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New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
The Diaz Rule

Considering that some so per
cent of the population of Mexico
was and remains totally illiterate,
there was something to be said for
scientific government, which was,
in brief, an acknowledgment that the
Mexican people were, for all Mexi-
co.'s democratic constitution, totally
unfit for self-government. AS was to
be expected, the people did not agree,
and least of ali the Zapatistas. For
the Cientifcos, considering, as was
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century or two after it's settleme
by Hungarians.
Ancient Dacia

The most important of the two
propositions doubtless refers to the
racial antecedents Of the Rumanan
people. After all, priority of set
tlement, though Of great historic in
terest, does not in itself establish a
title to a country. One striking fact
at any rate should be remembered
that the territory actually inhabited
by Rumanians, most Of which as a
result of the war has been incor-
porated in the Kingdom Of Greater
Rumania, comedies almost exactly
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residents will return they will be
greeted with open arms. You NAV
go where you will, he explains with
appropriate gesticulation-you may
take your wife and family with you,
and nowhere in Morelos will you
find the least disturbance or be treat
ed with anything but the most dis
tinguished courtesy
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Guards Route to Asia

Next to Russia she is the greatest
wheat country of Europe, and her
oil fields are the richest; she holds
The estuary of the Danube, most I'M
partant of Continental waterways;
and the shift in the lines of Euro
pean communications, due to the
great war, makes her guardian of
one Of the most important land
routes to Asia, that which is marked
by the 45th parallel, the line
Bordeaux -Marseilles- Milan Venice
Belgrade Bucharest Constanza-
Batoum- -Baku stretching from the
Atlantic to the Caspian and CON
Meeting the port of New York, via
Bordeaux, with the Caucasian coun-
tries and the rich provinces of Tur-
kestan.
In the wake Of its great political
and economic rise follows closely the
reorganization OF the Rumanian
state on modern democratic lines.
Originally country Of large es-
tates, to-day Rumania possesses one
OF the most thoroughgoing land laws
In Europe. limiting the maximum
holdings To 100 hectares and allot-
ting the area gained by expropriat-
ing the balance Of estates among
the peasantry. The rights Of racial
mlnOrlties Incorporated through the
annexation Of the new provinces
are safeguarded by law, and it is
significant that whereas in Hungary
Socialists are outlawed there are a
number Of Hungarian Socialist
Deputies from Pennsylvania in the
Rumanian parliament. Several OF
the Karolyist republicans have
found refuge from the persecution Of
Horthy's regime in Rumania and are
working for a good understanding
between that country and the COM
ing Magyar democracy. In the field
OF foreign policy Rumania stands
for peace and reconciliation, and the
Foreign Minister, Nj. Take Jonesco,
Is foremost among the statesmen
who work for an alliance of all
southeastern European countries.
Proud of Latin Origin
There is in the history of every
nation central fact around which
crystalline the traditions, dreams
and aspirations of its thinkers, lead
ers, artists and writer's, which
serves at once as the fountainhead
and the supreme goal of national
consciousness. For the Rumanian
people this central fact is repre-
sented by the idea of Latinity, of
the Roman origin of the Rumanian
race, language and culture.
Racial theories of history have
lately fallen into disfavor owing
chiefly to the kind Of quacSery that,
I
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Latin Traits Persist

By contrast, for a thousand years
Rumanians were subjected to Slav
influences much stronger, because
more universal and exclusive than
the trend toward Latinism has ever
been in Poland. The Rumanians
adhered to the Byzantine form of
Christianity; they were completely
isolated, until quite recent times,
from the sister Latin nations of the
West; Slav was the language of
their church, of their administration,
their schools; the very Rumanian
language, so far as it was written at
all, was written in Slavo-Greek char
acters. And yet these centuries of
Slavonization could not eradicate the
essential Latinism of the Rumanian
people and its language, and foreign
oppression affected them as little
Nothing demonstrates more clearly
the vitality of this Latin heritage
than the fact that the Rumanian
national renaissance, though started
IN the wake of the Greek war Of
liberation, marked also tremen-
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no doubt hanging his prisoners with
equal enthusiasm.
at is the same with his secretary
and the rest Of his entourage. We're
you told that they were the Mayor
and corporation of some small Eng
llsh market town, l know of nothing
except their dark complexions which
could make you doubt it. They have
not even SO much as a revolver
among them, being, I should think.
almost unique in Mexico in that re-
spect, and DR.. Parez is uncommonlv
proud Of it, lifting the skirts of his
coat and demanding that you sat
isfy yourself by feeling his pockets.
His Two Ambitions
Incidentally, he has but two am
bltions unsatisied, or of which he
talks to stranger-to grub up the
grass out of the streets and to in
duce the stream Of tourists to come
back to Cuernavaca. He has al
ready set his warriors to work on
the former task-it must be con-
fessed they do not seem very handy
at 1.-THE second presents more diff
fculties. So he is reduced to ar
gument. The Zapatistas, he ex-
plains, have held the city for only a
fortnight since, after due negotia-
ton, it was handed over to them by
the new federal authorities. Until
then it was in charge of a Gonzal-
ista army of more than 1000 men.
To-day there are not fifty soldiers
in the place, and it is absolutely
peaceful.
'1f only the tourists and the rich
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~ LIVER MADDOX HUEFFER,
& B Mexican correspondent for
~ The Manchester Guardian,


upon his return from q
little journey to the stronghold of
the Zapatistas, in the State Of
Morelos, writes:
with the possible exception Of
Chihuahua, N the north, Morelos
has been the most war-harried dis
trict of Mexico since the revolution
first broke out ten years ago, and
it may be said of the Zapatistas
that they alone of all the warning
factions have never laid aside their
arms until they got what they were
fighting for. incidentally, they
made for themselves a name as re-
doubtable as that of the Pathians
in India or the Araucarian Indians
in Chile.
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kumania Is Souvenir of Ancient Rome;
People the Descendants of Caesars I,e6i0nS

ing influences Of the most strenuous
kind. Latin was the language of the
Church and State, of school and liter
ature, and yet although this Latin
ism imposed from above left its
mark on national character and diff
ferentiated the Poles from other
Slavs, it was unable to change in
the least their essential Slavism.
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KING FERDINAND and Queen Elizabeth
Of Ru1nanlo, The latter IN the national cos
ta1'ne AH the pictures used IN this group are
from La Roumanie en- Images, published re-
GENTLY IN Paris
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article on the economic situation Of
Rumania by u. P. P.,' beside over
200 pages of pictures.
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Work of the Scenic Artist
Has Advanced Materially.
Says p. Dodd Ackerman

J. E. Dodson, the English character
actor in the late Charles Frohman's
companies, liked stage interiors to
match the socks he wore. When P.
Dood Alderman and Ed Unit. the
scenic artists with the producer, were
at work on scenery for new play he
would come up, show them his socks
and say:
"Boys, be sure to get the right
shade for these"
Now Ackerman has very different
problem. He is trying to design
room which will be the setting for the
three acts of Max Marcin's new play,
"Three Live Ghosts" 1t must not be
ornate, it must not be highly furnished
and yet it must hold the interest of
the audience throughout the play.
Sounds very simple, doesn't it?"
he asked in he office of his studio
opposit. the Metropolitan Opera House.
"Yet l have been going about for ten
days trying to dream of just the right
ROOM"
In these two instances there Is
summed up the advance in scenic art,
an advance which has come about with
in the last six or eight years, starting
in Europe. When Dodson was acting,
and even for years after his retire
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Edward Locke, Author,
Turns Actor Once More
10 Meet an Emergency

Edward Locke, the playwright who
believes dramatic critics are Of great
value to authors. has returned to the
stage, not because he has given IN
writing, but to FL breach in the cast
OF one-act comedy drama that he has
just completed. After an absence Of
fourteen years, spent in his study In
writing plays, having them produce d
and trying to convince managers that
more should be produced, the bluff
good -natured author spent last week
behind the footlights again, showing
ms new work in vaudeville "testine
laboratories" so to speak-the Harlem
opera House and Proctor's Twenty
third Street Theatcr.
he is.a large, hearty man, is Edward
locke, ample in girth but active withal.
Harry Beresford, who opened in
"Shavings" at the Knickerbocker Thea
ter two weeks ago, and who is built
along different lines, was chosen to play
the grown-up Tom Sawyer that Mr..
Locke Locke has created in his new playlet.
SIN pie Simon," but had to Withdraw
wnen he was asked to join the cast of
the Savage production. Then, against his
wishes, but urged by Joseph Hart, who
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ment, stage decorations were supposed
to be reproductions Of nature or of a
locality or room. They were copied
line for line, and the element of
imagination, although present in the
artist, did not enter into the designing
OF the scenery. Simplicity and sug-
gestion are the keynotes of modern
stage designing. Imagination is called
upon, both the imagination of the ar
tist and the imagination of the audi
ence, and much is only hinted at
sometimes very family Details are
overlooked. Big, blank wall spaces are
being used and are believed to be more
decorative than the highly ornate
hangings Of few years ago.
Scene painters until four or five
years ago designed, created and made
the scenery themselves Theatrical
managers now are accepting designs
from men who do not make the scenery.
Ackerman does not believe in this
ana has been one of the pioneers in
coming out against the practice. He
belleyes that the man who is an artist
who is practical, who understands
stagecraft and has education can do
the type OF work now required in the
theater. although he has been mem
Der of the old school of stage desirn
Many studios have allowed man
ayers to hand them so-called DESIGNS
ana nave made them possible throuph
their efforts" he said. "The man who
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Vaudeville

PALACE-Sophie Tucker is the head
liner and brings her band Helen
Keller, blind, deaf and formerly
dumb, has scored such a success that
she is to appear q second week, and
other acts are "The Sirens" mu-
steal revue, with Frank Dobson and
twenty girls; Farr and Farland Lon
don comedians who make their Pal
ace debut; Joe Cook, Rae Eleanor
Ball and Brother in "Moments Mu-
sical," and Herschel Henlere, who
is down for "Pianoflage."
RIVERSIDE Marie Cahin, Harry Fox.
"A Reckless Eve" and bronson ana
baldwin are the stellar features on
the program. Fenton and Fields, Ed
win George, Ross and Moon, and
Ryan and Ryan complete the bill.
COLONIAL~-Heading the program
here are Bernard Granville, Mason
and Keeler, Alan Rogers and Eliza
beth M. Murray. Harry Langdon and
company, Loretta McDermott, Eddie
Cox and Jazz Band, Mccormick and
Mellon, the Magleys and Marguerite
and Alvarez are also on the bill
EIC STREET-Wellingto
Cross, the musical comedy favorite,
is the star attraction, and he viii be
assisted by Ted Shapiro, Jack
Gerard, Nancy Bell, Marion Saki
and Mary Allen in q revue Of song.
comedy and dance Constance Tai
madge will be seen in the picture,
entitled 1.-TWO Weeks" Others will
include Toto, Dorothy Shoemaker
and company, keegan and Edwards.
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very appropriate exteriors, but We
can't have blizzard whenever we ask
for it. These peaceful stretches of snow
wouldn't impress an audience with the
idea that one was in danger from the
Storm
An idea had come to the interviewer:
according to the wisdom of the ages
there can be no discipline where two
familiars are concerned. Had Dorothy
cut up just wee bit with her sister? i?
We voiced our wonder.
But no. Miss Gish's answer was
proof that "She Made Him Behave" had
been serious undertaking to both sis
ters. 70 one it had meant the chance
to show that she could direct a picture
and to the other it had meant chance
to help in bringing success.
The talk came back to "'Way Down
East" and there was mention Of Burr
Mcintosh, who comes to play the part
of the Squire in the screen version of
Way Down East" that he played in
the original production twenty-five
years ago. 1t touched upon the staid
old London Tines" which recently
gave column review to Broken Bios
sons" IN the course OF which it limited
that it would be we'll if Thomas Burke
could put in his writing some of the
soul that was given to the screen pro-
duction of his short story by Lillian
Glsh And there was talk of cabbages
and kings, until at length the train
came to Mamaroneck, and the itinerant
interviewer was at the end of a pleas
ant conversation
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
'Old Lady 81" Entertains
With Feast of s'Prop" Food

Old-fas hioned doughnuts, real potato
salad, hot rolls, steaming roast. apple
ana pumpkin pies-in short. ali the
good things of grandmother's dav-N
mat was the evidence. The defendant.
were W +, th'rty, old ladies and "Old LADY
81" and old gentlemen. who were s sun
posedly engaged in the filming Of ~
Screen Classics version of the plav hv
Rachel Crothers. p'A' oy
The mystery lay In the appearance
OF this real food on a table that had
known only movie food. The stpd;a
gateman was only able to rememher
some mysterious packages, and CON
pany props was completely mystified.
WI ne case was settled out Of court.
i; " men the camera was through its work
u,rectors ou and photographers were per
IN tIo ~ emma Dunn to take share
called off. 's"''on was
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News and Stage Door Chat for the Play6oer
Lillian Cish Enjoyed
Directing Her Sister,
But Twas Hard Work

strenuous than the work Of a producer
Of play. The movie director, after
the story Of the picture has been Sc
cured, must write the continuity, en-
gage the cast, and then when tho re-
hearsals start the task Is just begun.
There is where you see the great diff
ference between the screen and the
stage. Th movie director must spend
every instant beside the camera watch
ing the lighting effects, keeping hun
dred details in mind at q single
There was a significant pause and
the erstwhile director went on:
II enjoyed it immensely, but I
shall never do it again. 1t Is not work
that women can do. No. What is
more, there are very few men that
have the vigor and the imagination to
be directors"
The talk wandered for a moment to
"'Way Down East" the film which is
now being produced at the studio at
Mamaroneck. Somehow the sight Of
the snowdrifts outside brought hint
of that popular success of the stage,
and Miss Gish told of the efforts that
are being made to create big film
one that will appeal to the public
as did the stage production.
you see," she suggested, I'VE have
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Anna Seymour Confcsscs
Brother Harry Teaches
Her All Her limitations

Anna Seymour Is just "home folks"
Many actresses think thore Is Just one
way III which dressing room visitors
actress clothes herself in q gorgeous
negligAe, holds q monogrammed cigar
cite in her hand, whether she smokes 1t
or not, and plays with a pedigreed dog
all Of which are supposed to impress
the interviewer as good material.
Anna Seymour doesn't follow the rule
early convent school and an elopement.
In fact, she didn't want to be inter
viewed. But she confessed she was
born in Carnegie, Pa.
We generally say Pittsburgh" she
laughed, "as it is impossible socially
to como from Carnegie. | dreamed of
making my debut in New York. In
stead, l made my debut in Oil City,
which, as any native Of Carnegie will
tel! you, lies somewhere between life
and death"
Miss Seymour has long vaudeville
career behind her. even IL she is only
twenty-one. For eleven years she and
her brother. Harry, have done 1.-TWO
day" and "three q day" on the biz and
the small time.
Asked what her brother was doing
nov, Miss. Seymour answered that she
had confession to make. 'You see.
do limitations Of stage celebrities"
she continued, "but they are second
hand. gave limitations Of Eddie
Foy, David Warfield and the others.
long before | saw them at work. NV
brother Harry carries their perform
ance to me. When Leon Enrol was
playing around town lately ! decided
to give an imitation Of him. but. being
occupied day and night between re-
hearsals and performances sent Harry
day for two weeks.
Harry Is really q better imitator
than I am. but he Tets me do that
work, as an audience appreciates
conan more. After Harry acquired an
imitation of Errol he taught it to me-
I don't take my limitations too serious
ly, however, and | don't suppose the
audience does, either-but | laugh my
way through. and the audience likes it,"
Turning TO her career, Miss Seymour
said: "Of course, life hasn't been ali
.riumphs. When / made my debut In
New York my brother and were sure
that we were going to make such hit
hat the critics would run out Of adjec-
Ives. What happened was, we did
iop--we were a decided failure-and |
,ack We seooted to Carnegie. When !
text we essayed New York our recep-
ion at the Harlem Opera House drew
he booking agents Intention. We had
Irrived.
"Finally We came to the height Of
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War Hero Assists Blache


Sergeant Walter Leigh Rayfield, who
won the Victoria Cross in the war, is
assisting Herbert Blache, Metro direc-
tor. IN the staging of "The Hope" the
Drury Lane melodrama by Cecil Ra-
leigh Henry Hamilton and Arthur Col
Inns. Tho scenes represent a fight In
the hhyber Pass in India between
British regulars and Afghanistan ma
tives. Raytield, who is a Californian.
enlisted with the Canadian infantry
and in series Of engagements near
Arras distinguished himself by rush
ing an enemy trench ahead OF his COM
pany.. bayoneting two and capturing
ten Germans, dueling with an enemy
sniper. rushing another trench. cap
turing thirty more Germans and carry
ing a wounded comrade to safety un-
der machine gun fire.
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stlll has faith in Mr.. Locke's ability to
ACT, ne consented to fill the vacancy.
am enjoying my experience tre-
hendously, but it is hard work" he
saio at the old theater in Harlem. where
n. ne appeared nineteen wears ago with
vat Goodwin. Fourteen years ago I
w" Vas with David Warfeld in The Music
easter, and since that time have
ooiie no acting. We are trying out the
ac' Dy arrangement with the vaudeville
ihoguls to give them an opportunity to
aeclde ~, whether they will put 1t on In
the big houses or not"
me oovlous physical differences be-
Iween Mr.: Beresford and Mr.. Locke do
iiot interfere with the latter's playing
% ,nS part written originally for Mr..
bi,.eresford. The author calls Simple
SIMON the leading character, grown
up eoItlon of Mark Twain's Tom Saw
yer. lie IS lovable old fellow of sew
1chty-'wo, lazy, but full of homely phi
1osoPhy and Kindness Beresford would
nave prayed him in a dry, whimsical
manner; Locke makes him a jolly old
adier with fine human traits.
Simple Simon is only a condensed
version OF three-act play | shall
write the author says. 1.-THE old fsl-
low Is too good character to lose"
Mr. Locke, who came here from Eng
iaha IN his youth, has been actor and
playwright for thirty-five years He
prepared for the stage in Boston undef
onarles Brickford. played in repertory
con panies, IN stock companies and 10
popular plays of the period when ne
was active on the staga. He has writ
Ten many plays, not all Of which have
peen produced. a very successful one
oeing The Climax" which New York
sa" twelve years ago. Some OF his
s,l, o1ner plays are The Case of Becky
G., ne Dancer" and "The Bubble" The
Snuoerts are to produce his Dangerous
iears and William Morris viii put on
one OF his plays this spring.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
New Films i'm n. Y.

Lytell, in the screen
version of Sir Gilbert Parker's "The
Right of Way; John Cumberland in
THE Stimulating Mrs. Barton" the
second Of the Mrs. Sidney Drew
comedies; Dippy Diers and company,
All Loyal's clown dogs, and other
circus acts; special musical and
topical numbers
BROADWAY.~-Alice Joyce in "Tbe
Sporting Duchess from the famous
Drury Lane melodrama: "Raise the
Rent" Snub Pollard comedy; the
Powder Puff Follies," the girl and
music revue, for its fourth week.
topical and musical numbers.
Miles Minter in "Judv
of Rogues' Harbor," from the novel
by the same name; "Her Private
husband" Sunshine comedy; over
ture from Rossini's "Italiana in AL
gerfa", additional musical features
and the Rialto Magazine.
RlVOLI.-Douglas MacLean and Doris
May In their third comedy, "Mary's
Ankle; Charlie Chaplin In Chaplin
revival, "The Count; overture from
Adolphe Adams "If | Were King;
De koven's "Armor Song" from
Robin, Hood, as solo by Emanuel
LAST, basso profundo; topical num-
bers. ''"''
SIRAND-"Pardners of the Night" q
melodrama; new Christie comedy.
a Chester scenic film; topical re.
view; Tschaikowsky's 1872" oyerture.
Nevin's venetian Boat Songs" by
the Brahms quartet; Sibelius's "Fin-
landla" on the organ, by Carl Edou-
arde and Francis w. Sutherland.
M'Appari' from Flotow's martha. :"
as solo by A. Smernoff, a Russian
tenor
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
New York Studio for Metro

according to an announcement mace
by Richard A. Rowland, president Of
the Metro Pictures Corporation. the
construction of new stadios
IN the vicinity of New York is ran
OF the plan for the future. The slts
OF the proposed Eastern studios bss
not yet been selected, but it is nncel-
stood that the new plant will be stu
aled either on Long Island or some
where along the lower Hudson.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

played at the Palace. 1t was there that
Arthur Hammerstein saw us--and here
l am. The vaudeville stage means hard
work, bu, the life gets into ones
blood, and Notwithstanding smooth
sailing In musical comedy, don't
know whether like it as we'll as
vaudeville. where less restraint is i'm
posed on nut comedy methods. In the
two-a-day I am given the run Of the
stage, and now whenever I feel like
turning cartwheels and cutting up In
general | book to appear at a Sunday
night concert"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Tonight at she Neichborhoo1

Tonight the Ncighborhood Playen
Will repeat their regular weekend Dill
of Dunsany's "The Glittering Gate ana
Andreyev's "The Beautiful Sabihs
Women"
On Wednesday evening Kahlil Gin-
bran. the poet. will give a short taih
or Persian literature, followed ~
readings from his own works.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Will Ouija Stand Fire Test?

One perfectly good ouija board is IN
danger of being employed for such a
material use as starting a roaring fire
according to the report which comes
from Alice Brady's studio. Miss Brady
is curious: The ouija board is dumb,
In this trial of patience the ouija has
approached the danger mark.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Charles Ray in Cohan Film

Charles Rays first picture under his
new contract as a First National star
wiil be picture version of George M.
Cohan's play, "Forty-tive Minutes From
broadway This is the first Of a
series IN which he will be starred by
the Arthur 5. Kane Picture Cornnratinn
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Tyrone Power a Film S,ar

The Great Shadow" said to hs
timely and vigorous treatment of tha
present social unrest, is to be reIeasad
soon 500 by. the Republic Distrihut;nu
corporation. The star part in the mic.
ture Is taken by Tyrone Power p's