Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-16

You will be deeply Interested In VIVA
Clara Norris says, because she AWAY
expresses herself of something entireI,
worth while, and. T. her isolation from
the active life, all of the world Is rs I
| passing show and she keenest and kindii
est of observers.
That Miss Morris was the most popu
lar emotional actress of her time was du,
| to her instructive human sense and, II
this possession, her capacity for feeIinj
keenly and expressing wildly every phas
| OF the souls emotions. And now, wheI
the days of golden stage triumphs ar
gradually fading memories, she brin n
these gifts to her writings, fresh and re
TeaIing as they were In years gone by
| put tempered with mellow sweetness
and an enduring spiritual faith whicl
made her "TrOubIe Woman" work tina
appealed to the million.
The same spirit pervades her treatmen
OF the pure realities, ms In her Life of
Star" And In "The Pasteboard Crown
and Little Jim Grow" one finds GLIMPSE,
of n beautiful nature, tempered by suffer
ing, and hOpefulness which, TO the des
pendent and the disoontented, come.
with the triumphant inspirationaI fresh
ness of the first song of spring
This newspaper Is exceptionally fortu
nate, therefore, In securing from Mis-
Morris series of her observations-bit.
of interesting "reminiscences. comment,
on life and living.
There is no doubt now that there Ii
in production at last the most stu.
pendous war drama, or military
tragedy, on record. After years O,
realization, with an all-Europe cast
it is now truthfully billed to the worlt
| as:
The Greatest War of All Time!
The grandest aggregation Of
Military Splendor, Battles, MUIR
der, and Sudden Deaths, Mag
nificence and Perjury, Glory ana
Epidemics, SANITY Devotion and
Diabolic Treachery ever known.
All stage properties" including
crowns, diadems, scepters, royal
NANTES, etc, are genuine. Indeed,
everything in the entire produc-
ton is real, except the laws of
neutrality-they are imitation.
So much for the posters.
Americans have good seats and are
attentive observers, but q liking fol
the bullfight is an acquired taste, and
we are not educated up to its bloody
joys. Which may explain why the in
cident of a cold fore-dooming OF
10000 or 10000 men to certain precon-
certed death on the chance of an ad-
mitted1y small advantage seems to Us
more like slaughter than q battle.
AS spectators 1t is we'll for us to
keep hands and tongues quiet, but
surely we may pray to God for not
far-off ending to this war of many ma
tions.
In a chat with friend today
was surprised by the number o.
wars we remembered--somet Of
the Spanish, the Japanese, tn,
Franco russian. the Turco- Russian
and the Civil War. Those herds Of
long haired, bewhiskered men. SON,
in fll-fitting blue, some in worse
| fitting gray, should seem dim an
| faint in memory. but they are no.
| because our childish memories az
always clearer than those gleanrt
later on, whether of war or peace
The Spanish War Is often referre,
to as 1.-THE little war" but never b,
those IN whose hearts those word
1.-THE Maine" have been SO deepl.
stamped in letters of blood that al
the tears of love, of sorrow. of re
| pentance, even of forgiveness. hav'
not washed them away. The Span
| ish is never the little" war to them
The people at large seem to sum
marize it in droll sort OF way, lik
this: The Maine, Manila, Dewey