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vJ'L. 0 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1918 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 8, 1918 IK- tr IB is i ''V' If Dance "Over the Top," Do "War Stamp Step" And "Airplane Spiral" As Long as We're Teaching the Bodies "Over There" to Reverse the Goose-Step, G. Hepburn Wilson, Chief Jazzinkns of the Jazz Masters' Lodge, Thinks We Should Put a Little War on Our Hop Over Here So He's Boosting a Few New Steps. By Will B. Joh stone OtTTifM, 1VU, Tbt Pi rulltohlni Co.

ilU Nw Yotk Kttnttii WotM.I WAR ruay havo stopped the non-essential manufacture of car-muffs for Hottentots and razors for, Russians, but It lias not Interfered with the fabrication of new dance steps. Let tbc Kaiser shako a mailed fist, we'll still shake a mean foot. Hiss Madchcaty Introduced th gocssstep, done to an accompaniment of liquid lire and gas. This was qullo a little atrocity and called for reprisal. Ho American Ingenuity retaliated with the Jazz step, which broke the Crown Prince's heart recently when he heard It (over a good long d'stancc 'phono) played by tho Marine Band.

And now we've got a wholc-new has permitted to bo made public this week at the annual dance convention of the Inner Circle, held at the Hotel McAIpln. They danced In Brussels to the sound of tho guns that spelled Napoleon's Waterloo, and wo will dance to Vflholm's Vasscrloo. O. Hepburn Wilson, the past grand Jazz-master of tho Inner Clrclo, eloquently described tho new Inventions yesterday, with appropriate gestures of his feet. "One of the newest dances," he said, twirling his left ankle heavenward.

"Is the 'alrplano Hy way of Illustrating this Intricate manoeuvre, Mr. Wilson commanded the visiting danco pilots to assume a squadron formaUon and go Into tall spins, side slips, vrllles and renverseroents to Jazz-band music that simulates a stalling motor with lots of back, fire. The "spiral" Is graceful to watch but difficult to executo III 1 1 Now a Reformed Joker Turned Serious by War NEW TOIIK Is going to lose Its most Ingenious jester. Brian O. Hughos, President of one of New York's largest savings banks.

Is now ready to quit playing pranks at the expense of his friends. Not that Mr. Hughes has run dry of Idoan, but the serious business of the great European war Into whloli Uncle Sam has plunged, coupled with tho Just as serious business of look ing after tbc billions of pennies saved by th bank's putrona for a rainy day, has caused Mr. Hughes to telent, to a certain extent, and If he Keeps bis promise he will never again cause an excited Hoard of Aldermen to chaso out In search of a "presented" park nttc, only to find a plot largo enough for a Mnglo hen house, nor will friends bite Iron cigars, nor thousand other things happen which during the past fow decades huvo caused a sldo splitting scream to roll over tbo land. Brian G.

Hughes is In Ills sixties. He was born In Canada, "halt English and halt Scotch," as ho puts It, and catno to New York when a nillc of a lad. Lust month he was elected President of tho Dollar Havings Bank of the Bronx, ono of tho largest In these parts. Ills first Joke was trapping a flock of yellow birds in Central Park and selling them as singing canaries. "Not for Sale.

B. Q. Hughes. America." can be found on mnrsh and swamp lands throughout New York and Now Jersey. And the L.

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W. on hlB business cards have kept thousands guessing. "America" is the only address he ever gives, Prior to one of tho horse shovs at Madlion Hnuare Garden hn bought an old broken down car horso whli'n had been forced Into retirement by the kdvent of electrically propelled cars and sent her to his farm In County. Ho fed and fattened herund when tho show opened entered "Pill deka Orphan, hy Metropolitan, dum Electricity." His cat, pudlgrcud "Nlcodcmus, Dublin hrlndlc, not For Sale," which was bought from a strost urchin for fifteen cents, won a blue ribbon from the finest imported stocU ever exnlbitod. Bright I It's Hard to Trace Neictie Baker's Career Yo Can't Sec His Trail for "Smoke!" OH, I tell you, NewUc Baker was a perfect devil when ho was llttlo boy and that was long before ho became rcformud nnd Secretary of War, you know.

Once, in his native town of Murtlnsburg, W. where Nowtlo was born Dec. 3, seat we must go Incident wan Just "1 Kewtle decided that to be a politician ono had to smoke a corncob pipe. Absolutely Imperative! His Uncle Amos smoked corncob strong bt.ough to move Baalam's balky mule, Newtle decided to practice up on Ucclo Amos's cob. (Slow music here, Professor, and a little green light, please).

Jle took that there old cob and he went out behind tho harnj and filled it with old shag and lit It set of atrocities that the dance censor will do a literal nose spin on the waxed Moor and come down out of control. Anybody who can negotluto it successfully Ih entitled to wear the double wings Insignia. After making a perfoct landing Mr. Wilson went Into an explanation of the new "Trench step" this war danco is another direct violation of tho Hague It Is excusable Only on the grounds of expediency, for It prepares our dancing dandles (tho perfect iniriy-Bixcn wno win xnoruy register patriotism" under the new draft law), making them willing to escape to tlin actual thing In France. Tlio Trench step" Is laid out In tho for mation of a llttlo sector, and whllo there are no wire entanglements, your partner shins serve its an admirable substitute, If you don't co-ordlniito properly In that movement of tho dance described aa "Ovor tho top." This Jolly conceit turns a ballroom floor Into no man's land If you happen to have kldnoy feet.

Anotner now dance step to be Introduced Is entitled "The War Htump Step." Actuated by patriotic motives. Its designer evolved a rhythm calcu lated to keep the War Havings Stamps in win minus or tne nai-rooted wno stay at home and dance. ThlH Is done to fox-trot time, and tho novelty Introduced Is a heel-and-toe arrangement and forth two times, ending with tho slapping of thu foot on tho floor, or, as Mr. Wllsun said, "You stamp your foot and that makes you recollect to buy a War Stninp." It really makes a clever stunt and should Incrraiw the salo of the Thrift Htumps If the floor doesn't give way under tho strains of "Htainp, stamp, Htampl tho boys are marching." To tho abovo. mentioned war danced l.s added a now Jazz step tinder the name of "Jazurlmba." This euphonious title suggests what tho step Is like You jazz to the sound of Marimba music, a akin to tho French pronunciation of ti, In that It can't be described.

The step Includes nil of the known steps danced in one. After seeing It executed onn Is convinced that the dance designers of tho "Inner Clrclo" might Just as well have stuck to war titles and called It tho "Cootie." It makes you act llko you were one and had a dozen. Mr. Wilson ((I. Hepburn) wants to make the ballroom safe for democracy, however, and has Introduced a dozen more or less picturesque evolutions.

He wants to get Government permission to teach theso new dunces to the soldiers In the cantonments a part of their physical training, whloli ought to makn our boys go over tho top like a truupn of ballet dancers, swinging their German partners on bayoni'tH with a graceful nourish to Jaz barrage. It might lio good Id.u, Win tho war, no matter how. aive them tbo "Jazarlmbn" Fight fright, fulness with frlghlfiilncs. Boys -871, this wild clyld played tlc-tac-too on the homo of tho Mothodlst Episcopal minister ami what do you think of that for wlldness? Aguln, whn the Band of Hope was having a picnic out In Walton's Woods but, no; uow that Nowtlo sits In a high easy on him. That Band of Hope too shocking for words! 1.

1.1.1 ui'iiik nutu a luugu mu, icwilP also WBS prcternaturally observant. When hd wns twelve years old Old Man Whozzta, who had been Congressman from Nowtlo's district since Andrew Jackson's time, ran for tho twenty-first time. Ncwtlo got In on all the torchlight processions, the hull's head breakfasts and all, which were lha custom down thataway. But the thing that emote young Newtle's imagination mot wan the old corncob pipe thnt Congressman Whozzls always BmokeJ when he was touring his district Newest MRVWltiOKT' WANTS viKitjfiSfe-x i When This Fall's Harvest Farmerettes Are With the Sheafs Violet and Tied l'-'ls. Itio I'll" PuMUhlnf Till: best Us uuni thing wu can do with ime and blamo It on tlio fl' A NOSE SPIN' j'Mm for cverylhlng that is happening In llils corrugated vale of sorrow, moths and celluloid collars.

And tosHlng Billhclm tho credit for the old Custllliuu lntlucnzy would make everybody happy except tho birds who are suffering from It, and at the same time, providing tho Chccucr with another alibi for htuearing his already medallion spluttered chest with tho Spanish Influenza medal with four palms and eight Biieczos. If It hadn't been for Cousin Willie's ambition to Inherit dyspepsia from packing his vest with Parisian pastries all of our veteran debutantes would still be dcbutantlng around Suobport. Jiuzbo Bench and Antic City Instead of chaperoning a hand painted plough in tho suburbs. This full's harvest Is certainly going tit look all squirrelled up by the time that the stylish farmerettes are through with It. When tho harvest moon ulms his oleomargarlnu colored optic at the harvest works he sure Is going to gut an eyeful.

Whun tho frost Is on the pumpkin and the Clown Prince, and when tho corn Is In tho shock, there is going to bo quiio a few shocks In tho coin. Can you imagine how the neighbors In tho harvest moon backyards will chirp when they see the corn field dolled up like an outdoor boudoir, with the sheafs nil delicately tinted with heliotrope, sprayed with extract of violet and tied up In baby ribbons? You bo! And tho old corn field scurcrow will be wearing a dnublc-hrcnsted sack coat during bankers' business hours ami dressing In a Tuxedo for tillln. The crows will refuse to flap to dinner unless everything Is formal and under control. Sweet cookies! This season's harvest Is sure going to havo a contralto flavor. You'd never know the old place now.

Can you lamp a bright-eyed blond farmhandess escorting a gold-filled plough and stitchlpg nice pleats In perfectly legal farm cut slightly on tho hlus with a frill of laeo fences on the hem? Still, war Is war. Ami If the men folks arc over on the wrong side of tho Atlantic making the world sufc for motorcyclists who insist on making tho world unsafe Tor pedestrians, why then It's up to tho fiiruiorlnes to gather In the crops. But It's a tough bump to a bird who sworo olT cloven years ago to clutter out to furm for a rest and then spot moo cow with a rouged nose and Mario Antoinette earrings. The wbolo rural works arc being ripped apart and crocheted together by tho saprona farmerettes, who refuse to strafo tho potato bugs the little dtrllnks have such Intelligent-looking forehead. Steps in 1918 "Dance "WAR DANCE' NOVELTIES DESCRIBED BY G.

HEPBURN ILLUSTRATED BY WILL B. JOHNSTONE i 1 Mhl vJ "THE' AIRPLANE SPIRAL J7 HAS 'THEj EFFECTS XV 1 TH AIRPLANE HAS i THE-EFFECT- A NOSE SPIN'' the Harvest Is Certainlg Going to Look All Squirrelled Up When the Stylish Through With It Cornfield Dolled Up Like an Outdoor Boudoir, All Delicately Tinted With Heliotrope, Sprayed With Extract of Up in Baby Blue Ribbons! Yea, Bo!" BY ARTHUR Co. (Tbo Srw York Kirnlri Worll.) this Spanish Influenza is to linn go Kalscr. Tlutt bird is responsible V- Moon Is Twinkling "BUCS" BAER. They aro hanging luce curtains on valHcrcs on the 111' piggies and powdering tho ducks' beaks, In addition to knitting cur muffs for tho watchdog und socks for tho goldfish.

Just take a lot of queer llttlo hops out into tho suburbs when the harvest moon is buzzing brightly and you will pipe a harvest that will knock you loose from your exemption card. Old Dobbin Is wearing coral beads instead pf harness and the wheat Is being threshed with big brutal hairpins Instead of flails. Hvcrythlng about tho old farm looks Bhrlll. Tho frails arc getting In tho crops all right, but they aro doing the Job In their own sweet girlish way. Might bo a neat hut not gaudy Idea to stake our farmers to a furlough so they can flatwhecl homo this full and untangle the old farm from Its lingerie appearance.

The girlies could put on their battle frocks and tnko tho farmers' places In the war. The farmcrette-soldlerlne might point her musket at Berlin and hit Constantinople, but what difference would It make? They aro both enemy burgs. An Improvised Fireless COOKINCl tho beans, or other staples, of the camp menu becomes an easy process by the installation of a simple, Improvised tireless cooker, as shown in tho sketch, Such a cooker permits the preparation of a meal during the day without' the necessity of soino member of the party remaining in enmp. A pit 3 feet square and 2 feel deep Is dug in a high and diy portion of the camp site. Tbo bottom and sides of tbo pit aro lined with stones.

Hev-oral hoards are then nailed together, and covered with sheet Iron, asbestos or other fireproof material to form a lid. The food to be cooked Is brought to the boiling point on the tire, and isshllc til ecsfcsr ta mn4e rendy TMrttMTMUMt WUCfXNCOW Drive9' WILSON tho old wooden pump, putting la- Cooker for the Camp by building a wood fire In the pit and permitting It to burn to glowing embers. The cooking utensil Is quickly transferred Into tho cooker, raking a bole In tho middle of the pit for It. Tho coals arc then raked around tho vessel und it is covered with embers. The lid Is set In place and carefully covered with dry earth to exclude air from tho embers.

'our wire handles, with loops In the ends tor Inserting two sticks, are handy In removing the lid, which Is usually hot. 'opular Mechanics. MY WORD! UY-PltQIMVT of the world war England has been an A rn Tinmifi ui uiauq ior ha tj paraphernalia. London and other Eng. llsh havo been unable to supply th-s balls, ats, gloves, masks, urgently called for by tho American and Canadian troops stationed In the Pritish 115 ttnd nrorbr lYantt' THE NEW PLAYS "Double Exposure" A Triple Disappointment BY CHARLES DARNTON FABCB Is the saddest thing In tho world when It hasn't a scnslbU Idea back of It.

With "Fair and Warmer," Avery Hopwood measured up to thli requirement, but with "Double Exposure," exposea tho Bijou last night, proved to bo as stale, flat and unprofitable as tho beer we're getting these days. I mention beer because one of the young husbands In tho play Is supposed to go around tho corner for a newspaper and came back "so changed" that his wife Is worried about him. Now, of course, no husband carries a flask of whiskey In his dinner clothes, though he may happen to live In an expensive apartment. Kvcn poverty has its sideboard. But Mr.

Hopwood. gay wag that hn thinks he Is. would have us believe, otherwise. Moreover, this same hopeful author expects us to believe for two acts at least that an East Indian hypnotist can make ono perfectly good husband swap souls with another fairly good husband and theroby glvo two gullible wives something to think about whsn thcy'ro not thinking about their dressmakers. It's all so absurd that It falls to be funny and here you have the obvious shortcoming of the play.

It doesn't matter In tho end that one of tho husbands has had a bad dream. The fact remains that tho play Is bad. With the aid of a more or less mysterious Indian bunco-worker, Mr. Hopwood plays the same game he worked out so sucessfully In "Fair and Warmer" that is, two young married pairs placed In a new environment. The cleverness he displayed in tho first instance drops to vulgarity In this case.

There Is no saving grace of humor to rescue the play from sheer burlesque. Tho two How I Began My Stage Career MARJORIE RAMBEAU. Miss Rambeau Slid Down the Banisters Right Into Her First Engagement. STKANGE as it may sound, I owe my start In tho theatrical world to my ability to slide down banisters. It was tho absolutely exuberant way 1 came down the hand-rail along tho stairs in a San Francisco physical culture school that won me my first engagement.

Iteally, ono might say I slid into the life of an actress. I was only twelve then. The Idea of becoming an actress had never entered my mind. I was very fond of outdoor sports, and In order to do tho "stunUi" as well oj possible, I went to tbo physical culture school to get some Ideas as to bow a girl's muscles could bo used to tho best advantage. Ono day after tho class I camo down the banisters with a couplo of wild whoops.

P. 0. MacLean, an actor, who had a vaudeville sketch, happened to bo at tho bottom of tho stairs. Itccov- jcrlng frort hb surprise, he sought tho proprietor or tno pince. "Who Is that wild girl?" ho asked.

"That's little Marjorle Itambeau," with a touch of impatience in his voice, "and she hasn't got any more senso than a rabbit." "That's all right about hor sense," said Mr. MacLean. "I want that girl for my act." It turned out that be had a role for a sort of a tomboy woman In tho act and ho offered It to me. My mother said 1 might take It and I did. The act was called "Tho Lady and tho Tramp," and It was the tlrst dramatic act tho Sullivan Consldlno circuit out West played.

Wo spent fifty weeks doing It right after tho performing dogs or the leaping lions. After that engagement I went Into stock in San Francisco and at the age of thlrtoen wns leading woman with Mr. MacLean playing the malo leads. I did "Camllle," but It was In somewhat of a perfunctory way. I knew nothing about women's charms and love, Mr.

MacLean, however, told me how to act and what to say und I followed instructions. Ono day a man came back of the stage and asked to see me. I received him In my dressing room along with my dolls. Ho said he had Bright Lines From New Plays "THE BLUE PEARL." COMMISSIONER DRAKE The man who insults you, makes you suffer, has a right to love you, while tho man who only asks to give his whole life to loving you hasn't got the right. That's funny, Laura.

Webb The price of pearls has Sybil And of women, too. Commissioner Drake That's what music is an open door, through which we can escape from life. Petrofsky New York Is not a Sybil I never saw a real llvo city official at a dinner before. Commissioner Drake I suppose you thought they didn't dine Jwt ale husbands, with their transplanted "souls." merely undergo un amorous change. Nothing could be more simple, as matrimony Is largely a matter of humor, sentimentally Inclined, according to the viewpoint of the author.

His cheap devlco of making tho affair a dream of an egotistical painter In tho end puts the. finishing touch on a poor piece of work. Olvlng up three acts to this sort at thing means only a waste of time. In short, "Double Exposure" Is triple disappointment, for then1 not enough humor to keep It going. Three clever performers worked very hard to give action to tho play.

John Cumberland. In his obvious manner, stirred up a laugh front time to time as the husband who took a drink out of the top of his walking-stick when his wife wasn't around. But until the last net he remained a mysterious, though sincere, drinker. Janet Beochcr kept one eye on him and tho other on htr dressmaker's bill In the devoted manner she has cultivated for years. When sho felt tired, Mr.

Cumberland soothed her by playing Chopin llko a blacksmith. John Westley lent himself to the vagaries of an "artistic temperament" until ho was so tired that he deserved a virtuous rest. For her part. Franclno iJirrlmorc, with excessively tousled golden hair, gave a restless Imitation of Blllle Burke that was almost aa as "Double Exposure." 77 'r seen my "Camllle," also that of Olga Nethersole. "I liked your performance very much," he said, "but I'll have to say It Isn't finished as that of Mlaa Nethersole." I offered him a stick of chewing gum and that ended our discussion of "Camllle." I forgot to say that at tho age of thirteen I wolghed ir.6 pounds and was as tall as I nm to-day.

Since my Han Francisco days I have, travelled a lot. I spent a year In Dawson. Alaska, uctlng In stock and conducting a dramatic sobool and I'm going back them some day. Without exaggeration, Alaska Is, to my way of thinking, tho finest placa to live on this earth. When I became an actress for keeps I contracted tho Now York fever, but I didn't reach Broadway In nroduc-tlon until about five years ogo, when I appeared In "So Much for S.

Recently I havo hecomo a star under tho management of A. H. Woods, 1 mean by that that 1 am called a star. To me acting is acting, whether you aro a star or not. I have a new play called "Where Popples Bloom" now.

and everybody says It suits my talents nicely. The forget ono talent I posseas that of sliding down banisters. Homo day perhaps ono of our playwrights will glvo mo a play with a banister scene and then well, the critics will have to say I'm good, whether thoy want to or not. gone up In COO years, ctty; It la a disease. 1.