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New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

A. II. Woods has purchased play
The Star Sapphire" by Robert Hou-
sum, author Of THE Gypsy Trail"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

ST. LOUIS, March 17.-The Fourth
Church of Christ here at a meeting
of the membership to reconsider the
matter of excluding 1.-The Monitor" and
other periodicals of the faith from
distribution within the church voted
to support the papers. It was voted a
week ago to bar the publications.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
Concert Given
Tonight for
Homeless Bows
Society to Attend Affair st,
Ritz and Also Dance at
Vanderbilt for the Blue
Ridge Industrial School
Marion Heller Engaged
Will Become Bride of I. HI.
En,bry, Whom She Met
in Course of War Work

With two large affairs for charity,
tonight will be one of the gayest OF
,he week. There will be concert at
.he Ritz Carlton for the benefit of the
New York Home for Homeless Boys,
and at the Hotel Vanderbilt q dance
for the Blue Ridge Industrial School
The concert, which will help one Of
the most deserving institutions in New
York. one which cares for abandoned
waits and gives them a home until they
are educated and able to work, will be
under the auspices of the ladies' aux
iliary of that institution, of which
man and Mrs. James B. Taylor vice
chairman. Associated with them or
the auxiliary are scveral other we'll
known women, including Mrs. George
R. Dyer. Mrs. Nicholas Roosevelt, Mrs,
Paul D. Cravath, Mrs. Hugh d. Auchin-
Gloss, Mrs. Walter Jennings. Mrs. Ed
ward Coster, Mrs. William Floyd Jones.
Mrs. ". Ross Proctor, Mrs. Charles
Halsey, Mrs. Arthur Ryle, Mrs. j.
Markham Marshall. Mrs W. r. X. Tay-
lor, Mrs. E. Reeve Merritt, Mrs. W. Is.
Franklin, Mrs. Clarence Chapman, Mrs.
S. Oakley Van der Poel, Mrs. George
Gordon Battle, Mrs Marion Randolph
and Mrs Robert Taylor. George Cor
don Battle will speak and the musical
program Will be given by Miss Harriet
Van Emden, soprano. a pupil of Nine.
Sembrich, ard the Lett Quartet Tick
cts may De had at the Ritz Carlton, the
Plaza and the Waldorf Astoria, and
from members of the auxiliary.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

Marguerite Sylvia, the soprano, will
make her first appearance as a dra-
matte actress next fall.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

Miss Elizabeth Darlington Frank,
daughter of MIR and Mrs. Charles A.
fI!ank, viii become the bride of Seth
LOW lev son Of Mrs. Abbot A Low, April
u. IN st. Thomas's Church.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

Congratulations are being extended
=. Mr. and Mrs. Drelincourt NJ. Martin
"a .ne birth of son at. their home, IS
was ss \, Nxty-tifth Street. Mrs. Martin
was Miss Helen NJ. Mclaughlin.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

= Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ccppell will re-
'ufn this week from Cuba.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

- Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Blagden are in
o,s cue advance guard of returning trav-
s.e.s from the Pacific Coast They
ra. rave come back from Santa Barbara,
ss, ssaa', and until they can move into their
;noase, Al East Fifty-frst Street. which
- oelng altered will be at tho Chatham
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

The Thursday Evening Club has one
Of It's meetings tonight. Its members
will be entertained by Mr.. ard Mrs.
Charles Il. Senf at their home, 16 East
Seventy ninth Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

a.. ar. and Mrs. Bedel Parker and daugh-
ps, D. MISS Emily and Miss Frances
sa.Aet. ssr. VINO toured Florida for month,
aye gone to Mr.. Parkers plantation
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

:, harry Payne Whitney has arrived in
havana on his yacht with & party of
trends including William f. Corey,
VINO has sugar interests in Cuba. They
probably viii visit some of the large
plantations there before leaving the
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

MRS. Cornelius H. Tangeman, who
went TO Porto Rico early in the new
aear and afterward made a short visit
20 20, havana, has returned TO her home,
III East Fifty-sixth Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
Feeling in Other Cities

CHICAGO. March 17.-One out Of
sixteen Of the Science churches here
has voted to support the Hulin inter
vent'on suit brought at Boston re-
Gently. This is the Fourth Church,
None of the local organizations has
voted to exclude the publications of
the society. There seems to be d.
cided sentiment against such action
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

:, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fox, who since
snelf arrival from England have been
al the Ritz-Carlton, left there for Cuba
Yesterday. Mr.. Fox has come TO this
country to look after the British gov
efnment's sugar interests.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

In the Dslla Robbia room of the
Hotel Vanderbilt the annual dance for
the benefit Of the Blue Ridge Indus
trial School, OF Dyke, Greene County,
Va, viii be held under fashionable pa
tronage this evening. Mrs. Stuart G..
Gibboney, the chairman, is selling the
tickets at her home, 115 East Fifty
third Street
New-York tribune., 1920-03-18

MIR. and Mrs. Robert C. Winmill will
return from Florida this week. They
nave been at Palm Beach.
The New York herald., 1920-01-11
STEEL s UNF F|LLED
ORDERS INCREASE
1,137,036 TONS.
Improvement in Business Has
Been Consistent Since May,
Despite Recent Strike. :.

I Untitled tonnage OF the United States
Steel Corporation reported yesterday as
of December 81 shows an increase Of
,i37OSS tons over that of the previous
month.
H Total untitled tonnage as OF the date I'M
question was s,265 ,9GS tons, compared with
7,1oS.3S0 tons oil November %, and with
1879, 152 tons as Of December 81, 1918. The
increase over tonnage a year ago. shortly
after the conclusion of the war, is SS6,214
TONS
| The untitled orders on the books of the
United States Steel Corporation at theI
close of the last year were the largest
reported by il in more than a year. On
October 81. 1915. untitled tonnage totalled
S,aj3, ,293 tons. After that Date there was
II steady decrease in the company's busi-
ness owing TO cancellation of war orders
and lack of new business. The apex of
the decrease was reached in May of last
year. At the end of that month the com
pany had only i,2s2,3lo tons of untitled
business on its books.
Since May the Improvement in business
declaration of a strike last September,
which was declared off officially only a.
few days ago
The increase in United States Steel Cor
porations business is typical OF the in
dustry as a whole. Steel makers report
that they have so much new business
offering that they are compelled TO de-
cline some of it because they are fallint
far behind on their deliveries. This con-
dition has compelled some of the inde-
pendent companies to foreGo premiums
which buyers are offering to pay for steei
products.
In existing trade conditions an advance
in prices would be regarded as logical.
The leading producing interest, the United
States Steel Corporation, through Judge
Gary recently announced that il is op-
posed to higher prices for steel products
than those established last March. In
spite of this attitude on the part oi the
largest manufacturer, some trade authorl-
ties predict that prices viii advance.
Railroad buying looms up as prospectivety
large upon restoration of the roads TO
their private owners on March l. The
railroads already are booking orders Tor
steel rails. II is estimated that they will
require 10000 to o0000 tons of rails imme-
IdiateIy, with further orders to follow
later.
L Building construction is another source
of large business for steel makers. The
country is enjoying the biggest building
boom in many years because OF deferred
construction necesstated to fill the gap
caused by the war when such building
was suspended.
The New York herald., 1920-01-11
Common Stock Bonus
Given Suhscribers.

rerecnd &c he of
Subscription will be
subscription % Ne il
c
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oubnchd tatpe t i
The New York herald., 1920-01-11

The Exceptional Offer to Investors
n the
ire
SockB BonusSch
The New York herald., 1920-01-11


B.
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For .Mnod
General snduM
Former rGneS pHdt Dry
MILL Secretary Dominic
FM
conedh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
David Belasco's Fear That the
Theater Will Be commercial
ized'' Denied by Others

plays, as crude on the stage as they
will be in films, have been successes
does not prove that they were bought
with an eye to pictures, because
there always has been and always
will be a certain class of audience
that the theatrical managers play
down to. A number of these motion
picture plays have been failures, c
number Of them have failed even to
get an opening in New York, just as
many good plays have failed this
season to get into a New York thea
ter-and the reason is not the pro-
ducers' prohibition against non-pic-
turable plays, but the public's pro-
hibition. There has never been a
rush to the theaters to equal that of
this season-and the answer is that
if the people cannot eat, drink and
be merry, they will see a show and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
From College to a Job

Part of the s1O,o00,o0o increased
endowment which Cornell is now
seeking of her alumni and the pub
lie is to be used to increase the
salaries of the chemistry instruction
staff.
"Chemistry is not only one of the
great fundamental sciences, but it
is now Of indispensable Importance
to the advancement and prosperity
Of American industries" said Pres
ident Schurman.
cat the present time chemistry
touches almost every branch of hu-
man activity, and it is probably more
closely associated with the physical
wellbeing of our citizens and the
industrial prosperity of the nation
than is any other division of sci
ence. Chemistry guides in the prep
aration of and the safeguarding of
the quality of mans food and drink,
his protection from disease, the de-
vising of methods for the cure of
disease, and in a thousand ways
chemical science promotes the COM
fort and health Of the individual
and enhances his enjoyment.
"The bearing Of chemistry upon
our national industrial success and
advancement is shown by the fact
that chemical science directly under
lies the growing of crops, the in
creasing of the yield of the soil,
the lighting of our factories and
cities, the extraction of metals from
their ores, the refining of petroleum
and the preparation of many valu-
able products from crude oil, the
manufacture Of iron, steel and alu-
minum, glass, cement, cloth, leather,
paper, soap, rubber goods, ink and
of many products from coal and
coal tar, including the useful coal
tar dyes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

the end of which time they frankly
confessed that if they were to write
for the screen they must spent a
long apprenticeship of study.
"Producing stories for the screen
is not the easy thing which dramatic
authors experience in the production
# stage plays. Making pictures is
work, work, work, and sweat, sweat,
sweat. Will our Broadway authors
buckle down to this regimen? They
have not up to date.
Even though the popularity of
motion pictures has become axiom
attic, these authors, blinded by the
glamour Of Broadway, have failed to
appreciate the worldwide audience
which motion pictures give to the
expression Of their thoughts. 1t
seems to me that if an author has
big thought, good thought, which
he wishes to express in dramatic
form he would want to tell it to the
greatest number Of people"
Too Much Agitation
Among women writer's there is
found similar disposition to defend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

be merry-or sad, as the case
may be.
Ear from being a menace to the
theater, the motion picture has al
ready become a valuable auxiliary.
1t invariably improves the actor by
the opportunity it gives him for YER
satility. John Barrymore, who takes
his screen work more seriously per-
haps than any Other actor, believes
that the silent acting for the screen
offers q greater field for developing
histrionic talent than does the stage
itself. Lighting ard scenic effects
and the interior decoration have all
received new stimulation from the
accurate and elaborate way in which
these details are handled in motion
pictures. IN truth, there is no part
Of the drama, save, perhaps, elocu-
ton, that has not been benefited by
this new art
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
ENHE extent to which American
business is relying upon the
h colleges and universities, par

\I1E extent TO Wnlcn Amer 1Can
business is relying upon the
h colleges and universities, par
ticularly upon their scientific
and technical departments, is indi-
Gated by report made by Cornell
This states that 400 of the largest
industries in America each spring
draw upon Cornell for engineers,
chemists and office executives. Most
of these concerns send representa-
tives to Ithaca and select the new
recruits, after examinations of their
records in scholarship and student
activities and consultation with their
instructors.
According to President Schurman
of Cornell, that university each year
has many more demands for chem
lists than it can supply. "Send us
Cornell chemist" is a frequent mes
sage received from industry. In
spite of the fact that Cornell's chem
istry department has grown rapid
ly in recent years, it cannot keep
abreast Of the demand. Before
the war Cornell had approximately
2,100 students in her chemistry de-
partment and a total of over 1000
registered in chemistry courses. The
number of graduate students en-
gagged in chemistry research was
nearly 100.
Cornell is about to erect a chem
istry laboratory which is expected
to be the largest and best equipped
in America. 1t will replace the
old laboratory recently destroyed by
fire. Its building is made possible
by an anonymous gift Of 81 100000.
How to get and keep an instruction
staff on par with the new physical
facilities, however, is puzzling the
Cornell authorities because of the
low salaries now paid at Cornell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23

the movies. Miss Ouida Bergere, 4
leading scenario writer, thinks there
has been altogether too much agita-
ton over what certain independent
theatrical producers are pleased to
term the absorption of the stage by
the screen.
''In the first place." she said, "the
influence of the screen upon the
stage will have a decided tendency
to better conditions, instead of max
ing them worse. The present-day
standards Of the American drama
are low enough, heaven knows; with
a deplorably few we'll known cxcep-
tons, the stage has become the me-
dunn for a mere commercialized ex.
ploitation of inferior plays. What
the film companies are planning to
do is to assure theatrical producers
Of sufficient anancial backing to en-
able them to select plays on artistic
merits, instead of on cheap popular
appeal. In place Of a food of medi-
ocrity, with which we have al! be-
come far too familiar, we shall have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Ii THAT rigid Scottish per-
sistency immortalized in the
story &C King Bruce and the


spider is behind the move
ment to Danish retail drink selling
north of the Tweed.
There is no mistaking the intent
ness Of purpose to put in force the
temperance (Scotland) act by which
districts can vote themselves dry. |
found the purpose firm in Glasgow
and still stronger here in the capt.
tai, writes a London Daily Elk
press" correspondent.
The biggest employer in Edin-
burgh has come down hard for "no
licenses" He is supported by most
of the doctors, many of the leading
tradespeople. and, strange as it may
seem, not a few of the Scottish at
torneys. They are joining the Ma
tional Citizens Council, the body
which is running the national cru
SADIE, and, what is more, they are
working. 1t is quite common for
volunteer helpers in the dry cause
to give up hours Of their spare time
on house-to-house canvassing. Week
ly meetings in every ward, with oc-
casional full-dress demonstrations,
are whipping UP interest.
jury of Citizens
>"We are making the question one
of citizenship" said Duncan Miller,
chairman of the National Council.
to me. "We are appealing to the
people as a jury of citizens, saying:
These are our facts. We are content
that you should judge on them
alone We know that facts more
than prove the case for no H.
censes.'"
Throughout the country, in cities,
towns and hamiets, the offensive is
being run on cleverly organized lines
directed by the general staff in Glas-
Cow. A weekly newspaper with
forecast circulation of 100000 is
shortly to be issued. 1t will be dry
in theory but not in matter in order
to catch attention. When the voting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Shakespeare Would Have Written Scenarios. Saws
Actor Does Not Believe the Movies
Have Injurious Effect on
the Stage

wrote plays Of action, and action is
an essential requirement in screen
productions. Oliver Twist is
story of intense action, and the same
is true of most of the plays written
by Shakespeare"
MIR. Sothern Tried Movies
Mr.. Sothern admitted in this con-
nection that he had made an attempt
at motion picture acting, but had
not been sensational success.
Yet this fact did not embitter him.
and he said enthusiastically that he
could see no harm that could be in
tilcted by the movies on the stage.
81 do not see anything detrimen,
tai in beautiful picture" he said.
And, looking at the situation from
the practical side, it does not seem
that the growing popularity of the
movies has injured the attendance
at the other theaters. They have
never had more successful season
than the one just passing. Nor has
the public taste for the classical
drama suffered. Mrs. Sothern and
have never had more prosperous
year than this one, in which we have
been appearing in Shakespearean
plays. Seats in the less expensive
parts of the houses, from which the
motion pictures might be expected to
draw following, because the at
tendance there is made up of peo-
pie seeking the less expensive forms
Of amusement, have been as we'll
filled as before. The theaters never
have made more money"
Mr.. and Mrs. Sothern miss Julia
Marlowe), when not filling engage
ments on the stage, have had FIRE,
Quent calls to "recite" before high
school students in various parts of
tho cOuOtrv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
To Make Scotland Drv

time comes near a party of Cana
dian and American prohibition
legend spinne1s VII land by invita-
ton of the National Citizens Coun-
Gil. Compared with these artists
"Pussyfoot" Johnson will be in the
back row of the chorus.
There are going to be some nights
when the battle thickens.
Indications at this early stage Of
the contest show that the drys will
score success in Glasgow, Edinburgh
and Leith.
Working class wards mainly are
expected to poll majorities for mo
licenses" at the first time of asking.
Some wards wet and some dry will
result in chaotic conditions. The
middle Of a road is often a ward
boundary. Thus, public houses on
one side of The street will be selling
whisky while those on the other
must hand out soda only.
Views of Employers
1t is interesting to find in CONVEX
sation the real opinions of people on
this no-license question, which is al
ready dividing the country into two
camps. Women, of the working and
middle class as majority favor it.
Arguments on infant welfare and
more money for the home" have
lad their effect. Many employers
are inclined to think it would be a
good thing. Increased production
and better timekeeping." says the
master. The larger the employer
the more disposed he is to advocate
giving it trial. The average man
does not think it can possibly hap
pen, and SO far is not bothering
much.
This apathy is going to make Scot
land dry in places, and the number
of these places will grow and grow.
No wonder Mr.. Earnshaw, the or
ganizer Of the Scottish Licensed
Trade Veto Defense Fund, declares:
1--WE wac: all the help England can
give U.s."
-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Too Much Agitation

Among women writer's there is
found similar disposition to defend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
MISS OUIDA BERGERE
4'A says the n1ouies hare
eleroted the tome of the stage

plays merely as a feeder to mo-
ton pictures is the most arrant
nonsense. The success of a play de
ponds wholly on the approval Of The
public. You cannot force on people
entertainment that they do not
bike.
Furthermore, our critics seem to
be ignorant of the fact that the
art of writing plays and the art of
writing motion pictures are as dis
tinctive as the playing of the violin
and the playing of the piano. The
stage and the motion picture are
two different art expressions. We
cannot ask authors to write for the
stage and the screen at the same
time, any more than you could ask
Rachmaninoff to play a Stradi-
varius.
(Which leads to the observation
that, although they are willing to
accept large sums for the motion
picture rights to their plays and
novels, american authors are woe
fully ignorant of the special require
ments Of screen drama. Not only
are most of them ignorant. but ap-
parently they are too lazy to learn
the craftsmanship Of the art which
pays them so we'll.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Stage Won't Suffer


I'VE have been told by the teach
ers at these schools that in some
cases the attention of students has
become so absorbed in motion pic
lures that their interest in the
spoken word has deteriorated," Mr..
Sothern said. But this is the only
Ill effect that has been brought to my
attention. Personally, l do not
think the stage will suffer. Acting
for the spoken drama and acting
for motion pictures are two distinct
arts, and believe there will always
po CROUCH actors who will devote
themselves to the stage, in which the
human voice has a part.
Miss Virginia Tracy, widely
known writer and an authority on
the stage, sides with Mr.. Sothern on
The side Of the camera drama.
Before the advent of motion
pictures the stage had grown very
tame, indeed" said Miss Tracy.
The characters in these productions
would walk through their parts
pleasantly to the inevitable happy
ending. Actors of intensely dra-
matte or romantic personalities were
frozen out because persons with
those qualities are not very amen
able and obedient in their dealings
with the managers.
The movies woke things up and
gave the actor a new standing and
independence. Other than merely
society plays We're produced, and
fer time the appeal of mere
clothes and the happy ending was
net so pronounced as before"
Miss Tracy smiled as she grew
reminiscent over the changes time
had wrought in the attitude of the
people toward things theatrical.
Now Condemn the Movies
"One thing that is really odd"
>hc said, lis to find that the very
same people who before the adj
vent Of motion pictures condemned
the stage now have switched their
attacks to the movies and talk of the
stage as though it were the very en-
5odiment of art, refinement and
social and intellectual distinction. -
The motion picture company
which has acquired control of the
F'rohnan interests is the Famous
Players-L asky Corporation. Here is
what Cecil B. De Mile, director gen
eral of this corporation, has to
say:
"The Famous Players-Lasky Cor
poratlon acquired, nearly a year
ago, control of Charles Frohman,
Inc. Since then, through the Froh-
man offices, as we'll as in associa-
ton with other legitimate producers,
this company has staged several
plays on Broadway. These produc-
tons, without exception, have been
received with marked favor by crit
les and public.
"Now, certain gentlemen con-
nected with the theater assert that
the entrance of the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation into legitimate
production constitutes a peril to the
future of the drama.
81 disagree with them. On the
contrary, I believe that our en-
trance into the legitimate field con-
stiLutes a genuine, healthy, sincere
competition which can only prove OF
greatest benefit to American dra-
matte literature.
Not as ''Feeders"
"The assertions that we wish to
produce meretricious or inartistic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-23
Not as ''Feeders''

"The assertions that we wish to
produce meretricious or inartistic