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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
IN VAUDEVILLE

PALACE-Mollie King; Theodore
kosloff and Russian Ballet; Stella MAY
hew; Franklyn Ardell and company;
Florence Tempest; Duffy and Inglis,
and the Four Danubes.
ADMINISTRATIONS T.. Haines and
company; Bert Clark and Mabel Ham
ilton; Little Billy; Mary Marble; Les
ter; Nat Navarro and company; Jones
and Greenles; Sinclair and Casper, and
Renee Florigny.
COLONIAL-Gladys Hanson; the
Cameron Sisters; J. Francis Dooley
and Corinne Sales; the Watson Sisters:
Hallon and Fuller; Flanagan and Ed
wards; Mystic Hanson Trio; Henri
Kublick and Jack and Cora Williams
RIVERS1DE-LadyD Duff Gordon: Lew
Dockstader; W. ]. Reilly, U. S. n:
Josie Heather; Joseph E. Bernard:
Paul Mccarthy and Elsie Fave: Perish
and Peru; Prosper and Maret. md
Sylvia Loyal and Pierrot.
ROYAI~Laura Hope Crews: Gus
Van and Joe Schenck; Dolly Connolly:
Jimmy Duffy and Jack Englis; Kimber-
~ and Arnold; Maurice Burkhardt.
Morton and Clare; Hayward Stafford
and company; the Misses Chalfonte
and June Salmo.
LOEW'S AUTHORIZATIONS, John
A. Pattee and company; Tracey and
Mcbrlde; Edith Ferguson; Cameron
De Witt and company; the University
Four, and others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20

ness man and worst artist in the world
the pamphleteer is fairly maddencd at
the callousness OF this reviewer who
stands idly by and watches the Ameri
can theatre pile itself on the rocks
wltAout feeling impellcd either to cut
his throat or to stop -pettifoggine.
The sin of pandering to the theatre
goers instead Of serving "the great So
clal art of the theatre" is strangely
ignored by another commentator, who
is, nevertheless, quite as caustic in his
way as Mr.. Macgowan. George Jean
Nathan, indeed, writing in "The Smart
Set" bewails the fact that author and
producer alike must strive to please
an audience whose mental calibre he
indicates by citing an advertisement
in the theatre programmes: "All those
who make good and understand that no
excuse goes, chew gum. 1t is the one
ideal habit of the alert" The same
public that relishes this aphorsm ap-
proves the drama served on the side.
Mr.. Nathan's opinion rises above mere
FEASIBILITY; the New York audience
'believes that Beeman is greater
man than Beethoven, and that Water
loo might not have been Waterloo had
Napoleon Bonapartc been privy to q
stick of Tutti Frutti." But the view
may be merely specious, inasmuch as
it completely absolvcs the dramatic
critic.
IHERE is good deal Of truth in
a The assertion of Jacques Copeau,
Colomber, that the commercial thea
ire has alienated the highest dramatic
talent of author and actor, which has
found refuge in other professions. But
the commercial theatre, like any of the
great industrial organizations, is a
product of the public which it serves.
The commercial managers have low
cred the standards more than neces-
sary perhaps in their efforts to reach
the largest public, but the fact re-
mains that the cultivated public is
coterie so restricted that it reQuites
indiferently the efforts that have been
put forth to conduct theatres on a
basis of high artistic ideals.
! 1t is precisely the economies Of
American industrialism, SO little un
derstood by the dramatic critics. ac-
cording to Mr.. Mcgowan, that deter
mines the character of the American
drama. There is no escape from the
economic law of demand and supply,
cause and effect. The American pub
lic gets exactly the sort of fare it can
appreciate. The theatre can do little
by itself to elevate the public taste.
II any improvement is possible it will
have to come through an advance of
general culture, which. besides being
extremely gradual, probably can never
go very far for the reason that society
is perpetually dying off at the ton and
being recruited from the lowest class.
Endowed theatres might appeal to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20

soon as she steps off, Anyway. Mr..
Stone read the children to sleep. left
the stage and specded for his DRESSING
room.
The manager lodged a rising cur
tam and sought to give comfort.
Mr.. Stone has quick change here.
If you will wait a moment III come
back and take you to his dressino
ROOM"
Consentlng, we continued to occupv
the hrst entrance. Chorus girls on
their way to and from the stage bumped
US and examined our two months-old
hat with supercilious shifts. Then
they spoke casually of charge accounts.
drawing rooms on limited trains and
large sums of money. Now and again
they glanced at our headgear and
seemed annoyed.
Presently came Mr.. Stones valet and
lea the way to the dressing room. Mr.
Stone was very nice and extremely DO
lite. And it must be difficult to be
polite when one is perspiring and pant
ing and wearing a costume that looks
like peppermint candy. From a suit
case he brought forth photographs that
revealed him in tortuous and tortured
attitudes.
Glow did you learn to do every.
thing, Mr.. Stone?" The question
abashed the modest star He grinned.
made deprecatory gesture and passed
over photograph
This is head balancing on tight
rope-did it when l was kid twelve
years old-hve stories in the air
learned on mothers clothesline in
backyard-mother didn't mind-alw.v.
encouraged me-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
By Salita Solano

All this happened because we didn't
believe Fred Stone could really skate
like Charlotte. This native skepti-
cism took US to the Globe Theatre the
other evening to see "Jack O. Lantern"
and once there it seemed as we'll to
pay Mr.. Stone call and find out all
about ice and it's ways.
After the star had tumbled out of a
load of hay and later brought the act
to pleasant conclusion, sympathetic
manager guided US back stage and
placed chair in an empty dressing
room near the wings-that FIRST en-
trance" destined to play such part
in our evening.
Mr.. Stone has quick change here
If you'll wait moment I'll come back
and take you to his dressing room," he
promised.
We waited. Overture for the second
act began and ended. The curtain went
up. We heard voices, but they carried
no message for US. The manager re-
turned.
"Mr. Stone was a bit late and had to
go right on the stage. Will you come
and stand in the first entrance and
watch this scene?'
Gladly. Mr. Stone was sitting at
table reading to two children, boy
and girl. The girl was clever Kath-
leen Robinson, about whose singing and
dancing the Gerry Society has made an
insurmountable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
when one considers how we'll she does
both. (But while little Kathleen con-
sents to act like a child on the stage
she has quite the air of a leading
woman whose salary is $3.50 week as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20

special public, but owing to the lack of
aristocratic leadership it seems un-
likely that municipal theatres can be-
conducted in this country on the ambi.
tlous plane successfully attempted in
Europe In Germany and France such
theatres have offered what was deemed
artistic and uplifting and have at
tracted the general public by the mod
esty OF their charges, but the system is
not democratic. 1t is depressing to
consider the probable effects of popu-
lar control on such ,stitutions. The
desecration of "the great social art Of
the theatre" by the commercial mana
gers, abetted by the CORRUPTED dra-
matte critics" is tremendous indict-
ment. the full significance of which can
be grasped only By Missionaries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20

A CRY for the blood of the dramatic
1 "A critics is raised by Kenneth
mcgowan in the current number Of
"The Dial" His major premise is that
the simple cxpcdient of killing the
critics would cure all the Ills Of the
theatre. For the critics, he declares,
are either pettifogging literary men or
else frank pandcrers to the theatre
owners and theatregoers, and, in any
case, capital sinners against the great
social art of the theatre 1t is this
fact, he likes to think" and inciden-
tally the economic organization of the
American theatre with its long run
system in New York and Its touring
system on the road, which has driven
him out of the newspapers and into
"The Dial"
So Mr.. Mcgowan does not demand
the hara-kiri knife for himself. Now
that he has become a doctor he may
prescribe without assuming personal
liability for the effect of his doses.
Experience lends authority to his ut
terance without implication of the in
dellcacy of eating pigs feet and then
calling attention to their walk in life
To adhere to the pathological hyper
bole, the faint of trichiniasis would
seem to be no more prevalent in the
common or garden stye than in the
slough in which those sandhogs of the
writing industry, the dramatic critics.
are so hopelessly mired.
IN presumlng to pursue the discus
sion further we feel that proprjetv
enJoins the discreet meditation of q
pig's whisper. Mr.. Macgowan then,
having sot out with the blood lust,
drops his ferocity presently with the
suggestion that perhaps if the dra-
matte critics were classed as unskilled
laborers they might get over their
worst habits. Then at last they might
forsake hocus-pocus, and stop behav
lng like mid Victorian literary men
who accept each play as q Pigment
without economic, social or ethical
base. They might stop treating the
American theatre as a series of sepa-
i"'e pays, HOt as an organization,
They might stop describing the effect
of the play on themselves, instead Of
their-and your and my-effect on the
play, and its presumable interaction
with society" No doubt Mr. Mac
gowan has enjoyed the privilege of q
visit to New York recently and has
pondered deeply on the intcraction
with society of "Mary's Ankle"
Branded" and Broken Threads"
IT IS refreshing to perceive that
II there Is no hocus pocus about Mr.
Macgowan, although he does obscure
himself somewhat in q fog of propa-
ganda, not unlike Mulcasscs, king of
Egypt, whose perfumes no longer be-
trayed him when he had hidden him.
self among the onions. Finding that
the critic at his best abuses the com
mercial manager without understand
ing what makes him the worst bust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
Now ON the Boards

Gsto1. ................." Why Marry ?"
nc!asco .....:..::" Polly With Past"
BlJou ......."Odds and Ends of 1917"
booth "Seventeen"
Eroadhurst... Lord and Lady Algy"
Saslno '..'.........:::.. ooh, Boy"
Century. ."Chu Chin Chow"
conan 1.-THE King"
Sor1 .::.,...:. .:,......: .... clio Flo"
Comedy. Washington Square Players
S ,,ri ...,......: "Happiness"
Eltinge. Business Before Pleasure"
Empire. 1.-THE Lady of the Camellias"
oath Street Roof ."Over the TOP"
Fulton "Billeted"
Harris; ..........." 1.-THE Naughty Wife"
nlppodrome ."Cheer Up"
Halety. .-............"G eneral Post"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
Fred Stone

soon as she steps off, Anyway, Mr..
Stone read the children to sleep. left
the stage and speeded for his dressing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
, In BROOKLYN

BUsHWICK-Gus Edwards's Annual
song Revue; Maryon Vadie and Ota
Gygi; Austin Webb and company; Row
Cummings and Ruth Mitchell; George
rockwell and Al Wood; Corporal Ar
1hur Fields and Private Leon Flatow;
James ]. Morton, and Darras Brothers
ORPHEuM-Valeska Suratt; Frank
Garter; James and Bonnie Thornton;
Hassard Short and company: Frances
Kennedy; James C. Morton; RUBY Raw
mond and Charles O'Connor: Eddy
Duo. and Pallenbsrg's Bears.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
New I lays This Week

MONDAYAt the
Baxter
At the Comedy Theatre, Washington Square
Players composed Of four
1.-THE Sandbar and "Pokey"
At the Theatre Freres Kaamazov
play of Russian life by Copeau CIRQUE founded on
the o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20

Globe. Jack o. Lantern"
Greenwich Village Theatre Karen"
knlcke rbocker. Land of JOY"
lIDerty. .................." Going Up"
Longacre. yes or No"
Lyceum. 1900 ........... "Tiger Rose"
Maxine Elliott. ."The Eyes of Youth"
Morosco. ....... lombard, Ltd"
New Amsterdam,
"Cohan Revue Of 1918"
New Amsterdam Roof,
midnight Frolic"
Park Seven Days Leave"
Plymouth. 1.-THE Gypsy Trail"
Princess. ........ 1.-THE Grass Widow"
Republic. "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"
Shubert .................. "Maytime"
10Th Street. ."Blind Youth"
Winter Garden. "Doing Our Bit"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-20
ODc.Week Stands

COLUMBIA. What Is Il Al About
LOEW'S TTH AVENUE. ."Old -adyM -
MAJ EST1C. ."The Masquerade
MONTAUk. ...... THE Pipes Of tsus
STANDARD. ."Once Upon Tiuss
YORKVILLD. son this Blue Dannsa
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28

Subscribe for the Graphic.
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
Plant Enough For
Your Own Needs
Food for Summer and Winter Con-
sumption Must Come From the
Back Yard

The obligation OF every man, Wom-
an and child out Of uniform to help
feed himself will be greater in 1913
than in 1917. Therefore the home
gardening and canning activities OF
last year must be repeated.
There must be no backslldlng
among experienced gardeners; they
must repeat their contribution OF 1000
Absence of novelty must not deter
those who tried gardening tor the
first time in 1917 from capitallzlng
their increased Knowledge and SKILL
Those with experience must help
thousands of beginners to make every
seed count-to get satisfactory re-
turns from their work with hoe' rake
and watering can.
There must be no Stacking ott: Car
dening is everybody's business, but IN
1918 every one must att"'1 10 tfa'
business.
Don't Plant Too Much
And now a word of caution. on
plant more than you can culCl'd'e'
don't try to raise more than you can
use. And water Systematically all
Spring and Summer. A few square
yards we'll titled will yield more tnan
a half acre allowed to run to weeds
The department advises strongly
against effort by amateur gardeners
to produce truck crops for sale. Such
enterprises commonly prove unwlse,
burdensome to all concerned, and not
infrequently financially Improbable.
Much precious seed and fertilizer
to say nothing of time and labor
were wasted last year in such under
taking.
The governments home gardening
specialists believe that best results
will be attained if each family at
tempts to raise only enough vege-
tables to supply its own table, and to
afford the surplus which itn members
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
CARE of POULTRY
TO RAISE POULTRY BREEDS

tity of eggs and at the same time en-
able you to occasionally have a plump
bird for your table, or for marketing
purposes.
When the whole matter of breeds
is all summed up, you will find that
it is mainly matter of the strain or
breeding of the birds and the care
that is given them rather than the
particular variety that is kept. AT.
ter deciding on what breed is want
ed, make every effort to get the foun-
dation stock from some reliable breed
er, giving special attention to vigor
and laying qualities, for inferior stock
will invariably prove less profitable
even though it may have the best of
care. The great differences Of opin-
ion as to the value of the different
breeds and various results obtained
by those who have kept them, can no
doubt be attributed to the degree Of
care and intelligence in handling that
they have been givin by their respec-
tive owners. Very often breeder
who has made marked success with
one breed, will be an utter failure
with another and the opposite also
holds true. 1t is question of the
man fitting the breed as we'll as of
the breed fitting the purpose.
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
thoroughly mixing the manure with
the SOIL
Distribute Hand Labor

1t is of course, possible to do the
work just as we'll by hand, but a
considerable amount of labor is in
volved. For small areas, however,
this method is the only practical one'
When the garden is to be worked
by hand it is especially desirable that
the spading be done as early as pos
sible, as the sooner it IS done the
easier it will be to get the ground
in condition.
The ground should be worked down
only as needed, as this will distribute
the labor; and as the rough ground
will dry off quicker than that smooth
ed down, it is possible to get on the
ground sooner if left in the rougn
than when we'll worked down.
1t is extremely desirable to get
such crops as early peas, early po-
tatoes and early cabbage plants in as
soon as the ground is dry enough,
and it is often possible to get these
crops planted a week or two earlier
by following this plan.
Well-sifted coal ashes, unlike wood
ashes, have no fertilizing value, but
are useful in Tightening SOIL Lime
will tighten soil and at the same time
correct acidity.
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28

can dry, can or store for later home
consumption.
For Winter Storing
The gardener who has provided for
the immediate needs of his family
and it's canning and drying require
ments thereafter should devote atten-
tion to Fall crops of root vegetables,
such as potatoes, beets, late turnips,
carrots and parsnips, which can be
stored easily for later use.
It also would be we'll to give atten-
ton to the production of mature lima
or other beans which can be shelled
and kept in bags.
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
Plan Your War Garden
Timely Suggestions will be found this that will aid in
your work your garden to make it . success
GROW YOUR OWN VEGETABLES

a soldier of the SOIL country needs more 1ooo
wealth. improve your health and snow
your patriotism than by growing garden OF
vegetables.
you garden of your get permission to use
the nearest vacant Organize neghborhood garden club
Pick cultivation last Put manure
and fertilizer on it, then plow spade and harrow early
Prepare your plans Seed will be scarce get it early
seeds indoors by sowing the seeds IN pans or popa
eating fats. ~ -,
through the bottom of an old pan NIL IN ne
broken crockery and this put he seo
SOIL and place the near window IN a.
~
Start the seed about the MARCH. The seedlings
grown ranspnted into the garden soon as
the weather permit and the soil is warm
In have fresh vegetables from four TO SIX
weeks could be had without indoor termination
Have your garden properly drained put manure poultry
droppngs wood ashes pow and spade early
Repair all your garden tools now
this garden effort plant only those varieties OF
vegetables and give you the greatest
These beets carrots cabbage charo ettuce
onions, spinach sparsley, parsnps, radishes, etc.
IN 1918:
Every family help feed itself.
vegetables be used to lessen nome consumption
staple foods needed by troops and the allies
demand railroads and other
deliveries.
More food must be in homes than before
backyard fertile and sunny
enough to vegetables
made count the 1000 supply
- S. of Agriculture.
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
CORRESPONDENCE
BUFORD
|Continued from page 10y

Williston for medical treatment.
The miscellaneous auction and dance
given by the Ft. Buford Red Cross
branch, March Is, was big success
both socially and financially, many
of the country people were not able
to attend on account Of bad roads but
sent in their donations for auction,
said donations including pure bred
fowls. seed wheat, corn, fancy work
and eatables. The I. O. O. F. do
mated the use of the hall and McNary
Bros. and Grestley the music. Mr..
Joe Beisel acting as auctioneer made
things interesting for time for all
the sums taken in for dance and sale
was sixty seven dollars.
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
Garden Needs
Clean Ground
Now Is the Time to Break Up Soil
and Apple Your Fertilizer

The first problem IN preparing Ille
land for garden that has not been
used for this purpose is to remove all
dead weeds, sticks, stones, bushes and
trash of any sort. Briers and BUSH
es should be dug up by the roots so
they will not sprout again.
Good drainage is essential to
successful garden If the land is not
well drained, this should be corrected
as the first step in making the gar
den. Tile drains may be used or the
land may be bedded by plowing it in
long, narrow lanes, leaving the mid
die burrows as drainage bitches.
In the case of gardens spaded and
worked by hand the same results may
be had by bedding up the soil. Vege-
tables will not thrive in poorly drain
ed soil, no matter how much care IS
given them.
Break Soil Early
Flowing or spading should be- done
at the earliest possible moment, IN
order that in sections of the country
where freezing occurs the soil may be
subjected to freezing so that it will
be broken up by the action Of the
frost and be mellow and fr;able when
planting begins.
Nothing aids in the preparation Of
soil, and especially stiff soils, like
freezing and thawing. 1t is especial
ly important that ground in sod be
plowed in time so it will freeze after
plowing and the grub worms and
other alternating insects and worms
may be destroyed.
Where severe freezing is sure to
occur after the plowing is done little
harm will be done by plowing the
ground while wet. Otherwise the
ground should not be plowed until
fairly dry, or clods will result.
The ground after plowing should
be allowed to remain rough until
needed.
Lime Is Important
It is an excellent plan to make an
application Of air-slacked lime or
ground limestone to the freshly
plowed soil in order that it may have
time to correct acidity before plant
ing time arrives.
The manure should not be applied
with the lime, as loss Of nitrogen will
occur under these circumstances. The
lime should be applied and become
mixed with the soil before the ma
nure should be of a good grade, stable
manure either from horses or cattle
preferably.
Manure that has straw bedding
material mixed with it is best, and
should be applied at the rate of 25
or 80 tons per acre or from 3oo to
400 pounds per square rod.
Cultivate Thoroughly
It is an excellent plan to prepare
the soil for planting as needed rath-
er than to fit the whole garden at
once. If the work of fitting the
ground is done with team it will
not ALWAYS be feasible to follow this
plan.
Ground that has not been used for
gardening purposes should, in every
case where it is possible, be put IN
condition with team, as the ground
should be cut up with disk or cut
away harrow, thoroughly fining the
soil as deeply as it has been plowed'
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
IF WERE A STAR

II were star set high, I'd be
A guide, solace, just for thee
And when my rays of cheering fire
Reach you, they'd bid you come up
higher.
The light I'd shed on all would be
A message bidding all be free;
ITO cast off the old heartbreaking
past,
Rise, triumphant Ger yourselves at
last"
Williston graphic., 1918-03-28
BELG|ANS FORCED
TO AID GERMANS
Kajser's Officers Showed Open
Disregard Of |nterna.
ti0naI Law.
W0RKmEN SEIZED AS SLAVES
Cardinal Mercier Moved to Bitter Con.
demnation Of Acts Of German Az.
thorities Which Aroused Oetes-
tation Of Christendom.

Contrary to rules laid down By
the Hague convention, and all pri''-
cipzes of civilized wartare, German
authorities forced Belgians to aid
them IN the prosecution Of the war.
The committee on public tntorma-
Continued on page 16)
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1918-10-24
CHAPTER XVIII.


Experiences In HclIano.
But l was not quite out Of the
woods.
now knew that I was In Holland.
but just where had no idea. walked
for about thirty minutes and came to
path leading TO the right, and had
proceeded along 1t but few hundred
yards when saw In front Of me a
fence exactly like the one I had
crossed.
"Thls Is funny" said to myself. II
didn't know the Dutch had a fence,
too" advanced to the fence and
examined it closely, and judge of my
astonishment when I saw beyond II q
nine-foot fence apparently holding
live wires exactly like the one which
had nearly been the death of mel
j had very little time to conjecture
what 1t all meant, for just then
heard a guard coming. He was walk
Ing so fast that ! was sure II was a
Dutch sentry. as the Huns walk much
slower.
was so bewildered, however, that
/ decided to take no chances. and as
the road was fairly good I wandered
down II and away from that myst-ri-
ous fepce. About half q mile down !