The Axe, 28 septembre 1923, vendredi 28 septembre 1923

[" a % SE ik THE CREAM OF THE NEWS IN TABLOID.HARVESTER DELEGATION EXPOSES C.P.R.THE AXE NEWS PICTURES Voi, 11 \u2014 Ne.38 J MONTREAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1933 Annual subscription, $2.00 SEE PAGE 3) FEATURES Price: 5 conte SHOW GIRL BAGS LOCAL FLIER CAPT.J.N.POOLE WINS BEAUTY OF \u201cPASSING SHOW\u201d Pink Teacups Tinkle Merrily Over Achieve-|; ment Of Former Army Flier Whose Family Leaps To Welcome Daughter-in-Law Dancer to tear the parental hair and disown the heir when he decides to dress himself up in morning coat regalia and present himself in marriage to some cute lady of the stage.Montreal society is agog over its discovery of an exception to the general rule in the romance of young Captain John Norman Poole and dainty Elsie May Holloway, danseuse with I has long been a custom in the \u201cour better families\u201d class the \u201cPassing Show of 1923\u201d New York.TO WED WITH BLESSING Announcements emanating from Broadway where Miss Holloway's dancing has scored a decided hit, are to the effect that the nymph of the footlights and the son of the former Managing Director of Ogilvy's Department store, Montreal, will shortly wed and will make thelr home here with the full blessing of Mr.and Mrs.J.A.C.Poole, parents of the groom-to-be.Seeds of the Holloway-Poole romance were sown in London, in the hey-day of the War when the gal- Jant Captain Poole, then a well known figure in Royal Flying Corps ciroles, saw a dainty maid captivating patrons of one of the musical comedies of the day.The charming miss was Elsie May Holloway, then just a slip of a girl, e Introductions were arranged.Acquaintance blossomed into friendship, and friendship into the romance which will be made permanent when the parson ties the knot to end the career of Elsie May Holloway and bring into being Mrs, John Norman Poole.ELSIE CHARMS BROADWAY Only last Spring Miss Holloway oame to New York from her beloved London, having accepted a contract with the Shuberts to appear in one of their musical shows on Broadway.On arrival she became a mem- der of the cast of \u201cThe Passing Show of 1928\" and has since charmed patrons -of the Winter Garden with her dainty dancing and charming stage-presence.Though New York proved pleased to make the .acquaintance of the svelte little English star, one Can- Fe\" agian at least was more than elated to hear the news that Elle \u201cor now at the Winter Garden, had \u201ccome to town\".Captain Poole, who, it is sald, had long sung the praises of the fair Elsie May in smart west- end society soon arranged that an invitation be extended to her-to visit Montreal as the guest of his parents who, according to the captain's mother, have both \u201cfallen in love\u201d with the dainty little stage-star, making the Poole family verdict unanimous.\u2018When questioned over the telephone, Mrs, Poole proved to be most emphatic in her statements that all Is well neath the Poole family roof- tree, \u201cBoth Captain Poole's father and I have met Miss Holloway,\u201d she said, \u201cand we have both fallen in love with her charm and sweetness.We are more than happy to think that our son will marry such a sweet girl\u201d WESTMOUNT ALL A-DITHER Captain Poole, the intended groom, could not be reached at his office this week as he is away from the city on an extended business trip through the Maritime Provinces in connection with the Poole Company, Manufacturers\u2019 which he is head.It is stated, however, that the I wedding bells will not ring for at least two months, after which Miss Holloway will forsake the glare of the footlights forever, to don the: garb of simple \u201clittle Mrs.Poole\u201d.In the meantime Westmount so- clety chitters and chatters over its teacups about the gallant young of- ticer and the trig little actress who will shortly become co-citizens of Cupid Wins Over Stage Agents, of the ultra-conventional suburb.TAWDRY CHARITY-MONGERS MISS ELSIE MAY HOLLOWAY Dainty charmer with Shuberts\u2019 \u201cPassing Show\u201d way has signed a contract with Cupid Productions Inc.and wil shortly become member of fashionable Westmount family.Captain J.Norman Poole, her husband-to-be first met Miss Holloway when she was appearing in musical comedy in London, on Broad- England, during the war and he was on leave from France, where he saw long service as an aviator.Ë [another girl and bragged Kissed, Bragged; Lost Wife E « » BROSSEAU, of Mont.real has won the pseudonym from his wife of being not only, \u201cThe Man Who Kissed and Told\u201d, but \u201cThe Man Who Kissed and Bragged About It.\u201d Perhaps Mrs.Brosseau, formerly Celina Marcil, would not have objected to the bragging or the kissing had she been the one he kissed and bragged abput.But, as she tells the court in the suit for separation which she has just filed, he kissed that he wouldn't kiss his wife.BRAGS TOO MUCH \u201cHe brags that he does not and has never loved me,\u201d Mrs.Brosseau declares, \u201cand he treats me with contempt.He tells others that he does not want to live with me and to show me how much he dislikes me he will have nothing to do with me.For the past four or five months he has been chasing around with a young girl and he has been telling his friends that he loves her passionately.\u201d NOT PURELY PLATONIC Furthermore Mrs.Brosseau has sworn that Brosseau's sentiments 9 toward the unnamed girl are not purely platonic and that she 4 willing to prove her allegations to.the hilt, should her husband fight her application, In addition to wanting her free« dom, Mrs, Brosseau has asked the court to intervene and prevent her husband from dismantling theik home.The court has authorised her ta proceed with the suit.| Unuttered Wedding Vow Shatters Home HEN Ludovic Gravel stante mered \u201cI do\u201d, just four A years ago in the little st parish church, he added under his : | breath \u201c.not intend to work any ¥ | more,\u201d according to the blushing little girl who stood by his side onl that.day.And that, she has intimated in the separation suit which she has filed against him in the local courts, is the only one of his nuptial pledges which he has kept.It took him, she claims, just six months to des.cide that she was not the only woe man in the world for him and t@ reach the conclusion that if a wow.man's work is never done, her cone tribution to the family toll should be sufficient for the two of them.' \u201cHe has always refused to wotlk,\u201d she declares, \u201cdepending upon the money that I earned to live on and loaf, I have had to go out to work but I have suffered his sarcasm snd his \"chronic laziness with patience for long enough.\u201d Possibly she has.The court has decided to allow her to enter hew formal bid for release.; SEE PAGE \u20189 tv a gr nT no RER Tati § ! vE Page 2 Singing B ONDAY night me and several hundred other ravin\u2019 mantas sat back In our chairs at Mr.Columbia Circuit's Gayety Theatre and went stark mad while à gent name of John Quigg squeezed id yanked en an accordeon, us nishing suitable accompaniment {@ Welkin-Ringers, This Mr.Quizg is à good actor, Out the fifteen hundred other enthusiasts present were every bit as good as Mr.Quigg himself, and by shrieking, stamping, tearing up their wife's hat, and pulling chadrs loose from the floor ably assisted the musical Quigg to put his act over big.The result was that Mr.Quizs, whose program nickname is \u201cName it\u2019 and he'll play it\u201d, successfully stopped the show for fifteen minutes, This Quigg first off comes out and flays the accordine for a few tunes reaping considerable enthusiastic gestures from the throng, following which he begs the patrons to help him out by singing with him as he plays.After this the customers arc supposed to go bafly and do so, calling on John for their favorite numbers, severu! even going so far as to stand right up in their chairs and chortle a varied assortment of mammy songs, sweet poppa numbers, and baliads about their dear old dad.It's one long yell ! There's also à great many other people gracvin® the stage with con- giderable eo-lat, including Billy Gilbert, a gentleman who weighs in at three hundred and fifty lbs and fourteen laughs per second, assisted by a short bird described on,the handbills as Bobby Wilson, whose main rot Venetian Gardens DANCING Entertainment Unexcelled Cuisine Entirely Redecorated for the Opening of the Autumn Season, THE JANET SISTERS Dancers de Luxe Now Featuring THE CABARET.602 St.Catherine West UP: 9446.THE AXE, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER, 28th., 1923.\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Little Miss Twinkletoes Show When ug Breaks Out stock in trade is a sweet and childlike grin which got on the customers\u2019 nerves to such an extent that they bust right out laughing every time they seen him The two Marks Brothers, sons of Mr, Trade Marks, also draw thelr share of cheers with a apeclalty number in which they appear with thelr faces all dirty, masquerading as à pair of stage negroes.They sang something beautiful, the first brother, Mr.German Marks, displaying one of tho largest ringing mouths cast of the Great Lakes, Pauline Glenmarr, who admits that she is from Montreal this week, dawnced divinely and sang two or three jazzy numbers alded and abetted by one of the niftiest sets of chorines seen locally since the flood.Miss Emma Wilson ditto, bar the dancing, while Miss Hazel Alger had one song about \u201cgirls that men forget\u201d that curries a real message, hoke though it is.At the end of the show, Sidney \u2018age, à well dressed young fellow, stepped out and declared that the girls was wrangling something terrible about which is the most pretty and charming of the crowd, and that to settle the discussion the ladies would parade before the throng and let the applause settle the difficulty.On Monday night the decision was a tie between Mr.Bobby Wilson and Mr.Billie Gilbert.I forgot to tell you that the name of the show is \u201cThe Radio Girls\u201d.Nobody knows why, but a competition will probably be held some night goon to let the audience settle this international question likewise, L.M.R.later, Betty has a cunning little own, Young Stars S l Miss Marjorie Dow as the house- ea Honors keeper had not much to do, but she made the domestic a creation.t the Imperial The Four Dancing Madcaps come from England and they can stay T boys who are last on the|over here as long as they like.program ran away with the/Sandy Shaw is another importa- honors of the bill at the Im- |tion\u2014he's from Scotland\u2014and has perial at the opening perform- [enough ability to strike away from ance this week, Their names are|the Harry Lauder stuff.He sold Combe and Nevins, and they himself well and the crowd liked are just singers.One of them |him, as 1 did.Rich Hayes is a (if its not Combe, its Nevins ;|juggler and an oddity.He evened and if not Nevins than its Combe) |up things all around.He's good, plays the plano in accompaniment| The feature picture is, \u201cThe Unof the songs they sing.Both boys |tameable\u201d, with Gladys Walton.If are full to the brim of personality, |I had such a wife I'd shoot her.But they possess singing \u201cvoices that are |its a picture of thrills galore, ungrateful and comforting, and they |usuality, and fine photography.somehow so fake the audience into| A good, high class program of tip their confidence when they sing that|top vaudeville that would be hard you feel you want to listen to them |to beat for variety, entertainment all night.They stopped the show, |value, and snap.that is to say that instead of everybody getting up and going out when the headline act had finished, they stayed bang to the end to hear this, new Van and Schenck.Watch them! Newest Orchestra For Venetian Termed Howard and Ross gave an amaz- \u201cMusical Knockout\u201d ing exhibition of kill on their banjoes, Gee, How they made those Everybody up at the Venetian Gardens is in a high state of pep banjoes speak! I have never heard such fine music from the instru- just at present about a new band.It looks like the hit of the year if ment before.The operatic selections, with Miss Ross's impersona- the reports which are sifting in from Colonel McNeil over the long dis- tions were unsurpassable, Nash and O'Donnell have a great sketch in \u201cMama's Car\u201d, and they get every ounce out of every line in [tance telephone go for aught.The it.They held the audience laugh- band will be in on Monday, and of- ing, laughing, and then\u2014laughing.ficlals at the garden declare that it is just naturally going to be the best thing in music which ever graced the Venetian or any other Montreal JAY AITCH.ALCAZAR BIG DOUBLE BILL.Specialties Between Big 3 Hour Show Matinee: 10c.and 15c.Ask anyone who a 2nd BIG WEEK 1038 St.Catherine Street East, CO: IMENCING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th.- _ Biggest and best Show in Montreal for the money.A big Change in the Running of the Theatre.A Suitable Place for the Best People.COME ONCE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.week, while the heavy end of the entertainment program is still being carried by those two dainty maidens the Janet Sisters, Eddie Cantor\u2019s protegees who have proved so delighting to Venetian patrons for the past week or two, spot, ~for that matter.° E Menzies Band is filling the bill this THEATR Young Understudy Startles Broadway In Leading Role 15 Reels of Pictures Picture Presentationsfor One Admission.Miss Symona Boniface is the latest actress to startle New York.She was engaged to understudy Mary Newcombe in \u201cThe Woman of the Jury\u201d and was told in the afternoon of her first day at Che theatre that she would have to go into the part \u201ccold\u201d that night, as Miss Newcombe had just received word that her husband was seriously ill in the west.She was given fifteen minutes.for rehearsal and to pick up the plot of the plece after which she stepped into the part and carried her role Evening: 15c.and 25c, ttended this Week.through with flying colors.MISS BETTY WALTON The latest addition to The Bagdad's entertainment bill, whose dancing ranks her among the cleverest of cabaret performers.It's a secret yet, but someone will whisper it about sooner or French accent that is really her Alcazar Gets Novel Effects On Silver Screen Js a little east of Papineau Avenue on St.Catherine Street you will find The Alcazar Theatre.Around it there's quite a big English colony, Some of the best people in Montreal live thereabouts, fine, sturdy, home-loving folks, the best typg of the workers, I found a good representation of them in The Alcazar on my first visit to it, a few days ago.Mr.B.M.Garfield, late manager of the Gayety, has taken the house over, redecorated it, put in new moving picture machines, screens, etc, got himself a nice little orchestra together, and it looks as if he's going to put The Alcazar on the entertainment map of Montreal, I don\u2019t know the explanation of it but I had a singular experience as I sat and watched the pictures in The Alcazar, Perhaps Mr, Gartield has a new method of screening films.I know not.But every picture looked to me as if it were projected through a stereopticome The characters and objects in the picture stood out so distinctly and the pictures had such an air of reality about them that I felt as if I were watching living people and things.Go and see for yourself.It may be the new machines they are using; or especially good projection, but I have never seen such good screening anywhere the world around.re \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 DRAMA=VAUDEVILLE=PICTURES John Quigg And Audience Stop Gayety splendid xylphone elections and the Masinos, futhor and son, with violin and plano, gave intense onjoyment to the audience, The feature pleture was, \u201cLost and Found on a South Non Isle\u201d, and there were other features and comics, and a news reel, and all for 15 conts und 25 cents, Well, that's gront stuff, well within the reach of most folks, and jolly good ontertainment.I'd like us all to rally \u2018round Mr.Garfield at The Alcazar, If wo do, 1 prophesy the East End in going fo have an up-to-date place of amusement that some day will make the West End yellow with envy, JAY AITCH, Van and Schenck Will Not Part Company Van and Schenck will not part company as reported In a theatrical paper.Quite the contrary, according to their manager, \u201cSquarcdenl\u201d Grady, who says they will be scen in the Collier-Bernard revue when that show opens later in the season, N.Y.and Chicago Vaudeville Raises $75,000 for Japs Vaudeville Theatres in New York and Chicago alone contributed seventy five thousand dollars to the Japanese Relief Fund in the cight days following the news of the Yoko- hama-Tokyo catastrophe, while vaudeville theatres all over the cone tinent will swell the figure to a sum which will run into the hundreds of thousands.E.F.Albee of the Keith theatres will donate the sum so raised to the Red Cross Society, of which he is a prominent member.COMMENCING SUNDAY Exclusive Showing of Dempsey - Firpo Fight Pictures All Important Points Shown with aid of Slow-Motion Camera.JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE Vivid, interesting scenes of the disaster\u2014stricken country.6 Acts B.F.KEITH POPULAR PRICED VAUDEVILLE, Vera Burt & Saxi Holtsworth And their Harmony Hounds, in a lively melange of Song, Dance and Music.Henry B, Toomer & Esther Day With \u201cA Very Bad Cold\" ARTHUR LLOYD Humorous Card Index POTTER & GAMBLE Sparkling with Youth and Personality.Marguerite LORNER GIRLS Rhea Two Dancing Sweethearts of - Vaudeville.Two of a Kind.Arthur FRAZER And BUNCE Harry \u201cThe Fellow That Looks Like Me.\u201d Afternoons (Except Sats., Sunand Holidays), 2Be.Evenings, Sats, Suns., Holidays, 45c., 60c, Mr.Eugene Fisher gave some BAGDAD ==; DANCING \u2014 ENTERTAINMENT 9.30 P.M.To Closing Specialising in After Theatre Supper; Now Playing LINO MONTE, the Superb Italian Tenor Miss ELSIE THEVENARD, Montreal's Popular Young Soprano, Miss BETTY WALTON, in delightful captivating dances, GARRETT'S HARMONY MEN\u2019S ORCHESTRA IRRESISTIBLE TO LOVERS OF DANCING, Reservations: Up 8975.Saturday Thé Dansant, 4 to 6.30 p.m., 75 cents per person, 186 PEEL ST.Couvert charge, $1.00. \u2018Sagkatchewan, where_ TELL \u201cTHE THE AXE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28th, 1928.PLUNDERED HARVESTERS STORY DISILLUSIONED MEN AXE\" HOW C.P.R.RUINED THEM (.P.R.advertisements guaranteeing $4.00 a day and \u201c10 jobs to every man\u201d led thousands to come to Canada from England hoping to build new homes for families.GOV'T TO PAY FARES BACK cc HE Canadian Pacific Railway Company's importation T of Old Country harvesters was nothing but a get-rich- quick scheme to rob poor men of their savings and to cajole men in England and Scotland to come here on an alleged \u201copportunity\u201d which did not exist,\u201d declares James Shapero of Glasgow, who with a large band of fellow-harvesters is now quartered at Immigration Headquarters, St.Antoine Street awaiting return, at the Canadian Goverment\u2019s expense to the Old Country.Shapero and twenty fellow Britishers have visited THE AXE this week as a deputation from the large body of Old Country Harvesters now in Montreal.C.P.R.GUARANTEED WORK.Practically all the ex-harveslers who have found tueir way east teil the same story as Shapero, \u201c| came to Canada,\u201d he declares, \u201con the strength of C.P.Radvertisements in Glasgow and vicinity.Flaming posters guaranteed thirty days work to any man, skilled or unskilled, for the harvest season in the Canadian West at a minimum wage of four dollars a day.These posters declared that Canada was \u201cA land of milk and honey,\u201d \u201cGod's Own Country\u201d with \u201cTen Jobs to Every Man\".One advt.that attracted particular attention depicted a harvester holding a sheaf of grain under one arm while in his free hand he carried a bag of gold pieces.\u201cSuch advertisements led thousands to inquire how to get to this \" Jand of plenty,\u201d Shapero continued.\u201cInquiry from the C.P.R.agent named on these posters elicited the information that harvesters could travel to Winnipeg for £12-0-0, ($60.00) plus railway fare from Glasgow to Liverpool.Some were told that over and above the sixty dollars for fares they would not need more than fifty cents in their pockets on arrival -at Winnipeg, as work was so plentiful that farmers would be swarming the trains seeking men to help them with the crops, FIRED WITH ROSY DREAMS.\u201c\u201cTo cite my own case,\u201d Shapero continued, \u201cthe C.P.R.advertising fired me witht dreams of building a home for my growing family far away from the grimy city where we lived.When I called on the C.P.Rman in Glasgow he painted such a rosy picture of the opportunities waiting for any man \u201cwilling to work\u201d that I scraped together what money I could for my fare and came to your \u2018God's Country\".\u201cOn arrival at Winnipeg _I took the advice of the C.P.R, man at the station and went on to Yorkton, I was told there was work a- -plenty.On the day of our arrival at Yorkton a few farmers wandered into the Labour Exchange at noon and five men out of ten were hired for stooking at three fifty a day.When no other work was offering, the Labour BEx- change than advised me to slip down to Lansenburg as he declared that men were wanted there.C.P.R\\ GETS LAST DOLLAR.\u201c1 hastened to Lansénburg, giving the C.P.R.my last dollar and a half as railway fare.There I was hired by a farmer as stooker, my pay to be three dollars and a half a day, not the four dollars guaranteed by \u2018the C.P.R.\u2019s advertising posters.4] tackled my stooking job, and am perfectly willing to admit that | was not a skilled hand.| didn't coms as a skilled hand.The C.P.R.said there was work for unskilled men at $4 a day, which is what Bad brought me from the Old.Country.\u201cAbout noon of my first day the farmer I was working for came along and said \u2018You'll have to work faster than that.As we went to dinner he called to me again \u2018Speed up, or I'll have to part with you\u2019.\u201cAt four he came to where I was working and said \u2018I'll have to find & stronger man\u2019.Well, I tried to put on more steam, with the result that 1 collapsed on the field at my work, and was fired from the job, and was told to move on, \u201cCan't I stay the night?I asked.\u2018No! Get out!\u2019 declared my employer.Well, I didn't feel, like mpending the night on the road, as I didn\u2019t even know my way about, so I made the farmer a proposition to remain with him at $2 a day instead of the $3.50 he had promised me, and he accepted.It was just an idea on my part to get a night's sleep there.1 spent the night o.k.but in the morning I told the farmer that I was through and that I had just made my bargain the night before to get a chance to sleep there, \u201cI then walked five miles back to Lansenburg and there I found work with another farmer.SHORT CHANGED BY FARMER \u201cMy pay was to be four dollars a day as driver of a team of horses.I went out to his farm and next day was put to work.I stooked in the morning and in the afternoon drove a team for the threshing.For three days, Thursday, Friday \u2018and Saturday I worked at the job and on Saturday night, Simpson came Jand said \u2018I'm going to pay you off!\u2019 He then offered me $5.00 for my three days work, I said \u2018You promised me $4 a day\u2019.He replied \u2018Take the nine or leave it\u2019 .I said \u2018I claim $12.00 Mr., and he said \u2018You get no more than nine.If you don't take that you' H.get .all\u2019 \u201cI finally took the nine dollars and asked him if it would be satisfactory to stay at the farm until morning.as it was then after dark.He promptly replied \u2018You .off out of here and .quick.I refused to go and he called his two sons and they were going to put me out.\u201c| went, That night | slept by the roadside and got to Lansenburg at 6 a.m.| had exactiy the nine dollars | had just earmed and the C.P.R, took $8.25 of it right away from me for my fare to Winnipeg.\u201cAt Winnipeg I met hundreds in like straits and many of us complained to the Trades and Labor Council with the result that we went with a deputation to.Thomas Gelley, Government Immigration Commissioner to ask what could be done about repatriation.SAYS \u201cYOU WON'T WORK\u201d, \u201cGelley said \u2018You harvesters don't want to work.There's plenty for everybody.\u2019 1 demanded to be sent home on the grounds that the C.P.Rhad - brought me to Canada on ab- \u2018|solute falee pretences, in promising me steady harvest work at a mini-|' mum of four dollars à âay.\u2018Gelleÿ sald We couldn't send you « ca that Page 3 een = 2 \u201cCANADA\u201d SPELLS \u201cHELL\u201d TO THESE MEN.HARVESTERS' DELEGATION WHICH VISITED THE AXE, Tweniy-one Old Country Harvesters, imported by the Canadian Pacific Railway, who acted as a delegation to THE AXE, to expose misrepresentation under which they were brought to Canada.The majority of the \u201cC.P.R.Imported\u201d harvesters gave up jobs and expended their savings to come to \u201cThe Land of Milk and Honey.\u201d They go home jobless and broke, basis, but we might deport you on grounds of {ll health.I refused to face any doctor's examination as my health had been passed on as 0.k.at Halifax, yet they fixed up my papers on that ground, despite the fact that I underwent no examination, \u201cSent on to Montreal, I am being deported to Scotland, presumably as an undesirable citizen, just to give the Canadian Pacific a clean bill of health.CANADA, THE UNDESIRABLE \u201cI know one thing,\" Shapero concluded, \u201cand that is that I was no undesirable when I had money for steamship and railway fares.At Halifax on landing the Immigration doctors never even looked at us, But now that we are made destitute by the C.P.R.grounds of ill health are cooked up against us and men who never had a black mark against them in all their lives are being shipped out of Canada to England and Scotland as undesirable citizens.\u201cThe only undesirable thing 1 have seen since | left home is Canada!\u201d SOUR MILK, NO HONEY Other returning Old Countrym n who visited the offices of THE AXE as members of the deputation tell similar stories of their experiences in the C.P.R's \u201cLand of Milk and Honey\u201d, furniture and moved his family into one room to raise money to come to Canada to get a new start \u2018in \u201cGod's Country\u201d and bring his family out later.He was hired near Winnipeg at $3 a day but only received $1 a day for three days work.Richard Elliott, Glasgow, says \u201cI borrowed money and came here on the strength of C.P.R.propaganda and promises and now must go home and work to try and pay my debts.\u201d Maurice Brodie, Glasgow, left a job at home and borrowed money to come to the place where men earned nearly a pound a day\u2014on the C.P.R, posters.NO JOB, NO CASH.B.Tanner of London, gave up his job and spent all his savings of five years to come to the Colonies and make a fortune, Now he has neither job nor fortune and is going home broke.J.C.Purdie of Hamilton, near \u2018Glasgow, says that he forfeited his army pension by coming out here to starve on C.P:R.promises, Frank Fuller, single of London, admits that he was unemployed but spent the last of his savings to come to Canada's golden opportunity.A, Stanmore, a professional boxer borrowed the money from his father to come out from London, \u201cHow 1 would like to meet Mr.E, W.Beatty in the ring now,\u201d he says, \u201cI would give the C.P.R.a chance to get out a real poster.\u201d WHOLESALE DISILLUSION.James Glassey, of Bell's Hill, Lanarkshire, a married man with two children, sold up part of his homie to come and eara his share © of the promised Milk and Honey, After working 3 days he oon- tracted blood poison as the result of a kick from a horse, and the farmer where he was working of - fered to look after him until he was better.The Immigration people stepped in, however, he declares, and made him go to hospital, taking his money for doctor's expenses.\u201cNow,\u201d he says, \u201c| am being deported as a good for nothing just to give the C.P.R.a clean bill of health.\u201d Richard Anderson, of Liverpool, a married man with 2 kids, gave up his job and came out on savings.He goes home deported and broke from what he had been told by the C.P.Rwas the \u2018chance of a lifetime\u201d.J.Gross left his job in London and borrowed money to come here.Lewis Fishman, of London, left his job and came on his gavings.John Brown, of Glasgow, was broke and borrowed the money to come to \u201cGod's Own Country\u201d.T.Armstrong, Glasgow, worked for an ex-M.P, at Morris, Man.and received twenty five cents and a motor car drive for 1 day's work.He is another of Canada\u2019s disillusioned advertisements.Thos.Mullen left & good job and borrowed the money for his C.P.Rvacation.WILL RAISE SCANDAL These are just a few of the many sad stories related to THE AXE by Old Countrymen now in Montreal on their way home to England from the harvest fields.In every case the story told is identi¥al in that every man declares that the Canadian Pacific representatives in England guaranteed $4.00 a day and \u2018tgp jobs for every man\u201d, the fact that (Continued on page 6.) James Best, of Glasgow, sold his | URLESQUE\" THE SENSATIONAL SUPER SPECTACLE GAYETY \u201c Columbia Burlesque \u201cFUN FOR THE FAMILY\u201d Week Commencing Sunday Eve., Sept.30th A TREAT FOR ALL LOVERS OF WHOLESOME FUN Mollie Williams THE FEMININE STAR OF BURLESQUE ter HAPPY, SNAPPY, PEPPY REVUE WITH THOSE TWO FURIOUSLY FUNNY FELLOWS JACK WALSH and PHIL ADAMS AND A MERRY ROLLICKING CAST OF SUPERIOR ENTERTAINERS WITH MOLLIE'S HAND PICKED PEACHY WONDER CHORUS OF DAINTY ! DANCING! DARLINGS ! A SPECIALLY SELECTED CAST IN \u201cFATES FIRE\u201d REALISTIC.| NOTE : Dear Friends : see it.graphed Photos.1 am offering for your entertainment what I believe to be the best show of our career, come and I am gure you will like it.And (Oh! I almost forgot) get one of my auto- Yours lovingly, MOLLIE.PRICES : Daily Matinees: Evenings: - 20, 25c, 35 and 50 cents 25, 35, 50, 75 and $1.00 ve \\ - T i 0° T He x {r i \u201c4 8 Page 4 mére = TIE AXE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28th, 1923.\u2014\u2014e 0 em VIEWS ana REVIEWS Publish The Axe SUNSHINE Why FEW days ago 1 wet a friend of mine on St.James Street.He A ix an official of the C.PR, but a decent fellow for all that.1 started \u201cpulling his leg\u201d about the harvesters brought out from Engiand by the 1, R.and, to My amazement, he got as mad 89 the proverbia! hatter.After an interchange of incivilites of a more @ \u2018ess warm kind.though I confess my dominating feeling way @muscment, he asked, as his parting shot: \u201cWhy don't you put some sunshine into that paper of yours?\" There's my text for this week's sevmon:\u2014 \u2019?\u201cWhy dont you put some sunshine into that paper of yours\u2019 Let me begin by delining the terms, \u201cSunshine\u201d in the case would Seam to me to mean what is vulgarly known as \u201cthe bunk\u201d.Great, Blowing editorials in praise of Eddy Beatty, if it be not sacriligeous to all the head of the octopus, \u201cEddy\u201d; paens of praise of the C.I R.; barrels of gush over the wonderful banking system of Canada (what oth); slobber, slobber, slo bber over this high personage and that\u2014that To be \u201csunshine\u201d in the estimation of my friend and his kind, 1 gine, There's no room in THE AXE for that sort of \u201csunshine\u201d, We are trying to let a little sunshine into darkened lives, to lift up the broken-hearted; to \u201chelp lame dogs over stiles\u201d; to ease the burdens of some who find the burden of life almost too heavy to bear.To do that we have to get savage at times, must challenge the evil systems that crush sunshine out of folk, must lay our axe at the root of the trees of individual and organised selfishness.This all has the tendency to repress \u201csunshine\u201d in ourselves who write THE AXE, though we are a fairly happy crowd, and to cause the reflection of our feelings to manifest itself in the paper we turn out.It can not be helped.When I reached my office after my spat with my friend, a little fiñmarried mother was waiting to see me.She has been sadly victimised by some scoundrel and has been left to face.a hard world alone, with ho help from him to provide for their babe.The organisations which Exist in this city to help such cases, which are heavily supported by pharitable Montreal, have treated her with their customary inhumanity, effectiveness, and cold blooded callousness.Her life lacks \u201csunshine\u201d.Her babe needs it.To bring some \u201csunshine\u201d into her life is a far nobler task than slobbering in hysterical admiration over the exploits of the C.P.R.{ Hers is the third unmarried mother case that has come to us for Friendship and sympathy in the last week.We cannot do much for them but we do our bit and they go away feeling, at least, that there is one friend left in the world and somebody who holds no reproach against them, even though they may have sinned and come short of the glory pt their womanhood.I am not asking for credit for anything we do Blong these lines.We but do our duty.f \u201cSunshine\u201d, eh?We are teaching the people to reach out for high wages, believing ay we constantly are saying that this week's wage fund Is next week's store receipts, which means happiness and prosperity (\u201csunshine\u201d) for everybody if the wage fund is ample, We advocate the systematic organisation of labor believing that organised labor will hot only be better paid than unorganised labor, but that this is the only Wyay under present economic conditions that labor can get its share of To rion We preach a broad human creed that transcends all limitations of race or religion, bidding English, French, Jewish, and all races live as brothers, enjoying Life's sunshine, rather than live in the gloom of racial and religious intolerance.We are ever urging that \u201camusement is a necessity, not a luxury\u201d and, while exposing the vicious hnd degrading in entertainment, are inculcating a love of the drama and its sister arts, so that people may bring more and more \u201c\u2018sunshine\u201d into lives drab, gray, and monotonous.Frankly our sympathies are more with the people of Griffintown and Point St.Charles, the honest hard-working folk to whom we belong, than with those of Westmount Boulevard, most of whom \u2018\u2018toil not, neither do they\u2018spin\u201d; with the East End rather than the West End, for the West-Enders in the main can take care of themselves and get the \u201csunshine\u201d with better facility than those east of the Main.If \u201cEast is East! | and West is West\u201d and I must make choice between the two, then the East for mine, meaning the people of the abyss, as Jack London named them.Because they need the \u201csunshine\u201d and 1 want to help the sun shine on them.And I guess that if my friend has the understanding necessary to enable him to read the inner message of this little sermon, to grasp what we of THE AXE are driving at, to use his atrophied vision, he will discover \u201csunshine\u201d in every line of THE AXE and between the lines, and, instead of being the diligent but slavish admirer of everything with the brand of the C.P.R.on it (I appreciate his loyalty to hip salt; it is a fine thing), he will visualise THE AXE as the chief \u201csunshine\u201d breeder hereabouts.Le : We shall now take up the collection, \u201cTY.a - WHAT THE MAN IN THE STREET WANTS TO KNOW N Any supervision given to the I correctness of the measures used at the gasoline stations, and when is the price of gasoline coming down in Canada to mateh the reductions in the Us A\u201d =#* +# Why are half-a-million dollare needed for Montreal charity organisations, seeing that every amusement patron is taxed for charities?Why do the telephone operators allow thelr customers to talk for tilteun minutes for five cents on the automatic telephones, and if the telephone hogs guilty of monopolising the public phones will not have themseives to blame if they get this favor cut off for abusing it?Would not the phrase, \u201cO, Charity, what sins are wrought in thy name!\u201d be a good slogan for the Financial Federation's forthcoming money-raising campaign?EE Who was the young lad that helped an express driver unloosen the straps of a fallen horse, while half a dozen strong healthy-looking men looked on, at Victorla Square, about 5 P.M.Wednesday?* * 2 Why should the charitable publie of Montreal contribute half a million dollars to pay Ten Thousand Dollar salaries to charity organisation officials, to say nothing of the junketings to New York, Washington, etc, at the expense of the poor?« = +» Who is the head of a department in a West End store who had better watch his step in regard to the treatment of those under him, meaning girl employes, and does he remember the case of the nurse he tried to assault in his house not so very long ago?3 * += + Who is the Ontario small-town business man who, after ruining the eighteen year-old girl stenographer he employed, closad his business and skipped out to New York, and if it will not pay him better to stay there?* ® 0% \u201cHas the Duke of Manchester found any gold in Canada yet\u2014or anywhere else, and if Kim (that's how they know him in the clubs at home, dont you know?) wouldn't welcome it through almost any channel?\u2014vide Town Topics.= ® # Who is the ex-detective who may face a charge of bigamy in certain eventualities?x KOK Who is the C.P.R.official who said that two men were laying for the Editor of THE AXE, and .why did he get so mad when \u201cHarvesters\u201d were mentioned?= 0» If School Commissioners are doing service to Protestantism in advocating separate Jewish schools, and is the proposal only a way of shirking the principle of \u201cno taxation without representation\u201d?* %x * What is the name of the lady who lost a diamond ring at a roadhouse on the Island of Montreal, and \u2018was she afraid to make trouble about it because the \u201clounge-lizard\u201d who was with her might have told?* * +* Why should there be separate schools for Jewish children, as proposed, and would it not be better if all our children, French, English, and Jewish, were educated in the same schools, seeing they will have to work together in after years?.+«* # .Was it by accident or design that RE ~ swe «= JOHN H.ROBERTS, : the Gillette Safety Rasor Company \u2019 5 pe Wellare some time ago: % \" note to the lady in charge.fuel in the housemother.I'll attend to it in the for twenty-four hours while these That's the damnable feature of organised charity, real for the relief of suffering and proxy, and make sure that they get The C.P.R.publicity bureau has tour of inspection in the West, will _r&nch in Alberta.Prince is here incognito, not as the with them, many of whom were pense, thus enabling the C.P.Rada\u2019s greatness, Perhaps 1!!! of Canada selected a purchasing agent by the name of Shaver?* Fo» Is it true that a certain beautiful matron of Montreal on her next trip abroad will take her consul with her to see that she suffers no annoying restrictions in foreign lands?® 3 Who was the business man who was talking to \u201cthe other man\u2019s wife\u201d one day this week and said to her, \u201cif THE AXE knew of our affair there\u2019d be two divorces, and we'd both be in them\u201d, and were they not surprised to learn that even as they talked THRE AXE knew all about it, including the telephone conversation?- » + Have you proved out the Ten Cent Taxis as advertised in THE AXE?* * +# Are you one of the more than seventy-five ladies who have rung up THE AXE's Mary Kigkland to ask which was the beauty parlor she referred to in last week's AXE as being worthy of patronage?* #* » Why is Colonel Dennis so anxiously putting out propaganda regarding the harvest ers, and is he trying to cover up -the shame of the C.P.R.in making dividends out of the poverty of these poor old country dupes of theirs?Mixed Metaphors \u2018What is the matter with The Montreal Star?In its issue of Tuesday it got off the following: upkeep of a hungry horde of officials, well paid, lives of ease and comfort, about thelr only requisite for employment le- ing that they have taken a social service course at McGill the people of Montreal to do their own charity work direct instead of hy rellef and service of the poor and suffering out of every dollar glve, which they cannot get through the Charity Trust.\u2018E.P.\u201d and The Super-Snobs Sweet Charity in Montreal TRENUOUS efforts are being made in preparation for the big drive S of the Financial Federation of Choritles by which Mr, Falk and his cohorts hope to have anothe half midion dollars to spend in maintaining themselves in \u201ccushy\u201d jobs The organisation of charity in this city of Montreal is one of the most utterly callous things on earth.Mere, for Instance, i a scene that vecurred in the office of the Funily Enter a little follow of soven or eight years who hands a She reads it and says to the little chap, \u201c80 your mother is sick in bed and you have no food or Very well, my dear, it will be all right, tell morning\u201d, \u201c Docs Montreal want any mother and kiddies to go hungry and cold dames get a move on?it, the lack of heart, the strict observance of rules and regulations, the treatment of cverybody in need as a \u201ccase\u201d, to be microscopically examined, analysed, dissected, lectured and patronised, until the poor of thle city veritably hate the name of And with all this lack of heart and soul goes: the equally damning fact that the monies received from the people of Muntwant go in largest proportion to the well fed, and living We advise one hundred's cent's worth of actual they broadcasted a news story to the effect that Mr.Beatty and his felow-directors of the Octopus, now on gs call on the Prince of Wales at his For superlative snobbishness and colossal cheek this beats all! The Prince but as Lord Renfrew.He has expressed the desire to be let alone.But this bunch of snobs and self- advertising experts have so little concern for the wishes of the that they must intrude themselves on his privacy in order to be able @ boast of their visit to him and, incidentally, advertise the C.P.R.Lot us hope they will take some of the stranded harvesters Prince comrades with the Prince in the Great War, and explain to him how they justify the C.P.R.bringing men out to this country under promises that are unfulfilled to conditions that were misrepresented.And perhaps they will: also inform the Prince how they were able to persuade the Government of Canada to ship back the stranded harvesters to the old country by C.P.R.trains and ships at the Government's ex- to \u2018get theirs\u201d coming and going.The Prince will, thus, be able to learn the secret of Can- SE eee = is at her fest.\u2014 Having negotiated the most difficult passages, she is not likely to blund- or in the comparatively smooth waters that now lie before her\u201d.We are at a loss to understand whether the writer of the foregoing thinks France is making a football of Germany or is going in for water polo.Is the addled thinking of The Whisperer on national questions having its effect on the international thinking of his editorial staff?And this is the newse paper that wants to run Canada!\u201d \u201cThe ball is at our feet; let us hoist sail and steer the ship into smooth waters\u201d, might form the text for the next \u2018Whisper of Death\u201d.Oy! Oy! Letters to The Editor Dear Axe:\u2014 You have a great field to work in \u2014You have all Canada to keep your eye on\u2014but you don\u2019t need such a large field, you can find plenty to do in our own city (Montreal).You are saying just a Httle each week compared to what can be said.Look at our daily papers each day and see Police court cases and descriptions of raids.Yes, raids on the little places, some one should tip the police department about a place called 98\u2014 the famous 92! : 92 is well known to all taxi drivers.All you have to say is, \u201c92\u201d, and In you get and are soon whirling down Dorchester Street.I think some one should let the Police know about it, for surely they don\u2019t know.a bond issue to put three more stories on 92 to keep up with the increasing demand, I am sure the issue would be oversubscribed for it is a wellknown mosey maker, pay- \u2018France bas entered an ers of LT ptt The tall | su Sl ing good dividends, ~ew ._.J 8 BRUCK Se.I did hear they were going to float\" And do you know I think \u2018 + es em hr 1 THE AXE, FRIDAY, an ce SEPTEMBER, 28th, 1928.ARE YOU IN THIS GROUP?If you can identify yourself as one of thi # week\u2019s \u201cFortunate Five\u201d, th v ere\u2019s a crisp new two dollar bill waiting for you at THE AXE Offices, 20 St.James Street, Montreal.But you must identify yourself to us before 6 p.m.Wednesday, October 3rd.LOCAL SWINDLER GANG PLUNDERS FOREIGNERS IN FAKE SMUGGLING DEAL tp \u2014\u2014 Guileless aliens promised entry into U.S., taken to to South Shore, made lose bearings then headed on foot back to Montreal, via \u201cBrooklyn Bridge\u201d.VICTIMS PAY FROM $50 TO $150 FOR RIDE.EWHISKERED gentlemen, burdened with names that B read like the alphabet written backwards and who seek to become citizens of the United States via the underground route are proving a rich gold mine to a clever band of swindlers operating in Montreal, \u2019 PREY ON ALIENS The great majority of these would- be United Statesers are tourist visitors to Canada, touring from one province to the other as day laborers or section hands on the railways.All appear to have heard of the great Volstead desert as the country of golden sidewalks but, owing to the immigration restrictions, they have been compelled to come to Canada where there are only ordinary paved streets and cement sidewalks.With the close of the rush of outdoor work during the summer months, these aliens have been flocking to Montreal.Almost immediately upon their arrival they are met, or unearthed in the rabbit watrens where they take thelr quarters in the slum districts, by some of the gang.The latter, incidentally is composed almost exclusively of aliens from Central Europe, ready to prey upon their more ignorant countrymen, TAKEN TO \u201cNEW YORK\u201d \u201cDo you want to.go to New York?\u201d the victim is asked.The answer is always in the affirmative.Then the dupe is informed that it will cost him various sums ranging from $50.to $150.and even more to be smuggled in.A closed car is secured and the party drives across the Victoria bridge towards Laprairie.There a circular route is taken, the drive lasting possibly a gouple of hours.Then the supposed smuggler orders his fare out of the car, points to the Victoria Bridge and says:\u2014\u201cBSee, that bridge?That's the Brooklyn bridge.Just walk across that and you are in New York!\u201d The end of a weary four or five mile - walk then brings them back to aim pi Montreal, this time with well- ! emptied pocketbooks.GUIDE VANISHES Another brand of swindle Ia reported.One gang brought a number of aliens to Prescott, placed them cn the ferry and advised them to \u201cwalk right up to the man in the blue uniform\u201d at Ogdensburg.They walked right into the TU.S.Immigration authorities.Meanwhile their guide, who had collected liberally from each 4f the party was nowhere in sight, Famous Beauties Set High Records As Gold Diggers have always been able to tease some very interesting gifts out of their \u201cgentlemen friends.\u201d It has often been said that Louis XV spent two and a half million dollars on Du Barry, : But those gifts covered all of the little Parisian milliner's career.Consider the content of that little remembrance Antony once give Cleopatra when he was completely under her spell: the Provinces of Phoenicia, Syria, Cicilla and a portion of Judea and Arabia! All in one afternoon! But, then, Cleopatra was a pretty \u201cgiver\u201d herself, Some time later, when Antony found himself seriously in need of military aid, the lovely Queen of the Nile cheerfully presented him with 200 ships, fully manned, end about 20,000 gold talents\u2014equal to some twenty million dollars in our money! From which we gather that it always pays to ourry favor with the Beauties, Ld T HE Beautiful Women of History Gayety's Pet, Moilie Williams Here Next Week 1 have known Mollie Williams for many years.Time was (when Tommy Conway managed The Gayety), years ago, that I censored every show that came to the Columbia Burlesque house.Every Monday afternoon or evening I sat in \u201cthe wings\u201d and watched the show.In this way I not only got to know Burlesque but to also know Burlesquers.Amongst them Mollie Williams\u2019 ranked top for high-class shows; always a long distance away from ordinary burlesque; fittingly dressed, sometimes daringly so; well-staged, and produced as by a master hand.Molife Williams is not only a comedienne of high rank but an outstanding business woman who knows that only the best in Burlesque pays\u2014and it pays Mollie $60,000 a year net! Next week Mollie Williams comes to The Gayety, with her Happy, Snappy, Peppy Revue.Two furiously funny fellows, Jack Walsh and Phil Adams, will be Mollie\u2019s chief fun- makers and her own hand-picked, peachy, dainty, dimpled, dancing darlings will provide the chorus attractiveness of the show, As usual, Mollie will present a thrilling dramatic sketch, \u201cFate's Fire\u201d is its Fifteen\u201d Reels For Film Fans At Alcazar One of the best entertainment buys next week will be at The Alcasar, Mr, B.M.Garfield's new venture in the field of Montreal amusements.A big double bill of 15 reels of pictures 8 promised and between the pictures high class musical specialties will be given as added attractions.Crowds have attended the opening week and everybody has gone away delighted.I know because we heard the comments of the folks passing out the time I \u201ccovered\u201d the show.Plenty for the money and all of it classed at 100 per cent in entertainment value.If you live outside The Alcazar territory take a St.Catherine Street car to a little east of Papineau Avenue\u20141038 is the street number.Sand not upon the order of going but go.You'll get five times your money's worth, I believe, JAY AITCH.title.Its a hair-raiser! Well, I'll.be there, and you'll be there, and we'll all be there\u2014to see Mollie Williams-\u2014and her crowd, of course, but Mollie pre-eminently, predominantly, and preferably.JAY AITCH.lEygé Blacksmith\u2019s Spouse Fed U, ith Anvil Job RS, SARAH NATHANBKY, M wants the Courts to rule that her husband, a C.P.Rblacksmith, must confine the exer- clsing of the muscles of his brawny arms to the rullway company's forge in future and that he further be instructed not to hang about under her spreading chestnut tree any more.A PRACTICE AN) iI.Nathansky, according to his bitter half, has ncequired the habit of using her as a practice anvil, tempering his blows with language of a sort that Mr.Longfellow's smith of beloved memory would never ha: 5 @ondon- ed, Another of his sperlalilics, she alleges, was to offer vivid descriptions of his opinion of her relatives.Last March she had him arrested for some of his playful antics and he was bonded by Recorder Semple to keep the peace for a year.Mrs, Nuthansky declares that he left the family dovecote on City Hall Avenue some months ugo and has only been tendering some thirteen dollars a wesk out of his thirty five dollars pay, which she has found insufficlent to support herself and the children.WANTS MORE MONEY.Because she couldn't pay the rent she was forced to leave the City Hall Avenue home and seck sanctuary with friends, declares Mrs.Nathansky, who Is now petitioning the local courts to grant her a separation and alimony of $20 a week, The courts have given her permission to sue for separation as to bed and board from her allegedly rough and tumble anvil-pounding spouse.Delorme Dollars Again Issue In New Coust Fight FAINT re-echo of the famous A trials of Father Adelard Delorme was heard in court this week when Mrs.Adelard Tétrault, (Claudia Delorme) entered suit against the priest's sisters to force a division of some $11,000, of the Delorme estate.Mrs.Tétrault, herself a sister to the priest who is now a prisoner at Bordeaux prison, claims title to one sixth of the amount involved.The other sisters, Rosa, Florence and Lily are each credited with title to one sixth and Father Delorme to two sixths, As Mrs, Tétrault\u2019's husband is the trustee for Father Delorme, having been so appointed when he led the family council which had the priest interdicted and deprived of the control of his personal fortune, the division of the property would bring Father Delorme\u2019s share, of approximately $4,000.into Tétrault\u2019s hands.36 ROUNDS OF BOXING BATTLING JACK MOUNT ROYAL ARENA Wednesday, October 3rd.SIKI (The Senegalese Tiger who knocked Car- ' pentier for the full count.) Vs.Champ of the World.) IN A SIX-ROUND BOUT.JOHNSON (Former Heavyweight 3 OTHER BIG BOUTS, EACH OVER THE 10-ROUND ROUTE =~ I Coxe À Bring Tempo o di Valse \u201c THE AXE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28th, 1923.+ mime: 200 = THE AXE'S POPULAR COPYPRIGHT SONGS No.14 Back my Mama Words by SAM HOWARD, Music by CONSTANCE THOMAS where 8 my Ma-ma, à gone to Heav play - mates loue-somre and wish that she was ; \u2014 night I prayon-to Heaven to find my Ma - ma eo This Song must nu: ce cut and sold apart from Da - ty thath whatall my | Dont an- gels knew\u2014\u2014\u2014 how lone-ly it is Chorus Bring my Ma- ma backto me \u2014 Bee -some as can be for me and you comme think they'd sure.ly hear \u2014 > > THE AXE.Anyone disregarding this intimation will be proceeded against.PUBLISHED BY THE SAM HOWARD MUSIC PUBLISHING CO., 633 ST CATHERINE STREET WEST, MONTREAL.OBTAINABLE AT ALL MUSIC D Imperial Announces Exclusive Run of Firpo-Dempsey Film ot many days ago, à gentleman from the Argentine, vclept Firpo stepped into a squared -circle und proceeded to get himself all gored up in compuny with Mr.Jack Dempsey, then und heavyweight champion of the world.Prior to the affair, however, the gent from the Pampas shaitered u few weak hearts by proceeding to knock Mr.D.out of the ring.: To prove that this allegation is true, enterprising movie men snapped some of the action of the affair, and the pictured version will be flashed on the screen at the Imperial beginning next Sunday afternoon and thereafter for the entire week, In addition to the Dempsey-Firpo film there will be an exclusive Jap disaster picture.On the vaude.side of the show six acts will be seen with Vera Burt, Saxi Holtsworth and their Harmony Hounds in the top position.Frazer and Bunce, two chaps who look like twins, but ain't, follow with a line of comedy chatter rated high by the reviewers everywhere.Henry Toomer and Esther Day will make capital out of \u201cA very bad cold\u201d in an act described as a riot, followed by Arthur Lloyd in a single turn called \u201cThe Humorous Card Index\u201d.Potter and Gamble, according to their notices sing a little, talk 8 little, dance a little, and play the plano a little, Marguerite and Rhea Lorner, Vaudevilles Two Dancing Sweethearts, fill out a show that, gambling in futures, has all the earmarks of another Imperial winner.now, Harvesters Denounce C.P.R.(continued from page 3) former harvesting experience was unnecessary being particularly stressed.Each tells the story of the flaming advertising posters depicting bags of gold for those who would come to Canada to help with the crops and of the disillusionment, disappointment and wrecking of dreams that awaited him once he had reached his destination.Close investigation of the character and calibre of the men comprising the deputation revealed the fact that the majority of the \u201cC.P.R.Imported\u201d harvesters come of good yeoman and artisan stock, Most of them are men of family who left their homes because they saw opportunity awaiting them here and came to this country convinced that with a few months work in the west they would be able to bring their families out from England and so establish themselves here as Canadian citizens.Instead of that they are going home disgruntled, disappointed, each one a loser, in cash and time, many to face the joB of finding new work to do, many to try and repay the money borrowed to realise the C.P.R's wonderful \u201copportunity\u201d.One and all they brand the C.P.R.harvesting schemes as nothing more than an effort to lure Englishmen to Canada in order that the C.P.R.might secure their savings for railway and steamship fares.\u2026\u2026 Right or wrong they return to their native shorés as Canadian propaganda-agents of the wrong sort.: EALERS IN FULL MUSIC FORM, AT 35 CENTS PER COPY.- Fairy-Foot Star Bright Feature At The Bagdad B Y supplementing the clever per- formance of Miss Elsie Thevenard and Signor Monte, at The Bagdad, with Miss Betty Walton in her delightful, captivating dances, a cabaret bill that is an all-round winner has been achieved, Miss Walton js still in her first week at \u2014 AUTOMOBILISTS ATTENTION! BEFORE JOINING OTHER MOTOR SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS, COMPARE CONTRACTS 1 1-2 gallon of gas, a day bought at any one of our stations means $10.00 saved.A reduction of 2 cents per gallon on gas, and 5 cents per quart on oil.; THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE WONDERFUL \u2019 SERVICES OFFERED BY U.A.S.CO., LIMITED HEAD OFFICE, 314-316 CITY HALL AVENUE, The Bagdad but the following she has already drawn\u2014judged by the volume of applause she stirs nightly \u2014is eloquent testimony that she has registered.Instead of wearying her audience with the tedious, so-called \u201cartistic dances\u201d, Miss Walton is frankly an imp of 8yncopation, and though still in her teens, the performance of the charming little fairy-foot stamps her as one of Broadway's future stars, Miss Thevenard and Signor Monte \u2018by an all-round change in their songs continue to reign as two of the most popular cabaret performers Jf the season.It is to be regretted, however, that they have cut \u201cQypsy Love Song,\u201d from their program, &s it was the bright feature of former evenings.The popularity of The Bagdad this season is little short of sensational and is evidence that the change in the management, policy, and order of entertainment was fully justified.Where a mediocre orchestra formerly played in occasional spasms to a mere handful of bored patrons, a tirst class orchestra is now giving a rapid fire series of numbers that chases the clock hands around to closing bour with: regrettable rapidity.; PP pee THE BOOK THAT REVOLUTIONISED ENGLAND'S THINKING ! ARRIED LOVE By Dr.Marie Stopes.-À plainly-written, outspoken discussion of the debatable question of Birth Control, the conditions under which children should be born, the limitation of families, and the supremacy of love rather -than passion in parental life.Price: $2.50.Postage Paid BY THE SAME AUTHOR : WISE PARENTHOOD.Price: $1.50 RADIANT MOTHERHOOD.Price: $2.50 POPULAR BOOKSTORE 16 ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST, À | CBee .= (CORNER OF CLARKE).ced a ee Lo WOMA THE AXE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28th, 1923.'S PAGE Comfort Is Keynote Of Late NISW TREND ls apparent in A the season's latest French dress designs.Comfort is no longer ruthlessly sacrificed to folly, and though fashions are sometimes froakish they are not often stupid.Wumen have refused many atlempts to make them wear ciothes that are foolish and unsuitable to the present conditions of life, They obstinately refuse to pinch their waists.They have decided to abandon absurdly high heels.They wear long slecves in the afternoon and their ovening bodices are something more than deep waistabelts, They willingly accepted the donger skirt when it was offered to them in a reasonably healthy form, and acknowledgo graciously that the impropriety of transparent silk stockings is less crude when petticoats reach the ankle.In à word, the modern girl has icarned how to be both pretty and practical.Bhe likes to be comfortable but wil! also took nice.No curl papers for her.No bones and buckram.She has her hair permanently waved, and bones in her attire are reduced to the minimum.Her desire is to look her best under all conditions.In fair weather and in foul she must show no sign of distress.Looked at symbolically, this is a most admirable attitude.She is probabiy quite innocent of any such pose, and only seeks to be well turned out, .ne WINTER MODELS OUT Her tennis frocks must be triumphs of easy simplicity, her golf skirts and jumpers must be bold and smart Dress Designs as well as practinl, her little afternoon dresscs so neat and slight that they can be folded into handkerchief canes.In the evening she runs to extromes and bewilders her admir- ors by appearing at a dauce in crinoline flounces and Victurlan shoulders and at a theatre in Egyptian draperies and Cleopatra head - dress, There are signs of her increasing wisdom in this yenr's fashions, She puts on quiet colors in public.she wants but little jewelry, and that with a real sense of decoration, Her hats are tidily put on and trimmings are not barbaric.She has pockets in her coats and sometimes in her skirts.With remarkable self restraint she continued to wear warm clothes throughout à cold spring, and when she puts on a thin frock she covers it with a fur coat or a woolen wrap.In the evening she dresses brightly and sometimes richly, She wears picture dresses to dance in and to be married in.Nothing is too fantnati- cally pretty for her when she gues to a bah, but in the daytime she is delightfully simple in her tastes.Shed prefers a big hat to a sunshade, but can carry a bright little Japanese parasol with grace if her frock calls for it.She does not use a fan much, but if a bunch of gay feathers is needed to brighten up a quiet dress she can manipulate it as cleverly as her ancestors at the Court of Louls XVI.Attention is turned to the new models which are being prepared for winter, and which will be shown to the buyers all this month when Paris is closed to soclety and open to tourists and business people, Fd BEAUTY SECRETS OILY SKIN The greasy or olly skin is the result of an excessive secretion of sebaceous matter.It is almost an impossibility to keep this kind of skin clean looking, and powder alone wili not suffice to prevent the oil from showing.The woman afflicted with such a skin should avoid rich and greasy foods, and should substitute in their stead cooling drinks and foods, with plenty of salads.Use soap snd warm water plentifuily in washing the face, at night and afterward use a good astringent lotion.TO WHITEN SKIN For those, especially blondes, who want beautiful white neck and arms, we recommend the following: Before going to bed at night remove all make-up.Then bathe the face woll with a lemon lotion composed of 3-4 parts of lemon juice and 1-4 milk.Allow this to dry.\u2018When thoroughly dry, rub a little cold cream into the skin.When the skin has absorbed a sufficient amount of the cream, remove .the surplus cream with a dry cloth.Repeat this every night for a few weeks and you will be surprised at the result.This, if used long enough will soften the skin and freckles.remove TRIM ANKLES To develop the legs, place à book, one or two inches thick, upon the floor.Place your hest upon the floor and the ball of your foot upon the book and lift the entire weight of your body until you are standing upon the book, Gradually let your weight down until your heel touches the floor again, Do this ten times with each foot, then with both feet.As your ankles become accustomed to the strain, choose a thicker book and raise your weight upon that.This will develop the calves of the leg and will make the ankles trim.FRECKLES -] I have used about every freckle bleach on the market, writes a reader, and find a preparation of my own the best.I espe- clally recommend it for heavy tan and freckles on the arms.It is also fine for the face and if used regularly for a few weeks, it will remove them.It is very inexpensive, as you can have a large bottle put up at the drug store for about sev- enty-five cents.Apply with a sponge in the morning before powdering and at night: Rain water .\u2026.1 qt.Bichloride of mercury.*1-4 oz.Plain tincture benzoin.1 oz.Dissolve mercury in half of water by shaking well, then add benzoin to rest of water and mix.DON'T | Don\u2019t bathe when fatigued or exhausted.The bath at this time will further .lower the vitality, and the good effects generally gained from bathing will be entirely lost if the bath is taken when in this condition.Don't shave the eye-brows to shape them.The hair will only come back darker and more coarse.Pluéking out of superfluous hairs and the application of à bit of ammonia to kill the roots, will be found the better way.\\ Don\u2019t use tooth-picks.They are apt to mar the enamel.Dental floss will more thoroughly clean the spaces between the teeth, and the danger of germs and infections are better avoided.Don't be afraid to yawn and stretch when not in public.It exercises the muscles of the throat and body.Don't forget that much of beauty comes from within, and that thdughts age mirrored in the eves and \u2018non \u201c \u2018 the face.The thinker of pleasant thoughts gains the use of a beau- tifler that only she can create.Don't be discontented nor dwell upon unpleasant things, for as producers of wrinkles, discontent and unpleasant thoughts have no equal, unless it should be their chief lieu- tenant-wgvorry.CT Don\u2019t bolt your food.Take.more time for eating, always remembering that thorough mastication is a necessary adjunct to good digestion.Don\u2019t forget to exercise when traveling.~A walk on the platform at each stop of the train, or from car to car, if the stops are too short, will help keep you in condition and relieve much of the fatigue that \u2018generally accompanies the traveler.Don\u2019t remain in the warm bath for, more than twenty minutes.To remain longer Îs but to invite weakness and thwart the good effects previously gained, Don't despair in your search for beauty,, Remember that all things require time, and the neglect of years cannot be overcome by a week of are \u2014.\u2014.- \u2014 ~ SMART STREET MODELS \\ cloth down the left side.ee ® ol / 1 7 A ) 5 \u2018Ç F ot À ot ) 3 & A a me Lu vA ' ; + , AA 7 % H- : A \"3 2 / + se in « » sh | ane + 1 o =) Das At right\u2014A frock in blue Poiret twill, fastened at the side by snapping into place through a loop of the material.At left\u2014A dark plaid dress, beitless and bound with red oil- This is a very smart model.> a ait = +1 o p & GIRLS AND THE STAGE.Dear Miss Kirkland: \u2014I have always been greatly interested in amateur theatricals.My parents have always praised.my efforts, and have encouraged me, but now that I am pressing them to let me go to New York and go on the stage, they are blocking every effort I make.I know I could make good, Miss Kirkland, and I have two hundred dol- fars of my own money that I would be more than willing to use to keep myself until I could prove my ability, Please advise me what I should do.7 DANCING JEAN.\" *#* = DANCING JEAN.\u2014It is hard to advise you what to do, as | do not know the grounds on which your parents are opposing your taking to the stage as a profession.Undoubtedly girls with ability and common sense can make a success behind the footlights, and | am not of the narrow class which holds the view that a girl loses caste or demeans herself by becoming an actress.On the contrary | think that a girl is often well advised to follow her bent in that direction.Nevertheless many find the time of \u201carriving\u201d long delayed and suffer untold misery and hardship waiting for engagements or the chance to prove their ability.Your parents are probably trying to save you from the diffioulties they see ahead.It isn't just a case of going to New York and stepping into the shoes of a leading lady, you know.Write me more fully if you wish and | will do my best to advise you.MARY KIRKLAND, BOYS, GIRLS AND KISSES, Dear Miss K.:\u2014Is there really any THE TROUBLE DOCTOR Conducted by Mary Kirkland.Ser in kissing?Am I doing any oo.- + - harm if I Jet the boys who take me Page 7 they are driving me humo or at tht door when they say good-night?MARY JANE.MARY JANE;-\u2014 There is ne harm in kissing if you mean it, but a girl who will give her kisses te any boy who comes along is nothing but a silly, flippant little chit, if nothing worse.Many girls nowadays insist that boys won't take out the girls who are \u201cslow\u201d, to which | reply that mademoiselle is much better off at home with a good book if she can't find any boy friends who are not professional \u201cpetters\u201d.All | ask is, how many men marry the girl who is free and easy with her caresses to all men?None who are in their right senses, MARY KIRKLAND.BOSS AND TYPIST.Dear Miss Kirkland: \u2014What should a girl do when her Immediate boss is the sort of man who regards his stenographer as \u201cfair game\u201d for his attentions of a petting nature?I have such a boss, He specialises in putting his arm around me when I am in his private office, and even goes so far as to kiss me when we are alone.Ie ir a Rentleman of good family, and he knows that I do not like him that way, just as he knows that I am \u2018not that sort of a girl\u201d.1 need the job, but I alio need my self-respect, What should I do about it?SERIOUS.SERIOUS: \u2014| notice that you say he is a \u201cgentleman\u201d.Believe me, Miss Serious, no man whe kisses a girl under the cireum- stances you describe can qualify as such.Next time he tries to kiss you, slap his face and if he tries to make any trouble for you, or threatens to dismiss yeu, come to my office and see me or any of the editors.MARY KIRKLAND.CADDISH INSINUATIONS Dear Miss Kirkland:\u2014Where do all these little working girls downtown get the nice fur coats and wonderful gowns that they come down to work in?Don't you think some ot them would stand a little investige- tion?BILLY MAC « % »+ BILLY MAC:\u2014You are one of those odious young men whe goes about saying \u201cOh, woment Any man can get ary woman he wants badly enough!\u201d Ninety percent of the business girls of this and every other city are decent, clean-cut women, earning an honest living and doing their best to kcep themselves smart and stylish.But cads such as you must be will never understand decent womanhood for the simple reason that you are not decent yourselves.¥% nly take the time to answer your filthy insinuations Mr, Billy Mac.because it gives me an opportunity to say what | think about you and your class of cad.MARY KIRKLAND.out in the evenings kiss me when HOUSE IN Choose from the hundreds PA S'ours TOUTS THE ONLY STOUT DRESS MONTREAL Ready for your inspection.To-day more than ever, Helene Brown is in a position to fill every want for popular priced dresses, of new Fall models in the smartest materials of the season for & GEE - HELENE BROWN 732 A.St.Catherine Street West (NEAR MACKAY STREET) _ oy BEAUTY- REGAINED RETAINED HOW?WATCH THIS SPACE NEXT WEEK AND YOU WILL |, A n\u2014 Sel?SS ae EE de AT 2 re ee NR \u201cx Page 8 THE AXE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 28th, 1923, CHARLIE MATTHEWS ARRESTED \u201cMy Husband Cheats,\u201d Wife Claims; \u201cYou Too,\u2019\u2019 Spouse Retorts without worrying who paid her rent, runs a poor second R IP VAN WINKLE'S twenty-year desertion from his wife, when compared with the record just set by S.Meunier, Jit Lagacé, of Montreal.Meunier, or Lagacé, has entered on the 35th year of his absence from home, But, unlike the famous Rip, he hasn't spent his entire time sleeping.ANOTHER LOVE He has apent it, his wife claims, Nving with Jennie Mercier, 82 Vitre street west, and his weekly pay envelope instead of being thinned to pay Mrs.Meuniers rent bill has gone to buy hats for the Jennie he has loved so steadfastly, though unconventionally for thirty-five years.The Meuniers were married In 1882 and lived together for scarcely one ycar, then the trouble started.She claims he deserted her, he claims she deserted him.IN TERROR OF WIFE About two years later a fruitless attempt at a reconciliation was made, the move failing she says because she insisted that Meunier abandon his private wife.There never was any attempt at a reconciliation, he claims, for the simple reason that he was in terror of mecting his wife as she told a mutual acquaintance that Meunier had but two years of life left him, The cause of the whole trouble, according to Meunier lay in his wife's tomper.She smoked her pet clay pipe, jammed brimful with fiery \u201cTabac Canayen\u201d and was a good, hearty drinker of hard liquor.Only fifteen days after the wedding, * IS HOME OF JAZZ \u201cFighting Parsons\u201d have been glorified, modern clergymen have put on prize bouts, dances and movies in their respective churches, but the Jazziest house of worship of them all is the Union Methodist Episcopal TEN CENT TAXI WE SAVE YOU MONEY LET US PROVE IT BY SUPPLYING YOUR NEXT TAXI UPTOWN 11 \u201cWITH A SILVER BAND\" when well-primed with her favorite tipple, she had speared him In the shoulder with a fork, inflicting a wound that had required medical attention.Shortly afterwards she had deserted him, after selling her personal effects.NEVER LOVED HIM Mrs, Meunier's sentiments when they were marricd were about three degrees cooler than zero, he claims, her sole motive in going through the ceremony being to free herself from the control of her guardian, Baptiste Hotte.In denying he had formed an unbreakable attachment for his lady friend Jennie, the father of whose child he is alleged to be, Meunier charged his almost-forgotten wife with having been the only comfort in lite to a man named Chevalier.He further claimed that Mrs.Meunier's suit was inspired by spite and a desire to get her fingers into the Chevalier estate.The court, however, discredited Mcunier's charges and supported those of his wife.Meunier, who hadn't bothered the wife he knew scarcely beyond a memory, must not visit her in future.In fact he must keep on doing just as he has done for 35 years.Church, in West Forty-eight street, New York, which rents rehearsal halls to vaudeville and cabaret acts.Passersby are dumbfounded and stop in front of the church as the strains of a C melody saxophone float out on the breeze and they get a glimpse of dancing ponies in their rehearsal rompers.The money received by the Union Methodist Episcopal Church for the rental of the rehearsal halls goes mostly for welfare work for stage people and others, for which the church has long been noted.Aniong other things a cafeteria is operated where folks may get their food at cost, Other activities in connection with the operation of a Social Center are in evidence, such as dances and rooming quarters.A few years ago, when conditions on Broadway for the average chorus girl were very poor in regard to æetting employment, the welfare department of the church collected a fund for them and has since aided many girls out of work, The church is situated within a half block from Broadway, is near at least two cabarets and is in the very glare of the \u2018white lights\u201d.Send Your TO THE PUBLISHER, \u201cTHE AXE\", 20 St.James Street, in payment.v Montreal, P.Q.Please send me a copy of \u201cTHE AXE\u201d every week for one year, beginning with the next issue after date.1 enclose Two Dollars (Signed) | NAMI®.0100 vous vos soos sess sees sess 0000 0000 0000 vase 0000 soon soon SUPOOE ccc ces sess 1000 ston ses 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relating how large profits could be made on investments in the companies, In certain of the citles, the promoter induced merchants and professional men to become directors, using their names and giving in return, shares of stock in the enterprises.In most instances, the local men fell for the free shares.One promoter organized three separate companies, On each production, he spent between 20 and 80 thousand dollars, The results were very disappointing.The tone of each production being far below par.No stars were used.Each of.the companies organized by this promoter, made but one production with the production outlay so heavy that no dividends have been declared as yet.The promoter received $10,000 alone, and the director receiving a like amount.Stockholders of one of the companies are now threatening criminal action against the promoter of the company, The annual meeting held recently developed into a free for all debate, with acrimonious statements flung back and forth.Indications are that this concern will go into brankruptcy in the near future.Business men who loaned the use of their names as directors, for free shares are being held responsible for the collapse of the company, although the directors had little or no knowledge - Non-Support Charge Jo Laid By Wife the former senior partner of the firm Matthews, Towers Co, Ltd, L IBUT STEPHEN CHARLES MATTHEWS, jr, of Montreal, son of following his appearance in court yesterday on the charge of nonsupport, preferred against him by his wife, will appear for trial next week.Me was arrested on a warrant and is now free on ball, WOOED, WED, WILTED Issuc of the warrant, it is raid, followed failure of the authorities tu merfve »