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The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-03-01

Sherald Adams has installed his
milk Ne machine, but is waiting for
larger engine to operate same with,
as his " horse engine proved too
small for this work.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
John Charles Thomas Heard
For First Time in Concert

John Charles Thomas, baritone
Well known in the world of light
opera. made his first incursion into a
serious fold Yesterday afternoon at
Aeollan Hall. He gave song recital.
glance at his programme was enough
10 show that he was novice in this
branch OF the music art, for a more un-
interesting collection of songs has
rarely been heard IN the local concert
world. Yet when he had the oppor-
unity. as he had in Nerdi's "Eri Tu,"
IN August Homes's "Au Pays" and in
"fromesse de mon avenir," from Mas
senet's "Le Roi de Lanore," of dis
playng the full powers of his voice
me result was surprisingly good
Mr.. Thomas possesses voice of ad-
mlrabl power, little lacking in rich
ness, but Of real brilliancy in timbre.
Ills singing of Err Tu' proved his
experimental, equipment and sense
Tor operate values, while in the air
from lie Roi de Lahore" he showed
that ne IS not stranger to the French
style. His chief weakness at present
lies IN lack OF feeling for nuance
and the more delicate shades of tone
color But he has intelligence and
TASTE and with greater experience viz
tues always conspicuously absent in
american light opera ought TO appcar
IN ms art. Mr.. Thomas will bear
"aIching IN the field both Of recital
ana OF more serious opera than he has
Ff' attempted. He was warmly an
piauded by large audience. G. V.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Social Leaders Attend
Bagby Musical Morning.

The 245th Musical Morning under
the direction of Albert Bagby, was
given yesterday in the ballroom of the
Waldorf-Astoria. The concert opened
with the singing of the Allied national
hyms by chorus from the Metropoli-
tan opera Company. The artists who
appeared were Miss Lucy Gates. So
prano; Giovanni Martinelli, tenor, and
Josef Hofmann, pianist.
lam G. Rockefeller, Mrs Charles b.
Alexander. Mrs WILDER Bloodoood
Miss Rosalie Bloodgood, Mrs. fona'
than Thorne, Mrs. Finley ]. Shepard.
Mrs. Frederick Pearson, Nine. de-
Victor Cumnock, Miss Luisita Leland,
Miss Adrienne Iselin, Mrs. Lewis
Nixon, Mrs. 4. Murray Young, Miss
Amy Baker, Mrs. W. Lanier Washing
ton, Mrs; Robert 4. c. Smith, Mrs. J.
Amory Haskell, Mrs. James Warren
Lane, Mrs; George W. Wickersham,
Mrs. Frank Northrop, Mrs. Wesley
Watson, Mrs. Bertram G. Work, Mrs.
William Custis Demorest, Mrs. Charles
II. Sheriff., Mrs. William Henry Har-
rson, Mrs. Harley T. Proctor, Mrs.
Edmund lie Roy Dow. Mrs. William A.
Perry, MMrs. Arson Phelps Stokes,
Mrs Warren Delano, Mrs. j. Allen
Townsend, Mrs. Arthur Horton Lippin-
colt, Mrs. Samuel A. Valentine, Mrs,
Lindley NJ Garrison, Mrs. Walter b.
James, Miss Annie Burr Jennings,
Mrs. Edwin H. Weasherbes and Mrs,
Ten Eyck Wendell
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
it would get over. for on the whole the

1t would get over for on the whole the
acting is excellent. Charles A.
stevenson, IN particular. gives an un
usually skilful and interesting per-
iormance- Doris Rankin is not so skill
lui, but she is interesting and at times
moving Her gorgeous voice has fine
cIutching notes in it, except when she
seeks to overstress it's contralto quail
lty, Alison Skipworth also works we'll,
and j. II. Barnes is effective, although
TO lesser degree. We have no doubt
that boy named Clifford Southworth
VIII grow up 70 be popular American
leading man. Already he has learned
TO say "drawingroom."
betty at Bay" Is concerned with the
tribulations of a young woman who
goes to live with her husbands father
IN spite Of the fact that the marriage
was a surprise and a disappointment
to him. The play deals quite exten-
slvely with the sacredness of father
hood-in-law, and Betty sticks to the
old man. although he hates her. All
the elements which have caused fric-
ton between them are suddenly swept
away in the happy ending.
The play is a London success, and
we mention the matter simply as piece
of news and not as a bit of propaganda
intended to destroy Allied unity.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Drama
Betty at Bay Is Seen at the
Thirty-ninth Street
Theatre
By Haywood Broun

Many happy endings are bare faced,
but that which has been supplied for
Betty at Bay" is SO extensively naked
that you could see its backbone if it
had one. Never has playwright
thumbed her nose so brazenly at the
lords of life and death as does Miss
Jessie Porter in the play which was
produced at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theatre last night.
Five minutes before the final curtain,
everybody thought that the hero was
dead; that the heroine V asn't going to
have baby, and that her aged father
ln-law was going to be turned out OF
his ancestral home. Then the play
wright began to work fast. Before our
startled eyes, she raised the hero and
the mortgage, and supplied promise
of motherhood for the heroine. We
are willing to grant that little good
news may be temporarily overlooked d
for the ultimate qualification of the
| audience, but it seems to us that there
should be limits to the things which
may be mislaid.
In spite of it's constitutional awk-
%ardness there are some good qualities
in Betty at Bay" Most of these arise
is not an accomplished dramatist We
assume she is not hardened one
Consequently she is able to supply
occasional snatches Of fresh and inter
esting observation of the words anc
manners Of people, but she never sue.
ceeds in combining these observations
into any effective dramatic story. The
plot is usually vague and often pre-
posterous, although its conclusion does
reach a superb climax OF idiotic inven-
ton,
If there were more stuff in the play
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Fighting Forces
Include 1926 Society Men

The Social Register for this year
which came out yesterday, shows that
society has contributed its quota 1oi
the defence of the country. There are
1885 names designated as in the army
683 in the navy, ninety-tnree in the
British and French armies, and sixty
four among those who have died on the
field in the last four months. More
than one hundred men and women are
In the Red Cross and allied organiza
tions. On a page of the little book
under the alliterative heading Of DE
fence Designations, appear the variou;
service authorizations OF the army anC
navy and their subdivisions; the Brit
ish and French army, the Red Cross
and other war services, all in alpha
betical order. In comparison with
last year marked differences appear
in the marriage and death statistics
While last year ee2 persons were mar
rled, this year there were only 764
There are mentioned the deaths Of 9St
men, as compared to 26s last year.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
George D. Smith Buys
Many Choice Volumes
In Jones Collection

There was keen rivalry among col
lectors Of rare books at the Anderson
Galleries yesterday, when the first half
of the Herschel V. Jones Library was
put up at auction.
George D. Smith, who has paid sew
cral record prices in the past, again
secured many choice volumes. paying
the highest price of the afternoon ses-
sion--s60oO for the presentation copy
of The City of God" by Saint Angus
tine, presented to the monks at Subj
AGO by the printers in 1857. Another
rare edition, purchased for $4,000 by
the same buyer, was Europe, A Pro-
phecy," by William Blake, richly Illus
trated by the author. America, A Pro-
phecy," bl William Blake, illustrated
and printed by the author in 1893, also
bought the record price Of $4,000, paid
by the Rosenbach Company.
A sumDtuous edition Of the Malermi
Bible in Italian, richly illustrated in
woodcuts, was also purchased by George
D. Smith for S2.750.
There was much excitement at the
evening session when Clemens v
Papa CONSTITUTIONS" printed in Gothic.
l460. ran up the bidding to $1,000.
Dr. j. Martini was the buyer. George
D. Smith paid $4,000 each for two
rare volumes by William Caxton and
81 500 for The Brut Chronicle"
The total up to date Of this success
full sale is $7s,179, and will be con-
cIuded this afternoon and evening.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03

Frank Mcintyre, begins the promise of
an amusing comedy. Even though its
early pace is much too slow, there is
humor in the plight of the man who
wants to fight and cannot on account
OF his excess flesh. His failure to gain
u place In the Y. NJ C.. A. on account
or ms fondness for cards and liquor
Is amusngly depicted. but when his case
IS reconsidered the picture TURNS propa-
gandlc and becomes dull tract
There is plenty Of action once the
hero reaches France, but it is not ef-
fectivc. The stout hero is sent into
a first line. trench on some sort Of
mysterious mission with soup. We
were under the impression that the
provisioning of men in the trenches
was exclusively the task of the army
and not any one of the subsidiary
organizations. However, the stout hero
gets into the front line and goes over
the top and is wounded and decorated.
Mcintyre is amusing, but he is not
effective IN the serious moments chief
lY because they arc devised with out
skill and produced with a maximum of
two inches of sincerity to every hun
dred feet Of film.
"Il II First Mistake" the Paramount
Mack Sennett comedy has some won
derful and amusing animal pictures as
we'll as some startling effects, but it
IS dev2ld OF any continuous or coherent
plot. HEWOOD RROTN
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Music

The concert givea by the U. S.
Army Music Training School Band at
Aeolian Hall last night was less an
artistic affair of large merit than a
demonstration of the efforts which are
making under the stimulus or the
war to improve the character Of the
country's military music Mr.. Percy
Granger took part in it, and plainly
enough provided the feature relied on
to make the affair attractive, but even
his contributions as composer and pian-
lst did not lift it out of the atmosphere
OF semi professionalism which sur
rounded 1t. During the last few years
Captain Arthur A. Clappe's efforts to
educate bandmasters at Governors ISL
and have been supplemented with a
measure of encouragement from the
government at the Institute of Mus-
cal Art in this city, whence have been
graduated several classes of young mu-
slclans, whose services were, no doubt,
found to be valuable when the war dis
closed that in the matter of musical
was quite as i'll equipped as it was in
trained fighting men. Now that the
lesson has been learned, it is likely
that more and better things will be
done in the future than were done in
the past, and in this view of the case
last nights entertainment may best be
viewed as committees report of
progress. Its most interesting feature
was the disclosure of the broad notion
OF musical culture which it made this
being materially helped by the obvious
ly high character of the enlisted men.
As a body they played music of the
kind to be expected of military band
albeit one somewhat lacking in etfec-
tive constituent elements, but in add
tion they sang artistic part-songs, as
songs of the day; four Of them played
chamber music for strings, the clarinet
lists mado a creditable venture in q
transcription of the slow movement of
Tschaikoffsky's string quartette, Op.
II, and one besides Mr. Grainger-to
wit, Corporal Ralph Leopold-played
the pianoforte like an artist.
The music as a rule was not too am
bilious in character to suit the occa-
sion, whose spirit found happiest ex-
preston in lght-hearted march
rhythms. The setting of an English
morris dance for two pianofortes made
by Mr.. Granger and played by him and
Corporal Leopold was kept in the
atfectation only at the end, where Mr..
Granger felt called upon to evoke two
grave tones by hitting the strings with
drumstick, instead of being content
with the mechanism Of his instrument.
NO doubt there were persons in the
audience who thought these blows
were strokes of genius, and we're also
prepared to accept the new Lullaby"
which he played alone, as a composition
OF pith and movement.
As matter of pitiful fact it was
about as precious in content and as
arstocratic in style as "Silvery
Waves" Of half a century ago, though
a little less disingenuous in harmony.
AS for Mr.. Graingers touch and tone
they were even little more steelv
and brittle than before the war. His
generously bestowed service has not
improved them. The players upon
viols proclaimed the spirit of the meet
ing in Grainger's fascinating setting
Of an Irish reel "Molly on the Shore, 3
but were considerably out Of their
1epth IN the tender melancholy of
Dvorak's american" quartet.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
On the Screen

Madge Kennedy is one of the oifted
women OF the screen. She has very
definite conception of the value of
slight gestures and small changes in
the play of expression. Among the
many players of stage and screen she
knows best how to crv humorouslv
She can do more with dab of hand
kerchief than some popular comedians
can do with q custard pie But, of
course, we do not mean Charlie Chap
lin.
"A Perfect Lady" bv Charming Pol
lock and Rennod Wolf, does not bring
cot all Miss Kennedys skill, although
1t affords her an opportunity for a
pleasing appearance. The story is modi
erately interesting, but marred by con-
vcntlonafty. Some day when we are
done with playhouses and picture thea
tres we intend to take up a lantern
and search for an honest deacon. He
may be found, but naturally we will
not seek for him in the movies or the
drama. The villain of "a Perfect
Lady" is the usual sort of deacon.
When the heroine tries to live down
life spent in burlesque by opening an
ice cream cabaret and motion picture
theatre he persecutes her However.
the minister marries her after the dea-
con has been exposed. The villains
downfall is brought about by motion
pictures taken Of him during a spree
in faroff city. The effect of the
movie within a movie is we'll done and
interesting Walter Law is a good
villain, but the rest of the support
furnished to Miss Kennedy is not dis
tinguished.
James Montgomery Flagg's comedy
plot which is decidedly in its favor and
it is also amusing. Olin Rowland does
excellent work in this comedy, which is
broadly farcial but no mere tumble of
physical misfortunes
Rex Beach's "Too Fat to Fight" with
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Obituary
Mrs. William T. Hclmuth
Dead in Her 81st Year
AT One Time Was President of
State Federation of
WOmcn's Clubs

Mrs. William Tod Holmuth. voter-n n
suhragist and past president of the
State Federation of Wcmen's Clubs,
died on Saturday at her home, c25
Yves. Eighty sixth Street, IN the eighty
first year of her age.
After forty years of untring activity
IN the cause of suffrage, Mrs. Helmuth
cast her first vote last Election Day.
She was the guest of honor at the
Convention of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs. held early last mon :,
at the Hotel Astor.
Mrs. Helmuth was also president of
the Society of New York State Women.
in 1000 she went to the Paris Exposi-
tion, heading the personally conducted'
tour Of the women's clubs of this
state. In 1904, soon after the death of
her husband, Mrs. Helmuth was elected
president of the Trustees of the
Women's Homeopathic Hospital She
was also active in the 'Woman's Pro-
fessional League.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Major BisscIl Is
Dead as Result
OF Blood Poison
Was Prominent Surgeon in
This City and Authority
ON Use Of Radium Before
Becoming Army Officer

Major Joseph Bidleman Bissell, cele-
bratcd radium specialist, a man whose
work, since he gave up private prac-
tice to serve his country in the Medi-
cal Corps, has been the means of saw
ing unnumbered lives, died yesterday
at his home, DC West Fifty-ffth Street
Death WAS due, it is said, to an infcc-
tion of the blood contracted at Fort
McHenry, Md, where Major Bssell
was serving rs chief surgeon. The
funeral services will be held tomorrow
with n requiem mass celebrated at ST
Patrick's Cathedral
Major Bissel. who was fifty-nine
Years old, was native of Lakeville
Conn.,, educated at Amcnia Seminary
and at Yale, where .c was a member
of Alpha Chi and Chi Phi fraternities
and an editor of "The Yale News"
His medical schooling was received at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University, and in the hos
pltals of Vienna and Munich. For
tWenty-one years he was an attending
surgeon at. Bellevue and st. Nncent's
hospitals.
'itOVS upNt HIS ltUE anu UlSllU-
ishcd career Major Bissell was noted
as one who WAS ever willing to perform
operations on persons who could not
afford to pay In 1915, when he per-
formed the first radium operation for
cancer ever attempted at Bellevue Hos
rital, it was laborer, James Grogan,
who was the patient. DR.. Bssell-as
he then was-paccd $4,000 worth Of
the costly clement on the patients eye
lid.
1t was shortly after this that DR..
Bissell sailed for England to under
take special treatment of wounded at
st. Mary's Hospital, London, and in.
struct the English surgeons in the use
of radium on wounds where septic
poisoning had set in. After extended
war work in both England and France,
work characterized as invaluable by
his associates. Dr. Bissell, in July of
this year, went to Camp Custer for q
six weeks military course. 1t was
here that he obtained his commission
as major and his appointment to Fort
McHenry
Eight years ago DR.. Bissell estab-
lished santitorium in this city for
the treatment Of cancer with radium.
He leaves a widow, two sons and two
daughters.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Nat Goodwin Loses an Eye


Nat Goodwin's right eye has been re-
moved at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and
Nose Hospital, 2lo East sixty-fourth
Street The operation was performed
Saturday by Dr.. Frank n. Irwin, of 527
Fifth Avenue, who said yesterday that
his patient was progressing comforta-
blv,
Two weeks ago, while in Kansas City
Mo-. with "Why Marry?" Mr.. Good
win used chloroform liniment by mis-
take for an eye wash, and though he
has been having the eye treated since
that time it failed to improve and the
operation became necessary. Mr.. Good
win is sixty-one years old and has been
on the stage since 1878. 1t is an
nounced by selwyn & Co. that Mr.
Goodwin expects to return to the "Why
Marry?" company in Cleveland Christ
mas week
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Bert Williams at the
Palace This Week

Bert Williams was heartily vol
coined back to vaudeville vesterdav
and impressed old admirers anew Wiz
the fact that he is comic genius
The other feature of the bin was tho
first appearance in vaudeville of Jie,,.
tenant Gitz Rice, who presents The
same material that he did in "Gettinp.
Together perhaps a trihe less ef,
tectively.
Adelaide and Hughes, the Avon
Comedy Four and the Watson sisters
are turns" thoroughly familiar to
vaudeville patrons, who seem to like
them none the less because of that
Mrs. Gene Hughes presents an Edgar
Allen Woolf sketch entitled "When He
Comes Back" playlet of q soldie-'s
return, which has the effect of having
been hastily manufactured to meet
the chsneinp after-the- STYLES.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Capital Was Expecting Odes
of Playwright to Mark
Triumph of Allied Cause
Author of ''Chantecler''
Wife, Sons and Other Rela-
tives at His Bedside at
Time of Authors Death

PARIS. Dec. Edmond Rostand,
the poet and Playwright, died this
afternoon. He had been i'll from
grippe
Nine. Rostand. his sons and several
ether relatives were at his bedside
Commenting on the death OF the
playwright, the Temps" says his loss
will be previously felt by France and
her allies, as he was ''Worthy to cele-
brate in odes triumphal right and mag
nifcent victory
Edmond Rostaud was one of Frances
greatest modern dramatists and poets.
To the public both in Europe and Amer
ica he was known primarily through his
"Chantecler.' "Cyrano de Bergerac'
and "L'Aiglon.' The latter two plays
won him seat in the French Academy
in May. 1901. when he was only thirty
three years old. He WAS thus the young
est "lmmortal' in the history of the
great French institution. having been
born April 1, 1868, at Marseilles.
As boy, Rostand aspired TO be a
lawyer. but at the age of twenty he
realized that he was cut out for Htera-
ture. He soon produced his first dra-
matte work, LIE Gout Roux," which
was played with success at the Cluny
Theatre in Paris.
His first big success was "eLs Ro-
manesques,' written when he was
twenty-two. LA Princess Lointane," ;"
IN which Sarah Bernhardt starred, came
next, and "Cyrano de Bergerac" and
La Samaritaine" followed soon after.
Next came "L'Aiglon,' produced in
Paris in May, 1900, which had great
l. -. II
leading role.
Rostand's health broke down soon
after the production of "L'Aiglon." and
lie was ordered by his physicians to
the warmer climate of the BASQUE
country, whore in the village of Cambo
he obtained his material for his
"Chantecler' while watching the fowl
Of the village.
"Chantecler' had great success
both in Paris and New York, where it
was produced by Charles Frohman in
1871. year after its production in
Paris.
In telling of the creation of Chan
tecler," Rostrand said:
Il had gone for a walk lust before
the play was produced | had occasion
to stop at farmhouse. and while |
waited in the yard my eye was attract
ed by blackbird hopping about in a
cage. A cock entered Noting the
sudden attitude of the blackbird, L
said to myself: He is most certainly
poking fun at the cock Does the cock
see it? If so, what does he think
about it? That was the origin of
Chantecler, comedy among the ami
mails
Throughout the war Rostrand's
verses and utterances contributed
greatly to the maintenance of the
courage and perseverance of the
French nation.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
lie Prophete" Repeated, With
CarusO and Homer in Cast

"Le Prophete" was repeated last
night at tho Metropolitan before the
usual large audience. The cast in
cluded Mr.. Caruso, Mrs. Homer, Miss
Muzio, Mr.. Diaz, Mr.. Schlcgel, Mr..
Mardoncs and Mr.. Rothier.
All were in excellent voice, and Mr..
Bodanzky showed that he can conduct
MeYerbeer with as much spirit as he
conducts Wagner or Mozart. The Met
ropohtan's spectacle is a superb one,
especially in the coronation scene,
while the ballet possesses greater at
mosphere than is usually the case at
the opera.
1t would none the less be vast i'm
provement if skaters could be found
who knew on which end their next step
was likely to land them.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Van Doren Not
At Best IN Ibsen
Offering in French

Ibsen in French was the piquant
sensation provided by the Theatre du
Vieux Colomhier last evening. "Ros-
mersholm" was the play with the YER
satile Nine. Van Doren as Eebecca
West. In spite of a most adequate
translation, the sombrences of Scandi-
navian drama was none too poignantly
realised, and the problem in the house
hold Of Johannes Rosmer insensibly
assumed the proportions of the famii-
lar triangle, instead of an overwhelm
Jag psychological study, in which the
gospel Of individuahsm plays vital
part.
Nine. Van Doren was less successful
as Rebecca than in her performance
of other roles this season. Her char
acterlzation was as uncertain as her
utterance in the third act was indis-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
Mrs. Maude II. McVickar Is
Married to Major Strons

News was received in New York yes
terday of the marriage of Mrs. Maudc
Robbins McVickar, widow of Harry
Whitney McVickar, to Major Theron
r. Strong, Artillery Corps, U. S. A.,
which took place on November 18 in
the Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris.
The bride has been in France for sew
eral months, engaged in canteen work.
Major Strong is thA son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Theron G. Strong, of 90 East
Sixty-hfth Street. He was graduated
from Yale in 1902 and is member Of
the Century. Squadron A and New York
Yacht clubs.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
JOHN w. ASHMORE

John W. Ashmore, newspaper man
who had been member of the staff
of THE Brooklyn Eagle" for the last
SIX years, died yesterday at his desk in
THE Eagle" Office. He was forty-nine
years old and prior to joining the
Brooklyn paper was connected at vari-
Gus times with The Tribune, "The
World "The Commercial" and "The
Dramatic Mirror Mr. Ashmore leaves
a widow and three daughters. His fu-
neral viii be held from his late home.
Z709 Newkirk Avenue.