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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

the slipshod productions Of fourth and
fifth companies that is their usual
portion.
One Of the hardships against which
the provincial actor struggles is the
difficulty of getting New York hear
ing, on which his whole success de-
Ponds. In combination with such CO.
operative theatres there is planned an
academy Of dramatic art to which all
provincial actors desiring a New York
appearance may come and where they
may receive a chance for recognition
The strike show is, naturally, an
ephemeral thing, and the plans Of
the strike, too, may be Of the same
unsubstantial stuff But 1t seems prac-
tically certain that the scattered forces
of the theatre can be reorganized only
on different terms. And the most ra-
tional would seem to be the comhina-
ton of all the resources of the thea
tre-the actors ardor, the playwright's
intellect, the decorators magma ton
and the managers shrewdness into
some sort Of working partnership.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Any Ne,U Plays
This Week.?

Notwithstanding the deadlock, man.
ayers continue optimistically to send
out announcements of new plays.
John D. Williams has, with doubtless
few mental reservations, promised
the opening Of up from Nowhere"
the new play by Booth Harrington and
Harry Leon Wilson, at the Comedy
theatre, on Monday night, with Nor
man Trevor, Cecil Yapp, Frederick
Howard, Ann Andrews, Grace Beale,
Olive Murray, Leota Miller and Mar
COLA Gilmore in the cast.
Rita Olcott also announces that she
will bring her play, "Lusmore," an
Irish romance, to the Henry Miller
Theatre on Monday night.
The Shuberts expect to bring into
New York Cosmo Hamilton's play,
Scandal" which has had a most sue
cessful run in Chicago. The play is
to open at the Thirty-ninth Street
Theatre on Thursday night, with
Charles Cherry and Francine Larri-
more in the leading roles. The play is
a dramatization of the novel by Mr..
Hamilton and deals with the exciting
events of a weekend party in the
home Of a millionaire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
By Rebecca Drucker

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The rent which the actors strike has
torn in the theatre is letting in more
than mere gusts of accusation and
counter accusation. 1t is admitting
some real discussion and, what is even
more dangerous, ideas. BY what strange
reversal of fortune has that poor lit
tie waif, the idea of the cooperative
theatre, heretofore kept feebly alive
by a few despised intellectuals. been
raised from a suppiiant on the door
step Of the theatre to place as well
come guest?
Few of the hundreds and thousands
Of people who are regular theatre
soers have been concerned with the
intentions and principles of our he'll
terskelter theatre system. Whether
The theatre is like any other piece Of
property, business from which it is
legitimate to extract the last drop of
profit, or whether it is really, in spite
If its adaptations, a temple still, a
we'll in the waste in which all have
some sort of share-these seemed aca-
dmic questions from which all but e
mall and irritable minority fought
by. Yet in the process Of the strike
it develops that these ar questions
very closely bound up with the pract-
cal physical conditions which have
brought about the crisis. And out of
the chaos into which the business has
been flung there seems to be emerging
set of retested and revalued ideas.
The conception that has suffered the
most damage is that the producing
manager is the wisest guiding hand
in the theatre. The theory that be-
cause he puts his money into a pro-
duction he is naturally the shrewdest
judge of what is good dramatic en-
tertainment is dlsproved season after
season by the small percer tage Of sue
cesses and the huge amount of waste
1t is the constant amazement of each
season on what scant justification
money is risked. This hit-o miss
gamblers courage is a quality very
different from that of true initiative
which is based on authoritative judg-
ment. 1t is the power of selection that
is most conspicuously rare in the
present generation of managers. There
is capable administration, skilled pro-
motion and shrewd speculation, but
these are not the glasses through
which to recognize plays and acting.
The most powerful managers of the
present day are business men-few Of
them are closely enough in touch with
he actual work Of the stage to be
trained in it's problems.
1t explains why the stage has not
received the same careful consdera-
tlon as the box Office, just as it ex-
plains the growth of the conditions
of which the strike is the expression.
The greater risk that the manager
takes has often been offered as a
sufficient reson for that arbitrary
ascendency of the box Office which
presses so hard on playgoer and actor
alike. After all, is not the greatest
risk that the manager invites the fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Four NetU Equity
Sh0,us to Open

Four new actors Equity show. will
open in New York and Brooklyn to-
morrow night, under the national
profit-sharing production plans Of the
striking actors. Chief among these is
the Equity Revue" a musical show
on the scale Of the late lamented
Follies and Gaieties, which will be
produced at the Second Avenue
Theatre, IS Second Avenue, with a
chorus Of fifty specially selected
beauties from noted choruses which
are now on strike.
The dramatic feature of the Equity's
production programme this week is at
the Lexington Avenue Theatre, where
Lionel Barrymore will appear in the
last act Of THE Copperhead."
Other stars Of the Lexington Ave
nue. Theatre programme are Johnny
Dooley and Yvette Rugel, the Equity
Minstrels-an act made up of we'll
known monologists - Adele Rowland,
Fred Hillebrand, who is announced as
new Equity discovery, Gertrude
Vanderbilt, Gladys Rice, Ray Ray
mond, Adelaide and Hughes, and the
Watson Sisters.
1.-THE Equity Revue" at the Second
Avenue Theatre, will be headed by
Roger Gray, musical comedy star.
Jimmy Barton, who is one of Equity
finds" will play the comedy part in
the new musical. Billy Kent, who was
a "Gaiety" star before the strike,
Nice and De Haven, the famous dan
GERS, and Arthur Barckley, another
Broadway light, will be among those
in the cast.
The Second Avenue show went into
rehearsal secretly five days ago. Rich
ard Gordon was appointed as manager
by Colonel Earle Boothe, Of the Equity
entertainment committee.
Most of this weeks Lexington Ave
nue. programme, including the Equity
dancers, Frank Fay, Marie Nordstrom,
John Steele and Marie Dressler's
chorus, will 60 to the Brooklyn Acad-
envy of Music tomorrow night. A spe-
cial anti-speculator posse has been or
gained to assure Brooklyn audiences
that they can purchase seats at the
box Office at the regular 81 to so cents
prices.
A show based on. the original "Gala
n
at the Lexington Avenue Theatre a
fortnight ago, will open at the Thomas
hefsky Theatre, Second Avenue and
Houston Street, tomorrow night. At
this house a precedent will be set by
establishing regular So prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Cooperative Theatre to
Have Its Chance

that ne so often does not know a play
when he sees it? The case of John
Ferguson" the most brilliant success
of the last theatrical season, is an
illuminating instance of this. 1t was
offered to all Broadway in the season
before it was produced, but no man
ager could be found among all those
experienced ones who was willing to
touch it. 1t was play for whose
success there was no precedent, and
not even the most reckless of them
would risk it. One manager offered
to take it if it were changed to meet
the conditions of popular taste as he
understood them. 1t is almost certain
that the play would have been ruined
in that case, and almost equally GER
tain that it would have failed. Yet, the
Theatre Guild, an untried and I'M
known body of obscure actors, risking
their own money, had the initiative
and courage to present it as it was
intended, and have provided at least
one brilliant example to justify the
cooperative theatre idea in New York
The entertainment committee of the
strikers is at present working on an
idea of the cooperative theatre to fit
present conditions. A play committee
reads plays and an entertainment COM
mttee passes on them. A casting COM
mittee selects casts after which it
should go to a stage director and
then into the hands Of the elected d.
rector of a company. Each player
would be shareholder in the play and
his efforts to make the play a success
would thus be doubled. Various groups
would be encouraged to impress their
work with the stamp of their per-
sonality. If group were more in
clined to develop lighter and more
popular forms of plays it could easily
do SO. Or it might, if it preferred
to identify itself with a classical rep
ertory. A group might organize it.
self for a single production or form
itself into an established company.
The possible combinations are many.
And these might be travelling COM
panies, or resident companies in small
er cities. Perhaps that waste lying
outside New York known as the "road"
might then get something better than
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Vaudeville

PALACE-Charles King will head
the bill. Other features are Jay
Gould and Flo Lewis, Ted Lewis, Ed
Gallagher and Joe Rolley, Brendel
and Burt, Mcmahon and Diamond, and
Reed and Tucker.
RIVERSIDE-Joseph E. Howard and
Ethelyn Clark divide headline posi-
ton with Gladys Clark and Henry
Bergman. The supporting bill includes
Mile. Nitta-Jo, the Klein Brothers, the
LAKELAND Naval Octet, Kerr and Wes-
ton, Davis and Darnell. the Breen
Family, and Catherine Powell.
COLONIAL-Anna Wheaton and
Harry Carroll head the bill, which
serves to reopen this theatre for the
season. Others on the bill are
Nonette, Clifton Crawford, Moss and
Frye, the De Wolfe Girls, Kranz and
La Sale, Gossler and Lusby and Dennis
Brothers.
ALHAMBRA-The reopening bill at
this theatre includes Gus Edwards.
Rooney and Bent, Henry Lewis. the
Three Rubes, Arthur Havel and Com
pany, Stanley and Birnes, Alfred Far
rell and company.
ROYAL-Anna Wheaton and Harry
Carroll head the bill, which includes
Henry Lewis, Lee Kohlmer and COM
pany, Alice Hamilton and company,
Barto and Clark, George and Paul
Hickman, the Dixie Duo and Camilla's
Birds.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-Burto Brown.
Nina Gardiner and Jack Bennett in
a revue of songs head the vaudeville
bill the first part of the week. The
picture feature will be Charles Raw
in "Bill Henry" The last part of the
week Grace Carlisle and Jules Romer
IN a song skit are the vaudeville
features. Catherine Calvert in 1.-THE
Career of Katherine Bush is the
picture feature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Theatre Guild to Cive
Play by Andreyeu

The Theatre Guild announces that it
rick Theatre the second week in Octo-
Der with an elaborate production of
"Savva," the famous revolutionary play
by Leonid Andreyev, which was prohib-
tied by the old regime in Russia. Sew
eral other plays will be given, but
these will not be announced until plans
for their production have been COM
pleted.
John Ferguson" St. John Ervine's
play, whose success has established the
Theatre Guild as permanent organi-
cation, will continue at the Fulton
Theatre until further notice.
The Garrick Theatre, which is the
permanent home of the Theatre Guild,
has been entirely remodelled for the
coming season. 1t was used last season
by the French company, and the
Theatre Guild was forced to undergo
many discomforts because of the in
elasticity Of the stage constructed by
jacques Copeau. Rollo Peters, the d.
rector of the Guild has installed q
new lighting apparatus and a new
proscenium arch. The Guild will have
its own dramatic workshop, and pro-
auctions will be made entirely by the
members of the company Rollo Peters
will design and direct the productions.
Other members Of the organization are
Augustin Duncan, Dudley Dgges, Henry
Herbert, Lawrence Langner, Philip
Moeller, Walter Geer, Helen Freeman,
Helen Wesley. Mary Blair, Lee Simon
son and Maurice Wertheim.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31

Shorter ReheursaLs Should
! Gre Us Better Acting

fame, just as much a. it is his own
talent as performer"
This line Of reasoning leaves US be-
wildered, for if the theatre depends
not SO much on the actors art as the
managers business acumen what be-
comes Of the argument that it j. be-
meath tha actors dignity to organize 7
What becomes Of the cry that the
lofty tradition Of the theatre must mt
be impaired?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
Benefit to Aged
Minstrel Tonight

At the Manhattan Opera House to-
night an sll-star cast, including Willie
Collier, Houdini, Charles K Harris, the
song writer; Eva Tanguay, Chic Sale,
Grace La Rue and one hundred other
Broadway favorites will APPEAR at the
benefit performance 70 be rendered the
Pagan. Owing to the length OF the pro-
gramme, the curtain will rise at 1880.
The musicians and stagehands' unions
have pledged themselves to carry
through the performance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-31
''Oh, CirT' Company
At Columbia Theatre

At the Columbia Theatre next week
the "Oh, Girl" company will present
two-act burlesque called Passing ths
Buck" The company is headed by
Danny Murphy, Ted Burns and Gene
Moran, and they will have the assist
ance of Drena Mack, Josephine Yourge,
frankie Burns, Ester Lange, Raymond
Payne and Carl De Angelo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-01

company down to the office boy. He also visited other tire companies at Akron. He went to Flint, Mich, where he watched the big Buick factory make cars. He stated that the work is carried out like clock work, and that every little detail is double checked to assure every Buick to be perfect in construction before be-
 ing shipped to the dealers and distrib- utors. A visit to the Federal Motor Truck company at Detroit was very interesting, too, said MT. Thelen. Every part of the Federal truck is tested for strength and dependable service before being assem- bled. This factory has a high-class or ganization of experts and they know everything that is necessary to build better trucks
 Friends of MT. Thelen kept pouring
 into his office yesterday when they heard he had returned from his trip east He gave some educationa information about the conservation of tires and the proper use of them. He made a thorough study of the accessory and automobile business on this trip and he is fresh with many advanced ideas used by the big factories. He visited some of the modern service sta- tions in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and has benefited by the experience of some of the oldest concerns in the business. His aim is to give motorists service backed by the best lines of accessories, and it is expected that he will show a wonderful increase in his line this year.
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The Shah of Persia introduced automo- ,iles in his country in 1900, purchasing he finest specimen of a 'horeseless car 'iage" that the market then afforded. The first motorized parcel delivery ser ice in the middle west was inaugurated Detroit, organized under the name the Automobile Rapid Service Delivery pmpany, in 1900, with six motor cars. The use of the automobile horn was in- ngurated in France, and was adopted ! automobile manufacturers in this coun- fy in 1900 to substitute whistles, bells, pngs and the many other devices used seretofore on automobiles to the con :sion of pedestrians and drivers alike. In 1900, Buffalo. N. Y., claimed the dis notion of having more motor carriages ian any other city of it's size in the nited States. The estimated number of iese vehicles was about 70.
 Self-propelled lunch wagons made their rst appearance in Worcester, Mass. in 8.
 Tn 1900 there was only one motor car Sned in Topeka, Kan, and that belonged 1 the owner of a small machine shop, uO DullC the enIiIe IIfdCIlllc llilliSCils
 
 Tn Detroit. motor cabs could be hired for San hour in 1899.
 The first automobile funeral wagon ever Tt into successful service was owned b a prominent Philadelphia undertaken il the summer of 1900.
 The first automobile supply company Hs organized in St. Louis, where re- til store was opened in 1900
 Son- slipping pneumatic tires for auto pbiles were brought out in 1900.
 he absurdity of some of the early au- tonobile laws is evinced by the following itns which appeared in a motor maga- zie in 1900: Recently a chauffeur whose nichine was broken down was taken in tU by another horseless carriage; but a pliceman appeared on the scene and
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after solemn deliberation, that the word automobile" is masculine.
 The New York postoffice department re- ported in 1900 a saving of 15 minutes per trip as result of its tests with motor vehicles for the collection of mail in the downtown districts.
 That the utility of the automobile was recognized very long ago is evinced by the following extract from an editorial which appeared in a magazine devoted to automobiles in 1899: "The number of vehicles used for pleasure purposes now is small compared with those used for business purposes. And it is more than probable that this proportion will be in creased by the entrance of the motor into the field Not that the pleasure carriage is to be ignored. It is merely the minor phase of the subject
 Mana ageability, noiselessness,' simplicity, appearance, were the points competed for by the drivers of motor vehicles entered in one of the early automobile races.
 Records in 1900 show that at that time the total capitalization of all automobile manufacturers amounted to over $500. .000.- 000
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Highway transportation is one of the oldest forms or modes in existence. It has had its development through cen trries of evolutionary progress, from the times when the pyramids were new, and then some up to the present time
 Transportation over the highways from the dawn of Egypt's greatness was car ried on by caravan over the desert. over a trackless waste. which may not be called highway, as we know it. but a highway nevertheless. This was followed by the pack mule the horse and finally we come to the. great Roman highways, through which Rome conquered the world.
 From the birth of our nation trans portation over the highways has been rather slow in advancement, for with the horse as the pulling power, distance could not be covered economically or swiftly and so we were forced to turn our attention to transportation by water and the later development by rail. These methods served well in building up an inland empire and in blazing the way for civilization in it's march to the Pacific.
 But while our waterways and our rail- ways opened the way. they were limited in capacity and were soon overburdened py the coiiinerce Wnlcn IoucWeu Tn tnelr wake. Then, too, the new work of rails which reached across the continent passed by and failed to reach vast areas of our country, which in later years were to furnish the great bulk of our food products.
 So, after centuries. when we had thought of transportation over the high ways as thing that was dead and past recovery, the motor truck comes on the scene, and not only revived this method of transportation in time of need, when three-fourths of the world was carrying on way for liberty, but breaks all rec4 ords in smashing time in war and peace time hauling. as ,Sg
 The advance of the Germans was halted by the dispatch in which troops and ordnance went forward on the bat tlefields of France.
 Food products which were raised on
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millions of acres, remote from our rail- ways and waterways reached tidewater via the motor truck. so that we were able to produce more and send more to our armies and our allies.
 The war is now over, but still we must feed the world, and if we are going to . do it. and in addition, lower the cost of living, we must induce the farmer to cul tivate and produce more. He will do it If we can furnish the means of transporta- tion.
 r You have the means when you apply the motor truck. when you organize and operate a rural motor express If you will do this and give it's management as much intelligent thoughts as you would any business you will not only succeed but you will have rendered your nation a service which is worth while
 Motor transport days are being held in many states and hundreds of cities throughout the country Many have al- ready been held and great results have come from them in making a bigger. better and richer community Make your slogan, Rural Motor Express and Better Highways Will Lower the Cost of Liv- ing"
 What are you doing. Is your town pushing ahead in this new development? :?
 One of the big features is a fleet of military trucks from Fort Wayne. A large army buss will lead the parade which will carry Governor Sleeper. Mayor Cozens and William E. Metzger. grand marshal.
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Our method of moulding our cord tires, with their separate layers of cords thoroughly impregnated with live, supple rubber, by, air pressure instead of the old system of solid moulds, adds greatly to the resiliency and durability of Federal Tires.
 Federal Double Cable Base Cord Tires are saving money for those who use them. They will save you money as soon as you begin to use them.
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Science and Industry.
From TeSlie'S

ETOln Leslie s.
 With the declaration of peace the world is going to enter the keenest commer- cial strife it has ever known. Everybody but ourselves is getting ready for it. Germany will make every effort to re- gain her supremacy in science. England has made an appropriation of $5,000,0o for the promotion of research. Japan, Australia and Canada are planning great research laboratories of physics and chemistry. All the other allied powers are taking up the problem. New indus trial laboratories, under the spur of self interest, are springing up everywhere Back of this, however a fundamental scientific research upon which industrial progress depends, but which industry may not be expected to provide. In this emergency the Rockefeller Foundation comes forward with half million-dollar appropriation to promote fundamental research in physics and chemistry in some 150 colleges and universities in the United States. The results of this pioneer work are to become public property, and ' i'll be of immeasurable value in the industrial competition with other coun- tries
 Chromite is being shipped to Guate-
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Salesmanship.
From the Raleigh Times.

From the Raleigh Times
 Mrs. I.adybird was very proud of her feet They were carrying her very rapidly at this juncture toward a boot establishment. On making known her requirements. an assistant brought out a selection of shoes for her to try on.
 That's strange madam" said he. after many vain attempts to fit her. "One of your feet is larger than the other"
 This was too much for his customer. Bristling with rage, Mrs. Ladybird left the store and sought another But
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A Page From Yesterday
The First Auto Horn-Invention of NonSkd Tires-Toa Capital Invested by the Manufac of Automo-
 piles in the Year 1900

placed him under arrest, because two ve- hicles form a train, and the circulation of automobile trains is forbidden.
 In 1900 the French academy decided.
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yell known in Birmingham, joined the Birmingham Motor company some weeks ago, and is ready now to impart valuable ir formation about the automobile and tire business. MT. Thelen spent four weeks in the east where he visited the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company at Akron. who're he watched the manufacture Of Goodyear tires from beginning to end. He stated that this company has a won derful organization and cooperation and
 service extends from the head of the
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here again no goods displayed proved entirely satisfactory.
 "How curious. madamr' exclaimed the assistant. at length. ''one of your
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feet is much smaller than the other.''
 And with a beaming smile Mrs. Ladybird bought two most expensive pairs.