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As W ere Saying

rate, from frank melodrama He has
considerable capacity for crowding
excitement into play, and in the old
days, when he pretended to nothing
else, he furnished entertainment. NV
he writes melodrama and calls it some
thing else. He feels that he may not
simply set his characters through their
PAGES without telling why. As long as
he made no attempt to justify the i'm
possible, the spectator was not dis
posed TO inquire too closely into mo-
tives. 1t is only in his new manner in
which explanations are given which do
not explain that great dstrust arises
as to the authenticity Of the Davis
characterizations. Nobody has right
to expect that q playwright shall catch
every beat of the heart Of the world
but it seems to US extraordinary that
an author can write full length play
without once striking a true note If
sincerity. In "Opportunity" Mr.. Davis
has written such play.
Probably We shall never understand
the theatrical business. We were told
last week that "Opportunity" was be-
ing rushed into New York because the
producer wished to be first on the
ground with a novelty. And then we
saw a play in which the hero made a
fortune in Wall Street, lost it and re-
gained it. Also there was scene laid
in New York boarding house in which
the landlady called the boarders her
guests and took great pride in the
high character of her establishment
Some summer we expect TO be sum-
moned hurriedly to New York by a
producer who wishes to be the first in
the field with play about an old col
ored gentleman, a brutal overseer, a
woman crosses the ice and a pack Of
bloodhounds.
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Me" is as filed with funny lines when
the curtain rises on the opening night
a. it is now in its fourth week o. re-
hearsals. when Tinney, the star, and
Collier. the director. are on the stage.
there will be outlaws enough to cause
Mr.. Hammerstein (Arthur, the pro-
ducer) and Mr.. Hammerstein Oscar
Jr., the co-author) to sit back and
smile away a few evenings themselves.
Not all of Tinneys remarks could
well be told in print. As for Golfers.
the less said about some Of them the
better. But those lines that are not
going to be included in the perform
ance at all, but which drift out over
the foothghts these nights, as thu
stage is upset and the supporting cast
runs back and forth behind the dimlv
lighted sets. would make a musical
comedy book within themselves. Yes.
there would be material enough for
two or three such productions, no
doubt, if one could bind them all to-
gether and remember them and set
them down in a notebook for reference.
And some of these lines they "fndo
each night as they so through their
lines are going to be used n the pro
duction itself. Tnney VIII interpoate
certain lines and Jokes he finds while
at work with Collier and funny little
laugh producers conceived by the d.
rector will be included in the dialogue.
Tinney in the play, viii be Oar
danella, the king of Somewhereorother.
and in his own style will just about
rule the performance Of Tickle
me- from the opening curtain until the
finale If there are those who think
because the comedian is TO head the
cast he will appear late in the middle
or last act and quit the piece long be-
fore the final curtain comes. they are
mistaken He is the play itself, and
he is being drilled by Collier and the
two Hammersteins, as we'll as the as
sstant directors, each afternoon and
night, and it is said his part will be
heavier than he ever has carried No.
heavy in quality. if it should be noted,
but heavy III quantity.
Speaking of college men OF the
stage,' came the voice of Tinfey on
one side, his little, strong cigar poked
almost directly beneath our chin anG
the voice, simultaneously. Of Collier.
from the other side, his fat cigar
stub protruding somewhere just be-
You'd our eyelashes, there aren't very
many of them that ever made good on
the stage. Now, you know what wa
mean-we mean very, very good. Of
course, there are few We give credit
where credit is due
They had proceeded to this point in
Continued 0, page -
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NJ DGAR SELWYN, recently returned
VI from London and Paris, brings
back some interesting observa-
tons on conditions In the theater
aboard.
"The stage IN England-and that is
TO say London--is suffering reaction
from the war" says Mr.. Selwyn. "The
theater is confronted with what is
deemed a pre-war condition and at the
same time with postwar expense.
IN the course of the war, when 1t
became necessary to furnish mass
amusements owing to the multitude of
soldiers on leave in London, entertain
ment was not always the most deli
cate. Soldiers in the main stood for
perhaps were amused by-a certain
degree of vulgarlty. In those days
Of high tension the Tommies were
not the Ironsides' Of Oliver Crom-
well, when Haig's men spoke to the
psaltery they were quite likely TO jazz
1t up bit. But now, of course, after
a rest from the denominations of war,
an indelcacy on the stage smites cold
disgust upon the auditorium. Yet
theatrical managers apparently have
not discerned it. Naturally the thea
ter is not being supported. And, as
see it, the condition is due largely to
bad plays.
Two English plays are conspicu-
ously successful, both of excellent
type. They are Barrie's Mary Rose
and Galsworthy's Skin Game
The bad play is managerial default.
But the stage itself is lacking in fresh
talent" Mr.. Selwyn says. English
managers with difficulty find young act
tresses. Whatever the sphere the young
women sought in the war, they have not
returned in conspicuous number to the
theater.
The London revues are poor imita-
lions Of our American revues. And per-
formers in this type of entertainment
are mostly Americans. Indeed, three
American girls are big successes in
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@NIERlNG the half darkened
kD@ Lyric Theatcr these nights
49, and making your way down
to the front row within hear
ing distance of the conversations going
on between Frank Tinney, the come
dian, and William Collier, the comedian.
the first to be the principal in Arthur
Hammerstein forthcoming produc-
ton, Tickle Me-" and the latter the
director Of the piece, you might gain
the impression that there is nothing
in the world on which these two gentle
men could possibly come to an agree
ment.
But there is. The agreement which
they have reached hasn't anything to
do specifically with Tickle Me-" so
far as can be discerned, but has to do
with acting generally.
The knowledge came to both of them
| the other night when, after remon-
strating with Collier as to how a GER
tain line should be spoken, Tinney re-
marked
"You talk like a college boy What's
your fraternity, anyway"
do you want this show to 80 on ."
promptly inquired Collier.
If it's all the same TO you, yes"
replied Tinney.
Then don't call me college boy
returned Collier. They're all hicks
when it comes to acting. Give me the
actor that never saw shrt-tail pa
rade. Give me the fellow who made his
way himself"
AT last.' shouted Tinney. I'VE
agree"
And thereafter there ensued a most
cordial exchange of ideas between
these two men whom a large part of
the theatergoing public have called
the funniest in the business" The
other members of the rehearsing cast
stood about wide-eyed. The pretty
young girls in pantaloons and some
without even pantaloons, but lacy gar
ments designed for comfort in the sum-
mer weather, giggled and nudged one
another they sat behind the scenes
awaiting their next call to rehearse
The impossible had happened Collier
and Tinney had agreed. Frank and
Willie were smiling at each other.
Director and star had found common
ground. And then as soon as Collier
saw the amazement everywhere he
spat out very short stub of a fat
cigar, Tlnney dashed the remaining
atom Of Gargantuan weed into the
orchestra pit with swear word, and
back they went to the rehcarsing and
more arguments.
1t is really humorous, if they don't
know you're listening, to hear these
two comedians at work If Tickle
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~ Ne OF the interesting happen
HE ings Of the new theatrical sea-
~ son will be the appearance of
Miss Gilda Naresi as star in
Enter Madame" Again and again Miss
Varesi has taken minor role or sec
ondary one and made it seem the most
important thing in the play. In fact, we
remember that she quite destroyed the
intent OF propaganda play against
radicalism by playing a young Red
with such FIRE and fervor that the sup
posediy heroic persons in the play
seemed like sticks beside her. New
York has seen many examples of her
extraordinary gift for passionate inten-
sity She blazed like a fame as the
blind girl in the third act of The Jest"
She brought q touch of true tenderness
20 her part as the mother in The Little
Journey and she clarified and vivifed
role Of great omplexity in Gorki's
Night Lodging
When John Barrymore was III she
played the leading role in The Jest"
and gave new conception of the role
which -as in some scenes at least as
interesting as that given by Mr.. Bar
rymore himself This was no small
achievement when it Is remembered
that Barrymore was the sensation of
the season in the Benefit play. Now
ws are to see Varesi as a comedienne
in addition to everything else. What
ever the verdict on the new venture
may be, It seems fair to say that no
player in America has more fairly
earned her stsrdom.
We think It Is pity that Owen Davis
mas turned from melodrama, or, at any
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MOf6 ats Due Soon
In Don't Tell,' New
Scottish Comedy

~ HE announcement that Graham
VI Moffat and his wife are to make
their first personal appearance
on the American stage this season
is full of promise to the playgoer.
Mr.. Moffat is the pioneer of Scottish
playwrights who, during this decade.
have struggled to establish a national
Scottish theater.
Whatever the cause for the failure of
Scottish plays to engage the interest of
managers more generally, it cannot be
because they have not brought in the
money. The history of Moffat's career
in the thcater, with his "Bunty Pulls the
Strings" "A Scrape of the Pen" and
his recent opus Don't Tell" which
has been playing many months abroad,
shows that Scottish plays will draw.
William Morris, best known to Amer
lean theatergoers as the manager of Sir
Harry Lauder, is bringing the Moffats
to the United States this season with
their original Scottish cast While they
will first be seen in Don't Tell" it is
not unlikely that Mr.. Morris will ar
range a season of Motfat plays in roper
tory fashion somewhat after that en-
ployed by the MoRats on their recent
tour Of the world, since the Scottish
playwright has been endeavoring to start
a movement in Scotland similar to the
organizations of the Irish Players, the
Horniman Players in Manchester, and
even to our own Theater GuildA
1t was in that year that he wrote
end produced two one-act Scottish plays
at the Glasgow Atheneum Hall, "Annie
Laurie" and "Till the Bells Ring These
were his first character sketches of real
Scottish life portrayed by Scottish
actors. Mofat's determination to estab-
lish Scottish drama in a national sense
was reflected in an article in Glasgow
weekly publication which said "Despite
the wealth of our literature, the beauty
and variety of our song, and the mex
haustible field of our traditional lore, it
has been a matter for comment that
Scotland has no drama of her own.
Strange as it may seem, when it is re-
membered that the leading dramatist of
the day is Scotsman who made his
name by writing in the homely tongue
Of his much loved 'Thrums,' Scottish
plays pure and simple could be counted
upon the fingers of one hand. This is a
state of affairs that has brought EXPIRES
sions of regret from more than one
home-loving Scotsman, but Graham Moi
fat, the Glasgow representative of that
family whose name is indissolubly asso-
ciated with Scottish entertainment, has
gone further than to express regret He
has assduously set himself to create q
Scottish drama"
IL was nursed in an atmosphere of
that sort of thing" said the play
wright. my father was the pioneer
of Scottish recitation and, like my
brothers and my sister, l inherited his
love for the work 1t was always a
difficulty to get sketches for my en-
tertainments unless / wrote them my
self, and gradually I developed the
idea that might carry the sketch
further. saw no reason why the
work done for the platform could not
be more effectively carried out for the
stage. Indeed, it IL easier to write ii
piece for FIVE or six characters with
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71N AL SKELLY, ladies and gentle
~ men'
Ladies and gentlemen, Ha
skelly
He has arrived. Not on the Man
haitian Express from Chicago or Kansas
City, but he has arrived on Broadway
in what they term it around the the
atrical producing Offices "a blaze O
glory" Hal has arrived! He is the
principal comedian in Victor Herbert S
new operette, The Girl in the Spot
light He rides up to the stage door
in his own Cadillac coupe, and has a
valet to take his coat as he sheds it
ii his dressing room and to hand him
his costume and everything.
This is not unusual, you say. But
i. you had seen Hal four years ago
playing the lowliest small time"
vaudeville theaters in the furthest
corners northwestward of the United
States and glad as a schoolboy to get
the opportunity, you would realize
that Hal ought to be given a lot of
credit for being the chief fun pro-
Queer of the Knickerb ocker Theaters
lifting musical comedy production.
Hal isn't much of a person to boast
about his own work, but his friends
I'D and down Broadway do enough
talking for him. His rapid ascension
to the throne Of success has inspired
his friends to such degree that they
arc constantly dropping in on him back
stage at the theater and shaking their
heads and hopping their brows and
saying, over and over again: Hal,
wnthedevildidja doit?"
To which the tall, good natured,
Iowa reared lad responds:
Its just natural, folks. l can't help
il. Don't blame me. Sure, III sign
a photograph for you. Name, please. y
But this doesn't mean he is a tall
"lpstage," as they call it, over his
remarkable climb to the upper parts
OF the theatrical ladder in the last
few months. On the contrary, he is
Just the same Hal. they say. as when
he was playing Way out West" and
that is the one reason all his friends
keep dropping in on him to say hello"
and good luck to him.
If it were as easy as Hal says it is
to become a headliner in vaudeville.
and better STILL featured artist in
on of Broadway's successful musical
comedy or operetta productions, there
would be few left to see the shows.
Every one would DE doing something
on the stage--being applauded each
night as he is, or receiving sums Of
money each week such as re receives.
For his recipe is a very simple one.
on tie face of it The young man
says that if actors would pay more
attention to details and DO simpler
things to amuse the public, they would
get much further in their profession.
IL fact, he says. simplicity is the key
t. stage success.
The trouble is with most Of our
comedians, or men and women who try
to amuse, that they try to do too
much that is unusual" he says An
other very great fault lies in their
belief that they must inject vulgarity
into their work. The modern Broad
way audience likes to be amused with
lCJntIAhnd IN nam
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Rev Cbeatrieal Offerings Of the U)sek

MoNDA-At the Bjou Theaer present The
Charm School, threeact BY Duer
Miller and Mr. Milton
dealing with the experiences
nherlts finishing school
MARIE Carroll Sam Hardy Minnie Dupre
Gleason Margaret Dale Blyth DAILY Simpson Nel Martin
Florence Mcclure, Morgan Frances
Laughln Camilla Lyon Theodore
1OkSDAfAt Comedy
Will The
Eugene Brieux Il upon
environment and influence
acter contrast between these
french The will
the French Frank
Aey American Durand
LEstrange Mllman, Franklin
Richard
the Fulton Theer Adoph presents
Died Wives comedy Adelaide Martha
Stanley Romance
Roland Young and Jules
Marie Chambers Glenn
Betty Barnicoat Louis Albion, and William
Lsn1ox
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Hal Shelly Arrives;
Admits Wife Did It,
Despite Stage Lines

~ AL SKELLY, ladies and gentle
~ men'
Ladies and gentlemen, Hal
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We th;nk It Is pity that Owen Davis
mas turned from melodrama, or, at any
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Continued OF page ~
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Collierizingg Tinney
Or, Perhaps, Tinnefying Collier, Is the
Process in Tickle Me-

u&NTERING the half darkened
D~ Lyric Theater these nights
49, and making your way down
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i: $: s: ::.: 3:
Miss GilGa Naresi as q star In
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1910. wDat iii Rev York Cbeater$

BOOTH-"Not So Long Ago" Period comedy
BROADHURST-"Co Seven" Backface farce
BRAMHALL PLAYHOUSE-C PLAYERS in Irish
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school had picnic after Sunday
school session. They returned tired
out, but happy and with many pretty
flowers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goddard and family
from Red Lake visited Sunday at the
Dickens home.
Those who called at the Ira Cook
home Sunday we're, Mr.. and AIRS. A..
A. Randall, Mr.. and Mrs. vi. w. Knox,
Mr. and Mrs. Ray 'Worden and
daughter, Esther, and Chas. Coffin.
The young folks Of this neighbour
hood had picnic after Sunday
school. Those present were Bessis
and Nina Cook, Cora and Dorothy
Watson, Elsie Klinger, Dorothy Ran
dali, Elsie Bashor, Norman Gardner,
Sam and Tom Randall, Raymond Nc
Queeney and Roy Watson.
Floyd Porter spent Saturday night
and Sunday at home
Gordon Gardner and George ed
wards spent Sunday at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Jones, the Knox
young folks, Christina Stephani,
Norman and Gordon Gardner and
George Edwards attended the box So
cial given by Bessie Knox, Saturday
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X x X X 4 X X X X X X X X X X x
+ PLEASANT VALLEY

~ + 4 4 kxx kxk i
Mrs. Medley Of Bemidji spent Wed
nesday night with her sister, Mrs. M
w. Knox and family.
Mrs. G. B. Fuller returned Wed
nesday from St. Paul. They will not
move until school is out. -.
Mrs. Vogler called at the Porter
home Friday afternoon while Mr.
Vogler and Bert were transactine
business in Nebish. -
Thomas Randall returned home
Saturday. He had been in Bemidji
having dental work DONE
Frank Porter and son Howard were
Bemidji callers Saturday.
Elsie hunger was Bemidji shop
per Saturday.
Maud Fuller returned home Mon
day from Saum, where she had been
visitig her sister, Mae Fuller, who is
teaching school at that place.
Elsie Bashor spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Bessie and Nina
Cook.
The children Of the Watson Sunday
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night, where she is teaching school
east of Nebish.
Loretta Mcclellan went to Bemid-
j Saturday and returned Monday.
Mrs. Gardner and sons, Gordon and
Norman, George Edwards and son
George, Jr., Christina Stephani and
Tom randall motored to Nebish Sun
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day evening. r. %2E%
Arleigh Cook visited; Sunday with
Joseph Foster.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Knox spent
Saturday night and Sunday at tho
Fullers and Gardner homes. y
A school meeting was held at tho
Gardner home Saturday night,
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TRACK AND FIELD MEET
.. AT U OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Vermillion, S. D., May 14.-High
schools of South Dakota and adjac-
ent districts of Iowa, Minnesota and
Nebraska, sent athletes here today to
take part in the annual track and
field meet of the university of South
Dakota.
Expenses of visiting teams were
paid by the university which also
provided entertainment and furnish
ed medals. /. ~
Many silver cups were given IN
addition in the various competitions.
The man winning highest individual
honors will be given a silver cup and
have his expenses paid to Stages ma
tionaR high school meet at Chicago
in June.
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Northwestern News
ANNUAL COLLEGE CARNIVAL
@.> AND TRACK-FIELD MEET

NJ Ames, Iowa. May 14.-Prelimina-
ny competitions of the Iowa High
school interscholastic track and field
meet were run of today here in con-
nection with the annual carnival OF
the Iowa agricultural college. Finals
viii be held tomorrow. The Az
carnival centers around student tai
ent vaudeville and q parade. An agri-
cultural and livestock show also is
being staged.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MISSOURI
RIVER BRIDGE BIDS OPENED
Bismarck, May 14.-Bids We're to
be opened today for the proposed mil.
lion dollar bridge over the Missouri
river between Mandan and bismarck.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-27
USE TELEPHONE AS
AID IN ROBBERY
Woman Sneak Thief Gets Maids
Gold Ring and Then Makes
Second Attempt.

A new method of sneak thief robbery
was been added to the variety that have
been used in the city during the past few
months The scene of this robbery was
the home of W. c. Philips, Sll Franklin
street and the time was yesterday morn
ing.
The maid, trusted employe of the
family was alone in the house when she
heard someone at the door She responded
and found woman waiting, who explain
ed that she understood the house was for
sale and that she wished TO be shown
through the home.
The maid, not suspecting any trickery
agreed to escort the woman and was
doing so. when she suddenly wss called
to the telephone. She discovered after
wards that the telephone call was merely
part of the thief's scheme for when she
looked for the prospective house buyer
she had disappeared.
The woman reappeared at the home
yesterday afternoon, but was denied adj
mission by the maid.
A peculiar feature of the affair is that
the only article that has been found
missing, is a gold ring with an agate set
that was the property of the maid. A care
full search has been made about tho home
but no other articles of value have been
found missing
The affair has been reported TO the
police who are making an investigation.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-27
GRAND MASTER VISITS
LOCAL ODD FELLOWS
r. Arthur Derrickson of Milford
Guest of Jefferson Lodge,
Last Night.

Grand Master r. Arthur Derrickson
of Milford, who has been among the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows lodges
throughout the state this week, paid an
official visit to jefferson Lodge No 2
on Thursday night, where he was enter
tanned by the committee in charge.
Remarks were made by Deputy Grand
Master G. NJ. Whitescll member of
Jefferson Lodge; Grand Secretary w. w.
Douty; Grand Marshal Joseph M. Broes
Past Grand Rep. A. G. Price; and Noble
Grand Z. r Coffin.
Vocal selections were rendere ed by A. NJ.
Rutler, assisted on the piano by Z. f.
Coffin. Herbert 4. Downing treasurer
Of the Lodge was POSTMASTER.
On closing the affair, the Grand Master
expressed his sentiment of the work in
this district, and asked for the cooperation
of every Odd Fellow until the end his
term. At the close OF the session of the
entire party went to Lambros' Cafe where
a splendid supper was served.