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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-18
Gossip of the Tbeater GreenroomS

pursuit Of new material, Photographic
and otherwise, for the TravelOgues, but
this summer has been spent merely in
the pursuit Of pleasure and recreation.
and s a friendly guide to introduce.
Wright Kramer to the many beautiful
countries about which he is 20 lecture
this season, I'm the cities 10 which Mr..
Holmes cannot so personally.
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Spring Zine" in which the new star
Nell will first be seen. under the di-
rection Of Frederic Thompson, is a
novel and unusual dramatic work BY
Booth Harrington and Harry Leon VIII
son. cO-authOrs Of The Man From
Home I'm which William Hodge is
starring and Cameo Kirby" in which
Dustin Far4um is the featured player.
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Blanche Ring has accepted a new
Irish song. Mary Donohue." by Jer-
ONE and Schwartz. who Rrote BE
della and MY Irish Molly O" for her.
and Will Introduce their latest ditty in
her new musical piece, The Yankee
Girl in which she will be seen al the
Belasco Theater. opening September p.
Little Memo has opened It's season
in Syracuse. Several new faces appear
IN the cast. Joseph Cawthorn was hit
as DR.. Psi. and Master Gabriel. in the
title role non favor. Harry Kelly's dry
humor brought forth laughing. and
Harry Clay BIaney. as Flip. was ex-
ceUent
The Barrier" with Theodore Ruberts.
Is booked for an engagement at Nc
Vicker's Theater. Chicago. early in Oc-
tober
Through a window" a play OF san
Francisco bv Gertrude Andrews, in
which Mary Bertrand is to play the
leading role. goes into rehearsal next
month
John Slavin. IN The Hot Air King"
by Harry b smith and Raymond Hub
bell. will begin his rehesrsals next
month This musical comedy viii prob
ably open in Chicago for a run.
'Rebecca OF Sunnybrook Farm" will
be given its first production in Spring
field. Mass. I'm November. The play is
completed and the company selected.
Pen Hur" will play only the larger
cities this season. New costumes have
been made. The play is now IN re-
hearsal. The cast IS strong one.
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WHAT MEANS THIS TAX ON
FOREIGN-BUnT YACHTS?

Every man who hangs his lunch
kettle over his arm and hastens to
factory or mill before the : o'clock
whistle blows will appreciate the plight
of the millionaire yacht owners pursued
by the Government in its effort to col
lect a duty on foreign-built yachts.
Perhaps, too, the man at the factory
bench or at the swift-revoIving macbin-
cry in the mill will indulge his svm-
pathetic nature to the extent of attend
ing meetings of protest to voice his in
dlgnation over this outrage Of impos-
ing an onerous obligation upon yacht
owners. All, how his blood must boil
as he reflects upon the Governments
tyrannous procedure
Does it not almost amount to trea-
son to saddle such a burden upon the
millionsires of the land? Why should
they pay the enormous tonnage tax of
81 ton on foreign built yachts E?
Hasn't every man, whether he be a
millionaire pleasure seeker. or a humble
worker in factory, or mill, the right 10
buy his yacht where he pleases?
And, further, what does the Govern
ment mean by imposing a tax upon
something intended for pleasure. some
thing that belongs in the category of
Injuries? Taxes of every so t are not
and never were intended to be imposed
on anything but necessities. Isn't that
the whole theory of taxation? Why
disturb this theory? Why this out
rage2
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Happy Happy Hawkins. .

Happy Hawkins, the teller and hero
Of Robert Alexander wason's story BY
the same name, is a sort OF eow-punch-
ing philosopher. humorist. and poet.
And he makes his wanderinss through
the West a kind Of Odyssey Of humor-
Gus and romantic interlUdes. There is a
plot to the yarn-a plot full OF lost chill
dren, and lost mines and lost English
mobiles and IL keeps the interest pretty
we'll aroused-but the best parts OF the
book are those when the plot itself is
lost It is when Happy himself. quick
tempered, funloving. tender. and de-
voted 70 his friends. goes of on some
new venture. say as watchman in a
mine for a winter with novelist and
an actor, or as protector TO a lone lady
from whose domain proving Cinnamon
are nnally driven BY an active goat
painted with phosphorus. that Lhe
reader chuCkles steadily and gets the
clElne release from everyday wOrry.
me book savOrs slightly of The Nir-
glnian, but Is full Of live people OF its
own There is the same atmosphere and
the same wonderful frontier yarns
strung along the main story The char
acters may or may not be true but they
are certainly original and interesting.
Barbie, the only daughter OF Cast
Steer JudSOn, who wears leather chaps
because she hates TO be a girl. and
really tender-hearted woman, are re-
freshinglv imprO bable. Perhaps. the
whole book is improbable but 1t {
funny. Funny In brisk. vigorous out
door style. and we can forgive almost
anything in what makes US laugh
CRObert Alexander Wasou: Happy
Hawkins" Boston: Small, Maynard
* Co Price. S-50)
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Some of the Leading Publishers Offerings
In Way Of Early Fall Books and Magazines

Hamlin Garland has a question to ask
In his just published book. The Mecca
sin Ranch" and with a certain effec-
tive simplicity OF scene and situation ne
succeeds in stating his query in 156
short pages. The question is this: II
an honest plodding husband brings his
wife TO new country. after nine years
of childless and eYen-tenored married
life, ana she is forced. by poverty and
the loneliness and barrenness of the
Western land, to find the love element
IN masterful, enterprising land agent.
is 1t not right. when the result of their
passion is upon them, for him to take
her into some new life, and accept the
responsibility of a husband? Mr.. Car
land implies that il is right.
This book is not novel. It is a short
Story, and might very readily be made
into a kind of drama. But Ii would
have to We amDlified and comnlicated.
stuff written on the same situat on be
cause II is clean, well written. aid NSin-
cere- The best thing about il is the
backgroUnd-telling pictures Of sun
batEed and snow-deviled prairie. 1t has
touch of an unhumOrous and Ameri-
canized Hardy. There is a suggestion
OF the elemental about both the charac-
Jers and the setting But 1t fails pre-
ctsely in the spot where much of the
rest OF our fiction fails. In the desire Is
state the problem clearly. everything is
eliminated save a few persons and a
few motives Life becomes diagram
matte. instead of big and various and
complex.
The above does not mean that Mr..
Garland has done anything unworthy.
His idea IS interesting, his solution
courageous. and many of the scenes are
moving and dramatic. But is II necsS-
sary to state this case again, merely
with a changed environment, until some
thing can be added to the art and full
ness of F'laubert's diagnosis in Mad
anne BOvary2"
(Hamlin Garland: The MOccasin
Ranch. New York: Harper & Bro.
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''Dante"-A Play.

George Lansing Raymond has writ
ten a six-act drama, Dante" which
he has published along with his col
lected verse. He probably had no
thought of writing a stage play, and
certainly to us the poem seems too
full Of both talk and reflection to
warrant the idea Of actual produc-
ton. Yet the effort is worthy both
as poetry and as an analysis Of GER
tain aspects of the poetical tempera-
ment. Indeed. we feel that Prof. Ray
mOnds study Of esthetics has ten pied
him into portrayal Of the POT teal
character rather than a picture of a
certain FloTentine poet. The whole i'm
preston, secured from what had to be
casual reading, was that Of a beauti-
full pageant wherein the characters med
itate aloud.
Naturally, one thinks of what Stephen
Phillips might have done on the same
theme. But I'm this play there IS little
Of the vital conflict, the concrete charac-
terization, or the dramatic climax that
mark the EngliShman's work. II is
closet drama pure and simple. Even
Dante does not seem especially DauteS-
que. His mouth is fun of the wisdom
that ne must have had, but never does
he give us a sense Of purifying tragedy.
and GeathleSs pain. OF the poetry,
praise Is easy. The verse is vigorous,
restrained and often beautiful II there
OF apt ones. The imagery is more Origi-
nal. and vigorous than that most of our
modern bards seem capable Of. Yet the
whole appears TOO cold, too logical too
premeditated. Mr.. Raymond lacks some
fire TO lend his brilIiancy warmth as
well as light.
The collected verse, which makes UP
the larger part Of the volume, is not so
noteworthy as the. play. Much of It is
technically excellent, full Of pith, and
sentiment. some OF 1t Is barren. But
this volume shines Ike light Of classic
simplicity and sincerity amid a multi
tudinous sea of mers prettnesses-
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"outing" For October.

The Outing Magazine for October is q
fan shooting number and its articles
strike the keynote of the chase aftsr
big and small game. Several OF the
articles are distinctly of practical use
to the sportsman after good fall shoot
ing. Among these are Hunting the
Adirondack Grouse" by Todd Russell /.
Turkey TracEs in the Big Cypress by
A. w. DimOck; Game Birds at Close
Range" by Herbert X Job; this IS one
Of Mr.. Jobs fascinating articles upon
camera hunting; Rifles and Shot Guns
Of Today: Their Care and Selection.
by Charles Askins.
An article sure TO attract attention Tor
Its revelation of new opportunities 10
spOrtsmen is ''MexicO's Unlimited Will
derness," by Dillon Wallace. MI Wal
lace has tried out the game possibilities
OF this rev territory. and his descrip-
ctOns OF The abundance of game mus
open the eyes OF other spOrtsmen who
have repeatedly tried the Adirondack,
Canada, and our OWL far West.
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PRESIDENT TAFT'S SPEECH
AT WINONA.

The tariff speech of President Taft
at Winona last night will be one of the
standards of political literature for sew
eral years to come. It will he quoted
from the stump and in the press, by
Democrats and by Republicans, by the
friends and the opponents of the Presi-
dent, by Republican stslwsrts and Re
publican insurgents. 1t will be the
basis for indictments of the Republican
party, and it viii be the essence of the
defense offered against such indict-
ments. Neither as President nor as
candidate for President has Mr.. Taft,
thus far. delivered any utterance so
assured of long life in political his
tory.
The President will not be called to
address any audience more thoroughly
committed to the idea of effective
downward revision than that which
faced him at Winona. Minnesota fur
nished more votes against the Payne
Aldrich bill than any other State. Both
it's Senators and all its Representative.
save only Mr.. Tawney. in whose home
town Friday nights speech was made,
voted against the conference report;
and there has been every evidence that
the only man whom Minnesota senti-
ment condemns for his course was Taw-
ney. Minnesota was, in the last phase,
the head and front of insurgency. If
the President was going TO make any
vigorous concessions to the sentiment
which has criticised this measure. it
might be presumed that he would make
them before a Minnesota audience.
There is no apparent reason why Mr..
Taft should give more comfort to IN
surgents when he talks in Kansas or
Iowa than he did in Minnesota.
Wherefore cancellations arc in
evitsble as to the tariff sentiments the
President viii present throughout his
tour; and the assumption is justified
that he will defend the measure He
said at Winona that this is the best
tariff bill that the Republican party
has ever passed. and therefore the best
tariff bill that has ever passed That
being his view. Mr.. Taft declared he
could not have reconciled any other
course to his conscience than that of
signing the bill"
That seems to make the issue as
plain as anybody could desire. The
President may have criticism, at Des
Moines and other places, of particular
schedules; but plainly he Is going TO
stand by the bill as on the whole an
effective compliance with Republican
pledges and as the best tariff act ever
passed The Middle West has his word
and cannot well mistake its meaning.
The President argues, from figure:
prepared by Mr. Payne. that there II
vastly more of reduction than of ad
vance in schedules. and therefore com
plisuce with the party pledge. Numer
Gus analyses by experts have arrived
at different conclusion; at the con
clusion that in operation. under actus
administration. the tariff burden OF
the average consumer will be heavier
than under the old law. Evidently
nothing but trial and experience vii
decide between the two views.
II is reported by the correspondent
that the Presidents defense Of the bill
was received without enthusiasm. II
is not difficult to believe that. in tn,
territory he is now touring. this is a
very reasonable Interpretation Of tn,
opinion felt
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for sure. Apparently in the coming
season the masculine patron of novel
ties can be as loud and lively as he
pleases.
Still it will be hard, if not impossi-
bic, for man to keep within hailing
distance of his old rival in the matter
OF dress. 1t is not for him. but for his
better half, that they have invented
the polar hat and the Arctic coat. He
must always be content TO remain sew
eral laps or seasons behind.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-18

~ EW men in the theatrical business
l. have A better claim TO beinS
self-made than George NJ Conan,
The Yankee Prince"
Practically born on the stage, and at
a time when his parents resources were
at a low ebb. little George was forced
% take up the burden at a tender age
He began his stage career by appearing
on the bill with his father, mother, and
sister as a boy violinist at ten years Of
age Three years later he began to
write sketches IN which the family.
billed As the fOur'Cohans, became iden-
tined, and at eighteen he was already
known, not only as a sketch writer, but
also as a composer.
George NJ. Cohan was thirty-one years
old last July 4 and he has already
written and produced twelve successful
plays. lie has also written large
number of sketches.
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'Springtime" an October is the
p+omise made by Frederic Thompson
to Washington theatergoers.
The Polly OF .tr~ Circus" company.
with it's fulfilled ed circus for the
third act, will arrive in Washington
this morning.
Mrs. Fred G. Berger, wife OF the
manager of the Columbia Theater, IS
an enthusiastic autoist. but she
places the speed limit at twenty miles
an hour.
Little Helen Brown, one Of the finds
OF the Columbia Players. VIII have a
prominent part IN Lew Fields pro
duction of "Old Dutch"
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Louise Reed. of the Columbia Play
ers. will shortly open in Terre Haute,
Ind. as leading lady Of the Wright
Huntington stock company. playing
the part IN When We Were Twenty
one" that Julia Dean played in this
city.
"The Climax" which played in Bal
timore last week, is booked for an
early witt to Washington.
Marie OrdIey Fenton. at Chase's
this week. is a convent-bred girl, but
that does not impair ner success in
singing coon songs" She has struck
a popular chord as surely as May
Irwin or CIarice Vance.
Asked how she acquired the real
Southland accent. Miss Fenton said
she IS. 20 begin with, a genuine lady
Of the land OF Dixie. and a coIored
NANNY" taught her the darby folk
songs of "befo' the war"
Miss Fentou was educated at the
Convent Of the Sacred Heart at Man
hattanville, y. y, and last season
made her stgae debut i'm Jesse l..
Lasky's The Country Club"
Paul NJ. Potter, author Of 1.-THE Girl
From Recto-'s," has Just returned from
Europe, and has brought with him ma
teriai for another Offering Of the same
order which will be produced I'm New
/ York early in November. Mr. Potter
was abroad when The Girl From Rec
tors WAS put on, and has never Wit
messed a performance II business Der l.
/ mits ne Will be a visitor In WASHINGTON
/ next week.
Burton Holmes, the weH-known lee
/ turer on travel. and his felIow-traveIer
and associate lecturer. Wright Kramer
| has landed on the Deutschland. having
cirCied the globe since the middle Of
| last NpriL Mr.. Holmes states that this
| is the first vacation ne has taken since
he began his professional career seven
/ teen years ago. For sixteen years he
| has spent every year IN travel. in the
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three psrts-''The Socialist Hope "Pr-
vate Property and Personal Liberty in
the socialist State. and The Moral
Value of Class Consciousness TIE
second Of these is q reprint OF Mr.. Spar
COS article in the June North American
Review The third is an answer TO Nj
RooseVelt denunciatiOu Of Socialists
Tor preaching the foul doctrine of class
cOnSciousness. The new volume is
dedicated 10 Walter Rauschenbusch.
Inc other book by Mr., Spargo is entitled
Karl Marx: His Life and Work" In
order TO write this book, Mr. SDargo
has been collecting material for the last
twelve years.
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A New Novel By Robert Kitchens.

The promise OF a new novel by Robert
Hichens. for issue early in October. Is
the most Interesting of the fan an
nouncemsnts made by the J. 3. Lippin-
colt Company. This new story by the
author Of ''The Garden OF Allah VIII
attract especial interest because Mr..
Hichens has laid its scenes in Africa.
but instead Of presenting vivid pictures
OF the Saharan desert. as in the previous
story. ht g chosen the Egyptian desert
and the valley Of the Nile for his seen
cry Competent critics vino have read
the manuscript think the new tale is
the hest that Mr.. Kitchens has written.
and pronounce II infinitely more human
than The Garden OF Allah"
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Kansas University president SAYS
that the States prosperity may make
the youth snobbish. The youth will
probably take a chance. And a summer
OF harvesting back on the old farm
VIII have strong tendency TO reduce
inflated craniums. Work is a cure for
snobbery in most cases, for your true
snob is a loafer who imagines that he
deserves something for having either
position or money that somebody else
has earned
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THE .GOAT.

Abp
Yes, my SON"
What is an ultimate consumer
"Oh. the ultimate. consumer, my boy,
is the one who gets the hash. "-Yonkers
Statesman.
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Duffeld's Announcements.

Messrs. Duffeld & Companys publics-
tons for September include: Songs and
Poems" by Fiona Macleod; "Mimma
BeIla," a sonnet sequence, by the late
Eugene Lee-Hamilton; Tine Shakes
peare Allusion Book a new volume IN
The Shakespeare Library; practice
Recipes by Mrs. 3. b Cutter, OF San
Francisco. Peter HOmunculuS," nov
el. by Gilbert Canaan. Treasure
Trove." a novel, by G. A Dawson Scott.
The StoleTs Signet.' a novel, by Sidney
FredericiIs, THE Black sheep a nov
81. by Joseph STARTS, and "On the Light
ship" a pOsthumOus collection Of short
stories by Herman knIckeTbocker Niele.
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A Vaudeville Heroine.

THE Bill Toppers." by Andre Cas-
taigne, the artist is the life story OF
Lily. the New ZeaIander on wheels, a
queen or the vaudeville stage. Lest
anyone be misled by the English slang
We may state at the outset that a Bill
Topper may be done into the Ameri-
can vernaCuIar as a -'headhner'' or 4
star" Lily IS trick bicycle rider.
and the story follows her career-her
training under her fathers stick. her
temptations. and her love affairs with
other bill toppers-
The book Is fun OF human nature and
atmcsT here. And its chief interest is
that il Is perhaps the first novel that
has dealt with the local color OF the
variety stage. 1t gives vivid picture
Of the hardships. the cruelties, the gilt
ter of the footliEhts. and the intoXica-
ton of applause. The scene takes us
around the circuit from Australia 10
New York The volume IS Illustrated
with twenty-five pictures by the author.
who is much better known as the de
piCtor Of French romantic life than as
a novelist.
ANDRE Castaigna: The Bill Toppers.
Indianapolis: BOobs-MerrtN Co. Price
81 SCI
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''The Inner Shrine"-Dramatized.

AHt IUntI onIIne -DIdMaFtzeu,
The Inner Shrine" the anonymous
novel whose production On the stage
was arranged for by MesSrs. KIaw and
Erlanger several months ago, Will be
dramatized II is now announced. bv
Claiming Pollock. Playwright. prOduc-
er. and publisher are all resolved TO pre-
serve the anonymity OF the author -uf
the novel. which viii have its dramatic
first night during the holidays
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On Automobile Tour.

On Automobile Tour.
Rear Admiral Richardson Glover. U.
s. N, retired. and Mrs. Glover. who
have been travelling in Egypt and on the
Continent during the spring and sum-
mer. are now touring England in their
motor car. They expect to return to
Washington for the winter
Mrs William Strother Smith and Miss
Margaret Smith. wife and daughter Of
Commander Smith. I. s. N, who have
been spending the summer at the sea
shore, Rave returned 10 their apartment
at the WesumOreiand.
Lieut.. Charles H. Patterson. Coast
Artillery Corps. and Mrs. Patterson.
street. for the winter. Mrs. Patterson.
who Is visiting her parents in New
York, VIII not return to Washington
until after the Hudson-Futon celebra-
ton, which she will attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore ). Pickett re-
turned 10 their home on 3iltmore street
today. after a few weeks stay at
Mountain Home. In the Blue Ridge
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Miss Esther GUIDE. Of Gudemont. has
been the guest for few days of Miss
Amilie Hollander-
Home at Navy Yard.
Rear Admiral and Mrs Leutze have
returned to the navy yard after spend
ing the summer at Stockbridge Miss
Leutze has gone to the Virginia Hot
Springs for a few weeks before return
ing 10 Washington for the season.
s.
Mrs. Robert L. Buchanan. who has
been at Winchester, Va, for the sum
mer months, has returned to Washing
ton.
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George c. Ryall has announced the
engagement Of his niece. Miss Margaret
Virginia Flynn, 10 Harry j. Lees, the
wedding 70 take place Wednesday after
noon. September =. at 5.30 o'clock in
St. Joseph's Catholic Church.
Senator Culberson and his little daugh-
ter. Miss Mary CulbeTson, returned to
Washington yesterday from New York,
where they have been for a few days
after spending the summer at Asbury
PARK. Mrs. Culbersou and her sister,
Mrs. Schleuter, who remained In New
York, Will not return for a week.
=.
Lieut.. j. r. Defrees nss left Washing
ton 20 Join the battleship Michigan
having been ordered for duty on a three
months cruise.
Mrs. Morris Evans and her daughter.
Miss Meta Evans, who have been i'm
London and Paris all summer, and since
their return 10 this country at Atlantic
City, returned 10 Washington for the
winter yesterday
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Mrs. Harry FriedlandeT has returned
70 Washington, after trip through the
West and "A brief soiourn at Atlantic
City.
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Mt. and Mrs. Henry Peyser. of Eighth
street, were at home Tuesday evening.
ID
sary.
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Mrs. Oliver Returns.

MIS-. Robert Shaw Oliver, wife Of the
Assistant Secretary of war. returned
to Washington yesterday from their
summer home, at Murray Bay, Canada
Miss Marion oliver, who has been visit
ing Miss Mary Carlisle for few weeks
at the Virginia hot Springs. has also
returned and on Wednesday will take
possession OF their new residence on Q
street, recently purchased by General
Oliver.
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New York police are going to over
look the Hudson-Fultpn crowd from
balloons. But then they always have
overlooked q cot