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New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Vaudeville

PALACE-Adelaide and Hughes. the
dancing pair, head the bill. Phyllis
Neilson-Terry will appear in mu-
sical programme. The Mastersingers
band Of male singers from Boston.
will be another feature. Others on
the bill are Frank Dobson, Jimmy
Hussey, AL and Fanny Stcdman and
Harry Carroll.
ALHAMBRA-Belle Baker is the feat
ured performer. Charles (Chic) Sale,
the portrayer Of rural characters; the
Watson Sisters, William II. Thomp-
son, in a dramatic sketch entitled
"The Straight Road" and Daisy Jean
are few other attractive features of
the bill.
ROYAL-Nan Halperin and the Avon
Comedy Four share leading honors.
Mrs. Gene Hughes presents comedy
by Edgar Allen Woolf. entitled
when He Comes Back" Harry
Cooper, Kate Gilmore and Sam Will
iams and Emily Francis Hooper are
also on the bill.
E1VERSIDE--An all-star bill, with Ed
die Leonard, Lucille Cavanaugh and
Frisco at its head, is this weeks at
tractive offering. Joe Laurie and
Aileen Bronson, Ted Doner, the Great
Koban and company and the Hearst
Pathe pictures complete the bill.
COLONIAI~-Helen Ware, the emo
tional actress, appears in dramatic
sketch entitled 1.-THE Eternal Bar
rier." Emma Haig and Lou Lockett
will appear in their new song-and-
dance sketch. Marion Hyatt, AL
Shayne, Jack Wyatt's Scotch Lads
and Lassies, Jane Courthope and
DLeir and Sam Green are other per
formers well known to vaudeville who
arc also on the bill.
LOEW'S AMERICAN - Prescott. the
mind reader, and John Byron Totten
and company, in a comedy entitled
Just a Thief" will be the vaudeville
headliners the FIRST part Of the week.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
"The Better ole"
Will Moue Uptozur,

THE Better 'Ole" moves uptown this
week, after Mr.. and Mrs. Coburn had
demonstrated that New Workers. will go
long way to see a show they like-as
tar as the Greenwich Village Theatre,
in the heart of Greenwich Village, in
fact. The limited seating capacitv of
the Greenwich Village Theatre has
made the job of distributing the audi
ences who want to see "The Better
ole" difficult one, so the Coburns
nave arranged to play in the more gem
erous spaces of the Cort Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Friars and Lambs
Frolic-Gan7boI for
Charity Tonight

Tonight at the Metropolitan Opera
House the Friars and the Lambs Club
Will present their Frolic- Gambol for
the benefit of the United War Work
Campaign
Each of the two theatrical organiza-
tions has frequently frolicked and gam
boiled less publicly and in the confines
OF its own clubhouse, but this is the
first time in their history that thew
have united the results in the pre.+os 81
array Of stars ever assembled on or,,
stage.
The Frolic- Gambol was staged under
the direction of Friar Abbot Georpe M
Conan and Lamp Shepherd R. Fl. Burn-
side, and will be distinct in the annals
OF benefits, inasmuch as it will NOT
oner series of specialties, but an
especially written and produced enter
tainment.
The Friars and Lambs to make nm
the all-star cast are Raymond Hitch
cock, AL Jolson, De Wolf Hopper, Sam
Bernard, Louis Mann, William Collier
Frank Tinney, Irving Berlin. Andrew
Mack, James j. Corbett, Eleanor Pain
ter Lew Fields, Joe Weber, Donald
Brian, Leo Ditrichstein, Cyril Maude
VIII Rogers, Vida Bennett. Jobn
Charles Thomas, Doyle and Dixon. Joe
Cawthorne, Ed Wynn, Mitzi. Frank
Bacon and zoo Friars and Lambs.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

he held for eleven years, until he ,s.
turned to the stage in "A Stitch in
Time"
Just as the world war has resulted IN
turning the minds of humanity to re-
ligion and serious thought, it has sue.
ceeded in creating an unmistakable DE-
mand for the romantic drama. Students
of the stage are convinced that another
cycle of Shakespeare is at hand.
Fritz Leiber, a leading member Of
the Mantell company and for many
years an actor of Shakespearian roles,
points to the unquestioned success Of
numerous romantic plays in London,
which have depended almost exclusively
upon the uniformed theatregoer for
patronage, as an evidence of the truth
of this statement.
"Ordinarily one might imagine that
the public, fed up on tragedy and blood
shed, would turn to comedy and the
lghtest of plays for amusement" said
Mr.. Leiber. But it hasn't proved to
he the case. Wherever there are large
bodies of soldiers and their relatives it
IS found that there is great demand
for Shakespeare and real drama. The
complete relaxation and mental con-
trast supposed to be offered by farce
and light comedy are not all that the
soldier wants.
'It isn't necessary to limit your OBJ
servation to the theatre to see the
trend of thought to-day An organizs-
tion sending books to soldiers near the
front line trenches in France said that
of many thousands of requests for
books of science, history and general
information, they had had practically
none at all for novels. OF course the
soldier reads novels, but it is evident
that when he goes to the trouble to se-
lect what he wants he calls for some
thing else"
Like all other portrayers Of Shake
spearian roles who have had long ex-
perience with the box Office side Of the
theatre, Mr.. Leiber admits that pro-
ducers and managers may be little
slow to admit the truth of these
theories. This reluctance to invest cash
in such a belief in the public taste is
due partly to ignorance, he says, and
partly to sad experiences in the past
which in no wise may be accepted as
proof that the public does not care for
the romantic drama.
Mr.. Leiber spends the time he isn't
studying new parts, acting or superin-
tending the making of his costumes IN
painting. The murals that decorate the
living room of his bungalow all are
from his brush. They picture scenes
from Shakespeare in which he has ap-
peared.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Mar,teU Begins
His Shakespearian
Reperfory This Week

king Lear" "The Merchant CT
Venice" and macbeth" are the hrs1
Shakesperian plays of Robert B. Man
tells engagement at the Forty-four'n
Street Theatre, following his sSo
weeks in Bulwer Lytton's "Richel'eu'
King Lear" will be presented Mon'
day and Tuesday nights OF the currens
week, 1.-The Merchant of Venice
Wednesday and Thursday nights ana
Saturday afternoon and Macbeth" FIJI.
day and Saturday nights. "Richeiieu
will be repeated at the WEDNESDAY
matinee.
king Lear" is generally considered
Mr.. Mantell's best piece Of tragic ae..
ing. Lear is the most difficult OF 81
Shakespeare character creations "
visualize. No less an authority 'ns"
Charles Lamb, after seeing hean p''s
the part, declared Lear unactaole' ="
ing to the superhuman sublimity OF 'h'
mad old sriton's passions ana sun''
ings.
"The Merchant of Venice" and MAC
beth" are perhaps the most w''e''
popular of all Shakespeare's plays 0"
ing to their universal use IN W.
schools and colleges AID 10 'nS"
strong melcdramatic tinge.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
A Soldier Sho.u That
Is Different Coming to
44th St. Roof Theatre

The ghost of the Washington Square
Players stirs In the enterprise of the
Fort Ontario Players, which opens at
the 44th Street Roof Theatre to-mor-
row night. Not only is Sergeant Ed
ward Goodman, erstwhile director of
the Washington Square Players the
director of this production, but several
members of the old organization, now
khaki clad will be seen on the plays
that make up the bill. There is the
additional similarity that the entertain
ment is not the musical soldier show
to which New York has grown ac-
customed, but bill Of four one-act
plays.
These plays are being given, by per-
mission of Colonel H. ID. Thomson
for the recreation fund for the sick
and wounded soldiers in General Hos
pital No. 5, at Fort Ontario. There
are more than 1000 men there now
and the number is growing all the
time, despite the advent of peace. The
stream of soldiers returning for re-
covery and convalescence will not
stop for Wpny months, and in the
meantime whe important problem Of
providing for their recreation and en-
tcrtainment at the hospital must be
solved. In addition to the soldier play
ers there are several women who
have offered their service to play
women's parts in these plays. One of
them is Adelina O'Connor, wife of
Colonel Thomson, the commanding
officer. She was an actress before her
marriage short time ago, and played
in "The House of Glass" "The Yellow
Ticket" in the repertory company at
Northampton, Mass, the only munich
pal theatre in this country, and other
stock engagements Another is Izetta
Jewel, who was leading woman with
Otis Skinner, John Drew and James
K. Hackett, and we'll known actress
IN stock in Washington, D. c., until
her retirement from the stage a few
years ago when she was married to
the late Congressman Brown, of West
Virginia.
The four one-act plays whfth make
up the bill are "The Flying Prince" a
fanciful play on the theme of the
sleeping beauty, written by Peggy
Wood, the popular actress, in collabo-
ration with her father, Eugene Wood;
"Kid," by E. E. Levinger; Garry On"
by Sergeant Edward Goodman and
Pierre Loving; and "The Instrument
of God" tragedy Of the war, also by
Edward Goodman. Sergeants Glenn
Hunter and Jay Strong, of the old
Washington Square group, will take
leading parts in the plays.
The plays will be given for one week
There will be matinees Wednesdays and
Saturday.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
The Lion S Share
Goes to Willard Mack

Whether 1t is something in the life
or really the love Of playing do not
know. Every once in while I give
up acting, intending to stay away
from it and devote myself to my writ
ing, but I always drift back. This
time l am the most surprised person
to find myself acting again. Cyril
keightley had been originally cast for
the part, but at the last moment he
demanded several changes in the part
and the management asked me to step
IN. SO / am acting again"
There was pause while Mr.. Mack
at the washstand vigorously rubbed
soap into his eyes and ears-and l
used it for rapid approach on Mr..
Meehan.
Where did you find the type for
your character in this play?"
"If you'd been born on Eighth Ave-
nue." said Mr.. Meehan, you'd have no
trouble in finding type"
How did you begin to act ?"
why, had lost my job as a delivery
boy and I was just standing around in
front of the Grand Opera House on
Eighth Avenue when some one came
out and asked me if l didn't want to
come in and be super. The play
was THE Crimes of Paris and l had
to jump off sinking ship on to a
mattress. The pay was two and q
half"
whatever you say" said Mr.. Mack,
who by this time had emerged from
behind his towel, abe sure to say that
think Mr.. Meehan's playing of the
part the most satisfactory thing about
the play. I could not wish to have it
done better"
That finished the interview. I still
had the feeling that l had not tapped
the flow of copy which could come
from the story of the transition of
Mr.. Meehan from a super and bur.
lesque actor to a finished PLAYER OF
comedy but that may be another story
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Arrangements will then be made for

Arrangements will then be made for
its presentation, free of cost, in every
part of the country, under the auspices
Of local charitable associations, frater-
nal orders, amateur dramatic associa-
tions, etc.
1t is a novel idea that promises a
very high degree of effectiveness, and
I am glad to give it my heartiest ap-
proval and support.
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
Besides President Wilson, Secretary
OF State Lansing, Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, Secretary of the Interior
Franklin K. Lane and Bernard M
Raruch have given the scheme their
heartiest Endorsement. j. P. Morgan
is acting as banker, and A. L. Erlanger
is offering the use of his theatres.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Biggest War Benefit
Yet to Help the
War Orphans

"When Feller Needs a Friend"
war play by Harriet Ford and Harvey
O'Higgins, produced under the auspices
of the Stage Women's War Relief with
the enthusiastic approval and indorse-
ment of President Wilson for the pur-
pose of raising money to assist the
thousands of orphans left in the wake
of the war in the countries of the AL
lies in Europe, will be given it's first
and only professional performances in
New York at the New Amsterdam The
atre next Sunday night, November "a,
by a cast that will include Ann Muir
dock, Charlotte Walker, Florine Arnold,
Shelley Hull, Richard Bennett, Robert
Edeson, Maclyn Arbuckle, Tim Murphy
and other actors Of equal prominence.
Arthur Hopkins will stage the piece.
CArtoonist Briggs, who originated the
title, has volunteered to appear and
make sketches between the acts, and
there are several other "added feat
ures" promised.
With this gala performance the Stage
Women will launch what promises to be
the biggest thing in war benefits that
has been attempted. The actors who
are to appear in the play are donating
their services, the authors have made
an out and out gift of the play to the
Stage Women, and Klaw & Erlanger are
| ho of F.
the occasion. The total proceeds of this
first performance will go toward pub
fishing the play, illustrated with por-
traits of the members of the cast, for
free distribution all over the country.
The presentation of the play in this
way it is expected will arouse the in
terest and patriotic enthusiasm of anna
teur dramatic organizations in all parts
of the country and induce it's produc-
ton by them in every city and town in
the United States. The play, with all
the stage business OF the original pro-
fessional performance, will be given
tree OF charge to any such organization
that may apply for it, the only condi-
tlon being that the proceeds of anv per
formance of it that may be given must
be donated to a general fund for the
orphans of the Allies. Numerous ap-
pllcations have already been received
by the Stage Women for the play from
societies and clubs in various parts OF
the country, and preparations are al
ready under way for several produc-
tions in widely separated communities.
A long list of celebrated people in
corses the project. President Woodrow
Wilson has written the following let
ter:
The White House, Washington.
October II, 1918.
The Stage Womcn's War Relief So
ciety proposes to raise money for the
orphans Of the Allies by an American
war play, the plan of production aim
ing to take advantage of amateur en-
thuslasm and community interest.
This play, "When a Fe!ler Needs
Friend,' has been contributed. free of
royalties, by the authors, and will be
produced first in New York by leading
actors, who will donate their services.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
AT One-Week Houses

STANDARD. - "Fiddler's Three W
John Cort's musical comedy comes here
direct from the Cort Theatre.
SHUBERT-R T-RIVIERA.-"Leave it to
Jane" of which the book and lyrics
are by Bolton and Wodehouse and the
music is by Jerome Kern, is this weeks
offering.
LOEW'S SEVENTH AVENUE.-Guy
Bates Post will appear in "The Mas
querader."
BRONX OPERA -"Getting
Together" the musical war play with
Blanche Bates and Holbrook Blnn and
Lieutenant Gitz Rice singing his fam
Gus trench songs, is this weeks at
traction
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

he held for eleven years, until he r..
turned to the stage in "A Stitch in
Time"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

Bryant Washburn, in "Till I Come
Back to YOU" and "Fatty" Arbuckle,
in "The Sheriff" are the picture feat
ures. The second part of the week
"Yucatan," musical comedy, and De
Biere, magician, will be the topliners
"The One Woman" by Thomas Dixon,
will be the photoplay.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
BROOKLYN

MONTAUK.--"She Walks in Her
Sleep" farce by Mark Swan, comes
here with the original New York cast.
MAJESTIC.-"The Wanderer" comes
to this theatre.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Priorities Board Issues List to Guide
in Coal Distribution

The first preference list issued by
che priorities board, which names
Industries whose operation is consid-
cred of exceptional Importance TO the
country during the war, is for the
guidance of all agencies of the Unit
ed States in the distribution of coal
and coke Included in the list are
plants engaged in the manufacture
Of the following:
Aircraft and supplies ammunition
and small arms for the United States
Government or the Allies; chemic-
ais coke; electrical equipment; cleo
trodes; explosives; farm implements
and farm operating equipment; feed;
ferroalioys; fertilizers; fire brick;
food: food containers; gas: gas-pro-
ducing machinery; guns; hemp;
jute and cotton bags; insecticides;
iron and steel; machine tools min
ing tools and equipment; oil-well
equipment; locomotives, cars and
other railway supplies; ships mot in
Guiding pleasure crafD; soap; tan
ned leather, save for patent leather:
tanning extracts; tin plate; binder
twine and rope; wire rope and rope
wire.
Army and Navy camps and can
tonments are included in the list as
well as mines, newspapers, and per
iodicals, oil refineries, public institu-
tions and buildins, public utilities,
ra lways. producers and wholesalers
of seed. except flower seeds.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Wages Do Not Keep Pace With
Rising Cost of Living

Wage increases in the United
States are not keeping pace with the
advance in the cost of living, Assist
ant Secretary of Labor Post asserts.
Figure compiled by the Bureau of
Labor statistics of the Department of
Labor, he says, show that while the
cost of food last year increased %
per cent for the entire country, wag-
es rose only one-half or two-thirds
of that rate.
The statement issued by the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics showing the
increased living costs throughout the
United States for the year ending
January Is. says:
Comparing January Is, 1918,
with January Is. 1917, the price of
food as whole increased 25 per
cent. All articles show decided in
creases with the exception of pota-
toes. which decreased 16 per cent.
Corn meal shows the greatest price
change. an increase of Il per cent
Bacon increased 81 per cent; lard.
SO per cent: pork chops. a per cent;
ham. AZ per cent; milk. 35 per cent;
hens. 29 per cent: butter. 25 pei
cent: eggs. % per cent; bread. ls
per cent; sugar. Is per cent. and
-four. Il per cent"
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
THE WAR, THE FARM
AND THE FARMER
By Herbert Quick
Member Federal Farm Loan Board

der as a thing against which we
could not defend ourselves.
We should have allowed this new
horror to become part of all future
wars. and have been responsible for
its Incorporation into internatic nal
law.
We should have proved that be-
cause the fire which burns up our
farms usefulness is beyond the hori-
zoa. we would submit to the kiDdling
OF it.
We might have accepted the sew
enty cents for wheat and the six cents
for cotton. but we could not have
done il merely because we we're
commanded to do it. BY so doing
we should have accepted degrada-
ton We should have began, after
winning our freedom in our own
revolution and establishing a union
on the Foundation of liberty in the
blood and tears of our war between
the states 70 knuckle under to sutoc-
rac., We should have basely yielded
up our birthright as Americans.
Such a thought is intolerable. Peace
at such a price would not be peace,
but only a preparation for a future
revolt against subj cation. Better
any sort OF war; better war forever.
that that.
Whenever the time comes for new
sacrifices, let us remember that We
fight. not for our liberties tomorrow.
or next year or twenty years from
now, but for our freedom today. Not
for the right TO live in the future. but
for the right to make a living this
year.
German oppression had begun to
pinch us before we entered the war.
II we had not declared war. but had
accepted the conditions OF life ordered
for us by the Kaiser. we should today
be poverty-stricken people. Our
factories would be shut down. our
workmen unemployed. our people
starving, our farmers ruined by the
poverty of those for whose consump-
tion they grow their crops. There is
loss and ssci iifice in the war. but
there would have been far more OF
loss and sacrifice in accepting the
German terms. We should have lost
more in money than we have spent
in the war. but We should have lost
something far more precious. We
= should have lost our souls.
he third to be published next week)
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
American Engineers Build Railways
in France

The official review of the first year
of war issued by the Committee on
Public Information contained the
following description of the work of
American Engineers in France:
American engineers have gone in
to French forests and done the work
of the pioneers of our Northwest.
They have frequently been under
fire. One of their first tasks was the
reconstruction and extension of a
railroad 500 miles long to carry our
products from points of disembark-
alton to general bases of operation.
The First Engineer troops, LOO
strong. arrived in France about three
months after war was declared. Since
then the number has been greatly
augmented These troops have been
constantly engaged in general engi-
neering work, including the con-
struction of railways. docks. whar-
YES, cantonments and hospitals.
An American Army locomotive
was built in this country in p days
and shipped to the Expeditionary
Forces. Many other locomotives,
cars. logging trains. trucks. dis
sembled buildings. and other ednip-
nent have been shipped to augment
the output and facilitate the con
struction operation of American for
ces abroad.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25
Crowding Mails With Dainties

The post office department has is
sued statement indicating the
character of palatable and dainty
things usually sent by parcel post
to cur boys in France which can be
pure hased in France at as low or
lower prices as they can be had in
this country.
What are you sending by parcel
post TO the boys in France2 asks the
department If it is cookies. can
dies, or canned goods, bear in mind
that the soldiers of the American l.
peditionary Forces can purchase
these things at the Y NJ c. A. re-
reation centers, or canteens in
France, as cheaply as they can be
had here.
Various sorts of biscuits and crack
ers, such as are commonly sold in
the stores here, may be bought from
the Y NJ. c. A. in France at prices
ranging from 4 "a cents to 23 cents
a package, only one sort of biscuit
being sold as high as 38 cents. Most
of these goods are 9 1-2 or 13 1-3
cents.
Candies sell for from As cents
to 3S cents. Canned fruits range in
price from 2812 to "a 1-5 cents
Chewing gums are "a cents per
package, etc.
The attention of the Public is call
ed TO the fact that every pound and
every ton of parcel post which is sent
from the United States, but which
can be bought by the soldiers in
France, forces of the ships ammu~
milton and other needed war mater
ials The immense volume OF parcel
post sent to France containing ar
ticles which can be purchased cheap
| ~ by the soldiers in France, and
which are not usually shipped from
the United States but are obtained
in Europe, principally from Spain
Switzerland and Italy, is shown by
the fact that an investigation of g..
900 sacks of parcel post disclose
3.S74 pounds of candy, 1882 pounds
of chocolates, l, 327 cakes and 2,S3s
packages of chewing gum.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-04-25

The Fuel administration has is
sued warning against the use of
domestic sizes of hard coal by indus
trial plants.
Representatives of the musical
instrument have agreed to cur
tailment of their output to 20 per
cent of normal during April and
May.
A total of 100000 women are now
on the payroll of the Prussian- Hess
ian railway, according to a statement
i'm the Iiepsig lllustrierte Zeitung.
Red Cross workers at line of COM
munication canteens in France ac-
company American soldiers on shop
ling trips. to see that they receive
correct change and otherwise advise
them in their encounters with French
shop keepers.
Three landing fields have been
obtained for the proposed Washing
ton-New York airplane postal ser
vice, at Washington, Philadelphia
aud New York. According TO the
Pest Onice Department the serNic,
viii start not later than May 10.