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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01

For those who say that there is
nothing new under the SUM-, q trip to
the Ditmas Theatre. where Douglas
Fairbanks new picture, His Majesty,
the American" opened, viii be a tonic.
We had thought that Mr.. Fairbanks
had done about everything that mortal
could do and stay whole. But we were
wrong. And if his future screen Of
ferings can furnish as much real en-
tertainment as was given to the crowds
that attended the opening performan-
ces at the Ditmas, we hope to con-
tinue to be wrong.
The picture. in the first place, tells
a genuine story, which we are not 60
ing to spoil your pleasure by repeat
ing here. Whether the story is prob
able or not doesn't matter. 1t is en-
t%ertaining in a high degree, and that
is what we seek in a theatre. If we
want serious, heavy, problem dramas
we don't expect Fairbanks to furnish
them to us. His Majesty, the Amer
lean" is made to amuse, and that 1t
does from start to finish. 1t is bright,
snappy and clean-a picture hat will
delight boys and girls from five to
eighty-five.
So much for the story. But after
all, don't the majority OF us go to
see Fairbanks in whatever he happens
to be playing in? And isn't the big
| question-just Doug?
The answer. is-yes, Dough
He is in the picture, right in the
middle of it. from beginning to end,
and the thing he does and the way
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01

he does them leave you suspended
midway between V prostration
and loye for his downright daring
and ever-present smile.
We start with him in a wild and
delirious nightmare, then rush to a
fire, then to a police raid on an UNI
derworld dive, then to Mexico and the
border, where he cleans UP the BAN
dts, then to Europe where he takes a
hand at bossing q reVolutton-and
while we are tagged out and worn to
a fragile by the pace he has set, he
does it all over again, calm and smtl-
ing, in the next show-and we are
tempted to stay and see him do it.
Everything that has been claimed
for His Majesty, the American" is
more than borne out in the produce
ton. The picture has been splendidly
put on, and the cast supporting Fair
banks is exceptional. Marjorie Daw,
who has been seen before in numerous
of Doug's pictures, is with him again,
and Frank Campeau, Lillian Langdon,
e. II. Southern's talented brother,
Sam, Albert MeQuarrie, Jay Dwig-
gins, Bull" Montana, VIII ellis, Phil
Gastrox and many others help Fair
banks in fine shape. The direction of
the picture is credited to Joseph Hen
aberry.
All in all, Ills Majesty. the Ameri-
cam" scores, and scores heavily. 1t is
about as much honest, wholesome fun
as can possibly be crowded into a film.
Long may Doug be with us to-add to
the joy of life!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01
HIT
PLEASES HERE
"Up in MabeES Room Attracts
Many to the Majestic

! The Majestic Theater where up In
Mabels Room played last night was
packed. Even standing room was at
la premium last night when last win
ter's Broadway triumph opened here
last night. Every box in the house
was crowded and extra chairs were
placed III many of them. Houses like
that win enable the people of this city
to demand at least once a week a good
farce drama or the like played by a
first rate road company.
! up In Mabel's Room is a frivolous
farce of feminine foibles. The story
is wound about an uncomfortable
piece of feminine lingerie which in a
reckless mood Garry Ainsworth sent
to Mabel Essington some two years
before the play opens
In the meanwhile Garry has married
and Mabel is engaged to Arthur We'll
don. Geraldine Ainsworth's wife is
very jealous of him and is forever
nagging so the women of the house
decide to teach her a lesson. h first
act is laid in the country house of
Arthur Weldon in Long Island. The
endeavors of Corliss, Garry Aims
worth's man to obtain the piece of
lingerie, how he upsets Mabel's ward
robe and the like are the instigators
of many laughs.
The second act is laid in Mabers
ROOM; Garry hides under the bed in
his ;endeayor to get the rose, pink COM
bination which he sem to Mabel from
Paris with From Garry to Mabel
embroidered upon it; how they are
caught and what is thought of the
whole proceedings and the IA act in
the upper han of the house the next
where after a sleepless night every
thing is finally settled. When Ger
aldine ~forgives him because, h
didn't dc anything worse" The
farce comes to a happy ending for the
performers and audience at large.
moral throughout the play, If one
could call it q moral, or the theme at
any rate Is "a woman marries a man
to reform him from what he has done
before he met her; to keep him from
temptation while he knows her, a
woman worships a saint but loves a
man."
The part of Mabel E~ssington taken
by Mildred Sothwick easily takes first
honors in the cast. Second playing q
charter part is Garry Ainsworth,
taken by James Donlan. Alicia Larch-
mont, Jimmy's wife, ranked second to
Mabel in the feminine role played by
Myrta Ballaire with Martha Weldon,
Arthur's sister played by Jane Ander-
sol next.
Inc part OF Jimmy WIS
one of the most interesting in the cast
1t was played with a Broadway actors
ingenuity and his part calling for
abrupt and unexpected sayings and
actions was well portrayed by John
IMcCabe. Geraldine, Garry's wife also
deserves mention for her able char
acterization Of the spoilt babyed wife.
This role was played by Elaine Ivans.
The entire cast was good, the play
was human, interesting and well por-
trayed. Perth Amboy theater goers
would do well to foster the continued
playing of such casts in this city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01

The child of a w%ell-knbwn member
Of the British parliament was recently
christened in the crypt Of the house
Of commons. This is, in a sense, n
survival of the custom of bygone days,
when c~hristenings in crypts were by no
means uncommon. In II recent ca-o
in California, for instance, the cere-
mony was performed In a dIying bell
at the bottom Of the sea. In another
case the proud parents of the new ar
rival persuaded a clergyman to bap-
the the child while up in a balloon.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01
DOROTHY G|SH
CHARMS MANY
VIII Be Seen for First Time in
Crescent Production

Almost anyone will tell you it is no
a deuced hard job to get arrested
Dorothy Gish, whose newest picture,
Poppy Polly is coming to the Cres-
cent theatre, tells an entirely differ
ent story, at least, with regard to
motion pictures.
She just had to get arrested in or
der to have the people who were
abusing girls in the Melville reform
atory shown up In their true colors
but although she stole a coat from O
pawnshop n ran down a whole
block, no n paid any attention to
her, Reluctantly she went back and
gan down the street again, with nc
greater success than before, and so
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01
lncompIeteness.

How universal is the sense Of In
completeness in human experience !
Youth, maturity and even old age are
ever reaching for the something else
which they crave for the hour, which
seems to be the essential need Of the
year while we occasionally meet ma
lures who are bending every force of
their working years to the end of at
tanning some great ambition, failing in
which, life to them is but a fraction
Robert Carroll.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01
HistorloaI knomledae lmpsrtsnt.

A nan ignorant Of the past of his
nation is not qualified to have any.
thing to do with its present or future.
To work Understandings we must
know what this nation of ours is for
what is the plan and purpose.-Myron
w. Reed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01
she marched back to put the -coa-


away for the third time.
Just as she was putting 1t back the
owner ran out Inc grabbed her by
the arm. A policeman emerged from
a doorway and ran to them. But in
stead of arresting Dorothy. he show
ed the merchant back into the store
and apologized to Dorothy for the
way she had been treated. Dumb
founded she. went down the street
looking for more trouble.
And she finally had to break the
show window of a jewelry store with
a brick and take out two watches in
order to attract attention to be put in
jail.
But Dorothy says she doesn't think
that would happen If she tried it in
real life, for everytime her speedo-
meter shows half a mile over the
limit there Is sure to be a traffic off,
Ger in sight.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-01
Hlah Price Paid for Reefsteak.

The highest price ever paid for
beefsteak was probably at Circle City,
Alaska, a town that sprang up over
night during the Klondike gold excite
ment. The first beefsteak to reach
there sold for $4S a pound. Every one
wanted some of it, and so they RAT
fled it off for the benefit of a hospital.
Tickets were sold from 90 cents to
$3.50 for the privilege of drawing a
slice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Lutherans West Of
the Alleghenies
Vote For Merger

Pittsburgh, Feb. -Four hundred
Lutheran congregations with more
than $4,000 members in Pennsyl-
vania west of the Allegheny nouns
tains are brought together in one
synod by action of ministers and
laymen of the United Lutheran
church here. They adopted unani-
mously a merger motion. The
following committee was named to
work out a merger plan:
The Rev. G. f. Gehg. wilkins
burg; Rev. w. T.. Frey, Erie; DR.. G.
p. Mclaughlin, Pittsburgh; Ralph
Smith, Pittsburgh, and PEofessor y.
II. f. Bert, Washington,FPa.
The Rev. Ira NJ. Wallace, who ad-
dressed the meeting, said that plans
have been perfected for the ten-day
campaign beginning February Is, to
raise $500,000 for international re-
construction service and emergency
mission work.
1t was announced that the synod
would take immediate advantage of
the gift of a farm near Meadville
for orphanage purposes, and that an
effort will be made to secure 100000
for the erection of a community
house at Erie,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
State Ready to Gice
Out Many Young Trees

A large supply of extr fine forest
tree seedlings will be available for
free distribution this spring, was
stated to-day by Commissioner of
Forestry Robert S. Conklin. This is
a real opportunity. Anyone who
wants to plant forest trees this
spring may have them for the ask
ing. There are no strings to the
offer. the only condition being that
applicants plant not fewer than 500
trees, pay for the packing and the
transportation, and actually set out
the trees in Pennsylvania for re-
forestation. The trees may not be
sold and no orders for ornamental
stock will be filed.
The stock available for free dis
tribution is almost all three years
old and includes white pine, red
larch, Arbor Vitate, and a limited
quantity of japanese larch, and
white ash.
Last year over two million trees
were planted by private owners of
forest land in Pennsylvania. Appli-
cations for almost one million trees
have already been received for the
spring planting of 1919. Hence Or
ders should be sent early for the
supply of certain trees will surely be
exhausted, and the number avail
able in subsequent years will be
reduced on account of
the difficulties experienced during
the past few years in purchasing
forest tree seed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
No Mail Congested
at French Ports,
Pershing Gables

Washington, Feb. Z. - General
Pershing cabled the war depart
ment denying reports that mail to
and from the American expedition
ary forces had become congested at
French railroads. The general said
there was no delay or accumulation
of mail for the United States and no
accumulation of correctly address,
ed mail arriving in France for the
soldiers.
General Pershing said there were
1,210 sacks of incorrectly addressed
mail at the central army post ONCE
in France now being redirected'
while only 126 sacks of dead letters
had been shipped to the United
States during January. The incor-
rectly addressed mail at the central
office, he said, could be placed in
one American car"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never
Suspect 1t
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected

Judging from reports from drug
gists who are constantly in direct
touch with the public, there is one
preparation that has been very sue
cessful in overcoming these condi-
tions. The mild and healing in
fluence of DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root
is soon realized. 1t stands the high
est for its remarkable record of sue
cess.
An examining physician for one of
the prominent Life Insurance Com
panies, in an interview OF the sub
ject. made the astonishing state
ment that one reason why so many
applicants for insurance are re-
jected is because kidney trouble is
so common to the American peo-
pie, and the large majority of those
whose applications are declined do
not even suspect that they have the
disease. 1t is on sale at all drug
stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, If you wish first to test
this great preparation. send ten
cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hamton. n. Y, for sample bottle.
When writing be sure and mention
the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Oppose Revision Of
Philadelphia Charter

Philadelphia, Feb. Common
Council yesterday adopted a resolu-
ton protesting TO the Legislature
and the Governor against the pro-
posed revision of the charter of the
city of Philadelphia. The vote was
45 to 36, divided on facttonal lines,
with the exception of one member
representing the home ward of Uni
ted States Senator Penrose, who
voted with the Ware forces. The
vote followed a lengthy debate in
which the Ware members spoke for
the resolution and the independents
against it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Fear Reduction Of
the Coal Prices

Washington, Feb. Z. - Ohio coal
miners, in resolutions presented in
the House yesterday by Representa-
tive Sherwood, of Ohio, charged that
government agents for the rail-
administration are using every pos
sible effort to reduce the price OF
coal" and declared that il the eff
forts were successful many coal
mines would be closed, causing un-
employment of thousands. Con-
tinuance of fixed prices in 1919 was
urged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
German Aviator, Who
Shot Down Quentin
Roosevelt, Killed Jan. Is

Burlington, VT, Feb. The Ger
man aviator who shot down Leuten-
ant Quentin Roosevelt over the
German lines on the western front
was killed on January 13 last, ac-
cording to word which comes from
Ben Braker who vas stationed at a
flying field in Germany and who
claims to have witnessed the death
of the German. He says that the
latter's plane became uncomfortable
and plunged to the ground.
The AVIATOR who claimed to have
brought down Lieutenant Roosevelt
was Christian Donhauser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Poles Give Dmowski
and Psderewski Big Vote

Paris, Feb. THE elections in
Poland for. members of the Con-
stituent Assembly resulted in the list
headed by Premier Paderewski and
NJ. Dmowski obtaining fifty per cent.
of the total votes. The Polish So
cialist party got fifteen per cent.
and the remainder went to Jewish
candidates. according to telegram
from the Polish official news agency
to the Polish committee of Paris.
OF $4,000 eligible voters, 100000
voted. Women voted in great num-
bers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Fess Will Be Candidate
For Speaker of House

Washington, Feb. 7.-Representa-
tive Fess, of Ohio, chairman of the
Republican Congressional campaign
committee, announces he would be
a candidate for speaker of the House
in the next Congress. The other an
nounced candidates are Representa-
tive Mann, of Illinois. the republican
leader and Representative Gillette, of
Massa chusetts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Count Karolyi Will Be
First to Divide Land

Basic, Feb. Z. - Count Karolyi,
the president of Hungary, has in
formed his cabinet that the division
of lands shall commence as soon as
the land reform act is published,
according to a dispatch from Wen
ma. The first lands to be divided
will be the estates of Count Karolyi
at Heves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
British Bonds, Morgan
underworld, Sell Fast

New York, Feb. ii. P. Morgan
& Company announces that of the
s142, 100000 of Great Britain's
twenty-year five and one-half per
cent. bonds which were reserved for
the conversion of the two-year notes
which matured February l, there
remain to be sold by the group
which underworld the conversion of
the outstanding notes a balance of
less than $3O,00O,000 or approx
mately twenty per cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
FOURTEEN MEN INDUOrEn

st. Louis, Feb. THE Federal
grand jury yesterday returned in
dictments against fourteen men
charging conspiracy to defraud the
government. Two of the men are
charged with using an inferior grade
of coffee in filling a government
order, and. the other twelve are
charged with conspiring to obtain
clothing, sold at Jefferson barracks,
at a low rate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
German Troops Retake
Bromberg From Poles

Amsterdam, Feb. THE city of
Bromberg. German Poland, has been
from the Poles by Ger
man troops, after brisk fighting, ac-
cording to advices received here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-07
Berlin Newspaper Is
Delivered by Airplane

Weimar. Feb. Tone of the Ber-
lin newspapers has established for
the sessions of the National Assem-
bly, the first regular airplane .deliv-
cry inaugurated on the continent.
The morning and noon editions of
this newspaper are delivered at Wei
mar two hours after publication.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19

Too Bad Mrs. Du Pont Did Not In
clude St. Johnsbury in Her
~. List

Presentation of two swimming
pools to Wilmington Community Ser
vice by Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont has
lust been announced at National
Headquarters of War Camp Com
munity service in New York. Will
mington Community Service is one
of many like organizations formed,
under War Camp Community Service
auspices, in war production centers
throughout the United States at the
request of the United States De-
partment of Labor.
Use of both swimming pools will
be confined to persons affiliated with
groups in Wilmington, Delaware, as
sociated with Community Service of
that city. One of the pools is in the
rear of Mrs. du Points place, the
Old Mill, about five miles from town.
Only persons who can swim will be
permitted to use the Old Mill pool
because of its depth. Volunteer life
guards will be on duty at the pool
in bathing hours.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19
(The Brattleboro Reformer)

President Wilson has stolen a
march on the opponents of the
league Of nations in extending an
invitation to all Republican senators
to meet him at the White House to
discuss the league. 1t may be found
he has passed the bounds of exc
cutivc propriety in interfering with
the legislative branch of the govern
ment; he certainly has gone further
in this direction than any of his pre-
decessors, but he has in effect chal-
lenged lis opponents to mcet him and
exchange views upon the issue be-
tween them. Any senator refusing to
visit the president for personal con-
ference acknowledges a fear of the
result.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19

sentiment on the part Of the people.
The demand for a square deal re-
CARELESS of when and whore has be-
come more insistent and is receiving
more consideration. Corporations
contest cases, to be sure, but they are
using more discrimination. There was
a time when they made not the slight
est distinction between claims that
were absolutely just and those in
which there was more or less ques-
ton regarding the degree of respon-
sibility. In this respect there has
been a pronounced change. Most of
the Just claims are now settled out or
court. Some day too let US hope the
time will come when the dependents
may have their claims adjusted on the
basis of the loss they have personally
sustained and not entirely from the
standpoint Of dollars and cents.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19

of printing all the news enc day, and
but a little of it another day, serve
to give a following for newspaper.
Since store advertising has come
to be recognized as having news val
ue as to bringing to people the facts
as to the lowest buying opportunities
facts often bearing Importantly
upon the immediate buying tasks Of
the pcople-the policy of printing
but u part of the store news has lost
favor with wise merchants.
Thereafter Of a newspaper properly
expects to be told what has hap
pened in the world since the publica-
ton of the last previous issue.
The reader ola newspaper properly
likewise, properly expects to lind IN
the advertisement Of each and every
merchant the facts as to what that
store is NOW DOING-what it is
now oifering-not what was done
yesterday or last week when the mer-
chant disappoints this expectation
when he fails to "covcr the news" Of
his store-the assumption of the
reader is that there is nothing to tell.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19

Mr.. John Walker of Burlington,
President of the Vermont Chocolate
Company, recently su';Gc,ted to Bur
lington business mcl that they H.
tercst themselves in the housing
problem of that city because there IS
a great shortage of proper houses for
the people coming in. Mr.. Walker
minated that the Vermont Milk
Chocolate Company, as a firm and IN
dividuals, will invest money In any
project adequately financed and well
managed, with the object of provld-
ing this city with its most pressing
needs. 1t would seem that what IS
lacking now is merely the initiative
to secure definite action along right
lines.
Mr.. Walker says we want good
streets and good houses; prosperity,
clean living and right thinking follow
inevitably.
The Burlington News has the fol-
lowing to say concerning the project:
"Eyerv Burlington business man
ought to be interested in action along
the lines suggested by Mr.. Walker
from the standpoint of developing
their own business as well as that OF
civic pride and responsibility"
The crying need of Burlington Tor
housing facilities is echoed IN 81
Johnsbury's situation. Moving or
rumors of moving on the part of a
tenant here precipitates an avalanche
of calls by telephone and personally
to secure the house or tenement va
Gated.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19
WAS WITH ROOSEVELT
George K. Cherrie Who Made Braz-
ilian Trip with Ex-President TO
Speak at Johnson

George Kruck Cherrie known to
MANY Vermonters but unknown to
MANY others lives with his family on
q farm in Newfane, Vermont, when
he is not carrying on scientific eXplo-.
rations in South America. He has
lust returned from his 22nd trip to-
that country; where he has made ex
petitions under the auspices OF most
of the natural history museums OF
this country and New England. He
! will give five lectures at the Normal
School beginning Monday evening"
July q at eight o'clock and giving
one lecture each evening during the
week, the last one being on Friday,
July rs. Most of these will be illus
trated. A small fee will be charged.
When Mr.. Roosevelt was making
up his party in 1918 for his trip
through South America he notified
the authorities Of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History asking them
if they cared to send two naturalists
with them to make a collecting trip
for the museum. Mr.. Cherrie was
at once chosen as one Of the nat
uralists.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-19

Rent that space in your home to a
desirable guest-and open another
bank account.