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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24

general revision of the tariff was un-
necessary. Other Republican members
said that hearings of business men
should decide whether there she,,ld
be tariff revision, while some said
general revision was impossible be-
cause Of the unsettled condition Of
world affairs.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24

Washington May 21.-The entire
South Carolina delegation in the
house today voted against the federal
woman suffrage amendment, just as it
did the last time the proposition was
presented
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24

Coblenz. Wednesday,, May 22.-On
account OF the increased indications OF
friction between German civilians and
soldiers throughout the army area OF
occupation American officers today
warned the German officials they
would be held responsible for any
violence or attempts at destruction
OF American army property.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24

Chester, May 21-The Rev. ]. c.
Roper, centenary secretary for the
Upper South Carolina Conference. to-
night stated that he is writing every
presiding elder, district director, dis
trict minute men, chairman and pas
tors urging complete canvass Of tho
field. Believing that Upper Confer
cnce was first TO report over the top
to Nashville. he is working now thu
it may be announced that each in
dividual church Of the $50 churches
has exceeded its allotment. Besides
this. he plans increasing the surplus
from those already over.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24

Paris, May 22.-President Wilson
is expected to issue statement today
on the Polish -Ukrainian hostilities
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24
The Centenary Fund

Darlington, May 21--This con1mu-
nifty, like all the others in the State. is
intensely interested in the Methodist
centenary drive which is being con-
Quoted this week The Darlington
church began its drive Sunday after.
noon and in a few hours had ra So
nearly. $4,000, $4,000 in excess OF
its allotment.
The drive for funds has not yet
stopped. The Rev. a. J. Cauthen, the
secretary OF the movement for the
South Carolina conference, lives
this city and this morning he s'atr
that reports made to him indicate
that the conference has raised ST.
1877 .0077O The allotment was ST.
000.0 900
Comparatively few churches have
yet reported and will not be heard
from before Sunday next This does
not include the credits allowed the
churches which is not permitted un-
der the plan till the end Of the cam
paign. The reports from this confer
crence represent only actual subscrip-
tions Nor does this report include
the Sunday school contribution.
Mr.. Cauthen says that when al
charges report and the credits are
counted that this conference Wi!
nearly double the allotment. The
Florence district seems to be leading
other districts in the amount raised,
latest reports showing about s2l3,-
000, with only half Of the churches
in the district heard from. The church
at Florence has nearly quadrl,pled
her allotment, having subscribed SIS
600. The ladies Of this church are
paying the allotment and the excess
represents the contribution of the
men. Mr. Cauthen has received a
telegram from Nashville saying that
the South Carolina conference was
second to report out. Louisiana being
first
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-05-24

In President Wilson's message &c
congress of December 4, 1917, tf.'rc
is no passage in textual agreemen:
with the quotation in the cabinet
statement In that message the prs,
ident said:
'1Tlle wrongs. the very deep wrongs
committed in this war will have to bc
righted That, of course. But they
can not and must not be rightcd Ivy
the commission of similar wrongs
against Germany and her allies The
world Will not permit commission Of
similar wrongs as means Of repata-
ton and settlement"
In his Baltimore speech Of April s,
The sun., 1919-01-19
VARIETIES OF GENIUS.

There IL a similarity in the success
Of Samuel Shipman and Max MARGIN,
the two young playwrights whose joint
work -The Woman in Room 49, is at
the Booth Theatre. Yet no two men
writing for the theatre to-day are
more dssimilar in temperament and
aspirations and have come to success
by SO different routes. Both Mr.. Ship
man and Mr.. MARGIN are Still very
young men TO have achieved such dis
tinctlon. Both are native New York
crs. There all resemblance ends.
Mr., Shipman Is a graduate of CO.
lumbia University. where he absorbed
all the "isms" and "ologies' and read
lhsen. Euripides. Shakespeare, Sheri-
dan. Strindberg, D'Annunzio, and de-
teTmined to write along the same lines.
In his Undergraduate days he drama
tized "rhe Kreutzcr Sonata" and re-
solved forthwith TO do nothing here
after but write plays even If he had to
write them in a garnet. He soon had
The sun., 1919-01-19

Deleted as these pieces usually are OF
much Of their amorous Significance
there has been enough Of the first in
tent left to encourage those Of an au
dience awaiting suggestion as TO the
time and intensity OF their laughter
But in Up in Mabers Room" there
Is scarcely a thing that prudish
spectator could object to on the ground
OF morals. In such matters as taste
and culture there are. OF course. am
pie incentives to criticism. But Avery
Hopwood never turned out a play in
nately more harmless. What is the at
tempt nowadays to recover an article
OF woman's dress which has given its
name TO a popular dance and IS daily
mentioned many times. read and dis
cussed? Yet the crowded Eltinge Thea
tire on Wednesday night reechoed with
laughter as enthusiastic as II some
thing forbidden were really to be seen.
And all the time there was literally
nothing wrong about the proceedings.
Both husbands and wives were made
jealous and all the Cataleptic symp-
toms of farce were to be enjoyed. With
little moro than suggestion OF i'm
propriety the Joy was unconfined. One
is inclined to regard the authors not
only as adept playwrights but as pow
erful hypnotists, since by the remotest
suggestion OF evil they are able to in
woke such hearty laughter.
The sun., 1919-01-19

and pityingly fixed on Russia in her
tense drama. which so truly depicts
Rus sian life in those phases which
make us keenly realize the horror she
is passing through, most propitious.
Though It has been said that the
Russian novels, particularly those of
Dostoievski, lack form and compost
ton, as dramatized by Jacques Copeau
and his collaboration. Jean CIRQUE, the
story of Feodor Pavlovitch Karamazov
and his three sons moves at a swife
pace, and though some OF the minor
episodes have been eliminated 1t has
lost none OF its essentials nor its depth.
Actors Fund Benefit After
noon, at the Century Theatre.
The annual benefit in behalf of the
Actors Fund of America Is always
| looked forward to as one OF the dis
tinctive events OF the season because
everything presented on that occasion
is especially prepared.
II is well known that the dramatic
profession and the people Of the the
atre at large have raised many millions
| of dollars for the various drives and
| loans: in fact. it has been estimated
that through their activities close to
500, 900, 900 has been secured. During
all this period their own needy charity
had to be neglected. In the present
case the public IS given a splendid
show for a moderate price admission
and 1t Is again the actors and actresses
who come forward with their volun-
tary services to make the entertain
ment possible.
The sun., 1919-01-19

a trunkful of them, although Broad
way knew nothing Of them through
the unclassic obduracy OF the man
ayers.
Mr.. MARGIN. on the other hand, had
little faith in lbsen and Shakespeare as
limousine getters. His motto was "A
play should drive away duh care-drst
for the playwright. then for the pub
lie" Acting on this principle. he pro-
ce\le,i to absorb material by way of
the metropolitan newspaper route. He
was every kind of a reporter, but
specialized in murder trials. He COW
cred all the Thaw trials and used to
make other reporters sick with envy
at the size of his payroll. But MARGIN
wasn't satisfied one day he sat down
before his inspired typewriter and
, commanded 1t TO write him 800
| short story. II did. and from that time
forward he confesses to having made
$500 a week by the fiction route with
| out single rejection.
But even this did not bring him con-
tent. In the intervals OF writing short
stories he oegan writing plays. His
technical education was exceedingly
simple. lie picked out the half dozen
current successes, saw them half a
dozen times, learned how they were
done and proceeded to do likewise
Soon he had couple of plays ready
which he proceeded to peddle with
! amazing persistence
! Finally A II. Woods bought one. Then
Cohan & Harris bought another, and
the two were produced on successive
/ ,i,,,, ~.
playwright, One Of these, The House
! of Glass" was a success. and Mr. Mar
Gins journalistic career was over. The
| next year came Cheating Cheaters A."
and Mr.. MARGIN definitely gave UP
walking for motoring. Since then he
has elaborated on Eyes of Youth"
Seven Days Leave" and The Woman
! in Room 10"
| What was Mr.. Shipman doing dur
ing these prolific MARGIN years? Read
/ ing his famous dramatists, discussing
! Darwin, Spinoza, Descartes, Adam
Smith and Bob 1ngersoll and writing
! plays. The one trunkful became two
trunkfuls. The two trunkfuls-but
that's another story. Eventually Ell
evating a Husband" was produced with
i~ou4S haAu ar lIle STAT ana Sdfnuel
, Shipman and Clara Lipmann as the au-
! thors. II was success and fur began
to peep modestly from the lapels OF
Mr.. Shipman's overcoat. The next
| play, "Children Of To-day" was also
financially fruitful, and Mr.. Shipmar
assumed a look of abstraction and be-
gan to consider giving up Socialism.
After these productions followed an
other lean kline period, during which
The sun., 1919-01-19
PUCK SPEAKS.

There seems TO be good deal mo-.
comradeship among actors, authoi-
and managers in England than the,
is in this country, and why it should
be so It is not so easy to understara
Even the late Charles Frohman did
things for the actor in England tina
he never did here, though there Is n
reason to think in his particular case
that he would not have done the same
in this country had there been occe-
sion.
I'VE all get on very well together In
England" said J. II. Brewer, the actor
who plays Lob in Dear Brutus" The
attitude OF the English manager and
producer toward the actor was being
discussed
Just before the war" sad Nj
Brewer. Mr.. F'rohman revived 'Tha
Little Minister at the Duke of Yorks
Theatre. We began very we'll. Then
the war came and everything went 20
smash. London forgot the existence O.
the theatre. Dion BouCiCault WAS man
aging the theatre for c. F.. and he
called a meeting OF the actors. He told
US about the business which We knew
and asked us If We would accept halr
salaries. He told us that G. F. not
wanting TO close the theatre, as any
other manage most surely would have
done. wanted to give it to us to carry
, on. We had no rent TO pay and ST
James Barrie had said that he would
| not accept any royalties on his play
while the arrangement was in effect.
OF course we agreed with pleasure.
Matters became so bad that an
other meeting had TO be called and We
| were asked to accept another cut n
! our salaries. Marie Lohr, the star
agreed at once, and so did we all
ut occurred TO me that we might
give some extra matinees with Tia
! idea that tho announcement would
make the public believe we had a biz
success But we could rot incur any
more expense. The working staff ard
the extra ladies and gentlemen agree!
| to give us the extra performa ices
| free. This pulled us up. We gav.
| The Little Minister for seventy per.
| formances and at the end OF that time
there was in the fund left over afte-
| our portion of salaries was paid O,e-
| 1900 for distribution among the mon
bers Of the company. G +. never 90
ceived penny OF rent and Sir James
never had any royalties They gave
everything so that the company Nigh
he kept together and manage to tii"
over a most distressing period in or
| lives"
| This is the first visit OF Mr.. Brewer
TO America and there is very iit''e
The sun., 1919-01-19

Is to be found In it. Lowell Sherman
is rather an artificial player in his
methods, but they ale well suited to
his present task. Whatever one may
think OF his acting. he has a distinct
school. There Is never the least doubt
as to the effect he Is aiming to create.
He Is a skilful actor II after all some
what of an Artistic derelict- Gall
Kane showed in two scenes OF the play
a power OF genuine feeling which had
never before been observed in her
She may after all be an actress Ken
meth Hills manner of playing the Wall
Street bounder almost added real dis
tinction to a part that possessed none
in It's composition.
But in spite of the players and tho
efforts Of the two skilful dramatists It
was never in a single scene possible
to pose the interests where Messrs.
MARGIN and Shipman evidently wanter
II. 1t skidded like an empty I. 7. o. A.
on wet asphalt in spite Of all efforts 70
fix It. Plainly the authors wanted the
public to sympathize with the wife.
Pity for q woman Is perhaps the
strongest emotional hold OF any play.
Pity for Mary Turner kept within
the Law" alive. But nobody felt sorry
for the heroine Of ''rhe Woman In
Room 49," She had left one husband
In Texas and when the audience next
beheld her she was happy in New York
with the second. No. may have been
a bad lot, but he seemed to love her
and was certainly interested enough
to try to hold on to her. When George
Broadhurst tried in THE Law Of the
Land" to show how justified a wife was
for murder of a cruel spouse he
brought in a horsewhip and the head
OF the family laid about him as regu-
larly in the domestic calendar as the
breakfast food appeared with the vir-
tuosity of Simon Le0rce. But there
was no such excuse for the Grant wife
in Galveston, Tex.
So try as the authors may me SYM
The sun., 1919-01-19

But there Is enough OF this i'm
mortal sorehead in the part to prove
once more what an Irresistible appeal
it makes to the public. Mr.. Wise
alternately exploding with choleric
abuse OF his young protege and then
seeking to make him his closest usi-
ness associate. upbraiding the women
OF his family for their extravaganza,
only to add a large subscription to
their charity; reproaching his bust
ness manager for his inaction and then
praising him for having earned the
large salary ~ pays him-these are
some OF the traits of the historic
character which are displayed IN
''Cappy Kicks" And they win the
sympathy OF the spectators because
they are a part of a type that has
been made known to readers and to
theatregoers through so many years
that even the shifts Of the man from
tory laughter. Mr.. Wise Of course
indicates these contrasting moods as
we'll as any actor OF his experience
might be expected to. But there were
minutes on Monday night in which it
seemed that he relied more than he
used to on the merely external and
mechanical means OF his art. Express
sion Of the inner emotions Of the
character did not seem TO be his goal.
One example OF this tendency Is the
face he pulls behind the letter in the
first act after tho qualities of
creosote as cargo have been fully ex-
planned by the action OF the other
characters
its prologue. without which this style
of play scarcely seemed genuine in
the past. Max MARGIN and Samuel
Shipman. who might by what is
known In other circles as past per-
formances be expected to excel all
their colleagues in the composition of
this kind of a play, have preceded the
four acts of The Woman in Room 10"
with this old device. 1t Is not without
its dangers. To the lay mind the
trouble with the prologue seems not
70 lie in the difficulty OF making II
good enough. but in preventing II
from being TOO much better than the
rest of the play. To our present taste
most OF the pieces that delighted
earlier decades labor under the dis
advantage OF the too interesting intro
duction.
When "A Celebrated Case" was
The sun., 1919-01-19

Mr.. Shipman's outlook on the cosmos
grew broader and his bankroll smaller.
He even took a filler" into vaudeville
and wrote some sketches for the two
q day. never, however. forgetting his
real ambitions and the empty trunk,
besides the full ones.
Then along came "Friendly Fin,
miles," which Mr.. Shipman wrote ~
collaboration with Aaron Hoffman and
Mr.. Shipman's conversation became
full of thousands" and diamonds" g.
1t had hitherto sparkled with lbse,
and isms. Here was Art rewarde4
with the biggest hit Of the decade
rumor having It that Mr.. Shipman
royalties often amounted TO !2oo,
weekly.
The sun., 1919-01-19
NEW IN THE THEATRES.
"The Marquis of Priola"--dt III
Libertu Theatre.

Leoofty lHoote.
leo Ditrichstein enters upon his
career as an actor-manager to-mor-
row night in r translation OF lie
Marquis de Priola," by Henri Lavedan.
In Mr.. Ditrichstein's support will APP
pear Brandon lyman. Orlando DAILY.
Walter Howe. Jane Grey. Lily Cahill
and Katherine Emmett. The play ar
raigns an effete aristocracy that Is
rapidly becoming extinct. The leading
character is a striking study OF de-
generate voluptuary who glories In the
possession of ancestors who have fig
ured in every scandal OF note for 500
years. The play created a great sem
sation when first presented in Paris.
Les Freres Karamazoo"-at the
Iieur Columbier
Particularly at this time, when the
eyes of the whole world are anXiously
The sun., 1919-01-19

acted three years ago at the Empire
Iheatre no part OF that old melo-
irama seemed nearly so interesting as
the prologue. Readers OF PLAYS Of
ABOUT the same period, such as lie
oossu OF Bourgeoise, whether 1t be
as The Dukes Motto" or The Dukes
daughter" or the various titles under
which 1t survived for so many wears
on our stage, will find that no part
OF IL Is so close and compelling in its
power TO interest as the Introduction
While the same is true of "Belphesor''
sun making its force felt as "The
Music Master" and the rest of its
SCHOOL, which were written with the
more or less indispensable, according
10 the ideas Of that day. prologue.
one reason for the impression Of
the prologue on the memory OF the
theatregoer is the necessity OF start
ing afresh with the first act The ac-
tioh or the prologue has shown the
commission OF a deed which is to have
Its effect after lapse Of time on the
characters concerned in It or those
VINO came after them and ara also
to suffer from the influence OF this
occurrence. So there must be built
up when the first act begins the
knowledge and interest Of this new set
OF acquaintances or those already
known under new conditions. Natur-
ally this act as we'll as those that fol-
low 1t Will. except in cases or rare
skill, suffer for the time being by
COmDariSDn with tho conn plataJ aotta,,
which the spectator has already wit
messed An example Of a really alb
orbing prologue ir)A recent play which
never reached the same point of In.
terest again was to be found In THE
Woman on the Index"
The action of the prologue In the
new play of Messrs. MARGIN and Ship
man Is not so absorbing as to make
their task too difficult when the first
act opens. One reason for this Is the
immediate appearance of the principal
hgures in this opening incident In
all that follows, there is nothing more
enjoyable than the frank abandonment
or the authors to the claim that they
have written anything but melodrama.
So swiftly have they designed their
action to proceed that even the in
evitable comic relief creates a feeling
OF Impotence. The actors are equally
clear as to the sort Of theatre they are
devoting themselves 10. They go al
the piece. If one may describe such an
ARTISTIC approach by such brusque
language, for all the melodrama there
The sun., 1919-01-19
BY LAWRENCE REAMER.


the
Is there beloved than the holer ehead who distributes
alternately and blessings who offend only that he
spenddy pardon? Dickens used him and with the
unfang effectiveness And how he has theatre
None Of all the fiction has valiant
throughout the Only months
Cyril Maude and paywrght when the
this dear old of the footgh world
that is always eagerly awaiting the opportunity him.
He the stage the Morosco
all the facets of his well
stories that the oeagnous embodiment of
suggestion the keen Yankee skipper the
front from his
heatreger Otherwise would
in the dramatic version of novel Of
from the original tale To judge the
the pages OF novel, the adapo dramat whatever
himself sets out dsappont all those
confuse hoeey all who only the most
naive paygoer would any artistic attempt
the
accomplish find personality and hang
the outward and visible characteristics figure this actor
The sun., 1919-01-19

pathy of the spectators went on shoot
ing here and there and always landing
with the most perverse certainty just
where 1t should not for practical rea-
sons roost. This was on the prema-
turely gray hairs OF the husband de-
serted in the first act. He had lost his
place in the community because his
wife had deserted him. All his ma
terial prosperity had vanished and he
might have been. like the boy in Gill
bert's poem who married a girl in the
corps de ballet, lost totally-but for the
fortunate interference of the long arm
of coincidence which here reached out
and made him a detective. 1t may be
that Mr.. Sherman's prepossessing per-
Torrance OF the role had its share in
this result. But that part was unim-
portant, since It Is the author and not
the actor who in the last instance di-
reefs tho currents OF an AUDIENCES
feelings.
Now that authors have begun to call
men and women in the gnodish society
they draw on the stage after the towns
on the y. Y. N. H. and H r R. there
is no telling how far they may go. In
up in Mabers Room" Jimmy and
Alicia Ldrchnlont are the host and
hostess of a fashionable house party.
So It may soon be possible after a
while in the theatre to make the ac-
quatntance Of Belle Bridgeport and
Paul Portchester. Then there is the
Long Island r. r. in reserve and
therefore no reason TO fear that the
imagination OF the dramatists may be
exhausted for long time to come.
But there are more interesting
phases OF the p!quant farce in up in
Mabeis Room" than the nomenclature
OF the dramdtis personde. Ever since
Paul Potter started A. II. Woods on
the road 10 fortune with The Girl
from Rector's" the manager has con-
fessed 10 pardonable weakness for
farces OF this school. OF course they
derive from the French plays OF much
more serious intent than any that are
seen Sere in their original frankness
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03
euEsT OF MISS MekINNA.

= Miss Jessie Pauline McKinna arrived
in Pensacola yesterday morning from
brunswick Ga. to visit the guest
of her sister. Miss Agness McKinna
social welfare worker for Escambia
-county. Miss Mckinna is assistant
public health nurse in Brunswick and
has tho same winsomeness and charm
or manner and attractive personality
that has won for her sister so many
Friends during her stay here. Miss
-1ickinna is greatly interested in her
7Nsork i'm Georgia and reports that since
#sJanuary when the public health work
3vas first begun ii. Brunswick interest
Has rapidly grown and the Public
Wealth Service of that place now
aboasts staff of ten with two nurses.
.rne public health physician. one road
.sanitation physician. and four gov
v-frnment specialists. Miss Agnes Nc
tkinna visited Olive yesterday in con-
Injection with her follow up work with
] Che school children here and was ac
accompanied by her sister. This is
Miss McKinna's first visit to this part
of Florida and she expressed herself
sas being quite pleased with what she
shad seen of Pensacola and near vicin-
ny and with the many natural adj
Eantages found here.