The sun., 1919-01-03
NAVY PADRE HELPS
WRITE FOLLIES SONG
One Of Many Authors of Show
Which Will Make Debut
Here Sunday.
[. $. :. OKLAHOMA'S OWN

Production Will BE Given Free
in Lexington Theatre
Won Plaudits Abroad.
II is presfranged that there will be
prolonged and piercing cries OF Author.
author in the Lexington Theatre next
Sunday. and that thereupon Senior Lieut.
S. Childs. Senior Lieut. r. y. Kennedy.
Padre Lieut. the Rev. John +. B. Car
iuthers and Seaman Harry Abrahams
VIII advance to the footlisht and receive
the plaudits of the multitude.
They are the co-authors-manager
producers OF that rollicking deep sea
piece. The O-Ksy Follies OF 1919 with
a cast drawn entirely from the personnel
Of the L. s. s. Oklahoma. II will make
its metropolitan debut in the Lexington
sunday. It's authors believe its favor
able reception by an urban audience
may be Inferred As a matter of irresisti-
bic logic from the way tine sea dogs
snapped II up when II was tried out on
them at Bantry Pay in ireland, Wey-
/ mouth In England and somewhere or
other in Scotland.
The Padres subtle Lyric Lines.
In assuming to posterity the respon-
| sibility for something more than one
| seventeenth OF the text and an undis-
! closed portion OF the lyrics Padre Lieut.
| Carruthers sets the approval of his
| cloth on the piece and guarantees to
an expectant public the purity Of its
| inspiration and the lofty sentiments
which lend Il such force and dignity.
| In discussing yesterday during re-
| hearsal on the battleshp the travail and
responsibility of authorship he pointed
with pride to the lyric "On the Good
Ship Oklahoma" and said he believed
that 1t would get across with the New
York public and thai all Broadway
would be singing ii in a week II goes
| Ike this:
on the good chip Oklahoma. hniculi. fni-
L,shts are blinking while you're thinking
Good-hy TO all your sorrows for every
one is here to win the war.
On tho good ship Oklahoma, fniculi. tni-
| Gull hnlcula.
| "If you get the full subtlety of the
third line" said Padre Lieut. Car
ruthers, you will comprehend without
my going into the details the amount
of concentrated effort which we authors
as a class are compelled 10 put into
our work.
| Inspiration OF wild Wight.
"Of course, there was the original in
| spiration. the conception In the rough,
and which came to me out Of 5ust nothing
al all on one wild night at sea or
course. one says nothing about inspir,-
inv =vtf ItsIs AT n
full chiselling and polishing TO get exactly
the Indispensable illusion or naturalness
| into your lines after you have the main
scheme and embe uishments captive
| Wasn't II Whistler who said that thing
about taking great pains as to erase
all traces OF having taken pains at ALL
/ But. Anyway"
Here the voice OF Lieut. Kennedy.
breaking in from the far corner OF the
ward room with thu refrain from his
ms sterpiece, I'm the brother OF Lily
I Of the Valley which occurs in the sec
ond act words and music by Lieut.. r.
: y. Kennedy. L. :. NJ, and has never
/ IA led yet to set the galleries Giddv.
drowned the voice of the good man. And
waile he was still under but due TO
1 come up for air any second Senior Lieut..
! Chllds and Uncommon seaman Abra-
hams each posted himself in one OF the
other corners Of the room and began 10
bawl something by himself.
/ some of the Cast In Pettics.
Meanwhile tho cast. some OF them In
petticoats and the rest OF them IN pants.
We're struggling. each man ConceiV7nE
| himself the whole show in himself. 10 get
| into the compa nonway leading to a gun
deck d"ep down somewhere for the Yur-
poses of dress rehearsal. But to Il