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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
RUNAWAY GIRLS SEE
FILM AMBITIONS FADE
Sevcnty-hve Cents Saving Gone, Pair
Are Rescued Here

Bessie Lindow, fourteen, and Edna
ONeill. fifteen, both of Orange, n. j.,
took the IS cents which they had saved
through scruphlous seif-denial and
started for New York City Wednesday
night. BY Saturday at the latest they
expected to see their names in electric
lights before the Broadway motion
picture theatres.
Edna had written a movie play, which
she expected the film companies would
fight to get. She was also to be a great
actress. Bessie had no play, but she
expected to be a still greater actress.
it took 10 cents of their capital TO
get to New York. With one nickel left
they tramped the streets Of the city
until midnight, when pleasant-yolced
woman stopped them and questioned
them. Then she took the pair to her
home and locked them in her room.
Yesterday morning she read the
searchers after film fame lecture on
New York City which completely ruined
some of their former views and then
took them back to Orange. The Lindow
girl. who lives with her aunt at 100
Alden Street, was sent to the parental
home to await the arrival of her father
from Detroit. She is charged with be-
ing an incorrigible. Edna 0'Neill went
home TO her family, who live at lS7
Alden Street. The woman who brought
them back refused to give her name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
mo STRIKE BAR
IN RAILWAY BILL
House Committee Frames
New Measure Without
Wilson'S Proposal

Washington, Jan. 25.-After several
weeks consideration, the Senate inter
state Commerce Committee tonight
practically agreed on the substance OF
the railroad legislation it will recon-
mend to supplement the Adamson law
Another meeting will be held to-mor-
row. and Chairman Newlands expects 10
introduce the measure this week and
hopes to get it the right Of way in the
Senate next week.
Az now framed the bill would not
forbid a strike or lockout, as president
Wilson demanded, but would make II
criminal offence for q railroad emploSe
who has quit work to trcspass on rail-
road property with a view to preventing
by violence, intimidation or,threats the
operation of trains. A fine of Sl0O, or
Imprisonment for six months, are the
penalties for violation Of this provi-
sion. Chairman Newlands said 1t would
not apply TO picketing and the use OF
peaceful persuasion by strikers.
The committee has incorporated a
section declaring that nothing in the
bill shall be construed to annul the
provisions Of the Clayton act exempt
ing labor and other organizations from
the operation of the antitrust statutes.
Work on the military necessity feat,
ure of the bill was virtually concluded
tonight, and the authority 10 be given
the President will be confined to the
taking over and operating such part
of" a railroad or its equipment as is
necessary to move troops or munitions
in time of war, threatened war or in
surrection. Suggestions that it be ex-
tended to include cases of emergency
in times Of peace were voted down.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
TRISTAN" IS REPEATED
BY METROPOLITAN FORCES
Nine. Gadski Makes Seasons Second
Appearance as Wagner's Isolde

Tristan und Isolde" was sung again
last night at the Metropolitan Opera
House. Mr.. Urlus was the Tristan, Mr..
Braun the King Mark, Nine. ODER the
Braengaene, Mr.. Goritz the Kurwera
and Mr.. Schlegel the Melot The Isolde
was Nine. Johanna Gadski, who was
making her second performance of the
season.
Nine. Gadski's Isolde is an old &C
quaintance, and if it has never risen to
supreme heights, it has always been
painstaking and carefully composed. IT
was these last night. Nine. Gadski's
voice was in better condition than it
had been in her opening Elsa, despite a
certain tremulous quality in her tones.
Mr.. Urlus shouted his way through the
drama to the growing wonder that his
voice was able TO hold out. Nine. Ober
was also afflicted with this explosive
delirium. and Mr.. Gortiz likewise.
Mr.. Bodanzky has never been at his
best in Tristan" but he gives care
fully articulated reading or the score,
albeit one lacking somewhat in poetic
fire. The audience was of fine proper
tons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
To Tell Them from Mistresses
Is Roslyn's Servant Problem
Upstairs and Down Lose Their Separate Identities al
Neghborhood Associations Thursday Iea-China-
Breakers and China Buyers lndistinguishable

citation tea party. The servants we're
Just as lowly and as afable as their
own mistresses might have been.
say "might" advisedly, not yet knowing
which was which.
You couldn't tell by their clothes,
you understand, for the one had dressed
down for the occasion more than | had
expected, and the other hadn't dressed
up as much. And, anyhow, this is the
ready-made age.
Psychology Forgotten
There was a girl with cameo pro-
file and neat blue serge dress. who,
was sure, had cut q bridge party to be
there, and see that everything went
well. | was just about to discuss the
psychology of the beautiful Roslyn ,ex-
pertinent with her, when some one asked
what kind of tea she would have, and
she said, "Grane, mo-om." So l didn't
And then another woman asked me
how the baby was. And | didn't know
whether she was a nursemaid who
thought was another nursemaid she'd
met in the park, or young mother
who mistook me for some one who lived
on the next block. So / just SAID,
Slime" emitting pronouns. .,
Then ! danced with a man who looked
so much like chauffeur you've
noticed, of course, they are always so
handsome that heiresses often elope
with them?) that if you were in the
habit of having a chauffeur of your
own, you would probably have muir
murmed, "Fome, James" to him, quite
automatically. But later | heard him
making a date with another man to
play golf at the country club. Another
person who looked thoroughly human
turned out butler.
| thought | should have better luck
in the library, and that upstairs might
be reading II. G. Wells, and downstairs
consuming Robert Chambers. But then
| thought again.
So that's why | say there is still a
servant problem at Roslyn, and more
serious one than ever. And hope that
neither parlor nor kitchen will be an
moved by the fact that they look just
alike to an outsider on Thuradays and
Saturdays.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26

legal information can be given out
there.
This will put an end to Mrs. Sangers
plan to have the wealthy members OF
the birth control league keep the clinic
running even If she is Imprisoned, as
Mrs. Byrne has been. Her trial and
that of Miss Fania Mondell, her assist
ant at the clinic, will take place on
Monday in Special Sessions, Brooklyn.
There is little reason to suppose that
she will be shown any more leniency
than her sister.
Hope for the immediate release OF
Mrs. Byrne faded in the Supreme Court
Yesterday morning when Justice Crop
sew reserved decision in reply to Jonah
J. Goldstein's request for certificate
Of reasonable doubt concerning the con-
stitutionality of the law upon which
Mrs. Byrne was convicted.
Mrs. Lillian Fasset, the Western birth
control advocate who has been visiting
Mrs. Sanger, went to Albany last night
to urge the passage of birth control
legislation and the delegates of the
Committee of One Hundred will go
this morning. Mrs. Sanger herself,
after trying in vain to get a permit TO
visit her sister in the Workhouse, went
to a meeting in Bridgeport last night,
but will ask again to see Mrs. byrhs
to-day.
Commissioner Lewis made plea
that the women Of social position who
are interested in Mrs. Byrne and Mrs.
Sanger do not attempt to obtain spe-
cial tavors, as this causes discomfort
and cynical spirit" among the other
prisoners and interferes.with prison re-
form.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Twas me afternoon out.

4 was me afternoon out.
Out at Roslyn. l.. l., mean, where
they've solved the servant problem by
having kitchen and parlor meet at the
Roslyn Neighborhood Association on
Thursday aud Saturday afternoons, for
a social sip Of George Bernard Shaw,
a bit of billiards and friendly fox
trot.
I'm writing the story in the first
person, but as for signing it-that's
another matter, | was taught in early
youth never to s,;. anything that
might get me into "a, ~ble later. Dis
erection is the better .lr, of signatures.
Still a I'roolem
You see, I'm compelled to admit that
there's still servant problem at
Roslyn, and it seems to me a harder
one than ever before. The servant
problem at the Roslyn Neighborhood
Association clubhouse is TO tell them
from other folks. Probably both will
resent it. but my opinion is that up
stairs and down are on a level when
drinking tea. Ii the cooks are MUNICH
ing ladyhngers and the ladies are cat
ing cookies, how in the world are you
going TO tell?
Being inqdisitive is my business, Of
course, but | do draw the line now and
then. | draw it, for instance, just this
side of asking my hostess whether she's
a society woman or a second maid, and
of inquiring of the man who sits next
If he commutes or chautfs.
At first / hoped to be able to guess
whether they belonged to the china
buying or the china breaking class by
their manners. Walters and laundresses
and folks like that are usually naughty
snobs, who subdue me utterly. / try
to tell myself that I'm just as good
as they are, and that. with the grace
of God, | might have made beaten
biscuits or scrubbed floors myself. But
it's no use.
And anyhow, that signpost failed
yesterday at the Neighborhood Asso-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
MATINEE FOR ACTORS FUND
Yearly Benefit To Be Staged at Century
This Afternoon

The annual benefit for the Actors
Fund of America, to provide which nu-
merous well-known players rally to the
call Of Daniel Frohman, will be staged
this afternoon at the Century Theatre.
The programme includes five sketches,
in addition to the various individual
appearances, and will accordingly begin
at 1880 o'clock.
Among those who have offered their
services are Blanche Bates, Laurette
Taylor, Elsie Ferguson, Julia Arthur,
Cecil Cunningham, Lucille Watson,
Mary Lawton, Robert billiard, Frank
Keenan,, Conway Tearle, Maclyn Ar
buckle, Leo Garlic, Billy b. Van and
James K. Haekett.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
All but 3 Stars Overpaid,
William A. Brady Tells
Wheeler Committee
HEADS ARE TURNED
BY MOVIES, HE SAYS
Sale of Pictures Abroad
Hampered, Adolph
Zuker Explains

The motion picture producer gets no
h.rc in the prosperity of these days
g william A. Brady, president OF the
world Film Company, and Adolph Zu-
- rresident Of the Famous Players
1..tv Company. yesterday told the
wheeler legislative committee. The
bosv is sitting at the Murray Hill
uo,ol 20 determine whether a special
,.v on the film industry is justihable'
oTbe trouble is that there are as
INV theatres as there are saloons,
"a Wr Brady. "The system of dis
.,;bntinc pictures is a joke. With the
exeeption Of the payment to the star
,bere is no greater waste in the bust
nos. than in the distributing end
There will be no money in it until there
is 3 total reorganization"
Questioned about salaries paid TO
..ars. Mr.. Brady said that Charlie
cbaplin. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary
p;ekford we're worth every cent they
received for their services, but that
most Of the other players were over
paid.
The trouble is that many stars who
received $40 or $50 a week on the
legitimate stage draw ten times that
amount. Their heads have been
,urnsd." Mr.. Brady asserted. "My own
daughter is getting So much money
,ba. have to take half her weekly
salary and put it in trust for her
Otherwise. she would spend it reck-
lessly and fOolishly."
Both Mr.. Brady and Mr.. Zukor
agreed that there was a tremendous
oyerproduction of films. Describing
the merging of four companies under
the Famous Players-Lasky standard,
Mr. Zukor explained that such ANAL
gamation was necessary to save the
q companies from dissolution.
Losses in motion picture ventures
will keep moneyed investors from en-
tering the field until a more stable
basis for the business has been estab-
hshed, according TO Mr.. Zukor. The
. added expense of the large number OF
features now being produced was bal
anccd by the reduction in the number
Of one reel subjects. he explained.
Regarding foreign sales of pictures
Mr.. Zukor said that Great Britain
would not perm il films from this coun
try TO get into Scandinavia, and thai
France would not permit importation
because it meant money leaving The
country.
The hearing will be continued to-day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
MRS. BYRNE WEAK
AFTER 4-DAY FAST
Continued from page l

day. and that experts will be sum-
moned from the city TO direct the oper-
atoms, as the resident physicians have
had little experience of the kind.
The Island authorities, however, are
confident that it will not come to that
point, despite the fact that since Mon
day morning, when she had cup of
coffee, she has tasted nothing, not even
water, according TO her lawyers.
In the meantime, things have not
been going we'll for the birth control
cause. Mrs. Margaret Sanger, sister of
Mrs. Byrne, was indicted by the Kings
County Grand Jury for maintaining a
public nuisance" in her birth control
clinic in Amboy Street, Brooklyn. She
pleaded not guilty and gave $500 bail.
A policeman will be stationed at the
establishment at once, and 40 more il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
! DIVORCE GRANTED
| MRS. J. II. RHOADES
BY RENO COURT
Wife of New York Banker Wins
Decree on Her Gross
Complaint
IN, Telegraph 20 he rnbun,I


Reno, New, Jan. 95.-A divorce was
granted to-day to sirs. John Hsrsen
Rhoades, wife of wealthy banker and
clubman Of New York. Mrs. Rhoades
arrived here a few days ago and fled
cross complaint TO her husbands
suit. She charged desertion.
Rhoades established his residence In
Reno nearly year ago. In his COM
plant he asserted that shortly after
their marriage in Boston on October
20. 1895, his wife frequently exhibited
a violent temper; that she was indii-
ferent to him, and, beginning with
1906, seemed to prefer the society OF
others. Once, he charged. while they
were at their summer home, his wife
refused to allow his chauffeur to meet
him on his return from business and
he had to walk d mile, carrying ms
handbags.
In her cross complaint Mrs. RhOades
denied all the charges. Rhoades o.
fered no defence. There was no mem
ton of alimony or property settlement
in the decree, but IL is understood thaS
a satisfactory division of property was
arranged out OF court.
John Harsen Rhoades is head OF Tie
banking house Of shoaades Co. a. 8.
Wall Street. He is forty-eight years
old. and has been a factor in the city's
financial world for a score OF year,.
He has been prominently Identified
with banking reform movements. HIS
father was the late John Harsen
Rhoades. Mrs. Rhoades was formeriy
katherine Preston Kimball, daughter
of David P. Kimball, a retired Boston
lawyer and railroad director. The
Rhoades home is at l02 East Thirty
9Th Street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
ssOoO0o Loan for Show Building

The Exhibition Building, Inc, which
was incorporated on January II, with
a capital stock Of $4,000, yesterday
negotiated loan of 100000 from tho
Dime Savings Bank OF Brooklyn on the
property situated or the south side or
Forty-second Street, 300 feet west or
Sixth Avenue, and extending through
the block TO Forty-frst Street. A
twenty-nine story and loft building viii
be erected on the Forty-second Street
front, with a nine story frontage on
Forty-first Street, the structure to
cost not less than $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Bows Guests of Rotary Club

Seventy-fve boys, some of them sons
of members and others their office
boys. were guests of the Rotary Club
yesterday at a luncheon in the Hotel
McAlpin. Claude Tassey won a course
of twelve boxing lessons donated by DR..
Joseph b. Knipe. Each boy received a
bank. The key will be kept by the
clubs secretary for year, when a
prize will be awarded to the boy hav-
ing saved the most money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
New Play for Punch and Judy

Charles Hopkins yesterday an
nounced that the next production at
the Punch and Judy Theatre will be a
play by new dramatist, Meade
Minnegerode. Following the departure
of Treasure Island" tomorrow the
theatre will be dark for the balance of
the season. and the new play will not
be seen until fall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
FRANCIS WILSON WEEDS
Hastens Ceremony and Starts Away Tor
Honolulu Honey moon

st. Louis, Jan. 25.-Advancing the
announcement date Of their marriage 4
month or more, Francis Wilson, the
comedian, and Miss Edna +. Bruins. OF
ST Charles, Mo. who has been wilson's
leading lady in several plays, were
married here this afternoon. They de-
parted at once for Hawaii, where they
viii spend several months. Later they
will return TO New York.
Mrs. Wilson is the daughter OF
banker and automobile manufacture.
She first appeared on the stage at the
time OF the Louisiana Purchase Expo
xition in st. Louis. She joined VIII
sons company in 1907, after contem-
plating becoming a nun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Miss Anglin To Be Screen Star

Margaret Anglin is the latest actress
to consent to enter the films. accord
ing to an announcement made yester-
day by the Sanger Picture Plays Cor
poration. Miss Anglin has recently
been rehearsing in "The Lioness,' a
play by Rupert Hughes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26

thirty-fve. He says there Is bet on
IT, glance at tho Office who's Who
IN the Theatre" edition OF 1910, gives
all sorts OF information about Miss
Clark except the date Of her birth. or
course, we hope and believe that a.
viii lose his bet and il will serve him
Jolly we'll right for such ungallant
suspicious about our leading movie in
genue, but what can We tell him?
Then there is a student at the uni
verslty OF Wisconsin, who 10 writing
thesis on "The Application OF Ora
matte Criticism TO Motion Picture
Criticism" lie says: 81 should like TO
have an extended contribution on the
subject from you" and graciously adds,
you may have until the end of March
to prepare what you will write"
Somebody else wants to know who
was the greatest actress in the last
fifty years, and another asks just how
the murder in the first act of 1.-THE
18th Chair" wns contrived
IL isn't so much the fact that we
haven't answered which worries us, but
the stamps are beginning to lie heavily
on our soul.
The special matinee Of the Drama
League provoked good deal OF loose
writing. In particular a number OF
critics, one of them from The Tribune,
commented on the fact that the snatch
of Fitch play. which was presented
seemed more Anticipated than the first
act of Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion"
written in lS45. or course, comparison
of dramatic work on the basis Of single
acts is somewhat ridiculous, even
though the matinee invited it. Fitch
was dealt with most harshly when part
of the third act from "The Girl With
the Green Eyes" was chosen. II isn't
that the letter device has stalled with
the parting years, but that it was a
poor device even when it was written.
II the league had chosen, let's say the
dazzling first act of 1.-THE Truth" and
the fifth act of Fashion" the improve
ment of style and manner in American
social comedy would have been evident.
In commenting on Mrs. Fiske's attack
on repertory, we forgot to say that
one of the best performances of "The
New York Idea" ever seen here was
given by Miss Grace Georges resident
stock company at the Playhouse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Attempt Made to Atone
for Various Injuries
to Fact
STAMPS REMAIN
AS HEAVY BLOT
Inquiries for Information
Often Battling in
Their Scope
By HAYWOOD BROUN

Following our usual custom, Friday
will be devoted to apologies, revisions,
recantations and the correction OF re-
cent errors in fact and judgment. The
first correction is embodied in letter
from &C. S." who writes:
Permit me to correct statement
made in Mr.. Haywood Broun's review
of Mrs. Mowatt's Fashion appearing IN
to-day's Tribune. In this review it is
noted that this play, Fashion, was
written by French woman IL IS
true that Mrs. Mowatt was born IN
France during the temporary soJourn
of her parents in that country. Her
father and mother, however, were botn
New Workers. by birth; their respective
families, British in origin, had settled
and lived continuously in this city from
Colonial times. Mrs. Mowatt's maternal
grandfather, Francis Lewis, was a
signer of the Declaration of lndepen-
dence; her father, Samuel Gouver-
neur Ogden, was we'll known New
York merchant in his day, and his an
cestors for some generations before
him had been identified with the life OF
the city. AS matter Of fact, the au-
thor Of Fashion was particularly
proud of her American descent"
OF course &c. s." Is correct. We
merely wrote "a French woman" in an
attempt 10 show off the fact that we
knew Mrs. Mowatt was born in bor-
deauX.
II. Austin Adams, author of "Cep-
ton Shoals" writes:
ar - 1taF
after you, venture TO call your atten-
ton to a slip you made in your slash
ing notice of 'Ception Shoals The
Book of Common Prayer Of the Episco-
pal Church contains, in its marriage
service, not a trace Of indelicacy. Read
it and see. Perhaps you may have been
misled by Shaw's Getting Married, in
which reference is made 10 the English
marriage service. Americans are far
too refined to tolerate any such plain
talk.
"Despite your lambastng of my play,
I'm sure you'll be glad to learn that 1t
is playing to capacity. =,
"Trusting that my next invasion OF
Broadway may meet with your approval
and, give evidence of my growth in
grace ! am, dear Mr.. Broun, very cor
daily yours"
II. Austin Adams is right all along
the line, not only as to our error
and its source, but in regard to the JOY
which we must feel at the capacity
audiences of "Ception Shoals" ANY
show which can keep the Princess The
atre out Of mischief cuts down our
necessary work by about 20 per cent
We haven't forgotten that before the
coming of "Ception Shoals we had to
see "Go to It." "Such Is Life" and
Marjorie Daw" at tho Princess within
the course of few weeks.
Our profoundest apologies are due to
readers who have sent self-addressed
envelopes and loosen and more avail.
able stamps. We have been instructed
BY the man higher up to answer al!
queries, but often we can't. "a" for
instance, wants to know whether Mar
guerite Clark is more or less than
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26
Rita Jolivet to Act Again

tirement from the stage after her
marriage to Count Giuseppe de Cippico
about a year ago, will return to the
drama in "a Niger in the Woodpile,
soon to be produced by Corey and
Ritter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-26

Apropos of the prices
some dealers are asking,
the other day a lady friend
carried a suit to her tailor for
alteration and was asked
nearly as much as the cost OF
making when the suit was
new-To her remonstrance
he explained Why, | pay
double what ! once paid for
pins"
We all know how it is
but not every one should get
double for his pins.
1t is perfectly legitimate to
ask a fair profit on cost, but
we question if it is good
policy to tack on to the goods
already owned the full add
vance involved in replenish-
ing stock. AT least that ism t
our custom. We are not
after the whole hog this
year. There are lot of years
that haven't been touched yet,
and we are willing to wait.
Meanwhile we keep store
the best we know how and
the proof of our faith in the
stuff we sell is your money
back if you want it. "
Everything men and boys
wear.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
at 18Th St. The at 34th St.
Broadway Corners Filth Ave.
at Warren at 4lst ST.