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Newark post., 1922-04-19
GARDEN SANITATION
GETS RID OF PESTS
One Way to Prevent Ravages
by Insects Is to Destroy
Refuse Now

Every gardener knows the damage
insect pests create among his vege-
tables, flowers and shrubs, and is
more or less familiar with the theory
and practice of spraying with insecti-
cides to control them. But it is not so
generally realized garden sanitation
is a preventative measure the practice
of which is of great Importance as at
fecting the problem.
The larvae and eggs OF many in
sect pests; and in some cases the ma
ture creatures themselves, lie through
the winter in piles of rubbish, dead
twigs and bark, under stones and in
all manner of such places which af-
ford them protection from the severe
weather. When spring warns their
hiding places they hatch or awake, as
the case may be, scatter and start in
on their life work of preying on the
plants and reproducing their own
race,
1t is self-evident if we can kill
these potential destroyers of our
plants before they become active we
will prevent not only their own
ravages but those of their descendants
as we'll. And we can rest assured
whatever we may do in cleaning out
their winter refugees will be we'll re-
paid.
The things to do, and do at once be-
fore the season advances any farther
is to rake up every bit of garden re-
fuse, pile it in some out-of-the-way
corner, and burn every stick of it
Dead weds and flower stalks, straw
mulches and rose-bush coverings
broken twigs and branches from the
shrubs and trees-all the riff-rafi
that the winter has left around the
grounds and in the garden, is eligible
for this funeral pyre of the pests.
Incidentally but none the less i'm
portant because it is not the mair
reason, such a cleanup will result in
far neater grounds and make easier
the attainment Of 100 per cent. re
suits. The garden that is sanely
sanitary is the one that produces th'
finest flowers, the most luscious, fruits
and vegetables, the handsomest shrubs
and trees
Newark post., 1922-04-19
DAYETT'S COWS STAND HIGH

Ten highest cows in producing but
tertat during the month of March:
D. irwin Dayett, cow Blackey, 1661.6
IDS. Of milk, with 68.62 lbs. butterfat;
D. irwin Dayett, cow Valdessa, 1872
IDS Of milk, with $3.50 lbs. butterfat;
H. B. Crowgey, cow No. Sc, 1922
IDS. Of milk, with 6O.6O lbs. butterfat;
.. lrVln Dayett, COW X. P. L. Marion,
i'4o'6 lbs. of milk, with 1919 lbs.
U,asIerfat; Beadenkopf, cow No. 5,
4o"1 lbs of milk, with 59.16 lbs.
W, Dou,''erfat; Eugene Feucht & Son, COW
n'A Pontiac Alcartra Isabella, 1401.2
III ,pS' OF milk, with 54.65 lbs. butterfat;
Harvey Anderson, COW No. 1, 864.9
~ ,oS OF milk, with 51.8O lbs. butterfat;
oaa omaeasoenkopf, cow Generals Pansy,
.0o,l lbs of milk, with 51.32 lbs. but
,ons; ,ernas; H. B. Crowgey, COW No. 16,
.. tV0o'o lbs of milk, with 51.0O lbs. but
o-n serlat; H. B. Crowgey, COW No. 81,
b,,.. b's.0 lbs. of milk, with 5o.94 lbs.
Newark post., 1922-04-19
Need Greatest NO1U

Today the farmer is in greater
need of the motor truck than he has
ever been before, if he is to build on
the rock of economy. The prices
obtained for many classes of products
by the farmer depend to large ex-
tent upon his ability to place them
on the market in good condition at
the right time.
The ordinary methods of marketing
farm products do not take prompt
ness into consideration. Great guam
titles of food are wasted because
farmers cannot profitably get their
products to market. This is situa-
tion that must be overcome and the
motor truck seems to be the most
satisfactory means of bringing this
about.
Newark post., 1922-04-19

"No," remarked the determined
lady to the indignant taxi-driver, who
had received his exact fare, "you can
not cheat me. I haven't ridden in
cabs these twenty years for nothing"
"Haven't you?" he retorted bitter
ly. "Well, you've done your best."-
ShoWme,
Newark post., 1922-04-19
Trucks Carry l34,4OO,OOO Tons
From Farm To Station Annually
Huge Amount of Food Also Marketed Direct by Auto
Vital and Growing Importance Recognized
Boon to Isolated Farmer

According to the United States
bureau of crop estimates, 134 4,O0O, 900
tons of farm products are carried
over the highways to the railways
annually, in addition to huge amounts
of farm tonnage which goes in trucks
direct between farm and market.
Secretary Hoover's Department of
Commerce recognized this economic
trend by recently declaring that "the
motor truck has given every town an
extended radius of food supplies by
some so miles, and thereby protects
such vital matters as milk and perish
ables against the first shock"
Gives Farmer An Outlet
Agricultural sections as general
thing are remotely situated and
usually a distance of from to 80
miles from transportation facilities
which makes the operation of the
farm improbable. The farmer cam
not find an outlet for his products,
and so does not work his farm to
capacity, or is allowing his crops to
rot, or is disposing of them in nearby
small consuming markets.
Under such conditions he is not re-
ceiving the profit he should obtain for
his efforts, and the consuming mar
kets in the cities are being deprived
of the tonnage which they would re-
ceive if these sections were provided
with swift transportation for moving
crops from isolated agricultural areas.
Rural motor express is greatly
needed where such conditions exist.
It's radius of operation is easily with
in a 50-mile zone, and therefore every
farmer and consuming section in the
vicinity of Washington should en-
courage it's organization and expan-
sion.
Newark post., 1922-04-19
BRITISH VESSEL
LAUNCHED AT MILFORD

The first vessel ever built for for
eign government on the lower Della
ware was launched in the Vinyard
Shipbuilding Company's plant, Mil
ford, last week. The ship was built
for the British Government and will
be used for conveying mail from
ocean liners to Nassau, Bahama Is
lands. The vessel was christened
Lady Cardeaux, after the wife of the
Governor General of the Bahamas.
The sponsor was Miss Asabelle Brake,
of New York City. She was presented
with a platinum wrist watch by Of
ficials of the shipbuilding concern.
"Anybody hurt in the wreck?"
Gone gentleman"
"Bones broken ?"
81 think it was his heart. He sat
down by leaking suitcase and shed
tears"
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
Midnight Encore
of Nev Fairbanks
Picture at Lyric
Opening Is To-night-Piran
dello Film Starts at
Princess.

Two openings tonight are fraught
with momentous consequences. The
new Fairbanks picture, douglas Fair
banks in Robin Hood" will be unfuried
at the Lyric Theater, and so great has
been the demand for seats that an encore
performance. will be given at midnight
so that those disappointed about getting
tickets, and meSnbers of the theatrical
profession who have just finished their
own performances. can make rush on
the house. Doug ana Mary Pickford
will stay and be russed over.
The second opening, six Characters
in Search of an Author" is important
since in connection with this new offer
ing at the Princess Theater there seems
to be a plan TO determine which theater-
goers are morons. The special nature
OF P!randello's dramatic novelty has
determined Brock Pemberton to limit the
engagement to four weeks, and to
restrict as far as possible the privilege
OF seeing 1t to the adult minded. When
the play was first acted In the Vale
Theater in Rome last winter a full
sized riot developed between those for
and against 1t. 1t Is in the hope OF
avoiding any sucn disturbances that
the effort to keep out morons and those
OF adolescent minds Will be made. A
series or questions is being framed to
be submitted to prospective purchasers
OF seats. Some OF these are: CD Do
you like the Pollyanna type OF play?
(2) What Is the meaning OF LEBLANC
CD DO you believe that Virtue is always
triumphant or that II is its only reward? ?
(4) Why Is q Fascista?
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
THE REVIEWING STAND
BY Alexander Woollcott

God. Then, on the very morning OF
the armistice, while the frenzy of
Paris is filing the city with deafening
noise and the sweet, deep bell of
Sacre- -Cnur is ringing for all she's
worth. in comes the word that he had
been killed In her grief she pro-
claims that there is no God. and In her
despair she goes Imply to the arms
of another man who has been waiting
all this time.
She is in those arms when the door
opens and her poilu walks in, his blue
coat stained from the trenches. his
head and shoulders crazy with the
streamers and confetti of the delirious
city. She had waited four years for
him, and 1t is an intolerably and
fantastically cruel thing that in the
very moment Of her surrender he
should reappear. You can see her
very eyes proclaiming that there is no
God-proclaiming 1t until, slowly. in
credulously 1t is borne in upon her
that his own eyes are sightless that
whatever the war has done to him
Fate has not played him this last
impish trick. He has not seen. There
is no disappointment. no disillusion in
the arms that enfold her as the curtain
falls.
This undeniably telling scene comes
at the end OF a play full of strange
things-such a play on Paris and the
war as might have been written in
Pittsfield, Mass, by warm hearted
and somewhat sentimental spinster
who had read "Trilby" when it came
out in Hdrper's in 1894 and had once
seen the second act of Louise" in a
benefit program at the Metropolitan.
1t is play in which the central mas
culine figure is staggering. thiev-
ing sewer rat, who is scandalized by
the didoes of the streetwalkers and
behaves toward the gone he selects for
himself in the chivalrous and slightly
avuncular manner which was as
signed to the male heroes in the COM
edies the late Charles Frohman used
TO have written for his aging stars.
Furthermore, II is war play in
which one afternoon the characters
are wondering remotely If there is
going to be war and in which a
half hour later they are leaving for
the front, rather giving the impress
sion that the trenches are around the
corner in the Place Clichy. There are
in "Seventh Heaven" score of such
indictments for the mind of the play
goer to keep muttering: But people
aren't like that. They don't act that
way. 1t was never like that at all"
Aside from Miss Menken, there is
no need of particularizing as TO the
cast. George Gaul is again unhappy
in a French role-up to strange
founcings and simperings which indi-
cate that he is trying to convey some
thing. The Gallo spirit, probably.
Herbert Druce. as a taxi driver who
has named his dilapidated bus HeNise
after the good old nag that had pre-
ceded it. is alive and hearty and genu-
inc, just a redolent London cab driver
with an inexplicable habit OF talking
about "Te bon Dtem.'
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
THE NEW MOVIES
By Robert E. Sherwood

the Plymouth Theater, will know the
story of "The Sin Flood" II Is the
sort of story that every author tries
to write at one time or another, being
based on that ever fascinating prob
lem, What would a man do If he knew
that he had but six hours to live?"
In this case there are several men,
and one woman. They are trapped In
saloon in Mississippi Valley town.
The river overflows its banks and
floods the streets The saloon is
equipped with water tight doors.-Father
than the usual swinging variety. and
Is consequently safe from the deluge.
But the imprisoned persons know that
the air will not last and that they must
ultimately die of suffocation.
Then comes the great awakening to
all of them. They suddenly look into
the face of God and their manifold sins
and wickednesses fall from them like
scales. Two rival cotton brokers. who
have been fighting each other by fair
means and fHll for years. shake hands
and call each other Brother" The
bartender breaks down and confesses
that he has been robbing the TILL The
young hero. who has been spoiled by
success, renounces his wealthy fiancee
and goes back to the little shop girl.
his first love.
The Mississippi River. however. as
sumes the role OF capricious fate and
returns TO its usual channel. The de-
iuge is over. Death has been cheated.
All hands are saved. Whereupon the
expressions OF brotherly love are can
ceied and the various characters 60
back TO their regular lives of meanness
and hatred and petty jealousy. The
The New York herald., 1922-10-30

CApIToT,-"THE SIN FLOOD" adapted
from Henning BerGer's play. "Syrda-
floden." Directed by Frank Lloyd.
The New York herald., 1922-10-30

Bright, IN the national horse show, whic,
opens at the Squadron Arnory on Monday
November IS and II he gets an award Misa
Griffith promises not TO faint.
Mile. Isabel Rodriguez, Spanish dancer IN
THE Lady in Ermine' at the Ambassador
Theater. Is planning to open a speciality ana
modiste shop In West Fifty-seventh street,
In which various Spanish knick-knacks VIII
be exposed with the deliberate purpose OF
selling them-and possibly starting Cas-
tilian craze, now chat tho Spanish American
war is virtually forgotten. t
One particular reason for going TO Brook
lyn this week will be to view the exhibition
OF pictorial photography being made In the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences by
Hamilton Revelle of the Captain Applejack"
company, whose art pictures known
wherever photography IL secretly or openly
practised.
II. III. Burnside. general director of the
Hippcdrome. has received a letter from Lon
don asking for the release for eight weeks
of Wlnfred Verina. of the principal
dancers in Better Times she may play
in Christmas revival of Snow White" and
burnside is still considering whether TO show
fight or to submit gracefully.
John McFarlane is now member OF the
cast in "Abie's Irish Rose" rapidly nearing
the completion of It's sixth month and Its
second cast at the Republic Theater.
Because Of the many perious risks incurred
at every performance OF THE LAst Warn
ing''-not including dying of laughter. OF
course--Charles Trowbridge has signed up
with eleven accident insurance companies,
but II Is not necessary for the audience to
go insured
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
Notes of the Stage.

"A Clean Town" opens tonight at White
Enthusiastically within striking distance or
New York-which can take the title anyway
II sees fit when the piece Is dealt out here
In fortnight. Charles Ruggles Is featured,
without his beard.
''Kempy" will celebrate its second centen-
NAL at the Belmont Theater Wednesday
evening, from which the players will recover
In time TO give an extra matinee Election
Day.
When Monckton Hoffe rediscovers America
from the gangway OF the Olympic tomorrow
the first cries that will greet the English
author viii be shril ones from Fay Baynter.
star OF his new piece; William Harris. Jr..
its producer, and three show printers, all or
whom win demand that the dramatist re-
title his play. The Painted Lady so the
printers and the press agent can tell the
world what it's all about before Miss Bayn-
ter takes off on November 13 out OF town.
Charles Dillingham; has engaged a complete
understudy cast fer 'Loyalties." at the
Gaiety Theater thus going out of hts way to
see that the public gets It's rights. II is
headed by Lois Heatherley.s f. r. Hast. N.
Murray Stephens, III. Dornton and w. Deer
ing, 80 that In case OF emergency this COM
plete company can be thrown into the breach
and give the whole play without the loss OF a
syllable or a second.
Eleanor Griffith. who sings In Spring
time of Youth at the Broadhurst Theater,
has entered her prize saddle horse. 'Ion1r
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
sTRAND--Jackie Coogan in "OLIvER
TWIST by Charles Dickens. Directed
by Frank Lloyd.

Master Jackie Coogan brings to the
strand this week his most ambitious
production, an eight reel adaptation of
"Oliver Twist"
Many persons will scoff at such an
idea--a seven-year-old child starring In
one OF the most famous stofies that the
English language has produced. Many
will say that he is altogether too young
to be so signally honored; that II is an
insult to the memory of Charles Dick
ems TO entrust his novel to q mere In
FAINT That is all very we'll But let
these doubters go TO the Strand Let
them see oliver Twist" as it Is dis
played on the fat surface Of the screen
land then let them repeat their criti-
csms IL they dare.
For "Oliver Twist as movie is
everything that an intelligent adapta-
tion should be. Frank Lloyd. who d.
rected IT, has managed to retain the
spirit the flavor OF Dickens, and at the
same time has created a photoplay
which possesses an identity OF its own.
He has told the story in terms OF pic
lures that move. so that the spectator
will understand and appreciate II wheth-
er he has read the book or not.
Mr.. Lloyd is never trite in his treat
nient. Neither his characters nor his
Incidents are forced to wear labels. He
knows the art of visual expression and
he speaks to his audience without the
use of words.
Little Jackie himself is marvellous
He brings Oliver Ttotst 70 life. We
doubt that he has ever read Djckens's
novel or IL he has, we are quite cer-
tain that he could not understand a
word of II. But he does understand that
he has been called upon to play the part
Of n little boy who has known nothing
N his short life but the most brutal
cruelty and maltreatment; and he plays
Il for all IL is worth. He is wistful.
tender and utterly childish. without ever
being fresh or smart. He Is never the
obnoxious imp of "Peck's Bad Boy"
nor is he the irrepressible gamin of
The Kid" He Is a new Jackie Coogan.
~fIe is. in fact, ONver Ticist.
There are other familiar figures
: brought into being in this picture. There
is the burly BiH Sykes, substantially
embodied by George Seigmann there is
his wife. Nancy. played by the same
Gladys Brockwel who used to star in
Fox melodramas there Is Noah Clay
poole (Lewis Sargent) and nice old Mr..
BrotCr1otC (Lionel Belmore). Lon
CLANCY as Fdgir lays II on Just a Bit
roo thick-but this is the only feature
of the picture that is overdone or movie
;sh.
We don't know whether IL is still pos
siblc for Mr.. Dickens to go TO the play.
The modes and manners OF the spirit
world are unknown TO us, and II may
De that such frivolous diversions are
frowned upon in Paradise. But IL he
can sneak off from his angelic duties
we feel sure that he will float into the
Strand this week--snd we know that he
viii enjoy himself Immensely.
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
Mississippi has receded but the sin flood

Mississippi has receded but the sin flood
goes on.
There is some splendid acting in this
picture. 'Richsrd Dix, Helene Chad
wick and James Kirkwood are all thor
oughly sincere in their attempts to In
terpret the characters that Hennine
Berger has created, and they do their
work well. Thanks TO Mr.. Lloyd. TIE
entire production is we'll modulated and
consistent.
Whether or not "The Sin Flood"
makes money II is a fine picture and
distinct credit to the Goldwyn cor
poration, which sponsored u.
Thomas Meighan in THE Man Who
Saw Tomorrow" is at the Rivoli and
Gloria Swanson in The Impossible
Mrs. Beliew' at the Rialto. The feature
at the Cameo is The Queen of the
Moulin Rouge"
The openings tonight are Douglas
Fairbanks in robin Hood" at the
Lyric and THE Town That Forgot
God" at the Astor. Monte Christie" :"
at the Forty-fourth Street Theater.
closes Wednesday and WILL be succeeded
by "The Village Blacksmith"
II looks like an interesting week for
the film fans and an arduous one for
the critics.
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
He,ea Menken.

1t would require despaired OF
genius for compression to sum up in
one sentence the motley Impressions
left behind by last evenings private
performance of the new play which is
to take public possession of the Booth
Theater tonight. The play itself is,
for sonfe reason which an attentive
following of it's three acts failed to
reveal, called Seventh Heaven" 1t is
the work of Austin Strong, and. if
cornered. he would probably call 1t a
fantasy-or some such apologetic
name for a piece in which all the
characters behave in a generally pre-
posterous manner, in which the char
acters certainly behave as none ever
did in Paris since Ste Genevieve was
laid to rest. And their goings on are
so difficult to sum UP briefly because
the play which reports on them ranges
to and fro between good. bad and per-
fectly terrible. The phases last named
leave the most emphatic impression,
as a drop OF ink will color a whole
glass OF clear water.
Yet, in the midst of a wartime Pa
rissan romance that is as stagger-
ingly difficult to believe as any we
ever have come upon, there shines one
tremendous beauty-the radiant and
challenging performance of Helen
Menken in the leading role. Bril-
liantly graphic in her every move,
electric in her scenes of tempest sure
and clear and right in every instant
of her playing, she is like a cleaning
scimitar held aloft in the sunlight
something strong that CLEANS and
cleaves. We began little subdued
and lonely cheering for this young
actress when the qualities and gifts
that she has first showed themselves
in a little role in Major Pendennis"
many seasons ago. Those portents
came true last night.
They are squandered now magnifi-
Gently in strange concoction that
has much artless carpentry in it, sew,
eral scenes of high theatrical voltagel
and one solitary idea-the kind of idea
over which o. Henry would have
brooded happily. SO perfectly would III
have suited the teller Of tales who
wrote 1.-THE Gifts of the Magi."
A French girl has through the four
years of the war held in her loving
heart no image save that of the mani
whom the first day Of mobilization had
taken from her. To the hope Of his|
return she pins her faith in the good
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
.K1NDLY ACT WEEK, PRIZES.

This week has been set aside as
Kindly Act Week in the theaters of
the -Proctor-Noss circuits. since
George Arliss's newest picture. ''The
Man Who Played Cod" Is being pre-
eented. over this circuit. Cash prizes
aggregating $1,000 will be distributed
among patrons who report the most
notable acts of humane nature while
this film is being shown in the various
allied theaters. Any patron is eligible
to enter the contest and report some
kind act observed within one mile OF
the various houses. The only condition
Is that the act must be real.
The New York herald., 1922-10-30

This appears to be Frank Lloyd week
on Broadway. In addition TO "Oliver
Twist" ne Is represented at the Capitol
with f'The Sin Flood
Here again MIR Lloyd demonstrates
the fact that he Is one of the few movie
directors who really understand moving
pictures. In The Sin Flood" he Is even
more delicate in treatment than In oil
yer Twist" Perhaps he is bit too
subtle That s a criticism that may be
made justly. for even intelligence can
oe carried too far.
Those who saw The Deluee," which
Nrthur Hopkins has presented twice a.
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
soUsA TO WRITE OPERA.

Charles Dillingham; yesterday received
telegram from Lieut.. Commander John
Philip Sousa, the famous .bandmaster,
who will give his only New York con-
cert of the season at the TIippodrume
oext Sunday night, asking him to ar
range a meeting at the Hippodrome with
Robert w. Chambers, the novelist, to
discuss the possibility of Mr.. Chambers
supplying the story for the new opera
which Sousa is TO write for Mary Gar
den. prima donna OF the Chicago Opera
Company. and formerly its director.
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
TO GIVE 'sALoME' IN GERMAN.
WaEnerian Festival Announces
Opera for Feb. IT.

"Salome" will have another hearing
in New York, the first since the one
and only In the Metropolitan in 1908.
The management of the Wagnerian
Opera Festival announces Richard
Strauss opera for Saturday. February
II, at the Manhattan Opera House. The
season will open February 12 with "Die
Meistersinger." followed February IS by
"Das Rheingold' at a matinee. and in
the evening Paul Scheinflug's "Heitere
Oper' DOLLY OPERA. "Das Hofkonzert,"
its first presentation in America; Feb
ruary IA. "Lohengrin." February is.
matinee, die Walkure;" evening, die
Fledermaus:' February 16, Tristan und
Isolde" and February II. matinee, die
Meistersinger''
The New York herald., 1922-10-30
ADJUSTMENTS.

Owing to the very special nature
OF Pirandello's .Slx Characters in
Search of an Author" opening
Tonight at the Princess the en-
gagement will be limited to four
admission. ~