Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-23
PLACES IN SUN
FILL n. !. WEEK
WITH MAD RACE
Only Philadelphia Ev-
er Impressed on Goth
am, rankin, las Day
Maude Adams, Lillian
Russell and Farrar
Jockey in, Too.
By JESSIE HENDERSON
Spec,af Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune

Copyright. 1922. " The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Jan. 22-This town has
been all stirred up the post few days
over Benjamin Franklin, who still holds
the championship as the only thing out
of Boston or Philadelphia to make a
permanent impression on New York.
In raking over the old gentleman
past for some fresh and spicy remnant
to Turkish his birthday observance, one
newspaper scooped the town with the
announcement that Franklin worked as
a typesetter '.in England, the land of
his BIRTH and other historians charged
him with the invention of the bifocal
tense, the street cleaning department,
the police force and the harmonica.
One could forgive Franklin the har-
monica if only he had refrained from
street cleoning and police ideas. al
though, Of course. the latter explains
the popularity which this Boston-Phil-
adelphian still enjoys in New York
| municipal circles
1t is not. therefore, to be wondered
that the Gotham city fathers were
among those to gather around the
Franklin statue in Park Row, bedevil-
ing it with wreaths, speeches and a
huge hte-the string tied to Franklin S
hand, the kite part flying high over
the city hall. Not such an ill-chosen
civic emblem, at that when one CON
| siders the lofty financial ideas of tie
present city administration.
Lillian Russell on 81 Job
Jockeying energetically with Frank
lin for place in the sun were Lillian
Russell, the inventor of perpetual
youth: Geraldine Farrar. its exponent,
and Maude Adams. its interpreter
The beauteous Lillian, hardly less love
IL than in the days when she poised
atop a huge ball in a Broadway mu-
steal revue, is now an immigration in
spector. With her husband and fed
eral inspector, salary of 81 a year, she
sailed to ask European officials why
they allow mentally deficient aliens to
incur all the expense of a trip over
here when they're foredoomed to be
sent back on the next boat. Somebody
ought to have asked somebody this
question long ago. We are betting on
Lillian to bring back an adequate reply.
Geraldine Farrar has busted clear
out of grand opera and is going on the
concert stage. Can you blame her?
For the past several months she has
been skimpng along on salary from
the Metropolitan Opera company of
100000 year. 1t is interesting to
note that it isn't all for arts sake.
Her income from Carusos phonograph
records is $25O,OOO annually With
the proceeds from concert work added
to these from the movies Miss Farrar
ought to have a little pin money left
over at the end Of 1922.
Maude Adams Douhly Surprises
But it is Maude Adams, absent from
the stage since 1918, who furnished
the double surprise of the week. First.
she gave away her 100000 Long
Island home to the Sisters of Our LADY
of the Cenaele-though Miss Adams
herself is a Protestant; and then she
blossomed forth as inventor Of new
color process for the films with spe-
cial reference to photo plays for chill
dren. With the news, two surprising
and dramatic facts were added:
One. that when playing in New
York, Miss Adams chose room at the
Sisterhood convent instead OF at some
fashionable hotel; and the other, that
for the past two years this most popu-
lar actress has spent much of her time
at the hardest kind Of work in an cleo
trical laboratory up state.
Gown Of Pure Gold Appears
Along Broadway, meantime, there are
two sartorial bombs. One is q costume
Of IS karat gold from Paris, supposed
ly the first pure gold gown worn on
any stage. 1t is almost as pretty as
a cloth of gold affair at 80 a yard The
second fashion explosive, which is like
" to become far more popular with