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OPENING PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK.

MoNDAY-Empire Bruus by j. Barrie with
Elizabeth Rsdon Myrtle Helen The
chance which
In the Charles Cherry. Wallace Eddnser
Mnna Gomes James Hsansy Har0d Hendn Jay Wilson
Davis The atmosphere modern and the story starts in
lyrics by Alono Price music by Antonio Bafunno The
cast includes Nonee William Kent Louise Allen Walter Scan
Spain but the characters American the action taking place
KnieRerboefer Theatre: Listen Lester play by Harry l.
Cort and George Soddard with music by Harold Orlob
the company Gertrude Vanderbilt Clifton Webb
Johnny Dooey Ada Weeks place Palm
Beach and the efforts of gentleman with daughter
Lexington Theatre: Attaboy produeon by the boys at
Eightyve participate the entertainment beg
sides an army orchestra and army band,
Molsres la Jaloue de ssrbOue 0' N0S''nd and
Fulton Theatre: The Riddle: Woman" Bertha Kalich
Playhouse; Forever After" with Alice Brady and company
Forty-fouh Street Theatre: Little Simplicity the Rida
Johnson Young musical comedy transferred from
TUESDAY-Vanderbt Theatre: Arthur Hopkins presents Emily
Stevens in The Gentle Wife" By David Powell
w. H. Thompson Frank Conroy and Vera Gordon
cohan Theatre Robert Hilard will of "a Prince
Aldrich, which Cohan Harris will present.
WEDNESDAY-Fay Banter will Chinese girl in East Is
Nash Forrest Winan Lonegan Frank Kmbie Cooper
are other actors who will introduce here the play which passes
in this country and China William Harris responsible
The Manhattan Opera House: John Nc
Voice of Mcconnell" by George for Chauncey
of play acted by Company that i'm
sndes Edward Fielding Richard Tabor and Harold de Becker
THURSDAYThe Little Theatre: Shuberts who are to omen
tins beautiful playhouse after will
Keightey Jobyna Rowland Varesi in the cast III.
'hen is the adventures OF young woman railroad trip
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take away. It is so ineradicably ro-
mantle. She is, in the first place,
hypnotiZed by the sight of this man
who has brought her from the mooniit
street into apartments suggesting such
culture and elegance as she has never
known in her life. She is mysterious
10 him, for she disappeared into some
place he has 10 idea OF. But she
never misses one OF their meetings.
Then she babbled about all the little
things in her life, the carpenter, his
two children that she loved to mother
what trivial. childish talk It was to
entertain him. But II she was 10 him
this mysterious figure in his life that
was able to charm and hold him so,
what must he have been to herr
Think Of the love and conversation Of
polished man ~ the world for Sal
Ie!"
Miss Starr believes that Mr.. Knob
lock kept the development OF the
woman's character in just the lines
that the truth would demand to-day.
Although their love affair is always
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united in a vocal and physical exag-
geration which produced little less
than an uproar. With adequate scenic
pictures and three Or more capable
actors. there has always been some
element of.positive excellence In the
representations.
But-and there can be no avoidance
OF this drawback to the aesthetic as
well as the educational excellence Of
these performances---there is the ques-
ton OF pronunciation. How can the
young be taken to listen to the most
beautiful poetry in the drama when II
is spoken by q young woman talking
through her nose in a provincial ac-
cent which every well educated child
is taught TO avoid? How can chill
dren be urged to enjoy a HdmIet who
does not use the monosyliable my
with any more mercy than to ignore
the permissible my" or me" and say
instead "muh"? Indeed, the question
Of educational Shapespeare with cur
tains" on one side and middle West
accents on the other has many COM
plications,
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PLAYS THAT LAST.

Belasco. "Tigeri Tig.ri"; Bel
mont, "The Little Brother; BIZ
jou, Sleeping Partners; Booth,
BE Calm, Camilla; Broadhurst,
Ladies First; Casino, Some
Time; Cohan & Harris, Three
Faces East; Comedy, "a Place
in the Sun; Cort THE Better
Ole; Criterion, "Three Wise
Fools; Eltinge, Under
Orders; Forty-eighth Street,
"The Big Chance; Forty-fourth
Street, Little Simplicity; Full
ton, "The Riddle: Woman;
Gaiety, "Lightnin'"; Globe, "The
Canary; Hudson, Friendly
Enemies"; Liberty, "Glorianna";
Longacre, Nothing But Lies;
Lyeeum, "Daddies"; Lyric, "The
Unknown Purple; Maxine Ell
liott's, Tea for Three; Mo-
rosco, Remnant; New Amster-
dam, The Girl Behind the Gun;
New Amsterdam Roof, Comb
nation Frolic"; Playhouse, "For-
ever After; Plymouth, "Re-
demption"; Princess, "Oh, NY
Dear; Republic, Roads OF
Destiny; Selwyn, The Crowded
Hour; Shubert, "The Be
trothal"; Winter Garden, sin
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hat He does not seem to bear in
mind that there are six changes Of
costume in the play and that his for
mula might grow rather monotonous.
But a man would never think of that"
Where the romantic side Of the
member OF Parliament's conduct came
in when he turned her out so suddenly
was another inquiry that seemed to
have direct bearing on the quality of
this friendship.
ut all came from her Jealous out
break IN which she told him she was
cook. His affection was never the
same after that He had Of course
begun to see his friends slip one by
one away from him. He could not
understand her point OF view. Why
she should not allow him to support
her was too much for him TO COM
prehend. II was OF course repugnant
that she should stay in the kitchen.
He could not have n cook for a sweet
heart 1t was just as impossible for
her to take his view. She could sup
port herself we'll enough. She knew
the kind that took money from men.
They were a weak lot. who didn't want
to or couldn't do good work. So they
went inevitably apart. Her beautiful
romance was ended. But she took ref
uge in the love of the carpenter. She
already loved his two children; so It
was easy enough 10 accept him rather
than have TO- be alone in the world.
That has been the idea of SdIlie that
has been in my mind. Indeed ! have
a dear little cook who. It seems TO me,
might have been SGHic."
Has she seen the playF"
"Oh, no." Miss Starr said hurriedly.
II sent her 10 see Daddies.' thought
possibly there might be speeches in
Tiger Tiger that would hurt her feel
ings-end then. WELL I thought Dad
dies was better for her" Miss Starr
ended with a smile. And if was a
smile to convince.
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THE LIGHT OF A STAR.

r DITH wYNNE MATTETSoN
r. the Light OF "Retrothal" at
the Shubert Theatre. Is en-
joying the somewhat unusual acting
experience OF appearing for the second
time as tho same character and
In a different play When Win
throp Ames produced the blue
Bird at tho New Theatre IN
1910 Miss Matthison was the LIGHT,
and Maeterlinck has carried this char
acter over Into "Betrothal." When
Light appears on the stage TYityr, the
seventeeu-year- hero, throws him
self into her arms. exclaiming: "Oh.
Light, Light, where were you, what
nave you been doing ever since I saw
you last?--dn The Blue Bird')-I
have missed you so much and looked
for you so often"-to which Light
responds: My dear little Tvltul I
have never lost sight of you. I have
guided and counselled you and kissed
you very often without you knowing
t."
II Is light who acts as guide to
TpffyI on his search for his true
mate. and for this character perhaps
more than for any other in the Bel
gian poets fantasy are required voice
and bearing such as Miss Matthison is
happily able 10 contribute. Indeed IL
Ia in classic roles that this actress is
seer TO great advantage. She belongs
10 what some one has designated
facetiously as the "Portiere SCHOOL,
OF actresses. and one prefers her in
flowing draperteS and poetic dialogue.
1t Is interesting IN this connection to
realize that Miss Matthison's debut
was achieved on the musical comedy
stage In England. Nor is she one OF
those who sprang into fame full
equipped. Like Elsie Ferguson she
began in the chorus, but within a
week she had been given lines 10
speak and shortly thereafter a small
part, Soon she was accommodating a
Shakespearian repertory with Ben
Greets pastoral players in the English
provinces and later became an es-
taolished favorlte over there. Her
first hit in America was made as
ErerUmdn in the fourteenth century
morality play Of that name.
MISS Matthison was Sir Henry Irv-
ing's last leading lady. playing Portta
20 his Shplock, and on the night OF his
death. Rosdmond to his Beckett. Hers
Is a wide repertoire including Shake
spearian heroines ROsaIind, Viola, Nj
rGndI, Porttd, Hermione and Juliet
To these roles may be added LadU
Tedsle. Electra and Andromdchs Din
Prof. Gilbert Murrays translation nf
"Euripides' mt the Cort Theatre. Lon
don, and in the Stadia OF Harvard,
Princeton, Pennsylvania and New
York;. Notable American impersona-
tons also we're those of sister
Beatrice and the Piper In Winthrop
Ames's productions at the New
Theatre and more recently Queen
katherine in Sir Herbert Beerbohm
Trees production OF Henry VIII"
and as Mtrdnda IN Percy MaclUaye's
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There is probably another cause for
the failure of the charm of the comedy
to reach to the outermost fringe Of
New York theatregoers. 1t is not in
the least able to supply the sensation
which seems now to be an inevitable.
The diversion to be received from the
enjoyment Of a good comedy in an
earlier acceptance OF that term seems
n thing OF the past. In other words a
play to be a success IN appealing to
the public In the broadcast sense Of
the term must possess other qualities
than those which the playwrights of
a decade ago sought in their work.
It must possess indeed qualities which
never came into the contemplation
OF Pinero, Show, Jones or Wilde OF
England or our own Howard, Fitch.
Potter or Thomas,
II these qualities were the result of
a nearer observation of life or OF a
desire to bring the theatre into closer
relation with the questions of exist
ence or to elevate It's product nearer
to the level OF literature by the re-
turn to the romantic forms which at
tracted in the foreign theatre such
Aticn DIS anu OSIil betlclii' tIloi .
might be every cause for qualification
ut this change in ideal. But there
are no such ambitions ahead OF the
playwright of the day.
He knows that 1t Is the trick" play
that attracts the manager as we'll as
the playgoer. He knows that since
the introduction here of the devices
of "On Trial" the drama which pro-
ceeds In an ordinary course must be
OF high quality 10 hold its own against
the freak" theatre. which initiates
the cinema as "Three Faces East" by
keeping the audience In half amused
confusion or adopting such OF its
other mechanical means as Eyes OF
Youth" Forever After" or follows
such a free and fantastic scheme Of
construction rs Roads of Destiny.
II is to dramas more or less in this
form that the author of the day has
turned because he knows the manager
and his patrons incline in thar direc-
ton instead OF toward the straight
away manner OF the older plays.
Probably more TO the cinema than
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showing very dramatically in the tale
Of the convent in the Vosges that the
Germans OF 1870 wore doing Just the
same they were Just then In Bel
gium. The tale Of their crimes was
20 be read in Marie Odile. which had
been written before the war began So
there was no stone left unturned that
might lead to the suppression OF Ma
rte Odile.
But who would have thought il
necessary to have a policeman try to
censor Tiger, Tiger? In Baltimore
which is a conventional. old fashioned
city, the audience during the week
grow larger every night. The recCp-
ton Of the piece by the people was as
absorbed and fiattering as It has been
every night at the Belasco. We knew
the subject was bold. Mr.. Knoblock
is bold playwright. But nobody ever
suspected that there might be any
interference of the police after we
came to New York.
There is one thing about SdIIie and
her love affair that nobody can ever
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laugh that showed the keen sense of
humor always discernible in her stage
women when she has a brief opportu-
nifty to show ~ what an exciting
life I would have then! For most
OF them have had more or less
troublous existence. Take The East
est Way then Marie Odile.' with the
attempts TO prove that the play was
disrespectful to religion; and now it's
poor Sdilie. No, I'm happy to say that
there has never been I'm my own quiet
life any reflection OF the turbulent
day some of my stage women have
lived through
Now we know after all these years
what caused tho trouble for poor Marie
Odtle 1t was the result Of German prop
aganda that gave Mr.. Belasco so much
trouble with that play. OF course, the
war was then .pp. Mr. Knobiock I-as
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-22
By LAWRENCE REAMER.

HE disappearance of The Saving Grace from the
Empire Theatre last night removed from view the
of paywrng the
vealed would be idle that the Had
don Chamer comedy probably did
have appealed much strongly local theagoe Other plays
have powerful their emotions
and others have apped with emotions deeply
this comedy of English life Yet written sfuy
with wit with recognizable studies
this drama told comedy,
which itself criticism of healthy high
of The Saving Grace" excellent comedy
sh life and its fate other American cities will be
terest 1t deserves to succeed everywhere
There various explanations the failure
played here often before audiences
The hero after all his repentance
There special worhness be commended the
the but they all greeab
in the their foible
which the best kind of comedy be
be that throng Empire
Theatre during the Of "The Saving Grace"
we'll filled because the and Mr.
up the highest ethical standards
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masque OF "Caliban.- Miss Matthtsn
also has appeared in the plays written
by her husband, Charles Ram Ken
needy. among these. THE Servant IN
the House." The Terrible Meek"
The winterfeast," The Necessary
Evil" and "The Army with Ban
ners." Arthur Matthison, the English
dramatist and actor formerly in sup
port Of Irving and who appeared with
Booth in this country, is Miss Natthl-
sons uncle. Her mother and aunt
were singers of note in their day, and
her brother-!n-law Is Edmond Ken
redy who will be remembered as the
one armed cockney in the Welsh play
Change" seen here several seasons
ago. At the outbreak OF the war This
actor who was past enlistment age
took up the work OF giving plays FOR
the benefit OF British wounded.
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ARRIVING AT MECCA.

Conrad Nagel. who has stepped intp
the first rank OF young leading mon
through an excellent performance op-
posite Alice Brady In Forever After"
at the Central. has been on the stase
less than Ave years. During that
period young Mr.. Nagel has developed
from an extra man playing character
bits in Des Moines stock company
to his present eminence.
tnhEo most OF the young men OF
the theatre who find the Thespisr
Mecca, known as Broadway, hard
piece to achieve, young Nagel has
arrived after travelling a comparatively
easy road. He has, of course, a record
/ of hard work we'll done, but he has
been nightly fortunate IN that Cd
portunities to demonstrate his worth
haVo been frequent. He is one OF the
rev players whose career offers no
material for heart rending stories Of
long and unsuccessful search for en-
ployment; of making the managerta.
rounds day after day and week aftsr
week with nothing more satisfying O.
encouraging than the office boys cryp-
tic Nothing to-day" Rather has the
contrary been the case.
Itc graduated from a fresh water
college at IT, and Immediately BIOS,
sonod forth as a dramatic reader o.
the Chautauqua circuits through the
middle West This experience served
merely to heighten an inherent desire
'or the stage. His first professional en-
Eagement was with the Princess The
atre Stock Company in Des Moinea,
tho same company, by the way, In
which Fay Banter was leading WON
an. Before the end of the season
NaSel had advanced from character
bits TO juvenile leads. and it was the
that word Of his work began 70 dr.
into New York. He shorty ramt
east and was promptly engaged e.
follow Otto Kruger as the youtbt..
hero of The Natural Law"
This part had made Kruger wto
played IL for some weeks at the Re
public, and it did as much for Mage.
who played it briefly on the road,
William Elliott saw Nagel IN The
Natural Law" and engaged him FOR
in Experience" for two seasons play
Ing in Boston and making tour g.
the Pacific coast with substantial sr,.
cess. Then William \. Brady engaged
him for the youthful hero 81 The
Man Who Came Back" ami ir th''
melodrama he again scored lr 'o7r
engagements IN Chicago and Ph''ai''-
phia. Following his success ir Tho
Man Who Came Back Nj Brady r.
engaged him to play opposite hl'
daughter in Forever After" = which
piece Nagel has firmly established him
self rs young actor OF achievement
and exceptional promise
The four French children IN The
Crowded Hour" at the Selwyn Theatre
who play the part Of war ORPHANS
about 10 leave their home vN'ch IL
Heing bomharded by the Germans ar"
repeating nightly events which '"e5
have actually passed Jlruusa They
are natives OF Comp'"gre So
parents wero killed IN 1914 h"' Ni.
eScaped themselves and Teag. e4 Ihi1S
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Where the Plays Change

The lavish Klaw & Erlangei
production of THE Riviera Girl
will be seen at the Standard TIE,
atre this week. The book arc
lyrics are by Guy Bolton and 7.
G. Wodehouse.
The attraction at the Shuler'.
Riviera Theatre will be Mr. ana
Mrs. Sidney Drew in "Keep Her
Smiling" the story of b1ok.
keeper with an ambitious wife
The all star production ~
Lord and Lady Algy" comes 70
Loew's Seventh Avenue Theatre
with William Faversham and
Maxine Elliott. supported ny
cast of fifty.
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type of the primal woman. She would
bring children into the world and rear
them Just as her mother and her
mothers mother had done before her
She would feed and mother them: It
is therefore inevitable that she should
become a cook when work is neces-
sary for her. Nothing in all her ma
ture is to be more pathetic than her
attempt to improve in dress as her lc-
quaintancc with the stranger length
ems into friendship. OF course, she
can get dresses in only one way and
that is by making them herself. I
know how hard that is, for | made
them for myself in the play We hal
wonderful costumes designed by
professional. Just as the author indi-
Gates in the text how she is to be
dressed. Mr.. Knoblock mentions that
she 10 sean always In dark suit and
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A VIEW OF sALLE.

do live my characters? What an
awful question that would be to ask
of me-" said Frances Starr, with q
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REGISTRATION

The registration books are now op- en at the, Council Chambers from ] o'clock F. to o'clock P. M.. for the registration of legal voters of the City of Ketchikan.
 s. A. PLUMLEY,
 Registration Officer
 Qualifications of Voters
 Qualification for voters for the May. or and the Councilmen are all persons 2l years of age, who are citizens of the United States or have declared their intention to become such; and who have been bona fde residents of the Territory of Alaska for one year and have resided within the corporate limits of the City Of Ketchikan six months. and shall have been duly reg. istered.
 For members of the School Board all adult persons citizens of the Unit. ed States or who have declared their intention to become such, residing within the corporate limits ol the City of Ketchikan. and who shall have been duly registered.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH

Low Mass at 80 a. m.; High Mass p. m.; Sunday Vespers at 7:30 D. III. Week Day Mass at 8 a. m.-Rev Paul F. Kern, Pastor.
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OLD TRENCH CHUMS
 STRANGELY REUNITED

Two former "pals," who first met in "No Mans Land and later were sep arated, are chum!ng again in Chicago. They are Sergeants Desmond and Jones of the British Recruiting Mis- sion. How they first met, one to res cue the other from the mud and slime of shell crater, was one of the thrill ling chapters of trench fighting in France.
 Sergeant Desmond and his patrol had halted at crater to investigate. Peering down into the hole made by large shell they saw five human bod ies. Four lay still. They were of the clay. The fifth moved. Desmond and his men saw that all were clad in the khaki of the King. They rescued the man whose body gave signs of life and conveyed him to the nearest field hospital.
 The soldier thus rescued was Serg. cant Jones. Desmond and Jones later hccame fast friends, but there came 8 time when Jones was sent to "bligh- ty' because of disability resulting from wounds. Recently Jones enter ed the British recruiting office in Chi caso looking for work. My word, ol' pal, Jonsey, how ill the world did ye get over here?" shouted Desmond. Jones told his story and work was found for him.-Chicago Tribune.
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which is as subtle and difficult to de- tect as it is all-pervading and bernie ious. The large majority of the ru-
 1ors of disaster to our troops; of dis comforts, sickness, and deaths in the eantonments; of delays. disorganiza ton, and even of graft in the great war industries are of enemy origin. And the pity of it all is that, unconscious. ly, there are thousands of well-mean- .ns citizens who, because they have an !ll-regulated appetite for the scandal GUS and the shocking, assist this ene- my propaganda by repeating the enemy rnmors, too often with embellishments of their own.
 Without shutting his eyes to defects CT foregoing his inalienable right to criticism, it is the duty Of every citi- zen to cultivate in these times stress of spirit of healthy optimism. Thoughts are things" A lie persist. ent.y repeated and idly passed on, ev- ol though we believe it to be a lie. begins, by virtue of it's constant reit- eration, to take on in our minds a color of truth.
 Therefore, it is the duty of every true patriot among us, whenever he stumbles upon one of these calamity iowlers, to ask him at once for his au- thority and bring it sharply to his mind that whether he intends to or not, he is actively aiding the enemy in his attempt to shatter the morale of the civil population back of the fighting iine-Scentific American.