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New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Lenore Uric Will Keep
Her Own and Her Roles
YuIelide Celebrations

Lenore Ulric, who gives herself for
her country in The Daughter"
at the Belasco Theater, VIII observe
both the American and the Chinese
Yuletide ceremonies this season. She
has discovered that the Chinese have
celebration which takes the place
Of our Christmas. 81 am having such
a good time with my Oriental self,
Lien Wha, that am going in for both
holidays she explained last night at
the Belasco. As she entered her dress
ing room with both arms full Of boxes
and holly, she rcsembled santa's
youngest daughter.
II can't think Of anything but
Christmas" she ~riled putting the
holly and the packages on a table q
am going to have Chinese as we'll as
q regular Christmas. At about the
time that we celebrate our holiday
the Chinese observe what they call
the change of the year 1t is sort
Of Thanksgiving Day as we'll and in
cludes several religious ceremonies
These consist in part of banquets to
each of several gods in thanksgiving
for the good things granted during
the year The EAST feast falls on
December "a and this is the one am
going to observe.
This is funny custom with even
funnier twists and peculiarities. The
feast is all can give. The Incidents
which follow will have to forcgo as
beyond me. After the feast a large
pot Of rice covered with cypress caves
is put out Of doors. Imitation ingots
of gold and silver also ase placed on
the rice 20 hold down red papers
covered with lettering meaning Long
life, honor. wealth, happiness and
health. This rice cemalns stand ing
on table in the open air until mid
night and is called the rice of the old
year. On the stroke OF IL O'Clock
it is replaced by another pot of rice
arranged in exactly the same way
( This is the rice Of the new year and is
allowed to stand for two or three days
when 4 lucky day IS chosen. on which
day the rice is removed and eaten.
"Famlcs visit one another Just as
we do and the children are allowec
much more freedom al this time of the
year. Then there is y book wnich l.
always read. 1t is called An Adleu K
the God Of Wretch hedness. The volume
gives excellent advice and teaches the
poor how TO fight against the demon
of poverty. Some read it to learr
how to remain happy and others t.
console themselves in their wretched
ness" a..
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

dream of questioning that there wa
such person as Hook In this conter-
ton we may be acting partially on thc
defensive, for the fact of the matter b.
that We started down to the Office in
tending to write some such sentence a.
John Drnkwater has fashioned faith
fully for us figures which are familia'
to every schoolboy, including not on.l
Lincoln himself. but Grant, and Loc
and Seward, and Stanton, and HOOK
We never doubted for moment tha
there was such man. In fact. W
seemed to remember having once lt
viewcd a rather dull two-volume life g.,
hm written By his s'sonln- law. Perhaps
it was somebody else. Maybe it was
Hooker. At any rate, we were saved
from error only by reading the au
thor's note in which he says in
part But perhaps it would be bet
ter to print it all, since Drinkwater
brings up several points of interest.
lie writes
In putting dramatic conception Of
Abraham Lincoln before his own Amer
lean people I may. perhaps, be allowed
TO offer one or two observati IONS.
"Of the merits or lack of them IN the
play as drama it is clearly not for IN
TO speak But | should like it to b
tist's business to compete either Wit
the historian or the biographer. The
story Of the American Civil War and
Lincoln's personal career have been
told cxhaustivsly and exactly. My
purpose has been to select from these
in such a way as TO give, it may be,
heightened significance to certain
strain in Lincoln's character and to
certain movements and tendencies in
the human mind that he led and di-
rected | have not attempted to state
everything, but to state something with
imaginative lucidity.
so that, for this artistic purpose
(and by the example Of the greatest
dramatists), l have adapted the events
Of history TO my needs; feeling Justi-
fed in shaping literal fact to the serv-
ice Of essential truth as | saw it, or IN
the invention of q fictitious character
such as Burnet Hook Precise records
are preserved in many volumes; my
hope has been to add little to the
spiritual Interpretation Of these.
In the same way, it is clear to me
that writer does most honor to MS
subject in writing as we'll as he car
of it. And he can only write as vel
as he can by using an idiom to which
he has been bred. In the very few in
stances, therefore, where phrase II
the play falls unfamiliarly on American
cars, | should like to suggest that it Is
not charged against Shakespeare. foi
example. that he did not write of Juliu.
Cesar in Roman speech. In the pres
ent instance, however, the difference!
are so trihing that they are hardl.
likely to be noticed For the rest.
can but wish that the play might serve
beyond its chief function Of interestin:
an audience in theater, to hell
American people to realize the funda
mental meaning that their greatest fig
ure has to an English mind"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
0pentngs Of tbe Coming Week

MONDAY-At
Fobess "The
include Mrgalo Gilmore Kathleen Comegys.
Tyler, Virginia Hammond Marian Lord Betty
Williams Devereaux Robert
condition existing American
famlie
AT the Plymouth Theater Hopkins present
Wednesdays and Fridays "Night Lodging by
English
Theater Nine Mimi Agua will make her
THE Whirwind,
life
Brown by MI Brown collaboration
Hazton Rose CoEhan Orrn John
Andrew Oswald York Helen Tracy John
King jacob Kgberry. Jessie
Harrington, Joseph Chief
sIanabozho
Russell
WEDNESDAYAt Thaer Godfrey Tearle will
make his York "Carnva,'
drama by c. Maheson Lang. "Carnva' is
Of the In the A E.
Oliver, Schuyler Ladd Basil West Laura
Alberta rdanm Oderin Horace Barfoot
Whrl will The lyrics of the by
Bud with by George Gershwn
The Bernard Granville James Watts
Rath Brothers, and Richards Annette Bade
Leslie Nald Gladys zeian and Grace
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

.fEWqW HERE is no place IN the world
4H like a sanatorum-for making
~ good resolutions. 1t is much
better than New Years Eve be-
cause one has more time.
During our recent sojourn in one of
these institutions We made so many
resolutions that we have forgotten all
save two-not TO say I'VE wnen we
mean 81" and not to be Aippant. This
asst was indclibly fixed in our mind be-
cause the last thing we did before 60
ing into that sanatorium was TO have
luncheon with Sam Shipman. and he
old US that we used to be Il real nice
nj before We became SO fiippant
Miss Minnie Nichols, tho white linen
nurse whose duty it was TO pat an ice
bag on our head every time we reg
istered 10i, reminded us Of lot OF
our good resolutions as soon as we be
came rational. She finished up by say
ing. Glow do you do Rachel Crothers
and how do you make bulldog?"
1t seems that that had occupied our
mind most Of the timc-that we had
20 do Rachel Crothers and that we
had to make the bulldog We explained
that Rachel Crothers was lady who
wrote clever plays and that the bull
We probably shnn't be able 90 make
the bulldog just yet, but think VIC
are strong enough 10 do" Rachel
Grothers.
The first and only time we met Miss
Crothers was at a luncheon given in
her honor by the Universal people,
who are putting out the pictures made
by the Stage Women's War Relief, of
which Miss Crothers is president. It
was strange we never had met before
fro every one we know knows Rachel
Crothcrs, but it just happened.
AS soon as she came in, however, We
because she wore a moeskin coat
and no one can possibly be austere in
Nor, all through the luncheon, could
we discover bit of intellectual snob-
bishness about Miss Crothers, al
though, of course, having luncheon
with one is quite different from getting
out on a stage and attempting to repro
,iucc satisfactorily an authors brain
children for hlm.
How did you ever come to write
a play in the first place ?" we asked
as soon as we We're seated al the table.
for when any one has done something
big We always wonder how he got the
idea or ever thought that he could do
it.
Il didn't-in the first place re-
piled Miss Crothers. Il came to New
York to be an actress and | went to
the Sargent School of Acting"
Game to New York from where ?"
we said, insisting on all the details.
From Bloomington"
'Yes -
illinois. There we're nine of US. and
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
In the Bvways, Find Them

That managers are overlooking fer
tile field Of dramatic talent when they
neglect to investigate the young Thes-
piars in the dramatic clubs OF city high
schools is the opinion of William
David. one Of the principals appearing
IN scandal" at the Thirty ninth Street
Tneater. He advocates the setting
aside of fund to be used in develop
ing the talent Of those youngsters who
possess dramatic ability to a marked
degree, but who find it impossible to
pursue such study on their own re-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Is " G " ere SAVING e
By Haywood Broun

"a is rather easier to find fault with
@e a play which you like than with
~ one watch makes no appeal at all
10 your own tastes Almost every
re who sees John Drinkwater's Lin
ON is apt to have wish that he
ilmself had written it. and therefore
lie viii be- fertile i'm offering correc-
Hons and amendments. That is our
ceiling Here 1t seems to Us, is
play which is Intelligent and interest
ng, though hardly great; d dramatic
7isce vh.lr r1ary always & beaGti-
iul picture anJ which IS profoundly
'tirrins e*er 300 o.ten And so we
would like TO change it in hundred
places In tne pubhshel version of the
play there a-e Two eAlo1iclers who speak
before the beginning Of each scene. In
'he acted vers loa his chroniciine force
has been cut in half The cut should
20 deeper. The appearance Of the
chronc.er before the curtain tends to
break the thread Of the story. for there
IS very definite current of narrative
IN abraham Lincoln even though the
scenes are superac.aily episodic Not
only is the dev.cc ot the chgouiclers in
different BAT thc verso which Mr..
Dnnkwaier ha written 80. them is
dull
Ate ca.'.ne rut both chroniclers.
We wou'a d. +smc.hIoe 10 the last act.
IL is MOI quite ~ che spirit OF the rest
oi tie play. his act. with Booth glid-
'hg IN ard out, is more in the key Of
melodrama, and the very firing OF the
g1sto' seemed 10 Us q jarring note.
We 60 not th- INK for a minute that the
amount OF knowledge about Lincoln
possessed by the average American is
o'o'ound. but the one fact which needs
10 rete..lng is that Lincoln was shot.
seems To u5 that mere sudden
530'heA.rg ol -hc stage or some such
aeyce would he more effective than
ne actual firing OF the shot. We must
aomlt that the fact Of the shooting
l'SeN seems too crude to us. And it
e0eS lalsity values. The line given
W stan on. "Now ne belongs to the
aees, Is the thing which the play
.'snt oeslres the audience to carry
""ay from the theatre, but the sound
VI the Shot jus. before il too devas-
a.ihg for the mind to be readily sus-
eepuoie to mere words.
n one or TWO reviewers have assailed
igithInA"ater because he has taken few
osrNes With history Here we are
WIN Drlnkwatcr and against the
S,''ics: Probably it would not be wise
vi, VII safe for him 20 change any fact
"nlch was common knowledge to a
sa'ee number of persons in the audi
ence; out the theory that every Ameri-
20" mas all the facts of Lincoln's life
a. a. ms nnger tips simply isn't so.
..ncoin has come TO be name to us
s sna not a very clearly defined person.
aad 'ne proof of this assertion is that
.. D. every election the speakers of the
rpsepuoiican. Democratic. Socialist and
...onlplton parties always speak of
.SshseiVes as carrying or the prin-
''PieS mrs. enunciated by Lincoln
ohe reviewer Is certain that Ameri-
san audiences viii be inclined to resent
sne Tact that Drinkwater has invented
one burnet Hook and put him in Lin
.o'h cabinet. Now, we are willing to
Eager that ii the audience is canvassed
- any particular evening it will be
spund that at least 80 per cent of this
= &sS2ae N the thsA*eS will net even
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

.Hxnw, HERE is no place in the world
IN like a sanatorium-for making
&/ good resolutions 1t is much
better than New Years Eve. be-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Walter Hann1p6leln, Actor,
Champions Shakespeare
By lshbel Ross

<sw HE WAYFARER" marks
- a B distinct development Of
u the big spectacle in this
country. in tho oplnlon Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

abrupt. and it it hinted that he so logi-
cally places the blame for the war that
it would be best for at least one na-
tion concerned if nothing was printed
until--well, after the treaty He was,
indeed, abrupt and penetrating.
Won Moltke was not the son, but
the nephew, of the "orgahizer of VIC
tory" and when the war broke out in
1914 the Kaiser made him chief of the
General Staff. 1t was he who knitted
together and organized the first 5,ooo,-
600 men that Germany flung against
Belgium and France
While the world knows that General
Won Moltke came a cropper he. at
least, Jared as we'll as a number of his
successors who also came very cropnv
croppers.
Won Moltke was the gentleman who
eliminated much of the fireworks from
the German soldiers training. The
Kaiser liked to witness bold cavalry
charges Cat mythical enemy across
level fields. 1t looked nice. But il
would have lost division or two in
real battle. So Won Moltke cut Il out.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
We Recognize Kolchak

Bolsheviki and their sympathizers
want us to believe Kolchak is the
devil incarnate; the other side as
serts just as emphatically that he is
the savior Of the Russian people,
and one Of the real great men of
our age.
Whatever Kolchak is, he is GER
tainly no self-advertiser. Day after
day the newspapers print long dis
patches about his doings; but not
word about himself, his personal
traits and peculiarities. His picture
represents a man with will, a will
above everything else. The way he
presses his thin lips together, the
keen, penetrating glance of his dark
eyes, all testify to that; and his
achievements in the course of the
last few months, when against fan
tastic odds he succeeded in creating
an empire and an army, do not tend
to deny the conclusion. His chin is
not that Of dreamer, but of doer.
By appearance he is typical aristo-
crat; and to be an aristocrat in Rus
STA to-day takes no mean amount of
personal courage.
On selling the supreme power at
Omsk last November Kolchak issued
a proclamation, in which he de-
scribed the aims of his dictatorship
as follows:
"The creation Of fit army the
conquest Of Bolshevism, the organi-
zation of right and order, so that
the people can select the government
they desire without hindrance and be
able to achieve their ideas of liberty"
With Kolchak are a great number
of officers of the former Imperial
Russian army, all men of ability and
determination. 1t is reported that
not only do the Red forces retreat
everywhere before the advance of
Kolchak's army, but that the latter
are received as liberators by the
peasants Of the Volga provinces.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
The l. W. w. Plot to End the Kansas Harvest

nands from their organization. The
officer said he got this information
from Gavcll, who is under arrest at
Hutchinson.
Jack Lemon, another organizer for
the l. w. W., who was arrested at the
same time Gavell was, is wanted in
California in connection with an l.
W. w. plot there, Aemore said Both
Lemon and Gavell were working among
the harvest hands at the time of their
arrest.
Sheriff Griffin of Belleville tele-
graphcd United States District At
torney Robertson that the Jail of that
county at Bellville was full and hun
dreds of "locusts," as the agitators
are called, were entering the town.
"The I. w. w. destructionist is going
of the farmer this year," says Fred
Robertson, United States District At
torney for Kansas. "The local county
prosecutors will be ready to handle the
minor cases and l have requested that
they keep me informed from day to
day as the harvest is carried on. At
the first sign of concerted sabotage
the government will take a hand"
The Central and Southern Kansas
fields have recently become overrun
with the agitators, the Federal official
states.
The harvest Of the big crop began
last week, and in an effort to block the
labor unrest being sown the Kansas
Attorney General Robert X. Hopkins,
has sent out letter to all the sheriffs,
county attorneys and city officials of
the state explaining how they can han
die the agitators who may be operating
in the state or who will start agitating
now that the harvesting is under way.
insufficient Jail space in Kansas
rural communities has created a prob
lem with the advent Of the agitators.
The agitators are said to be chary of
living in the towns and make their
abodes chiefly in the woods near
streams.
Farmers and municipal authorities
in Kansas need be on their guard" re-
marks "The Wichita Beacon" Cover
nor Aliens newspaper, which COM
ments as follows:
"The Agricultural Workers Union
No. 400 of the l. w. w. in recent con-
vention at Sioux City agreed to demand
70 cents an hour for harvest wages.
"'The Beacon' has received q circu-
lar issued by this branch which speaks
of the scale of so cents an hour agreed
upon BY farmers ssyings Wage scales
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
!, many years been prominent in Repub-
lican councils. He comes from PENN
sylyania.
Angeles

CENERAL FELIPE ANGELES is
~ one of the most accomplished
soldiers of Mexico, and this fact con-
tributes considerably to the anxiety
with which the Carranzistas are watch
ing developments in Northern Mexico.
That Pancho Villa pulled clever trick
when he the other dav announced that
Angeles is his candidate for President
OF Mexico is admitted even by the Bit
terest enemies of the combination, for
Angeles, besides being an excellent
military man, has what Villa has not
"a good reputation. In fact, in some
quarters surprise Is registered over
nndlng General Angeles in such doubt
1ul company. Angeles is between forty
nVe and fifty, and, like Porfirio Diaz
and Huerta, a full-blood Indian. He
Is also graduate Of the Chapultepec
Military Academy and of St. Cyr.
frances famous "West Point" Those
who know him describe him as a
thoroughly educated and polished man.
originally he supported the Constitu-
uonalists; his feud with the present
chief OF the Mexican government dates
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

I man can. Moreover, she expects 20 try
it. If her present plans mature she
will make the attempt in a two-seater
Curtiss biplane Of the land type.
She has two ambitions. One 10 to
break Captain Alcock's record; the
other to be the first woman to dy
overseas.
Should she accomplish both her de-
sires none who knows Ruth Law will
be surprised. Some months aro she
/ flew from Chicago to New York at the
srate of 103 miles an hour. She landed
at Governors Island and was con-
graduated in person by Major Gen.
eral Leonard Wood.
Later, at night, she flew over New
York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty.
spelling Liberty" in the air by means
Of specially controlled lights and
aerial acrobatics.
When the war broke out she visited
France and returned with glowing
praise for the French type Of combat
machine, which she had been allowed
to fly behind the lines. When the
United States went to war she applied
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Markievicz

COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ, member
Of Parliament, was arrested last
week in Dublin. She was taken to Cork
under escort.
She has been known as the leading
figure in the Sim Fein movement, and
this arrest adds another chapter to an
unusually exciting career.
Countess Markievicz took part in the
Dublin rebellion in 1916 and received a
life sentence to penal servitude. She
was released, but was rearrested in
! May, 1918, and informed. She was
again released early this year.
For years she has been an excep-
tional figure in Irish politics. Some
years ago she attended meeting of
disgruntled householders in Ireland
who had adopted a slogan of mo
rents!" While they were in meeting
she unexpectedly appeared and advised
tenants to refuse payment to her own
father. At that time she was unmar-
ried and known as Constance Gore
Booth. Later she married Casimir de
Markievicz.
When she went to jail some writer
said: ITO Dubliners remains the men,
ory Of a flying figure on a bicycle of
which one caught glimpses on the
streets Of the South Side, or whom one
saw at all times in the Rathmines tram
car, gesticulating, talking-usually in
French-always careless in dress, but
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
Knox

-N THE Senate Philander c. Knox
is leading the fight to divorce the
league Of nations from the peace
treaty. He believes that the peo-
rle of the United States should be
given time to think It over.
"a vote against his resolution he
deems "a vote to deny the right Of the
people calmly and fully to consider the
greatest problem put before them since
Il was determined that this Union was
one and inseparable."
Continuing:
sour President has declared the
Irish questionable political dynamite
Of the whole Anglo-Saxon race--might
properly be the subject of considera-
ton by the league. BY parity of rea-
soning it may be we'll contended that
! the negro question of the United States
might receive like consideration"
Then, too, Senator Knox believes the
league provision completely wipes out
the Monroe Doctrine as it has been
accepted and enforced for 100 years.
Senator Knox was Secretary of State
under President Roosevelt, and has for
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
McCraw

ToHN McGRAW, the waddling, gray
- mandarin of the New York Giants.
again has his team at the top of the
National League. TINS is nothing new
Tor McGraw. Since 1904 he usually
has kept the Giants about the top in
the senior major league organization,
having won half dozen pennants ard
worlds seres-but not lately.
McGraw always has invested his
baseball team with "color." Such rare
personalities as "Big jim" Thorpe. the
Sioux Indian; unique" Gonzales, the
Cuban; Mike Donlin, the slugging hit
ter: "Christy" Mathewson, bad Bill~
Dahlen, "Steamboat Al" Demarce. the
cartoonist, etc, are, or have been, men
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

Of the McGravian machine, the most
Of them developed by the silver-haired
leader.
In his younger days McGraw was a
celebrated third baseman and a first
class hitter. Like all ball players, he
eventually slowed up and took to
managing. He was given the Giants
when they were hopeless tail-enders,
but he cured them of that habit. OF
late years his team mas had remark
able luck in everything save worlds
series, which it can't seem to win.
But it never has been because McGraw
hasn't tried.
McGraw is nearing fifty now. owns
part Of his club and is one of the hest
liked or worst hated figures in sport.
There is never any middle ground in
matters McGrAyian.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22
LenOrdant

r LIEUTENANT JEAN-JULIEN LIE
IL MORDANT, the French artist who
was blinded by German bullet in the
great war, was given honorary degrees
at Yale University last week. Le-
mordant lost his sight at the Battle
of Charleroi.
When war was declared Lemordant
was thirty-seven years old, and he be-
longed, with the grade of sergeant, to
the commissary department of terri
torial regiment, post which made it
improbable that he would be sent to
the front for long time.
Ardent paciist and even anti
mllltarlst that he had been, he was so
outraged by the German aggression
that he could not bear the thought Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-22

to the grain and to bring about a gen.
eral strike of harvest workers at a
time when the work of gathering the
greatest crop in the states history is
we'll under way and when the farmers
are none too we'll supplied with labor
to reap it.
Men from Chicago headquarters of
the l. w. W., among them being "Jack"
Gavell, l. w. w. leader and one of the
editors of the revolutionary paper,
"Solidarity," have been arrested with
in the last few days and are being
held for investigation. Gavcll had in
his possession when taken into Gus
tody at Hutchinson, 1. w. w. PAM
phlets and membership cards. Arrests
have also taken place at Great Bend.
The charge is for "fomenting rcvo-
luton" In all cases the radicals in