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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-15
Factions of Thompson and
Lowden Fight to Win State -
Ticket for Followers :,
SHOOTING FOLLOWS ,
ARGUMENT NEAR POLLS
Lowdenites Declare Thompson
Now Wants to Get Hold on
Funds of the State
(By United Press)

Springfield, ILL.,, Sept. 15.-One of
the most bitter campaigns in the his
tory of G.. o. P. in Illinois came to Z
close today when republicans went to
the polls to decide whether the reg
ular" state organization or Mayor
William Hale Thompson OF Chicago
shall control the party machinery.
The administration slate is headed
by Lieutenant Governor John G.
Oglesby as candidate for governor to
succeed Governor frank o. Lowden,
who was not candidate for re-elec-
ton. ThompsOn's slate Is headed by
Len Small of Kankakee, several times
state treasurer and state auditor.
The Irregular" organization de-
pended on downstate counties to put
Oglesby and the rest Of the slate
across. The Thompson slate. by rea-
son Of its party organization in Chi
cago. Is expected to start downstate
tonight with majority of not less
than $4,000.
Three places governor. United
States senator and attorney general
were contested bitterly. Congress-
man Frank Smith of Dwight, chair
man of the state central committee,
is the Thompson candidate for Unit
ed States senator to succeed Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman, who Is not
candidate. The Irregular" candidate
is Congressman william Mckinley OF
Champaign. 3. NJ. Chiperfield of
Canton also is ac andidate. Attorney
General Edward J. Brundage, who is
making the race for reelection on the
regular" slate. is opposed by State
Senator Richard J. Barr Of Joliet.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-15
(By United Press)

Chicago, Sept. 15.-Bloodshed oc-
cured in the state primaries here
today when Michael. Hennessey,
worker for the democratic candidate
for state senator, was shot and killed
by Thomas Powers, policeman. The
shooting followed an argument near
a voting booth. Powers was arrested.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-15

COMPLETE COUNTY FAIR
PROGRAM ON PAGE FOUR

A complete program of events
including free attractions and
races of various kinds, is pub
lished on page four Of this issue.
AS is customary. the program
features the events which will
take place tomorrow and Friday.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-15
SPORTS COMMITTEE
49, FOR COUNTY FAIR

The following have been
named as a committee in charge
of the sports and races at the
fair grounds Thursday. and Fri
day afternoon: E.. H. Denu, G.
w. Jewett, F. R. Duxbury, E. B.
Berman, r. L. Given, A. P.
Ritchie and E. A. Barker.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-15
WEATHER REPORT

Minnesota weather: Fair tonight
and Thursday; cooler tonight. .
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Largsst Cirssla-
ton Il Northssa
Minnesota
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

as plumber and as maid to June Ell
vldge, the opera star, and each time
his masque meets discovery and scorn.
In each bit of mummery he is master
of the humor that is known on the
stage as the rebound, in which the line
has no content of literary humor, the
laugh depending upon the mood and
expression with which the actor turns
off the situation.
In these situations Dooley shows an
intelligent conception of comedy which
is an immense advance on the aero
batic harlequinade with which he is as
ISOLATED in vaudeville. Nevertheless
there is abundant Renaissance of the
tumbling Johnny Dooley. But there
is something admirable about his stage
falls. His prostration is so inevitable
that the spectator divines theatrical
providence in it. If he reaches for
chair Dooley simply appears ordained
to fall. When this son of misit slides
past his objective it satisfies the spec
tators as having the sanction of fate,
hence a quality of dignity and even
richness in the poets misfortunes.
And so in his playful selection and
specious combination of ruses to enter
the dressing rooms of chorus and prin-
cipals, themselves delightful phantoms
of half believe, his role gives no shock
to the spectator when he assumes the
caricature of French maid to aid the
star in getting ready for her cue. His
ludicrous makeup is emphasized by
rather scrawny and stilted legs in black
net castings In his song 200 La La" he
drolls the three syllables with pertness
that would tickle all Gaul.
what is your name?" asks the star.
"Pearline," lisps the mock maid,
dropping a courtesy.
"Then, Pearline, hook my dress and
put pink ribbons in my lingerie"
"Oh, madame" deprecates Pearline
amidst secret correspondence with the
audience. "Why pink? Nothing up
sets me like putting pink ribbons in
!. lingerie!"
IntrinsicalIy the lines are not funny
The diversion is in the actors COM
merce with the auditorium, which he
carries on with blameless satisfaction
to both.
Dooley is blessed with an Ideal name
for light comedian. The name in this
country already has rich association
of humor in lyrics, in anecdote and in
the breadballs and brickbats tossed by
the beloved "Mr. Dooley" OF Peter
Dunno. If George W. Lederer intro
duces new Dooley into the house of
mirth time should ratify his judgment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Vaudeville Artists Now
May Enjoy Roof Garden on
Top Fifth Avenue Theater

in silks and patent feathers, must step
over the little pool of water, or into it.
And she must keep smiling, too!
That is just one example. And so
when we hear Of Manager Quad actual
ly building a roof garden, and saying
to the actors playing his theater that it
is open to them, free, and that he hopes
they'll enjoy it, it is enough to cause
ripple of talk along Broadway.
The Fifth Avenue Theater is the
logical one in which to install such an
addition. 1t is centrally situated, and
is the theater where many new turns in
vaudeville are given their "try- outs"
Nervous, uncertain, overworked actors
and actresses will find the touch of
summer resort ON top this theater &
welcome one, and no doubt the open
ing of the roof garden will mean, ulti-
mately, the preserving of health, and
possibly the saving of lives.
There being no more appreciative
human being so far as a survey of the
field has shown, than the vaudeville
actor, it is a certainty that Manager
Quad will receive hundreds of letters
of congratulations and thanks for his
project. Certainly he has struck upon
new angle of the profession His
idea is to please the actor Little of
that sort of thing is done, it might be
added. The theatrical profession is
too large and too impersonal and too
busy to pay attention to the individual
wants of the performer. At least, that
has been the accepted sbelief in the
past.
Now that the Equity Association is
beginning to make itself felt, things
may change. 1t is not, of course, to be
credited to the Equity or any other
organization that the roof garden for
artists on top the Fifth Avenue Theater
is being opened. This is the work of
one manager.
The improper conditions existing in
theater dressing rooms and stage door
entrances are not confined to the
smaller vaudeville circuits. Not by any
manner of means. The larger cir
cults. in the West as we'll as in New
York and the East, are as lax in car
ing for the conditions "back stage" as
are the smaller ones.
The installing of roof garden for
actors, without even as much as a
request for it by the actors themselves,
certainly writes a new chapter in
vaudeville. And who knows? 1t may
mean general "housecleaning" back
stage. If so-heye's howl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Wbafs VUbat in Rev York Cbeater$

BoOTH"No So Long Period comedy
new
CASNO-"Buzzin Burlesque and musical revue
Florodora "revived after
and 1.-THE Midnight Round
al
COHAN-"Siks ands More summer entertainment
coHAN HARRS-"Honey Girl" Checkers" put to music
'osNiUNITY-See new theatrical offerings
eoRT-"Abraham poetic, historical drama
CRTER1ON-"Humoresque motion picture
DNSE band zegfeld Midnight Frohc
Helen Machlar melodrama
Reno divorce industry
of
HENRY Henry Miller blanche Bates
Spotlight victor herbert musical
me
.anEkTf-"The Night Boat" musical farclca comedy.
.dITLE"Foo- Loos of ar adventures
skuMhe Claire comedy OF chorus grl 1e
Ns" AMSTERDAM Foles" Fourteenth of the SERIES
nokA BAYES"Iassie" Unique Scotch musical comedy
Mayo aubrey
aaLWfNEd. and comedy
ssANDERBIT"Irene" comedy
INTER Broadway" Extravaganza
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
" andering Stars
Famous American r. Dad Actors Who Are
Little Known to Broadway

TA nee Weber and Fields, seeking
keSW new worlds to conquer, trav-
w. eled westward toward the Pa
cific Coast with the jokes and
antics which made them beloved in New
York City. But the Westerners who in
habit the wide stretches of territory
between Denver and<San Francisco did
not receive them with the acclaim
which it seemed safe to predict they
would accord them.
"Why Weber and Fields" the West
ern theatergoer asked, "when we have
Kolb and Dill, bred out here in the
West, and better comedians besides ?"
So Joe and Lew confined their activi-
ties to the territory embraced in the
reaches from New York to the Colorado
city. Evidently of later school, Kolb
and Dill were favorites in their own
realm, and none could dispute their
supremacy. These two comedians, i'm
bued with the same thought that led
New York's funmakers to travel
westward, reversed the process and
came East, starting at Chicago. But
as soon as they left their old familiar
places they seemed to leave, too, their
fun-making possibilities, and from Chi
cago eastward they simply did not Ego"
Many producer does not regard
play as failure if he can bring it into
New York for a moderately successful
run of few. weeks. 1t has the New
York mark" if there is such a thing,
and he can usually take the play out
on the road for profitable season.
But the same is not true Of all actors
or actresses. Dramatic favorites of
the road fare only poorly in the me-
tropolis, and, vice versa. some stars in
New York do not shine so brightly
away from Broadway. That explains
why Weber and Fields did not pene-
trate very far west of Denver, and why
Kolb and Dill found it mc1e profitable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Motion Pictures to Lead
To Development of New
Art, Writes Harrington

In letter just received by Lucy
Hufaker, of the staff of the Goldwyn
Pictures Corporation, from Booth Tark-
ington, who is at his summer home in
Kennebunkport, Me-, concerning his in
terest in motion pictures, the author
says he believes motion pictures are
the possible means of new art"
His letter, in part, follows:
about my interest in moving pic
lures in general I have only common
places. I've felt, with so many others,
that the pictures are the possible
means of new art-that's a great and
startling thing to see in ones own gen.
Grafton, under our very eyes. Those
advance has been-are the pre-primi-
tives. Mechanically, the great day of
the new art will be very different from
this day, of course. Color and stronger
form will come; the fairness and gray
ness will be gone. But the more i'm
portant difference, naturally, will be in
quality-the quality of the thought ex-
pressed.
81 think that nowadays we are pretty
crudely struggling to get little up
ward in the new expression. In the
nature of the business, the quality is
still kept under; the necessity of en-
PERTAINING the stupidest parts of audi
ences tends toward timidity.
"People hate to think it is said.
But that isn't true. They do hate any,
thing they catch trying to make them
think -
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to remain west Of the city in Colorado.
To seek for definite reasons is almost
futile. The thousands of theatergoers
in cities and towns of the United
States, supposedly not as keen as the
usual New York audience, decide that
they like a certain actor or actress,
and it makes not particle of differ
ence to them whether their opinions
are shared by the nightly populace Of
the Great White Way or not.
While New York liked the female
presentations of Julian Eltinge, it is
hardly correct to say that THE Crino-
line Girl" "The Fascinating Widow"
or any of the other popular plays in
which Mr.. Eltinge showed his ability
to wear stylish frocks were as profit
able here as they were in the so-called
sticks" Walker Whiteside is a splen-
did actor, and for years he has trav-
eled back and forth across the cont
nent, eminently successful. OF course,
he played some profitable engagements
in New York, but in the main his field
is beyond the confines of Manhattan
Island. Now he is playing "The Mas
ter Of Ballantrae" and will show it to
New Workers in the fall
If a producer has play which ne de-
sires to send through the Southern
states he would do we'll to find a place
in the cast for Clara Joel, Emma Bunt-
ing or Adelaide Thurston. They are
great fayorites in the South, and al
most any play of merit can be counted
upon to do good business with one Of
these actresses in the cast. But how
we'll do New York audiences know
them?
California and Texas welcome Max
Figman. Does New York do as muchH
Florence Moore, with her Glowing, is
popular in New York, but records show
that she does better on the road. So,
Continued page 81
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AUDEVILLE artists, you whose
modesty and general sense of

pride have been shocked at
conditions you have found existing in
your dressing rooms throughout the
rear of the theaters where you have
played, take heart! Go down to the
Fifth Avenue Theater, the Keith Proc
tor house, managed by William Quad,
and you will see what may mean the
beginning of a new order of things
for you.
Mr.. Quad has established a roof
garden for the "acts" playing the Fifth
Avenue on top the theater, and there,
after you act or before, or whenever
you SO choose, you may sit and read
or smoke or while away in comfort
hours which otherwise would have to
be spent in the "stuffy'' confines of your
dressing rooms.
The word that Mr.. Quad had "brok-
en- the ice," so to speak, for the artists
came like a gush of icy breeze to Broad
way this week. For long years the
vaudevillians have asked and requested
and demanded and threatened and done
everything within their power without
avail to have their dressing room quar-
tiers made more pleasant and cooler,
especially during the sweltering months
of the summer.
And, incidentally, Mr.. and Mrs. The
atergoer, did it ever occur to you
that the rear of theater, the stage,
the dressing rooms and the alley back
of the theater through which the pretty
young women and the cheerful faced
young men who act for you must pass
are the hottest, most unpleasant, most
cooped-up, most unlovely places in the
whole, wide world?
The unkempt entrance Of small
time theater door in New York is no
doubt the most disreputable of them
all. This is because the managers and
theatrical owners and producers do
not devote money or time to the safety
or health or comfort of the actor after
the latter has been signed into con-
tract with them. 1t costs money.
A sizzling July or August sun may
beat down upon the stage roof OF the
theater, the alleyway may be cluttered
with trash and the dressing rooms may
send forth hot breath OF old clothes
and the like that is enough to sicken
the player, but he must go ON with
his "act." Rain may wash in through
the cracked ceilings Gas it did no longer
than one year ago in one lower New
York "small time" theater), and moth
ing is to be done. The actress, dressed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Johnny Dooley, New Light
Comedian, Soon Will Don
Makeup OF Star Dust

~ NE Of these nights the name Of
W. Johnny Dooley will go up in
electric bulbs and Broadway
will thank George W. Lederer for his
bestowal of new light comedian.
Years Of acrobatics with the
Dooleys (there were four in the
famous vaudeville team have not
committed Johnny to career of
tumbling and diving through scenery.
And although he falls and slides and
glides through most of his part in "The
Girl in the Spotlight" the new Vic
tor Herbert operetta at the Knicker-
booker Theater, Johnny Dooley does
not require to fall to be funny. That
is the faith Of Mr.. Lederer, and to
give it substance the producer has in
view play, which will be presented
next season, in which Dooley will have a
chance in some such part as might be
fancied for William Collier.
That Johnny is no Indifferent
steward of the responsibilities of
comedy was demonstrated in "Listen,
Lester" in which he was an assid-
uous funmaker in the role of the
hotel clerk. Last year he had an act
with his sister, Ray, in the "Follies, "
but the part assigned him was not in
line with the goal he has set for him
self.
In "The Girl in the Spotlight" the
role of Bill Weed, Greenwich
Village poet and misfortunes favorite
son, is more to his liking. He has the
opportunity to employ variety Of in
dividual stage faces. His expression,
for instance, as he straps pair of
carpet sweepers to his feet and roller
skates madly over the garnet floor is
one of. ludicrous triumph in a labor
saving discovery. Again, when he is
telephoning to lottery in Venezuela
for his luck in the drawing, all the
lights and shades of trust and doubt
fit over his face, then a glimmer OF
hope catches in the corner of one eye
and for lack of fuel goes out.
The poet, the musician and the artist
of this musical episode of Greenwich
Village recall to mind the friendship OF
three characters in LA Boheme." The
three friends write an opera, which is
confiscated by the angel-producer
Much of the action of the piece is con-
cerned with the devices of the three in
gaining entrance to the theater for the
opening of the opera. Dooley mas
| Querades as hairdresser to the chorus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
new Cbeatrieal Offerings Of the Ueek

MONDAYAt the Broadhurst Theater,
Come Seven!" by Octavu Roy Cohen All
play, which is founded of be
blackface
Earle
Henry Hanin, Willis Mone Harry Emerson
Carrie Lowe and Thomas Dunn
TUEsDAY-Th Community Washington present
the performances Romancern bv
Edmond Rostand Judson
Memorial grounds The play which given New
York in English will Friday week and on
Tuesday and Friday July 81
Vivian " l. Granville William ST. William podmore
The play has been staged by Frank Lee Short
decorations designed by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

1SNE of these nights
w. vidge the
"sque meets discovery and scon
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sand dollars on costumes and scenery
if need be and buy joke, but apparent
~ there's nothing in all this talk about
the power of. the press.
"The Girl in the Spotlight" brings
to New York new and agreeable sing
ing comedienne called Mary Milburn
1t is a small voice, but Miss Milburn is
not very big, either. We were disap-
pointed in Victor Herbert's score. The
music is pleasant, but Mr.. Herbert can
do better than that. A man who did a
"Madcap Duchess" ought not to be con-
graduated overmuch for "The Girl in
the Spotlight"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

III SEEMS to US that the man
IN agerial theory about the neces-
" ssry nature Of summer show
Is incorrect. The directors
Of theatrical destiny hold that
summer is the time for inconsequen-
tial revues made up of bright col
ors and much agitation. They believe
that during the hot weather nobody
wants to think. But, as matter of
fact, there were nights in New York
last week during which one could not
fail to think, and think about the heat
at that. The sight of many young
women moving violently and more or
less aimlessly from one spot to an
other is not calculated to make one feel
any cooler. To us the gay and aban-
doned dances of the summer revues
suggest work and make US fan all the
harder.
1t is our idea that summer entertain
ment should be heavy and battling
Plays for July and August ought to
take US into the deep and cool re-
cesses Of the mind. We should be
asked to consider such intricate prob
lens that temperature Svould be set
aside as something transitory and in
significant. Now is the time for dis
cussion as to the nature of the soul
and the future of the universe. We
want not songs entitled Owe Shaken
Everything I've Cot" but dramas OF
relatively and the invisible and the
effects Of the unconscious upon
nervous disorders. Thus only can mind
triumph over natter.
1t should be said for William Rocks
Silks and Satins" that the perform
snce Is kept at an engaging tempo by
the studious avoidance Of encores. In
too many musical shows spectator
slaps at fly only at the risk of in
sitlng repetition of the last number.
The mark of the "bis" is upon too
many of our revues.
: 1t is generally felt by producers that
all jazz makes dull evening. They
'eel that reliance upon dancing alone
too much Of good thing. In order
10 afford relief they introduce from
time to time songs about the love of
good woman, mother and the tender
lug Of home. This is not our idea Of
fslief.
One year ago we advised musical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

One year ago we advised musical
sQmedy producers to skimp few thou
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
As We Were Saving
By Haywood Broun

MT SEEMS to US that the man.
IN agerial theory about the neces-
~ sary nature of summer show
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

nee Weber and Fields, seeking
new worlds to conquer, trav-
eled westward toward the Pa
cific Coast with the Jokes and
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tcoatInusd on page 81
The Washington times., 1920-05-28

ment exercises were finished at my
wifc's school. we decided on the de.
tails. | met her at o'clock Ncster-
day morning at Firm avenue and
Tifty-fourth street.
I'VE took the 10 o'clock train from
New York
Nobody saw US leave. At Phila.
dclphia ! hired an automobile and
We drove directly to Elkton, whore
We were married as quickly as pos.
siblc. can toll YOU"
Where will YOU 90 for your honey
moon
81 don't know" he said. I've
haven't had time to think about that;
were happy"
Hone ymOOn Never to End.
What will We do after the honey
noon"
Il don't think our honeymoon VIII
ever end, but | intend to work TO sup
port my wife, you can bet.
I've been studying art in New No"k
ever since ! got out of the navy after
the armistiCc was signed Next fail !
intend to take up commercial art, hut
that's long time Off"
At this point another effort was
made TO obtain a photograph OF IN
eIopers. But they were obdurato.
well, will YOU describe your bride
for an interested public Mr.. VAIN
wright was asked.
sure" he said Let's sec. She -
five feet eight inches tail. She has
jet black hair. Her eyes are great,
big and brown. Her complexion is
very dark. and just now the color is
heightened. She looks almost span.
ish. She's wonderful. Shc's----'
Wainwright refused TO describe
himself from the other side of the
door.
1t was learned that he is twenty
one years old, six feet in height, with
blond hair and blue eyes.
do you think you will go back to
France for your honeymoon" he vas
asked.
Il don't know. This all happen ned
so suddenly. We haven't decided. But
wherever we spend the summer. Yea
can take our word for it were going
10 he tO-Ct her.