The Axe, 28 décembre 1923, vendredi 28 décembre 1923

[" ve 2 PW = a © much older than myself.until I met action.| 1 ele; hone Fr ep Nicks _ the Nickels S™ .result of the latest installation of public telephones.Bot Geponit the nicked until the As a solution to taie torcitté wade |\" \u201c-caK registered.The .only aw-1eided, Back: was thet, | the: aaFet ou mot other CHRIS TMAS PARTY ENDS IN DIVORCE pce ve THE CREAM OF THE NEWS IN TABLOID.\u2014 .o\u2014 | EE \u2014\u2014 ThE AXE FEATURES PICTURES Vel.Il \u2014 Ne.81, \" NEWS MONTREAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28th.1903.WESTMOUNT APARTMENT KING Anaual subseriptien, $2.00 Price: 5 conte IN $25,000 HEART-BALM SUIT EX-SWEETHEART FILES ARDENT LOVE LETTERS John Dominique wins title of world's champion promise maker from pret to office Gun 0.cased * From hopas CLAIMS PORTLY ROMEO BEAT HER - mise suit into the superfine silk sock of Pin Dominique, wealthy Westmount apartment owner, as a reward for allegedly having been an ardent but not a \u201ctill-death-do-us-part\u201d lover.Dominique, a portly Italian of 45, is being sued by Miss Anna Poirier, a stunning brunette, scarcely one half his age and is being confronted by a sheaf of burning \u201clove and kisses\u201d letters in support of the girl's claim S ANTA CLAUS dropped a $25, 000 breach of \u201cthat he inclines to the Turkish standard i in hig ideas on intersex bliss.FAT SHEIK'S TEARFUL \"PLEADINGS | WOULD WIN HER BACK, GIRL SAYS \u201cAccording fo the suit which \u2018the girl has tiled, 46 \u2018Wis in\u2019 1841 that she first met the Italian whose are: dent love making burnt away.the bridge of years nat lay between them.\u201cI never liked men who wers 80 ept me off my feet and lifted me love making.He never even gave me_a moment to think for mygelf.\u201cHe was so affectionate! .\u2018olf \u201cwe quarrelled and I threaten- od to remain away from Tm ae Dom » formed the AXE [tears in his voice melted his pieas as niques dr lett ge ewart | into my heart and made it impossible | for me not to forgive him.terd aft filing the house yesterday after 1 (Continued on page 3) 2 UFFICIENT nickels to pay the salary of the President of the \u201cUnited.States ate.being taken from the pockets of the Mont real publie every year by the Bell Telephone Company, as à \u2014 FÉUBLIC PAYS SHOT.sways have , the \u2018padlock off his - When the old etple madhine vay | Bickel.-This \u2018delayed the operator th use the party calling- central aid for \u2018an instant oc ao.\u2026, central operator gave notice that the lot time, this inefficiency, ft was de- loony sid \u201cBut,\u201d she continued, \u2018he simply | into the clouds with his impetuous | ee John ° Dominique made wonderful love, millions of jealous - he carried the phone from home to the , office : against - cheating, _ex-sweetie claims \u2019 : public.The new machine compels the caller to deposit a nickel before centfal's attention can-be attracted.: How IT WORKS works.A call was sent in from a public telephone on St.Lawrence boulevard, near the corner of Craig street.The first coin deposited was returned to plying.The coin was again deposit- od and when no reply was forthcom- it was followed by another coin.no reply.The calling party then vont to the dopth on the corner of Craig and Be.Lawrence- and \u2018called the oper- get me, the party was informed by seu res RL ert us And here's a sample of \u2018how it] the caller without central even re- | Go back again and ses if you can - Hugged, Kissed, But Shied At Altar HERE'S one boy in Montreal who has solved the problem .of filling the empty Christmas stocking.Every year, just about December 22nä or 23rd a very, very sick boy presents himself to the General Hospital.Hes ©.akk the nues smile Quietly up their starched sleaves but |\u2019 Annual \u201cSickness\u201d i F cols Santa Claus lingly white bed.Santa Claus, of course; visits every patient in the hospital two days real feast for the patients.Then the sick little boy become \"| suadenty cured the day after Christ mas se |.Great treatment at.later.The hospital a'so provides & \u2018 ic LEAIRTP RL TY + £05 SHEDBRET 7 PRR POUL PIPIETS 30 RUES TAN SMS AV 03 T0 \u2018JOHN > \"H-\"ROBE TS .° lo Manoris eu coms rh 2 OONEFN on PR es OPE 10 CS Page 2 THE AXE, I'R :'AY DECEMBER 28th, 1923 WHY I PUBLISH THE AXE (John H.Roberts\u2019 Personal Column).Thank God And Take Courage \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 EE WwW HEN Paul was on that fateful journey to Rome, Roman thought and, thereby, influenced for all timo the trend of humanity, there came out from Rome to meet \u201cthe brethren.They came out \u201cas far as Appil forum, Taverna, it is recorded, and when Paul saw them, took courage\u201d.way for Truth as he :aw it, Rs tribulations\u201d, had suffered much for the sake of the Truth he served.tia awn words he had beeni\u2014 wm ok Wm .\u201c¥ \u201cln stripes more abundant, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.Five times received 1 forty stripes save one.Thrice was | beaten with roils, once was 1 stoned, thrice did | suffer shipwreck, a nigh! and a day have | been in the deep: in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness\u201d.x WM Yet this man could \u201cthank God and take courage\u201d! character a\u201d him some an: \u2019 a But, after all, is not that the spinit that should animate all who are battling for Truth?Ernest Crosby sang, \u201cWoe to the cause that hath and I question very much it anything worth while in life is ever accomplished, but through suffering.\u201cWhat Arnold\u2019s Light of Asia, \u201cbut came through search, and strife, and \u2018loving sacrifice?* And that is the spirit in which I grect the new opportunities The Three Taverns\u2019 not passed through a prison fe good thing have my brothers\u201d, asks Buddha in Sir Edwin that are coming out \u201cas far as Appil forum, and.to greet THE AXE, I thank God at thia time for this stormy the Quebec Jail, a prisoner facing a having \u201cviolated the honor and dignity of the Quebec Legislature\u201d Shortly afterwards came my arrest on a trumped up charge and the a charge of grand larceny.the Deputy Attorney Gen- Followed the Gen- Montreal, triumph- electing only two Gov- {sland of Montreal, the one a Jew, the other Irish, both of whom would have been elected under any \u201cgober second thought\u201d had come to those who had eight and a half months before the but with the resources of myself and my comrades of THE AXE absolutely depleted, every ad- its circulation greatly diminished, but still, a keen, sharp, swift-cut- of which my enemies were more afraid in my imprisonment intervening time there has come the New York and here (the Logan and all of which according to the agreement made between Deputy Attorney General, were to have demand for my cxtradition to New York, on This case was initiated by Charles Lanctôt, eral, and was jntended \u201cto kill John H.Roberts\u201d.eral Election on February bth, when my own city, antly vindicated me and rebuked my jailers by ernment members from this city and the label.Then, when imprisoned me, came my release, expiry of my term, and I stood a free man, vertisement taken out of my paper, and its size cut down to four pages, ting axe, than in my freedom.And in the fighting against the legal cases at Bryan cases), myself and Charles Lanctôt, been dropped.Xe ME À But, in that meantime, THE AXE has bean coming back into êts kingdom.To-day it is three times as large in sise, is well-filled with advertising, and has a circulation larger than .ever in its history, with fully as many readers in Montreal as any other paper published here.KO OH So I thank God and take courage.x OX OH I thank God because, though \u201cin perils often\u201d, 1 have never wavered in my faith in the ultimate victory of right over wrong; that never have I doubted complete vindication would come, that always have believed the people would realise.and understand.how baseless were the charges made against me,-and how single-minded.we of THE.AXE, have been in devotion to duty as we saw it.Not a day goes by without somebody saying to ome of us, \u201cJohn H.Roberts could.not have.been what he was pictured in .the Legislature as being, a .blackmailer.ang.a scoundrel, or elae-he would -have been in prison.yet\u201d.1 alwaye said \"that time would tell and -time is telling.The gveat Conservative\u2019 re- Conservative, in the province of Quebecand in Canada, marks its beginning from the time of my arrest and improbable that the -one great consequence _shattering of Liberalism\u201d as a.politica) vival, altheugh I am not a - prizonment, and it is only too :- of my persecution will be the i \u201c force throughout.Canada.That is claiming \u2018very much, I know, but.am not alone in holding that view of the possibilities of \u201cthe political situation in this province and the rest of Canada to-day.- WoW OW CL So 1 \u201ctake courage\u201d for the future.Who would net after having received such evidences of faith, and trust, and love as 1 have received from my co-workers of THE AXE and that greater body outside, the people?When 1 know that to-day almost the lightest word of THE AXE directed against some form of social wrong is enough to make \u201cthe devils fear and tremble\u201d and bring an immediate end to any abuse THE AXE strikes at, why should ! not take courage?x % % Yes, we, of THE AXE, as we see 1924 coming out to greet Us, bearing its cargo of rich opportunities, of service, thank God and take courage and, in wishing all the readers of THE AXE a happy and pros perous New Year, we invite all \u2018our friends to likewise thank God and take courage, for the year before Us, if we determine so to make it, olden joy and blessed service, and clearer vi- .+ shall be freighted with g sith and adbiee! aéhiéVéhibnt tlaitany! jet.we bave hive: |.- wa sw rile.eX S AGATE IE LN - a journey that probably affected modern civilisation more than any other ever taken for it changed the whole structure of and The Three \u201che thanked God, and This courageous and heroic fighter had been blazing a he knew it.He had come through \u201cgreat In ali the way we have travelled during year of 1928.Its opening found map in a prison cell 1N sentence of twelve months for AXE-L GREASE \u201cTo Lubricate the Wheels of Life\u201d AN AXEY New Year! \u2018King out the old, ring in the new, x out tho fulse, ring in the true\u201d; dng out the press that hides the tuc's Ring in the cra of THE AXE.\u2014 '23\u2014The \"Skiddioo\u201d year! Hoodoo year would soul Letter for some people, |: Baldwin lost power; Taschereau dost the Island of Montreal; Mackenzie King lost Ifalifax and Kent; Ernest Lapointe lost the codfish treaty, and the poor Home Bunk depositors lost thelr savings.Tut Quebec can't lose Charlie Lunatot! Heard at The Clayety:\u2014 \u201cYou've no right to talk to me.\u201d \u201c) have every right te I'm a Montreal lawyer\u201d, \u201cA Montreal lawyer and standing there with your hands in your OWN pockets! | can't believe it.\u201d talk; Judging by the number of packages people were carrying home last Monday the favorite Christmas decoration must have been parcely.Good bye, old timer Twenty Thrée, We've had our share our joy from thee; | And rather guess that more and mere Shall be our share from Twenty Four.Chief of Police Belanger is issuing @ warning to Society with a big 8 that they do not publish in the Social and Personal Columns of the daily papers the news of projected trips from the city as burgiars, robbers, and thieves reading such information take such announcements as invitations to go in and help themselves while the owners are away.THE AXE reapectfully suggests that Society with a big B shou'd only make such announcements through the columns of this paper which is read by honest people.Said Burglar Bill Jack je \u201cThe Bliffking are away; } read it in the blinking Star, Whieh | take every day.\u2014 Let\u2019s go and make ourselves at home, While they sejourn afar; And if they lose their blooming © plate They'it blame it on The Star\u201d.to Robber Letters to ~The Editor I | anything for it except to leave GOUGING.THE H ELPLESS Dear\u2019 AXE: \u2014 - RE reporters on the track and methods adopted hy a certain.Plano Co: with: their unfortunate customers.OI amg-a-haïd working girl.Que day a ghib agent called at my home, and indueed me to buy ao Gromaphene! in -manthly \u2018payments, on -payment ofa .cartain amount.in cash, and monthly, payments: thereafter.He \u201chough T objected, -as I.felt it was I too- much.~ He tdld me.they wonid the $7, and I foolishly do 56, and 1 \u2018| nave almoat paid alt wp, and.then now threaten to take the Box away it IT do not keep up the $7.00 pay- - ment monthly.This is hard on me just now, as I have been out of work, for some time and have just begun at a lower salary.I am willing to pay them all I can and as quickly as \u2018II can, but they now act differently from when their agent called and forced the article on me, Bo to speak.Now you are the only one we poo girls can appeal to in our troubles, and cou'd you not ask these people why they try to crucify a girl who wants to act honestly with them and pa) them up.clause in the order that we must pey a certain interest.Is this fair and legal?This will interest severa girls working with me, \u2018who got caught in the same box.Do what you can for us, and we wil] do what we can for you among 0 *UGRAMAP friends.} - A good idea would be to put .your nade me sign to-pay $7.00 monthly! \u2018accept $4 or $8 If -1.could not make I find they also have a ue = Ame + cm eam at\u2014 Let Montreal \u2018Alone! 8 pointed out in another editorial the Government, vr certal® A leading members of it, seem to hold the ideg that Montreal has acted ungratefully towards the Provincial Government ufter all had been done for, Montreal that has been done by the Guvernment.Montreal does not ask, nor want, the Provincial Government Montreal alone.In other words, own affairs without being Mo.treal ie quite capable of managing its kept tied to the apron stringss of the Quebec Legislature.There has ben too much interference with Montreal's autonomy in the past.The principle of Home Rule for Montreal should now be recognised.Wo have our charter and with it the capability of successfully adminiater- ing our own affairs.And, if we have not this ability yet, we can only get it by experience.It will be by making mistakes and paying for them that we shall, like all other cities, as well as individuals, learn our leseons.It is better for us to make our own mistakes than for others to make them for us.To Quebec, we say, leave us alone, and then you wili not have to grumble or complain of our ingratitude, The Opposition Opposes HE Legislature has opened and the net results of the first week T would seem to be that the Government has learned that it has an Opposition confronting it.A wonderul change has occurred since the last House died, or was killed by its controllers.Instead of five almost lone figures sitting on the Opposition benches, there are now twenty or more ther and already they have shown their mettle.The Government is faced by a corps of keen debaters who, it is already evident, are bent upon fulfilling the dictum\u2019 that \u201cthe duty of an Opposition is to oppose\u201d, .i Mr.Taschei®au must frequently ask himself as he surveys Mr.Sauvé's enlarged band of followers: \u201cWhy did I call an election last winter?\u201d It may have been considered good political tactics so to do, but that is doubtful, Possibly it was reasoned that if a snatch vote was not taken then it might mean utter annihilation when finally the Government's record was submitted to the electors?The correct view would be probably that had the Liberals waited and allowed the strong resentment felt by the public against them on account of the John H.Roberts\u2019 Imprisonment Bill, and their treatment of the editor of this journal, they might have been reelected with their numbers comparatively ntact, instead of having their majority cut in two.This leads us to say that, amid all the talk in the Legislature this week about the last general election, the real reason for the Liberal debacle in Montreal was not so much the Government's treatment of Montreal as the Legislature's treatment of John H.Roberts, its interference with the freedom of the press and, especially, the changing of the law to make the punishment of the offending editor more severe than the law provided for at the time of his arrest.Camouflage the matter as much as Government and Opposition alike may do, every keen and disinterested political observer and every straight thinking person will agree on that point.\u2019 As we read the debates in the Legislature this week, we cannot but be struck with the naive character of the mentality of certain of ou?political leaders.Take Mr, Taschereau and Mr, Athanaze David for instance.Both these Ministers of the Crown complained of Montreal's hostile attitude towards the Provincial Government in view of what the Government had done for Montreal, Millions had been £pent in Montres] by the Government, three millions on a Court House, twenty-five mile lions on roads, and so on.Both ministers seemed to forget that it was Montreal's money, the Government was spending on Montreal and not theirs, and that Court Houzes are built and roads made not as a proof of paternalistic love.and care, but because the Court Houses and Roads, and Technical Schools, and Art Buildings, and what not are needed.Te: build them otherwise is merely to throw sops to Montreal in the hope of gecuring or retaining political favor \u2018and neither Mr, Taschereau nor Mr.David would desire the people of Montreal to belfeve that they have done for Montreal what they have done simply .to placate its electors.The opening debates of the Legislature will likely have one effec on the followers of the Liberal Party, the sincere type of Liberals who have no political axes to grind but cherish the principles of Liberalism for the sake of those principles, and that effect, we believe, will be thas.sincere: Liberals will be regretting.the leadership \u201cof -Mr, Tascheresu more than ever, The Liberal Party cannot survive in Quebec unless it changes its leader.: He cari never recover from.the, consequence of his fatal error of judgment.in imprisoning the editor of THE AXE last winter.And when the facts of the Attorney General's treatment of Jobn H.Roberts subsequent to the latter's release are made public, the - Premier\u2019s récovery.will be - more impossible still, treatment that is à recerÿ of broken-promises and pledges to.one whose very martyrdom deserved at the least the implementing of promises made at the time his release was made.oT : EE \u2019 : As to who is to take Mr.Taschereau's place should he retire that is beyond, out right to say.We are not sufficiently interested to worry shout it.But that there wilt be à change in Liberal.leadership the pres- - ent sessloh of the Legislature wil make.clear; it must.become increasingly evident to all Liberals as: the session progresses, that Mr.Taschereau is to-day in the position of Mr.Baldwin, the British Conservative leader, who called an unnecessary election hoping to win a snap victory only to\u2019 return to office with but the\u2018semblance df power and his party dis- eredited in the country.The Promise of Labor Banking \u2019 * } - = IVE years ago, to predict the rise of a movement of such magnl- F tude and vigor as labor banking would have been rightly regarded ns reckless, Except for slight traces of something akin to cooperative banking, in which members of trade unions parti- \u201cipated, there was even so recently no evidence that the labor-move- ! {ment contemplated.s radical, depaztyre from jts traditigngl.methods Co MIinnil oh Page 10) \u2014 ve Py \u2014\u2014 hr IEC ee) \u2018FAB AXE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 326th, 1933 New Year\u2019s Resolutions HE AXE takes pleasure in presenting to its readers the good reso- T lutions which, according to custom, have been made, it under institutions > stands, by various well-known and lesser-known people and PRIME MINISTER BALDWIN \u201cTo adopt as my slogan for life: \u201cNever Again\u201d.MR.ASQUITH \u201cTo protect the country from Protection and the rich from capital levies\u201d RAMSAY MACDONALD \u201cTo place Labor on the Throne of Power and make Britain a smiling land\u201d.RIGHT HON.W.L.MACKENZIE KING, M.P.\u201cTo steal the thunder of the Progressives, appropriate the policies of the Conservatives, and forget the ideals of the Liberals.\u201d RIGHT HON.ARTHUR MEIGHEN, M.P.\u201cTo play the very devil with the Liberals and go about like a rearing lion seeking who, of them, I may devour\u201d.- - .ROBERT FORKE, M.P.\u201cTo hold the balance of power and the power of balance\u201d.HON.L.A.TASCHERRAU, M.L.A.\u201cTo study the Principles of Liberalism\u201d, HON J.L.PERRON, MINISTER OF ROADS \u201cTo make avery road in Quebec a people's Road to Prosperity\u201d.ARTHUR SAUVE, M.L.A, \u201cTo get the Liberals out and ourselves in\u201d.MEDERIC THE FIRST \u2018To get out before I'm thrown out\u201d.ALDERMAN BRAY \u201cTo cit Médéric and elect Allan Bray Mayor of Montreal\u201d.ALDERMAN BRODEUR \u201cTo remember the fate of dictators\u201d.CHIEF BELANGER \u201cTo make Montreal safe\u201d.HON.JACOB NICOL \u201cTo dally wish that Noel had been a merrier Christmas\u201d.* PRANK PRIESTLAND (His Majesty's) -#To shake next year also His Majesty's year\", ABBIE WRIGHT (The Princess) \u201cTo make The Princess the Queen of Amusement houses\u201d, H.W.CONOVER (The Imperial) \u201cTo keep Montreal in good humor\u201d, .GF LAWRENCE (The Gayely) ; \u201cTo add to the gayety of all nations in Montreal\u201d, GEORGE ROTSKY (The Palace) \u201cTo make two patrons grow where only one grew before\u201d.Ci JIM-ADAMS (Loew's) \u201cTo make the name, Loew, signify low price and high quality\u201d.HARRY DAHN (The Capitol) - \u201cTo get more interest in and from The Capitol\u201d, RECORDER GEOFFRION \u201cTo extinguish the red lights that spell danger for Montreal\u201d.RECORDER SEMPLE \u201cTo go it along if my brother Recorder does not put out the lights\u2018.JUDGE MONET \u201cTo be as bright an ornament of the magisterial bench as my father wag of the higher courts\u201d, THE COMMITTEE OF SIXTEEN \u201cTo get a move on\u201d, - ~\u2014 .E'W.BEATTY, President of the C.P.R.- \u201cTo bring no more iminigrants from the old country until there is work 7 for them, - SIR HENRY THORNTON, Canadian National Railways _ .\u201cTo persuade all Canadians to travel.on their own railways and reduce} their taxes\u201d.- ° \u2018 .LORD ATHOLSTAN (The Montreal Star) \u201cTo int » no o nds in The \u2018Standard \u2018ot Herald that I congider unfit for] © The Star\u201d, e Tw » Cn THE GOVERNMENT.oF CANADA \u201cTo rejmburse the \u2018depositors in The Home.Bank the money, they lost! \u201c when the bank tailed\u201d.: _ : THE CITIZENS OF MONTREAL : \u201cTo elect a, Mayor and City \u2018Council worthy \u201cthe \u2018hotior of guiding the : destintes of a metropolitan city\u201d._ MR.J.H.- T.Faik (Financial Federation \u2018of Charities) oo \u2018 {To bestow sl my goods to feed the\u2019 pour\u201d, - .THE QUEBEC LIQUOR COMMISSION - \u201cTo make poor men wiser drinkers and wise- drinkers poorer ment\u2019, 3 ; 2 THE- QUEBEC LEGISLATURE _ \u201cTo repost \u2018the, John H.Roberts Tmprisonmént Bi\u201d.- Toe - iw\u2019 FEDERAL PARLIAMENT ~*~ _ © © ae - Le, or tery i per + , 2 1.THE AXE | > oot Ap sonia Winn) vibes woke via 8 whic \u201cEg inne.Hola xem \u2014 yl F4 7 AI U Need is $9.50 \u201cPo.mad.\u2018bank faïlcres an mph, = \u201d ; 4 .SHOP ÿ tsar ne Ex-Sweetheart Files Ardent Love Letters (Continued from page 1) \u201cWhen he made love tp me, it was in hin fierce Kallan way that know ne restraint and that would brook no resistance.BROKE HER HEART \u201cBut, oh, after he had conguered me, how different he bermme, \u201cHe made my life & hell; & suc- cesséon of terrible tortures; of heartbreaks; of terror, that finally brought me to à hospital bed brokon In heart, in body and in soul\u201d Dominique, his ex - sweetheart claims, is the greatest promise maker the world has ever known, not even excopting King Salomon who had\u2019 to tell one thousand les and reinforce them by as many pronfises every time he spent the night out.His MORAL wire \u201cI Gave been his moral wife for some two and one half years,\u201d she \u201cDuring that time we set | 3 least \"dozens of wedding dates but each was postponed for some reason or another, Why, I bought four different trousseaus during this time, he furnishing me with the money to get them and telling me to make al) haste as we should be married within a fow days.Then he would think up some other excuse tor a further postponement.\u201d The portly, moustached ahoik's ardor, revealed in such poetic color, is seemingly vouched for in the foi- lowing lstters which Miss Poirier mys he sent her:\u2014 Montreal, July 29, 1923.\u201cMy dearest, \u201cToday is Sunday, and | am oh se sad and leneseme besaves you are afar frem me! | know of ne way te spend my time when | am far from you.Par from the one heart that | love se much.\u201cDarling, | do not pass a single moment of my life that yeu are not in my thoughts and | wonder if you are thinking of me toe, sometimes.Write to me when you come back and let me know if you are weil.® \u201cThe papers will be ready at any moment now, \u201cIs your love for me as fierce * as mine is for you?Oh! Don't play me false.\u201cThe house lt very nice mew and In goed order and | have cleaned ali the floors.\u201cWrite me often, dear.| am so sorry, so very sorry that | cannot write French or English .olse 1 could tell you many things that | cannot make you under -stand in Italian.\u2018\u201cfum very well but | sigh ang am sad because | do not have you near me.SReceive many, many _ kisses from ene who loves you teo much and believe mae, \u201cForever, - \u201cJOHN DOMINIQUE.\u201cPS.Let me know w you understand Italian.Kisses, kisses arid love from Dominique.\u201d PLAYED HER FALSE \u201cAnd ail this time,\u201d Miss Poirier flashed angrily, \u201cthe old devil was living with another woman.\u201d Another of the letters dated December 4, 1923, reads:\u2014 = \u201cDearest, \u201cDo me the favor to wait stilt some days for our contract because Celeste is not going yet and will not leave before Monday.\u201cBe patient! \u2018I kiss you very ardently.\u201cTelephone me.; \u201cI am sorry, so very sorry but - at the same time | am very - happy because Celeste is leaving - and | can then be all alone with you.\u2018 \u201cDOMINIQUE.\u201d .\"P.8.| leave you $10.\u201d The foregoing letter is claimed to \"have been written on the day definitely fixed for their marriage as shown by a brief document bearing Dominigue\u2019s signature and referring to a .marrlage centract - which regde: _.- E ~ HELLO BOYS ! To Buy One of My B New Wool English Mafg.+ SUITS © \"Sige, 33 to 60 .- Some Times U Get à ps ne Some Times U-Don\u2019t Come To Young's First: YOUNG'S CLOTHING, Ame re | 978 St.George Street.Just ope ! door below «= Bt,\"Catherin es \"| page à Christmas Eve Party Wrecked By Husband Ends In Divorce Suit abducted en route to Montreal and bis place taken by Old Nick himself, Mrs, Henry ready to swear.HIS LITTLE SURPRISE Arriving here on December 16th, Mra Swarthmore registered as \u201cMrs.Jackson, Providence, R.L,\u201d at a small private uptown hotel.Two days later the register wae changed to read \u201cMr.and Mra.Jackson, Providence, RL\u201d Swarthmore, a wealthy ren! estate operator who had been in business in Now York at the time ras making preparations for a trip\u2019 to England wired his wife in Philadelphia informing her that he had been delayed and inviting her to come to New York.To his surprise he was Informed she had left for Montreal end the name of a family friend in the Drummond apartments was given.Planning a surprise viait, Swarthmore took a next train to Montreal, called upon the family where his wife was supposedly staying, only to learn they had not even heard of her coming to Montreal, SLEUTHS SIFT CITY Swarthmore promptly wired back to Philadedphia but was again informed that the Information he had previously received was the message loft by his wife A search through hotel registers was of no avail Finally one of the lool private detective ugencies was called into the case.\u201c| premise to finish my contract with Miss Poirier ne later than Tuesday December 4, 1828.\u201cGIOVANNIN! DOMENICO.\u201d (John Dominique).READS LIKE NOVEL Miss Poirier's own story of her life with the prosperous promise maker reads, here and there, like sections chopped from a novel of Dumas.\u201cDominique,\u201d she said, \u201cI suppose, is like all other men.To them a women is like a flower.She is desirable so long as she remains out of reach.Once they are gathered in and pomessed they lose their fresh- -nese and are to be thrown aside without a thought.\u201cI loved Dominique.He taught me to love him as I had never loved atyone else in the world.Although he was double my age, he was'so gay, so light-hearted that he seem- od even younger then I was.When he kissed me I forgot that he was do QUE: TT vit vn oe rd ad ee 17 Swarthmore, of Philadedphia, fs Armed with a description of the missing woman a oity-wide search began.For four days no progress was reported.On Christmas eve as he mooned in lonely solitude, Swarthmore decided he would liven the glosmn of the waiting hours by taking in a pre-hoiiday cabaret entertainment.As he mat in a corner he casually surveyed the dancers struggling for breath as they moved ever mo slightly, embraced to suffoomtion by thelr partnere or by the dense crowd that covered every inch of dancing space His eyes budged for a moment.POSTPONES HIS TRIP His dainty iittle wife was locked in the tight embrace of a stranger into whose face she glanced tenderly, during the intermissions of his lips lightly brushing her cheek.A few steps brought Swarthmore to the telephone; a call brought him one of the agency's operatives; a few hours later brought him to the room of \u201cMr.end Mre Jackson, Providence, RL\u201d, whence the twosome had adjourned for a more private little party.Swarthmore.is declared to have postponed his trip to England until he completes preparations for the divorce suit he intimated he would institute aguinst his wife, Se old enough to be my father.|: \u201cHe was so ardent.\u201cBut soon after he revealed his other self.The violently jealous Italian peasant nature than was in him came to the surface.If I even went to the store for a few minutes he would fly into Insane jealous rages and accuse me of having met other men.If I scratched my face he would ted me I had been bitten by one of my lovers.I my hair became the least bit disordered he would charge me with having been (Continued on Page 10) pe ES N.J.MARION, L.L.B.Advocate \u2014 Barrister Solicitor 7la ST.JAMES ST.MONTREAL Main: 6597.Residence: Se.L.9099 J.GAYETY Columbia Burlesque \u201cFUN FOR THE FAMILY\u201d WEEK COM.SUNDAY EVE.DEC.30th.A REAL HAPPY NEW YEAR SHOW JACOBS & JERMON INC.PRESENT \u201c A NOVEL PEPPY SNAPPY REVUE DE LUXE THE Diamonds and Watches| \u201cTol 923 \u201cB A Merry F arewell AND NEW ON \u2014 AT \u2014 (Opposite Mount Royal Hotel).A Joy ous Greeting - CLASP HANDS WITH OLD YEAR NEW YEAR'S EVE x A RIOT OF BEAUTY, SONG, DANCE AND \u201cP \u201c The Radio Revue\u201d - IN SPECIAL AND LAVISH ENTERTAINMENT \u2018 FOR THE NEW YEAR'S SHOW.; oo Music by Garrett\u2019 8 Irresistible Harmony Men STILL A-FEW CHOICE TABLES LEFT = RESERVATIONS.\u2014 Uptown 8975 \u2014 Uptown 5287 or ax BAGDAD, 182 - PEEL STREET d- Lilt oh \"fo 1924 a.- x EE \u2018 LUN A a ?hard to beat for em er \u2014\u2014 Whirl of Girls\u2019 at Gay ety Is A Big \u201cfhe Whirl of Girla® at The Jayety this week is a laughing hit, lll of rend comedy, pretty girls, good tnging and alt that goes to make Sulumbia Lurlesque Culumbia Burbeque.It has two Jewish comodiuna mch of whom is comedian enough bh his own right to carry any show m hia own shoulders.These two fun- nakers are led Binder and Vie Plant.In overything they do they are funny and they kept the atalence In yells of laughing delight when 1 raught the show.It is a show of couples.At least lwo other couples in the show stand put as exceptional entertainers.Hite and Reflow are dancers par excellence.They do every oll kind of a lance and Hite throws around the lainty, and perfectly formed lleflow with couse.Miss Reflow ta a great Yttle comedienne, and firmly esta- Mished herself in the graces of Manater Lawrence's guests, The other sam is that of George 1».Wiest and fune Le Veay, whose singing apecial- \u2018les won them great favor, one time itopping the show.They recail a lot RU AXE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 1v2: L oe aughing Hit of the ald time favorito songs and these went down with that uccopt- ability that every such presentation in greeted with at The Gayety.1 would like to soe Miss Lo Veay do some \u201ckid\u201d or \u201cbaby\u201d songs; 1 prophesy she would be a tremendous hit in them.Thero are many other fine bur- lesquers and a number uf scenes full of merriment and life.\u201cThe One Word Drama\u201d is a very laughable bit, every character speaking one word only, yet playing out a little drama with as much effect ns many a five act melodrama of the olden days, The old-fashioned acene, with od timo mongs sung by Mr.Weist and Miss Le Veay, was another big hit on the program, the audience cating up the old time stuff.Next Monday night, New Year's Eve, Manager Lawrence will offer two performances, one at 7.30 and the next at 10.so that the New Year holiday crowds may be accommodated.Reservations of seits may now be made.JAY AITCH.Imperial Has Fi ine Holida Bill of M ANAGER Conover has a fine holiday program at The Jmperial this week.No one act bril- tianly outshines the others but all are of high grade and colectively go to make up a bill that would be pleasure-yielding power.Mary Maxfleld and Harry Golson intrigued (blessed word!) me most.Miss Maxfield is a dandy comedienne with the keenest sense of comedy.With Mr.Golson she did a burlesque of Romeo and Juliet that was scrcamingly funny.One funny bit that brought down the house was where Juliet, dying over the compse of Romeo asks the omnchestra leader are in addition, acrobatic dancers of great, skill.They gave an exhibition of remarkable grace and with their youth and aglle bodies the young lady being especially dainty, they took curtain after curtain; the house would hardly let them go.The Cosmopolitan Trio is evidently composed of Italian artistes and artistes they are.They rendered a number of operatic selections and finished up with the evergreen \u201cFunicull, Funicula\u201d which got the people where they lived, \u201cO Sole Mio\", as n final encore, was rendered faultlessly and made it difficult for the next act to follow.The Blossom Heath Entertainers, eight young fellows of talent and iooks, are an Orchestra on up-to-date jazz lines.They play their jazsy stuff in tip top form and sing with telling effect.They were greatly relished and rank high amongst entertainers of their class.Case and Kavanagh have a funny turn, Mr.Case being one of those elongated specimens of mankind that to sce is to laugh at.Miss Cavanagh sings nicely and makes an admirable foll to the Case goods.to do her one last favor.\u201cDon\u2019t Max York with his dogs made a let the scandal appear in THE [great hit and presented a really fine an act.The dogs are almost human.AXE,\u201d which made a decided hit with Max appears in evening dress; he \u201cthe customers\u201d.With Miss Max-|g,,13 greatly enhance the value of field's comedy powers, and similar | his act, I think, by appearing in ability on the male partner's side, though not sv great, coupled with his good voice, this team is worthy of the biggest big time.Next [ liked The Three Arnauts.They are viulinists of high order and, What Wouldn't a Man do for the Love of a Woman ?CRITICS.\u2014 Here agree with New York, did you read what the newspapers said, but \u2014 BEST CRITICISM OF ALL.\u2014 Just listen to what the people say who have seen \u2014 HUNCHBACK NOTRE DAME Now Playing Continuous Showing 1 p.m.to 11 p.m.MATINEES All Seats 50¢ Fax, EVENINGS All Seats 75c f=, LOGES RESERVED PALAGE clown, or other comedy, make-up.The kids will like this act.In fact the whole vaudeville bill will appeal to the family appetite that Dean Conover so well caters to.1 think the picture, \u201cFoolish Parents\u201d js one of the best I have seen in ages.It tells a good story, points a real moral, is well photographed, and the actors do their several parts well The little boy is a first class actor and there is a girl who plays a slavey part who is a plppin.JAY AITCH.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 This is HIS MAJESTY'S YEAR HIS MAJESTY'S NEXT WEEK.SEATS NOW Return of England's.Foremost Actor SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY And His Entire London Company Mon., Tues.Eve's.\u201cTHE TAMING OF THE SHREW\" In a New Way Wed.Mat.and Eve.\u201cHAMLET\u201d As Produced at Covent Garden Thurs.Eve.\u201cVIA CRUCIS\u201d Fri.and Sat.Eve's., Mat Sat.\u201cOEDIPUS REX\" The Success of the New York Season.: Mat., 50c.to $2.00, NOW PLAYING \u201cTHE LOVE CHILD\u201d With Janst Beecher, Les Baker Evenings, 50c.to $2.00 Saturday Matinee, 50c.to $1.80 PRICES\u2014Eve., 80c.to 2.50 ; Venetian Gets New Dress For New Year\u2019s Eve HE Vonetian Gardens, gqnerally recognised as the moet elub- orately furnished and duoor- ted cabareb of the Dominion has glven an entirely new dress for its been New Year's eve entertainment.The celebration schedule Is one of the most pretentious of years and includes Miss Mabe! Lane, prima donna, Miss Olgn Thomas and Mise Cavorda.The festivitice will bo renewed on New Year's afternoon with a Thé Dansant.Reservations ave repirted to have been unusually heavy this year and have poured in earlier than usual Barry Film At Loew\u2019s One Of Freckles\u2019 Best ESLEY BARRY, now a gra- W duate from the ranks of knee pants, but still worid's champion freckle face, hasn't lost any of the od appeal he carried when he was featured as one of the most lovable of screen kids In the \u201cCountry Kid\u201d at Loew's this week he is seen in aw good a picture as he has ever starred jn previously, The Country Kid has another Jackie Coogan in little Bfuce Guerin, a midget combination of imp and seraph who will undoubtedly soon be starred by himself, \u2018This week's flim fare fs exceptionally good end generous and is reinforced by a weli-balanced vaudeville program.In the latter half of the bill J.Robert Pauline, psychoanalyst offers an interesting and highly emusing demonstration of mental and oral suggestion.In one of his demonstrations he uses a slender youth who, under the influence of the psychoanalyst 1s made to support four men while he himself is suspended in the air merely resting his shoulders and heels upon the backs of two chairs.In another stunt, Pauline causes the blood to recede and then return into the arm of another subject.The act is both unusual and interesting, Walter Weems, a co-headliner stops the show with his whimsical southern gags and stories.Hazel Moran, who opens the bill, shows some dever work with a rope.Clifford and O'Connor next on the list have catchy song and dance numbers while Glenn and Richards after a slow opening close with a dash that, were it injected earlier in their act would have made them the brightest number on the bill.Barry and Lancaster are an-, other pair who take more time than they should be allowed but they too bring down the house at the close of their ac act.The entire bill is a good one, without a weak spot and played to capacity audiehces on the opening performances.STARLAND Comm.: Monday, Dec, 31st.All Week Tizoune, Fassio & Coon New York Musical Comedy Co.18 PEOPLE 18 WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR Snap, Speed, Sparkle, Girls, Girls, Girls and then some, Thu, Fri., 26 - 27 Hoot Gibsom, Thrill Chaser.Sat., Sun., 20 - 30 Rupert of Hentzau Pare Matinee very Day, 1 10 Cents - Martin-Harvey\u2019s Visit Casts of Opening Plays.(THE AXE belicves its readors will be intercrted in knowing what the cast of performers in Sir John Martin-Harvey's offerings during next weck, will be and accordingly, for their information and service, presents below the casts of the two opening plays, and in next week's issue will give those of the two closing plays, Vig Crucis and Oedipus Rex.) (Monday and Tuesday Evenings).THE TAMING OF THE SHREW .Mr, Harvey Braban A Lord \u2026.\u2026 Vener eur RE Christopher sly (a tinker) .Mr.Alfred Ibberson Hosteas \u2026 oor ove wove sive eves sees seve vers vers sees sess vou 0 Miss Marie Linden Page \u2026 \u2026 \u2026.\u2026 \u2026 va vvte ween sens van vote sree suse suse save seve Miss Mary Gray Huntsman pros ore a ve vere ween sone sven sore snes seve seen wes ove MT.Paul Barry Baptista (a rich gentloman of Padua) .sm en Mr, Fred Grove Vincentio (an old gentleman of Pisa) .ve avn 0006 Mr.Leonard Daniels Lucentio (Son of Vineentio, in love with Bianca) Mr.Eugene Wellesley Petruchio (a gentleman of Verona, suitor to «\u2026.sos 4008 oots Mr, Martin Harvey Katherina) .\u2026.vor ver cone ene 0 \u201c Gremio (Suitor to Bianca) .wu wee wee wo Mr.Walter Pearce Hortensio (Suitor to Bianca) .+ vee see one Mr, D, Muir Little Tranio (Servant to ucentio) .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 + see os Mr, Gordon Macleod vee sens 00 ME, V.Watts Weston Biondello (Servant to Lucentio) .wor aere eer Me.Harold Carton Grumio (Servant to petruenlo) Bianca (Dsughten of Baptista) .cu cer eons one Miss Ann Furreil \u2026 Miss V.de Silva Katherina (Daughter of Baptista) .Servants, huntsmen, officers, ate.The Play will be performed with Continuous Action, and with One Interval, \u201cWoodland Dances\u201d (Wednesday, Matinee and Evening) Shakespeare's Tragedy of HAMLET Claudias (King of Denmark) .Hamlet (son of the late, and nephew of the present King) \u2026.eer wore eres sane save seer save vone vava v006 anne sree oo Martin Harvey Ghost of Hamlet's Father vest sre sos snr as one sone MP, Gordon Macleod Horatio (friend of Hamlet) .\u2026\u2026.vive sine aon cone ue Walter Pearce Polonius (Lord Chamberlain) Sve see sere sien sows soe one ME, Fred Grove Laertes (his son) .\u2026 .\u2026.ie ier wore cone sens\u201d oca8 ov0e 000 MP Even, Wellesley Guildenstern (Courtier) .\u2026 \u2026.\u2026 \u2026 vw sive vec sue owe MP, David Bain Rosencrantz (Courtier) \u2026.\u2026.we.we ove one oes My, Leonard Daniels Oaric (8 COUTHIET) Liv.\u2026\u2026.vu veer ever cust sues ses one MP, Michael Mackenzie Marcellus (an Officer) \u2026 vv vie cer core seen seen sees soe Mr, D.Muir Little Bernardo (an Officer) wu ee wer soir tore seer sors suse sone ore ME.Paui Barry Francisco (a soldier) .we.vv coe wer Mr.Basil Charles First Player .ees 06 6 seu tone set anne sess sees see wee MP, Harold Carton Second Player .aoe vo» +.MP, Alfred Ibberson Entr\u2019acte Percy -Fletcher .Mr, Harvey Brabas stra ere cité sess sees se seen sors Gear Player Queen .cere ween vase veer sees save sere sees sees one Miss Mary Gray A Priest .oo coer sous inn sre ens ten sen ses sine ae ae vw weer one Mr.W, Jones A Messenger .\u2026 .\u2026\u2026 sav seer cere cre erie vase sien one eine eee MEK, Tillman First Gravedigger .cee sir rere vont even anse ove oe ME, Fred Grove Second Gravedigger .\u2026.\u2026 sance eens weer eens sees MP, V.Watts Weston Gertrude (Queen of Denmark, mother to Hamlet) Mias Marie Linden Ophelia (Daughter of Polonius) Miss N.de Silva (Lady Martin-Harvey) Ladies, Nobles, Players, Switzers, Vikings, etc.ACT :1 Scene 1.\u2014 A Platform before the Castle, Elsinore, Scene 2, \u2014 A Chamber in the Castle, Scene 3.\u2014 Ophelia\u2019s Chamber, \u2019 Scene 4.\u2014 The Platform, Scene 65.\u2014 Another Part of the Platform, = a .(Interval) Entr\u2019A0te L.\u2026\u2026.co eo ques vee sere on con sre evn ore ne one = Hamlet - ACT 2 Scene 1, \u2014 A Chamber in.the Castle, ACT 8 Scene 1, \u2014 A Chamber in the Castle.Scene 2, \u2014 Another Chamber, Scene 3.\u2014 The Queen's Closet, .(Interval) ACT 4.' Scene 1.\u2014The Queen's Closet, Scene 2, \u2014 A Churchyard.Scene 3.\u2014 A Chamber in the Castle.PRINCESS ERNIE GOLDEN + And His Orchestra of Ten JACK WILSON In \u201cA Nonsensical Revue\u201d \u201cThe China Blue Plate\u201d © A Musical Legend BILL ROBINSON \u201cA FRIEND IN NEED, ETC.\" SYLVIA LOYAL & CO, OTHERS.DOUBLE PROGRAM GEORGE WALSH In \u201cSlave of Desire\u201d, in 7 Parts and SHIRLEY MASON in \u201cPawn Ticket 210\u201d, in 6 Partsleo Christie Comedy.SUN., MON.TOM MIX In \u201cSoft Boiled\u201d, in © Parts.Last Episode of Speed.TUE., WED,, THUR.POLA NEGRI \u201cSpanish Dancer\u201d, in 10 Parts, supported by ANTONIO MORENO \u2018Ben Turpin Comedy: \u201cPitfalls of A Big City\" also Fox Publishing Company, | 2 8e 3 pers grays az Curtis (Servant, to Petruchio) .o ree woe + we wre oo Mise Mary Gray A Pedant .oe vt vor ene on » eus etre wee we Mr, Michael Mackensle A TROT.ov vere core cere vers sure vue Vire vero save sens sens oe MP.David Bain A Haberdashery .\u2026 Coenen snes sen gee ann sean se anne es Mr.George A WIDOW \u2026.vee cer vers care cone ouve osne sens seen sone woes oes Ming M, Lawrence ra re \u2014 lhe Axe is published by John tf.\u201d >., Roberts and printed by The Axe Ce | A vel « + \u2014\u2014- me ee won C haney\u2019s Genius Makes Hunchback\u2019 The Films\u2019 Greatest Triumph| New Year\u2019s Eve ON CHANEKY'S characterimation L of the Hunchback of Notre- Dame, Victor Hugo's epic, playing at the Palace this week, bears the true stamp of genius.The repellent half-antmal, hal£-human that Hugo immortalised is perhaps one of the most difficult roles that any actor could de asked to mimic but Chaney's portrayal is undoubtedly the finest thing the modern scfeen has ever produced.Bupeniatives exhaust themselves and are but faint praise of the film itself the conception and execution of which have brought into play every resource of the film world.The reproduction of the famous old cathedral of Notre- Dame, carried out on a scale that beggars ull previous efforts of a like nature, is a thing of rare beauty, Bo careful have been the producers to adhere rigidly to the atmosphere of the age of Louis XI that the audience is carried back Into the ceut- pries during the entire rum of the nm.The ontire cart has been selected with keen judgment but it is relegated to a mass of pawns playing around the Hunchback, so womder- ful is Chaney's acting.Chaney has been scoring triumph upon triumph in character roles but long: efter ho will have passed on from the silent drama his name will be remembered for his Hunchback.It is a portrayal | which if it can ever be equalled, can never be surpassed, As an entertalnment the Hunchback of Notre Dame is super-fare, as à faithfui version \u2018of the great Hugo's story K& is a tragic travesty.The glorious climax,\u201d sombre and awful, is Jost entirely in the oonvent- fonal ending of the film.The characters are sb askew that they are scarcely gecognisabie.Qumsimodo ajond runs through the play with à degree.qf fidelity to his original only to veer off at right angles at the end, Russians and Trained Crow Princess Stars MUSEMENT on the North American continent has been suftering or enjoying, as the case may be, an attack of cycles.We have had several of them the Spanish, the Egyptian, and Lord knows what besides.Nowadays we have with us the Imported Caviar Cycle.Producers have let down all trade barriers with Soviet Russia and are bringing in droves of gentlemen who dance while sitting on thelr baunches.\u201cYarmark\u201d which we are told is Russian for Dominion Park, head- tines the Princess bills this week and provides the General Public and his wife with_the current idea of what the gentie Russian is like at play.It is a fast travelling vehicle, Joaded to the eyes with pep, establishes the fact that Russian Girls are just as pleasing to the male sex as those of other countries and generally brings down the house: Without going into lengthy detail on the subject we pass \u201cYarmark\u201d as good variety entertainment and doff our cap to Theodore Btepanoff as a sit-down dancer than whom we have seen nohe better.\u2018\u201c\u2019Jonko the $50,000 Crow\u201d is a clever bird with a chatty manner.This is another act which is real vaude- ville, for vaudeville, we were taught | as a child, means variety, in entertainment and the crow act 48 un- THE AXE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26th, 1vzt » Page + Lively Program At Bagdad For Esmeralda, next to Quasimodo (the T as the Chriatmas eve celedra.Hunchback) retains some likeness to tion at Bagdad was the bright- the original but is introduced into est feature of its kind in Montscenes that the great Hugo nevor [Teri New Years eve program at the contemplates.Cuplain Phoebus de |coslest cabaret in the city promises Chateaupers, the libertine, instead of [10 be exceptionally attractive and the fuithiess sdvernturer of Hugo's [enjoyale.On Christmas eve net pen has become a conventional hero [only did parties begin pouring in of the George Rarr MoCutcheon type |sarly during the evening but the who devotes his lifetime to the res- [stream tiowed steadily through un- cuing of fair dimsels in distress.[til after the midnight mass.The The acene at the ball given in [feature of the New Year's eve bill honoe of Fhosbus' appointment tu |WIiH be Kretlows Radio Revue, & the captaincy of the guards is gro-|rarely delightful novetty of genuinely tesque.In the Alm he introduces the |Pretty and accomplished dancers and gypsy girl to his betrothed, her singers.The numbers are all ori- mother and to the guests as the girl [ginal and the costuming Is both he wishes to marry, Even the most |Wasteful and novel.The radio num- indulgent, or ignorant, must find i: |ber is empecially good, the novelty difficuit to reconcile the idea of a [dance and the song number mersing noble of the court of Louis XI offer- jthe entire revue.Kretlow's programs ing to wed an obscure #ypsy street [are a delight to local cabarettiats entertainer.The morality of the age |as they are a radical departures from flaunted & vastly different com- [the comventional cabaret entertain- plexion.ment, providing enjoyable diversion Again the scheming cleric who instead of crashing the ears with an persecuted the littie gypsy girl has|orgy of screaming syncopation.become a strange character.The| The Bagdad orchestra, one of the purpose of the film is said to have liveliest In its line, will again pro- been to eliminate everything from [vide the music that has made danc- the picturé which might offend any od at Bagdad an evening's treat to réligious body.With this in view remombered.! they unfrocked the priest and trans-| Reservations fave been \u2014ex- ares but the boy's Appeal 10 at man formed him into an ordinary lay- jceptionally heavy, more than three clence and love and sends the lover man.quarters of {he total accommodation back to his mistress.How the shade of Hugo must weep |Deing reported to have been taken, The ending is inconclusive, the wife in the Land of Beyond.This very alteration has changed in name only putting a term of proba- the entire \u2018metic ce the sioey, and | Beery Scores tion to herself and her lover, leaving removed from the tale the great color A ° Ri h d te to whether the end is finally happ .play as @ piece ain as ic ar of dramatic construction would probably have been better had it ended T eLion Hearted with the third act, with lover and son both hastening to the bereft of that age.Again a character who played a real of deep importance in UST in case We beco mistress and mother to comfort her J © become fangied | nd a happy issue implied.Nevera daring epitodes.STORY OF PLAY.It is the story of a man and woman who have for seventeen years boen husband and wife to each other in name only, the legitimate wife being oonfined to an insane tsy um.Inevitably there comes the clash between the man's ambitions and his love and desire to play fair with the woman.Breaking with her, the woman's son by a former lover determines to force the man to marry her (the insane wife having oogveniently died) and plans to ruin the daughtor of his mother's lover, for ratter to use the threat so to do, to compet her father to do justice to his mother.He fails in this attempt by reason of the elderly lover confronting the boy with the proofs of the latter's bast- the original soript, the sinister priest's younger brother, does not exist in the film.This youth served to bring out the lone human trait of the priest, , in our metaphors, we shovid The film is a wonderful one, but like to make it clear at onoe [theless it is a fine piece of dramatic ft is not the Hunchback of Notre [that we liked \u201cRichard the Lion craftmanship, with many strong pas- Dame.The vandals have doms their { Heartea,\u201d the current featüre film sages and sparkling lines, Severul of attraction et The Capitoh We say |\\® scenet were played in a com pelling silence that bore evidence to | work.: this bluntly, in order, that misunder- He\u2019 dat nt ue tandi be avoided.the giron dramatic fibre of Batalile's Karn nounceme tha Wallace Beery is the pioture.He |\" training of \u201cJocko\u201d is the one great event in history, and on behalf of Napoleon, and several other gentlemen now deceased, but who died in the belief that they had done a fair day's work for a fair day's pay themwelves, we cali this statement of Mr.Karna's into question.Mederic and the other live history makers (7) wil have to do their own disputing of claim, We simply protest in the name of dear departed history makers.\u201cNoni\u201d, burlesque musician, opens the show but has one of the best acts on the bilh The comedy stuff in this number stops the show, and takes up.the character of \u201cCoeur de Lion\" where he laid it down in Robin FINE COMPANY.Hood and carries it through to the] Headed by Janet Beecher and Lee successful termination of éhe Third | Baker the compeny is one of unusual Orusade and makes the sort of King | merit.Miss Beecher, allied to per- Richard that the serfs of that merrie |gonal beauty, has a touch of Divine {ime would like to have had as boss.{fire in her dramatic mentality and Wallace Beery has been a German [in several passages ross to great colonel, a baby-killing submarine | heights.Her portrayal of the dis- commander, a throat-slitting swash- [tmught woman whohad given every- bucker and & good many other kinds | thing for love, and stik could not of movie canaille but he has never withhold herself from the man she done finer work than he has as two- igved, was painted with great strokes, fisted King Richard in these two pic- yet finely etched, bringing out tures, the brooding melancholy, the bitter- nox OX ness of disibusionment, and the On the program there is another [shame of her discovery of her Idol's Ltones\u201d tells of the city feller who |\u201cgang\u201d into a perfect little gentle- it you dont thing thats good, try of those Juvenils Comedies the [feet of clay.Despite a tendency to opening ome e program y principal actors of which are boys frepression, causing her to speak in me Ford ho foil Noni, in the hey-day of their boyishness.|low tones and, commequently letting Margaret Ford, who oh = This one deals with the adventures |the audience lose many fine points.has two voices, both good © of Speck on the occasion of a visit [Miss Beecher gave us a Laura stopped Sunday night's show.with ke @ wealthy aunt and the unsuccess- | Thorne of tragic intensity that will encores.ful efforts of that portly lady to turn [live in many memories, being parti- Maker and Redford\u2019s \u201cRolling [the rough-and-tumble leader of his [culariy strong in the scene where she hammers on the door: of her lover's den and beseeches him to see her, abandoned the bright lights to go to |man.he denying bis presence to her.the country and the country gal who | For the average alleged comedy we went looking for the bright lights.[have approximately as much use as This is a first class act, entertaining [a goldfiish has for a pair of wings.and amusing from entrance to final [For theses Juveniles we can qualify As a clowning songstress, Cra as leader of the Rooters\u2019 Club.\u2019 Howard {3 good and adds greatly to the sparkie of the show.Much can de eaid in praise of Joe Weston and Grace Hine.Their act is full of comedy, and the girl goes over big with her work from the audience.In our .humble opinion, however, she hurts the act with her final number.This may be because we are nar minded and don't particularly care doubtedly.\u201cdifferent\u201d, We cannot quite agree with Mr.From the Book by | STARTS SUNDAY, DEC.30s.\" \\ 1118 / 7 The Little Prince of the Movies In His First Super-Produetion : ines Hig $1,500,000 Contrast.- COOGAN | LONGLIVE THE NE | MARY ROBERTS.RHINEHART for drunken women.LMR\" > .+ You'll.never again think of Kim as a mere \u201cChild Wonder\u201d \u2018because here he steps into the ranks of the greatest actors that ever lived.J \u201cRichard the Lion Hearted\u201d, plus the above comedy, plus the appropriate holiday music - purveyed by Jim Shea and his abettors, make the Capitol program this week exsctiy the sort of show the entire family should see now that achool is over.- to L M.R.PASSE - TEMPS THURSDAY TO SUNDAY \u201cSKIN DEEP\u201d with MILTON SILLS Eèglish and French Titles Continuous Performance Sat, Sun.and Holidays from 1-11 p.m.- _ COMMENÇING SUNDAY SIX.ACTS B.F.KEITH VAUDEVILLE ; - RENEE NOEL and ~~.\u2018VIVIAN HOLT and : - WALTER C.PERCIVAL - MYRULE LEONARD ln .Camedy Romance Egg in.\u201cap Intimate Song Recital\u201d, GEO.N.BURNS and - - = =.GRACE ALLEN In \u201cSixty-Forty\u201d, a HOMER ROMAINE Aerial Eccentricities Cc.- Beatrice BEVAN & FLINT Lo.\u201cA Slight Interruption\u201d, SAMPSON & DOUGLAS In \u201cWit and Harmony\u201d, Photoplay De Luxe \u201cCAMEO KIRBY\u201d # \u2018ll An idyll of Dixie steamboat days when the Queen of chance held the Chivalrous South in the pal of her hand, featuring John _ GILBERT, GERTRUDE OLMSTEAD and JEAN ARTHUR.\" Subscription List for Reserved Seats Now Open.Reservati ns _< from January 7th, 1924, Every Night Except Saturdays, ° LU Sundays and Holidays.No advance in prices.Afte bil Coxcept Sat Sun.and olidays), 25 Cents, y SIE Suk and Hollday¥, je et visser 1g sis \u201cThe Love Child\u2019 \u2019 At His Majesty\u2019s A Strong Play Finely Acted HE Love Child\u201d at His Majesty's this week, is strong drama, gripping in its poignancy, its swift-moving action, and its : The story would be more plausible were the scene laid in France, as in the original.Transferred to North American soil, with our different moral conceptions or, rather our lack of Gallic frankness in regard to relations that are assumed \u201cwithout benefit of clergy\u201d, the play does not ring so true.SHAKES OFF SHACKLES.Mr, Lee Baker as the lover hna little to do until the third art, an pearing not at ai in the second act.He played to the life the polished man of the world, who becomes resentful of his mistrewm's moulding power over him and determines tu throw off the shackles of love that he may shine in the walks of publi: iite.In his scene with the woman's son he portrayed the now gradual, now swift-changing, conquest of conscience and love over ambition and selfishness very finely and made of what might have been u repellent person a lkeable mun.Pehaps the high acting honors of the play should go to Mr.Kenneth Thomson who played the son.Mr.Thomson had a great deal to do.The part is a heavy one, and calls for great vermatility in depicting the change of moods the metamorphosis of the boy into the man, and the relentless determination of the son to compel justice for the mother even at the sacrifice , of his own clean manhood and a girl's purity.Mr.Thomson proved himself equal to every demand of the character, which might easily have made simp-like instead of simple and straightforward.This young actor has little to learn of his art and wid ripen into a very fine and ospable actor some glad day.Miss Eleanor Williams as one of the demi-mondaine friends of Mrs.Thorne, \u201cthe woman\u201d, was most amusing, wise.cracking merrily throughout the piece and endearing herwelf to the audience for an almost Rabelasian gusto fn her references to \u2018the young plumber\u201d and men generally.As Barry, the butler of Mrs, Thorne, Mr.Harry Gibbs gave u loveable picture of faithful servitor, .acoring heavily though having quite a subordinate part.There is not one badly acted pert in the play, the entire company being worthy of the stars they support, and the finely wrought medium with which Henry Bataille has furnished them for the display of their talents.\\oEW; STARTING SUNDAY A Spectacular Screen- Reel Comedy of a Kertucky Feud, 100 Years Ago.- © \u2018ALSO 6 Vaudeville Acts 6 Chas.F.Strickland And His Entertainers, A Sextette of Peppy Performers in n-Conglomeration of Syncopation.- : BARTO & KENNEDY CLARK & KRAMER MONTE & DONALS ip.LYONS ; SISTERS Including -¥ - A.BW ding \u2014.- == \u2018= \u201cTe -\u2014 - à # » AAA AAI PASM | .uen \u20ac 1s AXE, FRIDAY, D | Next Week\u2019s Theatre Menus His Majesty's IR John Martin-llarvey and his company wil be ut His Ma- S 9 fll the theatre nt every per- 'eemance.sir John great outstanding figure.lle is probably the greatest linglish-speaking very sordinly beepuaks for Sir John and full houses and the rl hest surerxs of his career during actor of the day.THE AXE .his company thia \\ tsi to Monteenl, which will un- 4d .udtedly prove the event of the theatrisal seuasn.Making geod his promise mad when last he appeared here, Sir John will present all of his largest pro- On Monday and Tuesday du-tions, jesty's Theatre nest week.The .nere announcement should be enoukh Martin-Harvey 6 the list of the gront line of actors > whom Nir Henry Irving was the outstanding he will follow the mode of the season and appear in his sprichly version of \u201cThe Tuning of the Shrew\u201d, whi -h New York and Boston critics state is the most lavæhable and entertaining presentation of Rhukespeire's \u201cpleasant conceited historie\u201d ever presented cn a modern stage.On Wednesduy afternoon And evening \u201cHamlet\u201d is to be the otier- ing, Seasoned veterans John's characterization of \u201cThe Melanholy Dane\u201d is most refreshingly different, many claiming that his is the best production of the Bhakespearean marnterplece ever staged.For one performance only, on Thursday evening, \u201cVia Crucis,\u201d the madern version of \u201cEveryman,\u201d in which Sir John scored his last London success, will be presented for the farat time in (\u2018unadu.\u201cVia Crucis\u2019 da perhaps the most colorful production in which he has appeared, the lighting and staging serving to accent to good purpose the passion of the play.This is Sir John's favorite play of all in his repertoire.That the restless ancients of twanty- five centuries ago who craved red- hot, pitiless drama, were not rebuffed by the local magnates, has been proven by the reception which Sir John's production of \u201cOedipus Rex\u201d received in Tondon, New York and Boston.As Nicholas Young, the Lrit- Mant young critic of the Boston \u201cAmerican\u201d, says: \u201clf you didn't TIZOUNE Midnight Show Mon., Dec.31st.11.15 25 PEOPLE 25 18 Dancing Numbers 18 5 Vaudeville Acts 5 Special Scenery Gorgeous Costumes A Rip Roaring BIFF BANG 1924 REVUE HITS ON ALL CYLINDERS Tickets on Sale Now.AT STARLAND St.Lawrence, near Dorchester of many \u201cHamlet\u201d productions state that Sir manage to draw a real theill from sir John Martin-Hlurvey's presentation of Bophocles* \u201cOedipus Ilex\u201d it de perfectly aufe to place the blunie on fuulty digestion.Thore who have a.eurtomed themrelven to dramatic furo made up of Modern me'odrama, tmys- tery plays and shilling shockera discovered in \u201cOedipus Rex\u201d a puy that outstepped the beat thrille- of the lant three neunons.\u201d Princess AUDEVILLIS hus developed a V number of musical headliners mince the band craze started in the two-a-duy, but none of them has been more successful along its chosen line than Ernie Golden and liis Orchest:m of Ten, which comes to the I'rincess Theatre, as one of the features of the bill next week.Another feature of she programme will be Jack Wison, the well known blackface comedian, who specializes In extemporized humor, and presents \u201cA Nonsensical Revue\u201d in which he is amisted by Charles Forsythe, Ruth Wheeler and Willie Wind, \u201cThe China Blue Plate\u201d, a musical legend will be presented Mr.Mliton Aborn.featuring Matt Hanley, William Pollard, John Plerson and Jean Merode.Mr.Abunn has spared no detail in making this producotion one of the finast in vaudeville.Bill Robinson, \u201cThe Dark Cloud of Joy\" late of the team of Cooper and Robinson, offers a highly entertaining turn in songs, dances and talks.«A Friend In Need, Etc.\u201d is an excatient farce, embellished with live laughable dinlogue and hilarious comedy situations.1t is featuring Mann Mollinger and Nicholas Joy, two eminent actors who have been previously seen in vaudeville and also on tho legitimate stage.The little oddity presented by Sylvia Loyal and Co.entitled, \u201cLa Charmeuse de Pigeons\u201d is & visualization of one of the adventures of Fairyland.Imperial LNEE NOEL and Waiter C.R Percival will be seen at the Imperial next week in a comedy romance entitled \u201cReg in the Bag\u201d, a playlet from the pen of Damon Runyon.Vivian Holt and Myrtle Leonard have come forward with the big surprise act of the season.In an intimate song recital these two talented girls have an offering that bids fair to make itself one of the classics of vaudeville.\u201cA Slight Interruption\u201d is the billing Ralph C.Bevan and Beatrice Flint give their own private blend of comedy talk and song.The songs are interrupted by talk and the talk interrupted by song and both inter- LAURIER Je MAISONNEUVE DNTARIO & LASALLE \"FRIDAY, SATURDAY ; \u201cThe Common Law\u201d } With CORINNE GRIFFITH MILTON SILLS, and Others.BABY PEGGY In \u201cMILES AND SMILES.\u201d ap + em + mana 7 ruptions result in sixteen nilnutes of most palatable entertainment.I \u201cgixty-Forty\u201d (loo, N.Burns and Grace Allen have a timely skit.Me is à super-sophisticated youth and rhe oqually as unsophiaticated and the two extremes are the basls for bright dialogue and clever songs.Samson and Douglas will be seen in a farvica! skit culled wit and Harmony\", just a little of this and à little of that.Homer Romaine bs an aerial eccentric.Îlis routine of feats cumouflaged with fun compose a program which rhowa him to be à gymnast and a comedian of worth.\u201cCameo Kirby\u201d, from the pen of Rooth Tarkington and Huy Jeon Wilson, featuring John Gilbert, Ger!- rude Oimsted, Jean Arthur and Alan Male, is the feature ploture for the week.It's an idyll of Dixio steamboat days when the quecn of chance hed the chivalrous south in the palm of her hand.\u2019 Loew's CEE I'RIEND of ours recently.suw A a motion picture during the course of @ visit to New York, and he came back home bouut - ing that picture as the best he hns geen in his lite.\u201cFor laughs its the best ever,\u201d wan his declaration.The picture was \u201cOur Hospitality\", fe: turing Bumer Kenaton-\u2014and the same laugh-getter comes to Loews as the feature film attraction on next woeks bill.This ls it For severnl generations the Canfields and McKays had been merrily \u201cteuding*.Bitterness had been passed on from father to son, and the Canfield and McKay women had grown used to seeing their men die in their boots.Wikiam McKay, last of the great line returns to his native heath from New York.He doesn't even know there has ever been a feud, for he was sent north as & baby.From the moment of his return things begin to happen to him both in the feudist and romantic line.The rest of if you can figure for yourself, taking our word for it that you can go prepared to laugh.Natalie Talmadge (Mrs.Buster Keaton) plays opposite her husband in this picture, as does their baby, Buster the Se cond.On the vaudeville side of the bill are the Donals Sisters, lady gymnasts: Kennedy and Kramer, a dancing team; Welser and Reiser in \u201cDarktown Foliles of 1933\"; Barto and Clark, a snappy team who ars declared to have & novel offering in \u201cColumbia and Victor\u201d; Monte and Lyons in a \u201cLetter from Italy\" and Charles H, Strickland and his band, a syncopatic organisation which has received excellent notices elsewhere on the circuit.Gayety \u2014 EXT week, The Bon Tonsheaded by John Barry CTI Kill \u2018em\u201d) will be the attraction at The Gayety.From reporis received by Manager Lawrence from other managers of houses on the Columbia Circuit which The Bon Tons have played en route to Montreal the show is one of the best of the season.John Barry is one of TRE FRIDAY, SATURDAY Constance Talmadge DULCY | N * \"TE n TOMES Ire pub oC Soo.RB cepa an rnrraren io ne \u201c ar EA EE AE EAE I PEE \u201cRing Out the Old, Ring in the New\u201d - New Year's Eve Celebration at the CORONA HOTEL Special Entertainment $5.00 Per Person Reserve Your Table Now! \u2018 pr = \u2014\u2014 ppp \u201c\u2026o Up.\u2019 3840 Le - ET me S DIPD EI PIRIRARIMIE own fh rea tatt viet ee KUEMUEN EUR, FUZS LA y \\ HAPYY NEW YEAR\", the lutent comedy confection À offering played by Tue oune, Bert Faso and u cever, javsy chorus of pretty girls la Stavland'e main attraction next week.The chorus ne-embled together by manager Harold Vance je one of the most attractive he has banded together thin season.Their doncing is fur above the average, their looks still higher and their costumes both original and attractive.\u201cA Happy New Yenr\u201d is one of the first revues of the 1924 neuson.to play in Montreal nnd is a breathless whirl of mirth and melody, one laugh crowding the other, and feature chasing feature right through to the clectric novelty finale, \u2019 Manager Vance with Tizoune and Fessio have Sturland contifuing Lo set new attendance flgurés for a the outstanding comedians of Columbia Burlesque and is said to be in great form this season.There are fifteen novel and peppy scenes in the show ahd a sparkling chorus of twenty \u201cBeautiful Budding Belles\u201d.The belles wil ring out the old year and ring in the new to the great delight of all concerned.The production is up to the Jacobs and Jermon standard and wil provide Montreal with a feast of comedy and a flow of merriment all next week, For New Year's Eve Manager lawrence has arranged two performances, the first at 7.30, the scc- ond at 10 p.m., and csat reservations for both these shows are being eagerly grabbed up.It will be wise for everybody intending to take in either of the shows to get their sents booked ahead.At this stage of the Columbin Burlesque season it 1s well to look back awhile.The shows have a been good, some of them super: latively so, during the first part of the season.Columbia Burlesque, as presented at The Gayety this season, has been a high-cloas entertainment and an immense improvement on old style burlesque.While to-day much more refined and artistic, Columbia Burlesque has preserved all its old snap, vim and pep and, while one of the best of enter- tainmentg for the whole family, in s'il! burlesque with all its old appeal to the lovers of the burlesque of yore \u2018Try it for yourse\" +, soon.Palace attending The Palace this week he will need no explanation of why \u201cThe Hunchback of Notre Dame\" is being held over next week.Every performance of this epoch- making picture has seen capacity in T anybody has seen the crowds the house, and there is n» word dearer to Manager George *sky's word, warm heart than that bles .capacity, The pioture is reviewed in this issue of THE AXE and therefore no words of description or comment are necessary here.On all eldes we have heard the most marked approval and appreciation of \u201cThe Hunchback of Notre Dame\u201d, \u2018and especially of Lon Chaney's fine performance in the name part.And you know, it is this word-of- mouth advertising that is the best guide to a picture's or e show's worth.Everybody who has been to The Palace this wek is boosting the picture, Even our reviewer while commenting adversely on the producer's changes in the story, raves over the picture as & picturé.So what can we say better than, \u201cgo and see it for yourse:ves while you have opportunity\u201d.= 1) CAB aaa for pris vel EN mad Starland Has Brand-New Comedy for New Year's Festivities The Dansant The Couvert Charge, One Dollar, ARET INCLUDING MISS MABEL LANE PRIMA DONNA MISS OLGA THOMAS and MISS CAVORDA Early Reservations Suggested New Year's Eve New Year\u2019s Eve family theatre.During the past ulx - teen weeks they have payed to enp- uchty houses, without à minK @ exception and have proven that the exet- tion of every effort to plenne faith- fui audiences from all section of tha city by putting on entirely new musion] comedy offerings and filing each week, is the bust policy.The advance sule of tickets fu the big New Yeur's eve wpeciul ete: tainment has been | excentionily keen, the bulk of the cen*re mection having already heen rese ved.Fhe performance, which will he in at 11.30 p.m., in for the benefit at the employes, will muster the oniire company of eighteen peuple \u201cwith a largely augmented orchestra.The bill includes the new comedy sketch, elghteen mong and dance numbers and specinl solos, It koka like the best bet of the night.Capitol ME Capitol management un- [ noutices as the mainstay of its .New Year's program the latest Jackie Coogan offering \u201clonx Live the King\u201d In this respect probably the best thing to be sald 14 to \u201ccril® the remarks of \u2018an Afnejoan contemporury on the suhje t.In reviewing \u201cLong Live \u2018the King\", Robert Bherwood, New York critic, had this to say: \u201cLong Live the King!\" is Ji fe ent from all the previous Jackie Coogan productions, but it is as good as tho best of them.Following the cusrent trend on the screen, Jackie han g:n?in heavily for romantic dramn; In \u201cLong Live the King!\" he \u2018ays it ile hig treditional ragged useruls an dons the royal raiment of à Dp ne, In ane of than cet TU ° that appear in every college mulled show, \u2019 = _\u2026 mtory of the piece is by Mary Roberts Rinehaat, and Victor Bchertsinger directed it.Between them they have given Jackie Coogan an opportunity to shine as he has never shone before.\u201cLong Live the King!\u201d is a grand picture.Midway LAVE OF DESIRE\" which S has been playing to capacity audiences in New York's first run theatres, in which George Walsh is starring, is the joint feature attraction at the Midway Theatre today and tomorrow.The other star number is the great six-reeler \u201cPawn Ticket 210\", atar- ring Shirley Mason, the two plc.tures reinforced by a side-splitting Christie Comedy.On Sunday and Monday \u201cSoft Boiled\u201d, will be the feature.Pola Negri's great picture \u201cThe Spanish Dancer\u201d, in ten parts plays Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, supported by Ben Turpin's latest comedy \u201cPitfaËs Big City\".Napoleon-Nelson Beautiful Constance\u2019 Talmadge whose followers are legion is being seen today and tomorrow at both the Napoleon \u2018Palace and the Lord Nelson, in one of her latest films, \u201cDulcy\"\u201d.\u2018This picture is one of the best the great \u201cConny\u201d has turned out from her studios and should attract a record week-end crowd.The usual other attractions will complete a first class bill Entirely Redecorated For ' 4.30 P.M, \u2014 6.30 P.M.\"NEW YEAR'S AFTERNOON Include; Teasas bass.of a ° THR AXE, TRIDAY, DECEMBER 28th, 1923 [__ Where to Go This Week | HIS MAJESTYS NAPOLEON PALACE AND OLLOWING ol close upon the \u201cThe Love Child.\u201d LORD NELSON F Reels of the flood of arrests exarmarie THNCESS | Constance Talmage in \u201cDulcr\u201d [man gorsmment oe ampure.of Jocko the Cruw and other acts VENETIAN one Jog exporters, who aig Blossom Hath naines, five Con Orchestre.Special fenturge for United Fates, * he Eng | police other Keith acta and \u201cFoolish Parents\u201d.LOEW'S BAGDAD ; J.Robert Pauline, § other acts and \u201cBuper-jass Girls\u201d revue and after- | 4 holiday week and New Years Eve.[have |polgn of their own.line from the \u2018continent to Cana- | aced with an extraordinary activ- War on Dope Is Extended instituted à relentless cam- ith the closing up of the direct an and American ports, the smug- der, diverted their traffic via Engand with the result that the British] lice forces found themselves Wesley Dairy in \u201cThe Couatry| theatre dancing.Special attractions | Kia\".tor Saturday night and New Years | ve.CAPITOL \u2018allare Deery in \u201cRichard the Lion CORONA HOTEL Hearted\", PALACE Lon Chaney inp \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\u201d.MIDWAY .\u201cSlave of Desire,\u201d and \u201cPawn Ticket 210.\u201d STARLAND Tisoune and Co.in \u201cMerry Christmas\", and pictures.KING EDWARD Musical cumédy and pictures.PASSE TEMPS Milton Sills in \u201cskin Deep.\u201d LAURIER-\u2014\u2014MAISONNEUVE Milton Bills in \u201cSkin Deep\u201d; Baby Peggy in \u201cMiles and Smiles\u201d Cancer Cure Reward A - À Boon to Fakersu made by Lord Atholstan, which has spurred quacks, charls-led through the interception by the T HE famous \u201cnobody'll-get-it\"! offer of $100,000, for a cancer cure,(ly $175,000, His arrest was effect tans and _ pill-peddiers on to still greater efforts, is having a\\ipolice of a shipment valued at $43,- highly lurid sequel in England.Case upon-case of these frauds are being aired in the English courts, one of the most sensational being that of David Williams which is now in|years imprisonment with hard labor.progress, Co SUFFER TERRIBLE PAIN Astonishing pain and disfigurement endured by a variety of people, who imagined they were undergoi g \"\u201ccures\u201d for cancer, were described to the magistrates, Willlams was charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Mrs.Alice Fairham, of Tinckle street, Bentley, and also with obtaining $60 from Mms.Fairham by false pretences.In the county court recently Mry, Falrham was awarded $200 for gpmages alleged .to have been caused by defendant's treatment for.canñcer\u2014Mr.R.P.Pashley, for the Public Prosecutor, mentioned that apart from the\u2019 present charges for further ones of indicting grievous bodily harm would be preferred in respect of other people and there would also be additional cases of obtaining money by false pretences.In four instances the individuals Jad died.Prisoner at one time was a coal miner.He then became a farmer, and next a carter with his own horses.In 1916 he became a baker, and three yearns alter commenced a so-called cancer cure as his only source of employment.In a circuler which he had printed he guaranteed a cue without operation, His treatment, he claimed, destroyed the \u201cfoot and fangs\u201d spread over the system, and the circular concluded, \u201cNo oure,' no pay.\u201d \u201c8ERVANT OF GOD,\u201d Another circular described Williams as the \u201cservant of the most high God\u201d and referred to the \u201cblessing God had bestowed upon him and upon mankind.\u201d \u201cHe commenced to experiment on humah beings, and the cruelty he inflicted was terrible,\u201d continued Mr.Pashley.\u201cHe had no system.His one @b- ject, apparently, was personal gain, and to obtain as much money as he could out of\u201d his victims.He had no knowledge of cander \u2018at all, but,>un- \u201cfortunately for hië.victims, he had a very thorough knowledge of, the treatmént of horse.\u201d Bôoks on veterinary \u2018work belonging to him were found when he wes'afrested.Various ointments and pastes which he used had been analysed, and a veterinary .gurgeon asserted \u2018that all the: substances used were- employed .daily.as external application in the treatment of animals, A$ a result of the corrosive employed,\u2019 prisoner's patients had suffered from sores, boils, -eruptidtis and loss of blood.In some cases lumps of flesh had been taken, away, and the other details werd too horriblé to mention.Mrs.Fairham was 66; and for a considerable number of years had ben treated by a competent \u2018doctor\u2019 for a glandular tumour of the breast, which was not cancer.Thinking that she was suffering from cancer, she got.into touch with prisoner, whom she agreed to pay $10 a week, One lotion Wiliams applied was 80 powerful that the womap'e mouth- had to store.LL ity in the dope traffic.After theatre dancing.Big features for New Years Eve celebrations.POLICE DIFFICULTIES The difficulty the authorities SAVOY have to face ia \u2018ease with which Dinner and supper dancing to -the [cocaine can be smuggled in.o the Italian Jazz Orchostrs; dig fea-[country.A sailor or travel | com- - - tures.New Years Eve: ing from Belgian, French, G :rman, PE or Dutch ports can easily carry lair- STANLEY HALL ly large quantities of cocaine with- Dancing.Chicago's Jass Orchestra at |out arousing suspicion, and the re- New Year's Eve Revels.laxation of regulations at the ports ARENA which hag taken place during the past few years has rendered gmug- Hockey: Canadiens vs.Bt.Pats.|gling even less difficult.Saturday Night .STIFF SENTENCES KRAUSMAN'S Among the legion of traffickers \u2018 utfled.|}! Special New Year's Eve celebration.who have been rounded up, the most important capture was that of a Japanese Yasukichi Miyagawa, who ported as a London merchant, but who was conducting 4 huge dope His books showed that a \u2018transactions with the Hamburg ring had aggregated near- 000, Miyagawa was sentenced to three Other traffickers are receiving si- milarly heavy sentences.gravated the complaint It was a powerful caustic, consisting of lead of prisoner's treatment, Mns.Fairham\u2019's condition was rendered malignant, and at present she was prone to the development of cancer.Mr.Pashley described the exper- fence of prisoner's other patients.One man, he stated, was nearly mad T least two divisions of awipg to Willlam's treatment, This A fistiana will ses new cham- was Mr.James Baddiley, to whom pions in 1924, the one to sup- accused gave a small bottle, the |Plant Benny Leonard, holder of the contents of which were \u201cworth ten |liShtweight crown the other To take cents a drop,\u201d and this contained his|the place of Pittsburg Harry Greb secret.He cut up two figs, poured | Who won his title when he out- the so-called secret over them, and Pointed Johnny Wilson in a fifteen instructed the patient to eat the figs [round go in New Yorkwhen at work.Williams once wrote: | It 18 not likely that either will lose \u201cThe Lord has given me power to|bhis crown in tlie ring, but that each cure cancer.\u201d He told one man wuf- | must step out of his present class fering from cancer on the tongue [&Nd fight in the heavier ranks, Leothat he would cure him completely |[nard himself, is authority for the in six weeks, the fee being $15 a [statement that he can\u2019 no longer week, To that man he gave some [fight at 135 pounds, Confidential brandy, and in it put drops of what though Leonard's statement to this he called the \u201csecret cure.\u201d A youth [effect is supposed to have been.if has named Hutchings who was treated | leaked, just as most fistic.\u201cconf by prisoner died.A doctor would tell |dences\u201d leak and become the pro- the magistrates that prisoner\u2019s treat- [perty of a thousand ears.: ment had not arrested the comp'aint READY TO ao.7 in\u201dany way.\u2018\u2019The poultice used by| Already Leonard has shown that he Williams was composed of linseed, [is capable of reigning as junior lard, sulphate of copper and extract welterweight,\u201d for he knocked out of lead.He got $90.for the treat- \u201cPinkie\" Mitchell, holder of that ment \u2018of the boy, and in another ltitle, in ten rounds when there were case $150 was obtained.A mrinér was |no titles at stake.treated, find his union subsoribed | Probably the best evidence of the $95.towards the cost.Williams ap- | fact that Leoffard hes outgrown the plied lotion for cancer on the tongue, | lightweight division is found in the and four holes appeared in the man's | repeated efforts of his manager to neck.Mr.Pashley gave details of [match him with .Mickey \u2018Walker, other cases, in which -the people| Walker is making his living now- treated bad died.In reply to the jadays in fights outside New York, one case that he did pot say pri- against \u2018fighters of whom he has no soner's treatment caused death.\u2014 fear but in a bout with Leonard, Mrs.Fairham, giving évidence, stated where he would run grave risk of that when she - exprésséd' \u2018dissatis- losing his crown, it ts only natural faction with the treatment, Wäljams [that he -won't want to fight without proposed .that he \u201cshould submit her-|a \u2018tremendous gate.\u2018Walker's last bout to X-rays.She asked him -fon her wis with Moe Herscovitch of Montmoney back, \u201cbut, could- not; \u201cget.oit.real, Toronto being the Aceñe of the She was worse riqw than before JV fracas, and: the mat \u2018the scene of llams treated-heï, LL - Moe\u2019s finish, On that occasion Wal- _ The case - ry atl] \u201cprodecdiie: ker made à public statement that he srg lat S chy COME and CELEBRATE SPECIAL | -New Year\u2019s Eve and New YearaDay - DINNER AND SUPPER, 75 CENTS Wonder-Taste Chosolates.and Bon: » 49c.per box.You will fnd many other dainties 0° on the counters at SE MASCOT CONFECTIONERY known as \u201cblue vitrla As a rent] 200 Much Beef Forcin Bennie Leonard and Greb \u201cTo.Forsake Fistic Crowns chairman, he remarked in regard to|contenting himself with small gates | end RESTAURANT de LUXE.313 Blewiy (3 Doors $ \u2018 would confine his activities for the present to Canada and Cuba, but îts a cinch bet that a battle with Bennie in New York or Jersey would quickly drag him home\u2014if he could only get the boxing commissions over the border to let him into the ring.GREB TOO HEAVY.Harry Greb, like Leonard, is now too heavy for the class in which he won\u2019 his title, Harry weighed 171 pounds recently after training for a TI TLEGRAMS Owing to lack of space Titlegrams received this week cannot be published, Following are the winners of the three prizes offsred:\u2014 FIRST PRIZE Mrs.E.Fox, Two seats at His : Majesty's.SÉCOND PRIZE F.E.Mison, Two seats at The Imperial.THIRD PRIZE E.E.'Hirsch, Two seats at The Gayety.BERT FAS8IO Tizouns\u2019s partner and co-star in \u201cA Happy New Year\u201d.ons mem bout with Gene Tunney, the American light heavyweight titleholder, This seems convincing enough that the \u2018Pittsburgh Jumping jack ne .longer can scale in at the middleweight Umit of 160 pounds.Great Values At.National Florists A great many Montreal ghls \u2014 8i3 or seven hundred of them \u2014 awakened on Christmas morning to find the dainty blooms of amlea waiting to greet them on the breakfasi table.National Florists, who became \u201cAzalea Specialists de Luxe\u201d for the Yuletide season were the p oviders 01 the \u2018flagrant blossoms - .ia the sweethearts of the young ladies.Seriously a visit to the National Shops at Christmas time served to\u2019 show us just what values - these flowers-shops are offering every day in comparison to competitors, For \u2018that reason we are pleased to recommend National Florists\u2019 shops to our readers.PALMISTRY CRESCENTIA, noted Palmist and Psychologist 628 St.Catherine St.W.(Opposite Ogilvy\u2019 s) HOURS: \u20142 t0 6, 7 to 8 p.m.Phone Up.7062.! Fees, $1 and $2.You'll get the finest dinner in town here! re > FULL COURSE ROAST TURKEY DINNER \u201c 7Be.SLICED CHICKEN DINNER - 60c.ë \u2018Cooking and Service Most Excel \u201c Assorted Chocolates, in boxes.A big yaristy, in bulk .\u2026.\u2026.wee Cosy Parlor Orchestra afternoon you'll take home in your feet.When y you're down town.(hosing, d dine- \u2018hore; \u201cyou'll, \u201cfind \u201cour NEW YEAR'S CANDIES AT MOST T REASONABLE g PRIGES: coe eens oT Toes asb caer sees aves 685 1b, Bong Bons, in boxes eee sree vues sere sare see Ribbon Candy for the Kiddies coor esse anne\u201d see anne v0ss 00e BBC.Ib, we \u2026\u2026\u2026 40c.and 50c.Îbss vues seve ess sees es BBC.Ib.» see sree sess vere AOC.Iband evenings; playing music The cos Y PARLOR \u2018 OPPOSITE GOODWIN'S FULL COURSE 1 ; \u201c Ë Dr.HOLLICK\u2019S AXE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 200, 1923 Tage 10 THE \u201cThe Promise of Labor Banking F (Continued from Page 2) and purposes.Jt ssemed to be concerned as ever with wages and hours and jurisdictional disputes and indifferent te wider areas of interest and influence.Yet, in little more than three years the following banks have been organized: LE Me, Vornen Sovinge Bank, Machiniste, Washiagten, D.C.Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Coeperative National Bank, Lossmotive Engilnsers, Clovelasd, O.Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Chicago, lll.Cooperative Bank and Trust Ce, Laber Groupe, Tucson, Aris.People\u2019s Cooperative State Bank, Lesometive Engineers, Hammond, Ind.Producers and Consumers Beak, Labor Groups, Philadelphia, Pa, Brotherhood Trust & Saviage Bank, Railway Bretherhoods, San Bernardine, Cal.Federated Bank and Trust Ce, Lecometive Engineers and State Federation, Birmingham, Ala.| Labor National Bank of Montana, Railways Brothorhoods, Three Forks, Mont.Transpertation Brotherhoods National Bank, Railway Bretherheods, Minneapolis, Minn.Telegraphers National Bank, Railrend Telegraphers, St.Louis, Me.Amalgamated Bank of New York, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, New York City.Brother hood Savings & Trust Co, Railroad Unions, Pittsburg, Pa.Federation Bank of New York, Central Labor Council, New York City.Brotherhood of Railway Clerks National Bank Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Cincinnaë, O.Brotherhood Cooperative National Bank, Railread Unions, Spokane, Wash.Fraternity Trust Co., Railroad and other unions, Harrisburg, Pa.Potomac Trust Co.Railroad Unions, Potomac, Va.Jaternational Union Bank, Ladies Garment asd Needle Trèdes Unions, New Yerk City.Bretherhes@ ef Locometiv, Kaginers Bank of New York, Locomotive Engineers, New York City.All but the last two are now open.The bank of the Ladies Garment Workers will begin business on January 5 next and that of the Locomotive Engineers early in 1924.In addition to these twenty banks, athers are already being organized by the telegraphers in Boston, the \u201central Labor Union in Buffalo, and by various labor groups in Los Angeles, Port Huron, Michigan, and Indianapolis, Labor banks are, nowever, now multiplying go rapidly in number that there is no assurance that \u2018this list is a complete one.Explanations for the astonishing rise and development of this movement are likely to be as many as there are persons offering them.Mr.Richard Boeckel, author of the first book on the subject, attributes the phenomenon to the realization by trades unionists of the failure of their tactics of the past.He conceives them as convinced that they ure at the end of their rope and that no striking progress is to be expected by means of the time-honored methods of collective bargaining.The substantial progress of the future must be made by excursions into the fields of business and industrial control; and of all spots where such control may be tried that of banking affords the readiest and most attractive possibilities.It is, it seems to me, futile to pursue such speculation, Whether it originated by accident or design, and much may be said for either explanation, the significant fact is that the movement for the organization of labor banks is the first unorthodox activity of American DELIGHTFUL NEWYEAR'SGIFTS Our recommendation for appropriate New Year's Presents to bind .friendship and express intelligent selection includes the following: OUTLINE OF HISTORY (H.G.WELLS) COMPLETELY REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED.° PRICE: $5.00; BY MAIL, $5.25 MARRIAGE GUIDE The Matrons\u2019 Manual of Midwifery and Child Bir:h, includes valuable information concerning Diseases af Generative Organs.» Îlluatrated: Price, $5.00; By Mail, $5.25.ELEANOR GLYN'S FAMOUS BOOK \u201cThe Philosophy of Love\u201d.Price: $2.00.By Mail, $2.15.: BOOKS MAKE THE BEST PRESENTS We have all kinds of books suitable for Christmas Presents, including Novels, Biography, Poetry, Etc, Etc.See our stock before by buying elsewhere gnd comparé prices, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \"© BIBLES \u2014 PRAYER BOOKS \u2018 : Roman Cathelic tnd Chireh of ngiends Alvaro an POPULAR BOOK STORE 16 ST.CATHERINE STREET WEST IE iv \u2019 \u201cTelephone: \u2018Platéau, agit\" 4 2 li .