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Show Magazine The Salt Lake Tribune. Section SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1927. MAIDEN MEDITATIONS by Sara Moore THE SUPER-FLAP. [When a machine is sold at $700, payable in installments ... the sky will be fiUed with butterflies as fcell as moths, and flappers of the future will spread their wings to do a morning1s shopping! Sir Philip Gibbs. It seems that social butterflies- In time will fill the clouds and skies. They will not flit from flower to flower, But hop about from tower to tower. Machine mad men are ill advised fWho'd have the flapper motorized, 'Man finds no easy task is his catch and hold her as she is. ADD SEX APPEAL! (The Married Flapper's Woes) John's blind to all-silk tops and rouge; For cute blonde debs he has no I save my hate for hags who boast Jhey pay two cents a pound for roasts- Two whole cents less-than L ; I'm jealous of no slim stenog; No Miss Chicago breaks his guard- But when he meets a cat who smirks: "Our household budget always works " My legal love falls-hard. - : PUBLICITY IS EVERYTHING. [The handsome tenor is attracted to Mamie Hickey, as she makes a Tut in the chorus. His attentions anger the jealous soprano star and cause considerable excitement in the breast of Sam Splutter, the kindly press agent who has undertaken to put Miss Hickey across on the stage. I went out to tea with the tenor- -Just after the first' matinee-~~ Our lady sta. strolled in-and saw us-- And now-there's the devil to pay. (He's nice-in a tenorish way.) Sam says that he wishes he'd wised mo- The star is the show's backer's pet And she, in turn, dotes on the tenor, Who, Sam claims, is dumb and all wet. (The lady could sure get me yet)' 1 Thinks I, I'll be fired tomorrow- But Sam chokes me off at first sob. " Just think of the headlines you'll pull down- x If jealousy costs you youi" j'Juf A . story ' Frails Fight for ai Actor' j Goes big with the press and the; mob." I [Copyright: 1927: By The Chicago Tribune. Tied to a Tree and Painted with Shoe Polish Latest Weird Prank of "Wild" Gerry Willshire, Whose Idea of a "Joke" Shocked All England S IR GERARD MAXWELL- WILLSHIRE, Baronet, o f Tubbendens Manor, Orpington, Kent, always would have hia little joke. According to his ex- and first wife, a lady of theatrical fame, he just loved to hold a champagne bottle aloft while standing on a table, and daring a chorus girl to kick the cork out. Also, she relates, while wild-partying in the distant land of Ceylon, he was the mo-ving spirit of an excursion which he and his friends took after kidnaping a locomotive, the idea of the jaunt being that the gentlemen and ladies in evening dress should ride uproariously on the cowcatcher. But his latest-! It" may have been a joke to Sir Gerard, but the point was lost on Miss Jean Olds, 22, a girl in a London hairdressing shop, who ac cused Sir Gerard of taking her to a lonely spot in the woods, tearing off her clothing and painting her from head to foot with shoe polish S Friends of Sir Gerard on both sides of the Atlantic-he is equally well known in New York as in London-excuse him on the score that it was one of his wild practical jokes. For Sir Gerard, though only 35, has led a career both hectic and unique. According to the first Lady Maxwell-Willshire, who was Lillian Birtles, of New York and London stage fame, Sir Gerard was expelled from school at Sandhurst because he attended a parade rid- ing a bicycle while attired in full evening dress. Later, because of an unfortunate affair of the heart, it seems, Sir Gerard was disinherited by his people, and became a chorus man in London musical „ shows. He fell in a love with Lillian It Birtles while on tour with her in the same company, and they were married. Lillian, however. was the protegee of the wealthy London theatrical magnate who was backing the company, and there ensued many lurid complications. Gerry, as related by this Lady Maxwell - Willshire in her memoirs, created an uproar on the floor of a ball-room by striking her because he thought, mistakenly, that her masked partner at the dance was the London producer of whom he was jealous. Sir Gerard and his first bride were divorced in England, but the case was reopened and the decree set aside because there was a hint of collusion. They were separated and Lillian came to America to accept stage contract. Gerry came to America also. He met a pretty modiste, Vera Gainford, whom he desired to marry, so he started action for divorce against Lady Lillian, winning his decree. Gerry was married again- And now he will have a lot to explain to his wife-about that latest "practical joke." |
