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V V J &!$ "5 i I ened with the play which has-startled? I New York. "The Importance of Coming and Going" is the play, and it is by But ler Davenpart. He call's it "a satire on sacred sentiments." "It carries its own undertaker," is what a more dis interested critic has said of the much-talked-of production. For the play introduces a funeral t scene, and shows that while thought and money and ceremony are lavish ed on the passing out of a human life, men take no thought at all before hand to the coming of a life! Its tragic ending is a bitter in dictment of society for letting girls enter matrimony with not the least knowledge of what marriage means; and for tolerating the bringing into the world of new lives through ignor jance, lust and thoughtlessness. Edna Archer Crawford plays the role of the many-times divorced so ciety woman. o o , BUSINESS VS. WAR I went into a butcher shop ,And said: "When will this warfare stop?" But all the butcher had to say "Was: "Mutton chops are fine today!" Into the grocery I went -And talked of Europe's armament. The grocer slowly shook his head; '' "These eggs are fresh," was all he said. j And by and by it dawned on me pTKat in this country of the free ljV The wise men mind their own af- M fairs J And let the other lands mind theirs KJf- Detroit Free Press. h o o (- , ONE COMFORT At tea-time anywhere Yes, dar- jling, war is terrible, but isn't it a Ipmercy the military fashions are so becoming! London Opinion. oo Evidently the Eitel thinks interne about is fair play. SHE, "JtTNEYS'VFOR CHARITY AM) AIDS-SICK ACTORS Ttr.E'. JT"L Fv&e, , As Chicago's first woman "jitney bus" driver Mrs. Etta Mae Free is playing a headline engagement which will continue until May 9. Then all the "box receipts" every nickel collected in her six-mile route through the fashionable district of Chicago will be turned into the treasury of the American Theatrical Hospital ass'n, which is raising mon ey to build a hospital for members of the profession who are ill and with out money. Mrs. Free, who is the wife of a busi ness man. and a social leader, will use her own motor car as a "jitney" and she has designed a very attrac tive uniform for "jitney" wean if. -j t w. & n fl '5" $&0$djm US'i' i."wK2' tmgi