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Show BEVERLY HILLS I guess I Just get th usual amount of mall of anyone any-one that writes Junk for the papers, mostly people that sho dont agree with anything any-thing you said In tbe papers, and showing you where you ought to be calling Hogs somewhere. some-where. But this week I got some Interesting letters. let-ters. One I sure was surprised to get was irom Will Durant, a man that has studied Philosophy like Mr. Coolidge has Politics, and both bare reached the helghth In their chosen professions. I met this Durant one time. He Is an awful nice fellow. I dont know much about what his "Racket" Is, this Philosophy Gag. He wanted me to write blm and give him my version of "What your Philosophy of lite Is? I who bare lived philosophy for many years turn now from it back to life Itself, and ask you, as one who has lived, to give me your version. Perhaps the version of those who have lived is different from those who hare merely thought. What keeps you going? go-ing? What are the sources ot your Inspiration? and your energy? What is the goal or motive force ot your toil? Where do you find your consolation con-solation and your happiness? Where Is the last resort your treasure treas-ure lies?" A copy of this letter Is being sent to Hoover, McDonald, Lloyd George, Mussolini, Marconi, Ghandi, Stalin, Trotsky, Tagore, Einstein, Edison. Ford, Eugene O'Nell, and Bernard Shaw, and three or four others that I had never seen In the weeklys. Now I dont know If this guy Durant is kidding me or not. It I got this kind ot a letter from some body less I would say its a lot ot "Hooey" and wouldent even finish reading it. But putting me In there with that class, why I figured I better bet-ter start looking into this Philosophy Philoso-phy thing. I think what he Is trying to get at In plain words, (leaving all the Philosophy out) Is Just bow much better off after all Is an highly high-ly educated man, than a dumb one? So thats bow I figure is the way I got In that list. He knew that I was Just as happy and contented as It I knew something, and he wanted to get the "Dumb" angle, as well as the highbrow. That education is sorter like a growing town. They get all excited when they start to get an increase, a distinct void in the ultra Bohemian Bo-hemian life ot the town. Talented and loving life, which he had lived to the fullest, his suicide was a distinct dis-tinct shock. I remember him best In the residence he established In the rue Nicolet in Paris a short while ago. Here with his beautiful and accomplished French bride he seemed to have reached a pinnacle of happiness. Yet before that summer sum-mer waned Into the cool ot Autumn, he was stirred by - sudden discontent discon-tent At first a pronounced Francophile Franco-phile he was becoming annoyed by tbe petty trials of French domesticity. domestic-ity. One day on an hour's notice he was sailing tor America. Barton bad a home-made motion picture which is today probably worth a fortune. Every visitor to his rue Nicolet home was included and was forced to carry out another scene in the mock continuity. Among notables featured with arrant ar-rant fecundity when I saw it were Charles Chaplin, Henry L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Sacha Gultry and wife, Paul Robeson, the Prince of Wales, Anita Loos, John Emerson and lnany others. The jauntiest suide note I ever read was that of a Broadway weary chorus girl who left this note for her room-mate in a shabby hotel and turned on the gas: "Over tbe river! If there's anything on the other side, I'll be see- Jng you." . " Short shavings: Owen D. Young is again slated by rumors to head one ot the biggest New York banks. . . . Al Jolson owns two race horses, Kildare and Concord. . . . Only five of 72 prominent song writers who rushed to Hollywood remain there. ... Ruth Roland has never smoked. ... Joey Ray Is Joseph Schnltzer. ... Lowell Sherman often sleeps in his monocle. . . . Chevalier has been offered a fortune to endorse a straw bat . . . Burns Mantle lives at Forest For-est Hills, Percy Hammond lives at East Hampton and Bide Dudley lives at Bronxville. . . . Jimmy Durante Du-rante likes California but longs for his partners. Clayton and Jackson. . . . Earl :. Carroll usually Invites seven or eight people to dinner nightly. . , . Claire Luce and her husband are living in Paris. ( 19J l. McKaufbt SyodiciU, U-.) |