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Evening star., 1921-10-21
SENATE APPROVES
CURTIS SELECTION
Now Heads Rules Commit.
tee-0ther Changes in
Assignments 0. KID.

Senator Curtis of Kansas today was
made chairman of the Senate rules
committee. the action of the repub-
lican committee on committees in
selecting him for that place receiv-
ing the approval Of the Senate. The
craftsmanship of the rules committee
was made vacant by the death OF
Senator Knox. Senator Curtis gave
up his mem bership on and chairman
ship Of the Indian affairs committee.
Senator Wadsworth of New York
was appointed q member of. the for
eign relations committee, also filling
z vacancy created by the death OF
membership on the committee on
agriculture. None of the other com
mittee assignments was decided to-
day by the republican committee on
committees. but will be taken up
later. Two new senators are to be
given committee assignments. DUPONT
OF Delaware and Crow of Pennsyl-
vania.
Under the rules of the republican
conference of the Senate. u republi-
! can senator may serve on only two
or the So-called major committees.
For that reason Senator Curtis was
compelled to give up his membership
on the Indian affairs committee, re-
committee and the appropriations
committee. The rules committee is
not considered major committee.
For. the same reason, Senator Wads-
| worth relinQuished his membership
on the committee on agriculture, and
continues as chairman of the military
| affairs committee.
Evening star., 1921-10-21
DISCHARGED PRISONERS
GIVEN SPECIAL HELP
Aid Association Very Active in
Response to Appeal From
Jail Officials,

Officials in charge of the Washing
, ton asylum and Jail have requested
the Prisoners Aid Association. a;
Trinity Community House, Sd and c
streets northwest, to cooperate In
caring for the men and women who
having served their sentences, are
turned at large, it was stated yes.
terday.
During the past week approx.
mately twenty-five men and women
! who have just finished their terms
at Occoquan. have been cared for al
| the Community House until positions
could be found for the unfortunateS
The Prisoners Aid Association is
the only organization of its kind in
the city of Washington that has per-
sonal representatives at the Police
Court and the penal institutions here
A campaign for $4,000 with which
to carry on the work will be started
October "a here.
Mrs. David r. Covell. executive
secretary of the association, said
yesterday that at the present time
the work is seriously handicapped
due to lack of funds, and 1t would
be impossible to do the work ex-
tensively at either the Jail or the
penal institution at Lorton
Clothing must be purchased and
relief work conducted among the
families of prisoners, and under pres
.ent conditions the work could hardly
be enlarged. The only source of rev.
enue coming into the association is
from individual subscriptions. and
every one who is interested is asked
to aid in making the campaign a
success. so that the good work may
continue
Evening star., 1921-10-21

The dining room is to be similar to
tho fine old halls at Oxford and Cam
bridge. A suite of rooms Is being
provided as executive offices, where
the board of directors will meet many
times q year to carry out the actiV-
tiles OF the Vassar alumnae.
Mrs Coonley believes In Vassar
College for the second generation, her
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Coonley,
class.
Gifts by many of the alumnae to
the college attest the devotion in which
the institution is held. TIE chapel. a
Gothic stone building of unusual
the library by another, while Taylor
Hall, a building used for art purposes.
was the gift Of an alumnae and her
husband.
Evening star., 1921-10-21
new BUILDING AT VASSAR
NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED
Home for Alumnae Given by Wash.
ington Woman and Her
Sister.

The building given to Vassar Col
ioge by Mrs. Avery Coonley of Rose
dale. Cleveland Park. and her sister.
Mrs, Elon H. Hooker of New York
city. both Fassar graduates, Is now
under construction. according to an
announcement made yesterday. The
building is to be used az a guest
house and center for alumnae activ-
lues. The cost will total approxi-
nately $500. 900.
The alumnae classes of the institu-
tion are furnishing the house, which
will be of the English timber type.
Evening star., 1921-10-21
PEACE ACTION URGED.

A request of President Harding to
ask the Senate committee now inves-
tigating civil warfare in West Vir-
giRia to negotiate a settlement be-
tween the miners and operators was
made in a communication yesterday y
from the American Civil Liberties
Union, signed by Harry r. Ward
chairman: Albert De Silver and Roger
N. baldwin, directors; Norman NJ
Thomas. Helen Phelps Stokes. John
A. Fitch. Rose Schneiderman and
Robert Morss Lovett. The Senate
committee will resume hearing here
Monday.
The union calls attention to the
conditions in the state which neces-
state the presence of federal troops
and martial law in Mingo county
maintaining that no action as yet
taken promises peace or civil lib
erty."
Evening star., 1921-10-21

Woman, theater ushers were first
introduced by Mckee Rankin at the
Third Avenue Theater, New York
city, in 1884.
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1Rem ]Dlaps

& GORGE WHITES Scandals of
w 1921" the third of the series
that has become a hardy annual,
Will open at the Liberty Theater Mon
day night, week ahead of schedule.
In slx-day tryout in Atlantic City the
production was handled SO quickly and
played so smoothly that Mr.. White
yielded to the golden lure Of Broadway
Reports from Atlantic City say the
young manager has dressed the piece
with lavish hand and that pictorially
it far exceeds his former efforts.
The book is by Arthur (Bugs) Baer
the lyrics by Arthur Jackson, the music
by George Gershwin and the artistic
effects by Herbert Ward.
For subject matter Mr.. White has
selected current topics to scandalize
and sleek idols to joust. There are
some twenty scenes and the spectator
will have to do some imaginary travel
ing to get it all. Bolshevist Russia,
the South Sea Islands, ancient Persia,
the Panama Canal Zone, are in the
geography of scandal, to say nothing
of familiar spots in New York City
including Long Acre Square and the
gymnasium of Madison Square Garden
Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic" Is the
next member of the midsummer group
which also includes the Greenwich
Village Follies"-to fall due. The
Frolic is to have more of speed and less
OF statelinesss according to the speci-
fcatlons vouchsafed-more of the jazz
and less Of the saraband. The new
show is listed for launching next week
No date has been named for the open
ing of Greenwich Village Follies,
though rehearsals are under way,
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Spain Interesting, but
Not Restful, Says Otis Skinner

says they were quite few-United
States Ambassador Willard took him in
tow and did the balance of the town
with him.
Of course he saw bullfght That
was one of the things he went for. But
he says he hasn't had the courage to
tackle the theaters. It's so hot that
they don't begin the performances until
10 o'clock.
Besides Madrid, he has visited San
Sebastian, Seville and Granada, and tn, v
are all hot but worth seeing. He has
picked up lot of costumes and prop
critics Of various kinds-all the real
thing-that will be used in the produc-
ton of the new play, with which Charles
Frohman, Inc, announces that the sea-
son at the Empire Theater will Be
opened OH September 90.
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as the first presentation, and there is
little doubt that others will follow
Paris, however, is not entirely ignorant
Of Ibsen as the Coincide FRANCHISE
would have 1t. At present "Hedda
Gabler" is on the boards at one of
the smaller playhouses, but effete Paris
will be more familiar with this play
when it comes 60 the Coincide, Paris
theatergoers of the old school being
just that prim.
the war. The handsome yonng Ameri-
can officer who paraded the boulevards
not so long ago is yanked back as the
villain Of the piece in "The Fire That
Did not Burn" comedy by Jean
Jacques Bernard, son of Tristan Ber-
nard, one of Frances most famous
playwrights. Here is the story:
Paris Has It's
American Villain
Andre Merlin, young French officer,
prisoner in Germany for four years,
comes home full Of hope and finds
Blanche apparently sharing the hearth
stone with the attractive young son of
Uncle Sam. Andre wakes jealous and
Blanche (Mme. FalconnettD, who has
really been good wife, merely renting
out q room to help keep the wolf away,
cannot convince Andre-with consider
able good acting, incidentally-that her
one hope and prayer has been for his
return and that the American is just
4 person who answered her "For Rent
ad in The Matin. Despite everything
Continued on page three)
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When You Gould See
Blanche Ring for Five Pins
Mears is graduate of the Boston
Latin School, but although he alb
sorbed much of that dead language
he early proved to be live wire. As
boy he managed a theater in the
cellar of his fathers house. One of
his stars then was that same Blanche
Ring, who is one Of his stars to-day.
She was six then and proved that
she was even then real star by in
sisting upon separate coal bin for
dressing room. Admission was five
pins. but, as Tommy Gray, the libret-
list of "The Broadway Whiri," re-
marked the other day when Mears was
reminiscing, cellars were not then
what they are to-day"
After graduation Mears got posi-.
ton as usher at the Park Theater. in
his home town, and rose to assistant
treasurer. But Boston was too small
for him, so he came to New York anC
started as office boy at Days Theater
Within year he had become treasure,
OF the theater, and finally road man
ager Of THE Runaway Girl" That ap
pointment came on Mears's twentieth
birthday. Then Mears went to Chi
cago where he was treasurer g.
Powers Theater, but the road lures
him away and he joined the forces O.
Charles Frohman and was for severa
years manager for John Drew's tours
Lays His Plans for
Making Dash around World
All this time Mears had nursed 1
secret ambitipn-to beat all record.
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John Henry Mear;s
The Three-Whirl Man; "Midnieht."
broadway" and the Whirl Around
the Earth in Thirty-fve Days

HIS isn't exclusively theatrical story although dramai.
d. enough for John Henry Mears kept
the anxious seat for than
While he whired around the hyfve days there
broke all speed records besides utterly dsprovng
reaty long before had been landing
the same spot from which he departed
Although born the on the rim
things He travels fast and life big whir
10 be life the Broadway Whirp
a1 ne ser spinning at the Times Square
Mears always finds something busy He had lust go
the excitement when he discovered that h.
needed and comedians %
support Richard Garlic Blanche Ring Wnnnger Wn
and Jay Gould He through The Tribu,
last Sunday and he sorting twins and near twin
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signor Russell
An Italian Orpheus


signor Russell
An Italian Orpheus
Faris, nevertheless, is having it's new
weekly thrill which sounds American,
out isn't. This time it is Signor Russell,
INST up from Italy with twenty-nine or
saiesy new musical instruments which
sas worid--or that part Of it which in
'aoiss the Champs Elysees theater
~4sh'ly--ls seeing and hearing for the
AfsI time. There is music in every
saihs, says the prophet Russell, and he
1sss ms two dozen-odd instruments to
p'0ss II. Under the prophets touch
l'asnlnery grinds tremendously, erees
'ustie' brooks purl, or nearly SO,
4.SAets chirp, locusts fiddle in e and A
~ frogs croak, the ocean soars,
slu sea waves purr and even taxicab
!. s'nes cough tremendously. Some of
~ ~eis known musicians and critics
inclined to believe with the prophet
-. SOUND Is melodiouS and all
n hasion Of sound is harmonious"
80 are some who say the new music
4 auture, but jumping from music
D. II can be recalled that there we're
..s. sss critics some years ago who
so. 80 with futurist painters that
\, sehing that is is beautiful"
H.. a'aid old Coincide FRANCHISE.
vat most rigid arbiter Of artistic merit.
ahon. ewes Paris something to talk
~ ~ swinging open the doors to
b.v., these famous portals have been
81 against the master for quarter
psos,. century. "The Enemy Of the
as a. s0nsidcred by many Ibsenites
i0ssn masterpiece, is selected
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A~=1xYgka~ ~
Jroxaz% %Z29/
Eot>z4Ro rH~rx1 N e1s>eas -.~ovs
@tage Gossip
~ PERFORMANCE that is. bound
~ to be unusually interesting will

m PERFORMANCE that is. bound
~ to be unusually interesting will
be given at the Shubert Theater
Thursday at midnight, when thirty
prominent members of the Lambs
Friars, Players and Green Room
will stage the Cali Star Idlers of
1921" described as a two-act revue, by
Will Morrissey. Leon Enrol is staging
the dances and the ensembles are un-
der the direction of r. Fl. Burnside.
Victor Baravalle will be in charge Of
the special orchestra.
This will be the first Of a series Of
engagements to be played by this or
ganization in and around New York,
principally at the summer resorts This
performance guarantees thirty stars
on the stage and thousand in the au-
dience.
Included in the cast Of the GALL Star
Idlers Of 1921" are Ed Wynn, Wallace
McCutcheon, Herbert Corthell, Tom
Lewis, Fred Walton. Will Morissey,
William B. Mack. Ned A. Sparks, Vic
tor Morley. Wellington Cross, Robert
Woolsey, Lieutenant Gitz-Rice, Joe
Allen, Jed Prouty, Effingham Pinto,
Stuart Wilson. Robert Pitkin, Regi-
nald Barlow, Tom Walsh, Frank Bel
cher, Cyril Ring, Jack Rutherford,
Robert Armstrong, Harry R. Allen,
Harold Woolf, Adm Wilson, Adrian
Rosley, Harry Short and Fred Manatt.
The East-West Players have been re-
organized for the coming season, which
hey are planning to make very active
ne, beginning early in the fall. They
ill still restrict themselves to pre-
entations of one-act plays. and it is
CONTINUED on page sixe
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in circling the globe. For seyera.
years he studied time tables, local ARK
foreign, and many a night he pores
over maps and books of travel. Al,
ne journeyed from coast to coast wifi
the Drew company Mears consultes
railroad authorities, travellers of note
explorers, every one who had mits
Of information, until finally, in 191:
ne had his plans complete. Jules
Verne's mythical hero, Phineas Foge
had made the trip in eighty days; Mel
lie Bly, had done it in seventy tws
days; Andre Jager-Schmidt, with tn.
commission of Partisan paper, did il
IN 1911, in few hours less than forty
days. Mears declared that he eoulC
beat that by several days, and he do
To be exact, Mears circied the cart,
IN thirty-five days, twenty-one hours
and thirty-five minutes. The trim
taken under the auspices of The Eve
ming Sun, began on July 2, 1913, ans
ended at the Office of that newspape,
on August 6.
Some of the High Spots
That John Henry Hit
No idle jaunt, this. Time table,
proved mere fables. Fogs and accident
threatened more than once not oniy v
| make the record impossible, but To enc
the career of the adventurer He Issf
the Sun Building with suitcase,
camera and an overcoat, and fourtees
minutes later was on the steamship
Mauretania, which he caught by mar
gin of less than a second. He arrives
in London on July 8, aid reached Pari
Continued on page threes
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Hem Tbeatrtral @ffert11qs

MoNDAYAt the Liberty Theaer White will
OF 1921 featuring Ann
Jemima Olive Vaughn, Victoria Herbert,
Christine Wexford Dairy Wexford Alexander
George LIE Ma Lou Hoz,
King, Gordon Garrett and James Miller
Of
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TF OTIS SKINNER comes back to
~ America all tuckered out, Blasco
Ibanez will be to blame for it.

Apanez Will De to blame for 1t.
Mr.. Skinner Is to appear next season
in BLOOD and Sand" a play by Tom
Cushing, founded on the novel of that
same title by Ibanez, and so, as soon as
his last tour in "At the Villa Rose
ended in May, he set sail for Spain to
visit the famous novelist and get some
pointers first hand on how real cham
pion hullfghter ought to act.
Well, evidently 1banez gave America 8
foremost romantic actor regular old
home week reception, for Mr. Skinner
writes that he hasn't had chance to
do any resting since he's been there.
When Ibanez had got through showing
him all the sights of Madrid that be
knew anything about-and Mr.. Skinner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
France H0nOrs Hackett
american Gets Dec Grafton for PLAYING
Macbeth; Elsie Janis and
Others i'm Paris
By Wilbur Forrest
From The Tribune's European Bureau

PARIS July I.
0W that James Hackett route home via England with
NV little ribbon his boutonniere Paris
~ American James KS Legion dHonneur
Macbeth LOdeon honor however, that few
far between Invading force" will doubtless
content with the benefit the exchange francs which
actresses invaded Paris of late will tell nothing
However, Elsie Janis still invading Paris with
Laurel described by the Paris jo
enue Zegfed" LAUREL scheduled to play
boulevard theaters the
Aside vanguard with Mary Miles Minter
more movie mgrations the American
aaon generaly speakings beyond
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Some of the High Spots
That John Henry Hit

Continued ON page three,
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Continued on page sig,
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Continued on page thrss)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17

brations New York has had another
Music Week this year and expects t.
continue the practice every year. san
Francisco is about TO stage ita first
celebration.
Music Week shows the people Of u
city how they can put music into their
community and gives Them q ehunce
ca try II out. Before Washington =
affair. MIR. Lawrence trained nearly a
hundred men and women as song
leaders. and planned programs
During Music Week itself there were
musical events Ia All sections Of the
city at night and il few IN tile after
moons. one night there were ~ pro.
grams going on. all representing the
best professional and amateur talent
OF the city. Colleges nf music. bands,
school children. glee clubs, ehoifs. and
professional concert artists presented
il wide variety of attractions. With
each program Was combined some
recreationa1 singing hy the audience.
After a Music Week Is over, The
city is expected 10 keep up aunie of
It's features "a permanent institutions.
4 city the size uf Washington should
have not less than 30 school houses
regularly open once week for pro-
grams and singing, Mr.. Lawrence de-
clares. This ia not SO difficult a proc
iect TO establish now because people
have got over the first shock Al the
idea Of everybody singing. Sings.
have become a well known form Of
recreation since the affairs AT Army
camps and community centers. II Is
interesting to note that stores and
factories that took up the idea az an
aid to morale during the war. aud
later dropped Il. are starting recrea-
tional singing again 10 promote ins
dustry and good feeling. People have
lost their first self f-consciousness and
are beginning to take group singing
as a matter of course
Mr. Lawrence believes that an
awakening interest IN musical ex-
preston win lead 10 the development
of folk music for America. We are
young as a nation, ana have no folk
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17

songs except perhapH anfie Negro
dialect songs. There IL no group uf
songs expressing the emutions-~the
lovea. sorfuws. national hopes, aud
war spiilt--~of the American people
isut when people take TO singing they
wuut songs. and there Ia encourage
mint for the composer tu produce
something. Singing makes people un-
bottle their emotions. and that too
stimulates the creative impulse
Tho procUas has already begun. Al
most every day some one stuffs
lyric into Mr.. Iawrense'c hand or his
pocket when lie Is conducting Music
Wnals event. lie hna received aa
many az 500 songs IN a short time.
Most of them are crude. few are
worthy Of being sung. But they are
. hopeful beginning toward a musical
America
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17
INSPECT RAILROAD DIVISIONS.

The various branches Of the South
ern General Division OF the pennssi-
sania Rnilruad we're inspected gester-
day by officials OF The Eastern Region.
They express themselves ns pleased
with the conditions and operations.
especially along the Maryland and
Delaware divisions
The inspection began Wednesday
morning at Cape Charles. OF the Nor
folk Division The entire division
was gone o. - hy c. S. krouls. general
manager Of the region, accompanied
ly officials from Broad Street station,
Philadelphia. and X. y. rlnkham,
superintendent OF the Norfolk divi-
aipn
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17
laeity for appreeiatins good music

paeity for arareeiating good music
viii grow.
"in Naldea. he says, "longshofe-
men ioadlng ships have heen heard
singing Faust. one man up In the
stern would take the part of Mephis-
topheIcs. another near hy Ginning IN
another role. and others singing
choruses AZ the proper time, In
Wales, factory wurknien gather OUT
Sl,le of their shels al noon aud sing
choruses from iIandels Messiah.
lust because they enjoy IL
"ro advance the cause of good ntl-
sic here We must attaci, the proposi.
tlon from reasonable standpoint.
Eubhles may not he q classic. but
yen evan start an audience SINGING u
when you could not expect 1t to at
tempt an oneratle selection, Gradu-
ally, as reereational singing Is devel-
nped into community institution,
more an ltgeus music may be called
for hy tee singers. when they are
ready for II.
"Thc popular and stunt songs, how
ever. are Just as much music as az
opera is, although not 80 high fornr
of music. Stin. we do not say that
only persons who understand tfigo-
nomctry can use mathematics. Ev-
cryone uses mathematics in making
change and counting, up dates. Why
then. should anyone say that music
is only for the person who can UNDER
stand symphony
Mr. Lawrence concludes from his
experiences that people OF this coun-
try really want To sing and are nusi-
,al in spite of the contrary impress
sion SO prevalent.
stimulates Musical Taste.
ultra conservative musicians" he
explains. sometimes think It a waste
OF time to try to interest the general
p,iblic in music. The results obtained
In cities that have seriously tried to
do IL are the best answer. Birming-
ham started having programs with
reCrcational singing in the tnterlnis-
sions four years ago. and the public
interest has grown each year. Up un-
IN this year. birmingham has been a
losing proposition for artists who
make concert tours. but last season n
profit was made there and a concert
manager attributed the increase in
patronage 10 the influence of recreu-
tional singing
Music Week is recent invention
70 arouse America 10 its musical pos
sihilities. New York had the first
Music Week last year and since then
i number of cities such as Dallas.
Denver. Long Beach. Little Rock and
Puuehkee psie. have had similar cele-
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17

made under the supervision Of experts.
Friendship Company No. /. delaware
Company No. 7 and Phoenix Company
No. are scheduled to be tested today
The Directors Of Public Safety have
they will not make the re-
suits OF the tests public uutil all have
been completed
The Reliance apparatus was given
lest run yesterday afternoon The
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-06-17
MaehInlsts, union 70 Elecl

Officers will be elected by Whining
ton Lodge, No. 1, National Asaoela-
tiun OF Stationary Engineers. at COD
Market street tomorrow night. and
viii be Installed on July 2. at meet
ing in Edon lIall, the future head
quarters. Meetings win be held or
the first and third Saturdays In July
md Anrtiaf