Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-26
NewYnh
Letter

and the children's wards in the New
York hospitals r joyful these days.
For the first nights Of the theatrical
season have begun. On the opening
nights OF. every production, he ac-
tresses are overwhelmed with flow
ers, and bright ana early the next
morning, the great, great part of
them are trundled off to the sick and
crippled children: .'They look for
ward all summer long, watching the
calendar longingly,. for these early
fall days" explained one head nurse,
land by the first Of August half the
conversion among them has to do
with first nights"
MRS. August Belmont. who has a
show farm in the Berkshires. has
earnest and Is making thorough plans
for turning its hilly acres to that
useful purpose. t&l -.
Helen Hayes, who established her
self for once and always as Jane
in Seventeen q few years ago, is
to be brought out as a life.sized star
in a new comedy BY Booth Tarking-
ton, 1.-The Wren" which will be pro-
duced before many weeks.
LduleS AAuSI uOC ne Cail0Q uuklNu
names even by their. husbands. Con-
s%equently Mrs. Florence zeisler Rob
erts is suing her husband, Julian
Roberts, a wealthy Manhattan mer-
chant, for separation. For the hard
hearted ruthless man had said-right
to her face-that she was q "high-
brow!" And that, says Mrs. Roberts.
is more than she intends to let pass
unprotected. There~were other, little
differences. Mr.. Roberts insisted
their home too closely resernbled a
morgue' and also sang an occasional
song Of which she did not approve,
browning blow. Mrs. Roberts may
not be a highbroW but she has a
fairly efficient appreciation of posi-
bilities; for she hassapplied for all
mony of $3.50 a week. 4
Some train officials are pretty hui
man: a@One of them$i is q, big help, to.
Ward smoothing the days Of two
Icommuteis from Manhattan, brother
hl1ds sister. Both work in the city but
lat different Offices, and they tryJato
take the same train. home. Some
times one is delayed,ssthough and for
a time they were puzzled how to let
each other know when the other had
gone on home. The good nature Of
the man who chalked up the train
times on the blackboard solved the
question, They check in to him and
when either one goes on ahead, he
puts a certain chalked signal on the
board. r.s ...5 ". >--f,.4
When one really thinks this over
carefully, it hardly seems as though
some of the described characters
ought to be- SO frankly advertised
for Wanted Immediately read the
ad In a New York paper the other
morning, 4 Girls representing the
types and CHARACTERS (The capt
tails are ours) OF Troy, Marie Antoin-
cite, Cleopatra, Nine. DuBarry, Sa-
lone, Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen
Elizabeth and other beautiful women
OF history The signature was that
Of q popular cabaret.
Lloyd Morgan, New York archi-
tect, has beef awarded the an
nual Paris prize OF the Society of
Beaux-Arts Architects, providing S.
900 for two inc one-half years. study
He won the prize by offering the best
plan for ian exhibition center"
Satire can be gay and gentle, with
out the slightest bit OF shavian BIT
terness, and still be clever ana .effec-
tive satire. That Is the outstanding
lesson OF 'Dulcy," the rnuch-heralded
comedy which has finally reached
New York after a season in Chicago.
While its prime motive was supposed
to be the portrayal Of the sort o1
person, who always says the obvious
the trite p%latitude, on n kind OF
occasion, that is only d part Of 1t. This
sideswlpes at the motion picture
world and the brash young advertts.
ing man., who has become q type in
as funny as the work of "Du1cy,. her.
self. Lynn Fontanne, the English
girl who has played two Of three sea
sons with Laurette Taylor, is "Dulcy,,
land is parfect in the role.
The wooden ships which the ship.
ping board has to have junked may
be found to have some new value
after all. 1t is. planned now to an,
Il Choir them 16O feet apart across the
4 Hudson.river from Upper Manhattan
island to New Jersey In the construc'
tiong OF Sthe largest pontoon bridge
ever built. The boats will act a
supports for the three ten-foot road
ways to be built across them. which
will serve until the gigantic zstee
er ten years.
BEAUTY CHATS (
GOOD rra1xs run STOUT WOMEN
This partiuilar- time OF the year 1