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The New York herald., 1921-07-31
Reviewed by VIVIAN RADCLIFFE.

~ f the intensely interesting plays
offered in this volume, Mad
retta" was produced at the
Northampton Theatre and the Car
negie Institute of Technology; "At the
Shrine" was published serially in the
Theatre Arts Mdod@ine. and "Addio"
has been frequently acted
Madretta tells the story of a Creole
girl living up the Mississippi with her
Yankee husband. Homesick for New
Orleans and sorrowing for the babe
who died, Mani listens TO the pleadings
of Jean Mari. a Creole, who offers to
take her back to New Orleans and the
life of perpetual pleasure which she
lived before her marriage. Sore at
heart with the belief that her hus-
band, Simon, no longer loves her, no
longer remembers their little son, she
prepares TO leave
At this moment Simon returns. He
has come to warn her of the impend-
ing flood. to rush with her to the
steamboat for New Orleans. For the
first time. in the very turn of the
tragedy. she learns of his great love
for her. Little Madretta--Nani," he
cries. my lii son, and little Mad
retta-that's sweet-little mother-my
III son Is dead-but | mus not be
cryin'--that makes IL harder for us
all. IL can--when I'm away-when
I'm workin in the day. We must save
money. If have money enough to-
leave this damned swamp-New Year
maybe in the spring that levee will
break and ruin us--New Year-New
Year well go--I'll not tell her. though.
Because-if-if-we really didn't go
why-Nani-Nani, are you there?"
AT the Shrine" has but two charac-
ters, Ann and priest. The latter has
come to the woman to ask her to give
up his nephew that the youth may
marry girl suited to his station in
life. Says Ann:
you'll just do your duty. then, and
give me my chance to be saved. Open
air services? And do you think 1t can
be done in a few words? And one
priest unaided? And In a jiffy?
Wouldn't II have been better, now, IL
you had brought along one OF those
ladies who tinkle about virtue, Father,
to save us poor girls? Or one of the
young ladies that love to go about
with young clergymen and priests.
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Studies of SeaShOre folk

drench Of unspeakable sunlight"
Or these other lines: "But what i'm
presses you above all is the incredible
vividness of color In this landscape,
the dazzling gold-green of the fields,
heightened here and there by lumi-
nous patches of foam white where the
daisies are in full carnival, or subdued
to duller tones where, on uncultivated
ground, moss hummocks and patches
of rock break through the investiture
of grass. The sky has so much room
here, too: the whole world seems to be
adrift in azure" The simplicity Of
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first the silver quest for gentleness
and relaxation.
1t has not been said here that More
Limehouse Nights" is not entertaining
and provocative OF comment. 1t has
just been regretted that for one whose
poetry made THE Song Book of Quong
Lee" these stores with the intermina-
BILE characters of almond eyed men and
amber haired maidens, who move in
the dusk of Soho behind discreet
shutters or under the shadow of East
India Dock, there is not more languor
and less reality.
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THE STREET OF A THOUSAND DE-
LIGHTS. BY Jay Gelzer. Robert M.
Mcbride & Co.
IGHT tales of life (and it's cor
r. relativeJ in the Chinatown Of
- Melbourne compose the latest
volume in the literature OF exotic ro-
nance. Only two of them are linked
by the same characters; the first tells
the story OF the daughter of Mamie,
called the Chinese Lily, promised to
Sen Yeng, the fat old merchant in the
Street OF a Thousand Delights, whose
Western blood beat faster than a
Chinese woman's and who loved the
Norwegian sailor. The second is its
sequel and recounts the perilous ad-
ventures OF Wang Hal, that blue eyed
son of his Eurasian mother, and shows
how love can sometimes escape the
net OF Oriental tradition.
Jay Gelzer has made these highly
colored sketches of primary impulses
In that nest OF ancient tradition with
great skill. London's Chinatown was
not more vividly painted by Thomas
Burke. Mr.. Gelzer's workmanship is
nearly enough impeccable TO call IL
so; even the sequence of his sentences
has this quality of Oriental writer's,
and the flowery jargon of these people
is aptly transcribed. Grim enough In
their inevitable tragedies--for these
are pictures of life which ends when
Il traverses the rigid bonds of Chinese
custom-the author avoids the brutal
ity which mars the pages of many
hunters on this fascinating scent. You
have no illusions left. but the delicacy
OF the emotions involved and the fine
ness OF the artists lines are not dis
figured by the sight of what is bound
to happen. OF their kind these stories
are distinctly first chop" and confer
genuine distinction upon the author.
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DAME TALLIEN
pRES IN NEW
ZION TRILOGY
1T. By Leonie Aminoff. e.

LIGHT. BY Leonie Aminoff. e.
)ton & Co.
HRONIC headache induced by
h indigestible diet of "all the
ovels' and the grumblings
inations of her peculiar nus
We Jane Welsh Carlyle too
eful nights. for which read
n customary but frequently
NE. When she received in the
Sk by an unknown Mr."
BIT, she wrote to thank the
ling for the first time in
was glad to keep awake
lad read it. A reviewer OF
hot expect often to repeat
ence, but this one is happy
that he did so when he
realistically a thick novel OF
pnic era written, If one ac-
itle page. by Leonie Ami
half a dozen pages were
rouse in him a wild desire
Who Leonie Aminoff Is. An
he'd writer of wit, style and
|e must have published other
lt what are they, and where
The sum of what her Ameri-
FISHERS know about her is that
Ia baroness. That doesn't ex-
where she got ner style. And
S, as in the case Of George
who was a titled person also),
born with her
n day novelists = Anatole
for. example-in taking the
Revolution for a BACKGROUND
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Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly, whose book.
How France Built Her Cathedrals," :"
has just been published by the Harpers,
will spend the summer in New York
She is the daughter of the late John
Boyle OReilly. Much of her time In
recent years has been spent in France,
where she was unconsciously gather
ing material for the book.
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MORE LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS. BY
Thomas Burke. George III. Doran
Company.
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Remuneration for love

THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS: MADRET-
TIA. AT THE SHRINE, ADDIO. BY
Stark Young. Stewart & Kidd COM
pany.
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The Book Factory
By EDWARD ANTHONY,

SONG OF THE WIDE OPEN PLACES.
(Lament.)
Sing me song OF the toide open places,
Chant me lay Of the road,
Memories bringing OF lovdble faces.
HoUey aud Carmdt-dn ode
Fun of the joy Of the Wondering dimless
Poets for ages haze done,
Stevenson, Masefeid-dnd some loho are
jdmeless.
Sing it ia stdnsaS that run
Over the tongue tcith the grace OF a
ditty
Gilbert. ia form, might haze penHed-
Hdppy-0o- lucky, ecstatic and toitty-
Then, ere your poicer your spend,
Sing me song Of the aoide open places,
Chant me a ldy Of the road
Houses, IL any, i0here lager still 9races
Bars la the Udnishin0 mode.
Hoi for the t0ide open places t1here
Burton
Heartens the bliStery throat.
Phantom cafes achere undrdlCn Is the
curtain,
Visions that only a Pote
Sees in his dreams. 10hen the summer
sun chdseS
joy and a felloto peSpires,
Singing IN cain of the toide open places
In t'ne toith the sdddest Of lyres.
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Reviewed by
c. BLYTHE SHERWOOD.

n ER. BURKE is beginning to get
MI reportorial. He chooses words
L v L that signify exactly what he
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TRIOLET.
Noble tohen the days are hot,
Triolettuce salad.
Something light that hits the spot.
Nibble tDhen the days are hot,
Sitting in shady 0rot
CaroIling ballad.
Mobile tohen the days are hot,
Triolettuce sdladi
Books should be put to bed without
covers these nights
Poem written for the occasion by
Ferdinand X. Flick of Buckets Book
shop:
I love bookselling, but SIS hot.
I think IN quit and call on Rhodo;
Wen take b1ts ride, like as not,
And then loe'H 90 and get a soda.
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have tried to show that every human
being in Paris at that excited period
was not a blood drinker and that
good many human beings lived and
laughed and Aloved then, as some Of
their descendants do now, without pay
ing much attention to politics. A very
high place among these romantic
realists must be accorded to the au-
thor of fTorchlight," which is volume
l., of hef study of the time. Napoleon,
who is said to be the centre around
which all the other figures revolve.
is merely introduced in the opening
book. and this fact gives us faith to
believe that the baroness's fiction will
be at least as extended as Tolstoi's
"War and Peace" Fascinated readers
of this book will certainly hope so.
Terezita. the Spanish blonde, who
eventually became Mime. Tallien,
dominates with her statuesque beauty
a crowded canvas where Josephine
Beauharnais, Robespierre, Marie An
toinette and a hundred characters ia
miliar to the history reader walk, talk,
sin and repent and do other things
common to our humanity. Terezita in
her frailty, her enjoyment of her own
beautiful body. reads like a precursor
TO Zola's Mana, but is better realized.
She is a charming animal of a kind
very familiar to us. the graceful house
tiger that purrs, arches it's back.
yheedles and at moments scratches.
rom her arrival in Paris as a girl
IL to her release from prison after
downfall of Robespierre, Terezita
that her mother called a handful"
roness Leonie is not concerned
what we think of her heroine.
celates faithfully the outlines of
Talliens history and fills them
ginatively. She is as faithful in
ing other people, Vigee Lebrun
Garol. for examples. In chap
ERE Terezlta sits for her por-
p learn to know Nine. Lebrun
Than by reading her polished
purgated memoirs; Rivarol's
10 Terezita from the prison he
bly, to leave for the guillotine
umphant example of the cyni-
the intellect of his time.
how are these familiar people
up to us again? In the most
Jul way without a particle of
al "side" to apply bit of pres
slang precisely as the author
hse II IL 1t occurred to her. The
ed ease of her style recalls De
s. without his wearisome repe-
|and appalling garrulity. 1t is
where parenthesis figures
but to the qualification and
pain of the reader. We shall
npatiently for volumes H., Ill.
matter how many.
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HOT WEATHER NUMBER.

Notices. letters. announcements. va
rious kinds of announcements telling
of tones In the making, listen: To-
day I'm forsaking books. as / loll in
the heather. What do you think
of this weather?
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kry Sydnor Harrison. author of
d." has written. after n long
\ during the years of his war
n, new novel. saint Teresa"
he story OF a very modern saint
|er adventures i'm big business.
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GOSH! A BOOK NOTE.

GOSHl A BOOK NOTE.
If it wasn't so hot, we'd point out
that ON page IS of "A Defence of
Liberty" the author-Oliver Brett
says: America is a more conserva-
tive country than England" while on
page 27 he tells the world that Eng
lishmen are less revolutionary" than
Americans. Which does he mean?
There we go running our Hot
Weather Number by dragging in a
book. We trust you will forgive us.
Well so long, We're on our way to
call on an author.
AS we mop our dripping forehead
this joyous thought occurs: We once
kidded this author and he'll probably
give us
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Topping is one of the golfers most
common faults, yet one that is easily
remedied," says Dave Hunter. the ex-
pert instructor. in his new book, Golf
Simplified" Doubleday. Page q Coz,
and this is the easy remedy: IF you
find yourself topping, see that your
grip is right and that you are pronat-
ing properly"
Oh, to be gripping golfer. with the
prevailing power of pronating prop
erlyi
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Edith Wharton, we are told, is now
settled down in the famous old villa
near Paris which she has bought and
which she is gradually restoring to its
former beauty. She has given this
villa it's old name of Pavilion Colombo.
Nicholas Murray Butler is on his way
to the villa and upon his arrival will
present the Pulitzer Prize awarded by
Columbia University to her novel
1.-The Age of Innocence"
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A cold reception.

According to London cables Queen
Alexandra and her royal party heartily
laughed and applauded the screen pro-
duction of Mark Twains satire on
royalty, "A Connecticut Yankee In
King Arthur's Court" The Queens
party consisted of the Princess Royal
Princess Maude and other members
of the royal family. Gable reports
state that the picture is the sensation
of London.
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Ruse Of his graphic descriptions
fights in The Broad Highway"
The Amateur Gentleman" Jeffrey
hol. the English author. was sent
here by the London Daily Nal to
ort the Dempsey Carpenter fight.
Farnols sequel to his sea story,
Black Bartlemy's Treasure will be
published i'm October by Little. Brown
n Co. under the title Martin Conisby's
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A different review in every
advertisement. This is No.6
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NJ el bOurne S
c. h i n a t o w n

THE STREET OF A THOUSAND DE-
LIGHTS. BY Jay Gelzer. Robert M.
Mcbride & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

Two dollars at your bookseller
Houghton Nifflin Company
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: the intensely interesting plays
offered in this volume, Mad
rottou x,o. ...o.,,,oos - A.
Evening star., 1921-01-15
e.143. .7e5,ooo IN BUILDING.

In the ten years from 1910 to 1919.
s9,143.765,000 was put into construc-
tion of buildings in the United States.
The average yearly investment in
new buildings amounted to $914,-
376.500.
Evening star., 1921-01-15
THRIFT IN BUILDING,
ADVICE Of STRAUS
Banker Says Much Response
bi|ity for Success Rests
With Public.

Much of the responsibility for sue
cess in the building industry during the
new year rests with private business
interests and the public in general.
according to S. w. Straus, banker, OF
New York city. He advises the prac-
tice of thrift by every one as an i'm
portant factor in making building
work active.
Forces and agencies that have
built up our great American cities are
still in existence and will again func
ton normally as general conditions
reach normality," he states. "At the
present time business seems to be
mending rapidly and spirit of
optimism is manifeSting itself. Condi-
tions are beginning to brighten up.
As this improvement grows it will be
found that a. reawakening of building
activities will come with great force.
Certain Duties Of Public.
"The people of this country have to
a great extent settled down to a
realization of the fact that they must
work and save. and spend with pru
dence. In short, they are finding that
stabilized conditions can be brought
about only through the general appli
cation of the principles of thrift.
While everything possible within the
range of wisdom and fairness should
be done by legislative bodies to
stimulate building, it must be borne
in mind that certain duties and re-
sponsibi1ities rest upon private in
terests and the public in general.
'It will be better for the industry
in the long run if the present shortage
Evening star., 1921-01-15
northwest to Alexander Crawford
This is a six-room and bath house OF
brick construction.

northwest to Alexander Crawford.
This is six-room and bath house Of
brick construction.
!. r. Ratcliffe bought 900 East Capt.
tol street from George NJ. Reed. This
property has been remodeled into
three apartments. with a smaller
doctors office. The purchaser will
occupy one of the apartments.
The house at 1923 Sth street north
west has been transferred from 3.
Frank Wright to John F.. Reeder.
This property is three-story brick
building, containing nine rooms and
bath.
Mrs. Rosa P: Foley became the own
er of 910k G street southwest, the
property having been transferred
from William Davis.
Lots at the southwest corner Of Wis
| consin avenue and Macomb street
have been sold by Charles c. Glover
is in a recently designated CONNER
cial zone and is to be improved with
several stores with apartments above.
Work already has started on the
project.
Arthur G. Wood has purchased 81 n
street northwest from Norma w.
Wrenn. It is his intention to open a
premises. This is three story brick
/ building with two apartments above
| a store.
Alice E. Dodson purchased the prop
erty located at the intersection of
| Falls Church road and Chain Bridge
| road. in Virginia. The house. which is
a two-story frame structure, is To-
Gated on a large lot.
Samuel Hatcher bought the dwell
ing at % Marion avenue. larendon,
Va, from Ruby L. Minar.
Charles A. Whalen, jr. purchased
the property owned by Charles King
e Son Co.. located at Franklin Park,
Va Mr.. Whalen Is living on the
premises.
Evening star., 1921-01-15
PRICES Of BUILDING
MATERIAL ST|LLUP

What price reductions have been
made in some building materials
have in large measure been Offset by
advances in others, declares Allen L.
Beals in the current Dow report.
Investigation, investment ostra-
cism and even money pressure have
building material prices back to pre-
war levels. at which the prospective
builder sets his mark with regard to
proceeding in construction work. MI.
Beals points out.
AS demand begins to take the place
of inactivity in the market, almost
as many items have been increased
in price as have been reduced, he
says.
Industry Exerting influence.
"The heaviest kind of pressure has
been exerted in the building industry
to bend the building material price
levels" the report states, but up to
general evidence of a break, outside
of markets dealing with common
brick. linseed oil and a few items in
lumber, which went to excessive
price attitudes during and immedi-
ately following the war.
Lumber prices are not showing
quite SO much sag. although the
dealers stocks, in certain lines, are
abnormally great, while in other lines
they are ragged to nil.
Perhaps the best indication Of
the lumber trades confidence in the
spring movement OF lumber to build
ing operations is the fact that some
of the local lumber yards, upon the
completion of their inventory taxi
ing. are. getting ready to go into the
the kind and character that is in low
supply on their yards, thus to even
up their stocks so as to be ready for
the first spring building movement
Mill Prices Show Stability.
Manufacturers of certain kinds of
lumber have rather surprised some
of the distributors by promising de-
fifteen days after the order is placed.
although many of the larger lumber
, manufacturing mills have been
| closed for some time. 1t is notice.
able. however. that mill prices are
showing greater stability than are
! distributors prices.
! There is little If any tendency on
| the part Of the financially strong
mills to bid for new businesses with
price concessions. They are willing
conditions, weather conditions. Of
course, being excepted, but their at
titude seems to be that il the finan-
cially pressed mills wish to bid for
the ftful business now coming out
on price-cutting tactics they will not
| compete in their loading-up process.
They will wait for the more profit
able business that will be offered on
a stabilized price basis some time
later.
Indeed. it is apparent that this
policy is being followed in some of
the other building material manu-
featuring departments. Most build
Ing material producers are conscious
OF the changed conditions that the
| mild winter weather has wroueht
upon the consuming centers. with
the opening Of the 1921 building sea
son only eight weeks away and in
dustry. and trade showing signs of
returning vivacity. building material
and equipment interests are NOT
quite so prone just now to bow their
backs to the lower-price lash"
Evening star., 1921-01-15
BUILDING PLAN
OUTLINED TO SENATOR CALDER
Thomas J. Echols and William E. Davis
Tell of Scheme to Start Construction
of New Blocks March l.

Plans for relieving the house Short
age in Washington through a CO.
operative building project, in the A.
nancing of which home purchasers
would participate, were outlined this
week to Senator Calder. chairman of
the committee on reconstruction. by
Thomas ]. Echols and William E.
Davis of this city.
Echols and Davis told the chairman
of the Senate committee of arrange
ments they have made to erect 100
houses on the lot a the Park road
entrance to Rock Creek Park. The
plan as outlined is to construct the
houses at price at least $500 less
than the current value of property
of the same nature in less desirable
locations.
The land controlled by the realty
company of which the men are mem
bers is at the corner of Park or
klingle road and Pierce Mill road,
three squares from the end of the
Mount Pleasant car line and at the
park.
The contract fixes a maximum price
on each house. Any decline in build
Evening star., 1921-01-15

ing costs before the houses are COM
pleted will be charged off the price
of sale when the property is turned
over. The concern has taken every
precaution to protect the purchasers,
Davis assured Senator Calder
Building will commence on March l.
The first block of houses to be con-
structed will number eighteen. The
others will start few weeks later
and will be delivered at such time as
the purchaser may wish. If the pur-
chaser is not satisfied with the in
terror plans as they have been per-
fected by the builders changes will
be made where possible.
The company will request the re-
construction committee, which has the
housing problem throughout the
United States under conside ration, to
hear the plan at meeting of the
committee. that the details may be
come part of the public record of the
proceedings of the committee, and that
other commuities may benefit from any
Of the features which aim to give a
house at a price below the present mar
ket value.
The houses are seven rooms in size
and of the row type.
Evening star., 1921-01-15

If the war had not been won in 1918,
what would have been your income tax
for 1920? Pay it with thankfulness.
Evening star., 1921-01-15
SHANNON & LUCHS
HAVE VERY BUSY WEEK
Mrs. Mary e. Dugan Purchaser of
Attractive Ingraham Street
Home.

Mrs. Mary E. Dugan was the pur-
chaser this week of the house at 1854
Ingraham street northwest, in the
block where Shannon & Luchs have
recently completed number of new
bones. The residence is Of the de-
tached frame type. colonial style. and
contains eight rooms and two baths.
The lot measures 40 by $50 feet
Other sales arranged this week by
shannon & Luchs follow:
Mrs. Ethel A. Fowler purchased 1855
lnEraham street. another of this op-
Grafton. which she is occupying as a
home.
Harold G. Payne purchased 431S 18th
street northwest. one OF the six-room
and bath brick houses recently built
by Shannon d. Luchs. Mr.. Payne is
occupying the premises.
James Mooney sold 725 Quincy street
Evening star., 1921-01-15
is eliminated through normal proc
esses than If artificial and expert
mental remedies are applied.
Statistics Show Need.

'1t is we'll to bear in mind the
rapid growth along substantial lines
of the great cities and towns Of this
nation, and that the principles and
policies which have been the under
lying cause OF this remarkable at
tainment, challenging the admiration
Of the whole world. viii! again be
brought into force with the res1ora-
tion Of general normal conditions.
The need Of individual thrift it,, Is
ing statistics Of the past year, which
are just now being completed. These
show a great comparative loss in
residential construction. and it is ap-
parent that an active era Of home
construction is essential. The actual
amount of residential space contract
ed for in 1920 was slightly more than
half as much as the amount con-
tracted for in 1919. New construc-
tion last year was. according to latest
available statistics. 25 per cent less
than in 1919. One-third Of our build
ing activities in 1919 were devoted
to residential buildings. 0htle the
proportion in 1920 was about one-fifth
Of the total"