The evening world. Newspaper, October 19, 1918, Page 11

\\W A SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1918 _ Eight Months at the Front With the American Army ——~+. THERE ARE NO BOXING INSTRUCTORS IN THE if FRENCH AND BRITISH ARMIES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Married Heroine Holds the Stage Wedding Bells Now Ring the Curtain ‘‘Up’’ SCENES FROM TWO OF THIS SEASON’S “MARRIED LIFE” PLAYS, AND More and More Married Life Is Becoming the Theme SKETCHES OF “THE OLD AND THE NEW” BY WILL B. JOHNSTONE of the Modern Play, the Problem Being Not #1 ‘ee Fei i a i pal i Get the Heroine Happily Married, but to 4 Her Married Happily, and the Modern Love | Scene Often Is Like a Family Wrangle. ae i By Charles Darnton Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), OMESTICITY has established itself on the stage so comfortably that only the smell of cooking is needed to make the theatre scem just Like home, The heroine looks after the plot as well es the % ‘j , house—sometimes—while the yoked hero hangs around hoping to get © } kind word. | All the French and Practically All the English Pro- fessional Boxers Are Fighting at the Front, and| ... : ' the War Is Developing a Husky Bunch of Two-) , ‘ ‘ | Fisted Scrappers Who, When the War Is Over, Are Going to Wallop the Laurels Off the Heads of Those Who Have Stayed Home for the Soft Pickings. IN THE OLO PLAYS THE HERO AND HEROINE WERE UN MARRIED), AND "THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HEM, i | By Martin Green : (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World) Copyright, 1918, by The Prema Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ERMA as some severe critics of the professional American boxers who have not gone to the front frequently assert, the professional ' " é American boxer is waiting until he is sure the war is approaching This ts the age of the married heroine. No longer does the winsome 1 little sweetheart in white muslin prattle sentimentally as she plucks @ = the count of 10 before he is ready to go overseas and 5 =} mingle with our longshoremen, truck drivers, bar- flower from the fire-proofed rosebush. She has been brushed aside by the Ss tenders, policemen, ribbon clerks, soda fountain en-| wife who speaks from experience and doesn't hesitate to air her views ~ Matrimony is revealed in v gineers, bankers, brokers, students, motormen, actors, in "tie ‘ai ‘ fied ldo er laicniae ts een olla pryrrge ees held walters, buttonhole makers, mechanics, indoor chauf- weal Sal nh of listening for wedding bells. It is the echo they pee 4 Gthet Ainericans who are & + thie Hoste! edding bells that onco rang the curtain down now ring it up. The £) eurs and other Americans who are strafing the Boche “nappy ending” of the old singe fe the & i thi « a] in France and Belgium. Also, perhaps not. But I am 7 plays is tho beginning of the modern play: | | surprised to find, on my return to New York, that many | is accepted, and as William remarks in “You Never Can Tell,” : } vifile young boxers Who wet announcing thely {hth , is very pleasant from time to time. On the other hand, the modern “love weal bea MNtcig ; y + pene” often is lik ton of going to the war when I left hore last December | naalke Wek VARGO artiie el ti villabs ut Rate bape bent are still engaged in the pleasant occupation of picking ally unmarried—and the villain still pursue em. Now » s it is the husband in pursuit of his wife that we see as soon as the play is t ie easy marks and getting paid for it. faifly afatted } Any promoter attempting,to pull off a boxing match | tex grin axirsbly he Slanant awa Othe: Neeedid nea 45 A ‘ * n 1 t Ke, a mople, n *. dal use o r for profit in England or France at this time would subject himself to a saan 6t Pariamen’ ta “tae rhs rm endal ne $5 #*.__ withering storm of criticism. Any boxer appearing in the ring in England ‘tlon, Please," who comes all the way| Audiences turn instinctively to the q * or France who could not show a record of milit ervice at the front |from London to Now York in order] pleasant play, and to keep thememle. | i] would be hooted out of the ring, In-| ‘to overtake his Mighty mate This is/ing is the aim of most authors and PS f elentally, the army {s breeding a crop| Popular vaudev entertainer, was going a bit far, to be sure, but | producers. But occasionally the if z boxers who will come home| master of ceremonies. A British; !wood sportaman is better than a bad] tragi “4 § of young boxers ‘ ote I eeete ecaarte ataitis antes a an iat ragic note ie sounded in the domes. iter the war and thorotighly clean j husband, The statesman whose hon-|tc play. The only gayety in Tol--- ‘ ht officers | Allied armies occuptec en ° ie SOD dade aadieonte neater | es poiaa i a the entire ; Ma, #Nd MRS, SIONEY. DREW See eee a one ne eng | ey 8, reception” results from tae 3 youths who have succeeded thus far| th . Pa > wa wo KEEP HER SMILING © ‘ |band” ts sterner stuff, yet tt 1 his|half-drunken revels of the gypetes, r Wm doing nothing but posing for their| fiven over to puree and women / i highly honorable wife who makes| jin whose company the dissolute hus- ‘ country—provided, of course, the| Workers for the Red Cross. {| him realize that ideals are too pre-| band finds relief from wifey virtues 4 } ‘homecoming boxing soldiers consent| Bouts were four and six rounds in * J clous to be lost. that have become stale if not un- { to face men of thelr own age who| duration. There was more real box- In “i, O. U." we behold the specta-| profitable to him. Yet he is so con- | managed to glue themselves to a|ing in that one show than the fight le of an exceedingly patient husband | cerned for her happiness that he sets — } training camp for the period of the|*1ns of New York have seen in five following his silly, extravagant wite| her free by first making it appear years. French boxers box. Holding | |to the home of a gorgeous Hindu,| has drowned himself, and finally by * ‘prolhls ts plenty of boxing in Eng-|@"4 waltzing are practically un- ‘ , | where she was branded in the ehoul-| sending a bullet into his brain, Tee pi and France outside the free|known in French arenas since the ‘ der when she refused to pay her| wife is merely « passive and rather . f a riven at the camps and all{#ldiers began to furnish the enter 4 | score, piled erentare, 4 \ the boxers are men in uniform who|‘@inment, And how those American Jk Stage husbands are nothing if not} From the French has come the ; ) have done or nro doing thotr bit at lds did cheer every punch, every rs ndulgent these days, and they art|tarce “Sleeping Partners,” with aye cont. The procecds of boxing|<'eVer plece of defense, every sign of Rept on iho jump from Ue first eue-| wife who slumbers safely in a bache- | matches in London and Paris are di-|*'l! and judgment. The guests ot} f af tain to the last, Few Petruchtos are| iors rooms, thanks to a sleeping vided between the boxers and war hotels two and threo blocks away| *% nund in business sults oF evening| draught. But she is eaaily the hero- : / funds, Prices of admission are low; from the show mado frequent in Instead, we seo distressed] ing of the affair, Hekven may net soldiers in uniform are admitted free ‘“iries at the offices about the noise. \ nen ready to forgive the ex-| protect the working girl, but ft cer- f and the box office receipts are never Carpentier boxed four two-minute ‘ jel its of ladies more thoughtless than | tainly seems to guard the frolicsome ~ | heavy. rounds with a sparring partner. ? |ninning, and we can’t help feeling ®| wire when she starta off on an adven= | vie tongtand practically atl the pro- Crique fought a British soldier twice Ki trifle sorry for the poor chaps’ Times| ture, phere is also the sensible wife « his s N but knocked him out have changed in another resp’ It \ fessional boxers joined the army. In uty} . \ who is not only capable of taking France they ail went in and many of by: a a Several American boys} hy | is no longer necessary for marria, are of herself, but keeps her hasta them were killed at the front. Georges ae tanh ee in the| ili to ve - thresh ots . totmane it from getting into mischief. Tribute Lior dakaphege Ape na Se and acquitted themselves cred “the “ HAPPY ENDING" OF Mt treatment, Most of the wi n| Lore and tucte Saearsied tleet te vides his time Oty om ey gouating | The Wounded Americans were par “He OLD PLAYS « « the footiights love their hus-| it's called, is becoming the theme at the front i avint : are bouts in ticularly enth © abe is NOw THE + THe MobeRN LOVE SCEN \ ‘ hands and considerately assure them | of the eceetn pay, jd problems oa services in exhibitt vo Wine Lda i amow > x peng tw ss ing not to gel © heroine happily A na Orlaue; whe! la about a h as sa nts of th ¢ young BEGINING OF THE 1S OSUALLY A of the fa i he two or three acts of but to keep ner married ten : nardest hitting youns (°° he American boys sho pre ce FAMILY WRANGLE doubt and wor ncidentally, the box office often ’ the fastest and dregs aiitowa the much promise that Crique promisea OOERN PIE FAMICY. RANGLE But although the wife in “Tea for that the wedding ring is worth 4 boner this writer oven wounds when |‘ meet him later, and th \ ' An ipcpettst) 3 ‘Three’ is devoted to her husband, |!ts welght in gold, marks of by ; rey in the ring 2Fobably come together by t | : ics < ! [there's no denying that she flirts out- be aK ee Oe tn the aervice at the|..The hit of the night. was m sd =, | ragcousty with the doctor who amuses _ _, BOY-LIKE. and he Js still in tho Capt, O'Hay, with the support ieee ‘The pretty wife who likes pretty] QOME of the senior boys from.» front, American non-com whose name, I a sin “Keep Her Smiling” ts a Vauxhall school’s literary clase Probably the greatest boring show! think, ts Baumgartner, Ho ts a big v e r oO Ss Ss e W Ss O : t e (3 e | far lena dangerous type, A play with rng Maree on Venlone. tae ever given was rea A a lad and was matched to meet an! ju lawn mower in it disarms suspl-| When Shylock, in the court seene, } YMC Paris last SUuly—| other American of about his w: i] Anything an is always| was urgently demanding his s 4 4 2 > pout his weight 5 A : : y ery ies clon, pything ys} was urgently demanding pound think of the ¥. M. C. A. giving @/ong ne O'Hay had introduced Red Cross Juniors Are Busy Making Clothes for Little Belgian Refugees--Auxiliaries Are reassuring. , Mr, and Mrs,|Of flesh, & bright Cockney per. D0 how! Promoting a lthe han *¢ Ie . ", 5 5 hs . fi ' 5 ‘Ee gidner Drew an Eke asi ones, cried t ‘ pepee « Te aae he Ss oe cites hes aay the non-com called Helping to Curb Epidemic by Making Pneumonia Jackets—Red Cross Announces Christmas hye ae ind fa Pn atr Wi, you! Ask him for his meat a t ‘ nim over and whispered in his ear, A ~ 7 ° “a ae Fe A . with each othe va by crea he} card!" — Pittsburg! ronicle-Tele. A. aecretaries, so they enlisted the “The corporal tells ine,” announced Packages Have Been Received Sufficient to Provide for Every American Prisoner in Germany 1 comforting atmosphere that Mr, graph : Charlie McCarthy, an Amert-lostray #4), eee anaes nea ' aid of Chari Me spite domasaeed O'Hay, “that because of his success mier of Canada, to send Col, Will-| but the Motor Corps could use a great) allotment bas been filled, and ali i ; can resident of Paris, in the ring, he having conquered all By Hazel V. Carter. jams to the front with a message to] many more cars, and all who are) auailiaries are asked to inake at Fi t U. S. L b t Bi d known to the middle-aged and older tno tough nuts he has met, he 1 ws the soldiers from Ontario, Col. Will-| willing to lend their cars a few hours | dressings which they have not al- irs . ° Loer y on generation of New Yorkers as tholxnown as the ‘Lion tamer. Ph. HE French and Belgian retage®) jams was sent on this mission anc] @ day, or one or two days a week, for| ready 1 so that When an emerg- star in “The Life of @ Fireman” and] ought to be som ic mer,’ This kiddies who wear warm Hitt-e| travelled from one end of the line te] this purpose are requested ty com=/ency a workers will be ready to} j s oollen petticoats, dresses and|the other, speaking to the soldiers in| munticate — wi u fill the order, the promoter of the first fire ahow| ‘Tne match lasted about a minute w Le n pot! aig yee the trenches, ts, in hospitals or] Stringer, No. 8 rhorn Strect.| Over 3,000 of the umonta jack- at Coney Island, MoCarthy got into|rne non-com's opponent tn aprons will owe much of thei ther ets have been shipped from the sup- mmunication with French, Ameri=|on his jaw and the landed one! fort this winter to the work of the this trip that Col HP Brooklyn Hospital Garmen jon during the last week. ‘a : : and the referee could have} children of the public schools whert had oportunity to see wh Dene rn has been made in the can and British Generals and ob- counted a hundred over him. As hin ~ of refugee garments 1s) th tc Red Cr was dc feeb th otton used in the pneu- { tained teave for about fifty boxers, seconds were dragging the gneone {eee making Of refureo Karmen ie 2 American. soldi Ge una There should be 3 ie and amate' b bp hacinite : 4 a lone of the happiest bits o} 1 ame bach | pecting another hon-absorbu@t cotto: ach professional and amateurs who are sclous warrior to his corner Capt. Domestie science classes ara no| to with enthusiasm | ments in the first of next week, It) half, 6 oz. of cotton for a cumple No. 9 4 aa 4 serving ¢ ¥ ay made an announcement, snmen. thi evome places where the nteered to carry his mes-| would be appreciated if the Directors) Jacket, the finished jacket to weigh i) reer ¢ ‘The show was held in the Nouveau reatter, ladies and gentlomen,"|eirm lonrn to make straight seams the people of the United | eee eerie events in all. auxill-| f ic (9 '4 oa, depending on te H E. Rotor of this’ BILL thall be Sarr ne tee ebarene ne pena ote Re en o\a cae at ae eal chan Gee ss unniy t aaine Gass Sparifh milled DOLLARS by BNA sation gniciaca ware lin, Instead, they cut and sew prac- NY information regarding Christ-|departmeat to find out when the uranee ec pecaoy Gauaen Day of December, One Fhasfand: Ser Rae SV DANS NN eee en the 1 little garmenta for kiddies much mas packets may be procured| Rarments aru received, gu that th tod youteréay @ falling of ighty fix, with Intereft ‘in xsi brow n an lance fro The sho . heir own size to wee ugh the ; ee eo Cald a work may not be delaye nd the 4 hospitals Beuilly, a suburb of a idl As about half over! iNT winter of the War—and domes “ ee Mrs, El le Cal Agr 1708 oF Brooklyn Chapter be able to send to in the number of volunteers a Five per Centum per Annum, no at Buys oe iitra were | When, above the shoutin d clamor! tie science classes are the most popu- | No. 179 Remsen , Roo i tel-l ihe Atlantic Division, on tine, the! for service in the fight against ine a wre fe ie _ ye ie , rare n the hall, there was heard the wait! | ri n the school regime ephone Main 3961 part of the allotment it has received.) ¢uenza, Hardly more than a score i Ade td Bare scamelng beret on atretchers or in invalid’s chairs] 3 ‘irony announcing a German at ne more clothes for ; —— The Supervisor of , f persons appeared at the headquar. the faid Stave, of the Fifth Day ? and hundreds were on crutches or] oy pomhs had b ‘ s at tho Red Cross HE Motor Corps of the Brooklyn | !t ) express her ap; a- | 0 replies ; i i) ‘ A ’ ‘y | rried arms in slings. The solid|\~ ar nOe, eee Propped close n welv ar-old girl Chapter A. R. C, has been help. | UW! pa es aoa ora of the New York Chapter of the| ; cs . bie ‘ to the Nouveau Cire teacher, “and we're turning suxillaries have ed to her ap-| Red Cross, No, 889 Fifth Avenue, bank of khaki surrounding the ring] | s4, ana the nec: Rok McHer t up in te robs ing district nurses to secure au-| heal for pneumont kets to be uscd Pevilesudr elie yy robelg . " pious! potted with the a | a Laglrentay x: pee Bev ’ obiles to take them abo he t present eple This cial : ay a old, since the appear ‘ waa copiously spot : w 3 i Bitte tie erent avenn (0th) ‘ Kee Bew! ve tomobiles to take ther ut the ci ty. in the pr t a ‘This Ol ie Nala wae abel us anes Geek Ae | of lings and bandages, Capt Irving} cnt, time was obvious, > fhe nited 4 as 2 vet Le Z Sis seas sarme| dred women have registered at the GAT REE S An efore the war |i German explosive miasica com dates overse RED CROSS JUNIORS MAKING REFUGEE GARMENTS) vreau and. have been sesmnta ns We - i a ¢ ° | through th -—-- . rk in hospitals and homes, Air-Cushion Boxing = |havo wrought unparalleled a HHP mans mmecting of the Aux: ne chapter now has twontyethres } ~ tion. I aries of the Brooklyn Chap 1 service, carrying j Gloves. “Ie $8 unn ante tp tall You an ter to be held at K Ae Table alds an heir Ai ta] | OXERS will be interested in| nounced O'Ha nat th a Talk| Oy rere ere ; nae u Two hundred! HIL® waiting for the programme on Serbian Day at the Altar of Lad B knowing of a pneumatic boxing }on. Please leave in the orderly man- | will be ‘a big bo eting a BA i: ‘erie Bert W erty an aged man with white hair burst through the | glove that has been pronounced | ner of sol . ea col, ChOIL G wrt - oe Unes and handed a much-handled document to an Evening Won@ \ excellent fo re was not a bit of confusion a ‘ ce 8 continuing Ite effort | Peporter y Bae ae need at ei & dit. of cont if MS of the Canadian Army sof ali kinds, nurses! "My grandfather kept it for a long time,” whispered the oM man, *Whea ‘ | br ¢ Ne grea e filed | = the people what the an render service, » died I got it and have cherished it for scores of years,” he added, “but FU S, aby, ‘aining pur- Vay was made for the nded| 4 ori doing r- | lp th it if iv help to sell a Liberty Bond.” “ ? poses. A rein-| through specified door The Rue st. }* : Col. W tre ixiliary held a old fellow vantshed through the crowd and was lost, The dooumest | hat 27 | forced, alr-| Honore was packed with am ¢ an from the view wer a nf al re- | wus n with age, ‘The reporter handled it carefully, lest tt fall apart, j filled rubber and automobiles w n had has been a t Th tay, ‘The re-| it is a imen of an interest-bearing Liberty Bond, issued in 1776 in thé — “ bladder of!t boys fr Neu 1as t 3 batue ¥ oft were $50 ploces of ite of Massaghusetts. The money was mend to pay Revolutionary ecieiens, ribbed construction ta he place j street was Te w and et Most all of this | The t ntre Indicates that the bond was redeemed and pa: se v gt a B ' . y j He ; i c 3 aw I whe tury English it reads as: th , F y faa ea ad : Lace | W 44 message to the | rho lit hower of the Brooklyn STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. BAY. Only the wrist and thumb are stufved, | Fortunately th airmen" pathe rs and wives of | with Mrs, Leet in ¢ “Med No. 5968. Four Dollars. The glove, Is light, shapely and du Pay od by ent twenty years Builds » 406 Wu Die possessor of thia Bill shal be paid FOUR Spanish milled DOL- able, ar vbles boxe > use th ft b ‘ 1 {he British Navy. After leaving t ty at continued for another) LAKS by the ‘Phirty-finst day of December, One Thousand Seven Hum . A full striking powers without for more t ur, ; ent to Canada to become @ : dred and Pighty-six, with Interest in LIKE money at the Rate of Five yt each other, With gloves of t rade back to Neuilly in rhage a © war broke out he per cent, per annum, by the State of Massachusetts-Bay, according beginners are less hesitant in taking shrapnel, shouting and sing! Nate ed his services and (IN un act of the Legisiature of the said State of the Fifth Day of ..,, 1780 s; ef recruiting officer. Red C N le Printed i | j fistle training than is usually the was generally agreed that the noisy] Wa Anpointed chinl recite ole ed Cross News Is Printed in The || Interest, 8. d. 4 case, it has been found at army windup was a fitting finish fora great! province of Ontario, requested the Evening World Every Saturday. || Annually, ! 2 2 B, Cranch, di * boxing show for soldiers by soldiers, Tugpt Hon, Sir Robert Borden, Pre= nieeemneminend, . vee. 3 2 Wales, ‘ # é . ‘ ‘ ) 4 » een ee - = a“ a oe iagegpaa corset preeaicieeeaneenen ne > ——