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New-York tribune., 1922-06-25
Jumping
At Conclusions

And re vas 80 impressed b. y'sY
beauty ard charm Mss Lenisr tn
both oi these. le, Us tell yosl ,sI:
he gave you "a, part and yosu sa'
with him ever sinee'
NO, a BIT like IT," said Mss l,i
hsn. laughing. "lt vas Only tia. ls'
girl vho had been picked ou, 10 ri.
n. part Rad failed 70 sppesr sst I
happened in while they were vsi,.g
for her. They didn's care vhn !
looked Ike 80 losg as eould gim ~
hero his cues. Yoe see, ,hsg s''
hearing him IN Ire per, ard J is'-f'i
they we're trying -. So ! ~ o. q
MY elooueres into ny linu s,i iiH
% remember everything ! sit ln-H
a. drsma,ic school Finally i-s"
line Which read 'Adieu. il!su, i.ls'
and NJ Amss stopped re ssi a.
You needn't read any further le
the way you 7ronoszs, -'1i's.' y
give you r,orsy enough 70 liV, '' es
summer and a li;,ls part sst iin
you learn voice eul.sF. sst ti;sit
snd in the isl. veil See"
Again We
Guess Wrong
In the tsll :. I'D ws' ta'f "
And you've never had . dal! S''''
since" ,"
Wrong agsin. I've hit 70. GN~
Ard 7 expse, % have lo,s zsf.'
"Bu, surely i,,sr yosr P'''''-'s
in this Dover Road the manages "
BE- aocklnr after ycu 70 p!sJ S''s ,
their rev fall shows"
Managers dor, ao,k in 'h''' ."
ard nobody 1, sure G, anyisi'I
"Wel. Il you do end yos'''' y.
eu. a par. you mus, ls, an''sT ~
ger hear you say 'Adi'r.''
"Ycs.' assented Mss lsii'n
address" >"
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25

called "The Young Rajah," an adapta.
tion OF a book BY the late John Anss
Mitchell In It Valentine will play a
Hindu prince. Wands Havley will
play opposite him.
Lovers Lane" written by Clyde
Fitch, and "The Old Folks at Home.
by Justine Adams, have been purchased
by Warner Brothers 20 be made into
screen classics.
Virginia Brown Faire won beauty
contest lees than two years ago ard
now che is appearing in three successes
at once. They are "withou. Bcnsht Of
Clergy" "omsr the Tenimaker' and
"The Count Of Monte cristo."
Billie Dove has gone 10 Los Angeles
and is working in Metre picture
called Country Love-" BY Hubert
Foo,ner. Emile Chautard Is the di-
rector.
The Ghost Of the Rancho" starring
Bryant washburn. will be revived by
Pathe the first week in July. II has
been re.edited and retitled.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25
Belle Bennett Is
A. H. WOods's Best
Batter in Pinch

A few weeks ago when Margaret
Lawrence decided 20 leave the east OF
Lawful Larceny" at the Republic
Theater, ard go 70 Europe for q rest
Belle Bennett was called upon 10 take
her place. She is still filing that i'm
portant role with distinction.
A few months before that when
Hazel Dawn decided 10 leave the cast
Of "The Demi-Virgin' and retire 20
her Amityville farm for rest and medi-
tstion, Belle Bennett vas called upon
TO take her place on short notice. "The
Dcmi-virgin" had Just closed its en-
gagement when Mise Bennett trans
ferred her talents TO Lawful Larceny"
About two years ago when Muriel
Martin Harvey left the cast Of Happy
Go-Lueky,' Ian Hays brilliant comedy,
which Mr.. Woods had hopefully i'm
ported from London. who was called
upon 70 take her place? Why, Belle
Bennett. OF course.
And 20 one has a sketchy outline Of
Belle Bennett, pinch hitter Of the A.
H. Woods Office.
And yet, Miss Bennett wasn't raised
10 be a pinch hitter.
For two years before coming 20 New
/ York Miss Bennett was the leading
woman OF the Alea1ar Stock Company
In San Francisco, and was by long odds
the most popular incumbent Of that
; high Office in the glorious annals OF
that celebrated institution. So popu-
lar was she in fact, that from time
to time since her entry into New York
memorials have been addressed 70 her,
suppleating her return 70 the Pacific
Coast. that the light Of her eounte-
nance may shine again upon the be-
reaved San Franeisesns.
Il was while she was playing a. the
Aleazsr that Marjorie Rambeau saw
her and recognized her talent. She
wired her manager. A. H. Woods. that
here was an actress who by all means
ought 20 come out Of the West. Mr..
Woods was attentive and became reeep-
tive when he looked az Miss Bennett's
pictures, which followed.
Ho was particularly struck with a
photograph representing Miss Bennett
gazing eontentedly into a crystal.
III she looks as happy as that"
thought Mr. Woods. she must be see
inG something"
SO Belle came bounding on 70 Broad
way with Mr.. Woods as her tutelsry
divinity. He began rehearsals imme-
diately Of Willard Mack melodrama
with Miss Bennett in the leading role
W.ll. for one reason or another, the
melodrama never came out Of re-
hsarsals and Miss Bennett consequent
~ never came out Of her sheath. 20 70
spenk There WIS nothing available
/ 'or her at the moment. 90 she had 70
innaui,h and wait.
Then came the sudden call 20
l"iappy- Lucky" and Miss Bennett
get her very ereditable start on Broad.
way She went on tour with the play
and then returned 20 the Mecca.
With the exception OF her engage
ncnt in The Wandering Jew N. his.
tory o. her Nov York career has been
told at III. beginning Of this narrative.
I'm a pinch hitter now" says Miss
pennctt. But I've BIT myself out Of
.inehes before. It's really q matter Of
keeping your eyes on the ball all the
time. In the mean time i,f ali YER,
pleasant ] am not intensible 70 the
compliment Of being called upon 10
succeed established players like Hazel
Dawn and Margaret Lawrence. Nay
my successor, think as veil o! mslo
So Miss Bennett .optinue, in Law.
lful Larceny
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25
Mcclure Gives
His Defense
OF "HOkum''
Saws II Is Not Possible
to Write Play Rejecting
American Life Without II


II Is something. these days. to move
I'd 20 the from, ranks and stick there
II is all the more an achievement when
the success deals with a play that can
stay in the Broadway district for
forty.fve weeks and with the July
calendar ready for use 10 be still run
ming strong.
Such an achievement must be cred
tied 20 William Anthony Mcguire,
whose six Cylinder Love" with Ernest
Truck. at the Sam II. Harris Thestsr
proves that the suthor knows what
ptople want and knows how 10 write
II for them. With this record 70 his
own credit Mr.. Mcclure now comes
across with another. Sam u. Harris
has jus. announced II as "lt's 9 Boy,
and Il Is In rehearsal.
Listen TO what Nr. Mcclure says Of
his efforts 10 become g writer;
"My first play. entitled The walls
Of Wall Street was produced at South
Bend. Ind, while was student a.
Notre Dame. The two leading psrts
were played BY Allan Dwan (then q
professor at Notre psme) and myself
Outside Of a very good performance
bv Dwan-ond the loss Of my mus
tache during Act II nere y
really nothing about that produeti0h
worth recording.
thereafter wrote The Heights
for Frank Keenan,. II lasted one con-
seeutive week on Broadway. AFTER
that a very good book written by James
Medill Patterson entitled Rebellion in
spired my play The Divorce Question
I thourht Mr.. Pstterson's book 30 well
written that felt his theme might be
generally accepted through the force
Of his literary ability. Dissgreeing
with his theme. wrote an answer and
this was the play The Divorce Ques-
tion. I don't know whether Mr.. Pat
tcrson considered my play an answer,
but the public liked my story. The
play ran almost al entire season IN
Chicago. and four companies subse'
ouently presented il on the road.
after this wrote 'Everyman's
Castle which. after years tour with
an all.star cast, became The Good Bad
Woman.
Later wrote a play for 4. H.
Woods. Of which peace was the theme
A general international fight destroyed
my thesis. Then followed six
Cylinder Love The critics have been
very generous 20 this play, and the
public more so. Truc, some Of the
critics have accused me Of employing
.hokum' 70 obtain my results, but ]
defv them 70 write a play rejecting
American life without resorting TO this
so.called hokipm' because what is 80
commonly designated is the American
way Of living. For instance It Was
not an author who discovered the
banana peel as the means Of laugh,
ror is il far fetched 10 say that bad
coffee has been the beginning Of many
a domestic squabble.
"'Hokum' has been Q very much mis-
applied word because after reducing II
10 its finest meaning, which does II de-
scribe the more accurately, Charlie
Chaplin fghting in 4 pastry shop. hit
ting some one with a custsrd pie. or
Petruchio in The Tanning Of the Shrew'
throwing a side Of beef at a valet"
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25
PIaygoers Tell
Why The Bat
Is Successful
Suspense" Chief Reason
for Long Run; Many Say
It's Thrill; Others, Fun
Why isAsu sueeeM7

why Is success
There is probably no one question
asked more often in tho thsa,.r. And
there probably is no one question that
receives greater variety Of answers.
As a matter Of fact, II theatrical
producers, or any one, 80 far as that
goes, could tell the correct answer 70
that question the problem Of becoming
millionaire would be comparatively
easy. Tho truth Is no one knows
exactly.
Wagenhals & Kemper, producers Of
The Bat" which is now close 20 com
pl,ting a full two years on Broadway
with the end Of the run nowhere in
sight, have been trying IN qu!st way
the last few weeks 10 arrive az ss ae'
eurate an answer 20 that question az
IA possible. The result OF their in
quries have been interesting. As 20
the future value Of these same an
swers-that is another question.
For the last few week, patrons OF
"The Bat" have found in their pro-
grams a slip inviting them 20 state as
briefly as possible why, in their opin'
ion, The Bat7 had not only run for
two years, breaking every known rec
ord for consecutive performances pre-
v.ously made by play that is admit
.edly Of the type OF mystery play
but had outlasted every new play pro-
dueed in New York for more than a
year. The replies have been many and
Illuminating.
A total Of more than 1000 snsvsrs
have already been collected. OF this
number 5ll state that The Bat" By
being able 20 keep audiences guessing
as to is outcome up 20 the very hnal
moment Of the end Of the play, makes
IL 50 attractive that audiences will
continue 20 hoek TO II for months 20
come.
Almos. as msny-4ss persons, % be
exaet-declare that "Ths Bs" gives
them a thrill-s sort Of creepy feeling
I'd and down the spine-,hat i, is jus.
tho reaction persons tired Of hum
drum daily existence seek when they
90 70 the theater.
More than 300 persons pay tribute
% the laugh-proyoking methods OF
Nay Vokes as their explanation OF
the long run OF the play. The COM
edy in The Bat" they declare, is so
Irresistible that scores Of those an.
swering the query this way state they
have seen il more than once. just for
the sake Of a good laugh"-sousthing,
they add, chat has gradually dssp'
pesred from the theater."
One Of the surprising results Of the
canvass was the number Of persons
who acknowledged their interest in
the play because Of It's sheer technique
The lighting effects, they specify,
would have been sufficient 70 insure q
long and prosperous run for the play,
no matter what is character migat
have been.
Quite a number Of others attributed
the SUCCESS OF The Bat 70 the Fac,
that il was presented b. so even and
well-balanced a company. They add,
m explanation Of their rep.y, that
plays that present only one perform
anee Of merit, surrounded By severa!
mediocre performers, prove tiiesome
and fail 70 hold the interest
The work Of gathering replies will
be continued by Wagenthals 4 KEN
per, and later on a summary Of thes.er-
soers' reasons FOR ps,ronising plays
may be issued In booklet form for the
benefit Of those who may desire 70
avail themselves OF the information.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25

Rodoiph Valentine has begun work
or his second starring picture. II is
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25

A eoptraet has been signed whereby
the Strand Theater will secure for the
hrst New York showing Harold Lloyd's
feature picture, "Grandmas Boy This
will be shown the first week in Sep
tember.
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25
BoxOmce Surest
Register of Art,
Says Hitchcock

The hsrd.muscled women who dance
in "The Pin Wheel" at the Earl Car
:oll Theater are artists, wha. Mayor
Hylsn called art artists" But there
Is another artist among them whose
task /, to poke gentle fun at the ef-
forts Of the other performers, to put
half hour OF laughs in the show
and he is the most real artist in the
lot. That is Raymond Hitchcock.
Ti can &c; my salary on Saturday
night III know whether art pays" said
Hitehy as he clung 20 a cold steam
radiator in his dressing room TO resist
the efforts Of his valet, who was try
Ing to extract him from pair Of
black riding boots. What good is
your art II the box Office doesn't get
a reaetion7 Hey, don't pull my toes.
Hold the toe steady and pull a. the
heel. There. Now. then, what were
we saying
About art; What good is your art
II the box Office doesn't respond? II
it doesn't respond you can gamble six
million rubles that you haven't go;
art. II you haven't cot art you haven't
got CHitchy rolled his eyes as he
struggled with his vocabulary)-well,
you haven't got soul, that's all.
an take Emmy Destina. let her sing
anywhere, down in ar alley, where no
one knows her, and they'll take hes.
because her work is real. It's art. IT'D
take Fritr Kreisler with his fiddle, dis
su.se him ard =, h.n ri,y ,uao down
N Hester street Those ,son'e within
Sound of his music w.ud 50 efa-y
abou, him. Ant doesn't need back
ground
"You know Darwin vas right We're
copy eats. When was o little boy
In Auburn. y. Y. belonged 20 = Band
Of HOPE, wore q silver star ard blue
..bben ard swcro something like Lips
that touch lik-or u never touch mine
It was grained into me. I never have
touched a drop Of liquor in my life.
Don't know the taste ~ IL.
Look your disbelief n you must. I
know I've been called a lush (he hears
those awful words around the Lamh1
but I'm a teeiotaler just the same.
Habit. That's art. too. training chill
dren. There were about six other boys
in the band and none ef 'em drank
when they grew mp. There was one
Jewish boy whose father sent him 70
the same Sunday school with us be-
cause there we're no synsgogues in
town. and he used 20 say. We'll. nice
people won't do him any harm When
Hitehy spoke then he gave a subtle
imitation Of an elderly. kindly man
nered jew.
Then there was one chap who did
drink for o while after he grew up. He
told m. he came home one night ard
while he was trying to find the keyhole
fHitehy poked the air with an i'm
sgined key he saw that star and blue
ribbon Of the Band OF Hope He began
10 laugh and then he sobered up and
he's no, touched anything since"
Now, /. may be that when Hltchy
said ne never touched drop Of liquor
in his ~, he was exercising the art
of comedian; that he was spoohng,
but his face and manner were serious.
Then he resumed.
"You see a sign fresh paint and
you put out your hand to touch it,.
You can't legislate brains or morality.
but you can train children. And that's
art, too"
New-York tribune., 1922-06-25

Colleen Of the Pines will be Jane
Novak's fret starring picture for
Chester Bennett. made at the R.c
studios in Los Angeles. The picture is
ready for release.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-20

ed in the hotel lobby finished writing
the last page of preface to zola's
"Nana" which Knopf is to bring out
later on in the fall.
After dinner tonight | dropped in
at Petitpas's on my way to the Office
to look In on the party / had been
asked to join but had declined because
of the work had to do. Sinclair
Lewis, DR.. Henry Seidel Candy, Guy
Holt, Harrison Smith, katherine
lSproehnle and Mrs. Charlotte Dean
were there. Lewis had patch over the
corner of his eye and | asked him if
that were the result Of an encounter
with an English critic, which remark
precipitated another argument over the
English critical attituoe toward Amer
lean authors. DR.. Candy defended the
Britons by saying that outside of the
tight tile circle dominated by J. C.
Squire the, intelligent Englishman has
respect for American literature.
Lewis said the fight had to so on not
because Of English criticism and Eng
lish audiences, but because of our
selves. "The American author" he said.
almost nstinctivcly and subcon-
sciously still writes with q covert hope
for Oxonian APPROVAL. We have got to
get away from that attitude. / can
just hear my dear friend Hugh Wal
pole reading one of Carl Sandburg's
Chicago poems and saying, Really, nv
dear Lewis, If this fellow Sandbure will
use slang why will he not endeavor to
be just bit more comprehensive. He
sneaks here, for instance, Of an en-
gine's being Switched" when he might
just as easily have used "shunted."
III tell you typical instance of
Squire's attitude. He was denouncing
Mencken contemptuously as philolo-
gist who was beneath notice, because
Mencken had made some minor error
about the derivation of an English
slang expression. I'VE are liable to
| mistakes, Mr.. Squire / said, indeed,
II / recall rightly you wrote recently
that the American word "rube" was
derived from "rubber-neck," an express
sion first used by O. Henry. The truth
of the matter is that "rube" was in
general usage years before 0. Henry
was born 'Oh but that was in an
article in weekly paper and this
Mencken has committed his blunder
between covers Now l ask you, what's
the sense to that argument? If I came
out in the columns of The Literary
Review and said that Jack Squire
was a bald-headed old man, about
eighty, with white beard and some
one took me up on it and pointed out
that Squire is under forty, has plenty
of hair and no beard, I'd dispose of the
whole question, guess, by struggling
my shoulders and saying: oh, but that
was only in an article in a weekly
paper"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-20
Tribunes News and Reviews Of Books and Authors
London News Letter


-yv--,> uBLrsHERs, and, indeed, all
"A ~ people connected with the
n book trade, are strangely
'1'A- mercurial class: their spirits
seem to rise and fall with the ther-
mometer. A few days ago. when we
were shivering under an icy rain, all
was gloom in regard to the prospects
of the autumn publishing season. But
to-day the sun Is shining again and
every one. / have encountered is
optimistic. We are promised all sorts
Of surprises and sensations Eve
always are) and several people have
assured me confidently that the pub
lie, On which we all depend, will dis
play an increased appetite for books
as soon as the holidays are over.
Those Of us who are Launching new
books in September will hope that these
representations are we'll founded.
Meanwhile the form of literature,
If such it can be called, which is now
most in demand at the book shops is
The guide book. The poets, journalists,
novelists and publishers readers that
I meet can think of nothing but their
approaching holiday and brief escape
from printers ink. Nearly ali the
London intelligensia appears to. be
bound for Germany or the Tyrol. which
with the mark at twelve for penny
and kronen nowhere--I suppose Is
scarcely surprising. John Galsworthy
is in the Tyrol NOW; and Aldous Hux-
ley and his wife are leaving in day
or two for SaIzburg, where the Mozart
festival is attracting crowds Of Guilt
waited Londoners.
I hear that two important new nov
els by Joseph Conrad are on their way
One OF them-its title is "The Rover
is already completed, but probably
will not be published here before the
spring of 1923. All that we have been
allowed to learn about it up to the pres
ent is that Lord Nelson has speaking
part of about a hundred words; that the
scene of the story is laid in the south
of France, and that il is not sea
novel in the usual sense of the words,
being concerned mainly with people
ashore; there is psychological
situation forming the basis of the tale
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-20

1.-THE Rover is not long book. -.
second novel, on which Mr.. Cap NY sl 4
now briskly engaged, is one s ~ Is
"the proportions" TO uss Which
words, ."nlay be called noble - own
strous." The period Is the snS mon.
eighteenth and beginning Of X. q tAs
teenth centuries, and Nal 'e ai'ses
makes brief appearance in + isoa |
not yet been crowded with tits = aas
hes
Mr.. Robert Kitchens. who si..
the novel Of noble or mo mon ,,ssors
proportions. has two new bso sshssfousg
complcted--a novel called aDs y !ust
Love" and a volume of shor, ssr
1t is a good many years sin.. snsoar'es
managed to get through one !, nsys
Hichens's novels, but shall Ioss Ar
eagerly for his short stories ~, 800. ous
larry II they deal with the supern nass,ss'
Mr.. Kitchens is at present bsssssssafal'
the sunshine, not of Africa h, ~
Switzerland. Das Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16
SHORT COVERING
 IN FINAL HOURS
 CAUSESARALLY
Wheat and Oats Closed at an Advance, While Corn and Provisions Were Up
 and Down
By Associated Press

Chicago, July 15.-Short covering toward the finish caused a little rally in wheat today. In fact the market displayed a firm undertone for the greater part of the short session. 1t the finish wheat was unchanged 10 5kc higher, with September s1.14ts to s1.14K and December $1.16h to s1.16A; corn unchanged to M c lower; oats Ac to hc up and provisions 7hc to 22hc off.
 Apprehension of rapid develop wheat territory 'as the result of higher temperatures and buying by commission houses were largely re- sponslble for a higher average for wheat. Strength of the market at Liverpool also was reflected here.
 Hedging pressure increased and with the resumption of threshing in the southwest. the trade is anticipat- ing material enlargement in the movement the latter part of the month.
 Corn and oats held within narrow limits with corn showing firm un- dertone chiefly because of scattered buying by cash houses. presumably against further sales to the seaboard for export. Oats were dull and the trade chiefly of local character.
 Provisions were dull and somewhat easier under scattered selling. which more than offset the strength in hogs and the firmness in exchange.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16
Languid and Watering Course Followed by
 Stocks the Past Week
 By Associated Press

New York. July 15.-rhe stock market this week followed the lam guid and waverinK course peculiar to this period of the year, but bonds were active and mainly higher, cheap money encouraging purchases or those issues at record prices,
 Rails were the only shares to offer resistance to professional pressure.
 substantial increase of unified or ders reported by the United States steel corporation for June and quart erly statements of several independent steel and iron producers were indf- cative of the brighter industrial out look, which extended in more mod crate degree to other basis lines.
 Buying of commercial paper was more liberal but surveys of business prospects at important centers of merchandise distribution again dis closed hesitant tone, due largely to backward seasonal conditions.
 The tone of the money market bore out recent predictions that the third quarter of the year would witness further relaxation of rates.
 Longer maturities held firm, how ever. on moderate offerings.
 Another reduction In the Bank Of England discount rate occasioned surprise but cables from London conveyed the intimation that such action was taken primarily to fa- ciiitate purchases of impending gov ernment issues. Informed opinion inclined to the belief that the cut in British rates would exert little If any influence on the federal re- serve board. Treasury officials have expressed their disapproval of any thing calculated to promote stock market speculation at this time.
 Continuance of economic tension abroad, resulting chiefly from the German crisis. was offset by im- ports of gold to be applied to in- terest payments on Englands war debt to this country.
 The beginning of informal confer ences at Washington respecting Frances war obligations to our gov ernment made little change n the international money market. Paris remttances being the most unsettled of the European currencies.