Prison Doors

William Randolph Hearst has the reputation of paying higher salaries to his writers than any other newspaper proprietor in the country. Lately he added another to his galaxy of facile pens, which includes Arthur Brisbane, James J. Corbett, George W. Hinman, Gene Sarazen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Jack Dempsey, Lloyd George, Damon Runyon, Prudence Penny, B. C. Forbes, James Oppenheim, Myron T. Herrick. The latest artist of the pen to join this group is Mrs. Clara Phillips, " hammer slayer."

Papers-for-People-Who-Think published her " signed story detailing her amazing career," her " first romance," her conviction, and her still more astonishing escape, her wanderings in foreign lands and her recapture in Honduras " through the efforts of the Hearst newspapers." . . . The story will continue, presumes the blurb, "from day to day until the whole startling narrative ends with the clanging of the prison doors behind her in San Quentin prison."

This last was only a metaphor, since prison doors clanged behind Mrs. Phillips on June 2, but her " autobiography " went gaily on.