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Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-02
Ten Thousand Club.


1 The fine day and Easter program
Ten Thousand club members yester-
day. A. H. Griswold, representing the
library board, said that while the
board was in hearty sympathy with,
the club idea Of rest room. on ac-
count of insufficient funds it is an
impossibility to consider it at the pres
ent time.
c. E. Pitzer, county chairman of the
Jewish Relief campaign. asked that
further effort be made to get the
amount Of money requested of this
county. AS means of getting the
money various suggestions were made
by the club as follows; a fod and rum
mage sale, a fountain day. card
party, a motion picture day and a
concert.
Mrs. Bales G. Walker was put in
lcharge of the food sale and asked
that every member contribute to the
sale which will take place next
Wednesday, April z, at p. m.. the
place to be announced later. 1t is
hoped that the busiest persons will
take few minutes on that day to
drop in and buy something. Mrs T.
H. Gebbie will have charge of the
card PARTY to be held Saturday, April
10. Members are requested to be
present or send money and to. take
especial interest and bring other per-
sons to fill one or more tables.
| Mrs. E. w. Judy and the other
members of the house committee will
arrange for fountain day.
Mrs. G. J. Phelps has motion pic
ture day in charge.
The music section with the hearty
support and cooperation of the club
wlll@put on fine concert.
| Details of these events will be pub
lished later in the papers.
The club passed resolution offered
| by Mrs. A. H. Griswold asking the
supervisors to provide a school budget
sufficient to guarantee minimum
yearly wage Of, $1,000 to teachers of
the elementary grades. Similar reso-
lutions will be adopted in all the or
ganizations interested in the welfare
of our schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-02

Fine Musical Program.

The musical program given yester-
day afternoon by the music section OF
the club was perhaps the best of it's
kind ever offered the club. 1t would
be impossible to mention one number
in preference to any other. The quar-
tet composed of Miss Amy Davis.
Mrs. E. C. Bates, Mr.. Perry Rodgers
and Mr. Dolberg was delightful. The
voice blending beautiful and the inter.
pretive work well done. Mr.. Dolberg,
one Of the boys who "went over there"
has a delightful baritone voice and
his rendition of "Open the Gates of
the Temple" was a special delight to
the club members. 1t is interesting
to know that Mr. Dolberg had the
privilege of singing in the Grand
opera house in Paris while in the
service. The music section of the
club feel very much indebted to Mr..
Dolberg and to Mr.. Rodgers whom
we all know, for their assistance in
making the day the success it was.
Mrs. H. w. Brewer. Jr., sang with
delightful effect, her solo being we'll
suited to her voice.
Mrs. o. w. Allison of Imperial was
a charming addition to the program.
| Her solo beng sung artlStlcally and
her voice delightful to hear.
Mrs. E. C. Bates, new member
+, of the club, and music section. has a
particularly attractive and heavy con-
tralto voice and her Easter song
"Hossana," by Granier, was well rem
dered.
Miss Marguerite Flint, also a new
conner to Ell Centre, deserves the ap-
probation of the club for her lovely
violin solo. She is very welcome adj
dition to the musicians of the city.
| The trio sung by Miss Davis, Mrs.
| Chestnut and Mrs. Bates was probably
the finest of it's kind every given in
Ell Centro. The voices blended beau
tifully and the rendition could hardly
have been improved upon. "
Those who could not attend the club
program certainly missed treat.
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small parts in stock and one-night-
stand productions, she would sit in her
berth and look out at the fields and
creeks and mountains whizzing back
ward, and in her vision there were no
mountains or fields or streams. There
was in her vision a theater in New
York filled to capacity, on first night,
with crowds eagerly seeking admit
lance, and when the curtain rose there
stood Grace Valentine, all logged out
in mountain girl suit, reading her lines
TO the applause Of the filled house, and
receiving huge bouquets over the foot
lights after each act.
"If my dreams weren't caught by
thought waves or something of the
kind" she says, chow did Mr.. Comstock
know I would so like to do this part
for him? How did he know l would
like it! How did he know | had been
hoping all my life to do this very
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Faith Brought Her to
Broadway, as Leading
Woman of ssCave Grip

II ONE have faith enough in
~ thing to dream about it, then that
thing is certain to come to pass
At least, that is the theory Of Grace
Valentine, leading woman in "The
Cave Girl"
1t was her abiding faith in her ability
to some day BIO a leading woman in
Broadway production, she is firmly
convinced, that finally caused F. Ray
Comstock to wire her one dav few
months ago, when she was far in the
West, that he would like to have her
play the part she now assumes in "The
Cave Girl"
"Why," she said, wide eyed and very
earnestly, in her dressing-room a half
hour before she went on" for the
opening nights performance, "Mr.
Comstock never has seen me do any
work worth while, so far as I know
But there was some thing some in
tangible power, | believe, that made
him feel that Grace Valentine could do
this thing and do it as nobody else
could do it.
"Now don't think I'm egotistical
about it. Not at all. But l just want
to impress upon every young woman,
If 1t is possible for me to do it, that
II she wants a thing strongly enough
she may have it If she is half
hearted about it and doesn't put forth
effort to try to make herself worthy
of the realization of her dreams she
will not succeed. But if she puts her
shoulder to the wheel and believes,
way down deep in her heart, that some
day her time will come, and if she con-
centrates upon that idea ard believes
it and lives it and goes right ahead
striving to make herself fit into that
there isn't the slightest doubt in my
mind that some day she will be mott
fed, just as l was, that she is wanted
for that very bit of work"
Miss Valentine has been thinking for
more than fifteen years that one day
she would be featured player on
Broadway. Always she has believed it
would be in the part of trough and
ready" little mountain girl, one who
wears trousers and high shoes, and who
goes about with her shirt collar open,
her palms calloused and her heart
strong in the face of danger. She
thought about it until sometimes she
actually had what she believes were
day dreams about it. When she was
travelling from town to town in Califor-
MIA or Montana or Colorado, doing
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T n A week crowded with plays,
A$A Enter Madame" had no great
~ difficulty in standing out as much
the best. At last there is some
body to sing soprano to the tenor of
Ditrichstein's Great Lover" The
similarity is Slight We have again
a study of the artistic temperament.
somewhat moro closely and sympathct-
ically drawn this time, and its rela-
ton to love.
IN one respect Miss varesi and Miss
Dyrne have not been quite fair. per-
haps not quite courageous. Nine.
Della Robbia, for all her ardent ma
ture, IS more than usually conselva-
tive in her private fife. The authors
take great care that there shall be
not so much as breath of scandal
about her. Her husbands infatuation
Is founded to a large degree on the
vital attractiveness of his wife. Life
with her has always been an adventure.
She IS such romantic person that
comfort is quite crowded out of any
life which she touches, but seemingly
no other man has noticed that. When
she wants to make her husband ieal-
Gus she has to invent rival. Actu-
ally there are none, although she and
her Gerald seem to have had most of
the oceans between them during the
year or so before we are introduced to
them N the play. Nine. Della Rob
ba, apparently, finds that we'll
known university custom serves her
excellently in the matter of making
love. Six years are all art, but the
seventh is sabbatical and includes
Gerald
This is not quite convincing. The
artistic temperament is seldom made of
such stern stuff OF course Miss
Naresi and Miss Byrne are handicapped
by the fact that Mr.. Bryan's consti-
tutlonal amendment to establish the
single standard has not yet passed.
Theatrical audiences are 1enient in
viewing the life of tenors, but they
have stricter requirements for So
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As W W ere Saying

pranos. Probably the audience would
not be willing to see Gerald and his
Lisa rcconciled if it thought for mo-
ment that in her long, lone years in
Europe she had had other loves. The
rational way out would be to say moth
ing at all about it. An audience could
hardly condemn Nine. Della Robbia on
suspicion alone. But Miss Varesi and
Miss Byrne have been explicit They
assure us that though the brilliant and
fascinating Lisa fitted from one capital
to another alone, she never so much as
wlnked an eye at any gentleman but
Gerald We don't believe it.
The acting of Miss Varesi in her new
play is so vivid and alluring that one
is little apt to lose sight of the fact
that here is an excellent light comedy
AS we'll as an altogether exceptional
performance. The story is slight, but
it is told briskly. 1t has it's theatrical
moments, but the persons concerned
are true and understandable. Best of
all, the play makes woman a true part
ner in romance, and not just another
bright pebble to be jingled in the
pocket of male discoverer. Moreover,
the play brings up the interesting and
somewhat underdiscussed problem as
to whether mans place is in the home
Although Enter Madame" was the
only notable production Of the week, we
found nothing which came forward de-
void of interest. Grace Valentine
served to make "The Cave Girl" anus
ing, even though we could not thrill
when any of the characters advanced to
the center of the stage and gazed aloft
at the overhead lighting and mar
veled at the wonders of Gods open
country and great blue sky. 1t seemed
to us that Spanish Love" meandered
somewhat too slowly, but we were
struck with the crude power of Will
lam H. Powell in one of the chief roles.
Much of "The Checkerboard" is banal,
but Kate Mayhem is good enough to
make amends for that.
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the whole institution, about the ushers
and the managers. Ten players of ability
will constitute my company, and I shall
cast the plays not according to lead
ing men and leading women, but &C
cording to suitableness. Thus lead
ing man might be called upon to play
the part of servant, with hardly more
than line or two, provided l think
he belongs there.
"The players will receive good sal
aries, of course, but because of the
permanence of the organization and the
surety of engagement it will be pos
sibie to get excellent actors at less
extravagant salary scale than prevails
at present. At the end of the season
there will be bonus for each member
of the company. Some Of the plays, if
successful, will be sent out on the road
and q percentage Of the profits of the
road organizations will also go to the
actors in the permanent company.
"My company would be essentially a
New York company Through this sys-
tenn think it would be possible to de-
velop a clientele that would know what
to expect in the way of distinctive pro-
auctions"
When theaters were fewer and pro-
auctions less abundant Mr.. Milton
worked on a play all summer before
it was ready to be presented to the
public. Now, however, with his serv-
ices as q director SO much in demand,
he finds it difficult to give so much Of
his time to each play, but he makes
it a rule to stage only one play at q
time, giving his entire attention to it..
He lays out the scenery, chooses the
props" engages the cast, decides upon
his lighting effects and then starts re-
hearsals While the sets are being
painted he goes up on the scaffold daily
to direct the painters in their work.
His training in all the arts Of the stage,
received in Russia, where his father,
Mikhail Davidov, was director of the
Imperial Theatre in Petrograd, enables
Continued on page SIX
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Get Rid of Star System, Says
Robert Milton, Planning His
Own Theater and Organization

MHE Augustin Daily system, per-
W. manent organization of person
ally supervised players, plus
bonus for the players in the company
at the end of each season-that is
what Robert Milton hopes to estab-
lsh in New York City when he COM
pletes the. theater he is planning and
begins to recruit the actors who will
take part in his productions.
After thorough schooling in all
the phases of activity that are a part
OF the modern theater, Mr.. Milton has
completed his education, so to speak,
by making mis- own production Of "The
,harm School," which he wrote in
conjunction with Alice Duer Miller.
Now he is planning his own theater
with his own company Of players to
put INTO practice the theories OF the
stage that he has arrived at in the
course of career rounded out by as
sociatlon with the Conservatory of
dramatic Art in Petrograd and as
stage director with Richard Mansfield,
Nine. Kalich, Nine. Nazimova, Mrs.
flske and others in the foremost rank
IN the theater Of the last decade CT
more
Although he has branched out as d
producer in his own right, Mr.. Milton
still staging plays for other mana
gers, being represented at the present
ume by Crooked Gamblers" at the
hudson Theater. The new play tor
Louis Mann, which Samuel Shipman,
with collaboration, has written, is
engaging his attention now, and it was
while waiting for the actor to appear
1or conference that he talked of Ii s
plans and of his career since he ar
rived in this city from Russia nine
teen years ago.
For my theater | shall want real
workshop, built according to ideas
winch | have long turned over in my
mind,' he said. 81 should like to make
homelike institution, a sort Of
meeting place to which people will like
10 come. There will be dignity about
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The Stage Holds the
Mirror Up to Fashion
As Wei las Future
~ MEMBER of the executive staff
~ of Arthur Hammerstein's theat-

!
~ of Arthur Hammersteins theat-
rical producing organization
stood in box on the opening night
of "Tickle Me" at the Selwyn Theater
last Tuesday night and counted no fewer
than a score of New York's leading
modistes and dress designers seated
in the first few rows. Which is sig
nificant from the standpoint of those
who wonder, at times, Eherc the
striking frocks originate which hang
in some Of the wide windows of Fifth
Avenue gown makers and in many of
the snug little shops leading off Fifth
Avenue to east and west from Thirty
fourth Street to Fifty-ninth.
There is not an opening Of a new
theatrical production in New York
without an assignment of designers,
notebook and pencil in hand, ready to
jot down from time to time through
out the unfolding Of the play the dif-
ferent types of dresses worn by the
women on the stage. 1t is in this way
that styles are copied and remade and
added unto and altered in all con-
ceivable ways, and it is said by the
atrical producers that often there have
been waves of certain styles of gowns
that were originated in certain parts
of their musical productions.
Somehow" Mr.. Hammerstein said
yesterday, "the theatrical producer and
designer of costumes conceives more
varied styles and shapes and fads and
has more novel ideas of dresses the
girls and women in our productions
should wear than do the experts in
most of the gown shops. With music
"a certain kind of music-comes the
demand in the mind of the man who
is staging the play or who is directing
its production that gown of certain
color and lines must be worn by the
girl leading the number. And so he
explains to her just what he wants,
and she, with a distinct idea in mind
of what he wants, goes to the dress
maker, explains it to her, and in q
week or two the idea is brought into
being in the form of different dress,
and the crowds gasp at it and the
modistes sketch and scribble away on
notebook, and month later you may
see any number of the wardrobe kim
dred Of our own conception of a gown
making its way up Fifth Avenue on
Sunday afternoon"
In such productions as Mr.. Hammer
STEMS Tickle Me-" where much thought
and money have been devoted to proper
costuming, the professional dressmak-
ers of New York, especially those who
cater to women of the stage. make
their reservations for front row seats
days in advance of the opening. Some
times they take along their secretaries
for the purpose of taking notes on GER
tain styles and fabrics
"In our production" Mr.. Hammerstein
said, 1--WE have dozen or more ALSO
lutely distinct types of gowns. There
are ideas In dresses that are without
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thing? How did he know owned this
suit of mountain climbing clothingw
Here she looked down at her dust
stained boots and her soiled khaki
trousers, and her wide open shirt front
and her little brown hat, turned up in
front.
why, weren't those made for the
part you're going to play" she was
asked.
"Not at ALL" was the reply. "When
they saw me and we began rehearsing
for this production, the men in charge
said they wanted me to wear colorful
clothing, with shiny buckles and elis-
tenng shoes and pretty skirts, and
all that. l said No, sir. am going
to wear the suit I've been climbing
mountains in out West for several
months-the suit I knew some day
Continued on page six
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new Cbeatrical OFFERINGS Of the Q)eek

MONDYAt the Morosco Thaer the Wagnhals
will "The
are fife Navy HAIR
Sage Robert Vaughn, Richard
TUESDAYAt the Thear
Lucky" a comedy la Under of
"Tiy of Bloomsbury"
P Heggie
members English
Giddens Oswald Yorke, Martin Harvey
Frank Hector Mrs Edmund Nellie
OBren Blythe DAILY, Maxine Macdonald
WEDNESDAYAt the Shubert Theat paddy
damatd
Gertrude novel, will
title role in the
We're Finlay, Huney Elliott
Charles B. Wells,
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IN OOKING the situation squarely
IN the face as regards the I'M
~ doubted scarcity of high class
serious, thoughtful plays on the
American stage to-day, one may elm
mate cause after cause until at last he
is forced to resolve that there are just
two cause.-the public and the authors.
One might ask: "Well, who else
might we think could be responsible ?"
But there are many other accounts that
might be suggested The actors, the
hackers, the managers, the directors all
might be accused of this prevailing de-
mand for light and suggestive and unin-
structive productions that are drawing
record crowds to the Broadway theaters
at this time.
William Harris jr., one of the fore
most producers of the more serious type
of stage Offering, is not willing to say
that there actually is great dearth of
worthwhile plays. In fact, he can name
two or three that are under way in New
York now that deserve great credit.
But he says there Is no question that
the reaction of the war, with its attend
ant upheaval of sentiment among men
and women in all classes of life con-
corning the kind Of play they most ap-
good manuscripts simply are not being
turned out either here or abroad, has
brought the question of the standard of
the stage to the minds of theatrical men
and women everywhere as we'll as to the
minds of the theatergoing public.
There are not many good plays be-
ing written" he says. "Of course,
there are still some writers who are
willing to write good plays and receive
little money for them, just as there
still are managing producers who are
willing to give to the people plays
that are not Of widespread interest,
but which certainly are the only kind
that THIS small percentage will even
take the trouble to see. But the great
majority of our writer's have been
coaxed into the business of writing
cheap and nasty pieces just because
they know they have a public eager
to see them and willing to spend their
money for them. There are high class
writers who in other years have
written the most serious and THOUGHT
full plays, who now are turning ont
such senseless and foolish works as
are seen so often on Broadway.
The great majority Of the Ameri-
can people right now have not got
back their sense of appreciation of
the deeper, more serious stage works.
when the war came they had so much
TO think about that was without I'm.
NOR and without color that they
turned to the frivolous, meaningless
farce and comedy, and they never have
found their way back as yet. But tbev
Will. AS surely as time goes on. We
shall regain our desire for the better
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question original with our company
and II the French think they can Guido
US should like to see their models
I'm our song number, for example
when the young women walk out upon
the stage, one at time, each denot-
ing phase of life, and each distinc-
lively gowned, I think New York will
have to view far to see its equal.
IF women were not attracted by the
designs we should feel very much dis
appointed. If the stage furnishes them
with Ideas we know We are successful,
because, after all. the producers only
hope is that he may please the people
who sit out there in front, and if he
pleases dress designers he is pretty
near certain in the final count to please
the big majority Of the people"
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A Dearth i'm Plenty
Public and Authors to Blame for Pauc;tv
OF Serious Plays, Says VIM. Harris Jr.

IN OOKING the situation squsrely
" in the face as regards the I'M
doubted scarcity of high class,
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Hl n week crowded with plays,
&A Enter Madame" had no great
~ difficulty in standing out as much
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Continued on page six
The Lamar register., 1920-06-30
Billions Squandered

1t was revealed in the House Of
Representatives recently that the War
Department spent sls,601 .177 ,999.l2
from April 6. 1917. the date of the
declaration of war, to September l.,
1919. at is a sum so vast as to
ST. gger the comprehension" declared
Representative William j. Graham.
chairman of the Select Committee on
Expenditures in the War Department.
mo one will ever know just how much
the War Department squandered. The
Department itself does not know how
many war contracts il made"