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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14

special production and all that it sig nifies.
 The crowds who saw the picture at the Colonial Monday were delighted at the excellent manner in which the story had been handled. It is ao- mittedly dangerous to attempt the dramatization or picturization of uni . versally popular novel, because It IS hard to make story conform to screen needs, and those who have read It are offended in some instances because oi sighting of favorite characters.
 But Little Women" as produced by Paramount is not story of this type It follows the book with a fidelity that only master artistry makes possible and it has lost none of it's charming appeal in the translation to films Rather has it gained, because then the characters so loved in the book become more real where they can live ano move on the silver screen.
 Little Women is being shown at the Colonial for the last time today. Along with it is a rapid action farce, filled with delightfully."- hilarious situations . Apartment 23," presented by cast oi well known screen comedians Tomorrow the beautiful Kitty Cor don. the most lavishly dressed woman on the screen, comes in new produc ton. stolen Orders" This is thrill ing melodrama- with tense situation: from start, to finish, and provides tho star an excellent role which she handles most capably. Appearing in her sup port are such well known players al l Carlyle Blackwell, June Elvidge anc others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
ROTARIANS OUT AFTER ATTENDANCE RECORD
Want 100 Per Cent Present When District Governor Comes Here
 Tomorrow

The Birmingham Rotary club is plan ming to break all attendance records of International Rotary tomorrow after noon at i o'clock at the Tutwiler hotel. when it is expected that every member of the local club will be/on hand. Tru- man L. McGill of Selma, district gov ernor of International Rotary, will at tend the meeting and will talk on the meaning of Rotary and what it stands for.
 The Birmingham club has been having g such splendid attendance record dur ing the past few months that it was asked by International Rotary to at- tempt to hold a 100 per cent attendance meeting, and every effort is being made to do so This has never been done by any club, it is stated, and is next to the impossible.
 Secretary Clarence Lloyd states every member who does not attend had just as well send in his resignation There of the city and they have been notified to attend the club meetings in the cities where they are, and according to infor- mation received this will be done The 1 meeting tomorrow promises to be the largest in the history of the club when | it is expected that the entire mem l bership of 162 will be on hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14

operative enterprise in production, then 1t follows that those who work with their hands, like those who work with their brains, and those who work with their savings, are entitled to take part in the organization and direction of the in- dustry and to have voice in determining the conditions under which their cooper ation shall be given and continued"
 Referring to the steel strike, MT. But Ter said:
 The ultimatums of MT. Fitzpatrick and Mir Foster were a well planned attack on the principles on which the American people have rested their civilization and their life"
 According to Mir. Butler, the doctrine is being taught that the state has no claim upon a citizens loyalty superior to claims of other organizations.
 &This doctrine, which it is asserted is now being taught in American universi- ties and even in American law schools, p he said, lis given several high-sounding names but it is correctly but bluntly described as the gospel of anarchy and disorder, as well as of the complete de- struction of everything that mankind has accomplished during the past 5000 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
MANY MEETINGS AT
 CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS

Several meetings are held in the rooms of the Civic association daily, according to schedule prepared by the association yesterday In many in- stances these meetings are held at the same time, every available room of the associa tion being utilized. Yesterday the farmers cooperative committee met in the cafe at 12:30 o'clock, the American legion committee in the cafe at 1 0 clock. Spanish classes were held in the library from ' to o'clock last night, while at 8 o'clock the Scoutmas- ters' association met in the directors room, the vocational training class in the secretarys office at 8 o'clock and the Civic association weekly social ir | the cafe at O clock. Meetings sched- uled for the remainder of the week are as follows:
 TUESDAY. Membership committee in cafe al 12:15 D. m. Civic association directors in cafe. at 12:30 D. m.; American 1nsti- tute of Banking in directors room at D. m; Sewanee luncheon in cafe at p. m.
 WEDNESDAY. Spanish class in directors room al | D. m.; vocational training class, sec | retarys class at D. m: Jefferson | County Medical society in cafe a l 8 D. m.
 THURSDAY. l Spanlsh club in directors room at l n. m.: Rainbow Veterans association II | cafe at D. m.; Credit association il | cafe at 12:15 p. m. l FRIDAY l Spanish class in directors rooh at | D. m.; Birmingham Aero club in loung room at p. m.
 SATURDAY. | Association of engineers in directors 1 room at D. m.; Cancantenated Order o Hoo Hoos in cafe at D. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
Funeral Services of
 Mrs. Leila Johnson

Funeral services of Mrs Leila Johnson, who died Sunday night, will be held thls afternoon at o'clock from the resi- dence of her daughter, Mrs. Walton M. Beasley, 1913 Eleventh avenue, south, Interment at Elmwood.
 Although Mrs Johnson had been in ill health for several months, death came suddenly and was a shock to her rela- lives and saddened a wide circle of friends by whom she was mssh loved and respected
 She is survived by her daughter, Mrs Beasley; two sons, Joe Beasley and J D. Beasley; three sisters. Mrs. w. E. Terry of West Virginia, Mrs. Robert Herren and Mrs Sterling Afford; hel father, Joe D. Leak, and two brothers s L. Leak and James Leak, all of Bay Minette.
 The following pallbearers have beer named: Mark Scott, c. A. Req, Luther Busby, Edward Morrisey, Philip Mullant and Hugh Grady.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
EXCELLENT BILL AT THE LYRIC

A hill that is varied enough to please the most exacting is the offering at the Lyric for the first part or tne week and was warmly recelved oy the capacity audience last night and many pronounced it to be one of the best bills of the season.
 A decided novelty is the comeoy sketch, "rhe Morning Rehearsal, pre- sented by Lew Madden, and company. It presents life behind the scenes on Monday morning when the various artists rehearse their parts, and Tn the hands of this capable company many funny situations are brought out. The act made a decided hit.
 Miss Vera Calhoun, who calls her self "The Girl in the Frame" Is sort of a frame talking moving picture In a frame she sings number Of songs with very fine, expressive voice, the while a picture machine is In motlon filling the frame she occupes with variable pictures Peck and Mcintyre. blackface comedians, offer lively ht-- tie skit called The Black Ace,' and as fur knows no color line there IS a regular rainbow hue Of 1t.
 Kitaro brothers. from the f1owery Kingdom. rank high as equiliorists and foot jugglers They perform many difficult feats that are accomplished with precision and smoothness, and their act would be worth while mere ly for the ease and grace with which it Is executed. The musical part of the bin Is ably taken care of by the Misses Parker two young ladies possessing grand opera voices and the ability to use them to the best advantage.
 The above acts. with the ScreeT | Telegram, will make up one of thF 1 best bills of the season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
RULING PAsSIONS"-RIALTO

Hate and love, revenge and mercy, have been the basic emotions of many a movie plot, but Ruling Passions" which ap- pears at the Rialto theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, is a stirring drama of present day social life that is in a class by itself. Julia Dean and Edwin A len are the stars cast in this Select Picture, which was
 written and directed by Abraham Schooner.
 John Walton. q wealthy broker, is em- bittered against the world until, under the strain of his violent temper, he suffers a nervous breakdown. Several nurses have failed to bring him back to health until, as last resort, his physi- clan brings in Eveline Roland, a clever
 nurse. whose belief in smiles and happi- ness is stronger than her faith in nux
 vomica. She learns from Walton's butler 1 the secret of Walton's hatred for the ! world Years before he had befriended 1 Alexander Vernon, an old schoolmate-
 The boy had come to him in rags. Wal
 ton put him on his feet, took him into his
 firm and year later made him partner.
 Still, Walton was unhappy. His love TOT
 Louise Palmer was not requited, but the time came when, through an act oi l friendship for her brother, he was able to make his own choice of wedding dates His friend Vernon met Louise Vernon being the hypotenuse of the | eternal triangle Flooeys Walton foune Louise in the wrong mans arms, there 1 was a scene and dissolution of partner ship.
 Eveline worked hard against odds. bu she preached love and mercy so effectual ly that Walton forgets all about hate revenge and Louise. His versatile nurse even went to the point of letting Vernon and his wife call on Walton. It d1dn lphase the wealthy broken-down broker ;
 bit. No, sir He married Eveline, tn nurse And they all lived h. f. a.
 (Footnote-H. f a. means happily TOT ever afterwards.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14

styled - with tiresome reiteration - th<
 eternal trianglew There are the ineHt- able two men and one wonAn whom both of them want and only one possesses, buy while there is a dash of melodrama at the end, it is after all only make-believe melodrama and the sum total is brilliant comedy with nothing in line or situation to offend. The spectator is never de- ceived a moment into thinking that the woman in the case is not devoted to her husband loyal to him and qiite incapable of compromising herself with the other man, even when appearances are, from the husbands point of view, all against her
 The plot is quite original in conception and is cleYerly worked out in a manner that is plausible and satisfactory or not, depending on the view one takes of
 confessed loved as a regular taker of tea
 in the family. The most platonic of love affairs have caused a peek of trouble in this old world and in the case of the lover in the play he made no pretense to being anything less, or more, than human being"
 However the jealous and suspicious
 husband had his faith in his wife restored by having that confidence put to rather severe test by a conspiracy on the part of the wife and the friend, which goes further than the arch conspirator himself intended, for there are d ltW toA4'N
 moments when it appears that the
 bachelor was about to be denied his op- portunity to take tea with the woman he
 loved had actually carried out a reckless
 game with death as the forfeit and hao' committed suicide.
 ! The company, though numbering put | five persons, contains exactly that mum
 Der of competent players. Bert Leigh as 1 the gay bachelor who loves the wife or l his old college friend and does not deny | it, even to her husband, was well cast In that part His good looks, cynicism ana urbanity suited the role admirably. Gladys Knorr left nothing to be desired as the wife. She has beauty and dramatic l talent-and she is adept at blowing 1 smoke rings
 John w Cowe11 played the suspicious
 husband, wrapped up in his business ano
 graduaiy drifting away ffom his wife, with marked success.
 1 With hardly dozen lines. kennetn
 Lee made a great deal out of the role or
 a valet He was an ideal servant for bachelors establishment where tact and diplomacy are required, and Millicens Hanley was maid who did somethfns more than merely walk on and off tns stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
COOPERATION BY
 LABOR ADVOCATED
 BYCOLUMBIAH HEAD
Profit Sharing Urged as Means of Preventing Sui eide of the American
 Government
av AssnnIaisd orsss

New York, October 1s.-Co-operation by labor in the management of industry and proft-sharing were advocated as means of preventing the American form of government from committing suicide by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, in an address to- night on "The Real Labor Problem. before the Institute of Arts and Science of the university He stated the prob lem was this:
 Must the American form of govern nent commit suicide in order to give to industry better and more satisfactory organization?"
 The question, he added, answered itself. for 'ff the American form of govern ment commits suicide it will make no difference to any one whether industry is better organized or not.
 Chaos will have come again.
 "When industry is viewed as a CO.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
TN NORTHUMBERLAND

Robert Warwick, who is appearing at the Strand the first part of the week. is 100 per cent all he-man in every-day life, as well as in his latest vehicle, 'In Mizzoura." When America called for the man power of the United States to help win this war. Robert tossed his eve brow pencil and other makeup to the discard and doning a uniform and other ammunition, marched forth to Platts- burg to enter training. Nobody paid much attention to Robert there. He was not greeted with press agents. who ad- vertised that he was taking up the gen tie art of being cannon fodder as a profession. He went quietly to work and after IS months at the firing line, he returned to the movie life, as Maj
 Robert Warwick.
 The first picture Major Warwick played in was a war picture, Secret Service, but he wasn't allowed to wear his owr | good-looking majors uniform. because he was playing the part of Confederate soldier. So if the movie fans who just | adore Major Warwick, want to see how he really looked in his uniform they vii have to write to him for his picture. | 'In Mizzoura" takes in the old situa- | tion of a girls mental expansion after | a siege of finishing school. The ole home town doesn't seem to look the | same The town sheriff (Robert War Wick) who once was her 1uea or all Una registers perfection, looks like he ough
 to be handed a tip, Even father. wh' 1 once stood for the head of everything seems terribly seedy. Nothing looks goot 1 to Kate Vernon (E,ileen Percy) in thu 1 town till Robert Travers eases in aftel performing delicate little operation or an express car, and making away witl
 a flock of coin. Poor Sam Fowler, tn express clerk, is held guilty of the theft land it is all that the sheriff and tn legal light of the vicinity can do t get him out on bail.
 Kate, tired of the hubdrum of the vii Haze. starts to run away with Travers but Sam lamps the true william at tn hangout for the village cutups, tn drug store Sam tells the populace tha here is their man and Travers, abou to be taken, shoots a man. The entir
 town goes wild. The citizens are out c hand He holds them off, goes to Kate house. where the william Travers is hid
 ing behind Kates petticoass.
 Although the sheriff tries to save tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
Y 'Thedtres-N -NoWos @ ANNE JORDAN

life of Travers, he gets nervous and
 bolts from the crowd. That is the blow
 that cost him his residence upon this earth. Somebody's gun becomes unnan-
 ageable and Travers joins the chorus
 of the williams hereafter.
 A letter found upon the dead body
 proves that he was only cad. He was
 married all the time he was making love to Kate. Kate begins to see the world
 through political glasses soon after this
 affair, and when she finds that friend
 sheriff has paid for the education that had made her so naughty, she volunteers to cook for him for life.
 Robert Warwick pulls some fighting i in this picture that was spared the Huns He keeps you holding tight to your chair almost every second because you never know where he is going to break out again. As girl with bad case of general dissatisfaction, Eileen
 Percy makes you ashamed of your own enlarged case of swell head when you returned from boarding school. and love her at the same time. When she relents her biggitiness she melts completely. II is a most satisfactory picture both from thrills and heart throbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
EMPTY IN THE
 UNDERCURRENT"

.sTvhe ITndercurrent. featuring Arthur Guy Empey, hero and writer of lover the Top" should be especially interest ing to the citizens of Birmingham in the stress of the steel strike, because the scene is laid in '"Tne Steel City, one of Birrningha most popular nicknams
 And it deals with the undercurrent of general unrest melted by the Reds throughout all big industrial centers where chance gives them victims upon which to prey. 'The Reds" headed sup posedly by "Ivan," a crack brained dreamer of what would be the perfect state, is really led by 8 murderous gang of cut throats who are ambitious for nothing more than hopping up with the revenue of all of the countrys business. Into the coils of unrest is swept young Jack Duncan, who has just returned from the army. His wife and little boy are the sole interest in Jacks life, till after a fake and unfair canning of a fel- low named Smith by the foreman under whom Jack works, followed by Jack S really being fired, the Reds get their
 dirty fingers around Jacks throat. He is vamped by a, Russian lady and Is a high inuckety muck in the Red organiza- 1 ton, and is going to make a speech against all owners of plants, when word reaches him that the Reds are to blow 1 up everything, including the home of | John Loring, who owns the mills
 1 Jack Duncan's little boy, marching with an American flag, makes Jack re- aiize that first and foremost he Is sn American. And he goes to make his i speech to that effect. There Is irnmedi-
 ately a catastrophe when Jack intro duces his anti Red views. He escaped and, sending word to Loring, beats il | for the camp where the soldiers are sta l tioned. He returns in time to stop the | general devastation and save his wife 1 from the clutches of the master vlllair i of the Reds
 ! It is one of those movies that every 1 body goes wild about. There are gasp'
 and clapping throughout every scene Tht
 riot is a regular masterpiece, with req red-blooded fighting, and the home scenes well, hardened as I am, I shed a few tears. Empey is just plain, natura
 actor He seems to forget that man i clicking a-camera in his face. He is jus an everyday sort of fellow, who will vii your hearts with just as much ease 8. he won the day for real Americanisn
 when the Reds had gummed some peo ple's eyes till they couldn't see what colo
 their flag was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14

lum," one of the cunningest film froiics she has ever cavorted fin, which is being shown at the Trianon theatre all tnis week.
 The Hoodlum is a story of poor girl who loved her poor father more than she loved her rich grandfather, thereby upsetting all the calculations of a world which was waiting for her to trip up on something and fracture her equanimity In the process of loving: she ran across q young man whose finger prints and Ser tillion measurements were exactly those of her ideal of a husband.
 No, I'm not going to tell you whether she got engaged to him and married him. That would be giving away an unexpected ending, and everybody who goes to see Mary and "The Hoodlum' ought to get the full pleasure of it-I mean them
 Ralph Lewis. Kenneth Harlan, Melvin Messenger and others take their parts very acceptablY and the whole production is a huge chunk of enjoyment
 Fatty Arbuckle, author. director and professional fat boy is going to be around at the Strand next week in an intimate sort of comedy called Back Stage say it's intimate because guess it is, from the sound of the title. It's Para -Arbuckle comedy. which ought to be enough recommendation,
 Charlie Chaplin-none other than him seIf-is an extra added piece of lagniappe at Loews Bijou the first half of this week, in his comicalest of comedies, "The Floor Walker" Everybody knows Char lie could make the Sphinx laugh just by walking alone, but he does severa other things in this offering.
 William Farnum in "The Last of the Duanes," is the film headliner for Thurs day, Friday and Saturday. It is story 1 of love with a setting in the rugged west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
DELIGHTFUL COMEDY
 ATLOEW'S BIJOU

refreshing. clean and wholesome comedy playlet. "A Night at the Club featuring William H. Lytell. father Of the famous movie star, Bert Lyten IS the topline attraction at Loew's BI1ou for the last half of the week. The bill on the whole is very pleasing and was greatly appreciated by the large audi ences yesterday. Tn addition to the usual five acts Of vaudeville and feature picture, Manager Wilson presented as an added attraction Charlie Chaplin in ''The Floor Walker, his famous million dollar comedy, which needless to say, is scream and proved a delight to the Riddles and grown-ups | alike.
 "A Night at the Club presented by W. ! IT Lvtell and company, proved very amusing. MT Lytell furnishing the bulk | of the comedy. He is a very capable per l former, although the same cannot be said | of the company The play revolves about an all-night session of poker. in which
 a young husband and his father-in- Ia W try to explain to the young wife, who 1 has been up all night waiting for hei husband. Many situations arise there
 from that are laugh winning and the comedy is enjoyable throughout
 Marie Doyle and Rose Blaine scored 8 hit with original dances put over with 2
 tan" setting. They are both capable and the act is novel. Bell and Gray pre-
 sent a singing, dancing and wire walk l ing act that is about the best ever seer
 here This couple dance on the wir'
 with a grace and precision rarely ex celled on the boards.
 | Kelly and Kelly please with comed, and harmony singing, and Sweeney ani
 Rooney open with a clog and fanch
 dancing number that is acceptable.
 Albert Ray arg Elinor Fair, in ''Th
 Lost Princess a delightful screen TO
 nance, is the picture feature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-14
HEAD OVER HEELS"
 AT THE JEFFERSON

Another new musical comedy bearing the always reassuring trademark or Henry w. Savage is to come to the Jef- ferson october 22-23, matinee Thursday under the title of Head over Heels, and there is added promise of dellght in that the saucy and diminutive Mitzi is its star The production comes with the praise given in it's long runs in New York, Boston and Chicago, with whim- sical story by Edgar Allan Woolf, and it's music is by the favorite light music composer of today, Jerome Kern. In 1t Mitzi is seen as a girlish acrobat, quite as mischievously inclined as she was lil Pom Pom," and the company is one or surprising importance for an offering ol light musical comedy There is no male chorus. bue there is an ensemble Of slrls that has been much talked about, and the company also includes a troupe Of noted acrobats