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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-02
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posAl Of the enormous amount OF
British army supplies stored in Eng

posal OF the enormous amount of
British army supplies stored in Eng
land.
The American Red Cross had no
agreement with the British govern
ment and recently disposed OF q lot
Of motor transport equipment for ap-
proximately $27.55o. The purchase
price wa $24,500 and the equipment
had been in use a year. Any kind OF
a motor is in great demand In Eng
land.
No record has been kept of the
total amount Of contracts allotted for
the American army in Great Britain,
but, like everything in the war. it was
measured in huge figures. 1t is esti-
mated, however, that the ordnance
contracts alone amounted to about
$500. 900, 900. Much of this, of course,
! will not bring as good returns as the
! materials coming under jurisdiction
of the quartermaster's department..
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-02

voted from DRY" to 'wet' includt
Madison, Beloit, Superior. Edgertl
Stoughton and Ashland.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-02
Socialists Defeated
In Milwaukee Election

Milwaukee, Wis, April 2.-social-
lists in Milwaukee county were defeat
ed in the judicial contests yesterday
by majorities ranging from 2.402
which Gustave F.. Gehrz. Eonpartisan
had over John C. kleist and 1900
Judge August c. Backus, Nonpartisan
majority over Morris Stern.
Marvin b. Rosenberg, reelected as
justice Of the supreme court, led his
opponent, Julius T. Dithmar by H.
S37 in Milwaukee county and it is es-
,tmated carried the state by upwards
of $4,000 majority.
All five N~onpartisan candidates for
school director on city ticket, defeat
ed Socialist opponents by majorities
approximating 10000. More than
$4,000 women exercised their right Of
suffrage in voting upon school issues.
Six bond issues relating to schools.
bridges. harbor Improvements, play
grounds and police department all
carried.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-02
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GOVERNMENT LABOR
OFFICIALS ARE
CALLED TO MEETING

Topeka. Kan, April "A call for
the annual meeting of the association
of governmental labor officials of the
United States and Canada was issued
here today by Miss Linpa Bresette,
secretary Of the organization. The
meeting will be held in Madison,
Wis. June 2, 3 and 4. Invitations are
being sent to every labor commission
err, factory inspector and other Off
Gals having anything to do with the
enforcement of labor laws in the
United States, it was stated.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-02

At some Of the voting places, the
vote was so heavy that extra ballots
had to be furnished when the capaci-
The sun., 1919-11-02

told the other night how that farcical
comedy first came into being.
"A friend of the family came to us
one night in great excitement" said
he, "and told US that she had positive
proof that her husband had put two
detectives in her home disguised as
servants to get evidence for use in a
divorce suit which he was threatening
TO bring because of her failure to take
action when he ran off with another
woman. We sympathized with her
and gave her abundant proof of our
friendly interest. When she had left,
however, l am afraid my professional
instinct triumphed, for remember re-
marking to my wife as the door closed
after our visitor:
There's a great starting point for a
playa new way to serve the servant
problem
Before had gone to bed that night
7 hsd sketched out in rough way the
main outlines of the story of On the
Hiring Line It wasn't anything like
the story as now projected across the
footlights, but the main idea was there,
the idea of n family driven to the
desperate point Of bringing in private
The sun., 1919-11-02

The company will remain in New
York until this week and then begin
a limited tour of a fortnight only.
after which it will open the Theatre
Farisien on Forty eighth street, now
known as the Belmont Theatre.
Susanne Caubet, who is now in this
country, Joined the company yesterday
for the first rehearsal.
Among the members who arrived yes
terday were Lii Rito from the Theatre
Antoine, Renee Maha of the rOuvre,
Luciene Debrennes Of LIE Theatre Cf-
gale. Henrietta Dellony Of the Theatre
Antoine, Robert Casadesus, who has
had a varied Paris experience at La
Scala and other playhouses; Roger
Piquard, who will combine the duties
OF manager and actor with the local
company Che was formerly of the
Grand GuignoD; Germaine Grattery.
who comes from the Theatre Edouard
VII. Felix Barre of the Grand Gui-
gnol: Gustav Degreziane OF lie Palais
Royal, and Lucien Weber. who last
season acted at the Weux Colombier.
The sun., 1919-11-02

public can still find time to listen 10
US"
Though Mr.. Quinlan has seen tho
Primrose and West, the Primrose and
Dockstader. the L. G. Fields and other
big minstrel shows with which he has
been connected melt away into burnt
cork darkness. he is quite convinced
that better organizations will come TO
take their place and that minstrelsy
will go on from glory to greater grease
paint glory. On all matters pertaining
tc blackface organizations he speaks
as one having authority, for he has
spent over twenty-five years listening
to the Jokes of end men-and yet re-
tains a sunny disposition.
AL that time he has been an inter-
locutor-indeed, he has been an inter-
locutor ever since he can remember.
When he was a small boy upstate
and organized minstrel shows with the
rest of the gang in backyard and cell
lar, the other youngsters always put
him in the interlocutor's position in
the middle. Even then he had the
necessary grand manner But as he
grew older and worked his way into
professional minstrels he sought to
rid minstrelsy of some of that grand
manner. for he inaugurated a revolu-
ton in the methods of the highfalutin
interlocutor, which literally took that
lofty functionary down a peg.
1.-The interlocutors in the old days"
he said, were all men who sought to
sit up in the centre on very superior
plane. 1t was beneath their dignity
to come down close to the footlights
and look the audience in the face. !
decided il would establish a more in
time connection between the interloc-
utor and the onlookers to come down.
stage and walk around a bit, even II
1t did make tho performer look more
human. So gradually l educated the
minstrel attending public up to the
idea.
Moreover, besides establishing a
helped the end men, for they were
no longer compelled to face sideways
in addressing the interlocutorY so that
| the spectators under the new method
got the full benefit OF their features.
And the play OF some Of those faces
was worth 1t. Moreover, the pom
| posity of those days forbade the inter-
locutor's laughing at any of the quips,
even if they were new. l changed
that, feeling that l could help the
comedians by pointing their Jokes with
a laugh-and sometimes even the best
comedians need TO be helped out in
their Jest with a laugh. However, II
was a relief much Of the time TO be
allowed to laugh, for In those days
a number OF the end men were very
keen wits, whose replies were often
made extemporaneously and hit you
before you We're prepared for them
! Mr.. Quinlan was first led into the
theatrical business by playing in the
amateur troupe OF minstrels run by
the barber in his home town, whose
artistic blood ran high, as a BARRIERS
frequently does. The barber would
take his band OF performers out into
the country In the evening; they would
play In town halls or from wagons be-
fore the village yokels, and then return
The sun., 1919-11-02

detectives to act as servants and pre-
tending that there was something
amiss in the household which de-
manded investigation"
Mr.. O'IIiggins went with the story
to Harriet Ford, who had previously
colleborated with him in THE Argyle
Case" "The Dummy" "Polygamy" and
"Mr Lazarus" Together they de-
yeloped the story which is now being
unfolded nightly at the Criterion.
Their work Jagged somewhat after
the declaration OF war. when Mr..
O'Higgins became chief assistant to
George Creel, director of the Com
mittee on Public Information. but
the play was finally finished. but It
was not submitted to any producer
untfl after the signing of the armisuce-
Then It was found that certain vital
and essential changes were necessary.
The ending OF the war had changed
the lives and motives of certain Of the
characters, as Mr.. OHiggins whim-
sically put 1t the other night, and
made necessary much rewriting.
There is an actor in the play who
wanders down to the country home Of
an old friend for little visit. In the
original version his reason for leaving
the city and seeking to commune with
nature was q desire to keep away from
the draft boards, which were certain
to ask embarrassing questions about
his age. He was presumed to be an
actor in his mid-forties still playing
handsome juvenile leads and pretend
ing that he was 35 or thereabouts. If
he didn't go to war he knew that his
real age would come out and so he
chose to do some useful agricultural
work in the country. Anything savor-
ing of the war period being strictly
taboo in all managerial offices, the role
Of the actor had to be entirely re-
written.
Mr. O'Higgins and Miss Ford have
worked together for so many years
that their collaboration is accom-
plished without any friction. They
usually sit opposite each other at a
table and write the actual dialogue
The sun., 1919-11-02
A MINSTREL'S LAY.

~ AN QUINLAN. interlocutor in
II the mln.,re, show in Mern-
- tyre and Heath's extrava-
ganza Hello, Alexander" at the Forty
fourth Street Theatre, believes that
minstrelsy will never die out, even
though the march of events is shown
by the way the fiivver Joke has sup
planted in popular affection the one
about the chicken crossing the road.
"As long as there is general de-
sire to hear ballads and see good
dancing" said Mr.. Quinlan the othel
day, "a minstrel show will still keep
the population on the move toward It.
In fact, out West such productions are
still very popular, and the farmers
flock as in the old days to have their
fling at life by listening to the smart
blackface comedians.
"It is only in the large cities like
New York that the taste for minstrel
shows suffered relapse. At that. q
production like Hello. Alexander" IL
scarcely different at all from min
strel show, except that there isn't %
much blackface-and the metropolitan
The sun., 1919-11-02

dent lack or reality as there Is In
On the Hiring Line" for instance.
Mr.. O'Higgins has told his inspira-
ton for that play which came from the
knowledge that two detectives We're
working as servants in household
they had been engaged to watch. There
might have been some genuine comedy
from this situation had it not been for
the introduction Of the actors into the
story Why need the wife who hated
the country and enjoyed the ancillary
misrule have been an actress? Why
should an actor come to visit in the
home? So soon as 1t became evident
that these two persons were to play
any leading parts in the comedy all
probability disappeared. No actress
was ever an ideal housekeeper or made
any pretence of being, although May
Irwin's apple pies used to be tradi-
tional. Nor was there any possible ex-
cuse for the appearance Of another
actor in the field in the person of a
man from the West who said, ANY
actor with an English accent can get
job on Broadway"
That bit OF satire dates from the
days Of Lester Wallack's incumbency
of the second Wallack Theatre at
Broadway and Thirteenth street. Then
that joke or it's kind is said to have
fourished. The cockney talk of nine
English actors out OF ten is as a mat
ter Of fact rather disagreeable to the
ears of refined Americans. AS a rule
the actors who come here from Lon
don speak only cockney. It was a fore
gone conclusion, however. that so soon
as the actor appeared all probability
would depart from the play. 1t did.
Plays about actors are one thing. There
they seem among one another, toler-
ably real. Then domestic plays with
householders talking about servants
are something different. But any COM
bination OF the two is fatal to proba-
bility. And comedies OF domestic life
ought to be probable.
The sun., 1919-11-02

and recover their artistic poise the
rest of the night in his barber chairs.
From this tonsorial grooming for
the theatre he went into the regular
show business, travelling around the
country with minstrel shows, organiz-
ing companies OF his own and acquir-
ing a pleasant dignity he has to-day,
restrained from becoming too ambassa-
dorial by the fact that he is Irish.
Though the modern theatre has i'm
proved enormously in comfort he
doesn't shudder at the hardships OF
those early days. for nobody called
them hardships then.
i've used dressing rooms where
you could see the stars through the
roof" he said, ''but nobody minded
tit was part Of the fun. When
you're young nothing hurts. The
marching did us good; we could pa
rade around city for an hour and a
half and come back to our rooms full
OF vigor-which a regular actor can't
assume with grease paint Most of the
old MINISTRIES have had long lives as a
result Of this hardening process.
1T fills man with confidence too.
l remember one summer when l was
at my home In Elmira receiving a tele-
graphed offer from a young manager
out West, offering me s25 a week to
come out and play leads in his stock
company. had worked my salary up
to $75 a week by then and felt that
this proposal should be rejected with
ali the scorn had on hand. So J
wired out to him this telegram:
1.-The Western Union refuses to take
message stating what think of your
Offer Back came his answer:
"Try Postal Telegraph"
The sun., 1919-11-02
PLAYS THAT LAST.

Astor, East Is West; Bel
mont, Boys Will Be Boys; BIZ
jou His Honor Abe Potash;
Booth, TOO Many Husbands;
Broadhurst, The Crimson
Alibi"; Casino. THE Little
Whopper"; Cohan & Harris
THE Royal Vagabond"; Comedy,
Fifty Fifty, Ltd; Cort, lust
a Minute; Criterion, "On the
Hiring Line; Eltinge, "The
Girl in the Limousine; Empire,
"Declassee"; Forty-eighth Street,
"The Storm; Forty-fourth
Street Hello, Alexander; Full
ton, Give O'clock; Gaiety,
"Lightnin'"; Garrick, "The
See Saw; Globe, apple Bios
sons; Harris, THE Dancer;
Henry Miller's Moonlight and
Honeysuckle"; Hudson "Clar-
ence"; Knickerbocker, "Roly-
Boly Eyes; Liberty, "Hitchy
Koo"; Longacre, adam and
Eva; Lyceum, THE Gold Dig
gers; Lyric, Nothing but
Love-; Manhattan Opera House,
The Luck of the Navy; Maxine
Elliott's, "Fisrt Is Last; Mo-
rosco, "Civilian Clothes; New
Amsterdam, "Ziegfeld Follies";
New Amsterdam Roof, Nine
O'clock Revue" and Midnight
Frolic"; Nora Bayes, Green
wich Village Follies"; Playhouse,
"Palmy Days; Plymouth, The
lest; Princess, "Nightie Night;
Punch and Judy, where's Your
Wife7" Republic, "A Voice in
the Dark; Selwyn, "Buddies";
Thirty-ninth Street, Scandal;
Winter Garden, Passing Show"
The sun., 1919-11-02

The wild West Of the cinema is such
survival of the old days of lawlessness
and brutality. crime and coarseness
that the loyal American wonders what
impression these pictures must give
Europe Of this country now that the
importations OF these fictions are a
possibility. Mr.. Thomas has possibly
accomplished most in his new play
toward showing that there was after
all a land a little less crude than the
scenario writer's would have us be-
lieve. OF course all the outward and
visible signs of Wild West are there.
There was more picturesqueness pos
sibly in the Polka Saloon because the
ing Minnie. But the atmosphere
throughout "Palmy Days is about the
same that prevailed in The Girl Of
the Golden West" More of the boys
are noble than evil. Out and out viii
lainy is confined to few. Since they
are the gamblers, virtue is perhaps
aided by this concentration OF evil in
one set OF men. Few Of the others
are bad. This more sentimental use
OF the Western milieu, which Mr.. Be-
lasco made in THE Girl of the Golden
West" and Mr.. Thomas has employed
In "Palmy Days" with such effect, is
that which theatregoers will remem-
her with greatest pleasure. There was
every indication from the appearance
OF the audience on Monday that the
powers OF the cinema were interested
in the success of the play. SO, charm
ing as 1t is in atmosphere, 1t may
some day get on the screen. Indeed.
It is nearly impossible that "Palmy
Days" in which there Is so much
Of the sentiment beloved in the movie
shops should escape. 1t preserves a
much more creditable picture of West
ern life than any which the cinema
has hitherto shown. It's West consists
altogether Of deeds OF violence and
1eats of strength. There are pretty
sentiment and some natural and un-
obtrusive humor in "Palmy Days"
II is not certain that Arthur Hop
kinss affectations of production might
not in time grow as tedious as those
10 which his colleagues have accus-
TONED theatregoers. When, during
three acts of play. the centre OF the
stage Is bathed in more or less mellow
light and the rest Of its space more
or less in shadow. such an unusual
method OF illumination after a while
begins to impress itself rather annoy
ingly on the audience. There was IN
deed a certain monotony about the
mellowness of the illumination which
would have been relieved-to the en-
!oyment too Of the spectators-by
some other kind of light occasionally
Mr.. Lackaye's frequent quotations
from the plays of Shakespeare were
much less out Of place in a drama o.
mis- epoch than they would have beer
in an altogether modern work. MOI
Goes his presence in this remote com
munity have the effect that an actor
participation in the usual play would
Paimy Days" is after all, to b.
counted In the list OF costume" plays
since the characters are clothed in tn
garments Of an earlier period. Mayb
Tor that reason there Il no such evi
The sun., 1919-11-02

down simultaneously on little pad
Each speech is discussed before it i.
set down and is mulled over after it
is written. analyzed, altered and thor
oughly revised. OF course, before this
process begins they have already care
fully worked out the construction and
agreed upon all the essential details
OF the story, the sequence Of scenes
and the phases Of character which are
to be particularly emphasized in each
Individual
The sun., 1919-11-02
THE WEEKS OFFERING.

MONDAYCentral Theatre Joe Weber will offer musical farce
"The Little Blue Devil" which Harold Atteridg dsentanged
Clyde Fitchs "The Blue Mouse with
scribed by Harry Carroll The ought know
after all who for the
sake of his hraous hires professional dancer
his wife him. though what she
chiefly Bernard Granville and Lillian Lorraine
agreed their of starring honors Jack Nc
Gowan Martnde Wfred Clark, Eleanor Gordon
hope promotion through the show.
The sun., 1919-11-02
LANGDoN MCCORMICK.

TARTING out in life as an cleo
trician. turning author, actor
~ and playwright in rapid success
sion, ard now a melodrama writer, is
all part Of the checkered career of
Langdon Mccormick, whose play THE
Storm" Is at the Forty-eighth Street
Theatre.
Mr.. Mccormick began his career as
an author when mere boy, thirty
years ago, at his home in Port Huron,
Mich. Since then he has written and
acted in over fifty plays. He dis
carded the electrical profession after
he had become an expert, but the
knowledge has always served him in
good stead, for he can combine dra-
matte situations with realistic scenic
effects At the time that Mr.. Nc
Cormick was giving platform enter
tainments OF his own writings in Chi
cago he met and subsequently played
with Otis Skinner for three years. Mr.
Skinner, seeing playwright possibili-
ties in Mccormick, advised him to de-
vote his attention TO authorship rather
than to acting.
While still a very young man his
ability as a writer was discovered by
several managers, and soon he was
writing no less than Ave plays in one
season. For outside diversion McCor-
mick published several novels made
from his plays. A few OF his plays
are "Out of the Fold" How Hearts
Are Broken" Hearts Adrift," House
OF Mystery" "The Toll Gate" "A Des-
perate Chance" when the World
Sleeps" and "a Mile n Minute" James
]. Corbett toured for several years in
"The Burglar and the Lady" written
by Mr.. Mccormick. lie has created
more scenic and electrical effects than
perhaps any other man in the history
of the American stage. He was re-
sponsible for the sinking battleships
in the Ziegfeld Follies OF 1917, the
approaching automobile In THE
Honeymoon Express" that served Al
Jolson for several years, and other
realistic effects that became widely
known.
The sun., 1919-11-02
O'HIGGINS AT WORK.

TIME genesis of plays is always
an interesting subject for dis
- cussion. Harvey OHiggins,
short story writer and playwright and
coauthor of "On the Hiring Line"
The sun., 1919-11-02
OOROTHEA MAC KAYE
z1 SEE SAW"
By LAWRENCE REAMER.

HE theatre cropped plays altogether
voted to the revelation of Efe "Pamy Days." which
makes in its title
might silence criticism had criticism
fairly hroed already gold who Shake
result of his long apprenticeship agdan dresser
There is of considerable mprobaby such
fellow this place. but Augustus Thomas playwright sufficiently
skilled make him And Wilton Lackaye plays him pausb
he could we'll although there undenbe
recall the technical the old time the
frequent quotations Old Kaintuk which the only
although there another mentioned conversation with Mrs
Woodord failed
lived for twelve the shadow the Neverhe
less he does the mprobaby the that
actor during the actual which they involved
The sun., 1919-11-02

The entire company for the Theatre
Parisien has arrived on the zalraine
from Paris under the guidance OF
Robert Casadesus, who Is to be the art
director and who was last year identi-
Ned with tho Theatre du Vieux Co
lombieR
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