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IN VAUDEVILLE.

The United States Glee Club,
which consists of a chorus OF
thirty-fve singers selected from
the United States Navy, will sing
this week at the Palace. More
music will be furnished by Jun
Hussey and his jazz band, while
other entertainers will be lie"
Dockstader, Morria and Camp
bell. Sylvia Jason and William
Haig.
The Mosconi Brothers will
dance at the Riverside Theatre
this week and Harriet Remple
will appear in a play by Tom
Barry. Helen and Josephine
Trix will sing, and Moss ana
Frye will be among the other
we'll known players on the pro-
gramme.
Anna Wheaton will sing the
best songs of her repertoire al
the New Brighton Theatre this
week., with Harry Carroll, tie
Creole Fashion Plate, Bonita ana
Hearn, Bernard and Duly ana
other popular actors in an IT.
resistible bill. -,
Loew's American Theatre VIII
this week give its patrons IN ad-
dition to the best of the feature
pictures the Argonne Five IN
songs and fun. Almont and Du-
Mont and other we'll known en-
tertainers in vaudeville.
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try is Wales. And the only thing
Wales takes up arms against is Ger
many. Wales is next to ireland. But
Wales is much closer TO England. And
there Wales will always remain.
This is what Eleanor Daniels, the
Welsh actress. who came over to
America half a dozen years. ago to
help show us to what heights Welsh
art might rise, even If she had to
wear pink pajamas, tells her press
agent. Wales is as loyal and as proud
Of England and as much a part of
the empire as London itself Is, she
declares with some of the spirit that
makes her acting so vivid in La La,
Lucille" In which she wears the pa
iamas.
1--WE are England. of course" said
serious Miss Daniels. but the people
who live In the principality OF Wales
are really worth knowing from an
artistic and intellectual standpoint.
1.-THE silent and majestic solitudes
of the mountains have sunk into the
Welshman's character, have made the
fatalism which is the basis of his life
and thought. Their mute companion
ship has strengthened his Imagination
and made him sensitive aud impress
sionable. He has always loved poetry
Way back In the fourth century
the great Elsteddfodau were origi-
mated. These ancient hardic contests
were held to the excitement of the
entire nation. Prizes for music, poetry
and other branches OF learning Were
given at the contests. Eisteddfodau
are still held every year In Wales
And they are intensively Welsh in
character. Welsh music. in soft minor
keys, quite different from English
music, Is sung and performed. Poems
In the Welsh tongue are read. Welsh
art, taught art and peasant art are
exhibited for prize awards. All edu.
Gated Welsh people and many of the
peasants speak the Welsh tongue
Naturally all educated people speak
English too, but there are many peo,
pie in many counties who cannot
speak English
Wales, q land of frugal, religion,
people, brave and music loving, ha.
not been Pictured very much in dra
matte art, Dramatic art Is very reeen
IN Wales because of the religious bal
on the theatre. and this may explain
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like it better and laugh in the right
places without fail
II had the pleasure of lunching with
Sir James Barrie, an old friend and
from him l received assurances for
the American people that they are
forever enthroned in English hearts.
Gen. Pershing, too, won every ones
affection, especially by going when
he first arrived In France directly to
the front line trenches, where he spent
twenty-four hours to see what twas
like
I'm Paris the trend Of the theatre
is toward gayety. They suffered most
and have more to forget. l visited
the battlefelds and the farms that
the French are trying to reclaim.
Many of them are dotted with Ameri-
can graves. The farmers reverently
plough around them and their women
place flowers on the resting place of
Frances saviors who died for free
dom's sake. / recommend all Ameri-
cans to visit these battlefieds that
they may experience the ennobllng
and purifying experience
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spirit, 1t is on the plano OF the ele-
mental; there is an inescapable
fascination for men In the workings OF
these great causes, dimly felt and seen
darkly. We como away from the spec
tacle dlgnlied. Who aver left a revue
or a bedroom comedy Of to-day in that
frame of mind?"
Austin Strong, author OF Three
Wise Fools" has Just returned from
London, where he produced his play
with an English cast at the Comedy
Theatre.
1.-THE pre-war attitude Of the Eng
lish playgoer is returning gradually
and has already influenced play pro-
duction," said Mr.. Strong yesterday,
There are still revues and musical
shows and an ever increasing demand
for good comedies. But there are two
or three serious plays as we'll now
which are drawing crowded houses
In fact. these plays are more serious
than any in New York. The people
are Of course still groggy-but mag
nificent in their courage. l feared
they would not like my play as well
as New York did. But they seem to
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Exile" Miss Ferguson is seen as Norah
Shdrd, distinguished novel writer, as
we'll as the daughter Of a rich father.
She is not at all ambitious socially, hut
is taken TO England by her aunt, who
asplres to marry her to a title. The
girl strikes UP a close friendship with
an intelligent young nobleman who de-
sires to turn her novel into q play.
Tragedy follows, due to the unfounded
suspicion of his jealous wife, and Nora
is practically exjled from England, she
takes refuge in Venice, where she be-
gins life anew and finds ultimate hap
-niness In the love Of the brother OF
the woman who had been the cause OF
her misfortune. --g-,,.A M
To preserve the Venetian atmosphere
of the feature Hugo Riesenfeld has
arranged to have "A Society Exile
preceded by an Educational de Luxe
scenic" of Venice. In keeping Will,
the feature is also the barcarollo from
THE Tales of Hoffman" sung by Mary
Ball and Mary Newton. The comedy
introduces Mr., and Mrs, Carter De
Haven In Back TO Nature" and .
comic element il added to the usual
Rivoli Pictorial by the Inclusion of a
Mutt and JEFF" cartoon.
In Bill Henry" in which Charles
Ray will appear at the Rialtp this
week, the central figure Is an annbi-
ticus country boy who sets out to
make a fortune selling electric vibra-
tors. His career as q salesman comes
to an ingiorious end after his first
demonstration on a rheumatic old
man. To BHl Henry is then given a
position as hotel clerk in a small
town on condition that he refrain
from playing poker with the guests.
He breaks his promise, however,. to
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s. 0. 8. FOR THE DRAMA.

During her forthcoming tour OF the
country with her production OF 1.-THE
Riddle: Woman" Bertha Kalioh will
try out a plan for the training of
the young actors and actresses in her
company that commends itself to
managers searching for o solution to
the repertoire problem.
The repertoire theatre, In so far as
concerns America, is, according to
Nine. Kalich, thing of the past. 1t
Is obsolete as the stage coach, and an
attempt to reestablish that once ex-
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RURLESOUE.

The regular season will open
at the Columbia Theatre on Mon
day with the latest medium of
Lew Kelly, called THE Sub
marine Man." which is said to be
one of the best of the burlesques
before the public. New scenery
and costumes and the best of the
burlesque actors will be on hand.
"Ths Jazz Babies" is the in
spring title of the burlesqus
which will be seen at the Olympic
Theatre tomorrow. Frank Silk
is the leading comedian of the
company. but there are many
other entertainers on the pro-
gramme as we'll as a large and
comedy chorus.
Over in Brooklyn there will
be a new burlesque company at
the Star. Theatre. "Rush's
Cracker Jacks" they are called
and their buriesque is known as
the knockers of 1919" but
there are said to be no such indi-
yiduals among the audiences that
see and hear this buFlssaus.
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programme with Albert Janpolski, barry
tone, as soloist. The Wagner numbers
for orchestra are the "Tannhauser"
March, "Lohengrin" Prelude, "Rienzi''
Overture and tho Ride of the Yalky-
ries," while Tschaiqowsky is repre-
scented by Capriccio Italien, Marche
"Slav," aria from "Eugen Onegin" and
the overture, "1S12."
Mondays Symphony Night will fea-
ture Alma Clayburgh. soprano, and
Ilya Schkolnik, viollnist, and the or
chestra will be heard in Beethoven's
Symphony No. 8, C Minor, Moussorg-
sly's Bald Mountain" Symphonic
Poem, Q new Symphonic Rhapsody in
F Minor by A. Walter kramer for its
first>performance and Rimsky- Korsa-
kow's "Scheherazade." Ernest Strube,
conductor of the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, will be the guest conductor
Tuesday night, with Rudolph Reuter-,
pianist. and Carlo Marziali, tenor solo
lists. The programme includes Weber's
"Oheron" overture. the Tristan and
Isolde" Prelude and Love Death, Char
brier's Espana Rhapsodie, Rubinstein's
Concerto in ID Minor, Conductor
Strube's. Serenade. tenor aria from
"Otelle| and the "Mignon" overture
An interesting feature of the fara-
we'll week will be american Night'
on Wednesday, when native compost
tons only will be heard, and four
American composers will interpret
their own works. An Ocean Rhap-
sody" and Peter Pan" (sehsrzo) by
Frank Z. Ward. New Russia" Poem
by Samuel Gardner, and a suite from
his opera, 1.-THE Promise of Medea,"
by G. Aldo Randegger, will all be con-
Quoted by their respective composers
and Mana-Zucca will nlay her new
Iiano concerto for the first time.
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come to the assistance OF a young
woman who is in danger of being
robbed of the farm left her by her un-
Gle. He wins a big stake, and pur-
cfases the farm without her knowl-
edge, but with the intention of return
ing it to her. When BHl Henry hears
that Oil has been discovered on the,
land he urges the agent to sell the
property and turn the profit to the
girl as an additional Request from her
uncle. There is of course happy con-
clusion, bill Henry" was written by
Lois Zellner and adapted to the screen
by Julien Hosephson. The comedy is
Mack sennett's "The Dentist; the
scenic" called Relaxation" and
Happy Hooligan" cartoon are in
cluded in the Rialto magazine.
AS one means of combating the ac-
tors strike the Lyric Theatre will be
reopened next Monday night with the
super film feature, "Deliverance,r in
which Helen Keller. the wonder
woman, who triumphed over blind
ness. deafness aad dumbness, presents
tho dramatic and almost unbelievable
events OF her life.
"Del'verance" was scheduled to open
at the Park Theatre on August 30, but
THE Five Million" having been tenn
porarily closed by the strike. this
change In booking was effected yes
terday
Miss Keller appears personally in
the later episodes of "Deliverance, "
though the events of her early life
are necessarily played by a child ac-
tress. While the picture shows the
successive steps by which Miss KEEL
lFr's intelligence SO triumphed over
darkness that she became one OF the
brilliant women of the day. 1t has the
quality of entertainment as well.
"Deliveranee" was directed by George
Foster Plat. Many of the scenes are
spectacular in the extreme. several
thousand people being employed in ad-
dition to the large cast of prominent
professional players. There is n spe-
eial musical setting by DIR. Anselm
Goetzl who will direct a specially
chosen orchestra during the presenta-
ton of the picture
The fourth Offering in the d. w.
Griffith repertory season at the Conan
Theatre, opening next Monday evening.
will be THE Mother and the Law" an
expansion of the raodern story orig
.nally revealed in Mr.. Griffith's prd-
duction Of "lntolsrance." Prominent
in the cast win be Mae Marsh. Mar
garet Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam
Cooper, Lloyd Ingraham, Ralph LOWS,
Walter Long, Vera Lewis, Alberta Lee
and others
1.-THE Mother and the Law" win be
! presented for one week only aud will
be shown continuously each day from
$3.50 until IL o'clock A special music
programme arranged by Louis #.
, Gottschalk, who provided the score
for Broken blossoms" will be fea-
ture of the production.
The Academy OF Music will open its
season to-day with Tom Mix in "Rough
Riding Romance"
Longfellow's immortal poem EVAN
geline." probably the best known Of
all the great poets writings and fami-
liar to every small child in America,
has reaehsd this motion piGtprs. screen.
In conjunction with Tom Moore's
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seats and remained there throughout
his dramatic experience.
However 7 am not at present con-
sidering return to the vaudeville
stage" Mr.. Dinehart added quickly,
lest some one think him ungrateful
for bis remarkable opportunity in
1.-The Challenge" II am only express
ing my appreciation of the short play
and the vaudeville stage as. a splendid
school for the development of the
qualities / have mentioned, that is,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
A PROPHECIES IN PAJAMAs,

TT HERE is one little principally
in this world which does not
want Its independence. 1t has
over million and a half population.
1t has its own language and literature
and music and an ancient history.
And yet 1t hasn't any quarrel with
anybody about anything, That coun-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
THE STADIUM CONCERTS.

The coming week will be the eighth
and last of the Stadium Symphony
Concerts conducted by Arnold volpe at
the Lewisohn Stadium. Tonight will
be given to a Tschailsowsky Wagner
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
T,Hk STRAND THEATREwill pre-
sent Upstairs" starring Mabel

sent Upstairs" starring Mabel
Normand, who in this story by
Pefley Poore sheehan, plays Bls'e
hdcFdridnd in the downstairs" Of a
great palatial hotel. A slavey, always
anxious to get upstairs" where the
music and the laughter and the wine
ere. she seems always to STAY below and
suffer the callings down from the
brutal chef who dominates the
Kitchen. The real humor OF the play
Is seen when she In providentially
lifted upward by a bellboy who is a
millionaire in disguise. In passing it
may be noted that his sole reason for
donning role was to become ac-
auainted with Elsie. whom he had
seen through a doorway. The picture
was produced under the direction of
Victor L. Schertzinger. A, new photo
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cellent mode OF transportation were
no more chimerical than to try to
restore the repertoire theatre to its
one time preeminence.
With its threatened extinction
dramatic art faces serious. problem,
for in the absence of such few
repertoire theatres as now remain to
us, how will 1t be possible for the
rising generation of players to get the
equivalent of its hard and exacting
training?
1t is Nine. Kalich's plan to have her
company trained and rehearsed in a
new drama each week they are on
tour, and her contract with each
member of her supporting cast con-
tains a clause binding the player to
compliance with the idea.
While II is not n part of Nine.
Kalichs plan to give any public per-
formances OF the repertoire thus re-
hearsed in those cities where The
Riddle: Woman" plays for only one
week. she announces her intention of
doing so in all stands" of two weeks
or more, so that Philadelphia, Boston.
San Francisco and later New York
will all have, an opportunity OF seeing
her idea put to a practical test. This
test will be in the nature of series
of invitation matinees to members OF
the profession, students of dramatic
schools and such others generally as
may be interested in the development
OF her experiment.
To assist her in the prodiglous task
she has laid out for herself, Nine.
Kalich has engaged Lawrence Mey-
nell and Louis Ballot both of whom
will accompany The Riddle: Woman
production for the duration of Its long
tour Mr.. Meynell, we'll known in
England as a dramatic coach, will
superintend all rehearsals and per-
sonally drill the individual members OF
the company, while Mr.. Ballot has
been employed as dancing and fencing
master.
Apropos of complaints against the
standard OF plays on the current stage
G. r. Malloch sends interesting com
ments from London, where there have
been similar complaints, In his dis
cussion of abraham Lincoln" John
! Drinkwater's play, which has beer
running in London since February az
will be produced in New York this
fall by William Harris, Jr), he asks
what do people and in 1t SO attractive
that the business is making theatre
magnates sit up and wonder?" He
then proceeds: 1.-THE answer Is that ths
life of the crowd is as Tchekow said
higher and more intelligent than the
theatre of to-day. People do not wan
the yapid stun that is fed out e
them In many theatres; they accept Il
simply because IL is there and nothing
else offers. Theatregoing is a habit
strongly rooted in the population Of {
great city, an integral part OF theil
social life. and II takes great deal I,
drive them out of the theatre. The,
will accept the inferior because tn,
better sort is not available, but wher
worthy fare is set before them they
crowd to it, What attracts them IL
Abraham Lincoln is that they I'm,
the highest kind Of drama in it
spiritual drama.
4 I'm this seemingly tame ehronicl,
lies the conflict Of spirit with spirit
OF the great soul with the myriad it'll,
lsouls the soul Of one with the soul o
the mob. The protagonists are ten
denotes, causes. strivings OF the worl'
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were always features on the same bill
with May and Flo Irwin. the Kernels,
the Russell Brothers and other favor
ties. Lester Allen, the agile comedian
with George Whites Scandals OF
191aH and who is making his first big
hit on Broadway, is a nephew of Paul
Allen of the old team, and his frst
name was given to him in honor of his
uncle's team mate.
Lester Allen might be styled an
acroba;ic comedian and in the Scan
which cause the audience to marvel
as to just why he does not break his
neck.
Rosemary Sill made her debut with
Lew Yields in "A Lonely Romeo al
The Casino last night and her appear
ance was in accordance with a con-
tract entered into between Mr.. Fields
and the baby's father, William Raw
mond sill, one hour after her birth
That was just sixteen years ago, and
Mr. Sill was the representative OF
Weber and Fields. Upon the birth OF
his only child, he phoned Mr.. Fields
the glad news.
ITS a girl, chi" exclaimed Mr.
Fields. "All right I'll send her a con-
tract right away" and whitman hour
the contract was despatched to the
house and duly framed and hung ir
the nu sery for many years.
Little Miss sin made up her mind
In infancy that she would one day
"work" for Lew Fields, and always
told the girls at st. Catherin's Con.
vent, when they asked her what she
was going to do when she graduated
that she was under contract 10 Mr.
Fields. The legal age having arrived
for the fulfilment OF her ambition, sh,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17

The Academy OF Music will open its
season to-day with Tom Mix in Rough
Riding Romance"
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Longfellow's immortal poem EVAN
geline." probably the best known Of
all the great poets writings and fami-
liar to every small child in America,
has reached tbs motion ,pietars. screen.
In conjunction with Tom Moore's
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-13

fit aliens for naturalization. The
standard set for naturalization is
higher than before and the candidate
for citizenship papers must pass an
examination in civics and English. He
exhibited book that the govern
ment has compiled for instruction of
aliens in night schools.
SuperintendentNJoh Milne of AL
buquerque told of the success of
night schoolsSn his city, the attend
ance now being almost 500. The first
year the night schools were cond act
ed by teachers who volunteered their
services free of charge. He gave a
striking incident of an italian who
with the aid of his wife acquired a
we'll rounded education that would
put to shame many n born American.
'Ordinarily, If YOU will get the for
eign born resident started in self inn
provement you >will get him to fin
ish," he said, land the demand for
educational privileges by these for
eign born residents is very keen"
Work in Mining Camps.
Miss Eckles explained the work in
Supt. Conway told of the splendid
ing done Systematically and efficient
ly by the coal companies in Colfax
county at their own expense Super
intendent ,Swinney told of similar
work at Gallup where 1t Is done by
the school district.
President Hill OF FL Rito declared
that one-half of the children in New
Mexico are under immature teach
ers and that this is crime against
the children which must be remedied
Many of the children are criminally
abused. ut is a sad thing to so into
school and see children eager to
do their best under wrong instruc-
ton" He continued: THE root OF
our trouble in New Mexico is hat the
children get wrong start under inn
mature teachers"
Reading Circle Work.
Professor Lougee of the state de-
partment of education took for his
topic the Reading Circle Work. He
complained that county and CITY SUI
perintendents are not emphasizing
Reading Circle Work as they should
they do not begin the work early
enough. Authors must condense
their thoughts so that people will
read" was one of his 'truisms for the
volume Of printed matter has reach
ed such enormous proportions that
no one mind can keen IN with it.
Rupert II. Asplund, director of the
New Mexico Taxpayers association
and one of the foremost educators in
the state, explained sections Of the
school and budget laws. while my
change from educational work to that
Of the taxpayers association may be
viewed with suspicion by some. al
though my friends assure me it is not,
I wish to emphasize that 7 believe
we should get the most money we car
get for education nni see to j. that !,
hits she right spot
Padding School Census.
| In discussing the padding Of thu
school census, it wac brought nut .ha'
New Mexico Is paying In various way,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-13
A THOUGHT
FOR TODAY.
FROM THE
CHESTNUT TREE.

for such inflated figures. For instance,
at present figures are making the
rounds of the press that New MeSi3o|
spenNsA SIS per year for each school
pupil. The average places It very
near the bottom OF isll states. The
figure is arrived at by dividing the
total expenditures for the public
schools Ly the number of persons pc-
tween the ages of and 90 years,
which the school census gives at i1ore
than $4,000, probably 10000 more
than it really is. Other states figur-
ing per CAPT a expenditures divide by
the number of persons between the
ages Of 6 and l6 or even lesser range,
while still others divide by the urn-
her OF school children enrolled. One
county in New Mexico has school CEN
sus figures on record that seem 70 he
40 per cent too high and there is a
suspicion that more than one district
has been keeping the enumeration Of
ten and more years ago and simply
adding to 1t each year the newcomers
and newborn babes without saking off
those who became of age, moved out
or died, so that the school census re-
ported is more than the total popula-l
ion of the district even If few tomb
stones are thrown in for good meas
ure.
Among those who attended the two
1avs conference were Governor Lar
,ayo,o lieutenant Governor Rcnia min.
n ponkcy SUPERINTENDENT of public
instruction I II Wagner. Dr.. David
Rovd Of The state university. Or. Frank
Il II Roberts of the normal uniyer-.
s;tv president Roscoe Hill n the
snanish- American normal school
Panl A r walter acting director 81
me school Of American Research and
editor of the New Mexico Journal of
Eancation. prof W q conor az ire
state school for the deaf and dumb.
Miss isabel Eckles nresidcn, Of The
New Mexico Educational ,ssooia ton;
Dr.. r.. f. Mcbride. superin -endent for