The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1918, Page 18

Sad THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1918 Jobless Kings and Dukes Might Help to Create New Era of Comic Opera That “European Star; First - Appearance -on- Any - Stage-in-This-Country’’ Stuff Would Be Gone One Better by the Press Agent Who Could An- nounce “An All Crowned Cast’ (“‘Crowned”’ Is Right!) and the Kinks Gate Could Also Be Made to Get the Gate Receipts for the Management! By Joseph HAT are we going to do with Wait a minute, Get the full ewing of that. to think how many of the boys of the purple have been out of a job ainee last Monday? Who Have Been Given the S. Jordan our uncrowned kings and emperors? | Have you stopped The German people have done all that could be done for the Crown Prince. H out of it. We couldn't help him if we wanted to. But there’s the Kaiser and the rest of the family. Then there's jolly King Karl and his handsome wife of Austria, The Kink of Austria has abdicated and 90 has the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. King Friedrich August of Saxony has been booted out and the fired from his royal job. King Boris was the real MoCoy on the box in Bulgaria for @ few min- utes and then went the way of royalty—this way out. Turkey no longer has a cinch on his the throne recently vacated by Bill Hohenzollern. @ lot of Dukes, Archdukes and Dukelets, Princes and Princesses on the hobo hike. Mercy! Isn't it awful, Mabel! But there's a chance for all of them. Qtihert and Sullivan wrote funny operes about royalty and we have a few composers left in America, But up to date we have never had any of the royal personages in the cast. Wouldn't it be just as funny to see a bet of ex-Dukes, Kings, Queens and Princes strutting the boards, etrum. oning guitars and spouting thelr tines? Heretofore we have had imitations, but here’s a chance for Broadway to get the real blown in the bottle, dyed im the wool, born to the purple, real royal guys for the stage. Just glimpse the array of available royal talent outside of those already named. In the gallery of has-beens, tn ad- uition to William the Second, there are Duke Edward of Anhalt—ta, ta, Eddie boy; Friedrich Il, Grand Duke of Baden—farewell, Freddy; King Lud- wig UL of Bavarla—by, by, Lady; Dake Ernest Augustus of Brunswick 4t's all off with Erny; Grand Duke Ernest Ludwig of linrppPRc rons Roker | 3 Prince Leopold pel | ae Lacoeds Prince Heinrich XXIV.| and Prince XXVII.. of Reuss; Duke Brnest IT, of Saxe-Altentburg; Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Duke Bernhard of Saxe-+Mein- | ingen; Grand Duke Wilhelm of the | Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisen- vach; Prince Adolf of Schaumburg- Lippe; Prince Gunther of Gchwars- | burg-Rudolstadt; Prince Karl Gun- ther of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen; Prince Friedrich of Waldeck and King Witheim Il. of Wurttemberg. What a cast for a comic opera in tue White Way! What a chance to get crowned anew! Crowned with a cabbage, 4 bottle of milk or a spud. The movies will be wide open to the past regime of royalty. The silent drama will be safer for the bunch than the spoken play. The screen will save them. But there’s their chance, if they're look- ing for a job. The Kaiser might pose as @ cow~ bgy, if’ be can get a horse tame enough for the task. But far better than that, if Fred Stone wouldn't get Jealous, would be the Straw Man tn the “Wizard of Oz." He might Une up ng Captain Jinks of the Horse Me- rines or the Monarch of the Seas in “Pinafore.” He might do @ lot of things, if they would let him, but it's a cinch that some Broadway man- ager will want to bill him as the ghost in “Hamlet.” ‘Then there's a chance for the Duke- lets in “The Little Duke.” Remem- ber how {it runs: “Bee how bis face he covers, See how he knits his brows; He was the prince of lovers— Now what a sorry eouse.” ‘Then they might transpose “The Grand Duke of Oldenburg has been | The Sultan of job, and the King of Bavaria wants In addition, there are and the following has been con- tributed: “Idam, Udam, Wedam whatever we please, Strolling along With our story and song, In the home of the Edam Cheese.” That's all right for @ starter. All that is necessary now is a libretto, @ little music and a bit of change. Those royal guys will meed some! change, not only as to their exterior appearance, but in the Uning of their pockets. We don't know enough over here about royalty to| know whether they have pockets, | Dut suppose they have something Uke that, or at least did have Now, then, for a suggestion to wind up the opera. At the clowe of last act, Count Hockderkassazar might ap) in the dock to be een- tenced y Gen. Pershing to be on the 17th of March. ‘What date?” ks his Re “What date?” as! . Jodlots. ore “St. Patrick's Day,” eo Gen- ie saya the “Vass ine lohe?” says Willumbelm. “Not next St. Patrick's Day?" Then give him the curtain with shouts from the audience: “Come back! We dare you te como back!" Then everybody goes to the box~ office and gets his money back, ANNOUNCEMENT | ' EXTRAORDINARY!!! COMING | Next Week at This Theatre The ex-Millionairess BERTHA KRUPP In_@ revival of that Screaming Farce Lend Me Six Shillings. Helen Kreye, Promoted to New Post in Branch of New York Produce Exchange Bank After Only Six Months There, Says Any Girl Who Liked Her Work Could Have Done as Well—Just Tried to al What Was Expected of fer. By Willis Brooks OR a girl of seventeen to be the! receiving teller of a New York City bank t# so far out of the ordinary that I dare call the case of Helen Kreye unique. Miss Kreye is the receiving teller of the Central Park Branch of the New York Produce Exchange Bank, located at No, 919 Seventh Avenue. She wes born in New York City in January, 1901, 1 was told that she would not talk about herself for publication, but | did not believe it. I thought that any Mikado” to fit the suffering sons of royalty. “Ber be was golng to marry Yam Yum, Yum Yum! Bat the war put him on the bum bum, Bom bum!" ‘But there is no doubt that tf the! royal kids will skid into comic opera @ brand new burlesque will be writ- tem for them. Wait till “Hugs” Baer gets back. “Bugs” being tn the army will prob- ably write a military play for the Kaiser, » few lines of which might 50 like this: “You're out of the army now, You're not in the army now: You'll never get rich, never get rich, You're out of the army now.” Already the muse hes been started young girl whe had achieved the en- viable position Miss Kreye had would be willing, for the inspiration her wtory might gtve to other young girls, to let the facts of her life be known. And when I put it that way te the young teller, ehe said, without the stightest evidence of etther desire for fame or that over-modesty which usually marks the eel{-conscious: “Why, of course, if there i» any- thing in my life that can help any other girl I am glad to have them _ Won Job School No. 9 at found @ position as copy holder in the proof room of the Shilling Press, r know it. But I cannot eee that I have done anything that any other girl might not have done.” That js the way most people who have accomplished things in this world are apt to look upon their achievements. “I'm just @ common, ordinary girl,” 1s the way Miss Kreye put it, and that is the most convine- ing evidence that she ie an extraor- dinary girl \ i, ATTY f SH / LUSTY K\\ ANC ERO WAL “Comic Opera’’ With ‘‘Real Royalty’’ PLAYWRIGHTS CAN NOW GET BUSY WRITING ROLES FOR EX-ROYAL “STARS” WHO THEN COULD GO RIGHT ON “ KING-ING” AND “ DUKE-ING” INSTEAD OF BEING JOBLESS! SO. Red Q ett Bhe was graduated from Public Street and River- iw Pe J i oa ¢ 7 = Hak KREVES. maining there only a few months, then taking a six-months vacation, after which I was taken into the downtown Produce Exchange Bank as statement girl, “I had no knowledge of banking, but I tried my best to learn what was expected of me, and im about three months was transferred to the Seventeen- Year-Old Girl ‘‘ Teller’ by ‘‘Just Doing Her Best’’ paying teller bere. promoted t have that I did like. is the reason so many get on better | perfunctory | eyes on the clock too much When she was that positiun L took her side Drive when she was fifteen years fee inten en ree S Hat te mh old, That was the last of her schodl-| Decidedly that is not all there is to ing, save in the practical academy of | It, lth the Rg ‘0 what your rapid workaddy ute, reas rise in Ube bank I tried to get into high school,” she!” ‘The question seemed to puxzle Miss said, “but it was full and they could] Kreye. ; Rot adinit me: 80 I went to work. 1) 4,"1) don't know, ah iad Rann a ‘Any girl who liked he had an ambition to be @ designer of . ari Alt aia eae | millinery and dresses, but did not sce | do the best I could for the institution, my way to get into that work, so 1|! liked my work. If I hadn't I should quit it and found aoinething } think that perhaps girls do not They do their work in way and keep their That ta not the way to succeed,” “What are your amusements aside |trom your work?” I asked, realizing| | that her work was probably ber chief amusement, 7 | | | | “Ob, ubout the same as those of other girls,” she sald. “AN work and |no play is not good for any giri, but | Belther is all play and no work.” “Woul you mind telling somewhat f your home life?” 1 asked | “Well,” she asnwered, " I have a!-| | ways lived in npartments on the up| | West side of the city. My parents (this with @ sinile of recognition that the fact had h nothing to do with her rapid progre ind they alway have kept neither rich hor poor y have always kep close Watch upon me, and still do. Of | course, their influence has been in the direction of making me try to be use ful in whatsoever thrown. I parents, ani been lon That m put my know.” With a reiteration of the remark that she was only “a gommon, ord. nary girl,” who couldn't see that sb had done anything to warrant espe: interest in her, Miss Kreye suid that was about all she could think of to tell concerning herself, The word “pretty” has been so much abused, I hesitate to apply it to Miss Kreye, but she is certainly a pleasing girl to look upon, with @ pink and fleld 1 might be the only child of my may add I have alw ers and brother 14 to make me mind to my work. I do not Broadway branch for two weeks as| White complexion wholly her own, un- &@ Liberty Loan worker, Last May 1|{#?nished by the wontents of @ vanity|&@¥e @ fine illustration. of the democ- was sent to the Central Park branch, where I have been ever since. first work here was as an assistant| after a to the receiving teller, Miss M.. 1i.| Sieteon, the young lady who & wow (ou shu My | tn In short, she 4 essing t the wo bag @ young woman ost uncommon thing i on se And that, oly the secret of her ext hary rise ty Lhe unique pow. vecuples, le | Bi gg John Nicholas Brown, Who Is Soon to Have Biggest For-! tune of Any Youth of His|\ | Age in the World, As Mem-! | ‘ber of Harvard Naval Unit} Had Found Job That Had | His Whole Heart. | JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN, mem- JI ber of the Harvard University naval unit, ls among the wealthy| youngsters of the country who were | willing to make the supreme sacrifice. It would seem now that Brown's am- | bitions will not be realized, but, | neverheless, he hus had the experi- | ence of the sallorman and hae taken to it very well. ‘The fact that young} | Brown will, Feb, 22, 1921, come into! possession of about $25,000,000, in vidition to the large sums that al- ready are credited against him, had no influence in retarding the steps the young millionaire student had taken toward serving the Nation in |time of need, Vor weeks he had been a member of the naval unit, arose early tn the morning day after day to participate in the routine work and drills re- julred from the boys tn the navy. ‘To all of thts work young Brown took readily, was enthusiastic at all times an inspiration to his associates and comrades, He never gave a fatering sign, went at the laborious duties with a will and yesterday, when it looked quite eure that his chances of active service had been dashed, he joined with others in regret and disappoint- ment, However, the young m{Mionaire racy of America, From birth eur- rounded by luxuries and care, in youth eought and looked for, he hes PT To Our Boys of Coffee to Reading and From Clerking walking about, often the only not to inhale their cigarettes, se | ters that I can hit ping chocolates to In that paragraph is the crose woman war worker abroad—the life SS) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1918 Being Busy ‘‘Little Mother” “Over There” Meant Endless “Odd Jobs” Letters Home of a Red Triangle Girl in France Tell How She Worked Fourteen Hours a Day at Everything From Pouring a Thousand Cups Soldiers’ Correspondence, to Sewing, With a Few Dozen Other Services Sandwiched In Between. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) T'S all so'naturdl now—pouring the coffee and taking the change and N woman in sight, and telling the boys and going to the movies in the midst of a khaki-clad crowd of men, and going over to the guard-house to visit the prisoners and guards, and taking bread and milk over to the garage for the cunningest, tiniest white woolly dog I ever saw, and helping Marie hunt through masses of bundles for the laundry of some worried soldier, and showing a squad of jovial carpen- @ nail on the head, and going out to eay goodby to a truckload of departing cadets, and slip- the guard when no one is looking—~ why, such things are so much a part of my everyday Life that I wonder sometinees what I was like at home.” seotion of the life of a Y. M. ©, A. of humor, pathos, hard work cheer- fully done, discomforts bravely overlooked, helpfulness and practical patri« otism, a6 she herself has told it in her book of authentic letters home, Red Triangle Girl in France.” The story {s one of the first to come from the woman's front—the hut be- hind the trenches, where American women brave many discomforts that American men may enjoy a few com- forts. This unnamed Red Triangle girl is @ regularly enrolled member of the American expeditionary force, and her special service is done in a can- teen for a unit and training school of American aviators somewhere in France. She is a real “little mother’ to the boys in khaki. Besides pouring out ipnumerable cups of coffee and chocolate and acting as the girl be- hind the gum and candy counter, the duties described in her letters to her family include such diverse tasks as sewing the “wings” insignia on the uniform of successful flying candi- dates, binding up their cut fingers, |writing—and reading—letters ex- ‘changed by them with thelr sweet- {hearts at home, In two days she served 2,600 cups of coffee—no wonder |she writes, “My coffee pouring arm | ig getting to be a strong one.” | Apparently her regular day was at least fourteen and @ half hours long, from 7 A, M. to 9.30 P, ‘M. ‘Tinis is her resume of her work: “I get up at 7, and ob, but the room is cold! 8 we begin serving breakfast to the |boys. ‘They come streaming in from |the flying flelds almost frozen, and | that coffee is the most popular thing |I ever saw. I usually stand bebind | the counter pouring it from big pitch- | ers, and dashing back and forth from! the pantry for sugar, milk and but- ‘War Over’ News Checked Ambition est in Boy Millionaire’s Life “ JUN, ous Fuse wee him and gave every manifestation of bitY Young Brown's great-grandfather was Nicholas Brown, in whose mem- ory Brown University at Providence was founded, He 1s probably the youngest man financial resources and this fact did ACKAGBDS intended for officers and: men on vessels in home waters aud abroad, or at for- eign ghore stations, should be packed and forwarded in the following man- ner: All packages must be plainly marked with the name and address of the sender, together with a nota- tion indicating the nature of con- tents, such as “Christmas Box,” and the name and address of the man to whom the package ts sent, All packages shipped by parcel post or express must be forwarded in care of the Supply Officer, Fleet Sup- | ply Base, 29th Street and’ ‘Third Ave- | nue, South Brooklyn, N. ¥, |” Packages forwarded by parcel post must comply with postal regulations grown into young manhood with the true American epirit stamped afover regarding the different zones, and | should be packed in wooden boxes, j Bites with binged or screw tom ‘ hig earnestness in trying to do “bis | in the world with such tremendous | |ae in any way enter into his naval ambitions, He was just one of the | boye all through the training period, | showed by the zeal and activity that he put into all of his work that he | wanted to reach active duty as soon |as possible and now that the armis- | tice has been signed, and the poss bilities of “going before the mast” | appear to be wiped out, it was rather discouraging, However, the Harvard naval unit has not yet been disbandéd, and | a possibility that its members will be selected for some duties, In case are, you ‘own will be among t | frst to Jump into service. In addition to his training for the | sullor life, Brown hes applied him- self to the regular academic studies at Harvard, so that he ranks well | from the college and naval viewpoint. He has not lost any opportunity in any direction, but !t must be con- fessed that his liking for the naval life surmounted all else in the past months, and to have his hopes dashed at this juncture naturally was a bit of a disappointment, But, being a good, all-around American youth, John Nicholas Brown will adwpt him- seit to the prevailing conditions, whatever they may be The Way to Send Xmas Boxes to Our Sailors - Packages shipped by express are Mmited to twenty pounds total weight; should measure not more than two cubic feet in volume; be of wood, well strapped, and have a hinged or screw top cover to facil tate opening and inspecting. No perishable food products other than those inclosed in cans or glass jars thould be included in any packase Shipments of Christmas packages tor vessels abroad or foreign shuve giations should be made in time to feach the Fleet Supply Base, 29:h Btreet. and Third Avenue, South Brooklyn, N. ¥., by Nov. 15. Christ- mas packages intended for vessels in home waters should reach the Five: ply Base by Dec, 1, Charges must be paid only to Brook- |tya,.N. ¥. All packages must be sout as stated above and be inspected here, No other luspection will suffice At! ee ter, Sometimes I make change ot the other end of the counter where we sell the dry stuff—chocolate, tu- bacco, Christmas cards, chewing gum, soap, shoe polish, tooth brushes and some canned goods. “I know the faces of most of the men already and the names of @ great many. Nearly all the time there are four or five of them helplig Qs and they are so considerate that It 1s @ joy to be associated with them. We take turns sitting behind the counter selling stuff (knitting between times), sleeping, and talking with the boys. In the evening tho boys sit around and read and write, and I usually join a little group of them.” Bedtime was nife-thirty, and although she was supposed to have |ne day off every week she worked without it for months, Paydays at the canteen rival bav+ Gain counter rushes, At that time the canteen is stocked up by the Quartermaster’s Department with combs, razors, soap, brushes, tobac« ©o and candy. Of one such rush dug | the Red Triangle girl writes: a @at at the counter just crookeg enough to twist my back into an che and added, added, added, and made change for nine and a half hours, The line never stopped one instant.” Two days later, toward night, the candy crates came in. “Tho bove built up a sort of fort with higa ramparts, I stood in the middie av@ could just see over the ‘top at firsts In this fortress with me, opening (a crates and handing me the one pound tin boxes of candy, were S— nice little prizefighter, are pals of mine. “I gold the boxes of and a All the boxe candy at throe and @ quarter francs each, about °$ cents, If a man had not the chanve within 5 cents, he had to take It a chewing# gum to save time, or cima ettes or tobacco, Gradually the rame Part of boxes was demolished and wa became exposed to public view, ‘a two and @ half hours the last & * went and we had sold over one theits sand In all.” And this is a night scene in tie canteen: “I am sitting at a wobbiy wooden table on a wobbly wovdoa bench with six boys eating bread aad* ham, with coffee, at the same tat on The room ia simply jammed and |g full of volves und laugbter and trauiye ing feet aud the crashing and olink f dishes and cups. The piano is gos ing and @ splendid voice is singing ‘Mother Machree’ in oue corner, :h¢@ phonograph is doing ‘The Hunt in wie Black Forest,’ four men are giving oa exhibition match of billiards, every seat is taken at the writing bench I bave to keep my eyes down on 7 Paper every second, for if I louk ig and catch some one's eye he will i) most invariably come straight over (a talk, A six-year-old Belgian boy thug we seem to have adopted is tugving at my arm, hoping I will admire 4 curious picture that might be intended for an aeroplane that he has drawn, “A soldier bas just shown me » poem (awful rhythm) that a tricia of his wrote and which was just pub lished in the ‘Wheatville Chronigi..* Ob! this ts a great life! Ah! anothce wishes me to read four or five letters from his girl and see if I can maka out what's the matter, he ‘didn't know he'd done nothing,’ and do I thinig she's really peeved or ‘just kiddin? im along?" The whole book testifies cloqnempy to the joy our boys over there take in the companionship of Ameriuaa girls, With the canteen worker ig shared every box from home; she hag s many and as varied tributes as aig ear teacher.” ‘Phe first um a jap lad doughnuts for preaktyss fourteen saved theirs for t , “A Red ‘Triangle Girl in France” ig published by George H. Doraa Come pany } { } ¥ i