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The Washington times., 1920-09-27
MOORE'S RIALTO-
Sweet Lavender"

Well cast and with the star, Mary
Minter, in one OF the most appealing
roles of her career, Sweet Lavender"
Realart's photodr amatic production of
the famous Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
stage success. as adapted by Beulah
Marie Dix. opened a weeks engage
ment at Moore's Rialto Theater yester-
day.
As Lavender, Miss Minter shows to
the full that art which is rapidly
making her one of the most popular
and lovable of feminine stars. There
are many fine emotional moments in,
the story of a girl whose own father
not knowing her. forbids her mar
riage to his stepson.
Again there is just as much humor
injected into the same part when the
girl helps her foster mother in the
conduct of a big college boarding
house and 1t would almost spoil the
show for those who will see 1t, IL we
told what happened when the father
discovers that the girl he feels is
beneath" his stepson is really his
own daughter. Suffice to say that the
entire story, the manner in which II
is portrayed and it's denoument, Is
delight from start to finish.
Theodore Roberts, OF Miracle Man"
fame. scores one of the plays really
big individual hits. He takes the
part OF Prof. Dick Phonyl, down-at
the-heels, sunnyhearted incompetent,
friend to everyone save himself. 1t
Is in parts OF this sort that Mr..
Roberts shows himself a master Of
Characterization.
Milton Sills, as the father who has
forgotten his frst wife and their
daughter. and Harold Goodwin as the
young college boy lover, arc both per-
advantage being Sylvia Ashton, ]. NJ.
Dumont, Jane Kockley and Flora Hol-
lister.
Tho multiple reel comedy entitled
Nonsense" Is just that. but Is truly
an exceptional example of It's type.
There is more real action and novel
effects crowded into these two reels
than we have seen in many a widely
heralded hve reel production.
"Jugeemauts of Tho Jungle an
educational subject depicting Wild
and man -krnAng elephants as they
live and play, and their tanned
brethren as they work, 10 a wonderful
portrayal of what the camera brings
to us from far OF lands. An ex-
elusive showing of the latest Fox
News completes the nlm program.
Tho entire presentation Is enhanced
by tho excellent orchestration ar
ranged by Daniel Brecskin, conduct
ing the Rialto symphony Orchestra,
the overture for tho week, Verdrs
Tho Sicilisn vespers" being magnif
icently given.
The Washington times., 1920-09-27

| 1t was not till Maxine Brown, an
elf-like creature, scored with her
| stirring "Galloping," well along in the
| nrst act, that last nights audience
seemed to wake from it's lethargy.
| From then on the 1920 revival OF
"Florodora" held it's own. gained In
momentum and finally finished with a
| flourish worthy Of the original com
pany in those dear. departed dead
days when all the world talked of the
sextet and every incoming young man
warbled SHADE OF the Sheltering
Palm"
| Seeing once more that tropic set
ting, watching the arrival OF Anthony
Tweedlepunch and Lady Hollywood
ones Imagination was intrigued. He
sat musing. Hello. People" one OF
| the hits in Havana" and interpolated
| in this revival. somehow failed TO
| stir one. But then came "Galloping.
and "Florodora" was at hand. the
same dashing. glorious "Florodora' oil
the old days.
| Breathing life into a statue Is diff
fcult Bringing back the charm to
a timely, topical musical play gone
into the shadows, 10. these many
years is quite as difficult. II nothing
ing more, this 1920 revival shows be
yond argument that Tell Me, Pretty
Maiden" with the adorable sextet
came close to being the whole show
1t scored the biggest hit last night
bringing back old memories OF those
wonderful beauties of the origina
half dozen, perhaps even more won
derful in memory than they were II
the flesh.
Emphasizing the fact that thi'
| "FIorodora" is a revival, for one neet'
ing while the audience was regaleo
with a glimpse of the original sex
tet, with long. graceful skirts, flap
ping bonnets, baggy sleeves. And thai
number was applauded to the echo
Too bad IT appeared but once.
Then came diminutive sextet
which must needs come back to sat
isfy the handclapping throng. Tel
Me, Pretty Maiden" must have been
good twenty years ago to have re-
tanned so much life on waking In
1920.
Eleanor Painter is the Dolores OF
the revival. She looks good, poses
we'll and has fetching accent, but
even the warm weather last night did
The Washington times., 1920-09-27
Belasco Audience Dehghtedly
Accepts Revival of Old
Favorite - Sextette Re
tains Ancient Appeal
Behind Footlights.
By LOUIS ASHLEY.

Messrs. Lee and J. ]. Shubert pre-
sented a revival OF "Florodora," a
musical play In two acts, at the Shu-
-Bsiasco last night before a large
audience. The book is by owen Hall,
the lyrics by E. Boyd Jones and Paul
Rubens. and the music by Leslie Stu
art.
The Washington times., 1920-09-27

To an audience experiencing the
discomforts of midsummer night
Clarence" came as a refreshing,
soothing tonic. Charming in Its
utter simplicity. with no straining
after comedy effects, portrayed by
cast which is perfection itself. II is
no exagEeration TO term II the best
comedy seen here in years
As In Seventeen" Mr.. Harrington
has reversed the youth will be
served" axiom and made youth to
serve his ends. For Clarence" is
| story Of youth. raw youth. with Its
problems which to II are sll-impor-
tant but which to those looking on
from the vantage ground of the years
are but too apt to show In the light
I OF the humorous.
For three acts OF merriment Clar-
ence himself Is a ngure of mystery
who piques the audience even AZ he
did the household OF the Wheelers.
Apparently. everything in his past
| contributed In some measure to sup
port his anomalous position In the
| Wheeler establishment. Serving In
the army, Clarence admits he was no
hero, his bit being the care of a team
of mules. yet he obtains his position
with Wheeler because he was alleged
/ n
In the disordered menage OF the
| Wheelers. with romantic little Cora
| engaging in ana Tres du occur without
end. and the youthful Bobby falling In
! love and out again with housemaid
and governess unfortunately, to the
| distraction of an inefficient step
mother and an overworked big-busi-
=, ness father, Clarence brings to bear
the soothing effects of sweet music
via the saxaphone.
This. with the mystery engendered
about his person by a word dropped
now and then of cannibals and advei,-
lures in far climes, and speculation
about his name and rightful occupa-
| ton. makes him such an object OF
, interest to Cora as to win her hckle
young fancy from her grass-widower.
Bobby finds in him a conidant from
| all his troubles. and Mrs. Wheeler be-
| comes SO absorbed in the stranger she
forgets to be jealous of Violet. the
pretty governess. And the latter de-
mure young person. in a scene of un-
rivaled comedy effect. finds herself
plighted to a man Of whose very name
she is ignorant
| That Clarence turns out to be an
expert on. the Coleoptera. in the pur-
suit of which study he was forced to
learn to play the saxaphone. will be
| ietracting nought from the enjoy
ment' of later-in-the-w week patrons to
reveal-but his name shall remain a
| 1eep secret.
1t would be as difficult as unfair to
single out any one member of the ex
cellent cast for special commenda
ton. Rarely has such a balanced and
perfected organization been seen in
| Washington as that which Mr.. Tyler
has supplied for Clarence"
Alfred Lunt. in the title role; Glenn
Hunter and Viola Harper as Bobby
and Cora Wheeler. respectively. and
Phoebe Foster as Violet Pinney. the
governess, occupied the principal
| roles.
The Washington times., 1920-09-27
THE CAST
II It sccompIishes nothing else

~ oScoupisutb
and there Is some doubt as TO
whether or not IL does-"Mom" at
least recalls that, tucked away some
where In the dictionary is the word
''philoprogenitivenes That one
word furnishes the basic theme of the
play and seems to be the only excuse
for It's production.
The nrst act of the piece. which
portrays an ordinary family In an or
dinary town confronted by the ordi-
nary problems of life. lays an excel.
lent foundation for a really notable
production. 1t Is excellently con-
trived and brilliantly executed and
leaves the audience expectant. An
elder daughter. Judith. has been mar
ried and two younger children. Benny
and Margaret. have been sent away
to school at a great sacrifice TO the
folks back home. They all have gone
to New York, and In view of that
fact. almost anything can be ex-
pected.
But In the second act. Nom" takes
slump from which IL fails to re-
cover. The married daughter nnds
that life in two-by-four apartment
with a husband who has failed to
make good 10 rather a mundane ex-
istence and decides to permit some
one else to pay her bills.
She is about to run away with a
lifelong friend Of the family when a
telephone call from her mother stops
her. An effort to reproduce the moth.
er's part OF the conversation hai
rather a weird effect.
In the third act, the young son Is
stricken with pneumonia but is
| nursed back to health by his devoted
mother.
The play is brought to con-
| clusion with the return of the entire
family to the old home. Benny has
| regained his health and the married
| daughter has decided that she really
loves her husband, which is easily
/ explained, in view Of the fact that
| he has brought her new dress and
has managed to pacify the collectors
| that proved such an annoyance in the
second act.
! That leaves only one thing to mar
| the happiness of the family-it is the
lack of funds to permit Benny to I'm
ish his course in college. This prob
lem, however, is solved by the life
| long friend who prevails upon the
| mother to accept loan.
That seems to be about the whole
| story. 1t lacks anything similar Il
! plot and the theme is obscure. II
somebody would only slap a mortgage
| on the old home; IL Benny's morals
should become impaired instead OF his
| health, or IL the married daughter
| should go at least far enough in hel
affair with the family's lifelong
| friend to shake her faith in Santa
Claus. the play might be saved.
| Regardless. the piece is bright II
spots and there is some clever acting
Lorin Raker, as Benny Cutter, the
college boy, is excellent Minnie
| Dupree as Nom delneated de-
voted mother to perfection, and Heller
Weir. as Margaret Cutter. the "swee
young thing" of the play, is botf
| sweet and young.
The Washington times., 1920-09-27
METROPOLITAN
Married Life"

Cheap witticisms with cut end might
be compiled upon the title OF Mack
Sennett's latest fve reel comedy, but
ignoring the matchless opportunity
for wheezy remarks about the various
aspects Of the marital state the fact
remains that VI there were a one-
hundredth part Of the genuine fun In
married life that there is in Married
The Washington times., 1920-09-27
"CLARENCE" SOOTHING,
REFRESHING STAGE BIT
Booth Tsrkington's Comedy st Ma
tionsl Theater Best Seen
Here In Years"

Booth Tarkinston's comedy In four
acts. Clarence" began q weeks en-
gagement last night at the National.
| THE CAST
The Washington times., 1920-09-27
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The Washington times., 1920-09-27
"MOM," new COMEDY, HAS
DEBUT on POLLS STAGE
Rachel Barton Buffers Play Seems
to Lack Plot and wsnders
Afsr

MON" a comedy drama In four
acts. written by Rachel Barton Butler
and staged by Priesuy Morrison. was
presented for the nrst time fast night
at Polls Theater by oliver Moroseo.
THE CAST
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Heir Is Alleged to Have
Taken More Than Estate
i. C. Naisawald Accuses Stepson
of Searching Too Extensively
=, for Mother,s Assets

Louis C. Naisawald, Of the Naisa-
.%ald Trading Corporation, at 102 Wall
Street, told Surrogate Cohalan yester-
day that Henry Seagrave Darlington,
-his stepson, had been too thorough in
his search for assets of the estate of
Ibis mother, Mrs. Eda C. Naisawaad, the
exporters second wife. The latter left
her estate to Darlington. He obtained
.7sn order from the court directing his
.stepfather, Mr.. Naisawald, to permit
sAim to make an inventory of his mothers
belongings in the apartment at 140 West
sFifty-seventh Street, from which he had
been barred. Darlington said that
among the effects of his mother was a
100000 diamond necklace, the posses
.,sion of which he demanded
~ Mr.. Naisawald complained that Car
..rington made a long list of articles in
.<he Naisawald apartment as the prop
erty Of his mother, although Mr.. Naisa-
-~ald said they belong to him and not to
the estate of Mrs. Naisawald. Mr.
,sNaisawald also complained that under
the court order Carrington took posses
sion Of several valuable pieces Of dia-
'rnond jewelry which belonged to the first
Mrs. Naisawald, ana which the step-sor
refused to return. The stepfather asked
the court to direct Darlington to return
.sthe effects taken by him. Surrogate
'Cohalan reserved decision.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30

Murphy, in behalf of Governor Smith,
sounded various candidates or their
representatives about the advisability
of concentrating on Governor Smith as
an avowed anti-Volstead law personal
liberty candidate.
When Mr.. Murphy was asked about
the statement of John j. Fitzgerald,
representing the Dem ocratic state or
ganization before the Rules Committee,
that Governor Smith if not nominated
for President would be a candidate for
reelection, he said:
'"1 didn't know that he said it. 1t is
a case of every man speaking for him
self. The Governor is the only man
who can say that he will be a candidate
for reelection"
VIII Run on Dry Platform
II heard Mr.. Fitzgerald when he said
that Governor Smith would be a can
didate for reelection" said State Chair
man Farley. "He may have said it be-
cause it is the general assumption that
he will be a candidate, but think that
Governor Smith will not make state
ment about the matter until the Ma
tional Convention is out of the way"
"Certainly he will be a candidate to
succeed himself, and, furthermore, he
will run on dry PLATFORM" said for
mer Judge Seabury when asked about
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Seven Billions
:: Governments
Bill for Year
80
Ending of U. S. Business for
K Fiscal Period Will Show
= =. Approximate Balance,
Possibly Slight Deficit
Bakers Budget Biggest
Figures for Eleven Months
Reveal War Department
Spent $1,5O3, 900, 900

From The Tr1bune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, June 29-The end
ing of business for the fiscal year by
the Treasury Department tomorrow
will show approximately balance Of
receipts and expenditures for the last
twelve months, Treasury officials as
serted to-day. There may be a slight
deficit
ceeded the income by $29, 900, 900, a
comparatively small amount. taking
into consideration the tremendous gov
ernment budget.
1t has cost nearly s7,000,0oOo 900 to
operate the Federal government for the
last twelve months. During the first
quarter there was a deficit of $770,0O0,-
900; in the second there was surplus
&; of $1500O0, 900; in the third surplus
: of nearly s4o0,ooo,00o. The present
and final quarter, it is believed. will
, also show a surplus.
/. Greatest expenditures during the
year were made by the War Depart
ment-s1. .5O3, 100000 during the eleven
months for which figures have been
compiled. The Treasury Department in
eleven months spent $4,000, 900; the
Navy, $723, 100000; the Shipping Board,
: 84.000,000; railroads, 1851, 900 900,
! Whfle interest on tne puDllc QeDC re-
pusfed 66,27S864.
. This last item alone Is almost as
mueA as the entire Federal estimate re-
quired In pre-war years.
Income and profits taxes provided
most of the money, bringing in $3,927,-
100000 up to June 1. Miscellaneous
taxes brought in $1,442, 100000, mis-
cellaneous sources frevenue added
$500 oil 900, while customs, formerly
the principal source, yielded $316,674,-
900.
Gross Debt $25,000,000,000
The new fiscal year will begin with
the total gross debt at little less than
$25, 100000, ,oOO., 1t reached its highest
point on August 81, 1919, when it stood
at $26,600,00O 900 Included in this
amount is about $3,000,000,000 of
"hoat ting Indebtedness s"-loans running
for a relatively short period and bear
jpg a high rate of interest.
This floating indebtedness has caused
the government to come into the loan
market at frequent intervals during
TIE year, borrowing to pay current ex-
pgnses. The certificates would be re-
tired when tax installments were paid,
but new certificates would shortly be
issued. The last issue of certificates
bore per cent.
During the coming fiscal year the
government expects to make further
reductions in the debt.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
$4,000 Asked to Repair
Sewer With Wood Walls
Other Imperfections Disclosed
in Work That Cost 1901, 900
Arouse the Aldermen

The disclosure before the Board of
Aldermen yesterday that the walls of
the Sixtieth Street sewer in Brooklyn
were made of wooden blocks instead of
bricks and that they lacked eight
inches of being as thick as required
under the old contract and specifca-
tions precipitated lively discussion.
Joseph A. Guider, Commissioner Of
Public Works, Brooklyn. asked the
board for an appropriation of $4,000
to cover additional costs of repairs to
the sewer. Forty-{ive thousand dollars
had recently been appropriated to re-
pair 150-foot cave-in, but Commits
sioner Guider explained that when the
workmen dug into the sewer it was
found the walls were of wood and had
rotted away, so that it was necessary
to rebuild the sewer at that point.
These conditions were unknown, he
said, at the time the first appropria-
tion for repairs was made.
Commissioner Guider was the target
for many questions. He said that the
sewer was built by John J. Cream, a
contractor, in 1904, at a cost to, the
city of 1901 900. The Cream concern
is still doing business, he said, and as
soon as complete facts about the sewer
were obtained the data would be sub
mitted to the Corporation Counsel. He
said the information probably would
be in the hands of the legal depart
ment within g. month
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
City Courts Adjourn Early

Magistrates and court attendants are
to have ample time for recreation this
summer, according to an announcement
made yesterday by Chief City Magis-
trate William McAdoo, who notified the
public that beginning July l and ex-
tending to September 10, all magis-
trates' courts will adjourn at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, when convenient. The
change is authorized by recent act of
the Legislature.
For the protection of prisoners ar
rested late in the afternoon the hour
for the converting of night court has
been set forward from 8 to 7 p. m.
The magistrates courts now begin at
9 a. NJ, recess at IL o'clock, and after
resuming at o'clock continue until
or 4:3O. Under the summer arrange
ment the time elap.sing between the ad-
journment of the day courts and the
convening of the night court will be
about the same. M
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Jersey Highway Body Ousted
Gov. Edwards FuIfills Election
Pledge. CHARGING Inefficiencv

SEA GIRT, N. j., June 29-Governor
Edward I. Edwards dismissed all mem
bers of the State Highway Commission
of New Jersey to-day and appointed
new commissioners. His action is in
accordance with statements he, made
during his campaign that the commits
sion was inefficient and he would ap-
point a new one if he was elected.
The men dismissed are John w.
Herbert, of Palmetto; Anthony Kuser,
Of Bernardsville; Samuel Haverstick,
Of Trenton; Louis C. Duncan, of West
Vile, and Robert S. Carsons, of Nutley.
Their places will be taken by David
Young, of Morris County; Walter F.
Whittemore, of Essex County; Thomas
E. Collins, Of Union County; John
Ferriss, of Hudson County; William T.
Kirby, of Somerville; George Paddock,
of Newark, and George L. Burton, of
Middlesex County. One other man
will be named as member of the COM
mission
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
WomanW WOunded inThigh
Admits She Is Poor Shot

> Mrs. Nettie De Palma, who was taken
to st. Vincent's Hospital from her
home at 113 Mulberry Street last night
with a bullet wound in her right thigh,
confded to Detective Fiaschetti at the
hospital that she was a rotten shot. If
she hadn't been. she told the detec-
tive, hospital would not have been
bit of use to her.
When the woman was first fund.
lying on the bed in her fat, she said
she had been soht by robber. At the
hospital she told Fiaschetti that she
had tried to shoot herself in the heart
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
Tannany Is
Voted Down
On Unit Rule
Continued from page one)

many Hall is controlled by Charles F.
Murphy. Great and powerful as that
organization and its leader are, they
have no license to strike down in a
Democratic National Convention the
rights secured to Democratic electoAS
of the State of New York. By the
statutes of that sovereign state, there
are ninety members of the New York
delegation and Mr.. Murphy controls the
majority. Under the operation of the
unit rule, to which he seeks to subject
this delegation, his power is magnifed
ninety times over that of any other
delegate. Yet this gross attempt of
ursurpation of power is sought to be
defended on the ground that it is in
precedents and traditions of national
conventions for the last fifty years.
Nothing could be further from the
fact.
Right Never Recognized
"No Democratic convention has ever
recognized the right of an unofficial
convention or of a majority of the del.
egates elected to limit the freedom of
action of delegates elected by the peo-
pie pursuant to statute, and to require
such delegates to repudiate and null
lily the will of the constituents elect
ing them pursuant to the provisions of
mandatory statute.
"The delegates and alternates of
Suffolk County, in the State of New
York, from which 1 come, were elected
by a free constituency, that does not
recognize the rule of Tammany Hall,
or the authority of Charles F. Murphy.
That constituency is free and independ-
ent. We delegates we're not selected
by Mr. Murphy, directly or indirectly.
They were not selected with his sane
ton, by his permission or by a state
committee, or an unofficial convention
which he controlled. They were NOM
their petition in the proper Office and
went to the polls on primary day and
elected them. They were elected to
express and to represent at this ma
tional convention the views of their
constituents, and not to express the
views and opinions Of Mr.. Murphy, or
of delegates elected from other dis
tricts.
Question of Domination
"The only question presented by
operation of the unit rule is whether
the Democratic convention will recog-
nize and give effect to the mandatory
statute of sovereign state of this
Union, or will allow little coterie Of
men, who convened themselves in an
unofficial convention, to compel duly
elected delegates to repudiate and null
lify the will of their constituents. In
lberating this delegation from the op-
Grafton of the unit rule this conven-
ton will give effect to the right of the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
$50 Witnesses in One Case

All records for the number of wit
nesses called before the Bronx County
Court Co testify in a single case were
broken yesterday when the trial of Mrs.
Alice j. Cavanaugh, of 1853 Forest Ave
nue., that borough, was resumed be-
fore Judge Louis D. Gibbs. No fewer
than $50 tenants and landlords were
summoned.
Mrs. Cavanaugh, formerly member
of the Mayors Committee on Rent
Profiteering, is charged with withhold
ing rents totaling about $4,000 which,
were paid to her by tenants pending
the settlement of rent disputes with
landlords. The jury was completed
yesterday.