The evening world. Newspaper, May 15, 1920, Page 9

MAY 15, Do You Appreciate What Those’ Glaring ilm Lights Some- ‘times Do to Movie Actors? Charming Wilda Bennett Went Temporarily Blind and Has to Dance at Smoked BACH bath her casualties. P fit the other night, were seen tume. fans, espe EQUITY BENEFIT. Though it was four days after the “burning,” her lovely, black-la8hed, blue-gray eyes were still swollen; they had pained her acutely when she awok@an hour ea and as she tulked she had to wipe away “tears” ~not vf grief but of optical weak- ness, “But I'm so much better," she in- sisted. uturday night I was blind. I literally could mot see a thing, could not even lift my eyelids, And the pain was like the presstire of red-hot irons on the eyeballs, accompanted by & high fever. “IT think every fne who has acted “THIS SUIT AS CHEAP AS OVERALLS TENA ONA HY wear unsightly overalls en the avenue, while the dress of the hour is in vogue. With coat and skirt of galatea or denim this costume is distinctly feminine 4 utilitarian with the divided pan- loons \ Equity Benefit in Glasses. By Marguerite Dean Copyright, 1920, "by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World) ‘Two of the prettiest eyes on Broadway, at the Actors’ Haaity bene- “as through a glass, darkly,” for their owner, Miss Wilda Bennett, danced with @ pair of horn-rimmed, heavily smoked spectacles as a compulsory feature of her charming Plerette cos- “Her eyes have been ‘burne® in film work,” announced Percival Knight, and all the stage and movie folk knew what he meant. ally those of you who year era, know how Many eyes are “burned” in the studios and how painful is this new “occupational disease?” Here js the story of it I heard from Mii Bennett herself when I ealled on her at No, 124 West 65th Street. But do you movie yourselves to step before the cam- WILDA BENNETT IN HER BALLET COSTUME AT THE ACTORS’ NOTE THE DARK GLASSES WHICH PROTECT HER “BURNED” EYES, in the movies has had his or her eyes burned. It is done by those in- tense blue-white ares, the Kleig lights, when ‘they are turned directly on the eyés. The reason why everybody isn’t burned all the time is because, if you are wise, you keep out of the direct light as much as possible and you wear smoked, glasses and shut your eyes when you are not acting. “What did it in my own case was that for six hours Saturday, from noon till 6 o'clock, I acted in a scene supposed to be the bedroom of my father early in the morning, with the strong morning sunlight coming through the window and falling di- rectly on my face, That light is made by what tl®y call a ‘sunlight arc,’ which 1s considerably stronger than the usual strong light. The man who played the part of my father had his head half turned from it, yet one of his eyes was byrned. * “In the middle° of the afternoon my eyes began to pain me, and it grew hard to keep them open, But they sent out for some‘argyrol, with which I bathed them, and I went on, I left the studio at 6, came home, bathed my eyes again and went out to dinmer with a friend, It was while 1 was eating dinner that I suddenly went blind and had to be led out of the restaurant—I couldn't see, my way to the door. “You “cannot imagine @ more ap- palling sensation! My friend called a tax! and took me to an oculist.. He dropped some coaine in my eyes, to dull the pain, gave me some of it to take home and use at intervals and tol’ me to put on culd eompresses. “Sunday night, when I kept my promise to.dance for the Actors’ Fquity, I was still in great pain. My eyes have been badly swollen ever since, and I bathe them in @ solution of witch hazel and boracic acid, At first the water came out of them al- most in sheets and, as you see, it has yet stopped other thing I have used, which a movie actor fec- ommen 9d, is castor oll dropped into the eyey ery ne tells me, including the ooulist, tha, no permanent injury has not been done aid that I shall not have to wear glasses. Often eye burning in the studios is only a matter of three or four hours, but mine is by no means the only serious case. “But after this 1 WEAR THEM!” remarked Miss Bennett with empha- sis, "And ‘studio sunlight’ is too strong tor me!” From Domestic Servant i to Candidate for British Parliament} Miso JESHE STEPHENS PX Jessie Stephens, a twenty- LL England is now talking about seven-year-old representative of the working classes, who at present dims in political interest the noted Lady Astor, recently caused so much discussion, whose election to Parliament particularly in this country, because of her American birth. Miss Stephens warns men to beware, for she is boldly out and feels confident of being elected to Parliament at the general election this month. She is considered oné of the best organizers in England and a fearless and capable speaker. She tolled for yeays at selling news- papers, as a domestic servant, @ gro- @ truck driver and many other menial tasks, The contrast be- tween her and Lady Astor affordy an interesting study, cery clerk Such Is Li fel avert >. fora.) PERCY By Maurice Ketten’ 1 COULDN'T THINIK OF MARRYING YOu WITHOUT THE ‘CONSENT OF HY PARENTS ‘NO! we AgsouureL Teaching Children. To Be Charitable By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bening World.) OME time ago the Infante’ Relief Society gave a musical revue as 4 means of raising money to aid the poor. 1 have @ com- munication of @ similar proposi- tion which reads as follows: “On Saturday evening, May 15, a dance is being gived at the Hotel Astor, called the ‘Fantasy of Color.’ ‘The dance -# be. ing given as a culminating event of a drive for $7,000,000 by the Greater New York Fund to be distribuod through the Joint Committee tot starving and homeless of war-ridden Europe. This affair will be unique in the fact that it is being given under the auspices of all of the Fraternities, Sororities, Junior Leagues, Young Folks Clubs, &c., in this city, which as you will see, is the first affair of its kind that has ever been given in this city, "The people behind the movement want the public to k#ow about the children’s benefit. Yet there is some- thing more to be said about the sub- ject than just that. It 1s good be- yong measure for children to have @ part in a philanthropic effort. I have two comparisons in mind at the moment. I know @ mother of two children who is doing a great work in’ this connection. It 18 a joy to 6ee them share their “goodies” when they get them. It is a joy to see these children call their less fortunate neighbors to join them in play. And it afforded me great pleasure one time on coming into the street to find both children of this mother vigorously defending their Vttle neighbors in a chMdish fight with some strangers who had at- tempted to tease the poor children on account of thelr poverty—all of which is charity of the highest order, As against this, I know another mother of two children who thinks she is making them “refined” by con- ntly warning them against other rer children of the neighborhood. She 1s forever teaching the fatal doc- trine of “don't." | They are being taught that they are “better” than others. Charity is born in children, but Jilke everything else, 1t can be cultivated out of them. And when uncharitable children grow up to be men and women they will be the hardened creatures that humanity is trying so hard to eliminate. The teaching of charity should begin with every man's cht Mancims ofa Modern Maid By Martwarkte Mooers Marlhall Copyright, 1920, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) HE usual difference between a man and a woman friend ts that the ‘ former is true to.his friends and the latter true to he> moral prepos- sessions. Adi people we never meet: The man who, Quoted to his confusion in a newspaper interview, admits that he said it all—that he was, to be sure, a darn fool, but that he SAID IT ALL, The temperance diners not only have taken the punch off the tables but out of the stories and speeches. When a girl begins to talk about the joys of economic independence, {t means that she is making a last desperate effort to become some man's economic dependent, Mars took down her receiver. She heard America talking about Pronibi- tion, railroad strikes, Presidential candidates, the H. C of L, the servant problem. Mars hung up. “Take it away!" she moaned, A widow may be a@ “relict,” but it’s a wife who is—and frequently resembles—a relic, When a man says he has to stay jn town for an office conference, and then sneaks off to @ burlesque show, and then something does go wrong at the office, and the night watchman calls up his house, and lis wife answers -well, what CAN a man do in a case like that? the phone: T he ring crop of soctety weddings i# so large that society's divorce crop is probably safe for years to come Who put the “rage” in Suffrage? Delaware. FORBID ir ! We Broadway May Have Its * and “Follies, but Forty-Five City Settle- ments Will Select From 100,000 Persons to Produce a Spring “Review.” Here is Miss Caroline Banta, who will sing in the “Neighborhood House Review," to be given for the benefit of the United Neighborhood House at the Ethical Culture Society, Satur- day evening, May 22 TEAM esto A - em Se HEIL While the Democrats Are Attracting the Tourist Vote, the Republicans Evidently Are Expecting Some Gun Play. By Neal R. O'Hara. Coprright, 1990, by the Prete Publishing Co, (The New York World). HERH’S so much going on these days that politics should be @ plural noun, Bvery thing'll be set for the G. 0. P. con- vention as sdon as Chicago raises its hotel rates, Lake Michigan has been fenced in and dog chains installed on the washroom combs, There'll be @ hot time in the old town when the delegates, alternates, profiigates, illitera' and other offshoots of party conventions file up to the registration clerk. This year politics will strange bed-fellows in bunches than evor before, The Democratic party is attracting the tourist vote this year. The Dems pull off their convention in San Fran- cisco next month. All the party del- ogutes are pledged to eee America first, and the party lines are the make bigger WHY DON’T A COUPLA GOOFS CRAWL UNDER THE BEO? _ Southern and Union Pacific, The real platform will be the observa- tion platform, The Democratic chieftains have slipped over a nifty advantage on the G. 0. P, management. The Dems are going to California, where Bryan -and Edwanis can fight for grape juice and raisims> on the home grounds of both. The Democrats also figure if San Francisco had an earth- quake in 1904 it can give 'em a land- slide in 1920, The Republican Con- vention will be in charge of the Cook County Committee, but the Cook's Toirist Committee will run ‘the Democratic affair. Chicago hotels are going into b= ing business as soon as the pols peed Rooms will be $60 a day, with time and a half for Sundays and week days, For the protection of the guests, payment will be re- quired in advance, which eliminates the possibility of delegates being a Ave .|J RAR Wee | | robbed by any one ¢ A escapes will be furnished by the _ management and rope cigars by the — Campaign Committees, Money will be spent like water, but ‘not on water. ° The way the G. 0. P. dope rolls tow, Chicago will have more dark , horses in the convention than steers in tho stock yards. Some guys won . der if the Knox-Wood battle is going? to be unlucky for the party. Th . fact that the G. O. P. plans on @ Temporary and Permanent Chair man indicates they expect some gun pla ‘The favorite sons will have their booms, but the favorite son's Diggest boom ip always When it blows up. ‘ The campaign check books are now being dusted off. for the South- ern delegations. The quadrepnial the boll weevil never tackles. For \« the boys from the land of cottgn, ... Chicago will be the land of velvet— with sil threads running through’ it. No Southern delegate was ever oth 80 heavily pledged that he ¢oulda't be redeemed, ye) * Probibitton will bother ‘em at the Frisco convention. With boose the “* burning issue, Hdwards will try to © extinguish it with a wet plank % Bryan will try to blow it out, The keynote speech will be to the tune of “How Dry I Am.” The wets want to make it @ keyhole speech. The party conventions every four years are for the pole what the jp» Olympics are to the athletes. It » gives ‘ema chance to run. It gives . ‘em a chance to throw the hammer. © And ft lata ‘om collect fat expense accounts. And naturally—in Olym- fies or potitice—-tt makes no differ- @nce to Ws commot guys who comes in first. We know WHE come in last! ee ee a ee IS eI EE se ee © Coprrisht, 1990, Uy Tho’ Press Publishing ©0. (The New York Mrwning HE delusion spring and eaving daylight puts upon us that we are getting home earlier, when the fact is the sun {9 only staying Up later, had its hold on Mr. Jarr this day. So instead of turning up the street toward his home, he turned to stroll down on the avenue to enjoy the batmy air of eventide in mid- May, ‘As he neared @ vacant lot he be- held his friend and neighbor, John ‘W. Rangle, with his eye glued to & crack in the billboard enclosing it, “what is it, a fight?” asked Mr, Jarr. “No, the kds are having a game of pasoball,” replied Mr. Rangle. “And be it ever so humble, there's no game Ike baseball.” “yYouse can’t play with my ball un- jess youse give me fl’ cents!" cried a voice behind the fence. “aw, go on! Stingy!” chorused a lot of voices, “Insy Slavinsky, you ought that bail with money you got for selling bottles we give you!” Hereupon the clamor grew higher and shriller “py George! It makes me foe! lke @ boy again!” orted Mr, Jarr. “Funny thing,” remarked = Mr. Rangle as he nodded bis bead In the affirmative; “funny thing ts how much solid enjoyment boys will get out of two hours’ baseball.” “and I tell you, there's no boys on earth that have the high sports- manwbip iddals, such as baseball in- American boys,” replied culcates In Mr. Jarr. “aw, it's my bat, and if I'm atruck out 1!) quit the game and you can't play because I'll take the bat!” shrilied a boyish vol “Aw, be a sport, Johnny Rangle! You're struck out; go out in the * advised several of the youth- rs. won't do nuttin’ of the kind. It's my bat and I'm going to strike till 1 hit the ball, and if the ball's ketched 1 won't go out, neither, Ain't it my ate “and I tell you what," ventured Mr. Waiar Rangle, again squinting through the ~ cruck, “that boy of mine will atand 4 up for his rights.” “But he hasn't any right wanting to bat when he has been put out,” re- rr Yow!" exclaimed Mr. Rangle, but © wasn't speaking to Mr. Jarr. * and he bent down to get a . better view of the outfield through. the crack. “Did you hear that kid of* mine wallop that ball a crack right on the stitches? ‘Oh, you boy Babe Ruth!” “Get under it! Set yourself, Wipe \ Jarr! It's coming right into r cried a whole chorus of hands!" youngsters, “Lemme see! Lemme. see!” sniq'!? Mr. Jarr, shoving his peeping fri aside, “If that kid of mine gets uni that fly it will be all day with It, For his age that kid of mine 1s some little player.” R . But it was perhaps an off day with Master Jarr for the ball bit out by Master Rangle landed plop in his hands and bounced out again. “{ gotter have fi’ cents for what wuz done to me ball by Jobnnay Rangle! He ain't got no right to hit @ ball that hard, unlegs he pays for it!” Master Slavinsky was heard tv declare, bab “Aw, g'wan with the game,” 7 thone who hadn't batted so Cried “The national game," murmured Mr. Jarr, “Baw! and i : > iy} Notes of Science! of Here and There | it has been estimated that 55,720 pairs of old shoes are needed for every mile of @ road composition made of slag, rock, asphalt and scrap leather that has been patented'in Great Britain, . For moving loaded freight cars a ‘ Pinch bar has been invented that in- cludes @ shoe for gripping the rail ans so formed that as the handle ts pressed down & car wheel is pushed instead of being lifted. A tractor wheel designed by Ttalian engineers to give maximum traction with mimimum road damage ie featured by @ number of fat steel pads held against the rim by indi- vidual coll springs fromthe hub,