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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-07
EUGENE COWLES'S ROLES
"Chu Chin Chow" Basso Wa
One of Original Bostonians

Eugene Cowles. who is seen as Abdul
lah in "Chu Chin Chow" is one of the
most faomus singers of the original Bos-
tonians, and for the last twenty years
has been regarded as one of Americas
foremost singers After several years
of retirement from the stage, ne was
narsuaded TO return TO his former Voca-
ton by William Elliott, +. Ray Comstock
and Morris Gest.
Mr. Cowles is a native of Canada, who
studied singing in Chicago. He weM
on the stage as a young man when ne
Joined the Bostonians during an engage
ment in Chicago in 1898. Prior to that
time he was engaged in commercial
work in Chicago, and was noted singer
in church choirs. In various produc-
tions of the Bostonians, he particularly
distinguished himself in Robin Hood.
During his varied career he has won
honors in THE Fortune Teller The
Singing Girl' and THE Rose of Al
geria." and has also had important roles
in the Shubert revivals Of the Gilbert
and Sullivan operas with all-star casts.
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Benton and Il. Fl. Bender.

CONTINUING ATTRACTIONS
BROAD-"Phoebe Pretends," a comedy
dealing with divorce, the movies and
other human affairs from the view
point of the child, by Eleanor Gates,
author of '"rhe Poor Little Rich Girl
and I'VE are Seven" The cast In.
cludes Robert Lowe, Diantha Pattison.
Elizabeth Kennedy and Harriet l..
Mendel.
GARRICR-"Nancy Lee" a. drama of
modern life by Eugene Walter, with
Charlotte Walker as star The theme
is the sham and deceit OF women who
live beyond their means. Charles ID.
Mackay. Lillian Kemble. william A.
Mortimer. Charles Riegel and Charles
Meredith are in the cast.
LiRIC--"Business Before Pleasure" the
third footlight presentation of the
business affairs OF Potash and PERL
mutter. In the present comedy Mon
tague Glass and Jules Eckert Good
man depict the erstwhile cloak and
suitmakers embarked as motion
picture "maggots." Barney Bernard
and Alexander Carr head the cast.
FORREST---"The Girl Behind the Cum
musical comedy. The book and lyrics
from the French Of Madame and Her
Godsons," are by Guy Bolton and
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, with the
score by ivan Caryll. Cast includes
Donald Brian. John L. Hazard
Wilda Bennett. Ada Meade.
SHUBERT.-"ChuC Chin Chow" Oriental
fantasy, by Oscar Asche, with musical
numbers by Frederic Norton. The plot
~ woven about the tale Of "Alh Baba
and the Forty Thieves" and the pre-
sentation engages a company Of 800,
with a corps de ballet and numerous
animals.
OPERA HOUSE-"Leave 1t to Jane"
musical comedy. based on George
Ade's college Widow" Guy Bolton
and p. G.. Wodehouse are librettist and
lyricst; the score is by Jerome Kern.
VAUDEVILLE
KETTH'S-McIntyre and Heath. in THE
Man from Montana; Gus Van and
Joe Schenck Rae Elinor Ball and
Joseph Ball. musicians; Frances Nord,
strom and william Pinkham, in "Ah
Wrong; Walter De Leon and Mary
Davies, singers and dancers Vivian
Holt. soprano; Lillian Rosedale,
pianist Fred Force and Mildred vii.
liams, comedy SKETCH Collins and
Hart, comedians: Tojetti and Bennett,
dancers.
GLOBE-A. Seymour Brown, in where
Revue; the Telacks. singers; Joe Cook,
Peter Plattsnoff, comedy sketch; Car
rie Lille, comediene; Makerenkd Duo,
singers.
CROSS KEYS "Bombardment of
Rheims" a military spectacle; Jack
Morley, comedian: Lexey and O'Con-
nor, singers; "Some Baby" musical
comedy; frankie Fay and Jazz Boys,
Burns Brothers. acrobats, and photo
play, 1.-THE Fight for Millions" first
half of week. "Violets," musical
comedy; Fields and Wells, Lewis Lon.
don. Maurice Samuels, Lee and Ben
nett, Hall and O'Brien,. and photoplay,
"IIands Up" last half.
BROADWAY-"Who My Wife," musi-
cal comedy; Lee and Bennett, OBrien
and his Southern Girls, Riccollo's
Midgets. and photoplay. THE Claw"
first half Of week. "Bombardment of
Rheims" Cardo and Wall, Keep
Moving" Frankie Fay and Jazz Boys,
and photoplay, "A Fool There Was"
PENN--"On Manila Bay"
musical comedy; Four Harmony
Kings, Clayton Macklyn and company,
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ORCHESTRA PLANS
FOR NEW SEASON
Personnel Limited to Allies.
Fine List of SolOists-PrO.
grams for Wartime

| Philadelphia Orchestra plans for the
| nineteenth season. just announced, refec,
the vital influence of the war in every
department of the organizations activl-
| ty. Not only will the personnel of the
Orchestra be limited sharply to must.
clans of American or Allied nationality
| but the brilliant list of soloists has been
made with full consideration for war
time conditions. and the programs have
been arranged to make distinct appeal
to a public engrossed in war.
Carlo Liten, the Belgian tragedian,
will appear at the opening pair of con-
certs on October 1919. He will recite
war poems to the music of Edward FL
gar, SO that the initial appearance of
the orchestra will thus assume dis
tinctly patriotic aspect.
Others to be heard for the first time
include Alfred Cortot. the French pianist
the almost forgotten viol damour,
Toscha Sedel, the Russian yiolinist,
Maggie Teyte. Leo Ornstein, Marcia Van
Dresser and Edwin Evans. the Philadel-
phia baritone. E.-... .....a....s..
Among those who might be called the
standard artists of acknowledged repu-
tition who will appear are Ossip Cab
rlowitsch, now conductor of the Detroit
symphony Orchestra Jacques Thibaud,
Olga Samaroff, Efrem Zimbalist, Mar
garete Matzenauer. of the Metropolitan
Opera Company Josef Hoffman,, Povla
Frijsh, the Danish soprano; Hans Kind.
ler, Harold Bauer and Thaddeus Rich.
The Orchestra will be maintained at
its full strength, and certain changes in
the organization will greatly improve
the quality. Twenty-Five pairs of con-
certs will be given.
The Paris Conservatoire Orchestra of
eighty-siX musicians will be heard here
at the Metropolitan on Monday evening,
October IA. This organization is being
brought to the United States as part of
the extensive cooperation between the
French high commission and the United
States Government for the increase and
advancement of the entente cordials"
between the two republics.
| The concerts of the Chamber Music Asso
citation of Philadelphia; to be given on sun
vue-Stratford. besinn!ng November II, vii
| be given by the Miniature Philharmonic Or
Quartet Quartet. the the schmldt Quartet. the societs
des Instruments Anciens, the Berkshirt
string Quartet, the soeie,e r,ni Ges Instruments
| The Monday musicales at the Bellevue.
| Stratford will be given this season at
! o'clock in the afternoon. instead OF in the
morning, as In the past. The proceeds wil
| be given to the American Friends of MI
| sicians in France. Among the artists Il
| appear will be Lucien Muratore the French
| tenor: Nine. Olga Samaroff. Hans Kinder
| Alfred Cortot, the French pianist: Florence
| Macbeth coloratura soprano of the Metro.
| politsn Opera Company: Lorraine Wyman
| who. with the assistance of Howard Brock.
l x.,tll tHa
| collected In the hills of Kentucky. and tive
| French piansts. Magdeleine Brard and Mau
rice Dumesnil. Nine. Gils, the French SO
prano: Marcia Van Dresser. Henri Casadesus
and Nine Povla FrJsh.
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Tiny Armstrong and Archie Tyson.
and photoplay Green Eyes" first half
or week. Billie Reeves, comedian;
seven Venetian Gypsies; Ford. West
and Kaufman; Marcia REIN and
Bert Fitch, and photoplay, "Stlll
Alarm" last half of week.
NI4ON--Martelle. female inpersonator !.
Harris and Mora. comedians; Billy
Bouncer's Circus Trouville Sisters,
dancers; Gypsy Songsters photoplay.
Charles Ray. in "A Nine O'Clock
Town"
COLONIAL - Errigottis I.iIliputians:
Roy and Arthur. eccentric Jugglers:
Frank Wilson. cyclist Lee BeEes and
company "Old Folks at Home"
Weber. Beck and Frazier, singers;
photoplay, Pauline Frederick, in
Fedora" 49,
GRAND-Lucille and Cookie" trained
bird act: Gruet, Kramer and Gruet.
musical comedians: Warden and Per.
ry. comedians; Sherman and Uttry.
singers; Bowers, Walters and Crocker,
comedians; Kathryn Powell and com.
pany photoplay. ninth episode OF "a
Fight for Millions"
PHofoPLAYs
STANLBY--"The Turn of the Wheel"
with Geraldine Farrar in her first ap-
cludes Herbert Rawlinson, Violet
Heming. Percy Marmont, Hazard
Short, Mabel Ballin and Clarence
.Handysides. Tex Charwate is the
author.
PALACE-"The Still Alarm" spectacular
melodrama based on the play OF the
same name, first half of week. "Peck's
Bad Girl" with Mabel Normand, last
half Of week
ARCADIA-"On the Quiet" with John
barrymore. from the comedy by
Augustus Thomas. Cast includes Lots
Meredith, Frank Losee, J. w. John
= ston, Alfred Hickman, Helen Greene
and Cyril Chadwick.
FICTORIA-"The Prussian Cur" war
story with many military scenes. Di.
rected by r. A. Walsh. with a cast
including Miriam Cooper Sidney Ma
son, Patrick OMally and Captain
Horst Won der Goltz.
REGENT-"Flower of the Dusk" with
Viola Dana, first half Of week. "In
Judgment Of" with Anna O. Nilsson
and Franklyn Farnum, latter half of
week.
STRAND-"Inside the Lines" from Earl
Derr Bfggers spy story. Lewis g.
Stone is the star, first half of week
Ellis Birthright," with Sessue- Haya
kawa. last half of week.
LOCOSI- Inc Marriage ting, with
Enid Bennett as star first half Of
week. "The Green God" with Harry
Morey, last half of week.
BURLESQUE
CASINO--"The Liberty Girls" headed
by Jack Conway as leading comedian.
Other members Of the company are
James Collins. Larry Clifford, Frank
w. Martin, Tony Williams Dick Nor
gan, Michael Kelly, Bert Trustee, Bar.
ry Melton Norma Jerome, Sallie Cliff.
ford, Hilda Giles.
TROCADERO - THE High Flyers"
presented by Charles N. Baker.
Prominent in the cast are Bert Bur.
ton, Charles Vole. Barbara Douglas
Gertrude Ralston. Joseph Cunningham.
Grace Howard and Jack Sheehan
MINSTRELS
DUMONT'S--New travesties, songs and
comedy, with "The Curb Market on
North College Avenue and In Zen
slngton" as the chief local burlesque.
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FLOYD GIBBONS NEXT WEEK
Wounded War Correspondent al
MetroDOlitan. Sentemher Ia

Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent.
who recently returned from France, will
deliver a personal message from General
Foch to the people of America at the
Metropolitan next Saturday night. Glib
bons. his left eye gone and otherwise
incapacltated from wounds at Chateau
Thierry. where he was among the Amer
leans to go over the top" has an alb
sorbing tale to relate and his descrip-
tive powers are said to make of him an
electrifying speaker. President Wilson
received the young correspondent at the
White House and in Washington Glib
bons was feted by officialdom and by
society. His lecture tour is of short
duration, as II is his desire TO return to
duties In France as soon as his health
will permit.
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houses VIII remain unchanged through
out next week
ALTHOUGH the nov season is virtu-
ally only a week old, it has been
marked already by an unusual number
or furries in the bookings OF future
legitimate attraction. "The Blue Pearl"
mentioned above takes the place
OF sometimes" the new Rita Young
Rudolf Friml musical play originally
announced as the opening attraction at
the Adelphi. Going Up" which was an
nounced for the Forrest for the week of
September Is. will not be seen at that
house then and instead the ID. w. Grif-
fifth film, Hearts of the World" will
play a weeks return engagement.
Johnny Get Your Gun" also has been
Withdrawn as the attraction at the
Garrick beginning September 23. In
stead, Henry Miller and Ruth Chatterton
will appear in the delightful Dumas
comedy, "A Marriage of Convenience"
Other future attractions include Edward
Clark's comedy, Not With My Money"
booked for the Broad for the week OF
September 49, David Belasco's produc-
ton Of Tiger Rose" Willard Mack's
melodrama Of the northwest, at the
same house beginning September 80.
Mary Ryan in The Little Teacher"
comes to the Garrick early in October
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EARLE FOXE LEAVES FILMS
Eyesight Forces Retirement a
Height of Success

When movie fans see "PeclS's Bad
Girl at the Palace next week they will
see Earle A. F'oXe for perhaps the last
time in motion pictures. He has risen
from small roles to that of leading
man, and his latest work is opposite
Mabel Normand. Mr.. Foxe is now in
the city as one of the principals in
Leave 1t to Jane" at the Opera House.
1T is with regret" said Mr.. Foxe, as
he removed the grease paint from his
face after the matinee performance.
that ] must give up the work in the
motion picture studios. did not realize
that I was going blind until recently,
but / attributed the fact that I could
not see plainly to overwork. But it is the
powerful electric lights which must be
used In the New York studios. They are
the strongest lights. with the possible
exception of our searchights, and they
make the interiors look as bright as
daylight. Many players have had to
give up studio work on this account"
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A "Boy Prodigy's" Record

Eddy Brown. the violinist, who from
a boy prodigy" has developed into a
mature Virtuoso of worldwide fame.
plays the Polish Dance" and the IA
Minuet" with the cyclonic richness and
technical brilliance for which he is
noted on one of the newest Columbia rec
ords.
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Z ---GERAlDINE
FARRAR
in "The Torn OF HE Wheel" Sten'.y
DEMOCRACY OF "VODE"
Voliniste Prefers 1t to the Con
cert Stage

Rae Eleanor Ball. the violiniste. who
will be heard at Keith's next week, does
not believe that she will ever return
to her former field-on the concert stage
TT is far more interesting to be a
success in vaudeville" in her opinion.
Vaudeville appeals to me because of
its downright honesty. You cannot ad-
vertise~ your name and expect vaude-
vile managers and vaudeville audiences
to accept the artificial rating thus estab-
lished. Success in vaudeville depends
upon results; consequently, there Is the
very finest and highest incentive to
please people who have spent their
money to hear you. Patrons of vaude-
vile come 10 hear yeu because they
want to be there. There Is no art
snobbery In vaudeville"
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PHI: PLAYBLLLS AT OTHER THEATRES UNCHk
THEA TRICAL INDICATOR
FOR THE COMING WEEK
George Nash in Mystery Play viii Open the Adelphi for
the Season-Attractions Other Houses
A NEW PLAY

Pearl"
with George featured
Julia Burns Charles Mus Dorothy
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Hearts Of the World" Returns

Hearts of the World" the D. w.
Griffith production that had two tre-
mendously popular engagements at the
Garrick, will be presented the week of
September 16 at the Forrest.
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WYH1LE it may fairly pe said that
Bernard's character interpreta-
9>n materially enriches the entertain
~ AAvor Of Business Before Plea
&srt." II must be said that interpre-
aAtion alone saves Eleanor Gates's
Rhoebe Pretends." Interpretation is
urhaps an unusual word to apply to
DE stage appearance of mite of a
3lri. but then little Elizabeth Ken
iNfdy, who plays Phoebe, is a most
fitasisual youngster. She ia said to be
fltpe years old, but looks six or seven
5tNNhe carries easily on her almost
! tR&Anttle shoulders by far the most
! snlpurtant role, and she carries It with
t7nfAltering confidence. Indeed, little
MIS- Kennedy's facility Of histrlonic
etpression and her mental grasp of an
c4ceptionally lengthy part are almost
ly1cAnny. They are more than uu-
common; they mark the child as a
IFpdigy, II not veritable genius. If
- early flame of her extraordinary
lQsnt does not flicker out before ma
1urtty. she has before her future as
oiie of this country's most notable
actresses.
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lYSTERY PLAY TO START SEASON AT ADELPhn:
8ozH Cdec
ooMc
GMS7zai1z,A

playbills at all. of the other legitimate
houses will remain unchanged through
out next week.
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MONDAY
Pauline Frederick in
Fedora
Theda Bara IN
Forbidden Paths
John Barrymore In
On the Quiet
d. w. Griffth's
The Birth of o Nation
ID. w. Efiffth's
The Great Love
Clara Kimball Young In
The Claw
George NJ. Cohan in
Hit-the-Trail Holiday
d. w. Griffith nresents
The Great Love
Pauline Frederick
in Fedora
To He'll With the
Kaiser
Sessue Hayakawa IN
The Bravest Way
Louise Glaum in
A Law Unto Herself
Jewel Carmen in
Lawless Love
Douglas Fairbanks
In Bound In Morocco
Mae Marsh in
The Glorious Adventure
Mary Pickford In
The Eagles Mate
d. w. Grifhth's The
Birth of a Nation
William s. Hart in
Shark Monroe
S. Hayaka wa In The
City of Dim Faces
Jewel Carmen in
Lawless Love
Enid Bennett in
The Marriage Ring
Kitty Gordon in
Merely Players
Bert Lytell In
No Mans Land
Charles Ray in
A Nine O'clock Town
-------------
A. Walsh's drama
Woman and the Law
Dramatic Spectacle
The Stlll Alarm
Billie Burke in
Pursuit OF Polly
Peggy Hyland In
Bonnie Annie Laurie
Viola Dana In
The Flower at Dusk
Edith Storey
In The Demon
Clara Kimball Young
In The Claw
Mae Marsh In The
Glorious Adventure
Marguerite Clayton In
Inside the Lines
Geraldine Farrar In
The Turn of the Wheel
Lewis 8. Stone
IN Inside the Lines
Marguerite Clark In
Uncle Toms Cabin
The cag csH''ian
=" ID. y. - 1. = T.. =.
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zlzlousLY enough, the most en-.

k!kOuSLx enough, the most en-.
<eftaining production of the week
besn the least pretentious. "Busi-
Before Pleasure" the third
1oh and Perlmutter comedy, aims
NJ tobo amusing. But it succeeds in
tntention abundantly, even though it
1coks to srnithereens almost every
Mon Of the playwright's art in its
$he progress. Montague Glass and
49, Eckert Goodman heedlessly
tch up pathos and farce as running
o&o6 to haul their dramatic load,
~ the result is not disastrous. Co.
neretlce and conviction are maintained
" the unfailing naturalness of the
Hto partners, who find that the mo.
Don picture industry makes their for
~ cloak and suit business a pastoral
3tnpetion by contrast. The amusing
nifty of the comedy gains vastly
The presence Of Barney Bernard in
~ oaet as Abe Potash. When an
Audience greets character with joy
~ and intimate recognition its faith
(blntss Of presentation requires no
lArther proof. That is why Barney
asrnard's portrait of Potash as a mo-
len picture. masnate is a rare de.
INT, unmarried by any false note.
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X the eleventh-hour announce
1nt that The Blue Pearl" a
|1T play By Anne Crawford Flex-
1<nt in New York at the Long
n1re. viii open the Adelphi for
zszS Mondar. nves Phil
- havlng the second full
-. - ~, xlthoes e. !.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-30
REAL THEATRES URGED
FOR MEN IN FRANCE
E. H. Sothern, After Trip to
: War Zone, Tells of Need
for Entertainment

An Atlantic Port. March 30.-E. II.
sothern, the actor, and Winthrop Ames.
theatrical producer, sent abroad by the
Y. NJ C. A. at the request of General
Pershlng to investigate the rccreatlonal
needs of American troops, have returned
here. They announced that they would
soon make a report TO theatrical men In
New York. with view to taking steps to-
ward providing American soldiers in
France with entertainment. Mr.. Sothern
said the Americans were at a disad-
vantage In this respect. compared with
English and French troops who were
nearer home and able to obtain enter
tanment on leave OF absence.
General Pershing told US" he said.
that relaxation In the form of enter
tainmcnt was as much necessary to SOL
diers as food and sleep.
THE feeling was impressed on me
that no one has any right 10 be over
there unless he is taking some part in
the struggle. 1t Is a grim, deadly work
the men are engaged in. and when they
are not in the trenches 1t is necessary
for their welfare that their minds be
turned from its exacting seriousness.
THE Canadians have taken up the
, idea of recreation and relaxation In
earnest and they have wha; they term
an actors factory right behind the
lines, which provides the amusement
they so relish.'
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DEATH RATE OF STATE
FOR 1917 WAS Low
14.8 for Each 1000 Inhabitants,
According to Official Stats
tics of Health Department
Harrisburg, March 80

HarrisburE, Mafcn 80
The general death rate for Pennsyi-
vania. since the creation of the State
Department of Health, according to
statistics OF the department. just COM
piled up TO the end of 1917, shows .
gradual downward tendency In 1906
the death rate stood at 16 a thousand
population, and in 1915 it reached the
remarkably low record of 1913.
During the latter part of 1916 wide-
spread prevalence of pneumonia, in
nuenza and similar dis riders was noted
throughout the State aud the unusual
prevalence extended into the early
months OF 1917. The large number Of
deaths from these causes. especially
among persons advanced in age. waa
largely responsible for the slight in-
crease in the death rate for 1916 and
1917. the rate for 1916 being 1f.6. and
for 1917 i4.s.
The Health Departments figures for
1871 show the death rate from such
quarantinable diseases of childhood A.
measles, scarlet fever and whoopinx
cough to have been the lowest In the
history of the department. The death
rate for measles for the year was Sd z
hundred thousand of population, while
the best previous death rate from this
disease was Ga In 1915, and 81 In
1914
The death rate for scarlet fever II
an entirely new low record. "a hun
dred thousand. the best previous years
record having been 2.6 in 1916, while In
1915 II was 35.