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Important World Happenings Are Told in Pictures TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAY PORTLAND, AUGUST 20, 101G. IMPORTANT WORLD HAPPENINGS ARE TOLD IN PICTURES A Boys of Plymouth Juvenile School Forego Vacation to Help Keep Allies Supplied With Ammunition Women Achieve Ambition, Founding School for Women Dentists. .As' r wx 7 1 rr? fir V-- - ' j 'A .V TrxoZorzn u? on T 1 () Sr tzZt t is oo t boys of the Plymouth Juvenile THE School are hard at work at "4 i: benches in the shops, doing V. all they can to increase the output of munitions. They are even sacrificing ' t their holidays in order that the tol-die- rs fighting at the front may. profit by ever hour and minute, and that tha supply of ammunition may not run low. if. i , 3 The first school in New York state to be devoted exclusively to' the train- ing of women to become dental has just opened nt Hunter Col- lege building-- New York City. It is affiliated with the Vanderbilt Dental Clinic, College of Physicians and Sur- ,4 geons, Columbia University. A young woman is the founder and director of tho training school." She is Miss Louise C. Ball, A. B., LL. D., end in the opening of the school she f is realizing the ambition of her life. Miss Ball was an honor pupil through her course of study in school and col-jig- e. She was graduated from Uie 7? Morris High School and the Normal 2 College. In addition to being the vale- dictorian of her class, she was awarded 4 the prize for pedagogy and psychology and also received the award of the board of education for general excel- ' lence in her studies. Her ambition was ZTep as rz 'A to become a D. D. S., and in this first school to be devoted to the care of children's teeth she realizes it. A tractor Is being used by the United States troops in Mexico to flat- ten down the' bumps that, make roads near the American base camp at Co- 7-- h .'1fct lonic Dublan truly Mexican. Bumps' and mounds are the rule, smooth stretches being the exception. This machine weighs about 27,300 pounds or almost 14 tons. ft Aden, once one of the chief Arabian ports, is now a stronghold of British India, and one of the most strongly fortified British ports in that part of the world. On the very edge of x7; Arabia, which is in a ferment on ac- count of the Turkish attempt to make the present seem a "Holy war" to the Arabs, Aden is one of the most Im- 4 portant strategic points of the British. The Arab chiefs in its vicinity are paid regularly by the British and so far they have been kept from open revolt, but many of the tribes in the interior have been reported as fighting on the side of the Turks and the unrest caused in India has been admitted by the British to be most serious. The Italian liner Re d'Ualia la said to have driven off three enemy subma- rines and possibly sunk one of them. These attacks by merchantmen on- sub- marines with guns mounted "for de- fense" are the Justification alleged for t" AAJi'.W ...... its submarine campaign by Germany. Germany's claim that if a merchantman can attack a trail submarine without 2 i warning, the su'omrine should have the same right in relation to the merchant ship is denied by our Government. It was for attacking a submarine that -- the Germans executed Captain Fryatt. 7 of England, on the ground that he was a rrano tireur" of the seas. The cap tain of the Re d'ltalia may meet the ful series of concerts at Ocean Grove siasm of this moment nefr abated. same rate if he falls Into German season, are This was followed by the Wieniawskt or Austrian hands. this where the audiences "Faust" fantasy and by a long series supplied by all the Long Branch re- of The group included School for Women Jenia Allen-hurs- t. extras. small One of the sights nf rhurlnttA &9?'gJ;J sorts, such as Deal. Elberton, the Bach air on the CI string, which in Inter-lake- n A 'Amalie in the Danish West Indies is mittee and members of their families American financial conference held West End, Long Branch. never sounded fuller, more resonant or the flight of 103 steps. The Danish sailed on the steamship Vestris re- Washington last year. and Asbury Park. Small won- more appealing. This was followed vtst Indies are very hilly. cently for Brazil. The delegation will be received as the cream of musical audiences by an exquisitely colored performance honored guests by the countries they der that of Oui's This delegation i3 going to investi- - Saturday night the Cesar 'Orlentsle." the machine-gu- n visit. The personnel of the- party is was in attendance when A section of the regu gate opportunities Sum- Schubert "Ave Maria" and Kreisler's Jar Army is guarding the for the establish- highly representative of the world of Mischa Elman emerged from his pro- border of ment - 4 "La Chasse." and the official i exas with guns pointed toward of closer business relations with business of the United States- of North v mer rest to play the first concert of his gramme closed with the Sarasata juexico. Brazil and was appointed by Secretary America, and particularly those activi- new season at the auditorium in. the "ZiKeunerwelaen." of th Treasury McAdoo to pay a re- are extending foreign well-nig- h overwhelming ties which into . - r jT presence of not less than 6000 persons. Following a turn visit to Brazil, in compliance with commerce. Dr. Richard B. Strong is t i - The com- - 'rf Such an audience, under the existing demonstration he played several of th financial i.nd commercial the invitation extended at the Pan- - chairman of the vlsitine: committee. circumstances where people are warned favorite Kreisler compositions and a under no conditions to go into crowds, number of his own. on the whole giving was a demonstration of significance. more "extras" than original numbers. There have been many ovations ten- The programme was well designed for ARTISTS LEAVE RETREATS AT CALL 3 dered Elman. among others of the a Summer audience, but in itself it favorites of the great American public, bristled with technical difficulties, all but there was certainly . never any of which were dispatched in a manner OF LOVERS OF SUMMER CONCERTS greater outbreak than at the conclu- than made the most hardened listener sion of his concert Saturday night, gasp. Walter Henry Rothwell Becomes Public when he almost doubled his original Elman Introduced a new accompanist Idol and Is Assisted in Musical Programmes by Mme. Gadski Mischa programme by the number of "extras" In the person of Philip Gordon, a high- Elman Is Cheered After Recital and Audience Lines Walk Leading to Car. with which he supplemented it. ly skilled pianist, who will, no doubt, Long after he had taken at least give him excellent support, to judge 15 or 20 calls the house was darkened from the first concert, which is natur- BY E1IILIE FRANCES BAUER. up, but so it has been with this great duct an orchestra composed of 60 play, and he was compelled to return to the ally a trying experience. Mr. Gordon YORK, Aug. 19. More than man, of whom the most extravagant ers from the Boston Symphony Or stage Just in acknowledgement at has an unusually fine technic, a good persons things .may be, heard. Indeed, some of chestra. , or eight times, each time the sense of rhythm and of color. were turned away best-know- "Elijah" as least six NEW the n music-lover- s oratorio concerts, acted as conductor cert will have attraction Madison-Squar- e and critics The artists engaged include Marcella with Grace Kerns. Nevada Van der vast audience cheering and waving Garden have freely expressed the remark that Craft. Alma Gluck. Florence Hinkle of the Mendelssohn Glee Club and of handkerchiefs, hats, scarfs and pro- Lucy Tuesday night, when Walter Henry Mr. Rothwell has been' a (her appearance Society, Veer. Albert Linquist and Louis grammes. demonstra- Gates is now taking a real Rothwell gave a Wagner programme, revelation: first since her mar the newly formed Beethoven Graveure. The last offering will be Nor was this a rest after the pressure of all her mu- that there have been few conductors riage). Marie Sundelius, who will be a but he 'also conducted the open - air Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion." when tion of women: indeed, there were Mme. may to compare in y. stop sical duties, particularly as impresario with Gadski as soloist. It with him ever heard member of the Metropolitan Opera performance of Verdi's "Requiem," will be Corinne Rider-Kelse- more men than women. It did not be added that never has the been America and, so far as his future inl company next season; Henriette Wake Grounds in New York, the soloists here, for as he left the hall to enter since her return to her own state in heat country is concerned, may Percy given at the Polo Henriette Wakefield. Paul so cruel in New York as during those this it be field. Grainger, Theodore Karle, and the "Caliban" masque given under Draper and Reinald Werrenrath. The the waiting automobile he faced almost the West, where she appeared not only --- said that there is no post to which he Lambert Murphy, up on 48 hours; it was evident that - may Wilfred.
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