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SELECT PICTURES MAGAZINE '•iNu HAPPINESS Happiness Changes with the Seasons and the Latest is rr Happiness a la Mode ” W HAT constitutes true happiness? Wise ones have tried to solve the problem but chaos has been the result. And after many years of delving into the true meaning of this much sought after word, no one knows any more than they did before. One famous writer has said that life, love and health go to make up the strongest foundation for ideal happiness. Others claim that wealth alone will bring untold happiness, others say work and still others proclaim that no human heart can be wholly happy unless it has felt the supreme pleasure of sacrifice. And there you are. Even our old friend, Noah Webster, is a bit uncertain what that little three-syllabled word which holds so much, actually means. He says happiness is “the pleasurable experience that springs from possession of good, the gratification of desires, en- joyment; blessedness. Good fortune; luck; prosperity.” And as the old Southern darky once said, “We black and youse white folks all is same as one, but there’s a mighty heap of difference in the color.” And while “pleasurable experience, the gratification of desires, enjoy- ment, blessedness, good fortune, luck and prosperity” all mean happi- ness, “there’s a mighty heap of difference” in their individual meanings. If we can’t find out from Webster what we want to know, where are we going to look? Let’s try the Book of Life, whose stories are repeated many times and whose pages, though they yellow with age, never wither. There are hundreds of thousands of people who claim to be happy. And if you picked one dozen out of the hundreds of thousands and asked them why they were happy, each one would give you a different reason. And some would not even find a reason; they would tell you that they were just happy—that was all. And so even the Book of Life fails to supply us with what we are in search of—the meaning of the word, happiness. And now we have “Happiness a la Mode.” But, we should not be surprised. They’ve “a la moded” everything, so why not happiness! Young married couples seem to have more trouble being happy than all the other people in the world put together. It’s they who dis- covered “Happiness a la Mode” and found it a fizzle. It didn’t work because She believed that the surest way of being happy was to let Him have all the freedom he wanted. He thought that She was indifferent in her efforts to corner the God of Happiness in their little nest and the result: trouble, more trouble, “a lot of trouble.” Their troubles in Constance Talmadge’s latest Select Picture, in which she is nre'ented bv Lewis T. Selznick, will cause you many laughs. See “Happiness a la Mode” on at the Theatre.