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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
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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 • » ' ■
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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.
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