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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
The Waste Of Needless Wrapping.

Why does the storekeeper wrap up the
goods you buy with needless coveringsf
Because you, the customer, expect your
parcels to be neat in appearance. You
do not want the nature of your purchase
known, perhaps. You want to have your
goods delivered unidentified. Whether
YOU take the parcels home with you or
have them delivered, you want them
covered.
This demand or expectation on the
part of the customers, puts the mer-
chants to a heavy expense in needless
wrappings. He must buy tons Of paper
in the course of the year to meet your
refinements of taste. And you pay the
paper bill You pay more and more for
this paper. as the price rises, owing to
the increased demand and the reduced
supply. You are paying not only more
for the goods you buy, but for the
wrappings that cover them.
Fully half of the paper wrappinss
used in the stores are unnecessary. They
are superfiuous. Paper is wrapped
around cardboard boxes that could just
as we'll. just as neatly and just as safely
be sent home or carried home uncovered.
Articles already wrapped are put within
paper bags, or holding boxes, for con-
venience or concea1ment. These addi-
tional wrappings are not only expensive
and the customer pays the expense
but they delay the service. At this sea-
son, when the shops are beginning to
feel the crowding of Christmas buying,
every bit Of time taken to wrap parcels
unnecessarily is waste. These delays
react upon the counters and make for
lost minutes and hours for stores and
for customers.
The merchants cannot stop wrapping
goods needlessly unless the customers,
recognizing the waste of the old prac-
tice and the economy of simpler deliver
les. express their desire for less closely
covered goods. Why should the Gus
toners be viking to receive their pur
chases with less paper around them:
Because they are thereby contributing to
an economy that will eventually bene-
fit them in lowered store costs, and con-
sequently lower retail prices. By ex
peeting less of needless wrapping the
buyers permit the merchants to institute
reforms that will save both parties much
money in short time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Sigh of a Sufferer,

IN tell you what to do for that cold, :
said the solicitous friend
"Please don't I've taken so many diff
ferent kinds of prescriptions for this
cold. l don't believe it's any longer
what's the matter with me-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
No Fear.

''some women would be willing to
the cooking"
"Henrietta wouldn't" replied Mr..
Meekton. "Shc wouldn't intrust me with
anything so important"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

No descriptive writer has attempted to
portray the expression of relief on Mr..
MuTpliy's face on learning that Presi-
dent Wilson got by. even though New
YORK went republican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

Some of the students of railway leg
is:a:iou think Mr.. Adamson may be
abe 90 10 better. now that he has had
more time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

For a man holding a position recog-
nized in diplomacy as extra hazardous,
Count Won Bernstorff has remained on
duty a remarkably long time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Condensed Plots,

"Why are you so fond of moving pic
tures."
"My parents wouldn't let me read nov.
els in my youth. Pm making up for
lost time"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Dress I trimmings and Laces

Black Spangle Trimming y, inch wide. ...... 18c
Jet. Gold and Silver Tassels inches long .15c
Gold. Silver and Steel Metal Bands y inches 35c
Persian Bandings: inches wide. ..............75c
Rosebud Trimming: yard ......................39 Sc
Flat Binding Braid: black and coors: 81 inch 12c
Celluoid Buttons; colors; to on card. 1Oc
Sis Coney Fur: black or brown; 5 inch .$1.49
Coney Collars: black white. ............ .$1.5O
Fox Heads; black brown and blue: each $t.3o
Muff Beds; each ....................79c to $3.50
ST so ward All-Silk White and Black W. B. Crepe;
40 inch; pink. rose. navy, burgundy purple.
black, green and brown. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SLY
Gold and Silver Lace Flouncings: Is and "a inches
wide. Values 81 so and $500 yard; at. $tO0
Silver Nenise Bands and Edges: values to $3.50
ward: at.. $3.50
4O-inch Chitfons: all coorS. .................o Csc
Chantilly and Shadow Lace Flouncings: Is and "a
inches: white and cream. Values up $500
The New Ribbons.
Nc1ours for vestings: light and dark grounds; $3.50
value at $1.75, and s.. 50 value $t.25
Gold and Silver Banding e to inches. Zoe to $1.25
eros Grain Ribbons. Il inches wide; all coors and
black Worth zoe yard .....................17 tic
Metal and Silver Ribbons black and colored
grounds 8 inches wide. Worth $3.50 yard $500
Satin Ribbons for girdes, ETC. inches wide. Worth
csc ..5sc
lais
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILASDER JOHNSON.
Equally Eccentric.

"a freak election bet makes man
look ridiculous"
ayes. And it's hard to tell which won
it; the man in the wheelbarrow or the
man who is pushing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Silks at Wednesday Sale Prices

ST 90 YardWide Black Taffeta .89c
81 rs Yard-Wide Messalines colors and black Sly
ST rs Yard-Wide Taffetas; colors and black $)l5
ST Is 4Onch Crepe de Chine colors and black. $ll5
81 rs 4O-inch Silk and Wool Popn .............95c
ST SO 4O-nch Ceorgette Crepe; coors and black Sl39
ST 65 4Onch Crepe de Chine colors and black. $l9
81 rs Yard-Wide Black Satin Duchesse. Sly
81 rs Yard-Wide Black Chiffon Tafeta .$1l5
$500 4Onch Satin Charmeuse; colors and black. $l.85
Ve1vets, Velveteens and Corduroys.
ST rs Costume Nelveteen colors and black $lO9
ST rs 1olow-cut Corduroy; % inch ..........9 Use
S425 Black Costume Nelveteen: AZ inch $3.50
81 50 Black Costume Plush 53 inch ............ $685.
5000 Coating Pushes: black nuria mole. $549
Wool Dress Goods.
SOC Black and White Shepherd Cheeks 81 inch ..75c
8oc Storm Serges coors and black .79e
81 25 Dress Goods and Sutngs. Use
ST so San Toy Poplin: colors and black. $l39
S175 Suitine Gabardine: colors and black. $l59
$500 Wool Jersey Cloth: woven. .............$ 187
$500 Stripe Plaid Suitings: a inch .,..... .S1.59
Dress Innings.
2,c ming Satns: coors and black .29c
|9C Printed NenetanS. DOC
81 Is Plain and Fancy Lining Sat1ns 90e
Paas Royal Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Assurance.

No matter what strange rumors fly
To fill us with misgiving,
The turkey an the pumpkin pic
Will still make life worth living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

\ suggestion Of railway strikes in mid
winter sounds even more ominous than
a threat in summertime when the walk
Ing is good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

Fluctuations III the price OF coal make
il seem possible that staying by the
family iresida viii be as expensive as
riding in TIE automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

As an election forecaster, the state of
Maine sacrificed all its prestige at the
last moment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

Col. Watterson of Kentucky was too
consistent a democrat to cancel his
reconciliation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

1t is obviously the opinion of Chair
man Wilcox that it is better to proceed
with caution when congratulating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

The western oratory proved that Col
Bryan's farewell was purely official in
it's character.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

Next year "The glorious Fourth" may
as in July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

The Thanksgiving proclamation viii
suggest few democratic thoughts, even
though politics is not mentioned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Domestics, Wash Materials

5O-inch Fruit OF the Loom ootton' ks
36-inch White Outing Flannel. ............... 2he
3o-inch White Underwear oamDr1c ;,:7e
2S-inch Heavy Bleached Canton ''z12e
28-inch Beacon Roblng, yard pc
28-inch Baby Outings YARD ''@zze
27-inch Colored Poplns, yard .zle
45-inch White No1eS, YARD &c
As inch Oatmeal Crepe yard .................25c
36inch White Embroidered Flannel, yard. SIC
Extra Special.
12-yard pieces Longcott. =. ...... $2 25
12-yard pieces Sea Island Nainsook. 1923
THANKSGIVING Table Lnensat less than regular prices
u,t; the following special lots distributed. :"
e. s;' ~ Pattern Cloths 72xloS inches $500
q "a pattern Cloths 7Ox7O inches ............ $3.50
q IN Pattern Cloths 7Ox72 inches. ............$ $500
q d ward Irish Damask. y inches. ........... 89c
81 50 ward Pure Linen Damask for :..... $1.19
81 90 ward Pure Linen Damask, 90 inches &c
&c yard Mercerized Damask, Ga inches " Sc
50 M dozen Pure Linen Napkins. ...........$ $3.50
81 90 dozen Pure Linen Napkins. $500
Palais Royal Sec Floors Elevators
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

The electoral vote will be cast with
out any effort to start new betting
furry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14

Regardless of how other states went,
California is still going.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Departed Glory.

From the Chicago Posr.
Poor Indiana cut no figure at all as a
pivotal state. Her glory hath departed
Srom her.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
Dressnakers Saeor Professional and Home Dressmakers
| OnnOrrOW
Wednesday. November L.

Wednesday, November Is.
Dressnakers ma
terials and Findings,
including the newest
and best
Many of these items are
the result Of special pur-
chases and are remarkable
values; others are at special
reduced prices for Wednes-
day-tornorrow-only.
See details on left and
right of this column.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-14
RUGS

In conjunction with another great de-
city-the Palais Royal advertises in conf
Alexander Smith & Sons Rugs from |
than we could buy them at the auction
BOUGHT THEM AT PRICES FULLY
AUCTION SALE PRICES.
Dining Room Furniture, Table Linen Slverware
than later. And the Palais Royal Club Plan Ii
payments.
Palais Royal Ofice--On Fourth Floor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-18

THERE are surprises in store for tho
l. man who ventures into De Lancey
street, between 18th and 18th. Let him
lay down so cents at the box office of the
Little Theatre any Friday or Saturday
night. Let him step inside and watch the
varlegated entertainment of the Stage
Society But let him beware of the final
playlet. There are shocks in It,
Shock No. IA play by Bernard Shaw
about, play that is contained in none
Of his volumes of printed plays and for
sale at none of the book stores.
Shock No. 2--An absolutely nom
preachy, unhygienic, irresponsible, devil
may-care burlesque.
Shock No. (if he digs deep enough)-
A literary mystery in which Philadelphia
plays the leading part
Hereinafter is set down the complete
history of how and why the play was
written, when and where the farce was
performed. and yet more strangely. how
the author disposed of the manuscript
and then Immediately forgot it. The
EVENING LEDGER is indebted to Henry
Longcope, Of this city, for the main facts
set forth.
In the year 1905 Shaw was requested
by Cyril Maude to write play to be per-
formed for the Actors Orphanage Fund.
Then as now Shaw was n very busy man,
and according to his own statement, the
play was written mostly in Great North
ern express trains hence the joggly hand
writing"
on July IA, 1905. In the Theatre Royal
In the Botanic Gardens, Regents Park
was played for the first time on any stage
whatsoever "a new, startling, pathetic,
blood-curdling and enhancing tragedy. in
one act and ten mechanical effects, en-
titled Passion, Poison and Petrifaction,
by the Chelsea Shakespeare. George
Bernard Shaw"
There were repeated performances OF
the farce and after the first one the man
uscript was auctioned off to the highest
bidder, who happened to be a secondhand
book dealer in London, from whom 1t
was secured by the late Robert Hoe, who
was one of the keenest and at the same
time one of the most intelligent collectors
of his day. In 1911 Mr.. Hoes great
library, containing monuments of our
literature, was sold, and the Shaw manu-
script fell into other hands.
After another tempestuous voyage or
two there at last came to light these II
pages of manuscript, which, by the way,
are, as Shaw describes, written in a Jog
gIy" manner. with black lead pencil,
the underscoring being done with a red
one While there are many erasures and
corrections, the manuscript is in a perfect
state of preservation, and is now owned
by the Rosenbaeh Company, of this city.
Two years after the production of the
play. or in 1907, when Shaw desired this
manuscript for purposes of his own, not
being able 10 find 1t, he wrote most
strenuous letter to firm OF solicitors IN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-18

know too little of people, of the world, of
life itself. Already the motion picture
is showing accurate Photographic repro
auctions of every explored and remote
part of the earth. 1t Is itself the great eX
plorer II is the modern Stanley, the
modern Greeley. It is the Nansen, the
Rasmussen, the Captain Scott. not of one
day, but of all days. What IL depicts Is
incontrovertible. And If the great pic
ture producers think that the picture
seeing public does not remember the things
It sees in the pictures, then the producers
are greatly deceived.
I mean to make this point A novelist
cannot afford to lay a plot In a land
he has never seen or visited when at the
moment of its sale millions of people
throughout the world are looking at actual
motion pictures of the spot the novelist
has described and seeing the real people
OF that country as they actually are, in
stead of as they are described in print.
Books and newspapers cannot glorify and
exalt temporarily prominent personali-
ties and make for them places in history.
for every day these, this same audience
of millions, is looking at those little,
meagre public men in the motion pictures
and forming its own permanent conclu-
sions as to their capacities.
Even in the matter of our women's
fashions II has an influence. Year after
year you see thousands of women, scores
OF them your own friends, wearing gowns
and street costumes of freaksh design
and even more freakish colorings because
they are supposed to represent the voice
of Paris" AS any well-informed person
knows, most of these false and offensive
creations represent nothing of the sort
They represent, on the contrary, the
money-seeking eccentricity and shrewd-
ness of some wholly commercial dress
maker who can create demand by using
them on mannequlns and getting them
pictured in the newspapers. The motion
picture now brings you the Paris fash
ions, or did until the war virtually
brought fashion designing to a standstil
in stricken France. But when they do
come here in the pictures they are the
real, the worn fashions, and not the
ghastly things that shrewd commercialism
is able to market.
/ know that many OF the picture
producers of the world take no especial
pride in having themselves considered as
educators. But they cannot help them
selves, for they are, in every picture they
make. unintentional educators at least.
If they have bad taste there will be a re-
vulsion to create good taste. II they are
ignorant their public will educate them
or eliminate them entirely.
ANY instrument or device. any inven-
ton or conception that can have a great
and universal effect upon the human mind
is an educator, The day is not far off
when the makers OF motion pictures will
not resent the implication OF being educa-
tional by design. They will not dodge
or evade the praise to which they will be
entitled for having accomplished legiti-
mately big things,
1t is easy to understand why they fear
to be considered educators. The begin
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-18
The Today and Tomorrow
of the Photoplay Art
In Education by Art, Not Propaganda or Tray
elogues, Lies the Future of the Movies,
Says Fox Star
BY BERTHA KALICH

T THINK foresee a future for the mo-
| tlon picture that no one has ever pre-
sented before as 1 intend to picture It,
I see the motion picture not supplanting
literature, but building and creating
great new literature of it's own Already
the motion picture Is foe of ignorance
It can be made to Danish ignorance. It
must not be used and will not be used
later on in a propaganist sense; not as
studied and deliberate educator which
would cause resentment among the people
who saw it, but as an unstudied portrayer
Of the right things to do and the wrong
things to do
The motion picture. in its evolution,
whether II deals with fiction or fact, will
be wonderfully educational. If a picture
Is Inaccurate now the picture public knows
this quickly. If 1t shows wrong period
costumes, wrong-period furniture or a con-
fusion of two or more periods into the
same scene there are hundreds of thou
sands Of people in America who detect
this Instantly. An ignorant producer can
not exist for long. He is showing his
pictures, no matter who he is, for a time
u least, to partially intellectual and
Informed public. II he pictures ignorance,
offends or eXctes ridicule for long, the
producer ceases to exist. Therefore, those
Producers who do survive and grow in
power will be those who are informed or
who engage as advisers people of capacity
TO correct their deficiencies.
Correct pictures eventually must mean
correct audiences An uniformed or un-
ettered person who hears words spoken
correctly or sees things done correctly
cannot for all time remain uninfluenced
BY adherence to the proprieties on the
part Of others or by those he Is able to
see with his own eyes. You may talk
forever to some persons without penetrat-
ing their consciousness. but you cannot
hold picture constantly before their eyes
without having it shape their manners,
customs or ideals.
These are influences that are bound to
grow larger all the tina in motion pic
lures But there are still bigger things
70 happen Men and women write novels,
histories, works of travel and biographies,
ana millions OF people read them in many
ianguages Novels today are in the main
Nrtlen-I mean in the United States-by
men and women whose scenes and people
are almost wholly imaginary. These writ
eis travel more than they did in others
oays but still they travel too little. They
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-18

nings land endings) OF those pioneers
who introduced Ibsen, Hauptmann. Shaw,
Cork, Sudermann and others of their
type to the American public were not
marked by affluence or opurence. Most
of these pioneers lost money, but they
created tastes and liking for strong, sin
cere. earnest plays. They began the
creation of a public for strength and
sincerity and. once begun, the public built
itself like the rolling SNOWFALL that en-
larges as it travels
The taste for grand opera was acquired
operate beginnings In America were
humble and Improbable. Subsidized at
first by wealthy people for social profit
grand opera outgrew them, acquired a
public that today makes It profitable
The love of good dancing was by no means
widespread Today 1t is extensive and n
Ballet Russo can come TO America and
carry away "a fortune.
In America we have watched the evolu-
tlon of better books, somewhat better
native plays, better music, increased
culture and refinement, growth Of mental
breadth, n further extension of intellectual
curiosity to learn the unknown things and
better motion pictures.
Already there is an audience for sincere.
big motion pictures. This audience is
growing constantly. In time the members
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-18
The Play Shaw Forgot
and Philadelphia Saved
The True Story of His Roaring Burlesque, Pas
sion, Poison and Petrifaction," and How
1t Wandered to the Quaker City

London complaining about Mr.. RoboEt
Hoe, Of New York city, and iptimattns
that that famous collector had "mRuu-
factured an edition" and was In oonhe-
quence mo sportsman"
So much for the manuscript, now for the
correspondence:
Halfady Lianbeder, Merionsthshire.
11th August. 1907.
the MS. OF Passion. Poison and Pstrifaction,d
1t 1t was vas, certainly not put on the market By
rFs has been PpSs4fH in AsrSS for
tho original edition in Harry Furnessi Annual.
having. A collector who manufactures an edi-
U Messrs. IS n0 podd ESSEiSSs Mead Co. actually an
9S nSSnesd %du6 an psdbdS sdsGp Without SUnsu,n me
own pupShePs had not Called sssr attention
to to the fact that the work was copyrighted In
G. BERNARD SHAW.
This letter is addressed to Messrs
Stevens & Brown, Trafalgar Square. Lon-
don, e. c., who, under date of August 10,
wrote to Robert Hoe, Esq, OF which the
following is an extract:
We made two calls at Adelphi Terrace to
see Mr.. Shaw, and found him from home; left
a letter for hin--we enclose his reply.
puFehasns I gys agents e1 % in oStainns ' the MSS,
that we got IL from London second,hand
rect from the society or body for whom shaw
did the work or 10 whom he gave the MS
A copy of the text of the enclosed lettsr
from Shaw is as follows:
Dear Srs-I quite forgot that the Ms. of
p, p. L. sold by auction at the con-
clusion of the hrst performance. So the
title Is quite valid, and / owe Mr.. Hoe an
"'O''' c. BERNARD SHAW.
The first performance ever given In this
country was by the Young Mems Hebrew
Association of Philadelphia on Sunday
night last winter. 1t proved highly Bilc-
cessful and amusing, despite the lack OF
an adequate stage and the kind of scenery
that the play demands. The existence OF
such a Shaw play was known only to =
few, and that 1t was played by the Young
Mems Hebrew Association was due to the
suggestion of Prof. Thomas d. o'Bolger.
of the University Pennsylvania, an
ardent admirer of Shaw, who had read
the manuscript and laughed. The Stage
Society production was the first perform
ance in a theatre in this country.
The Stage Society production. designed
by II. Dewitt Welsh. is unique scenicaliy.
The piece is played between two huge
posters on either side of the stage, Ar-
nouncing Passion, Poison and Petrtfao-
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Continued on Pass Fem
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-18

self completely into any part that is as.
signed to him. II play has n good story
and gets anywhere an actor Is contemp.
tble II he does not jump Mt the chance to
take that play and give 1t to the people.
Already In pictures we have begun to
look for more thought and less speed.
The people are beginning to guess shrewd.
ly as to the value of photoplays, and mere
tricks Of the camera will no longer satisfy
them. The fact is that the men who stand
today as the big producers of America
are the ones who began, like Mr.. Ince,
from the very start to SEQ to 1t that every
photoplay OF theirs contained VITAL grip
ping story.
If l were asked what was the most
modern tendency toward improvement in
photoplay production I should say that It
lay In the matter of direction. The
director is all.powerful, for he can make or
break story and the actor who is to
star in It. An actor Is Immediately drawn
to his director or repulsed by him. He
soon develops an instinct for directors, so
that the director who understands his
work and brings to II n high conception
of the story and an appreciation of the
actor, will inspire the star. The unmas-
terful director dooms the play from tho
start.
The man with the megaphone voice
does not really control the situation nearly