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New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
New Workers, After Months
of Freezing, at Last Open
Windows, Unbutton Coats
and Again Enjoy Life

Advance notices of spring touched
the city yesterday. For the first time in
months pedestrians threw open their
coats and breathed deeply, without
hunching their shoulders and holding
their breath against the biting cold.
windows were thrown open, and even
dwellers in unheated apartment houses
wore a cheerful smile.
To-day is to be moderately colder.
says the Weather Bureau, but it keeps
the citizens courage up by promising q
mild week end beginning Saturday
early in the morning. Meantime the
man who has to go only a few blocks
stretched his legs, instead of scurry-
ing for the subway or the a."
Melting snow mixed with collected
dirt has covered most of the streets
with an inch thick coating of ooze, and
IN many sections of the city Yesterday
the Street Cleaning Department unlim-
bered its hose and washed the muddy
slush into the sewers.
Pessimists took advantage of this to
point out the dangers to health. and
more than one smile disappeared at
the words, "This is the best pneumonia
weather in the world" But that's a
fallacy, take it from DR.. Charles r
boiduan, of the Health Department.
pneumonia comes from crowding
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Music

Marjorie Church, pupil Of Godow-
sky, gave her first New York recital
yesterday afternoon in Aeolian Hall
and left most agreeable impression
upon her hearers. From her master
she has learned that discretion in the
matter of tonal architecture is one of
the first factors in clear Interpretation.
She can analyze, plan and build her
music with clear thought and firm pur-.
pose.
Rameau's minuet, in Godowsky's ar
rangement, she played fuently and with
an engaging>sense of style. In the slow
movement of Schumann's Sonata in G
minor she revealed a notable poetic
power and control of pianistic tone.
Her technique was quite adequate to
the moderate demands cf her pro-
gramme, which ranged from List
concert etude through Scriabine and
Debussy to a manuscript polka by H.
Ebell. One does not often hear, at
first recital, so satisfying a combination
of the essential qualities of musician
ship.
MAX hoSen, VINO mas dafed compaIl-
son with the greatest of violinists in
his few weeks Of playing in this coun-
try, last night accepted the supreme
dare in attempting the Brahms concerto
at the regular concert of the Philhar-
monic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.
For his courage, if courage it is. he
may be praised, and for the beautiful
cantilena which he produced in the
second movement. But the cruelty diff
ficult first movement proved beyond his
powers in his present stage of develop
ment. Though he played often with ex-
pressive tone and real poetic insight
and though his cadenza was surprising
ly vigorous and clean he was in many
passages unable to keep clearly to the
pitch and the melodic outline. With
his many artistic gifts Mr.. Rosen can
give keen pleasure to his listeners.
But the supreme violinistic tests must
come later.
Mr.. Stransky provided an excellent
accompaniment to the soloist. The pro-
gramme opened with the suite which
d'Indy made from the incidental music
which he wrote for Catulle Mende's
play, "Medee," and closed with Tchai-
kowsky's Fifth Symphony, which is one
of Mr.. Stransky's most brilliant read
lings.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Aviator to Wed Miss Allen

Miss Margaret Allen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allen, of q Wash
ington Square North, will be married
to Robert Livingstone Ireland, jr.,
Aviation Corps, U. S. N. r., tomorrow
afternoon in the chantry Of Grace
Church. The ceremony will be per-
formed by the rector, Dr. Charles
Lewis Slattery, and DR.. Percy Stickney
Grant, of the Church of the Ascension.
The brides attendants will be Miss
Katharine and Miss Alice B. Allen.
cousins of the bride, and Miss Eliza
beth Ireland, sister Of the bridegroom.
Harry P. Dawson, jr., will be best man
and the ushers will be H. Roger Cole
man, DR.. Kenneth B. McAlpin. Samuel
w. Lambert, ir.. and P. Jacobs
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Genevieve Vix Sings
Jean at Lexington
Chicago Company Presents lie
Jongleur de Notre Dame

At the Lexington Theatre the
Chicago company gave it's first
performance of Massenet's "Le
Jongleur de Notre Dame" which is re-
membered by New Workers for the
work of Mary Garden and Gilbert as
Jean and Boniface. Genevieve Vix
sang Jean last night, simply, appeal
ingly, though with no great pathos or
eloquence. AS the simple hearted
monk who offers to the virgin his only
talent, his vulgar ability to amuse, she
was sprightly and wholly feminine.
Hardly conveying the full flavor Of
Anatole Frances delicious character
she yet diverted the eye and intrigued
the ear and in all ways made herself
acceptable to a generous audience.
Hector Dufranne sang robustly as
Boniface, even too vociferously for his
simple speeches in the last act. But in
his Sage Brush" song he caught the
fancy of the audience and earned a
hearty applause. The ensemble was
excellently managed, and the me-
chanics Of the final miracle were quite
above reproach.
The best of the performance, how
yer, was the expressive playing of the
orchestra, which brought out under Mr..
Charters baton all the delicate
beauties of Massenet's peculiarly
transparent score. If all the singing
had had the nuance Of the orchestra
the performance would have been vet
more enjoyable.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Victor J. Paltsits Weds
Miss Lydia koelsch

The marriage Of Miss Lydia Withum
Koelsch, only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick w. Koelsch, to Victor John
Paltsits, of this city, took place last
evening at the fremont Baptist Church.
The ceremony was performed by Or.
Henry NJ. Sanders. A reception fol-
lowed at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Koelsch, 1866 Morris Avenue.
The bride was attended by Mrs. Percy
McTierney, Miss Margarctta Smith,
Miss Edna Johnson, Miss Mary Sher-
man, Miss Katherine Decker and Miss
Florence Johnson. Frederick W. Misch.
of the bridegroom. was
best man and the ushers were Percy
McTierney, Gordon Mille-. Harold Fin
ley, Thornton Smith, Clifford De Lacy
and Edward Brandow. Mr.. Paltsits is
the only son of former State Historian
Victor Hugo Paltsits.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Theatres Shut February IL
Lincoln's Birthday No Excep-
ton to Tuesday, Closinp

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.--Although
the theatres succeeded in persuading
the fuel administration to modify its
Monday closing order to permit play
houses to remain open on Monday and
close their doors on Tuesday, they will
be powerless to take advantage Of
Lincoln's Birthday, which falls on
Tuesday. 1t was announced to day that
only patriotic gatherings would be per-
mitted on that day.
1t was felt that the theatres had
obtained sufficient concession in sub
stituting Tuesday for Monday as their
closing night and that they would
have to forego the augmented audi
ences which they ordinarily have on
Lincoln's Birthday
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Brooklyn Bridge Traffic
Tied Up Twice in One Day

Traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge was
tied UP twice between early morning
and noon time yesterday, once for fif-
teen minutes. the other time for more
than an hour.
The first tie-up occurred at 9:15,
when a feed cable that conveys power
for the car lines across the bridge
grounded at the Brooklyn anchorage
on the north roadway. At $3.50 the
elevated cars began to move again, and
at 9:45 surface cars and vehicles also
started.
An hour later a trolley car on the
Brooklyn bound roadway struck team
of horses attached to a produce wagon.
One Of the horses Tell across the ele-
waited roadway. and traffic on these two
lines was also blocked for an hour.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Plays and Players

Harry A. Garfield, the Fuel Admins
traitor, has refused to grant the petit
tion Of the theatrical managers to be
allowed to give performances on Lin
coins Birthday, next Tuesday. instead
of on Wednesday. The public as we'll
as the managers will be disappointed,
fors they have been in the habit of
goiAg to the theatres on Lincoln's
Birthday, whereas the attendance US
ually is small the next day, which is
Ash Wednesday.
Yolande Presbury has been engaged
by Andreas Dippel for the feminine
juvenile role in "The Love Mill" which
will begin an engagement at the Forty
eighth Street Theatre tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, having
completed their motion picture engage
ments, left yesterday for Palm Beach,
where they will rest for ten days be-
fore returning to start rehearsals Of
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Damrosch Heads Society to
Aid Musicians in France

Musicians and music lovers through
out the country are asked to enroll
their names in the membership list of
the American Friends of Musicians in
France, an organization, headed by
Walter Damrosch, for the relief of mu-
sicians in France and of their families
made destitute through the war.
Every cent collected by the society
will be sent to France without deduc-
tion for any purpose whatever. Since
the organization of the American
Friends of Musicians in France 81 900
has been sent abroad. Dues for active
members are 81 year; for associate
members, $25, and for sustaining men,
bers, $780, Checks should be sent to
George Harris, jr., 35 West Eighty
first Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

manager could do was Yuxuriously done.
The opera was put on with a care, q
seriousness which is altogether COM
mendable. Meyerbeer had he seen il
would have been in the seventh heaven.
Scribe would have stopped work on his
hundredth potboiler at least long
enough to nod recognition to MIR.
Ordynski and Mr. Urban. And the pub
lie would have come and have been
and was delighted, just as it probably
VIII come and be delighted whenever
lie Phophetc" is given during the next
two or three seasons.
Yet with all its trivialty, it's theatri.
cal buncombe, "Le Prophete" contains
many eloquent pages. If Meyerbeer had
been sincere he would have been a great
composer. No one but a born genius
could have written the fourth act love
duet of LES Huguenots," none but such
q genius could have written "Ah, Mon
Fills" and much of the concerted music
of lie Prophetic" These pages are sim
cere, but even when he failed to be sin.
cere, when he was writing quite frankly
for the mob. beating his librettst at his
own game. ne was so Internally clever
that we almost can forgive him. He
wasted his talents, he prostituted his
generation. And he will, no doubt, give
pleasure. to many succeeding genera
tlor II his operas are given as lie Pro-
phete" was given last night.
Meyerbecr wrote for the lyric stage
when the art of bel cdnto was still in
its prime. His music is not for gen.
Grafton of artists trained in declama-
tion. 1t requires style, legato, delicacy
Of phrase. Few singers to-day can ac-
complish it. 1t is a tribute to the
Metropolitan that it still possesses
artists capable of singing it. Mr.
Caruso was not by nature intended for
Jean. That is part calling for the
heroic proportions of a Niemann or a
Tamagno. Yet by his art and his sim
cerity Mr.. Caruso interested and even
thrilled his hearers. Either vocally or
dramatically, it will never equal his
lyric roles, for those are Mr.. Caruso's
par excellence. But it Is worthy
companion to his Samson, and displays
once more the extraordinary range of
the great tenor.
Maurice Dumesnil, a young pianist
who has had a good measure Of sue
cess in South America, made his North
American debut yesterday afternoon in
Carnegie Hall. In the Chopin B fiat
minor Sonata and in group of shorter
pieces he proved himself the possessor
of an excellent technical equipment and
Of considerable power and dash. His
playing, on the other hand, lacked deli
cacy and tenderness, and he seemed
prone to force violent contrasts. He
seemed pianist rather above the aver
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

Ihe management of the Theatre du
Vleux Columbier departed from its hon.
ored practice Of giving bizarre and ex-
ot1c plays taken from the repertorv Of
the reallst theatres of Paris by giving
lts habltues a real "premiere" never
before presented either at the Grand
Guignol or the Theatre de pOeuvre
and by an author of as yet obscure
name, Auguste Villeroy.
The new play, "La Traverse" which
may be translated as "The Crossroad''
or "The Short Gut" is rather tepid
play with four principal characters,
none of whom gives evidence of bizarre
ric or of Scandinavian pessimsm. They
are normal people without supernatural
thoughts or extravagant passion, and
they strut their allotted hour without
provoking either emotion or angoisse.
The play is suitable for the most
fastidiously "comme-il-faut" jeune file
and is the development of the luke
warm affection of Gilberte for jacques,
which only rises in temperature when
said Jacques. whom she has outrage
ously treated, transfers his attention
to Marcelle, Gilberte's sitter. Gilberte,
adequately played by Lucienne Bogaert,
finally marries her second choice, the
rich banker Hartz, which is quite in
accord with the dictates of Mrs.
Grundy.
Despite the temperatures of the
play as play the acting. as is true
of everything in which these French
players have been seen. gives it q
flavor of sincerity which is as de-
lightful as it is rare.
The Marcelle of Madeleine Geof-
troy was particularly brilliant and
finished "La Traverse" was followed
by Jules Renard's "Poilde Carottee," !"
seen here with Ethel Barrymore as
Carrots, and all those who remem-
Der Miss Barrymore's acting in the
play will want to see Suzanne Bing
in the role. W. T.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

Thomas's Church. AS DR.. Battles pro-
fessional duties had called him to New
York at this time, they decided to be
married here instead of in Asheville.
They arrived in New York on Wednes-
day night. The ceremony was per
formed by Bishop Cheshire, of North
Carolina, who came to the city pur-
posely to oficiate. There were no at
tendants, and the only guests were
bride, and o. J. Harris, of North Caro-
lima. There was no reception.
DR.. Battle is q retired assistant sur
geon of the United States Navy.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
F ederal Traffic
Long Haul Experts, Under Government Control Nov
Forced to Find the Shortest Route Between
Two Given Points

ure was in watching the growing
number Of carloads of product that
came from this little-big plant
which was actually in sight Of a
rival railway system that had line
two hundred miles shorter to the
plants main market.
Then came national control of the
railways. The ungrateful manager
of the pampered plant, being rem
dered all but crazy by governments
demands to speed up shipments. ap-
pealed to Mr.. McAdoo to order the
railway to build a half mile of line
or less and connect his plant with
the rival short haul system. One Of
Mr.. McAdoo's assistants politely
suggested to the vice-president that
the national railway administration
would be much pleased to see this
connection put in with more than
ordinary dispatch.
Refused to Build
The Connection
Forgetting that new age had
come, the vice-president fatty re-
fused to build the connection. Can
you blame him? He had been
trained to avoid connecting tracks
and short hauls all his life. To make
him do otherwise were as if you
were to reverse his moral code and
substitute affirmation for negation
in the Decalogue
So the representative of the ma
tional railway administration called
up the president of the railway
one Of the greatest in America-ex-
planned the situation to him and
then inquired: "Now, are you going
to have this done Immediately of
your own free will, or do you want
me to use Mr. McAdoo's rubber
stamp at the foot Of an order?"
Needless to say the track was
built in three or four days, and now
the good, old vice-president sees the
railway upbuilding of a decade at
that particular spot all turned over
to the deadly rival. You can't make
hiSl believe it is right.
This essentially true and right up
to-date story illustrates what is now
going on all over America under
Federal direction. Traffic routes
are being disentangled. Traffic men
whose lifetime business has been
to tangle them have been called
from street and local office to the
regional headquarters in New York,
Chicago and Atlanta to untangle
them. They used to hunt for the
long line. Now they are looking for
the short line.
"They'll find about a hundred
thousand Of those short lines, more
or less" said a critical railway man,
land when they find them and begin
to use them they will have the
competing railway lines of America
tied together tighter than the wet
shirt you found when you came out
of the swimming hole when you
were kid. There will be some
scrambling that can never be un-
scrambled"
I forgot to say that the official Of
the Federal railway administration
that "talked turkey" to the railway
president is himself a railway official
of the highest rank and one of our
most accomplished long haulers him.
self when the game was played that
way.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

he said. ut is unlikely that there will
be an increase in the number of cases
while people can keep their windows
open or walk and fill their lungs with
air. The time to expect pneumonia is
during the cold drizzly rains, when
every one is shut in tight"
In spite of the extreme weather. the
city has been unusually healthy during
the last month. Deaths from pneu-
monia for the twenty four hours pre-
ceding noon yesterday totalled only
fifty-four.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Miss Kyne to Wed Monday

Miss Mary Kyne, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. v. Kyne, of 205 West
Seventy eighth Street, will be married
to Charles E. Graham, of Brooklyn, on
Monday evening in Holy Trinity
Church, West Eighty second Street
The ceremony will be performed at $3.50
o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Serbian Delegate Honored

Mr. and Mrs. J. Stevens Ulman gave
dinner last night at their house, "a
East Eighty-first Street, for Mi;enko r.
Vestnich, chief of the Serbian War Mis-
sion to the United States. Their guests,
about twenty in number, were after
ward taken to the Liberty Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

ard dd'nadctor aics Arur osanzky stage director Rich
"'u oroShskl; chorus master. Giuiio Sstu A~'e'
In opera, as in all else in th;s i'm
perfect world, we must take what the
soos vouchsafe. Complaint brings us
nowhere, the asking of questions is
olsagreeable, smile is more relished
tnan tear. So we won't ask why
Meyerbeer's "Le Prophetic" was chosen
1or revival at the Metropolitan instead
o1' let US say, Verdis "Falstaff." Per-
maps Mr.. Caruso had something to do
with it-there is no part for the great
tenor in "Falstaff"; perhaps it was that
as The Canterbury Pilgrims" is not
10 pe given this season, the Metropoli-
tan turned from De Koven to Meyer
peer Tor scene of ecclesiastical pomp
ana circumstance. Coronation trum-
pets and trumpery are as deeply be-
loved by democracy as elsewhere. If
the composer provides enough brass
and the librcttist enough banners. the
public is very apt to believe that it
has received mighty message. Brass
and banners. banners and brass.
Meyerbeer and Scribe, Scribe and
Meyerbeer-in short. lie Prophetic. !"
This is a brutal way of putting
the Metropolitan's revival of the
old opera, a revival splendidly con-
celved and splendidly carried out, a
revival such as no other opera house
IN the world could accomplish to-day.
What the singer, the conductor, the
scene painter, the costumer, the stage
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Mrs. Vinton Liddell Becomes
Bride of DR.. s. w. Battle

g Mrs. Vinton Liddell, sister of Miss
Husan gus. Hall, a we'll known sculptress of
N Snls city, was married to Dr. S. Westray
battle, both of Ashevillc, N. c., at noon
yesterday in the chantry of st.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
By Theodore M. knappen

III
WASHINGTON, Feb. Tn the
w railroad game esprit de corps
has been based on beating the other
fellow. To a considerable extent
that is true of all the business
games. None lend themselves very
happily to solitaire.
Up to a month or two ago you
might say that the measure of eff
cheney and progress on all American
railways was some record of the
opposition which it was incumbent
upon the Pennsylvania or the New
York Central or the Santa Fe to
beat. When the New York Central
put on its original twenty-hour train
between New York and Chicago it
was a trump against the Pennsyl-
yania. Men discussed with bated
breath the Pennsylvania form of
reprisal. The wise ones oracularly
dropped crumbs of information con-
cerning the momentous matter that
they had picked up from Presiden,
Cassatt The whole Pennsylvania
railroad army was deeply perturbed.
Then men began to whisper to
each other words of great cheer.
The "old man" had been heard to
grunt that when he got ready he
would show the Central something
in the way of fast trains that would
make it's hair curl. Then came the
Pennsylvania eighteen-hour trains.
Tremendous JOY reigned in all Penn
sylvania circles. The world was
made safe again. The loud TIM
brels were sounded from Philadel-
phia to Pittsburgh and on to Chi
cago.
That illustrates the competitive
nature of American railroading.
Competition was the whole life of
the game, not competition in rates,
of course, but competition in ser
vice, competition in getting the busi-
ness, competition in railway strate-
GIGS both economically and geo.
graphically, competition in fame.
Master Of the
Long Haul Trick
On a certain great system is a
certain gray-headed vice-president
who knows and has perfect COM
mand of every one of the railway
competition tricks that has been dis
covered, tried and approved since
Commodore Vanderbilt's time. One
Of his specialties has been monopo-
lizing industries for the long haul,
so highly honored in railway circles.
The long haul has long been one
Of the red chips in the railway game.
1t is based on the geometrical fact
that two sides of triangle are
greater than the third.
The long haul master was the man
who could figure out the longest
way of getting between two railway
points and stay all or most of the
time on his own tracks. He has
turned the traffic routes of Amer
lea into labyrinthine mazes, the idea
being not to move the freight expe-
ditiously but to get most of the
tariff.
Now, the above mentioned vice.
president had a nice little industry
that he had coddled and nursed and
petted until it had grown very lusty,
especially since introduced to war
diet. The V. P.'s chief daily pleas
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

the the new T,,y,, comedy in which Richard Wal
legitimate stage.
The first long play produced by The
Washington Square Players this sea-
son is announced for the next bill at
the Comedy Theatre. 1t is youth"
comedy in three acts by Miles Male
son. 1t will have its premiere on
Wednesday evening, February 90.
The new producing firm of Harry
Carroll and William A. Sheer announces
that they will open the new Wander
bilt Theatre in Forty-eighth Street,
east of Broadway, on February IS, with
"Oh, Look!" by James Montgomery and
Harry Carroll.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Drama
Comedies Are Ably Pres.
ented at Theatre du
Vieux Colombier

CAST FOR LA TRAVERSE"
Gilbere Meriel r,
Marcelle . '''''' .,,f.,adeieinle ,fdii i'osaeat
FMphemie ~ - e = 1i"eolSlIe nH icon roy
jacques Drouais ;,tT,usenlc -, - &u
Hartz .... - -'tato! NlH1et
CAST OF POLL DE CAROTTE'.
Monsieur Icpic" " Jacouss co,..,
Madama I..o' In,t Suzanne Bing
Anns1tn A'opic' Eugene Nau
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
Opera
Caruso' in lie Prophetic,
Gives Interesting
Performance

LIE frophets," opera in four acts and
,,lne n tanleaux. (In French.) Book by
eugene Scribe. Music by Giacomo New
erbeer. -'AeS-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08
FIRST STRAW HAT ON FIFTH
AVENUE

The first faint touch of spring in
the air affected New Workers. in many
different ways, but none in such a
peculiar fashion as this hopeful young
man who appeared in a summer hat,
the first Of the season.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-08

~ N'ioir innSSyss-Ninnic Egener. Cecil Arden Marie
Tiffany and vcni Warwick ''s''' 'iA' 1t
ard drdcns, Arur l'odanzky stage director. Rich
A' o'"'nsNi chorus master. Ciul!o Setu