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New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
On the Screen
Miss Ellington Not Over
Expressive in Her First
Play. Sacrifice"

It seems unlikely that Margaret
llllngton will add to her laurels
through the medium Of the screen.
In Paramount picture, "Sacrifce,' -
which was shown in the projection
room yesterday. Miss Ellington is cast
ss Mary Stephani and Vesta Boris. She
is more satisfactory AS Vesta, a notori-
Gus dancer, than as Mary Stephani, but
the distinction is merely sartorial, for
Miss Ellington does rot carry cut the
illusion, which is the object of the
double exposure.
Her facial expressions and her man
ner never seem clearly TO indicate
whether one is gazing on "the idol Of
Zandria" or merely the young daughter
of Count Stephan.
Jack Holt. as Captain Paul Ekold,
carries oil the honors Of the picture.
He is at all times the gallant young
army officer and never suggests a
movie hero dressed up in a uniform.
The story tells of two rival princi-
palities, Nordhofr and Zandria. Stephan
Stephani and his daughter, Mary, visit
Zondria to discover plans for an attack.
and while in the capital Stephani
meets Nesta Boris. who informs him
that she is his illegitimate daughter.
He readily accepts her statement be-
cause of the remarkable resemblance
between her and Mary.
Count WenZel, Nesta's sweetheart, Is
il possession Of some valuable papers
and Count Stephani finally prevails on
.Nesta to steal them. To do this II be-
comes necessary to kill Wenzel. but in
her patriotic zeal Vesta will stop at
nothing.
She finally induces Mary TO change
passports with her and escapes 10
Nordhof. but when she learns that
Mary Is 10 be shot as a spy she goes
back and offers herself as the sacrihce.
The plot is interesting. 1t is by Bea-
trice de Mile and Leighton Osmun
from the story by Charles Kenyon.
"The Flashlght" starts out 20 be a
mediocre sort of picture, and it has the
courage of its convictions for the first
two reels; then Dorothy Phillips steps
within range of the camera and the
story really begins.
Many star of greater magnitude
has not Miss Phillips's power of illumi-
nation. for in the opinion OF the writer
she has more charm. beauty and soul
than nearly any other screen favorite.
Her work is exquisite and appealing.
The story is quite impossible, but IL
is important inssmuch as it serves as
a vehicle for Miss Phillips. 1t tells
Of one Jack Lane. who has gone to the
mountains TO experiment in phOtogra-
ply Lane has perfected some sort Of
iashlight whereby an animal will au-
tomatically photograph itself If 1t
the set for IN
The first experiment is successful. as
it shows on the negative beautiful
girl. Unfortunately. she is carrying a
gun and ia going in the genera direc-
ton OF Brixton's cabin. and during the
night Brixton was murdered.
Both Delce, Miss Phillips. and Lane
are suspected of the murder. but finally
they are cleared, although each gets a
life sentence. The verdict is pronounced
in the final fadeaway.
Lou CLANCY plays dual role-that
Of Henry Norton and Porter Brixton.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03

BY HEYwOOD BROUN

There were songs and singers, too,
when THE Highwayman" was revived
at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre last
night. At least three good voices
graced the performance Of Reginald de
Koven's spirited score, which was COM
posed almost twenty years ago. The
jokes, which are early Harry Smith, are
even older, Of course. At times, indeed,
one longed for modernity and quips
about pajamas and polygamy.
Those were not the times when the
leader waved his baton and hunting
choruses rumbled, or the merry viii
layers piped their pleasing message, or
Captain Scarlet flung one hand aloft and
pledged his love to his coal black steed
and the open road. John Charles
Thomas was the highwayman, and he
Lot only sang with spirit but easily
and tunefully. Moreover. he was able
to carry very commendable Irish
brogue as well as tune. Sam Ash won
great favor with an excellent rendering
Of "Gretna Green" perhaps the best
ballad of the piece, and Blanca Saroya,
though bit too shrll in her first solo,
did delightful work with Thomas in the
duet, "DO You Remember, Love? ?"
Musicslly "The Highwayman" is far
beyond any of the popular shows of our
day, but it must be admitted that there
is not even the potentiality Of little
club in the cast for all the wealth OF
! good voices. The piece has been
mounted attractively and Edward Tenn
| pie has staged it commercially.
The comic portions of the piece are
intrusted to Jefferson De Angels. who
played Foxy Quiller. a Bow Street
constable. This part attracted so much
attention when The Highwayman'
was first produced that Foxy Quillei
became a slang phrase and another
show was built around the parsonage
1t may be that taste in humor has de.
veloped, or perhaps it has only
changed. At any rate, we cannot stanc
/ the old jokes and the old business
De Angels was amusing only now anc
/ again.
1t mattered little. The book is
merely a little journey from song cue
/ 10 ong cue. Almost every number
was rapturously received last night
/ and there was encore after encore
Among the songs which hit the fancy
/ were "Vive la Bagatelle." "Kitty
/ O'Brien," "The Farmer and the Scare
/ crow and while the Four Winds
Blow" "The Highwayman" is a capi.
tai entertainment for lovers OF light
! opera.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Hole in Sidewalk
Engulfs 3 Boys;
One Is Drowned
Twenty Feet Below Street
Lads Splash About Until
Aid Comes

The spring sunlight lay warm and al
Turing on East Fourteenth Street yes
terday afternoon. II brought three
fve-year-olds 10 the foot Of the wall
surrounding the Consolidated Gas Com
psny's yard, near Avenue c, where
passing feet do not so often obliterats
the chalk marks one needs in a marble
game.
For perhaps fifteen minutes Joseph
Delehanty, Tommy Pulitski ard Frank
Dowichkowsky played together, hop
ping about and squsbbling like so many
spsrrows. And then suddenly they
were not. One minute, they had been
crouched on tho tagging, all talking az
once. The next, the three active little
figures had vanished, the sidewalk was
empty and a hole yawned black where
they had stood. Tho earth had opened
like a great mouth beneath them and
had swallowed them and seven feet o.
pavement without a sound.
From the cavity came sounds o.
splashing and screams of terror. for
the throat of the mole was filled with
muddy water, in which the three
foundered, striving vainly for hand
hold upon the gravel about them.
Street Cleaner Arrives
In few seconds only two voices were
crying for aid, and when Marcus Suss
man, street cleaner, arrived at the
lip of the hole the frightened faces o.
Joseph and Tommy alone peered up AZ
him.
Sussman plunged in and held up the
pair until Michael Dunno, a special po-
liceman, and John Fitzgerald came 10
his aid. The children were dragged
out, pointing at the thick brown water
below, and waling for Frank"
The hole was deep, and the three men
dived for some time IN an effort tc
/ find the third lad. The bottom was
thick with sticky mud, which clung 70
them At last they were obliged TO
give way 20 fremen from Engines o
and 20 and the Rescue Squad.
They grappled for the body without
| result. The engines attempted 20 pump
out the hole, but could make no head
| vav against the water. Frank Clark, o.
! the Rescue Squad. put on a regulation
! oxygen helmet and tried TO descend,
I
piece quickly filled with water and ne
/ had to be dragged out again.
Diver Is Summoned
At last, when everything else had
! failed, a diver was summoned. He was
one Moran, employed by a subway con
struction company. He went down twice
before he found the body, far under
ground, almost beneath a gas tank ut
the other side OF the wall.
The hole was twenty feet deep, and
the fact that the work of the fire en-
gines failed to reduce the amount OF
water it contained led to the belief
that it was connected with the East
River by an underground passage. The
gas tank near by was old and was being
dismantled at the time of the accident.
Charles Carse, in charge Of the work,
was arrested by Captain Sexton, OF the
East Twenty Street Station, on
a technical charge of homicide.
The drowned boy lived at 636 East
Fourteenth Street.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Loses Share in 100000
Will by Secret Marriage

Because Of her secret marriage, con-
trary to a promise, Mrs. Florence j.
Kugle Ennis is deprived OF any share
in the estate of her foster father, Will
lam II. Brown, whose will was filed yes
terday in the Surrogates' Court.
The will reads: "My reason for not
leaving any portion of my estate to my
adopted daughter is because she has
already been mentioned in the will of
my wife and has recently been secretly
married without my knowledge and con-
sent and in violation of a solemn prom
ise made to my wife" Mr.. Brown left
about 100000.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Legislature in
Deadlock Over
Local Option Bill
Favored by Senate Commit.
tee, 1t Has Amendments
Assembly Refuses

tFron star Correspondent, o, Tho Trtbun.l
Albany, May The Legislature is
deadlocked on the Hill-Wheeler local
option bill for cities, which passed the
Assembly months ago. 1t was reported
favorably to-day by the Senate Com
mittee on Taxation and Retrenchment,
but burdened with amendments which
the Assembly leaders refuse to accept
A conference Of Republican leaders
Of both houses failed to reach any
agreement on the bill. Now not only
has final adjournment been postponed
indefinitely, but an extra session is
threatened by Governor Whitman. and
the Legislature is in a hopeless snarl.
The principal difficulty seems to be
that the Senate does not know whether
to take the Governor seriously and
pass the bill this year or wait until
next year, when it would be better
campaign material. The conference OF
Republican leaders of the Senate and
Assembly lined Speaker Sweet and the
Assembly leaders solidly with the Gov
ernor on the original bill against SEN
ator Elon X. Brown, the Senate leader
Dut IL broke up IN a row when Senator
Hill and Assemblyman Wheeler brough,
word from the Executive Chamber that
the Governor would call an extra ses.
SION II the bill failed to pass.
The fight was carried from an carly
committee meeting TO the Senate floor
IL started when Senator Brown pro-
posed two amendments. One would
extend to all cities of the state, in
cludlng New York, the right TO vote
first whether it wanted TO come under
the provisions of the bill at a special
election next April, and, if it decided
yes, to vote on the local option ques-
tions at special election the follow
ing April.
II the first vote was mo" the same
referendum could not be had for five
years. The other amendment proposed
the submission of the question "wet'
or "dry" instead of the four questions
now voted on in towns.
Speaker Sweet and Mr.. Wheeler made
it plain to Senator Brown that the
Assembly would not stand for the
DtHdlc NHANAi' W NAN "NS
were defeated in Senator Browns owr
party conference. The Speaker saic
the Assembly and the Governor would
consent reluctantly to an amendment
giving New York City double referen
dunn because of its enormous invest
ments in real estate involved IN the
liquor traffic, but not the other pro
poSals.
Senator Brown retorted that the Sen
ate would not stand for the original bll
passed by the Assembly without M
amendments. Whereupon Speaker
Sweet told him that if the Senate
adopted the amendments and sent th
bill back to the House it would refus
to accept them, force the bill into
conference committee, and, after brie
period, adjourn.
That announcement nettled Senate
Brown considerably. but it was not al!
Senator Hill then informed the confer
ence that the Governor had given assur
ance that il satisfactory bill was no
passed he would call the Legislature Il
extra session.
Senator Brown promptly adjourned
the Senate and called his lieutenant
into conference. He admitted that tn
| conference had not reached an agree
ment. and announced fatty that ther
would be no final adjournment thi
week
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Francke Leaves Harvard

Cambridge, Mass, May 2.-The board
of overseers of Harvard University an.
nounced to-day that the resignation OF
Kuno Francke, professor of the his
tory of German culture and curator of
the Germanic Museum, had been ac-
cepted. lie has been made professor
emeritus and honorary curator OF the
museum.
Professor Francke requested 20 be
relieved from active duty few weeks
ago and asked that the resignation be-
come effective September /. He was
granted a leave of absence for the rest
Of the school year. He gave no reason
for his resignation, but is known TO be
writing a German history.
Professor Francke was born in kiel
Germany, in 1855. He came to Har-
ward in 1884.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Jewish Patriotic Rally
AT Cooper Union To-Nigh,

The first big Jewish patriotic rally since
the declaration Of war will be held tonight
NJ Cooper Union under the auspices OF the
Jewish League Of American Patriots Samuel
UnteTmyer will preside. and the speakers
viii be Jacob II. Sehif. Louis Marshall. Oscar
s Straus. Representatives Julius Kshn and
Isaac Siegel. Commissioner Of Eduea ion Jo,,
seph Bsrondess. Judge Aaron J. Levy and
Louis Miller.
The Jewish problems growing out Of the
var will furnish the topics for discussion
especially the liberty Loan 10 Russia
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Vogel Giving $4,000 a Year
Salary to War Charities

Martin Vogel head OF the United States
Sub-Treasury in this city, is giving his salary
OF $1,000 year TO charitable organizations
and committees engaged in war relief.
Ulysses S. Grant, %. an Official Of the Treas
ury Department, and Mrs. Vogel will advise
In the distribution OF the fund.
II am merely doing M Bit" said Mr.
Vogel yesterday, "Rnd I am sure that most
every one will do his or her duty either IN
money or services 70 the government in any
capacity either here or abroad"
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Plays and Players

"Her Soldier Boy late Of the Astor
and at present of the Lyric, will try
still a third theatre in another two
weeks. On May II il will move TO the
Shubert, dispossessing Victor Herbert's
Eileen" The Lyric will thercupon re
vert TO the films, "A little thing entitled
"One Law for Both" being destined 10
begin an engagement there on May l3.
Lauret,e Taylor has informed the
, Stage Women's War Relief Fund that
with the beginning of her fall season
she will give weekly matinees for the
funds benefit. These performances
will be given on Fridays, and such
stars as are in New York at the time
will be invited 10 participate.
A. II. Woods has resumed his fAvorite
occupation. that of engaging Robert
Hilliard, and il Is now planned to
star Mr.. billiard IN the Owen Davis
dramatization Of Arthur Somers
Roche's story, "A Scrap Of Paper" The
play will be given spring whirl out
Of town.
"Thc Charm Bird" with Mary Young
and Frederick Perry in the company,
broke the ice in New Haven last night,
and is announced as an imminent Shu-
bert attraction in New York.
The title Of the New Amsterdam
roof entertainment has been changed
from the "Zicgfeld Midnight Frolic" to
tho "Ziegfcld Elcven-Thirty i. NJ.
Frolic." which the municipal authori-
ties consider more euphonious.
The complete set of plans for the
future of "'rhe Wanderer," which sus-
pcnds on Saturday at tho Manhattan
Opera House, provides for the return
of the piece 20 that theatre on August
is for four and one-half weeks. The
sheen, the scenery and the actors will
then be loaded onto two special trains
and visits will be paid 20 Philadelphia,
Boston and Chicago.
II is reported that the series OF
farewells at the Hippodrome this week
are introducing distinct note OF
pathos into the proceedings. The ice
skaters will say goodby tonight, and
IL is expected that many IN the audi
ence will break down and cry.
q. S. h.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03

The Bard's Excuse

Horace: Epcde XIV
"Nol6s inertia tGntGn difuderit 'm's-'
An MAECENATEM
NrccuaS YOU wonder what spell ] am under
And why | continue to stall;
You cannot help thinking that have been drinkir
haven't at all
Nv verses arc thnniSh; ! can't seem to finish
The crcakng iambics start
The gods interference has caused my arrcarance-
The god of the heart).
BathvlmS Of Samos excited the famous
Anacrcon, maker of rhymes
Why. you took a trip in your car with pippn
\ couple Of times.
And 50 my cessation from versifcation,
For Phryncs the girl adore.
In which have plenty Of company-twcnty
Or twenty-cnc more)
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
K. of c. Doing Plattsburg Work

The Tribune, in its issue Of April 30,
through an error, gave credit 10 the Knights
of Pythias for the work being done at Platts-
burg in preparing barracks for reserve Of
fieers One hundred members OF the knights
OF Columbus are doing this work.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03

Some day. a a dinner dance may Mr. Shonts.
e reading your stuff for years shall say "and don't
e how you keep up-reay don't To have think of
e every week. That last sign How do keep
IN Nj Shons?"
the increase in the Of ice asonshed nonstop
rsaders Abacus It's rise predicted herein
last December when the first stories of the crops abundance
,,hThcl
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
THE DIARY OF OUR own SAMUEL pEPYS

April 3O-Rain all this day did dedicate it my art and
pgt IN best day spent which thank Heaven for.
May Early Office where all day at this and that and
Graves me- told tayes Of English officers
ard Rice also who says he would like to be commanding Off
m he could order around and it is likely he will be- for
should prefer enlist private being wearied of response
E then if shell disntegrated could feel certain it
was my and could blame another for demise To
Mistress Neysa she ill., home dinner and all evening
my svening finish Lewis Seymour and Some Wom
could get through the ncOnsequentiaity Of IT.
Early Office where all day at my stint J. Tannen
see me- unoded scheme he hath for advertising which
deemed 70 have huge possibilities Talk Of the ending by Oco
ber 1918, which l pray it will. or before.
Although slips by and then without having
attended film show shall have to to Baltimore this week.
We feel to Lafayette Theatres bill 1t contains "a Woman
Alone which photopay take fem the programme has been
pronounced production from angle Her Alice Bradys
excellent performance the dominating notes of the picture
Every will be sympathy with her efforts to bring this
condition Of life before them"
And there ""The of Kura San This tense dramatic
tale un depths of love to the depths of dpair
Her struggle mercy when he excams Women have souls
lis only beauty-and that's what leads dispa wonder
ful lesson"
Nor that all There is also Wife by Proxy photoplay
with bright desconsoate. One great
Halloween night at resort You will some fascinating
displaying their gowns and making things realistic
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Drama
Good Voices for Rollicking
Melodies in Revival of
"Highwayman"

"The Highwayman,' at the Forty
fourth Street Theatre. A romantic
comic opera by Reginald de Koven.
With John Charles Thomas. Presented
by the Shuberts.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Bill to Restore
Party Convention
Passes Senate
Measure Gives State Voters
Appeal at Direct
Primary
Prom star Correspondent, ., m. rribun. ]

Prom {, star Correspondent ~ m. Tribunal
Albany, May 2.-The Senate voted, 80
to H. to-day to restore the party CON
vention system of nominating candi-
dates for state Offices, giving the voters
an appeal at subsequent direct pri-
mary. This was in direct defiance OF
the wishes OF Governor Whitman, who
sent word TO Speaker Sweet Of the As
sembly that he did not want either this
bill or the Thompson bill reorganizing
the Public Service Commissions to
come to him. o.,
Democrats and Republicans alike
favored tho convention system. Sena-
tor Elon r. Brown. majority leader.
who, with Senator Ogden l.. Mills, OF
New York, led the fight for It, expected
thirty-seven Senators 20 vote with him,
but eleven Republicans md SIX Demo
Gratis voted no" The lineup indicates,
however that if an attempt is made to
pass the bill over the expected veto OF
The Governor the necessary two-thirds
vote can be obtained easily in the
Senate.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
You Never Said a Truer Word

Sir Il you had devoted time and thought big things
you be doing other things than
conduct a column q daily A. PF
Give me man drinks good hot dark strong coffee for
breakfast who smokes good dark fat cigar after dinner
Helen Rowland, in the Evening World
Especaly if he keeps up his insurance.
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
Washington Square

Is this the same old Square kissed fresh by May,
Where | once used to sit and face the
OF red brick houses and the Roman arch,
Filled with the wine of youth and rosy dreams;
The little girls hopping still across
The same chaked lines and back again the boys
Are splashing water from the drinking JET
The nurse maids congrcgae the under world
Yields up into the warming its drcgs-
God images who paw the wnd-bown sheets
OF any paper that floating by
The Journal or the World preferred) the trees
Are putting forth the green haze above
And on the walk there Oiter past my bench,
Each to the other leaning amorous,
The same drab lovers aureoed with Spring:
Above the trafics din for undersong,
] hear the waltz some hurdy -gurdy plays.
No. not the same, The ancient thrill is gone;
The memory of faces bobbing past
And shoulders cleaning in the golden light
OF fragrant hair that brushed my chin, and warm
Sweet ganceS as the music died away,
OF whose perfume provocative,
And ono who shut her eyes and showed her throat
As though she yielded to the violinS-
Il docs not COME call to it in vain
That once awoke, matter what the place
To wrap in a rosy revery
At summons of the hurdy-gurdys waltz.
khaki figure PAGES the curb
To guard the Russian consulate; the flags
Are whipping down the wind; against the sky
They seem like crimson flowers suddenly.
How beautiful they are, how full of liie,
How terrible and tragic And how real.
wish that waltz would stop. How old am,
How old the world Did we dance, and throb,
And dream our rosy dreams. and did Spring come
With petscd fingers TO our dusty Square
And make an opal Of the fountain spray
That little girl has missed her hop and had
20 put her other foot to earth She laughs
And tries again Her little throat is white
A few years
The hurdy -gurdy man
Has shifted to Il ragtmc tune. and
Can 90 about my business up Broadway.
WALTER PRIcHARD Eaton
New-York tribune., 1917-05-03
SONGS OF THE ECONOMIC WA

Jack Spratt was warned that fat
Was scarce, and was lean
So, applauded by the Board Of Food Control
He licked the platter clean IRWIN
Commercial candor in East Orange when your laundry "S
s'ne remember 800 Main St."
Our neighbors parrot Insomnia IT, has receFeh an o"cer
nnssion in the W cup America corps
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