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New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Dorothy Mackaye, Lady
Of Lisp, Finds Ideal
Part i'm New Farce

NOntluucO IrOm preceding page
in which she had tho leading feminine
role.
After her performance in "The Very
Idea" she sought engagements from the
various managers. They all offered her
small parts. mot enough experience"
was was the verdict Of nearly all Of them.
put rather than take small part she
declded to 60 into musical comedy to
snow that she could act. There, in a
ing to take a small part to show her her
versatility. Against the advice Of
friends she went into Head Over
Heels In which Mitzi Hajos was
starred. She made good, SO GOOD. In
!ace' That she was chosen for the lead
ing feminine role in "See Saw" her
hrst real chance in musical comedy.
mere, broadway thought, was new
musical comedy star. But when the
GppoarsUunity came to play in farce,
IN m seeing Things" produced by
"agehhais q kemper, she accepted IL
THE part is just what | wanted !
she explained.
Although on the stage she has MANY
times played the part Of a young wife.
MISS Mackaye is unmarried and her
thoughts arc far from marriage. She
wants to become moro settled In her
career first. Despite her youth and in
experience In matrimony she does not
hesitate to criticize and advise.
'Irifies, have noticed, often upset
young married couples. That is the
very situation in Seeing Things.'
When l read the play thought Of a
young couple | knew and studied the
young wife. In fact, copied all my
rnannerisms from her. invited her 70
tho opening performance. And /
haven't seem her sincs."
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
amusement News and Stage Door Chat for the Paygoer
Arthur Burckly, Tenor in
'1rene,' Once Sang in Choir
And Then Played Baseball

From choir loft to baseball diamond
and from baseball diamond to the mu-
steal comedy stage is the sketch out
line of the somewhat unusual career
of Arthur Burckly, who sings the tenor
role in "Irene" and whom the exigen-
cies ofsJames Montgomery's plot forces
to the unmanly job Of playing Indian
giver and coolly taking back his $780,
900 string of pearls from the working
girl heroine.
Twelve years ago Burckly was
catcher, and q mighty good catcher,
with the St. Louis Cardinals, and last
Tuesday night, after the strenuous
doings at the Polo Grounds, the St.
Louis team descended in q body upon
the Vanderbilt Theater to witness and
applaud the performance of the fellow
who for ar. had left them fat. Every
one of those st. Louisans came with
traditions of Burckly, ex-catcher, In
the back of his head, for Burckly-
himself St. Louisan born and bred
is the son and grandson of the Burck-
lys that have long been identified with
the Mound City. Some Of the visiting
team had been his schoolmates; others
had seen and heard him when he was
an angelfaced boy in Gotta, singing
in the Church of the Holy Communion;
every mothers son of them knew him
as a clean and upstanding exemplar Of
the personnel associated with base
ball.
"Once a baseball player always a
baseball player-at heart" laughed
Burckly, stroking the velvet case con.
tanning the $4,000 pearls, his ear
cooked for the cue that would soon
take him to the shop girl Cinderella
awaiting him on the stage. "I've been
on the musical comedy stage almost
twelve years now" he continued, land
in that time I have been identified, and
most pleasantly and proftably iden-
titled, with almost innumerable attrac-
tions.
II have played more than one hun
dred roles in comic opera, with ten
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Vaudeville

PALACE-Nora Bayes is coming back
to vaudeville this week. Florence
Parham will appear with her billed
as "the shadow" and J. Dudley
Wilkinson will do the piano accom-
paniment. Henry Santry and his Jazz
band remain for second week. Billie
Shaw and company in a revue will
also be seen. She is assisted by
Dave White, Edward Holtsworth and
harry Squires. Another jazz feature
will be j. Rosamond johnson and his
five in a new act called "syncopa-
tion." Orth and Cody will do Lets
Take a Walk?" and Moran and
Wiser will be seen "In the Hat Shop. +"
Seflor Frisco will entertain and the
Wilton Sisters will sing and dance.
The Three Lortons are also on the
bill.
RIVERSIDE--William Seabury's "Fri-
volics" will be the headline attrac
tion. Vinie Daily; Charles and Henry
Rigoletto; the Swanson Sisters;
Aleen Bronson and company; Harry
and Emma Sharrock; Frances Re-
nault; Greenlee and Drayton, and the
I'll Rey Sisters are among others on
the program.
COLONIAL - Corinne Tilton, the
famous "Chatterbox DOLL" heading
her own revue. will share topline
honors with Charles (Chic) Sale,
rural protean comedian. Emma Haig
and company; Billy Glason; Fenton
and Fields; Clifford and Wills; Lew
and Paul Murdock, the Sterlings, and
Tuscano Brothers complete the pro-
gram.
STREET -- Elizabeth
M. Murray, the comedienne and mu-
sical comedy star. will head the BILL
William S.. Hart will be shown in
"The Toll Gate" Others on the bill
will include Lydell and Macy; Harry
Holman and company; Matthews and
Ayres; Betty Dom, and Lord and
Fuller.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-The Joe Thomas
Sax-O-Tette, featuring Jeanne Mai.
will be one Of the headliners the first
part of the week. Elaine Hammer
stein in whispers" will be the film
feature. The Royal Harmony Five
will head the program the last half
Of the week. William Faversham in
"The Man Who Lost Himself" will
be the picture.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Motion Pictures to Make
World Safer Place for
Humanity to Dwell In

Prayer "while it is not generally
known to the outsider, moving picture
producers are consistently encouraging
the extension of the possibilities of
the camera with the view of it's more
useful application in the great prob
lens that confront scientific minds.
There may appear to be insurmount-
able obstacles to the practical utiliza-
tion Of the camera in some Of the ac-
tivities in which the Meteorological
Society is engaged, but in air studios
in Los Angeles We have obtained re-
suits for the screen that were hitherto
thought to be beyond tho power of cap
ture by the lens. Bewildering effects
in the filming Of spiritualistic phe-
nomena in 'Athalie,' adapted from
Robert W. Chambers dramatic novel,
directed for the screen by Sidney A.
Franklin, were obtained by novel utili-
cation Of the camera. The success
these achieved, Mr.. Franklin assures
me, establishes the belief that it is
possible to photograph and reproduce
disturbed atmospheric conditions that
will go a great way toward warning
by means Of the wireless those in the
route Of q cyclone or tornado.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

carefully studied if the story is to ring
true. How did people conduct them.
serves IN SUCH -and-such a period? How
dld they regard certain matters? And
SO through dozens of similar questions
which must be answered before the
story can be put on paper
Having secured the necessary infor.
nation and having the general outline
OF the story we'll in mind. l proceed
70 write IT, scene by scene. l do all
OF my writing in longhand and turn
over my manuscript to my stenoe.
rapher for, copying. Many scenario
writers, | believe. either use type-
writer themselves or dictate their CON
tinulty.-the scene by scene working
plot OF the story--to a stenographer
prefer to write mine with pencil and
paper, although it is undoubtedly slower
and more tiring.
And so. through the day I labor at
my scenario Often the evenings will
De devoted to consultations with Mr..
ne MILE or some other interested per-
son. Sometimes the story becomes so
aosorolngly interesting that | work on
INTO the night without thought of time
Not lnfrequently the work of film
ing the story gets under way before
the hnal scenes are written. This
means that | must keep we'll in advance
OF the production work with my writing
II l am to avoid hating this highly
expensive process.
But through all of this there is no
such thing as AN average days work.
Every day is day unto itself. It NAV
start at noon and end at in the
morning of the following day, or it
may start at 8 and end when the work
is finished.
Some times l think that the grind of
1T will prove too much for me, But it
never does. The work, for all of it's
disadvantages, possesses an appeal
which / can never refuse. It Is often
hard, generally irregular as to hours.
and often trying to the patience. But
1t still continues to claim my time and
my best efforts, and so suppose it will
continue to claim them"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

tour the three biggest productions sr..
known In the history of America. thess
three productions alone requiring NOV
persons than are employed by any o.bas
firm OF producing managers in New.
York. These productions will he scss
Chin Chow 'Aphrodite,' and sMeccai =
For the leading feminine role o,s
Mecca l have engaged Miss Gladvs-
Hanson, who very much resembles Mis-
Lily Brayton, the English aesress uEs
will play the same role in the Ionaa0 AZ
production, and who in private Y;fs =
the wife Of Oscar Asche. For the ssis
OF Nur-al-Din | have engaged Hertsss
Grimwood, who is referred n sans.s
times as the meanest villain IN Fns
land because of the fact that he Ne.
been selected to play the villain Of 60
many important English produetionsy
l wall have other announcements -
make within the next few days regarS'
ing the players engaged to play rb.s
other parts in this production. wy
"Meccs" VIII be staged at the Can.
tury Iheater by Comstock and Csst
through a special arrangement with Ns ~
Messrs. Shubert, who control the b;s
playhouse on Central Park West Il
VIII be staged by E. Lyall Swete. whn
performed similar successful duty fnr
"Chu Chin Chow" and "Aphrodhes =
The dances will be created by Micss,
Fokine, the famous Russian dsnc;nn
master from Petrograd and the creatos a,1s
OF the Russian ballet. who came ~
New York last winter to stage ,bs
dances and choreographic scenes % ~
"Aphrodite." All of the costumes ana ~
there are more than a thousand ~
them, have been designed BY Percs =.
Anderson, Of London, who did ali thss
Chin Chow" '9''o
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

lures are almost supreme in England.
and, quite without intention, they have
become q very effective ambassador in
our favor. The result of the wide
spread showing of American pictures is
to interest the youth of the United
Kingdom greatly in the outstanding
features OF American life, and believe
that emigration from England may in
crease because of this fact.
"The Englishman has a much clearer
conception of the propaganda value of
the cinema than we have, and there
is evident in London real understand
giving alien peoples familiarity with
each other and an understanding of
each others habits of life and modes
of thought.
when English picture production
reaches more advanced stage, as it
will do in time, it probably will repre-
sent different style from our own.
The American picture, even though it
may be based on foreign scenario, is
as galvanizing, vigorous and active as
is American life itself. The English
attitude is a slower one, more contcm-
plative, and l believe that when they
have reached the point in experience
when they become sufficiently self
SohoCiouo VI Cie AuOCloH picture as 10
regard it as an art, as they already
show signs of doing, they will definite
ly develop it in style more closely
psychological than our own. The
American audience demands action in
all Of its entertainment. The English
man is more willing to dwell upon
natural scenes and character develop
nent than we are, which is to his ad-
vantage. Probably in the end. the best
motion pictures will represent a COM
bination of these two primary qualities.
"The most interesting experience |
had in London was an evening at the
Square Club in Fleet Street, at a
gathering of novelists. poets and news
paper men. l went expecting to hear
an interesting discussion of modern
literature, but before the evening had
matured I found myself in a corner
expounding the possibilities of the
motion picture to a large group of
literary men, some of them among the
best known in England. A faith Of
that kind must finally put this young
est Of the children Of the arts where
We should like to have It,"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

average Broadway success runs not
only to hundred but we'll past three
hundred performances. And while the
average good actor can, through the
very art that makes him an actor, seem
to put the same spirit and sparkle into
his part after the novelty is quite worn
off, yet-"he can't feel the same spirit
and sparkle. 1t wouldn't be human!"
So declares Frederick Karr. whom
many Broadway playgoers recognize as
en- old favorite then they see him now
as the host of 1.-THE Hottentot" and
William Collier.
while things are as they are the
atrically." explains Karr, IAN actors
life can never be perfect bliss. To ad-
vance in his art, and to find express
sion, he longs to create more than one
role in a season. Still, this is only
possible in stock or by appearing in a
series of plays that fail. Too many
failures are bad for an actors reputa-
tion with managers, let alone for his
reputation with creditors.
"Since most actors are like the rest
Of mankind, with families to support,
their aim is naturally to appear in q
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Feeling the pulse Of the earth!

Feeling the pulse Of the earthl
Examining and recording the emo.
tions of the air and the oceans!
Analyzing the ever-mysterious un
rest existing in the regions beneatl
the crust of the globel
Foretelling the approach Of the tor
nado, the blizzard, the hurricane, the
tidal wave. the earthquake, the vol
csnic eruption!
Making the world safer for human
ity!
Surely . fascinating and tremendou,
program. The inspiring prospect
about it is that thoroughly organized
effort is being made to carry it out
The main features are already in proc
ess of formation for practical applica-
tion under the direction Of the worlds
greatest men of science. One Of the
chief agencies to be utilized will be
the motion picture.
Here is an expert tribute to the IN
calculable assistance that can be rem
dered in this humanitarian movement
Says Edgar Lucien Larkin, director OF
Mount Lowe observatory, in a recent
announcement:
That mighty helper Of science, NOV
ing pictures, one Of the most valuable
scfentinc inventions ever made, will be
used extensively. Scenarios will be
made of cyclones, hurricanes. heayv
snowstorms, billiards., tornadoes
storm damage and weather maps. Joint
meteorological and aviation schools
will be established.
Ihat>will be historic day when re.
ports ~ wireless from many thousands
OF stations on the earth and from air
craft, from thousands of researchers
eoove and around the world, shall be
fxfiyed by central. They then can
ted the very pulse OF the earth and en-
Tfons. The United States navy is to
Do worker also; likewise SURVEYING
@sxmss' travellers and explorers.
The one object is to And what kind
/ o3 : world we are living I'M ~ ~.
Benjamin A. Prayer. presidsr4 ~
sne Maynower Photoplay Corporation
makes this comment on Profexso,
LArkin's statement: ''o'
Inc american Meteorological So.
eiety, which has set for itself this far
reaching task, is to be highly corr
mended. 1 am simply amazed at thu
magnitude OF the undertaking when
learn from Professor Larkin's an
nouncement that tho work to be taker
up BY the society is, as he says, almos,
beyond the imagination. It's toiler,
nsso 70 make the devious paths o1
avators straight. Every air curren,
and it's variations with the earth.
places on it's orbit needs to be studicc
and charted with sii the precision pos
sible. Entities so variable and erratic
- winds and also minor air currents
around tho globe may be reduced to
catalogues after long continued re-
search At all events, facts of the air
ana its motions should be secured for
svlators In the coming new era, the era
el gn,'er:ai asr traycl. for passengers,
mai.s ard even heavy freight.
Ins motion picture industry can be
this direction that brains and enter.
prise may suggest" continued Mr..
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

successful play. And when cash comes
IN at the stage door the happiness that
| comes from variety alas, flies out Of
| the dressing-room window Most ac-
| tors who have been through the grind
OF many failures and much poverty
VIII not admit the monotony of the,
| long run except to themselves. But
few are the Frank Bacons who can
play a part night after night, season
after season, without wishing for the
old stock company days, when the PLAY
changed every week, even if the pay
envelope was slender or nebulous
Karr, however, has discovered ours
Tor the long-run monotony. He do
clares that his season in The Hotten-
tot" now past its three hundredth psT-
formance--for the play was seens-in
several cities before it came ta The
George M. Cohan Theater-has been
SO full Of variety that not an actot in
the cast has once complained of long
run lassitude.
playing in The Hottentot,'" >" relates
karr, "has been even step ahead Of
the stock company. Our parts have
been changed every night, rather thanN
every week. It's a system of William
Golfers
"Mr. Collier has never played The
Hottentot' the same way twice. And
in changing his own performance he
changes all the company's. The plot Is
kept the same, OF course. but often she
scenes are switched Lines are varied
at every performance. Mr.. Collier, ss
co-author of the play, can do what he
likes, and not have an injured drsms-
tlst after his sea p
Mr.. Collier has been practicing per-
petual motion in his plays since he first
became a star. His daily rehearsal
call is better remembered, by more
actors, than any other genius he pos.
sesses. He even tells jokes or himself
about his mania for perpetual rehear-
sails
"Once, out West, he had.a nervous
breakdown at the end of a three years
run. He closed the COMPANY or Sq'at.
day night, and the actors started back
to New York on cunday. while he
stayed behind to recuperate
monday morning Mrs Collier heard
him stirring at an early hour. He was
drawing bath and laying out his
clothes. Where on earth are yoc go
ing" she asked.
ITO the theater. of course" replied
Collier. Don't tell me those actors
weren't called for a 10 o'clock re-
hearsal!" sd. &
"Still," adds Karr, mo one is more
serious about the rehearsal idea than
Mr.. Collier From long experience ne
has learned that comedy. above al
things, must be played with spon:.
taneity, and the only way to do TINS |"
by constant change"
This change, according to Coliie,s
method, as explained by Ka,r, need %
very slight--but on the stage i .ne
difference is only word or an innec.
tion, it achieves the result of keeping
the. actor constantly on his metsis.
Also it gives him an opportunity =
use his own mind in suggesting SeE
lines and new stage business, e
which Mr.. Collier is always receptIVs.
And above all, as Karr warmly pays
tribute to his star--"it gives an acyol
the invaluable opportunity Of a regutsS
course of training under one OF tns
most finished comedians in stage hlss
tory"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
In Picture Theaters

BROADWAY-"Burninr Daylight" 4.
Jack London story.
CAPlTOL-Mabel Normsnd IN "The
Slim Princess"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" continue,
into fifth week.
RlALrO -- Mary Miles Minter IN
Jenny Be Good"
RlvOLl-Charles Ray In "Homer
Comes Home"
STRAND-Mary Pickford in "suds."
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Monotony for Actors Playing
In The Hottentot' Lessenedi
BY Varying the Action Daily

Have you ever thought how tired of
part an actor must become after he
has done exactly the same thing, night
after night, hundred times? Yet the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

CoLUMBlA-Ths seventh week of
Folly Town" begins tomorrow
afternoon. This burlesque produc-
t1on is drawing large audiences,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-02-20
FIRST MEMORIAL
EXERCISES WILL
Be HELD SUNDAY
Legion Members Will Be in Uni
form at Gathering in Honor
of Soldier Dead

Tie members Of the Lloyd Spetz post
of the American legion will attend the
memorial services Sunday afternoon
at the auditorium in honor Of the men
who died in the service in a body IN
full uniform. This action was decided
upon last night at the meeting Of the
post
The exercises will be open to the
public and will start promptly at 800
o'clock and the members Of the legion
in uniform will assembl at the Elks
club at 8 o'clock and march TO the Au-
ditOrum in body under the command
Of Major George II. Russ, Jr., post
commander.
Relatives Of soldiers who died in
the service. both at home and abroad
will be the guests Of honor at the ser
vices and will receive special invita-
tions to attend The program, which
is the same which will be followed by
every legion post in the country at the
same hour. includes a pageant sym
bclizing the thanks of France to Col
umbia for the arrival of American sol
dicrs and consoling Columbia for the
death Of her sons overseas.
Rev. George BuZZelle will deliver
the principal address and Mrs. A. e.
Jacobson, representing the Thursday
Musical club. will have charge Of the
musical numbers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-02-20
Elk SERVICE MEN
WILL STAGE SHOW
HERE WEDNESDAY
Legion Members Will Put on
Minstrels at Auditorium
With Mandan's Help

The Bismarck post of the America 4
legion will put on minstrel show ut
the Auditorium here Wednesday night,
according to present plans. The show
will be put on by the members Of the
Mandan post and the proceeds will be
for the benefit of the local post
The minstrel show will appear in
Mandan Monday and Tuesday and
those participating in it are all for
mcr service men. The rchcarsals
have been conducted by a professional
theatrical man and the show is one OF
the best of its kind ever seen, IN this
section. according to those who have
witnessed rehearsals.
Legion members will canvas the city
next week selling tickets and it is
hoped that the cX-Scrvice men. with
the help of the War Mothers and the
members of the Womens auxiliary to
the legion. will be able to fill the audi
tOrium. There has been some talk
among the legion men of building Il
clubhouse and if sufficient funds are
raised by this minstrel show it is be-
lieved portion of it may be used for
this purpose.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-02-20
ALLIED DECREE
WOULD REOPEN
FRYATT CASE
Execution of Captain of British
Merchantmen: Brought Up i /
by Stipulation: :" =

Berlin, Feb determination Of the
official text of the last allied note sent
to the German government relative
To the trial of mon accused Of war
crimes shows that Il significant pass
age was committed from the Paris
version published here on Tuesday af-
tcrnoon. This passage refers to I
stipulation by the entente that the
previous verdict at trials Of German
war offenders must be annullcd and
that they be fcmrndcd for new trials.
This provision, the Frcihcit says
means rcopcnlnS Of the FryAlt case
in which German commission de-
cidrd that execution of Fryatt- cap
tain of Il British merchantmen was
not violation of international law.
The conservative pan-Gcrman press
unit"S in rejecting the allied note us
wholly unaccrptablr.
Qualification that the entente powers
had recognized Gcrmany's contention
relative to the physical imposSibiity
of surrcndcrinS men accused Of viola
tions Of the laws Of war was expressed
today by foreign office official.
He said that it was inevitable that
internal chaos would result from such
a step and declared the German ca
hinetS position was materially
strengthened as a result Of the derl-
sion reached by the supreme council in
London.