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New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

in the authors mind. It's like having a
phony for production and having the
harmonizaton and Instrumentation
done by some routine musician. We're
teaching scenario writing in every de-
tail, so that the writer who has a film
story in mind may express it in his
own medium
The classroom work in the depart
ment of photop!ay making differs from
the old procedure in which the students
wrggled in their seats until the uni
versity bell tolled the close of the
hour. Practical film criticism is the
order of every day The instructor
reads to the class a scenario turned in
by student and the embryo cinema
composers, rs DR.. Freeburg likes to
call them, compose hymns of hate about
the technique and the ideas of the stu
dent-author, When the cinema COM
posers have chanted their canticles of
criticism, Dr.. Freeburg or Mrs. Pat
terson performs the post-mortem on the
script. Photoplay making classes are
no places for the sensitive and tempera-
mental. But the pupils of Dr. Freeburg
and of Mrs. Patterson in the three
years that they have been giving in
struction have made good and see
mario editors are eager to see the work
OF the advanced course in photoplay
composition.
Another feature of the class work
! is analytic exhibition. Such corpora
tions as Lasky, Universal and Fox
Films cooperate with Columbia by send
ing to Morningside Heights many of
their pictures especially to be run off
for the cinema composers At fire.
quent intervals the objection machine
stops and the cinema composers COM
pose little things about the reel Just
shown. Still pictures also are used to
illustrate points of composition. light
ing and emphasis.
1t is planned this summer to film one
Of the scenarios written by cinema
composer with Mr.. Gregory's grinders
officiating at the coffee machines"
That's Mr.. Gregory's academic descrip
ton Of the motion picture camera
Next fall an ambitious programme is
scheduled, with five-reel dramas and
tYo-reel comedies. Columbia has
most receptive fountain for the film
ing Of comic episodes. There won't be
anything high browed" about Column
ia's film factory.
Many good pictures are being made
o-day.' said Dr. Freeburg, but we
hink that there's room for many more.
We're trying to teach folks to pro-
duce better pictures. And if we sue
ceed the tone of the movies may be
raised, and all that, and perhaps it
won't But at least folks will find
more beauty in the movies-and they'll
have great deal more funl"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Bohemia Moves North

TIME high price of garrets has
Il driven many sculptors, art
lists and writer's from the danll
old houses of Washington Square,
Abingdon Square and other sections
of Greenwich Village to the BRIGHTER
lamped haunts of Newark, Pater-
son and Hoboken.
To be resident of Greenwich
Village is no longer the metropoli-
tan cachet of Bohemianism. Vul-
gar people who work of mornings
and are, in the village vernacular.
''in trade" have swarmed to Bohe-
mia, and the unartistic landlords,
with absolutely no erotic motifs,
have boosted rents accordingly.
Thus it is that New York has a
new Bohemia Sixty-seventh Street
West-from Central Park to Co.
lumbus Avenue-is becoming the
artistic centre of New York. 1t is
tapping over now to West Seventy
second Street and Central Park
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Street 0fRestQurunts

EoRTY-FoURTH S 7 r f E T,
y from Vanderbilt Avenue to the
Hudson, is a maddening road
to travel on an empty stomach, with
empty pockets. 1t is no place for
man with only an appetite. It has
smells when the wind blows right
which can make a gourmand out Of
a dyspeptic or dyspeptic out Of
any gourmand.
To be the champion eating street
of New York means that you must
have a lot Of restaurants on both
your sides. because the competition
is keen. A person with money needn't
go hungry on Forty or Forty
third Street, and some of the streets
downtown are studded with as
sorted restaurants.
But Forty-fourth Street is the
dining room of them all Fourteen
restaurants contribute to the atmo-
sphere of the single block between
Broadway and Sixth Avenue. The
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
M H.e = u 1-T

They bury their heads in the academic
sands and try to pretend that the
movie doesn't exist"
OF course DR.. Freeburg is confronted
almost daily with the argument that it
is next to impossible to teach photo
play writing.
"You hear that argument brought
against almost every branch of college
work." said DR.. Freeburg. "But Co
lumbia has been fairly successful in
teaching playwriting such
commercial playwrights as Sam Ship
man and Edgar Allan Woolf, both Co.
lumbia men and journalism, and
there is no reason why we should
not achieve a similar degree of sue
cess in scenario making"
However, Dr.. Freeburg wishes it un-
derstood that Columbia does not in
tend to "uplift" the films.
Il haven't any use for this uplift
stuff he explained Pm not inter
ested in the movies as an educational
factor but as an art form with a Ian
guage and a technique wholly it's own.
We're trying to impress on our stu
dents-thcre are about fifty of them
here this summer session-that the mo-
tlon picture is not intended as sun
plement to the novel or to the drama,
but tha, it is a new art which presents
problems entirely new in the field of
creative cndeavor
we want our students to turn out
better pictures" he continued mot for
any moral purpose, but because better
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

these boozeless days there were
.hree rooms in the hotel whers
meals we're served. Two have died
# water during the last month.
Yellow lighted ard pastry win.
dowed, the st. Regis restauran.
CONS up next. It is place for
young men and their girls TWO or
three days after pay day. Joe's.
No. 3 Of the eating squad, is for
the day before pay day.
The Hotel Asror is on Forty.
fourth Street, and from all accounts
food is served there. The Blue
Ribbon Cafe selected this street 10
feed people on, as dia striefer
Brothers, the Hotel St. Charles, the
Hotel Gerard, Mr.. Kean. Henri. Yet
Wah Lou, the lone Chinese mem
ber; Lucca and the Algonquin.
Delmonico's is famous gem O,
the Forty-fourth Street collection.
Before Louis Sherry gave way TO
bank his restaurant was colorful
fifty feet Of the street.
The people who eat supper be-
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

establishments vary from five cents
for cup of coffee to 25 for a demi-
tasse. Some have regular dinners
for As cents and are apologize
about it. Others have six Little Neck
clans for 50 cents and seem proud
of it.
The street is the scene of a gas
tronomic democracy. The rich and
poor eat together on it. If the pas
try in the windows of the popular
priced restaurants there were placed
end to end it would reach from indi-
gestion to dyspepsia. If all the soup
were poured into a single bowl it
it-would have to be large bowl.
On the right-hand side of the
street looking from Broadway to the
east, and thereby ignoring the
sprlnkling of backs of saloons and
other eating places from Broadway
to the Hudson, the Claridge is the
first food depot disclosed. Up to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

West, and the announcement is
made that the Hotel Majestic is to
have row of skylight studios on
its roof for the winter.
The Majestic has many celebrated
guests. Among those who winter
there are Edna Ferber, Arthur
Somers Roche, Verne Harden Por
ter, William McHarg and Edwin
Balmer, Fred c. Kelly, Burt /.
Standish, Jean Knott, Bide Dudley.
Miss Lillian Russell, Anna Fitziu,
Morgan Kingston, Nine. Yvette
Gullbert, Henry Give, Ethel Clay
ton, Pavlowa and FRITZ Scheff.
In Sixty-seventh Street is the
Cafe des Artistes. Christy lives
there, and so do many other cele-
brated wielders of the pen and
brush. There are already three CO.
operative studios for artists and
writers in the block, and another
IS rearing its crest to the clouds.
On the street live James Mont
gomery Flagg, Graham Cootes. r.
NJ. Brinkerhoff, lie Roy Ripley.
Grant Renyard, Dean Cornwall, and
a hundred or more other celebrated
artists.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

pay out" explained the proprietor
of gilded and glowing establish
ment, where you can shoot anything
from an African carnivora to a
bull's-eye. "It amt the money.
Even the clay pipes and balls don
break you nowadays, and you'd
have to fire a broadside to Law out
one of these tin ducks, but it's the
bother-that's what gets feller's
goat"
He paused and pointed dramati-
cally to a wheel with clay pipes on
its rim. ''I'd hate to say how many
times | have to put new pipes on
that thing since we opened up this
season with all the boys back from
shooting the Huns. They just take
naturally to those pipes" he said.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Taking the M0Uies TO College at
Columbia UniUeYSitv
nv %VERY man has two bust
3 y nesses," remarked Abe Pot

e.. "....... ma: :'".'... ':. '1' s'. '',' S:'
ash in one of his most sapient
moods -"hs own and the movies'
And you need not wonder greatly If
some day you see announcements Of
screen productions sponsored by Colum-
bia University Films. Inc, Nicholas
Murray Butler, president. Columbia
University has decided that movies are
something more than an agency to
lure freshmen from afternoon ses-
sions in philosophy. At Morningside
Heights the tive-reel feature stands
with calculus, Horace, Shakespeare and
Introductory biology. Columbia is
go;ng to teach the art, the manufacture
and, by no means least, the business of
the photoplay
In the official bulletin between pho
netics and physical education, are
listed six courses in photoplay max
ing. The academic nomenclature or
ders things in this manner:
'Photoplay Composition ell ElemeA-
tary course. Three points. Winter ses-
sion. Mrs. Frances Taylor Patterson
Section 3:1O-4:25 p. m. TUESDAY.
Room 500 Hamilton. Section 2-7:1O-
S25 p. m. Wednesday, Room 500 Ham.
ilton."
There are intermediate and ad
Vanced courses in scenario making and
a course in the actual screening of 4
picture. AT this time there arc no
provisions in the curriculum for film
acting and press agentry Perhaps
such courses are unnecessary. But if
the demand arises you NAV expect 10
hear about Vamping eli and Space
Grabbing e42.
columbia didn't institute these
courses because we thought it expedi
ent to uplift the photoplay or any
thing like that said DR.. Victor o.
Freeburg, who, with Mrs. Frances Tav-
lor Patterson and Carl Louis Gregory.
teaches photoplay composition and
photoplay making. There was a eenu-
inc demand from the people at large
for courses in scenario writing and in
film production. The motion picture IS
vital part of American life, and a
great university cannot ignore il or
look down on it as a subject unworthy
of its traditions. Too many schools
and colleges behave like ostriches in
the presence of the photoplay house.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

fore theatre eat at the places with
the pastry in the windows. Those
who have supper after theatre dine
at the establishments with nothing
in the windows, but some kind of
lace curtains with the name of the
restaurant woven in.
They tell Of man who started
to eat his way west to the Hudson
from Vanderbilt Avenue. It's
poor story, because the man didn't
die or get so fat that he was the
same height standing or lying He
found an attractive and reasonable
place in the middle of the block,
gave up his mission and got job
as waiter in the place and lived
happily ever after.
They also say that if a man can't
get satisfied in any of the restau-
rants on Forty-fourth Street he
should try Forty-third, or get mar
ried
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Better Shots at Conev

TIME war has brought one lesson
L at least home to Coney Island.
The boys have learned how to
shoot. Since the last halcyon days
of peace they have acquired the art
of hitting things other than the
steel that comprises the rear wall
of the shooting galleries. All the
things they studied in the training
camps about holding the rifle and
squeezing it and firing slowly have
survived the signing of the armis-
tice, survived to such an extent that
dark rumors are whispered in the
marches of Luna Park and Dream
land that the shooting galleries are
being driven out Of business bv the
craftsmanship of young America.
1T amt the money we have to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

pictures are more interesting to the
almost cosmc movie audience, and
here Dr.. Freeburg interposed most
unprofessorial grin-"becaus they're
more profitable commercially. We're
trying to teach among other matters
what the scholarly might call cine
photographic economies"
Beginners in scenario writing fail
to realize that screen play is made
in pictures and not in words
almost every one thinks in terms
of words" said DR.. Freeburg, "and our
greatest difficulty lies in inducing the
student to think out his story in terms
of pictures. A novelist derives situa-
ton from life and sets it down in
prose, but the maker of scenarios must
work out his problem as sequence Of
pictures. Most of our elementary course
of instruction is devoted to teaching
the student the language of the films
pictures. When the student has mas
tered the art Of expressing himself
pictorially he is ready to put in
scenario form subjects drawn from
life
Before students attempt original
scenarios they are required to make
adaptations of books and stage plays.
This procedure is merely to give
them ease in the handling of their
Medium remarked DR. Frceburg.
Adaptations from cXtraneous sources
aren't art. You can't rank the man
who translates a work from another
language with the original author. And
adaptation is merely translating a book
or a play into film language. The
system of asking young writer's to sub
mt their ideas IN synopsis form only
prevents the fullest expression of any
creative impulse that may have been
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

"There's one boy here who shoots
EN- off regular every evening, and
then he begins on the balls on the
fountain-and it takes a good eye
to hit them every time, believe me-
Yes, said another further down
the street, they're shooting better
now. You don't see any more
boobs. They all know how to hold
a gun. The armys raised the aver
age all right, but the bothersome
ones are the crack shots, the ones
who pulled the expert medals on
the ranges in the camps. They're
the ones who chew up the clay
steamboats, and the plaster pigeons,
and they're the ones who like to
shoot. You always see three or
four of 'em hanging around here
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

every night, and the crowd likes TO
see 'em too. They sure are hard
on the Office furniture.
"But listen,' and he leaned for
ward conidentially; "just forget
this stuff about them breaking up
the shooting galleries. Nothing
could have helped our business IN
million years like the war has. Inc
soldiers, the ones back in cts again,
all like to shoot. Some of EN- VIII
spend their last nickel here over the
counter just. to feel the grip OF one
of these guns, and father. ana
mother and sister come to see wha'
they learned over in the trepcnes.
Believe me, there's money IN t'
and what's a few pipes when trades
boomiug?" .x
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

middle of its old New York stamp
ing ground.
Diamond Dick, King Brady, Nick
Carter, Frank Merriwell and all
the rest are mere shadows of what
they once were. If any office boy
knows anything about them to-day it
is safe to say he has a turn for
archaeology. If any book is for sale
in paper cover it is pretty sure to
be a volume of Dumas or Tolstoy,
but the old kings of fiction, who have
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

name eased up peoples consciences,
and they still eat it by the hogshead.
But nobody's ever thought Of calling
that poor little dog a liberty hound
and making him popular.
"Why, even Paris is kinder to the
oachshund than New York. They
have a lot of captured ones there,
and they're proud to be seen walk
ing down the boulevard with one.
But just catch me taking one
through Central Park"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

mel stock up at the museum if he
don't get popular pretty soon,'
facetious dog expert commented.
They just don't seem to want him
around. That's all. It's too bad,
too. He's good dog, gentle, intell-
gent, faithful, and the worst of it
all is, it isn't his fault. It's those
cartoonists who kept dragging him
into the pictures with the Heinies.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Gone--Ye Dime Novel

kept more people awake in their
time than an armistice celebration,
are relegated to an upper shelf. They
have not gone away for the summer,
either. 1t has been a matter of years
since they have been moving slowly
out of town. They have gone, as
one erstwhile librarian puts it, be-
cause "no one wants EN-
All of which may be an encourage
ing sidelight on the increasing
culture of the age, but there seems
to be sounder theory The dime
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
Dachshund Passes

They're the boys who will have to
answer for breed that is fast dying
out. Why, even if you could get a
dachshund, and I'd hate to promise
you | could get one, New York
would be just plain uncongenial for
him. No dog likes sympathy more
than the dachshund, and, believe
me, he don't get it here.
"It's a funny thing, too,' he went
on, thoughtfully; they use lots of
Hun stuff over here still. Take this
liberty cabbage. Just changing its
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

novel has found substitute. Pain
full as it is to say it, the dime novel
seems to have been included and
absorbed by the galaxy of fiction
magazines that have been flooding
the market. AS a novelty they had
it over Diamond Dick, and you
didn't have to read them behind the
woodshed. Or perhaps the movies
did it. Anyway, if you want to
read about Diamond Dick you have
got to look a long way for him.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10
DACHSHUND? There ain't

A DACHSHUND? There amt
~ no such animal-at least as
far as the New York dog
fancier is concerned Other dogs
lave gone out of fashion, but a
visit to any emporium where canine
aristocracy is dispensed with is
proof that the dachshund is just
gone.
"They1l be having him put with
the dinosaur and the other old ken
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

wv HERE is the dime novel? 1t
w used to be right in the front
row of all those stationery
and news shops you find on Third
and Sixth avenues They even used
to sell them for cents. But enter
one of these stores now in search
Of the weekly adventure of your
favorite character, and you are
doomed to disappointment Painful
as it is to admit it, you are forced
to the conclusion that the dime novel
IS almost extinct, even in the very
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-16
UNION ORGANIZERS
run QUE QF LOGAN
Deny Report That They
Were Carrying Guns
When They Arrived.
(Bs Associated Press)

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. oct. 16.-
The fifty union organizers who went
into Logan county yesterday in an
attempt to uniopize coal miners OF the
Guyan Valley and who claim they
were forced to leave that region by
several hundred armed men report
ed their case today to district head
quarters of the United Mine Workers
Of America at Charleston.
Shortly before midnight the organ.
izers who left here early Wednesday
returned to Huntington and reported
that they had been stopped near Lo-
gan by armed men. The organizers
said the armed force was made up Of
company officials, county officers and
miners.
They denied assertions Of John D.,
Chafin, Logan county clerk that when
searched by deputies at Logan, rs
pistols were found on members Of the
party
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IN KITTY GORDON.

sqNTRoDUCToRY NOTE = Miss
Kitty Gordon, famous actress and film
star, never thought these letters OF
advice to her daughter, Vera Beres-
ford, would ever be published. She
wrote them out of the fullness Of her
successful life to her only child who is
now coming into lovely young life.
They are intimate, personal, world
wise perhaps, but jammed with ad-
vice that is 100 per cent. worth while.
Learning that Miss Gordon had writ
ten these letters of advice to her
daughter, The West Virgintan pre-
vailed upon Miss Gordon to permit
their publication as they are not only
unusual, vital and exceedingly inter
esting, but contain much advice thai
sYery parent and daughter can read
prontabIy. There will be six of the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-16
KItty Gordon and her daushtsr, vera esresf0rd.

is well spent. Il mean by this that
when you come to the end Of your life
many, many years from now / hope,
you can look back over 1t and say to
yourself: We'll, l certainly got lot
out of life. I'm glad to have lived.
I've been contented and-happy."
Happiness, Vera, is the biggest
thing we can get out of life. If | can
point out the way to you to get happi-
ness out Of your life I'll feel that /
have accomplished a great deal. I'm
going to tell you, in few more letters,
my advice on the way to get the most
happiness, conteptment and satisfac-
ton out of your life.
Your mother,
KITTY GORDON.
Miss Gordon's next letter to her
daughter will advise her to BE Able
to Make Your Own Living"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-16

Fairmont May Have a
Boy Scout Executive

A proposition of raising $1,000 year
over period of three years was dis
cussed at conference at the Y. NJ. c.
A. last evening between Fairmont bust
-H-e r"n and H. A. Gordon, Harris.
burg, Pa, assistant national field
.-. commissioner. Nothing definite
Las been done In the matter. The plan
would be to give Fairmont a scSu;
executive, who would assume charge
of the Boys Scout work here.
long fbose who were at the con-
ference were c. G. Denham, Walter
]. .. hartley, NJ. L. Brown, A
j. Cash and }. 7. Chalice.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-16
DO AWAY WITH
INDIIG TION
ua,v "a Purity . Sour pissrc1sod
stomach n i Few AIputss.
ID Us talk plaia Eaglisai IS g RI

Let us talk plain English ~ as cal
q spade a SPADE.
Your, food fernerts and your stoni-
ach ISN'T strong enough TO digest che
food you put into II So the food a9urs
and forms poisonous gases, and when
Il does leave your stomach ~ ~
f,rnished proper nouri shnent 10 tle
blood, andNhas left the stomach e q
filthy condition.
Take Mio-Sna stonI hen tab Is it5ou
want 10 change yojr filtf stomach
to healthy, pleant puritie ono
1f MI S-na fails - rel I've your in-
dieestiod. rid lyou a Dis lness' hilio
ness an b sic s he sdal he Yo aealei
will hterfullt rel y ~ money
IF NJ, wan = axe Your stomach
an strt6E anal Il will digest hearty
meal without tress. and yo1t want
to he without hat droWsy, 81 Tired
out feeling, tai B Ml-o-na: Il should
give YOU prom L relief For sale epy
The H-H Dru Co. and all sleadine
druggists.
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Mrs. swisher Hostess.

Mrs. George II. SWisher was hostess
last evening at her home in Wheeling
street to the members Of the Wheeler
club. a popular local social organiEa-
ton. The occasion marked the birth
day anniversary Of Mrs. c. G. Wheeler,
Of Pierpont avenue, in whose honor the
club was named and a large birthday
cake decorated with yellow candles
was the centre Of the table decora-
tions from which refreshments were
served. Following the serving OF the
refreshments a French basket col-
tanning yellow and white chrysanthe.
NUNS was presented to Mrs. Wheeler
by the members Of the club. The af-
fair was a delightful one throughout
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Gov. FIeming's Birthday

Ex-Governor A. Brooks Fleming
celebrated the eightieth or four score
anniversary of his birth yesterday at
his home in Jefferson street. The
greater portion Of this four score years
has been spent by Governor Fleming
in this city where he is known and
revered and the entire city extends