The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 9

‘ fe a) FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918 Here Are Three Reasons Why Navy Recruiting Has Been So Brisk! When Beauty Calls “to Arms,” Who Can Resist the Appeal, Especially When Beauty Is Personified by Nancy Palmer, Louise Ford and Lydia Bur-|* nand, the “Girls Behind the Posters” Howard |‘ Chandler Christy Drew? By Robert Neville. HO are the sirens of the navy who from every window and sign- board have for the past year called on the youth of the Nation to lend a hand to that service? The navy says that there are three of them—a girl from England, ® girl from our South and a girl from the North, Through the brush of Howard Chandler Christy they have gazed on every American citizen ‘nd have beckoned him'to sea duty. The appeal has been stronge’ perhaps, because these faces are familiar to all the reading public in te characters of the heroines of the most popular fiction, Howard Chandler Christy, by virtue of having created most of the ¢nass girls of the navy for the past decade, knows what men in the navy ‘want and what men who should be in the navy want. For this reason he was able to give us two such posters as “Gee! I Wish I Were a Boy; 1a Join the Navy,” and the “I Want You” pictures, as well as the popu- Jar “Join the Marines” poster. All three of the girls who posed for these p’ctures have hosts of friends and admirers in the service, while one ot | them is engaged to a naval officer. Miss Nancy Palmer, who posed for| year. But she had been a frequent the “I Want You" poster, has peen| Visitor during that time Mr. Christy's model for six years. | She is Roulctta in Rex Beach's “The ss | Winds of Chance,” which ts running " er as Susa | You have met her as Susan Lenox 19) seriany now, and is Cicely Hammond David Graham Phillips's novel of that|the girl whom “Henry the Ninth’ fname when It appeared in serial form,| marries. She also has appeared as| { Phe was the heroine in the “Valley|one of the chief characters in “Tho| / ef the Moon,” one of Jack London’s| Prowler,” by Harris Dickson. fast novels, and she was all seven of| She too is a brunette, Mtss Ford the “Seven Darlings” of Gouverneur is only sixteen years old. She was Morris, as well as the penalized victim born in San Antonio, Tex., but has of Mortts's “The Penalty.” She has| passed most of her life in New posed too for a “Food” poster and| Orleans, Her elghteen-year-old sister for a “Liberty Loan" poster. is Virginia Lee, one of the most Miss Palmer is a New York girl. | promising of the young picture stars. he is about twenty-four years old| ‘The marine poster girl is Miss Lyla nd a decided brunette, At the Rus-|Burnand. Miss Burnand is barely | gian Bazaar last winter she was ad-|twenty years old, but for a year has fudged one of the five most deautiful | posed for the most prominent artists, | women in New York. She is a niece of the late Sir Francis! © Mr, Christy originally made the|Burnand, for years editor of Puvch. | ; picture for the cover of the souventr|She was born in Portsmouth, Eng- programme of a Hippodrome per-|land. Her family moved to Canada formance of the Navy Relief Fund.|when she was about ten years oidj ! here the original of the picture sold|and thence to New York. Now she for $1,000 and it was later presented |is engaged to a naval office by the buyer to the w York Ya Miss Burnand appearing at pres. Club, Autographed copies Of the|ent as the heroine of Rex Beach's) programme brought as much as $200,| "Winds of Chance.” She represeated while a copy signed by President/a number of the different “Loves of ‘Wilson was auctioned at nearly $400. Henry the Ninth,” and was the hero- Miss Louise Ford posed for the|ine of “A Woman of the War.” “Geo! 1 Wish I Were a Boy" poster.| This young lady retired from posing Bhe is a comparatively recent ac-|last year and entered the motion pic- Quaintance, having posed for only 4 ture world. Dotted Line Shows How Geraldine Farrar’s Skirt Tide's Rise) Dream Came True. OME girls, anxious for a pecp S into the future, consult fortune tellers, Not so Geraldine Farrar, | She has proved her own best seeress. When she was a girl in her ‘teens she would walk about the lobbies of the Metropolitan and confidently HERE ARE THREE OF THEM AS THEY POSED FOR TLE MARING OR) : POSTER inform everyone she met that be- fore long they'd be paying hom- age to her as a reigning prima donna. It was her dream and her faith, and it all came true. ne of those | Pr je who lst ‘ GEMRRY ened to her | Fea youthful assur- ances with a tol- erant smile, to-day, all members of the "I knew her when” club, take rticular delight in boasting how srry” ig now, next to Caruso, the biggest financial asset of the Metro- politan Opera Company, and has a personal following portionately large—especially among the matinee girls, Y foley, the dotted line; !'8) Sheer American grit has won Geral- going up dine Farrar'a place for her—a grit , ce for her—a gr @ You know how it ts, strl&)that is an inheritance from her these days. We have to win the wer father, Sid Farrar, once a famous pomehow, Tess wheat flour in ue baseball player. When Miss Farrar bread mother used, to make; 1688) 24+ appeared on the stage of the sugar in the box of Schuyler's Billie car “Ce! Metropolitan after her triumphs brings round on Saturday nights. 8] 11.044 nor American quality of is vad he erican quality of "Get et pathy ilu akirt in the sIUrts.| there stood out. Sho was sing erfectly simple ie tot a OR ee an incten she. ate Juliet in Gounod’s “Romeo et Jul ee ee eet aya That will ette,” and the Immediate recognition Lee eee mica juanbaew of her was tame, Was sho feased? the knees, won't it? Just fancy! It] ” ot a bit! The slightest applause Reet ee ears agy wee WAY would bring her smiling and bowing Hee ee phi In front of the footlights, and before Ne eee ne aavanding wiry (ee final curtain fell she had per- PRE TATE suaded the audience to the belief that v ail i nae she was IT! Parental Resemblance, Not In His Element, (From the Omaha Bee.) (From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.) “Bettie,” said a mother to her| Among the guests at @ reception was aughty four-year-old daughter, “what|q distinguished man of letters. One of te the reason you and your little|the ladies present suggested to the brother, Sammie, can't get along vith-| hostess that he seemed to be out of put quarreling?” place at such @ party, ‘“{ don't know,” was the reply, “un-| “Yes,” replied the hostess, with @ bright smile, “you see, pe can't jaix , ying Dik #00WN" --memetandmndioa it {@ because 1 take after you ana “The Girls on the Navy Posters”’ LOOK IN REAL LIFE AND AS THEY APPEAR IN THE, D CHANDLER CHRISTY. Notes by Everybody There’s No Excuse for Going Wrong to the Fact Thal a “Guy Named Wilson T. Wooden Sparrow Jumped 3,600 Second They’re Using His Crown as a Squirrel Cage “BUGS”’) B moany (The HIs kinking game } a founder's ¥« but it is tougher than a dish of fried ukul your air filtered through two-inc hb iron bars, strings to be taking s clock since Seems only about three short cuckoos on the old § I was flatwheeling around with my royal bunio perial monogram on the public's neckplece, Now I am cold turkey. Two short months ago { had the works by th But that was before they jolted t ne tafl with a downhill he clocks up an hour. Then, I used to get sore fect from riding in bevel-edged Mmoustnes with three ply door kn I was getting bal Logsheads obs and quadruple folding doors. d headed from pulling silk shirts on over my tossed a If I was thirsty all I had to do was to press a button on my valet's vest, who pressed a button which pressed another b on a bottled in bond shower bath, Sweet cookies! When I picked up the ro; up against the Kokem Kola sign in centre field. yutton which turned I was so far ahead that the next guy was third al mace, the outfielders put their backs Then, all I had to do was to snap my handsome thumb and 600 claves would be killed in the rush, But that was before those Yanks jostled the dollar watches up sixty minutes. a ee It sure was soft gravy, secre pn mere ener nen ° y an Ex-Kink Is Entitled to One Guess as lo the Identity of the Royal Scribe, and The Autobiographical Wail Is Ali Due ickled the Cuckoo and the Darned —Now This Kink Is Dog-Mcat and Can You Guess Who It Ls? AER itas I was on velvet. That was before they Inve Suddenly some guy darned wooden sparrow neckband and landed on my back TI sure am dog-meat that I was still kink lace is howling outs of pickled herring. ‘Well, it's fitty-fifty son many another t I asked for food to-day and they was correct. I've gone democratic of us, and I am 64 It's tough. I'm four hops behind the rest of the works and only ane jump ahead of a fit, And St seems only a minute ago that T was ace high and had egg | York, having been formerly a mem- |ber of the Metropolitan Opera Com- ‘\ ch }of the Italfan Grenadier Guards—the ‘i | flower of the Italian Army. And tt , | was while serving at the front last \autumn that he emulated the Roman ‘| morale of the ‘!which, because of Its keenness, was|sciously or not, his thoughts were the m tickled the eu ollar button in s only one toothbrush among 783 FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918 | How a Modern Horatius “Kept the Bridge” Alone And Averted Italian Rout Ina Most Striking Instance of Individual Bravery on Italian War Front, Capt. Guardabassi, Like Ro- man Hero of Historic Episode, Stood at the Bridge and Single Handed Checked Italian Army's Re- treat From Advancing Austrians, and Set It at Bay in an Orderly and Stout Defense. Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) “cc OW well Horatius kept the bridge in the brave days of old” we all knew--and thrilled to know—in our se hool days. Some future Macaulay must sing the story of how well another Ro- man hero kept the bridge in the brave days of the present war, For this story is @ most striking instance of individual bravery, and its chief figure, Capt. Francisco Mario Guardabasst, 1s well known in New pany, He recently returned to this city on a spéclal mission for the Ital- fan Government, but he is a member | Horatius by holding almost single- handed the bridge of Latisana, on the |Tagiamento, thus preventing the } Itallan retreat toward the Plave from becoming a disorderly rout. He in- aspired the troops of the Third Army ‘to hold thelr ground when over | whelmed with pante. | For this exploit he has been {awarded the Italian Government's silver medal for valor, virtually the highest military recognition that can come to an Italian soldier, At the Hotel Vanderbilt Capt. d | Guardabassi finally was prevailed upon to tell his own story of “holding the bridge.” Ho spoke first of the magnificent) enemy cavalry might be close a hand. Third Italian Army,| But then was the moment whey, con- correspondingly discouraged when| thoughts of brave Horattus— | orde to retreat forty miles to the strongest natural line of defense on Death cometh soon or late \the Plave. To add to the depres#ion| ang how can aa. oe ‘aa tioe ;eame heavy rains, and the marshy i Than facing fearful ods roads were clogged with BUFFYINE] moe the ashes of his fathers ‘refugees. “Nobody knew what might a And the temples of b's gods? happen, The feeling was growing : : * that the war was lost," Capt. Guarda-| ‘T knew that this panic must be bassi summed up. “That we would | checked at once,” he continued his “To every man upon this earth soon make a new stand and a bril- | story, “I sprang forward through the hant one along the P' d later | Soldiers, and ran to the front of the retrieve everything, nobody realjzed.” | Prt Fortunately I am big and As alde-de-camp of Gen. Petillo,| strong and have a loud voice. Yeu lithe captain was close to a very im-|can see me and hear me, And I was jportant crossing of the Tagiiamenta, | the General's aide, | That counted. \the bridge at Latisano, on the morn-| ‘" You fools!’ I yelled out, and again ling of Oct. 26, when the dismal retreat | and again I sald it, waving my arms, |had Just started ‘You fools, get into line, The Aus- “At any moment," he said, “our|trian cavalry is not coming, That ts Jmen were likely to break Into a) @ Net pantc. The rain-drives air waa filed| “T didn’t know whether the cavalry with @ sense of the unexpected and | ¥88 coming or not, but that had to be uf moon said. It had to be repeated with mo- eauadanly, trom ont otonowhere lire terrace. wor I worked lke a horse, with arms, legs and yotce, down the rails came a locomotive, @ tT haa'tolbe balleved: i had 60 Maine locomotive alone, crowded with sol- a them believe me, 4. y were waving and yelliug ‘There waa no sign of a train, just the] “It took hours, two, three, nearly jocomotive. I never imagined so many | four. Tnever left the bridge, I shouted men could get on a locomotive before. {Md shouted, TI yelled and deciaimed. “The locomotive shot over the rail. |ft was forcing an | through the road bridge. We tried to atop it, but | heads of a hundred it wasn't possible, It disappeared, ‘You fools, the Austrian cavalry are leaving behind a great uneasiness and | not coming!" Again and again, just added depression, Then the cry arose: like that "The Austrian cavalry!" “Why the soldiers and the country “phat Everybody | People did not sweep me down tnto took it up. through the| the river, trample me, kill me in thelr ranks of hurriedly marching soldiers, | excitement I do not know. I never i awept through the disordered | thought of that. All I knew was that groups of country people crowded in| the panic must be stopped, And it ’mong them, It was half belleved,|was, Before the morning was over nen believed, then it grew to be athe troops were moving over in an certainty, Nobody knew, and the | orderly way, joubt made the fear, The panic} ‘That's why the Government gave vegan.” me the silver medal, [am proud of For all Capt. Guardabass! himself | it, more proud than T have ever been |ynew, the wonderful, hard riding of anything.” B | Bright Boys | How William J. Bryan First Started Talking— His Great Life Work eeming unim-|That he did so on Bryan's first birth. destined to weave | day was significant, however 4s through the loc mi ‘afin eee tuk hea eae ae ge ss ve when his maiden aunt, who was @ Hage OF) strict temperance woman, attempted 19 the a ; ard f Mother Mae that William| Ane bli ieee The study Je Bryan) wasborn, The| “F Will not take it,” he wrathtully was that, protested. 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