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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10
THE PROBLEM OF THE OUTSIDE
COMPETITION
L ~ NI,u4
TIC I1tIttT Thu UIU tHt TICK
NTERRIWEATHE SONS

NTEItRlWEATHER j A G X S o Ms
4N1 letter to the society women Of
Pcrryton caused quite a few comments.
cspccially as it was received the same
day as the announcement of the Easter
ly's opening.
This is the letter which did the trick {:
Dear Madam-It has always been
our aim to offer our patrons the newest
and most exclusive creations in women S
wear.
This year we expect to do even bet
ter than ever. After most painstaking
study of the fashions we have decided
to delay the usual spring opening of cX-
elusive offerings. for we do not believe
it possible to offer designs that will OK
press the best ideals of Paris and New
York at this time.
"Wc shall have special sale of
smart dresses in two weeks. A fortu
nate purchase enables us to offer some
real bargains in women's spring and
summer wear. This will be ADVERTISED
rs usual in the Clarion.
''This sale, however, must not be con
fused with our special seasons offer
ing of recherche, fashionable and cx-
clusively models which will be held pri-
yatcly in about a month s time.
"You will receive an invitation to this
| in due course and ! think we may prom
! Use you something very unusual.
every truly yours,
"Merrwcather Jackson. Mgr.
"rHE JACKSON COMPANY"
We had heard from Jim Halloran,
E., hn
that his firm would make up just one
order of specials to the design sub
mitted. but that the price would be $40
nor garment. He urged that his 'rcgu =
lar line" be used and pointed out that
! for quality they would be equal to Jack
sons specials, while the price would be
only S16.75.
However. if we insisted on the
sneciols they would let us have them
within sixteen days after receiving the
order.
That being answered. we waited the
renorts of the. three women on what
was being bought most at Eastcrly's
When the reports were received il
nroycd that Easterlys had pushed hard
on the fur trimmed goods. They had
! some Dlnln StSitS' DuI uiu an 'h's
could to push the others.
I suspected that they were anxious
to unload on the fur trimmed goods and
that was why they had pushed them
Perryton was far enough from New
York. they evidently reasoned. to b'
unaffected by changing style should fur
trimmed goods not hold sway through
the second season.
Jackson telephoncd the NJ. F, Com,
pany on the afternoon of April is ant
got their promise of delivery of thu
chcap dresses Ito cost S19) made up il
six designs and the usual range of sizes
by May 8.
! The next day he and I had glorious
tusslc as to what the selling price should
be.
!, "You certainly have great idea, Mr.
|, Flint. These new numbers will go lik,
hotcakes. So new that cverybody-tha
is everybody but the swell folks" ant
here he chuckled, ''will snap them up
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10
RED BEARD GETS STUCK

PED BEARp still wore his seventy
~ foot boots, but he had done so much
running for n fat man that he didn't
have much strength left. So instead of
chasing the Genie, Peggy, Billy aud
Balky Sam on foot. he rode one OF
the horses. lie gruntcd painfully at
every gallop. but he was bound to catch
the four fugitivcs and urged his men
on to the fullest speed
The bandits had learned by this time
that the Turks were not the ones who
had smashed up their dinner party,
SO now they. too, joined in the chase
Of Peggy, the Genie, Billy and Balky
Sam.
The Genie was very strong, but all
the running and laughing had taken
his wind, and he was soon putting like Il
locomotive.
81 can't go much farther" he gasped
Don't give up, | see town ahead
urged Billy.
True enough they were on the out
skirts of city. Directly ahead OF
them was n large building. On the
side of it they could see big sign
STICKY Flypapcr Factory" The door
stood wide open.
eve must get inside" gaspcd the
Genie. II cant run another block. -
Into the entrance they darted. slam
ming the door in the faces of the lead
ing Turks. The Genie quickly barred
it. and then they turned to see if their
place of refuge was secure.
They found themselves in large
storage room. 1t had a concrete floor
and around the sides were hundreds OF
cans and casks filed with sticky fly
paper ''stickum stuff At the oppo
site end were high windows.
Bang Bang. Bang. came thunder
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10

very silently and cautiously. trcadine
so that he should not be heard. stoopint
down that his tall figure might nCt be
tray him against the sky. he came
presently to the trees and vanished In
the darkness in their midst.
His progress was very slow, for he
had TO be careful of every step for fear
some slip should betray him, and very
often he paused and listened intenty.
or STOPPING down, and with his eyes
close TO the ground. he pcered intently
into the darkness to see if there were
anything that moved. But he saw moth =
ing. heard nothing. and so with in =
finite caution he made his way through
the night, under the trees, till he had
gone three fourths of the way through
the wood and had come to a part where
the underground was very dense and the
trees thick overhead.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10

that she was to get room in the vii.
| lage few miles distant they had come
upon during one of their long walks
and that while. she remained there he
was to return and do his best to solve
the mystery of the wood that would,
they hoped. help to solve the greater
mystery that seemed to surround so
impenetrably this house where they
were living.
She went indoors TO make her few and
simple preparations. and he found tho
clothing he had had on when first he
came to this strange place and changed
for it the we'll cut suit of good tweed
he had worn lately. Very nervous. and
wondering very much what Esmc would
think of him. he returned TO the lawn
and waited there ill she emerged from
the house in her trim cycling suit with
loose jacket and n short skirt that dis
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10

so sell it for $50. Then, as expenses are
30 per cent, which is so on $50, we have
81 garment net profit after all ex-
pcnses of every kind have been paid"
Mcrriweathcr Jackson cautiously fig
ured it out on paper and then said,
'"That's all right, yet l always rcck-
oned | made more than that | never
really understood the division of cx-
pcnsc aud profit percentage and all that
accounting stuff he said this in Il
shame faced. confidential way. Then,
II suppose We should sell those dresses
for $3.50, Mr.. Flint?"
Then ! told him something about fig
uring sale prices that was entirely new
to him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10
copvricht, 1918, bv Alfred A. Knopf, TnU.
C0pvricht bv the Public LEDGER Company
THIS STARTS THE STORY

y When his fathers death shortened
his university career, Keith Norton
took an Office job, tired Of it, shipped
on coaster, licked the captain and
deserted, and was a ragged tramp
when he reached the Solitary House
and made himself at home. He re-
receives two visitors a girl, who asks
for her sister and searches the house;
and clergyman, who calls him Mr..
Wentworth, giving him a slight clue
10 the former tenant. Searching the
house for somebody who had chokcd
him while he slept, he finds case of
Jewels and hides them. Next day he
finds the girl unconscious in the
woods and tells the doctor who at
tends her that she is his sister. The
girl has lost her memory but she
knows intuitively that Keith is not
her brother, and he tells her the
truth as far as he knows it. He
tells her there is some mysterious
unhuman thing in the woods that he
wants to find-some mystery nc
wants to solve: but. if she wants him
to. he will go right TO the police.
AND HERE IT CONTINUES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10
MOTHERS DAY

She gives all herself: her daily
Our wants to crafty, our ills to share.
DnC day year we set aside TO show
Appreciation of the debt owe.
She gives herself then greater things bcfa:
She gives up what she loves at honors call
She knows the joy of having paid the price,
For Mothers Day is of sacrifice.
Still wags the world and pleasure sometimes comes
To courage never Spurred by beat of drums.
The war is DER and every wandcrcr learns
That Mothers Day is when her boy returns
GRIF ALE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-10

The next complete novelette,. The
Compromise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Performance Of 'Dear Brutus"
For L0weU Centenary

An assembly of notables will gather
at the Empire Theatre on Friday
evening, February 81, to attend William
Gillette's performance Of Sir James NJ.
Barrie's latest comedy, "Dear Brutus."
This particular performance is incor-
,porated in the programme arranged for
the celebration of the centenary Of the
birth of James Russell Lowell. and all
the members of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, the outstanding
writers, painters, sculptors and scien-
lists of this country will be in attend
ance, and with them will come their
guests, the representatives of literature
and the arts from other lands. John
Galsworthy, the novelist and dramatist.
and Alfred Noyes, the poet, will be
there from England, and there will be
men and women of equal eminence
from France and Italy and Canada.
Barrie himself was to have been pres
ent, but he has written that it is impos-
sible for him to cross the ocean at this
time, and his letter Of regret will be
read before the curtain.
Mr. Gillette is the only actor who is
member of the Academy. The COM
mlttee that has arranged for the the
atre party includes President Butler Of
Columbia University, Augustus Thomas,
hamlin Garland, William NJ. Sloane and
Robert Underwood johnson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT OF THE STAGE
Mrs. Fiske Dem0Iishes
The Classic Theory

would put upon her part, are the fac
tors that make her succeed where the
rest of the acting profession terribly
fails. She succeeds greatly in impart-
ing something Of what Henry James
called "the emotion of the actual" By
some intensity Of imagination and
amplitude she swells far outside Of the
part, she crosses its boundary at every
point and demands attention for doing
what the stage tries however much the
theorists may try to avoid confess
ing it, everywhere to do She creates
the illusion Of reality.
She does not always do this. Some
times she rests satisfied with the delu-
sion of mere artistry, merely collabo-
rating to present a conceded figure" IS
she elaborated with Philip Moeller to
present the picture of George Sand.
She is not entirely free. sometimes de
plorably caught, in the cliche of her
system, caught as, say, an actor like
George Arliss almost always is.
1t is silly to attempt to cover up her
use of points" to hide her sometime
lack of energy. But it is energy that
she must have to force across so vital
a creation as she means to do at her
best. And there are for every artist
moments of less than the best. The
point is what her best means to be and
amounts to.
Mrs Fiske in "Mis' Nelly of Nor
leans" sounds as if she had written
the part herself. Perhaps she did
Perhaps the effect is gained only bv
the kind of heightened color which
comes of acting and knowing how to
act against background of people
who have only partly learned how to
act and are still Gin process" But be-
yond and above all of this is the stri-
dency, the hugely active and volatile
temperament, the imaginative persis-
tency which does NOS merely see but
also moves with contempt of the lines
the playwright wanted to draw around
1t. If you are classicist you will
look on all this either as a base schem-
ing ivl ChtCL VI Will SpuTn II Nigh
mindedly as entirely on the way to de-
struction of the meaning of stage pres
entation. If, on the other hand, you
hunger for an intensity of make be
lieve in the form Of the theatre that
will equal the power of the theatre to
present microcosm of human ideas.
convincing illusion to carry it's clip
teal vision of what is ideal--if you
mean to make the theatre a successful
medium of unreality under the guse
of reality, you Will find the classicist
gives you cold comfort. He means to
initiate life and to let you know he is
initiating it. Mrs. Fiske does her best
to keep you out of the secret. What
tremendous illusion a whole cast of
Mrs. Fiskes would be able to create.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Vaudeville

Sawyer in a new series
Of dances, Emma Carus in new songs.
George White and his dancing quar-
tet and Sallie Fisher in Clare Kun
mer's playlet, "The Choir Rehears-
al" are the stellar features of the
bill. The supporting bill includes
Arthur Ashley, Henry ("Squidgu-
lum'O Lewis and De Witt Burns and
Terrence.
ALHAMBRA-Adele Rowland is the
headlner. Mabel McCane in a vau-
deville revue, Frances Kennedy in
monologuc and songs, L. Wolfe Gil
bert and Anatol Friedland, song
writer's, and Wilfrcd Clarke in farce
sketch are other features Of the
bill.
ROYAL-Gus Edwards in his 1919 Re-
vuc IS the chief feature Of the bill,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Catching Molly in o.
Particularly Melting Mood

you play the opening night, and all we
gould think of was, How do you make
yourself look so fat in the second act
Is it the gown"
"Mercy, no! 1t isn't! It's the pad
ding. Why, I'm a human pin cushion.
Look" And Miss Lowe began to stick
pins all over to prove the truth of her
statement. "Underneath the gray gown
is a nice cotton figure which fits the
gown perfectly. Then underneath the
cotton is me! Oh it is a nice, cool, lit
tie arrangement, and so comfy to dance
in! fancy it will be particularly cosey
along about next June.
"Will you come and sec the show
again? | was so terrified the opening
night that they had to shove me on
when my cue came. I went through
the whole thing in a dream, and didn't
come out Of my coma until the next
Gay, when [ saw the papers.
"And they were kind to me. am
so afraid of critics. They can be so
cruel! That is what makes the sec
ond performance more difficult than
the first" And Miss Lowe looked so
young and so pathetic that then and
there we resolved never again to saw
anything more personal about player
than "She seems to have a good dis
position" or eve have heard that she
plays golf beautifully"
And then Misc Iowa Sa;1ad n hov
of chocolates and prepared to leap
onto the stage. We stepped into the
wings to get q peep at Charlie Pur-
cell, whom we have known ever since
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
By Harriette Underhill

An interviewer is not without honor
save in her own Office! Why, down
here in Nassau Street (Park Row, as
all contribs call it) the man who reads
copy, and the man who has charge
of the morgue, and the rewrte man
and the police court man, and the star
particularly the star re-
porter-all look at US scornfully when
Thursday comes and we take our pay
check and stand in line to get it cashed
before dinner, and they say iocularly,
Aren't you ashamed to take money for
that"
But outside, oh, outside it is very
different People write and ask our
opinion on all sorts of things-which
plays or pictures to see to obtain the
latest effects in gowns; whether Agnes
shall get married or go in the movies
whom we consider the handsomcst man
on the screen. And now, here is one
asking us how to get thinl
She says (of course it is she;
men just let nature take its course, in
their naive, self-sutisfed way), "Did
you see The Melting Of Molly and did
she really get thin, and how did she
do lt?' If they had asked us how to
get fat" we should have sent them
to see Some Time' and let Ed WINNIE
give them his recipe, but we cannot
honestly recommend ''The Melting Of
Molly" to women who wish to reduce.
because Molly does not succeed in her
efforts. "The only man in the world"
decides that he likes her plump But
we do earnestly recommend it for
stout men. There is a horrible livinq
example before them.
However, we strive to please, and so
we interviewed Isabelle Lowe on the
subject of getting thin. 1t was Just
before the second act, and Molly has
taken on forty pounds since the curtain
fell.
fDont ask me-" said Miss Lowe. "a
she adjusted belt around her thirty
inch waist "1'm becoming plumper by
the minute since | began to play Mollv.
You see, she has to eat so much CANDY
and cake and pastry, and Pm not in the
least averse to doing that. It's making
me so fat that really can't get into
the white gown much longer. Pm
afraid"
! "Do you know, Miss Lowe, we saw
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

which includes as we'll Ruby Norton
and Sammy Lee in new song and
dance production, condensed YER
sion of Every Good Eddie" present
ed by Milton and Sargent Aborn, and
Harry and Emma Shamrock in their
novelty Behind the Grandstand"
Others on the bill are the Four Read
ings, Ben Harvey, William Farrell
and Lady Alice's Pets.
RIVERSIDE-Edna Goodrich in a new
sketch by Edgar Allan Woolf entitled
The Mannequin" is the leading feat
ure. The Morton Family present
three acts of the bill. Others APP
pearing this week are Frank Fay,
Wallace Bradley and CRETE Ardine,
Lyons and Yosco, Felix Bernard and
Jack Duffy and Bradna and Derrie.
Ford Sisters. Henry
Lewis, Mehlinger and Meyer and Sea-
bury and Shaw are the chief attrac-
tons. The supporting bill includes
Joe Jackson, Fenton and Fields,
Travers and Douglas, Chief Caupoli-
can and Howard and Helen Savage.
LOEW'S AMERICANA. K. Emmett is
the vaudeville headliner the first part
of the week. The picture feature is
THE Romance of Happy Valley"
"All for the ladies' a musical com
edy, tops the bill the second part of
the week. The picture feature is
THE Heart of Humanity" with Doro-
thy Phillips.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

Sherri was my second lady part. 1t
was lots of fun playing it, and suppose
it must have been good, for every one
said it was. And mother came away
up from Richmond, Va, to see me make
my debut and then declared that 1
wasn't in the show. She didn't recog-
nize me. It's wise mother who
knows her own son--in q soldier show"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16

he and we were sixten and seventeen,
and there we saw brand-new DR..
Moore.
"You have new lover!" we said
with seeming irrelcvance. Miss Lowe
looked surprised, and then said, ooh,
yes; you mean Jack CagwinI Charlie
has deserted me for the Winter Gar
den and Jack has succeeded him in my
affections"
"Jack Cagwin, nothing!" we said de-
cidedly. "You can't fool us; that is
the young lieutenant who played
Madame Sherri in 'Attaboy,' and he was
so wonderful that we devoted whole
paragraph to him alone"
aren't you Madame Sheriff." we
asked as DR.. Moore left the stage so
that Molly could sing her "All Alone"
song.
yes, am; but you are the first per-
son who ever has recognized me. Pm
Jack Cagwin and Lieutenant Cagwin
and Madame Sherri."
COIL" we exclaimed brcathlessly,
"but you are the most wonderful fc-
male impersonator we ever saw. Why
don't you do it all the time? and have
you been doing it long? and what did
you do with those shoulders when you
wore that slim, green, very-much- decol-
lete gown in 'Attaboy ,"
"Once, long ago,-yes, score of
years. played little Eva. l have been
on the stage ever since, and Madame
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Special Matinees at
Greenwich Village Theatre

The opening bill of the Catherine du
Pont matinees at the Greenwich Viii
lage Theatre last Friday afternoon
comprised three Noh dances and lyric
dramas of Japan.
AT her next matinee on Tuesday,
February IS, Miss du Pont will inter
pref Tagore programme in dances.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
'sTea for Three" for
Men in Uniform Tonight

A special performance of Tea for
Three" Roi Cooper Megrue's popular
comedy, at Maxine Elliott's Theatre
will be given by Selwyn & Co. under
the auspices of the Stage Women's War
Relief tonight for soldiers, sailors and
marines who have been overseas. Sew.
eral hundred seats have been reserved
for men who were wounded and who
are now at the various hospitals in the
city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
AT the One-Week Houses

STANDARD-"F lo-Flo," last season.,
musical comedy success, takes DOS
session here.
SUPERNATURAL William Col.
lier returns to New York in "Nothn,
but Lies" with weeks engagement
at this theatre.
LOEW'S SEVENTH AVENUE--nRocl.
a-bye Baby" is next weeks attraction.
Brooklyn
MAJEsTIC-William Hodge comes
here in "a Cure for Curables."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-01
Ex-Ballot Dancer
Entertaining Soldiers

IcMans, July How Fred Ro-
manoff, former instructor in the I'M
perial Russian Ballot at Petrograd
and later with the Metropolitan
Opera Company, put one over" at
soldier entertainment in the war
zone recently, is told by j. w. Nash,
of San Francisco, a Y. NJ. c. A. Sec
retary.
Nash was putting on a soldier
show at Souilly, when an insigniti-
cant little soldier, who had been
watching rehearsals asked if he
might put on a stunt"
IF you can get by with it, yes
replied Nash. rather Curtly.
a few nights later, Romanoff,
whose right name is Charles NJ.
Snyder, born in Racine. Wisconsin,
put on a dance that took the house
by sto rm. SO much did Nash think
of the dance and the dancer that he
obtained permission for the soldier
to take up y. NJ. c. A. work. Ro-
manoff has since handled the big
water carnival at Cannos.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-01

front door, too much dazed to know
just what to say.
Desiree looked at him severely.
smith," she remarked "it is not
necessary for you to stand in here
waiting for me. Go out to your car.
Will come when | am ready"
AS the chauffeur obeyed she spoke
once more to Norah.
Il wish, Norah, that you would
not detain Smith talking to him
\when he comes to the door to an
Inounce that the car is ready for
me. 1t is not his place to come in.
He should simply deliver the mes
sage to the maid who opens the
door, then go out again."
Very well, ma'am, 1 will tell
him. the girl said meekly.
You will do nothing of the
kind!" Desiree retorted Il will
give him orders of that kind my
self"
After which she went from the
house, without so much as a back
ward glance.
Norah stood still for full minute
after the door had closed upon her
young mistress. Then she drew a
long breath.
"Whew!" she whistled softly to
herself. Whatever ails her? She
| certainly is in bad temper to-day,
all right"