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men has become II matter Of course
| shall never forget the face OF osle
old Armenian physician. The express
sion never changed. whether the
patient had "a finger wound or de+s-
rerate gaagrene. lie never winked
when It was necessary for him to am
putate IA couple of fingers withou.
an~sthctic--there were no anHsthetics
IN the hospital then The face seemed
a carving in wood, but that changelcss
expression was one Of hopeless rcsg-
nation and eternal, silent question OF
the suffering about him-"Why?"
The soldiers themselves were simple,
patient fellows, with great capacity
for suffering, which they bore with
true Turkish forttudc. one of their
most noticeable characteristics was
their owe Of flowers, especially roses.
Men in acute agony while bad wounds,
were being dressed would console them
selves by smelling rose. Flowers
brought to the hospital were always
welcomed, for the Oriental peasant is
genuine Tsthete. When summer
came On roses disappeared. AZ, "A sub
stitute "A lady brought bottle of third
rate eau de cologne and sprinkling il
upon the pillows made whole ward
happy for an hour,
The roses reminded them Of their
homes lar away In 'hc In crior of
Asia Minor. and they loved 10 spea |,
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THE Unspeakable Turk.

THl; Turkish hospitals in Con-
stantinople are not luXuriously
L appointed Many of them were
bare. harnlike structures, with
dirty whltewashcd walls and with
crude double deck beds, without
springs Of course, and with shapelcSS
hay mattresses. The sheets were some
times washed. But poverty was only
too apparent on every hand. The
authorities did the best they could,
The first effect Of the FIRST Visit Ia
one Of these shabby houses Of pain was
"a convert one To uncOmp!omising
pacifsm. After an hour among the
odors, hearing the groans and prayers
of strong m'u in agony. in the midst
of all that diu and pain and hope. .ess
wrctchedncs~, one can never hear Of
che GLORY of way without IA shudder
mis- sensation Of live horror soon
passes and presently the sight of
manglcd men has become commons
place The sufferers have become
mcrcly eases ntcrcstinG or unin-
tycstlng in proportion to the ghastli-
moss ~ the wound. War ceased to he
GLORIOUS" NJ the hospital door; next
II ceases to be startlingly horrible
Nnd before one has realized IT the con-
stan, stream of moaning, Bleeding
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IlI.-Behind the Screen.

Tash- liish Hospital Is not a pretty
place at best. and ward 20 was the
drcariest and dustiest AZ all The long
dormitory was nearly empty, and the
waving shadows Of trees outside
t,oated quietly to and fro nu the crimy
walls and the floor. still damp from
its morning cleaning. For it was very
nright outside, and most of the men
were in the courtyard or visiting
friends IN tn" ejCnier wards.
can ON" dirt" he'd small gvoup was
rnsrosS'd in a quiet game Of "scam-
bile" rnrhiddrn tu soldiers Ike all
card games. bat wiukcd at in the hos
pital Payers and nnlnokcrs We're
silent and ntru;, r,r III" TURK takes
lie and it's scHCt pleasures seriously.
On another bed a young man whose
lined face showed the recent agonics
of tetanus lay drcamiy gazing at II
red rose and singing to himself the
refrain of an Anatolian love song.
Bed No, - too was occupied by some
thing that stirred uncasiy ana
groanod.
\ nurse came in with n large
screen; the men glanced up from the
Then PLAYER snapped down his card
and the game resumed
NJ. - did not understand why the
screen was put around his he'd, for the
hospita! and It's WAYS were strange IL
him Perhaps he did not see it, his
eyes stared upward So iiNcdlH.
Allah, Alah'' he murmurcd softly
again and again.
"lIc will die in a few minutes.
whispered the nurse. "liassan "A little
water"
The one eyed orderly impcd on his
errand, white she famed the flies
away. When the watCr came she
dipped towel ana wiped the sweat
drops from the gray forehead,
as there anything we can do"'
asked
40 lie wnuts nothing. In n few
momcn,s We vii die"
/ Thcn ptroNNs SIN Of pa N seized upor
| rim and shooh the wasted frame. Hh
mumhlod words were almost in,
audible, la, one word was repeat cr
/ over and oNe: again, "rahat" He was
! praying for peace, for rest, And 81
| he lay a long time.
From the courtyard came a song
! The soldiers were singing, II was III,
| SilistIn March, the song uf Young
! TurkCy. the song that lIamd the RED
! forbade ON pan nf death lest Il,
martial strains should .rm.nd his sub
| iccts that they were free osman !. u
| swinging sonc of hope and ldnalisn
and devotion e. the ottoman Empv,
of their hope, As We l!s, NOT to tn,
| i.ion verse our own pulses h"a
stronger But InHh,m did mot heal
III" refrain. "F,Nl u'sun janum'z"
"F'cda olsun janumiz," translate,
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saxon face II was, fair ana well fca =
turod, beneath curling yellow hair. In
response Ia our grectin. the eyes
opened. blue English eyes that bright
encd at the sound of the mother
tongue. heard for he firs, time in
weeks
His story. which he told IN u voice
he could not raise above a whisp-r.
was short and simple, Two years be
fore he had eft his Lancashire home
and gone tn Australia to make his
way. AT the first call for King and
country he had enlisted. had drilled
for months and finally had been sent
To Ga,llpoli, He had been in one Of
the earliest landing parties and within
two hours after coming on shore had
been wounded and captured.
His next memory was of field hos
pltal which had been burned. He him.
self had been borne out of the flames
10y the Turkish orderly Just before the
roof fell After that he had been
brought To Constantinoplc. lie could
not remember how long it was since
he had been wounded hut supposed il
to hc about three weeks.
In al that time only once had he
heard the English language. when two
Turkish officers had called upon him
to get the necessary data The yeari.
ness OF feverish days and aching nights
h" had endured dumbly, without one
friend to cheer his misery with a wore
the bitterest kind OF loneliness. tc
suffer without companionship anon.
crowd, About his neck hung tn,
identification tag and lorkct with
two pictures mother and H.,
sweet heart.
lie had no complaints To make ot
his treatment orderly was prou,
again when this was translated To hin
but three things he wanted soap. :
toothbrush and hooks. \ typical Brit,
ish soldier.
And Of course he got them. Will
the permission of the authorities tn,
Americans visited HIM often witt
small things. lie had many favor,
that tn" Turkish wounded did no
have, but they did not grudGe then
to him, The officials treated him will
more consideration than they cav
! their own mcn and seemed honorcd H.,
| his sojourA among them Which doe,
, not mean that they were careless o
| their prisoner,
Rut In spite OF I al the man fallo,
] rapidly, to the deep distress of the or
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and lustier days uff the boards, he
could not. in view of his early mana
ger.al training. put on any teacup
drama even after his reform. His
plays gotta have the punch. You
know M
There are thirty-s.X less men. women
aud children killed in common Clay"
than N Ais former effort The Mill
!nnaire and the policcman's Wife,
which makes gXactiy no murders at
al in Common Clay. nevertheless
there's always. as Al Woods says him
self something on the tapis" in
common clay" from the starting
gong to the final punch. And lest a
hall market on Marse llcnry's photo
graphs should cause the play 10
blow up suddenly. a brief analytical
review Of the production is herewith
submitted for the benefit of those who
may skid onto broadway from Pitts
burg and all points west too late To
catch common clay in the act Of
h,.ng performed.
r. begin with, ON opening the pro-
gIamm" at random one learns that
thn Remington Typewriter and the
Mason 4 lIamm Piano are used eX-
,lusi,c'y IN this production. Further
mare reading backward inasmuch as
the programme was opened two or
/ three pages too far over-the Gentle.
men in common Clay" wear Il. B
Fashion Clothes, the Scenery and Stage
I Decorations We're Planned and De
( signed 10y Miss Elsie de Wolfe. the
! Gown worn by Miss Govt in the Epi'
! luGue was Created by Nine, Julie. Ply
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,bo nursc ".L,,r ,,,, c,,ho.,,,,
snuls shal, h. n snc,i,co,,"
"Ihrabi,, u.boro i. ,...,,, ..,.
"yepi.sbobir
ar. Xou nor..iodo"
"ycs
And cbiId,e,o"
Two cffendim Lo,s oro 20 ,,,
other s" Thor. was , ri,c y, ,,ril.
in the faint voice.
"Ibr,b,u h,L, bo,or., ,,, ,,
other chilJron."
"Ycs. cffcnd.n. h,r the other. are
girls"
can We do ANYTHING for ,,pc.
Nothing"
Would YOU see hodian"
YES"
So tho rriest ,,mo ltt,. ,,,-...
man. in a white turhan and a r.r,
robe. and helpless cynrcssi,r 4,
las, he spoke
"IbrahIm"
"ENendim?'
Have YOU any money
About fourteen masters
Give it to- me. Viii take r,,. u.
II for YOU"
The dying man raised his c,ch~.o.
| the Eastern gesture of .cnrufll ror...
and turned his head Tho r,.,..
walked away muttcring
For long time lhrah.m Ia, ,.rr
still At last n. drew his hanG. 'Nrw
under the blanket and stared a, ,.,n.
closely. duly. for - long time TIE.
he dropped them lfclcssN suI
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Gay. had the genius .n hang up on
the back drop, that gets the crowd
one Hash at Marse Henry and the
audiences gaze and gaze and gaze en-
rapiured ard then hurry out between
acts To get tickets for the rest of the
week 80 they may come back and
gaze and gaze and gaze again.
But what will happen when it be.
gins To dawn upon the public still at
large that instead of setting itself
back the price of pair of seats for
Common Clay" every one may have
Marse Henry in ones own home
that for the four bucks spent on a
pair of seats. or less. anybody may
become the owner of "A fac-simile
photograph Of Marse Henry. without
lettering and suitable for framing? :?
When the crowd realizes this blooey.
StraightWay Cain, the theatrical
storchouse man. will hitch up his sor-
rel mare and back his wagon up to
the stage entrance of the Republic
and put Common Clay" in moth balls
forever.
Which all goes to prove what was
said before. ON the opening night Of
common CLAY" last August. the
critics were unanimous in the opinion
tha, III" play tho production. the per-
formanccs of Miss Jane cowl, Jack
Mason ana the rest Of the cast all
had combined To make Common
Clay" a sure fire hit. Not a member
of tho death watch had time between
the final curtain and the first post
midnight toot ~f the newspaper train
for self-a analysis sufficient to cause
him to see what II was that had so
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farm wife is an asset And when the
head Of the house has 10 spend large
riIt - his imC in the army, as the
Turk has had To do in recent years.
II needs tNo women to keep the farm
gnlu".
Very few Of the rrn could write.
80 they dictated their letters. sending
them home in the care of the village
scribe, Brief letters, AZ rule please
give my love to my two houses tan
Asiatic euphcmismD. Tell them | am
slightly wounded and To send me some
money quickly"
tn them war WAS n matter OF
course. MANY of the older men had
sorv Il through the Balkan war. Men
came into the hospital with scars from
the balkan war and the Tripolitan war
or the Yemen rebellion. Fighting was
all in IN" days work: and they spoke
-. the enemy without bitterness,
They We're fighting under their or
Gcrs; the enemy was fighting under
his orders, There was no reason for
getting sore" about IT, Indeed. | he
licNe that in the Gallipoli campaign
oH. II side has entertained a high opin-
. ,bll bl inc htllcT. Inc f.llclSn papers
hay" printed many letters from that
nunt praising the Turk as IA clean
spurtsmanlikc fighter.
Hospital life was "A heavy bore Ia
them for almost none could read, and
/ after the wound was dressed there was
nothing 10 d" till tomorrow. They
| COntrivCd domino sets out of paste
/ boar, ana played checkers with req
aud black pebbles, or they would
visit heir friends in other wards
, wGc.c sometimes the group would 81,
| ana talk, and sometimes Just sit
| After few weeks they were glad
enough 10 he discharged and seemed
| to rejoice AT the idea Of going back t.
I the trenches.
tac day IA really grand idea struck
7 somebody in the Governments: and
/ medals We're cast. Every patient in
/ every hospital got one. They were sim
pie things, pewter or lead, star shaped
I with a l.ttl" red and green ribbon and
safety pin To hold them ON. | suppos,
that their intrinsic value totallcd up.
ward uf ON" cent, or maybe ~ cents
/ each. Bat that wasn't il. II was
/ recognition that gildcd those medals
| Tdc poor men, who had como without
u murnur at their PadishahS call. hat
! offered their lives and had shed theil
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sicians expecting Calls should leave
their seat numbers with Manager
Julian Anhalt. and the Epilogue
Middle West-probably South Bend.
Ten Years after the Third Act.
Clevcs Kinkead. to turn few pages
forward, wrote the play. Cleves is not
| to be confused with Gene Kinkead, the
! fighting Sheriff OF Hudson county,
New Jersey. In fact Gene is no reiati ion
to Clevcs. There are several Johns.
Jameses. Toms. Aloysiuses and Josephs
/ in Genes branch Of the kinkeads. hut
never a Cleves. and Gene himself saws
lie doesn't think there ever will he.
But be that as II may
As the curtain rises an orchestra
on stage begins to play the Yale
"Roola" and the first production Of
Common Clay" on any stage was in
Boston. That first production wa
given. however, while the Harvard
collegers were out Of town on thai'
summer vacations. Miss Cowl comes
! in early as Ellen Neal, the heroine
and as it's an Al Woods show she
has to he a crook six nights a week
with the usual matinees.
Al least Ellen before the frs, net
begins was a crook and the Belle OF
"Bcnders's Cafe" and she used a.
curse and chew gum and swear and
everything. But now. fresh from ia
Ellen In aiming to lead life so ex-
emplary that Shakespeares Cordcli0
ahG owen Davis's Nellie the Bedutifp
Cloak Model will look like couple
Of husses by comparison.
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Of them and Of their IA d"ns and the
rose bushes 10y the door and s." de-
li,htful were the dcs.'r pji.pS tia nn"
coulU hardly remember that TIM h"tI-
tirui home that :h., pictured VAS 1c-
tually i mud walled hut vita a
that"hcd roof and 'naturu' floor.
And, of course, they often spoke of
their children. \ lady once asked Il
hurly fellow who looked like ruftian
whether she could bring him anything
to please him,-cigarettes. say. lie
thought a moment and then asked for
q child, a small child to come and talk
with him some time. He had four at
home--so big, ,nd II was many, many
months since he had seen them. After
all. there's not so much difference he
tween Ahmet Agha, the Turkish
peasant. and Tommy Atkins, tho Eng
lish farmland, under the skin.
They were unComplaining fellows
with much experience in the hardness
Of life. Pain they usually bore with
out murmur; though when tho
agony was most intense tho expires
sion ma shallah" ,prlisr God) was
gaspcd between c.cnrhod tcoth a
quaint mixture Of superstition and
Lonest. simple devotion hi'k or tho
phrase: for. true To their faith, they
did not wish to seem to complain OF
anything that Allah had sent them
Sometimes we would encourage then
with the promise of speedy re-, ovcry
and to such assurance they would add
| i'm IA tone of reproach for our prcsump,
tlon, "If God wills" We always stood
! corrected
OF operations they had profoun,
dread. They were all farmers. and fol
il Turkish peasant the loss of an arm
or leg is as serious as the loss o'
his head Some Of them, think. he,
/, leved that man carries into Para,
disc only as much u him as there II
| assembled at the demise: the prospect
of hobbling through eternity ON ON,
leg was too much. and in instances
men have preferred death "omplot,
to life at such a cost. Fortunately it
! modern war amputa,ions are very
rare.
, As they were farmers, ana poor
most of them were married, and t,
, two wives, PolyGamy Is. of nc,cs
'ty, mostly mattcr of economies
for poor man In n city n wife il
J a liability. For man with a smal
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fascinated the critics that night in
the Republic.
Not "A critic even mentioned Marse
Henry. Its quite within the po'.
sibili;ics, of course. that so as;utc a
producer as Al Woods may save the
show by prevailing upon Marse Henry
to appear in person in Common
Clay" even If only to mingle for a
moment. say, with the flock OF folks
who come down the Elsie d. Vote
stairs in the first act a guests at
Anne Fullcrton's party,
Al Woods's troupe then would be a
riot. The play, however. would have
to be rewritten, AnHcS party being
placed in the last act instead of tho
first. so that the crowd could he held
inside the theatre all evening. For II
the news ever got around tho United
States that Marsc Henry Watterson
sauntcred across the stage only in the
! first act. the audience. once MarSc
Henry had made his exit. Immediately
| would hot-foot il to the movies To
spend the rest Of tho evening.
Back in the days before Charley
Chaplin. Tom Edison and Miss Mary
! piCkford decided To combine and de-
vote their energies To changing tho
theatrical map Al Woods Ms present
I ing in theatres that Charley. Tom and
Mary have since changed into muNi,
houses bits Of genre that included
Nellie the Beautiful cloak Mode
"Rertha the Sewing Machin" Cir,
THE Millionaire and the Policeman's
| Wife" ct ceterah- -rah-rah Wherefore
even though the movies have crowded
such efforts Of Al Woodss youngc!
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II.-Under the Red Crescent.

over on the Asiatic side of the Bos-
porus stands the beautiful palace of
Bcylcrbey, where, rumor says. the de-
posed Sultan. Abdul Hamid is ending
his days. Near the palace are the
barracks of Beylerbey. now. OF course.
converted into a hospital. This place
we were particularly anxious to visit.
as there was said to he an English
prisoner there. So thither We went
one afternoon with a cargo OF cigar
cites and roses.
They met our request for perInis-
sion to enter with the very remark
we wanted. but which We had not
expected:
Don't you want to see our Eng
lishman?"
The question was asked in exactly
that same tone in which proud par
ent invites friend to inspect his first
born. In fact the staff Of that hos
pital was positively vain over its prize
English prisoners were scarce in Tur-
key then, and the consc lousness that
they actually had real. live Eng.
lishman, the captive Of their bow and
spear, tilled them with elation.
There was another reason why We
were welcome to see him. The poor
man. in spite of all they could do for
him, was 50 lonely and discoura ged
that he was failing rapidly.
They led us through the wards. sim.
pie, barren, hut clean the hest they
could do with what they had. The
patients were the usual lot grave
patient Turks. nervous Arabs, swarth,
gypsies and bond circassians. They
s1uattcd in groups on the grimy beds
talking quietly,
Here Is the Enclishman."
The wounded prisoner lay with hN
eyes closed, an expression Of sufYerinl
on his wan face-a typical Anglo
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Turkish well known America.
that fact prevailing ideas the erblenes the
Turk discovered for readers of THE SUNDAY SUN this
sketches They who
returned from long residence Constannople and
connected with university of New England
advanced and the Gal
manned chiefly by Mohammedns; that the
anehcs the hospitals of
of flowers. especially
consoed themselves with the of II
thing nsgne-he Turkish making himself inensibIe
the smell of rose!
the Turk the unspeakabe Turk he faces death and
enclose him from his comrdes Does he
humby his asers? Does he call his
might Wehe does tell the rably
that he is not afraid fingers
hospital ward.
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And Startling Discovery
is Made That the Real
Hit of the Piece After
All Is Marse Henry
WatterSOn
NJ FRANK WARD O'MALLEY.

ny FRANK WARD O'NALLEN.
VEN back in the days when
- John Ruskin was "a cub just
L. beginning to put his stuff over
he pointed out that criticism
of any art form, even IL the new pic.
ture, statue, book or show were
fiivver. should be written only by q
critic who. figuratively speaking, wore
kid gloves. dress clothes and silk
stockings while writing. There was.
said Ruskin plaintively, too all fired
/ much rough stun. too little classy
comment about the current aesthetics
Of his day easing itself into print and
getting by as criticism--or words to
that effect.
J. y. hGi cspej ALLY in mind some
blurbs about the pictorial and plastic
art OF his day which he had read the
night before after the o'clock whistle
had blown. What he said, however,
might also I've applied with marked ap
preparedness then, and particularly
to-day, to criticism of the drama. In
fact the chief reason that dramatic
criticism here and abroad doesn't have
the rollers put under it for good and
all right here in this paragraph is a
proper rcalization-'pr muffed by
Ruskln-that after Lee or Jake or
Mark or Abe or George & sam UncD
o. Arch or Edgar or Charley has just
put another one over toward midnight
the critics have too little time to dash
Off an aesthetic knockout for the next
mornings papers.
II is partly because of this ,some-
times) necessary incompletcncss Of the
reviews OF plays. but especially be-
cause of "A realization that slow NOV
ing first night performances often
drag into just this side of dawn, or
until too late an hour to let the
farthcst Western and Southern readers
of the earlier editions of the metro
politan dailles know little more than
that the performance took placc-it is
chiefly with the iaudab!e idea in mind
of giving the ont ~ town folks. who
a.ouc make Broadway runs possible.
"a dicn!fed unhurrcd notion of some
OF the shows they ought to give the
once over when they pack up and
skid toward Broadways high spots
that TnE SUNDAY SrN purposes about
once a week tn wade into some tried
and true theatrical outhuist with a
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blood without expecting any other
recompcnse than that which the con-
sriousness of doing their duty could
bring. had actually been remembered.
The sight of those suffering, ban
Gagged men rendered more than obliv-
ious of all their misery by the gift ~
penny zinc medal would offer con-
siderable good for thought for psy-
chologist-or anybody else. After all
human blooi is fairly cheap. and gold
is not the only metal for which men are
willing to barter IL.