The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1914, Page 3

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5 OF AL BAD BOYS rst Group of Reformatory “Lads Will Leave Hart's Island March 4, ia NO GUARDS FOR THEM. A ‘Youngsters Will Be Taught} “' Respect and Put on Their ing is to be taught to them, and later ether industrial training is to be { wo the building of their own house will start at once with the prac- traint common to the lives of crimi- hale; they are to.be workers and they to be taught self-respect eg that jay shall be able to take their places the world of decent, right- sving men. There will be no sense ¢ forced labor or restraint. the first experiment which Besides its value as @ real re- wna the plant will very greatly jeduce the cost of maintenance not aly of those sent to the institutions ut of tho whole city Department of [porrection as well, as a large amount (Fé fresh vegetables, milk, butter, ergs ad other farm products will be pro- iced. The farm will be a model one " well as a model reformatory. ——— EALTH OFFICIAL BARS , TUBERCULOSIS SERUM) u.0" Refuses to Permit Sate of Kare funkel’s Modified Form. of Friedmann's-Cure. “President Goldwater of the Board cer of the Board ead of the State Ceed } TOMAKEFARMERS Says Poet Yeats, Has Produced the Vice Play DRAMATISTS SHOULS WAITS ABOUT Ts Slump and with $LuM- ACTORS Lone 3 Cast PLAS Drama of the Future, He Predicts, Wil Come From This Country and Not England, Where a Few Stale Themes Are in Control. sent us the inimitable Irish: Play- Row an accepted institution in arrived last night for his master of dreams is Mr. Yeats, as those of us know who recall the jon of Bis “Land of Heart's Desire.” But the light of de a bit cruel to dream-folk, and I wondered a Iittle variety of eccentric genius I should find when I called jetional Arts Glub. I bad George Moore's naughty de the back of my head, too. Somewhere he pictures Mr. Yeats Dleck figure sanding at the edge of the lake, wearing a cloak Mah, he looks the aomewhat-different person he is; he does not look a He is of a welcome taliness in this olty of abbreviated men. He is boy- ishly elender, boyishly light of step and he has a delightfully boyish grin. He wears his coarse black, gray- threaded hair only @ bit longer than {s customary, and he dresses quite conventionally, except that bis tie ta @ trifle too loosely knotted. Perhaps {t is the hair, perhaps his eagle-like profile, that gives a curious sugges- tion of the Indian in his moments of gravity. “And how is the Irish theatre flour- s7"T asked, when we were com- fortably settled on a deep leather sofa. “Oh, weve developing the most won- derful set of new playwrights!" Mr. ‘Yeats replied, enthusiastically. “We have five remarkable young men, and every one of them from County Cork. ‘That seems to be the most productive centre. HE PREFERS POETIC, PUBLIC passion for reality. And reality is what will count on the stage of the futare, It ts what the young men fmtevested in the theatre are every- where demanding.” “Bus I thought you were opposed to realiam on the stage!” I exclaimed. “I thought you desired to revive ‘poetic drama.” “Personally, I prefer it,” he ad- the one thing frem which a things they really feel!” and the 's head went back as though he’ the bridle of Pegasus dropping it, “When you try to restrain my belief in the pootic should have been in de- that Mr. Yeats agmirably sums up the case against the censor, ART SHOULD BE LEFT AS FREE As ecianca, “The artiet should be allowed exactly ae much freedom as she and ne mere,” he did, slowly. “We de net tolerate the solentifie brute, ner should we de- fond the artistic brute. But when the solentiet choses to specialize In the etudy of binek beeties we do net order him to turn his gaze on the etare, And If his black- beetle researches are brilliantly Gucesssful we elect him to an honorable learned eceiety, just ae Wf he had dissovered a new etar. We should be equally consistent In our treatment ef artists. “Any intense form of conscious- nese is worthy of artistic expres- sion, One of my quarrels with the commercial stage is that it says thore re certain things about which we shall write and certain things about which we shall not write. An a con- sequence there are themes which have been put on the stage until their possibilities are, at least tem- porarily, exhausted, “Though we do not forbid, we ad- vise all our young playwrights in Ire- land not to write about love, in the romantic sense of the word, Not that it ten't @ suitable theatrical sub. ject. But we know that tho young men have read a lot of sentimental novels and that they are bound to be|™! influenced by these rather than by real life, “Drawing room drama neems to me @ steril 1d. Bo does the triangle y of husband, wife and lover, In England the stage has been so long , |Controlied by a few stale themes that I doubt if the great drama of. the future can possibly be writteniang|tended to be eaten, which come into produced there, * “in America you have « bet- chances, but you must got ever 5 o THE “TiREO-Busimess- man? TYPE OF SHOW | PositwELY MUST GO! the notion that drama ie an ex- elusive possession of the eulti- vated classes. You must get close Whitman calle ‘the pow: erful uneducated.” And then Mr, Yeats proposed the idea of the theatre of, By and for the @tums/’""There you could keep an American National Theatre com- paratively removed from plays and acting that might be iniitated,” he observed. \ “Imitation of even good models spoils the natural expression. Fur- thermore, such a theatre would be devoted to a typically American phase of life that has not yet found definite expression on the stage.” “But persons who see themselves too realistically dramatized are apt, to object,” I intervened. Mr. Yeats grinned, “You're thinking of ‘The Playboy of the Western World,” he charged, “Do you know why that play was stoned? Because it attacked a vest- ed interest, the vested virtue of the Irish home rule patriots, To them it was of immense importance that the Irish peasant should always be Portrayed as a noble, oppressed crea. ture, Go they attacked a different representation, “A hundred and fifty years from now the Irish patriote will have adopted all the virtues Synge gives his hero Christy. And when some playwright pokes fun at bin the Irieh of that day will rise in thoir wrath and exclaim, ‘How dare any one deny our noble courage, our splendid talent for lying, our magnificent braggu- STRONG BOX AND MADS SAVED FROM FE BY PATROLMEN' VALOR Blaze Confined to Basement of Carpenter Residence Does $3,000 Damage. Patrolmen Bushell and Clark of the East Fifty-firet atreet station this morning saw smoke issuing from the basement of the four-story brown- stone dwelling No, 64 East Fifty. seventh street of Mrs. Miles B. Car- penter and her daughter, Miss Agnes Carpenter, They turned in an alarm and then aroused the family. Mrs. Carpenter and her daughter hurried to the street and informed the {o"the ‘upper part et tas house aed o Ouse aroused the. maids, while the other carried the atrong box,and an Ori- ental valued at $2,000, to & and the basement street, this time the emoke filled the building was ablaze, ‘The smoke entered through the id wall of head docto!’ Those virtues will be vested | © by that time, MU8T AVOID “DIRECT PREACH. ING” IN PLAYS, “The only way ie to write what you know and what you see and let people fight want to. But hing. The more moral uplift wright hae in his life the werk, But if he puts jesson in his play he will paint hie villain blacker than ever was villain before and his here whiter than any one except an angel in heaven is allowed to ” “By the way, what did you think of ‘General John Regan?” I asked. Mr. Yeata smiled—a bit superiorly it seemed to me. “A pleasant entertainment,” he ad- mitted, “But it didn’t start a riot, Oh, yes, it did—in ite own town, Any- y can start @ rict in bis own town, however. A riot over two coun- tries ia a different matter and rather wets a standard, you know.” And a gleam of martial reminis- cence wan atill lingering in the yrey- black eyes of W. B. Yeats, poo dreamer and--Irishman—when I left im. WHEN IS A SNAIL ALIVE? WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Snafis, the kind that appear on menus of aon restaurants as “oscargote,” are live animals, according to the United States Court of Customs Appeals. ‘The court has decided that anails in- this country alive, are not to be as- animals, but salsa wt th to Bag say men just as hie daughter, Mies Eno, hin son-in-law, W. L. Graves, and tho latter's wife, who had been attending ‘a reception, arrived. Seheeo! Hardships in 1880. (From the Londen Chronicte,) A century ago some of the boys at Prince Henry's new echool had to un- dergo @ rough training. An 04 left the hook In 1834 or goal, To get up at & on freezing winter morninga; to aweep their own flora and make thelr own bede; to go two-by-two to the pump for a saanty 0 eat no mouthful of food until round of none of them too plentiful or too good; Overdoing It. {From the Waynesboro (Mis.) News-Reacon,) The fellows who ait up in comfortable t, | railroad offices or in some cosy office of that one-half of these wiseacres do not know a hog wallow from boll weevil y biaeard plentiful man comes along who does kni he ie talking about Js given to him or hi writings, This ip one Ulustration of overdoing wial might tee thing. ST er RT TE I IT ae OT TT IPWRECK MADE |POUCEMAN’S SLAVER |DEATH-IERER LAW? DUCHESS HERONS "BUT DUKE SMOKED Frederick Vanderbilt and the Manchesters Arrive Here After Being Rescued. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Vander. bile and the party of castaways de luxe who were with them when Mr. Vanderbilt's fine yacht, the Warrior, pilea up on the coast of Columbia, near Bavaniila, ten days ago, arrived home to-day tanned and with clothes that sadly needed the sérvices of valete and maids, on the Almirante of the United Fruit Company, whieh vessel took them off the yacht througt heavy seas after the pleasure craft grounded, The newest of t tral's feet of tuge, New York Central, No. 18, was sent down the Bay to Quarantine through the fog to meet the party of aristocratic castaways, siating, besides Mr. and Mrs. Van- derbilt, the Deke and Duchess of Manchester (formerly Miss Zimmer- man of Chicago) and Lord Falconer, fon of the Marl of Kintore. The tug ‘swung to alongside the Almirante as the lay at anchor, and the party de- ecended @ eva ladder to the tug. They were cheered by the passengers. On board to welcome the party were Eu- gene Zimmerman, the Duchess’s fath. er, Walter B. Pollock and Jobn Pen- nington of the Central's marine de- partment. ‘The towing craft at once made off at the fastest speed her skipper dared to rum for the New York Central docks at the foot of West Forty-sec- ond street. There two cars, a lim- ousine and @ touring car, were wait- ing, convoyed by taxicabs, manned by reporters and photographers. The party made it evident that none of them wished to discuss the wreck of the Warrior, which atill lies on the coral reef on which she grounded. Ten men are still on board her, ‘Thirty. it were taken off yesterday by the United Fruit steamer Meta- pan bound for New York. It in sald there are fair chances of salving the wreck, As acon as the tug touched the dock the party hastened to the waiting machines, “I'll not say a word,” sald Vander- bilt, as he ordered the chauffeur to pad the party to the Rits-Cariton jotel. Lord Falconer was more communt- cative. “We had quite a bit of time Almirante," ) “there was @ rotten sea running and things looked bad for a while. The ladies were well- plucked oges and never said a word, even when Ht looked as if we all might be pitched Overboard from the boat ‘hen the party arrived at the Ri they hastened to a suite where lu: ed reporters ‘was ready. il see no and no " Mr. Vanderbilt telephoned down to the hotel manager, “and, by the way, those flowers the florist sent up are a disgr - Tell him to get some better o1 at once,” From other sources it’ was tained that when the Vanderbilt jer boardod the Almirante without » save for the ladies’ jewel cases, all were calm except the Duchess of Manchester, who the or- deal of the transfer trough the tu- tumultous seas had made trifle hysterical. The Duke, however, was nt spirite and rallied the rest of the party on the novelty of the adventure. The young nobloman lit @ cigarette before ascending the b's ladder lowered from the ide and offered some of the same smokes to his companions. ———<— ZERO WEATHER IS NOT HEADED FOR NEW YORK Forecaster Says South Will Get Cold Spell, but Not This Part ¢ of the Country. Cheer up! Previous reports to the contrary notwithstanding, we're not weather man {is responsible for tl cheering intelligeuce that no temper: ture below fifteen or twenty degrees not going to be a biissard. We may have a little snow, but that’s all. The weather folk at Washington discovered a bigh pressure area up in the Hudaon Bay district and pes- simistically declared that it was sweeping toward us, leaving snow and sero weather in its wa But they were Washingt or men, Our own forecasters right here to-day that the high pressure area moving southeast, so that Florida may feel coid, but we're go- ing to keep a pretty even tem- perature. adnan CAPT. MURPHY RETIRED. Capt. Edward H. Murphy, who hi been for many years Assistant Super- Intendent of Telegraph in the Police Department, was retired to-day at his own request, Although he held the rank of captain, which pays salary of salary inthe Telegraph Bureau was $3,000 a year and his pen- will be based om that amount. tment 685 in the Broad loxeph Burnham, a u wher in he had been employ: fares office of z f i ry viously | Ev ay “Ie there a maa in this Bouse.’ There was, Michael iver, lives on the second of No, Fourth street, looked out em@ pat Martha struggting Lavey raised a window and th fy POLICE COMMISSIONER SUSPENDS POLICEMAN ON GIRL'S COMPLAINT Miss Aesop, Accusing Charles Hagen, Was Unable to Get Warrant for Him. Police Commissioner McKay a hand to-day in the case of man Charles Hagen of the street precipct, Brooklyn, charged by Miss Madeline with felonious assault. suspended from duty by the sioner and will be compelled to stand trial on charges growing out of Mies Aesop's complaint. The Commissioner suspended Ha- wen because Miss Aesop, although erly a Deputy Commissioner of Po- ice, It ts Commissioner McKay's pur- pone to bring out all the facts in the cane, which has been the occasion of & considerable scandal, Mins Aesop lives at No. 879 Bor- gen street. She says she was dining Jan, 26 in the Arcanum Hofbrau in Bridge street with Miss Mabel Me- Glinn of No. 784 Washingtom avenue when Hagen tried to strike Up an ac- quaintance with h Bhe did not respond to his advances, she saya, whereupon he struck her with his Hat, injuring her mouth. ‘The following Monday, Mise Aesop started a series of attempts to get @ warrant against Hagen. Magis- trate Reynolds in the Butler Street Court, for some reason, refuses to issue it. His last refusal was yes. terda: —_—.—— Dentes Avvosted Man to Bis Sen. &. M. 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