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New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
IN the Iheaters---News of Screen and Drama
Brieulx's ''The Lawyer" Starts
Discussions All Over Paris
lie Play Has One Of Those Tragic findings which
Are So Popular With French
Audiences
ssscsas ce~rssso~ds~os ., n. rrsouns

MIN all this trcubls. He te,,. h.r :.
rev ungarnished truths, and. this bs-
'nS the frat time man has ever dor.
anything but fawn on and fiatter bor
she Is charmed and likes him. Th,.
is where Felicien puts In his oar
.eiiing each side how madly IN
love tho other is. He takes de-
Light in making up these tales and
finally succeeds in plunging them bo4h
into wild passion for each other
me eliminating point is reached when
ben1amine goes to Paul's Office and
lunches with him on his desk. paul,s
chief comes In at the wrong moment
benjamine's loose apps rance and
risque clothes are constant shock "a
this stern old puritanical government.
oficer and afford material for great
deal OF humor. Benjamine offers Paul
the Job Of assistant manager in ber
fathers factory and marries him. The
scenes are amusing and the charac-
tors sincere, which Is just what the
tired Partisan wants to find In a com-
edy, and as there Is no intrigue or
double dealing the audience has a
pleasant relief from the oscillating
crises Of postwar diplomacy.
"The Critical Hour" In three acts, at
the Theatre Femina, is one of Edward
Bourdct's most successful comedies. In
which he displays his customary deli
cacy and tact. Bourdet is famous as
the author Of "Rubicon," but he wanted
to counteract that audacious play with
the present one, which even young girls
may see.
The play puts the question whether
man can retain his love for some
one who has been faithless to him.
Bourdet says "No." The critical hour
arrives when the man must decide be-
tween tho new love and the old un-
faithful one. Martha Regnier, PLAYING
the part Of Francine. proves that her
attractiveness outweighs the appeal of
faithless Helen.
Old Professor Bellavoine and his
daughter, Francine, have taken q villa
on the Bay Of Biscay, where Helen had
had her love affair with Tonic tho year
before. But Helen had run of with a
light love and Tonic roa,ns around the
house loudly lamenting his loss. He
finds a sympathetic friend in Fran
cine, to whom he tells sll his troubles.
They fall in love and then the vampire
reappears. She had been Tilted by the
man she had gone away with, 60 she
has returned to try again for Tonio's
favor. After he had sworn to Francine
that he loved her only and had forgot
ten Helep. Francine attempts the dan
gerous expedient Of testing his love.
She knows Helen is back and tells Tonic
about it. This IL evidently the criti-
cal hour for Tonic, for he has to make
choice. But the hour is soon over
and he renounces Helen and marries
Francine. The simplicity and moral
value Of the play is giving 1t as big
run rs it had last year at the Antoine
Theater
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

FOE thixIy years, since an accident
thrust him into ths American thsater
es impresario Of Boston's Castle
Square Opera Company, Henry ".
Savage has spent his summers In Eu-
rope, shopping for plays and players.
He introduced Puccini to American
music-lovers, produced Wagner at pop
ular prices, and in lighter or more
dramatic vein he was responsible for
tho importations of "The Merry
| Widow" "Sari," "Little Boy Blue" and
Madame K"
Like the thoroughbred Yankee he Is,
Mr.. Savage has always been conserva-
tive In his foreign marketing, but in
former years he has usually returned
from a summer abroad with at least
half a dozen manuscripts and from a
| dozen to twenty-five contracts with
foreign artists, whose American debut
he had arranged to sponsor.
This season the picturesque colonel
returned quietly from a Ave months
inspection tour abroad wearing the en-
barrassed smile Of man who has come
home bearing a bushel basket and a
quart Of huckleberries.
"What plays did you find in Eu-
roper" Colonel Savage was interro-
gated.
"Not many" he said. Conditions
on the Continent are very bad. But
ynnsro road oho,,+ %h,4 Sra,. ~nr.~%r - 9
other European visitors. The taxes
levied on new theatrical productions
are so exorbitant few managers can
afford to present anything but rcviyals.
For this reason there Is little incentive
for authors to write. Their output
has only one chance in hundred for
presentation, and then largely with
the view Of getting an opportunity to
sell to the American market.
"The neighborhood theaters IN pro-
yincial Cities" explained Colonel Saw
age, "are closed because the present
rate Of taxes is too high to make new
productions possible. Especially in the
way OF operetta, the European market
is dull. / saw several musical plays, in
Paris and on the Continent, where the
male chorus comprised two men.
Since the war business in general is
disorganized, and this has an immedi-
ate and disastrous effect upon the the
ater."
"But after Ave months search you
haven't come back empty-handed
"Not-exactly," Colonel Savage ac-
| quilted himself. "I bear ono manu-
script, as it were, in either hand. In
the right comedy that is now being
played in Londona sort Of Peg o. Ny
Heart story, with golden opportunity
for the right young actress in the title
role. When we And her, this right
young actress, we will do the play at
once"
| "And in the left hand, what have
you:"
A musical play from the Continent
like the idea, but to make the story
acceptable to American audiences will
necessitate the practical rewriting of
sne oook. we are already negotiating
with an American librettist."
Now, even the casual playgoer knows
that no Broadway producer puts all his
seasons eggs into basket lined with
two foreign manuscripts. Therefore
the pertinent question next put to Colo.
mel Savage: What will you do for
further material?"
Depend on the American market, os
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Naming of German Consuls
Opposed in New South Wales

SYDNEY, N. S, W.. Sept. q (By Mail).
The Federal Ministry has declined sew
erai requests by the German govern
ment for permission to appoint con-
sular representatives here, although
such appointments are not included in
the prohibition of Germans for five
years from 1920, which was decided
upon by Parliament. The Prime Min-
lister explained that the objection to
the presence Of German consuls arose
out of the war.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
New Bennett-Burr Picture
Promised for Early Release

"The Secrets Of Paris" screen ver-
sion Of Eugene Sues Mysteries Of
Paris" is finished. In the east are
Lew Cody, as the Prince; Gladys
Hulette, as Mayfower; Montagu Love,
as the Schoolmaster; William Collier
jr., as Francois; Harry Southern, as
Hoppe; Effie Shannon. as Nine. Fer
rand; Dolores Cassinelli, as Lola; Rose
Coghlin, as The Owl; Walter James, as
The Stranger, and Barney Sherry. as
The Chancellor. 'sThe Secrets Of
Paris" will soon bs ready for release.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Blossom Tirne'' at Century

Blossom Time" the musical play
based on incidents in the life Of Franz
Schubert, will move tomorrow night
fiom Jo1son's Fifty-ninth Street Thea
ter to the Century Theater. The play
opened at the Ambassador and stayed
there for a year, moving further up
town to Jolson's which 1t leaves to-
morrow night.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Champion Bull Carried
High Rate Of Insurance

BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 10 (By Mail).
Faithful, the shorthorn bull that
took the championship at the 1920
show of the Argentine Rural Society
the lending exposition Of it's kind IN
years ago for 10000 pesos. has died
suddenly.
1t is believed that ha left shout
twenty-one calves behind. Faithful
was insured for 10000 pesos.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
At the Columbia

Temptations of 1923,"sa new bur
lesque in two acts and ten scenes, be-
gins a weeks engagement here to-mor-
row afternoon. Dan Clark and Danny
Murphy are the comedians heading the
cast which includes Joe Santley,
Johnnie Crosby, Joe Yule, Jules and
Nine. LIE Barbe, Mabel Clark, Exile But
Ter. Rose Chevalier and Gretchen
Leshen.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Europe Not So Good, Says Col.
Savage ON Return From Abroad
Finds Playwrights There Have Little Incentive to
Write, With Odds Greatly Against
Production
Production

course. This Is the season for rare op-
portunity for the native playwright
and composer. He is writing for
market he knows and has every ad-
vantage over the foreigner. The trend
OF our theater to-day seeras to be
toward the comedy of manners--the
human, romantic comedy of which our
best stage successes are made. Va
used to accept European comedy. but
since George AIDE and some other cntep-
prising American writer's gave as q
taste OF native wit and character on
the stage we have clamored for comedy
Of our own sort.
"The idea OF comedy" Colonel Saw
age said, ais different in each country.
Drama is moro universal It is deep
and soulful, and will strike the same
chord in the heart o, Chicagoan or
Vfennese. But comedy is almost more
racial than music. From the American
point Of view, the average European
comedy is risque or saiacfous. The
plots are built on customs and manners
that the American playgoer neither
approves Of nor understands. Yet
Americans don't lack humor, and their
sense Of comedy Is highly developed.
The variety already displayed in re-
cent American comedies of n1anners--
by Booth Harrington, George M.
Cohan, Frank Craven and William An
thony Mcclure, for instance-gives en-
idea Of our possibilities.
Musical comedy also offers a spien-
did field for the American writer Of
comedy. We have grown away from
the conventional, artificial book of the
European librettist, and we have long
since been emphatic in our rejection OF
his Jokes and comedy characters.
Tho average American musical comedy
patron seems to favor consistent
story, and leaves it TO the author,
lyricist and composer to add their
songs and dances adroitiy.
Lyrics" said Colonel Savage, "are
another important feature of the
American musical play. We used to be
indulgent with the translations Of for
eign lyrics, believing the tunes thu
thing!' But the advent Of a few brfl-
liant native lyricists has changed all
that
"The fact is" summed up this pro-
ducer Of fine things In the theater,
now that American playwrights and
composers have really begun to work
independently, without European pat
terms or models, the American market
| will best bear watching"
Henry W. Savage confided that his
first production of the new season
would probably not be the London man
uscript he bore in his right hand, nor
the Viennese book and score which he
| carried in his left, but an American
musical play upon which he has had
his keen blue eye fastened all during
his FIVE months European scour.
Didn't you bring back any foreign
discoveries in the way of stars ?" de-
manded an anti-climatic interviewer.
"The American market will best bear
watching" repeated the Colonel con-
IDENTIFY
Two days after this interview an
nouncement was made by the Savage
offices that Miss Peggy Wood, the
young American musical star, had been
placed under a long-term contract by
Mr.. Savage. And there was the further
hint that manager and star were consid-
ering the book and score of an American
author and composer.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
How Milton Sills
Remolded ace
ToPlay Skin Deep

What Thomas II. Ince describes as
the most remarkable makeup sue
cessfully portrayed on the screen" has
been adopted by Milton Stills as Bud
Doyle, the brcken-nosed, tin-eared, rat
eyed gangster in "Skin Deep" Ince's
drama of regeneration, which will be
the First National attraction at the
Strand Theater to-day.
"How is 1t done ?" will be asked. Mr..
Sills's transformation was accom-
plished with putty, though plastic sur
gerry is the apparent means used in the
screen portrayal. Grease paint and
powder were used to give the oily clay
a lifelike complexion for the finishing
touches. but putty constituted the prin-
cipal magic ingredient.
"Skin Deep" tells the story of a
notorious sooial outcast of forbidding
countenance who flnds regeneration In
a new face made in place Of the old by
a surgeon skilled in plastic surgery.
In the opening scenes Of the story
Mr.. Stills appears as the brazen and
clever lawbreaker whom every police
man on New York's East Side would
like to see securely behind the bars
OF prison cell. To render these
scenes convincing, convincing make
up was necessary. Mr.. Stills must look
the part.
His first step was to consult ma
tional rogues' gallery, huge photo
graphic album containing pictures of
many of Americas most notorious Grim
inals. Here Mr.. Sills found the type
ne wished to portray on the screen
hardened thug who had served time
in several prisons. Copies of the pic
tura were made and the work Of en-
dowing Mr.. Stills with q broken nose.
"caulifower" ears and q battered, un-
dershot jaw commenced.
The ears, apparently battered into
shapelessness in countless Bowery
brawls, were fashioned Of soft putty.
To obtain the effect of q broken nose
Mr.. Sills first forced large wad of
cotton gauze into one nostril, giving
it distorted appearance, and then
nodded putty on the outside until the
1n oh
The undershot jaw was the most per-
picking problem, as It must not in
terfere with his speech. Three hard
rubber dental plates were finally made.
These produced square, aggressive
jaw when placed inside the mouth be-
tween teeth and cheeks.
A livid scar across one cheek was
made by drawing the skin together and
holding it in place with strips of in
visible courtplaster. The whole effect
was smoothed off with grease paint and
powder, battered derby hat and
frowsy brown suit, and Milton Sills,
the gentleman, was Bud Doyle, the
gangster. The necessity of removing
the makeup after each days work be-
fore the camera and putting it on
again the next morning added to the
difficulties. But in this skilled face
builder saved Mr.. Silis many weary
hours. New ears and nose had to be
applied exactly as they were the day
before. The discomfort of a face COW
cred with putty and paint and mouth
full Of dental plates was, Of course, ex-
ceedingly unpleasant.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
AT the Hippodrome

Better Times" begins the eighth
week of it's engagement tomorrow.
An average of $4,000 persons q week
have seen the spectacle at the big play
house thus far. "Just a Fam" the gil
gantic ballet scene, is one of the OUT
standing features Of the production.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
s.Wife in Name Only"

The most interesting announcement
Of the week comes from the office OF
Pyramid Pictures. The notics says
that Bertha M. CIay's latest success
ful novel, Wife in Name Only will be
screened with an all-star cast"
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

ischaikowsky, Rubinstein and Grier.
Inc above program will be played by
the Trio Classique, composed Of Celia
Schiller, piano; Maurice Kaufman,
violin, and John Mundy, 'cellist. The
analysis and illustration Of the num-
bers played will be by DR.. Henry T..
Fleck
Ethel Jones, mezzo, will give her
first New York recital in Aeolian Hall
on Monday afternoon, October 80 at 8
o'clock.
Lenora Sparkes at her song recital in
Town Hall on Sunday afternoon. oc-
tober 20, will sing group Of parody
songs, by Herbert Hughes, as well as
Brahms group.
Boris Hamburg, cellist, will play,
amopg other things, at Town Hall, on
Wednesday evening, November J., a
sonata by Bach and the second con-
cert Of saint-Saens.
Rudolph Larsen, at his Town Hall re-
cital on Friday evening, November 8.
will play the Bruch Concerto in D
minor.
Illuminate Miserendino, making his
New York debut at Town Hall on Sun
day evening, November s, will pIay the
Grieg Sonata in G minor, the Wieniaw-
sky concerto In D minor and smaller
pieces.
Mischa Levitxki, pianist, will make
his frst appearance in Nsw York after
g seasons absence in Carnegie Hall on
November s.
Erna Rubinstein, the youthful girl
lviolinist, who appeared several times
last season, will make her frst New
York appearance Of the season in a
Carnegie Hall recitsl on the evening Of
November II.
~ SVaSSA " " " tu0 han81xuUMlc
Society ct this Metropolitan Opera
House this season win enjoy the ad-
vantages Of improved acoustics in
new artistic setting. Joseph Urban
has designed an orchestra background
which embcdies the principles 81 mod
ern science la its relation TO sound.
Josef Stransky win conduct the fsrst
concert In this series on Tussdsy eve
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Burton Holmes will begin his thir-
tieth annual series of travelogues next
month. Last summer he visited Japan,
Manchuria, Corea and China, journey
ing up the -Kiang beyond the
gorges of the Yangtse.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

ming, November II, and during the
months of November, December and
January will present programs which
will offer acknowledged masterpieces
in the classical and modern schools.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

The Stuyvesant Players have chosen
Lies" a playet by Ference Molnar,
for their first program next month.
Three one-act plays by American au-
thors will also be presented.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Benno Moiseiwitsch. the Russian
pianist, who is again returning to this
country, will open his season as soioist
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
In Boston on octobes' 81 and %. His
first New York recital takes place in
Carnegie Hall on Saturday afternoon,
November A.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

The free scholarships offered annu-
ally to talented students at the Gull
mant Organ School by City Chamber
lain and Mrs. Philip Berolzheimer have
been awarded by DR.. William c. Carl
for 1s22-'23 to Robert Rudolf. Newark.
N. j.; Helen Weber, Youngstown, Ohio;
Warren w. Foley, New York City, and
Edith F. Mcintosh. Rockville Cen
tire, N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
The Playbill
Continued from page one,

Theater. Tom Nesbitt and Flora Shelf
field play the leading roles.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

The Lenox Hill Players will present
series of ten productions at the
Lenox Little Theater, 52 East Seventy
eighth Street, this season. The first
performance will take place on Novem-
Der 6, when "The Pardon" by Jules
LeMaitre, and "The Unrecorded Tale"
by Robert Hannah, will be given.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Elsie Raymond, young American
soprano, will give recital in Aeolian
Hall on the evening of November a.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

-.
Rosario Scalero, Italian composer,
will have several hearings during the
coming season. Walter Damrosch 4ill
conduct the New York symphony in
scalero's Suite for String Orchestra
and String Quartet on November 12:
the Oratorio Society will give rnotet
in concert of capella music; the
Fionzaley Quartet has in preparation
his String Quartet with Voice, and the
Orchestra OF the Augusteum, Rome.
viii perform one Of his symphonic
compositions. S. Scalero came 10
America from his posts as decent
tteacher Of musical gorm1 at the ST.
Cecilia, Rome, and director of the So
cieta del Quartetto in 1918 at the in
yitation Of David and Clara Names
At Town Hall this afternoon Ode
Slobodskaja, Russian soprano, will xfv.
her first American recital. Mss Sic-
bcdskaja has already appeared with
the Ukrainian National Chorus. Sho
created the leading role in Strayinsky,s
new opera. "aiayra,v in Paris, last sea-
san. Her program will include works
by Tschaikowsky, Glinka and Rimsky-
Korsakoff.
Norma Drury, pianist who made her
debut last season in New York, will
eppear IN second recital 1T Acolian
Hall, Tuesday evening, October 81.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Miss Sue Harvard, Welsh soprano,
who has been heard previously in this
city, will give recital in Acolian Hall
on the evening of November 2.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Ethel Jones, mezzo, will give her
first New York recital in Aeolian Hall
on Monday afternoon, October 80, at 8
o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Lenora sparkes at her song recital in
Town Hall on Sunday afternoon. oc-
tober 20, will sing group of parody
songs, by Herbert Hughes, as well as
a Brahms group.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Boris Hambourg, cellist, will play,
a'nopg other things, at Town Hall. ON
Wednesday evening, November i, a
sonata by Bach and the second con-
cert Of Saint-Saens.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Brahms's Trio In G minor will be the
principal number at the next Adolphj
Lewisohn Free Chamber Music Com
cert, 20 take place Thursdny evening,
October 2s, at $3.50, in Hunter College
Chapel, Park Avenue and sixty-eighth
Street. Other numbers will bs bys
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Alexander siloti, Russian pianist, has
sailed from Antwerp on the steamship
Kroonland for his American season,
which begins at Worcester, October 81,
with the New York Philharmonic Or
chestra, under Stransky.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-22

Dicie Howell, soprano, will give her
third New York recital in Aeolian Hall
on Tuesday afternoon, October 81, at 8
o'clock.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-02-20
WILSON'S PLAN TO AID FARMERS.

In his for governor State Supt Wilson stated
that he favored oanng money farmers low OF interest
and in letter W. IT, Woods. OF Purcell few DAYS ago. Mr.
Wilson explained his plan for making these loans available
follows:
AT this the has loaned through the school land
department $l734000O0 OF which $1,000
10000 has been derived from oil and gas leases and bonuses from
the school lands This rhoey loaned per and
secured by first mortgages There due the state $l7O0
arising the unpaid balance of school lands sold to the farmers
forty years time And addition this unpaid balance,
there remains unod school lands the value OF %000O
which makes total of $25000O000 belonging the school land
assets.
Following the plan adopted by the second legislature
amended by succeeding legislatures OF issuing bonds against the
public building lands the of Is per of their value
for the creating OF public building fund.- will favor il elected
governor issuing bonds be guaranteed bv the state and sold
needed make loans to farmers This plan will provide
Immediately available be loaned equal the total
of loans already made the farmers of this will
the oanng of this fund in the and method
other public school funds loaned
"hs plan will enable the finance its farmers further
build many of its public buildings without the taxpayers
"If this fund should be sufficient supply the farmers
the with cent would then favor amending
constitution OF Oklahoma that the commissioners of the
land office of the state of Oklahoma could borrow these
first mortgage securities the money markets OF the adj
dtona funds under proper safeguards and limitations which will
protect said fund and the borrower thereby enabling him
his the end OF period repns the available farm
loan until the farmers of the supplied with per
money"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-02-20
OPTIMISM IN BUSINESS.

One of the prosperity slogans of the Rotary club this:
"Cheer up When millions of men buck up think up talk bust
will wake up
somewhat similar though expressed recently in lee
before the Lions club by Frank Waller Allen He said that
the greatest trouble with many business has been that they
have allowed themselves be dominated by fear Among the
fear that have been undermining business confidence he
said of the formidable Most of the
he stated the many things that business feared
might happen He expressed the belief that if business men
would worry and instead would ahead aggressvey
though with reasonable degree of caution of the things
which they feared would happen would not happen but would
like specters of the imagination that they dissolve into
the air the hand the fact that the fear that
things happen may actually make them happen Worry
puts the mind such that business efficiency under
individual happiness all but destroyed tie suggested
that be banhed by substituting in its place the determna
ton succeed and confidence in the ability to succeed
There doubt that the spirit of pessimism wreck
business just shatter individual Nor is there any
question the tremendous value of optimism putting into
people and business the ability succeed Optimism
that clears the cobwebs from ones BRAIN that makes the
mind and forceu and that gives to the will the
power that drives through obstacles successOka
homan.