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New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
And He Turns Out To Be-

'racK' The King was a British secrc,
service agent all right, but Hamlet had
70 XIII him in order to divert suspicion
Inc play ends tragically, for Hamle,
carries this business Of divcrting sus.
plcion bit too far, in that he fails te
carry his registration card. Laertes. 8
member Of the American Protective
League, stabs him by mistake. Ever
opheha turns out to have been much
better than any one thought. The dis.
covery is made at her funeral that ir
reality Ophelia was George Crcel ir
disguise, and that her rawlings were no,
code messages at all but merely 9Th,
Official Bulletin" recitcd backward.
Tho only aagrant phonetic ofrende,
whom we noticed last week was Al
Smith, Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor, who was drafted to introduce
Floyd Gibbons at Carnegie Hall Mr.
Smith calls the leader OF the A. E. f
"Poishing." We don't carry depart.
ment of French pronunciation, so it is
beyond our scope to go in to what Mr
Smith did to Chateau Thierry.
1t is perhaps ungenerous to go or
picking on Stuart Walkers second act
in Jonathan Makes WISH" partly
because it had not enough defenders
to make the matter a good controversy
and partly because there is no reason
to suppose that Mr.. Walker himself
thinks overly we'll of it.
But it commits one serious offence
for which it should be the more re-
buked, that it carries the less dramatic
penalty. 1t muddles the cause OF
mysticism in the theatre. Many q
good playwright has botched things in
like fashion and got his punch just the
same. Mr.. Walkers second act failed
him in that respect. 1t was both con.
fused and undramatic. But even if il
had hauled all the spectators up out oi
their seats in an ecstasy of they didn't
know-what it would still have called
for protest.
Jonathan falls out Of window, an6
as he goes into resultant delirum he
hears them say that his back is broken
The second act is his delirium. 1t con-
tains contortions and corroborations OF
the things Jonathan has just been GO.
ing through before the accident, and
what has particularly caught his imag-
ination. a fantasy of his uncle's abou:
"green hill, far away" In his dream
Jonathan makes for that hill. At the
end Of his dream he gets there. And
once there he surmounts the top Of it
and makes a speech.
Now, 1t is perfectly legitimate to
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Mr.. Barnun1

or care about music, but he undertook
the tour Of Jenny Lind at what was
then considered a fabulous risk. She
accepted his management because on
the lctterhead on which he proposed
! negotiations there ives printed an or
nate picture of his house. She was
sure that man who had such fine
mousse must be very substantial per
son. Not many people now recall how
ne enriched his native city of Bridge
port, Conn.
At his own expense he had built
| parks, laid out streets and sewers and
practically rebuilt the city. There was
no public-spirited scheme to benefit his
to"nspeoplc that he did not take the
lead in. His love for his associates of
his obscure days remained with him to
the end Of his life, and lie remembered
them generously. He wrote "Recollec-
tlons Of Sixty Years, With Golden
Golden Rules for Making Money! for
the entertainment and moral guidance
Oh the young and had these distrib-
uied at circus performances at half The
cost OF publication. At one time 5000
coo copies were in circulation.
IN short intermission between acts
Thomas Wise made ME see how close
to his heart he has carried "Mr. Bar
num-" | hazarded somewhat furtivelv
a question:
Are you disappointed at New York's
greeting of Mr.. Barnum'?"
But Mr.. Wise was serene in his
faith. "No. I have the fun of doing
1t. Besides, New York isn't a circus
town. 1t doesn't know what it is to
get up at o'clock in the morning to
see tho circus come into town-and to
have every one knock off work on cir
Gus day-or the feel Of being under
circus canvas. 1t only knows the Gar
den. New York doesn't get much thrill
out of circus"
But | know that it does. For sitting
behind me and before me were peonlc
who are New Workers., but not of it
VINO remember circuses in all sorts of
Middle Western and upstate and back
home little towns. They applauded
pink lemonade to the echo and laughed
at the freaks and shifted at the pathos
OF the old clown-and did not care a
rap that some one had regretted that
the play was too enisodc They liked
the episodes.
But I must confess to a little in
justice to Tom Wise. 1t suddenly
occurred to me when had returned to
the Office that perhaps Tom Wise was
himself Connecticut Yankee. and it
was this kinship of race that BROUGHT
forth his complete comprehension of
barnum. SO looked him up in "Who's
Who" There it was-"Thomas Alfred
Wise, actor; born Faversham, England.
March %, 1865; S. Daniel and Harriet
(Potts) W.; was brought to America
1868; has earned own living since 8
yrs. of age, and is self-educated.
There's fairsized chunk of humanity
in Wise himself.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
By Haywood Broun

Once upon a time theatre pro-
.rsmme was instructive. Even before
The curtain rose the programme en-
abed the spectator to become casually
s.onsinted with the characters whom
=. WAS to meet later in the evening.
Tins he might find Hamlet, Prince
~ Denmark" and know ahead Of time
that one of the people in the play
would be royal Dane. To-day such an
entry would mean less than nothing.
II would not even serve to fool the
sheatregoer. The wise playgoer has
learned his lesson.
"Ths fellow Hamlet" he will cx-
pan to you long before the first act is
over "isn't neutral at all. That
Danish business is just camouflage.
He's a German spy"
Subsequent events will prove the
correctness of the wise mans estimate.
1t will develop that the Ghost is in
reality Major Hugo Rathause, Of the
Wilhelmstrasse, and that he walks the
battlements every night in order to
make sketches OF the Notifications for
the German War Office. Hamlet is in
on the scheme and kills the King. who
is British Secret Service agent.
Ophelia is also German spy. Here
at last We have an adequate explana-
ton of the mad scene. Take, for in
stance, the speech, "They say the owl
was bakers daughter Lord, We know
what we are, but know not what we
may be- That seems unintellieible
enough unless you came in early in the
first act and heard the plotters explain
ing the code system.
In that case you are able to segre-
gate the code word "baker's" and the
code phrase what we are" The rest
is easy. OF course "baker" is Secre-
;ary Newton Baker. Of the American
War Department. The possessive IS"
is added as an abbreviation for sees,
and curiously enough, what we are
means just what it says. Thus we
have the message: Baker sees what
We are" All that remains for the
spies is to translate this to the simple
German equivalent, Baker ist ouf,''
and get it on the wireless for Berlin.
The last act is so ingenious that
even the wise man is fooled. Here
Hamlet turns out to be no German
spy at all, but Captain William Travcrs
Davenport, U, S. A., of the Intelligence
section. He was pretending to be a
German, pretending to be a Dane,
merely to throw the Boches off the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
By Rebecca Drucker

once knew a man who wrote a
book about China. This was long ago
but at mention Of the word China hie
wife says a ehudder goes through her
70 this day And behind the patien:
sweetness Of Mrs Wise's wifcly smile
as sat talking with Thomas A. Wise
about the great Phineas T. Barnun1
was the same haunted look that I used
to see OH the face of the wife OF the
man with -enthusias asm about China
when at a pleasant party the talk in
exorably began to drift Chinaward.
feel sure Mrs. Wise has reached the
same stage Of ssturation.
But not so Mr.. Wise. 1t takes only
minute to see that Barnum is the
Wise Great Enthusiasm. Not as part
or a play, you understand, but as a
man. The rich humanity OF the show
man has gripped Wiscs imagination so
that he is driven by the desire to re-
vivify him for a generation that re-
CARDS him chiefly as q picturesque ira
dition. Barnum's "Recollcctions of
Sixty Years, With Golden Rules for
Making Money" is quaint volume
nowadays, and the amazement Of his
exploits has long ago worn off, but his
irresistible humanity is part of the
permanent American spirit. 1t is this
side of the man that Wise longs to
make known.
The idea first came to him almost ten
years ago, while he was playing "The
Gentleman from Mississippi." For
years people had been casually remark
ing GLOW much you look like Barnum!"
Then one day he chanced upon the
Recollectons, and the naive self-re-
vcalment of the Connecticut Yankee
fascinated Wise. lie began to dig
into the newspapers and periodicals of
the time, in the anecdotes eXtant of
him and in the biographies of him
and found mine Of character. A
thousand stories of him illustrate the
mans audacity, and yet his essential
simplicity; his highly personal code of
honesty, coupled with fundamental
morality; his love for bigness and his
small-town kindness-thc contradic-
tions that make a personality. But the
task of digging a play out of all this
material was too much for Wise. He
called in Harrison Rhodes, and to-
gether they began the laborious work
of elimination. When all had been
eliminated that they thought they could
spare they found they had material for
four plays. They wrote them all. For
years, in off seasons and in obscure
places, Thomas Wise has been produc-
ing one or another Of these versions
testing, cutting, combining, discarding
until he thought the present play
worthy to bring to New York. In the
discarded versions was one that showed
Barnum at the zenith Of his career,
when as proprietor of the greatest
show on earth" he was astonishing the
world with his three-ring circus, his
menageries and the splendor of his
shows. But this Darnum was en- in
stitution that it was difficult to galvan-
ize to lfe-so they went back to the
time when as proprietor of the All
American Show of Freaks he f1oated up
and down the Mississippi
Wise mourns the stories of him thew
could not put in-one can see that.
There was an advertising exploit in
which Barnum promised to show a
horse with head where his tail should
be, and when the reporters came thev
found horse turned about wrong side
before in the stall. He did not know
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

show the human soul striving upward
and to phrase it's presumable exalta-
tion when it arrives. Mysticism may
be something more than the protective
mirage of the thirsty soul. But no
playwright can cut loose all bolts and
mouth incohcrencies and call it soul
strivngs. Too many souls have actu-
ally striven. Too many can check up
on him.
Ever so many playwrights regard
spiritual behavior as a field they have
to themselves. They know that if they
have their hero say: "I'm funny
breathe with my liver and digest with
! my lungs" that the psychologists can
fay him by chapter and page. II their
hero says: II left Paris this morning
with only time for lunch at Archangel
with the new American troops" mill
ion Rond-McNallys say: you're din
ing with liar"
There are not many aliases or col
ored charts in the department of the
soul. Perhaps that is why playwrights
make so free with it.
But there is body Of evidence in
the business, just the same. 1t lies at
the bottom Of the human heart. When
, playwrights take their heroes up on
hilltops and turn them loose to rave,
they stand before a jury inarticulate
1>,,< ~, -.
among them will find himself turning
away, unconvinced, before mere inor-
ganic oratory. And the worst Of it is
that many Of these will turn away say
ing, not merely "This itself is not
true" but also, "Mysticism is rot
Contributed by Ruth Hale.
One defect of Walkers second act is
that it mars his best character. The
delirous boy sees everybody in q
somewhat highly colored reflection of
their own personality. Thus the French
girl is more hravely attired and more
gay in her dancing during the delirium
than in actuality. This is we'll enough,
but the character Of the tramp is dis
torted. He appears in the delrium as
| brute and not the carefree, irrespon-
sible person of the first act. He comes
back to himself in the final act, but it
take some little time for the audience
to renew its acquaintance with the real
Hank
But nothing which precedes this
should induce any lover of the more
graceful things Of the theatre to stay
away from Jonathan Makes a Wish.'
AT its best the play contains rare
quality. This is merely fitting in the
writing of the piece. but it is constant
in the production. Costuming, scenery,
lighting, incidental music and acting
are all just as you would wish them.
At least, after seeing it you most GER
tainly would not wish them otherwise.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Shipbuilding at Hippodrome

A new feature has been added to
Everything" the big spectacle at the
hlppodrome. In Che second section
the chorus girls join the army of ship
builders by constructing a full rigged
boat on the stage, while Belle Story
and Arthur Geary sing a new John
Golden-William Daily song called
You're the Very Girl I've Lookad
For"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
New Feature at Luna

A new feature has been added to
Luna Park for September. 1t is called
The Artists Model" and is series
Of poses grouped under the direction
Of Mr.. Adams.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
BIC EATERS GET
KIDNEY TROUBLE
Take Salts at first sign of
Bladder irritation or
Backache.

The American men and women must
guard constantly against Kidney trouble,
because vc eat too much and all our
food is rich Our blood is filled with
uric acid which the kidneys strive TO i'll
ter ont. they weaken from overwork
become sluggish; the ellminative It's
,ue, clog and the result IS kidney trout
bic, blIdder weakness, and a general de-
cline In health
When your kidney, feel like lunps OF
lead your back hurt, or the ur,ne IS
cloudy. full OF sediment or you Sre
obliged to seek relief two or three Il 1e'
during the night ii you suffer with sex
headache or dizzy, nervous spells acid
stomach. or you have rheumatism wren
the weather is bad, get from your phar.
maciSt about four ounces Of Jad salts
take a tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast for few days and
vpur kidneys will then act fine This
famous salts is made from the acid OF
grapes and lemon Juice. combined with
lithia, and has been used for generations
to flush and stimulate cloggcd kidneys ;
10 ncutralize the acids in the urine 50 II
no longer is a source Of irritation, thus
ending bladder disorders.
lad Salts is inexpensive cannot in
,urc, makes a delightful ]effcrycScent
l~ilhia-watcr beverage, and belongs IN
every home, because nobody can make
a mistake by having a good kidney
flushing any time. (Adv)
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
OKLAHOMA CITY UP
TO ITS QUOTA IN the
THRIFT STAMP SALE

| The January sale ~ thrift and war
having stdnps IT, letter carriers
! mounted to $l49Sg97 OF this amount
w Lightlc. carrier IN the Colcori
building. made the greatest sales, his
%otaling SOP ~ S y Ever. Second
direct c%arricr, sold S,hj0} worth of
Stamps. and Paul MurplN son OF form
b. postmaster sam Murphy, sold Tire
largest amount OF STAMPS in the resi-
Hence district. selling $l9lSh} worth
Among his customers vas one mcmhcr
bf the $1,000 club
The city campaign committee Is well
pleased with the sale ot the Thrift
Stamp, last month. and say that the
bnly reason that Oklahoma county is
not yet up 10 IT'S quota IS because OF
he outlying districts. Oklahoma CITY
mp 10 It's quota
~ thrift stamp information and sales
Booth will he established in the Ice
bluck,ns hotel tomorrow all an aid IN
he high school girls who will canvas
he business section Of the CITY IN the
BALE Of thrift stamps l.. Gavin ol
he American Tobacco company will be
bn charge Of the booth, and It +, being
blamed to have addresses made every
half hour.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01

The substantial men of coming years
Twill be those who formed the saving
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
BACK ACHE
Limbsy UP With Penetrating
HsmIlr's Wizard OIL

A harmless and effective prepare
hon to relieve the pains Of Rheuma-
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bago is Hamlin's Wizard Oil II pen
etrates quickly, drives out soreness,
and limbers up stiff aching joints and
muscles.
You have no idea how useful It
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Get it from druggists for 80 cents.
II not satisfied return the bottle and
get your money back -,
Ever constipsted or have sick
headache Just Try Wizard Liver
Whips, pleasant little pink pills, 50
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
CONDITIONS
GOOD At CAMP LOGAN,
MAJOR carp REPORTS

There have hccn only eleven deaths
among the 1909 men stationed at Camp
Logan, Houston Texas, since the c'
tahlishmenl OF the camp, according Ia
a letter received by Governor Williams
today from Major Autcl carp former
adiwant general Of Oklahoma
Major Earp asserted that the record
spoke well for camp conditions since
the weather has been very changcahlc
extremely warm DAYS bring followed los
billiards lie SAID most everyone IN
the camp was suffering from slight
colds but that health conditions ON
the whole were excellent
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
EMBARGO
AFFECTS ALL. But
FOOD AND FUEL
Gold Weather CongeStS Lines
Again Ban Indefinite

Only iuel and food freight Shipment
ind emergency freight tor the govern
ment. will he accepted By the Frisco
railroad in Okla ma City for several
Fays, as a result OF the general EN-
barge against all dead" freight, which
went into effect on the st. Louis & San
Francisco railroad At midnight last
a similar embargo vas lifted
BY the railroad ouly ZEN daHs ago
M the weather moderate, thu cm.
will probably only stay in effect
Two or three days or possibly q little
longer" said n { Conley, assistant
freight agent for this division
merely give, rs a chance TO
a little and clear thing, ~
|The extremely cold weather has tied up
traffic, A. the engines cannot pull full
)oads and do mot give proper service
6n such severe weather Nothing Srti.
DO viii result. Tor only dead freight.
kuch a, lumber. cotton Oats and .ml
Jar things will be affected
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01

Several women arc acting as news
paper correspondents behind the lines
along the battle front ln France.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
COURTHOUSE RATTLE
n EDE Ed TO DECIDE
OWNERSHIP OF DOG

A little Spit4 dos ,hlNerng with
the cold slipped into the courthouse
when the doors were opened this morn.
ing and up to noon had not bcsn
claimed. except by a dozen or more
county officials and clerks The dog Is
worth at least ssh, according To Sheriff
G.. l.. Johnson II is believed that the
dog was brought lo the courthouse by
a witnc,, m some Lawsuit and became
lost The dog will be kept at the court
house iur q day of lvo and n not
claimed luD, viii be drawn Tor 1t by
county dos lauClcrs
We must conserve and upbuild oui
resource, and protect aud strengthen
uur credit system War Saving,
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
How Fat Folks
Reduce Weight
Many Are Losing Several
Pounds a Month

Fat persons, particularly those from
ten to sixty pounds above normal
weight, will be interested to learn that
they may reduce their weight without
starvation dict OF tircsome exercise,
This can best be done by getting
nlenty OF fresh air, by breathing deep
~ and by taking a few drors Of oil Of
korein tour time, a day also in fol-
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with the box.
Oil Of korein may be obtained from
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Even a few DAYS treatment is likely
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The step becomes lighter, the flesh
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II YOU are ovcr,'uut and have tried
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01

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Lifelong Chur1s, Rejected
By Navy, Separated When
Accepted as Var Auiators
.o0g Wait for 0PaT 10 Make
Weight for War Service
Seems futile and One En-
lists, Then Draft Examiners
Accept Other

Walt kcc,hcn and 4. " Kerr IT,.
both - years old, have gone 10 training
camp, 10 serve their country. Kccshcn
live, N 1910 North Broadway, is the
sou ul lancs /. ktr,hcn Of Purcell
and has been engaged ln lhc ADVERTISING
business m thu, civ, with ms brothers
ior lhc past icw year. kcrr IS the son
of s. " kcu ut 4OO West Twelfth
street and he. been chief cIcfk Of the
TcNl, refinery At West Tulsa Tor the
past year krc,hcn goes to the aviation
school At Pensacola Florida, and Kerr
to Camp Imyls San Antonio
The two Young men have been life
long friend They went through school,
together and were luseparablc When
the war broke 0ut they wished lp cull,i
| together hut lrfr va, rejected being
mirrwclght CO., chum waited until he
could attain the required qualification,
hul Kerr wI. rejected later ON three
| different Allrmrr lu enlist for the Samc
/ reason
The last time h,rr vas rejected by
he navy recruiting officer, kecr,hcn
| decided IN pu alone He then wrote Tor
| his ,hum the piece oi poetry printed be
low Since IT was written Kerr has been
| drafted and accepted for service.
~. m. M,
"' u" w"
Me- an Dub, we'd always been to.
Phi Sos a. school 10 Buddlss on the
80
So when the war breaks OVER ihe
water,
said to him Dub, we'd better GO
"l'm with you Wait" he says real
quick,
blew
wen let the recruiting man turn
tho trick
The country needs men like me an
you.
did not think how skinny oub was
Jest said the navy Is the place for
IA
Cause W. both know hoW 10 row"
Down 10 the Culbertson building We
of'loHh WIN we '"puVN' " '"''''
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD

Get Ct small package OF Hamburg
Breast lea at any pharmacy. Take a
tablespoonful OF this Hamburg tea, put
a cup OF boiling water upon it, pour
through 2 sieve and drink a teacuptul
at any time. It is the woSt effective
way to break a cold aud cure grip, as
il opens the pores, relieving congestion.
Also looScns the bowels, thus breaking
a cold at once.
1t is Inexpensive and entirely ycgc-
t.tle. therefore harm,esS.-Ady
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
.'Enemy's Ears Are
Listening" Cards
in Capital Warn

WASHINGTON. Feb Waning
plaoafd, 10 beware ul spies appeared
today In the council II National de-
tense offices with u significant Motif.
cation that wltchmeu have all the
power, OF q sculry on post
Don't talk about what ,ou bavc
done or are going 10 dn.' read the
warning Enemy spie, al homc and
abroad will draw YOU into argument
and attempt TO cnlrip you into reveal
INK information Secrecy wciu' safety
-
Every War Savings Stamp and every
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War Savings Stamps "hahN bonds
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-01
COLLEGE PRESIDENT WILL
BE AIDE TO GEN. COCKTAILS

WASuINGTON. Feb l-Dr Em-
est NJ Hopkins. president Of Dart
moulh college. today sent TO the war
department hi, acceptance Of the post
ton AS supervisor OF industrial rcld-
tons in the office OF Major General
Gocthlls. acting quartcrmastcr general.