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Evening star., 1914-10-04

Each theater last week had new en-
tertainment to offer and the National
and Columbia have more to present
this week-the Columbia a premier
presentation of Birds of Prey and
the National charming Frances Starr
for, the first time here in THE Secret"
while the Belasco with Mcintyre and
Heath in their famous old offering,
THE Ham Tree" serves a fare so
good that it might almost be compared
with something that mother used to
make" Next week also will bring
1.-The Silent Voice." with Otis Skinner;
High Jinks." Arthur Hammerstein's
musical production, and my Best Girl"
all of them new to Washington.
FRANCES STAIRS VERSATILITY
Paris supplies the mise en- scene for
The Secret" and Henri Bernstein
wrote THE Secret as a special vehicle
for Nine. Simone. In it for the first
time Frances Starr ventures out Of
her own country in SO far as STAGE
land Is concerned. All the other pro-
|ductions in which Mr.. Belasco has pre-
sented her have been pre-eminently Of
American scene and character.
In "The Rose of the Rancho" in
which she made her debut under Mr..
Belasco's management, AS a dashing
senorita OF the days OF old California.
Miss Starr had Spanish-American set
ting for her youth and beauty.
In "The Easiest Way" in which Mr.:
BeIasco presented her as full-fiedged
of New York in its every line,
running the gamut of New Yorks reck-
less life from the gilded hotel In which
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Maeterlinck on the War.
From the Chicago Tribune.

FROM the Chicago tribune
Forgetting that one cannot indict a
nation, Maeterlinck, the poet and phi
losopher has undertaken to weigh
guilt" and has tried and condemned the
whole German people. He blames the
essential spirit of Germany for the
present war and advocates the destruc-
tion or tanning of that spirit.
The Maeterlinck version of the war
story would be tragic and hopeless If
it were true. but fortunately 1t is not
true. AS Judge and analyzer of EVIL
dence our Belgian poet is a failure.
There is. not a scrap Of evidence that
the German people wanted the war,
whatever may be thought of the ac-
tions of the military element and the
autocratic government. The people. In
cluding their Intellectual religious and
moral leaders. believe that their gov
eminent was driven to fight by Rus
sian aggression and British jealousy
and fear. Had there been time for re-
hection and better machinery for the
mobll1zation of public opinion the real
and true spirit of the nation would
have asserted itself. It is noteworthy
that Maeterlinck says nothing about
governmental and diplomatic machin-
ery-he doubtless underestimates its
importance. That is why he has In
dfcted the wrong parties.
No. 1t will not be necessary to DESTROY
or tame the spirit of the whole German
people; that spirit is no menace to lib
erty and to civilization The war should
lead to the liberation of that spirit and
the curbing of autocracy and ire
sponsible power.
Evening star., 1914-10-04

tion of the part in this country was
vindicated by the remarkable popular
ity at the Belasco Theater. New York.
last season of The Secret" in which
Miss Starr appeared there for more
than five months.
Contrary to a general impression that
prevails about most French plays. The
Secret" is not concerned with a sex
problem. but. instead, it is a study of
feminine personality. The character of
Gabrielle Jannelot. while charming and
lovable, with a home life that is per-
feet, is marred by her excessive jeal-
ousy of the possessions and happiness
of others. The deep insight into human
nature which Bernstein revealed in his
former plays of The Thief" and Sam
SON. is said to be shown in a marked
degree in this latest work by an un-
derstanding of the feminine soul and q
knowledge OF the feminine mind that
seem at times to be positively psychic
THE Secret" is the fourth drama in
which Miss Starr has played the stellar
role under David Belasco's manage
this young actress in widely differen-
tiated characterizations. In Rose of
the Rancho" she was laughing in.
genuous Spanish Creole schoolgirl.
ticated and far from innocent habitue
of the Great White Way. In The Case
of Becky as a young woman possessed
of double personality, she presented
an unforgettable study in psycho-
pathology Now in THE Secret" thea
tergoers will have a chance. 1t is said.
to see what the Belasco method has ac-
complished by way of molding the
young star into one of the most prom
Using of American emotional actresses.
Miss Starr will have the support OF a
DISTINGUISHED cast, which includes
Robert Warwick, Montague Love,
Frank Reicher, Edwin X. Wolfe, Elaine
Inniscourt, Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh
and Beatrice Reinhardt.
The usual matinees will be given
Wednesday and Saturday.
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The World Must Disarm.
from the st. Louis Republic.

From the 81. LOUIS NepuDlc.
The problem Of universal peace is not
the very difficult one of taking away
from the nations all desire to fight. 1t
is the much simpler one of taking away
from them the means Of fighting. Many
a former desperado. when law had
come to the mountains or the plains,
has found his anger rising and his
hand moving instinctively toward his
holster. But he has taken 1t out In
hard words, because the holster was
not there. II any dispassionate man
will sit down. and, beginning with the
trouble about Bosnia and Herzegovina,
try for the first time to think out the
history Of the past few years rs, In ,osts Eu-
he will be astonished at the result.
We give warlike princes these fright
fuliy dangerous playthin9s-and then
wonder that they use them!
Clubs and guns did not 30 out OF
fashion when 1t came to the COW towns
of the west and the mining camps of
the Rockies. They are there still But
they are in the hands Of a few police
men, paid by, the whole community, in
stead Of being in the possession of the
citizens. The policemen use them
under the common authority, according
10 definitely understood rules. And SO
no one gets hurt except the evildoer.
World disarmament must leave weap-
ons In the hands of the policeman-an
international constabulary, under CEN
tral command, to be used in enforcing
order in case the social machinery in
any part of the world should break
down.
The present war would never have
occurred had crowbars. spades pitch
forks, golf clubs, and paving blocks
been the only weapons at hand. 1t il
by-product of the manufacture Of
Krupp guns and helanite and ironclads.
When will the world grow sensible as
the individual connunitys
Evening star., 1914-10-04

Laura Murdoch, the superficial actress,
lived with her lover, to the wretched
theatrical boarding house where that
same Laura fought her grim fight to
| a losing end.
In 1.-The Case of Becky Miss starr's
next vehicle. a drama featuring dual
personality, her role was that of a girl
| in middle class life, a patient in the
town, presenting two distinct personaH-
ties In the same body.
In THE Secret" however, as Gabrielle
Janellot. Miss Starr lives and moves in
the highly sophisticated society of
, fashionable Paris. A far cry from any
| of her previous portraits to be sure,
but a crowning test of Miss Starrs
genius and versatility an actress.
| BIRTH OF THE HAM TREE."-"Ths
Ham Tree was first produced" Tom
| Heath says, twenty years ago with
! Weber and Fields. We used it as an
| afterpiece then. In the cast were Sam
Bernard, VIII H. Fox, Lizzie B. Ray
mond and Capitola Forest We have
been using it ever since.
, I'VE were the first men to make
money for Weber and Fields" said
Jim Mcintyre. 1--WE were four years
| with them, and by that time they had
100000 in the Dry Dock Bank in New
York and had taken the Music Hall
uptown. The rest is history.
| Eyes, we've gone through the mill,
up and down it and across 1t. I can
| remember when a hunk of bread and
a bowl of milk cajoled from a tender
hearted servant girl to make poultice
for boil on the back of my neck was
the supper for a minstrel troupe"
| said Mcintyre.
1 "And I can remember when that min
strel troupe would have regarded such
I a supper as a banquet" commented
! Heath. Il could give you map of
places big enough to cover the floor
where this firm didn't eat. There is
more truth than poetry in The Ham
| Tree"
| BUT" added Mcintyre, Eve are eat
Evening star., 1914-10-04
NATIONAL.

David Belasco's presentation Of
Frances Starr in Henri Bernstein's play,
The Secret" this week. beginning to-
morrow night, at tho New Nationai
Theater will reveal this charming
young actress in a role that is said to
have materially enhanced the already
splendid impression she had created
with theater-goers. Mr.. Belasco has
shown his faith in Miss Starr's genius
by allotting to her a complex and DIFF
ficult role in that of the herione. Ga
brielle Jannelot, n part created by the
French dramatist SIS a vehicle for
Nine Simon. and in the interpretation
of which the latter achieved great
triumph. The judgment of MIR. Belasco
in selecting Frances Starr from all
other American actresses for the cfea-
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There is an air of mystery about
Birds of Prey" the new four-act melo-
drama that A. H. Woods will present at
the Columbia Theater tomorrow even
ing for the first time on any stage. A
week later it will be presented in New
York. at the Longacre Theater. Birds
Of Prey" comes without any advance
fanfare, in accordance with the Sc
crecy with which Mr.. Woods has
shrouded what he believes to be the
dramatic find" of the season.
OF the plot no clue is given beyond
the statement that while the play
deals in a measure with the under
world" the real criminal is conspicu-
Gus by his absence; the police charac-
ters are as human as they are ambi-
tious; the story is thrilling without
being shocking. and in painting his
wonderfully realistic pictures the artist
mixed his colors freely with the oil of
humor."
Added to this is the fact that the au-
thor Willard Mack. a San Francisco
actor and playwright. sent his first
scenario to A. H. Woods in New York
in the form of ffty-word night
lettergram and that the play was ac-
cepted by return wire. the company
was assembled by the time the author
reached the metropolis a week later,
and that that company includes John
Barrymore, Jane Grey and others of
equal note.
Mr.. Woods, 1t will be remembered. is
the man who picked within the
Law" THE Yellow Ticket" Potash
and Perlmutter" and a few" others. If
a fifty-word description of Birds of
Prey" could make so shrewd a manager
as Mr.. Woods invest in the production
to be seen here tomorrow night. some-
thing out Of the ordinary may be ex-
pected.
Many prominent New Workers.. 1t is
said, will come on to Washington to
witness what promises to be one of the
most important premieres of the sea-
son.
Besides Mr. Barrymore and Miss Grey,
tho company includes Paul Everton.
Forrest Winant. Edith Browning, Paul
Eyerton, Annie Mack Berlein, katherine
Harris, Lionel Adams. Maidel Turner.
Edward Gillespie and Ed J. Mack.
The production has been staged by
Byron Ongley. one OF the authors OF
Evening star., 1914-10-04
OkH THE THEATfP @[l

X n ISIS HAZEL DAWN came to
IL ~ Washington last week with
IU one Of the largest aggrega-
i tions that ever accompanied
a star out of New York. In
point OF scenic beauty and costume ef-
feet 'The Debutante" has had but few
If any rivals. It's color schemes were
exquisite. Victor Herbert's delightful
music never seemed SO replete with
light and lasting melodies to please the
popular ear. And yet there seemed to
be something wrong. Perhaps the
young star lacked that warmth and
convincing sincerity that may supply
the deficiency when her role becomes
more familiar, and perhaps the cast
lacked something. But to many who
really wanted to be pleased with the
attractive new musical offering there
seemed to be missing two things-a
singer above the average and book
and lyrics which so costly and other
wise beautiful a show seemed to
merit
"a Pair of Sixes"--not the funniest
farce in the world. as the show bills
proclaimed, but very funny farce in
spots-did not make the big hit in
Washington that was expected Of it.
And yet it made hundreds laugh heart
lily. 1t seems more enjoyable than
''The Rule of Three" because it is
cleverer, but 1t will not rank with
Leo Ditrichstein's efforts. many of
them-and yet it Is funny and en-
joyable.
!: *
Whatever may have been the advance
suspicious as to hard times in the
theatrical line for this season, Wash.
ington is having more new offerings
than usual at this time Of the year
Evening star., 1914-10-04

ing now: oh. yes. we've been eating
pretty well ever since 1879, when we
made our first big hit in New York.
We were the first to introduce the buck
Tony Pastors. ss5 Broadway, way
down at Bleecker street. At that time
you could sit under a tree and watch
the cows grazing at 42d street and
Broadway. Minstrelsy was in it's gold
en- age then"
CATS AND INSURANCE.-If it costs
SO to insure valuable dog should IT
cost 800 to insure a valuable cat;
That Is the question now waging be-
tween Manager A. H. Woods and an
insurance broker in New York who
promised to protect Mr.. Woods inter-
ests and then failed to make good.
Mr.. Woods explained that in these
days when pianists insure their I'm
gers. dancers insure their feet and
farmers insure their crops, he wanted
to insure yellow Tom," the big cat
that plays an important role in the
first act of Birds of Prey"
It had taken a long time to break
Yellow Tom to stage work and there
was no understudy at hand, so Mr.,
Woods thought as he had once insured
by the cat and. of course, deduct it
from the cats salary. To his disgust
that broker reported that the insur-
ance company insisted that as a cat
has nine lives it would cost nine times
as much to insure it. Mr. Woods pro-
tested that with nine lives a cat had
nine chances of escaping casualty,
against one of a dog.
The matter has not been settled and
it looks as though Yellow Tom will
have to come to Washington from New
York an uninsured cat.
LEAVES MUSIC FOR wAR-Ru-
dolph Friml, the composer. has given up
work on a new score for Arthur Ham,
mersteiD which that producer intended
to put on next season. and will sail
from New York for Austria as soon as
he can get convenient boat, to join
the war forces Of his country.
Mr. Friml was abroad just before the
Evening star., 1914-10-04
BEIMSCO

Those who remember The Ham
Tree" with Mcintyre and Heath. which
comes to the Belasco Theater tomor-
row night for a weeks engagement,
will recall that it has all the good
qualities of musical entertainment.
pleasant melodies, rollicking comedy
and picturesque settings During its
career as Klaw & Erlanger produo.
ton it led the field of lively entertain.
ment That was six years ago.
It's revival by John Cort this time
brings back a musical play that was
hiossoms Of lauehtsr- McIntvrs 80
Heath. in their original role, one ag =
''Chambermaid," in an Alabama sta
ble," and the other a ''sure-enourh
minstrel man."
From the time the Georgia Miustre,,
Evening star., 1914-10-04
British Lads in the Field.
from the Providence Journal.


Many British farmers are informing
the government that they are anxious
to facilitate the enlistment. after har-
vest. Of the younger men in their en-
ploy If they can have the Temporary
service of boys between twelve and
fourteen years of age to assist them
in the necessary farm operations dur
Ing the autumn and winter, in order
to. secure the sowing Of next years
wheat and other necessary farm crops.
The educational acts now forbid such
employment Of child labor. but farm
ers ask to have them suspended If,
purely agricultural districts, and the
situation Is SO exceptional that IL seems
as If there ought to be no difficulty in
arranging for this temporary change,
In the continental countries the women
and children are already at work In
the fields. actively taking the place OF
the farmhands who have gone to the
front.
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THE HIGH PRICE OF HORSES

he expects his laundry to be delivered.
All milk anG bread are delivered. This
has made a great demand for horses.
In the country the demand for
horses has increased because of the
cutting up of large tracts into small
farms and man working d small
farm needs horses. a few years ago
big farmer might use one horse
small farmer today if he has any sense
of progress uses a two-horse plow.
There has been marked increase
in the demand for horses of saddle
among prosperous or ambitious people
there has grown up a strong demand
for high-class horses.
so you see, in spite of the fact that
trolley cars have superseded horse
cars. and the streets are full of mo-
tors, the demand for horses has in
creased, while the SUPPLY has dirnin-
isAed.
''This war is going to make q drain
on the American horse market. Horse
mortality in war is high. Army horses
in campaigns die from many other
causes than gunshot wounds. They
die from overwork, lack of water, lack
of feeding, overwhelming, overlooking.
lack of rest, lack of care after over
eating and variouss diseases. Cavalry,
field artillery. ammunition and COM
missary trains require a constant sup
ply of horses. 1 have read that nearly
one-half of all the horses in the Ger
man army had been destroyed or worn
out when the German advance reached
h:gh-water mark, September 6. Per-
haps this is an overstatement, but the
horse losses of the German and Aus
train armies and of the allies have no
doubt been stupendous from overwork
alone. These losses must be made up
and Europe has already been nearly
depleted of horses for military pur-
poses.
Germany has been rehorsing her
armies by purchases in Norway,
Sweden, Denmark and Holland, and
England. after making heavy drafts on
the horses of England and Ireland, is
drawing on the United States. The
news in certain papers devoted to the
horse business shows that British army
buyers have appeared in the great
horse markets at Kansas City. st. Louis
and Chicago. 1t has been said that the
British buyers are shipping all their
horses to Canada, and are really buy
ing or paying for them there. pre-
sumably to avoid complications. French
army buyers are reported as buying
in the United States, as well as in
Mexico and South America.
"An idea of the use of horses may be
gained from the fact that England in
the first call for horses took 74,000 for
artillery and wagon trains, and $4,000
for cavalry The war Is going to make
the price of horses in the United
states very much higher than 1T is
now.
Evening star., 1914-10-04

hostilities began. but owing to his in
terests in America. he returned quickly
and remained here until last week
when he was called upon to join his
regiment. of which he is a lieutenant
Mr.. Friml is not the first composer to
go to the front Among some of those
now fighting for their respective coun-
tries are Rostand, the idealist; Maeter-
linck, the philosopher, dreamer and
poet; Strauss. the waltz composer
Maurice Bernhard, and fully a score of
English composers and autho-s of note
Evening star., 1914-10-04

voys into disorder. One operation II
particular to which the training of the
men lends itself would be the clearing
out of detached bodies of the enemy
who. might be wandering about with
the object of terrorizing the non-com
batant population.
These men should not be confused
with the territorials, who are more like
the territorials are leaving England
for India, where they are to fill the de-
pleted ranks caused by the regulars
going to the front Many young mer
these regiments and volunteered fol
foreign service as soon as war was de-
clared. They are fine chaps and work
like Trojans all the week with a good
to invite their families and friends for
afternoon tea and cake and to look
over the camp. They are splendid ex-
amples Of what the outdoor life with
beef and Yorkshire pudding do for the
youth and manhood of England.
The beginnings of the army and navy
of Great Britain are of more recent
origin than is generally known. As ar
organized force the land services date
only from 1645, when Cromwell estab-
'ished his famous new model army
of $4,000. Such a force, however, proved
SO costly that Charles II reduced it to
5000 men. and its strength remained
at something like that figure until well
into the eighteenth century. While the
navy's claim Of 1000 years history IL
founded on the building of fleet by
King Alfred to fight the Danes, but as
a national force 1t dates more properly
from the reign of Henry VIII. Most OF
the vessels which fought the armada
were privately owned.
England has a regular army Of 250, ,00t
men and a reserve force Of AIS. geo, and
the largest navy in the world, still she
does not hesitate to say she is in need
of more men. A recent dispatch says
ut Is not clear that the public ever
yet has. fully Erasped the magnitude OF
the conflict and the exertions required
for success"
So the frontiersmen are for the first
time to fight in a great war. and their
training and tactics are peculiarly
adapted to the country or ground over
which they will have to operate.
The Meuse heights with their steer
escarpment and strengthened by forts
form a barrier of prodigious strength
The northern Woevre lakes are dotted
among the green forests and a range
of steep hills crowned with forest risea
amid this country.
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I'll make the propnee, ,'tns that if, if the
European war lasts twelve
months they will be so high that the
ownership of one will be accepted as a
sign of wealth. said a Washington
man who is q horsemau as well IS a
horse dealer.
For several years horses have been
high and this has been partly due to
the automobile, paradoxical as that
may sound; partly due to the exten-
sion of the custom of delivering small
parcels at the homes of buyers and to
a number of other causes.
with the development of the auto
mobile it was widely believed, or at
least widely alleged, that the end of
the horse age was at hand and some
horsebreeders cut down theft output on
retired from the business altogether.
The ban on horse racihg-that Is, run
ming races-and the decline of harness
racing forced a good many breeders
out of business and sent some of the
best studs abroad. This cut down the
supply of horses 1t cut down not
only the supply of race horses. but
horses of numerous types. All horses
bred for racing do not turn out to be
race horses and these horses, in most
cases splendid horses. but not fast
enough to win. went to work FOR men
under the saddle or in light harness
or for breeding purposes.
"a horse is not much good for any
kind Of work unless he has some thor
oughbred blood in him, and when the
thoroughbred, or running horse. and
the standard bred. or trotting horse,
are blended in varying proportions the
most useful horses in the world are
produced. Then, too, many race
horses, their days of racing ended,
found their way into what might be
termed legitimate work. For these
supply of horses to fall off
Though the number of automobiles
increased at an amazing rate, the de-
mand for horses also increased. The
light delivery business increased
Grocery stores, flower stores, meat
shops, laundries, tailor shops, etc. now
deliver the goods bought and this de-
livery business is one of the causes OF
the increased cost of living. A few
years ago a man OF woman would
make a purchase and take the bundle
home. That habit is nearly extinct in
cities. If a woman buys a soup bone,
or a bunch of carrots. or pair OF
gloves or a box of collars, the store
keeper delivers the goods. and if he
wants to keep his trade or develop his
business he must make prompt and
frequent deliveries. II a man has Il
shirt and a pair of socks washed at
laundry-and the old-fashioned
wash woman has nearly passed away