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American Drama Crosses the Rhine In "Forbidden" Hrliiiors of Our Occupation of Germany Arc Best Part of Dorothy Donnelly's \r>? Play at Manhattan THE ("AST ,. .?-r-e ; Hiviim William K. Hatvourt jjujor Richard Flint, aiijirt^m to Genera] .f?t-,?: ko Connor lier O?grood.Hen Ta?sravt ire K no wies. John Rutherford \Vi ana Bryant ("Snappy"), John McKcnna ohn Piioth Lawrence aide to Genera] Slocum . . Richard Krir!??? ,r Edwin Brice, Interpreter?' Henry G?-orRe 1 uke O'Keefe .... N?elan I.cary tenant Vincent Moretti .W rilter Ahe'l Levy, New York City, . . Harry Bhutan . ? Bone Henrietta, Tex., Harold Salt.-. .Joseph Dunn .David Proctor Eckdorf, lieutenant. Head" Hussars, lm??vr?al .William Bail? s .?lohn Burkell Ji ( .Anien Paj c .Herman Gerold arde Schocnweji von dor . Martha >?edmn?r trude. Claire Mersereau Georsria Lucile Mooser .Hermine Shone .\nnette Westbay 1 - i? rin soldiers ? K?tch?>i By Heywood Broun ? mtic situation in Araor brought about by the oui soldiers in France. this was overtopped a ?2 later by the American occupation of Germany. The humorous possibili I y's difficulties with "vin rouge" have been I by now, and so titting and proper that we ?;? in which the dra tic c '< - about "verstehen i " . ? . liebe dich." "Forbidden," by Dorothy Donnelly, is the first ] the new school. It was . night at the Manhat tai Opera I - :':.r? ughout the play '?:'??-- ' idental is excel? lent. Mis ellj was an entertainer me that she also ' ? for the play is rich in e who had not actually secretary in action so di\ i rting a -ketch i the !i imboldt Feather of Miss P Then, too, the es? cond act is good, m to remember other crap gan bj which we have been harried, but this is least i . ?> venture in gam - .: rr ?? 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Burgess This book, with its 58 colored illustra ?ion? by Louis Agassis lurries, is by far 0? be?t bird book for children 1 have ever ?een." Dr William T. Hornada};, D. ttelor, \. t, V'ur?V Zcolo?kal Soc?e/y, tZSOntl. Al All ?lookulhr?. UTTLE. BROWN & CO. Publier,, BotVo. Her Bet rot lud Announced Miss Helen Louise McGovern Her engagement to Robert Fraser Cruickshank, of New York and Big Indian, N. Y., has been announced. Miss McGovern is at present with her father, Thomas Y>. McGovern, o? 995 Madison Avenue, this city, at their place in Rio de Janeiro. all mrinner of effective minor topics in , her first two acts her main plot is not faring so well. For two acts it seems a rather labored story, utilized merely as a thread upon which t?> hang the ! various amusing observations of dough- : boy life. We rather think that no American playwright of tire war has been so successful m picturing' our soldier habit of mind and speech. The lover affair of Lieutenant John Booth' Lawrence and the Countess Hildegarde | Schoenweg von dor Verde is not as con? vincing in its early stage.-. They are in love because ?he playwright wills it rather than through any very fetch? ing Staj l COUl ..: M ''cover, 1 ho cour ?? of ! ?ve b< .ween the American officer and the titled German miss is a: little too smooth for dramatic comfort. There seems to be no real obstacle until ti e last act. Then, by a device which is acceptable although by no | meana a marvel of skill, the German girl finds out that the young American ; whom she loves killed her brother in I battle. From this point on until the end Miss Donnelly's play has true dra- j matic intensity. The situation is faced fairly and squarely, and the best valuer- brought from it. Miss Donnelly plays fair'. She does not suddenly bring the German brother back from the dead or paste any other happy ending to her play. She lets her lovers part in a profound? ly moving scene, which would be much betUr il it were played without add? ing a child, who up to that point had not figured in the story. Martha Hedman was excellent as the countess, particularly in the last act, ' when she played with great force and | dignity. Richard Barbee, as her Amer- | ican fiance, was good, except, for his curious rolling gait, which is not pre scribed in the manual. William K. ; Harcourt helped the play greatly by his performance as Brigadier General Slo cum, and there ?.v? re good character! "tits :>\ Joseph Dunn, Herman Gerold! and Hermin? Shorn Young Pianisi Stores Phillip Gordon Shows Clear-Cut Technique and Fine Rhythm Phillip Gordon, a young- pianist who once was accompanist for Misc?ia El nif.n, and who gave a recital the latter part of last season, appeared again yes? terday afternoon at Aeolian Hall. Mr. Gordon is a pianist whose clear' cut technique and fine rhythmic sense are abundantly evident. Ofipoetic feeling there i: considerably less in Ins play? ing but of such things as Chopin's Etude, for black keys, and the B flat minor Scherzo and the Mozart B minor Fantaisie he gave well balanced and even brilliant performances. lie also played the Liszt B minor Sonata. The audience practically filled the hall and showed considerable enthusiasm. Doctors Urged to Use Music as ""Nerve Cure" Medical Conference Approves High-Grade Airs, hut Puts Ran on Jazz A movement looking to the greater use of music by the medical profession in the treatment of nervous and other bodily ar'monts was inaugurated yeh terday afternoon at a conference of physicians, nurses and laymen, held for this purpose in the auditorium of the De Witt Clinton High School. It was decided to assemble all possible data on the subject and to name a committee to place it before the County Medical Society at the earl?st opportu? nity in order t" obtain a ".ore wide? spread recognition for the Idea. Based on the experience of hospitals where it has long been the custom to provide high-grade music for patients and thus cheer them on their way to health, it was agreed by those taking part in the discussion that as yet com? paratively nothing has been' done in a professional or scientific sense to de? velop the use of the music curative. ?>r. S ? f ? ? Bloek, r, no o.'ical ex? pert at Bellevue Hospital, who pre sided irver the discussion, told of in? stances within his own experience where music had been highly effective in allaying nervous disorders and where it was of inestimable benefit in the treatment of other diseases. That the practice of playing for sick and wounded soldiers near the front and at baso hospitals had also demon? strated the valu?1 of the auxiliary treatment was another point made by ? speaker. Direct r Charles I). Isaacson sug? gested additional conferences in the near future and that all present en .-. ' tl emselves nto a temporary or? ganization for the purpose of assem? bling data and arousing a greater in? terest on the part of the medical fraternity. His suggestion was carried and Dr. Blutk was selected as chair? man, the next conference to be held in January. C. E. Williams, editor of "Physical Culture Magazine," declared the great? est handicap in the adoption by the physicians of the music cure was their professional reluctance to innovate new methods into their practice. This should be offset, he said, by a cam? paign of facts and publicity for the people. "It is well known," ho added, "that music of the .Hungarian variety is bist calculated to stimulate, and, on the other hand, that sad music has the opposite effect. Jazz music. I be? lieve, is not bcnelicial to any one who | is ill; rather, it is inclined to make ' an ill person worse." "The critics who refuse to believe that Sir James B?rrie had any hand in the humor of THE YOUNG V1S1TERS may oder as evidence the 4Diarv of a Little Girl in Old New York' m Valentine's Ml Of Old anual n^y?,* Edited by Henry Collins Brown." New York Sun Editorial. December 21, 1 9J !> Four numbers of the Manual, a unique Christmas Gift, in sprrial case, cloth binding, $30.00. Single numbers sold separately $7.50 each. In full leather binding, $65.00, in ease. Separate numbers $15.00 each. At all Bookshops or IS East 40th Strict. 'Telephone 5948 Murray. WHERE YOU MOST WISH TO PLEASE, GIVE Conrad in Quest of His Youth By LEONARD MERRICK, whose books, says the jv?*. York Times, "assure him a position in authordom similar to that held by Maude Adams in the theatre? as the author of charm." Sow obtainable in any Bookstore, or may be ordered direct from 1 ?i!?1 5 E. P. DUTT0N & CO. %BP&$2* Ou the Screen Christmai? Spirit Marks New Capitol Review, With Marie Doro in Feature Picture By Harriette Underhill The fact that this is Christmas weck \ is emphasized at the Capitol Theater with a program full of Christmas trees ? and Yuletido greetings and things of that sort. The feature picture stars Marie Doro, nnd is called "J2:10." In view of the fact thut that is the time when Santa Claus is supposed to come, down the chimney and fill one's stock? ings, we naturally supposed that the title referred to something of the kind on the screen, but not at all "12:10" is a real melodrama with a mystery which sets you to guessing "Who killed Cock Robin?" in the approved style of '18 and '19. As wo really con? sider the feature picture the weakest | number on the bill, wo shall deal with that last. The new program is such a direct departure from what the Capitol has been presenting that it seemed almost too good to be true. The old revue was a complete entertainment in it? self, but in our opinion it bad no placa in a picture palace, and that is ! really what the Capitol is. It was much too big and confusing, so that : the best picture in the world came as ? an anti-climax. The program opens with Arthur ; Pryor's Band, which rendered "Forza ? del Destino" and "Slavonic Rhapsodic." Then came "Romeo's Dad," one of the Stage Woman's War Relief pictures,' starring Tom Wise and Gail Kane. This has a real scenario written by i Calder .lohnslone, and is the most in- j teresting of the scenes presented so ? far. The Russian Cathedral ?-juartet ! were heard in "A Romany Yuletido." ? with a stage set tint; by John Wengcr, which represented a gypsy camp, and for the time being all of the capital ensemble became nomadr. Tb^y of? fered "Mellinkoff's Serenade," "Wanka Tanka" and "Youth's Memories." .Next came a Christmas fantasy that is the most pretentious thing of the kind wo have. seen. The musical setting is from the Peer Gynt suite and the dances are by Pearl Regay, with a ballet arranged by Ivan Tar.ilf of the Ballet Russe. This is a truly beautiful conception. Of course the feature of the pro I gram was the appearance of David B'spham. He sang first "Ring Out Wild Bells" with a musical setting by Gounod, and as an encore the ever pop? ular "Danny Deever." Lucille Chal fonte sang twice and is still charming with her high Cs. ('ne picture which was shown we consider the cruelesl thing we ev r have seen. It is a Prizma in natural colors and is called "Tire Ghost of John Barleycorn." In it a man makes and samples all of the dear, departed drinks, like champagne cup, old fashioned cockta lir. mint juleps, clov r clubs and the rest, They showed up is natural as life in the real colors and the whisky sours and clover clubs were particularly desirable. The spectators received the picture good naturedly and applauded their favorites as they passed over the ba ?. Marie Doro has returned to the screen, and we consider her a misguided young woman. She always was over ! arch even on the stage, and add to this a black and white make-up, with eyes elongated out of all human proportion "?well, our advice to Miss Doro is not to make any more picures until she can make those eyes behave. In ihe first part of the picture Miss Doro is the daughter of a struggling French artist. A rich man rolling along in his limousine sees her in trou? ble and stops to speak to her. "I've lost my papa," she says. "Will you help me find him?" And looking off in the distance the philanthropist sees lather about to plunge unto the Seine. Considerately Shielding her eyes, he says: "Do not look." And then, with j no attempt to stop father's plunge or to i rescue him, he says: "Your father was I very tired and has gone on a lung jour . ney. We are both alone in the world j now." And they drive away and go to ; London, without doing a thing about ' father. And then Marie grows up an?! i the mystery begins. And so enthrall? ing is that mystery that when a dead man aros?? from his hier some one in the audience shrieked and every one ; else laughed at him. t j But the story has a happy ? nding, ; which is evinced by a heart suspended by two ribbons, each one held in the mouth of a dove. Somehow that heart and dove didn't seem like Herbert Brenon, and it was he who directed the picture. In our opinion, the program is the nicest thing the Capitol has done, and we were sorry to learn that it was for one week only. Next week will see the return of the Ned Wayburn girl i numbers, but they are to bo new num? bers. And the question is how can Ned Wayburn think of anything new in the way of girl numbers? In moving pictures Anne of Green Gables is just as delightful a young ooks DUTTON'S <&\JiftfljLVCnUQ pm:!:?,:..il;!"|B'ii??B"!?"'?I. ? :? ? ?? NOW ON VIEW AT PLAZA ART ROOMS, Inc. 5-7 East 59th St. (Near 5th Ave.) ? Edward P. O'Reilly. 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The story is laid in Prince Edward Island arid has a rural smack to it. A middle-aged couple living in a house called Green Gables take Anne into their home and hearts. She is a half starved little mortal, extremely plain and painfully freckled. What she lacks' | in good looks is more than made up in : imagination. She lives in a wonderful | world where princesses and knights abound and fancies know no limit. Once she is safely through her child? hood years she develops into a lovely girl, 1 'it retains all the piquancy that made even her freckles attractive. Her I imaginative power increases as she grows older, and one of the delightful incidents in the picture ?3 when she pretends lo be Elaine and sails soul folly down the river in a barge, half buried under flowers. This adventure ends in rather a damp fashion when her boy lover rescues her from the rapids. Adolescence and maturity show increasing beauty in Anne, and she manages to show considerable spirit even when teaching in a little country school. But it is the impression of a naughty, hungry, freckled Anne that sticks to one when it is all over and she has married the boy who used te carry home her schoolbooks. "Anne of Green Gables" may be sail to be a picture without a villain. 1' is true there is a dreadful Pie familj that causes Anne no end of trouble but at least they don't try to separat? her from her lover, which is the ac cepteil form of screen villainy. The.} coit?ne themselves chiefly to eatirij more than is good for them and t? chasing Anne's cow out of their corn. Paul Kelly is a success as Gilber Blythe, the bumpkin boy who love Anne and grows up into quite a pre sentable young man. Frederick Bur ton and Mareia Harris share honor with Mary Miles Minter in the excel lence of their characterization. The play the part of Matthew and Marill Cuthbert, the couple who adept Anni The picture is a Realart productior The scenario was written by France ; Marion and directed by William I Taylor. There is a Sunshine comed? "The Roaming Bathtub," and a Mut and JefF cartoon. The overture i "Raymond," with Frederick ftahlber | and Joseph Littau conducting. Englis Christmas caros arranged by Edwar Falck are ?i feature of the progran The organ , olo is played by Professe Firmin Swinne. For more than twenty-five year "111 Old Kentucky" Ira- been tourin from coast to coast, providing ab^u all the thrills it was deemed possibl to sandwich into one real, old-fasl ioned "mellow drammer." But it r< mained for Marshall Neilan, when h took the ancient yet ever new play t make a screen version for Anit Stewart to show just how many mm thrills could be jammed into 3,000 fc< of film, At the Strand this week "1 Old Kentucky" ?is showing probabl more shooting, wild riding and plai and fancy villany than has been see to the celluloid inch in many moons The story of "In Old Kentucky | which is probably known to evei theatergoer from coast to coast, is a herecl to in the main, although the are deviations hce and there in ord to show special "shooting scraps," | which every shot is followed by som i one "biting the dust" in approved fas \ ion. The mortality list of "In O \ Kentucky" would compare favorab with some of those sent out dtirii the late war. Of course, in the sere? version, as in the play, the "big" see; is the horse race which Madge wi with Queen Bess. This is an unusu bit of clever photography, doubly a predated after the long list of ster typed thrillers that have precede In fact, tiie "villany" was so consta and commonplace that yesterday's a dience tired of being thrilled a chuckled audibly instead. Special Christmas features are r ranged by the Strand for Christm week. Beginning to-day there will a children's revue produced by . Newburgcr called "A Wedding | Gooseland." The musical program i 'eludes a Christmas symphony arrang by Cecil Copping. Malcom McEachei basso, and Eldora Stanford, soprano, again ore the vocal soloists. There is something so extremely un English about, "The Miracle of Love,", shown at the Rialto Theater yestredny 'and supposed to treat of the life of the titled Britisher, that it is laugh? able in spots and improbable in it? entirety. It must be admitted that Wyndham Standing makes quite a pre- i Bentable nn?l restraimsd sort of duke, j Being English himself, he Iras more lor less of an idea how those things are ?lone. But every one else in the cast i is ridiculous or merely negative. The '< subtitles are especially blameworthy. They are sentimental and are redund? ant with supposed Anglicisms, such as "Eh, what?" "Old dear," and all the! 1 re-it of it. ?Lucy Cotton makes a thoroughly ; lovely and no -less thoroughly insipid ' Duchess of Harwich. She trails around i with yards of veiling and a languishing air, and sits sighing over her troubles on the chalk cliffs of Dover, where, ten ?chances to one, in real life she would ?be striding over a golf cours" with ' flat, heels and Donegal tweeds. She has been forced to marry the ?Duke of Harwich against her will. He 1 is no end of a scoundrel who keeps on ?taking paralytic strokes when the fair i duchess upbraids him. Ivo Watson '. plays the part of husband with skill and vigor. Lord Clive Culbert (Wynd? ham Standing) meets the duchess I without knowing who she is at a time ?when he is determined to smash tra ! dition by marrying any one he likes, ? titled or otherwise. He has vowed, somewhat melodramatically it is to be feared, that he is to be "captain of his r soul and master of his fate." Finding out who she is, he sustains a pen and ink affair with her and they are about to run away together when word comes that Clive's brother has been killed in an accident and that he, by r ghl of ?succession, becomes Duke of Cheshire. ?Soon after, the Duke of Harwich <\.<<*. ?In the ordinary course of events it | might be expected that the two lovers ?would then get married, but as the ; Duke of Cheshire must have money ? and the Duke of Harwich willed all his away from his wife, it ends by Clive ? getting engaged to an American heir? ess. Thirrgi-i look pretty blue for the I widowed Duchess of Harwich, when I Howard McClintock (Edwin EarleJ | arrives from Chicago and uses ca"" 1 man methods on the American heir's-. ?He isn't going to let her sell herself I to any duke for she happens to be hi? best girl. That disposes of Cornelia ! Kirby (Jackie Saunders). At identi? cally the same moment the Duke of Chesire is offered an ambassadorship. That gives him a job and a salary so, of course, he marries the disconsolate ' duchess. Things are too obviously maneuvered from beginning to end and one is convinced the duchesses and other potentates behave as nice duchesses never do. It is ?[ Paramount-Artcraft picture. i The original storj- is by Cosmo Hamil I ton and the scenario bv Adrian John? son. Robert >'.. Leonard directed it. There is rr Chrjstie comedy entitled "A ! Roman Scandai." The orga : - lo, played !?; Arthur Depew is Handel's | "Hallelujah Chorus." Paolo Gruppe i plays a solo on the cello, 'lire overture is from "The Merry Wives of Wind? sor," with Hugo R esenfeld and Lion Vanderheim conducting. The Stage Door Neither Bi'.lie Burke nor Elsie Janis will give Christmas Day matim Miss Burke intends to he hostess at a | party given for her daughter, Patricia, j at home, while Miss Janis decided "her i rang" was entitled to a real holiday at . their own homes. Each star will have a ? special matin?e New Year's Day. -Many large theater parties are sched? ule?! at different theaters for holiday week. To-night, at the Globe, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt jr. will be hostess to the entire corps de ballet, which will take part in the society Bhie Bird ball at the Waldorf-Astoria Friday night. At ? he Hippodr? me all the meml ers if t e Fifth Avenue traffic squad and ti r families are to be the guests of a well known society woman, who is giving the :big theater party as her Christmas gift ; to the policemen she passes each day j in her automobile. Members or' the cast of "Miss Mil? lions" will start out to-day fn m thf j Punch and Judy Theater to deliv r ? Christina-- packages coll :t< d I y the I players ?'or New York's poor. I "The Rose of China," now at the 1 y TERflUNE An ideal book to send at Christmas time to all your friends, to a young boy or an old boy, to every one who loves a dog?and a good story. $2.00 net. " 'Lad' carries more keen interest and heart appeal than any other volume of ihe kind written within ten years."?Eiening World, New York. " 'Lad' wins you the moment you are introduced "?Christian Science Monitor. "The manner of its telling is delightful."?Boston Evening Transcript. r?^oTseiKr E. P. 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I Among the changes in cast and new : engagements announced by various managers are:, Marcelle D'Arville, re-' placinp Eva La Gal?ienne in the Elsie Janis Revue; Margaret Greene, succeed? ing Madeline D? ?mar in "D?class?e"; Robert Edeson, engaged for "Mamma's Affairs," which is coming to the Little Theater: Kathlene Martyn, heralded as England's most beautiful actress, for the Nine o'clock Ziegfeld Revue; Miri? am Rattista and Paula Shay in "The Whirlwind," which opens at the Stand? ard to-morrow night; Grace and Ruth Stuart added to the cast of "The Little Whopper," and five ministers, the Rev. Drs. C. C. McCrea. of Ridgewood, N. J.; M. L Andrales, of Bound Brook; Charles Waldron, of Hoboken; W II. Hudson aCfi? Arthur Lucien, of Jersey City, who travo joined the gisrantic cast of the Biblical spectacle, "The Wayfarer," at Madison Square Garden. George Gaul, who will be one of 'he cast of Earl Carroll's production of his new romantic comedy, "The Way to Heaven," was educated for the minis? try but took up the stage instead. Yes? terday he occupied the pulpit of St. George's Episcopal Church, in Stuy vesant Square. Al .Toison begins his sixth engage? ment in "Sinbad" in greater New York tonight when "Sinbad" opens at the Crescent Theater in Brooklyn. Private performances will be given to-night, when "Sinbad" opens at the Forty-fourth Street Theater by Godfrey Tearle in "Carnival." The formal pub? lic premi?re will take place Wednesday night. Romain Coolus's comedy, "Les Bleus de l'Amour,'' will be presented next week by the Theatre Parision Com? pany. William Harris jr. is not going to be responsible it" a wave of biographical dramas engulf the American stage. That is. not any more responsible than he is at present, following his produc? tion of "The Lost Leader," with Par nell's life as its theme, and John Drinkwatcr's "Abraham Lincoln." Re? cently Mr. Harris ??as been asked to produce dramas built on the lives 01 John Keats, Whistler, Richard Wagj ner. Aguinaldo, George Washington, Richard Crokcr, and others. Althoue i Mr. Harris is still looking for accept? able plays, he has put the "nothing doing sign out for biographical dramas, for the present at ?east. "Robert," the municipal cat, whos? appetite caused Mayor Hylan to "tak?? his pen in hand" recently, is going to have a good Christmas dinner. Mayor or no Mayor. A fund of ??", .",0 has been collected by Pixuline Hall amont: mem? bers of the '"Apple Blossoms" company to make this certain. E. P. DUTTON & CO.. recommend for Christmas presents The Dickens Circie By j. w. t. ley. illustrated. $0.00 A picture of literary England that is the delight of Dickens lovers. 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