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FROM FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, TO
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THEATRE
DRAMA

SrED OF THE Brute—A powerful study
of politics and domestic difficulties
in a mid-western town. LittTLe, 44,
W. of B’way.

BrRoADWAY—The underworldlings of the
White Lights brought accurately to
life. BroapHurst, 44, W. of B’way.

THE DoNovAN AFFAIR—Murder and its

attendant proceedings making a good
mystery play. Furtton, 46, W. of
B’way.

THE SHANGHAI GESTURE—Sex and sex-

Check the children
STREET, 46, W. of

ability in China.
outside. 46TH
B’ way.

LULU A negro woman going
very divertingly along the road to
ruin. With Lenore Ulric and Henry
Hull. Bevasco, 44, E. of B’way.

Woman Disputep—War and
worse-than-death making good ex-
citing theatrical melodrama. For-
REST, 49, W. of B’way.

THE Captive—Very well handled play
of perversion. With Helen Menken
and Basil Rathbone. Empire, B’way
at 40.

AN AMERICAN TrRAGEDY—Dreiser’s ex-
cellent book made into an excellent
play. Loncacre, 48, W. of B’way.

CAPONSACCHI—Browning’s “Ring and

the Book” well dramatized for Wal-

THE

ter Hampden. HaAmppen’s, B’way
at 63.
Daisy Mayme—Another of George

Kelly’s microscopic plays of the mid-
dle class. PtayHouse, 48, E. of
B’ way.

THE Emperor Jones—Charles Gilpin in
another revival of O’Neill’s play.
Mayrair, 44 E. of B’way.

RepeRTORY—Eva Le Gallienne and her
company presenting for the week of
Nov. 21: Mon., “La Locandiera” ;
Tues., “Master Builder” ; Wed.
(Mat.), “La. Locandiera”; (Eve.),
“Three Sisters”; Thurs., “L a Lo-
candiera’; Fri., “Three Sisters”:

“Three
Locandiera.”

and 14.

Sisters”;
Civic

Sat (Mat.),
(Eve. ) “La
REPERTORY, 6 Ave.

COMEDY

Loose ANKLES—A play of gigolos im-
proved by re-writing. Garrick, 35,
E. of B’way.

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES—The
book placed literally upon the stage.
June Walker the perfect Lorelei.
Times Square, 42, W. of B’way.

Tue Pray’s THE THinc—Clever talk

out of
Henry MILLER’s,

helping a fiancée a compro-
mising situation.
43, E. of B’way.
Wuat Every Woman Knows—Barrie’s
delightful play, charmingly presented.
With Helen Hayes. Bijou, 45, E.
of B’way.
NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYERS—For the week
of Nov. 21, Sun., Tues., and Wed.,
“The Little Clay Cart”
Fri., and Sat. (Mat.), “The Lion
Tamer.” NEIGHBORHOOD PLAy-
HOUSE, 466 Grand.
ApprovaL—Of the Lady and the
Duke who took their matrimony
carefully. Gaiety, B’way at 46.
First Love—Fay Bainter and Bruce
McRae in a play adapted from the
French by Zoe Akins. Bootn, 45,
W. of B’way.
Birt, M.P.—Bairnsfather’s Old
Bill brought to life in a dull play.
Biittmore, 47, W. of B’way.

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WITH MUSIC

Criss Cross—Good . fun by Fred
and Dorothy Stone.
at 46.

THe RAMBLERS—A good musical comedy

B’ way

GLOBE,

Thurs.,

with Clark and McCullough. Lyric,
42, W. of B’way.

AMERICANA—A small and amusing revue
that satirizes the well known Ameri
cans. Betmont, 48, E. of B’way.

A musical comedy that I believe
has been mentioned before. New
AMSTERDAM, 42, W. of B’way.

ScANDALS—A large and star-laden revue
that will not bore you for a moment.
Apo._o, 42, W. of B’way.

THE Witp Rose—Kings and their usual

operetta difficulties. With Inez
Courtney. Martin Beck, 45, W. of
B’way.

Countess MaritzaA—Well staged, and
good music, but a very poor book.
SHUBERT, 44, W. of B’way.

HoNEYMOON LanE—Love and _ pickles
set to music. With Eddie Dowling.
KNICKERBOCKER, B’way at 38.

QueEEN HicH—An amusing musical
comedy adapted from “A Pair of
Sixes.” With Luella Gear. AmBas

sapor, 49, W. of B’way.

THE Vacasonp Kinc—The last week
of this operetta. Worth going to.
Century, 62 and C. P. W.

THE Girt Frigenp—Well tuned musical
comedy about bicycle racing that the
whole family can enjoy. VANDER-
BILT, 48, E. of B’way.

IoOLANTHE—The last week of this Gil-
bert and Sullivan operetta. Do not
fail to see it. PLlymoutn, 45, W. of
B’ way.

KatyA—A better than usual handling of

operetta royalty. 44rH Street, 44,

W. of B’way.

Kay!—Gertrude Lawrence in a
musical comedy with music by the

Gershwins. IMPERIAL, 45, W. of

B’ way.

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OPENINGS OF NOTE

Mozart—An English version of Sacha
Guitry’s play. With Irene Bordoni.

Music Box, 45, W. of B’way.
Mon., Nov. 22.
Moscow THEATRE Hasima — Jewish

players from Russia in a series of
five plays. MANsFIELD, 47, W. of
B’ way.

(Dates of openings should be verified be-
cause of frequent late changes by
managers. )

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AFTER THEATRE ENTERTAINMENT

AMBASSADOR GRILL, 51 and Park Ave.—
Larry Siry’s excellent dance music
in refined surroundings.

Barney's, 85 W. 3.—Uptown cliéntéle
swathed in the informal spirit of the
Village. Midnight revue.

CaFE DE Paris, Cent. Pk. W. and 63.—
Dora Stroeva performing for a
flamboyant crowd.

CueEz Fysuer, 1640 B’way.—Fysher and
a Continental troupe providing one
of the few amusing class night clubs
in the city.

Crus Lipo, 808 7 Ave.—Meyer Davis
orchestra, and the Yacht Club boys
continuing to attract a smartly
dressed crowd.

CLius Mirapor, 200 W. 51.—Canaro’s
tango orchestra alternating with
jazz, and Maurice and Ambrose to
show you how. Very elegant indeed.

CLtus Montmartre, 205 W. 50.—Prob-
ably the most civilized people to be
seen out late at night. Emil Cole-
man orchestra and midnight enter-
tainment.

CLiusp RicHMAN, 157 W. 56.—Breezy
and informal in the Broadway fash-
ion, with Harry Richman his usual
amusing self. Revue from time to
time.

Crius Caravan, 683 5 Ave.—The Tom-
son twins, imported from Europe, in
an otherwise mediocre revue.

Le PERROQUET DE Paris, 146 W. 57.—
Roger Wolfe Kahn’s emporium re-
viewed on page 70 of this issue.

Texas GuINAN’s THREE HuNDRED
Club, 151 W. 54.—Rowdy and
crowded and unique to out-of-town-
ers and New Yorkers alike. Go late.

Vita Venice, 10 E. 60.—The rare com-
bination of formal dress, aristocratic

surroundings, and low couvert.
Chiles and Northway dance at mid-
night.

Biack Bottom, 154 W. 56.—Reviewed
with artistry on page 72 of this issue.

SMALL’s, 2294 7 Ave. and CLius Bam-
VILLE, 64 W. 129, are the aristocrats
of Harlem for downtown visitors.
Go after two, late in the week if
possible.

MOTION PICTURES

Beau Geste—The desert and the
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background of a good movie. CRI-
TERION, B’way at 44.

Tue Scarcet Letrer—Lillian Gish in
a delicate and restrained movie from
Hawthorne’s story. CENTRAL, B’way
at 47.

Tue Bic ParapeE—John Gilbert and
Renée Adorée in a stirring war pic-
ture. Astor, B’way at 45.

Ben-Hur—A most exciting chariot race
and a well done sea fight. And here
and there the story. EmsBassy,
B’way at 47.

THE Better 'O_tE—Old Bill done to the
life by Syd Chaplin. And a lot of
Vitaphone. CoLony, B’way at 53.

Firm Guitp—The Guild showing the
best of the German pictures. Week
of Nov. 21—Sun., Mon., and Tues.,
“The Last Laugh”; and the rest of
the week “Variety.” CAmeo, 42, E.
of B’way.

THE CABINET OF Dr. CaricAri—This
famous German film returned after
five years. Still effective. FirtH
AVENUE PLayHouseE, 66 Fifth.

Four HorsEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE—
Rex Ingram’s best picture revived.
With Valentino and Alice Terry.
Lorw’s Lexincton, Lexington Ave.

and 51. Sat., Nov. 20, through
Mon., Nov. 22.
ART

Marin—Selected examples of a new
phase of this great American genius.
STIEGLITZ, Room 303, Anderson
Galleries, Park Ave. and 59.

Jos—EpH PENNELL—Memorial exhibition
of the work of one of America’s
noted art figures. MEeTROPOLITAN
Museum, 5 Ave. at 84.

INTERNATIONAL M ODER N — Carefully
collected showing of the high spots of
modern art. Review later. Broox-
LYN Museum, Eastern Parkway.

E1LSsHEMIUS—Freak showing of the re-
sult of misdirected revolt—a bit of
Americana. Dupensinc, 43 E. 57.

YouNG FLowers—AIll sorts of posies by
the younger set. WHITNEY StuDIe
Cus, 14 W. 8.

GrEAT AMERICANS—Superb showing of
Demuth, Kuniyoshi, Brook, Blume
and others of this school. DANIEL
GALLERIES, 600 Madison.

New Artists—The eighth annual show
of the New Society of Artists.

Granp CENTRAL GaALLeERiEs, 15
Vanderbilt.
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WeyHE GALLERIES, 794 Lexington.

\Iary Cassatt—Memorial show of
two-score works of this vigorous
painter. Duranp-Ruet, 12 E. 57.

\lixep Srurr—Some good French mod
erns, Picasso, Gauguin, and some

Americans. New GaALtery, 600

Madison.
Brancusi—Comprehensive showing of

sculptural conceptions departing

from convention. BRUMMER GAL-

LeRY, 27 E. 57.

CHarpIN—Eighteenth century painting.
Review later. Wu£LDENSTEIN GAL-
LERIES, 647 Fifth.

MUSIC
RECITALS

RotAND Hayes—First appearance here
this season of a deservedly popular
tenor. CARNEGIE HALL, Fri. Eve.,
Nov. 19.

Maurice MarecHat—A ’cellist, intro-
duced with the Philadelphia Orches-
tra, in his first recital. Town HA tt,
Fri. Eve., Nov. 19.

Joser HoFMANN—If you go to only one
concert this week, this is it. CARNE-
GIE HALL, Sat. Aft., Nov. 20.

HARRIET VAN EmpEN—Second recital
by one of the best of the Sembrich
exponents. AEOLIAN HALL, Sat. Eve.,
Nov. 20.

BENNO MotsE1witscH—Chopin program
by an extraordinary pianist. AEOLIAN
Hall, Sun. Aft., Nov. 21.

J. RosAMOND JOHNSON AND TAYLOR
Gorpon—Chiefly spirituals. AEOLIAN
Hatt, Sun. Eve., Nov. 21.

BEETHOVEN ASSOCIATION—A grab bag of
stars. Town Hatt, Mon. Eve.,
Nov. 22.

Max RosEN—“The poet of the violin,”
says his manager, and rightly. Car-
NEGIE Harz, Mon. Eve., Nov. 22.

JosepH SziceTi—A fine fiddler in an odd
program. AEOLIAN Hatt, Tues.
Eve., Nov. 23.

ORCHESTRAS AND CHORUSES

_PHILHARMONIC—Mengelberg _ conduct-
ing. Sun. Aft., Nov. 21; Wed. Eve.,

} Nov. 24; Fri. Aft., Nov. 26. CaRNE-
GIE HALL.

New York SympHony—Damrosch con-
ducting. Mecca TEempLe, Sun. Aft.,
Nov. 21; CARNEGIE HALL, Fri. Eve.,

Nov. 26.

)} Boston SympHony—Koussevitzky con-

Thurs.

ducting. CARNEGIE HALL,
Eve., Nov. 25.

FRIENDS OF Music—Bodanzky conduct-
ing. Town Hatt, Sun. Aft., Nov.
21.

Dayton WESTMINSTER CHoIR. CARNE-
GIE Hai, Tues. Eve., Nov. 23.
OPERA
METROPOLITAN OpERA Co.—Perform-
ances nightly except Tuesday, with
Sat. Mat. Sun. Eve. Concert. See
newspapers for schedule. Fri. Eve.,
Nov. 19, “Lohengrin”; Sat. Mat.,
Nov. 20, “La Gioconda”’; Sat. Eve.,
“Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pa-

gliacci.”
SPORTS

FooTtBALL—AT New Haven. Yale vs.
Harvard at 2:00 p. m. on Sat., Nov.
20. Special trains on New York
Central R. R. Broadcast by stations
WJZ and WEAF.

At Porto Grounps. Columbia vs.
Syracuse at 2:00 p. M., on Thurs.,
Nov. 25 (Thanksgiving Day). Take
B’way-7 Ave. subway to 157 St., or
6 or 9 Ave. “L” to 155 St.

At PHILADELPHIA. Penn vs. Cornell
at 2:00 p. m. on Thurs., Nov. 25
(Thanksgiving Day). Frequent ser-
vice on Pennsylvania R.R. Broadcast
by Station WEAF.

HorsE SHow—The annual appearance
of the National Horse Show this
year with 2,500 entries. Mon., Nov.
22, through Sat., Nov. 27. At 10:30
A.M., 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. daily.
Mapison SQUARE GARDEN, 8 Ave.
and 50.

ON THE AIR

Boston SYMPHONY OrCHESTRA—Sat.
Eve., Nov. 20, at 8:30. Station WJZ.
New YorK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA —

Sat. Eve., Nov. 20, at 9:00. Sta-
tion WEAF.
CLEVELAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA—

Thurs. Eve., Nov. 25, at 8:00. Sta-
tion WTAM.

OTHER EVENTS

RutH Draper—The perfect monologist
performing every Sunday night at
8:30. SrELwyn, 42, W. of B’way.

Pirates Batit—Pirates become very
swell and moved from the Village
to the Ritz. Fri., Nov. 26. Rutz-
CarRLTON, Madison Ave. and 46.

Cat SHow—AIl the very best cats placed
on view. Mon., Nov. 22 and Tues.,

Nov. 23. 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Watporr-AstoriA, 5 Ave. and 34.

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Nortuwarb through a country which steadily
| becomes hillier, the owner of chassis 82-YE
| speeds on for his hunting camp in the Eagle
y River district of northern Wisconsin, a dis-
} tance 388 miles from Chicago. He and his
yy chauffeur always make the trip in at least
nine hours, faster time than is made by the
best trains. One remarkable trip was made
in 8 hours and 20 minutes, averaging 44.16

\\ miles an hour. This trip has been made fre-
W quently over a period of five years. During
Y that time bills for repairs totaled $55.99.
How could this owner make such excellent
time over average gravel roads? The Rolls-
Royce'is sprung on extremely long, unusually
| flexible cantilever springs which seem to ab-
sorb every bump, jolt and rut. The Rolls-
Y Royce engine is effectively dampened against
ly) vibration at any speed. The Rolls-Koyce
brakes are equal to any emergency—they will
stop the car, dead, from sixty miles an hour
\ within the distance between two telegraph
\ poles—the linings cannot burn because of their
y design and material—the brakes, for instance,

have five times the cooling area of those of
other motor-cars.

But these are the more apparent reasons for
the owner's safety and comfort. He knows,
in addition, that the wide spoking gives
enormous lateral strength to the wheels—
that a wheel could not come off no matter
how fast he travels—and that never has the
steering mechanism on any Rolls-Royce been
known to fail.

This man also owns chassis 76-YE, a town
car. He uses it in and about Chicago. Is it
any wonder that 76 cents will cover the cost
of repairs for four years, when chassis 82-YE
shows what rough usage a Rolls-Royce will
endure? Both of these cars carried a 3-year
guarantee against failure of any mechanical
part. Of course they were never called in
question. And these cars have at least 15
more years of service in them!

We shall be pleased to take you on a100-mile trial trip
over any roads at any time. New York Showrooms: Fifth
Avenue at 56th Street, and 58th Street at Eighth Avenue
Direct Works Branch: 190 Washington Street, Newark

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THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Notes and Comment

ODERN decorative art has
seized on nothing less than
humble household furniture.

From elegant shops in the Fifties you

hy

may now order bookcases that look
iike the Ritz Tower and dressing tables
that are a replica of the Equitable
building. But the abortive taste of
this sullen writer will never be sated
till he is provided with a bathtub de-

signed after a subway excavation.

Coy

HE LAST note in social horror

has been sounded by a lady giving
a formal dinner this week, who, in
distracted mood, tells that she not only
finds her invitations have unwittingly
included a lady and her present and
her former husband, but that she has
just discovered that the lady’s
first husband was a Princeton gradu-
ate and her second a Harvard man.

also

HERE appears to be a maniacal

tendency toward roast-beef fire-
places in sandwich shop windows these
crisp days. There are cobble-stone,
brick, tile and oyster-shell fireplaces
and papier maché, tissue-paper, elec-
tric or gas flames and fire—but the
mantelpiece varies. There
where the French clock and the photo-
graph of Mother should be, are smok-
ing legs of lamb, dripping rare roasts
of beef, pink hams studded with
cloves, and every other sort of red-
blooded meat. And above the man-

never

telpiece, instead of the painting of
one’s ancestor, is a hog-butcher in an
apron smeared with blood and a tou-
sled chef’s cap sawing away with an
enormous carving knife at the temp-
ting viands of the steam-table mantel-
piece. Any vegetarian would faint at
the sight.

T IS only at the rarest moments

that we are conscious of a sense of
citizenship. Such a moment came af-
ter we strolled into the trained-flea
circus on Forty-second Street after the
theatre. Preliminary to the perform-
ance a special flea, attached to a
small wire, is passed around the au-
dience, and this particular evening,
at one point in the circuit, the flea

disappeared. A row was made, and
the thief—a greasy youth—was in-
timidated into producing the valuable
insect. “Some low-life tries to get
away with a flea once in every twenty
days,” said the flea owner. Later that
evening our sense of citizenship as-
serted itself and we jotted down the
information and mailed it to the
Statistical Department in Washington.

E HAVE recently attended sev-

eral exhibitions by the younger
school of unsuccessful painters, and
have noticed a dangerous decline in
the number of paintings of sky line
water tanks. We cannot be sure
whether the growing tendency of ar-
chitects to conceal water tanks is re-
sponsible for the movement, but if
this is the case, the matter needs seri-
ous consideration. The first thing we

our artists will be
pictures of something pretty.

know,
painting

younger

|B ao tebendel of book arrangers is
the person who placed three
books in the window of a little arty
art shop downtown. The books, from
left to right, are: “Frigidity in Wom-
en,” “Desire Under the Elms,” and
oT he United States.”

OW much longer are our sensi-

tive writers and artists going to
be able to compare New York to jazz
and escape the charge of pulling old
stuff? As far as we are concerned,
not one minute longer.

The average man tells an old story
or the average woman remarks
the world is a small place after all,
and up and down Olympus echoes the
laughter of the gods. The Babbitt is
allowed about four repetitions of a
sentiment or a joke and then the
kidding begins. But let one of the
boys on the Dial evolve an idea such as
that, after all, New York City is just
a great, glorified, baffling jazz com-
position, and, for at least five years
it 1s good for a lead to every article
written in the more enlightened jour-

that

nals, and for no fewer than eight
hundred very bad paintings.

Double

HERE is an anecdote only com-
paratively new, probably, about
two financial men who were lunching
with George F. Baker, Jr., just a
week before the directors of the Uni-

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ted States Steel Corporation were to
meet. Every man in Wall Street was
anxious to know whether or not the

board was to declare a dividend. And
Mr. Baker was a member of the
board.

Adroitly the two tried to bring the
conversation around to steel and divi-
dends. Adroitly Mr. Baker kept it in
other fields. By the time coffee was
served, one of the men had decided,
rather desperately, to come out in the
open.

“What are the chances,” he asked,
as calmly as possible, “of a dividend
at the meeting next week?”

Silence for nearly a minute then
Mr. Baker smiled and drew his cigar-
case from his inside pocket.

“Here,” he said, “have one of
these.”

Not only was this taken as a ter-
mination of the luncheon but as a
sly tip as well; for, so it is told, the
two gentlemen each dashed for a tele-
phone booth.

“Quick!” gasped the first. “Buy
all the steel my account will carry.
I’ve got the hottest . . .” .

“Quick!” shouted the other. “Sell
all my steel and sell a thousand short!
I’ve just got first-hand information.”

Horse Show
HE NEW Madison Square Gar-

den acquires another tradition of
the old when the Horse Show, after
four years in the Armory, opens there
on Monday. This year there will be
twenty-five hundred entries, the added
color of foreign officers in uniform,
and, in many other ways, more of a
“show” than for a number of years.
On the Sunday morning preceding
the opening, the exhibiting gentry will
gather at a horseshoe-shaped table, this
year again at the Biltmore, for the tra-
ditional “champagne breakfast.” Pro-
hibition has done for the champagne

now, of course, and morning-coats and
Piccadilly collars have been succeeded
by cut-aways and top hats, but other-
wise this event will be in the manner
of the past. The Horse Show’s popu-
larity has waxed and waned many
times since that fall in 1883 when

Mr. William Wharton sought Mr. J.
P. Morgan’s help to buy Gilmore
Gardens, change the name to Madi-
son Square Garden and hold a horse
show there, on a site which had long
been the stables of the N. Y., N. H.
& H. hack horses. The show’s first
boom began in 1890, when Stan-
ford White’s new Garden was
built on the site of the old. Vet-
erans tell of its glories then . . . pos-
tilions in buckskin breeches, high top
hats and black and yellow shirts, state-
ly coaches, gigs, broughams, Mr. Bel-
mont’s famous cocking cart, designed
for the gentleman cock-fighter. To-
wards the end of the century its favor
fell again only to rise under Alfred
Vanderbilt’s red and white colors. His
were the days when the entire ring
was banked with flowers, changed
daily. In place of the breakfast around
the horseshoe table, there was a coach
race from Arrowhead Inn to the Gar-
den the Sunday before the opening.

ND THEN coaches and _ horse-

drawn vehicles went out; Mr.
Vanderbilt went down with the 7J7-
tanic, the war .took first the foreign
entries, then the young men, horses and
enthusiasm, and only during the past
few years has the interest begun to re-
coup. Now, in 1926, under the guid-
ance of John Bowman, the institution
enters a new phase, moving to a new
“Garden” of steel and concrete, and

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THE NEW YORKER

promising once again the glories of

the old days.

A dded

E HAVE just read the proof

sheets of Mr. Charles MacAr-
thur’s admirable Profile on Mr.
Campbell, the undertaker, on a near-
by page, and find we are able to add
It has to do with Mr. Camp-
bell’s advertising effort a few
years ago to impress upon the
public mind his telephone
number, Columbus 8200.
Mr. Campbell spent several
thousand dollars to accom-

a note.

plish this purpose, and Dr. Baer, his
poet, wrote many daily verses requir-
ing a rhyme for 8200, a difficult feat.
The feat was accomplished, but just
as the publicity campaign ‘was ad-
judged a howling success, the tele-
phone company changed the number.

Vogue

ARIS is ancient as a divorce cen-

ter, and Yucatan has collapsed as
another, following a mild boom (be-
cause the decrees were recognized
hardly anywhere in this country) and
now there is a new, a very new, Mec-
ca for people in marital difficulties.
It is Sonora, Mexico. We have heard
it mentioned vaguely in the recent
past, but without realizing its impor-
tance. A dependable attorney tells

however, that it must be consid-
ered as of the first magnitude; espe-
cially in so far as Easterners are con-
cerned, since special facilities are of-
fered here.

A distinguished Spanish don, del
Toro by name, the father of the So-

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THE NEW YORKER

jora law, starts things off in a friend-
way from quarters in the Hotel
elmont. Clients in distress go to

m personally and he gives helpful
dvice and assistance, even providing
n American attorney to draw up
property agreements, etc., essential to
the separation, as well as a power of
ttorney—necessary if only one of the
ouple is going to Sonora, as is usually
the case.

This power of attorney is then
forwarded, via Mexico City, to the
town of Hermosillo, which is de-
scribed as being directly south of Tuc-
Arizona. ‘There it arrives ten

son,

days later, meeting up with
the member of the couple
appearing in person. The
latter then goes into court
with his or her attorney,
who says something. The
attorney for the opposi-
tion — one is required —
waives the power of at-
torney in court and says
something else. The de-

cree is thereupon
granted.

It does not become ef-
fective for six weeks, but,
at that, the whole process
has taken only two or three
months.

Several hundred couples
have been thus separated in the last
few months, says our informant, this

number including some of the best —

people—and no newspaper notoriety
whatever.

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. herself with two extra
tickets for the recent rodeo, a so-
ciety matron in a burst of good-Sa-
maritanism, corralled two urchins on
Forty-ninth Street last week and took
them in with her party. For a time,
suffused with the pleasure of playing
mama, she was under the delusion that
she was showing the boys a couple of
new sights. “Have you ever seen any-
thing like this before, boys?” she
asked.

“Seen it?” one of them replied.
“Why, I know some of them cow-
boys poisonally.”

Report

E WENT to a professional
football game last week, almost
a year after Mr. Grange’s début first
filled the polo grounds. We found a

sober crowd of interested initiates who -

yelled at the right moments. The at-
tempt made by the managers last year
to simulate collegiate atmosphere with

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bunting, colored feathers, and even an
embryo cheering section has been al-
most abandoned.

The game is fast. Little time is
taken out. Whole teams do not pile
on a runner when he is tackled. In
almost every department the profes-
sional players, as might be expected
from All-American material, excel;
most spectacularly in the precision with
which complicated forward-passing
plays are executed and in the scythe-
like quality of the interference, pro-
vided for the ball-carriers.

It is such a good game to watch
that we may yet see such great crowds
gathered for it as watch professional
football in England.

A good contest nowadays draws
30,000 spectators. At present there
is something funny about it, of course,
the minor gods of a year ago playing
for money, the hot partisanship more
or less missing, the atmosphere lack-
ing; and, perhaps, the professionals
are too well oiled. Mr. Herbert
Reed informs us that the players could
do better. But we thought they played
well enough.

HE FIRST spontaneous declara-
tion of the unknown playwright
whose play is successful is always
worth recording, and that of Mr. Phil
Dunning, co-author of Broadway, the
season’s biggest success so far, is no

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exception. When Mr. Dunning was
handed his first royalty check we are
told that he looked at it and mur-
mured,
“Wonderful! Now I can af-
ford to have the mice exterminated in
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my apartment.

Macbeth

T WAS always the mildly derisive
anecdotes about the late James K.
Hackett which persisted in circulation,
for although, in his later years, he
went in for the solemnities of the the-
atre on an extensive scale, he always
remained, among the knowing, a
figure of fun.

Hackett was tremendously majes-
tical about his art (he was given to
referring to it in ordinary conversa-
tion as “my art”) and when, by one
means or another, he _ had suc-
ceeded in performing his precious
“Macbeth” in London, and also, even
if only for a single benefit perform-
ance, in Paris, his naive satisfaction
in that rather costly achievement was
so great that he went about beating his
own drum indefinitely, with the simple
earnestness (and something of the
same effect on the nerves) of a child
along towards dusk on Christmas Day
who had found a nice, new shiny drum
reposing under the holiday tree that
morning.

T IS quite true that when Hackett,
ensconced recently at the Meurice
in Paris, noted a gratifying reference
to himself in some stray issue of The
Billboard, and immediately decided
that so intelligently edited a magazine
must come to him regularly, he in-
structed his secretary to see that its
subscription address should be:

“James K. Hackett, Chevalier of
the Legion of Honor.”

It is quite true that when he was
consulting Margaret Anglin about an
open-air production of “Macbeth” at
the University of California and that
practical creature was so blunt_as to
ask who would be the Lady Macbeth
on the proposed occasion, he waved the
question aside by saying: “It doesn’t
inatter.””

And it didn’t to him. He was that
kind of Macbeth.

It is quite true that when he in-
herited that incredible $2,000,000
from a pious, high-toned niece, who
would have writhed in her grave had
she dreamed her fortune went to this
actor fellow, he suddenly turned com-

poser on an astonished world and used
to show up at banquets with a nine-
piece orchestra to be led affably in his
own composition.

But it is equally true (and this was
the kind of story about Hackett which
somehow never did get into circula-
tion) that he was extraordinarily gen-
erous with that inheritance and that
his first act on coming into it was to
give a banquet to all the creditors who,
some years before, had lost large sums
by his going into bankruptcy. Those
debts had been officially wiped off the
slate, but under his plate that night
each man found a check for the
amount that had once been due him,
plus all the interest to that moment.
Hackett was that kind of Macbeth,

too.

Gramercy Park
ir. more we call upon our tear

ducts to relieve our emotion.
And this time it is for the treading
down of quaint old Gramercy Park
by the foot of progress. The park is
still there, let us hasten to reassure
you; but the quiet, drowsing atmos-
phere that once hung about the en-
closure is now gone forever.

THE NEW YORKER

The débacle began last year, when
the splendid old mansions of Stantord
White, his sister and Robert G. Inger.
soll—once an imposing row of houses
—were torn away to make room for
the apartment hotel which stands at
No. 2 Lexington Avenue. And now
the workmen are standing in the bare
plots of ground where lately five other
mansions regarded from their austere
facades the tulips and the willow trees
beyond the iron palings of the en-
closure.

F THE finest house on the park is
that owned by the Players—built

by Stanford White for Edwin Booth
and by him willed to the fellows of his
craft—then the next finest was the
James Harper mansion, with its gra-
cious brownstone columns, on the op-
posite side of the park. That has been
razed, and in its place will be built a
hotel of incalculable stories.

At the Irving Place corner they
have torn down the old mansion that
was built by Luther C. Clark in 1853.
The building was the home of the
Columbia University Club in 1905,
and, during the war, of the Army and
Navy Officers’ Club. The Gramercy
Park Squash Club, adjoining the

“You should hear the things she said about me—and she scarcely
knows me.”
“My dear, you ought to be glad she isn’t a close friend.”

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“Vou should have told them not to come; to-
nights Paramount Night.”

Clark house, has been razed as well.

On this corner, which was sold in
1831 by Samuel R. Ruggles, the foun-
der of the park, a seventeen-story
apartment hotel is being erected. The
lot was one of the original sixty-six
which were subdivided by Ruggles
when he bought the site for a few hun-

dred dollars.

Squirarchy
VEN the moving picture haute
aristocratie is not immune to
servant trouble. We have in mind
Mr. Marcus Loew, who, like all pa-
tricians, manages in person his old
family estate, acquired some time ago
from the heirs of Captain Joseph R.
De Lamar. The name of the place is
Pembroke. Its sixty acres spread
about Hempstead Harbor and perhaps
—remembering the many outbuild-
ings, as well as the Manor House—
Pembroke was well worth the two
millions of dollars paid for it.

In the course of his household re-
organization, Mr. Loew had occasion
to discharge one of his high ranking
butlers. ‘The man asked if he might
stay on for a week or so until he could
make arrangements to move elsewhere.
“Where are you living?” his em-
ployer inquired, and was informed
that the fellow occupied quarters in a
house some distance away, but plainly
visible from the veranda where the
interview took place.

“T don’t care if the owner doesn’t
object,” said Mr. Loew.

“But you are the owner, sir,” mur-

mured the man. “It’s part of your
property. It’s the lodge.”

Mr. Loew, it appears, was too con-
founded to ask even what lodge.

HIS Captain De Lamar must
have been a character in his time.
He was an international mine owner,
and a director of many corporations.
He was a Hollander by birth and his
early life was spent upon the seas. His
title, they say, holds warrant in his
one-time command of a tugboat.
Besides his Long Island home—so
large that it is said the new owner,
Mr. Loew, has not yet found time to
visit thirty of the mansion’s many
rooms—the late Captain had a town
house at Madison Avenue and Thirty-
seventh Street, which is now the home
of the National Democratic Club. If
you have visited there you will recall
the ponderous marble staircase which
meets your eye as you enter, and, per-
haps, the heavily figured green wall
paper in what is now the lounge room
and was once the library. These, and
other ornate features of the place,
have been undisturbed since the orig-
inal occupancy. There are those surly
enough to wonder why.
Probably it is fitting that ownership
of one of his establishments should
pass from a gentleman with tugboat
beginnings to its present lord. Mr.
Loew, it will be recalled, came into
the business of purveying entertain-
ment by way of the penny arcade. He
owned one in Fourteenth Street, and
from it graduated to proprietorship of
the first chain of nickelodeons. Now,

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as the moving spirit of Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer and _ other interests, he
controls a capitalization of one hun-
dred millions and is responsible for an
annual payroll of ten muilions.

Our

without its promise of an

growing squirarchy is not
intensely
interesting future.

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Two Tales

HAT with the

recent years, one assumes that

many tales of

Senators and such get their liquor free,
but a shocking happening in Washing-
ton that this
generally true.

indicates may not be

For years and years one of the noted
clubs of our national capital had a
steward who, upon the advent of pro-
hibition, naturally became the club
bootlegger. He supplied pre-war stuff ;
high priced but pre-war, straight from
the ships. He supplied it until a few
weeks ago when the House Commit-
tee and the steward had a row. It
was then discovered that down below
the sub-sub-cellar of this famous in-
stitution the steward had dug another
cellar and had installed therein a large
still where he and partner, the
chef, made fresh every hour the pre-

his

war booze they sold to the distin-

guished politicians upstairs.

OT ONLY do we learn that the
stomachs and the livers of these
mighty men have been thus imperiled
—we hear that the White House itself
is not safe from the alcohol menace.
The wife eminent
statesman, knowing his love for Coin-
treau, thought of sending to him in
Washington a bottle of this rare bever-

of an eastern

age. She chose as her
certain political leader who was about
to call upon President Coolidge.
Arriving in Washington—the story
runs—the y was met by a
White House car and taken to dine
with the President. Installed in a
room at the White House, he hid the
Cointreau under the bed, the while h
fervently implored the mercy of
Heaven for such lése ma jesté. At din-
ner, the record has it, he ate very little
And later still,
night

messenger a

emissary

and said rather less.

he spent a curiously restless

with the Cointreau in bed beside him.

In the morning he was informed
that the White House car was again
Would he use it? In-
And he did -to
speed the precious burden to its owner.
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A HARVARD MAN ACCEPTS AN INVITATION TO DROP IN AT THE PRINCETON
CLUB FOR LUNCH

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nly decides upon an extraordinary
of action. Rich as well as poor
liable to moments of impulse; so
the social ly elect—so in this in-
tance was Mrs. Ritz Carlton.
It is rare indeed that a woman of
wealth and position can wake up
the morning in a cheerful frame
of mind, for the responsibilities of the
well-to-do are very heavy. Yet, there
tame a morning when Mrs. Carlton
awoke cheerfully. She remembered
that she had given orders to have the
breakfast room redecorated, and she
said to the maid who came to
close the windows and to lay out
some bedroom slippers for her to

MRS.

THE RITZ CARLTONS

CARLTON DOES IT HERSELF

choose from, “I think I would a Os
like to see the secretary.” (er

Astonished at her pleasant tone
of voice, the maid hurried away.
When the secretary stood before
her, Mrs. Carlton smiled. “I
have decided to do the redecorat-
ing of the breakfast room my-
self.”

N WHILE later, her husband en-
4° tered to pay his morning call be-
wore leaving for his club. “But we
ave plenty of people here who can
gee that it’s done properly without your
bothering,” he said when she told him
of her determination.

®* “You don’t realize, Ritz,” she said,
“how busy the upper servants are. And
I have decided that I should try to
do a little more myself. It is ridicu-
lous to think that our life has become
so complicated that I cannot find the
time or strength to redecorate a break-
fast room.”

He kissed her fondly.

When Mrs. Carlton had been

‘essed, she hurried downstairs to the
oreakfast room, where, to her aston-
ishment, she found some decorators,
‘paper-hangers, rug experts, and an-
tique dealers in conversation with the
secretary. Her hand clenched.

“Did I not say that? —”

“Madam,” said the secretary des-
perately, “it is a misunderstanding. I
had already arranged to have the work
done, and it seems these men had left
their shops when I telephoned to coun-
termand the orders.”

Mrs. Carlton felt the whole thing
was extremely inconvenient. “Have
them go away,” she said, “‘and tell the

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chauffeur that I shall want the Min-
erva at once. You had better come
with me—and have a list of stores
ready.”

ERY soundly, Mrs. Carlton de-

cided that the wall paper was the
key to the decoration of a room and
that it, therefore, should be chosen the
first of all. She was predisposed to
yellow, and chose twenty-five or thirty
samples of paper of that color, order-
ing them sent that afternoon. ‘The
next thing was the curtains.

As they entered the car, - however,
and the secretary gave the address of
an upholstery shop, Mrs. Carlton put
her hand to her head. “I believe all
those yellow papers have given me a
headache. Did you bring my pills
with you?”

“T didn’t madam.”
“Then we must get
some,” said Mrs. Carlton flatly.
“Tell Francois to go to a drug-
store.” The secretary lifted the speak-
ing tube and the car changed direction.
Mrs. Carlton lay back and sighed. Sh:
felt that all responsibilities of her
large household were always hers. and
as 1f no one ever helped her. Het
lips tightened. “Never mind the druc-
store,” she said. “Tell Francois to go
to the Union Club.” |

They drew up before the distin-
guished-looking edifice, and after a
few moments her husband appeared
in the doorway. “Ritz,” she said,
“Don’t you think it would be fair if

you helped me a little bit once in
a while. I’ve looked at wall pa-
pers until [ literally can’t see.
What are you doing?”

“TI was just in the middle of
a game of billiards with Park
Lane, dear,” said Mr. Carlton.
““As I said, there are plenty of
people—”

“But I want to do it myself,”
said Mrs. Carlton, as if for th
hundredth time, “and I can’t

see why you won’t help me.”

There was desperation in her voice.

N R. CARLTON returned to the
billiard room, where his oppo-
nent was waiting. “Park,” he said,
“Mrs. Carlton’s outside, and she’s per-
fectly desperate. We’re redecorating
up at our place, and she always likes to
do that sort of thing herself. It’s
killing job, you know; and I think I
ought to help her a bit.”

Mr. Park Lane smiled good na-
turedly, “It’s all right, old man. I
I'll make out all right
—TI can always sit in the window, you
know.” Park was a brick.

A few moments later the Minerva
was headed downtown. “It isn’t as if
you didn’t have to use the breakfast
room, too,” said Mrs. Carlton as her
husband took his place beside her.

“T know,” Ritz said. “I suppos
I’ve been kind of a rotter about it.”

Mrs. Carlton smiled through her
tears. “No, Ritz, but sometimes I feel
that there’s just no end to things.”

They had a little trouble finding
man to show them curtains, and Mrs.
Carlton stiffened.
for both curtains and furniture,” sh
said coldly.

“Madam,” said the secretary in a
low voice, “‘Miss Ritza said this morn-

understand.

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ing that she particularly wanted those
chairs covered with taffeta.”

“Miss Ritza!” echoed Mrs. Carl-
ton, “How could she have? Didn’t
you tell her that I—”

“That was earlier, Madam. She
went out before you were awake.”

Mrs. Carlton looked at her appre-
hensively. ‘“‘What color taffeta?”

“Red.”

“Park says red’s to be the color this
season,” put in Mr. Carlton.

“But it can’t be red. I’ve chosen
a yellow paper. Where is Miss Rit-
za?” said Mrs. Carlton in a shrill
voice, her eyes fluttering with chagrin.
“T don’t see why she had to interfere.
You had better telephone her to come
down here.”

“‘She’s to have a les-
son in _ clogging,
Madam.”

“Tt doesn’t matter,”
returned Mrs. Carlton,
“Telephone her.
Ritz,” she continued,
sinking into a chair,
“T’ve never known
anything to equal what
I’ve gone through this
morning. I started out
to do a simple little
thing like choosing the
decorations for a room,
and everything
lutely everything—has
gone wrong.” And
Mrs. Carlton drew
out her handkerchief
and bravely wiped her
eyes.

It was fully three-
quarters of an hour be-
fore Ritza_ arrived.
She found Mr. Carl-
ton standing by the
store window looking
into the street.

“What’s
she asked. “And where’s mother?”

“She’s lying down,” said her
father. “Ritza, did you arrange to
have red taffeta put in the breakfast
room?”

Ritza put her hands on her hips.
“Well, for Heaven’s sake! Is that
what I’m telephoned for in the mid-
dle of a clogging lesson? Certainly
I did. Sepia Biltmore’s having their
breakfast room done in red—every-
body is.” .

abso-

wrong?”

“But your mother has chosen yellow
paper.”
“Then just let her choose another

( olor.’’

“But she can’t, Ritza,” said Mr.
Carlton, putting his hand on her shoul-
der. “She can’t, Ritza. She’s been
tried enough. Let her have what she
wants.”

“Shucks!” returned Ritza.

Together they went into the room
where Mrs. Carlton had been put.
“All right, mother, have it any color
you want,” said Ritza. “But the Bilt-
mores and the Smith-Jones are having
theirs red. J’m having a clogging
lesson.”

“Why won’t she help, Ritz?” said

at all!”

Mrs. Carlton when Ritza had gone.

“T think she’s right, dear,” said Mr.
Carlton gently. “I really think it
ought to be red. Park says red is
the color.”

In silence they regained the car and
returned to the wall paper store. “You
haven’t sent those samples yet, have
you?” Ritz asked. ‘“‘Because Mrs.
Carlton has decided on red.”

They had not, and some red sam-
ples were chosen. “My head is split-
ting, Ritz,” Mrs. Carlton said.

“You’re a little faint, dear; it’s
long past lunch time. A little food

will make you feel all right.”

“Oh, mamma, it
doesw’t express me

THE NEW YORKER

But she shook her head. When they
got home, though she would have eat-
en nothing, he forced her to taste a
tiny sweetbread. “At least, we have
got the wall paper, dear,” he said as
they took her upstairs.

Ritz resumed his game of billiards
with his friend, Park, that afternoon,
but they had scarcely got started when
he was called to the telephone. It
was the secretary. “Mrs. Carlton has
been asking to see the wall paper sam-
ples all afternoon, and they have just
come”—Mr. Carlton could hear the
fright in her voice—
“And they’ve sent the
wrong ones. The yel-
low ones.”

He rushed down-
stairs and to the street.

“You mustn’t show
them to her!” he said
as the secretary met
him at the door of the
house.

“She’s in a frightful
state, Sir.”

They went upstairs;
and Ritz entered and
found his wife half-
sitting up in bed, her
face livid. “Ritz,” she
said in a_ strangled
voice, “Thank God
you’re here. Tell them
to bring those samples
into this room this in-
stant.”

He stood irresolute
for an instant, grow-
ing pale; and then his
arms fell helplessly to
his side.

“Take them in,” he
said to the secretary in
the hall. ‘‘You’ve tel-
ephoned for the doc-
tor?” She nodded.

An instant later
Mrs. Carlton’s shriek rang through
the house and the doctor had brushed
Ritz aside in the vestibule and was
at her side. —FIL_LMorE Hype

For SarLe—Sixteen-inch osculating
fan, almost new. Will sell cheap.
S. W. D.—Massachusetts paper.

This mania for new sensations.

For Sate—Two Police Puppies. Prize
winning parents, both male; very reason-
able-—Pennsylvania paper.

To us it doesn’t sound reasonable.

or

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THE NEW YORKER

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RANK E,

CAMPBELL
has seven Rolls-Royces.
sentence has
r a rude look. It points at the
n with regrettable emphasis. Yet
s perhaps the most significant sign
t his success and we are inclined to
let it stand.

Need we say that Mr. Campbell is
the mortician whose vast Funeral
Church broods over Broadway at Six-
ty-third Street? A hundred thousand
of our fellow-citizens recently wres-
tled there for a last look at the late
Mr. Rudolph Valentino, if you re-
member; and before him at Miss An-

Held, F. W. Woolworth, Vernon
Castle and scores of the world’s well-
known. [I]l-bred though
we may seem, that build-
ing cost a million dol-

Wash our mouth
out with soap and
water if you like, it
contains art ‘“‘treas-
ures” valued at a quar-
ter of a million more.
Horatio Alger couldn’t
say more; except that
under dus largest flag
n New York City or
State, marching across
the cheerful facade of
the building, appear
the brave words:

That opening

PROFILES

COME, YE DISCONSOLATE

Good music. Fel-
lowship. Art works. Soothing faces.
Cheerful surroundings. Gloom has
been so thoroughly routed from his
parlors that envious competitors have
suggested for his slogan: “Happiness
in Every Box.”

But the dream has found favor with
the public, and now the dreamer has

thing to attend.

“Frank E. Camp-
bell. Paris. London.
Berlin. Petrograd.”

Doubtless other
men have twenty
Rolls-Royces, greater

buildings, and offices
in Singapore and Siam.
But their rewards have
been reaped in_ pursuits
more easily associated

with millions than _ is
the art of undertaking
and embalming. They

have bought and sold and plundered,

whilst Mr. Campbell has been dream-
ne a dream. It was a lofty dream:
in a word, Mr. Campbell set out to
death of its sting—and, from
fifteen or twenty points of view, he
has just about succeeded.

Oh, a dozen things remain to be
done; but when better automobiles
are made Buick will build them. And
when happier funerals are to be had,
Frank will be the boy to make them
possible.

A funeral at Campbell’s is some-

re »b

HANS S7tewCed

Frank E. Campbell

millions, the Rolls-Royces of which
we made such uncouth mention, large
hunks of Westchester County, fast
motor boats, a fine wife, a bouncing

boy (who goes in for especially manu-
factured Bugattis) and art works
galore.

LL THIS is quite a transition
from Mr. Campbell’s early be-
ginnings, and, with your kind atten-
tion, the physical side of his career
will be presented in a paragraph:
At fourteen he became _hearse-

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driver and handy
man to the village
undertaker of Camp Point,
Illinois, his birthplace. At
twenty-one he marched on New

York and found employment with the
undertaking firm of the Rev. Stephen
Merritt. At twenty-five he was
eral manager of that institution
was known far and wide as a hustler.
Illness interrupted his brig!

ven-
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ana

ont
and he went to Europe to recuperate.

career,

Returning, he married Miss Amelia
Klutz, a charming up-state girl, and
went into. business for himself.

Twelve years ago, he bought a Broad-
way hotel, remodeled it into his pres-
ent place of business at enormous ex-
pense, and there you are.

The bare facts, however, become
gilded by his dream. After all, the
romance of Frank Campbell lies in
his onslaught against the Dark Angel
and his triumphant emergence on the
Glory Side. Dear reader, you don’t
have to be reminded of the old-time
undertaker’s shiny hat and shiny frock
coat and the seemly gloom of his
services. But we would like to point
out, if only for the importance of this
piece, that our hero is directly respon-
sible for the vast changes that have
taken place in his profession and in
the public point of view since those
dolorous days. In comparison to, say
1914, an affair at the Funeral Church
is a picnic.

And you, Mr. Campbell,
our flippancy. Of all people, you un-
derstand. Who was it first
blasphemed the profession by taking
out quarter- page advertisements in the
daily papers? Will you ever forget
the consternation of your worthy col-
leagues? Unethical, they shouted,
Sacrilegious!| And how they tried to
bounce you out of the profession!

Not that Mr. Campbell had tried to
sell his dream in the slam-bang terms
of a cigarette ad. No, his first mes-
sage was modulated, warm and bene-
volent. It was whispered tenderly in a
series of odes, especially composed by

forgive

who

the gifted Dr. Berthold Baer. Elo-
quently the poet interpreted Mr.
Campbell’s radiant vision. In noble

strophes, the public was informed that
death was nothing to be ashamed of,
little to mourn; anyway, while
Mr. Campbell’s beautiful establish-
ment existed at 1970 Broadway.

So affecting was the song
that the dreamer had to install two
more trunk lines to handle the tele-

not,

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singers

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He bought a beautiful bronze vase,
enamelled with red roosters, and put
it in the largest window. Oriental
rugs began to appear on the floors.

Dr. Baer took to deathless prose.
A sample:

Were I a painter, I would dip my
brush into the richest rose and paint a
mother with a baby clutched to her
breast, her hand covering the eyes which
are closed forever, and her lips half open
in prayer. For I believe in the Beauty
of Death.

Another trunk line was added to
the Campbell switchboard. Simultan-
eously, the Holy Spirit descended on
the doctor, and he nicknamed the place
“The Heaven of Sorrow” and likened

and the first smile appeared on his pale
lips.

And I pondered how easy it is to
write upon a subject which is handled
with so much delicacy by the man who
gave the people of New York the Fu-
neral Church, the perfect institution.

Another telephone operator hung up

her hat.

O IT went. Dr. Baer imagined

new perfections for Mr, Camp-
bell, who was thus inspired to surpass
them. He installed an elevator under
the rostrum of his church. The last
words said, the casket silently disap-
peared; which eliminated pall bearers.
Long before, he had won the battle of
the automobile hearse. You may re-
member the fuss that greeted the first
automobile funeral. The public was so
shocked that Mr. Campbell had to put
a governor on the engine, limiting the
speed of the hearse to fifteen miles an
hour.

Esthetic improvements followed.
Feeling that the word “undertaker”

belittled his craft, Mr. Campbell sub-

3) stituted “mortician.” (He prophesies
i. * that, within a very few years, morti-
wie cians will enjoy the same status as
: phone calls. And being a genius, he physicians and surgeons.) Likewise,
i took infinite pains to make the physical he reorganized his staff into depart-
aspect of his new premises agree with ments, with executive offices on the
: the cheery promise of Dr. Baer’s first floor and sales rooms on the sixth.
4 verses. He fitted out the Gold Room This breaks up the monotony of a busi-
and employed connoisseurs to adorn it ness call and enables the sympathetic
| with happy works of art. No somber
. shape or color reminded the mourner *
of his loss. Rather there were tap- , _ naa
estries on which lovely ladies reclined,
charmed by the mellifluous measures
of flute and mandolin, manipulated
by equally elegant squires. A bronze
Diana slew tigers in the reception
room and Cupids and Psyches chased
each other all over the place.
A Red Room, a Blue Room, a
Broadway Room, and a dozen other
sumptuous chambers were appointed in piling
the same optimistic style, with the add- it to the Metropolitan Museum of
ed elegance of authentic Second Em- y.. “Del;
. . : Fine Arts. Under the title of “Deli-
pire tables, couches and chairs. The a ae se
1. , cacy,” he wrote more chattily as fol-
large and non-sectarian church on the id — Sean eae REY |
second floor was just as happy as it a a a a ee " T THOUGHT
could be; and so was every physical parted in a most delicate way,” said | ; oo ee
aspect of the place. Frank E. Campbell, founder-proprietor | ~ en
Meanwhile, Dr. Baer whanged his of the Funeral Church. “Ours is the | ae >
harp and sang sweet songs while Mr. only institution in the country employing | be
Campbell accomplished more pleasant erence Boag estrone ragged api
: respect due a woman in life is paid to ae
changes. He introduced a corps of her by us in death. We are most par-
kindly young men to help his clients. ticular in this.”
f In the morning his staff was appareled The man to whom Mr. Campbell
‘ in tasty business suits; in the after- spoke was surely surprised. A flash of
, ; ; appreciation flashed into his eyes, which
' noon, cutaways and pencil-striped | shall not soon forget.

trousers; in the evening, full dress.

“T am so glad to hear that,” he said,

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“EFenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo——

executives to escape the painful mat-
ter of sales.

Mr. Campbell’s dream of cheerful
funerals was barely realized when Dr.
Baer passed away. It was a sad loss,
but the doctor had enabled his friends
to bear it by the way he had beautified
death in life. Mr. Campbell carried
on.

He began the manufacture of his
own materials; and, during the flu
epidemic, was the only undertaker in
America prepared for the emergency.
It was during that time that he pros-
pered most. He was also fortunate in

securing a contract for the disposal of
all who died at the Pelham Bay Naval
Station during the war.

In the last few years, Mr. Camp-
bell has taken his nose from the grind-
stone somewhat and spends much of
his time on his cruiser, the “Jane C.”
—Jane being his pet name for Mrs.
Campbell. He is also giving more
time to the various fraternal and civic
organizations of which he is a leader.
He is a director of the Rotary Club,
a member of the Lions, and Founder
of the Order of Bananas, with Planta-
tions in many cities.

ub, 5 yo tneon.

’)

As an illustration of his quick sense
of humor, he founded the Bananas in
the course of playing a joke on Babe

Ruth. It was during the “Yes, We

Have No Bananas” craze of a few
years ago and Babe was playing some
pretty bad baseball. According to Mr.
Campbell’s press agent, the mortician
felt moved to send the ball player some
flowers. Feeling, perhaps, that this
would be too sinister an expression of
his feelings, he substituted a bunch of
bananas.

Meditating on this little lark, it oc-
curred to him that he might capitalize

See et

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the banana vogue by organizing a
lodge; and so he did. It cost him
quite a bit of money and he finally
withdrew after it seemed the order

had disappeared with the song. But
it did reveal a very human side
and undoubtedly made him many

friends,

R. CAMPBELL is still a young

man—fifty-one, in fact. He is
bluff and healthy and as good-natured
as they come, a little like Charlie
Schwab in appearance. With his
health and enthusiasm, there is no tell-
ing what further changes he may ef-
fect in the undertaking business before
he leaves it.

His yachting is no more than
recreation, as was shown during the
Valentino funeral, when he hurried
back to town and remained on his feet
for three days and nights. In the
winter, during the peak of business,
he comes to work daily.

He has pledged himself to serve
the public to the limit of his dream.
What happiness lies ahead God only
knows! —Cuarces MacArTHUR

“Women like you, Geoff.”

“Say, did you notice that, too?”

OF ALL THINGS

T IS now generally admitted that
the President’s proposal of a ten
per cent rebate on the 1926 taxes

will not be adopted. Apparently this
was not a sound plan but a momentary
whim of a generous, impulsive tem-
perament.

°

As time goes on, it becomes more
and more apparent that the late elec-
tion was a smashing victory for the
drys and a triumph for the adminis-
tration. It was not a sock in the jaw
for Wayne B. Wheeler but a national
love pat, and Mr. Coolidge’s head is
unbowed except in silent gratitude.

The United States Senate met for
only ten minutes, the shortest session
in history and perhaps thé most popu-
lar. We all feel that it was better
for the Senate to adjourn and not hang
around the surplus.

°

We trust that the regrettable breach
between Harvard and Princeton is

A pores a am - _

THE NEW YORKER

only temporary. Better feeling is

sure to prevail and some day we shall

see these friendly rivals biting ears and

gouging eyes in their old cordial way.
.

It is not surprising to learn that
many people were injured in the jam
at the Astrid wedding in Brussels.
Effete Europeans have an incurable
habit of idolizing royalty.

.

Governor Nellie Ross was defeated
for reelection but her place in history
is secure. She will go ringing down
the halls of time as the woman who
was not thrown off of Queen Marie’s

train.
.

Scientists claim that the human
tooth found in Montana is twenty mil-
lion years old. When his other en-
gagements permit, Reverend J. Frank
Norris must shoot somebody about this
matter.

.

Holiday rum is reported cheap and

plentiful here, the Ashokan reservoir

|

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THE NEW YORKER
ig up pleasantly and we hear
further complaint about the milk
y. Our liquid assets are now
tely satisfactory to all drinking

‘periments at Colgate prove that
urs’ sleep in a good, soft bed are
valent in refreshment value to

t hours in a hard, uncomfortable
We are fully prepared to hear

t the slumber one gets at the Met-
volitan Opera House is worth, in
round numbers, precisely nothing

whatever.
*

\lessrs. Vare and Smith are now
facing thirteen months of hard fight-
ne over their admission to the Senate.
We sometimes think those gentlemen
would have got more fun for their
money at a night club.

—Howarp BrRuBAKER

THE YE’S HAVE IT

‘HERE is no justice in this

world. The store whose name

, I considered an epitome of the

History of the United States, has

passed out of existence. It was called
Ye Rapio SHOPPE

and Lexington avenue in the Fifties

is is the duller for its passing.
1 But elsewhere in town the ye-virus
d is still flourishing. Not your ordinary

Ye Olde Mills and Ye Oldey Choppey
Houseys, but good substantial Ye’s that

tell you something and make your

t whole day bright. What this virus is,
1 what the active germinal element in it
contains, has never been discovered,

but it affects people in all walks of

life, from Ye Appetite Luncheon at

__ 50 Nassau Street, to Ye London Dog

| and Bird Shoppe, Incorporated, right
in Fifth Avenue. Of course, shoppes
nd places to graze have a claim on
the Ye’s, since they are all named after
such good old sturdy landmarks as
The Boot Shop, The Saddlery Shop,
The Cock Tavern, and The Cheshire
Cheese. Ye Eat Shoppe, either
on Eighth Avenue or In-
corporated at 307 West 125th Street,

, ‘sin the good old tradition, and Ye
Old Times Manufacturing Corpora-
tion (in the absence of further clues,

I gather that it is in the business of
| creating a usable past) also comes na-
) turally by its name. Nor do I count in
among the extravagant Ye’s the good

plain

Brooklyn laundryman, Charlie Yee,
nor the unoccupied, purely residential
Gow Yee, who is also of Brooklyn.

I am interested in the outstanding
Ye’s, such as Ye Olde Record Binding
Company, in Ye Shoppe which casts

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“The hussy—she says ‘I'll give
yuh a ring’—then she asks me ‘is
yer phone number under yer own

name’? Lordy!”

“Whoops! Wha? did she think

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it was under—yer bust measure?

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discretion to the winds and calls itself
“Quaint.” I am disappointed to find
no Ye Movie Palace, no Ye Old
lorde Garagey. But there are com-
pensations, in the suburbs and at home.
Ior, in the heart of Newark you will
find

Ye Olde Staten Island Dyeing
and Cleaning Establishment
and, God bless New York itself, never
behind anyone, at 250 West Fifty-
seventh Street there is, according to the

telephone book, no less than
Ye Olde New York Branch
United Master Butchers Asso-
ciation of America,
Incorporated.
—MartiIn Marten

A GREAT SCANDAL

Mrs. Costikan de Pew’s
Apartment up on Murray Hill

(I know I oughtn’t to abuse

A lady’s confidence, but still)

Is East (it’s awfully indiscreet

Of me) on Thirty-seventh Street.
It’s that apartment house next door
But one, I think it is, to Park;
(And please remember that I swore
I’d try to keep this business dark)
T’was built (I'd hate to have her know
I told) about a year ago.

Her door is marked Apartment B,
And shares an alcove, I infer,

(It’s really rather dastardly

In view of what I promised her)
Together with (I shouldn’t say
This, mind) the door of number A.

They’re right together, and I’ve heard
You can’t see either from the hall.
(It’s rotten, since I gave my word

I wouldn’t talk, but after all)
She said she came (I simply hate
Myself for doing this) in late

(I promised, and I really don’t
Think I can tell you, so I won’t)
—FI_~MorE Hyp

FROM AN OFFICE

The smoke that follows noontime¢
Rides down the rifts of walls;

Dirt and sun in the alley,
Glimmering dust falls.

I hear the clack of the tickers,
I tend the click of wires:
And dream of old leaves in gutters,

And October fires. -E. B. W.

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aa

““WFEECTURES are so broadening,”
said Aunt Millie, handing me
her ticket done in a lovely ver-

dant shade, quite like that of the

American Mercury. “Moreover,” she

added tartly, “I think you could

stand it.”

So I naturally hastened forthwith
to the Village Meeting House, which,
as you know, is at Forty-third Street,
near Sixth Avenue, just a few doors
from a hot tamale shop, and is the
cynosure of all the
very Nicest Ladies
every morning at a lit-
tle before eleven. Af-
ter they have phoned

for their broccoli and /

supervised their dust- (
ing, they take their \
hour of Culture. Pe gr

Well, first thing,
the obsequious tan boy
at the portals bowed
me up to the gallery
where the hot air rises.
To my protests, my
neighbor at the right
explained in Bostonese—which at first
looked natural only she had a little
more on some places than on others—
that downstairs was reserved for those
members who so loved Culture that
they were willing to deprive them-
selves of five subscriptions to THE
New Yorker. Aunt Maillie, it
seemed, had loved it merely well
enough to deprive herself of three.

UNKT eleven. A smallish, bald-

ish man fusses out upon the plat-
form. The faithful greet their proph-
et with a rill of applause. He an-
nounces in a portentous voice, ecstatic,
ominous, exactly what manna will
descend upon them for a week.

In the dimness, the solemn faces are
intently upturned, one can almost
imagine incense floating, the great or-
gan of The Meeting House rolling
Gregorian vibrations. . . . On Tues-
day Mrs. Florian Honeyweather will
give a painless summary of the week’s
most electric current events so that
they who do not read may run and
listen. On Wednesday Mr. Arnold
Matthews, the brother-in-law of the
famous poet, will speak on: “Ts
Browning Dead?” On Thursday
Miss Elsie White-White, “On the
Trail of Charm.” On Thursday
Monsieur Auguste Charles Marie

Arouet Kronenberger, Académie
Francaise and Prix d’etcetera, “La
Grande Dette—The Great Debt—
France to America or America to
(This sounds good so there

France?”
is another rill.) On Friday evening—
and you may bring husbands and

sweethearts (giggle) ‘The Man Mel-

a
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4

len—or, Our Trusty Treasurer,” by
Mrs. Ira Kruger Lightner.

Fy NOW if there are no ques-
tions we will have the extreme
pleasure of hearing Mr. Opal Ghan-
das Oranji, the famous Hindu lectur-
er, Brahman, Christian and author
whose book, wnich our dear Prof.
William Phelan Whelps has so highly
praised, is on sale in the lobby for three
dollars and fifty cents with the writer’s
own autograph, ladies. Mr. Oranji’s
subject today is a highly illuminating
one and one always near to our, etc.
“India love Columbia, Columbia love
India” (Rill). I am sure we welcome
Mr. Oranji not only adjective, adjec-
tive, but even adjective, adjectivissimo.
(Rill) ag al (Crescendo ) “Mr.
Oranji!”

R. ORANJLI is a most personable

young man, so exotic that he gets
them immediately. It will not matter
what his message is; he speaks it in a
voice that is round and rare and smooth
and shiny like black pearls. Two thou-
sand feminine hearts go out to him at
once. He is so cultural, this young Hin-
du, and besides, he has so much of
what those simply terrible novelists
might term sex appeal. Two thousand

THE NEW YORKER

LECTURES ARE SO BROADENING

pairs of feminine hands just waiting to
demonstrate intellectual harmony.
He gives them the opportunity. “It
is but leetle time since I have come
to your so gr-rr-reat contry wheech
ready just like a mother I love.” Th
fervor with which he says this 1s posi-
tively Oedipus. ‘They applaud. Later
he says, “Coolidge.” ‘They storm ap-
plause. “hen he says, “‘your wonder-

ful women,” and the conquest is com-
plete. He can tell them anything about
India and he _ does,
damning their beloved
British with something
far more positive than
faint praise, and they
respond warmly though
tomorrow they will all
be Anglophiles with
Mrs. Florian Honey-
weather, who wil]
point out the extent of
the British Empire on
a map.

Opal Oranji shuts
his eyes and. chants
Hindu poetry in the or-
iginal, this being the high spot of non-
comprehension and the very quintes-
sence of Culture. They all shut their
eyes and sway with the ecstasy of it;
then reopen them to straighten thei
hats. The hour is at an end. Mr.
Oranji announces for the second tim:
that his book is on sale in the lobby.

HE LITTLE fussy man arises

and after remarking that a
good play needeth no
explains just what Mr. Oranji_ has
put across (rill); just why he has put
it across (rill), and just how deau-
tifully (oh rill; rill and rill and rill).
We are sure Columbia understands
India a little better now, and is not
to understand to love? ‘Tomorrow he
will be saying that we understand
Great Britain a little better. Now
there are ever so many gentle-voiced
questions which the little Mohammed
of Culture catches and enlarges lik
a well functioning and ponderous 2am-
plifier. Notably I recall: “Why does
the Hindu hate the smell of a whit
man?”

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waiting and others just luncheon ap-
pointments at Schrafft’s, and a few of
is even have to hurry up to the fish-
market and hastily fry a few smelts so
ir children will have food not for
thought alone when they come home
for the luncheon hour and hear all
ibout how Mother went to India and

broadened her mind like anything.
—ELIsE JERARD

AMONG THE MARES

[Quoted without permission from
Stable and Paddock, a journal devoted

to the smart and the ultra-smart of
horsedom. |
HE SECOND annual Colt

Show at Tuxedo, known this
season as The Foals of 1926,
according to all reports, a huge
success. Movie Star, daughter of
Moonlight (who won the model, the
lightweights, the sweepstakes and the

was,

championship two years ago) and of

lion of Whitehall Stables, was chosen
as Miss America, and led the parade,
which circled the McIntyre paddock at
the opening.

Other prize winners, on points,
were Galloping Domino, the attrac-
tive young colt of Kentucky Babe,
well known as the present holder of
the Wall Street Cup; Jazz Singer and
Eagle Eye, the twin sons of Lady
Lark, who won the derby last season;
and White Sox, attractive daughter of
Don Q and Valencia. Jazz Singer and
Eagle Eye are also the sons of Dark
Hawk, the distinguished stallion of
Whitehall Stables, as everybody
knows.

Little Bright Eyes, the two-weeks-
old colt of Evening Flower, the fa-
mous trotter, was generally conceded
to have been the most charmingly-clad
foal and was awarded a special blue
ribbon.

His blanket was of imported
Scotch plaid and he wore on his mane
a crimson ribbon designed by Worth.

NicHt WatcHMAN: Looks kinda homey, don’t it, with

the pictures and all?
make a place cheerful.

There’s nothing like art, I say, to

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elves away, for several of us have cars Dark Hawk, the distinguished stal- His anklets were of unborn roan pinto

calf, so fashionable this season, and his
fetlocks were cunningly braided into
the laces of the anklets.

Dias Hawk himself was present
at the opening and _ attracted
much attention, as well as excitement,
among the foals, many of them claim-
ing him as their sire. He wore a cus-
tom-made_ dust-colored blanket of
English tweed which was cut sharply
back from foreleg to flank and was
held in place by a wide eight-inch
Spanish leather cinch.

Don Q, the only other stallion
in the paddock during the morning,
held himself markedly aloof. His cape
was of black broadcloth and hung al-
most to the tips of his silver-shod
hooves.

A party of geldings, among them
several dashing young Argentine polo
ponies, added a touch of color to the
gathering (which was probably the
smartest autumn event since the recent
hunt at Graystone Manor.) They
were clad simply in polo belts of var-
shades which was, of
frowned upon by the older mares, who
consider this vogue nothing short of
scandalous, but it must be admitted
that the swagger young mounts made
a decidedly attractive appearance, their
glistening naked backs flashing in the
sunlight.

ious course,

| ws Fruits, the charming widow
of Thundercloud III, entertained
the winning colts at a garden party in
the pasture under the chestnut trees
after the prizes were awarded. ‘The
older mares took their bran mash in-
side the stable and the alcoves of the
box-stalls echoed with the gossip of
track and paddock. Five Fruits her-
self, in a white velvet blanket, bloused
over a girdle of silver links which
matched her silver bridle and the fa-
mous Thundercloud III medals, was
a charming hostess.

She was ably assisted by her lovely
daughter, Silver Fizz, who was listed
this year as one of the best-looking
roadster-pacers in the breeding class,
and whose foal, Cocktail, is expected
to cause excitement next fall at the
sale of yearlings.

All in all, the event was a decided
social success and it was voted to con-
tinue the custom of preceding the
National Horse-Fashion Show
year with the Baby Colt Show. And
next fall it will be held in the Hip-
pogriff Mews. —Spup JOHNSON

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THE NEW YORKER

DAISY MAYME THWARTS A MATCHMAKER
All women may be sisters under the skin but they usually become sisters-in-law
only under protest. It was that way with Olly Kipax (Josephine Hull) but Daisy
Mayme Plunkett (Jessie Busley) won her over. Daisy Mayme had the voice with -
the smile, and then some. When pictured above, Olly was on the fence, an un-
comfortable situation for a lady of her figure.

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66 H, KAY!” the musical
comedy by Guy Bolton
and . G. Wodehouse

(music by George Gershwin and

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lyrics by Ira Gershwin), which

brought ‘Gertrude Lawrence, Oscar
Shaw, and Victor Moore to the
Imperial Theatre, is smart and swift
moving, and more than once reaches
hat gay madness which is the ulti-
mate virtue of a musical show. I
myself have never cared for Mr.
Gershwin’s music, but I am assured
that that is because he uses the diatonic
scale, or I have no ear, or some other
reason equally creditable to him and
shameful to me. Anyway I liked his
music for “Oh, Kay!” better than
any of his former compositions, which,
I suppose, means that falling
off. I can not say as much for the
lyrics of his brother. Mr. Ira Gersh-
win’s words always sound to me as
though they’d been put in so the sing-
ers could have something to use until
somebody thought up what the real
words should be. ‘That remains true
in the present instance, but it is not
a failing unique in Mr. Gershwin
among the members of his profession.
Oscar Shaw and Victor Moore do
all one could ask of them, the pro-
duction is adequately handsome, but
in saying all these things I have not,
of course, touched on the point of
really vital interest in regard to “Oh,
Kay!” That is how Gertrude Law-
comes out in the affair.
Ever since, in “Charlot’s Revue”,
Gertrude Lawrence parted dark cur-
tains, and, in a shining dress, made
of a mild little patter song a deli-
cious, and ridiculous, and exciting ad-
venture, Gertrude Lawrence has been
something special to a great many of
us. I may as well admit, right here,
that Miss Lawrence does not sustain
her “I Don’t Know” pitch through
an entire evening. I doubt if anyone
could. Moreover, she neither sings
“T Don’t Know” nor have the Messrs.
Gershwin provided her with any new
song so perfectly suited to her talent.

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ART IS SO
INTERNATIONAL!

As Kay she is, nevertheless, highly
satisfactory. Charming to look at,
she has a richness of personality much
beyond that of any comedienne now
in musical comedy, except, perhaps,
Luella Gear. I can conscientiously
endorse “Oh, Kay!” with the obvious

initials.

_ IRST LOVE,” the adaptation

from “Pile ou Face,” by Louis
Verneuil, made by Zoe Akins for Fay
Bainter, and now on view at the Booth
Theatre, brings it rudely to mind how
old-fashioned a “pretty” play is now-
adays. ‘Time was when a geographi-
cally lower Broadway was lined with
“pretty” plays, constructed solely for
the purpose of letting stars and lead-
ing ladies run the pretty gamuts of
their tricks. "This fecund season has,
so far, produced only one other typi-
cal example of the genre, the ill-fated
“Treat ’em Rough.” “First Love”
is a lot better than that was. It is
the story of a French boy and a Rou-
manian girl who have “starved, feast-
ed, despaired, and been happy” together
in a Parisian garret. ‘The starving
bids fair to prolong itself a little too
strenuously for romance, and the boy
resolves to marry the girl his father
has chosen for him, take a promised
five hundred thousand francs and re-
turn with them to his sweetheart. To
save him from doing so his sweetheart
resolves to sell herself to an admirer,
who turns out to be—you know how
such things happen—none other than
the boy’s father, who—but then you
can guess all that.

In one thing alone does “First
Love” show the imprint 1926. Time
also was, in years not so very long
overpast, when adapters of French
plays were not risking their paper
lace and embossed doves on illicit love
affairs. Marriage lines were always
cropping up in translated scenes of
the most Gallic bawdry. “First

33
Love,” however, calls a liaison—well,
as a matter of fact, it calls it “‘First

”

Love.

In it Fay Bainter, sometimes faint-
ly reminiscent of Mrs. Fiske, and very
charming in her own right, skims
above mawkishness, not far, but tri-
umphantly far enough. ‘The peren-
nially delightful Bruce McRae is
as perennially delightful as ever, and
Geoffrey Kerr thrusts about a
with his broad
looks as troubled as usual.

great

deal shoulders and

F ONE is to report the mere facts

about “Old Bill, M.P.”, the Bruce
Bairnsfather comedy at the Biltmore
Theatre, one sound more
than a little In
turgy it is about on a level with “For
His Brother’s Crime,” in which the
big moment, as I remember, was
convict’s escape by hopping a freight
train right on the stage. In it “prop”
menace is provided by maneuvering
Bolsheviki, and many of the jokes
antedate the days when the fear of
Red propaganda wasn’t too ludicrous
for even theatrical Old
Bill himself, however, is a figure who
has a right to demand the tribunal of
the heart.

Old Bill, the Walrus,
Captain Bairnsfather dug out of the
war mud, is a symbol of humorous,

Is apt to

scurrilous. drama-

usefulness.

whom

middle-aged valor to make handsomer
heroes seem petty indeed, and all the
awkwardness and artificiality of the
play which gives Mr. Charles Coburn
an opportunity to put him again on
the stage couldn’t spoil my pleasure
in him. If the arrantly British vir-
tues happen to irritate you “Old Bill,
M.P.” will drive you to hari-kari be-
fore the curtain has been up ten min-
utes, but if you suffer from Anglo-
philism, complicated occasionally by a
touch of nostalgia for the war you
might do far worse with an evening.

Fs ges NOW, children, having be-
gun with a little Briton in these
great big United States, stopped first

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in France and then in Blighty, we
come to Italy.

Italy is represented by “Naked,”
the play by Luigi Pirandello at the
Theatre. ‘‘Naked”
between a neurotic girl’s
attempt at suicide and her suicide.
That period is seized upon by the
girl Ersilia (Marguerite Risser) and
the whole cast of characters to in-
dulge in a jumpy discussion of such
absorbing abstractions as “What is the
difference between the Real and the
Imagined?” and “Isn’t it funny how
fluid Personalities are?”? It does not
seem to me that Mr. Pirandello’s ob-
servations on either subject are very
revolutionary, and I must admit that
to me a passionate dissertation on the
more abstruse parts of calculus would
have been just as interesting. To like
Pirandello you have to have a certain
kind of mind, and those who have it
do make one feel inferior as they sit

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the time

appreciating, one is convinced, with
mathematical nicety, the virtuosity of
his philosophical tumbling.

I was so befuddled with boredom
that I have only a dim idea that
“Naked,” except for Augustin Dun-
can’s performance of an_ elderly
novelist, was rather badly acted.

AST OF all, the Magic Carpet

which that acquisitive old genie
of a Mr. Tyson will be glad to set
flying for you at any moment takes
us to sunny Spain, via the Forty-
eighth Street Theatre. “The Squall,”
by a writer who chooses to be known
as Jean Bart, is laid in the mountains
near Grenada.

“The Squall” is just a friendly
warning to wives not to take into their
homes pretty, hyperthyroid, gypsy
girls. Blanche Yurka, that expert in
depressed parenthood, does so. The
girl (Suzanne Caubet) is called Nudz,

“BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT”

THE NEW YORKER

and she is fleeing from a male gypsy.
When she appears, as though blown
in by the raging and symbolical squall
without, all the cast is strong for giv-
ing her sanctuary, and even some of
the people in the audience were ready
to move out their top hats and let
her see if she couldn’t squeeze under
the seat and so escape. She turns out
to be a baggage, however, and before
the play ends S. O. S. after S. O. S.
has been sent over the mountains to
that good strong, male gypsy who
knew what was best for Nudi, and the
women in the cast are ready to con-
tribute towards buying him enough
whips to set up a fair-sized saddler’s
shop. “The Squall” is a dull, solemn
play made from material which would
have lent itself to roaring farce. It
is lavishly staged and catches almost
perfectly the strong, Spanish atmos-
phere of the new Guild Theatre.
—CHARLES BRACKET?

John Gilbert, in the center, is mixing conversation with his dueling while the lady, Eleanor Board-

man, requests him to be more careful.

escapes.

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OMERVILLE, N. J.—The

leading player in this ironic com-

edy—which persists in being
comedy even while a pale woman
and her two brothers sit disconsolately
in the wings and contemplate their
mortal destinv—is a little five-foot
man with a bad disposition and a sharp
tongue who is having the very time of
his lif

He has just made his entrance for
the day’s performance, stepping with
debonair unconcern through the dense
crowd at the doorway to the accom-
paniment of bellowing, official voices:
‘“MIake way for the Senator, there!”
And the press of women, gaunt from
their eagerness and their fear lest they
be locked out, and their day’s sport
ruined, stepped back upon each others’
toes to regard his passage with admira-
sion and something of reverence.
Three minutes before they had stood
utterly immovable before the muscular
etforts of a former half-back, who
happens to be an attorney for the
defense. The gentleman had to use
another door.

The little man is named Simpson,
and he is presenting the case on be-
half of the State. Without him, there
is danger that the trial would be dull.
Without him, it might even be digni-
fied and solemn—which, of course,
would spoil most of its amusing quali-

ties. ‘lhe country folk who pack
themselves into this high, vaulted room
every day admire him hugely. They

murmur to themselves, “It’s a_ real
education to watch that little fellow,
ain’t itt’? And such of them as are
witnesses for the defense, and there-
fore, thinking of the moment when
they shall sit upon the witness stand,
tremble at the anticipation of his cross-
examination.

The presiding Justice regards him
curiously. ‘The jurymen prepare to
chuckle discreetly at the biting sally
which he might produce at any mo-
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a big chair with his feet hardly reach-
ing to the floor, unsmiling and in-
tent, waiting for the first witness of
the day.

. BEFORE we observe the
gentleman more minutely, let us
cast a glance or two about the stage
which he occupies. It is really a pity
that you cannot be here—that you can-
not hope to worm your way past the
women packed at the door, and move
cautiously down the sloping aisle to
settle yourself in one of the high-
backed open chairs and stare down
into the well where the action is car-
ried out. For one who is here, it
is an absorbing thing, and yet it seems
not quite real. It is not quite palpa-
ble—the thought that this square
room, not very large, with its tiers of
dull-faced people banked from the
edge of the well itself up the sharp
slope to the white wall beyond, is the
center of attention for a whole race
of humans.

And yet it must be true. ‘There,
in three long, curved rows of chairs,
sit a hundred newspaper people, writ-
ing furiously most of them, sending
thousands and thousands of words out
to a country which js hungry for them.
A dozen telegraph messengers hover
about, grasping handfuls of penciled
sheets, scurrying downstairs to the
roaring telegraph office in the base-
ment. All about the edges of the
crowd the cameramen are poised, lift-
ing their black boxes, holding them
still a moment, then lowering them
again.

Tucked away in a corner of the
well sit twelve men in rows. ‘They
are the jurymen, and they are bored
and probably stupid, as most juries

re. Across from them, hidden by
a crowd of lawyers, and witnesses who
will testify soon, and court attendants

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who move about sedately, are three
who sit quite motionless. But they
are only the accused ones. ‘They fade
quickly out of the picture, and they
do not appear again, for of all the
people in this courtroom they receive
the least attention. Indeed, they seem
wholly unimportant, and one wonders
if any would notice if they quietly
arose and walked out into the sun-
shine. Behind the high desk of yellow
oak, decorated with two tall lamps,
sit the Justice of the Court and his
consultant judge.

So, then, the scene. I am quite
aware that my words do not give a
very clear image. I am not sure that
any words would do that. But if you
have ever been in a trial court room,
anywhere, you know the atmosphere
that hangs over the scene. It is ut-
terly commonplace. It is pitched as
low as any event possibiy could be,
with so many people watching. It
seems utterly incapable of producing
that emotional quality called drama.

HILE my pencil. has wandered
on they have started. Barbara
Tough is sitting easily in the witness
chair, and Mr. Simpson is warming up.
I see that I have implied a promise
which I cannot keep. It was sug-
gested, in a previous column, that we
should examine Mr. Simpson’s method
But that will not be possible. For
such an examination is a matter of
detail, of inspecting the immense flow
of minutiae which combine to form
that thing which is called a murder
trial. ‘There is no space here for
such a thing.

He badgers his witness, a witness
that he himself has called. He sneers
at her and expresses his contempt for
her—he pounces furiously upon the
lawyer for the defense when an ob-
jection is entered. And he is doing
nothing more important than finding
out the name of the street which ran

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Brunswick. ‘They spend seven min-
utes finding out the name of that
street. And then the presiding Jus-
tice does not quite yet understand, so
it must be gone over again. It is
ridiculously unimportant.

They spend seven minutes finding
out the name of the street which ran
at the other side of the Hall home
in New Brunswick. The jury nods.
Mr. Simpson ends his questioning. And
Mr. McCarter begins his cross-exami-
nation.

Mr. McCarter is clumsy. Perhaps it
is his clumsiness which makes Mr.
Simpson appear adroit. He asks no
questions in his own behalf that Mr.
Simpson has not already asked, and
the answers are the same. ‘The wit-
ness has consumed more than an hour
of time, and has contributed nothing
whatever which might make clear the
guilt or the innocence of the de-
fendants.

A newspaper reporter is on the
stand. He says that he met a man,
one day, at the New Jersey end of
the Erie Ferry connection. He makes
this statement during cross-examina-
tion. And Mr. McCarter spends
fourteen minutes by the watch de-
manding that the witness tell him the
precise location of the Manhattan end
of the ferry connection. The wit-
ness repeats a score of times that he
does not know, never did know, and
doesn’t care. Why anybody else should
care is a mystery.

But that is the essence of the trial
—of any trial at all, indeed. Hours
of dull questioning go by, the steady
stream of voices pitched in the inter-
rogative and voices pitched in the
period. A half-fact emerges here
and there, and the jury must decide
whether the witness is lying or telling
the truth. Such half-facts are buried
deep begeath the storm of words, and
one wonders whether all twelve of
these stolid-looking fellows are ana-
lysts enough to find them.

HE DAY is gone—and one sits
down to wonder what has hap-
pened. ‘There is but one clear mem-
ory, at the last. And that is of a
little knot of lawyers bickering and
muttering among themselves, giving
vent to every peevish emotion that
stirs them, parading before the court-
room and the world, and _ polishing
up their bad manners. The jury is
faded out. The accused three are
faded out. The stream of witnesses,
too, is faded out—with one exception.
This was a tall girl who used to

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be a servant in the Hall ménage:
sharp-faced and_ sharp-voiced gir!
named Louise Geist, with a curl to
her lips and quick, expressive gestures
in her hands. She distinguished her-
self, in the mind of this chronicler,
at least, by making the most intelli-
gent remark ever delivered of a wit-
ness in court.

Under Mr. Simpson’s examination,
she said that on the night of the mur-
der, Dr. Hall received a telephone
call from Mrs. Mills.

“T looked over the banister from
upstairs where I had answered the
phone,” she said, “‘and saw Mrs. Hall
lift the receiver on the instrument
downstairs. I said to her, “The call
is for Mr. Hall. He is answering
it” And Mrs. Hall put down the

receiver and went away.”

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Mr. Simpson was perturbed. H«
got a stenographic record of Miss
Geist’s testimony of four years ago.
His questions went in this manner:

Q. You were asked about this tele-
phone conversation: “How do you
know she was not at the ’phone?”
And didn’t you answer “I am _ not
positive about that”? A. I pre-
sume I did, but the question was put
to me altogether different.

Q. But you said nothing at all to
that Grand Jury about Mrs. Hall put-
ting up the receiver? A. They un-
doubtedly did not ask me.

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not, you told them nothing about it,
did you? A. I try to tell you things
and you don’t let me tell them, so
therefore I probably tried to tell them
that and they would not let me tell it.

Mr. Simpson sat down and there
was unholy, if silent, laughter in th
courtroom.

HE YOUNG woman spoke pro-

foundly. ‘There is really no hon-
est effort to find the truth in this mur-
der trial—or any murder trial that
I have ever beheld. ‘There is only
the effort of the lawyers on both
sides to produce testimony that will
help their respective cases. If a wit-
ness insists upon telling some mordant
truth, there is a very simple expedient
for making the jury miss its impact:
The lawyer who is injured by the
truth raises an objection and enters
into a long controversy concerning the
admissibility of the testimony. His
opponent, never loath to hear his own
voice, responds with voluminous rhe-
toric. And the poor, shrinking truth
is utterly buried under a tidal wave
of highly legal words.

N THE whole, it is slightly ridic-
ulous. In the fifteen trial days,

say, these twelve jurymen must listen
to nearly 1,500,000 words whispered
or shouted into their ears. “Two-thirds
of these words will be spoken by th
lawyers, and therefore can be of no
importance whatever in helping them
to arrive at the actual facts involved.
Of the remaining half-million words,
spoken by witnesses, ninety per cent
will be utterly trivial, without the
slightest bearing on the case at all.
The remaining ten per cent will be
compact of assertions that one thing 1s
the truth, and almost equally credible
assertions that another thing is the
truth. One grows slightly dizzy, but
hangs stubbornly to the notion that
the modern murder trial, of which
the Hall-Mills case is a singularly fine
example, is something less than perfect
as a means of establishing the guilt
of accused men and women. But as
a spectacle, an ironic spectacle full!
cf juicy chuckles, ah! For there,
leading all the others, is Mr. Simpson,
who does not even have to hire his
hall. The hall is provided out of tax-

payers’ money, and the taxpayers—

even though they mistake this modern
circus for a bit of fine Greek traged)
—pay him for appearing there. And
since we must pay for this amusement,
whether we witness it or not, why re-
fuse to attend?

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WORLD CRUISE

I want to go where the cinnamon
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I want to fool around old Stamboul
About this time of year.

1 want to sail on a vagrant ship
To find the Golden Fleece;

Or the Balearic Isles or the peristyles
That top the hills of Greece.

I want to go to Haiderabad
And loaf with the slim Parsee ;
Or Somaliland or Samarkand—
They'd all look good to me.

Oh bring me a dish of lotus buds
And a beaker of anodyne,

For a soul that pants for soft romance,
For a tortured soul like mine.

And the haughty ships sail out
From this port beside the sea,
And Mr. Potts and Sadie Blotz
Are sailing instead of me.
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FISH
Rather like the bloated broker

Is the fat and festive croaker,
And the pompano’s patrician,
While the shark has xo position.

Quaint the salmon, even canned—

These are fish I understand—

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When I look at William Beebe’s.
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Our government is making splen-
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cial aviation. There is a rumor that
the skyway department has already
found some nice bumpy air suitable
for detours.

There was a remarkable silence. Still-
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Pennsylvania paper.

And the verbosity of wordiness
seemed redundant.

On account of death will sell my Hud-
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at 505 Third Street N.—North Dakota
paper.

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SPORTS OF THE WEEK

T WAS Yale’s ball on the elght-
yard line. ‘Third down and the
goal to go! Score, Princeton

ten, Yale seven. ‘The Blue stands
were screaming with joy as their backs
plunged and lunged through the line,

reeling and staggering toward the

The Tiger

Princeton final defense.

side of the field, that had been in an
ecstatic delirium most of the after-

noon, was imploring its team to

“Fight, fight, fight.” For just a few
seconds it began to look as though the
so-called championship of the Big
Three was bound for New Haven; as
though Princeton would have to con-

Princeton Makes and
Takes the Breaks

tent herself with the championship of
the Big Two. But Yale, ever oblig-
ing in these matters, came to the rescue
of the sorely pressed Tigers.

Back came the ball from the cen-

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ter, back away from those reaching
Yale arms, back, much too far back.
It bounded and bobbled alone and
helpless behind the charging lines, the
same play that saved Harvard from a
touchdown in the Stadium last fall.
With this exception. Where last
vear a Blue player was able to turn

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and save the ball, this year it was
Princeton that was facing Yale. And
you know what Princeton does to a
loose ball. When Lawler gathered
it in upon his own twenty-two yard
line, he gathered in more than just a
loose ball. He gathered in the game,
the second victory over Yale in two

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years, and the fourth straight defeat
of Cambridge and New Haven. Once
again the Tiger is licking his chops
with no one to gainsay him the right.

The sports writers will tell you
what a terrible thing it is to point for
one or two particular games in a sea-

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“What a whale of a difference a little
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No harm, either if he reminds you of more of
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championships and equally mythical
All-American teams; they will count
up the number of touchdowns and
field goals scored by leading fullbacks
as they classify and rank the batters
in the National League. What they
don’t understand, and never will un-
derstand, are the reasons underlying
the desire of Yale or Princeton to
beat each other. It seems to me that
the manner in which the Yale line
functioned last Saturday was or ought
to be a sufficient answer to the news-
paper critics who accused Coach Jones
of every crime in the calendar because
he refused to risk his first eleven
against Maryland the previous Satur-
day. Yale wanted to beat Princeton,
and Yale came extremely close to do-
ing it. And if she wished to play her
first eleven or her third eleven against
Maryland or anyone else that is her
business.

Back to the game. As a game, it
was several touchdowns ahead of the
Harvard-Princeton struggle. Packed
into two hours and a half was enough
brilliant play to satisfy any former
football star or any ex-cheer leader.
There was the spectacle of two fine
lines against each other, the quarter-
back duel between Bunnell and Caul-
kins, lots of fine running in the open
field, forward passing, kicking, and
daring goal-saving tackles. Besides
this, there was also a lot of loose play-
ing, some indifferent tackling, blocked
kicks, fumbles and jumbles and bobd-
bles and wobbles and some of the sor-
riest football you can imagine thrown
in to show how nervous and how
much on edge the two elevens were
from start to finish.

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Princeton without Mr. Slagle’ was
not at her best, and don’t let anyone
tell you to the contrary, no matter
how finely Mr. Baruch passed and
kicked in his place. For it was the
ever-present threat of Mr. Slagle as
much as the player himself that de- :
feated Harvard. With him missing ] By
that threat was gone, and it made a Wh pe Sr
vast difference in Princeton’s attack, y y
which was stopped cold after the first
mt CONNOISSEUR

Slagle sat in uniform upon the Or a

Princeton bench beside Coach Roper,

a wistful expression on his face as his Something in you responds to the slim, sleek lines
teammates outgeneralled, outfought, of a blooded-horse, to the romance of first editions,
and finally outplayed a fine Yale team. to Pompano Almondine by a premier chef, to the
Once in the thine quever waen te bouquet of Chateau Lafitte, vintage 1904.

Blue was threatening Geology Jake : ! ,

trotted out and took a few steps up You will be fascinated by the flowing lines and
and down before the bench. Perhaps glowing finish of England’s patrician of all pipes—
had Princeton needed one more score Ben Wades. You will savor the flavor that steals
he might have been thrown into the through the stem to caress your palate. No other
conflict. That we will never know. pipe is just like this.

The occasion did not arise, the eleven
men upon the field proved equal to
their task. Not all that galaxy of Yale

Since 1860 Ben Wade and his descendants have
been pipe makers to the English gentry. Their pipes

backs could pierce the Orange and are famed in a land famed for pipes. They fashion the
Black defense in that second half shapes for the men who shape the fashions. Exhibited
when only inches separated them from at the better tobacconists and men’s shops.

victory.

ND WHAT wonderful backs

they were! It seemed as though
Al each fresh Yale back was better than |
the man he replaced. And the supply

was inexhaustible. Goodwine went in

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cridiron! But neither Noble nor Cox,
who took Kline’s place, nor Wads-
worth, who came in later, were quite
good enough to put that ball over the
line in the second half. Even with
three such backfields as these Yale
couldn’t win.

In these games the team that scores
first usually laughs last. ‘This strug-
gle was no exception to this rule. Up
at Cambridge several weeks ago
Princeton gave Harvard several scor-
ing chances right at the start of the
game.

And Harvard refused to accept
them. Princeton then did_ the
same thing to Yale last week. With
the ball on the twenty-two yard line,
quarterback Bunnell had exactly the
same chance in the first five minutes
of play that quarterback Putnam
had. Neither could take advantage of
their opportunity. Whereas, Slagle or
no Slagle, Princeton made the most
of hers.

ND THAT is why the victory

came to old Nassau, why the Ti-
ger cheering sections began to cheer
triumphantly, yes, and a little de-
fiantly, as their band moved down
upon the field in the closing moments
of the game, and the haze over the
soft Jersey hillsides changed to dusk,
and the dusk imperceptibly merged
into darkness. The whistle blew; the
hordes of raccoon coats swarmed be-
low, while the faces of Laurence Per-
ry, greatest of all Princeton football
writers, and Big Bill Edwards, the
greatest of all football rooters, were
happy and smiling as they watched the
rise and fall of caps, derbies and soft
hats over the southern goal-posts, and
listened to the sounds of the Tiger’s
roar.

All the time, unnoticed by those
hysterical thousands pouring onto the
gridiron, unnoticed even by the sub-
dued and disappointed sections that
loomed in the dusk above, a discon-
solate and dejected figure in a battered
blue jersey was going off the field. But
he was not going alone. A big man
in a blue coat was by his side, his arm
around the shoulder of the boy.

It was the coach and the captain of
the Yale eleven leaving the field, and
it was the very best sight of all that
leng and stirring afternoon.

—JoHn R. Tunis

Other Sporting Departments, Football
and Court Games, will be found on
pages 49 and 66.

THE NEW YORKER

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THE NEW YORKER

FOOTBALL
Tip-Top Tacticians

ROBABLY
the most in-
teresting football
game of the year
from a technical
viewpoint was
played at the
Yankee Stadium this last week-end.
It was colorful, to be sure, but to those
of us who never grow too old to learn
something about the technique of the
came, the colorful features were sub-
merged under the flood of policy,
logistics, strategy and tactics. The
Notre Dame victory, the policy of the
two institutions being about equal,
was achieved by the best use of three
f the Famous Four. Logistics—the
supply of men in the field—was a
great Notre Dame asset, permitting
Knute Rockne, the coach, to absorb
is much shock as possible with his sec-
nd string players, and assume the of-
fensive with the men who, according
to his design, were to win the game.
|For Notre Dame’s substitutes were
just about on a par with the first string.
Strategy, which contemplates bring-
ng one’s forces in contact with the
nemy in an advantageous manner,
was also with the South Bend coach,
tor he had opportunity to work with
that rarest of combinations, a fine
ne, and a backfield of actors. The
‘cam then moved on to tactics, and
t was the best use of tactics that won
the game from one of the best foot-
all elevens ever turned out at West
Point, and certainly since the war.
The policy, then, is the establish-
nent in an institution wherein scholar-
hip and other standards match up
with any of its rivals, of football as
“key” sport. That is the policy of
Notre Dame, as it has been of the
\rmy for some years. The next step,
contemplates the gathering
together and the development of foot-
all players. Once football is made
“key” sport the process is simple—
n the case of West Point, drawing
ipon not merely the best material nat-
irally available, but the development
‘f stars who win appointments to the
nstitution after graduation from
ther colleges and who ave anxious
for a career in the Army; in the case
f Notre Dame, making certain that
the best material available for the
Catholic colleges is assembled at South
Bend, Indiana. In the case of Notre

ogistics,

Is this moral reading?

Benen lady appears at ease. She is. She looks as if running a household
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in household aids to ease her work, and make it do itself. So now the
lady has time to chortle over The New Yorker, to take a hand at running
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“Such 3 relief,” ob-
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and up pops the lid,”
exclaimed the lady. “‘And
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hooks. $6.75

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lots of things.’”’ It has three
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lemons and grapefruit.
Hold up the fruit, turn
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Dame this little matter of logistics is
taken care of by the pe rsonality of th
coach, Knute K. Rockne, and in th
case of the Army by the opportunity
offered to the poor boy by an appoint-
ment that guarantees his education
and a job when he is graduated.
There is, then, a great deal in com-
mon between the two institutions be-
fore the annual game opens. Usual-
ly the game has been played in Oc-
tober at a time when neither Notr
Dame nor the Army feels that it is
prepared for the very best type of
football.

Now on a November date, with
these two having passed the stage of
policy and _ logistics—knowing full
well that either team will have to go
“all out” to win, and knowing, too,
that the victor, maugre subsequent
possible misfortunes, might well be
considered the best eleven in the coun-
iry—the very best technical football
in the land should be expected of both
sides. And it was so.

The strategy then! It was the |

Army’s apparent policy to make its
contacts as quickly as possible with
the least possible display of the bril-
liant use of individuals; preferabl;
by well placed kicking and by putting

on pressure with a savage running

game. It was Notre Dame’ S appar- |

ent policy to make those same con-
tacts with a shock-absorbent of well-

coached and capable reserves, sup-
planted later by the great performers
and actors who could be thrown in
the persons of the first string back-
field—such men as Flanagan, who in
person won the game, Dahman, Ed-
wards, the redheaded and capabl
quarterback, Hearndon, the equally
redheaded and equally capable midd):
man in the hop shift of which Rockn:
has made so much and such brilliant
use, and O’Boyle, the plunger.

And now the tactics: In any gam:
in which pressure is at such a pa *
it was between these two, there come
a time when there must appear, if
even only for an instant, a flaw in the
perfection of the play. A good quar-
terback looks for that flaw, recognizes
it instantly, and takes advantage ‘of it.
A perfect field general wins with it.
Therefore Red Edwards, a perfect
field general, won his game.

Before settling down to a discus-
sion of Flanagan, the medium of vic-
tory, and Edwards, the launcher
thereof, it might be worth while con-
sidering the West Point defense,
which at this particular stage had the
deficiencies cf its merits. Sounds
strange? Well, it is not. Last year

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S is the soldiers beat Notre Dame by J ——$P=———————— ———
the throwing in the ends, holding the — a it) H
th tackles free, and putting outside re- | —_____— ———-- --— , | i
nity sponsibility on the wing backs. This |
int- time there was so much confidence in (
ton the line from tackle to tackle that the | 1)
ted, defense was rearranged. It was de- | i
m- termined to stop possible Notre Dame | |
be- forward passes at almost any cost. For | i
1al- this reason, the defense against the jl
Je- running game was entrusted to five | f
tre men, and sometimes as low even as | | |
t is four—when the center came out of | | :
of the line to rove. ‘The tackles were | | | i
played wide, and well back of the | i
ith scrimmage line as in the days of the (oi J |
of special defenses by Reggie Brown at POEMS | |
ull Harvard. They were practically the ; | ;
go real ends of a five-man line. The | 1} i
00, customary ends were moved out from | i
ent the tackles all the way from five to I | N SAPPHIRE | | |
be eight yards. The rest of the defense ; | |
1n- was what is known as the “box” de- | | on
val] fense. In other words, there were six »N THAT faded 1} i
oth in defense against the pass at all times, {
the tackles going in to develop the pass corn f] ower
the | on the probable passing downs, but
its | holding back and keeping free of the tone so much
ith “pile” against the running game. It ‘ 1h
ril- | is a sweet proposition—when it works. us ed in th Cc |
bl) And it came near working to perfec- . ° it
ing | tion against Notre Dame. autumn fa bri cs, ¢ h Cc
ing | Thus it was that on the third down _ 4]
ar- early in the third period, when even darker blue of sapphire
n= Robots might be expected to slack a :
Il- bit out of their iene of perfection, adds a note of richness. |
Ip- the Army left wing back stepped up
ers just about a stride too close. Indeed, UpaLL @7? BALLOU pre- |
in the whole Army defense was out of ;
k- place on this dangerous third down. sent sapphires of
ew As a matter of fact the closing up was ,
id so apparent that high school players personality
ble in the stand—and there are a lot of
lly them in this town who know technical
de football down to the ground—were | |
sa howling for the pass. It was the first | |
- time that the Army defense had made |
- anything but a basket against the pass.
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However, Edwards, the redheaded
Notre Dame quarterback, was a jump

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he stand. He realized that when re- | Uysal Ballou

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“4 as nearly perfect as it had been up to |
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a perfect attack. For when these two
perfections come together, the advan-
tage should be, and usually is, with
the defense. As it turned out, the sud-
den shift of the burden to the tackle
was too much for him. Flanagan set
out, after the quickest and simplest

straight slant to the defensive tackle,
Sprague. Sprague, big and strong as
he was, could not take up the slack of
the entire Army defense, and so Flana-
gan bumped into him, turned in, and
went on.

It may be said that Harbold, the
end, should have taken him. Whether
he could have done so, even without
bumping, remains doubtful, for his as-
signment called for keeping the Notre
Dame attack on his side turned in
against the heart of the West Point
line. ‘The cross-over men from the
left side of the Notre Dame line took
out the secondary, including the wing
back, who had made a faulty change
in his position, with the result that
Flanagan, the sprinter, stepped along
for sixty-three yards and a touchdown.
Chief among these cross-over men was
Voedisch, on the end, and he it was
who disposed of the safety man, wip-
ing him out just at the instant when
Harding might have been most dan-
gerous. The whole play was a tribute
to the individual technique of the
Rockne-taught players.

This was a case of perfect general-
ship. ‘There were other bits of gen-
|eralship that were not so good. ‘The
!Army’s failure to throw in men like
''Trapnell and Dahl, the fastest run-
ning combination and the best forward
pass combination, right at the start, can
be explained only by the fact that the
soldier coaches believed they could put
on enough pressure in the line. Yet
with Murrell kicking into the cor-
ners with superb accuracy, there was
fair reason to suppose that Notre
Dame could be forced into errors.
Murrell was also the ace of the run-
ning game, for Notre Dame _ had
Harry Wilson thoroughly covered.

In a word, the Army’s gamble was
a simple one. It believed that it could
shut Notre Dame’s passing prospects
down to about nothing by the mere de-
sign of the defense, and that the little
handful of men on the forward line
was sufficiently capable to handle any
running game that Notre Dame could
produce. It was a good gamble, even
though a loser. In the meantime
Notre Dame is undoubtedly at this
writing the greatest football team in
the country. —HERBERT REED

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dren.”
“You poor dear—”
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third-floor back do that to me.’

“fy dear, I had no idea when she
signed the lease.”

“T don’t believe a lease holds. I
don’t. And it’s not so bad
turning out a_ third-floor-back espe-
cially in a house like yours, with the
‘L’ in the front.”

“My ‘L’ is no worse, Deirdre, than
vour car line, and your trucks. Though
[ was so disappointed! Such a nice
woman, a lady to her toes, liked my
front! But she said she had made a
vow that never in her life would she
live on an ‘L’ platform.”

“Don’t you run into the funniest
You learn life, my dear,
when you’ve got an extra room on
your hands.”

“How’s your second-hall-bed-room
front?”

“Decorator—of course!
night.”

‘““They’re just made for hall-bed-
I get tired, though, when they
get nervous and begin to tack up
orange drapes.”

“It’s just one of the things you’ve
got to put up with.”

“Did I tell you about my _base-
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your basement?”

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ITH THE exception of those

rare people who begin, in a

careful way, to plan their
Christmas lists in February or therea-
bouts, most of the world prefers to
do its holiday shopping with a maxi-
mum of speed and minimum of effort.
And for these I recommend Hostesses,
Inc., now snuggled in the basement
at 24 East Sixty-second Street, and
positively the best labor-saving device
since the discovery of electricity. The
organization, which is run for the
benefit of the New York League of
Girls’ Clubs, aided numbers of har-
assed business men last year by select-
ing and buying gifts for the more
feminine of their dear ones. This
explains the beautiful sentiment of
Christmas, for the procedure was for
the man to send a check for the
amount of money he wished to spend
and a list of the names and ages of
the happy recipients. The hostesses,
thereupon, bought presents for each,
submitted them for approval, and
shipped them off, nicely tied up in
tissue paper and ribbon. They will
also send flowers to anyone, at any
time, for any occasion whatsoever.

They will have fur
coats remodelled,
cater for lunch par-
ties, open town
houses and apart-
ments painlessly so that
the homecomer finds
them ready for occu-
pancy, supply cleaning
women, seamstresses,
part-time secretaries,
chaperons, companions,
apartments, interpret-
ers, chow dogs, star
sapphires, train tickets,
hairdressers, and anything else you can
think of. In the hour I spent there
I failed to think of a single service
that they had not performed or were
not prepared to perform at an instant’s
notice. Which is well worth know-
ing, there being so much to do every
day and all.

HE REST of this department,
after this beaut:ful introduction,
will be devoted to luggage.

The first item is a suitcase lock that
requires no key. This little blessing
is opening all hearts around town with
the password Sesame. It is an ordi-
nary snap affair, equipped with three
small dials, numbered from 0 to 9.
In order to lock your suitcase you
choose some number in three figures—
such as your house number, the month
and day of your birthday, or the num-
ber of years you have been happily
married—press the plunger under the
lock, set the dials to this combination,
release the plunger, snap the lock, and
twirl the dials around merrily. The
suitcase is then locked until you set the
combination once more. I have seen
this, attached to very good looking

THE NEW YORKER

ON AND OFF THE AVENUE

THE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS

luggage, at John Boyle’s, 358 Fifth
Avenue, and also at Tripler’s.

CHRADER’S, at 444 Madison

Avenue, is carrying a novel and
clever hatbox, designed by Miss Caro-
line Duer. It is a square box of th
usual size and weight, but has several
innovations that show that its designer
has suffered with the rest of us from
the inefficiency and inconvenience of
the regulation kind,

In order to pack it, it is stood up-
right as it is when you are carrying
it. The lip opens down, and in the
box part you see two drawers, one at
the top and one at the bottom, for
your dresses and lingerie, and at either
side a box for shoes or odds and ends,
leaving a square space in the middle
for the crowns of your hats. The hat;,
of course, are pinned to the lid of the
box, and space is allowed between the
lid and the compartment for the in-
trusion of a brim or two.

If you can understand this descrip-
tion at all, you will realize that its
boon comes from the fact that your
clothes are not crumpled, as they are
when allowed to toss about in the vast
spaces of the average affair. In two
sizes, $25 and $35.

ARK CROSS, on Fifth Avenue

at Thirty-seventh Street, has, as
you know, an_ unusual selection
of leather goods of every descrip-
tion.

Everything in pigskin, cowhide, or
alligator calf—which is merely calf
with an alligator grain and not a young
alligator at all—is to be found there,
fitted or not, as you choose.

Such old friends as the bellows and
the Gladstone bags are coming back
into favor in small week-end bags for
ladies, but the thing that completely
won my heart in this line is the Hootch
bag—a pullman bag with a flap that
lifts up on one side and discloses four
or five pint flasks, adequate in quantity
and difficult of detection. Within, of
course, there is room for trifles, such
as clothes.

There is also a variation of this in
the Hootch portfolio, a disguised brie f-
case with three quart flasks of solid
or plated silver, arranged neatly with-
in. Dandy for our own version of the
traveling man.

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THE NEW YORKER

RTHUR GILMORE, at 22
East Fifty-fifth Street, happens

be one of the places in town to
ve luggage made to order. You
n choose the leather, the lining, and

. fittings, and what is more, he will
make as many extra compartments as
vour little heart desires for the special
nowder-boxes, perfume-bottles, and
toothpaste-tubes that won’t fit ordinary
holders. Traveling cases for men
can be made expertly in any size, with
special fittings to suit their erratic lit-
tle fancies, such as strops, cigars, pipes,
or whatever other intimate thing they
are in the habit of taking along with
them. In fact, almost anything you
can think of in feather can be created
to order, and created beautifully, too.
Besides the Vuitton luggage that
Mr. Gilmore carries, he also has sets
of luggage, including a dressing-case,
hatbox, and suitcase in tan buckskin
finished with brown cowhide; excep-
tionally smart. He is soon to make
these up in elephant-hide, a leather
guaranteed against baggage smashers.
Those who are having luggage
made to order are counseled—where
have we heard this before? —to place
all orders before December first, and
avoid the rush. Res Se

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Callot Gowns and Capar-
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Small Gifts

ay ai UZ HE FIRST

lia vital item in
ai) the fashion field
that occurs to me
is the fact that
Altman is seizing
two great oppor-
tunities by the throat—first, the arrival
of Cécile Sorel, the shining star of
the Comédie Francaise, who is to do
repertory here; and second, the Na-
tional Horse Show, which takes place
from the twenty-second to the twenty-
seventh. In the first instance, Alt-
man has secured exclusive rights to
seven dresses designed by Callot for
Mlle. Sorel, whose taste customarily
runs to rather elaborate effects, and
will have copies on hand almost im-
mediately. The furniture which the
actress 1s bringing from her castle as
a setting for one of her plays will be
shown in the windows during the
coming week. This includes Gobel-
in tapestries, a bed belonging original-

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for evening. Silver or
gold— plain or with emer-
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Imported steel beaded bag
for afternoon or evening.
A variety of patterns.
Gilt frames.—29.50.

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New York is now ready with
the newest imported and domes-
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“FREDERIC,” she is assuring
the Diplomat-in-the-Back-
ground, “it is authentic. It
is genuine. It is in period.
It is the most perfect thing of
its kind. Not in Paris. Not
in Vienna, nor London. But
here in New York is Marie
Earle’s New Salon, and

I SHALL NEVER WASH
MY FACE AGAIN”

To this last the Diplomat gives
ear with Amazed Astonish-
ment. For her taste and judg-
ment are unquestioned in Two
Hemispheres.

——

Come to Marie Earle’s Salon.
Have a treatment yourself. See
what wonders these exquisite
preparations can do for your
complexion. Marie Earle’s
products are for sale in smart
shops on the Avenue and
throughout the country. Send

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At Fifty-second Street

ly to Mme. Dy Barry, Louis XIV sil-
ver, and other articles.

During the Horse Show Altman
will have booths at each end of the
promenade showing clothes for riding
and sports in general, and lovely man-
nequins will undulate about, displaying
the latest in evening wear.

CROSS the street at Best &

Company, they are showing a
large assortment of French lingerie at,
as far as I can judge, exception-
ally good values. They are very
simple affairs, slips and chemise and
step-in sets of crépe de chine, with a
bit of embroidery, hand hemstitching,
and touches of lace. The price of the
slips—$6.95—will give you an idea of
the small amount of expense involved
for this particular type of thing.

Best also has its own versions of
the backless undergarment, and pro-
duces chemises, B cami step-ins, and
slips of double Ninon in flesh, peach,
and black, trimmed with lace in an
intriguing manner. These are for
low-cut evening gowns, of course, and
are dignified by shoulder straps of
gold.

Another item in the lingerie field
here is some very cute panties of crépe-
backed satin, laced up the sides. These
are difficult to describe, but are much
more decorative than the bloomer, and
fill the same purpose, whatever that is.

As a final offering, you will find
handbags of felt, in dark colors to
match the favored shades in hats, with
plain gold tops and the bag part in the
bishop shape. This innovation in
handbags has arisen from the difficulty
of matching suéde ones to hats, and
should prove popular. Other shops,
I imagine, have these, but it was at
Best that I saw them first.

ND NOW, just because Christ-

mas is already an obsession with
me, on to Le Mouchoir, a tidy little
shop at 747 Madison Avenue that con-
tains everything from boudoir robes
to cocktail-shakers (maybe they are not
so far apart, anyhow) and from cook-
ies to garters. It happens to be just
one of those places where you could
pick up a gift for every woman you
ever heard of, and ‘probably please
them all.

Their own perfume, made for them
in Paris by the wholesalers who create
for Worth and Chanel, and a canny
combination of both, is delightful.
There is a golf belt, a leather affair
in red, tan, or white, with two purse-
like pockets extending from it, one

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cobweb by sheer texture is such
a marvel—its tints so new and
gloriously becoming!

And, although “Illusion”
cannot add even a thirty-
second of an inch to one’s
measurements, it is remark-
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, money and score-card, one for the
vder and lipstick that women insist
taking everywhere. They have
straight silver laths that mys-
usly contain a comb for unruly
‘And sewing-kits of velvet,
noiré, or satin that resemble decorative
xes and open like a flower to dis-
se everything you could possibly
eed. They have a tremendous assort-
ment of French garters, including
some of the new ones that clasp around
the knee instead of pull-up.

There is French lingerie and, of
course, a large and varied assortment
of the articles from which the shop
takes its name—to wit, handkerchiefs,
that old stand-by in the gift field.
\nd, I forgot, some of those fountain
pens, in a composition material in
every possible color, with capsules con-
taining ink that may be inserted and
save inky fingers. These have proved
tremendously popular with their pa-
trons.

In short, a shop crammed with
amusing and unusual trifles, surpris-
ingly reasonably priced. —L. L.

AS TO MEN

That Razor Again—
Around the Neck--In
Leather

LTHOUGH

L.L. has
mentioned it in
her column I
daresay she has
never shaved with
it, so that I am
reasonably safe, if
a trifle tardy, in commending to your
attention the Schick Repeating Razor.
As a matter of fact I have yet to
scrape my own chin with one of these
Schick machine guns, so that my re-
port upon its effectiveness must come
at second hand. However, an ex-
plorer friend of mine, whose facial
cuticle bears a distinct resemblance
to the hide of a walrus, assures me
that, for the first time in his life, he
is getting a decent shave, while an edi-
tor friend whose epidermis is so tender
that he has never dared to employ a
safety razor, now swears by the
Schick. The crowning wonder lies
in the fact that I am seriously consid-
ering buying one for myself!

Aside from its shaving abilities the
Schick razor will amuse the man—his
name is legion—who is always on the
lookout for ingenious mechanical con-

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every handkerchief here was chosen be-
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could find—from a sheer, simple linen at 35¢
toa real lace Wedding Handkerchief at $95!

Among others:

The cross-bar French handkerchief in the lady’s left
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in its striped border, has a hand-rolled hem, and is sold
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trivances. It is, as I have inferred, a
sort of machine gun—or rather a ma-
chine rifle. You load it with a clip
containing twenty blades, draw back
the bolt, shove it forward again, and
lo! the piece is cocked. When the
blade becomes dull, simply repeat the
process. ‘The ejector throws the old
blade out and a new one slides in to
take its place.
better than ruining the electric loco-
motive you bought for little Horace’s
birthday. Oh yes, the razor costs five
dollars and I found it at Parker and
Battersby’s at 146 West Forty-second
Street.

Dp EY G. Exvprince, at 5 East
Fifty-second Street, is showing

some good-looking French crépe de

It’s great fun—even

chine mufflers for evening wear at
twenty dollars. They may be had
either in white or pearl gray with
openwork monograms at a slight addi-
Eldridge,

1S particularly good at supply1

tional cost. in my opinion,
ng those
accessories to evening clothes which
are of such paramount importance in
setting off a well-cut coat. It is pos-
sible, nay probable, that other haber-
dashers turn out a wing collar that
can compare favorably with the Eld-
Nevertheless, after
much searching, I found it the onl
dress collar that would set properly on

less ill-favored neck.

ridge product

my more or

OBBS, at 620 Fifth Avenue, is
showing a mail pouch kitbag, by
Hermés, which is a logical buy for the
week-ending sportsman who must car-
ry heavy outdoor clothes and boots in
addition to the usual dinner jacket and
quart of Scotch. It holds as much or
more than the largest suitcase and 1
at once convenient and smart.

A’ KaskKEL & KaskeEv’s_ I
found a pair of pigskin gloves

which are guaranteed to be water-
proof. They are aon and warm, but
not too heavy. rice $6.75. Speak-
Picanto & Fitch
have sprung an innovation in the fa-

ing ot gloves,
mous English string hunting variety,
having them made of heavy silk cord
instead of the usual cotton material.
They are lighter and better looking
than the cotton glove and should give
the wearer a more secure hold on his

reins.

~ ANYONE reading this column
happens to know of a shop in New
York carrying decent- looking hunting

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Street, has eight delicate black chairs
vith gilded ornament that suggest the :
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Regency. They are $75 apiece,
d look proud of it.
From Italy he has received a ship-
nt of carved wooden urns, some
and gold with successfully
touches of Cardinal’s crimson
sell at $120 a pair; others of

te and gold shapeliness, priced at
) apiece. W here he found the en- Occupancy may be made at once
nting Louis Philippe golden vases,
thickly encrusted with tiny pink roses, Agent on prem 1SeSs

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because its not only the
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knowledge and keen observa-
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to tell at a glance that you
have a round face or an oval
one... that your eyes are
your best feature, or your nose
is... that a fluff of your hair
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these urns and vases into lamps, and
topped them with just the right shades
of pleated book-muslin, pierced parch-
ment, or tole, touched here and there
by skilfully colored designs. These
cost from $15 to $40.

—— Fox’s adventuring and
versatile fingers have been chal-
lenged by the difficult process of sil-
ver-resist. The challenge was met.
She made a studious investigation of
the process until she mastered it, in-
stalled a kiln in her house at 219 East
Forty-eighth Street and turned out
some rarely beautiful examples of
vases, tea-sets, coffee-sets, and smal]
dishes. The boldness of her design,
left white against the brilliant silver
background, is effectively applied on
two large vases. T’ea-cups have delicate
traceries of silver on polished black
surfaces, and are lined in the silver as
well; tiny coffee cups of solid flame
color outside and deep gold inside, are
jewelled accents for the dining-room
table. She threatens to throw her
kiln into Forty-eighth Street at any
moment, put a stove in its place and
open a restaurant to give her fingers
a change; so, though she cooks as well
as she kilns, I advise you to make
haste if you are interested. She might
throw vases, tea-cups and dishes into
the street too.

Pigeons BrorH_ers, behind thei:
magnificent bronze doors on
Madison Avenue, have an unusual-
ly fine array of modern brocades de-
signed by American artists. One, in
a heavy weave that looks like cut vel-
vet, has a motive of flowers and leaves
executed with breadth and decision,
and carried out in courageous com-
binations of color such as emerald
green, red violet and orange. An-
cther is richly involved and elaborat:
in theme, but saved from confusion by
remaining in two tones of the sam
color, such as light ae and deep
crange, rose pink and Venetian red.
It is refreshing to find so conservativ:
a firm making such wise excursions in-
to contemporary fields of design and
color.

ANDSCAPE papers are on th

walls of halls in so many houses,
generally termed Colonial, that it is
useful to know that Grimmer, at 23!
East Thirty-seventh Street, has tw
that are procurable nowhere else.
These are the “Amazon” and “‘Hunt-
ing” scenes. The first shows the River

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> THE NEW YORKER

in itself—oddly enough, flow-
tween banks that are crowded
tropical blooms, rhythmically
tuated by very tall palm trees.
“Hunting” scene is just that—a
ting scene, with gay scarlet-coated
s clinging to brown horses dash-

er green fields. Very nice.
\nother paper shows a red and gold
rch and a red and gold ship in close
oximity, grouped on a gray back-
ound. As they are two of the most
rilling structures ever built by man
not forgetting gas-tanks, bridges and

icroplanes) it is pleasant to view them

t

both at once, regardless of logic.

[his is a cheaper paper than the land-
nes; is, in fact, $2.40 a roll. Cam-

nd elephants parade across another
$3.25. The famous “Roosevelt

”

Papers” are here. Shepherdesses, in

n beribboned frocks, carrying
v lunch baskets on their arms and
nding their flocks, form the design
still another, costing $2 a roll.

Some unroll Gothic and Chinese

nes as well as pastoral. In fact, all

lemands for wall papers can be met

re. —ReEpaRD LEIRUM

JOHN BROWN

John J. Peter Brown
Drove a taxi ’round the town.
When business slumped
His meter jumped;
\nd all his fares
Not millionaires
Called John J. Peter Brown
The meanest man

uptown

or down.

Brown, John J. Peter,
He who drove a five seater,
Would always stop
For every cop
And every light
That he could sight;
or Brown, John J. Peter,
Thereby

hoisted

up the meter.

|. P-—or Brown, Esquire,
Now owns taxis by the quire;
\nd now he goes
In mauve landaus
With footmen two,
And great to-do.
But John J. Peter Brown
Is still

the meanest

man in town.

—P. G. W.

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Mostly Meritorious Mo-
zart—Enter Bellezza—
Watch the Lerch Girl—
Simple Stravinsky--—A

Pianist and Two Con-
traltos

OSSIBLY — in

response to cer-

ors for more Mo-
zart, Mr. Gatti-
Casazza_ unveiled
as his first revival
of the
“The Magic Flute,” presenting it
with none less than Marion Talley
in the cast.

season

The tradition is to say

mass of rubbish redeemed only by
the divine melodies of the ineftable
Wolfgang Amadeus, and this time
tradition gets the duke, as our athletic
contemporaries are saying. Libretti
are on sale in the lobby at the usual
rates, but it would be just as well to in-
vest the money in a_ second-hand
cross-word puzzle book. You would,
at least, not be deceived as to the na-
ture of the product.

Whatever dramatic interest there
was in the Metropolitan’s production
of “The Magic Flute” rested in the
performance of Miss Talley as The
Queen of the Night, a réle consisting
principally of two of the most vil-
lainously trying arias ever inflicted on
a soprano. The Queen was contrived
for Mozart’s sister-in-law and the
high F’s and such with which the
music is sprinkled lead to the conclu-
sion that the composer was not too so-
licitous of his wife’s relations.

Miss Talley, according to the best
ears, had the F’s dropped to E flats, but
the results were discouraging, even to
the most sympathetic of us. Her voice
lovely lyric

remains a soprano

|with an upper stratum of bright stac- |

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cane, : a ; 3
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sas City Chamber of Commerce. Miss
Talley was excellent last season in

is none of her business, and the whole

Stravinsky’s “Rossignol,” the tessitura
of which happened to lie well for her.
But The Queen is about as well suited

for her talents as Carmen would

tain critical clam-|

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“Scatter
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ERSONALLY we don’t believe

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The best features of ““The Magic
Flute” are the brightly whimsical
y : tt:ngs and costumes of Serge Soudei-
a) ne; the Pamina of Mme. ‘Rethberg,
vyho not only sings her music beauti-
ly but acts the silly part with sur-
prising animation; the choral work,
and the short passages allotted to
Editha Fleischer, making her début
The First Lady and proving in-
stantly that she is well equipped for
almost any soprano job that the man-
ovement cares to offer.
Mr. Schuetzendorf’s Papageno was
eood comic acting of the German
school and the rest of the principals
slid by prettily, with the exception of
Mr. Laubenthal, who somehow insists
n forcing a naturally good voice to
behave like an earache.

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GOOD Metropolitan acquisi-
vi tion is Vincenzo Bellezza, the
new conductor, who seems to have as-
sumed the duties previcusly hung on
Mr. Papi. Our brief acquaintance
with Mr. Bellezza makes it inadvisa-
ble to compare him with his fellows
of the baton, but he obviously is a mu-
sician Who knows his job. He can
persuade the orchestra to play with a
mellow tone and he respects the voices
of the singers, although no amount of
subdued accompaniment will induce
some members of the company to
, modify their attempts to reach Chi-
cago without the aid of a loud-speak-
er.
| Mr. Bellezza made the most of
: the somewhat hammy score of “The
Jewels of the Madonna” and his fu-
ture appearances may be awaited with
pleasure.

\V ME. JERITZA, who started her
4 present season here in the Wolf-
, Ferrari opera, is in fine voice this year
and her Maliella is a gorgeous exhibi-
tion of operatic rowdiness. Some pu-
rists have objected to her bit of stage
business which involves bouncing cho-
rus-men violently on the unpadded
stage, but why anybody should demur
at such wholesome exercise is a mys-
tery to us.

S NOTED in last week’s “Talk

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Louise Lerch is the probable dark

horse and white hope (send this to

F. P. A. and become a licensed con-

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on recent orchestral novel-
ties we found most entertainin
the “Little Suites” of Stravinsky,
made over for the big band from two
sets of “easy piano duets,” according
to the official announcement. Th:
piano duets may be easy to play but
they are something less than that to
hear. However, in the orchestral ver-
sion, Stravinsky’s kidding becomes
immensely amusing, and Mr. Men-
gelberg, who conducted them with a
humor not commonly found in cele-
brated directors, had to let his boys
repeat the hurdy-gurdy item. ‘There
is too little comedy available for sym-
phony orchestra and Stravinsky’s gag-
ging is welcome stuff.

R. MENGELBERG, who
seems to be in for a very crowd-
ed season, also conducted three con-
certs for Ernest Schelling at the first
of three recitals for piano and orches-

| tra, the occasion serving to introduce

anew Mr. Schelling as a pianist. His

“Victory Ball,” which may be heard on
/every other orchestral program given

in this country, and his activities as a
director of concerts for the young,
have shifted attention from his mag-
nificent gifts as a pianist, but he played
the virtuoso again on this muggy af-
ternoon.

His Chopin and his Mozart had
in them nothing of the Schelling
who composed the fascinating “Im-
pressions of an Artist’s Life,” which
is high tribute, for few composers can
resist the impulse to improve on their

predecessors. Always a first-rate man

at the piano, Mr. Schelling came
back better than ever, and if you'd
like to hear most of the concerto rep-
ertoire played as it ought to be, we
suggest attendance on the other two
events of the series.

HERE has been a scarcity of

good song recitals lately, and it
happened that two of the best took
place on the same evening, the con-
flicting artists being Mme. Charles
Cahier and Miss Emma_ Roberts.
Mme. Cahier, in keeping with a cus-
tom which ought ‘to be squelched be-
fore it becomes a plague, included a
group of Beethoven songs, but the rest
ef her program contained unfamiliar
music of a high order. She sang it as
one who understood what she was
singing and the brilliant accompani-
ments of Richard Hageman were a

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artistic evening in themselves

Roberts offered a “symbolic
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but the philosophy of it didn’t
t from the beauty of many of
ngQs.
\Miss Roberts’ singing of “Swing
| ow. Sweet Chariot” was a _ lesson
others who experiment with
rituals, and even the presence of
the] Leginska’s “Ode to the West
Wind,” probably the worst setting that
s poem ever will have, didn’t ruin
evening.
While Mr. Hageman was perform-
1g joyously at Aeolian Hall, Walter
Golde did some first-rate accompany-
down the block at Town Hall.
—R. A. S.

TO LUCASTA ON
DROPPING HER FLAT

[With apologies to Col. Lovelace]

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
If from the nunnery

Of your cold grasp and loveless mind
To other arms I flee.

An easier favorite now I chase,
That ill compares with you;
And with more happiness embrace

Than we two used to do.

Why my inconstancy is such
It’s easy to confess—
I could have loved you twice as much
Had you loved honor less.
—JosE SCHORR

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Because, joining a crowd on Madi-
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it an Italian laborer perched on a
perilous girder half-way up a build-
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time singing “Santa Lucia” with deep
feeling and tone. The apple and the
song completed—the laborer suddenly
perceived his audience—and casually
taking a final gnaw at the apple, flung
it down eleven stories into their midst.

—NICHOLAs ANGELIDES

Because, I heard a colored porter
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Harvard and Princeton, so are the lo-
cal university clubs of these names
yielding ground in squash tennis as
new players develop in the other clubs
to challenge the old guard and some-
times to defeat them.
And this is good for squash tennis. I
It acts as a stimulant to interest in the
game, awakens greater enthusiasm in
the other clubs for their teams and so
makes new converts to the sport. ‘This,
of course, is what the gentlemen of
the National Squash Tennis Associa-
tion who are seeking to popularize the —~ C.
game desire, even though the major-
ity of the executives are representa- f
tives of the Big Three. i,
When Yale, Harvard and Prince-
ton ruled supreme on the gridiron
Walter Camp could pick his All- i
American from just three teams, and 7
we will let you guess who they were. r
This year the Big Three will be for-
tunate to place two men on the All- al
American, if there is any such insti- is
tution now. The All-American .
squash tennis team is still composed th
largely of Yale, Harvard and Prince- t
ton players. As a matter of fact,
eight out of the first ten are from ol
these clubs. But from the turn that th
the play has taken this season, as early tr
as it is, there is a strong likelihood
that the first ten will make a far more th
representative list from now on. A
We are not singing the swan-song ‘i
of Yale, Harvard and Princeton. On ‘i
the contrary, we will be surprised if -
Harvard does not again win the Class th
A championship this season with Yale i
finishing runner-up, and also if Mr.
Fillmore Hyde does not retain his na- h
tional title. As long as Harvard has
Mr. Hyde, Yale Mr. Coward and
Princeton Dr. Mixsell, these teams
will continue to be strongly in the | th
running; but as things look now, these H
three clubs will sorely need these three
gentlemen to maintain their prestige. %
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New York A.C., the Crescent A.C.,

Columbia, who appear to be the

ial of the Big Three players, occu-
‘ing their respective positions.

f fom the results of the play to
date in the Class A League. On
opening night Princeton, which
1ished second last season, lost at 5—2
the New York A.C., which is play-
in this division for the first time;
nd Columbia was decisively outplayed
hy the Crescents to the tune of 6—1.
Last week Yale lost to Columbia,
Harvard escaped defeat at the
nds of the New York A.C. by the
margin of a single point.
It is true that Yale and Har-
rd did not present their strongest
front. Mr. Hyde was not in the
Crimson line-up, and Mr. Coward had
not returned from Europe to repre-
sent the Elis. But here we are get-
ting back to our argument above, that
the difference in the strength of the
lubs is becoming more and more a
matter of a single outstanding player.

HAT match between Harvard
and the New York A.C. was one
of the most interesting we have seen
in years. It was interesting for one
reason because it was the first time
the Harvard A team had ever played
at the New York A.C. It was inter-
a also because it saw the defeat
Mr. Hewitt Morgan of Harvard,
e fourth ranking player of the coun-
try, by Mr. Frank Loughman, who
rates in the third ten, and if you don’t
hink that is interesting to New York
AC. men ask Rowland Dufton, the
coach, and he will tell you that the
victory will probably bring out fifty
more squash neophytes. Yes, sir, if
the New York A.C. continues to move
up as it has been moving, those four
courts they are planning to build in
the new Winged Foot clubhouse won’t
begin to be enough.

Getting back to the match, it was
nteresting for a third reason because
the outcome hung in the balance until
Harvard, trailing at 0—3, had pulled
out the four remaining contests, and
because Mr. Rochester was three times
within a point of victory over Mr.
Phinney of Harvard, when he led
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in the third game—that point mean-
ing the difference between victory and
defeat for the teams.

E HAD occasion a short time
ago to call your attention to the
wallop of Mr. Rowland Haines of
Columbia. Mr. Haines didn’t do so
well against Mr. George Davidson,
of the Crescents, but last week against
Mr. Otis Guernsey of Yale, he seemed
to realize the embarrassing position he
had placed us in, so Mr. Guernsey got
twelve points in two games. Your
attention is now called to the wallop
of Mr. Loughman, of whom some-
thing was also said last week when
he took all sorts of liberties with Dr.
Mixsell. Keep an eye on this young
man, even if you can’t keep it on the
ball when he hits it, because he is go-
ing somewhere, and going there pron-
to. If Mr. Loughman doesn’t jump
from the third ten to the first ten this
season, it’s only because a half dozen
gentlemen who now move in that ex-
clusive set have been playing under
wraps. We don’t believe they have,
and we don’t believe they can afford
to when they meet this likable deep-
chested young man who carries TNT
in his forehand and plain, unadulterat-
ed nitroglycerine in his backhand.
Mr. Morgan hasn’t played squash
tennis so many years, but in the few
that he has played he has established
himself as one of the most easy-going
stroke artists the game has seen in
many years.
much against the court strategy and
shot-making of this leisurely, almost
nonchalant player. He assimilates
pace as Mr. Hyde assimilates knocks
on the knee from the racket of the
whirlwind Mr. Coward.

Speed has never availed

But for once, against Mr. Lough-
man, Mr. Morgan was fazed by speed.
Not once, but a dozen times, he was
frozen flatfooted to the floor of the
chilled outside N.Y.A.C. court as his
younger opponent set himself to lean
on the ball and sent it cannonading
against the wall with thunderous, re-
verberating smashes. When“he was
not caught hopelessly out of position,
he was hardly able to do more than
make a stab at the ball, and to avoid
errors in squash you must hit the ball
squarely on the gut.

Mr. Morgan made lots of errors
and they contributed liberally to his
opponent’s points, but they did not
account for all of them. Mr. Lough-

man had a soft ball that lazied along
the side-wall, and he could nick the
corners with unerring aim in spite

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Passing a bus 14 point
Passing a car with gentle-

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Passing a taxicab 8 points
Crossing street with red

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Driving after three or
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Side-swiping a venture-

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Being arrested . 10 points

THE NEW YORKER

his speed. One of the most re-

kable things about this young

’s stroking is that he can change

pace without giving any warning

his opponent. You never know

n he is going to knock the cover

the ball or when he is merely

r to tease it, and what you don’t

w in this case will do you plenty

harm.

The score of the match, we for-

oot to mention, was 15—6, 15—11.

\t one time in the first game it was

4_(), and in the second, 5—0O, and

Mr. Loughman wasn’t leading in

either instance. Yes, sir, he’s assuredly
tough man to beat.

. —ALLIsOoN DANzIG

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Ben Bernie—the Black

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HE MOST startling new place

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realized by this time, is Le Per-
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that venture of
the youthful and
musical Mr. Ro-
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into the gaudy
and perilous
night life of the
city. It is situ-
ated at 146 West
Fifty-seventh
Street, and, for a
first experiment,
he has decidedly
succeeded in at-
tracting notice.
The entrance
lobby is miles
long, and flanked
with those marvelous Drian screens
that were first shown in the windows
of Lord and Taylor’s. At the end
of this, you boom into a magnificent,
huge, gorgeous room, all decorated
with murals, and perroquet cages with
no perroquets in them, and splendor
in general. Beneath the silver fairy-
palace frosting over the rostrum stands
Mr. Kahn, a row of seventeen or may-
be eighteen saxophones, gleaming in
racks, separating him from his orches-
tra. Pearls and sequins adorn the glit-
tering guests. But the feature, which
you must have read about, is the mir-
ror floor and table-tops—and chil-
dren, they are no disappointment.
Changing lights flash through them;
occasionally they light up from be-
neath, revealing unhappy goldfish, lit-
tle wanderers who are beginning to
realize that their span of life is to
be a very short one. The mirror
floor, however, in its chronic state,
reveals many intimate secrets. One
modest gentleman with downcast eyes
has learned that one or two night-go-
ing ladies still wear bloomers.

The entertainment was not so
much, except for two things. One
was the Mound City Blue Boys,
equipped with a pocket comb, a kazoo,
a banjo, a guitar, one pair of agile
feet, and voices. ‘These were simply
swell, but unfortunately, did not come
on until about one-thirty. The other
was an Australian pair named Cun-

ningham and Clements, who did some
exceptionally agile acrobatic dancing.
The outstanding thing of their per-
formance, how-
ever, was the
wonder it incited
in all beholders
as to how a girl
who had repeat-
edly skidded on
the mirror sur-
face of the floor
could ever sum-
mon up sufficient
confidence in
even one member
of the male sex
to hurl herself
around his shoul-
ders and let him
dance about with
her fair, white
body on such uncertain footing.

I understand that, next week, the
entertainment will be cut down and
allow more time for dancing to the
music of the Kahn Orchestra, which,
needless to say, is darn good. There
is even a rumor that the Revellers,
known to all Victrola fans, will dis-
port themselves on the premises by th
time this gets into print.

It is just one of those places that
you really ought to go to once, any-
way. It is flamboyant and overdone,
but I found those qualities amusing.
People who take refinement ver)
seriously ought to stay away. I forgot
—the ventilation is swell, and if you
think five dollar couverts are unusual
now, you haven’t been around.

HERE will be no more dancing

in the streets. Ben Bernie is back
at the Roosevelt Grill, and his dev-
otees are hereby advised to give up
dancing to hurdy gurdies. For din-
ner and supper, you may cavort to
his music, usually (as is the case with
all hotels too near the Grand Central)
among transients. ‘These are rather

nice transients but still, out-of-town- |

ish. I have been there for dinner, and
it was pleasant. “The supper dances
still remain for investigation.

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that the negro waiters and _ hat-check
girls supplied impromptu entertain-
ment. On my entrance, the first sight
that met my eyes was Joe and Louis,
late of the Owl, hurtling across the
floor in a Charleston, trays of scram-
bled eggs balanced expertly over their
heads. ‘They were all dressed up in
bellboy uniforms, with brass buttons
and all. But, until about two o’clock,
it was distinctly dull. And nothing is
duller than a dull dump. The worst
tinpan orchestra since the invention
of the nickelodeon played loudly and
dolefully. At about two, the place
suddenly got very vulgar and infor-
mal, due to the efforts of two or
three very unattractive girl entertain-
ers and the enthusiastic cooperation of
the joyous party next to mine.

Why people let negro girls go on
and on, when they are usually such
bad entertainers, and let the men, who
are swell, applaud at the sidelines is
beyond me. A dollar or two, how-
ever, may induce Louis to sing a
wicked bass or Joe to burst forth with
that -loose-limbed dancing that is the
joy of my life. The place has pos-
sibilities, and I can imagine that, on
nights when it is going strong, it
would be most amusing. But you
would have to be in just the right
slumming mood. With which en-
dorsement of synthetic gin and the
mellow appreciation it gives to the
soul, I take my leave.

OR ABOUT a year I have been

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all. What to do if 4 on Fifty-sixth
decided that she was tou~icht clubs,
out after the theatre, and you 2+-m
a swell table at five dollars a head all
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EEP, profound apology is due

the American Legion for the
mistake made in the issue of two
weeks ago. I mentioned the cheap-
ness of the American Legion in Paris
next summer. ‘The capitals were un-
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and not the specific convention that
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to hold there. And I do hope that
the Ku Klux, or whoever has been
threatening to blow up this sacrilegious
department with bombs, will accept
the regrets of —LirsTIck

A TARDY INQUIRY

The Editors of THE NEw Yorker,
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but hesitate to leave New York City
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back and the
art season can well
Say it Is on its way.
Back with the
bronze of the
: north woods and
it least a couple of years younger than
when he went away in the spring.
His opening show, in Room 303, is
his beloved Marin, the artist in a

w phase. The twenty-four pictures
ing were painted by the artist in
1 925,
Last year at the multitudi inous, be-
wildering Marin show it was hinted
that the artist had turned another
corner and had cooked up a new mess
of pottage. This was promised for
e fall. And here it is, not as alarm-
ing as we had thought, after viewing
the corner that Dove had _ turned.
Marin in his last phase will lose no
idmirers; in fact we think he may
gain a great many who pulled away
n fear from his pure poetics.
Being merely a boob admirer of
Marin, we can’t tell you the technical
progress of the pilgrim. But the
change is evident, even to the casual.
He has gone back to form. He has
lost nothing of the wonderful spl irit-
ual moods, but the translation is in
terms that almost any picture lover
can understand. Here we find such
tangibles as barns, houses, trees. “The
pictures even have names, common
names that adorn ordinary pictures,
other places. If we knew Marin we
would suspect a trick, a little fillip at
i doltish world that had failed to ap-
preciate the rare thing he had been
giving it these sixteen years. It is as
ie had said, “well, perhaps you can
see beauty if it is something that you
can hold within your hand—I will put
itin familiar shapes and see if you can
touch it then.”
In any event we feel it is no com-
promise. If he wins the multitude by
s last year’s creations, he can then
lead them back over the prolific years
where he dwelt lonely with the few.
He has made use of all his other years;
the twenty-four pictures are a sort of
re-d istillation, a sacred vintage.
We like Marin thus in repose. We

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like Marin anyway. ,, And if you have
not liked Marin before, this show may
lead the way. It will be on for sev-
eral weeks now, and all New York
that loves beauty will doubtless pass
before the seer of 303, in this little
room burning with the ripened genius
of John Marin.

7 Sa DuDENSING is all
puffed out these days with his
tongue in both cheeks at once. Fresh
from one of the best shows of young
American art that this old town has
ever seen, he jumps into the nut-primi-
tive school with a show by Louis
Eilshemius. It is so easy to make fun
of such a proceeding that there is no
fun in doing so. And, too, littl
rumors (hired always for these kinds
of shows) run up and down the gal-
lery whispering into your unprejudiced
ear what this expert, and that solon,
thought of the paintings.

Considered just as thirty-one paint-
ings, we would say they range from
something terrible, up through pathetic
to almost good. Just as the dramatic
season usually throws a virgin to the
gods in the form of “Beggar on
Horseback,” or “White Wings,” the
art season also likes to depart from
form. But toa contrary purpose. So
now we have Mr. Dudensing’s little
joke and after he has stirred up all
sorts of contention (or so he hopes)
he will go placidly back to Matisse
and wooden roosters.

One of the rumors stated that in
every painting there was Something
Good. Unfortunately the standard
for considering pictures is the same
that obtains for omelettes: all the eggs
must be good if the omelette is to be
enjoyed. To us, Eilshemius never
cared to learn. He rather boasts that
all of three thousand paintings are
different. We feel that if he had
taken all the good parts and assembled
them he might have had ten good pic-
tures, enough for any lifetime. But
he doubtless would not have had as
much fun. If in one picture the
painter caught the trick of making the
sky fold around his trees, in the next
picture he forgot all about it and failed
to include that.

Why it deserves serious considera-
tion, we suppose, is that the painter
is serious. And in a sad world we are
taught not to scoff at anything serious.
Else where would be our institutions‘
For the curious, a leaflet is presented
to the guests. Sad is our lot that we
can only reprint bits of it. But we
feel your life will not be the same

THE NEW YORKER

less you hear, to wit: “At twenty-

he was master of painting, poetry,
rose and music. . . . His art output
- marvelous: literature over 220 vols. ;
rt works 3000; drawings, designs,
tc.. 2000; in music over 100 piano

ces and 1000 unwritten musical
orks.” Unfortunately there are no
‘unpainted paintings.”

Then he is an inventor. Magic ink
that renews itself. “He discovered
wireless telegraphy in 1886. His
magic execution in painting and lit-
erary composition places him at the
ead of all marvels of the ages .
most rapid painter of all time .
eclipsing Van Dyck . . . painted a
perfect nude in twenty minutes, a
master portrait in half an hour, with-
out a model. Having written 1500
sonnets of which 1000 are perfect...
ten a day, one in five minutes.”

In short here is a painter that will
make Heywood Broun green with
envy. We think in closing you should
be given the titles of some of his plays:
“The Curse of Station” and “Love’s
Change.” The 3000 paintings are
ll titled without a dip into the Pull-
man company’s roster.

so fester pines of names, someone
found a new one and so Our Gal-
lery is born. It is 113 West Thir-
teenth and, the circular says, it “‘rises
as a new need in the art life of New
York.” We will see when we get
down there. In the meantime, to sup-
ply the old need, there are original
drawings by Thomas Rowlandson
(1756) at Ackermann Galleries; a
memorial show of the works of Ernest
Haskell at Macbeth Galleries; etch-
ings and dry points by Charles W.
Cain at Kennedy & Co.; stage stuff by
Claude Bragdon at the Arden Galler-
ies. And under the big tent, one of
the best shows of the year no doubt,
the International Exhibition of Mod-
ern Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
The many friends of Joe Pennell,
and they were legion, are visiting the
Metropolitan to see the memorial ex-
h-bition of his works. Louis Kronberg
has water colors at Kraushaar. Some-
thing, in fact, on every street.

HE exhibition at the New Art
Circle is of Max Band, hailed as
young genius who will go far.
Again we feel we must repeat the
saying reported of Degas when begged
to look at the work of a young genius
of twenty-five. “Any one is a genius
at twenty-five—bring him back to me
when he is forty.” —M. P.

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Nov. 23, 24: Colleen Moore
in ‘It Must Be Love’;
Nov. 25, 26: ‘“The Frince of
Tempters’’ with Lois Moran,
Lya de Putti;
Nov 27, 28, 29: Richard
Dix in “‘The Quarterback’’

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Mats. Wednesday and Sat. at 2:30

CAPTIVE

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A SUPERB ORCHESTRA OF 85
A BRILLIANT BALLET CORPS
SOLOISTS OF DISTINCTION
AN AIR OF COMFORT AND BEAUTY
THE PERFECT SETTING FOR THE
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Major Edw. rd Bowes

PLAYHOUSE iis, Si Bsy 2
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Thea., 48th St. E. of B’y. Eves. 8.
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Nout LOWELL SHERMAN
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Thea., W. 49th St. Eves. 8:30
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Tues. and Wed., Nov. 23 and 24
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Douglas Fairbanks in “The Black Pirate”
Saturday, Nov. 27
“The Great K. and A. Train Robbery”
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THE NEW YORKER

OUR CAPTIOUS
READERS

[he Editors of THE NEw YorRKER:
SIRS:
We cannot describe the smothering
nsation Which oppressed us as we
a recent copy of THE NEw
RKER off the newsstand, feverishly
to the column of “Lipstick,”
ir favorite cosmetic, and there beheld
n the very first paragraph:
“In the first place, this is going to)
a good-natured column, and, I
trust, will lay to rest all those rumors
bout my being an ill-natured and
critical brat who never likes anything.
In the second, it is going to show my
powers of endurance, and my tenden-
cy to wake up around midnight, a ten-
dency that, I am told, is a sign of
pernicious anemia.”

Blinding tears filled our eyes, and
we would have fallen had it not been
for the kindly assistance of the news-
stand man. And just when we had
begun to hope, too, that the “That’s-
the-kind-of-a-bird-I-am” bacillus,
which has infected every music, dra-
matic, art, food and clothing critic in
New York and points west would pass
her by.

Ever since “‘Lipstick’s” first appear-
ance, Wherein we were informed that
the cabbage at Ciro’s was en passant,
that the habitués of the Club Alabam’
brought their sample cases with them,
and that the dance floor at the Lido
was delicious when served au jus, we
have been almost afraid to turn to
hercolumn. We did so hate to be dis-
illusioned.

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sonal peculiarities, eccentricities, idio-
syncrasies or habits, we began to take |
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was that she saved us about forty |¢

smackers by warning us that the five-
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cious boiled eggs at Blarney’s, boiled
as only Mique can boil them. In
short, she fulfilled her destiny as a
critic by criticising.

It’s all over now!
are bitten by the “You-see-I’m-like-
this” microbe, they never recover. But
the worst of it is that they spread the
contagion to all their associates. So
from now on all we will learn from
“Lipstick” will be that she never could
stand looking down from a great
height, that she just loves to be the
dummy at bridge, that she’s really at
heart dreadfully scared of headwait-
ers, that her first impressions are usu-
ally right, that when once she dislikes
a person she wants to have nothing
whatever to do with him and, possibly,
ina moment of forgetfulness, that the
caviar at the Russian Ruble is nothing
to get excited about.

“Bowler,” of the “As To Men”
column, will inform us that he has a
vicious temper but is kindly at heart,
that he doesn’t know why it is, but
girls always make him their confidant
in their love affairs, that he never
was worth a hoot at mathematics but
was always at the head of his class in
spelling, and that personally, he pre-
fers striped trousers with evening
clothes. From “L. L.” of “On and
Off the Avenue” we will learn that
she is sympathetic and tolerant, fond
of children, laughs so easily that her
friends call her a giggler, although
she isn’t really, at all—just a keen
sense of humor, you know;; that a traf-
fic cop made an amusing mistake by
saluting her as Ethel Barrymore and
that Macy’s have the cutest little
tractors you ever saw.

Thus, as the poison of the ““You-see-
I’m-like-this” microbe slowly spreads,
each column of THE NEw YorKER’s
critical department will emerge as a
full-fledged autobiography.

JoseEpH FULLING FISHMAN

For, once critics

New York, Sept. 4. (A. P.)—Prelim-
inary reports of the books of G. L.
Miller & Co., real estate bond dealers,
indicate the company is shrdlu etaoin
shrdlu shrdlu etaoinn solvent.—Pitts-
burgh paper.

It looks bad for creditors.

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The theatre management reserves the
right to exclude any lady they think
proper.—Ontario paper.

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PARIS
LETTER

Paris, Nov. 6, 1926
IVERSE pub-

lic events that
should have been
unrelated have been
ironically allied in
the last Parisian
i fortnight. There
has been little need of theatres. An
umbrella, a nose for news and the
ibility to run and read in the rain
should have purchased at little cost
all the drama anyone needed. Lite-
rary gentlemen have furnished the best
climaxes, one having been sentenced
to prison for a letter he wrote one
year ago and five others arrested for
jeers they emitted last week in the
presence of quantities of duchesses.
The courts have been full of divert-
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there have been several splendid rob-
beries and some beautiful public inter-
ments. It is Charles Maurras, co-
editor with Leon Daudet (“Sappho’s”
author’s grandson) of the church-
royalist journal, L’Action Frangaise,
who will serve a prison term for hav-
ing posted a pmeumatique to M.
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of the Interior, threatening him with
death. Whereas our Hoosier solons
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Ku Klux rosters, French politicians
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notably in “Le Chemin de Paradis,” a
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and his imprisonment may clear the
political-religious-literary air. He is
an authority on Greek ethics, a
Comtian philosopher, an avowed athe-
ist, head of a Catholic journal, an
anti-feminist, anti-democrat, a pagan
and a royalist. The exiled Duke of
Guise, new Pretender to the hypo-
thetical French throne, sent an emis-
sary to condole with M. Maurras on
his misfortune. He also sent a noble
representative to substitute at the re-
cent impressive ceremonies for the
first anniversary of the late Duchess
of Chartres. Thus the Bourbons have
been busier than at any time since they
lost their heads a few generations ago.
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at the Hétel Drouot. Modern art,
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bourgeoisie, succeeded finally in an-
noying the artists assembled there for
the Quinn auction. The ugliness of
the many Rouault items, particularly
“The Man with the Spectacles,”
started jeers, encouraged some one in
the bleachers to bid thirty cents for a
Matisse nude (sold at 101,000
francs) and culminated in cries of
exasperation when “The Sleeping Bo-
hemian” by the customs-officer, Rous-
seau, went under the hammer at a half
million. “This is not art but com-
merce,” a bearded old artist in shabby
velveteens cried. “Rousseau died
poverty. What was he paid for this
silly canvas?” “Four hundred francs,’
a merchant replied; and the bidding
went on to Derain’s “Self Portrait”
very fine at 40,000 francs. For forty-
eight hours Mr. Quinn was better
known in Paris than he had ever been
known in New York. Rousseau, who
gave many of his canvases to his con-
cierge friends, would have been proud
to see his “Bohemian” finally repro-
duced in Le Petit Parisien, known as
the concierge’s favored reading-mat-
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and the first art note that newspaper
ever carried.

The second outbreak occurred at the
auction of the Salon du Franc, to
which one hundred and sixty resident
foreign artists of thirty-two different
nationalities gave their canvases to be
sold in aid of the franc. Fourteen
dukes and duchesses, three princesses,
one queen mother and one Vanderbilt
blessed the opening of this show. Two
writers, one painter and two picture
merchants were arrested at its closing.
Again hisses greeted the high prices,
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France. Van Dongen immediately
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cubists and now surréalistes) partici-
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breakfasts there. Jo serves
cakes ana eggs.
Chez les Vikings is the new Swedish
, \[ontparnasse bar. It specializes in
) ternational crowds and international
| .dwiches. The Select continues to
draw all night in that quarter. La
Cigogne will try to rival it. The
Dome is still full but dead. Mont-
parnasse needs only a cabaret to be
as exhausting as Montmartre. ‘There
‘s also a new Tunisian restaurant in
the Mohammedan mosque. Here one
lolls on lounges, eats Aous-kous and six
courses of other mutton, tops off with
paklava and—the Mohammedan reli-
vion being dry—has no wine. The
coffee, waterpipes and oriental singing
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OUNG Rostand has _ finally

opened in his romantic blank-verse
play, “La Déserteuse,’ wherein he
plays the principal role. Like father,
unlike son. This piece is as loud as
“Chanticleer” with none of its fine
feathers.

The only new entertainment for
the eye has been “Riew Que les
. Heures,” a film of the avant-garde,

screened at their small Cinema des

Ursulines behind the Bal Bullier. This

modern film by Cavalcanti has no plot.

[In excellent photography it depicts dis-

connected incidents which transpire in

Paris between one dawn and another.

At sunrise beds and factories open, by

noon an old beggar woman _has

drowned unnoticed in the Seine, by
| dusk a newspaper vendor is murdered
for her money by an apache whose

girl, at midnight, is seen entering a

bordel with an American sailor. "Two

cats fight on the roof. Sunrise again.

Among other things, that is all there
|| istothis film. It is not recommended
to morbid babies. “Vamina,” a short in-
cident drawn from Stendhal and fea-
} turing Paul Wegener is also at the

Ursulines, which, like your Cameo,
shows films for the few. This bit,
made in 1920 and about life in 1820,
is a disgrace to both centuries. It is,
however, unique in celluloid art.

Among reels of photographed novels,

it is the first photographed short-story

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beauty, fine actor, egotist and wit.
Friend and leading man to Sarah
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even in the grave, which he entered,
by his own orders, painted as if to
walk on the stage and dressed in the
tinsel robes he had worn in his favorite
role of Nero. De Max furnished
unfortunate inspiration for the main
character in “Sardanapale,” a bad play
which the Pitoéffs mounted (and
withdrew) last month.

Toussaints, or All Souls Day—aside
from New Year the biggest French
sacred festival and legal holiday—was
celebrated solemnly in an appropriate
deluge. Churches were draped in
black. Mass for the dead was read
all day. Flowers were fabulously
dear. At what must have been a finan-
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Parisians, dressed in black and carry-
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the trams that led to the civic ceme-
teries.

The recovery of the franc has
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has not affected prices which, though
they were raised to meet the dollar
and pound, have failed to come down
with them, of course.

VETTE GUILBERT has won

an important legal battle which
now sets precedent and allows artists
to catch hard colds, if they choose,
without being docked by the manage-
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She has returned from concertizing
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the U.F.A. “Faust” in which, as
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cut and calculated by its French pro-
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one sculptor, Storr. Chaffee is the
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In “The Orphan Angel” Miss
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by Ada and Julian Street. In which
case you may as well admit that you
are very easily amused.

“Tides” chronicles a very dull pe-
riod of American life, and records
the history of several families of du-
bious attainments. The pioneer
grandfather, the weak father, the
sturdy grandson, who brings the vigor
of the pioneer into modern life—all
this is not a novel topic, and it is the
unconvincing theme of “Tides.” ‘The
strength of the hero-grandson, Alan
Wheelock, who is aggravatingly vir-
tuous, is no more than sound busines:
ability.

Alan, in his youth, married the
wrong girl, and after years of unhap-
piness, when the coast is clear to mar-
ry the right girl—now a sweet-faced
woman, who had also married incor-
rectly—decides that he cannot do it.
The reason he gives—and the sweet-
faced woman agrees, although it
seemed to us somewhat obscure—is
that her daughter and Ais son are in
love.

The book ends with the noble lines,
“Some of the most beautiful things in
the world are the things that never
happen.”

AST year, Valentine’s Manual,

always a respected publication,
became a much-alive one, with a story
by its editor, Henry Collins Brown, of
“The Last Fifty Years In New
York.” His success has encouraged
him to do it again, and “New York In
The Elegant Eighties” is this year’s
Manual. It will be, or should be,
still more successful; it makes even
pleasanter reading, and is full of the
most attractive old pictures you could
wish to see.

T MUST be true that tastes in

humor change. There never was
any accounting for them, anyway.
“Bill Nye: His Own Life Story,” put
together by his son, is freighted with
selections of his stuff that the eighties
and nineties found so rich—and this
department has perused it in a sad state
of mystification. What made Nye fa-
mous? He was a humorist, certainly.
Some of him still is funny. But if he
was a wonder, if he was the great
satirist John Dewey has pronounced
him, then so far as we can see, Don
Herold, as author of “There Ought
To Be A Law—” is just such an-
other, and we have our doubts that
Herold is.

Mark Twain, yes! Mr. Dooley,
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HE problems of a scholar ad-
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his recounting of history live and
graphic. In a measure, he succeeded
—at the expense of the history, some
of which is mighty superficial.

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occasionally in refined and cultured
homes? Children today are luckier.
“The New Natural History,” by
Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, has hun-
dreds of the dandiest pictures a kid
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In spite of how much I approve
The head sales clerk of That and This
Who meets me as I turn the aisle
And questions, “May I help you,

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My heart can never warm to them,

They do not brim my cup of cheer
As does the girl who wraps the thing
And says, “It fits you

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NOVELS
OreHan ANGEL, by Elinor Wylie
(Knopf). The author pretends that
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tertaining. Noticed on page
Prerace To A Lire, by Zona Gale
pleton). Reviewed last week.
A Man Coutp Stanpn Up—, by
Madox Ford (4. & Bont).
viewed last week.

RoMANTIC
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GoLtpEN Dancer, by Hume
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NicGER HEavEN, by Carl Van Vechten

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SHow Boat, by Edna Ferber (Double
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Blue Laws vs. Thanksgiving Day

Were both inaugurated by the Pilgrims. ‘In the year 1620 the Pilgrims
landed on Plymouth Rock; now, if the Plymouth Rock had landed on
the Pilgrims, we'd have neither in 1926—but, we do all want our Thanks-
giving Day, even if we don’t want the Blue Laws, so let us be thankful
for this happy day, and the progress and plenty it represents, and in so
doing appreciate the Pilgrims duly.

Thanking and thinking progressively, “Villa Venice,” at No. “10,” and
its enduring lure suggests itself for this day. Tea, Dinner or Supper,
with its bounteous supply of goodies, and its beautiful dance music by
Eddie Davis.

\ day could hardly be spent more happily on this occasion.

For Dinner and Supper there is no couvert charge, but formal dress is
the vogue.

10 EAST 60TH ST.

NOVEMBER 20, 1926