New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-06

II know a Belgian Red Cross nurse who
is now handless.
"These charges are not to be laid at
the door of any nation. Every country,
every province, every town contains
its smaller or greater percentage of the
subnormal or positively degenerate.
Some of these exalted by an emotion
akin to religious excitement enlist. I'm
/ leashed in an enemy's country their
decadent tendencies find full and hor-
rible sway. Yet an even larger per
/ cent of the outrages are perpetrated by
those who are not subnormal or degen-
crate, but merely of mental balance so
/ fragile that war explodes their sanity
completely.
$50 please do not call my Junior
[ Lieutenant Prussian, or English, or
French. Do not give him any nation
atty. He is not even a sinner, but
only a victim; he is the crucified one
of the officer caste of every country:
He is the young professional soldier of
the world.
an one way or another, he is always
the victim. Life he never knows. He
knows the glory of killing-that's all.
Peace, and prosperity, and home are
not for him. He is the pathetic Frank
enstein that suspicious, jealous nations
create From generation to generation
they steal his soul. Is it any wonder
that periodically he rises to annihilate
his creators? So il will be, and so war
will be, until professional soldering is
no more"
"Tho Debutante," the new Victor
Herbert operetta, which will introduce
Hazel Dawn, of "Pink Lady" fame, as
q star, will receive its first New York
presentation tomorrow night at the
! Knickerbocker Theatre. The musical
, piece is the joint work of Mr.. Herbert,
Harry B. Smith and Robert B. Smith,
and is produced by John c. Fisher
1t is a modern comedy of English and
/ Continental life, with musical setting
/ that reveals Mr.. Herbert's genius at its
best The story concerns the sprightly
adventures of Elaine, charming
| American girl, who. thinking herself
neglected by her fance, brings him to
/ terms by appearing as professional
/ violinist at a masquerade and accept
| ing the attentions OF an impecunious
French nobleman. Mr.. Fisher has sur
rounded the new star with a company
numbering more than one hundred per-
sons, including a most carefully select
cd chorus of fifty pretty girls. The
cast includes Will West. William Dam
forth, Stewart Bair, Robert G. Pitkin,
Wilmuth Merkyl, j. Abbott Worthley,
Thomas Reynolds. Zoe Barnett, Maude
Odell and Silvia Jason.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Castle and
Frank Tinney divide the stellar honors
IN the new musical comedy, Watch
Your STEP" which is to be seen at the
New Amsterdam Theatre Tuesday
night Interest in the attraction,
which is produced by Charles billing
ham, is divided between the cast, and
the fact that the music is by Irving
Berlin, who heretofore has confined
his work as a composer to the writing
! of popular songs. Frank Tinney is to
I be carriage caller at the opera, a
/ Pullman porter and a courtroom boy,
/ according 10 the programme of II. b.
! Smiths librettO, and that sounds
promising enough for the comedy ele-
ment in the piece. The company Of
100 includes Elizabeth Murray, Brice
and King. Sallie Fisher, Harry Kelly,
Harry Ellis Halligan and Sykes, AL
Holbrook, Sam Burbank and Justine
tombstone.
"The Sc md Mrs Tanqueray" will
be revived at Wallack's Theatre to-
night. The event is for the benefit Of
the Committee Of Mercy. an organiza-
tion headed by Ehhu Root as president
and August Belmont ds treasurer A
great interest will centre in the res
enee in the cast Of Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell in the role Of Paula. II was she
who created the part at the London
premiere Of the play in the summer OF
1892. Miss Edith Wynne Matthison
viii be seen as Mrs. Cortelyou.