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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

clew is whispering that she already has
completed one unusual play, even moro
striking in its construction than Foot
Loose itself, and has had il under
consideration by one or more Broadway
producers within recent months.
But why all this keeping secret, it
might be asked, of the forthcoming
presentations of our authors? There
could be but one answer-shovrnan ship.
Showmanship is becoming a byword I'D
and down the theatrical producing
lanes leading off of Broadway. Not
alone does the actor practice it when
he is in TIE white spotlight. The
author must have his h.n-. To reveal
the name or the character OF a plsy
that is under construction. or Under
production, il is believed, detracts from
the punch" Of the piece vhea it is
placed before the public for its ap-
proval. And there is grea. deal Of
merit in the stand. Think. YOU who
have seen The Bat" what would have
resulted had the authors exploited the
theme OF their work, told The story Of
ths play, let the throngs "in" upon
their own fast secret, THE Bat7 would
not be flying @ hieh today.
And 80 Miss Atkins may keep her
secret. and there will be none to DIV.
Before long within a FORTNIGHT. per-
haps-" Poldekin," the new Booth Tark-
lngton production, said to comprise all
the Ideas the author has conceived in
protest against Bolshevism since the
name first became common in the pub
nc prints three or four years ago, will
be given its New York premiere.
"Poldekin," while we have read a
great deal of it in OR theatrical news
columns since it began its tour in tho
Central West not long since, is said to
be IN the category of plays that are to
cause those of US who have beer
through more or less interesting sum-
mer Of "musigirl shows" to sit un and
take notice again. 1t sputters with
Amerlcanlsm, but is not dry propa-
ganda work, it is said, and it has a
story interviewer that carries The In.
terest. And, then, it is by Booth Tark.
ington, who doesn't have to write plavs
Tor a livelihood at all-at least SO lone
as the magazines continue to be pub
hshed and book publishers maintain
their places of business and discretion
And IN these days Of rapid-irs
authorship, what is to be made Of n
silence such as that of Philip Moeller.
author Of Sophie" and NINE.
Sand; Producers and managers alike
refuse to say whether they even be-
levc Mr.. Moeller is preparing another
stage piece for the fall season OF OPEN
lngs. With Mr.. Moeller it is a secret.
According to half dozen theatrical
producers in the Broadway theater dis
trlct the last week the taste of thu
great bulk Of theatergoing persons is
arriving back at the stage il held be-
fore the beginning OF the war. From
their reception of such works as Enter
Madame" they point out, there is q
very strong indication that they want
the artistic as well as the colorful and
the flash"
Musical comedy is all right in its
place. they believe, but its place is NOT
all over New York. Frs, there is thu
entree, then the dessert. So il shoufd
be IN the theater-the substantial .nd
then the frivolous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

No. NE OF the difficulties in writ
EsHE ing about acting in news
fation which has occurred
among adjectives. The average cast
is good enough and nothing more
adequate" would do nicely if the
word had not been demeaned into
polite method of insulting an
ac.or To say of any player that he
is pretty good" IS to harrow his feel
ings. Accordingly, when man knows
his lines and shows that he has some
idea Of the character which he pre-
sents and manages to speak most of
his lines without destroying the in
tent of the author it is customary to
describe his work as "excellent."
II he is a little better than that the
critic must call upon sucn words as
Amazing or gorgeous" or remark
able There would be no harm in
this II the writer were not left so
barren Of resources when confronted
by an automatically fine performance.
II there is a true spark Of inspiration
in anything which comes to the theater.
just the passing shadow of pnons, the
newspaper reviewer must turn flip
fops and cartwheels and invoke the
deity to show how glad and excited
he has been
We hereby resolve to reform. From
now on we nr0mise 70 usa "oJoor,+or
to mean just that and to let competent
work stand as pretty good" and no
moro. Since the season opened we
have seen three performances of unus-
ual worth. Gilda Varesi in Enter
Madame" Minnie Dupree in 1.-THE
Charm School" and o. P. Heggie in
"Happy-Go-Lucky" seem to us to have
set the top mark of the season 80 far.
In calling these performances "fne" we
meant finer than all the other fines"
and more noteworthy than every other
piece OF acting which was described
as amazing" "arrcsting," Intriguing"
gorgeous" or "striking"
When one speaks Of a performance
Is broad there is an implication that
" IS therefore untrue and faithless to
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production these days. And
so when one sets out to find just
what Author SO and So is doing be-
sides fishing and swimming on his
country estate through the warm
weeks he returns, if not without an
idea or two of his own that something
really is being done, still unpossessed
of the actual evidence such as LAWYERS
must place in the records to seal their
cases at the bar
There is evidence, and very strong
evidence, too, that New York is going
to awaken one fine morning the har-
borer of one or two or three new
plays that will set The city talking
as, for example. "Lightnin'" did in
other years and Beyond the Horizon"
last year and clarence" and, oh. so
many others that it would be futile
to attempt to recall them. Already. it
may be said, the season has started.
In 1.-THE Bat" the Mary Roberts
Rinchart-Avery Hopwood mystery play
at the Morosco Theater, we have the
type Of play that, it is understood, is
to be forthcoming in quito considera-
BILE numbers within a few weeks. Of
course, they will not all be thrillers.
Some of them will be deeper, more seri-
Gus works. And, after all, is there any
real preference as between the genu-
inc old-fashioned drama and the racy
mystery play SO long as they all are
done to perfection? 1t would seem not
after seeing the same persons that
have sat enthralled through silent
evenings at abraham Lincoln" attend
The Bat" and laugh and gasp with
the same general expressions of ap-
provo, in the lobby after the final
curtain.
There is Eugene O'Neil, author of
Beyond the Horizon" recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for the seasons best
play last year, who is spending his
days now at his country home in
Provincetown, Mass. Mr.. O'Neill has
made no admissions recently, but there
are friends who assert that when he
comes back to New York (and they ex-
pect him soonI he will be accompanied
by manuscript containing the
dramatic power of Beyond the
Horizon" and some say he will Guido
himself even in his coming works. Ger
tainly nothing is to be gained in the
way of information by talking with
Mr.. O'Neill himself He is courteous
as can be, and is most fattcred to
know that New York men and women
are wondering what he is to do next,
but he doesn't care to talk about his
work until he has something ready for
production, or at least to offer for
production. He is having a splendid
time, feels we'll, thank you, and good
by.
Now, Zoe Atkins, who wrote "Declassee"
and "Foot-Loose," has been spending
quite lot Of her time in the after
moons and evenings at her home, 1877
East Sixty-sixth Street, alone, and it
has been rumored that neighbors have
heard typewriter in action az late as
midnight-and even later. Miss Atkins
writes few personal letters, it is said,
on her machine, and so it is supposed
she has another play under way.
But that is not all. A still warmer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
AS We " ere Saying

| life. This is hardly Just Both Reggie
and Miss Dupree use some sweeping
strokes in their performances and vet
each creates real person. In some
curious way fine performer is able
to hold to life even in caricature
Bold strokes and broad ones may have
fidelity if they are we'll done. Nc
body expects ever to meet such
character as Heggie's Samuel Stillbot-
tie, the bailiff's man, and vet, dur
ing the performance at any rate. he
seems real enough person to engage
the sympathies as we'll as the amuse-
nent of the audience. When Heggie
says, with the shade Of a smile and
bit of gesture, "I've even washed the
baby Stillbottle becomes Immediately
something more than a comic supple
ment person. He brings into the play
much that lies outside the drama as
set down. He is no longer merely a
person hidden in makeup.
Tho simplest sort Of stage business
may be the most revealing and effect
i've In spite of several shrewdly
written lines, McKenna, who played
the young boy in David CARDS "Immod-
est Violet" was able to tell more of
the character in few brief wordless
minutes in which Arthur Bodkin sat
down to read comic supplement than
IN perhaps all the rest of the play.
Playwrights will learn in time that a
hint may do as much for a play as
a third act climax.
"The Bat" seems to us an engrossing
mystery play, but it. is not always fair
with its audience. Few, we think. will
be able to guess the identity Of tn.
master criminal until the final act, but
he Is discovered and undone partly BY
The fact that the playwrights are
obliging enough to make him do not
few exceedingly stupid and unex-
planned things. More than that, when
caught his guilt may be- taken for
granted by the audience, but a little
reflection after the play will serve
to prove to any one that the public
prosecutor would have a perfect devil
OF q time convicting him on the evil
dence which the authors expect the
spectators to accept as conclusive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29

rev CbeatrleaI (Dff2Tll5QS OF the lU1ek

MoNDAY-At the Comedy Theatc William Harris
brook Blnn comedy Browne
1t is play of Mexican life with chief
chief Supporting Mr. Bnn will be
Edna Ibbard James A Devn Fred Tdn
Wilson Reynolds Haywood Bell, Bixby
Charles Gibney
At the Greenwich Village Theater Bohemians, will
their annual rcvusical
Latin Quarter "Ihs Greenwich Village Foll
that includes Savoy and Brennan
Phebe Cemons
Vena Gould Mary Lewis IIadey, Cee Hamilton
Myers Hanford Collins Throop Margaret
Davies
TUESDAYAt will present tho
Doctor in
the cast Philip Mvae, William Norris Amoy
Beecher Charlotte Walker, Houston
Tom WISE Barbara Milton Rae Martin
At the Knckerbocker MacGrer
liam Moore Patch will "The Shop"
DR. Hugo
Felix Included in
leila RUSSELL Helen Ford Esther
Una Fleming, Daniel Heay Teddy Irving
THURSDAYAt the Belmont Theter Richard
Little Miss Charity intimate comedy
Clark R Henry theater will be
exclusively
Gateson, Frederick Raymond Henry
Edna Shaw Bernard Wells Jee MAulife, Lillian
the New will nresent
edition of the "Megd Midnight Hckmans
California band will play Edward Foles
Carroll wrote IN. ,nuic
Ballard Macdonald the and Art Hickman
supplied additional lyrics
the Among the principals the Gerard
William and Gordon Dooey the Kathr Marvn
Annette Bad Edythe Baker Airline Norda Rou
Fairbanks Twins, Billy Mason Lillian Boderck
Hanley, Kathryn Perry Emily
Martha Pierre Alta GLADYS
and Tayo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-29
With the Playw1.i;g
What Authors OF Some of Last Seasons
Successes Are Doing

(&Y YSTERY-the silent, lasting,
.GN&YH unrelenting sort - hangs
~ over the field Of dramatic
~ proIrct;op
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By Haywood Droun

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Continued on page TIVE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
!. S. War Revenues Equal
To Those for SIS Years
kince September, 1917, Govern.
ment Has Collected a Total
& of $l1,48l, loo. 900

WASHINGTON. April 24.-Govern-
nens revenues since September. 1917.
about equaled revenues for the fifty
Ave years prior to that year.
& The Internal Revenue Bureau an
nounced tonight that in the two and
: half years of war taxation revenue
receipts aggregated $11,4s1, los, 900.
nile for the ffty-hve-year period they
.ss s1ifsss Gee .noe.
Tho collection Of this sum was in
DE hands of former Commissioner
Hopper, during whose term yearly
mounts were: From September. 1917,
8, June so, 1918, s3.545,2s 900; July
i, 1915, to July 1. 1919, $3.50, 15o, 900,
and from the latter date to March 81
a this year, the last collection date,
A,os5, 723 900.
The main sources Of revenue Of the
soyernment from the date the bureau
eas created, in 1862, until 1909 were
taxes on liquors and tobacco.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
The White Heat of Summer
Makes White
Silks Welcome

THE DAYS when darker apparel gives wav
Il to white are within counting distance.
How forehanded you be if you get those
necessary white silk frocks blouses, petticoats.
lingerie and sport skirts made now. especially
when you can have the advantage of the follow
ing excellent values
White Washable India Silk
$1.78 yard
for frocks and blouses-36 inches wide
White Washable Habuta Silk
$3.50 yard
heavy quality-36 inches vide
White Satin Sublime
$3.50 yard
beautiful. soft, lustrous quality--36 inches wide
White Dress Satin
$685. yard
chiffon finish and high lustre-36 inches wide
White Sport Satin
$6.95 yard
beautiful ustre-4O inches wide
round
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25

Louis XVI Bedroom Suite in choice of Walnut.
Mahogany, Ivory and Gray Enamel finishes four
pieces including full size bed $495OO
Five pieces including twin beds . $615OO
Hepplewhte Mahogany Bedroom Suite four
pieces including full size bed $4,000
Hepple,vhite Walnut Bedroom Suite; five
pieces including twin beds $135OOO
Queen Anne Mahogany Bedroom Suite 11ve
pieces including twin beds $4,000
As illustrated-Lous XVI Bedroom Suite in choice
OF Walnut. Mahogany Ivory Enamel; four pieces in
Guiding full bed Sa7s m
Five pieces including twin beds. $4,000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
Quality Bedroom
Furniture
That Will Appeal for Bridal Homes

7lQt Vul HpPeCH TOf bf1QU HOMES
thoughts hs bridal sa",s s ss
homes. At such time, only quality fur
niture is considered and we are glad to announce
very large collection of the practical yet attrac-
tive kind of bedroom suites, at prices that will ap-
peal to yousas very reasonable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
One of the Delights of Spring
Our Lovely
Wash Materials
: roy Deportment-7sh FLOOR :

IKE WALKING through an old-fashioned
~ garden to enter the Wash Fabric Depart
ment I'd Aoor-crisp, saucy ginghams,
colored fabrics and dashing checks attract the eye
in whatever direction you look you see beauti-
full, large assortments, making selection an inter-
esting process.
Three Items of Price and Quality Interest
American Zephyr Gingham-31 and 80 inches
wide; many checks plaids. stripes and plain coors-
yard 75c
Printed Silk and Cotton Crepe Georgette-36
inches wide various designs and shades yard 81 rs
Irish Handkerchief Lnen-complete range of
shades; SO inches wide yard 81 65
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-25
NeW Wooden Fabrics

Peachbloom Velours--for sport SUITS coats and
capes, sponged and shrunk-54 inches wide many new
shades-and navy and black. yard $7S5
All Wool Jersey Cloths-54 inches-superor
quality. practical material in appropriate weight and
colors yard $3.50
econd Floor
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-26
GENERAL

Suit 10 recover Inheritance and in
come taxes of s.. 100000 paid from the
estate of Mrs. Potter Palmer have
been filed in Chicago by ITonore and
Potter Palmer, Mrs PaImer's sons.
An announcement has been made
that the marriage of Miss Helen Taft,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs William
Howard Taft, to Frederick J. Manning
will take place at Murray Bay, Can
ada, July IL.
Fred Stcffler, Anderson, Ind,
charged with Transporting stolen au-
tomobile across state line. was given
five years in prison by Judge Lands
in Chicago. Two companions were
given six months sentences.
Frank de X. Storey, n New York
lawyer, convicted of criminally receiv-
ing several thousand dollars worth of
stolen securities, was sentenced to Sing
five years at hard labor Storey, de
scribed aS "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde" :"
who associated with honest men by
day and crooks by night. automatically
is barred from practicnG his profes-
sion.
John f. Leikauf, who died at Mont
clair, virtually willed his wife to his
brother in the document just filed He
provided that Mrs. Lulu Lcikauf, his
widow. will lose the income from S4O.-
600 if she marrieS any other than my
beloved brother, George l.. Leikauf :"
The brother resides in the teStators
home
A record in collecting fines for vio-
latiOn of the Nolsteud act was made in
New York when $4,000 was taken
from burtenders and saloOnkeepers i'll
penalties of from SO to $3.50 each, re-
Gently. Federal Judge Hand offered to
let off with fines all first offenders
who would plead guilty TO violations
prior to June s, when the Supreme
Court declared the prohibition meas
ure constitutional.
The Public Utilities Commission at
Chicago has granted the Peoples Gas
Light and Coke Company an increase
to Sl.15 per 1000 cubic feet for gas,
with minimum charge of 60 cents.
The present rate is 50 cents. The or
der of the commission says it costs the
company 96.5 cents to make each 1000
feet of gas, and that the loss of 11.5
per 1000 under the present rate
amounts to $4,000 per day.
After experiments lasting over pc
riod of three months, the Stamscott
company of Hopewell, Va, announced
that new process of making paper
pulp from cotton fiber had been devel-
oped and that manufacture of the pulp
in quantities would he started soon.
Losses estimated at S1,200000 We're
caused by fire which destroyed the
plant of the Santiago Electric Light,
Railway and Power Company AT Ha-
vana, according to dispatch from
that city. Virtually all the rolling
stock and electrical supplies of the
company were burned.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-26
FOREIGN

FOREIGN
one hundred cases of cholera have
hcen discovered In Southern Japan,
some victims of the disease being
found at Toxic.
The Poles have repused strong en-
emy attacks in the region Gf Smigal
Szaozina, inflicting considerable losses
upon the Bolshevikl. according to an
official statement on the fighting op-
eratlons issued at Warsaw.
Four people we're drowned when
their automobile ran off the ferry at
I.ateIlier, forty miles south of Winui-
peg, into the Red river The dead are
Joseph Knisely. aged ~; his son, aged
.; Thomas Bennct, - and Miss Edna
Scott. o..
An automobile carrying the assist
ant director general of the royal Irish
constabulary and four constnbles was
attacked with revolver fire and bombs
in Dublin Assistant Director General;
| Roberts was shot in the head, but is
expected to live The chauffeur was
shot in both legs.
l
estimated to be suffering from war
tuberculosis s'-consumption resulting
directly from war causes, including
poison gas, poor n0urishnent and nerv-
Gus shock. Mortality is especially sig
nificant among Infants born in the
families of French soldiers who fought
through the war.
As an example 81 the strict vigilance
| of the German customs officers in or
der to save their country from being
drained of valuables, the HandelSblad
says that 100000 marks worth Of
diamonds and 100000 marks have been
confiscated at Bentheim, the Dutch
| frontier station, within the last two
| weeks.
Heroic work by the officers and
crew of the American steamer West
Jester outside Yokohoma harbor re-
suited in saving the Japanese steamer
Kiyo Maru, with seventy passengers
from South America on board, from
possible total destruction by fire, IL
is announced in advices received from
Kobe, whittier the kiyo Maru was
bound
A band of nearly Il hundred outlaws
| who declared themselves To be Bolshe-
visits, seized trading posts at Anadyr,
| Siberia, and confiscating supplies and
stock. brought down the wrath of the
natives, who organized, attacked and
drove off the Reds after killing seven
teen of thei- number, according to ad-
vice brought to America by the Rus
sian schooner Behring.
Approval of credit amounting to
3,000, 100000 marks will be asked of
the new reichstag, according to an Of
fetal news bulletin issued at Berlin.
This money would be used TO meet
urgent emergency expenditures. The
ministry of finance will also be called
upon to mobilize Il credit of 5000, ,000,-
600 marks to meet current obligations
growing out of the Versailles peace
treaty..
The Colorado statesman., 1920-06-26
WASHINGTON

Withdrawal of four of the six de-
stroyers now at Mexican gulf ports has
been ordered by the Navy Department,
a number of changes in rules re-
gardng the departure of aliens from
this country will be made by the State
Department with the discontinuance,
June goth, of the office of foreign per-
mits and the concentration of such
work In the division of passport con-
troll. Alien enemies are to be allowed
to depart from the United States to
all countries, with certain exceptions,
without permits, and ii will no longer
be necessary to have permits to leave
the United States by way of the MeXi-
can and Canadian borders.
American mining interests already
are demonstrating II feeling of conf
dence in the declarations of the de
factor government of Mexico by great
Iy increased activities in the states of
Sonora and Snaloa, said report re-
ceived Mt Washington from the Amer
lean consul at Nogales
In an effort to obtain better fitting
uniforms for American soldiers, more
than 100000 men in the army have
had their measure taken, the War De
partment announced. The measure
ments were said to form the most com
prehcnsive survey ever made for tailor
ing purposes and will be made availa-
bile to the clothing trade.
Distribution of 4,T65,000 Victory
medals to members of the army, navy
and marine corps who We're in service
between April 6, 1917, and Nov. IL,
1918, has been started In addition to
the medal itself, the War Department
has authorized the issuance of thir-
teen combat or major operation
clasps" and defensive sector clasp
20 be worn on the ribbon with the med
al, and five overseas service clasps for
troops not entitled TO the battle insig-
nia.
Purchase of 100000 ounces of sill
yer at ST an ounce for delivery at Phil
adeIphia and san Francisco has been
announced by the director of the mint
This makes total of 100000 ounces
acquired by the government under the
authority of the Pittman act this
month.
Under n War Department order
-wentv-three officers holding the emer-
tency rank of major general have been
'educed to brigadiers or colonels, and
.i,teen officers now brigadier generals
re reduced 10 ranks ranging from
ma jor To colonel.