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x to The fvesiag NV orld Da ily It Can't Be Done! @ @ (aeGbtkn) @ @ Wve] Men of Initiative Modern Americans Who Have Led the March of Progress “Follies” Best Forgot By Julius Chambers of the Series. lave. 6 GREAT WEN OF 4.—EDWARD HATCH JR., Merchant and Fly-Fighter. WALKING (8 WETHOUT Ceoyright, 1918, by ‘The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New Yat Brats Wend, ‘NITIATIVE ef the present nation-wide BY CHARLES DARNTON. brows may be mopped, no tears will be shed over Ziegt Lf aot of “Folties,” for seoing this 1913 model of summer extravagansa at the New Ameterdam Theatre lgst night was believing it to be quite best of the series. ‘ ‘To start with, the drop from the New York Theatre roof to that proud home mothers permit files te gather upon the eyelide of thetr child: ‘the peacock in Forty-second street was @ change for the better, and then, i \ ef Arabic and Baracente traditions, Members of euch races, for once we weren't obliged to clear away clouds of tobacco amoke to sce 7 \ peata, throng the large cities and cast a it was going on. But while it may have been the house that lent enchant- » to the view, there wae no shutting one’s eyes to the fact that Mr. Zieg- ‘» fresh “Follies” showed improvement all along the line of vision. Also eer ‘vas not assaulted by coon-song shouters, as in the noisy days of yore, \ther-dunged ragtime ladies were not among those presen’ You remember “Annie Rooney,” don't you? Well, Anni daughter Katie it into song last night, and there was a reminder of Pat as well by a cer with reminiscent feet and the red atrip of whiskers that used to go ith the old top hat that Rooney wore. There really @ bit of meaning tn rly everything that happened. At times, indeed, there was @ bit too much meaning in what was eaid. me of the dialogue came over the footlighte hot wave. However, this was to be expected. Mr, Ziegfeld has never inned his “Follies” for the Chautauqua circuit, and New York's Manhattan in te of everything that Hawkeye, a philosophic Indian chief, had to say about from the top of an extremely upright hotel. His plaint that thie particula: ction of the country is no longer in the corn-belt did not touch the heart, Tan MacLaren did hia best as an elocutionist to make it sound pathetic, had no sooner uttered his awful warning than the girls came on to fast lc and atarted something. nd they were girls such as only Ziegfeld seems able to find. Some there who wore muffs, as though they feared that otherwise they would catch , even with the thermameter doing everything in thelr favor. ‘Knowledge seekers” who looked as though they knew thelr way about mixed with good ltéle devils in red-and-black who danced like blazes, and a fire or something equally warm brought out Turkish bath debutantes, each clad simply and chastely in a sheet. The fitst act began so alrily Bu} ‘s . ‘well-being, rewards were offered and paid for that you found yourself wondering how mittee headquarters, Fly traps, warranted to the last one would end. “September plied to the poorer classes, Women ané chiléren were Morn” was reached as a matter of fa the best methods of ridding thelr homes of t! course. To see the young lady who Co-operation of boards of health was sought ta all showed her love of art in thin pose was annual epring clean-up” to reflect that sh jould worry and | throughout the United Btates, otadle get a wrinkle, ahe surely did here treated with chloride of lime an@ other poleons that and there Mr. Hatch computed that a fertiliser heap covering many eeres of But no matter! Here was a gorgeous ark meadows caused thousands of deaths! Carlonds of this girl show and a dancing carn! An carried larvae to regions erwise extremely clever and equally funny fling oe bid sgeliaes at the turkey trot w: taken by Leon Erroll and Stella Chatelaine. If Mis DINAH WAS DUBIOUS. looks mighty s'picious. Bam's been ‘tox-| the worried office-holder, “What oth NO HEDGER, - ee henge Lap fst Dome sactntpal Chat wmed like play II Questioned the dusky |!cated ever since he got '—Chicago | names is he going to drop?! ‘Bay, boss, can 1 get off this after-| My. h ing from Rit Se eee tas eaten seen te at the same time a real achievement | aamsel, addressing the Heense clerk, | Journal. durgh Post. noon about half-past two?” Desi payprvat ped ae huts (in tals ehopeh theus Gleb encnivel both in the way of ekill and humor. | «,, rm" t was marriage —_— eee “Whore funeral ta it to be this time, Mr. Erroll was at his funniest aaa tipay|iiccnsc you gave may asnehey lest PERPLEXING QUESTION. SIMILAR. Jam side that conversed with them in “muscan” language ing alone when there wore. iy door IN HER USUAL thy Reuse fly followed. Literature © UNANNOUNCE | D way! traveller tn the subway. His success in i” aid the idler, “that Mr.| Bacon—Huzley said that an oyster| ‘Well, to be honest, boss, the way the) Of the localities they represented. carrying more than one bundle to the erty,” replied the olerk. “Why has dropped the name|is as complicated as a watch. morning pai have it doped out it] One of his fy fellaw travellers stopped of ticket window gave him new standing | aq you ask?” bert—Well, I know both of them | looks Ii! joing to be the home| pleted the journey. as a comedian. “Well air," replied the dusky on: team n."—t, Louls Republie, the amallest details, Frank Tinney ae Buddy. Nat M. Wills was the first to score with from it took was all that @ husband should be. He sipped 1¢ in Peyton? might was young poor, but intelligent, heard through the keyhole lo win auccess. His eavesdropping, autiful young wife, " ted herscit in his behalf ! that together they might reach a higher Leon Erroll as Saul Wright. his opening song, ‘New York, Whi 3 ther strides in skirts as “The Ragtime Suffragette," but he was somewhat ting tn “If a Table at Rector’s Could Talk,” @ song after the heart, if not’ @omething worth singing, but happily the last act gave them @ fairly good] gyNorsia OF PRECEDING CRAPTERS, In the end Miss Coline sang charmingly, though “Sleep Time, My| The was the only redceming featury of @ sketch in which she appeared Matter With You?’ which dealt with the 1 o'clock closing Iaw #0 severely - ; . weet! a Great Summer Sto The Man With a Billion —S=|[ 4%" ie%8 soul, of George M. Cohan, He would have made it the song of the piece. eeaeaeaaaaanaaaaaaanaaanaanneomeeaanad Frank Tinney and Martin Brown. In addition to his familar monologue, | satin ae te inc! Men (ind the audience lost no time in taking it as @ good joke. Mr, Wills made Both Alles Jose Colling and Miss Elizabeth Brice had to wait a long time (Copyright, 1918, by Joka A, Moroes.) ore jewels ‘Tinney wee sieuiy Papin in the Srent fabrar p Ronery, Ber Sn th ghamion at aet ioe ng ty ally I think Forage erty ‘ m the bureau, slr of finding something he had left be- point in social. existence and perhaps n Mrroll confidential rercom: 2 poy ‘estont te, Of A good Don't you Qe, Brown, who made the devil red-headed, and Miss Rose Dolly danced | mot',rt"s rest SS soma ot MVery wel ehe replied, “Tahal! be Gctermination, ae well as @ certain degree of grace, and Miss Ethel | (uly known as, "The Counter and as “Rpsnish ready at 3.90, say.” te Kelley went through @ terpeichorean exercise that was just about as] is ons, of the . ‘Shall I send up my card or come to ful es her name, Miss Florence Nugent Jerome sang ‘Katie Rooney” | penish Lssie your apartment for yout he hesitated to make at ers saan tana hat me that wit) UMiform cap carrying large shield give us good ites for dinner, oF, the visor stood bef ‘agure- Fein bind tn his Might? ot afraid of the ali achievement of @ more substantial na- He was tu: ‘The falthfulnese of Cora Lee Peyton her nobility of character, as he eaw it, Y and her beauty and vivacity all served been sent by the bes he was to make him mad with love that was ‘4 thought that if this prying crook ha he Pa your card Up, please, and T y and then led such @ quiet life that she was fergotten, om the Palleades, lend “ aout in the reception room. it him neal tterly hopelem, At that tlne England ‘The beauteous chorus kept up the gay And good work to the end, dancing | tins fet (Gh “viet Goodbye a Permitted him ‘to ‘enter and Mn would never forget the man wire vader the teed Queen. Galak bes al ft was worth and keeping cool without the alightest effort. It was| Widow.” to whom = ‘Adrian hung up the recetver, movements @ bewAn the forward ears, the ehifty litte was deing daily torn by news from the yes ent, even to @ near-sighted man, that the costumes were designed to th! If he ‘Transvaal. Adrian had had a taste of and the fidgety, yellow Gnger lo returned to hie desk to take up Stunning 1s the only word for them. In short, the latest form of “Follies” some perfunctory correspondence, tried wan one of Sir Dick's henchmen, then war in Cubs. He began to hunger for @ record-breaker. It s THE summer show of the town, Y herney to write the first detter, threw down a, did not like the quiok, black suriatn se lin We 9 more of it, eid he left England to join saat otcotin 5 the pen and went to the window over- movements of the man, and although the Boer forces. one of the hotel where ‘Mrs, looking Fifth avenue and stood there he was no student or béiever in Lom: The young man was with Piet Joubert : — to himself, when he fell, and was seeing and shar- open the door, live and seeks @, with his hands tightly clasped debind he did not like the n he fell, and was seeing shai ® ancy be pew to, to bis back. | ry and the elant ef the - beginning |ne in bloody fighting the firet week of Jle was ready with hie excuse for bela Be tty Vincent’s atid TPE XxI THis dark, handsome face was grave brow, the shifty little eyes and the y. | The crook Ns arrival within the Boer lines. He thers nd oo forestalled eusoicton quick, yellow-atained fingers. urned to Christian de boldly for i t a nhadh bey cyt over and ov He looked in hia telephone book ana scout 19 sir ° had Lacorag who carved go deeply in the ‘ender Ingide he had studied Mr, Vanderposl v ¢ o overs “ that Mr, Vanderpoel?” over again in hie mind the secured the number of the City De- [0 see Mon le hitte,” as thie We a aed niet, her purloined letter to him, If thia pols of the British forces, and followed yy rrequent glances into mirrors. His | came im @ femi voice promise in the viole! berg rs we ar rt was eo the quarry might come ia eight Wie Bae . esas 40 Gk & batlike had taken in the call "Fes, madam," he replied, ney had shown him that Mr. Montague “'ity called for the commissioner's “t any moment. Adrian returned to New York to go the °Y Mr.Vanderpoel to inquire whether The Holiday Mood. a in Shae seletions Four worksdey “Well, this is Mra, Peyton, Jeffray would seo Cora Lee Peyton ome ih how voice, and asked if it _ Adrian felt prepared for the meeting. Found of his clubs and friends and then (Judson) was BS genes neat @gain and that the woman had ace li k or Mr, Montague Jeffray, or be HB eceason of . I thought I recognized you {08° thy obeyed @ome request or in- Would-be possitte to be Immediately in: hia name might be, would not ‘2 0 overcome with resticssnee again, by I vacations is ! + |i the dining room the other day, bUt junction from him, Pa ib RR ee Bes hotel alive unless he wore [He salel dor London, Camage had mot ‘tools i tes) on us and| “‘R. P." writes: “I am twenty-three | "3% not certain.” Ghe Was the bait placed in the trap Ment to So eke ly served to wipe from his ibrain the coos and managed to get away at upon us enty-three| “On, thank you, Mre, Peyton. You are lower Fifth avenue. He was ewitched ture of the woman he loved, In Lon- eim. the resurgence of| 4nd very mugh in love with @ girl of| y, kind to take the trouble to call Joeftray had digged for his own feet. to a district superintendent. He wi His thoughts turned to the alender, 4.) ne found that her husband had been Dullding without interference, * T the gay boliday| sixteen. I habe asked her to go with| ne™ When would he come to the edge of intormed that Bo inspection @f hotels Aweet creature in violet who lived on eit your, die made inquiry every. 2¢ Was not guch @ elose call for one of. ae, me to places, bUt she refuses to do eo, | "When 1 leamed that you were etop- the pitfall in search of the women? — was in progress in that district, the floor below. How did she ever get oie gor her, but could not find her, such nimble wits and feet as Judson pos. M 1 of o says she is ti etve|ping here also I thought I would tell Tow would he come? Adrian dropped the receiver and @art- to know this rogue and precious scoun- fo.1, of nis acquaintances aaid that «he sessed, but the epirit of uneasiness came ” 95 ay er 8 bd 190 FouNs to receive | Ping I did not you by _ He might be in the hotel this very od into the next room of his eutte, rel? Her note, filehed by Tierney, j.4 heen deft with little or no money over him as soon as he settled down @aution to the| my attentions J treat her as nicely as | YOU Lead y ‘ fe) ‘the moment, The man war not there. wan sedate and proper enough, but in iis that they believed the United States comfortably In a Sixth avenue saloon to young men andiI know how, but it doesn't make any |heme when you so nice cocmtored He might appear with the apron of @ He ran from one room to another, ft there was a rift of the personal, ® Gricrnment had given her some email fll his lungs with smoke He was sot women who will| difference. What ehall I do?” of F bat Serer ‘and considerate Walter and the look of @ walter well feeling giad that he had slipped his little note of innocent intimacy. pout through whi coull keep alive. jafied with the looks of the gentler @oon enter upon} Wait, The girl te young and should | of you. May I hope that an oki ac- felgned, revolver in hin pocket. His thoughts went dack to ten year® “Adnan made frantic Inqutry of the Man he had just left, nor was be satle- thelr annual play- time? Don't let not be urgéd, If show yours renew that [He might come ea a titled person In the rear room of his suite he before, when he first met her at 49 Government, but was informed thatehe fied with hie quickness in slsing friend whom she oan run, es Were neahtore?!, at few with credentials that might peep mus- found an open window. It led toa fire American function in Lundon. She way ‘on the payroll of Uncle Sam, Judson as @ crook. in nervous ter for an hour at least. encape, but @ girl then, handily twenty-two or 11, went to Virginia and found out her Judson Was not mortified over this hi f department at: UY minor attache e Dit about her, at he far. if you are «| Business and Pleasure. Mutey have the pleasure of taking bal rere reneunenns he wenn of that the shadow had passed through beautiful and so charming in her pere ‘But Fl he had found her and was “xuv'nor* when he finally reached allow to the young man) ow, B” writes: “I work in an office| you to Sherry's to tea eome afternoon?’ Tlerney and of Faurot. When such *Very one of his rooms, » sonality that English and Americans jjving under the eame root with her. ef. Ordinary people are not quick to he asked, men of such hard experience in detec- allke were detighted with her. . Adrian ‘naced hie rooine impatiently aa pect the wan who comes to the yf. tion the im to a man on the Adrian's firet eight of the young Mrs. the minutes dragged into hours, and t Wearing @n 0! “thie. afvernoon ‘wil be bright and other side of the line of battle he kne SHAPTER XXII. peyton wan tisasivavs to his peace of emuazement sontta'at sheis’y seca Toose who mich auepert would be Deautiful and this ts the time of y that his task was He knew an with the nicotined ‘mind. then twenty-seven years further and further awa: fied with watching until the never had @ serious af- Was she bring about the great ad- departed, But this long- ao te He succumbed imme- venture for his restless soult Her mya- with the great shoulders imprensed | Ghpuld have reason to suspect feriewe sequeintences Ip with the very on 08 person quite evt of the ‘ im os 8 low hia life 4 be in ne sues was enoupn to qa’.e wecking opportunities of Seilng bim thrill all Wot, help: sel ROT, Ramee Ray Saray os ASTM EE rs mn aamne St Stora”