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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Making People
Laugh Is Serious
York, Says Name

There are two kinds Of people, those
who think cartoons are funny and
those who do not.
Some people will be convulsed over
the social aspirations of the rivals of
the Jones's; others think that couple
of strange looking children putting a
tack on papa's chair Is just the fun
NEST drawing on earth. AS for US, we
never could get up much enthusiasm
over some June bugs with shoes and
hats on capering about under an ap-
pie tree, and we always thought that
1T was an awful waste of good ma
terial to present Mutt and Jeff and
Bobby Bumps and such-like on the
screen
And then we stayed for the cartoon
at the Rivoli one Sunday and thought
1t was the funniest thing we ever had
listened to. We use that word "listen"
sdvlsedly, as all will know who have
sat through comedy st the Rivol.
named Max Name VINO has the soul
of Beethoven and the humor of Mark
Twain. The cartoons, as presented on
the screen, seemed dull old things to
him just as they did to US, so he set
about improving them.
He had at hand a number of musical
instruments which will make queer
sounds like man being kicked, for
instance, or trembling with fright or
laughing. Name experimental with
these and every one was delighted. He
made the funny little slhouettes live
and breathe, and then he became am
bilious. He added to his collection of
instruments, and those he could not
purchase he made.
If you never have seen Rivoli COM
edy go and see one and listen to the
orchestral effects. Name puts on all
of these comedies himself. We were 20
delighted with them that we wanted to
see the little drummer boy" at close
range and find out if he had a sense of
humor or if those effects just hap
pened. And, as ever, this professional
humorist is serious and hard working,
just like +. P. A. or Irwin Cobb. Moth
ing that he does just happens.
Hugo Riesenfeld invited us both to
lunch with him at Rector's one day last
week, and we talked it over. And
Name told us that he tried each effect
again and again until he felt that it
would get over.
Sometimes I work all night over a
picture, and in the cold, gray dawn
fall exhausted, exclaiming: There,
think that is quite funnyl'" And then
Mr. Mamie told US of O. scheme which
he has to fit cartoon around his must
cal effects. 1t has already been ap-
proved by Bud Fisher. and, further
more, 1T has received our sanction. As
u. b. 5. used TO say, "It's bear"
II. L.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Lucy Cotton i'm
Max MARGIN Film

Gerald Bacon announces that he has
signed Lucy Cotton for his first pro-
duction, screen version Of Max Mar
Gins play, Substitute Prisoner.p re-
titled "Sunup," which will be started
next week at the Bacon Backer studio.
1t was previously announced that Mr..
Bacon had titled the MARGIN play al
Sunrise" but it was learned that q
stage play is now under production by
Smith q Golden bearing the same
title. In Difference to Messrs Smith
d Golden Mr.. Bacon has changed the
title to "Sunup"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

discretion, and yet It must be adver-
tised as the most daring" picture ever
produced: it endeavors to exalt us with
a solemn requiem and divert us with
comic relief, just as friend of ours.
wishing to produce "Macbeth," said he
thought brighter and prettier scenery
might do lot toward Tightening it up.
Consequently we see only scraps Of
anything and joggle about instead Of
going forward there is no cumula-
tive interest whatever. for just as you
are giving yourself up to one emotion
you are snached out of it and bounced
into another
No account of Neilan picture would
be complete without mention Of its
photography, particularly of those
lovely long shots with their curiously
classic elegance and grace. in which
we do not know his (nor his camera
man's) equal. We think no director
mas keener sense of beauty: the
groups that line the Belgian roads are
like the groupings of beautiful frezs
and all out of doors abounds in light.
cloudy light, light flushed with noon
time but never murky nor merely
dulled as every other out-of-door pho
geography we know of-except, perhaps.
Tourner ENTHUSIASTICALLY is.
We do not know if it is because Il is
so various as we'll as so fine that we
can never get enough Of Mary Alden's
acting; when Matt Moore has pre-
scented Nol as pleasant and manly
fellow he has done all that a long. but
none too thankful, part permits. The
plums Of the pudding fall to Wesley
Barry is the Kansas urchin, and if any,
body could make them digestiblc he
could. The moment when he is pitched
out OF the fleeing motor and left
among the Germans has in its ACTING
the real soul of a little boy in such q
plight. Let us now slight all the rest
Of an admirably chosen cast to noint
10 the hameless young man who, wher
the heroine asks, "Why do those Ger.
mans look at me SO ?" leans against the
side CT her car and outlooks the Ger.
mans, look for look. We don't think
that young man is going to be name
less long, and we want it on RECORD
that we said so.
About Blanche Sweet, we really are
AFRAID to say what we think. In s
world where nothing perfect is" We
might be offering proof that she ddn'
exist. Besides, as most Of that sam.
words poetry seems to have beer
written about her, it Will do as VOL
as any review Of ours.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
What Rupert Hughes THINKS
OF 1.-The objectionable Sin -

action is slowed down to ne-eighth
the normal would be a wonderful way
of showing people how she cries. 1t
isn't a matter of simply making the
tears come, but she is absolutely CON
vulsed with grief when she cries 1t
is very interesting. should like to
know how she does i'll"
And We smiled at Major Hughes's
naivete Just as though any man ever
could hope to know how she does it
or why There are at least ifty-seven
different reasons, and one of them is
when you stay at tea so late that you
haven't time to put on your new gown
to wear to the Griffith opening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

The L. Z. Waterman Company has
bought out the entire house for to-
morrow evenings performance Of
Trials of Faith" at the Harris The
atre, and will distribute the tickets
among its employees. The manage
ment also announces that the seats for
the evening performance of Nav 23
have been bought by the Rotary Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
By Virginia Tracy

For some reason we find it an ex-
ceptionally uncongenial task to reg
lister disappointment in "The Impair
donable Sin" Perhaps this is because
anything that restores Blanche Sweet
10 US has already earned our gratitude;
perhaps we suspect our own magma
ton as a we. blanket, already too sod
den with five years of deluge in blood
and atrocities, in rape and counter rape,
ever to take fire again. Then have We
any right to ask that a picture shall
ne greater than the book from which
the picture is taken?
Vet that is exactly what any pict-
ure dealing with scattered individual
motions gathering together into one
Immense and supreme motion has got
10 bean intensified, drama TIED, high
selief projection of the story's theme,
rs spirit, the story and something
more happy thought for the author
contemplating 2 scenario of "War and
Peace" To grapple thus with the
tory of the invasion OF Belgium was
indeed the task for giant; it came
= be too much for Rupert Hughes and
F.. has proved too much for Marshall
elan.
Taking all this into account, we still
believe that we have reasonable case
against the picture in that it partakes
lavishly Of the books faults and scarce
IT. at all OF its often extraordinary
virtues. For instance:
1t will be remembered that the novel
opens with the household of old Mrs.
Windsor and her son, Noll-the Ameri-
can son of a German American mother
VINO live in a mid Western town.
These two are for the first time trife
it is so bitter against the Germans
and believes SO easily the vile stories
told of them in Belgium. With his
mother in mind, Noll begins even to
quarrel in public in Germany's de
fence; why must his country take sides
so violently in European quarrel?
1t hasn't got anything TO do with Amer
ica, anyhow. Then one October even
ing-oh, such an American evening in
such an American small town street,
before his so mddle-class American
porch, with his mother sitting rock
ing on it! there drops to earth q
faiuting girl. She is carried into Noll's
house, where every medical aid and ex-
pertinent fail to wake her; she is in a
trance OF suspended animation, brought
on by some vital shock; ahe has been
literally scared out of her wits. There
She continues to lie in the much shak-
en- household of the good Windsors, a
mystery in a. commonplace life. herself
all elegance and beauty; a little sleep
ing princess, who fires the slow fancy
OF rather stolid youth to that pitch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

Blanche Sweet in 1.-THE objectionable
Sin" Is seen at the Broadway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

Broken Blossoms" the new Griffith
picture, is being shown at George NJ
Cohan's Theatre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18

ally good-looking suit in Love Assur-
ance.'
What sort of goods is rhat?" asked
some one.
English sun CLOTH he returned. Il
wear it because like the shade"
A certain attractive house in Laurel
Canyon. Los Angeles. is being put into
apple pie order and holiday attire. Ruth
stonehouse has wired her friends in
Hollywood that she is about to return
10 the land Of sunshine after wear
spent in New York when she was work
ing on THE Master Mystery"
Under the supervision Of Harry Levy
the Universal Industrial Department
has completed delightful domestic
comedy drama entted "straigh.
Goods This production is one Of the
clevercst bits Of farce mixed with
moments when the action reaches the
dramatic
Henry 3. Warmers first motion pet
ure production since joining the forces
of Jesse y. Hampton i'm California Will
be released some Time in June. The
picture is The Nan Who Turned
White written by i. McGrew Willis.
and prepared Tor screening by George
Elwood jerks. Jesse D. Hampton per
sonaliy directed this play, which is a
story Of life in Arabia.
The Petal on the Current, ,hs
Fannie Hurst Cosmopolitan novelette,.
in which Nary MacLaren viii star. !.
being directed by Tod Browning. Miss
MacLaren's leading man viii be Robert
Anderson, who first rose to prominence
as Monsieur Cuckoo in the Griffith pro-
duction, Hearts Of the World Fritzie
Ridgeway, and Ina Claire are in sup
port Of the star
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
.Shud0aus on The Screen

Doris Kanvon has namesate i,
Calcutta Hor mama 10 Doris Konvor
vernuev
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confusinq,
r o,D.
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0,,,, p s'-'.'1N ,9-'.'' '''0 Psii''' '''le'
Alice Joyce wrote the sketch which
Joyce ana Lewis are presenting at the
Palace. Half OF the team is Alice's
brother.
Charles Raw is learning 70 nlav ibe
piano and to be urjzefehter He
is in training with Colleen Moore and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
New Films at the Theatres

New Films at the Theatres
At the Rivoli Theatre Dorothy Gish
will have an opportunity to display her
talent as coincidence in her latest
Paramount picture, CPL Get Him Yet"
Richard Barthelmess is the leading
man.
A feature of the programme will be
the ballet arranged by Adolf Bolm. In
its Italian setting of the eighteenth
century, designed by John Wenger. it
suggests the carnival in Venice. The
dancers will be Margaret Leeraqs, Ed
win Strawbridge and Card Lesley.
The music is the third in the series of
LISTS Caprice Valses" based on a
theme from Lucia di Lammern oor."
A comedy. a Prizma of Glacier Park.
and the Rivoli Pictorial will complete
the bill. The musical programme will
consist of Suppe's "Pique Dame" over
ture. James Harrod will sing Kreis-
ler's "The Old Refrain"
Ethel Clayton in "The Woman Next
Door" will be shown at the Strand
Theatre. 1t is an adaptation Of Car
olyn Wells's novel "Vicky Van"
"1tasco Makes Her Bow is the title of
new Chester-Outing travel scenic A
new "Analysis of Motion" subject will
also be shown, as will. comedy, the
Strand Topical Review. edited by Di-
rector Plunkett, and Topics Of the
Day" The vocalists for the week are
Redeem Hollinshead, the popular Cana
dian tenor, and the Strand Ladies'
Quartette. Ralph H. Brigham and
Herbert Sisson will render selections
on the grand pipe organ and the SYM
phony Orchestra will play excerpts
from 'The Fortune Teller" Carl
Edouarde and Alois Reiser will con-
duct.
Broken Blossoms" the new Griffith
picture, is being shown at George NJ
Cohans Theatre
Pauline Frederick in Zone Week Of
Life" will be seen at the Rialto. The
play has been arranged for the screen
by Willard Mack. In the company are
Thomas Holding, Sydney Ainsworth
and Corinne Barker
A Sunshine comedy, "The Bell Hops
Secret" the Rialto Magazine and q
scenic Of Norway will supplement the
feature.
Hugo Riesenfeld has prepared an at
tractlve musical programme for the
+, Rialto. 1t will include Tschaikows S
Romeo and Juliet" overture, a violin
cello by Leonard Van Dyke, who will
play Peppers "Tarantella," and the
trio from William Tell" sung by Mar
tin Brefel, Edouard Albano and Eman.
uel List.
Blanche Sweet in 1.-THE objectionable
Sin" Is seen at the Broadway.
The features scheduled for this
week at Loews New York Theatre
and Roof will be Geraldine Farrar in
The Stronger Vow" on Monday; ].
Warren Kerrigan in "The Best Man."
on Tuesday; Maxine Elliott in "The
Eternal Magdalene," on Wednesday;
Tom Mix in "The Coming of the Law
on Thursday; Mary MacLaren in "The
Implanted Woman" and Margarita
Fisher in Charge 1t to Me-" on Fri
day; zena Keefe in "The Amateur
Widow" on Saturday and Hale Hamil
ton in Gull of Pep on Sunday.
The L.. Z. Waterman Company has
bought out the entire house for to-
morrow evenings performance. of
Trials of Faith" at the Harris The
atre, and will distribute the tickets
among Its employees. The manage
ment also announces that the seats for
the evening performance of Nav 23
have been bought by the Rotary Club.
The mirror., 1919-01-23
Birds as House Builders

The comparatively small (15in.) scrub
fowl of North Queensland builds the big
gest-known nest, heap of sand and rub
bish sometimes 8ft. high; while the i'm.
mence emu is satisfied with few handsful
of leaves. The swamp-loving jabiru col
lects large woodheap in tree before de-
posting the eggs on the top thereof. The
Aimsiest stick structure seen holds the
young of the bronzewing pigeon. You can
see daylight through it anywhere. The
whitefronted heron (blue crane) constructs
a stick nest so fiat on the top that the eggs
remain on it with difficulty. The riAebird
has perculiar liking for the cast-of skin
of carpet-snake. The blue-faced honey
eater adopts the deserted nest of babbler,
slightly renovating the inside fittings before
signing the lease. The babbler itself is a
curiosity in the nesting line, as family
(they are always in Aocks) will build half a
dozen bulky nests and not use half of them.
The rare exile grass-warbler of North
Queensland is our best seamstress. The
leaves inside the nest are sewn together with
cobwebs. The neatest of builders are the
so called robin tribe. Their homes are
beautiful structures of moss, lichen, cob
web and bark. The magpie is the most
casual builder. Any old thing, from sticks
to barbwire can be found in his nursery,
and he'll dump the home down on tus-
sock if no trees are handy. Most of the
northern king6shers scoop hole in a white
ants nest to hold their eggs. The beauti-
full bee-eater is miner. He makes long
sloping tunnel in a sandy bank. The
master-masons are four-swallow, peewit,
grey-jumper and chough. They are all
mud builders.
The mirror., 1919-01-23
Floating Mines a Menace

The Prince Of Monaco, in exhibiting his
chart of ocean currents, told the Academy
of Sciences in Paris, Dec. %, that the Ger
man mines may float about, especially in
the Atlantic, for twenty years. Mines from
the channel will float westward until they
meet the Gulf stream. Which will carry
them southwark along the coast of France,
Spain and Morocco to the Canaries, and
then to the Antilles and the Gulf of Mexi-
GO and eastward again past the Bermudas,
the Azores and Madeira. The entire cir
cult may take four years.
Mines released north of the straits OF
Dover will be carried toward Norway and
the Arctic ocean. Ships going from Europe
to the United States, the prince says, should
pass northward of line running from the
entrance of the channel to the fiftieth de-
gree of north latitude and follow this line
to the thirtieith degree of west longitude,
then swinging down to the southern ex-
tremity of the Newfoundland banks. Ships
coming to Europe from the United States
run the greatest risks near the coasts on
this side and in the Atlantic archipelago,
and will be safest in following line pass
ing north of Madeira and south of the Sar-
agossa sea.
The mirror., 1919-01-23
N |R R 0 R E 7 7 ES

Something to worry about: The United
States is to become bone dry, a sufficient
number of states having ratified the amend
ment.
The Farm Machinery department has
just installed perpetual inventory in the
shape of a-blackboard, 4x8 feet in size, for
the stock clerks use. The board shows at
glance how much steel, iron or malleable
iron is on hand, also in what bin it is to be
found, and can be gotten very quickly
when wanted.
Last Wednesdays motion picture show
was a two-star Lasky production of five
reels with Vivian Martin and Jack Pickford
in the leading roles. The bill was en-
livened with a song by Mr.. B., entitled,
''Tm Sorry Made You Cry" The mu-
sical program follows:
March-Khaki Watson
Selection-Girl of My Dreams -Hoschna
Song-rm Sorry Made You Cry-
By Mr.. B.
Latest One-Step-We'll Sing Hail, Hail.
The Gangs All Here, on the Side
walks of Berlin -------Kei Keithley
Selection-Once Upon a Time (From
Chauncey Olcott's new play)-- Brocton
A Rural Fox Trot-I Amt Got Weary
Wenrich
March-Liberty For All Francis
Prof. R. ]. Reichkitzer, Director.
The mirror., 1919-01-23
"Old King Cole

The first reference to ''OId King Cole"
the 'merry old soul" of the family nursery
rhyme, was made in book written by DR..
William King, who was born in 1888. 1t
is probable that the song was composed in
the seventeenth century, although some in
vestigators think it much older. Halliwell
Identifies the merry monarch with Cole or
Coel, semi-mythical king of Britain, who
is supposed to have reigned in the third
century. The Scotch also have an ''Old
King Coul," said to have lived in the fifth
century. Freeman and other historians say
King Cole ruled Britain in the sixth century.
There are many who assert that the refer
ence to the pipe indicates that Old King
Cole lived at period after Raleigh had in
troduced tobacco into Europe, but this does
not necessarily follow, as 'pipe'' might
mean musical instrument.
The mirror., 1919-01-23
p o ET.TR EE =.
Leaves From Our Poets.
The Enemy

We were so certain few years ago,
There was no evil, only lack of good.
Now we are not so sure of what we know,
There is thing we have not understood,
That even now we cannot understand.
We have seen deeds that could not have
been planned
By any human brain.
Strange fantasies of pain. -.
And they were not wild savages who
wrought
Those horrors on mankind,
Nor haggard zealots, to life's beauty blind.
Nor the dark growth of centuries un-
taught.
What Apollyon's mind
Could bring to such incalculable wreck
The spirit of kindly, simple man
Whose life in peace and honesty began,
And took its course the placid years along,
Happy in simple pleasures, flowers and
song,
Whose toll was spent
For thrifty comfort and well-earned con-
tent,
A man who wears today about his neck
A locket with his children's pictured faces,
While he.
In all the places
He and his brothers have left desolate
There is no ruin like this. A shrine
uol;ar th.c D ho;r,.o .o,,I 3. l........
The filth of lust, the poison-gas of hate
What devil set them in the place divine?
Here is the cause in which our all w
spend.
Tho to our grief we rend
The flesh and blood the Enemy drives be.
To shield him, as the Belgians' bullet.
Through their own kin to check the ad.
vancing foe,
Not against flesh and blood do we con.
Against invisible and awful powers
The battle that is ours,
The rulers of the darkness, and the might
OF evil in high places, God, send light
Upon our spirits-make US brave and wise
Give US throughout Thy hard pressed world
to know
The Enemy, whatever his Disguise
And knowing thus, to fight.
Amelia Josephine Burr
The mirror., 1919-01-23
An Alligator as a Drain
Sweeper

Generally speaking, the alligator is re-
garded as good for nothing, except to fur
nish the requisite leather for the making of
travelling bags. But Mr.. Ben R. King,
Superintendent of Waters and Sewers at
Fort Meade, Florida, has found novel use
for this ungainly creature. He trained
one to aid in cleaning out 800 feet of
clogged-up twelve-inch sewer-pipe after
some 81. 500 had been spent without sue
cess on various sewer-cleaning contrivances,
and when it seemed that the only thing
left to do was to rip out the pipe.
Mr.. King happened to have pet alliga-
tor by the name of 'sDick,'' and noticing
him crawling through piece of tile-pipe
out in the back yard one day had an inspir-
alton. Forthwith he seized Dick, tied a
rope round his body, and sent hiru on sever
al excursions through the pipe. Dick
learned readily enough to proceed on his
way when the rope was given slight jerk,
and the rest was easy.
Attached to a stout rope, he was lowered
into the sewer man-hole; and, finding he
could not get out, finally proceeded to the
pext man-hole, dragging the rope after him.
This accomplished, it was simple matter
to fasten chain to the rope, and by drag
ging this back and forth, remove the con-
gested mass of sand and dirt. Dick has
now quite reputation in South Florida,
and Mr. King is kept busy shipping him
to various points where his services are in
demand as sewer crawler.
The mirror., 1919-01-23
Just A Dub. But
Continued from page one)

WOuIAuuSN AOAA PoBS VAASI
''I'm afraid not. All my life was just
dub. f"
''Just dub, chr"
eyes. Never did shine at anything.
Just plodder, trying hard all the time to
get somewhere, but never actually arriving.
And yet"
''Yet what?''
eff you will permit me to say it, during
the great war down there didn't force a
committee to spend two or three hours try
ing to convince me that l ought TO buy
Liberty Bonds. I couldn't be general or
a captain; didn't know enough to fill a
government Job, but did know it was ev-
cry mans duty to back his country to the
limit, and bought all the Liberty Bonds l
could, without an argument
''Fine," said St. Peter enthusiastically,
''come right or in. Did you notice a
crowd of fine looking, housekeeping souls
going down as you came upi'
eyes,
"Well that was bunch of loud-talking
rich spirits who delayed the end of the war
year because they wouldn't buy Liberty
bonds until they were convinced that their
purchases were absolutely necessary. They
are going to get taste of trench life under
Old Satan in the financial slacker's depart
ment. ."-Sel.