Variety (December 1922)

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^.-wT^a-wj v»T«»' r'^*v .f (i«r '=Tjnri f 'Ti^TT^^-'S^W. V A FI»,T Y i«T?aiyrii<R€Hram5mzr '-^-^ . ;J- AND FOUR bronze eoldiers. • • • QUARDmO THE general. ^ • * * AND IT'S been there • • • FOR A great many years. • • • ' J I 4 • MmYBE I ivi louiiMh. • * * AND HAVE foolish ideas. • • • AND EVERYTHING. • • • BUT I'VE just come back, r*^ • • • ■■*!■ TO THE Willard Hotel, .^ • • • AND TO my r6om. .- . FROM A four-hour walk. • • • THROUGH THE grand parkways. THEY'VE JUST begnn.i* J ANO OPEN places. 4"*^!^? a TO BUILD the base. IV [^ • • • ■■ •?^: ■**.■..rf* ■•••••.. -r. •^I.- f. IN WASHINGTON. • • • > WE'D SELECT somebody. • « • I LIKE CHARLIE CHAPLIN. • • • AND INSCRIBE on It. • • • ''TO PRESIDENTS. • • • AND EAST Side kids. . . • • • ■* AND I'D pick some doctor. • • • •■ WHO HAD found a way. * • • TO STOP the spread. * • • .£, AND ACROSS frc^ it. ^* if ., 6fN THE big front rtepi. . • • • OF THE, Treasury Building ' . OF SOME disease. ■^■' '-\ « • • ^ >ANP ASKED na fee. r. -I . A> * • • 3^ IfOR what h©:d found. • • • ■ AND IT makes me glad. • • • THAT THERE was somebody. • * • WITH VISUDN enough. • • • TO LAY things out. • • • THE WAY they are. • « • BUT NEVERTHELESS. > • • • ■"•'''^'■* I DON'T understand. • • • WHEN ALL of us. ,' ,:.' ARE FULLY agreed. *. * * THAT WE must have peace. • • • AND WAR te heU. .^ r A - • • • WHY NEARLY all." OF THE monuments. • * * THAT I ran across. • • • HAVE TO do with war. ' • • • ■ AND HEROES of war. • • • AND NOTHING else. • • • AND RIGHT this minute. • • • - I CAN look across. HI • • • FOR A monument. • • • OF MR. Hamilton. ♦■ • • ■*-' WHO ONCE on a'time • • • WAS TREASURER. • • • AND HAS^been dead. FOR YEARS an4 yefirt. AND IF ithdld happened. * V • HE'D BEEN a soldier. HE'D 'A' bteen out th«rt. *i. X !: *'3 "HE BROUGHT his art. < • • • AND MADE Jthem laugh.'* • • • AND I'D hav« BABE RUTH. AND SO I'd go. • • • ■ ■'•^■^'^ • ^.t • PUT UP in bronze. 4; iL ALL DOWN the line. >^ ••■••• M. t* ' .. • • • RIGHT ON the edge. ^ V- • • • »:«:■ OF THE big playneld.' • • • WHERE I saw some kids. ' • • • ' •:tAV' J: • * • AND I'D aut them up. ^ .i»-'. I'D J^t PLAYING ONE old cat.«- ^ • * • ' THE VERY day. • • • i- THAT I write this. *» ^*:H*» ? ^ AND WHEN some boy asked. • .♦- • •WHAT DID that guy do?" IN PUBLIC parks. • • • FROM SEA to sea. • •. • • • »"•. AND I'D take the children. * • • TO LOOK at them. « • • **.^ * ft. • * AND I'D get RING LARDNER. HADE INTO bronze. . k^ '^l * I <iOULD tell him theft.' THAT HE was «, hero, « • « * • • • - m AND I'D put him up.""^! ? r> * FREEZING IN Winter^ -t/j. AND SOOftCHING in Summer. • •' • ' • -.^\r FOR NOBODY knows, j -^ , HOW MANY years. ': '^' AND I think CHIC SALE, |^ - -* ■'•,*■ > - ^^i^ -Jf^ AND IT isn't right. > ' AND WHAtldUk*.'/' 18 TO'chA^e thinfi arotitrd. SO WHEN it happened. • • • THAT SOMEBODY felt. • • • .St -. IS THE funniest guy. I EVER saw. . , . • • • ?•*■■; AND I'D have him there, -v : * * * AND WHEN t was through. • • * WITH A bunch like thla. * * * VD PICK some men. • • • ■■'.'' •■ ■:" WHO DO such things.' ; ;^ * • • • : 1 :^* AS SPEND their money. • • • IN BUYING milk. ~ • ■ • • THERE SHOULD be a monument.FOR POOR little kids. - ; • ••• '••• -^v PUT UP somewhere. *•*-* -^.j.^.«* .».- ^i.-> y^' AND THINGS like that.' IN TIME of peace. ' AND THAT peace"■ time. hero«s, • ♦ • ■'.''■. J, .WERE VERY much greater. >, . • • • "THAN HEROES of war. * !* * ' FOR LOTS of men. > • • • ; IN TIMES of war. ' ^ f • • • n. WERE APPOINTED heroes. BY PRESIDENTS. • ♦ • ' AND IN time of peace. • • • . THEY HAD to work. ^ • • • AND EARN the name., : . - >i •-' - • • • • ■ -- ••^■■• ■■■*•■ ■ criyr vv..f*' ■• i I THANK you. RICH HAYES •-l^-r ■•.•. >C tf :f;''i^- J^ife;^^-:r^ •«. if w.- Holding HIS own: "THE LAZY CLOWN" ' Wishes All Friends on Both Sides of the Atlantic Season's Greeting : k PLAYING B. F. KEITH'S THEATRES ' ' . ' Direction: H. B. MARINELLI • , ,>,■•: ■*■■ ■'-f.. ■ »• Editorial Director ,-:^ GOLDWYN STUDIO Writing for the Screen GEN. LEW WALLACE'S BEN-HUR SEASON'S GREETINGS c '■- •J... —in—A-Reminiscence ' By EDGAR ALLAN WOLFF BOOKED UNTIL JUNE, 1923, B. F. KEITH CIRCUIT