The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1921, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, TUES ~ ¢ “Why should not the theatre take ten-year holiday from the plays that are sordid, can- cerous, degenerate!” 7 “The theatre advances in pro- portion to its devotion to eas and beauty, to its avoidance of fads and fancies.” “Art cannot be Art is the universal.” ‘differe ~ ALLEGED BANDIT "TN JEWEL ROBBERY SHOT BY DETECT Said to Be Companion of Man Mysteriously Slain in River- \ side: Drive, 4 Mbhe-Loor-of fhe top floor apartment eh No. 108 East 2ftet Strest was smashed by, detectives under Inspec- fer Coughlan at 8 o'clock this morn- ing end Ganmel Castrill!, the only oc- capant, plunged into the dumbwaiter e@aft, aiipped down to the second foes, made biz way to the fre escape, dumped eighteen fect and wes running atross the gear courtyard when a de- teative’s bullet through his arm, grez- Mig hie chest, stopped him. ‘Bo tw alleged to be one of three who figured tn a jewel robbery on Nov. *ZL. Another of the trio is under ar rest, The third ts dead from a butlet wound. And still another man, who ‘ @ai4 to have had nothing to do win the robbery but was implicated, tt te believed, in the aftermath, ta in @ hospital with a bullet wound. On the morning of Nov. 21, Samusl Richman, No, 619 Lincoln Place, and Frank Cobn, No. 2215 66th Street, Brooklyn, both jewelry salesmen, met a man tn Times Square whom they have since identified as Castriltl. Cas- trill, the police say, represented htm- self as a chemist from Chicago and said he had $10,000 worth of platinum which ho would sacrifice at a low price for a quick sale. He led the pair to a furnished room at No, 352 Man- hattan Avenue, where two other men were waitisg, one of them George Carmichael No. 201 Bast 115th Street. He {s a prisoner now. The other was Arthur Lasgndro, No, 315 Past 15th Street. He is dead. Inside the furnished room, the salesmen said, they were held up by the alleged bandits. Richman says he lost $13,000 in jewelry and $2,900 in money. Cohn gave up $500 In cash, a diamond ring, diamond pin and his watch, The two were then bound and gagged and thrust inte the closet. It took them more than two hours to work loose Then they notified the police. On Dec 4, at 10 o'clock P. M,, Lasandro was found staggering from @ bullet wound at 165th Street and Riverside Drive, He was taken to Columbus Hospital, where he died a few hours later. It {9 believed he was shot while in an automobile and thrown out near the place where he had been found tm the Drive. morning at 121st Street and Lexing- ton Avenue and questioned at the ‘West 123d Street Station, where the police say he confessed and gave them the address of tre nouse where Castrild was afterward captured, Carmichael had a pin and cuff links which Richman identified. Richman also identified both of the prisoners and a photograph of the dead La sandro, The police say that Carmichael @laims to have got only $597 in addi- tion to the jewels that were found in his possession, They say Castrilli got about the same share, which would {ndicate that Lasandro got most of the loot. ‘This, the detectives say, may have a bearing on his murder, ‘The two prisoners and Lasandro, the police say, had burglary records. Castrilli was free on bail on an auto- mobile theft charge until his capture this morning, and Carmichael was )\ender ® suspended sentence for bur- Carmichael was arrested early this| MEAT STRIKERS, BEING REPLACED BY THE HUNDREDS Packers’ Representatives De- clare Operations Are Now Almost Normal: Representatives of New York pack- tng houses affected by the walkout of nearly 4,000 meat cutters and other employees in sympathy with the strikers in the West announced to- day that they were rapidly replacing the strikers and expect to be operat- ing on a normal basis in a few days. W. A. Lynde, general manager of Wilson & Co. of No. 816 First Avenue, stated that his plant ts operating on basis 70 per cent. of normal. “We moved fifteen trucks yesterday afternoon and expect to move thirty. five to-day under police protection,” he said. Nearly 300 men were waiting In line at this plant, and 300 more at that of the United Dressed Beef Co. of No, 789 First Avenue, this morning to ap- ply for work, while more than 600 strikers stood watching them from the street. ‘The United Dressed Boot Company was reported to be operating on a basis of 50 per cent, with twenty- five of its fifty trucks being in oper- ation under police protection, The la hotels are not affected by the strike, it was stated, since they are all served by distributing companies not assyciated with the ackers, Some of the smaller hotels, staurants and buteber shops helped relieve the situation brougnt about by non-deli y in the pickers’ trucks to-day by Sending their own vehicics for meat, and one small butcher jowner, a woman, come tor her suj | ply with a baby carriage. | a |PRINCESS RADZWILL HELD FOR BILLS Arraigned in West Side Court on Charges Preferred by Hotel Embassy. Mrs. Catherine Danzin, also known Princess Catherine Radzwill, who came to the United States in 1917 to lecture in behalf of the allies, was held to-day In the West Side Court by Magistrate Levine in $1,000 bail for trial in General Sessions on the charge of defrauding the Hotel Em- bassy of $1,237.87, representing the costs of rent, food and service from June 1 to August. Mrs. Danzin, who was represented ‘by Attorney Maurice H. Madaztsin of No, 44 Court Street, had nothing to say. Her attorney charged that the hotel had refused payment offered by her friends bec use it desired to David Belasco Suggests 10 Year Theatrical Holiday From Sordid Productions cd Playwright who has Completed Forty Years . of Service to ‘Stage Says: “Time may have dusted my hair, but I have never been over, 25. “I want the theatre to get away from the sordid and degenerate. “I believe that God made us to work, but to love our work so much that we play at it, find, real pleasure im it.” DAY, DECEMBER 18, 1921.1 serene eT oor EEE ee “Work must be put in place of social diversions by the man or woman who wishes te rise on the stage to-day.” “A play that depends on me- chanical effects is like a beau- tifully dressed girl lying on her bier, The life has gone” ’ CT TEI LILLLL LLL ULirrrrrcreeeLicrecrcrreT “My friends, whether beleng- ing to the public or to the pro- fession, make the ree. ollection of my career.” “The theatre me and as as I can live im the theatre I shall never grow old.” produce a play I decide the style of acting that best sults it and, therefore, ig best—but merely for that particu- lar play. “As I recently wrote to the son of my old friend, the late Willidm Winter, in regard to the actors and actresses of the past, John McCullough was the most lovable as a man and, in the great herole parts, the most satisfy- ing as an actor. Barrett was the most ambitious; Booth was the most powerful and interesting; Owens was the funniest man I ever saw, and after him, Raymond; Wallack was the most polished and courtly; Sal- vint was the most imposing; Irving, “‘We do not spend our lives walking through hospitals or studying cancer. “I believe God made us to love our work so we might play at it. “My happiest recollection is my + friends. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “We are going to enter on a ten- year holiday from war. Why should not the theatre take a ten-year holl- day from the plays that are sordid, cancerous, degenerate?” That is the form of “disarmament” proposed by David Belasco, at the end ot forty years of splendid service to the American theatre, and at the be- ginning—so he hopes and belleves—of other years of devotion to and de velopment of the art he loves. shal] name no date in this anniver- sary,” he told the Society of Arts and Letters al its dinner in his honor, the other night. ent to the flight of time—because [ hold with those who per that time {s an illusion. Time may dusted my hair, but I have never been over twenty-five.” And when I talked at the Belasco studio with this famous man of the theatre, [ realized that those brown, burning, youthful eyes under their heavy dark brows still know how to look into the future, even if, at the request of anothi they sometimes sean the pages of the theatrical past. It would take more than the thici, white, unruly locks which hang over Belasco's fine forehead, and which— like the helmet of Navarre—have been an oriflamme these many years to his loyal followers, to destroy the youthfulness of eyes and smile and enthusiasm. Thank heaven, Mr. Belasco does not belong to the “nothing is as good as st used to be” club! Until be joins that organization,” nobody is ever really old, Mr. Belasco proved that he can't even quality for member- ebip when he answered one of my first questions: “Speaking from your years of perspective, do you consider tnat the theatre of to-day is pro- pressing or retrogressing? eive “The theatr ts progressing all the obtain possession of valuable antiqis|time,” he “answered quickly and bassy Corporation, replied that ™ vance in exuct proportion w its de- Danzin’s antiques were “junk,” votion to truth and beauty, to its | teterrupied Speer Aitomey GiPbs avoidance of fads and fancies. Thi by declaring that Princess Radgw.ll{theatre of the future must show us Was sentenced to 16 months in a|the beauty of the world, must inspir, South A penitentiary for de-|ys to lve in it, What L want the frauding Cecil Rhodes of $20,000. Madztsin declared another Princess | theatre to get away from is any ten- adzwill had been sentenced for this | oft {s reason to suspect that the car Cus- trilli is accused of stealing is the one \from which a man known as Tony Negro was shot at 12I1st Street and Lexington Avenue on Dec, 6. Negro is at the Harlem Hospital, Asked about the shooting of La- sandro, Castrilli said he was “not [ that night" and then inqui they dump in front of a t “Maybe they thought #0," said the Inspector, “Hut it was a deaf-mute institution.” The two prisoners were taken to the Washington Heights Court this morn- for arraignment on charges of dency to concentrate on the depiction of that very small part of life, the sordid and the degenerate, To show the degenerate is the easiest thing on earth and tt is often done with the excuse of the most abused phrase in the world—‘for the sake of art,’ “We do npt spend our lives walling through hospitals or studying cancer. Why should the theatre do t¢ Certain sex piays shown on the stag merely open 4 wound and allow tife pus to run out.” “Why are these plays presented?” T asked, “To enjoy the limelight of the mo- ment and to make @ superiivial ap- “{ am entirely ind!ffer- | have | ple,” answered the man, who has been called “the wise old idealistic bird of the theatre “And, as I said, the name of ‘art’ often is invoked to support them; also, the quality of ‘difference.’ " | Belasco's mobile mouth twitched, and a fugitive twinkle appeared In the brown eyes, | “The people who write these plays,” he confided, “sit around in their hall bedrooms and intone that word ‘dif- ferent,’ ‘Oh! I must different!’ they say to themselves. They forget that) art cannot be ‘uifferent.’ Art is the univer: ‘Then he proposed the ten-year holiday for the sordid shows. “Now, of all times, they have no place in the theatre,” he p “Now—when ip every home there is a vacant chair dedieated to the known or the un- known dead, or there is a cripple, or a blind boy, or one who ix shell- shocked! Now is the time when the theatre must help people to live through the contemplation of what is beautiful and inspiring. There is so much, so much I want to do. Every minute is taken, and yet I dream of more work, more—moret" There was a brief pause, and I thought of the last, wistful words of another empire — builder,” vec! Rhodes © little done, so much to do.” I thought too of Belasco's forty years of work in the theatre and of the creed he has brought out of {t: “I believe ‘that God made us to work. I believe that He meant that we should earn our living by the sweat of our brows. But I believe that he made us to love our work so much that we might play at {t, find real and profound pleasure in it, and so labor on until, tired out, we might sleep like little children at the end of each day. And I believe that the last sleep 1s only the end of another da® and there will be a to-morrow—to work again and to play again and to love again.” Then we spoke of the art of acting in the theatre of Belasco's to-day as compared with his yesterday. Once more he refused to exalt the old at the expense of the new. “Modern acting !s different from acting when I was a boy,” he ex- plained, “because the plays of to-day demand @ different style, In the old days we acted Shakespeare and dramatizations of the yellow-back novels and Sheridan's comedies. The rhythms and the periods of the playa seamed to ask for @ certain ‘grend manner’—the wide, sweeping gesture, the full, round volce, the oratorical fire. Such qualities won the actor his following “The public of to-day, and th of to-day—the play of modern man ners, of the life around us—demand a different acting manner, with ty emphasis on simplicity and natural- 1 do not wish to put one style peel fo @ emall section of the peo- of acting above the other, When Jiahall never grow 014, the most intellectual and dominating; Mansfield the most erratic, “But if I could see only one more theatrical performance and had to choose which one of those actors 1 would see, I think I would choose Qdwin Booth in “King Richard the ‘thir -"Of the women Adelaide Neilson was easily the most winsome and pas- sionate. Modjeska was the most r mantic. Mary Anderson was the stateliest, Wien ‘erry the most pa- thetic, Ada Rehan ‘the greatest comedienne and Sarah Bernhardt one | of the everlasting wonders of art. “If I were to have the choice of last performance by the one actrpss I admire the most 1 am afraid I should quarrel with Fate and insist on choosing two—Adelaide Neilson in Juliet and Sara Bernhardt in any- thing." . For diplomstic reasons, I didn't suggest that Mr. Belasco choose his favorites among the actors and actreses of the present, But I asked it he thought they received as god training as those who were in the old stock companies. “There was a wonderful chance to work In the old time stock company.” he replied, thoughtfully less rehearsing, but more study private, The younger members of the here wis deal from the older members. ‘The frequent changes of bil familiarized the actors with many parts and good memories were essential “Yet there is just as much oppor. tunity to-day for the beginner on the stage to perfect himself or herself if he or she ts willing to work. Study of things I mean when I say ‘work,’ the things which must be put in place of social diverston’s by the man or woman who wishes to rise on the stage.” “I suppose one of the most pro- nounced changes during your lifetime in the theatre has been the improve- ment of scenery and lighting,” I sug- gested. “The change has been pronounced, but it is the least important part of theatrical art,” modestly declared Mr. Belasco, who is himself largely respon- sible for development in theatrica mechanics, “Anybody with mony) enough can buy all the scenery there is," he went on, a trifle contemptu- ously. “But seeing a play that de- pends merely on such mechan{cal effects is like seeing a beautifully dressed girl covered with jewels—and lying on her bier, The life, the spirit, has gone The life and the spirit of the theatre are the ‘play and the actora If we wish to improve our dream, we must concentrate on the writing* of our | plays and the acting of them—not on machiner “What Is your happlest recollection from the forty years behind you?” I questioned. “My friends," the great producer said simply, his quiet voice trembling ja little; “my friends—and the won- |derful things they have done for me, whether they belong to the public or to the theatrical profession, or to my own family in my own theatre,” “Just one more question,” I said. “Now that I've seen and talked with you I am sure that—as you say—vou are not a day over twenty-five, But how do you do it? How do you k » young?" Mr, Belasco smiled half-quizzieally, If-shyly, u know what the tanbark does ne circus horse?" he queried in “You know the effect of the track on the old trotter? Well— th does t8 ine, ps ine young, and, as 1 can live in the theatre, I Nong in| companies could and did learn a great) languages, of fencing, of danc voice culture, wide reading and stu of life itself—these are some of the} MODERN MOTHERS GIVING BABIES SOME ODD NAMES Jane, Ann and Martha Now Sup- planted by Elsa, Larissa, Eth- elyne and Bernice. BOSTON, Dec. 18 Modern young mothers here are turning from tradition and the family records to new fields in secking names for thelr girl ba- bies. This state of affairs was re- vealed to-day by the City Regis- trar’s offeial birth record, which contains names that a generation ago were practically unknown, Such good old fashioned names as Jane, Martha, Ann, Ada, Agnes, Julla and Grace or Alice are being supplanted by Bernice, Elsa, Ethelyne, Larissa and Ernestine. In several instances Grace had heen changed to Grayce. ‘The name Catherine appeared in sev- eral variations, among them being Catharine, Katheryn, Kathrynne and Catheryn. Shhh! a Fire, Little Tot Said ToNunin School | ‘Then 1,200 Pupils Were Marched to Satety—Boy Smoker Suspect. A little girl with an anxious look *‘ptoed up to a sister in the Parochial ‘School of Our Lady of Merey, Ford- ham Road and Marion Avenue, a 1 minutes before noon to-day and whispered to her that there was a fire | ta one of the coar rooms. The alarm which brings the children vat for a fire drill was sounded while till aia wi ent to the Bire Ds ment 1,200 children in the building were out o fthe building in few minutes without disorder The sister to whom the information had been commuyucated went at on to the wardix was found afire et she t thing ye where With h vat ihe blag A boys tacket hands aod Phere wis the firemen to do. uther said it looked him as of the boys had been taking a surrepitious smoke and had puta lighted cigarette in his Jacket pocket When the boy that owned the jacke\ was located {t was pretty hot goluy for a few strokes, ear LUCY SPELMAN ESTATE IS VALUED AT $197,350 a D. Rockefeller Jr, Aske Bettle- ment of Aunt’s Am Brennan it though one ‘Thee value of the estate of Lucy M Spelman, aunt of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, was placed at $197,360, consisting largely of railroad securities, according tu an application for judicial « of the estate filed by Mr. executor ccording t ewelty” ¥ ributed mug whom Muriel and Mathilde M. Abby Rockefeller, daughter The | from the realdue, which ts ty to Mabel Tutt $10,000, Beebe, elfth Avenue, her friends. On’ t the princtpal and tl ‘The home of Mrs. Manguerite A, Le- |buudy, widow of Jacques Tebaudy, | whom #he shot and killed at their home thury on Jan, 1, 1919, wa 5 vut a month ago, it became day. Monvy and jewelry to t f about $16,000 were tken {i ox on a dresser in Mra room, ‘The police arf re to discuss the ry t ts t me form have been questioned by police. Mrs, Lbaudy has gince moved to Hiil- side Avenue, J Jesse, 15, Has Arms Parley | With Police Ss Prevent, and That Explains All -the Shooting. Jesse Fisher, fifteen, of No. 550 Riverside Drive, was his own Santa Claus this year, With disarmament proceedings in the air, he believed that if he didn’t get that .22-calibre repeating rifle this Christmas wouldn't get {t at all, Se he got it while the getting was possible. Possessed of this information no one will have as much trouble as the police did last evening trying to find out what all the shooting was about. On Sunday night, a couple of auto windshields and a few lamps were found broken by persons dining at the Claremont Restaurant on the Drive. Last night about 8 o'clock there was a “Ping” then a gentle mining of glass about the desk of Otto Kubel, the clerk of the Clare- tnont, Six times, six “Pings” brought |down a window and six times Kubel jwWent out and gave the command to cease firing. Then he telephoned to | the Leida and Gondon, one of whom used to be a surveyor, were sent around, They looked at the holes in the windows and the wall where the bul struck and had Kubel describe in just what ear he felt the sound most. ‘Then they dectded the “machine gun nest’ was tn the direc- tion of Ne. 650 Riverside Drive. On the roof they found empty 22- calibre shells, but the position had been abandoned. ‘They followed the stairs down into the building and ran into Fister senior, He was absolute- ly certain there was no such thing as a firearm in his house and that his son owned none, but he would call him, lle cid and the boy confessed he owned the best long range calibre repeating riffe in the universe, It was then reposing under his bed. He said he had been shooting at a target and admitted he missed it fre quently. The police made a .prixpner of him ind took tie rifle for evidence, — He was bailed out by his father and will be arraigned in the Children’s Court to-day, charged with juvenile delin- | quency. —— = | METER PROBE WITNESS | SUDDENLY QUITS JOB) Ordered re Bring € mapany'e| Commissioner of Accounts, Hirshfield, who is after persons of tampering with water meters, to-day called as a witness, Albert H. Ferguson, bookkeeper of the Yale Laundry Com- pany, No. 640 West 68th Street, who was served yesterday with bpoena to produce the check book and other of the concern in connection with the arrest of John Kiwpp, a city Water meter inspector, on a che tampering with the dry plant, Klapp ts sting a check for $1 son to “Cash” rguson records: ured but did not pro- the record ying he was to yhger connected with the Yule Laun dry Company. He explained he had re- igned yesterday after seeing ex Senator Wiliam M. Bennett au George ‘Thorns 1 to the Arming ton. Corporation. which operates the | Yale Laundry, He said neither of them had instructed him as to what he should do. —_—~— National Leag A ate Board of Directors, Appoinment of a new board of di- rectors was announced following a Natione! Laague Board meeting to-day. Charies Va, Stoneham, New York Giants; George Washington Grent, Bos- ton Braves: Slam ‘Veeck, CO Cubs and Barney Dio Pittsburgh tes a momb ‘othing fur- r was od as don thal es CALL TREMONT 6800 NOW, The following notice was posted at Police Headquarters last night “On and after 4 P. M. to-day New the le telephone call number of Borough ‘iquarters, Bronx, located at No. 1985 Aveni will be changed em@nt to ‘Tremont,’ He Got Rifle Before Treaty Could), he} MRS. NICOLL STILL USING CRUTCHES Has Not Sufficiently Recovered. From London Accident for Social Actviity. Although Mrs, Delancey Nicoll, the beautiful wife of the well known lawyer, will entertain at @ dinner on Friday night in honor of her cousin, Miss Peggy Leigh, at her home, Ne. 28 East 39th Street, the report la March that Mrs, Nicoll would walk without crutches was, unfortunately, untrue. Since that report Mrs. Nicoll has recelyed many social invitations which she has been unable to ful. Mrs, Nicoll was injured Nov. 1, 1915, in London when she was doing war work, She had hardly arrived when she was run over by an auto- mobile truck and her leg crushed. She was taken to the North Hamptom Hospital and remained in London until 1919. Dr. Arbutnot Lane oper- ated several times and then she re- turned to New York, wearing a brace and using crutches In December of last year, Dr. Fred H. Albee, specialist in ‘bone surgery, performed another operation and it was reported that Mrs. Nicoll would % soon abandon her crutches. Last , spring, Dr, Joseph Blake and Dr. James N; Worcester took charge of her case and, although they reported a turning polnt in her condition, Mrs. Nicoll still wears a brace and uses her crutches. “Since my accident cannot assume my social duties,” Mrs. Nicoll sald at her home this afternoon, “and I want my friends to understand my conditio: ” There are as many ways to please a fam- ily as there are to serve a petite-whetting, palate- c s— New, Coated, Sanitary Wrapper ANCRE With the Genuine Roguefort Favor CHEESE Made by SHARPLESS, Phila. - Notice to Advertisers Display advertising type copy end Ger eicmer, ies monk, day Maratas img World’ if recelvea after 4 P.M. the preceding publication can be inverted ouly Soace may permit and ip order of receipt of ‘World Office. Copy coptaining te made cy Tas Word eran be recaved by 1 PF. SRE ST ont = Add ‘as Pp cblieation Knvertion “orders not, recstved be outed ‘as. com release World by 6 P.