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3 Back Stage OR US JOBS Ceatlaeed frea Page Elxhl 4 A CONSTANCE Binney 1 Sweet Little SEMSATIOM CHICAGO! AMOUS WILD" ORCHESTRA BEGINNING I Newer Drama Continued from Pag Eight lie Cabarets WITH The Detroit attritu I The gntfee Orlgfnd Cost end Production Intact Inaludlng That Meal Singing and Dancing Chorus Direct SAM LEWIS 8 Week of Sunday October IT WITH 5 fneopefn fa Grind Optra COLE SNYDER The Director?" THE HOLLYWOOD ORCHESTRA PATHE NEWS WEEKLY ABLES SS' Jack Norworth and Catherine Calvert 1 ELECTION NIGHT DffitoiT iwmmuil ic a a PLAIN JANE Mtlody and Mirth in Abundance The Wonderful Musical Comedy a fl B3 a a Thrilling Baring and thyWritlng Scania GEmpsesof Greenwich Village Blair Siatera What Harmonyl What Dqncingl The Show of a Thousand Delights Joan Page Sweet and Petite Its Colossal Magnificence Beggars Description Dog Owners Rage At Muzzle Order rtRD YE AR 131st Week BEGINNING TONIGHT Earl Rickard Oheh Record Artist ARCADIA AUDITORIUM Man 78 Starts On Grizzly Hunt A Chorus of Entrancing Loveliness ESSSPOPMATSk 50c to $150 Mildred Marsh The Ingenue and Lovable Helen Schroeder The Personality Girl Addy Clifford She Sings THE DETROIT REE PRESS with Jane" Norworth two a day favor announced as the headliner Keith's Temple October brings new songs and will SOISVBAN!) IXlJpniDmder JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Conductor the Joyous Sparkling Shea of Teeth Love Song and Laughter Aret nlghter ultra moved to Ireouent smiles end laughter by its humor end te suspicious nosa wlptns by pathetic Metcalfs Wait St gournal The return to the Garrick of Uttle Devil" eauaoa a cor respondent to question the original ity of the title which he believe was used by a show playing the old Detroit Opera House 19 years or so agoTo sat at rest ths mind of any other skeptic a starch of th rec ords for 29 years back reveals that the only thing paralleling "Sweet Uttle Devil" was "A Good Uttle Devil" This was a postlc fancy by the wife amr'son of Hdmond Ros tand the rench poet presented at the Detroit Opera House the week of September 1 1911 by David Be laaco It la Interesting to note that ths foie of Charlss McClanes as incarnate AH Children was played by Ernest Truex who has since won fame In comedy fields and that among the band of fairies were Wild Bennett now a welcome fig ure In lighter opera and Lillian Kota comedienne of no small re nown Branch cm U101KU ch11 Mals 25 50c Eves 50c 00 (Wr Tax Extra) A Marvelous airy Tale TfatWhisks You Into the Land ol Dreams A Wonderful Love Story with a Background of Beauty and Splendor WALTER DAMROSCH Conductor SEATS NGW AT GRINNELL'S They Are Blue Streaks Th All DIRECTED BY DICK BOWEN our chief asset was unbounded nerve Out act was tried cut at a firemen's benefit tn Greenlawn Long Island It eould not have been ao bad tor to this day I am allowed to play at firemen's benefits In vaudeville Laurie and Brqneon wrote their own acta and their Ideas made a blL our years ago the partnership was dissolved Since then laurle has appeared In 'Over the where he was featured With Justins Johnstons K4 Wynn end ths Astaires with Mary Eaton now In "Kid doing a short danee as an encore to one of the numbers Then back to vaudeville where he remained until he "wax starred inThe Gingham GlrL" A galaxy of stars many of whom came nere direct New York are being featured nightly at Hollywood Gardens bohemia A new show Is presented each week although the principals are not changed cult that often Bert Gilbert and Earl Rickard con tinue to share headline honors and their efforts are varied and worth while Others are Elsa Lang Joan Page Blatr Sliters Mildred Marsh Helen Schroeder and Addy Clifford Ralph Nadell general manager Is making his club the rendezvous of the theatrical profession every Thursday and Sunday night German Want Program to Be More Varied Berlin Oct New fangled Jazz music broadcast by the Berlin radio is quite distasteful to old fashioned dwellers on the great feudal estates of Prussia They are making more noise than a loud speaker about the lack of variety In the dance tunes furnished by the governmental radio and are demanding with a great deal of In dignation that the radio throw In a few tunes to which one can dance the old fashioned waltz the lan clera quadrilles and polkas On the other hand the city folks are arguing with the government that it Is high time that the city caught up with the twen tieth century and Its spirit and took to ths lighter danees of the day ss BBBBBBBBBBBBRBBBB Hie Picture That Took New York by Storm WTTMTHI SAME GREAT CAST INCLUDING in William Wayn and Ruth Warren ANO THE SAME INIMITABLE DANCING CHORUS CowpitB 5hos and iOiMJ SEATS NOW ON SALE Bert Gilbert Does Everything Elsa Lang Red Hot Blue Slnget No a a a NIGHTS 1 nniAP MATINEES 50c to $150 riCIUcb I 50c to $100 "Anything Might Happen" A Comedy In four Scenes My EDGAR SELWYN wits Marion Traboe and Augustos Minion Presented by a specially organised company of musicians mtshsO' i clans and equipment A replica of the presentation at ths Liberty Theater New York with the same colorful atmospheric effects symphony orchestra original score Mohammedan Chanter and full scenic investiture Every Sunday evening a spacial dinner mar velously prepared and faultlessly carved is featured IT IS THE PRIpE OUR CHE Dine dance and see a complete show There is no cover charge during dinner hour from 5130 to 9:00 cAMPussanas ONE WEEK ONLY TONIGHT AT 8:15 WALTER BROOKS PRESENTS The Newest Star or Reservations Call Gl 9782 RALPH NADL Manager on the Merry Go LEWIS 4 CORDON Prsisnt WELLINGTON CROSS WEEK STARTING SUNDAY OCT 26 Berlin Oct It (By United Press) Dog owners In Berlin are getting almost hydrophobia In their rage against governmental red tape which Insists that the half million or more dogs here shall be mus cled and led on a rope or strap Representatives of 45000 dog owners under the auspices of the "Bohutavereln der Hunda und Tler freunde" protective league of dog and animal vented their wrath against the government In a 'public protest meeting hero MLLE GERMAINE MUl'on DMvuio BEAUTY CHORUS THAT "STEPS" SPECIAL EATURE NIGHTS LADIES WELCOME AT ALL PERORMANCES TWICE DAILY CHY POP PRICES KBBBHaeBMsaBwsamaaMsawaaMZiHMMBMBBBBMBBBBKK Michigan and Detroit will be well represented In "Plain at the Shubert Detroit In addition to Jay Gould who halls from Saginaw and Maxine Brown who baa many friends locally and throughout the atate Dolly Thompson end Muriel Dawn among th decorative and otherwise useful members of the company are Detroit products Mies Thompson daughter of red Thompson of 379 Beechwood ave nue went to tn Charles Burton school and was graduated from Central high She has been on th stage five years Muriel Dawn of the same com pany is off stage Muriel Nabatoff 941 East Hancock avenue She at tended school at Casa high but th lure of the theater led her to run away from home at the age of 14 She tried to quit acting by adopt ing commercial work and spent last year In a secretarial position here That was enough It was back to the jootugnis inis tan Plain Jack He Is at Sfi Ha be assisted by Dorothy Adelphi Catherine Calvert with a recoru of success in pictures and the legiti mate will present a thrilling dra matic playlet a a Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak will be the Initial offering of th 1924 23 season by the De troit Repertory theater It will open October 31 In the newly remodeled studio theater In the Detroit Insti tute of Musical Arte 52 Putnam avenue The characters are thus as signed: Captain Shotover Eugene Sharkey Boas Mangan Clark Mrs Huehabye Madeline Race Lady Utterword Ruth Anderson Mazzini Dunn Walter Parle Ellie Dunn Helen Granzow Hector Hushabye Albert de Salle Nurse Guineas Ce cile Dacey Randall Utterword Bradley A Walker Burglar Wln nlett Wright SUNDAY OCTOBER 19 1924 mund Wilson of the New Republic staff it la a no we atory treated largely a an editorial Which la a fault with the Intellectual play wright The heroin appears to be th victim of a too intimate kindliness on the part of well meaning social workers It was not respectabil ity that beat her bnt rather Its mor unbending austerities She had her aspirations but not the character to realize thent And when she discovered that ah was going to have a baby she ran to hide herself among hr own class "Why worry!" demands th young rsdlcal who I th cause of hi misfortune "why worry! God' dead!" But she does worry and th body of th play Is taken up with a nightmare which helps her make up her mind to shift for herself Msry Blair who was th heroine tn "All God's Chlllun Got Wings" plays the girl "Th Saint" was written by Rtark Tounsr also recently of th New Republic but now th dramatic critic of the New York Time It Is dull tragic and uninteresting a entertainment Even th player are unable to inject much Ilf Into Leo Carillo late of th varieties and later of "Lombardi and "Gunnel Hlaks" play the Texas cowboy who tries to be a priest runs away with an actrsas become a trouper give a tine Imitation of Charlie Chaplin and then retires to the range when hl sweetheart find him too saintly to satisfy her demand of a lover Hl I a dull performance In a color! part "Th armer's Wits" a char acter comedy full of good lines spoken by such a parade of funny people In funny clothes a often goes to make up the English farce The story 1 of a lonely widower who decides to remarry With a shopping list of th village eligi ble ne goes awooing Three comic Kroposals with the old gentleman avlng his pride crushed at each of them follow Then he returns home to discover that his res! choice Is th modest housekeeper who has been with him all the time She hl bluebird and promise him happiness Characters dialect and dialogue are good but there I not much fun In character comedy when the characters are unfamiliar This la not another "Bunty" though the advertisements say It 1a SEATS THURS Roton of Thio Great Comedy Originally Produced at the Garriek Thoeder Under Title of "BUT OR THE GRACE Atoid Boy Seats Now! Pt I Id I Nlri4 SO 1 9330 I Wed SO to 31W TAX ML Mat 30s 3200 I TAX Dally to Cleveland or Cleveland Pittsburg and Point East Leave dally 1 1 Arrive in Cleveland 913 A are to Cleveland 9360 one way 5650 round trip To Pittsburg 3919 Dally to Buffalo oe Buffalo New York Waahlnrton and Point Beat Leev Daily 5:30 Mnive in Buffalo 6:30 A ar to Buf falo 3600 on way 50 round trip To New York 52029 or 53181 Bteamer leave from Third Btnrt Wluaf ca Baitern Tim CITY OICE ORT Oriole Terrace East Grand boule vard near Woodward avenue offer a change of program this week with a long list of entertainers principal among whom are th Leevers Margo Raffaro Clarice CatletL Mildred Manley Chat Gor man and eplta With all this I there 1 a dancing chorus that gets more than a second look from din ers at Oriole Terrace A dinner hour revue Is featured with a big program for the later comers Henry Thies's ll ptdce orchestra la VIOLET HEMMING DOUGLAS AIRBANKS HELEN WILSON "Spring rederick Lonsdales keen comedy dealing with' the dissipations of the smart set that was started on a success ful career at the Garrick a year ago return to that house next Sunday night with the same dis tinguished cast that has since been playing It in New York Violet Hem Ing Arthur Byron Estelle Winwood and A Mathews head the group Douglas airbanks's glorious fan tasy of the Arabian Nights "The Thief of Bagdad" starts a limited engagement at the New Detroit next Sunday night It Is a lovo story teeming with the most extraor dinary adventures latd in an imag inary world and filled with un believable wonders airbanks will be seen as Ahmed the lovable vag abond with a supporting cast that helps to make It ona of the screen's greatest offerings A Is Jones and Morri Green are sending Eddie Buzzell and Helen ord with "No Other to the Shubert Detroit next Sunday eve ning Aaron Hoffman wrote the book and Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby contributed th lyrics and score Buzzell and Miss ord will be remembered for their success In "Th Gingham Girl" They a said to be even better outfitted than before toomuWazz ON RADIO GLffl JOE LAURIE JR THE DANDY LITTLE COMEDIAN IN DEVIL (ADD 10 TAX) nrn 52 next 3 row 5130 balance til smtlv111 au0 Bal" 1' tan amily Circle 0 let Oroh 52 1 Bl 6 row 5130 blno 51 amily Clrol SOo LA PILARICA TRIO Spanish Court Dancers Pasturing VtELA VICTORIA 7TT Spring Cleaning I THOROUGHBREDS A COMEDY SOUTHERN LIE Detroit's Nationally amous Stock Company I Woodward Players 5 I IRST TIME IN DETROIT IN SAM HARRIS' Midi rv thntrieri hlttory in Detroit by playing 4 withi ti abiriuti capacity at the Garrick laet eeaein hafrrij II MAILORDERS LWeek Only Hg now Bej Sunday RR R9 niom 500105230 NoTember2 SUNDAY OCT 26th A Charming Musical Comedy Other GirlDD EDDIE WITH IjIELEN Buzzell ord (OHMLHkY SHUoLHMMIUHiOAHl UHH NtW HUOK CADlLLAC HOTEL COMMENCING MATTODAY AT 2 :19 PM A CARNIVAL LAUGHTER A C3 WITH C3 Max Coleman Bennie Moore ONE WEEK ONLY BEG A JONES and MORRIS GREEN Producer fGrnwlh VMeo Asmum SEAT SALE THURS OCT 26 NOW MATINEE DAILY Jay GouldMaxine Brown Direct lym Phenemenil Hew York Kune it New I Ameterdum Sam Harrii end Eltlnge Theitere PRICES POPULAR MATS SK' 50o to $150 "SINCLAIR GASPER in "THE LONG LONG TRAIL" In Detroit It lg the HOLLYWOOD GARDENS WOODWARD NEAR OREST The Smartest Night Club or Beauty Pep and Talent See These Stars HEALY CROSS Showing the Smarteat Styles in Song Baron Rescued rom Poor arm Dies Near Castle High Lifa li 3 Broke Both Pune and Health of Gay German Colorado Springe Co! (kt (By Vntted Baron Herman von (loldachmldt presence mor than a year ago on th local county poor farm caused immedi ate slince from noblemnn rela tive hi Germany died within few mile of hl wealthy relative Baron 101drhmlrlf career In Colorado Spring Just after th war Was a dazzling round of unstinted' entertainment spotllghta and night Ilfs Unable to realize th ravag of hl home country had cut hie Incom to a mere traction of Its previous st th baron continued th revelry until creditor stepped In and salvaged what remained of his squandered fortune Broken in health and In pnr6 through hl 12 months of strenu ous living th Xlertnan nobleman silently submitted to being taken to th poor farm None of those friend who had helped him feast and dance away half a million dol lar within the year offered him a penny to rescue him from th cli max Hater took up th case communicated with relatives In Germany and finally obtained paage money to end him home On April 21 124 th baron sailed but ill health augmented by th 11 grace he felt had befallen him caused hl condition to grow worse At Bremen Just a tew hour travel from hl castl at Caatl the baron became too 111 to continue hl travel and a day latsr dtd Baron Goldschmidt wa at on time a member of th Prussian Im perial guard end paaaed several year In attendance on former Kaiser Wilhelm Civil Service Official Direct Employment of 420000 ederal Employes by will kkmnkuy Washington Oct you like to be permanent director of personnel for the larg er employer of labor with 420 000 penions now on the payroll? you like to certify 1500000 pdrsona for job after they passed a competitive examination you like to lave a record of sup ervising the examination of 5000 000 persons 1000000 of them with an 18 months period John Doyle can tell you how It feel Every single on of these 1500000 person who have worked for Uncle Sam alnce th civil aerv Ice system was set up had to have Mr signature on his papers before appointment Is the first and only secretary the United States civil service commission os ever had He has been working unin terruptedly for the federal govern ment for nearly 47 yeue' While more than 30 civil service commissioner have com and gone Doyle ha stayed on Thus be has been the one admlnletratlv officer who has mad a life work of de veloping a merit system replacing the old spoils system He ha built up a great Institution under which employer and employ work on term of amicable understanding with th mployr ratting th most efficient service polbl and th employe secure In their Job with humane treatment and provlelon for adequate support thtgr have been worn out In service Mor than that Mr Doyle ha during th last 49 years worked out a modal constantly improved system of employment method tried out by the world' greatest employer which haa been applied to Industry generally throughout th United State so that ha been really running a bureau of experimentation and research for th national employment problem or many year he has been chairman of th committee on standard civil service law for states and cities and secretary and traae urer of the national aaeembly of civil service commission He has given of hl own vocation period tn helping the large cities of the coun try to set up their merit system for example ha spent six weeks with th Chicago commission some 30 years ago and a similar period with the Kansas City commission soma 20 year ago Thus he co operate with and la a consulting authority for some 300 c'vll service commission covering 10 state service and the rest mu nicipal organizations The state commission deal largely with em ployes In elemosynary Institutions and the city commissions with fire and policemen and those fin the edu cational service The civil service commission Is charged with the duty and respon sibility of providing the working personnel required in the conduct of the federal multi larlous operations from w'atchman to scientists technologists or Im portant administrative officers It has more than 1000 different kinds of tests covering practically all of the occupations In the outside world from timber scaler to snake catcher to sugar sampler to ortho pedic nickel plater to pigeon expert to inspector of hats to ceramic en gineer to nematologlst I Its curriculum is wider than In any university It is constantly on me looKout tor men ana women of every conceivable attainment Par ticularly was this true during the war period when the commission had a list of such bccupational po sitions covering 22 pages of fine print Each new Invention such as radio opens up a new field for em ployment with Unble Bam who ha to watch developments Bo th routine work of th com mission embraces examination and certification for appointment to nearly half a million poaitlons In performing this duty th commis sion has no favor to bestow and no patronage to dispense rom Its very inception Mr Doyle ha been the certification officer and sign tor all the official acta of the com mission Mr Doyle personifies th merit system He wa working in the New York city postoffio Tn sec retarial capacity In 1873 and when the first civil service rule re quired all appolntmenta to th New York poetoffice should be by compe titive examination they were In Mr hondwrltlng and signed by President Hayes Sun Night orders New York Symphony Orchestra TESTS 5000000 I Play With Music rhotodrama and Comedy in Offing 1WEEK iVrwjLd T0NGHT I OHLY! 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MILLEIV AND LYLE Long Beach Calif Oct (By United Press) Th one shot griz zly at th age of 78 still has the "call of th wild" In hl blood Chester Ellsworth known to hl friends and membera of th Adven club by that appellation sailed recently with his gun packed for the wilds of British Columbia to hunt the grizzly He will travel tn the further most outpost of civilization and accompanied by one man to chop wood and tend camp he 1 to co Into the heart of the woods for big gam "Ist those at my age who Want It have their wheeled chairs and tepid airs Give me th air Ilk mellow wine the spirit of the silent Ax ssav i lies I always on hand to dlspens dance place th feel of a gun in my atralns tor those who like a bit of hand and I am content Ellsworth stepping on thslr own account said Dsuoled to ths Highest Standards ol Vaudeville EVERY I Starting I Call Main luiiiioiiiJtiiiuitniiuiiiininntiiiiiiiiniiiianiinuBi I TODAY I nwiminninitnnitiigniiniiniiiiiiniiuniiimn A Gala Double Headline Bill I EVA SHIRLEY AND HER amous Players of Rhythm THE LEMING SISTERS THREE ADONES SfiSSST sesk OneWeekOnly I eqlnnlna M7 PRICES TONIGHT nisMi 3013230 Special Return Engagement UT POPULAR DEMAND LAURENCE SCHWAB BRINGS YOU THE Biggest Musical Comedy Hit in Years DOUGLAS AIRBANKS In Hie Glorious antasy of the Arabian Nights B2ND TOTH BIRTHDAY Two Gala Anniversary Concerts Orchestra Hall Nov 12 WtEKBtO owe Dafirf TeL Mai Today XLt VGr'19 Tiiggg Barq Mt Daily 1 COLUMBIA BURLESQUE JACOBS A JERMON INC Hr Tblr Al kN re Row CCC4nn ITIleSm WnwrM oicp iiiia vvaj Cj with cj I HAMP ANO A CAST WORTH WHILE INCLUDING Gertrude Beck Al Golden red alla Binder ano That Big fk THE And amous tzz 0 ROCKETS 5 ROH A chosut YAW koto THEATRE EELIGIOUf 3 I Ta I KEmm I I I I I 1 i i imai iiafjrT it ax a i a i Ml VVU1IPI 1 VI A 1 fUOCX XI Irj? 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