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PHOTO: KATE STECIW

THE MIRROR 

A FRIGHTFUL man enters, and looks at himself in 
a glass. 

"Why do you look at yourself in the mirror, since you 
can view yourself only with displeasure?" 

The frightful man answers me: "Sir, in accordance 
with the immortal principles of '89, all men have equal 
rights; therefore I have the right to behold myself; with 
pleasure or displeasure, that concerns only my con- 
science." 

In the name of common sense, I was surely right; 
but, from a legal standpoint, he was not wrong. 
Theda Bara: A Fool There Was
 
Theda Bara: America's original vamp.

Gene Tierney