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The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-22
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The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-22
Mot for Her,

The suffrage parade
the plaza. A teerins "
velvet hae far back %
a pair OF large yellow
facetious remarks IS
trailed by. !
BACK, to the COOK ~
Apn eRiBrly man loa
him. Il
"Is your mother IN w
asked.
mig mother" gsP
-WelL I saould say Do.
Amt got no time io' I"
goes out vashin'." y
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-22
SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant. rich society favoritc.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor
Poration. which his father founded and
which was the principal source Of his
wealth. has failed. He voluntarily turns
over his private fortune 10 the receiver
Tor the corporation. His entire remaining
poss' ssiOns consist of an old motor car a
white bull dog and Damory court. a neg
lected estate In Virginia. on the way to
Damory court he meets Shirley band-
ridge. an suburn-h haired beauty, and d.
tides hat lie Is going to like Virginia i'm
seuapIy
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-22
Couldn't Be I"

a preacher was u'pI
well sermon. one o.]
greatly distressed ~
close of the serno4
comfort her and Sal',
Don't be so troD
the Lord will send ~
and I expect a better
mo-" she said ~
We have changed
times, and every u''
and worse. "
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-22
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Two young "ou
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who keeps NV
gamer" asked Dora
"Oh, dout you
IN surprise, WI"
course.
The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-22

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Introduce
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

hope you don't The play IS real and
vital and Photographic IN the way II
reveals lie
But It's a play; that's the point I
want to emphasize I want to dwell on
that. both because I think it's true and
because think II ought to be brought
out stronger and because / want 10 be
original.
But ] really think that The Traffic"
as a play has received slight attention
Probably Miss Marshall. who wrote II
and those who have financed the play
are to blame for that They have seen
IN the play only the pitiless expose OF
the white slave traffic. They have seen
in IL what Miss Marshall probably in
tended--a sermon on an evil which we
are just beginning 20 comprehend and
70 attempt 10 put down
I don't want TO say that am indif-
ferent TO this gigantic and awful crime
OF our civilization. I believe that we
should do everything possible to abate
u. And am the more IN favor OF The
Traffic" that Il IS bound to open the
eyes OF great many people who have
unfortunately been blind TO this thing
before.
But don't believe IN obtaining
money under false pretenses. II go
to a meeting-s1d have been to many
to consider ways of Kidding society of
white slavers. I want to be told just
what the meeting is and not be lured
there under pretense that u Is a tango
dancing class.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07
I h2SSEhEl!eatre

POSSIBLE for one of her sex to rise from
cash girl n a department store TO
chief adviser to the owner and finally
to be courted by the latter and won by
aim for his vile.
It's no to be expected that every
girl in the ribbons department here
c5out. after hearing what Maggie &C
Complished, will get the idea in her
head that she can 20 as far as this red
headed clerk in KIein's emporium did,
but il vii. not cost her anything 10
dream in that direction, and then. too.
IL might wlet her ambition trifle and
at any rate aid her in getting farther
than she would were she not 10 eXer-
else her head after tie fashion OF
Maggie Pepper OF the play.
OF course it's not all easy shedding
for Maggie. The hardest blow comes
when, after - years i'll the store, the
manager Of the suit department re-
signs. Maggie is her assistant. Mag
gle naturally expected to be promoted.
But she wasn't. \ friend Of the
niece OF the manager of the store
was chosen for the vacancy. The day
Maggie received her notice young
fellow with a high hat and cane drops
IN and begins 4 conversation with
Maggie. The latter deals in real shop
talk and proceeds 10 tel the young
fellow how she would rg1 the business
If she had her way. Thu management
of the store IVES unsparir.5:y criticised
for is old fcsy methods
The strange young man turned out
10 be HolbroOk, the owner OF the
store. who had just returned from
Europe. wearied OF the butterfly life
and anxious TO settle down and learn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

! the play first As long as the play
measured up what I expected to End in
a theater I was willing that the auth or
should impart as many moral lessons
as she could
THE Traffic" Those critics who have
declared that the play is merely a pitt
less presentation OF horrible facts and
that IL leaves no lesson at all must have
Ia different idea from what / have Of
what constitutes a moral lesson. /
think the author and the producers of
The TRAFFIC have chung to the moral
lesson OF the play when they might
have counted on producing a much
pleasanter impression on their audi
ences and pleasing the majority of the
happy ending.
People will generally forgive every
thing else in g book or a play IL they
can only have the happy ending. But
while the ending OF The Trsffic" IL not
happy. IL is true. The Traffic'' is
written so unninchlngly. almost cold
bloodedIy. true to l'fe that to redeem
the woman OF the piece and marry her
on to a nice but mushy young man
would be nothing short OF a crime. It
would ar once condemn all that had
gone before as cheap ciaptrap.
But the woman OF THE Traffic," after
she has been cEtrapped into a life OF
shame and held in bondage In "a house"
and then kills her seducer and is freed
by a jury, does not renounce her black
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

| past and declare that forever after she
will be happy and good.
That's where the lesson comes in. II
| the girl was permitted to fall into the
arms OF the weak faced young man
who steps heroically forward to save
her after she has been permitted by So
ciety TO Quaft the cup OF bitterness to
the dregs. then indeed would the moral
effects OF The Traffic" be unspeak-
ably bad.
1t would leave the impression that a
girl might be a denizen of the seEre-
gated district and look forward TO an
honorable marriage and a life of hap
piness. This wouldn't be true to life.
Through the wonderful work that Is
carried on by various associations of
rescued from this awful maelstrom of
vice.
But such cases are exceptions and
not the rule. And those that are saved
are not rescued by any fortuitous hap
pening or by a fairy story prince. The
fact is that a person who treads the
road travelled by Agnes in The Traffic
Is, generally speaking, lost absolutely
and utterly. Even the fact that Agnes
did not take this path Intentionally:
that she got into 1t through love for
her sick sister and was duped and
trapped by a scoundreL makes no diff
ference.
No matter whether a person goes into
this life willingly or unwiliingly. wit
tingly or unwitrIngly. the result is the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

/, same. This is one OF the lessons. prob
ably the big lesson. of THE Traffic
, that sin as sin and that punishment
cannot be. avoided
Although the sympathetic Jury freed
Agnes when she was tried for the muir
der OF the man who had dragged her
down into the Ynire, still there was one
person from whom she could get no
pardon-herseH. The life she had been
led into had burned its brand upon her.
She was marked indeHbly for life.
Happiness only Knocked her; whether
she would or not. she must return to
the depths. It's that way in life. and
THE Trafic" gives us no decisions
Perhaps the lesson Miss Marshall
wanted to impress by the final degra-
ing to girls that there Is no golden,
flower decked path that leads away to
sunshine and the heights from the
plague spots of the city, but also that
the time for society to start saving its
girls Ia not after they have taken the
step. but before.
All OF which shows that for q person
who dislilres preaching and propaganda
in the theater, the author OF THE
Traffic" succeeded in forcing me to
take quite a dose. but repeat that it
couldn't have been done IL The Traf-
fc" first and foremost had not been a
play. It was SO good as play that
one becomes interested and then
nightly concerned over its theme and
does more thinking in regard to it aft
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07
-AARRls-,

er leaving the theater than at the time.
1.-The Traffic is not so remarkable
that It takes hold with such an iron
grip on a subject that has been taboo
among us as for the manner In which
1t does It
1t mfnimizes nothing. avoids nothing.
but throws back the door and pours the
light into the remotest corners OF the
social evil But the remarkable thing
is that 1t does this-it shocks and hor-
rifles and fairly nurnbs US with what IL
portrays, yet IN no instance is there a
violation OF propriety and good taste.
That is the wonder OF the thing. And
that Is why plays dealing with a SINH
lar theme to 1.-THE Traffic" have had to
be withdrawn by order OF the police or
have failed because people do not wish
to risk contamination by going to see
them THE Traffic deals with the
gravest social problem we have and
deals with 1t IN a stronger. more ag-
gressive and absolutely unblenching
way than any other play has exhibited
and yet 1t does not offend good taste.
Just why can hardly be explained
That Is where the skill of the play
wrights and producers came in. For
one thing, the awful incidents in The
Traffic happen Off stage. and they are
only suggested to the audience, and yet
so powerfully is this suggestion given
that the effect on the audience Is much
stronger than the actual stage repre-
sentation of the incident would be.
That is craftsmanship. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

When something - advertised as n
play and I go TO the theater and lay
down my money for a seat I want that
thing inside to be play and not some
body or others ideas of reconstructing
society. / don't care IL the views ex-
pressed by the author agree with my
ideas. That makes no difference.
have not gone to the theateE to have
somebody agree with my ideas. / have
gone to see a play 10 be lifted out OF
myself. to have my emotions aroused
or soothed. or. anyhow. something done
with 'eTu- But insist that no one has
q right to entrap me IA a theater and
hold me by the thought OF the money l
spent in the box Office and how IT would
all be wasted IL ! went away and then
that at my head.
There has been so much said IN the
papers and on the billboards about the
great moral lessons in The Traffic"
and how IL would make me n nobler
man and a better woman and scare me
into going TO church for the rest OF my
life that wasn't very keen about see
ing It
But The TRAFFIC was. first and fore
most. a good. big play. Those people
on the stage were real The play had
all the elements required OF good
play. II stirred me. And II held me to
the last curtain.
SO I was willing to take the lessons
the play contained and about which so
much has been said. But had to have
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

Susie Simpson is an old maid and a
distant relative, who has loaned Tam
mas matter of 120 pounds, which
Tammas used to make good the de-
ficiency of an elder son. Miss Simp-
son compels Tammas to choose be-
tween marriage and the restoration of
her money. and Tammas is not in a
position to liquidate, and in conse-
quence passes bad Sabbath Jeal-
ousy of an old flame of Tammas i'm
pells the vindictive old maid to de
nounce Tammas in the kirk yard,
before the church goers, as dishonest
man, when the inventive "BUnty"
promises to make good the amount and
averts the theatrical arrest of her
father, by confiscating the nest egg
of her Wedding with honest, lumber
ing Wellum Sprunt. The rest of the
play is :ahen up chewing how BuGtv
sets all things right, defeating Susie
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07
ar srcHAsp HENRY LILLE.

tchlcago Examiner. Dec :. 1871
u WENT 20 see The Traffic" under
protest had been frightened
out BY AL the presidents OF wO-
n mems clubs and the clergy and
g.. Society For the Prevention Of
c-ue!ty 20 Newspaper Reporters and
sc Association for the Amslioration OF
gu@ersng Among the Unlettered Kinds
Ct TulA TulIa-
! stayed % The Traffic" because II
vas = great play-Ereat IN the sense
that = gr!pped me and held me tight.
I couldn't have gone II had wanted
20 II isn't the sweetest play IN the
rcrld; but iaat OF love. there's a lot OF
.zset plays! Somebody saic long be-
ore had a chance TO get TO IL that
Far!ety Is the very spice OF l:fs-
The Traffic - cold. hard. merciless.
{; SEEDS thrill after thrill down your
roirs. ard II shocks you again and
again But - shocks your self conpls-
esncy and not your sense OF decency.
But al that IS not 70 the point The
Traffic held ne first of all because 81
Is strong. intensely interesting play.
Il lad the big elements OF love and
hatred and hope and despair. II had a
s;oTy that made you feel that you
couldn'; slord 10 miss a single line. II
had characters that were as natural as
III. Tou-coUid walk over TO a certain
part OF this big city and meet them at
any hour Of the day or night only 1
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

senger roster and every one is inter
esting because of himself as well as
because of his relation TO his fellows,
The action of the play is rapid and
changeabie. The fact that it kept New
Workers laughing for nine consecutive
months is a good argument as to its
merits, to which can be added the
runs of six months in Chicago and four
months in Boston.
"Bunty Pulls the Strings" will be the
attraction at the Illinois March 16.
"Bunty" is a mild satire in Scotch
virtues and foibles. The austure re-
ligious practices are shown, coupled
with that shrewdness which profits by
observation of form and violation of
spirit 1t depicts the stern patriarchy
of a father. who has himself a pas,
and details with an unerring touch OF
remarkable delicacy lights and
shadows of Scotch domesticity, frugal
ity and searching canniness, and the
small and big impulses of a narrow
mountain community deeply imbued
with the creed of Calvanism. "Bunty"
who pulls the strings. is the daughter
of Tammas Biggar, and presides over
his household as the successor to her
mother who died two years before
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

the department store business from
the bottom up. He is interested in
Margie because -c fe.ls she can teach
l.im the game. When he learns of the
notice of dismissal she has received he
has il recalled.
Maggie becomes first assistant
to Manager Holbrook. in fact, she
reilly runs The wl~ie business, with
the result that it increases with leaps
and bounds. HoIbroOk is engaged to
be married to Ethel Hargen, niece of
john HarEen. general manager OF t.il
Ho,broc6 store. Ethel grows jealous
of Maggie. She demands that Maggie
be dismissed.
Maggie, refusing longer to face the
insults that are heaped upon her be-
cause OF her business Intimacy with
Holbrook. throws up her JOB. She is
just about to start for Europe on a
buying trip fer another firm when
Ho-brook comes To her apartments,
tells her that he has broken his en-
gagement with Miss Hargen, and asks
Maggie to marry him because he finds
he cane get along without her, for 1t
is she who made him. or course
Maggie at first refuses, but finally
she consents and becomes the
real head of the big store she entered
as a 81 4 week cash girl.
Miss Stahl, always an artist. is
happily cast as Maggie Pepper" a
character that Charles Klein wrote
for her following her success as The
Chorus Lady" In Maggie Pepper"
she has supporting company in
which there is not a percep-ible weak
spot. The play WAS wei received by
4 large audience.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

With a record OF nine months at the
Gaiety theatre in New York and hav-
ing every feature which caused II TO
be hailed as the best farce theatre:
goers had been offered in years, Eek
cuse Me-" the Rupert Hughes play
which has the subtitle of "A Pullman
Carnival" comes to the Illinois Mon
day. AS play Excuse Me" has given
10 Rupert Hughes an eminence as a
writer OF farce that is shared by no
contemporary playwright. 1t is en-
phatically a novelty. Throughout it's
action there is not one instance OF
mistaken identity. no male person Is
required to masquerade in feminine
garments, and none of the other ageold
and now tiresome rules for pro Ioking
laughter in this sort of play has teen
observed. The subtitle is aptly sc
scriptive. Mr.. Hughes has taken .
score and half persons from every
day American life. placed them aboard
Pullman sleeper on an Overland
flyer bound from Chicago to the Pa.
cific coast, and let things happen.
And the things that happen, while they
are perfectly logical in their origin and
their sequence, keep up laughter for
three acts. There are a score OF con-
trasting types in the Pullmans pas
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

and marrying her father to boy
hood love, smoothing the path of her
dissatisfied brother. and arranging her
own marriage with We.lum. The
story is told with untheatric si,npl q
ity in terms of enforced humor, and
interpreted by actors thoroughly i'm
bued with the spirit of the author.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07
The EMPIRE.

High class vaudeville and tabloids-
Matinee :f5 and evening SIS, except
rsdnesday and Sunday, when there
are Two shows al 100 and 9:I5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07
auIck Relic, fer rheumatism.

George w. Rooms Lawton, Mich.
says: DIR. Detcho1i's Relief Tor
Rheumatism has gwen my wifs Won
derful benefit for rheumatism. She
could not lift hand or foot; had to
be lifted fer two months. She began
the use of the remedy and improved
rapidly. On Monday she could not
move and on Wednesday she got up.
dressed herself and walked out for
breakfast" Sold by Otto Grotian,
1901 Second avenue, Rock Island;
Gust Schlegel & Son. 220 West Sec
ond street. Davenport-(Ady.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

Marshall wrote 1.-The Traffic" How
came this woman to know these init
mate twfsts-to hold communion with
these shrouded skeletons of the for
hidden closets? How found she her
way where the outsider more rarely
enters than the beggar into the throne
room? In the book from which
Rachael Marshall tore the pages for
her tragic comedy there is chapter
that ne who runs may scan; every
child knows its every fable. But there
is another written in the crimson of
bleeding souls against a background
blacker than their sins-and this is
locked to the eye of the staring saun-
terer past the shelves where stand the
volumes de luxe of the libraries of
infamy. The strange customs, ideals
and heart-throbs of a strange tribe re-
corded in the scarlet day-books OF The
falien-written but only repeated by
each generation since woman was
born weak and man coveted his neigh
boris daughter--have remained the
secrets Of the ages. The few who
read the scrolls upon those pages and
came again INFO the daylight of the
other worlds prated rarely, even in
whispers, of the authors annotations.
the thinly pencilled interlineations
and the manuscript marks visible to
the sharp reader but not meant for
him. There is an enormous something
about the CLEAN of the forbidden-the
family secrets of the worlds largest
family-that silences the confidante.
Comes now this amazing woman and
cries from the housetops that which an
eternity has held in silence. Sofew have
known as she knows tlat few can I'M
derstand her. But the voice of Rachael
Marshall must take echo and that
which so long has been the secret of
the few shall now be known to the
multitude.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

woman's name on the author-line
OF The Traffic" program, which comes
TO the Illinois tomorrow for a return
enga gemen'. does more for demon
strating woman's equality with man
than a thousand Taving Pankhursts
breaking hobbies helmets. The wo-
mans name is Rachael Marshall. Miss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07
HE ILLINOIS.

March s-"The Traffic"
March 9-"Excuse Me"
March 15-"Peg O. Ny Heart"
March 16 - 'Bunty Pulls the
Strings
March Thought and Paid For"
March Eva Tanguay and her
VAUDEVILLE company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-07

Rose stshi showed an audience at
ne Illinois theatre last night how Il Is
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-22

Minority members of county board
refused board of assessors $14,500 to
prepare quadrennial report. Say
work can be done cheaper.
n. c. Welcome and Theodore
ROdeman, officials of Industrial Or
ganization Co., arrested by federal
officials on charge of defrauding ].
Waechter, 62O3 IngIeside av., of ST.
900 through mails.
Oscar Mayer, Chicago packer, now
on hunting trip with Mayor Harrison
in Canada, arrested by French guide
as spy.
WoodIaWn citizens to hold mass
meeting. Will ask school board to
build new school instead of rebuild
ing Wadsworth School, which burn
ed several days ago.
Frank Carlson, 59O8 S. HaIsted ST.,
partial paralytic, died of heart dis
ease as he poised on pier to commit
suicide by drowning
Thomas Griffin, 4221 North Central
Park av., shot in abdomen by John
Burton, 1925 N. LaSalle st. Burton |
claims boy was trying to steal auto !
of DR.. E. S. Buchanan, 4O8 Briar pI. !
Burton locked up.
A woman and three men sought in |
connection with attempt to rob |
Franklin Park State Bank. Walter |
Joss, asst cashier, was shot. $500 |
reward offered.
Lincoln Park Policeman LangIois
rescued Miss Frances Undertaken,
I8, 2122 Greenwich st., who had |
fallen in lagoon.
Mrs. James Boyle, 1884 Milwaukee
aV., had husband arrested for nom
support. He said in summer the heat
made his muscles so fiabby he |
couldn't work and that winter con-
tracted them so it was the same way.
Told to get a job.
Two shots were fired from an auto
at Adolph Hoffman, chauffeur, while
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-09-22


M. E. Dark, Springfield, Mo-, and
N. S. Noon, Newark, N. J., arrived in
Chicago at same time yesterday.
Board of II directors to be placed
in charge of campaign to put an =
saloon question before voters.
Harold Erik, Henry Anderson, AU-
gust Lamszyk, Abraham Isralovitz
and Fred M. LefkOwitz petitioned Cir
cult Court to have names changed.
o. M. Lundberg, chauffeur for
Mayor Harrison, drove latter's auto
over foot of Joseph Yennew, 2518
Prairie av. Yennow taken home.
John Pernes, 1926 S. TrumbuII aV.,
robbed of $50 and jewelry in Cottage
Grove av. car. PickpOckets dropped
coin on floor to create excitement.
Phillip Sabio held to grand jury on
charge of making counterfeit. half
dollars. Pleaded not guilty.
Federal grand jurors will return
indictments against seven Chinese,
accused of making and selling opium,
in Judge Carpenters court today.
WoodIaWn Business mems Assn
started campaign IOr removal OF oD-
structions from sidewalks.
Miss Belle Garter, masseuse, re.
leased by corOner's jury. Returned
verdict of heart disease in death of
Max Ederheimer, All S. Michigan
aV. Died in massage paTlor of Mrs.
Adeline Leonard, 5000 Vernon av.
To help handle Hyde Park crowds
the Stony IsIand-93d st. car line,
which formerly operated from 63d st.
south, will hereafter follow route of
Jackson Park line to loop and return.
Paul Meewrs, loving ianitor at 6604
Kimbark av., fined $25 by Judge.
Leo Dixon, 1925 S. PaUIina ST., and
Paul Loskowski, 1929 S. PauIina st.,
fought over money at w. 49th and S.
Paulina SITS, Dixon hit in neck. Died
lated. LoskOwsh arrested.
Herant Lahian, 513 N. HaIsted ST.,