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SATURDAY, JANUARY , 1918
THE CHATTANOOGA NEWS
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MARY GARDEN INI
THREE PRETTY STARS OF ROTARY fLAY, "THE MAN OF THE HOUR"
CLASSIC, THAIS"
Anatole France Story Extrava-'
garitly Told-r"Treasure
Island" Next Kid Play.
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There Is a treat In tore for Chatta
nooga. "Thais," with the combined art
of Anitole France and Mary Garden,
and produced through the medium of
the Goldwyn company, promises, to be
one of the productions of fine season
well worth seeing:.
The production Is Miss Garden's
first appearance under the Goldwyn
management. . No expense has boen
spared that might - take from the
' glamor of the scenes, and those who
have seen "Thais"' in the opera or the
drama will know. Its possibilities as a
film extravaganza.
The action of "Thais" takes place
mainly in the city of Alexandria, at
the time when Christianity had ob
tained its fiist foothold on the civilized
world. Thais is a woman or rare
leauty but loose moials. Her convcr
slim by a monk, wlio sacrifices him
? self on the altar of his love, works out
a strong plot with a gripping climax
The role of Pahpnutius, the monk, is
played by Hamilton Revelle, an actor
of acknowledged ability. So it is that
tho story of a saint who became a
sinner and the sinner who became a
saint has been produced more elab
orately than it could have been staged
for opera or drama, and the prima
donna who has deserted her song for
the art of silent acting will afford
Chattanooga one of the treats of the
season.
Aaain a Fairy Tale.
Following close, on the heels of
"Jack and the Beanstalk" comes an
other production with a miniature
cart, "Treasure s Island," Stevenson's
classic that has thrilled the hearts of
childhood for two and now three gen
erations.
"Treasure Island" is produced by
William Fox, with much the same cast
of "Jack and the Beanstalk," and witn
Francis Carpenter ana Virginia Cor
bin In the leading roles. The exploits
of the terrible 'pirates are graphically
oortraved. and "Treasure Island" is
jald to be even better than "Jack tie
Giant Killer."
Other pictures for the week are
Charles Ray In "His Mother's Boy," at
the Alcazar Tuesday; Dorothy Dalton
in "Love Letters." at the same theater
Friday and Saturday, and at the Fine
Arts f&r the week are Earl Williams
In "The Balance Sunday and Mon
day: Jewel Carmen in "The Kingdom
of -Lova" Tuesday and Wednesday;
Olive Thomas in "Hetty Takes a
Hand" Thursday, and 'William S. Hart
In "The Primal Lure" Friday and Sat
urday.
POLAR BEARS AND SEALS
ENJOY THIS WEATHER
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Miss Clara Trotter will take the comedy role of "Cynthia Gat
Miss Betty Andrews, as Miss Dallas Wainwright, will play the rison." Miss Trotter does her part in a most excellent way and her
leading feminine role. Miss Andrews is one of Chattanooga's pret- colleagues will have to look to their honors, for Cynthia is liable to
be the star role.
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. If jit y
tiest'and most popular young society girls
A play that promises to be the best
given by local talent has been sched
uled for next week at the . Rlalto,
The Man of the Hour." It will be
produced by the local Rotary club on
Wednesday and Thursday,' Jan. 9-10.
The curtain for the evening perform
ance will go up promptly at 8 o'clock
and for the matinee on the afternoon
of the 10th at 2 o'ciock. On the eve
ning of Jan. 11 the play will be given
Mrs. E. F. Wheland, as "Mrs. Bennett," the mother of the
'mayor," has a most interesting character part.
at the Civic Center theater, at Fort
Oglethorpe, at 6:30 o'clock. Over two
thousand tickets have already been
sold and it is expected that everything
will be taken within the next two or
three days, including standing room.
It has been the privilege of a few,
principally relatives or intimate
friends, to be present at the closing
rehearsals of "The Man of the Hour."
Outsiders, whose only knowledge of
the manner of conducting stage re
hearsals have been acquired through
newspaper paragraphs and unprofes
sional gossip, may have supposed the
professional director to be a man with
a big voice on a megaphone, supple
mented by a vocabulary of expletives.
The few who have been permitted to
attend the Rotary club rehearsals will
be in position to disabuse the minds
of any one who may quote the sup
posed professional methods of teach,
ing people to act. A member of the
cast says: "In all of the weeks we
have been rehearsing, we have never
once heard Mr. Nobles' voice rise above
the conversational tone; only at such
times as he would be in some faraway
corner ol the theater, calling upon
some character or group of characters
instructions as to the carrying qual
ity of their voices. Himself a past
masUT of the art of reading and
character portraying, with a voice of
wonderful flexibility and variety of
tone, he has with great patience
coached each member of the cast in
conception, manner, intonations and
emphasis. His methods have made
each character vivid. The amateur
who could not do something worth
while under the direction of Milton
Nobles should stick to his task and
never try acting again."
Mr. Nobles sincerely dlssjalms
rredit for what he has accomplished,
but declares: "I expect the perform- I
ance of 'The Man of the Hour to be
equal to some of the best, and far su
perior to many other professional per
formances given by road companies.
The credit will be due not so much to
the director as to the material di
rected." In speaking of the cast, Mr. Nobles
said: "In the lirst pluce, the members
of the cast are ladles and gentlemen
of education and culture. I have not
had to teach them the meaning of the
lines tbey were speaking, or instruct
them in deportment. Hut over and
above all tit these things, there has
been the dead-earnestness of each
member of the cast. There has been
no trifling, no trtflers. On my ar
rival In Chattanooga ten weeks ago I
probably knew aa much about Rotary
as the cave men knew of Confuclon
philosophy. My contact with Rotary
has been highly educational. I have
never witnessed such loyalty and such
unselfish devotion to its furtherance
as I have seen at the weekly noon
meetings of the Rotary club. I have
looked forward to rehearsal days with
pleasurable anticipation, and I hon
estly believe that each member of the
cast has done the same. It has been
a labor of love all around."
Latest News in World of Book;
BY FRANCES PORT BROWN
New York, Jan. 5. Only polar bears
and eeals are enjoying the cold spell
here. Ring-tailed monkeys from Bra
zil, giraffes from Africa, hartebeests,
aardvarks and other animals from
tropical climates at the Bronx and
Central Park zoos are not. The exiles
from the equator were threatened with
death by freezing today until several
hundred requisitioned tens of New
York's coal supply arrived in time to
maintain their quarters at something
like a homelike temperature.
In the glass-roofed horticultural
Colonial Virginia.
By Mary Newton Stanard; J. B. Lip-
pincott Co.
Some one has said that "a good ap
pearance is a good introduction' The
connoisseur in books would take up
this big volume (not a bit too big)
with satisfaction. It looks, as it should,
important. The binding seems. colo
nial, the paper it is printed on is good,
the pages have wide margins, the text
" . . - - I io miKc bliu Licai, auu niu many uic-
gardens of the parks are thousands of ,.., nf H hint. frm
rare tropical plants, which also have old Dortraits and Drints. Simnlv to
been suffering from cold. An addl-
tUi a.l draft was made on the coal
supply to keep the plants blooming.
T
turn the pages seems like wandering
in a European gallery. Looking Into
these good-looking', intelligent faces of
people one would love to have met, is
sobering they so evidently had
brains and manners, these long-dead
men and women. But of course good
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a Uttle Musterole.
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Musterole is a dean, white ointmen
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Nothing like Musterole tor croupy chil
dren. Keep it handy tor instant use.
30c and 60c jars; hospital size $2.50.
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books are only an introduction, and ' ""u '"rr.u1B .inB
not merely from looks, but contents,
"Colonial Virginia" deserves a prom
inent place on the library shelf. The
author has been Indefatigable in go
ing to original sources for information
sources difficult of access and even
unheard of by most people. It requires
vatlons, so vividly set forth.
The manner of Max's coming- to
America is curious. A distant relative
who had emigrated to America returns
to his old, home In Rumania, well
dressed, brining many presents and
bragging of his success. His talk set
lire to much smouldering discontent.
As Max says, it became "fashionable"
to go to America. And not only to go
but "to walk." That is, one of those
curious popular movements took place
which are an enigma to the wise. The
town where Max lived was almost de
populated. Bands of hundreds who
had no money to take trains to the
seaports went, like pilgrims along
their way, being kindly treated by
people along their route who knew
about it and felt sorry for them.
It is good sometimes to see ourselves
as others see us. In Max's story we
New York
(the part the newcomer sees) to a
young European fresh from village life.
How dreadful seems the noise and filth
of the Ghetto! How rough the manners
of the motly crew he meets! What a
terrible disappointment, heart-breaking,
at first, is America! But this
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last begins to dream the American
dream himself, for he confesses that,
at last, it was his old friends and rel
atives in the Ghetto who seemed
strange and backward to him.
learning to know where to look. Any ! la.x h'9 to ""nce8As an? a
one who has dipped Into old records
knows that they have an Innate life
and charm that no fine literary art can
touch. Appreciating this, Mrs. Stan
ard' uses old letters, wills, deeds, etc.,
where possible, with just enough of her
own composition to make a coherent
whole, and her own contribution is in
the best of taste. She has been ably
assisted by her husband, William T,
Stanard, secretary of the Virginia His
torical society and editor of the Vir
ginia Magazine of History and Bi
ography. "Colonial Virginia" opens with a
short history of the settlement of the
state, borrowing largely from Capt.
John Smith's "Historle But It is in
tended for and is a very complete pic
ture of seventeenth and eighteenth
century life and customs. It is a mine
for the lover of old furniture, por
traits, and dress. There are dozens of
old "wills" which show how furniture
and silver, especially featherbods were
prized. And the author remarks in
this connection that "we must not for.
get that Shakespeare left his second-
hunt hPd to his wife." She thinks Vir-
s-inia husbands usually gave theirs
thA heat.
Collectors of book-print will enjoy
those, each with Its coat of arms. It
is easy to see that most pook-plates of
today show their descent In a certain
conventional formality and remote
likeness to armorial bearings.
It is a pity to read that, "gentlemen
and laborers alike, the vast majority
of the earliest emigrants to Virginia
died untimely deaths." It took as
much bravery as to go Into battle, the
settling oC America.
Mrs. Stanard has colieciea every
name possible of these ancestors of
ours even of the class usually left out,
the servants. Many hearts will swell
with pride to find there the family
name. May none discover one In the
servants' list It 1s difficult not to be
too enthusiastic over such a valuable
work as this. If every state could only
have a Mrs. Stanard. She has the
necessary combination of brains and
the tastes of the curator of a museum.
Or is it Mr. Stanard who has the tal
ents of the collector. A true collector
is Horn one.
An American in the Making.
By M. K. Ravage: Harper.
An extraordinarily Interesting bi
ography of a Rumanian Jew who emi
grated to this county at sixteen. The
prooess of becoming an American, as
he shows It, Is full of psychological
experience and change. It opens a new
world for thought and sympathy.'for
he human being torn loose from all
he Was known and cast into bewilder
ing perplexities. The account of the
mental suffering, which Is seldom real
ized, is added to the hunger and pri-
Th Raccoon Lake Mystery.
By Nevll Monroe Hopkins; J. P. Lip
pincott. A good mystery story for those who
love the marvelous. For thoso who
enjoy humor there is a strain of whim
sical comedy which is extremely pleas
ant. The learned professor, who is
coaxed into going- into the wilds with
his naturalist friend, stands snakes
and bugs and all kinds of varmints as
long as he can, and decides to return
to town, when enters the young
woman, pretty and bewitching.
The old bachelor tumbles head and
ears in love, at first sight, and finds
nature. Including frogs and mos
quitoes, an absorbing pleasure. He
stays In the woods and no boy of
eighteen ever was .more bashful or
tongue-tied when it conies to popping
the question. Of course, it is all exag
gerated, but with- the kind of exag
geration that makes one remember
similar types.
The anthor, Xevil Monroe, Hopkins,
as a Ph. D. and by profession an elec
trical and mechanical engineer. So he
is variously gifted. The intimate love
of nature and knowledge of animal
and plant life would point rather to a
professor of natural science than to a
practical engineer. To people who have
it In their blood to want to know what
family a plant belonprs to and whether
a mole really eats earth, worms or
corn, this feature of the story counts
for a great deal.
,"Le Feu" does not refer simply to
battle, but to the debasing influences
surrounding human beings forced to
live under the conditions of the Stone
Age. Every one may not be able to
'read Barbusse's book, so a few quo
tations may be in order. It is as well
to say that he knows what he writes
from personal experience. He dedi
cates his story "To the memory of the
comrades who fell by my side at
Crony and on Hill 119, January, May
and September, 1915."
First, as to how the survivors came
out of battle: "I look from face to
face; tin. are merry, and in spite of
the contractions of weariness and the
earth stains they look triumphant!
What does it mean? If wine had been
possible during their stay in the first
line I should have said 'AH these men
are drunk.' I single out one of the
survivors who hums as he goes and
steps in time with It flippantly, as.
hussars of the stage do. 'Hullo,
Vanderborn, you look pleased with
yourself!'
"Vanderborn, who Is sedate in the
ordinary, cries: 'It's not me yet, you
see! Here I am!' With a mad Jes
ticulation he serves me a thump on
the shoulder. I understand."
Later, when all are asleep, "Little
by little peace, silence and darkness
take possession of the barn and en
shroud the hopes and the sIrIis of
its occupants. The lines of identical
bundles formed by these beings rolled
up side by side in their blankets seem
a sort of huge organ, which sends
forth diversified Mioring." This
is pretty. A soldier calls another:
His!' he has a curious and rather
awkward air; 'I say,' he says to me,
affectionately but looking at his feet,
'a bit since you chucked me a box of
names (matches). Well, you are go
ing to get a bit of your own back for
it. Here. He puts something in my
hand. "Be careful,' he whispers; 'it's
fragile! Dazzled by the resplendent
purity of his present, hardly even dar
ir to believe my eyes, I see an epg!"
Now when poisonous gases come.
Says Farfadet, "'Why, yes, they're
dirty dodges, those gases.'
"'oii make me tired, retorts Bar
que, 'with your fair ways and your un
fair ways. When you've seen men
squashed, cut In two, divided from
top to bottom, blown into shreds by
an oidlnary shell, bellies turned In
side out and scattered anyhow, skulls
forced bodily Into the chest, as if by
a blow with the club, and in place of
the head a bit of neck, oozing currant
jam of brains all over the chest and
back you've seen that, and yet you
can say "There are clean ways!
" 'Doesn't alter the fact that the
shell is allowed At is recognized.'
"'Ah, la, la! I'll tell you what you
make me blubber Just as much as
you make me laugh.' "
In battle is this description: "There
Is fever in the eyes' and the cheek
bones are bloodrcd. Our breathing
snores and our hearts drum In our
bodies. 'Look out!' The shout means
that a soldier half way up tho steps
has been struck In the loins by a shell
fragment; he falls with his arms for
ward, bareheaded, like the diving
swimmer.' " v
And after the battle a fine soldier
cries: "Shame on military glory;
shame on armies; shame on the sol
dier's calling, that changes men by
turns into stupid victims or Ignoble
brutes," etc., etc.
But one must read this Iliad of the
present war. Mr. Uarbusse does not
seem to put much faith in one of the
vaunted by-products of it religious
feeling. He makes his soldiers quite
freely declare there can be no god
since He would not permit such enor
mities. He says in great stress men
become frank and 'tell their serious
convictions. He does not pretend to
be telling a pleasing story, but one as
he saw it.
COUSIN OF PROVOST
MARSHAL CROWPER
Chattanooga Will Furnish One
Notable Young Man to
National Army.
Tully Cornick Crowder is the name
of a registrant who turned in his
questionnaire to city board No. 1, and
as he made no claim for deferred
classification he wns put in class 1,
division A, which means he Is ready
for service in Undo Sum's urmy at
the very next call.
The significance In thl fct Is the
name, Crowder, and thereby bungs the
story.
Young Crowder claims that his fa
ther is a first cousin of Provost Mar
shal Crowder, head of the draft sys
tern, and, like his distinguished cou
sin, young Crowder is an enthusiastic
supporter of the draft law und is anx
ious to take up arms in defense of
democracy and liberty in this great
world war.
CHATTANOOGA GOT
COAL FROM STATE MINES
According to report of the state
board of control over 300 cars of coril
were shipped from the state mines at
Brushy Mountain. Tho riport says:
"During the lirst nineteen days of
DecKinber the mines received 210 coal
cars and shipped that number londed
with coal; they received fifty-two coke
cars and shipped that number of cars
loaded with coke.
"The supply of coal cars was forty
five short for this period and short
thirty coko cars.
"Under present conditions about 850
tons of coal can be mined- per day of
which approximately 800 tons of slack
iiuu iiuw uoui are cunvui tea liuo cokb.
Of this coal Chnttanooa received a
fair proportion and most of the state
Institutions were supplied. That com
iniir to Chattanooga was distributed as
follows:
Hamilton county, one car; Key
James Brick company, one ear; A. C.
Carroll, six cars; Kast Lake Coal com
pany, two cars; Walsh A Weidner
company, four cars; Union Tanning
coTiipany Chattanooga, Tenn., six cars.
COMMUNITY CHORUS
TO SING AT COURTHOUSE
The community chorus wilt meet, at
the courthouse Sunday afternoon at 1
o'clock.
The committee Is puttlnr on special
musical features at each meeting.
Mr. O'Hara will direct tnd the pub
lic is cordially Invited.
LABORERS WANTED
25 colored laborers want
ed at American Brake Shoe
and Foundry Co. (Adv.)'
By Henri
MRS. GEORGE WOOLEY, JR
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"THE AVENGING TRAIL"
A striking story of adventure set In the Northern lumber camps.
A Metro Wonderplay also Metro-Drew Comedy
"A CLOSE RESEMBLANCE"
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
John SWOR & AVEY West
I.te stars of Al G. Fields' Minstrels. Impersonators of tho Southern
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"Under Fire" ("Le Feu").
The Story cf a Squad.
Barbusse; E. P. Dutton
Company.
Some extracts from this extraor
dinary book were recently published
in The News, but attention cannot too
often be drawn to it The output af
books from the front has been tre
mendous, nearly all very good, but "Le
Feu" is one of those literary monu
ments rarely produced In any nation.
it is no wonder that over three hun
dred thousand copies have been sold
in France and that it has received the
prize . given every year for the best
book by the Academie Goncourt
It Is a ghastly picture, drawn with
the clear, fine toiich of the French
realist Like all great picti es. It has
a great, idea behind it "Under Fire" I
Is a striking title, but "1 Feu" (lit- !
erally "The Fire") means more than
that Sherman's i efiniuon of war; Bride of few weeks comes here from
would come nearer expressing the Cmaha, Neb- to live near her hue-
idea, but would not be a popular title! ' band, stationed at Oglethorpe.
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