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Explanation Not Needed.

No explanation is offered" of Presi- dent Wilson's promptness in signing the commissions of young army off, cers graduated from West Point in June. Is any necessary? Even the most confirmed pacifist cannot be ex- pected to object to the plan of at once starting the new output of army off cers on the work they have been trained for
Williams news., 1915-09-16
The Bonnie Conductor Lassie.

0OuuS SoUo0SIOI 6dSS'C.
 Edinburgh, Scotland, has two dozen women street car conductors who are a thorough success in the new line of work. Other tramways are already recruiting girls and training them to be conductors. It is said that girls working in the English cartridge fac tories are so fired with patriotism that some of them work thirty hours in a stretch without any rest. Miss Elizabeth Lister has been appointed a stationmaster in South Wales, the first woman to act in that capacity. In the north of England and in Scotland and Wales the men workers are being supplanted in the fields by women, who can be seen following the harI row or digging and hoeing.
Williams news., 1915-09-16
Cords and -.asseIs.

Cords and tassels are trimming feature worth noting. Satin cords with silk tassels attached are used on some of the new hats. Metallic cords and tassels are also used on hats. Cords and tassels are used at the girdle, sometimes, and often about the neck. When used at the neck, the cord is usually substituted by rib bon, and the tassel is in the form of a beaded or teweled pendant.
Williams news., 1915-09-16
Family Days.

Family occasions ought to be cele- brated frequently. even if the celebra- ton Is the simplest form of little fes- tival. Bringing the family together helps to promote affection. Whatever the event, birthday or wedding anni- versary or a welcome home from a Journey, 1t ought to mean something to every member of the family, and can be made an occasion that will re- fly circle is broken.
Williams news., 1915-09-16
Nothing to Be Said.

NotnIH9 70 6e 0dIu' Judge-You admit, then, that you stole the loaf of bread?
 Woman Prisoner-Yes, your honor. Judge have you to say for yourself?
 woman-Nothing, your honor. nM was lace or jewelry, I might plead kleptomania, but we can't try that when it's bread.
Williams news., 1915-09-16
Baby's Eyes.

Do sound warning to mothers about letting tiny babies lie flat. gag ing straight at the sky. Unless 8 baby Is sitting up in it's carriage, the top should always be over its face.
Williams news., 1915-09-16

The best throw one can make with dice is to throw them away.
Williams news., 1915-09-16

The United States produces more tale and soapstone than all of the rest of the world combined
Williams news., 1915-09-16

Kind acts are never stepping stones to misfortune
Williams news., 1915-09-16
Something Just as Ge

Something Just as Good. Let's get up piscatorial excur. sion."
 Why not have just good old fish ing party?"
Williams news., 1915-09-16
Safest Marriages.

Safest Marriages.
 The safest marriages are declared by statistician to be those contract ed with men under twenty-four oI more than thirty-four years of age.
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CasinO-NaudeviIle.

The Casino Theater announces the en-
Sagement of Jack Corbett's Dream
Girls" company OF eleven entertain
ers, in musical extrava Eanza full uf
catchy melodies, song hits. and graceful
dances, with special scenery and new cos
tunes. The company has made a success
full record this season on the popular vau-
deville circuit. supporting this attraction.
which entertains for nearly an hour. will
be the Levy musical family. comprising
the widow. daughter. and son Of the IA
nous cornetist. Jules Levy. i'll a roper
toire of instrumental selections of real
music, and Adlon and company in II merry
exhibition of comedy Juggling. with many
novelties. At every performance series
of comedy photoplays will be shown,
while every evening at 3 o'clock the Ca
sino specialties will be an added attrac-
ton.
Today special concerts will present new
speCialties and other attractions. with a
good musical program by an enlarged
orchestra.
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After a run of an entire season al
The Playhouse. New York. William A
Brady will send, Laurence Eyre's
comedy-drama. TIE Things that
Count" on tour throughout the
United States andA Canada The play
comes to the BeIasco next week.
When The Things that Count was
first produced many managers were of
the impression that IL was doomed
They took the view that the sex-play
had really come to stay and that the
tremendous amount of advertising and
adverse criticism il had received were
simply a boost for such productions.
and many dramatists set their minds
on grinding out similar material But
the New York theatrical public was
not so easily deceived. as was proven
nv the press reviews which The
Things that Count received the day
after it's premiere
Immediately the clergy took up the
work of praisinz the play and educa :
,jonal bodies followed. Now comes the
question of why such a play should
cause such a favorable impression. 1t
vac simply this: Here was a drama
that dealt with real life, real situa-
lions and real people; il was play
that taught a real lesson and carried
with it pathos. humor and mother
love.
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Notwithstanding,

Gertrude Hoffman and her fifty comic
confederates, numbering many road
way players of note. will be the domi-
mating attraction in the B. +. Keith
Theater bill this week. Her new
Revue" is in twelve scenes. among
them the dance spectacles. 'Zobeide' s
Dream" The Beautiful Blue Danube.
and "Pierrot at the Moulin Rouge" to-
gether with such interpolated novel
ties as The Japanese Garden Geisha
Girls the Living Posters" 'El
Sheik's Dancing Girls" The New York
Subway" The Beauty Shop Ladies"
and other specialties. all lasting more
than an hour, and all interrupted from
time to time by Miss Hoffman in her
costume limitations and caricatures of
celebrities of the stage. Miss Holman
enjoys. in addition to her own share of
stellar glory, the distinction of pre-
senting the largest Revue" in vaude-
VILE. Other offerings forming the sup
porting bill will be Paul Conchas in his
arenic feats as Achilles and Patro-
cle:" the former Frohman comedian.
Harry Beresford and company, under
the direction of Joseph Hart. in Tom
Barry's 'Twenty-Odd Years. Lucille
and Cookie" the talking cockatoo;
Glen Ellison. The Scot without a
Kilt" and the Dancing La Vars.
Today the vaudeville concerts will
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THE CURRENT WEEK.



At the Columbia Theater tomorrow
night a new three-act farce by Robert
Romans and Frank Hatch will be given
its first public presentation. The title of
the play is The Blue Envelope" and
the story has to do with AN elderly
knight-errant from Cohoes. who. after
bidding his young wife a fond farewell,
starts ostensibly for Cuba to overlook
his vast plantations. but who in reality
has arranged for clandestine dinner
1.-The clinginG vine at an uptown res
taurant in New York. John Doe, in his
correspondence with the Young woman.
has made himself known to her as the
sturdy oak" and at the trusting place
they have arranged to recognize each
other by certain signs already agreed
upon. Shortly before the appointed bour
the cInSing vine in motoring to the
meeting. encounters street fight and
Doe, who happens 10 be following close
behind in cab. is halted too. In his
haste to meet the fair one. Doe leaves
his cab and endeavors to dispel the mob
and in so doing becomes himself involved
and somewhat beaten I'D When he
breaks away he rushes for his cab. only
TO find a strange woman entering bv the
other door. 1t is the CIinginC vine"
whom, of course. he doesn't know. hut
who instructs the driver to take them to
the nearest doctor for repairs 1t is here
that the real action Of the farce begins,
bringing into the general mix-up numer-
Gus innocent individuals who have much
difficulty in freeing themselves of in
eliminating evidence that is brought
against them. a most attractive cast
has been selected for the Interpretation
of the various roles, including Virginia
Pearson. Carrie Reynolds. Dierdre DOYLE,
Belle Theodore. VI. J. Ferguson. George
w. Howard. William BOYD. Mark Price.
Henry Norman, Horace Vintop, and 9TH
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Six interesting vaudeville acts will en-
ter into the bill announced for the Cos
mos Theater this week. headed BY Chris
Richards summer girls" an aggregation
of three principals and seven singing and
dancing chorus girls. in a tabloid musical
comique. The company will appear with
new costumes. special scenery and light
ing effects. An international number
will be Deltorelli and Glissando. musical
comiques. in a repertoire OF comedy and
music The Bryants also will have n
unique offering of tricks and comedy in
Temptations, and Chain and Templeto.,
songs and dances of the dainty kim.
The Rose Valerie troupe. comprising six
people. four of them women, will give a
performance on the wire. II is said to he
one of the largest and fastest wire acts
in vaudeville Presto with his violin
the sixth number of the bill. will offer a
musical act that presents number -
popular melodies that come to a climax
in a novel "song revue The Hearst
Selis pictures in motion of the big hap
penings of the world and the comedy
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Correct Pronunciation.

Until Richard Bennett produced Dam
aged Goods" in New York. on March Il.
1915. thereby starting a dramatic seusa-
ton which still continues comparatively
few American people know that there
was such Il man as Eugene Bricux. the
author. Sine" that time most readers OF
newspapers and MAGAZINES have hecomc
familiar with BrIcux and his works. but
there still exists the Comparative few
who know how To pronounce the name
"f this 'ImmOrtal'' of the French Acad-
envy. Variations in pronunciation
range from 'BrUo'' to "Brux.'' willie
many self-styIcd French scholars insist
that the correct pronunciation T.
"Bree-ay." Mr.. Brieux. however. and
this is on the authority of Richard Ben
nett. who WAS his guest in Paris last
summer. calls himself 'Brcc-uh'' with
t." accent equally divided on the two
syIlabes.
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PoIi.S-"Nobody'. widow"

Avery Hopwood. the gifted Cleve-
land playwright, is the author of the
clever comedy. "Nobody's Widow"
which will he the Offering of the Poll
Players this week. the play in which
David BclasCo starred Blanche Bates
for two seasons
The comedy tells the amusing story
of a young American girl who mar
ries wealthy English nObleman.
While on their wedding journey the
bride discovers her husband bidding
an affectionate farewell to a former
sweetheart. In n Jealous rage the
bride refuses to accept an explanation.
but returns at once to America,
where she tells her friends that her
husband is dead. She then goes to
Palm Beach to recuperate after her
bereavement When she reaches the
Florida resort she is amazed to find
that her husband has followed her.
He is equally amazed to learn that
she is a widow and he threatens to
expose her ruse unless she will con-
sent to allow him to win her heart
once more.
In order to avoid exposure the girl
finally accepts her husbands proposal
that he shall not be held account
able for the deeds which he committed
when he was alive" SO the courtship
begins all over again. and the COM
plications which result, when the so
recently bereaved widow begins to
take interest in the young nobleman.
furnish the groundwork for an ex-
ceptionally entertaining play.
The dialogue is brilliant and cpl
grammatic and the character studies
are most engaging.
Maud Gilbert will be seen in the
Blanche Bates role, while Rockliffe
Fellowes will play the part created
by Bruce McRae.
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ers. all of whom have attained promi-
nence on the comedy stage.
Relationship Carlo Grand Opera
COMPANY.

For the inaugural opera of tho week
at the BelasCo Theater tomorrow
night. Impresario Fortune Gallo has
provided an exceptional cast of prin-
cipals. The event. under the auspices
of the Feirce Guild. is destined TO
he one of the most brilliant of the
season from theatrical standpoint
The ladies of the guild will he in full
charge of the affair. which promises
much as a result OF their efforts in
behalf of the Washington Home for
Foundlings
The San Carlo Grand Opera com
pany will be directed by the celebrated
maestro. Chevalier Giuseppe AnCeIini.
The repertoire for the week has been
so arranged that there will he no
repetitions. All of the leading singers
of the company will have two or more
appearances while in Washington. be-
ing assigned the roles wherein they
have achieved their greatest successes
throughout the opera world.
Tomorrow evenings opera aida -
is one wherein the Oriental back
ground of priests and priestesses
vies strongly with the musical beau
ties OF the work. Correct presentation
OF the opera calls for great detail
IN all departments. and rich stage
pieces and costuminE must be pro-
'iueu IN lair generosity. AS in all
other productions of the San Carlo
Company, however, the voices arc the
primary feature, and there will be
nothing of vocal decadence on ac-
count of the splendor of the opera
from spectacular viewpoint
Nine. Ester Adaberto. the Italian
song queen. has been chosen for the
role OF the slave-a character in which
she has achieved worldwide fame
Nine. Carolina Zawncr will be the
Amnerls: Signor Giuseppe Agostini
Will be the Radames: Signor Alessan-
dro Modesti. the Amonasro, and
signor Natalie Cervi and SiEnor Emilio
Sesona will be the Ramfis and High
Priest respectively
tuesday evening Nine Edvige Vac
carl. the tiny Florentine coloratura,
Will display how easy it is to sing the
fiute-noteS in Donizetti's beautiful
opera. Lucia nj Lammermoor" Again
on Thursday night. she will dispense
such of the bird-notes as remain over
from the Lucia opera.
One of the most important features
OF the opera engagement at the
Belasco this week is. of course, the
matter of prices. which remain at the
regular theater scale. Music stu
dents and theater Goers generally will
find added JOY in this respect. as this
is the first opportunity offered them
TO hear the master works of song in
terpreted by worldfamous artists,
where the cost Of tickets is not in
creased.
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NatiOnal-''The Trail Of the Lone
some Pine

Again We have coming to Washington,
this time to the National Theater, The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and il
must be said that this delightful stage
INSTALLATION of one of the most popular
books of the day has perennial fresh :
ness that warns the hearts Of the ro-
mantle theater-goers. Eugene Walter
may have started well when he wrote
what must now be called "erotic stage
themes" but he has not written any
thing in his entire career that has more
heart interest. or more delightful story.
or what has come to be known las the
American punch than this dramatiza-
ton of a popular novel Those who read
the story as 1t was originally written
will come into contact with the Toili-
vers, and the Falins. those Incompetent
sible denizens of the interior slopes of
the Blue Ridge range. The Trail OF the
Lonesome Pine" is a play where the good
man is rewarded and the wicked man is
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Reform of Drama.

The highest authority in existence has
set forth in plain language that the true
purpose of the play is to mold the mirror
up to nature. meaning. of course human
nature-and this being done ct the pres
ent day chilli in n Kindergarten could
see why the reflections in that mirror
arr or the cheapest. meanest. most vul-
gar and revolving description. You can
easily see from this that the reform Of
the drama DIust necessarily tsrin else
where than on the staSe.-T'Il;am Gil
lCttc.
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Gayety-"Sam Howe and His Love.
makera,''

Sam Howe brings his "Lovemakers'
company to the Gayety this week. Mr..
Howe has been provided with an entirely
new burlesque in two acts and four
scenes. written by Edwin Hanford and
with musical score that combines all
sorts of melodies from ragtime to senti-
mental ballads. The story of the piece
admits of picturesque scenic surround
ings. of which Mr.. Howe is said to have
taken full advantage. Ample opportu-
nifty has been afforded Mr. Howe to dis
play the best of his own abilities as a
funmaker. As Hebrew character
impersonator he is admittedly one of the
cleverest in the country. An organiza-
ton of popular performers has been en-
gagged. among whom are included Coun-
tess Rossi. Vera Desmond. Bessie Rosa.
Adelaide Adair. Albert Marks. William
Wyant. W. Weber. William Arnold. and
Joe Barrett. The musical numbers in
the new production are said to be I'M
usually snappy and up-to-date An added
feature Wednesday evening will be the
wrestling bout. AT Friday nights per-
Torrance. the usual country store"
event will be given
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An Estimate.

I'm actor is simply mine He is
body through which ideals are intended
to become actual Some genius dreams
of n heroine in situation. lie writes
down what sort of heroine she is lie
Trites down the words she would use
1t is the business of the actress TO be-
come that imagined person and to speak
those words
Such is the estimate by Harris Mer-
ton Lyon. esSayist and short story
writer. in the Green Book Magazine, on
What Is an Actor. Anyway"
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different announced within the
Beasco Theater
the drama supplied by the National another return
tat in he o. theatrical
the will provided BY
of the naswork of
Carlo beginning with
Lucia Wednesday
Cavlera
La
1l three
o principals alternating.
realm
Nine Carolina Zawner noted Russian
whose iumphs member the Metro
remembered; Nine Edgc
the Montreal
Salvatore
during his several with the
Opera Company here.
has American
feature social life
ballet while
well balanced
body United
grand efronnth Metropolitan
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Majestic.

The show that will he presented at
the Majestic Theater this week is n
musical review and burletta. The bur
letta is entitled Three Married Men,
and in il Phil Collins, new come
dian. VII work with Mr.. Alexander.
He comes from Philadelphia and will
be seen in a line of Hebrew comedy
work.
EIva Grieves will be seen as the
leading woman and Annie Carter and
Katherine Stowell will support her in
important parts.
The review will be a presentation
of popular songs. Supporting Alex
ander and Collins will he Pagan. Ben
son. Fisher, Combs, and Beal.
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punished. and dramatically the result OBJ
tained by Eugene Walter and missed by
John Fox. jr.. is proportioned to the
labor expended. In the play Walter has
followed a new line of sentiment inspired
by a force of nature present to both
June and Hale. and the girl and the man
show their respective Individuality more
by the d"liCacy and beauty of the ex-
amples by which Walter developed the
thought Of Fox, rather than by the
thought itself.
In the role of June the management has
discovered a delightful young impcrson-
alter in the person of Isabelle Lowe who
is surrounded with a capable cast. IN
Guiding James Heron, Jack Pendleton.
John w Rcnnie. Marie Scott. Noah
Bcery. G. Paul Schwagcr, Marguerite
Abbott and Adrian Morgan.
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Gone to London.

George G. Tyler left for London re-
Gently. where he is TO examine in
manuscript plays which have been
proffered him for American production
in the autumn. when. IL Is expectC 4.
he will resume activity as a produce
whether under his name or that Cr
the Liebler company is not known.
His rights and those of his firm in
certain unproduced plays were re-
Gently disposed of for the benefit of
the creditors under the receIvership.
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photoplays will he supplemental features.
Thursday. beginning with the matinees,
the bill will he changed.
Tschaikowsky's March Slav." selec-
tons from Puccinis La TOsca," Der
nards intermezzo. Apache" BendiX's
idyn. Roses: Clements To Arms: :"
overture, Bowers Red Rose" with many
other high-Crade selections and novelties.
will be included in the concert program
offered by the Cosmos orchestra today.
In addition new specialties and other
attractions will be presented
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New War PLAYS.

New war plays in London are The
Man Who Stayed at Home" The Bells
of st. Naloir." a Call to Arms. -
col. Cobb. of the Red Hussars," In
the Blood" Honor Gains the Day.'.
Saved by the British" Espionage. -
The Supreme Sacrifice" "EnglanG's
Calf and My Friend. Thomas At
kins." Most of them are short pieces
and are having performance in the
music halls.
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who have been engaged to interpret the
principa: roles of The Blue Envelope"
Virginia Pearson will portray the
leading feminine character. Already we
have seen This beautiful Kentucky girl
twice since the opening Of the cur
rent season-the first time in the por-
travail Of the vampire in Eugene Wal
ter's nelodrama entitled The Better
Way" and later in the premiere hero OF
Guy Bottoms trite drama. 1.-The Fallen
Idol" in which she played the part of
an artists model. That both produc-
tons are now reposinE peacefully in the
theatrical storehouse reflects in no way
on the capabilities OF Miss Pearson. for
she presented excellent characterizatious
in both plays.
II is stated by the publishers of The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine that the
first editions of the book ran into 5000 90
copies. and that the popular edition was
equa..y productive In the number OF
readers. but no estimate can he made as
to the number OF theatergoers who have
enjoyed the very realistic drama which
Eugene Walter wrote from the book
presenting a real race Of Americans
whose forebears sought homes in the
Businesses of the Cumberland range.
content with the small acreage OF lands
they found in the Coves, or tillable areas
OF the mountain slopes.
To John Fox, jr.. Is due the credit OF
bringing these primitive mountain folk
to the knowledge of the outside world.
but TO Mr.. Walter must be given praise
for his foresight in visualizing what Fox
reported as existing far from the ken Of
the greater number of the people OF this
country.
And VIC all know what a dear, roman
tic figure Charlotte Walker CMrs. Wal
ter in private life) made Of June. the
poetic heroine Of The Trail of the Lone
some Pine" and how beautifully the
piece was staged in the three presenta-
lions il has already had in Washington.
This stage picture of the Cumberland
Mountains will be seen once again this
week at the New National Theater with
Isabelle Lowe in the role created by
Miss Walker
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which he means that the magnificent o.
rhetoric or circumstances must not h"
allowed to draw the dramatist's attcu-
ton away from the fact that it is the
simple human passions which give life
to the characters of a drama. and that.
at bottom. the genuine impulses of the
king and of the gardener are of the same
nature.-R. Farquharson Sharp.
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A New One.

The news comes from New York
that an act AT one of the vaudeville
houses was closed because the ap-
plause of the gallery was too vocifer-
Gus. Since when did the press agent
discover this one?
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present Valeska Suratt. Mabel Berra
Matthews. Shayne and company and
other numbers from last weeks bill
with added offerings for the occasion.