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12 BURBANK FARCE IS DAINTY SATIRE "WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD" IS CHARMING BANTER HENRY STOCKBRIDGE'S MERRY COMEDY SEEN AT ITS BEST Medieval Manners Match Modern in Ludicrous Contrast—Miss Reed May Quit Belasco After Current Week "When Knights Were Bold," a farce In three acts, by Charles Marlowe, staged by the Burbarik stock company Sunday matinee, June 27, 1909. THE CAST Sir Gut de Vere of Beechwood Towers .. . Henry Stockbrklge witt'le,' 'bis Valet Frederick Gilbert Barker, his Butler H. S. Duttteld diaries Wlddlconibe, a Country Gentleman Harry Mestayer Sir Brian Ballymote, an Irish Baronet J A. Byron Bcasley Mr. Isaac Isaacson, it London Financier. • William Yerance Bev'.'peter Pottlefcerry, D. D., Dean of Beechnoud John W. Burton Hon. Mrs. Waldeftrave < Louise Royee Her Niece*: * . „ Downs JSgglngton Blanche Hall Millicent Egßiugton Margo Duffet Marjorle Eggington Kdna E. Barnes Kate I'ottlelierrj, Daughter of the Rev. Peter Pottleberry Fanchon Lewi* Miss Isaacson Lovell Alice Taylor Alice Barker, a Housemaid Madeline Del Mar DREAM CHARACTERS Sir Gut de Vere of Beecbwood . Henry Stockbrldge Barker,' hi* Seneschal H. S. Duflield Wittle, his Squire Frederick Gilbert Widdk-onihe, his Fool Harry Mestayer iMwe of London, a Jew ... William Yerance Peter, the Monk John W. Burton A Herald Willis Mark. Mr Brian Ball.vmote A. Byron Beuslcy The Prioress Louise Koyce The Lady Kowena Blanche Hall Novices: M»« «. Barnes Marjorie Mna B. Harm- Catherine Fatrhon Lewis Millicent Murgo Duffet (sara. a Jewell Lovell Alice Tnylor Alison, a Waiting Maid. Madeline Del Mar Retainers, Henchmen, Novices, Mule anil Female Thralls. W. HERBERT BLAKE Somewhere, in his brilliant "Here tics" G. K. t'hesterton penetratingly re marks that we can really poke fun only at something in which we tremendous ly believe. As instances he might have cited such stock themes for derision as mothers-in-law, curate* and our ancestors. Perhaps this subtle fact is why the best men in the world are usually the most laughable, and Why the villains in life, as in melodrama, are never blest with a sense of humor. The only plays which are entirely bad are those which are utterly serious, and the only philosopher who ha* never been confuted is Democritus. All of which rambling observation gives us the clew to that delicious fan tasy. "When Knights Were Bold," with which the merry company of Burbankers replaced the doleful "Traitor" yesterday afternoon, and at which I found myself laughing quite indecently. It is safe to wager that Charles Marlowe, the playwright, is a keen admirer of the middle ages, for only a medievalist could Interpret 80 masterfully the spirit of Inner levity ■which masqueraded beneath buskin and hauberk and tonsured poll. Sir Guy de Vere, badgered to death by clamorous friends' demands that, he carry his newly assumed title with greater dignity, has a dream of those rainbow days of old romanic, and the extraordinary thing Is that he himself Is more romantic than any of the shades who rise to cloth? the person alities of his advisers. He is funnier than his fool and more vitally religious than Peter, the monk, the gray eas socked old prototype of the twentieth . niitury dean. For they are dream shapes, the reflection of the bodiless fancies of his modern friends, Who image the age of knight and prlo by their own feeble conceptions o\ valor and piety. Only as his blood#d manhood infects them do these shad ow.- of ancient England evince life. The glory of the modern world alone has power to resurrect the real glories of the medieval. And yet it needed Just this vision of the past to rouse Sir Guy to the lurk ing peril in his own position. Not un til he entered Dreamland and met his cousin Rowena as the cloistered Lady Howcna, pursued by his rival, Sir Brian, did he learn the worth of that lair lady or the covert cowardice of the rival. Without for a moment losing his grip on the good broadsword of mirth he manages in the scene of his awakening to wield it against Sir Brian and his co-consplrlng .lew abet tor i and his sober dismissal of them from their designs by a cool, "The car riage will be here at 12 to take you to the station." Is perhaps the most hu morous line in the play. For the dream teaches Sir Guy that romance is not a dead thing of Hank ing mail and "oda bodikins" argot, but a living tradition which links the real manhood of 1209 to its lineal heir . ■ , i'> years later. The light of the heroic present alone can limn the features of the "glorious past." Sir Brian, feigning a romantic enthusiasm for his own ends, Is unmasked at the last as a. pitiful weakling. His fatuous flunk, whin 1 of cheating at cards, explains why his ancestral shadow went down bo readily .before the absurd fistic attack of Sir Guy in the dream. Both hid their real weakness under the cloak of pre tense. Yet, ghosts as they are, the gay garbed folk of the' dream parallel very delicately the traits of their d( sceud ants of today. Mr. Duffleld's seneschal rightly differed in nowise from the patriarchal butler, who deplored his master's disregard for the conventions. Mr. Gilbert's 'squire was only a triile of seven centuries more obsequious than Ara"let Wittle. Only the spangles and a little more aged keg of demented British wit distinguished fool from fop, as Mr. Meatayer embodied them. Even that vivid contrast betw i medieval intolerance and modern hu manity displayed in the instance of the persecuting monk and the suffer ing Jew could not obscure the won derful continuity which binds church and clergy of any age with their spiritual forbears. And when Sir Guy, with clumsy humor, adopts the lan guage of his ancestors, the tongue of love proves little altered from the days when knights were bold. Indeed, the garb and talk of today seem as magical to the dream com pany as do their habiliments to us moderns, which is simply a hint that Hlchard the l.;on-Heart and Ivanhoe would find a walk down Broadway this afternoon a stroll into very fairy land. Lady Rowena, seeking shelter from the marauding Sir Brian, dis trusts the knight who wooes in evening dress, until he proves himself also a virile man, whose arms are as handy for fighting as making love. Converse ly, it is int. resting to ob erve how easily Sir Guy retains the tongue of his dream, when he poses- as mad to bring things to a climax with Sir Brian In the last act. Forced upon her, Rowena detests the bookish cant of a dead chivalry she but now adored, while perhaps some spark of fire from his stern churehly sire descends through the ancient sword lie dandles ami bids the dean cancel his .sordkl bargain for the restoration of the ab bey at the price of his honor as a man and a priest. It is these overlappings and lnter twinlngs of character which make the play a little classic of satirical fane, and' for the most part the Burhank company presented them discerningly. Mr. Btockbridge vises to his best recent opportunity With admirable restraint, resisting a temptation which constantly ms itself t" make the role one of io.i 1 id a comedy. The author has rather overdone the "silly ass" Brlt ticism, hut most of us laughed at every one, as .Mr. Btockbridge drawled theni out. At the climax of the first act, following the ludicrous business of the couch and the footbath, he puts a fine tone, half banter, half earnest, into his toast to his ancestors. A stronger quality of seriousness befits his words. "1 love thee," to Lady i na In the dream, fur in that mo ment the boy grows Into the man. The swift grin 'with which he concluded this speech marred its intended effect as a sudden Hash of real sentimei I (which even farce permits. Also it must be owned thai such words p.a ■■bum." "kidding," ■■joshing" and "yap ping," with which I fancy Mr. Stock bridge enriched the Marlowe lines. rather American than English slang. but perhaps this concession to the laugh factory is unavoidable. Mr. Beasley has a folne ripple of an Irish brogue, and in a thoroughly graceless rule made us quite sorry io see Sir Brian turn out such a cad. Mr Burton gave one of the few human picture! of an Anglican clergyman I have ever seen on the stage—not for getting Richard Bennett's curate in "The Hypocrites." Miss Hall did not leap Into life until the second act. but she played the thirteenth century dam sel with fire and verity. Miss Taylor, as the fair Jewess who would have made the ideal mate for Sir f!uy, did a good bit of acting, and is developing the ability to use her facial expression in portraying emotion, a talent the lack nf which marred her acting as the heroine in "Secret Service." Mr. Ter ance as the dream-Jew makes one wish Mr. Morosco would give him an opportunity as Shylock. All the minor roles are well taken. When Francis Wilson produced this play the respective dates of its two ids were 1X!I9 and 11 i«i». Today, of course, it is necessary to extend both these landmarks ten years, it would be well If the company would adhere to the program chronology, if only for consistency. Next week the Burbank will stage that good, gripping melodrama. "Sher lock Holmes," with William Desmond as the detective and Mr. Beasley as the "Intellectual" criminal. Mortality. At least, that is the announcement, unless the merited success of "When Knights Were Bold" exacts a welcome encore. • • • The Princess company tonight will open its second week at the Mason in "Peggy from Paris." with Zoe Bar nett as Peggy and Reginald Travcrs playing a special engagement as Alonsso Plummer, her father. "The Umpire ' will be next week's offering. • ■ ■ It is current gossip on the local Rialto that Miss Florence Reed will leave the Belasco forces after her present week in "The Lion and the Mouse," in response to a peremptory telegram from the Shuberts, her man agers. I cannot vouch for its truth, as only Indefinite denials can be ob tained of the management of the the ater. It is said that ill health will in duce her early departure from the local theatrical field, an event which would be deeply deplored by all who have admired her brilliant, versatile playing in a series of most difficult and exacting roles. • • • Chester Stevens, over at the Grand, is growing more wicked every week, I believe. I couldn't blame him last night. Four good men and armed har ried thai one poor little villain all through four acts In "A Man's Broken Promise," and whenever they had him on the hip. three of them would stand around and jeer him, while George Field, as a remarkably agile (-ripple, covered him with a revolver. It is especially distressing—this badgering of a wicked man —because he loves his mother so. Even when he shoots her full of gory holes through a chest in which his righteous enemy has locked her, he is filially sorry. "A Mans Broken Promise" is the title of tliis week's Mortimer uplift, and one is puzzled which promise is referred to—Mr. Stevens' villain breaks so many. The plot is simply packed with amiable impossibilities. Low comedy glv is horrid crime the coup de grace from the first ascent of the cur tain, ami never lets up. Alice Lewis, in her usual role of enfant terrible, hides under the porch while the vari ous plots are a-bolllng, and her de praved foster mother goes soliloquizing around, wondering where she can be. Somebody ought to point out the porch; doubtless sin- has forgotten the house has su h a thing. Whenever things set dull for Villain Chester in pops some body »ho knew him in bad, bad Chi and he has to hire another haunted house to bury his regalvantzed - tetous. When he has no other M.' lights a cigar. l Birch and Franklin Hall do two shrewd bits of broad comedy char riaation, and Miss Gertrude Claire's acting is noteworthy. The lines of the play are better than the melodramatic average, l caught hnif the audience hing last night at the most pathetic B. Is it possible that even the idrama crowd Is betting blase? it the Grand would better shift back isical comedy before the edge is quite worn off the public appetite for hoi rorn. ♦ • ♦ "The Lion and the Mouse" Will open for its third and last week tonight "The College Widow" comes next. • * • Al Cameron and company headline the I,os Angeles' bill this afternoon and Kite and Donlin cap the Orpheun William C, Bates, who will be the new treasurer of the Los Angeles thea ter, owing to the resignation of Ira Joseph, arrived in this city from Se attle yesterday. For the past few years he his hern connected with the Sullivan & Considine vaudeville houses In the northwest. Mr. Bates will as sume his new duties at the Los An geles today. "Three Weeks" was given a new tig at Hamburger's Majestic thea ter last night. Instead of the curtain failing abruptly upon th« deaths of kins and ciueen, a tableau is presented showing the dream vision that comes to the queen In h( r Una! moments. The program hopefully explains it as fol lows : "She s.cs her son, the little Paul, Pon Sardalla's throne and knows that r .It ath has not been In vain; that c has given to the people of Sanlali i man child who will some day rule them well and wisely." The audience gave the tableau a double curtain call. Judging from I'mul's extraordinary sexual suscepti bilities, we may be pardoned for a slight skepticism as to the veracity of this pathetic vision. Three Weeks" will remain at the Majestic through the matinee per formance next Saturday. It will not be d Saturday night. The usual aesday matinee will be given, i LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING', JUNE 28, 1909. GOBELIN TAPESTRY ART MAY BE LOST FRENCH GOVERNMENT FEARS SECRET MAY VANISH Artists Object to Small Remuneration and Are Leaving Manufactory. Other News from Capital of France PARIS, June 7.—L'Alliance Francaise, an influential society which has for its object tha propagation of the French language, held its annual congress In the great ampWtheater of the Sorbon ne, under the presidency nf M. Loubet, the former president ot the republic, and H. Paul Deschanel delivered an address upon the work of the society, He referred to the strength of the French element in Canada and to the i celebrations at Quebec, as well as in the work Of the Alliance Fran calae among the people of the United si.itcs of America and at the American universities. Describing the French language as the pa trie splrltuelle of the nation, he nevertheless desijseti tor it an ampler mission, and, in spite of the ambitions of Volapuk, Esperanto and other artificial languages, he be lieved that French might more and more become the common medium of communication between the different races of the civilized world. It is feared that France Is in danger of losing the secret of the manufacture of the famous Gobelin tapestry. Sev eral member? of the chamber of depu ties have expressed the belief that such will be hi r (ate unless the stale in creased the salaries of those who are engaged in their production. The Gobe lin factory where these wonderful tap estries are made is passing through a crisis. Many of the artists, dissatis fied with the miserable pittance doled out to them by a parsimonious govern ment, already have left the country and have gone to America, and' Others refuse to till their places, as the remu neration is so poor. The dearth of skilled artists is being felt severely, and members of the chamber contend that unless a radical change is effected the manufactory will close at no distant date. Already the tapestry shows a marked falling off, both in quality ami quantity. Three years ago the govern ment undertook to remedy the evil by drawing up a more liberal scale of pay ment for the employes, but though this scale was approved, no attempt has yet been made to put it into force. Will Not Solve Problem It seems scarcely possible the present legislature will be able to solve th« problem "f electoral reform before the elections of 1910 are held. There are so many ills of tirst rnte importance be fore the two houses that the questions of proportional representation and SCTUtIn de liste, which the deputies are naturally enough inclined to avoid just before an election—as calculated to in troduce a disturbing factor which might upset their electoral anticipations—bid fair to be indefinitely postponed. Con s' quently some interest attaches to a modest bill of partial electoral reform recently laid before the chamber by a large number of deputies. The proposal is to suppress all con stituencies with a population of less than 40,000 by the simple expedient of amalgamating them with the smallest neighboring constituencies; if this am algamation resulted in a. constituency .if a population of less than 100,000 it would on the present electoral system have one member, and if its population exceeded 100,000 it would have two members. According to the present- system, at the next elections eight districts will have the right to an additional mem ber, owing to an Increase of popula tion, while two districts will lose a member. It has been understood, since the increase of the parliamentary sal ar to $nfWO that the government would do*something to relieve the taxpayer by decreasing the number of deputies delicate as such a measure would be— and the abolition of constituencies with a population of less than 40,(100 would have the effect of reducing the number of deputies by nineteen, as well as of abolishing the Inconsistency of the con stituency of Barcelonette, with 3443 electors, having the same voice In the country's affairs as the third constit uency of Nantes with over 37,000, to take an extreme case. Strike Is a Failure There is little doubt that the result of the recent postal strike has been exactly the reverse of what the gov ernment of France Intended that it should be. The strike was a failure. A number of men have been punished. Hut preparations are now heing made to give French officials the right to combine. This right may be disguised under the high-sounding titles, such ns "the statute of functionaries"; it is. nevertheless, a sort of magna charta for French government servants, and, however ii be presented, the govern ment servants themselves undoubtedly look on it as their reward for having disorganised the inner life of the country. The latter-day Parisian is fast losing the quality of politeness for which Parisians have until now been so jußt ly renowned. Nowadays, rudeness and violence are the best methods of ob taining satisfaction In Paris, it is a lesson which people of all classes are having forced upon them. The postal officials showed their weakness and their strength, and the new statute Is the result of their violent action, which In the broadest sense was an act of supri me rudeness to the public. While they protested politely, no notice was taken of their claims, jiftt or other wise. Now that, figuratively speaking, they have banged the desk with their lists, tney are getting satisfaction. A delicious story bearing on this method is going the round. There was some mistake about seats at a Paris theater. The man who had paid for them and could not get them had used iup all courteous arguments and lost his temper. "If you don't give me satisfaction at once," he said, "1 will box your ears." "Why on earth did you not say so at once," was the answer. "1 am al ways ready >o do anything I ran when 1 am asked fur it politely." The angry man got his seats. Anxious for Paris' Future Long-sighted men in Paris feel irery nervous us to France's future. It, Is > not only that the discontent among the working classes and the lesser-paid state officials grows every day, but that a general discontent with tiie con siitution of France i.s growing apace, and that lovi i's of disorder may be long lay hold of the feeling against parliamentary government and turn it to their uses. The French system of I parliamentary governiiwnl unfortu- I nately has of late years given rise to political 111-health. Scandal has fol lowed scandal recently. Nowadays, whenever one of these l.ils breaks out. the- word "cor ruption" Is "M frvery Up, It should not be Inferred that men in high positions or lake bribes In Frame, but : ii' ii ly always untrue i.s still iv< quently i opeated and believed. ' It a revolution should come no one I BRIDGE DEPARTMENT W. R. WHARTON <$> Readers are cordially Invited to for- <& <s> ward solutions to the problems pre- <J> *$> tented in this column. Name* or p»eu- <$> <w donymi of solvers will, together with •'•* <£> solutions, be printed In this column ® <$> two week* after the Issue containing w> & the problem. Questions as to rules or <»> ■ pl» will receive careful consideration « <$> and prompt reply. Address all com- <*> <t> iiiiiiilc'iliiiii* to Bridge Editor, The <•> •■ Herald. - ♦ <i> 'v PROBLEM 17 (vT^TTI PW~I li^^ 0 <> O O 'J?L Ml. ' I o [*~*| IT "41 '♦""♦I ♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ *"**! 0M& *~* . *l* w * Dummy ft Iflj&l I* •»• [t ♦] Fj r* gnR-, | .. © * Ifi 1 "° Myi h?~ Dealer | L _J [™ _*_ k%l v ll_4l I I Original heart declaration. King of spades opened. What inference may lie drawn by pone, and what should be his play to first trick? , Article 19 Inferences opening lead. Declared trump. Ace—First, that original leader docs not hold a plain suit headed by ace. king, or king, queen, jack, as either of these combinations affords a stronger opening than those from which an ace is led. Therefore, if an examination of your own hand and that of dummy discloses a plain suit In which ace, king, or king, queen are missing, it is safe to conclude' they are held by the concealed hand. Second, that the leader holds one of three combinations—(a) ace, queen, Jack; (b) ace and three or more small; (c) ace and one other. This is led from three conmbinations, (a) ace, jack, ten, (b) king, jack ten, and (c) jack, ten, small. Knowing this, pone should be gov erned in his play, if he holds an honor in the suit, by the cards held by dum my. If dummy holds no honor it Is evident that the dealer holds the miss ing honors. If dummy holds the queen pone may safely finesse. Ten or nine are only led as top of nothing, and us ually from short suits with a desire to Other cards. Are fourth best or top ncefl be •urprised if the army is on the side of the revolutionaries. In one ot the most popular playi in Paris at the present moment one of the characters, speaking of till former regiment, says: ; "it una a crack regiment None ot the officers would have anything to do with the colonel because he was a good republican." One result of M. Falllerrs 1 high of fice has been to prevent him (as has always been his custom until he left the senate for the Elysee) presiding over the annual banquet which is or ganized in memory of their birthplace iby his fellow-townsmen, and is called ! I,a Prune. The prunes of Agen are as famoua ai the prunes of Carlsbad, and Agen plums in brandy made Agon famous all over France years before the name of Fallieres became known. But President Fallieres has been com pelled for political reasons to refuse his compatriots' cordial Invitation. "I do not like to refuse," he said, when it was brought to him, "but I dare not accept. My predecessor was continually nicknamed 'Nought be cause of his fondness for Montehmar. If I were to preside at your banquet the opposition press would call me •President Plum' before the week was out." Aviation makes steady progress. One of the most interesting concrete facts connected therewith is the open ing of the first racecourse expressly designed for exhibitions of mechanical flight This li at Bavigmy-sur-Qrge, twenty miles out of Paris. Here 240 acres'of ground have been secured, grand stands erected, and a coutse nrenared for aviation. Two of the most promising newcom ers are M. Rougler, who is furn.shed with a Voisin aeroplane of the Farman type- and Mr. Latham, of English or cin 'who has already broken the rec ord with an Antoinette-the firm which 1b already known for its aerial $?. Latham today said: "You have not heard the last of the Antoinette by a .rood deal, I think, It has great pos sibilities in it." 5 The Antoinette is birdlike in its appearance and has not the cells forward and rearward of the VoishT machine. A picturesque Inci dent connected with the ground at Savlgny was its consecration by the Catholic archbishop of Pans, Mgr. Amette There is something partic ularly appealing In this patronage by a venerable church of the new-born In fant, aviation. It is ■ promising god child and will do its sponsor credit, no doubt. m • » ' ■ IMMORTALITY th> iltla nf a rocont book which lias im ,,r , E -A lt^lf upon U . on account of ltl .lm dounitely settled. _ schools which There are. of ieour. c. be ,r a' Thrt we"shall be about a, we oro now. Ton «""" Tnh. S thm.«t,t be c all ed .he rea, fstlc. or Mtnot B e school olte""AJa7" or ElUabe.h Stuart Ph.lp. 'KkTSS? " ~fiir or regard to •mm,%. '" amD i, without con- B |&red ;nv',' V\ " "t mike much dlHer- Mlounim «"™j " to ÜB , ro far as we am ence what hap. p-n^.a Us ,■.'■•„,, wouldn't re now concerned. o«a^ o remcmb pr. can wo member, ■"'•,.. t i, B i w. want to re .;■:;■,;i 1m. t th 0"h h 0 "e B\ CO9t us paln .■• « h .. renumbering?- wou ia be for Mr. Came wiii" ° ■;; , «om« «"°n«. w>' " te^w sS?jS?looks lhl" "- ay- Pork. . Eat at the Angulus grill. Of short suits. Always apply the eleven rule, and h 1 the result is consistent with fourth best, finesse accordingly. Nover torget that the lead of fourth best de- ■ ntas that leader holds in any plain suit either of the following combinations: Ace, kins: kins, queen, jack; kins, queen, ten; ace, jack, ten; king, jack, ten, or queen, jack, ten, as eueh ol those is a stronger opening. The leader may have are, queen, or kthg, jack, which are stronger if the lead comes up to him. Therefore if an examination ol' exposed hands discloses the absence of these cards you should immediately he on the alert to deter mine whether the dealer or leader holds them. In this a consideration of the declaration is of material assistance. The leader may have a short suit; but prefer opening fourth begl becausoj of having four trumps he does not wish to ruff. If. therefore, during play of j the hand it is found that leader origin ally held a suit of not more than two' cards unless one is king or queen it is safe to assume that he held originally such trump strength as to cause him j tc desire not to ruff. On the other hand, the opening of a short suit Indicates a strong desire to trump. An examination of the two exposed hands will usually enable you to de- j termlne which. If you conclude it is led from combination 0 tt is safe to assume that leaders held not more than three trumps and desired to ruff. I If ace is followed by king it is cer tainly combination c, and if followed by queen ft is certainly from combina tion a. King—lt is safe to assume that lead er hold either ace or queen. If followed by queen leader holds either ace or Jack. If suit is switched it is proper to in fer that leader holds such a combina tion that he prefers the next lead in the suit to come up to him, therefore upon obtaining the lead pone should lend his best card in the opening suit. provided, of course, the cards exposed and played do not demand a different lead. • Q Ucen _This opening, declares . that leader holds Jack and probably ten. Solution to problem 17 (published in this issue): It is evident that leader has opened from king, queen, ten. with or without the deuce, [n any event, dealer must trump the second spade lead. It is als > evident that dealer held originally at least live hearts to ace, jack or six to one of them. If dealer holds ace of hearts, it is evident that lie can exhaust trumps and bring in the club suit, upon which losing diamonds may be discarded. One spade and three diamond trli ki will save the game. Therefore, pone should play ace of spades on first trick, and if dealer does not trump he should at once lead his three diamonds. By this play he can lose nothing. ■>n the other hand, should he allow leader to hold the trick, it Is practically a r taln that another spade will be led. which may mean the loss of the game.. This problem, although quite simple, yet frequently arises and serves to em phasize the necessity of always con sidering the question of "How may the game be saved?" ■ It is not sufficient to he contented with the reflection that you are trying to take all Ihe tricks yovi can. It Is I far more important to make sure or enough to save the game. j ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF PASSING WORTHLESS CHECK Proprietor of Grocery Accused of Try. ing to Defraud Wholesale Concern Bunkly Chancy, proprietor of a gro cery store and delicatessen at 5424 Monte Vista avenue, was arrested yes terday at his home on Avenue 23 by Detectives Beaumont and Cowan, and locked up in the city jail on a charge of passing ;t worthless check for $120.5^ on the Stetson & Barrett company, wholesale grocers. The check was drawn on the Bank of Highland Park, and was returned marked "no funds." The police say that Chancy Is alleged to have passed other checks without having money in the bank to cover the amounts, preparatory to closing his business and leaving the city. JAPANESE WANT NEW BIBLE Writing in the Michi, Mr. Matsumura Kaisekt contends that it is the duty of Japanese Christians to compile, a new Bible. The use of the Bible as it now stands is, he says, an enormous obsta cle to the progress of Christianity in Japan. He gives his views on this question in the form of a dialogue, In which A defenefs the Bible as it now stands, maintaining that It Is too sacred a book to touch, and arguing that if the work of revision began there is no say- Ing where it would end. But B tri umphantly replies to this that no sin cere Christian can treat things they know to he faisc or legendary as though they were solid fails. There are cer tain parts of the Old and New Testa ments which certainly do not deserve to rank with otftcr parts of these two sacred books. Revised and thoroughly recast, the Christian Bible would be unequaled by any sacred writings the world contains, but In its present state trutli and error are so mixed together that It is open to the attack of unbe lievers to an undesirable extent. B maintains that those who advocate the reconstruction of the Bible have a high er regard for the sacred book than those who are content to leave it as it Is. For nobody can deny that the Bible, as it stands today, Is unsuited to the present age. Borne parts of it are unfit to be read In public. A reconstructed Bible would become a text book on morality and religion which could be used In every civilized country. B Is made to accuse A of killing the Bible by refusing to alter it. (Kimi wa Bible wo korosan to shi, you wa Bible wo Ikasan to su; sumuwachi Seisho wo sokel suru shlnnen klml ni fukaki ya, boku ni fukaki ya*.') Mr. MatHumura's article has attracted some little atten tion, but there are no signs of wide spread interest in the question among the various sect of Japanese Christen dom. — Hawal Shinpo. I ||U»4^US{» ■ OPEN fHSI NIGHTS I TW^**^TTS^^ During June our Great fc^^" 31""^ Premiiim Sal* Is in [M 1 I ffll full liluHt. 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