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A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA
Things on which the people expect
the new administration to cuneeu-
trate Ita attention i
'The Delaware river bridge.
A' drydoch -big enough to accommo
date the largest ships.
Development of the rapid froiult ays.
tern.
A. convention nail,
A ImlMIno- for the Free lAbrarj.
An. Art .Museum.
Enlargement o the water euppli.
Homes to occommodofe tio popula
tion. MITTEN ON BUS LINES
TT IS not strange to find Mr. Mitten
ty -v- acciariDg iu ouo """ -
BbiHty of the F. K. x. to unancc serv
Ire lmnrovcments nnd in the next
If actively opposing the scheme for motor-
Iij bus lines on Broad street, xuc troucy
V ...... mnvMi fiitfnmnrirflllT to Tiro-
muiiau; uu.. -.w - . .
, c -tect 'Its own interests and the business
on which it must depend :or essential
rTBues.
tin -i,a Mnnr nnd Council cannot
P properly consider the feelings of the
P. . T. In tnis instance, ucm-i iy
vr. thm miilUtudea who have to ride in
tk overcrowded trolleys is imperative. The
l vi .... ta tn n illlommn. Rn
E1- -. ti...Tu.nnl Tim nuhllc's case is the
I'l .in..nf Anil n anlution for
I Bora?of the difficulties of trolley riders
Em may be found in maepenueni capuai
invested in an efficient system ot motor
bus lines to carry the north and south
bound overflow on Broad street. It is
for Mayor Moore and City Council to
decide.
THE GREAT FLING
STATISTICS read at an Engineers'
Clnb luncheon yesterday by Joseph
H. Stcinmetz, the president. Indicated
that in tho first two months of the
present year New York city spent
i?10,000,000 on the necessities of life
and ?14,000,000 on the movies. This
means nothing, of course, if you happen
to be one of the millions who put the
movies as high in the list of necessi
ties as bread and butter.
Engineers have found that the major
part of tho country's steel output is
going not into works of permanent im
provement, but into motorcars. The
answer to this is easy. The day when
people walked to the movies is past.
They prefer to go in motored state
nowadays, as they used to go to the
ooera.
CROOKS DE LUXE
THE most startling thing about some
of the crimes of violence that have
recently been perpetrated in and about
this city Is the evidence of unusual in
telligence and studied finesse that the
modern crook brings to his daily work.
Tbc yegg is no longer a shambling
brute in rags. He flits about in a
costly automobile. The thief who
traDDed a diamond salesman at the
Bellevuo-Strntford and got off with
$10,000 worth of precious stones re
vealed something very much like an
artistic sense in his methods and his
disguise. The prototype of that par
ticular criminal, a man who found that
crutches will fool almost anybody who
wouldn't be taken In by other dis
guises, actually limps nnd hobbles
through one of G. K. Chesterton's
weirdest tales. It stands to reason
that if the newer type of bad man is
developing an improved and highly
subtle technique, the police will have
to follow his example.
Outlawry was a profession in some
parts of Europe centuries ago, and if
the Paris criminal Is unusually re
sourceful he has to deal with police
quite as clever. Tho police do a highly
necessar work. But they are not
specially trained. In this country there
are schools In which you may take a
course in anything from memory train
ing and needlework to high finance and
the business of empire. If yeggmen
continue their easy way to riches, we
may yet do the rational thing and es
tablish a school for police.
THE NEW FINE ARTS SCHOOL
A HTONIFICANT sten was taken bv
ixtlia hnnril nt trllstppH of tllp ITnl.
1 rerslty of Pennsylvania in the creation
of a school of tho fine arts as an ad
Jiiuctof the institution. For the present
the new branch will bo confined to the
KL-hool of architecture, unw included
in tbc Towne Scicntiflc School, the
department of music and the various
indies In the arts now being given In
R the coliego and the graduate schools.
j. r- The Ignillcanco oi tnis move lies not
. l Ju tBB IOCt inni a new nuu njipuriuui
' Luuti nf inatruction win ue aimed io
1 tbeieurrlculum of tho University, but
foeaMse it Is a sign that the great in-
fHtutlons of learning in our country are
'beflUlling to rcunzu mu iuuvo vuil-u itic
.. & nlnii In nun tinhntnn tW sl-
1 StrVS BJUSt J"J "" ov.ii.imu ui ur-
JllMUOUi
'If In. of course, necessary that cverv
' ;,' country develop its material resources
' first, not only because creative art has
7,f jopvr been and probably never will be
iclftsupportlug, and therefore to exist
4 must bare.jjteip from more remunerative
llr.e, IHUMtmi urvBiisn uaiou uiil
blKblyv'i
I.aAntkitaAr1l ..! '--I-
ivtii-ittvmtij . n bl'i"
cultivation. At the same time, the
artistic development is the 6ne per
manent feature of any civilization; the
names of the great creative artistic
talents of Grecco nro known to every
schoolboy, where the names of the cap
tains of Industry have been forgotten
for centuries.
Therefore it is of more than passing
significance that the University of Penn
sylvania has felt that the timo has corao
to furnish tralulng along this highly
important line. Its example Is sure to
be followed by many of tho other great
institutions of learning, with a very
decided gain to tho general culture of
the country and an added impulse to
the artlsticnlly inclined.
THE PASSING OF HOWELLS,
DEAN OF AMERICAN LETTERS
His Death Does Not Deprive the
Country of Able Writers Who
Will Succeed Him?
WnEN1 a boy starts his career In a
country newspaper office nnd ends
it as the most distinguished American
mau of letters he has accomplished
something.
ouvu wu inu uvkiuuiuk uuu iiic vuu
of the career of 'William Dean Howclls,
who died yesterday nt the age of eighty
three years. When the National Insti
tute of Arts and Letters was founded
a few years ago he was one of tho few
meu who every one admitted should
be one of the 200 members, nnd when
these 250 men elected fifty of their num
ber to tho American Academy of Arts
nnd Letters ho was by unanimous con
sent made its president. This tribute
paid by the men of his own profession
was indorsed by tho public.
Whatever else Mr. Ilowells was, he
was typically American. His flrst book,
after a little volume of youthful verse,
nas a campaign life of Abraham Lin
coln. He was rewarded for this work
by appointment as consul to Venice,
and while In Italy he produced two vol
umes about Italian life. When he re
turned to America ho wrote editorials
for n year for tbo New York Natlou
and then joined the staff of the At
lantic Monthly in Boston. After he left
Boston in 1S81 he became an editorial
contributor to Harper's Magazine nnd
remained on its staff, save for a short
interval, until the time of his "Heath.
Between 1S0O and 1020 he wrote
more than seventy books on a wide
variety of topics. There were novels,
farces, books of travel, reminiscences,
essays and poems. And everything that
lie wrote was American, in the sense
that it was clean nnd decent nnd writ
ten with a sense of his responsibility as
an entertainer or Instructor of the pub
lic. There is hardly a phase of life
which he did not touch upon in the
sixty years of his active writing career.
There is no better American story
than "The Blsc of Silas Lapham," a
book which is still read although it was
written a generation ngo. It is so
true a picture of the career of a suc
cessful business man that the man who
writes the history of the social develop
ment of America will have to consult
it as one of the original documents.
One of the trite remarks about him
twenty-five years ago was that he un
derstood women better than they under
stood themselves. Evidence of its truth
Is found in almost every one of his
novels. His lightness of touch Is demon
strated in the delightful farces which
have been acted by amateurs in all
parts of the country. His books of
travel are informing without being prig
gish, and his essays reveal a full and
tolerant mind at play with ideas.
He has been called a realist and it
used to be the fashion to sny that his
stories began nowhere and ended no
where; that they were mere sections of
life without plot. Yet such criticism
was superficial. He was trying to de
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pict life as It is lived. Therefore he
shunned the sensational and the bizarre.
He told his story n n straightforward
manner, but with n definite knowledge
of what he was doing. 'Ibc popularity
of his novels with the discriminating
proves that he succeeded. "
His style was n constant delight, for
It was simple and unaffected. He never
tried to be smart, and one looks in vain
in his books for phrases that aro merely
clever. Yet they ore full of npt char
acterization and arc distinguished by
as discriminating and careful use of
English as any other novels in the lan
guage. nawthorne was still alive when
Ilowells' began his literary career. Ho
was a contemporary of a long line of
nble writers from Mark Twain, who
was a devoted friend, to the youngest
novelist who is just beginning to bid
for fame. Bret Hartc, S. 'Weir
Mitchell, Charles Dudley Warner,
Sarah Ornc Jcwett, Frank Stockton,
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Henry James,
Jack London, Richard Harding Duvls,
Frank Norris and a score of others pre
ceded him to what he called "tho un
discovered country."
One is tempted to speculation about
which of the young men now writing
will in sixty years hold the place which
he now vacates, n task as profitless,
however, as it would have been for one
to indulge in the same kind of specula
tion after the death of Hawthorne in
1S04.
AVe have out in West Chester in the
person of Joseph Hcrgesheimer a suc
cessful novelist with as definite a theory
of fiction ns that which Ilowells in
dorsed. But Hcrgesheimer lacks the
broad human sympathy of Howclls.
Ernest Poole, of New York, has writ
ten three notable novels filled with the
kind of appreciation of social problems
which illuminates the novels of tho man
who has Just died. Irvln S. Cobb has
written short stories tho equal of any
In the language, but as a novelist he
Is not yet In tho Howclls class. Max
well Struthers Burt has demonstrated
a skill In the psychological tale which
leads one to expect much from him, nnd
A. Lawrence Dudley, of this city, whoso
first novel, "Sprigglcs," discloses con
siderable skill bb a spinner of tales.
may develop into tho skilled interpreter
of life. And no one can tell what tho
future holds for F. Scott Fitzgerald,
a Princeton grailuate only twenty-three
years old, who has already written n
novel and several short stories depleting
contemporary youth In action with the
skill which comes only from first-hand
knowledge. If as ho grows older he
can interpret life of more mature per
sons as well he will deserve the kind of
fame that has como to Ilowells. So tho
list might bo extended.
All of which indicates that American
literature at this time is neither barren
nor unpromising. Only those with
their eyes closed to the facts will re
gret the good old times, of American
letters. 3re is more expert knowl
edge and ,re. bralng.in the wrUin;,pf
UievpmtiUH,aRr.trJftI of
EVENING PUBLIC
demanding good work than in tbc days
when the New England school domi
nated the country. Half a dozen novels
that will live aro produced every year,
besides tbc hnlf dozen "best sellers"
that flourish like mushrooms for a few
months and then disappear. And when
a high-priced serious book like "The
Education is Henry Adams" is demand
ed by 20,000 buyers one is forced to re
spect the present taste of tbc public.
AN ECHO OF TRUMPETS
fTlHE words and tone of the confiden-
tlal address delivered by "President
Wilson to tho officers of the Atlantic
fleet in August, 1017, and mado publie
yesterday, will carry the minds of many
Americans back to the great and al
most unbelievable days when a man,
fired by a desire for human betterment
and expressing with the clarity of genius
purposes as noble ns any ever attempted
in tho modern world, seemed to bo
actually speaking what was in the heart
of every plain man.
The civilized peoples of tho world
were actually united then. We in the
United States, confronted by new dan
gers, faced by the need for sacrifice nnd
the certainty of loss and sorrow, ad
vancing to new nnd strange responsi
bilities, were of one mind. There was
nothing mean or calculating in our
thoughts. The eyes of the nation were
clcnred and certainly we went far
toward the heights. Obsessions that
hold men's minds in the dust were cast
aside. They were bravo days. Mr.
Wilson's address to the naval men was
a brave address.
Looking backward with a sudden
vivid memory of the vanished mood, it
is almost necessary to wonder whether
we nrc tho same people that wo were
then. Mr. Bryan was safe In oblivion.
The presidential campaign was almost
three years away. The chronlclo of
Europe's martyrdom and the spectacle
of divine courngo revealed daily iu a
thousand places had reminded America
of the higher duties of civilization and
the challenging meanings of its own
ancient tradition. We were n free peo-plc-rfrec
of demagogues and politicians,
free of doubts, free of prejudices and
fear. The appalling game of party
maneuvering had not begun. When the
President said that he was willing to
sacrifice half the -navy to bring tho war
to a quick and merciful end ho spoke
to men who were ready to sacrifice
themselves without question. The war
was ended. And where nrc wo now?
The victoryx cost a great deal and
people who once regarded it as the
most important thing In the world, as
something more important than life, nrc
content to throw it away. Much of
what is fine nnd rare in the American
character seems suddenly to have been
obscured at the Instant when the strain
ended. A force that held the people
together was dissipated. The President
himself lost contact with the multi
tudes whose strength had been his.
And life here and abroad was resumed
as n Berics of antagonisms. v
As the most dramatic reminder of the
beliefs nnd hopes of 1017 there is the
solitary man in the White Ilotixo.
Somehow he lost control of the
stupendous forces that ho tried to tamo
and dfrect. There are times when the
President talks like one who has looked
too long and too eagerly at a dazzling
light to see his way clearly. Whatever
bitterness and palit for him nrc Involved
In his growing isolation will be better
understood In the future than it can be
understood now.
But It begins to appear that even the
man who could speak for the spirit of
America has experienced something of
the change that has -ilen on the rest
of the country. Certainly the chnllcnge
to the Democratic party sounds little
llko the address to the officers of the
Atlantic fleet. The President who de
sires only to have his own will nnd way
with the war settlements is not the
President who once was proud to do tho
will of his countrymen. The growing
energy of the attacks on Mr. Wilson,
the active antagonism of men of all
parties, must seen to him like a poor
reward for efforts that almost cost him
Lhis life. But tho Hoovers and tho
Tafts now reveal a for better under
standing of America than Mr. Wilson.
For once Mr. Bryan is right. The
President, broken in health, has been
denied the information r essential to
sound judgment and safe leadership.
Yet the future will honor Mr. Wilson
for his great intentions.
A dispntch from San Juan, Porto
Rico, bays tho steamship Northern Pa
cific, with General Pershing aboard.
is stuck in the mud. To balance this
dpws item there should be another set
ting forth that the Southern Pacific
with Hi Johnson aboard is umilarly
circumstanced.
"Obregon reports the murder of
fifteen ccneinls." Headline. This is
regrettable, but the visible supply of
.Mexican generals never seems to ic
crease.
It ought to be easy for Carranza
to disguise himself. All he has to do is
to shave. Nobody knows what is hidden
behind his whiskers.
"He desires to destroy nil if he
runnot get all." so Mr. Toft of Mr.
Wlli-on. .Mr. Taft has tho gift of terse
characterization.
Students of political conditions
throughout the state declare that tho
line-up looks ns though it were made
with a jig-saw.
When the country at large realizes
that every forest fire is a national
calamity forest fires may grow less fre
quent. One can't learn everything at the
circus. It takes politics to teach that a
mule is as fond of peanuts as is an ele
phant. Onl by gross negligence on the
part of the revolutionists was Car
ranza enabled to escape the net.
"You never enn tell." Russia, the
first country to drop out of tho war, is
one of the last to quit fighting. t
Brewery workers arc on strike in
Hcrlin. Well, that's one kind of labor
trouble we have got rid of.
Every time the Presii cit speaks
out in meeting the politicians get a new
view of the third-term bogey.
There is strong suspicion that the
retirement of Villa was less a capitula
tion than a dicker.
If we could get sugar out of the
coin wo raise we could afford to laugh at
the profiteer.
Somebody should have wired him:
"Dear David, Don't Write."
Happy hciman who bns a child to
LEDGEPKILADELPHIA WEDNESDAY,- MAY ;12r-l920W
RIVER EXCURSIONS
Why Not Have the City Operate
One? Delay at the atate
Prlntery Odd Facts About
the Food Department
By GEORGE NOX McCAIN
JAMES L. PENNYPACKElt, of the
Christopher Sower Co., has, Jn con
nection with our wonderful panoramic
exhibit of Industry along tho Delaware,
an idea which links in with tho new
idea of advertising Philadelphia.
The Mayor nnd Director Sproule, of
the Department of Whnrtcs. Docks and
Ferries, have had tho matter before
them.
".My thought is." said Mr. Penny
packer, "that it yould pay tho city,
purely ns an advertisement, to place
upon the Dclnwnre a comfortable
steamer which should make two trips
every day through the open season,
morning nnd afternoon, at stated hours,
along the rhcr.
"It could start, say, from Arch street,
running up beyond Richmond, there
turning and running down perhaps to
Chester, and,thenoo back to the starr
ing paint.
"The start nnd finish should be nt
stated hours, so that visitors to the city
could plan to make the trip knowing
they could catch ccrtajn trains to At
lantic City, New York or elsewhere. An
excursion ticket might be sold at fifty
cents or $1.
"Accompanying each trip nn intelli
gent guide with megaphone should
direct attention to every point of In
tel est along the route.
"Attention to this attraction should
be invited by suitable advertising at
tho hotels, railway stations, public
places and In tho daily newspapers.
"I never visit New Orleans," said
Sir. Pennypacker, "without taking
what is known there ns the river trip.
There are two dally nlong the twenty
miles of riverfront. Philadelphia, with
all Its historical associations and points
of interest nnd wonderful industrial
developments nloug the Delaware, pre
sents to my mind a rare opportunity for
such an enterprise."
Mr. Pennypacker Is right. Why not
see Philadelphia by water?
FB. NEILSON, ot the Merchants'
Shipbuilding Corporation, ntllar
riman, tells me that the private orders
on their books for the construction of
ships will carry them for two years to
come.
The shins turned out nt Harriman
alone, something llko forty, I believe,
are carrying the Stars and Stripes on
cwr.v ocian of the world.
I he concern keens n record of the
performance nnd whereabouts of everj
vessel launched from Its ways.
They arc in the Malacca straits and
tho Java sea. the Black sea, the Indian
ocean, the Mediterranean and Carib
bean seas nnd on the cast coast of
Afrlcn.
Philadelphia nnd Harriman is Phila
delphia is advertising the United
States of America todiiy ns no other
tit has ever done. She is making the
world acquainted with the colors in our
Hag.
The pre-war saving that tho Amer
ican tourist can find the flag of every
natlou except that of the United States
In foreign and out-of-the-way ports
that ho visits is antiquated now. In
fact, it's a "dead" one.
Our Aug is on every sea.
S MULL'S Legislative Hand Book for
1010 is just coming from the state
printer-. It should have been out
months ago.
Herman P. Miller, Senate librarian,
compiler of this most admirable histori
cal, biographical and statistical work,
is not, it should be undeistood, respon
sible for this delay.
In spite of the greatness of this task,
which requires the most painstaking ac
curacy, the manuscript goes out from
Mr. Miller's office invariably on time.
While in the past there have been re
current nnd well-founded -complaints
about tho procrastination of the state
printer, In the present Instance there
is very good reason, state officials in
form me, for the delay that has marked
the appearance of nearly every depart
mental document for the last year.
The present contract for the state's
printing was mado at a time when the
work could be done for much less than
at present.
Then there is the scarcitv of labor
the difficulty of tho paper situation nnd
nil the multitudinous drawbacks com
mon to publishers everywhere, which
have comuincu to embarrass the situa
tlon.
These conditions did not prevail in
past years.
Then delays were due largely to tho
desire of tho contractor to make the
most out of -his contract with the least
help and greatest amount of "fat com
position." SOME of the departments at Harris
burg, under stress of these condi
tions, have introduced the very excel
lent idea of issuing summaries in pam
phlet form 8f the reports for 1010 that
nrc nwalting publication.
Dr. Fred Rasmusscn, in a preface to
one of these diminutlvo publications,
inu report oi tJircctor oi roods 1 uust,
says:
"Owing to tho fact that the report of
the Department of Agriculture for tin.
enr 1010, containing the reports of the
several oureaus ot tuo department, will
not be ready for distribution for some
time, the director of the bureau has
wisely concluded to furnish the head of
the department with the following pre
liminary report, and in order that the
Information it contains may have as
speedy nnd wide circulation as possible,
its publication ns a bulletin of the de
partment is authorized."
What Do You Knoiv?
QUIZ
1. What Is mordant?
2. In which direction must a Moham
medan mosque face and why?
3. What Is a monsoon?
4. What type of ahlp waH the famous
American war vessel the Consti
tution? B. Who was tho last klnpr of Poland?
C. Does It require a higher or lower
temperature for water to boll nt a
high altitude than at sea level7
7. Who was Delacroix?
8. When did tho Holy Roman Empire
cease to oxlst?
9. What Is osier?
10. What Is tonsure?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1 A nerlodlc sentence Is one so con
structcd that the suspense Is held
until tho end
2. Tho motto of Delglum Is "Dftu fait
la force" tuod elves tne strength).
3. The word wyburltq Is derived from
Sybarls, un ancient Greek city In
suutnern iiuiy nuieu iur us luxury,
A sybarite Is a luxurious and ef.
femlnate nerson.
4. A sea elephant Is a very large seal
with n large proboscis.
C. Tho Heptuaglnt Is the Greek version
of tne uiu -reaiaincni.
C. Tho QrceU Church calendar la thir
teen days behind tho Gregorian, in
use in tho United States and most
civilized Christian countries.
7. Tho word slgnor should bo pro
nounced as though it were Bpelted
"seenyor," with the accent on the
Inst syllable.
8, Serlculturo is silk-worm breeding,
the production of raw silk.
0. The three principal or Capltollne
gods of Rome wrro Jupiter, Juno
-, inn--VA
in flmalt
UJIU TM t
IS B "MW
Jired blue with
ld it is um
cobalt, -TVuen
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HOW DOES IT
STRIKE YOU?
By KELLAMY
A FRENCH duchess of Clermont-
il Touucrre is scolding us for not
taking eating seriously enough.
"The necessity for eating Bccms to
have become for Americans," she says,
"n sort of monotonous nnd obligatory
annoyance, nnd they nre bending nil
endeavors toward simplifying tho per
formance." The result of lack of attention to
eating is, she says, that our food is not
good.
An American takes less time for his
whole luncheon, she declares, than a
Frenchman would merely to scan the
wine list.
Perhaps it is the lack of the wine list
that io the matter.
It is hard to make n ceremonial of a
meal that is washed down with cold
water. . ,
Perhaps it is our Puritanism.
That is the scapegoat for most of
our sins against tho nrt of living.
If we haven't much of a literature it's
because of our Puritanism, the critics
tell.
If our chickens are scrawny, as the
duchess says, we arc sure there is a
Freudian explanation for it.
Somo Puritanic repression In us Is
observed by fowls In the barnyard and
imitnted from us.
Vous ne savez pas profitcr de la vie,
the French say of us you don't know
how to profit by life.
Neither do our chickens, scrawny
things, emerging always from cold
storage.
q q q
T)ERHAPS it is our colonialism, an-
t other of our faults.
Go to London and experience the
nnccstor of our cooking nnd be prop
crlv abashed.
Descended from such a stock, you
can only wonder how our food Is ns
good ns It is.
Puritan, too.
Prnhnblv some seventeenth century
determination to mortify the flesh is
probably back of it all.
When an American boltR n club
sandwich in six bites it Is probably be
cause his ancestors sang psalms, wore
queer hats and resolved never to make
gods ot tlicir stomaciis.
1 I
OUR literature is like our chickens,
a little scrnwny in the neck.
You realize this when ypu read nbout
It In tho "American Literary Supple
ment" of the London Nation.
This supplement is not inspired by
"n certain condescension in foreigners,"
once observed.
The foreigners try to take us quite
seriously.
They throw open their pages to our
own writers nnd critics to tell about our
books and authors.
And the result is that we look very
much like a man bolting a club sand
wich nnd calling it a meal.
Once a boastful people, we are re
EITH'S
I EVELYN NESBIT & CO.
In a rw Bong Revue
"Creole Fashion Plate"
riMMneator of Sonirs and Fmblnna
'ANNA CHANDLER, MME. RtALTO.
& CO. MUll-N and FRANCIS,
JIAPJlV IIOLMAN i CO.. Othsrs.
VINTIt AND A.HCJT PTItEKTB
Mats. Mon., Wed. & Bat, 3:1B. Egs., 8:15
POS1TIVELT LAST WEEK OF THE
REVIVAL OF THE OLD-TIME MINSTRELS
"Academy of music
Thuwday. May 13,8 P.M.
"Pussyfoot" Johnson
Auspices Anti-Snloon Lcaguo
a DANCING LESSONS fiC
f A Teacher for Each Pupil $J
CORT1SSOZ fl SCHOOL
1120 Ckestoot ' J(yj
Must I1M
MADAMS CECILI3 DE IIQRVATH. Pianists
Assiet.il by. Miss Mildred Faas, Soprano
rrloyyventnr, May H at HUB P. M.
tljtib 12. i Bslletuj-Mratrord t
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K,rn
mwimrs
EHMHTJ.WlCMmSaS
uavJia WK
COUNTING THEIR CHICKENS
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Americans Too Much in a Hurry to
Mahe Eating a Fine Art, Say a
French Woman
vealed as n mostf self-deprecatory peo
ple, w c arc like country folk unex
pectedly invited into fashionable urban
society which tries to make us feel at
home.
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POETRY? An Irishman now patrl
atcd in America writes that wo have
four poets "whose name sounds a chal
lenge." It appears that Whitman let us loose
in poetry.
It is as good as the red banana which
tho French duchess found here nnd
which Isn't American or U. S. Ameri
can at nil.
Literature generally?
An American critic quotes with ap
proval the remark that its typical qual
ity Is that of "a refined essay in the
Atlantic Monthly, by Emerson, so to
spenk, out of Charles Lamb, tho sort
of thing one might look to bo done by
an advanced English curate."
"The American writer," says an
other," is the victim, ill or convales
cent, of what Mr. Santayana has called
the. 'genteel tradition.' "
Into this tradition go Puritanism and
Colonialism. "The literature of the
country is In a state," writes another,
"bordering on paralysis."
Admitted into tho family of nations,
we have tho terrible self-consciousness
of a rather poor relation.
We ought to go into Mr. Wilson's
league to get over our international
bash fulness.
PHILADELPHIA-a FOREMOST THEATHES
FORREST Last 4 Nights
POPULAR MAT. TODAY
Positively Last Week
WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW I
SPECIAL EXTRA MATINEE
FRIDAY, MAY 14. AT 2:15
nnNEFix or
The Salvation Army
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
KNTIRn COMPANY AND PRODUCTION
Courtesy F. Zlegfeld. Jr. & Forrest Theatre
Prices Same as Wed. & Sat Mate. tl to 13
NEXT WEEK SI3AT3 TOMORROW
New York's Big Sensation
IRELAND A NATION
PHOTOPLAY TAKEN ON IRISH SOIL
nneclsl features. Including Urrnard Dsly and
his Irish payers In "Tho Wlihlnj Well."
.,, . , -Twice Dally, 2:15 and 8:15
Nights SBo to tl.BQ. Dally Mats. 2Bo to TSo
R--. J 1 nt- A Ta Mats. Today
J-JIUCIU " ' & Saturday
bdats $1-50 at Pop. Mat. Today
A. L. ERLANGER"18 pkesentinci
- CHAUNCEY
Olcott
IN
"MACUSHLA"
Olcott Sings 4 New Songs
NEXT week seats tomorrow
LOU TELLEGEN
Under His Own Manasement
IN A NIIW 8-ACT rOMHDY
"SPEAK OF-THE DEVIL"
By AUGUSTUS THOMAS
arriCK. Mats. Today & Sat. at 2:20
Popular Mat. Today, 25c to $1
THIT
TAMOUSMUtilAU
Bring the Kiddies!
r 1TUNN1ER THAN A CIRCUS
spirits Return? Tnu?i T-
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BIT. VHiAk I HCTW I
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x NTiVf WONDER SHOlVOFy
I I . V L L IHE
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The President's latest declaration
concerning the treaty "without reserva
tions will entirely lose its point unless
the Republicans aro careless enough to
nominate a man as irreconcilable as
himself.
i
Anyhow, there will be a "moral
victory" for all of the defeated candi
dates. Open diplomacy seems to have been
held up at the Mexican border.
PHILADELPHIA THEATRICAL
MANAGERS
have always advocated clean adver
tising, and have avoided misrepre
sentation and deceiving the public
It is therefore tho cause of a mis
statement of facts by the promoters
of a picture now showing in this city
that we announce that
MARYPICKFORDin
POLLYANNA
is now, and has for tho unst tbreo
months, been booked
TO APPEAR AT THE
STRAND THEATRE'
DURING THE WEEK OF
MAY 81, 1920
And will also be seen at
NINE OTHER THEATRES IN
PHILADELPHIA
during that weekto bo followed
by the usual presentation at numer-
ous other picture houses.
MAYOR MOORB may have to
Si
CONSULT A OU1JA BOARD '
to ascertain
HOW MUCH MONET the city
WILL HAVB TO PAT out Jn
MANDAMUSES this year
BUT NOBODT has to ask
OUIJA If
IS THE BEST film that haa
EVEH DEEN SEEN In this
City.
THE GREAT BIG famous
METROPOLITAN OPERA
HOUSE Is none too
LARGE FOR THE CROWDS
which ore
CLAMORING TO SEE the
Inimitable
MARY PICKFORD in the
'
BEST ACTING of .her
YOUNG LIFE!
...
Matlnoes. 2.30 2Co
Evenings, 7 and 9 2Eo and GOo
BOXES RESERVED at I10S
Chestnut Street or
Metropolitan Opera House
Poplar 600 PHONES Park 860
40 Symphony Orchestra 40
EXCLUSIVE PRESENT
" SHOWING OF POLLY
ANNA IN PHILADELPHIA.
Plectrum Symphony
ORCHESTRA
First concert, assisted by mem-
MAY 13
AT 8:la
WITHER.
SPOON
HALL
Dors ot x-iiiiaueipnia urcneotra.
Tickets on Sale. Wltherspoon Hall
orpheum M-sara.
"plST little women
MAY IT "CHEAT1NO CHEATERS"
Academy of Music, TussEvr., May 18, 8 15
BAHMAN PESTONJLWADIA
Th0 Pro,p,unDr.ci.w.ri!S:,'Jr;eo'o,,h,'t "
"LIFE AFTER ,tEATH"
3ats, BOo to tar.Hepp.'s. Ilia Chsst.'tno taj
PEOPLESlir
V "V"-' HfWW
'ffWm
Market,
If l Dl. IU.
."A-of&A1;;" p. m.
IJXUI.I
, CECI B. De MULE'S
rilVOi CH1VT liTOU
PAnAxiot'..'r-"AhTcrtAPT McTuna
"WHY CHANGE
YOUR WIFE?M,
cast, iieaoecu iy, liiunAB MUHJIIAN,
OLOnrA'SWANBON and IlEttC DAN1EL3
D A L A C V
K i?U MArtKF.T BTnrirjT Ju
10 A. M...12. 2. 3M3,'Ol4S,)T:4BO:S0 P. M.
' MARSHALL NEILAN
Prfucnls First of His Own Productions
"THE RIVER'S END"
Dy JAMB3 QLIVEP. CURWOOD
ARCADIA
CHESTNUT IEtX)W 10TH
10 A. M., 12,2, 3t4S,'0l4S, 7:48, 0:30 P. U.
BERT LYTELL
In Initial Presentation ot Metro's
"THE RIGHT OF WAY"
From Novel by Blr Olltxrt Parker
V I C T O R I
A
" Market. Btreet Abov Ninth
0 A. M. to 11:18 p.
A OOLDWYN FIRST SHOWING
R1X BEACH'S
NEW PRODUCTION
"THE SILVER HORDE"
UNUSUAL AND POWERFUL DRAMA
f A P I T O T
V 724 MARKET' 8TREET Ij
10 A. M.. 12, 2, 0:45, 6:45, 7:4B, 0:30 p. .
EARLE WILLIAMS capt
oWIFP
R E, G E N T
MAJIKET ST. Del. 17TII
O lK A. M. to 11:15 P. M.
D. W. GRIFFITH'S 'S'Ujatew
QUESTION"
MARKET STREET
,, AT JUNIPER1
11 A.M. to 11 P.M.
CONTINUOUS
VAUDEVILLE
A Night in a Police Station
"THE FINANCIERS"! Clark s V.rdl: Others
CROSS KEYS 60TU AND MAiuatr
"THE NIGHT VlERK' "
BROADWAY & J.y.-jj.
"SWEET SIXTEEN" gggg
v.r.io,ny "Huckleberry Finn"
ALLEGHENY fhankford av.
M-Lf-t-ncliI Bel. ALLEGHENY
FRITZI SCHEFF & '
Clara Kimball Young "F
PHILADF.LPHLVS LEADINO THEATRES
DIRECTION LEE as J. J. SHUBERT
"A TRIUMPH" -pe.
GRACE
GEORGE
in "The Ruined Lady"
By Frances .Nordstrom
"MAKES' YOU ROAR WITH
LAUGHTER." nECOm
THE PLAY IB DRIMMTNO OVER 'WITH
BRIGHT, SNAPPY, DIALOGUE AND
FUNNY SITUATIONS." INCjUUlER.
"MISS GEORGE .IDEAL, AS THE PI
QUANT. FASCINTTING ANN RAPIER
LIKE PLAY OF EPIGRAMS LINES THAT
FLASH AND SPARKLE." LEDGER.
"A PETTICOATED BERNARD SHAW."
NORTH AMERICAN.
"MISS GEORGE IS NATURAL. DROLL
AND DELICIOUS CLEVER. ENTERTAIN.
INO AND AMUS1NO P LAY BRIOIIT
LINES AND WITTY SAYINGS GLOWS
AND SPARKLES." BULLETIN.
"KEENLY WRITTEN AND PLAYED TO
THE LAST TOUCH BY MISS GEORGE,"
EVENING LEDGER.
AnrobM.R,T Evgs. at 8:20
D E L P HlFlrst $1 Mat. Tomor.
LYRIC Bvoa-
illMV ATo.i!
11.00 MAT. TODAY
AT 8:15 FINAL MAT. flAT.
LAST 4 'NIGHTS &
IDEAL ENTERTAINMENT
MAGIC MELODY
The
THE OPERETTA MAGNIFICENT
.with CHARLES PURCELL
Julia Dean. Tom McNaushton.
Uertee Beaumonte. Emma Hale
and 40 Datillnt Darlings
BEG. MON. eEATfl TOUOn-
MAIL ORDERS NOW
OCXVER MOROSCO Presents
WILLIAM COURTENAY,
CIVILIAN CLOTHES
WITH A TYPICAL MOROSCO CAST
BAM SHURFRTVENINOS AT 815
8. vriVDEJS.1 FIRST MAT. TODAY
JOHN HENRY MEARS Announces
Ttw Avratir-ntant lttt ILf -!- flmt
" THE CENTURY MIDNIGHT WHinL
IS A NOVELTY A3 RARE AS A CHAM
PAGNE COCKTAIL AND EVERY BITAS
INVIGORATINO TO THE SEEKER AFTER
PERPETUAL YOUTH. FEMALE PUL
CHRITUDE BLOSSOMS FORTH IN TUB
CENTURY MDNIGHT WHIRL. AND JUS
TIFIES ALL THE OOOD TIUNGS THAT
HAVE BEEN SAID ABOUT TUB MIL
LIONAIRES' CHORUS." BULLETIN.
THPTNI IT C,T OPERA I EvenlW
V-nCOJlNVJl OI, jIOU8Ej ( AtSllB
Pop. Mat. Today $& $1.00
OLIVER MOROSCO Presents,
CHARLOTTE
GREENWOOD
In tha new mualcal camedy
"Linger Longer Letty
Tents at
19th St &
Hunting
Park Ave.
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