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The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Henry Adams Reticence

are. of course. absent-but the general
spirit Is the sames Moreover. the
writer labors under some misconcep-
tions which a.e a trifie amusing from
a present day point of view, and which
may correspond with some of our own
misconceptions. Regarding Lincoln,
for example, the younger Charles
Francis Adams declares: "The Presi-
dent is not equal to the crisis.
I am tired of incompetents. and want
to see Lincoln forced to adopt manly
line of policy which all men may COM
prehend The people here call for en-
ergy, not change. and If Lincoln were
only a wise man he would unite them
in spite of party cries. and with an eye
solely to the public good"
So much for the purely historical
aspects of the Adams letters. Charles
Francis Adams, Sr.. stands clearly be-
fore us as an astute. keenminded diplo-
mat, gifted with considerable insight
and humor; Henry Adams as "A sober,
reflective youth whom we might well
suspect of designing a famous auto
biography; Charles Francis Adams,
Jr., as a man of action, decisive in the
act of thinking. He constantly arrives
judgments which history more often
than not dfsproves. A remarkable
family, the Adams. remarkable in what
they lack as we'll as in their gifts.
Leading citizens in democratic state,
they themselves belong to the aris-
tocracy; they realize that they belong
to the aristocracy. deplore the fact,
perhaps, and yet take pride in it; they
are not as others, and do not want to
be as others; they prefer to repose on
pedestal of their own making. That
this. is so is amply demonstrated by
various remarks in their letters. For
example, Charles Francis Adams, Jr..
writes to his mother with a levity be-
meath which his serious beliefs are ap-
parent: "In our mess each man takes
his turn in washing up the dishes.
So once in ten days or so visitors see
the best blood in America. in the per-
son of your son, washing dishes, sweep
ing floors, wheeling coal, &C., like a
| family servant"
| This is perhaps not objectionable
1t is what thousands think but do not
say: it Is the snobbery of which the
enlightened are as guilty as the grossly
ignorant. And when all is said 1t is
wholly overshadowed in the Adams
family by more generous qualities in
which 1t is lost almost as spots are
lost in the sun, observed upon close
inspection but from a distance in
visible in the blaze of surrounding
light.
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
The Mystic View
of Henry Adams
LETTERS TO A NIECE. BY Henry
Adams. Houghton Mlffiin Company.

LETTERS TO A NIECE. BY Henry
Adams. Houghton Mlfnin Company.
One of the ablest critics of 1.-THE
Education of Henry Adams ex-
pressed In the Atlantic what many
readers had felt about that pyro-
technical display-that In spite of all
the brilliance. Adams lacked the sim
plicity, the childlike approach toward
the riddle of the universe that a great
love or great faith might have given
him. The reviewer maintained that
Mr.. Adams having revealed such pro-
found doubts, owed a sort of summing
up of final beliefs, If he had any,
for the benefit of the world to which
the Education" was to go as a last
word of a philosophy of life.
And now comes a thin volume, in
cluding "A Niece's Memories in
which the human side Of that re-
markable mind and man is given to
the world. Even in the letters. charm
ing. friendly written to beloved kins-
woman, filled with appreciation Of the
simplest things in life. as we'll as the
most profound-children, dogs, bits of
country-Henry Adams retained hi,
restraint and almost superhuman reti-
cence that can only be described as
the very essence of the Boston aristo-
cratic tradition. He left it for Mabel
La Forge in her introduction to lift
the veil of his inner world.
Shy, sensitive to the point Of pain. I"
occasionally subject to panic of re-
serve" filled with humility and self
abasement. an .'admiring and awe in
spired playmate of the tinfest child
who walked into Nhis study Henry
Adams is shown US as a man with a
genius for buying children's toys
who would spend ''hours at the Main
Bleu or the Magasins du Louvre
choosing combination of toys with
the care and feeling for the child's
viewpoint as if he were arranging a
choice bunch of flowers"
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Reviewed by
STANTON A. COBLENTZ.

| Letter writing is in a sense the most
genuine of the arts, because the most
unconscious and spontaneous. These
letters of the Adams family have a
twofold claim to recognition. They
constitute noteworthy historical doc
ument. and in their narrower aspects
they contain a record of three person
alities-Charles Francis Adams, Amer
lean Minister to England during the
civil war, and his two sons, Henry
Adams and Charles Francis Adams. Jr
In the present edition are included only
those letters written during the tenn
pestuous years from 1861 to 1865 when
the senior Adams was exerting his
diplomatic skill to the utmost at the
hostile court at London, while his son
Henry was serving as his private sec
retary and Charles Francis Adams, Jr,
was seeing action as an officer in the
Federal forces.
Written as they are from either side
of the Atlantic, the Adams letters
steep one in the wartime atmosphere
both of England and of America, and
better, perhaps, than any deliberate
work of history. they succeed In max
| ing real again the prevailing emotions
of the day. We can not only trace
but feel the rising tide of Northern ap-
prehension following the outbreak of
the war; we can share in the bewilder-
ment and alarm of the Northerners at
| na y~lx nnr viii IA
them at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, re-
joice aud triumph in the Emancipation
Proclamation; sigh with gladness and
relief at the close of the conflict. How
desperate was the Federal cause at the
opening of the war may be seen from
statement by Charles Francis Adams,
Jr., who in the middle of 1861 writes
regarding the Confederate States:
Their ultimate independence is. |
think, assured" How hostile to us was
the feeling abroad, and in England in
particular. may be OWNED from the
words of Charles Francis Adams. Sr.,
who, following the fall of Vicksburg,
writes from London: THE salons of
this great metropolis are in tears;
tears of anger mixed with grief. They,
moreover, refuse to be comforted.
They madly struggle with the event,
denying that it was possible. Fate can
not be so cruel!"
The emotions of the Adams family
are the more readily comprehensive
because they correspond so closely
with our own emotions during a more
recent war. There is the same i'm
patience, the same passive resignation
and impotent anger, the same grinding
suspense, dread and anxiety and the
same final exultation. And the de-
scriptions of the conflict by Charles
Francis Adams, Jr.. read like letters
from Americans enlisted in the contest
with Germany. Trenches, poison gas
and other such modern contrivances
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Surely this is not the author Of the
almost brittle brilliancies Of the pages
Of the -Education"-this man with a
passionate absorption in the miracle
Of the transmission Of life that eventu-
ally led him to find his answer to the
eternal mysteries in the eternal verify
of the Virgin Of Chartres." Tre-
mendously saddened by great per-
sonal sorrow that led him through the
gateway into the great impersonal
brotherhood Of the suffering, Henry
Adams learned to say. "People who
suffer beyond the formulas Of express
sion, who are crushed into silence and
beyond pain, want no display of emo
ton. no bleeding heart no weeping
at the foot OF the Cross, no Mysteries.
no phrasesl They want to see God
and TO know He is watching over His
own"
What william James In his "Varie-
ties of Religious Experience" calls a
"twice-born soul" was Henry Adams.
We need to realize that the second
birth did occur after mighty travail.
After seeking In the winding laby-
rinths of the ancient East for Nirvana
Peace. the consultations afforded by
Kwannon (out of which came the in
spiration later passed on to Saint
Gaudens and utilized in the unfor-
gettable statue in Rock Creek Gene
terry In Washington the wandering
spirit found peace in the centre of
Mediavalism that had ministered to
thousands of weary souls before lay
ing cool hands upon him.
| Henry Adams in a Prayer TO the
Virgin of Chartres,' found among his
papers after his death. comes as near
a testimonial of faith as one needs TO
go. Having ceased to strive ceased
even to care what new coin fate shall
| strike" he is left at the feet of the
Virgin repudiating the future science
and stalking his all on the "energy OF
faith That Henry Adams felt keenly
the worlds failure to perceive any
| light is admitted, but of his own COM
plete realization of the true light"
after reading this prayer there is no
doubt.
The New York herald., 1920-12-05
Civil War Letters
From Oversee a

A CYCLE OF ADAMS LETTERS, 1851
1865. Edited by Worthington Chaun-
cey Ford In two volumes. Houghton
Mifflin Company.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28
In New York,s PZayhouses
BY GILBERT SELDES

Owen Davis gets no credit, but loud
ly and unblushingly says that that's
his plot. only they burlesqued IL. A
friend or the talented George Loane
Tucker points out that this director
once put on a movie of precisely the
same plot. But George v. Hobart
has his name on the bill and admits
that he made II out of a play of the
same Lame by Leta Vance Nichol-
son. and John willard goes halves
with Hobart. Finally I would add
that 1t is all a dream! Sigmund
Freud would better be called in.
So that's that And now for a
different sort of vamping. 1t has to
be because Sam Bernard is the vic
tim. LAS You Were" did not give
half it's due, because it Is really
a Knockout revue. Irene Bordoni
has awakened considerably from her
previous doings in Sleeping Part
ners." Indeed, in this case it is
her partner, Bernard, who takes po-
tions and goes dreaming into
strange lands. seeking a place where
wives are economical and faithful
and do not flirt. It's a good plot
and the music is all right and the
scenes in Versailles. in Athens and
in Egypt are very amusing. But
above all is our Irene, a fascinat-
ing woman, who knows what to do
on the stage. Her Cleopatra, crown
ed with a white feather creation
four feet tall; her Helen of Troy
(what was Helen doing in Athens,
anyhow?) are delicious bits or
work, and herself as herself, with
the loveliest headdress I have ever
seen this year on the stage-weli,
ones eyes are not likely to roam
while Miss Bordoni is on the stage.
A special note by itself for Irving
Berlin. After a period of COMPARE
lively unsyncopated quiet. Berlin
has announced that he and a busi-
ness partner Il think 1t Is Sam
Harris) are preparing to build a
theater devoted exclusively to musi-
cal shows. opening with a grand
review by the composer of Watch
Your Step" and stop! Look! Lis
teni'' This is the best news in a
long, long time
In addition to having in Ben
Ami a player who Is said to be the
best actor in New York, the Jewish
Art Theater has engaged Rudolph
Schildkraut to return to America
after he has concluded his tour of
European capital in Shylock. Two
odd notes come up in this connec-
ton! One Is that Ben Ami is ppe-
pairing his soul (apd a plaO for
production in English and on Broad
way. The, other is that Schildkraut,
when he was here a few years ago.
was asked to take, up his old role
in "Sumurun." He replied that he
was willing provided he received as
much as the German and Yiddish
theaters were paying him. The
managers OF "Sumurun" thought
they were in luck until they die
covered that these out-of-the-way
places were paying as high as
$4,000 a week to star actors.
have, said before that the settings
and general productions in these
plays are at an extraordinarily high
level. Even IL you cannot under
stand the language It is well to 20.
(PuEiie Ledger sevics.,
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28
One Of a Stage Family.

John Barry, one Of the best-known
eccentric comedians on the bur-
iesque stage, at the Gayety Theater
this week, discussing his varied
career. says:
You know I was born on a
showboat on the Mississippi River.
and as all Of my family are on the
stage, 1 just naturally followed In
their footsteps. I remember years
ago. when / was a little tot. INV
rather played here under the team
name of Barry and Madden.
Later played here myself in the old
theater down by the market. j
nave been in vaudeville with Jimmy
Barton. We were known as Barton
and Barry.
But, speaking of partners: 1 now
have the best of them all in George
Douglas. Next year we are going
to put on the stage for the first
time Herrman's great cartoon char
acters, Baron Bean and Grimes. We
poth have been tempted with a
wonderful offer to create these
characters on the screen, but bot h
Mr.. Douglas and myself think we
owe too much to burlesque to leave
II just now. for, after all, burlesoue
really made us what we are
Recent changes in the personnel
of the various theaters controlled
by the Moore's Theaters Corpora
tion, show Frank ]. Shorty, who for
the past nine years has been asso-
ciated with the exhibiting of motion
pictures in this city, as manager of
the Strand Theater.
Mr.. Shorty is in every way quail
fed to meet the managerial duties
brought to him in the handling z .of a
large house, having worked his way
up from what might be termed the
bottom of the ladder. and in the
course of his experience having fill-
ed. to the satisfaction of all con-
csrned, every position of Importance
in theater administration. Previous
to ASSUMING his new duties, Mr..
Shorty was assistant manager at
Moore's Garden Theater.
Mr.. Louis Stolberg. recently asso-
ciated with one OF the firm ex-
changes In this city, has been ap-
pointed assistant manager of the
Garden. filing the position left va
cant by Mr.. Storty's promotion.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

New YORK, March ga vamptng
time was had by all or nearly all
in the last theatrical week. What
Theda Bara left unvamped was
taken up by the wicked lady in the
play called Musk" the first produc-
tion by the Messrs. Dodge and Po-
gany to reach New York. Musk"
j take 1t, Is odorous. At any rate
every time the wicked lady entered,
some one flung open a window. Po-
gany, who is partly responsible for
the whole production. is also to be
credited with a few rather nice
things elsewhere this season, par
ticularly in the way of sets and cos
tunes, and of these THE Magic Mel
ody" has several. The latter Is a
medley of music and things, includ-
ing Charles Purcell and Julia Dean.
who is better known in the legiti-
mate than in musical comedy. In
the rough-and-ready type of musi-
cal comedy this one stands UP and
takes punishment like an oldtimer.
1t has been running for some time
and IL you are tired of the intimate
kind of show. this is different. to
say the least. -
But all these side remarks are
meant to indicate my difficulty
about T. Bara, who has given a new
meaning to the old ragtime direc-
tion "vamp till ready" Is Miss Bara
the herald of spring with freshets
OF moving picture actors and ac-
tresses sweeping down on the
stage? 1 don't know, but IL is a
fair bet that the next one to come
will be treated with more fear and
less humcr than Miss Bara, espe-
cially IL a better play is provided.
THE Blue Flame" sounds as IL IL
came out of Walter .Pater, an au-
thor whom the movies have not yet
discovered. So. -.
should like to tell you all, as
they do in the third act, but I do not
dare. In order to make Miss Bara a
bearable vamp she is deprived of her
soul in act one and promptly pro-
ceeds to kiss someone. After that
she murders, drives to distraction,
sends to dens of vice. iniquity and
dope, curses, swears, smokes cigar.
cites, Is impudent to quite proper
people and otherwise carries on
something dreadful. So she gets
back her soul and lives happily ever
After.
am perfectly willing to confess
tfat the above scenario Gone gets
into the language somehow is a lit
tie bit inconsequential. But what
can you expect? The weirdest light :
ing. the straagest settings, the odd
est language, the queerest acting
we have seen this season are com.
pounded in this play. It was rather
funny to watch the audfeure Casn
when Donald Gallaher or Henry
Herbert suddenly took the play seri-
ously and began to act. Every one
seemed to say, why, it's real. after
all!'
like Miss Bara. I hope you do.
At least admit that she didn't have
an easy job cut out for her. when she
went into this vamping business
Well. she's trying It out in new
medium, much as IL she were trying
II In new language. say good
luck to her. But the authors OF the
play--wkat shall be said for themf
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28
Next Week. S Shows

BELASCo-Charlotte Greenwood in
oliver Morosco's new musical
comedy. 'Linger Longer Lefty"
book by Anne Nichols; music by
Alfred Goodman; lyrics by Ber-
nard Grossman.
NATIONAI-William Gillette in ].
NJ. Barrie's comedy. Dear
Brutus:" cast includes Marie
Wainwright. Violet Kemble Coop
er, Hilda Moore, Madge Bellamy.
Frances Anderson, Anne Morrison,
William Podmore, Grant Stewart.
Fred Russell, T. A. Braden and
others.
GAYETY The Million Dollar
Dolls" with Cliff Bragdon, Scot
tie Friedell. EIDE Mae, Norma
Barry. Margaret Osborn, George
Clifford, Morrell Osborn and Har-
old Carr and others.
ID. r. KEITH'S-Harry Fox and
company; Mabel McCane and COM
pany; Ciccolini: Lew Dockstader;
Tracey and Mcbride; the Loven-
berg Girls and Neary; the Four
Nightons; Nelson and Cronin;
Griff: Topics of the Day" and the
kinograms.
PALACE-Olive Thomas in Foot
lights and Shadows"
COLUMBIA-First four days, Mar
guerite Clark in Easy to Get;"
last three days, The Woman Who
Understood" starring Bessie Bar
riscale.
METROPOLITAN Woman in
Room 13." with Pauline Frederick.
kNICkERBOCKER First two
days, Pauline Frederick in The
Woman in Room 49," Tuesday and
Wednesday, Bert Lytell in The
Right of Way" Thursday and
Friday, Mary Pickford in Polly
anna" Saturday, Elsie Ferguson
in His House in Order"
CRANDALL'S - First three days.
The Forbidden Woman" with
Clara kimball Young; completing
the week. Edith Hallor in The
Blue Pearl"
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

One of the perplexing events of
a not unperplexing year is the dew
astating run of Civilian Clothes"
in Los Angeles, a city which has
not hitherto been regarded as a
spot which could support a play
longer than q month or so. Civil
ian Clothes" however, opened at
the Morosco Theater in Los Angeles
on. June "a last, and is, accordingly,
now in it's thirty-seventh week. In
the meantime New York and Chi
cago companies have been orga-
nized and had their runs. Mr.. Mo-
rosco has done everything in his
power to discourage the engage
ment-such as taking leading peo-
pie from the company, for example
but still the run goes on. Pay
ments aggregating $21.0s0 have
been made for plays which 1t had
been planned to present at the Mo-
rosco-the Los Angeles company is
primarily a stock organization
and, in addition. a dozen or more
new plays are awaiting their tests
before coming East. 1t will be
seen, accordingly, to what extent
the success of Civilian Clothes"
has demoralized the Morosco plans.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

Theaters that special matinees will
De given at CrandalPs Knickerbock-
er Theater throughout Easter week.
Matinees, in other, words, will be
given daily at the KnickerbocKer,
beginning at $3.50 from April 3 to
April IL, both inclusive. An espe-
cially strong array of superfeatures
has been booked for Easter week.
L. Arthur Smith has announced
the engagement Of Nina Tarasova
for a recital the afternoon of April
16 at the New National Theater,
as supplementary concert to his
Ten Star series, to which subscrib-
ers to that series may obtain seats
at the same rates IL they are ap-
piled for prior to April z. Tarasova
Is a wonderful little singer of Rus
sian folksongs and ballads, which
she interprets with marvellous in
tonatfon, gesture. pathos and COM
edy. much like the famous Yvette
Guilbert In her palmy days.
Harry NJ. Crandall, owner of the
Crandall Theaters in Washington.
accompanied by Mrs. Crandali and
Misses Mildred, Olga and Dorothy
Crandall. returned last week from
a months trip to the motion. pic
ture centers of the Pacific Coast.
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Three New Spring Shows
BY EARLE DORSEY.

BY EARLE DORSEY.
The final which Washington today
reveals full makeup for budding the
ata No less than three await verdict
which should be favorable the main primary production
toms have weight Regardless however of the value or lack
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The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

The veteran star William H Crane. has begun with
Smit comedy, The NewH Henrietta - ' NNe - ''"N
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Miss Janet Richards. whose regu-
lar course OF twenty lectures closed
last Monday. VIII, in response to the
requests OF many of her patrons, give
two more talks at the Knickerbocker
Theater on Mondays. March %. and
April sat 1o:zk.
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to the ecast
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DR.. Cary T. Grayson. personal
physician to President Wilson, has
endorsed I'm Old kentucky" the
Alm yersion Of the famous racing
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

Elaine Hammersten finished
Byrnes" has vacation spending
Quaker school Philadelphia where educated
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The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

Stop That Man" stage play by George Hobart has
starring vehicle Moore
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

What
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The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

Announcement is made from the
executive offices of the Crandall
The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

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The Washington herald., 1920-03-28

Readers Of The Hippoamus Parade in it's magazine
Wallace Reid Hurry