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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Bobby Watson, i He-Man,
Finds /, No Easy Task
To PLAY Madame Lucy

Wonder what regular herman
thinks about when he IS obliged to
play the part Of sissy,
That conjecture must nave arisen
in the minds of many of those who
have seen Bobbie Watson in the role
of Madame Lucy, the comedy char
aoter Of Irene the new musical
comedy now at the Vanderbilt Theater
Bobbie Watson awoke TO find him
self famous last Wednesday after the
-nighters bad discovered in him
a real comedian. All his life he had
been trying to convince Broadway that
he was really good, bur things never
broke quite right When Going
Up" was presented on Forty second
Street IT was Frank Craven who
walked away with the honors, al
though Watson played the very same
part in the company that toured the
South and West
But Wednesday he had arrived His
wife was proud of him. His friends
were congratulatlag him All the
son was. In his dressing room
Wednesday, night he was opening his
mail while awaiting his cue to go on.
Here was the address on letter from
a photographers:
"Bobble Watson, Vanderbilt Theater
"My dear Miss Watson"
Such is fame. Here he was c on
graduating himself on being known
wherever New York newspapers circu-
lated, and yet theatrical photogra-
pher thought he was woman Just
because he was playing an etfemnate
part and the program sche duled him
Is Madame Lucy.
1t is not pleasant role Watson
has assumed. AS a matter of fact,
Feight men rehearsed the part and then
decided not to play it, Then Watson
was suggested. A friend of his had
seen him do old men as we'll as juve-
niles, and was sure he could play an
etfeminate part as well. And so Wat
son rehearsed three weeks before
Irene" opened in Washington.
THE first night in Washington |
was a little shaky," he said. Il was
afraid the audience wouldn't under
stand ! was not really a sissy. But
the second night I felt that I was
not being misunderstood.
II don't mind playing the part as
q. long as | can convince the audience
that I am not really effeminate. If l
could not do that | should refuse te
act rs Madame Lucy.
"ll is really the most difficult part
in the world TO play and still convince
your audience that you are a man.
believe in trying anythingeonce, and
now | am mighty glad that l accepted
this part, dstasteful though it seemed
to me at the beginning
Watson got his start with a medi-
cine show, in which he used to play
seven characters for $40 week Since
then he has had his fling at vaudeville
burlesque. cabarets and musical com
edy. His last previous engagement was
in Just Minute"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Broadway's Latest Star,
Lenore Uric, Places
Naturalness Above All

In the big star dressing-room adjoin.
ing the greenroom at the Belasco The
ater 1enore Uric received a repre-.
sentative OF The Tribune last night. It
was her first interview since she be-
came star in the title role Of "The
Son-Daughter." The ordeal of the
opening night had been forgotten, and
as she applied the makeup which
changed her from Caucasian to a
Monaghan personality she answered
questions with the enthusiasm of
debutante
What lot of ambitious young
women would like to be where YOU are
sitting at this moment!" began the in
terviewer.
q suppose So" smiled Miss Uric
Most of them, am sure. have even q
better chance than I had to get here
Ny meeting with Mr. Belasco came
about through letter which ] wrote
to him, begging him to come and see
my performance in The Bird Of Para
disc at the Standard Theater II was
only few years ago, and yet it seems
Tors, long time since that never-to-
be-forgotten moment when I realized
from the stage that he had complied
with my request and was actually there
to see me.
Something III my earnestness' to
succeed appealed to him, and he came
The human element in the situation
stirred ne, and I played as though my
life depended upon the result. I won.
This proved to me that the greatest
thing in acting, as in any art. is to be
human.
IF you play working girl, do not
wear patent leather pumps because
your feet are small and don't bedeck
yourself in hlet lace just because you
have 1T. Then. again, if your role is
that OF woman who has suffered and
who has passed through hours Of an
guish, racked by anxiety. az does Lien
Wha in the last act of The Son
Daughter don't give her carmined
lips, bleached lashes and an immacu-
late couture
When you have a chance to be
bright and girlsh, be bright and girl
ish. When you are called upon to por-
tray splendid woman. be splendid.
But If you accept part which is un-
propose ssing, just plain or merely un-
attractive-be what your character
calls for.
The portrayal of human character
is the whole essence of acting, and the
girl who is not willing to sacrifice at
times the vital beauty that God has
given her in youth will find that the
artistic deity will deny her anything
to take the place of, or glorify, what
once was her beauty when it. is gone.
PERSONALLY l like character roles
best. You see, character role is very
decided; it calls upon you to give =
picture that is strong, and, there. must
be something elemental about such q
part. And like strong people. The
man or woman who hates or loves viz
idly and enthusiastically always APP
peals to me, so l have a very great
sympathy for these elemental people
that present in the plays that have
fallen to my lot"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

~TlT IS an example of our talent for
60 consp cuous waste that we have
~ failed to mako use of the genius
of Emanuel Reicher in our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Dorothy Dalton ~, 'A]7hrodito
Three Openings for the Coming Week

MoNDAfAt the Liberty Theae Billie Of
years returns to the spoken viii
by " Somerset Vaughan, which ROYALTY Theater
London This the stars first of
1eefeld r Caesars Wife modern play the author
the theory that respect ion and
shows that sturdy adherence conse-
quences the backbone
take place IN Cairo The staged by Payne The
Miss Trevor
while Ernest Glendenning I1d
Wise Frederic De Rlevie, Wigney Harry are
n cast.
TUEsDAYAt the Lyric Iheae Gest Will
present Chinese Of
Bolton and P G Wodehousa The
Vecsey The includes
Cunningham and Jane Richardson the dances
and ensembles The dramatic Robert
At the Iarrick Iheator the New present The Rise
of Slas Lapham hased
It Is costume play Of the Will mark the re-
the New absence Of James K
Hacket~ who will play Sia the first VISITING
play with tho Guild lillian
Sabine, of Washington Helen Mrs Bromded
Corey Boston society leader Henderson, Marjorie Nonne
gut Grace kne Henry Stman
The play is produced under the direction Q NOZZLE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23

distinctly heard This is a 'grievous
fau!t and grievouSlv hath mary an
audience endured it and one person
WI turn to another to inquire What
did he say The reply invariably
beng ] didn't understand that. and
whlle this conversation is going on,
perhaps the very heart Of the speak
er'S message has been lost TO many
because the end words were dropped
and not understood
" There Is no excuse for Al unpleas-
ant 'ndA s-lnct speaking voice for any
one o. average interference that can
produce any tones at all, N fact, any
one who ordinarily speaks the English
language con cultivate an agreea Bile
and distinct voice in d comparatively
short time with proper training"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-23
Tonight at The Neigkborhood

The Neighborhood Players viii be
seen IN The Queens Enemies" and
"A Night at an Inn by Lord Dunsany.
and the Festival Dancers and the Bala.
iaika Orchestra also will appear in a
program of Russian dances and music.
For the following week and Saturday
evening, November %. "a Sunny Morn
ing" by ]. and S. Alvarez Quintero.
viii be substituted for "a Night at an
Inn" and on Sunday. November 80, the
TAI Will be the same as tonight. z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
Text Of Presidents Speech
 On the League of Nations

,he league of nations. The representa- lives of IA nations sat around that board mot young men, not men inexperienced in the affairs of their own countries. not men inexperienced in the politics of the world-and the inspiring influence of every meeting was the concurrence o! purpose on the part of all those men to come to an agreement, and an effective working agreement, with regard to this league of the civilized world.
 MUST BE DONE
 There was d conviction in the whole impluse: there was conviction of more than one sort: there was the convic- tion that this thing ought to be done and there was also the conviction that not a man there would venture to go home and say that he had not tried to do it.
 '-Mr Taft has set the picture for you of what a failure of this great purpose would mean We have been hearing for all these weary months that this agony of war has lasted because of the snis- ter purpose of the central empires, and we have made maps of the course that they naeais5 their sconquests to take Where did the lines of that map he, oi that central line that We used to cali from Bremen to Bagdad?
 
 to which MT. Taft has called your at. tention, but they lay. then. through a united empire, the Austro- H Hungarian empire, whose integrity Germany was bound to respect as her ally. lay in the path of that line of conquest; the Turk ish empire, whose interests she professed to make her own, lay in the direct path that she intended to tread.
 And now what has happened? The Austro- Hungarian empire has gone to pieces and the Turkish empire has dis appeared and the nations that effected that great resut-for it was q result of liberation-are now responsible as the trustees Of the assets of these great ma tions. You not only would have weak nations lying in this path. but you would have nations in winch that old poison . ous seed of intrigue could be planted with the certainty that the crop would be abundant and one of the things that the league of nations is intended to watch is the course of intrigue. Intrigue can not stand publicity and if the league
 tCOntinued on Page EighD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Washington, March 4-Upon the ad . journment of Congress today with inn portant legislation killed by a republi- can Senate filibuster. President Wilson issued a statement declaring that a group of men in the Senate have delib- erately chosen to embarrass the admin istration of the government so as to imperil the financial interests of the rail- way systems of the country"
 The Presidents statement follows:
 "A group of men in the Senate have deliberately chosen to embarrass the ad- ministration of the government, to i'm peril ths financial interests of the rail- way systems of the country. and to make arbitrary use of powers intended to be employed in the interest of the people.
 "It is plainly my present duty to at tend the peace conference in Paris. It is also my duty to be in close contact with the public business during a session of the Congress I must make my choice dently rope that the people of the coun- try will think that I am making the right choice. It is not in the interest of the right conduct of public affairs that I should call the Congress in spe- cial session, while it is impossible for me to be in Washington, because of more duty elsewhere, to cooperate with the houses.
 T take it for granted that the men who have obstructed and prevented the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
WOMEN ARRESTED
 AS THEY STAGE A
 DEMONSTRATION
Alice Paul and Five Ass0- ciates Taken Into Custody By New York Police
 Quickly Released

New York. March 4.-Six women.
 members of the national wO,nen's
 party, were arrested on charges of
 disorderIy conduct after battle
 tonight with policemen in front of
 the Metropolitan Opera house,
 where they had intended to stage
 demonstration against President
 Wilson. soon after they had 'been
 locked up all of them were released
 without explanation.
 Three of the women arrested were MSS Alice Paul and Miss Doris Stevens of New York, and Elsie Hill of Norwalk, Conn. The other three gave their names as Jane Doe.
 Fifty policemen charged down on a group of 30 suffragists when they started q demonstration, taking into custody the six most active agitators.
 Where the word to release the women came from or who stood sponsor tor IL. no one connected with the police depaH- ment would statt tonight.
 jn~ release of the six women was fol- lowed by fight between a new parade Of s,uffl.agists and a mob of soldiers, sa ilots and civilians, who received reports that the :uffYagists intended. to return to burn copiessof the President speech. The clash came at Forty-first street and Sixth avenlle and an overseas veteran was laid out by a blow over the head, while Minna Bodenheim cf New York was thrown to the pavement The police finally quelled the disturban nee at II o'clock
 Miss Elsie Hili, leading the returning women paraders.4lit two red torches and tiled to burn part of President Wilson's speech. Miss Alice Paul and Miss Doris stevens, who had been released from ja I be( a short time before, were recognized in the front ranks of the suffrasist paT raders., '1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 New York, March 1.-The Americans went overseas not merely to beat the Germans. the President said, but to show that the United States would go anywhere where the rights of man are affected.
 the President declared, was based on a doctrine of careful selfishness.
 Eve heard no constructive suggestion, |" he said.
 I've heard only the suggestion, would it not be dangerous for us?
 If the United States did not enter the league. he declared, it would be the most contemptible of nations
 President Wilson spoke as follows
 My Fellow Citizens: I accept the inti- nation of the air just played, I will not come back till it's over, over there And yet I pray God, in the interests of peace and of the world, that that may be soon.
 The first thing that I am going to tell the people on the other aide ot the water is that an overwhelming majority of the American people is in favor of tHt icdSut Ol ndtlQuS. hllOW tiltl tlldt is true; I, have had unnistakable intima tions of it from all parts of the country and the voice rings true in every case.
 q count myself fortunate to speak here under the unusual circumstances of this evening. am happy to associate myself with MT. Taft in this great cause. He has displayed an elevation of view and a devotion to public duty which is beyond praise.
 And I am the more happy because this means that this is not a party issue. No party has the right to appropriate this iss ue, and no party will, in the long run. dare oppose it.
 We have listened to so clear and ad- mirabie ar explanation of many of the main features of the proposed covenant of the league of nations that it is perhaps not recessary for me to discuss in any particular way the contents of the docI- meut. I will seek. rather to give you it's setting. l do not know when l have been more impressed than by the conferences os the commission, set up by the confer ence of peace to draw up a covenant for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
By Associated Press


 New York, March 4.-Presl- dent Wilson told the American people in an address here to- night on the eve of his return to Paris that he was going back to the peace conference to bat tie with renewed vigor for ere alton of a league of nations.
 "The first thing l am going to tell the people on the other side Of thc water is that an overwhelming ma iority of the American people is in fa- vor of the league of nations" said the President.
 Speaking after former President Taft had expounded the main features of the proposed covenant of nations Mr, Wilson told the vast audience. which flied the Metropolitan Opera house. h4s opinions of opponents of the league plan in America.
 No party has the right to appropri- ate this issue. and no party wMl in the long run dare oppose it." he asserted. Asserting that the league of nations is meant as notice to all outlaw nations that the great peoples of the world will no longer tolerate internd- . tional crimes, the President said Eu. rope is bit sick at heart at this very moment, because it sees that statesmen have no vision and that the only vision has been the vision Of the peopie"
 .Nud I am amaxed-nOt alarmed
 hut amazcd-that there should he in some quarters such cOmprc- hcnsive ignorance of the state Of the worId.. continued Mir. Wilson.
 ..Thosc gentlemen do not know
 what the mind of men is just now. Everybody else does.
 q do not know where they have been closeted I do not know by what influence they have been blinded; bat I do know.~that they have been sep .rated from the general currents of the thought of mankind
 A SOLEMN WARNING
 And I want to utter this solemn warning. not in the way of threat. the forces of the world do not threat en. they operate, The great tides ot the world do not give notice that they gre going to rise and run; they rise in thei, majesty and overwhelm might, and those who stand in the way are overwhelmed. Now the heart of the world is awake. and the heart of the work must be satisfied" ."Americas soldiers" he said went overseas feeling they were scarcely bound to the realization of these ideals which their President had enunciated when the United States went into the war.
 "There is another thing" the Presi- dent said. which critics of the league had TO. observed.
 "They not only have not Ob- served the temper of the world, hut
 they have not even observed the temper Of these splendid boys in khaki that they sent across the
 seas," he asserted.
 And dc you suppose, continued the President, that having felt that crusad- ing spirit of these youngsters, who went over there not to glorify America but to serve their fellowmen. ] going to per init myself for one moment to slackcn in my effort to be worthy of them and of their cause? I do not mean to come back until it's over over there And it must not be over until the nations of the world are assured of the permanency O. peace"
 Opponents of the league in this coun- try do not comprehend the temper and desire of European statesmen said the President who added that there is not ohe of them with whom I have come in
 (Continued on Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
JACK WOLFE WINS
 NEWSPAPER DECISION
By Associated Pres,

Cleveland. O., March 4--Jack Wolfe of Cleveland easily outponted Pete Herman of New Orleans. worolds champion ban tam-weight boxer, in a 10-round contest here tonight, according to the decision awarded by newspaper critics. Wolfe was the aggressor throughout and annexed seven rounds. Two that were given to Herman went by slight shades, while one round was even.
 Wolfe weighed l1Sas pounds, rinSside; Herman's weight was announced as 1lS1e pounds at 5 D. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
MATTE MAY JOIN
 NEW YORK GIANTS
sy As.osja,ed Pres.

New York, March 4.-"Christy' Math- ewson. former manager of the Cincinnati Nationals, held conference here today with John J. McGraw. vice president of the New York Nationals. It is believed that Mathewson, who received his dis charge from the army last week. may return to the Giants as an assistant to Manager McGraw.
 Mathewson und srstands that he is still under reservation to the Cincinnati club and cannot sign with any ether club until granted his release.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
BAKER IS THROUGH WITH BIG LEAGUE BALI.
nv As,oci.ted Press

New ork, March 4.-eJ Franklin Baker, star third baseman of the New York Americans, will not return to the club next season. according to a letter re- ceived from him today by Manager Huggins. Baker wrote he was unable to change his decision of last fall that he was through with major league base ball.,
 The club announced today the release to .n. Sacramento cub of the S1cf's Coast league of Pitchers William Pier cey and A. C. Vance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
Stolen Goods Are
 Recovered By Officers

Will James and Julia Craig, negroes, were arrested last night by Officers Pat ton and Patterson and lodged in the city jail on a charge of burglary and grand larceny, and about s250 worth of alleged stolen goods recovered by the officers.
 The goods consist of several ladies coat suits, valued at s3J each. and a quantity of men clothing and shoes. It is alleged that the goods were stolen from store at Alma, near Carbon Hill, yesterday morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
Summary of the News

I-Bitter controversy marks passing
 Sixty-ffth Congress.
 Hines undecided ns to next move. President amazed nt ignorance of
 league opponents. :-Congress fiayed at Eovcrnors'
 meeting. ;:-Stories of day iron, Washington. -EditOrials. 5-spIendid work prevented horrible,
 tragedy.
 Torpedo boat Ingram. named Tor local hero, christened by mother. 6-SOcfety. S-Sp0rts. S-Reach decision on Relgian- HO Ollanj
 treaty revision O-WiIsOn approves sending women
 abOr,delegntes. 1EMnrkets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
Text Of Address OF
 Former President Taft

New York, March "A league of na- tions covenant is indispensable to the treaty of peace if the war is to accom- pish the declared purpose of this na- ton and the world" former President William Howard Taft told the audience at the Metropolitan Opera house tonight in an exhaustive discussion of the league principles. preceding the address ot
 President Wilson.
 Adherence to the Washingtonian policy of avoiding foreign alliances could moi be applied to the present nternationa.
 status Mr. Taft declared, because the interests of the United States are inevita- bly involved in the preservation of Flu
 ropean peace.
 For the United States to withdraw from the project, he asserted. would make the league of nations merely "a return to the system of alliances and the bal ance of power,' with a speedy recurrence of war, in which this country would cer- tainly be involved, as it was in the pres ent struggle"
 Referring to criticism of the league plan in the Senate, the former President stated his belief that it was the dutg of the President, as the prime mover i the nations treaty making power. to re
 port the eventual draft of the treaty with the former central p.WeTS WiiH iH- leagu covenant as part of the treaty itself, if in his judgment and that of the peace conference, an agreement formally terminating the war would be incomplete without it. If the President made such I
 recommendation, Mr. Taft said, he ven
 ,ured to doubt if there would be a ma iority of the members willing to assume the responsibility of decreeing that the treaty be amended by striking cut the
 constitution of. the league and com hitting the question to further discussion at Paris.
 Mir. Taft stated his opinion that the problem would have "a somewhat diffef- ent aspect for senators upon whom would be laid the blame for "postponilig peace
 DANGER OF BOLSHEVISM Though he relied upon Americas train- ing for hundreds of years in self-goF- ernment to counteract the "nard, cfue' murderous spectre of bolshevism III this country, Mir Taft asserted that TT it spreads over and destroys the existinS governments in France and England and Italy and threatens them and includes the whole of Europe in it's poisonous and contagious influence, we must not mini- nize it's dangers to our own civilization We should not ignore the profound embarrassment that we would have Tn our relations to bolshevist Europe with it's present civilization destroyed, he continued.
 .Loosed at from either selfish or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-05
Lecture in Yiddish at
 the Y. M. HI. A. Tonight

A lecture in Yiddish on 'The Socialist Governments of Europe will be given tonight by M Lunin at the rooms of the Young Mems Hebrew association, under the auspices of the Workmen Circle, SoS, of Birmingham. Mir Lunin. who has re- gently arrived from Europe, is widely known as lecturer in Yiddish and a large crowd is expected at the lecture, which will commence at o'clock.