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ture and a simple intonatlon brought
tears to the eyes. But the acting ri un-
trained amateurs can become a medium
as tedious as the technic OF the most
corrupt professional. II is not realiLa-
ton. It can only be An indication for
us as TO the character OF the ideal In
depreciation, possessing technic but not
dominated by II. capable OF detachment
but not beyond the limits of feeling. an
Interpretation which Is just. healthy.
true and respectful, spontaneous yet
controlled. In a word, human. know
one or two young actors, now grown old,
who have known how 10 preserve this
indennable human quality and still have
grown In their art. This IL Just what We
nave hitherto not been able to accom-
| plish, namely, to take very young actors
and train them with constant endeavor
toward a good ensemble Interpretation,
to make them gain by exercise and dis
cipline a certain professional ebnegation
and endow them with the sense, the
character and movement OF a certain re-
pertoire. 1t Ia already something. but
not enough: II Is still no moro than a
beginning. The development OF these
young actors Is soon arrested. or II II
continues It Ia In a bad direction. We
may reform them up to a certain point.
But the necessary point is to form them
1 SNNAA btA'A NHo Nv VI ehJ oNA
mite vocation in them, They do not I'M
derstand at bottom what is demanded Of
them. They either leave the young en-
terprise which has welcomed them or
they stay only TO corrupt II.
II is difficult indeed to express my
thought In all tie entirety n all Its
ramihcations, to sum up in a few pages
the experience OF many years, and of
future projects which are harAssed with
~ s.aHK o~anNlnaI dlNPr,sINIaS aura
IN mind the idea. the presentiment, the
conception OF dramatic action. go human.
so simple, so free and at the same time
50 obedient. 80 Identical In movement
with the creative spirit. with poetic
inspiration, that It has nothing In com-
mon with what we see on the stage to-
day or with what Is seen In my own
theatre, which / confess often breaks
my heart.
The idea or this Interpretation IL
closely allied to the question OF the edu-
free and yet guarded development OF the
child in preparation for the art OF the
theatre. This is perhaps not a new
idea. But all honor to hin who can
realize II.
Encourage children n the!. play. tho
creative activity Of free and happy chill
dren In a new world every hour OF their
inventive existence. Understand. stlmu-
late. develop in them the need for
diversion which rs really a dramatic
aspiration. Such is the very simple at
titude we take, thereby following the
best OF modern educational methods. II
10 a question OF encouraging stimuli
taneously and tremendously, certain
faculties which no amount Of specializa-
tion later win be able TO warp Gym
naetlcs. dancing, singing, painting and
drawing, architecture, a taste for cos
tune. poetry. Improvisation. are among
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through mathematics Prof. Smith has
prepared thousands of problems and
Government pamphlets on Thrift
Stamps, War Saving Stamps, Liberty
bonds, &c. Mathematics also e~lucldates
the field of borrowing, II uncovers the
loan shark, n through problems In text
books makes clear the extraordinary
wastefulness Of installment plans.
Mathematics also IL a means of show ing
ooncretely to strikers and to employers
issues are worth fighting through.
Not only does the individual acquire
more real patriotism In proportion TO his
use Of mathematics. but the State also
profits enormously through the subject.
Taxation can be handled only through
mathematics. Loans to and
by governments equally depend upon
this subject. For years we used to con-
slider that portion OF the arithmetic re-
lating 20 stocks and bonds as n waste
for the vast majority, but now the value
periodically Of this division OF the sub
ject is self-evident. What child is there
sufficiently advanced who does not know
the details Of Liberty bonds or who has
not learned through war saving stamps
the force of interest and compound In
terest?
The lesson Is equally valuable with
stocks. Within these two years we havs
become a nation of thrift and our saw
ings are already 80 enormous that we
are confronted with the question of what
We shall do with our money. Where
shall It go? The answer is, investment
In some good stocks, not on n gambling
basis. but on n straightforward study OF
values. 1t Is Significant in this connec-
ton that the safe deposit vaults are
overwhelmed with the demand Tor small
boxes.
This aid to the nation through thrift,
through an appreciation OF the problems
7 of taxation and through conservation is,
however, but part OF the service OF
mathematics. Let us see how the sub
ject touches idealism, how It makes O
man a better citizen.
In geometry, for example, there is a
vast amount that touches the soul
When a student proves a proposition II
means that he comes I'D contact with ab-
solute truth. II Is moi a question OF
what he has seen or heard but what he
has proved. Francis Bacon said that
there is no pleasure comparable with
standing on the vantage ground Of truth.
This game reasoning carried into the
ordinary walks Of life through arIth-
metlc itself makes children reverence
the truth.
Better bodies also come from the new
method ot taking mathematician prob
lens outdoors. There Is a broad move
ment through the schools to go to the
fields for measurement and for the So
lutlons OF simple problems in engineer
ing.
Mathematics also makes one love the
beautiful. In geometry subconsciously
there is ingrained an appreciation of
symmetry and the idea that things At
we'll together. 1t has been said. indeed,
hat God eternally geometrtSes
And there Is that in mat he -natics also
which makes for the cultiva ton OF the
religious Instinct Yesterday. to-day
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SchOOlmasters Discuss
Patriotism in Schools

IN the trail of the new and better
education, for which President
Wilson pleads In his recent spe-
clal message to teachers, the SCHOOL,
masters Association of New York and
vicinity pursued at their December
meeting Teaching Patriotism Through
Mathematics, Through Music and
Through English" David Eugene Smith
of Teachers College. Walter Damrosch.
conductor and founder of the First
American Army Band Conservatory in
France. and Theodore c. Mitchill, head
Of the jamaica High School. tapped
through these subjects, RESPECTIVE ely, re-
sources which, as n member put 1t,
will keep teachers constructively at
work for many n month"
The meeting was held on Friday eve-
ming, December 20, at the Columbia
University Club. 4 West Forty-third
street, and was the third OF the very
successful monthly gatherings Of this
year. During the dinner President
Eugene C. Alder of Adelphl Academy,
Brooklyn, presented his resignation be-
cause Of his enlistment in overseas SER
vice with the Khaki University of the
Y. NJ. C. \. DR.. Alder has his passports
and expects TO sail presently. He was
given a rousing vote of thanks for the
sDltilulu lOONlHk ApONl my ma WI N
has placed the association and a hearty
godspeed. A special election resulted in
the choice OF Frederick II. Paine OF the
Eastern District High School to AL out
DR.. Alder's term as president.
The following new members were also
received into the association:
Howard f.. Taylor of Horace Mann
School for Boys: Preston c. Farrar,
Erasmus Hall High School J. Broderick
Cohen, Eastern District High School
Guy w. Chapman, Friends School.
Brooklyn; Frank a. Rexford, assistant
superintendent Tfldsley, and Horace NJ.
Snyder, principal OF the Manual Train
ing High School, Brooklyn.
Resolutions prepared by DR.. Louis
Dwight Ray and william Livingston
Hazen upon the death OF DIR. Arthur III.
Cutler were ordered epgrossed n sent
to the Cutler School.
Prof. Smith, In true mathematical
fashion, defined both mathematics and
patriotism. The first he declared to EN-
brace arithmetic. geometry, astronomy
and music. For the second he cast aside
the cynicism of old DIR. johnson that
patriotism Is the last resort OF a ras-
cal" and chose this dictum OF Burke
III you would make me 10y my coun-
try. you must maxi my country lovable.'
The one thing which ohe Germans
failed to calculate upon is the intense
love OF countries among all OF the Allies
They calculated infinitely In three di-
menstons, but they omitted the fourth
dimension OF patriotic Ideals.
To make the country lovable every in.
dlvidual must contribute his share TO the
general welfare, and mathmatics has a
precisspatriotic lesson on this score. Take
for example, conservation. Mathemat'
.cs Is the measuring stock for economies
in food. clothing. farm and shop. Tbs
whole great subject OF thrift. so new tc
the American nation. hitherto the mos
extravagant in the world. is spread
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2S.-To Offset the dis
turbance caused by rehabilitation of
the StustEts' Army Training Corps, fol-
lowing close Of the war. Washington
University will continue the current
year under the trimester system IN
stead OF the semester. in order that
students may do a full years work. II
also makes II possible for a high school
graduate, with militsry training or ex
perience that can be accepted as credit,
10 enter the university at the beginning
OF the second trimester, December 80,
and obtain a full years course. The
school year has been extended from June
~ to 81. which. with curtailment OF
holiday periods. makes a session Of
thirty weeks, or only two less than the
original schedule.
Formal application has been filed with
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What Is Going On Within Academic Walls

the War Department for establishment
at the university of one or more units
OF the Reserve Of1cers' Training Corps,
following inquiry by the department as
to the wishes of the university in that
direction. II Is expected that this per-
manent military feature OF the institu-
ton will be installed by the beginning
OF the second trimester. and hat Major
Wallace NJ. Craigie. who has been com
mandant of the post during the exist
ence OF tho Students Army Training
Corps, will be In charge. his appoint
ment by the War Department having
been requested. Enrolment In the r. o.
T. c. will be voluntary. About $50 stu
dents released from the wartime body
have signiied a desire 10 AXE the
officers training course, which involves
three hours a week,
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many homes. This year the carolilng
was Zone with wen greater Joy and
Christmas spirit, It seemed. than ever
before, and much appreciation was ex-
pressed by the ones visited in this way.
A Christmas party was also held at the
school. at which n play called "A Mod
ern Christmas" written by Barbara
Hallett of the Junior school and given
by this department. was presented. After
the play there was the distribution OF
gifts from a gayly decorated tree by a
very realistic Mr.. and Mrs. Santa Claus.
Some OF the gifts caused much merrt-
ment and were very clever. At the
close Of the evening Christmas candles
were lighted for the school BY Miss
Cornish, the principal. each with It's
wish OF opportunity and good for the
girls during the coming year.. The
school reopens on january 2.
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w rHATEvER point OF view we may
w have regarding n new, or rather

wv nave Regarding II new vi tol'oi
re~generated, art OF the theatre (;
whatever starting point we may have
for sincere and radical reform. It always
leads us to the problem OF the actor In
the last analysis. writes Jacques Copeau
In the magazine the Modern school. 1t
Is the Fundamental problem which In
wolves all the others, toward which all
others converge. 1t Is the tmplacabie
question. the diniculty which cannot be
avoided, but which must be confronted
and overcome.
The actor, with his prejudices. his
habits, his tastes. with his bad qualities
as we'll as his good qualities, his incom-
petence as well as his talent. the mem
ta,ity OF the actor and his gestures dis
playing poverty or mastery. all these
| come between every dramatic work ana
i,s adequate realization. between the
noet and his public. All the ~vulgarities
the lies in the theatre OF to-day. are ue-
| fiected and gathered W In the actor
However. It is hardly a question OF
perfecting his technic. The question Is
10 transform his mentality. It Is not a
question OF teaching him to act, out OF
teaching him to live, OF inviting MN 10
feel and appreciate beauty many
| Of nlacIng him In a new, healthy. natural
I environment wi
and creative work in common
When Eleanora Duse declared that In
oraer IN save the theatre II was neces'
s9ry 10 begin by killing the actor; when
Gordon Craig summoned sacred marion
ncttes WITH hieratic gestures upon the
stara Of the future when the man oil
culture and taste turns from the theatre
nreferrinE, instead OF the scenic reaIiEa-
lion OF the masterpieces that he loves
their intimate and respectful reaulnh
where his Imagination has free play al
this constitutes an Indictment OF oe
actor in the name OF n lost beauty.
A new spirlt, n breath OF refreshing
s,ncerity has passed over the young gen
grafton. Real artists have waxed IN
dienant. and instead OF avoiding the
theatre as an unhealthy spot they nave
| annroached It and have tried to raise,
nurify. exalt this most disgraced. most
dehased of arts. Various attempts. otten
ephemeral but constantly increasing
have been made to snatch the theatre
from commercialism, TO give new HE 10
the decoration and the stage settings, 70
stimulate the production OF more am
hItious works, TO harmonic the inter-
nretation, and TO escape the ridiculous
despotism OF the star system. But the
actors problem has never really been
considered. The actor has remained In
the background and outside the pal OF
his new movement. He does not under
stand Il even when he pretends 10 be In
t~erested In II. He has not the least idea
Of its import. Certain growing organi-
zations replace the professional actor by
Jealous and intelligent amateurs, and II
Is n comfort indeed. I have from tim
To time seen amateurs on the stage, es-
p|,,;aIly women, who not knowing the
/ lrst word of their craft have By a ges-
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News of Hotels and Restaurants
1.-THE Little Club"

Great preparations IN now being
made for the celebrating OF New
Years I've in ct e Little Club" in the
Forty-fourth Street Theatre Building,
where Billie Allen and Helen Maxwell
will preside " the festivities. Sup
per will be served at $40 a plate, and
already the list of reservations is so
great that tie capacity OF the club Is
almost exhausted. THE Little Club" Is
filled nightly with many persons OF
prominence In the social. business and
pleasure world OF the metropolis.
The New Years Eve features at Rel
~senweber's will be particularly elabo-
rate and all the eve floors OF the
Columbus Circle establishment will be
filed with m~errymakers. In the Four
Hundred Club Room Miss Sophie
Tucker and her ave kings OF synco-
pation'' will materially add 10 the en-
joyment OF the patrons. T is Will be
the feature attraction n a phrt OF
the long list of entertaining numocrs
which will include the revue Here
end There" presented by Louis SN-
Ners. In which the stars appearing are
Ruby Norton, Midgie Miller. Stewart
Jackson, the Eastman sisters and
Margaret SEVERN. In Paradise Room
Alice King will be the hostess. and she
will be assisted by Dore and Cava-
naugh as we'll as Mile. Andree Grouse
sl entertainers OF an unusua cahbre.
A specIal matinee performance OF the
revue will be given In tie main res
tnurant OF Relsenweber's on New
Years Day.
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HOUSE IN TIL PINES.

House In the Pines. Norton, Mass.
has Just closed for the Christmas holt
days. Before leaving the girls enjoyed
their annual Christmas observances /,
Is one OF the customs TO go about the
town carolllng and leaving a pine bough
with a CHEEKY Message on the door OF
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Latest News of Euents
in the Scholastic World

than hitherto. There Is already an on
rolment OF twenty-eight In the troop.
with a number OF applicants for the
four remaining places. n troop has
been under the direction OF Arthur Il,
Baker as scout master.
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Mrs. william Hollis weeks's
Christmas Tree Party mt Hotei
Mhrseilles.


AZ least ono social leader In New
Yorl, did not forget "the poor little
rich girl in the whirl Of Christmas
largesses. Mrs. William Hollis Weeks
who has closed her mansion at Queens
and is spending some time In a suite
at the Hotel Marseilles, with her
family. decided that she would like
20 play hostess TO the little children
who were guests in the hotel. The
hotel management had provided a
gorgeous tree for the little folks and
Mrs Weeks twined It with all the
glittering ornaments that children
love and hung amid its rainbow hued
electric lights such beautiful gifts as
Santa Claus loves to bestow and chill
drcn TO receive. That was q gay
Christmas party in the Green Room
Of the Hotel Marseilles, with Mrs.
Weeks as hostess and n crowd OF
rediantly happy children in a perfect
Christmas fa%iryland.
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Grace washburn TO Receive Daily
at Bustanoby's.b

Grace Washburn, the famous Amer
lean beauty who was star OF the
revue "Come Over Here" at the Lon
don Opera House and who recently
returned from England. has been re-
cured as the attraction extraordinary
at ~Bustanoby's new restaurant. las
West Forty-seventh street. and will re-
ceive her many friends there each
afternoon at tea and every evening
after the theatre.
Miss Washburn, whose first celebrity
came through being model for several
foremost artists, made a big hit at the
Winter Garden in a dramatic duelling
sketch, and then was in immediate de-
mand by London managers. In the
worlds metropolis she was hailed as
the most perfect type Of American
beauty over appearing there IN public.
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NJ. Rene Durand of Palais Royal,
famed culinary artist of rare skill.
Ted Lewis, the Jazz King, furnished
both fun and music in his own inim-
liable sty.e. while Holiday has sug-
gested a sensation with he- dancing,
Jack Lenigan is master of ceremonies
while Gaillard 1. Boag is the manager,
The sun., 1918-12-29
Hotel Martinique.

Manager Walter Chandler. Jr., OF
the Hotel Martinique has greatly
augmented his musical grille produc-
ton, "Attaboy.' staged by Gus Ed
wards, for the holiday season through
the addition OF several unique and
st1rtllngly original performers. The
principal newcomer is Edna Nlcker-
son, who will be remembered for her
clever work in such pretentious
vaudeville productions as the "Band-
box Review the Song Review and
the kid Kabaret."
Miss Nickerson Is introducing for
the first time in New York an eccen-
tric saxophone jazz dance. In addition
70 several Irish and Scotch clog
dances. This talented ter~pslchorean
artist is said to be the leading female
dancer OF this type in America to-day.
Another newcomer in the east of
"Attaboy" is to be Elvira Rowland.
whose eccentric song and dance work
is somewhat similar to that Of Char
lotte Greenwood
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ASUNTOS DEL Ola

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LA COOPERATION AMERICANA

das las seduccioncs de Ia vida facil: Y
csta traGici6H de ~democracia Y de sem
%c;lleZ. de LiberJad : de Independence
taNto para los individuos como para
los grupoS vuelve de nucva cUene= E,
deScollar en- Ia coEc:ancia americana.
Los eSColares a quieneS st les enSena
q preSsar e. juramento = la ba2dera de
les estre:las, los -eclutaS que. en- e!
campo aprendcn el ofic!o =! miSmo
tempo cue coaoccn las causas de Ia
guerra Y les inumerableS discusses
por medic de los cua.es sc mantiene
q ia opinion publica en- un pals cuyos
centres n~ervioSoS estGn tar distances
y son tan GiversoS. todo este respon-
dc al instirto profundo cue ina a Ia
mejor historic nacional lie decision 20
mazda por el gran Wilson cl . de april
&c 1917.
NuchoS americanoS. e. 81 oUena vo-
luntad por ia ca,:Sa al;naa. li""an has
Ia decir que su Independence, en- Ia lu-
cha cue los SeparJ u -nS.aCerfa, eS-
taba amsaazada sobre tCdo. no va por
Ia Gran Bretana r!isma, sino por w
Rev de cep h~anoveriara u preter-
dia. con l. ayuda de las tropaS en-
tra las cualeS predomiraban los mer-
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ieci6n comDieramente feudal q las co
lonias britanicas....G la contraparti-
da. curiosa por cierto, de eSta e-DlI-
caci0a Sc encuentra en- e. hecho de Que.
entire las trooas francesas cnvladaS
Dor Luis XVI en- socorro de los IN
surgentes", los elementos militares dc
a Alsac:a Y de "a Lorena Sc hallabar
en- una proportion cue sc antoja ju1-
gar simbolica.
Demclracia lista para Ia guerra. sin
| reaurciar Z su forma n q SCI ideal,
tai es Ia formula en- la que, por ms
rinto. tratan de reunirse los america
ncs. \ yo veo IN s!gno reve!ador
en 81 impetu que llevan hac!a Abraham
Lincoln q tcdoS aquellos de entire
los que tienen la c~oHciencia de su pa
saGo : Sc preocupan por su Do%rvenir,
| En- efactc. este democratic puro sin e.
leCancia. este hombre del pueblo di-
rigiendo los destinos de una naclon 4
menazGda de division y de esteriliza-
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cue Sc pueda dar de II voluntar po-
| pular decidida a d~isciplinarse de mi,
rar hacia e! porvenir tanco como la
comodiIad del interes prasente Y e
consentir en- los sacrifices que son los
unicos que le permiten a n comuni,
dad vivir.
Por 10 Tue los Est2dos UaidoS de-
ben parecerles temibles q A!emania
es por la voluntad general cue crista-
| liza alrededor de TN ideal. Ests ha
c~onfesado que creia que los Estados
Unidos era una n4ci1n de !ngenieros'
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como una nac;cn de a~bogGdos.' Er
lugar de admi;ir las eXproriaciones s
las cue esta consagrando ia activiGad
de aquel que desarrolla los recurso
| del suelo. les Estados unidos tratar
de proclamar e. valor de los coclbat"S
Y Ia so!idez del derecho sin a%bandonar