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New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Fred Stone Needs Big Box
OfTricks to Keep Ahead of .
Small Boys of the Countr,

The youth of the land keep Fred
Stone, he Of curly hair and versatility,
on the constant search for new fields
to conquer. He admits it. The boys
who do fip-faps out in the haymow
and over the back yard fence make it
necessary for him always to have a
new trick in his box. It's just like
this:
Mr.. Stone, who has just appeared in
"Jack O. Lantern" at the Montauk
Theater. Brooklyn, does new step
in a play this year, and within two
years thereafter every Tom Sawyer in
the wide country has copied him, and
il he attempts to do it before them
again they report quite freely to the
folks at home that Fred Stone haint
got nothin' on me, | do that one"
He learns to skate like floating
breeze one year, as he did in "Jack
O. Lantern" few seasons ago, and be-
fore he arrives back in the Middle
West the next year all the boys are
turning the village sidewalks into
Kinks.
Likewise, when he twirls lasso
after the fashion Of wild and woolly
Westerner, all the freckle-faces from
Harlem to the Battery and all the way
to Seattle buy up clothes line and be-
come Red Gulch Petes. He is their
idol. And they seem never to find
one too difficult to try.
Mr.. Stone, incidentally, is the happi-
est one of all to see his own stunts"
being shown for pin or an old pants
button in dingy back yard. Often
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Producers Fight Fake
''ScEsools'' for Making
Motion Picture Stars

A campaign has been launched in
California for fighting against the fake
motion picture schools" which offer in
advertisements to the papers to make
film stars of any one for certain sums
OF money. The movement is backed by
Al Christie, the widely known motion
picture comedy producer. and has m ct
with the approval of every director and
producer on the Coast, according to re-
ports received in the New York Offices.
According to Christie, who has been
directing and producing pictures for
nine years, about the only school for
teaching young men and women to act
before the camera is the school of ex-
per,ence. 1t is the same story, he saws.
seriously. The school of education
through actual work and contact with
the business itself is the only one that
leads to success.
Mr.. Christie's studio was the first
ever to be erected in Hollywood, Calf.
which now is the mecca for film stars
Ind studio folk. He says he has vet
TO Know star in the film world whose
success came from attending school or
reading in books how to act. Such
stars as the late Harold Lock-
wood, Louise Glaum. Roscoe Arhuckle,
vivian Rich and Billy Rhodes are among
those who have performed in his pro-
ductions, and each of them came to his
or her respective place in the motion
picture world through hard work and
the wall to devote energy and effort to
their calling.
SIT is shame" Christie said re-
Gently, "that so many young persons
have been tricked into believing thew
could become stars over night by study
ing the pamphlets sent out by these
schools In our campaign we hope to
show to everybody that there is only
one real school for learning TO act-the
sc chool of exnerinnce
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
.. P. Heggggie Sought Acting
Experience Here and i'm
Great Britain, and Found Tt

From Australia, his native heath. to
England and the United States, was
the path traversed by o. P. Heggie in
search of tho acting experience he
needed. He wanted to play leading
roles in Melbourne and Sydney and.
try as he would, he could not get one.
Foreign actors, principally Englishmen
and Americans, were occupying and
were being placed in the important
parts: Heggie complained to the man
ager, an American, pioneer from the
United States, who has since become
one OF the leaders in things theatrical
in the Antipodes.
australians are not qualified for
leading parts" he told young Heggie.
ihey can go to a certain level and
then stop. They have not the experi-
ence and the training that the Amer
leans and the English have"
so Heggie, being an ambitious young
actor, set forth to seek further school
ing for his work on the stage He has
come along SO far in the profession,
however. both on the English and the
American stages, that he has never
had an opportunity to 60 back to Aus
parts which he desired in youth. He
is receiving ali the opportunity he
wants here.
Mr.. Heggie had just finished his eve
ning's performance in Sophie" at the
greenwich Village Theater and was
talking from the tiny, makeshift dress
ing room. scarcely large enough for one
person, out into the darkness of the
stage. Now he is playing in Foot
Loose Zoe Akins' adap Oa,ion OF the
famous Forget by H. C. Meri-
vale and F. c. Grove, at the same thea
ter: Mr.. Heggie also staged the play
Yes, was reading law when de-
cided to go on the stage. Once was
given as much as S5 week
tor my work. Later when | was offered
81 to make a change l cons idered
that was doing very we'll"
10 those who think that the modern
theories of raising and training child
rem are entirely too lax the story of
Mr.: Heggie's childhood in the Aus
tralian bush will come as welcome re-
lief. Others are likely to regard it az
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
House Full of Books
And Garden of Flowers,
This Actors Hobbies
When is an actor not an actor?


When he's a landscape decorator
That question was asked and an
| swered recently at tie Longacre lhe-
ater when Richard Sterling, OF Adam
and Eva" arrived at the theater, as
usual, just in time to don his stage
attire and appear in the play
A friend of the actor had been
through Douglaston. Long Island
earlier in the day and had found me
actor in overalls and blouse setting
out shrubbery around has home. dig
ging and spading and hoeing as II ne
were veteran at the business;
And he is. 1t is doubtful j. there Is
a home in Douglaston where more ell
fort has been expended this year thar
at the home of Mr.. Sterling. He be-
iieves if one is to be at his best IN ms
profession he must so arrange his ne
at home thrt it corresponds and In
Guces brightness and comfort.
~ can remember" Mr. Sterling says
when spent half my days am nights
on Broadway slipping tea and talkihg
shop with others OF my prol esslon'
and | want to tell you thai /, WASH
until | had my own home and began
planting my own flowers that | founa
real happiness.
81 believe there's nothing that goes
VI .ICI tOWdId uidhihS N"S
woman's life enjoyable than the care
Of fowers-especially flowers around
ones own home. Much as | disiike 70
say it, should prefer digging arouhg
my flowers and planting new kinds ano
seeing them blossom and grow than u
see whole season of theatrical per
tormances.
"Flowers, next to good books. are tns
greatest medium in the wo ! for 'aN-
ing ones mind away from .he worries
and cares of everyday things, ana 10
the young man or young woman Jus
starting in the profession %oui.
advise a little home where mere
room for a flower bed, and all the time
spent there that possibly can be spen'
away from the dressing room.
Mr.. Sterling says he spends every
bright day at home in his gardens anu
on Wednesdays and Saturdays when
there are matinees, he can barely "ais
until time to "catch the train" pacA
to Douglaston. ..,
"A lot of people tell NE they thinS
l perform my work better now tha'.
ever before. tell them all IFS M!
flowers at home that have brcngns
about the change Really, that ma!
be exaggerating bit. but just ths
same, it's a great help and those who
don't know the d'ffere""" -
sweetpea and violet have my SYM
pathy."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Puppet Stage Demands
Skillful Handling for
Success, Says Producer

There are few dramatic arts that de.
mand more detailed and delicate
handling than that of the puppet
stage. according to Miss Ellen Van
Folkenberg. who is directing the pro-
ducton Of the midsummer Nights
Dream" which is to open at the Little
Theater on the 18th. Her marionettes
will be the actors.
"The puppet theater is essentially
for artists and children" she says
''if we are to believe in the indications
OF century or more.
Puppets have been a diversion for
many famous geniuses. Goethe in his
memoirs says that they were one of the
greatest of his infantile joys, and de-
clared that he got his idea for Faust
from them. Haydn wrote many charm
ing pieces of music for the puppet thea
ter, among them his famous Fa. ewell
Symphony. in which the musicians re-
tire, one by one, each blowing out his
candle as he leaves. Gordon Craig
owns his own sleater in Florence.
otudenLS from MS School, lC Is SAID,
relate that they never have seen any
thing on any stage that has touched
such depths of sadness as one of his
tragic puppet plays. Such well-known
names as Louis Picard, Jacob Bradl.
Joseph Wackerle, James Ensor and
Gregoire Le Guy are connected with
the enterprises of the marionette
stage in Europe.
Perhaps it fires the artistic imagi-
nation because it contains somethinp
Of that Godlike spirit Of the Creator
that of breathing life into the inani-
mate. Then, too. nicely and care for
detail are necessary which is dear to
the real artists heart"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Will Open Tomorrow

The New Brighton Theater. Ocean
Parkway, Brighton Beach, will open for
the summer season tomorrow after
noon, with Trixie Friganza as the prin-
cipal attraction. Sheila Terry, in
"Three's Crowd; Harry Langdon in
"Johnny's New Carr; Joe Cook in
"The One-Man Vaudeville Show;
Keegan and Edwards, known as Jag
aZ-1z" and "Ukulele Ike; Bob Nelson
and Frank Cronin, the Valenteenes and
the Van Cellos complete the program
for the orenine week
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

made bids to work for SIS day II
film in order to see whether they
would photograph"
Artists wishing to gain a more in
innate knowledge of the working facli
ties of the picture star go to the film
studios, and recently one of the mos
widely known artists in the Unitee
States, after watching the filming OF
9, play for one day, left the studio with
the remark that never before had he
seen such precision, such absolute de-
termination on the part Of every per
son involved to sacrifice personal am.
the pictAre itself. ''''N' success o.
Every one seemed to fit into niche
hat was made for him." he said
There was no confusion and no noise
The directors orders were followed
with clocklike precision"
In California, where motion picture
studlos are so numerous that one can
ride th'orrh aN entire day in an auto
bile and not be without the bounds
OF studio for more than half hour
at any time, the girls schools con-
tribute largely to the extra ranks Of
he pictures. In order to learn ex-
preston and grace and ease, the
teachers of the schools apply for the
privilege of placing their pupils be-
re the camera, and what once was a
dlfflcult task-that of obtaining enough
supers to place in the background while
the principals do their work-has come
tc be anything but difficult now.
1t has been said that there are verv
rev young women and young men in
Los Angeles who have not in some
manner appeared before the Pickering
cellulold. Of course, many of them hope
some day to become real, dyed IN the
wool motion picture artists themselves
but from the fashionable homes each
week 90 hund eds Of YOUNGSTERS to
clasp hands and twist and gigrle as thev
stand IN the background while the direc-
tor shouts his orders to those CARRYING
out the plot of the play.
In the plays by William S. Hart
cowboys and cowgirls from the lower
part Of California, where they live in
studio of "fIero Bill" to- take Their ne gn1a' {nrn
~ Hart welcomes them and hands
them their SIS gladly, because thew ara
precisely the types he needs.
And so, all in all, one must remember
again that things sometimes are not
what they seem to be- When you see
smiling young thing standing in as
a super next time you attend the
theatGr, don't judge your friend and
Say Doesn't she look silly?" Because
ne may he the woman who draws
the cover decorations for your fa.
Sor''H s,, magazine. And likewise, if the
ietl'i acting as an extra" in the next
cou- room scene you witness on H.
screen appears bit green, don't iudre
TOO quickly. He may be your tailor
shere to learn the latest cuts of the
fashions. - '"o
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Don't Mock the Film ''Super'';
Your Favorite Cartoonist Nav
Be There for Atmosphere -

Who are all those hundreds who
make up the unidentified throngs sur
rounding the principals in the latest
film production at your motion picture
theator? What are they? Of course,
you know they're just ordinary, every
day so-called "supers" and "atmos-
pheres," but who are they7 Where do
the picture firms get them? Why on
earth, you say, will those men and
women stand about, nonchalantly
and blankly gazing away into the
faces, particularly, but grease paint
and occasionally smile?
II you think they are not seriously
at work, you mistake! If you think
the "atmosphere" of the ordinary large
motion picture production is a Thought
less, aim!ess parsonage, who has moth
ing more 20 do than to offer his or her
services at the regulation S. a day, you
ha"o much to learn.
Gone Of the public's pet delusions," ;"
a large motion picture director said
extras are obscure people Of limited
means, to whom success is but al un
fulfilled dream. AS popular contem-
porary artist once remarked It's all
wrong ii is q matter of record that
many who are classed as atmosphere
In the film studio really possess tai
ents in other lines of work that have
brought them fortunes and national
recognition.
Typical of this class is the case of
a we'll known New York cartoonist who
went to a New Jersey studio recently
to seek work as an extra Under q
film name he worked day after day,
and with on y one purpose In mind
to learn the inside life Of tho 6)p, NOV
former, so that he might more accu-
rateiy draw his cartoons for the daily
newspapers.
There are women from the finest
dressmaking establishments on Fifth
Avenue who go to the New jersey.
New York and Long Island studios and
apply for parts as 'supers' for the
purpose Of observing the latest cut of
gowns and mems clothing, for it is
ackn nowledged that the American
motion picture actor or actress is the
originator of many of the fashionable
gowns and articles Of wearing apparel
used throughout the land"
= The director said that on several
occasions legitimate actors from
broadway productions had applied
plays in order to study the work of
the actors in the plays as we'll as to
try out their own faces on the screen.
If the observing motion picture
lover would look carefully the next
time he sees q hundred or more per
sons being used as "supers" in big
picture, he no doubt would find many
faces familiar to him on the legitimate
stage. No fewer than a hundred New
York actors have obtained their first
try-outs in pictures through having
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
In Picture Theaters

CAPITOL-"Shore Acres" new film
drama. and concerts by Capitol Or
chestra.
RIVOLI-Noah Beery as the Sea Wolf
in a new version of Jack London's
"The Sea Wolf"
RIALTO-Ethel Clayton in "A Lady in
Love" written by Harriet Ford and
Caroline Duer.
CRITERION - "Why Change Your
Wife will continue into its fourth
week. Thomas Meighan and Gloria
Swanson featured.
DROADW AY-Rex Beach's "The Silver
Horde
STRAND-Doris Keane in "Romance.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

STASDARD-navid Belasco's produc-
ton Of "Daddies." by John l.. Hobble,
Will be here for q return engage
ment.
6UCBERT-RrvIERA -- Rachel Croth-
srs' "s9 East" with the original
cast headed by Henry Hull and Con-
week.
COLUMBIA-"Folly Town" starts to-
morrow for summer run.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Bicycle. Not Car. for Her

Marion Davies, Cosmopolitan fim
star, has gone back to her first love, the
bicycle, and in spite of the lure of many
motors, she may be seen on all hne
mornings peralin through Central
Park. Miss Davies Is no amateur wheel
woman. At Palm Beach last winter she
won out in picked crew of society
men, all we'll known cyclists.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Irish Drama i'm Village

Modern Irish drama, Gaelic music,
poetry and dancing will be represented
In the programs Of the Celtic PLAYERS
at the Provincetown Theater, 1873 Mac
dougal Street. in the season which
starts on May "a and ends on August
%. The first bill will run until June
Il when the second will be presented
and the third and final bill starts on
July 10.
, For the first bill 1.-THE Singer" bv
Padraic II. Pearse; "Riders to the
Sea-" by John Millington Synge; "A
Minutes Wait" by Martin McHuch.
and an interlude "At the Bend Of the
Road" will be presented.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Film by r. III. Davisss Brother

. Dorothy Dalton has begun work on
"A Winter City Favorite," story by
Charles Belmont Davis, brother of the
late Richard Harding Davis. The adap
tation OF the story, which ranges in its
scenes from the old French Quarter of
New Orleans to a football game in the
Yale bowl, vas made by Coeina Henlov
and VIII llN directed by Harley Enolcs
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Magazine Cover Girl in Films

Martha Mansfield, magazine cover
girl" and Ziegfeld Follies beauty, has
signed long term contract to appear
in Selznick Pictures. Miss Mansfield's g
face has appeared on practically every
magazine cover in the country. She
played an important role in Eugene
O'Brien's "The Perfect Lover" re-
leased by Selznick Pictures.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-03-13
GREGoRIAN CONGRESS.

His Grace Most Rev. Archbishop
Hayes has given his cordial APPROX
al and blessing to a projected must
cal and liturgicai event that bids
fair to attract the attention OF Cath
olics not only OF our own country,
but of all the other countries of the
world. It is an event which will
also profoundly interest all non
Catholics who are music lovers and
students of musical progress and
development. For IL may now be
definitely announced that all ar
rsngements have been perfected for
great International Gregorian
Congress, to be held in st. Patrick's
Cathedral, New York. June /, 2 and
3. Last years congress was held at
Lourdes In France and attracted
thousands OF music pilgrims to the
far famed Grotto. Other congresses
have been held at various European
centers with marked success, but II
Is confidently expected that the one
to be held In New York In June will
surpass all that have gone before.
The world famous authority on
Gregorian chant, Dom Mocquereau,
will come from Quar- Abbey in Eng
land 10 be the principal director Of
the congress. while the equally cele-
brated organist, Joseph Bonnet.
from st. Eustache, Paris, will be the
grand organist. These two world
figures will dominate the musical
proceedings OF the congress.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-03-13
THEY SHOULD VOTE.


The League OF Women Voters has
been holding a convention In Chi
cage. The organization takes the
place of the American Woman Suf-
frage Association. now that ratifica-
ton of the Federal amendment pro-
'vidlng for woman suffrage Is GER
tain. Only few Southern States,
Virginia. Maryland, Georgia. Ala
bama and Mississippi, have gone on
record against the amendment,
though several States have yet TO
vote upon II. There is no longer
any doubt that the women OF the
nation will be given full suffrage
rights this year. The old political
parties are already planning to get
out the women voters. Very few
Catholic women have been promi-
nent in the movement for suffrage.
There was perhaps reason for this
In the fact that the church's spokes-
men were for the most part neutral
on the question. Cardinal Gibbons
was frankly opposed to the move
ment. Other prominent churchmen
were In. favor OF It. Most of them
were neither for nor against. They
regarded II as outside their sphere
TO discuss II az political question.
Our Catholic women, too, were re-
Iuctant, for the most part. TO min
gle In the hurly-buriy Of politics.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-03-13
FATHER LOWE WRITES.

Rev. F. A. Lowe, an English
priest. has written letter TO the
Manchester Guardian which Is ex-
ceedingly full of what, In this coun-
try. we call pep" Among other
things Father Lowe has this to say:
For long centuries England has
sought TO hamper and cripple Irish
trade and commerce. Never once
has she allowed Ireland a free hand
in trade and industry. II we read
Lecky's history of England In the
eighteenth century we shall see in
letters of blood and fire England
unparalleled record of tyranny and
robbery against the sons OF Erin.
There Is not single bright page In
England's treatment of Ireland. Ire
land has nothing to thank England
for" Now will Lloyd George at
tempt to silence this patriotic Eng
lish priest7
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-03-13
WOMAN HELPS BUILD STATUE.

Mrs. Paul w. Bartlett, wife of
Paul W. Bartlett, the we'll knowu
American sculptor. came to her hus-
bands rescue when he found him
self compelled to make the knights
of Columbus statue OF Lafayette for
Metz In France. Bartlett was at q
loss TO proceed with work on the
statue, which is a duplicate OF the
equestrian Lafayette presented 70
France by the school children OF
America some years ago. There
was hardly a foundry In France
where where the work OF moulding
the colossal body of the statue could
be executed. but Mrs. Bartlett. who
was In Paris. was commissioned 70
find one Within three days she
cabled to her husband In New York
that she had found one plRce-the
only place in France capable OF
handling the big job. The statue,
with the aid of the French Govern
ment, ia now in process OF mould
ing. But 1t Will take considerable
time, as besides the body of the
statue, representing Lafayette on his
horse about to leave Metz 20 fight
In the American revolution, carries
shing at the tomb OF Lafayette.
Marshal Foch addressing the Su-
preme Officers OF the X. of @. when
he prophesied q quick end to the
war in August, 1918, President
Wilson addressing his war message
to Congress, and Christopher Colum-
bus In the act OF discovering Amer
lea. The. members Of the Knights
OF Columbus are raising a fund OF
$4,000 to pay for the statue asd q
large pilgrimage OF Knights will go
to Metz In August for the unwilling.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-03-13

money their military establishment
in ireland Ia costing TO assist the
people with hospitals and medical
treatment and schools there might
be different story TO tell. am no
Sim Feiner or Irish propaganda.
But In the streets OF Ireland / en-
countered more people who needed
medical attention than / have ever
seen In my life. They we're crippled
old men and women, children and
young men. / do not know where
the source OF the stories OF the Sim
Fein riots emanate, but l suspect
some yellow journalism somewhere
along the line. Half OF the crimes
attributed to the Sim Feln are sc-
tually perpetrsted by demobilized
soldiers who still have the lust for
brutality and murder. Bank rob-
bers. shootings OF policemen, etc.
are found upon investigation to be
nothing more than shindigs which
have their inception after copious
drinking. The assailants In so per
cent. turn out TO be former sol
dierS"
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1920-03-13

But whatever reluctance there may
have been In the past, there can no
longer be any excuse for Catholic
women neglecting to avail them
selves OF the privilege bestowed up
on them. To vote. and to vote in
telllgently, is now a duty incumbent
on them. Whether they were favor
able t. woman suffrage or opposed
TO It, the duty of voting is now
theirs. And the duty OF preparing
TO use the ballot intelligently and
we'll is theirs also. ~ During the COM
ing years a great deal will depend
on the use our Catholic women
make of the power that IS conferred
upon them. If they leave The vot-
ing 10 others they may soo6. find
that religion and Christian eSuce-
ton will be hampered by hostile,
iegislation. To safeguard their own
and their children's rights Catholic
women must register and vote. AS
the True Voice points out. the new
privilege which has been given them
brings with It q new responsibility.
Catholic women can not now shlrk
the duty of voting and be blsmeiess.