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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Some Worthless of the Passing Hour

| any part Shaw was thinking Of the
eternal youthfulness of spirit Miss
Terry possesses"
| Some writer's, even dramatists, are
very prosac persons. Not so Owen
Davis; but perhaps that is because he
! is a melodramatst. IL is true that he
once wrote a tragedy in blank verse,
that he is an authority on geology and
paleontology and that he is by pro-
! fession a mining engineer, and was
once assistant to Professor Shaler, of
! Harvard, but what makes him dear to
fame is his authorship of chinatown
| Charlie" OF course, he dramatized
Robert billiards new starring vehicle,
"The Scrap Of Paper" which is playing
/ at the Criterion Theatre, but that Is
another story.
1t was the beginning of his career
| that Mr.. Davis discussed, from the
day when he first came to New York
| with his tragedy and only sl2, which
might have been another mans trag-
edv. but not his. He recalled that he
soon found himself in desperate straits,
but that after coaching a school track
team for while no found his first
| producer.
The then famous firm of Davis and
/ 81, h i'm n writa np'0-
drama. and showed him a sample that
he believed he could easily initiate.
The result was Through the Break
ers." In spite of having advised him
to go in for this sort of thing, Davis
| and Kehoe felt no responsibility for
! his labors, and he decided to take the
manuscript to Gus Hill.
81 must explain here that up to that
time" said Mr.. Davis, Gus Hill had
not produced any plays. He was then
swinging Indian clubs in burlesque
show which he owned, and what rec
commended him to me was the fact that
/ thought he had money enough to pro-
duce play iouhu h'ih 40 ~"
ing room in a Brooklyn theatre, being
rubbed down after a strenuous fifteen
minutes with the clubs.
81 came right TO the point and told
him that / had play which | wanted
him to produce.
"'Do you, thought asked Mr.. Hill,
interested beyond my expectations.
sit down and let's talk it over
"The upshot of the interview was
that Mr.. Hill decided to do the play.
Neither of US then had any informa-
ton on the matter of royalties, so we
agreed that l was to get one-third
Of the profits. | was also appointed
manager of the. company, at $50 a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

week. The question then arose as to
who was to stage the play.
81 agreed to DO it on the theory
of the Irshman who said he could play
the fiddle. Through an actor | had
met was recommended to an agency,
where | secured my cast. was lucky
enough to hit on a novel rolling break
ers' effect, and with this beginning
went ahead. Mr.. Hill was wonderful
man to work for.
"My first royalty check was for
$4,000. 1t was the first money | had
ever earned in the theatre, excepting
my $50 a week as business manager.
Through the Breakers ran for seven
years. After that beginning | wrote
a melodrama every two weeks, for
seven years, and didn't write them
fast enough for A. H. Woods to pro-
duce."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

Those who know their fellow Great
ures mainly from stage types are apt
to forget that human nature is in
reality the same among all races, that
the six general types of temperament
together with their variations, are uni
versal. Men of all races are fed with
the same food, hurt with the same
weapons, warmed and cooled by the
same winter and summer.
1t frequently comes as a surprise
however, to the insular to meet with the
finer instincts Of gentle breeding
among nationalities that have become
familiar through caricature. There is
accordingly, a definite educational value
in the bright little play of lombard
! Ltd" in which a male costumer OF
Latin race personifes a number OF
noble and high-hearted traits.
Leo GARLIC, about whom the play
focuses, is already fairly we'll known
to New York audiences from the bits
! of character work he had in "Fads and
Fancies" and upstairs and Down." He
! is of Spanish descent, but comes of the
old Castilian stock which settled the
southern part of California.
His grandfather, who was a wealthy
ranch owner and whose large estate
has recently been apportioned among
the heirs, took an important part in
! founding the educational system OF
California, and his grandmother il
memorable for having made the first
| American flag in the state.
His personal appearance and vivacity
as well as such acquired characteristics
as accent and gestures, fit GARLIC ex
| ceptionally for the portrayal of Latin
! stage types, and like others who have
seen their stats verging toward the
ascendant he confessed that he has
yearned for some of the great roles OF
Calderon and Echegaray, but it is his
( belief, as well rs Mr.. Morosco's, that
! the present taste is for lighter fare.
In the title role of lombard, Ca
rillo undertakes little uplift work fol
/ the benefit of the stage Italian, so well
known in the "Black Hand" and similar
representations ranging from the i'm.
presentations of Otis Skinner and vii.
ton Lackaye down to the lesser light;
/ of vaudeville.
"The Italian is human being" re.
marked GARLIC in his dressing room az
placidly as any non-Latin, moment
after one of his most impassioned cur,
tains. But he never seems to BIZ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The Rosemary Pageant

The assembling of the historic cast
for the National Red Cross Rosemary
pageant, "The Drawing of the Sword"
which will be presented at Rosemary
Farm, Huntington, Long Island, Friday
afternoon. October 8, has occupied the
attention of Daniel Frohman and Di-
rector Thomas Wood Stevens, with his
associate directors and artists, B. Iden
Payne, Paul Chalhn, Ben Ali Haggin
\ and Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, of Chi
csgo.
The pageant has been described as
not only brilliant entertainment, but
a tremendous argument for the present
hour, and it has been said 20 have
the woes and devastation of the war
so wildly portrayed as to clutch the
throat and dim the eyes with a new
rage and sympathy.
1t is undoubtedly q highly effective
presentation of the reasons for the
war and the progress of it. II is writ
ten in vigorous blank verse by Thomas
Wood Stevens, dean of American page
sntry and author and director Of many
pageants. including the notable ones at
st. Louis and Newark. The score or
more of speaking parts are by expe-
rienced and especially trained students
of the Drama Department, Carnegie
Institute of Technology. who are doing
this work as their "bit" in the service
Of the war.
The Carnegie Institute of Technol-
ogy, the producer, is prepared to
furnish the original company and staff
Of twenty-five people, costumec tor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The Too Successful Shaw
Being the Tale of Cap and Bells
That Will Not Come of
By RALPH BLOCK

many absurdties by the blasting power
of a greater absurdity that the greater
world was started talking about him.
Those who didn't have the sense to see
Shaw in the theatre or to read him in
the library began to hear about him
in the newspapers. The result of that
kind of publicity was to make Shaw
a figure, be-whiskered personality, a
kind of mountebank who did delightful
tricks Of conjuring, made fine up-toss-
inCs of ideas. To that mythical aver
age person on the street who must be
used for hypothetical purposes. Shaw
became a kind of cerebral Houdini,
a magician who could work himself
loose out of all kinds of conventional
restraints, unite any kind of moral
knot and do it with both hands tied
behind him.
A ND then, as a step in the Shavian
"A progress, Shaw's own audience
began to fail him in the theatre. 1t
did not fail him as an audience. Rather
it grew as an audience for entertain
ment. but at the expense of something
else-belief. The Perfect Shavian had
become interested in ideas for the
simple fun of ideas, and poor Bernard
was suddenly confronted with the sight
of a whole basketful of Triple X world
reforming ideas being strewn around
the stage to serve as props for the
Shavian vaudeville. Imagine, if you
will, the effect on what the common
place critical language of the day calls
the greatest Puritan in the lsles-a
kind of intellectual Billy Sunday whose
entire proof comes from the fact OF
conversion-now forced to recognize
that he is not now taken for preacher,
but for a Snowman. Judge, therefore,
of his dissatisfaction with an audience
that will not argue with him, that re-
fuses to rise at him, but will only pas
sionately relish his wit, his penetration
into the stupidity of all kinds Of things
by the double-edge Of paradox, and con-
tinue to enjoy him-right or wrong.
Shaw is suddenly the catastrophe fig
ure of man who succeeded too well.
4 CCORDINGLY, people will not go
~ to the new Broadhurst Theatre TO
see "Misalliance" that they may be
shocked into thinking strange things
about life. They have been hearing
the strange new ideas about life long
enough now, so they are neither
strange nor are they any longer new.
Rather they will 60 to be entertained
by Mr.. Shaw's strange way of writing
farce, a method which shifts the usual
procedure from the objective to the
subjective. There could be no more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Hamilton as a Federalist

The presentation OF the historical IN
cidents and characters in Hamilton
the new play in which George Arlis'
is impersonating Alexander Hamilton
at the Knickerbecker, has decided
pertinency at the present time, deal
ing, as it does, with Hamilton's his
toric attempt to strongly centralize the
Federal government. The extent to
which this Capitalization has been car
ried these days as the result OF
Americas entrance into the world war
would unquestionably daze him were
he to return 20 earth again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

any part Shaw was thinking Of the
eternal youthfulness of spirit Miss
Terry possesses"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The Playwright Club

The Playwrights' Club moved this
week into its new quarters q. 144o
Broadway. Membership in the club is
open to all those engaged in writing
plays intended for professional produc-
ton. Persons who have had profes.
sional production may Re admitted on
the strength Of that fact alone,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Last Week of Experience"

The last week of Experience" at the
Manhattan Opera House begins Mon.
day night. Dress rehearsals Of "Chu
Chin Chow" will occupy a whole week
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

CyoMEHow (and Of course II might
- be put to the war; G. B. Shaw has
suddenly taken on all the vaguely dis
tant and mellowed lineaments Of an Old
Master. The delectable Bernard has
become ASSOCIATED from his works;
they come floating out of the hinter-
land of time like kindly ghosts and
settle down at the Broadhurst Theatre
under the kindly ministrations of Mr..
Faversham-a kind Of footstool be-
stowal and tucking process-with all
the assurance Of yesterdays gentle
men. They grin and jounce no longer
with the impertinence OF youth. They
have shed. their enthusiasms and their
devotions along with their blood. And
out of this half mysterious visitation,
delightful though Mr. Faversham's
company allows it to become, arises the
realization that barrier has risen in
that road we call Time behind which
the living G. B. S. must probably re-
main; contributes the suspicion that
Shaw is a completed Shaw, fat
accompi. What adds conviction to the
suspicion is that people now go to the
Shaw theatre without a culver, a qualm,
a misgiving, quite as much as IL it were
the Follies or any other section of
the theatrical map which custom has
well established. In other words, MIR.
Shaw has been retired by the onrush
of time from the realm Of things that
people talk about 10 mechanically enter
the realm Of things that people go to
see. Mr.. Shaw is no longer regarded
with the narrowed and doubtful eye as
a propaganda. He is accepted now
without a moments hesitation as an
entertainer.
THERE was time in the long ago,
Il when the cult first began to be a
cult, when the only devotees who knelt
at the Shavian altar were those who
didn't have any need Of learning the
ritual. They knew all the ideas be-
cause they were the kind of people who
would have known them anyway, Shaw
or no Shaw. They could recite the
catechism backward and forward-the
English and the Irish, the church and
the army, love and marriage, the sins
of poverty, etc. That was, in a manner
of speaking, unfortunate, because it
was not so much that Shaw had ideas
about life as it was that he didn't
have the ideas about life that other
folks had And. as it turned out, il
wasn't the other folks who were doing
the kneeling at the shrine. Yet, it is
true that after a time it almost seemed
as if the Shavian manner would
triumph. 1t blasted its way through so
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
RUSS|A'S FUTURE
IS BEING SHAPED
MOSCOW BY PREMIER
kERENSKY.
CAUTIONS AGAINST DISORDER
Building in Which the Council Is
Meeting Is Surrounded BY Close
Chain Of Soldiers, With Officers
Every Few Yards.

Moscow.-The State Council which
promises important results in the ma
tional life of Russia which opened in
the Grand Opera House with that SOL
emnity and old Russian pomp espe-
cially characteristic of Moscow. The
tneater district was crowded with
sightseers and interspersed among
the members of the council were seen
the characteristic Russian types, in
cluding Tartars in peaker caps white
robed Mullahs from the Volga, Georg-
ians robed in cloth of gold, cassocks
and dignitaries of the Greek orthodox
church, who had arrived for the ecu
menical church congress, which be-
gins Tuesday.
Despite the one-day strike pro-
claimed by the Bolsheviki in protest
against the council as a counter-revo-
lutionary expression, the city is quiet.
A few incipient attempts by the Boil
sheviki street corner orators TO or
ganize demonstrations were suppress
ed by the crowds.
Precautions were taken against dis
orders and the council threatens to
show a rigor in this respect unknown
even in ante-revolutionary days. The
building in which the council is
meeting is surrounded by a close
chain of soldiers, with officers every
few yards. The soldiers are picked
men from regiments Of the Signal
Corps or cadets training for officers.
The chambers under the buildings are
occupied by soldiers with fixed bayo-
nets. Members and invited guests
before being admitted have their
tickets examined by nine different
military posts.
The proceedings began with a
speech by Premier Kerensky, lasting
an hour and a half. pronounced in
nervous and impressive voice, which
aroused tremendous applause, mainly
from that part of the Jheater occu-
pied by the democratic organizations
and members of he cabinet, but the
Duma members and the Moscow in
dustrial deputies also at times par
ticipated NJ. Kerensky spoke reso'
lutely. emphasizing the role he had
played in recent events and his de-
termination to guide. events in the
future.
The premier was greeted with wild
: applause, when. early in his speech
speaking of the dangers from the ex
treme left. he declared: "All at
tempts with armed force against the
peoples power. will be crushed with
blood and iron"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
FOOD SURVEY PLANS
ARE made PUBLIC
ALL SUPPLIES IN NATION IN
cLupEo IN cENSUs-To BE-
GIN WORK AT ONCE.

Washington.-A nationwide food
survey. authorized under the first or
the food laws recently enacted by
Congress, will be started immediate
" by the Department of Agriculture.
Plans for the census, announced,
show that it will cover nearly 100
items of food and will include sup
plies on the farms, in warehouses ana
stores and even the stock in the fam
lily pantry. A quick survey Will De
taken first of the supplies of Is OF
the principal articles of diet and PROB
ably can be completed in three or
four weeks, to be followed by COM
plete census after the crops are gath
cred. All of the figures will be as or
August 81
Information gathered by the depart
ment will be turned over to the food
administration, which will base its op-
erations largely on the statistics sup
piled. After. the survey is hnlsheo
monthly reports will be prepared on
the supplies of the principal foods.
The work will be carried on prlncl-
pally by the bureau of markets, :he
bureau of crop estimates, the bureau
of chemistry and states relations ser
vice of the department. Both actual
inventories and estimates will be en-
ployed. Estimates of the food and
feed products on farms will be made
for the whole country by the bureau
of crop estimates through $4,000 pick
ed co-operators in the field.
Information regarding stocks in
wholesale. jobbing, storing, manufac-
turing and other commercial estab-
lishments, including large retail
houses, will be obtained by requesting
from each concern a statement of the
exact amount of each of the various
products held by it. Comprehensive
lists of such establishments compiled
by the bureau of markets within the
last few years will be employed in
this work.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
SENATE DISCUSSES
POPE'S PEACE PLAN
SENATOR OWENS BELIEVES TEU-
TONIC AuTOCRAcY ARE CON-
ING TO ITS SENSES.

Washington.-In the first speech on
the general subject of the war and
prospects of peace delivered in the
Senate since the publishing OF Pope
Benedict's peace proposals, Senator
Owen of Oklahoma declared that the
fact that the pope, with the approval
of Austria and apparently with the
approval of Germany, proposed stimuli
taneous and reciprocal diminution of
armements" seemed to promise that
the Teutonic autocracy was coming to
its senses.
I'VE will help them reach a con-
dition of sanity" he added, by null
tiplying our war efforts and by co-ordi-
mating every nation in the world in
this struggle against the war domina-
ton of the Teutonic powers"
The senator spoke in support of his
joint resolution proposing an interna-
tional government and police to main
tain peace and competitive ornaments
and the ambitions of military dynas-
ties.
"Seven-eights of the people of the
world" he said, 'are at heart op-
posed to the ambitions of the Prus-
sian military autocracy, and the Unit
ed States should strenuously take
steps to induce every neutral nation
70 combine with the entente allies in
making war on Prussianism.
There is some reason to believe,
he added, that the German people
are about to awake from their dreams,
and that even the military group may
be coerced by German opinion
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
n |1CONSTRUCT|NGI
AHP BEAUREGARD|
...oaeps OF BUILDINGS, MANY
q ruEM LARGE, HAVE AL
ssAoy BEEN COMPLETED.
/ ERECT 100 MESS HALLS
-. wji Be Three Y. NJ. c. A. Army
.uditoriums, Each 100 BY 100 Feet
= size, With a Seating capa-
city Of 1900 Each.
Alexandria,


ylere are 2400 men at work in the
..,ms construction departments at
e.rp Beauregard. Hundreds of build
-. many of them large, have al
4 In been erected. but it is stated
....t the construction work has scarce
begun.
f,ue hundred mess halls will be
.r,efec. each of which are to be 20
= llo feet in size. 1t is etimated
AT II these were connected in a
sraisht line they would extend over
\ distance of three miles. These
npes halls will be constructed of
vood. with composition roofing. Each
| kzlI will seat a company of infantry.
| fhey will be screened. wired for cleo
ne lights, and connected with the
amp water system. They will be
sected in groups of twenty-five each,
b different portions of the camp. and
ue about 80 per cent complete.
There will be three Y M. c. A..
amy auditoriums, each 100 by 100
ieet in size, with a seating capacity Of
|l50o each. There will be one Y. NJ.
C. A. building for each regiment of
Infantry.
Ten warehouses for the quartermas.
ter's department have been complet-
ed and are practically ready to store
supplies. These are 72 by ITO feet
each. They are located near the
switch tracks of the railroads enter
ing the camp. The spur track is being
laid from Camp Beauregard to the
remount station, which is located
three miles northwest of the. camp
proper II will be a complete canton
ment in itself. and will be construct
ed OF wood and concrete.
There will be a base hospital 10
contain FIVE hundred beds for each in
antry regiment. There will also be
,ath houses and latrines connected
With the waterworks. conveniently 10
,ated for each regiment. There are
everal hundred of them. A passen-
ger station will be erected on the
'rounds as soon as the L. R. & N.
Dad completes its direct track into
he camp. At present transportation
rom the city to the camp is over the
= r. & N. and its connections with
Ne Tioga Gravel Company's road and
ne Lee Lumber Company's road.
Two small sawmills run by gasoline
'ngines are being operated on the
round to facilitate the work Of saw
ng lumber used in the construction
york.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
LOUISIANA IN BRIEF.

President Thomas d. Boyd, Of tie
Louisiana State University. has just
received letter from Y. T. Tsur,
president of Using Hua College, in
Pekin. China, saying that college, as
is Its annual custom. is apportioning
some fifty of its students among the
various American universities. and
that four of these will attend the
Louisiana State University during the
next session. to take the course in su-
gar engineering.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
Many Have Hook Worm.

Washington.-Discovery of hook
worm infection in AZ out of IS militia
recruits recently modified has caus-
ed Public Health Service authorities
to recommend prompt examination Of
all units of the National Guard and
National Army, especially these from
the South.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
Wilson Loses His Steno.

Trenton, n. J.-Charles Lee Sven.
nrivate stenographer to President Will
son. was passed by division draft
hoard No. 4'as physically fit for mill
tarv service in the National Army. He
said he would not file a claim for ex-
emption.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
Will Test Draft Law.

Washington.-Petitio for hearings
in the appeals testing the constitu-
tionality of the draft law were filed in
the Supreme Court for four residents
of st. Paul, Mimi, who were found
guilty of attempting to evade the
law and sentenced to serve one year
Imprisonment.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
More of Prussianisrn.

Geneva. Switzerland.-News re-
.ceived here from Munich, Bavaria,
saws that several Communications
are fighting with. the Bayarians, some
AS volunteers and others under COM
pulsion, Germany considering her ma
tionals wherever they may be natur-
allied. as Germans.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01

Copenhagen.-A renewal of strike
AGITATION in war Industries, evidently
on the part of extreme Socialists, is
reported from Berlin. A semi-othclai
notice says circulars are being dis
.tributed in munition factories advo-
eating a walkout.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
To Burn Grain Crops.

Boise, Idaho.-The Industrial Work
ers of the World are preparing to use
PHOSPHORUS with which to burn grain
fields and grain held in storage
throughout Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington, according to information sent
to sheriffs of Idaho by Harvey Alfred,
director of the Farm Markets BIZ
reau.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
"Nelp War Or Resign"

Chickasha. Qkla.-Algar Melton.
chairman of the Democratic State
Central Committee wired Senator T.
p Gore of Oklahoma. requesting him
10 help win the war or resign"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-09-01
John w. Garrett Named.

Washington.-John W. Garrett OF
Baltimore was nominated by Presi-
dent Wilson as minister to The Meth
erlands and Gutenberg.