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New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Drama
''Toot Sweet" Presented a,
the Princess
Theatre
By Haywood Broun

There were times last night when
"Toot Sweet" achieved the true anna
teur atmosphere which Is seldom at
tanned except by we'll trained profess
slonals. In these impromptu phases
~ was an agreeable and diverting en-
terta1nment. Only when it became set
was it dull and perfunctory. viii
Morrlssey was able to maintain the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT spirit as long
as ne was on the stage. His absences
were generally deplorable, for he
seemed last night one of the cleverest
eXponents of that easy school of COM
edy which is the gift Of few expert
enced players.
None of his associates was able to
contribute anything half so good, al
b1no@gn IN, I; there was some clever dancing
py Clarence Nordstrom and by Harry
Miller and Sam Ward Elizabeth Brice
and al, Edward Miller sang passably we'll.
Inc rest of the performance was thin
and ineffective. Morrissey, however,
was on the stage most of the time and
ms Individual efforts sufficed to keep
the performance at a gay pitch. He
exploited the American reaction to
france humorously, even though this
is field which has been worked ex-
tenslvely for a season or two. Never
=" 10 q oIlil 1ciLilC lleIQ OF gem
ulne comedy which has its roots in
fact.
Quite the best part of the enter
talnment came not so much from pre-
Vlously prepared lines as from those
which Morrisey made up as he went
along. Thus, we are not in a position
to predict accurately just what the
performance will be tomorrow night
or the next one. 1t may suit Norris
sey's whim almost any evening to
throw the whole show away and make
up another. Still the chances are that
1t will be good Morrissey auctioned
on his collar at the Allied Bazaar a
few years ago for $2,400, so there
seems to be no reason to doubt that he
will always be able to sell his show
even though it is frayed and worn in
spots.
The lyrics of the piece are by Ray
mond B. Egan and the music by Rich
ard A. Whiting. The author of the
book is set down as EVERYBODY. Nor
rssey and Elizabeth Brice were men,
bers of the Margaret Mayo Shock Unit
IN France, which was one of the most
successful groups of entertainers sent
to the American army. "Toot Sweet"
includes much Of the material which
they used abroad. 1t is plotless and
almost without scenery and the cos
tunes are of the simplest. Personally
we found it, in spite of dull patches,
rather more entertaining than the
average pretentious musical comedy.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
New League Formed
By N. Y. Women to
Force S ffrage
Gone Language, One Flag!''
To Be Slogan of Reorgan-
lied Party; Americaniza-
ton To Be Stresse d

"a city in which all voters speal
English, read their own ballots, anc
honor the American flag" is the plat.
form of the new League Of Womer
Voters of New York City, which is
the reorganized form of the New York
City Woman Suffrage Party. The new
name was adopted at city committee
meeting Monday. Henceforth, New
York suffragists will work under the
National League of Women Voters
which was organized at the recent
national suffrage convention in St
Louis.
Miss Hay Explains Plans
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman
of the City League Of Women Voters
said yesterday:
"City suffragists will work as faith
fully for the Federal suffrage amend
ment and for it's ratification by the
Legislature of New York and of other
states under the new name as under
the old. In addition, we shall take a
strong interest in legislation affecting
women and children in industry, in the
unification of the laws, in Americaniza-
ton problems and in election methods
and reforms. We shall adopt as our
main purpose, after woman suffrage is
won, the purpose of the national
League Of Women Voters.
Under our new name we shall at
tract to our organization hundreds of
women who wish to work with US, but
who feel that the woman suffrage title
women are enfranchised. We shall re-
main organized exactly as we have been
for years, with district groups and
leaders in every Assembly district and
with captains in every election dis
trict, all working under borough or
CARNATIONS and directed by a city
chairman and city committee.
Prominent Women Aid
From all parts of the city we have
received applications for membership
IN the new league from women who
have studied its aims and plans. The
only opposition we have encountered
is that of the ultra ants or ultra par
tisans, and it comes from men and
women who either do not understand
our objects or who refuse to consider
them carefully
I'VE hope that at the end Of five
years we shall have made such a rec
ord as to justify our existence and to
attract to our work men and women
from all parties to further the general
good of our big CITY,"
Prominent women who will work in
the new league are Mrs Charles L
Tiffany, Miss Adaline Sterling, Mrs F
Louis Slade, Mrs. Thomas B. Wells
Mrs. William G. Wilcox, Mrs. H. Ed.
ward Drcier, Mrs. Rosalie Loew Whit.
lney, Mrs. David r. Rodger, Mrs. Her
bert Pratt, Miss Katharine B. Davis
and Mrs. Margaret Chanler Aldrich.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Smith to Open Conference
Governor Emphasizes Impor.
lance of Welfare Discussion

A three-day session of the New York
Conference on Child Welfare opens
tonight at the De Witt Clinton High
School. Justice Hoyt, of the Chill
drens' Court, will preside.
Governor Albert E. Smith, who is
one of the honorary presidents of the
conference, declared yesterday the
conference was one of the most i'm
portant that had grown out of the
war.
Among those who will speak at to-
days session are DR.. C. Mulon, q
woman physician, connected with the
French War Department, and Takayul
Manage, Of the Department Of the In
terror, Japan. Mr.. Takayuk will de-
scribe the measures taken by his coun-
try for protection of children.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08

nal dealing with affairs on the North
west coast, California, gold discovery.
marine intelligence, whaling. etc. &
D. Smith gave S2750 for Samuel
Smiths History of New jersey" ana
j. +. Drake paid $6S for collection of
colored views in Soutl America bv
A,vkermann. the most highly priced of
all color plate books on Spanish Amer
lea.
In the afternoon at the same gal
ierles the sale of the library of the
late Z. NJ Boyle. of Philadelphia, was
oegun. The Total for the afternoon
amounted to :i2,So3.45. George D.
Smitn' 81 the ls--gcst purchaser, paid
Si,4io Tor an excessively rare octave
edltion of Byron's Poems on Various
OCCASIONS of which only 100 copies
were were printed for the poets friends;
$500 for Byron's Autograph Notebook.
containing sixty-three pages of auto
graph notes, including Shakespeare
quotations in the poets handwriting.
and $75 for set of First and Other
Editions of the Works of Lord Byron"
IN SIX volumes. This sale will be COM
pleted this afternoon
me second days sale of Spanish art
at Clarke's. West Forty-fourth Street
brought s15,934, making grand total
OF $33, 1873. H. C. Richardson paid $500
Tor two large Louis XIV consoles, S330
Tor set of six chairs and a sofa in
seventeenth century Italian walnut and
SSl5o tor about sixty-five yards of vel,
low silk damask, Spanish, eighteenth
century; William Randolph Hearst paid
Szoo for carved oak chest, Spanish.
seventeenth century, and the same
amount for four gilded Italian brackets
OF the sixteenth century. Other sales
were as follows: Two white silk Vene-
tan cushions, Carl Freund, Ss5: a
green and silver Venetian table cover
OF the seventeenth century. Mrs.
Charles Sabin. $25; four carved wood
and gllded panneaux, Italian, sixteenth
century, I. Offerman. 5000; two Italian
sixteenth century ceiling panels. e. C.
Bean, $3.50; two walnut and tortoise
Shell showcases, ornamented with
bronzes, E. l. Huntington, S10O; a set
OF nine square red silk pieces, Spanish.
seventeenth century. Charles, Of Lon.
don, 5000; Louis XIV frontal piece and
cope, Di Salvo, $3.50. and Louis XVI
yellow silk lampas bed cover. A. T.
Blddle. $235. The sale will continue
this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
YOUR TOWN

A MOTHER week will bring to COM
. n pletion the extension Of Seventh
Avenue, from Carmine Street at Varick
Street, to West Eleventh Street and
Greenwich Avenue. Work on this ex~
tension was begun in November.
Weather interfered and the paving had
to be done between storms. The
greater part of the new street has
been opened to traffic, but the weather
and delay by the contractors for paw
ing blocks held up the work.
The cost of paving, according to
Borough President Frank l.. Dowling.
comes to $179,SS4, with an additional
$229,o60 spent for widening Varick
Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Music
Columbia Victory Festival
Is Closed With Concert

The final concert in the Victory
Commemoration Festival at Columbia
was held last night in the Columbia
University gymnasium. The Columbia
University chorus, under the direction
of Professor Walter Henry Hall, as
sisted by Mrs. Agnes Alsop Ward, So
prano; Dan Beddoe, tenor, and Robert
Maitland, bass, with an orchestra from
the Philharmonic Society, took part
and the audience was of excellent size.
The programme opened with the
singing by chorus and audience of
"The Star Spangled Banner" and
Stand, Columbia" followed by Pro-
fessor Halls own "Te Deum Laud-
anus" and Percy f. Fletcher's "a Song
Of Victory" The singing of the chorus
was spirited and Professor Hall had
both singers and orchestra admirably
under his control. The latter half of
the concert was composed of excerpts
from "The Messiah"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Miss Flagg Engaged

Mrs. Francis Fisher Flagg, of 1Os
East Eighty-frst Street, announces the
engagement of her daughter, Miss
Priscilla Flagg, to Edward Woolston
Sage, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Eu-
gene Sage, of this city. Miss Flagg is
graduate of Miss Spence's school.
Her father, the late Francis Fisher
Flagg, for many years, was vice-presi-
dent of the American Express Com
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Hotel Men Dance

The fourth annual supper dance of
the Hotel Association Of New York
City was held last night in the ball
room at the Hotel Commodore. About
300 guests were present.
The ballroom was a garden Of flow
ers with the Stars and Stripes and
flags of the Allies adding to the colors
Practically every prominent hotel
man in New York was present. In ad-
dtion, several hotel men and their
wives from other cities in the state
attended.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Miss Blodgett To Be Married

Miss Katherine Cummock Blodeett.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Wood
Blodgett, of New York, will be mar
RED to Major Morris Hadley, son Of
President Hadley, of Yale University
early in July, at the home which Mr.
and Mrs. Blodgett have taken for the
summer at Pride's Crossing, Mass. Miss
Blodgett is niece Of Mrs. Norman r
Ditman, who was married early in the
year,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Ar t
Historical Bookbindings, Rang
ing From Earliest Forms to
10Th Century, Exhibited

A special private view was given
yesterday for representatives of the
press of the exhibition of historical
bookbindings, ranging from the earliest
forms of binding used in Europe to the
end Of the eighteenth century, at the
Grolier Club, AZ East Sixtieth Street.
Ladies' day at the club will be to-mor-
row, and the exhibition will be open to
the public from Saturday, May 10, until
June Is.
The exhibition includes the early
gold and bejewelled covers which pro-
tected priceless manuscripts, a massive
chained book" and the leather over
thick boards used by the early printers,
who were both their own binders and
publishers. These are followed by a
series rich in beautiful feathers, gold
toollng and mosaic work exemplifying
the work of the great binders of the
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries--the Ewes, LIE Gascon, Samuel
Mearne, Padeloup, Roger Payne and
many others-and the styles which
characterize successive periods.
There are books with the crescent
and intertwined "H" and "D" of Henri
II and Diane de Poitiers, and with the
design of marguerites used by the
beautiful and learned Marguerite de
Valois, wife of Henry of Navarro. A
volume presented by the city of Paris
to Louis XIV bears his arms on one
cover and those of the city on the
other, while two of the tragedies of
history are recalled by book which
was bound for Mary Queen of Scots
during her happy days in France, and
another with which Marie Antoinette
played at the Little Trianon.
There are also many Of the treasures
OF the library of Jean Grolier, prince
OF book collectors of the sixteenth CEN
tury, from whom the Grolier Club
takes It's name, and Of many more who
set styles In binding, and for whom the
best work of their respective eras was
done.
The total for the sale at the Plaza
Art Rooms yesterday afternoon was
$2,218. Among the purchasers were
Or. w. Fraley, Mr.. Pinckney, Nine.
Bazinet. Mrs. F. K. Thompson, Miss
Bessie Wynn, Miss Nichols, Miss Con-
way and Professor Herman. The sale
Will continue this afternoon.
The sale of Americana at the Ander-
son Galleries was completed yesterday
morning with total of $94745 and a
grand total of $2,278.35 The New York
State Library paid S27 for "Man as He
Appears Around the Globe" by Stuart
and Kuyper; 500 for Juan and Ulloa's
Secret Notices of South America" and
$40 for "The Friend" valuable Jour
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Society
Miss Louise Fleischmann
Married to Alfred B. Maclay

Miss Louise Fleischmann, daughter
of Mrs. Maximillian Fleischmann. was
married at noon yesterday to Alfred
Barmore Maclay at the home of her
mother, 80 East Sixty-fourth Street.
Only relatives were present ut the cere-
mony, which was performed by the
Rev. DR.. Wilton Merle Smith, of the
Central Presbyterian Church, and a
small reception and wedding breakfas st
followed.
The bride, who was given away by her
brother, Udo M. Fleischmann. had no
attendants. James Fox served as best
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08

cal comedy. Confiding her longings to
A. II. Woods, he agreeably gave her a
contract for a star part in Call a
Taxi" by Earle Carroll, which he will
produce next season. In this she will
play violin solo.
Robinson Newbold, of "a Royal Vag-
abond," says even little flea has its
uses. He sold $4,000 worth of Victory
notes with this one last night:
little flea sat on rock,
Making miserable sound
He didn't know what to do with himself
There being no dog around
Last night at the Hippodrome Gov
ernor Phillip, of Wisconsin. and the
Wisconsin committee to returnino
soldiers officially welcomed home Cen.
eral Ham and the men of the 32d
division. Charles Dillingham; intro
duced special numbers for the boys.
Literally stranded here, due to sud
den closing of the Teatro Espanol,
the artists of this organization will
be given a benefit at the Park Theatre
Sunday night. Many prominent opera
and theatrical stars will appear.
Tonight at the Playhouse Alice
Brady will celebrate the sooth per-
formance of Forever After" and
"Tea for Three" Roi Cooper Megrue's S
comedy success. will mark its 275th
performance at the Maxine Elliot
Theatre.
The New York engagement Of "Mo-
liere" at the Liberty Theatre will end
Saturday night.
William Caryl has been engaged by
the Shuberts to conduct the Sunday
night concerts at the Nora Bayes
Theatre.
Ben Atwell, of the Good Morning
Judge" company, is planning special
June 80, midnight, performance. In
vitations are limited.
The navy's official song is "He's g
jolly Good Fellow" and Charles Dill
lingham has given the yeomanettes
permission to make "She's A Good
Fellow" by Jerome Kern, their official
song.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Miss EIy ENGAGED

Mrs. Henry B. Ely, of s29 West End
Avenue, has announced the engage
ment of her daughter, Miss Lillian kls-
sam Ely, to Charles A. Maurice, jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Maurice, OF
10 West Eighty-ffth Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08
Plays and Players

A notable array of stage stars will
appear at the Metropolitan Opera
House Sunday night as the theatrical
PROFESSIONS testimonial to the lassies
Of the Salvation Army. This benefit
is the forerunner of the campaign to
raise $13,000000 for the Salvation Army
home service fund, and is to be given un-
der the personal direction of Daniel Froh-
man, George M. Cohan, Sam Harris,
David Bclasco and E. Il. Albee. Ninety
per cent of the proceeds go to the Sal
vation Army and 10 pc rcent to the
Actors Fund of America. The following
are scheduled to appear; George M.
Cohan, Blanche Bates, Ernest Truck,
Irene Bordoni, Bessie Mccoy Davis,
Johnny Dooley, Howard Kyle, Marion
Coakley, Bert Levy, George Beban, Ed
die Garvie, Jessica Brown, julius Tan
nen, Whiting and Bert, Tom Wise,
Julia Arthur, Walter Jones, Lieutenant
Gitz Rice, Sidney Herbert, Marie Dress
Ter, Blanche Ring, Bert Williams, Har-
ry Davenport, Dorothy Dickson, Craig
Campbell, Yvette Rugel, Tommy Gray,
Erie Nayne, Pat Rooney, Lighters and
Alexander, Gus Edwards and Co., and
Sailor Reilly.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08

Hazel Dawn is scoring a great per-
sonal success as Mabel in "Up in
Mabel's Room" at the Eltinge Theatre.
but she is dissatisfied. She misses her
familiar violin, her tuneful numbers
and the delectable background of musi
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08

Ben Atwell, of the Good Morning,
Judge" company, is planning special
June 80, midnight, performance. In
vitations are limited.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08

William Caryl has been engaged BY
the Shuberts to conduct the Sunday
night concerts at the Nora Bayes
Theatre
New-York tribune., 1919-05-08

RICAs FOREMOST THEATRES
j.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03

.Dapers, Murray established an English
school with five capacity classes.
With no money except for legitimate
display advertising of Liberty bond
campaigns, and few assistants. he
fought the German subsidized press to
standstill and backdown.
Mexico's quota on L. S. Liberty
loans was oversubscribed more than
100 per cent, large Number of the
bonds being bought by Mexicans.
Murray exhibited the u. S. war film
"Pershing'cs Crusaders" at the largest
movie house in the capital. at a time
when Pershings popularity i'll Mexico
wasn't exactly high.
It took IS Mexican policemen %
minutes to halt pro- German demon
STATIONS in the audience when Perish
ing and Old Glory flashed on the
screen. But by the time the last
reel UnWound. there was nothing but
applause. The Germans had packed
blocks of the audience, with instruc-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03

tions to raise hell" They did. And
they got it in turn. They were drag
ged into the streets by the police and
never returned.
Mexico must have been impressed
with the campaign, for shortly after
ward a queer incident occurred.
A woman rowed across the Rio
Grande al Laredo one night. She might
have walked across the international
bridge unmoIested. Instead, she even
jumped into the water to excite the
American sentry's suspicion.
Search revealed a waterproof pack
ct in her corset, message in code.
Deciphered. it proved one of the most
important finds of the war, accord
ing to American officials.
A short time afterward our state
department announced interrogation OF
the zimmerman note urging Mexico
to war on the United States and Of
fering as bait parts of California. Tex
as, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado
and Utah.
Few outside the American state de-
partment know how the Zimmerman
note was secured, but down along the
Rio Grande they're still talking about
the woman and her waterproof cor
set.
The general opinion is that high
Mexican official used his own way of
tipping off this Hun plot to the United
States without involving himself
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03
Plant cowpcas In July for Hay

There is no better hay than good cow
pea hay. The greatest trouble with cow
rea hay is in curing. This is especially
true in Florida during the rainy season
and il is during the rainy season that the
Florida farmer wants to raise cowpeas.
But IL they are sown during July they
will mature in the fall when there is not
so much danger OF rain. because the rainy
season will have passed.
The peas will not only furnish hay. but
mended that cowpeas be planted I'm rows
from "a to so inches apart. This will
require about half bushel OF seed to tie
acre One or two CIVILIZATIONS should be
given. Among the best varities are
ErNbham and Iron.
The peas will mott only furnish hay. but
they will protect and enrich the land
during summer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03

I stepped around the corner-to tho
French alliance.
There a man stood before q black
board. "Parlez vous Francaise?" he
wrote. And that group of Mexicans
studying French "parIezed" to beat
the band.
II suppose the school will soon close
now that the war is over?" L asked
the English speaking Frenchman.
NO" he replied, I'VE remain open
indefinitely. We want Mexican friend
ship, and this is the best way to get
1t. When they know French they'll
like us-Trade with Us"
The United States was fleeing the
field on the verge of a great and in
calculably beneficial moral victory. I'm
Gle Sam spiking his own guns,
Hun propagandists during the war
had kept DINING this at Mexico: The
United States can't fight, will not
fight Then Robert II. Murray. head
of the l.. S. committee on public in
formation here, conceived a brilliant
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03

here are working very energeticallyt
but they need the cooperation of the
business men of the city an dthe bust
ness men should not wait to be called
on for subscriptions. but should volun-
tarily come forward with their stock
subscriptions.
The business men interested in this
movement are assured that II will be
properly managed and will prove a sue
cess. As soon as sufficient amount OF
stock is subscribed the stockholders
will be called together for a prelimi-
nary organization an deverything that
is done will be open TO the stockhoId-
ers, as well as to the public"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03
MORAL INTERVENTION OF THE
UNITED STATES WINS IN MEXICO

traits of Miguel Hidalgoy Costilla, Ben
ito Juarez and Venustiano Carranza.
There were no oil cans in the fore
ground. They didn't chant. II see the
bullets" but Il see the pense cow"
l was impressed with their earnestness
and the friendliness with which they
spoke to their teacher
TOO bad" the little Mexican Ameri-
can woman in charge told me. Eleven
hundred MeXicNns come here daily to
learn your language. They are poten-
tial friends.
But we have orders to close tn ,
scho.. from the United Statesi
ITO bad. Chances are now that they
will never learn English, and never be
real friends of yours because they
cannot understand you"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03

Mexico city. July 2.-"1 see-the-
CO
small woman stood before a chart
a pointer in her hand, facing several
score Mexicans, old and young. They
recited in unison, with odd infect
Aye see the keow."
The second battle OF Cowpens was
on; the enemy in retreat.
Moral intervention in Mexico had
begun. 1t was a session of the English
class OF the u. s. committee on public
information.
The three score or more MeXicanS
were gently being led into friendship
for the "Gringo."
On the walls hung portraits of Wash
ington. Lincoln and Wilson, facing por-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03
The ONE GREAT
MOSQUITO REMEDY
---SWEET DREAMS

Sweet Dreams is called n great
mosquito remedy because II does a
great service to a great degree of sat
isfaction.
All over Dixie it work continuously
and tirelessly every night. For the
sick, the well, the young, the weak.
the old or the strong; Sweet Dreams
works. works, works.
For the rich or the poor. Sweet
Dreams works just the same. No
favoritism is displayed at any time
or place.
Can't you allow Sweet Dreams to
become your mosquito remedy?
It keeps mosquitoes off to a great
degree of satisfaction. Sold by Balk-
com Drug Co. and Druggists every
where.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-03
ZANE" ENTERED
IN NAVY RACE
BY HYER LAUNCH

The Jane" owned by w. A. Dun
ham, and operated by the Hyer Launch
Company, has been entered i'm the
Fourth OF July races at Fort Barrancas
against the navy speed boats and the
Benjamin r. E. The Benjamin" is
Capt. Bonnie Edmundson's entry