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eat peanuts at the theater any more.
They are too toploftical, too dead WISE
too naughty, so to speak
Not so long ago / watched a slender
line of boys and young men forming De-
fore the gallery entrance of local thea
ter a short time before the opening of the
door 1t certainly was not the same Old
gallery crowd The men of the bunch
appeared quiet and glum. There was
none of the old effervescence. The boys
were very sophisticated indeed; far too
much so to exhibit enthusiasm, anticipa-
ton. keenness Of delight. They were
not fighting for their heads TO be the
first in when the door swung wide. They
were Just waiting for the door to open
without appearing to be in the least bit
OF a hurry. If they TESTED there was a
sting in the jest Riotous, bubbling good
nature was strangely absent. There was
nothing of the old spirit of the gallery
gods in them.
How remarkably different all this was
back yonder in the years when there
gods, 1 mean. who were not sophisticated.
but just young fellers eager to see the
shows once week, loaded to the guards
with enthusiasm, riotously happy at
every stage of the proceedings
Those were the days when the gallery
gods were an Inspiration to the actors.
source of entertainment to the people in
the lower part of the house
The gallery gods of that day kept the
thing moving. as it were. They were al
ways aroused to a high pitch Of excite
ment during the progress of the play
and they weren't stingy when it came To
exhibiting their excitement. They
screamed with delight when the hero
put It all over the villain: they cat-called
the villain when that sinister parsonage
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practice a select committee of the United
States Senate will subpoena witnesses and
hold some very interesting hearings dur
ing these remaining days of the congress
sional recess. Senator Brandegee Of Con-
necticut is chairman of this court of in
quiry, and the other members are Sen
ators Brown (Neb), Borah 0daho), Over
man On. c.. and Stone (Mo) This body
will be divided into two subcommittee,
one composed of Chairman Brandegee
Senator Borah and Senator Overman,
sitting, in the east, and the other. COM
posed of Senators Borah. Brown and
Stone, holding its hearings in the west
Senator Borah, father of the legislation
creating the inquiry. will divide his time
between the two subcommittee and will act
as the chief examiner of witnesses. His
special interest in the subject was aroused
during the bitter mining difficulties in
Idaho a few years ago. when he witnessed
the application OF the third degree in
its various phases. Upon the testimony,
pro and con. heard by the Brandegee
committee that body will recommend to
Congress changes in our criminal pro-
cedure.
Il arrest YOU In the kings name.
Any statement which you make may be
used against YOU"
Such was the warning which Inspector
Dew gave Dr. CriprPn and his companion
before they had an opportunity to breathe
a word in reply. They were instructed
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as to their rights at the very beginning
Of the case of the state against them.
Such is the British method of treating
suspects. 1t is demanded by British law
and the minion who neglected 1t would
be ANONYMOUSLY shorn of his authority.
Our law having been based generally
upon that of the mother country. it was
the custom for our cOnstables and police
men. down to and including civil war
times, to similarly warn an arrested man
that anything which he might say to his
own detriment could be used against HIM
But during reconstruction days, with
their unusual conditions Of crime, torture
seems to have first been generally intro
duced by our police to aid them In their
inquistions held prior to court trials
The most popular of the instruments
used to inf1ict this torture was the sweat
box" which in the following words was
described the other day before the
American Academy of Political and Social
Science by Maj. Richard Sylvester, Wash
ington's superintendent OF police, who Tor
the past ten years has been president OF
the International Association of Chiefs
of Police:
1T cell. adjoining which. in close
proximity, was a high iron stove of drum
formation. The subject indispcsed to
disclose Information which might be Sc
curely locked within his bosom would be
confined within this cell and without
ceremony or formality a scorching fire
would be encouraged in the monster
stove ad; ,ining, into which vegetable
matter. shoes and kindred trophies would
be thrown all to make terrible heat,
offensive as it was hot 1t became at
last so torturous and terrible as to cause
the sickened and perspiring object of
punishment to reveal the innermoSt Sc
crets he possessed as the compensation
for release from the sweat box.
Hence the term sweating a suspect.
now applied in the fgurative seLse to
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Gallery Gods Of Other Days

appeared to have the winning hand in
the game: they rocked with appreciation
of the quips of the low comedian; they
howled to smother their tears when the
livened the actors. kept them awake.
kept them up to thei- work. The term
playing to the gallery meant something
then. Lawrence Barrett used to say that
the galleryites were invariably the first
to catch even the subtlest points and
suggestions Of his often exceedingly sub
tie productions. He claimed that they
were the quickest of all theatergoers. He
was perhaps the most scholarly of all of
our great actors of the past; and yet he
made no bones Of it that he liked to
play to the gallery" because it was
there, he maintained, that he found his
most hearty and penetrating apprecia-
ton.
I was a gallery god here in Washington
back in the early eighties. Never since
has the theater seemed so splendid to me
as 1t did then. There is not the same
old sharp tang of enjoyment to it. And
all OF the youngsters of my time say
the same thing. They count their gallery
god period the most appreciative of their
life. OF course. ones youth had something
to do with it. But not all There GER
tainly was more spohtaneity among boys
and young men at that time. They were
not touched by the modern sophistication
or very young male persons. They en-
joyed frankly. and they showed their
enjoyment. The gallery gods of Wash
lngton used to be famous at that time.
Great actors CALLED them the most dis
eliminating ana enthusiastic gallery gods
in America.
Saturday night was the great night for
us to go to the theater. OF course. the
answer to this is easy. Saturday night
we had the price. because it was pay
night.
can remember now, not without a
tinge Of wonder the f1utter 7 used to
be in all day Saturday, back in the
fading years. over the thought that I'd
be taking in the show that night. The
job didn't seem so hard on Saturday with
that thought constantly before my minds
eye. At that time Washington used to be
heavily papered' with bills of the play,
and it was impossible for me to pass
by these spendiferous Autographs on
the dead walls during the week without
experiencing thrill OF delight. was
going to take in that show on Saturday
night-whoop-ee! All very different now,
old boys of my era, isn't it, when we
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have to be literally dragged out to see
the show by our energetic and deter
mined wives?)
At that time there were two leading
when Sam Kingsley conducted it. and
Albaugh's Grand Opera House NOW
Chase's). when John G. Albaugh had it
The gallery gods played 'em both i'm
partially. depending upon the nature of
the show.
Well as s o'clock drew nigh on Satur-
day evenings, O'Clock being the knock
off hour, my excitement over the pros
pect of attending the show became in
tense. The cashier would dish out my
two or three dollars whatever ] hap
oened to be earning per week., and I'd
beat it home with all my might so as to
wash UP and get ready for the show.
Supper was a mere detail. l bolted mine
o Saturdays. to the intense oonsterna-
ton and alarm of a solicitous maternal
parent who could not understand such
foolishness all on account of a theater
performance.
x K
I'd get down to the front of the GAL
lery entrance by 4 O'Clock nearly always:
but always there were plenty of boys
and young men ahead of me. Never
once was l able to get there SO as to
be the very first in line. The first boy
VI SoQuS line was kept
bang up against the door by the crushing
gang forming the rest of the line; but
he didn't mind that; he was deliriously
happy at the prospect of snagging
middle aisle seat in the very front row
of the gallery. That was our idea in
getting there early; to grab seats in the
front row. 1t took agility, speed, to
do it, The weaklings had no chance.
When the door was swung open ii was
a case of rattletybang. throw your quar-
ter into the little ticket window, grab
your pasteboard, and beat it up the long.
winding stairs three at clip. and,
having reached the gallery, literally fall
ing down one or the other of the aisles
to grab out the best seat you could
find Generally you were breathless.
painting like a carriage dog when you
finally fell into seat, and your heart
going at a dangerous pace-but you were
happy.
But we're a little ahead of time-the
gallery door isn't opened yet. IT wasn't
opened till 100. Meantime the line grew.
1t was always long line-an enormously
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only second to the enthusiasm with which
she has espoused her husbands inter-
ests. Her small daughter has not en-
joyed robust health during the past year,
and this interfered quite materially with
her hospitable plans. She. however, at
tended to all her social obligations with
ScrupulOuS exactneSs. returning calls and
making them. according to the accepted
etiquette. She held her Thursday at
home the greater part of the season, and
is universally esteemed by all her COL
leagues.
II cannot claim political knowledge
nor even "a deep interest in them ex-
cept SO far as they affect my husband"
said Mrs. Jones Il follow all his move
ments with keen anxiety and in this
way have learned national and local
policies after a fashion But my home
and my children have been engrossing in
tercsts. In North Yakima we have a
pleasant home with all that a reasonable
woman could ask We boast of about
12COO inhabitants and our city is well
planned, clean and artistic and possesses
all the Improvements and comforts which
distinguish the new city in the thriving
great northwest. Our women have clubs
and have aided most successfully in ele-
waiting the community and in making il
wholesome and up to the modern standa I'd
in sanitation and general cleanliness.
Living for the greater part of the year
in Washington city, ] have not I'm recent
years been able to do my part in these
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pelt. but that mattered not. We'd dry
out! 1t was hot in the gallery, and il
was going to be a hot show, Whee.
Finally. after what seemed ages, we'd
hear a hollow tramping inside the door.
Then the wooden bar would be pulled
back, and the ticket man who pulled it
back would scamper for his life. He had
to. or he'd have been run down and
trampled. Every gallery god had his
quarter pat in his mitt, and then the
tremenjus golloping. noisier than the hoof-
beats of the Valkyries by far. would re-
sound up and down the long winding
stairs. II was always pretty dark up in
the gallery when We got there thus early.
But we didn't mind that. We were there
that was the point. Hardly anybody lad
arrived downstairs, and there were the
dimmest lights there. What did we care?
Yee-ow. 1t was going to be some show,
fellers,
The candy and peanut vendors, little
boys. circulated through the gallery, sell
ing their goods with ridiculous ease, at ;
cents per copy. That was the extent of
our evenings outlay, by the way; two
bits for the gallery ticket. a nickel for
peanuts or candy. generally peanuts. No
car fare. remember We walked both
ways. Thirty cents was chunk of coin
In those days. not to be spoken of con-
Well, about 7:4s the whistling and
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and she constantly used every oppor-
tunity to broaden her intellectual horizon
and to become familiar with the advances
in science, literature and art. She met
Senator Jones when he was teaching a
small country school near her father g
home. and they married with only hopes
and sincere love for each other as
their dover.
ANY man and women who love each
other and have a sincere belief in their
ability to wrest a fortune from life can
do so,' said Mrs. Jones. u am afways
amused by the twaddle about people
waiting until they have saved enough to
get married. Get married, and then save,
is my advice. 1t is the quickest and
safest way. 1 know that the age is lux
urious and that young people now want
more than their grandfathers dared to
hope for. after a lifetime of labor and
economy. But nothing brings out the
finer qualities of man or woman like
adversely and self-denial, and nothing will
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the corpse was bombarded by suggestion
after suggestion that he was the MUIR
derer. And now, completely hypnotized,
he not only affirmed all that his in
QulsitOrS suggested, but in his daZed state
of mind added details to his untrue con-
fession.
How many innocents have been convict
ed and hanged or electrocuted on the
not be estimated. DR.. Hugo Munster
berg. professor of psychology at Har-
ward, who has been studying these phe-
nomena of late, believes that Richard
WINS. the youth hanged not long ago for
the famous HOLSTER murder, in Chicago.
was hypnotized during the third degree
ordeal into making just such false
confession as that wrung from Henry
Becker Mrs. HOLSTER. it may be re-
membered, failed to return to her home
after attending church, and next morning
her body was found in neighboring
alley with piece of wire tightly fasten-
ed about her throat. The police had lit
tie evidence against young WINS until
lures of the third degree. The sudden
flashing in his face Of a highly polished
revolver is believed by Prof. Munsterberg
to have thrown him into state of hypno-
sis. during which he confirmed all Of the
suggestions which his inQuisitor roared
at MIN. Later the nerve-wrecked youth
protested his innocence. but his "confes-
sion" was accepted by the jury and he had
to pay the grim penalty of the law
The plot Of stirring drama was builh
upon Prof. Munsterberg's study of this
case. This was Charles Kleins Third
Degree whose most thrilling scene re-
hearsed the hypnotizing of young WINS
by the revolver flashed in his face The
psychologist accused the playwright of
embodying paragraph after paragraph
Of his monogra phi into the dialogue of the
drama. But in the play the third degree
victim was acquitted of the crime.
A strange phenomenon which psychol-
og1sts term auto-accusation has a bearing
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all times innocent men have been ac-
cused by the tortured ones: crimes which
were never committed have been con-
lessed infamous lies have been invented
10 satisfy the demands of the torturers. .
And Prof w. L. Burdick, i'm the cur
rent number of the Yale Law Journal. de-
scribes some more of TIE grim tortures OF
the ordeal under investigation:
A woman is arrested for murder Re
states. AT midnight the corpse of the
victim is brought to her cell that the dra-
matte horror of the scene may compel her
TO confess. Another prisoner is denied
food, another is brutally beaten-'slugged'
is the word-until he is forced to speak
Other atrocities are practiced such as
highly sailing the food and denying water
to the victims. placing them in solitary
confinement or in bitterly cold cells, when
the weather aids. or I'm frightfully SUPER
heated rooms at other times.
Red pepper has been blown into Their
cells and other indignities too numerous
TO mention perpetrated in order that a
confession may be tortured from the
helpless wretches."
But. after all, the worst that can be
said of these third degree barbarities Is
that they are illegal. The Constitution
unusual punishment and the underly-
ing spirit of the law is TO presume all
persons innocent until proven guilty. Tho
third degree" amounts to the enormitv
Of an illegal. premature trial held before
the suspect has been given an opportunity
to procure counsel and before he is even
under Indictment. His testimony is OBJ
tanned under duress and generally when
he is suffering from temporary emotional
insanity. The majority of the victims OF
the system are either aliens. ignorant
citizens or youths who do not understand
their legal rights, and who are afterward
afraid TO expose their prosecutors
JOHN ELFRETH wATKINS