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Arizona republican., 1919-12-04
KELLERD'S OTHELLO
IS CONVINCING ROLE

John E. Kellerd gave a vigorous,
subtle and comprehensive portrayal
in the title role OF Othello, presented
by his company at the Elks theater
yesterday afternoon. He laid open the
soul of a great warrior in the tortur-
ing throes of jealousy with that master
full touch of naturalness which has
characterized the work of this distin
guished tragedian in all the Shake
spearean roles he has essayed here
The role of Iago found an excellent
Interpretation in the hands of john
Macfarlane, whose makeup was dis
tinctive to the part and who brought
force and responsiveness to the lines.
George V. Dill found an opportunity to
display unusual ability in the part of
Cassie
The Desdemona of Fredda Brindley
showed careful study of the part and
was played with dramatic tempering
which was truly artistic.
John E. Kellerd and his excellent
company babe farewell to Phoenix with
the repetition of THE Merchant Of
Venice last night His visit here was
appreciated by all who had an oppor-
! tunity to revel in the dramatic treat
of classics ably and picturesquely pre-
scented.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-17
lR4NNTS or WLLA.yNO7OR7Oy
1"GLZARD or GOLD. SUFFERS IN
\ SOLDIERS OF FQRTILNE.

produced, but that did not deter its
production again this year. Allan
Dwan, who used to hold wrestling
championships and play quarterback
in his university days. who left the
campus with an engineering degree
only to knock around the world,
like 50 many of the heroes in my
brothers stories, and rise in pro-
fession other than the one for which
the learned professor had trained
him. had read SOLDIERS of Fortune"
in his youth. Drifting into motion
pictures, Dwan vowed to himself
some day to have a producing COM
pany of his own. Along with his
engineering at the university he had
specialized in literature and be had
the ambition to visualize on the
screen some day books he had read
and loved. And Soldiers of For
tune" was one such.
From Engineering to Suping
Accordingly Allan Dwan went to
the California studios with engineer
ing dismissed from his mind and
asked for a job. They put him to
work as super" In his first scene
he wac supposed to. be dead, lying
on the ground. This would have
been quite easy but the leading man.
sword in hand, having slain many
varlets. rested the tip of his blade
on Dwan, foE atmosphere" I'm
fortunately the blade was quite
sharp and penetrated Dwan's leg
about an inch, but rather than quit
and spoil the scene Dwan lay per-
fectly still; and then went linping
home. It was the sort of thing one
of my brother Richards characters
would have done.
After that Dwan rose rapidly and
became director for many OF the
stars you and I have seen; but al
ways in the back of his head was
that idea to have a producing COM
panv of his own and to photograph
books he loved. The day came last
tutrYnn when he contracted 70 pro-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-17

To be sure, in some of the studios
where quantity production rules,
good books continue to be mangled
and flicker across the screen in un-
recognizable form. But here and
there one discerns producers who,
satiated with this killing of litera-
ture, are honestly seeking to pre-
serve an authors characters, theme,
situations and the spirit of his story
in motion pictures. So where .
good book. best seller" though it
was, used only to reach . few hum
d-ed thousand persons at most, to-
day through conscientious visualize
ton of its pages. its audience will
total into the millions. For the
statisticians tell US that there were
over six billion admissions paid at
motion picture box Offices last year.
The Authors Lament
It is satisfaction that the crudi-
ties of motion picture production
have passed through refining cx-
pcriencc and that men of good edu-
cation. literary instincts and inn
agination have found their way into
the studios. Years ago my brother.
Richard Harding Davis, leased the
motion picture rights of several of
his stories only to undergo the ex-
perience which habitually fell to an
author-meaning to writhe in ones
chair upon seeing the picture, sup
press groan, and as the garbled
version of his story unrceled before
his eyes. to become possessed of a
desire to stand atop the highest
building in New York and to shout
through huge megaphone. THAT
isn't mine. | didn't write thatf'
But today. were my brother alive,
he would see his work transferred
to the screen with its spirit pre-
served.
Most of us have read his Soldiers
of Fortune" It would seem to be
significant of the new era of picture
making which is upon us that in
--~--~ h-S>At~~~se ~es-r,ar1re v-a c
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duce for the Mayfower Photopiay
Corporation. makers of THE
Miracle Man." and the first book
Dwan planned for production was
my brother Richards Soldiers of
Fortune" He knew that it had been
produced before. but he said. 'What
of it3 The story was not done
justice. ] am going to transfer 1t
to the screen as Richard Harding
Davis would have wanted it-with
his characters and situations pre-
served"
Dwan studied the characters of
Richards story-Ciay. King, Mac
Williams, Stuart, young Langham
and his sisters, and the Latin Amer
icans-until he knew them init
mately. Then he looked around and
he looked long time for actors and
actresses to portray them. He en-
gagged no stars; he did not want any
stars. He sought persons who
looked the parts as my brother
visualized them and who were will
ing to lose their own mentality in
the mentality of my brothers
characters. Dawn himself sank his
own mentality in my brothers
mentality. The result is that he has
brought Soldiers of Fortune" to the
screen as my brother would have
liked to have seen it
Richard Harding Davis
Richard wrote that story over
twenty years ago. 1t has lived be-
cause the people in it are real, as
is the background. Richard never
re-wrotc. In the Spring of 1884,
when he was in his sophomore year
in college, he made his first sea
voyage. The ship was an ore boat
and its destination. Santiago de
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-17
Stars BEND Sidetracked for Authors -sE
.Heyddy Of Novelist on Screen Dawninq,z
Richard Harding Davis Conind into
His Own. Villa Bandits. for S1pers

port of her was refreshing. Robert
Clay was unconsciousIy Dick Davis
himself as he would have tried to
do-Captain Stuart was the English
officer that Davis has met the world
over, or closer still. he was the
better side of such men which the
attractive wholesomeness of Davis
would draw out Alice and King
were the half-spoiied New Workers
as he knew them at the dinner
parties.
Now that Allan Dwan has photo
graphed the pages of my brothers
book, people can see the things
that he saw. They can see also
that there is an impossible gulf
between the Latin American and the
North Notwithstanding that
Richard saw more than twenty years
ago. When one thinks of Mexico.
of the outrages upon American
property there, one may recall that
in SOLDIERS of Fortune" Richard
accurately foreshadowed this by
projecting the Latin American
character on the pages OF his novel
Also, what a strange coincidence
there is between the attempts to
levy graft by military force upon
the mining company as described in
his book, and IN the holding up OF
American mines and plantations by
armed forces in Mexico today
Oddly enough, in Dwan's production
of Richards story he engaged five
members of Villas Guard of Gold
to portray types of whom my
brother wrote score OF years aso.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-17
|lMENC4N K4lVD4L.S !? MEREZY l
IA OWN hob IN ACTON Il

Pearl of the Antilles and to my
brother always the most beautiful.
The Bethlehem Steel Company had
recently acquired some valuable iron
mines just outside of Santiago; the
president of the company was going
for tour of inspection of his new
possessions and invited Richard to
accompany him. This invitation
may have been the direct cause OF
the suspension of my brothers
college career but it was also the
indirect cause of his most successful
novel, SOLDIERS of Fortune" In all
of his many travels | do not believe
that any one of them SO greatly af-
fected Richards life as did this first
visit to Cuba. At the time he was
twenty years of age but he had al
ready developed keen sense of OBJ
servation, as we'll as a great love of
adventure, and he at once fell under
the thrali of the tropics, a thrall
which lasted throughout his lifetime.
And although in after years he often
visited Central and South America
and many of the lovely islands of
the tropics he steadfastly remained
true to his first love-Santiago 1t
was just beyond the old town that
he first saw "the moonlight turning
the water into ripping ladder of
light and gliding the dark green
leaves of the palms with border of
silver" As the guest of the presi-
dent of the American-owned mines
my brother saw much besides the
beauty of the waving palms and the
gaiety Of the night life of the plaza.
To quote his words:
AT the mines, from the engineers,
young and eager, and at La Cruz
in the Casa Ell Presidente, perched
among royal palms above the barber
of Santiago. from Thurston. I heard
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-17

hourly the story of the American
company, of its fight against the
mountains, against the indifferent
and hostile Spaniard. Ten years
later, TO that story | added love
story, placed the mines in an i'm
aginary republic in South America.
and succeeded in getting the story.
which was called Soldiers of
Fortune
Making A True Story Fiction
Exactly how or when Richard de-
veloped the s'lovc story" | do not
know, but when the actual writing of
the novel began it is certain that he
turned to Santiago for not only his
color, but for many of his characters.
Valencia of the novel is the town
of Santiago and 'the great cliffs that
guard the harbor of Olancho's
capital are the same cliffs from
which the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany has extracted much valuable
ore. For the counterparts IN real
life of the people in the book my
brother drew rather heavily from
the colony at Santiago, but Clay and
King and the Langham family were
purely characters of his imagination.
kirkpatrick, the engineer who was
the original of the character OF
MacWiliiams, died at the mines and
was buried there. La Cruz. which
overlooks the harbor of Santiago, is
the house that was built for the
president of the company and which,
from the reign of Thurston to that
of Charles M. Schwab. has been his
official residence. In the novel |
call this place the Palms, and it is
there that much of the action of the
story takes placc."
General Mendoza, the villain of
the novel was an acquaintance of
Richards but in real life I under
stand was only petty-grafting old
Spaniard and quite incapable of lead
ing a revolution. The counterpart
OF "Weimer, the United States Con-
sui at Valencia was no doubt
drawn from our consul at that time,
Reirner. and Burke, the fiIibuster IS
supposed to be the we'll known
soldier of fortune, General Melville
Boynton. Since the novel first ap-
peared | have heard numerous sug-
gestions as to the originals of the
American characters but [ think a
paragraph from an appreciation of
my brother by Augustus Thomas.
wherein it is suggested that most
of the characters are rather types
than individuals, is probably the best
guess. THE outdoor American
girl" (Hopel was not so established
at that time, and the Davis re-
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Noted AutIaor ard Brother
gfRichard HARDING Davis

It would seem that so stringent is
the demand for high class motion
pictures today that the good. COM
peliing story, no matter what its
age, cannot die. To hear of a pro-
Queer making but a few productions
year painstakingly seeking to do
tne authors story justice and resist
ing the temptation to place his film
upon the market until he is satisfied
that he has done the story justice IS
most new and agreeable. Month
after month a conscientious writer
draws upon his nerves. his brain. his
vitality in the creation of . good
novel, be it romantic or realistic.
Unconsciously we feel, as we turn
The last page of good piece of
work that it is such because in the
writing the man freely gave of him
self. Which is to say that the story
has soul And then how often have
we seen, you and /, motion picture
version of that story-a butchcry Of
art that made US wonder will they
ever be able to do a book properly
on the scrccn7" Slap-dash here.
slam-bang there. the movie makers
had produced an authors story in a
mere fraction of the time he had
given to the writing of it-with the
inevitable result.
But it would seem today that the
move conscience has awakened.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
TERRORIST PLOT WIDESPREAD
ARRESTS Thus Far Made Do Not Begin
to Clarity Situation" Say
the Police.

Cleveland, O.. Nov. 1.-The terror
list menace disclosed by the police
raids has gained such a foothold and
has become SO widespread in Cleye-
land. according to Police Captain Mar
tin Lavelle, that the arrests thus far
made do not begin to clarity the situ-
alton.
"Our investigation tends to show
that there are between &c and 80 COM
munist party chapters being organized
in Cleveland, their purpose being SIM
ply to precipitate reign of terror and
take over the government" he said
Sixteen men and one woman already
have been arrested.
Cleveland. O., Oct.s 31.-Seven per-
sons six men and one woman, charged
by the police with being identified
with radicals in another plot to ter
rorize the nation by series of bomb
explosions next spring are being
held by police and others were being
sought in what is expected to be a
national cleanup of revolutionists.
One of the men under arrest is be-
lieved to be the bomb maker who con.
structed and placed the bomb which
on June 2 partly wrecked the home
of Mayor Harry L. Davis.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
is DIE ON LAKE SHIP
STEAMER CITY OF MUSHROOM
WRECKED AT MUsKEGoN.
Craft Hurled Against Pier During
storm-Nine Members Of Crew
and Six Passengers Lost.

Muskegon, Mich, Oct. 30.-Nine
members of the crew and six pas
sengers lost their lives Tuesday morn
ing when the Crosby steamer City of
Muskegon. formerly the Holland,
struck the south pier in Muskegon
channel The boat was smashed to
pieces. In less than four minutes after
the crash no portion of the vessel re-
NAMED above the water line.
The second engineer was among
those lost The other members of the
crew who were drowned were mem
bers of the stewards department.
There we're about thirty-tive passen-
gers aboard, but the vessel lay against
the pier, so that most of them were
able to make their way to safety.
Many of the passengers were clad
only in their nightclothes when the
order came to make the leap for
safety.
The known dead:
Lynch. John, Milwaukee, deckhand.
De Witt, Arthur, Milwaukee. deck
hand.
Hough, Alfred, Billings, Mont, sec
ond porter.
Hopkins, Mrs. Jessie, Muskegon.
waitress.
johnson, Mrs. Agnes. mother of
Grant Johnson of Muskegon. chief en-
gineer of the boat.
Armstetter, John, Manistee. second
cook.
Reese, Harry. Milwaukee, second en-
gineer; his body has been recovered.
Karowitz, Samuel, Muskegon. deck
hand.
Koski, Joseph. Muskegon, deck hand.
Reckeltz. Mrs. John, Milwaukee.
Lecus, Mrs. Herman, Montague,
Mich.
Lecus, Herman, her husband.
Zimmerman, oliver, Muskegon.
Two members of crew known as
"Slim' and John.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
MILK PRODUCERS ARE FREED
Officials OF the Illinois Association
Acquitted Of Conspiracy Charge
by Jury in Chicago.

Chicago, Nov. 1.-After deliberations
extending over five hours the eight
officials of the Illinois Milk Producers
association. who have been on trial
before Judge Joseph II. Fitch in the
Criminal court since Sept. is on a
charge Of conspiracy, were acquitted
Thursday night. Eight separate YER
diets were returned, each defendant
being exonerated individually. They
We're as follows: eve, the jury, find
the defendant Arnold Huber not
guilty. and so on, the yerdicts in turn
naming Frank Fl. Reese, Clinton J.
Cooper, Roy Lewis, Charles Fl. Potter.
w. J. Kittle, Robert M. Omann, and
William A. Goodwin. Potter and Kittle
are president and secretary, respective
~, of the association.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
DRY VETO IS KILLED
SENATE VOTES 65 TO 20 TO OVER
RIDE PRESIDENT.
Wilson Will Issue. Proclamation Lift
ing Wartime Prohibition When
Treaty Is Ratified.

Washington, Oct. 30.-In accord with
veto of the prohibition enforcement
measure was received in congress, the
senate followed the example of the
house and passed the bill over the
presidents veto by more than the req
uisite two-thirds majority.
The vote in the senate was 65 to 20,
the majority having seven more votes
than were needed to override the veto.
War time prohibition will be brought
to an end by presidential proclamation
Immediately after the senate ratifies
the German peace treaty. it was said
in the statement issued at the white
house.
Officials explained that the wartime
act provided that it should be annulled
by the president when peace had been
declared and when the army and navy
had been demobilized. Congress was
informed by the president in his mes
sage vetoing the prohibition enforce
ment bill that rehabilitation of the
army and the navy had been completed.
The white house announcement
clears up any doubt as to whether the
war would be ended legally with the
ratification of the German treaty.
Some officials had expressed the op!n-'
ion that the war emergency would
not pass until the treaty with Austria
had been acted upon by the senate.
Washington. Oct. 30--Armed with
the drastic provisions Of the prohibi-
ton enforcement act. which became eff
fective as to wartime prohibition with
passage by the senate of the measure
over the presidents veto late Tuesday.
agents of the bureau of internal rev.
enue today took up the task of maxi
ing absolute the ban on the manufac-
tnre and sale Of liquor.
Open violation of the law, Commits
sioner Roper asserted, would bring GER
tain disrepute to the American form
of government.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
MUST PAY FOR
FLEET SINKING
Allies Draw Up New Protocol
Binding Germany to Re-
Spect Armistice.
BONDS ARE MADE FIRMER
Berlin Also Faces Punishment for
Other Violations of the Postwar
Agreement-May Require sigma
ture as Result of Violations.

Paris, Nov. before the peace
treaty becomes effective the German
representatives will be required, it
is expected here, to sign an addition
al protocol, binding Germany to car
ry out. armistice clauses which were
not Incorporated in the treaty of YER
sailles. The supreme council of the
allied and associated powers consid-
cred the text of the proposed instru-
ment.
Marshal Foch and others have re-
ported that Germany has violated ar
mistice conditions.
The supreme council discussed pos
sible dates for putting the German
treaty into effect, but postponed de-
cision until Saturday
The payments Germany must make
for the warships sunk at Scapa Flow
was again considered by the council.
The supreme council has assured
France that it's share of the German
warships will not be reduced as the
result of the destruction Of the Scapa
Flow unit, for which the German gov
eminent, and not German officers in
dividually, is to be held responsible.
Notification has been given the
peace conference by a representative
of Italy here that the proposal made
by Foreign Minister Tittoni for the
settlement of the Fiume problem has
not been accepted by the United
States.
1t is declared in authoritative Ital-
ian quarters, however, that, although
the reply of Secretary Of State Lam
sing was unfavorable as whole, q
considerable portion of the Tittoni
proposal was accepted and that the
exchanges with the United States on
the subject will be continued.
AS soon as the extreme concessions
the United States is willing to make
are known to the representatives of
Italy here the Italian government will
be put in possession of all the ele-
ments of the problem aas they have
been developed by the delegation in
Paris, and Italy's position will be def
initely known.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
ARMY OF 100000
ALL U. S. NEEDS
Pershinq Makes Recommendation
at the Joint Meeting of Senate
and House Committees.
FORCE OF 100000 TOO Big
Favors Regular Army Large Enough
to RepuIse Sudden Attacks and
Trained Citizen Force to Deal
With Any Emergency.

Washington, Nov. IA regular
army, large enough to provide against
sudden attacks and to meet interna-
tional obligations on the American con-
tinent, and trained citizen reserve
to deal with any emergency was recon-
mended by General Pershing at joint
meeting of the senate and house mill
tary committees.
The general made a plea that the ma
ton keep abreast of other countries III
development Of the air service and SAID
it also was essential that the transport
corps, nurse corps and tank corps be
made adequate. He thought the num-
Der of officers of high rank provided
for in pending legislation was rather
excessive"
General Pershing said he disagreed
with the war department recommends
ton for an army of 100000 men and
said that at the outside 275,OOO to 3OO.-
600. or possibly less, would be suffi-
cient.
The large caucus room of the house
office building in which the money trust.
and lobby Investigations were conduct
ed was set aside for the hearing-the
most important held in connection with
the military bills being considered by
the committees.
Chairmen Wadsworth and Kahn of
the senate and house military commit
tees, respectively, have announced thar
the testimony of the expeditionary
commander would close the hearings,
which had elected the views of Secre-
tary Baker. General March, chief of
staff; divisional commanders of the
overseas army and officers of the gen
eral staff.
The two committees will begin draft
ing permanent military legislation i'm
mediately after hearing General Perish
ing. 1t is not considered probable,
however, that either house will be able
to act. on the legislation before the
converting of the regular session in De
cember.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
GERMAN DEBT IS IS BILLIONS
Minister Erzberger Says Amount Will
Be $2,20S, 0O0,o More by
March, 1920.

Berlin, Nov. 3.-The national assem-
bly, passed the third reading of the
budget, Notwithstanding the vote of
the two parties of the right and the
independents, and then adjourned I'M
til November 20.
Matthias Erzberger, minister of
finance, reviewing the financial situa-
ton, said new taxes were expected to
yield 9.O0O,OOOOOO marks ($2.25O,00O,-
OOO). AS the interest on the national
debt would be 8,817, 100000 marks.
Herr Erzberger said his estimate of
the revenue of 1919 had previously
been fully covered
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX DIES
Noted Author and Poet succumbs
in Connecticut After Long
lIInese.

New Haver. Conn.,. Oct. 31.-Mrs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and
poet, died at her home, 1.-THE Bunga-
low" in Branford today. Mrs. Wilcox
had been i'll for some months having
had a nervous collapse while engaged
in war-relief work in England. Mrs.
Wilcox was born in Johnstone Center,
Wis, in 1855. She was educated at
the University of Wisconsin. She was
to Robert M. Wilcox in New
York in 1884.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-11-07

Out in the Ukraine, where the boil
sheviki seem always to be trying to
commit some new act to astOund the
world, they have erected statue to
Judas Iscariot in the city of Tambof.
In many parts of Europe there are
societies founded upon the cult of Jul
das, but until now none has had the
temerity to erect statue. The plea
IF the followers of this society is that
if u had not been for Judas Christ
would not have been betrayed and
therefore not crucified, and if not cru