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Show I UitLICN .NEWS. SOCIETY DESERET .EVENING NEWS. NEWS SATURDAY MARCH SECTION TJIKKK SALT LAKE 1920 27 MUSIC, THE DRAMA. UTERATt KE AND CITY UTAH TEX RACES 11 Influence Sinister Germanys MKMaBgarapaiubwiaffsaTitif.giimiL lilWtBW UNDuN, Mr,h 17. Hew Cer-- tures aay i. truHjnf out Mr uawur Mad to mh tipoa uafertuMle )luwia, tortured sad eoUrd Hr to BoHMviki, vividly pictured to me lb oiMr day by a Ruui.n noblewoman ba hat jut aur. rtximt in making Mr rarapa from tier unfortu-nat- v natitc Und. Thu refuge lb lataot to reach Iait.luit runt th UiVl of darkna and tragedy, af l. m) .tot y and Miugvr and Wood, la th fritnat i After mure thaa faur year of aaguleh, an yrr and dpomort,ah' ft now doing Mr Mad to make Log lull pan pie realise aoetethlny of IM Rf la Mr hut r or, tMl rruhrotid pruralday rountry. rrmrcM Bariantlnaki I a womaa af utrton dinar by birth and marriage, pereoeality, nohl and tdlditn, a aa active. liar experiences la Sot let Rutala hav mliatad her, body and tool, la it mm of Rsuiaa tnandpaUoo. Princess Bariatin ski Paints, Vivid Picture of Unfortunate Country German Accent Noticeable Among Officials , German Lon guage Compulsory in Schools u 5 Horror e of Everyday LifeCirle Imprisoned For Laughing at Of ficialt. Flogged , and Condemned Bar-ntk- , To Become P ublic Jting wwr arrswud and TMno thing, originated In German efforts to tM nation and woaken iu mom underm to udr to labor tM Ids that tM Pnopl Raasian peplo Mforo th war wr lli fsd and misBut this erably dependent upon tM richer ia not M, tM happy days Mfer tM Tarror, they had amp) food and rrrry poihility af living It U now that they euff.r Menus comfortably. tMir wwakn Ms found I Mm out TMy nr lik children who obey tM strongvot will, and w, 1 know who Ms th whlp-Mnia Rumls. Property . da. It uu...imiii:a!ii.ri!LJi.!ffiMM3garw'iJnnB'. of a pound fee person in IVtrograd waa f bread, raw instead threw day, and frequently FOUR YEARS Of TORTURE. oats only were given! 1 hav com back to Loedoa." Frlnraa Barin-linak- l. "Another rtrmny, thing ia tb progress of tha told me, "after four year, af terrible torture awful tragedy of Russia was the gradual Intrusion Yet peopl Mr In London vroodar vrhy I cannot enter of tha German accent in th speech of th Soviet into their after-lhe-wMppinaa and pleasure I officials In retrograd. Gradually, also. German beHow ran I, rbta my mind and Mart ara foil af the and, at th gin to M spoken among th peopl horror, that have bora and Mill are join g oa la my in and whools the of som Petrograd 'present time, native land? ' make th which ara by Sonrty, supported Moscow,, WarterteeSk WV ytaa M4 r,M From th window ef my flat la Petroyrad I th German language obligatory in their educaSteeete mW VIM Sterr (itaito, aaw tha first movement ia the erigtaal revolution. Ua4 t f Shim la Mae Had tional system. Mala. Acroa th way from my erindow U tho yateway to iSiltflU "The Sovicly also has taken under its protecTT: th Mfracks from ehich Mapped tha flnt oldir tion many of the theatres. 1 myself attended a who refuted to obey th command, of tMir officer. performance at a theatre in Moscow where a serious I happened to b lookiny down Into lha trot at th public meeting,, in barrack yards and in public drama called leda was drawing crowded houses. time. A, far a, I could ere to riyht and left, and When I tell you that the chief character in this play place, generally waa that Peace without annexabefore me, life aeemed to hav, suddenly slopped. tion or contribution waa what they really wanted. waa performed by a woman who appeared on th Two or three soldier, cam out from tha barrack The Ignorant people listened to these word, withStage completely nude you will understand to what irate, aith a Jaunty Independent wayyvr. They out in the least understanding their meaning. The a paw thing, hve come! t The character of Ieia' were no longer under command. Russian actresses, German, preyed upon the ignorance and weak crewaa offered to several "I felt that thoa men represented a new era, dulity of a bewildered peopl, who are at all time, who refused to play the part when they were that Petroyrmd, a, I and other Russian, knew it, had easily led. told that they would not b allowed to wear any ceased to exist. , A good deal of frightfulness wa practiced in clothing whatsoever. Finally, the part was under"Thn, in the distance I heard th sound of gun, the cities in order to gain a hold over the lower taken by a famous German demimondaine, whose Ming fired. Traffic bad Mopped an ordinary peo- order. Petrograd became almost a city of the dead. nam did not appear upon the program, but was ple teemed to have disappeared from the it recta. And gradually the Soviet, obtained the upper simply indicated by asterisks. This play ran for a Th revolution had begun! hand. hundred nights and then it waa suddenly stopped Thi, sort of thing went oa for day. And then IM RULE PETROGRAD. ZINOVIEFFS by th Soviety, under a belated order that It waa another influence Mgan to M seen and felt. Ger"The abaoluto utocrtof T.ctrogrsd ia Zinovjcff,. prejudicial to public morals I many commenced Mr work of undermining th whole It was to this man I bad to appeal when I triad playd at my own thestra In Petrograd during situation, exterminating the loyalist, th intellectuals obtain th release from prison of one of my rels- - the early revolutionary days. One of the plays and tha nobility, tiona who had been Imprisoned. The reason given which I produced waa Sir James Barries Admir"German influence and it, amazing underground for hi detention waa that a month before his ar- able Chricton which has been translated into Russian. The rest, he had allowed only a pound of bread a day After its first performance, this entirely innocuous propaganda crept lik, a poison everywhere. soldiery were brought together under German of- to a workman! ' This was couhted a crime, because comedy, was stopped by order of the . Soviet, beI also ficers They were told .not to fight, that fight- it waa not supposed to be enough for the man. Yet cause it was considered Lied was Ho How their for The freedom. chance, at the time of my relative's actual imprisonment the produced Bernard Shaws comedy, ing against gosto that to commissioner them caused at which wu a to at at ration Her Soviet pel feet corner,, preached Husband,' government to each permitted by the one-eight- , V 1- . 1 '1 A':' 1. ESCAPE TO FINLAND. ma Marty ail months to prvpar yny V 1 P from Petrograd. At last I waa promised a passport to Finland. But, aa soon aa yoo ar prom-bo- d -a passport, you at ones com under suspicion, 5 Ilk many other Russian men and woman of sad. . a. a Mwtts r rank, I waa arrested at a spy. I waa thrvatenod AUse Ssllsaa VSHWr, with tbs Torture Hou a tMy vary rightly call He Omwiw. th prison, wa eight separate occasions, sad when 1 finally racbd tM frontier on my way to Finland, I waa again Mat hack and my passport taken from coma to th thestr and order th arrest of myself ma. Finally after endless delays, my passport waa and my company. After a good deal of troubla and return sd to me, and then th luggaga that I Md much foolish interrogation w wert released. with mo was searched. "Th most extraordinary thing ia present-da- y "I Md concealed in a littl pillow that I carried Russia is the amaxing and cunning propsgsada that under my arm a revolver and om cartridges. Than Germany has Instituted. So deeply Imbedded la th wro discovered and It era, only by a ml reel that life of tb lower clause of Russia is tb German inmy lif waa sawed. TM official who waa search log fluence that one may aay that there has never been m. however, happened to hav Just a grain of hu. any real war against Germany. It ha only been inanity kft ia his composition, and after threaten a show that has actually tightened tb Mid of Ing m with what la called TM Well, whkb mean, Germany upon our defenseless people." that you ar put with your bock to a wall and shot, M let ma go. In lh meantime, a THE RED TERROR IN MOSCOW. party of aaUora, "On of my most horribt experience was in vho wer standing near, opened all my trunks and Moscow when I witnessed th arrest of three young atola many article ef value from them. "At a vary mfhi of our progress along th railway "" women who war barg'd wRhjth Jperttabi crime of spying. They were quit innocent, rather stupid to Finland w were stopped and interrogatod by young women, but they happened to hav aroused Eovirt agents, who hoarded th ear, txamirud our th wrath of a coupl of mon who had formerly Pporta, and, in many instances, marched oar lug. to th frontier our train been common soldiers, but who, by reason of the gaga. About half-wa- y general disorder everywhere, had managed to worm stopped, becaua a bridge over a river had Men deGerman in an- - stroyed by BolaMvik Yores. W were told that tMmaelvea into tha confidence of w would have to shift for ou twelve. In aom importance thority, who had given them posts of getting a cros. Thera war, about Mvnty-fi- v in the city. These girls had known th officials refugee, la- a fieri they were in their lower rank, and had made' (OoBtlaveri oa.peg, twe.) J -- I l. 4 ' . kw- - . - CJT ' , , I "It took Id u ev well-know- n v. remark about there. Tb par creaUka off to prUn. I Mpponod to I a wit to th incident, and I WsJ to do aomMhiag to aav, tM girls. I am afraid I only mad Ur, worn, however, far I was threat, nod with street, and tM vmm wvr moM cruelly and kept la a comma mil far many works. Wha tMy were at least released, tMy Meant public property' and wr not permitted to try to find tMir pel Uvea, wM probably thought tMy had bean man aacrvd. mm m Ye Ancient Art of Topiary Revived in England donMvrek The older the tree gets, the thicker are its branches, litije, gpecn. little .island. more to so that when it becomes, say 20 is a difficult old, Sts spiral It imagine patient purmass of very thick green suit than topiary. From five to ninety years are re- form is a quired to produce a single specimen of this tree foliage. It may sell then for anywhere from 50 to $150. magic. Tree birds of the usual size take from 10 to 12 years to grow; tree dogs take from 12 to 20 As a general rule, the yew trees are slightly more years ; peacocks, spiral and serpentine columns, tables, armchairs, sitting hens, geese and ducks, dogs with kennels, ships, horses, pigs all take from 20 to BO years to be modeled in the clipped foliage of the box, tree or the yew. This morning I found Mr. Klinkert beginning a 50 years chore. A wealthy Scotchman, Cecil Arthur of Kilmarnock, had ordered his family crest a pelican feeding its young in a nest done in yew. The piece will be finished for delivery in 1970 and will 17. HIS story should be written to the hum of bees and the trilling of birds. It Jghould be written on a close-clippe- ten-rac-e stately Elizabethan or with a squeaking quill pen in the sombre green Silence of a little Dutch garden. The sunlit patience of .hose who tmake horticulture their hobby ought to go into it the endless patience of those gardeners of bygone centuries who have builded. cost f225 rthe quaint and ancient . English yew and boxwood are used by Klinkert handicraft of topiary. as clay is use.d by the sculptor. Both trees live dark for centuries and are so hardy that they will . Three thousand green animal and bird stand frequent transplanting. In fact, some of the i shapes peer through the finest of his 3,000 specimens have been uprooted, takgates of the Royal Kew en' away to the Chelsea horticultural shows and in his nurseries at Kew, Nurseries in the Richmond brought ba& to be section of London, So stimulate his "stock in the" two month later.-- To and silent do they growing of fibrous, instead of thick, roots, Mr. Klinseem that the casual visi- - kert transplants all his trees in the nurseries once in tor begins to edge away at every three years. This, in trees which are from But they 20 to 70 years old,' produces a thick ball of fibrous-- " sight of them. are all quite safe. The roots, which are encased in earth and packed in moss snakes, for shipment 'and transplanting in distant gardens. gigantic parrots and pea- - Thus prepared, one of his finer and larger pieces when cocks, magnified packed for shipment, may weigh 500 pounds and even 4t:d midsummer can be Mpt out-e- f the an aparrowa 1 nfonstrous frogs, months at a time. do pot belong to Yew and boxwood are also the traditional topiar the land of terri-- ista trees because they lend themselves readily .to , , unkr-Ushadows, clipping and training. They are planted as cuttings Tbi DmIr In 0 fying of Triumph of Toplarftat, but in their creaJn order to produce single stemmed trees, and for KtWhn Hu fUrtrel 014 Art EbkUiJ ' tor, a Dutchman some of his designs, Mr. Klinkert begins work on named John Klinkert who has revived the art ol them' as soon as they Kave taVen 'fim"hoIJ in' the ' soil For his spiral desigss, the foliage is clipped topiary in England. "It is not hard for a Dutchman to be patient, away in auch fashion as to leave a definite spiral of Mr. Klinkert told me today, and therein lies the foliage around the stem. In July of each year, the secret oL the great vogue which this most ancient branches are dipped back from pnds, the new light green leaves which have put out in the spring being of the garden arts is having in England. "The country is tired. The war haa exhausted it; cut off back to the darker foliage 6f the winter. Each It is returning now td restfulness of the gardens by clipping is made with a view to bringing the spiral which most visitors to Ehgland remember. this "tight shape of the remaining foliage into perfect symmetry- - Jn d nt - ' SENT ALL OVER ENGLAND. These finished ' specimens of the topiaristfs handicraft ai sold to those Englishmen who want for their country places a bit of old and formal gardening, such as is found on the Rothschilds' estate at Ascot, on Lady Dudley's estate at Witley Court, in Stourpart, on Mrs. Hornby Lewis grounds at Marlow, in Friar Tark at Henleyy around 'Love ns Hall in Westmoreland or in th grounds of Elvaston Castle. ' With the more intricate., designs, many more years are necessary to achieve complete success. e to fest rings It takes reallydiTye and hoops," Mr. Klinkert told me. "It is necessary to wait until the tree attains a good growth, before one can begin clipping out a thickly foliaged design." Except for the designs which are specially ordered from him, all of the usual designs in his ' stock ere sanctioned byjge. The art has its greatest center in Holland, where the habit of utilizing -every inch ef eoil, much ef which has Men reclaimed only by means of time and money, has stimulated the-aof formal gardening.' Two or three centuries ago in Holland topiary was quite the rage. - Among the designs dipped out in foliage were caricatures of leading men, representations of homely kitchen utensils and other grotesque oddities. The present designs ere the survivors of what was two centuries ago a vast assortment of designs. Birds, spirals columns these are the signs of most universal fitness and of quickest adaptation to the majority of formal gardening ge-th- rt -- earth-Tor-tw- expenain than th boxwood places, since yew grow "more alowly thaa boxwood. features of garden design.' Tha styls ef horticulture.' waa lost ia England wbo the abandoned the country" at the beginning of the fifth century, and tha feudal broils of later times gave littl opportunity for the exercise of that patience which makes ornamental gardening possible. GOLDEN AGE OF TOPIARY. The dawn of the 16th century saw tha commencement of th golden era of topiary, and for 150 year tb art became universally fashionable. Never did a horticultural vogue retain its hold upon a gardening public for as long a time. In the reign of Charles II (1600-1685- ), garden design and garden ornamentation reached a degree of extravagance not previously, attempted and not subsequently reached. Under the "Merry Monarchs order, Le Notre, the designer of the famous and costly garden at Versailles, laid out the famous garden at Hampton Court in London. The labyrinth, laid Out by Cardinal Wolaey at Hampton Court about the middle of the reign of Henry VTII, and which still exists, eras long celebrated for its tree cut into -grotesque forms. semi-circu- lar Topiary gardening reached its height during the William reign of William and Mary (1689-1702-). III, Prince of Orange, brought with him a taste for clipped yews and accentuated the prevailing taste in England. At this time, owners and gardeners lilr were laboring to" HQ their gardens with Illustrations of geometric figures in boxwood and yew, with quaintest patterns and thrwtdrdest shapes eari- -' caturing birds and beasts and imitating architecture and articles of common use. The fashion, run to tremes, at length finished itajxmme and although many gardens and examples survived, topiary from 1790 onward, lapsed into for about 100 years, as a form of garden design. dethe ir , ke Topiary traces its history back to the ancient Greeks and Romans. It was under the Roman empire, in fact, that it was1 first introduced into England; then as now it was a hobby of the wealthyr-7nBoT!t was taken up readily by the monks and in their monastery gardens, topiarist hedges rose both for the provision of shelter and ef additional seclusion. In a modest way, these fanciful hedge walls soon were embellished by quaint conceits in dipped yew and boxwood. . But it was not until much later in the Roman that topiary commenced to be one of the chief qra well-encircl- SM Was imrSlK Twlwr. a Kaloa es. ce h d''dIrected-theIf'porisM- Its decline. Topiary work had spread Haelf all over the gardens of the time and could hardly go further in extent or design. Then came tM inevitable reaction. But in Holland, where in the ISth century architecture and gardening had taken firm held Bnd pointed phrases toward hastening (CoBtlaoed pass twe.) : 1 |