The billboard (Dec 1917)

DECEMBER 22, 1017 ~The Billboard 159 UX Ww” NOW PRESENTING | “Cheer Up!” THE HIPPODROME’S SUPER-SPECTACLE SUPERB Staged by R. H. BURNSIDE MATINEE DAILY SEATS ALWAYS EIGHT WEEKS IN ADVANCE Everything on a big scale—except the scale of prices. Mail orders given eight weeks in advance. , “What, Jimmy?” she sald, half frightened. ‘I mean this, May: We love each other, and. that’s all a man an’ a rt no time eves; Thor will arise with his gigantic bammer and demolish the Gotble cathedrals.” But will be? Will might triumph over right? ‘Wit the greed of wild darbarlanism triumph corer nature's laws? ‘The question answers Itself, as it bas done Defore. __ Caesar once sat upon the tmperis! throne and raled the world from the seven bills sat Rome. Bis was the power of might. His army was the greatest that the world had ever seen. ‘The peoBle Iived for the State and mothers bore chilren that the army might not want for men. Where is that Imperlal throne today? Daring the relga of this same war god there waa one who went forth to bold the greatest convoying destroyers bobbing in the swell they, saw the black holks of the transports. ‘They Hooked into each other's eyes, and the eyes alone spoke. “May, gist May," he etammered, “you was what I hoped, an’ I can't feel right leavin’ you. ‘There's got to be somebody who cares, somebody to send things to, May, I want to have you thinkin? about me, you writio’ to me; it can't be ke them days on the desert no more. 1 know now; an’, May, I want—I just want to be on my way knowin” that you is mine,” “es, Jimmy,” she whispered, Kissing his strong ‘wrist where the cords stood out in the grasp he gave her hand. ‘Ant, me, Jimmy, ‘cause I am yours for all ‘ae : Clasping Der still tighter im bis arms be mored closer to the edge of the wall, as If trying to reach out for something. “May, I told you we was fightin’ for what the Laverty ont there stands for, an’, gicl, if it’s sland again? Itt be Jast great ‘to the bat'ry an’ meet you again an” we'll” — She caught his look. Women Uke May do not} ‘worth Sghtin’ an’ dyin’ for in AU's good enough for me an’ you—me an’ you to strange land and showers, and they don't have to be told ‘when it is golog to end. May knew and so did the cbautangya ever Beld, where the wisdom of the} Jimmy. Like the coming of night ou the desert,| | ““An’, Slay, I wish to God—ses, I do, May—t 2 Sor Tat Exthered into a sermon which a lonely! where there te no twilight, Dat where darkness } could call you what I want to, an’ tell all the bebgand¥ an bind Rau Tak bagled at jalliean Carpenter preached to = few disciples] fatis Uke a pall a great black shadow fell over| boys. rene eek erat cond 12 G, most of| sime as if we Was ee cur : vem enlisted nort! , know I would, Jimmy, if they Uke you, my bog." He Kissed hor, and still holding her in the, shadows of the landing, spoke: gathered on the mountain side. The laws of] nis heart and bls heart was beating next to ‘compensation, which are never at rest, were set| nor’s, She had been true. God bad brought forth as they bad never deen eet by mortal man. | her to erose his path again—then hs remembered ‘Tee law of cause and effect was made @ Living é force. And nature was made enpreme in such & ‘be brave when ho told her; told st, May.” do, Jimmy,” sho said; band.” She Ifted her arms out to the torch as = euild would to some one who would be kind and splendid code of ethics that even today this aysthe one thing, and that was where| “We. onghter met early in tho das, May ‘tem of noble and’ exalted thought is understood ant we could hare gone down to the Clty Hall lOving, and then she Taid ber head on Dis breast sot asnature's'law, but as 2 cofe of ethice to Gust write’ ke thet other gist, May." and got married. Say what, May"— nd qxiad-settiy—teane that Bed all af Jay snd all of sorrow in them. “Be brave, May, an? don't work too hard in that gauze an’ cotton fact'ry. TT be sen the money to you now, Ul woman, an’ sou writes Just sed "em to the post-oflce—good-by a ‘The girl shook for a moment with the sobs sho trled to hold back. He pushed ber away. apd then pulling Ber into Ms arms whispered one word. ‘Thea, with a quick tam, he leaped Into a boat and was gone. ‘As she turned the corner she 1ooked back and caw the Statue of Liberty, with lts torch flaming Im the for. Tit come down an’ see It ev'ry night while role our conduct while in the boure of worship, or as we journey from midnight to midnight on| ofice an’ T'll send mide, too"— the Sabbath, Wo should understand that life ts| "Sho gave him the address and he scrawled it Rot to dle, but to live, and he lives best, does] on the pasteboard as he tore oat the last ebeet. the Dest, dets the noblest who comer nearest to| of rice paper for the makings. complying with the universal laws which gorera|” Rrosdway's lights were dimming for midaight! man, bird and beast. when they left the square. Now they stood at To bring about a better understanding of the| the Battery agald, after seven years. A mist laws of service and showmanship is, the purpose | Buns over the river, the great Dufldiogs aloog of his article, ‘To bring about a better wn-| the shore taklog giant forms In shadows ,2s derstanding of the aims and objects of the clreus | they rose in the gray from the whlte-cdged wash and the chautaagua as factors in Ife, aa forces| against the wall. Beyond the forest of mast| a buriness, as inspirational Inetitatione whlch | heads and the dim outlines of smoking stacks are creating higher ideals and nobler porposes| loomed ia the fog the figure of Liberty, her x what the thinking onex will od embedded | torch buraing ye‘low tm the drape of the night. Jo thie contribution. Te may not be carlly un-| Great ETaF ootlices of Sghting ships lay in the ‘lerstood, as {tts not written for the rabble, but| roadway. From fore and mala the yardarm for men and women of {deals and high purpose. | blinkens telked the language of the silent sea, It was weltten for those who woderstand that re-| wile above the stringed Ugsts of the com gion ts lite; bustaces ts the service we render| pacionways gleamed the starboard greens our fellows; patriotism fa the service we render| They stood together, bis arm about her, to,the to oar country and the world, azit all fs governed cbill of ‘the ‘river frost, sbe drawing herself by tho watvereal aw of life, Tt wax written for| closer to bim than she bad ever felt bim Defora| fhe Wise en who have Journcyed far, having|—a new feeling that she was bis, and had the caught the new vision, Fight to bo bis, and bis tightening clasp of her aight walst made her feel that ble thought was tbe same. ‘The Deam of a searchlight swent nay bee TeAdee foe a. Tst 19 tl Heeme—there | ob arbor, and beyond the gray cruisers and the “Yes, Jimmy, Jest Uke that Corporal did when me an’ you stood up for bi “Yes, May, I knows, Bill Kerens; he's in the regiment still, an’ leavin’ a baby with her now, ack yonder.” She pressed her body closer to him, and said, sottiy: “I wish it was us, Jimmy, don’t you?” He. took of his broad hat, and looked far out fn the stream. The Ughts were blinking, and ‘back of them blazed the torch. “What's the matter, dearle,”* she said, ‘See that torch out there, May? Many a ght I've watched that old stature all in the @arkness, an’ now, when I've come back, i atl lignt"— “Sorter lghted np to celebrate for us, ‘said, with a laugh. “Something more than that,” he sald, snd then, after & long pause, ‘May, I don't know much about all this war talk; I knows orders Is orders, and we are goin’ over there. An, May, wo'se goin’ over there to fight for what that stature, that Dig light out there, means, May; that right out there—Liberty. An’, May. if that, an? what that Sgure means, is’ worth fightin’ for, and maybe dyin’ for, it's worth, eomethin’ else to us, ain't it, gic?” ool the one word be bad whispered, the last ‘g00d-by word from ber Jimmy, hes for all time, the one word he had told no one else— “France!” After driving from Chicago, ML, in thelr car, and covering a distance of over 1,000 miles, the Eugene Bradley Vaudeville Trio opened in Northeast Tesas recently to good business. The show expects to spend the winter in the Loue Star State.