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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27

all other parts as he grew older, which makes him familiar with this old classic, so that he can make q regular production with the dogs, the ice river and everything that goes to make one of the most spec tacular and pleasing productions that has ever been offered at this house.
 Little Mae Park will appear as Eva, part that she played when a child of six, while Mrs. c. w. Park, the mother of sam and Mae, will appear for the first time this season in the part of Topsy part that she played for seven years when she was a girl, in all the principal cities of the land. It will be a treat to many of the admirers of Mrs. Park to see her in part of this kind. Mr. Hackett, Miss Bigden, MT. Holmes, MT. Motte. and MT. Stone will also be seen to advantage while sam will handle the comedy part of Marks the lawyer.
 MT. Spellman has been especially engaged to play the part of Uncle Tom, and number of extras have been engaged to make the cast suffi- cient for a .first-class production of this well known classic.
 The staff of working men, me chanics and the artist, Mir. James A. Park, have been busy for the past week getting the mechanical and scenic effects in shape and 1t is expected that Uncle Toms Cabin will be the record breaker of the Majestic for this year, as the seats are selling fast and one should not miss seeing this play of plays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
l UNCLE FONTS CABIN AT THE MAJESTIC
Maddocks-Park Players to Present Famous Drama
 This Week

During the coming week the pat rons of the Majestic will have the opportunity of witnessing play that has never been seen in this city and one that is the best known of all the book plays in the country.
 Uncle Toms Cabin" in all it's entirety is the offering by the Mad docksPark players, taken from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe and written up to the minute as 1t were by Sam J. Park, who knows how to make play fit for the patrons of this popular theatre.
 Sam's father ran From show" in the days when he was a boy and Sam played the part of little Eva when he was but five years old. and also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
''STEP LIVELY IS TOPL|NER ON BILL
 AT LYRIC THEATRE

Step Lively" a whirlwind song and dance skit. tops the new bill at the Lyric, opening Monday. The title indicates the style of the num- Der, but it doesn't tell one of the many bright bits that are to be found in it's presentation. Five persons, all topnotchers on the Keith circuit, comprise the cast and in dainty and fetching costumage they go through 8 routine of fancy dancing and clever singing that is expected to meet with great approval.
 "The Volunteers" declared to be one of vaudeville's greatest comedy quartets, Is booked as an added at traction, while Eileen Sheridan, a singing comedienne, comes in the same category. Both are accorded high places in their profession and are expected to receive a large share of the honors.
 Miss Sheridan, by the way. has toured the United States for several seasons, and though a star all the while her light Is brighter today than it was yesterday. Being original and possessed of. a great amount of per sonal charm, she has habit of cap tivating her audiences, and when one does that that is quite enough, in the opinion of show folks.
 Two other acts see Welsh and Ed. wards in comedy, songs and dancing, and McCloud and Morgan, the jazz musical boys, both of which are said to be very clever.
 Pathe News Weekly, which is brim- full of the latest news events, and Aesop's Fables, modernized, complete the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
IF ANYTHING

From Life.
 Henry Ford says that history Is bunk. but what will history say about Henry Ford?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
R. l. ROBINSON ID MANAGE A[CAZAR "The Barricade" Will Be Ini- tiaI Offering of New
 Management

Effective with Monday, November 2s. the management and Jurisdiction
 over the Alcazar theatre will be in
 the hands of R. I. Robinson. Mr. Robinson is pioneer in the picture business, having been connected with
 some of the biggest theatres in the country.
 Having arrived in Birmingham Wednesday morning, Mir. Robinson
 has already laid out his plans con
 corning the operation of the Alcazar theatre in the future. in which was
 ir cluded. above all, the best pictures
 on the market will go into the AL
 cazar theatre. irrespective of the cost.
 The Alacazar, under it's new man agement. commencing Monday, will
 have as it's initial offering one of
 the biggest pictures that has ever been brought to Birmingham, The Barricade." William Christy Ca- banne's stupendous wonder play, di-
 rect from it's extended New York en- gagement, and from the famous novel by Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman In conjunction with the showing of I"The Barricade." Signor Enrico Teo-
 doro, famous Italian tenor. will make
 his personal appearance, and will
 sing with his penetrating" Meg navox.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
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and night daily throughout the week.
 Fairbanks has reached the grea. est heights of his career in the DOT trayal of DArtagnan, critics declare without one single dissenting voice. He makes the immortal guardsmen of the seventeenth century live again in the twentieth century by his per osnality and wonderful interpretation of the role.
 As a story of real drama and as- founding intrigue, with mirth pro- voking moments, "The Three Muske- teers" achieves place decidedly it's own. Based on Alexander Dumas world famous novel which deals with the history of France In the early seventeenth century. the photoplay embodies all of the romantic adven- ture injected into that stirrng tale by the celebrated French author, and it also accentuates the high points stamping them with an indelible im- print on the memory.
 All of the characters In this photo play are admirably chosen. Nigel de Brulier as the cunning cardinal gives a marvellous characterization; Louis Menjou is the most majestic sort of q king; Mary MacLaren as Queene Anne of Austria rules with queenly mein  and at the same time endows the part with a wealth of humanness. As Con- stance, the little court seamstress who loves D'Artagnan and worships her queen. Marguerite De La Motte's delineation is superb. Milady, played by Barbara LaMarr, is beautiful enough to upset any monarchy, and almost does with her duplicity and bewitching wiles.
 The Three Musketeers' are as con- vincing as if they had stepped right out of one of the old steel-engraved illustrations of the Dumas book George Siegmann as Porthos has all the Herculean strength attributed to that character and proves it by hold ing up 8 broken bridge which the other two musketeers and their in- separable companion, D'Artagnan the Gascon, ride across 1t on horseback. As Athos. Leon Barry is remarkably true to type, and Jean Palette is just as convincing as Aramis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27

Freddy King offer combination of mirth and melody in The Chameleon Girl" This act is featured by char acter songs and impressions written by Mir. King.
 'fThe Bill Poster" Is the name of the number presented by Harry Holden and Lucy Harron. It is a comedy skit of clever lines with some good songs to liven 1t up. Strassle's Seals. the fifth act on the program, are said to be most remarkable ami mals, doing stunts that seem impos- sible. They do everything but talk, it is said.
 Buck Jones is the screen star and he has a typical Buck Jones produc- tion of speed action and zip in Bar Nothing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
Douglas Fairbanks Has
 Splendid Role, "The Three
 Musketeers' Coming Dec. 12

When Dumas wrote the immortal novel. The Three Musketeers." Douglas Fairbanks would not be born for centuries, but Dumas must have thought of the famous Doug when he wrote 1t, critics say. This is be- cause they had seen the Fairbanksian pep and smile and srdor translated into the role of DArtagnan, the most romantic figure of fiction. in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27

screen production of "The Three Musketeers."
 Birmingham is going to have an opportunity to judge for itself just how Doug makes D'Artagnan live because the great production. The Three Musketeers" has been bookeS for a weeks engagement beginning Monday night. December 12 After the Monday evening exhibition the picture will be presented matinee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-27
SIGNS OF Al SALESMAN

From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.
 The real salesman says nothing when the buyer is examining the shoe and waits until he has finished. Then the salesman takes particular pains to impress the little. features that in- crease that styles solabifty.
 He shows why the shoe in question correctly fits the foot, the benefit of the new last for particular kind of foot, and gives specific knowledge on the fitting, quality and style proper ties of the shoe, and if he is wise he links up his talk with the statement as to the appropriateness of. that style to the stores trade.
 Price is usually the test of the ef- ficiency of the salesman. Price should never be the sole argument of the salesman. or the sole reason for purchasing on the part of the buyer.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
ole PublicPulSo
Remove the Smoke Screen"
iditOr Of the News Times:

Remove the Smoke Screen"
Editor Of the News-Times:
After three weeks of reading about
the conference at washington, 1 am
satisfied that we are making rapid
strides into the League Of Nations,
and had the United States gone into
the League the world would have
disarmed long ago and we would
have security against war for many
years to come, if not forever. I hope
the Disarmament Conference Will at
least reduce some of the military
burdens, If nothing else. 1t would
have been far better to have gone
! into the League of Nations in the
first place without the Smoke
Screen" because in removing the
| screen someone is liable 10 get al
'mussed up"
Had the Christian churches of this
country exhibited the same degree
| of interest I'm the League of Nations
/ that they now are manifesting in
/ disarmament the nation would have
/ held its place in the high esteem or
/ the world; but the church in large
/ part. failed Christianity in the SUI
preme test 10 which il has been put
since the angels Of heaven sang OF
/ Christ's advent and mission on earth.
/ 1t seems as though the church Is
/ getting religious too late, its awak-
ening should have been when a great
! Christian statesman summoned the
4 nations Of the earth 10 enter into a
/ covenant which contained the very
/ essence of the Sermon on the Mount
and was the consummatiOn "a far
as Christian nations could contrive
\ Of the sacrifice on Calvary Many
! churches were cold; they even ignor-
| ed the startling defiance OF the
/ anti-Leaguist. who from his place
/ in the senate said: IF the Saviour
Of mankind should revisit the earth
and declare for League Of Nations
would oppose it," The churches
passed vague resolutions, and when
Election Day came around you know
what happened. II was not a vote
: against the democratic party. but
against the League Of Nations.
| The American soldier caught the
| torch from the dead OF FlandeI
/ fields and carried il with vaIor
against the Larbarians; now AmerI-
J can politicians use this only 10 con-
sumo every high purpose which this
nation avoweS, to blister every ideal
I for which cur boys endured and
died. Our sons of tie American I.e-
gion who fought or trained 20 fight
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
4 JOURNEY TO BAALBEK.


The iconoc.astic will find cAoce morsels for their
philosophy in the latest publication OF the Geogra-
pblcal Magazine which describes the ruins OF the
ancient city Of BaaIbes. the greatest city OF
syria named for the sun Cod TO which men once
bowed 20 worship.
It's miserable inhabitants are again stirring with
faint EFFORT 20 escape some OF the tyrannies which
they are subjected and call attention to this ancient
ruin through a petition be freed from the dom
nation OF Damascus.
Centuries ago this was the of civiliza-
tion that had reached high standard Men under
stood the use They had developed an art IN
sculpture that is still the admiration Of the cul-
tured.
They vorshipped too in their own way, the Sun
God a. the gver Of and their devotion took the
form OF raising the most majestic Of temples.
That temple was 29O feet long and $50 feet wide
supported by 81 columns each with circumference
Of 2. feet and rising 20 a heighth Of so feet Be
side these columns the great and massive Pillars Of
the national capitol at Washington are mere svers
OF
The great blocks Of rock were bound together
with iron bands, later be carried away by lazy
Turks centuries after the last woShipper OF Baal
had mingled with the dusts of earth
This was the civilization and idealism for which
The temple was a symbol that existed in that day
Now for the comment of the Geographical society,"
which records this history:
.sThe temple which legends among the in
habitants say WIS built by Solomon. was i'm
reality founded by Antonnus Plus, that adopted
SON OF the Emperor Hadrian whose reign is, al
most blank in history because during il prac-
ticaIIy all war;, violence and crimes ceased, his
thoughts and energies being dedicated To the
happiness his people
The thoughtful man will ask whether history
must ever be written blood. the names of those
who lead great armies OF conquest and pillage re-
-,ernbered while those who devote themselves TO
the happiness Of mankind forgotten and con-
demned TO oblivion
Here was an emperor who tried TO save his people
from the horrors of wars and who apparently sue
ceeded a time.
Wars for his people ended. violence ceased and
crimes disappeared from routine of life But his
people also went from the walks of life, slaves TO
conquerors.
What was there lacking i'm his program that fall
ed Co bring security and pepetuaton as well has
happiness for his people?
Why have vandal hands for century upon CEN
tury torn away the lofty affairs which this early
lover of peace reared to the only deity ne knew?
WHY did his people perish and the ruthless live
on 20 give way time to others still more ruth
less than themselves
There is an answer, OF course-for it is written
in the Book Of Life that those who live by the
sword shall perish by the sword but that those that
live in faith shall be preserved in faith.
Probably you can find the explanation for the
ruins on these syrian plains. the wonder of ages.
erected by a man who believed in peace.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
IS 1T TOO EXPENSIVE?

The report OF Secretary OF the Treasury Mellon
said TO be the second richest IN the United
States that this country cannot afford TO give
soldiers bonus the answer Of every American will
be, Can we afford not TO give it?"
The fine spirit with which the youth OF this
country responded TO the demands Of the selectve
service act and gave their services TO the country
when IL menaced by foreign foe is too fine
a thing to go unrecognized.
II American means anything at aII-and i does
mean everything-it stands for justice. These men
fought a establish justice a broad scale.
That bonus is Justice not a charity. and must be
recognized such II this country wishes to pre-
serve its own self-respect.
AS for the financial difficulties and the ability
Of this country TO pay the report Of Secretary Of
the Interior Fall illuminating.
He estimates that this country owns govern
rnent lands. one hundred and fifty billions dol
lars worth Of royalties IN coal oils and minerals
That IL than five times the present national
debt
This would indicate that this country is far from
being beggarly bankrupt which is forced by neces-
sity to repudiate its greatest Of all debts.
The financier in Mr.. Mellon spoke when he de-
clared this country could afford at present,
to provide for the bonus which is universally
cepted honest obligation.
1t might be remembered that If these men had
not given their services at the time they did and
in the spirit they did. Mr. Melons problem now
would be that of raising funds to tribute for
the support of the Hohenzolern family and MILL
tary machine.
1t might also be remembered that while these
men were being paid $50 month those who took
their jobs receiving many times their normal
wage because Of the absence of these men from in
dustry.
1t might also be remembered that while they
away the protecting front, fortunes
were being made because Of war conditions
fortunes in which they had share opportunity
TO participate.
light these facts can this nation expect
to maintain feeling of common decency and
pudiate that obligation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
MORE THIN VICTORY.

There was more than victory for ireland i'm the
final forcing Of Great Britain to concede the right
OF the people Of thar land of freedom to rule them
selves.
Were any proof needed of the righteousness Of
the cause furnished 10y the fact tiat jail doors
opened for 5000 men and women who braved i'm
prisonmeut and privation for their ideals and the
principles which they loved
Those men and women were jailed because they
asked for justice. This much must be conceded by
the fact they granted the very thing for which
they went TO Jail for asking.
BY no stretch of imagination can 1t be claimed
that they were set free because they had beaten
the British Empire in a war-though it was a war
Ii was not The superior strength of arms which
forced the settlement which seems to satisfy the
racial aspirations If the people of the Emerald Isle
bus the moral force which inspired resistance.
The final result is evidence that they fought for
a very Fundamental truth and triumphed, by
strength but because their principles founded
upon justice and a desire for liberty.
quite as impor,au. the material aid which
given by the millions of descendants of those who
came 20 this country from Erin was the broad sym
patty which lovers of liberty Of all geneOoges ex-
tended TO tine valiant group which kept in the
face Of seemingly insurmountable obstacles
The Gght OF Ireland was the dght of liberty it,
SELL Il is more than a triumph for a people who
beUed against outside domination. 1t was the vindi
cation % the great fact that the end. liberty Of
action and seIf-goyernment must win because it is
right that SPRINGS from divinity itself.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
THAT AWFUL CITY, MUNCIE.

NIuncie is or must be- a terrible city The fed
eral court in taking its city government to pieces
and looking over. finds that money was paid by
criminals to prosecutor and policemen for prOtec-
tion against arrest and prosecution for offenses
against the
It is disclosed that gambling dens and slot ma
chimes permitted entice the weak and
young to rob them at will, to send them out broke
and worse than broke, to rob and steal.
1t is disclosed that houses of vice were allowed
to without protest the part of officials and
that effort made to bring the few cases of
those who were occasionally arrested. trial
1t is disclosed that bootlegging was a regular in
dusry who had relations with the officers
Of the law, that whiskey made imported and
sold with impunity.
II is also disclosed that the prosecution given 10
gambling to vice, to bootleggng, matter
Of either natural liking for criminals the part of
the prosecutor police, a matter of indiffer-
ence, but was paid for in cold hard cash, collected
by go between who happened TO be connected with
a justice court
The exposure lays bare the terrible civic condi-
tions in the sister city-how a prosecutor sworn to
enforce the took money gathered in by his agent
to protect their criminality; how the police
took their share OF the loot for aiding keepers Of
dens 10 prey the public; how Justice
placed upon the auction block and sold for cash.
The good people of South Bend will find it diff
cult 10 realize that such condition could exist and
that officials could be reasonable or so greedy
as TO sell the law for money so different here
OF course. when you stop to think it over It has
been rumored that there dozen or more gam
bling dens running in this city most people
have forgotten that the present prosecutor ever sent
of the keepers TO jail-or did he send any?
Come 10 think about it, the federal Judge before
whom the Muncie grafters being exposed. did
remark that he wondered why the police heads of
this city not before him and that the prompt
answer came from Chief Kline that the prosecutor
never tries the of law volators that he ar
rests
BY the way, when you to consider. there
has been unrebuked operations of slot machines
the selling of booze. the keeping Of dives.
OF course it is only in ATuncie that prosecutors
those charged with the enforcement Of law take
money for protecting volators. For Muncie is
terrible city. 1t has grafters in office
Those in South Bend would never take graft
even II they do permit the things to exist for
which the Muncie officials collected for protecting
OF course not. It could only happen in NIunce
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
VERSE O. CHEER
By Edgar L. Jones
LET'S GO.

LET'S GO.
Well folks we've had a nice long
rest
It's time we hit the grit.
Let's get to work and meet the test;
Dig in and do our bit.
We've sobbed and sighed that times
were bum,
But what's the use TO fret
step on the gas-let's make 'er hum
There's time to win out yet.
Let's just admit we haven't worked
And get right down and dig.
Let's pay for all the hours we
shirked
And put up something big.
Roll up your sleeves, tack on a smile
And star right in today,
This very hour. not afterwhile
Let's go, what do you say?
We all have helped to sing the blues
And things are in a mess
SO now it's time that we enthuse
And strangle our distress.
It's time for US 10 change our tune
And not sit down and wink
And wall and MARBLE at the moon
That things are on the blink.
When times are bad, it's time 10
fight
And not rest on our oars
And let old Man Gloom settle tight
Against ambitions doors
Let's square our shoulders with a
grin
And start right in today.
It's time we started in 20 win;
Let's go, what do you say?
EDGAR I. JONES
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-08
THO CHRLSTHAS SUGGESTIONS.

To those. who in their gush OF generosity are in
tending 20 bestow Christmas gifts and have the
power 20 do So two appeals being made this
year that have in them more than the ordinary
run Of common sense
one of these comes from the American Legion
which suggests that every employer give one ex-
service man job.
The other comes from the savings banks OF the
nation which believe that sending OF a small pass
book with initial derosit would be OF much
greater value 10 The recipient than the money in
vowed.
The first suggestion rests upon national debt
Of gratitude 20 the men who were told that the
country they preserved belonged TO them their
return. Too many OF them find that the wartime
pledge being forgotten and unable find
work.
The second Is the gift. perhaps Of habit fine
habit that may change the entire course Of life