The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 13

LASKI LEAVES HARVARD. Radical Views Le the Caawe. | Scores Success 1 With Benefit) ees lieth ds i on Capital and Tadical views on labor and capita’ have caused Harvard alumni to question the propriety of continuing him on the uni By Charles Darnton. SHAKESPERIAN pageant of dazzling splendor was the crowning triumph of the Ac Equity benefit performance last pht, and in it Ethel Barrymore Russell were cheered by Hence that packed the Metropoll- Opera House, ‘There had been an eariter ovation toe Miss Barrymore when she spoke f » m her heart of actors. It was near witching hour when Shakes- ire’s heroines began passing ugh “Memeries,” and as Miss (Rassell mpved majestically into view je almost “stopped the show.” Miss ‘rymore was a glowing Portia, and ether noted actresses added to the beauty and distinction of the review. John Charles Thomas, as Art, sang the introductory music with spirit, land Nance O'Neil gave her fite voice to the reading of the verses. The t was admirably staged by Short. i Florence Moore led the fun in @ re- hearsal skit, with John Drew getting an ement as leading man and long run most economical. of London. Harvard's staff, it fits Carefully made from the best materials, Munsingwear garments outwash, out- wear and outlast expectations, In the Summer Munsingwear is made in many different styles and fabrics, sheer, cool and comfortable. Form-fitting knitted arments for men, women and children, loose-fitting woven athletic suits for men. -the satisfaction lasts ty’s staff of teachers, has resigned | to accept a full professorship of political sclence at the London School of Kco- nomics, a department of the University Laski is a lecturer of history at Har- relations with his class yhicn hag made him one of the most beloved ot Bruce icRae madly embracing Blanche Yurka after falling in love with her acting. “Have you had any stage ex- perience?” Miss Moore asked two fair young applicanta. “We've often fad luncheon at the Knickerbocker,” was the reply. “Your name?” inquired Miss Moore of an actor looking for a job. “Charles Cherry.” . “Any relation to Tree?” “Borden’s Milk is rich with Cream; It keeps us kids from getting lean.”’ Written by Anna Fernandez, $01 €. 16th 8t..N.Y It is a fact beyond all doubt that good milk is , “No, another branch of the family.” ‘There was an uncommonly fine ex- hibition of dancing, with Wilda Ben- nett as Pierette ‘wearing smoked glasses. Her eyes had been “burned” film work, Percival Knight ex- | ined, yet she was determined to jktep her promise to appear, Al- though Katherine Wichie had injured her knee, she also was there with both feet. | Mme. Frances Alda gave an_ope- tic air to the festivities, Tessa | ita was brought up to concert | pitch by Svengali Lackaye, and there | Were favorite songs of other days by Christie MacDonald, Peggy Wood, | Adele Rowland and others. ‘Tom Wise | was the Barnum of the Equity Cireus, in which Charles Winninger | jfigured amusingly as a_trombone- | “playing lion tamer. Ed. Wynn| doubled in brass'as a story teller and auctioneer, James Barton danced all around the Eighteenth Amendment, | end about a hundred actors sang joy- ously. Hl In every sense, the performance | ‘was a huge success. dependable milk. arrange ‘This ts Prize Khyme No. 11 Send in yours it are under 14 year in 85 for each rhyme we ave. i 63 Vesey Street Phone and have our aplicitor the best food for chil- dren as well as for grown-ups. For many, many years BORDEN'S have supplied New York with rich, pure, whole- some, country milk, and to this very day they are still maintaining that high standard of safe, for daily delivery. JS91 vonventently located stores will serve you. Borden’s Farm Products Company Phone: Cortlandt 7961 STORE OPEN 9 A. M. TO 5 P. Fourteenth Street TODAY — 3.86 Our regular $5.93 It is neither economical nor comfort-giving Winter-weight covering after warm weather IS satisfactory in every way to possess these bles, which give just the right warmth for tk be purchased at this sale for a price which ir No Exchanges See other pages for our three column adv, start of’ eason Sale of Corsets, also adv. «{ Blouses and Sweaters M. HEARN West of Fifth Avenue TOMORROW Summer Comfortables to continue using But it Summer comforta- has set in, his season, and may isures large savings. Comfortables are filled with white cotton and covered with prettily flowered material, with plain-tone border or the reverse color-scheme. No Returns Ay ey vena tt i ky Y 10, i WANAM Telephone Stuyvesant 4700 Sarees ete ke aes WORLD, MONDAY, Ble ansiors React SNES aE JOHN Broadway at Ninth, New York Store Hours 9 to 6 During this Sale the Store will remain open until 6 o’clock Still 20 Per Cent. Off Everything (With minor exeeptions of trade-mark goods whose prices we cannot honorably change) ‘“‘When this 20 per cent. strikes in, Wanamaker’s will be the busiest spot in the world---’’ —a prophecy fulfilled. READ THE STORY AS TOLD BELOW BY A BUSINESS WOMAN Prophecy fulfilled , | That man who on the Our thanks to the people | first morning of this sale ba | had said, “When this 20 per cent. strikes in, Wana- maker's will be the busiest spot in the world,” was no mean prophet, but was gifted with a vision that was to be fulfilled. By the afternoon of the first day the astonishment was being replaced with the keenest interest and the most, general activity. The following day showed an in- terest that was as phenom- enal as the event itself, and the multiplied rate of inter- est on this the third day was beyond anything that could he translated into terms that would express the enthusiasm and wel- come with which this great plan is received. Stirs the pride No Christmas shopping crowd was ever like this. The busy areas are not re- « This woman observer | The papers had only an- | writes: | nounced it to the world that very morning. Even those who had read the adver- tisement were rather dazed | as they went from one de- partment to another and the magnitude of the thing gradually dawned on them. Those who had not heard of it were taken off their feet, when the 20 per cent. was virtually given back to them on part i which they had been well content to make at the usual prices. One gentleman who got his surprise of 20 per cent. off said to those nearest | him, “When this 20 per cent. strikes in, Wanamaker's will be the busiest spot in the world.” In the history of mer- chandising there has never been anything to equal this action. So compelling, so sweeping an act as this would have astounded the pre-war buying world, which had never considered as a possi- bility the serious economic after-war problems that we are confronted with, But coming now at this darkest hour, when an accomplish- ment of this sort was an un- dreamed of possibility, when the upward trend ot prices was the pronouncement of the authoritative statisticians, the buying world is thrilled with appreciative surprise, and the selling world is lost in amazement. for their very great patience and good nature in the immense crowds of Saturday when it was physically impossible to serve them quickly or at times even comfortably. —And to our own good salespeople and all workers who are co-operating so. splen- didly with the miblic in this movement for lower prices. the regular price of this | kind of a bag is $40 every- where, so it can’t be 20 per } cent. off $27,” you can un- derstand the reason that is back of their surprise when they are told there will be iF 20 cent. off. Hard to believe en | | Even White Sale goods And there in the depart- ment of women’s under- wear, ‘the great Rainbow- White sale is in progress. cates in this country, just can't bring themselves to believe that everything means everything. One customer hesitates before a string of jade, and says to her companion, “It could not be 20 per cent. off on that; these thmgs are all very rare,” and when she is assured by a saleswoman that all these goods are subject to 20 per cent., she banishes her surprise only because of ber great interest in the goods. | The impossible has become posble) che unbelievable has ecome a proven fact, and the minute the customers enter the Wanamaker store the incontrovertible truth of proof is everywhere before The timorous ones ad- | vanced to a department say- | ing, “Not 20 percent. off on | this,” as they pointed out some desiredarticle. Thereg- ular Wanamaker customer who knew despite anything ; i stricted to departments them. that if Wanamaker said 20 Pree ac ay ieee eae | Antiques, which all time | whose stocks furnish gift Wide-eyed per cent. off, it was 20 per fre order Mame “90 per | can never produce again, suggestions, But the inter- cent. off, thought at least the | cent, off all prices.” Beau. | the loveliest of old English | est is as b and as deep amazement ' Restaurant would not giveit, | tiful and aecuinta French furniture, wonderful 18th | as this great store. Whether ‘Phe unhel/ cuntomiora “are as it was not really merchan- lingerie, which had been Century veritable French | kitchen furnishings or dise, and the biggest awaken- ing was when the checks began to come in to the cus- tomer after Luncheon. It was amusing to watch the pieces, which are so much sought after, meet their 20 per cent. off with just the same sureness as does an ' article of regular merchan- books, pianos or notions, ‘there are enthusiastic buy- ers, who have ceased to voice their astonishment in their zeal to take advan- originally much under the retail market price for this Rainbow Sale was now re- duced 20 per cent. more. surprised, and their fervent response is showing what they think of this event. But the astounded people who, in many cases, have expressions on the faces of The buying world knowing | dise. Rarest jewels, the tage of this great event. not been able to recover | those who did not know of | that Wanamaker's is the | choicest of real laces, the ne : their equilibrium are those | the discount All of them | storehouse of the world’s | most ancient and marvelous | — It all stirs the pride of who, haviny made mer- | asked questions, and some | choicest merchandise, and | pieces of Oriental art meet | ¢Ver, American for | that chandising a business, know | rushed off through the store | having !ong marveled at the | on the democratic ground of | wonderful American insti- the conditions governing | as if in fear that the goods | unusualness of many of their | 20 per cent. off, with the tution— the merchandise world to- day, and appreciate through their knowledge just what | 20 per cent. off on an entire might all be sold if they de- JOHN WANAMAKER’S layed, 20 per cent. off stocks, which find no dupli- ; lowest priced necessities. stock means. ‘These are | ,, ‘ | ; i ° a. the confused people who | Yhe hardest thing for the ‘ have not yet deciled what fuurtomers tp era Aves ey @ Own- ars ore ; todo. The invitation which | hed accepted and had proven @o°o eco i the 20 per cent, discount was has. been extended them t ° | that the policy was absolute, join in a movement, that is 4 the greatest constructive | 2nd applied to goods that ’ : d al 4 effort that has been made to | had been specially priced, Is placing new goo 8 on s e 4 bring down the high cost of | sie goods ie ae pen re- 4 | living is being looked at uced. In furniture ere \ | in wide-eyed amazement had been in progress a re- | at 20 per cent. off a | y duction sale of special furni- ‘ i ¢ _ Years spent as an inves- ture at 15, 2 14 per l = tigator in the Retail Mer- | cent. oft eouras our regular retat prices ? shen wert, assembled | was also subject to the addi- ; f j ‘ statistics, and rec t jonal 20 per cent. off. a | 5 ee tied: ‘et te aerinutntad peace Harel re conte oe Puy The Down-Stairs Store, as you know, of questionable qualities; nor a dumping 4 touch most phases of mer- | how the customer would be | searches the markets for underprice ground for things that are unsaleable ] chandising do not serve to | dazed by the truth ef such a lots of dependable merchandise. | in the regular way. | lessen the marvel of this | great fact as this. | | wateas | epoch-marking event. | + “ate | ot A man and his wife ex- It is a store of gcod things—THOR- Ac i ay | amine a cowhide oxford | Makers of good goods often have | OUGHLY good things—for home and . Growing each day bag which had been spe- samples, cancelled orders and odd lots | personal use; and the lower prices have The Monday morning cus- | cially priced at $27 before of thoroughly wantable ‘merchandise | the happy faculty of making others happy—of satisfying individual needs in a practical way. Many of ug can do without some of the frills and furbelows when economy is at stake tomer had not realized it. the sale, and when you hear Some had not known it. the man say, “I know that | that they are glad to close out for cash; and the Wanamaker Down-Stairs Store is always ready to take them. So | +. #8 | er co | From West Virginia Some School Girls Send us this advertisement The new goods! A manufacturer that are now coming in are UNDER. | requried (thine oe bal acd PRICE lots of the regular grades of for men like me; but it's a great fing goods that we carry in regular stock. | for the public.” They will be offered at the usual lower | , prices, and sold to you at 20 per cent. o aoe off. This is a double incentive. You | A news writer gays, in his column can judge that for yourself when you “The Wanamaker Store lops off in see the merchandise and compare the one day from our cost what it took prices. just one year to put on.” St. Hilda's Hall, Charlestown, W. Va., May 6, 1920 Some school girls at table to-night devised this ad- vertisement for you: A woman went to Wanamaker’s to buy a suit. She + 4.8 bought one for fifty dollars, but the twenty per cent. i | moe 8 reduction gave her back ten dollars. Letters are coming Letters rl This ten dollars she applied to the purchase of a hat priced at that figure. Again the reduction saved her some money; this time it was two dollars, She now bought two pairs of lisle hose at one dollar a pair; her saving was forty cents. This she invested in a handkerchief. The eight cents returned to her bought a package of invisible hairpins, and left a cent to buy a stamp with, The sister of this woman went to another store and spent fifty dollars for a suit, but she didn’t get the hat, the stockings, the handkerchief, the hair- pins, or the stamp. daily, from manufacturers, offering us underprice lots of needed garments, | shoes, millinery and other things. This will permit a wider choice and a surer opportunity for satisfaction, This Down-Stairs Store at Wanamaker's is arriving by every mail say— KEEP IT UP. And one man observed, “‘I saw a suit uptown just like yours, and at the same price; but L found that the price had been reduced because of your 20 per cent. off sale,” ee ae Unlike other stores that claim to be similar. It is not | a store of cast-off merchandise; nor | We're glad the idea is traveling. ‘The farther it travels the better it will be for everybody.