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New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
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Ma0ge kenneDr

Madge Kennedy, delightful ingenuo
comedienne and noted star of the
screen, has given playgoers one Of the
seasons surprises by her return to the
speaking stage in the comedy drama
"Cornered," in which she plays q dual
role of heavy dramatic and emotional
dcmands-a role undreamed Of for a
young actress who has always been
identified with farce comedy. Miss
Kennedy, declaring that "Corncrcd" was
the one play out of hundreds she read.
while in films, that seemed to be the
ideal medium for her return TO the
stage, believes that her present role
IS the most important step in her cvo-
luton as a star. 1t reveals her in an
entirely new medium and sewers her
from the limitations of zone -tyDc"
part.
The career of Madge Kennedy, to
date. has been mateoric. At sixteen
this brown-eyed Californian was AN art
student who showed signs of genius
so her teachers said in sketching and
painting. During a summer vacation
she 'olncd IA summer stock company,
prlmail = for a lark. After six weeks
she confessed that acting was to her
ike playing beautiful game have
a perfectly lovely time and hope audi
ences feel the same about it," she wrote
10 ler mother. sentiment this naive
young person has since rcitsl,tcd after
practically every performance she has
played, either on the stage or for the
screen.
Miss Kennedy came to New York
with her mother the autumn following
her stock experience, and, while still
studying art, she sought theatrical di-
Version by applying to William A..
Brady for role in "Over Night" Be
cause she was young, pretty, intelligent
and the type" she was quickly bro
noted to the leading part in the West.
ern company. Before the season ended
Mr.. Brady found that Miss Kennedy
also was the type he required for
the lngcnuc icad in Little Miss
Brown" This farce comedy brought
Madge Kennedy to Broadway and
started the vogue of the "Madgc Ken
nedy type which has since been imi-
tated by thousands Of American girls.
both on and off the stage
Twin Beds" gave Miss Kennedy hcc
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Comedy Stars in '|The
Passing Show of 1921"
Once Church Choristers

The Winter Garden audience in the
big structure for the newest "Passing
Show"-the one Of the series decorated
with l921-had recalled Willie and Eu-
gene Howard for the twelfth time after
one of their comedy numbers, and
the comedians refused to bow tho thr-
teenth time and went to their dressing
rooms, still breathing heavily because
OF the exertions which had won the
audiences approval. There the inter
viewer found them.
"There is a royal road to success at
the Winter Garden" said Willie How
ard, more seriously than he ever ut
tered anything on the Winter Garden
stage since his first appearance there
back in 1911. at is a road which is
made up of a material which is not
patented, and which is put down bv
the traveller on the road himself and
rolled with his own body. This road
material consists of three Ingredients
education, hard work and some small
personal ability.
MY brother, Gene, and were care
fully educated by my father, who was
very learned man. He saw to it that
even after we were on the stage we
Kept up certain amount Of study of
SUBJECTS not IN any way connected with
tne tneater. lie was very thorough in
his discipline, and even made us sing
IN the cnolr Of the church over which
ne presided He had a very fine voice
himself, and had our musical education
looked after, as we'll as our general ed
ucation.
when we finally decided, as bows
Will, that we were really destined for
the stage, We began with the asset of
an education rather above that of the
average boys Of our age. We also knew
considerable about music and were
natural boy sopranos.
AT frst we got small engagements
IN vaudeville in various parts of our
native New York. Sometimes nv
nrotner would be in especial favor and
l would assist him in some small wav
ana sometimes l would be the impor-
tant one / recall once that Eugene
was making quite hit in Harlem az
q boy soprano, while had Job as
water boy in the thcater.
hen came the period for which we
mad prepared ourselves. Our voices
changed. ] knew that, when lived
through those days, | would try to be
coined an and Genc intended to be a
singer. But we had to live. SO during the
time that my voice was changing I
became sn Office boy, shipping clerk,
truck driver, 4 boy OF general work
about a theater-any theater--and Eu-
gene, like me. did anything he could
lay his hand on
Finally we found that our voices
had settled for good and all SO, os n
team. Uo went into vuuJcvtlin W.
still work hard; We >ry 10 do certain
amount Of study every week, and VIC
hope that We have made the most of
Whatever ability wc had in the be-
ginning"
Az hendincrs in vaudeville the How
arde appeared first at the Winter Gar
den at Sunday night concert In 1911
Now they are The stars of the neweet
"Pnxsine Show"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
an missary sent to snatch Miss Nc
Comas away from Brock Pemberton.

an emissary sent to snatch Miss Nc
Comas away from Brock Pemberton.
How sweet of yor to come back to
see me. You are the first to arrive"
Yes" we answered, "and if you are
2o'ng to give us a Sunday story
you'll have to be quick about it, for the
rgratulators are a. the door," and
as we spoke they arrived.
"Oh, Carroll. you are wonderful"
81 never dreamed you could do such
.h;ngs."
II was entranced with your per-
1olmance!" etc, and all the time we
were wondering how we were going to
get that Sunday story" We hinted
this to Miss McComas, and that was
when she said that she would come
over and see US at 10 the next morn
ing. Or. course, she isn't living in the
country now. She lives right around
the corner from us, in the shadow of
carnegie Hall. But even so--1O O'Clock.
But presently We noticed that all the
people who came to congratulate Miss
McCcmas were also interviewing her
IheE were asking the same questions
Ne should have asked. weren't YOU
frightened at such a difficult part?
|: is so different from anything you've
ever done before" "Well. YES T
vas bit frightened, but wanted to
played"
And this was a first performance,
wasn't it? You opened cold"
We played once in Sing Sing, you
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
1t Isn't Being Done This Season,

Corinne Griffith has completed at
Isn't Being Done This Season" and
will begin another Vitagraph produc
ton as soon as she returns from the
South. Webster Campbell will be her
new director.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02

unedited and unadultcrated, will mani
testify not do in America
1T Is the same with Carl Schooner,
the Tyroiese dramatist, whose play
The Wife-Devil adapted by me as
'Ihy Name Is Woman,' is now being
shown at the Playhouse. am certain
that literal translation OF this play
would not have had the sliEhtes It
chance on our stage.
And | know of no more promising
augury for the American thcatcr than
the fact that this play, which is es-
sentially popular in it's appeal, has
achleved its uncommon success with
out hackneyed device of happy end
ing and without a single concession
to the so-callcd conventional preju-
dices.',
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02

The Dolls House with happy end
ing, there are half dozen admirable
cases like that of Leo Ditrichstein's
felicitous transplanting of Hermann
Bahr's "fhc Concert
"Any one no saw The Poor Fool
will rec H.. tedious dialogue with it's
lntermlnaele icpetitions nnd tagging
action. was fair literal trans
iatlon. phine,' which failed both
critical commercially, was n
somc"! rec translation with a
whole act left out and an eploguc
in pantomime somewhat grstuitously
added. The Concert and "rhe Master,
both free adaptations, represented
Bahr in a severely edited form and vet
| think, with complete justice and
understanding. The moral IL that Bahr,
New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
''1he Woman Who Went Away,

Alice Lake is now at work on a Metro
picture, "Fhe Woman Who Went
Away The story is the work Of John
Fleming Wilson, and was originally
called "Unchartcd Seas"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-06
Where They Plny.
st. Louis at Cleveland.
Washington at Philadelphia.
New York at Boston.
peatedly. Both missed many blows
and were hooted by the crowd.

peatedly. Both missed many blows
and were hooted by the crowd.
Round nine--Trying for knock
out Downey landed right twice on
the jaw and once In the stomach.
He missed swing to the head and
nearly fell. Wilson landed lefts
and rights to the body. Downey
was landing body blows oftener.
He rocked Wilson with right to
the jaw at the bell.
Round ten--Downey landed hard
rights and lefts to the body. Dow
ney missed a right to the head
and took several rights to the BODY.
Downey missed and they went into
clinch at the bell.
Round e1even-Downey rushed
Wilson to the ropes and sent two
hard rights to the jaw. Wilson
sent a left hook to the stomach
and they exchanged body blows. at
close quarters. Downey missed
right to the head and was hooked
sharply by Wilson in the Jaw.
They exchanged right body blows
and clinched.
Round twelve-Downey was try
ing hard but his blows did not
seem to hurt Wilson. He sent
hard right to the stomach. Downey
landed hard right on the jaw.
They exchanged lefts to the stom-
ach. They fell into clinct and
exchanged lefts and rights at the
bell.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-06
JUNIOR LEAGUE
CHAMP |ONSH|P
SERIES STARTS

Highland Ladies' defeated the
Bullet Shoppers yesterday by a
score of Is to in the first game
of the Junior league championship
series played at the Highland
grounds. Under the supervision of
J. F. Bentley, of the central school,
who has charge of playground ac-
tivities this year, several unior
teams have been running on almost
regular schedule all season. The
championship. while decided in the
minds of several of the teams, is
still a question of official dispute
and the championship series has
been started by Mr.. Bentley in or
der to settle the question. No
boys on the teams are over II
years old.
The teams which will take part
In the series are Highland Ladies',
Young Aq's, Tildos. Bullet Stop
pers and the Young Fire Fighters.
The schedule for the next three
days Of play follows: Tuesday
Young Aq's VS.. Tildos: Wednesday
Bullet Shoppers VS.. Highland
Ladies'; Thursday--Young Aq's
VS.. 1ildos.
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was down twice for more than the
count by the timers watch and
was finally pounded into uncon-
seriousness. but he kept the title on
a ruling that he had been hit while
down, though at the time. Gard
her was not counting.
The majority of the newspaper
men gave Downey the decision yes
terday. but the official title re-
mains with Wilson, as no decisions
are allowed in New Jersey, and
Downey failed to land knockout.
Downey is likable chap and
popular with the fans. He is near
ly rs years old and began his
fighting career in 1914 as a BAN
tam weight. He has beaten some
of the best boys at the game and
while still without the official IT,
tie, is the recognized leader of the
middleweights.
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WILSON RETAINS
TITLE BUT FANS
ALL SAY 'D0WNEY'
Jersey City Bout Runs II
Rou n d S and Wilson,
Though Kissed, Retains
MiddIeWeight Belt.

Ringside, Jersey city, N. j.. Sept.
5.-Bryan Downey. of Cleveland,
and Johnny Wilson, of Boston,
fought twelve tame and uninterest-
ing rounds in their bout here to-
day to settle their dispute over the
worlds middleweight champion
ship.
Under the New Jersey law no Of
fetal decision is permitted, but
Wilson retained his championship
belt, the fight going the limit.
However. It was the opinion of a
majority Of the newspaper men
and fight experts at the ringside
that Downey won on points. He
forced the fighting in most of the
rounds and landed the cleanest
blows.
Hearing ordered.
Wilson'S performance was so UNI
satisfactory to the New Jersey
boxing commission that they or
dered Promoter Tex Richard to
hold his share Of the purse, pend
ing a hearing.
When Wilson left the ring he
was booed loudly by the crowd
Downey received applause.
There was not a semblance OF
knockout at any time. Wilson fel'
into clinch at every opportunity
and landed few hard blows. Dow
nty appeared to have the better O.
four rounds, three went to Wilson
and the others were even.
BY Rounds.
Round one-Downey rushed
from his corner and landed the
first blow, a left to the chin. Will
son boxed cautiously. Downey
landed left to the body and q
right to the jaw, rocking Wilson
Downey missed a vicious RICH
uppercut, but landed right to IT,
jaw. They clinched at the bell.
Round two-They clinched an
Wilson landed two light lefts t
Downey's jaw. Downey missed
right for the head. They exchane
ed lefts to the chin. There was III
tie fighting on the part of eithe
man, both working for an openin
Round three-Downey landed
straight right to the body and Q
left to the Jaw. He rushed Wilson
to the ropes with hard lefts anf
rights to the body. Downey land
ed a Reft to the chin. DowneN
missed right uppercut, Wilson
landed left to the chin at the bell
Round four-Wilson took the Of
fensive and sent a hard left to
his opponents chin. Downey
missed a left and Wilson caught
him with right in the stomach
Downey crossed with two rights tc
the jaw. They were fighting hare
in clinch at the bell.
Round five--Downey sent
straight right to the nose. Down
landed a right to the jaw and to-
a left hook in return. Wills
rushed Downey to the ropes wi
body blows. Downey sent a har
right to the stomach at the bell.
Round six-Downey caught Wi
son in his corner and hurt him witt
hard rights and lefts to the stom
ach. Wilson cut Downey's left eye
with right swing. Wilson's blows
we're landing oftener. They fought
1ard at close quarters.
Round seven--Downey forced
he fighting and had the better Of
IN exchange at close quarters.
Downey sent a straight right to the
stomach. Wilson caught Downey
With a left hook. They fought
slowly.
Round eight--Downey landed
wo rights to the body and one to
he jaw. Wilson hooked Downey
With his left. They clinched re-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-06
GRAYs REDEEM
Sell YES IN LAST
CAME Of SERIES
CinCh Third Game When
Sheay Blows Up; Ell Paso
Fails to Connect With
Three on Bases.

The Grays got q late start in
their series with the Ell Paso ALL
Stars. but when they did get start
ed they cleaned up, taking yester-
days game by score of 8 to 2.
The game had very little of the
spectacular in 1t, and was simple,
straightaway ball every inning.
AS in the other two games, Ell
Paso got away to a flying start,
the second man at bat scoring, In
the third inning, however, the
Grays started out to take the game
and scored three men. They ad-
ded four more in the fifth, and still
another in the seventh perore Ell
Paso regained it's breath. The lat
ter made a feeble attempt to cause
some excitement in the eighth by
putting one more man across the
plate, but the effort fell through.
Cl Paso had what appeared to
be a beautiful gilt-edged oppor-
tunity for a cleanup in the third.
when three men were on their toes
for dash around the base lines
to the home plate, but Teller pulled
the game out Of the hole by some
wonderful pitching. Smith opened
the inning for Ell Paso and struck
out. ]. Marty got a hit, and was
advanced to third when Cohen got
a two-bagger. Mulcahy got free
passage, leaving the bases full.
With only one down, L. Marty
stepped to bat, and promptly
struck out. Patterson followed,
and was in the process of striking
out when Wilson caught a pop fly
and made three down.
Sheay who pitched the first five
innings for FL Paso. proved an
easy nut for the Grays to crack.
Smith, the second baseman, ex-
changed places with Sheay in the
sixth, held the Grays down in bet
ter shape.
The box score Of the game fol-
lows:
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Bryan Downey, who added to his

Bryan Downey, who added to his
series of newspaper decisions over
Johnny Wilson, of Cleveland, at
the Jersey City meet yesterday, but
Is still uncrowned as champion of
the middleweight class of the
world. Ever since Wilson took
t championship in a questionable
bout from Mike O'Dowd, the con-
sensus of opinion has been that he
was cheese champion-in spite
of this, however, and in spite of
the drubbings and point winnings
Downey has handed him, he still
retains the official crown, though
Downey will popularity be known
as champion"
He ran out of fight with
Downey some time ago, claiming a
broken nose. Then he chose his
own referee, Jimmy Gardner, of
Boston, and still kept Downey from
lifting the crown, although he
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-06
PIRATES BREAK
EVEN WITH REDS
IN CLOSE GAMES
Giants Divide Double Header
With Braves and Retain
Second Position in Nation
al League Standing.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 5.-Pitts-
burgh and Cincinnati evened up on
the two holiday games, Cincinnati
winning in the morning and Pitts
burgh in the afternoon, each by a
two to one score. The visitors
broke a tie score in the thirteenth
inning in the morning and won on
a pass to Bohne. his steal of sec
ond and errors by Wilson and
Traynor. Cooper held the Reds to
four hits in the afternoon, two Of
which were punched with a wild
pitch and a steal in the sixth in
ming, resulting in a run. tieing the
score. In the seventh. with a man
on third and two out. Cooper's sin
gle drove over the winning run.
Morning game:
The box score:
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ton a game behind Pittsburgh by
dividing double header with Bos-
ton. Boston won the first game.
Police officials estimated that
about $4,000 persons could not get
into the park. Several women
tainted in the crush. Boston rail-
lied in the first game and won af-
ter New York led by to after
the sixth inning. The work of the
Boston pinch hitters featured Bos-
toms rally in the eighth. New
York took the second game behind
Shea. recruit pitcher. He yielded
13 hits. but kept them scattered
and was well supported.
Score-first game:
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OLD TOWN MINES WIN
FROM THE NATIONALS

The Old Town Mines defeated the
Duke City Nationals by a score of
Ia to yesterday afternoon, on the
grounds at the corner of Mountain
road and Broadway.
Ortiz clouted out his fifth home
run of the season for the Mines in
the game.
The battery for the Mines In
yesterdays game was composed OF
Pena and Mercedes. The Nationals
battery was made UP Of Black and
S. C, Sescrinos.
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BEHNKE IS WINNER
OF AIRPlANE DERBY

Chicago, Sept. b.--David Behnke.
of the Checkerboard .ield, carrying
woman passenger, won thu Labor
day airplane derby today, flying
the fifty-five mile course in forty
nine minutes. He was closely fol-
lowed by Price Hollingsworth, John
Kiser and James Curran. The
other five starters. including
Charles Dickinson, the oldest pilot
in the Chicago district, who is IS
years old, finished within a few
minutes more,
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-06
BABE RUTH NEEDS 4
MORE HOME RUNS TO
BREAK HIS RECORD

Boston, Mass, sept. Babe
Ruth drove home his fifty-first
home run in the ninth inning of
the Yankees second game with
Boston. No one was on base.
Karr was pitching.
Ruth scored his fifty-first home
run against Shaw of Washington
in 1920 on September "a. He new
needs only four more circuit drives
to break, his record of 54.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-06
SOC0RRO WINS GAME
FROM SAN MARCIAL
IN NINTH INNING

Socorro defeated San Marcial in
a close game by score of 8 to s.
The game was one of the snappiest
seen on the Socorro grounds for
some time. The score was tie I'M
til the ninth inning when r. Stack
pole scored on j. Stackpole's sin
gle: Batteries were: San Marcial
James and Aragon;
Socorro-Trujillo, J. Stackpole.
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TOMMY GIBBONS COPS
18TH SUCCESSIVE KC

South Bend, IND. Sept. 5-Tom
my Gibbons. light heavyweight o.
st. Paul. scored technical knock
out over Dan O'Dowd, of Rev
York, in the third round of Q
scheduled ten round bout today
Gibbons had the New oYrker out
on his feet when police stopped the
fight. Early in the round left
hook sent O'Dowd to the canvas for
a count of nine. A short right up
percut was the finishing blow
Gibbons victory marks his thir-
teenth consecutive knockout.
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DOUBLE HEADERS
ALL DIVIDED IN
AMERICAN GAMES
Many Games Won BY Wide
Margins in Mornings Play
and Lost By Wider Ones
in the Afternoon Contests.
tBy The Associated Press,

Boston, Sept. Ruth made his
fifty-first home run In the ninth
inning of the second game today.
He hit high into deep center field
bleachers against strong wind,
New York won the first game. s
to 0. hitting Jones hard. Boston
holding the league leaders to four
won the second game. s to 2, Karr
holding the league leaders to four
hits. Score:
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BARNES DEFEATS
JOCK HUTCHINSON
IN GOLF FEATURE
tBy The Associated Press.)

Great Neck. N. Y. Sept. 5.--Jim
Barnes. American open golf cham
pion, today defeated Jock Hutchi-
son, British champion. up and 4
to play. in thirty-six hole match
for a silver cup and a purse Of
$4,000.
Barnes started afternoon play
with a lead Of four up. which he
increased to five UP before the end
OF the match. Hutchinson drove
wildly several times. two drives 60
Ing out Of bounds and third into
the water.
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Smith Hits Heavy.

Cleveland. Sept. 5.-Cleveland
and st. Louis broke even today,
Cleveland winning the morning
game and losing in the afternoon.
Smiths batting was responsible for
the morning victory while his stick
work this afternoon kept the cham
pions in the lead until the seventh
when st. Louis made six consecu-
tive hits and won. Cleveland ran
out of pitchers in the afternoon,
Manager Speaker finally having to
call on Henderson, a college re-
cruit from Texas. Score: Morn
ing game:
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Pittsburgh.

x-Batted for Brotem in eighth.
xx-Batted for Morrison in
eighth.
Score by innings:
Cincinnati 90. 100 900 600 900 ID
Pittsburgh -. 900 900 O10 900 Oil
Summary: Two-base hits-Ma-
ranville (2), Carey. Stolen bases
Duncan. Bohne. Base on balls
Off Rixey. /; Morrison. 2; Hamil-
ton, 2. Innings pitched-By Morri-
son, 8; Hamilton, s. Struck out
By Rixey. 3; Morrison, 8.
Afternoon game:
Score: r. H. e.
Cincinnati 1000 001 000--1 l
Pittsburgh ...0l0 00010x--2 0
Batteries: Markle and Hargrave;
Cooper and Brottem.
$4,000 Disappointed.
New York, Sept. 5.--The New
York Nationals retained their posi-
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Cleveland.

Summary Two base hits
Smith, Gardner. Wambsganss @.
Three base hits--Gerber. Sewell,
jacobson. Home runs-Smith Q.
Double plays-Smith to Johnston;
O'Neill to Gardner; Gardner to
Johnston. Base on balls-Off
Mails 1; Morton /; Shocker 3. In
nings pitched-Mails 3; Morton 6;
Shocker Z; Sewell l. Struck out
BY Mails /; Morton 1.
Afternoon game:
st. Louis 021 100 530-12 is 1
Cleveland 100 100 100 s II 2
Batteries--Kolp, Davis. Bayne
and SEVERED; Uhle, Morton, Sagby,
Henderson and O'Neill, L. Sewell.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

At Toledo. 6-3; Columbus, 20;
(second game eleven innings).
At st. Paul. 1; Minneapolis. 10;
(morning).
At Minneapolis. 4; st. Paul. g.;
(afternoon).
At Milwaukee. 7-6; Kansas City,
1-5.
At Indianapolis. 81; Louisville,
Ia.