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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Kelly Won't Philosopher

Mr.. Gregory Kelly, who plays Booth
Iarkington's seventeen year-o!d in
Seventeen" at the Booth Theatre, is a
slender young man who wears his
clothes a little more neatly and his
hair a little less tousled than Willie
Baxter. He's really little older than
Witches voted once; but he doesn't
need a great deal Of makeup and looks
much the same off the stage as on.
Naturally, he has opinions on various
subjects, but he feels they wouldn't be
particularly interesting to other people
''If Pm to talk for publication" he
SAID, 81 ought to read up bit on cold
cream and massage. Or reducing cx-
crcises-that seems a very popular
topic for theatrical folks How I
brought myself down from 80 pounds
in order to play Willie. But l didn't.
And l can't spout fashions on the
strength of Willc's wardrobe-that's
certain.
"There's baseball-l'm terrific fan.
AS for athletics, run to the hectic
tennis and handball. swim bit, row
and skate. But most anybody knows
more about these sports than | do.
II haven't any philosophy, or if
have l don't know it. And l can't ex-
plain how TO live on twenty -four hours
a day, for it seems forty-fo still
wouldn't be quite enough for all there
is to do | read when I get time-but
/ never get time. ] guess anything I'd
say would be simply shop talk, for
love the theatre and take tremendous
interest in other shows, but largely in
things most people never think about"
Such as -?"
We'll, such as what time the curtain
goes up How long the show runs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

forms herself into an empty headed
society butterfly with an incessant flow
OF "gabble" and a penchant for asking
lnnumerablc questions which she never
waits to have answered. In appear
ancc, carriage, manner and voice she
is no more like any of the three other
characters mentioned than Miss Tavlor
herself AS Jenny Wrcay is like digni-
fed and gracious Sylvia Brooke, the
lovely mother in "The Harp of Life"
Miss Fontannc is an English actress,
who was drought to this country by
George c. Tyler at the suggestion of
Miss Taylor. who saw her play num-
Der of widely differing roles in London,
and who became impressed with her
remarkable versatility. intelligence and
grasp OF character. Miss Taylor's first
glimpse OF her was in revival Of
"MilcstoneS,' in which she played the
role of the old maid, who begins in
the first act as a young woman and
who winds up iii tho last act, fifty
years aftcrward, as orochctty and tot
tcring old woman in her seventies.
This was the role laidcc Wright
played in the New York production Of
this play with such great success
Miss Fontannc enjoys the unique
distinction OF being one of very
limited number of actresses who have
been personally coached by Ellen Terry.
She went to Miss Terry with a letter
of introduction from mutual friend
and expected nothing more than a little
note to some manager. Miss Terry,
however, became decidedly interested
in her personality and devoted a whole
year to giving her private lessons in
elocutlon and stage department., play
ing opposite her in the drawing room
of her home in scenes from a number
Of Shakcspearian plays. After that
Miss Fontanne got u place as under
study in Drury Lane pantommc,
happened 10 get a chance to play one
OF the principal parts, attracted the at
tention Of Weldon Grossmith and was
forthwith engaged for role in
play he was then about to produce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

equals; Mr.. Darling was a gentle, lisp
ing SOUL who covered up his gentle
ness with Il stern exterior that was OBJ
Vlous enough even to the children: and
Sister Wendy and little Michael were
just right But they take second place
to the BaXtcrs. | don't believe there
will ever be another mother like Mrs
Baxter You can tell right away that
she is a fine mother, in spite of the fact
that she doesn't have gray hair parted
IN the middle and drawn tightly around
her cars-shc doesn't even wear spec
tacles or shawl. And Pa Baxter is a
peach, in spite Of the fact that he
Jlbes Willie occasionally think it's
good for Willie not to be taken too
seriously. And the beautiful part Of it
all is that they are just as fine off
stage. | can say, honestly, that | feel
as devoted to the family off stage
as Willie was to them (deep down in
his hearth in the play. In fact, as d.
whole | am stronger for them than
Willie could possibly have bccn-bc-
cause Jane is darling and a perfect
contdante never lets a secret slip out
except when she plays my little sister.
| am sure l would be less tolerant than
Willie if she carried her tattling into
real lifc-I hate tattlc tales
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Aside from the picturcsqueness which
David Belasco has achieved in "Tiger
Rose" at the Lyccum Theatre, the da-
loguc is filled with atmospheric impress
sions, vivid pictorial suggestions and
great warmth OF color.
Beginning with the first scene of tho
second act, Michael Devlin, Royal
Northwest Mounted Policeman, sug-
gests the country to the minds eye in
his instructions for the man hunt when
he says:
"MacCollins, take the northwest end
toward the swamp; Pierre, the cordu-
roy road below; III ride around the
lot; Max allow, have that dog rib blow
that bu,le for the alarm"
In the second scene Of the same act,
boforc the storm arises, the lines Of
the play suggest it's approach while the
moonlight is still flooding the yard and
sending it's silver rays through the
open window of the factors home
Dr.. Cusick (standing in the open
doorway I've been watching the storm
coming up.
Langtry
Cuscll~Ycs; storm clouds arc COM
ing up very fast from the southeast.
MacCollins Oh, that's like the doc
tor. While the rest Of us are talking a
deal OF nothing he's watching The
storm.
Langtry-It didn't look much like n
storm an hour ago. I've never seen
such clear, clean moonlight The
States can offer nothing like this, do
you think?
Following this conversation the
storm comes nearer and nearer. A light
wind blows the window curtains, and
there is distant thunder And later,
when the rain begins to fall, and Or.
Cusick and Rose arc alone, tho CONVEX
satIon again gives impressionist
touches to the Alberta environment in
the following dialogue:
Rose (to Cusicl- talking Of her
hunted lovcr) Wa Wa find him all
right. Hide him down there lpointiny
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
An Actress of Many Parts

With the single exception of tie
always charming Laurette Taylor few
actresses now appearing in New York
have shown so much versatility on the
metropolitan stage in the last two
seasons as Lynn Fontannc, who, by a
strange coincidence, is member of
Miss Taylor's company. Since the fall
of 1916 Miss Fontanne has appeared
with Miss Taylor in four plays, and IN
each one OF them has impersonatcd q
distinctly different character so effect
lively tina. she has actually seemed to
DC possessed Of what the psychologists
call multiple personality"
In "Thc Harp OF Life the play in
which Miss Taylor renewed her &c
ouaintancc with her New York public
after her long absence in London, Miss
fontannc was dcmurc little Country
mouse" Il young girl brought up in
the suffocating atmosphere of con-
ventional household and living under
the domination Of an utterly conven-
tonal mother. She was artless sim
piicity and sincerity pcrsoniticd in tho
carly scenes, and she had ono fine
moment OF revolt in the sccoad act,
when, unable to stand her mothers
attitude toward her any longer, she
blazed out in passion Of resentment
In "Out There" Miss Fontannc was
the scrcechy voiced, strident and ut
tcrly selfish Lizzie Hudd, sister OF
pathetic little Annie Hudd, the role
cssayed by Miss Taylor. Here was
dclneation of real Cockncy type, a
part RS far removed from tho little
girl in "Thc Harp OF Life" as the
imagination could possibly conceive
Next came "Thc Wooing Of Eve" in
which Miss Fontanne created q most
unusual comedy charactcr-a crying
ingenuc-a young person trembling on
the brink OF disagrecable marriage
and bursting into trcmulous sobs on
the slightest provocation Now in
"Happiness" at the Criterion Miss Fon-
tame is again transformed, or, per
haps, more properly speaking, trans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Miss Matfhisoy7 to
Play in "Eueryman'

This evening at the Ncighborhood
Playhouse Miss Edith Wynne Mattbi-
SON and her company will play in
"Everyman.' This simple announce
ment on two placards on the front of
the theatre was notice enough to sell
within forty-cight hours every seat in
the Playhouse.
Announcement will soon be made Of
the first performance in America of
two new plays, "Tamura." Japanese
Mob drama, in which the Neighborhood
Players will be assisted by Michio Ito,
and fortunate" a three-act play from
the Spanish Of S. and J. Alvarez Qun-
tcro, the authors Of "a Sunny Morn
ing which was done last year by the
Ncighborhood Players. The transla-
ton is by Anna Sprague Macdonald
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Whether it let's out before or after
other houses in that block and gets the
roisc Of automobiles during it's last
scene. What manncrisms the comedian
has. How many blues in the borders,
and how the bunch lights are placed.
How many curtain calls are legitimate
and how many are pulled Are the
third tier boxes full? Is the house
selling out or giving out hard tickets ?
That Is theatrical slang for the large
cardboard tickets that are given out
with the stubs of the usual tickets
when 81 seats are sold for $3.50. How
the effective scenes are built up. How
quickly the sets are changed. How
the curtains are tincd-a whole book
could be written on the timing Of cur
tains.
All of which seems to prove that
m a positive theatre fan. And if YOU
ask me my favorite play-why, III have
to admit it is Seventeen 1t is the
greatest sort Of fun to play Willie
Baxter. OF all the parts I've played |
can't think Of one that l enjoyed SO
much, except when l was a kid and
played John Napoleon Darling in Peter
Pam You remember the scene where
John Napoleon Darling makes fun of
his father, a thing ! had often longed
to do. OF course, Mr.. Darling was only
a stage father, but ! pretended he
wasn't Oh. how loved that scene!
That was fine family-the Darlings
when my engagement in Peter
Pan came tosan end my second regret
was (my first, Of course, being the sor-
row OF no longer being able to enjoy
Miss Adams's joyousness as Peter)
that l should never again be so we'll
placed domcstically. Mrs. Darling was
the incest stage mother, tucked us all
in and always treated the children as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Holmes on Rockies

Tonight and tomorrow afternoon
at Carnegie Hall Burton Holmes will
close his present season in this city
with an extra travelogue, which he calls
"Thc Canadian Rockies" including
gilmpses OF Canada from coast to coast.
This subject is especially interesting
and beautiful. A more intimate knowl-
edge OF our cousins TO the north is
more and more sought after as the
war continues.
The larger cities of Canada, with
their historical and commercial inter-
est, arc in themselves an attractive
topic for information and illustration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Atmosphere of Tiger Rose

to trap door,. WaWa show him how
to crawl under house he is wait to
speak to me.
Cusick-I will have Mak-a- Low put
little canoe on Little Creek. After
you see him tell him to 90 to the de-
serted cabin-he can find it all right
and tonight VIC will give him the canoe
and food and let him shift for himself
Rose (later-talking to Bruce about
the plan for his 81 taway) --Truly-
down Little Greek in the canoe-only
travel at night three or four nights
from now--no moon--I know the way
Rose (still latcr)-Now pretty soon
you go-crawl under house--come out
this side in shadow cross the lot
crawl in the timber-go north--you
come to corduroy road turn from road
big pine stump-she is burnt.
straight back through brush will
find little cabin
Her instructions arc q marvel of
succinctncss. They also give the au-
ditor vivid picture Of the Boy carry
ing them out in this wild and beautiful
land into which he has come to such
dire straits in seeking vengeance for
great wrong done Throughout the
entire play word pictures keep the
imagination of an audience alive even
before the scenes described are actu-
ally set before the eyes. Another vivid
example comes in the deserted cabin
during the first scene of the third act,
when DR.. Cusck is making brave effort
to help Rose and her lover.
Cusick fto Bruce IF you could get
down as far as Right-of- Way, and into
an empty ear going back, you'd arrive
at Edmonton, and you'd have more
chance right there in the city with
the Mounted under your nose than
you'd have up here
Rosc-No, no, doctaire, listen. Max
allow know lot Of Siwash far north
no one conceive can get therc-ncver
they would think-and then mother
way out~-savvc--up far way.
Cusick-By God, the girl is right.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Four One-Act PLAYS

The last three evenings of next
week, February q, % and %, the
East-West Players Will present four
oue-act plays at the Lenox Theatre, in
Seventy eighth Street,
The first. "Pawns," is a war play
by an American author, Percival
Wilde, whose "Tfe Unseen Host
was presented at the Harris The
atrc last Sunday for the benefit of the
American Fund for French Wounded
The other three plays announced are
translations from the Yiddish: "Win-
ter drama by Sholom Asch "The
Shadchen's Daughcr.' comedy by
Abraham Resin. and "Abigail," a
Biblical play by David Pinski.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
The north way is the way out.
Bruce-You think so? How?


Bruce--You think so? How?
Cusick-lf you could reach Rupert
and out through Vancouver, and could
get boutwell, try it.
Thus again, through the broken Eng
lish of the French Canadian girl. to
whom the law of life and that of love
are synonymous terms, and the more
coherent description of the doctor, the
Imagination Of the audience conceives
Il clear impression Of that picturesque
land whose purity and bigness and
beauty are reflected by the lssome
little lass whom Michael Devlin has
nicknamcd "Tiger Rose"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

while the Canadian Rockies. with thei,
glaciers, snow-capped peaks, wonderful
valleys and streams. and their superb
hotels at Banff and Lake Louise, will
always be a mecca for the tourist, tn.
sportsman and the pleasure seeker
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11
TO PREVENT GRAIN WASTE.
Board Organized to Start Nation Wide
Movement to Control Plant Disease.

State College, Pennsylvania, Mar. H.
| To prevent an annual loss estimated al
1874, $50 900 bushels of wheat, oats, bar
ley and rye, and tremendous losses
in other staple crops, specialists on
agriculture have organized an war
emergency board of American plant
pathologists This board has Inaugural
ted nation wide campaign to increase
food production through control of de
structiye plant diseases during the com
ing growing season.
Because the consumer pays for ev-
cry rotted and scabby potato and every
smutted grain of wheat or oats the
farmer grows, without having them as
food hundreds of trained workers in
tend to carry the campaign into all the
states. Teachers, research workers and
students are being enlisted in the serv,
ice which will show the farmers how to
increase their yields of disease free
crops.
These preventable diseases will be
attacked vigorously as the first step of
a comprehensive program to prevent
food waste. Further efforts to save food
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11
Resiinol
Ointment and Resinol Soap stop itching
and clear away eczema and similar
humors, SO quickly and easilyi

the former German ambassador reached
the organizations in Germany, or wheth'
or the money was used in various ways
by the German ambassador In this coun'
try.
Nothing which has appeared thus far
has aroused the committee SO much as
the revelation that the money collected
from American citizens by this alliance
might have been used in part to implant
pro-German propaganda or destroy Amer
lean industries furnishing war supplies.
Another development Saturday was
the admission by Karl NJ. l.. Scholz of
Baltimore, counsel for the alliance, that
the organization had been conducting a
propaganda against the passage of pro-
hbition. This statement was volunteered
after Percy Anderae of Chicago had
shown the link between the breweries
and the liquor interests with the ALI
ance. T. Lowrey Humes, United States
attorney for western Pennsylvania, fur
nished the committee with evidence of
the operations OF the alliance, the Unit
ed States breweries and the National
Associate of Commerce and Labor. This
latter organization was formed by tile
breweries to fight prohibition.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11
TRY TO CONCEAL LOSSES.
Germans Use Subterfuge in Proclaiming
Airplane Conquests.

Paris, March II Correspondence of tho
Associated Prcssi Germans are trying
to conceal their airplane losses and aug
ment those of the entente allies, accord
ing to French officials. Their last COM
munique on the subject said that lin De-
cember the enemy aerial forces have lost
ll9 airplanes and nine captive ballons.
We have lost in aerial combats 50 air.
planes and two captive balloons"
French authorities report that in De-
cember the English brought down 50 Ger
man machines and the French fl, making
total of LOG instead of 81 admitted by
the Germans. The French claim of en-
envy machines does not include 30 Ger
man machines which We're seen to fall
but the loss of which has not been Off
cially confirmed. The combined British
and French aerial losses during December
were 43 machines instead of lbs claimed
by Germany. OF these the British lost 80
and the French II
The German "camouhage" in the COM
munique is found in the words lin aerial
combats." 1t is pointed out that the
Germans forget to include the number
of their machines brought down by anti
aircraft guns of the allies, while they
claim as losses all allied machines seen
to fall within their own lines and many
Of which are virtually unchanged.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11

You Can Try a 25o Jar on 30
Days Trial and Your Druggist
Will Refund the Purchase Price
II You Are Not Delighted with
the Test.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11

Z, 100000 Russian prisoners TO cultivate
this food acreage. She has conquered
aud holds Rumania, Serbia. Montenegro,
Russian Poland, the entire Russian coun-
try up To Riga, many square miles in
Italy, 50 per cent of Belgium and 2I6
square miles in France Until the real
issues OF the war are brought home TO
the German people they will continue
TO ovcrsubscribe her loans and furnish
the necessary credit for the mobilization
of her troops and resources. She il prac-
tically the only ration in the world that
has made census of her man power,
which has been carefully selected with
reference to occupation, and we are told
that she has fully 100000 carpenters and
100000 electricians and mechanical engi-
neers who have never seen the trenches
or the firing line Official authorities
admit that Germany can put into the
field 100000 men each year, and that her
average losses for the past three and a
half years have been only 100000 an
nually, leaving tremendous reserve
power upon which she can draw. In her
three landstrums in reserve we are told
that there are fully l2,000,000 men. With
the collapse of Russia and the estimated
withdrawal of l40 army corps, Germany
is massing thousands of troops on the
western frontier and is preparing for
supreme effort to break the western line.
She failed at the Marine. at Ypres and
at Verdun; if we properly support our
government the troops of America, fight
ing shouldS TO shoulder with those of |
our brave allies. will see that she fails |
at scissors, at Champagne, or wherever
she may strike this spring.
But in order to accomplish this it will
be necessary for every one of us to break I
the alabaster box of his ointment of sac
ritce. We must teach our children and /
people Of moderate means to buy thrift
stamps and war saving certificates; that
| dollar saved it the United States is a
patriotic dollar; that dollar boarded is
/ Stacker; and that dollar wasted is a
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11
MARCH OF THE DEFENDERS.
BY Marion Couthouy Smith Of The Wig.
ilantes.

1lanteS.
Oh knights of hope and Spring-tide
marching, marching
When shall YOU wear the flower again
and not the blood stained thorn +.
Oh. Young and dear. who come to lay the
splendor of your life away,
We know rot what immortal bloom
from your brave dust is bornl
For Harki a sound of marching march
ing. marching
We hear the thunder OF the steps of
Michael's hosts in heaven;
The force which struck the fiery star
that kiudled to a lurid bar.
And fell rs a red meteor when the
morning clouds were riven.
And they shall come--the gallant dead
10 meet us, marching
The souls that made Il earths dark
wars = golden memory.
The maid uf France shah ride again.
rraye captains az her side again.
And Nelson's spirit on the wave shall
call to victory.
Oh. hosts II light. that strive and die
oh. great ranks. marching.
still bold sloft the desthless rose. your
hope ~ YEAR e. hc,
Where ruin nssrked the steps II wrong.
again the Spring shall break IN
soug.
AMI valiant lilies. vhits and red. sbsu
fousr frum go to ssa-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11

are to be made teaching methods OF
eliminating losses in transportation
storage and in households.
The war emergency board, of which
DR.. r. d. Kern, plant pathologist at the
Pennsylvania state college, is member
expects to give direct aid to growers as
to the availability and prices of spray
materials Assistance win be given TO
the plant disease survey undertaken by
the federal department of agriculture,
in cooperation with the state colleges
of agriculture and other agencies.
Plans and projects for the campaign
were considered at a special meeting OF
the board in Washington this month.
The country was districted into six sec
tons each in charge of commissioner
selected by the board.
A concrete example of how the scien-
lists Will attempt to increase Uncle
Sam's<food output is given in the state
ment that there is an annual loss of from
four to five bushels oE wheat and grain
every year from every acre growing
those crops. The loss is attributed to
grain smut. a disease which the board
says is entirely preventable by an ap-
plication of common disinfectant, cost
ing only a few cents, to the seed before
it is planted. Spreading information of
this nature and of similar character for
other crops on other preventable dis
eases is to be one of the chief activities
of the board
The board is making complete sur
vey of the workers who are qualified
and willing to assist in the battle against
plant diseases To this end the board
is taking a nation wide census of plant
disease specialists who win be enlisted.
Work has been started on the gather
ing of accurate information on losses
in staple crops due to disease Teachers
Of botany and plant pathology are be-
ing urged to give special attention to
the training of students along the line
IF fighting plant diseases Many work |
srs are needed to take up work already |
planned by state and federal agencies. |
Seven men, all Psychologists at agri-
,ultural colleges, constitute the war |
board. They are:
II. II. Whetzel, chairman, New York
tate college of agriculture; II. p.
3arss, agricultural college, Corvallis,
oregon: f. c. Stakman. agricultural col
ege. St Paul. Mimi, G. II, Coons, ag
icultural college, East Lansing, Mich;
:. ID. Kern, state college, Pa; H. ".
BARRE, Clamson college. 5. c.; and G.. r.
lyman. department of agriculture, Wash
ngton, ID. c.