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The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22
Local NelDs

The Officers and members of the
.Yeshivas Toras Chaim,' West l4th
Ave. and Federal Boulevard, announce
to all Jewish organizations that
splendid meeting hall has recently
Lcen constructed in the above named
uilding, and that they extend cor
dial invitation TO all Jewish lodges
societies, clubs and frateraities to hold
,heir meetings there. Those who WISH
10 make arrangements can comlnuni-
cate with the secretary, Samuel Vast,
iIGO Federal Boulevard.
Ben Ruben OF 22Ol Lawrence street.
left Sunday for Pittsburgh and New
York. where he will visit his mother,
sisters and brothers some of whom he
us not seen in twenty-one years. lie
takes this means of bidding his friends
goodbye.
Stanley Barnett and Morton Joseph
cached Denver Friday for the holi-
,.uys from New Haven, where they are
,ttending Yale University.
Mr.. 7 Smith of Dodge City. Kansas.
is the guest of l.. L. Shuteran, $3.50
Marion street.
Mr.. C. NJ. Ettenson reached Denver
Tuesday to join his wife. who is in
the city visiting their children.
The Zionist Flag day which was to
have been celebrated December T.
was postponed on account of inclc-
mcnt weather TO next Sunday, De
ccmber PC.
]. Frcyhan Friedman, son of Dr.
and Mrs. VIM. $. Friedman. is home
Tor the mid-winter holidays from
Phillips Exeter Preparatory school for
Yale.
Mrs. Ray S. David presided at the
Denver Women's Press clubs Decem-
her meeting Tuesday. held ut the home
of Mrs. Steele. Professor Lindsey
Loncacre. teacher of the Old Tesla
ment at Denver University delivered
a.i inspirational address on the
prophet Elijah.
jack Lutz. son of Mr. and Mrs. Max
I.utz. has returned to this city after
n four months visit in the east.
Norman Lands is home for the mid
winter holidays from Boonesvillc. MO.
where he is attending the kcmper
Military Academy. He will remain in
the city until after the dance on De
ccmber Both to be given by the y. y.
c., of which he is member.
Mr.. Krone is confined TO his bed rs
the result of an accident
Mr.. Hextcr is able 10 be about
again after long illness.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22
CHELTEEIAM NIGHT SCHOOL

The first IF the monthly concerts TO
lie given by the Cheltemham Night
school under the auspices of the Lea
que of Jewish Youth was held We'd
nesday. December IL. An interesting
program was arranged and the Lea
que wishes to thank all who took II
part in the program.
The program was as follows:
Piano SolO..-..--........- Miss Sldae HirSh
Address ''Americanism," in Yiddish
...--...--.....................Dr. p. Hiilkowitz
Recitation. II. NJ. Kaufman
Violin Solo .-..--.............. Miss Finegolh
accompanied by Miss r. Rosenbloom)
REGULATIONS. Yiddish. Miss l. Aaron
and Miss II. MiisteIn.
Piano SOlo-..---.........-.-.... Miss G. Geller
Recitation....-.--..... Miss V. Weiss
\ short Sketch by Misses Ana and
Mary Morris.
Mr.. CluXtOn and family were honor
guests of the evening. Mr.. II. NJ.
Kaufman presided. The teachers OF
the school We're given tokens of APP
preciat ton by the pupils of the school.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

The Zionist Flag day which was to
have beeu celebrated December l..
was postponed on account OF incic-
mcnt weather 10 next Sunday, De
ccmber 2G.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

n. Levi. Mr.. Levi, who was born in
until zoos, when he moved to Dallas.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

Mr.. Hextcr is able 10 be abou
again after n long illness.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

Yours very truly.
THE SIONIAN CLUR,
BY Louis A. HellerStei!l, Secretary.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

Mr.. Krone is confined 10 his bed n
the result of an accident.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

J. Frcyhan Friedman, son of DR.,
and Mrs. VIM $. Friedman. is home
Tor the mid-winter holidays from
Phillips Exeter Preparatory school for
Yale.
The Denver Jewish news., 1920-12-22

Jack Lutz. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Max
Iutz. has returned to this city after
n four months visit in the east.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Rachel CrOthers Denies
Statements Contained
In a Recent Interview

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Part Of an article published In
the dramatic section Of last Sundays
Tribune is so Enthusiastically meant as
an interview with me and is Of SO
harmful a nature that, in justice to
myself, my profession and the dra-
matte critics of New York, must make
a statement regarding it.
AS to what is said about my gen.
eral manners, discourtesy and inhospi-
tality-that, I hope, Is too obviously
ridiculous to need denying; but every
word concerning tho dramatic critics
both what is implied and what is put
in direct quotation marks as mine,
abeolutely deny and declare untrue.
Even woman playwright could
scarcely be so crassly stupid as to at
tack the dramatic critics in an inter
view with dramatic reporter, nor be
so nalvely foolish as to take that re-
porter into her confidence and ask him
to publish the attack as his-not hers;
UUL ~ lS SVSIk IuOIo upOSS1Dlo LuaL q
playwright with any shred Of decency
could be capable Of so gross a breach
Of professional ethics as to insult the
interviewer and make the interview of
such q nature that the reporter could
not publish it without a grave breach
Of professional ethics on his side.
Whatever was said about the critics
in this interview was said by the re-
porter himself.
My own conversation was confined
entirely to the subject Of my play, HE
and She," about which the reporter had
come to interview me, which CONVEX
sation should have been very glad
indeed to have published, and was as
sured by the reporter that 1t would
appear In Tho Tribune the following
Sunday. It did not appear, but four
weeks later the article Of which I am
now writing. was published.
RACHEL CROTHERS.
New York, March 10, 1870.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

tiger. Once he tastes blood, he be-
comes rampageous and Is hard to stop.
But wait until the average man gets
his monkey up and then look out.
Revolution is likely, the heads Of a few
Puritans may be cut off, and then the
world will be sane place to live in
again for q while"
Mr.. IRVINE described Tolstoy as an
example Of man who could not trust
himself and therefore preached sup
preston.
"Tolstoy was man Of great vitality
and in youth lived rather loose moral
life. Then he got religion or some
such thing, but, still retaining his
vitality, he kept himself in check by
expressing it in suppression" Mr..
Ervine said.
Five years after he had come to Lon.
don from his birthplace, Belfast. to 20
into the insurance business, Ervine
wrote his first play, "The Magnanimous
Lover" in one act. This was fourteen
years ago, when he was twenty-five
but the play is still being produced
here. mixed Marriage" which was
presented by the Irish Players
when they were here last, long play
was written year later, and then the
young man tried novel, "Alice and q
Family" "Jane Clegg." which is being
presented SO successfully at the Gar
| rick Theater by the Theater Guild, was
written nine years ago, followed by
"Mrs. Martins Man." novel, and then
John Ferguson" written in the early
months of 1914. Some of his other
writings are Changing Winds" and
"The Foolish Lovers" novels, and
peter the Wicked" farce, and "The
Wonderful VISIT" dramatization OF
H. G. Wells's novel.
Before going into the service in 191e
Mr.. Ervine managed the Abbey Theater
in Dublin. He became private soldie,
In the Household Battalion at Windsor
and then went to France as an Office,
with the Dublin Fusiliers, fighting with
them at Arras, Cambrai, Hazebroucl
and at the Forest Of Nieppe, where he
was wounded
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Puritan Is the Biggest Sinner
In His Prohibitions, Says Author
Of ssJane Clegg," St. John Ervine

st. John G. Ervine greeted The Trib
une's representative with a difficult
query:
"How does one offer hospitality in
this country now?" he asked.
There was no answer. Nevertheless
the author of John Ferguson" and
"Jane Clegg" led the way to the cafe of
the hotel. Lemonade was suggested
and between sips he talked.
For a man who has written plays of
the calibre of "John Ferguson" and the
present production at the Garrick Thea
ter, st. John G.. Ervine locks surpris-
ingly young. He is a little above aver
age height, with wavy brown hair and
keen, twinkling blue eyes. His ruddy
complexion is indicative of the outdoor
life he leads and has led. AS an
officer In the Dublin Fusiliers he was
hit by she'll while coming out of a
trench at the Forest of Nieppe and lost
his right leg. Before this the play
wright walked at least ten miles daily
and now finds 1t difficult to get enough
exercise.
II And I can still SWIM" he said
"and that will help greatly"
He looked at the lemonade.
sin England some whisky and soda
would be just the thing for an occasion
such as this. don't know how
Americans are going to offer hospi-
tality with prohibition in effect
Every sensible man believes there
should be regulation Of the liquor
traffic, but there must be limit,
Fanatical reformers never seem to
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

ONk wright, the producer or the
other people of Importance
IN the theater, it is first, last and all
the time the player on whom his first
attention is centered. The man or
woman he actually sees on the stage
who personally presents the play for
his amusement or for his instruction,
as the case may be, is the figure which
commands his curiosity. He sees the
actor move, hears him speak and feels
his personality come out across the
footlights. A certain glamour Of mys-
terry, veiled private life, add zest to
his interest in the histrion.
An appealing confession Of % nag
ging curiosity" comes from m inter
ested and regular reader Of The Trib-
une ain the way in which the actor
folk fill in their time when they are
actually on the stage, rehearsing or
studying their parts. What do they
do with all their time between per-
formances?" he asks; chow do they
spend the long lacun@ between per-
formances? What do they do in the
brief hiatus between g matinee and an
evening performance? Do they go to
the trouble of denuding themselves of
makeup and stage habiliments to be-
come their natural selves again for
this brief hour or two? And how, in
Heavens name, do they fill in the
eight-hour gap between breakfast and
the evenings work."
To all of this a general answer may
be returned-that the actor is just a
regular human being, "even as you and
L." His habits and pastimes are much
the same as ours, his inclinations and
his character are in no way foreign to
those of other people. Of course, as
rule he is artistic and therefore i'm
pressionable and temperamental. He
is easily buoyed to the crest of en-
thusiam's wave or buried in the abys-
NAL depths Of depression. But he is
intensely human, has all the human
merits and the weaknesses the flesh
is heir to-" as we'll. He is not all of
one sort any more than is the lawyer,
the physician, the merchant or the
banker. Some actors are quite domes-
tic in their tastes; others turn to the
more sporting kind of existence. Some
are saving; others profigate.
AS a rule, the actor is a great love,
of the arts. Paintings, sculpture, music
/ books appeal to him. He is particu.
larly interested in the theater and, like
the proverbial London busman. whs
spends his holiday riding about tn,
English metropolis atop bus, the acto,
devotes much of his leisure to seein;
plays. But. unlike the busman, h,
does not do this because he doesn'
know where else to 60 and has not suf
fcient imagination to conjurs up
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Actor, i'm Hours of Ease,
Is Not "Uncertain, Gov
And Hard to Please''

form Of recreation outside his own datlv
environment. He goes to observe and
to learn. 1t is doubtful if there are In
any profession or line Of business more
sincerely and earnestly interested men,
bers than in that OF the stage.
The actor loves his work.
He is gregarious being, and he
loves to foregather with his fellows
and discuss his triumphs and theirs,
and the troubles AZ we'll. He is q
great clubman, and no clubs arc better
patronized than tho several theatrical
clubs. ION the road" tho hotsl lobby
or the grill are sometimes the best
substitutes he can find.
He is simple soul, without guile or
restraint, and his soul Is freely laid
bare to his friends. The simpler pas
times, too, are his. He rides horse
back; he drives his own motor car; he
plays golf and tennis when the weather
permits and billiards and cards when
storms keep folk indoors. He does not
lean toward excesses in drink or gam
bling or other dissipations. OF course,
there are exceptions, notable ones, but
their number is rapidly diminishing.
He is charitable in the extreme and
is keenly and practically interested in
the Actors Fund Home for the aged
and deserving of his calling, in the
Actors Church Alliance and in all sorts
of benefits for the unfortunate, to
which he freely contributes his time,
his money and his talent.
He loves household pets, and many an
actor carries dog, q cat or a bird
across the Continent or even the sea
on professional tour. Many of them
have delightful homes, and their family
life, even when the babies have to sleep
IN Costume trunk in the dressing
room during performances. is delight
full.
tian Science.
! Some few, especially in long play
OF if not in the best of health, remain
In their dressing rooms between matt
nee and night performances, but even
these, unless the makeup is so elabo-
rate as to take long while to put on
and remove, like to @clean up" the
moment the curtain is down, get into
something comfortable and relax. But
the average actor loves the air and the
sunshine too much to be cooped up in
a dressing room moment longer than
is absolutely necessary.
They are lionized great deal and
invited to luncheons and teas, always
being anxious to return the courtesy.
All in all, the actor is pretty good
fellow, and just about - busy ~ the
rest Of u.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

detiances up to heaven. He said that he
could bring back the dead with his elec-
trical machine. He even said this while
the thunder ragged. And then the bolt
from heaven struck.
At first it seemed as if there had been
slight miscalculation in the aim of
heaven, for it was not John the atheist
who went down, but Ruth Gordon, the
pure purveyor of calf's foot jelly. Later
it developed that there had been no
error. If the lightning had struck John
1t would indeed have been an awful les
son to all his friends, but it would have
been much too radical teaching for him.
The death of Ruth served much better,
for it gave John a chance to confound
himself and all his theories by the use
of the electrical machine. The blue
flames flashed and hissed and sputtered.
Ruth stirred. She moved one foot. She
sat up. She was groggy. One expected
that in the first flush Of consciousness
she would pull down her skirt. She was
that sort Of girl. Alas, she had been
that sort Of girl, for her first words
were Gimme q kiss" and then she
added "I'm cold, am 1? Just you give
me legal excuse and I'll show you how
cold I am" And so they were married.
In the second act the audience
learned just how soulless Ruth had be-
come. She received visitors in her
boudoir. She laughed cynically. She
spoke with passionate enthusiasm about
money. 1t came then as no surprise
that she had sent her sisters fanc6
around the corner for a little cocaine.
AS she remarked, she'd do anything
for thrill and she believed in taking
chances. She inhaled the cocaine and
went to sleep on the floor Of her boudoir,
where her Mortified husband found her.
In the next act she murdered a man
who had insured his life in her favor,
and sent a mere boy out to steal an
emerald. She needed $4,000.
She piled crime upon crime, until no
body was surprised when she told her
husband to go to hell.
And in the next act she went to
Chinatown at midnight and tried to sell
the emerald, the sacred emerald from
the inner Manchu temple. Here, when
discovered, she betrayed her sister-in-
law to her death, and even when
trapped and caught she argued that
mono of these indiscretions lay at her
door. 1t was her husbands fault. He
had restored to her the warmth Of her
body, the light of her eyes, the beat Of
her heart, the flow of her gastric juices,
the breath of her lungs. He had, in
deed, provided her with everything
from her tonsils to appendix, but he
had not given her soul. And every
body knew she was right. They had
seen her soul creeping up the backdrop
like hunted thing.
In the next act the whole affair
proved to be dream. This was rather
a pity, for it handicaps the reviewer
who would compare the ruthlessness
Of Ruth and that Of Richard III. In
the course Of her depredations she
had become no petty villainess, but
heroic figure standing above the
clouds OF right and wrong, q sort Of
Mrs. Lucifer. One may And In Orchard
III" many . flaming passage, but we
are sure there Is nothing quite like
the exultant defiance Of Ruth Gordon
In "The Blue Flame: To be good
is to be forgotten. I'm going to be 90
bad I'll be rcmsmb berad always."
Tho role Of Ruth Gordon is played
by Miss Theda Bara.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

know when to stop. They are going
after the cigarette now, hear. Next
they will attack the theater. A little
while later man will not be permitted
to live with his wife unless he has a
certificate of permission from the
Mayor. 1t will be made crime even
to 60 around with smile on your face.
In Ottawa it is now forbidden to 90
toboganning on Sundays. Children's
games are prohibited In London be-
cause of the Sabbath, Why these re-
strictions?"
Mr.. Ervine hastened to explain that
the prevention Of the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic drinks would not work
personal hardship.
II very seldom take the stuff, but 1
must confess that In two months in
America under prohibition l have had
more to drink than had in England in
eighteen months.
"The Puritan Is the biggest sinner"
says the Irish author. "He does not
trust himself and is afraid to trust
others. Soon the Puritans will have
us walking around miserable in the
world if We let them. Perhaps there
will be another Mayf to carry
them away from these shores.
"The average man is patient beast.
He is too busy or not keen enough to
look into things, while the fanatics are
we'll organized, work efficiently at moth
ing else but their reforms and pro-
hibitions. When they are ready they
slip them over, as prohibition was
slipped over. The fanatic Is like the
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

~ Thus spoke Ruth Cor
don, the heroine of ''The Blue Flame,
at the performance at the Shubert The
ter last Monday flight, an event which
marked new epoch in the history OF
the American theater. 1t has been
said often, and truly said, that the
American drama lacked violence. Our
playwrights even in their most ardent
moods have been unable to free them
serves from certain reticence. Hith-
erto, unbrdled passion has come to our
stage only when we have adapted plays
from the Italian, such as Sem Benefits
ihe JEST Or from the Spanish, as in
henavente's Passion Flower" George
V. Hobart and John Willard have put
an end to all that.
There is direct brutality about their
new play which disarms criticism. Thew
nave no time for mincing. "Give me
aaln 1884, says the heroine In one
o's moment, and then when her number
aas been obtained in the usual precise
manner Of the stage, she begins, "Have
you stolen that emerald YETI" And
agaln when Larry Winston enters her
ooudolr no time is wasted in small talk
ABOUT the weather. The heroine goes
straight to the point with "Have you
wrought the cocaine?"
american playwrights have pulled
s'.''1 punches for so long time that au-
aiences are likely to be taken somewhat
-0scx by the new method. There was
ss1asnce on Monday night that not
o'yoody was ready for the new dis
seA'stion. Some snorted with laugh
w ~nen the playwrights laid bare the
.ou'' or rather, the lack Of soul. in a
'oman with great cleaving, audacious
saslass strokes Of dramatic craftsman.
ship. '''~ ia' 'Sina u
But It is hardly fair to give the inn
PRESTON that "The Blue Flame" Is
awe and vital only when iudvsd ~
ss1ms OF physical activity. The TOR
.sAs'ai sweep Of theft, lust and murder
s, ,nnot drown out the fact that the pIav
.sY 0Hers keen diversion for the mind
y. "''a likes to delve into the psychology
y. w.. circumstances. Indeed, the drama
as. as..s with as complex problem az the
n.rs, ,e 0' the soul. Often in plays and
s. ssssls one has heard of this or that
s 'son losing his soul, but it has been
s,.' s0'o and pale abstraction. There
ss sh.. aa' been the possibility Of belief
sTS y. was merely mislaid. But in
.a' Blue Flame" Ruth Gordon lose,
". '00' In full view Of the audience
ths a1e now In position to state that
r",. l.s soul looks a great deal like snot.
l.. ana that 1t moves with sinsu-
-. asfky movement, now right nov
/ a now upward toward its goal.
4. :. "a. na' long been realized, the soul is
! Az, ~ 'es. Of all tender emotions. but nrob.
1 = = :rs no0ody knew before the production
.ne Blue Flame" that 1t Is also the
o.a, ssr which makes for good grammar
s n,'oes the case Of Ruth Gordon A,
1 ~. ossslnning : Of the play she was pre.
- Me- s,,. = an inssnas who did good 3D. deed. @
/ ,n.s sA's'outsd kind words and isllv Il
.s as needy. But she loved an atheist
ssss q Al. i. was sinrul.rlv lI ~sru.,s srt,cn.
/ asssas who vaa eagsr to shout
y
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

hh UGH as the playgoer may be
k& interested in the play
wv wright, the producer or the
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
AS We Were Saving
By Haywood Broun

NOU got to bring me money
W Nv or I'll shake you like Ie
~ shake. my shimmy."'
New-York tribune., 1920-03-21

form Of recreation outside his own daily
environment. He goes to observe and
to learn. 1t is doubtful if there are In
any profession or line Of business more
sincerely and earnestly interested men,
bers than in that OF the stage.
The actor loves his work.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-12-16
WIN Reduce His Cotton Acreage.

Mr. Arthur Mcitade. farming near
t'urtis. was among tile several callers
ut this Office Yesterday. Mr.. Mcllade.
has long been known to many residents
of the parish as Il successful farmer.
and he is. so we are always ple;tsed to
make mention of his efforts in this
direction.
During the season just closed there
was made and picked on his plantations
50 lales Of cotton. only 30 bales OF
which have as yet been marketed. All
| his cotton and that of his neigihofs
and about all to the north Of him III ta
Bossier City has beeH picked, said Mr:
/ McDade, but to the south there re-
mains much cotton still in the fields
| He added that it would quite likely
| never be picked. as the price offered for
the l,aled product w0ull net justify It,
About 40 acres of the plantation was
/ planted to corn this season and the
average Weld of the crop was 81, bush
els to the acre His own corn crib i
/ fnlI 10 the rafters and his tenants ;,tat
lsip u tsseir elips nilcli corn.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1920-12-16

Not only were good corn and cotton
crops made. but there is on the place
an abundance of pens, potatoes. tur-
nips. etc. and everybody is still living.
Marcus Drew made 67 gilllons of good
syrup from ii patch about the. size OF
the Banner office. and Mr. McDades
yield OF tile :. long sweetening from
three-quarter acre patch was s1.
gallons.
For the coming season Mr.. McDNt
plans to reduce his cotton acreage by
half. In fact, cotton will be something
of surplus crop and much attention
will he given to the cultivation OF corn
truck and food crops generally. HI
will give each Of his tenants a smai
acreage to be planted to truck crops
for their own table use and to sell
He thinks the plan will work out W..
and that his having a surplu
on which to live at persent will hay'
no desire to leave the place.