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New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

like that. 1t was disconcerting, how
ever, for little while"
On New Years Eve, after the play,
Miss Taylor was entertaining a little
group of friends in the tiny reception
room opening off her dressing room
at the Criterion, preparatory to going
out with them to supper. She was
sitting on a chase Tongue, still in her
makeup, when the door burst open
and poorly dressed Italian girl rushed
in and dropped to the floor. She fell
upon the actress knees and sobbed
passionately.
"You are SO like my Duse," she cried,
$50 like my Duse that you bring me
back to my dear Italy"
1t was many minutes before Miss
Taylor could sufficiently calm the
young woman to permit her to leave.
Throughout the becalming process her
guests-there were six in all-sat open
had been sent away with an order for
two seats for another performance
and an autographed photograph under
her arm, one of the women in the party
found voice.
My goodness" said she, with a
little gasp, | don't wonder you like
being an actress if you get little per-
sonal ovations like that every once
in while. 1t must be glorious"
Miss Taylor smiled wearily.
"Of course, we don't" she replied
"A thing like that happens once in a
lifetime, not every once in while. If
j. was O. regular thing there would be
no stan1ing US at all. We'd develop
such what is it the psychologists
call it?such a Jehovah complex that
We would become impossible"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Even Beauty and Brains
Are Combined i'm Favored
Girl Who Has Everything

Have you seen "Everywoman"? Now
cause every one says it, and of course
we mean the play which was so popula
! a decade ago. If you don't remem be I
so far back as that ask dad-he
knows
That play, "Everywoman," certainly
brought out some beauties! Nearly
every one we interv rviewed-present-da ~
stars had something to do in "Every-
woman,' so we weren't surprised when
Hilda Bennett, the Nancy of Fritz
Kreisler's apple Blossoms said,
meditatively: Let me see! What did
/ do first? Oh. of course. Every
woman | was CONSCIENCE"
And it is the only time we ever
listened to the voice of conscience and
found it pleasant" we interrupted
Miss Bennett smiled in that slow,
non committal way of hers, and then
she said: young as [ was, l realized
that conscience is not particularly
popular and that | was going to have
q time of it making myself heard"
But you had glorious voice. How
old were you?" for Miss Bennett is
now about the youngest looking prima
donna we ever saw.
IL was just to be sixteen when | got
the engagement and at the time ! was
studying and singing in the choir in
Asbury Park"
"Standing with reluctant feet ?"
Not at all reluctant. was full of
confidence and eager to be heard.
laughed at stage fright and | realized
all too soon that fools do rush in.
"The night we opened | went on. the
calmest person in the theater. and for
two weeks everything went smoothly
Then one fatal night | slipped up in
line and from that time OH stage
fright had me in its thrall. | was
living in little hotel in Twenty
seventh Street, and the hours out of
the theater were spent in dreading the
next performance. | couldn't Sleep,
! couldn't eat and the voice of Con
science became so weak that 7 was
afraid no one could hear it. Then
would commute. In that way | spent
FIVE hours out of the twenty-four on
the train, but in Asbury Park | could
sleep and | could eat"
"Thats its real reason for being on
the map, isn't it?" Miss Bennett
ignored our fippant reference to her
home town and went on.
"But the horrible part of it was that
the stage fright continued even after
became hardened veteran in my
second season, and on account of it
have often seriously considered Civ
ing up the stage"
New, the thing which impresses you
even more forcibly than Miss Ben
Nets beauty is the extreme simplicity
and ease of her performance, and it
didn't seem possible that she could be
suffering trepidation.
81 started off the season with bron-
chitis. which doesn't make a singer
fee: any better on an opening night,
and oh, the awful sounds that issue
from my throat at times | live in
fear that I may do that at one of the
performances. Then | have a lot Of
dancing to do in Apple Blossoms and
my biggest number comes right on top
of my fox trot"
That is the dance which Miss Ben
net does in the second act in her
wedding dress and she is so lovely
when she does it that we even found
it possible to forgive her for the cue
which SAYS, 81 wanted to dance all
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
BROOKLYN Theaters

MAJESTIC-A. H. Woods will present
"A Voice In the Dark q mystery
melodrama by Ralph +. Dyar,
revised and elaborated by Willard
Mack The company includes Olive
Wyndham, Jack Ravold, Frank Mon
roe, Anne Sutherland, Florine Arnold,
William Boyd. Arleen Hackett, Rich
ard Gordon and others.
SCHUBERT- CRESCENT "The Schu-
bert Gaieties Of 1919" will be the at
traction. 1t was seen for the first
time at the Forty-fourth Street
Thcater, New York, last July. The
book is by Edgar Smith, the lyrics
by Alfred Bryan and the music by
Jean Schwartz. The piece was staged
by J. c. Huffman The featured
members OF the cast are Jack Nor
worth and Harry Watson.
ORPHEuM Crock the French musical
clown, will come to Brooklyn this
week. Nina Payne, Jean Adair l.
20, swift & Kelley, Lloyd Chris
tie. ). Rossmond Johnson and Jazz
FIVE. LoyaPs Dogs, Melnottc e. Lee
dom' LoDan Japs and the news pic
s"''"i WIZ Sompietc the DILL
BuSHWtCk-Grock will also app.ar
st this theater. shela Terry & CO..
James Thornton. Lilly Lena, Spencer
4 Williams, Tom Nawn D. Co.. the
Three Rubes, Willie Brothers, other
novelties and the news pictorial will
round out the bill.
Salisbury Field and Mar
gsrei Mayo's Twin Beds" is the At
traction for the week.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

man. Allan Rogers. young American
tenor, Will give recital called off
teen Minutes of Concert" Henry
Dexter will accompany him on the
piano. feature will be William r.,
gibson and Regina Connelli in Aaron
Hotfman's THE Honeymoon "yo ",
Song Shop" by Pat Rooney. is the
revue. Warren Jackson and Rober,
adams are featured The Swor
brothers are down for impersona-
TONS of the Southern negro, with
clown trimmings. The Old Tine
OaTKies VIII revive plantation sports
ana the Four Danubes will do cast
ing marvels. Gruber's Animals will
entertain with limitations of bnn'a, .,' :,
actors. 'u'''an II
KivEkSiDE--A New Year festival VIII,
us nr,- me order Tor this week. with
T',la Sh'elds, the London Ideal of
Ideals; Leon Enrol and Bothwel,
Browne holding the principal honors. co.
Dorothy Shoemaker and company. loo
COOK, Libonati, Vera Sabina and CON,
pany, the Wheeler Trio, and the news
pictorial will complete the bill.
COLONIAL. A big musica. extrava-
ganza bill includes three great mu-
sical comedy offerings combined in
one show: Howard and Clark, in
Chm Toy; Last Night" with Earl
Gavanaugh, Walter Clinton and Julia
Rooney; the four Mark Brothers, on
Everything.' The supporting bilI
Will include Walter Weems, Ford and
Cunningham, the Pearson Trio. Syl
via Loyal and company. Margot.
Francois and Partner and the news
pictorial
FIRST STREET Anatol
frledland, "songland's favorite com
poser' will bring his new dc luxe
revue, "Music Land to 3. r.
he1th,s Eighty-frst Street this week
20 mold the principal honors on
brilliant bill. Cecil b. de Miles
powerful photo production. Male and
remaie, Will be shown. others will
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

two weeks that | have been here na'.
been watching the vaudeville tneM.,.
closely. but l don't think that you ~ H.
the actors you had when | LETT n.s.
sixteen years ago. Perhaps thc gisso e.,
popularity of jazz music accoun" ~, s
this. II is my prediction ina =, rs :
present jazz craze. which | am te'u
falling off already. will bc iorce'rs~ 70.
IN less than twelve months. us n
lief to 30 into small restaurant
the city and hear some good muse, al
Many of the most popular tnesu"
favorites in the British Isles are n",, y, an.
cans. Mas Shields said. EnEi,sh nd
dicnces receive them cordially. .~.r
some Of them have drawing, E,a
which far .ass:xips tna. " the NM
actors.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

include "Pedestrianism," Vinie Daily,
Bert Hanlon, Black and White, and
the news pictorial.
LOEW'S AMERICAN-The Nine Krazy
Kids and the Four Volunteers will
head the vaudeville program the first
part of the week. Other acts will be
Morrison and Hartc. Thomas P. Jack
son in "The Jail Bird" Mason and
Gwynne. the Marg Duo. Harry and
Anna Scranton, and Connors and
Foley. Elaine Hammerstein in
Greater Than Fame" by s. j. Kauf-
man, will be shown on the film. The
Ncgler sisters, Myrtle and Adelaide,
head the bill the last part Of the
week. Other acts will be Grant
Gardner. Kurt and Edith Kuhn, Leila
Shaw. the Mangean Troupe. and
Hughie Clark. Cecil B. de Miles
male and Female" will be shown on
the screen
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

New York. Sometimes am criticized
for wearing clothes that real man
would not wear. Nothing could be
more correct than the style of my suits
ana British gentleman would wear
any of them"
Sunday shows and matinee work IL
the vaudeville theaters were unexpected
by MISS Shields. and she expressed her
sell freely about them.
'lf 1t is thought vtally necessary to
Keep theaters open for entertaining
people on Sunday, the management
should provide different actors TO come
IN and take the places of the actors
who work during the week In the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Many Italians Worship
At Laurette T a ylor' S
''Night in Rome Shrine

Laurctte Taylor's daily mail is filled
with fervent and extravagantly phrased
letters from enthusiastic Italians who
have been impressed with her perform
ance of the fascinating pseudo Italian
lady in zone Night in Rome" and who,
with characteristic Latin fervor, must
give expression to their feelings with
out restraint.
Some of the letters from the men,
said she the other night, read sus-
piciously like love epistles. but know
enough of the Italian temperament to
realize that they are not meant for
that. l had dinner with party OF
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Neighborhood Theaters

SH Observation-Disclosures Broad
hurst sends "The Crimson Alibi "
which has just finished engage
ment at the Broadhurst Theater.
The detective is played by Harrison
Hunter. while Bertha Mann is seen
in the role Of Mary Garrison.
Others are William II. THOMPSON.
Robert Kelly, George Graham. Rob.
ert Barratt india Palmer, Edna
James. Roy LaRuc and Catherine
Cozzens.
COLuMBlA-The newest burl.sou.
Offering will be given this week. It
~ Abe Reynolds's Revue. Mr.. Revn.
olds Is surrounded by a company or
we'll known burIcsquers Arthur
Mayer, Ray Leavitt, William Davi,
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Ned Harrigan's Son, Will,
AS a Stage Reporter, Gets
Points From a Real. One

a slow process. No less than six times,
when he was about to don his dancing
shoes, there would be a knock on the
door of his dressing room and voice
would demand admittance to congratu-
late him on his performance.
Its always this way on an opening
night he said, "but Il am terribly
anxious to get to the Frolc. | love
musical shows and it is great to go to
one after chasing a murderer for six
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Vaudeville

rALACE--lrene Franklin will head the
bill In repertoire Of new CHARACTER
songs. Emma Haig, the younc
dancer, will dance with John Wal
dron, late Of the Argonne Players of
the 77th Division. Aleen Bronson
wlll contribute comedy in Late
Again assisted by Margaret Hof-
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

friends the other night and among the
guests was particularly volatile
Italian gentleman whose English was
not quite perfect and who some wha t
smbsrrassed me by repeating over and
over again, In the hearing Of my
frlends, the phrase. you are most dear
10 me- What he really meant. / finally
uncovered, was that ne greatly en-
,oyed my performance. and not thst I
vss h'a partscular dear or anything
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

Saxo Waco. Joe Mccarthy, Lew
Bllgh Bunny Dale, Gladys Parker.
Phyllis Eltis and Joe McNamee.
BRONX OPERA HOuSE-Mme. Ka-
Itch in "The Riddle Woman, sne-
clally written for her by Charlotte
Wells and Dorothy Donnellv, is the
attraction
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

through the ceremony l think Pll
dance now instead or something
equally familiar to all collectors of
song cues.
Well, at any rate we said, you
don't have stage fright when you dance,
do you"
81 didn't have in the first part of the
season because, luckily, you can't have
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
M|LL|ON-DOLLAR
BLAZE IS RAGING
OUT OF control

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15.--Fire broke
out in the plant of the Helmbacher
Forge and Rolling Mill company at
Madison, ILL.,. near here, today and
firemen virtually have despaired Of
saving it. Total loss, it was said, ex-
pected to exceed s1,O00O00.
A strong. wind carried sparks to a
dwelling section and fire-fighters
turned their major efforts to pre-
venting spread Of the fire there.
The Helmbacher company is a
branch of the American Car and
Foundry company, Origin of the
blaze has not been determined.
Traffic on trunk lines. which cross
the Mississippi river for the north
and east at Madison, was stopped.
Residents were removing their
tearing the fire would develop into
a general conflagration.
At noon the fire was unchecked
and the local fire department was
augmented by departments from
Granite City and Venice. Several
hundred volunteers assisted the fire.
men turned their attention to homes
four blocks from the rolling mill in
an effort to check the spreading
flames.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
Britisher Appointed,

To support his charge of attempts
of the British mission to influence
the policies of the board, Mr.. Den
man said that in April 1917, when
he was attempting to organize an
administrative board in New YORK
to- function. with the shipping board
"on purely American basis" he
learned that without his knowledge
Sir Connop Guthrie, a member OF the
British mission, that had just arrived
in this country, ;eae made a mem
Der OF the advisory body.
Il don't know how - got on that
boardr-it all happened 6rt~een noon
and half past three o'clock cre after
noon--but l can tell you how - get
off," Mr.. Denman declared.
II learned that three or four mem
bers OF the British mission had at
tended the session at which the Sc
lection was made. Afterward the
shipping board had a warm session
II lasted 20 minutes, and all that had
been transacted at the previous ses-
sion was wiped out.
I'VE wanted British corporation,
but we did not want Great Britain
to. influence our board until we had
gotten things under way. We were
still In the air as to what we wanted
10 do and the policy of the British IN
this connection seemed very e1-
traordinary to me.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
OPERATION MAY !.
SAVE WOULD-BE y
Z SUICIDES LIFE

A. d. Kelly, Clarksdale, Miss, en-
gineer for the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley railroad for 90 years, may be
saved from suicide by delicate
operation performed at Presbyterian
hospital late Tuesday.
According to the version of the
affair given out at Ciarksdale, Kelly
had quarreled with his family Tues
day morning. He went to the front
porch of his home and within a few
seconds his wife, who now sits at
Kellys bedside at the hospital, heard
shot.
Running to the porch. Mrs. Kelly
found her husband with a bullet
wound in his head. Physicians say
the bullet cut a long furrow in the
skull and penetrated the bone.
Kelly's physician at Ciarksdale
ordered him brought to Memphis
The operation was performed short
ly after his arrival. Physicians there
said that in the event Kelly recov-
cred from the wound without an
operation, 1t was probable he would
suffer paralysis of the brain.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
ARREST WOMAN
FOR FRIENDSHIP
FOR BANDIT TRIO

Marie Burk. alias Mrs. NJ. L. Will
liams, pal" of Clyde "a. Hamilton,
slain member of the dandy ban
dit" trio, and believed to have been
silent member Of, the dandy
gang, is under arrest in Memphis. A
technical charge Of vagrancy was
placed against her pending invesd-
cation. g.,
The woman was arrested here
Tuesday bv Detective Inspector Grif-
fin and Capt. Hoyle,
She came to Memphis to attend
the trial CT Edward b. Kelly, Aida
F. Shaw and Shaws pretty wife, she
told the detectives, and learning that
IT had been postponed and was to
be held at Covington, she was about
to leave the city.
Detectives are reticent on the sub
ject, but state that the woman knew
every activity Of the gang before
they came to Memphis, and during
their career.
They are investigating her move.
ments in an effort to learn whether
she knew of the plot which resulted
in the escape Of the trio and the
murder of Jailer George T. Reeves.
The killing of Hamilton, leader OF
the gang. at Winona, Miss, follow
ed the escape.
Marie Burk Is said. by police to
have been close friend OF the Shaw
woman, who is charged with taking
two pistols to the county Jail and
to have arranged the details of the
escape plot.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
SAYS BR|TISHERS
TRIED TO AFFECT
SHIPPING POLICY
First Chairman Of Federal
Board Testities Resignatl n
Due Chiefly to Fight Against
English Influence.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15,--Members
Of the British mission which visited
the United States in 1917 attempted
to influence the policies of the ship
ping board, William Denman, of San
Francisco, first ehairlhan Of the
board. testified today before the spe-
cial house committee investigating
the boards operations.
Mr., Denman indicated that hfs in
sistence that the shipping board be
free from British influence had more
tor do with his resignation as chair
man OF the board than any other one
thing"
In this connection, the witness said
that II he could obtain the permis-
sion of President Wilson for the dis
closure of certain phases" Of ship
ping board negotiations zone of the
sources of interference with my ad-
ministration as head OF the board
may be disclosed
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15

James Mcneil, police motorcycle
officer, was thrown from his ma
chine and probably fatally injured
at 6:l5 o'clock Tuesday evening
when an automobile, said to have
been approaching from behind,
struck his machine, hurling him to
the pavement. His skull was frac-
tured.
Little hope was held for his re-
covery at st. Joseph's hospital We'd
nesday. Physicians performed an
| trepanning operation in an effort to
save McNeiPs life.
The accident occurred on Seventh
street, near Looney, Lewis Dewbre,
10, who was driving the auto was
arrested BY Motorcycle officer
! Charles Drummer, Jr.. VINO was rid
Ing with Mcneil. A charge of reck-
less driving was placed against
Dewbre. He was released on bond
Of $3.50.
The police version is that Mcneil
! had halted his machine in a dark
spot on Seventh street. Suddenly a
speeder flashed by and Mcneil and
his riding partner started in pur-
suit Before McNeils machine was
well under way, police claim
Dewbres car struck him. He was
unconscious when picked up.
Dewbre's statement conflicts with
the police report. He is quoted as
having told officers Mcneil was
travelling north. while he was driv-
Ing south, and that Mcneil drove
out from the shadows on Seventh
street and that he could not avoid
the accident.
Mcneil had been on the police
force for three months. He took the
post held by Frank Vaughn, now
emergency car driver. Reports from
the hospital said Mcneil regained
consciousness at times.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
Where's My Hat?
Pleads Woman Who
KnOWs Nearly All

Although she may give good
, advice to the lovelorn, Mrs. Eliza
beth Thompson Wednesday was
asking q question that none Of
her friends on The News Scimitar
staff could answer. The question
was: Where Is my hat2
Alexander having left Memphis,
no reporter could solve the prob
lem. In consequence police were
asked to trace the missing
chapeau. 1t all happened this
way: .-..-..--. .....
Mrs. Thompson was driving by
Forrest park Monday when
cruel blast of wind swept her hat
from her head. The time was
about dusk and though the love
seeress and a friend who accom-
panied her made diligent search
no trace Of the hat could be
found.
The missing hat is a black
velour and valuable, so Mrs.
Thompson says, and she asks any
of her questioners who live near
or passed through Forrest park
recently to be on the lockout for
it.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
SEVEN BARGESOF
. STEEL DUE HERE .
FOR LOCAL MILL
Virginia Bridge and Iron Co.,
Will FabriCate 5,000-Ton
Order for 27-Story Building
in Dallas.

Seven barge loads of structural
steel are due to arrive here from
Pittsburgh the latter part of this
week. for. the Virginia Bridge and
Iron company, to be fabricated and
reshipped to Dallas, Texas. This g.
O00-ton consignment is but part of
the 5,000-ton contract that the iron
company is working up for the 81
story office building being erected in
Dallas by the Magnolia Petroleum
company, which will probably be the
largest office building in the South.
Other shipments by the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers will follow. SO
far only about $50 tons of steel have
been received on the order.
This came by rail, but on account
of the car shortage at the time, which
greatly delayed the shipment, ar
rangements were made by the Car
negie Steel company at Pittsburgh
to forward the remainder of the s.
900 tons of steel by barge line to
Memphis.
1t will require capacity production
of the local plant Of the, Virginia
Bridge, and Iron company for sew
eral months to fabricate the steel on
this contract. and will necessitate the
employment of more steel workers.
From Memphis the fabricated steel
will be forwarded to Dallas by rail,
and the equivalent of several solid
trains will be required to move it.
Coming. just at this time, when
general Industrial conditions are
somewhat depressed, the big contrt =
to be manufacturedf% Memphis is
gratifying to local % interests.
and may point the way to a general
revival of better conditions in this
section, which many well informed
men predict will set In early In the
new year tt NF
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-12-15
NAMES PROMINENT
: MAN As. brains"
!. OF HUGE ROBBERY
Latest Arrest in $500, 900
Mail Train HoIdup Admits
Part and duplicates Seven,
Including Woman.
BY International News Service.

kQy tNbSTuHLlOUdt VIEWS 0GTvtCGsJ
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-Edward Bal
lentine was arrested here today and
confessed, the police declare, that he
and seven other men committed the
spectacular $3.500,000 mail train rob-
berry on the Burlington railroad be-
tween Omaha and Council Bluffs
three weeks before Thanksgiving.
Miss Hazel Grubb, of Indianapolis,
who was with Ballentine at the time
of his arrest, also is held by the po-
lice.
Ballentine's confession, according
to Chief of Detectives Michael
Hughes. named prominent business
man of Des, iMoines, Ia, as the
brains" of the robber gang. This
man, Ballentine is alleged to have
said, took no part in the actual hold
UP.
A woman, the sweetheart of one
of the bandits, Ballentine Is reported
to have said sat in the robbers au-
tomobile while he and the seven
others were tossing the mail sacks
containing the loot in the machine.
The plunder, Ballentine said, con-
sisted of 100000 in currency and
government bonds. Ballentine had
two of the bonds in his possession
Wnen captured, according TO Chlef
Hughes.
Three railroad employees who are
alleged to have supplied the rob-
bers with information indicating the
mail sacks that contained the bonds
and currency We're implicated by
Ballentine, the police declared
Ballentine declared the Grubbs girl
was not involved in the robbery, but
said he met her at Indianapolis after
she had fled from the SCENE of the
robbery. r7k
3 Ballentine gave his age as 81 and
said his home is in Akron, o.