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Broadway has enjoyed since the depres-
sion started. If you look carefully at
some Of the successes, you may be sur
prised. A conspicuous one is Eugene
O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness" a nostalgia
comedy about an adolescent in 1906
when O'Neill was a boy, and his
fathers attempts to understand him.
The spectacle Of ONeill going senti-
mental is as surprising as the spectacle
of ONein going comic, but the public
objects to the former no more than to
the latter: It is warming and pleasant
to contemplate those simple days, and
to watch the antics of the moon
struck boy.
Across the street is romantic play,
in verse, about Mary, Queen of Scots"
1t opened in Boston and sold out the
theater there for two weeks before it
came to New York. It has sold out the
theater in New York ever since 1t ar
rived. In it Helen Hayes, back from
Hollywood, throws herself with enthusi-
aStic relief into romantic role Of full
and regal stature. And In 1t Philip
Merivale gives a remarkable imitation
of the romantic acting which once, long
ago, carried Shakespeare to success.
OF course, there are certain other
plays now current which you can hurl at
us in refutation- naming no names.
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"Puttng EN- Up and Keeping En- UP"-gyF,ank coudou

marily ordered TO hoist his hands back UP in
the air and let the frail ones weep.
The thug securing the crowd for money did
chuckng wallets and cash into. his pockets.
Nobody wandered in from the street or annoyed
the man on watch at the door, and the job
was concluded In six or seven minutes. Moth
ing untoward happened except that q gentle
man customer, taking pity on terrorized ladies,
attempted to herd them into the ladies' dress
ing room, but found he could not do so as the
three Hawaiian ukulele players were already
inside the dressing room and were holding the
door tight for the honor Of old Honolulu.
NNE family dramatic moment slipped into
~ the proceedings, and subsequently every
one was indignant with the haf-wit who en-
dangered all present. Customers said, after 1t
was over, that the poor sap must have been
pretty tight or lacking In sound judgment. for
this was what he did. He suddenly reached out
and struck the hold-up man . resuun(ing
whack on the Jaw, . fairish belt. not hard
enough to knock him down. The gunnan had
taken So from the sap and had moved ON to
the next in line and every one admitted Il was
. silly thing to do. as the sap might have had
his skull pounded Ia. He was lucky, for the
gunman never even glanced ct him. He merely
dropped On one knee, hke prize fighter rest
ing. and said TO the man at the bar:
Let en- have II" 80.
whereupon the standing eutlaw fred one
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means of platforms, ramps, screens and
electric lights. But they haven't helped
us much that way. We don't want our
romance on a constructivist stage set;
we want it in the play itself, in the
characters and what they do and say.
II we are to forget our troubled reality
in book or theater, we want the proper
satisfactions of human society happier
or worthier or nobler than ours. Our
lives are dull and distressed. We want
to live richer and better for time. Our
lives are circumscribed by a mechanical
civilization. We want the freedom of
romance.
It may reside, as Kipling said, in the
very life which seems to circumscribe
us, but most of our artists have not
shown it to US there. OF late, GER
tainly, they have been rather busy en-
phasizing the narrowness of our bounds
or the distressfulness of our surround
ings. 1t looks as though we were-or a
lot of us are-in revolt. We want some
body to show US a less circumscribed
world, and as the easiest way to do
that is to take US back into the past,
we seem to be scrambling aboard the
three-deckers and heading for the
Islands of the Blest.
OF course, there wiz be good deal of
disappointment when we get there.
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Indian Summer Of romance" Zenda
was our theatrical capital and Clyde
Fitch and Julia Marlowe between them
converted Barbara Frietchie into ro-
mantle Southern beauty of 10. OF
course, there may have been no con-
nection at all between the general state
of society and the fashions in the the
ater; but that seems unlikely.
If there were some connection, If men
and women not only naturally grow sur
feited by one form of play or picture and
swing toward another, but also in times
of mental and economic stress wish, in
art, some form of escape from unhappy
reality, then it would seem as if we were
. due today for still more marked return
to romanticism. Without much ques-
ton, a great many Americans are
wearied almost to nausea by the cheap,
tawdry "sophistication" and pseudo
realism the movies" have been diShing
out. It can hardly be said that the
movies have ever really come to grips
with reality. 1t may well be that it is
just because Little Women" for all its
sentimental antiquity, is far more real
than other pictures, and hence rouSes
real emotion, that it is so popular. But
it certainly Is not of today In setting
and mood; 1t takes us out of the world
of motor cars and planned society;
it brings the benediction of a simpler
and more intelligibie world.
a ND probably, alasl it will bring
~ wave OF limitations, concocted from
all the Sunday school juveniles Of the
COS.
There was a time in the theater
when an orchestra sat in the pit down
front, and when the violins began on
Hearts and Flowers" that you knew a
love scene was coming. One suspects it
wasn't so much this as the mounting
cost Of musicians. At any rate-let the
youngsters laugh all they like-this
music could and often did lift the mood
of a scene into something more moving
than the authors words alone could
accomplish. The orchestras are out,
probably for good, though now and then
q 1OAy pay WAA60t, nAC Dun OAIC4W WOO0 III
Reunion in Vienna" stations musicians
on the stage, supposedly as part Of the
play, and gets his effect without the
young folks knowing what he is up to.
But language isn't out; beautiful and
poetic speech isn't out. With Maxwell
Anderson it is coming back strong.
Nobody In his senses would say that
realism in drama, or any of the arts, is
dead Though it seems to be gasping in
painting). 1t will doubtless continue,
and perform many useful works. But
at the present moment >of our history
we seem to be fed up on steady diet
of it, especially realism which hasn't
admitted that sentiment is real, that
aspiration is real, even that respect
for the past is as real in some people
as a pointless enthusiasm for whatever
is new.
For Is years, led first by Gordon Craig,
the scene designers of the theater have
been trying to lead US from reality by
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But that doesn't mean the pendulum
may not have started on the back swing.
And in the book world there Is An
thony Adverse" How do you explain
that one? You will remember-that is,
you will if you are over 40-that Kipling
also wrote poem called "The Three
decker" inspired by somebody's asser-
ton that "the three-vOlume novel Is
extinct" It was-and with all due re-
spect to E. e. Cummings, T. s. Eliot
ct al, still is-a swell poem. On the
old Three decker" you will recall. I'VE
never talked obstetrics when the little
stranger came" and she was headed for
pleasant place.
That route is barred to steamers; you'll
neuer lift again
Our purple painted heddldndS or the
lordly keeps OF Spain.
They're Just beyond the skyline, hotoe'er
so far you cruise
In a -yom-damn-you liner soith
brace OF bucktng screDs -.
Her cre,o are babes or n,admen? Her
port is all to make?
You're manned By truth and science.
and you steam for steaning's sake?
Well, tinker up your engines-yon kn0,o
your business best
She's taking tired people to the Islands
of the Blest.
AND To-! comes Hervey Allen with
II full-rigged three-decker, from
truck to taffrail dressed" and sells so
many copies that the very publisher
himself goes around rubbing his eyes in
wonder. The picturesque novel, the his
torical novel, the books which recreate
past persons and eras that seem, at
least, more glamorous than our own are
having their innings. We are more
ready, it would seem, for new Dumas
than a new lola. The three-decker.
bound for the Islands of the Blest, will
carry more passengers than the sliekest
liner.
OF course, it Is only too easy to gen.
eralize-almost as easy as to predict.
But has anybody-let us say some seeker
for a doctors degree-ever sought to
correlate the romantic tendency In lit
erature with uncertainty, depression or
even revolution in political and eco
nomic life? One suspects that some
thing of interest might come from such
a research-which is more than can be
said for most researches by doctorial
candidates. Wordsworth came back
from the France Of the revolution and
wrote the lyrical ballads. The romantic
movement in English and European lit
erature conceded with, or followed, the
upsets- caused by the Napoleonic wars.
The panic of the Van Buren,. admins
tration, when the theaters were In the
dumps, was followed Immediately by the
birth of the Negro minstrels.
The difficult and upset period follow
ing the Civil War saw two-thirds Of the
theaters Of the land given over to mu-
sical burlesque. After the panic Of 1893
James A. Herne,s attempt at the new
naturalism died aborning for q time,
and We had what Prof. Quinn calls IAN
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Line baking dish with 8 slices
bacon. Put onion, peeled but not
sliced. in center of dish. Add a
layer of otatoes and season with
salt and pepper. Dot win bits of
butter and -four rubbed together.
ContiIue adding layers of pota-
toes and seasonings until all are
used. Pour over milk and put re-
naming bacon on top. Bake / IA
hours, uncovered, III a moderate
oven $3.50 degrees F.) If you
keep the dish covered during the
meal the potatoes will keep appe-
tizingly hot for secG-ld servings.
Butterscotch Cookies
One-hals cup butter or butter
substitute, 2 cups light brown SUI
gar, 2 eggs, 1-2 teaspoon cream
of tartar, 1-2 teaspoon soda, 3 1-2
cups flour, IL teaspoon vanilla,
1-2 teaspoon salt.
If the shortening used in place
of butter is cot salty add another
half teaspoon salt.
Cream shortening and sugar
and add eggs beaten until light.
Mix and sift several times -four,
salt, SODA, cream of tartar. Add
with vanilla to first mixture and
mix well. Shape into rolls about
2 inches in diameter and let stand
in the refrigerator over night.
When ready to bake cut slices
about one-eighth inch thick and
bake in moderate oven (375 de-
greeS F.
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r 20 SISTER MARY'SI
}GN KITCHEN (
III MAN 4. DAUOG
NEA Service Stan Writer

THERE are 134 ways to cook
L potatoes. The Consumers Ser
vice Division of New York City's
Public Markets says 80. Doesn't
that make you ashamed of being
such a stick-in-the-mud as to
know only the eternal boiled,
baked, mashed and fried varic-
ties?
There are at least fifty-seven
kinds of scalloped potatoes alone,
done with bacon, ham, clam,
cheese or sausage, for instance.
And cheese, cnion Juice or bread
crumbs will make something brand
new of an ordinary creamed 20
tato.
The lack OF individually in fla
vor of this old standby makes
the potato an excellent fat car
rier. And that, with the large
amount of starch the potato itself
supplies, makes it one of the
most valuable of the energy foods.
Remember, too, that the potato
has more iron than we credited
it with a few years ago, and that
it's efficient in reducing body acid
ity. In short, the combination OF
meat and potatoes which our
mothers used fnstfnctiyely is rec
commended now by scientists
some of them anyway.
Potatoes seaIloped with bacon is
splendid luncheon dish. The
large amount of milk used in this
concoction adds muck nourish-
ment and with the bacon, makes
a savory main dish. A crisp vege-
table salad may well go with this
because a contrast of texture in
foods as well as a raw vegetable
is needed 70 balance the meal.
And how about a dessert of fruit,
canned, fresh or dried, with a
cookie to round out the meal?
Potatoes Scalloped With Bacon
Three cups thinly sliced raw
potatoes, / small onion, l table,
spoon butter, / tablespoon -four,
teaspoon salt, IA teaspoon pep
per, 2 cups milk. 6 slices bacon
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The road will be covered"
Blocker said. ".We have just. re
ceived assurances from the au-
thorities at Riverview that an
autophy will be ordered"
Griff gave a low whistle.
l ,eHYou must" he said, "have
exerted considerable pressure"
>"@We did" said Blocker, but
WEI received unexpected rein
forcements from a confidential
communication made to the au-
thorities by one of the physicians
in the case. 1t represents a COM
plete change of attitude on his
part since an earlier interview.
l was wondering if, perhaps, your
presence in Riveryiew had been
responsible for the physicians
change Of attitude"
Sidney Griff laughed.
"My presence in RiverView,"
he said, "has been responsible
for a lot of things. Pm playing
human checkers. I'll see you this
evening" o..
Smiling, he slid the receiver
gently back on the hook. His face
was alert, the eyes narrowed,
wary and watchful.
There were two parchment
shaded lamps burning in the
room but the glow they gave was
subdued. Sidney Griff, attired in
lounging suit and long wooden
bathrobe, stared into the spiral
ling smoke from his cigaret.
Across from him, Dan Blocker
seemed very much excited.
Anything about Decker?'I he
asked. "Any news for u.s."
Griff's face froze into rigid
impassivity.
No." he, said.
Blocker spoke rapidly. ere
member" he said, you're going
to give us the breaks when the
time comes. You know, Griff,
there's something uncanny about
you lat that"
Griff stared through the cigaret
smoke and said, 81 presume
you're about to tell me that
you've found the woman in the
case"
| eve know who she is" Blocker
said. eve haven't found her.
That hunch of yours was one. of
the most remarkable things Pve
ever encountered"
"Go ahead" Griff said, "tell
me about it."
eve got the lead not over half
an hour after / was talking with
you on the long distance tele-
phone from Riverview," Blocker
said, bill Osborne, one Of oul
reporters, made a check on a dis.
appearance case which had been
reported by a Miss Alice Lorton
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BEGIN HERE TODAY

When Dan Blocker, publisher
of The Blade, learns that Chas.
Morden, police reporter, has been
mysteriously killed he determines
to employ Sidney Griff, famous
eriminqlogist to. solve the MUIR
DER AK -
/ MorSeH chad bekn assigned to
learn he-@oult;about Frank B,
Cathay, wealthy and prominent,
who had threatened to sue The
Blade. because!ithe tnewspaper re-
ported Cathay had been arrested,
Later it was proven that the man
arrested. giving the name of Ca
} thay and accompanied by a girl
called Mary Briggs, was an inn
poster. The Blade published a re-
traction. ,..
Then Morden is found dead
and few hours later comes news
that Cathay is dead possibly
poisoned.
Sidney Griff undertakes the
case. He goes to see Charles
Fisher, Cathay's lawyer, and
then to Cathay's home. There he
sees Carl Racine, private detec-
tive, leaving in Cathay's car.
The chauffeur says hostilely to
Griff, you can't see Mrs. Ca.
thay."
NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIV
The cab driver drove at high
speed down the winding road
which led from the big Cathay
home to the nearest through
boulevard. He pulled in before
"a drug store and held the door
of the car open.
Sidney Griff entered the drug
store, put through a long dis
lance call to Dan BECKER of The
Blade.
"The woman in the case" he
said, "has employed Carl Racine
Of the Racine Detective Bureau.
She ordered up her car for him,
to take him to the city. She is
obviously very much frightened.
1t would probably be advisable
for YOU to have two of your best
men waiting along the boulevard.
| believe that you are familiar
with her car and can give the
men a description of it. Doubt
some Of your reporters know
Racine personally. When he
passes have them drop in be.
hind and see if they can follow
, him. | think he has been sent up
on a mission Of the greatest i'm
portance "a mission which re
quires some skill and daring tt
handle. Racine was hostile wher
| met him."
Bleeker's reply was directly t.
the point.
when did they leave?" h,
asked.
Approximately Is minute
ago"
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as administra-
triX of the estate of David S.
Morrison, deceased, this is to no.
tify all persons having claims
against said estate to present
them to the undersigned on or
before Oct. 10, 1885, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of re-
covery; and all persons indebted
to said estate will make settle
ment at once with the under
signed.
This Oct. IS, 1884.
LOUISE P. MORRISON,
1O-13-Sat-6tp AdmnX.
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door knobs and places like that.
I'VE had Morden's, fipgerprirl'a on
file at the paper, you know.
"And, by God, We found some
of Morden's fingerprints. There
can't be any mistake. He was IN
that apartment" =.
:, eHave you told the police"
| mo, we're keeping it under
tcoIas until you Tell us to release
lii, We, figure we. may be able t.
Ao Better playinfIit under cover
Whats this Ordway woman
ilike?" Griff asked, dropping his
hand to the arm of the chair, his
eyes closed, his manner that OF
one who is completely relaxed.
From the description we get.
she's %, medium sized, brunei
with black eyes. She used lots
of makeup, and there was more
or less mystery about her. Alice
Lorton says she doesn't know
very much about the girl; that
they shared the apartment, and
the girl always paid her share Of
the rent promptly; that she was
supposed to be out of work and
looking for job, but she always
seemed to have plenty of money.
"Not a very good description"
Griff said. "How about photo
graphs?"
"That's the funny thing"
Blocker said. "We can't seem to
get hold of a photograph. There's
just a chance that the girl played
foxy and took all of her photo
graphs with her. Alice Lorton
says she was certain there was
snapshot or two in a photograph
album the girl had, and framed
picture that was on the dresser,
but the girl seems to have taken
those things with her"
"Pretty smart" Griff said.
"I'll say it was plenty smart"
Blocker agreed.
"Know anything else?" asked
Griff.
eyes, we covered Carl Racine.
1t was a cinch to follow him. APP
parently he didn't suspect any
thing and the boys didn't have
any difficulty getting on his
trail. Now, that's an angle we
can't figure out. He's trying to
find Mrs. Blanche Malone. He's
prowling around through the reg
istrations, city directories. and
has gone to the light and gas
companies, trying to find out if
they've connected meter for q
Mrs. Blanche Malone any where
in the city" -.
Ito be continued)
The little black notebook in
which Charles Morden kept his
expense account comes to light
in the next installment.
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"a residing at the Elite apart
ments, 319 Robinson street. She
had reported the Disappearance
of Esther Ordway, %, whit
shared her apartment"
The intense nervousness which
had characterized the, criminol
ogist the night before seemed tl
have left; him now. He stretched
out, physically relaxed, thefbaN
sign of nervousness being tk
quick, vigorous puffs on the
cigaret which indicated an inner
tension. -,l"~ 49,
THAT" he said, sis what like
about dealing with you newspaper
chaps. You get all of the essen
tial information and pass it on
in concise manner. Tell me
some more about Alice Lorton."
"You mean about Esther Ord
way, the one who disappeared?'
asked Blocker.
Sidney Griff shook his head.
NO." he said "about Alice Lor.
ton. the one who reported hel
disappearance"
T.
BECKER looked mildly surprised
81 didn't talk with her person,
ally" he said "The reporter:
gathered the information. She is
Il understand, blond, blue-eyet
and pretty-not outstandingl!
beautiful, you understand, bu
pretty"
eco ahead" Griff said. %
want to know everything | car
about her want to get a com.
plete picture"
"Let me tell you first about
the apartment and about Esther
Ordwav," Blocker said.
Griff once more extended hi.
right arm, with the fingers out,
stretched, seemed to be cropping
his way through a maze of intri'
cate thoughts.
"All right. go on" he said al
most dreamily.
"Alice Lorton said this Ordway
woman had mvsteriously disap
peared without leaving any word
She'd taken a suitcase md some
clothes. After a couple Of day!
passed and Alice Lorton didn'
hear anything from her missing
friend, she notified the police
and the Bureau of Missing Per
sons,
! "We'd never have bothere,
with it, only for what you said
and the fact that she must hav'
| disappeared at about the sam,
time Morden was murdered. W.
sent a fingerprint expert up t.
the apartment. He used a pas
key. No one knew he went. il
there. He developed latents il
places where a male visitor nigh
have left fingerprints on asl
trays, on the brass bedstead, OF
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as admins
tratrix of the estate of w. L..
Owenby, deceased, this is to no.
tify all persons having claims
against said estate to present
them to the undersigned on or
before September 6, 1885, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
recovery Persons indebted to
said estate will make settlement
at once with the undersigned.
This Sept. 6, 1884.
RUTH G. OWENBY, Admnx.
10-6-Sat-6tn
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Coot Belongs to kails

The cOOt is really member of
the rail family, but actually IS the
most duck-like member. 1t is an
expert swimmer and diver, but 1t
has much difficulty rising from the
surface. Once on the wing, 1t is a
good flyer, maintaining direct
course, but is not as speedy as
duck,
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TOmOrrOW's Menu
By HAMLIN
BREAKFAST: Grapes, GER

BREAKFAST: Grapes, GER
cal, cream, baked French
toast, honey, milk, coffee.
LUNCHEON: Potatoes seal
Hoped with bacon, head lettuce
with chiffonade dressing, can
ned strawberries, butterscotch
cookies, milk, tea.
DINNER: Dreaded veal cut
lets, potatoes au gratin, spin
sch in lemon sauce, pineapple
upside-down cake, milk, cof-
fee.
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EI;g;bIe TO the Presidency

None but native Americans are
eligible to the Presidency of the
United States, but children OF Amer
lean citizens, born during sojourns
abroad. are legally regarded as ma
tiyes Of this country in so far as this
and all other civil rights are con
oarno5 .. san 81
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BOYS - Special offer. Rubber
pirate daggers. Look like real
thing. Fool your friends and
have real z Ran. : Send 1Oei lin
coin to Rock Novelties, P. 0.
Box 216, South Bound Brook
n. j.
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32-To Swap

WHO WANTS TO SWAP house
and lot in town for a good 20
acre farm just outside city
limits of East Flat Rock. APP
pies, grapes and berries. An
ders and Rector, American
Bank,
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SPECIAL SALE-Knit-Ease cot
ton warns for knitting and GRO
cheting. Reduced prices for
limited time. Mountain Indus
tries and Gift Shop. Skyland
Hotel building.
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Or Maybe tine Exhaust
MANY a man." said Uncle Eben,
thinks he's de engine on a auto
mobile when he's only de honker."
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WILL SAVE you big money on
all taxes and assessments. j. ID.
Solley. Phone 172.
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More Redhcaded Boys
Red hair is said to occur more
frequently among boys than among
girls.
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u9CAINS in used Plymouth,
Ind. Chevrolet. Whippet and
xrsra. other makes of cars
and trucks. Lyerly's Auto Ex-
,.grga. 100 South Main.