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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
On the Screen

"The Manxman," Hall Gaines most
human story, was shown on the screen
at the Criterion Theatre last night.
No man who sees this picture will
ever again say that he does not care for
photodramas. Perhaps motion picture
would more fttingly describe "The
Manxman" than the now accepted term
photodrama, for the play is a long
series of gorgeous scenes, each more
beautiful than the other. We doubt il
anything to equal these pictures has
ever been shown on the screen. The
harvesting in :ne Iieids OF golden
grain, the still waters, with the con-
tented cattle in the foreground, and the
wonderful restless sea are so stupen-
dous that one wishes they would not
move on. The plot might lag and no
body would care while he could gaze
on such scenes of rural splendor.
The screen version Of "The Manx
Man" is the work Of George Loane
Tucker, and too much cannot be said
in praise of this, his masterpiece. With
the Isle of Man at his disposal, Mr..
Tucker has chosen his locations well.
One of the most interesting scenes
shows the assembling Of the throngs
at the court on Tynwald Hill, where
for more than 100 years il has been the
custom of the inhabitants 70 assemble
TO hear the annual proclamation OF the
laws of the island and TO give every
Manx man the right to dispute any law
or act that might spell injustice.
Elizabeth Risdon is beautiful and
charming ms Kate Cregeen, and she has
wealth of hair that resembles halo
when the light shines on it, She added
in a marked degree to the beauty OF
the picture.
Henry Ainley was not so satisfactory
as Philip. One could not forget that
he appeared to be much too old Tor me
part, and he was rather prlg IN me
early part Of the play. he improves
on acquaintance, however, and his best
scene was where he saves the lie oil
Pete, who is about to be shot for ms
temerity in protesting against the IN
Justice done the fisherman. Twelve
thousand natives of the Isle or Man
took part in this scene, and the soldlers
we're the survivors Of the battle OF the
Marine. They have been stationed on
the island in charge of the German
prisoners, and their appearance in the
picture was authorized by the British
War Bureau.
Fred Groves gave a remarkably good
performance as Pete, poor Pete, with
only his mothers name" and the whole
cast was selected with the same care
which characterized the production.
Any one who likes picture plays
should see "The Manxman.' and any
one who does net like them should see
il and become convert. H.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
To Investigate Gary Plan
State to Settle Controversy
Over School System

DR.. John H. Finley, State Commits.
sioner Of Education, wrote yesterday
to Willim G. Wilcox, chairman OF the
Board OF Education, that his request
for an investigation Of the duplicate
schools in New York in order 20 settle
the controversy over the Gary plan
would be granted. DR.. Finley wrote
that the state was 20 start survey OF
school systems in two other cities on
September /, and would begin in New
York as soon as those tasks were fin
ished, or sooner If Investigators could
be obtained.
81 believe with you" he wrote, that
this is an opportunity for the State
Department Of Education to render a
great service not only TO the schools
of New York City but also TO those OF
the state and, incidentally, to the cause
Of education in the country at large"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
The Sinews of War
CALIFORNIA; Empire Still Bafled in Doing Nation
War Work Because of Labor Shortage-Dratted
Men Could Serve Better in Fields Than at Front
Bv THEODORE M. KNAPPEN

They're kind of our own people,
he says. "There is no law to keep
them out; many are already here"
He has heard that $4,000 Filipino
laborers could be spared from the
islands, and he wonders why the gov
eminent doesn't bring them over.
Like the Chinese, they are slow but
steady laborers, and they have youth
on their side. The American China
man approaches extinction on ac-
count Of the Chinese exclusion law
the average field laborer of that race
now in California is sixty-two years
of age, whereas the Filipino is about
twenty-five.
Comes by a group of stalwart,
handsome Hindus-Sikhs, the lion
breed of India.
Good laborers," says the chauf-
feur, "but they're all organizing
companies of their own and going 70
farming on their own account
Now pedal past us Japanese clad
precisely like any American farm
hand, cheap straw hat and blue
| jeans, hurrying on bicycles to their
work in orchard and vineyard.
The chauffeur, being a true Cali
fornian, passes them by with scant
praise. '"Smart people" he says,
reluctantly, and lets 1t go at that.
The trouble with the Jap is that he
tends to settle down in this fair
land and take possession. California
can use his services but not his ambi-
tions.
A group of Cinnamon plod by on
foot. "Good old Cinnamon" says
the chauffeur, faithful, honest,
hard working and mind their own
business" Cinnamon are no longer
human cattle in California. When
the republic was declared they cut
off their queues and nailed them to
flag stats as a banner of new era.
Prescribed by law in the Mother of
Republics, they yet feel that by be-
coming republicans they have be-
come more like Americans, and every
Chinaman will tell you that America
is the hope of his home land. The
handful of American-born China
men, American citizens they, hold
their heads a little higher now and
rival the japanese in the nattiness
OF their dress and the independence
Of their manner.
Now we pass through an Arme-
Man settlement. The chauffeur is
not enthusiastic. Good farmers"
he says, "but no good to the COM
munity. They have no public spirit
and are just naturally mean. ] don't
know whether the Turks cruelty has
made them mean or their meanness
has made the Turks cruel"
With a roaring rush the big Pack
ard Los Angeles motor express
cashes by-San Francisco TO Los
Angeles, $50 miles, eighteen hours
running time.
"Oil men, I'll bet" ventures the
chauffeur. These are great days in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
Chautauqua Stirs F armers and
Villagers to Stern Resolve
Against Kaiser-Also Car
ries Touch of Culture Into
Many Isolated Homes
lstsf Correspondence

star CorrespondenceI
CROTHERSVILLE, Ind, Aug. IL
The relations between Crothersville
and Berlin were never very close, but
they have been broken off, and the
Lincoln Chautauqua, whose red
trimmed kahki tent has filled this
Hoosier horizon like cloud at dawn,
has helped to make this part of
Southern Indiana unsafe for au-
,tocracy.
The drafted boys have been lined
up in this group of Ohio Valley
towns and with patriotic pageants
and singing school children they have
been given fearful yet rousing send
offs" Without the Chautauqua
weeks these remote hamlets would be
lacking a stimulus, and it is pathetic,
though encouraging, TO see the over.
allied, one-gallused villagers and
farmers yearn toward the Chau-
tauqua tent as toward friend.
Here the remarkable institution of
the itinerant university, concert plat
form, playground and forum is seen
at its best, where the Ohio River
clay is harshest, where rural Amer
lea is least favored, where the un-
tempered midsummer sun becomes
almost a hated thing and where the
softer side of life seems most remote.
The township awakens to find It
self with a community soul, a ma
tional consciousness and potential
ity in manhood as rich as need be.
John Hay once wore these excellent
Hoosier hickory breeches.
If the corn crop is inferior at
Crothersville, so is the golf crop, now
under extensive acreage in the Great
Lakes region Of greater prosperity.
William Fultz, the local druggist, al
lowed that Crothersville is no great
shakes in the national mobilization
schemes, though it sends its quota
and more. eve haven't had" he
said, "a kahki parade every hour like
they have in Chicago to keep up the
war enthusiasm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
War Is Fought
On Farm and Bench

1t is known Of all men that this is
a war of the farm and factory more
than of the actual fighting front, a
thousand energies struggle with the
labor problem and, yet Washington
conscripts a vast army for the
trenches and there is no authorita-
tive marshalling of the hosts of
labor. On every boarding is the APP
peal and promise of the nation
appeal for production and promise
of the necessary labor. The appeal
has been granted - the promise
has not been kept. Volunteer and
conscript hasten willingly to the
colors-reducing production and in
creasing consumption. There are
those who argue that it would have
been a better service to the nation
if the 25,000 men California is con-
,ributing to army and navy had been
conscripted into a disciplined army
of field, forest and factory and sent
hither and thither according to the
emergencies Of the industrial battle
Nevertheless, wonders are being a.
complished. The highway tells the
tale. Here is a camp of Mexicans,
men, women and children, like a
Villa army. They're a nondescript
looking lot, but your chauffeur tells
YOU that when it comes TO thinning
sugar beets the athletic high school
bows who volunteered for the good
cause are not 10 be compared with
them. The high school boy is only
8 per cent efficient, the chauffeur ex-
mains; whereas, the Mexican is IS
per cent efficient at this job at the
start and presently develops 70 per
cent efficiency. Working on hands
end knees at 100 is not a white mans
lob. The chauffeur, who is himself
landed proprietor, ventures the
opinion that the Filipinos may yet
be the solution Of the labor problem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
Miss Harris to Marry

Miss Gertrude B. Harris. daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Harris, will
be married to Lewis Frank Harder, Of
Philmont. n. Y. on Thursday, at
Southampton, Long Island. Harold
Harder is TO be his brothers best man.
and the ushers will be Henry Harris,
brother of the bride; Chester Plymp-
ton. Earle Segur and Charles Wyman.
The wedding will take place at noon IN
St. Andrews Dune Church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
War Spirit Strong in Middle West

which the Chautauqua women ex-
perts teach.
The collective intelligence Of
Crothersville, as Of Indiana and Of
the United States, threatens to be-
come feminine. The women use
their leisure in these new cultural
indulgences, and the only competent
speakers are, for the most part,
women.
The Administration at Washing
ton uses and aims still further TO use
the Chautauquas for the national
propaganda. 1t has yet to discover
the efficiency of the women speak
ers, their scorn of platitudes and
worn phrases and their passion for
the practical. Miss Paulsen took
Crothersville by the hand and intro
duced it to a new world of ideas, so
that by chance the male intelligence
of Crothersville may absorb some of
it indirectly from their culture-seek-
ing women folk and from the
"howdy" Hoosier boys in the tent.
Perhaps it was for this reason
that the regular war orator, Judge
George D. Alden, of Boston, as with
other war orators in the Middle
West, discovered the popular attitude
on national questions to be in large
part a feminine attitude, prohibit
ton, suffrage, peace, child welfare
and practical economics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

the oil business" And ne looks long
ingly across the valley TO the noun
tains that hide Coalinga's derricks,
sumphs and oil farms" A hundred
dollars an acre net profit on raisins
looks pretty good, but tapping ready
made wealth in Natures storehouse
always appeals. And he expresses a
picturesque opinion Of Secretary
Daniels for holding up oil production
on government lands when there
isn't gasolene enough to go around
and industry cries for fuel oil in
coal-less land.
Out in Country
1t Is the Same
Out Of the region Of small farms
and ranches-same thing-out of the
country of vine and tree, out of the
green watered land, with its irriga-
ton bitches running bankful Of snow
water from the Sierras, we issue into
spacious country of great wheat
and barley farms, dry and dusty
region, hot and thirsty, but full Of
the appeal of the magnificent. Out Of
the country of hand labor and ted
ious toll and sleepless care we pass to
the country of the 5,000-acre field
and the gigantic tractor and the
forty-mule team. Out of the Ameri-
can Italy into the old America-the
big country Of big men and big en-
terprise.
Now, here's a sight worth travel
ling a thousand miles to see.
Across the vast expanse of golden
barley moves a mighty combination
of mule power and machinery that
looks in the distance like some snail
like antediluvian creature. A veri-
table herd Of harnessed mules, con-
trolled by a driver who sits on a seat
fifteen feet in the air, that is project
ed over the rearmost beasts, drag a
great machine that cuts the grain in
twenty-foot zones, thrashes and
racks it all in one operation.
isn't it great?" exclaims the
chauffeur.
1t is.
1t is America at war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
TIE CAST

"Thc Inner Man" makes a brave be-
ginning, but the evening is little too
long for it. The prologue, for example,
is both novel and good. The first act
is interesting, and gives promise Of
better things to come. Specifically, IL
gives promise that the question or
the reformation of criminals shall be
considered in a serious and dramatic
way in the two acts TO follow. The
second act, however, degenerates into
comedy so broad as 20 be frequently
farcical and the third act is merely
maudlin.
Abraham Schooner needs q collabora-
tor. On the occasion Of his previous
visit to Broadway he was guided by
George Brosdhuist, and the result was
To-day" In "The Inner Man" he has
essayed to go it alone, and his inspira-
ton has been sufficient for only half
an evening. With mistaken Difference
to the tastes of Broadway as he mag
med il. Mr.. Schomer'has developed only
the comic possibilities OF his thesis.
rhe result Is shallow, almost hollow,
psychological drama.
As the play now stands It's ehief
merit is to give Wilton Laekaye fsir
onnortunity in the role Of Devil Dick
RoIg.r. tn. criminal whose reforms
tion is sought. Mr.. Lacksye has played
better on occasions, but he neverthe-
less gives Hne, virilo characterize
ton. II he appeared unsubtle az
times il probably was the fault OF the
playwright. for the entire play is with
ont subtlety. Mr.. Lackaye looked fully
a. tough as the toughest criminal I'M
a0inable, and growled successfully out
~ the left-hand corner of his mouth.
Az Devil Dick" ne was called upon 70
do a number of rather ridiculous
things. and he at least succeeded in
making them seem somewhat less
ridiculous than they were.
Mr.. Schomer's play begins with
meeting of the Society for the Re
formation of Criminals, and the APP
narent informality of this gathering
sent the play off to a good start Inc
audience was regarded as the BODY OF
the meeting, and the performers arose
from places in the auditorium ana
thence made their way to the stage 10
participate in the discussion. Out OF
This discussion arose an argument as
70 the possibility of reforming hard
ened criminal-"Devil Dick" Bolger, 70
be exact-and thence emerged a mil
ionaire social workers wager that ne
could effect a reformation in year;
The first act, showing Bolger IN ms
criminal haunts, had the merit OF hold
ire the attention, even though IL APP
nesred to overemphasize the brutality
Of the criminal. The plan OF the mill
ionaire philanthropist was TO reform
Bolger by setting him to help his TEL
low unfortunates, and in Act ii there
was something Of an attempt 70 show
him in the midst OF this work. Like
the final act of Under Sentence" how
ever. the incidents introduced were
simply feebly farcical, and proved
nothing. Devil Dick" was duly
brought around at the end OF the play
and the curtain fell on motion picture
reunion Of father, wife and daughter.
The play has been well staged, but
the acting is rather uneven. In addi-
ton to the star, however, good per-
formances are given by Maud Hanna
ford. Richard Tabor and Grace Hem
dersOn, W. D. n
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

The last war of any Importance
that Crothersville, Ind, prepared for
was a ponderous conflict with a tan
gible enemy across the Ohio River in
1860. 1t hasn't even the standard
village cannon pointing welcome to
visitors in the village square. 1t
hasn't village square. The nearest
it came to having a flag before last
week was the BARRIERS pole.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
Miss Pell a Bride To-day

Miss Dorothy Ogden Pell, daughter
Of Mrs. A. Pendleton Pell, OF Emerson
Kill. Staten Island, will be married to
Leighton Dunning, Of Philadelphia, to-
day' in the Church Of the Transhgura-
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
BOY, PAGE ARCHIE QUINN!

Sir: It is fact that at this exact moment Of the world
history Lew Pistol James W. Ball and Mitchell H. Mark slated
membership Trars This would be still more remark
item if that film magnate, Sam H. Trigger were also
the list but then can't expect everything can one?
NORMAN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
The Coming 7over
FROM A FULL HEART

. Milne Punch Crpubshei and
L, DAYS of peace my feow-men
Rightly regarded me more like
A Bishop than a Major-Gen,
And nothing since made warke;
Rpt when this age-long struggle ends
And have seen the Allies dish up
The goose Of Hindenburg-oh, friends!
| shall out-bsh the mildest Bishop
- .s Var is oyer and the Kaiser's out of print
~ o to buy some and catch the bggars sprint;
5 The Var is and the sDord at last sheothe
r ooiag 10 keep jelyfsh and listen to it breathe.
I never really lOnged for gore
And any taste for red corpuscles
That fingered with left before
The German troops had entered Brussels
In early days the Colonel " 'Shun!"
Froze me- and as the grew older,
The noise of else's gun
Left me considerably colder.
MI, -, Var is over and the battle has been 1con,
J, ooinq to bug a barnace and take it for a ra,n;
V5en the War is and the German Fleet noe sink,
Pm ooing to keep Silk-,oors egg and listen to it think.
The Captains and the Kings depart
1t may be so, but not lieutenants;
Dawn after weary dawn l start
The never ending round of penance;
One rock amid the weller stands
On which my gaze is fixed intently-
An after-life in quiet lands
Lived very lazily and gently
v,,r the War is over and the Begans proud
Pm oong TO keep a ckrysal and read to it aloud;
When the Var and Ue'Ue finished up the shotO
Pm qoing to plant a emon-pp and listen to it gro0.
Oh I'm tired of the noise and the turmoil of battle,
And I'm even upset by the lowing of cattle,
And the clang of the bluebells is death to my liver,
And the roar of the dandelion gives a SILVER,
And a glacier in movement is much too exciting
And I'm nervous, when standing one, of alghting-
Give me Peace; that is ALL that is all that seek
Say, starting Saturday week
"shir sleeves thing Of days long ago. declares pacard
berSv ind On
saw so many in shirt in the District of Columbia
there today That's rather hopeful sgn!Collers Weekly.
We saw no political significance in the shrtseevness of
Washington AS we doped it, sign of excessively hot
weather.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

In its advice on the drying of vegetables the American Food
Journal says: ParsnpsTreat carrots are treated Which,
Whatever it is is better than they deserve
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
T he Dram

THE Inner Man." comedy drama
in 8 prologue and three acts. By Abra-
ham Schooner. With Wilton Lackaye.
Produced by the Shuberts at the Lyric
Thaatrn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
THE INTERNATIONAL PAsTIME

Sir: According Reed and Max Eastman sporting
writers for The Masses" the game complicated They
agree with YOU that Democracy first and that America at
But they assert Democracy being the slow runner u.s. no
triple can safe home 1t will take home run by
America o register the winning tally
According opposition papers, however the Central Pow
bat in ninth with the Allies in the field Democracy
pitching Score: Allies, 81 c. p, 2.
Nicholas lined to Kerensky play Constantine popped
out; the Kaiser safe on error; Hindenburg at bat
he doesn't come through the games overbu as you 90
70 py.ss the folders are LAYING deem for him.
Some day the Kaiser may receive divine cooperation This
likely infurate him 50 that will give notice that the part
nership has been dissolved.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
FROM PRIVATE DIVINE

Sir! Add honors contbs Charles Divine who has con-
trbed as Chick D. private in Co. H. 10th Infantry waiting
entran Spartanburg S. c. and he says II the tram IS
as long as the wait need many engines that placed
end TO end they will Bnghamton to France which
the goal of every mans ambition" CHICK D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
Plays and Players

The opening Of Here Comes the
Bride" which was scheduled for to-
night at the Cohan, has been postponed
owing 10 the necessity OF making sew
eral changes in the cast. The new
date OF the opening is as yet unan-
nounced.
Eugene Walters melodrama, THE
Knife began a supplementary season
last night at the Cort. The company
is headed by Olive Wyndhsm, Beatrice
Beckley. Harry Mestsyer and Norman
Hackett.
A second edition of the present "Mid-
night Frolic" was revealed on the New
Amsterdam Roof last night. Will
Rogers rejoined the organization. and
the occasion also marked the first ap-
pearsnee OF Ray Raymond. tenor
Rock and White and Van and Schenck
are among those who continue in the
company.
Henry Hull last night returned to
the cast of 1.-THE Man Who Came
Back" at the Playhouse, after 4 brief
vacation.
"Mrs. Prudence" comedy by Will
lam Hurlburt, was given its first per-
Torrance in Asbury Park last night,
with Grace George In the leading role.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
THESE CoNTRIBs HAVE RECEIVED COMMISSIONS:
Captain
CHARLES G. NORRIS

First Lieutenant
PAUL P GOoLD JAMES ,. ONELE, JR'
HOMER ST GA1pENs GEORGE j. SToCKLEY
JouNERITz ACHEIrs X. RICHARD WALLACE
Second Lieutenant
RAYMOND IVES KENNETH II. CHALMERS
TouN NJ OsKIsON THOMAS B. NILES
Dv.N NATHEy CHARLES w. CAMP
IouN n KENDERpINE ARTHUR f. MCKEoGH
EDWIN n. LEWIS WILLIAM D. LAHh1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14
The Quenchless Wheeze

From Rochester Herald
German Of predicts the end Of the war in two
weeks enlisted fight Kaiserism and the boy
never was known to keep job more than two weeks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

Speaking Of dehydration wouldn't drying the archoke
whewsshing the lily?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

Captain winner Of captains commission should be
IN type
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

The government should set maximum price Of 81 a
On war songs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

Commercial candor at Saranac Lake. New York Fruit Pro-
queer California Fruits Specially"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

The only possible peace peace BY arrangement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

when he attends the theatre" writes Theodore Ter in the
pun the President seeks playhouse where something light
g produced Apparently he is not the mood for problem
ama; he bit Of vaudeville chance 10 laugh Perhaps
well that the President is not in the mood for problem
aa he had felt like going TO the theatre last night for
hce he would have had 20 Kehs Gas he probably did,
" ehoo "Oh Boy at the Beasco and "The Twentieth
esn'fy Maids" at The Gayety.
a me only problem drama In Washington at the Capitol in
~ ninth month Of It's ord-breakng run i. L. A.