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The Washington times., 1916-02-02
MUSIC
Madame Yvette Guilbert Gives
First of Two Matinee Con-
certs at the Belasco.

Madame Yvette Gui,bert charmed a
small but appreciative audience at the
Belasco Theater yesterday afternoon. Il
was surprising that the student world
was not largely represented. for both
from an educational and a novelty point
of view the unique art OF this inimitable
Frenchwoman becomes an experience
that fits into the BACKGROUND of one's
historical imagery of France of many
ages.
In this the first OF her two special
matinees. Nine. Guilbet pictured and
told in the costumes and music Of each
period legends of folksonGs of the hf-
teen. sixteenth, seventeenth. and eight
zenith centuries. She pictured figures
that might have stepped from the Abbey
paintings OF the Arthurian, legend OF
The Quest for the Holy Grail" and
thus attired gave two most interesting
dramatic presentations OF Christmas s
mystery carols of the fifteenth end six
teenth centuries.
ing OF Joseph ana Mary to the
, inn. OF their being refused en-
trance. OF the passing of the night
marked by the Ginning Gf the
hours. which interrupted the dramn. and
finally the mothers Joy in the word
Noel" the birth Of the Christ. In the
Death OF Christ" the spirit OF the
church OF Rome was felt with the
| nobly chanted Last Words" the en-
acted lance wound. the words to the
Mother. and the closing Amen"
Successfully then were given songs
OF the Middle Ages. which mirrored
the French literature OF the time.
glimpses of the lige and manners OF
the time OF the Marie Antoinctte and
Nine. de Pompadour. and popular re-
frains from the time of Moliere. In
these Nine. Guilbert showed her artis-
| try in pAntomime. Her sewing scene
| in lie Lien Serre.' with its warning to
young married girls of the irksome
bonds OF matrimony. was most delight
| full. as were her two other talks of dis
| astrous marriage with her humorous
mimlcry OF the shrew.
In English that WAS quite delicious
| Nine. Guilbert told a French and
piquant story of "Colinette." and quite
| like a carefree Madame Sans Gene
gave two English folksongs. 1t will he
a rare opportunity TO see and hear this
unique artistic in Ten Types of Women
| in Ten Songs"
! Miss Emily Gresser. a young vio,inist
| who possesses considerable technique
but is still amateurish, assisted hy Nine
Guilbert. and Ward-Stephen presided al
| the piano. j. Mach.
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sympathetic, the most responsive
audience that he has faced. He
told It just what he wanted; the as
surance that the people Of his coun-
try would be ready to stand by him
in whatever measures might be re-
quired to cope with the national
emergency, and the reception that
appeal met must have convinced
him that the American people are,
and are going to continue, a unit
whenever emergency may arise,
whatever the emergency may be.
It did not need the revelations Of
such tour to convince most people
that, once the danger was made so
vivid that there could be no uncer-
tainty, this would be the response
Of the country. The President has
made it very plain that the danger
is great. From the other side of the
water come mutterings which sug-
gest resentment at his plain speak
ing. II is perhaps characteristic
that Germany, which has spent
generation in the most effective Of
preparation for whatever might
confront it, should resent the eff
fort of another country to take ac-
count of stock and attempt to put
itself in readiness for the hour Of
peril. It is too late for Berlin to
assume the role Of injured inno-
cence; to pretend that it fears the
Presidents utterances are going ~
precipitate an unmanageable situa-
tion. The blame for that result will
be upon the German foreign office
and the German admiralty; not upon
the American Administration which
has been quite as long-sufering and
patient as self-respect could allow.
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THINKS HIS BILL WILL
MAKE WALL ST. HOWL
Bailey of Pennsylvania Intro
duCes New Measure to Tax
Wealthy Men.

"This bill is likely to make Wall
Street howl and the Morgans and
Rockefellers gnash their teeth" said
Congressman Warren Worth Bailey.
Pennsylvania Democrat. Bryan fol-
lower and anti-preparedness advocate.
as he cheerfully introduced a bill TO,
tax vigorously the man with the big
income.
Congressman Bailey asserted that
the "hullabaloo" over national defense
is a rich mans scare" and the wealthy
classes ought to be put TO the money
test. He prophesied the patriotism Of
the rich would simmer down IL their
pocket books were hit
The Bailey bill would amend the in-
come tax law so that all income be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 would pay 4
8 per cent tax with a graduated in
crease that would result in a tax Of
50 per cent on incomes OF $4,000 and
more.
Mr.. Bailey said the preparedness
hullabaloo" started with those fnan-
cially interested in forcing Congress to
sduander money on the national de-
fenses." and continued: "It has been
kept going by politicians who hope to
profit financially out Of the terrors
which so-called defense leagues arc
spreading with amazing industry.
Whether the MorRans. Rockefellers
Garys. Schwabs. and the Stotesburys
can maintain their patriotism at fever
heat in the face OF surtax on big in
comes running up to 50 per cent remains
to be seen.
''If the forces of big business are TO
plunge this country into a saturnalia
OF extravaganza for war purposes in
time of peace they should put up the
money. That is why have introduced
a bill which is likely to make Wall
Street howl and the MorRans and the
Rockefellers gnash their teeth. pro-
pose to offer those who are clamoring
loCdest for defense an opportunity to
put their patriotism to a money test"
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
STRAND.

So urgent have the demands been
for return engagement of The Battle
Cry of Peace" that Tom Moore has
secured the picture for next week, for
the Strand. 1.-THE Battle Cry Of Peace"
tells a vivid story of interest to every
red blooded patriotic American, e.Ed has
been adapted by" Commodore J. Stuart
Blackton from Prof. Hudson Maxim's
book, ''Defenseless America" The
theater will be appropriately decorated
during this third week Of The Battle
Cry of Peace" the attaches will be
suitably. attired and special music by
the augmented Strand Symphony Or
chestra will be a special feature.
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LOEW's COLUMBIA.

Anna Held will make her debut as a
photo-play star on the screen of Loew s
Columbia Theater on Sunday afternoon
and during the first four DAYS of the
week in her former great stage success.
MADAME Presidente."
The last three DAYS of the week John
BARRYMORE will be seen on the screen In
his latest picturization. that Of NEARLY
King" which was especially written
for him bY William II. Clifford. II Is
the tale of a Young American who has
the great fortune. or misfortune. to re-
semblG the Prince Of Rulwana, an ad-
ventUrOus snirit who Is lust In the
thIces Of being palmed off on a princess
he has never seen. ...-.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
CASINO.

Manager Falkner. Of the Casino Thea
ter. has chosen for next weeks revival
by the Hall Players Paul NJ. Potter's
dramatiZation of Ouida's thrilling story.
Under Two Flags" of the heroic little
vivandlere. Cigarette. who gavC her life
for her English lover. BERTHE Cecil. who
was serving in the French army in
AlGiers. 1t is one of the big favorites
OF other days. and was selected as the
choice OF the audiences of the week. II
will be given an attractive presentation.
with Jane Ware in the role OF Cigarette
and Louis Ancker in that OF BERTHE
Cecil. the English nobleman.
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GAYETY.

Joe Hurtigs Social Maids is the
attraction at the Gayety next week.
The show is entirely new this season
from beginning to end. with new seem
cry. gorgeous costumes, and ingenious
and original electrical effects. Starring
in the principal roles are George Stone
and Eta Pillard. In support of these
stars are Billy Baker. Billy Foster.
Jack Pilard, Marty Seamon. Jessie
Hiatt, and the Jewell sisters. A genu-
Inc beauty chorus OF thirty Broadway
dancing and show girls ably aids the
principals in making the most of the
many dazzling stage pictures and brill
liant ensembles.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
BRANDEIS VS.. BRANDEIs

~AtNhB bliOSC WIN uCClhIS. bIldL JIiG
only objection to the nomination Of
Louis D. Brandeis is based on the
fact that he is radical are two
types. There is the type honestly be-
lieving this. There is the type know
ing it isn't so, but dishonesty trying
to make people believe it is so.
No mans politics, as such, could
determine the judgment of the
American people on this nomination
any more than the nationality of his
grandfather, or his religion, or the
color of his hair. In the matter of
going on the Supreme Bench the
one thing, of superlative Importance
about any man, whatever his politics,
is whether he is fit to sit there as an
open-minded, fair, impartial Judge.
The Administration claque kicks
up a great cloud of dust, trying to
hide the real issue by saying that il
Brandeis weren't a friend of labor as
against the corporations, weren't a
champion of the people as against
the interests" those now opposing
his confirmation by the Senate would
be urging it. But Brandeis just the
same would not be fit to sit on the
bench.
AS a matter of fact, sometimes
Brandeis has been with the corpora
tions and sometimes he has been
against them. Sometimes, for ex-
ample, Brandeis has been with the
shippers in opposing higher railroad
rates and sometimes he has been
with the railroads in saying that
they ought to get higher rates.
Brandeis, for another example, was
director of the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company. Afterward he left
that company and went over to a
rival company which was fighting it,
and it is charged against him that
he then undertook to prove that the
leasing contracts which he had
helped to cohtrive for his old COM
pany didn't have to be lived up to
because they were unlawful.
All the facts in the United Ehoe
Machinery case will be brought out
in the United States Senate. So we
can withhold our judgment as to
whether Brandeis was right when he
helped to contrive the "tying clause
in the leasing contract or was right
when afterward he tried to break the
contracts on the ground of their
illegality.
But we don't have to withhold ar
opinion as to the qualifications Of
Mr.. Brandeis to be judge when he
could be, in one case or the other
so absolutely mistaken. He couldn't
be right in both. If he was right ir
the first case he was wrong in the
second. If he was right in the sec,
ond he was wrong in the first. But
whichever he was at either time, the
point which bears upon his Judicial
incapacity is that right or wrong
in the first case, he was just as red
hot for his side of it then as he wa.
the next time.
A man qualified to be a Judge doeI
not see things that way. He doesn'
see a thing all white when his per
sonal interests are engaged with it
but all black when his personal in
terests are engaged against it. Tt
the eyes Of man fit to be a judge
white is always white and black i!
ALWAYS black.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
Will Irwin and His Bride
Will Address Suffragists

VIII Irwin and his bride. who were
married yesterday in New York and
who are in Washington on their honey
moon, are to speak tonight at a meet
ing of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, in the Cameron
House. Mrs. Irwin, who was Inez
Haynes Gilmore, magazine writer will
be asked to talk on the feminist move
ment in America, while MIR. Irwin will
recount some of his experiences as a
war correspondent In Europe. Mr.. and
Mrs. Irwin plan to sail for Europe
within a few days.
Mrs. ellison Gardner is to preside at
tonight's meeting, and q large number
OF prominent sufrragists are expected to
be present.
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WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY

Exhibit food stuTS bearing Consumers
League Label, l216 Eighteenth street north
west, all day and evening.
Banquet, Brown University Alumni Associar
ton. Raleigh, p. ~. a...
Meeting. District OF Columbia Society sons
OF the American RetolutiOn, Rauscher's,
Lecture ''The French Drama" Emma Gold
man. Arcade. p. m.
Washington Society of Engineers. Cosmos
Annual banquet washington District wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society Metro
politan NJ. f. Church. $3.50 p. IN.
Annual banquet SSmmandsry OF the Dis
MeetiRS ciszsnS 3 Association of Chevy cns,.
Meeting. Board Of Education. Franklin School.
Meeting advisory board of the Alumni Asso-
ciation Of Central High School, in schOol
Address. Prof. n. w. Daugherty. before En-
gineeriqg Society of George Washington
UniversSty. Sigma Nu Fraternity House, !
Meeting North Dakota Association of the
District. room lAl Senate ONCE building, 8
Meeting. Mems Club Of Grace Episcopal
Church, parish hall. D. m.
Annual dinner, National Retail LIQUOR Deal
ers' Association, National Hotel. s D. m
Vespers, st. Anth0ny's Church. Brookiand.
Reception. by Ursuline Sisters. at Holy
Family Day Nursery. SIG Second street
northwest, 10 and u and to p. IN.
Meeting, senior branch of the Daughters of
the King Of St. Johns Church. In church
1880 D. m.
Meeting, Michigan Society of the District
MssOnicNwSshington Centennial. No. "a;
Osiris, No. Is: King Solomon, No, 81
Areme, No. 10, Eastern Star. =
knights OF Pythias-MS. Vernon, No. S;
Equal No. II; Friendship Temple. No. O.
PythiRn Sisters.
ODD FellOws-Eastern. No. Z; Federal City
No 20; Harmony No. 3; Friendship, No
l2: Mt Nebo. No. 6. Encampment.
National Union-General Deputies Associa-
tiOp.
Socialist party-Sunday school conference
Florida home huildera.
Address, Will Irwin Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage. in Cameron House. S y.
m.
Lecture, "a Study of Emerson's 'Self-Re-
lance. " Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby. Hote
oxford, 4:45 D. m,
, Meeting, Winnie Davis Chapter Daughters
of the Confederacy, Rochambeau 4:30 p. m
| Meeting Brookland Parent-Teacher Associa.
tion. in Brookland School. p. m.
| Caledonian Club Ladies' Auxiliary, Ouchr'
and social, Eagles Hall, p. m,
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Donald N. MCRae, Now Captain
McRae, Member Of Canada's
American Legion.
ANXIOUS TO GO TO FRONT
Sen Of Lieut.. Col. J. H. MCRae
Has Risen Rapidly in Mill
tary Service.

The romance OF war has called Donald
NJ. McRae. a twenty-three-year-old
washingtonian--now Captain McI1ae. Of
the Ninety-seventh Overseas Battalion.
Cahada's american Legion'-into its
ranks. and by June of this year he ex-
poets to be in the thick of the fight
ing somewhere in France" or on one
or the other battle fronts OF Europe.
He left Boston Tech. where he would
have graduated this coming June. on
tho first of January. and went to To-
ronto with the determination of join
ing the Canadian contingent and going
to the front. or II. that failed. of making
his way over to England and joining
the forces there.
Entered Service As Sergeant.
He was accepted at once as a sergeant
and placed in charge of the records
office. with the understanding that he
would have to undergo several months
training before he could receive COM
mission.
Two days later. however. he was COM
mlssioned as lieutenant and made
record officer, and a couple Of weeks
later word that he had been promoted
to captalncy and aduJtancy reached
his parents in this city. His father is
Lieut.. Col. ]. H. McRae, who is now
on duty in the AdJutant Generals Of
flee at the War Department
His rapid promotion was chiefly due
to the military training he received
during three years and a half at West
Point, besides year in Company H,
then the only company OF cadets at the
Western High School, in this city, and
another year at the Virginia Military
Institute.
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. McRae
occupy an apartment at the Toronto,
Twentieth and p streets northwest,
membered by many friends here as
tall and of athletic build. with a lean
ing toward the military that first evil
denced itself when he Joined Company
II. Military training in the high schools
was not then compulsory.
Composed of Americans.
Letters which his parents have re-
ceived describe the quarters which his
detachment is occupying. in the exposi-
tion buildings at Toronto, where he
says the accommodations are very
comfortable. The American legion Is
classified as a battalion in Canada, but
contains about LOO men. which would
comprise a regiment in the United
States army.
IRE legion IL comprised almost entire
| ly, It is stated. cf Americans from this
side of the International boundary: and
! most of its officers are West Point
! graduates who have seen active service
! In the United States army. Several oi
| its members have already been dec
! GRATED for merltoriOuR service in tht
| European war and sent homo wounded
In view Of their special training. they
! expect to be sent to England withiI
| few months, and to have the time
| which most of the cNpeditionarv force
| Is held in training in ENGLAND consider
ably shortened. Tho legion is corr
manded BY Lieut.. Col. w. T. Jolly, :
veteran Of several campaigns with th'
American army.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
GARDEN.

Julia Dean will be seen on the screen
at Moore's Garden Theater Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday, where she heads
the double feature program in The
Ransom" an adaptation of one of
Richard Harding Davis stories. On
Wednesday and Thursday New York's
"The Devils Prayer Book" featuring
Arthur Hoops and Alma Hanlon will
be the headlined attraction. On Friday
and Saturday, the bewitching queen
of the screen MaTgarita Fischer, will
be seen in 1.-THE Dragon"
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
THE APPAM-.-AND AFTER.
WARD

It is impossible in the present state
of knowledge about the capture Of
the Appam, to discuss very intelli-
gently the consequences. The ves-
sci was brought into Hampton roads
with a four-inch gun mounted; but
it is not certain whether the I'm
was mounted when the vessel was
captured. If it was not mounted,
the Appam was a mere merchant
man; if it was mounted, she may be
held to have been an. auxiliary
cruiser.
If she was a merchantmen, she
must be subjected to prize court
procedure in Germany. If she was
an auxiliary cruiser, she is Ger
man government property, the cap
ture being sufficient to give the title.
But back of all these questions is
one Of more Importance than the
ownership of any particular ship on
any sea. There was a perfectly
good reason, under old conditions of
warfare, why a merchant ship car
rying guns and prepared to fight,
should be regarded as a warship. She
could fight, and her armament was
presumptive evidence of her intent
to do it if need arise.
The present war developed an en-
tirely new situation in this regard.
Submarines, lifting their periscopes
out of the sea, have fired their deadly
missiles without warning or inquiry
or opportunity for ships companies
to escape alive. The merchant char
acter of a ship has been absolutely
no protection to ship or people
against the murderous submarine.
Therefore, if to be utterly unarmed
and incapable of offense has carried
no guarantee whatever of the safety
of lives on board, what reason is
there for leaving a merchantmen un-
armed and absolutely at the mercy
of the submarine. A single we'll
directed shot, timely and luckily
placed, would be enough to wreck
the submarine. Why should not the
merchantmen take the chance of it,
considering that whether or not it
tries to defend itself it is certain to
get no consideration?
If the submarines had not perpe.
trated such horrors as the Lusitania,
the Ancona, the Persia, and the rest
of the pitifully long category of as
saults on humanity; if they had
made it a business to insure safety
of neutral and nOn-combatant life
the old rule about any armed YES
sci being a warship could justifi-
ably have stood. But when to be
utterly unarmed was made-not
only by Germany, but also by Aus
tria and by Turkey-the mere GER
tainty of falling sure and easy vic.
tim to barbarism, there was nc
longer reason for omitting any pre-
caution that might in the slightest
measure increase the hope Of escape
1t becomes, then, a serious question
whether a merchantmen, even il
armed for defense, must be treated
as a naval vessel.
Into the determination of this
delicate and difficult question, a de
termination that must make a prec
edent for the future, the UniteC
States is dragged by the undesireC
presence of the Appam at Hampton
Roads. Perhaps, she was sent there
for the very purpose OF embarrass
ing this country. That is imma
terial. The fact is that she is there
and that the United States must de
eide it's position toward this set o
questions. AS matters now stand, Il
compel every merchantmen to 6,
absolutely unarmed would be to en-
force a rule leading lambs to lii,
slaughter.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
Ashlar Club Arranges
For Annual Banquet

The annual banquet OF the Ashlar
Club. composed of Masons who work
at the State. War and Navy Depart
ments and at the White House. will
take place at the Ebbitt on March ..
The speakers invited include Vice Presi-
dent Marshall. Speaker Clark, Congress-
man Sisson of Mississippi.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
KEITH'S.

Mrs. LanEtry. the famous jersey Lily
OF the latter timesNof the Victorian reign
in England. and who is now LADY de
Bathe. is making her final farewell tour
of America in Keith vaudeville. ard will
be the conspicuous attraction at the B.
r. Keith Theater next week. She will
appear at every performance from Mon
day matinee till the following Sunday
night.
Other attractions will be Julian Rose
in What Happened at the Wedding"
Ruby Norton and Sammy Lee; Frank
Thompson, son Of Den Thompson. Of
fering the celebrated "Old Homestead"
double quartet; the Four Meyakos.
Daniels and Conrad, Lucy Gillett. the
Mosconi brothers. the pipe organ re-
citals. and the Pathe news pictorial.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
ITnmnrrnN

Meeting. District branch of the Legion OF
Loyal Women, Auditorium, Woodward &
LOthrop's, p, m.
Meeting. PocahOntas Memorial Association,
Dance and supper, Loyola Club, OF 81. lE-
natius' Catholic Church, Oxen Hill, Nd,
parish hall. p. m.
Meeting Study Club of the Washington Cen
ter OF the Drama League, Public Library.
Masquerade ball. Holy Name Society Of the
Holy Rosary Church, old Masonic Temple.
p, m.
Lecture, Leon H. Vincent Friends School,
1911 l street northwest II a, m.
Meeting, Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
Rauscher's p. m.
Meeting Cathedral Heights Citizens Associa-
ton st. Albans Parish Hall o. m.
Meeting, Benning Citizens Association, J. w.
Browns residence, s p. m.
Address, Mrs Kate Waller Barrett 2OV Co
lumbia road northwest, S p M
Meeting teachers and parents or pupils o.
Tyler School. in school, ? p. m.
Times pure food show, Arcade, and p. m.
Meeting, Thomas Jefferson Council, No. y,
Junior Order United American Mechanics, 8
Address. preparedness for Women" Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey. before Columbia
Union, W. c. 7. L., Gurley Memorial
Masonic-Navai No a.: Hiram, No. 10: Ma
sonic Board Of Relief; Esther, No, 5. East
ern Star.
Odd Feliows-Covenant. No. 10; Columbia.
No. 10; Salem, No. %.
Knights OF Pythias-Franklin. No. 2; J. 4.
Coldwell Company. No. Z. Uniform Rank.
accabees-Georsetown Tent No. 6; District
Tent, No. ?.
National Union-wuiam II. Collins Council.
Socialist party-German branch Workmens
Circle; city organization and educational
committee.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
Republicans to Meet.

The Republican League is to meet to-
night at Second Baptist Church, Third
street. between II and j. at $50 D.. m.
]. Finley Wilson, president, requests
that all members be present at this
meeting.