caricature of Mr Heywood Broun (Not by Leonard llolton) War Correspo dent Novelist Dramatic Critic Lttsayist and Columnist Facing North During a A iicai ut ctuu riowei a M Jr t Remember This One It Uas Been Revived As One of the Favorite utnes or American fliThhrnwa Pan Yon Riant j v I t I 'jr Ti i t I V ' f 5 f irwtptDt featurt Strrtoa I A a) CU- -I t one vi me many imns me well equippea CUCSX will carry to a modern party) As the "il" starts to read aloud the game comes to a cataclysmic end His friends all con gracuiaie mm wnn tears in tneir eyes and th 9 impresario of piano has launched into Handel "Largo" in recognition of the guest's complete triumph It is important however to keep In m sd this new American penchant for playing parlor games for you might be in a Pullman car some evening and Mr Henry Mencken might be seated just across the aisle If that happens and he suddenly drops to his knees and 6tarts barking like a do don't be alarmed and fear for his sanity For he may just be practicing "Barnyard' another new game so that he may impress other American sophisticates when they gather at the homes of Sigmund Spaeth or Marion Davies fr Will Durant or Grace Moore for a rollicking good '' I I Tournament ks uiajr w when he has achieved this position the music is quite loud uu mow ouuuemy oe oas a u a trntnm nt flash of insniration and Hraw I Tiddle-dft-Win- i -i iben the unfortunate guest who 13 "IT" tries $tunt after stunt Finally the "IT picks up an umbrella There is a flurry of excitement He opens it and may try several futile stunts before deciding that he is supposed to sit under it But Ckt Thrilling" tie 5 or he may prefer Chopin' "Butterfly Etude 'M but whatever he selects it must be played softly popular vote he or she is called upon to make an extemporaneous lecture on any subject selected by the "Herbert Bayard Swopa mous newspaper editor ' j gathering of "convivials" and after an "IT" has been selected either by chance or The' object of gathering course is to select a subject about which the "IT" knows next to nothing and his efforts to talk for five or ten minutes usually are productive of gales of laughter Mr Broun by reason of his long experience as a columnist is said to be particularly good at the game v "Murder another game which enjoys great favor and which is sponsored by a host of celebrities headed by Mr i f mm ami fJ i inm ui i n u tuiiyei V7 mm mm S 1 umei llt - - ft vrts y SS"""lSS""lPSSaWMWMWSWSMMS &yA ZyTSI-i''- - jrf pij twWMMMMWMM— 5 i |