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New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Good Old Melodrama
Reappears at alace
Spanish Dancers, on Bill for
Second Week, Are Still
Very Divertinp

One of those "You- -ain't-done- right.
by-our-Ncll" affairs is on the Palace bill
this week, reminding ont of the sadly
distant days of good old melodrama,
Then shivers and thrills played tag I'D
and down ones spinal column DURING
the scene where the ship, with heroine
clinging to the hero and the rail-.
climbed calico waves. only to crash
into canvas rock. Then one did not
smile when the poor girl was COM
manded never to darken these doors
again. Where are the thrills and tears
of yesteryear's melodrama? What
eight-reel thriller can ever take their
place?
The Spanish dancers from "The Land
of Joy" are having their second week
at the top of the bill, and there are
those who would be happy to be told
they were to stay through the sum
mer. The dynamic verve of Doloretes.
Mazantinita, Bilbao,the Mari-Juli sis
ters and Luisita Puchol, the singer of
daring songs, passes from the stage !.
the audience. No more effective spring
and summer tonic could be prescribed
than bi-weekly visit to the Spanish
dancers.
Other acts on the bill are Frank Ar
dell in "The Wife Saver" an act that is
thoroughly amusing and one that is
welcome return engagements; little
George Augustus Dewey, grandnephew
of the famous rear admiral, in u REQ
Cross appeal; Conroy and lie Marie in
"The New Physician;" Pisano and COM
pany in shooting act, Holding the
Fort" and the -Four Readings, jugglers.
S. S.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Old Gold and Silver Wanted
In Exchange for War Stamps
Prominent Women to Open Metals Market for Useless but
Invaluable Heirlooms Under Auspices of
Treasury Department

Do you know where father hid his
golf tournament cup last fall? Have
you an attic full of old silver teapots
that you dare not throw away? Cheer
up! Women war workers have found
way for you to be rid of all your
treasures of ancient gold and silver
with a clear conscience. Articles that
are no good at all, yet are too good
to throw away, can be sold to the
United States Treasury Department for
War Saving Stamps at a new shop
which is to be opened on Monday at
Fifth Avenue and Fortieth Street.
The shop will be called the Metal
Market, and will be run by committee
of prominent suffragists and patriotic
workers, headed by Mrs. Charles l..
Tiffany and Mrs. Joseph Griswold
Deane. Leading Fifth Avenue jewellers
will send their assay experts each day
to supervise the measuring and pay
ments for the precious metals.
The shop will be sponsored by A. B.
Wilson, chief clerk of the United
States Assay Office. 1t is expected that
the idea will spread all over the coun-
try, and that government shops for the
sale of old gold and silver will be a
regular part of the nations war saw
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
La Belle Titcomb's Revue
Clever Performance Marred
by Misuse of the Flag

Never let the Stars and Stripes touch
the ground.
Perhaps La Belle Titcomb does not
know about this. If not she should be
told, and taking it for granted that she
reads The Tribune we are going to be
the one to tell her.
At the Colonial, this week, La Belle
Titcomb is presenting her "big brand
new revue, in which she will appear her
self with 10 people-1O." In the last
scene La Belle apears wrapped in
white satin cape, and when she responds
to an encore she spreads her arms like
the American eagle posed for fight and
to line her cape.
AS is usual where the Stars and
Stripes are displayed there was wild ap-
plause. AS for us, we should much pre-
fer seeing the flag on fagpole to see
ing 1t used as an article of clothing by
a plump Amazon, even if she was sing
ing Joan of Arc.
But this was not all. La Belle Tit
comb responded to several encores,
warranted, only she dropped the cape
and used as train, with the Stars and
Stripes dragging on the stage. No, de-
cidedly we did not like it.
But we must say that Titcomb knows
how to present revue. She has with
her Jack Squire, Angel Cansino, Mile
lone and Charles Adler, a wonderful
Russian dancer. There are two songs
from "The Land of JOY" One is holy
Week" and the other is cay Que Rico"
Elizabeth Brice is singing the same
songs which she sang at the Palace
last week, and Neil Donaldson is play
ing his medley of popular songs which
Brice and King made famous.
The thing which pleased us most of
all was Mrs. Thomas Whiffen's sketch,
"Where There's Will There's Way"
Mrs. Whiffen plays her part Of Grand
ma Fox with a fine spirit and keen
appreciation of the comedy values.
Grandma Fox learns to speak slang to
cure her granddaughter, and it is the
first time We ever saw such a situation
when it was not strained. Grandma ID
an apt pupil, but at the end she dis
/ plays her amateurishness by saying,
That's the time you got my sheep"
and when her granddaughter reproves
her, she replies, lightly, "Cow, my
Gear, COW"
Frank C-umpet delighted TIE audi
ence n his usual, simply :stu-a! way
with the guitar and the uku1e!e ard q
few anedOtes.
Others on the programme were Dom
aid r. Roberts, the strolling tenor; Joe
Rome and Tillie Cox, terpsichorean
comiQues, "The Decorators"; the Wat
son sisters, Fannie and Kitty, and
Jean Duval in Gems of Art"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
G. Won L. Meyer Left
Estate of $1,000

George Won L. Meyer, former secre-
tary Of the Navy, who died March 9 at
bis home at Hamilton, Mass, left an
estate valued at S1.700000. An exem-
plihed copy of his will, already pro,
bated in Massachusetts, was filed in
the Surrogates' Court yesterday. This
step was made necessary by the testa-
tors ownership of property in this city.
Mr.. Meyer left to his widow, Mrs.
Alice Appleton Meyer, his property at
Hamilton, one-third of his residuary
estate and an annuity of $4,000. Of
the remaining two-thirds of the resi-
due, George Won L. Meyer, son, is to
receive one-third outright upon his re-
turn from the war He is now in the
united States service.
The other shares will be held in
trust for two daughters, Mrs. Alice M.
Rodgers, OF Washington, and Mrs. Julia
M. brambilla, of Rome, Italy, the prin-
e;lpal at their death to go TO their chill
dren.
AT the death of Mrs. Meyer the son is
also to receive her share of the residue
and the Hamilton property Two sis
ters OF the testator, Miss Heloise Meyer
ana Mrs. Eleanor G. rockingham, re-
eeiye $1,000 each. To each Of the fol-
10 Loving institutions Mr.. Meyer left
sz.oo1; Boston Lying-in Hospital, Ded-
nam Home, Massachusetts General Hos
pltal and Huntington Hospital
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21

ing, as it has been in European coun-
tries.
Mrs. Deane announced yesterday that
10000 circulars explaining the purpose
of the shop would be distributed this
week, under the franking privilege of
the Treasury Department.
I'VE expect a great response to our
announcements. for our shop will fill
three great needs of the nation" she
said. at will rid our homes of much
useless truck the women have to clean
and care for it; it will help sell war
savings stamps; and it will put into
circulation much gold and silver, which
are scarce during the war. know doz-
ems of women who tell me they have
heirlooms and horrible things they re-
ceived FOR wedding presents which
they dare not give away, but which
they will be thankful to be rid of under
the guise of war savings. We shall
have Golf Cup day, brides day,
a children's day, and a Christmas pres
ent day."
The shop will be opened formally
with reception on Monday, at which
Mrs Charles S. Whitman will be the
guest of honor
Besides Mrs. Tiffany and Mrs. Deane,
other members of the committee are !:
Mrs. F. Louis Slade, Miss Charlotte
Dela6eld, Mrs. Charles c. Goodrich,
Mrs. Alfred Hess, Mrs. Thomas H.
Lamont. Mrs. E. P. Morgan, Mrs. Her
bert L. Pratt, Mrs. Ogden Reid
and Mrs. Frank Vanderbilt
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
On the Screen
Dorothy Phillips Offers "A
Soul for Sale" at the
Broadway

An elaborate programme beginning
with the Fadettes playing the Star
opangled Banner" and ending with
Dorothy Phillips Offering "A Soul for
Sale" is being presented at the
broadway Theatre this week.
Some one wrote us letter not long
ago and said Dorothy Phillips is a
charming and clever little actress, but
why does she choose such leading
men Please say something about it,"
10 which we answered, eve have. but
II doesn't do any good"
MISS Phillips is as sweet and as al
turing as ever as Neila Pendelton. the
girl with the soul which her ambitious
mamma insists is for sale, although
Nella prefers to keep it intact SO that
sne may give it into the keeping of
some worthy man, who may be waiting.
hguratlvely speaking, just around the
corner. Neila has not yet reached the
age where she decides to stop LOOKING
1or some one who is worthy and be
satisfied with one who is merely fasci-
mating.
She thinks that she sees all that her
neart desires in Steele Minturn. but
Snere are Hale FaXon and Wilbur
olmons, both with plenty of this
worid's goods and both willing to pay
Neiias ollis and mammals for the rest
OF their lives.
There are Misunderstanding re-
EXAMINATIONS and lot of trouble be-
tore the final embrace comes on TOP
of burning building.
"A Soul for Sale' is little more
interesting than the usual society
drama, where young girl is sacrificed d
to save her mothers good name. Also
we wish Dorothy Phillips would come
East; we should like to see her in
Albert Roscoe; Wi William ilsn0'ng Burress msn is is
Fax,on, the unwelcome prospective
Simons, merely an also ran in the
race for the altar.
~ The Fadettes played "a Day in
Naples" "Serenata," "Andante Conta-
bile" and "The Evolution of Dixie y
Helen Rumsey sang the love song from
Samson and Delilah."
"Pershing's Crusaders" the first off,
clal war picture under the auspices of
the United States government and pre-
sented by the Committee on Public In
formation, will be shown for the first
time at the Lyric Theatre tonight.
These pictures will be here for a
limited engagement, and the proceeds
viii be added to the charities of the
Allies who are making the fight for
democracy. The boxes will be occupied
by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who will
have as her guests party of United
States army officers; Mrs. Newbold LIE
Roy Edgar, who will entertain a num-
Der of United States naval officers;
Mrs: Harry Payne Whitney, Clarence
Mackay, Mrs. Felix T. Rosen and Mrs.
George Pope.
Admiral Nathaniel B. Usher, of the
United States Navy; Major General
William A. Mann, of the United States
Army; Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Mrs.
James Speyer, Mortimer Schiff, Mrs.
E: H. Hartman, Mrs. Pierpont Morgan,
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander and others
will be present. The "Four Minute
Song Men," quartet, with a chorus of
seventy male voices, will entertain the
audience. Captain Robert Warwick,
former moving picture star and now
attached to General Pershing's staff,
will make a short address. H. U.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Art

Throughout the month of May an
exhibition of paintings by James G.
Tyler may be seen at the Ferargil
Galleries. Mr.. Tyler is a painter Of
the sea and ships. The salt breath of
the ocean is in his canvasses and one
feels the lift and roll of the ship un-
der the feet when looking at "a
Whaler Bound in" or "Shortening
Sail" The artist, who for nearly
twenty years followed the sea-" has
painted many of the yachts and
launches of prominent persons, among
them the yacht of the late James Cor
don Bennett.
But it is the romance of the sea that
appeals to Mr.. Tyler, and most of his
canvases are of majestic old sailing
vessels, with their square sails belly
ing in the wind. A painting of the
"Santa Maria" in full sail on a flowing
sea would gladden. the heart of those
"who go down to the sea in Ships"
"An Easterly" also is stirring pict-
ure, showing a sailing vessel heading
against terrific wind, which is driv-
ing her in upon the rocks.
Many small paintings are included in
the exhibition, but each one is filled
with the enthusiasm of one who thor
oughly understands and loves his sub
ject.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Plays and Players

The opening of the Actors and Au-
thors Theatre at the Fulton did not
take place last evening according to
schedule, but was postponed until
Thursday. While the reason was not
given out, it may be assumed to be not
very different from those contingencies
upon which hang the postmonements OF
any other premieres.
"Fancy Free" moved last night from
the Astor to the Casino, where 1t Will
remain through the summer, and Mar.
jorie Rambeau returned to the cast OF
1.-THE Eyes of Youth" after an absence
of many weeks.
Five public Lambs Gambols, begin
ming June Ia, will be given at the Hud-
son Theatre. One hundred and fifty
male players Of prominence viii! appear.
Each performance receipts Will be de-
voted, respectively, to the Lambs CLUB
building fund, the Y. M. c. A: war
fund, the Actors Fund, the Stage Wom-
ems War Relief Fund and the American
Red Cross.
Next Sunday evening the stage hands,
leave" will apply grease paint and
evening clothes to their persons and
act all the roles in that war play tor
the benefit of the Stage Women's War
Relief Fund. The electrician, who is to
play the woman spy. has been banting
for a fortnight that he may do justice
to the bathing suit he must wear in the
third act. Few Broadwayites will be
apt to miss this performance, and GER
tainly no actor will be absent unless
physically restrained or in San Fran
cisco.
Daniel Frohman has arranged bene.
fit for the Red Cross at the Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Committee of Justice De.
mands Market Commis-
sioner Get Free Hand
Big Dealers Favored
Only Public Opinion Can
Force Reduction in Prices,
Audience Is Told

An emphatic protes. against the re-
fusal of Ice Controller Odell to allow
Market Commissioner Day to sell ice
in New York at prices lower than those
fixed by the controller was made in .
resolution by the Women's Civic Com
mittee Of Justice, meeting in the City
Hall yesterday afternoon.
The resolution followed DR.. Days
explanation of his side of the dispute.
He attended the meeting as the repre-
sentative of Mayor Hylan.
when you have trust entrenched."
he said, ait is difficult to fight it. When
the trust is backed by law, with q coz
troller whose authority is as auto
cratic as anything from Petrogrsd CT
Berlin, you are up against a much
bigger problem"
The 100 or more women cheered this
greater when DR.. Day declared he pro-
posed to bring the $4,000 tons Of ice
into the city.
Mrs. Lillian Sire, a social worker,
who asserted the high price Of milk
and ice had increased the child death
rate IN New York. asked the Market
Commissioner what he intended to do
to defeat the Ice Controllers deterrni-
nation.
"There is no redress" replied Dr.
Mr.. Odell's authority is absolute.
q cyiu
me by the State Food Commission in
1917. -Odell was given his authority By
later law, which superseded mine, so
far as ice is concerned.
II can make test case by bringing
in the ice, but that won't get the ice
delivered if it is tied up in the courts.
Only public opinion can force Odell to
change his mind"
Nat D. Jacoby, of the Federation Of
islation under which Ice Controller
Odell is operating and asserted the
big ice dealers are profteering. He
suggested that the women ask the
Mayor and the Governor to appointra
tribunal to test the constitutionality
of the law.
The resolution of protest follows:-
"Ice Controller Odell says that no.
body will be allowed to distribute any
ice under any circumstances except at
prices named by him,
"Be it therefore,
Resolved, That we earnestly protest
against the action Of the Ice controller
and demand of him the right of the
City of New York or any individual to
distribute ice at prices which give to
producers and distributors reasonable
profits and deliver ice to consumers at
! reasonable prices, even though lower
than prices named by the controller"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
$4,000 Pastors to Proclaim
Memorial Day Next Sunday

Sixty thousand pastors On next Sun
day and Memorial Day will reaffirm the
loyalty OF the Protestant churches.
The Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ IN America and the General
War Time Commission of the Churches s
have recommended new act of self
dedication to God
1t has been suggested that each pas-
tor read the names of those on the
honor roll of his church and the Pres
ident's proclamation concerning Memo
rial Day. Prayer will be offered for
those in every branch of the service
and for swift victory for justice.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
ActingC gCommissionerLeach
Announces Plan Provided
For by Mitchell
Hylan Gives Approval
Mayor Hitherto, Had Called
Proposal a Foolish
Extravaganza

Twelve policewomen with uniforms,
s.rdcutFs and revolvers are about to
n.se their debut in the municipal
sorce. according to an announcement
made yesterday by Acting Police Com
missioner John A. Leach.
The announcement was hailed with
,,se by friends of the Mitchell ad-
m,nistration, who remembered that
there had been an appropriation for
,olieewomen in the Mitchell budget,
which was criticised by MayorElect
Hvlan as foolish extravaganza.
The Mayors (Mitchel'sl Committee
~ Women, headed by Mrs. Willard
Straight, paid the salaries of two
rolicewoman last fall, and it was their
sYcellent work among soldiers and
sailors in the parks which attracted
the attention Of RAYMOND Fosdick, so
that he wrote to Mayor Mitchell advo-
eating the appointment by the city of
policewomen.
Commissioner Leach, who is taking
the place of Commissioner Enright
durinp his vacation, declared he had
never uedIu w ZIG RSAtSC w OA4ASn AdS \
fail and that his advocacy Of the
women police dated from his expert
ence with the work of Mrs. Margaret
Whitehurst and Mrs. Mary Sullivan in
his Brooklyn headquarters.
Mayor Hylan has Endorsed the plan
TO appoint the policewomen and dates
bis conversion, it is said, to the annual
police parade.
The polcewomen are to receive
$1,000, each, which is the salary of the
frst-year police patrolmen. Police
matrons receive $1,000. The Board Of
Estimate is expected to act upon the
requisition within a week.
The policewomen will be assigned to
duty under Deputy Commissioner Ellen
O'Grady and will work chiefly with
"white slave" cases and Juvenile de-
linquency. A large part of their work
will be patrolling the parks where
soldiers and sailors meet young girls.
Commissioner Leach made a tour of
the Brooklyn navy yard section recent
ly with Mrs. Whitehurst and was much
impressed with her skilful method of
breaking up hirtations and escorting
the young women back home to thei,
mothers The police have no authority
to make arrests in such cases, but
their appearance at young woman's
home usually has salutary effect.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Pulls Woman's Honor
OFF Its Pedestal
Susan, Glaspell's Satire Says
There's Too Much Senti-
ment About 1t
THE CAST

Perhaps if one had not seen Susan
Glaspell's wonderful little play,
"Triaes," and her clever genre comedy
Suppressed Desires" too much would
not have been expected from "Woman's
Honor" given last evening for the first
time at the Greenwich Village Theatre.
AS it is, the new play on the bill at
tnat theatre does not come up to ex-
pectatiors and does not warrant being
a substitution for "Tne Big Scene"
The idea of "Woman's Honor" is
original. Instead of placing this com
modify, quality or virtue-choose your
own .classitication-on the pedestal of
tradition, Miss Glaspell treats it satiri-
ccally, pointing out how it works harm
TO- its possessors. "Give men some
thing else to be sentimental about"
suggests one of the characters. Cant
we give them some new vice in it's
stead asks another woman.
A young man, suspected of murder,
vii! not reveal the name of the woman
with whom he passed the night on
whlcl the crime was committed. His
resolve to save her honor is met with
sacrifcial offers from seven women
who are ready to shame themselves
from the death penalty. One after an
other the women enter the lawyers
office and declare they are ready to
take the witness stand.
"Oh, hell! III plead guilty" cries
the youth as the last one stands be-
fore him. Curtain.
That there are clever lines in Miss
Glaspelps playlet makes it worth pro-
ducing beyond doubt. There are far
too few satires on the American stage,
for satire is gift that Americans do
not possess to the same degree as it
is found in other countries. But her
play was none the better for the han
dlcaps Of a first performance.
"T:ae Maid Of France" and "Ile," /"
which have been on the bill of this
theatre for several weeks, are played
after "Woman's Honor" Unhappily,
that promising new actress, Clare
Eames, does not appear in the new
one-act play. Has she already been
snapped up by the Commercial" the
aCro g g
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Mrs. Benjamin F. Roeder

p Alter Mnter brief illness, Mrs. Benjamin
Noeder, wife of Benjamin F. Roeder,
general manager for David Belasco,
world as Geraldine Morgan, died yes
terday at her residence, 124 West Fif-
ty-fth Street.
Geraldine Morgan was the first Amer
,cah n! viollnist to win the Mendelssohn
Irize IN Berlin. She was a pupil of
Soseph Joachim and was one of his
siosest s: friends. She appeared with
nlm a. IN London and elsewhere, playing
sne double concerto of Bach, a great
honor for any violinist.
mrs. Roeder retired from the profess
nonal musical stage after her mar
vlage. She was born in 1857 in New
aosx. She is survived by her husband,
son' mother, two sisters and brother.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
Tent City Rises at Upton
New Quarters Being Con-
structed for $4,000 Rockies

CAMP UPTON, MAY 20.-The demand
on this cantonment for quarters for
new men has become so great that
there is now under construction tent
city that eventually will accommodate
$4,000 rockies. Major W. E. Spears, the
construction quartermaster, is erecting
565 white and brown canvas squad
tents, which will quarter eight men
each, and large mess tents, in addition.
An area at the south centre of the
camp has been laid aside for the col
ony. Large gangs of men are detailed
for the work and trenches are being
dug for sewer lines and water supply.
Within a few days the operation will
be considerably extended.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
William Pairsor

William Pairson, a clerk in the Hud
son County's Clerks Office, and for
Isny years a newspaper reporter in
Jersey City, died Sunday evening at
ms home, 504 Pavonia Avenue. of heart
oisease. He served three terms as
: member of the Hudson County Board
o F-eeholders. He is survived by q
wne, q daughter, and a son, the city
eoisor Of "The Hudson Observer" He
was hfty-fve years old.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
James Gordon Benefits
Body in Paris for Burial

PARlS, May 20.-James Gordon Ben
net's body arrived in Paris this morn
ing from Nice. A funeral service will
c ne held Thursday at the American
Snurch in the Avenue de lAlme. The
CCuFlal will take place in the Passy
NICE. France, May 2O.-The body of
Sssmes Gordon Bennett, owner of "The
Sw SSew York Herald" who died last week,
mas bee. sent to Paris. 4 fu.era! seq
wee was Is!d here. TIE Rev. Francis
y; ~ Burgess, rector OF the American
Chu-ch ke~c. ossc;aced
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21
To Register Enemy Women
Marshal Mccarthy Completes
Plans for Beginning the Work

United States Marshal Thomas Nc
Carthy announced yesterday that he
had completed preparations for the
registration of enemy alien women.
This registration will start as soon as
Attorney General Gregory makes some
expression of policy regarding the
women and sets date for their enrol
ment.
Mr.. Mccarthy has received offers of
active cooperation from numerous
women's organizations in the southern
district of New York. He said that at
least six women from patriotic or
CARNATIONS will be stationed at each
registration place to assist the aliens.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-21

recollection of signing the will and
could not identify picture of Ranger.
In the summer of 1915 Miss Ranger
appeared as complainant against the
Key DR.. Charles T. Bayless, friend of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, charging
him with mishandling $1,000 raised for
the Allied Hospitals Relief Commits
sion. District Attorney Swami investi
gated and indictments were found
against DR.. Bayless. Later they were
dismissed and DR.. Bayless was com
pletely exonerated.