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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-05-03
VERMONT LAST BLOCK
co. FILES LIABILITIES
owes 8.7O0.39-Asscis Are $780,
5gO.4S.

Rutland, May 1.-The Vermont Last
Block company against which an in
voluntary petition in bankruptcy was
filed some weeks ago in the United
States court has filed schedule of its
liabilities and assets in the office of Clerk
T.. S. Plat of this city. The total
liabilities are $l26, 100 20, claimed to be
$s4,667l2, and the assets are given as
ss2, 500. IS. There is $50 due 80 workmen
for wages and secured creditors claim
sSi.121, most of this being due the YER
mont National bank of Brattleboro
Ninetyfour unsecured creditors have
bills against the concern aggregating $751;
6l9.2
The assets include si0.97O in real estate,
s20,o ,os9 in stock in trade and $4,000 in ma
chinery.
The largest creditor is Brunswick Bake
Colender company, New York $l0.s60 The
only Burlington creditor is the Fabreeka
Betting company. which has a claim for
SO 20
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100000 TO IMPROVE
CHAMPLAIN "NARROWS"

Washington. May 1.-The House rivers
and harbors commission to-day resumed
of the annual waterways
appropriation bill based on war depart
ment recommendations.
The tentative draft includes, in addition
to the items already made public, the
following:
New York. improvement OF the narrows
of Lake Champlain. s3OO.0o0
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SUBMARINE MENACE
GROWS MORE DEADLY
EVERY WEEK OF WAR

100000 to 100000 Tons of Shipping Sent to Bot
tom Last Week in April-Huge Quantities Of
Ammunition and Foodstuffs for England
and France Irretrievably Lost-Britain's 81
Losses Alone Were 38 Vessels of Over 1900
Tons Each-Situation Admittedly Critical
Germans Now Sinking More Tonnage Week.
ly Than They Did Monthly Year Ago
Campaign If Kept to Present Figures
Threatens to Sweep the Seas Clean, Officials
Say.
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Leaves for France.

Montpelier May John S. Young. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Young. left
To-day for New York city. whence he
viii sail Saturday with A other Dart
mouth College students FOR France. Mr..
Young is senior at Dartmouth and will
receive his diploma, although not finishing
his term. The @ students form two units
Tor ambulance service and will be In the
service for six months and probably
longer.
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continued unchanged and that IT showed
no alarming increases. All it's members
agree the situation ia critical. however
and that the combined shipbujlding facilj-
ties of the world can meet the peril only
if their OUTPUT is increased tremendously
for exercising a more direct control over
the country's shippjng and shipbuildinp
facilities. Chairman Denman of the shin
ping board. said estimates had reached
the board of 200 600 TONS of shining sunk
in one week.
Tho present worlds shin tonnage ;s
1916 the entire loss in tonnage due to
war causes was put at a little more than
2.OOO 900 tons or some 49,, 900 tons a month.
At present the Germans are sinking con-
siderably more than that each week
A bureau of navigation report prepared
recently estimated the worlds ship con-
structon in 1916 at slightly less than
100000 tons. If the Germans keep up
their present rate of destruction officials
admit without hesitation that their cam
paisn threatens to sweep clean the seas.
Inc seriousness OF the SITUATION is ap-
parent said chairman Dehman to-day.
When we CONSIDER the present product
Nty Oh worio snip yaros ana their hlSn-
es' ou'Pu. likely "ith'n the next iour
I'ontns' .he ehure proouct'on WI" no.
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Smallpox in Bellows Falls.

Bellows Falls. May THE first case Of
smallpox reported in this town In years
was placed under quarantine by DR.. G.
S. Caverly of the State board of health
Of Rutland and DR., James +. OBrien
afternoon. Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Martin Of 32 Williams street. in thickly
populated section of the village. are IN
with the disease, They recently returned
from a visit in Plainiield.
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(Continved On page two)
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Last weeks statement showed that forty
vessels Of over 600 tons each were sent
to the bottom by mines or submarines.
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Christiania via London. May 2.-Seventy-
Ave Norwegian vessels were sunk by Ger
man submarines in April ans more than
100 sailoSs lost their lives. If such a
monthly loss was maintained Norway's
merchant navy would be destroyed in a
year and half.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
SIDELIGHTS ON
LIFE ON THE STAGE
Anecdotes, History, and a Lit
tie Fiction Told of and
by Actors.

Unlike the majority OF his fellow
British writer's, Horace Annesley
Vachell is not only a British author,
but an American ranchman. During
his youth and early manhood he lived
for some years in California, and was
close enough to the rough, primitive
life then to gain a view of men and
women much wider than that of his
comrades among Englishmen of let
ters.
His latest play, THE Case OF Lady
Gambler" which the Charles Frohman
Company will present at the National,
is the fourth play Mr.. Vachell has
had produced on this side, following
its success in London. Vachell has
not only ranched in California and
covered the State pretty thoroughly,
but he has tried his hand at big-game
shooting in the Rocky Mountains, tar
pom fishing along the Pacific, deer
stalking in Scotland. tramping through
Brittany, and he finds that, after all,
there are just two kinds of people.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
ELMENDoRF LECTURE.

Dwight Elmendorf has drawn
upon "oId German Towns" for the
illustrative material in his travel
talk to be presented at the New
National Theater next Thursday az
ternoon at 4:30.
4 strange mixture OF modernity
and mediaevalism will be seen as
Mr.. Elmendorf conducts his hearers
TO such places as Weimar, Eisenach,
Rothenburg, Nuremberg. etc. Be
ginning at Bonn. the chief town OF
the circle Of Rhenish Prussia, and
the birthplace OF Beethoven, the
towns associated with some OF the
imperishable names in literature and
music-Goethe. Schiller, Luther. List
and Sebastian Bach-wilI be visited.
and % further illustrate his subject
Mr.. Elmendorf will play selections
from the Did musicians either on The
piano or the great organ.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
CONCERTS F0R'cAPITAL
Musical Treats Provided for Resi-.
dents and Visitors. .

Nine. Yvette Guilbert comes to ,tss
Belasco Theater Tuesday and Thurs
day OF this week with the charming
program of song ana story.
Nine. Guilbert has selected for pre-
sentation to her Washington audience
some OF those numbers which, as evil
dences of her popularity, have formed
request programs in other cities:
Two "Legendes Dorees" OF the fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries, lie
Voyage de Joseph ct Marie a Beth
leem, and La Passion" two "Chan-
SONS des Veillees," La Legende de ST.
and "C'est lie Mai" Also
some songs of the seventeenth CEN
tury exhibiting the exquisite subtIety
OF Nine. Guilbert's art as a come
Manieres," La De-
Tense Inutiie." "Colinette," lie Lien
Serre," and La Mort de Mari"
The program will be concluded by
the tragic masterpiece. la Glu," by
Jean Richepin, and a poem represent
ing the spirit OF the woman through
the ages. Madame will preface her
songs with shO5texplanstiOns in Eng
The Washington times., 1917-03-11

that a word or two concerning her
early Struggles may be of interest,
Her childhood was one of almost
relentless poverty and gloom. She
herself comments that her earliest
recollectiOns were OF seeing the lamp
burning late into the night while her
mother sewed, and her father came
home in the dawning with his pockets
emptied by his craze for gambling.
There was a respite of a few years
when her mother, having invented q
new toque, orders began to pour in
to such an extent that II was possible
to send the young Yvette to a good
school for four years.
Suddenly business fell off again,
and once more economy in its most
rigid form was the order of the day.
In fact at twelve the now famous
Mime. Yvette Guilbert. then an an
aemic, cruelty thin girl. was compell-
ed to work from daybreak till dark
averaging with her mothers assist
ance three francs per day doing bead
work. This sort Of an existence
marked the period between her
twelfth and seventeenth year.
The turning point came, when one
Sidler, an impressario, offered her a
very substantial sum IL she would
turn circus rider. She did not be-
come a circus rider. but the interest
OF this gentleman coupled with con-
stantly expanding affiliations in the
professional world at last launched
Yvette Guilbert on a stage career.
From these beginnings she worked
out the now. well known programs of
chansons which she has made so out
standing a factor Of our own concert
stage.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
NazImova's New Play
Was Stunned mt First.

"'Cepton Shoals which comes to the
Belasco Theater next week, has been the
sensation Of the new year in New York.
summer. every one who read IL predicted
failure for II. Indeed, after the COM
pany was organized and the piece re-
hearsed, everything came to a stand
still because no New York house could
be obtained in which to show 1t. and a
Broadway showing Nazlmova insisted
they must have.
During this winter Manhattan theaters
have been at a premium, and when man.
ayers were approached on behalf Of the
somber play. in which the heroine kills
herself at the end. the answer was
Nothing doing!'
AS Nazimova and her managers are
not millionaires. they couldn't afford to
buy a house outright. as has been done
in more than one instance in the pres
ent season. However. a succession Of
failures at the Princess Theater finally
offered an opening there, of which the
Russian star eagerly availed herself.
She opened at the Princess New Years
day. and up to Saturday. February II.
there was not a single night in which
one ticket was left unsold. On Monday.
February 10, forced out of the Princess
through the desire OF the management
OF that theater to bring into II a mu-
sical comedy OF their own, Nazimova
moved to the Fulton Theater. where
there was but a single week available.
Her takings during this week were
close TO $4,000. yet despite this marvel
Gus business there was absolutely no
theater in which the run could be con-
tinued which would be available for at
least a month.
1t was finally decided by Nazimova's
managers. Messrs. Charles Bryant and
Walter F. Wanger. to play a short sea-
son OF four weeks on the road. at the
end of which time she will return to
New York and probably play "'Ception
Shoals" until the summer season is
well on.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
Loew's COlumblat Mary
Pickford-FIlms.


Today and for the entire week
Loew's Columbia announces Mary
Pickford in. her newest photoplay, "a
Poor Little Rich Girl" adapted from
the well-known book and play OF the
same name by Eleanor Gates. The
novel by Eleanor Gates became widely
popular. as did the play, which scored
a big hit at the Hudson Theater, New
York city, several years ago, and du-
plicated this success on the road. The
story has to do with Gwendolyn, the
poor little rich girl" so called for
her wealth OF material comforts and
her poverty in the happiness and sf-
fection she Graves. Surrounded by
everything that money can purchase.
she longs for the maternal love and
care that her mothers social duties
leave no time for. Wall Street and
it's daily battle of bulls and bears so
fully occupies her fathers attention
that he, too. neglects to show her the
affection that a father should. In
this environment her dreary little life
goes on day after day. Each morning
the austere tutors instruct her in
the schoolroom under the guidance
of Miss Royle, the governess, and
each afternoon that the sun shines
Jane. her nurse, accompanies her for
a ride through the park in her H.
mousine, guarded by liveried footman
and chauffeur. At sundown a hur-
ried kiss dismisses her from the par
ents, who must hurry of to some
social function or to a business con-
ference, and her fearful eyes close
on one drab day only TO open on an
other.
How she finds happiness is the plot
of the story.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
GHrdenI VIM. q.
Hart. Films.

William 6. Hart will headline the
program at Moore's Garden Theater
from today until Wednesday. incIu-
sive. in The Gun Fighter" the lat
est Western bad man" picture from
the Thomas II. Ince studios.
THE Gun Fighter" is a story OF
both regeneration and selksacrifice.
Hart has the role OF CIin Hud-
speth. known as THE Killer" a re-
lentless individual. One day, after
Hudspeth and his gang had van
quished rival clan OF outlaws with
considerable bIoodshed. THE killer
is greatly surprised to be taken to
task by a young girl, who accused
him of being a cold blooded muir
derer
In a rage he kidnaps the girl, but
finding he Is unable TO either terrify
or conctltate her. sends her home
again. Strange as II may seem, the
brief presence OF the girl has
wrought change in the srstwhiIe
bad man." and he foilowS her to
her home. He arrives lust in time
to save her from halfbreed raider.
This is the great episode Of the
play, wherein The Killer" sacri-
fees his own life TO save the girl
from a band OF renegade outlaws.
In the supporting cast will be
Margery Wilson, Roy Laidlow, J. u
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
LINCOLN PhoroPIAXs-

The local presentation Of the Lin
coin cycle OF photopIays at the Be.
lasco mas been extended to include
two showings today-matinee at 2
o'clock and evening performance at
SIS.
This first story in the BENJAMIN
Chaplin cycle, THE Presidents An
swer.' is great moving picture.
showing Abraham LincoIn in a rru-
cial time, very similar to the p-CbIem
faced today by President Wilson. The
points Of resemblance 6f the psriIs of
ffty-six years ago to the present crisis
are somewhat startling.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
THE LURE OF ALASKA"

DIR. Leonard 8. Sudgen. who for
seventeen years has been explorins
the innermost parts of the wonder.
fully interesting and little known
province Of Alaska, is coming to the
Belasco fheater for two perform
ances Sunday March 25. when he will
show in motion pictures the marvels
and weird attraction of the Yukon.
DIR. Sudgen Is an Englishman by
birth, a Canadian by choice and
scholar as well as an explorer by
profession: he Is an ex-surgeon OF
the northwest mounted police.
In his lecture, THE Lure of
Alaska" are shown some of the most
marvellous moving pictures ever taken
of that far northern land.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
Poll'sI "Mile-a-Minute-
Kendall" Stock.

''Mile-a-Minute Kendall is the at
traction to be presented this week
by the Poll Players. This play is a
comedy drama which opened in New
York in the. early part of last No
vember. Oliver Morosco, the original
producer, has been importuned by
Manager Thatcher, of the Poll forces,
to permit this coming performance
the first release for repertoire COM
panies.
This is its first production at pop
ular prices.
Miles Minute Kendall is person
flied by a swift-moving individual
who is involved in a breezy lot of
escapades.
with his companions on Broadway.
Kendall lands in a village inn on the
Boston post road. 1t is here, in the
midst OF difficulties with his parents
that Kendall meets a little country
leave him, but the little country girl.
Kendall falls i'll. then follows many
a weary week Of nursing, but at last
the piucky little girl brings him
around.
When the landlord would fire Ken
dali for not paying board, it is Joan
who intercedes; when the New York
friends try to inveigle him back to
the white lights, II Is Joan who pre-
vents him from going. When II is
money Kendall Is in dire need of, II
is Joan who draws her ali from the
bank and gives II all to him.
Then the manlIness in Kendall as
serts itself. He determines to do
something big. He hits upon q
scheme to develop a new motor fuel.
But the engine does not work. There
are dark days. Erstwhile boosters
and friends drop away.
Kendall is due for trouble again
when the plucky little girl stands
back of him. and says he must make
the thing work, and he does.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
Strands Mabel Talia-
ferrO Films.

Mabel TaIiaferro, remembered be-
hind the tootlights as the star OF
Polly of the Circus" and Spring
time" will be screened at Moore's
Strand Theater today and Monday in
THE Barricade." A girls father
speculates with money belonging to
the firm of which he is president,
a certain financier has ruined him.
Planning revenge, she wins the
love of the millionaire, marries him
and then deliberately proceeds to
bring about his ruin. When she has
him absolutely at her mercy, her
father confesses that he has lied
about her husband.
Then she realizes the barrier" she
has erected between herself and her
husband. She tells the man the
truth. and loving her dearly he takes
her to his heart again.
On Tuesday. Helen Chadwick and
Montague Love, will be featured in
a filmization OF A. II. Woods noted
stage success. THE Challenge" The
plot of the piece concerns the cir
convention of a giant engineering
project conceived by a band of card
sharpers by an intrepid young girl,
the daughter of an old miner.
On Wednesday and Thursday, Rob
ert Harron will head the bill in THE
Bad Boy" The, story concerns the ad-
ventures OF Jimmie, known as the
worst boy in the village. Resenting
his fathers i'll treatment, he leaves
home and after a series of adyen-
lures is instrumental in saving the
robbery.
Constance Talmadge. the younger
sister of Norma Talmadge, will make
her debut as q screen star on Friday
and Saturday in THE Girl of the
Timber Claims"
The daily program will further in,
clude other pictures and special must
cal Accomplishments by the Strand
Symphony Orchestra.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
The Strange Case of
Minnie Palmer.

The four Marx brothers who are at
the Keith's Theater this week, are
under the direction OF a woman pro-
ducer known by the name OF Minnie
Palmer. Not Miss Palmer nor Mrs.
Palmer, but just Minnie Palmer.
This producer is so inordinately
proud OF this quartet and their act
that one naturally thinks that she
must be a bit OF an egotist. However,
the strange facts of this case enable
one to completely forgive the pride
of this woman producer OF Chicago.
FiAst of all. one becomes more len
lent upon bearing that her family
relations are justifiedly theatrical to
the nth degree. Levi Schonberg, at
one time a wellknown magician and
ventriloquist, now ninety-seven
years old, Is her father. Her mother
was on the stage. One brother, Al
Shean. Is a German comedian; another
brother, Harry, manages one Of the
Minnie Palmer acts.
In the light OF the foregoing sta
tistics against Minnie Palmer, one
can almost forgive her for being
proud OF who she Is and what she
does, but there is something else
which makes one forgive everything
even her inordinate conceit over
the Marx brothers.
They are her sons.
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
BeIascoI San Carlo
Opera Company.

The San Carlo Grand Opera Company
eEins its weeks engagement at the
:elasco Theater tomorrow night This
rand opera organization. under the
management Of Fortune Gallo, appeared
n Washington last season with dis
,inction. The manner Of presentation Of
all Of their operas and the personnel Of
The cast is recalled with satisfaction.
The musical directors are Chevslier
Carlo Peroni and Signor Ugi Barducei.
Many Of this seasons personnel were
in the company at the time Of the
former visit.
The detailed casts for the week are as
follows:
Monday night, Carmen" cast: Don
lose. Manuel SalaZar; EscamillO. 4.
Giuseppe Battistini, Remendado,
Luciano Rossini; Dsncaird Ma
ale Cervi; Zuniga, Pietro de Biasi;
Morales. L. DeIlemolle; Mercedes,
Anna Haase; FrRsquita, Alice Homer;
NTicaela. LuIsa DsrcIee, and Carmen,
Esther Ferrsbini.
Tuesday night, Lucia di Lsmmer-
moor" cast: Henry Ashton. Angelo
AntoIa; Lucia, Edvige Nsccari: Ed
gar Of Ravenswood, s. Scisretti: Ray
mond, Natalie Cervi: Alice, Alice
lioUltEs -NOIIudus -thlbHiO NtllOl, ana
Lord Arthur, Lucina Rossini.
Wednesday matinee, Martha" cast:
Lady Harriet, Edvige Naccari: Nancy,
Stella Demette; Lionel. s. Sciaretti:
Plunkett, Angelo Antola; Sheriff, An
tonic CanoVa, and Tristan, Natalie
CerVi.
Wednesday night, "Cavslleria Rusti-
cana" followed by "Pagliscci" Cast
''CsvslleTia Rusticana:" Ssntuzza,
Mary Kaestner; Lola. MaddsIena Car
r"no; Turioiu, EuGeniO de Folco;
Mama Lucia, Anne Haase, and Alto,
-. Battistini
"Pagliacci," cast: Media. Luisa Dar-
ciee; Canio. Manuel SaIazar: Tonic,
Angelo Antola; Silvio, l.. Dellemolle.
and Beppe (Harlequin). Luciano Ros-
sini
Thursday night, La Gioconda."
east: La GiOconda. Mary Kaestner;
La Cieca, Stella Demette: Laura.
Msddalena CsrrenO; Enoz. Manuel
SalsZar; Alvise. Pietro De Biasi:
IUane. Natalie Cervi: Barnaba, g.
iiattistini; Isepo. L. Rossini. and A
Pilot. L. Dellemolle.
Friday night. "Rigoletto." cast:
Duke Of Mantua. $. Scaretti: Gilda,
Edvige Vaccari: RiEoletto, Angelo
Antola; Maddalena, Stella Demette;
The Washington times., 1917-03-11
b. r. KeIth'si. .America
First Vaudeville.


america First" is the timely
Broadway production which will ap-
pear and hold the center of the stage
at the B. F. Keith Theater this week.
It is described as a martial, musical
pageant, and the producers are Rolfe
and Maddox. Featured In the cast is
Bruce Weyman and his support en-
lists an unusually large number of
metropolitan comedy players.
The pageant Is in three scenes: the
first at West Point, showing the
cadets; the second on the fore deck
of the United States bsttleship penn
sylvania:" and the third at the Ma
tional Guard encampment on the
Mexican border.
The extra added attraction will be
Home Again." a musical comedy pro-
duced by the four Marx brothers, aid
ed by eleven singers. dancers. and
comedians. 1t is in two acts and Is a
portrayal of the return voyage of
American tourists who have had their
I'LL of fun abroad.
Third on the bill will be Dorothy
Toye, the dual voiced singing COM
.edian who alternates soprano and
tenor.
Joseph Hart will present the char
acter comedian Harry Beresford, az
sisted by Isabel Mendosa, Frederick
Howard. and Harry whalI. in
Twenty Odd Years." a comedy by
Tom Barry.
A dance spectacle will be presented
BY Harold DuKane, assisted by June
Edwards and Gladys Taylor.
Roland Travers, "the Musical
Johnstons," the pipe organ recitaIs.
and the ninth episode Of "Patria"
called Cats Paw and Scape Goat"
showing Mrs. Vernon Castle escap-
ing death. conclude the program.