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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17
Cross Examination.

Mistress-So you are the brother of
my cook? Her only brother?
Policeman hope so.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

Married men always have more but
tons off their clothes than bachelors.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17
VentriIoquist Admits
It's a True Story

Los Angeles, Cal.-"Please let
me down easy, mister" came a
deep voice, apparently from the
caSket, as Andrew J. Wilson, a
negro employed by Long Beach
transfer company, was en-
gagged with another workman in
unloading at a freight station
there coffin containing a body
that had been shipped to Long
Beach for burial from a town in
the middle West.
Wilson was just letting his
end of the box down, with about
two feet to go. He let it fall
the two feet with bang, and
with a flying start he sprinted
down the street.
Police Sergeant Clyde Allen
of Long Beach, who was stand
ing near the scene with ven
triloquist friend, vouches for the
story.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

II a man cultivates bad habits he is
apt to cultivate earthly miseries.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

Pleasures are the commas used to
life's sad story.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

The foghorn is one of the bassest
things on earth.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17
Superficiality.

SuperficIaIIty.
There are two sides to every ques-
ton"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum.
And too many of us chaps who pose
as powerful thinkers don't take the
trouble to get to the inside"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

If man is right he doesn't have to
get mad about It,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

"Bob's wife is pretty but she has an
awful temper" "Is that why they say
she's a raving beauty?"
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-05-17

hard. l thinks to myself, That's one
of those friendly guys. He saw me
get my roll and he wants to help
II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
John Drinl1water Discusses
The British Drama

l90S-1914," is included in the bookshelf
OF modern poets recently compiled by
Amy Lowell. He comes of an old the
atrical family, and he was intended for
the stage, but some freak of chance
cast him into business, and he was for
twelve years an assurance broker. The
Birmingham Repertory Theatre move
ment drew him back to the stage.
Has your Birmingham Repertory
Theatre produced a school of dram
atists like that of Manchester"
mo, we have been somewhat less ex-
perimental than the Manchester group.
We have paid more attention to reviv-
ais of classic and modern plays. And,
too, we have scrutinized the young
playwright little more critically than
they have in Manchester. There they
were, think, little over ready of ap-
probation. They produced the strong
original work Of three or four men
and then long and undistinguished
line of their imitators. Oh, believe
it is worth giving great many poor
plays to find sturdy. original play
like Stanley Houghton's .Hind!e
Wakes and l think Brighouse and
Monkhouse (who have never been prop
erly appreciatcd) are genuine drama
lists, but they were not themselves GER
tam or mature enough to be the mas
ters Of a new line.
But with all its excuses Manches-
ter has much to be proud of in the
development of such characteristic
group This is partly due to the char
acter of Manchester itself. 1t has an
emphatic local flavor by virtue of its
geographical location and its specia!
IduStrial cond tlons. The local idiom
of thought and speech breeds an in
tense and individual form of ex-
preston. birmingham. which is larger
and lies in the middle Of Eng
land is more easily accessible to out
side influences. 1t is near a seaport,
which makes it in a measure cosmopol-
ltan and makes 1t harder for us TO de-
velop syly such individual form OF play
as theirs. We have, however, produced
'Chains,' and one or two o.hcr fine new
plays.
"All these local groups-the Man
chester group, the repertory theatres
Irish Players-arc all forms of protest
against the London dramatist Who is
the London Gramatist? Pincro and
Jones and a few others, suppose
But this is in a sense unjust to Pinero.
who. though he was chiefly concerned
with exterior problems, was after all
& dramatist who wrote plays out of his
own upations and not to order
Those playwrghts Of the West End
theatres who 1ave followed Pinero and
have modelled on his technique have no
claim to the title Of dramatist. They
are talors who fit a play to an actors
or actresses measurements.
"The London dramatist notwithstand-
ing, English drama comes out of SUCH
dissenting groups as the Irish Players
and the Manchester people. Shaw and
Galswor,hy and Maseheld though they
have come up to London, are not of it.
The London dramatst is least typical
of our English stage"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Notes Of the Theatre

The New York engagement Of E. H.
Sothern and Julia Marlowe in their
Shakes perian repertory begins on Mon
day night, October 6, at the Shubert
Theatre, when these stars Will be seen
in "Twelfth Might" which will be the
bill for the entire first week. Ham
let viii be presented during the Sec
ond week, and "Ihe, Tanning Of the
Sb'ew" the third week The repertory
fo~ the fourth and positively last week
opens with Twelfth Night" on Mon
day and Tue day, with Hamlet" on
nights and 'The Tanning Of the Shrcw"
on Friday night and Saturday matinee
During the week of October 6 McIn-
tyre and Heath, in "Hello Alexander"
will come into the Forty fourth Street
Theatre. This attraction, with Sophie
Tucker featured, has It's first perform
ance in Baltimore next week.
"Mommer," new play by Edward
Goodman. eretwhle director of the
Washington Square Players, opens at
Long Branch on Saturday night The
story is Of young miner VINO rents"
mother ard bitterly regrets it. Mary
Shaw will play the leading role.
Donald Brian, PEGGY Wood and Ro~
land Young will bring the new musical
comedy, "Buddies " to New York some
time during October. The book is by
George V. Hobart, and the lyrics and
music are by =. c. lillian.
William Hodge has in preparation a
new play called Tho Guest of Honor"
It will have its first performance in
Wilmington next week.
"Thc Better OLE has at last come to
tie end of it's run The play closes at
the Booth Theatre on October 4 after d
run of forty-eight weeks.
Mesrs Conroy & Meltxer will re-
sumo the management of tho Green
witch Village Theatre in the very near
future. Conroy has recently returned
from a play hunt in Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
New Plays This Week

Henry Henry Miller
Ioneysuchle"
of
political types In
Fielding Eddger Charles Trowhd Sydney Booth Lucille
Watson md Sheffield
The Gold Disgers" 1iopwood The
which deals life, Miss Claires
will Bruce MRae. Truesdel Brahan
Harrison Harold Chrsty
Rowland Beverly West Terry.
Lyan Tahman Luela
WEDNESDAYAt the Harris Theatre
"The
with Max MARGIN and Louis
Love- John Halliday Jose Ruben Engam
Lang Miriam Elliott Rene Adorec,
Freeman The central figure
experiences the Continent with
England Bohemian instincts
with the rigid code her husband Of
HAS edition Buck and Dave
FIagein has created
tableau the
Frances White, Fields, Savoy Brennan Ted Lewis
Barker Dolores Fannie prico
Ziegfed girls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Vaudeville

PALACE-Bee Palmer making her
debut IN vaudeville IS a much heralded
feature. Other features are: Pat
Rooney and Joe Santley. Monette. tho
Klein Brothers, Virginia Lewis and
Mary White and Erford's Golden
Whirl.
RIVERSIDE~Grac La Rue heads
the bill, which includes. as we'll. the
Ford Sisters, Lew Dockstader, Harry
and Anna Seymour, Melissa Ten Eyck,
Max Waily and company, Miller and
Mack, Mrs. Wellingtons Surprise, Ne.
Craig and James Steigew and Herman
and Shirley.
COLONIAL-"Extra Dry" William
B. Friedlander's new production is to
share headline position with the
Cameron Sisters. The supporting bill
includes the L. s. Glee Club, Lillian
Fitzgerald, Brendel and Hart, Herbert
and Dean, Masters and Kraft. the
Breen Family and Topics of the
Dav."
EIGHTY-FIRST STREET THEA
ATRE-Joseph F.. Howard will share
headline place with Marguerite Heller.
On the supporting bill are Mason and
Keller, George E. Roman in g farce.
A. Robbins and partner. Four Harmony
Kings, Mr.. and Mrs Gordon Wilde.
Wallace Reid in The Valley of the
Giants" is the picture feature
ALHAMBRA-"Kiss Me-" a musical
farce will share headline place with
Rae Samuels. Others on. the bill are
Mosconi Bros, Valerie Bercere and
company, KelIam and ODare. Ray
mond and Schram. Swan and Swan.
ROYAL--Irene Bordoni and Lieu
tenant Gitz Rice head the bill. Other
features are Charley Graoewin and
Anna Chance. Patricola, Milt Collins
and Saline and Goodwin, Clayton Ken
nedy and Matte Rooney. Frank SAT-
ford and company, Stanley ard Birnes.
Willie Hale and Brother.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-"Th Birth
day Party" musical show. is the
vaudeville feature the first part OF the
week. Jack Pickford in "a Burglar
by Proxy" IS the picture. The last
part Of the week tha vaudeville pro-
gramme is headed by Joc Burns and
hurry Kissen. THE pirth OF 4
Race" Is the picture feature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Who's Who
IN Current PLAYS

One cold night two years ago Win
chell Smith was dragged by a then
unknown young dramatst from the
Lambs to a remote district in Brooklyn
to witness the premier performance Of
play he was foisting upon tho public
stock company.
During the progress Of the play an
unassuming little actress appeared in q
character that demanded little atten-
ton, but necessitated considerable re-
pose. Smith scrutinized his programme
for her name, but the character was
either Of such unimportance or through
printers error that neither her
name nor the character she essayed was
tabulated upon the programme.
Some months later day after day,
this little person made the rounds Of
the managers with regularity that in
dictated persistence of rurpost that
was as consistent as had been her rem
dition of the nameless role in medi-
OGRE play in Brooklyn.
Mr.. Smith, returning from luncheon.
upon several occasions observed he,
sitting with many others awaiting an
opportunity for an interview anent an
engagement. Upon the day that "Thun-
der" was accepted from Peg Franklin
for presentation. the irrepressible ap-
plicant was again in evidence. Smith
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
At the One-W eek Houses

sTANDARD-"La. La. lucille" comes
with the entire original production
and cast direct from It's broadway
run.
SHUBERT RTV1ERA-"Good Morning.
Judge" with George Hasse'l, Is the
attraction here.
BRONX OPERA HOUSE - Roland
Vests production. THE Unknown
Purple" opens its season here.
BROOKLYN
MONTAuK Robert Mattel VIII play
week OF classic rcpcrtory here. pre-
senting "Richeieu" Monday evening
md Wednesday matinee; "liamlet."
Tuesday evening; This Merchant %
Venice" Wednesday evening ard Sat
urday afternoon; King Lear" Thurs
day evening; "Macbcth" Friday even
ing, and Orchard III" Saturday ever-
ing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
BY Rebecca Drucker

AS | entered the room where Mr.
John Drinkwatcr, poet and dramatist,
author of abraham Lincoln" was Civ
ing audience to representatives of the
New York press, l found two fellow
reporters already there. with pencils
poised over businesslike notebooks.
"And what do you think Of our tall
buildings, Mr.. Drinkwater? one of
them asked. And Mr. Drinkwater muir
INJURED something amiable in reply. He
is an amiable looking person. large and
good looking and slow of speech. APP
parentIy poetic temperament does not
generate spleen within him.
After few more serviceable Dues
tons the others rose and left, and Mr.
Drnkwater faced with touching pa
thence another embodiment of omnivo-
rous American curiosity. The question
! had been formulating was not SO
much to him as to myself. Mr.. Drink
water rather owed US an explanation.
How had it happened that the drama
of "Abraham Lincoln" that story so
vitality and peculiarly our own, had
waited to be galvanized into life by a
stranger?
ooh, but that is quite natural, I
think" he said. "You are so close to
the Lincoln tradition, there is such an
abundance of it that it is little as if
you could not see the picture for the
detail. After all, it takes physical dis
lance or the distance Of years to get
perspective on q historical figure. The
drumatization is largely process
Of stripping down to essentials.
Because all those legends are not
native to me | have been able
to sacrifice them the more easily.
know the play has been criticised be-
cause SO much of historical detail and
personal legend is missing, but to fit
the small frame Of the stage I have
felt it should be broadly and sparely
indicated.
Even the exact historical incidents
seemed to me unimportant, with only
the limitation that they should take no
liberties with the truth. We in Eng
land know rather less about your
American history than you do Of ours.
To be at all Ineligible to Eng
lish audiences the historical allu-
sion had to be simplitied as much as
possible. The audiences that have
come to see the play in Birmingham
and Hamme rsmith have been varied
We have had fair sprinking of in
tellcctuals and fashionables, but for the
most part the audiences have been
made up of workingncn of all sorts
fishermen, costermongers, shopkeepers,
clerksand not S per cent Of them
know anything about your Civil War"
Mr.. Drinkwater is a poet first and
dramatist next. His volume, Poems:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Modern Settings
For Sot.lern and
Marlowe Revival

When f. H. Sothern and Julia
Marlowe who begin their four weeks
season Of ShakesDeor an plays at the
shubert Theatre on Monday night, DC
tohcr s, left the stage a few years
back their entire productions. scenery,
costumes and properties were all sold
at auction. This means that the PLAYS
TO De presented this year have been
newly and freshly staged and costumed
1t viii be recalled that their former
productions were Of the realistic
school which required carloads Of
scenery for each play and caused
critics often 30 gnash their teeth at
the Infinite detail of the oyerladen
stage
Now Mr. sothern and Miss Marlowe
propose to do something in the new
manner Of stage setting. A great deal
OF time, study and pcrimenting has
devolved itself into the scheme these
stars have conceived for their use this
season New York has already seen
Granville Bankers idea Of new effects
in "A Midsummer Nights Dream. j"
The Sothern and Marlowe Productions
In which they were aided by Unit
and N.cSes, will not De in the same
lae as the Barker effort, but will re-
fleet the new craft of the stage, of
which much has been heard in this
country. but practically nothing seen
In classic drama
One cannot but wonder if Mr..
hothern's experiences abroad while
entertaining the soldiers have not had
something to do with this decision, FOR
over there ne gave scenes from Shake
speare's plays with Julia Marlowe and
Mary Anderson, unaided by settings or
properties Of any kind. In speaking Of
one Of his appearances in scenes from
"Aacbeth,' in which the Lady Mac
beth was none other than our Mary
anderson the actor said:
inls Macbeth performance which
We gave shows that without any
scenery whatever. without even cur
tain to mark the end Of scene, with
out the aid OF costumes or makeup,
our regular actors of the theatre, as
distinguished from vaudeville singers
ana dancers, can find a fruitful field
.or sneir services if they are moved
10 oHer them. At none Of the places
we appeared had we the aid, or, one
nay say, the Interference. Of scenery.
I"o chars and one table were the sole
equipment. The onlookers were held
~ We Lines and tn players"
ar. Sotaern and Miss Mari I'VE have
po'h Saia that ;heir experience in the
s .nea'fe has been marked by one con-
spcaoUs thing the process of elml-
uauon As they advanced in their art
Mey learned TO eliminate. This is true
s so' only of gesture, movement and in
n n's Of speech, but throughout the
~no'e scheme of producing. The
MODERN stage shows this evolution
Ana the classic drama. though slow to
He affected. has also given signs Of
sm.eaIeasing simplicity in performance
M sna nroduction The step taken by
ssF' sothern and Miss Mar owe in pre-
neng their plays III settings of the
s "u" sshool marks a distinct advance in
VI TIE american theatre.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

There is a quality in it which is
not possessed by any other play in
town. Compare il, for instance. with
adam and Eva" by Guy Bolton and
George MIDI eton. play which may
we'll rank as the second best Of the
season. adam and Eva" is thoroughly
amusing. but the gap between the plays
Is enormous. The things at which one
laughs in adam and Eva" are for
the most part jokes. They arc good
Jokes. to be sure. but hardly one of
them could not be bodily transferred
from the character to whom it is as
signed and given to some one else in
the play with slight loss of effective
ness, In other words, the humor. ex-
cept in rare instances. does not come
directly from Characterization. The
fun of "Clarence" is much more legiti-
mate and much more stirring. The APP
peal 10 laughter lies not so much in
the nature Of any one line, but in the
proper proportioning Of the line to
sltuelIoH anu CHARACTER. ne TACT that
the play is light has nothing to do
with its merits. A light comedy is not
Only much more difficult form than
tragedy. but one deserving of its place
among the mighty just as much as
more sombre forms of entertainment
The fact that 3 play is thoroughly en-
joyable from beginning to end does
not argue for Il minute that it is a
piece OF slight worth. Nobody needs
to study "Clarence" or analyze it or
discuss il in order to be sure that it
Is a brilliant piece of dramatic writ
Ing He need only see it. The neccs-
sIty is urgent
"Thunder" seemed to US piece
much too slowpaced to charm, even in
spite OF rather shrewd use of some
conventional theatrical material in it's
final acts, but it brought to the at
tention Of theatregoers a new actress
Of rare skill. Miss Leila Benefits
performance as gawky, awkward,
emoticrally starved mountain girl has
in it the CLINT Of q rare fneness. Miss
BENEFITS mountain dialect is nothing
10 boast of. Her performance is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Dark Rosaleen' at the
Manhattan Opera House

viii uSslo Belasco's Dark Rosaleen"
tho " Neg 9egin two weeks engagement at
mahhattan Opera House tomorrow
viii I,"uay } night. The company that
Ono,pp present the play at the Manhattan
AZ "a mouse is practically the same
' m:a, season. and the entire production
~ ~'M be carried intact. Among the
psyeis on the roster are John Dalv
naNurrphy, Dodson l.. Mitchell. Henry
nnaanney, ?, j. Kelly, Howard True sdcli.
N Kan Mcyles, Thomas Mitchell. Charles
pslIIafthy, John Carmody. Farrell
(),pss;' George Fitzgerald. Seumas
Io "'1 p, Matthews Ard. Eileen Huban.
Liz 'pley, Rose Morrison, Jane Ross,
hi ian r Jago, Mile Aston. Malaidh Car.
NneeA Curran and Bina Flynn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
As We Were SAYING
By Hcvwood Broun
Haywood Broun

Sometimes written
ay plague enthusiasm Of
midnight occasionally day or week later
looking back at Booth Takngton
said about in the its performance
which topned all others
does seem now In fact after sngury distressing the
which included Katys Kisses Boy Eyes, and An FIX
Wives led think as something ;nanrd
ike "Huckleberry Finn" and the Bible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28

notable for no literal detail, but
rather for its spirit. Here are eyes
which give the suggestion of untold
things going on behind them, the rapid
play Of an emotion across face which
tells its story before a line is spoken,
the complete grace of perfect awk
wardncss. Miss Benefits performance
is one to be remembered long after
Thunder" is forgotten.
Those theatregoers who have noted
with chagrin and amazement the sue
cess Of various musical comedies in
which there was not the slightest pre-
tense Of telling a story, or any appre-
ciable effort TO make the words of
lyric mean anything, may take cheer
from the obviously entertaining quality
OF "See-Saw." in which these defects
are remedied. Earl Derr Biggers has
brought no conspicuous wit to the book
of the new musical show at the George
M. Cohan Theatre, but he has taken
60 SHS>Ni'C AoASC Pi0L anu UcVclOQcO
1t carefully 80 that the audience
actually finds itself interested in what
happens to number of characters.
who are presented as real persons, even
If they do occasionally break into sing
ing and dancing. A story is still the
most potent factor in theatrical en-.
tertainment and not all the jazz or
scenery, or dazzling beauty Of chorus
will avail to conceal the fact.
We have from time to time spoken
smoothly" about some Of the pictures
OF high society life, presented by the
Hat:ons in their various plays, con-
corning the smart set. Tonight we
would welcome the return Of any Hat
ton play, not even excepting 1.-THE
Walkofs." for Mr.. Cosmo Hamilton
has brought on new and still stranger
set Of gentlefolk. 1t seems to US that
the persons whom MIR. Hamilton pre-
seuts in "An Exchange of Wives"
would seem the verest FOUNDERS in
the most rowdy play which the Hat
tons have yet produced
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28
Youth Lends Its
Wings to clarence

able to sustain. But she has done Il
again, and done it even better. She
has fixed shining mark for those who
essay to WITTY the American young
person on the stage
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-12-09
Stomach Trouble.

"Rcforc used Cnauhcrlain's Taniets
ductur,L u great deal TOT SlrihaCimt
troI'h,,. and :,it nervous and tired ali
m, lime, Thr." ,ihicts helped me from
th,. IFS. a,nd INSIDE Of 4 weeks time /
had improved in every way, writes u.
a. primkard, jefferson City. Mo- For
sale by all dealers.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-12-09
November Demands Upon Associated Charities
Were Heaviest Organization Has Ever Known

Guy r. c. Allen. J. 4 Blum. Mrs T. C.
Burke. Mrs. L. {. Ewing. ". b. Gund-
ling. Mrs. Julian I"arnc. Miss Alma
Hubbard. Attorney 7. J. Mckinley. Roy
II. Naylor and W. p. Wilson were pres
ent.
Plans were discussed for financing
AMI otherwise handling tho large amount
of work that the "rErn'Haii"n is now
carrying on in 81 Il. ff"r'nI departments,
as shown by the sccr,iary'5 report.
The utmost cooperation with other
welfare workers and agencies In looking
after the sickness and distress Of the
community was recommended.
Secretary Krcutzcr'S report for tho
month of November follows:
Secretary's Eeport-Nove1nbcr, 1919.
In November. the demands upon the
department Of Family Social Work were
over 50 percent greater than in the pre-
ceding month and tho heaviest in the ms
tory Of the organization. Help was given
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-12-09
MRS. LEN Y. COOPER
TAKEN BY DEATH
Former vhcCli"g Woman Succumb3
to Long Illness at Steubenvtue

Mrs. Gertrude (Cottcr) Cooper, wife
cf Len V. Cooper. former resident
N Siruhrnyill". Mrs. Cooper was born
in Tinhlay. O.. and SpHnt the carly part
o. her life here. After har marriage
fhn couple came 20 Wheeling where her
husband was employed in Stone ana
ThcmaS' store. While residing in the
rI,y Mrs. Cooper was Il prominent mem
Der IF Thomson VI. T.. church on, tn"
Islqrd. and mad" many friends and as
.oCiat"s there. TIL" family moved from
this city To St"uhcnvlllc where theE
bovc resided for the past four years.
Mrs. Crnror who was but IS years OF
ngc, died after n lingering illness OF
about = yr,r She is surNiv"P by hcr
huehrnd and her father. Joseph CottGr,
Of rinil9y. q. tn" funeral Will take
Mace Thursday az rnnOn at her child
hood home at FindIay.