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New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

the slipshod productions Of fourth and
fifth companies that is their usual
portion.
One Of the hardships against which
the provincial actor struggles is the
difficulty of getting New York hear
ing, on which his whole success de-
pends. In combination with such CO.
operative theatres there is planned an
academy Of dramatic art to which all
provincial actors desiring a New York
appearance may come and where they
may receive a chance for recognition
The strike show is, naturally, an
ephemeral thing, and the plans Of
the strike, too, may be Of the same
unsubstantial stuff But 1t seems prac-
tically certain that the scattered forces
of the theatre can be reorganized only
on different terms. And the most ra-
tional would seem to be the comhina-
ton of all the resources of the thea
tre-the actors ardor, the playwright's
intellect, the decorators imagina ton
and the managers shrewdness into
some sort Of working partnership.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Any Ne,U Plays
This Week.?

Notwithstanding the deadlock, man.
ayers continue optimistically to send
out announcements of new plays.
John D. Williams has, with doubtless
few mental reservations, promised
the opening Of "Up from Nowhere" !"
the new play by Booth Harrington and
Harry Leon Wilson, at the Comedy
theatre, on Monday night, with Nor
man Trevor, Cecil Yapp, Frederick
Howard, Ann Andrews, Grace Beale,
Olive Murray, Leota Miller and Mar
COLA Gilmore in the cast.
Rita Olcott also announces that she
will bring her play, "Lusmore," an
Irish romance, to the Henry Miller
Theatre on Monday night.
The Shuberts expect to bring into
New York Cosmo Hamilton's play,
Scandal" which has had a most sue
cessful run in Chicago. The play is
to open at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theatre on Thursday night, with
Charles Cherry and Francine Larri-
more in the leading roles. The play is
a dramatization of the novel by Mr..
Hamilton and deals with the exciting
events of a weekend party in the
home Of a millionaire.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
By Rebecca Drucker

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The rent which the actors strike has
torn in the theatre is letting in more
than mere gusts of accusation and
counter accusation. 1t is admitting
some real discussion and, what is even
more dangerous, ideas. BY what strange
reversal of fortune has that poor lit
tie waif, the idea of the cooperative
theatre, heretofore kept feebly alive
by a few despised intellectuals. been
raised from a suppiiant on the door
step Of the theatre to place as well
come guest?
Few of the hundreds and thousands
Of people who are regular theatre
soers have been concerned with the
intentions and principles of our he'll
terskelter theatre system. Whether
The theatre is like any other piece Of
property, business from which it is
legitimate to extract the last drop of
profit, or whether it is really, in spite
of its adaptations, a temple still, a
we'll in the waste in which all have
some sort of share-these seemed aca-
dmic questions from which all but e
mall and irritable minority fought
hy. Yet in the process Of the strike
it develops that these ar questions
very closely bound up with the pract-
cal physical conditions which have
brought about the crisis. And out of
the chaos into which the business has
been flung there seems to be emerging
set of retested and revalued ideas.
The conception that has suffered the
most damage is that the producing
manager is the wisest guiding hand
in the theatre. The theory that be-
cause he puts his money into a pro-
duction he is naturally the shrewdest
judge of what is good dramatic en-
tertainment is dlsproved season after
season by the small percer tage Of sue
cesses and the huge amount of waste
1t is the constant amazement of each
season on what scant justification
money is risked. This hit-o miss
gamblers courage is a quality very
different from that of true initiative
which is based on authoritative judg-
ment. 1t is the power of selection that
is most conspicuously rare in the
present generation of managers. There
is capable administration, skilled pro-
motion and shrewd speculation, but
these are not the glasses through
which to recognize plays and acting.
The most powerful managers of the
present day are business men-few Of
them are closely enough in touch with
he actual work Of the stage to be
trained in it's problems.
1t explains why the stage has not
received the same careful consdera-
tlon as the box Office, just as it ex-
plains the growth of the conditions
of which the strike is the expression.
The greater risk that the manager
takes has often been offered as a
sufficient reson for that arbitrary
ascendency of the box Office which
presses so hard on playgoer and actor
alike. After all, is not the greatest
risk that the manager invites the fact
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Four NetU Equity
Sh0,us to Open

Four new actors Equity show. will
open in New York and Brooklyn to-
morrow night, under the national
profit-sharing production plans Of the
striking actors. Chief among these is
the Equity Revue" a musical show
on the scale Of the late lamented
Follies and Gaieties, which will be
produced at the Second Avenue
Theatre, IS Second Avenue, with a
chorus Of fifty specially selected
beauties from noted choruses which
are now on strike.
The dramatic feature of the Equity's
production programme this week is at
the Lexington Avenue Theatre, where
Lionel Barrymore will appear in the
last act Of "The Copperhead."
Other stars Of the Lexington Ave
nue. Theatre programme are Johnny
Dooley and Yvette Rugel, the Equity
Minstrels-an act made up of we'll
known monologists - Adele Rowland,
Fred Hillebrand, who is announced as
new Equity discovery, Gertrude
Vanderbilt, Gladys Rice, Ray Ray
mond, Adelaide and Hughes, and the
Watson Sisters.
1.-THE Equity Revue" at the Second
Avenue Theatre, will be headed by
Roger Gray, musical comedy star.
Jimmy Barton, who is one of Equity
"finds," will play the comedy part in
the new musical. Billy Kent, who was
a "Gaiety" star before the strike,
Nice and De Haven, the famous dan
GERS, and Arthur Barckley, another
Broadway light, will be among those
in the cast.
The Second Avenue show went into
rehearsal secretly five days ayo. Rich
ard Gordon was appointed as manager
by Colonel Earle Boothe, Of the Equity
entertainment committee.
Most of this weeks Lexington Ave
nue. programme, including the Equity
dancers, Frank Fay, Marie Nordstrom,
John Steele and Marie Dressler's
chorus, will 60 to the Brooklyn Acad-
emy of Music tomorrow night. A spe-
cial anti-speculator posse has been or
ganized to assure Brooklyn audiences
that they can purchase seats at the
box Office at the regular 81 to so cents
prices.
A show based on. the original "Gala
n
at the Lexington Avenue Theatre a
fortnight ago, will open at the Thomas
hefsky Theatre, Second Avenue and
Houston Street, tomorrow night. At
this house a precedent will be set by
establishing regular So prices.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Cooperative Theatre to
Have Its Chance

that ne so often does not know a play
when he sees it? The case of "John
Ferguson" the most brilliant success
of the last theatrical season, is an
illuminating instance of this. 1t was
offered to all Broadway in the season
before it was produced, but no man
ager could be found among all those
experienced ones who was willing to
touch it. 1t was play for whose
success there was no precedent, and
not even the most reckless of them
would risk it. One manager offered
to take it if it were changed to meet
the conditions of popular taste as he
understood them. 1t is almost certain
that the play would have been ruined
in that case, and almost equally GER
tain that it would have failed. Yet, the
Theatre Guild, an untried and un-
known body of obscure actors, risking
their own money, had the initiative
and courage to present it as it was
intended, and have provided at least
one brilliant example to justify the
cooperative theatre idea in New York
The entertainment committee of the
strikers is at present working on an
idea of the cooperative theatre to fit
present conditions. A play committee
reads plays and an entertainment COM
mttee passes on them. A casting COM
mittee selects casts after which it
should go to a stage director and
then into the hands Of the elected di-
rector of a company. Each player
would be shareholder in the play and
his efforts to make the play a success
would thus be doubled. Various groups
would be encouraged to impress their
work with the stamp of their per-
sonality. If group were more in
clined to develop lighter and more
popular forms of plays it could easily
do SO. Or it might, if it preferred
to identify itself with a classical rep
ertory. A group might organize it.
self for a single production or form
itself into an established company.
The possible combinations are many.
And these might be travelling COM
panies, or resident companies in small
er cities. Perhaps that waste lying
outside New York known as the "road"
might then get something better than
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Vaudeville

PALACE-Charles King will head
the bill. Other features are Jay
Gould and Flo Lewis, Ted Lewis, Ed
Gallagher and Joe Rolley, Brendel
and Burt, Mcmahon and Diamond, and
Reed and Tucker.
RIVERSIDE-Joseph E. Howard and
Ethelyn Clark divide headline posi-
ton with Gladys Clark and Henry
Bergman. The supporting bill includes
Mile. Nitta-Jo, the Klein Brothers, the
LAKELAND Naval Octet, Kerr and Wes-
ton, Davis and Darnell. the Breen
Family, and Catherine Powell.
COLONIAL-Anna Wheaton and
Harry Carroll head the bill, which
serves to reopen this theatre for the
season. Others on the bill are
Nonette, Clifton Crawford, Moss and
Frye, the De Wolfe Girls, Kranz and
La Sale, Gossler and Lusby and Dennis
Brothers.
ALHAMBRA-The reopening bill at
this theatre includes Gus Edwards.
Rooney and Bent, Henry Lewis. the
Three Rubes, Arthur Havel and Com
pany, Stanley and Birnes, Alfred Far
rell and company.
ROYAL-Anna Wheaton and Harry
Carroll head the bill, which includes
Henry Lewis, Lee Kohlmer and COM
pany, Alice Hamilton and company,
Barto and Clark, George and Paul
Hickman, the Dixie Duo and Camilla's
Birds.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-Burto Brown.
Nina Gardiner and Jack Bennett in
a revue of songs head the vaudeville
bill the first part of the week. The
picture feature will be Charles Raw
in "Bill Henry" The last part of the
week Grace Carlisle and Jules Romer
IN a song skit are the vaudeville
features. Catherine Calvert in "The
Career of Katherine Bush is the
picture feature.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Theatre Guild to Cive
Play by Andreyeu

The Theatre Guild announces that it
rick Theatre the second week in Octo-
Der with an elaborate production of
"Savva," the famous revolutionary play
by Leonid Andreyev, which was prohib-
tied by the old regime in Russia. Sew
eral other plays will be given, but
these will not be announced until plans
for their production have been COM
pleted.
John Ferguson" St. John Ervine's
play, whose success has established the
Theatre Guild as permanent organi-
zation, will continue at the Fulton
Theatre until further notice.
The Garrick Theatre, which is the
permanent home of the Theatre Guild,
has been entirely remodelled for the
coming season. 1t was used last season
by the French company, and the
Theatre Guild was forced to undergo
many discomforts because of the in
elasticity Of the stage constructed by
jacques Copeau. Rollo Peters, the di-
rector of the Guild has installed q
new lighting apparatus and a new
proscenium arch. The Guild will have
its own dramatic workshop, and pro-
ductions will be made entirely by the
members of the company Rollo Peters
will design and direct the productions.
Other members Of the organization are
Augustin Duncan, Dudley Dgges, Henry
Herbert, Lawrence Langner, Philip
Moeller, Walter Geer, Helen Freeman,
Helen Westley. Mary Blair, Lee Simon
son and Maurice Wertheim.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

Shorter ReheursaLs Should
! CiUe Us Better Acting

fame, just as much a. it is his own
talent as performer"
Ihls line Of reasoning leaves US be-
wildered, for if the theatre depends
not SO much on the actors art as the
managers business acumen what be-
comes Of the argument that it j. be-
meath tha actors dignity to organize 7
What becomes Of the cry that the
lofty tradition Of the theatre must mt
be impaired?
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Benefit to Aged
Minstrel Tonight

At the Manhattan Opera House to-
night an sll-star cast, including Willie
Collier, Houdini, Charles K Harris, the
song writer; Eva Tanguay, Chic Sale,
Grace La Rue and one hundred other
Broadway favorites will APPEAR at the
benefit performance 70 be rendered the
Pagan. Owing to the length OF the pro-
gramme, the curtain will rise at 1880.
The musicians and stagehands' unions
have pledged themselves to carry
through the performance.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
''Oh, CirT' Company
At Columbia Theatre

At the Columbia Theatre next week
the "Oh, Girl" company will present
two-act burlesque called Passing ths
Buck" The company is headed by
Danny Murphy, Ted Burns and Gene
Moran, and they will have the assist
ance of Drena Mack, Josephine Yourge,
frankie Burns, Ester Lange, Raymond
Payne and Carl De Angelo.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
The Powder Girl
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Can you tell me if the
American Legion will give membership
to girl munition plant workers and, if
they do, where I can apply for mem
bership?
In the fall Of 1918 I decided not to
return for my second year at college
but to keep at work at the munition
plant where had been making cannon
powder, pistol powder and doing some
inspection work until the armistice.
Three days after the armistice was
signed l left the plant.
l had never worked before, and I en-
tered the du Pont plant at Haskell.
N. j., from real desire to pull hard
with those who were going overseas.
We were told that we girls who were
taking mems positions and doing mems
hard. manual labor, in order to re-
lease these for other service. were in
the third line Of defense; that we were
in the S on this side, and that we
were necessary part in the program
of winning the war" We worked verey
hard-that is. those of US who went in
for the service Of it,. Oftentimes, six
teen hours or double" shift gave US
little extra chance to help. l have
known girls to work sixteen hours
every day for weeks at a stretch in
ether, in constant danger of their lives
from explosions and fire.
Since / left the plant I have heard
wild tales about the rny We r d
and yet those Of US who were the best
paid girls in the plant, the forewomen
and the inspectors, received very little
more than an everyday" office worker
and. remember, we were taking our
lives in our hands because such work
as we we're warned when we entered
the plant, was "hazardous."
When other war workers are receiv-
ing recognition for their service from
the Legion, think that those among
the women munition workers who
served as / did, making powder, ane
who have real desire to enter ths
Legion in order to pull as hard in peace
for the ideals we pulled together for il
war, should be allowed to become mem
bers in this organization. NJ. w.
Mountain Lakes, N. j., Nov. Is, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

it is not at all consistent to believe that
the international officials would have
taken this drastic action.
During the Great War the coal miners
Of this country were outclassed by no
other set of men in their patriotism and
their loyal devotion to the government.
They worked harder than ever before to
produce coal with which to win the war.
They bought more than $10,o00,000 Of
Liberty bonds and war savings stamps
out of Their meager earnings to help
Uncle Sam pay his war bills. They
contributed hundreds of thousands of
dollars to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A.,
the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation
Army, and all other war relief funds
and agencies. In every possible way
they .howed their loyalty and did their
bit, the same as all other good Ameri-
cans. 1t is unjust, therefore, to charge
them with being in sympathy with, or
lending any encouragement to,the dam
gerous "Red" propaganda and move
ment which now threatens and for q
long time past has threatened the peace
and safety of this country.
All that the coal miners ask and all
that they have a right to expect, is a
square deal They believe the great
American public wishes to be right and
to do the right thing, when the public
knows what the right thing is.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Men of Dependence

The Washington correspondent of
The Tribune reports q lively effort
IN progress to choose Senator Under
wood instead of Senator Hitchcock
as Senate minority leader. The Ne
braskan Senator having failed, it is
proposed to scrap him.
Not little sympathy will flow to
Senator Hitchcock, for in no true
sense does~he seem responsible for
his failure. He was not allowed to
lead. He was required to keep in
close personal and telephone COM
munication with the White House.
He could decide nothing, not even
small details. AS often as a pro-
posal was submitted to him, he was
expected to say nothing-merely to
report it and to report back the die
tated answer. On many occasions
he was teased by those in nominal
conference assuming he was a free
agent.
Such humiliating role should not
have been accepted. The Senator
degraded himself by consenting to
be rubber stamp. But such were
the conditions imposed. Senator
Martin, the late Democratic leader.
when he realized he had no func-
ton, refused to be minimized and
practically quit, although shrinking
from open insurrection. Senator
Underwood, however great his ami
ability and ability, will do scarcely
better than Senator Hitchcock, un-
less resolved to be a man and not a
dummy. "Men of independent
minds!" exclaimed Daniel Webster,
when eulogizing his colleagues of the
Senate. Men Of dependent minds"
he would be led to say if he had par
ticipated in the recent session.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
ehe paramount rights of the public,
seems certain.
The news film has hnnon,o :.

Che paramount rights Of the nuhl;c
seems certain.
The news film has become a recog-
mzed feature of American life. II
is constantly being developed. Un-
questlonably it is destined to play q
large part in the formation Of nub-
nc opinion and knowledge. 1t is not
1a1rly to be classed with the display
OF portrait photograph for adyer-
using or other commercial purposes.
IN which persons privacy is vio-
iated simply for private gain. The
right OF privacy is sacred and must
be preserved; but it reaches it's OBJ
vlous limits the moment the public's
Legitimate interest is touched.
10 reach any other decision would
destroy the pYblic's right to a val
liable record OF public events. In n
democracy the dissemination of facts
touching public events is vital part
OF the social system. This decision
should be upheld and made secure,
II need be, NV legislative enactment.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
A Sonnet

from The English Revtesc)
THE Prince of Darkness, as I UNDER
Il stand,
Is most affable, complscent prince:
His words that soothe, his theses
that convince,
Are like a green shade in . thirsty
land.
At the crossroads he takes you by the
hand:
He cannot bear to watch you shivef
and vince
Between the painful and the pleas. E
ant-since
The pleasant is the path himself has
planned.
In the cold hour when we no longer
care
Whether our souls be saved or
damned, we strain
And agonize in impotence Of prayer,
Not for the saints. not for the an
gels station,
But for the strength, the strength to
choose again
To see salvation and to choose dam
GERALD GOULD !
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Unredeen1ed?
Head of the Anti-Saloon
League Rises to Explain

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In view of the calls from
newspaper Offices evidently either the
newspaper folk of New York City are
y orc assiduous readers of religious
news than had been suspected or else
soucoouy mas called their attention to
note in the religious column of "The
Globe" of last Saturday in which refer
cnce is made to one william II.
Anderson" among others, being "a
convert Of McAuley Mission" and hav-
ing been redeemed from "a life of
SIM
In the light of the lurid, even though
fictitious, penitentiary record which
the "wets" fabricated and have been
threatening to spring on, me for. 10,
anything is highly respectable. And
since reading some of the New York
newspapers l have almost been led to
doubt whether l have yet been ''re-
deemed from sin" Much alleged ex-
pert testimony in support of this doubt
can be produced from among the thirsty
or greedy.
| was received into full membership
in the Methodist Episcopal Church at
the age Of eleven at Carlinvile, Ill.,
where I was born and where
llse4 until entering the Anti-Saloon
League work. l have been fairly active
in some phase of church activity ever
since. / am profoundly thankful for
the work done by McAuley Mission
and similar institutions, and for
twenty years I have been working to
increase the efficiency of such insti-
tutions by trying to do work that
would increase their efficiency by Civ
ing them "a shorter haul" in lifting
up fallen men.
AS l have encountered once or Twice
"William H. Anderson" who was en-
gagged in selling liquor, this unlocked
for publicity was indeed kind in hav-
ing run me through a gospel mill and
started me on the upward path, and
here's hoping that the civilian H.
Anderson" really referred to in the
religious notice in question suffers no
more serious consequences from the
confusion incident to the similarity of
name.
WILLIAM II. ANDERSON,
Superintendent of Anti-Saloon League
of New York.
New York, Nov. IS, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Europe and the President

Our allies in Europe are said to be
amazed and mortified because of the
failure of the peace treaty. They ac-
cepted President Wilson's fluent as
surances at face value. They closed
their minds to any suspicion that the
President was misinterpreting Amer
ican sentiment.
Article X of the covenant was the
Presidents personal contribution. 1t
was paraphrase of an article which
he and Mr.. Lansing wanted to insert
in a treaty with the Latin American
republics, substituting a new doc
trine of pan-Americanism for the
Monroe Doctrine. This article, of
American origin, was to be "the
heart of the covenant" The Allied
governments naturally supposed that
American support was pledged to it
in advance. They see now that such
was not the case. Their disillusion-
ment is bitter.
Most European critics are disposed
to vent their disappointment equally
on the President and the Senate.
But this is not fair allotment.
The Senate did nothing to mislead
European opinion. Neither did the
nation. The voters rejected Mr..
Wilson's appeal for the reelection #
Democratic Congress. They dis
sociated themselves from his per-
sonal leadership. The round robl-l
of March last was another direct
warning that the league of nations
compact as framed at Paris was un-
acceptable to more than one-third Of
the Senate's membership.
The Senate and the country had
no real voice in the deliberations at
Paris. The Allied statesmen, accept
ing a situation which could not have
developed under the forms of gov
ernment to which they are accus-
toned, put complete faith in Mr..
Wilson'S representative quality
They were deceived. If any one in
this country owes them apology and
reparation it is the President. He
prevented them from making peace
which would have better secured
their own interests. They staked
much on their agreements with him
They have now valid moral claim
against him. To meet it he must dc
his best to save what can be savec
from the wreckage.
If the Allied powers Of. Europe
prefer the treaty. as modified in thu
Senate to no treaty at all, theil
wishes should constitute command
to Mr.. Wilson. He owes it to then
a to keep the United States inside tht
league, if they want US to remain i,
. it on the basis established by th'
Senate's reservations. 1t is to theil
interest to retain the United States
as q partner in the German settle