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Roman's Right
To Smoke, Say
Club Sisters
' Action of Methodist Church
in Urging Sex^ to Cease
puffing Cigarette? Meets
v Opposition in Federation
'What Next?' Is Question
"Smoking Nobody'sBusiness
but the Individual Con?
cerned," Says Mrs. Yawger
Clnbwomen of New York strongly ob?
jected to the appeal published yester?
day by the Methodist Episcopal Church
authorities asking wcgnen not to smoke.
The news spread through the halla^oi
the Hotel Astor, where the annual con?
vention of the Federation of Women's
Clnbs was being held, and while lovers
0f Jaw and order prevented the mattei
from cominp up in debato, there was
much discussion in the lobbies.
"After prohibition, what next?" crin'
Mrs. Eugene Grant, former presiden*
of the federation. "It is not a ques
tion of whether we, as individuals, wisl
to smoke, but whether we have a righ
to"
Mrs. John Frances Yawger, anothc
one-time president of ? the federation
was a bit more loquacious in her con
demnation of the appeal.
"Too many mandatory things ar
being thrust or. this country," she said
"I don't believe in laws which contre
?the private acts of individuals. This
country is supposed to have free speed'
and freedom to life, liberty and tin
pursuit of happiness. Why does every
body want to take.them away from us"
"Nobody's Business"
"Aside from the question of consti
tutional liberty, this matter of women'
??moking is nobody's business but tha
of the individua! woman Concerned. I
smoking is a menace to the health o
women, I believe women can be trusteu
to know it No woman is going to al?
low anything to interfere with her
hea th or the welfare of her children
that the reformers are always scolding
her about. I say that it is time the
men stepped tehing women what they
ought and ought not to do and trusted
them a little more." ?
Another woman put in a word about
smoking in foreign countries.
"I never heard that the race had
deteriorated in Eng and where women
have smoked for years," she said. "In
all European countries I have seen
women smoking and I cannot discover
that as a race they are inferior to us.
"Before I went abroad I admit I was
a young Puritan and I thought it was
terrible for women to smoke, but since
I discovered that smoking is not a
crime but a mere custom, and that all
classes of women smoke in Europe, I
have altered my views. I do not smoke
myseif. I don't care particularly about
seeing men smoke, but if it is all right
for them it is no crime for women
tither."
Thinks Men Need Attention
Mfss Mary L. Wood, chairman of the
legislative committee of the federation,
said that there were many worse things
in the world than smoking to which
the Methodist Episcopal Church should
direct its attention.
"I am tired of hearing so much about
the habits of women and their effect
on the race," she said. "If we paid
some attention to the bad habits of men
which injure future generations the
race would beneiit quite as much as
from this excessive safeguarding of
the habits of women. Tne mental de?
fectives and congenital criminals are
just as much the father's fault as the
mother's and they are not the fault of
smoking on the part of either."
Mrs. Olive ?tott Gabriel declared
that until the question of smoking came
?.p officially before the convention she
had no opinion to express.
'"We never had a woman smoke in the
lonvention," she said, "so I don't think
we need to worry about it yet."
Serb Children Cry for Help
Americans Asked to Assist Mul?
titude of Neglected Orphans
Dr. Tugemir Alaupovich, Minister of
Religion of Serbia, has written to the
-ational Birthday Committee of the
oerbian Child Welfare Association of
America, urging immediate help for the
children of his country.
"We are left naked,"*says Dr. Alaupo?
vich. "Our cities are ruined; our vil?
lages burned to ashes. Hundreds of
children saved from death are orphans,
neglected and unrated for. The tree
of our national life is in imminent,
danger of dying out, and of depriving
us and the entire civilized world of the
fruit which it could and should bring
forth.
"Can you. therefore, do any deed
more noble than to save our children,
to set them upon their feet, to
strengthen them mentally and physi?
cally and to bring unto them and unto
our sick and. needy ones the love of
the noble American people?"
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She received last month at the Hotel St. Regis the order of Queen
Elizabeth from King Albert of Belgium in appreciation of her work for
that country and France. Baron Cartier de Marchienne came on from
Washingt n to present the medal personally at the special request of the
Queen of v.he Belgians.
Mr. and Mrs. Hildrup will sail from -New York for Italy early in
the spring to join Mrs. Hildrup's sister, the Contessa Bocchi-Bianchi.
They will make their future home in Florence. For the last four years
they have been at the Hotel St. Regis.
The Stage Door
"Mamma's Affair" moves from the
Little Tluatcr to the Fulton to-night,
replacing "Big Game" at the latter.
Last night actors- and actresses now
playing in New York attended a spe?
cial performance of the Harvard prize
piay.
At the Theater Parisien to-night the
last offerinr of the season will be pre?
sented "Miss F?rt," by Andre Mauprey
and Robert Casadesus, besides a one
.;ct comedy.
The Workers' Theater Guiid will
start a two weeks' season of three one
act plays at the Princess Theater to?
day.
George C. Tyler announces that he ?
will present Helen Hayes in "Bab,"!
a dramatization of Mary Roberts Rine
hart's stories, at the Hollis Street The?
ater, Boston, on February 1C, and on
February L'3 at Baltimore Emily Ste?
vens in Philip Moeller's "Sophie."
Blanche Ring, after a week's illness,
returned to "The Passing Show of
1919" at the Winter Garden Saturday
evening.
The Theater Guild announces that
"The Power of Darkness" will be with?
drawn from the Garrick Theater on
February 21 and will be followed by
"Jane Clegg," by St. John G. Ervine,
with Margaret Wycherly in the leading
role.
Maurice Maaterlinck attended the
performance at the Capitol Theater
last night as the cuest of honor of a
box party given by Felix Isman.
"The Passion Flower" has two more
weeks at the Greenwich Village The?
ater before being removed to upper
Broadway. A new "Greenwich Village
Follies" will replace it.
Serge Borowsky, barytone from Mos?
cow, who has just arrived here with
the Russian Isba, sang-at the Russian
Cathedral of St. Nicholas, at Fifth Ave
nue.and Ninety-fifth Sireet, yesterday.
George Marion has been engaged by
Walter Hampden for the principal sup?
porting role in Percy MacKaye's play,
"George Washington." He was in
"Toby s Bow" last season.
Harry Ashford, now acting in "Scan?
dal" at the Thirty-ninth Street The?
ater, is to appear in "The Tragedy of
Nan," which is to be revived^for mati?
nee purposes.
Beth Martin, a daughter of Riccardc
Martin, and Madame Ruano Bogislav
will appear, with Walter Hampden in
"George Washington."
Marc Klaw has engaged Else Alder
to play the part of Mable in his
musical production "Dere Mable,"
which will appear on Broadway early
next month.
Gordon and William Dooley will re?
appear to-night in the Morris Gest
Midnight Whirlon the Century Roof.
Laurence Housman, English poet and
playwright, will read one of his plays
to the members of the New Yotk
Drama League at the Plymouth
Theater to-morrow afterioon. Miss
Rachel Barton Butler, Miss M?rgalo
Gilmore and Mr. Glenn Hunter will
discuss "Youth in the Theater."
Walter Hampden has begun re?
hearsals for "George Washington." The
total forces will number more than
seventy and ther? will be an elaborate
scenic equipment, designed by Robert
Edmond Jones. The play will open at
the Belasco Theater, Washington, on
Washington's Birthday.
"The Powder Puff Follies," an all
girl revue, opens at Moss's Broadway
Theater to-night. The theater will be
closed this afternoon.
The American Academy of Dramatic
Arts will present "The Strickland?,
by Allan Monkhouse, and Oscar M.
Wolff's one-act comedy, "Where But
in America," at the Lyceum Theater on
Friday afternoon. *
Daniel Frohman, .president of the
Actors' Fund of America, has gone to
Palm Beach to organise a monster en?
tertainment in behalf of the Actors
National Memorial.
F. Ray Comstock has departed for
weeks, he will put into rehearsal "The
Checker Board," by Fred and Fanny
Hatton, and "The Cave Girl," by
George Middlcton and Guy Bolton.
The memorial committee of the
Grand Army of the R ?public, 150
strong, will see "The Copperhead at
the Rivoli Theater to-morrow after?
noon as the guests of Hugo R'.es'n
i'eld. The sgldier guests will see
themselves as prominent figures in the
drama. Hfl
Lionel Atwill, leading man for
Frances Starr, in "Tiger, Tiger" and
Miss Else Mackay, who created tho
? r?le of the governess in "Carence,"
were married in Chicago on Saturday.
Percival Knight and Roy Atwell
announce that in future thev will ac?
cept only joint engagements. This
anises from their success in "Apple
Blossoms," where they appeared for
the first time in the same production.
m
"Parsifal" in English To
Be Sung ffext Week i
Text of New Version To Be
Given at Metropolitan Is
by H. E. Krehbiel
Wagner's "Parsifal," with English
text by Henry Edward Krehbiel and
entirely new scenery by Joseph Urban,
will be restored to the Metropolitan
Opera Company's repertoire at a spe- ?
eial matinee Thursdav afternoon of !
next week at 1:30 p. m. The cast will !
include Mmcs. Matzenauer, Gordon, |
Ellis, Ingrain, Sundelius, Dcla?nois,
Mellish and Tiffany and Messrs.
Harrold, Whitehill, Rothier, Didur,
Ananian, Bada, Dua and Laurenti.
Mr. Bodanzky will conduct.
The sale of seats for the "Parsifal"
performance begins to-day. Already
the regular subscribers to the opera
reason have retained two-thirds of
the house. The demand for tickets
promises to rival the demand for the
first "Parsifal" performance in New !
York, December 24, 1903. The usual
prices will prevail?$7 to $1, plus war
tax. Mr. Conried applied a $10 rate.
Other operas next week will be "II
Barbiere di Siviglia" this evening, with
Mmes. Barrientos and Berat and j
Messrs. Hackett, de Luca, Mardones,
Malatestn, Audisio and Reschiglian.
Mr. Fapi will conduct. j
"Manor Lescaut" Wednesday even- I
i ing, with Mmes. Alda and Ingram and
Messrs. Caruso, Amato, de Segur?la,
d'Angelo, Laurenti, Reschiglian, Bada,
Paltrinieri and Audisio. Mr. Papi will
conduct.
"Rigoletto" Thursday evening, with
Mmes. Barrientos, Perini, Berat and
Egener and Messrs. Hackett, de Luca,
Martino, Ficco, d'Angelo, Reschiglian
and Paltrinieri. Mr. Moranzoni will
conduct.
"Madama Butterfly" Friday evening,
with Mmes. Farrar and Fornia and
Messrs. Martinelli, Scotti, Ananian,
Reschiglian, Bada and Audisio. Mr. !
Moranzoni will conduct.
x"Le Proph?te" will be next week's
Saturday matinee opera, with Mmes.
Muzio, Matzenauer, Mellish, Tiffany,
Arden and Egener and Messrs. Caruso, j
Rothier, Mardones, Ananian, Reschig?
lian, Dua, Picc.o, Schlegel, Audisio and j
Paltrinieri. Miss Galli and Mr. Bon
figlio will dance. Mr. Bodanzky will
conduct.
At next Sunday night's opera con?
cert Toscha Seidel, violinist, will play.
The Misses Evelyn Scotney and Jeanne !
Gordon and Jose Mardones will sing.
The orchestra will be under the di?
rection of Richard Hageman.
? I
Galli-Curci 111; Concert Off ,
Persons who went to the Hippodrome
last evening expecting to hear Mme.
Amelita Galli-Curci and the orchestra
of the Chicago Opera Company found
a large placard at the door which read:
"No concert to-night." Officials of the
theater said that, owing to illness, tha
singer was unable to appear, and that
as no artist had been provided as a
substitute the concert would not take :
place. ? j
Hyinan Rovinaky in Recital
Hyman Rovinsky displayed an agree
able touch and more than ordinary
ability at his piano recital in the Prin?
cess Theatre yesterday afternoon. His
program was pleasantly unconventional,
including pieces of Ravel, D'Indy, De?
bussy and Korngold. Mr. Bovinsky's
playing showed a sympathetic under?
standing of modern French music, and
he was particularly successful in his
interpretation of Ravel's charming
Sniptln*?.
Hof matin's Magic
At Piano Enthralls.
Capacity Audience
Master Caps Afternoon of
Triumph With Informal
Display of Digital Dex?
terity That Astonishes All
By H. E. Krehbiel
Mr. Joseph Hofmann* entertained,
charmed, edified and astounded a vast
congregation of the lovers of piano?
forte music in Carnegie Hall yester?
day afternoon. We would have said
a congregation of Hofmann enthrsi
asts if the terms were flot convertible,
for a lover of the pianoforte and of
music who is not also an enthusiastic
admirer of Mr. Hofmann, if he ex'sls,
is too rare an individual to be sought
out in the latitude and longitude of
New York.
The multitude that filled the stage
as well as the biff audience room yester?
day had evidently come prepared to
hear anything and everything which
Mr. Hofmann might offer, though it
made several pretty obvious den on
strations that its largest desire was
in the direction of the tnings which
were technically amazinpr. This pen?
chant Mr. Hofmann refused to hu.nor
in'i) he had finished his set prog.'am.
Then, having already played an hour
and three-quarters, with but a single
intermission of a few minutes, he
added an impromptu concert, lasting
half an hour longer, to the great de- !
ight of 200 curiosity-seekers, who pre
"crred to stand in a crowd near the
<tagc and stare at the performer,
ather than to hear the music in cont?
ort from their seats and yield the
??ime privilege to saner and more I
?date listeners. For their benefit Mr. I
of mann did a variety of digital feats i
rid seemingly amused himself by keep- |
rig them in wonderment as to what!
10 pieces were with which he regaled j
? cm for of all his added numbers only
?e (Chopin's C sharp minor waltz)
as generally familiar, while Mosz
?wski's "Juggler" was known to con
oisseurs, who, however, made up a !
arge element of the audience. The j
rest were compositions of his own, j
though they have been tagged with his
pen name, "Dworsky." Among them '
was an amusing and bril iant caprice
in the tones of the common chord
which he ca'.'s "Sanctuary" and which ,
has a sort of autobiographical signifi- j
canee, the familiar series of tones being |
those given out by the dinner chime,
the tocsin of the soul, in his home in j
the South.
A mispiint in the hiuscbill c-edited
an elfish prelude in A minor, cotnpo ed
by Rachmaninoff, to Scriabine, who was !
represented In the lis-1 by two studies. >
After a second of these there was a :
persi' tent demand for a repetition, or !
something more of the same sort, but
Mr. Hofmann's expressed purpose was
next to ring the fa:ry-bells and open
the eyes of the winking Mary-buds
with Liszt's transcription of Schibert's
"Haik! Hark the Lark." and from th's
he wise'y refused to be diverted. After
the exquisite serenade he played, as
the concluding number of his list, the
same mnster's transcription of Schi?
bert's "Erlking," with the thunderous
rushing octaves from the left hand, I
which the last geneva'ion heard frira
his master, Rubinstein?and having
heard will never forget.
The pianist's first group consisted of
Beethoven's sonata in C, op. 5.3 (the
"Waldstein"), Debussy's "Soiree en
Granade" and the "Perpetuum Mobile"
by Weber. Here was a striking study
in contrasts, the sonata- music for
music's sake, with the pianoforte sim
p-y a vehicle music which worked a
mood, and a Moorish picture floating
about in a harmonic mist which arose
like an exhalation from the insirument,
and music for technical display. In
the sonata (strange that there should
be occasion to remark such a thing)
it was gratifying to hear a proper ac?
centuation of the deep bass tone which
is the initial note of the th<_nie of the
rondo, and to hear its rhythmical sig?
nificance emphasized throughout the
movement.
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Going On To-day
DAY
Metropolitan Museum of Art; admission;
25 cents.
American Museum of Natural History, ad- ,
mission free.
American Museum of Safety; admission,
25 cents. ,,
Van Cortlandt Museum; admission 25 j
conts.
The Aniiarium ; admission free.
Zoological Park; admission free. ,
Meeting of the American Sugar Refining ?
Company, Hotel McAlpIn, 9 a. m. ,
l.uiuhfon of the Railways Signal Associa- ;
tlon, Hotel McAlpln, 12:45 p. in.
Meeting of the New York City Mothers
Club, Hotel McAlpln, 2 p. m.
Meeting of the Dames of Loyal Legion, :
Hotel McAlpln, 2 p. m.
Luncheon In honor of Dr. Domingo E. Sal
aberry, Minister of Finance of the Ar
gentlne Republic, Bankers' Club, 12 !
noon. . _,
Meeting of the Professional Elementary
Teachers' Association. Public School 27,
Forty-second Street near Third Avenue,
Meeting of the Daughters of Ohio in New
York, Waldorf-Astoria, 1 p. m.
Address by Prof. Zueblin on "Reconstruc?
tion?Woodrow Wilson," Carnegie Hall,
11 a. in. ?, ,
Meeting of the First Church of Divine
Science, Waldorf-Astoria, 2 p. m.
Catholic Summer School Bazar, Waldorl- ,
Astoria, all day.
Meeting of the National Round Table Inc, ;
Hotel Astor, 1:30 p. m.
Meeting of the Clio Club. Hotel Astor,
2 p. m.
Meeting of the New York Philanthropic
League, Hotel Astor, 2 p. m.
Meeting of the Society of New York State
Women, Hotel Astor, 2 p. m.
Meeting of the Chicago Women's Club of
New York, Hotel Astor, 2 p. m. .
NIGHT
Dance and dinner of the International
Paper Company, Hotel Astor, 8 p. m.
Meeting of the Knights of Columbus, Hotel
Autor, 8 p. in.
Meeting of the Ray Current Events Club,
Hotel Astor, 11 p. m.
Meeting of the Paint Manufacturers' Asso?
ciation, Hotel Astor, 9:30 p. m.
Meeting of the International Association
of Master House Painters and .Decorat?
ors, Hotel Astor, 8 p. m.
Meeting of Certified Public Accountants,
Waldorf Astoria, 8 p. m.
Meeting of the United States Catholic His?
torical Society, 346 Convent Avenue, 8
tion, Blltmore Hotel, 7:46 p. m.
Entertainment of the PatrolmenlSs Benevo?
lent Association, Hunt's Point Palaoe,
163d Street and Southern Boulevard,
8:15 p. m.
Entertainment and reception of the 12th
Assembly District Republican Club of
Brooklyn, Prospect Hail.
Dinner of the Congregational Club, Hotal
AlCiWlpIn 6 p. m.
Dance of New York Council 124, K. of C,
Hotel McAlpln, 8 p. in.
NIGHT
Address by former Municipal Court Justice
William Armstrong on "Women !n Poll
tics," at a meeting of the Women's Re?
publican Club of the 3d Assembly Dis?
trict, 26? Eighth Avenue, 8 p. m.
BOARD OK EDUCATION LECTCRKS
Manhattan
"The Railroad Question," by Professor
Nelson P. Mead, Washington Irving
High School. Irving Place and Sixteenth
Street.
"Venice. Queen of the Adriatic," by Mrs.
Eva B. A. Adams, Public School 4C, U56th
Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Illus?
trated.
"The Romance of Leather Making," by
Roy S. Bonslb, Public School 69, 121
Bast Fifty-seventh Stret. Illustrated.
"National Development and Reforms of
Peter I," by Nicholas M. Lublmov,
Publio School 62, Hester and Esses
streets.
"Our Great Northwest," by Robert C.
Weyh. Public School 167, St. Nicholas
Avenue and 127th Street. Illustrated.
"Decisive Moments In the Civil War," by
William B. Cotnpton. Publio School 1S6,
226 West 108th Street.
"Lincoln and Other Poems," by Edwin
Markham, Pilgrim Hall, Fifty-sixth
Street and Broadway.
"Care of the Byes," by William H. Bates,
M. v., St. Columba Hall, 34t West
Twenty fifth Street. Illustrated.
"Current History." by Oeorge A. Hastiosa,
Public School 53. 168th Street and Find?
1?? *i-?nn?. Th? lDrnuT,
Cornell Will Advertise
In Campaign for Funds
Newspaper Displays To Be Used
by Committee in Quest for
$10,000,000 Endowment
Cornell University's endowment com?
mittee in this city will start to-day
making use of newspaper display adver?
tising in its campaign for a $10,000,000
furid. The advertisements will tell of
Cornoll's achievements and needs and
arc the gifts of friends of the univer?
sity. Frank S. Washburn, chairman of
the endowment committee, declared
yesterday that the project was "a dis?
tinct step forward in the use of the
relatively new public relations adver?
tising."
"The campaign which we have
planned for Cornell," he said, "is dis?
tinctly public relations advertising. A
university is a vas^ public service cor?
poration in the very best sense of the
word. The result of Cornell's pioneer?
ing in education has made her a pro?
ducer of producers, an engine of
vast protcntial strength in supplying,
along with other great universities, the
trained intellects that form the basis
of the power of corporations to serve
the public.
"To bring this fact to the attention
of the general public, which is so
largely benefited by the work of the
university, is not only a distinctly
roper function of display advertising,
ut is an economic expenditure of
funds. .., -
"Cornell is famous as a pioneer in
education, particularly in combining
training in the cultural subjects and
training in the applied sciences, and
to non-sectarianism. This pioneership
has resulted in enormous benefit to the
United States."
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Campaign to Stimulate
Music Interest Planned
Industries' Chambers of Com?
merce Announce Gov. Smith
lias Been Named Secretary
A nation-wide campaign to stimu?
late appreciation of good music has
been decided upon by the Music Indus?
tries Chamber of Commerce as a result
of the success of Music Week, which
ended Saturday night.
Richard B. Aidcrofft, president of'
tlje chamber, announced yesterday the
appointment of Alfred L. Smith as gen?
eral secretary. Mr. Smith has been
manager of the industrial bureau of
the Merchants' Association. Mr. Smith I
said he purposes to work for a great i
expansion of the music industries.
The chamber includes the National !
Piano Manufacturers' Association, the |
National Association of Music Mer-1
charts, the National Music Roll Manu- j
facturers, the National Music Publish?
ers* Association, the Talking Machine
Jobbers, the National Organ Manufac?
turers' Association and the National
Band Instrument Makers.
Storm Delays Arrivals
For 'Junior' Prom at Yale
Formal Events of Annual Social
Week at New Have Will
Begin To-day
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
NEW HAVEN, Feb. 8.?Because of |
the snowstorm, which has delayed
Western trains, many of Yale's Junior
Promenade guests failed to arrive to?
day in time to join the contingent
winch attended the exercises at Battell
Chape!, which were conducted by the
Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt, of Brookline,
Mass. The women guest3 of the under
? riat" ??> -ith their chaperons, en?
joyed sleighing parties under ideal New
England weather conditions and took
part in informal "spreads" and teas.
.Among the arrivals were Miss Lolita
Armour, daughter of J. Ogden Armour,
of Chicago, with Miss Catherine Seward, j
of Boston, and Mrs. Swift, of Chicago.
They are the guests of Darrow Bruce
Fulton, of Albany, at the Cloister. Miss
.iiaoelle Wanamaker, of Merlon, Pa., |
is also at the Cloister.
The presentation of the wooden spoon |
will be revived at the Hotel Taft Tues- j
day night, when De Forest Van Slyck, !
of the Junior Promenade committee !
last year, will hand over the historic
souvenir to James Eugene Neville, floor
manager of the present committee.
The formal affairs of the week will
start to-morrow, when the class ger
mans, teas and receptions will begin.
Cortot Is Symphony Star
'Virtuoso Is Feature of Sunday
Subscription Concert
The program offered by Mr. Damrosch
at the regular Sunday afternoon sub?
scription concert of the New York
Symphony Orchestra, held yesterday at
Aeolian Hall,, presented no novalties,
but was one to command interest.
It opened with the "Egmont" Over?
ture of Beethoven, which was followed
by Mendelssohn's melodious "Scotch"
symphony, the d'Indy "Istar" varia?
tions and the C minor piano concerto
of Saint-Sa?ns, played by Alfred Cor?
tot.
After a truly inspiring performance
of the intricate d'Indy work, the music
.of the concerto seemed formal and al?
most stilted, but it was infused with
life by the fiery impetuosity which Mr.
Cortot brought to its performance. It
has pages of musical beauty and also
pages which seem designed almost
solely for the display of virtuoso
powers. Mr. Cortot's playing of it was
a veritable tour de force, and it was
besideS a musicianly interpretation of
the best that lay in the music. He re
cived applause that was almost an ova?
tion.
To Americanize College Degree
Plans for a movement to make spe?
cific knowledge of the American form
of government a requirement for a col?
lege or university degree Were an?
nounced yesterday by the National Se?
curity League. The new work will be
under the direction of a sub-committee
of the league's national executive com?
mittee. Dr. William Bradley Otis, of
the College of the City of New York, is
chairman.
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On the Screen
Acting of Lionel Barrymore
Makes "The Copperhead" at
the Rivoli a Success
By Ishbel M. Ross
"The Copperhead" has *been antici
atcd for months as one of the biggeslf
istoric films ever attempted by an
American producer. ItB release at the
Rivoli Theater yesterday was coinci?
dental with the opening of Lincoln
week. The acting of Lionel Barrymore
has made it a great picture. The fun?
damental grip that it undoubtedly has
on one is much'less due to the story
than to the magnificent way in which
he takes the part of Milt Shanks. It
j is doubtful if anything better has been
I done on the screen.
The scenario is faithfully adapted by
[ Charles Maigne from Augustus Thomas's
play which, in turn, was based on the
story written by Frederick Landis.
Four of the best known theatrical fam?
ilies in America are represented in
the Paramount-Artcraft picture. Li?
onel Barrymore has successfully trans?
ferred his stage interpretation of the
part of Milt Shanks to the screen.
Doris Rankin, who in private life is
Mrs. Barrymore, plays the part of
"Ma" "Shanks, which she also took on
the legitimate stage. Arthur Rankin,
a nephew of the Barrymores, shows
talent and promise as Shanks's young
son, Joey.
I The weakness of the picture is a
I certain note of falsity wherever Abra
1 ham Lincoln is represented. The im?
pression remain, that it would have
been better not to have had him ap?
pear at all than to make him behave
in a puerile fashion that neither digni?
fies his memory nor improves the pic?
ture. On the other hand, the historic
setting is faithfully done and is ef?
fective until toward the end o: the
picture, when it weakens in a haze of
needless flag-waving.
Lincoln is not the only great Ameri?
can figure appearing in the picture
that arouses applause. Theodore Roose?
velt is shown delivering his famous
speech with the statement that "we
are all Americans." TrTe G. A. R.
veterans parade in the closing scenes.
? The picture coyers a long period in
history, and the characters literally
grow old on the screen. So command?
ing is the figure of Milt Shanks
throughout that the story is entirely
incidental to the play of his emotions.
The character is subtly drawn. All the
principals in the cast seem to realize
the power of restrained acting. When
"Ma" Shanks (Doris Rankin) hears of
her son's death, instead of going into
hysterics she quietly picks up the
Bible, sits on her rocking chair and
waits quietly while the flame of life
dies within her own breast.
The background ior the story is
Millville, a village in Illinois. In 1846
Shanks is pictured as a young man liv?
ing with his wife and baby on a farm.
He wants to fight in the Mexican War,
but his wi.e holds him back. Fifteen
years elapse and the Civil War breaks
out. Milt Shanks, who has prospered
in the interval, refuses to enlist,* al?
though his sixteen-year-old son, Joey,
is one of the first to go. He is mis?
understood, jeered, persecuted. There
is a dramatic scene by the side of a
river where he is captured, supposedly
as a traitor who is aiding the South.
He is sentenced to be hfcnged, but
President Lincoln commutes the sen?
tence to life imprisonment, and later
he is released because of his son's
bravery in battle. His son is killed at
Vicksburg. His wife dies. He grows
old under a shadow, scorned and hated.
The tragedy of his life is summed
up in the sub-title: "For forty years
he never conceded a word of explana?
tion." With his dying breath, and to
save his daughter from losing her lover,
he at last gives away the secret he has
jealously guarded. He was in the
secret service on behalf of the North,
and at the special request of Lincoln
had ostensibly forfeited honor, loyalty
and love for the sake of the cause.
The Copperhead coin he had worn,
which branded him as a Southern sym?
pathizer, was meant to deceive. Al?
though thrice a patriot, he lived as a
traitor.
To throw the character of the silent,
suffering Shanks into relief is the :
handsome, warlike Hardy,, who is a
lieutenant at the beginning of the pic- ;
ture and a colonel af tne end. Will P. :
Carleton is quite masterly in this r?le, ;
although it does not give him much
opportunity for emotional acting. His j
part is chiefly spectacular.
Others in the cast are Frank Joyner,
Richard Carlyle, Leslie Stowe, N. I
Schroell, William David, Harry Bart
lett, Jack Ridgway, Major N. M. Cart- j
mell, Carolyn Lee, Anne Cornwall and '
Francis Haldorn.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address is read
by Forrest Robinson before "The Cop?
perhead" begins. The scenic setting is
a battlefield representing the close of
hostilities between North and South.
Harold Lloyd is seen in a delightful
comedy, "His Royal Slyness," in which
rakish-looking kings and queens let:
their crowns and ermine fall off, while
the proletariat hammers at the door, i
Needless to say, Harold is elected pr?s- j
ident of the republic that follows the
overthrow of the monarchy.
The organ solo is Lourdault's
"Scherzo" played by Professor Firmin i
Swinnen, and the overture is Riesen
feld's "American Festival March,"
which was written on the first anni?
versary of the Rialto Theater in April,
?1917.
Save for a serious Lincoln Week
picture, "The Land of Opportunity"
(meaning America), the program at the
Strand this week is inclined to be
flossy. In the first place, the heroine j
of the feature picture is called "Floss." |
Madge Kennedy takes the part bewitch- j
ingly. The picture is "The Blooming
Angel." It is far-fetched to the peint ]
of absurdity, but it is also thoroughly
amusing. The angel is more commer?
cial than romantic. It has no wings
with which to fly, for it is merely a
commonplace, cold cream that Floss
invents to make enough money to keep
herself and hubby.
It seems a pity that Madge Kennedy
almost invariably appears in idiotic
pictures, for she has good looks, vivac?
ity and charm on the screen. She might
be called the feminine counterpart of
Douglas Fairbanks in this picture, such
is the whirlwind part she plays. She
opens fire as the very naughty girl in a
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co-ed school who never has less than
a dozen males around her. Carlotfa
(Margery Wilson) is the studious, be?
spectacled young person who is wedded
to education and disdains the sight of
man. Needless to say, the two clash In
sundry ways/ and ?specially over a
hapless youth caller Chester Framm
(Pat O'Maliey), who is born with a pas?
sion for oratory. Floss quenches his
I longings by resorting to the childish i
tr , ?.f. ff'ving him something that will
make him sneeze when he rises to make
his first speech in public. Carlotta, on
the other hand, fosters his oratorical !
ambitions.
Lovo_, triumphs over learning, for
poor Chester finally is coerced into i
marrying Floss. Then begins a gay
life. They have a nickel between
them and some one has to buy the ?
family bread. It is only reasonable to
expect that Chester should get out
and orate or do something to earn a
living. Not at all. He leaves it to |
Floss. She invents, a patent cold j
cream and calls it "The Blooming I
Angel." Results do not come fast !
enough to suit her, so she uses her
cold cream on a real elephant, who
has come te town in the circus and
sends him abroad with a banner to
advertise her wares.
There are some complications too
ridiculous to be even recorded. FToss
ends up in court, vamps the judge and
induces him to buy $5,000 worth of
stock in her "Blooming Angel Com?
pany." As soon as she begins to pros?
per Chester smiles on her. although
he ha** abused her in the days of his
idleness and her aotivity.
The only wise or witty thing about
| this Goldwyn?picture is the remark
| made by Foss: "Falling in love is j
j like dropping into a pond. You can't
i tell which drop drowned you."
The Harold Lloyd comedy "His Royal
Slyness" is shown, and* "Out of the !
I Inkwell," a Max Fleischer picture.
i The overture is Liszt's "Sixth Hungar
j ian Rhapsody." Miss Aida Chapman
sings "The Swallows." The organ solo
is "Burlesque en Melodia." .
"Southland" Dull at Capital;
Joe Jackson a Lifesaver
Joe Jackson with his collapsible
? bicycle and familiar antics came as a
j welcome relief at the Capitol Theater
yesterday, following the musical part j
i of the program which is called "South- i
1 land," a large but dull offering. In it j
Stephen Foster's melodies are played j
by the Crouch-Richards Trio and H.
T. Burleigh's songs are sung by the
Capitol's male and female ensemble.
I The instrumental part of the pro
?r.-.m was arranged so that the
audience could Join Tn the singing of
"My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Folks
at Home" and "Massa's in the Cold,
Cold Ground" but, perhaps thoughts
'' of the recent blizzard were too de?
pressing, not a sound was heard from
the opposite side of the footlights.
No doubt the plantation dance and the
minuet will run more smoothly as the
week progresses, but there were signs
of lack of preparation yesterday. The
costumes worn by members of the en?
sembles were representative of the
period in which the songs were written
and the stage setting by John Wenger
was very effective.
From a plumber's shop in New York
City to Hong Kong, Singapore and
other places visited on a Cook-con?
ducted tour was the itinerary of Will?
iam Grogan, whose name and race give
the title "The Luck of the Irish" to the
Realart film. The picture is from the!
book by Harold MacGrath. Two stories
really run through the picture, the old'
story told by de Maupassant in "The
Necklace" and Grogan's infatuation
with and winning of Ruth Warren,
whose feet he had seen daily for three
years from his basement berth in the
plumber's shop. Ruth Warren is sail?
ing on the vessel to forget an un- ?
pleasant love affair and Grogan is sail?
ing, accompanied by "The Kid," his
ward, to spend some money he has in- ;
herited.
Trailing Ruth is Camden, the ras?
cally bad man, who is in the employ
of Norton Colburton, the "Pied Paper
Piper of Petticoat Lane," who has been
spurned for the first'time in his career
and seeks revenge. , Grogan senses
trouble* and becomes the protector of i
Ruth. He is waylaid in Cairo, she is j
made prisoner in Singapore, but Gro-1
gan fights his way free, locates her ?
struggling in the arms of Colburton !
and fights as only a big, powerful !
screen hero can. Colburton is almost :
killed and his body is used as?a weapon
agaihst a half-dozen coolies who are
sent crashing through a banister and i
down a flight of stairs. In the end j
Grogan marries Ruth.
The picture has many improbabilities
and technically is not altogether per
feet, but it is entertaining and full of i
action and variety^ James Kirkwood !
as Grogan, scores in the r?le of the
romantic fighting Irishman and Anna
Q. Nillson as Ruth Warren, the school
teacher, is also good.
A Universal comedy. "Reforming Rum?
pus Ridge,'' "The Land of Opportunity,"
Ralph Ince's Lincoln picture, Topics of
the Day, "Magic Clay," a Prizma pro- ,
. duction, and the Capitol News complete ?
the picture program. The orchestral
plays Victor Herbert's "Irish Fantasy.")
Arthur Rubinstein
Plays Brilliantly
At Ritz Recital
Pianist's Program Displays
Virtues at Their Best
in Varied and Novel
Numbers
Arthur Rubinstein is at his best at
such recitals as the one he gave yes?
terday at the Ritz, under the auspices
of the Ss/ciety of the Friends of Music.
Mr. Rubinstein is never truly satisfy?
ing with orchestra or even in the great
reaches of Carnegie Hall. It would be
unjust to call him a mieuraturist; he
is rather a Watteau among pianists,
and yesterday's program and surround?
ings were of a sort to display his
virtues at their best. His infinite feel?
ing for color, for dynamic gradation
and for the subtleties of rhythm were
offered full scope and were brilliantly
displayed in such playing, playing
which did not call for the larger archi?
tectonics of his art, he is superb.
His program was varied, novel and
interesting. The A major sonata of
Karol Szymanowski. one of the younger
Polish composers, is certainly a prom?
ising work, albeit still under the double
influence of Strauss and Chopin; while
the two manuscript compositions of
Manuel de Falla, a dance and a "Span?
ish Fantasia," were delightful in their
grace and color. Then there was Fran?
cis Poulens's "Movements Perp?tuels,"
Ravel's "Valces Nobles et Sentimen?
tales" and the final sc?ne of Strovin
sky's "L'Oiseau de Feu." In short, it
was a charming program, beautifully
piayed.
Pablo Caspls was the outside artist
at last night's concert at the Metro?
politan Opera House. The great Span?
ish 'cellist played the Lalo Violoncello
Concerto and also a short group as
only he can play, and the audience
showed its appreciation in warm ap
plause. In addition to Mr. Casals, Miss
Claudio Muzio sang "Ah, fors e lui"
and a group of sorigs, and Giulio
Crimi sank an air from "Manon
Lescaut" and "O Paradiso" from
"L'Africaine." The orchestra, under
the direction of Richard Hagerman,
played the overture to Chabrier's
"Gwendoline" and three Russian fairy
tales of Liadow.
Cornell to Celebrate Its
Spring Day Festival Her?
--^Plans are being completed for the
Spring Day Festival of students of
Cornell University which is to be
staged in the Grand Ballroom of the
Commodore Hotel, February 23 There
will be presented in the ballroom a
faithful replica of the campus f?te
which is held each spring on the spa?
cious library steps of the university.
The festival is to be a fraternal
event, planned as ?m eeting, or re?
union, of all Cornell men, past and
present,? who have become scattered
since the war.
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