| Show I Percy Hammonds Hammond's Letter BY DY PERCY D NEW YORK March larch The S-The 8 drama Is now enlisted in th the cru- cru cru-cade cru ade to restore to Amer Amer- American ican life lIe ked Bat by a band of rich and thirsty freemen Augustus Thomaa entreats to Vaters a comedy depleting depicting the horrors of prohibition It Is the bellet of ot the these e reformers that the the thing to succor larch tongued parch tongued Liberty from its torments What hat Ten Nights In Ina Ina a Barroom did fo tor t total abstinence abstinence nence for Cor chastity and Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin for Cor the col- col colored col colored ored folks Still SUIi Waters they trust will do for the tho Flowing Bowl Mr III Thomas Is an honest lOnest mIs- mIs mIssioner mis and hi his sponsors also ate true blue since they ap spend nd their money In furthering the tha cause It Itla ItIs la their Impression that the QI Vol act Is an evil II r folly vico Ico and madness In an r Republic They view with alarm the flimsy fetters that Imp Impede de the national elbow In Its movements O n American they t protest be allowed to take a drink or twO or to let them alone In case he b rd with Ih fit I hat pur pursuit ur- ur suit of ot life liberty and happiness he rebels Chaos results hell Is emptied of alt all Its Ita and thc theland of the tho free and the home of the brave becomes s a shambles for and good government go To prove proe emphatically the nl- nl ni nihilistic Influence of Mr and his hla fellow tyrants Still Wa- Wa Waters Wa Waters presents a harrowing chrome oC existence beneath the very shadow of the Capitol Senator Clayborne Mr Thurston Hall la laIn In a manner of speaking a conscientious conscientious from a back back- backwoods backwoods woods commonwealth After the of or legislation he fe feela ls the need of a shot of gin to late alle the pangs of patriotism But his constituents are to stimulant Therefore ha he wets whistle In the privacy of his committee room and In a loud voice ad In tho senate chamber spectacle of an American being driven to by the whip of the Ue faloon Antl Antl league Is not the only example of Injuriousness Tho daughter a shapely In- In In genue grows 6 on lie lie- aen ato ato restaurant Ills betrothed a divorcee traffics as he lf does with the senate nate boot boot- bootlegger bootlegger legger The wife of a fanatic reo re reformer former gets geu drunk on one gin rickey The news Js school children tote upon their hips a and nd that Yale men drink college by acting as stool stool- justice pigeons for department of jus- jus Jus Justice tice Even Holy Writ Is by the law according to Waters The prohibition prohibition- prohibitionists prohibitionIst It have han changed lovely word wine to cako every time It appears In the Emasculate the con con- con constitution If you ou will Uh senator cries mutilate the but preserve the poetry of ot the family Bible 1 I If It Ne Now York audiences are a bit abit Ustle listless s in the contemplation of Mr Thomas Thomass there Is an excuse for them They do donot donot not suffer uffer as oth r do from fron tho prevalent deprivations Strong drink being beng to they are cold to tale of oC distant misery As I looked around theatre the tho even ing evening I could see no first nighter who seemed to be tortured by the en- en en enforcement of the act An Any ot o tb them tn I mined mil had but to touch the tho bell and bullers appear the forbid d den forbidden n beverages es Dt the th acts I I was Invited by many acquaint acquaintances aDen ances to walk around tho corner and Join them I Ih n II None of pictured a drinkers drinker's tribulations as oa pic- pic In Still Waters were ap- ap apparent ap apparent parent In third forty street street- Lack Lack- LackIn Lacking In ing In Senatorial Integrity I sup sup- sup pone pOOl we are callous to the lamen lamen- lamentations lamentations of the moral aen sense e that I l what Mr Thomas In StillWater RUIl Water awkwardly and ly Iy Inv Inveighs against Why hy other other- otherwise otherwise wise should we worry I saw more drunks at the he recent Yale Prince ton ton football game gamo than I IlaW aw in three months montha last spring In a journey through Franco and Italy Mr r Earl Carroll of ot The I ties gave a birthday frolic the theother theother other night to which he Invited several dignified citizens Tho occurred on the stage of Mr Carrolls Carroll's theatre and Its Included rites which they say were a bit oft color Partin the crimson on curtains f Broadway radicalism Mr Carroll exposed sights more suitable to the lI seraglios than to a temple of A careless lady got Into a bathtub full of ginger ale and similar fluids and laved herself to the delight of some of the spectators and to the ot others Pu Publicly ensued and distinguished writers ac- ac ac actors tots tors and Journalists found t th lr on the front pages as par par- participants participants Yet they were inno Inno- innocent cent They got what Is known as a araw araw raw deal Temperate and aver e eto to they thought that It would bo be democratic to unbend for fora tora a democratic moment or two at the sports and pa of ot the car car- carnal car nal nal peasantry Ere Ero roughhouse came they would retire to the manor houses housos Bate from abash abash- abashment ment Artists are arc usually unwary as well as unpunctual So they from the ribald scene too late Since then their guiltless names and pictures have be been n In the papers as Items In an au orgy It Is said that Mr Carroll V went nt too far even for tor an and that his hospitality bordered on the The loft lofty thes ot of Immigration tion literature sculpture painting tied ned from the naughty but banquet but not In time were caught red cheeked by the and photographers run run- run ning away from the party Inno Inno- Innocent Innocent cent but with the tho goods on th y are martyrs to sociability Let us be glad Iad that Mr Car Car- Carroll roll Car roll did not Invite us to the un unlucky lucky proceedings Who Vho knows knows- knows some of us might have ha accepted III inan an Imprudent moment and now be suspected of ot Indelicacy by our fel fellow low men |
