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1101r.SCNIIIIP...,.0.-r-A DRAMA nnh A 4,0 It XeM otte nekti LOT UnkrUnies GREATEST NEWSPAPER Movies Music I H. L. Mencken Radio Art I WORLD'A Opera Ballet Given Greater Prominence li Opera Bal Gre( SEPTEMBER 11, 1927. Millionaires and Their Money Here's a Film That Transcends Praise "Btwleyeue" Story Sets Them Cheering This Thing and That Thing of the Theater By Edward Hof.Yre By 0 i te a 11, a itTS I 1 "ME WAY OF ALL FLESH' Produced by Paramennt. Directed by Inetor Tlemthe Presented la lielricker's theaterTOMORI1OW TEE CAST: Schiller Brittl Mrs.

awe Bet le Bennett Mame Phyllis Barer August Jr Donald Keith August Jr s- 0,0 Donald Keith The Tough ee red Kohler CMJIDE.12g Anemia PhIllove de tallel" Evad oe owe lo oo a at ickey 311cBan Charlotte oa.o Belay Ann HISIO Elizabeth .6 Carmenci ta Johnson Earl 41WMdb10iemi Gordon Thorpe Heinrich Jackie tombs iMIIMI.0 Trmr ere speaktng lzi the glad accents of hope down at the Civic Opera company about the, ballet section that wCI decorate the season this winter. The group is new ts rehearsal and Is being augmented away. T. leaders are Vectsslav Swoboda and Marta Iltrieva. The former has bad a career that brought him bad the Imperial Russian ballet of Moe- cow.

the Diaghtleff ballet, the Paris op the San Carlo opera of Lis bon. the Teatro Liceo of lorta, and 111.1101113 appearances with Ida Rubinstein. Mine. Yurieva 4, Premises her record upon seasons 4 in Petrograd. at' La Scala.

and -tt with her elra organization abroad. Other members Include Michael 'r' Iltt if or'ls Arabs-m-171 from the Moscow Art ore eater, tussle; Edward Catort, an Ntr theater, American, who has been with the A' Paylows ballet; Julian orrancesco c. an American who has been dancing li at the Sleets opera, Berlin; Serge Strenchneff. Russian, from the 1 I Diaghileff ballet; Xenia Kruger, MARIA another Russian, from the Roman. New premiere danseuse tin theater, Berlin; Julia Barash-of the Civic Opera.

kova of Petrograd; Harriet Lund-Matte Photo. gren, a Chicago girl whohas done some excellent things with Adolph Bolm in the Allied Arts rograms; Marcia Stanton. also from Chicago and who has been with the ballets of traveling opera companies; and Florence Vaughan, another Chicago who has been dancinton Broadway in New-York. speaktmg the Chic Opera co erCI decorate the et ha rehearsal and Ls The leaders are Vag Tb former has bad a 1 v-11', 4' 44 It- "Me i 7 0 1 I MARIA YCRIEVA New premiere danseuse of the Civic Opera iWbits Photo.) some excellent things 11 programs; Marcia Starr been with the ballets Florence Vaughan, anot int on Broadway in NeI By H. L.

OLD Andy Carnegie probably gave away more money 'during his lifetime than any other man ever hear4 of in the world, and most people, I dare say, believe he spent it wisely, and for the benefit of mankind. But is that altogether true? I am mot so sure. good did 'his enormous expenditure for international peace do? Probably none at all. A great many executive secretaries and other such gay dogs got good livings out of it for years on end. and no doubt the Dutch appreciated the Peace palace that it' built at he Hague.

but when the war clouds rolled up in 1914 it 'went for exactly taught As a matter of fact, the-very trustees of the Endowment began to yell for blood almost at once, and by 1917 some of them could be distinguished from the late CoL Roosevelt only by examining their teeth. The money that Andy gave to libraries was wasted somewhat less obviously, but aU the same most of it was wasted. If that seems hard to believe, go to the nearest Carnegie library and examine its catalogue of books. The chances are at least five to one that you will find the place full of literary bilgeand as bare of good bookebas a Boston bookshop. Almost everywhere these Carnegie libraries are charge of of local notables, and among such potables there are always plenty of wowsers.

Andy himself was a skeptic, and hoped to spread the enlightenment by giving the populace access to sound literature. But today his money is being used to keep sound literature out of its reach. There are, of course, Carnegie libraries that are intelligently run, but certainly there can't be many. When the rest are beard of at all it is in dispatches to the effect that the numskulls who operate them have 'just burned the works of Jane Addams on the ground that she has doubts about the Mellon idealism, or put Torn Paine's Age of Reason" on their reserved list, or sued some on for spreading the report' that they have bought the collected works of James Branch Cabell. By Burns Mantle.

SW Cerrespondence4A hit has come to town. Not as big a hit as was phophesied for It. perhaps1 but still big enough to play out the sea- 11' son despite that handicap. "Burlesque" is its title, and It cross-sections a plausible adventure in the lives of the lowly burley-cue artists, much as Broadway does for the night clubs and The Barker for the carnival folk. It is as rough as they and as human.

considerably more sentimental and less exciting. And it is as perfectly cast as to ell types as a play can be. Here we have the story of his wife. who is the leading womSkid, the comedian, and Bonny. rov 7.1 an 4 000 1 of the "Parisian Widows" outfit, ..,0 playing the burlesque wheel" In the middle west.

II.r They were with a tent show ii; originally, and they joined up with the "Parisian Widows" when the manager of that troupe caught" 1 Skid doing a couple of funny falls BARBARA STANWTCK and decided that be had a future. Is to "Burlesque" what They have been reasonably Jeanne was to happy since then, thoitgh Bonny Rain." has had trouble with Skid. He is tRayba2 Richter pbc403 a likable chap, and popular with the girls. Especially with a certain Sylvia Marco. who undertook to look after him the time Bonny, was in the hospital for several weeks.

Just a big bum. that Is what Skid Is, according to Bonny. But she can't help loving himthe poor sap! looks for a minute as though Bonny's worry about the Marco girl Is over. Sylvia has been signed by Charlie Dillingham for the "Manhattan Follies" and leaving for New York. By Mae OOD MORNING! There are things In your life that yrtu don't feel like talking much about Like a.

ertmset or a painting that brings you the message of its maker, or a song that really SINGS to you, or a sense of ecstasyor the work of Emil Jannings. The minute you try to put what you feel Into words you've brushed the bloom off the thrill for 5' 5 yourself and your words have ,6.9 brought no thrill to others. Like you. they must experience If :1 you will they're going to feel. 4) 7, So just have to go -at sk and see The Way of All Flesh." li I I can tell you it Is greatbut IA': never HOW great I can tell you SI t', it Is beautifuland bring you none .4 r7 of Its beauty.

I can say "You will 11,) k. gis 44.6 love It! but make you realize If how much you will love It I could V1.56. not possibly donot I wrote with the pen of an angel (do angels '14 a dictionary in one hand -ANNINGS and a book of synonyms In, the makes August Schiller a other, 'and was a heap better never-to-be-forrootten character writer than I can ever pretend By Frederick Donaghey. MISS FRANCINE LARRIMORE. Niiss Maurine and Miss Lynn Fontanne are in counterfeit present- ment on Page 5 of Part II In the Picture Section of this issue of Tux TRIBUNE.

Of course the chances are that you would end the portraitures vrithout this sitegestion: and this suggeetion Is simply a deuce meant to mitigate the rigors Involved In uttering this column from the North Woods, now In possession of high allure. That Is. calhng at- lioPV, tention to the matter of the three permits of my sequentially going on to say that I hope Chi- cago will get" 'Chicago." and. doing so turn the fun of Miss op Watkins' piece. to prof it for the community and that Chicago will take my word for It that there A Isn't anything rarefied or aloof or 4." precious about the Theater G-aild of New- York, whereof Miss Fon- tanne Is an actress, and, taking my word for it, will fall to and vli I show an Interest In the engagement In the Studebaker: this for 1 t' the purpose of making It likely and logical that the Guild will see LYNIkrE ON-MR-MAN to it that the good and the corning es the Interesting plays It puts on In star of What a New-York are sent hither while Mani" they are fresh.

For few. Indeed, are the weeks that go by as the year rale around vrithent fry receiving at least one earnest and ont-the-level communication from a well-meaning resident asking why Chicago hasn't same-thing like the Guild. I long. long since tired of explaining why, and of adding the essential formula -whereby Chicago might have for Itself something like the Guild. If all the persons who In the last four years have written in on the subject will buy a seat apiece for the en.

gagement In the Studebaker, Mrs. Insuirs theater will have seven weeks of audiences the like of which (la sire!) beset been within Its walls since "Able's Irish Rose" was boob-bait The four plays listed for the seven weeks seem to me to represent an Intelligent selection front the Guild repertoire: that is, the four are representative enough when It is kept in mind that the same players are to be performers In all four. The Guardsman" ran In New-York through the season of 1924-'25. with Miss Fontanne and Mr. Lunt at the head of the cast.

Persons who have seen The Second Man tell me it Is a bright, a grown-up, and litetate comedy. "Pygmalion is known here for Mrs. Campbell's 1915 performances, in the Blackstone: for tholes who didn't see It then, It Is, as is "The Doctoes Dilemma," easily avallabie. And, as to the last-named piece, I seem to be mere curious regarding how It will seem when acted than have been regarding any other of Shaw's plays. Although a corpse Is in it, The Doctor's Dilemma" is as funny In the reading as Is The Mikado." IP BellesLettres in Play-Reporting.

311 They promise that more protrdmence is to be given to the ballet this season than has been the case and this also classifies as good news. In addition to the ballets incidental to the operas in whose scores they are woven a number of special dancing performances will be given. They list fue early visug 117a tort 'rschaikowsky's The Lake of Swans," one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, presumably the second; Itirnsky-Korsakorrs Capriccio Espagnol." and the "Venetian Carnival," by Drigo and Glinka. They promise that the ballet this season th also classifies as good dental to the operas in ber of special dancing fur early visuslimetiot Swans," one of the ably the second; Itimsk and the "Venetian Can Po lama and Edith Mason Plan Return. It is still too early to b-igin welcoming the Mngers bask again, but a note from Edith Mason tells that she and her husband, Maestro Giorgio Polacco, likewise the very young prima donna, Miss will sail from, Italy on the Conte nancamano.

Sept 27, arriving in New 'York some ten days later and making an early departure from the eastern port to Chicago. And while on the subject of singers, it was announced by Martz Oiszewska some weeks agothough not by the Citic Opera companythat she was coming to sing contralto rale with that-organization this season. It now seems that she is not. On the same authorityherselfshe will postpone her American tour until the season of 1928-'29, at which time she will appear in concert and with the Chicago opera, and will be accompanied by her husband, Emil Schipper, who is a baritone. Polacco and Edith 11 It is still too early avdn, but a note from bustard, Maestro Giorg prima donna, Miss Graxi naneamano.

Sept 27, later and making an es to Chicago. And while on the su Maria Olszewska some' Opera companythat trait Tales with that-on that she is not. On tl postpone her American which time she will apr opera, and will be anent per, who is a baritone. Fate Deals Him a Fine Hand. But that same night Dillingham wires Skid an offer of $500 a week, single.

lie doesn't want Bonny. And Bonny knows it is Skid's big chance. He must take Iteven if he Is going into the same company with Marco. Gee, It's a tough break for Bonny all right. She makes the sacrifice, however.

and sends him away though not without a warning that if she hears any fancy stories about him and Marco shell come on to New York and cut a certain dame's heart out. Skid Is a big hit with the "I'danhattan Follies." Before the season is out he is one of ths most talked of comedians on Broadway. And then Bonny begins to bear stories about Skid and Marco. She doesn't carry out her threatnot then. But she doesn't propose to let those two put anything over on her.

So she files an action for divorce and agrees to marry a big calf and cattle man from Wyoming, a bighearted Otis who has been following The Parisian Widows for four years and wanting to take Bonny away from the show business and make her the' queen of a ranch. When the burlesque troupe closes its season Bonny goes on to New York with her cattle fellow to pick out her trousseau. She hasn't forgotten Skid, the big bum. but she is through with him. Then Skid comes to her hotel room to call.

He Is on the crest of the wave now and going pretty strong on the booze. Ho doesn't blame Bonny. She's certainly a good kid and she deserves a good husband. But be doesn't see why they should celebrate her engagement like Ws a funeral. Weddings ought to be gay.

Skid is for staging a little party. He's all set for a little party, in fact, having been out all night. He feels like singing and dancing. Or thinks he does. The truth Is that Alidy greatly overestimated the value of public libraries, and of the sort of reading that they encourage.

They are unquestionably of high value to youngsters of unusual intelligence, but they probably do the average young reader quite as much harm as good. Mere miscellaneous reading, In itself, doesn't make for sense; It may simply convert a potentially useful trolley motorman Into an unhappy Socialist. All the half-wits who roar from soap boxes at night are heavy readers, and so are many of the gentlemen incarcerated in our hoosegows. Reading. to be imProving, needs directionand all the average Carnegie library has to offer.

In the way of such direction, are the prejudices of Babbitts and wowsers, and the timorous hints of librarians who live in terror of them. The education'of a bright young man or girl comes only partly out of books, and not mainly. Its chief source is contact with Intelligent elders. That contact Is sometimes made at college, though perhaps not often. for relatively few i college tutors are intelligent.

More frequently it Is made at home. A boy with an intelligent father Is pretty sure to become an enlightened man. Ile may not be virtuous, as virtue is understood in such a rolizeiatoct as the one we infest, but he is at least safe against such imbecilities as Socialism, chiropractic, golf, Service, and International peace. The reeding of such a boy is not directed by a pedagogue mouthing nonsense out of a book, or by a librarian intimidated by thetovrn parsons and the American Legion, but by the constantly observable tastes and prejudices of a man of sense and inforrnation, his revered papa. He gets a civilized point of view by a process comparable to osmosis, and having got it he is able to read with profit- But how can he read with profit in an atmosphere that Is hostile to every fine Idea the human mind has ever hatched? What notion of beautiful letters can he get In a place wherein all books are estimated according to their probable potency as incitements to auto-erotism? Such a place Is the average public library in this great republic, especially in the small towns.

That average public library simply wastes old Andy's poney. It Is as if the funds he gave to reward heroes were spent ta reward prohibition agents. You'll Want to See It Twice. Perhaps the most impressive thing I can say to you Is that here is a photcplay you will try to sit through twice. There is nothing this man Emil Jartnings hasn't got.

He has the Chaplin humor and far more than the Chaplin pathosand only he, in all a world of yearning actors, can walk with the fated and resigned feet of Chaplin. He is a better villain than Wallace Beery. He rivals Chaney In the art of makeup. He Is a composite of all the great, and himself the greatest of att. When you see him as August Schiller In this picture: made from the title, but NOT the book.

of Samuel Butler Perley Poore Sheehan wrote the storyyou will meet the simple, home loving German head of a large and happy family and the trusted cashier of a Milwaukee bank. You will chuckle joyously and lovingly over the episodes In the Schiller householdat the honesty of them. But then there's never a minute throughout the picture where there's the slightest, slurring of that honesty. Nothine has been thrown in for theater." Nothing has been left out for condensation. (Apparently.) What is there has to be there, and by the same token you know.

that what is not there couldn't have been without marring the whole. Here is something as Intricate and perfectly assembled as a watch and on Its face as plain- August Schiller, jovial and whiskered, robust and honored, gets his family up in the morningand that is a sight. I tell you! While his wife prepares breakfast he superintends the washing of we and the combing of heads and the doing of enlisthenics, performing with his brood what be orders the brood to perform. He speeds them to school and betakes himself to his own jobof which you are permitted to see some of the Inside workings. In the evening, after supper, there ts music by all the family, for all the little pitchers and the two big pitchers are musical and each one plays an instrument of some sort.

After the others are through August Senior detains August Junior and has his eldest play again on his violin a cradle song which he has taught him. (This has a bearing on what happens some time afterward.) The children to bed, off goes the papa to play billiards and such a time! Home thenand there Is a messag-e from the bank. August Schiller Is sent to Chicago on an Important mission. A mission of truet. Good August! Capable August! Tried and true August! Proud August Schiller, Indeed, that those who employ him know all them good things of him.

He takes the train. Jezebel is there. "Speakeasy Is analogous to but necessarily Infringemental IIPOn Broadwar "In substance- lelInevitably In liability to success. Rudimentary dramaturgical situations, however, In the Idiomatic atmosphere of hostess, groan-bolt pounder agent and flier, corroborated by a cOnspicuottsly merchantable title. augur welt Among the characters are an margarine and cold storage potentate an abenthismic composer of yesteryear, now the paramour and accompanist of the hostess.

countless stews. a masculine female, and a blackmailing filer. The result le not compellingly' lively. Although the adolescent amativeness appeared colloid, certbin hereinafter designated personifies; tions In particular those of Donald Meek. Ically pitiful visionary.

and Arthur Vinton, fixing et emotes dramatis personae in supply-appreciable characterizational value. Recessdanal orchestral paudty of laughs. declivities In the assemblagies concern prognosticate no great success estfute. But elsewhere far-flung mass adherence may well materializaFrora New-Hares (Cana) correspovdrace In Variety via the Americas Mercury for September. An Old Time Fiddlers' Contest.

Dr. Evans reports that next to running a health departmert In a newspaper the greatest sport in the world is attending an old time fiddlers' contest, especially one Trhere thoY Sing. He heard one this summer, and sent back some of the songs. It is not altogether unexpected that when a crowd Is for riddling and singing purposes the music used should be of a kind well known by the assemblage. Dr.

EN InS tells of the gay strains of Turkey in the Straw," "OM Dan Tucker," "Pop Goes the Weasel." and others of a like kind that have been played by fiddlers ever since there 14ere fiddles, but he adds that some of the contestants 'brought out tunes that he did not know and whose names be was unable to learn. The same condition prevailed among the songs. In the eat Of words that he secured, many were well known but some appear to be complete strangers. There were 'Ancient of Days and Work, for the Night Is Coming," there were "Sweet Adeline and Mother Machree," there were Annie Laurie" and Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." one venders if there was anything suspicious in the fact that on the page cext to a song that celebrated the glories of Arkansas and another that dealt with its university there tbould be one cAlled "Mosquito Serenade," with these words: An Old Time Fiddl; Dr. Evans reports ment In a newspaper tending an old time IV 11.r Sing.

He heard 01 of the songs. It is not altogetbe: t-aembled for fiddling should be of a kind 1 Evans tells of the gay "OM Dan Tucker," "PI like kind that have bee Itere fiddles, but be al 'brought out tunes thal be was unable to learn. The same condition eet Of words that he 1 some appear to be coin of Days and Work, "Sweet Adeline" and Laurie" and Colurnbi eontiers if there was al the page fest to a soi kansas and another tzbould be one called "1 111 1 Miscellany. When Miss nuth Chatterton makes a. San-Francisco tryI out of The Third Day." she will use ILI1 Adaptation of the Czecho-Slovakian of Mi liara Begovic made by John Colton.

and not the one long since Announced se having been preparid by John Van Druten, author of 'Young Mr. Colton is part-author of the play made trots; mon and (although the credit is disputed by ktra. Carter) author of the dido named "The Shanghai Gestura." The mesquite is eingrtmg, 0 ho'srbt And he cheeps tunes up 4st no dart. of ass-He Ms spectacles feeds tor the O1417.1it, So he's able to see where to btre. The wbostinett4 And Ae alwa1 Zeiss He Ms spec So he's able -4 Wild and Growing Wilder.

Soon the party is going strong. Skid carries a flask as big as an overnight hack and as full. Now Skid and Bonny are trying to remember their old routine, their dance steps. and the old jokes. There's a jazz pianist in the crowd and he is a wonder tickling those ivories.

It is a wild reunion and getting wilder. Ton wonder when the house detective is going to pop In and stop it. And then the cattle man comes in. Not being typical stage cattle man, however, be doesn't objectmuch. Of course, he'll be glad when Bonny is through with this sort of things but he understands.

Until Skid goes a little too far-The party goes on. Skid is dancing a wedding march for them now. Imitating the bride and the groom. And watching the cattle man out of the corner of his eye. Suddenly the westerner stands up.

There is fire in his eye. "I think you'd better be leaving! ")tle shouts at Skid. Fin leaving." annotmces Skid. and dances his way out Into the hall. vrith Bonny in hysterics and the party rushing pell mell after the dancer.

It is riotously effective, this curtain, and sets the audience cheering. As much, I think, because of its surprise that there isn't any gun pulling or a grand fight for which the scene was apparently conventionally Skid continues on bust that night, misses the show, and is fired. A year' later he is down and all but out. Liquor and grief have done for him. Down he slips until there are no Jobs for him.

His old burlesque manager takes him up again, but can do little, with him. It is the night before a new burlesque show is to open. Skid ban disappeared and the manager has wired for Bonny. It is the one last chance of saving Skid. Bonny comes and they find Skid drunk and helpless.

He tries to show them that he can still do his stuff. and falls in a heap. And then Bonny takes his head in her lap and bathes him back to consciousness. "Tor Better or WorseMostly Worse! She stays with him until she gets him back on his feet again and goes in the show with him. The next night we see a part of the opening performance, a chorus number or two.

a sketch, the soubrette's song. Then Bonny and Skid go into their dance. "Are you all right?" asks Bonny. under her breath, aa they are doing the old soft shoe steps to Suwanee River." Ill be all rightif you stick," Skid whispers back stick," says Bonny. "Forever?" "Forevert I guess Ira like the Bible ea yator better or worse." 'Tenth Avenue." described bYrtmy cones-rues se Chicago dallies as something just a eine better than the best play previously written.

Istil liked in New-Yorkswhere, incidentally. it la referred as having been a Chicago success. although it wasn't. Nor are the reporters down there entranced with the performing in it by Miss Edna Hibbard. Who.

my colleagues asserted, svas just a little bit better than Duse. Mrs. Fiske. andmaybe--Charlotte Cushman; and she Is soon to return to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." I do not know the ttme, but apparently the group at the etntest did. However, there was another example that Is thoroughly to be commended for the purpose of getting People acquainted with the idea of singing and breaking down timidity.

Try it; you will see that nothing could be simPler. The tune, according to the work sheet, is the common scale. The directions tell you to sing a line to each note, vita' up the scale, and to come down on the words, "Meow, and here is the lyric: I do not know the etntest did. However, thoroughly to be corn people acquainted wit down timidity. Try it tittl pier.

The tune. accordin scale. The directions vita' tp the scale, and 3ow," and here is the lannings Makes Any Film Greed. Not for worlds would I tell you any more of the storY What does It matter, anyway? In a Jannings picture a story Is always great," and the director likewise, and whether they are, if the truth were to be revealed, just JanningsI leave you to decide for yourselves. It must be bald in fairness to Victor Fleming that The Rough Riders" Is only one of many kood films be has directed.

Phyllis Havers "woman who lies In wait Is a character drawn with skill and punch." That girl sure Is learning how! Belle Bennett as Mrs. Schiller has little to do and does It after her sure, artistic fashion. Donald Keith, who playa August later In life, Is delightful with his clear eyes, mobile face, and the kindly frank young manner of him. The children are absolutely adorable. The action takes place In 1910 and a few years afterward.

and It is needless to say that costumes and eettings are all they should be. (With the exception of some paper snow.) The producer of Teel Yes. Yvette! 'swhich. like Tenth Avenue." was, In the sight and belief of rny colleaguea another coasterplectris said to regard change of title as all that is needed to put the piece into high prospertty bk York. When performed In Chicago.

It needed among ether thing s. some tunes, a fume-director. comedian for the principal role, and a new cast Involving only Hwbert Outhell of the actors brought hither. venture upon no contempt of Itts gbost the other millionaires of the land have done quite as badly with the possible exception of old John Rockefeller, aid generis In this as in other less engaging respects. The rest endow colleges that afford retreats for hordes of lazy and incompetent pedagogues.

stake opera companies that murder music, found libraries that stand as bulwarks against sense. and establish hospitals that gouge, manhandle and assassinate the sick. This is surely a great waste. Moreover, it seems to me that it deprives the millionaires of all reasonable reward for their generosity. After all, they don't have to.give up their money if they don't want to, and when they do so they ought to get a good show for But where is the good show in simply adding one more library to the thousands that already exist or one more hospital, or one more useless college, or In besetting congress with one more outfit of professional visionaries and one more bill (or constitaticmal amendment) to cure all the sorrcrws of the 'world? I begin to believe that even millionaires tire of such banal follies.

All the uplifting societies find it harder to raise money than it used to be even the Anti-Saloon league, even, I believe, the Y. M. C. A. The old game is playing out.

What I suggest is that men of money try a new game. Let them can all their kept uplifters, and begin to endow antinplifters. Easier still. let them order their kept uplifters to cease uplifting and start downpulling. And then let them turn loose their new force.

amply endowed, against such uplifters as remain in businessand so make sure (a) of a gaudy show, immensely better than the old one. and (b) of immortal fame as genuine benefactors of the human race. I do not spoof. The chance lies wide open. and the need is great There are now so many reformers of all sorts in practice in the United States that civilized life among us becomes more and more impossible.

Scarcely a human act of any charm remains lawful, and the few that have been overlooked will soon be prohibited. Wowserism in all its protean forms becomes one of the most lucrative of American Thousands of lazy preachers, unsuccessful lawyers, shady newspaper men and other such anti-social fellows engage in it, and to high profit. Collected in such nefarious organizations as the Anti-Saloon league, they Intimidate congress and the state legislatures, crowd the public crib with jobholders beholden to theta, and even venture to dragoon and insult the courts of justice. No decent man or woman is safe against They begin to run the country as Tammany used to run New York. What makes them strong is simply the lack of an organized opposition.

If they were tackled head-on. and in the lusty manner of their own forays, most of them would crumble instanter, and even the strongest of them would be very badly shaken. The Anti-Saloon league, tackled by a few libertarian societies of greatly inferior resources, is already wobbling. A dashing and 'determined raid upon it, backed by as much money as It now wrings out of the Sunday schools, would throw it upon the ropes, and perhaps land more of its luminaries in jail. And even greater execution could be dons among its gunmen, the prohibition agents.

many of whom are professional criminals. The day the first dozen of them were banged there would be rejoicing from end to end of the land, with bands playing. skyrockets going off, and speeches from dawn to dark. But such laudable enterprises take money. Everything In America takes money.

We live in an immense country. It would cost more to send a picture postcard to every American voter, showing a prohibition agent in the electric chair, than it would cost to build a battleship. Well, here Is a chance for some ambitious millionaireor. better still, for a whole head of them. Let them give thought, the while they guzzle Scotch at 100 a case.

to the miserable millions who have to drink corn. And then let them get out their check books, and send for some experienced executive secretaries. Itleosrisht: tir.7 P7 The Unease Tribunal Not El coward. himself le to bays In the London performances of The Second Man the rOle originatel tu Neer-Tork and to be played here next month tri Alfred Lunt. know a little rusty, Her coat is silver gray, She lives out in the meadow, She'll never run away, She'll never be pussy, She'll 'sever be a cat, Par she's a puesii Now what do you think of Meow, meow, 'acme', meow, Meow, meow, meoto, vteowt Her coat i She lives She'll nen She'll sevo She'll step Par she's Now who, Meow, nte Meow, me oftill000 In oloatztvrebactantly---" The Way of All Flesh In suspense" sruepense of character.

Miss Miriam Hopkins, here last yesz hi The nazotb Towners." Is the Ellost recent actress named for the princtpal reds In The Garden of Eden:" which for the last eighteen months bas been touted and ballyhood beyond any other play, domestic or Imported. In the annals of the theater. Selah. a a .40,. Bits GBOUTens.

111113 ISN'T ABOUT THE MOVIES. but it's something I just 'want to pass along to you this Sunday morrang for what it's worth: A colored woman. whom I love ranch carae home the other evening after long bus ride with certain Variety says that Miss Era Tanguay may have Snag Eagell? rele In Eler Cardboard Lover In territory where the latter actress is not to appear. And Miss Bagels doesn't seem to be headed this way although announced for this month in the Adelphl. Tube muzie department wishes to make no recommendatens or predictions about the basic values of such mlisic in a wide comprehensive.

all-American art movement It is. however, distinctly of the opinion that therei is work still to be done by collectors of folk music in thisi country. Such ttaterial stlould not be allowed to go to waste- Femous Guitarist to Visit Us. We are to have visit before long from a musician wbo '111 Probably claim to stand alone In his specialty. He is Andres Segovia.

a native of Spain. and, be plays the guitar. 1tat is more he sets people talking about him. It is learned some advance notices that a it remained for Setior 3egevia above all other guitarists to show that his instrut'ent has astonishing scope in the felicitous interpretation ef clastee and modern music of a high order." This would "tta to translate that he plays well. I3ut critics.

just as agents. have grown polysyllabic over what he can do wu-12 a guitar. TIts musit tons or predictions ab4 a wide, comprehensive however, distinctly of I be done by collectors Material s'Iould not be rentottS Guitarist to We are to have a. 1 Ma Probably claim to Azdres Segovia, a mall '411at is more, he sets some advance Segovia above all othe t'ent has astonishing' or clues and modern leeta to translate thal agents. have gro Irtth a guitar.

A project whereby Miss Leethml was to have been starred In piece named "Our Husband haa, seemhsetj been abandoned. Roland Bottorniey wtote It Was Leedom is known In Chicago at contributor of hard -ankh nvonologues In two Issues of Mr. Zlegtekrs Follies. "Better for me." says Skid. breathing a little heavily.

"but worse for you." And the curtain fails. Nothing new In that plot Nothing novel save the background. As common In story as the life from which it is cut. But amazingly free of the hokum that usually goes with it. And as Imre fire today ma It was the first year It was played.

The dialogue of "Burlesque Is rougb, but never offensively so. It is the true talk of the buriesquere discreetly trimmed. Arthur Hopkins, who rewrote the play from the original script of George Mankers Watters, a theater manager, has seen to that. It is as rough but notas profane as the "What Price Glory" talk. There is plenty of comedy.

The crawd chortled ever one bit in which Skid is warning Bonny of what she may expect when she goes to live with her cattle man and his sister. That damell be asking you If Klaw and Erlanger are married. says be. "What If they're not. puts in the the laugh dies' down.

"so long as they love each other?" "ill.o. Mandy. They had gone clear to the end of the tine, and en their way they had passed a big hotel, all lighted up and inside music was playing and folks was dancing." And the air was as soft and smelled as sweet and My. Miss Tint le (ony that isn't what she calls me). Mary (which isn't Irhat her) said to me, a' AIN'T this a beautiful world for tus to have to go and die and leave it?" A beautiful world To her who can go to iso few Plazas and have so few thing's in it! Whose life has been ePetti working for others, In the fields of the south and in the houms of the north, where whits folks are not always conbiderate I Think ft over; Arthor Wontner.

A. E. Wattle-era and Charles Deana are to be In a success In London with Gerald Du Manrier In the principal rt5le. Mr. Wontner.

fairorito London for the last ten years. is not known In Chicago: lao acted In New-York In The Captive. 41 II bees Grace George hopes to to here In 'The Baal to tome' not later than October 31: the Ade lphl ts meottoosd sus the probable eater. And lie said the may Ortag Robert Loraine back from London for the part ot Hannibal. acted In the New-York run by Philip Mertv1.

Miss Elsie Janis ts performing In Cal to, Ray!" herein Miss Gertrude Lawrence Is about to appsar 60510r SeCOVia'S rditar," sa3rs the London Times, ro 'nrimg a recent recital. with its small compass and a tone that a careless cough araong the audience will 'Itt'rate it altogether, yet introduces up to gradations of 7uality scialch seem infinite. The voices of a fugue stand ct frmn on another; the episodes of a sonata are distin- in timbre as sharply as the registers of the harpsi I'd or or the organ can distinguish them. The eat Ls alert (Ganthreed on page tielliJ 'Etilior Segovia's Itelrimg a recent recite delicate that a car W-Iterate it altogether qualitY which seem in from one another; eltEbed in timbre as chrd or of the organ Man TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEILV: "Victor Varconi who has been wearing his hair-parted either in the center or swept back in a masculine pompadour. will be seen In "The Angel of Broadway" with it parted on the left side, leaving tbock of hair to fall occasionally over his eye." (So, he should be dead1y5 bee you tomorrowt Parts Are Perfectly Acted.

The success of "Burlesque" as entertainment. however, will not be due to the, play so much as to Its playing. The ino chief actors, Hal Skelly. playing Skid, and Barbara LConanued on page tire) London..