Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1921, Page 51

MUSEMENTS. Coming Attractions John Cumberland, who comes to the National Theater for a week, begin- ning June 20, in “The Scarlet Man, Charles Dillingham’s production of a comedy-satire by William Le Baron, will be seen in that piece in.a play other than a bedroom farce for the first time since 1913, when he played in “The Misleading Lady.” Cumber- land was successively in “Twin posure,” “Up_in Mabel Girl In the Limousine™ and “Ladies’ Night,” in which he appeared for forty-six weeks in the New York season now ending. Summer Stock Opening. The comedy, "Adam and Eva” has been selected as the premier presen- tation of the company that will open at the Shubert-Garrick Theater Mon- day evening, June 20. This has been classed as one of Guy Bolton’s moet popular successes, having just finished a successful run at the Longacre The- ater, New York. How a wealthy man places his secretary as manager over his very extravagant family and the He Played With Jefferson. A generation ago, Percy Pollock, who appears at the National Theater this week, was one of the leading juvenile actors. He played with Joseph Jeffer- son in *“Rip Van Winkle,” and with Charlie McCarthy fo “One of the Brav- est” and with so many others that he has lost track of them. But for his services, acknowledged to be most worthy, Mr. Pollock received not one penny. “In thoss days no one thought of paying a child actor—he was just sort. of farmed out to a company for his b d a child’s board in those days didn't amount to much,” he says. “The child was supposed to be grateful to have a chance to appear in the com- pany of a great actor and to pick up what he could. If any one in those days had ventured the belief that a child actor’s pay could be one-half what Jackie Coogan or the Lee children re- ceive, that person would have been con- sidered a fit subject for an alienist. “However, I have to admit that the stage child of a gemeration ago did get excellent training. And when I had graduated from child parts I went into repertoire. At one time I had thirty parts I might be called upon to appear in without rehearsal. Thea I went into stock and it seemed to me quite a wonderful thing to be responr |0y, sible for only oge part a week. It was a peculiar thing, however, that as soon as I stopped playing juvenile parts, I was cast for an old man. Tve been an old man ‘on the stage for twenty-five years. Mr. Pollock has appeared in musical comedies as well as in drama, his last appearance being in “Jim Jam Jems.” ts. Brister will head the cast. He will be supported by Florence Martin, Douglas Dombrielle, Leah ‘Winslow, J. Arthur Young, Edna May Oliver, Constance Hope, n L dron, Gertrude Kelth and others. Strand Theater. The musical comedy star, Cecllia ‘Weston, in character song hits, with Raymond Trigger at the. piano, will be the featured number of the bill to be presented at the Strand The- ater next week. Others appearing will include Kneeland and Powers, with a musical skit; Lee Beggs and company, in the laughable dramatic character classic “The Old Folks at Home,” and the Equillo Brothers, ex- ponents of extraordinary feats in equilibrium. Cosmos. A delghtful dancing number, fea- turing Vera Meserau, whose ability is recognized as a demonstrator of classic and Egyptian dances. with six other artists, is announced as the principal attraction at the Cosmos Theater the week beginning June 20. Six_other high-class vaudevill (m to be offered include Ross and Dell in comedy cycling capers; Shaw and Campbell, girls in songs and music; Giddy and Giddy, in comedy songs, talk and acrobatics; Lew Cooper, the funny blackface comedian; Marlette' Manlkins and Costa_and Follett “Sentimental Tommy.” one of the best comedy films offered the public in a long time, is announced as the added matinee feature, while “Just in me,” a two-reel Chriastie comedy, and news reels will complete the bill. Photographing a Storm. Storm scenes in motion pictures are by Do means unusual, but Willlam Christy Cabanne steps forth with the claim that his “Live and Let Live” unreels by all odds the most furious storm ever converted to film. An entire city block was marked off for the use of Mr. Cabanne. Then were set up batteries of wind: ma- chines strong enough to blow a ter- rific gale. Fire hose and lights were set in position. The downpour deluged the neighborhood. the “light- ning” flashed and the winds blew with almost as much vigor as a Kansas cyclone. Five cameras were used in recording the action. Work on the scene began early in the evening, and it was not until early the next morning that the cameras stopped grinding, and the weary com- pany of actors, cameramen and Mr. Cabanne went home for rest. —— The Venetia, J. D. Spreckles® pleas- ure yacht, whose fomnel carries two gold stars awarded for sinking sub- marines when the Venetia was in the War as a submarine chaser, has been loaned as a setting for some of .the scenes in_the forthcoming produc- tion of “The Match Breaker,” in ich Viola Dane is star. 3 v The publicity manager for -the elaborate production of the ‘“Three Musketeers” writes: “Herewith . we offer what we believe to be the briefest motion picture press story ever issued.” The notice follows: “Douglas Fafrbanks will play d’Ar tagnan.” 3 Music for Photoplays. “Some of them can't act unless they have music and some can’t act with it and some can’tact efther way,” was the manner In which a veteran director once put it, regarding the use of music while film players are working before the camers. Nowadays, however, most companies have some kind of music with their work. What does the musio do? ‘Well it keys ‘em up and makes ‘em sad or happy as desired. Then be- tween shots it fills in some dreary moments—you sometimes see the star, director and the-crew all seated to- gether around the piano, while wait- ing for lights or something or other, lustily playing and singing and thus forgetting the many troubles which beset the flim workers in spite of care and precautions. The film actor hasn’'t the inspira- tion of audience and the lights of the theater, the orchestra and so on. He has to work to a lot of people Who are as blase as he is perhaps. Also there is that camera clicking away. The set is but a spot in blg open stage, possibly. The scene 18 one out of the middle or the end or the beginning, according to oir- ocumstances. And he has to be nat- :I'l::.l n:l:"l’l convincing. That {s where ic has some helpful qualit: and helps along the IHpe ) daelity As i matter of fact the scre actor has & harder job. fo at than his stage brother. They'll all tell you that. It is a real test of acting. It {sn’t 80 bad when there's a big crowd and a big set and every- body excited and up to their ears in work. But when you get some quiet. little corner with two or three persons working—then it's hard. And maybe rt'm; fcene on the screen will oignant than big showy affairs. “he ottt Villon's Biting Wit. A rather neat passage occurs in Jus- tin Huntly MoCarthy’s famous play aod book, “If I Were King.” which been produced for the screen with William Farnum as the star and Which will be the featured attraction at Moore's Rialto Theater all week, beginning today. Francois Villon, the character por- trayed by Mr. Farnum, wins the love of a great lady. One Noel le Jolys also had loved the lady. He is angry and taunts Villon. Villon is about to ride off to battle against the Duke of Burgundy. He tells Noel he intends to write his last will and testament, and in it he intends to have the fol- lowing. To Messire Noel, named the neat By those who love him, I bequeath A helmless ship, a houseless street, A wordless book, a swordless sheath, An hourless clock, a leafless wreath, sans sheet, a board san meat, A bed sans sheet, 2 board san meat, To make his nothingness complete. Who Was Anne? ‘The story goes, says the Photoplay Magaszine, that the producers, upon ac- quiring “Anne Boleyn,” the foreign picture, debated about changing the title to something that would look snappier in Broadway electrics. There has been muck riticism of late about the flagrant changing of titlem So the offitiald decided to see if the name of “Anne Boleyn" would sell the pic- ture.- sterographers wers asked who Anne was anyway. One knew that she . was one -of the wives of Henry VIIL, but where she came in the Gategory. couldn's say: two knew she was an historical figure of some kind, somewhere, and three asked If :n:ymmmer :;Stksg for the com- . The new titlt of “An: is “Deception. e LOEW’S PALACE- ——TODAY AND ALL WEEK—— ODORE ROBERTS, SYLVIA ASHTON, WALTER HIERS AND CLYDE FILLMORE : BXTRA ADDED APTRACTIONE——= PATHE NEWS_VIEWS OF PUBBLO FLOOD ——BEGINNING TODAY AT 3 P ""‘— Presents as the dominast offering of its twenty-cMrd wmph thot Aas captivated Broadway, end which will de- gin ita Washington engagement this afternoen. “THE * MAN GOD CHANGED” A PARAMOUNT-COSMOPOLITAN PICTURS. Denn Brync’s vioid, fiaming romonce of Broadwoy's night-life, and the langorous hure of the Bouth Secs—d tale of troudled heurts and @ great love that transcended the low and brought peace at the end of the primross path—A mighty story of irresistidle appeal . —FEATURING— \ -EiE .I!*};_XT MR _\\f._ RN MISS BAYONNE WHIPPLE Wore a costaume Kelth’s. FOOTLIGHT FASHIONS. BY ELENORE DE WITT EBY. “The Hotheads,” at the Belasco last week, was a play of the sou! and the action, although intensely dramatic at times, took place amid the quiet atmosphere of an old plan- tation. Miss Alberta Burton as Helen ‘Warren, the heroine, was exactly fitted to her role, and the dainty frocks in which she appeared seemed especially created for the old southern garden pic- tured an the stage. The gown (illustrated) was an evening model of cream lace and peach colored satin. The foundation was just faintly discernible here and there, for flounce upon flounce of lace was draped to form the over- skirt which covered it. The bodice was of pale flesh-colored chiffon, cut without "sleeves, and made over a camisole foundation of satin. A large peach tinted velvet flower framed in delicate self-colored feather fronds gave an effective touch of trimming to_the simple crushed girdle of satin. Later Miss Burton appeared in a véery plain, yet distinctive frock of Harding biue linen. The bodice had short sleeves, cut kimona style and Photoplays This Week (Continued from First Page. under the “big top.” As the plot de- velops the star {s shown as a circus girl, handling wild animals in an an! mal act, with her father, a_veteran of the arena. The father dies and the girl is forced to go it alone, battling for her living and her honor against tremendous and discouraging odds. The heart interest comes into the story when she takes a wild young millionaire and tames him just as easily as she tames her wild- est lion. Rex Roselll, who plays the gir] father, is the dean of American an mal trainers, while C. B. Murphy, years noted as a master of the arena. Roskoe Karns plays opposite the star as leading man, William Welsh, Pa: ker J. McConnell and Norman Hammond also being in the cast. Corrine Griffith appears at her best as Clara Deene, private secretary of Anthony Blake.” in “What's Your Reputation Worth?’ which will bold the Garden screen Thursday through Saturday of this week. The produc- tion required hundreds of extra play- ers and many specially constructed sets. The action shifts from tene- ment to palace and city to country in the winter time, and In the latter scenes Miss Grifith is shown skiing, eighing and participating in many winter sports. Subsidiary features, including a comedy featuring “Snooky”; a show- ing of the Fox News and interpret: tive orchestra numbers will accom pany all showing: Crandall’s. Priscilla Dean will be the pictured star of the bill the first three days of the present week at Crandall's ‘Theater, in “Reputation.® In this picture ss Dean is cast In a dual role, in Wwhich centers the interest of a story of a willful woman who deserts her husband and child and becomes a famous actress. The daughter reared in an orphanage and inherits all of her mother's tal- ents with sweetness of nature and nobility of character. In addition. Fate makes the two, played by Miss Dean, each ignorant of the identity of the other, the leading figures in a drama of overwhelming intensity. Wednesday and Thursday “Without Limit” will be presented, with Anna Q. Nilsson, Frank Currier, Thomas W. Ross, Charles Lane other [ cast in roles of importance. ‘or the last two days of the week Crandall's will present Own Law,” in which the_ stellar role is played by Hobart B orth. The production is one of J. most effective e‘l!orta'..h was or the screen Pi‘n.kw;rv'nlee. Jean Calhoun and Mary Jane Irvine appear in promi- nent parts in the star’s su The added comedy feature for the week end will be “Dummy Love.” = Each dally program will be com- oted by abbreviated camera sub- jests and pipe organ accompaniment. “Enickerbocker. Cathrine Curtis’ photodramatic ver- ofon _of Ralph Connors novel, “The Sky Pilot,” will be presented as chief feature at the Knickerbocker Thea- ter the first two days 0f the-current week. Tuesday and Wednesday, the erbocker will offer a picturiza- ;| Kniok tion of Calvin Johnaton’s Saturday Evening Post’s story, “Temple Dusk,” filmed under the title of “Without Limit.” “His Bitter Half” will be the added comedy attraction. Thursday and.Friday, Mary Miles Minter is an- nounced in the first local presenta- tions_of her latest picturs, ‘Don't Call Me Little Girl.” Saturday, in re- spones to public demand, Jackie Coo- g: will be screened again in “Peck’s Apollo. 3 Todsy and tomdrrow, Clara Kim- Ball Young, in “Straight from Paris,” and Ben Turpin, in Mack Sennett’ “She Sighed by the Seaside”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Elsie Ferguson, in *Sacred and Profane Love,” and Harry, Pollard, in “The Kill-Joy”; Thursday, in “Sheltered th, |a rounded neck. of white eilk at MISS ALBERTA BURTON As the heroine of “The Hotheads” wore a dress of peach-colored satin combined with eream lace. edged with white net flunting, and White ruffles also outlined it, and®ontinued in a straight line down the front to the girdle. A pink ribbon rosette with ribbon Streamers dangling from it was placed at the corsage and gave a pretty touch of color contrast. Miss Leila Frost had an ingenue role to sustain in the same play, and her frocks were appropriately youth- ful. In the first act she wore a little white organdy, made with a plain short-sleeved hodice and a flufty wide skirt. The trimming was really quite unusual, and singled the gown out as something “different” from the ordi- nary, for it consisted of black ribbon frayed out so that it resembled fringe. It formed a very narrow and light border, and was used to outline sleeves, neck and skirt. Later Miss Frost appeared in a garden frock of red swiss dotted with white, and made over a white summer blous The swiss bodice was cut in a low oval at the front, so that the blouse appeared in the form of a vestee. pert sash added the finishing touch NEXT WEEK’S PHOTOPLAYS. Palace. The attraction of featured im- portance at the Palace Theater for the full week, beginning next Sun- day afternoon, June 19, will be “Car- nival” the screen adaptation of the stage success of the same name by Matheson Lang and H. C. M. Harding, which depicts a vivid and unusual story of Venice in carnival time. Metropolitan. The week of June 19, at the Met-| ropolitan Theater, will be notable for the first Washington presentations of Harold Lioyd's first super-comedy, “Now or Never,” said to strike a new note in screen entertainment of the dghter kind. Mildred Davis is cast In the role opposite the, star.| A supplementary film offering for the week will be Will Rogers, in_the picturization of Irvin §. Cobbd's “Boys Will Be Boys.” Columbia. The featured photoplay at the Co- lumbia Theater, following the en- gagement of ‘The Woman God Changed,” which begins its engage- ment today, will be D. W. Grifft screen version of the story by Thom- as Burke, “Dream Street.” in Which Charles ‘Mack and Carol Dempster have the roles of chief prominence. Knickerbocker. Next Sunday and Monday the Knick- erbocker Theater will be devoted to Harold Lloyd’s “Now or Never.” and parallel showings of Will Rogers, in Isvin S. Cobb's “Boys Will Be Boys.” Tuesday.and Wednesday, “The Heart of Maryland” wilk be 'shown, and Thursday and Friday, Mr. and Mra Carter De Haven, in “The Girl in the Taxi” and_Mack Senrett's "“Astray From the Steerage.” BSaturday Bebe Daniels is announced in “Two Waeks ‘With Pay.” l l | Crandall’s. Crandall's Theater will be devoted all next week to screenings of First National's film version of Arnold Bennett's comedy, “The Great Ad- venture,” in which Lionel Barrymore is the pictured star. Bitter Half”; Saturday, Jane Nowvak and Monroe Salisbury, in *“T barian,” Pollard, Kil-Joy.” 'he Bar- in “The Empire. Today and tomorrow, Priscilla Dean, in “Reputation”; Tuesday and Wed- nesday, Pearl White, in “The Thief”; Thursday, Harold Goodwin, in ‘“The Heart of a Youth” and Sunshine Comedy, “The Baby”; Friday, Frank Mayo, in “Tiger True,” and two-reel L-Ko Comedy, and Saturday, Miss Mae Marsh, in “Nobody's Kid.” d. Lyrie. Today—Jack Hoxle, in “Cyclone ; matinee only, Eddle Polo, in nes, in 'go only, “The Diamond Queen.’ « Savoy. Today and tomorrow, Jackie Coo- gan, in “Peck’s Bad Boy” and Toon- erville comedy, “The Skipper's Flirta- tion”; Tuesday and Wednesday, Pris- £illa Dean, In “Reputation”; Thurs- day, Justine J:‘hnlwd me, in “Sheltered Daughters,’ sn‘;:{e”; Friday, “Buried Treasure” in’ *The Kill-Joy”; -Saturday, | 1as MacLean, in “The 4 Doug- Home Stretch” cial feature, ‘Trailing 'the York. Today and tomorrow, Dorothy Phik: lips, in Allen Holubar’s “Man-Woman- Marriage”; Tuesday, Justine John- - — + |Reviews of New Books MISS JEAN ELIOT Appeared ‘in a tallored suit with & imple te blouse. at the back of the gown. Miss Bayonne Whipple, one of the headliners at Keiths, appeared in an unusual sketch inan unusual costume. It was of white silk crepe, and the gown had a semi-cape at the back. The hat was Napoleonic, turning up sharply at the front, and the long white staff tassel-trimmed heiped to carry ‘out the directoire effect. The blouse sleeves were finished with ] cufts, and trimmed with a myriad of tiny white silk buttons. The same trimming_was carried out on the bodice. The back of the cape was edged with long w fringe and more appeared on the side panels, which were of contrasting silk. The only trimming on the hat was a de- sign beaded on with spangles. Miss -Jean Eliot played a French girl in another sketch on the Keith bill last week, and her spit was as “chick” as her accent, which is sa: ing quite a lot. The material was a mixed light brown wool, and it was made in a strictly tallored manner, without any defined walstline. Her hat was a turn-up model, with a de- sign of blue flowers appliqued at the front. A cluster. of corresponding blue ribbons gave a youthful touch to the back of the hat. Filmograms. Reports from London indicate that Donald Crisp has begun work on film ing. “Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush in_ Scotland, with a cast including some of the best known film and stage players in England. Paul Powell, who also is working in the London studio, is_about to begin on a production which has not yet been titled. In his long list. of thrillers with melodramatic titles, Charles A. Tay- lor, the veteran dramatist, who adapt. ed and directed “The Half Breed, overlooked *Train Robbers That Have Shot at Me.” In the early days of rail- roading in California Taylor went through six train hold-up: Sheldon Lewis, who has been ap- pearing in vaudeville with his wife. Virginia Pearson, has signed a con- tract to play the part of Jacques in the forthcoming production, “The Two Orphans.” Perhaps never before have 50 many persons been “tried out” for be a part, the score being more than six- ty at the end of the third week. Following the completion of ‘“The Great Impersonation,” upon which he is now engaged, George,Mclford will produce an adaptation by Monte Kat- terjonn of & M. Hull's novel, “The o Colleen Moore, who will play the leading feminine role in “Slippy Mc- Gee," has only brief breathing spells between pictures since she be- gan her screen tutelage several years ago. Although still in her "teens, Miss Moore |8 now starting her nineteenth plcture. Noah Beery drives the first automo- bile that maede its appearance in -Los Angeles many years ago, in_Marion Fairfax’s “The Lying Truth” After much tinkering the relic was made to £0 on ity own power—for about fitty feet, which was all that was required for the film. *“The Case of Becky,” in which David Belasco featured Frances Starr, is to be Constance Binney’s next picture. Gloria Swanson has a screen versioh of ‘“The Shulamite.” *“The Shulamite” > originally a novel by Alice ana aud Askyw. It was later made into a three-act play by Edward Knoblock and Claud Askew. *Nobody” has just completed. Jewel Carmen plays the lead, sup- ported by Kenneth Hsrlan. She has recently returned to the sareen after & years absence. Jack O'Brien, leading man for Car- mel Myers, and Helen Smith, who ap- poared with him in “Love’s Butter- fly”* have recently announced their engagement. been House Peters and Allan Forrest will appear in “The Man From Lost [River.” Roscos & Man “Peter Pan” is to be done in the films. Katherine MacDonald’s next plo- ture will be “Peachie,” a light comedy drama. This will, be the famous star’s second venture into the realm comedy drama. The first was ‘Stranger Than Fiction,” soon to be released. - Ralph Graves is to play the lead. ing masculine role in Peter B. Kyne' “Kindred of the Dust,” which Raoul ‘Walsh is to make. ., business woman, has her debut in “The a French stfeft acene. A story by Rita fiimed ' by Wiliiam setting represents the back stag: theat ‘Weiman is bein De ' Mille. -| ment. s | i Congquering | Power,” whereshe has & small role in | TULYRSES 8. GRANT: His Life an Character. By Hamlin Garlan author of “A Son of the Middle Border,” etc. New York. The Mac- millan company. HE personality and character of Grant are the chief quest .of Hamlin Garland in this blography. Since, however, character expresses itself largely through external event, and since it takes the whole of one's life to interpret any stage of it, the author has, for the purposes of this study. literally followed every stage of Grant's career from his birth to his death. The result is a great ptory, every step of which is substantiated by about every conceivable sort of acceptable evidence. Out of the whole sympathetic interpretation two im- pressions of the man supersede all others. These are Grant as a great soldier and general; and Grant 2as the most inept of men in the business affairs of the world. - And with it all—with both success and failure— he is the silent man. And this is perhaps the most appealing of all qualities, this keeping silent what- ever may be the inner urgencies against it. The early failures of the great warrior make a pathetic stor: One is glad to get into the tide of competency and success that finally saved the Union and marked one of the most brilllant chapters in the military history of any time and any place. The story goes on with the presidency and the public honors that succeeded it. Iticloses with the heroic and sllent suffering of Grant {and with his death. The author is in deep sympathy with his subject. He has been painstaking beyond com pare in gathering materizl for this history: He is by practice a story teller. et to work have produced in the book in hand a remarkable study of | Grant himself, and, beside this. a dramatic view of the chief stages of the civil war. MODERN DEMOCRACIES. By James Bryce, author of “The American Commonwealth,” etc. New York: The Maemillan’ Company. Lord e, by way of these two volumes, offers a study of democracy as a working form of modern gov- ernment. The United States, Canada, the Spanish-American_republics, Au- stralia, New Zealand, Switzerland and France, provide the concrete material through whose governments, respec- tively, the author traces the working out of the principles of democracy. This analysis defines the fundament- als upon which these governments agree. It sets the bed-rock of democratic purpose. From' this com- mon - foundation of agreement the author shows the superficial points of departure that each of the couitries has made -in its government ma- chinery through the influence of spe- cial history ‘environment &nd char- acter. The analysis extends, finally. to a comparison of these various forms of democracy for the sake of impressing their essential unity of | purpose, despite certaln external dif ferences of method. The whole ir ultimately gathered up for an ap- praisal of the benefits to be derived, generally, from this form of govern- for an estimate, also, of its defects and its dangers. This paral- view. coupled with the | straight thinking and clear statement of the author, constitutes a most use- ful study of modern democratic g0 ernments both from the standpoint. of accomplished fact and from that of suggestion for the future. To t_hr student. the book belongs beside Lord Bryce's “American Common- ‘wealth.’ WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF BALZAC. By Juanita Helm Floyd. New York Henry Holt & Co. Lovers of Balzac will like to sup plement the novels of the great Frenchman with this intimate study of his friendships with women. Some these women were, another of his novels. AIl of them. These powers correlated and | ot obviously, lifted bodily, so to speak, into one of | oy port, an “old retired showman,” whose stories he found “mighty interests ing.’ Seitz suggested that Root write out some of these stories, which he did. thus uncovering George Conk- lin, “tamer of ma”” And of him Mr. Seitz sayi had often seen him and admired him in action. Truly, if there ever was a_master of wild animals, it was he. He was a circus to any part of the game is_the epic of the circus; its ways, itd wanderings, its great leaders, its freaks and followers and fakirs, I believe it to be the only history of the kind ever written—certainly no other ever told so much or so weli. It is a novel and captivating sct of recollections of the circus from its ©ld caravan days to the present day of swift and easy transportation. It is a story of thrilling personal haz- ard, of intimate acquaintance vith the people and the animals and the arts and makeshifts that go to make up the “big show” itself. CALL MR. FORTUNE. By H. Bailey, author of “The Highwayman.” et New York: E. P. Button & Co. A fresh breeze blows through these half dozen detective stories. This welcome effect of novelty is produced |by the author's happy expedient of applying to each of the rituations in and the principle of division of labor. Instead, as is the common fashion. of imposing upon the modern detective in literature the burden of making up guilt out of whole cloth, as it were, this author puts something upon the criminals. These are men with imagination and ori | i . This precaution permits Mr. Foster. an agreeabie young amateur in crime detection, to be pretty much himself in an engaging sort of wa: A casual man, this, who wraps his very acute powers of observation and deduction in an off-hand manner that i for a while but ver his evidence criminals with a friendly zrin of having done a fairly good job. if he does say it himself. One likes him atulates the author in having Then he congratulates 1h(m again on having given young Fortune something worth while to do. THE HOUSE_IN QUEE! UARE. By W. D. L ork: G. P. Putnam IEdinburgh forms the background of this novel. Within the streets of this grim old city strange doings are made to befall. Under the roof of the house in Queen Anne square curious things, involving various kinds ang degrees of crime, take shelter. Agencies of the law operate after their own peculiar fashion. And, finally, the law itself, in & sensational criminal trial, comports itself in the exact attitudes and gestures of Scot- tish procedure. At the center of the mysterious movements there ls.a lovely lady, alwaye in danger from ewl influences about her. This i mystery tale that the author appears to have thought out beforehand. It has plan, and expedient, and inge: uity. Not until the last moment doe the author open up the foundations upon which the story structure rests. When one looks upon this ground- work from which the rest has risen he marvels that so slisht and so u plausible a thing could have su tained so consistent and so sound an i invention. However, the proof of the | pudding is in the eating. | THE HOUSE OF THE FALCON. By Harold Lamb, author of “March- ing Sands” etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Sheer adventure, this, set in the far east. With good skill has the author mixed the elements of the orient to create in the mind of the reader the illusion of mystery that, to the westerner, inheres in this re- mote region. The adventure that threads its way through this colorful and dramatic setting is the m of a gudnaped American &irl Who ied to the hidden retreat of a native tribe. Between the as obviously. contributed to Balazac's| guction of the girl and her rescu unerring. insight to the idiosyncracies ' pocever, a romance of the feminine mind and heart. This is a very grank study. It appears to a fair one, 0, concerned only with the facts and the influences of these numerous and ardent friend- ships. Out of it a prodigious egoist emerges, with something of the snob in his makeup, and a touch of the cad A great artist withal, who eats the women up to feed his emotions, his | mental actlvity, his bodily comfort. He must have talked some of them to death —an amazing_talker, he—with himself always the subject. However, one for- gives him for these frailties, nce, largély by virtue of them, he is the writer above most others who has truly depicted the woman as she is, leaving to lesser artists the task of picturing her as ske hopes and plans to appear. SHADOW-SHAPES. By Elizabeth Shepley Sargeant, author . “French Perspectives. Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company. This record goes back to the fall of 1918, following the accident to its author on one of the battleflelds, Which she, in company with friends, was exploring. The lieutenant guid- ing the visitors warmed them that they must not touch anything, as the fleld had not been ‘“cleaned up.” Somebody did “touch” something, with the resuilt that one 1ife was lost and several people were wounded. This writer was among the latter. These sketches were made, for the most §RL while she was lying In hospital. ow one does not know whether the laying aside of her bolly. so to speak, left her mind so keenly sensitive and clear, or whether this mental alert- ness and sympathy are here in her normal state. Certain it is that this is a series of pictures so poignant and clear and sympathetic that one gets the impression of pure mind and feel- ing set free from the obstacles and | inhibitions that the body is forever setting up against clairvoyance of the spirit. These hospital scenes are marvels of insight, sympathy, fellow feeling. No one can read them with eomposure and the impulse is to set them aside. One has read about the war. That is the first thought. The next one is that too much cannot be given to us about the war. It is to femember, not to forget. So, with heart stirred to its very bottom, one goes on with these amasing piciures and interpretations. They stand out in strong appeal, even in the midst of the great volume of war literature and even at this distance of time. tly | THE WAYS OF THE CIRCUS; Memo- Adventures of ‘Tamer of Lions. Set down by Harvey W. Root. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Bros. In a foreword to this book Don C. Seits of the World tells how it came .to_be written. He says that ‘Harvey W. Root, also of the World staff, .Jolnc about his business in Connecticut, found, living in Bridge- That Impelli of develops _ be tween her and a mysterious Eng- lishman, the “Falcon” held as hostage by the tribe till he, in their behalf, has overcome the power of their arch enemy, the “Vuiture.” The rising of the trive for warfare, the cere- monies that accompany this proposed outfaring, the power of a ‘strange priest over the destinies of the tribe, the part of the girl in shaping events—all these are the steps by Which the adventure rises to its climax of rescue and requited love and the rest of it. One likes to read the book. There i the glamour of 2 strange existence about it. There is the strain of momentous adven- ture upon it. As for the heroine— well, one is impressed with her ca- pacity for messing up things gen- erally. * Still, there would not have been much of adventure here if she had been of a less temperamen- tal stripe. So she was useful. as a less beautiful and a more sensible woman could not possibly have been.- —_— The Government and Silver Dollars. From the Topeki Capital. Notwithstanding that it can be done so profitably that both France and Great Britain have hastily enacted laws prohibiting the melting of their silver coins for exportation, silver | dollars will not be so treated by Sp ulators in this country. is because the silver doliars to the ex- cently were, salted away in the Treas ury vaults at Washington, notes be- ing out against them. More than a year ago, under a law passed last iast year, the Treasury began melt- ing the dollars up and selling them as bullion for export abroad, and so a ] couple of hundred million silver dol- lars have been melted and exported and have helped to supply the great- demand for silver in the world. But what becomes of the silver cer- tificates issued against these silver. dollars? The law provided that as fast as they came into the Treasury in payment of taxes or other debt to the government they should be can- celed and destroyed, and federal re- serve motes should be issued in their stead, up to 350 millipn dollars. Thé old question of the '50s, what eventually could be done with the rodigious coinage of silver, is mno longer a question. Silver is at a p mium over gold at the historic 16 to 1 ratio. None of it therefore will ever be presented for coinage, while this premium continues. 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