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New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT OF THE STAGE
The Duncan Dancers
The Drama Of Movement

the border line between the ayts. In
the end, life itself in all its mani.
-festations is dramatic, because Hfs
predicates at every point from birth
to death a struggle between LIVING
beings and the unknown powers that
thrust them forth on the path ~
their hasty adventure The dance ;s
always 4 symbolism of one kind or
another. The simplest people, all peas.
ants, have the simplest symbolisms.
Savages dance the harvest, war, peace.
and the seasons. Sophisticaton eIabo.
rates the symbolism, but what is ele.
mentary remains. Chopins Funeral
March as the Duncan dancers gave il
in their early programmes, and the
Schubert Funeral March" of their
more recent appearances were both a.
delicate and still powerful represen.
tation OF the strongest emot ions hu-
man beings have about life. There
can be no sheer movement for itself.
ethetically. However abstractedly'
beautiful lifted arm, swayine figure
may appear, 1T is related to life, derives
its emotional appeal directly from the
perfect Towering, the completion, of
what in the drama of reality is always
half-uttered and broken.
The conventional stage has much to
learn from this. One of the fnest
artistic effects of the season just clos.
ing had nothing to do with the ar.
of acting as it is ordinarily interpret,
ed. 1t lay solely in the grace, an
almost conventionalized grace like thas
of d patterned flower, with which
Cathleeen Nesbit walked across the
stage in one of the lifting moments
of 'The Saving Grace" Here was new
kind of beauty for the stage, the dis
tinction of the pattern, the conscious
ness Of rhythm in the stage even as it
exists in music and painting. Pure
movement is not removed from life; IL,
closer han speech. 1t is he half
Inconsistencies sublimation of every
feeling that lives deeply and voiceless
in the hidden places of the mind
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
By Haywood Broun

We have received the following let
ter from Walter G. Taylor, of Chicago:
Your reply in The Literary DIGEST
to the criticisms of Rabbi Wise and
DR.. Straton leads me to ask you few
questions:
Would you allow daughter of
yours to expose her person at so much
a week to the gaze of the 'salacious'?
"If not, why do you uphold the
theatrical standard of to-day as low
cred to the depths of filth by the
daughters of other men? Is it not that
you are selling your manhood-if not
your soul-for a paltry $10O per week
salary? Poor fellowl
"--l interesting article from your
pen would be the history of these 'ex-
rosure slaves
"A-Beginning such life.
"B-The joys of it.
Glow the hours are spent by
them outside the theatre.
"D--How long is their life on the
average?
"E-The ending of their days
where, in a grave or on dissectinc
table?
"You know as we'll as / do that the
theatre without the 'salacious' cannot
exist to-day. Be honest, man"
We can hardly answer all these ques-
lions adequately at single sitting, be-
cause some of them are hypothetical
and IN regard to others we have not
yet received the statistics for 1918.
FOR instance, we cannot answer the
one about allowing our daughter to ex
pose her person on the stage for the
sake Of gain, because We have no
daughter. All we can say is that our
son goes about contentedly in a diaper
and an undershirt, even without the
lnducement of financial return.
AS for the beginnings Of "exposure
slaves" we are informed by the press
agents that they are invariably society
girls or the daughters of Methodist
ministers. Of the joys Of their lives
we know nothing. The question Of how
tnelr hours are spent off the stage does
NOT 1ail within the scope Of our denart.
nen'' but again we hear from press
agents from time to time that thew are
largely devoted to farming, appearing
at benefits, selling Liberty Bonds and
losing jewelry.
The average life is between eighty
and ninety. The last forty years are
spent in singing, rope skipping, songs
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
R0Uo Peters

One Of the most striking develop
ments in the theatre in recent years is
the recognition that is rendered the
designer of stage settings Out of an
anonymous and haphazard function in
the theatre his has come to be the most
important share in interpreting the
mood and tempo of play. 1t falls to
him to accomplish the fusion of set
tlngs and acting, and the next step in
MS evolution is that he should become
the directing intelligence of produc-
ton.
Ihe new and extremely forward look
ing Theatre Guild is demonstrating this
IN its choice of Rollo Peters as director.
Peters is the youngest of the American
scenic artists-a fedgling from the
Washington Square Players nest. To
touch a production on all sides, he
works not only as scenic artist and
director, but as an actor as well, In
John Ferguson" he plays the part Of
the son. My first acting was done as
the young lover in the Washington
Square Players production of 'Salome'
about year ago." he said, land l feel
that my scenic work has been greatly
improved by my acting. 1t has helped
me to understand some things which
heretofore were a closed book to me.
l have now keener insight into the
characters which are being interpreted
anG there are certain phases of the
matter which present themselves to
you as an actor which one could never
understand otherwise. remember
most clearly when making the designs
for Madame Sand that | could not
understand Mrs. Fiske's objections to
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Scorching Blast Comes
From Chicago Moyazist

in vaudeville and in giving out men
daclous interviews about having ap-
peared with Booth. Most exposure
slaves" die in Freeport, L. l., and are
buried by their great grandchildren.
If Mr. Taylor is correct in saving
that the theatre Of to-day cannot exist
without the salacous, we should feel
1T more incumbent upon US than ever
to maintain that the damage done by
impropriety in the theatre is trifling
For could the choice lie between q
salacious theatre and no theatre at all
we are for the salacious theatre every
time. However, we hardly think that
any such choice exists, except in the
minds of the Puritans, whose sense of
the salacious, we may suggest, is fire.
quently over-acute, Ask Freud-he
knows.
There is a proper time for the man
who desires to criticise any form of
art exclusively from the moral side.
but this time comes, we think, about
/ once in one hundred years. During
the other ninety-nine it Is totally ir-
relevant. Once a century a Jeremv
Colller should be allowed to come in
and wash the drama, but then he
should set it down and let it grow again
without interference. We don't think
that this is bath night.
The stage costumes of to-day, we
think are not vulnerable. To our
mind, bare knees are more beautiful
than the pink tights of the past gen
Grafton, and fully as moral If the
theatre is to be washed it should be
cieansed of its tendency to excessive
sentlmentality. The most immoral
play we have seen in five seasons is
"Pollyanna," with it's shocking theory
that 1t is the duty Of every man in
the world to be glad no matter whether
he Is rich or poor, we'll or i'll. Next
in order we should put Barrie's "Dear
brutus,' in spite of it's abundant
charm, because of the noxious scene in
which Lob fondles the flowers and
calls them pet names. Nor are we
disposed to omit "Thirty-Nine East"
with its enunciation of the theory
that the most helpless thing in the
world is good woman"
But even here we. should be sorry
70 see the censor at work, because
Dear Brutus," with this one excep-
'ion noted, is among the most enioy-
&nle plays of the season. "Thirty-
Nine East" although certainly far be-
low the Barrie piece from any artistic
standard is also a play which has
gwen pleasure to many people, and we
suppose in justice the same thing
should be said for "pollyanna," Then
why should we try in any way to snoil
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New Plays This Week

aoNDA1 At the Ne@ Amsterdam Theatre
' he 1913 version OF the Zegfed thirtoenth
secuVe production in this musical rcuos Tho ,
ior inc entire second
oaet by Victor Herbert. Wolf has +h
Guy Scehe and az IN former
music by Dave Samper
- IN '"o acsa and he4 been nov
~ '"pef'S'n OF Alegfed himself The
"" one o the features Of the nctur.s
eFeaed and presented by Ben Ali
hghed me cosume The includes Eddie
' '"hny Dooiey Ray Dooley, Nancy Brown Cha Dc
hye AIDA van and Schenck Eddie
f'hee walton Jessie Reed Maureset, Dwycr Kathryn
Perry and Bert Williams.
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In Mr.. David Belasco's interesting ar
ticle in "The Saturday Evening POST
of last week he writes: "An honest
managers desire to enlist the sym-
pathy and to benefit by the assistance
of intellectual contemporaries is not q
venal or merely selfish one; it is a
judicious and commendable desire to
profit by the learning and often the
vast abilities of the best minds of his
time in order to better his service to
the public" Mr.. Belasco then offers a
list Of the men of learning and vast
abilities, the best minds of his time
whose criticism and approval he has
sought not always in vain. His list
is as follows:
"William Winter, George William
Curtis, Charles A. Dana, Clarke Davis,
John D. Stockton, w. W. Clapp, Benja-
min E. Woolff, Henry A. Clapp, Lau-
renee Hutton, Franklin Fyles, Stephen
Fiske, Henry Watterson, George P.
Goodale, John Ranken Towse, Sir Ed
ward Russell, Walter Herries Pollock,
A. B. Walkley, II. T. Parker, Philip
Hale, Louis V. De Foe, Charles Darn
ton. Alexander Woollcott, Alan Dale
Amy Leslie, Lawrence Reamer, Burns
Mantle and James S. Metcalfe."
This is, of course, an excellent list
We have no objection to any Of the
men included not even those who are
still alive. Sergeant Woollcott, to be
sure, sometimes brings an excessive
amount of boisterousness, which
passes for camaraderie at Hobart. to q
first night performance. Mr. De Foe
is sometimes late and Mr.. Mantle is
occasionally under the necessity of
leaving early to catch that good train
for Forest Hills. But it is good list.
And yet it occurs to US that Mr.. Be-
lasco in his haste has omitted ono or
two whose cooperation would be use
ful even in such a distinguished body.
There is, for instance, Mr.. George Jean
Nathan, who to our knowledge has
often commented at length and with
great fervor on some of Mr.. Belasco's
productions. Then there is Mr. Clay
ton Hamilton, who climbed to the
Acropolis in the moonlight in order to
fit himself to pass upon the merits of
Dark Rosaleen." Mr.. John Corbin,
who discovered the feet in "The Jest"
after practically every other critic had
hurdled them, is also entitled to recoe-
milton.
~ we ever made our own list Of
those who have helped us most in the
business Of writing (next to the Bible
and Shakespeare) we should not think
of failing to mention Mr Stephen
Rathbun, Of "The Evening Sum: Mr..
Rennold Wolf, OF "The Morning Tele-
graph; Mr.. Louis Sherwin, late of
"The Globe; Mr.. Kelcey Allen, OF
"Women's Wear; Mr. Jack McManus,
of "rhe American'; Mr.. Robert Welsh,
of "rhe Evening Telegram; Mr.. Al
Head, of "The Herald" and Mr.. Frank
Pope. Of "The Journal Of Commerce."
And before Mr.. Belssco makes out
another list we want to put, ourselves
on record as stating that there Is more
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

not bring himself to dare so sombre
play and lost one of his real successes
OF the year. After he had accepted
it and selected the cast he let
this gripping drama slip through his
fingers.
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room for the knees in the Belasco than
IN practically any other theatre in
town. and that "Daddies" is Just as
sweet as any show could be and still
remain within the limits of the new
legislation against fermentation.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

the pleasure of SO many by trying to
force our own tight Puritanical stand
ards upon them? We are inclined to
think that the number of souls saved
or lost between the hour of 8:15 D. m.
and it is infinitesimal in any case.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-17

to hold the lead about half the dis tance. and then when near the finish I closed up on him until my horses head was on his Hanks. when his horse stumbled. causing my horse to make q lightninglike bolt down q cross street
 But l kept right on going, making an aerial flight that would have paled the earlier efforts of the Wright brothers
 soaring far over the head of the pepu- lace in the sidelines and landing in q market wagon at the curb. That fall certainly made dent in me and 1t was the first and last ever to put me
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the Iiadus, and where have you been where have all of you been, if may asl?"
 Davis gave short laugh
 Its a long story, but I suppose I might as well begin Ordering re- treatments. they seated themselves while John briefly told his adventures. As he finished Morgan drowned.
 "Who could that chap have been that pretended to be you?e Johns head slowly waved.
 "That's what gets me. Do you sup pose it was that hermit chap or one eff his agents?" Morgan's hand fell upon his knee with resounding slap. That's it exactly. But thank good ness he failed. For one, I've had enough of this town and am hungry for the mountains again. Let's go back in the morning and fight him in the open. MeanWhile-" The voice of Ethel quickly arose.
 "Yes. let us leave this horrible hotel where such things are always happening. Cannot We go to some quiet place near the sea. or"
 Johns hand, finding her own, gave it a squeeze.
 'I know just the spot. The Sea Cliff Inn down the bay. We'll pack our bags and motor down at onee." With this understanding, they separated for the purpose of getting ready.
 Within their own room, Morgan turned to the Spider.
 You stay behind as if to make prep arations for an early start Here's the list of stuff you are to get. Be off the Sea Cliff dock at midnight, tie up the launch and join me. I'll hang towel out of my room and be on the watch for you"
 They secured their auto and left the hotel of horrors. the Spider waving them good-by from the curb. In the front seat with the chauffeur rode Morgan; Ethel and John sat behind them with Rainface mounted on the auxiliary seat in the rear Scarcely had they turned the first corner. how ever, than the Indian, suspicious that the one left behind was up to some deyiltry, slipped from his seat unno- ticed by his companions. Arriving at the hotel. John secured three rooms for them, the supposition being that Rainface had preferred to come on foot, and Indian-like had dropped off saying nothing. John and Ethel start ing for their rooms. saw that Morgan was missing and supposed he had pre- ceded them.
 But the Hawk had not. Secreting himself until they had retired he re- turned to the desk and engaged two additional rooms above those taken by John, his excuse to the clerk being that he expected two friends to arrive later on. This done, he mounted the stairs and threw himself upon the bed without undressing
 Out in the hay in Il motor boat the Spider cruising slowly along with eyes upon the Sea ClG Inn, gave an ex elamation of satisfaction. From out of window of that hostelry a towel hung. and guiding his boat to the dock he made il secure and approached the building. Inauiriug of the sleepy clerk for the room that his friend had en- gagged for him, he was shown to It. 10 be joined shortly thereafter by Mor- gan. The Spider opened the grip. he' had been carrying, taking from 1t a
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when I was about II years old and weighed around seventy-fve pounds. l had q very fast thoroughbred and boy of about my age also had good anl' maj and he challenged me to race him. The event was scheduled for the court day, Monday, and as 1t had been wide ly advertised, the whole countryside turned out en masse to witness the contest. which was mostly that of horsemanship.
 .The course was one mile, the great er part of which was through the coun- try town. I allowed the other fellow
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the auto and glanced at is number. Ii waS Calf 37655, the machine of Dr. Fream
 That other fellow with preacher, him Spider grunted Rainface. Him got on wig and whiskers. but ne know his walk
 You're right, Rainfaee. I was try ing to place that gait of his. There's the devil to pay in there sure, and we've got to get in, locks or no locks. y Tearing open the tool box of the ma chine he drew forth heavy screw driver. and cloSly followed by the In dian sprang to the nearest window.
 Inserting the point of the imnro- vised Jimmy" beneath the lower frame and the jam, he gave his in- strument a savage downward push. Before the leverage of the steel tool the catch burst and the window no longer barred their way. Lifting it hastily they crawIed within and stood listening. Nc sound met their ears, and with soundess feet they crept up the stairs, halting before door through the keyhole of which slen- der fan of light streamed. John plac- ing his ear to the crevice, drew his breath and listened. Plainly to his hearing came the words of the min ister.
 "Is this your wish, my child?' Faint IV cor0a tho answer Of Ethel
 'It is"
 "Then if any man can show just cause why this couple may not law fully be joined together-"
 Snapping himself erect like q re- leased rubber band John tried the knob. The door was locked, but with a savage cry bursting from his lips he placed one shoulder against it and gave mighty heave. As though it had been made of pasteboard it crumpled before him and fell crashing into the room. Chest heaving and with fists clenched. Davis stood before the assemblage within.
 John! John p cried the girl, start ing back as though she saw ghost. Half unbelievingly she turned her eyes to the one beneath the covers. "Then who is this-'
 But Morgan did not wait to answer. One jump and he was out of bed, and with the Spider and the two "physl- clans" leaping at his heels he bolted from the room, tumbled down the stairs and streamed from the front door. The next moment those left be- hind heard the motor car go whir- ring into the night.
 Releasing Ethel from his arms Davis turned threateningly upon the minister. but the girl interposed her self between them.
 Don't, John. He was deceived even as I was. The doctor said it was you and I was marrying him thinking 1t would save your life Explanations having been made all around, they parted. the crestfallen minister to his home and Ethel, John and Rainface for their hotel.
 At their entrance Morgan and the Spider arose and came forward qttes- tfoning them rapidly. The Hawk thrust out his hand:
 "We,re sure glad to see yeH. When YOU did not turn up at that temple, John. and we did not find yon here Miss Ethel and I nearly went wild from anxiety. How did you escape
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 Women n thla condition aaolld not continue tp drag along without help, but profit by Mrs. Lynch g experience, and try this famous rect and herb remedy, Lydia L, Pinkham 8 Vegetable Com Pound-and for special advice write to Lydia l.. Pinkham Med. O.. Lynn, Mass.
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been found Jefferson county has been the source of many ceits, and other counties in which they have been found are Dane, Calumet, Brown, Waupaca, Walwerth, Winnebago, Waukesha and Washington.
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SYNOPSIS.

n Dayls and Hawk Morgan, exeeu- of the estate of John Carr. miner, rec over the disposition of the profits E mine. Morgan seeks the gold and ifI Ethel, Carr's adopted daughter, imself. and unsuspected by Davis, Ethel really loves, makes several tianal attempts upon the life of
 Suspicion is diverted to a mys- IS hermit Davis and Rainface are and hurled into the sea by Hindus.
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RAYS0N'S FIRST HORSE RACE
|nlte House Physician Accounts Ex-
 citing Experience Which He Is In No Danger of Duplicating.

Admiral Cary T. Grayson, White
 Puse physician to Presidents Roose- flt, Taft and Wilson, in an interview ported by Richard NJ. Winans in
 Pysicai Culture, tells this interesting Pry Of an early horseback-riding ex-
 Ffience. T viyidly recall by first race
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Find Indian Stone ceIte.

In an article on Indian stone celts lE the Wisconsin Archeologist. Charles E Brown, chief of the state historical museum, describes the various classes of celts. or stone hatchets, and in what Wisconsin localities many of them have
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cry he had just made. "Why. mother :" he exclaimed. "the sky is going right along with us" Other fatnt-hearted people need to make the same dis covery. No matter what we leave be hind, the best goes with us.
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Look at the Best in Sioht.

Get into the habit of looking at tlN silver lining of the cloud; and, when you have found it, continue to look at 1t rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.-A. A. Willis, D. D.
The Monticellonian., 1919-10-17
Sky Went Alona.

A woman was leaving home where she had been very happy, and. as she boarded the train which was to take her away, .the tears came fast. Her little son, anxious to comfort her, tried the effect of cheering dlscoy-
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to sleep. I did not awaken until was almost home. I have ridden in many races since at county fairs and horse shows. but that lesson taught me never to ride full onto the heels of another horse"
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New Crop Recleaned Crimson Clover Seed
 for Sale

We are offering you crimson clover seed. threshed In l9l9 from one of the highest rated crimson clover growing counties tfraRklin county. Makes no difference who you are nor where you live. if your record is half right we will ship you niee new crimson clover seed at $a 9a per bushei, 60 pounds to bushcl. cotton bags free freight paid by us To any point in the United States. Don't say that l would order hut might not get them in time 10 sow We have sufficient supply on hand to III all orders. Mall your letter 70 us at Maxwell Tenn and we will get it. Your seed VIII be shipped same dag we receive the order. You need not send any money if you don't want to. We will draw draft on Non tnruueh Nome hiHk near NOQ
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HOW ID AVOID BACKAcHE AND
 NERVOUSNESS
Told by Mrs. Lynch From
 Own Experience.

Providence, R. L-"I was all run down in health, was nervous, had head.