Source: Chicago Sunday Tribune, 26 May 1929, pt. 7, pg. 5.
Dear Miss Tinée: As you have heard from me before I suppose you will think—that pest again! But perhaps you will be surprised to know that I agree with Mr. Cox's letter in THE TRIBUNE about noisy females. Of course I am a woman, but I most certainly have been annoyed by the way some of them act. I go to a show to thoroughly enjoy myself, which is my only way of stepping out, and I feel well satisfied if I get a front seat surrounded by seats devoid of gum chewers. Oh, my! Why is it they make so much noise with a wad of gum? they seem to think it an art to be able to snap and crackle their gum as much as possible. There ought to be a law barring gum chewers or else drastic measures taken to stop their noise.
