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New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
By Haywood Broun

II would male an interesting study Of
rsaywriting psychology is somebody
should investigate the reasons why
plays of similar mood always come to
the American stage in herds OF three
or more. OF course, it is easy enough
10 account for the fact that a number
of dramatists have turned their atten-
'ion this season to the problems Of the
returned soldier, as that is topic up
permost in the public mind Nor is
there anything mysterious IN the
promise of plays on Bolshevism But
we are at loss to account for the
fact that three of the first four plays
of the new season arc murder mystery
nelodramas
"The Thirteenth Chair was so sue
cessful when produced here in 1916
hat everybody looked for a number of
imilar plays on the same genera! lines
AS matter of fact only one reached
New York and that was an indifferent
success. "The Blue PEARL followed the
WELLER drama rather closely in form
but the playwright made the mistake
Of having his mystery hinge on theft
instead of murder, and nobody, least of
all New Yorker under the Hylan ad-
ministration, is likely to get excited
over mere burglary
Now, after lapse OF more than
"cason, come three plays, all of which
now the influence of "The Thirteenth
Chair Each contributes certain vari-
;sions. In fact the actual basis of "A
Voice in the Dark" is quite different
and its resemblance is only incidental.
Ralph E. Dyar's play is, therefore, the
lAost original Of the three new mystery
dramas. We are not sure it IS the best
entertainment. "Thc Crimson Alibi'
Seemed to US little brisker and more
interesting, although its material is
familiar except for one slight quirk in
method by which the guessers are
thrown off the track in their search for
the guilty person. Dyar's idea is to
show the same happening from different
points of view. Thus in "A Voice in
the Dark" we have scene played as it
came to the senses of q deaf woman,
and then the same scene with the miss
ing words and sounds supplied Later
we have scene, though not the same
one, played as it would appear to a
blind man. All this is decidedly in
eenious and rather fascinating, but
+0s q
which Dyar and Willard Mack, who
aided in the production, have not quite
solved. They have not been able to
get away from certain loss Of interest
which occurs in the repetition of any
scene even when the point of view is
different.
Moreover, they are working under a
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
John COrt announces
NeW Plays for Season,

No less than eleven companies will
fly the banner of John Cort next sea-
son, but Of all his stars and attractions
the greatest interest centres in Nine.
Mimi Augulia, the noted Italian actress
who, under his direction, will make
her first appearance in English For
three years past this artistic has been
studying English in preparation for
her debut in New York, and Mr.. Cort's
opinion is that she is now thoroughly
proficient in the language. Mr. Cort
will introduce Nine. Augulia to Broad
way in October in a play especially
adapted to her talents. Among other
activities announced yesterday by Mr..
Cort are the following:
The successor to Listen Lester"
which has been running at the Knicker-
booker since December, will be an
other musical comedy, "Just Minute"
by the same authors-Harry L. Cort,
George L. Stoddard and Harold Orlob.
Just Minute" will be given a pre-
liminary tour out of town, opening in
Atlantic City, August %. The COM
pany so far engaged includes Louise
Groody, Hal Skelley, Wellington Cross,
Billy Clark, Harry Kelly, Merle Hart
we'll and NORM sisters.
Listen Lester" is scheduled to close
it's run at the Knickerbocker on Friday
night, August 90. 1t will open at the
Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Sunday, Au-
gust 81, for an indefinite engagement.
In addition to the New York company
OF Listen Lester" there will be two
others touring the country.
Another musical show will be "Roly
Boly Eyes," book by Edgar Allan Woolf
and music by Eddie Brown and Louis
Grnenberg. Eddie Leonard will be
featured in this play, and among others
IN the cast are May Boley, Mark Smith.
Eddie Mazer and Queenie Smith. "Roly
Boly Eyes" will open its season in Bal
timore Or September s.
"A FOOLS Game" comedy drama bv
Crane Wilbur. was given spring try
out on the Pacific Coast. Maudc Fealy
Will be seen in this play.
On August ID the Cort Theatre will
open with Mark Swans new farce. "A
Regular Fellow" On September 90
'Three's a Crowd" by Earl Dcrr Big
gers and Christopher Morley, in which
May Vokes will have the leading femi-
nine comedy role, will be brought to
this theatre.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
The Sudden Flood of
Mysterious Murder Pluvs

handicap which must Increase with .he
growing vogue of the movies. No nor-
/ SON who has observed the ease with
"h!ch the picture playwright can flash
you from one scene TO another is going
to be quite content with tho slower
changes OF the stage when It makes an
effort, in the twinkling of an eve. to
switch its audience from a lawyers
office to bit of woodland and then
back 70 q lawyers Office. Even the
best regulated ropes crcak
In one respect Owen Davis. tho
author Of 'At Nine Forty -Fivc.v has
easily surpassed both his competitors.
He has been able to combine exposition
and. action IN an exceedingly brisk and
effective opening. He begins with a
big head start over his rivals. hut his
play is not able to hold the pace and
interest; ours at any rate, begins to
slacken when first one, then another.
and finally still a third person con-
tesscs that he is the murderer. This
seems too palpablc u device to puzzle
the audience
The Crimson Alibi" diverts suspi-
clon very neatly and further kecps up
the interest by one or two we'll devised
scenes of melodramatic tension which
are not directly dependent on the mys-
terry element of the play. There is, for
instance, clevcrly devised scene in
which the detectives come all the wav
down three flights of stairs while the
audience waits with bated breath, or
thereabouts. for the crooks concealed
at the bottom to open fire. On the
other hand, the dialogue of the Broad
hurst play is almost invariably stilted
and the comic relief forced in the cx
! treme. In its comedy scenes "A Voice
in the Dark" stands at the top.
Any rating Of the three plays is diff
cult, but our selection would place
them in the following order: "The
Crimson Alibi," "a Voice in the Dark"
'At Nine Forty-Fve."
We said in our review of "The Grim
son Alibi" that the audience was un-
fairly deceived because the hand which
was shown in the murder scene did not
wear Il rubber glove, although much
stress was laid upon this particular
fact later on. A number of readers
have written in to say that we do no.
know what we are talking about, and so
we undoubtedly should score our OBJ
servation as an error.
All three of the murder mystery men
have agreed in one device. In each
play the murdered man (in one he is
only badly wounded) is such COM
plete rascal that there are no regrets.
This serves to produce a happy ending,
for in each play the murderer is as
surcd that no jury in the world will
convict him.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
IMorOsco Offers
An Opportunity To
BE Made Famous

Oliver Morosco is seeking another
Laurettc Taylor, and he must find her
within the next seven days among the
unknown young actresses of our stage.
This fact was disc loscd Yesterday when
the producer sent out an "S o S" to
the various theatrical centres for. a
young actress capable of playing a role
quite similar to and fully as important
as that created by Laurctte Taylor in
the famous comedy success, "Peg O. Ny
Heart" which few seasons back set a
and in every important city in America.
The role which Mr. Morosco is so
anxious to fill and for which he is seek
ing young woman of Miss Taylor's
personality and accomplishments is the
leading feminine role in "Seven Miles
to Arden" Anna Nichols's s dramatiza-
tion of Ruth Sawyer's popular novel of
the same name which is scheduled to
be the opening attraction of the recon-
structed and greatly enlarged Little
Theatre, which Mr.. Morosco recently
leased from Winthrop Ames for a long
term of years.
The principal role of the new piece
which Mr.. Morosco is trying to fill is
that of Patsy O'Connell, erstwhle in
genue of the Irish players. In its pos
sibilities and Importance it is star
part. 1t has much in common with
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

French, blue-eyed and radiantly
blonde, fell into line last night as the
third one from the end on the left 1t
that Mr.. Ziegfeld made at the Broad
way Theatre the other night. He saw
Miss French, and in two swishes of a
fountain pen she had sworn allegiance
tc the Ziegfeld ranks as a Especial
girl" rcnouncing one-picce bathing
suits and movie career forever.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT OF THE STAGE

the character of Peg as created by
Miss Taylor, and requires the services
of an actress of quite the same per-
sonality and ability.
1t may be remembered that after the
success OF Miss Taylor IN "Peg O. Ny
Heart" when this manager decided to
send out six companies Of the play he
found himself in quite as difficult Il
situation as he is -day--only six
times worse-in procuring young ac-
tresses to play Miss Taylor's part. i
was only through the medium of wide
publicity in openly Offering an oppor-
tunlty to young women, whether or not
they were known to the theatre going
public, that he succeeded in filling
these parts. Every one of these young
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
CobErns Returning
To "The Better 'OLe''

After their holiday motor trip Mr..
and Mrs Coburn will resume their
roles in "The Better 'Ole" at the Booth
Theatre tomorrow. De Wolf Hop
per, who has been playing the part
of Old Bill during Mr.. and Mrs. Co.
burns absence, terminated his fort
nights engagement at the Booth last
night.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
From Beach to Roof
In One Leap

Flo Ziegfeld, with his hawklike eye
for beauty, has made prey of Mack
Sennett's Bathing Beauties at Mosss
Broadway Theatre, having swooped
down on the flock and seized blue
ribbon winner in the person of Miss
Edna French, who had been with the
Sennett forces for Two years. Miss
New-York tribune., 1919-08-03

women has since DEVELOPED into .,
actress Of prominence, and Nj,
Morosco now hopes that he will aga;,
be as fortunate.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

and son attended church in Wenat-
chez Sunday morning.
Mrs. Ward McCumby and son spent
the weekend with her parents at
Cashmere.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boston and daughter
Blanche were in Leavenworth Sat
urday.
Bige Patrick arrived home the last
of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Wingate and
friends from Cashmere spent Sunday
at Lake Wenatchee.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Stage and Mrs
Leonard Harvey were Leavenworth
visitors Saturday.
Mrs. Luttrell and Mrs. Maud Starks
drove to Cashmere Sunday evening to
see the photo play mickey"
Mr.. and Mrs. Hendricks and daugh-
ters were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Logue at Sunday dinner.
Miss Grace Lanphere drove to We
natchee Monday
Mrs. Gossman was in Wenatchee
on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack and aunt of We
natcheee spent Sunday at the Patrick
ranch.
Mrs. H. H. Kelly was Leaven-
worth Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bruyette enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. Bigelow at din
ner Monday evening.
Miss Ellen Ryan spent the weekend
with her parents.
Bert Luttrell returned Sunday from
business trip to Spokane.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. NJ. Jones were in
Cashmere Tuesday.
Miss Duncanson and friend of
Cashmere Tuesday.
]. A. Warman was in Wenatchee
Tuesday.
Bert Luttrell made business trip
to Brewster Wednesday and Thurs
day.
The Ladies Aid held its regular
meeting at Grange Hall Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Tom Foster is indisposed this
week.
Master Clarence Taylor, while chop
ping wood with an extremely sharp
ak was so unfortunate as to almost
cut his thumb off. Frank Shell
rushed him to Leavenworth in record
time (nine minutees) and in this way
his thumb was saved.
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COMING TO WENATCHEE
DOCTOR
MELLENTHIN g. co.
SPECIALISTS
DO NOT USE SURGERY
Will Be at ELMAN HOTEL
Friday and Saturday, June 1914
Office Hours 10 a. m. to p. m.
DO NOT USE SURGERY
TWO DAYS ONLY
No Charge for Examination

The doctor in charge, on account of
| having been in the United States ar
my service, has not been able to visit
| the different cities for the past seven
months, but from now on will again
make his regular calls. He is a grad
uate in medicine and surgery, and is
licensed by the State of Washington.
He visits professionally the more i'm
portant towns and cities and offers to
all who call on this trip, consultation
and examination free, except the eX-
pense of treatment when desired
According to his method of treat
ment he does not operate for chronic
appendicitis, gall stones ulcers of
stomach, tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit many wonderful
results in diseases of the stomach,
liver, bowels, blood, skin,nerves, heart,
kidneys, bladder, bedwetting, catarrh,
weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg
ulcers and rectal ailments.
If you have been ailing for any
length of time and do not get any
better, do not fail to call, as improper
measures rather than disease are Of
ten the cause of your long standing
trouble.
Remember above date, that exam
ination on this trip will be free, and
that his treatment is different.
Address: 1886 Boston Block, Mime
apolis, MINI. ma23jun6
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PROGRAM OF REPUBLICAN CON
GRESS

Whatever one may think of the ac-
ton of the republican compassionate
in seeking to commit their party to
opposition to the league of nations
there must be instant admiration for
the legislative program just mapped
out by the house steering committee.
This is the program:
Repeal of the "semi-luxury" taxes
which went into effect the first of
this month.
Railroad legislation.
Determination of a Shipping policy.
Passage of the federal woman suf-
frage amendment.
Reduction of government expense.
Tariff changes.
Benefits to returned soldiers.
A budget system.
The mere listing of these sensible,
constructive proposals is like a breath
of fresh air in the quarrelSome,, in
effective council chambers hitherto
bossed by the democrats. All of these
things are what the horse sense of the
country wants to see accomplished.
The "semi-luxury" taxes are among
the largest minor nuisances yet de-
vised by Kitchin and his southern tax
bunglers.
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BIG PICTURE AT SCENIC

Manager Barclay announces Charley
Chaplin in Dogs Life" as the at
traction for the Scenic next Monday
and Tuesday evenings. This is called
a million dollar production and is
said to be Charley's best play. In
this production the Incompatible
Chaplin has turned himself loose
among an aggregation of desperadoes
that would have given the shivers to
the notorious ]. James himself. And
he goes in single-handed without gun
or knife, trusting his safety to his
own cleverness and the dubious pro-
lection of a spineless mongrel.
From the moment Chaplin enters
the place until he finally departs, it
is a continuous riot of fun. How he
and the dog escape with their lives is
a mystery only the film itself can
solve.
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PESHASTIN

Mr.. Carrel and daughter Elva were
in Wenatchee Friday.
Juna Smith finished her school yeal
at Chelan and returned to her home
the last of the week.
Twelve members of the P. L. F
Club attended its regular meeting
Friday with Mrs. Bert Golf of Leav-
enworth. Mrs. Pete Larson and Mrs
o, S. Sampson were guests.
Mrs. Gray of Wenatchee spent the
weekend with Mrs. Ted Gray.
The dance given by the Woodmen
at the Independent warehouse Friday
night was a decided success. The
floor was in splendid condition, those
dancing saying that the Grange floor
in Cashmere is the only one that eX-
cells it.
The J. o. C. class of the NJ f.
church enjoyed party at the home OF
r. J. Fosters Friday night. Several
outside guests were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Radabah and Mrs.
Geo. Hauber were in Leavenwortl
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley were in Leav-
enworth shopping on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Hobson and
children and Mr.. and Mrs. E. f. Riley
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30
NATIONAL PARTY PAPER NEARS
MILLION MARK

The National Republican, the ma
tional republican party weekly, pub
lished at Washington, has now ex-
tended its circulation, it is announced,
to ninety per cent of all the counties
in the country, and the circulation is
growing at such a rapid rate that the
hope of party leaders for million
circulation for this national mouth
piece of republican opinion bids fair
to be realized.
The National Republican, issued at
the center of national events, prints
each week comprehensive, condensed
review of the happenings bearing up
on national and world politics, gives
survey of newspaper and personal
opinion on public issues, prints the
important addresses and statements
of political bearing, covers weekly the
debates and proceedings of congress
while in session, and is a sort of con-
tinuous handbook of politics and pub
lie affairs. The idea is unique in
journalism, and has proved immensely
popular. The reader who wishes to
keep up on politics can find no better
medium for that purpose.
The National Republican is pub
lished and actively supported by re-
publican national leaders, not as d
financial venture, but as a means of
political information and education
deemed especially essential at this
time, when the general channels of
information are so completely COM
manded by the party in power. 1t
carries no advertising, despite its
large national circulation. 1t prints
weekly some sixty thousand words of
news and comment.
Subscriptions for the National Re-
publican may be left at this office.
The subscription price is one dollar
per year.
The National Republican may be
had in combination with this paper,
the combination price being $3.50 a
year.
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A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE WEST

The entire west is interested in
building up greaot merchant marine
on the Pacific ocean. Proper rail
rates to western seaports, and ship
ping to carry our commerce and crops
means millions annually to every
western state.
But what good are reduced export
and import rail rates if there are no
ships to carry these products to and
from our ports
As England is seeking to gobble the
shipping of the world, so the Atlantic
coast is grabbing the wood and steel
ships built on the Pacific coast.
The Pacific coast has shown the
world that it can build ships faster
and better than they can be built on
the Atlantic. But when ships built at
Pacific coast harbors are sold they
are advertised for sale in New York
weeks before they are offered on this
cosat.
Puget Sound, Portland, SanFrancis-
co and Los Angeles are not given a
fair chance to build up as great ports
of entry and distributing centers.
Pacific coast ship operating COM
panies have now organized for mutual
protection and advancement of Pacific
shipping interests on which our Yves
tern commercial life depends.
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6unyNews

Warren Bros, of Wenatchee, have
purchased the lot adjoining their gar
age on the north, and construction will
start this week on an addition cover
ing the property. 1t will cost over
$1,000 and will give the firm a total
frontage of $50 feet by 100 feet deep
on Wenatchee avenue.
Strawberries grown in the Wenat-
chez Valley are now being offered in
Wenatchee stores.
Secretary w. E. Nelson of the We
natchee Valley Traffic Association
has been working with other interests
for the opening of the Spokane gate
way to shipments of fruit from the
Wenatchee district to all points on the
branches of the Canadian Pacific,
Northern Pacific, Great Northern and
the Chicago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul
railroads. At present the Yakima
valley has lower rate to certain Ca
madam Pacific points than Wenatchee
especially the 500 line territory.
At hearing of the Portland district
freight traffic committee Mr.. Mel
son and Traffic manager Mewing of
the Pacific Fruit and Produce COM
pany argued in favor of establishing
equal rates from the Wenatchee dis
trict to all 500 line points in North
Dakot and Minnesota from which To-
cal shippers are barred at present.
The indications are that the Wenat-
chez district will be allowed the same
rates as are now allowed to Yakima.
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SfdfeNe@

DR.. Melander says that the spraying
methods worked out twelve vars ago
by the state college are still good, but
that the later generation of apple
growers either have departed from the
old and safe way, or have taken up
with inferior methods. He returned
to the Wenatchee apple district this
week to take up the coddling moth
campaign on the old lines which last
year. followed by the old-time apple
men, proved better than 50 per cent
efficient in saving the apples from the
worm.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

A man refuses to advertise because
Everybody knows where the store
is" Everybody around Boomers Fer
ny knows where the cemetery is, but
they don't feel inclined to go there.
-Kootenai Valley Times.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

In the past few weeks Dr. Melander
and assistants, Anthony Spuler and
r. M. Fulton, have met individually
and in groups, no less than seventeen
hundred apple growers of the central
part Of Washington. Melander says,
on the basis of evidence collected, that
spraying improperly done last year,
during the week following the drop
ping of the petals, cost the growers
their five millions in apples.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30
WARNING

On account of the extreme high
water and the dangerous condition of
our dam, which is likely to go out
at any time, we request the public
not to use the same in crossing the
Wenatchee river.
Great Northern Lumber Co.
ma30*
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

That the Columbia basin irrigation
project will multiply by six the irri-
gated land area of Westinghouse
ready 100000 acres which last year
produced $39,000,000 in farm crops
is the statement of o. L. Waller, sec
rotary of the survey commission, who,
in recent weeks, has been over much
of the land involeved in this under
taking.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

Construction work in Yakima for
the month of April totaled 44,040
during April.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

Care may have killed the cat, but
too much talk kills most people.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-05-30

Republic bearing ore running
$40 to the ton has been struck in Ben
Hur mine.