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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
Three LinerssSaiI for
European Ports To-day
United States Mail Company
Sends Out America Despite
ALLEGATION. Order

Despite the action of the Shipping
Board, which took over nine OF the
United States Mail Steamship vessels
and reallocated them to the United
American Lines, the former company
Will send out the steamship America
to-day for Plymouth, Cherbourg and
Bremen. Justice William P Burr, of
the State Supreme Court, granted the
United States Mail Line a temporary
injunction restraining the Shipping
Board and the United American Lines
from interfering with the sailing of
their vessels. The America will carry
10 cabin and 500 steerage passengers.
Also sailing for Europe to-day is the
Aqultania, of the Cunard Line, with
$40 first cabin, 500 second and 600
steerage pa ssengers; the Providence. of
the Fabre Line, with IT'S first cabin, 800
second and 1000 steerage, making a
total of 5,215 passengers who will sail
OH the three vessels.
Prominent among those sailing on
the America are: Mrs. E. A. Quarles
and her two sons, James and Francis.
Daniel F. Bigelow, United States Vice
Consul at Bucharest; Nathaniel B.
Davis, United States Vice Consul at
Berlin; Walter Reinick, United States
Vice-Consul at Budapest; Mrs. B.
Barnum, Mrs. Thomas Butler, Duncan
Cameron, Miss May Callaghan, the
Rev. Austin P. Doherty, the Rev. Cor
nelius j. Drew, Mr.. and Mrs. David
II: Eldridge, Mrs. B. H. Ellington, Miss
Virginia Ellington, Miss Genevieve
Farrell, Miss Regina Ford, Mrs. ]. M.
Kennedy, Miss Vera B. Kennedy, Mr..
and Mrs. James H. Mclean, G. B. Mid
dleton, DR.. Rosalie S. Morton, Mrs,
Catherine Smythc, Miss Rita E. Wal
ters, Mrs. Gladys A. Watkins and John
Lloyd Wigton.
Among. saloon passengers booked o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
The Skylark' Seems
To BE Among the
Earth Bound
PROPULSION of Epigrams Fails
10 Lift New Play at the
Belmont From Il Plane
of Conventional Dizziness
ri4n CAST
By Haywood Broun

"The Skylark" is for tho most par,
play in which two characters stand
toe to toe and swap cpigrnms. "No
woman"- begins one, to which
the other may be confidently expected
to reply. "Every mani
1t pains US to discuss the drama in
terms of the prizcring, but nothing
like "The Skylark" has been seen in
New York since the night Frank Moran
fought Bob Martin. There was the
same ponderous sweep Of intention to
each exchange, the same prophecy of
purpose before hostile move and
something even more reminiscent as
opigram after cpigram missed its mark
ana swiShed away into the humidity.
Most of the acting was violent in the
extreme and so i'll directed that one
was constantly surprised by the mere
TACT that the actors were able to keen
their feet.
The new play is by Thomas B. Robin
son and it is built around the idea that
what married people require is not
actually freedom, but the assurance
that they can be free if they want to-
There is, of course, nothing novel in
this scheme and no freahness of treat
mcht is accorded to the theme. The
dialogue is stilted and prctentious The
actors give little help by constantly
playing for broad farce, although the
authors intention, as far as we could
recognize it, is light comedy.
Charlotte Walker, in particular, sins
with wealth of exaggerated gesture,
m movement and tone. Indeed, the whole
cast played as if they distrusted the
motives of the audience and wished, if
the worst came to the worst, to present
a moving target Marguerite Sylvia
was responsible for brief interlude
Of enjoyment by singing two songs
charmingly. Nine. Sylvia can undoubt-
eddy act n great deal better than she
did last night, but her best talents are
developed in rather more romantic
6les. However, we fear that even her
best has become little clouded with
sort of Orpheum Circuit archncss.
Fred Eric ought to be ashamed of him
self. Surely an actor of his ex-
pericnce knows better than to turn
straight toward the audience with
every line. Moreover, he made q good
many faces over his dialogue. SO did
the rest. For this we could scarcely
Flame them. "The Skylark" seems to us
poor play i'll done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
On the Screen
"Mystcry Road" at Rialto Must
Have Been Written for
Children
By IIarriette Underhill

"The Mystery Road" Is the feature
ut tho Rialto this week. The program
says that the story is by Il. Phillips
Oppenhcim and the photoplay by Mar
garet Turnbull, but we refuse to be-
lieve that it is the work of any enc
but Daisy Ashford Or, if not Miss
Ashford, then some other child Of nine
or ton may have designed it especially
to please her little friends. H. seems
20 be child's idea Of the way. grown
up people act, only the producers have
taken it as seriously ~ though they
were the same as Daisy.
Treated in the manner that the
young Visitors was treated here on
the stage it would have been excellent
entertainment. 1t is Famous Players
picture made by the British Producers,
but the two pictures which we have
seen made in England were very, very
bad. This one is incredibly so. David
Powell is as good as possible in the
leading role, but one can't be very i'm
pressive when one has to wade through
plot which is never lighted by spark
of intell gence from any quarter.
| heard the woman behind me say
though it ought to have been easy to
get good story and good looking
people to play in it," I think that is
very funny; however, she did pick the
enc bright spot in the picture--the
scenery. 1t might be improved by cut
ting out all the people and calling it
Scenic"
AS matter of fact it wasn't nearly
so Interesting as the picture called
New York the Magnificent" This
showed scenes and related facts about
what every New Yorker thinks is the
greatest city in the world. Hugo
Riesenfeld had the orchestra play all
Of the old favorites like annie
Rooney" 'Sidewalks Of New York."
She May Have Seen Better Days"
.Hnutes more of it and there would
have been community singing--a few
Intrepid souls were tuning up, as it
was.
Try Semon is seen in an amusing
comedy called "The Fall Guy" The
overture is selections from "Manon."
Lillian Powell does quite a startling
Oriental dance, and Cesare Galletti
sings "Celesti Aida"
Don't Neglect Your Wife" is the
extremely De Millcish sounding title
which some one has selected for Ger
trudc Athertons first original screen
story, which Goldwyn is presenting at
the Capitol this week. The picture is
not at all what one would expect, for
it is is a tale of San Francisco So
ciety and depicts the horrors Of the
pre-divorce days. Then, when you
discovered that you and the man you
married were quite miscongenial, the
only thing to do was to keep on liv-
ing with him and be called respectable.
If you couldn't stand your existence
your could take to drink as a solace.
But that was then! You can't have
everything.
Mabel Julienne Scott is the young
Boston gil who marries DR.. Howard
Talbot, of San Francisco, and becomes
the neglected wife. She then falls in
love with Langdon Nustus, and Lewis
Stone makes this man very attrac-
tive and forceful person. Even when
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
Ned Wayburn Has Four
Plays Ready for Stage
''Town Gossip" First To Be
Presented, Is of the
Review TYNE

Ned Waybun, who staged "Ttwo Lit
tie Girls in Blue" is about to become
producer on large scale. He has
four new musical shows in hand
scheduled for early appearance on
Broadway.
The first is show of the revue type
entitled "Town Gossip" Johnny
Dooley, Lillian Fitzgerald, Vinton
Freddy, Grace Moore, Eleanor Crit
fifth, Helen Broderick, Edythe Baker
and Lionel Pape have been engaged
for the cast. The book is by George
E. Stoddard and Mr.. Wayburn, and the
music and lyrics by Harold Orlob.
Next will come "Love Knots" d mu-
steal comedy with book and lyrics by
George Parker and Alonzo Price and
music by Antonio Bafunno. This is
to be done in October. Mid season
will bring "Flying Island" a fanciful
musical play by Fred Jackson, who
wrote "Two Little Girls in Blue The
lyrics are by Clifford Grey, who did
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
Kenlon Opens Street Showers
10 Cro,or,-Ups after 9 II. M.
Announces C,rfew for Riddles, After Which Adults
May Use 600 Sprays for Hour; Won't Censor
Costumes, but Public Must Observe Decoru,n

the same law applies to the streets as
governs Coney Island. Anything that
gets By, the censor there will satisfy
the police. This is their matter not
the Fire Departments. All can say
by way of warning is that if the
people do not comport themselves de-
corously. or if there is any violation
o. the code of public decoacv, of course
the privilege will be withdrawn.
Seriously, though, there is no doubt
that the city will have to look into
this matter of shower baths for the
people We need many more showers,
and the problem of how to operate
them should be taken up systemati-
cally. We arc using six hundred
showers. | cannot spare the men to
operate more, nor is that the job for
which the city pays its firemen.
These street sprays are vast i'm
provement on the public swimming
pools both in point of convenience
and in hygiene. With the shower
baths, the problem of hygiene is
eliminated, for the spray falls, fresh
from the Catskills, and touches only
one person.
eve need several hundred more of
these shower equipments. Aside from
the initial cost, which is s19.75 for
each apparatus, there is no expense
involved in the block shower baths.
The water is free and the apparatus
will last for years"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

Lillian Fitzgerald are the stars. Stan
Stanley leads the bill at the Fordham
for the first of the week, with Valencia
Suratt following him for the last part.
The amilton has Eddie Carr in 1.-THE
New Office Boy" for the early part.
and Ben Welch in the last half of the
week. Moss's Broadway heads an in
terestlng bill with Jean Sothern in
character song revue.
In Brooklyn the Courtney Sisters
have stellar honors at the Bushwick
Iheater. Gladys Clark and Henry
bergman lead the bill at the Orpheum.
Corinne is at Loew's Metropolitan
early in the week, with LeMairc and
Sheldon following her in the toplne
Kent in "Shivers" divides headlina
donors at the New Brighton with Kitty
Gordon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
Come on in, the waters free!

Come on in, the waters free!
Hereafter Fire Chief Kenlon's street
showers will fall alike on old and
young. The siX-year~olds arc not to
have monopoly of all the squealing
and splashing this summer. Grown
ups who long to don their bathing suits
and stroll around the corner to the
engine house for cooling spray before
bedtime will have the freedom OF the
showers after 9 o'clock at night, in ac-
cordance with the new policy of the
chief announced yesterday.
80 great has been the demand for
street showers for grown-ups that
have decided to operate the sprays an
hour later each night" Chief Kenlon
said, 81 think all children should be
IN bed by $3.50 O'Clock. Therefore. cur
few for the kids will ring at 8 o'clock
at the Fire Department shower baths.
and after that the grown-ups can have
their turn"
The chief admitted he was a trine
over some OF the problems
o. etiquette which may be involved in
his new policy, but he isn't worrying
yet.
Il have laid down nc rules about
bathing suits; have troubles enough
already he said, smilingly. $50 far as
am concerned the women may wear
what they please. l suppose legally
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

the Aquitania. which will call at South
ampton via Cherbourg, are: Prince BIZ
oesco, head of the Rumanian Legation
at ashlngton, and Princess Bibesco;
EDWARD Dudley McKenna, railroad man;
Rasph ii. hnode, president Stoncga Coal
company; Mrs. n. Mellon, wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury: Charming
Pollock, author and dramatist; e. S.
Schenck, vice-presidcnt of Chemical
National Bank; Mr. and Mrs Paul Nj.
Wafburg. Miss Marie Doro, Mr.. and
MRS. Charles Duveen, E. T. Gilman,
MRS. Douglas Gilman, Douglas Gilman
r., Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton,
Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. f. W
Malcolm King, Mrs. Charles 7. Mathews.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Phipps, Mrs,
George r. Peabody, Lieutenant Colo
mel and Mrs. A. Z. Reiss, c. 5. E.; S.
q. Vittori, Rolandi Ricci, w. PAYNE
thompson, j. H. Walbridge, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. W. Alexander, A. w. K. Bill
hngs, Mrs. Anna Duke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Endicott, A. L. Gibbs, Mrs. Robert Cup-
genheim, Governor c. j. Harris, Cap
tain Irvine, Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Julian.
Mrs M. Rothschild, John A. Shepard,
Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell Slade, Ii. NJ.
Slater and DR.. and Mrs. Fe-Ching Yen.
Among. the saloon passengers sailing
on the providence for Naples, Palermo
and Marseilles via Boston are Floyd
Starr, Mrs. Paul T. Norton, Miss Ruth
Norton, Miss Clara Schiefrelin, Miss
Lucy Schieffelin, Mrs. Charles In
graham, Professor and Mrs. George
Wichey, Miss Mona McAdoo Foster
Mrs. Winfield Smith, Frederick A.
Fisher, Miss Lizette Fisher. Miss
Pauline Pardee, Professor Nelson G.
McCrea. Reverend and Mrs. f. Wallis
Crosse, Mr.. and Mrs Marley F. HAYES,
Dr.. Arnold Rich, Dr. and Mrs. George
Ward lr:. and Professor and Mrs. Ken
meth Mckenzie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

55s Union Street. Brooklyn, who =.
three stitches taken in his hs.~. ssa
week ago at the Holy Family Hosr;,,
Is making valiant fight for lifn -
cording to Drs. James Dowpev . ~.
George Doyle. who performed ~
operation. Although the bow t. me
breathing with only half Of h., Ss.i;
lnng' the surgeons say he has , ,si,
chance for recovery. good
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

those in "sally" The music is George
Gershwin's, who furnished the tunes
for Scandals Mr.. Wayburn's fourth
production will be Fancy That" with
book by Stoddard, lyrics by Ballard
Mcdonald and music by James Hanley.
Two other productions are in pros
pect, but announcement is withheld.
Boy With Stitched Heart Gains
Frank Farno, sixteen years old. OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

Harold Atteridge anu Al Goodman have
been commissioned by a firm OF English
producers to write revue, fashioned on
the American model, for presentation in
London. Ankles Across the Sea" is to be
the title.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

Polly Plat. n graduate Of the Art
Students League, has been engaged for
the "Greenwich Village Follies of 1921"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

Back Pay" the Fannie Hurst play, in
which A. III. Woods will star Helen Mac
Kellar, will be directed by J. C. Huffman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

Charlson Smith, France Bendtsen and
Joseph MacAuley have teen added to the
cast OF "Sonya," opening August IS at the
Forty eighth Street rheater.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
The Stage Door

The Shubcrts announce that their first
production for tho new season will be 1.-THE
emperamentalsts" opening at the Bijou
Thea ter August s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

sonny" the George W Hobart play
which the Selwyns are producing, will open
at the Cort Theater August 16.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26

r. urS also remain in the foreground as Removal
Sales continue at startling reductions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
month. They will be stopped early in January.

month. They will be stopped early in January. Greeces quota is 2,6OO. Greeks are coming at the rate of 700 month. The next shipload will be the last permitted to enter until next July. The Poles were allowed 25,000. They are arriving at the rate of 4,OO0 month. They will be cut off in December. Czecho- -Slovalxia's quota is 14,ooo. The immigrants from this country average 2,OOo per month and they will be barred about the middle of January.
 Regret is expressed in some quarters that worthy immigrants may be kept out, but it is better to work an injustice a few than have this country overrun with immigrants not speaking the American tongue and not under standing the spirit of America and her insti- tutions. The ideal immigration law is one that subjects the individual immigrant to a stand ard of personal fitness, but anything is prefera- ble to unrestricted immigration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
OUTSTANDIG AIMS OF THE
 COTTON ASSOCIATION

The American Cotton association, which is holding It's annual convention in Birmingham, has assembled many of the most thoughtful and efficient workers in the cause of cotton. They are here for practical purposes.
 The principal topics to bs discussed in the convention, as stated by leading officials, are:
 1. Regulation of production within the bounds of legitimate demand by the consumer and crop diversification.
 g. Organization of cooperative associations throughout the south so that the consumer and producer may deal directly with each other.
 Curtailment of the 1921 production is to be credited to the association. The benefit of that movement has been demonstrated by the small crop and the rise in price.
 Organization of cooperative marketing has been completed in Oklahoma, Mississippi, North Carolina, Arizona, California and Texas For an example of Its efficiency it is cited that as soon as Oklahoma was organized the brokers representing 100 mills opened offices in Okla homa City to buy direct from the cooperative organization, whose 35,OOo members controlled 100000 bales of cotton. Oklahoma did not seek tho buyer. The buyer came to Oklahoma
 The American Cotton association stands also for long-term loans to farmers at low rates of interest With continued regulation of produc- tion, crop diversification, organized co-opera- tive marketing and long-term loans at low rate of interest the cotton problem will be solved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
HEcKL1NG THE. vILLAGER
rom the New York World.

From the New York World. s
 The prevailing style in American fiction con- sists in heckling the American villager; this is the conclusion reached by Carl Van Doren dis cussing, in The Naton contemporary novelists. The best recent literature in this country, he declares, dates and takes it's inspiration from Spoon River Anthology and he adds that the tendency reached it's climax in Sinclair Lewis merciless exposure of small-town life, "Main Street."
 What is the reason for this startling assault on the yillager? The best explanation, it ap- pears, is that 1t is revulsion against previous trend. An earlier school of writers found it both over the hamlet. It was the exclusive reposi- tory of the "homely virtues"-the stanchest bulwark against moral synicism, high skirts the flesh and the devil. Only the cross roads set clement could produce truly great men; all the friends of the people came from the farm.
 A later generation, led by Masters, perceiv- ing the realities of the small town, fell upon it with sword and spear. They tore away the rosy veil and revealed the ugly face of, vil- lage immortality, intolerance and greed. They found, moreover, that batting the yokel was now as lucrative an occupation it had once been to exalt him.
 We'll, it, is not pleasant fashion, but it is wholesome ore It is quite true that the rural communities have, in potential state, most of the "sturdy virtues" which Harriet Beecher Stowe attributed to them. But they have suf- fered from too much praise If the pungent shafts of the young writers shall succeed in stirring them from their complacency, it will be the best thing that ever befell the small town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
LIMIT OF ACHIEVEMENT

A. S. Lynne of Morgan, speaker of the Ala .bama house, was among the visitors to Birming- ham yesterday, and among those who was inl- pressed with The Age -Herald's fac-simile repro duction of the Presidents home paper. He said :: That was about the limit. knew newspapers could do lots of things, but reproducing the current issue of "a newspaper published hun dreds milse away precisely as that paper ap- peared in it's home town gets me. It was won derful feat. I will wager hat that the Presi- dent appreciated it and that it made him warm up to Birmingham and to Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
THE GREENBACKERS OF EUROPE from Tho Montpomerv Advertiser

from The montgomery AdVertlSer.
 John Moody, an intelligent magazine corre- spondent, writes a long article about condi- tions in Europe, the first half of which con- sists of phrases directly contradictory of the common report that Europe is not working and is not doing so well. He reports that every continental country, with the exception of Russia, is getting back to work with a ven- geance, and is replacing the wealth destroyed by the war. But the last half of his article ex- poses his confusing qualifications and "buts.' Deflation of currency has about bursted sev- eral of the European countries and the fin. ancial outlook in all of them is gloomy, in his opinion. Germany, he says, is working harder than any, but Germany's currency has been expanded to greater lengths than the others, except Russia and Austria.
 Until the European governments make bon fire of many tons of their all but worthless currency, and put their expenses once more within the bounds marked by income from taxation, Europe's condition will be bad.
 Our radicals of the seventies, eighties and nineties, reminded us that to coin money was a function of the federal government Money then was scarce and times hard. The logical thing for the government to do, they said, was to increase the volume of paper money till the country had the money" needed on which to do business. They said, in effect that paper was as good as gold and silver and that this talk of the products of field, factory and mine, etc., being the true basis of money value was Wall street propaganda This extreme "school of thought" was a constant threat to the sta bility of the country from 1872 till 1896. In the latter year it all but carried it's point, but it failed and printing presses in the Treas ury Department continued to work in modera- tion.
 We shall never know exactly just how the country would have fared if the Greebackers had captured control of the government, for the reason that they never did make the capture.
 But it will do no harm for the student of the money question to follow in some detail the story of inflated currency in Russia, Ger many, Poland, France, Italy and what was once Austria Hungary from the time of the armis- tice to this day. In those countries, long har- rassed by war, the people demanded money with which to buy the things that had grown dear. Their governments responded by run ming paper money mills overtime until today the distress of the civilized world can trace fits roots to the places occupied by these ma chimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
LIKES THE TASTEFUL

'I love the tasteful" said August Hirsch. Often really big performance is marred by some lack of finish, some flaw in the work ing out of detail. But The Age-Herald's Semi Centennial issue with it's facsimile reproduce tion of President Hardings newspaper pub lished way up in Ohio was remarkably we'll finished product and appealing to men and women of taste, as well as to ones apprecia- tion of the spirit of enterprise prompting it and bringing it about.
 q know Mrs. Harding appreciated the re- production, because women have an eye for the neat, gracious and the tactful."