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New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Drama
''Hobohemia" Fails to Find
Fun i'm Life Of Green
wich Village
BY Heywood Broun

Inc announcement that "Hobohemia"
was TO be played at the Greenwich Vii
Iage Theatre rather led us to expect a
canhlpal feast. We anticipated that
'he villagers were about to dish them
selves up for satiric entertainments
lie play however, proved to be more
famine than feast. 1t is almost en-
trely burlesque, with no more than q
sprlnkllng of satire The inhabitants
OF Washington Square are not likely
to be disturbed by this new attack. for
1t IS much too numbering to land a
blS upon even the most defenceless
viliager.
We failed to enjoy "Hobohemia"
chiefly because it was a dull play, an
exceedingly dull play. This is due in
part to its ancient formula of the hon
est country lad who confounds the
wicked city folk. But the play is even
worse than its formula, because Sim
clair Lewis has used it ineptly. His
story has scant dramatic action and his
~ leAo are 700 laDONOuS. Not only is
III Hooohemla" plotted according to for
mula but its dialogue is written in the
same machine-madc fashion.
Lewis relies almost wholly on con-
notative words for his fun. Thus, he
writes with the apparent conviction
that it is always funny to say under
taker,' Ford" "feminism," "Yonkers," >"
"Nutley,' Amy Lowell,' "Williams-
burg" "shimmy" and Chester
Street" In other words the play
wright seems to think that if he can
suggest word each member Of the
audience ought to be able to think up
a joke about it. Audiences are not so
facile as that; and, moreover, there are
better words than those which Lewis
suggests,
We must confess that even if "Ho-
bohemia" were far better play we
should have great difficulty in enjoy
ing it, for the point Of view which ami
mates it is exceedingly irritating to us.
The author attempts to show that the
best brains belong TO successful busY-
ness men and that these business men
could be poets, or painters, or novel
lists, if only they cared to abandon
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Bryan Claims Prohibition
CIories for Democrats

William Jennings Bryan spoke on
prohibition last night at the Central
Presbyterian Church. Brooklyn. Peo-
pie who had opposed it in the past
would be GLAD a year hence that pro
hibition was a fact, he said It was
the biggest fight he ever was in, he
said, and he was "enjoying a very large
dividend of personal satisfaction" from
the outcome.
"The farmers arc the real heroes"
he said. "It was those in the rural
districts who started this marvellous
movement. 1t was a Democratic SEN
ator named Shepard from Texas and
a Democratic Representative named
Webb from Texas who led the fight
in the halls of Congress- 1t was
Democratic President affixed a Demo
cratic signature to the bill which makes
June 80, 1919, the last day the saloons
will be open.
"As a Democrat | am happy, but |
am happier as a citizen. l am a citi-
zen before | am a Democrat. This vie
tory is more complete than | expected
We have achieved a marvellous victory
in Europe and another here in Amer
ica"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Says Peace Meeting Must
Render Justice to Jews

The league of nations and other prob
peace conference means the realization
Of the ageold dream of Zionism, Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise told 1000 enthusiastic
Jews who held victory celebration in
Manhattan Opera House last night.
"The peace conference dare not dis
perse until it has rendered justice to
the jew" Rabbi Wise asserted.
Judge Julian w. Mack, of the Fed
cral Circuit Court, presided at the
meeting, which opened with a tribute
TO the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
the audience standing one minute il
silent meditation.
In his opening address Judge Mack
told Of the steps whereby Zionism had
reached the threshold of victory.
"a delegation," he said "is soon go
conference the resolution and declara-
ton of the first American Jewish con
gress, which will be joined by similar
declarations of the Jewish people of all
the Allied nations. We shall go there
full of hope and confident that at last
justice viii be done the jew"
Dr. Wise was unable to begin his ad-
dress for ten minutes after he rose. be-
cause Of cheering The audience waved
Zionist and American flags and sang
"Tho Hatikvah," the Zionist anthem.
DR.. Wise told of British reluctance
to take over the guardianship of the
Jewish homeland, and said that per-
sons were actuatcd by unfair motives
who asserted that this was part of the
British scheme of imperial develop
ment.
"To the Zionsts of America, ] say"
he remarked "that the time for service
the time for sacrifice, has come. If
Zionism is no more, and Iionism is
about to be, it will not be because of
what Britain or France or America
pledges, but because the viii of the
Jewish people is engaged; the will to
recreate ite life. to end the centuries
of homelcssncss for them who have
been and who are homelsss. and to
begin where nineteen hundred years
ago we left off the maintenance and
magnifying Of the Jewish common
wealth that shall bring peace to many
Jews and the exaltation Of self-sever-
cncc to all Jews"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Opera
la Boheme" Metropolitan's
Fifteenth Week Opening

LA Boh6me" will open the fifteenth
week of the Metropolitan Opera sea-
son on next Monday evening. Car
men will be sung at special matinee
on Washingtons birthday, by Mines.
Farrar, Romano, Braslau and Sparkes
and Messrs Martinelli, Whitehll, De
Segurola, Bada, Ananan and laurent.
Miss CALI will dance. Mr.. Monteux
will conduct
Other operas next week will be as
follows: "Paglacci," followed by "Pe-
truschka," on Wednesday evening. In
"Pagliacci" Reinald Werrenrath will
make his first appearance here with
this company as Silvio. "Cavalleria
Rusticana" and "Le Coo dor" on
Thursday evening; lie Prophetic" on
Friday evening; al Barbiere d ST.
viglia" will be the Saturday matinee
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist, will play at
next Sunday nights opera concert"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
To Launch Campaign

Plans for the launching in New York
OF the $6,ooO,o00 Victory campaign, un-
der the auspices Of the national COM
mittee Of Northern Baptist Laymen,
will be discussed at noon to-day at a
luncheon to be given by James c. Col
sate, Of SO Wall Street, at the Bankers
Club.
T. ". Aver, who is chairman Of the
national committee, and DR.. Fred P.
haggard, national director, will be the
guests Of honor. 1t is expected that
the men who will comprise the New
York committee will be designated this
afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10

all of sudden and starts to rob and
murder each other.
Maggie Pepper is a good picture, and
even if Maggie did warn us, herself,
we are going to say that it should
be pronounced with the accent well
on the first syllable.
The comedy is Mack-S -Sennett Grin
and Stitch, Tailors." There is Bur
lngham scenic, ascent of the Matter
horn" and the Rialto Magazine.
james Harrod, who is the possessor
Of very beautiful tenor voice, sang
Mary of Argyle Gladys Rice sang
Our Maria" with violin obligato by
Sascha Fidelman. The light opera
number is "Gloriana," and Tschaikow-
sky's wonderful "Marche Slave" is
played as an overture, with Hugo
Riesenfeld and Nat Finston conducting.
At the Strand Geraldine Farrar is
appearing in "Shadows." The Wicked
Darling" with Priscilla Dean, is at the
Broadway. These will be reviewed to-
morrow. II. L.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Music
Symphony Society Gives Con-
cert as Memorial to
Roosevelt
By II. E. Krehbiel

We should not like to measure Mr..
Walter Damrosch's appreciation Of the
character of Theodore Roosevelt by our
own estimate of the artistic value of
the concert with which the Symphony
Society made essay to pay tribute to
the memory OF the man of heroic mould
in Aeolian Hall yesterday afternoon.
We do not cavil much at the pro-
gramme. 1t had dignified and appro-
pirate beginning and a worthy conclu-
sion.
The new composition by George W.
Chadwick, which bore the title "The
Angel of DEATH" deserved the place
which was accorded to it for reasons
not necessarily associated with its pro-
pliety on such an occason and Beet
hoven's symphony in c minor admira-
bly, symbolizes the career of the states
man but recently dead, as that career
illustrated humanity's struggles ,aspira-
tions and triumph Cesar Franck's Pre-
lude, Chorale and Fugue composed as
pIanoforte solo, but set for orchestra
by Plerne), which closed the concert,
IS noble piece of music, typical Of
the noble character of its author, and
therefore of every other nature which
bears kinship IN nobility.
We fancy that more opposite ex-
preston of the love OF nature which
inspired passionate hunter, explorer
and naturalist might have been found
than Mouquet's flute soto with orches-
tral accompaniment entitled "The
Pipes of Pan," even when played by
SO accomplished and meritorious an
artist as Mr.. Maquarre. Was there
nothing which might have taken the
place of the pretty warblngs of a
soft accomplishing flute" for such a
purpose? The great god Pan was
something more than "the simple shep-
herds awe-inspiring god" else the uni
dismal cry, "full of spirits melancholy
and eternitys despair: Great Pan is
dead!'" There is loveliness in the
legend Of Pan and Syrinx, but must
the god be forever associated with it
in music? We feel sure that there
was something else and something more
than q pastoral strain on a wild birds
song in the music to which
"Universal Pan
Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance
Led on the eternal spring"
This is not the reason of our dis
appointment at yesterdays concert,
however. The grievance goes to Mr..
Damrosch's treatment of the Bee
thoven symphony. He gave us an 'in-
depreciation" an Interpretation which
reminded US of those old palimpsests
which had to be treated with acids
rubbed with pumice stone and scraped
with knives to discover the texts which
once covered their fair faces. Mr.. Dam
rosch put so much reading" into the
score that in justice to the composer it
is to be hoped that it will be secured
and purged and fumigated before it is
placed on the conductors desk again.
Some of the effects which Mr.. Dam
rosch put into it were the most as
founding perversions of the composers s
obvious thoughts that we have ever
heard. Who would have dreamed that
the horn could usher in the second
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Tea for Three" Played
For Sing Sing Conyicts

OSSINING, Feb 9.-Roi Cooper Me-
grue's "Tea For Three" in which Ar
thur Byron and Margarer Lawrence
star, was presented by the company be-
fore the Sing Sing theatergoers in the
prison tonight. 1t is the first regular
theatrical company that has been be-
fore Sing Sings footlights since
former Warden Thomas Mott Osborne
lett the prison management and amuse
ment features were eliminated. War
den William Meyer, who is i'll. was not
able to act as master of ceremonies
The inmate committee of the Mutual
Welfare League attended to preparing
the stage and other arrangements.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10

pie who used to be called "parlor so
cialists."
The only first class performance in
the play is given by Phil White in &
Hebrew comedy role. This rises out of
the ruck q genuinely comic portrait.
Noel Tearle as free verse poet, Ralph
Bunker as press agent and Godfrey
Stein as an Italian artist are moder
ately effective. The rest of the cast is
bad. The play is mounted without dis
tinction and the first performance gave
no evidence of good direction.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
Chicago Orchestra and CALI
Curci in Stony Void Benefit

Nine. Amelita GalliCurci and the
orchestra of the Chicago Opera Com
pany gave concert at the Hippodrome
last evening for the benefit of Stony
Void Sanatorium, an institution for
young women and girls suffering from
incipient tuberculosis. The theatre
was crowded.
Nine. Galli-Curci gave most pleas
ure in una Vocc POGO Fa," from Ros-
sini's Barber of Sevijle,' and the
waltz from Meyerbeers "Dinorah." j"
She also sang three songs, Ronald's
Down In the Forest" and two in
hocuous trihes, Leoni's "Brownies'
and Samuels's "When Chloris Sleeps
The orchestra, conducted by Mr.. Po-
lacco, played the overture from Ros-
sini's William Tell"; directed by Mr..
Campanini. Pedrotti's Piccola Sin
fonia, "Italiana," and the Dance of
the Hours" from "Gioconda."
The concertmaster of the organiza-
tion, Gregor Scholnik, also played
Sarasates Romanza Andaluza and
Zapateado, with beauty of tone and
facilc execution. K W
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10
METROPOLITAN OPERA

To- night at 8 Double Bill Crspno. Hempel. Bras
lau; Scott. Cond., Pap Foll'd by Petruschka
CALI Bom. Bonhgo. Cond. Monteu1.
Wed. Mat. at .. Aida. Muzio. Claussen Caruso,
Whitehil Mardones. Cond., Moranzoni.
We'd. at 8. Faust Farrar. Delaunois; Mar,inelh.
Rothier Chalmers. Cond.. Monteux.
Thurs. at s. Boris Godunow. Aiatsenauer; Didur.
Althouse, Mardones. Bada. Cond.. Pap
Fr at SIS Rgolstto. Barrentos. Pcrini: Hack
ett De Luca Rothier. Cond. Moranzoni.
Sat. at ,. Lodoatta. EasoD Carus0, Chalmers.
Malatesta, Didur. Cond., Moganzon Petruschka.
Gali ISoiia CoDd Monteux.
Sat. at 3 Ii Use to $50 Tossa. Farrar: Lazaro,
Scott Koss Ananon. Cond.. AIoranzoni
Next Mon at slb Boheme. Aida. Romnine
Crimi Scot'i, Didur. Cond.. Papi.
/ Frl., Feb 81 spec1 Mat. at tsi to So Carmen.
Farrar. Romaine; Martnelli. Whitch ScErols
Cd Mon'eux. Sale Of seats begins This Mor'g at 8
HARDMAN PIANO USED
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10

Owing to change in the repertory
of the Chicago Opera Company the
management of the Biltmore Friday
morning musicals announces that
Nine. Galli-Curci's appearance on Fri
day morning, February 21, has been
postponed to Friday morning, Feb
ruary 28. Tickets purchased for the
21st will be good for the following
week
New-York tribune., 1919-02-10

OEWS AMERICAN R00ftEssss 81 ,.Sj0s Of pris
DONOVAN a. LEE, Sherlock All seat,
sisters 81 Foley. Martin n Reserved
Glare, sIY Other Big Acts. 20. rs. so
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-04
Potash and Protection.

The potash industry in America is threat
ened with determination by removal of the en-
barge on German potash. State department
officials are said to be negotiating with Amer-
can manufacturers of fertilizers to secure from
them an agreement to use certain proportion
of the domestic product along with the i'm
ported. The situation is further complicated
by the entrance into the competitive field of
French company, viii ch is marketing the Alsa-
tan potash, the former chief source of German
supply Large sums of capital have been in
vested in the potash industry in Nebraska, the
effort being to meet demand created by the
war. Prices on the raw material went sky
high, but have materially receded, and still fur
Their declines are anticipated. Fertilizer manu-
facturers turn with expectancy to renewal Of
trade relations with Germany in hope of beat
ing down the price on the American article.
Here is the problem in a nut she'll: Must the
home industry, only partially developed, be
choked off in order that the fertilizer makers
may have larger profits through cheaper raw
material7 Nebraska, California, Pennsylvania
and other states where potash deposits are
being worked, are deeply concerned in this.
Protection of the home market has always been
republican tenet, and congress should take
some action to meet the present situation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-04
Soft Drinks With Hard Names

The person who drops in at soda foun-
tain these days may be in danger at times OF
losing his mental poise, so to speak and a
timely note of warning may spare him from
any sudden shock. If some one slips up be-
hind you while you are contentedly munching
a ham sandwich or "strawing" matted milk
and begins to utter unintel1igible jargon, don't
be panic-stricken in the belief that some one
has escaped from careless keeper. 1t was
merely person as sane and sober as yourself
who is placing an order for one of the latest
drinks.
after us the deluge" was the favorite ex-
preston of French king which might well
have been appreciated by the late King Alco-
hol. With the official demise of the high
ball and the chaser, has been ushered in a soft
drink era which makes the 81 varieties look like
solo part. Each day finds a new one on the
market with a name more intricate or "Jazzy'
than it spredecessor. In numerous INSTANCES
the makers have discounted American dislike
for hyphenated articles and have thoughtfully
divided the complicated moniker into several
syllables, thus making much lighter the attempt
to master its uncertain pronunciation-lndiana
polls Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-04
Tat's Rebuke of Wilson

President Wilson should receive the rebuke
of former President Taft in the spirit of the
adage, Faithful are the wounds of a friend No
president has ever experienced such loyal and
furthering support from leader of the party Of
the opposition as has been given the democratic
president by his predecessor of the republican
persuasion. Throughout the war and during
the tortuous and anxious times of concluding
peace Mr.. Taft refrained from criticism and has
been ever ready with support even though this
was looked upon at first with suspicion and &C
cepted upon grounds of expedency.
Yet in his letter to the republican national
chairman Mr.. Taft with the honesty of the need
recites the facts and for the first time makes
known his own deep sympathy with the criti-
csms that have been passed upon Mr.. Wilson
for his partisan conduct of the war, for his par
tisan appeal to the country during the last cam
paign and for his amazing ignoring of the real
statesmen of the nation in the makeup of his
peace commission. Such conduct cannot
cape the censure of history 1t has received
abundant censure from contemporary opinion.
But the words of Mr.. Taft should be most felt
by Mr.. Wilson. With entire self-effacement
the former president points out that it was the
obvious act of broadmndedness for Mr.. Will
son to invite Mr. Root and two members of the
senate committee on foreign relations to be
of the peace party. His failure so to do lead
to all his subsequent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-04
Duel IN the JunQles


All day the herd of oryx anteiope-thick
necked, slender legged, deep shouldered, sand
colored above, white below black banded be-
tween and on the face-had hung about in sight
of the drinking place in South Africa.
do not know how long the herd had gone
without water-days perhaps-but they could
go without no longer. The nearest other drink
was forty miles away They could not all make
that and live Not the calves; not the mothers;
not the heavy cows.
Then why not 60 to the drinking place-no
more than holes truly, dug by the beasts
themselves in the sandy bed of dried up
rver-and have done with it7
Why? Why, lions, my friends-lions Their
splayed, round footprints the pungent stencil
OF their royal presence in the bushes all around
the water holes. None had seen them. None
needed to, being oryx and wild antelope; their
noses and their ears were their Marconi receiv-
ers and good enough.
At last night came swiftly walking over the
burning plains.
Then the leader of the oryx made up his
mind, apparently, and gave the order to march.
And the herd-al the herd, bulls, cows and
calves-fell in behind, silent, springy and alert,
as well they might be, for they were heading
straight for the drinking place-the water holes
of evil repute
Having once started, that grand old bull
oryx never looked back but his orders, though
silent, must have been conveyed to the others
somehow. Else how was 1t, as they neared the
twisted trees lining the banks of the river
dried up-the herd closed up behind hinl-cows
and calves somehow in the middle--so that he
could hear them press in on his TANKS, breath
ing hard in the stiffness all about, serried
phalanx of long, glinting, straight horns?
And how was it, when they reached the
rivers bank, after a minutes statuesque pause,
all came with him, in one sold, unbroken rush.
to the drinking holes, at the gallop, and in
fashion unlike the drinking approach of any
other antelopes? And how, too sticking to-
gether close, shoulder to shoulder they re-
treated, paused, and came back to drink again,
always in packed formation with their leader?
Surely no lion, even, could face that
But the lion did He was as famished for
food as were the antelopes for water. He, too,
had waited for days. So he came, out of the
scrub and the dusk, coughing, and with great
bounds, and out of course swift as thought,
and without warning
he old bull took the charge, thrusting for
ward to cover a COW over anxious and reckless
for her calf, and dropping to his knees, the
better to throw all his power into the blow.
The shock of the impact was terrific. SO
was the choking dust that rose up the appa
ing, crashing roars of the lion writing to olsen
gage himself from those terrible 30-nch horns,
that had gone clear through him; the furious
plunging of the oryx bull to free himself and
get away.
But it was all to no purpose-or, rather, it
was. Before the moon went down the herd
drank, and later, away up the bank of the river.
the hyenas and the jackals fought audibly
that bull oryx antelope and the lion, lying face
to face-dead!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-04
King Ak and the Editors.

Tonight at the "Den" King Ak-SarBen and
the Nebraska and Iowa editors will pledge
again those pleasant relations that have sub
sisted between them for so many years 1t is
we'll recognized that through the cordial CO.
operation of these agents of enlightenment
the empire over whose destiny the jovial mon
arch presides has received such extensive and
favorable publicity as has made known its adj
vantages and attractions throughout the world.
Ak-Sar-Ben, splendid as its purpose is, can not
exist without the assistance of the editors, and
these in turn have full appreciation of the BEN
efts that come directly and indirectly through
the success of the great institution which rep
resents this region as nothing else can For
twenty-five years this understanding has been
developing. until the mutual determination be-
tween the editors and the king is such as
amounts to most efficient working agreement
Proceedings at the Den this evening will there
fore, be but celebration and renewal of
pledges to work still harder for the good of
the kingdom.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-04
ONLY THE HALFWAY POST

The campaign for suffrage is now over in
Nebraska" is the sage announcement of our
amiable contemporary commenting on the rat
ihcation by the legislature of the national con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting discrimina-
ton in voting privileges on account of sex.
But this is not true at ALL for ratification marks
only the halfway post. Nebraska's action on
the federal suffrage amendment will have to be
matched by IS other states before it can be
effective, and if the Democratic states of the
south refuse to ratify as indications point, final
adoption will be postponed longer than the
enthusiasts believe. In the meanwhile, if the
suffrage advocates accept the dictum that their
campaign in Nebraska is over, conditions will
remain exactly as they now are with the vote
accorded to women only on such Offices as are
statutory, and denied to them on all Offices
created by the constitution. In other words,
they will have limited suffrage in Nebraska
unless they keep up the fight to reach the goal
of full suffrage under the state constitution
without waiting for the still indefinite ratfca-
ton of the federal amendment. The incon-
sistency of the Democratic organ which has
opposed federal amendment on the ground that
suffrage should come from the states in advis-
ing the suffrage people to lay off further activ-
tiles in Nebraska until the federal amendment
forces the states to make the change, is self
evident