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BoLSHEvIKs LOSE BATTLE.
Opposition Stops Threatened At
tack on EkaterinburE.

Special Wireless Despatch to The Sun from
the London Times Service.
Copyright, 1915; all rights rsserred.
OMsK, Dec. 2 (delayed-)-The anti
Bolshevik forces to-day defeated the
Bolshevik force which threatened
Ekaterinburg. taking a thousand pris-
oners and much booty.
Only Russian troops were engaged
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PARIS, Dec. n.-Marshal Foch has
refused the request OF the German
armistice delegates that they be per-
mitted to communicate with the prov
inces west OF the Rhine now being oc-
cupied by the Allies. The Commander
in Chief declared that It was necessary
to maintain the blockade Of Germany
as provided by the armistice.
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Mr.. Ador was elected a member of
the Swiss Federal Council last year In
succession to DIR. Arthur Hoffman,.
In 1910 Mr.. Ador, after the death of
Mr.. Moynier, became president OF the
international committee of the Red
Cross. and in 1912 he visited the
United States to attend the internal
tional Red Cross conference at Wash
ington.
Since the outbreak of the European
war Mr.. Ador has had an opportunity
to prove his skill and talents as an
organizer. He founded the now world
famous agency OF the prisoners OF war,
the main purpose of which was to act
as Intermediary between prisoners and
their families or friends. He started
the undertaking in his private resi-
dence. 1t was Mr.. Ador who was
largely responsible for the exchange
of wounded or i'll prisoners by the
belligerents.
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Light on Wilson Proposals..

Doubtless neutrals experienced
much inconvenience by reason of them
but would the United States have re-
Trained in a life and death struggle
from using any OF such measures"
AS a result OF informal converse
tons regarding President Wilson'S
freedom OF the seas proposals the
British Government is now in posses
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-12

Only One "BROMO QUISINF"
Fo get the genuine, call for full name
Look for signature Of E, w. GROVE
Cures cold In One Day. soc.-4dv'
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ADoR HEADS SWISS REPUBLIC.
He Receives 122 Votes Out Of .
Possible 1ss.

BERNIE. Dec. 11.-Gustave Ador.
member OF the Swiss Federal Council
and president of the international
committee of the Red Cross, was
elected president OF the Swiss Con-
federation to-day for the year 1919.
Mr.. Ador received 1872 votes out Of a
possible 1873.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-12-07
My Last Appeal On The Debt Fund
BILLY pARKrRs sEsrrMENr ON NOVEMBER ssrH

to be thankful for finished their tasks and some
taLy the only pnvams have known little less for coffee little
victorious, the greatest war in all history.
o be MENTION
of the Press Defense had
thankful old debt for the first
The
the would believe
$650OO the debt But
# " Z
all know life travelling
and have largest theer and in the
churches
laughter is tsbe to love them
understand
But gathered around the thousands and deea
All without solicitation The
was compelled to suspend that particular of work which love most for duty demanded
that the little often "Gd
smiths Deserted Village And few people how much cost me make this
No other the
just and my mission right Otherwise ead quit my job tonight
help clear this debt and promise you VII find time come your town city and
bought Liberty Bonds You like % myself did t buy those bonds for an Investment bought
needed You bought them to beat the kaiser @ his Nov want see the
the worlds
of them dhlp us
this battle
The
tp Use the blank in column
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THE EVILS OF ORGANIZED CENSORSHIP OF PRESS
Made
People Will Be
Continue to Exist

would expect the government to sane
ion a paper called For Kaiser and
Country; but, at the same time, If
the republican national committee
should desire to establish new pub
lication.--for instance, The Neto Re.
pnbicdn-such a periodical would
have to die before It was born, just
as if it were the yellowest pro-Ger-
man sheet. An illuminative insight
into the point Of view of the govern
mental agents was offered by Mr..
Baruch, chairman Of the war indus
tries board, who, in reply to a pro-
test against this ruling, said: "ln
the eyes of the board there is no dis
tinction between newspaper and a
factory" In other words, to Mr..
Baruch (who, SO far as this matter
is concerned, is for the moment the
spokesman of the government) there
seems no difference between a free
press as guaranteed by the constitu-
ton and the production of toy bal
oons.
An earnest of what the board
meant was offered on August 22nd,
when it refused The Butte mon
tana) Bulletin, a long established
weekly paper, permission to change
to daily, although The Bulletin
declared that such q busiress change
had long been contemplated. 1he
fact that The BRlIsttn, avowedly IN
dependent, had strong republican
leanings, may have been merely q
coincidence. At any rate, 1t an
nounced, with considerable courage,
that it would contest the order Of the
board. Whereupon 1t was duly noti-
fed that if it insisted upon coming
out as a daily it would be cut of
from all raw material as well as from
any fuel and light that it might
need. This was too much Of a stone
wall to butt, and The Bulletin gave
up its fight.
On the same day that this abortive
attempt was made toward expansion
by a private enterprise which might
possibly have contributed D trifie tc
the sum total Of the agitation Of
party politics, the committee on pub
lie information started a new twelve
page newspaper under the title Of
fetal Film Ne,cs, to be at first bi-
weekly and then a weekly. Although
the Official Film NeWs is published
in Washington a stones throw from
Mr.. Baruch's office, several miles
nearer than The Butte Bulletin, the
war industries board has yet failed
to find that it is violating orders.
A very painstaking friend Of the
newspapers is Mr.. Burleson. Early
in August he announced that in his
very great zeal to serve the press he
purposed to take over the "news
wire" so that (as he disingenuously
announced) he might "provide fol
the press the most efficient wire fa'
cilities under government control. >
The intent of this was obvious to al
newspaper men, for the "news wire
has long been the best organized
function of the entire telegraph
service. 1t has always been giver
preference over market and CONNER
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is only metropolitan papers an'
magazines which, by virtue of large
staffs at Washington and elsewhere,
are able to give the whole American
public its accustomed complete news
service. By that I mean news in
depreciation, analysis Of public pol
icy. Smaller newspapers, because of
mechanical and financial limitations,
are able to handle only local news,
and whatever is telegraphed to them
by press associations. They have
not the space to print nor the money
to buy the service of the larger and
more important news agencies which
meaning of congressional debate
or of the activities in committee
rooms, or of events of political
significance.
The press associations carry only
INSPIRED" news. They give out only
what is desired by departmental
heads in Washington. They give out
no Independent Interpretation of this
news, and If such an Interpretation
is attempted by others it is rendered
difficult by reduction of space in
large newspapers.
Another event which has contrib
uted to the isolation Of the smaller
communities Of America is the order
Of the war industries board compell-
ing newspapers to discontinue their
exchanges. Larger dailies are not
embarrassed by this, because they
pay cash for each others publica-
tons. But the smaller publisher who
must 60 down into his pocket for the
metropolitan papers he hitherto re-
ceived, often cannot afford to do this,
so he is left without his independent
source Of genuine news material,
curtailed though that is. As one
editor recently expressed it in per-
sonal letter to which / had access
Nothing is now coming in with
which we can mix ammunition. We
want to write, but we have no ma
terial. We want to pript facts and
keep the public posted, but we can
not reach into the thin air and get
them."
As a direct result Of the postal
zone rate law and of the rulings of
the war industries board, the coun-
try editor and the small town are
more isolated and more provincial
today than at any time within the
past half century.
The editor Of the large daily, how
ever, need not feel any too conf
dent that he is getting all the news.
The war industries board has cut
down the amount Of news matter
that large dailies may print, begin
ming September first. 1t was an
nounced that this was done to save
white print paper, five tons of which
are being sent out every day by the
administrations public agencies
However, the ruling was evidently
not aimed primarily at paper, but al
reading matter" Under this ruling
the publisher is not allowed to de,
eide for himself how much reduced
space he may give to news editorial
matter and how much to ad.
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Ivertising, even II he might elect
to curtail his advertising at
his own expense. The ruling Of
the war industries board does not
permit him to do 10. He is obliged
to cut his reading matter" on a
sliding scale Of from five to fifty per
cent, depending on the amount of
columns he had previously published.
1t can readily be seen how this or
der cuts out the trained correspond
ent, the special Interpretation Of
news and attending editorial COM
ment, especially from contributors,
whether these be professional or po-
litical. In fact, 1t has had ten
dency to dry up at its source the
wellspring Of the Washington corre-
spondence and to force out of exist
ence for the period of the war that
small corps Of specially trained news
paper and magazine, writers who have
furnished the Journalistic leaders Of
public opinion. Discussion of poll
cies. analysis of news, the "inside"
of things as they really exist, are in
fair way to being stifed.
If one mind conceived this compre-
hensive scheme of news limitation
and control, il did not overlook the
possibility that some organization
might find q way to evade the re-
strictions. Apparently with this end
in view, the war industries board has
ruled that: "DurinK the war no
new paper shall be established" No
new enterprise has yet started with
sufficient backing of courage and f.
nances to discover II the supreme
court will uphold this order In the
face of the constitutional guarantees
regarding the freedom of the press.
New Papers? No!
Under present war conditions there
is no proft-making incentive to start
a new newspaper. Labor is so high,
paper is so high, machinery is so
difficult to obtain, advertising SO de-
creased, the price-sxing and the lin
tied production of non-essentials are
becoming so much more rigid. that
it makes the establishment of any
publication for profit practically out
of the question. At the present time
the only incentive for starting a
publication would be that Of provid-
ing o genuine medium for informa-
tion or, perhaps, to plead a special
cause. A new paper would not be
limited in the amount of reading
matter" it might handle, because
there would be no past record on
which to form a basis for computing
its allotment of news matter; there
fore, the war industries board ruling
on the subject Of decreased space for
reading matter" could not be ef-
fective against a new publication.
This ruling did not make any ex-
ception. 1t did not specify that new
publications would be obliged to sub
ject themselves to supervision. 1t
was simply blanket order covering
any and all possible publications. OF
course no one would expect the gov
ernment to permit The Fatherland to
be revived, any more than anyone
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for its publication of and comment
on the aviation report. The Detroit
News, for the same reason, was
barred from circulation in Canada,
where it usually sends $4,000 copies.
The absurdity Of this may be seen
from the fact that The Montreal
Star, the direct rival Of The Neips
for its Canadian circulation, pub
lished the aircraft report almost in
full and, of course, with impunity.
The New York Times has always
been a stalwart supporter Of the Ad-
ministration and has never been ac-
cused Of divulging military secrets;
moreover, it has always been studi-
ously informed as to its duties in up
holding the strong arm of the United
States; yet its foreign edition con-
tanning the aviation report was sup
pressed without notification.
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CONTINUED on Page 2. Column p
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results from the theatres would far ex-
coed the enormous total of the third
loan, which reached s33,653.15o in New
York alone. The managers were all
in, enthusiastic accord with Mr.. Albee,
and upon the motion of Marc klaw II
was voted to continue the organization
of the last drive throughout the next
and that Chairman Albee be empow-
cred to reappoint the committees which
did such wonderful work last spring.
The unanimous opinion was that the
conduct OF the third drive should be
the pattern for the fourth. The third
drive put the theatre definitely into the
ranks OF big business. the sales being
third on the list of giant industries and
the showmen gathered yesterday in Mr..
Albee's office pledged themselves to
leave nothing undone TO make the
Fourth Liberty Loan a gigantic sue
cess in the New York theatres and
throughout the nation wherever their
interests extend.
The headquarters OF the Theatrical
Allied Interests Committee will be in
the Longacre Building. There will be
speakers and entertainment bureau.
literary and press department, with
full supplies of printed matter and
posters. expert financial and banking
bureau, offices of the Stage Women's
War Relief and a department for sup
plying bond statesmen and saleswomen
wherever needed
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SOUND VIEWS ON ACTING.

II am for progress in the drama"
Lionel Atwll said to THE Sun re-
porter. II believe in experiments.
admire the intensive dramatic drama
of thought, which appeals to our
minds and to our intellects. The old
form Of cut to order from the stock
pattern class of drama, dear to the
lcarts OF our grandparents. with the
handsome young hero and heroine.
t?c villain, heavy woman and comti y
merchant, l hope has died an honor
able death from sheer exhaustion.
II think we all realize that the sue
cess of the theatre depends to-day
upon its authors and the producers.
Tho actor is all right so Is the audi
ence. | think authors should cut out
the spectacular and concentrate on
truth--hrilliant, but not strained dia :
logle. and psychological action. And
the producer or the man who stages
the play should be allowed to give the
fullest possible value to such character
in the authors work, so that n proper
balance is preserved. No one part
should be pushed out into undue re-
lief, nor should the value of any other
part be strangled to accomplish such
an end.
The man who views the play as a
whole'-in other words the man en-
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thusiasm over the modern writer's. for
Shakespeare forces you to feel. to
think and to express. With the lines
of Shakespeare comes mobility of
features; this know Is the very re-
verse OF the ne& idea that playing
before the camera gives the same re-
suit.
Not only because have played In
Shakespeare for forty-five years dc
L advise young actors to get their
training in his works. The major
contains the minor: Shakespeare in
cludes everything. A man who has
come out of the Shakespeare
school can give an intelligent per-
Torrance Of any modern role.
Shakespeare is the only real school
of acting.
II know there is no such school
to-day. The young actor il engaged
because he looks the part and he
goes before the footlights to play
himself Managers never let him
attempt a role outside his type so
he goes OH without development. The
world has known so faw really great
actors-on the English stage we
jumped from Betterton to Garrick
and from Kean to Irving
I'm America there are many great
possibilities among actors; but no
help whatever is given them by man
ayers. They cast a play as a man
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trusted with the. staging of the play
after IT has passed out of the authors
hands, should have power supreme.
do not object to the starring system
so long as the star is not allowed to
be ,unduly selfish, or will always
recognize the importance of balance
in order TO preserve n perfect whole.
And | think much more encour-
agement should be given to charac-
teriZation; in other words. to the art
OF acting. Every part Is a character
part. There should be no such thing
as a straight part. Let every actor
or actress give his or her audience
n surprise in every new part he or she
undertakes; then they can sustain in
terest in themselves and their art.
"In England the theatre owes ire
mendous amount to Miss a. +. r.
Hornman OF the Manchester Roper
tory Company. Possibly we should
never have had the works of Stan
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ley Houghton. Galsworthy, Masefield,
Brighouse and several other brilliant
writers of the younger school known
to the world but for her. Now nearly
every big town in England has Its
repertory theatre, and in this country
we find to our amazement that John
Galsworthy has been made to pay,
especially in tho case Of his poignant
work Justice
81 am sure the days Of all mechan-
ically constructed plays are coming to
an end. BUTT takes time and money,
and that's where the younger produce
ers are always hit. II you have IDEAS
and plays. 1t Is so difficult to get the
well lined purse behind you, and I'M
fortunately, in this country. as In
England. there being no state aided
theatres in which to give ones best
and produce plays and ideas and live
one Ia either forced to bow to con-
servative commercialism or produce
with inadequate casts or rely upon
amateur assistance"
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WHAT THE FACE TELLS.

To learn the art Of facial expression
an actor need not get his training in
the movies according tn Charles
Harbury, the English actor in Three
Faces East" Mr.. Harbury, who brings
almost the only humor Of 'Three
Faces East" into the play through
the medium OF facial expression. has
never acted on the screen. He cult
waited his special art from long study
with Sir Henry Irving, who had, Mr.
Harbury believes, "the most expressive
face of any actor who ever lived.
AN expressive face" says Mr.. Har-
bury. lis the greatest assets an actor
can have. The voice and the general
physique are secondary. The most ex-
pressive features on the stage are
large, like Irvings. OF course even
large features may be immobile.
Facial expression must come from the
feeling within. If one does not feel,
how can he convey anything by the
features?
IAN actor must have feeling" Mr..
Harbury declares. "To me acting is
tie greatest Of the arts, because an
actor must be able to portray not
cniy every human emotion but every
one of the hundred gradations of
human emotion. There are so many
kinds OF pity, OF selfishness, of JOY.
OF love. Even the love between men
and women has its gradations. Take.
for instance, four Shakespearian
heroines--Desdemo Ophclid, Portid
and Juliet. Each is in love with a
man but quite differently. And so 1t
is with Shakespeare heroes. Irving
once said to me that he had ex-
perenced $50 kinds of love playing
Shakespeare.
at takes a grea. play to bring out
really great art in facial expression
The actor is powerless in a poor play
That is why an actor who has once
done Shakespeare can never have en-
The sun., 1918-09-22
..Two seasons ago. when Will

.tTWO seasons ago. when Will
lam Elliott offered me a
part in the Chicago oh.
Boy.' company. I refused, although I
wanted an engagement. | had Just
finished a short season with The
Silent Witness in which man
aged to make a hit, although in spite
Of that the play quit. / told Mr.. Elliott
that / couldn't sing or dance. You
can learn said he encouragingly. Still
/ was music shy and made out the
season with Rose Stahl in Moonlight
Mary another fiivver Last season l
played the ingenue with Leo Ditrich-
stein in The King and the acid re-
action Of that role made the Doyle
blood boil. made up my mind would
take music LESSONS and also practise
dancing as long as the lease and the
floor of my fiat would stand the strain.
Even then I lacked courage to sing
right out in public'-until Fay BANTER
broke the ice and proved what a
Coincidence can do in musical comedy.
Accordingly when Elliott Comstock
& Gest commenced The Maid of the
Mountains I went boldly in and asked
for part. Mr.. Elliott remembered me
and took a chance on his first judg-
ment. 1 started in with two left feet
and photographic voice. so IL It
hadn't been for the patience OF Bert
French. who guided my steps Alright,
and the musical director. John Nc
Chic. 1 would have quit the first week
of rehearsals. But they broke me of
all my prim little ingenue habits and
lmbered me up until l feel like a
merry little mountain maid except
in avo:rdupois. l hope the audience
enjoys it half as much as I do. for
am having the time OF my brief stage
life. l am supposed to be a widow. :
hut it's only grass camouflage. so for
the first time I can play a 'weepy'
scene and make people laugh. | al
ways wanted to laugh anyway during
those soulful scenes they used to make
me play seriously. No more will i'm
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Scribner, II. X. Hynicka and j. Her
bert Mack, representing burlesque;
Adolph Zuker. William A. Brady
Joseph NJ. Schenck, j. T. Brulatour
and Peter Schaffer, representing mo-
ton pictures; Edwin Arden, the
Lambs Club: Edwards Davis, the
Grcenroom Club; Ralph Trier, the
F'riars; Rachel Crothers, the Stage
Women''s War Relief; Jacques Vein
berger and +. T. Armstrong repre-
sented the Liberty Loan Committee
and Governor Benjamin Strong of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In calling the meeting to order
Chairman Albee spoke In high praise
OF the way the theatre men ha 1 worked
together In the last drive and OK
pressed the belief that the coming drive
would see the entire profession n unit
in the tremendous three weeks cam
paiEn and that, profitinE by the ex-
perience OF the last spring drive, the
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looks-not as he thinketh--and rely
upon startling scenic effects to put
the show over as they say. Some
of the most successful managers here
are only glorifed property men. They
have neither intelligence, imagina-
ton nor stage experience: three reaui-
sites for any real man Of the theatre.
II have been in this country since
SO, when l came here with Irving.
and I have the highest respect for
the American public. believe that
in their theatre they want clean, fine.
well acted plays
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Vaudeville and Burlesque.

Lucille Cavanagh will come to
the Palace with three partners
in a new dancing act; the Nor
ton family will appear in a farce
combining song and dance: the
Avon Comedy Four will remain
for another week, and lie Roy,
Talma and Bosco supply magic.
The Riverside patrons will be
favored by the attentions of the
talented Foy family; by the eff
forts of Gus Van and Joe
Schenck; by Miss Juliet in "A
One Girl Revue" and Bob Mat
thews and company in THE
Rounder of Old Broadway"
The delights of minstrelsy are
plentifully assured at the Co
lonial with Eddie Leonard and
his troupe in Dandy Dams Re-
turn" Others on the bill will be
the Duncan Sisters. Bert Baker
and Max c. Cooper and Irene
Ricardo.
Clifton Crawford, Trixie FRI
ganza and T. Roy Barnes will
unite to make things pleasant
twice a day at the Alhambra.
The supporting bill includes
George Mckay and Ottie Ardine
in "All in Fun"
Trixie Friganza and T. Roy
Barnes will also appear at the
Royal, where Mime. Violet Bes-
son will present q patriotic war
sketch, maid of France"
Lew Kelly, otherwise known
as prof. Dope" will figure at
the Columbia in a burlesque en-
titled "camouflage."