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How They Made Gooa By Albert Payson Terhune Commish, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wotld). ‘0. 89—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Who Made Good by Writing Immortal Plays. Hi; made good at a profession that was thought dis reputable. In Shakespeare's time a playwright was considered barely one step above an actor) . And an actor, by English common law, was a “Vagrant and vagabond.” Reputable folk William Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-on-Avon. doubtless listened with horror to the news that the lad had gone to London and associated himself with stage people, It was com sidered that be had disgraced his father’s name and trade, his father being an Illiterate shopkeeper and farmer. But young Shakespeare, according to the story, | had the best reasons for leaving home and going to London. After winning’ doubtful fame as the victor of a public drinking bout against the most no- torious sot of the county, he had been caught stealing deer from the park | of Sir Thomas Lucy, a local magistrate. And, to dodge prison, or the gut- treme I Tie New York Fi sing Worl.) 'T By J. H. Cassel { gtd he New Mathematics ones Daily Beep Bungay. by he Mane Fuuaine Comedy, Noa 63 to rT [ ; obi ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, $3 Park Row, % a ‘iH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, 63 Park Tow, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, i Ce'See clsoestas credited’ $5" thus pater and"Sies UN nal aoe) gedsluted bee | eNO. 91,917 PVOLUME OOAUi..ccccscceus | __LET’S SEE WHAT BUSES CAN DO. ¥ AYOR’ HYLAN’S buses is full of possible import for future surface transit in New York in experiment wiih city operated motor This city has become familiar enough with buses, but it has| Rever seen them plying to and fro by hundreds through its busiest Streets, as in London, where surface tracks and trolley lines begin only in the suburbs, i i ting off of his ears (both of these were lawful penalties for deer-stealing), ‘ It is true that surface traffic in up-and-down Manhattan is not he left home in @ hurry—about one jump ahead of the sheriff * the radiating surface traffic of London. Nevertheless there are Drifting to London, ho did not avail himself of any of the regular Nines Instead, he visited @ There he became enamored of stage life and of work open te @ young and strong country boy. numerous sections of Manhattan where crosstown bus lines, with ex- theatre, Ae | he turned his back on all other forms of livetthood. tensions here and there along the avenues, would be immensely ser d rom warattoras | He bung around the theatre doors, holding the hotees 4 . m ratvore. P joing ands fo e acto a viceable for short haul passenger traffic and as feeders for the subway ‘ R Bal paidcibehidettelll BE etd hilt and rae ra tf f ' Ma scl . ‘ r | Shakespeare picked up a dare living 8 way, and elevated lines. PRODVC Tene) A BO [and he often went hungry. But he felt he was on the way lo gratifyihis is , iia one ambition, namely, to get work connected with the stage. Irom ofd- a The modern motor bus is a highly flexible means of transpor 4.0 Neksghs Be Ome : | Jobs man he was able at last to win a position in the company as call-bey, bY " i‘ ‘ f SOOT hear eo oe Soon he was promoted to playing small parts. He made no particular hit i tation in the heart of a city. It makes better time than a trolley 4 j NON m jwith any of chem; but he was learning the technique of the stage, and far | i f ffic block tquick ; ' | thin ueaens : * t 3 it is far less rigid in case of a traffic block; it can "quickly and y, ‘ toa LL his long apprenticeship was jo produce immorta! results. "The pay was } ; lene rig : i quickly a STRI KE PRODUCTION ==" |ridicutously small. ‘The prospects for advancement secmed even emaller. i easily change its route to meet new conditions, either temporary or Ra f " . : a * s Hly he was classed as'a vagrant’and was suffered to remain at Tange 7 ; ‘ ? Hi x “hae ause the old laws were lax in enforcement and because powerful "i -permanent; and its greater adaptability and speed where heavy traffic *¥ ay * : Gh \ ae | noblemen had begun to grant their support and patronage to theatrical r+ rg piace 46 canaater 0 ott J di; ' ; | companies. prevails give it a passenger carrying capacity that cannot, in the ae, But during his seven ywtrs of acting Shakespeare employed his spews ia day’s work, be altogether gauged by its size as compared with a trolley car. As to the peril of more motor buses from the. point of view of “4 Pedestrians, it has been the experience of Now York that a notably Pe. gmall proportion of street accidents are due to buses. \ The attempt in Delancey and Spring Streets, in Madison Street ( and elsewhere to see what five-contgbuses can do toward replacing H some of the trackage abandoned by the New York Railways Company ‘should be watched with deep interest and encouraged by expert study and advice, It is possible tbat certain thoroughfares in the heart of Manhat- stan can never be, like all streets in the heart of London, trackless. Oe itevertheless an extension of bus lines may prove not only a help 4 solving some of the city’s traction problems, but a welcome ‘intl ee toward smoothing more of its pavements and giving new Anigency to its traffic. time in saribbling away at plays on his own account, and finally he was able to persuade the management to produce the first of these. It wns called “Love's Labor's Lost.” It is perhaps Shakespeare's poorest play, and it 1s said to be the only one whose plot was entirely original with him. Tho play was a big success., There was a clamor for more plays by the same author, and Shakespeare was ready with uther and better plays. His apprentice years had not been spent in vain, and when his chance camé he was ready 16 ft. Fram the beginning his plays took the theatre- public by storm. The houses where a Shakespeare "BRT IORT ete the attraction were crowded to the doors, while all other London playhouses were not making enough money |for heat and light. ; aivaied eatacded) - Shakesp had made good. Wealth and honors poured m upon htm. His genius lif ssion of playwriting out of disrepute. The Court welcomed him. th, Queen of England, granted Shakespeare her | patronage and approval, His first play ts said to have been sold by him for only $30 time had come when he could command his own prices. He stockholder in the theatre where his plays were makin But the He became also a ’ Ba fortune for th management. "Before he was forty he had grown rich enough to go back to the town whence he Nad fled from justice, there to getth | rest of his life as the “great man” of the place. ptitbetdelies |e. Mayor Walker of Dethi i a By Bide Dudley -| y». POETRY STILL STRONG AT FIUME. |__Gevmieht, 999, Wy The Prem Publhine Ce, (TRe New Yok fenine Word Hi APT. D’ANNUNZIO has by no mean@finished demonstrating His Speech Was Going Well Until He Encountered be what an enormous amount of embarrasament and trouble a | Some Flypaper poet can make when he insists on creating an immortal " oe 5. ergs _séinza with troops and guns and 4 beleaguered city. - , Lotest reports indicate that this fervid Italian is extending his insurgent operations beyond Fiume into Jugo-Slav territory. Ap- parently no one likes to oppose him too strongly for fear of hurting him. His stroke is recognized—even by those who are jnost em- barrassed by it—as superbly patriotic, superbly picturesqug, superbly “Stuck, by gum!" yelled the man in the rear, The Green City Girlin The| 7 he J arr ‘Rami Country y oy cCarde Copsrisht, 1919, by ‘The (The New York Evening World) Mr. Jarr Finds That ‘the Least Said, Soonest | AYOR CXBUS , P| 3! iM WALKBPR of See a signed article in the D§thi t Mayor Walker, visibly embarrassed, Bazoo of Monday accusing’ the ABtI-| took hold of the flypaper with his Walker DeMocrats, who are support- | other hy i | other hand and yanked it off the first ing Jeremiah Schultz, the Mayor'’s|paim. It stuck to the rescuing hand. cpponent in his race to succeed him- “Sit on it, Cy!" yelled the man. if self as chief executive, of low meth-| ods. The article was inspired by an pe anener atruaeted. with the Sy. Press Publishing : : Paper, transferring it from hand to . a ’ : ‘, neid that to ot , theatric. And his eloquence has moved thousands of Italians to By Sophie Irene Loeb h Mended,”’ Applies to a Lot of Darn Things. elt Sieurdey bed eee be ure hand, but never succeeding in getting . forget ali question of authority dnd join him. Let Children Learn of Trees and Birds and Flowers «6 AGS Rinbtapete Wis NAS Bara ttee 5 MUG eS? Store | epake. before. theynierbers, G2 co aeye nee PaeN « s at y fools the women be!!"| nes.” replied rs, Jarr, | women's fel 4 sp i stuck up and nowhere to " i + The, Italian Government is up against the puzzling problem how YOUNG girl of seventeen came|ing the youthful members of "their imlaquoted Mr. Jarr, look- | housework, .no, Any,old’ thing’ will | Wee el ean begen fai It was | vetted the man dks ‘J . : : . af oe diyienay . ae ‘ . 0 plitic: eetin, mecording | an, ty ‘ suppress a much glorified but exceedingly rantpant and rebellious po visit ie pilliad log noel Ki milies eee and “appreciate HOW /ing up from his evening paper for housework, so I do not think /t) Mayor Walker the Menai pees tl Mayor Walker finally bent over and . ‘ P arr ae * Pei Via | y e had neve: other Nature moves, d d has on euivinie knee 08- e national idol, without injuring either his person or his dignity. been to pate node oc Auncoaea had tid He ROENIESY acts and \Mrg. Jurr looked up, too, not from | ay w i a is We hg any sert:of COS | attempted to. make it such. Jpat one foot on the flypaper, He freed vt A a ned | herbs! an evening paper, but fro banket | (umes for that. s Lear bot i N Instead of accepting his challenge to mortal combat, we suggest] gone through schoo! in the city and wax! IA fact, I am inclined to go further that lotta don site Hom 8 “neet,| “*Htut they say that they are gaining ; oN League had pare the meeting | 7010 Bena pad ny cir stuck wale \ ‘i FH ne i , 2 st he ie darning ‘oe, heel, ef }to discuss ways to lower the c egan to get nervous, t | -@ Ddlack velvet bag drawn reverently but tightly over the inspired ecg as ; and say that they* are doing thelr) side and knee, algo at the top where | Yosue: that women will wear ‘them—| 4). Reegtaitice ed lite. ge bg Q [he stepped on the paper with the’ 4 + thi A ; nographer, and | childre : ustice in not mak- ome ‘0 ifollor > es + y Mrs. E . ‘ | head until this particular “fine frenzy” is over. bis iby aoe i ne us n ity Sara hag Tek mak sthe clasp of garter supporters had ie men wh fs 1 plait ph ite, |Pettle, Promptress of the organiza. | ther foot, releasing the-first, Then Sh ; aia ence ed Cenree tle opportunity to] Fancy,getting all your knowledge ot|* ae dh bee * my s es eth ye Ay opal father trousers horseback | 40% Presided." After the Our Boys’ oiee both ale ee on it. a . 7 a stock’ child can't pu note | Quartet had sung several selectio: ces may be high,” yelled the St. A do anything but|a cow, the commonest kind of an = riding and ; and the: jections, _-*’ TO REGULATE MOVING CHARGES. Be eee, to | ta, SA ote Hhrongh. naiand Y |\ncloding Bllabelle. Mas tooiittea| Mas, out there's one guy who can't GAIN we reach the time of year when New Yorkers whose make her way. Children ‘of the city as a general;, Dut Mf Mr. Jarr expected her to THEY say? Who are ‘they’?"|!atest song, “I Cannot Bear to Think | Kick. ee J ; ° aa lisinnicenes : he habits of | (tke tssue with him on the misquota- | of the Poverty in the Cities,” Prompt-| Suddenly the Mayor stopped his ie hi One day she) thing know more about the habits of | NC Sue 4 Aig: Save. UORIA Ibe humors , pt- : apartment leases expire Oct. 1 and who must move on or came to me from] the animals in the Zoo whose home | "02 he was mistaken, | alleged comle. artists, silly |'88 Pertle arose and said: Struggles, “Is Constable Pelee Brown before that date are at the mercy of the moving van men. @ walk ashe had] country is in foreign lands than they | | mien pair said a truer word,” sho) tony for still more silly readers" | “Ladies and gentlemen, we will now |! the house?" he asked. i ., i ; do of 280 h > ew | renee SArmnty: 7 ne favore os y ye “Right there, sir!" ca: f thi It is a notorious fact that each succeeding season finds a larger taken, her eyes|4o of those Within a radius of a fev 3ut you know women did take up |be favored with an address by Mayor ie! 8 me from the [en ad ti Mr, Jarr breathed easier, He had ' Cyrus Perkins Walke ‘ officer, who marched d vi i‘ i is of wide and spark- | Milos, Ks the hobble sk said Mr, Jarr, “and |Cyrus Perkins Walker, Mr. Walker . rch lown the alske. ‘umber of moving van profiteers in this city ready to take advantage nds eth, toner. Liwotdbk: how Muay GARAll have fesresten le misquotation the MO? | ook at the sill sw ones they |has come here full of his subject*——| “Come up on the stage.” of the demand and of the desperate necessity that presses upon the} “gp, saw.a cow,” she said. “It is!thought of tho great big part TE ae ee eee dl ede a cenare Late Wearing, now “Is that all he's full of?" asked a} Constable Brown obeyed. He was | vacating tenant to extort from him by “special contract” an exorbi-| the first real one I've ever seen, Of | Nature can play in forming character beet ral pclae : ‘ ge? aired ee i ' who narrow skirts are graceful |™&n's voice from the rear of the hall. sted Me step on the flypaper. Again wal r . fi I have seen them in the| and making for success. That they heral only to have his good lady “Kindly refrain from butting in, fe obeyed and Mayor Walker was ovin, @ take i upc sel 2 a perso: and severe cian and artistic im] “ 4 p . . a tant price for moving his goods. : Lad Wand uhae what Have LAtkeiad Gke Gabe Ala (a: ha toe Upon jWereelt 00 Raregnal | WN wren replied Mra, Jarr, | Sid Promptress Pertle, “The Mayor,” | able to yank himself free, He started ‘ President Robert L. Moran of the Board of Aldermen introduces| \t was at once. main, to thoughtlessness. oA phere are always treake woo carry | ere continue will now speak, Let | Of the stage in disgust. i in the Board to-day at The Evening World’s request an ordinance} And later on in the day when sho} ‘True, it does not work Ike arith-|)°) JUS mean ome |women, You} | svanced styles to extremes. But did | 44 sive him our undivided attention.”| “Don't go, Mayor,” said Prompt- the i heard the moo of the cow #hé thought | metic problems, but that seeming un- |M"0W) MY dear” he hedgec the women take up the crinoline that} Mayor Walker arose and took his| ress Pertle, suppressing a smile. 4 timed to regulate the rates which may be charged by moving Van] it'was a brake on some distant train,| known quantity works its way and pke It Inclusive, to mean a oe eee ee ashion writers said wag | Stand near the small table on which| “Stick around!” yelled the man in owners New York, Every little while she surprised me| figures in the makeup of an individ- | Women, said Mrs, Jarr, “They | ° a > | was a pitcher of water and a glass, | the rear. yo r ¥ |would rather be married badly than | COME back several years ago? Did)" ee “Constable, a Cd it “The plan,” says President Moran, “is to eliminate entirely the|¥!th some observation that showed |unl, and thus the answer Is -thero,| Would rather be mari madly the | tye bustle come -back?” Dear friends,” he said, “I am glad ‘onstable, arrest that man!” ee so-called special contract cl: e and duce ; el her lack of knowledge of “God's |and the actions of the individual at all. hey are more unhappy “But they may come back—all these | Of this opportunity to address you, 1 dered the Mayor j led special contract cisuse and introy luce an ordinance which] green acres.” And how she wanted! 14 you ‘don't believe how great a|** afe-free and self-supporting old tainea tae ‘shions repeat. thém. | {Btend to tell you all | know"— With the flypaper sticking to une will have specified rates beyond which no moving van owner will have] to know! part the country can play in the|™alde than as careworn and unsup-| ee ao thoy persisted Mr,| “It won't take you long!” sang out| foot, Constable Pelee leaped from > aright to charge.” She had never been to the country] moulding of character and in the ap- | Ported wives Rees the man in the rear, the stage and attacked the mah, A , ater : before, and as its joys unfolded to] prociation of great things, you hav T hope you db not class yourseit |T8" | TENA back when | .“! intended to say all I know about | fight followed in which the officer 1h ili: Abate who use Oe ertiene of the git her [’marvelled at her riBing to the} but to look over the lives of ‘the men | arith i careworn and unhappy," Bi hes gry ple “i Pg ne * | high prices,” the Mayor continued, | Was knocked down four times, but he Streets sho in the same class as the taxicab,owners, who | spirit of it all. and the women who have “left foot- | 84d Mr. Jarr, m tashic VER, MICROUS, .80l0 | nightly ruffed. “We must have| succeeded in subduing his prisoner must submit to regulation. We have legal taxicab rates, | This child is so sweet and gracious| prints on the sands of tim: | “I'm not classing myself as any-| Mrs. Jarr Ree heat he a ower prices.” by rubbing the flypaper in hig hair, + ‘Why shouldn't we have legal moving rates?” | é ve of beau-| All have spent a large part of their| ins,” said Mrs. Jarr, holding up a[@bout women, Men have hideous] “4. syayor Walker made the state-|'The man turned out to be Ebeneser and has such an innate lo J M N stocking to see if there wassas much | Sty!ps and follow thém slavishly, too, Why shouldn’t we have them before Oct. 1—one week from| tiful things that I could not help re- vxinenee so08 ae a eth Hi Saal sigs nie opa arte aha put |Laok at the plush hats and the hairy | ment he brought his ep fore on a oth, & steno Bohults supporter, { ae 4 sa a flecting how much she has already] There they have learned deep lessons pains ao hice they are wearlig now! Look at {the table foretbly. It hit a sheet of|He will be tried on the charge of to-day—in order that New Yorkers may be saved at least one burden Jost and how much she really needa| from the lessons of life, that no sub-|i0 Jt “Look at me! After putting | hat : i eae tl qypaper, which stuck. Raising his} foolish interruption of a city official i Bs ’ 2» vay or flat could ever teach Jin an unpaid union day and overtime |the princess-freak — delte¢ ante | wand, the speaker discove he My-| "ext Saturday. The affair has set of extortion in a year that has brought unprecedented loads? in that communion “with nature and | Way or flat could ever teach At housework, I'm darning the chil. | Pocket coats men are wearing! Look | Mind: the speaker discovered the Ay- | tie orton talking F - her visible forms, Oh, Teay, leigatnt pean bag? \dren's stockings. You're through your|4t the photographs of men taken | PAPEr . -_ —| There is much indignation, .,, Ah, me, thought 1, what a pity! at it squarely! Make sacrifices i : ’ ed ited ee ee + d i 4 work when you leave Your office, He some ars ago and you'll see they i Letters From the People While this girl is well balanced and| necessary, but in the tender a ae satel se ae ct sien per are dressed ay freakily and hideously |#4 nothing is said about it, They DRUGS IN JAPAN. mk Clerk's Pay. messenger and worked my way up.| finely purposed and will as a genoral|the growing ones, take them into] Hold yOl like to come hone andy tv vomen, ‘The age of common | Wear Fiding trousers when on hore-| The drug market of Japan 18 re Bp te Kdiior of The Hrening World I know nothing else, therefore I could! proposition choose the right things,| the country, Let them learn somes)" tet kings —my stockings? }#ense in clothes does not, for evar| back, and I've beard you commend | ported to be very unsteady, but those After reading a number of letters) not start again at the bottom in| how much better and brighter and thing: the hy igre the naa and at's’ only one part oF s pl eA vlong to men alone them and say they looked better and] jnterested in this industry state that ) Piwresard to unorganized labor, please) some other line, more beautiful her life might be if] tho flowers and the bees There are . , IT am not the only were certainly more suited for horse- ever-ending work,” suppose you are Ai eealled this condition Ys only temporary, as [give my appeal a little space 9) bank clerk who 1s worrying to death, she could glean something mors of the] NO greater teachers, pe cae ones Lhe pe Le aN popes 8 ay EX ho aoe eA! pack riding than the hideous, long rid-lthe puying season 1s approaching ie, veiwed solumas over the high cost of living, There| country, which Js so worth while in Hf ach i eS remart anent women being able to| ‘Of course 1 am right.” said Mrs,| (MS skirt that women wore because ang transactions in small. quantities |) Where in no class of men that has) are thousands--but, like myself, they| the Wevelopment of soul stuff, AND, BESIDES, MAYBE HE ISN'T.| oo. om housework ever and anon|Jarr Mon are* very squeamish | Coavention compelled them to sit On| are reported daily. Boric acid and J) felt the ever increasing cost of liV-|are waiting for something to turn! And the thousands like her who C2 Coy TT BLLA—Aren't | and go downtown durige union hours| about women, aren't they? Mon|® horse sroanriawgnd.) wear narem|2fa% af particularly active, ‘The Bogdae more than the bank clerk, Take} up, The only things that I can see| have not so fine a foundation, and} PEA {S “ey You worried | for the recreation of shopping. But] have smoked for centuries, but most But a a pon a jecsbe former is quoted at $17.50. per 100 if own case for example. 1 am 4/ that will turn Up are my toes—then| who more than she need this close because you he feared bein ked how he would|of them say women mustn't Men trousers in e, eae ad pounds, while the latter is selling for eollege graduate, and after seventeen|it will be too late for me, Let the|touch of nature that broadens and do not know where |1\ke to do the shopping, and if he} have voted for years, but a lot of | *#ked My serr. , $9.50 per 100/ pounds. , Menthol crys of uphill grinding have finally | bank clerks organize, and then, and) deepens belief in better things and al- your husbaild goes | would deem it recreation. So he only|them tried to keep the ballot from|, “Walt th they're really the fash- | tary are quoted at $6 per pound. The 4 the position of paying teller|mot until then, will we get what we|moxt unconsciously enters into the. when ho is out late | hedged, women, Men have worn trousers |!08 for street ature and see!” re-| supply of camphor is low and the im salary of $140.8 month. I handle | deserve—a decent living wage. very make-up of the individual, at night? “Yes, household cares are unepd-|gince the ugly things were first in-|Plled Mrs. Jarr, “But, then, maybe! price strong, Powdered: camphor is (7 @ash every day at the rate of $1,-| Wake up, bank clerks, and get to-) Who is to blame for this loss of Donna—Not near-| ing, 1 know, But what prompted’my | vented, and women mustn't, But|!f they Were in style I couldn't af- | quoted at $150 per 300 paeds, while f, & month. Why do I stay in a gether, What do others say? Let's! cotting something of the country? ly #0 much as T) remark was this pleture of women| women will do anything they please |KO a. Jarr said “Darnt"| pounds, Grude ‘camphor soll, how: B&, you might ask. This ts why JOHN A. MUOVIHN, | 1 wonder how many parents have would be 1 caring housework trauserettes” from now on if it is convenient.| and Mra Jarr, but not to obey bim,|ever, is not so scarce. and: the petee | 2 gtarted to work in this bank as| 3485 University Ave, N. Y.) thought about the importance of hay: —Cartoovs Magaxing, ‘in war work in fuctories, or as|Girls wear bloomers in gymnasiums | darned, is about $11.50 per 100 pounds, y ) ‘ , ‘ r Z ramus Setehemren nee seninn ~— oe - - wv