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Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Heat Low, Gets Verdict

NEW YORK, March 27.-Because
a landlord did not maintain a tenn
perature OF 68 degrees and a four
and one-half months old infant died,
James 70 De Corchoner, Of Brook
Ign, today was awarded q $2,5Oe
verdict by a supreme court jury be
fore Justice Kopsky. City Health Of
fcers said It was the first suit to be
brought under new health ordinances
requiring landlords to keep such q
temperature in their apartments.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Announce Engagement

Mrs. Rose Solomon, Of Han ave-
nue., announces the engagement of
her daughter, Betty, to DR.. William
Ostrow, of Brooklyn. Miss Solomon
is a graduate of the local high
school and of Newark normal school
and is at present teaching in the
local schools. DIR. Ostrow is a grad
uate of New York University and is
now practicing medicine in Brook
Ign. ss<-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
warren CLIFTON Given Farewell Party

M HVItu ANhI&oAA -
A farewell party was gwen TO
Warren Clifton last Saturday nigh-
at his home in Sheridan street.
Those present were Harold Peterson
John Brush, James Desmond. Mich
ael Cessna, George Westward, Eu-
gene Mum, George Westheld. JOS
eph MacQuarrie, Quinton TAYLOR,
John Urbanski, Alfred Turnbuii,
William Bremen. Charles Chair.
William Frazer. Charles Leslee,
Arthur Jensen. Tod Dohney, GLADYS
pearl, Catherine Rebeck, Mildred
Poulsen, Mary Montana, Edna Mad
sen. Anna Barlis. Betty Benyack,
Martha Benyack. Mary Chiko. Eliza
beth Resetar. William Spear OF Mat
avian, Emil Anderson, j. Damback.
William Rogan of Fords, and Toots
Kirts. Carrie Gamble, Irene Gamble.
Beatrice Gamble. Jennie Zytka.
Amelia Luke and Anna ALBRIGHT OF
South Amboy.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Charge Auto Was stolen

ELIZABETH, March 27.-Fred
Richards and Earl Cassidy of Roch-
ester, N. Y, excited the suspicious OF
Patrolman Sattler, when they whiz-
zed through Elizabeth early today
in an automobile bearing . Massa-
chusetts license.
sattler took them to police head,
quarters where Richards admitted
he took the automobile from Lowell.
A quantity of cigarettes, shoes ana
groceries aboard the machine were
held pending receipt from Roches-
ter and Lowell authorities.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

TRENTON, March 27:-Holdins
that the award of $500 damage was
inadequate the supreme court grant,
ed a new trial in the case Of Jere-
miah Ransom Of Madison against
Cornelius Crowley for the death OF
the plaintiffs nineteen-year-old son.
ogden, who was struck and killed by
one of the defendants motor trucks.
The victim had been contributing
S12 weekly for the support OF his
parents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
O1Connor is Speaker


March 27.-In an address at an anti
treaty. meeting here yesterday,
Michael j. O'Connor. of New York,
said cannon de Valera was the only
Irish statesman who ever went to
America. He declared that it the
Irish people relinquish their claim
or a lrepublic they could V put
it forfard again.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

LIVERPOOL. March 81 (By the Az
ISOLATED Press).-Twenty-five thou.
sand men in the engineering and
shipbuilding trades have decided to
20 on strike tomorrow as a result OF
an announcement by employers put
ting q national wage reduction into
force. The newcastle and Southamp-
ton unions voted to take similar
action.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Fire On Austrian Patrol

VIENNA, March ~ (By The As
sociated Press).-A band Of Hun
garians fred on an Austrian patrol
in Burgenland yesterday, killing one
of the Austrians, it was learned here
today. Hungarian irregulars were
reported reassemblying in several
districts and the Austrian troops are
being reinforced as a precautionary
measure.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
yerd,ct For R,eoch Of Con,ract

Verdict For Breach of Contract
TRENTON, March 27.-The SUI
eme court today awarded Thomas
nova ,wford, of East Orange, a ver-
NJ $33,216 IN his suit against
1sroa Van Gasbeck for alleged
N0OO. contract in a deal for the
of an oriental rug bust
The case was tried
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Eureka Club Has Party

The Eureka Pleasure Club gave a
party Saturday night for Its mem
beers and friends at the club house,
in Sayre avenue. Games and dane
ling were enjoyed by the guests.
Refreshments OF Gomez n nome'
made cake were served.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Miss Meyers to Wed

Albert c. Meyers, of Kearny ave.
nue., announces the engagement of
his daughter, Irene Alberta, to
Maurice A. Potter, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Potter, OF Long Branch.
No date has been set for the we'd
ding.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
WIRE NEWS

ATLANTIC CITY, March 27.-
Special Federal Prohibition Agent
Harry Sands raided several cafes
here today and arrested three charg-
ed with violating the Volstead act.
The men arrested: Daniel Inelli,
Michael Mclaughlin and Joseph
Kelley. They were taken before the
U. S. Commissioner Hiram Steelman
and held in $500 bail for trial. The
arrests are the first important ones
since the Van Ness law was declared
unconstitutional. The lid is reported
to be down tonight.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The
interstate commerce commission by
an order experimenting its recent
approval of Erie railroad refunding
plan, today specifically authorized
that railroad to extend for one year
la note held against it by the war
finance corporation and falling due
April l..
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Denies Plea for Pardon

/ DcINVS ICM tut q
ALBANY, March 27.-Gov. Miller
has denied the application for a par
don of Jim Larkin, the Irish agita-
tor convicted of criminal anarchy
and serving a sentence at Clinton
prison.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27
Enaeavor Society to Meet

The Christian Endeavor Society
of the Presbyterian church. Will
meet tomorrow night in the chapel
Of the church. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

The Martha washington Club will
hold a meeting tonight in the Com
munity house.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

The new building of the Maple
Realty Company corner Of Madison
avenue and Smith street is receiving
its finishing touches and Will be
ready for the occupants on sched-
ule time. The barber shop now To-
Gated in the Madison avenue store
will be moved into the basement Oh
the new building and the present
building Connected with the store
with entrances from Smith street.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

Ballot counting in the Raritan
Copper works athletic association
election is expected to be completed
shortly after moo tomorrow.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

A truck driven by Albert HelsieI
of Garfield backed into a a parkeu
near Smith and Front streets yes.
terday afternoon. me maciiine wa We
slightly damaged but no one ~
hurt. No arrest was Mane ~ Wv
police.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

Then M. Taeroff and M. soumarakoff,
his secretary Of administration" took
me on complete tour Of the Kamerny Theater
and explained all its processes and workings.
II do not deserve the credit for this" said
the director. Here is the real genius of the
futurist theater," and he presented M Lukian-
off, the creator of all that pertains to scenes,
lights and costumes. Mr.. Lukianoff told me
that he attended the University of Moscow
theatrical school, and then went to Kiev the
capital of the Ukraine, and later to Odessa, the
busy port on the Black Sea, where he worked
for time as a player and then became mana
ger of his own theater. Finally the futurist
theater movement in Moscow, as exemplitied
in the Kamerny Theater, called to him and he
came North to join the staff of the famed
M. Taeroff.
"Look at me-" he said to ME through the
Interpretation Of M. Soumarakoff. II have
grown beard. shall never act out front
again. My life will be spent up here working
out new ideas. I shall never leave my friend
M. Taeroff."
eyes, he will never leave his little room,
back of this, where he lives," laughingly added
M. S O m arakoP.
ga nd he will
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
By Nellie E. Cardner

LITTLE boy I know ascribes every
~ thing that amazes and delights him to
magic" Magic Is the only expla-
nation for the development from O
splash Of oils on an eight by ten inch canvas,
giving the artistic motif of the piece, through
he creation of paper dolls and pasteboard
sene models, to the bewildering witchery of
costume, color, setting, Interpretation and
sctng seen In the finished production Of the
gamerny Theater in Moscow. Manager, pro-
ducer, costume designer and orchestra leader
4 al have helped to create the unforgettable
! picture And 1t is such magic as only Alice
saud hW seen if she had stepped through
M bang glass into a futurist Wonderland.
MKamerny Theater Company of Moscow
asfaturists Of such pure pedigree that they
aFas anything of the sort in this country
scampletely as ocean surf surpasses a swim
mig pool 1t was a great pleasure during my
aaence in Moscow this year to witness many
Ecductions at this unusual theater on Tver-
/ &d Boulevard and to become well acquaint-
I'd with M. Taeroff, the director, and several
members of his staff. From him learned the
shole story of the futurist theater movement
specially of it's dream TO come to New York
am writing this story in New York
nearly twelve weeks since left Moscow. Yet
he memory Of this theater and the mood Of
players and audience is as fresh in my mind
IS if 1t were only last night that / witnessed
the brilliant premiere of their latest produc-
non, "Signor Formico,'' to which / was In
nted on the evening of June IL. I can close
NY eyes and shut out the picture Of Broad
way and the white lights, and instead call
back Moscow and the twilight nights with
almost twenty-four hours Of midsummer sun.
Men with long linen blouses and high, black
eoas are walking arm in arm with girls in
white dresses and slippers and ankle-length
1x Gray-bearded, blue-coated "zvostchiks"
afiVe % the door and haggle about the mil
aons Of rubles that the "Amerikansks" must
pay III they have neglected to make their
os'gain on entering the high-backed carriage)
small boy or an old woman is calling "Iz-
sestla the favorite newspaper. A young
aah with thin, pale face Is tempting you to
oay fragrant lilacs, peonies and lilies-of-the-
&iey And every one is chewing sunflower
seds and covering the walk with their husks.
band is playing in the Inner Boulevard.
I ~ Is the first year since the outbreak of the
var that public music for recreation has been
shloyed on the streets. But Russia is at peace
ana order has been restored, and constant
sReam OF men and womens sometimes solemn
aaa sometimes laughing depending upon
sAetaer they have earned any bread that
ussl' are strolling through the avenue of
ssalek-leaved trees.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
Iou Forget About Politics,
Vars, Food, Famine

OUT step inside the Kamerny Theater, buy
program from the old doorkeeper, leave your
sas and walking stick with the venerable
/ ,seeA man, climb the wide fight of stairs and
su,fs inside before the lights go out. For 1t
: Z o'clock, and no straggler is admitted to
- aan after the act starts. And if you are
~ on time some pretty, bobbed-haired
~'a'aee viii take your seat
s...,s aefe inside this cozy, intimate chamber,
''s irom the ballroom of former fine resi-
se' you forget all about politics, economies,
' lood, famine and mass feeding. You
- q q The temple Of art, and art that is not
az. a.o 70 step boldly forward and blaze q
','ns srail to something new in drama.
- ano whether you believe it or not, and
ssA. ssssis. you approve it or not, what has been
spshlng eeaa IN the Kamerny Theater in Mos
& 1T the last eight years is bound to he felt
Il ssery theater in the world by the time the
~. s,sasas american kindergarteners are buying
-. !. 0Wn hfst-night tickets
s,.. aas a0ul Of the Kamerny Theater ex-
e.s''sS lsself IN such costumes, especially hats
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

pany, but it takes years of training before
they attain that privilege and distinction.
Besides creating these Kamerny Theater
productions and specifying the spirit and
tempo in which they shall be given, NJ. Taer-
off assumes all direction Of the players. The
principal members of his executive staff an
clude M. Lukianoff, director of scenes; II.
Sousloff, business manager; MN. Metner and
Alexandroff, music composers; NJ. Soumara-
kof, secretary Of administration; Nine. Shell
estova, the little lady who is always on hand
to mother" the entire company and see that
everything goes right. The entire company,
from director to doorman, have great af-
fection for her and say the Kamerny could
not do without her.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
the Russian
high
o poety and nagi

any one into it. 1t is sacred only TO himself
and his pipe"
Lukianoff and his pipe are never separated
not even long enough to have q picture
taken as the accompanying snapshot shows
/ looked around this room, with its piles Of
da shing colors and fantastic forms Of garments
of all descriptions and asked, "Please tell me
all about this. just how do you work it out?
Where do you begin?"
"It all begins in the brain Of M. Taeroff,"
they told me- "He studies for long time on
the new plays that he wants to produce, and
finally chooses one and works it all out in his
own mind. Then he calls in M Jakuloff, one Of
the most famous painters of Russia, and gives
him an idea of the effect he wants to produce.
All M Taeroff has is the mental image of
mood, All idea, and an effect. 1t remains for
M. JakulofY to translate this brain image into
something pictorial and tangible. He goes
away and returns a few days later with
small canvas with something on it in oils
To me this fiat oil sketch seemed little
more than splash Of about four small
brushes. But to NJ Lukianoff it suggested
colors, lines, curves and backstage drops, and
he followed the artists futurist creation to the
last suggestion. He showed me the sketch for
s'Signor Formico," and as I recall it now it
looked like the husband Of old Mother Hubbard,
or the sister of the Witch Of Endor, flying
through the clouds and stabbing their enemies
en- route!
After the artists sketch come the paper
dolls. M. Lukianoff showed me the paper
dolls which he had cut and pasted and painted
as models for the costumes, and sure enough,
da En- %do
futuristic sketch. AS he makes paper dolls
for the guidance Of the costume makers, so he
makes pasteboard and paper sets as patterns
for the creation of all drops, wings and inter
iors A complete model Is built by himself,
measuring about IL by 25 inches, and from
this the full-sized scene is easily constructed.
I asked M. Lukianoff to explain why "Ro-
meo and Juliet" was played in scene of
straight lines, and pyramids and sharp point
ed arches, where "Adrienne Lecouvreur," by
Scribe, was set in curves.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

And American players imagine they are
hard worked. The question of nourishing food
over here is taken for granted, while over
there one look at their thin cheeks and neck
bones reveals that none has been overfed for
at least three years. I did not ask any ques-
tions about this, for these Russian men and
women are proud, well bred and reserved, and
they do not lightly reveal their own or their
country's misery.
However, of one thing I am sure. No mat
ter what the vicissitudes of life in Russia since
the war and revolution and high prices and
famine, it is certain to me that NJ Taeroff
has been "big brother" to all the company and
has shared whatever fate was theirs. Without
emphasizing this human, sympathetic trait in
this Russia theater director one cannot tell
the real story of Moscow's Kamerny Theater
When word was sent to M. Taeroff that an
American woman had called at the theater for
the purpose of learning more Of its backstage
and upstairs workings and of passing on the
story to the American people he hurriedy
dressed and came to welcome me- Even though
he had had only three hours sleep in the LAST
thirty-six! (He tried to conceal that fact, but
some member Of
his company let
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

and shoes, as you never imagined, even in
New Years Eve post-champagne dream Such
gestures, grace, modulation of voice and in
tensity of passion and reality of emotionl
And what wealth of imagination revealed in
the bizarre settings, lighting effects, ensemble
groupings and startling finales
When the last curtain fell on "Romeo and
Juliet" the first Kamerny Theater produc-
tion | attended, was actually limp with feel
ing. Though bearing no resemblance to any
thing Shakespearean / had ever seen, and at
first seeming travesty on the greatest of
love stories, this dramatic production had
scared to the heights of tragic fate and had
attained a sublimity of poetry and beauty and
pantomime in which the medium of compre-
hensible language was not necessary.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
Not Necessary to know
Russian to "Gef IT.

I did not understand ten words of Russian
pathos and passion and plot of Romeo and
Juliet" even though I had never read word
Of Shakespeare or never heard the story
After my first amlazement at the stage setting
with its black, white and red strips of cloth
arranged if a giant geometrician had
spilled lapful Of blocks, and at the prancing.
black-masked fellows in the prologue, with
the high curlicues on their heads and flaming
torches in their hands--in other words, after
I ceased to grasp l began to admire and in
wardly to applaud. Zone does not applaud in
Russian theater until after the last curtain.)
This futurist production Of "Roneo and Juliet
seemed more real more mature in its love
and more Elizabethan or Shakespearean in
tone than any conventional Interpretation I
witnessed on the American stage 1t
combined the grace of the Moscow ballet with
the fatalism of the Greek tragedy and the
tableaus and scenic effects Of the "Follies'' Or
the Winter Garden
Alexander Taeroff is genius, withal very
silent and modest But he has never lost sight
of his vision of the futurist movement in the
theater. He is something more than genius.
He is the beloved friend and respected leader
of a group of men and women, as we'll as
growing children, and the relation between
this director and the members of his company
is something as ] imagine Shakespeare or
Schubert might have inspired For these
players are not merely actors. They are
devotees of an idea. They are almost mem
bers of cult And for the progress and
glory of futurism in the theater they will live
or die, or starve, if necessary. 1t is the ideal
of their life.
The Kamerny Theater is their club and
workshop as well rs their stage. dropped
in there one Sunday afternoon and this is what
/ found Beyond the cement courtyard at the
side of the main theater building is the annex
workshop. Behind that is the school. On the
second floor of the annex, reached by very
narrow stairs, is large room. Within
were racks of costumes, piles Of new, mas
sive hats, pasteboard models for stage
set, golden-haired girl painting a
brown streaks on the white M
satin sleeve of a new bodice M@@
and young man prac- ANW
ticing cartwheels and A
standing on his head + AaMg Sg
and then steadying 4 EM
himself and returning A s
to his palette and aYM
brush. The opening
night of "Signor For 4
mico" was only week
off and all the cos MSasss
tunes and scenes had \
to be completed. They
apologized for their sasg
sleepy eyes, explaining s u
that they had begun tc SssS ssS
rehearse at midnight aG-a.a--s-
after the evening per- k-~---~--------.-.-----.
formance OF "Fedra. 1t takes the magic
andhad only stopped at .,ss.,~as o,J ~
6 o'clock in the morn -.
ing They would keep s@s0Se0 s'sss
that up all week.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
There's Plenty Of Logic
In Lines and Curves

"The answer is easy" he replied. sI only
followed the suggestion in M. Jakuloff's sketch.
And, anyway, it is logical. 'Adrienne' is
French, of the rocco period, and naturally ex-
presses itself in curves. Juliet is Gothic, or
Romanesque. or italian in time and tempera-
nent and jnst naturally falls into arches"
So there you arel
After we had finished the inspection Of the
workshop and had seen the rooms where all
the costumes and scenery were made we passed
down stairs to the Kamerny Futurist The
atrical School. There the young men and
women, just in or out of their teens, are train
ing for the serious futurist plays of to-
y morrow. M. Taeroff is at the head Of
this school, and he has thirty pupils,
b. from sixteen to eighteen years of
eA age. The course includes, as
sss he told me: Lessons Of i'm
ssafASA y provision, training in
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

dnnne
Moscow Explaining the setting
french Of the period, and Being
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

short theatrical pieces,
lessons in makeup,
ballet, plastic art,
rhythm. diction and
elocution, training OF
the voice, singing,
gyrnnastic lessons, ac-
robatic lessons, Jug
Cling, fencing and lee
/ tures on the history
4 of art and the history
\ of the theater. There
n is a small, inviting
stage in this school
room, where from time
y to time exhibitions of
re the class work are
given. 1t Is the ambi-
5 ton Of all the pupils
se TO be allowed to appear
in the regular cons-
. + 4 Il
New-York tribune., 1922-11-12

LITTLE boy know ascribes every
~ thing that amazes and delights him to
~ magic" Magic is the only expla-
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02

d cockpit OI cOntenulHS pelLy StaIeS IaSllOneu
 upon the European model Lincoln saved the Union.
 Now, after less than a century and a half of national life, having crossed the Atlantic at the crucial moment in the worlds greatest war to end the struggle and save civilization from suicide, it has become the destiny of the Am
 erican republic, in conference held beside the river on whose shores Lincoln died and Wash ington sleeps, to point the world to the path way of enduring, righteous peace. America has not been Europeanized the world has been Americanized, using that term in no selfish sense of nationality, but as rep |resentative of the ideals this republic repre- |sents.
 A new and glorious chapter in American history, has been written, and the hand which has traced it is that of an American President behind whom stand hundred million citizens |of a government grown the mightiest of earth, whose giant strength has been employed, not for the domination but for the liberation of mankind.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02
SOM E BONN

SOME BONN He ran just like an arrow, yea,
 He surely was a find, In fact he ran so fast, one day
 He left his shoes behind. This can be said, they don't have to lift their skirts when crossing 2 slushy street.
 A friend of mine who was invited out to dinner Sunday passed his glass when he was asked if he would have some corn.
 A doctor often tells his patients tC go to a warmer climate--when they are slow in paying their bills.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02

If you tired of movie comedies and the vaudeville jokes about prohibition and still laugh hunt up an old photograph album of thirty years ago.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02
WINTER SMALL TALK

WIN EH SmAII ININ
 q don't care for such warm weath- CT, really. think we all feel better when the days are colder"
 "Yes. bought the children sled and skates for Christmas"
 "Oh my dear, we were all ready to go to Flordia but the weather has been so warm that 1t didn't seem to be worth the effort.
 Science may be doin' some won- derful things for optometry an sich- like" glumly remarked Amos Fash, this afternoon, but I'm blamed if kin see where it's accomplishin' very much fer blind pigs"
 A wife would rather her husband would have almost any other mean trait than that of stinginess.
 Styles come and styles go, that's the simple truth, but the present styles are good enough for age and youth. They warm the old mans heart. bringing joys that please, for he plainly sees with ease the dainty dimples fin her knees. But beware old chap, of the danger every soldier knows, just keep your eyes front and no not stump your toes.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02
ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE

Used Car Dealer-What! Cant pay your note? Why, you four flusher, before you bought this car. you told me that you were well off.
 Victim (sighing)-So I was but l didn't know it.
The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-02
WHEEZE

cough, sneeZe, I snort, I wheeze
 I'm in a perfect frenzy, My head is dough. My nose wont go
 I've got the influenzy.