New-York tribune., 1919-05-13

producer, our guess is, do their best; when
a play is bad, their best is bad. So it is
with books. The average book, we believe,
is no better than the average play. But
even the average book and the average play
have something on the average sermon.
II sometimes think" DR.. Wise said "that
there are more Jews in the theatres than
in synagogues." And multiplying both sides
of the equation by K, there may be more
people in the theatres than in churches.
And if both Of these things are so, it may
be the fault Of the synagogues and the
churches
Answering G. s. X.
There is wealth in writing tennis for the Times
And the Mail is very lavish with It's pay,
But feel bit bereft when we count up what
is left
After just little bridge with G. S. K
x. LANE AND S. SPAErH.
None of the Baum obituaries we saw
made any mention of the composer of "The
Wizard of o." who was Mr. Paul Tietjens.
Our impression is, however, that the best
remembered songs were interpolated. Did
Baum or Tietjens, does any one recall,
write "Bafin's Bay" "The Traveller and the
Pie" or Sammy?
"There enthusiasts of every kind"
writes Bah. "In the records Of the Gas
Defence Division I often find reference to
Trench Fans"
Eheu Fugaces! or the Days of Real Sport
Sir: 1t can scarcely interest you to know
that when awoke this damp and darkish
morning was mentally singing
One One kissed I.is ringlet Of thin h1g gray HAIR;
One kissed lock Of BROWN
Bidding FAREWELL to the Stars and STRIPES
Just AS the sun went DOWN.
But it interested me, because it brought
back so wildly the first time l ever heard
mat sweet e, dtty sung It was at the Spring
picked a first mandolin5, and the sporty
young man who led the club as usual made
our our innocent concerts an opportunity, to
feelingly rendered Simple Confession" and
obliged with "Whistling Rufus" (the latest
hlt) for an encore, our leader stood out
front, with three Of his own contemporaries
out of High School some two or three or
maybe five years), and sang the stanzas Of
the above lyric, his cronies moaning an ac-
compartment, but coming in rousingly on
the R Ghorus; rpon Oh, those were the days Of
young leader of ours. He had q real
leather for his mandolin, and he could
carry it under his arm and keep both hands
in his pockets and yet never drop the man
chalant for anything! They brought out
dewey" hats that summer-little, soft felt
hats Of red or white or blue, but our hero
was the only one in our town who had
his white duck trousers and his blue serge
coat and his mandolin under his arm-well,
he was the loveliest thing that old town
has ever seen, let me tell you. He left in
chorus of a musical show. And when the
show played our town two years later the
tenor gracously let our young man step
out of the chorus to sing one solo. It was
something about
Cupid viii GUIDE GUIDE YOU you
What e'er befall you
You may be SURE
I've forgotten the name of the show. for
| was a senior by that time, and ever 50
busy and important, but dc recall that it
was proud and happy evening for the
home town. and especially the young mans
widowed mother, who sat in a box
Well, we'll, how we do love "reminiscences.
after we get into our middle thirties, don't
we? But honestly, those were the good old
days I've never seen anything in New
OF that little red hat coming down my street.
At some soda fountains there are pro-
tests to sign, protests against the soft
drink tax. But the soda fountains. when
they reduced the size Of the glasses about
two years ago, gave US no referendum, nor
when they raised the price of the small
glass to 15c, and later to zoe.
But we do consider it far more woman
like composition than that one which the
President is now trying to foist upon us.-
Harvey's Weekly.
the great government Of the United
states.-Mayor OLE Hanson, quoted in The
Tribune.
"Stet!" yells the proofroom.
Entered for the Non Sequitur cup. from
the Timess editorial on the late L. Frank
Baum: "The thing bringing fairy tales
up to date] has always been we'll done
because children like stories and ara not
discriminating"
Those who believe the treaty Is too
severe forget, perhaps. that the war also
was too severe.
It Is interesting, not to say--as the
critics have it--illuminating, to look into
the old fles and see how many ball players
who said they would never play again are
now playing.
Eight to one Germany signs the treaty.