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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19
Law Without Teeth
Federal Officials Say There is No
Authority for Enforcing
Prohibition Law

Washington, April Illegal ad-
visers of the government agencies in
terested in liquor regulations ex-
amined statutes and executive orders
today without finding specific legal
authority by which the internal rev.
enue bureau might enforce war time
prohibition after July /.
President Wilson under the Over
man act giving him power to transfer
functions from one department. to
another, might delegate the authority
to the revenue bureau, some lawyers
declared. However, this still would
leave the bureau without adequate
funds to pay the costs of maintaining
a large federal police force unless
there is some legislation at early spe-
cial session Of congress.
Suggestions received today did not
change materially the air Of uncer-
tainty over the question Of how pro-
hibition is to be enforced after July
as caused by Internal Revenue Com
missioner Roper's announcement that
his bureau had not the authority nor
the funds to carry out the enforce
ment measures properly. Many tele-
grams received at the commissioner S
office today reflected keen interest by
individuals and organizations through
out the country in the status Of war
time prohibition.
Mr. Roper added nothing to his
statement in reply to these queries,
it was said.
>f ~, ooo,rnC to-
day discovered that an executive or
der of the president dated September
2, 1917, issued under authority OF
the Overman act. delegated TO the
revenue bureau. and the customs di-
vision, the enforcement Of the orovis-
! ion Of the food conservation act OF
August 10, 1917, which prohibited the
use of food materials in production
of whiskey and paved the way for
restriction of beer brewing.
The amendment to the agriculture
al appropriation act of November 21
1918 by which war time prohibition
effective July 1, was established. die
not become law until long after that
executive order was issued, and con-
sequently the order would not apply
| to the prohibition measure.
The act OF November 81. 1918, pro-
vided stthat after June 80, 1919, units
the conclusion of the present war
and thereafter until the termination
of Rehabilitation, the date of which
shall be determined and proclaimed
by the president of the United States
it shall be unlawful to sell for
beverage purposes any distilled spir-
its, The act also specifies
that in this time mo beer, wines or
other intoxicating malt or vinous IL
quor shall be sold for beverage pur-
poses except for export
The distinction between this act
and other war time liquor restrictions
as pointed out today by officials is
that it relates to the sale of liquor
whereas the others related to manu-
facture. Consequently it was explain
ed that the revenue bureau will not
have power to take action against IL
licit sale, but will retain its present
powers to prevent illegal production
of liquors.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

Thousands of men who entered the
fight perfect physically are now Grip
pies for life. These men will be
taught a method Of earning their liv-
ing by the government They must
begin all over again. The govern
nent merely asks you to lend your
money at a fair rate of interest to
help pay the expense. Will you hes
itate to subscribe literally to the
Victory Liberty loan?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19
Swiss Are Cautious
Will Hold Referendum on League
OF Nations

GenevaS April 1.-THE Swiss soy-
ernnlent has issued an official note
saying that owing to the extreme im-l
portance of the matter the Swiss
people will be called to decide by ref
erendum whether the Swiss confeder-
1, or shall join the league of nations.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

London, April 16.-Replyfng to a
question from John Clines. the labor
leader. whether approaches for peace
had been received from the Russian
government, Premier Lloyd George
said: eve have had no approaches
of any sort or kind None have been
put before the conference"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

London. April 16.-Pronpt meas
ures were taken by the Indian author
tiles to deal with disturbances lat
Bombay and other points recently,
resulting in, the restoration OF order
everywhere. says a Bombay dispatch,
filed Sunday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

London. April 16.-The vote Of
New Zealand soldiers has wiped out
the majority for prohibition rolled
up in that commonwealth April 11th,
according to a Christ Church dis
patch. -
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19
\ Minstrel in Germany.

Mrs. Dora T., Dennis has received
the following postcard from her son
Wm. y Smith:
Germany March p.
Dearest Mother: Am with the *
of c. Minstrel show We are enter
tanning the soldiers in Germany now
am we'll and wish YOU a happy East
er.
Write soon to your boy.
Wm. \. Smith Bugler.
No 52G44. care Entertaining De-
pot. X, OF c. Hq., Paris, France.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19
The East River Tunel
New Subway to Brooklyn Has
Been Completed

New York, April l3.--The new clark
Street tunnel under the East Riv"r.
connecting with Brooklyn. opened to-
day. The construction Of this tun-
mel. which cost seven millions. be-
gan III 1914
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

Paris, April 16.-The newspaper
Gaulois says the final agreement. on
the frontiers between Jugo- o-Slayia
and Italy will be Incorporated in the
preliminary peace treaty with Ger
many. :!
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

There was no tagging by the Amer
lean soldier in any of the drives in
France that effected victory ard ther"
should be no tagging by the people
ut home in the Victory Liberty loan
drive that is TO effect payment for
.Yictory.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

Genuine patriotism is patriotism cf
peace rs we'll rs patriotism Of war.
a true partio1 will do his best during
the Victory Liberty Loan campaign.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-04-19

The Victory Liberty Loan must De
a triumph OF peace"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
Scenes Well Played

People who take an interest IN act
ing-as distinguished from an interest
in fiction come alive-will do we'll to 90
more than once and watch, in the
scenes between Miss Clark and Frank
Mills, the extreme fineness with which
the game is played; with what in
Vulnerable delicate strokes and de-
lghtful variety Of suggestion they play
into each others hands, and how they
"break up" look exactly as an actor
in a speaking part breaks up a line.
Scene for scene Mr.. Mills carries the
greater handicap in having more of the
heavy solids TO handle, such "a the
moments when il is necessary to con-
vey, "Wait, I have an ideal" and Miss
Clark, as the feminine equation, has
fewer Of the plans and more of the i'm
pulses, these being, OF course, much
the lighter weights to handle without
words. But, then, it is she who has TO
SUPPLY the sustained vitality Of the
picture, and it is really amazing how
anything so small can have such comic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06

force. This is as fresh and vigorous
and sustained in her as the desire to
play is in a child, but she has curbcd
and disciplined it into the most sensi-
tive machinery, and it is her running of
this machinery which enables her to
slip US" all the things she knows about
living and about acting without ever
once appearing other than just cum
ming little thing. Till Lets Elope!"
comes along with its plot, so many OF
US can tell by the light of brilliant
plot that we have seen a brilliant per-
formance.
After making this point we were
about to begin our real article on
Marguerite Clark and the special thing
she stood for in pictures. But we find
that Lets Elope." has got out of us
rather more than the paragraph with
which we had intended to compliment
and dismiss it. Such a paragraph was
to have been only steppng-stone
toward the attempt TO express that
special personality OF hers, with which
even Lets Elope." does not present
us, that quality suggesting the passage
of enchantment, of the princess, the
beggar maid and the happy hour. No
realistic or worldly play can capture
for us so much as the littlest feather
from its wing and it is so hard to find
a name for that we cannot attempt even
tc look for one after Lets Elope!" has
stolen so much of our space. Besides,
while we were still determined to have
its name so that we could ask for 1t
next time somebody whispered to us
to remember that other people don't
want fairy tales. It wasn't necessarily
a fairy tale we meant to ask for. Yet
if other people are as bad as that, may
God help them! But why should we?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
Young Actress Comes
Into Her Otcn

Marie Goff, who made an immediate
success in the leading feminine role in
AT 9:45," the new mystery play by
Owen Davis, at the Playhouse, is de-
scribed as a theatrical find"
Miss Golf, hitherto unknown, over
right won for herself an enviable repu-
tation in Never Too Late new play
which William A. Brady presented in
Chicago some months back. The play
was a failure and closed in week, but
Miss COTS reception in Chicago was
such that she not only thoroughly es-
tablished herself as a young actress OF
unusual attainments but was immedi-
ately reengaged by Mr.. Brady. Her
performance at the Playhouse fully
justified that producers faith in the
ability of this new and charming addi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
Dramatist Explains His
Purpose in Writing
Play around Lincoln

This is the preface written by Mr..
John Drinkwater to his play "Abra-
ham Lincoln" for the English edition,
published by Sidgwick & Jackson, and
which will also appear in the Ameri-
can edition. to be published by the
Houghton Mifflin Company:
in using for purposes Of drama q
personality Of so wide and recent q
fame as that of Abraham Lincoln /
feel that one or two observations are
due to my readers and critics.
First, my purpose is not that Of the
historical presentation Of my hero has
been faithfully made in many vol
umes, notably in England by Lord
Charnwood in a monograph that gives
a mastery analysis of Lincoln's career
and character and is, it seems to me,
a model of what the historians work
should be. To this book I am CRATE
fully indebted for the material of my
play. But while I have, / hope, done
nothing to traverse history, | have
freely telescoped its events and i'm
posed invention upon its movements
in such ways as needed to shape the
dramatic significance of my subject.
Second, my purpose is, again, that
of the dramatist, not that of the po-
litical philosopher. The issue Of seces-
sion was a very intricate one, upon
which high and generous opinions may
be in conflict. but that may happen
to have or lack personal sympathy with
Lincoln's policy and judgment in this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
His Work Is Play
To John L. Golden

the office haunts him. AS for other
diversions. he cares less than nothing
about playing with the smiling mil
lionaires whose pictures hang on his
walls. On the contrary his idea of a
pleasant evening is listening to music
or carrying food to some poor must
clan.
We wished that Mr.. Golden had not
been in such rush. We would have
liked to have him tell us how to be
successful. What with prohibition and
everything table d'hote is not the thing
it once was. On the other hand the
daily problem of deciding whether we
can have steak or fried egg is be-
ginning to get on our nerves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
By Katharine Wright

rv.r since we heard that John L.
co,den began life as bricklayer we
have msrvelled at the instinct for sue
...s which has guided him straight TO
The TOP Of his present profession as
theatrical manager. We have had one
eye on him for some time There Is
.omething romantic about all self-made
men, and It Is not every day laoorer
.ho can compose music which Frltz
Krsisler plays and Frances Aida sings
and everybody knows. Then we have
x.tched Mr.. Golden at work on several
OCCASIONS. Once we saw him at try-out
Of "Lightnin." which has had the 8. r.
O. sign out at every performance since
II began last August, sitting unostenta-
tiously in q back seat, with one keen
brown eve on the audience and the
other riveted on the stage. Then on a
hot summer night We saw him direct
rehearsal, with his shirt sleeves rolled
I'D and his brain moving 100 per cent
faster than any Of the actors on the
stage. Finally, we saw him supe in
courtroom scene. with the same con-
centration, the same intensity that he
nut into the orders he gave at the re-
hearsal.
All this made us want to meet him.
Besides, in these days of uncertainties,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
':Let's Elope" Challenges
Art of Marguerite Clark

the gathering together of her whole
bright armament Of witchery, leading
US on from reel to reel in the belief
that surely this time all that gay grace
and lightness, all that joyous sugges-
ton of a child's simplicity and daring
and impish, unpredictable naughtiness,
all that varied elegance of arch and
significant movement-that this time
it simply must be leading up to some
thing. Only to discover that there
was nothing in the picture for it to
lead TO. Pictures which, at the start,
promise to be ideally her own, prove
far too willing to fall back upon the
circumstance that it is she who is play
ing them and let it go at that. Take
"Three Men and a Girl"-its fairytale
quality. the deliciously fantastic farce
Of its beginning and its romantic wood
land grace. Here had been got to-
gether every quality which should have
made a perfect medium for this par
ticular star, and then, as If in getting
them together it had done its duty,
the picture lay down in the midst of
them and went to sleep. Leaving the
star, with that bright armament OF
hers, nothing to aim at.
The result of this sort of thing is
that some of us have been taking Miss
Clark. as an artist, rather too easily.
People capable OF talking about "merc
charm" are capable of believing that
her effects flower merely by the grace
of God: we are all too prone to take
for granted that she charms us as a
vine dances or a baby looks wise. II
takes q sharp gathering into direct aim
and definite form of all those Grant
looks and dancing motions TO warn us
what an actress she is. after all; how
adroit. how expert a comedienne; how
much sophistication, in the pest sense
of the word, she carries within that
volatile little head. Lets Elope."
picture in which this time there is
something to aim at and which does
have a destination at which It actually
arrives provides us none too soon with
this instruction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06

ticn to the ranks Of young leading
women.
Born in San Francisco and a gradu-
ate Of the University of California,
Miss COTS theatrical experience has
been limited to season in stock and
a tour with a road company in New
York success. She first appeared in the
Alcazar Stock Company in San Fran
cisco, and after playing there for .
summer came to New York, where she
was engaged to play the ingenue lead
in "The Thirteenth Chair" on tour.
Now she has come into her own.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
Coming Productions
Bronx Park

The motordrome, witching waves and
the Ferris wheel. new additions to the
Bronx Amusement Park, East Nth
Street. have been welcomed by many
yisltors. "shimmyland" Is in it's third
week Of popularity. New songs and
dances have been interpolsted. BY far
the most popular attraction Is the large
salt water pool At the park, while
thousands are taking advantage Of surf
bathing. Among other anusements
are the scenic railways, House Of
Mirth. Venetian Canal. Whirlpool.
Whip and Captive Asropisnss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
NEWS AND NOTES OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS

matter Is nothing. Ny concern Is with
the profoundly dramatic interest Of
his character and with inspiring
example of q man who handled war
nobly and with imagination.
FINALLY, I am an Englishman, and
not citizen of the great country that
gave Lincoln birth. l have, therefore,
written as an Englishman, making no
attempt to achieve a local color' of
which have no experience, or to speak
in an idiom to which have not been
bred. To have done otherwise, as l
am sure any American friends that
this play may have the good fortune
to make will allow, would have been
to treat a great subject with levity.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06
By Virginia Tracy

IT isn't, after all, mere villany which
makes picture producers prefer to use
successful plays rather than stories
written for the screen. 1t isn't even
that advertising value of which we hear
so much. It's "the light, portable steel
frame" within a play that has stood
fire and which they may fall back upon
when all the story's Incidental graces
have been stripped away.
They may be, they probably are, cor
rupting pictures into imitation plays,
but perhaps it is better, on the whole,
COR a picture to be an imitation play
than an imitation road that ends in
swamp. Any but the best synopsis,
any but the most dramatically con-
ceived novel, promises you by the as
sured ease of its pleasant, circuitous
CAT that it knows where il is going
and then collapses into the swamp as
it suddenly discovers that it has no
PLACE in particular to go. No wonder
the producers like to feel that they
have got hold Of something which has
already proved it can stand up to the
en1.
These profound reflections were
aroused in us by our enjoyment of
Lets Elope.' For Lets Elope!" is
Fred Jackson's play, "The Naughty
Wife" which the Famous Players has
had dramatzed for Marguerite Clark
and which has arrived upon the
screens of our neighborhood hard upon
our last weeks admiration of THE
Third Degree" Never having seen THE
Naughty Wife" we do not know how
naughty she may have been under that
title. but Lets Elope.' is as innocent
as a frisky lamb, and as engaging.
A poor little lady tries to make her
neglectful anthor-husband jealous by
running off with a young gentleman
who doesn't wish to be compromised,
the husband sees through the scheme
and goes amiably along to chaperon
the elopement, so that in the end 1t
Is he ard his wife who elope from the
mares nest they have created. II this
seems to offer all sorts of chances for
what ia delicately called "spice" no
advantage has been taken OF the o.
fer The story is told for its pure alb
surdity with a sort of friendly GRIM
ace as 10 human vagaries and predica-
ments; point follows point and situa-
ton tumbles upon situation with the
liveliest spirit and fun and with that
wit OF form and sequence which makes
so lust a substitute for the wit oil
words. In fact, LETS Elope' offers
no sort of soft snap TO the critic. Cast,
scenario, production. direction, they
are all exactly what they ought to De-
Miss Clark's Acting
But Lets Elope" is a godsend from
a more special point of view. 1t real
ly extends a challenge TO Miss Clark
as an actress instead of lying back on
her personality and thus giving her
personality no chance to exert itseif
effectually. She is one of those per
sons whose presence always creates the
impression that enchantment IS about
TO come into its own. From her iirst
entrance something suggests that she
is the princess Of some happy hour
particularly when she enters as the
beggar maitland that II we stand by
we shall stir to the pulse OF some SIN
gularly vivid and delicate adventure
before the princess passes. Miss Clark
il the last person 70 allow US TO re-
inquish such hope. How often nave
we not watched her decciving us by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-06

Getting a regular man almost consti-
ties an adventure. Mr. Golden is all
that. He hasn't the modern disap-
caring chin, but the good oldfash-
ioned square jaw Of determination. He
$50 has the restless energy, the surg
e force that spells success.
Vow, terrible tales of tumultuous
-mperament had filtered through TO
&C outside world, and after breathing
% atmosphere for FIVE minutes it Is
lain TO be seen that Mr.. Golden's Of
ice is no. restful place. Frank, the
flee boy. who does not call it day
Mess he has been fired at least six
lines, hovers in tremulous silence at
ne outer gate of the inner shrine. An
other member of the staff would think
ro:hlng Of telescoping any one who
aappened to impede his progress in
answering a summons from one OF four
,uzzers that ornament the desk Of The
III Highest.
Afraid can't do anything for you
his morning." said Mr.. Golden, look
ng up for a moment from his desk,
when we had been ushered into The
Presence. won't you come back this
afternoon or tomorrow
But it will be the same story this
afternoon. or tomorrow. We answered
With a determination 10 impose our will
nat shocked frightened stenographer
at Mr.. Golden's elbow.
Alright, alright. Sit down." grum-
bied the manager.
We did, but on the edge Of the chair,
80 that we had the appearance of one
on the wing. In exactly the space OF
time that it took 10 smoke one Gig
arctic, Mr. Golden said more than
most people do in an hour. 1t seems
hat his faith in rural drama is based
on the fact that most successful men
came from the provinces. Also he has
profound dislike for what he calls
"smutty" plays, and he wants the pub
lie 70 know that he never intends TO
produce one. This determination. he
says is based on cupidity as we'll az
taste, for everyone can 60 70 see
play about home and mother. In other
words Mr.. Golden has a use for that
portion Of income set aside by maiden
sonts and sweet girl graduates labelled
ADJUSTMENTS" as well as for the care
less dollars Of the worldly vice.
Mr.. Golden thinks that no manager
can ever be famous, because he is not
personally before the public. He even
minated that IL Mr.. Belasco were 20
drop IN Unexpectedly at an average
Harlem fat his incognito would hold
good. On the other hand this would
not BE- true Of George 81. Cohan, who
writes shows and plays In them. Hence
the reward for Mr.. Golden's labors lies
In the fun he gets out Of his work and
in his financial success, and according
70 him. success In. America IL measured
only in terms Of dollars and cents.
We were suitably impressed with the
Information that Mr. Golden no longer
works for his living. but that his work
70 his hobby. Even on the golf course
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1919-11-29
s~pisS 7cS GET Yo5ss7

Inst short time ago big Chicago
mail order house called its stockholders
together and declared a special dIVl-
dend of 20 per cent. That was IN al
dition TO one regular dividend ALREADY
paid this year, and TO another mat VIII
be declared in January.
Whe we read il, and knowing as
we do that dozens of people III Able
Vile and vicinity send trler money 10
t1at concern for the same gods they
can get lust as low-pr-ccd here at nome,
we wondered if any of them read the
same thing and realized that ther help
ed to paw that extra dividend. We also
wondered if they realized that when
those stockholders in the mail-ord'r
house want anything TO wear or eat;
when they get carpenter or repair WORK
when they want medical or legal ald
they get it in Chicago, and not ont IN
the towns from whence their money
comes.
Your home merchant isn't paying
himself anv especial dividcnd' of p
rcr cent. But even if he does il look
better tous, because he spends IT righ
here at home and all Of us get SOM
enefit from it. Not only that, bu
home merchant helps to keep ~
, streets and sidewalks, helps t
port the school and churches an
.igging into his pocket every tim
tv makes a call. On the Othe
the Chicago mail-order men ia
money, make a big profit or the
not declare dividends of 20 pc
nd you never reap one penn
~