The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1918, Page 12

- \ AR LL al oA _ [THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918 N others and Sweethearts | THE NEW PLAYS o Discuss ‘French Wives — I he - - “Watch Your Neighbor” 3 . . ” . q 66 99 Amusing Spy Melodrama For American Soldiers Why We Celebrate ‘‘Lafayette Day 0 . | Their Letters, Three of Which Are Published Here HOW THE FRENCHMAN WHOSE BIRTHDAY WE COMMEMORATE TO-MORROW WITH RE=)8 ween , To-Day, Show Women of America Will Not KINDLED AFFECTION PROVED HIMSELF A GALLANT FRIEND ATCH the goldfish when you go to see “Watch Your Neighbor.” It Lightly Yield to Women of France Their Claim IN OUR COUNTRY’S HOUR OF NEED. | isa than (eee oh Fe ear wave aaints a eae ‘a "+ in Our Young Men Now Fighting Over There—| , ; Utterly lacking in observation, As for the clever fellow who catches ‘em, H “(America First Must Include American Girls’’ | he is seldom what he seems, you may be sure of that. Motto Suggested by ‘‘An American Mother.” At first glance the chap who is so deucedly clever about that sort of | thing in “Watch Your Neighbor,” at the Booth Theatre, appears to be an By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Capyright, 1915, by The Press Pwlishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) English Johnny, for he saunters down to his post in the Army Intelligence «i A MBRICAN mothers and sweethearts, in letters to The Evening World, ¢ Pureau dressed as though he were going to an afternoon tea. The fact | that he is two hours late doesn't bother him in the least. His tardiness | gives quite a lot of people quite a lot of time to talk about him. In Lait have brought up all their heavy artillery against the new French the way is paved very nicely for the entrance of the teed character, ant drive for cuaartean husbands, and 1 Sink the score shows more as this role is played by one of the authors there is good reason for delay, tham one direct hit. * Briefly, the Frenoh suggestion is that our bachelor boys in khaki shall marry the manless matds and widows of France, any actor could tell you. and at demobilization settle down under the Tri You might imagine Capt. Fielding to be an even sillier ass than the|4 Window with a map that the plote and aid in boosting the French birth rate. Of the per sons whom I have asked to discuss this novel sociul hero of “The Man Whe Stayed at| ters can’t afford to lose. Home" if you weren't sure that he} The play 1s a bit hard up for love would soon be doing big things.| ‘terest, but there's a girl who fig George P. Huntley, in his palmiest|Ures vaguely as the representative of scheme, a French physician aad an American professor have indorsed it, while a physician, a prominent club- | 4 woman and a well-known novelist—all Americans have been strong in condemnation, musical comedy days, never bad American Socialists, aud whenever Meanwhile, I suspect The Eveuing World's sympo-' larger line of patter. There is so| Fielding hasn't anything else to do he much of it, Indeed, that Fielding be-|48ks her to marry him. It ts to her sium has “started something” for the boys in France They are going to “hear from home” in no uncertain, comes almost as irritating to the au-}fooms in a hotel that the enraged dience at times as he does to his asso- | Germans track him, and he is in a fair clates, But when he does get down| Way to be shot when his thoughtful to work he bags a most unpleasant | *'seant rushes in and saves the situ- if I may judge by letters from the home folks which I myself have! | Feoeived. Here are some of them Dear Madame: The Bocho, wounded | tithe we read such articles of how the O88 suffering, calls ‘Kamarad’ to the French women will make wonderful individual who carries papers in the} ation with a goldfish. You see, it's MiMrican soldier who stoops to res-| Wives for our boys, dc, Don't vou false heels of his shoes. This is done | this way: Fielding’s pet fish is in a in London, hence the title of | lass bowl, swimming round and 4 think it a bit unfair to the boys who o@e him, and then, when the unsus b ASa WhO ake ae ttua €6 ing rescuer draws near enough, play round, and the bowl is covered with sat's the end of the English dete-| 4 black bag, so the Germans think it to a supposed peace conference | ~the bowl, you know—is a hand grome n Switaerland, shoes and all, but you|4de. What do you think of that? arts as though there treacherous Boche shoots or stabs irl near them at ail in the back | when I avo ao many of our little true “Is this Boche more unworthy, mo! 6 be despised than the F an bet your boots that Fielding goes| ‘Watch Your Neighbor" is an amus~ American girls longing, praying and BB Who takes advantage of the pres-| AD then to hear of how the Fre: eneva with the credentials he]ing spy melodrama, and Leon Gordon has captured and discovers that all] plays the hero in a light and airy enchwom-| Wishing for the boys they sent. away oh girls are the only inj e bo! can Bgit-conditionn to rob the American] think oft” UY thing the boys can but two of the d are Germans. ‘The other author, Le Roy Clom- He spoils their nice little peace plot | ens, contents himself with the humble woman who has come to her succor?) “Aren't the American girls worth Whe Boche merely robs his victim of/ Coming back to? 1 dare any one of swatting one spy in a fistfight}role of a corporal, Mary Servoss is he has bound and gagged an-| rather colorless as the Amerivan dele- The ungrateful and treacherous | YOUr kreatest writers to say they are |not. If 1 were a man, and an Amer urd at the door, then he} gate who ge eace until the very ehwoman would rob her victim] jcan man, I certainly woul: ee Se on gu , smashes a pic h]end of the play, but the same cannot 1 chair and makes his ¢ be said of the goldfish. ll that makes life dear—her lover eat to find my mate in America, joy of motherhood—life's ful- American women are true | B M S C and leave her only an empty|qingrar fia’ yong! mune way. but) | | = How egan My Stage Vareer 1 hope—yes, y I do so—that | 7 = 4 Ws te ond that the women of France| you will try to give ta at home a little | [bA: MAY ESE tis WOUNDED ETHEL BARRYMORE § Bave lost so many of their brave men| /74!t for being worth while to come, | ATR BATTLE oF AMERICAN MOTHER.” | BRANDYWINE. the field of battle. American ‘AN extend to them their heartf And here is a letter from a fighting , f)' hy—the more because they war flancee: i by bitter experience what it| \)" ar Madame: Your article about themselves. But while tne]French doctor filled me and. se an woman will give her lover|gir! friends with what might be @ noble cause, and see him dio, if fev . I ies rage.’ W Ae Reed be, she has (oo much spirit and] ind when we and many, many others too much patriotism to hand over hor nt our boys from us to do their and future busband to another | duty we expected our Allies, who- Drew and Sydney Drew are my in without a fight, no matte: |°¥*F they were, to respect the claim You can read quite a lot Much that other woman needs) phe 4 gt gg y - os is pas Wy BM 1 about each of them in any history) to propagate a foreign race, ‘The! strengthening the brotherly love be-! > 7 of the American theatre. What in| re and fathers of American| tween the two nations by marriages ; eS Eyer Tetkenre aaron a headed and to.| between them. — Doe think the with such a list of forbears and rela whole United States is populated by ; 1 of the welfare and happiness |mon? Does she not realtec tt tives—to do but go on the @f their own to approve of such ridic-| way to Kill the friendliness b AA aaa aerated elated Us le to antagonine our woman? were some unusual circum UpaVebology as greatly as did the Ger-!put their shoulder to the wheel ,Stage. You know, it wasn't inten mane —hen she thinks she can cement |aWay from ft is to ste. {originally that I should follow t ) Retronger friendship with America by Are we Amerk fice our future as altorously robbing the young jrirt-| "CC OUr future as w We to accept the She Was to Have Become a Great Pianiste, but Temporary Abandonment of the Struggle Became Final When Miss Barrymore Made Her First Debut on Stage in Her Grandmother's Company. My grandmother, you know, was Mrs. John Drew; my father was] Maurice Barrymore, my mother was | Geergie Drew-Barrymore, and John | surest La eevecr : . family tradition and become an| SS TE AT THE. - LA FAYETTE RETURNS] /actress. No, indeed, I was going to Smeed of America. 1 can well con-|vice men, the slackers K BTORMING OF YORK TOWN TO AMERICA IN 1824 | de a great pianiste. I can't remem- D eelve of a condition growing out of |overs? If so, would Fro ber whether that was my idea first Me sltuation which would make the |*® come admit sur children? “How | 66 desire no conquest, no dominion, We seck no indemnities for ;ette came. And when the Americans went to France the situation of the] 4, not, Anyway, I soon accepted It label ‘Made in France’ unpopular | “Ould they compare with the boys we ourselve: neh Army was none too rosy. The two occasions closely parallel each) ang it became my great ambition, ’ so dearly love now? Never! ‘The 4 5 With the patriotic women of Ame man that ix not. Rood enough At freely make, We are but one of the champions of the rights | ber, Ame have the welfare of their country | Uncle Sam is not good enough for his | of ma i at heart, asx the hateful label | nicces in Germany’ ix to them now.| “The Amer wom in her It was President Wilson who juite impersonally, as | have! veins the same fighting blood tha 3 Heost bappliy mnarried for nenriy | men have. We have wivet oan ce ree | United States, coming to the rescue of Liberty, ente years and have no girls of my| ght to die if necessary—but never, | little army—just a few divisions at first . no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall | © “a Tepaying—with interest jthe dream of my youth, And how 1 The first Battle of the Marne, when France fought almost alone—j cid slave at it! Mours and hours of save for the heroic but then pitifully small British forces—was won onj practise every day! I certainly must spoke them when the| Lafayette’s birthday in 1914. The second Battle of the Marne, when Ger-|have had a talent in that direction ed the war and sent her | many learned her le won with the ald of American troops.{0r 1 would have grown to hate the; to the country of the Marquis de | And to-morrow, when » Day fs to be celebrated all over America| Very sight of a piano, But I didn't) © Nedlee ily ‘Mad ative fi me to earn Who would suffer from present|never will we give them for marri Lafayette. fe ‘ Né. t loved it—-more and more as I|some money, an | . | ever was celebrated before, still more of the soil of France will be Sane ate tions. But I'm for the American |Our sisteriy love stops at that a4 it never was celepra ' @ “ oe be able to make it express|t™e she would give me # small part MMO SRE cisang’ TA uaeT Eason woukeve thane one mete) Te After a speech like that from the President, what else could Gen. | liberated—there need be no question of that, for the German retreat 1s not| ame f° ‘ | | what I wanted it to, I still love it, | and pay me a small salary is were made for my| There wasn't any part in the play ik she is entitled and defense we ny times have we noticed at the | Pershing say the kive ber | bottom of deeds dene by our boys this ped the infant n What he did say at the tomb of the Frenchman who had | yet finished—and this time it will be by the ald of a gigantic American] Great p 7 the foreign women who are|line: ‘Many marria HE eee Ge tates to achieve freedom? | Army, growing as no army has grown before. musical education, T was to go|a% Sheridan wrote it that would do ting against her happine ploce between Ame ns and French Lafayette, nous voila! Last year there wds a celebration of Lafayette Day, and in Union]apbroad to study under the best mas-|for me, That didn’t fease grama- Mi n iris.’ Will not our great President Tomor She wanted a part for me mother with two boys ¢ fir- | and the yw is the anniversary of the birth of Lafayette, who almost a} Square a fervent orator cried out ters and then I was to come back naj mott vernment b nd him think t nde ne ess s- jin “The Rivals” anc she 's line writes { the lonely, waiting sweetheart or {century and a half ago offered personaly the sacrifice that Amert- | “We are coming a million stron make my debut under the best aus-|in “The Riva and—she just put Dear Madame; My old nis en friend and give, her assurance {Cans are NOW making, and offered it with the same disinterestedness.| And some smiled, But that million mark was passed long ago, and] pices and astonish the natives With) On fu’ t an important aged to a very t girlie here, and | that her man will be brought back to) Change the “we” to Ne Graal : a | peter ine tent farvans eriner ivan aeatmnili enpscaithted mane my virtuosity—my genius, maybe, © wasn't an impor SEs ry “henrt ‘end. hers every [hort uent back to Change the “we” to “I” in the President's great pronouncement, and there | nobody talks of a smaller figure now than five millions—with as many more |'™¥. Viituonlls “Hy Bente CtiN | | oie, the audience would never have an enormous amount of money to| missed me, But I did have « few nes carry out those plans, and money and| to speak. And my debut was a great —— | you have an expression which Lafayette himself would have signed at the | behind them as may be necessary, not merely to stop the German where moment he joined Washington—an expression which in fact Lafayette did|he stands but to hurl him back behind the Rhine, his dreams of world sign with his sword, and not dissimilar from one that he signed with pen | domination shattered forever my people were only intermittently |event—to me, 1 shall never forget it jand ink in his appeal to Congre | Lafayette was a boy of nineteen when he landed at Georgetown, S. C.,|on friendly terms, Th came aj And that is how I went on the ‘ “L have the right to ask two favors at your hands,” he wrote to Con-|in the spring of 1777, His genius and his spirit earned him the rank of }time—there had been similar occa- | stage. I imagine that experience re And he received both favor The first was the to serve in| Major General in July. And he stood at Washington's side at the flnal|sions often enough before—when the brought out what was or had been 4 White Secs of the Red Cross the American Army, the ond to pay his own expenses and the expenses | battle, the Battle of Yorktown, just Pershing, symbol of Americ relations were seriously strained. ial pati in my blood, and before long Jof the brave Frenchmen who had come with him. repayment of her debt to France, may stand beside Foch at the final battle | seriously that It pee Reeve ly | fui dust a a tious to be a great The American Army seemed in an almost hopeless plight whe y Sea las ear (ha Battie ot the Rhine necessary for me to abandon my be-|actress as I had been before to be @ ne Americal 1 most hot plight when Lafay- | of the greater war, the Battle uf the Rhin loved piano, temporarily, at least,|sreat pianiste, Uncle John got see che mania — = rn some immediate cash Charles Frohman to give me an en« 7; ’ 2 ey This happened just when my|gsasement as an understudy in his in Tuesday’s Primaries | ccansosinerwir maring tne ot ter|somoany. Twas jist a youn att ; A , periodical revivals of “Tho Rivals,|then, Uncle John was playing “he Voting, Exceptions Proving Rule Women Have Mastered Ballot. | yo. \now, she was 4 wondertul Mrs, | Bauble Shop" when I joined his com= every once in a while|Pany, and I was to understudy Migs and e Women’s “Whys Hd |Odd Reasons Given for Voting or Not LECTION als r he it I trouble myself,” replied woman, | you had to spell out your name, In-| Malaprop, ar len De W t her family together,|Elsie De Wolf in the pz Lad: E terday t friend 1 uny him to the polling place, de- | angrily stead the women seemed to grasp the/#he would get her y together, | Tiee Ds walt a the part of 7 queer reasons adva 1 on ground that she was] ‘Two women, both indignant beyond| pronunciation. at once and proceeded | organize a company and go on tour In| ont ally cally F got the 1 wa | ‘old comedy, Well, as f've | Chance to actually play the part, and w na ¢ 1 Ww 1 measure, appeared at a polling place | accordingly the dear 1 sgh that was my New York debut.” ve Md \ Ahi dante inne fied ten Island, after the polls| Ex-Sheriff Tom Foley, long an op-| Std. she wat pel encrypt Now you know ail about it—thatts ma Tuesday, | n fs cae Hab than and demanded the right to] ponent of the right of Suffrage for| hearse one of those companies when all there mere nL BnY HONe | ieiush preennae husband Aealatavad mu ncue When told they were too late| women, was delighted at the way the " why 1 ia A . “Why didn’t you send us notice the ‘! he told his friends. “They ' nat i 2 % ta A de sa a aa ery ere more intelligence than the HE first ascension in @ balloon made by the Montgoifier brothera@m t replied “| aos A Peay ’ mn” filled with hydrogen was made| France, in 1752, It was a fire bad, enrolled q then of th a Abdaai Many of the oldtime politicians be- 1783 by M. Charles and M.|loon, inflated with h if id 5 eas ahe-and 1 t In several of the polling booths] lieved, prior to the primaries, that the His Paris. Henry Cavendish, paper oi n hot alr trom purge pleted “Whit , ‘ ever did agres : a any of the women voted for every| husbands or fathers of the women! Robert at Paris ; ey he Montgolfier success eted ite House of the Red Cross never ; Name on the ballot, ‘Their husbands | Voters would Influence their yote about 1766, discovered the great levity|led M, Charles to expertinent wath Washington are now directed to the new building, | A Hartem w ru ; isiands vote for us,")tiied to chow them, but the Imnajority | op Notting, dois,” remarked hydrogen gas, and the following | hydrogen gas, and with M, Robert he ne form of a cross, ax one of the most interesting | although she vot Or anerd gata SL oR on An aEAread BAGLe ee ip a a pie . er year Dr. Black of Edinburgh an-| traveled thirty-one miles in a hydro- Beraramept bolldings Within are the ofecs of Henry P: Davidson, | for Whitman, she inte or lanints Sam Koenig's dis-| Notwithstanding the fo g in- | own.” of their) Ve unced that a thin bladder filled| gen balloon fitted with a safety-vabwe. of the War Council, and the heads of the various departments of | vote at the ¢ nf H Tat iniaciva THe cTica et aee that | stances the women did unusually well, | Se NEE with this gas must accend into the|In 1785 Blanchard, the first prades- Merican Red Cross. Why?" asked hub las oe i i - Or considering the fact it was their firat| U. 8. BIGGEST MERCHANT, air, Cavallo experimented along] sional aeronaut, with Dr, John Jet~ We of frame buildings in the rear, which carry out the figure of “Oh, Smith has the bigmest family | *! , oie attempt, Few mistakes were made, | HIS country now leads the na-| those lines and found that a bladder| fries of Boston, crossed the Engtish built to accommodate the increasing number of depart-! to support,” replied the wife, “and he i What's the trouble nquired Mr. and it een inotioed. thatthe women tions as an exporter of manu-| was too heavy, paper not air-tight,|Channel, Military balloons were gsed v needs the money more than Whit. | Koenls officials in the election boards were factured goods, Before the war|but that soap bubbles filled with gas|at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and 4s one of the most immaculately kept build. | man.” "The Government, spoiled my auto-| more rapid and efficient than the| the United States was outranked rose to the ceiling of the room, by the Federal army during the Givi) 13 an emblem of the purity of the caus. Angther voter, a very pretty ma-| mobile ride Sunday and why should} men. It wasn't like in the past, when | both Great Britain " 2 L 4 Germany, 4-4} Phe first successful balloon was) War near Warhington tn 1863,