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Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Chicago Women in
Furore Over Charge
Of Immodest Dress

Chicago, Sept. 6.-The charge that
Chicago women and their dress are
the cause of men flirting with them,
made recently by Mrs. George Ras-
muSsen. whose husband was hailed
to court on the charge of Leona
Hall, an actress. who claimed Ras-
mussen "flirted" with her, is being
resented by numebr of Chicago
women
They claim that styles never were
more modest and sensible than at
the present time.
Mrs. Heaton Owsley OF Glencoe.
in discussing the question said:
Chicago women not only dress
sensibly but modestly. Some ex-
tremists there are. of course, but
their arc in such a minority as to
make Mrs. Rasmussen's charge
absolutely ridiculous"
Mrs. Edward Leight said to be
one of Chicaeo's best-dressed
women. said:
"A trim ankle is never immodest
DeCollete is very much lower in
Paris and skirts rediculously higher"
Amelia Sears, welfare worker and
official of the associated charities,
said Mrs. Rasmussen statement
gave her quite a chuckle" and con-
tinued:
mo matter what the dress of our
women happen to be a man should
not be so weak as to have such
statement made in defense of his
succumblng to temptation to risk
a hirtation."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
How to Make a Thriller

CELECT your scenic and mechan-
y ical effects. Then write your
~ play around them. Then design
your effects and you'll have a play
like AN American Ace.'
This is TIE simple and novel
recipe offered by Lincoln J. Carter,
author of the spectacular melo-
drama, AN American Ace which
Taylor Granville has adopted for
vaudeville and in which he and
Laura Pierpont are starring. The
formula has brought Mr.. Carter
fame and fortune that might we'll
excite the admiration OF playwrights
who follow the more familiar rules
of dramatic construction.
can American Ace is the result
Of patriotic impulse His son is
IN the aviation service and Mr.. Car
ter, eager to do his bit, was anxious
to follow him, but he is past the age
for active service, Hence it oc-
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

Cured to him that a stirring patri-
Otto melodrama OF this sort would
be no mean contribution to the
cause. He conceived the idea for
the play long before America en-
tered the war. but the claims of
strict neutrality deferred him.
In 1885, at the age of 20 Mr.. Car
ter wrote, built and produced his
first play, "Idonia," in Chicago, and
followed this four years later with
his first sensational success, The
Fast Mail" He wrote and produced
one play each year after that until
he had written g. Present day
playwrights should note the effect
that for nearly a score of years Mr..
Carriers income ranged from $4,000
to $35,OO0 year.
These old meIodramas." says Mr..
Carter, with their sensational eff
fects, gave thousands of people their
only glimpse of the rose-colored
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Making Comedy is Tragic
Business, Says Sennett

week, | have produced something
funny. something that has made mil
lions laugh. Not everything that |
have turned out was good, of course
I'm not conceited enough to think
that. But many of them were good,
and some of them were better than
good.
There is nothing new under the
sun. For centuries the men who
have made the world laugh have
been employing the same old tricks
to do it. That's my game, thinking
of new laughter situations made up
of old old material. have con-
tracted to furnish a Mack Sennett
comedy every two weeks. Scenario
writers can't give me these come
dies. Some of them may give me
ideas, but the comedies themselves
l must work out. | must supply the
detail. must see to it that they are
properly proportioned.
II am something of a psycholo-
gist,' says Mr.. Sennett. Il study
as we'll as make laughter. Laugh
ter, you know, is universal. People
in China or the Fiji Islands will
laugh as heartily as the American
public, and at the same pictures or
series of pictures.
ITO meet the demc"l made upon
me I have to be at rk subcon-
sciously at all times No matter
where | am, what | am doing, or
whom l am with, my subconscious
mind is always looking for mater
al watch men drink their coffee
and try to get a wheeze out of the
sight of a woman crossing the street.
| have even caught myself trying to
get laugh out OF funeral process
sion"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

world OF romance and adventure,
Say what YOU may about them, no
plays since have touched the pop
l,lar heart so deeply or were so in
innate a part OF the life of the pub
lie. When was virtue so rewarded
and villainv so damned? From a
purely mechanical standpoint. |
doubt whether they have ever been
surpassed. | had an effect i'll one
OF my plays called 'Bcdford's Hop,
produced at the Fourteenth Street
theater, New York, of all automobile
racing train through the desert,
which is still regarded as a triumph
of mechanical ingenuity. 1t created
a sensation at the time, as did my
battle of Manila effect in Remember
the Maine produced at the time of
the Spanish American war
Il was not only playwright, scene
builder and stage director, but my
own producer. Producing wasn't
gamble in those days. A play was
a sure thing. 1t didn't take a years
run in New York to make it go. In
tact, most OF my plays were pro-
duced at my tleater, the Criterion,
Chicago. The cost of production
was small. About $500 represent
ed the outlay of the average play"
Theater-goers of Is years ago will
recall with thrill the stupendous
titles of Mr.. Carriers masterpieces.
Flaming Arrow" Under the
Dome" "Tornado,' The Eleventh
Hour" THE Heart of Chicago" and
a host of others. The movies came
down upon them and swept them
away, with The Old Oaken Buck
ct" but their mouth-hlling names
remain
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
tMez JayAr = lene1<,s)

popular Gayety. there is a we'll
spread table of dramatic and musi-
cal tid-bits. Heading the coterie of
comedians are George Douglass and
john Barry. essayers alike of hobo
characters. Supporting them is
Jack StrOusc, whose Italian fruit
peddler is commendable bit of
character acting. Others are the
Misses Lucille Rogers, prima don
ma; Jean De l-isle, pretty ingenue,
and Babe Burnett, a lively little
soubrette The chorus is an eNccp-
tlonally pretty one and does its in
trlcate work acceptably in costumes
that are positively stunning, The
company is presenting "Matrimon-
ial Tangles' and it is said that there
isn't a serious moment throughout
the entertainment. the fun being
wholesome, spontaneous and con-
tlnuOus
Iodays matinee starts at 500
Beginning tomorrow, there will be
ladies matinee at 2:l5 daily all
week.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Batting Beauty IN Aohee
Doodle IN Berlin / 9RAM0EIS>

postponed until a later date. The
Harry Green, supported by a COM
pany of five people. Mr. Green is
one of the most finished character
actors ever TO appear over the Or
pheum circuit 1t will be recalled
that when he last appeared in Oma-
ha it was in the striking one-act
comedy, The Cherry Tree" This
season his offering is one which
sustained admirably his firmly les-
tablished reputation as a character
comedian.
The Empress announces as its
stellar attraction for the first four
days, The Caps Family" an oc-
tette of versatile entertainers. In
the Caps family everybody works,
the sextette OF kiddies contributing
specialties that will delight the little
folks and make the old ones feel
young again. A comedy skit by
Blanche Merrile, entitled Put Out"
will be featured by Ethel Arnold
and Earl Taylor Britt Wood as
a harmonica artist remains peer of
them all, The Quaker City Quar-
tette, known over the circuit as
The Singing Blacksmiths," head
line the show for the last half OF
the week. The Wyoming Trio, also
on the last half, Introduce a sport
of Australian origin, that is, whip
cracking experiences. There is also
some harmony singing and comedy
talking lnterspersed.
In thn IRON Ion Girls" at the
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
By John E. KENNEBECK.

Omaha has no black hole OF Cal
cutta, no tower of London. no bridge
of slghs nor descriptive prison camp
TO menace the spirit of its good or
lad citizens these days, but the pub
lie need not be content i'll that re-
gard. For the golden city of the
middle west can boast of a haven
at the city Jail that has harbored
more crooks and bomb throwcrs
than notorious dive i'll the gas
house district on a rainy LAY.
Situated on the second floor of the
crumbling holdover, this hole, COM
monty known as the "Bull-pen." has
been haunted by enemies of the law
for the past 80 years. Though vag-
rancy has been the most common
offense for which persons have been
admitted within its rugged walls,
certain inscriptions upon the sides
indicate that highly intelligent be-
ings have at times peered from the
windows therein.
Records of Life.
Interesting evidences OF the types
of prisoners have been lett upon the
erstwhile painted walls. Prisoners
awaiting hearing in police court for
minor offenses seem to have been
proud of their records of life, accord
ing to conspicuous drawings, mot
toes and slogans inscribed upon the
doors and walls. Possibly Byron,
Colerldge, Keats, Walt Mason or
perhaps Sam Morris, poet laureate
of the police force, would boast of an
afhliation with the scribes of the
bull-pen, for some choice poetry and
prose remains upon those walls,
mute mementoes of ideals as we'll as
Protest of Poor Man.
In protest against the chance a
poor man has in life, some roaming
Shakespeare of late years has COM
posed the following upon the Jail |
house door:
Long may poor man be,
For when he gets you, you're up
tree;
You call for lawyer of course you
get none,
The lawyer says ITO hell, you
bum;
Unless you've got money to give as
fee,
My time is worth money, can't
you see?"
And as for the judge, he gives
damn,
All he can say is: You're guilty
man."
Court Bailiff Bushes.
Among other liberal inscriptions
that made John Holden, court
bailiff, blush with shame, are:
Join the army and keep out of
free Jail"
an for fighting-60 days-Ain't
it hell?"
Get wise and line up; Join the |.
w. W."
'Leavenworth Gang, signed:
Potts III, (times registered); REQ
III, Kinkey, Mack, Chief
Speaking of Faults.
Another step to port, and the Curl
ous seeker comes upon more poetry
written with interesting lack of re-
gard for rhythmic meter. 1t reads:
Speaking of faults, don't forget
your own:
People who live in glass houses
should never cast stone.
Don't ever judge man until he's
thoroughly tried,
# you don't like his company. you
know this world is wide"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

(<NEAKING comedy is tragic
N So says Mack Sennett,
A'A the king of film farce
makers, whose laughmakers are
known to the screen the world
around and whose wonderful Bath
ing Beauties from his California stu
dos are appearing for week, start
ing today, on the stage of the Bran
deis in connection with Sennetts
greatest fun production to date,
Yankee Doodle in Berlin"
Making comedy is tragic"
There are weary lines in the rug
ged fighting face under the gray
hair of Mack Sennett, but the light
IN the gray-blue eyes shows that he
knows just what the lights and
shades of life are worth; as be-
hooves a king of laughter" he has
a sense of humor and can't take life
too seriously.
Mack Sennett is the pioneer in the
motion picture comedy game; he is
TO the comedy part of cinema pro-
auctions what d. w. Griffith is to
the dramatic part. To Sennetts
genius motion picture followers owe
the development OF such men as
Charlie Chaplin, Fatty" Arbuckle
and Ford Sterling. and such wo-
man as Mabel Normand 1t was
his Judgment and his money, added
to their ability, that brought them
to the point where the world in gen.
cral laughed at them.
My chief concern in the whole
matter is the serious side of COM
edy--it isn't serious, it's tragic. |
lave been in this comedy game 10
years and | have averaged a COM
cdy a week in that time-520 in my
career. For 10 wears, week after
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Police Embarrassed!
Find Marie Clad in
the Carb of Nature

Columbus. O., Sept. o,-Would
YOU have thought it possible?
Two policemen were embarrassed.
They were local motor officers.
Responding to the call these offs
GERS found Marie Smith. p in an
alley.
a police reporter says the police.
men were embarrassed because they
found Marie clad only in the garb
of nature"
At nearby house the officers
borrow a sheet and took Marie, who
is colored to the county Jail to await
action by the probate court.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Red, White, Blue Corn
Developed by Prof

Chicago. Sept. 6.-Luthcr Burbank
please note.
Professor w. L. Woodburn, Of
Northwestern university, has evolv-
ed form of corn with ears of red,
white and blue.
The system used by the professor
to attain this patriotic effect is re-
rkable, say his colleagues.
About every ear of corn on the
stalk he ties a paper bag to prevent
the pollen from falling on other
ears. Using blowpipe he then
blows a special pollen. his own dis
covery on the ears. producing the
red. white and blue corn.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Pig Bites Off Finger.

Greenfield, ILL.,, Sept 6.--S. R.
6 al, farmer living near here,
10 le third finger of his right hand
when the member was bitten off BY
pig he was attempting to hold.
Garman tried to satch the pig by
the ear and his finger slipped into
the pigs mouth.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
l. iqhted a Lantern Under
His Auto, But Will Recover

St. Louis, Mo. Sept. 6.-When
Frank Granger crawled under his
automobile to repair it, he took a
lighted lantern with him SO he could
see to work. Gasoline dropped on
the lantern and a damage amount
ing to $500 was done to the car by
the explosion that followed. Gran
ger was burned on the head, back
and arms. His CONDITION is not SER
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

An important phase OF the work
Ct the Ann May Memorial hospital
at Spring Lake. N. J.. will be the
establishing OF women's auxilliaries
in all of the towns of the hospital
territory when such organizations
do not exist
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

Monograms and epithets adorn the
mussy walls such as:
Kid Boots, the al-shoveling
punk.
Kid Sparrows. the flying bird.
Kid Stem, the crap-shooting egg.
Kid Bobs. famous chicken chaser.
Kid kashuba, Brazilian nut hunt
err
Kid Shuster, the chunky vag,'
Police Get Theirs.
Even the police magistrate and
captains suffer from the comment Of
the Jail scribes, as the following
lines were found written near the
holdover window:
Amt it he'll when Fitzgerald
gives you so days."
Captain Vanous, alias Carranza,
alias Frisco Pete, alias Chief Stick
in-the-mud knows me; I'll get life. "
There is plenty of excuse for the
inscriptions. for dope hends and
crooks waiting for hours in that bull
pen, find their degenerate minds
wandering idly to the outside world.
They find 1t an enjoyment to express
their opinions in writing, for as they
opine. they want the world to know
their plight"
The saying: Fools names and
fools faces are always found in pub
lie places" has no meaning to
them.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

Word has been received at the
Orpheum that the engagement of
Trixie Friganza, which was an
nounced for next week, has been
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07

In the Bon Ton Girls" at tn
Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-07
Jail Birds Scribble Walls
of Police Court "Bull Pen"
Hobo Shakespeares and Byrons Give Uncopynghted
Effusions of Wit, Anathema and Poesy Free to All
the World.

Monograms and epithets adorn the
mussy walls such as:
Kid Boots, the coal-shoveling
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
SHE KNEa THE GREAT STORY
Girl Lacked Gift Of Narrative, but
Was Able to Tell All About
Chateau Thierry.

AS we crawled up a railroad track
In the vicinity of Chateau Thierry
(this was in October)-a railroad
track which seemed the only new and
complete object in sight-the Y. NJ. c.
A. girl, who had been sitting in the
corner of the compartment resisting
all advances at conversation, volun.
feered remark.
"Our division took it," she said.
It turned out that she had gone in
with her canteen just behind the divi-
sion, during that fight wherein Amer
ica made good. She lacked the narra-
tive talent. that girl, but she came out
at intervals with flashes like this:
when our boys came up the strag-
glers said to them: You can't stay in
therer And our boys said: Wen
not only stay there, but we're going
forward When the stragglerS saw
that, they formed, too, and went back
with them"
Or this, as we drew into sight of a
road bordered by blackened ruins:
There's where our divisions came
into sight, singing, The Yanks Are Com
ing.' '"-Will Irwin in the Saturday
Evening Post.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Pretty Polly.
POLLY, want a cracker?"

Polly, want cracker?"
"Why, yes" answered Poll as she
plumed her plumage and neatly
brushed out her cage with her ports
side wing. "Now that the war is won
and the necessity for food conserva-
ton has been reduced to certain de-
gree, I feel that / may indulge in my
favorite dish without serious damage
to my conscience"
And the wealthy munitions worker
WHO overheard the remark bought her
ON the spot for $1,000 cash, saying
that she should be surrounded with
luxuries for the rest of her days, yea
though she lived to be as old as the
mother-in,law joke.
Note-Gentle readers who look for
q moral to this particular piece Of
patriotic persif1age will please try to
bear up under the disappointment.
There amt none.-1ndianapolis Star.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Matter Of Patches.

Seven-year-old James and his moth
or were visiting the latter's spinster
aunts. AS was their custom these
maiden ladies showed their visitors
their vast supply Of home-pieced
quilts. "This is the first four-patch
Jane ever made" announced one
proudly. displaying a quilt whose
blocks were made up Of four square
pieces.
"And this is Mary's nine-patch," ex-
planned Jane. "She made it when she
was only seven years old"
The third quilt was an embroidered
silk one, made of myriads Of tiny ir-
regular pieces-the gifts Of friends
and the remnants from ancient we'd
ding and reception clothes. James
stared at it a few minutes and then
he turned to his mother. els this one
an all-patch?" he asked.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Didn't Come Off.

In the belfry of a little church in
France the Germans placed a bomb
connected with wires to the mon
STRANGE on the altar. The idea was
that when the mcnstrance was moved
the resultant explosion would bring
the church down upon the heads of the
worshipers. Fortunately Marshal
Foch's little paragraph in his armis-
tice terms. to Wit, that German COM
manders would be held personally re-
sponsible for all damage done by in
fernal machines. prevented this char
acteristically Teuton performance from
coming off.-Rochester Post-Express.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Food and War.

We went into the war because the
German general staff held the convic-
ton that American wheat was more
dangerous to the Teuton army than
American soldiers could ever be. says
Ralph W. Page, whose discussion OF
the food situation appears in the
Worlds Work. They realized what we
soon discoyered-'that food will win
the war" The ruthless submarine
campaign that outraged Christendom
was primarily directed against the
transatlantic Journeys of the Chicago
pig en- route to the Tommy's hayersack.
Rather than risk the replenishment OF
the poilu's larder from the harvest
aelds of Kansas, William the Con-
quered elected to defy the republic.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Vehicle market In Siam.

Owing to the low-lying and often In
sndated plains of southern Siam, in
which most Of the rice farming is
done and in which road making is diff
ficult, and also the fact that transpor-
tation is easily afforded by the numer-
Gus canals which traverse the country
in every direction, there is not likely
to be any extended demand for farm
wagons or other vehicles for the use
of the Siamese farmer. 1t seems. how
ever, that considerable attention will
be given to road making in Slams
principal cities, notably in Bangkok.
and that therefore line of municipal
vehicles will be needed in the near
future.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Too Much Arithmetic.

Uncle Nose Lightfoot approached
clerk in the drug store and inquired: !:
Got any three-cent stamps?"
NO" the clerk replied. we're all
out of threes."
Oats too bad" said Uncle Nose.
"cause dis letter ought to go out to-
night"
1--WE have plenty of twos."
"But dis letter goes out of town"
"And we have plenty of ones"
"But one won't take 1t.
Couldn't you put on a two and a
one?"
"Huf?"
"Or three ones"
AS the old darty amhled toward
the door he scratched his head and an
swered:
Maybe could: maybe ] could: hut
| amt cot no time 70 be foolin roun'
trying to add up."-Youngstown Tele
gram.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
m HERALD AND hRW
CARING for British Soldiers.

For the British officers and men
who are to he kept in the field until
peace negotiations are concluded the
government is planning an educational
service corps to give them quick and
intensive special training to fit them
for civilian employment. Courses OF
instruction will cover industrial and
commercial organization. banking in
surance and accounting. A correspon
dence bureau will form part Of the
scheme. although most of the work OF
instruction will be done by staff OF
lecturers.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Rescued by Mother-in-Law.

William Olive Of Bridgewater, after
putting new roof on dog house in
his yard, was afraid the dog would get
cut on the nails sticking through. and
crawled in to clinch them on the in
side. When he had finished the job
he found that his coat was caught on
nail and he couldn't get out. He
made all the noise he could. and final
ly, after long while, his mother-in-
law heard him.-Boston Globe.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
RaiIroadin1.

Clvde Foster. a south side young
ster. has been much impressed recent
ly by warnings about the care of his
health so that he would not catch
the influenza and die and be taken to
the cemetery. His father is a railroad
man. and when Santa Claus came
around Clyde received a fine ehoo-
choo train. He was proudly exhibit
ing it to some neighbors, who asked
how much 1t cost to ride on his train.
"Three dollars" he said.
"Where can you go for s3?" one
asked.
Grown HILL" Clyde promptly an
swered.-Indianapolis News.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
Round Trip.

Aunt Mary Wells is one Of the few
''befo' de wah" darkies left in little
Kentucky town. Recently she was dis
cussing with her employer the merry
go-round that was running up on the
corner.
"Nawsuh, Mr.. Malcolm" she said,
''nawsuh, / dom ride on none O. dem
things. Why, Mr.. Malcolm. I've seen
some O. these here fool niggers git on
that thing and ride as much as dol
lars worth, and git off at the very
same place they gifts on at; an l sez
to 'em, Now you spent yo' money, mig
ger, whah yo' been?"-Saturday Eve
ming Post.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07
A NEwBERRY INTERVIEW.
Mr.. Higgins Tells His Experience.

The following brief accounts of an
interview with Newberry man four
years ago, and its sequel, will be read
with keen interest by eyerv citizen:
F. W. Higgins, civil engineer, 1870
Hunt ST., says: "My kidneys were
so weak, 1 seemed to have no control
over them. The pains in the right
side of my back were terrific and the
trouble seemed to be wholly in my
right side. There was a dull pain II
the back of my head and could
hardly walk at times, my feet were so
tender. l suffered in this way for
about two years before I read OF
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-02-07

Doan's Kidney Pills still holds good.
l was seriously affected with kidney
and bladder troGble and Doan's Kid
ney Pills gave more relief than any
kidney medicine 1 ever took. rec
cmm Id tilem frequently and know
they are just as represented"
Coo, at all dealers. Foster -Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, n Y.