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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31 1918. CORK COMEDIAN IS STUDENT OF NEGRO CUSTOIilS Mclntyre, of Mclntyre and Heath, Authority, FORTUNE TELLER IN SCREEN PLAY ACTUALLY LIVED Character in Barris'cale Film in Fay's. True. FAMOUS ARTIST URGES STUDY OF FRENCH LANGUAGE Mrjie. Guilbert Believes It Would Help America.

HAS DARKEY PREFERENCE WIFE OF NOTED ARTIST SAYS IT AIDED GERMANS Eminent Song Interpreter, Who Will Give Recital for Smith College War Fund in April 11th, Lauds Women of IT. S. in France "Tea Cup" Ann, Old Woman Who Bead Tea Cups in Washington Square to Help Dying Husband Who Was Once Noted, in Film Noted Minstrel Man, Coming to Temple -with Partner To-morrow, Is Partial to South Carolina Negro Because He Has an Irish Brogue insulation 'reduces friction. Individual cords are imbedded in protecting rubber so thatno two cords can touch to cause friction. The extra thick cushion layer does double duty.

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French thought is for the foreign intelligence what the muses of Italy are for the world's painters. Practically all Germans understand and read French, and if they speak it badly, they at least speak it, and thousands of them are magnificently familiar with both French and English. They can introduce themselves almost everywhere and can easily carry on a commercial and artistic interchange. "From the day when American children lean the French language at school, a new era will result for the United States. Thence will be born a new phase of American culture, for from the genius of our old nation yon will draw your gain.

Later, rising out of our nurturing influence, you will become entirely yourselvea. "In this war, how many wounded Frenchmen have been glad they learned English when they came to be cared for in English' ambulances? How many English nurses have been embarrassed at not knowing French when dying French soldiers have murmured to them the last messages for wives and children! In this war with Germany, what a precious service has been rendered by Frenchmen who apeak German! At the American Ambulance, directed so magnificently by Mrs. Munroe, assisted by other American ladles, what miracles of tenderness have been accomplished, thanks to the fact that all the American women there speak French! Through this American Am-bul Ace, the war has revealed the American women in her true light to the people of Paris. "When the war is over, rich American wpmen will return to their Fifth avenue, having come to know the gentle people of our French countryside. As the Gospel says: "They will have touched the sores of the They will have seen all Its misery, and they will remain sensitive to the misfortunes of the earth, for a favoring Providence permits them to devote themselves to the humblest, to the obscure heroes, and their charity is so splendid that they will never lose itsstamp.

"It is no longer the riches of America that must be congratulated; it is the American heart that must be praised. Never will our soldiers forget the ambulance at Neuil-ly, its comfort, its order, its grace, Its smiling and consoling' brightness." Never will Varis forget that beautiful action, that loving impulse of the United States. It is with joy, dear friends in America, that I bring warm expressions of gratitude from my country for yours. I shall tell you how, through the naive letters of our little wounded soldiers, peasants from the fair provinces of France, stories have come) to U3 of the long hours comforted and made sweet by the 'ladies from SWEET POTATOES The sweet potato thrives best in the southern part of the country, as it is a tropical plant. It cannot be successfully grown in the extreme northern sections of the country.

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the historical accuracy of an uncanny character, that of a sorceress known as "Tea Cup" Ann. The story deals with Washington Square, the artist section of New fork city. A few years ago there really exisited on the square an old and withered woman who frequented the popular cafes and read the fortunes of their patrons from the leaves in their tea-cups. With the money so derived, she purchased neces- rrf BESSIE, BAR Rl SCALE VWITMIN THE Si sltics for her w-ho was dying in a public hospital. The old woman's husband had, in his best days, been one of the most famous painters in the country, and he was respected and admired by the men and the women who were then prominent in the world of art.

A long-continued illness had exhausted what money he had saved, and he was dying in poverty. This fact was realized ky the hosts of artists who visited the cafes where the old woman held and, as a result, money was generously bestowed upon her. In a very short time "Tea Cup" Ann became a famous character, but her fame spread so far that unscrupulous women, seekinjr pain which they did not deserve, impersonated the honest old lady and reaped a harvest from the unsuspecting artists who believed that they were helping "Tea Cup" Ann to comfort her husband diirins his last days. Monte M. Katterjohn, in writing "Within the Cup" for Miss Barriseale, used the character of "Tea Ann to excellent and her prophecies made in the picture to a great extent govern the actions and emotions of Thisbe Lorraine, the part portrayed by Miss Barriseale.

"Within the Cup" will' be the attraction in Fay's all of this week. SPENT LEAVE WITH MOTHER Infantry Man Returns to Camp After Visit Here. CARL J. EAGElf. Private Carl J.

Haigen, of Company II, lOSth Infantry, stationed at Spartanburg, S. has returned to Ms post after having spent a furlough of nine days with his parents at Xo. 59 Weld street. OERA Okra is a delicious vegetable that deserves a better acquaintance with the home garden than it now possesses. Say "chicken gumbo, Southern style," to the initiated; that Is all the argument needed in favor of growing this crop.

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S. Department of Agriculture. Powerful Motives. "Phillips Brooks. Recklessness is no part of courage.

When Cromwell and his men gave the sublime picture of heroic courage which illuminates English history, it was not that they undervalued' the enormous strength of what they found against; it was that they saw righteousness and freedom shining out beyond, and moved toward their fascinating presence It was in November, 1SGS, forty-tight years ago, that Jim Mclntyre of the noted old blackface team of Mclntyre and IJeath -who come to the Temple tomorrows', made his first appearance on the stage. He was only ten years of a7r -when, a green country boy from Kenosha, Wisconsin, he arrived in ChAoajfO, determined to ibecome a great clog dancer. lie appeared in an amateur try-wit nigfot in Kerwin's Variety Ilall in Chicago, and the newsboys in the audience applauded so vociferously that the manager gave him an engagement at $10 a week and "cakes," the equivalent of board. A Irbtle later he travelled through the Pouth with the John II. Robinson Cir-cm, and ibegan bis studies of the negro, which he has continued ever since.

After his circus experience, he became a variety performer in San Antonio, Texas, and there formed his "partnership with Heath. Mr. Mclntyre has made such a close Study of negro dialect, traditions, superstitions and stories that he is in great hv folk-lore societies as an au thority to settle questions in dispute regarding1 the manners and customs of the Fnufchern darkey, it is said. He was a jrreat friend of the late Joel Chandler Harris, and it is declared tht the germ idea of many of IVrer Rabbit's most amusing adventures came from the min-fetrel man. Charles Egbert Craddock, the novelist of the Tennessee mountains, kept tip a correjpondence.

on the humor of the Southern negro with Mclntyre and Heath for many years, according to friends of the comedians, and Mark Twain used to roar with delight at the coraieal stories told by the burnt-cork romedian, who liked the South Carolina darkey best of all, because, as -he says, "there" is a touch of Irish brogue in his Dialect." CONSIDER ORGANIZING KU KLUXKLAN AGAIN Birth of Nation" Said to Have Suggested Plan. MIRIAM COOPER. The coming of David W. Griffith's big dramatic "The Birth of a Nation," to Rochester, with its stirring Ku Kluz Klan scenes, stimulated local interest in the proposition to organize a modern Ku Klux Klan to cope with disloyalty and sedition at home, it is said. The plan originated in Wisconsin, where the opeuly voiced pro-Germanism of many of the residents has given big impetus to a movement for a "Next-of-Kin" organization, to be composed of men who have brothers or sons in the American army or navy.

Wheeler F. Bloodgood, of Milwaukee, is one of the prime movers in the plan, and he says that already Milwaukee has 600 men pledged to. join such a body. In "The Birth of a Nation," which e-pens a four-day engagement in the Piccsdily to-day, the Ku Klux Klan, the body after which it is proposed to model the "Next-of-Kin," is shown to have been formed for the purpose of combating these negroes who had been pet above the Southern whites by plunderers and carpetbaggers from the North. White-robed and grim, these tuessengers rode through the night and Jiunished those crimes which after due' trial and hearing was decided ought to be punished.

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Charles G. Craig, who pays Amanda jn the support of Ruth Chatterton in "Come Out of the Kitchen." She was born in Canada and (brought up in San Francisco. Mrs. Craig says that colored people never accomplish satisfactory work in the blackface roles of the drama because they overdo, or seem to overdo them. Here is her story as she tells it herself: "I was born in Canada and raised in San Francisco," related, "and I lived on the coast until I was married.

Iknew only Chinese servants and had no experience whatever with colored people, and I was never in the South until seven or eight years after I bad played my first mammy part. Just how I came to please with my special line of work I never knew. Once at a dinner party in Son Francisco, I recited something in the negro dialect just as I imagined it might be. Clay Clement, the actor, was present, and he said he had never heard such a perfect dialect in his life. Soon after that he wrote a play, 'The Southern and he sent for me to do the colored woman role.

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