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New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
The First PLou
BY Gilbert Emery

make believe. No, no. it was reality,
delightful. deathless reality; and the
humdrum life beyond the guarded
doors was the play
Well. well. was seven and the son
of pious mother. Why on earth she
ever consented to let me go. in the
keeping of faithful, fanciful spinster,
as childlike as I, l suspect, to this
"show" I'VE called them all shows in
those days., l cannot now imagine. for
the theater was to her sinful bust
ness and THE Black Crook" was abroad
in the land. But go ! did, and of
Saturday afternoon.
No one in the village had ever before
conceived of the notion of shutting out
the good daylight and in a silly SEM
blance of night actually sitting down
to the fascinations of entertainment
If you were going to have it in the
daytime, said the village, why pretend
it was nightfall? All the same, green
cambric was tackled over the windows
and the smelly footlghts were kindled.
Allie, my protectrcss, and I arrived
long, long before the appointed hour.
took our pick of seats, watched the
spectators shamble in, dispose them
selves advantageously, whistle, cat
call giggle, eat, scrape the benches
horribly on the floor, and, despite the
disingenuous sign on the wall: Gentle
men Will not and others must not spit
on the floor" even spit. I little
dreamed then, though 1 see it clearly
now, that I was on the eve, or per
haps the afternoon, of the most event
full moment of my life. All knew was
that when that ridiculous little painted
curtain plotted out so brightly with
the advertisements of our tradesmen--
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1t was in the Town Hall. Oh, not this
Town Hall here, with it's pale chaste-
nesses and maidenly refnements, but
ours-a great, bleak, dusty rectangle
filed with penitential wooden settees.
lighted by malodorous kerosene lamps,
fitfully heated by two voracious wood
stoves. Nailed or the entrance doors
was percmptory pasteboard sign:
You that we're born in sawmill,
shut the door, for you are not at home
now" At the upper end of this naked
room, if room it could be called, was a
little, shallow, high WASTED stage
vaguely illumined by row of "foots,'
sullen lamps behind green-painted tin
half-circles There were no dressing
rooms. Why should there be when one
could quite simply and naturally dress
on the floor below in the tax collec-
tors room and the office of the Justice
of the peace, and then dash up the
dangerous stairs for an entrance?
Yes, it was in the Town Hall. |
mean, of course, the first play ever
saw (You can't have forgotten yours.
don't tell me that!) Life may hold
great adventure and much radiant
dream; argosies may sail forth; beau
tiful, bewildering maidens appeal for
rescue and love--I know not what: but
the wonder Of it all is as naught COM
pared to the glamour of the first play
Play! AS I write the word the sig
nificance Of the term strikes me for the
first time. Play! Even now, after all
these years, there is often little more
of play i'll the brief enchanting hours
of the theater than there was in that
lmmemorlal performance which swept
me tumultuously into the world of
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went up, was plunged strsightwsy
into world the ike OF which l had
never imagined and whose sn:hsrt
ment still compels ne.
And the play? All, it was "Ert
Lynne"
never hear now when other lip
and other hearts, without vividly lU
ing over that afternoon. What was
to me that the beautiful Isobel Van
was a large obsolescent lady who, ia
reasons best known to herself, elects
to enact the entire play in pale blu
silk dress? Or that her disguise o.
her tragic return consisted only Of a
ingenious white cottonwood wig an
blue-glass spectacles? Allie and
wept and shuddered and laughed ss
cried out in alarm, for we were chil
dren in the real world Of the thea's'
as, after all. all audiences are.
Very likely that stock company mus
have been the worst in the world.
was certainly very bad, else it voai'
never have stormed our out-Of-shs
way, railroadless little town But d
for me / shall never again see sr'i
magical players as those lae'
stayed with US FOR rich tantas'''
week, during which time they grsclou''
ly gave US "Capitola the Mad-Cap' OF,
the Hidden Hand Pauline. Lady q
Lyons" Hazel Kirk" "&y Vnss
From Cattaraugus," and | have ''''
gotten what else of wonder anu a.
Bless them, all of them, those as''
delightful artists! They took us y.
of a dull. homely, provincial Ni''s
and suddenly showed us true iSVs |"
sorrow and laughter and all the shs
doms Of the imagination.
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When Doctors Fail
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: After having been a reader Of
The Tribune for a great many years |
WIS dumfounded when / came across
your editorial under the caption
when Doctors Fail"
You could not have given great con-
sideration to the subject or you would
not have accused the medical profess
sion Of antagoniZing the Davenport
bill from selfish motives-as YOU saw,
from the fear that it will "impoverish
their profession" That accusation
hardly requires comment when one re-
fleets upon the untold millions of dol
lars worth of charitable treatment bo-
slowed upon the public every year
through the agencies of willing and un-
selfish hands and brains of the medical
profession.
AS for the last paragraph of your
editorial you reached the pinnacle Of
ignorance of your subject when you be-
Titled tho treatment of collie or in
digestion by doctor as being corr
parable to a professor teaching the
three Rs, while such diseases as cancer
still remain unchecked.
DO you not know that collie and in
digestion are frequently the first symp-
tons Of cancer as we'll as many other
dread diseases? Do you not know that
thousands of persons with little
learning" have attempted to treat
simple diseases, following their own
diagnosis. only to find that later, when
they were compelled to call in a physi-
clan, the supposedly simple disease was
one which. with it's insidious and
simple beginning, had reached n fatal
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We Beg to Differ!

of them know, or rather think n',
know, only too well. A fever reqa.'. =,
abstinence from food, and this goes :.
almost any indisposition of the aSs,A
individual in this country. ms
lesson we can take from the ~.
animals-they are prompted Oy ~. .,
ton. not by intelligence. lou
drive them to eat when they're n0s
and as to medicine-they know nv
than we do.
New York, March 2S, 1922.
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The Blind See the Light

Emma Goldman is posing as the
arch discoverer OF the truth about
Russia. Facts well known and
widely published years ago she now
marshals forth as astounding news
heretofore hidden from the world
Like little child who has just found
that fire burns and announces this
marvel to her mother as something
altogether new in the world, Emma
Goldman has visited Russia and now
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FLIPPER- -FLAPPER-FLOPPER

The Flippor and the Fldpper
TO their FIopper sadly aren't;
Sad the Fhpper md the Flopper.
"Father, deor, 1re're badly bent"
"Orange Pekoe's price hos risen,
And the couuert charge-a fright'
By the ,oay, Old Thing, ne ,Oonder
Could you spare q quart Tonight"
Vas the F[opper fobbergnsted?
Did he rant and tear his hnir3
No. He's lost his ne'ue, poor devU
Parent of this modern pair.
MORRY.
The Fhppers probably will adopt
Amelia Bingham's suggestion that men
wear corsets, SO that they can go to
dances without 'em.
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can't cope with the food of crime
the decent citizens of every COM
munity will have to get together and
devise some means to do it before
the young freebooters lose their
amateur standing.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

they want is to get Lodge out. and
to get him out at any price,
Massachusetts has no other candi-
date so we'll qualified as Mr., Lodge.
To native ability he brings years of
experience. His record. if nothing
else, entities him to reelection.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
A Line to Remember

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Re Grantland Rice's article
no Wrote the Greatest Line?" may
l suggest that among the foremost
should rank Grantland Rice's own line: ::
only the game fish swims up stream >,
D. H. BROWN.
New York, March 27, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
Not Up to Date

We were surprised when we dis
covered that the screen version Of
the lbanez novel was not named
"The Four Motorists of the Apoc-
alypse.'
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disappointment

The last we heard Of VIII Hays he
was going into the movies" but as
yet we haven't seen a picture in
which be was featured
Copyright by James J. Montaguc)
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
lust Like College Davs

As soon as a new Congressman
gets to Washington nowadays he is
rushed by all the leading blocs.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
Arafsgn or rHr ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitle6 20
ths uss for republication q all news dispatches
cT@dited 20 II no. otherwise cTsdited IN this
psFer Siso ths local nsws OF spontaneous o gin
published herein
All r1ghts Of rcpfbiicsioo Of ali other matter
herein a1so reserved
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

Political experience won't dis
illusionize Henry Ford. He's been
making flivvers for twenty years.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

If he isn't careful Commissioner
Enright will enforce law some
day, only to discover that it is really
on the statute books.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
The Reproof Valiant

To the Aunt of the Flipper: The
Flipper must groan-in the immortal
words of julius Caesars ante-mortem
statement to Brutus: "God save me
from my friend from my enemies
can save myself
Sound and sweet" you call him.
Mon Dieu! How the Flipper will howl
mining the very pedestal which he has
erected for himself through months Of
defiance Of the world and its old con-
vcntions. How | could dent his tin
amor of cynicism with the awful
weight Of that word "sound". And
how | could mess up his many colored
, cloak of worldliness, sophistication and
fipness with liberal splash Of that
sticky word Sweet!
When the Flipper grows up he may
be ready for Lundy's Lane and Bunker
Hill. But, then, he will no longer be
| Flipper. l have faith in the present
generation of budding manhood. Flip
rcrism is merely a temporary condi-
ton, like the tail on tadpole, or
Mayor Hylan.
L wish to retract my suggestion as
to the guillotine. Great men, lost
their heads by this delightful method.
The Flipper is Sound and sweet" Let
US throw him to the lions in the Bronx
Zoo. After such meal the poor beasts
would probably contract that vacant
and imbecilc expression with which
those two sad animals smirk upon the
crowds that pass the Public Library at
Forty-second Street. LOU.
The bloakest period in life comes
sOhc'a you realize that its foolish to
spend money on the circus for yourself
and your son is still too young to afford
roHd crcuse.
Germany has rejected the Allies
terms again" says Uncle Abmelcch Bo.
gardus, of Preakness, N. J. "Mebbv
she was expectin' them to vote her
war bonus
FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW
Uith flying hair and silper feet
Young Spring comes do,0n to Frankfort
Street.
Upon the acind gusts, to aud fro,
lhe dtrty scraps Of paper bloU.
And cobblestones, instead of grasses,
fece've her footsteps as she passes.
The sky may azure be and goy,
But building aOaUs are sad and orou.
And he Whc sight Of clouds 1could seek
f1N haze stiff neck for aUeek.
So Spring goes by whue motors roar
"A no rottle louder than before,
Whlle turid-languaged roustabouts
Assault the WeIkim Nth their shouts.
Heaue paper bales and call their stints
The sort Of thing no paper prints.
And Spring may learn, too, If she heeds,
what scdgon drivers call their steeds.
Spring comes-and Frankfort Street
goes on
Precisely as it's almays done.
Being janitor of column on day
like yesterday was hard enough, but
we stifle our means manfully.
We might be member OF the Rel
fast Fire Department. F.F.V.
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stage before the physician was con-
suited
Most persons realize that the doctor
IS sort of referee in the vast ma
Jority of cases. He is consulted fire.
quentiy in cases of collie or indiges-
tion to determine whether the mani
testations of pain are simple ones or
due to such diseases as appendicitis,
gladstone collie, abdominal assesses,
new growths, cancers, kidney collie,
Bright's disease or thousand other
conditions which might imperil the life
OF the patient. w. j. EVANS, NJ. D.
New York, March %. 1922.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Re your editorial when
Doctors Fail" tragic instances such as
the case Of Gwendolyn Armour should
be wonderfully instructive as to the
impotence of modern medicine. With
pharmacoppia of tens of thousands OF
drugs to use individually or in com
binations, ten great medical men were
unable to cope with phase of disease.
Your editorial missed by mile the
lesson this incident conveyed. Trivial
lndispositions are treated and apparent
ly cured by medicine because DR.. Nature
cures them--very often in spite of
medicines.
You say children can "draw beautiful
pictures of the digestive tract"
have yet to find one who can trace a
mouthful of food through this tract
and it's very rarely that I find an adult
able to do it, or one knowing in what
part of the tract the body absorbs the
nutritive elements from food.
AS TO what to take for a fever-most
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

Yea can purchase nsrchsseIse advertised n THE
.isn results In any case THE TRIBUNE suarss-
teen to ssy yeur money back upos reasest. Ne red
taps. No euihhiina. We refund emptiy II the
adysrttseY tosa rot
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

1t isn't going to help the unem-
ployment situation much to have
Congress continue to lay off soldiers
and sailors.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

Italy is still fretting and Fiuming.
Mayor Hylan and Mayor Thomp-
son Of Chicago each declare that
the other is the best Mayor in the
country. Here's to their better ac-
quaintance!
The Bolshevik delegates to the
Genoa conference, according to all
indications, plan to draw Red her
ring across the trail.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

Being janitor Of a column on a dav
like yesterday was hard enough, but
We stifle our means manfully.
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We might be member Of the Bel
fast Fire Department. F.Fv
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The Tower
THE SUPPLIANT

nEEP in your chair you lounge,
~ your thoughts SO far
Away from mine; your little world
is bound
Just now within your narrow book
no sound
Could reach you. nor could light
from sun or star
Lift up your lids; you are so
satisfied
With your dry tale; your pipe has
long been cold
You shift an arm or leg, pages un-
fold
AS hours slip by | am so
near your side,
So near your hands, and on my lap
are flowers
Most blue and fragrant from the
arms of spring,
And all the warm live nerves with
in me sing
OF love and you. so swift, so snort
these hours!
hate your book viii you not
raise your head
And give one little glance to me
instead?
ELIZABETH S. MONTGOMERY.
Nick Lonine sits APP in the dedthbcd
on 1ohich nN the newspapers have
placed him 10 announce that he toon't
90 to Genoa for fear Of being as
sassinated.
The Soviet rulers are demanding
twenty-ycar moratorium on Russias
debts. 1t might be simpler to have a
twenty-year moratorium on Soviet
rulers.
Novels Have Been Written on Less
This is to warn the people who have been
making scandalous remarks that tho same
must be stopped or Investigations Will be
made lf every woman is as good as Re-
formatory girls they needn't be ashamed. II
any one has anything 10 say. como to me,
but do not make remarks behind my back.
MRS. ELIZABETH YORK.
Skovhegan. Maine, March 16, 1922.
--fndcpcndcnt- Reporter Sbomheoan. Ne.
Every police precinct is to have
fivver in which to run down bandits.
The only trouble with this arrangement
is that most Of the bandits nowadays
are going to and from work in twin
SKIES.
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RsNTV

q tersa T. the Pos.nrce u: Ncw York e. s~conc
CiAss Mall Matter
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30
Novels Have Been Written on Less

Every police precinct is to have
fivver in which to run down bandits.
The only trouble with this arrangement
is that most Of the bandits nowadays
SKIES
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

sswssa By N.- yors Tribune Ina. Nsv Yo,f
r@yasxtsce p1hlissed daily. orosn Reid Presi-
AsssT a. y.-nct Rnrerr yace-presideotI Helen
h.ss.rs sesa, seo~sary. r, e Ms1neld. Treasurer.
Assss-a a. Trihuns Rusldins ist Nassau Suses- New
Yes Teisrhous. Bressasn saeo.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

The Soviet rulers are demanding
twenty-year moratorium on Russia's
debts. 1t might be simpler to have
twonty-year moratorium on Soviet
rulers.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-30

Italy is still fretting and Fiuming.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-19
NEW FEDERAL JURORS.
Drawn TO Serve at Current Term oi
L. s. Courts.

Petit jurors for the March term OF
been drawn as follows:
Wilmington-C. D. Garretson, Will
lard Young, Abner r. Overdeer. j. p.
Gibboney, Harry +. Mellon. Harlan
6. Scott Walter i. Butler. William
A. Barr, George y. Ward, John j. Nc
GOwan, Peter r. Wright.
St. Georges hundred-Henry d.
Howell, Frederick Brady.
Broad Creek-John Lane. Peter J.
Messick.
East Dover-William J. Benson.
Little Creek-Walter s. Hendrick-
son.
Christiana-Mrs. Ethel II. du Pont.
Milford-George Davis, Benjamin
F. Hudson.
Appoquinimink-Joh b. Bender.
South Dagsboro-John II. Short.
Dagsboro-Robert Stoeckle.
Baltimore-Robert W. Bennett.
White Clay Creek-Robert NJ,
Motherall, Harry Pordham.
/ Lewes and Rehoboth-Clarence
/ Beebe
Broadkiln-Charles G. Waples, Silas
~. Warrington.
New Castle-Laussat r. Rogers.
! Nanticoke-Harry 9. Short.
! Brandywine-James IT. Wright.
Duck Creek--Miss Laura Bell.
! Pencader-James p. Ford
/ Kenton-F'reeman Clark, e c.
| Daley,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
At NEW CASTLE
Daylight Saving Ordinapcs Will
Become Effective on
April 80.

Special Correspondence Every Evening
Now Castle. April 1s.-Thc day
light saving ordinance. which was
passed by City Council last year, will
become effective on Sunday morning.
April 80. at n m. The ordinance
reads M follows: THAT tho official
timc OF the city OF New Castle shall
he sta ndard time. eastern, except that
from n. M, OF the last Sunday In
April until 2 n. m. OF the last Sun
day In September. In each year tho
ofYlcial time throughout tho city Of
New Castle shall be advanced one
legal and Official proceedings. laws and
ordinances shall bc regulated hereby"
On Monday evening at s o'clock a
meeting OF tho Democrats OF New
Castle hundred will take place ip the
Town Hall. The purpose OF tho meet
| ing IL to select two members OF tn,
New Castle County Democrat,
Executive Committee. one man an,
one woman. from each election dis
trict.
At tho opening OF the 79th seric,
of the Citizens Building 4 Loan Az
ISOLATION sharc rcs over 400 shares wcr
taken. The books for this series ar
In tho hands OF Secretary John J.
Cloud and Arc ready for distribution
On Friday evening tho month";
Sunday school social of the member
OF the Eirst Presbyterian sunda
school. Will take place In Marble Hal
, at Fifth and Delaware streets. at
o'clock.
On "Wednesday afternoon. April y
a bridge and Ave hundred party wi
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-19
TENTATIVE PLAN
FOR MUSIC WEEK
4 Will Start, on Sunday. April
80, and Will End on Sat-
urdav. Nav 8.

The following tentative plan Tor
music week In Wilmington was adopt-
I'd by the Municipal Music Commission
at a meeting In the mayors once yes
tcrday:
Sunday. April So-Sacred concert
by massed bands Of tho city, prob
Ably at Washington Heights. Special
music and addresses In churches
Organ recitals.
Monday, May l-School Day. Special
programs I'm all schools with demon
stration I'm High School at night by
public school pubils under Miss Ruth
storms. supervisor OF music and her
stan OF assistants.
Tuesday, May 2-Men's Day
Luncheon meeting at 1915 O'Clock
IN Hotel du Pont under auspices or
Lions Club. Rotary Club. Kiwanis
and Chamber Of Commerce. Miss
Alice Rhett, Philadelphia. speaker.
Concert in High School auditorium
in evening at o'clock by the Or
pheus Mixed Quartet OF Wilmington.
There also will be public concert
at the New Century Club at 1880
a. m.
wednesday, May 3--women's Day.
Luncheon at l2.l5 o'clock in Hotel du
pont. Mrs. Frances Clarke. Phila-
delphia. principal speaker. Concert In
High School Auditorium at p. m
by Orpheu. Club OF Wilmington.
Thursday, May 4-Community Day
Band concert and community sing
led by William +. White, at p. m
Dinner by organists guild at SIS n
m.. followed by recital in Trinity Z
L Church. under direction OF 7
Leslie Carpenter. choirmaster.
Friday. May 5-"Pirates Of Pen
zance." by Westminster Glee Club
Sis =. m. IN Playhouse.
Saturday, May 6-"Pirates Of Pen
zance.' by Westninster Glee Club
ais y. m. and Sis p. m. In Playhouse
c. 7. NJ. Rumford, Mrs. Charles W
GrirYi,h. William =. White. Norris S
Robinson and Charles +. Ernst wcr
appointed committee to plan 10
financing the project.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-19
CONCERT AND DANCE BY
NEW MASONIC BAND
Elaborate Program to be Given
at the Auditorium This
Evening.

Elaborate plans have been made for
the concert and dance under the AUS
picas Of the Masonic Band OF Della
ware az the Auditorium tonight This
affair Is expected 10 be one OF the
mos. interesting ever held IN this city
and there will be viAitors from AL
parts OF the State, Chas. NJ. Banks q
director OF the hand.
The concert will continue from $50
un,n 10 and dancing will follow. The
concert Will be featured by eeveral
special numbers. The program follows
Overture RAYMOND Ambrose Thoma,
The Masonic Band
John Peel-old English Hunting Song.
Marx Andrews
Double Male Quartet
oas Fine pay-From Madame Butter, Butter,
Mrs. Rita krapf. soprano
Solo Dance Miss Lurena Mortlocl
selection Henry VIII Dances.
Edward Jermar
l. Morris Dance 2 shepherd Dane,
3 Torch Dance
The Masonic Band
in''H Miss Carolyn Comfy. Cont4aito 'e'n''
Dast-A Madrisal in May Newton
Mrs krapf. Miss Comfy
l Hear Thrush at Eve .. Cadmar
Double Male Quartet
SeIcction-Prince OF Pilscn
Gustav Ludcr,
The Masonic Band
Charles NJ Banks, Conductor
Double Male Quartet Composed OF Mem.
bers OF The Orpheus Club. Wilmington,
Del
First TENOR. NJ. Taylor. r. "
second Tenor. Frank Ayres. Charles
r Pierce.
Firxl Bass-Frank +. Palmer. William
NJ Mask. Jr.
Second Bass-Harvey Booker. Il. A
Mitchell.
Accompanies
Miss Caroline Heindie. Frederick s Smtl
Dancing
Music furnished by members of the band