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New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
the tenor and this Forest Lamont does
not possess. Mr.. Lamont has an agree
able voice, and he did his best.
Mr.. Sturani conducted with vigor.

The afternoon opera at the Lexing-
TON was THE Barber of Seville" with
Mme. GalliCurci as Rosina. Aside
from the Italian sopranos appear
ance, the performance possessed no
marked virtues The orchestra. under
ME- Sturani's direction, was loud and
leadcn.
Juan Nadal was anything but sat
lsfactory Almaviva; Giacomo Rimin
heavy footed and thick voiced as the
qulcksilver Figaro, and MN. Arimondl
and Trevisan as Don Basilio and Dr.
Bartolo afflicted with the general
sleepy spirit.
A Redeeming Role
But all can be forgiven for the
Roslna. Nine. Galli-Curci found her
self altogether in her element She
was arch, coquettish, graceful. ex-
hllaratlng, and she was also in excel
lent voice, despite few departures
from the pitch. In the lesson scene
she gave with fine effect the "Bel
Song from "Lakme," and, for encores.
"Charmante Oiseau," from "La Perle
du Bresil,' and Home, Sweet Home"
The former air she sang with exquisite
grace and beauty Of tone; on the lat
ter at least at the end, she was sue
cessful.
The audience was of CAPACITY size.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
St. John s Cathedral
Choir to Aid Missions
Will Sing Requiem in Carnegie
Hall Tuesday Evening,
March II

The choir of the Cathedral of st.
JJohn. the Divine will give the requiem
by Antonin Dvorak in Carnegie Hall
Tuesday evening, March -, in aid of
the missionary and war relief work Of
the diocesan auxiliary to the Cathedral.
Boxes at S35 and $50 and tickets from
81 to S. may be obtained from Miss
Martha Maynard, 1879 East Seventy
sixth Street. Checks may be made pay,
able to Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoff
man.
The officers of the organization are
Mrs. Henry Whitney Munroe, presi-
dent; Mrs. Richard Irwin. Mrs. Charles
Frederick Hoffman and Miss Amy
townsend, vice-presidents; Mrs. Louis
Mansfield Ogden, secretary; Mrs. John
:; :, Rogers, assistant secretary; Mrs
William NJ. " Hoffman, treasurer. and
Mrs. Harold F. Hadden, assistant
treasurer
On the executive board are Mrs
Francis c. Huntington, Mrs. Richard
irwin. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Mrs. Will
lam ,a e. lselin. Mrs. j. Jarrett Blodgett,
Mrs. Arthur O. Choate and Mrs. John
Greenough.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
New Color Film Shown
Moving Pictures in Ii Are Ex.
hibited at Private Sitting

Leon Forrest Douglass. Of San
nalaei. Cal. has perfected new style
u 'oiored motion picture The doubt
aus ones and those who were merely
WI ilous were present at a private pres
uni'ation at Wurlitzer Hall Yesterday
""eh some wonderful samples of the
WYeen va WY
Inc advantages of the new Douglass
process IS that the pictures may be
expected by an ordinary machine. No
coi cotof screens are necessary, as the
~ .plors are in the film itself, although
vs r'le INNS appear to be merely black and
',li "nitc Just how that feat is accom-
F',MN:eq Is known only to the inventor.
of l. douglass first mastered the laws
w. sound, and it was due to his in
bo b,on1Ne genius that the Victrola has
,,nn en brought TO It's present perfec-
coIn c,Jn. he same theories he applied to
tho an, and the new motion pictures are
r., result Of these experiments.
nci ne picture opens with d scene called
- tSuhrlse, and closes with sunset on
cnio ,G 'oIden Gate. All of the changing
n;ae.S I;.ViS Oh the sky are shown in these
oN'uies' or. and they are so lovely that
~ "ould like 10 put frame around
The wau. ''o'''e - ""ns Oh
tract~n nlhg girl pageant is a most at
is "pS.ve no. cofs; feature of the showing There
pic,,1u ~ community IN the scenes, for the
simnI,'es' as SHOWN yesterday, were
wan5y u,mply intended to demonstrate the
6l,,s TIM l possibilities of the colored
Amer.; An,s. There are the Liberty Bell, the
the Van 'oan Eagle and Flag. scenes from
D. yosemite Valley and Yellowstone !
cras,, ccras, the Hopi Indian dance in the
fres fa'o canyon, some pictures of forest
Hns' ana scenes which showed Louise
WV, hessIe Eyton, Mary McLaren and
Tba Tjan heed at work and at play
but .t pictures are not only colored.
bs tbs, 'hey are all stereoscopic 1t is said :
qres Inc cost of producing these pict
tbe ls only little more than that of
that oralnary films, so it is to be hoped
wheros sooh there will be photo dramas
curis tne lngenues will have yellow
NAV t, and blue sashes, and the vampires
recI .rail around in cloth of gold and
s'''ne on red satin diyans.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Mascagni 5 Isabeau Sumo
at Lexington With
Rosa Raisa
iSaoeau" 'in ltalian), opera in three
acts, by Mascagni VI

Pietro Mascagni's Isabeaun u,a.
sung last night at the Lexington Thea
u, IRE tor the first time in New York
. ms work. which was to have received
t,S premiere eight years ago, with
~nessle ~ Anott In the title role, has been
si.eh win varied success in Europe
but not until this season did If reacb
me me united States, when Cleofonti
Nampanin chose it to open his Chicaoo
engagement. N"s
Inc story of the opera has already
oeen told at length in The Tr;bnno
u Is founded on the legend of Iadv
Hod1va. and this, in itself. is enouch to
open eXpectant eyes, if not critical
cars. Lady Godiva, it will be remem-
pered, rode naked through the streets
OF Coventry.
How Miss Mary Garden ever came to
,1!ss ,, 1he part will ever be a wonder.
MISS Ross. Raisa, however. possesses a
quite adequate figure, a figure which
last night provided more discussion than
ana the music. Of Miss Raisa's figure
lhe audience had three short glimnses
Twice on horseback and once as she
dropped her cloak from her shoulders
and bolted for the wings.
Not Mascagni's Best
'ilS SlOiV MdSCaSnl mas writer
much effective music, though music
which possesses little originality of
theme or treatment. Wagner and Puc
clnl are in evidence
The opening air of Tsabeau' is an
effective bit of writing, though extraor-
difficult to sing. In short, the
music throughout is dramatic and
agreeable, though never bearing the
slightest mark of inspiration.
The libretto is handicap; it is con-
fused and episode. and only too often
situation and music fai. of a perfect
wedlock. The main idea, the ride of
lsabeau, is clumsily treated. and as
gwen last night brought laughter and
giggles.
We know row what we had guessed
before-that Miss Rosa Raisa could
nose for the most fastidious sculptor.
We also know that she can ride horse
back.
"Isabeau," despite some passages Of
undoubtod beauty. will add little to the
worlds operatic literature. 1t is not
even success.
Not. All Well Sung
Miss Raisa sang the difficult music
rs perhaps no other living dramatic
soprano could sing it, which doesn't
mean that she sang all of it we'll. The
1art requires the voice Of female
lamagno, and Miss Raisa possesses
hat voice
Another such voice is required by
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
William Crooke, Veteran
Newspaper Man, Dies at rs

William Crooke, we'll known among
newspaper men of New York, died on
Monday at his home, 1Sl Prospect
Place, Brooklyn. He was seventy five
years old and had to his credit nearly
half century of experience on vari-
GUS newspapers of the city He was
employed by "The Sun" for forty two
years.
MIR. Crooke was born in Ireland and
educated at Trinity College. He mar
ried Miss Mary Rlake, a writer on THE
Brooklyn Eagle" thirty-seven years
ago. He is survived by two sisters and
several nieces and nephews
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Mrs. .Wadsworth CHALLENGES
Now Demands That Mrs. Gait
Publicly Debate Suffrage
Staff C0r,.ccDoudcuco1

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Mrs. James
". Wadsworth. jr.. wife Of the senior
Senator from New York, and daughter
of John Hay, Secretary Of State under
MCKINNEY and Roosevelt, has issued a
public challenge to Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait. president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association,
to debate the question of the general
adoption Of woman suffrage, or to CON
fess that "the meth DDS, platform and
principles of the woman suffrage move
ment cannot succeed if submitted in
any fair way to the sound Judgment
Of the American people"
Mrs. Wadsworth is president Of the
National Association Opposed to Wom-
an Suffrage.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Plays and Players

There will be two premieres ON
Broadway this evening Ethel Barry
more Will open in her second play Of
the season, "Thc Of Chance" at the
Empire, and new extravaganza. en-
titled "Sinbad, with AL Jolson. will
go on for the first time at the Winter
Garden
The Off Chance" was written bv r
[. Carton, author of Lord and 1adv
Algy,' which was seen here recently.
The scene Of the comedy is laid in
England and the leading character is
an amiab.e, sharp-tongued woman of
the world. who devises an ingenious
trlcK TO BRING about reconciliation
between her daughter and the latter's
nusoahd, VINO has got himself entangled
with pretty dancer
"Sinbad," it appears, does not follow
very closely the story of the intrepid
sallor OF the Arabian Nights but is said
10 De spectacular and amusing. The
title role Is played by Forrest Huff.
while AL Jolson appears as Inbad. The
announcement has been made that
patrons should be seated by S o'clock
sharp and that those arriving later will
not be ahown to their places until the
lnternI1ssion. The spectacle is in two
acts and fourteen scenes
Harry Carroll and William A. Sheer
announce the New York premiere of
ON. Look A musical comedy, the
book by James Montgomery. author
OF Going Up" The music by Harry
Carroll, known everywhere as a COM
poser. and the lyrics by Joseph Nc
Carthy. The Vanderbilt Theatre, on
West 4Sth Street. a new PLAYHOUSE.
viii open its doors for the tirst time
as the home of this production, and
the definite date for the opening will
be Wednesday, February 27.
When the Lincoln's Birthday Lambs
Gambol is repeated on Sunday at the
Hudson Theatre for the benefit Of the
Stage Women's War Relief the pub !
lie viii be permitted to see a real !
novelty, created by Il. H. Burnside /
for the Gambol, entitled "Uncle Toms I
Saloon" which Introduces five Evas. |
five Uncle Toms and five Simon Lcgrees
count 'em.
"root- oot,' Henry w. Savagc's new
musical comedy, adapted from Rupert
Hughcs's farce. Excuse Me-" viii be
seen in New York after its four weeks
run at the Forrest Theatre. Phla-
lelphia. where it has registered popu-
ar success. The book is by Edgar AL
an Woolf, the lyrics by Berton Braley
and the music by Jerome Kern.
A genuine Jazz band has been added
o the list Of features in "The Love
Iill" at the Forty eighth Street The
tire, and Vera Myers has been given an
additional dancing number. The show
S gaining popularity with each per
ormance.
All the valentines received by the
Jack O Lantern" girls will be auc
ioned off after the performance to-
light at the Globe and the proceeds
,ill be turned over to the Stage
Vomens War Relief Fund.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Boy Fights Death Sentence
he Wins First Skirmish in Mo-
ton to Set Aside Verdict

faul Chapman, the sixteen-year-
ooy convicted of murder IN the first
degree last Friday. went to court YES
,1erday and won the first sllirmish in
MS ms nattle against sentence to death,
MS lawyers were given one week in
whlch to submit brJfs supporting their
nlotlon OF to set aside the verdict.
me former choir boy was scheduled
70 De sentenced to the electric chair
.1-oay' ana has bravado, so noticeable
appeared when he stood before Jnstice
Napier lie was pale and subdued.
with his eyes cast down and his hands
clenched. His attorneys urged legal
errors as ground for setting aside
the verdict.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Genevieve O'ReilIy to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Power Dixon.
of Elizabeth. \. j., announce the en-
gagement Of their sister, Miss Gene
we've O'Reilly. to Captain Ransford V
Mann, ordnance department, L. S. n.
a. son of Dr.. and Mrs. John Mann. OF
Old Westbury. Long Island. Miss
O'Reilly is daughter of the late DR.
and Mrs. Edward Richard O'Reilly
Captain Mann was graduated from
Stevens Institute Of Technology.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Miss Anne Morgan
Returns From France
Will Render Report of Her Con-
struction Work There;
Decorated by French


MISS Anne Morgan. who has been en-
gagged IN reconstruction work in France
tor the last ten months, arrived in this
country yesterday. She came for con-
ferences with the various committees
which are contributing to the work.
These are the American Fund for
french Wounded and the Vacation War
Relief Committee. Miss Morgan's chief
aid in this country. Mrs. Valentine
Schuyler, is in charge of the Recon
Struction Fund. which has reached a
total Of $S75,590, it was announced last
~ - gft. MISS Morgan was decorated by
'he FRENCH government in October.
Miss Morgan's secretary issued .
statement saying that detailed ac-
count of the work in France would be
made ,1j public in few days, but that
MISS Morgan did not feel at liberty 10
discuss her work until she had made
ter report to the committees.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Margaret r. Haskell Engaged

Mr.; and Mrs. j. Amory Haskell. of
i3o East Sixty-first Street, announce
fhe engagement Of their Younger
daughter, Miss Margaret r. Has
keli' to Rowland b. Jones, son of
Mr. and Mrs. ". Strother Jones. Of so
East Fifty-eighth Street Mr.. Jone.,
IS an ensign in the United States
naval Reserve. No date has been set
for the wedding.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Nine. Delaunois to Sing Sunday

Nine. Raymonde Delaunois, the
Franco Belgian mezzo- soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera Company. will be
the soio'st at the concert to be given
on next Sunday evening, by the
Soclete des Instruments Anciens, at the
Theatre du Vieux Colombier Her pro-
gramme Will consist of two songs by
kameau, two old Breton songs and
two arlas from Mozart's lie Nozze di
Figaro" with clavecin accomnaniment
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
Hands to War
Backing Up fershng With the Worst Dsorganization o
abor Since the Industrial AGE Began

lat payroll that was being distributed
Al that institution they found that nll
'hey mad to do was to come around
neX, n July, The police stations of
Philadelphia were Uttered with dis
appointed and "brokc" men sloon;n, :,
on the floors. Is
Will o the Wisp in
Labor Quagmire
Men have left good jobs to answer
the elusive calls of the postponed Job.
Patriots have answered the call for
men to bridge the Atlantic and
found nothing doing. Sometimes the
call was too soon, and sometimec
'here were no arrangements for
responding to it's results. have my
sei1 seen eager workers at gates Of
shipyards that really needed men, rude
iy and insultingly dealt with by q
rough7neck doorkeeper policeman He
was the yards sole employment agency
IN effect. for hundreds. and perhaps
thousands, of men never got beyond
him.
Early and late, in season and out of
season. Chairman Hurley of the Ship
ping Board has shouted that ships are
labor. The patriotic newspapers have
joined him in the cry. Thousands of
men have rushed hithcr and thither.
Most of them didn't get jobs because
the yards weren't ready, and a large
part OF those that did get Jobs were
soon hred or quit for the lure of
better place. Railway men have desert
,d their trains for munitions factories
!" orKers on government army trucks
nave quit to so to airplane factories.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
An Orgy of
Oisorganization

Airplane men have deserted for truck
work: Farm hands have quit the field
for the factory; factory hands have de-
serted the factory for the farm. The
whole labor world of America is mill
ing around like a band of wild steers.
The men are mad with adventure. the
call of the road, the lure of higher
pay. and discomfort with the old job
Strike follows Strike, and employers
are headed for the madhouse.
That is a picture of the wild riot
that is called the labor supply. and it
illustrates the charge made by organ
lzed labor that government and en-
ployers have Failed in management 1t
looks like q failure, too. doesn't it?
Pershing is discip!ining his fighting
men and organizing them for q great
effort. We are backing him up at
nome with the most complete disor-
ganization and Generalization of labor
that has ever been known since the be-
ginning of the factory age.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14
lStuf Co7responde,scel

wy ASHlNGTON. Feb. 13.--ln In
w diana there resided deaf
and dumb farmer. To sum-
mon his herd of hogs from an eighty
scre pasture to their feed he resorted
to the practice of pounding fence
rail with club. When the hogs
heard this fence-rail tattoo they
rushed peli-mell to the waiting
troughs, All went we'll with this sys-
TEN. which was SO simple that it
required neither coordination charts,
correlation, functional reorganization
nor any of the other efficiency pro,
moters that are now in common use.
until a band of piliated woodpeckers.
with hammer-like bills, took up their
residence ir- the pasture.'
All day long they called the hogs
and all day long the swine rushed after
them from tree to tree until they ran
themselves TO death.
Babel of Labor
Calls Exists
When government or employers
irst needed men for war work they
began to pound the rail. Pretty soon
the sound was initiated from all sides
OF the labor pasture and the working
men OF America have run themselves
10 death and weariness chasing those
feeting calls. The war is turning
thousands Of labcrers into prosperous
tramps. with no more sense of homo
than q cat. Viewed at long range,
American industry, in consequence of
this transient labor. looks like a big
one-night-stop hotel.
In some industries the "turnovern
Of labor IS as high as 90 per cent a
month In most OF them it is about
800 per cent q year. Come and so,
hire and fire. is the rule. The War
Department has pounded on the fence +
rail, the Navy Department has done
likewise. the Shipping Board has
nearly knocked the fence down with
It's clamorous pounding. and ten thou
sand factories have sought to lure the
workers INTO each of their ten thou
sand corners OF the pasture.
Often there was nothing in the
trough when the workers arrived
Awhile ago q Macedonian cry for help
went Zip from the now notorious Hog
Island shipyards When the eager
workers arrived for their share of the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-14

All the valentines received by the
"Jack O. Lantern" girls will be auc-
toned off after the performance to-
night at the Globe and the proceeds
will be turned over to the Stage
Women's War Relief Fund.
The Coconino sun., 1918-09-27
CARE TAKEN WITH RECRUITS

In the third of the series of letters which the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee is sending out to the Red Cross chapters, is found most in- teresting data concerning the care taken of the men in military service:
 "The new soldier is under the di- rection of the provost marshal gen. erals department from the time he is accepted until he takes train for the camp he is assigned to. At that moment the transportation depart ment takes him in charge. If his jour- ney is long one he travels by Pull man or tourist sleeper. Meals are pro- vided to him along the way at maxi mum cost of sixty cents.
 Arriving at his cantonment, he is assigned to quarters, usually in two story wooden building, with plenty of air and sunlight, and with the cleanest of floors--floors that would meet the old-time test "clean enough to eat from" He sleeps in well ven- tilated room with other soldiers, but not too many, the number being regu- lated by the cubic feet of air space in the chamber. The army bed is an extra width cot with good steel | springs and bedding suited to the weather and climate; two blankets are assigned him, all wool blankets, khaki color. Sometimes he gets three and two thick comforters more if the weather demands.
 "When a soldier gets his first pail of shoes he, gets pair that fit his feet. No account is taken of the size he wore before. His feet are placed in cunningly devised form where the length and width are exactly deter. mined. He bears his weight on this little machine and an officer and a non commissioner officer take the size record of both feet, his name, company and regiment are reported and then he puts on the pair of shoes of the size called for. But that doesn't end | it. There is a further device that checks on the measuring machine and catches any human error in recording This is put in his shoe and he runs down an incline of 30 degrees, strik- ing his heels on the cleats nailed to | it. If this little machine does not make itself felt and the shoe after ex- animation by an officer is found to be satisfactory, the man is fitted and his size is added to his service record Our soldiers are provided with clean socks, and at the end of long marches the feet are carefully inspected by the surgeon in charge.
 "No army in the world has ever at- tained such health record as ours the death rate being eight out of every thousand, here and abroad. This would even be lower but for the large num- Der of men who come down with dis ease to which they were exposed be- fore leaving home"
The Coconino sun., 1918-09-27
HINDY AT THE BAT
By ROYK. MOULTON


 With acknowledgements to Ernest Lawrence Tayor The outlook wasn't brilliant Junkervile that The stood with but to And when Rupprecht died at first Buelow A sickly silence fell the patrons of the The home folk all the sodd fight Cung to the hope that eternal in They thought if only Hindy could but get whack that They'd with Hindy at the bat. udendorff preceded Hindy did also the Prince, And the former a pudding and the a So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat, And then they that Hndy advancing to the bat There Hindys his There pride in Hndys bearing a And when, responding the brisky twasH at the A mighty foe him the sodden Flanders Foch pitching ball. And Hag Petan Pershing the immense, thought he'd All him he rubbed his with All applaudd And while the willy pitcher ground the ball into his hp Defiance gleamed Hindys cued Hindys lp And the pitchers hung And Hindy stood a-wahng it in naughty grandeur there Close by the batsman that That's tyle said Hndy Strike what Sosson downshot and the called Hndys stern and cold his they that Hindy woudtlet ball Hndy He violence his bat the the Cambrai and he And then the air shattered by the force of Hndys blow. world perhaps, shining The band is playing somewhere And somewhere laughing, children shout But there is Junkervefor Hindy has struck out
The Coconino sun., 1918-09-27
WIN THE WAR WORKERS
 WORK IN FLAGSTAFF

Mir. c. E. Buchner, state campaign director for the U. w. w. C., and Miss Eliza Corte, South American by birth and an overseas worker for the Y. w. c. A., were in Flagstaff yester- day in the interest of the great work now being done by those societies.
 Miss Cortez is an eloquent talker and delivered a most interesting talk last evening at the Orpheum theater, taking as her subject "Woman's Work in War" She had an attentive audi ence and made many things clear as to the great work that is being done by the women of the country in help ing to win the war.