The Axe, 17 novembre 1922, vendredi 17 novembre 1922

[" CG nd N \u2018A 2° + ! ~ Cuil wf i: RE - + 4 A - Ty \" my punishment: \u2014 | \u2014 CRITICAL PLAIN r COMMENT SPEAKING WITHOUT CONCERNING FEAR OR PUBLIC FAVOR A JOURNAL OF ACTION AGAINST REACTION |.EDITED BY JOHN H.ROBERTS | \u201cLAY THE AXE AT THE ROOT OF THE TREE\" Ne.45 , MONTREAL, FRIDAY) LE EMBER 17h, 1922 Annual aubecription Twe dollars.Price: 5 conts.TASCHEREAU'S WATERLOO ROYAL COMMISSION Produce our Documents! SAPUNTED BU | rss I omit Taschereau acts on AXE demand for an enquiry but the man who asked it goes to jail without trial.THE AXE Wins! In the issue of October 27th last, THE AXE demanded the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the Blanche Garneau affair.On Friday last the Government tabled an order in Council providing for such a Royal Commission.Quick work! In two weeks time THE AXE has succeeded in getting action that two and a half years talk, agitation and discussion have failed to bring about.Itis worth while my being jailed to secure the vindication of justice and help make this land of ours safer for all the Blanche Garneau\u2019s of the future.° But what a position my accusers have placed themselves in by appointing this Royal Commission! They have condemned me, even making a new law to make heavier, and now after sentencing me to twelve month\u2019s imprisonment in the Quebec Jail, they appoint 2a Royal Commission to investigate the rumours and accusations, the existence of which my article in THE AXE merely pointed out.Punish first; investigate afterwards ! This is surely a new method of adminis- \u201ctering the law and serving the ends of justice.- In every other case the investigation comes first, the punishment after.In my case | am \u201chung, drawn (continued on page 8) x.fact that when search of our premises was conducted by operatives of the Provincial Detectives, acting for the Attorney General, on October 30th last, there was removed with our other papers and documents a file of information pertaining to the Blanche Garneau case.We want to be sure that this file will be produced by the Government when the Royal Commission meets.| + THE AXE.HET OR MENT HHH SHALL I BE TS LP TO YOU I propose this week to dea! with the John H.Roberts case without regard to any personal feeling, without considering my relations with John H.Roberts, or my association with THE AXE, I shall dea] with it solely as a British subject entitled to all the liberties set forth in the Magna Charta, which liberties are immutable, and are basic \u2018Yo the constitution of not only Great Britain, but every portion of the British Empire.Founded upon this Magna Charta are the laws which have from time to time been passed in the Mother of Parliaments and in the Legislative Assemblies of the various outlaying- portions of the British Empire.These man made laws lay down certain penalties for certain offences, and these laws have from time to time had these penalties increased or reduced in accordance with the wishes of the people which have been influenced by circumstances that have arisen since the orig- ina] laws were passed.But no law tan be retrospective where it affects the liberty of the subject.Now in the case of John H.Roberts, he has been brought before the Bar of the House to answer the charge of violating tha dignity of that House, and it is admitted\u2019 that the House has the sole right of determining when its dignity \u2019 sure.ow, iE v 1+\" (continued on'page:8) i | si, PE A WONT ALLOW THE ANES EDTOR TO ATTEND CHURCH On Saturday last I told my: custodian, Mr.Delisle, the Sergeant - at - Arms, that I wanted to go to Church on Sunday.He said he had orders not to allow me to go.I insisted, pointing out that if I were confined to jail there would be a Church Service which I could attend, but that here at the Provincial Police Headquarters, where I am confined, no such service is held, Mr.Delisle then consulted The Speaker and afterwards informed me that The Speaker Was Willing but someone else had objectel.This \u201csomeone else\u201d, it turned out was the Minister of the Baptist Church, to which being a Baptist I desired to go, who thought my attendance at his Church with an escort \u201cwould disturb the congrégation\u201d.1 make no comment on the Minister\u2019s conduct go that I may do him no injustice.When tha Sergeant-at-Armsg told me this I requested that I ve permitted to go some other Church, but could not secure permission.I am sure Mr.Delisle would do anything he could for me and I do not blame either The Speaker or him, Sunday morning at -a quarter of eleven I put on my hat and overcoat and to!d The Sergeant of Police I was going to Church.He, however, said he could nôt allow me to go without permission, so 1 perforce did not go to Church.So.I am even denied religious PREMIER OF QUEBEC SIGNS HIS POLITICAL DEATH- WARRANT BY HIS ACTIONS IN THE CASE OF ROBERTS the freedom of every Canadian Citizen \u2014 People will rise and sweep Taschereau out of office \u2014 The handwriting is on the wall.The imprisonment and sentencing of John H.Roberts without trial, without the hearing of any evidence, the sentencing of a sitizen to jail by men who are both his accusers and his judges, is not only the persecution of a private citizen, it is not only the muzzling of a journalist, It is an event which marks the passing of the freedom of the citizens of Canada, if such a state of affairs is to be allowed to continue! John H.Roberts has become more than the Editor of a Weekly Publication.He has become the center of a political controversy to decide whether we in Canada are free men, or whether we shall become the slaves of the men whom we have elected to administer our Government, of the men whom we pay to act for and in behalf of the People.That is the issue! It is the issue which will mark the passing of Taschereau and his blinded servitors from public life! It is the issue which will condemn the men who enact laws such as this to the political scrapheap, tossed aside by the great body of citizens because they do not consider the liberty and rights of the People.IT IS TASCHEREAU\u2019S WATERLOO!!! John H.Roberts published an article in which he called public attention to rumours concerning the Blanche Garneau murder.He enumerated those rumours, and he said \u2018We do not believe these rumours!\u201d He demanded action on the part of the Government, and offered a reward of $5,000 to the persons who would bring the murderers to justice.For this article John H.Roberts was arrested on a charge of seditious libel, and was committed to stand trial in the Court of King\u2019s Bench at Quebec.He was also summoned to the Bar of the Legislative Assembly at Quebec, where, on the advice of counsel, he asked that a committee of the House be appointed, saying that he would disclose all the facts behind his article to such a committee, What happened?The House took the matter en délibéré.When next it met, the Premier introduced a bill to condemn John H.Roberts to the common jail at Quebec for a period of one year.The bill was \u201crailroaded\u201d through the House and will become law.Thus has Roberts been tried.He was accused by the Legislative Assembly.He was judged by that Assembly which has condemned him to one year in jail WITHOUT HEARING ONE WORD OF EVIDENCE.His case was prejudged before the accused ever appear- consolation in my prison.ith \u2018JOHN H.ROBERTS Tat + TR d \u2018 A rr soie a - ed.Taschereau \u201crailroaded\u201d his bill through, backed Lo (continued from page 8) 2 = 3 | - 3 2 1 ; 5 - - io + ae el i hi A ri msi » a yl de, : b entame éme +.Les sas + Imprisonment without trial deals a body-blow to - er \u2014P l\u2019age 2 0 em ee ee ne er + | Why I Publish The Axe The days are long, the nights longer in my prison, It is a peculiar condition this in which I find myself, To be confined within the limits of the Provincial Police Headquarters which, by the way, are seven fect underground, and to know that I must stay here, whether I like it or not, until my jai!ers order otherwise, I repeat is a peculiar condition.I have the liberty of the place so far as that goes, and every one of the constables, from Chief McCarthy down, is friendly and considerate.(Chief McCarthy, in spite of his Irish name, is French), On Thanksgiving Day I had nearly an hour's exercise in company with Sergeant Mubrouey (who is as Irish astheymake them!) But orders have since been given from above (I don\u2019t refer to Heaven) that I am only to be permitted to exercise in the yard.My day is spent chiefly reading and studying.Three times a day a waiter comes from the Café in the Legislative Buildings and I order what I choose.The fare is good and varied, but oh how I long for some of my wife\u2019s cooking (she\u2019s one of the best cooks in the world!) I have the newspapers : Montreal Star, Montreal Gazette, Quebec Chronicle and Quebec Telegraph; so that I am able to keep in touch with the world and its doings.The French papers I see too, and am able to pick out a little news from them, being handicapped however, by my lack of knowledge of the French language, of which ignorance of mine I am ashamed.One thing I gather from the newspapers, which is, that those who have done this thing to me are far more perturbed over it than I am, So excited has Mr.Tascher¢au become that, after getting a law passed to imprison me for twelve months, he hag now appointed a Royal Commission to investigate the Blanche Garneau affair.Public opinion, the greatest force in the community, has been too strong for him, it would seem, and he bends before it.\u201cI should worry\u201d.I understand that those who did this thing to me ar?anxious to know how my morale is bearing up under the strain.My morale is excellent; my courage is high; my confidence in my ultimate victory is unabated.Great issues shal; arise out of this imprisonment of mine, The whole theory of popular liberty in Canada is involved, especially the liberty of the press.Iam prouder of nothing in my life, nothing I have ever done, than of that passage in my speech of defence at the Bar of the Legislature in which I defended the liberty of the press and told the Assembly that if the press of Quebec was refused the right of criticism the same thing might happen here as happened in Russia where the Czarism that denied freedom of speech has met the fate that al! tyrannies ultimately meet.Here the agitation for human liberty must be on constitutional lines, I am a believer in Jaw and order and in constitutional manners of redressing public wrongs.Those methods include public discussion, agitation, and use of electoral power.These are the weapons I sha!l use and urge others to use.And British History contains no single instance of any interference with, or denial of, human rights being ultimately victorious over the inherent rights of humanity, As I its here in my room\u2014I might justifiably term it my cell\u2014I am filled wiht a deep sense of pride in THE AXE.I am \u201cA Prisoner of State\u201d it is true.It may be that I shall occupy a cell in the Quebec Jail for twelve months, and that I shal} suffer-loss of liberty itself is suffering enough to one of my temperament.But THE AXE has proved itself.It is now known throughout the length and breadth of Canada, thanks to\" the stand it has taken for Justice and Right.Its circulation has more than doubled in the past two weeks and it occupieg a firmer place than ever in the hearts of the common people whom it serves.The tirades of a Taschereau and the bleatings of a Bercovitch notwithstanding, THE AXE will go on growing in power and influence, fulfilling its destiny in the overthrowing of social wrong and the exaltation of the common people.It.is but another illustration of the truth that God uses the weak things of this world to confound the mighty, ' JOHN H.ROBERTS.~ - fF > « : MERCHANTS BANK The Merchants Bank case is closed, There is no more Merchants Bank, It is now a part of the Bank of Montreal.i The Merchants Bank became part of the Bank of Montreal because the reserve fund of the Merchants Bank , disappeared from view.The shareholders of the Merchants Bank were stampeded into selling their bank by the officials of the bank at a general meeting which sanctioned the sae, and by the Montreal Daily Star which told them that there was no way out but to accept the offer made by the Bank of Montreal.So they sold out, at a tremendous loss.Followed the arrest of Sir Montagu Allan and Mr.D.C.Macarow, respectively President and General Manager of the Merchants Bank, on charges of making a false return of the bank\u2019s position to the Federal Government.D.C.Macarow was acquitted first.Now Sir Montagu Al- Jan has been given his freedom and character by the Courts.In freeing Sir Montagu Allan, Chief Judge Decarie has said.\u201cI find that Sir Montagu Allan has acted like an honest man: more, like an honorable man, and that by great sacrifice he saved his bank from disaster,\u201d We bow to the decision of the Courts.But there is one thing about the Merchants Bank fiasco which we cannot overlook.SAFE INVESTMENT.Shares of the Merchants Bank of Canada were regarded as an absolutely safe investment.Executors of estates were wont to advise widows to invest their monies in this stock, as, they said, it was a one hundred percent safe security which would bring in a small but safe return, year in and out.Many defenseless women relied on Merchants Bank shares to provide their incomes.The Merchants Bank failed and was sold to the Bank of Montreal for a song.The Bank of Montreal drove a hard bargain, for which the Bank of Montreal cannot be blamed.But the widows mite was cut in two.Eight million dollars disappeared.The matter has been aired in the courts.Two bank officials have been declared innocent of any malpractices.But eight millions disappeared, practically the whole reserve fund of the Merchants Bank.Allan and Macarow have been found innocent and acquitted.If eight millions disappeared, if false returns \u2018Were made to the Government, some one wag responsible, Inasmuch as Allan and Macarow have been found innocent, there must \u2018be someone else responsible for the failure of the Merchants Bank.It ig all very well to clear the good name of the president ,to free the General Manager, and to declare that Sir Montagu is an honorable man, 1 who saved his bank from disaster.\u2018But this will not re- THE AXE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1922 \"WHAT BROKE THE WILL TASCHEREAU JAIL ED'TOR OF \u201cTHE GAZETTE\u201d What will the Quebec Legislative Assembly do with the Editor of The Montreal Gazette?The Gazette, which first condemned me, nowattacksthe Legislature for making a new law to ndd to the severity of my punishment instead of applying the punishment which the law provided for at the time of my alleged offence.The Gazette has realized the danger to itself and every other newspaper.But if I am to be imprisoned for attempt- WHAT ABOUT LA BANQUE NATIONALE, MR.NICOL?-\u2014 es sm\u2014\u2014 Hon, Jacob Nicol, I'rovincinl Treasurer, Quetce, 1*,Q.Sir:-Shortiy after you were made lrovinelal Treasurer, you were given a place on the Bonrd of Directors of the Banque Nationale, which poale tion, we are told, you still hold.Will vou be prepared to inform the elece tora of Sherbmoke at election time why you were offered this post, why vou aceepted it, whether you would have ever been given the job if you had remained a country lawyer, and whether you were sent to Quebec by the people of Sherbrooke for the pure pore of picking up \u201ccushy\u201d jobs serving banks, or to handle a man's Jub merving the People?Come on, Jacob, speak ap.THE AXE, ing to \u201cclear the names and reputations\u201d (these are the words I used) of members of the Legislature and others from odious accusations what should the Legislature do to the Editor of the Montreal Gazette, which has dared to tell the Quebec Legislature that it (the Quebec Legislature) hasplaceditself above the law in making a new law to punish me?Hore is what \u201cThe Montreal Gazette\u201d says in its issue of November 10th instant, page 12:\u2014 \u201cIt can hardly be maintained that a man is detained by the law of the land when, after his being taken into custody and while he is being detained, the law is amended so that he may be punished more severely than the existing statutes allow\u201d.What will the Legislature do about that?The Montreal \u201cGazette\u201d has declared that the Quebec Legislative Assembly has overridden the law, done something that is unlawful, passed a bill that is outside \u201cthe law of the land\u201d.If the Quebec Legislative As-, sembly does not call the! Editor of \u201cThe Montreal Gazette\u201d to the Bar of the House and punish him after imprisoning the Editor of THE AXE merely for saying that \u201cthe names of representatives\u201d of two of its members should be cleared, the public will form its own conclusion.I do not say The l.ontreal Gazette hag violated the dignity or honor of the Legislative Assembly.but compared with what I said The Gazette has committed lese majeste.I am curious to See what the Legislative Assembly will do; so will the public be.JOHN H.ROBERTS.EE \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 pay the widows who lost fifty percent of their capital by investing in Merchants Bank shares, - Someone was responsible for the Merchants Bank catastrophe.The courts have held that it wasn\u2019t the President, that it wasn\u2019t the General Manager.Inasmuch as these two men have had their skirts cleared, it must have been someone else, It strikes us that the public is entitled to know who did it.Where did the eight million dollars go?Who wrecked: the Merchants Bank?Will the whitewashing of Sir Montagu restore to the shareholders of The Merchants Bank the monies which they lost either through the ircom- petency of officials or through Ul ERE \u2019 A .4! 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Perhaps YOUR freedom of thought and speech will be the reason for the next bill which Taschereau will put to his followers and you will go to jail too.Forget Jobn H.Roberts, the Editor of THE AXE.thought of Roberts, the man, Put from your mind all whether you be favorable to him or strongly opposed to him in all his works.Think of yourself, John Brown, citizen.of Canada, and face yourself with the rights and liberties.issue as it affects your own Shall Political Autocrats be allowed to legislate at will against YOUR liberties?Shall politicians, because they are temporarily in majority in Parliament, be mitted to enact such laws against the individual citizen?Shall we permit our Provincial Legislature to create new laws to fit imaginary crimes?Have we come to the time when citizens are to be condemned to prison without trial?If you commit an alleged offence against one of these autocrats, do you wish him to act as your judge, when already his mind is against you?There may be sheep in the Province of Quebec who would stand for Taschereau\u2019s sway to their graves.But those sheep, thank God, are not the People! By this one autocratic act has Lucien Alexandre Taschereau, Premier and Attorney General of the Province of Quebec, signed his political death warrant.The end of his reign is in sight.The handwriting is on the wall! ASHAMED OF BERCOVITCH SAYS MONTREAL JEWESS! Mr.Joseph Morris, The Axe Publishing Co., Montreal.Dear Sir:\u2014 I read with pleagure your article in The Axe of this week, re Mr.Bercovitch's attack on Mr.John H.Roberts.It was as if you had stood behind me and heard what I had said to my people after reading the speech Mr.Bercovitch delivered in the \u201cHouse.\u201d L too, am of the Jewish faith, and to think, a man of Mr.Bercovitch\u2019s standing, and a Jew at that, should become a despot, is beyond forgiveness.On the \u201cSedar\u201d nights of the Passover, we Jews thank God for having delivered us out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, where despots made of life a hell for our ancestors, Does Mr.Bercovitch realize all.| this?Judging from the articles appearing in The Axe, Mr.Roberts seems to me, to be a man with a special mission in life, and that mission is, to clean our City of fts Vice and Dirt.If he can do this, and we Bee he has made a start in the right direction, then verily he is a Hercules, and honour to him.Let him not mind the jackals and beasts of prey that come buzzing and flapping about, for they shall be.weighed \"and found wanting when | | Justice holds out her scales.Let him not be afraid to tell the truth, | not ugly truths dressed up in pretty lies, as 80 many of our \u201chonourable\u201d citizens prefer to do, but truths that can be seen by those that do not care to blind their eyes, m T00 BIG FOR THE CZAR A newspaper article carries the very interesting information that Bonar Law, Britain\u2019s new prime minister, as a boy, wore his father\u2019s trousers made over.Premier Taschereau has been trying to wear the political pants bequeathed to him by.Gouin, for a long time without success, It looks as though he will discard them altogether after the next election, THE AXE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1922 The Editor, The Axe, 20 St.James St, Montreal.Monsieur, Espérant que vous Eveille, éveille ta Eveille, éveille et Apporte, apporte Apporte, apporte JOHN H.NOT LOSING SLEEP OVER TUCKER \u201cReverend Bowman Tucker of the City Mission, gave the Star a flat denial today of the report in a morning paper which stated that he had called upon John H, Roberts in Quebec \u201cap his spiritual adviser.\u201d \u201cI have not been in Quebec and I have had no communication with Quebec,\u201d Mr.Tucker told the Star.\u201cI am too 1 busy with my work here in | Montreal to concern myself with this matter.\u201d From the \u201cStar\u201d.* £ #* We do not imagine that our editor is losing any sleep be- cafise of Mr.Tucker's absence from Quebec.FROM A FRENCH-CANADIAN FRIEND Quebec, 12 Nov, 1922.Pardonnez-moi de ne pouvoir m\u2019exprimer en Votre langue, le peu d'anglais que j'ai ne me permet que de lire.Je demeure à Stadacona, le vi:- lage de Blanche Garneau ; j'ai connu cette jeune fille, ses voisins, ses amis, tous ceux qui l\u2019ont\u2019 connue ici, lisent et s\u2019enthousiasment de votre ournal.Ils m'ont prié d\u2019écrire.Je me suis fait 'écho de leurs sympathies dans cos vers oii je fais parler les aunes de \u2018 droit par où Blanche passait.ments qui nous animent et que vous publierez ces strophes dans votre prochaine édition, nous demeurons vos très assidus lecteurs.LA VOIX DES AUNES Dans le sentier l'herbe a cru; Blanche, tu ne passes plus.Le sable s\u2019ensanglanta.Aiguise, aiguise ta hache! Aiguise, aiguise et qu\u2019on sache! - Le flot, non loin, sanglota.Chantent la brise et le beffroi.Le sang couronne un effroi! O faible voix! Pauvre enfant! Brandis, brandis-la, ta hache ! Brandis, brandis et qu\u2019on sache! O malheur d\u2019être indigent ! Que n\u2019es-tu fil'e de Lord?Frappe, frappe de la hache! Frappe, frappe et que l\u2019on sache! Que le coupable serait mort.a rivière St-Charles : en- aurez égard aux senti- STADACONA.hache! qu'on sache! la hache! et qu\u2019on sache ! ROYAL COMMISSION IS APPOINTED BUT EDTOR I JALED Taschereau acts on AXE demand for an enquiry but the man who asked it goes to jail without trial, and quartered aS Morjically speaking, and then over my corpse two judges are to hold an inquest to see 1 .||whether I deserved such a fate.Bad for the corpse, but worse for those who devised such a scheme! In my present imprisonment it is impossible for me to properly gauge and estimate public feeling, but I have the utmost faith in the People, that they will see and resent this injustice that has been done to me by punishing me first and investigating afterwards.Already | sense the rising move of public indignation that shall make itself effective \u2014 at the polls if not sooner.And that pow- STADACONA, SIMARD'S INQUIRIES WERE MADE QUIETLY Hon.George Simard, Chairman Quebec Liquor Commission.Sir:\u2014If memory does not fail us you promised the public some months ago that you would make exhaustive investigations into the \u201cinside\u201d of the Liquor Commission.We haven't heard any more about jt, and we naturally wonder what became of the promised investigations.Were they ever held?If so, they must have been very private.You must have called George Simard into your office and asked, \u201cEverything alright in \u2018the Liquor business, George?\u2019 and, on receiving an answer in the affirmative, have decided that everything was running so nicely that further investigation was unnecessary, for thepublic has never heard of any great exposures.But, if you did investigate, what did you find out about the Summer Garden?And what could you tell us about Kentucky Bourbon?The latter, we understand turns over at a nice profit.Is that so?THE AXE.\u2018 BEAUTY AND TRUTH | {lm te ee $5,000.00 REWARD P=\" We hereby offer a Reward of Five Thousand Dollars ($5, 000.00) for such information as shall lead to the conviction of the - murderer, or murderers, of Blanche Garneau in the City of Quebec during the year 1920.This reward will be paid to the person who furnishes the - actual information leading to a conviction, as aforesaid, including the officers or members of any police force, detective agency, or other official or semi-official body.All communications referring to this matter, should be addressed to \u201cThe Editor, THE AXE\u201d, 20 St.James Street, Montreal, P.Q., in strict confidence.(Signed), _ THE AXE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED, : | Per John H.Roberts, President.er, public opinion, I am convinced, like an irresist ible flood will sweep into oblivion those responsible for my punishment without trial, punishment under a law which did not exist at the time of my alleged offence! Think of it! They have had to make a law under which to punish me.There was no law by which they could condemn me to jail so they made one.Yes I am now sentenced to twelve months imprison- ment\u2014a punishment which no law provided for at the time of my alleged offence, but which had to be specially devised to fit my case.Well, let me say this, I am glad to suffer in so honorable a cause.I am not suffering much at the moment, beyond the loss of liberty, the separation from my family, and the interference with my work.But if I goto jail for twelve months ] KNOW I SHALL SUFFER.But I shall not quail nor flinch.I shall walk into prison with my head held high, and walk out of prison with my eyes toward the sun and the blue skies, and the same high resolve in my heart that is there now, which is, \u201cto be true to the cause of the nelpless and the weak, whatever the cost to myself.\u201d JOHN H.ROBERTS.Ba gee A Page 4 'V AXE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1922 re tete ee bete À WHERE PLAYERS AND PUBLIC + on ee eee = mentee mn PRINCESS THEATRE Montreal's Amusement Centre.Next Week, Starting Sun.Mat, Nov: 19th Direct from their Phenomenal New York Success VINCENT LOPEZ ORCHESTRA With DEL LAMPE, Director JOE BROWNING \u201cLITTLE DRIFTWOOD\" NORTH & HALLIDAY BURNS & LYNN CLIFFORD & O'CONNOR TAN ARAKIS McCARTON & MORRONE [Cr Kissing à Princess is a pastime few know, an experience thrice thrilling if your rival envies you and threatens\u2014 ; as Black Michael did Rudolf Rassendyl \u2014 make each kiss your laut For particulars about this particular royal caress, see \u201cThe Prisoner | Of Zenda\u201d STARTING SUNDAY, NOV.19th.WONDER-DOG MAKES \u201cSILENT CALL\u201d À WONDERFUL FitM A wonderful story, a wonderful picture and a wonderful cast i the only way in which to describe \u201cThe Silent Call\u201d, the feature film, at Loew's, Never before has there been shown on the screen a play in Which an animal is the star actor who completely overshadows the human cast, actors with big reputation though they be.The photography is excellent and has been taken in the High Sierras of Northern California.The Belgian Police Dog, Strongheart with the stage {name of Flash, is uncannily spontaneous in hig portrayal.Half dog and half wolf, the warring of dual natures is most intriguing and when at the end we see the dog side triumph over that of the wolf and his complete vindication in the eyes of his human companions we heave a sigh of welcomed relief.It is a picture that must be seen by everyone, old and young, dog lover and the reverse, Irrespective of age or sex it is bound to please and send one away all the happier for having seen it.On the stage the headline item of \u201cDancing Shoes\u201d went over big.It is a distinct novelty in which five men and one woman take part.They are finished \u201cSteppers\u201d, not dancers and possess tuneful voices.Rudinoff offers a good show with his Smoke Pictures and Birdlike Whistling.A little less talking and more work would be a great improvement.Dan Downing and \u201cBuddy\u201d get over well with songs and violin selections.\u201cBuddy's\u201d repertoire is most extensive and he is able without difficulty to respond to the demands made upon his versatility.Newport, Stirk and Parker, in songs and dances, are good vaudeville entertainers.The little lady is one of the most dainty dancers and songsters I have seen in Montreal, Gibson and Price make good with a variety of items.The Comedy Picture is a rea! comedy and continuous laughter greeted its appear ance, Current News completed\u201d the bill, J.M.£5 3 Starting Sunday Night, Nov.19 THE BEST SHOW of His Remarkable \u2018Career SAM HOWE «Himself and His.JOYS OF LIFE With A Wonderful Chorus and à Riot of Merriment.J ti sde es es ds + == \\ THE SYSTEM NEXT DOOR TO HENRY MORGAN'S Popular Prices \u2014 BIG DOUBLE BILL \u2014 Popular Prices Commencing Sunday, Nov.19th, and all the Week FOOLISH WIVES The Million Dollar Picture that took 23 months to make.Extra Added Attraction.THE RADIO KING A Topical Chapter Play of the Present time.Teeming with Excitsment \u2014 Romance \u2014 Adventure - pS cr mga pee re es Sh sien canbe dep TEI ; eT \u201d , out obvious incidents.bold, bad, predatory financial f'sh- ville items are fair to good.ing\u201d.Mit LYLE KVANS.A crever ana popular member of the Robins Players at the Orpheum.REX BEACH FILM AT IMPERIAL SPLENDID The Rex Beach story \u201cThe Iron Trail\u201d which is the basis of the feature film at the Tmperial this week, is both dramatic and inter esting.It contains the essential features of a big picture-romance adventure and the battle of strong men, one a dishonest railroad fin ancier and the other all that is honorable and upright.Wyndham Standing who plays the part of Murray O'Neil, the hero, acts with] force and convincing sincerity, though at times he unduly draws The outstanding portrayal is that of Thurston Hall, who as Curtis Gordon the erman, is more than good.His characterization of a man wrought up to brain snapping pont and his subsequent representation of a strong man brought mentally to the avert depths of weaknes: 13 heart rending and causes a wonderful revulsion of feeling in his favor.The photography is high up film work and the locale of ot main incidents gives every opportunity of putting over big stuff of which Ped tull advantage is taken.It is the best picture seen at the Imperial for many a long day.The vaude- The outstanding item is that of Lewis and Norton, who in a four scene playlet gave evidence of acting ability and sparkling dialogue.The male character shouldered a great responsibility in which he was in no wise assisted by the lady.Tfuth to tell the lady almost kiled the show through her insensate giggling The Braminas are a pair of clever musical clowns.1 laughed heartily at their act, in which \u201cMusical Draughts\u201d and the \u201cSkit on Caval leria Rusticana\u201d stood out boldly as good work, Roy Conlin is a ventriloquist, and having said that [ have said all.Claire Vincent comes with a big reputation which she did not sustain in her playlet which is billed as \u201cA Smart Offer Her exaggeration of characterization almost made the act ridiculous.Craig Campbell is as described, \u201cA Distinguished American Tenor\u201d, with an extensive repertoire.He went well, as did also Hector MacCarthy who had charge of the piano, Flaherty and Stoning have a good act which consists of dog walloping, songs, dances and comedy talk, Altégether the pro gram is solid and should satisfy Imperial patrons to the full.\u2018 JM PE The Axe is published by John H.Roberts añd printed by The Axe Publishing .Company, Limited, 30 a ances reviewed.They are not same: 11 SE ans NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC THE AXE's reviews of plays and other entertainments are written by members of its staff after witnessing the perform.supplied by the management ef any theatre, nor is their intertion paid by anybody.The printing of theatrical reviews is a rervice to the public and all such reviews are strictly impartial, unfettered, and ndependent.\u201cMARJOLAINE\u201d IS A \u2018CHARMING TIT-BIT No word of praise can be 160 warm to do justice to the dainty eharm of \u201cMarjolaine,\u201d which the management of His Majostys hans bfought to Montreal this week.Thin musical version of \u201cPomander Walk\u201d is a sweetly pretty little thing, charming in ita setting, in its musical numbers, and refreshingly \u201cnice\u201d fn its dialogue.\u201cMarjolaine\u201d is presented by à clever cast the principals of which play the parts In keeping with the story, while the chorus is dainty and graceful on the feminine side, and harmonious un the masculine, It is a show which everyone who can possibly do so.should see.Mins Virginin O'Brien and Miss Marian Mears play thet, girlish roles very cleverly.Those is about these two young ladies un appreciation of the parts which they play which make the characters which they portray, live, Each has a charmingly ingenuous manner, and a pleasing voice.Lennox Pawle, ns Jerome Brooke-Hoskins has the same role which he played in the original \u201cPomander Walk,\u201d which I have never seen.But in \u201cMarjolaine' he leaves nothing to be desired and plays his comedy part perfect Frank Moulan as the admiral is a fine od sea-dog.Arthur Geary, tenth Baron Otford, is a lusty baritone of strong stage personality, who plays lover to Madame Lachesajs (Ida Brooks Hunt) in true-to-char- acter style.Tex Carter as the young hero, Lieutenant Jack Sayle, though strange to the part, carries it off finely.Particulariy is Royal Cutter splendid as the Rev.Jacob Sternroyd.But it isn\u2019t the sort of thing where the acting of the players can be] singled out individaully, I cannot say \u201cGo and see Virginia O'Brien,\u201d.or \u201cYou should hear Lennox Pawle's comedy lines.\u201d \u2018 It is the spaikle and charm of \u201cMarjolaine\u201d coupled with the ability of the entire cast, not some of its component parts, which make it \u201cone of the best\u201d.L M.R.MISS FOSTER SCORES WITH \u201cNICE PEOPLE\u201d Certainly the play \u201cNice opte\u201d presented this week at the Orpheum is better than the book or the film, for ip it we have the smart _ and brilliant dialogue spoken by \u201cnice people\u201d in an interesting manner, Miss Claiborne F n.as the wayward daughter o millionaire who, through standing on her dignity and demanding recognition of her \u201crights,\u201d gets into a horrible mess socially, is most charming/ and convincing in her portrayal.Mr.Robins, who us the millionaire really looked the part, was just what I should imagine a mail of that type would be when he endeavoured to assume the role of the heavy father, the sort of man that imagines money can buy everything.The honours of the evening were however shared by Miss Margaret Lewis and Mr.Lyle Evans, Who in their-respective roles| of Margaret Rainsford and Trevor Leeds \u2018did excellent work with very difficult parts.The rest of the cast were also good and the continuous applause of a crowded house showed how much the play was to the liking of the-house patrons.I have purposely refrained from giving even a brief synopsis of the story believing much enjoyment is lost by a discursive description of the motif of any play.The Orpheum should, with such an offering, play to capacity and increase its Ust of.regular va- St.Janses, Street, Montreal, git ig v rere EE TES ads À eo trons- séniors sl 1.Le a ; ra ee > { A GOOD, CLEAN SHOW AT GAYETY THEATRE A thoroughly enjoyable burlesque fs \u201cKnick Knacks\u201d being given this week at the Gayety.It does not possess one blue spot but nsvertheless it gets over well, Surely from this the manager and producers will understand that cleanliness in an entertainment will pull as well as the other class of offering.The action is al! good, the musical numbers tunefui and the dances graceful.The star artists all play their respective parts in manner that stamp_ them as real \u201cBurlesquers\u201d and the chorus makes a most pleasing background for the principair.It would be invidious to make a selection of the headliner he- cause both men and women y.| were far above the average one expects in a road company.With artistica ly colorfuj costumes the ensemble numbers were more than pleasing.In particular would I draw attention to \u201cThe Fountain of Youth\u201d It was an artistic treat and got what it deserved \u2014bountiful applause, Manager Garfield is to be congratulated on the entertainment and a continuation of burlesques on these lines spells a period of exceptional prosperity.J.M.\u201cTWO FLAGS\u201d FILM IS BETTER THAN BOOK The feature film this week at the Capitol is one that will make great appeal to all movie fans with a lean- the lure of the East.\u201cUnder Two Flags\u201d is an adaption of the famous Victorian novel of the same name by \u201cOuida,\u201d with this difference, it has at the hands of the sceneraio writer and producer been made into a great story.The mistakes which appear in all books by the women writers of the Victorian era have been wiped away, and a coherent powerful and convincing story has \u2018been evolved.With Pricilla Dean, as Cigarette, we versatility who \u2018without exaggeration makes every point a cameo-like delineation.The supporting work of James Kirkwood, Ethel Grey Terry and Stuart Holmes leaves nothing td be desired.The settings are most gorgeous and realistic bringing home to the untraveled the wonders of Life in the East with its minute to minute intrigues and passion.From a plo.tographic point of view it is a magnificent production and as a story well told and well acted it must assuredly take front rank in recent releases.It is a picture that must be seen both by those who have read the book and also those who have only heard of the etory through the megnderings of their parents or maybe grandparents.Thé~ atmospheric prologue is in keeping with the excellence of the photoplay.Miss Ivy Scott and Arnold Becker vocally portray the evieve Finny gives an Oriental dance.finish to an excellent program.~ IE .Car cee od ing towards romance, advetture and .are shown a atar \u2018of extraordinary .love and jealousy scenes and Gen-' The Felix Cat\u2018Comedy, is : riotously funny and makes & good N.> A .lover.\u201c.number five, are all of the \u2018high \u2018Atandard appertaining to this house \u201cof entertainment: 1,11.1e ho, THE AXE.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1922 MEET AS PARTNERS Page 5 ALL FEATURE EVENTS OF THE SHOWS AND THE PIGTURES FOR NEXT WEEK - A.ca EAST NOTICE TO THE PUBL:C:\u2014 THE AXE'S advance notices of shows and entertainments are written by members of its staff from material supplied by the management of theatres, supplemented as far as possible by facts within the writer's personal knowledge.The AXE does not print any advatce notice supplied by press agents, although it does not criticise any other papers which do so nor condemn the system of supplying such notices to papers, \u2019 ow * Le THE ORPHEUM Next week at the Orpheum theatregoers will have the first opportunity of witnessing Eugene Walter's daring play.\u201cThe Easiest Way\u201d The story of \u201cThe Easiest Way\u201d is interesting and sensational from the rise of the first curtain on the Mountain tops in Colorado until it finally descends on the last act in the high-class apartment in New York City.Mr, Walters when he wrote this play did not mince matters, he called a spade a spade and the outcome of his efforts was this masterpiece, The announcement of the contemplated presentation by the Robins Players of \u201cThe Easiest Way\u201d has already caused many in.quirfes to be made regarding seut reservations.Mr, Robins hag the original prompt book and the scenic inventiture wil be an exceptionally important one, Miss Claiborne Foster will assume the role of Laura Murdock, while Mr.Robins and Robert Craig will be seen to advantage and be ably supported by the balance of the Company.\u2014 \u2014 .THE PRINCESS The headline at the Princess next week wliil be occupied Ly the Vincent Lopes Orchestra, an organisation of nine players Who\" present an offering which will run the gamut of music from jazz to classicck This company has been playing in, and about New York for gome time, and comes fresh from a three weeks run at the Palace Theatre, It, is a company much along the line of the Ibach and Meroff band which played tho Princess some weeks ago.Joe Browning a monologuist, holds second place on the bill.He calls his turn \u201cA Timely Sermon\u201d.\u201cLittle Driftwood\u201d, with Florence Gast and four male partners is a dancing show.Will Burns and Ed Lynn's act is described in their own words, tunes, tickles and taps.There is a whirlwind dancing team, McCarton and Morrone.Frank North and Will Halliday will present \u201cBack to Wellington,\u201d Elsa Clifford and Charles O'Connor have a song and'|- dance stunt which they call \u201cThe New Pupil\u201d.A company of Jap athletes, Tan Arakis, will complete the bill.And there you are, ' LOEW'S THEATRE Thé Fifth Anniversary Week at Loew's.will open with a great program.The feature film, which is styled \u201cThe Man Who Saw Tomorrow\u201d is a novelty in which Thomas Meighan is starred with Leatrice Joy who are supported by a chat of excellence,\u2019 consisting of Theodore Roberts, June Elvidge, Eva Novak and Jobn Miltern.Color, romance and adventure there is in abundance with, an unusual construction.Popular appeal is heightened by the settings, a fleeting panorama of South Sea atmosphere, ship scenes and the conventional beauty of New York homes, The photography 18.good, The story shows & man with the assistance of a psychic professor looking on what his life will be if he marries either of two women.Hig decision is brought about by the unexpected turning up of one of them.It ehould be an interesting picture and one well worth seeing.In addi- \u201c