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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

lTRICIA COLLINGE, as "the
/ little Mennonite maid" looms
Z brightly In the memory OF
- hst weeks playbiIls as
: quaint portrait in an old
E32Aoe1Ay. such as used to delight
,fAs S1fandmothers Of a quarter OF
- 0n&my Or more ago. And the
6DdeEn generation really liked her.
Who knows? Perhaps some little war
worker saw in the climax of the SOM
bar story q something that brought
hope Into her own humble drama OF
life. The Characterization was a
clear-cut portrait, fit to adorn any
gallery of dramatic effort worth re-
msmbering. Now-"Parlor, Bedroom
and Bath" was different. Farce Is
always SO impudent. But. as life
without spice and laughter Is not
q Heart .ns pa nne H go ne and Bath
inst filled the bill for those who liked
3trAnd oh, how numerous they were.
who Stole the Hat"' coming 50
013ckiy on the heels of Alta Boy"
aasaule in favor Of woman suffrage.
II the feminine Is worthy so much
effort to initiate in the play. what is
tie objection to letting her set the
pace as a model for the bigger things
Of Hfe7 Probably the seeming ar
gament 10 call in the play" and
therefore not to be taken too serious
IL in all things. The show. how
ever. was excellent entertainment.
rejecting credit alike upon the pro-
feosionAl manager who brought 1t in
to being and the gallant corporal who
shone as its star. 1t Is in the ma
turn, also. Of advance notice. at least
to the musical comedy artist, that
the khaki boys may know how to
take care of themselves in new
way when the normal life Is resumed.
With Otis Skinner close at hand and
William Gillette in the offing. 1t looks
as II the drama may find it's way back
to the stage after all True. the Bal
xac comedy will be pitted against the
me1odramatic genius of Willard Mack
BelAscoized, but withal 1t will have at
least q showing, even though Leave
1t to JAne"-"with the original COM
pnny"-may help to give 1t a run for
the money" as they are wont to say
N the Maryland town of Laurel. At
any rate the leading playhouses will
give Q range for theatrical taste that
should cover the entire local desire.
The new play Of Sir James NJ. Barrie
and Mr. Gillette will be awaited with
keen interest and pleasurable antici-
patton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08
Lyceun.

Hello, Paree," an American Bur
lesque Association attraction. will open
a weeks engagement at the Lyceum
Theater with this afternoons 3 O'Clock
performance. Jules Jacobs, character
comic, assisted by John Grant and Lew
Golden, head the cast.
Nellie Nice will be the feminine star,
assisted by Emily Nice and Elsie Dom
nelly. One Of the featured acts will be
Boutte and Carter, colored entertain
ers and dancers. A chorus of twenty
girls supplements the cast.
Up-to-date burlesque. not the stero-
typed brand, is promised in two acts
and seven scenes of plotless comedy,
singing and dancing Specialties will be
by Rogers and Donnelly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

at His Ma3ssty's Theatsz. IN LenAon.
and which ran all last season u ehe
Century Theater, New York. - oc0-
ing to Polls Theater for . weak ee-
ginning Sunday night, December y.
It has been called ''the most bsOta-
dering and beautiful production EVER
made in America" It Is . muesoaA
romance Of ancient Bagdad. TOLD IN
fourteen scenes. and utiltxtng xne
services of moro than 500 people.
Mail orders will now DO received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

important feature of the vaudeville
bill at the Cosmos Theater this week.
In other words, it is Douglas Fair
banks in his latest Paramount-Art-
craft story, HE Comes Up Smiling"
which will be recalled as his stage
success of some time back. The Cos
mos is making a special feature Of
showing ACKNOWLEDGEMENT photo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

The Actor and His Role-Otis Skin.
ner has an almost boyish affection fol-
his role In THE Honor of His Fam
fly"
Il love Bridau." he says. '-The
among the many. many that l have
played has q nrmer grip on my affec-
tions, nor a stronger pull at my heart
strings. Bridau and I became fast
friends ten years ago. At first was
suspicious Of him. When I knew him
less well was inclined to look upon
him as . more or less unwholesome
creature. a braggart and a flamboyant
blustsrer, whose chief aim in life was
money, money. money"
But" continued Mr.. Skinner. Elm
growing to know him I grew to
understand him and his eccentricities.
Then began to love him. And now.
ten years later. I return to find
Bridau none the less charming be-
cause Of the years that have passed,
but, on the contrary, more human,
more delightful, more lovable than
"col. Philippe Bridau. with all his
Of France. An adventurer, it is true,
hut = gentleman"
a New barrie Play.-One Of the
really important announcements Of the
season 10 that Of the Charles Frohman
Company that Sir James Matthew Bar
fis's nsw comedy. Dear Brutus," with
William Gillette in the chief role. will be
presented In Washington next week.
The play Is credited with making war
stricken London really forget its trou-
btes. Unlike most Of Barrie's plays,
which arc dominated BY q feminine
character. Dear Brutus," like ''The Ad-
mirable Crichton." with which Mr. Gil
letts delighted American audiences years
ego, has a man for Its chief parsonage.
i Is also described as quaint. fantastic
and, Of course, highly Imaginative. II is
about people who love to tell what they
would do II they had their own way.
CuaAEnx to America-Stuart Walker
has Just received q letter from Lord
DunsAny saying that he will arrive in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

play as part Of its weekly bill at
1:15 and 4:45 pm. daily.
The live acts" will be headed by a
miniature ''Follies" extravaganza call
ed Bon Voyage" headed by Jimmy
Gildea, the red-headed comedian" with
Murray Harris and a bevy of pretty
girls. Corbett, Shepherd and Dunn will
have a high-class singing act; Kube-
Xix. his famous jazz band; Frank, Lee
Dent and company, an exhibition of
high-class spectacular juggling. and
Robert Henry Hodge and company,
the comedy sketch of the bill. Bill
Blithers. Lawyer which is q laugh
specially. There will also be a Aim
comedy. a Sennett feature. Whose
Little Wife Are Your" and the Pathe
Animated News, the latter being shown
at 2:30 and pm. daily from Monday
to Friday. The afternoon live vaude-
vile" starts at 2:45 pm. and again at
els pm, running until 1O:40 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08
Folly.

Billy Lightelle and the Moonlight
Maids" will open a weeks engagement
at the Folly Theater today, in two
| musical burlettas, 'Too Many Cooks
and 1.-The Follies Cabaret" A cast Of
capable entertainers includes Tom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08
COSMOS.

A picture play with popular star
and q plot OF intense interest to tho
valet OF an escaped canary will be an
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CONCERTS, LECTURES ETC


02GUW AU1S, &V16
The second Of Burton Holmes tf9v.
eltalks in this city win be given ~
the New National Theater tonight.
when the lecturer will tell about
.The Yanks in PARIS" The lecture
will be repeated tomorrow afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock.
Mr.. Holmes will take his audience
on a word-and-picture trip through
CONTINUED on Seventh Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

FAINT, Ruby Garrison. willard Dyer.
5ert Buckley. Ed Pop Lowry, Ethel
weston. Essie Calvert. Eva Garrison
ana Rube Davis. Many tuneful songs
are listed on the program. The seem
cry and costumes are new and q chorus
contains eighteen pretty girls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08
Liberty Dansante Gardens.

Tho Liberty Dansante Gardens every
evening at $50 o'clock has two orches-
tras playing for its dancing patrons.
The best floor and music to be found.
high standards, and every convenience
are claimed by the management.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

CuaAen& to America-Stuart Walker
has Just received q letter from Lord
Dunsany saying that he will arrive in
New York early in January. Though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08
Central Coliseum.

Patrons of the Central Coliseum to-
day will have an opportunity to skate on
one of the finest Kinks in America to
music furnished by ten-piece brass
band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

"Chu Chin Chow" Coming.
''Chu Chin Chow" the big musical
extravaganza, now in it's third year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

\ lTRICIA COLLINGE, a. "the
little Mennonite maid" looms
brightly In the memory OF
hst weeks playbiIls as a
u~%~fu$ ~orfroff In m old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

farewell. The young wife had no
friends near at hand. She had to
take the train right back to Chicago.
The K. of c. chaplain who per-
formed the marriage ceremony in
terpreted the case as one for spe-
cial effort. The priest escorted the
girl to the jitney. He saw the tears
yelling back of the brave brown
eyes, and he was afraid that if the
little woman once broke down it
would be mighty hard for her to
reach Chicago.
But when they shook hands she
met his sympathetic glance with a
courageous smile.
"Well, we've got each other,' she
said. And, in reply to that shining
piece Of human satisfaction. the
chaplain could only shake the firm
little hand more heartily.
A X. of C. chaplain was sitting in
his little room early one morning
reading the Office which every priest
must read, and which takes about
one hour of his time every day. A
pale, full moon hung over the sleep
ing cantonment and the dull tramp
of the pacing sentry could be heard
An improvised lampshade of carbon
paper shadowed the little room, so
that when the chaplain looked up at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Pershing Needs
That Sort of Man

It's hardly any wonder that Gen
eral Pei shing wants more men Of
that callbre, no matter what their
religious profession, overseas with
his army. He knows their effect on
the boys, how they help in the vital
work OF sustaining the morale of
troops who have not yet tasted the
purgatory of modern battle. His
sister, Miss Pershing, probably ex
pressed her brothers sentiments
when, witnessing a crowded mass in
n. of c. building at a Western
camp, she exclaimed: They are the
kind of boys my brother wants."
ana the commandments in the can
tonments at home are just as eager
as is General Pershing TO get the
right kind of religious help for their
men. 1t counts vitality in the win
nlng of the war. From General
Scott down the big men of the army
have joined the enlisted men in at
tending those inspiring spectacles
That GO by the name of field masses
and the highest dignitaries of the
Church, Cardinal O'Connell, Bishop
Hayes and many others, have per
formed the chaplain's duty of cele-
brating SUCH masses.
The Knights of Columbus have up-
ward of a hundred chaplains in
home camps and about fifty over
seas. And with the expansion Of
X. of c. work at home and abroad
SO that future expenditure will APP
proxlmate a million dollars week.
many more of these chaplains will
be provided. The men need all they
can get and the K. of C. are going
to take care that as many of the
hundreds of young and middle aged
priests who have volunteered for
service In the olive drab uniform as
can be spared will be sent to the
camps to promote this sterling work
for God and country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Chaplains Worked
From Morning Till Night

At Camp Merritt, for instance,
there are two X. Of C. chaplains,
and careful averaging of their time
gives them exactly four hours for
sleep in every twenty-four. Being
the debarkation camp, Merritt is,
for obvious reasons, place where
it usually occurs to the soldier,
whipped into physical trim by siren
uous training at some interior en-
campment, to get himself into spirit
ual shape for the trip across the u
boat infested ocean. The chaplains
are unusually busy at Merritt.
Whenever regiment is under or
ders to embark the day preceding
the departure is heavy one for re-
ligious work. The men throng the
X. of G. building from morning I'M
til night, making their confessions.
There is always midnight mass for
the boys, who by the hundreds de-
prive themselves of much needed
sleep to attend. They receive Holy
Communion and go back to barracks
to march out again after a two or
three hours nap, shouldering their
rifles and singing songs as they take
the route to the port Of departure
to No Mans Land.
The solemn side of the war comes
home to the civilian on visit to
Camp Merritt any evening proceed
ing the debarkation of fighting
unit. The K. Of c. building will be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
By John B. Kennedy
Editor of "The Colambiad'

w 7HO could look a beef-fed,
Nv khaki-clad scrap per
squarely in the eye and
call him a sinner? Or a miserable
sinner? Only an Unfortunately bra
zen Pharisee, or a gentleman rather
premature in his charity for the
benefciaries of his life insurance
and accident policies.
Yet there was a time when
Fighting" Fred Funston had to re-
mind certain misdirected zealots
that if soldiers were sinners they
were no worse sinners than civil
ians, and the hint was wisely ac-
cepted that they might resent any
unlimited attempt to turn them into
saints.
Which does not imply that SOL
diers are impressive to religious ap-
peal. They are, in the aggregate,
more practically religious than civil
ians. Visit any big cantonment
when field mass is being celebrated
or when other impressive religious
ceremonies are being conducted, and
the attendance of the fighting men
will compare more than favorably
with the attendance in city churches,
when the number of men in camp
and the number of civilians in a
parish are considered.
What the soldier doesn't like is
not religion, but the obtrusion of re-
hgion. One of the cardinal truths
driven home by military discipline is
the fact that there must be time
and a place for everything. This
the soldier learns, and, as a result,
in the regimen of his leisure hours
he finds time to observe the outward
forms of whatever religion he pro-
fesses. But he resents any attempt
to drum religion into him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

and, like all men with heavily bur-
dened souls, took it upon himself to
shed what he considered the chief
part of the burden by way Of easing
the situation.
II amt been to confession for
twenty-odd years." he said.
Better late than never" the
chaplain said.
And the twenty-year catalogue
was unfolded. But as the corporal
was leaving be halted.
Zone or two of the fellows in my
outfit are in just about the same way
l was,' he said. They want to get
fixed up
"Send them along,' said the
priest.
"Not right away the corporal
replied. I'm not through with my
farewell furlough. These other fell
lows are in barracks"
But before revelle the other fell
lows had reused the chaplain from
his two-hour sleep and been accom-
modated precisely as was the gaunt
corporal. Perhaps this incident, and
the hundred variations of it that
could be told, and we'll authenticated,
illustrates the reason why Bishop
Hayes of New York, who has charge
over all Catholic chaplains, selects
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Thirty-hve Per Cent of Soldiers Roman Catholics
Who Fight Best When Prepared to Go
Over ''the Great Divide''

! Catholic priests. They are not COM
missioned by the government, and,
although this deprives them of mill
tary standing, it places them in a
position which, at times, works out
to better advantage than if they
were commissioned and subject to
military discipline. But regular
army chaplains will be the first to
admit that the K. of C. chaplains
render a great and substantial SER
vice to the men in the camps and at
the front, and, as for the men them
selves, one has only to visit the
nearest cantonment to witness how
thoroughly they utilize these chap
lains.
1t may seem anomalous that these
chaplains should be furnished to the
army by an organization indepen-
dent of the War Department, al
though recognized by and co0perat-
ing with it. But this apparent
anomaly is easily explained. Ap-
proximately 35 per cent of the men
in the American army are Catho-
lies, and they are often so distrib-
uted that, despite the utmost fair
ness in the allotment of chaplain
cies in proportion to creedal repre-
sentation in the ranks, large num-
bers of Catholic soldiers find them
selves in regiments to which a nom
Catholic chaplain is attached. They
must, then, rely upon the K. of C.
chaplain to attend to their religious
welfare. Again, the Catholic faith
is peculiar in it's requirements for
sufficient practice on the part of its
adherents-which necessitates a
close personal contact between the
priest and the layman, and it is
easy to understand that when a
Catholic army chaplain finds him
self located where he has to minis
ter to thousands of men the chances
for personal contact are quite re-
mote. Here the K. of c. chaplain
solves the problem.
That he solves it we'll is being
demonstrated in every camp where
these chaplains are located, and
there is hardly camp in the coun-
try where they are not. At the
front three K. of C. chaplains have
already been mentioned in dis
patches for conspicuous bravery I'M
der fire. And while those at home
have not yet had the opportunity to
become battlefield heroes, they are
accomplishing work which by it's
very righteousness entities them to
heroic rank.
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But the brides are usually just as
brave as their husbands; they &C
cept the fact of war, and, whatever
heartaches they may have, they
manage to conceal them until they
get out of sight of the boys who
leave them behind.
One little woman came all the way
from Chicago to get married in the
K. of C. building at Merritt. She
couldn't sleep on the train, and,
when she arrived in camp, she was
d pretty tired bride-elect. The
bridegroom had three hours liberty.
Then they had to bid each other
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

the most robust physical material he
can find for the onerous posi-
tions.
Consider-for a typical case of
bearing the straying sheep back to
the fold-the case of Ginger"
Ginger" came from the gashouse
section of New York, and he reached
Camp Devens in a very dissatisfied
frame Of mind with men and things.
He hung around one of the K. of c..
buildings there because it contained
a free pool table, although he missed
the thick haze of smoke over the
table and the frequent understanding
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

tapping on his window a pale face
stood in relief against the half
gloom Of the camp beyond.
The chaplain, not without misgiv-
ing, went to the door, opened it and
admitted gaunt soldier, who greet
ed him gingerly.
expect to go tomorrow, father
said the corporal. "Can you hear
my confession?"
Of course the priest could. He
explained he was there to do that
very thing at any hour of the day
or night.
But the gaunt corporal blinked
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

Of "bum' shots with strings of pro-
family.
Ginger" acquired a reputation as
tough guy because he said eds
and "dat" and ''thoity-thoid." But
Father McGinn, X. of c. chaplain
at Camp Devens, saw that under
meath the rather raspish exterior
"Ginger's" heart was as true as any
that beat inside a regulation army
shirt. He didn't pal up with "Gin-
ger"--back-slapping and the hail
fellow-well-met stuff doesn't exactly
work with the gashouse bunch. But
he told Ginger" that if he didn't
have anything particular to do on a
Sunday morning he might drop
around to the K. of c. building.
"Ginger' dropped around and at
tended his first mass since the days
before he hurled his first brick from
a tenement roof on a placid cop up
holding a street lamp below.
"Ginger' had no aesthetic regard
for the service, although he might
have been impressed by the serious
attention which the thousand or so
boys present displayed. But one
thing made big hit with Ginger"
It was the bell rung at the most
solemn moments of the mass. He
figured things III for himself and
probably had lonely battle with
the old. remembered prejudices
against the 'cissy guys" who tried
to get in soft at school by helping
out the priest at church.
Ginger" won the battle. On the
following Saturday evening he
turned up in Chaplain McGinn's
Office, where tall lieutenant was
engaged in conversation. Ginger"
butted right in.
"Have youse,' he asked the priest
(and who shall sheer at the dialect
Of a warrior, particularly when the
warrior is red-headed?)--"H Have
youse got anybody to solve mass to-
morror, father?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21

packed, not as on other nights for
one of the innumerable vaudeville or
movie entertainments staged there,
but with boys intent upon their last
letter home before sailing overseas.
The secretaries, five Of them, are
occupied through the night passing
out stationery, retailing stamps and
answering thousand-odd questions.
The steady, creeping sound of a
thousand pens travelling at varying
speeds over sheets of paper is all
that is heard in the building save
the murmur Of the priests and peni-
tents who line the walls of the build
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-21
Must Be Ready
To Cross Great Divide

The American soldier considers
his religion a private and personal
affair. Face to face with the most
serious thing in life, he INDUCES in
lntrospection without being bounded
into it. The average healthy dough-
boy searches his soul more often
than his robust, care-free appear
ance might lead one to suspect, and
it is safe gamble, which most army
chaplains will take, that the men
charging over the trench are just as
ready to cross the great divide and
face their Creator as other citizens
who are warned six months in ad-
vance of the date when they may
expect to make the excursion for
which no round-trip tickets are ever
issued.
The Importance the governments
OF the various belligerent nations at
tach to religious influence over
their fighting men is amply evil
denced by the generous assignment
OF chaplains to the troops. Even
the terrible Turk appreciates the
soldiers need of spiritual help to de-
leat the inner enemies, which, if al
lowed to roam through heart and
head untamed, would impair eff
clency in dealing with the outer en-
envy.
The soldiers themselves are quick
70 respond to the personality of q
chaplain, even though their nick
name Of Charlie" indicates q GER
tain flippancss. The chaplain, like
'he school teacher, has to prove him
SELF before he wins the respect Of
'he men to whom he is assigned, but,
once he demonstrates that he "be-
longs the boys are for him, and for
,i'm strong; they adopt him as their
ioster-father, and his advice is
sought in the hundred, little prob
,ems that turn up in every soldiers
"le-and acted upon.
No set of men doing service for
'ne United States army get closer to
we soldiers Of their creed than the
Mn'ghts Of Columbus chaplains. The
a. OF G. chaplains are, Of course,