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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

y we'll known actor who has in the
last fifteen years played dozens Of i'm
portant roles In New York stood in the
rear of the Globe Theatre on Monday
night at the end of the third act Of
Booth Tarkington's "Penrod" and
watched the demonstration accorded to
little Andrew Lawlor, the creator OF
tho title role. The youngster took mot
only a half dozen curtain calls but he
was called out in front of the curtain
and took several bows" from that
coign of vantage with all the assur-
ance and grace OF titled London ac-
tor-manager.
What a chance!" the actor sighed
wistfully. ELEVEN years old. playing
the title role on Broadway in one OF
the leading theatres and taking cur
tain bows. I've longed for such an OPP
portunity these many years and came
within an inch of attaining it several
times. and now a little boy comes
llong and gets away with It at an age
when l was still in school. It's mad
world, q mad world"
The creator Of Penrod Is New
York boy who has been on the stage
for several seasons. He Is just past II
years and is accordingly the exact age
of the PCnrod of the book. Last year
he played the boy in the last act of
Happiness" with Laurette Taylor
Before that time he had toured with
some of the Gus Hill shows In n pop
ular priced classic written around the
adventures OF the one time Katzen-
TANNER Kids Obey now have a title
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
ENVIOUS OF EARLY FAME

less Teutonic In IT'S Implications h,
played one of the m.schievous young
sters and attained an ease and an a.
surance that are really remarkable.
He acquired also knowledge of tho
art Of waiting for laughs" as Il ia
technically known. an art which MANY
erownup players never altogether mas
ter.
When "Penrod" was originally pro-
duced In Atlantic City and Washington
last spring for tryout purposes An
drew Lawlor was cast for the role OF
sam Williams and another boy had tho
title role. Mr.. Harrington witnessed
the first performance and called George
c. Tyler. the producer, aside
Your 'Penrod Is all right, George"
he said, las far as he goes. and I'd a.
cept him II you didn't have the real
Pehrod In the cast. That kid you've
got playing sam IViNidfls is more Ike
the Pcnrod I've imagined than any
boy I've ever seen in real life and
you've just got TO let him play It."
And so 1t came to pass that when
the last three performances were given
in Washington the Lawlor boy stepped
into the role of Penrod and succeeded.
And another little boy. on the night hn
stepped in. was seen wandering along
Pennsylvania avenue with his mother
experiencing the pangs of what seemed
like "life's darkest moment" to him.
He was a wise little lad. too. and hs
had imagined in his minds eye that he
would one day open on Broadway and
take curtain calls and have his picture
out in front of the theatre and bn
talked about and adored by me-,
women and children. But fate AND
Mr.. Harrington and Andrew Lawl""
had "butted in" and messed thinSs Wy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

TIME eleventh season OF opera
under the direction OF Giulio
l. Gatti-Casazza is officially an
nounced to begin on Monday, Novem-
Der II, with Samson ct Dalila." Mr..
Caruso and Nine, Homer Will appear
in the leading roles. The season will
last twenty-three weeks and several
new works will be produced. There
will also be interesting revivals. The
list includes the following works:
The Legend" an opera in one act,
the scene laid in a remote district of an
imaginary Muscovite country. book by
Jacques Byrne, music by Joseph
Charles Breil.
| THE Temple Dancer" an opera in
one act, evoking many of the legendary
religious rites of the Hindus. the
libretto by Jutta Bell Ranske, music
by John Adam Hugo.
Among the other novelties to be pre-
scented are three new operas by Puc-
cini. which will be given for the first
time anywhere at the Metropolitan
Opera House:
|
book by Giuseppe Adami. taken from
the well known work of the French
novelist Didier Gold. La Houppe-
lande."
"Suor Angelica a mystery play in
one act, book by Gioachino Forzano.
| "Gianni Schicchi," a comic opera in
one act, book by Gioachino Forzano
These three operas will be sung in
Italian.
There will be furthermore pre-
sented
LA Refine Fiammette," opera in four
: acts based on the poem OF Catulle
Mendes. music by Xavier LerouX. This
work is considered the masterpiece of
the French composer, who is very
popular throughout Europe and South
America, but is little known In North
America.
"Mireille," opera In four acts, lyrics
by Michel Carree. based upon the well
known poem of Frederic Mistral,
music by Charles Gounod This opera
is one of the most charming compost
tons of the great French master,
"Oberon," opera in English, In three
acts, by Charles Maria Weber. This
opera was composed especially for the
Covent Garden Theatre in London, to
an English libretto by ]. r. blanche.
J Fora del Destino," opera in four
acts, after the melodrama by Fran
! cesco Maria Piave, music by Giuseppe
Verdi, an opera which enjoys to-day
a great popularity In Europe.
.Revivals will be made of several
works always welcome to the public,
such as "Crispino la Comare," by
the brothers +. and l.. Ricci, and the
ballet "Petrushka," music by Igor
Stravinsky which later met with such
'great success in America some time
| ago.
The conductors, stage managers and
other artistic directors will be the
same as last season. The additions
to the company are as follows:
American sopranos Miss Roa
Eaton, formerly of the San Carlo
Naples; Miss Margaret Romano. for
merly of the Opera Comique of Paris
Miss Mary Ellis, Miss Mary Mallish
! and Miss Rosa Poncellc.
| American czzo-sopranos and CON
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< SONG WRITERS SWAMP JUDGES WITH CLEVER INCLES

cordially in letters from the front.
They have been warmly commended
by able professional writer's. some few
Of whom, indeed. have had sufficient
interest to enter the contest. But II
remained for a bright young woman
of Augusta, Ga. to knit together some
of the Sock Songs published and make
rlay OF them, which play had It's
premiere at a patriotic entertainment
given for the boys of a nearby camp.
Each character came on knitting and
recited.
In the cast were the Misses Nell
Singleton, Mym Irby, wilhelmina
Schwengsbier. Margaret Mccormick,
Lillian Hueber, Agnes Murphy, Elinor
O'Connor. Marie Whitley. Margie
Hartswell, Margaret Sheehan, Frances
Riordan, Joe May Scully and Nora
Colleran and Mrs. T. H. Bresnahan.
Miss Singleton, who got the play
up" writes:
have, been greatly interested In
your jingles on knitting, and they were
the inspiration of one of the most
catchy little plays we have ever put
on in Augusta.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
BLIND CHILDREN
ARE GOOD FARMERS

Not all of them enjoy working in the
gardens and OF course such work Is
not compulsory, but there are num-
bers Of them who are farmerettes by
nature and are never so happy as
when they can get into the gardens or
hay fields or among the chickens.
Every week barrel of vegetables
fresh from the soil is sent down 10 the
Bourne workshop for blind men The
vegetables are gathered for them ny
the blind. In this way the Lighthouse
is doing its agricultural bit, for the
barrel lasts the week out for the
workshop and aids in food conserva-
ton.
But how do the children know what
they are gathering? One might think
1t would take lot Of direction by a
sighted person to keep them from
pulling vegetables too small or OF the
wrong kind. Patrick asserts tina.
many Of the blind children learn far
more quickly than children who can
see. and he accounts for this by say
ing that they have a habit OF concen-
tration unknown to many sighted
children.
When girls evince n desire 20 go
into the gardens they are taught 20
distinguish the different vegetables.
For instance, n sighted person in
charge will select a cabbage, uproot
It and give It to them to examine.
Then they examine the growing cab
bages, and so on throughout the vege-
tables.
Il know a beet because tho leaves
grow high: they are smooth and when
you pull 1t up the beet has a round
face and whiskers." one little girl
explained. Patrick calls them roots.
A radish has fuzzy leaf. 1t does not
grow high and you can tell when II Is
ready to pull by feeling carefully
around the root for its size. Carrots
are beautiful and like a plume; so are
parsnips. Besides, when YOU rub the
leaves in your fingers each vegetable
rmelis different. IT Is just as easy an
can be, and they are so nice and
fresh"
The children also gather beans. peas
and corn. and when fruit is ripe they
can help In picking It. If you think
that sighted children are the only ones
able to CLIMB trees you are mistaken.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
Losing Hands the Test of Skill ..
at Auction, British Expert Saws

to show what they have not got The
last are in the minority.
advice upon this part Of tho game
from those who write about 1t / find to
be extremely scarce.
"Lieut-Col. +. w. RICHARDSON.
School Of Musketry,
Bisley Camp. England"
Calling to show what you have not
got is a peculiarly American idea. We
call 1t denying suits" The majority
of English players either do not believe
In 1t or never heard of 1t as a conven-
tional bid. Frederic Jessel. author of
Gard Playing and Gaming" who Is a
member of many of the leading card
clubs in London, calls it bidding against
your partner" and deprecates the prac.
tice as bad bridge.
The side of the subject that is con-
stantly overlooked by those who object
to denying suits Is its effect upon the
declarer when 1t Is not done. 1t cramps
his whole game.
Two or three years ago. before the
convention came into use here. no one
| would bid upon suit of five to the
ace king unless he had an outside ace o.
better to support 1t. The textbooks all
gave that as essential Why? Because
of the risk of finding the strength in the
| declared suit against the declarer.
Experience with those who do not
! deny suits will soon convince any player
that he cannot take the chances which
he would If he were sure he had a good
scout sitting opposite him to warn him
when he was on dangerous ground. The
fear of being left to play a hand with
six or seven trumps against him soon
puts damper on forward bidding.
Lost ON Winning Hand.
AS an. illustration of this which lately
came under my notice take the follow
| Ing case: u Is q forward player, who
is In the habit of bidding his cards to
the limit according to modern Ideas. but
he has discovered that his partner never
denies his suits. even II he has not one
in his hand. After being set once or
twice rather heavily z grows more
cautious and returns to the old style
two sure tricks at the top and at least
an side ace.
O, the rubber game he deals these
cards. A and b being up to his moth
| ing.
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NEWS AND NOTES OF MUSIC

traltos-Miss Alice Gentle, formerly of
Marsh.
Tenors-Giulio Crimi, Italian tenor,
formerly OF La Scala OF Milan, Teatro
Coon of Buenos Ayres and Chicago
Opera COMPANY; Carlo Hacket. Amer
lean tenor, formerly of La Scala of
Milan and Teatro Colon. Buenos Ayres
Giordano Paltrinieri, Italian tenor
huffo. formerly Of La Scala, Milan, and
Teatro Colon, Buenos Ayres.
Barytones-Robert Couzinou, French
h0rytone. formerly of Grand Opera,
Paris; Luigi Montesanto, Italian barry
one, formerly OF La Scala, Milan. and
Teatro Colon, Buenos Ayres; Reinald
Werrenrath, American barytone.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

Using your verses that appeared
during the first week of July. I put
characters to them. Taking a line or
verse from here and there and put
ting them together I brought in every
phase of life. Knitting, l acted as
"hostess" received the knitters. and as
each came in she recited suitable
verse or two from the SUNDAY Sun.
gave 1t complimentary to the men
of Camp Hancock. and you may DO
sure II was greatly applauded and
complimented, as there were many CT
your New Yorl. boys present. II was
such a huge success that tho ladies o:
the Red Cross Canteen Service aUkcd
to have II repeated for their benefit.
and I assure you there was not stand
ing room. SO great was the success
financially that the canteen ladies' were
enabled from the proceeds to furnish a
beautiful cosey rest room for the troops
passing through. So you sec how
much good has resulted from your lit
tie Sock Song verses.
BY the way, the contestant who
wrote that her baby was very Ill two
weeks ago now reports 1t has got
well with flying colors. Which Is
good news, isn't It?
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ItVT. re ARE helping Hoover. and
w Patrick (the gardener who
Is in charge) says that we

wv tttTlNh Ntne Sdtuchct "Ho
Is in charge) says that We
make no mistakes. He calls us his
little land army and says we are do
ing our part to help win the war. for
he would have to have sighted help
If We were not here.
1T Is great fun, and we can now
tell beets from radishes by the feeling
of the leaves. We know when these
are ready to pull by the way the earth
Is about the roots. We know cabbages
and corn and all kinds of vegetables,
and when they come from the garden
where we do some work we enjoy
eating them so much better than when
they come from stores or in cans"
So came the word the other day from
fourteen-year- old girl spending a
vacation at the River Lighthouse at
Cornwall on Hudson.
Americas first land army Of the
sightless Is at work here making hay,
gathering vegetables and feeding
chickens. This Is the vacation play
ground for the sightless, and it has
been made possible through the gift
by Mrs. Emma l.. Hardy OF her old
fashioned home and eight acres of
ground.
All summer the blind children go
from the city to Cornwall for period
of ten days or more, and there the
wonders of nature are unfolded to
, many Of them for the first time. 1t is
interesting to watch the expression on
the face of a little girl when for the
first time she passes her sensitive
| fingers over the feathered body OF q
| chicken. The speed with which the
children learn what country things
mean is remarkable; at the end Of a
few days they know how to use a
rake. Since America entered the war
! the garden space Of the River Light
house has been enlarged, and while
Patrick p!oughs and prepares the soil
for seeds and does the planting and
wedding the girls and boys come to
his aid when vegetables are large
enough to gather.
At times there are from forty-five
to fifty girls at the River Lighthouse
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
SAN CARLO OPERA REPERTOIRE

The repertoire Of the San Carlo
Grand Opera Company at the Shubert
Theatre this week contains three works
not included among the first eight per-
furmanceS which ended last night
Ponchelli's picturesque work La Clio
Conda." which was sung before a ca
pacity audience at the Forty-fourth
Street Theatre last season: La Ira
viata." with Miss Marcella Craft as
guest artist, and Wolf Ferrari's
Jewels of the Madonna" The last
named will he for the benefit OF the
Stage Women's War Relief.
The San Carlo management will
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

Wait-while busily do my part.
When messenger or post stops at the gate
see but a dread harbinger of fate.
Sull must knit my socks
And wait.
Mrs. AMY w. EooLEsToN.
Ulster Park, N. Y.
End, as aforesaid. there are four
others we wanted badly 10 print.
Mrs. May Therry Christian OF Ell
mira, n. Y, who was Of honorable
mention last week, sends evidence for
her fellow knitters of the need and
tile worth of their work in the shape
OF letter from Il brother at the front
whc- is driving u tank:
January 13, 1918.
DEAR SIsrER-Your letter was so
welcome. / felt very happy after read
ing IL, for at Christmas time / was n
little blue. but 1t was only natural be-
ing so far away from our own dear
country on Christmas Day, and then
again l missed the Christmas trees.
Yes, would have loved to have had
one Of those warm sweaters and some
warm socks. I see most Of the men
receive them from home, but now 1t
will be too late, for by the time you
receive this and ] have an answer 1t
will be warm weather Next winter
surely will write you for some things
l will need. such as double warm
socks. and ! know the only place one
can get them Is at home. Gee! 1
envied the warm gloves and socks
some men have had sent them.
Sgt. JACK THERRY.
This is Mrs. Gibbons's exceedingly
interesting note on the twin socks way
of knitting mentioned in her Sock
Song above. II anybody will send us
| In tho directions for twin knitting, by
which both socks are done stimuli.
taneously, we shall gladly find space
for them:
Having become interested In your
! Sock Song contest, but never having
seen any efforts on the twin socks, l
submit the following, hoping to win
| the wool to keep up my knitting.
eaPerhaps the explanation of the twin
socks may be an incentive to others to
try, SO | herewith enclose the raison
d'etre of my verses:
| I'm sydney, Australia. they were
| knitting $4,000 pairs of socks a month
and some lady worked out the double
knitting The authorities required Of
/ each knitter TO learn to knit the twin
socks. and In the second month they
produced $4,000 pairs. ! have verified
! that twin sock knitting is u great time
saver.
Honor Comes to the singers.
The Sock Singers and the contes
have been variously and highly hon
oreu. The songs have been mentione'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
The Chant of a Kettle,

This might be the slow chant Of the
friendly kettle on the hearth. 1t
would be a thought better. perhaps, il
tic burning" of the home fires" had
been left in a popular song:
Knitting. knitting. knitting so the hours
go.
Thinking. thinking. thinking. hands are
getting slow.
Dreaming. dreaming. dreaming; days Of
Sxty-one
Memories returning; things long past
and done.
Feeble, snow white Granny, past three.
score and ten,
Signing for her a-lings, for her soldier
men.
Husband. son. now baby-war has beck
oned thrice
To their country's colors-Granny's
sacrifice,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
The Divided Square.

Cutting up five triangles 80 as to form
perfect square may be reversed, and
the problem might be to cut square
into five equal triangles, A more diff
cult undertaking. however, is to cut up
perfect square into five equal squares.
How can this be done with the fewest
possible number OF pieces?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

If is a good player. and Y makes his
contract But with rs actual partner
would have been left with the spade
contract and set for two tricks. Y be-
Ing player who does not understand
the art Of showing what you have not
got Gas Lieut.-Col. Richardson ex-
presses ~. he loses on the winning
hands as well as on the losing hands
simply through cramping his partners
game.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
The Sentry's Problem.

TIL proposition was to discover the
shortest route that a sentry could follow
and still carry out his orders to pass
upon each and every side o! six ammu-
milton dumps at least once every Drip,
starting from either OF two sentry boxes,
marked A and B. The following dla-
gram shows the solution:
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By starting at A and following the
dotted line. he passes every side of every
dump during the trip, and finishes at b.
Here he rests until II is time to make
| the next round. when he simply reverses
the route, starting at j and resting at A.
Those who made the trip begin and end
at the same box overlooked the fact this
was not one OF the conditions OF the
problem.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

z viii not bid a spade originally for
fear his partner may leave him to play
It. with nothing In spades for the
dummy. A bid two clubs. Y and B both
passed and A made four by cards and
the game, with Ave honors' and the rub
Der. Y said he thought he could, save
the game without bidding diamonds.
If z bids the spades originally. 80
makes i've odd as the cards lie. with
fve honors and the rubber. This 10 the
bid he would have made with any part
ner that could be trusted to warn him of
his danger II he was In wrong.
Transpose the hands OF A and Y and
the spades will be denied with the clubs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

II we suppose the matches to be num-
bered. we remove" those marked 3.
and s. at A. placing them at some dis
lance to the right. as at b. The matches
numbered l and are then replaced
as shown by the dotted lines,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
SOCK SONG PRIZE WINNERS
IN THIS WEEKS CONTEST
FIRST PRIZE. Z

Mrs. ST. George Brooke Tucker, 772 Park
Dear boy in France I'm sending to-day
Four of socks finished and this little
I've knitted into happy thought of
Ard all the funny little things used and do
I've knitted laughter hating schoolboy French
(Aiso mental picture Of you shaving in a trerchO
I've knitted childish ali stained and brown,
Your little ankles scratched thons down
I'VE tucked down by the mothers simple
Please God tonight and guard him Over There
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08
Beware OF the Bombproof Job,

Here's the first bold Sock Singer to
lay aboard "the good ship Swivel
chair"-and neat bit Of seamanship
too:
WITH A PAIR OF SOCKS.
Please send these TO a sailor man
Who loves the ocean fair;
Not one who does his cruising in
The Good Ship Swivelchair.
Then no, for every laddie-
Or lassie. either one
Who Will take chance with danger
And beat him on the run,
For Uncle Sam is there to see
The race is fairly won,
MATILDA DREIsBAcH.
l32 Reeder street. Easton. Pa.
Mrs. Eggleston. one of last weeks
prize winners, sounds a more solemn
note:
This is war;
l must accept my woman's fate
TO stay at homeland wait
Wait-though keen anguish clutches at
my heart,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-08

The following graceful introduction
Of the twin sock knitting process to
the contest Is amplified by letter
from its author. to be found below:
TIME WILL wIN-KNIT A TWIN!
In days of the not SO long ago
Twin boys played around the bungalow.
For us it was mend and darn and sew !;
little toes soon wear through, you
know.
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his first choice among three discards. z
guiding his discards accordingly.
If b sheds the best heart, must UNI
block the diamonds by giving up the
eight. so as to prevent A from winning
the first round Of that suit and putting
y in on the secord. Now If \ wins the
ten OF diamonds with the king, all he
makes Is the ace of spades.
II i discards club instead of the
heart when Y leads the ten of diamonds,
Z still unblocks with the eight, but If \
wins the diamond and leads spade, Us
discard - aged to p losing heart
Should p pick the spade for his first
discard. z does not unlock the dia-
monds. but keeps the eight and plays
the four. Now II A returns the diamond
putting In, 2 will lead the Jack OF
spades. forcing A to win with the ace
and lose the last trick TO rs six.
Checker Findings.
Problem No. 400, by II. d. Lyman
had his usual unexpected and pleasing
twist to Il. The first move was obvious
but the method of attack that follows
looks like n piece OF Foch strategy.
The distribution is: Black men on 2.
II, Is, hS and 10. White men on "a.
&c and IS. king on Z. Black to play
and win. Here are the moves that solve
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Ihere are no boys In the cottage now.
one IN France. one at the chasers bow,
l5e6 for socks. SO our needles obey.
Twin socks are knit the Anzac way.
Mrs. Mary X. Gibbons, Glen Summit
Springs, Pa.
Not only was last week the contest 3
banner week, but to-day Is Its Moth
ers' Day. Another winsome Mother
Song
AS change my yarn OF sombre gray
10 warm wool hose, I dream to-day
ot other knitting used to do
For my boy now fighting for me ana
you.
And ] little thought when tucked In bed.
AFTER his evening prayers were said,
How soon my baby a soldier would be
Fighting abroad for victory.
ana send up prayer for each MOTH
ers son
Who will fight over there till peace Is
won.
Maud Moves. 1894 Harrison street, To-
peka, Kan.