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TOM i WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1918 ’ ‘ ee, . Bok . ; \ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1918 Eight Months at the Front | With the American Army sa ) THe woman Lanor provtem aren rue war! Well-Known Musicians and Their Eccentricities | For the Arrtist’s ‘‘Soul’’? The English Women Employed in Industrial Pur-| EACH HAS SOME WHIM WHICH IS A PERSONAL EXPRESSION OF “ARTISTIC TEM- ( PERAMENT,” A LUXURY THAT THE TIRED BUSINESS MAN HAS NO TIME TO ENJOY. Every Great Musician Has Had Some Eccentricity Coupled pred feo the Main's doh They Will. eet te pecerieien : 4 - LANES Nes aie With His Playing, Suggesting That Music With a Normal velope for | Background, Lacks Fulle:t Inspiration—Heifetz’s Weird Keep on Working, and the Returning English Collection of Warlike Trophies, Absent From Which He Soldiers Will Want Their Jobs Back—This Situa- Is an “Unkindled Fire,” Recalls Whims of Other Well tion England Will Have to Face and Find an Known Artists. Answer To. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘ By Martin Green HAT’S in a temperament? ‘ (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) W Nobody knows—save, perhaps, the perfect press agent. He ts HE possibility that, as a result of the part played by women In main- lkely to find a temperament a cross between a gold mine and an taining the industries of France during the w woman suffrage earthquake. But this is a story of some of the things will be demanded in our sister republic has not been widely con- aie temperaments of the artistic variety are respon sidered, but it ds not an iridescent dream. Women in . 4 Belgium enjoyed political suffrage for five years prior * Fret Mat ey aie MAY teeth le eae a if to the outbreak of the war, and Belgium has poured into Be actly Ck GALERE Gaz ter aes ee ae France thousands of refugeo women who are working . side by side with French women in various activities, press compantee—came @ small arsenal, including plus Doubtless there is in France to-day an unawakened Mrs. | derbuses, Capt. La cutlasses, a Chinese headsman's Pankhurst or Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. § sword, a German (bayonet and other odd weapons, for However, France docs not regard with trepidation which the ordinary, non-artistic, untemperamental indi. the prospect of women remaining, after tae war, in jobs | vidual would never dream there could ibe any use in the Mu 4 ™ i ' pacific pursuit of violin playing. Yet Heifetz’s accompanist, Andre Benolst, \ then boa stcael et tfc a ia ek ead gravely explained that unless young Heifetz is surrounded by these cher- ee art RR cade Nb age dio bitte Baden |ished possessions his artistic temperament does not respond to the call for pL pa bl ead abl re eee | lhis best work. What symphonies of sound Heifetz should be enabled to industrial revival. rhs tuber tr presatelsa ition" Soe Lisapeel tite: fae produce on the modern battlefield, completely surrounded by machine guns ing the war has never been officially announced. France does not publish 16-inch cannon, bayonets and gas masks! casualty lists. How does the temperament of ve But what about England, with her|truo index to the nature of the city i "4 i : Ignace Paderewski mamifest itself?) powerful labor unions and her great/bred of Britain and that the soldier i ees 5 x ty In a rather more sensible fashion Ie political party devoted exclusively to/from the city will go right back to * , jseems to me, although superficially the cause of union labor? Grert/ his former stamping grounds and { lee protensona} ue oom | Britain's losses in men have been| with the true Briton’s respect for his j Jextraordinary one. His own secretary enormous and England has been par-| rights will demand his old job back told me that the great pianist avolds tioularly hard hit, but sbe will have| although it may be held by a woman ,|carefully the ordinary recreations of millions of men to care for when| who is capable and wants to keep | the physically fit man. He does not peace comes. Leaders of thought in|the job herself. {| dare to play golf, to row, to drive a Is “Artistic Temperament” | Necessary “Stage Setting” a srnmmty ceegcermaren newer " 7 much time and energy and money to clothes.” Several years ago Jan Kubelik, the violinist, took a temperamental fling by @ sort of modern Diogenes- and-the-tub act. Only instead of a tub, Kubelik lived in a private car— a Pullman, not an automobile. For this privilege he paid $60 and eighteen tickets, but he said it was E J 3 _fie dulge in a friendly Engiand “have been for some time| No doubt exists as to the deter- pr f . , * motor car, to Ini worth the money. He lived in this! figuring on the problem of readjust-| mination of women working in , Le! : —PABEREWSK 1 : bout witn’the gloves. He takes bis! o> for several months, while on ment and figuring prominently in the| many lines formerly monopolized by| i1~ A ‘4 i # SN " > * Sebi meen tee exércise through the gentle game of| tour, instead of going to hotels, “I problem is the woman labor question.| men to remain on the little old pay. ‘Women employed in industrial pur-| roll, ‘They are in a new atmosphere— >. suits in England have gone on strike| even a now life. After generations of for equal pay with men and they) subjugation they have come into have invariably won, When the time) what appears to them to be freedom, >. omes to turn the English fighting] Ana as for the English working- ‘armies into English working armies| woman, sho is an organizer. The women will be found holding down| «trikes referred to for the purpose of WHStions of places which men will! cytaining the same pay as Mon wore want and there will also flow into| conducted with order and force. Engiand, with the declaration of | rhero is every reason to believe that] ; peace, swarms of Waacs, Wrens and « Penguins who have begn at the front, ing men's work and relieving #¢ diers for fighting duty. These women, ( @aving experienced the excitements of war, the freedom of action which goes billiards, to which he Is devoted and|can sleep well, eat well, and have at which he excels. He also is an Fiieeuiteeonis re ymyselt.” he ox. , “avoiding all the trouble and excellent bridge player. expense of moving my baggage to Yet the explanation is simply that be from the Leered I play chess | * after every meal with my friend and Paderewski conditions every act of| Secompanist. I have plosty at von his life by its possible effect on his} to read, a fine, large bed to sleep in ten fingers, which, it is said, are in- and a bath that ts a treat.” | sured for $50,000. He dares do nothing Later on, however, Kubelik gave a! manifestation of : lor a scratch on his hands. He is fond |artist should be both a husband and of outdoor life in the country, and be- £ father SR sake of his art. And 6 is a Bohemian, t 2 the English workingwoman, once she fore the war enjoyed his large coun- one! Nevertheless, bing seineed bar comes into realization of her power, F - s try estates in Poland and his farm in| pride” to a charming Madame Ku- will hold her services to be as valu- | ‘ ” Switzerland, He has been known to/belik, and five youngsters—including able as those of a man, and the! }{~z 5 ‘ d * . cut the grass on his lawn, He likes|/tWins. “Moro than any one cise," he 4 | ShUARan'ey past! and|@ssured me, “the artist {s dependent statesman or labor leader who dis- children and children’s parties, an on happiness, and there is no joy lls putes the point with her had best lhe has the splendid devotion to his|that of a happy domestic fa" — with field work, life in the open, X=) wwaton ‘is tead.” 4 / aR d | war-torn country which any simple anand Powell, the distinguished cellent food and plenty of amusement! rig jeaithiest looking, rostest,| : 5 person minus all claims to tempera-|American Violinist, has a perfectly and fecling that they have done thelr bit, will find it hard to drop back into natural fad. She loves old and won- ment can understand. derful violins, plumpest and happiest looking! { One of the most treas- women I w in England ana/? Ethel Leginska, perhaps the great-|UTed of her possessions, which she ‘ time Arab mono veryday home | 5, te bought as soon as she coulc ¢ Pp on besa bah ae rity France were the women who are est woman pianist, takes out her tem-|ihe money for it. Is a Stradineeiee existence. They wi engaged in work which was, before | . ¥ thing in the world. ‘There is a project on foot to supply every soldier returning to England | with a plot of land at a nominal fig-| ure, this land to be acquired by the division of the great landed estates | pect of the woma > ‘ . Hae tha ceeve tf the|Which he was devoted. He received peat of the woman labor problem, 9 re ies errr lad see A ae guests in his apple orchard, and one which occupy such a large extent of| * Breat Solvay plant located in ou a om a hr Oo Ww er Oo ve atmeolad ttle Lente, f of his favorite recreations was to get unproductive area in Great Britain, | *B¢ suburb has been turned into a e and without decoiletege, which} up in the morningas early « perament in the sort of clothes she|She also possess adagnini, wears. She will not appear on the concert stage in the conventional eve-|yruren ‘yagia® team 10h {7 eutate, ning dress of the woman artist. Those|simple life. Before the war he had | son and judgment on this as- who have heard her play in Carnegie|@ home in a little Belgian village, to | 3 a Guanerius and a | the war, performed exclusively by| men, One of the suburbs of Nancy furnished an opportunity for com-| par 4 o'clock : | 4 +n a : slipped across the stage and into her| Nd go fishing with a rod and line be- fr it were possible to make small| munitions factory, The surround- :. re 5 . ,| fore breakfast ho le strea sfarmers of all the returning acters, |'%8 cOUntrY is agricultural and has| “‘ Most Men Marry Their Wives Because More or Less Adroitly—and Very seat at the big plano, She Jnvartably jwhich ‘ran through ‘the villages ie Bogland’s industria readjustment | piped pes a be the wan Often Unconsciously — These Women Showed Them Their Love,’ Says PPE Tie guuooak of biask waite |Reihad & wannertit colieton Sera would be much simplified, ere cultl- Ae fs ; A é 7 Diecte: DRSNOHTAA te his Go Se would be found for a |Yated by women Nixola Grecley-Smith in This Second Article of a Series on ‘ Love.” anda simple blouse of white obitton| Si/ove, presented to fim by admirers all over the world, and m, v0} ry : or george yer whic is , any wonder- younger workers in the flelds, or georgette, over which she some ¥° ful violins women desiring to remain at re : : ist beauty, allurement, charm? That is why woman rarely leaves : lik p 2 ! - Tap sps and| While strong and tanned ° eley-S as beauty, allurement, cha jat is why Ah y lea times wears a white vest like a man’s.| His allegiance to Apollo, god of the hnunerative employment In shops and| "Nie strong and tanned, were slow By Nixola Gre y-Smith |She is the vain woman, |man to his own native, frequently | per hair is uncompromisingly bobbed. |lyre, did not keep Fritz Kreisler, Aus- factorics, and, with equal suffrage, | WAR” acral depressed, The young HOULD a woman show her love? | if a man js vain, that is, if he! horrible, task in love. In the future “when I am at work,” sho ex- trian violinist, from paying homage Weleh they will undoubtedly obtain) | felon ed in the munitions “Yes,” answer the Englishmen who have taken part in the discus- | belongs with seven-cighths of his|state 1 am sure men won't have any-| ))aiheq to me, “I cannot be bothered ee cree Retore. She War De had Balter, the war, they could be de- | Pla a any recrulted from tho! sion now gotng on in the Strand Magazine, “Many a woman has sex, and you want to marry him, by/thing to say about it at all—less even | itn gritty things fluttering around|sicians, to escape military pervion in E F pended on to hold their own with| {arming districts, were, on the other lived a lonely, discontented life just because at some! all means tet him percelve you love|than they have now--all wives Will! 1) nongs and face, I do not want|tis own country. On the contrars | their fellow-workers. » lively and apparently full of critical moment a foolish convention kept her from ad.|h!m. I feel that I must add a special} be chosen by @ permanent commitee he devoted considerable time to th: the joy of living to be distracted by elaborate clothes. |study of the military art and joine: What 1s clothing except something |the colors when the war, broke ou to keep you warm and to keep you|He was wounded by a Cossack ani! te vere?” Yet to-day it docan't, with [Promoted to a Captainey before 1 An objection to the plan of placing |i) Yann. yy Under the grime of the returning soldiers on small farms] ry thelr cheeks glowed with | hag arisen, It deals with the great] (oo ine “y health. Moving to and’ mass of English soldiers who, until) /"0™ the front we often passed the! they went to the war, lived their lives | {try In the evening ay the work- * fm the cities of Great Britain, wil}¢'S Were swarming from the gates these men be willing to go into the| "0M tho road toward the barracks . word of caution, however optimistic, | of middle-aged women, Two opposing for young women like the one who| votes will be ali that is required to wrote me some time ago. jblackball a candidate. And any | “Every morning 1 meet a young|Woman who giggles, has a flat volce mareryomen, full olthar of these honorable discharge. ince then ra 0. wg e) ye r, - rs - id 3 ey Ne’ girl, have man on my way to work, He always or ie aout eee noe Till Met) perfectly obvious functions, Women adopted many war orphans. anc to a. ~ _— r " 8 uch for temperame: = nd jday arrives woman will continue to|never will be truly great, they never wane eT ry piperementalttions i }; mitting her feelings, But May Edginton, a sprightly woman novelist, takes the other side of the controversy, “It is only eafe,” she asserts, “for a woman to feign a great love, If she really feels it, she must never ? show it.” smiles ays ‘Good mornin, |me. Do you think he lov.s me show her love, using, of course, @| 441) succeed in their work as men ° e1 5 4 country and till the soil, away from|'" Which they were quartered, They Ws An answer which leaves me wondering why. | ANXIOUS ETHBL, |little common sense about it, if she pase BRtIthey Aion’ devettin’ ae Ree al, Star att such utterly mys- the lights and distractions of the city|W°F® @ Uniform of dark gray blouse itl Whether or not a woman should show her love de-| wait just a little longer, Anxious |"*% ®9Y- with its public housos, its theatres, |94 trousers and heavy boots, and as | ========= pends altogether on the type of man she elects to| Ethe!—all you anxious Ethels! ‘Guod its constantly varying Mghts and|tey moved homeward after — nino | iOVe, it seems to me, | morning,” while certainly encouraging, B M St ( *whades? hours of factory employment they If she as a singular preference for the Victorian man—a poor|does not warrant an immediate OW egan age areer ‘The theory is that the soldier, hav- pee ae Jostled cach other ike jselfdeluded creature who believes in Man the Pursuer, and woman the|avowal of your burning love, Let vinrien HaMeIN ‘ing been so long in the open, will re- |" OF OF Clumsy boys, m worry a bit—pine a litgle—never | 4 “volt against returning to the fox and oe mapnient workers I saw in| hard-boiled flannel shirt. Let her refuse him shudderingly until, felied| be auite sure of you until he adds, | HE first time I ever went to the smoke and confinement of urban ex. | “O10 0n were the women conductors | by a cave man blow, she 18 dragged ehrieking to the altar. But the Vic. | # least, “It's a fine morning, Isn't It?" theatre I made up my mind I'd G istence; that he will pine for green ote ee onatterned eeuith Avenue |torian man is getting to be as scarce as roc’s eggs. And the modern man| “Chops and tomato sauce-—Yours| never be happy until I was an} ® felde and growing things and the}! Uses Mie Dal cred after the London } geeks a mate in the same spirit In which his mother bought her Sunday | Pickwick,” were the fatal words that) actress, Of course my mother was | fongs of birds. On this point there| 10% MN suils on the roof are a¥! eowng—one warranted not to shrink or fade in the wash | got the immortal Pickwick into ajat that time on the English stage, 4s room for doubt. por ula tn London as in New York, ee tate agian wus la yasceuy | | bre of promiso suit, #@ut after|and my father was a theatrical man-| Te veaniied | that the Saivation| Hundreds of umes & day the de- | rye ia bee ee ried bathed in the blood of the! all, there is a certain implied in-| ager, so it was natural that I would | Army, « few years ago, gathered up| int down the st ve Uctress climbs up | 608 reflected his own ideal of himself,| dragon he had slain a leaf fell on his| macy in talk of food, So I trust| follow In the family footsteps—but} fm London—mostly in the East End—|fares on the root ant she povch the i why should not the knowledge that] back, leaving a tiny patch of skin|No Hterally minded young person will|not, of course, until I had quite ® small army of poor folk who had | inside the bus to collect from pa she loves him be the strongest possi-| Uninsured. And when his wife, | decl her feelings for les own up and had finished school, Rever had enough to eat, had never | Passenger, Her job is mo oInple | ble evidence that she is his heaven-| Kriemhild, babbled about it he was| A thought that may well give her| Our home was in Leeds, which Is n or what | trth * Beet at the conductor of a! appointed mat It not only should] killed, Tho ordinary, everyday man, pause is that man’s vanity is of many | quite the most beautiful city In York- been comfortable or the clean and comfortable call happy,|dime snatcher toward the Rats lal ye, it 18. Most men marry thei} neither an 4 ngland, and L was kept as} etn ty Sectern Canoe lana aston reese 6 Passenger pe ee adroitly—| though perhaps a far worthier being|A person of that type will choose the | much as possible out of the theatre | onsciously—| than either, has one thing in common| Woman's soul who leads him upward | “atmosphere.” But one day I went amd installed them on farms out in| Work, for London fares are graded by | and very often quite uy the great open and the sunshine, rer Sa rte tere luctorette mukes | these women showed them thoir love, | With these demigods of old. But his{and on toward the Social Register |to London to visit my aunt, acd she hese poor Kast Enders were to be|te cach paasane# and Issues a slip |ipig most important and tho least] Vulnerable spot is his vanity, And|rather than ‘a combination of the|took me to my first play, “Peter made over by contact with nature. Exposure to London fog and rain | talked of among woman's rights is| through his vanity his love is won, | three goddesses who strove for the| Pan." When I saw Wendy on the; But they didn’t care much about | "4S &!ven the "bus conductors bloom. | her r first New York appea fy Ruffle playing a child's part, Next came the chance to creato the tile role of “Rebecca of Sunnybrook \ Farm." I left the play and went home to England be York opening. M “Daddy Dufard.” My first grown-up part was Mr. George Ariiss in his son of “Disraeli,” but the first time any theatrical manager ever took me ‘ seriously as an actress was when I peared with Margaret Iilington in Lie.” After I did “Under “The F “The Love hty Wife.” In haces Playing the sort of part I 1ys longed to do—that of a woman who bas braina as well as ed leauty, She is doing a discipline like a ‘ance, in “Eluf- . |Shrinker—then by all means let her delight his soul by shrinkng like ajh ae 6 the New next part was in second se ies nor a § fried, | kinds, A few men have social vanity, | shire, baa given the ‘bus co sht to marry the man she loves.| Vanity {s not @ vicious trait, as|golden apple, no matter how much | stage I said, “I will never be bappy keop a secret . tbe mature. They hadn't been raised to| nist anh ouiictag. They ire always | And showing her love helps her to/many persons who get thelr thoughts | she loves his Most men, however, | until I y Wendy myself"—and I sands for the woman that this ¥ I They ran away from the farms |Jobs and intend te keen thee’ HF | duis right far more often than it hin-| ready-made Yellove, Vanity has/are socially unsophisticated, 80 | wasn't, Neither was my poor father has developed—and that means @& most wonderful woman the ever known. Ww You Will see that And became unwelcome guests of| Incidentally I may say that the last | ders her, For the most brilliant man : ed nearly all success and the|much so that when any man I know |nor my mother! Manadian cities and eventually most | Of "Rose on the f those on the streets of London to |1s duller about love than the simplest | greater part of beauty, So when 1{ assures me thathe has met a “grande| For I teased and begged and tm- Hef them found their way back to|'bus conductorettes, When Hore the woman, And ho is vain—so vain!|refer to man's yanity [ am not call-|dame"—which sometimes happens—[| portuned th until at last my| epdon and the East End and a| Warnings were sounded all buses |A!! the fabled heroes of the human] ing him names, Without vanity, self-| feel certain that he has encountered | mother decided there was no help for; see ld Ay oy bh ac a £ Crgeawnce to sce somethink an’ ‘ear|ftarted toward their terminals, As |Faco had, we know, ono vulnerable] confidence, the desire to excel we/a caricature of one, For most men | it—I would wait neither to grow nor Stage, and {tis doubtful tt pees hink. 1 be ponderous vehicles tore along the | spot. When Thetis dipped Achilles} should still be cave dwellers. Who|do not perceive fine differences of |to know— had to become an actress| America, And my first part, the|shall. American audiences have givag 2 HE there are who fear that the |could slways bo acca onthe tints | 2 the waters of immortality she Heid) is the man of Afty with the squared once, And since no one in Eng-|dream of dreams, was really Wendy| me my heart's desire Wendy in "Pox “a ™ tend cheat ppePirard Platform oF on the steps leading to him by the heel, and so the saving! shoulders, the springy step, the ath. |is almost as foolish to let them choose | lang, not even my father, would con-|in the children's company of “Peter ae and 8 priiny (supposed) oe toomeia at e a0 fecking sey ward for, per- | Wave left one small spot by which he lete’s waist-line? He is the vain| their wives as it would be to let them | sider me for the one role I wanted to! Pan,” would be ungrateful ahs ath Wha disas furnished @' haps, a glimpse of tho Boche planes. | perished, When that “enowy alieu” man, Who 1s the woman of forty who |selgct the wedding dross, olay, my mother brought me clear t@ That WAS om tour; then came my gence? 2 ee world has while I am sh woinan rth, n de- ade and texture in women, And it i

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