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Evening star., 1922-11-05
MARYLAND FORMS
NEW MOTOR CLUB
Members Will Be Autoists
Opposed to Withdrawal
From A. A. A.
SPECIAL Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. November 4-Mary-
land is to have new automobile
club or a state branch OF the Ameri-
can Automobile Association. Organi-
ing attended by DIR. II. NJ Rowe of
Catonsville; Henry G. Shirley. former
Maryland state road engineer, and
NJ. o. Eldridge. executive chairman
of the American Automobile Associa-
ton.
They will meet within a few days
TO decide whether a branch of the
national organization or new club
will be formed and how to go about it.
Tho three men were named Wednes-
day in Washington at meeting of
the executive committee of the three
AS" organization, to take charge of
forming a new Maryland body of
motorists DIR. Rowe is a member
and past president of the executive
committee.
The action is the result of the with
drawal OF the Automobile Club Of
Maryland from the American Auto
mobile Association and affliation with
the newly formed National Motorists
Association.
Not RetaliatOry. Is Claim.
II want it understood that this is
not retaliatory measure DR.. Rowe
said today we will be Il construc
tive organization. working for the
best interests of Maryland motorists
and the public.
We will not oppose the older club
and will not try to injure it. but. of
course, if any of its members decide
we are giving better service and wish
10 join our organization. ii Will be up
to them.
The new club or branch will be
formed with nucleus of motorists
now affiliated with the American Auto
mobile Association.
Several of them. from the southern
part of the state, We're at the eX-
ecutive committee meeting in Wash
ington Wednesday to petition that
steps be taken to organic" in Mary
land, according to DIR. Rowe.
Aim at New Liquidation.
The new body. when formed. will
try to secure legislation to have the
motor vehicle and gasoline tax go
entirely to the benefit of motorists
and to obtain better relations be
tween motorists and the public IN
general DIR. Rowe said today
It will also advocate legislation to
place the responsibility in cases
where automobiles hit pedestrians.
DIR. Rowe said that at present the
blame is usually put on the motorist.
though in 90 per cent of the acci-
dents they are due to the carelessness
Of pedestrians.
Il realize there are some reckless
drivers. and | think they should be
punished or have their licenses with
drawn, but the great majority of
motorists take all precautions to
guard against hitting pedestrians
he said, in explanation.
Dr. Rowe does not think the state
police are a necessary organization.
and says the money it costs to sup
port tho force could better be spent
in the upkeep of roads.
Evening star., 1922-11-05
- MOTORS and MOTORING - -
TRUCK LOAD LIMIT SEEN.
Uniform Laws Throughout q. S.
Predicted by Mackall.
sreciaI Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, November An less
than five years there will be uniform
laws throughout the United States
limiting motor trucks to a carrying
capacity of 10000 pounds on state
roads. This was the statement OF
John n. Mackall, chairman OF the
state roads commission. to members
of the Scimiter Club.
Mr.. Mackall discussed the Maryland
roads as compared with roads else
where and said the people of this
state had the best roads Of all. he
said that a number of automobile
manufacturers wanted permission to
have trucks carry more than 20.000
pounds. but that this weight would
ruin the roads here "in no time"
Evening star., 1922-11-05
GETS WASHINGTON POSITION.

Maj. Edward ~. Conger. a former
Marine Corps officer. for many months
Connected with the Nash Motors
agency of Philadelphia. will come to
Washington to assume a responsible
position in the local branch of the
Packard Motor Car Company in the
early part of November
Evening star., 1922-11-05
TRAPPING STRANGE
AUTO|ST CENSURED
Filming Visitors for Violations
of Local Rules Is Held
Unfair.

1t is all well and good to do as
the Romans do when in Rome, wheth-
er it be in New York state or in Italy,
but stranger cannot emulate the
Roman customs and know the local
traffic ordinances the moment he
motors within the city limits.
"A square deal for the automo-
bile" is embodied in a request ad-
dressed to local communities every
where. via the motion picture screen,
by Topics of the Day. films in its
Fair Play on the Highway" CAM
pagn. The message follows:
The best way to eliminate traffic
operate with automobilists rather
than to incite violations and then
trap the violators. which method is
unfair and un-American.
Relic OF Feudal Days.
Taking advantage of strangers and
fining them for violations Of unknown
local ordinances is a relic Of feudal
days and unjust persecution. Let us
make sane laws for our tourists so
they will have pleasant recolIections
of our towns.
Connecticut is showing how CO.
operation and common sense elimi-
nate accidents. Other states would
40 wen to investigate neF laws.
This screen message reminds us of
story AeSop, jr.. tells about a mo-
torist who appeared before a PROXY
town judge for exceeding the local
speed limit. The motorist, a stranger
in that vicinity. had been going
through the village at a reasonable
rate of speed. There were no signs
stating the speed limit and the limit
in ProZytown was such as would be
termed ''crawling" in any more pro-
Eressive community. After hearing
fined the offender $40. Pulling his
wallet from an inside pocket. the
speeder extracted $50 bill and
handed it to the judge.
Possible Friend Lost.
THE fine is only So" reminded the
judge.
YES. I know that" replied the de-
fendant defiantly. but I am going to
drive out of town twice as fast as
drove in
Right there and then Prozytown lost
possible friend. That man, who
was driving at a reasonable rate of
speed. was practically driven away.
He might have been a capitalist or
a manufacturer looking for a fac
tory location. He might have been
with the intent of opening a store.
The town gained a minimum fine and
made an enemy with potential max
imum loss. Our story is more truth
than poetry and perhaps you, dear
reader, have had similar experience
1t is to be hoped that the Topics Of
the Day" campaign for fair play
on the highway" will meet with the
remedial success it so well deserves.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-22
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New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

favorites of mine, at least, would be
sure to appear: Fanny Brice, Will
Rogers, the Marion Morgan dancers,
the Rath Rrothers, Joe Cook, Paul
Whiteman's Band and James Barton, of
course. There should be singing team
on the lists, but l have not heard
enough Of them to make choice.
1t would be much easier to choose
twenty-five than ten, and perhaps even
more acts than that would seem to
merit q place on list Of really great
bits Of entertainment.
Can we not have such list by some
.one in position to know?
1t would be interesting to see after
few years if some of the old faithful,
sure-fire acts wouldn't hold thein place
on this list year after year. 1 am sure
that Joe Cooks one-man vaudeville
show would. have seen it at inter
walls ever since the early spring of 1915
and 1t still seems to me one of the most
riotously funny offerings on the stage.
BARBARA LITTLE,
79 Seventh Avenue, N. Y. G..
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Spirituals in the Theater

Dear Sir: In the Sunday Tribune of
june 9 there appeared an article under
the caption, "Spirituals, Gay and Sad,
Ring Through Strut Miss Lizzie" It
called attention to how the negro spir-
ituals were being exploited in the COM
edy show, "Strut Miss Lizzie"
To start with, these songs do not
belong in the theater, and the men,
hers of the "Strut Miss Lizzie" COM
pany have done injury to them in
carrying them on the stage and exploit
ing them for commercial value. The
theater does not provide the proper
environment and background for the
best expression and Interpretation Of
these songs, and it is rarely that a
company Of entertainers, especially
those who work in the theaters, can
bring to these songs the proper relig-
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

ious ideals, tho thing which actuated
the negro when he sang them as q
slave. The negro spirituals are the
most sacred of the negro folksongs;
they were sung at the religious meet
ings, and represented the spontaneous
outburst Of people. To sing them
in the theaters takes them altogether
out Of their setting, and when they
are heard in such an environment they
lose much Of their value.
The negro schools and colleges OF
the South are teaching their students
to revere and love these songs. To
love them for the character they ex-
press, and what they meant to the
negro when he had no other weopon
to rely on but these songs when he
faced tho long stretch of slavery. Fisk
University, at Nashville, Tenn, sent
out the first group Of singers, in 1871,
to give to the world the message of
these songs. At this university there
Is nothing more sacred than this
music. The attempt to sing these
songs by unscrupulous minstrels has
worked injury to the music, and has
brought about a. misconception. When
Roland Hayes, the negro tenor, sang
before the King Of England the King
and England got an altogether new
conception Of these songs, because of
their proper Interpretation. The songs
had been sung before in the cheap con-
cert halls of London by entertainers
who knew nothing of their value. As
a student of this music who knows it's
sacredness ! want to protest against
the abuse of these songs by exploiting
them in theaters.
CLEVELAND G. ALLEN.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Every Man in
His Own Humor
The Elite of Vaudeville

HEAR SIR: Whenever I read the
dramatic critics compilations
at the end of the theatrical
season Of the best plays, the best
scenes and the best bits of acting of
the year / wonder why they do not
also offer q list of the best vaudeville
offerings.
Is the fob of picking the ten best
acts Of the year from such profusion
too staggering to attempt? Or do they
find no real merit there? 1t seems to
me that from the wealth of material
produced in the course of year in our
vaudeville houses-particularl at the
Palace-ten acts Of exceptional merit
could be selected that would constitute
sort Of ideal American Chauve-Sourls.
And, unlike the plays which are
lauded at the end of the season, when
some of them have gone to their last
long rest in storehouse and are for
ever lost to the sight of those of us
who neglected to see them during their
first presentation, many of the vaude-
Vile acts selected for such an honor
roll would probably still be playing in
the outskirts of New York.
And perhaps this choice of vaude-
ville's best would inspire some spend
thrift manager to gather them together
on gala bill for week or two. / am
sure that such move would arouse in
terest in vaudeville among the be-
nighted people who haven't yet formed
the habit Of going to vaudeville. And,
too, dare say that it would provide
vaudeville with some worthy standards
to measure up to.
Any selection that I might suggest
would not be fair one, for have not
attended the Palace every week and
my visits to the Shubert vaudeville
houses were even less frequent But
am sure that on any such list these
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

thester are all beginning to be- used
regularly by local groups. Even the
church hall. One student Of the SUBJ
Ject has recently said that there are
over 5000 church basement dramatic
groups in active existence to-day. And
the active demand is for more directors
soundly trained in the technique Of the
little" theater workshop.
There is new desire just since the
war for group self expression and for
more imaginative sorts of recreation.
All the means Of artistic expression
normally found in community life are
called into play in the theater "work-
shop" for community drams> Of the
sort which Is so fast becoming a parx
OF our everyday community life over
the country in general. The acting
the incidental music and dancing. The
making Of and decorating of tbs
scenery, the oostuming and lighting
give everybody something to do. And
the result Of some programs which
have been in existence for q sufficient
time to have results are Of such q
kind that 1t is not visionary nor fightv
TO say that through some such means
as this we are at last to attain q ress
art Of the American people, which,
like all art Of all timss--is destined to
have its roots in an expanding socini
spirit.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

mentioned; when she flashes the pock-
ct light in front Of her face in the
dark scene she's irresistible, and when
she modestly gathers her chiffon robe
as close as possible about her in the
lingerie song she profits by her asso-
ciates' frankness. Then there's the
prettiest Of The girls who sing the fan
song in "The Music Box Revue" and
the "Follies" can of course supply q
number Of girls; after all F. z. is a
pretty good picker. But why not let
the public help out7 E.. K.
New York City.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
These Old Plays Are New

Oldtime cheap melodramatic sue.
cesses are to have their innings anew
in pictures. "The Great Metropolis
"Romany Rye" "Black Flag" "Under
the Gas Light" "Lost in New York"
sin the Ranks" and similar shows ars
being made ready for the camera.
Cheap casts and cheap cost of produce
tion averaging about $4,000 each war.
rant this, for there is public demand,
as Lincoln Carter's "Fast Mail" showed.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Dove's-eye View of Hollywood

Billie Dove is out in Hollywood
making pictures for Metro, and she
says the quiet is driving her mad.
What she expected was quite differ
ent from what she found. This is
what che saw:
A colony of peaceful bungalows
and quiet streets.
Attractively simple cafeteriss and
tea shops, where grape juice was
the wickedest thing in sight.
An occasional hokey-pokey man
selling Eskimo pies.
A club of screen actresses which
had all the earmarks Of Y. W.
C. A.
Well known stars moving their
, lawns and working their gardens.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23

q warm welcome in the West for "Letty
Pepper" Her Los Angeles engagement
has been extended to FIVE weeks.
The Washington Square College
Players of New York University, un.
der the direction of Ralph Somerville
will present four one-act plays at the
Lenox Little Theater, 81 East Seventy
eighth Street, next Friday and Satur-
day evenings. The bill: Malcolm
La Parde's "Checkmate." Lady Greg
ory's "The Workhouse Ward" Dorrian's
"The Age of Reason" and Stuart Walk
er's "The Medicine Show"
Four productions opened out of town
last week preparatory to q showing on
Broadway.
On Monday, July IT, at the Apollo
Theater, Atlantic City, Sam H. Harris
produced otis Boy" by William An
thony Mcclure, author Of "Six Cylin-
der Love" The cast: John Daily Muir
ply, Jane Adair, Robert Ames. Charles
Lawrence, Dorothy Mackaye, Hortense
Alden, Peter Lang, Joseph Kilgour,
Millicent Hanley, Richard Pitman,
James r. Waters. The press Of Allan
tic City said:
It's Boy" win 60 strong after
lent cast and the prologue and first act
possess freshness and vivacity that
promise greater things than are actually
ILL 10
acts descend to the old story of the ex-
periences Of the small town family that
gets submerged In the swift currents
a good entertainment.
On Monday at the Woods Theater In
Atlantic City George Broadhurst pro-
duced "Wild Oats Lane" his own play,
with Maclyn Arbuckle, Richard Barbee,
Douglas Wood, Daniel Davis, James
Bradbury jr, John Ellis, Thomas Gum,
Howard Nugent, James Jefferson, Leah
Peck, Edna May Oliver, Hope Suther-
land, Camilla Lyon, judith Vosselli,
Florence Earle, Vera Finlay, Edna Won
Buelow, Pauline Breustedt The press
said:
heart and it does strike home very
delightful play and one that touches the
emotions deeply. Lovabie he
was in Daddy Dumplin'," Maclyn
Arbuckle is, IL possible, more delightful
as kind hearted. joviai Father Joe. In
the adaptation of Gerald Beaumont's
story of THE Gambling Chaplain" He
is the central figure through five scenes
and an spilogue of the three-act play,
the locale Of which never changes from
the home Of the gentle shepherd Of
souls. For frequently exquisite touches
of character study the play Is treasure
trove.
On Monday, at the Majestic Theater
in Buffalo, the Bonstelle Stock Com
pany produced "Mister Man." a new
play by Marion de Forest, author OF
"Erstwhile Susan" 1t is based on a
story of the same name by Frank R.
Adams.
On Monday, at the Shubert-G -Garrick
Theater, Washington, the Garrick
Players presented "A Turn in the
Dark" a melodrama in three acts by
George Henry Trader. The cast:
Katherine Pritchard, Brandon Peters,
George Henry Trader, Henry Goldstein,
Garry McGarry, Imogen Taylor, Ger
trude Augarde, Ada Meade, Dennis
King, Edwin Trusheim, Mrs. Charles
B. .Hanford, Granville Palmer, Mary
Bunday, E. j. Bender.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23


1t is at the Art Center, 65 East
Fiftysixth Street, under the auspices
Of the Inter Theater Arts, with Miss
Elizabeth Grimball, president Of that
organization, as workshop director.
Among those on the staff prominent
In work connected with the allied arts
Of the theater are Nine. Albert, of the
School Of Expression, Of Columbia Uni
versity; Rhea Wells, theatrical costume
designer and ILLUSTRATOR; Miss Helen
Ford, director of the Educational
Dramatic League; Miss Miriam Loder
Wallace, director Of pantomime dancing
and pageantry; Miss Berta Elsmith,
professor Of music in the drama and
pageantry, and Oscar Berner, wig and
theatrical makeup expert.
The students, necessarily rigidIy
limited in number, include women from
Tennessee, Colorado, Washington, D. c.,
Kentucky, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
North Carolina and France. The de-
mand for this particular course came
entirely from women, and almost en-
tirely from those already mora or less
actively engaged in some sort Of
amateur dramatic work; therefore, the
interesting demonstration In progress
at the Art Center Is Of what would
normally be years course for amateur
workers concentrated into the course
Of few weeks.
The choice of produceable material,
! pantomime and characterization in act
ing, incidental musice and dancing and
their relation to dramatic action,
period costumes and costuming, and,
on the technical side, the making of
scenery and costumes and the manage
ment Of lighting as ~dramatic factor
are developed in the practical working
out Of play by the students under
direction, both with some regard for
the practical problems "back home" and
as public performance to be given at
the end Of the course.
If newspapers have, as Mr.. Eaton
points out, been oblivious to the tre-
mendous effect Of such workshop"
courses on the American stage, the
serious artists Of the theater have not
neither have the students Of social
| life the country over. 1t has come to
be pretty generally recognized that the
most artistic innovations Of the COM
mercial stage during the last few years
| ~ ,&,1
groups, which, being quite free from
the broadway" tradition, have every
thing to give and nothing to gain from
| it. What the 'little" theater has con-
tributed to the artistic effectiveness of
the stage as whole can best be seen in
| New York. What it has contributed to
| the social life of the country can best
be seen elsewhere. Hundreds of little
with old curtains, lighted with automo-
| bile searchlights with colored tissue
paper slides, and have become clear
! ing house for home talent where the
best 'little" theater classics are played
with an atmosphere and q beauty that
the movies and the poor road company
could never attain. Because teacher"
has become dramatic director, so has
the playground director, the church
worker, the community worker OF many
towns and neighborhoods of large
cities. The "Opera House. the Town
Hall, the Elks Club hall, the local
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
A Jury on Beauty

Dear Sir: The unusually pretty lit
tie blonde chorus girl in ''Sue Dear"
suggests a brand method of Sc
lecting the chorus girls for the Fol
lies" Instead of abiding by Mr.. Zieg-
fields judgment and letting him select
the American girls who are to be glori-
fed why not let the public do bit of
deciding for itself?
There's the piquant blonde already
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
AT the Palace

Ted Lewis and his jazz clowns, the
Four Mortons and Van and Schenck are
the headliners at the Palace Theater
this week. Blended into the bill arc
the standard acts Of Jack Rose, Kramer
and Boyle, revue entitled "The Little
Cottage" headed by Frank Sinclair, and
Cliff Dixon.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
Play Producing g
More about Making Dram attic Directors OF Anaateurs

T<HERE Is in in New York
example of the intensive workshop" amateur drama
which Walter Prichard number
The Tribune This institute the
being given demand
spend vacations have advanape
of such instruction
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
The Playbill
% Productions Getting Ready for Showing Broadway

THE first major production Of tho made by
DAVID BELASCO "Shore Leave" which Lyceum
Theater with FRANCES subtled seagon comedv
gHube Osborne 1t is story of the New England HUBERT
April" produced in New York several
In handling ttle theaters Pittsburgh
W has ho the knack of doing things artistic JAMES
RENNE, REGINALD BARLOW and SCHUYLER in the
cast Producers jumpy the swings to the
e manifestation
New-York tribune., 1922-07-23
That Difference of Opinion

The following letter, which has bean
received at The Tribune Office. spsaks
for itself:
Miss Harriette Underhill,
Dear Madam; Misied by your
boost" Of "The Fast Mail" and your
statement Of your intention of seeing
1t second time. we saw it last evening.
In our opinion stern Justice should
compel you to see it every night for =
month.
TWO TRIBUNE READERS.