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EVENING LEDGER PIllLADELPHtA, MONDAY, DECEMBER U 1M-
Drama
rHappy Endings and
Other Tragedies
tt toted to tike a. pistol shot to ad
Wrtle a tragedy. Before that the dram
atiet Incited In oolucfn 6r a aword
lunar to make aura the nudlence was
,,ropef)y depressed. Tha Greeks wero
father fond of n god.
Even Ibsen thought ha had to kill some
body to get tha serious effect ha wanted
But that was because the drama abroad
waa wrapped In the sugar coatings of
Vlctorlanlsm, and the everyday people
Wljo didn't relish the results of 19th cen
tury commercial enterprise had discov
ered that the theatre could supply a de-
Uffhtfut soporific.
America has just reached the pistol-
pnoi siBKa in iragsay. two years ago,
When George Brondhurit wroto "Bought
and Paid For," we were all for the su
gar coat. After he orked out his theme
Of marital Intemperanoe to Its logical
conclusion. In a separated family, ho
bnd to throw It overboard nnd bring tha
husband and wife together again, by
hoolc or crook Now he turns out "To
day," with a husband murdering his un
iajthful wife and handing himself over to
the pollen nt the Jlnlsh. "Punch," or hu
man Interest, or plain boredom, makes
this, tragic turn popular.
Out meantime the Continental trontte-
men are still a lap ahead. They have
discovered the greater tragedy of living
cut a life gone wrong. That Is the hnrd-
at or all to bear. And It makes tho
meaning of the playwright far clearer
than nny "the rest Is silence."
"I believe," says Brleujt, "that a play's
message can be bettor expressed If thero
are no forced tragedies. Tho audience
then leaves tha theatra convinced that
they are somehow concerned with the
theme, and, therefore, will attempt to
remedy the evils pointed out. In short,
I want my plajs to end when the moral
hae been clearly and unmistakably
urawn. --
An Ante-Bellum Hollo
Sometimes tho news plnys havoc with
the drama. The European war has
reached over a continent and back two
years In time to poka a derisive finger
Into the rlbo of Kugene Walter nnd his
Play, "FIno Feathers." Not that thero
la anything either martial or pro-peace In
this tragedy of tho corruption of a public
jervant. The difficulty arises from tho
fact that Mr, Walter wroto "FIno Penth
rs" when Louialn was never thought of
This Is the point: When tho law U
close on the heels of tho young engineer
rno nas Dctrnyea the nennln tnr th
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MARIE DORO
At the Broad tonight in
"Diplomacy."
and some of the other managers ara try
ing to arrange special matinees for the
benefit of the actors nho ore back somo
of them at their original Jobs of vending
vegetables and chopping meat
News Notes
"An All-Star Management Presents an
All-Stiir Cast In " shoi'ld bo a fair
nny of advertising the entertainment
which Charles Frohman nnd David
Bclasco hopo to send on tours this Bprlng.
The two managers arc going to drop six
of their stars into some unfortunate and
Innocent play and see If tho public of tha
larger cities will like tho result.
Annie Russell has discovered a play for
herself, the title of which succeeds In
sounding like a satire on the family
affairs of Europe's rulers "Ills Itojal
Happiness."
Translated as Shakespeare would siy
from the dance to the drama, Lydla
Lopokova, late of tho Russian ballet, nnd
Inter of "Tho Lady of the Slipper," goes
to New Tork December 23 In a light
comedy called "Just Herself," by Ethel
Watts Mumford. Boston saw It first
this year as "Tho Young Idea."
PHOTOPLAY GUIDE
FOR THIS WEEK
Subject to Change
Chestnut Street Opera House
"The Spoilers," preceded by Keystone come
dies and oilier pictures all week
Knickerbocker, 40th nnd Market Sts.
MONUAT, TtrnsDAT AW WKBNFSDAY
Fourth episode of " 20110,' the Mtery
of the lulls."
TiirnsDAi. FniDAr "and satuhdat
U forge Ado's "nible In Blnng." -
West Allegheny
MONDAYT'The Illue name," seeend patt,
others
Tt 1 -DAY-Th reeond episode of " 'ZmSora.'
Mastery of the Sleeping House," "Tho lnn
Hhnrlf Klnir." ifhra
W) UNr-ilHY Uulncv Adam Bawrcr.'' fle
wrt riaturoi Tho Mysterious JJeAUty,"
others
Till litlMY AMI) mtUAY "Cnblrla" ,
HATt nUAY Helmed odxenliire No 10 "Lord
CclII Keeps Ills Word," others.
Jefferson
MONIUY-IMmund tlreeee lit "Tho Walls of
Jerlrho"
Tt'l HDIY "More Than Queen "
UFnNr.SWAi Tlends of Hell"
Tilt II8DAV- 'Seat of tho Mtjhty."
rillti y "In tho Hands of London Crooks"
BATUItDAY AiUenturM of Kitty Cobb," by
James Monlgomcrj I'Iskk ,
The Lehigh Theatre
MONDAY' Zudorn," episode No. Sj others.
Lafayette
TIIl'UBDAY " Zuriora,' No. 4, Mstcry .of
the Hills
Garden
MONDAY-CIam Klml.nl! Young In "Lola,"
other features announced Inter.
Lincoln
MONDAY Hermnti l.lel In "Dope "
WKDKKSDAY-Thumaa Wlso In "A Oentleman
From Mississippi."
Somerset
MOND VY "Zudorn," 'The Orit Clold Itob
lry," "Not of the Flock." "Tho Plumber."
lUMUAi- ire u'jirnrts," "war Is lieu,"
four iMirts, "Tho Fortunos of War," two
parts, "Limping tb Happlncis," others
WUD.NESDAY For Kln and Country," six
parts. "Tho Old Mald,r' "Ambroso b First
raistnoou," ouiers.
THUIISDAY ' The OaliBsters." four
'In Tunc," two parts; "Our Mutual
FJIIDAY-'The Criminal Code," 4 parts: "The
Harrier of Flames."
SATURDAY' Jack O' Diamond," six parts;
"Tho Fanther 1 tho Conservatory," others.
the complete absorption In the story as tt
la unfolded, haft h. weakening' effett ton
tho nerves, and when the various chap
ters are Illustrated In a. highly dramatic
manner, nnd, as often happens. In n nen
national manner, so weak is human na
ture that tho wrong lessons nro learned!
in short, mftn return again and again,
the serious aide of llfo la forgotten, n
moving picture habit U formed, nnd wnn
faces and overtaxed brains aro tho out-
onmo To correct all this, It has been sug
gested that If the pictures could be made
on n higher moral plana. If the higher
Intellectual qualities of tho audience
could be aroused by showing scenes de
pleting the Ufa of the early Greeks or
Romans nt home and In tho battlefield,
a new era would be Inaugurated, and no
longer would men and women neglect
their serious duties, no longer would
bralrui be overtaxed nnd faces have n
dcndlv ptllor.
"To effect this beneficent change,
boards of censors have sprung tip hero
and there, and the erstwhile cowboy who
brandished his pistol on the slightest
provocation, tho man who slolo somo
I10.WO to buy his wife enough food to
keep her and the one solitary child from
rtarvatlon until ho oould get work, which
generally Mppenrd a few1 hours latefi
tha distraught maiden who married
banker' son only to find out that he
Wfts an ex-convlct, the drunken husband
who returned home to rob his wife of
her savings and Incidentally broke up
tho furniture, are trembling In the, fcal
ance, so effective has been tho -work of
both lay nnd medloal reformers. Instead
of tho enervating picture showing the
sordldnesa of life, tho criminal tenden
cies of the unenlightened, and also of
the enlightened, wo have 'Cablrla,' 'Quo
Vadls?' 'Spartncus,' palpitating with
ateek nnd Roman torture scenes."
From tho smoldering ashes or tho Edi
son ruins there rises, phoenlxllko, an an
nouncement of continued activity. All
negntUos are safa and the regular sched
ule of releases will not be Interrupted.
Tho cntlro plant at Orange, S, J, waa
destroyed, but tho negatives wero stored
In a fireproof vault In n building remotcd
somo distance and bo out of harm's Way.
The itudlOH In tho Bronx will not have
Hml, nrtltltlrtfl rilattlrh, Alfhf
" What's DolngTonightr
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Mads In America" Bataar, Horticultural
llsll; 8 o'clock .
Trotest meeting scalnet nutrallty violation,
German Boelstyl 8 O'clock
Election. Union League I 2 0 clock to B
T'eloek. . . . , ,.
Banquet, Oak Lane r-ark lroPrr0,ri '
.i.iu. 'r.mif,etiirr' Club; T o clock.
Concert. Drexel mdale Bible CUseos, Bella-vuo-Btratfordi
8 o'clock.
Symposium, "Woman's New Freedom Con
temporary club, BelleVu-8tratford 8 0 clock.
nedlnc, "Enoch' Arden," Alohlld Bandby,
Griffith mill 8 o'clock.
South Philadelphia Business Men's Associa
tion, Broad and Federal streets I 8 o'clock.
Free.
Woodland Avenue Business Men's Associa
tion, Vlst street and Woodland avenue) S
o'clock Free.
Greater Sherwoorf Improvement Association,
043 South f8th street! 8 o'clock. Free,
Walnut Street Business Association, Belle-Vue-Stratford.
West Philadelphia Business and Improvement
League, 6200 Market street. Free,
Northwest Business Men's Association, 232(1
Columbia avenue. Free.
West Susquehanna Avenue Business Hen,
1407 West Susquehanna avenue. Free. 1
TREAT FOR THE NEWSBOYS
Forrest "Movie" "Will Entertain.
Evening Ledger Vendors Tonlfeht.
Comedy and mellerdrammer by the reel
will be the feast of 3x) Evening LadoYea
newsboy of tho northeast when thy be
como the guette of the managers of the
Forrest Moving Picture Theatre, 913
Olrard avenue, tonight at f o'clock,
Tho free show provided for the newsle
will be a thriller, showing "The Village
Beneath the Sea" and "The Masque
radert," followed by comedy. Tha boys
marshaled by Street Foreman Weiss, will
form In lino at 8d atfeet and Olrnrd ave
nue and will march to the theatre In a,
body. The parade will he headed by
John C. Bmlth, manager of the northeast
branch of the Evening Lhdobh, Frank
Oademnn and John Morolla are manager
ol the theatre.
NEW ITALIAN DBEADNOTJOHT
ROME, Dec. It. A fourth Italian
dreadnought, tho Conte Cavour, will bo
ready In February nnd a fifth and sixth
will be completed soon after that.
iliilllllil
&
bribe of a grafting contractor. tii nn-
tractor resolves to save the man and pro
tect himself by sending him abroad to
livo In pence "Here's IX.WO," he says.
The Lusltanla sails In four hours. You
can JIvo abroad the rest of your life.
Tou can go to Belgium."
And overy nlghj that Innocent lino
breaks up the Dlav with n mn,. nr i..t.
Ur from audiences at the breaking; point
f nervous tension.
!The 'Vv'ftr-rltlden Theatres of Europe
Paris was the only capital of tho war
ring Powers to close down Its theatres
Jfttn tho opening of the great world
drama In Belgium. Berlin went on Its
Phlegmatic, official way, with casts cut
down by tho call to the colors, with Eng-
' v. nndFrench playwrights under a ban,
but with . solemn determination to show
no Other Slim Of nnvthlntr n,....-i
f. Gradually warlike pieces or hlstorloni
paceant-plnya have filled the greater part
w iJif... ?..'' Vlenni contented
herself with striking Shaw, Barrie. Wilde.
Tolstoi. Brleux. Maeterlinck nnd Rostand
from her lists, whllo exhibiting ten
operetta and six plays of much the usual
london, where municipal enterprise hns
no Bhnre In tho management of the thea
tres, suffered a toniMAMM. ki... .,
tha night Illumination was cut off and
people began to think of other things be-
!lP.JafUrf8 A soo1 ma"y theatres
closed their doors, some went In for re
rivals, particularly of warlike plays.
After a good deal of newspaper letter
writing over whether 8hakespeare's
Henry IV" was appropriate to this crisis
a patriotic classic or in doubtful taste
Mcausa it verbally "lambasted" France
nstead of the Kaiser, Blr Herbert Tree
.jiut tt on. Art and the nation seemed
saved; until the flrat night developed a
Motapur with a lisp. Then tha critics fell
Poor Paris! She had nothing but mov.
Inir pictures and music hall to divert
her attention from the descent of the
dsrmans upon her. Even when the tide
turned, tha Prefect of Police declared
that the theatres must not reopen whllo
Prussian foot rested on French soil.
But the central Government decided to
release the drama from her new function
tfeotmiphlca! barometer, and now the
Comedle Francalsa is dplng patriotic apd
classic play with a reduced company,
That dainty morsel, " The Sons of
Songs," garnished nfrcsh by Mr. A. II.
Woods, Is to bo Bencd up to Broadway
about Christmas time.
Jamci Forbes, of "Tho Chorus Lady,"
has alnew comedy, "In tho I.lmollght,"
under way. It will reach tho Hudson
Theatre, New York, on January 4 with
tho following list of expert players in
charge. Douglas Fairbanks, Zelda Sears,
George Sidney, Patricia Collinge, Olive
May, Edna Aug, William Sampson nnd
Ned Sparks.
Robert Mnntll hnB decided to quit
those light exercises of swinging tho axe
of Macbeth and the toga of Brutus for tho
solemn nnd dangerous undertaking of act
ing "KlnK John" and nothing- but "Kini?
John" for weeks on ond, ulthout the aid
of his usual repertoire.
To relieve the monotony of "nothing to
do till 1010," tvhen Hammersteln's law
girt contract not to produce opera comes
to un end and ho can start building opera
houses again, "Oscar" Is tearing his Vic
toria apart Jn New York and putting on
a now exterior and a few balconies.
The Dramatic Editor Observes
Some men aro born press agents and we
send them to Congress.
Others acquire press agents who make
them into stars.
And still others havo press agents
thrust upon them.
That tho voluntnry censorship of our
moving picture shows, whllo It has suc
ceeded In eliminating somo hnrmlcta
features, hns at tho same time left ob
jectionable ones untouched. Is tho opin
ion of Dr. Philip Skrnlnkn, writing In tho
St. I.ouIh Interstate Medical Journal The
writer finds especial fault with medical
urltlca of this form of entertainment.
Doctor Skralnka hints that in handling
tho subject medical reformers aro making
a mess, an people naturally do when they
exceed their natural province He wrltos:
"Our Irrepressible medical reformers
aro loud In their denunciations of U10 evil
nrought on tho morals of an audience
that sits spellbound under tho Influence
of moving pictures To tako up only
what medical men havo written, we glenn
from their cssas that the concentration,
wear-ever
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OPENINO TONIQHT
Blaacru nates, Maria Dora and
t Mr. Gillette
nnpAn "Diplomacy." wtth William Gillette,
oiaacru luin. Aiano i-wro ana n stronn
cast Bardou'a famous ol play "modernlied"
KCITil 3 IJq TanRuay. Bert Fltirlbbon,
ana a ui vers met! bill
TelenhunH Tanrl.
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Ai.r u i-"ino
shall
A
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Traffic," by Itachcl
CONTJNUINO
with Edmund Breeso and
ADELPHI-'Today.
r.inei valentine. corge Droarthurat and
Abraham Schomer's slow-movInK drama alwut
fthi-lw" '.'""'lity. ending with a Molent
"big scene' In which tho husband chokoi
ner i-4ts week.
rpiulBST "Pinafore "
nodrotne
llrlitnil aa ever
with
The good
nrn.1tifrf m
real water Just
GAUmCK "Potash and Perlmutter" Mon,
toKUe Glass popular stories of the clot bin
trade made oer Into tho ieasun'i S
. fcS.V!'' amusing eomedy "una most
LlTTLU THlATftE--Thi SlUer Box." John
OrrWVocl.rVcair''ce'.l?ntr;aeS
LVltfC "Hlft
and a good
music hflrna
gloom-dlspolllng
Jinks " nlth Sfcirn
v xuqoir
old GIN
la Hip.
as de-
ends
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Mayfiew
" Hudolph Frlml's Tlpp Ing-
on an artuslng story of a
n perfume. Last week,
Hftrne
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UNION LEAGUE ELECTION
Contest for Presidency Narrowed
Down to Two Ken,
The. presidency of tha Union League
ior ISIS haa narrowed down from six
inexnbers originally nominated to two,
They are John Orlbbel, manufacturer and
wtnjter, ana State Senator William C
ui, of unester
tJpeli for the annual election of ot-
w wilt open at 2 o'cloek thla after-
Of those eleated the president, the
;r vice presidents an4 the 15 directors
fill form the new board. In tha evening
the annual msetlng- will be held, which
Drill bo the last presided over by William
.. Tlldsn, who la compleUnjr hl third
term aa president of the league.
The. following are nominated for vice
?(4klnt4 (Incumbents indicated by as-
'H
Four to be eleoted.)
wmum K. Ifaupt
Thomas J. Jerrrtu
Wgm H Lyman
W'UlUm C. Spreol
triwitiw -reww
Hkrrtian Tosraieod
nominated for dlreotom & o
Mtov. the asterisks lndloatln luoura-
(Ftfteeo to bu elected.)
this evening. The offering will be "The
Dowry Uncle." and the actors will L
youngsters who aspire to places In the
big show of the Mask and Wig Club Tha
object of the "tryout" is to unearth pos-
..... ,, luo master production, and
eo the company Ls composed entlrelv Xr
novices.
composed entirely of
Be. liAp Gey
Bwu Benaheryw
uaocsaA. W&Star
Or llwUliik
Out of a field of 67 oandldntM twn ..
of JZ men each have been selected. Cast
A will Perform tonight and tomorrow
night, whtla Coat U will appear on Wed
nesday and Thursday evenings.
Labor Forward Committee j?lans
Tho plans of the Labor -Forward Com
mittee whleh, formed In January last to
arrange for the American Federation of
Labor convention. U now a permanent
body working for the extension of union
methods in this elty. have been Indorsed
by the Central Labor Union. Frank Mor
rison, secretary of the American Federa
tion, Is expected to arrive here tftday to
arrange final details for a comprehensive
campaign.
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