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Show JMlnakd ahouL Semi-Nude Fashions. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. Clothes may not make the man, but leaving them off certainly makes him foolish. fool-ish. And that goes double for the women. Whence arises the present-day delusion de-lusion that going about dressed at half-mast enchances the attractiveness of the average adult? Our forbears of the Victorian era wore too much for health or happiness o r cleanliness. But isn't It worse to offend the eye all through the lingering summer sum-mer by not wearing enough to cover up blemishes, thebulges Irvin S. Cobb and the bloats that come with maturity? ma-turity? Sun baths should be taken on a doctor's prescription, not at the corner of First and Main. Women old enough to know better bet-ter are the worst offenders, seems like. If only they'd stop to consider con-sider that the snail, which is naked, would lose in any beauty contest against the butterfly, which wears all the regalia the traffic will standi But even though it's for their own good, you can't tell 'em. If somebody some-body started the fad of going at the game while practically nude, inside of two weeks mumblepeg would be the national pastimes until un-til somebody else thought up a game to be played by folks without a stitch on. Or anyhow, just a stitch here and there. - Doctoring Movie Scripts. T TSUALLY they lay these yarns -on Mr. Sam Goldwyn, who thrives upon them and goes right on turning out successes, his motto being, "What's grammar as between be-tween friends so long as the box office shows results?" But, for a change, this one is ascribed to another an-other producer, who proudly describes de-scribes himself as a self-made man, which, according to his critics, is relieving the Creator of a considerable consider-able responsibility and putting the blame where the blame belongs. They also say no self-made man should stop with the job only partly finished. But then Hollywood is full of parties trying to push Humpty Dumpty off the walL As the tale runs, this gentleman entered the conference chamber at his studio and as, with a kingly gesture, he laid down a fat sheaf of typewritten pages, said to the assembled intellects of his staff: "Jumpmen, in all my experience In the picture business this is what you might call unique. Here is absolutely, ab-solutely, posstifHy the only poifect script I have ever read in my ontire life. I tell you that before we start altering it." Strikes Versus Wars. T ID you ever notice how like a war is a strike? The operator and his operatives are the shock troops that suffer the heaviest casualties. The owner risks his profits and perhaps his market and sometimes his plant. The worker work-er gives up his wages, frequently his job, occasionally his life. Stockholders see dividends vanishing van-ishing and investments shrinking. Citizens see their communities disrupted. dis-rupted. Women and children go on short rations, many a time go actually ac-tually hungry. For, as in a war, the innocent non-combatants bear most grievous burdens. Those who really garner in the spoils professional agitators; financial finan-cial buzzards eager to seize on bankrupted industries; lawyers with their writs and their injunctions; Imported thugs masquerading, for one side or the other as honest mechanics these might be likened to stay-at-home diplomats and profiteers profit-eers and hired mercenaries who induce friendly nations to turn enemies en-emies so they may gain their own selfish ends. After it's over, we realize that almost any strike might have been averted had common sense and common justice ruled, rather than greed and entrenched stubbornness and fomented hate. And the same is true of almost any war. For every real benefit to humanity came out of peace and arbitration, not out of battle and destruction. And here's the final parallel: Ultimately, Ul-timately, the supposed victor find3 himself the actual loser. Tell me which army won any great strike or any great war and I'll tell you who won the San Francisco fire and the Galveston flood. IIIVI.N S. COBB, ft VNU Service. |