The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1918, Page 9

iS aes DECEMBER 28, 1918 j A Dozen Roads to Success For the Girl Who Works: By Charlotte Wharton Ayers Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NO. 6.—MOVING PICTURES. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918 Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie By LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER Mlustrated by Corpt. G. William Breck (Fifteenth of a Serica of Dere Mable Letters.) BAR MABLE I been thinkin of you a lot during the last weak, Mable, havig / nothin else to do. 1 been fn the hospital with Bronxitis. I guegs I caught it from Joo Loomis. He comes from there, I@ have rote you in bed but I dropped my fountin pen on the floor an bent it, Im all right now. I got some news for you, Mable. The cook says we! only drew ten days supply of food last time He says he. guesses when we et that up well go to France. Hes am{ awful smart fello the cook, Hes got a bet on that if the allys dont buck up and win the Germans is comin eut Max Glucos, @ fello in the tent, is refere. Were all eatin as test as we can. Perhaps we can eat it all in less than ten days. So maybe’ well be gone, Mable, before I rite you from here again. Theres @ French sargent comes round once in a while an says the ;War Is goin to be over quick. He ought to know cause hes been over there and seen the whole thing. He The Topsy-Turvy Career of May Yohe | The American “Siren’’ Who Might Have Been a Duchess, But Became a Janitress to Support Her Third, Husband Began Her Career as an American Comedy Star— How She Got Husband No.3, Capt. John Andy Married Lord Hope in London, Then Deserted Smuts, an English War Veteran, and Wiat Him for Major Putnam Bradlee Strong, a New Happened After They Were Married This Story Yorker Whom She Afterward Divorced. Discloses. o %© oO ®o ® By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Major Putnam Bradlee Strong, with ahead. HE might have’ deen an ec are ee a Sian whom I eloped, was not worth ono caddie oh eg little Gnger of Lord Hope. Lio was simply @ handsome, dissolute Now Yorker, whose father was twice Mayor, I should never, never have taken much a step—but the Ilopo dia~ mond bewitched me. Under .ts apell I committed the moat unhappy mls~ : was dark with the enveloping darkness of early twilight; just the Uittle half hour between lighting time and the shutting down of | daylight. D Through the gloom, sometimes thrown into suddbn relict by the fitful swing of one of the great arch lights from outside, showed the strong, earnest face of George Loane Tucker as he propounded his views on the subject of acting in moving pictures as a pro- fession for a girl to adopt. Mr. Tucker should know whereof he speaks, as he has had the direction of numerous film stars of magnitude, well as having directed the Hall Caine productions and many others equally remarkable. He has some very practical ideas in regard to what a girl should DO and BB in order to succeed on) the screen, “The kind of a girl I like best to train for screen work,” he said, ' “must be sensitive—imaginative—and quick to express her feelings. If she has, in addition, beauty and youth, she will go far. In lieu of the “moro obvious beauty, she must have good eyes—a good mouth, and a farmerette — the one-time May Yohe, wife of Lord Fran- cis Hope and wear- | “gmile that makes you happy.” That combination will take @ girl from onl er of the famous take of my ife.”" ‘smokes cigarettes something awful the bottom to the top of the screen ladder—IF she is industrious as well,” Sa oa et re Bae Lord Hope, of course, sued for si an dont say much. Thats because 3 mond; later the obtained a divorce in the Enslisb ine poo t talk much Eng- M thought, 1@ poor cus cant talk mu: ong ; Bernese grata lets ‘test ‘that | great mistake. The whole ambition of vu be ls Beenie courts. Then the formor Lady HOPe jish Tt must be awful not to talk | ‘any girl may mako for herself if she | a director 1s not to copy @ star already = phe ig chad became the wife of Major S'rong 4: sien Think of not being able pationsl “grants to determine just what her/ in the firmament, but to try and tnd’ yoy yoy Mayer; now the wile of They had been wandering restlessly || nothin all your life without a 1d, and the union »/» capacity for screen work is,” he con- | another kind of personality—something Capt. John Andy Smuts, and—she Neaie toe aiceaci aoa ven watvin your arms Senna ga -ee (tinued. ‘If she will go into a room) distinctive and attractive—but differ-‘says—a happy woman." ally took place at Bueno Ae ee ee a cremmunery. ‘where she will be securo from inter-| ent, go the only thing for a girl to do The thrilling story of this woman, is to let her own personality speak for who is one of America’s best known her. If it does not, then nothing she) sirens, points all the morals in a | can assume will do better. Many @ srl way Life does, now and then, despite | has lost out with me by assuming @9 the cynics, Her first marriage, when attitude or a pose that was not natu- she was a London “mind-the-paint” 1 feel sorry for these fellos that Im studiig French a lot harder fos theyll have someone to talk to when we get over there. Im readin a book now thats rote all in French, reer in the United States Army, of 80 course, was ended, and the public heard of bitter differences between him and the woman for whose ive he had thought the world well lust. ‘' ruption for an nour or so and prac- tise on her imagination to see if she ean produce laughter or tears at will py thinking of things sorrowful or “ “gay, she will have demonstrated to ov- 5° ease may be, and he will at once give 2.4.2 2 My Prorsers, at les ayer + ein fact, it would be better not to do ast, whether she has any | tes which would justify siding on the screen as a ‘medium of success, It is not neces- wary to sit before a mirror to do this; | x- hee, as the mere fact that she was loQpertmenting in expression might re- as*wat on whatever thought she was try- ng to cultivate and cause an entirely secifferent result. If she finds that she dowan cry real salty tears or laugh out ec‘toud at certain imaginative stories or wr@haracters she has one very im- Sgpertant qualification for success along those Hnes. I can do a lot, when di- ‘recting, with a sensitive, responsive type of that kind, Almost any di- Pe yestor would much prefer what we Seca “virgin material” to work with— @hat is to say, a girl who has never ‘ad any stage experience at all. Then dye will have No preconceived ideas to eet rid of and we can build from the A eereind up. sass matter ihe would-be star has taken | +ea¢his test she must get to the practical gide of it, which is by far the hardest for the sensitive imaginative type Tam speaking of. In the first place *. he must manage to get Into a studio, Aevbich can be accomplished by going {ect to a studio, stating her desire rf work and willingness to sit fareund until something turns up for ther to do, She will do this in order to get acquainted with the casting dl- | rector or assistant director, She must ot be afraid to say that she Is look- ing for work and keep in mind that she is there for just one thing—and that ts to get taken on in some one @cene or another, as an extra per- haps, anything that will get her ex- ce. “If she will act naturally and cut cout the poses, the time will come when the casting director's eye will be caught by her naturalness—her wistfulness—or her beauty, as the her a small part to try her out and gee how sho registers. 1 can't emphasize too strongly the {Influence a perfectly natural manner ‘an@ appearance will have on a direc- tor,” he said earnestly, “So many gtris spoil all their chances by adopting & pose that 1s not natural, but which they have copled from thelr favorite star, thinking that it will get them | been an otherwise favorable impres ral to her and spoiled what might have! girl, to a young English lordling who could and did give her @ title, won- sion, iderful estates and a world-famous “And then we are always looking | collection of Jewels, ended unhappily. for the girl who will stand the acid/Her second marriage, to @ man for test of discipline. During a rehear-| whom she deserted Lord Hope under sal in @ moving picture studio, the’ the spell of a mad infatuation, has situation ts so tense and strained been described by her as “the most that one unruly member can do @ lot | Unhappy mistake of my life.” It is of damage, Sometimes when I am /|only in her third union, in which she directing I will perhaps give some of| has played the part of a truly loving, my instructions in @ sharp, authorita. | S¢lf-sacriticing, rving wife, not tive tone, This I have often done! Afraid of the humblest and most ard- with @ distinct purpose in order to|Uous toll for her mate, that she has see how facile a girl's expression will found a happiness which would seem be, and whether she would obey|t have both strength and perma- promptly, Two necessary precau- | Pence. uons. If she shrank and quivered as! May Yohe, heart-breaker extraor- if I had struck her, I would in-|dinary, was born in Bethlehem, Pa, stantly decide that she was one of Of Moravian parentage, Her mother the sensitive, responsive type I was! Was a dressmaker, and May was edu- looking for, and if she obeyed with-:Cated in Philadelphia and taught to out question, I would know that {speak Loth French and German. She while my tone might have hurt her|Made her debut as a church singer, perhaps, she had intelligence enough | ut, as she herself has put it, “I to know that it was not personal, thought that if I could make them If she grew very haughty and re-'tura in church, why couldn't I please fused to obey until I had spoken to | em on the stage?” She was playing her as a gentleman should to a lady, |the leading role at seventeen in “The as they say, I would let her alone, )Cr¥sta! Slipper,” an American musica) I won't bother with that type. SORIA) SIVIED RN ORO OBS Sele tHE Tt i8a curious thing, but I can/CMtfaito notes on which she could often got better resulte from a girl |2¢PCR: and one of the names for her who has come from more humble | WSs “The Girl With the Foghorn Voice.” Youth, a piquant, black-eyed circumstances than I who can from ON? Theauty and a full allowance of mag- has been taken from the @orl cian ora cent better classes, In the first | vrs |cess and won tho well bred, weil brought up “Madcap May In London she was even more pop- ag that it is not good foi ginl bas been taught from the cradle m to give free ular than in this country, for Lon- vent to her feelings and thoughts, gon jy periodically bewitehed by 80 every expression Is restrained, and ’ young women who know how to dive Ror eek on Hanyees at ae jplay “American eccentricities.” It saul Pabsan ho has! was when she was playing the chief ruin. wild trom her girthood will al-| oo 4 he Lady Slavey” that she low her feelings full play, and we can get more real expression out of that became the wife of young Lord Hope, heir presumptive of his brother, the type for the screen than any other|y..6 of Newcastle, The marrige class, created a furor in English society, | “And T just want to say in conclu | ang it was reported that Lord Hope's sion,” he added, “that any girl can} conservative family had offered him | help herself a lot in acquiring cer- 1) 909,000 if he would give up his tain qualifications if she will but work Iatelligently. To cultivate her avowed intention of sharing his name with the burlesque queen from the Manav aW SHENG) cit ane : ta) mt Da | aaa a ana States. lover, however, to yield to bribery and corruption, and the union be- tween Cophetua and “the élavey” duly took place in 1894, Thus she answered efficiently the question- title of one of her London song hits, “What Is a Poor Girl to Do?" Answer: | Marry the brother of a Duke. Even after the announcement of the marriage in the English “Peer- age,” Lady Hope continued to ap- pear on the stage, driving every night to the theatre in a brougham with a liveried coachman, [ut she also spent much time at Lord Hope’ Ue in Ireland, and there wero fre- quent gay trips to with an adoring husband, Eventually she was even accepted by her husband's family, as Lord Hope himself admitted when he and his wife visited America in 1990, six years after his marriage, Apparently her chances for wearing the strawberry leaves of a Duchess were better (han ever. But on the occasion of that visit 1t 1s recorded that Lord and Lady Hope were met at tho steamer by “Major Puinam Bradiee Strong, the Continent | The Lord was too much of a/an intimate friend.” aha mate The beginning of the end of May Yohe's first matri- monial venture was in s ight. lady |* A few months later she was appear- jing on the vaudeville stage in San Francisco, Hope and diamond wearing ‘8 uniq and his- toric Jewels, Major Strong, the son ot New York's Mayor Strong, was stationed at an army post near, Two countries soon were startled to hear that he had sailed with “Mad- p May” for Japan, May Yohe billed as Li ady herself attributed her impulsive elopement to the malign th- uence of the He uccording to the records, death or disaster to ev has posse i it. left Lord Hope she told World: “I have nothing but the most cordial res; miration for him It inatech on my side and, his. curse of the great diam¢ ua both, I frankly adm altogether to blame for sensitiveness to imagination, for in- stance, she ean visit museums and try to visualize the stories worked out on canvas or in statuary, Guod muste will also stimulate the ima. nation, Any of these things will do wonders for @ girl if she goes at it Turkey It's the Tough Parts of the Bird That Are Left Over for the Meat Chop- per, and These Paragraphs Are Just Like That—They’re Easy to Take, but Tough to Digest—You'll See Why When You Read 'Em! “BUGS” ) Proms Publishing Co, By ARTHUR Copyright, 1918, by The Promise not to drink any- more attention than if they came in| with intelligence and an honest, con- og thelr own—as it were, That is @ scientious desire to start right U. S. Navy Slang i HIEF naval officers are desig-|miral's mate;” a sailor who has often e, nated by their stripes; En-| cross the ocean, “tall water Mtn awaael cit "oe bi | flor familiar with the i P eign, “one stripe Senior | sailo: @ sa! rs | thing you can't reach, Leutenant, “two atriper;” Lieuten-| navy regulations, forecastle law- | BY ent Commander, "21-2 atriper;"|yer;" @ money lender, “five and) “proken striper.” parks;" ” signal ames—wircless operator, electrician, “dynamo buste: tor;" commissary steward, “belly Fobber;” cook, “grease pot” or “gal- Jey rati” baker, “dough puncher;” chaplain, “fire escape,” “devil or “Holy Joe;" doctor, “kaw hospital steward, “pills storekeeper, “captain of the engineers’ force, “black ” 4.pang.” lm > There are also a variety of names “for the sailors themselves—a recruit “poot,” a sailor may be a “fatfoot" “ior @ “gob;" marine, “leatherneck, yeoman, “ping pong” or “quills; ‘Birty sailor, “crumb: it, “ploughmaker’s mate” or ain of the plough;” @ sailor of tendencies, a an awkward Commander, “three striper;” Captain, | four striper;” Chief Warrant Officer, foreigner, Other officers have characteristic | quartermaster, "flags;" warrant of- | ficers, “bolo men” master-at- ams, “jimmy-les mall orderly, “stamp gunner’s mate, “gun doc- | sixer;" @ Britisher, “limejuicer;" a} “spigotty” or “spig.” His I hammock, “hitting the deck.” A four- ce term is @ “hitch,” ser. stripe, “hash mark;" rating » “buzzard; insignia Keserve officer, “tried R cue. The chapter of the Navy Megula- tions read to the crew at muster (the articles for the government of the navy) is known ks and] |shoals;" meal pennant ts “deserters' | recall;" to go ashore, “hit the veach;"| to go ashore without leave, “to shin the chains;" @ small destroyer (7! 0 bd th bomb, | the Bullsheviki tons), “flivver; “ash can;” dead cali “Irish i" 8 beans bit of rope of place, \ abatannte aes, me rm demand for sealskin the sea. Next summer the water will be s: AISE that right mitt and swear thal drink anything you can't lift, ‘dry smghig and your eyes looking like two shoe but- | * F you give your waiter an order and he doesn't come back in two weeks, then you know he is on However, wait another week to make is tough on MERICAN fleet is back again after sterilizing fo with peppermint stick striped They can stand up and rock the canoe without the slightest danger from |chum is “buddy” or “bunkie. a strike. Each of the more common articles sure, of food has its own name also: = Foud |in general is “chow;” bread, “pur IASHIONABLE | meat, especially corned beef, “horse:" beef pie, “double decker stew the cats, “schooner on the rocks;" hash, “bai- — last;"— rice, marearont Italy;"— beans, "Boston chorrics;"| codfish, “Massachusetts nighting pepper, galt, * for . ‘Vhe anchor is still the : fatheads the ship's prison, the flannel trousers and ukulele @ plant, the “morg “scuttle butt; hammocks. | ‘dream bags;" getting out cf the U boata, ‘ou won't clothes costs $700 in Russian NU of Ruesian *y money. And that's only a two-piece uniform, as use thelr whiskers for vests, TICK that right flipper up towards the mezzan- tne floor and vow that you—well, say, it will be pretty tough on July First. You will wake np with your tongue tasting the way a Chinese laun- (Me New York Brening tons, great the t in bi re birds claim that the short man has been cops the turkey, ye I ter off. other short Some fazzbos would toss up a two-headed coin, she came tails, they would climb on, But this year you won't have to sprain your sku!! We had happy yeaYs, Has e diamond, which, has brought ery one who Ten years after she The Evening in the world pect and ad~ was a love I believe, on But the ond fell upon it that T was Jeaving hin. BAER World.) When you try to page the bellboy for a little hair of the dog that bit you—well, you'll discover that it was @ Mexican hairless pup. tory, HAT 1 all the bulls report, one was tall and the N days now dead and curled up, we used to inherit @ lot of wrinkles worrying as to whether or not we should climb on the wagon. Some cits would clamber on because they felt bet- doping out the percentage, You won't have to wrench your thinking mechs ulsm this year figuring whether you should climb on the @ wagon is going to decide that question itself. 8 going to climb on you, Francis the Hope blue ie 443-8 carats and oo Other cuckoos a I gent grabs off the honors, over that list of Flatbush bank robberies, It seems that the pair of ‘em working together is the team that ‘They were divorced in 1910. Por eral years after that May Yohe mad efforts to “come back" on the stage. But from starring in @mart musical comedy she came to appearit continuous vaudeville and moving pictures, She collapsed once while singing in a San Francisco cafe, In 1913 her luck took a turn for the bet~ ter and gave her an engagement at the big London Opera House Revue, “Come Over Here.” vd bho) it is said, more than once attended the performance, and, with tears in bis eyes, heard her ving again a musical hit of their courtship days, “lloney, Ma Honey, But May Yohe's third husband neither titled lord nor New York aristocrat, She met in London and married Capt. John Andy Smuts, who had fought bravely in the bioer War in and who, im the world war, helped Gen, Botha to capture the German African possessions, while his wile worked loyally with ths Briuah Red Cross, Last summer they arrive the Pacific Coast, en royte for land, But he had been wounded In his campaigns with Gea, and could not receive the I commis sion for which be had been recom-! inended. i | He at once went to work in a Seat- Ue shipyard. He met with an acel- dent and influenza immediately fol- lowing, he was incapacitated for work, His wife, the fowwoer Lady brduois Hope, enchantress of English and American society, promptly took a Job a# Janitress in the North Pacific ship- yards in order to support her sick husband, While she was sweeping and scrubbing she was seen and rec- ognized by John Considines who as @ theatrical promoter had “starred” her in her heyday of youth and charm, |And pow that her husband is well again, she has given up her job as, |Janitress and the two of them are going to settle down om @ littio farm 4 raise chick: 'm happy now and I want to stay happy.” says “Madcap May," whol once wore the Hope Biue Diamond, worth @ kitg’s ranson is ert that dut looking they felt better It | | i No English in it anywhere, Mable. A fello told me that was the only way to talk it good. I dont under- siand It very well so far, The only way I kno its French is by the pic- turs, Some day Im goin to find out what the name ts. Im goin to get the English of it, These are some picturs, Aint I flerce, Mable? so well, 1 gave up readin {t out loud cause the fellos sald it they was in Paris so much they got restless, I cant speak no better yet. IT guess that comes all at once at the end of the book, As soon as we got the hot shouers all fixed the pipes busted, So the other day the Captin walked us all in town to take a bath, I didnt need one much, I used my head more than most of em. t fall when it was warm IT took as many as two a week an got away ahead of the I went along though, More the walk than anything. the Captin didnt make no to take a bath hisgelf. I thought he might be shy. He dont mix very well with the fellos, I felt sorry for him, Everyowe else was laffin an throwin things with him standin off an noone thing at him. TIT went up an says “Aint you goin to take a bath this game. for I saw move winter to, Captin?’ Just jolly, | Mable, thats all, I says, “You dont want to mind the bunch. They dont care a bit. you are anyway, Probably more.’ An I bet they were Mable cause 1 'afnt seen the Captin do a stroke of work since come here, Just stands round givin orders, I “If noone wont lend you a@ towel you can use mine, I was just goin to have {tt washed any way.” He got awful red and em- barrassed Mable. I thought he was goin to choke, Hes awful queer, we says, 1 ross thats why I get on with wimen | made em think | throwin a! There as dirty as | “| POURED SOME OIL OUT © HIS LAMP” lite the fire in my stove.” He hed me thinkin he was doin me favers, He sald I might put some ol} on bis hoots if I wished. I says that would be @ great treat an I wished he wouldnt be so kind or the felles would think he was playin favorites, 1 guess he didnt here me Mable cause hed just gone out. T sald it anyway. 1 didnt care if he wasnt |there. Spunky, ‘That's me «ll over.” | Leouldn't find no of! for bis boots” | Anywhere, Mable, so I poured some out of his lamp, Am then % dont, |think that suited him, Queer felle tho Captin. I keep herein more about this |fello Broggins. I suppose he be- longs to the Home Guard and |wares his uniform round ia the levenin, An I suppose he has an! American flag on his ritin paper. |1t dont mean nothin in my life. I jaint goim to put up no arguments or get nasty like most fellos would, Dignity, That's me all over, Mable. , Let me tell you though if I! ever come home and find him shintn his elbos on the top of your baby grand | Ill kick him down the front ateps if z jenly have one leg to do it with, Tm ritin this in the Y. M. C. A tm the afternoon cause Im goin om guard tonite, I dont see why they dont make it @ permanent detal! end be done with it, Someone said the: top sargents a man of one ides, Is guess Im the {dea. I didnt go out to drill this afternoon, I didnt say nothin to the sargent though cause’ sargents have an idea that if they dont get a lot of fellos to go out to drill with them they dont look popu- Just like the other mornin he|!4f 1 got to go now sos to get tn: calls me over an says, “Smith, my|™¥ tent before they come frewt orderties sick. You can shine my | tll. An ever boots this mornin.” He said it lke on guard, Id been beggin him to for a month BILL. An then he says, “Smith you can | 7, jmmee sre of Deve Mable Letem to The Halcyon Days of Old HF. seven days preceding and the| doors, and that its head and feathers Le even days following the win-|are a protection against storms e@! tor solstice, which falls on the wea, The feathers are also alleged , 1 lof December, were the | to be "e means of securing the haley a t Old World, In tions of a loved person, The, Jorn dicttonaries haleyen has come| feather, however, does not prevent! » be w synonym for idyllic, peaceful r happy, but among the anoients It “ name of a bird now called the ' or, and the f n days noarost the winter solstice wera catied t because it was at that r 1 16 bird deposited her egge n the rocks by the margin of the ' tin the midst of t consideration for tt n bird, which was sup a} to be fa 11 t was ex- t sea would remain} eatin hat the ems might not! en pre tare riod, some of \ the power @f avresting the] violen of oO wave Many fable it the magical pow- ers of the haleyon bird, or kingfisher, StI persist In parts of Wurope, It is| declared that the breast of a king- figher suspended by the bill will al- ways turn north; that when accur rately balanced, the bill will point ip the direction of the wind even within be tar who carries it from baving & sweetheart at every port. There are a number ef warietien et kingfisher, but the common kingfisher of Europe, which was the haleyos of the ancients, is about seven inghes long, with @ stout body, shert wings, and a long, sharp bil. It posseage many of the brilliant colors of the tropical birds, the upper back betag dark green, the lower back bright blue; the upper part of the head, wing coverts, and stripe on each side of the neck, green with light blue spetep (hroat and peck striped yellowish white, and lower parts pale chestaut acne NEW THINGS IN SCIENCE, With a view fo obtaining more em clent service the French Government is trying out typewriter desks thet re. thelr users to do about halt of (heir work whilo standing, quire ’ Dowels have been used to hold weed together since prehistorle times, but an inventor hag mt r break off and wedge tt