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critic of the New York Times, says of the play;
 Liliom' in its quizzical and airy and light-hearted way says that brave and bracing thing which Gorky said in Night Lodgings gs--that down in the very dregs of humanity the spark that is divine lives on, waiting to be kindled into flame. Liliom lets you look into the soul of dirty bum. lets you follow it beyond the grave and back to earth again and leaves you uplifted. There are such scenes of human squalor in it as Cor ky might have written and at times a cathedral hush settles over the play for those out front who have prayer in their hearts"
 Truly 'Liliom" is beyond the Eng fish speaking, French speaking, Rus sian speaking. imagination; Bernard Shaw is perhaps the only Englishmdn who could have conceived it and he Is a Celt.
 The gentler side of "the tough" the vague promptings of an inner con sciousness of something noble" is handled by Franz Molnar with an artists touch, the death of "Lilioni'' (fifth episode) and the entrance of the policeman from heaven for his soul; his arraignment before the po- lice magistrate on high in the next scene and his sentence of 16 years in internal fires to purge his spirit enough to earn for him the right of one day more on earth in which to do one good deed for his unbotn daughter; and the final scene be- tween the returned Liliom and his wife and child, unsatisfactory as 70 the result for all of them; all this
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gia just between the mainland and Vancouver island. In season the Pa c1fic coast salmon swim in vast schools around it's base, seeking the baby hearing in it's surrounding shoals and kelp beds; and since only rowboats may safely brave it's treach erous currents and floating kelp hither come lone fishermen in scores. Old men, broken men, adventurous men and those seeking sport never fail of their catch in salmon season
 Poor Mans Rock has given many q man his chance, and it gave Jack MacRae his opportunity when he came back from France to find his father dying, his expected inheritance lost and himself lowered with the legacy of hls fathers hate toward the successful rival of his youth, now q wealthy cannery man of the district. With Scotch clannishness and tena- city of purpose Jack took upon him self the averaging of his fathers dis appointments and losses and heart break
 Quickly he took his enemy's meas ufe and quickly he formulated his plans to break the man financially. To this end he entered the field of buyers for the fish canneries as an independent operator, and the author presents stirring picture of the struggle between the factions of this tremendous industry.
 How Jacks vengeance worked out fhow his singleness of purpose was threatened by his love, how he re- acted to the struggle. make the ele- ments of a novel which is undoubt edly the strongest MT. Sinclair has yet written. Poor Mans Rock" is not merely an imaginative novel: It IS segment of real life. depicting actual conditions and a true mans handling of real problems.
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contains a mixture of earthiness and the etherial quite as effective as any thing Barrie ever has given us, even if less delicate and more gross in texture.
 And what $ the moral of "Liliom 2
 Nothing that can be reduced to creed: evidently Molnar is not propagandist nor yet preacher nor a dogmatist or moralist; he is what I'd call philosopher" more than any thing else.
 His task in "Liliom" it appears to me, is, the old old task of re valuing our ideas of good and evil; showing that between "bully"--a wife -beater" on one hand, and saint on the other--there is very little difference.
 The "moraI' to me is in 'Liliom's" dying speech to Julie when he says:
 "Nobodys right but they all think they are right lot they know"
 On the other hand there Is "Claire de Lune'-wrltten by the lovely Blanche Oelrichs Barrymore-Jacii Barrymore's wife-under her nom de plume Of Michael Strange"
 Like Franz Molnar, Michael Strange has created what might be called new fdiom" in dramatic writing; it is curiously and brilliantly imag- ined harmony of plot characters and background, with d strange and dis not be forgotten.
 over it all the Moonlight" (Claire de Lune). of it's title, shines with it's exquisite fantasy of amorousness and seductive beauty-"such stuff as dreams are made on"-the entire at
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wonderfully worked out-the strange fascination which the distorted Gwymplane has for the elegant Duchess, who declares that her love for this daring. insouciant, deformed clown is more to her than all the dukes and potentates of high degree "a sort of "caveman" appeal he makes.
 The Duchess, of course. falls from grace" and the ladies in waiting" who formerly "kow tow ed" to her ana "salamm ed" now shrug their shoul- ders, as Phedro tells them she Is "declasse."
 A lady (only partially recovering from the newsJ: You mean that she left the door open, orsr4islaid one of her jewels somewhere?"
 Other Lady just able to murmur) "You' would suggest that she per mitted herself to be-discovered?"
 Phedro: Yes, her apartment was honeycombed with indseretions.H
 Humor, combined with fantasy charmingly wrought by an artistic hand-is Michael Strange's" delight fully exotic Claire de Lune"
 Ones imagination runs riot as one sits quietly pieturing the wonderful Jack Barrymore as GwympIane, Violet Kemble Cooper as the "Duchess' and the perennially lovely Ethel Barrymore as the Queen, while Joseph Schildkraut as "Liliom," Eva La Galliene as Julie, and Helen West ley as Mrs. Muskrat-march before ones eyes in Kaleidoscope effect portraying the fantastic brain chil-. dren of Michael Strange and Franz Molnar.
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mosphere created being as dainty and as light as thistledown.
 Nothing more charming has ever been imagined than the second act (scene D when the Duchess" re- ceives the clown Gwymplane in her boudoir; even the description of the boudoir is fascinatingly fanciful; for instance;
 "On the right just off center Is q marble faun with grotesque features on black onyx pedestal; the Ouch ess has set around it's throat many of her priceless necklaces thef Q is a directoire sofa, covered with exquisite brocades; in direct centre z a tall ohlQng window, draped in daf- fodilr~yellow taffeta, faintly striped in mauve. outside the garden, moon- light falls and water splashes frori the plump hands of a dancing cupid airily painted upon a minute Doric column.
 And the beautiful Duehess--and the deformed GwYmplane, the clown, the Duchess motioning him to a black cushion with golden tassels, at the foot of her couch;
 Duchess, 70 Gwymplane I am lone ly; you can have no idea how lonely! Every thing around me is so false to my desires. is so alien to what l feel myself"
 Gwymplame; You are so beautiful Madamel Your loneliness only makes it more so, It lends the quality of goddess to what is already earthly majesty"
 Duchess. q am very lonely Gwym- plane. Give me few moments of Expenditures! O tell me about your life, tell me about what has hap pened to youH'
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places, with the glamour of earth's precious treasures, and with the charm of tantalizing mysteries
 In the far corners of the earth and in the most intimately known places the readey travels. In delightful sus- pense hel follows the destinies of singers. hoboes, mock priests, beau tiful creoles, sinister hunchbaclSs, and German officers to their inevitable cnrox He assists in the secret molding of Indian rupees, and Indian A1uuunus. the beautiful jewels Of the
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(She lays her hand upon his shoul- der and Gwymphane takes it and kisses it. and looks up at her with flaming eyes and chalklike face).
 Duchess: An that Is nice. the touch of your lips tchills. burns me with forgetfulness! The touch of your lips Is like tide hushing, sucking my wakefulness down into dephts of ter rible oblivion. O listen, you are gro tesque your limbs are like the coils of a nightmare; I love you because you are grotesque, because upon your face IS stamped the contorted beauty of your mind-your mind that is sure ly as amazing as your face. o Gwym plane. tell me of what you have thought, tell me of what you are thinkingl'
 Gwympane (who is led into rap ture by her words, kneels and sud- denly kisses her feet): T am kissing your little white feet, It is like brushing my face amongst sprays of silken flowers"
 Duchess: "Do not talk to me beau tifully, Gwymplane; talk to me with great pulsating words of your clown language Talk to me as if you held whip in your hand (she catches his hand.) What marvellous hands you have. Deceitful hands--for they look unlike the things they do--the things they must dol Q, Gwymplane, do not speak to me beautifully (with a rath- CT coarse gesture nudging his arm). Tell me of love as INwant to hear it., and I will love you better than all the rest"
 This love scene--is one of the out standing climaXes of the play and Is
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Ole Miss, hit don't re- quire no Great ermount uv "INVENTIVE' Genius fer sum uv of us ter Nick FOOLS uv Ouhselves! Naw'm!
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THE SLEUTH or ST. JAMES
 SQUARE"
 By Melville Davisson Post. D. Apple ton and company, Publishers, New York City.
 Melville Davidson Post has created new formula for the mystery story which his publishers believe Is tho most Important innovation in fiction form contributed to our literature bN any American writer since Edgar Allen Roe. The plan used by Poe, Gaboriau and their later followers has been first to build up a mystery and then explain it. This naturally causes repetition. MT. Posts method is to develop the mystery and it's so. lution together. which results in inn mense gain in movement and sur . prise
 "The Sleuth of St. Jame's Square" is fraught with the lure of strange
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in the saddle, on ranch in sauthern Wyoming, and learned all there was to know about riding and roping. Then, come to mans years, he left home to make his own way, insist ing that he'd earn his own stake, and rode north to Idaho, taking with him only his personal belongings and three of his fathers best horses, Sunfish, Smoky and Stopper.
 Winning money on his three horses when they represented his entire bus mess capital, he wondered what was wrong with Burroback valley that three people of widely different view points should caution him. and couch their admonitions in such gen eral terms that he could not feel the force of their warning And then things began to happen, and he found out how much was wrong. So yo0 may read of the crookedness of the people at Little Lost Ranch. the night ride through Catrock canyon the fight at the bank at Crater, and the search for Marian Morris, and you will shudder occasionality and laugh often, for this is typical Bower novel-and that is saying something.
 "PENGARD AWAKE"
 By Ralph Strause. D. Appleton and
 Company. Publishers, New York
 City.
 A psychological mystery story of uncommon quality, the situations in which have been based upon actual psychological fact. Sir Robert Graeme, a delightful old book lover, travels in America with his sister, and visits a remarkable bookstore, where he meets its proprietor, John
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ly works it's course. The central figure about which all the cases turn is Sir Henry Marquis, chief of the investigation department of Scotland Yard. but the scenes of most of the episodes are in America
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orient dangle before his eyes, 1t is his triumph when the stolen plates of the United States government
 bonds are finally traced. Secret codes
 are laid bare, railroad wreckers arc revealed, as retributive justice swift
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FOURTH DOWN

fOOhI6 DOWN
 By Ralph Henry Barbour D. Apple
 ton and Company, Publishers, New
 York City.
 Here is Ralph Henry Barbour a, his best. Toby Tucker comes back at fardley though he narrowly misses getting there when the school train is nearly wrecked Circum- stances throw him with George Tubh, sullen lad, who needs just such companionship to make him a decent member of society The foor- ball season finds them both playing. Toby on the second team, gradually showing the football stuff there S i'll him Difficulties arise from the rivalry of Roy Prick, a vain. over bearing fellow and Toby and Tubb have hard time of it. The affair comes to active warfare, And mae- ters reach a climax when Prick is set on in the village one night and ac- cuses Toby The latter suspects Tubb. How the innocent are cleared and the guilty discovered, and what Toby does when he gets his chance in the big game of the season makes an absorbing story of school life and football such as only the boys flaw. orite writer can tell.
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"cOW cOIINTRY

COW COUNTRY" By B. NJ. Bower. Frentispiece by Frank Penney Johnson. Little Brown and Company, Publishers, Boston
 Life for Bud Birnie. it always seemed to him, began with a great herd of cattle plodding north over che vast plains. He was brought up
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mond and of these two personalities a final chapter as surprising as it is plesant.
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By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

DOLL Y E T T E s
 The Possession of CLOTHES" has never yet added the Other TWO Syllables to the Socially Aspiring Young GENT"
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"P1NlRN MANS LUCK.

By Gertrude Sinclair Frontispieces
 by Frank Penney Johnson Little
 Boston.
 Poor mans rock. sunken menace at any stage of the water. lies off Sauitty Island, in the Gulf of Geor-
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"PENGARD AWAKE" By Ralph strause. D. Appleton and Company, Publishers, New York
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THE sLEUTH or ST. JAMI
, 1921-02-09
j. W. OMAN.
Governor.
RESOLUTION

Be 1t resolved By the Colonial Council
for st. CrolG IN session assembled:
That the u~nexpended portion OF the
pension granted former Sicknurse Ri 2
berg at Richmond tol the fiscal year
l92O-d92l, Item Kill, Sub-Item 10, on
the Budget for the Municipality of ST,
Croix, be paid to his widow Elizabeth
Ritzberg.
Thus duly passed by the Colonial Coun-
Gil for st. Croix at its 4th Ordinary Meet
ing held Monday, December Ii, 1920.
F. ANDERSEN, ROBP. L. MERWIN.
Actg. Secretary. Chairman.
The above Resolution is hereby sane
toned and approved, in whole.
Witnes' my hand and the Seal of the
Government of the Virgin Islands OF the
United States, this 18th day of Deem
Der 1920.
j. W. OMAN,
Governor.
, 1921-02-09
ADDITIONAL MONEY BILL.

TO the Budget for the Municipality of st.
Croir for tie Fiscal Yea. ending June
is hereby increased as follows:
Item VII. THE POOR DEPART
Sub Item l. In al of poor. Christian
sted, is increased from
Francs II, 800 to Francs
81, 500.
Sub Item III. In aid of poor, Frederik-
sted, is increased from
Francs Is, 900 to %, 900.
Thus duly passed by the Colonial Coun-
Gil for St. C DIX a. End Discussion at it's
4th Ordinary Meeting held Monday. De
cember IL, 1920.
D. c. CANEGATA, ROBT. l.. MERWIN.
Secretary. Chairman.
The above Additional Money Bill is
hereby sanctioned and approved, in
whole.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the
Government of the Virgin Islands of the
United States, this 28th day of Decem-
Der 1920.
J.. W. OMAN,
Governor.
, 1921-02-09
ADDITIONAL MONEY BILL
to the Budget for the Municipality of st.
CroGG, Fiscal Year ending 1921.

The Department OF Public Works is
hereby granted the sum of Francs
10, 600. 90 TO provide for repairs to the
rear balcony OF the High School build
ing, Frederiksted, st. Croix, and tor the
~remodeling of rhe basement of said build
ing TO make it suitable for use as a manual
training shop and domestic science room.
Thus duly passed by the Colonial Coun-
ell for St. Croix at End Discussion at its
, 1921-02-09
RESOLUTION

Be 1t resolved by the CoLonjoJ Council
for st. Groin IN session assembled:
l. Inc Governor is hereby authorized
to transfer, by gift, al! OF the furniture,
equipment, etc., owned by this Munich
pality, now In use by the Post Offices at
ChrIstIansted and FrederIksted to the
proper postal authorities.
Thus duly passed by the Colonial Coun-
Gil for st. Crolx at IsC Discussion at It's
End Ordinary Meeting held Monday, Au-
gust 23, 1920.
KENNETH HENDERSON,
Acting Secretary.
f. COULTER,
VGce-ChGGrmGD.
The above Resolution is hereby sane
toned and approved
Witness my Hand and the Seal OF the
Government OF the United States, the
30th day of August 1920.
j. w. OMAN,
Governor.
, 1921-02-09
j. w. ON A
Governor.
ADDITIONAL MONEY BILL
to the Budget for the Municipality of St
Cr0IT, 192O-21.

The Government is authorized to pav
from funds in the Municipal Treasury
not otherwise obligated, the sum Of
Francs $4,000, 90 to the Telephone Fund
for the purpose of effecting necessary
repairs and new installations.
Thus duly passed by the Colonial
Council for St. Croix at 2rd Discussion
at its 4th Ordinary Meeting held Mon.
day, December 13, 1920.
F. ANDERSEN, ROBr. L. MERWIN.
Acting Secretary. Chairman.
The above Additional Money Bill is
hereby sanctioned and approved in
whole.
Witness my hand and the Seal IF the
Government Of the Virgin Islands of
the United States, this 18th day of De-
cember 1920.
j.. W. OMAN.
Governor.
, 1921-02-09

End Ordinary Meeting held Monday,
August %, 1920.
KENNETH HENDERSON,
Acting Secretary.
F. COULTER,
Vice ChG5rm ON.
The above additional money bill is
hereby sanctioned and approved in
whole.
Witness my hand and the Seal OF the
Government Of the Virgin Islands of the
United States, this 30th day of August
1920.
J. W. OMAN.
Governor.
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of them in French might not be
avoided. Premier BRAND snapped
out a certainly" and Mr. Hughes
then announced that the American
delegation recommended the selec-
ton of John W. Garrett, of Balti-
more as Secretary General. There
was no opposition and the seiec-
ton was made unanimously. The
suggestion then was made by Chair
man Hughes that the heads of the
several delegations, or someone else
designated by them. be named a COM
mittee to determine the details of
the program of the conference.
There was no opposition and II was
announced that these delegates
would meet in camera on Monday
to complete proceedings and that
another open session would be held
in the same place on Tuesday at IL
o'clock. Mr.. Hughes then announced
that a motion to adjourn would be
in order. But the galleries were
in no way satisfied. From the CEN
Ter of the section in which was
seated the House membership came
n sharp cry of BRAND. BRAND"
This speedily was taken up every
yhere throughout the hall. while
Mr.. Hughes stood smiling and wait
ing.
Rcsponds Mt Last.
That Premier BRAND realized he
was being called for was very plain.
but he made no motion until one
of his colleagues leaned over his
shoulder. and whispered. Then
Chairman Hughes smiled and nod
ded to him and he arose to his feet
BRAND easily is the most pictur-
csque parsonage about the confer
ence table. His entire personality
radiates power and. as he started
to speak in French. all present
leaned forward to watch him. He
spoke with great force and IL was
plain that he meant every word.
AS he thanked the United States
for the part that il had played in
winning the war and praised the
sentiments uttered by President
Harding. he emphasized his re-
marks by sharp gestures of hts
arms. His concluding declaration
that il afforded necessary safeguards
France would down arms" brought
veritable whirlwind of applause
from everyone present despite the
fact that the majority had no
knowledge of just what he had said.
The interpreter repeated the address
of the French premier in English
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Applause for Harding.

SO soon as the minister had con-
cluded his invocation. which all had
listened to. standing. Secretary of
State Hughes stepped forward and
said:
The President of the United
States"
There was sharp burst of ap-
plause as Mr.. Harding moved closer
to the conference table. He queifed
1t with appraised hand and tha-
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BROUGHT CLOSER
BY HUGHES STAND
Am eric as Proposal at
Conference Makes Ideal
s%.Less a Dream.

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their heads. As the chairman pro-
ceeded to review the reasons for
the failure of the Hague confer
ences members of the British and
French delegations watched each
other closely. The first intimation.
however, of the great scope OF the
American plan came when MIR.
Hughes said:
Scrnpping of ships.
TT is proposed that for a period
OF not less than ten years there
should be no further construction
OF capital ships"
The most optimistic advocate OF
Limitation of armament had been
able only to hope that any agree
ment made would be limited TO half
a decade. The fact that America
would favor an agreement that
would cover ten fun years was
shock to everyone there. Delegates
looked at each other. Over the face
Of Admiral Earl Beatty and Lord
Lee of Fareham. first lord of the
British admiralty. there spread a
look of wonderment as though they
had not heard Alright. But this was
only momentary. and they sat more
sharply up inctheir chairs to listen.
The faces of the Japanese were as
customary. inscrutabls. That. they
realized the direction the address
was taking was certain. But no
one there might read what their
thought about the plan was.
And when Mr.. Hughes read the
details of his amazing proposal
every delegate there was intensely
interested. Premier BRAND who
insists that he knows no English.
leaned toward the speaker ana ap-
peared to be following his every
utterance. The various statements
showing the American plan by which
there would be salved the enormous
amounts wasted in the competitive
armament race were applauded by
the galleries, and especially by the
members of the Senate and the
House, but the men who actually
Will decide what is to be done nei-
Their by word or gesture indica ted
what they thought of the plan. They
were listening now, and later they
discussed ii among themselves. But
1t was very evident that they did
not intend to let any inkling of
what their intentions might be De-
come public until they were ready
officially to discuss the suggestion.
Garrett Made Secretary.
So soon as Mr.. Hughes had con-
cluded his prepared-zaddress and
opies of II and the accompanying
specific memorandum had been dis
tributed he asked through the inter
prefer whether in view of the fact
that these copies were printed In
both French and English. reading
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BRAVE AND FAIR
ATTEND DINNER
IN WHITE HOUSE

Continued from Pope One.