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New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Eugene O'Neill Carners, From
Hard Experience, Material
He Weaves Into Great Plays

money. but shows him instead q ron.
m the barn with which to hang him.
self. The son goes away to sea 70,
few years, then comes back and finds
he rope still there and his father
TIL inviting him to hang himself. H.
pots with the son-in-law to extort
money from the old man by torture
While they plot, little girl pulls on
me rope. A bag of money tied to the
cther end falls at her feet. She skins
he coins into the sea.
Where the Cross Is Made"-An old
whaling captain is wrecked on MALAY
'sland with four of his crew. They
20 mad and discover a hoard Of paste
lewelry-are rescued and return. The
captains son hears the story and calls
N doctor to have his father taken
20 an asylum. The same night the Ok;
man hYpnot zes his son into beljev nc
ana seeing the return of an expedition
sent to recover the treasure. As the
20 man dies the son falls victim "
the madness from which he tried 10
rescue MS father.
THE Moon of the Caribbees"-
beautiful picture in which a terrible
scene IN the life of sailor is shown.
ne crew, harbored in tropical port
| bring on board the ship women and
rum. The inevitable fight occurs and
man is killed. Throughout it all an
Old Scotch donkeyman makes satiricsl
comments gathered from a long experi-
ence of similar scenes.
.Ihe Dreamy Kid"-In this play the
Dreamy Kid" negro. attempts to
reach his mothers deatabed. although
re IS wanted for the murder of y
man. He gets to her side and stays
there, although his sweetheart tries 10
take him away. This police come and
ne defends fims self with a gun. His
mother dies, thinking the curses he l.
utter1ng are prayers directed 10 the
Lord Jesus.
"Exorcism"-A young man finds "
100 hard to endure in the dives and
Sums in which his fate has compelled
I'm to live. He drinks poison. but
two drunken friends call a doctor IN
time to save his life. He wakes up T.
lind that his attempted suicide was
.otaiiy misunderstood by his wife and
friends.
=" Different ~ Emma Crosby turns
down her lover who she though;
was different. because Of a momentary
weakness with a South Sea Island girl
He promises to wait thirty wears foi
her to change her mind The open
ing Of the second act thirty YEAR
'ater finds her skittish old maid. in
sanely in love with her lovers nephew
a worthless soldier. In revenge upof
MS uncle. who won't suppr. him in
idleness. the nephew asks Emma 70
marry him. She accepts and tells her
lover, now an Old man. In diseppoint-
ment the lover hancs himself. The
nephew. when he discovers what has
happened. tells Emma that he didn''
mean his offer of marriage and leave
her alone. Emma discovers her lover
suicide and decides to Join i'm in death
This .ast play OF O'Nei'Fs has JUS
completed a run IN the Proviucetowr
Players Macdougal Street thcater
Throrrhout all Of his plays ONell'
has shown himself a master Of accr
rate, detailed character study HIS
stage people are not created. but rather
sk'llfrlly picked from the men ans
women that he has known. that ever
one knows, and the majority o. whon
VIII undoubtedly some dsv know re
name OF FuCerc 0'N--,'
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Tbe Gholution of d 5tar
5htt5t

Mitzi, who arrived in New York from
budapest less than ten years ago, with
Hungarian accent, the redoubtab.
name of Mizzi Hajos, and a thick gold
IN braid down her back, is now so com
'letely Americanized that few playgo-
rs who see her in "Lady Billy" at the
liberty Theater suspect that she is not
native. AS far as Broadway is con-
erned, the career of Mitzi, then Mizzi
md also Hajos, began seven years ago
this month, when she was presented by
Henry w. Savage in "Sari."
? With her stiff, legged "Hot-zot-z ah"
number in this piece, Mitzi bounced in
to immediate favor and won a large
following as the pigeon-toed Sis Hop
kins peasant, with hair in stiff braid
sticking up rakishly. Meantime Mr..
Savage, whose particular penchant is
the discovery and development of new
talent in the theater, thought he saw in
this fve-foot actress potentialities as
an American musical comedy star.
First she had personality; second, she
was young, pretty and petite; third,
she could sing; fourth, she could dance,
had o deplorable name for American
audiences to argue over, and seventh,
she spoke English with an accent.
Weighing all the angles Of the case,
Mr. Savage decided that points one to
five were fixed, while points six and
seven were only transient. According
ly he provided his charge with copl-
panion whose life had been spent
teaching English at school fNr young
ladies. Also he began to cas- about
for q suitable revision OF the name
Mizzi Hajos.
In this matter the pocket edition
prima donna was receptive with reser-
vations. II won't change my name
to Gladioa Goldenlocks or Tiny Tim"
she warned Names are like char
acters, they belong to you. What
will do is Americanize my name, at
the same time I'm Americanizing N.Y.
self" Because there seemed no Sue
cessful way to Americanize Hajos, she
dropped it, Mizzi she revised by sup
plying "t." And her manager pre-
sented her the next season rs "Pom
Pom, the Pickpocket."
In this play and in Head Over
Heels" which followed, Mitzi made the
acquaintance Of the entire country on
coast to coast tours. So that the
question "What is Mitzi?" became
"Where is Mitzi?" For the littlest star
of our stage swept into the public
heart. And having profited by a stiff
daily regime Of English-"spoke, writ
and unspoke" as she gaily puts it
Mitzi has come into her greatest sue
cess with Zelda Searss first musical
play, Lady Billy" Through rapid
changes of role and wardrobe, from a
gardeners son in overalls, a boy So
prano in velvet trousers, the ghost of
her ancestral aunt in gold brocades,
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23

young flnancier. While slippinv iewa1c
OF rare worth on her fingers and about
her neck and being fitted into lurur;N
Gus gowns the old story of Cinderallo
comes to her mind. Her mistress ha-
comes, the fairy godmother, the YOUNG
hnanc1er is her prince, and she is to
dance at ball at which she is to he
the center OF attention--the story Of
Cinderella is flashed on the screen.
serving as dazzling symbol of the
main theme. ''o
The Cinderella episode was enacted
on an immense stage of plate glass. A
elana stairway, with a waterfall rip
ping beneath its surface; high walls
Of crystal and pillars of plate glass
topped with spun glass fruits and flow-
ers' eT' from which fountains play-this is
the brilliant setting for a bit OF fairv.
land which takes just three minutes to
show. ~
Theodore Kosloff, the Russian dancer
who deserted the ballet for motion mic
lures, is credited with the idea af tho
development of the Cinderella episode.
he coached the dancers and created
some Of the bizarre costumes.
Many talents were combined to make
'he Cinderella vision the most beautiful
~ It's kind ever shown on the screen.
SlA're west, coStumer for all Cecil B.
De Mile productions; Howard HiEgin,
production manager, and Paul Chaiin'
the. noted architectural designer, too.
Is devoting his art to motion pictures
oxclusively; Alvin Wyckoff, art photor-
rapher, and Wilfred Buckland, art d.
rector, all gave their best to create the
dazzling vision, all under the general
direction of Mr.. De Mile.
In the cast with Miss Ayres and Mr..
Forrest, the two new De Mile stars who
llay together for the first time. are
such popular screen artists as Theo-
oore Roberts, Clarence Burton, Kathlyn
Williams, Bertram Johns, Julia Fave
and Theodore Kox1oN
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
DE Mile Works Out, at Lavish
Expense, a Bit of Fairy Tale
AS Act i'm Forbidden Fruit

The care with which Cecil B.
De Mile has worked out the details fo
his newest production for Paramount,
entitled forbidden Fruit" which
Hugo Riesenfeld will show at the
/, Rivoli Theater this week, is brought
out in the way in which he presented
minor incident-that in which the
two principal characters, played by
Agnes Ayres and Forrest Stanley. at
tend theater. 1t is but the briefest
moment when the curtain is UP on the
stage scene and the audience has Just
a glimpse of man kissing woman.
Anybody might have played the parts
of the actors Of the stage, the figures
are quite small and the action is frag-
mentary. Yet, to give the sense that
there the he; has : been been long play and that
the acting was gripping, Mr.. De Mile
had Conrad Nagel and Margaret Loomis
appear in the stage bit.
In forbidden Fruit" De Mile has
exceeded all his previous staging, not
even excepting the stirring shipwreck,
which was a part Of his "Male and
Female" film. One incident, which
takes hardly more than three minutes
to show on the screen, is staged in a
setting which cost $86, 900 and required
months Of effort in planning and con-
structing. The incident is a bit of
fairy tale, an enactment Of, the story
Of Cinderella Mt the crystal ball, the
festival Of the silver slipper.
Miss Avres appears in forbidden
Fruit" in an appealing r6le---that of q
refined youne woman who, due to the
shiftlessne VI her husband. earns her
living os seamstress. While work
ing at the home Of an oil magnate she
is unexpectedly asked to wear tho
finest clothes Of her mistress and ait
at banquet table as beautiful
heiress from out of town. The pur-
] pose Of her employer is to fnacinata a
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
AT the Columbia

"Folly Town." the unusually. at
tractiye burlesque production that oc-
cupied the stage of the Columbia Thea
ter all Of last summer, will come to
that house for one weeks engagement,
beginning tomorrow afternoon. The
show win be repeated in all essential
details the same as during it's pro-
tracted run, with Gus Fay, German
comedian, in the principal character.
Other favorites that will return are
Miss Franz Marie Texas. Walter Pear
son.. Gertrude Lavetta, Johnnie WAL
Ksr, James Hall, Ruth Rosemond, James
Holly, Margaret Elliott and Lester
Dorr. The long program Of vaudeville
gpecialties Is led by Ralph DunbAr's
Tennessee Ten, whose Jazz band and
lively singing and dancing were ono Of
tns features Of the long summer en-
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Jonathan and Adam Try
To Console Us for the
Loss of Our Marionettes

Howard Lang came off, presumably on
his way to Marion's dining room to get
something to eat, we rushed up to him
and said: "How does it seem to be a
failure 2" OF course, we weren't talking
TO howard Lang, we were talking to
Adam West, the poor poet of the play.
But it was Howard Lang who drew
mself up and, making q low bow
said: II do not know. l never have
oeen a failure J" And then when Mr.
Dalton appeared in the wings we made
Che same error. "How do you like be-
ing a success ?" was what we said to
him. But you can't please people anv
way. II never have been anything
else was what he said to US.
But after the curtain fell Mr.. Lang
invited us all into his dressing room
to sample something which he de-
scrlbed as perfectly innocuous drini:
made OF raisins and citron." 1t came
from Texas and tastes not unlike that
nectar which Mexicans find in the
heart of cactus. And all the time
We talked Mr.. Dalton kept looking at
his watch, for it seems that the poor
old poet loves to eat, drink and be
merry while the brute Of business
man lives in Long Island and thinks
only of catching his train back to his
family. But before he went he told
us that his own children were quite
as clever and as entertaining as the
children in the play. "You know I
played the detective in Three Live
Ghosts just before this and my seven
year-old daughter, who is already a
clever amateur actress, said: Papa
isn't much of an actor; all he says is,
"Sit down. and then when she saw
me as Jonathan she was convinced
that that was the reason ! got the
part. See, all they let him say is,
"Sit down!"' she said. 4 don't think
much of his acting.'"
"Well,' we said, daughter may be a
good actress, but she is not reliable
Critic
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Natalie Manning, Ingenue
I'm SCornered,' Compared
TO Daughter of Aphrodite

A discovery of she theatrical season,
to the credit of Henry w. Savage, is
seventeen-year-old Natalie Manning,
whose effervescent youth and vivid per-
sonality make urforgettable short in
genue role in "Cornered," the comedy
drama which has brought Madge Ken
nedy back to the speaking stage. Mr..
Savage has already made plans that
seem to insure Miss Manning's future
as an actress.
Only year ago this same girl was
a "discovery" in a different field of art.
AIbin Polasek, the Russian sculptor
then compared Miss Manning's beauty
With that Of the young Greek goddess
Peftho, supposed daughter of Apnro-
dite, and an immortal of Parthenon
art.
"This young American has the most
provocative profile since Peitho," pro-
nounced Mr.. Polasck, as he finished a
mural decoration in which Miss Man
.iing posed as an angel. Other sculp-
tors who sought her services declared
that she possessed ''the perfection of
proportion and exquisite grace of the
best classical models"
How did Miss Manning's inclinations
change SO suddenly from plastic to
dramatic art? Let the stage star,
Louis Mann, rattle the family skeleton.
Natalie Manning is his own and only
niece!
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
At the HippofIrome

When GOOD Times" reaches its
sooth performance at the Hippodrome
THIS week, it will also establish, a new
nigh record mark in attendance, show
ing that the special features which
we're put into the bill for tho holidays
ho!d their attraction, Tho circus novel
ties by "Poodles" Hannaford. the Man
o War race. the Pender pantomIrnists.
Inc diving girls and the nttle Cali.
1ornia whistler, .fArnfsh entertainment
Tor those Of the most diverse tastes.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-23
Midnight Capitol Performance

a dlfferent" performance will take
place at the Capitol Theater at mid
night Wednesday. The purpose of the
performance is to visualize to the peo-
pie Of New York the sum of effort of
the Motion Picture Committee Of
Greater New York in it's contribution
to the s2,50o,00o which the motion
picture industry has pledged to give
to the relief of the children Of Cen
tral and Eastern Europe. The persons
who are invited to this performance
are the members of the general com
mittee who are helping Herbert Hoover,
chairman of the European Relief Coun-
ell, and those who are helping the
work of the Greater New York Motion
Picture Committee.
Those of the public who are being
sent invitations are the men and wom-
en- who are sending two hundred or
more children of the New York schools
to the special performance on the
morning Of January 20, which is
equivalent to a contribution of S1OO
to the relief fund
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
siberia's Wealth Of Wild Flowers,

Were a poet l should write book
of verses about the wild flowers of ST.
beria There is a wild rose that blooms
hugely on big, sturdy bushes. Then
there is the mauve and gold of the
"Mary and john" that Is loved most
by the Siberians. This lovely flower
is named after the Virgin Mary and
the Loved Disciple. Nature seems to
have planned passing panorama Of
blossoms to delight the outcasts anG
pioneers living in the thiny populated
wastes of Siberia. Every week, it
seemed to me, there was another pro-
gram of wild flowers for the view
from my window all summer and fall
they suggested ever-changing tapes
try wrought on a background of ver-
dure, hills and water.-Cody Marsh in
the National Geographic Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 2, 1921.

DO the voters of Ellsworth want
local affairs governed by political
parties. with the old pulling apart
ana i'll feeling of each spring cleo
ton. or do they want them governed
as they would govern their own
business tand it is their business)
regardless of politics? The ques-
tion has been largely answered by
the placing of a partisan ticket
in the field this year, but the real
answer will be given in the ballots
next Monday. The politicians have
their ears to the ground. They pro-
fess to be confident of the result
an endorsement of the political idea
in municipal affairs. What will
your answer he? For mayor street
commissioner and aldermen Except
in ward A it makes no difference
which ticket you vote, but it may
make a vast difference in the future
government of municipal affairs how
you answer the question presented
to you this year. We confidently
believe that jolt is coming to the
politicians. Help to put the punch
into it by placing your cross in the
partisan square.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
SCORED ON THE PRINCIPAL
Young School Teacher Got Glorious'y
Even for Long Series Of Sarcas-
tic Observations.


Now, the principal Of this school Is
sarcastic as we'll as intelligent, and
whenever she happens to mention a
subject and finds that her teachers
are ignorant on the subject she
"bawls them out" for their ignorance.
Especially is this resented by the new
est recruit at the building.
Recently the principal acquired "a
man." who was widower. She is
proud of the acquisition, mentioning
him often in her conversations.
The other morning she began to ask
the teachers about an article she mad
Just read in the paper. Now, none or
them had read it. Sarcastically she
asked: well, don't any of you read
the papersY'
The newest recruit smiled sweetiy
and wisely. "Of course" she returned.
"but not everything in them. we
lust have time to read the society page
and then the death and funeral list
so that we shall know who the new
Widowers are"-Indianapolis News.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
NICOLIN.

James Sweeney of Rumford Wis
tied his parents last week.
Earl Dewitt, who is attending
Shaws business college at Port
land, spent few days recently at
home
Clarence Tourtelotte, with his
bride, visited his sister, Mrs. Sid
ney Moore, Saturday.
Hazel McGown of Beverly, Mass,
is spending week With her pa
rents, Jenness McGown and wife.
Mrs. Percy Fernald and son Law
renee of Bangor. are with her pa
rents, Lyman Dewitt and wife.
Mrs David Dewitt and Doris
James of Bangor We're here We'd
nesday to attend the funeral of
their grandfather, Benjamin Mad
doX.
Asenath Maddocks of Bangor Wis
tied her aunt, Mrs. Jenness Nc
Gown, Friday and Saturday.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02

The motorcycle threatens to out
rival the broncho as an instrument OF
locomotion on Western ranches ana
cattle ranges. According to the Illus
trated World, cowboys are using II
for rounding up cattle, driving in stray
animals, inspecting long lines or
fences and other such work. by all
odds the most remarkable purpose for
which the motorcycle is employed,
however, is that of chasing coyotes,
Such a machine. If the terrain be not
too difficult can easily overtake one OF
those little gray wolves, firing the
beast down to point where it can no
longer turn and dodge successfully.
Then it is simply a matter of whlrl
of the lariat, and the vicious brute
with few quick spurts of the motor
cycle is choked to Observation-Disclosures
phia Public Ledger.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
Foolinu tho Poinsettia.

The florists were long puzzled by
the problem of bringing all their poin-
settia plants to full bloom for the
holiday season. In time solution was
offered by Dr. W. w. Gardner and II.
II. Allard Of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. who discov-
cred that by regulating the amount OF
light which was allowed to reach the
plants, the blossoming date could be
speeded or retarded at pleasure. II
the sunshine Is allowed to fall upon
the young poinsettia only few hours
each day, 1t evidently takes the lack
of light for the approach of the short
est day and puts all its efforts into
blooming before the end of the year.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
She Knew,

The girls in the seventh grade all
wore large hair bows made of beau
tiful, bright tissue paper. They were
not only inexpensive but so pretty
that they were declared great sue
cess until one day it rained and the
bows faded all over the little owners
hair. Then great was the lamentlng'
One of the boys looked from the
girls with their spotted red and blue
and purple hair to two spinster teach
ers in the year-old class. Il don't
know as they're so badly Off he re-
marked to the teacher who was young
and pretty and with a strong sense
of humor. "rd rather be faded on ac-
count of having beauS than To be on
account of not having them.
Then teacher smiled. She too had
ces.-Indianapois News.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
TRUTH ABOUT AVERAGE MAN
Net Dad Follow At Heart, and Really
10 at Least Entitled 70
federation.

The average man Is not q bad fellow
when you come to know him. You have
to make his acquaintance II you are
not to hold yourself aloof from this hu-
man, interdependent world, remarks a
writer in the Philadelphia Ledger. He
constitutes majority. 1t Is by his
vote that candidates are set up and
issues determined and business gov
t:ned and charities supported and
plays patronized. There Is great
deal of money in pleasing the aver
age man. Moreover, the level of his
tastes is rising, though pessimists re-
fuse to see it or to say so. He is Ca
pable of education and he has Travelled
far since his training began.
He needn't always be given all that
he asks for; sometimes he makes mis-
takes, and sometimes he wants what
isn't good for Nhim. Sometimes he
loses his head, and in an incendiary
or inebriate temper, loses that which a
cooler judgment in a calmer hour leads
him to worry for. But on the whole
he is strangely reasonable and patient
and self-controlled. 1t is touching to
find how often he is doing the best
he can, according to the light he has.
He serves the world far better than
some eccentric and unconventional
mortalS who sheer at him for following
a dull, Unconditional routine.
Leaders of men have learned to deal
With the average man, to talk his Ian
guage and to understand his ways.
They have taught the rank and file
to discover IA latent capacity and to
reveal "a strength hidden and unsus-
pected. They have had faith in THE
general good sense and honest inten-
lions of mankind" They have gen
timely loved their fellows and their
sympathy has been real and manifest.
Neither in war nor in peace is vic
tory to be won unless the captains put
their confidence in host.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
West Sullivan,

Mrs. B. X. Joy has returned from
visit in Seal Harbor.
Mrs. Theo Peters of North Sulli-
van is the guest of Miss Tillie Mar
tin
Mrs Henry Bunker is able to be
out, after an illness of several
weeks.
Friends of Elmer Ash of Steven
son, Wash, We're very sorry to
learn of his death on Feb. 7. Mr..
Ash was home here in November,
after an absence of sixteen years.
His mother, Mrs. Andrew Doran,
has the sincere sympathy of all.
The second high school basket
ball team defeated Franklin second
team Saturday evening, 1872.
Mrs. Arthur White has returned
from a visit in Bucksport.
Miss Muriel Bunker, who had her
throat operated upon three weeks
ago. is at work again in the tele-
phone office.
Feb. 2S. UNE AMlE.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-03-02
LOSS OF APPETITE
PimpIes and Other Eruptions-Men'
tai and Physical WEAKNESS.

They are all common at this time
of wear. and are all indications that
the blood is wanting in the power
to defend the body against mice
tious and contagious diseases, be-
cause they are all indications that
# needs cleansing, enrichlng and VI
talizing. rsus~~~~7
Ia II is important to give them at
tention-it is in fact, hazardous TO
/. Get Hoods Sarsaparilla today
and begin taking it at once, regular
" after eating and if convenient IN
a little hot water.
Remember, this medicine mas
given satisfaction to three genera
tions, for the blood, stomach, liver
and kidneys. 1t builds up the
whole system 1t "makAs foo'
taste good.
For a gentle laxative or an active
cathartic, take Hoods Pills; YOU
druggist knows how good they ar
and recommends them. -.Gsa4..-A-Au.