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New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
Every Man in
His Own Hunor

NEAR SIR, I hasten to discount
the obvious retort Of "sour
grapes" by confessing that was
one who competed for the prize offered
by William Fox Yor q better title for his
picture "a Little Child Shall Lead
any ono Of the titles submitted by me
was an improvement, but the one finally
chosen from 1900 suggestions shows
such Grass misunderstanding of the
psychology of audiences and the heart
Of u child that venture to raise my
voice in protest.
l should say 1t la incontrovertible
that title should aim to sum up the
general theme or idea of picture, or
perhaps-in the case Of an author hav-
ing one-its purpose. The particular
picture in question was, to my mind,
admirably expressed by its former title,
but apparently the fact that it was a
Biblical quotation sat uneasily upon
audience and producer. To me the pic
ture was so obviously (and inartisti-
caliy) propaganda for the adoption Of
foundlings that in jest suggested the
title "Take One Home With You" Yet
the winning title emphasizes precisely
the one unfortunate element in the cult
Of the adopted child.
To me the connotations In the new
title, "Who Are Ny Parents?" are so
unfortunate that if anything could pos
sibly place me on the side Of the CEN
sor It would be this instance Of riding
rough shod over the sensibilities of
children. For who can doubt the suf-
fering that will come to little children
brooding over the uncertainty Of par.
enthood, torturing themselves over the
their own birth! 1t may be that "It's
a wise son that knows its own father"
is text from the Bible. but who could
! imagine "It's wise son that knows it's
own mother" coming from that reposi-
tory of wisdom7
Possibly thus to believe that one may
have risen from Che gutter mag in the
eyes Of certain Grass sentimentalista
put true humility Of spirit and sym
pathy toward the under dog into tn
hearts of children--assets that to then
are worth the distinct loss in happi-
| ness and affection. i should be sorry
to think SO poorly Of any of my con-
/ temporaries-but the thing Is not i'm
possible! only can hope that those
in power possess a more wholesome
view Of the needs Of little folk!
There is in the story taside from its
faulty propaganda really construc-
tive, fine idea-the healing touch of
baby hands. the unfair rivalry of pup
and progeny. Therefore. regret all
! the more the producers apparent de
cision to accentuate in his new title its
one unfortunate, sensational and highly
disturbing element.
ANNIE NATHAN MEYER.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
New Theatrical Offerings

nth HEAvENohn Golden songs play at
the Booth Theater tomorrow night Helen
Frank Morgsn Marion Kerby Hubert Beatrice
Post Alfred kappeler Isabel Holloway
Richard
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR"Ths
the Italian of Luigi Pirandeo, which
night the Princess
comedy In the making 1t then
In London by the Stage Society Edward
translation The cast includes Wycherly
Eleanor Woodruff Mofat Dwight Frye
Fred House, Ida Fitzhugh Russell Amory John
Saunders Elliott Cabot Kathalen Leon
Keefer, Catherine Atkinson Ashley Buck and
Lushy.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

is said, Is to deal with the settlement
Of the Cherokee strip, now part Of
Oklahoma. to which Rogers is native
FORREST WlNANT is return
ing from London to appear here In
"The Return" the AVERY HoPWooD
adaptation of the play by DE FLERS
and DE CROsSsET which A. Il. Woods
viii present later in the season.
LILLIAN LORRAINE and DAVE
STAMPER have formed q combination
to appear in vaudeville. Stamper, who
will play the piano, has collaborated
on songs with GENE BUCK for many
"Follies." He is writing some of
the music for the new Fanny Bries
show. REX BEACH, one
hears, has decided to fashion a play
from his story called "fhe Recoil,"
and the news further is that GEORGE
TYLER is the motivating force for the
decision. WILLIAM A. BRADY
plans TO bring "Up She Goes" the
musical version of "Too Many Cooks"
into the Playhouse on Monday night,
November 6. 1t will be the first
musical play to be presented at the
Playhouse. There is cloud on the
future OF "Swifty" now at the Play
house. LOUIS O. MACLOON
has purchased from Sam H. Harris the
rights fer "a Gentleman's Mother" By
Martin Brown. It was tried out In
Atlantic City earlier in the fall.
!. JACK LATT is to write a mu-
sical comedy to be called "Genevieve.H
|. Two Harris productions are
preparing TO leave in fortnight. To-
morrow night both '.1t's Boy at the
Sam H. Harris Theater and Captain
App'ejack" at the Cort will begin the
last two weeks of their engagements.
|. STUART WALKER will PRE-
sent "The Book of Job" for Ave special
performances at the Cort Theater next
week for the benefit Of the Near East
1al;ef.
| The new B. F. Keith Palace Theaser
in Cleveland will be dedicated week
from tomorrow. 1t is skyscraper,
twenty-five stories high, and has a
seating capacity of $3.50.
/ The third OF series Of informal
meetings under the Equity PLAYERS at
the Equity Forty-eighth Street Theater
will take place next Sunday afternoon.
Clayton Hamilton viii speak on "Tha
Mighty Minority"
/ Henry Myers, who wrote "Ths First
/ Fifty Years.. has written aThe End
Iof the Book" one-act play which
the Stuyvesant Players will produce
next month under his direction. On
the same program will be Molnar's
Lies" translated by Benjamin E,
Glazer, and two other one-sct plays.
i The East West Players will present
four onc-act plays at the Metropolitan
Auditorium, Madison Avenue at Twen<
tty-seventh Street, Saturday evenings,
November Is and 25. The plays ara
Dinner by Ference Mslnar; aProg.
Iress," by st. John Ervine: @Fancy,
Free" by Stanley Houghton. and @.rha
Turtle Dove" by Margaret Scott Oh
iver. Gustav Blum IL directing.
r.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
AL the Columbia

"Foily Town. new version written
by William X. Wells, will be the weeks
burlesaue attraction at the Columbia
Theater beginning tomorrow after
noon. Gus Fay heads the company
which includes Lucille Harrison, Dolly
RayfeId, Helen Andrews, Mildred
Holmes, Lester Dorr, Harry Kelly.
jacques Wilson, George Wink, William
Bleet and othsrs. 3
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

scheduled for December II. The next
week Baltimore will be the favored city.
Now CHARLES DILLINGHAM has
reversed himself and restored the title
of his new musical production to "The
Bunch and Judy" Last week it was
"Judy and the Bunch" Additional en-
gagements for the cast include PER-
CIvAL WIGNEY, PHILIP TONGE,
PATRICE CLARK, ROBERTA BEAT
TY, HELYN ROCK (the former
HELYN EBY, widow of William Rocky,
IRMA IRVING, EUGENE REVERE and
RUTH and LILLIAN WHITE. Phila-
deiphia Is to pass judgment on the
entertainment first, the opening to take
place a week from tomorrow night
at the Garrick Theater. Book
ing conditions are forcing "Little Nell
lie Kelly out of her Boston home in
the face Of splendid business. GEORGE
M. COHAN will bring his musical com
edy-and it is his, book, lyrics, pro-
duction and ALTO the Liberty The
ater on November f3. "Molly Darling"
now at the Liberty, will be forced to
set up housekeeping elsewhere in the
A. h;nh
will soon reach the city is MAX MAR
GINS MARY Get Your Hair Cut" 1t
lis mentioned for Maxine Elliott's The
ater, where the much-praised MONCK-
TON HOFFE play, "The Faithful
Heart" is having scant box Office sue
cess. .. SAMUEL SHIPMAN is
rewriting "Ths Dollar Daddy" for
LOUIS MANN. MARGARET
LAWRENCE has sailed for England to
see the London production of Secrets,
in which SAM II. HARRIS will present
her here. HELEN MACKEL.
LAR has accepted two weeks stock
Engagement in Toledo. where she will
appear in nBack Pay" and "Buddies.' .
When she returns to New York she
7ill begin rehearsals for the Woods
reduction of "The Masked Woman
probably about the 25th of mex,
month. -. AL WOODS. by the
way, has CPS in his bonnet" OF Sc
Broadway says he has, in connection
with "The Love Child" HENRI BA-
TAlLLE is the author. MARTIN
BROWN the American adapter, and
JANET BEECHER, SIDNEY BLACK.
MER and LEE BAKER are leading
members OF the cast. The New York
opening Is scheduled for November Is
theater not yet announced.
Getting Gertie's Garter" is breaking
stock records. II has played fou,
weeks In Baltimore and has two more
to go before it's engagement is ended
"a Fantastic Fricassee." begin
ming It's eighth week at the Greenwich
Village Theater, will present new
bill tomorrow night. ., B00TE
! HARRINGTON is 70 write play TO,
] WILL ROGERS. to be presented mex
season by r. zrEGFELD JR. The In
disnian is in town attending rehearsal
OF "Rose Briar," his comedy for Bill
LIE BURKE, and he has been LOOKING
in on the "FoIlies," where his subjec
twirla tho rope and pulls jokes out o
/ newspaper stories, The new play, 4
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
The Theaters
bringing Oberamn ergau to Broad,cay
By Percy Hammond

dramas have enriched the season SO much as Mr. Pocs
say sumpuou because
large and overowing emphasis improving Ideas
snowy gospelng, whose
NAV evade Mr. Pollock Ia among the ncerest navphts We
be that
fellow probable earnings
entertainment Thus it possible that he sacrificed his ped
simplicity thater gitterng
gant played philadelphia
m last winter while he was writing The Foo and from that
&y that h like the holy in his had
\ Gahsemsnes
STILL in our excited the other night s
ndered ALL Pollock might of many
life exclusively the terms Of the theater from his long
with
frame his beliefs and imagnatons within Broadway
Fo when taken between the thumb and forednger Of nvestioa
distant thing Broadway
sneerng correspondent writes that Mr. Pollock
k Ed paud of the dramass that he thinks more of m ruges
han pad paint
es until they become brilliantly artificial We able testify
M this indictment is unjust Mr. Pollock we believe is brave and
artist possessing courage ability effectively
his conviction that life real and when
lived by actors in his good plays.
What have sometimes wondered makes play work? What
Heralds" reviewer
a while attending The Fool" We have this critic
nights sitting stole the helpless passions
being tatters eyes, permanently
md indele abscondng and broken hearts
him night after night for many years. flushing none of his tear
s grew briny performance
bedewed his stained his cheeks
another has admitted ardroppngs
hat Foo"; hope
Most sobbng done when at the finish of the first act
suddenly
asame aglov--as the curtain fell
good show, one proving
er Mr. Pollock that thing Hall Caine is The
as behalf striking
lent for against However, Pollock
H@hp him should
situations whose indicates authors
! Vnea disbelief in the intelligence Of his audience
IST George Nathan
critic had been unwelcome
shood violently by Mr.
M the the "ChauveSour"
ma little did that thing because after hooed
am badge of for critic,
deoaons myself those administered
n Of their
Particularly regetu bad in the matter because
@ found gracious though significant communication from
sthan In my mail:
October g. 1922.
Dear Mr. You unfair to this Morris
S his
Instance evil fellow and for all his convon
uedonaby sound critically ansshet
eand his exhibitions failed officially
ssure dnuncatns Of that sometimes fail
W about him, you Were things turned about
nropconatey human should doubtless precisely he
e o. this apparently includes dear Hammond
es criticism uncompromsngy the
es pretensions who boasts that he
eaewurss q liar.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN"
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN"
Benefit mt the ScIwyn

There will be benefit performances
at the Selwyn Theater tonight for
the Council Of Jewish Women widows
and orphans fund. Marguerite Sylvia,
Margaret Petit, Michio Itow and others
will appear,
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
London Stage
BY Ware B. Wells

T ONDON, Oct. 1S.-The death of
l. Marie Lloyd, who has just passed
away here after appearing on the
variety stage up to q couple of days be-
fore she died, may be regarded as
the close Of an era in the history
of entertainment In this country.
Sarah Bernhardt said Of her that
she was the most exquisite artist
on the British stage: Ellen Terry
was among her most devoted ad-
mirers; the approval Of such critics
as Max Beerbohm, George Moore
and Walter Sickert made her art
an article Of faith Of the fastidious
young men Of the period just before
the war. Yet she never left "the
halls" for "the legitimate" or
for revue. To many people she not
only belonged to ''the halls" she was
"the halls" and they feel her death
doubiy. as the passing of friend and
of an era. Marie Lloyd had plenty of
failings, but it would be difficult TO
think of any woman in the country
whose death means a personal loss to
so great number Of people.
The old music-hall as 1t was known
twenty years ago has almost vanished,
and most of what was left Of 1t seems
to go down with the death Of Marie
Lloyd. It may be said that she had
grown up with It's older tradition
and, with equal truth, that she had re-
fused to grow up with 1t. She saw 1T
develop from the primitive form in
which 1t had it's chairman, It's super
abundance Of drink, and its very free
and easy manners as part of its in
evitable furniture. She saw it being
progressively refined; and she saw 1t
finally decline gradually before the In
creasing popularity of revue, which
after all is only an elaboration Of the
old variety program.
A temperance entertainment at the
age of thirteen was her odd enough
introduction to publicity, for her pro-
fessional beginnings were all in the
atmosphere Of the English equivalent
of the saloon, and to the end her humor
had its vigorous roots In the old music
hall where drinking was an indispensa-
BILE part of the entertainment. She
might have been a Madame Sans Gene
second to none; she might have inter-
preted score Of famous comic roles.
She expended her exceptional talents
instead in giving startling point to
inane ditties and in captivating her
audiences with her famous smile and
equally famous wink.
Just the same, she was in the tradi-
tion of famous artists of the past like
Peg Wellington, Nance Oldfeld and
Mrs. Jordan, the queens of English
comedy. Hers was the real native wit
snd humor of the cockney of the East
End. She sprang from the people, and
her art was intuitive. Her talk on the
stage-you could not call 1t CONVERSE
tion--was of the sort to be heard any
day down side street. Plenty Of broad
humor, no glossing over intimate de-
tails, no double entendre, but perhaps
INST thesiift Of an eyebrow or subtle
wink to drive home a point.
Her subject matter and humor, with
its Rabelaisian relish, were Of the halls
when they still kept the traditions o.
the back rooms of tavsrns. Her theme
mostly were squaiid the shifts and
unhapptness Of the drifting, haif-sod-
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
The Playbill
Bulletin of Who's Who and What's What
BY Beauvais Fox

OF statistics
of the
- year for the period
weeks in October He made his
distress being heard from the road produc
quietly numbers history
DAVID BELASCOS production of
of WAKEFIELD shyock
the Lyceum Theater
burgh Shakespeare, the opening
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

The new B. F. Keith Palace Theaser
In Cleveland will be dedicated a week
from tomorrow. 1t is skyscraper,
twenty-five stories high, and has
seating capacity of $3.50.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

The third of series of informal
meetings under the Equity PLAYERS at
the Equity Forty-eighth Street Theater
will take place next Sunday afternoon.
Clayton Hamilton viii speak on "Tha
Mighty Minority
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29
halian Comedians Coming

/. 0ssea' an italian comedian, and
I, sompany Of variety artists from
isatro caruso will be presented
i. e selsyn Theater on Sunday, No
New-York tribune., 1922-10-29

Henry Myers, who wrote "Ths First
Fifty Years" has written aThe End
of the Book" one-act play which
the Stuyvesant Players will produce
next month under his direction. On
the same program will be Molnar's
Lies" translated by Benjamin F.
Glazer, and two other one-sct plays.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-02

The other woman was described as
Lena, the butchers daughter, feet
2 inches tall.
intellectual cruelty" of the hus'
band is charged by Mrs. Mcbride,
herself an author and illustrator.
The arguments which led to the
alleged acts Of cruelty included, &c
cording to Mrs. Mcbride:
Development of the cosmic con.
sciousness or the individual ego.
Whether she should read the fourth
chapter Of Deitzel's Positive Out.
come OF Philosophy an argument
which lasted two years.
Hit With PHILOSOPHY"
II wasn't the fact that another
woman had entered McBride's life
that Mrs. Mcbride dwelt upon in ner
testimony. 1t was that he threw
things when they couldn't agree on
an intellectual subject.
She said, for instance, that II they
were arguing on cosmlc conscious.
ness or the Individual ego he would
charge that she was going Off 1T
tangent and that she was illogical.
Then he would become violent, Mrs,
Mcbride testified, and threw books
or other OD1eCts.
Mcbride, according to his wife, was
in the habit OF reading all night and
would wake her UP In the wee sma'
hours to give her his interpretation
of the books he was reading.
Mrs. Mcbride said her husband
threw a water bucket at her in 1918
and that he pinched her.
AskeA by the Judge why he did
that, Mrs. Mcbride testified: "On
account OF my stupidity"
You mean he alleged II was your
stupidity; you don't mean you were
stupid?" queried Judge Reed.
HE sahi / have an inferiority
complex" she replied. HE said I
jumped around too much and ought
to take Up one line Of study and
stick to It,"
Judge Reed said: You say that a
favorite pastime Of his was to throw
books at your"
Graves q Caveman.
Always" was Mrs. McBride's re.
ply. HE hit me on the side Of the
face with one and II hurt quite q
bit. When he threw Deitzels Posi-.
tive Outcome OF Philosophy" at me,
he said II was the only way to make
an impression on me, because hs
wanted me to read the fourth chap
ter in Il. and I suppose Il was stub
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-02
B|ll to- FORGE
SNOW REMOVAL
PASSES SENATE
Citizens Must Remove Storm
Traces or Suffer SIS
Penalty.

The Senate, within ten minutes
after II convened at noon today.
passed the Dillingham; bill providing
for the removal of snow and ice in
the District Of Columbia.
Senator Ball offered the measure
with an amendment accepted by the
District Committee yesterday. The
amendment makes II incumbent
upon every property owner to re-
move all the snow and Ice in front
Of his property in the first eight
hours of daylight after 1t has fallen.
Penalty OF $25 for failure to do so Is
included in the bill and also pro-
vision imposing the cost Of having
the Government remove the snow
and Ice when the property owner
fails to do so.
Senator Jones of Washington de-
clared that he was in favor Of an
other amendment to the bill making
a Judgment obtained by the District
government for the costs Of re-
moving snow and ice, against the
property holder. a first lien on the
latter's property. He said that he
hoped such an amendment would be
inserted in conference. The bill now
goes to the House and II In believed
will be passed within the next few
days there.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-02

bornness on my part. 1t was a book
for the developing Of the individual
entity"
Mrs. Anna Rogers, of New York,
said she was acquainted with Mr..
and Mrs. Mcbride and had often
visited them at their home in
Bethel. She told Of Mcbride throw
Ing q ten cup and q plate Mt his
wife. It was also alleged that
Mcbride had once thrown the~cat
at his wife.
The McBrides were married in
New Orleans in 1912. They lived
for a time in Washington, and
moved to Bethel. Conn, in 1917.
Mrs. Mcbride said her husband was
a writer by occupation and Is now
in New York.
Mrs. Mcbride writes poetry. One
of her poems reads:
Come to me, my scaveman, that I
may hold you,
That your dear, warm body shall
press mine,
And my head rest in the hollow
Of your strong,
Broad shoulders: o come to me, my
caveman--
My lover to be-"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-02
MANY AbE1.
TINY RENO
DIVORCES
Perjury Army OF Ten Nsighbors
10 At Command OF System
Lawyers.

lcopyrisn,, isii, by The washins,ea

tcopyrisht, is11, by. The wsshinstea
.Shs, Times conpau auy.l 81 F,
ssEcrsa gsfitk dip@rcx Rssa O.
her tcftdest moment scas nsvsr ties
'Alezandria. IN Reno siS months.
Here tsco peeks to Jortp-tsoo days.
You'll make mistake tn going to
Reno. Let me do IL for you. We
kroao hoto and the lawyers are get
ting rich at It.
"The tcdy zoe do Il Is perfectly
safe. Nobody takes any chance
except the Lawyer, the judge and
the witnesses tpho s1pear to your
domicils; and, brother, the divorce
Is as good as though you got It
from the United States Supreme
Court.
"T'pe got ten neighbors With
in ten blocks Of my house who'll
sWedr yop've lived toith them for
a year, and on their deposition you
con get dfporce and the tddy's
husband toiH nsper knotC"
These were the highlights and
declarations Of Oscar C. Thomas,
one Of Alexandria's young but ag-
gressive divorce lawyers, to three
Times reporters who went to him
for one, Of the Little Reno's IA
nous Overnight" divorces, where
you sleep a night and get your de-
cree with almost as little trouble
as you buy your provisions at the
go-and-get-it groceries.
Wife Of Congressman.
At the time the three Times re-
porters went to Thomas to secure
the divorce, the Little Reno legal
light was told that the woman IN
the case, who desired the decree
wanted her divorce quietly ana
quickly. so that she could marry an
other man. Intimation was made
that she was the wife OF Con-
gressman and prominent socially:
The woman. introduced as Mrs.
Booth, declared that she was willing
to nay for the divorce and told
Thomas that she had no real grounds
for one. but that she wanted IT, In
two weeks and without any pub
licity.
with these facts before YOU,
would YOU suggest that I get the di-
vorce here or In Reno7" Mrs. Booth
asked.
"In Reno, never" the divorce law
yer replied grandiloduently.
Reno In her widest moment was
never like Alexandria. We know how
and can fix you up. Twill be easy,
dead easy--if you are willing to nav
for it." he said.
"IJov much will n c0at7"
High-Priced Man.
Despite the fact that The Times
investigators in the Alexandria Ill
vorce scandal found other lawyers
willing to do the lob" for from $50
to $3.50, Thomas declared that his
price would be 5000, plus the cost.
The price named apparently
brought a look Of pain to the faces
of the trio, for Thomas quickly
added.
You understand, of course" he
said, that we run considerable risk.
The 5000 that you pay me does not
all go to me-a part Of II goes TO
somebody else"
"who7" the reporter asked.
well, hardly think that would
be proper for me to say" Thomas
replied.
But as clients, don't you think
that we should know what we are
going into7" the reporter asked.
Maybe 20, but that isn't any Of
your business" Thomas warmly de-
clared. I don't mind saying. how
ever, that to get a divorce like you
want It so quick, that the thing has
to be fixed"
When pressed for further expla-
fContint,ed nm Para q Coio,,n 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-02
DIVORCED WIFE FOR NEW
LOVE; THEN WAS JllTED

CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Morris Meiden-
berg, Brooklyn candy manufacturer,
has filed suit against Miss Bessie
Schaffer, Of Chicago. for $1,000
heart balm" The suit alleges Miss
Schaffer Tilted the manufacturer
after persuading him to have his
first wife, Mrs. Bessie Meidenberg,
obtain a divorce. The divorce was
granted In June, 1920.
MeidenbeIg claims he then gave
Miss Schaffer an engagement ring
valued at $500, but that she later
broke her promise to marry him and
refused to return the ring.