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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
I'VE OLD COSTUMES
Masquerades Are Scoring Real
Come Back Now.
Old Fashioned Characters Re-
appear Freshly Gowned.
BY MARGARET MASON.


written for Topeka State Journal)
On Monday she was sanity nun,
On Tuesday a Carmen bold,
On Wednesday she the harems pride,
In wells and an anklet gold;
On Thursday night in cheesecloth scarf
On Friday night as The breath OF Spring,
She started to sneeZe and sneeZe;
Saturday found her Red Cross nurse,
For after a week of costume balls
She really almost dead;
But even then on the Sabbath morn,
She wasn't herself they said,
For she pink pajama girl
When they tucked her into bed.
New York, March 10.-MasqueradeS
and costume fetes certainly seem to be
growing on US. If only the costumes
themselves could grew on US it would
mt be so expensive.
Dressing up is the universal joy of
| all ages and all nationalitieS. In all
walks of life we find a penchant for
| it from infancy, when we are just be-
| ginning to toddle, till old age, when
we are just beginning to totter.
There's this vast difference tho be
| tween the dressing up of ch1ldhooa
and the dressing up of maturity. All
you have to give the children as ar eX-
cuse for dressing up Is Dit OF ola
ribbon or a discarded hat, but as an
excuse for the dressing up of grown
| Nights ball or an Old World fete.
Ha! Cowboys at Wamcgo, Kan.
The war of course, has provided
the best excuse of all for dressing up.
with costume balls for all sorts of
relief for all sorts of nations. Conse-
quently life in the big American cities
| is just one costume ball after another
| and even out in Wamego, Kan, and
Adrian, Mich, the cowboy suits and
toreadors, the Chinese kimonos and
Colonial gowns at the local costumers
are almost worn to a thread.
| Have you ever noticed how invari-
ably people pick out their costumes
to represent some character in direct
| antithisiS to their ordinary everyday
it were and let themselves be what
they have always secretly yearned to
be in their innermost bosoms. For in
stance, the meek drab little housewife
and mother blossoms out in'o a devil
| ;shly seductive Carmen, That's or Cleo
patra.
The rather gay young person who
nose runs to Quaker, nun or Red
Cross nurse effects while the portly
and Amazonian Miss Vera Bigg comes
as Il baby doll or Little Bopeep.
Arabian Nights Ball.
This works for males as we'll as the
fair sex and Mr.. Hen Peck always
masquerades as a swashbucklinS
grenadier or a bloodthirsty Corsair,
Prof Uranus Highbrow as Little Boy
| Goode as Don Juan or Mephisto.
| Arabian Nights Balls, Russian Fetes
and Mosques of the Gods have be-
| come a bit cloying after endless repe-
! tition that a recent benefit ball
where all the guests came to repre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
the Grand, sporadic outbreaks o.
grand opera excepted.

the Grand, sporadic outbreaks of
grand opera excepted.
The possibility of Otis Skinner is a
bright spot on the horizon. Just what
vehicle Mr.. Skinner will appear in IS
not yet known, but in the matter of
Otis, "Skinner'S the thing" He EaS
contributed some not easily forgettable
roles to stage lore.
Experience" is scheduled for re-
appearance during April and the
Washburn Dramatic club and IRA
mona" also come along with the April
showers.
Intolerance" to be shown in May,
Is really the superlative production to
date in the movies. 1t is David Wark
Griffith's masterpiece and is some
thing that can he safely predicted TO
live. For the root idea of 'Intoler-
ance" was not to concoct a gorgeous
spectacle to lasso the dollars of the
public. 1t is the genuine expression
of the fierce Indignation of Griffith
over the threatened recurrence of the
wave of intolerance which has period
ically SCARED the worlds history from
the crucifixion of Christ, to the Salem
witchcraft executions and on to mar
row mindedness of today Griffith
may have been said to have intro
duced a new dramatic form in ''Intol-
erance," for the action of the play
skips from period to period in the
worlds history and back again. A
vast cast of favoriteS is used, among
them Lillian Gish.
"A Daughter of the Gods" is an en-
tirely different sort of thing. The
audience is transported into fairyland
with Annette Kellerman as the fairy
princess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
Sc HOWARD HICKMAN
g G ToiI: &: sEG5S g
\ great movie which closes a weeks
engagement here tonight.


Violet Mesereau, in The Boy Girl, -
is the attraction at the Cozy Monday
and Tuesday. Attraction is used adj
visedly for Miss Mesereau is the pref
test of the Bluebird stars and The
Boy Girl is a clever little romance.
Ethel Clayton and Carlyle Blackwell
in Broken Chains" an extremely
dramatic offering make the attraction
Wednesday and Thursday. Harold
Lockwood and May Allison in Big
Tremaine" close the week.
The real feature of the week at
the Cozy tho is the securing of Max
Under, who outside of Charley Chap
lin, has received more advertisement
than any screen star yet. Under
came to this country six months ago
from France, where a wound inca
pacitated him for further military
service but not for fun making. He
was in the French aviation corps. He
will appear in reel comedies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

permission to use the original ads,
contracts, testimonial circulars and
recommendations taken by postal in
spectors from fake dramatic agencies.
Miss Gish is the victim of one of
these agencies and many a laugh and
many a thrill are cleverly mingled
thruout the film. Spottiswoode Aitken
who played the part of the aged Span
ish-American president of Patagonia
in The Americana" is given a new
part, one of an eccentric ex-judge of
bibulous habits. He is good for a
laugh every time he enters or leaves
the screen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
Douglas Fairbanks Returns.

A return engagement of THE
Americana" with Douglas Fairbanks
in one of his most thrilling and in
teresting features. has been arranged
for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr.. Hooper. manager of the Orpheum,
plans to include the return engage
ment of the Fairbanks picture along
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

Whose popular pictures are here next
week.
mothers. sisters and brothers and old
maid aunts. As the rural book agents
says. 1t is something for the whole
family The feature of this appear
auce is the remarkable motion photo
lraphs of life in the antarctics Howe
claims to have discovered natures
greatest Comedians-th baby pen
gums. These pictures were of course
taken at tremendous outlay and care
and are something not to be forgotten
in a hurry.
Al G. Fields MINISTRIES with Bert
Swor and the other funmakerS
comes here next week. The harmony
twelve that We're one of the features
Of last years show have been pre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
o,oA - - e "a ~ q n - ;.
Spring i'm Dgh OF at the Grand
# the Gods at the Grand.

with the regular program yet at the
regular admission.
Another of the Triangle favorites
William Desmond. will be on the Or
pheum bill for the last three days of
the week. The title of the play will
be THE Last of the Jngrahams." 1t
is one of the Iiveliest of the Desmond
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

simple for the majority of them to
come all lit up.
What terrible risk tho 1t would
be to give a theatrical fete. for nine
chances out of ten all the men would
come as Charlie Chaplin and all the
women as Annette Kellerman.
The safest and most novel idea of
all is a best seller dansant with each
guest as a popular novel. AT least
then everyone would be bound to come
in some sort of a cover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
Stage and Screen
BY DON

Our movie directors have utilized every
available territory on the inha bitable globe
and the moon as locations except Kansas
This is discrimination and poor business
Think what master tragedy could be
"Banished to Bone Dry Kansas" with
Annette Kellerman. Heinrich SchlitZ and
Admiral Tirpitz as the chief charac-
terS.
Should there ever be a Noble prize for
diplomacy our candidate is the small town
theatrical critic Consider how gently he
must temper his reviews to the shorn the
atrical lambs and to tender sensibilities of
are usually bald mutton before they ever
arrive in Ake-pot.
Fair and Warmer arrives OPPORTUNITY
Topeka is getting to realize that the quality
OF entertainment provided by the present
legislature is of a decidediv inferior
"hokum" variety.
Every time a new professor comes into
being Il new type of the human animal
originates. The movie producer and film
exchange man is considerable improve
ment over the theatrical manager. The
fur collar and the cigar with the red band
prominent are nix cum raus with them. The
movie man radiates bona fide prosperity
the chest expansion lower down and other
dence but he wears dandelion sized
diamond on finger or scarf. He resembles
nothing SO much as the prosperous New
York in the sassiety novels
The high brows, says the "drayma"
Has fallen to the bow-wows
But me and you thankful
1t amt gone to the high brows.
Max Under, the French comedian i'm
ported by the Mutual people, is to appear
at the CoZy. OF late he has received more
notices than Charley Chaplin, in spite of
the latter's salary of S670 or S6,700-what
ever's right. As we stated once before
Under disdains the employment of the
custard pie and the eccentric walk which
comedy.
has introduced such daring innovations as
pink pajamas and other things. But he
seems to get away with them and before
piece along with that of President Wilson
and Chaplin
case.
A would be enterprising movie man ad-
verhsed that for one day only admission to
his theater could be obtained by present
ing potato at the door. The house re-
sembled a fade OUT after the fade.
An autographed photograph of Mary
Pickford sold for $3.50 in New York. But
then it was auctioned off by Douglas Fair
banks
In spite of the war s1O.OOo,OOO worth of
movies were exported by the United States
last year.
/ Douglas Fairbanks was guest of honor
at a recent banquet in Brooklyn.
Movies have convinced me-" he told
them, that actions more diverting
than words l could make you a speech.
but wouldn't you rather see me climb the
side of the house,
/ They said they would, and he did, to
enthusiastic applause.
Did she take the usual marriage vow ~
/ Not quite: she promised to love her
/ Life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

start to finish Considering the group
of first line stars to be seen at the
Orpheum next week, the bill promises
to be one of the most interesting of
fered in the regular way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
1ODAS AMUSEMENTS

GRAND-Thos. H. Inces massive
screen preachment against war
-"CiviliZation."
IRIS-June Caprice in a new sort
of part"A Child of the Wilds."
ORPHECM-Enid Bennett, Aus
tralian star in motion picture de-
but IN THE Princess of the
Dark" Also Ball" and 'Bill.'
NOVELTY-Five acts vaudeville
and Francis x. Bushman and
Beverly Bayne in THE Great
Secret"
Wager"
For details. prices. etc, see adver-
tisements on this page Of the State
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

served intact. We recall them as
having given the best ensemble sing
Ing we have heard from the stage of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

Whose popular pictures are here next
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

In spite of the war S1O.OOOOoO worth of
movies were exported by the United States
last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

Douglas Fairbanks was guest of honor
at a recent banquet in Brooklyn.
Movies have convinced me-" he told
them, that actions are more diverting
than words. l could make you a speech,
but wouldn't you rather see me climb the
side of the house,
They said they would, and he did, TO
enthusiastic applause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10

Should there ever be a Noble prize fol-
diplomacy our candidate is the small town
theatrical critic. Consider how gently he
must temper his reviews to the shorn the
atrical lambs and to tender sensibilities OF
the local magnates. And the shorn lambs
are usually bald mutton before they ever
arrive in Ake-pot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-10
The high brows says the "drayma"
Has fallen to the bow-wow
But me and you are thankful
1t amt gone to the high brows.

An autographed photograph of Mary
Pickford sold for $3.50 in New York. But
then it was auctioned off by Douglas Fair
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
MODALE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sharpnack
of Omaha spent Saturday night
and Sunday at the parental VIM.
Sharpnack home.
Mrs. G. w. Middleton and Miss
Ethel Hudson left Thursday eve
ming for Dayton, o., for a visit
with the formers son, Clarence.
Elddrel DiIley of Omaha visitel
Saturday night and Sunday with
his grandparents, Mr.. AMI Mrs. G.
w. Moore.
l.. G. Kelley was having dental
work done in Missouri Valley Fri
day afternoon.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Nor
row, August 2, son.
The chautauqua commenced
here Monday.
The teachers for the Modale
schools for the coming year are:
Chas. s. Cobb, superintendent.
Miss Flora Howe, principal.
James Harvey, manual training
and agriculture.
Lea Davis, English.
Leila Schmidt, music and art.
Alice Beanblossom, domestic
science.
Bessie Rayl, first grade.
Ruth Hooks, second grade.
Ella Coleman, third grade.
Myra Blust, fifth and sixth.
Elma Grundy, seventh grade.
Fred Evans, eighth grade.
Mrs. l.. G.. Kelley returned We'd
nesday night from Cook, Neb.
where she has been visiting hel
daughter, Mrs. +. E. Bobo, thu
past month.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
100 MEN IN HARRISON COUNTY
READY FOR WAR.

The statistics on the recent ex-
animation of candidates for the
new national army have just been
compiled by the local board and it
was found that 100 men of the
312 examined were found phys
ically fit and they claimed no ex-
emptions; 46 were rejected on
account of physical ailments, and
1853 filed exemptions; 90 men,
drawn in the first $40 names,
asked to be allowed to report to
some other board, having removed
from here since they registered,
or did not answer the summons
to appear at all. They have until
August 10th to appear and if they
do not show up for examination
by that time, the government will
hunt them out and place them in
the army at once, if they are
physically fit. The government
has just issued call for one
third of the new army to appear
September 4, which will mean
Harrison county will send 81 men
on September 4. The government
has asked for an additional 10
per cent of the original quota,
which will bring our quota to a
total of 187 men, which we will
have to furnish to the new ma
tional army.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
GEORGE WILSON RELEASED
FROM the HOSPITAL

Frank T. Wilson received the
the following letter from the navy
at Washington:
August 6, 1917.
Sir: The American Consul at
Saloniki, Greece, has sent advices
dated July 28th, 1917, that your
son, George Wilson, a gunner on
the S. S. Grace, has been released
from the hospital in which he
was placed for treatment. He will
be sent to Marseilles as soon as
conditions permit; and as the
Bureau of Navigation expedites
the return of all survivors OF
steamships which have been sunk,
he will be returned to the United
States as soon as arrangements
can be completed.
Respectfully,
r C.. FARLEY,
Lieut.. Commander, U. S. Navy.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09

their spare time. The meals are
excellent, especially ON Sundays
and holidays.
Gale can't say very much about
his barracks as he has just gotten
out of quarantine, but he says
what he has seen and the fellows
have told him, they are as nice
as our own We are all going
over next Sunday to see them.
We are going to take a walk up
i'm the mountains and see the diff
ferent fruits that we have heard
so much about that grow there.
There are some wild animals
there, but we aren't going to look
for them, but look Out for them.
There is not a snake on the is
land nor a poison weed or bug.
We have heard of the fellows
in France and are very jealous of
them. We feel as though we are
towards, being way off over here
200 miles from amy land. But
maybe we will get our chance
later. We are certainly getting
prepared for it.
If anyone can write to the boys
in France we wish to send our
congratulations to them.
The bugle is now blowing fol
us to fall out for retreat, SO we
must close. From four soldiers
| in Honolulu.
FRANCIS j. CODY,
GALE YOUNG,
ORRIS r.. PURCELL,
DON PURCELL.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
MISSOURI VALLEY BOYS ARE
NOW IN SOUND OF EURO
PEAN BATTLES.
Letter from brennan Douglass.

France.
Dear Mother and All:
Thought I'd write line or two,
as ii is i2:45 and have few
minutes before drill am feel
ing fine. We are having fine
weather here with a shower now
and then. We made a move of
about AS miles since | wrote you
last. We are now at an inland
town. quite small, but very pref
ty. Received a letter from Mr.
Graham few days ago.
1t don't seem much like July
weather, but guess it is. We
I had our Fourth on the coast and
that has been nigh on to little
better than two weeks ago. 1t
seems quite odd here though, as
it has been cloudy and it seems as
though it were laundering almost
all the time, but it is only the war,
about twenty miles away.
We are still together the same
as usual. Lyle Ball, Julius Null
Ter and VIM. Boulder are now
only two miles off in another
town. They were in Paris the
Fourth.
| | hope you will write oftener
as it sure seems good away over
here to get a letter from Iowa
This afternoon we go on a hike
and probably will take bath il
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
"FATTY ARsUcKLE ADOPTS
WAR MENU

Roscoe Fatty" Arbuckle, heav-
lest Of heavyweight comedians
and merriest of screen mirth-
makers, has adopted the war
menu. In spite of the fact that
the 25O-pound film star is max
ing the eight-hour day look like
myth by arriving at the studio
after an early breakfast and re-
naming until long after the din
ner hour six days week, he is
heart and soul with the prepared
ness squad which is urging mod
GRAFTON in the use of food sup
plies.
That's why "Fatty's'' Jap chef
has been losing a lot of sleep OF
late due principally to the fact
that he is kept busy totalling the
Galleries in his masters daily diet.
The Arbuckle household is now
conducted with view to cutting
down all useless extravaganza
while yet maintaining a rule that
wholesome diet is of primary i'm
portance.
And if in the Immediate future
sFatty's' admirers discover that
/ he has become as sylphlike as
Vernon Castle or other popular
devotees of the dance they will
know that it was because he vol
unfairly abandoned sirloin steak
and French pastry for wal
menu something like this:
Breakfast-Glass of orange
Juice, one French roll, coffee.
Luncheon-Ham and egg sand
| wich, glass OF milk
Dinner-Bean soup, vegetable
salad, coffee.
| Experts versed in the calor.
system are authority for thu
statement that it will be man,
months before the effect of these
simple repasts is discernible IL
Fatty's ample form. AS the hero
of the latest Paramount Arbuckl'
comedy 1.-The Rough House." M
lis as broad as ever and, as thos'
who have seen the picture assert
even more successful as laugh
maker than he was in his recen
successes "The Butcher Boy AM
"Tha Reckless Romeo At tn
| Majestic Friday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
LETTER FROM JULIUS MULLER


Dear Mother and All:
Well, how goes it on The corner
of Sixth and Superior in the good
old town? Suppose everyone is
o. X. hope so, anyhow. Mould
appreciate it if some of YOU
would WELD the pen a little often
cr, because | can't thing of much
to write when | don't have a let
ter to answer.
was i'm the detachment of SOL
diers that paraded i'm Paris the
Fourth. We We're sure treated
fine Crowds We're so thick that
police and soldiers could hardly
keep passage way clear for us
through the streets. We We're
showers with flowers. the girls
put flag stickers on our guns.
given cigars. etc. Marched to
Lafayette tomb and We're taken
around in sight seeing cars.
Women do most everything
running street cars, loco
motives. repairing autos, and
they aren't ashamed to push
Wheelbarrows up the streets.
People walk in the middle of the
streets about as much as on the
sidewalks in the small towns.
/ Women wash clothes in the
streams in public wash houses
that are located along them.
There are great deal of Wild
cherries and Strawberries around
here.
Did tell you there is a beau-
tiful church here? Seems just
like going to church at home en-
cept | don't understand the ser
mons very we'll. Met a couple of
priests in the French army who
We're at church last sunday ana
could talk English good. Ana
trying to learn to talk French.
Goodbye for this time, with
love. God bless you all.
JULIUS MULLER
Co. F, 10th Infantry. Can't put
, full return address on my letters
, account of censorship rules.
would like to hear from Marguer-
lite and Glen.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
ARE YOU GOING TO OMAHA
MONpAY7

Quite number have signified
their intention of attending the
Ak ar-Ben festivities at the den
next Monday night, but more cars
are needed to carry those who
want to go. Will you go anu
drive your car? If you will go,
notify l.. R. Pike, E. NJ. Rhoda-
beck or r. c. Lahman at once, as
arrangements will have to made
Friday for the number who will
go.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-08-09
LOCAL RED CROSS WORK com.
MENDED.

The local Red Cross branch are
in receipt of the following
commendatory letter from the
Council Bluffs chapter, under
which the local chapter works:
My Dear Mrs. Heise:
am directed to acknowledge
the receipt of three boxes from
you last Saturday and say that
everything checked as to number
and that the work done was very
good, and your choice of articles
to make was very good. We were
glad to get the napkins and wash
cloths. Cordially yours,
ANNA Y. ROSS,
Chairman Information Com.
August Z, 1917.