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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-01
B|ELAsK| TELLS
REPORTERS TALE
Of ADVENTURES
American Who Was Kid
naped Says His Captors
Were of Low Peasant
Class; Flees at Night.

Mo&ico City, June S0.-A. Bruce
Bielaski. -ormer head or the in
vestigation bureau of the American
department of justice, who was
kidnapped several days ago but who
escaped from his captors and re-
turned to Mexico City yesterday, to-
day related the story of his advent
ure TO the newspapermen. He ex-
pressed the belief that his capture
was not political in its conception
nor an act of vengeance for his
work while connected with the de.
partment of justice.
my captors." said MIR. Bielaski.
were men of the low peasant class,
who | am convinced had no idea as
to my identity but picked out the
occupants of large automobile as
possibly being persons of means
who could he held for handsome
ransom.
Il suffered the Inconvenience of
exposure, but was never harshly
treated. My captors were extreme
ly careless in guarding me-"
Digs His Way Out.
Mr.. Bielaskis escape was made
from a mountain cave shortly after
midnight. Taking advantage of the
sleeping guards he dug his way out
of the cave and slipped away into
the darkness. so far as he knows
his escape was not detected before
daylight.
Immediately following his cap
iture Sunday morning. together with
Jesus Barcenas, a Mexicali attor-
ned, Mr.. Bielaski was taken into
the hills several miles from Punta
Iwllan. Barcenas was released
within a few hours under a promise
that he would return to Cuernavaca
and arrange for a ransom.
Pursuing cavalry several times
caused the kidnapers to retire fur
ther into the mountains, and by
Tuesday night Bielaski was con-
yinced that his captors had decided
to kill him the next morning IN
view OF their inability to collect q
ransom. Threats against his me-
had been made throughout the
day on Tuesday.
Arrives at Texcal.
Plunging blindly through the
iungle in the darkness. Bielaski
reached Texcal at $50 O'Clock
Wednesday morning and related his
story to the commandant, who de-
spatched a cavalry unit 10 Punta
IIxtIan to inform the garrison there
Bielaski does not know the
names of his captors but he TO-DAY
identified the picture OF a bandi.
belonging in the region as one o.
his guards. J. j. Aurce, an en-
gineer at Texcal, was named oy
Bielaski as the person first 20 sue
cor him and make all the arrange
ments for his return TO CuernaVae4
Mr.. BielasKI attended the session
of the supreme court today. where
The oil company with which he Is
connected. is in litigation with an
other American oil concern.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-01
100000 employees IN
|. SHOPS ARE SCHEDULED
! TO QUIT THEIR POSTS
MAINTENANCE OF way W0RkklEN
WON'T join IN WALk0UT NOW

Jewell, According to Hooper, Flouts Railroad
Boards Efforts to Effect Settlement of
the Grievances and No Further Effort to
Forestall Cessation of Work Will Be Made.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-07-01

local REPORT.
Conditions for the twenty-four
hours ended af D. N. yesterday
Recorded by the university
Irrfwhars rernrernstrre q
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02

on for tryout purposes between now
and August Is. The producer is not at
all disappointed with tho results Of
his trip. The only thing that disap-
pointed him, he said, was the dearth
of good material in England.
There is play in England, how
ever" he said, (which I think Is one
Of the best constructed plays that has
ever been written. It is John Gals
worthy's Loyalties,' which Charles
Dillingham; will put on here in tho fall.
Basil Dean Is coming over to direct it,
and Mr.. Galsworthy is also coming.
Germany had mint Of good ma
terial, the surface of which had hard
ly been scratched. That is why l
bought so many plays in Germany.
paid in advance royalties for 'Morphia,
which l secured in Vienna, 100000
kronen (about $1,000 in our money!.
Two men had to carry suitcases full of
paper money to pay this sum. l
turned over far more paper In money
to the author than he turned over to
me in the manuscript. To read the
Paris edition Of The Herald in Vienna
l had to pay $4,000 kronen for COPY.
1t was impossible for me to go about
unaccompanied by porters. paid
about 100000 marks in advance roy
alties for eight plays in Germany; I
certainly spent fortune-that is, at
the normal rate of exchange"
Mr.. Woods thinks highly of "Mor-
phia," by DR.. Ludwig Hertzer, and of
lie Retour," by De Flers and De Crois-
set. Out of the plays he bought in
Europe he expects to secure enough
material to keep his two theaters in
New York and two in Chicago open
next season, in addition to the plays
that have already been announced
The producer was preparing to leave
for Atlantic City to cast an eye over
"Who's Who" which was presented
there last Monday night.
Martin Browns "A Gentleman's
Mother is also playing in Atlantic
City," Mr.. Woods reminded himself
There is one of Americas coming
playwrights, Martin Brown. Remem-
ter my words. confdentially predict
that he will write a big play some day.
mean real big play"
The coming season, in the managers
opinion, is not to show any improve
ment over the one which is just about
ready to expire.
"It's simply question Of the sur
vival of the fttest," he pointed out
"There is an oversupply Of theaters'
A good show is no longer worth any
thing to manager. If he hasn't a
Knockout he might as we'll have
nothing at all. London has about
twenty eight theaters. New York has
more than fifty. And London is just
as big as New York"
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IhePlaX,bill

~ UMMER boarders in New York's
fewer. To the rapidly diminish
ing list the names of EDDIE CANTOR,
ED WYNN and LOUIS WOLHEIM were
added last night. Eddie Cantor closed
his engagement in MAKE 1t Snappy"
at the Winter Garden, Ed Wynn slipped
out of the George M. Cohan Theater
IN "The Perfect Fool" and Louis VOL
helm took the choice dialogue Of "The
Hairy Ape" away from the Plymouth.
Hence there are more stages available
for rehearsal purposes. MAR
TIN BROWNS "A Gentleman's Mother"
after q week in Atlantic City, will
come to the Stamford Theater, SIAM
ford, tomorrow night, inaugurating
the playhouse's ninth season. {.
"The Bat" begins its ninety eighth
week at the Morosco Theater by cele-
Grating Its S0oth performance to-mor-
row night. GUTHRIE McCLIN-
TIC, whose production of A. A.
1 uS 0ONCI NOoo 10 ~ WING
one of the seasons successes, is to
make at least three productions during
the approaching season. One of the
productions, it is understood, will be of
an American melodrama. The final
performance of the Hindu plays in
English will be given this afternoon at
GEORGE GREY BARNARD'S Cloisters
of Saint Guilhem, Tooth Street and
Fort Washington Avenue. The plays
are "Savitri" or Love Conquers DEATH
1.-THE Maharani of Arakan" and "The
Farewell Curse" The latter two are
by RABINDRANATH TAGORE. i.
SAM SHIPMAN has been writing
play for BENNY LEONARD, the light
weight champion. He has always had
a notion that Benny can act. Many Of
tho persons who saw the Leonard
Britton fight last Monday night are in
clincd to agree with Sam.
WILLIAM HARRIS JR., has acquired
the rights to SAVloR'S "Banco." Savior,
it will be remembered, is the author of
"Bluebeards Eighth Wife" in which
INA CLAIRE appeared this season.
SOMERSET VAUGHAN 10 COM
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who loves the theater- as all good
Londoners do. At the same time it
has to be conceded that in England the
theater mostly has meant hitherto the
actor and the play, with background
as realistic as the stage permits. 1t
is only very recently that, due to the
influence of Gordon Craig and few
others, there has been any real recog-
milton of that other element in the
theater which makes of it a pictorial
as we'll as a literary and histrionic art
Some of the models exhibited in tbs
ten rooms in which the 500 exhibits
are displayed are old friends to the
Discriminating playgoer. One may see
here the delcately gay settings de-
viSed by Claude Lovat Fraser for THE
Beggar's Opera" and the effectively
desolate wind-blown tree which
crowned the graveyard scene in Martin
Harey's Hamlet" Stage masks and
marionettes, costume ard scenery de-
, signs from all parts of the world, af-
ford unique opportunity for contrast
and comparison.
The English section of the exhibit
ton is practically given over to the art
of static background. The same note
that CT applying decoration so that
the stage becomes a conventionalized
picture Of the play scene as semi
realistic background for the action
is struck by most of the American
and Continental exhibitors. Prominent
among these are the designs of Lee
Simonson for the New York Theater
Guild, Sam Hume and others among
the Americans; of II Theater du
Vieux Colombier, and~the Dutch work
of Fritz Lensvelt
But of greater interest, perhaps.
are the experiments in kinetic staging
here illustrated. One of the great
lessons of the exhibition, indeed. is
that stage designers are realizing that
! light has an emotional as we'll as an
optical value. Gordon Craig, of
course, is the leading exponent of this
method. "There should be no paint in
the theater," he declares. "All the
color should be given by light" The
art of kinetic staging aims at making
the scenery a continually developing
expression of the drama in hand,
changes of light and color and the
creation Of expressive forms during
the action of the play stimulating the
minds Of the audience in accordance
with the play motive. A leading cx-
ample of this is the Macbeth" of Rob-
ort Edmond Jones. The influence of
the three weird sisters is expressed
by the use of three enormous lighted
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ing to New York in September to be on
the scene when his EAST of Sucz" is
being prepared for production by A..
II. WOODS. Mr.. Woods, by the
way, has made arrangements with WILL
LIAM ELLIOTT to take over the Vaude-
Vile Thcater in Paris for next June,
July and August when thousands of
American visitors are in the French
capital. 1t is planned to produce Amer
lean plays for two-wcek runs. Any
American star WAC goes abroad for a
vacation will be able to combine bust
mes with pleasure in Paris by appearing
at the Vaudeville Theater. There will
be resident English company to play
the supporting roles. RUTH
ST. DENIS and TED SHAWN, with
their company of American dancers,
will return from their appearances in
England on the Majestic which is due
to arrive here on Tuesday.
FLORENCE SHIRLEY writes in to say
that she has been engaged to appear in
AVERY HOPWOOD'S "Why Men Leave
Home" which WAGENHALS & KEN
PER are to produce. On July
II, at the Apollo Theater, Atlantic City,
SAM H. HARRIS will present WILL
LIAM ANTHONY INQUIRIES OTIS A
Boy. BEATRICE BRADLEY,
daughter of the head of the Bradley
studios, which makes scenery and sets
for Broadway productions, will make
her debut on the stage in "The Inevita-
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MODERN times, though, as Arnold Benz
nett has remarked, 1--WE made this
island impossible for him to live in,
and the Italian government gave him
job"-and by him recommended to
the British Drama League. A num-
Der of people interested in the theater,
notably Godfrey Whitworth, Of the
British Drama League, and Lord
Howard de Walden, then got into COM
munication with Sir Cecil Harcourt-
Smith, of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, and permission was finally
given by H. A. L. Fisher, president of
the Board Of Education, for the exhibit
ton to be staged at the museum. 1t
is notable that this is the first occasion
when a British government has shown
, constructive interest in the art of
the theater.
The exhibition here is an altogether
larger affair than the ORIGINAL display
at Amsterdam last January. There
are many new models and designs,
notably British and American, and the
examples Of stage lighting effects are
an important addition. Such an in
elusive collection of models and de-
signs is unprecedented in this country.
Last year at South Kensington
Museum small room was devoted to
rough historical summary of theatri-
cal art, and there have been occasional
"one-man" shows-notably those Of
Gordon Craigs and Percy Anderson's
work. But London has no special
theatrical museums like Munich and
Milan, and this is the first comprehen-
sive display of modern stage settings
of various schools and countries.
The entire world has been ransacked
as far as possible, for material for this
exhibition. The two great leaders in
stage decoration, Gordon Craig and the
Swiss Adolphe .Appia, divide a room
between them. Aside from English
and Americans, there are exhibits by
Germans (ncluding Rcinhardt and
Stern), Russians, French, Belgians,
Italians, Austrians, Poles and Dutch.
Lee Simonson has sent photographs of
his settings for Back to Methusaleh,"
lately staged in New York, and Robert
Edmond Jones contributed some de-
signs. Many of the American exhibits
only reached London on the day be-
fore the exhibition was opened by
Jonkeer R. de Mares van Swinderen,
Minister Of the Netherlands here, sup
ported by Ellen Terry and a reception
committee composed of eminent
actress; yet these exhibits were
properly placed in time for the open
ing.
| South Kensington has already be-
come pilgrimage Of every Londoner
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New Theatrical Offerings

TUESDAY-At Threshold three
a They by
Dorothy and with Chopennng Ruth
Valentine Rose Meedman Adams Converse Tyler
O..
Malone,
"Shoes That Anna
Elizabeth Angelina Bates
Ned n the
THURSDAYA of
1922" Jack the book Jack Yelen
the James J.
responsible
Adele Rowland, Jimmy Hussey, George Price,
Fontainc kaiz Richardson Watts
Midge Miller Flavia Cecile
Oakland
Walters Florence Helen O'Shea
Berke Lucille Balantne,
Guided in the
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though Crosby Gaige did much of the
advance work for the latter two. 1t
would certainly seem that something
was amiss with the American writer.
On his own admission, Al Woods
brought back with him forty pounds"
OF plays, about thirty manuscripts In
number. To secure them he had to
spend several months abroad, main
tanning two porters to-carry suitcases
stuffed with Austrian kronen and Ger
man marks which went for advance
royalties. 1t was no easy task. Mr.,
Woods would much rather have re-
manned at home in his splendidly ap-
pointed Office in the Eltinge Theater.
Yet he frankly maintains that he has
and always will have the greatest
3aith in Americas writer's.
Playwrights who have made their
mark here are not producing enough to
supply the needs of New York's fifty
odd theaters, and there seems to be no
overwhelming desire to take chances
with the efforts of "unknowns." 1t
hasn't been any too good a season.
Hence the trek to Berlin, Vienna, Paris
and London.
I'd rather produce a play by an
American author than all the French,
German and English plays put to-
gether," said Mr., Woods, lolling back
ID roomy easy chair and putting on
big cigar. THE American play
Nfights know the country; they know
.Ae people; they are equipped to write
'0r American theatergoers. When a
PRODUCER buys a foreign play he must
eseufe an adapter, who makes it avail
que Tor the American stage. Fifty
per cent OF the foreign authors royal
ueS goes to the adapter. The Amer
.I1n p!aywrights are not writing
'"Oush to supply the demand. l mean
''eh Ike Thomas or Walter.
1t would not make me at all I'M
Ssppy II Augustus Thomas, Edward
sae'aon' Eugene Walter or Avery Hop
"Ooa would send me some plays to
.edu so / wouldn't have to spend time
~ u money going to France, England,
~, '"ahy and Austria to round up
10y. Hopwood is to adapt lie Re-
Ior me, but I wouldn't mind if
u "ouio co more. Any of these au-
.s- .s can come up 20 my Office and
I, contract for any play they want
n. @,'e and I'll write out check for
w advance royalties"
Vs. "oods's recent European trip
ess MS first in four years. He went
ma. WIN a specific purpose-to secure
to., ~and he accomplished this pur-
s,as Whether mis- acquisitions will
Nj successful remains to be seen.
f,,sls'' ne Is hopeful of the outcome.
s o,l and adapters are busily at
Mi, ana seven Of the thirty plays
Mr. Woods bought will be put
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02
A New "He''
" 7 HAT is it like to follow another
. man in the leading role of q

" man in the leading role Of q
big success? The public never
thinks about it because it seldom
hears that this has happened. Gus
tomarily when the summer season be-
gins, and for one reason or another q
second man follows the creator Of the
part, very little besides formal notice
gets into. the papers.
When Basil Sydney, however, start
ed last Monday night at the Garrick
in the title role of '"He Who Gets
Slapped" the Theater Guild felt it had
something to shout about. In the first
place, Mr.. Sydney is too we'll known in
England as an actor and producer and
in this country as the leading man of
Romance" to get by without notice.
In the second place, his Interpretation
Of the role is too, much his own, too
vital, to slide over.
How Mr.. Sydney himself feels about
playing the clown whom life slaps is
still another story, and the interviewer
who realized that it was opening night
and waited until after the play was
over to catch the actor was rewarded
by an exceedingly candid talk.
"Of course don't like following an
other actor-that is my answer to a
general question. did it just once
before when Miss Keane sent for me
to play Romance during the English
run and over here. My feeling about
following Richard Bennett in He Who
Gets Slapped would have been decid-
eddy mo- had it been any other play.
Any actor who is honest will tell you
he hates to play part afteS some
one else. We want to create; that is
our life. And to the terror Of ones
own first appearance is the added diff
fculty of having some one else's
shadow walking the stage with one, to
say nothing of the readjustment neces-
sary for the rest of the cast.
""But when it came to a question OF
playing He, why was just one Of
the fifty or more actors who have
wanted to do the role ever since it
was written in 1919. 1t would be inn
(Csnttnued on nsxt pasO
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)" which will open in Asbury Park.
GERTRUDE HOFFMAN, has

ble," which will open in Asbury Park.
GERTRUDE HOFFMAN, has
been engaged by ARTHUR KLEIN to
head the Shubert vaudeville unit he
will operate next season. NORA
BAYES is to appear in an intimate mu-
steal comedy called 1.-THE Queen of
Hearts" 1t is by FRANK MANDEL
and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2D. After
a four weeks preliminary tour it is
scheduled to come to the George M
Cohan Theater in September. -. {.
The SHUBERTS have started casting
for new Passing Show" Whether
it will come to the Winter Garden in
September depends upon the run Of
Spice of 1922" which opens on Thurs
day night. Should "Spice of 1922" OBJ
tain the successful results expected Of
it, the Passing Show" may be assigned
to Jolson's Theater. t'."
LEE SHUBERT, A. L. JONES and
MARK EISNER have been selected to
act as judges to pass on the dramatiza-
ton of JAMES Kenmore COQPER'S
novels by the Fenimore Country Club,
which is running play contest. Man
uscripts should be submitted by Oc-
tober next. The play which is &C
copied will be first produced at the
theater on the Fcninore Country Clubs
grounds. Although any one Of Cooper's
novels may be used as a basis for the
play, the club prefers 1.-THE Spy"
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Woods ON Writers

AVE American producers faith playwright?
Most Of the who control the dines of the
organized personally conducted hunting expeditions
around Europe seeking
N the fall Al Woods and Charlie Dillingham;
from the Continental npng grounds Savage Sewyns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02
The London Stage
By Ware B. Wells

n 1EW YORK is ho3ed will opportunity
the International Thcster Exhibition show the
Victoria and Albert Museum. similar
exhibition Amsterdam which discovered
Craig-perhaps
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The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-09-02
New IncOrpOratOrs
for BrightloOk

At a special meeting of the in
corporators of Brfghtlook hospital
Friday evening these gentlemen
were elected to fill vacancies caus-
ed by deaths in the board: Kyle T.
Brown, Lunenburg, George Davis,
Concord, E. c. Chandler, Water
ford, E. A. Gray, Concord, John
G. Roy, East Barnet, Charles H.
Goss, Gilbert f. Woods, John F.
Puffer, all of st. Johnsbury, J. w.
ellis, Danville, Ashley J. Goss,
West Danville, John L. Norris,
Lyndonville, Charles A. Shields,
st. Johnsbury.
Following the erection to the
board of incorporators Charles A.
Shields was elected a member of
the executive board of the institu-
ton for a term of three years.
Chautauqua Owners Always Win
"The annual sad message TO the
guarantees of the Chautauqua in
st. Johnsbury was received Fri
day. 1t was an assessment on the
fifty guarantors of this years
Chautauoua for SO EACH" reads a
news item in the Barre Times. The
Bennington Banner also contains
Chautauqua news to the effect that
the Bennington guarantors were
paying Saturday $15.72 each for
the privilege of underwriting the
seIiCes of entertainments. Brattlc
boro Reformer.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-09-02
COmus Club Girls
Hold Picnic Party

The automobiles of Mrs. Freder-
lex Johnson and Miss Florence
Day carried members of the
Comus club to a delightful picnic
spot in the vicinity of Waterford
Friday night and supper was eaten
while the young women watched
the sun go down and the moon
rise.
The outing was arranged by
Mrs. Stanley F. Garfield and Miss
Day and the club girls present in
cluded the hostesses, and Mrs.
Johnson, Mrs. M. J. Delaney of
Springfield, Mass, Mrs. Walter
Mertz of Wayne, Pa, Mrs. Ralph
Bigelow of st. Johnsbury Center,
Mrs. Wallace Abbott, Mrs. Car
roll Fox and Mrs. G. V. Mooney.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-09-02
Elk. Mayor Endorses
Flint for Sheriff
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Continued from page one)
columns high tribute to the ability
and character of Mr. Frederick A.
Flint, whom | have just been adj
vised is a candidate for sheriff in
your County.
Mr.. Flint was formerly a resi-
dent of this city and while here was
engaged in Police work for the
State Constabulary, and later dur
ing the War was employed as a
Special Agent in the United States
Secret Service. During his entire
stay in this region the writer was
Mayor of the CITY of PottisviIle,
and in this capacity had an excel
lent opportunity to observe the
nature and character of Mr.. Flint
work. and without heetitancv I can
tluthfully state that Mr.. Flint was
not only a painstakinG official but
a fearless and intelligent one as
we'll.
His character is without blemish.
He is a young man Of excellent
education and proven inteoritv.
It is the earnest belief Of the
writer that thousands Of reonle in
this repion will concur in the state
ment that the voters of your re-
gion are fortunate lin HAVING 60
sterling voun" man as can6i
date for the high office of sheriff.
Verv truly YOURS,
F. Pierce Mortimer.
Ex.-Mavor of Pottsville
(Space Contributed bv Ex.-Mayor
Mortimer)