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SO'-''NNS ~ -
+ YOU have ever been in Perry's
drug store on Park Rowland you
must have been some time in
Your life-no doubt you noticed a
rather ROBUST man OF average height.
with a full flowing white mustache
and a black skull cap, fitting about
trying TO do about seventeen Jobs
at once. If you watched this man
redc hing here and there on different
shelves for bottles OF drugs with which
20 make up prescriptions, you must
nave been impressed with the fact
mat he knew his business. Further
more, you must have come to the con-
'iusion that this white mustached man
could have obtained his knowledge OF
me location of things in general only
through long association with them.
hut no matter what your thoughts
N''" as you saw him fl order after
order for a line OF waiting customers,
You would have been surprised IL
."mebody had told YOU that he had
been in Perry's for thirty years, and
m that time had never mixed a pre-
scnptIon for his own use because he
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times caused serious Inflammation and
resulted in permanent injury to the
eye. Now it is. as easy to remove a
cinder from over the sensitive ball as
1t Is to take an obstruction from under
the lid. A tiny drop of a per cent
solution OF cocaine is applied with a
pencil to the eye and a camers hair
brush is drawn across the speck. The
patient, whose eye ordinarily would
instinctively twitch from pain, feels
nothing. An average of about five
persons a day went into the drug store
to have things got out OF their eyes.
Humorous as Well ns Serious.
This work had its humorous as we'll
as its serious angle. For instance. on
- st. Patrick's Day some xp"rs ago an
Irishman who had something in his
Eye came into the ST ore and implored
Dr. Greaven to help him. The unfor-
tunate had just come from the parade
and still wore his hi h silk hat. The
doctor told him to tab 1t off and place
it on a shelf, at the same time in
structing him to keep his good eye
on 1t.
Then the doctor set to work to re-
move the obstruction by rolling up the
lid with a match and plying a camel's
hair brush, with (which the cinder was
quickly swept out. OF course the re-
lieved Irishman was profuse with
thanks and offered to pay for the SER
vice To get rid of him the doctor
walked behind the prescription desk.
When he emerged again the Irish
man was gone, but the high tile re-
manned on the shelf. DR.. Greaven was
puzzled by this until he investigated
closer and found that while the Irish
man had left his tile he had taken the
Doctors new derby. What the doctor
said on making this discovery is not on
record, but one thing Is certain-no-
body was ever again asked to place his
hat on the shelf while having a cinder
removed from his eye.
THE next time man comes in here
with a cinder in his eye" said the doc
tor "Ill see whether he has an honest
look in the eye before l attend to him
Then I'll give him check for his hat
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The Myth of Arthur Hopkins

anything like the public for trashy
books that there used to be. l admit
you more often than not hear them
overpraise a good book or a fair one.
But the day Of the downright bad one
has gone.
Now all this can't possibly be the
fault of the public itself. II it's true
OF one art, It's true of another, that a
very considerable number of people
will follow as high as you take them.
In the long run it's up to the producer
to lay the thing on his own conscience
and hustle around to do better.
THE modern theatre gives him any
amount of resource, too. if he wants
to use it. He can do pretty nearly
what he wants to with his scenery and
his lights. and he can't I'm decency
complain of a lack of good actors"
you don't mean realistic scenery?'
"Well. ! certainly don't mean un-
realistic It's the mood of a scene that
] want. If ! were staging n ballet
where l wanted quick appeal to all
the senses at once with no one of them
overacute l would want a background
which fairly hit them in the face.
would want every contrivance of color
and design that would galvanize and
sensationalize.
Wants only Two Types.
But If wanted to put on quiet
and thoughtful scene, where I wanted
the audience to listen. l would have
the most inconspicuous background
could get. In fact, the two kinds of
settings belong to the two kinds of
plays ! would like to see in the theatre
the frankly incredible and the truth
full.
I'VE have quantities Of material in
the theatre. It's up to us To nse II
honorably, We won't need to bother
about audiences when we once get
firmly in the right track"
with no favored nations clause"
"Of course not. Isn't tho truth
about real human being virtually the
same the word over| ] ADMIT that an
American a1tn0r has rIrttlc tho worst
of it for the present. lie is not yet as
respected as he should be in his own
country. Take, for instance. The
Gentle Wife l believe it Was the
most significant play by an American
SlllAt Nv TsdSltSl W hs wv .SLASo
Wellman had nowhere near the con-
sideration for it. that a play OF equal
worth from some we'll known French
man would have had.
ION the other hand, a play Of for
eign origin, though it may be fiatterS
ingly considered is by no means sure
of success in this country. When
they fail / believe it is because they
occupy to the land they represent
about the position of ouN own thrill
crs' over here--true TO nothing in
heaven or earth.
Redemption has succeeded, I
think because Fcdya Is n human be-
ing into whose feelings We can go
freely. because We also are human
many of us-and simply forget for a
while that he is a Russian and we
are Am, ficans."
rs the suicide at the end under
standahle to non-llussian? At least
! - that way Of finding happiness; that
: Is. of course, there are plenty of men
! in Amc"!Ca Who commit suicide. . ="
"TlGre are indeed" said Mr.. Hop
kins making for the door. land they
leave happy notes behind them
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"D0C" Greaven, Busiest Druggist, Quits
Manager at Perrys, With Personal Acquaintance of
sands. Retres After Thirty Years

never thought he needed drugs to
make him feel better. Yet such is the
fact.
DR.. Dominic A. Greaven Is his name.
He has just announced his retirement
as day manager of the busiest drug
store in the world Not that he has
grown tired of compromising prescrip-
tons and handing out patent medicine
the kindly doctor considered this his
LIES workout he decided that thirty
years was enough.
Dr. Greaven will be missed from the
drug store near the Bridge. He has
been there as long as the store itself,
having moved across Frankfort street
when Perry's did from the old Sun
building at Frankfort and Nassau.
Hat ,ds 1cquS NM. ss:ss-~
As might be supposed, a man could
not labor in one place for thirty years
without picking up an extensive ac-
quaintance OF persons in all walks of
life. During his long period OF service
in Perry's he has met and served
many Mayors Of the city. Borough
TresluentS, AiueTTleii, commissioners 81
politicians. lawyers OF prominence
millionaires, laborers, and last but not
least newspaper men. Perhaps his cir
Gle OF friends was largest among the
latter. for he knew and was known by
writer's, editors. sporting page experts
and publicity throwers galore. He has
seen many work up from cub reporter
dom to prominence. He has seen
others flare up into prominence for
a time and then drop out, whittier no
one knew. The doctor had a kind
word for them all and was ever at
their disposal.
Those who had the good fortune to
know him came to depend on him, and
often sought his advice when feeling
queer. He belonged to the old school,
and was known In his profession as a
man who could not be stumped with
any sort Of O prescription. He has
broken In many bright young men
who are mixing prescriptions on their
own account all over tire country. Yet
few of the latter can equal his record
nor perhaps can any truthfully as
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told him that the other day, never
theless it's true. Michelangelo used
body water colors. at very much the
consistency of whitewash. The me-
dunn in which lie mixed them was
white of egg. 1t lasts forever, under
the conditions. l suppose n certain
type of devotee of genius would be
scandalized by vision of Mcclellan
gelo at work cracking eggs by the
gross to paint with. But he certainly
did it, or some one did it for him.
THE mural painters of his day suf-
fered terribly for the want of canvas.
Lacking it they HAD to paint directly
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BY LAWRENCE REAMER.

r T was obviously something definite
in his doings that made Arthur
= Hopkins suddenly thrust his
head above the crowd, and come,
though somewhat shyly, into the es-
tate of ".eadins figure in the theatre"
Not that 1t is a unanimous verdict.
there are those who disapprove of
him heartily, but he could fairly we'll
count on a two-thirds majority.
But just what this definite thing
was nobody could quite make out.
II he played system it was unde-
cipherable from the outside. Many
guesses were about. He was to be the
sponsor for the great American play
and all he did was to be described as
on that trail. He was to be the father
Of the mystical play, they said, and
give to the stage its fantasies and
pretty articles. Next, he was to be
the intermediary between the CONT
mental drama, young or old. and the
theatre of his own country. Then
came chronicier who slowed him
into the catalogue as always after
the unusual play"
Mr.. Hopkins contributed very littls
to these 'sizings up" II he knew that
there was a Hopkins myth" in the
making. he made no fuss about it. I'M
less producing four such plays as "A
Very Good Young Man" ''Redemp-
ton" BE Calm, Camilla" and THE
Gentle Wife" in one season could be
reckoned as a defiance to it.
The.one sensible thing to have done
in the matter does not appear to have
occurred to the reputation explainers:
namely, to go and ask Arthur Hop
kins about it. Because the greatest
common factor in the explanations was
intellectualism, perhaps. Approach
80 to 10 resnsG.sais perhaas. EveR..
It might have been. he himself did not
know. There were, in fact. many
whispers about "the Hopkins intui-
ton" for the theatre. conceding him
no more actual ideal than that.
Mysteries Vanished Quickly.
But when. finally, the obvious thing
was done and Mr.. Hopkins was ques-
toned face front in the matter the
mysteries vanished. Yes. he had a
single rule by which he chose all his
plays.
Was It that they should be Ameri-
can? No. he never cared where they
came from.
Was he partial to this or that sub
ject? Nonsense! What had that to
do with it?
Must they be comedy. tragedy. high
brow. national. mystical, or what in
Kingdom Come?
you've hit all around It," said Mr..
Hopkins, suddenly communicative,
probably out OF pity. possibly out of
patience. II ask one thing only of a
play, that 1t shall be truthful. don't
care at all who wrote It, whether it's
a first play or an American play, or
foreign. or even bad. Nothing matters
but that II shall tell the truth. The
seed must be true. Then let the fiow-
ers sprout how they please. Stage
technique, so-called, or play construc-
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Talk With Play Producer Sets at Rest
Some Odd Ideas

ton, has very little significance. II is
commonly used to trim up the paper
flowers. l am not interested in them,
no matter how well they're put into a
window or on a hat. It's only the real
ones I want.
The truthful play must always have
consideration. A play like The Woman
in Room 49, for example, doesn't de-
serve particle of consideration, be-
cause it's plainly a Justification of life,
turned and twisted and buttressed up
to seem like life"
But 1t is entertaining-isnt that
legitimate?"
No. not when it pretepds tor be life
and is actually an imposture. The
average successful play is like these
family remedies that the quacks sell
to the farmers in New England. The
farmer has a little dose of the dope
and he feels better. He doesn't suspect
his fake remedy. but that's where it
comes from. Now it may make him
feel a lot better, but he oughtn't to
have it. And the law recognizes that
he oughtn't to have it, and takes it
away from him whenever it can.
should Protect the Mind Too.
But the law doesn't go far enough
in fact. hardly even in the right di-
rection OF all. If it's legal to project a
mans body it ought to be ten times
more so to protect his mind But you
can do anything to a mind that you
want to-you can cheat 1t. and cut it
from under with frauds and deceptions,
and take from 1t even the power to
want truth when it can get it. You
can positively ravish a mind, and no
body stops you"
''Then-this is almost moral issue,
isn't 49, awe" '--@<
That's exactly what IL is. It's
morals and honor. \ producer has no
business to drug the minds and hearts
OF the people who come to see his
plays"
But something must be done about
gayety-"
There's plenty to be done. It's be-
Ing done all the time. And 1t can be
done without any abridgment what
ever of this very conviction OF mind.
While it's true that don't want falsity
masquerading as life in my theatre, |
have both arms open to sheer dramatic
impossbilities, providing they are SO
produced that nobody could confuse
them with life.
For instance, l think a Drury Lane
melodrama has great merit. Such a
thing as The Whip is fine entertain
ment, though from the point of view
of the well constructing playwright
The Whip is sheer runaway. The au-
thors of that kind of melodrama GER
tainly never expect to be believed
Anything, positively anything. is done
by them, and nobody is in the least
fooled, and everybody has a good time
Put far more important than the
Drury Lane output is the field that We
st.ll haven't como into in our theatre
the field of the imaginative play. which
is frankly not meant to be believed.
"one OF the best examples OF thai
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on the wall or ceiling where the dec
Grafton was to remain. That's why
Michelangelo. working in the Sistine
chapel. was obliged TO get up on scat
folds, lie on his back. brush away at
arms length overhead and generally
undergo torments of laborious incon-
venience. To-day we can work in
comfort in the atelier."
The canvas for the Lincoln Mem
orial Guerins is seagless. In other
words, each painting is an on one
fiawless piece of it. Mr.. Guerin says
he was lucky in securing it before the
war, as he couldn't have got it after
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kind Of thing is the Russian ballet.
There is a riot of art and artifice, with
color, music beautiful motion and a
painstaking formalization of the emo
tons. Yet who would have been any
happier if Pctroushka had really been
killed by Blackamoor actually
deadly? The ballots comment on life
in their own way, perhaps, but nobody
mistakes them for living humanity.
"In the mystical play, the fantasy
play or the artificial comedy, all OF
which we must perfect for ourselves,
we must produce them as true, not 10
life itself, but to their several forms
of playing on life. All of these things
will come into tho theatre because we
try to put them there. They won't
just sift down through the roof.
This effort must come from all OF
us at once. Authors will write truth
full plays, managers will measure them
by their truthfulness, then our actors
must play truthfully, and we must
put them into settings that help them
along Then, having arrived there. we
must get audiences. If I have any
feeling in the theatre that might be
called national It IS a desire for ma
tional taste.
II don't believe it makes the least
difference where our plays come from
or whether we write them ourselves
or go afield for them. l don't believe
the large public ever knows tho
authors name. know I've had plenty
of them come up and congratulate me
on writing the plays I have produced
didn't know the difference between
author and producer.
"An authors fame in the theatre
Is hard won. And the better he writes
his plays the less will the public be
| interested in him. No other art offers
parallel TO it, but II belongs 70 the
very nature OF the theatre that the
work itself should stand out and OBJ
sCure the workers.
Audience Ignores the Source.
an fact, l don't believe that audi
! ences particularly notice where the
scene of n play is laid or where it
comes from, or il its author is French,
! Russian, Italian or what. The life of
the author belongs in the press agent
/ department. OF course, just now, the
! American public would not want to
see a play by German author prob
/ ably, but that Is for entirely different
| reasons.
81 would not like to see that changed.
and ! don't think II could be. What
would like would be the growth of
real dramatic taste in this country, so
that we could have audiences We did
not have to be ashamed of.
THE theatre is far behind literature
drama Is still largely in the Bertha
Clay period. You can go into the
homes of cultivated people that is,
you find them with good pictures and
| good books around, and they know
music. Eut mention the theatre and
/, they're as like AS rot to tell you thpL
tho hNS' play they've eyer seen was
The Man. Who Game Back
Books of like character they
wouldn't think Of reading, There isn't
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21
VsncIeVe toms.

Miss Lille GlIdewell left Friday for
Melbourne whera she VIII assist in the
care OF her cousin, Blonche Bagley,
who is quite seriously sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Saul Gailentine, who
have been visiting their many relatives
spent Monday with friends here.
Levi Cloudy has returned home from
Camp Dodge where he received his dis
charge. He has been overseas for eight
months.
C. \. Harris pent to Des Moines
Wednesday for a few days stay on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude y. White. of
Linden, spent Wednesday, with the lat
ter's mother, Mrs. Amandy Lake.
School closed Friday With a picnic
dinner at noon and program in the
afternoon. One of the most pleasing
numbers was the May pole dance by
the small children.
Mrs. Imogene Holland will entertain
the ladies' aid society Wednesday af-
ternoo.
Mr. and Mrs. George Damien en-
tertainea 3 large company of relatives
at their home Sunday. Those present
were Mrs. Gertie Greenfield. Mrs. Jack
son Smith. of Los Angeles, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis kiilier and family. Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Damien and little daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ellen Damien, Of Laurel;
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith ana
daughters and John Damien, who has
just recently returned from overseas.
c. A. Harris SPENT Monday in Fer
guson on business.
P E. Basca was al \ Marsnalltown
Monday,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21
MARRIED At WEBSTER CITY.
Mrs. Dorothy Murty, City, Becomes
Bride OF Oysart Man.

\ marriage Of local interest that
took place AZ 3 O'clock Tuesday after
noon AZ Webster City, was That OF Mrs
Dorothy Murty. OF this city, TO II. +.
Heineman. of Dysart. Rev. MIR. Chip
perfield, pastor OF the Methodist
church. performed the ceremony ana
the bride and groom were attended BY
Mr.. and Mrs. F, II. Moier of Webster
City, as best man and matron OF hon
or. The bride wore travelling suit
with hat TO match and corsage bou-
quet of lilies Of they valley.
Following the ceremony the party
drove 10 Fort Dodge, where they en-
joyed dinner 1T the Hotel Wahkonsa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heinenan left immedi
ately for a six weeks stay in Wash
ington and California.
Mrs. Heineman is a graduate nurse
from ST. Thomas hospital in the class
OF 1915 and has since been nursing in
and near this city. Mr.. Heineman is
In the hardware business at Dysart
where the couple will make their home
upon their return from the west.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21
JOBS FO2 DISABLED MEN.
Wilson Directs Amendment to Federal
Civil Service Rule.

The local civil service commission
has been notified from Washington
that an executive order recently issued
by the president and received by cable
amends the federal civil service rules
so as to permit the sUnited States civil
service commission to waive the phys
ical requirements under certain condi-
tons in favor of men who were in
jured in the military and naval service.
The civil service regulations specify
certain physical defects which debar
from all examinations and Orner de-
fects which win debar from certain ex-
aminations. These regulations are
based upon the requirements Of the
service as established by the several
department heads.
Upon recommendation of the com
mission, after consultation with the
federal board of vocational education
and the United States employees com
pensation commission, the president Is
sued an executive order as follows:
Provided, that the commission may
in its discretion, exempt from the
physical requirements established fol
any positions disabled and honorably
discharged soldier. sailor or marine
upon the certification of the fedora
board Of vocational education that hi
had been specially trained for and has
passed practical test demonstrating
his physical ability to perform the du-
ties of the class of positions in which
employment is sought.
In submitting It's recommendation L
the president the civil service commits
sion said: Where it is apparent tt
this commission that his (the disabled
soldier, sailor or marine) physical con
dition is such that he would not ordi
| narily be accepted, the case will b'
referred to the federal board for vo
cational education That board VII
then decide whether it is practicable
to educate him for the position sought
II considered practicable, the rehabili
tation and education wiz be given ant
when xcompleted certification Of tina
fact will be made to. this commission
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21
Memorial At Green Mountain.

Sunday morbing at the Green
Mountain Congregational church the
annual Memorial Day program will be
given. Rev. H. B. Gebhart will deliver
the address. II will be preceded by a
program consisting of musical num-
bers, Comrades ny an orchestra, IN
vocation, song, Glorious Emblem OF
the Free, by male quartet, and
reading, I'VE Marched. Marched
Away" by Mrs. Henry Cober. The
address will be- followed by music,
"old Faithful by. the orchestra, song.
Where Are Tho Boys % the Old Bri-
gade?' by the quartet. and the sing
ing of America by the audience
which will then march 10 the cemetery
led by the Marshalltown high school
band.
At the cemetery. after music by the
hand. there VIII be prayer, the quar-
tet will sing, Soldier Rest" and Miss
Carol Low will read Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address after which the graves
will be decorated The sounding OF taps
by Charles Damn will close the exer-
ciseS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21
LeGrand Items.

T. P. Frost who has been in poor
health for some time, has been taken
to the Deaconess hospital for treat
ment-
c. A. Bailey. of Cedar Rapids, spent
Sunday visiting at the home OF ms
daughter, Mrs. Ward Hopkins. MIS-
Baily has been here for some time
caring for her daughter, who is sick.
Aaron Kelium, formerly OF Okla
homa. but now of Indianola, spent
Sunday visiting at the home of Rev
]. r. Wright.
A. H. Peuberton returned home from
Nevada where he had been spending
few days with his wife who is in the
sanitarium.
Miss Helen Mills, who is attending
school at Cedar Falls. spent the week
end at home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21

Aromur 4 CO.. Swift 4 Co.. Cudahy
Packing Company and other large
packers operating fleets OF heavy
trucks, are using Tungsten plugs, be-
,ause competitive tests have shown
hat they give long and efficient SER
vice. Experience has shown these
firms that II pays TO buy the best.
There is the Tungsten plug especially
adapted for your car.-Advert iscment,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21

Where the board does not consider Il
desirable to attempt the education for
the position sought other positions VIII
be considered snd suggested TO him.
but he. will not be admitted to the one
for which his physical condition con-
stltutes an irremedlab,e bar"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-21
Ruta, Raaa Seed.

We have the grand old variety of
Ruta Baga. the Improved American
Purple Top. You should plant them
about June fst if you haven't already
planted them. Marshall Implement
Company.