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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
The Ghost of Barnum

created front page Frankensteins, are com
pelled forever after to let the monsters
stalk through valuable columns Of space ana
commander the largest fonts Of scarehead
types.
"Ihere is no direct recipe through which
this front-pngc Importance can be captured
BY artists. Some achieve il almost in
spontaneously, others by slow process, and
the majority Though secretly striving and
hoping for it always never reach it at all.
"a basis Of merit is necessary in order to
hold the exalted position after it has been
realized. Given that merit, however, 1T ~
comparatvoly easy for m artist to remain
financially successful after he or she mas
aroused public curiosity or public interest
in some personal phases not essentially
musical.
at is an asset 10 have the American
public think an artist the richest and best
paid in the world; to let them think one
has served In the trenches; that one has
had or is having a vehement romance, or
vehement romances; that one has the long
est hair in the world and possesses long
shot chance Of being made king OF freeS
nation; that one owns yachts, country
places. Rembrandts and other millionaire
luXuricS, tiat one DfeaKs Dof "iiSo ie'"'"'
after leaping In a night from obscurity 70
the very highest peak Of CHARACTERIZATION;
that one ia to marry prince, or has mar
ried an actor, or has refused to marry
plutocrat; that one has many children or
that one does not believe in having any chill
dren; that one has sung for the Sultan Of
Uvderabad, or in front OF Jofre, or behind
the Sphinx.
"For some reason or other, all those
things make an artist more important 20
tho average public than If he had merely
given an unforgettable rendering OF a
Schumann song. Bach violin sonata, or
Lists + minor piano etude.
Some artists do not even ponder upon
these matters. They give OF their art and
forget to count the box office receipts. Those
artists are the anointed Of God. Some day
we hone TO meet them"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

miration, cryed out in a shrill but distinc.
voice, Hekinoh DegM. The others repeated
the same Words several times, but then
knew not what they meant. | lay all thi,
while, as the Reader may believe, in grea,
Uneasiness. 81 length, struggling 70 ge.
loose. had the fortune 70 break the
Strings and wrench out the Pegs tina.
fastened my Left arm TO the ground; for.
by lifting it up to my Face, I discovered
the methods they had taken 70 bind me, and
at the same time, with q violent Pull.
which gave me excessive pain, a little
loosed the Strings that tied down my Hair
on the Left side, so that I was just able 70
turn my Head about TWO inches. But the
Creatures ran of a second time, before
could seize them; whereupon there was
great Shout in a very shrill accent, and
after It ceased I heard one Of them CRY
aloud, Tolgo Pionac, when in an instant I
felt above an Hundred Arrows discharged
on my Left hand, which pricked ne like 50
many Needles, and, besides, they shot an
other Flight into the Air, as We do Bombs
in Europe, whereof many, | suppose, fell
on my Body Though felt them not), and
some on my Face, which Immediately
covered with my Left hand. When this
shower of Arrows was over | Eel a-groan.
ing with Grief and Pain, and then striy-
ing again to get loose they discharged an.
other Volley, larger than the first and
some Of them attempted with Spears to
stick me in the Sides; but, By good luck !
had on me Buff Jerkin. which they could
rot pierce. | thought il the most prudent
method to lie still, and my design was TO
continue so till night, when my Left hand
being already loose, could easily free my.
self. And as for the Inhabitants, had
reason TO believe might be a match fol
the greatest Armies they could bring
against me, if they were all Of the same
size with him that | saw.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
To One Killed in Action

XoO VINO nave il'eu anu Ni'o" " 'ie IVY
Vi living
Inc hush Oh venture ana 'ne hie"' 'ie''
call
mat oade you lor'''' '"a' III oi'e "''ii'a'e
giving -,
Lh'eu sou' eou''Ne' VINO" '0N "'''''''
al
Inc un"rlt annals Oh your pso"efeu
years.
guessed tears.
SOFT where you lie 'here oril'S one Dig
guns Hiuiiple'
Close by your side the Drown pa''a'iohs
swing;
by oay ana highC 'ne 'r"h'pof'-"Aso"'
rumble;
Dy uay anu H's"' 'ho winning 0N''e''
sing;
no" can you near VIC june ''"' ''PP'e'
O"c"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
Jonathan Swift
Born l667-Died l745

the death Of Jonathan SUVt
and Paick Dublin He
on Noreber died october 49, u.s. after wo Of suffering
yt naraysis arrangement ITO
linn Thackeray thinking the
II he had ten nothing else he wod famous for The immortal
all the word and for his "TGie
Tub the brilliantly Of his political trsatea But
;o there that
h,ev unatrb the grand master Of the order Of an speech
The engavng Sp herewith reproduced taken from 1.-THE London
Magazine" Of 1852
The toog ParT Of the Trar ho' to do NTH the BE-
ginnog Of adUe Luipnt:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

phoid on a Harvard
student. IL did not
take | mean Har-
yard. not typhoid
for nobody has ever
accused me of being
Il Harvard man. Ny
class is 1902. and |
was graduated o.
K. but not d y X.
Now that "Misal-
lance" the play in
which Shaw satir-
ICES, among other
Things, the relations
of parents and chill
dren, is being played
in our city it is APP
propriate for me 20
remark that my par
ents III treated me
in one respect. Not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

TO be Oracular. Az least, according
N to The Musical Courier his
ghost maintains an active vigil, stalking
the world and keeping alive the precepts
which so distinguished his own career.
Says a writer in the publication just men
toned:
IF the shade Of Barnum is not actually
stalking in our musical midst, at least the
methods of that circus king hang like a
rhostly pail over some OF the operations of
our tonal heroes and herones and their
managers.
at should not he inferred that any of our
great artists or their impresarios are al
tempting, even relatively. 10 impose upon
the public with Cardiff giant. Barnum did
not always fool the public, and his greatest
achievements did not consist OF what is pop
ularly termed taking
THE real worth of Barnum was revealed
in his handling Of Jennie Lind. There was
nothing meretricious in her art and also
there was in il nothing sensational. The
shrcwd Barnum realized that. no matter how
well she sang. her success in America would
be merely respectable unless her personality
could he surrounded with unconventional and
curiosity arousng features.
ale devised those features-they are
familiar story in the musical history Of this
country-and Lind and he reaped logically
large financial reward in consequence.
There remains in our public something
Of the naive and childike spirit which Bar
mum recognized and exploited in his own
day. We are the most curious nation in the
world and the most easily stirred TO wonder
We like extravagant conceptions, extraordi-
nary deeds exaggerated contrasts, magnifed
statements, fancies, figures.
1T is our national failing, and perhaps
also in a measure our national strength. for
it keeps the American imagination keyed M
10 big ideas and the American ambition and
energy alive TO undertake big actions
Every one knows that more Americans 60
10 sec Mary Garden or Geraldine Farrar or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
Billie Burke Fits Back to Spoken Drama

savement and generates despotic tyranny.
The methods he adopts 70 clinch his argu-
trent are relentlessly logical and forceful.
lie goes TO the very root Of the matter and
does not shrink from depicting the dehu-
manizaton to which the gospel of pacfism
leads. The play is not plea for this war
or any other war. 1t merely shows The
working out of peculiarly pestiferous
coctrinp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

Sparkling dialogue" ard noted that the
Burkian power to please "n all its pristine
glory" remains. Burns Mantle, in "The
Mail" said that Clare Hummer comedies
"are to the drama what afternoon tea is TO
q full course neal" but called Miss Burke's
return radiant "The most fetching roe
she ever had" was the opinion of THE
Evening Telegram"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
In France

THE silence Of maternal hills
4 Is round me in my evening dreAH~
And round me music making rills
And mingling waves Of pastoral StFeS'''-
Whatever way turn | find y
The path is old unto me still
The hills of home are in my mind,
And there | wander as | will.
Francis Ledwidge, in The Spse''''
Feb. 8. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
Current War Poetry
Battle Cry

MORE than half beaten, but fearless
w Facing the storm and the night;
Breathless and reeling, but fearless,
Here in the lull Of the fight.
I who bow not but before Thee,
God of the fighting Clan,
Lifting my fists, implore Thee,
Give me the heart Of a Man.
What though l live with the winners
Or perish with those who fail?
Only the towards are sinners,
Fighting the fight is all.
Strong is my Foe-he advances!
Snapt is my blade, o Lord!
See the proud banners and lances!
Oh, spare me this stub Of q sT::-1-
Give me no pity, nor spare me;
Calm not the wrath Of my Foe.
See where he beckons TO dare me!
Bleeding, half beaten 20.
Not for the glory Of winning,
Not for the fear Of the night;
Stunning the battle is shining
On, spare me the heart 70 fght'
Red is the mist about me-;
Deep is the wound in my side;
Coward" thou criest 70 iout met
O terrible Foe, thou hast lied!
Here with my battle before me,
God Of the fighting Clan,
Grant that the tcoman who bore mo
Suffered TO suckle man!
From The Quest [Macmillanl, by JONI
G.. Niehardt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

~ ESCUED from domesticity and the
EN films, rs one reviewer phrases It,
N a. Billie Burke has come back to the
stage of spoken drama. Come back in a
vehicle Of such merit that the critics about
evenly divide honors between the star and
the playwright.
OF the piece with which he was utterly
delighted) Alan Dale, in "The American"
said:
Miss Hummer went 20 her task with her
sense Of humor unfurled. She scintillated.
The dialogue shone and shimmered. There
were laughs about every other moment"
Ralph Block, in The Tribune after COM
mending Miss Hummer for her highly sue
cessful disregard of tiresome stage rules,
said;
Despite a manner that Is too overladen
somewhat with sweetness-the deadly her-
tage Of the ilms-Miss Burke is comedian
of no mean quality. And, more to her
credit, she understands the unusual Kun
mer whimsicalities and how to point them
across the footlights."
Louis V. De Foe, in 1.-The World" was de-
lighted over the return Of this popular
actress, declaring that "as for Miss Burke,
she never seemed more charming or APP
peared to better advantage" adding that
she has gained poise during her absence"
John Corbin, in "The Times" said of
Billie Burke's Characterization: Angela
is interesting throughout, often most
amusing and always charming
"The Sum- declared that:
"She acted with her usual coquetry and
within her gamut she controls an adequate
artistic method. Il at least enables her TO
display all her allurements in their most
irresistible way. which is in her particular
case an uncommon capital"
And 1.-THE Herald" which found less
than most Of the papers to praise in the
play, wrote:
The real rescuing angel Will be the al
ways delightful personality OF Miss Burke,
who probably will rescue Miss RUNNERS
rambling little comedy. Perhaps II was too
much TO expect another brilliant play like
a Successful Calamity so soon'
Some of the evening papers were less
charitably disposed toward the play.
Stephen Rathbun, in 1.-THE Evening Sum-
said of its thinness:
I'VE found ourselves served with light re
freshments that were Hooverish in their
economy Of material that we arose from our
seat hungrier than before. Even a charlotte
russo should have some substance"
Charles Darnton, in THE Evening
World observed that "in this instance
Miss Hummer has obviously written a
play for Miss Burke, and it must be said
that the strain is felt" J. Rankin Towse,
in The Evening Post" similarly thought
that amy hope for its long survival must
be founded almost entirely upon the per-
sonal popularity of that attractive little
public performer, Miss Billie Burke"
Louis Sherwin, in THE Globe while
he had little sympathy with those theatre
goers who are constantly expecting cab
bages to perform the functions of garde-
Mas" and the theatre "to make noise like
high art" nevertheless insisted that IL do
expect cabbage TO be good cabbage
which he felt The Rescuing Angel
wasn't.
THE Journal found tho play full Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

(Fro,n "GuUiuer's Trooels," Chapter ~
n LAY down on the Grass, which was
very short and soft, where slept
IA sounder than ever remember to have
done in my life, and as reckoned, above
Nine hours; for when awaked it was just
Daylight. | attempted 10 rise, but was not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

able to stir. For,
as | happened TO
lie on my back, |
found my Arms
and Legs were
strongly fastened
on each side to
the ground, and
my Hair, which
was long and
thick, tied down in
the same manner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

Billie Burke in "The Rescuing
Angcl," ne1c play By Clcre Hummer,
presented bg Arthur Hopkins and /.
Z;egfcld, jr, at the Hudson Theatre
last MondqN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

content with mining me Charles" after
young man named Charles Smith, they gave
me smith" as my middle name. But | got
even. When was a soph omore, being a wise
fool, dropped the name Of Smith" and sub
stituted "St,phen," naming myself after Ste
phen Bogert Roe, "a Dwight schoolmate of
mine who passed TO the other life while a stu
dsnt At Yals- Altar WAS a dramatic critic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
Y l.
STEPHEN RATHBUN

Dramatic Critic Of The EreninO sun
Sir; I was born in New York City, and ad-
nit 20 being thirty-fye years old plus.
Although spent four years at Harvard, five
years. if you count a sabbatical year lived
mostly In Florida watching the effect Of ty-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14
Meditations on Books That
Have Passed

Solomon Eaore writing in "The Statesman (London)
off has astounding adventure IN me
establishment whose sign reads: drocer
Chemist TObacconiSt, Draper and Circulating Li0raf!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

TN LONDON, ! hear, they have been
L having air raids, and correspondent
tells me that the raids he'd a certain, as he
calls it, special literary interest The Ger
man aviators broke the windows Of cele-
hrated dramatic author; and a well known
critic (who, incidentally, has been one Of
the authors most assiduous disparagers)
was wounded in the street. The only other
news l hear from London is that the date
of the publication of Lord Morley's
"reminiscences has not yet been fixed, but
that it is certain to be near the end Of
October
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

WITH meditations like the above I
w roamed up and down before the
frayed and wrinkled backs Of these vet
erans, fascinated Ivy so systematic a re
covery Of the familiar. Then I remember
that the sun was shining in a blue sky,
cnly slightly heeced with cloud; that the
salt wind blowing shoroward was driving
broken sunlight over the waves, that there
were as good fish in the sea as ever came
out Of il; and that must really take care
Of my health Catching sight of "She'
end MANY Cargoes, which | have read az
least ten times apiece, but am always good
for again, detached them from their
faded companions and took them into the
front shop, meditating upon the astonish-
ing sluggishness Of this shop, where even
Mrs. Barclay had not yet penetrated and
Carvice was a cloudy speculation in the
far future.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

VPAID my one-and-fourpence and stepped
out onto the cobblestones. As passed
into the sun it occurred to me that it was
not surprising that even the minor works
IN this library were like old friends. For
and things like these do strangely re-
main known yet for time unrelated-I
spent summer in this village fifteen years
ego.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

unveiled on The campus Of the University
Of Washington, in Seattle. 1t is the first
statue Of Grieg to be erected in the United
States, according TO "The Seattle Post
rntelligencer," which paper is responsible
for the following comment upon the ia
nous Norwegian;
Haunting. weird and compelling is the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

TITS not reasonable TO expect man nj
Il this date TO return TO "A Yellow Aster'
or Moths" by Ouida. AS for "The Silence
Of Dean Maitland" the predicament OF
that respected ecclesiastic with the un-
disclosed sin on his conscience is still fresh
/ in nv mind. and still remember how my
elders. when it first came out, debated
whether such a book ought to be written,
and whether Maxwell Gray was man or
q woman. OF THE Sorrows of Satan |
recall little of the plot, except that the
Devil was n gentleman. | think that the
first sentences were: do you know what
II is TO be poor? Not with that-poverty
that-on ten thousand a year, but with
that grinding poverty that etc. How
many years ago is it that that immortal
paragraph, reproduced in facsimile from
the authors own script, appeared in The
Strand Magazine" with pictures of the
great novelist in various pastures? 1t
would be Ethel VI. Dell now, l suppose
but they don't seem to keep Miss Delrs
works in this circulating library, of which
the circulation seems to have stopped,
many, many years since. They keep in
stead Frankfort Moore and G. B. Burgin.
4 NTHONY HOPE now. Here is "The
n Intrusions Of Peggy There was a
rrizzled inventor who lived in the Temple,
and he had a daughter who shone like a
sunbeam amidst the dusty shades Of the
law. Anthony Hope, who was very nearly
frst-rate writer, must have put it better
than that; bat I'm sure that that IS what
il was about, Seton Merriman now. This
is better. But will or will not reperusal
Of "The Vulturcs" and "Roden's Corner
diminish the respect that still survives in
me for him? He gave me immense pleas
IRE at one time; can | risk II? / don't
know.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

~ ESCUED from domesticity and the
rs films, as one reviewer phrases it,
~ u PiIIin Rurke has come hack TO the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

ME bust Of the famous Norwegian
composer shown in the accom-
panying picture has recently been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-14

IN TO" I thought, 81 won't take any
~ books with me. want a rest.
shall swim. shall catch fish.
There is sure TO be billiard room in that
pub, and pretty certain TO be few people
who play bridge. The overtaxed brain
must be allowed relaxation. So goodby,
Plato; goodby, Spinoza; goodby, Samuel
Rawson Gardiner; goodby, Freud. l won't
take any Of YOU
The Harrison times., 1917-06-16
ACT NO. 20.
Approyed February 10 1917,

Approved February 10 1917.
An Act for the erection, equipment
and maintenance Of a State General
Hospital for the free medical and sur
gical treatment Of the poor, sick, in
jured and crippled OF the state of Ar
kansas.
Act creates a board consisting of
five members, OF which the Governor
is chairman. The board consists OF
the Governor Attorney General and
three other members, to be appointed
by the Governor to carry out the pro-
visions OF this Act. Act authorize,
board to accept suitable site and erect
buildings by donation, but IL no suit
able site is donated, the board Is au-
thorized to purchase site for same, or,
in its discretion, to erect said build
ing on property owned by the state in
Pope's Addition to the city OF Little
Rock. For the purpose OF providing
funds for this Act the board Is author
ized to sell portion OF the above
named property. All funds from the
sale OF such property to be paid into
the state treasury to credit OF Ar
kansas General Hospital Fund; 25 per
cent OF said fund TO be set aside for
School Of the Feeble Minded. Act lin
its appropriation to 100000 Upon
completin OF the building as prescrib-
cd by this Act, the management OF hos
pital to uass into the control OF the
Board Of Trustees OF the University OF
Arkansas,
The Harrison times., 1917-06-16

whether iof municipal county, state or
other 90. .cc.' "lle may cause notice OF
his candidacy 10 be published Ia
newspaper and may secure the ClrCulR-
tich oil "a petition Tor his nomination;
Hut De shall not personally circulate
wise su.iC anyone fo support or vote
for him. .i- sNaI unt eapund or proW-
lsc any money, Office. employment or
u.Irvr Trims uI value to secure his nom-
. iEs .Iuu or election, but hy may answer
sucI Inquiries as may bee put To- him
aud may declare his position publicly
uE matters OF public interest, either by
; addressing public meetings or By writ
B zen statements for new paper puhlica-
tiCu or general circulation" Violation
OF this provision disQualihcs him from
Hg'diuE office and person receiving the
next highest vote shall be entitled TO
| the office Act provides city clerk shall
/ have primary ballots printed In accord
ance with the general laws OF the state.
except that said primary shall be nom
! partisan and said ballot shall contain
neither party designation nor any mark
whatever; and upon said ballots the
names OF the candidates shall be ar
ranged lphabctically' Act provides
| for contest I'm elections. Act limits sale
larry OF mayor TO $1,000 and salary Of
/ commissioners 90 $500 per 0uuuw Un-
/ less otherwise provided hy law Mayor
| and commissioners authorized TO elect
I city manager whose duties are pre-
| scrihcd and whose salary shall not exc
! cetd $4,000 per anrum Act provides
| fer initiation OF any measure upon
petition of 25 per centum OF the quail
| fed electors ip which case the city
| commission shall first pass said ordi-
nance Without alteration within 20 days
! or the city commission shall proceed
/ TO call a special election submitting
| same 10 the people. Act provides that
/ not more than 10 measures shall be i'm
! iti8tcd at any one time Also provides
| that no Act initiated by the voters shall
| be repealed or amended except by vote
! OF the people Act provides for refer
| endum in regard to an yordinance upon
/ a petition OF % per cent Of the entire
/ vote Act also authorizes recall Of any
| elective officer upon a petition signed
| by at least 80 per ccntum Of the entire
vote.
! Act provides that any candidate shall
| at least two fun days next preceding
/ the primary election and two full days
next preceding the general election
/ publish in a newspaper Of general cir
! culation in the city and file with the
| city clerk a sworn statement OF such
/ expenditures. expenses and promises Of
| expenses and three days arter each
primary election and three days after
! each general election publish a like
, Statment Of suCi expenses and eXpendi-
/ lures. Act fixes penalty for failure to
comply with any Of provisions Of this
Act