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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26
NORTHBoRo,

Northboro. May 25.-Obedient to or
ders for the observance of Memorial
day, May 80, it is expected that every
comrade will, as far as possible, devote
himself to the aim of the occasion.
The post will assemble at headquarters
on Sunday evening, May 2S, at o'clock
sharp, for the purpose of attending di-
vine services. Detachments from this
post will visit the public schools on
Monday afternoon, May 20. Comrades
as detailed will assemble at the West
District and Factory schools. All others
will report at headquarters at / o'clock
for assignment. Comrades should be in
uniforms.
Detail for West school, w. H. John
son, George w. Allen, George H. Muir
ray, R. A. Young. For Factory school.
Levi Whitcomb, w. Valentine, S. A.
Cutler, w. H. Pratt, D. R. Montague.
tuesday, May 80, comrades will re-
port at headquarters at 7.45 A. NJ
sharp, in full uniform. The line will be
formed for decoration of graves and
services at soldiers monument at S.15
a. M The services in the Town hall
will follow the decoration services. Rev.
A. T. Conrad of Worcester will give
the address, Westboro band and pupils
from public schools will furnish music.
All veterans and all soldiers and sail
ors Of the army and navy are invited to
Join in all the exercises of the occasion.
Per order
F. NJ Harrington, Commander
w. H. Johnson, Adjutant.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26

Spring tiredness is different from the
WEAKNESS caused by labor. The last is
cured by rest; the first requires a few
bottles OF Hoods SarsaDarilla to cure IL.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26

See Nellie York Joslin in Cuban
sketch tonight Horticultural hall.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26

Every woman should know that Car
ter's Little Liver Pills are a specific for
sick headache. Only one pill a dose A
woman can't stand everything.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26

DO not miss the recital Of Mrs. Bow
ems school Horticultural hall, to-
night.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26
LOOKED FOR CARDS.
State Detective Muir
ray Went, to
Spencer.
MYRICK PARK ATHLETIC MEETS.
Dual Affair Memorial Day
is the Most Talked
About.

Spencer, May 25.-State Detective
Peleg F. Murray was in town today
investigating advertising cards which
were given away by the proprietor of
the Winsor house few months ago.
The detective was assisted by officer
George F. McKenna and the officers.
after lengthy search, secured quite
number of the cards. Local resi-
dents were aroused somewhat by the
cards, and at one time members of the
school committee talked of an investi-
cation. Detective Murray also fourd
out where the cards were printed. No
arrests were made.
Louis Philips, who was arrested last
evening by officers Graveline and Bry-
ant for breaking and entering Joseph
Beaulac's store, was before Trial JUS
tice Curtis today He pleaded guilty
and was placed under $4,000 bonds. He
was committed to await the August
sitting of the grand jury.
The chief talk in Spencer today was
about the coming field days. The most
interest seems to centre in the dual
meet between the Holy Rosary C. T.
A. and the North Brookfeld st. Jo-
seph C. T. A.
Money is beginning to talk" and a
few small bets have been made The
most exciting event will be the quarter
and half mile races between Donavan
and Noonan. The members of both So
cieties place the utmost confidence in
each of the men, and are willing TO
back them with the real article.
The trophy, 20-ounce silver cup, has
arrived and is in North Brookfield on
exhibition. Saturday it will be sent to
Spencer.
The members of Spencer Marine
Drum Corps held a meeting last even
ing to discuss the purchase of new uni
forms.
The contract was finally awarded to
Simmons of Boston.
An alteration between a Hebrew
drummer and Conductor Charles Sleep
err, on the $40 Spencer-bound electric
car on the Brookfield road, amused
some passengers and Disguised others.
The two bottoming rooms run by
Foremen John Bordo and Ernest Lin
strom, shut down this afternoon on ac-
count of break in the main belt.
The Gas Company received four more
new arc lights today from Thomson
and Rice of Lynn.
The pupils Of Miss Catherine Man
ming went to Brookfield this evening
and held a recital and dance. Quite a
large party from this town went with
them.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26

The members of Spencer Marine
Drum Corps held a meeting last even
ing to discuss the purchase of new uni
forms.
The contract was finally awarded to
Simmons of Boston.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
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BY AsbtoD Stevens.

stopped her flight, and his kindhearted
forgiveness induced her to give up the
project The new incidents did not
freshen the old subject much. There
was not enough of singularity in the
traits or purposes of the three individ-
uals to arouse serious interest. But
Mr. Davies facetious writing for some
subsidiary roles was clever and more
original"
THE Weldons," writes Mr. Dithmar
in the Times, lis full of promise. and
though it is lacking in certain quail
ties supposed to be essential to popular
success, yet it is superior to some plays
recently seen here in both invention
and construction.
The Herald mentions the authors
curtain call and says: The play
proved to be well written, well con-
structed society drama, it's theme be-
ing the estrangement and. subsequent
reconciliation of husband and wife"
In the Evening Post Mr.. Towse
writes: The new four-act social
drama by Hubert Henry Davies proved
to be a promising work, albeit bearing
many marks of inexperience. The dia-
logue was of fair quality and one or
two of the situations decidedly eff
fectiVe
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
The Columb; y.

The engagement of the favorites, the
Bostonians, is rapidly coming to close
at the Columbia Theater The third and
final production of the season is to be
that ever popular composition. Robin
Hood which will be staged for a week
beginning tomorrow night. Monday s
performance of the De Koven and Smith
opera will be one of note as it will mark
the three thOusandth rendition of the
work, a really remarkable record and
one that has never been eQualed by any
other composition in this country. Robin
Hood" seems to have a popularity that
is perennial and local theater-goers have
attested their liking for the opera by
making such demands upon the ticket Of
flee of the theater as to almost deplete
the box sheet. 1t is doubtful if a comic
opera will be written which will prove
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
Grand Opera House

Tomorrow evening the Southwell Opera
Company will present Johann Strauss
pretty comic opera, The Queens Lace
Handkerchief" which has not been per-
formed here in a long time. 1t is one of
the most popular works of the famous
composer and is full of bright and catchy
lyrics. 1t will have an elaborate mount
ing, and the following will be the cast:
King. Hattie Belle Ladd; Queen Daisy
Thorne and Eleanor Giust alternating;
Donna Irene. Edith Mason: Marchioness
de Villereal, Bertha and Miro Dalamotta
alternating; Don Sancho. Arthur Wooley;
Minister of War, Winifred Goff; Minister
of Finance, Mace Bonneville; Minister of
Uther: Dancing Master, Signor Benedict;
Master of Ceremonies. Margaret Tudor.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

comeptent successor to this amusing and
tuneful emanation from the pens of De
Koven and Smith. The Bostonians will
stage robin Hood" in the same effective
manner as has marked its presentation
during the past ten years In eh the &C cast st
will be II. c. Barnabee as the Sherl1 OF
Nottingham, w II. Macdonald as Lit
tiejohn' Jessie Bartlett Davis as Alan
a-Dale. Helen Bertram as Maid Marian,
William LAWN as Robin Hood, William
ingham as Friar Tuck, w. II. Fitzgerald
as Guy of Gsbourne, Josephine Bartlett
as Dame burden and Carolyn Daniels as
Annabel.
Roland Reed in his latest comedy sue
cess. THE Wrong Mr.. Wright will fol-
low the Bostonians at the Columbia The
ater on the 24th inst. Isidore Rush is his
leading woman.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
THE OUTER WORLD
Comment and News Of Distant
Plaus and PIauers.

Miss Blanche Bates, who has made two
striking hits in such quick succession, Is
confronted with a danger which is the
natural penalty of success under our pres
ent system, writes the critic of the New
York Commercial Advertiser. Both THESE
parts the one in THE Great Ruby ana
Miladi in 1.-The Musketeers, were villain
esses, and now every manager who seeks
to engage Miss Bates will wish her Tor
''heavies." To do one kind of thing well
is TO be threatened with eternal llmita-
tion to that single line. For an actor VINO
takes his life seriously as an art with
can be nothing more disheartenng than
to be held forever to one note. tortu-
nately for Miss Bates, she is not without
will to give practical efficiency to her tai
ent. and will probably get what she
wants.
Charles Dalton, the Marcus Superbus
cf The Sign of the Cross" will star next
season under the direction of an Ameri-
can theatrical man.
It is said Clement Scott uses the cud-
gels with unsparing hand in his new
book, The Drama of Yesterday and To-
day" which is shortly to be published
William Archer, who arrived in New
York recently from London, is considered
by many the ablest English critic of the
present generation. The fact that he will
cross the ocean twice and deprive Lon
don theatricals of two months of his time
for the sake of turning his glasses on
our little amusement enortS may be re-
garded a pleasing sign of the times Mr..
Archer, when seen at the Waldorf-As-
toria shortly after his arrival by re-
porter for the World said number of
complimentary things about the American
actors, actresses, pIaywrights and mana
gers who have recently found place for
themselves on the London horizon In his
cursory talk, however, he made no in
vidous comparisons, and limited his ex-
preston of personal opinion to pleasant
words for everybody and everything. This
was wise as we'll as mannerly. When he
is prepared to make comparisons and
draw conclusions he will not be at loss to
gain all the attention he desires, both in
England and America. He has been sent
here especially by the Pail Mall Maga-
zine, and it is only fitting that its readers
should be given the first opportunity of
considering his thoughts and impressions.
Mr.. Archer has long been an admirer
of Ibsen and an energetic advocate of his
plays. He recently paid Ibsen a visit in
Christiania and brought back with him a
piece of information that seems typical of
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

remembered from her successful engage
ment of one year ago. This time she
opens in her latest comedy hit, THE Lady
by Grant Stewart, and for which Miss
Burkhart carries her own special scenery
and special music. Miss Burkhart will
stay at the Orpheum. Mile. Lardinois
Is a chanteuse from the Folies Bergeres,
Paris, and is credited with doing the neat
Anna Held Her work is all of Partisan
music hall order, but, so it is said, clean
and artistic. Her costuming is said to be
something superb. Others on the bill are
the Hengler Sisters, Painter Brothers and
Polk and Rollins
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
The Alcaza-.

When fHumbug" was given in the Al
cazar last December it quite taxed the
capacity of that cozy theater and many
viii doubtless welcome it's revival to-
morrow night The plot deals with the
son of cobbler and the daughter of a
butcher. who marry. each pretending to
he a child of noble blood Many and hu-
morous are the situations that arise out
Darents. Mr. Hastings will be the social
struck son of a cobbler and Miss Fitzalleh
After the revival of "Humbug" the AL
cazar will stage farce by the unusual
1and one, too, not prophetic) title of "A
Bad Lot
The Belasco-Thall Company has just
closed a big weeks business at Fresno
and will open in Hanford Monday even
ing. x.,,,.. u.o,,.z,az s.....
his recent illness and will play this week
in "Humbug."
Lewis Morrison's representative is MAX
ing active preparations for his opening
81 e tho AIcazar next month The Morri-
SON season will last three months.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
The TiVoli.

The Tivoli has added to its long list of
successes in the extravaganza line an
other triumph in George E. Lask's spec
tacular operate fantasie, Beautiful
Goldenlocks." The scenery, costumes
properties, accessories and light efects
are the most brilliant, tasty ard dazzling
that have been seen in this city since the
days Of David Henderson's productions at
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
The Orpheun.

The Orpheum's bill for this week, will
be a continuation of the combined Hop
l1ins Transoceanic stars and the big
Orpheum features, the wno-e augmented
by two new acts. Several of the hold
evers will apnear in new material. notably
Marshall p Wilder. Kara and Josephine
Gassman. The new acts are Lillian Burk-
hart and her clever company and Mile.
Clara Lardinois The former is pleasantly
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
The Chute 5.

AT the Chutes Free Theater next week
an unusually good bill will be offered.
Ola Hayden, than whom no lady now on
the vaudeville stage has better barry
tone voice, will more than renew her Or
pneum success. Martins educated dogs,
who do everything but talk. will be new
as Will also May and Maitland, comedy
sketch artists. Joe Storms Jr., orang-
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
The California .

The California Theater will be re-
opened once again on the night of Mon
day, the 18th inst, by Johnny and Emma
Ray in a fun piece called "A Hot Old
Time" The engagement is for two
weeks. The Rays are said to have made
competent company of singers and spe-
oia oil
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
Max Steinle S Benefit.

Max Steinle will be given a benefit by
the professional friends a week from this
Tuesday evening in the Sherman & Clay
Hall. Among the prospective participants
are: Pietro Marino, Polly Tupper, Jack
Cathcart. George Ryan, Charles Parent,
Bert Van Cleve, the Waterman sisters,
Maurice Cramer and Harry Braham.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

the Grand Opera House. Every one in
the cast has worked hard to make the
piece a go, and since the opening night
1t has been whipped into better and more
enjoyable form by quickening the ac-
tion and cutting out much waste mate
rial. THE Little Trooper." Della Fox S
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

The Olympia has new bill for this
week, at the head of which are Sherman
and Morrisey, the knock-about come.
dians, who play limited return engage
ment. The Four Millions, who have
scored quite a hit with their musical spe-
cialties, remain, and Querita Vincent has
a whole string of new songs
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

comedy opera that was given by her in
the Baldwin several seasons ago, will fol-
low Beautiful Goldenlocks."
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09
Thz Olumpa.

outang, Sally. chimpanzee, and Congo,
gorilla man, will continue to entertain.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

jim OVERDOSE OF COMIC OPERA
What the New York Critics Say qbou hubert Davies Play
BY AsbtD

x TILL comic operal II seems al
ways our fate to have the good
things strike us in punches. Here
~ are three shows of a kind pitted
one against the other in three
principal theaters. 1t is an embar-
rassment Of riches A town twice as
big as this one could not do them all
justice Comic opera is an excellent
diversion; it freshes the ear, brightens
the eye and soothes the system. Who
doesn't enjoy an occasional dose of
comic opera? 1t acts on me as patent
medicine does on other persons. After
a lively night of melodized nonsense 1
feel like sitting down and writing to
the manager how much better l am
since taking three acts of his rightly
famous mixture. A good comic opera
show is one Of the most nourishing,
tonicky things in life. But there is
such thing as too much of it. When
l attended The Black Hussar Open
ing at the Grand Saturday night all
the world seemed glad and grinning. 1t
was IS the spring time in the theater.
On Monday night 1 was among those
present at the opening of the Tivoli's
Beautiful Goldenlocks," and the grin
and the gladness were somewhat less
And the next night found me at the
Columbia with the Bostonians in The
Serenade," and 1 began to long for
something with tears and daggers and
tragedy it in. Honorable jokes and
treasured tunes fell on surfeited ears.
I would have given real money to have
seen a play that included a blue serge
villain and a black alpaca heroine and
a live infant and homespun hero with
lungs and heart as big as all out doors.
In the theater as in life, it is the serious
things that make the other kind de-
sirable. And nothing can be less seri-
Gus than comic opeTa-nOt even Italian
grand opera The Serenade" was a
better performance-it is a better piece
than The Black Hussar," and 1 was
conscious of the fact; but my system
shrieked for some other sort of enter
tainment. Now when the paid first
nighters system goes back on him, how
must it fare with the others? Read the
answer in the theatrical receipts of the
week. The Columbia has done well,
without doing the regular Bostonian
business; the TivoH not quite so we'll:
the Grand Opera-house not we'll at all
There has been more comic opera than
the town could comfortably take
care of.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

! am IN receipt of a telegram from
our New York correspondent giving the
verdict (or verdicts) of the metropoli-
tan critics on the play by Hubert
Henry Davies Of this city. which was
produced in the Empire Tbeater last
Thursday afternoon by the students Of
the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts. Mr.. Davies you will remember
for several years Of sharp. informed
musical and dramatic criticism in the
columns of the News Letter and for
short pantomime played in the Baldwin
last season by Pillar NORM. He is a
gilt-haired comely young fellow of per-
haps p, an Englishman by birth. an
American by contagiOn; and he has not
only the cleverness but the energy that
accomplishes things. That this play.
The Weldons," has not turned out to
be a world-beating winner will not
phase him in the least. He has more
and I'll wager better ones-where this
came from. Anyway he has been in
trOduced to the New York theatrical
world by Daniel Frohman, and has re-
ceived the serious attention of several
Of the big critics. Also he has expert
enced the joy of being brought blush
ing to the footlights on the occasion of
his maiden premiere.
This is what Mr.. Fyles says about
The Weldons" in the Sun: The au-
thor offered no general variant from
what others had written on the same
theme. The wife was on the point of
eloping at midnight in her husbands S
absence, but his unexpected return
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

This overload of comic opera is par
tiCularly unfortunate in the case of the
Grand Opera-house. Mr.. Morosco has
had to fight against not only a more or
less out-of-the-way location and a
schedule of prices to which the people
are not cheerfully disposed, but against
two strong productions of similar char
acter in we'll established playhouses.
The Southwell Company is a good one;
its presentation of The Black Hussar'
was extremely creditable and appar-
emily it pleased all who witnessed il:
the season deserves success. But fate
and prices seem TO have cOnspired
against the opening week, on which s.
much depended 1 write plainly be
cause Mr.. Morosco has evidenced dis
position TO receive kindly the honest
and well-intended comments of this
paper. To be sure he has not put the
house on a 50-cent scale, as was sug-
gested in last Sundays Call, but he has
made the 81 seats fewer by reducing
the entire dress circle to so cents and
many of the downstairs seats to Is
and so cents. This cut would not have
been made merely to please one news
paper or even all the newspapers OF
San Francisco. The people did not
rush passionateIy MOroscowards with
large dollars in their hands and it was
made in the legitimate interests of
business. But it was not, in my op,a-
ion, sweeping enough. That dollar sign.
even If it applied to only a hundred
seats in the entire auditorium, would
still keep many people away from Mis-
sion street. 1t is not a question of a
touring company of known reputation
in an engagement of two or three
weeks, but Of a fifteen weeks season
by company that, no matter how ex-
cellent we find it, came here practically
unknown. The same company sang to
three years prosperity in Philadelphia
at 80 cents. There is no reason why it
should not do as well here at the same
prices. The actual value of the enter
tainment offered does not come to oues.
ton. 1t is not a matter of what
Southwell show is worth, but what the
people of San Francisco will pay for il
And in the arithmetic Of the theatrical
business a full house at so cents is
much better than half house at
dollar. For as you know, the crowd
follows the crowd.
Speaking of prices, we will soon have
a chance to observe their effect in the
concert business. Sauer, the pianist,
gives two matinees in the Grand Opera
House, on the 18th and 21st inst, witt
the best seats selling for SO. Rosenthal
gives as many matinees the week fol-
lowing in the same place with the same
seats selling for 81 So VIII the crowd
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

Charles Dalton the Marcus Superbus
cf The Sign of the Cross" will star next
season under the direction of an Ameri-
can theatrical man.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-09

1t is said Clement Scott uses the cud-
gels with unsparing hand in his new
book, The Drama of Yesterday and To-
day" which is shortly to be published
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
THE MOST NEGLECTED HOMES.
Those of the Women Who Demand an
Expansion of Opportunities.

ct is an indisputable fact that there
are scores of American women today
connected with charitable, club or or
ganization work for which they have
no actual taste and only a forced in
terest," writes Edward Box in the La
dies Home Journal. "But the insult
ficiency of the home as a place for wo-
men to develop their fullest talents has
been so necessarily talked about that
these women have felt that, to be in
touch with progressive ideas, they
must take on some outside work, even
at the cost of leaving something I'M
done in the home machinery. Some
women do not stop to discern an in
contestable fact: that those of their
sex who are forever crying about the
narTOwness of the home for women
are those who have either never had
homes of their own or are unhappy in
the homes which they have. No hap
ply wife nor true mother ever has a
word to say in complaint of the mar
rowness of her home or it's INSULT
cheney for her highest development
She knows all too we'll that home is
never narrow: that it can be made as
broad as a woman wills it. Where a
home is narrow, depend upon it there
is always something wrong: something
amiss. The most barren homes in this
country generally belong to one class
of women: those who, on the platform
and with pen, are always Historically
and frantically demanding an expan-
sion of woman's opportunities 1t is q
very fortunate thing for some of these
exclaimers that those whom they ad-
dress cannot look into their homes and
see the true reason for their restless
ness and dissatisfaction. If they could
their platform careers would soon
come to an end"