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Evening star., 1923-05-28
RELASCO-"Captain Applejack. :"

A large and highly pleased audience
at the Belasco Theater last night OF
larity of the old adage that q little
r's $ns n.ns.nes nsn wv was s,r Walter Hack:
etts Captain Applejack, descrlpeo
in the program as IAN Arabian nights
adventure in three acts" So highly
was this play regarded in New YORK
that all during the past season many
I hoped it would be sent to Washing
ton, but Washington had to wait
until George Marshall brought 1t as
a repertoire offering and with a COM
pany of general excellence. Those
who do not dwell perpetually in the
realm of the high-brow will be GER
tain to see it during it's stay here
and even the high-brow who con-
descends to concede point and go
will be glad he did.
Captain Applejack" may be COM
edy, g. burlesque, a farce. or some
thing else which has not yet been
clearly classified, but it is amusing
even more than that. It's fun comes
in the form of a dream by perfectly
mecum is "Pilgrim's Progress" and
whose life has been cut out for him
by his ancestors. so that at 10 o'clock,
promptly, at night, after d whisky
old port was a prescribed ingredient,
he toddled off to bed, just one-half
hour after the women Of his family
had gone, according to custom.
On the night of this particular ad-
venture, however. he does not get to
bed. He had become obsessed with
the notion that his life had strangely
been denied the element of romance.
He wanted to rescue princess, fall
in love at first sight, travel in far
off and strange lands. He had ad-
vertised the old family homestead. an
isolated old place on the CORNISH
a conventional old aunt and Poppy
Faire. a charming young relative. who
adored him at a distance and never
told her love, but let concealment,
like worm in the bud; feed /, on ,n.dr ner
GUS visits, one by a lady in distress,
who was fleeing from Russian spy.
and the other by a "wonderful
psychic and his young wife. paved
the way to a dream that sent him
back, With all his environment. as
Capt. Applejack, notorious pirate
to a rare and delightfully."- amusing
act on a pirate ship. And from that
to the close much food for laughter
is furnished.
The splendid cast, not yet working
as smoothly as may be expected in
future performances, seemed ideal Tor
the demands upon it. Fred Raymond,
jr., as Ambrose Applejohn, the de-
scendant of Capt Applejack. was eX-
cellent, even though he followed wal
lace Eddinger in his role of many
opportunities. Margalo Gilmore, as
Poppy Faire. was charming. and later,
as the cabin boy on the pirate ship.
irresistible. AS Anna Valeska, the
lady in distress. Fania, Marinoff was
superb in a triple Characterization. as
a fleeing Russian. as a Portuguese lady
captured by pirates and as cockney
crook Indeed, her work was an out
standing feature of the play. Frank
Conroy also shared in the big honors.
even though with less opportunity
than he had in The Bad Man" And
splendid support in their various
characterizationS was afforded by
Wallis Clark, Anne sutherland, John
Dale Murphy, Mildred LIE Cue, Sasha
Beaumont, H. Dudley Hawley and
Joseph Crehan.
1t is understood that the play is
staged with the original settings and
effects.
Evening star., 1923-05-28
ADJUSTMENTS

urate some reforms In his fathers
business establishment. Jack is just
back from college and he has brought
with him a head full to overfowing
with ideas in the new doctrine of
industrial democracy.
Aside from being play full of
fun, the piece Is enjoyable. because
1t is SO human. Every situation has
it's personal appeal, for there Is hard
ly person who has not at some time
been face to face with an experience
that matches 1t. Very funny are
these situations when looked upon
from comfortable chair in a theater,
and very serious when actually hap
pening in real life.
Old favorites line up the cast, with
George Barnes as John Bauer and
Harry Shutan as Albert Kruger, fore
man of Bauer's factory Robert
Lowe Is good as the tight -fisted
banker, Daniel Drum. Others are
David Herblin as Jack Bauer. ir..
Kay Hammond as Marion Kruger
and Guy D'Ennery as Thomas Craig.
The play is staged by Harry Man
nerS.
Evening star., 1923-05-28

as all South American revolution
stories where . North American hero
tries to dominate the situation and
show his southern friends how to or
deviation 10 made in that the hero
is not a superhuman individual and
Is downed in q duel with q high
Spanish ofiicial and shipped home.
His pluck won him his senorita, how
ever. and the story does not have the
usual Hergesheimer ending.
Bobby Vernon. the dimpled hero of
many frothy little comedies. is neen
cavorting through another Of the
frothiest, Take Your Choice" that Ia
quite entertaining. and Lucius Hos
mer's "Fantasie Espagnole" makes a
most appropriate overture for this
Dill. ". Mirskeys Orchestra plays La
Paloma" and other North American
favorites among Spanish melodies
turing the showing of the feature.
Evening star., 1923-05-28

London, in which a lady's maid falls
in love with an aspirant for the
premiership. continues as tns MIN at.
Rialto. Adapted from the novel by
Cosmo Hamilton, the Paramount
screen versions has been lavisly pro-
duced by Herbert Brenon, with Betty
Evening star., 1923-05-28
PREsIDENT-"Give and Take"

"Give and Take" Aaron Hoffman's
comedy of wit and satire, continues
for another week at the President
Theater.
This highly amusing production is
based on the never-ending squabble
between the class that hires and the
class that is hired, and turns upon
the efforts of Jack Bauer, jr., son Of
a products manufacturer. to inaug-
Evening star., 1923-05-28

Compson and Conway Tearle in the
leading roles. n
The story Is of English Ambition
in which Arthur Faliaray aspireg to
the premiership but is opposed by
Paul Chalfont, who through his news-
paper attempts to thwart his enemy'g
Continued on Twenty-sixth Page.
Evening star., 1923-05-28

rel. although striving. to. enforce
peace. He nearly pays for the effort
with his life. but finally RECEIVERS
from the wound inflicted by q jeal-
GUS suitor, and '1ives happily ever
The supplementary comedy. "The
Author" featuring AL St. John, Is a
parody on melodrama in the Balkans.
with "Raviola" as the scene of action.
There Is a comical king, a squad Of
equally absurd soldiers, q beautiful
pursued" heroine, and a brave hero
who defeats one of his opponents by
throwing bananas and apples on his
sword until the blade is filled to the
end and there is none left to plunge
into the antagonist. At the conclu-
sion AL Is seen writing the finishing
lines of his story. and about to add
they lived happily" when neigh
boris stormy matrimonial quarrel In
duces him to substitute they lived
together ever after" A news Aim and
orchestra selection complete the
program.
RIALTO-"The Rustic of Silk"
"The Rustic of Silk" a novel story
l.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
Travelling Trout.

No company of anglers can long be
together without having a discussion
regarding the sea trout and what man.
ner of fish he really is. According to
the latest scientific view a sea trout
is merely a trout which has been to
sea and come back again. A proper
ton of the trout in certain districts
have, in fact, adopted a way of life
similar to that of the salmon, driven
to it possibly by need of food, or per-
chance obeying some ancient instinct
of the race. Why some trout should
migrate and others stay in fresh wa
ter is a mystery deeper than the
wholesale migration of the salmon,
and it is not exactly helped by the
existence, and .fiourishing, of a kind
of halfway type of fish which is
known as the estuarine, or slob trout,
and which lives in brackish water,
growing sometimes to a great size.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23

to the hard, dry snow as 1t beat
against the board shanty wherein she
lay awake.
In the spring the movers aravan
filed by the house, starting eastward
before planting time. When the train
of wagons had passed the year be-
fore, Mrs. Burkholder had been amused
by the fantastic legends, which the
wagon. covers-white, clean, prosper
ous-had borne. kansas or bust"
they used to read when headed west
ward. Busted" was the lacOnic
legend, written under the old motto
on their first eastward trip. Going
back to wife's folks" had been a COM
mon jocose motto at first. Mrs. Burk-
holder and her husband had laughed
over this the year before, but this
year as she saw the long line file out
of the west into the east, she missed
the banners. She noticed, with a men
tai pan that those who came out of
the country this year seemed to be
thankful to get out at all. There were
times when she had to struggle to con
ceal her co~wardice for she wished to
turn away from the fight, to flee from
the gray dome, and from the beckon-
ing of the dead cottonwood in the
graveyard.
The spring slipped away and another
sultry summer came on, and then a
long, dry fall. Mrs. Burkholder and her
husband worked together.
There were whole weeks when she
neglected her toilet; she tried to
brighten up in the evening, and duti-
fully went at the magazines that were
regularly sem to her by the HON
folks.
But she seemed to need sleep, n
the cares of the day weighed upon her.
The interests of the world of culture
grew small in her vision. The work
before her seemed to demand all her
thought; so that serial after serial
slipped through the magazines unread,
and new literary men and fads rose
and fell, all unknown to her. The pile
of magazines at the foot of the bed
grew dustier every day.
The Burkholders got their share of
the seed-grain sent to Fountain county
by the Kansas legislature and, just
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23

after planting time in 1889, the land
was gloriously green. But before July
the promises had been Knocked by the
hiss of the hot wind in the dead grass.
That fall one of their horses died.
Saturday after Saturday BurkhOlder
went to the prairie town and brought
home groceries and coal. 1t was a
source of constant terror to him that
some day his wife might ask him how
he got these supplies. She hid it from
herself as long as she could. All win
ter they would not admit to each other
that they were living on laid" On
many a gray, clustering afternoon,
when Burkholder was in the village
getting provisions, a straggler on the
road might see his wife coming around
the house, with two buckets of water
in her hands, the water splashing
against her feet, which were encased
in a pair of her husbands old shoes,
the wind pushing her thin calico skirts
against her stiff limbs and her frail
body bent stiffly in the mans coat that
she wore. Her arms and shoulders
seemed to shiver and crouch with the
cold, and her blue features were so
drawn that her friendly smile at the
wayfarer was only a grimace.
In the spring many men in Fountain
county went East looking for work.
They left their wives with God n
the county commissioners. Burkholder
dumbly went with them. In March, the
covered wagon train began to file past
the Burkholder house. BY April 1t
was a continuous line-shabby, tat
tered, rickety, dying. Here came a
wagon covered with bed quilts, there
another topped with oilcloth table COW
ers; another followed, patched with
everything. For two years the mover
arava trailing across the plains a
taken the shape of a huge duSt-colored
serpent in the woman's fancy; now 1t
seemed to Mrs. Burkholder that the
terrible creature was whitening away,
that this was its skeleton. The tree
less landscape worried her more and
more the steel dome seemed set tight
er over her, and she sat thirsting for
water in the landscape.
After a months communion with her
fancies, Mrs. Burkholder nailed a
black rag we the kitchen window.
But the arms of the dead sapling in the
cemetery gyrated wildly in her sick
imagination. 1t was a long summer,
and when it was done there was n
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
HEREFORD INLET SURVEY BILL
PASSED BY CONGRESS-

During the last session of Congress
and through the efforts of Congress
man Bacharach, the River and Harbor
Bill carried an appropriation for the
survey of Hereford Inlet with a view
to deepening the channel.
The district engineer at Wilmington
has notified Congressman Bacharach
that he is ready to proceed with this
work and to that end he desires the
names and addresses of people inter
ested in the improvement of Hereford
Inlet in order that he may get in touch
with them and learn the extent of the
improvement desired.
Later on a public hearing will be
held at which interested parties will
be invited to give facts and figures
both orally and in writing to show
the extent of the commercial use now
being made of this inlet and to what
extent the commercial use of the
channel will be increased if the i'm
provement asked for is made by the
government. In other words, there
must be a justification of the cost of
making this improvement before the
government will undertake the work.
1t is therefore of the utmost impor-
lance for all interested parties to get
together such facts and figures as to
the volume and value of the COM
merce which passes through Hereford
Inlet as will convince the army engi-
neers that the community is justified
in asking for government aid in dredg-
ing the channel. OF course it is need
less to say that the government must
be shown that the which
passes through this inlet is destined
for various parts of the country and
that it is not by any means a com
merce for the benefit of the particular
localities surrounding and adjoining
the inlet.
Anyone wishing to be heard by the
government in support of this i'm
provement should so advise Col. e. l
Brown, Engineer officer, Wilmington
Del.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23

There is not a tree anywhere in sight
and as the government requires thai
we should plant trees on our place, as
a partial payment for it, / was so in
hopes that these would do well. They
are burned up now. You don't know
how lonesome it seems without trees
She did not tell the home folk that
her plano and the books had gone tc
buy provisions for the winter. She die
not tell the home folk that she had not
bought a new dress since she left Hi
nois. She did not let her petty cares
burden her letter. She wrote of gen
eralities. "You do not know how
miss the hills. Tom and 1 rode twenty
miles yesterday, to a place called the
Taylor bottom. 1t is a deep sink-hole
perhaps fifty feet deep, containing
about ten square acres. BY getting
down into this we have the effect Of
hills. You cannot know how good and
snug, and tucked in and comfy it
seemed. 1t is so naked at the house
with the knife-edge on the horizon.
and only the sky over you. Tom and ]
have been busy. l haven't had time
to read the story in the magazine you
sent me. Tom can't get corduroys, out
here. You should see him in overalls."
Mrs. B%urkholder helped her husband
look after the cattle, The hired man
went away in the early fall. This she
did not write home, either. All
through the winter DAYS she heard the
keen wind whistle around the house,
and when she was alone a dread
blanched her face The great gray
dome seemed to be holding her its
prisoner. She felt chained under it.
She shut her eyes and strove to get
away from it in fancy, to think of
green hills and woodland but her Eyes
tore themselves open, and with a hyp-
motto terror she went to the window,
where the prairie thrall bound her
again in its chains.
The cemetery for the prairie town
had been started during the spring be-
fore, and some one had planted there
in a solitary cottonwood sapling. Its
two dead, gaunt branches seemed to
be beckonlng her, and all day she
thought she heard the winds shrek
through the new iron fences around
the graves and through the grass that
grew wild about the dead. The scene
haunted her. 1t was for this end that
the gray dome held her, she thought,
as she listened during the cold nights
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23

4 wv . AONA hA0 q SUI Va
beautiful flowers. 1t was the delight
and joy of the whole neighborhood.
Little Peter loved it as much as my
body, but he caused his mother end
less annoyance by picking half-opened
buds, bruising delicate blossoms and
breaking off foliage through his per-
sistent handling and touching of the
plants, in spite of her admonitions to
keep away from them.
How to preserve her lovely flowers
and yet satisfy Peters love of them
was a problem to his mother, but a
happy solution was found in her de-
cision that he should have a little
garden of his own.
Accordingly, then, at planting time,
Peters mother told him of her plan,
and to his delight she presented him
with a miniature set of garden tools.
He helped to dig up the earth in his
allotted small space and was untiring
in his efforts to make it smooth and
fine. Peter accompanied his mother
on the trip to the seed store and rev.
eled in the seed packets with their
flowery illustrations, from which were
finally selected seeds that would ma
ture quickly and give an abundance
of blossoms, such as nasturtiums, lark
spur, peoples, marigold and phlox.
With his mothers help and careful
guidance Peter planted the seeds and
then began the watchful waiting for
the first signs of plants in his very
own garden. His mother taught him
how to water it gently and one day
showed him how to make a border
around the garden of shells and small
stones, which required careful match
ing and placing and occupied many
happy hours.
Great was Peters delight when the
tiny plants began to appear and daily
he reported the progress of their
growth. Mother, the peoples are
poking through" or "the larkspurs
are ahead of all of them!" he told
his mother. Peter kept all weeds out
of his garden as his mother had taught
him to do and watered it whenever
necessary. After long weeks of care,
buds began to appear on the plants
and Peter and his mother speculated
daily as to which one would blossom
out first. By and by the tiny garden
rivaled his mothers larger one, with
it's mass of gay colors, and Peters
joy was very great when his mother
gave him a small pair of scissors and
showed him how to cut the flowers
carefully. He loved to gather a bou-
quet for her to use on the table, OF
to select an especially lovely flower
for his father to wear in his button.
hole of his coat. But he was happiest
of all the day he gathered a beautiful.
bouquet of all the different kinds Of
flowers in his very own garden and
carried it to his grandmother for g
birthday gift. And Peters mother was
as happy as Peter himself, not merely
because her flowers were no longer
molested by small hands, but because
her little Peter was learning so much
about nature, was experiencing the
joy of possession and the still greater
joy of sharing his possessions with
others.
1.-THE old aim was to give relief, the
new n is to teach the poor to hell
themselves" said Mrs. Ingram, of the
Association for Improving the Condi-
lions of the Poor in New York, in q
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
When Fish Walk.

century reported the existence of an
Indian ~freshwater fish which was able
to walk about the land.
The same fish vas later described
by the scientist Waldorf, who saw
this finny creature in a fissure in a
palm tree not far from a pond. AS 1t
climbed it pressed its pointed and ex-
tended gill covers against the side
of the crack, threw its tail back and
forth, pressed the thorn of its anal
fin against the support, and closed its
gill covers with a jerk. In this way
it advanced a step.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23

more vacant house, n more among
hundreds far out on the highlands.
There is one more mound in the bleak
country graveyard, where the wind,
shrieking through the iron fences and
the cracking, dead cottonwood
branches, has never learned a slumber
song to sob for a tired soul. But there
are times when the wind seems to
moan upon its s~un-parched chords like
the cry of some lone spirit cropping its
tangled way back to the lowlands, the
green pastures, the still waters, and to
the peace that passeth understanding.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
Just said to Be.

: Observation-Disclosures is said to be
much more prevalent among men than
women, but the true explanation of
this may be that a woman might go
down the street with her hat on hind
side before and no one would ever know
the difference.-Ohio State Journal.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
PETERS GARDEN
By Mrs. Henry S. Collins

recent statement.
OF course the best time to train any
one in habits of industry, honesty and
self-reliance is when habits are be-
ing formed. All of the nations chill
dren are entitled to receive early
training. If there is no kindergarten
in your public school, write to the Ma
tional kindergarten Association, s
West 10th street, New York.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23

A dollar invested in the Journal will
bring you all the new of Five Mile
Beach for one year.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
HOME EDUCATION
@THE CHILD'S FIRST SCHOOL is THE FAMILY

Issued by the National Kindergarten Association s West 10th street, New
York City. These articles are appearing weekly in our columns.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-10-05
COMPULSORY THRIFT

In Kansas a group Of power and
telephone companies is trying a com,
pulsory thrift plan, which affects
about 1900 employees and applies to
every member of the organization
from the president to the humblest
day laborer. The plan requires that
each shall save and invest monthly
at least 10 per cent of his income.
Every month each employee must
make report to the general office OF
how much he has saved, ana in what
he has invested it, The investment
must be approved by a committee
competent to advise. Government Sc.
curities, savings bank accounts, build,
ing and loan stock, payment on 3
home, even payments on furniture are
allowed. II debts have been incurred
these must be listed and payments
may be arranged on them, but no
more are to be assumed. The idea is
to make the employee live within his
means and also lay aside something
in a definite form.
Reports for the first nine months
show that about IS per cent of the
wages have been saved, no single EN-.
ployee falling below 10 per cent This
amounts to over 100000. Failure t.
report or to save brings dismissal, but
in only two instances among the 1,2Gv
employees was such action needed.
Budget books are distributed and
their use explained as a helpful
method in. establishing working
scale of living that will allow ioI
thrift.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-10-05
MORE HEALTH WORK NEEDED.

Georgia should rank high in the gal
axy of states. She cannot do so with.
out clean bill of health A clean bill
of health rests on the prevention of
disease, therefore our State should
spend freely Of her money for making
the State safe place in which to live
The public health is in the hands OF
the State Board of Health; do not
shackle the hands of this department
by being stingy with funds; chains Of
poverty will effectually cause starva
tion. stunted growth and shortening
Of life.
DR.. Abercrombie, State Commission.
er OF Health, invites any citizen of our
State to closely Investigate his depart.
ment; especially would he be delight
I'D to have our lawmakers not only to
go minutely into the work done by the
State Board of Health, but to go still
further and see the wonderful posi-
bility for good if he only had the funds
To extend the good work
Money spent in liberality to prevent
illness is well spent money. Health
can be bought; State appropriations
should be liberal and abundant to do
III necessary health work.