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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-03
EASE THOSE TIRED,
ACHING MUSCLES


n ZEN at work all day. standing
rs on your feet. lifting heavy
- weights? And now you're all
tired out.
Never mind. if you are wise you
have a bottle of Sloans on the
shelf, at homo or in the shop. Put
little on, without rubbing, and
quickly comes grateful warmth
and relief.
Good for rheumatic pains. neu-
ralgia, sciatica. lumbaEo and the
host of external pains that are all
the time coming. Helps break up
colds, too!
It's comforting to keep ii handy.
Three sizes--35c, zoe, $I40.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
(Ubat'$ (Ubat III new York Cbeater$


BEAsCo"Th Chinatown
BIJOU-"Tho spiruaistc melodrama.
BOOTHNot So Ago" Period comedy
BELMONT"The ONl in Spanish
BRoADHURsT-"smin' Through, Jane Cow in romantic drama
CAsINO-"Bety, Be Good" Comedy with Riesenfeld music
CENTRAI"As Bordoni
Americanized
CENTURY-Florodora,"
COHAN-"The in a
COHAN HARRIs-"Honey "Checkers" to music
Friends
CORT'Abraham Lincoln" historical
CRITERIoN-"why Change Your Wife," motion picture.
"Grls followed
his midnight Frolc."
Observation-Disclosures" Of French West Indies
eclassee, Etne in nsociet drama
sTREET"The Helen MacKelar modma Of
liar Northwest.
Cecil Cleo Mayfe
in girl andm farce
Henry" Eighteenth Amen
Of Renos divorce industry
CgG Guilds OF
r Home"
GREENWICH vILIAGE-see new theatrical offerings
HARRIS-See theatrical offerings.
MLLERS-"Th Fair" Miller
n Forbess
vaudeville
comedy Harry Beresford
LIBERTY-"The Night Boat" musical, farcica comedy
Horizon"
LONGACRE-"Adam and Eva American domestic comedy.
Dggers of
LYRIC-'What's a Name?" of musical
MAXINE ELLIOTT'S-See theatrical offerings
MOROSCO-'The Hole the Wall" Spiritualstic drama
NEW AMsTERDAMEd Carnival. Girls music and comedy.
NORA BAYES-"Iassie" Unique Scotch musical comedy.
Wonderful Eagels
PLYMOUTH3 Showers" Southern with
PRINCEss-"Mrs mme Thompson" farc1cal
SELWYNBuddes" the F. Brittany,
sHUBERT-E shakeprean
sTREETScand" Cherry Francin Lamore
in farcical
nd
WINTER GARDEN"The Passing 1919" Girls, vaudeville
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

originally presented and conditions &c
the present. time msst be taken into
consideration in order not to offend tbs
public. The general viewpoint on things
shifts, new generation springs up, ana
what may have been perfectly proper
and inoffensive fifteen or twenty years
ago may not be so at the present time
For instance, "The Belle f>New York"
tremendous success both in this. cour-
try and England, might be objected to,
in part at least, for the maner in which
the Salvation Army is treated in the
play Through the war the influence
of and the public REGARD for the Saliva
| tion Army have become so great that
light treatment Of the organization, al
though done humorously with no harm
full intent, might be resented.
Mr.. Hinshaw was discussing with
me the possibility of reviving George
! AIDES The Sultan of Sulu' Although
AIDES dialogue Is perhaps the most
sparkling written for musical comedy,
l opposed the idea, even though orig
mated the title role about fifteen years
ago. The play is set in the Philippines
and the theme is satire on the Consts-
tuition. told Mr.. Hinshaw that I felt
the day for that sort OF theme had
gone by"
Mr.. Moulan looks with favor on the
possibility Of the revival Of "The Merry
Widow" by Colonel Savage. The play
had a very wide appeal, the title is
probably the best known title for
money-getting purposes and there is
real story in 1t, Mr.. Moulan thinks.
No longer does the real show girl
exist on the stage to- day. In the opinion
Of Frank Moulan.
"When the real show girls came on
the stage you knew instinctively that
they were apart from the chorus" he
said. "They knew how TO wear their
clothes, they looked as if they belonged
in them and spoke as if they belonged
in them. In England almost every act
of the musical comedies opened with
ten or fifteen minutes Of meaningless
conversation between the show girls.
The audiences there demanded it. When
the plays were brought to this country
the show girl idea came along with
them. But the lack of show girls now
would prohibit this. Yet this would
not interfere with the revival Of these
plays. The show girl scenes could be
eliminated easily without interfering
with the action
A week from tomorrow night ME.
Moulan will begin his career as
drunkard on the stage of the Nora
; Bayes Theater in "Lassie." Prohibition,
he thinks. will never cause the removal
of the drunk characters" from the
stage.
"There will always be drunks on the
stage. The theory Is: When in doubt,
! play O. drunk II never fails"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Sam III. Harris Will TRY
To Make the Music Box
Second Weber & Fields

In talking of Honey Girl" at the
Cohan & Harris Theater, to Sam II.
Harris, its producer, it was necessary,
first Of all, to get things straight. It
was complicated situation. It was not
his first Independent production, nor
was It his first musical production. It
was, however, his Arst independent
musical production, and as such, IN
teresting. Especially 80, as the Music
Bcx, the theater that Is to be built by
Mr.. Harris and Irving Berlin, will be
the home Of many Of Mr.. Harris's ven
lures in musical production.
"At the Music Box explained Mr..
Harris, 1--WE shall try to go back to the
days Of Weber & Fields. We shall stage
revues there every six months or so,
which will be much like the old Weber
& Fields revues, burlesques Of the
current plays, strung together on music
written by Mr.. Berlin especially for
these productions. The name of the
theater will indicate, Of course, that
the music Is to be the most important
consideration there.
"In the fall shall produce another
musical play called Going Some and
am always hospitable to anything,
with or without music, that answers
my demands. There Is, however, much
more fun for me in staging a musical
comedy than in anything else that
can do. That is the reason why pre-
fer musical comedies; there are SO
many details that can be adjusted, so
much to work with.
II like Honey Girl' especially, be-
cause there is real story. The libretto
Of the musical comedy follows Check
ers' faithfully, and there is real plot,
real romance, real humor. You don't
have dialogue that leads aimlessly up
to song but songs that fit the
dialogue. Another virtue that it has
for me is that it Is a perfectly clean
show; won't produce shows with un-
der-dressed women in them or with a
salacious appeal in them. Purely as a
business proposition, clean musical
comedies give better box Office returns
than suggestive plays. There must be
catchy music, good book, good cast,
and then there comes the fun Of work
ing to make the whole a successful
musical comedy"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
sPage Mr.. Cupid" i'm BROOKLYN

The premier of the Shuberts' new
play with music, page Mr. Cupid"
with Ernest Truck as the featured
player, will occur at the Shubsrt-Cres
cent, Brooklyn, on Monday, May II, to
continue during the remainder of the
week. This will be the first time that
a new play has been given in Brooklyn
Immediately preceding its presentation
in New York. "Page Mr.. Cupid" will
be presented at one Of the Shuber+
playhouses Immediately following It's
presentation in Brooklyn. Owen Davis
wrote the book, the lyrics are by
Blanche Merrill and the music by Jean
Schwartz. In support of Mr.. Truck are
Marjorie Gateson. Carlotta Monterey,
Violet Engleheid. Edna Temple. Eliza
beth Moffett, Guy Nichols, Robert Pit
kin, Shep Camp, Charles Vernon, Har-
old Crane and others.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Equity Benefit Tonight

The Actors Equity Benefit perform
ance with program that will include
every phase Of dramatic art and a
cast that will include all Of the stars
Of the profession will be given at the
Metropolitan Opera House tonight.
The numbers run from light opera
and dance to Shakespeare. Every
number In the program has been spe-
cially written, staged and costumed for
this one performance and the enter
tainment committee has been at work
upon it for four months.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
ooh, Henry!' Comedian,
Once a ''Fir1n Believer,''
Sees Prohibitions Good

All joking aside (same, incidentally,
sidering); prohibition is not really the
worst thing that could have happened
to this land Of ours.
Dallas Wexford, comedian In "Oh,
Henryl" the new liquor slipping farce
by Bide Dudley at the Fulton Theater,
is mindful OF the fact that the whole
United States might have been set out
in onions. Many, many things, he is
positive, might have happened that
would have made the Eighteenth
Amendment sound like a Dixie lullaby
in comparison.
The rotund, red-nosed, Iaugh-pro-
ducing gentleman, who so suddenly
forgot he was funny for while the
other night just before he stepped out
Of his dressing room to start ooh,
Henry!" on its way, is not a prohibi-
zionist by profession. Far from that.
Fact is, there are more dizzy ex-bar-
tenders in the examination ward at
Bellevue recovering from the pace he
set as he stood before their shiny rails
in the last forty years than he could
count. He admits it. When the Prince
Of Wales recently had to bandage his
right hand because he had shaken so
many husky fingers through Canada,
Mr. Wexford snickered and held his
sides. He once got into such a state
he had to tie down his right arm to a
bedpost at night to keep from slapping
himself in the face when he ought to
be sleeping. He had the "histin' habit"
Ask him.
But he has stopped drinking now.
Not particularly because he had to, but
because he sat down one night and fig
ured out where he stood, and decided
coolly 1t was the thing to do.
Pointing his rouge stick as hs would
have pointed sword. he philosophical
something like this:
"In the theatrical profession I have
witnessed, since the going into effect Of
prohibition. the reformation Of many q
man who otherwise never would have
reformed. That Is point No. !.
II know q lot Of pretty little wives
out on Long Island and up in New Jer-
sey and upstate in New York who are
having midnight supper with their &C.
tor husbands these nights who In
other years saw their husbands regu-
larly on each anniversary Of thei,
| wedding. That's number two.
II know Of lot Of grocers In Brook.
lyn and New York, and also on Long
island and New Jersey that have q
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

~ MONG lAe myths Wnlcn nave
vi found place in the theatrical
H beliefs Of the day Is the no.
ton that if there is any good
thing In q play it came from the d.
rector. There was time, not so many
seasons ago, when he got no more space
on the program than the house car
penter; but all that is changed. No
matter whether the playwright be Ib-
sen or Shakespeare and the actor one
Of our great stars, anything compelling
in the result is generally referred to
as the achievement Of some master
mind who put the show on.
And this simple faith includes more
than the serious dramatic perform
snces. The director has just as much
honor IL the realm of musical comedy.
Consider, for instance, the case of
"Lassie," now playing at the Nora
Bayes Theater. 1t has been extensively
advertised about town as under the
entire direction OF Edward Royce" or
words 20 that effect, and press stories
nave gone the rounds implying that
Ar. Royce took somewhat decrepit
and weakened show and by the magic
Of his direction made "Lassie" the verv
merry entertainment which it Is to-
day.
Now, as a matter Of fact, we hap
pened to see "Lassie" in WASHINGTON
oe1ore 1t came to New York and before
'ne magic Of Mr.. Royce had been ap
piled. And it was then-yes, even be-
iore the coming Of the master mind
an exceedingly diverting and tasteful
musical comedy. 1t has been polished
W somewhat here and there. one or
sWo numbers, notably the one called
IAasis," have been improved, and one
W TWO others have been impaired, but
Is In its essentials the same show
~ was from the beginning when 1t was
.ifst produced by Wendell Phillips
o0oge and Willy Pogany and directed
oy Leon Enrol and Percy knight. Nor
snouid 1t be forgotten that the sue
a'SS OF the show is not primarily due
W any OF these many directors and
n''aaceIs' but rather to DR.. Felix, who
~'o's the most tuneful score Of the
season.
Aners sre thing, for which q director
'us' receive full measure Of praise.
scenes which depend largely on move
.-'u' oeiong to the director alone. OF
'oafse all crowd or large group scenes
A.s MS Even the performance of the
'sa' may be his entirely, but this Is
a0s usual Certainly most of the best
INDIVIDUAL performances must be Grad
''ea TO the actor rather than the Al
'N.or' although the latter NAV have
ma0e suggestions OF enormous valne.
Aefe are things the director cannot
"s practically impossible for him
~ ~ 'mpart a cerebral quality to scene
40 's working merely with live mari.
A's'es- Yet much can be done with
su'n material by good director. The
20, 'inet and the marionettes is q for
N's quite familiar in the German the
's'' which was without doubt one ~
sfea1 theaters Of the world, and
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

PAID check on grocery bills that
have been worn to shreds in the mails
travelling back and forth to the homes
of actors. That's number three.
"The stage is clean and safe-back
Of the curtains and in the dressing
rooms and everywhere. There was a
time, in certain instances, when I
didn't like to see young women Of re-
who had been holding down brass rail
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

all afternoon at a beer saloon. That's
number four"
Sitting down before his mirror he
discovered he had daubed rouge on his
eyelds that should be black, and black
on his nose that was supposed to be
crimson in ooh, Henry."
This old world is still running as
smoothly and as happily as ever, de-
spite the prediction that it would soon
drv up and blow aWay."
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
new Cbeatrieal OFFERINGS Of TIE lUeek

Loose my Stevens Norman Trevor and P Hsgg in Foot
bv oy Zoe Akin1 The of "ForgeMe-Not
ondon 1va o and F. C. first forty years ago
A. bs sasnkhead John Webster and Lillian Brennard u
ne Shubert Theaer Soher Julia Marowe will
spss IN The Tanning third their
season The will evening"
rr-rsn sramiet Will be given Saturday matinee.
ene harris Theater Carlisle
M Aiches by William with Lucille
Uevereux and
taniton Chry Bixby
u stuart Muel Martin Lewis Waller
AT Maxine Eliott's D. Williams
Cyr ou!s ye by Anne Crawford Fexner. Fisher
Cssnc. ryssone Clifford
others Leland Chandler, Eleanor Hutchinson and
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
AsW.eW ereSaying-
By Haywood Broun

. M0NG the myths which have may
VII found place in the theatrical thel
- beliefs of the day Is the no. com
finn that IL thera is anu nnnd nrt
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Tonight at the Neighborhood

At the Neighborhood Playhouse this
evening the Festival Dancers will sp-
pear in q new pantomime, "The Magic
Shop" and the Neighborhood Players
In a new play, "The Fair" by Violet
Pearn. This is the final bill Of the
season.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

Here and there q skeptio remains
about the superiority Of the modern
naturalistic school Of acting. "Natu-
ralism!" snorted an old director the
other day. "I know what that means
put the hands in the pockets and speak
so nobody can understand you"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

may be now, for all we know. Never
theless there is a certain ground for
complaint against the autocrat even in
art, where his achievements are some
times magnificent. There is something
missing in any performance which has
been directed down to the last detail
even by one Of the great men Of the
theater. Perhaps the very perfection
of the thing is its fault. More than
that, the greatest art must always be
interpreted directly by the artist to
his public. In the case of the autocrat
in the theater the cast stands between
him and his public. He is speaking
through instruments not one of which
can be perfectly tunedeto his purpose.
Greater things can be done if scope
is given to the individual and free ex-
preston Of each actor. AS rule, to be
sure, such a system generally produces
results far worse than those which the
autocrat can give us, but, though its
failures are many and lamentable
freedom is the one way to the
top of the theater. The perfect
play must be the blending of
many temperaments and intelligences.
When the director makes the mixture
his product is fctionized, no matter
how shrewd he is, no matter how great.
Many actors cannot think or act for
themselves. In some cases they have
been warped and crippled by too much
direction, and in others they were born
that way. They will not belong in the
perfect theater, no matter how elo
quent they may be as instruments for
the interpretations of somebody else.
One man can bring little fire down
from heaven, but It takes many to
bring down the heights themselves and
all their glorles.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Is the Habit of Reviving
Stage Successes Coming
Back to the Theater?

~ ATTERLY revivals have become
~ the fashion among theatrical
~ producers, as if to bear out the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
vere imprisoped fer acts promoted BY

were imprisoned fer acts prometsd by
conscientious opposition TO the whole
theory Of war were held for only a
short time after the end II active hos.
tilities. The British have been more
liberal, on the whole, than we have
been In dealing with objectors Of all
sorts.
In this country however. some of the
crimes committed by those who later
sought immunity ms conscientious OBJ d.
ioctor2 were strangely odious and al
most unforgivable. Such were the vio-
lations of law and hospitality and good
taste charged against Werner, Darkow
and L'mkc who after successfully
maneurering to void the Jail terms
meted cut to them for their work as
pro German journalists. are now safe
from punishment. They were active
rartisans Of Germany and the German
cause While we we're at war with tho
Germans. They were not humantn-
rians VIII, found themselves in conflict
with established authority because of
moral or religious scruples They we're
friends Of an enemy who made war
more atrocious than IL ever was before.
IL is with this knowledge in mind that
the Presideut's acton will have to be
Judged
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
UP-TO-DATE MAGIC

THE Philadelphia Assembly Of the
L Society Of American Magicians gave
an exhibition of the power Of some Of
its members an evening or two ago in
one Of the city's assembly rooms. The
society was in the right city, but in tn.
wrong hall; the meeting should have
been held in the big building at the in.
tersrction Of Broad and Market streets.
where the talents displayed might have
been of practical value, although Phil
adelphia's needs for magic are by no
means confined to that one spot.
Mayor Moore might receive them
with open arms if the magicians could
show him how most effectively to wine
out certain pestientiaI elements in the
City's political complexion.
Over in the Liberty Building a cor
tain contractor would welcome their aid
in cleaning the streets it seems 10 be
the only way that it will ever be ac-
ComplishPd He needs no assistance,
natural or supernatural, in collecting
the bills.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany would pay big for any help which
would show il how to pay the cnOr-
nous rentals To the underlying com
panes, pay dividends aud at the same
time keep out of hot water with the
public.
The magicans clearly wasted their
talents in giving an exhibition before
their own members and friends, when
so much that was of greater Importance
awaited their best efforts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
CLEAN AIR AND MORALS

NN SATURDAY last the new
~ fresh air farm of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was dedicated, an
institution which is probably destined
to play an important part in the lives
of many children of the less fortunately
located portions of the city. The farm
was made possible through the munifi
cence of Justice Simpson. of the state
Supreme Court; Joseph NJ. Perry and
other public spirited Methodists.
Institutions such as this are i'm
portant in the actual opportunities
which they provide for the upbuilding
of the health of those children fortunate
enough to enjoy the advantages they
offer, but the gimpses they give into a
life hitherto practically unknown to
many of these little ones is of even
greater value.
Many child has had his whole ideas
of life reconstructed for the better by
a weeks sojourn at an institution like
the Carson Simpson Recreation House.
New standards of living are given and
higher ideals implanted. with the result
that, however greatly the child may be
improved physically by it's vacation
under these favorable circumstances, the
spiritual growth transcends it, No
matter to what kind of home the little
one returns, the lessons of its country
week, taught at the most impression.
able age, are bound to remain.
"A sound mind in a sound body are
the essential clements of good citizen.
ship the new Methodist farm will stim.
ulate the growth of both.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP

ONE of the strongest arguments yet
" made against government owner
ship of public utilities was presented
by Representative Saunders, of In
diana. on the floor of the House. AL
though an attack upon former Secretary
McAdoo, the points he made against
government railroad operation were so
strong as to deserve attention.
The daily cost of government opera
ton. he declared, was 81 ,666, ,667, a
portion of which, he said. was used
for political purposes. 1t is common
knowledge that the cost of operation
under the government was greatly in
excess Of that of private control, which
was only to be expected, as the govern
mcnt by some inscrutable economic law
appears always to pay more and get
less for the money than the individual.
However, it is in the possibilities Of
political juggling when the government
owns or aupervises business organiza
tiOns employing a great number of
voters that the real danger lies, not only
t. the efficiency of service but also to
the ideals and institutions of the re-
public. Mr., Saunders frankly accused
Mr.. MrAdoo Of using his position as
director general of railroads with the
hope Of tying the 1000, 900 votes of the
railroad workers to the Democratic
party and more especially for the ad
yanrement Of his own political ambi-
tiOns.
Without accepting. this statement
wholly, it must be admitted that under
government supervision such a situa
tion might readily develop. There are
already far too many government EN-
ployeS many of whose jobs depend upon
the continuance in Office of the party in
power. Government ownership would
increase this number enormously, and
the temptation to use federal positions
aud federal money for such purposes is
zoo great to be ignored,
In Philadelphia we have had toe
many years of painful experience with
his sort of thing. Government owner
ship would simply have a tendency, ia
put it mildly, to nationalise one of the
very worst features of our form of gov
'rument,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-14
THE HIGH COST OF ED

T1NLESS all reports and rumors lie
u things will hum at City Hall when
Mayor Moore returns from Chicago to
And that the enemy has advanced a con =
siderable distance on the sector of the
city committee.
Varieties. almost all of them. in mu
nicipal Offices have been ordered to
prepare for dreadful shocks. a bland
statement at the Ware Offices announces
that hurried preparations are being
made to receive additional casualties in
the county Offices Those who suffer
will have themselves to blame. 1t is
as the French used to say. war. But
how odd it is to read Of political boss
calmly arranging to have the public go
deeper into its hard pressed pockets to
pay for the ubkeep of his army
Our present fix, as city, is dis
agreeably like that of some of the for r-
eign communities which, occupied by
the enemy, had to pay constant tribute
to the invader.