Wfl EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBEB 22, 191-X. flf I. . ites '!Lim,!m r,--.i ,1 ....,.. 1 I j- i (d hrm. Mil. AMD ms. STANLEY 0. FL-ACia, JIL, Will shortly Issue Invitation for a theatre putty, to be followed by supper, In honor of Miss Ruth Coxe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry IJrlnton Coxe, on Wednesday evenln-f, February 3. Jtr. anil Mm. Mnrcellua Coxe, who are occu Pylnff their house, 2221 locust street, will en tertain at dinner Christmas Eve. 5tr. at-d Mrs. James Hancock gave a dance lftht evening In the Acorn Club In honor of their daughter, Miss Kntherlno Hancock, who will make her ttrbut next Bcaaon. Tho guests were members of tho set not yet out, and Included Miss Agnes Brockle, Miss Sarah Franklin, Miss JtarBiUfttn. Myers, Miss Sarah Myers, Miss Mat fwret Remak, Miss Mary Oolilen, Miss Katha rine futman, Miss Gertrude Fancoast, Miss Vlrslnla Harris, Miss Ahno Blnney Brlnton, Henry Morris Adams, William L, Bally, Morris Stanley Barratt, nichard Stockton Bullitt, Eck ley B. Coxe, 3d, Arthton Dorr, Edward Mitchell Edwards, Brooka Edwards, Thomas Hart, Ken neth Campbell Kennedy, Clayton McElroy, Kennedy Hamll, John Hazlchurst Mason, James Smith Merrltt, James C. Nowlln, John Newlln, Jr., Wlstar "s'orris, Edmond It. Turves, Waller I Ross, Henry H. Houston, C. Fonno Hoffman, Charles' A. Starks and Sidney Thayer. The first meeting of the Monday Evenlns Junior dances will take place next Monday, December tS. In tho Rose Gardens of tho Belle-Tue-Stratford. Mrs. William Stansfleld. of Washington City, will spend Christmas -week with her sisters, lira. S. I'. Pnowden Mitchell and Miss Loitlso Snowden, of 2205 Walnut street. Tho Christmas cotillon of the Saturday -Evening Committee Danclns Class will be held on Saturday night at Horticultural Hall. Tho chaperons of this class Include Mrs. Henry Brlnton Coxe, Mrs. William J. Taylor, Mrs. John White Geary, Mrs. R. H. Bayard Bowlo and Mrs. Edgar T. Scott. Mrs. Wharton Drexol, of Penn Rhynn, Corn wells, had ns her guests over the week-ond Miss T,aurel CJraaon Bond, of Baltimore, and Miss Kathleen Leslie Combs, of Fort Worth, Tex. Miss Bond, who has been attending school at Torresdale, -it'll leave today for Baltimore to spend the holldws with her parents, Mr. and Sirs. WiUlanGrajoon Bond. Mss Combs will be their guest during the vacation holidays. William Norrla will glvo a dinner-dance at tho Wlilternarah Valley' Country Club this evening. Some of the guests present will Include Mr. and Mrs1! John Strawbrldjje. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin N. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Gilpin, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph A. Janney, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Herman Penckta. Dr. and" Mrs. Norrls Vaux, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Norrls. Mr. and Mrs. "Walter L. Foulke, Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson Crothers, Mr, and Mrs. Frazer Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Leu Reld, Miss Hope Truxton Beale, Miss Margaret Handy Burton, WIster Jtlarvoy, Edward Dale, Edward Chcston and Arthlngton Gilpin, Jr. Mrs. Walter Langdon Eustls will entertain her card club "it her home, MlfFlne, street, this afternoon. Among those who will attend are Mrs, Arthlngton Gilpin, Mrs. William W. Marls, Mrs. WtlllamMontague Lycett, Miss Mary H. ' Whelen and Mrs. Fennock Huey. Joseph M. Gazzam,' Jr., who Is a student at Harvard, arrived In this city yesterday to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Joseph M. Gazxam, who Is spending the winter at the Rlttenhouse, Miss Olivia M, deB. Gazzam has also returned from Miss Walker's school at Lakcwood. Mrs. Gazzam will give a dinner of SO covers Depember 30 before tho meeting. of tho Committee Dancing- Class. Mrs, Henry Athlon Little Mill gye a supper dh New Year's evp at her home, tjlen Bogle, on Old Hook road, Folcroft, in honor of her daughters. Miss Mary S. Little and M'lss Anna D, Little, and sort, James If. Little. Guests will bo from the school set Mrs. Georgi McNeely has Issued Invitations for a dance to be given In honor of her grand daughter. Mis Mary McNeely, Who Is one of the season' debutantes, on Wednesday, January 0, at the Philadelphia Country Club. Mrs, Frederick Slmonln and Mjss Kathleen - JJcDonougU will give a. small and informal bridge on Tuesday, December 29, at tho home of Miss McDonough, !1J7 Pine street, In honor of Mrs. Harold Gaylord, of New York, who wilt spend the Christmas holidays in this city, ALONG THE MAIN LINE MtniON-Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Leigh Moyer, of Berkley road, will have Mrs. Moyera mother nd sister, Mrs. Theodore S. WJlkln and Mlsa Louis Wilkin, of Mllwauk, Wis., as their fueifa until after tho New Year. Hr. and Mrs. 3. Earls Haines, of Motile ave nue, will leave tomorrow for Lynn, Mass., where they will spend the Christmas holidays with Mrs. Haines' mother, Mrs. Charles Pink ham. ovEBBnoojc-Mlss Mary Anthony Hays, daugh Mr of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allison Hays, of Sherwood road, Overbrook, will be married very quietly Wednesday night, January 6. to Joel , Cooke Jtuber, son of Mr. John Y. Huber, of '19 North Broad street. Miss Marjory Ed wards, pf Overbrook, wlU ba maid of honor, and the best man will b John Y. Huber, Jr. brother of the brWfgrroom-io.be. Fellowing; the eertmony, -which wij be witnessed only by the Immediate families, there will be a reoepttoa from S until W oploek. Mr. and Mrs. Bdwla A. Bookrayer, of no Arden. will wuerUtn a fcosso, parly t the Bay Vfcw Golf Club at Atjantlo city over the week end, following New rear's Day. WYXNEwoqp-Mr. wiTwj. Obarte o'Don MU Lee. Jr. 1 ytexday f- Washington, viRere Uiay wl attend th jluj.... . ... Itf tonight fey Mi. arf Mw. Vr 0ut Brr at their an . Mmumu aveou. W4Ye-Mi- and MW. c. y. Vittoa av r-MW4 (rem their waddiajc iri. ,mi a.. u..,.. ri t.w tumt m H. XHlW au. Mr .- ,, wiob. auE,ur OX Mr. and Mr ' 1 MuKh. of w'flmnTii avau. ' A4Mr to w AbMsa viM. aad will to tat U wt -iS: oum tim ittim :), SCEiAL HMHHW AtLUH cinu BON Is spending tho Christmas vacation with his parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. William TownsenO. Wright. CHESTNUT HILL An exchango has been opened at SJ3T Ger mantown avenue, where home-made cakes, pies, candy, preserves ahd various articles are sold. This unlatie Idea was started by1 a number of Chestnut Hilt women to aid tho stricken Bel gians, rind they aro so eager to make It a hugo success that they aro appealing everywhere for help and contributions. Those1 In charge are Mrs. Francis Noble, chairman; Mrs. Corydon C. Tyler, Mrs. Joseph Lovcring, Miss' Marian Watts, Miss B. Goodman, Mrs. William Trotter nnd Mrs. Woodburn Potter, The exchange will be open every Saturday from 10 until 4 o'clock and n number of theso women and their friends have pledged themselves to take charge on these different Saturdays. , ' Miss Gertrude Kllng, of Gowen avenue,- gave an Informal bridge, In honor of Miss Dorothy Schell yesterday afternoon. GERMANTOWN Mr. nnd Mrs. Calytn M. Smyth, of 221 West Walnut lane, will glvo n dinner on Thursday, December 31, In honor of Miss Eleanor Edmonds, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Edmonds. The guests Mill Includo Miss Emelyn Shipley, Miss Margaret Duffus, Miss Grace MlllJi, Miss Rachael Cater, Miss Nancy Smyth, Ed ward Mclfenry, Stanley Ketcham, Philip Har rlgan, Robert Beard, Burk Estabrook nnd Cal vin Smyth, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wood, Jr., whoso wed ding took place In November, will return homo on Christmas eve from Honolulu and will go directly to tho home of Mrs. WocxTs brother, Dr. Harry Bond Wllmer, of 'Germantown ave nue. Mrs. Wood will be remembered as Miss Phcbo Ingersoll Wllmer. ALONG THE READING Mrs. Asa Bushnell, of Springfield, O., accom panied 1'V Mrs. Wlllams, Is the guest until after Christmas of Mrs. Bushnell's daughter, Mrs. Henry C. Dlmond. of Rydal. Miss Hen rietta Dlmond, who is homo from school for tho holidays, has been entertaining Miss Con stance Barrett, of -Boston, and Miss Wood, of Baltimore, for several days. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Smith and Miss Judith Smith, of Chllllcothe, O.. will spend Christmas and the holidays as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Morton H. Fctterolf, of Rydal. Mrs. Fctterolf, It will bo remembered, was for merly Miss Elizabeth Shirley Smith. Mr. nnd Mis. Joseph Haines, Jr., of Rydal, are being congratulated on tho birth of a son on Friday, December 18. Mrs. Haines will be remembered as Miss Helen Rhedcmeyer, of Mcrchantvllle, N. J., before her marriage a year ago. Miss Edith Larzalere will be .the hostess at a luncheon and card party next Saturday after noon at her home, Kenllworth Inn, Oak Lane, when her guests will be the members of the Sigma Gamma Club. They are Miss Gladys Fries, Miss Dorothy Gamble, Miss Beatrice Smith, Miss Addle Sut ton, Miss Alice Haslam, Miss Helen Millard, Miss Helen Eyre and Miss Eleanor Stone. Mr?. John A. Dexter will bo hostess at a masquerade party New Year's Eve at her home, C05 66th avenue, Oak Lane. WEST PHILADELPHIA Miss Florence Elliot, of 4S37 Spruce street, and her sister, Mrs, Francis de Sales O'Reilly, of Lock Haven, will entertain at bildge this after noon to be followed by buffet luncheon. There will be 63 guests present. Mrs. O'Reilly will re turn to her home In Lock Haven the early part of next week. i Mrs. David Gregg Metheny will entertain at luncheon on Tuesday, January 12, at her home, 460D Spruce street. In honor of Miss Lucille El liott Morris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs; James H. Morris. Miss Frances Buck, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Buck, of 3505 Spruce street, will go to Baltimore next Monday, to remajn over New Year's Day as the guest of Miss Margaret Meyer, of Roland Park. While In Baltimore, Miss Buck will attend several dances, one of which will be given by her hostess, and anotherglven at the Baltimore Country Club. Mrs, Charles Mercer Hicks has returned to her apartment at the Netherlands after a week's visit, to- her mother, Mrs. Percival Thomas, of RJverslde Drive, New York.' While there Mr. Hicks was extensively entertained. SOUTH PHILADELPHIA Miss Edith Robson will entertain at a "COO" in her home, 9610 South 18th street In the airard Estate, Thursday night, followed by a supper. The guests will Include the Misses Nellie and Louise Francois, Miss Edna Fasey and George H. Moore, George Morris and O. Edward Becker. Other guests will be Mr. and Mrs, William Sturgess, Miss Emma Sydell, Miss May Sperlng and Miss Elsie Doepel. George Maltby, Jr., George Daly and John Purdy " Ml---. MM. W ViflXt Xtl " ' iill llh it iiiiiiiiiiiii i SIbssH 1 HK JHislHL. i i ,J&raalllllK ' '"-' r,-v. . -ii?9S9ipVN9HsH tit ' SBBBBBHiBBlBBEBiaiRlSflHHBySBK iSL&tltt .(slisHiBV(sBHiBBBBHB JIISS CORDELIA BIDDLK "' h Jon,..Y.raumi.n Miss Diddle and Miss Susan Drimncr Ingersoll wilt be guests or honor at a danco to be given to night at the Ritz-Carlton by Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Slotcsbury. THE event In the debutante world this ovenlpg will be the danco Mr. and .Mrs. Eijward T, Stotesbury, of 1323 Walnut street, will give at the Rltz-Carlton in honor of Miss Cordelia Bid. die, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Drcxcl Blddln, and Miss Susan Brlmner Ingersoll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward In gersoll. A number of dinners will be given be fore the dance. Miss Charlotte Rush, daughter of Sir. nnd Mrs. Benjamin Rush, will be guest of honor at a dinner and thcnlre party to be given by Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Eldon Graham. The guests will afterward attend the dunce, and Mrs. Benjamin Chew Tllghman will entertain t dinner at her residence, 2212 St. James place, be fore the dance. A theatre party will be given this evening In ' honor of Miss May Brlnton by her father, Bln ney Brlnton. The guests will afterward attend the supper-dance at tho Bellevue-Stratford. NORTH PHILADELPHIA Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Carey, of 2S07 Dia mond street, will entertain at a dinner party at tho Manufacturers' Club, followed by a theatre party, on Saturday evening, December 26. The Dutch- Company, the High School Club of Philadelphia, rti hold Its annual Christmas smoker at ItjdHrorooms, 1114 Arch street, to morrow t0Kns. The Christmas tree, laden "with glfts'Tor the members, is an annual fea ture und affords considerable entertainment. Several members of the faculties of the North east High School. West Philadelphia High School and Central Jllgli School are booked to speak. The committee In charge Includes D'A. Smith, Louis Schwartz, Roland Helsler, Jacob Enders. Clarence Carback and Clarence Schaef fer. M. D. NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA 3tla Jennie Currari, of Kensington, entertained at dinner last night. Her guests were Miss Berulce Croozcn, Miss Marian Harris, Joseph Carpenter, Augustus Plelbel and Benton Mc Caqdless. The Cambria A, C. will hold Its second annual banquet on New Year's eve at Nolan's Hall. Frank Volght. Jr., will entertain at dinner at his home, 275 Ash street, this evening when his guests will Include James M, Peat, Louis Tropt, Otto Belser, Alvln White, Jack Acoff, Charles Wright, Elmer Creamer and Raymond Price, FRANKFORD Mrs. Walter H. Wild, 1018 Fillmore street, Northwood, will be at home after February l. Mrs, Wild was Miss Grace B. Core, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Core, of Frankford, befor her marriage In Atlantic City Decem ber 15. William Hawkins, qf 1110 Ortlvodox street, who has been at ErUa, Va., will spend the holidays here. Ml4 Frances SUberatejfl. who is a student at Bueknell University, will spend the Christinas, holiday with her parents, The mercy and help department of the By. worth League of th Central Methodist KiK copal Church will distribute baskets of fee to a number of poor this Christmas. The SmwJajr school of the church vottd'laet Sunday to ferte tbeir usual Christmas treat at andy ad 8f nate the mooey to the mry and help defarv ran. , LANSDOWI? Mr aa4 Mr- Jm W$lfdW. f IliUf. nnounee the engagement of their daughter,' Bertha Cettreii, to Ctree 8aau4 Jowwi, of Media. Mr George h Hoh. at Wtlmuigtoii, ivi , t the guMt of bet son. Ueoae U Hooper, Jr , of WiodrEgr avenue Mr Dd Mr. X Ru Smith of McKuiUy viiu, w recasvusg wwtitmwi Um b.rtb of a o&u(btr j. WUttea F&tM THnnn oi Nb Ywij, i musuf hmc etatet, kfM. JMt i Xeua, Jr., 4 Ui YUU jx-:'.faallt CHARITY AFFAIRS An Operetta Will bo Given Next Week to Aid Philanthropic Work. "Dreams Come to Life," a charming operetta, will be produced on Tuesday afternoon, Decem ber 20, In Mercantile Hall, under the auspices of tho Philadelphia Section, Council of Jewish Women, in nld of Its philanthropic work. Mrs. Harry J Blssingcr, assisted by Mrs. Justin 1. Allman, Mrs. Arthur Bamburger and Mrs. Max N. Aaion, is directing tho rehearsals. The cast Includes Mrs. Stanley Goldsmith, Miss Claire llachinaii. Miss Elizabeth Lewin, Miss Edith Kutzcnbeig, Miss Dorothy M. Well, Miss Char lotto Fcustmai), Miss May Newman, Miss Helen Damn, Edwin Goodman, If. Stanley Samter and Julian Bacharach. The children In the chorus net ami sing with dalntlnesB and precision. Thcso clever young amateurs Include Elinor Ashcr, Mildred Aaron, Caroline Baum, Alvln Bloch, Bernlce Blocli, Dorothy Bayersdorfer, Ruth Bacharach, Dorothy Cronhelm, Louise Cronhelm, Cecilia Fllshman, Florence M. Gins burg. Miriam Grecnwald, Bertha Gross, Mar garet Harrison, Mary Hymnn, Catharine Hy man, Elslo Friedman. Elizabeth Hess, Llsette Jacobs, Juliet Kind, Ruth Upper, Miriam Levi, Beatrice Loeb, Katharine Miller, Helen Man dell, Eleanor Markowitz, Alice Matter, Florence Miller, Evelyn Mnrkowitz, Elinor Myers, Rose Oppcnhclmor, Emma Ronsahoff, Katharine Ro sepbaum, Dorothy Steelier, Dorothy Stlefel, Edith Stern, Tcsslo Strauss, Edna Sempllner, Jane Vendlg. Mildred Whltchlll and Elizabeth H. Well. TIOGA The committee. In charge of the annual ball of the One Hundred Club, which will take place on New Year's night In Horticultural Hall, In cludes Frederick A. Schimpf, president; Ifenry B. Nightingale, secretary; .Miss Martha Lupton, Miss Mae Ellzubeth Dawson, Miss Marie A. Cross. Miss Grace A. Wade, Miss Emma Don aldson. Robert D. Lodge, William a Farvln, Frank A. Epps, Samuel Brown and Herbert S. Sluzhclmor. The program will Include attrac tive exhibition dancing by Miss Inez Living itone and Earl Dclaney. Mrs. George A. Wlllraanns, of 183S Venango stiret, will be one of the guests entertained by Mr. E. Jr. Horn, 6315 Wakefield street, De cember 22. Mrs. Horn will, entertain at bridge during the afternoon, and her guests will In clude Mrs. Joseph P. Hamilton, Mrs. Maurice A. Nugent, Miss Erma Hardart, Mrs. James F. McCrudden, Mrs, Edward Mallon, Miss Mary O'Nell, Mrs. Stanley J. Sullivan, Mrs. Lewis Pratt, Mrs. Stephen Whelan. Sirs. Lesllq Mc Pherrln, Mrs. Anthony Williamson and Mrs. John McNally. ROXBOROUGH Mr. end Mrs. James Hludle, of 4 IK Mauayunk avenue, gave a dinner, followed by cards, last night. Polnsettlas and holly were used In the decorations, .which were appropriate to the Christmas season. The guests were Miss M. Chantrey, Miss Marian Stout, Miss Ray Sum no r. Miss Anna Du Qan, Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Thomas, Calvin Haln, Dr. G. Frederick Myr, Aleck Allan and C. J. Jones. Mrs. Joaeph Rose, of Manayunk avenue, en tertained at "00" last night. Her guests, who are members of her card olub, were Mr. Clay toil Thomas, Mr. Louis E. Wagner, Mrs, BUa Shuler, Mis Gertrude Field, Mrs. Clarence K, Dergltr, Mrs. Walter Faneourt. Mrs. Ferdinand Davt. Mrs. William R. Sfeappell, Mlsa May Mcrtlnney, Mr. Wilton Smith and Mrs. Ralph Pcpe. CAMDEN AND VICINITY MU Miriam Kekhner. ef Mb 'and Coeper streets, waa U ebarg ef a sale of cake asd eeftdy Satur4ay for the benefit of the Camden by' work In SMul. Korea. 84u was assisted ly Ml Augusta Will. Mlu Mildred Helsler, Naail Carter and Mlw Marry IronsUe. Mr aad Mrs. W. O. -1lkta. of Wedlwry, hve amouied tkjf eamgaia ot thetr i)wah Ur Hhsa ftW. A. HaraW. ol WaeOcMtr. , WILIINGTQN Mi a"d Mr VrlUtesa If Thoutfwun will give. la.nco at the New Centuxy Club in honor ef then daubtr Mm Helen Thompson. Satur day eveiung Mi t-iUn:- William Cuius will u a u y New tm' eve 1b ktoiMMr Mte Mvy Ckmu Mr a 'hi Mr John Btaerft wttt eUatela t BEST THOUGHT OF AMERICA Digest of (1) Tho Bookman Editorial'. (2) Scrlbner'fl "Rhelma During the Bombardment." (3) Cosmopolitan "A Daughter of tho Sunlandtt." (4) McClure's "The Sweated Drama," (5) American -"What Is Entertain ment?" (0) Yale Review "Our Commercial Drama-" (7) Vogue "On and Off Fifth Avenue." THE ARTS WE HAVE comn to think of tho world of painting and writing and sons as a realm apart. It was with a shock of sur prise that we read of our Inspired painters and musicians going out to battle, our writers and philosophers wielding their pons in 'de fense of the sword, nnd saw the world of art shaken to its foundations. Effects of the war upon literature, sajs the Bookman, (I) are most strikingly con spicuous In the foreign magazines and reviews, or rather In their dearth. July 25 and August 1 represent the Inteat numbers of practically all the well-known French, Belgian and Ger man review. Here and there, some rare and crippled survivor has somehow struggled along, like the wounded In a battlefield. La Revue has managed by Herculean efforts to get out one number; five Articles out of seven being writ ten by one Intrepid editor, who explains In a foreword, that since the rest of the staff are all on the filing line, the reader must be In digent The veteran Revue des Deux Mondes, shrunk to barely half lis volume, lives up to Its traditional standards, but the universal theme Is war. The present shrunken bulk of the Revue ds Deux Mondes suggests the casual question, whether It ever suffered similar curtailment. A glance over the shelves of the complete set with Its hundred portly volumes, answers the Question one sees four slim, dejected looking volumes, bearing a date which premonition tells us even before wo look 18T0. It seems worth while to cull Just one brief paragraph (from the volume of 1870). "Let Us cease to feel so proud of our mod ern civilization; let us cease to talk In our scliools of the barbarism of Arabs, who burn libraries. Barbarism has entered Into our ery midst." And the Bookman comments! Does not the above have a distinctly con temporary and up-to-date tone? It makes one feci the futility of all that Is now being written, since tho subject was fco adequately and ex haustively treated 41 years ngo. One of Art's Milestones The effects of war fall first on tho fighters, young men crippled, brides widowed, children orphaned. But a burden of this war, to which all the world falls heir, and wllich wo must hand on to succeeding Generations, is the loss of Rhcims Cathedral. Precious as a storehouse of beauty, as a symbol of tho aspiration and endeavor of many generations of men and women, as a milestone In the development of tho science and art of architecture. Its loss Is mourned with a grlof almost personal by lovers of beauty, by the Intimates of the world of art. Rlchird Harding Davis, who was In the cathedral even while It was being shelled writes: (2) The Cathedral had been one of the most magnificent exnmples of early Gothic archi tecture. Fergusson called It 'perhaps the most beautiful structure produced In the Mlddlo Ages.' It was a structure noble in Its propor tions, beautiful In Its exquisite detail. We found the structuro still standing, still noble, but the beauty was destroyed. It was like-the carved statue of a saint from which some one In a drunken frenzy, with a mallet and chisel, had chopped away the features. The west fa cade held 530 statues; they were figures of the Virgin, saints, confessors, martyrs, apostles, angels. They were all mutilated, chipped, bat tered, dismembered. We picked our way among the broken arms, hands, wings, halos of statues that for hundreds of years, to the glory of God, had faced the elements; our feet trod upon bits of glass more beautiful than Jewels. What the shells had failed to batter down, the heat of the fire started by the shells, had deatrojed. With your hands you could crumble a statue Into powder. The Tired Busineu Man Perhaps It was that catchword about tho tired business man which started the reac tion, but a strong swing there certainly is In many of the magazines toward popularizing dramatic criticism, and being as Iconoclastic as they please about It. Not so many years ago. Life was practically tho only publica tion that dared be saucy toward the glass windows of the box office. Today, several magazines run regular theatrical depart ments and articles on dramatic tendencies and the foreign theatro are frequent. The art of acting alone receives more than half of all the space allotted to the arts In the current magazines. The quality of the com ments varies with the policy of the magazine and the ability of the writer. The Cosmopoli tan's tono may bo Inferred from Its descrip tion of a moving picture favorite: (3) A pretty and appropriate pose Is that of an Indian maiden In the forest solitudes. Ram bling among the flowers, her face demure be neath n rustic sunshade, or taking a siesta In the midst of a poppy field, Ruth Roland seems to get quite away from her professional self, and appears as what she Is, a buoyant, breezy wholesome daughter of the Western Sierras. McClure's give first place in Us January number to a (rank analysis of "The Sweetest Drama" (4), by Wllla Slbert Cather, In whloh she criticises many of the current plays. In terpreting their tendencies. She comments: Among many of our older theatres there lr a preference for the safe machine-mad play, which can always be counted upon to work Into certain dramatic situations according to rule From the younger public, however, there Is a swelling demand for plays with a strong element of contemporaneousness. Walter Frltchard Eaton dissects the devices and artificer of the drama as pitilessly as though be were writing with a scalpel In stead of a pen. (5) lie calls attention to the usefulness of telephones and French maids and English butlers. In getting plots "aeis" with a minimum delay to the action. He sum it up with a 4ash of philosophy: Did you ever stop ta think why there U so often a deep dark villain in. tke drama? He I tbtre because something has got ta happen to your hio. or your hssotne, or you'll have no drama, at least aacMdlng to orthodox ideas. Mr. Shaw won't agree- Kow in this wort, most of ua are our own villains, our struggle are with ourselvea. ami our misfortune rM more from ouMlwn fetturea. or our we&knet. or our deleter blU. or the strive f coal, than frees the dark plotting of an enemy. But In the 4moa.. tbeae thing are vry bird to get acre. hgn they are more or tas (drttui, or at les4 InvUlble, It U. hw, enenpura-tlvejj- ejuiy to get ewer a conteet betw two separate and deOataety seen yewqnnlltte. TVwefwe. the villain still purs) leer, even in yosne ef the pUy of Ibaen. Surrrilngy enough, U U taetwiMu the rudlta blue eovra of to Yni JUvWw tbt "Our Conaaoerelai Drama" U ten it twt outrljrht champion. The ennsaptan. WUttfttoi C. d MUto. who is a eucceanfm pfeywrifht. rMiMUWtble (or Btromfnert," Tn WAu ' a4 other. & the public, tlnni pm-tontw m and ill. ant at tk ism ticn goftwd in ttoMtre muaea eojBwitna m U, e Uie the Magazines ground that "the drama is the only derao& crat of nil the arts." It Is the only art which the people tijtm selves control, and through that control, dlrfct If the drama Is to fulfil this baslo cdndltlofu It must be expressed In a form that the will accept and support. The box office, there fore, Is tho only aure measure of the extent to which the drama satisfies the publle ntstd. The world Is full of poets and philosopher trying-to get a free ride on the ar of dfarriA without paying the fare, and they always IfroK grieved when their transfers (rent literary lines are not accepted. Mr. do Mllle does not caro (or drama leagues. Ho writes: The professional dramatist takes Issue with a class which, were It powerful enough, would menace the democracy of dramatic aft at arty hierarchy of hrnlni tends to limit progTslv thought. The "highbrow" would take from thf people Its right of dramatic suffrage, nfirt com pel the public to vote for plays nominated by the "machine"; and this method of etjjcllon would undoubtedly corrupt drama even a It docs politics. Not thatNthe highbrow Is himself corrupt! on tho contrary he Is, almost always, a per""" of high Ideals, and altruistic instinct, but his fnlturo Is that he Is, essentially an aristocrat, and consequently has the desire to think for others; whereas good plays always perform the useful office of showing the people what they themselves think and believe, to the end that thsy may comprehend the meaning- and Value1 vi uicir vwn iticas. While by no means classing them In the same category, ho has no more sympathy with the police "butting in" to theatres than he has with drama leagues. It Is Infinitely better for the public to choose not to see Indecency on the stage than to be prevented from seeing It. If they do choos to see It, the act will hurt them little mpro thon the desire, and It will more quickly eradi cate the desire. Of course, there will always be a level at which the police may properly act. but It Is well to let the level be so low that It, Is unquestionably upon tho ground of physical Indecency, and not so high as to confuse the function of the police with that of tb dramatic critic. About Troglodytes Vogue, In Its characteristically smart metropolitan manner, gives us an enticing; glimpse of "On and Off Fifth Avenue," (1) The small theatres of New York for New York like Paris has Its bonbonnfere theatres arc every night the rendezvous tor the Smartest theatre audiences along Broadway, Here ara presented the more Intimate, more sophisticat ed, more cosmopolitan sort of plays. In these tlny,.cxclualve Jewel boxes of theatres, every one jlnows every one else, and It Is extremely cosy having afternoon tea. or midnight cofteo In m. little underground salon. The latest and smartest addition to the New York bonbqnnlere has been christened "The Funch and Judy ' En tering this tiny thentro Is like entering a doll's house. All told It contains but 300 seats. Then there Is the Princess, which often pre sents thrillers worthy of the Grand Oulgpol in Paris. In one week's offering, there was one death In the first play, two In the second, and on In the third. In tho last, a prehistoric painted woman piled her cunning art and wiles to the horror and dismay of her respectable, troglodyte sisters. In quite the manner of the modern courtesan, showing that after centuries human nature remains much the same. ABIUSEMENT3 Pknofrmf Qf OPERA I Horns el WorW'r- UnebUlUt Ob. HOU8n I Greatest Fhotoptsjr Afts. 1 to C. 10 & lBc Ere. 7 to 11, 10, IS, 20o POSITIVELY LAST WEEK1 THE SPOILERS Trim DU Afternoons 3:30. Evenings 8:30. Preceded by Keyilone Comedy riciartJ. Hcclnnlng MpniUy, Afternoon. 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