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The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
MANTELL COMING
TO THE BELASCO

Robert B. Mantell is booked for one
week beginning Monday, April I. at the
Belasco Theater.
Year after year, Mr.. Mantell has been
adding to his repertoire. until today he
is playing nearly all of the acting plays
of Shakespeare. He will open his week
at the Belasco in a play which Is COM
paratively new to Washington. Casimar
Louis T. is the opening bill,
and considered by the critics to be the
most remarkable characterization during
the last twenty years of the stage. The
arrangement of the plays for the week is
as follows:
Monday, April Louis XI.
Tuesday. April S-Ma cbeth.
Wednesday Matinee-Richelieu
Wednesday Night-Merchant of Venice.
Thursday, April 10-Hamlet
Friday, April liking Lear.
Saturday Matinee-Merchant of Venice
Saturday Nish.-Macbeth.
For each of Mr.. Mantell's productions
his manager, William A. Brady, has pro-
vided stage settings in keeping with the
dignity of the acting of the star. and Mr.
Mantelrs company, which has steadily
heen improved. year after year. Is now
considered one OF the greatest oreani-
zations that ever interpreted Shakespeare
to Americans
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
STILL ASKING WHY SMITH
DOES NOT co TO CHURCH

From the Cniversalist Leader this per-
tinent comment on the query: why
Should Smith go to Church," is quoted:
The query still persists. Though It
may have received abundant answers to
satisfy all reasonable minds. it must be
remembered that most minds are un-
reasonable, But the Smiths of to-day are
an exceedingly practical lot: they are
demanding fruits, they want the goods
They are not willing to waste their
precious time in such foolishness as wor-
shipping God when they can make a dol
lar They are not going to mediate
when they can find work-for other
people to do, It is true that the church
has tried to fix the attention upon the
unseen. and has looked beyond this pres
ent-day life with faith In something
bigger. and it is true that the church
has done and mayhap is doing a great
many foolish things, but We are wonder
ing if DR. Nehemiah Boynton was not
pretty nearly right when he said: pile
high as you will the arguments of defect
against the modern church. this is true.
that the spirit OF worship which she
enshrines. is the foster-mother Of those
ameliorating Influences which. under the
name of the social question. are thrust
upon the attention OF every earnest citi-
zen of the present day. and he who
thinks that the social problems are to be
solved upon the lower planes OF the
polite and the prudential without the
aid of the compulsions of the ideal. that
these much-to-be-desired realizations
can come independent OF what he calls
the somnolent or the belated church, is
cherishing an illusion which the history
of the ages has many and many time
disappointed The church the institu-
tion of worship is a prerequisite to the
church as the institute OF work. and
Smiths present e'eemosynary sympathies
will lead him il he will follow them,
straight to a pew in the house OF God"
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
Garden Thentcr.

A masterpiece film production of Vic
tOrian Sardou's drama, CLEOPATRA. in
six reels, will be the attraction at the
Garden Theater all this week. with con-
tinuous performances from II q. m to
II p. m.
The part Of Cleopatra is acted by Helen
Gardner. the leading photoplay actress,
I'D a large company of capable artists
support her. The staging and costuminS
Of this magnificent dramatic and histor-
ical subject is on a plane of splendor.
which the subject warrants, and the en-
gagement at the Garden this week Is one
that promises to be one OF the really
great events in local motion picture pro-
auctions. because of the interest in the
life of Cleopatra and the educational fea-
lures of the subject
An unusually interesting musical pro-
gramme, which interpretates the theme
of the story OF Cleopatra's life, and taken
from ochmler's opera of the same name
will be given by the Garden symphony
Orchestra OF ten. under the leadership
of George II. Colgan.
The programme will include Antony's s
victory, Antony's love song, in Cleo
patra's barge. Cleopatra's death, and
suite de ballet. from Cleopatra opera of
Oehmler: Mendelssohns festival march.
" ar march. from alfalfa" Of Mendels-
sohn. Greenwadrs Solitude" and Mas
cagnfs Farewell" by Nogler.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
Nv ADELBERT MOOT.

Former President New York State Bar Association.
Exclusive service The Survey Press Burrau.l
| The stirring words of President Will
sons inaugural pointed out the human
cost Of our national achievements and
urged that:
There can he no equality of opportu-
nifty, The first essential of justice in the
body polite. if men and women and chill
dTen be not shielded in their lives. their
very vitality, from the consequences of
great industrial and social processes
which they cannot alter. control. or sin
EIy cope with sanitary laws,
pure food laws. and laws determining
conditions of labor which individuals are
powerless to determine for themselves,
are intimate parts of the very business
of justice and legal efficiency.
Can the national government. through
its constitutional power to regulate in
terstate commerce, remedy the conditions
the President describes? The first great
decision of the Supreme Court constituting
that power broadly came in 1924. After
hearing the argument of Daniel Webster
the court denied the authority of New
York State to grant exclusive navigation
rights on the Hudson River to steam
boats built under Fultons patents.
Then came long list of decisions hold
ing that vessels. crews, bridges, rail-
ways, engines. cars, passengers. freight,
rates, safety appliances, telegraph lines,
hours of labor and employers liability,
are subject to national regulation where
interstate commerce is involved.
Broad definition of commerce" has
been followed more recently by decisions
that the power to regulate" may cover
the prohibition of evil. The law against
interstate commerce and lottery tick
cts, by mail or otherwise, was upheld.
and now the Mann act prohibiting the
importation of white slaves from one
State to another has been declared con-
stitutional.
In upholding the employers liability
act. the court quoted the significant
language of Solicitor General Bowers
that Congress may leGislate about the
agents and instruments of interstate
commerce and the conditions under
which they work. whenever such legis-
lation bears upon the reliability. prompt
ness. economy, security. or utility OF the
interstate commerce act.
What application shall We make of
these settled rules of law. in dealing
with the conditions brought SO forcibly
to our attention by President Wilson?
The question presented is. shall We go
TO all the various State Legislatures
with model acts designed to regulate
hours of labor, days of labor, places
of labor. and compensation to injured
employees, or to those who came after
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23

The Religious Education Association. IN
its tenth convention at Cleveland last
week, gave new evidence. IN a rich and
diversified programme. OF the varied
functions which it is coming to fulfill in
the religious life of the country. Accu-
mulating interests continually enlarge its
scope. Last year departments OF social
service and lay training schools were
added to the array OF sectional confer
ences. and this year the number was IN
creased by special conferences on eugen-
les and on religious education in prisons
and reformatories. Along with this diver
sification. however. goes a steady deepen
ing in the spirituality OF the association s
aim.
Cleveland showed unusual appreciation
of the Importance OF the convention. The
local committee advertised the meetings
throughout the city with generous per-
sistence, psraIleling theater advertising
on the billboards and In the street cars.
The three night meetings in the Grays'
Armory were attended by audiences OF
several thousand, In which large deIega-
tions OF students from western reserve
University and Lake Erie College We're
prominent.
The Religious Educatio Association
elected the following general officers for
the coming year: president. DIR. Charles
W. ThwinE, Cleveland: first vice presi-
dent DR.. Henry s. Pritchett. New York.
treasurer, Charles l. Hutchinson. Chi
cago: executive board, chairman, Dr.
Abram w. Harris, Chicago: recording sec
retary. DR. Charles NJ. Stuart, Evanston.
Ill: general secretary, DR.. Henry F. Cope.
Chicago. New Haven, Conn, will be next
years meeting place.
A new organization called the Church
Peace League of America came into eX-
lstence February ID. at the call of the
Peace and Arbitration Commission of the
Federal Council of the Churches OF Christ.
A former compact. wnIcn InItIated the
movement WAS organized In Chicago last
December. Several things have led up
to this Inauguration. The Church Peace
League of England and Germany has
bewen for three Years suggesting this
division to cooperate with the clergy and
church workers Of those countries for
peace work in Europe. Mr.. Andrew Car
neSie has several times expressed the
conviction that II would be a powerful
instrument for peace IL the churches
could he enlisted. Mrs. Elmer BIacK
who secured so wide an observation of
Unity Sunday in 1911, is willing to assist
The chief reason given for this formation
is that five or six thousand OF the lead
ing ministers in the country may be
picked out and frequently furnished with
valuable literature. and thus be more and
more enlisted in the peace movement
These ministers may. moreover, be count
ed upon to lead in their communities IN
times OF international crisis, as when ar
bitration treaties are before the Senate
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
Religious Education, Peace,
Benep0lence, and Lenfs Impact

| or such question arises as the Panama
tolls.
The proposition is to link together, az
has been done in England and Germany,
the ministers ana religious leaders VINO
are interested in this great subject
Churchmen representing different denomi-
nations in New York and elsewhere pro-
noting this movement include the roIlow-
ing: kevs. Henry NJ. Sanders Rivington
ID. Lord. Chester +. Halsron, Waiter
Laldlaw, william II. Short, Charles S.
Macrarland. Il. b. Sanrord, George M.
wenner, J. Lyon Caughey, Frederick
, Lynch. and F. Hollingsworth Wood. Some
Washington leaders Will doubtless go on
tho board.
A preliminary report, issued by the
Bureau OF the Census. deals with the
benevolent institutions of the continental
United States. OF these there are in all
s.S97. with inmates to the number of $780,
3S. There are LEE institutions for the
care OF children, with 2l2 societies for
their protection and care: Lac for the
care of adults, or adults and children;
I19 for the education and care of the
blind and deaf; 1886 hospitals classed
as benevolent. and SO benevolent dis
pensaries. The number of children at
a single moment is taken, a constant
current flowing out to homes, and in
from the world outside. making a con-
slant change. The cases of treatment in
these purely benevolent hospitals num-
bered 1.9I5.Sc3 in the course Of year.
The number of these institutions Is
largest in New York, PENNSYLVANIA and
Massachusetts following Almost all the
tSates show an increase in the number
of institutions and large increase in
the cases ministered to. Here is an
army of the needy and evidence that
Americans are everywhere awake TO
their need and ready to do something
goes steadily on and is increasing as the
population grows.
The number OF noon-hour services in
churches and halls in business districts
Of cities steadily increases Beginning
with Episcopal, the Roman Catholic and
Lutheran churches are now taking them
up. Furthermore, il is found that Chris
tians of ali names are attending these
services. Protestants going in consider
able numbers In New York this Lent
the number of these services has in
creased to fourteen. three more than
last Lent. or these eleven are Episcopal
and three Roman Catholic. During the
forty days of Lent total attendance at
all these services is estimated to reach
$4,000. OF this number fully 60 per cent
are men. or at any rate that was about
the percentage last Lent. Many Of the,
women who attend are married women
coming downtown and taking In the serv-
ices. sometimes with their husbands and
sons. curious phase of Lenten serv.
ices is said to be the tremendous in
crease in the number of those who enter
the churches and halls when no service
is in progress.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
The LyceuDi-"The Girls from
Missouri

THE Girls from Missouri como to the
I.yceum this week. Tne management OF
this show has done about the best work of
its career in gathering. eQuipping. and
staging the Girls from Missouri" and
will provide a real show. brimful of
fun and froTIc. music ana original COM
edy. II is promised tnat there Will De
an absolute absence OF slowness, stiff
ness, or tiresome dialogue.
The stars Will be displayed IN a new
two-act musical satire. The L1ttIesr
Leading Lady" George Totten smith,
playwright or acknowledged reputation.
wrote the piece.
Among the players representing the
company are the following wen-known
people: Dainty Eva Null. the smart
little soubrette; Marguerite CusnIng,
Leathe Keeney, Fred Russell. Jimmie
Kearney. Bobby Harrington, }. Francis
Reynolds. and the American comedy trio.
Friday night the country store will be
repeated.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23

For long period of years, experienced
and able lawyers have labored for uni
form State legislation on matters so
simple that it would seem easy to OBJ
tain it, and yet as the result of all
these labors there are but a very few
laws that are uniform in different
States, and usually these laws are to
be found in but very few States.
In the welfare OF the workers in inter-
state commerce. however. We have a
master of national concern. and 1t can
be adequately dealt with only by ma
tional law. Upon no other basis can
the employers or the employees be put
on equal terms with each other every
where in interstate commerce. II the
relation of employers and employees TO
each other in interstate commerce is
thus regulated by national law, the
States, in self-defense. will be compell-
ed to adopt substantially the same regu-
lations. 1t is only just and right that
a subject of national importance and
scope should be settled by national law =:
and it is doubtful IL 1t will even be
settled right by any legislation short Of
that.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
CasinO-NaudcvilIc.

Joe Lanigan, the Washington monolo-
gist, will share the feature interest at
the Casino Theater this week with the
famous Bell Boy trio which is said to
be a splendid Offering of song in a set
ting OF laughabe comedy.
Rinaldo. the Gypsy vioIlnist, Will rur-
nish the refined musical feature of classic
tone and excellence. ana wnItlng and
and Girard, a rathskeller revelry of en-
tertaIning quanty. IN the HeId or daring
acropatics. the F'Iying Glendale Will give
an exhibition OF unusual feats in a re-
markable casting act. while westford
and Book. in their amusing comedietta,
THE Wrong Room, Will contribute a
laughing feature IN the playlet line.
Three reels OF fine photoplays are PROM
ised to open and close each perform
anCe
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
Cosmos Sunday Concert.

Selections from Saint-Saens' Sampson
and Delilah," Leybach's Fifth Nocturne,
Waldteufels La Barcarole Waltzes."
Ponchiellrs Dance of the Hours" from
"Giaconda." Bucalossis descriptive COM
position, "A Hunting Scene Drdla's
"Serenade," Wenrich's "Ragtime Chimes
and two rag novelties, Mahoney's "Hyp-
motto Rag and Aliens "Homespun Rag
are some of the orchestral features
promised in the Sunday concerts at the
Cosmos .neater. The orchestral pro-
gramme by the enlarged Symphonic Or
chestra under the direction of Prof Ar
thur Maxwell. will be supplemented by
vocal offerings and other entertainment
appropriate to the day.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23

Mrs. Fiske was playing in Brooklyn
during the recent great shirt waist
| strike in New York. and on account
of the woman labor subtheme in The
High Roads," which deals with SINH
lar conditions, there was a peculiar in
addressed the audience after the close
of the play one evening. and after.
ward took up a collection which netted
the strike fund nearly 5000.
May Robson comes to the Columbia
Theater the week of. April in her
latest success. "A Night Out"
After four weeks in PhiIadeIphia, the
Edison talking motion pictures re-
main the principal feature of the bill.
and attendance is said to continue at
record-breaking heights. Chase's will
offer them the week of April and
thereafter during the summer in con-
junction with the Kinemacolor photo
plays.
For the week following the engage
ment of The Girl from Montmartre"
the National will have as its attrac-
tion The Count of Luxembourg"
The first eleven names on the pro-
gramme Of The Typhoon," the play
which Walker Whiteside brings to the
Belasco Thearer. are likely to bring
recollections of Japan to the residents
of that country at this time of the
taria bloom 50 profusely in the island
empire.
Joseph 7. Bickerton. jr., managing d.
rector Of the New Era Producing Com
pany, and the famous stage director,
Ben Teal. spent the past week in
the city rehearsing THE Love Leash.
which will be produced at the Columbia
Theater tomorrow night with Grace Will
kins featured In the cast
Edwin Nicander. who has a leading
role with Richard Carlc and Hattie
Williams in The Girl from Montmartre"
was last seen here with Billie Burke.
sss
Nina Melville. well remembered in
Washington member of the CoIum-
bia Stock Company. returns to the Capt.
tai with Mrs. Fiske in The High
nine role outside of that portrayed by
Mrs. Fiske. The role is that of maid
and while not extensive, Miss Melville
has been the recipient OF many compli-
mentary references by the critics for
her neat and effective performance OF it.
Grant Sherman, who will be remem-
hered in Washington for a cameo-cut
character portrayal in THE Melting
Pot" is still member of Walker
Whitesides company. but on the occa-
sion of this visit in THE Typhoon." i'm
personates one of the Japanese students
resident in Berlin. where the scenes Of
this singular play are laid.
Nat NJ. Wills. the Washington come
dian. homecoming at Chase's next week.
is an amateur aviator and belongs to
the Aero Club of America.
The College Widow" will call for
the largest cost of players at Polrs
that has been seen on that stage since
Checkers was produced last fail.
With Max Pauer the coming Friday
Julia Culp April 4, and the joint recital
of Ysaye and Godowsky April II, Fri
day afternoon may we'll be regarded as
concert day at the Columbia Theater.
David BelascP's great star. David War
field. comes to the National the week
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
PRESBYTERIANS ADOPT PLANS
FOR EVERY MEMBER CANVASS

At the last meeting of the executive
commission of the General Assembly, Q.
s. A. the denomination was committed
completely to the "every-member cam
vass'' plan for all benevolences, which
was first employed in the United Pres
byterian Church and then adopted in the
Southern Presbyterian Church and the
Reformed Church in America.
The decision is that every year in
March. beginning with 1914. a general ef-
fort shall be made to present to every
member within the whole denomination
a subscription blank. on which all the
benevolent causes of the church shall be
enumerated, with spaces to indicate a
subscription for each. To push the cam
paign OF education, leading up to this
month Of special canvass, a general COM
mittee is TO be provided. representing all
the boards and agencies. as well as the
executive commission; and this commit
tee is to work through the executive
commissions of the presbyteries, forti-
fed and assisted as far as possible with
a special campaign committee in each
presbyterial territory. An executive sec
rotary will be chosen to develop the work
denominationally on consistent plan
under the guidance of the united COM
mittee.
Although. as stated. the United Pres
byterians first put into effect denomina-
tional action along this line. the idea of
an every-member canvass seems to date
from the undertaking financed by Henry
+. Crowell a few years since in the
Synod of Illinois in the interest of for
eign missions.
Union Seminary has appointed a COM
mittee to confer with the special COM
mittee of General Assembly appointed in
May, 1911. at Atlantic City. to consider
the re-establishment of harmonious re-
lations with the Presbyterian Church.
This committee and the church's COM
mittee held their first joint meeting at
the Hotel Savoy, New York, Thursday.
Among the members of the seminary
committee are President Francis Brown.
DIR. Anthony Fl. Evans, and DR.. Charles
Fl. Parkhurst. The churchs committee
has DIR. John F. Carson as chairman.
The other clerical members are DIR.
David G. Wylie, of Scotch Church. who
introduced the original resolution before
the assembly; John r. Davies, of Phila-
delphia; DR.. Samuel S. Palmer. of CO.
lumbus, Ohio: Frank C. Monfort, editor
of the Herald and Presbyter. All the
laymen on the committee are judges ex-
cept Louis H. Severance. The judges
are Warren E. Settle, of Frankfort. KY:
Henry B. Freeman, of Chicago. and
Elisha II. Perkins, of Baltimore.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
NattonnI-"Thc Girl from Mont
mRrtre."

For the week of March 81 the National
will have two stars. Richard Carrie and
Hattie Williams. in a double bill. the
farce with music. THE Girl From Mont
martre." and j. NJ. Barrie's satire on the
problem play. "A Slice Of Life" The
production, which is by Charles Froh-
man. is conceded one OF the season
musical successes. The farce, which is
from the French, will present Mr.. Garlic
in the role OF an always-in-trouble doc
tor. and Miss Williams as the mischief
making girl" from naughty Mont
martre.
The Barrie burlesque, which Is con-
sidered the best playlet ever written by
this distinguished English author, VIII
he INTERPRETED by Mr.. Carle, Miss Will
Jams. and William Danforth. Among
the seyenty-one funmakers comprising
the company are Edwin Nicander. Al
Hart, George Lydecker. Donald Mac
MILAN. Percy Leach. Ralph Nairn.
Anita Rothe, Moya Mannering, Merceita
Esmonde. and Joe Smith, the dancer.
The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
Belasco-"The sun Dodgers.

Lew Fields sends his newest spectacu-
lar musical entertainment, The Sun
Dodgers to the Belasco next week with
Nora Bayes featured In the cast to-
gether with George W. Monroe and
Harry f. Fisher
Like all the other Fields shows"
which have been seen in this city, THE
Sun Dodgers is a somewhat irrespon-
sible medley of musical comedy. travesty,
spectacle, and vaudeville. The slight
plot concerns itself with a little coterie
of gay New Workers who establish a
sunless city" on Long Island. where
they will be able to sleep during the
daytime without disturbance or noise.
Miss Bayes appears as Praline Nut
leigh, a Winter Garden actress: Mr..
Monroe and Mr.. Fisher appear as Mrs
ODay, a. wealthy widow, of Butte. and
as 2. V. Hawkins, her business man
ager, respectively. Others in the big
cast include Nan Brannan. Maud Gray,
Harry Clarke. Nat Fields. Denman
Maley. James Dyso, and nearly two
score lively girls.