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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

CHANDLER, Oklahoma, was swept out of ex-
istence by a tornado, Tuesday night. Forty
five people were killed and many more were
wounded,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

| hope to live to see an industrial system un-
der which the destruction of property won't be
a Godsend to the workingmen who are employ
ed to replace it.-Star and Kansan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

THE Topeka Advocate, Senator PETERS pa
per, has been made the official state pape1
Good
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

of Boston, the Newspaper Maker, o. New
York, and a few more papers of '.the craft,
supporting the Loud bill, the aim of which is
to cripple the newspapers and throw more bus
mess into the hands of the express companies.
The friends of the bill claim that its purpose is
to reduce the postal deficit, which is about
5000, 900. This is very gauzy excuse. If
there is all honest desire to reduce the deficit,
these men will cut off $40, 900, 900 which the
railroads get above what they are entitled to.
That would solve the deficiency problem Pro-
hibiting the transportation of certain classes of
business of the Department. will not reduce
the deficit, but increase it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

SENATOR FORAKER has introduced bill to
permit railroads to pool. All right. Go ahead,
and you'll soon force government ownership OF
railroads.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

The legislature just adjourned appropriated
about $43o, 900 less than that OF IS95'-Star
and Kansan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-04-02

AN effort is now being made by the book
trust to prove the new school-book law uncon-
stitutional.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

that people began to fidget in their seats
and think, 81 can see maid at work and
a girl eat candy any day at home" The
interest of the pantomime began when
monsieur entered with his diamonds and
his letters. The action at once stepped
out of the commonplace of everyday life
then, anu from that point until the fall of
the curtain Howard Kyle and Miss Fuller
owned the audience.
In his everyday speaking parts II How-
ard Kyle would be a much better actor if
he coulI be more honeyed in his ways.
He always gives me the impression OF
being angry and fierce. When his lips say
to the woman, I'D earest, l adore thee"
his manner cries out, "Ah! If had club
l wouldn't do thing to your As for
his bearing toward villains and subordi-
nate characters. it is simply appalling in
It's sternness. In the Police Patrol" for
instance, Kyle was sort of guardian Of
| the law who would strike terror into the
souls of hardened criminals. Policemen
are not generally the bogey men that
nurses portray them to their charges as
being; but Kyle's policeman was so ter
rible in its awful severity that it would
have made the worst boy on earth quail.
1t must have been on the principle of
"a rose by any other name would smell as
sweet" that Tod Lonergan masqueraded
on the programmes of the Grand all last
week as Howard Kyle. Even the best
informed employees of the house did not
seem to know that his godfather and god
mother had inflicted upon him the name
of Tod-such an unromantic appellation
for leading man. No wonder he was
glad to change his name with Howard
Kyle last week. Lonergan can act excep-
tionally well, whether he calls himself
Lonergan or Kyle. He will probably be
heard from before long.
sometimes wonder in what frame OF
mind playwright ats down to pen a
lugubrious melodrama. Does he write
his most narrowing scenes in the delusive
hope that they will extract what Amelia
calls "the pearly fugitives," or does he
pile on the agony thickest when he wants
to raise hearty laugh? Whatever the
pIaywright's intentions may be the
audience persists in laughing where it
should weep, and if it has tears il never
prepares TO shed them. Just about the
time that the hero of melodrama is being
led forth to die and the sweet. unsophis-
ticated heroine is on the rampage from
agony and despair the audience is be-
ginning TO settle down to the good, solid
enjoyment of mirth and laughter.
Across the Potomac" literally reeks
with war and gore. but the large audi
ences at the Grand last week persisted il
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
AT the Orpheum.

The aerial and Kiralfy's ballet are still
features at the Orpheum. and with four
new vaudeville turns this weeks bill
ought to be even stronger than the Christ
mas programme.
The new acts are all said to be quite up
TO the standard that Gustav Walter seems
to have established in his Orpheum.
Hallen, who once won popularity as a
partner in the team of Hallen and Hart, will
appear with Fuller in a comedy sketch.
Charles Wayne, who won renown as CO.
median with Lillian Russell, will give one
of his humorous monologue turns. He
styles himself Americas premiere eccen-
trique. The Two Bostons will take the
place on the bill made vacant by Cler-
mont's trained animals. They will bring
with them number of trained dogs. Miss
Annie Caldwell will sing some OF the lates
songs. A feature of the ballet will be a
sleigh bell solo, and Spanish dance by a
dozen or more OF kiralfy's most apt pupils.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
HaWorth' s Earnings.

1t is stated on most reliable authority
that Joseph Haworth, who ias left the
cast of "Sue" to appear wi b Modjeska at
the Baldwin this month, is to receive
$500 per week-exactly the salary lavished
by Oscar Hammerstein on the Cherry sis
tiers. The Cherrys. however, are freaks.
and as such are able to command fancy
prices, but $500 per week is big salary to
bestow upon a legitimate leading man. If
Haworth can demand and receive grand
opera prices, he would do we'll to think
again before going on starring tour. 1t
is fad. however, to star, and next season
Haworth is going the way of all Leading
men, which IN these days means he is to
star.
Haworth is Nine. Modjeska's favorite
Macbeth. She says she likes him better
than any Thane of Glamis she has ever
played with. He has also portrayed with
success such wide range OF parts as
Richard III, Rinaldo. Richelieu, Orlando,
Matthias. Malvolio, Romeo, Iago, Cassius.
Icllius and Claud Melnotte. His first work
at the Baldwin this season will be as the
Major in "Magda."
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

dead four minutes" replied the other,
and then they chuckled with fendish
glee at the glacial condition of the newly
made corpse. They had been previously
interested in the prisoners desire to make
a confession, the said confession. as usual
in melodrama, being an 1nfallihle symp-
tom OF approaching death. When Cap
tain Walker was brought on TO die, dab
bled in something that might have been
raspberry jam and might have been hui
man gore, the students diagnosed his case
carefully-declared, from his speech and
gesture, that he was sound of wind and
limb, and there was no just cause or i'm
pediment why be should not live to ripe
old age. That is the disadvantage of be-
ing within earshot of people who know too
much--they take the gilt off the ginger
bread.
An actress who elocutes has more ter.
rors for me than the comic policeman of
the melodrama, and when he appears
fold my tent, like the Arabs. and as si-
iently steal away. Sometimes have been
tempted to steal away from Miss Beatrice
Lieb's declamatorv performances, but she
appeared in such an entirely new and un-
expected light in "Niobe'' that l stayed
in amazement and admiration till the
cupids, who are chronically trying to hang
themselves with garlands OF flowers on
the Alcazar drop curtain, descended to
rise no more that night. Miss Lieb's Nj
ODE was altogether an ideal Interpretation.
Like Rosallnd, she is more than COM
mon tall' and more than common good
I0okinp into the harpaIn Az the ami
mated statue she looked so beautiful that
one could not help admiring the taste of
the connoisseur who gave thousands of
dollars for her in the marble and fell in
love with her when he beheld her in the
fl sh. A commonplace, end-of-the-cen-
tury Niobe would have spoiled the play,
but Miss Lieb was classic in her dignity
and grace. Il few more hits like this and
she will make name for herself.
MARIE EVELYN.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

laughing at the wrong place. The house
was in roars of laughter when the pale
and emaciated soldiers, swathed in blood
stained bandages, were being carried
across the stage on stretchers, and when
the unfortunate Northern prisoner expired
in prison, after paroxysms OF iemorse and
physical agony, his last faint words could
scarcely be heard for sounds OF amuse-
ment from all rarts of the house. 1t was
ever thus in meIodrama. l think that the
man who wrote There is but step from
the sublime to the ridiculous must just
have come home from seeing q melo-
drama.
Two medical stuoents were sitting be-
hind me at 'Across the Potomac" They
proclaimed the fact before the curtain
went up by discussing a virulent case OF
smallpox and the bacteria which had en-
gendered it. No one but young saw
bones" as Sam Weller so picturesque!y
describes doctors IN herbe. would enliven
theater with bacteria, and the students
comments on the way the wounded suf-
fered and died were audible and interest
ing. Hes a mummy" observed one
youth, as the Northern prisoner was lifted
on to the stretcher, rigid as poker and
immobile as marble statue. "Ain't been
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

ing to lend g helping hand of two old
boys, who for nigh onto thirty years"
have been rivals in love, and who through
the instrum+ ntality of Uncle Josh stop
knocking chips off one another shoulders
and tecome firm friends; of boy who,
having failed to find that contentment
which he sought for in the great CITY.
returns ike the prodigal of old and takes
the farm on 1.-The coming New Years
day." flnding there that Leace and happi-
ness which were not vouc hsafed him In
the metropolis; of a reformed tramp.
Following the "Old Homestead" at the
Baldwin Theater comes the much-looked- /
for concerts by Lillian Nordica, assisted
by Scalchi, Berthald and Dempsey.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

ala Loie" Fuller's pantomime, ga Pa
risian Tragedy" might just as well have
been called "a San Francisco Tragedy"
except that in this part of the world when
gentlemen tire of their wives they are not
in the habit OF signalling the fact by be-
slowing upon them diamonds and boxes
of gorgeous apparel, each box accompa-
MED by photograph of the erring hus-
band. In San Francisco when love flies
out of the window diamonds and imported
gowns do not come in at the door. a
Californian who takes 10 going home with
packages of compromising letters project
ing palpably from his pocket leaves
nothing for his wife to hope for, except
alimony. Loie Fuller no doubt had ''from
the French" inserted in big letters on the
progrs mme because she wanted the public
10 understand it is in La Vile Lumiere
that compensations are provided for
broken hearts in the shape of diamonds
and fine raiment.
The first part of the pantomme, in the
"slanguage" of the day, ''made me tired. )"
Who wants 10 dress with more than ordl-
nary care, 60 forth on damp and chilly
see a maid putting chrysaDthemums in
vases, even if she does wear a rational
skirt and neat, we'll -itting CATERS? True,
we always have some curiosity; not so
much as the press agents suppose, but a
certain languid interest in knowing
whether favorite actresses wear corsets or
rational waists, whether they eat candy or
chew gum, and whether they like
beefsteak with or without onions.
The first part of "a Partisan Tragedy"
gave US a picture of Miss Fuller in the
intimacy of the home circle. We saw how
she loafs round in wrapper and sleeps on
her lounge, we saw how she eats candy
perhaps she has lived in Paris too long to
chew gum-and she showed us the charm
ing way in which she whistles to her
canary and whiles away her time with
artless little dances, and she confided to
us (by ocular demonstration) tbat she does
not wear either corsets or rational waists.
If we learned nothing else from "a Partisan
Tragedy" we know henceforth that, who
ever else is imprisoned in whalebone and
buckram, La Loie's contour is entirely
G1t lGturel.
Somehow. in spite of these condolences,
the early part of the Fuller pantomime
engendered tired feeling all over the
house. This ought to be a warning to the
paragrapher that the public is not so
much interested in the intimate details OF
an actress existence as people are some
times beguiled into believing. do not
mean to imply that Miss Fuller and the
girl who played her maid did not act well |;
on the contrary, they acted SO naturally
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Boucott on foreigners.

In q letter recently contributed to the
London Referee, Henry J. Leslie points
out that henceforth English companies
will not be able to tour in America with
any profit or satisfaction TO themselves.
He says:
IA certain society, called The National
Alliance Stage Employees OF America, mac
a convention some time since, and passed
the following resolution: That on and
after January 1, 1897, only scenery palntea
by mem bers of the Protective Alliance OF
Scenic-painters OF America will be hanoieo
by membe OF the alliance This Is
practical boycott OF all scenery painted
outside the United States.
Leslie points out that the contract labor
laws prohibit the bringing over OF stage
carpenter or property-man unless ne can
be shown to be an artist-a rather dlncult
tasa-and he adds:
UNLESS some working arrangement is
come to between the two countries 1t will
be impossible for English managers to
send out com panles to the States equipped
with scenery and costumes from this side,
and it will never be worth their while to
have English productions prepared In the
States, as the cost thereof In most IN
stances would be simply prohibitive."
In San Francisco this state of things
will not affect the theeter-goer 10
any great extent, but in the East it will
make great difference in matters theatri-
cal. Not only English, but French, Ger
man and Italian companies that carry
their own scenery will practically be ex-
cluded from the country. There has long
been an agitation in favor OF protection
for the. American actor. but no one
guessed that the hum BILE scene-shifter
would step to the front and cut the Cor
dian knot. The costumers now want to
take hand in the business, too. and are
agitating for similar protection. As for
the managers. they are anything but
overwhelmed with joy at tue scene
shiflers' action, as they will henceforth be
shorn of some of their biggest attractions
Henry Irving, for instance.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

a"Whirlwind of Laughter" in three acts,
will be given.
1t is by Sidney Grundy, and is said to
be one of the most amusing things that
be has written. Everybody in highly
respectable family goes to see perform
ance of Pink Dominoes," each without
the knowledge of the other. Whim scal
complications ensue. The cast will in
CLYDE George Osbourne, Gordon Foster,
Charles Bryant, Beatrice Lieb, Maud
Hine and May Buckley.
Dream Faces" curtain-raiser, will
be played bv May Buckley, Mrs. Il. NJ.
Bates, Francis Powers and Frank Clayton.
1t will be its first presentation in San
Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Baldwin Theater.

Denman Thompson's perennial story,
"The Old Homestead" will commence a
two weeks engagement at the Baldwin
Theater tomorrow evening. The plot,
which is already too we'll known to need
repetition, presents the picture of a sorrow-
stricken old man who dreams of his wan
dering boy; of loyable old lady ever will
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Miss Wilcox's FAREWELL.

A testimonial concert will be rendered
to Miss Jeanette Wilcox prior to her de-
parture for Europe by the Treble Clef
Quartet, of which she is first contralto.
On Thursday evening at Golden Gate
Hall. Miss v lie is a well-known singer
in this City. She has been for long
time solo contralto of Calvary Presby-
She will be assisted by Mrs. Beatrice
Priest Fine, Mrs. A. A. Dewing, Mrs.
Sedgley Reynolds. Mrs. w. J. Batchelder,
Walter c. Campbell, Sig. A. Abramoff and
bernhard MoIienhauer
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Grand Opera-House.

"In the Name OF the Gear" will be pro-
duced tomorrow. 1t is Russian play,
with nihiists to make trouble and noble
young American to straighten things out.
Victory Bateman will appear as Russian
girl and Mortimer Snow will play the
noble young Russian who is being made
the victim of plots, from which he is
saved by an American. part that has
been assigned to Leslie Morosco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
TiVoli Opera-House.

"Jack and the Beanstalk" has proved to
be one of the most successful spectaces
ever offered 10 the patrons of the Tivoli
Opera house and it will be continued until
further notice. The cast remains un-
changed.
A novel second edition is in course Of
prepar alton and will be presented for the
first time on Monday evening, January IL.
This will include new son.s, dances, BAL
let's and other entertaining and up-to-daie
material.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Circus ROYAL.

Oscar R. Gleason, the horse-tamer, Is at
tracing large audiences every evening 10
his exhibition at the Circus Royal on EDDY
street.
The control that Gleason man1tests over
seemingly wild and intractable anlmals Is
remarkable. 1t is asserted thai there is
nothing crael in any of his methods ana
owners of we'll blooded but unruly horses
are bringing them in daily from all parts
of the Stale to be broken.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Az the Chutes.

If it does not rain this evening Q. M.
Vosmer will make balloon ascension and
parachute drop from the chules, followed
by the monster searchhght. Night ascen-
sions are novelties at the Haight-street
grounds.
This afternoon there will be another
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
At the Alcazar.

"Niobe'' could easily have run another
week, but the Alcazar management has
resolved to furnish something new in the
comedy line every Monday, SO tomorrow
evening, "a Serious Tangle," described as
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

ascension and parachute drop. r. W.
Brown, the one-legged cyclist, Will coast
down the chutes, Korto will walk down
the chutes on globe and there will be a
potato race and FIVE mile bicycle con-
test.
The animatoscope is on exhibition every
evening
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Columbia Theater.

Joseph Murphy will commence a fort
nights engagement at the Columbia
Theater tomorrow evening. presenting
for the first week 'sShaun Rhue," The
regular popular prices of the Columbia
will prevail.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

low "Maritana," which will succeed Jack"
at the Tivoii.
Western Kansas paper In dealing with the
local theatrical situation laments that stage
fright is never fatal
The Lyceum Theater Company of New York
has produced with success a one-act play,
"The Wife of willoughby." 1t is the work of
Theodore B. Sayre, young New York jour
nalist
Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of "Marcella'
and other noted books, is writing play. One
of her novels, "Miss Bretherton," is supposed
10 have Mary Anderson as the model of it's
heroine.
"a Stranger in New York. is the title of
Charles Ii. Hoyts new comedy, in which
Henry Conor will be starred. 1t will have its
first production in Buffalo, February 15. Mr..
Conor is now en- route from Aus tralia-
In ga Serious Tangle," which will be pr o.
duced tomorrow at the Alcazar. things go SO
fast toward the end of the second act that
Hugo Toland says that he will accomplish
fourteen entrances and exits in exactly one
minute.
/ One of these days the public may see Judith
cutting off Holofernes head upon the stage
that is, if Miss Olga Nethersole holds to her
present intention, which is to take London
theater next year and to produce thereat a
poetic playiet written around this subject by
the American bard and novelist, Thomas
Bailey Aldrich, the author of "Margery Daw."
E. H. Sothern says: 'T think If all actors
could study to make up as a lightning sketch
artist reels off his exact charcoal likenesses
there would be systematic saving of vital
force and nerve power. / am not very strong
and by the time am dressed am exhausted,
and il is only the elation of enthusiasm in
my work which gives me the strength TO play
ypll-as we'll L can. at least"
New York papers announce with great en-
thusiasm that Eames and Calve have at last
consented to sing together in the same opera,
and Melba and Calve on the same night. In
the midst of such thrilling lyric triumphs the
manager often has to borrow money to pay
h is laundry bill.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In letter TO the Washington Post Richard
Mansfield, while discussing recent lawsuit,
says: 'In the twenty odd years that / have
been upon the stage have never seen an actor
or an actress, ignorant as they might be, who
did not know that the table and chair placed
down the center OF the stage are absolutely
sacre to the management When was earn
ing my living in a subordinate capacity
should as soon have thought OF sitting in that
chair as should have been guilty OF keeping
my hat upon my head in church,
Ever since the death of Professor Hermann,
the magician, persons in and. out of the
theatrical profession have been speculating as
to the amount of the fortune he left to his
widow, Mme Adelaide Hermann. 1t was
known that the receipts of his tours for several
years had been enormous, reaching in some
Instances as high as $4,000 in a single
season. This fact led many to believe that,
despite his extravagant way of living, ne mus
have accumulated at least quarter of q
million ollars. others, however, who were
more intimate with his fairs, assert that he
had saved very little. 1t has come to light
that he left practically nothing.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03
Dramatic Brevities.

Sol Solomon of the Brownies has written
Ferris Hartman topical song, entitled "Only
Once"
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

"Aladdin, or the Wonderful Laml," viii fol-
low "Maritana," which will succeed "Jack, "
at the Tivoii.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

Western Kansas paper In dealing with the
local theatrical situation laments that stage
fright is never fatal.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

Otis Skinner will have three new plays to
produce during his coming engagement at
the Baldwin.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

The Lyceum Theater Company of New York
has produced with success one-act play,
THE Wife of Willoughby" 1t is the work of
Theodore B. Sayre, q young New York jour
liaf
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of "Marcela'
and other noted books, is writing play. One
of her novels, "Miss Bret therton," is supposed
TO have Mary Anderson as the model of it's
heroine,
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-03

Across the Potomac" literally reeks
with war and gore. but the large audi
ences at the Grand last week persisted il