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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1920 Did Rhodes, Empire sai, | Jilt O.ive Schreiner ? Bitter Pen Followed Romance “After “Savage Literary Crucifixion” of Former Ad- mirer She Inspired Feminist Movement on Two Continenis by ‘Woman and Labor,”’ er! | THE NEW_ PLAYS | | Mitzi Bewitching In “Lady Billy” By CHARLES DARD FILTHY To HANDLE T is fair to assume that even Marie Dressler will admit that Mitel bas s LUCRE established herself as the omboy of our stage, for this bulf-pint singing ALLRIGHT Fon . — soubrette proved it again at the Liberty Theatre last might in “Lady Billy." a musical comedy touching Roumania on the east and Greenwich Village on the west After all, as some oue eurnestly Was nothing more to do than let IN remarks in “Cornered,” this is a down the curtatn. | ‘ ji 1 1 the ¢ of the first act “oome- smal) world Mita Is so sma tha 2 on * wert bogulled by @ coun- she can walk over any one sho s¢ bart of an wheestral countess who ects for that p exercise and performed the ghost-walk for revenue still have you with her from start only But milady'’s dress, with the to finish, ‘To give lightness to the ltnpoverished trickster, worked the going, an it were, Col. Savage some over-new charm on the young Ameri time ago, with the tender regard and can engineer who happened to Ddiast good showmanship that have dis- @ ro vat had given a remunerative tinguished his career, cut her name echo, and so Billy crossed the waters in two by lopping off Hajos and to make the best of the situation as a leaving her just Mita. Th boy sop ho jn Greenwich Village. enough, fog it Jast suits her dimiz 1 going about the theatres you tive figure! Luckily for her, coun- may have noticed that the old yillag tesses aren't measured by the foot. in being sadly overworked. In fact, Mitzi—the name grows on one- it's nearly played out. According! swugwered on the scene Inst night in the uninteresting part of “Lady Billy” the overalls of a gardenor's boy, yet is its second act. The thirdgict braced ALL PAPER. M NEY IT | ONE OF OUR Be she was no leas than a countess by wp immensely because Mitzi was om (@) & the power of Zelda Bears, who wrote her toos in a bachelor's apartment, IN CIRCULATION UNSANITARY CUSTOMERS the badk and Iyrica and didn't give rwcing from one room to another and a hang about the trousers, “Pants” finally winning the romantic handi- IS OLD AND TO HANDLE COT. SMALLPOX } “4 in what Mite, called them, in cap. She was bewitching, irresistible, 4 simple, candid way, and she wus Sydney Greenstreet did a good pleco DIRTY Now FROM HANDLING rorely ' distressed “when she last of work as an old wervant; | Mache them by Way of an expresmiman who Kennedy performed a long-legge ] DIRT/ MONEY conveyed a chest in which she had dance inimitably, and the other mem-= = © dden herself to the apartinent of a of the cast were always in the young man who liked her as @ boy ure und was mure to fall in love with her ‘The music by Harold Levey had asa girl, By this time she had let the charm of Victor Herbert, ao why down her hair, and after that there ask for more? (i OVER AGAIN [BY _EDITH JOHNSON] e WE ALWAYS Instalment No. 32, up from, some pavers, “What's the | ADVISE OUR | MAKE AN ENEMY. “De you think that something has FTEN 1 had heard Hugh mak- to be the matter for me to call upen | ing disparaging remarks about ny owe A east : 1 a Bev re Jaughing at him, “I just came in to women who had the habit of Jo” your mew.ffioes, Aren't the dropping in on their husbands during nee? You certainly look Ike the rea office hours. off magnate with all this grand ma- “A woman ought to keep her nose bogany. And what @ stunning sten- THE PRINCIPALS AND SCENES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN ROMANCE. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. fh wiening Wa TO-DAY’S ANNIVERSARY. OMEN everywhere are recall- HE firet great benefactor to-day the remarkable of the blind in Americe history and achievements of was Thomas H, Perkins, the Hurriet Beecher Stowe of South founder of the Perkins Insti. out of her husband’s business!’ he ceephen yee ee chek RG never author of what has been tution for the Blind in Bost would may. “No man wants his wite iyi” Chew fuirly: wood. tookings,"* BL Feminism,” and map eee etter Rar alepminy bothering around when he has lis Hugh udmitted in what L thought ne Ne be ee fem agi to-day, and died there ta mind on his affairs.” . was otndiously, eastal tone. “Not romance in which the olussus uf 1854, The building and ground e ad bee. rried i oo Kouth Africa” was hero—in two Q of the institution cost $150,000 eee dead te Tovade , THUR, you ate positively vulpan words, Olive einer, whose death Q 7 nstitution soon won a et cen witinae ac ecueeeae oe place among the world’s fore- Hugh's place of business. There have been wil to conte As been announced briefly in uw Most schools for the education wore always so many men acound his Hugh was not very’ cordial, 1 de- m Londow of the sightless. The New York Ohio office that | felt 1 did not dare. wd that E woul! not linger. In tact, mance in real life of Olive Institution for the Blind was Since our coming to Oldahuma T knew 1 rather suspected that he was trying Schreiner might have been a plot for founded at about the same that he had @. private office. Some to punish t dly for having come time, day 1 intended to surprise him, | was in upen him. 1 declined the chair curious, I will confess, to see how that he offered me, and said | must and where he worked be going bom one vr the nuvels flied with the lone- liness, the grim realism, the trope he's mth 0) ure and iwuma tu death on niggers, hey: “rll just p a little Joke on my As I was louving 1 passed two girls Warmth iol Bauire) Anal NucaD RALUTS oT eee Agy ali Ministe acny Hughie.” 1 said to myself one afier- tn the hall holding an earnest con- ; A= Jp South Africa, qualities which make in the Colony he tried to pass « ee noon when | was doing a little shop- yersution 5 would give imasters D "y 4 Atrican Farm" ag ping, and had more time on my hands © "When my wife dared te interesting to-day as in the year of tress<# the right to have their ae: than T knew how to ne As Hugi snab u ae t faced creatar ; Acer si tnage wie . Vants flogged whenever they had beep in'a particularly good hu- G4 when J came out bt tr Rare tte ‘ girl’ of ‘nineteen, writing, under the thine they didn’t like, but the other qil MOF That Meaning, I deoided that 1 o¢ften it jist atira up the very devil cs eteen, ing und vt rs yon him, thoi ‘d vamp ‘or two sous." | { Bet clap enaion inne Englishmen wouldn't jet him, ard 7 would venture in upon him, though t Vd vamp him for two sous. ‘ S heEn aoe ton here he can do what be it Poa Feoy I, .MGCARDELL. « was not unmindful of tne changes in speaker, whose back was 4 | tne sppet Eee oe Thi aval Marans hat's the reason some feilows dont ° BY SOPHIE IRENE Lore « Jt, 1000, by the Freee Publihing Co, (The New York Brening World) ht airear Negle Sah 2 tae all te Ba aa. Lorned (to. me, Ti rocoanixed: aa Eine f = met Cecil Kh whose genius was eae ele bt heya They say Copyright, 1020, by the Press Publishing Co, (Tac New York Byening World.) “ ee to tell you, dear,” re berih so temperamenta) a husband as ny Raia Feed sate ie ies cries as ree 1y Ane pelea here they'll be giving Sie epranens HE other day I Metened to che Christmas cry js unheard, in suck in- ] marked Mrs. Jarr, as Mr. Jarr GOING DOWN! Armed with the consclousness that jracing alr 1 encountered outside iities us Ollve's was in lite e. conv. ines c nees 5 , ened the < { Sho had teen governss on a Boer MHd to iive on, and let them have the nversation of two women who stances as this. Was guningurauay toaldeckrh {was looking my best, { entened t (Copyright pie? by the Preas Publishing Oo, (To be continued to-morrow.) we ith ‘a mud Vote and get olvilized and educated were discussing thelr ¢hristmag This little woman always refused ; big building where Hugh had his of ¥ tarm, writing In a re Mad all thee @ore at e fi ; ‘There wae a letter came for you a (The New'York Byening World.) fices and took the elovator for: the (prrlght, 1920, by tue Beit Srudicaye, I oor and using & soap-Dox for a desk. nodes, he'll keep thelr Rosch to thy Sifts. It was a formidable of alma, She wanted to make her Way. «esx or two ago about a note from EAR WONDERER: tenth floor ae But then her brother. | William grindstone. ‘I preter land to niggeras !!&N-priced presents, Sho ts @ refined, sweet, cultured #oul sme Mr, Doddrington, and then an- It is suid of John D. A clerk in the outer office inet me Hie ts peyit Cupp he saya . “This Christmas thing borea me to “#24 could not bear the thought of ono came yesterday, and he seemed Rockefeller that in his “ls ot Barrett. busy,” 1 asked < = Colon hodes was received in the wo! ,8eVeral years after the Boer death,” guid one of them. “You srs charity. to be mad Decause he hadn't heard $ opinion the greatest thing in the § Sweetly, 5 - f yw . *, War the world heard little about For years she sewed on buttons, ex acarine reel Pie . Just now he is, but T think he will Schreiner home, over Prete easy Olive Schreiner, Then in 1911 she ®PeNd a lot of money and'when it's ali buttonal bittens( aati one A pesos from you.’ word ls PRESENCE OF MLND. be at leisure in ew moments, Won't widowed mother: presided he @nd brought out her last great book, OVer, it's over. The gifts are rele- DYttons, BAM UBT? il " “Why didn’t you let me know about What is presence of mind but @ you have a seu her shildtenr—sapeciely, the youthful «Woman and Labor,” one of the ; i : paces Sly growing blind, At times her 4) pato, #4 Hj ai Memhecerivenl id vetiadledi warancl me guted to the draw d other places re?" asked Mr. Jurr with a § uring one's WITS, and what is novelist—became ardent admirer8 most widely réad and carnestly dis- ee rere and other Wacc® speech te also smpaired and it is only z conaiderate as [—they walked right and partisans of the Diamond King. cussed works of the New Woman ia “84 You forget al) about it until at PP lice har 4 a waeried ook, wit but @ fine sense of humor, % tito thelr husband's private offices Judging from her photograpis, fiterature ant the ee J “Bible of, Comes around again. It's all very >Y rajiee bed pore aay ay eee “I didn't think it was important,” } yet not humor. Without consulting any one : Sd Olive Schreiner never could have De Jominism,.” well to ae he C upon her un occasional bit of money eaiq Mrs. Jarr. ane a has eaved (hie ara. tke to ee. Tom. try to. tet: © SET TS VINCENT e a beautiful woman. She always dres#4 Tt played an important part In wits ppivit IRR a Peds ate with the greatest of tact that she wo) yoy gidn’t think {t was im- § neck yy unlng wit at the right $ Me when to stay out of his office,” [oo is gunn, ty abe Phone Pubilaning Oo unconventionally, according to fri ning the vote for women both here °° > BEE ORS! CORRE ae accept the ald she so badly needs, sedis ered as in vad once heard Mary Qsborve re Tie Nee: Cea ohne Wena who knew her from her gitihood, She and in England, and it stirred to ac. Concluded Fuse. at EHC ieee ae ant, didn’t you?” replied Mr. Jarr. 2 bime. nark when several of us RAR MIRB VIIGENT:: 1 had no parlor tricks, and presumably tion many a woman's club. For the Somehow 1 could not help wishing teen ndoned, aad. the. goed vq Qf course not” sald Mrs, Jerr A pleasant smile, a cheery ¢ jathered together one day at Maribel 66 Dial ieee yi eh she was too intelligent to grovel be- pook, in essence, l4 u plea for wom- . Sieh is 2 MES QGO RE. ie vow "If tt had been important he word, a trite wittiolsm may save Henderso: and the subject came i Sieber fore the intelligence of any man, an's right to work in the world of ! Could take these women off to the woman who owns it has allowed her have written. you to .your to you the job you are ib ia $ UD, “He'd never try it but onve and, as the saying goes, Therefore, the sophisticated observer tonday, to follow out of the home outskirts, There we would find an to stay in thls one Jonely little room Mave, WeM rf bea ¥ be “Well, [think It ayspe ‘CUllY*keaping company’ with a young must have doubted from the beginning the occupations whicl she once empty house. 4 would take them up syt it is not lonely for this woman, - 8's Where all your important tot- 8 you will Lone Suamolaus, when ‘ibotad man. My friend is nine years m if a romance between the young Writer practised within its walls, to eNJOY some empty stairs cold and dark, Inn. ani ant raat ms i ters go 1 suppose, eepectally letters Make the boes laugh and he an't want his wife coming tnto rf ‘aie bd Anh Pe. my and an egotist like Cecil Rhodes could economic and political freedom ana Ome rs, cold and dark, In- for sho th 1 thoughts and yy do not ‘want me to see.” will reitember you ils offlee,” declared Janie Miller, “He senior met him while he was in Have conventionally happy termina. to perform the duties these rights tone room, with its one occupant whenever who can he does Kindly "vary tenets people weiee me. that Lots nust have something t ent the army. At that time he told me tion. Olive and Cectl, however, spent {nyolve. . We would ente We would be hittle acts for her neighbors, She lives |, Bake ; bat hay ; habs NPN prea "Oh—these men—these me nt fk he was four years younde a he much of their time together, and he — She'scores flercely “the effete wile, greeted by one of the eweetest siniles on almost noth.ng, but almost always ‘°° idm nt me to wee they 4 At laiined Maribel You) wantt: tiie ee ee ect Sie exhibited every sign of friendship and clad in fine raiment, the work 0 aes ; ; aces BOS BNE gait "ey® should send them io me bere!” sald of them respect. There was much witty and others’ finger fed on luxurious be hy Fags OFS: Woman el) beers cae gay ae erent Robe that str. Jarr bitterly bust. tmpri th ; This conversation had taken 4 had been married and t 4 wife brililant talk. Olive Schreiner, accord- viands, the result of thera’ toll wed with care, surmounted by Some day again = eae 5 7 pusiness imprint on the coruer of the before my marsage, und T was tre- died shortly after they were mar ing to report, did more than talk, She waited on and tended by the labor jovely whitened hair, BULAN Pa scaler VhBt ahs leanne Now, ease don’t begin said envelope,” sald Mra. Jace nendousty amused by It. Now, it ried. After he was discharged from fell in love. She believed her love was of others. % pend git nen Er ip ut the Yule: wiry, J; The letter la here some- “It's Lhe first time I ever saw you 2/1 came back to me as I sat wait \ retr-ned. So did her family. “The need for her physical labor The !lttle woman would motéon us tide py Roe With greet inbor ale Orch: Aan gis enmmescadito dle BO Caer to get at Wiis,” said Mr, J ing the army he went to his home in Ceci] Rhodes did not marry her, Ee having gone, and mental industry not to be seated on the two very dilapi- sence coon inate thes aoe SAGUBA inthe mdehourd arawen (hoe enemies ane ne HI wi F rae Suddenly, the do« it the West, but now he is here in \ was not a marrying man. Whether having taken ita place, she Kew Kee dated i would not let us “The Lord is my Bhepner He behind the clock on the mante! and that came ¢o me add ees feeracaar eae i | New York. He is a very good suitor he sven formally | mune okt bee Arse nied her. porer or hae it ee ne Bis dually fad- feedath me in the depth uf @ desert ctherwise nearch fer it in a loousely i = vee ne addressed ‘peraunal ei 1 ts "as far as calling is concerned, com cannot be recorded. u 1 ec and scented for her; she lay (4 H fond F a lelsu KL Wee ugh'a free ‘ - ran speaking, he rode eway—out of her upon her sofa or drove or was carried ing and that she us only us Ne test 1 sho 4 in the manne “lt woked ke a woman's hand- pression, and T had } , Ing to see me every night and al existence. out tn her vehicle and, loaded with thr at ¢ wip, He boldeth me by the iE don't eeaw i ter. writ said Mr " a tho ontane usly most all day Sunday, but he ms Olive Schreiner refused to wear the jowels, she sought by dissipation and “Wy <a biel not sour tomee be Ron hy you throw my at explained Mr. Jarr only —[ another moment o sient to take pleasure in. being diagree- willow the Of cher, fe Th aeausement to St ul f onaictive bal seats 6 n't it won, 2M wiWays gear, Not a sparcow tulle SPCUBA thal: oway\" Seoul mia ned ng weman walked: lphtly able. He is under the impression 1894 she became the wife of an ami- blank left by the jack of productive she would ery, Fao nol kuow Markers Mr, Jarr, with some heat Now don't go fussing with moe the rom ere was fadntant te he la aleave ria he ahtake and isn’t the spirit Then how much more the lame ones “you shouldn’ ha: Wat tten SPOUt thats” Mira. Jars went on, “4 shedow of a smile ber face, the h f , i at delta Hiatt love Phas cannes SHC OF ig You ia at hy isan di tna put them on the bureau, intending to nd of xmite that is worn by a Wwom- he knows everything and gives no and be thing in the world? I am having the Wander trom my care. y you that you'd be ashamed off (oll you about them, und a ly when sha ty determined ty (00K one credit for knowing as much as The Father knoweth ali your heart. ##!d Mra, Jarr, telly must The things you cannot suy to human «yg, may - not get any letters T arm ears. Ail the heartsick fears wh CD ashamed of!” suapped Mr, Jarr Rut pehind th that she wns she was jongir Knocked them off, and anyway, you can't wccuse me of could opening these letlers because | was mask The. At first | cared for this young man, but now | find that | have nothing in common, and | am eur wright-Schreiner instead of asking of a virtle womanhood, became greatest tine writing Iittle verses to 8. Schreiner-Cron- tasteful, and she sought to evade tt, my egriends and givis e bit « her to become Mri c Mconce with) 28 giving them @ bit of wright. not because of int cheer, You know sometimes they the @ble young Dutoh farmer—he must activity. . il woathe have been amiabie, because he con- “In many cases Ho cons tate v Uhvaupaw: 40 \ sented to take her name, in view of enervation that at last the ve's her celebrity, and became Mr. Cron- of giving life, the g! Anon (ate fight 1s big and long. He } nuulaitive, They were addressed to Heil hath no fury lke a woman more imperlous duties to ae n th * miling to Himself when " Fats “That was a very important letter * Jarr, and | thought {t was ‘Mrs’ that no harmony would prevail over 4 if th nm knows ready born of her, because her stray from the sunlight a bit and get f f ti scornet; and tf the woma: b aE nei e. about meeting a businens and #0 opened them by min- our lives were we to become man how to wield her pen sho can tun existence of inactivity had robped her down tr 4 ‘ya. Wall, T just “Like the shadow of a big rock In a if and anyway, they weren't im of Me . ON a ay A ee ets ol Mf all Joy in strenuous exertion and My poor s'! SWORE TREAT ete. Cre itd atta the RORSEH now, ashe “ et Rae i, he hast, ®Md wife. 1 am not perfect, of ye and ride away should ul enduran & in any fo ‘ ae #afe from all hurts. He will hide and Protest! That . aM h ” Mias Vincent, but please nake sure that it is a non-li "If the parasite nan ¢ ‘ 3 dep , ‘ th ] Ray whom leave behind couch, loaded with gewsaw ¥ ry muoh at a 8, ws te t ey an teauie Udrasd. shouldn't ¢ K } ob ice ine at ! rey Ls able to "a wilted several years to express thing and amuse of just got to send in had ie (bikes Ls whieuers MO. nore that people will protest agalnat any what position to take, f her hate for the man she had once clared Olive Schreiner stern! rds, Let like @ mother crooning to her ehild. M14 Mra. Jarr, “Anyway, Uiey f thought it was for ‘Mr’ ing that the “PEARL.” ved. ‘Then, In 1897; when English permanent and fina! manifestation of NR Dwell con. OAs the tender care that's in Lila yu'os BU notes; they were just letters, Jnrr pice lese cay Waleaen IAEA ts ome fan hen SAL you Are Rabe cool a h African difficulties were female human life on the glob \' ( oie CG ere: tired ones e I don’ ow ¥ 0 p alone! >» othe harried word the ones »ked 0 ac! “Trooper Peter Haikot," the novel human evolution you on her poor little ofl stove. We tell Him we have failed in all « ho you are writing Hea A Resor vein AM married be However, I shall aot which gives ber « right to be called Olive Schreiner herself, watching § gentle reader, it 1 we tried to do, some day It will all come out!” And “ying sare gpmiled Indulgentiy at day in Hoe Hinta. 80 into that question atwll, The fact 3 the Harriet Beocher Stowe of South women and their work through the No ger eader, Ite useless. I "He just smiles and holds us close bere Mrw, Jarr sighed and winked My Jarr as he made thie last states (lon 1 1 f being that he young man worries you and ay | ( Africa, which holds up Ceci! Rhodes war years, must have come to bellevo cannot convey to you the atory of thl# to Him. Rachels ent het raaab 1a pomraek. ne uid 'hawe iy Ieellned to Cala hesagbe i sat? PY +-“pipar me to the obloguy of civilization, «hat the parasite woman {ts NOT “the woman, I have known her for years If*each of the women mentioned ., ' . . On the way downtown the angry heen or Lely iso . v ‘ 4 % xcoriates English rule at the permanent and final manifestation of She is a living, breathing exazije of above were to send some Christnas Doggone it! What do you open ye sare met his friend Rangte, (n reply to her s enough to prove (MAL you would 3 yf ‘The book has been described female human life,” and that the personified sunlight. She defies the cheer to such a one, how they would my mail for? Do | upen your mail” Does yours wife open your ‘letters?” oh Mrs, Bore not be happy wedded Ye most savage Iiterary cruci- great and splendid majority of mod- ofeat, So X will juat tell effich themselves, ‘for such a gift shouted Mr. Jarr. he asked, Without a word she held the doar fork this way t ‘our generation. ern women are willing to say with don of d be unforgotten. oN alesse the: mark: vo. Macrame \ 4 *, sone bit, from “Peter Hal- the author of “Woman and you the plain, facts in order that per- "hy nba a wuch a one and.on- “I'M eure 1 thought. it was a bill wpenate “Or "Penconl’ “sald Man tne e ae nef walked, th up o Simites i] rd-picture of Rhodes: “Now “We take all labor for our bape you may know places where the swer Chriatmas.ery? i wan addressed im typewziting and a. Ss tens vadly. Sees enna .