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New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
Vaudeville

PALACE-Bert Williams, making a
three-week excursion into vaudeville
will spend the first week at the Pal
ace Lieutenant Gitz-Rice, the Ca
madam soldier whose own songs and
stories were a feature of "Getting
together" also makes this his
hrst stopping place on brief vaude-
vile tour. Adelaide and Hughes re
main for third week. Other at
tractive features are the Watson Sis
ters, Mrs Gene Hughes in sketch
by Edgar Allen Woolf and Mirano
Brothers.
RIVERSIDE-Iillian Russell is the
headliner. James j. Corbett and
James Wilson, blackface comedian.
will make their first New York ap
pearance together. Nan Halperin re-
mains another week Emma Haig
and Lou Lickett. Emily Francis Hoop
er and Klein Brothers are also on
the bill.
COLONIAL-Lucille Cavanaugh is this
weeks chief attraction. On the sup
porting bill are Joe Laurie and
Aileen Bronson IN comedy skit, en-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
EaLeer A<Azke<s1ae ozzo1 G~2-os7e PozDex zrz
r. "ZAe ZxfzM R<okAe<-.1
Miss Hammer Throvs
The Rule Book Ouerboard

things she does. She is net Wit, but
her plays are the wittiest now being
shown. She is sentimentalist, but her
plays are the most humorous New York
has seen for a long time. She has
nothing so direct and clear cut in her
style as the propensity for paradox
would demand, but her writing style is
full of the kind of opposition and in
version which Eliminates life by hold
ing it up and whirling it in the light.
Her plays are formless, skimpy, as light
as the summer clothing Of a dryad and
as easily caught by all the winds. Yet,
hunt up and down Broadway to find
anything as possessed Of style, of quail
ity, of that indistinguishable but essen
tial thing that separates art from mer-
chandise.
The point about Clare Hummer, If
anything SO definite as a point can be
found about her, is that she herself has
a highly complicated and civilized way
of looking at things. You can charac-
terize it. but you can't successfully say
what it is. it is eltin, it is feeting. it
is flashing like VIII O. the wisp
through the woods. 1t is a sudden smil-
ing face peering around the corner of
the world and then gone suddenly out
Of view. 1t is kitten that can't be
caught always being an ell beyond
where your hand is when you grab
at it.
Wit nowadays has become highly
conventionalized. A well educated
playgoer can make out a pattern for
witty plays and find that they all fall
into two or three styles. He can even
time the repartee and come pretty close
to it. But there is nothing like this
in the Hummer plays. And being un-
conventionalized, entirely out Of the
expected pattern. it performs the func-
ton of the laughing arts in a special
and highly successful fashion.
What is the aim OF laughter but to
break up what has become set. to in
form and tighten life by shattering all
cliches, all formaisms, exposing all
the rigidities men adopt partly out OF
human stupidity and the failures Of
human insight, and partly because of
the pressure of living? But to become
aware of laughter before it happens is
to blunt the edge Of it.
That points the way to Clare Kun
mer. She is entirely unexpec.ed-al-
ways. Her plots are as unexpected as
her people and the things they say
One reason they are unexpected is be-
cause they are so much like real things.
And for so long that has been taboo
on the stage.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
'fCrouded Hour"
Shotus Much Skill

of the old French woman in "The
Crowded Hour" even if they do not
understand word she says.
The authors have been careful to
translate only the important speeches
and in each case they have arranged
the situation so that the translation
shall seem to be made solely for the
benefit of some one on the stage, and
not for the audience at all.
"The Crowded Hour" has its moments
of false sentiment, but some of its mo-
ments are real, and even if its story is
not always eloquent it is generally in
telllgent, and that is more than can be
said for most of the war plays.
We mean intelligent in a dramatic
sense. Not all its military implications
are correct. Neither telephone girl, for
instance, ever salutes any superior Of
ticer, while the young French liaison
officer seems to have almost as wide
powers as a Marshal of France. We
also wondered just what sort of pro-
Jectiles Orme Caldara had been en-
counterlng at the front. He came out
of the trenches with his uniform full
of small holes and rips. He seemed
much more like man who had been
TO Madison Square mass meeting
than veteran of the trenches.
Any player who is cast to act a
shouting scene with Georges Plateau is
apt to lose the scene. This young
French actor has such a sure command
OF English that when he is called upon
TO play at top speed and somewhere
near top voice he never loses anything
Of Conference.
Please accept my sincerest thanks
for your kindly appreciation of MY set
for The Princess Marries the Page
at the Provncetown Players. If you
had not liked it | should have been
quite content to hide behind the typo
graphical error in my name, but since
you praise it, I ask you How can I
achieve fame when the programme
prints me c. M. Sox; The New York
Tribune, c. M. Cox, and all the while +
am really, yours very truly, C. M.
Sax"
We suppose it is too late to suggest
TO Mr.. knoblock the possibility Of
"romcatl Tomcat!" as title for his
play.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
'Whe1 q Feller Needs
a Friend'' at the Neuv
Amsterdam To-raiqht

The Stage WOman'S War Relief will
launch drive in aid of the Allied War
Orphans by presenting at the New Am
sterdam Theatre tonight the comedy
melodrama, "When a Feller Needs a
Friend" by Harvey O'Higgins and Har-
riet Ford. The authors have donated
the play, Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger
have donated the theatre and George
Broadhurst has given the scenery.
Claire Briggs, the cartoonist, who
originated the title of the play, will
sketch between the acts. The proceeds
will go toward publishing the play,
with pictures of the cast and full stage
instructions, for distribution among
amateur dramatic societies throughout
the country, who will pledge them
selves to present it in their commu-
mites for the Allied War Orphans
Fund.
That the little wars of the war NAV
be given some of the necessities of
life in the long hard winter of North
ern France that is upon them, a group
OF famous actors and actresses and
famous director have volunteered their
services for this performance.
The brilliant cast, assembled under
the direction of Arthur Hopkins, in
cludes Viola Allen, Maclyn Arbuckle,
Florine Arnold, Janet Beecher Emmett
Corrigan, Robert Edeson, Shelley Hull,
0. P Heggie, Tim Murphy Hamilton
Revelle, Charlotte Walker, H. B. War
ner and Helen Westley.
President Wilson has approved the
plan. Prominent members of the Cabi-
net, as well as Governor Whitman and
District Attorney Swami, are giving
their personal Endorsement to this ap-
pealing and worthy effort, and there
is no possibility of profit for any one
except the thousands of destitute or
phans left in the wake of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

titled LET 'Er Co., Valerie Bergere
in her Japanese play. Little Cherry
Blossom; Ted Doner, entertaining
singly, and several other well known
acts.
ALHAMBRA- Bessie Clayton in her
dance revue remains the headline at
traction for a second week Henry
Lewis,' monologist; Harry Green, He
brew comedian; Walter De Leon and
Mary Davies in sketch called "Be-
hind the Front and the Harlequin
Trio are few Of the numbers on
the bill
ROYAIr-Eddie Leonard plays a return
engagement by request Charles
(Chic) Sale, impersonator of rural
types, will present "The Rural Sun
day School Benefit" Other favorites
on the bill are Johnny Doolev and
Yvettc Rugel, Stan Stanley, Haru
Onuki, Japanese prima donna; the
Gardiner Trio, Helen Edgar and
Babe, the Century Four and Hazel
Moran.
LOEW'S AMERICAN - Harris and
Morey, in new songs and pianologue,
and "Meadow Brook Lane" with
George Whitaker, by Edgar Allen
Woolf are the vaudeville features the
early part of the week. Mabel Nor
mand in "Mickey" is the picture feat
ure. The second half "The Oriental
Girls" will head the vaudeville bill,
and the picture feature is Danger,
Go Slow" with Mae Murray.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
One Week Houses

STANDARD-"The Matinee Hero" with
Leo Ditrichstein, comes here direct
from its run at the Vanderbilt
Theatre
SHuBERT-RlVlERA - Marjorie Ram
beau in where Poppies Bloom" is
this weeks Offering.
LoEW's SEVENTH AvENUE-Thjs
weeks attraction is Mark Swans
farce, "She Walked in Her Sleep"
BRONX OPERA HOUSE -"The Wan
derer, the spectacular Biblical play.
viii be seen here.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
Dunsany and
Walker to Meet

Stuart Walker has just received
letter from Lord Dunsany saying that
he Will arrive in New York early in
January. Though they have carried
on three years correspondence
much of which has been published
this viii be the first meeting Of the
Irish playwright and his American
producer, who has presented to Amer
lean audiences The Gods OF the
Mountains King Argimehes and the
Unknown Warrior" THE Golden
Doom" and other works of the great
irish dramatist Dunsany never saw
any Of these presentations. for he has
been in the way since its beginning as
captain of the Royal Inniskilling Fusi-
leers. He has been wounded and now
comes to America by special permis-
sion
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
Lauder Coming TO
Lexington for q Week

When Harry Lauder begins his
worlds tour at the Lexington Theatre
on Monday evening, December 9, he
Will introduce quota of new songs.
He has spent all of his time enter
tanning the men at the battle fronts
since he last appeared here, and his new
compositions reflect to certain de-
gree the spirit which he encountered.
Lauder and his company are to be at
the Lexington Th~atre for only one
week, after whicf they will play short
engagements in Brooklyn and Newark
before starting on their extended tour.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
By Ralph Block

If believed very firmly in the Pinero
version Of the Sardou sort of thing
which, God help me, I DON'T would
never set foot inside of a theatre that
had Clare Hummer on the boards.
would make that resolve and stick to
it firmly. If l meant to go on being
captain of my soul there'd be no other
way to do, because Clare Hummer shat
ters everything Sardou taught, every
thing Pinero does, and then retires in
the vague distance waving blithe-
some hand at you.
If you had spent all your dramatic life
examining on finished technique, and
had grown up in the idea that a play
wasn't play unless people walked off
to let other people come on, and that
a stage has an absolute number Of
exits and entrances and that climaxes
can always be timed perfectly in the
next to the last actin short all the
things they teach in Freytag and at
Columbia, it would be a tragic experi-
ence to discover somebody who could
make fascinating, delightful and Sc
ductive play without doing any of these
things. "Be Calm, Camilla" which is
the current version of Clare Hummer,
is that kind of play.
Some day, of course, it was bound to
happen that somebody would write a
play without observing any of the rules
and get away with it. Clare Hummer
has already done it several times, but
If any one has doubts about the sue
cess of writing without the rules as
a method, the play at the Booth ought
to remove them.
1t becomes clear on seeing the latest
Hummer play that drama is not, after
all, only the things most Of the mighty
said it was. For years and years it
was much as his life was worth for
simple and unaccustomed playgoer to
object to the current drama on the
ground that people didn't do things
that way. The critics made it plain
that life was one thing and the stage
was something else. man might walk
into room any time he pleased in real
life, but it wasn't q thing that could
be done on the stage 1t had to be
planned. The dramatist was always
laying for somebody to come on the
stage, so to speak, and had perfect
ambuscade of words, phrases and cpl
sodes ready to greet him.
The sin of Clare Hummer is that she
doesn't do any of this at all All the
opportunities to shine as d master of
finished carpentry, of stage joinery, all
the chances to flash in ten volumes as
the most finished technician of the
American stage, have been tipped over
board into the wide sea of time bv the
careless Miss Hummer, without 50 much
as sigh or q regret to mourn +he
passing. But it would be a mistake to
declare that there is no bravura in the
Hummer methodless method II ia d;f-
hcult to find, being subtle, and is the
more extraordinary when found be-
cause 1t is so entirely in time and
color with the very spirit which per-
'ades all the Hummer nlavs
indeed, to properly characterize this
Emily Dickinson of the Broadway The
a1re' you can't avoid talking about the
distilled essence which gives life TO the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
Free Vaudeville
For Enlisted Men

For the free Sunday matinee vaude-
vile given by the New York Camn
Community Service, at the Manhat-
tan Opera House, Thirty-fourth Street,
between Eighth and Ninth ave
nues, the following will appear: Alice
BRADY, Jack Hazard, Doyle and Dixon.
Princess White Deer, De Haven and
Nice, William j. Reilly of the United
States Navy, Mr.. and Mrs. Fowler,
Clifton Crawford and Sam Bernard
Curtain will be at p. m. All men
in uniform will be admitted free.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
Yvette Guilbert to Lecture
At Neighborhood Plavhouse

On Tuesday evening, December 8,
Nine. Yvette Gilbert will lecture on
The Art of Interpretation" at the
Neighborhood Playhouse. Tonight the
third performance of the Festival
of Tabernacles will be given with
the Festival Chorus, the Festival
Dancers and the Neighborhood Play
ers. The music has been arranged by
George Barrere.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
By Heywood Broun

'"The Crowded Hour" has most of the
faults of the war plays, but it has more
virtues 1t benefits, for instance, from
the fine performance Of Miss Jane Cowl.
This is probably better performance
than any other war play the season has
shown US, unless it is the Old Bill of
Charles Coburn in "The Better OLE"
which Is in quite q different vein.
Miss Cowl has improved since her
first night, during which she was under
an unusual strain. She keeps the part
more clocely in hand during the exciting
scene at the telephone switchboard
when she saves French division. Per
haps the best work which she does
comes in the final act. This is not q
very convincing piece of writing, or
at any rate it is a scene which presents
great difficulties, coming as it does on
the heels Of the crowded act Of the
evening. Miss Cowl manages to hold it
up. Although she has had many tear
full plays and wept enough to fill the
Hippodrome tank in her short stage
career, she actually can make grief ap-
pealing. But it is in some of her
quietest moments that she does her
best work She listens extremely well,
and this is an art known only to
limited number of players. The best
reading of the evening occurs in bit
which Miss Cowl translates for some
one else on the stage. One of the
French characters, an old grandm other,
says something about her three sons
who have been killed in the war and
Miss Cowl repeats the remark for an
American character She resists all
temptation to dress up the words into
any elocutional appeal. She does not
even attempt to echo the emotion of
the mother, but repeats the little bit so
simply that the same passage of the
play scores twice.
We would not contend for moment
that Miss Jane Cowl is an actress who
makes no mistakes in her efforts to con-
vey emotional crises, but we can think
of no other young American actress
who can do quite as many things and
do them as we'll
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
Brooklyn

MoNTAuK-"AIda" opens the weeks
engagement of the Creatore Opera
Company. There will be a change of
bill at each performance. Some Of
the well known singers in the com
pany are Jeanne Gordon, Serge
Zance, Greek Evans and Alfredo
Nalenti.
MAJEsTlC-Mr- and Mrs. Sidney Drew
Will appear personally, in Keep
Her Smiling."
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
For 1wo Weeks More

Because of the unusually heavy de-
mand for seats to see David Warheld
in THE Auctioneer," he has been forced
to extend his engagement at the Man
haitian Opera House for an additional
two weeks, bringing the run there to
an end on Saturday night. December Il
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

Just about the most skilful playwright
ing in "The Crowded Hour" is the use
of French snatches- The characters are
not nearly as courteous as those in
~Thrre Faces East" AS we remember
that exciting spy play, the Germans
never speak their own language, even TO
each other, without Immediately trans
lating it into English Although the
French folk of "The Crowded Hour" are
not as accommodating, they are more
effective Most of the French speeches
are allowed to stand without transla-
ton Little or nothing is lost, because
in every case the situation gives the
clew to the general drift of the few
sentences, and moreover the eloquence
of Nine. Michellette Burani must reach
even those who have not a jundis to
their names.
Still another factor enters in. and
that is the element of excitement When
action is progressing rapidly in a play
the spoken word matters very little.
At least it is not important that it
should be heard exactly, and it never is
When pace is fast enough an audience
skips through the dialogue, mentally
retaining only just what it needs- That
need is often no more than the tone of
a voice, and we will wager that great
many people viii thrill o the speech
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01
New Plays This Week

oD1At the 39h Street Theatre
wi
Porter The play is
D. H. Barnes who played leading
will also be of the leading
Rankin enacts the leading role of Betty
Skpworh Charles A Stevenson Malcolm
and Marguerite Leonard
At the French Theatre Colomber Ibsen
VIII be gwen Charles Dublin will
Don will be Rebecca, seen as Brende
Roman Bouquet will be Moensgaar Bng
MmeH
New-York tribune., 1918-12-01

We suppose it is too late to suggest
to Mr., Knoblock the possibility Of
"Iomcat! Tomcat!" as title for his
play.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-12
Inte|Iigencer to Tell
Of Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers as War Factors
Charles H. Huff VIII Write HIS impress
sions Made at Cities Along
Waterways.

because o. tn" hcnSE demands upon
tn" raIlruad~--d"rauds which prove 'hH
railroads arc inadequate To scrN" inc
needs Of war trnnsporlaIion--ih" gov
eminent is beginning |" direct Hs Att"n-
ton to the inland waterway facilities
The Ohio and Mississippi Waterway
system is the greatest inland waterway
system in the world II - il waterway
of immense possibilities. but Its use mas
dwIndl"d almost Ia 'liSuS".
Tn" recent convention ot lii' Rhl"
Valley and mississippi Valley Water
ways Associations disclosed It wide IN
tcr"Sr in establishing river traffic Us
war factor Th" movement now - on
foot 10 prevail upon Tn" government 10
rrovid" modern boats for such tr"iiic.
Tho government already is having some
cf the boats built. The principal cities
on til" river system ais" ar hItlF"iE
preparing To provide modern terminals.
For the nurp0Sr Of enabling Il VIII"
puhlIc "nlightcnm"nt on what me
Waterway system IL. Th" lnt"IllScncrr
is To- present 4 series ~ twelve articles
on tn" subject. The lntrlliSenccr ana
III" 81. Louis Star are sending charles
n. Huff staff writer. especially quar-
fled Ia deal with subjects of commercial
industrial and civic urNcloplhCnt- " h't
Of the cities in the Ohio and MISSISSIPPI
valleys At each city he vii! observe
river trout conditions and evidence OF
existing river traffic. lie will study
the possibilities offered for river traffic
n, each point. based on industrial ana
commercial factors. He also Will DIS
ruSs plans that ar" Io h. carried out
for river terminal development.
Based upon the observations ana
studies Huff will write Il series OF
Twelve artiNlrs. the first Of which Will
appear IN The lulnllicGcnccr OF next
Friday. 1un,. Ii. Eleven articles Will
deal specifically with particular SHc-
ton of tho waterway system. Inc
twelfth will sum ur the situation ana
discuss the general proposition.
The sores of articles will arouse a
deep interest >in II phAs" of wa- rr"par"-
tinn which hitherto has had only Scanl
attention.
The first Articic will deal with Min
nrapnliS and 81. Paul AS tn" head az the
great inland waterway The other hrtl-
,.lcs will follow on alternate days.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-12
LOST WEIGHT AND STRENGTH
So FAST SHE BECAME ALARMED

flesh" continued Mrs. Charles Jason.
900 Jefferson street. Martins Ferr%,
Ohio and when sit down 10 a meal
now have an excellent appetite and
everything / rat tastes so good my
husband is starting TO take ii himself
as a ionic"
Abandoned Doctors Tonic.
Il had been taking the doctors med
icine. but surely did the wise thin
when | started taking Hypo-Cod. be-
cause the very first bottle showed |
was on the right track. and it is so
pleasant 10 take I'm sure everyone
will be delighted, continued Mrs. ia
son.
lIypo-Cod is a rleasant-tastinC. pow
crfuI tonic, system inviCorant and aid
10 the weakened system. II helps
lungs, coughs. colds, and rapidly re-
builds the run down, weakened sys.
tenn. Your druggist has Hypo-Cod.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-12
Husband and Friends Insisted She
Take Tonic-APpette Had
Deserted Her.
HOW SHE WAS RELIEVED.

Il was losing my weight and
strength 50 fast il scared mo. and
though | knew | must cat something
and would 20 10 the table determined
to cat. as soon aS | sat down my appc'
tit" would desert me-. | knew | nCcdCo
something. and the papers were so
tuIl Of praise about TIypo-Cod. ann
friends who had used it. were SO loud
in iiirir praise OF il. my husband in
sisted thai take il. and it did such
wonderful things tor ME. | want 10
urge others TO stop experimenting and
wasting time wi in other remedies. and
Try llypn-Cnd. for it will surely build
you up quick. | am taking on more
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-12
Ohio News Notes.

OEFORD-Miss .T"ar"tt" Ia nkin.
member Of conrCoss from Montana. do
livered the address at tho commence
ment Of the Western College for Women
yesterday.
SPRINGFTELD-Fra Lee. mar
ried woman. swnre $h" WAS IN" wife ot
Ramona T'unGcrhurE. =" keep him out
of the army and both hav" been arrest
ed for perjury.
EFONTAINE-When Lieutcn-
ant Kent. an aviator. aljGhtcd near here
he was attacked by Il dog.
NEW PHILADELPHIA brick
LAYERS arc in session here.
MARION-A gust OF wind blew 2 hahy
cab off p porch to-day and m" child "t
Walter Tenny and wife. wh" WAS a!S"ep
in il. was fatally hurt.
FOSTORIA-M1CEac" Kramer. aged
:. was burned Ia death Will" lighting a
gas fire.
ALLIANCE-Ca az III" Star
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-06-12
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