I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 8, -1923. In the Brooklyn Theaters ROONEY TOPS BILL AT ORPHEUM THEATER This week the Orpheum Theater 1s presenting an excellent programin one of the best this season. "Rings of Smoke," a musical revue, the popular Pat Rooney Marion Bent starring, is the headliner. Cross and Al K.
Hall other popular numbers arMiewl on the program. Mr. Rooney's offering reveals Patsy's visits to Spain, Ireland, Paris and other countries, and he also sings and 3 dances with the maidens of each land. Pat also contributes entertainment by playing a comedy role in the offering of Davis and Pelle, acrobats The excellent cast assisting Pat includes Ted and Kathryn Andrews. Maude Drury, Nieto.
Billie Rainsford and Al Kaplan's "Kings of Harmony." Edgar Allan Woolf is author of this act. with his comedy in his clever offerAl K. Hall entertains the audience ing, entitled "The He is asssited by Walter Pearson, Carrie and Elenore Sour. They were well Cross, two received. of Ed vaudeville's Healy best and song- Allan sters, do their bit, as usual, by sing-.
ing some of the latest luts in great fashion. They were required give several encores. Billy Lytell and Tom Fant. Chocolate Cake Eaters': Harry and Emma Sharrock in "Behind the Four American Aces; Alleeen Stanley. "The Phonograph "Topics of the Day" and "Pathe News complete the bill.
PLENTY OF COMEDY AT THE BUSHWICK Eva Shirley and Oscar Adler's Orchestra with Al Roth, who is A wonderful dancer, make up the headliner at the Bushwick Theater this week. They have a group of songs, tanging, all selections the way from from grand the opera. popuOle Olsen and Chic Johnson have a sketch depicting a "Pair of singing playing and going through a lot of contortions, appearing later in what they call an afterpiece in which the Runaway Four with a little bit of everything, Eva Shirley the band take part. They run up and down the aisles, make a hullabaloo and create a lot of laughter and applause. Blanche Sherwood and brother are fair trapeze performers.
Jean Barrios sings a couple of songs as a female impersonator and then pulls off his wig and gives the audience a surprise. Hartley and Patterson have a sketch which offers them an opportunity to get off SOMU jokes. Mc Waters and Tyson, old favorites, made their annual appearance and usual hit. The "Show Off' is a fine sketch. The entire bill 1s an unusually good one.
The Jet1erson Benevolent Society had a theter party. HENRY HULL STARS AT THE ALHAMBRA "The Man Who Came Back." the thrilling melodrama that has enjoyed long stays at the leading theaters throughout the country, was offered by the Alhambra Players at the Alhambra Theater last night. Henry Hull, who originated the leading role in its former success been engaged play the titie role again. "The Man Who Came Back" deals with a youth turned adrift by his parents and forced to sink to the lowest depths. His regeneration comes through the love of a woman.
Mr. Hull gives a splendid ance and is well supported by the local company. BURLESQUE The Gayety. "French with Johnny Weber, is the attraction at the Gayety this week. It is a clever musical production in two acts and six scenes.
Weber portrays a clever character as a baby boy, in the early part of the second act. Ruby Wallace, Grace Tremont and Rose Gordon, Wallace Jackson. and Harry Beasley are others in the cast. The Star. "Miss New York Jr." is the show at the Star Theater this week.
Billy Magen is the featured comedian and the cast includes Lew Lederer. Bhiv Cochran, Art Mayfield. Anna Toebe, Myrtle Andrews and Alice Melville. The Empire. offers the week's fun at the Empire.
Harry Evenson. Bert Marks, Charles Smith and William Davis are the chief comedians. The Casino. The show at the Casino for the week is "Step on It." which concerns the adventures three American tourists on a mythical island At the head of the cast are George Niblo and Helen Spencer. It is 9 lively show.
'THE FIRST YEAR' COMES BACK TO TELLER'S Frank Craven, with his version of the initial trials of married life, is the attraction this week at Teller's Shubert. Mr. Craven appears in the dual role of author and leading man. the result being a clever story of "The First Year" of married life. portrayed in an entertaining and amusing manner.
The comedy is clean and wholesome and can be appreciated by both those "in" and those "outside" of the circle of married bliss. The usual misunderstandings that crop up when the union is still fresh are woven into a good story that keeps one keenly amused as he gazes on the life of another couple. Mr. Craven, as the young husband, is true to life and, since he wrote the story, carries A large part of the action on his own none too broad shoulders, which, however, prove capable. Alice Owens is his bride, and shows the nervousness that usually comes after the knot is tied tight.
But the honors must go to Leila Bennett as Hattie, the negress maid, who can and is forced to wait on table, although she "washes much better." A hard part that might be overplayed, especially at this time when the is no longer in its youthful stage, is done adroitly. Tim Murphy the father confessor of the young couple, Lyster Chambers, the rival suitor, while James Bradbury and Jane Ellison are entertaining as the parents of the bride. Harry Leighton and Merceita Esmonde round out an excellent supporting cast for Mr. Craven. "THE BRIGHT SHAWL" AT STRAND THEATER In the film adaptation of Hergesheimer's widely tale, "The Bright Shawl." which is the feature this week at the Strand, Brooklyn, Richard Barthelmess is cast for the part of the adventurous American, Charles Abbott, who gets mixed up with Cuban seekers of freedom sevcral decades ago, when Cuba WAS still under the yoke of Spain.
Barthelmess' winning smile and pleasing personality make him always a likeable chap, but he cannot flirt, or eve: pretend to, and so the wiles of the dark-eyed senoritas are wasted on him, though he does succeed in falling in love with pretty Mary Astor, who impersonates the sister of his unfortunate friend. Andres. Richard, however, can always give a good account of himself in a fight, whether with his fists or a sword and his courage so impresses his antagonist, the Spanish dandy, Captain de Vaca, that the latter sends him home and sends the little sweetheart on the same ship. Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer. also lacks the flair and Carmenesque quality that the part demands, although she is undeniably coquettish and charming.
The setting 1x beautiful, the scenes being laid in Havana or its outskirts. The comedy film is labeled "Treasure Bound" and two groups of seekers for gold have unusual experiences with dirigibles. There is an exceptionally good musical program, with outstanding numbers the overture, "Les Preludes." by the orchestra, and violin solos by Mischakoff. THE RIVERA The stellar attraction at the Rivera Theater this week is Harold Lloyd in his latest screen feature, "Safety Last." which will be seen here for the entire week. Heading a fine vaudeville program are Lew Seymour and girls in their musical comedy skit, "Are You a Lawyer?" Zelda Santley amused the audience with her fine impersonations of Ted Lewis, Pat Rooney, Al Jolson, Norma Beyes and others.
Another act which kept the audience in good humor wag Hall and Dexter in their comedy scream, "The First Johnson and Clark in aerial feats kept everybody on edge. as did Willie Schench and company, with their acrobatic stunts. Chic Yorke and Roe Kings in "The Old Family Tintype" ended a fine program. LOEW'S METROPOLITAN. Pola Negri is the star on the screen at Loew's Metropolitan Theater all the present week in "Bella Donna," her first American- made film.
In the cast are: Conway Tearle, Lois Conrad Nagel and Macey Harlan." George Morton, blackface comedian, heads the vaudeville bill, which includes the Five Kirksmith Sisters, Cecilia WesOverholt and Young, and the Melnotte Duo. LOEW'S BREVOORT LOEW'S BREVOORT The feature film attractions at Loew's Brevoort Theater for the Arst two deys of the week are "Mr. Billings Spends His Dime," with Walter Hiers as the star, and "Are You a Failure?" with Jacqueline Logan and Josef Swickard. Why Is The Dictionary a "Best People turn to the dictionary all the time because they want certain information it can give them. It's more than a book--it's a universal service! And that about sums up the case of the little ads in the "Merchandise Group" in this, newspaper's Classified Section.
Thousands of readers turn to these ads regularly to satisfy definite shopping needs. And the alphabetical listing of all the offers under their proper Classifications make them as easy to consult as the dictionary. Here's more than a collection of ads- -here's service! Make the Merchandise Ads in the Classified Section Your Shopping Dictionary The New Plays By ARTHUR POLLOCK "FIRES OF SPRING" AT THE MAJESTIC Brooklyn had a premiere--or perhaps it should be called merely a Robert lin's "Fires of Spring" was given its first performance at the Majestic Theater last night. "Fires of Spring" is a play about an old actress who, like the heroine of Gertrude Atherton's "Black Oxen," is metamorphosed by a clever doctor into a young girl again and appears on the stage as her own granddaughter. The most obvious thing to be said about the drama is that it needs a shot of the same elixir that put new life into Its heroine.
It was. last night at least, sluggish, turgid and clumsily acted. But, of course, since this was its first performance it is necessary to overlook everything but the fact that it is not a very good play to begin with. Frank Reicher, who, in staging the production of "Romeo and Juliet? in which Jane Cowl is breaking records, proved himself Shakespeare's right hand man, directed this production. In its present state no one would suspect it.
Though the new play has the same plot idea as Mrs. Atherton's novel, Mr. McLaughlin thought of it first, writing and producing his play some three years ago. It is a splendid idea. If a playwright less concerned with sentimentality had written it, we, for one.
should have liked it better. The irreligious Philip Moeller, for instance, might have made a. delicious satire of it. For it tells the story of a famous and extraordinary actress, an actress like Bernhardt, who at the age of 76 yearns for youth again in order that, with her great skill and wisdom, she may do over again all that she has done. Well, among the many things that she has accomplished are some thou sand little immoralities.
She becomes young again. Unfortunately she has to be moral. There is no good reason why she should, but the playwright insists. A young girl is sacrificed to bring her youth. A Mephistophelean dootor turns the trick.
a trick he describes as 2,000 years old. By a sort of siphon process draws blood from the young girl into the old girl after giving his patient a drink of a strange liquid that looks like Turkish coffee. The girl, a pure girl, dies; a priest tells the old artist that, since the girl was pure, her soul has passed into the ancient immoralist and the latter now owes it to the girl or to herself or to God or something of the sort to be likewise a good girl. Like Faust, she has sold her old soul; but she has got a new one. That is her ruin.
Coming back to America as her own granddaughter, this famous French actress cause of this wild party the woman, she cannot sidestep love. The newspaper man who loved the girl who died now loves the actress. A terrible thing happens. The actress I has a "party." It isn't a nice party. A girl with the most diminutive of costumes on a beautiful if awkward body dances.
An old libertine makes a number of vice cracks. The priest enters and is horrifled. And because of this wild party tre woman, it seems, is doomed. She yields to her lover and the next morning has turned into an old hag. She has sold her new soul.
It is a striking if mushy and illogical climax. Perhaps after much cutting is done and a half hour or so disappears from the playing time, "Fires of Spring" will emerge as sharp, concise and effective drama. It is not that at the moment. It could not be expected to be that. But a great deal of work will have to be done.
It is a question if enough work can be done to induce Josephine Victor, who plays the leading role, to play it as it must be played. To ask a woman to act like Bernhardt is asking a great deal. Miss Victor cannot do it. ever. In the cast are several actors--Albert Bruning.
Herb Yost, Edward Emery, Donald Cameron, Miss Victor herself -whose names on programs occasionally mean something. In the present instance they are just names. Bruning lifeless, Yost overplays painfully, Emery is miscast and Miss Victor is beyond her depth. At the present moment 'Fires of Spring' seems a gouty play. But it has a lust.
punch. "THE RIVALS" It is a pity that the Actors Equity did not gather together its excellent cast and present "The Rivals' earlier in the season. Had this been done, it is quite possible that the old comedy would have lasted throughout the greater part of the winter. Certainly, Sheridan's piece was well received at the 48th Street Theater in Manhattan, last night. Nor is it any wonder.
With the possible exception of the younger men, the piece was so well played that it was a pleasure to witness the performance. Mary Shaw gave a new twist to the well-known character of Mrs. Malaprop. Although she acted as though butter would not melt in her mouth and created no end of laughter, Miss Shaw left the impression that under the surface was the old "she dragon" that Capt. Absolute called her.
Unfortunately Capt. Absolute, played by Sidney Blackmer, was one of the younger generation that hardly Atted into the all-star cast. Francis Wilson as Bob Acres and James T. Powers as his servant David, furnished the low comedy of the evening and furnished it well. Mr.
Powers, in particular, had the house with him from the moment he poked his red head inside the door of Bob Ackres' room. Maclyn Arbuckle looked and acted like a good old English squire and gave a deal of life to the role of Sir Anthony Absolute. The three younger women were all delightful. Violet Heming made Lydia Languish a perfectly delightful, sentimental, lovesick girl. Vivian Tobin, as Lucy the maid, was demure enough to turn any man's head.
Eve Le Gallienne was the more stately but equally lovesick Julia. All helped to make the a most enjoyable one. THE TERRIBLE TURCK Josephine Tuck Baker present her own play, "The at the Punch and Judy Theater last night. What for? Surely, she is old enough to know better. From stupid prologue to impossible epilogue, "The Apache' was.
the worst play we have ever seen. It was a play without an idea. without a clever line, without single character who mattered. What plot there was was so frail as to be scarcely visible. With neither plot nor idea as founcation, the author devised play which was consistently badly written from the standpoint of stage mechanics, character development, interest, dialogue, and the acting, AS well, was consistently bad.
The cast, headed by Thais Magrane and Juan de la Cruz, could scarcely have been more stiff and mechanical- could scarcely have uttered their line, when they remembered them, In a more phonographic style. KEENEY'S THEATER Borden and company, Brown and Barrows and Wilbur's Society Cirare among the vavdeville acts offered. "THE MOUNTEBANK" One of the signs of a waning theatrical season is the progressively sillier quality of the plays brought out display on the stages of Broadway. There opened, for example, at the Lyceum Theater last night. "The Mountebank," based on W.
J. Locke's "popular novel of the same and adapted for the theater by the author and Ernest Denny. Norman Trevor is one of the "notable east." which is a pity. No act ing, not a 4 a Joseph Jefferson anG sarah Bernhardts combined, could save trite. sentimental and altogether meaningless and theatrical thing like Mountebank." It's al war play and in four act: Act I is taken up with reminiscences about the good old days of the past and a pathetic scene in which Mr.
Trevor assures the world that his dog, now dead, was his best pal and severest eritic. Act I has reminiscences about Act Act, Ill and Acc IV. in turn, reminiscence about what went before. In addition, the clown of Act I becomes a brigadier general until Act IV. when he goes back to clowning and doesn't like It.
Ther: are women involved, of course. And in the end the -general gives up clowning And takes Lady Aurici Dayne off to one of the Solomon Isie3 to start anew. It's the sort of play in which every row and then somebody says, "Won't you--sit town?" in the tone of having said A significant thing. It's the sort of play in which the heroine declares: "A woman always knows, but she likes to be told." the sort of play in which the most humorous situation is produced by several pairs of women's stockings being hastily and inadequately hidden under a man's coat. It is the sort of play which helps create the eternal mystery of what principle producers use in deciding on the plays they are to produce.
I. K. "FOR VALUE RECEIVED" Ethel Clifton's -act melodrama, "For Value Received." which opened at the Longacre last night, is an other in the younger generation of Broadway's family of sex plays. It is neither profoundly wicked nor engagingly different. Neither is it sug.
gestive. It is candid, speaking th naive language of Broadway. The play, which deals with the selfishness of a blind writer, the selfishness of his secretary-companion and the respective selfishnesses o1 her sweetheart, her sister and a lawyer, begins like an immoral story with a moral and ends in the happy style of Laura Jean Libby at her sunniest. The moral, which appar. ently is the somewhat stale proposition that man is selfish and the woman adventurer into the byways of unconventionality is headed for a cropper, becomes mislaid somewhere between the short first act and the long last one.
Taken by and large the piece appears to be a study in ordinary humanness by a somewhat casual ohsErver. It might be interpreted a3 an earnest that the flesh is weak. Miss Clifton was not generous in he. bestowal of the sterner qualities among her characters. Beneath byplayof conventional reactions each exhibits a convincing predilection for his or her own happiness and devil take the hindmost.
The plot hinges upon a like domestic arrangement existing between a writer and his secretarymistress for eight years, at the end of which time the writer, who has gone blind, decides to marry the lady of his unconventional menage in orthe position somewhat odd under der to keep her with A him. She takes the circ*mstances--that she prefers her existing state of marriage without love, even marriage to the mail who has been paying her bills for eight years. So she falls in love with a young nan who is ignorant of her social outlawry. He is undeceived by the family attorney and promptly marries the lady's sister. Then every.
else turns out sunnily and the curtain falls on a typical movie ending. The acting is more or less commensurate with the lines--not particularly good and not especially bad. There are moments when Augustin Duncan, as Almeric Thompson, the blind writer. does some really fine work. Maude Hanaford, as Beverly Mason, his secretary-mistress, like wise has her moments.
Harry Blakemore, as Anthony, makes an engaging old negro retainer of the family, and Louis Kimball, as the sometime sweetheart. bears up rather well un. der a handicap of apparently natural overexuberance. Others in the cast are Cecil Owen, June Bradley and May Hopkins. "SALOME" If the Ethiopian Art Theater had burlesqued Oscar Wilde's "Salome" last night instead of trying hard to play it seriously the result would have been delightful entertainment.
As it was, we had an almost adequate performance. Just why Raymond O'Neil's negro players felt called upon to devote their talents to Wilde's poetic prose where Mary Garden has sung and Nazimova filmed is diffeult to understand. Last night's friendly audience at the Frazee Theater which witnessed the players, well enjoyed the slight curtain raiser comedy of negro lit very much more than Wide. A program of short plays akin to "The Chip Woman's Fortune" would have provided a delightful evening of entertainment in which negro folk play the foibles and peculiar qualities of their own kind. Mr.
O'Neil, himself, after working with the players for a year, says: "It the folk play and the play with a universal appeal that the colored actor is qualified to perform." There is but the slightest story in "The Chip-Woman's A phonograph, bought on the installment plan, is about to be taken away because of a default in payments. The Chip Woman, who has been staying with the owners, has accumulated a small fortune and lend; the necessary money. So the graph is paid for and everybody dances. In this sketch Evelyn Preer, the Salome of the evening, showed her comedy talent, and every other member of the cast played in Natural, easy strain that was most appealing. Just to hear negroes talk naturally is a delight to white folks.
In "Salome" the setting was effective, a horizon background outlining the ngures, but the lighting, staging and handling of the minor roles were inadequate. One of the three Jews fell off the platform amt disappeared, but the remaining two were the more effective in mimicry and in their moaning accompaniment to Salome's dance. Evelyn Preer's Salome was handsome physically and her elocution excellent, but she was a bit too buxom and too conventionally 80- phisticated to suggest the creepy qualities of Wilde's heroine. Sidney Kirkpatrick as Herod had moments of eloquence and moments of ranting. Solomon Bruce was an effective Jokanaan, and Laura Bowman as Herodias looked appropriate daggers at everybody else.
THE REGENT At Keeney's for the first three THE REGENT days of the week is Betty Blythe, The Regent Theater offers today starring in "The Truth About Harold Lloyd in "Grandma's Boy" one of her latest films. and Margery Wilson in "Insinua Tyrone Power, William Carlton and tion." Nozimova will be the star on Anne Luther are in the cast. Eddie Wednesday in "Salome." Children Honor "State Children, flowerladen, visited ernor Alfred E. Smith, at her home "State Mother." The mother of Governor Smith, to whom he is just "my boy has been selected by "Uncle Robert" as the typical mother to represent all mothers of New York State on Sunday Mother's Day Yesterday "Uncle and a big delegation of women representing 2.000 New York City mothers who are working to rid Mother's Day of its commercial taint, accompanied by several children. visited Mrs.
Smith in her sunny backyard at 9 Middagh st. KING AND QUEEN PUT WREATH ON ITALY'S TOMBS OF HEROES British Sovereigns Pay Reverent Visit to Pantheon-Welcomed by Veterans in Rome. Rome, May 8 (By the Associated Press -King George and Queen Mary of England this morning laid wreaths on the tombs of Italy's Unknown Soldier and of King Victor Emmanuel I and King Humbert. Driving to the Pantheon, where the two former sovereigns are burled, the British rulers were received by the Minister of Public Instruction and by the Veterans of the Italian War of Independence, who, singe the death of Victor Emmanuel II in 1878, have maintained a guard over the tomb. King George shook hands with the company and then, with Mary, placed the wreaths bearing the English colors.
From the Pantheon the royal party drove to the monument Victor Emmanuel I in Piazza Venezia. The sovereigns ascended the staircase and reverently laid a mag. nificent wreath on the burial place of the Unknown Soldier. Their majesties were received by Italian veterans of the World War. "THANK PLEASES MONTAUK AUDIENCE That Brooklyn still loves clean wholesome drama, especially if it has plenty of good clean laughs in it, was proved last night at the Montauk not only by the size and type of the audience that greeted "Thank but by the enjoyment of everybody.
It is a man's comedy and does not spare the weaknesses of the male of Main st. There not a dull minute from curtain to curtain. One of the joys was to hear the audience afterward discussing "which man was the best," with the millionaire father played by Frank Monroe a prime favorite. But all the roles were well conceived and well played. The story of the rector struggling along on a meager salary, "a thankyou and the shock to the country parish of the revolutionary plan of his niece from Paris to cast aside "donations" is only the Soundation of a delightful evening's enterlem, unless a sweet love story could tainment.
The play has no probbe called that, has no horse-play comedy, has no rude jokes and has an overwhelming number. of male characters. But is is live, virile and heart satisfying, leaving its moral without forcing it down your throat, and in almost every line giving a laugh that comes from the very deepest part of your nature. Incidentally the wonderful evening gown of Edith King, who plays Diane, the niece, when she appears in the last act. came as a distinct surprise and made every woman in the audience gasp with pleasure.
As usual the vestry meeting scene with its exposure of Main st. pettiness held breathless interest, and coming in the first act gave a foretaste of the good things to come. The audience sympathized with the rector, chuckled with the doctor, laughed at the clerk and contemptuously were glad to see the rich and mean warden brought to utter rout in the end. "Thank is a joy from beginning to end, and a living proof that lean comedy is not only possible but fascinating. "THE GOLD DIGGERS" STARTS SECOND WEEK Henry Duffy's players, who have been making stock company history at the Shubert-Crescent Theater.
last evening began their second week's run in Avery Hopwood's SUCcessful comedy, "The Gold and, as was the case throughout last week. played to a big house. This play portrays in a very entertaining manner the lives of chorus girls of the Broadway stage as they are generally understood to lead them, stretching scanty salaries into more or less elaborate living through the fine art of luring material comforts from tired business men and plutes with more money than brains. Regina Wallace, the charming leading lady of the company, appears as Jerry Lamar, a girl who by mixing plenty of ambition into the life of chorus girl, has risen well above the average. She is clevorly supported by a cast including Martha Mayo, Ruth Gilmore, Helen Van Hoose, Isabel D'Armond.
Mar. guerite St. Clair, Millicent Hanly, Myra Hampton, Grace Kennard. Valentine Sidney, Rosalind Gardner, George Alison. John Carmody and Howard Miller.
LUTHERAN CHURCH CONCERT. An event of the moment in musical circles will be the concert to he given Saturday evening in the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 3d ave. and Pacific when Mme. Marie Sundelius, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Miss Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of United States Senator Edwards, former Governor of New Jersey, and Conrad Forsberg, pianist and organist, will present a program of interest. It will be Miss Edwards' first Brooklyn appearance and will mark Mme.
Sundelius' last appearance here before sailing for Europe, where she has been engaged for speI dial operatic performances. HAZING WITNESS IS SPIRITED FROM OHIO JAIL TO ILLINOIS Mills Carried Off by Officials While His Lawyers Wait Outside to See Him. Akron, May 8-Whi'e attorneys for Joseph Allen Mills, 20, held here in connection with the alleged hazing and death of Leighton Mount, fellow student at Northwestern U'niversity, Evanston, in 1921, waited outside the office of Chief of Detectives Welch to talk with the prisoner. Mills was spirited away late last night and this morning was' to be en route to Chicago in the custody of Ass stant District Attorneys of that city. Capt.
Marvin Galloway, acting turnkey at the jail, declined early today to throw any light op what had become of Mills, although he accompanied the attorneys and newspaper men to the cell occupied by Mills to assure them that he was not there. Prisoners told newspapermen that "Welch took him Mills was arrested here yesterday when leaving his rooming house for a rubber plant where he had been employed since last January as timekeeper. He admitted he was the leader of the freshman class rush in Septel. bar, 1921, when it is alleged that Mount disappeared, but denied that he was president of the class. A skeleton found a few days ago beneath a pier at Evanston was identified by relatives as that of Mount.
Mills expressed A willingness yesterday to go back to Illinois and tell all he knows of the alleged hazing. was in the middle of the whole fight that night and'I can truthfully say that I have no knowledge any one coming to any serious harm," he declared. Parents Testify Today. Chicago, May 8-The parents of Leighton Mount, missing Northwest ern University student, Mr. and Mrs J.
L. Mount, were the Arst witnesses ordered before the Cook County Grand Jury today in its investigation of the finding a week ago of a skeletion which has been identified by Mrs. Mount and Dr. F. H.
Ivey, the family dentist, as that of the youth who dropped from sight after a Freshman- Sophom*ore class rush in September, 1921. Miss Doris Fuchs, to whom young Mount was attentive, and who received a. letter from him the day he disappeared; Charles W. Leggett, chief of police of Evanston, the North Shore suburban site of Northwestern University, and policemen present when the skeleton was removed from under a pier. are others in the list of more than 100 persons subpenaed to appear before the Grand Jury.
GOETHALS-CHESTER DISAGREEMENT ON CONCESSION BARED Admiral Opposes General's Plan to Let in French and British Capital. Montreal, May 8-The Canadian and American interests in the Ottoman American Development Company, which controls the Chester concessions in Asia Minor, are divided over the question of British and French participation in the concessions, Attorney C. A. Barnard, counsel for the Canadian interests, said yesterday. Maj.
Gen. George W. Goethals, U. S. A.
(retired), resigned president of the company, Mr. Barnard said, in order to leave the Board of Directors free to decide the question. Gen. Goethals, however, remained as a director of the company. There was no dispute or quarrel between the Canadian and American interests, Mr.
Barnard asserted, and the question would be settled amicably by the Board of Directors. "General Goethals and some of the other directors were of the opinion that the magnitude of the concessions was such that for political and Anancial reasons, if the concession was to be successful, British and French interests should be invited to join the American interests." he said. "Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U. S.
N. (retired), was very strongly of the opinion. on the other hand. that American interests alone should handle the matter. General Goethais did not wish any conflict of opinion at the present time, SO he retired from the presidency of the company, although remaining on the board.
"The Canadian interests naturally agree with the views expressed by General Goethals, as it is manifest. that if British and French interests were joined to the American interests the international dimculties would disappear." The Canadian interests are said to control about 10 percent of the Ottoman American Development Company, to which they purchased for $50,000. Their identity has never and five grandchildren. A mASS of requiem will be held tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock in St. Francis Xavier R.
C. Church. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, MRS. 'MARY E. STANLEY of 125 2d widow of George Stanley, died on Monday, She was born in Brooklyn, a daughter of the late Timothy and Mary Brady Murray, and is survived by a son.
George, and a brother, William Murray, A mANS of requiem will be said in St. Mary Star of the Sea R. C. Church, on Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
MISS MARIA ELIZABETH MAHONY, 16 years old. of 153 Eckford died yesterday of appendicitis. She was born in Greenpoint, and WAS merber of the Christian Church of the Evangel, and leaves her parents, Nicholas and Annie, and a brother, William. Funeral services will be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. the Rev.
George C. McKiernan officiating. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, BERNHARD NACHMANN, 80 years old, of 644 Gates died suddenly yeaterday, He WAS born in Oppenheim. Germany, and had resided in Brooklyn for 51 years. He was formerly in the wholesale meat business and later in the real estate business.
He was A member of Cassia Lodge, No. 445, F. A. and the Keap Street Temple. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Alexander Ottenberg: five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at 1202 Broadway, the Rev. Dr. Simon R. Cohen officiating.
Interment will be in Maimonides Cemetery. MRH. ELIZABETH MCALLISTER, wife of Charles McAllister, a resident of this boro for 60 years, died today at 205 Luquer st. She was born in Ireland, and WAR a member of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the R. c.
Church of St. Mary Star of the Sea, where a masa of requiem will be said on Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock. She 18 survived by a son, Charles: a daughter, Mrs. Cornelius Carr, and nine grandchilI dren. FIND NO ARTISTIC ANARCHY IN MODERN PAINTERS' EXHIBIT 36 of 42 Members of New Body Show Canvases- -Two Marble Pieces.
By HELEN APPLETON READ. The Brooklyn Society of Modern Artists held its varnishing day reception yesterday. evening. This is the first exhibition to have been held by this society. The Brooklyn Society of Modern Artists had as its nucleus the so-called radical members of the older organization, the Brooklyn Society Artists.
The titles are a little confusing, but the emphasis in the new society is on the "modern." The show is a definite success. Art exhibitions in Brooklyn are often called amateurish, the authorities in Manhattan tell but there mart, is nothing of the stigma of amateurishness in the present show. If the society has laid emphasis upon being modern there is nothing shockingly startling in the present exhibition--nothing that suggests the artistic anarchy into which art is supposed to have fallen. Many of the exhibitors have learned from Cezanne Matisse and other modern French masters. but then to be young and painting in the 20th Century almost necessitates some trace of their influence.
Mrs. Catherine Smith, mother of Govyesterday, after her election as and showered her with flowers, congratulations and wishes to boost her son still further up tue laudel of fame. One plan, evolved, with her approval. was real Mother's Day program at Welfare Island on Sunday, when hundreds of children from city institutions will be guests of the 2.000 aged Women on the island. These women, through the generosity of "Uncle Robert," will give each child a present.
J. J. McKEON DIES OF BLOOD POISON James Joseph McKeon, 55 years old, of 215 Kent a deputy sheriff and an active Republican, died last night of blood poisoning, which set in from an injury he received when he stubbed his foot several months ago. A mass of requiem will be in St. Alphonsus R.
C. Church Thursday morring, and interment will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mr. McKeon was a. Republican captain in the 16th A.D..
and was a member of the Alpha Republican Club, the Kings County General Committee and the Old Greenpointers Association. He was known for 1 his ability to cook, and was frequently called upon in this capacity in club dinners. It was while cooking a dinner that he injured his foot. He was born Walden, N. and is survived thy his wife.
Ann Brannigan; four daughters, Mrs. John Brady, Helen, Catherine and Rose, and a son. Francis who is a lieutenant in the 29th U. at Camp Benning, Columbus, OBITUARY CHARLES HOWARD BRUMLEY, 56. of 748 Marcy employed in one of the banks in this city, and who was a native of the State of Maryland, died yesterday and his funeral services will be held tomorrow at 8 p.m., in the funeral parlors at 313 Sumner ave.
The interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mr. Brumley is survived by his wife, Edith Bowley Brumley. ANDREW C. SCHWERZEL, 37, of 433 Irving A confidential employee of Manhattan stock brokerage firm, died Sunday.
He was born in this city, and leaves a brother, August Schwerzel. also in the stock business. Services this evening will be conducted by the Rev. John Williams, rector of Calvary P. E.
Church. Interment will be in Evergreens Cemetery. LUTHER BRADNER CONKLIN, 79, of 470 Van Buren died on Sunday. He was born in Bellvale, Orange County, N. and formerly resided many years in the Eastern District, where he had been in the cracker business with his brother, and where he had been for years a member of the old South Second Street M.
E. Church. He leaves his wife, Hannah C. Flagler and a brother, Sylvanus H. Conklin.
The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock, and the interment will be in Flushing Cemetery. EDGAR EGERTON WRIGHT, 69. of 906 St. John's a master roofer in business 40 years in this boro, died Sunday night. He was born in St.
Lawrence County, N. came to Brooklyn in his youth, And was a member of the Men's League of the Congregational Church of St. Paul. He leaves his wife, Minnie a brother, Les. lie and a sister, Mra.
John Bushfeld of Geneva, N. Y. Funeral services will be held tonight. The Rev. Belden Hart will officiate.
The interment will be in Cypress Hills Cemetery. MISS S. ELLA VAN WINKLE. 62, of 1143 St. John's a resident of Brooklyn since her childhood, and for a great many years a member of Janes M.
E. Church. died yesterday. She wad born in New York City and was the daughter of the late George Washington and Cecelia Matherson Van Winkle. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War.
She leaves a brother, Henry, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Bennett of Jersey City. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 9 o'clock from the funeral parlors at 723 Coney Island with interment in Evergreens Cemetery. JOHN HENRY DIETZ. 55, of 171 land a real estate dealer of Manhattan and A resident 30 years in this boro, died Sunday of bronchial trouble.
He was born in Manhattan, and leaves three sisters, Mrs. Maria Holzer, Mra. George Hess and Mrs. Margaret Popp. Services this evening at 8 o'clock will be conducted by the Rev.
Remi Buttinghausen of Bloomfeld, N. .1. Interment will be in Evergreens Cemetery. MRS. CATHERINE FEE DONOHUE, 66.
widow of James Donohue, a resident of this boro nearly 50 years, died Sunday At her home, 227 Dean st. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and leaves two sons, Frank A. and James and three daughters, Evelyn Mra. Alice Hoeninghausen of Rockville Centre, L. and Mrs.
Margaret Jolly. The funeral will be held Friday morning. with a requiem masa at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, and the interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, WILLIAM TAYLOR HOWARD. 71, 102 2d this boro, a resident 50 years in Brooklyn and a former widely known awning manufacturer. with A place of business on Fulton died Sunday at Long Island College Hospital.
He WAS born in Montgomery County, N. and was formerly, during the pastorate of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, a member of Plymouth Church. He leaves A daughter, Mra. Ada Marsteller of Stamford.
two sons, Harry Ward Beecher Howard and Thomas Howard, and five grandchildren. The funeral services were held last night in the funeral parlors at 83 Henson pl. The Interment will be at Pride's Hill, Montgomery County, N. Y. JAMES HENRY BENNETT of 105 ton ave.
died on Sunday. He was born In Brooklyn 58 years ago, and lived here all of his life. He was a foreman for the M. T. Davinson Pump Works, and be.
longed to De Long Council, R. and the Sacred Heart R. C. Church. He 18 vived by his wife, Mary Dillon Bennett: A son, William a daughter, Ethel M.
Wilmott, and a sister, Mrs. Annie Herbert. A miss of requiem will be said in Sacred Heart R. C. Church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. MRS. MARY E. COSTELLO of 343 6th ave, died Sunday at her home. She was born in Ireland.
and had been a resident of Brooklyn for 55 She in survived by her husband, Edward; a son. William; three daughters, Mra. Paul Murtagh. Mrs. John Duthara and Mrs.
Charles Wallace, Field Picture Shown. A large picture by Hamilton Easter Field, a gift of Robert Laurent to Plymouth Institute, is shown in the place of honor. Mr. Field was always in sympathy with the aims and ideals of the younger painters, and many of the exhibiting artists were his pupils and proteges. In fact, the men who formed the Brooklyn Society of Modern Artists were known as the Field crowd." Unusual Method of Hanging Pictures.
exhibition is charmingly hung. The hanging committee has followed an unusual method of showing the pictures. Instead of hanging the pictures in rows, a group method has been followed, each group consisting of pictures which are in harmony with each other: in consequence of picture kills any other. Radical Art Not Featured. Those who feared that the conservative tastes of the proverbial Brooklynite would be shocked by the present display are doomed to disappointment.
To be modern does not necessarily mean to be shocking, and the sooner that portion of the public who states its artistic creed in the words "I simply can't look at this 'cubistic' modern stuff," realizes this, the sooner will their prejudices be surmounted and a real joyment be in store for them in the principles of color and form exemplified by the moderns. Thirty-six Members Exhibit. Thirty-six members out of the 43 are exhibiting. Robert Laurent and Trygve Hammer are the only sculptor members. Both send characteristic examples of their work.
These sculpters chisel their subjects directly out of the marble or stone. This gives a sense of vitality which a piece of sculpture cut by a workman from the plaster cast never attains. Some of the Exhibits. Bernard Karfiol is one of the most significant of our modern painters. He is represented by picture of a boy playing the violin.
John Alger, whose work has a hint of that classicism toward which all modern painting is tending, shows two canvases. a portrait and 8 landscape. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, the young Japanese painter, is here with one of his witty and whimsical cow pictures, which he characteristically names "Looking for Wood Gaylor does an amazing stunt in his "Posters," which is a group of aruts in the old Penguin Club rooms, painting enormous war posters. The heads are Brot in scale and the' artists working on them look like pygmies. The effect of keeping figures in the posters flat and workmen the real and three dimensional is the stunt part of this picture.
cally Mr. Taylor developed an male interesting pattern of colors and forms. Walter Farndon, Harry Hering, Lars Hoftrup, Edmund Weil and Bela Mayer are some of the painters who paint straight landscapes with freshness and reality. Howard Notman sends a canvas that once more proves that he is an artist with an entirely personal viewpoint. He is broadening out; the meticulous use of detail is passing into another phase.
Note the weight and volume he gets in the black boulders in foreground. As always, there then entire lack of color sense; these paintings must be considered as a black and white study. ment in his "Narcissus," and in Arnold Wiltz makes a fine arrange- a landscape sees the artistic possibilities of red gas tanks and factory buildings. These are only some of the exhibitors; in next Sunday's art page the exhibitions will be further reviewed. The list of exhibitors is: John Alger, P.
Irving Ballou, Sandor Betnath, Walter Bollendonk, Carle Micheel Boog. Alexander P. Couard. M. G.
Debonnet, Frederick K. Detwiller Frank J. Doelger, William Howard Donahue. Walter Farndon, Wood Gaylor, Harry Hering, Stefan Hirsch, Lars Hoftrup, Della Mae Hyde, Bernard Karfiol. Julia Kelly, Yasuo Kunizoshi, Peppino J.
Mangravite, Beln Mayer, Howard Notman, Agnes Perton, Samuel Rothbort. Katherine Schmidt, Carl Sprinchorn, Herman Trunk Herbert B. Tschudy, Winthrop Turney, Dorothy Varian, Edmend Weill, Isabel W. Whitney, Ar. nold Wiltz, Robert Laurent, Trygve Hammer.
MRS. E. WERDERMANN DIES; ACTIVE CHURCH WORKER Mrs. Elizabeth Werdermann, wife of Robert Werdermann of 858 Bushwick and who was active in many charitable organizations, died Sunday after a short illness, at on the Long Island College Hospital. Funeral services will be held this evening at the South Bushwick Reformed Church, conducted by the Rev.
A. J. -Meyer and the Rev. Frank Halsworth. Mrs.
Werdermann was an active worker in the Bushwick Hospital Auxiliary and the Women's Auxilary, the Missionary Society and the Home Department Visitors of the South Bushwick Reformed Church. She was also an executive member of the Brooklyn Baptist Orphanage Women's Auxiliary and was the first superintendent of the Baptist Orphanage when it was first opened in the Johnson Homestead on Coney Island, about 14 years ago. She also belonged to the Tabernacle Baptist Church. She was born in Manhattan 56 years ago, 'and was early impressed with the needs of children, and all her life she worked with this aim in view. She is survived by her hus.
band: a son. Robert Werdermann: a granddaughter, Wilhelmina; six sisters, Mrs. Anna Bennett. Mra. Carrie Howard, Mrs.
Bertha Remson. Mrs. Tillie Kendall. Mrs. Margaret Green and Mrs.
Catherine Stevenson. Interment will be in Evergreens Cemetery..
