“IF WINTER COMES” DEALS WITH
SOCIOLOGICAL PROGRAM THAT
HAS PUZZLED WORLD FOR AGES
Arbitrators To Decide
Pay of German Actors
BERLIN, May 27.—OP)—'The long
conflict between the theater produc
ers of Germany and the stars, or
prominent actors, as they call them
selves, has at last been ended. The
stars have scored what wrill probably
prove an empty victory.
The clause in the managers’ agree
ment to which they particularly ob
jected was that by which they were
placed in four hard-and-fast classes,
with definite maximum fees for each
class. They declared this was in
compatible with their dignity as ar
tists, and that no artist could sub
mit to having such a strait jacket
put on him.
The classification has been aban
doned. Every actor is free to make
his arrangements from play to play.
But whenever an actor wants- to
emerge beyond the ordinary class
whose maximum fee is fixed at $75
a night, an arbitration board of three
men must deliver an opinion as to
whether his claim for a higher wage
is justified.
The feeling in German theater cir
cles is that the stars have saved
their pride at the expense of their
pocketbooks.
Mrs. Robert W.‘ Griffin, famous as
the beautiful Indian princess Wane
ta with Buffalo Bill’s wild west show7
for many years, is now being support
ed by a pension at Cleveland. She
was in her day a wonderful horsewo- J
man and shot, a descendant of Chief
Big Tree of the Comanche tribe/
Gloria Swanson, noted film star,
has formerly adopted little Joseph
Smith, two and a yealf years old of
California, whom she has provided for
since his birth. He takes the name
of Joseph Swanson and is given the
right of inheritance.
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What would you do if an unwed
mother came to your door asking
shelter for herself and her baby?
The problem is sociological and one
of the most complex with which stud
ents of the science of society have to
deal.
Mark Sabre In A. S. M. Hutchin
son’s “If Winter Comes,” the film ver
sion of which has been created by
William Fox brought upon himself the
wrath of a community because he
dared to give shelter to little Effie
Bright and her child.
In England, during the period des
cribed in the early part of Mr. Hutch
inson's novel the accepted thing to
do, though Sabre considered it lack
ing in the human element, was to
close the door in the girl’s face, and
then shun her if you chanced to meet
her on the street. But, to go a little
beyond the time embraced in “If Win
ter Comes,” this attitude toward the
unwed mother was softened consider
ably in England. Abnormal conditions
of four years of war threw men and
women together under unusual cir
cumstances. There were love unions
with every other element of sancity
but the religious or civil rite, and
from these unions there were child
ren. It was a condition that prevail
ed in most countries that were thrown
into the trying circumstances of war.
It was a natural by-product of war
and England, like other countries,
eventually saw the necessity of pro
tecting these mothers and legitimatiz
ing the children, which was their birth
right. As the result of publicity giv
en to the subject in the press and thru
other mediums, the trend of opinion
in England changed gradually until
at the end of the war, if Effie Bright
and her little one had sought a home
it is likely that hundreds of them
would have been thrown open to her.
Mark Sabre’s attitude in “If Win
ter Comes,” which brought him to the
bar of justice, charged with murder,
reflected a man whose first rule of
life was justice. He was too big for
the slaves of convention to under
stand, although these same persons
who were drugged with the fear of
criticism readjusted their vision later
—after the period of the Hutchinson
tale—and swayed with public opin
ion to a tolerant, even generous atti
tude toward the war bride.
j After all, the question of morals is
but one of geography. The concubine
is an established part of society in
China. Every Chinese, when he
reaches theposition of financial af
fluence where he can support more
than one woman, brings another into
his home as his paramour. She re
mains there upon an equal footing
with his wife, if she is not even
more favored by the master. In
Turkey for centuries monogamy was
an absurd, unheard of thing. Recent
social developments in Russia show
that that nation of (millions of peo
j pie, led by a strong group of radi
cals, threw to the winds all forms
of social conventions which had been
accepted for years.
Then, again, look into history.
| Some of the most prominent figures
j in the events of politics and the arts
were love-children of common law
unions. Carterini Medici, a daughter
of the house that ruled Italy for
centuries, and who became the wife
of Henry II, was reputed to be the
j natural child of one of the many love
(affairs in which Lorenzino dei Med
ici engaged. Lorenzino, who killed
his son and heir, paid with his own
life to the avengers.
Consima Wagner, second wife of
Richard Wagner, the great compos
er, was one of three daughters of
Franz Liszt, though Liszt legally nev
er had a wife. Coskna’s mother was
Madame laComtesse d’Agoult, a writ
er, who spent five years in Switzer
land with Liszt.
1 The view's of the divine Sarah
! Bernhardt upon the subject were well
• known. She wras a love child and
her son, Maurice, whom the great ac
tress loved more than life itself, wras
the son of a true love match.
Scores of such instances in history
could be set down, yet the innocents
wrere not condemned. And,-who can
tell but what these were crowded
•into the puzzled mind of Mark Sabre
when he threw defiance into the faces
of critics and took in “Bright Effie.”
Percy Marmont’s portrayal of this
MRS. ELAINE REINHART
PLANS BUSY SUMMER
WITH HER GOLF STICKS
CHICAGO. May 27—(/P)—After a
golfing career of a dozen years, which
she began by setting so fine a record
that it has been hard to equal, Mrs.
Elaine Rosenthal Reinhart of Chica
go announces that she will continue
with tournament play. She plans to
enter most 04' the leading meets this
summer. Even if she should not
win any of them, she already has an
enviable string of accomplishments
to her credit, including two Women’s
Western championships.
It was probably unfortunate for
Mrs. Reinhart that she sprang into
fame in golf by finishing runnerup
in the national championship in New
York at the start of her golfing ca
reer in 1914. She was not possessed
of a perfect style of play and the
brilliancy of her natural golf allow
ed her to make a splendid showing
in tournaments Without perfecting
her swing or practicing as assiduous
ly as less successful players are
wont to do when they do not at
once succeed.
The daughter of a wealthy Chica
go philanthropist, she had plenty of
time to play and to practice, but
the length of her wooden shots and
the uncanniness of her iron shots
among the leading woman golfers,
and she was not forced to travail
thru the tedious way of studious ef
fort. She undertook to improve her
stroke a number of times, to satisfy
critics of her golfing style, and she
has been able to maintain her stand
ing among the best players in the
country.
In 1921, Miss Rosenthal reached
the semifinals in the national and no
later than last year, after the first
year of her married life had been
spent in Dallas, she returned to Chi
cago and won the Chicago medal
play championship from a field of
nationally known golfers.
In addition to the western meet
at St. Paul, Mrs. Reinhart expects to
compete in the southern champion
ship in June, being eligible through
her husband’s membership in a Dal
las golf club.
Mrs. Reinhart is always a threat
ening opponent in either medal or
match play, a never discouraged los
er and extremely modest in victory.
Her natural aptitude on the links is
shared by her sister, Mrs. Ernest
Beifield of Chicago.
Firemen and Enginemen
Officers Seek Re-election
DETROIT, May 27— (£>)—The thir
tieth convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En
ginemen will open here June 1, con
tinuing for about a month, with rep
resentatives of 920 subordinate lodg
es and a score or more of grand of
ficers in attendance. The convention
will represent approximately 115,000
members.
Much of the time of the conven
tion will be devoted to a study of its
insurance department, through which
! there are at present in effect poli
; cies aggregating more than $60,000,
I 000.
All the grand oficers will be can
didates for re-election.
The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the organ
ization, with 483 lodges and a corre
sponding number of delegates, rep
resenting a membership of 21,000
also convenes here June 1.
Seven Dublin moving picture con
cerns may have to close because lo
cal censors have barred many Ameri
can films, causing a shortage of pic
tures.
A final appeal to Governor Miriam
Ferguson of Texas failed to save Sid
ney Welk, a Dallas murderer, from
the gallows, although Mrs. Ferguson
has been unusually generous to con
victs since she took office.
unusual character in the film version
of “If Winter Comes,” which is at
the Liberty theater tonight, is as re
markable as the big sociological prob
lem he deals with is puzzling.
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