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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05
MY BRAIN-CHILD
MARIE-ODILE
By FRANCES STARR

Just how our stage portraits are created
is always an interesting mystery to the
layman. To conceal the ''mcans' so COM
pletely that an illusion Of truth is gained
is the perfect art of acting But how does
the actor know so many sides of life"
He cannot depend upon "inspration' or
a mastery of the b cs of his art, known
as technique" to carry him into these
different reccsscs of character. Does he
live the role when he plays it? How many
absurd things have we read about tliving"
roles. Let us dispense with that i'm
mediately.
Imagination is the principal factor in
the creation of all things artistic, but il
a painter were going to make a sketch
of Norway, he would, l dare say, have
seen what Norway was like The painter
might not paint a moonlight at night
while the moon was shining, but he has
looked hard at it and remembered it the
next morning. With the accuracy of his
memory. stimulated by his imagination,
he creates the illusion of truth that we
admire in his canvas. SO the actor should
know MS norway OF see HIS lnOOIllbHN
and remember.
When "Mare-Odile" came into my
hands l imagined what convent was
like, but was consumed with a oeslre to
see it, so | journeyed into the cloisters
and stayed there, all too short time, for
| found peace and happiness with the
wonderfully human and kind sisters. |
did not go there to initiate, | wanted to
absorb their life, their ways, to store in
my mind an impression to remember |
lived their life as nearly as a visitor can.
| must confess that it appealed to me
strangely and ! dreaded the day of de-
parture. The content. the simplicity of
the sisters. the beauty of their faith. the
concentration of their souls, made an ir-
resistible appeal not only to my religious
sense, but to my love of the beautiful. 1t
is the memory of that impression that
went into the characterization of Marie
Odle." How accurately my memory
served me, in what degree my imagina-
tion stimulated it, can only be judged il
an illusion of truth Is felt by those who
view it. Alas, that the actor cannot step
back from his canvas and see his picture.
All he can do is feel and trust to the
other fellows opinion!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05
PERSONALITY IS THE
MAKING OF A STAR
By OLIVER MOROSCO

Some of the stars who have been the
greatest favorites on the stage may fail
entirely when put into film. No matter
how popular star may have been on the
stage, nor how great her success, she may
be fiat failure in motion pictures. We
may put her into one picture, believing
that her stage popularity will remain with
her to the end; but as soon as that picture
is released, we may learn, to our sorrow
and heavy financial loss, through the ef-
ticiency of the criticism blank system
with which the Paramount Pictures Cor
poration obtain through their exhibitors
the opinions of the picturegoing public,
that this star will not do for motion
pictures.
On the other hand. some girl may come
along who never has had any stage or
screen experience whatever, but who has
a pleasing personality and natural
aptitude for acting. She may score in IA
picture from the very first, and spring
into national popularity within n year
Such girl we call decided find.
1t does not apply to men as much as to
women. AS you know, there are far
more popular women on the stage and
screen than there are men. There are a
idols" but for the greater part popularity
clings to the women performers. Only
occasionally does a man get into motion
pictures who ranks high as a favorite.
Dustin Farnum is one of the very few
That is why so many of the plays are
built around women stars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05
WHEN SPARTA CRIED SCRAP OF PAPER

Sounds Of confusion in the GoqrtysTd n9 y.,, sud d.
denly Tsump springs TO her rect anu Se''S a'
Tsumu-He was Paris, Prince q Troy;
They all start back; AnaSuhGPs P S'TTtlU,SS T,,In,
leers like black Nemesis
the secret Of the fates;
MeneIaus Cf-lghtenedl-What do you mean
Analytkos-He is the son OF Priam' King
Tsumu adding meD-And OF Hecuba. Queen
Of the Troians. tShe rushes out to spread the
Hnaiytikos That makes the matter inter
''' Menciaus-B We have treaties with Troy,
They will msan nothing
6HR qTe th9 sTsD bcr opeen Of RaDy
Menslsgs-Bgt don't va want he; her a back nar,s
The Rns you can l' do f no wrong Last
night ! dTeaHHedd Hed oS var tont saw that After
the scandal / can't be expected to light to set
ne "'Anaafiytikos- Sparta will SEQ with the eyes OF
Meneiaus (fuming) l don't believe in
"&Snaiytikos lstr, obdurate) Have. yqn for
a Ithaca and AEsmsmn9PR Kns Of IN MyGe95sGR 5aR;
"Sh menelsus SssSms tbtteTyj-I didn't think Of the
Anayikos Sparta ask dfsr Less Of .Is hSs king
Analytikos-some bargains are TOO cheap
Menelaus las q last desperate hope)-Bul
Analytikos-You are Menelaus OF Sparta, and
Sparta 5 nation Of soldiers. Here put on your
x great clamor comes up from the COURTYARD
Anaiy-tlkOs steps out on the balcony and Is
greeted with shouts OF The King! The king!
Analytikos addressing the crowdJ-People
US, We did not seek H. IMenelaus Nineeesi)
innocent people. but-even in times OF peace
We have PREPARED for war, thahks @ KS 10 70 our
sparta is the most powerful in ali Greece and
We can mobilize in half "a hour ,,.,.,,rs
the papyrus still In hand, crawls over and at
tempts to stop Analytikos. -, -,
Analytikos mot noticing him)-Erom a clear
sky the thunderbolt has fallen In the midst
rible news has reached the King. NAenela99
tugs at AnalytlkOs' toga.) Broken In spirit
as he Is, he Is already paving the ground
wrong that has been done TO our gutltless
nation. Never will We lay down our arms!
CCheers) Never until the queen Is restored
end We will be victorious. We and Zeus, for
the gods will night on our side. "a loud
further forward and then with bursting elo-
quence), One hate We have and one alone!
tYells from below;
Hate by water and hate by land,
Hate or the head and hate OF the hand,
Hate OF Paris and hate Of Troy
That has broken the queen Tor a moment 3 Joy,
Jove's thunder VIII shatter the Trojan throne.
We have one hate and one alone!
Menelaus sits on the hoor dejectedly looking
at the papyrus. thunder OF voices from the
TToyi Troyf'
Helmets ana swords are thrown into the
air. The cheers sros tumtlt1oas ahd the
eurtaiu falls
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05

TAST Friday Philip Moeler's stupen-
II dously amusing satire of Sparta, Troy
and Berlin, "Helena's Husband" arrived
ciety. 1t shared the same fate that fol-
lowed it's production by the Washington
Square Players in New York. immediate
fame and unending laughter. Portions of
the playlet have already been printed in
Vanity Fair and the Boston Transcript
Here is the final scene with the introduc-
tion supplied by the latter publication.
AT the beginning of the play, Helena
of Troy is being beautihed by her Nu-
bian slave. Tsumu, a lady of much profess
sional efficiency and wide knowledge OF
life, who has "been so busy having chill
dren" that she hasn't had time to get
married" Helena speaks patronizingly of
her Moo-MoO, officially known in state
documents as Menelaus. King of Sparta.
Moo-Moo, it seems, fails to understand
her, and has taken OF Iate to much read
ing and study with the royal librarian,
AnalytilIos, who serves the kingdom also
as a sort of unofficial prime minister.
When her royal husband enters, Helena
"convinces him in a thousand words that
she is a silent woman and pettishly goes
of to her bath. win no one rid me of
this pest?" cries the king in agony But
his simple brain gradually generates an
fdea-namely, that he would be rid OF his
wife If she were to run away from him.
1t becomes his royal aim TO introduce some
handsome stranger into her apartments
and manage to leave them alone
together"
Then. as from the gods. young shep-
herd leaps over the balustrade. Analyti-
kos is about to make ready the boiling
oil which the law prescribes for such as
enter the queens apartments. but Meme
laus restrains him, wishing to hear the
strangers tale. Having lately come
down from the hills-the shepherd re-
counts-he was munchiBg an apple when
he was stopped by three gipsies. Each
begged the apple of him. and one offered
him money, another wisdom, and the
third a pretty girl Having been long
time in the hills, / chose the pretty girl"
the youth explains. And now he is here,
hoping for one glimpse of the beautiful
Helena. The matter can easily be ar
ranged, Menelaus replies, dlscreetly with
drawing with the librarian. And when
Helena enters, Paris needs but a few
soft and well-turned lines to convince her
that she is all wisdom, beauty and truth,
spiritually choked in this stuffy atmOs-
phere, a mistreated and misunderstood
woman. Helena scribbles few lines on
a piece Of papyrus and pastes II on a
nearby shield. Menelaus enters. rejoicing
in the success OF his ruse and his newly
gained freedom. Forthwith the slave,
Tsumu, ruEhes IN, bursting win ths
happiness Of evil news 70 tell The play
tan continues
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05
IRELAND UEBER ALLIES
IN MUSIC, SAYS FISKE
O'HARA

Dublin will be the mecca Of musicians
at no very distant date. is the prophecy
of Fiske O'I1ara, who comes to the Wal
nut in Augustus Pitou, Sr.'s new play
"Kilkcnny." II is the belief of this young
Irish tenor that before long our orchestras
will be filled up with Irish musicians and
most OF our operas will be written by
composers educated in the tight little
island.
"And why not?" asks OHara. "why
our leading light opera composer, Victor
Herbert. is an Irishman; Arthur sullivan
is the son of an Irshman, and the leading
composer of Great Britain today is an
Irishman born-Sr Charles Viliers Stan
ford, If you want to go back to first
principles, since most of my critics will
say that these men were educated in Ger
many, who was it first taught the Ger
mans musical art? Look up ancient his
tory and you win find that it was the
Irish monks who went over to Germany
and not only taught the Teutons music.
but how TO read and to write. So all the
boasted musical culture of Germany is
due to the Irish.
"SinCe this is the case why can't we
again be in the lead? There is no reason
at all and, by the way the art of music
is now progressing | look for a charac-
teristic Celtic school of music within a
very brief period Of time and for greater
operatic works. Ireland has the greatest
treasures of folklore in the world, most
of which is st.ll untouched and which
would make the most magnificent grand
opera or music drama lbrettos Young
Irish musicians of great promise are COM
ing TO the front and they will be followed,
no doubt, by even greater ones, so that
In time | look for a composer to arise
who will set some of the wonderful an
cient legends to music, just as character
istic, and which will bring the people
from the four corners of the earth to
see the productions that will be made in
Dublin There is nothing impossible in
what | am forecastng, and the present
rate of musical progress IN Ireland
makes il even possible that such an event
will not be delayed many years"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05
MRS. FISKE WINS
COMEDY SUCCESS
IN PENNA. DUTCH
Americas Most Distinguished
Actress Scores in Version of
Helen Martins Novel
BY WALTER PR1CHARD EATON

By WALTER PRlCHAkD ERlON
TNHE return to the New York stage OF
i the most versatile and most brilliant
actress now playing in the English
tongue recently attracted an exceptional
audience TO the Gaiety Theatre. and this
audience was rewarded by an evening
OF exceptional enjoyment Future au-
dienCcs may not have quite so good
time, because that first assemblagc was
made up so largely OF other players-and
1t takes player to appreciate to the full,
perhaps. the extraordinary art of Mrs
Fiske. Moreover there was in tho air
that night rare feeling OF expectancy
before she appeared, and a warm glow of
welcome after she came out. which made
the evening memorable Blanche Bates
and Na2imoVa sat on one side OF the
theatre, applaudinE-and they know.
Billie Burke sat on the other side, and
she too applauded. even though 1t may
be doubted-judging by her practice
whether she knows Certain 1t is that
Mrs. Fiskc has not looked simmer and
trimmer in many year, and that not
in a long while has she acted with such
abundant vitality and such infectious
good spirits.
She has had better parts to play. Her
present role really makes very little de-
mand upon her powers, though 1t is
doubtful IL any other actress in the
country could nave trlumpncu III u,
except May Irwin, who, of course, would
have played it quite differently. What,
however, is a slight demand on Mrs.
fiskc's powers may be a fatal drain on
many another's. The first and the last
impression ono takes away from 'Erst-
while Susan" her new play, is the inn
preston of mastership. Stronger than
any impression Of the story, any impress
sion OF the character Mrs. Fiske plays,
is this sense of a personality vibrant
with vitality of n mind marvclously
alert. of a voice trained to every shade
of feeling and expression OF a technical
mastery of all the tricks of the trade
which enables this player TO pick up Il
part n play, and carry it smilingly off
on her little Struggling shoulders. The
players who give us this sense in the
theatre now are so few. their appear
anCes so infrequent, and, moreover. we
have been so satisfied of late with the
silent drama" that Mrs. Fske actually
swept back, after three years of absence,
like cleansing wind, and the grateful
audience on that opening night simply
rose to her joyously and uncritically, and
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05

ALEXANDRA CARLISLE
The distinguished comedienne,
who will support r. H. Sothern,
at the Adelphi, when Alfred Su-
trO's new comedy "The Two
Virtues" is shown there Feb
Fuary Il.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05

One of the prime reasons why the
movie dramas have such a general level
of trashy medl0crity is because the man
ufacturers, so far as we could figure 1t
out from the files Of the leading trade
journals, were producing In America last
autumn at the rate of about 5000 films
a year
There are not good story writers
enough, there are not good directors
enough. there is not daylight and time
enough In all the world TO turn out half
of 60OO movies in a year which can lay
any claim 10 narrative skin and origin
ality and charm. The sooner the movie
manufacturers wake up to this fact, the
sooner we "hlghbFOws" will stop telling
them they are making pictorial dime
II is safe TO say that not one movie in
so Is written with sufficient care, re-
heaFsed with sufficient care, directed by
a man who isn't tagged physically or
at least whose brain isn't buELinG with
the niece he staged the week before or
the one he's got TO stage the next day,
and finally, that Is cut with sufficient
care.-Walter Prichard Eaton.
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Tsumu points to the shield. Analytikos
tears the piece of papyrus off the shield
and brings it to Monelaus
Menelaus CreadinG)--"I am not had woman.
did what | had to do" How Greek to
blame fate for what one wants To do!
Tsumu prostrates himself before the king,
Tsumu-A rumOr flies through the city. He
lie
Analytikos Canxiously)-Wen? Well?
Tsumu- -He-Ilc-
Menelaus Uuriously to AnalytikOSl-Rid me
Of this CrOakng raven.
Tsumu-Eyl has fallen on Sparta, He
Aualytikos-N Nes-Yes-
Mcnelaus lin ragc)-out of my sight, YOU
pertidiOus Nubian
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05

T WRITE clean farccs because I'm a
i business woman and because like big
audiences and long runs. And know
that the only way to reach the large pub
lie is by giving them something that
amuscs them, without at the same time
making them ashamed of themselves for
being amused by it,
When ! followed the success of BABY
Mine" with Irwin Beds" both of which
the critics were good enough to call clean
and wholesome in spite of the fact that
they we're built about more or less init
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-05

the Jersey woods served every conceiv-
able purpose and were made to represent
everything in nature but the ocean it
self. A curious influence of the stage
still manifested itself in the penchant of
many producers for building false fronts
of houses out in the country rather than
use the real thing.
OF course this method of obtaining at
mosphere is still essential in some cases.
Where one is reproducing some familiar
tavern or a building which would un-
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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-29
KILLS LYNX AFTER FIGHT
Lighthouse Keeper Shot the Animal
When He Failed to Kill Him
With a Club.

Ashland, Wis.-The first lynx pelt
that has been seen here for many
years was brought to the county
clerks office by e. ]. Lane. lighthouse
Keeper on Michigan island.
The animal had been proving about
the lighthouse for some time, and one
day became so bold as to come right
up to the back door.
Lane picked up club to attack the
animal, but before he could strike the
lynx had sprung at him.
A fight followed, in which Lane had
not by any means the best of it, but
ne finally managed to reach the house
and warding the animal off for mo-
ment' rushed In, slamming the door
after him. Then seizing his gun he
hurried to the window and shot the
lynx through the head.
The killing of the lynx brought
Lane bounty of sc.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-29
DEFlES LIVE WIRE AND LIVES
ohio Man Takes Great Risk Handling
Strong Current From Light
Wire.

Sandusky O.-Ed Baumgartel.
butcher, who has a wide reputation
Tor extraordinary vitality, picked up
bare handed a live" electric light
wire that had fallen in the way of
pedestrians in Washington park.
He was knocked down several
times, but persisted in his effort un-
til it was crowned with success. While
his hands were scared little, the
butcher was unhurt. He said as he
left the scene: "If I'd left it there
somebody might have been killed.
The electric shock defled by the
butcher would have killed an ordinary
man instantly. electricians saw
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-29
Healthy Old Age Brings Happiness
Simple Remedy Promotes Health BY
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- Constipation.

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OF the vital organs. Old age should
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utgood health is necessary. Constipa-
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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-29
The Woman Who Lived.

Thret years ago last summer
a woman, paralyzed from the
neck down, dictated a letter to a
city newspaper asking that "the
Legislature of her state pass a
law allowing herself and others
suffering as much to be put to
death to end their misery"
Her case had been declared
hopeless by eminent physicians.
She was young woman with no
thing to look forward to but
years upon years of the death
in life she was undergoing.
This year on Thanksgiving
Day, she sat up in bed, able to
move the upper part of her body,
and with hope for further i'm
provement. She expects to be
walking in another year or two.
Progress will be slow, but after
nine years of helplessness, two
or three years devoted to re-
covery seems a small matter.
The first thing this woman did
when she began to grow well
was to call up the physicians
who had declared her case hope
less and beg of them never again
to tell a patient there was no
hope.
So long as we have apparently
hopeless sufferers on our hands,
so long will every effort he made
to discover cures for hitherto
incurable conditions. They are a
spur to medical research.
And to say that case is in
durable because none like it has
been cured before reminds one
a little of that patent office clerk
who in 1888 resigned his Job be-
cause, since everything had been
invented, he left sure the patent
office was destined to go out of
existence very soon.
1t doesn't pay to sit back and
say This cannot be done be-
cause it never has been done"
DISCOVERIES in all lines have just
begun to scratch the surface of
human possibility and it can
never be said that life is not
worth living, because it has been
restricted and circumscribed by
pain and suffering. 1t is under
such conditions that life often
brings forth it's loveliest flowers
character, purity of heart and
elevation of soul-whose influ-
ences for good upon those more
fortunate in the possession of
health and therefore less
thou0htful of the higher things
of life, is of incalculable benefit
and uplifting power.-Florence
Times.