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New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

sharpened each of his lines and the
player aimed and then fired To-day
the better playwright scatters his
fayors, and the better sort of player
i$also content not to score with every
speech. He is willing, indeed, rather
to insinuate himself into the heart Of
spectator than to stab way in. We
are getting rid Of those dread things
called epigrams. OF course, modern
high comedy does not strive to imi-
tate actual talk. Fancy people talking
as cleverly as the characters in Lang
don MitchelPs "The New York Idea"!
But if modern high comedy does not
initiate talk it does suggest it. IA Pair
OF Petticoats" has an artificial quality
of overabundant wit, but at least it is
related to life. We can't see that high
comedy of thirty years ago was con-
cerned with anything but the tradi-
tions and conventions of the theatre.
Laura Hope Crews gives one of the
best light comedy performances we
nave seen for ever so long in "a Pair
OF Petticoats." She is enormously
easy. She does not WOO the laughter
OF the audience too hard. Perhaps
that is why they like her just as we'll
or better at the end of the play than
at the beginning. A good many play
ers can make an audience laugh in
the first act, but 1t is only the pos
SCISSORS of rare talent who can do as
much in the last. Then, too, there is
sort of laughter which does the play-
er no good. He may cheat or surprise
the spectator into sudden laughter
which is based on mere trickery, and
after he has laughed the merriment of
the spectator turns to hate There are
no tricks of the sort in the perform
ance of Miss Crews. You laugh at her
because you want to laugh.
George Giddens ia another delight
IN the Harcourt play, and for that
matter so is the author himself. It's
pity he couldn't have written a bet
ter American part, and had 1t PLAYED
better as well. But still, perhaps, we
deserve all that we get after the long
procession Of impossible Englishmen
which our dramatic authors have fash
ioncd for us.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Benefits at Hippodronae

Charles Dillingham; has placed the
big Hippodrome at the disposal Of two
national war activities tonight. In the
afternoon the war work committee of
the Salvation Army will hold mass
meeting, at which time Governor
Charles s. Whitman and Ambassador
James Gerard will officially welcome
the Pershing veterans.
At night the Canadian Club of New
York will stage one Of the most inter
esting programmes Of the season, the
entire proceeds of which are for the de-
pendent families of soldiers from New
York fighting with the Canadian army
The "Blue Devils" of France, the Lovat
Kiltie Band and the 18th Coast Artil-
lery Band will represent three inn
portant military units. Stage stars will
appear.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

dungeons cover and lie face dow h
last she could forget her figures prcsl
and lose herself in dreams of the dsd
when men were killed for the whiu
one small woman Who was like d
shadow of a white rose in a silyd
mirror.
AIDED by the pink and green lighs
and by curious instrument thu
strummed 20 somnolent singing, Yonh
was just slipping we'll into her rSl
when she heard a noise below in III
dungeon" where she supposed hl
holy man meditated upon those higha
paths of the soul. Pulling her after
tion back to realities, Yorska locksl
away from "the moon that is like /
dead woman searching for desi
things" and gazed below. To her kss
ror, the prophet no longer wore Ii
beard and sandals. To hasten his DE-
parture from the theatre Waltz
Hampden, unable TO leave his post n
cause of the lines he speaks from n
cell, was using the dungeon" as 4
impromptu dressing room. and at W
moment was tying on his street boots
Leaving Yorska and her ruined svel
ing (sha, however, forgave Mr.. Hs1,j
den everything because of the szcs|
lence of his performance), we lahl
came upon Louis Calvert in the virs|
wearing curled red beard and rtI
coat and wriggling his toes in bis sn|
dais IN spite of Lombroso's contsntia
He bore his book, but lately publisht
PROBLEMS of an Actor" and letts
from personages who approve
actors project to found nstiss
Shakespearian theatre and school q
acting.
Il am really a very modest man,
though an actor, and you must y
have me appear otherwise about ?
book" began Mr. Calvert.
THAT is already known. But us
the air of unalleyiated sadness VI
encompasses you this EVENING" bN
all well with you ?"
Nothing is well with me. ! ~
been having ptomaine poisoning.
let US speak Of art. / have desiSs
put the theatre in order ard resae
something Of technique TO acting
musical comedy everything moves 2,
clockwork and the players are pp
tically perfect in what they have y
In the serious drama, however, y
thing does. Young actors hsye
training Of any kind Also tls5
brought up on the star system,
bad thing for the drama Al
said in my book, every role Il
important and each charactsfis
should be as carefully studied =
were the title role. Take, for insN
my Herod in this piece. 1t su1sn
little from insufficient prspaSsn
(We have said that Mr.. cslvsn
modest man.
In truth, the actors book 10 ir'
able to players of all ages. y
everything one should know-
how to learn to be an actor.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Yorska Eats Little Cakes
Oscar Wilde Forgot TO Include in His
Stage Directions Adequate Advice
About the Diet of Princess Salome
By Solita Solano

1t was clear that great sorrow had
recently entered Yorska's life. Her
black hair, temperamental even on
calm days, fairly stood on end Her
eyes smouldered in their sockets. Her
shoulders, naked except where ver-
dant veil brushed the skin lightly,
dropped and shook with tremors of an
guish.
Sympathizers stood about the dress
ing room--a rather small dressing
room that made the business of sym-
pathizing difficult.
"Why heaviest thou thine-I mean
thy-shoulders as if thou wast-wert
Old Mother Earth shaken by inward
convulsions 2" queried one of Salome's
handmaidens, whose veil hung more to
cne side than the other, despite every
thing. Having listened upward score
of times to Wilde's poetically inclined
text, the maiden has chosen to affect
this obscure and irritating style
whenever she is in costume.
"This shoulder l shake because am
about to go mad on your account.
The other-well, if you must know, 1
ate too many little gateaux-cakes,
you know-to-day at tea and now my
stomach sticks out, and want to pat
it, just like Haywood Broun said,"
walled Yorska.
There is no use trying to conceal even
one little radish-and ! adore little rad
lshes-in this costume, and so when it
Is a matter of ten or maybe twelve
little cakes! Mon Dieu, mes amies. /
ask you to look" She fell to shud-
dering anew and staring into her mir
ror.
Little cakes as round as apples, ripe
red apples, plucked in autumn" !"
chanted the dreamy handmaiden with
the air Of one who has further inspira-
ton close at hand.
"Out you go! And that is Hiawatha
and not Oscar Wilde" cried Yorska.
She began to unlock the silver robe
that so indiscreetly divulged the de-
parture from dietetics, and presently
employed another handmaiden in coax
ing together reluctant edges with
safety pins.
Are you going out front? Must
you, really? Then you cannot but see
my dance and implore you to miss it,"
and Yorska began to tell of the six les
sons given her by Adolf Bolm in the
unfamiliar art of dancing, the last FIVE
quite against his will, one gathered.
1t seems that during the sixth, Bolm,
who had been growing more downcast
and discouraged each day, stood regard
ing the ground with a terrible air when
Yorska, conscious of her gaucherie.
SAID lightly, Monsieur, je sas CONNIE
Je suis. Riez, 81 vous voulez." "Riezln
numbered Bolr. "Riez! Madame, je
vous assure que c'est pleurer!"
1t was not long before Yorska's en-
trance cue fioated forth from the
beautiful stage setting that is the
product OF Rollo Peters's rich imagina-
tion and assuredly a fitting place to
lnclose the decadent and doomed person
OF the Princess Salome. Yorska wan
dered out into the white moonlight. ON
the stage OF the Comedy Theatre, wan
and iistless, to wheedle a guard, ever
mindful, however, of the necessity to
Keep CONSTRUCTED the muscles of the
place wherein lay "the matter of ten
or maybe twelve little cakes" Presently
her role permitted that she 20 to the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

We have with us to-day exhibits A
and 3. The first is ga Marriage of
Convenience" which Sydney Grundy
adapted from the French of Alexandra
Dumas back in the nineties or there
abouts. is "a Pair of Pstticoats," )"
by Cyril Harcourt. 1t may serve as a
typical artificial comedy of to-day.
Mr.. J. Ranken Towse says of "a
Marriage of Convenience" that "ths
play itself, even in the original, is not
among the masterpieces, but is, never
theless, a sparkling bit of work ad-
mirably adapted to theatrical pur-
poses" The contest may therefore be
said to be reasonably fair. "A Pair of
Petticoats" is not in the very first
rank of modern high comedy. 1t Is
not as good as the same authors
"Pair of Silk Stockings" and certainly
not to be compared with "The Mol.
lusc" OF Henry Hubert Devies. But it
will suffice. We are content to let it
stand as champion of modern high
comedy against "a Marriage of Con-
venience," typifying the high comedy
OF generation ago.
The acting of the two pieces is, we
think, about equally good. Laura Hope
Crews is better comedienne than
Billie Burke, but Miss Burke has the
advantage of gorgeous costumes, which
enhance her beauty to high degree.
Whatever advantage still remains with
our modern play may be made up by
the skilful work Of Henry Miller in
the drama Of another day. Mr. Towse
stated that, although all the perform
ers in the revival were not equally at
home, the general representation was
lively and agreeable.
Comparison, then, is fair, 1t is diff
cult to make it here. We would rather
ask all readers of The Tribune to see
both plays and then decide whether
or no the high comedy of to-day is
not OF better quality than that with
which English and American audiences
were ragaled thirty years ago. Not
much advance has been l..ade in play
building. "A Marriage of Conven-
ience" is rather more COMPACT than
"A Pair Of Petticoats."
This may count for the modern play.
After all, one of the complaints which
can fairly be made against yesterdays
high comedy is that it is too tight.
We have come to look nowadays ON
the we'll made play as the bad play,
That is not always true, but it is SO
in large number Of cases with the
plays OF the last generation. Perhaps
they were not we'll made after all,
Perhaps they were only machine made.
If the modern formula of plot is
less severe than that Of yesterday the
modern formula OF line is still moro
free. Thirty years ago the dramatist
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Yesterday and To-day
Some Aspects of Henry MIzer's Revival
of "a Marriage OF Convenience" and
Hovcourf's |Pair of Pefficoats"
By Haywood Broun

THERE Ezabethan about would willingly them
to talk of the good old days. of the theatre
who
turned their William Somerset Maugam
traordnary that who theatregong latter
half of the nineteenth should shedding
the bleak seventies eighties to-day
through impairment freshness
and Their and endurance however, them
the hardshp they endured But they
they take the position that the thirty
those precarious dug
acting.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

| was chaste and you poured fire into
my veins!' she cries. If she were
played aa anything but young and vir-
ginal at the beginning the whole mean
ing OF the play would be lost-at least,
from our reading of it."
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Many persons have wondered what
became of Nora after she slammed that
door. Beau Broadway, of "The Morn
ing Telegraph" thinks that she went
straight to Mrs. Linden's and sat in a
game of three-handed bridge. The
theory is obviously false. AS a matter
Of fact, Nora was tired and upset after
her stormy scene with Torvald. She
wanted cup of tea and she went to
the nearest restaurant which happened
to be the Plum Blossom Garden, run by
an enterprising Scandinavian named Ho
10 Lo.
She had scarcely begun to eat her
chicken chow mein when there was a
great rumpus at the door and the AS
sistant District Attorney entered. Not
only was Nora unable to show we'd
i, ding ring, but she failed to give any
satisfactory answer when asked what
she was doing out at such an hour. The
patrolman told the desk sergeant at the
station house that she had talked wild
~ Of having lived with strange man
and borne him three children. How
ever, this did not prejudice her case
permanently, for the next morning the
magistrate discharged Nora in the Gus
tody Of her husband, Mr.. Toryald Hell
mer, the banker. But first the Judge
read the prisoner short lecture, in
which he said, Before all else, you are
wife and mother" There was not q
dry eye in the courtroom.
Several reviews and one or two let
ters to this office have expressed what
seems to US the curious objection that
certain performances in the present
lbsen revival at the Plymouth Thea
tire are not Scandinavian" We are
puzzled to understand just what is
meant. Certainly Ibscn did not intend
to confine his dramatic problems to
conditions in Norway. He realized
comparatively early in his career that
re was writing world drama. In fact
he rebelled at the idea that a play
wright should be concerned with mere
local interests. In one of William
Archer's introductions in the Scribner
edition Of "The Wild Duck" we find
that some little time before that play
appeared 1bsen wrote to George Bran
des from Rome and said, II am re-
volving In my mind just now the plan
OF new dramatic work in four acts
From time to time variety Of whim
sizes gather in ones mind and one
wants to find an outlet for them. But
as the play will neither deal with the
Supreme Court nor with the Absolute
Veto, nor even with the Pure Flag, it
can hardly count upon attracting much
attsntion ~ Gssway. Lst Va hobe.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
however, that it may find g hearing
elsewhere"

The Washington Square Players are
right back at us because of what we
said about Nine. Yorska in "Salome."
Here is their rebuttal:
You criticised Yorska's conception
OF saiome by saying that it reminded
you of Jane in Seventeen But, far
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
But and Rebut
BY Haywood Broun

New obligations are constantly being
imposed on actors. The latest is sue-
gested by Louis Sherwin in a recent
review Of "A Dolls House"
Neither George Probert as DR.. Rank
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
NezD Plays This Week

MONDAYAt Empire, in bv
preceded by Bare's "The New Word" ~
At the Lexington "The Mystery O'Conor
THURSDAYAt Cohan Burglar" new musical
piece by Glen MacDonough ~
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
One-Week Stands

Bronx Opera House. ...."on.
Columbia 5000. Bowery bstssss
Loew's 7th Avenue,
@Mutt and JET Diver
Majestic AIRS. Warren's Pzo1s
Mantsms .*PssssF
Standard. ."The Man Who Cam
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

nor Roland Young as Krogstad dis
turbcd my slumbers," writes the tai
ented critic of "The Globe"
But objection may we'll be raised.
After all is it. essential that Louis Sher-
win should be kept awake in the
theatre?
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12
SHORTENING THE DISTANCE

America will become with in reach
of England in day and half and the
time will come when an Englishman
in New York will see his London paper
the morning after it publication said
Handley Page the airplane construc.
tor, recently.
He prophesied that Immediately on
the declaration of peace it would be
possible to begin an air service be-
tween Marseillies and London with
single stop at Paris for an overhaul
and taking in gasoline. Mr. Page con-
tinued.
"Constantinople could be reached
reached in twenty hours, Rome in
twelve and half hours, and Marseil-
les eight" he said.
can 500 mile service could be run
at profit, both for mails and pas
sengers, at rate but little in excess
of that present in force.
81 base IN calculations on the use
Of medium-sized machine making
non-stey flights of 400 miles. Each
would carry 400 pounds of revenue.
earning load. There would be first
class aerodromes at each end of the
route, and another in the middle. Sc
cond-class aerodromes would be pro,
vided every 100 miles.
"A0minimum service of six machin-
es each way per day could be provid-
ed for capital of under 100000. The
annual cost would be under 100000.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12
FINDING THE GERM

! "This is the cause oftrench fever
said the bacteriologist he open a small
metal box about the size Of apill-box
and disclosed three tiny germs lying
| benath bits of leaf One of the pari-
c]es was so small microscope was
needed to see it, but two others were
well developed and lively. one of
them lying on it's back with it's EGGS
up
They are thoroughbreds," he adj.
ed referring to the germs as though
they were ligh-bred race horses. The
thoroughbreds are kept for research
experimental purpose, it was explain
ed This specie conveys trench few
er much as the mosquito, malaria
from one infected person to another
But as these thoroughbreds had not
been in contact with infection they
could not conveyit they was there
fore harmless, so much so that they
were foG By icing placed on the bacte.
biologists am.
Rolling w Lis sleeve he showed the
pin-pricks ''liere they had made their
last meal. 1t was harmless abrasion
and thus Tie thoroughbreds were
kept For The continuing research
which is Gearing up this troublesome
phase of army disease, trench fever
archaeological research is hut one
OF many branches of the extensive
research work being carried on here
by the Central Laboratory of the
American Army in Europe It is a
very practical work, dealing with the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12
THE GERMAN LOOT

Officers of the Germany army occupi
ed Thihaucourt until they were diven
out by the Americans in the smash
ing of the ST. Mihiel salient enlivened
their stay in the little French village
by consuming large quantities of
French wines which they confiscat-
ed from the cellars of the French pro-
prietors. From the wine cellar of one
Frenchman alone the Germans took
5000 bottle Of champagne, 10000
quarts of red wines in bottles and
drained 80 enormous casks each con
tanning more than 5000 quarts of var
ious kinds of wine The advance
guard of the German helped them
selves literally to the wine. Later the
greater part of it was shipped back
to Germany as loot of the German
army.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

many new maladies coming from gas
attacks, gun shock, the subterranean
life in trenches, as well as the infinite
varity of surgical problems growing
out Of wounds from new and deadly
explosives.
Besides the scientific research it is
the great central institution for a cir
Gle of smaller laboratories all through
the army zone, with specialists
ready to go to any point where an
epidemic or case of unusual chara-
cter develops.
Besides the trench fever mircrobe,
the meteorological laboratory had
countless other germs, OF typhoid. Dip
iberia, malaria, dysentery, tubercu
losis, and the whole range Of malad-
lies which find Judgement in an army
The germ cultures are in long spind-
Iy bottles. They present a deadly ar
senal Of disease germs which would
decimate whole city if they were
Embossed.
A large oven of white enamel was
at one side Of the laboratory, and
opening the door of the oven one saw
the germ cultures being developed to
full growth, much as chickens are de-
veloped in an incubators A mild heat
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

None of the Civilians of Thiaucourt
was ever searched for valuable and
owing to this fact all of those who
remained in Thisaucourt when the
Americans entered the village still
had the jewelry and other articles
Of gold and silver. Many of the wo-
men had sewed material over the
French gold pieces and wore them
upon their outer clothing as buttons
Many of the keepsakes and pieces
of iewelry and French gold coins
were offered to the Americans by the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

always kept uniform, carries on the
work of germ growth. Soft cotton was
spread over the oven, and on this lay
the cultures, some exposed and
some in the long bottles, slowly ma
turing to the full-grown state where
the full effort of their deadly proper.
ties can be examined and studied.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

Attempting to guide the German
in the folds of democracy may be
harder task than the overthrow Or
militarists. There is more work a
head for the victors.
head for victors.
From the terms given the German
may read between the lines that the
allied nations are going after Lenine
and Trotsky in Russia before the
thing is over. England has a row with
that gang that is worth fighting out
? 1t may be true also with the cher ma.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

The American Government has
stopped its draft machinery No more
men will be taken. This took 800 900
= off the November calls alone, Great
ss, Britain has also stopped enlistment
~ of soldiers for the war. Before long
--- the great military machines will be
slowly turning men back to civil life
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

Exactly at eleven o'clock yesterday
morning, the long range American
guns took their parting shots at the
fleeing German army. 1t was a sort
of ceremonial ending much like the
firing of the first gun, with the excep-
ton that there is a chapter of Amer
ican heroism and superior fighting I'M
excelled written between.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

The peace conference will more
than likely go to the little country Of
< Switzerland 1t is the one spot in Eu-
rope where the allies will feel they
are on neutral grounds.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

There is a rumor that Won linden
burg has joined the Reds in the re-
volution This is another United Press
fake 1t may be true and it may not
be true. 1t is merely a guess. There is
already one guess that Hindenburg
has gone into Holland with the form
er emperor here IS one thing certain
He should remember that his safety
lies not with the Allies.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

:, ~ If the Germans carry out the full
,5lierms Of the armistice with the allies
EFwithin the thirty days allowed no one
W anywhere under the sun may fear
ts' that the war will be renewed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

villagers as sovenirs, but Ameri-
cans refused to accept them.
The villagers said that two years
ago the Germans stripped the church
es Of Thiaucourt of their bells and
even took the metal of the pipe or
CANS all of which was shipped to Ger
many to be turned into material for
war. The electric light plant likewise
was dismantled of its machinery, and
every bit of metal obtainable, was
sent back as fast as it could be assem-
bled.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

If you have had any doubts as
whether the allies would prove strict
with their demands on Germany, you
should read the terms of the armis-
tice and study them In the meantime
you might still try to determine
whether you think Germany is beaten
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12

The avenues of trade are again
open to the world! My, what a diff
ference this will bring after four years
and over. The ships will return to
high seas safe from the subs
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-12
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK
MARKET HAS BEEN CLOSED

Chicago, Nov. 12,-The Live stock
market here has been declared closed
until Thursday, it was announced to-
day.. Owing to the cessation of bus,
mess yesterday it is expected that
congestion will occur for the next
few days.