South Bend News-Times, Volume 34, Number 280, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 7 October 1917 — Page 26

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIN

Uncle Harry's Current Event Talks For the Youngsters.

i:.jl.uks hkoimiw hvttli: LINtCS in famimaii ti:kms. "Jimmy." f.isd T'ncle Harry, "what would you think If you were to read in the nfwiai'fr a war dispatch like this.: "It I officially announM that the Germans have captured the. city of lJuluth. the Russian army having retired to petitions south of the city. In expectation of the fall of the city, a lare part "'f the eivilian population fled before the advancing Germans, the roads leading j-outh into Wisconsin Leln rilled with fugitives carrying their hastily gathered belongings. "On the "e?tern front, the allied artillery continues a fierce bombardment of the German position eat of Salt Lake City, the French having made Important gains j-outh of " Jimmy, Joe and Helen had been listening In open-mouthed astonishment and they could now contain themselves no longer. "Why. Uncle Harry." they fairly shouted, "what do you mean; are you Joking?" "No, indeed," he replied. $mlllng ixt the astonishment of his hearers. "I was Mmply giving you an Idea of the. war area of Europe In terms Gf United States localities." At this point Uncle Harry took a folded ;-heet of paper from his pocket. As ho opened It out on the THE WESTERN FRONT WOULD EXTEND HALFWAY FROM NEWYOBK, TO CHICAGO 9: 4 table, the children could tee that it contained an outline map of the United State?. In the center of the map appeared a large area extending practically from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. Jimmy, Joe and Helen bent oer the map and observed it oloely. "This." betrau Uncle Harry. "!s Tie of the most interesting war mips I've ever Fern. Can any of you tell me what the shaded portion represents?" Helen was the fh-s-t to reply: "It's

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After a tiresome trip up the White river. Ralph Fanders pushed the prcr.v of his cance into the bank ajvl then began making a home in the edge of the uzark country. After getting a patch of mountain and valley into wme eem- ! dance of a home, he wan Strieker! and died. Sanders was an unmarried man, and the one whom he na.XT.ed as heir to the little epeck of a mountain homo was Grace Milton. .then In her early 'teens. It -vas with no little degree of surprise that young Miss Milton received the announcement at her home in Virginia, that she was the heir to a certain tract of land in the. ark mountain country. 'ho turned the bv.Fir.es of Feeing i.fter tho property over to a lawyer cousin, and forgot all about it. And v.hen this cousin moved to another ity few years later, he handed Grace Milton the papers pertaining tt her property. She filed them uway and forgot them again. The months Ktretched into years! during the time that the little place hud no tenant, and the space that Jlalph Sanders had cleared there in the forest became a wild Jumble of J :.oung pine, sassafras and bamboo.! And before long the low housa that. he 1ml built was completely hidden from the rier. Over the place tho razor-back hogs and lean cows from the neighboring farms came to loraco on the young growth. There, too, the children of the comrrunty c.imo to rlay at hide-and-seek among the joumr pines that rose hke giant needles over the yard. In the rooms of the house, still partly lurnlshcd. they played "keeping house" uith no one to take exception to the noise they made in their riotous frolicking. Iater still, these fame children came to ronm through the growth on their childhood playground, two by two, as lovers in that more quiet world where two is company and three is a croxd. Meanwhile Grace Milton was growing up In the society of her s.urrour.dings. forgetful of the little wilderness that passing from her pesses.-ien Lecaus. of unpaid taxes. While she dreamed dream?, the half-wild children that played over her western property grew up to reverence the m-mory of the little deserted pi. ice that had been their ur.ret rictej pl.ty en ilnd. and they c.ime lack to the .-pot years later with half-formed thoughts of a hone just like It. Spring had coine .t-iin .r.d Yirg;! Terris. or.-.- if th- l.s u ho had iom;e l over the j l c . . ujw a stal--.v.irt man. ii-L'an . burin.: away tho young growth. i;tt'.- thinking that this ry :,. t u.c.M r -t.re to him h s'.v .it .'it!i "bom he had i iar : e'.'-.J. About this time (Jruce .Milton was i teiiin vainly fur tome refuge-.

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the amount of territory covered by the countries at war." she ventured. That's the time you were wrong. Helm." said Uncle Harry, "although the map would naturally suggest something of that sort. "The area shown," he continued. (Joes not concern u.s as does the length of the borders of this area. This map was designed to show the vast length of tne battle fronts on ! which the armies in Europe are fighting." "Why look." exclaimed Joe. who had been poring over the map. "the Russian front in the east would extend from the northern part of Minnesota all the way down into Tennessee a distance of l.l-T. j miles." t "And here's the Italian front," ex - ; claimed Helen, "winding around from the north of Texas over to New j Mexico, for a distance of 320 mlls. ! Down here near the Gulf of Mexico ; is represented the battle line in Greece, Serbia t and Albania, on which th allies are facing the armies of the central powers. It would extend for 300 miles through Louisiana and Texas." "Yes. and look over here." said Uncle Harry, "and you'll see running northwest through Colorado and Utah, the western front, whbi extends from the seacoast of 151crlitm t H r n 1 1 c H ti n r t Vi or 1 l."r?i nou tn 1 Switzerland a distance of 4"0 miles. That's, nearly half the distance from New York to Chicago. "Moreover." he added, "much, of the fierce and bloody fighting on the western front in Europe has taken place in Just such a beautiful and fertile r-ountry as we have here in the United States between Chicago and New York. "Imagine, if you can. a broad belt of desolation extending across Indiana. Ohio and Pennsylvania. Picture the fields of grain destroyed, nothing left of the trees but short stumps, farm houses and barns razed to the ground, and the, blackened earth full of deep craters ma1e by exploding shells from the big guns. Think of entire towns being wiped out by artillery fire, all of the buildings completely wrecked, with hardly one stone left standing upon another. And imagine destruction of this sort, together with the killing and crippling of millions of brae men. taking r,laee for more than three years on a total battle front of more than 2,2?0 miles. That's only 9.". mile;? less than the distance between Chicago and San Vrancisco." The children sat in silence as the full significance of Uncle Harrv's eomo place where the memory of her bitter words would cease to burn like a hot iron in her soul. For she too had quarreled with the man whom she loved, and all because he refused to have his wife independent of him and his fortune, while she desired independence for the sake of maintaining her so-called "woman's rights." Grace knew he was right; knew that he was right when he 5ald she only thought she was strong minded. and doubly right when he said she was best fitted for wifehood and motherhood; that the other things in a woman's life just served to fill the time until the real orfice came. But Grace resented thlF, and now she had only a bitter memory of his strong face, the deep-set eyes and firm mouth set in lines of pain as, he said, "very well, Grace, I love you too well to car to see you other than as my wife. I shall wait in silence, hoping f.r the day when you will come to me ready to be just that." She had sought forgetf ulness in sufTracre meetings. In society, in charities, church work and travel. Hut the pain at her heart grew and would not be eased. Then a solitary camping and tramping trip to her Ozark estate, which had long been a source of merriment among her iriends. suggested itself. She would go, to the Ozarks and stay until the tumult in her brain and heart subsided, for she woud not make her peace with her lover. Because, he argued, w ouldn't that just -be admitting th.it she was wrong admitting it to her friends as well as to him? After she alighted from the train In the village of Hunkle she learned, by dint of much questioning of the sleepy agent, that the Zanders esstate was "where ye see them young pine siplin's, that's it. About a mile down th river." After getting her directions she declined the offer of a ride in a ram-shackle old buggy drawn by a more ram-shackle old sorrel horse, and picked her way down a littleused and very rutty road toward the 'plr.e saplin's." Many paths crossed and recrossed among the slender trees, but none of theni seemed to lead anywhere. She was about to despair of eer t'.ndir.g the loc rabln. of which she had heard little and spoken much, when she heard a sigh almost a sob- not far away. Holding her breath and listening, fearing she knew not what, she heard a man's voice, deep and rich and all untrained, singing an old ballad. He was evidently using an axe. for now she heard the even blows on a log. A cirl's form darted down one of the paths and. without thinking, Gr. u c f-dloued. She halted when IVlie came in view of the young man swinging the axe, for the girl waf running toward him now, frankly crying. Grace stepped back among

words gradually took shape in their minds. Helen was the first to break the silence and a tear trickled down h'-r eheck as she said: "Uncle Harry. I knew that this war was u terrible thing, but I never realized how awful it really was until now, when I think of it as happening right here in our own country." "And now." resumed Uncle Harry, "let us consider for a moment the area represented by the shaded part of our map. You will see that it in-

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LENGTH OP EUROPEAN rUTTLE' FRONT. GRArHiTALLY SHOWN eludes all of the States ,f Kansas. Oklahoma and Nebraska and parts of Minnesota. North and South Kakota. Wyoming. Utah. Colorado. New Mexico. Texas, IuNi una. Mississippi. Arkansas. Missouri. Iowa and Wisconsin. you can imagine the people living in this va.-t region as being short of foo'l, many poverty stricken and in a half starved condition, and millions of them whose fathers, husbands or brothers have either died on the battlefield or returned home crippled, you can i-egin to realize the scope of the suffering and sorrow that the gl eat v. a r is causing. "You have certainly made the war and these places in Europe seem real to us, l"n e Hurry." said Jimmy. "When my geography lesson tells about the countries In the war zone. I'll think of them as they are shown on this map and I know they'll be a winde lot more real and Interesting to me." "You ha e the light idea. Jimmy," said Uncle Harry, as he prepared to go. - "I'll expect you and Joe and Helen and my other boy and girl friends to be leading the classes at school in geography." i:iltorV Note Undo Many Ik glad to iiiioucr Inqiilrio. either in lls' column or by mail, prmidod letters, art" igiK'l ltli tht' full mini? and addre. of ilio H'ions writinir. Tin corifsiMMident names will not apM.-ar in the article. By Martha- Mitchell the trees, but still within earshot. The man exclaimed, "oh. you!" Then no mor was said until the girl's voice broke out: "Jack! Jack: I'm so sorry I ever said I wouldn't marry you and be a farmer's wife. I will, I will; but why have you begun planting he"e? Don't you know how- you always said it was a sort of fairy place and its owner a fairy far away, who didn't want it disturbed?" "Yes, I know," said the man, "but I just decided that fixing up the old log house and seeding the cleared ground wouldn't be disturbing even a fairy's place; and anyway, I'm doing it for the fairj." "But, Jack, do you think that the owner of it would ever part with it?" "No; I'm quite sure the owner would never part with it at ary price." "But why? U can't be very valuable after all" "It has changed hands," hi? interrupted, "and the owner refuses even to set a price on it." Grace listened in her leafy retreat, and wondered how her Ozark property could have passed from her hands without her knowing it. "Who owns it now'.'" asked the girl, awe-struck. "I do," came the answer. "It was sold for taxes two months ago and I bought it in for us." The girl laughed softly. "How did you know " "Oh. I juet knew you couldn't help knowing how I wanted you, and that you would really rather live with me on a farm instead of in one of those cheap, gaudy cottages in the. Center. They are not real. dear." he said, softly. "They just pretend to be homes, and I know the owner of this place will never care to redeem It, for it wouldn't be a home to her. She never romped over the old house with her lover; she doesn't know which path leads to the big spring and w hich leads to the black haw tree. So she doesn't want it. Nobody wants a place that isn't a home." Tears stood In Grace's eyes now. A home! "Nobody wants a place that Isn't a home." The words pounded themselves into her brain. This was a home for these two, and hers was far away. She laughed as she turned back toward the village determined to catch the "accommo dation" as it went back to the Center. "Good-bve. voung lovers! Goodbye, Ozark estate, I'm going home." i-ALT LKi: CITY. Utah. Convict labor is being used in the construction of two miles of Lincoln hi-nvay in Salt Lake City. The work will take about 60 days to complete and will cost $25,000.

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M'ONTINUED FROM PAGE NINE) millionaire with a kind heart, who is well portrayed by Warner Baxter. THHUi: MAY PIjAYS. Three new plays that p'ayed considerable roles in the ushering in of the new season were, firstly, the ominou;, titled comedy "Saturday to .Monday." on the program at the Biji'ii theater. The title comes from a new form of marriage, which provides that a young couple shall live together oilly from Saturday to Monday of each week and be free on other days. The second opened on Tuesday at the Korty-eighth Street theater and is entitled "The Land of the l'ree." Miss Florence Nash is playing the chief part, that of a Prussian immigrant girl who experiences the freedom of America under stirring circumstances. The third is "Tiger Kose." at the Lyceum theater. which opened on Wednesday to an enthusiastic premiere. "Tiger Hose" is a dntmu of the Caiuidian northwest, by Willard Mack. It is presented by David l.elaseo. The story is set in a country vhich gives full scope to the director's imagination and the love story is one of exceptional force and purity. Miss Lenorv Ulrich Is playing the leading role anil In her portrajal leaves nothing to be desired. t Irene Franklin "nuf ced." At the Winter Garden Irene is making them giggle. The best thing about It .ne is that age commits no atrocities with her. Not that she's old in years by any means, but old in the hearts of those who laugh. One of the patrons of the Hippodrome one day last week presented a pet monkej' to be checked while she witnessed a performance of "Cheer Up." The monkey was quartered in the kennels provided for toy dogs that are checked during the performances. ISKOADWAY .M1 The Shubeits announce that they have engaged Joe Laurie and Alleen Iironson, a well known headline team from vaudeville revue, "Oh, Justine." which will open on the roof of the Forty-fourth Street early in October. It is a remarkable commentary upon a national appreciation of the highest form of dramatic art to note that David Warfield has achieved a triumphal inaugural of a new season in "The Music Master" after having offered this masterpiece of character portrayal to the public fr more than L',000 times. YorxhipiM?rs at ?he exclusive Rockefeller Fifth Avenue Baptist church, who have enjoyed the beautiful tenor voice of George Rasely during the past two seasons that he has been soloist at that church, will be interested in knowing that Mr. Basely is about to adopt a stage career. He will make his debut on the stage-on Monday night, Oct. 15. as the juvenile tenor singer In the big spectacular production of "Chu Chin Chow" to be produced by Messrs. Elliott, Comstock and Gest. The Winter Garden management announces that the new fall production, "Doing Our Bit." which follows "The Passing Show of 1917," will begin its engagement at the Winter Garden on Wednesday evening, Oct. 1.7. "The Passing Show of 1917" will conclude its engagement at the Winter Garden on Saturday night, Oct. 13, the Winter Garden remaining closed until the opening of "Doing Our Bit." So many successful plays by new authors have appeared this season that the Shuberts intend to estab lish a special department where young writers who are struggling for a place in the sun will receive val uable instruction. Charity does not enter Into this latest innovation of the Messrs. Shubert. Leo Shubert believes that many good plays are lost to the public owing to the author's lack of prominence. Kvery season hundreds of plays are submitted to producers, only to be tossed aside when the "by line" reveals an unheard-of author. . Many producers will not consider a play whose author Is not prominent in the play-writing world. During the past season several remarkable plays were submitted to the Shubert office by writers whose names have never appeared in public. A few of the manuscripts have really worthwhile plots, and with a little attention from an experienced play writer, Mr. Shubert believes they can be transformed into Broadway successes. Harry Lauder Is on his way to America for a farewell tour before he retires from tho stage His son. Capt. John Lauder, was killed in the battle of Arras, and it is said the Scot has no heart for a further professional career. "The comedian is a man of wealth," writes his manager, "but the incentive to increase it has vanished with the death of his eon." HIa first appearance in New York will be made at the Lexington opera house. NEWARK, X. J. The Lincoln highway feeder from Newark to Baltimore by way of Wilmington is all to 1 e permanently improve-d within the next year. The contract for the work from Newark to the Maryland state line has been let at I a cost of $91.040.

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Many New Artists Will Be Heard In Chicago During Opera Season

CHICAGO. Oct. C. Of the newartists who come to the Chicago Opera association for the coming season, three are stars who have been reigning favorites at te Opera-Comique in P.-.ils: Genevieve Vix and Marthe Chenal, sopranos, and Charles Fontaine, tenor. Mile. Chenal has had practically her entire career there, having appeared elsewhere only in occasional guest performances. M. Fontaine has also been content with laurels won in the French capital. Mile. Vix. after conquest in Paris, found equal favor in Madrid, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires. afterwards returning to France, and for several years past has. appeared in alternate seasons in the French and Spanish capitals. These three stars come to reinforce the French branch of the Chicago Opera association. Iticcardo Stracciari is a young Italian baritone who xnade his debut at Bologna, and who had his first important engagement at the Metropolitan opera house in NewYork. He then returned to Europe and, through .successes in leading opera houses of ' Italy, France. Spain and Portugal, rose to the first rank of grand opera baritones. Later endorsements were given him in South American cities and in Havana, Cuba. Jeka Swartz. the talented and handsome 'young mezzo-soprano, who comes to this organization for the first time, was born in Albany, and obtained her musical education at the Xew England conservatory In Boston. There she won a scholarship in the n.ston Opera school, and after a terra in that institution, was engaged by Henry Russell for the famous opera company which TODAY, TOMORROW AND TUESDAY Shows Start Every Hour on the Hour. Watch This Schedule and Avoid Waiting.

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A heart-appealing story of the great war, presenting "The World's Sweetheart" in a modern, thrilling, dramatic story with many scenes laid on the firing line in France. The most powerful war drama yet produced on the motion picture screen. The sinking of a great ocean liner reproduces this country's own national disaster in the sinking of the Lusitania. The Star Spangled Banner of the photoplay art. PRICES LOWER FLOOR 15c NO ADVANCE IN BALCONY. CHILDREN 5c UP TO 6 O'CLOCK MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

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A story that trace the evolution of a Bowery girl into a lady of Fifth Avenue. The scenes are divided between the underworld and the drawing rooms of society.

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M -A - V - : ( " G r- . 'U-5f . ' v- .-16 . . - Klaw & Ilangor"s supremo niu: Oliver theater .Monday, Oct. 1.". deal occupied the Boston opera house for rive years under his management. Miss Swartz was- one of the favorites of that aggregation throughout its career, and later appeared at Covent Garden, London, and at the j Champs Klysees theater in Paris. Anna Fitziu, the American soprano, was born in Richmond, Va., and brought up in Chicago. Her lirst stage experience was in lighter musical productions, after which she went to Milan to study for grand opera. She made her debut . at Rimini, and was selected by Montemezzi for the prima donna role in his "Love of the Three Kings". Later she appeared in opera in Barcelona. Naples. Florence. Pavia and Palermo. Last season she created the soprano role In the rievv Spanish opera, "Goycscas," at the Metropolitan in New York. Margaret Romaine is another promising graduate from the lighter musical field. In one of Henry W. Savage's recent offerings, she made a fine impression in New York where the critics pronounced her voice worthy of grand opera. Mr. Canipanini heard her sing, and at once offered to gfve her a debut in the more serious lyric dramas. She is a sister of Ha::el Dawn of comic opera fame, and still another sister of the same name is now singing In grand opera in Hurope. She was born in Ogden. Utah, and studied in England and France, where she also appeared in concert. France?ca Peralta. soprano, was horn in San Francisco, Calif., and and received her musical and vocal training in New York and Paris. She, also, was ' successful in light opera before maklntr her debut with the Hostop Granc Opera company OIr iBl GROUND FLOOR -

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"HER COUNTRY'S CALL'

A most interesting story of a man's hatred for the flag of his country, and the exciting events that follow thereafter.

with vhirh she snr.g during Its lat t o'.jr. Torrent Lamont. the American tenor, appeared in concert and oratoj io performax-iCes in thia countrv. then nerd abroad to study for per. 1. if- -arg important operatic ro'.e? 1m Ib.n.e. "enice. Milan ari'l riorei;. . . .ir.d wa t r.gaeed for the Imperial prra at Moscow, but the war prewr.ted his fi!l!r.g that ncagenu nt. II t iming to this nde. he ;ippeare-I in grand oj.rra In Porto Biro. Cu'-a. Zentral and South

America before . (.n,in, Fnifd Stat--. '3Ck t th ' thet yr.i:r,g Americar. aspirant w!.m .,ro tu i-- given opportunities tb prove their worth in the Chicago rgam.ation this, season arc Ruby 13ai;-. a lyric soprano lH.rn in Chica '. an.l trained here and in Berlin, afterwards filling a year as soloist in an imp..r:.nt church in the latt-r city; Margery Maxwell, lyric soprano, a native of South Dakota, pupil of Ghicrtsro vcal teachers and soloist in a church at Kvanston; Marie Pruzan. soprano. born In Kansas rity and educated in Chligo; Diana P.onner. soprano, born in Philadelphia, educated xiear Chicago, and vocally prepared in thl? (ity and in Paris: 'arollr.a Izzari. contralto. a fostoniati. who lia had her treneral. miojcaj and vocal edueati. n in Milan, and Juanita Pruette. soprano, born in Illinois educated

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TODAY The Splendid (starring Combination HARRY MOREY and ALICE JOYCE in tho comedyr&n, "RICHARD THE BRAZEN" How an American knight used a title arid monocle to-wrha girl of his fcjicy. TOMORROW and TUESDAY HOLBROOK BUNN in

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SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY Menlo Moore presents 'THE 1917 WINTER GARDEN REVUE" A Whirlwind of Song and Dance from the Chicago Wintergarden.

BARBER & JACKSON HERBERT LLOYD Nothing Serious, Just In Clever Burlesque on Mirth and Melody. Vaudeville. CLAUDIA TRACY YAMAMOTO BROS. Singing Comedienne. Japanese Equilibrists.

UNIVERSAL CURRENT EVENTS SHOWN DAILY COMING THURSDAY SPENCER KELLY and MARION WILDER And Four Other Big Acts. Mat. Daily 2:30; Sunday 3:00. Evenings 7:30 and 9. Prices Matinees 10c, 20c; Evenings 10c, 20c, 30c.

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In Missouri and rallfornbt. ar. 1 vocally trained ;. Indot . -h v she v a a i-' with th New Symphony orclv-tra In Gj'.M huh Giordan" P.ltnnlerl Is a vcur.g Italian t-x-.rr w :.o h .pperd n le.;d:m: opera h : .f Ita! ar. I Suth Ax:. erica tr- van Hu'.t ! - a Ho'.iar.d b"'( h baritone who 4r.1T If .oimg roh-s in A in terdam and Tbc Hau'Ue. ar.d b.o wa the AnghfTta i In the 1or.dm Movent Garden pro-due:-, .j! "Par?!fal". Leor.'i Zinovieff. dramatic tfner, wan Nor -v in Kovno. Ui;s5la Hl v ry.l etudl were made in d,;i, Petrorrad an i Milan, and he made hl opfr.t!x ilebut in the Municipal theAter oT Kleff. Iater he v3ng jn th leading opera houet of Petrograd. Moscow. Odessa. Milan. Turin. rmda-reth Madrid. Libon. Ruer.cs Airs, Santiago de Chile, Havana, and other cities before coming to thl country. where he has sung In open air productions of "AMa" In Philadelphia,, St. Louis and Berkeley, Calif.

j LOS ANGELES, Calif. In an rn-. iterchar.ge of courtestea at th tlrr.i of the visit of Sec'y Pmr.t anl Field Sec'y Osterman cf the Lincoln Highway association In Los Anx?dt, Mr. Pement became a member the Automobile Club of Pouthm California and Fec'y StanÄteh L, Mitchell of the Automobil dub became a Fustaining member cf thi Lincoln Highway association. to Frecfrickson's Orchestra TODAY, TOMORROW AND TUESDAY Shows Start Every Hour on the Hour. Watch This Schedule and Avoid Waiting. FRIDAY EDNA GOODRICH in

"QUEEN X" A sensational tory of the plotting of crooks in the underworld of a big city. Miss Goodrich is seen in a most unusual role, that of the "Queen of Chinatown" and a drug fiend.