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MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, Love Making for Films Easier Than in Opera, Says Caruso, in Movies 1918 “Real Art Is Required,’’ He Says, and His Artistic Love Making May Explain Why Public Likcs Its New Screen Hero So Well--He Is Surpriscd That Anybody Should Have Doubted His Abil- ity to Succeed Before the Camera, Although, Many Stage Stars Have Failed in the Attempt. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall 1 Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ARUSO, uncrowned king of grand opera, monarch of music, whom % not even the reddest of the Reds could or would depose—Caruso has gone into the movies and made a hit. A little boy wrote him the other day, “I think that you, Robinson Carusoe, are the greatest man in America.” 2 And the chief emotion of Caruso, serenely confident artist, and—like every artist—a child at heart, is a frank, almost pathetic surprise that anybody should have doubted his success, particularly anybody in his own worshipping New York “Tam not,” the golden-voiced one pointed out to me with slightly aggrieved patience, “I am not an amateur. I am—well, I am known, Twenty-five years I have been on the operatic stage, sixteen years I have ap- And yet it is only now, when I am seen tn hs peared at the Metropolitan, moving pictures, that the public discovers I am an actor!” Caruso sat behind a writing table in the office of his suite at the Knickerbocker Hotel, a writing table heaped as high as any tired business man’s. He was always a big, warm-hearted, friendly soul, whose quick petulances fled before equally quick smiles. But it js not only his Eng- lish which has improved in clearness and fluency since the last time I in- terviewed him. Then he had the fidgets so badly! Now he has won to a most courteous poise and simplicity. I have an idea the reason for his metamorphosis sat just opposite him during the interview,/in the person of tall, blooming Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, whose blue eyes con- trast so effectively with her husband's swart brows and olive skin. Mar- riage apparettly agrees with the health and happiness of both Mr, and Mrs. Caruso. There being absolutely no questionycasy for us!' But I worked!” ‘fas to how the movies and the movie] “Indeed he did," came from the audiences like their new star, I asked | beautiful Mra, Caruso, who, you may him how ho liked them. remember, had no real wedding “] find moving picture work very] journey because her new husband interesting,” he said frankly. “Now| was so busy, 1 can reach three publics—the public “Would you rather make love,” I that goes to grand opera, the public) greatly dared “in the mov or in that buys phonograph records, the | grand opera?” | big, big national public that goes to| ‘There was a subdued giggle trom the movies. I like America so much, | the beautiful lady on my left, and 1 you know, and Americans. And it|noticed that Mr, Caruso carefully did gives me pleasure to think that/not catch her eye, through the moving pictures I can| It is much easier to make love In give happiness to many persons who| the movies," he observed, “because cannot go to,grand opera, who arelin grand opera you must make love miles from New York.” and sing at the same time. In the Caruso gave his characteristic lttle | movies there is only the one thing to shrug, and his mobile mouth bent in| manage. « slightly ironic smile. As to making love in real life “They have said," he observed,| hazard a guess—having seen Mrs. “You are known in New York, yes,|/Caruso—that is the easiest little Bat what does the country know of|thing her gifted husband does! you? You should go to the West, to the South, in ‘order to obtain @ na-lhow he liked seeing himself on the | - 1 reputation.’ The answer to/sdreen, for, naturally, she was a ese critics is simply this: If you|member of his box party when “My Dave a god chef, you keep him—you|Cousin” was first produced at the do not send him on tour. New York,|Rivoli Inst week. “I don't think he you see, thinks I am worth keeping!" | elt that he was seeing himself,” she “To what,” I asked, “do you attrib-| «aid, ute your success in the screeM) was amused just as if he were seeing drama?’ For it is an open secret} somebody else.” that theatrical and operatic stars Of] Caruso, by the way, has been a the first magnitude have come dowN | movie fan for several years, And he like the stick of a rocket when they | was most earuest when I asked him attempted to appear in moving PIC*}\¢ ne agreed with the critics who tures. My own theory {8 tht) contend the drama of the screen is Caruso's exceptional success 18 Prl-| cheap and undignified, marily racial, although touched bY] wyothing is cheap,” he argued, jus’ individual genius. But every |oynich millions of people spend Italian is born for the cinematograPhi | noney to gee, It is fine that there ! if you doubt it, wateh a conversation) outa be such a method of bringing about the weather on any corner 1D) ypiiness to so many. To act in Little Italy, “Cabiria,” made in Italy| cing pictures is un art and de- y Italians, remains the most finished | nay an artist Sastio product of the films. | | if 1 shail appear in more movies, But here i Mr, Caruso’ pre Se after the present series, remains to planation of why he succeeded where |i. .aia ne sald in conclusion, “It many have failed, “I Cy ane is not easy to find a story for me, the camera as if it were 6,000 or 7,000) 1 toe for tam not a young man; people,” he ansured me simply. “That| i144 surtnermors, I cannot and will ‘jail there is to it. In my SINSIDE 1 sump off bridges and over preci- you must remember, I have to MaKe | Hi6,° Oh, we shall see! But I am my impression in a language Which) b144 ¢4 prove to people, at last, that “4a not known by most of MY AUd-) ny yoicg iy not my only qualification ence, That 1 keep them interested 18] ao a1, artist, ; surely due to something besides MY) Hit6 iy wonderful in all the arts,’ voice. In the opera I sing forelg | airy, Caruso declared proudly words, but I make them understand) Ang then he flicked the third string by my acting. In the movies I do not) to his bow by drawing especially for sing at all, yet they understand me) phe Evening World, in Just sixty sec- gust as easily.” onds, a moat clever caricature of him- “My managers, even, thought they | sclf as a poor music teacher in “The would have trouble with me,” Caruso | Splendid Romance," his next screen! elied, with his boyishly mischiev-|drama. By the way, the music| ous smile, “They wet five weeks for| teacher, like Caruso, finds his splen- doing a picture, because they thought | did romance in Am they would have to rehearse me, to repeat gcenes over and over, I fin- ished their picture in three weeks. I knew what to do, Why should I not? “And how hot it was! Last July and August I did my acting before the camera in the studio at 56th Street.” The actor-singer wrung im-| aginary sweat from @ hypothetically fevered brow, “It was hard work, but it had to be done,” he contin- ued. “gt 2 o'clock in the afternoon, often the director would come to me an2 say, ‘Enough for to-day, eh? Don't you want to go home” And I would say ‘No! I am here to act.’ “The hours, of course, were absolute- ly different from those in grand opera. I simply forgot, for the time, that I|steps on thelr way when the orderly | was a singer, The people employed|¥elled after them: But he answered, A SLIGHT AFTERTHOUGHT, privates met “Any mail for me?? the first private. ‘Th mail orderly put on his spec- tacles, looked through a bunch of letters and handed one to the ques- toner, “Any for me? queried the second private, The custodian of the mails read- justed the spectacles on his nose, looked once more through the pack of letters and said there not, “Not even @ newspaper?" insisted the private, Again he'looked through the pack- ages and finally sald: “Nope, none for yuh." The privates had gone but a few asked MUSIC TEACHER She answered for him when I asked | ORAWN BY GREAT TENOR \ YO QQ \\\ \Y \ \\ A Nal \ ted Singer Is Meeting. With a New Suceess Almost Equal to That of His Early Days, When He Took New York by Storm and Became Reigning Monarch of Opera. AS CARUSO SEES HIMSELF PLAYING THE ROLE OF A POOR IN FORTHCOMING SCREEN DRAMA—CARTOON wo the company mail clerk on the road, | : Dere Mable | “te iauenet and critewed ana | LOVE Letters of a Rookie By LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER (MMustrated by Corpl. G. Fourth of a series of “DERE MABLE’ World is publishing on this page. William Breck) letters which The Evening (Copyright, 1918, by Freorriek A. Stokes Company), bdo Mable ‘Todays Thanksgivin, Im thankful things aint no worse though Max Glucos what lives on the next cot says they couldnt be, Cheery an bright to the last. Thats me all over, Mable. Every man gets ateen ounces of Turky on Thanke- givin. All to hjmself, Mable. The sargent says the committee on Hays and Beang at Washington decides that, Mines inside. Im most to full for expreshun as the poets say. We had a great dinner. Soup an turky, dressin, cram- bury sause an pie an smashed potatoes, All in one plate. I wish you could have heard how the fellos enjoyed it Mable. I know now why they call the turkys gobblers, ThanksgiVin is a holiday All a fello has to do on a holiday in the “SMITH, ARE YOU LAFFIN AT ME?” Ne cate artillery is to feed the horses and give em a drink an smooth em out an take em for a walk an then feed em an smooth them out and feed em apd give ema drink, It makés a fello feel like givin back a dollar out of his pay at the end of the month. The horses has the softest of any one, Mable. They dont even have to get up for breakfast in the morning. We bring it to em in a little bag filled with cereul. You tie this on there face. I guess they aint never been fed before the war broke out. When they see you comin they start jumpin round like starvin sailurs, I dont guess they like r Darned if I know about the studio sald, ‘If all the actors our name, any’ were Uke Mr, Caruso, it would be] ” ! arhew tt 4 \ ‘ cereul, I wouldnt ether three times a day. I thought theyd give em eomethin different Thanksgivin but not a chance. There always bapin THE REAL CARUSO IN ANOTHER ROLE OF THE SCREEN DRAMA. . {t ull‘be somethin else I guess. When they see the same old thing they get sore and try to step on your feet., ° “The sargents stand way behind an say “Go on in. They wont hurt you.” And then when they land on your corn they say “That's too bad. you didnt do it right.” 1 dont like eargents any better than horses, An I dont kno as Im going to like the Captin much better ether. ‘The other day 1 got laffin while I was standin in line, Just laffin to myself, Not disturbin nobody. The Captin turns round an says “Smith are you laffin at me?” I says no sir and he says “Well what else was there to laff at?” ‘Thats the kind of a fello he is. I didnt sass him back or nothin, Mable. Just looked at him an made him feel cheap. I saw him again in the afternoon, Course I didnt salute. He ays “What do you mean by not salutin?” I told him I thought he was mad, Im glad Im not his wife, Mable. You never know how to take a fello like that. It I hadnt knowed they needed me Id have given him two weeks notise on the spot, Duty before pleasure though. Thats me all over. We took the guns out to drill the other day. The Captin was talkin afout indirect firin, Thats the way he is. * Nothin straight for- ward about him.. I asked the sargent about it. He said indirect firin was where you shot at one thing an aimed at another I hate to ibutt in Mable but it didnt seem right, I says I seen the Indien girl in the circus shoot the spots out of a card over her shoulder but wouldnt it be more censible to cut out the trick stuff till we was more used to the thing? You can argue with sargents, though, ® Saturday, Thats one Saturday a week Then the Captin and the Day after tomorrows inspeeshun. They do it every another thing Im thankful for. ‘Theres only We pull everything out an pile it on our cots, Every time its the same. Ife says “ surgent comes iu. Tuals very dirty Smith wheres your other shirt.” An I say “I aint got none, sir.” And he says, rgent, make a note of that.” An then the argent writes somethin in a little book, Next time just the same, he Captin says wheres my shirt and the sargent makes a note. I guess theres somethin in the drill regulations what makes him say ‘that cause I aint got no other shirt yet. Well Mable Im gettin hungry again now. Guess Ill have to stop an buy a couple of p We dont get nothin to eat for an hour yet, yours till the ice cracks in the pale, BILL. P. S. I had to borrow a etamp for this letter. I went to town yester- day an spent my last sent on a money belt. Its a good one though, { DERE MABLE Letters is published in book form, ‘The complete series A NURSE'S TOUCH, “cc AR nur’ said Dr. Alexis| dressing a doughhoy's wound one of one war nurse will be unsympa-| ‘Why, where's your fortitude thetic, hard, almost rough, while that boy. of another will be positively soothing. | tude or sixtitude couldn't stand your "& purse of the former kind waa! agadling,’ "New Orleans States, , ~~ ¢ ‘Failures Who Made ~ | Themselves Successes By Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford > (Author of “The Job, the Man, the Boss,” “Analyzing Character,” €0,0" Covvright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Werld), . No. 3—THE GENESIS OF AN INVENTOR. W's @ man hates his work, when he is dissatisfied and discontented in it, when his work arouses him to destructive thoughts and feel ings, rather than constructive, there is something wrong, somes thing abnormal, and the abnormality is his attempt #0 do work for which he is unfitted by natural aptitites or by training. a Some years ago we spent a few months in @ very comfortable and homelike hotel in one of the largest cities in the Middle West. Down in a nook of the base- ment of this hotel was a private electric light plant. The fireman, a young man named T., was rather.« puzzle to us. He had all the marks of unusual mechan- ical ability, and yet he seemed to take only the sligtitest interest in his work, and was constantly being re proved by his chief for laziness, irresponsibility and neglect of duty. + : “What's the use?” he asked us, after we gained his confidence, and had | asked him why he did not take greater interest in his work. “What's the use? After years of experience shovelling coal into a firebox and monkey- ing around these old grease pots, I suppose I might get an engineer's certifi. cate, Then what would I be? Why, just like old Mack there—$75 to $100 a month, sitting around a hot, close basement twelve houre a day or, per.. hapg, twelve hours at night, nothing to look forward to, no further ad- ‘Fortitude?’ grumbled the dough- vanel “Well, then, why “I don't know what to do. I like mechanics, and some job of this kind is the only thing I know how to do or would care to de, Yet, I don’t care : this. I must confess that I am as | puzzled as to what in the world I was made for, anyhow.” “What you need is to give your time and attention to the intellectual side of engineering rather than the purely mechanical and physical,” I told him, “You are of the intellectual type, and you are as badly placed trying to do mere mechanical work as if you e trying to cross the country on foot.” | ‘I believe you are right in that. I am going to get an education,” ; He began at once with correspond- ‘ence courses in mechanical and elec- | tricat engineering. Twelve hours a day he shovelled coal in his base- ment boiler room, Some four to eight hours a day he studied in his little room up under the roof, Night after night T. tolled away, until he thad finished his course, and secured ' his certificate of graduation, By this time T.'s ambition began to assume a definite form. termined that he should honor and the emoluments would come to him as a result of solv- were an ea have the which enginecring—one which had puzzled J both technical and practical men for imany years, He therefore saved up a few dollars and, packing his little be- longings, departed to complete his education in one of the most famous technical engineering schools of the | country. Tools, machine shop feos and other incidentals ate into the little store he had brought with him, and inside of two months it was gone. He hunted around and finally secured a job running an engine, This meant twelve hours in the engine room every night. In addition, he did what other students considered a full day's work attending lectures and carrying on his studies in the laboratories and classroom, He went almost without necessary food and clothing in order to buy books, tools and other equip- ment. Coming back from the university after having finished his course, T. found a position an ppcineer in an tric light and power plant, Then began saving up money to pur- chase the necessary equipment for @ laboratory of his own, Finally he had ‘a little building and was one of the proudest young men we ever saw. Little by little he added to his ap- y don't you do something else?” He was de- | ing one of the toughest problems in} ent, no more pay, and, finally, T. B. would carry me off because of | jack of fresh air, sunshine and outdoor. exercise. No, thank you.” | Paratus the things he needed. Several j nights a week, after his hard day's work in the engine room, he tolled, trying to solve the problem ypan which he had fixed his mind. t this time he married, and he ag wife moved into a narrow little=fat, fears passed, children came into the little flat, and still he worked at bis problem, Again and again, and still again, he failed, Yet each time he | failed he told us he was coming closer to the solution, At last came the day, jafter many heart-breaking experi- | when the problem, while not | Pally solved, had at least revealed a | j ences, solution which was commercially val> uable, Mis years of self-denial and tell seemed to be out to end in success, But he found that he had only begun another long period of discouraging and almost desperate work. It was |@ Struggle to scrape together the | necessary funds for securing a patept. If he was to complete and perfect his | tal So, with his model, he |the rounds of manufacturers of j Sines, manufacturers who used en- wines, railroad, steamboat companies, electric light and power compantes; in fact, everywhere he thought’ tie might get some encouragement ahd | financial assistance, | His little family was living on short rations. He himself had not eaten |Aa he should for years. One after another, the men in authority sald: “Yes, your proposition looks good, put I do not think it can ever be made practical, We cannot sce our way jelear to put any money into it.” | argued, pleaded and demanded an ep- portunity for a demonstration, but all in vain, Then one day a lawyer who -had been consulted by T., said: “I have no money to invest in anything my- self, but I'll tell you frankly ané j honestly it looks good to me. Now, I happen to bé on very good ‘Gonna Mr, J. over at the T. & B, Com i, If your demonstration works out ‘ well as you think it will, he hag the authority to put you-in a where you can go ahead and pe! it if it is perfectible. I wilt gi 3 a letter of introduction to him,” ~~ And thus began T.'s prosperity, He now lives in a beautiful home on-a wide boulevard. His invention, still short of perfection, but highly valua- ble, is coming slowly into use, and would be in’ very widespread ust were it not for the fact that he i constantly working on it, perfectiig it, improving it, and hoping figally to have # complete solution to: the problem. y HBP Electrical Welding Commit- tee of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, composed of eighty-two metallurgical and clec- trical experts, after careful experi- ments, believes that large steel shi may be built without rivets, Tt has recommended that a 9,300-ton freighter be built by tric welding, i 42-foot midship sec- ‘a vessel of that size will be constructed by the new process, Its sucess would revolutionize the in- dustr: for ships may be turned out in three-quarters of the time now re- quired, and at three-quarters of the T and as tion of cost. y ‘ Tetween 600,000 and 700,000 rivets go into a 9,300-ton ship, and only men of great strength can drive them, ‘The draft has made it impossible to obtain the number needed, but women, even @ one-armed man, can trained as electric welders in the ne pear) ime required to train a riveter, Duing away with rivets will save peight—600 tons on the hull of @ $.500-ton ship, adding that much to argo capacity, These are the esti *}mates announced by Prof. Comfort day. The dougliboy squirmed and| A, Adams, Chairman ud the W Iding : nae laitewlarits ‘andthe nurse es ‘ommittes, and member of thei fac- the Western front, ‘alfter grima lav] and the nurse said to him Sie of Harvard University and the amazingly in their touch, The touch |reproachfully: vity Cchusetta, Institute of Tech- oloBy. AOrhere are two methods of welding, ‘I tell you what it is, stand your Se the arc process, largely used in England, @ wire an elghth of an inoh in diameter Js brought io contact No Rivets in Steel Ship of Future with the work, and then drawn “fgr enough away to form an are. "Te wil melts the wire and the metal which it comes in contact. The i ten metal is deposited in the J fusing the plates together as 6 as if cast in one piece. This was process used in repairing, in far time than was thought possible, wrecked machinery of the German and Austrian ships taken over ty ae Government, Pt. The other method is ‘‘spot’* wi an American process, applied to plate work. ‘The plates are di together under a pressure of = five tons, and an electric current through them, welding them tog Che welding leaves a spot; hence term, Fifteen seconds is required the operation. The apparatus is more expensive than that requi the arc process, but it saves labor so can do the work at less cost, Early this year a 275-ton steel bay was launched in Pngland and @g- nounced as the first boat ever dome structed by electric welding. matter of fact a 60-foot tug was built at Ashtabula, O., by the procese aey- eral years ago, so the honor belongs to America, Both these vessels have stood the test of rough seas, Blectrig welding is not new, It has been ip use here, particularly in railroad re- pair work, for a quarter of @ century, ‘The war brought about its application {to shipbuilding, The Electric Welding Committee is sure that vessels 80 gqn- svructed will be at least as strong as |riveted ships, and in addition to say; [ing of time and money, the methed jwill make available a large el ft labor not now suitable for oil i abipyards, = Sialeotede wah invention, he must have more gapl- | aden; i i ’ r oe ies r