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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30
What's Your View

Paris newspaper inquired oi Its
readers what attributes o Frenchman
regards ms most desirable IN his, wife
The 90,000 replies indicated that
hcalth was regarded os tho most dc.
sirable quality Then came courage,
frnnkness. wit fidelity and cleyernesS
In turn. The majority put wealth
about holtNoi dovn the li2t aud,
more surprising stll beauty was
placed last ot nll-- indianapolis News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30

Gcorge had been reprImanded sey.
crul times for creeping and wearing
holes in his stockings. So when he
saw his grandmother damlDg his
umdfather's socks, he said In severe
tone. Grandpa. have yoN heon creep.
Ing"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30

DEFEATS HoosAc SCHOOL
Bennington High Wins on Visitors
Floor by 46 to 20.

Bennington high school defeated the
Hoosac school on the Hoosac basket
ball court Saturday afternoon by q
score OF 46 to 20. Bennington showed
better basketball In the opening half
and secured q lead that tho Hoosac
boys were unable TO overcome, al
though the latter scored moro frc-
quently in the final period. Summary:
ITnnGAn NO LfI1 frn
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30
Good Government.

Governments can never be well nd
uinistcred but where these innustej
make conscience Of well dlschargng
their places William Trm.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30
ONE MORE DEATH TODAY
INCREASES WASHINGTON
DISASTER TOLL TO lO8

Searchers Believe All Bodies
Have Been Removed from
Wreck Of KnickerbOcker Thea
tre--Some of the 1873 Known
injured in a Serious Condition
and Not Expected to Recover.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30

Misuetoe grows on the apple tree.
the oak, the cr0Oapplc thc lime and
The pear tree
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-01-30
WEATHER

Fair tonight and probably Tuesday.
80 change In temperature.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13

Terry Turner. publicity director
OF the Loew chain of theaters. was
the guest of Manager Lawrence
Beatus, of Loew's Washington the
aters during the past week. MT.
Turner's trip to Washington from
New York was in connection with
the presentation at Loew's Column
bia today OF "Forget-Ms-Not." the
new Metro production that had
such a profoundly successful en-
gagement in New York recently.
Mr.. Broadhurst will try out stlii
another comedy n Asbury Park. The
name of Il is II Will II You VIII.
and the announcement mentions
everything but the author.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13
Seeing THINGS
AT NIGHT


need only throw out OF considera-
ton all the people against, whom
suspicion IL directed. The murfsrsr
WIN not be among them. For In
stance, IL the characters left alive
after the old man 10 killed in the
library include an escaped convict.
drug ffend, a Russian adven-
turess. a honicidal maniac. an un.
scrupuious political CRATER. i jeai-
Gus husband. wronged woman.
wild man from Borneo, and a
sanity clergyman partially para
lyzed and 90 years of age, the
student of mystery plays may safe
ly omit from his selection all but
the last-named person. Almost In
evitably. 1t must be the clergyman
who welded the fatal paper knife.
We must confess to having been
completely fooled once after hay-
ing acquired sophistio alton. A year
or so ago there was mystery
play in which somebody was killed
In the frst act and almost Inn
mediately a character appeared and
confessed that he was the murderer.
Naturally. we eliminated him from
all suspicion and began to search
dhionk knc OtncE CudTaCtcTs- iHc
playwright made each one of them
possible perpetrator of the crime
and We were all at sea. Imagine
our chargin when the last act
revealed the fact that the man
who began the play by announcing
himself as the murderer actually
was the criminal. He had been
telling the truth all the time. That
was the thing which fooled US.
The scheme was much too simple
to be unravelled.
Nothing as ingenious as that IL
in Whispering Wires" One of the
characters Is strong. cold. un-
scrupulous capitalist who lives
largely in his library. 81 can cope
with treachery." he cries con-
fidently and surrounds himself with
detectives. Surely we are not CIV
ing away any secret by reveal
ing the fact that he Is murdered
before the first act ended.
The stupidity of the detectives
amazed us. To be sure they
guarded all the doors and windows,
but they left the old man alone In
his library. II must have been
that none OF the guardians Of the
law had ever read a detective
story or seen detective play.
Otherwise they must have known
that murders are invariably COM
mitted in the library. Instead of
guarding the doors and windows so
closely the men engaged to protect
the capitalist (his name was
Montgomery Stockbridge) should
have induced him to sit in the
laundry. Nobody ever gets mur-
dered there. One distinct innova-
tion ought to be credited to 'whis.
pering Wires" For the first time
in every SO many seasons the kill
ing was not one with a paper knife.
The new thriller manages to in
woke good deal of excitement
in the first act. 1t is in this act
that Montgomery Stockbridge re-
ceives note from a cemetery an
nouncing that the grave which he
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13

ordered has been prepared for him.
4; few minutes later = whispsrins
voice on the teiephons informs
him that he VIII be dead within
two hours. It u then that the
detectives are called and surround
him, in his iibrary. Nsverthelsss,
the fatal blow comes. The minutes
during which the audience waits to
see whether or not the promised
doom will fall upon the threatened
man are interesting. but the kill
ing itself II not nearly imaginative
enough. The playwright has tried
70 make the guessing game q
double one. The audience is asked
to speculate as to who did the
crime and also how. Unfortunately
q character in q moderately popular
play of q couple of seasons ago
was killed in almost precisely the
same manner and so that took most
OF the. fun out OF the guessing.
But as we have admitted
sophistication has ruined us for
most mystery plays. we. find our
self no longer being moved to
wonder who did il. Instead we
are much more likely to begin to
guess what will be the next show
in that theater.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13
Eastern Star.

bethlehem Chapter. No. Z, Order
OF the Eastern Star. while not hold
ing its regular scheduled meetings
during uJly and August. is certain
ly keeping things humming for the
members of the chapter and the
ladies' drill team with its weekly
Heart Soc'als" held at the homes
Of members and the weekly drills
held at Northeast Masonic Temple.
The latest heart social was held
Tuesday evening at the home of
DR.. L. 7. Stephenson, 20S Maryland
avenue northeast, and was largely
attended and greatly enjoyed.
These soc'als are more entertain
ing and more exciting than euchre.
bridge or fve-hundred parties and
everybody has genuine good time
in their efforts to make high
score" Mrs Otto Yingl:ng was
awarded the prize for the highest
score. while Mrs. Cole received the
prize for the lowest. The guests
were then invited to refreshments
and a package offered to any one
who could guess the contents. No
one could tell the contents, so the
names of all present were taken
and the name selected was Mr.
Davis. who received the package
and after removing numerous wrap
pers found a pack of playing cards.
The next social will be held Tues
day evening. August Is. at the home
of Miss Blanche Bowen. &c Seaton
Place northwest. to which members
of the chapter are cordially invited.
The drill team under the direc-
tion of Mrs. William B. Severe.
captain. held its weekly drill on
Wednesday evening at Northeast
Masonic Temple.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13
NEW YORK PLAYS.

NEW YORK. Aug. fa.--rhe
Monster" Crane wiibur's new play
which opened a. the thirty ninth
Street Theater late In the week,
will be reviewed later. The GIN
ger Box Revue" has helated
opening tonight. For next week
there is promised: Lights Out"
produced by Mrs. II. B. Harris at
the Vanderbilt: ''Manhattan.. with
Norman Trevor. at the Playhouse,
and Arthur Woods production.
Lonely Wives at the Eltinge
We tcome TO new season ush-
cred in by mystery plays Of which
THE Monster" Is one and wills
2ering Wires" which opened Tues
day, is another.
: The latter can be CLASSIFIED and
what above the average. Despite
creation of atmosphere. Kate Me-
Laurin has made an interesting
play that differs from its contem-
poraries In that the crime In dis
cuBsed in It's possibilities. long be-
fore IL fs committed.
Montgomery Stockbridge. hated
nhancier, KNOWS OF the plot beinB
planned against him and craftiiy
conceives methods for foiling 1t.
Despite this caution he is murdered
before the end Of the FIRST act and
by . o'clock Ben johnson, who
plays the part, has completed an
other days work. The remaining
acts are given to solving the crime.
Although Haywood Broun ridicules
the entire play. the majority OF
critics agree that the shuberts have
ushered in the season with q 'mys-
terry play OF baffiing interest" and
"sure-fre melodrama"
Frances Starr in shore Leave"
which was seen In Washington last
spring, gives promise Of . good
run In a play which. II not sub
stantial. Is at least entertaining.
The star and James Rsnnie are
credited with an acceptable por-
trayal of their parts and David Be-
lasco Is being acclaimed for the
artistic details that are making
rather ordinary story unusual in
its depletion.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13
Foundation Of d Picture
Is Scenario, Says Ingram
Future Will Adopt His Own
Film Stories. sys,s4ss 81

not hang together again. The
armature Is the scuiptor's scenario. !"
From this. II will be seen, II 10
Mr.. Ingram's idea that the director
should be, In effect. his own scena-
rist. and another tendency of the
present might be noted in this
connection. Those most expert
enced in the making of motion pic
lures are in general agreement.
apparently. on the proposition that
the photoplay. from its inception
until II Is fixed in It's final film
form. should be substantially the
work of one man. a single Great
ing and directing mind.
In addition to Lonely Wives"
and East of Suez." A. II. Woods Is
launching a third venture In At
lantic City. This is the Pauline
Frederick Michael Morton piece,
The Guilty One" which. since It
goes to Chicago on August II,
probably Will not arrive in New
York until midseason. Its COM
pany. in addition to Miss Fred
erick. will. include Charles Dalton.
Charles Waldron and Ian Keith.
A. II. Woods II dispatching a
company to London almost imme-
diately to act Lawful Larceny" at
the Savoy Theater. Those who are
making the trip include Lowell
Sherman. Ruth Shepley. Catherine
Calvert, Lee Baker ana Forrest
winant--a goodly cast. With Mar
garet Lawrence disporting herself
elsewhere. an entirely new COM
pany will take to the road in the
play in this country.
Sam H. Harris, who never seems
to rest. will try out still another
play in Atlantic City soon. This
will be The Nervous Wreck" by
Owen Davis. Mr.. Harris year
promises to be as full as ever.
Oran~elo Ratio. The assistant
manager of Loew's Palace Theater.
has returned to his duties at the
Palace after vacation. spent at
Atlantic City. Harry B. Howe as
sistant manager at Loew's Colum-
bis Theater, Is preparing for a va
cation within a few days.
Engene Walter, il Us reported, is
making n play out of Foolish Wives"
the film.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13

Ethel Barrymore's first Ibsen play
of her New York season will be
"Hedda Gabier.'
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13

In an article In the August Issue
of Photopiay Magazine. Frederick
James Smith reviews the aim year
ended July /. 1924. and selects what
he considers its eight best prcduc-
tions. They are:
-rorabIe Dav;d.- horphans Of the
Storm" Hungry Hearts" The
Three Musketeers." -Bits OF Life.
The Loves Of Pharaoh" Foolish
Wives and -one Glorious Day
The following are also named by
Mr.. Smith as the best performances
LiIiisn Gish's henrietta in -or-
phans OF the Storm Rose Rosa
nova's Ghetto Mother In Hungry
Hearts" Richard Baytheimess' David
In s.-rol'abie David" Douglas FAIR
banks D'Artagnan In The Three
Musketeers.' Asia Nefisen's Hamlet
est In Little Lord Fauntieroy." Poia
Negrrs desert dancer in -one Ara
bian Night" Erich Won stroheim-s
Karansin In Foolish wives" viii
Rogers Professor In zone Glorious
Day" and Jackie coogan's Boy IN
Ny Boy"
Mr.. Smith begins his article p>
putting himself on record as -cs-
ciering that the photoplay now
shows far less signs Of breaking its
shackies than two years ago-or
even one" Il hate TO be q KILL
JOY" he writes. but the cinema
drama is certainly in the doldrums"
And then. no doubt. you expect
him 10 go on and say the screes
needs better stories. But listen to
this:
The usual slam at the silent play
cons sts of the phrase Lack Of gooo
stories" I put the blame on a
wholly different basis. The silver
sheet has had-and still reveals
multitude of excellent stories. The
fundamental trouble lies in the
stereotyped telling Fine tales are
distorted. hacked and utterly ruined
through lack Of Imagination in the
screening. could NIL this page
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13

0l.rrsek - clare Kunmer's
corpery. "A Successful Calam-
tty." with Garry Mccsrry and
other Garflct Players In he
chief roles.
,. y. keiths--Llonel Atwiii IN
The White Faced Fool" by Ed-
gar Allan woolf; Bert Fitsg:b-
bon. with Brother Lew; Dick and
Jack Bird the Rubini Sisters.
the ZIP. Zip. Yaphankers.. Dla-
mond and Brennan, Garcinetti
RiALTo-Harry' Houd.ni. the
handcuff king. In "The Man from
Eeyond," his latest picture.
COLUMBIA - G,oria Swanson
In "A Gilded Cage" from a play
by Ann Nichols: directed by Sam
Woods with David Powell, Anne
Cornwall. Charles stevenson.
Walter HERS. Harr son Ford and
others.
PALACE-Thomas Meighan In
II You Believe 1t. It's So" by
Periey Poore sheehan; directed
by Tom Forman. with Paul ne
Starke. Jos phi Bowling. Theo-
dore Roberts. Charles ogie, Lura
Ansen and others,
METRoPOLITAN-Auita Stew
art In Rose of the Sea-" directed
by Fred Niblo. with Rudolph
Cameron. Thomas Holding. Mar
garet Lands. Kate Lester.
Charles Belcher and others in the
cast.
CRANDALL's First three
days. His wife's Husband"
starring Betty Blythe: wednes-
day and Thursday. Mary Miles
Minter In South Of suva;" FRI
day and Saturday. John Emerson
and Anita Loos. In Red Hot
Romance" with an all-star cast.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13
Porch Party
hLynchburg
Miss Martha Brotherton
Guest of Mrs. John
H. DaUis.

LYNCHBURG, Va, Aug. 12.-Miss
Martha Brotherton. Of Jacksonville,
Fla, formerly a student at Ran
dolphin Macon woman's College. a
member of the A. o. Pi Sorority,
who has been the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Ainslie, has been much
entertained since her arrival here
One of these events was q porch
party given by Mrs. John Henry
Davis at her home in Norfolk av.
enue.
Mrs. r. d. Apperson entertained 4
Informally at bridge in honor OF
her guests. Mrs. Brent Moore and
Mrs. Russell Kessell. of New York
City. and Mrs. Isisil Kennetty. OF
Fayette. Ala.
Miss Sue Adams has returned
from Harrisburg, Pa. where she
visited Mrs. Vincent p. O'Rellly.
Mrs. Anne woodroof Greasy Is
home after six weeks ~ Newman
and Atlanta. Ca. and Richmond.
Mrs. Tom Harris has returned Id
Manassas after visit with Mrs
John A. McKenry.
Miss Helen Gregory. OF Char
lottesville. has been visiting Mrs
G. e. Covey.
DIR. and Mrs. John w. Carroll and
daughter. Miss Marjorie. are al
Mountain Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Chenault and
Mrs. F.. w. Adams have returned
from Ocean View.
Miss Mary Ann Hollis has re-
turned from Columbia, Miss.
Ethel Barrymore's first Ibsen play
of her New York season will be
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13

Directors Must Cease Droppins All Stoas'
Into Same Screen Mold, Says ~
Photoplay Critic a.

with . list Of the dead ana n.u
lated.
Until this silver screen 6
away from its present mstha6x q
dropping each ana every st6fy M
the same mold we see no inHcst,o
Of the patients recovery. Thsphoto
play must develop q tschnique a
its own. II must put freshmen
originality and imarfnation int
the making Of motion picturtSatk
-o.ssS
The Theater Guild CONTINUES d
store up plays for Joseph schfidkrsuf
He win be seen nrst In Peer lGfptss
with Romeo and Juliet 70 follow
A German play. Hans sund<rfcrxpp
er's Trip 70 He'll" n also announce<
for Mr.. schiidkrsut 20
usrunl
The Mysterious Affair." the uulff
seemed German play. viii eventually
follow Frank Tinney st the Ipoiis
Theater In New York
with Little Nellie Kelly OF N,
hands. Mr.. cohan will now procrt6
to make ready q play for the New
York theater. II is reported that ths
play will be How Very Americans
by Arthur Goodrich =
There 10 O humor that ycfinr m
williams is about TO return as pro-
ducing manager. -ossuI
The Washington herald., 1922-08-13
Gayety's First Show.

Manager Harry Jarboe opens the
le2e-1ses Gayety Theater season
next Sunday with Suite Sixteen"
with Sam Sidman, who handles the
feature role. Sidman was one time
co-star with Walker whtteside
and Tyrone Power, and also with
Weber and Fields.
Assisting Sidman Is a company
that includes Rose Bentley. Billie
Hall. AL Pinard. George Wright,
Frank Conroy. Lew Krugei. Sadies
Banks. and Jeanette Kayton.
Claiming Pollock. on the Coast
to view the try-out OF his own play.
The Fool. reports that Bataille's
La Tendresse" is one Of the finest
plays that he has ever seen
Robert Edeson will soon be seen in
mystery play, The Warning"
The Glenwood post., 1922-02-16

When carloads of products dumped Delta
and fruit rots the Grand Junction and Montroe when
the rich mining country the San needs friendly aid
stance when matters have reached conditions that there
demand for the Western Slope is time for the
Republican party to take notice.
The Denver Civic and Commercial association which lawyers
and other professional members with best of intentions and
for the public good controlled by OF the retail
dealers food and clothing and the big department
high imported from the East for
efficiency who knows nothing Of needs Railroads
being Western Slope revolt farmers and labor
restless The Denver Civic and Commercial association of Den
the nesting place for the retail food and clothing proeer.
This organization opposing the American plan of valuation
that the bills from the foreign shipper,
deceive the custom house and the other the bill
The Western Slope Of Colorado has proper
Grafton The political outlook change but unless doe back
the farm back the mines become the popular cry
of the Republican and possibly for dirt farmer
'pck-and-shovel miner for governor.
State Senator Richard c. Caln, big farmer Rifle Colo,
may be good candidate.
About four suggested the Eugene Gubb
who still be available other farmer Of the
Western Slope who also understands the needs the Posi-
bly, professional such Can Moynaan Vincent may
do who have the confidence of the farmer and the miner Per-
chance may have the combination in Denver of Benjamin Grif
fifth former attorney general formerly of Grand junction.
Sweet enthusiastic farmer also of the Western Slope
Give the Western Slope fair chance and square dealRocky
Mountain News.
The Glenwood post., 1922-02-16
LABOR GETS INTO POLITICS

Three thousand members of labor organizations in
Denver last Saturday and after the
preliminary voted soemny politics.
year
is little less than hdcrous.
year the Democratic party Of mental
the uperves from the radical of
labor become Democrats The radicals accepted the
without thanks proceeded make the
radical instead of making the radicals Democratic The
of the radical labor
the state whom least Socialist of
Organized labor made of being
lin faith merely proposed prostitute the
When in the of time election day rolled
generally believed that the Democratic state ticket
Whipping that Democracy and labor would
hand hand When the counted found
labor candidates had districts where labor
words, given ancient
and honorable organization labor named
and slaughtered them at the polls
Labor has done this thing that to o
surprise After the Denver meeting had adjourned
day member said something significant What the
election last fall he ad lis only indication
going do election. We only indication
the aughtering and double which
1922 it has since the beginning of tme-Greey News
The Glenwood post., 1922-02-16
WHAT ABOUT THE MorrAr TUNNEL

Shall Colorado pledge its credit construct the Moat tunne
Will the Legislature convened special justified sub
mting people for the construction
which will eliminate the grades Of the Moffa road and wipe
the which making Colorado
Pacific rather Colorado and the
die
1t impossible the question ntegeny until the
details Of the plan have been made public but Weld
already negative proposal
order the millions needed Whether other
be
whether Weld county will consider the former proposal
with favor after having had which think it
From the standpoint of unfortunate that the
agitation brought time when the and
nation public nfamed There
doubt would repay
whether people will the wisdom investing
hold and when exceeding all known altitude records
idle the development of northwestern Colorado
won't help the and who
problems Anything which brings people
of the markets and wealth. these
cycle of development which fail help the humbes Of
The Anything which tends Colo
ado the Pacific states is going to hurt and hurt nightly
Denver business worried the pripect
Colorado will become suburb of Angeles
of railroad from the We underestimate
which these districts the other side of the Rockies paronze
1.-THE who buy They add materially
But all that against existing facts which hard
The the tunnel and
knows that railroad influence in the west will be brought
The Glenwood post., 1922-02-16
DANCE AND PAY THE PIPER

Nothing certain than the old saying that They
dance must the and this applies with especial
the question which agng the people considerable
1t all back the theory that who goods
if they honest plan for those goods time. you
insist fine clothes must for them
st eating high priced foods people have habit
doing ofentmes regardless of the nuv of
they that their living will
confne their gasrononc palmer nutri
tious but less expensive diet
In other words insist dancing
the fiddler That is to reasonably
satisfy Pierce Arrow appetite with Ford income, very
largely the trouble with today We
with the of the overlooking
license whatever that
indefinitely We have made
have deuded ourselves with the thought
far the matter thought that
be day. We have approached the
math of every unjufied
great struggle many only
if they expect to escape the threatened disaster.
This has direct bearing the question taxation the
complaints that quite concerning high
Please let bear mind that when senAn
under financial obligation for the
token when demand certain improvements
that be- in honor bound for those improvements
whether they other
best remedy know of for lowering
much If will but the practice little
will demands
Others then demand reenchment with
consistency than at preesn What fellows?