The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-09-01
BOHEMIAN Girl.
WELL: PERI RMED
Excellent Singing and Act
ing Last Night at
Chautauqua
LECTURER TELLS
OF SOVIET RUSSIA
Jacob III. Rubin of Milwaukee Comes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by Operate
Orchestral Club-COmedy Tonight
Vierra's Hawaiians Tomorrow.

Vierra's Hawaiians Tomorrow.
The Chautauqua program yesterday
afternoon was ushered in by a concert
bv a seven-piece orchestra. The concert
was especially featured by high class work
of one of the players of the xylophone.
The artists were members of The Bog
hemian Girl company which gave an
operate performance in the evening.
A lecturer, who had not been announced
up to the time of his appearance, was
Jacob II. Rubin of Milwaukee. He intro
duced himself as a student of Socialism
for % years and one who went to Russia
to study the recent conditions there under
the Soviet regime. He said: Now that
I'm back with a denunciatiOn of BOlshe-
vism my radical friends claim 1 am a
capitalist, but if they would look at my
bank account they would see that capital
and / were never on speaking terms. Mr..
Rubin went to Russia by way of France,
Jugo-Slavia and ROumania, arriving there
early in 1919. He landed in Odessa under
the regime of General Dehikine.
He had been there only a short time
when he was thrown into prison as
Bolshevik spy and on the 10Th of January
was sentenced to be shot He was saved
by the arrival of an American Red Cross
ship.
From Odessa he went into the heart of
Bolshevik Russia, the city of Moscow. Il
saw thousands starving to death each
dav" he declared How many of you
ever actually saw a man dying of starva-
ton? Such things do not happen in the
United States. There was no fuel there
during the winter and we burned all our
furniture and books He said he fed his
stove so many of the best Russian authors
that he did not believe that there was
better educated stove in the world.
While Mr. Rubin was there one pound of
honey sold for 10000 rubles or $40 in
American money. Sugar was $50 pound
and - cigarettes cost 50. There was no
buying or selling then in Moscow, unless
under cover. No one worked.
After writing Lenine a very fiattering
letter Mr. Rubin obtained a 12-minute
interview with him. in which he asked
Lenine many questions, all of which
Lenine answered by referring him to some
of Lenine's lieutenants. Mr.. Rubin said:
Before the last two years there were nine
fanatics to one hypocrite in Russia, but
today there are nine hypocrites to one
fanatic. The trouble is Russia has lost
the art of honest work.
Mr.. Rubin met Emma Goldman, who
was depOrted from America, while he was
in Russia. Mr.. Rubin asked her how she
liked Russian "liberty," and Miss Gold
man said, Forget it" She also asked
him to tell the United States government
that if they would let her come back she
would be "a good little girl but the gov
eminent evidently wouldn't take any
chances.
In closing he remarked. Soviet Russia
is a movement. and we must keep it out
of this country; we must make our ma
ton better by a closer cooperation be-
tween capital and labor, for a country is
hotto fh,T, Ttc. 10 ora
Balfe's ever-pOpular comic Opera> The
Bohemian Girl. was presented before a
large audience last evening and the
enthusiastic applause which followed the
rendition of the solos and at the close of
each scene. as we'll as hearty laughter
created by the performances of DevilshOof,
chief of the gypsies, and FlOrestein,
nephew of the count, demonstrated be
yOnd a doubt the enjoyment which the
production afforded.
The opera was given in three acts, the
first supposed to be on the grounds of
Count Arnheim. near Presburg. In the
first scene of the second act, which de
picted a gypsy encampment. the lighting
effects We're especially pleasing. The sec
ond scene of that act was the hall of
justice and the closing act of the opera
was a scene in the salon in the castle of
Count Arnheim.
Miss Mable Ritch was excellent as
queen of the gypses. her natural physique
fitting her especially for that role, and
her ability to act the part at every point
was evident.
The part of Airline daughter of the
count. was portrayed well by Miss Vera
Il. Monks. who was equally good as a
gypsy maid, the life she was following
when her real station in life was discOv-
cred by her father through a scar on her
arm. She possessed a pleasing and attrac-
tive personality, both in her gypsy cos
tune and surroundings and those of her
fathers home.
John Russ Reed as Count Arnheim. gov
ernOr of Presburg, took the part well and
his rendition of The Heart Bowed Down
was received enthusiastically. The part
of Thaddeus, prescribed Pole. a member
of the gypsy band and in love with Ar
line. was ably taken by Alex Mason.
Arthur WoOley, who was director of
the company, created no end of amuse-
ment as DevilshOOf whenever he appeared
on the stage, as did Ed. Travelle. who
took the part of Florestein, who was a
Ounce" nephew of the count and who
made himself obnoxious in the eyes of his
cousin. Airline.
Special mention of the vocal work of
the cast should be given to Miss Monks
and Miss Ritch whose voices were round
full and in good control.
Other members of the cast were Lewis
w. Easily as captain of the guard and
Miss Meta Jolly as Buda, Arline's attend
ant. The cast was well supported by al
unusually attractive chorus of mobiles. sol
diers, gypsiesa and peasants, and by the
work of the orchestra -,~E1 IS, ,se-
The comedy-drama, 1t Pays to Adver-
tise, will be presented at this evening in
three acts. The gate will open an hour
before the curtain rises. The closing en-
tertainments of the series will be given
tomorrow with the presentation of tn,
Junior Chautauqua pageant, Junior Holi
days in the afternoon, followed by join
Mangels, the talkative hoop juggling
jester, and a concert by Vierra's Ha
waiians. and the evening program consist
ing of a concert by Vierra's Hawaiians
and a Cartoon and Comedy Review by
Ned WOOdman, cartooniSt.
He's RIGHT At That