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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
What do the Children prinkR

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRAlN-O? 1t is delicious and nourish-
ing and takes the place of coffee. The
more Grain-O you give the children the
more health you distribute through their
systems. Grain-O is made of pure
grains, and when properly prepared
tastes like the choice grades of coffee
but costs about ID as much. All
grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

When your wife pays so per cent
more for broom, so per cent more for
q tin bucket, 35 per cent additional for
coal oil, so per cent more for coal, 80
per cent more for all kinds of canned
goods, ask yourself whether you will
again vote the ticket made by the trust
party in order that the trusts may be
empowered to rob you.-Hoosier DEM
Ocrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21
When Birds Go North Again.

Oh. every year hath Its winter.
And every year hath Its rain
But u day is always coming
When the birds 20 north again.
When new leaves swell IN the forest,
And grass springs on the plain.
And the a'der's veins turn crimson
And tile bird 10 north again.
Oh, every heart hath Its sorrow.
AMI every teart hath its palm
Buta nay is always coming
v hen the birds go north again.
'Tls the sweetest thing to remember
II courage he en- tile wane.
When the cold, dark days are over
Why, the birds 90 north again.
Ella Higeinson.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

The Mckinley managers suggest that
General IIarrlson's criticism of the
Porto Rican scheme is due to aspir-
ations for the presidential nomination.
Great scheme. If anybody objects kill
him with mercenary motive.-Indisn-
apolis Sentinel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

Major cerbieser at Manila reports to
the war department that as result of
mistaken charity, he has on hand sur
plus of 10000 pillows. There ought to
be some lively tighting.-Chicago Dir
match.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-03-21

THos. T. cARKEEK.
A RCHITECT AND BUILDING SUPERIN.
"A TENDENT, S. E. Cor. 9Th and Main St.,
Dubuque, Iowa
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GREGG q WARD.
druggists and dealers In Paints, Oils, Wall
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WIN. DE ENNlS.
CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER.
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MANUFACTURING

MANCHESTER MARBLE WORKS
rs prepared to furnish Granite and Marble
i Monuments and Head Stones of various de.
signs. Have the county right for Sipe's Pat
ent Grave Cover; also dealer in Iron Fences.
VIII meet all competition. 2tf ~.
WIN, MCINTOSH,
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ATTORNEYS.

C. YoRAs. H. F. ARNOLD. MI, YoRAN.
YORAN. ARNOLD q YORAN
A TTORNEYS AT LAW. and Real Estate
"A Agents. Once over Delaware County State
Bank, Manchester, lowa.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
York Times, was once, leading lady
al VaJJaeJy n Thea rs,

York Times, was once, leading lady
at WalIack, s Theatre.
The White Rats OF America helped
swell the fund for the benefit of the
family of the late Joseph OFT by pur-
performance to be given in the New
York Theatre on the afternoon of De-
cember g.
Helen Grantley, an Omaha orphan,
was among those who went to New
York at the beginning of the season
in quest of a theatrical year She was
given a role in Gertrude Coghlan's
Vanity Fair The otner day she mar
ried Miss .Coghlan's manager, James
B. Delcer. The pretty bride is worth
100000; Delcher is also wealthy.
Charles Frohman spends more money
in railway fares than any other indi-
vidual in the world. Not even Uncle
Sam, who occasionally transports a few
regiments of soldiers from place to
place, pours such streams of wealth
into the Golfers of Americas great rail-
roads. For the manager spends approx
imately 100000 annually in railroad
fares. He has 80 companies.
Not very long ago, one dollar would
pay for seat at any of New York's
theatres at performances given by the
greatest actors and actresses of their
time, including Booth, Forrest, Char
lotte Cushman, and Others whose
names will readily be recalled Now,
for even a second-rate performance.
the charge for a choice seat at first
class houses is two dollars, and to
secure one you must generally pay
from fifty cents to two dollars extra
to one OF the spectators, who are ap-
parently hired to stand about and dis
pose of practically the best seats.
Nine. Sarah receives 81 900 for each
performance and NJ. Coquelin $500
Hitherto our highest priced actress
has been Ada Rehan, who was paid
40 a week by Augustin DAILY and
John Drew thinks himself we'll paid at
earning $500 week. 1t is pleasing to
know, however, that Mr. Grau's spec
ulation was not extravagant. The sub
scriptions and sales at the Garden
guarantee $4,000 for every performance,
and our impresario from this engage
ment alone will clear $4,000 No won
der the spectators are charging $25
for tickets.-Hillary Bell, in N. Y.
Press.
The more important part of a play
is the plot. Dialogue is of no import
ance, except that occasionally when it
is of very brilliant character it con-
tributes to the greater success of
play. But as a rule no one really writes
a play. Authors construct plays in
stead. Authors put scenes and Incl
dents together, simply supplying
enough derictions in the shape of dia-
logue to permit the players to inter-
pret the action he mems to illustrate.
A man of no literary pretensions what
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

York last week. She closed a two
years engagement IN England on NO
vember 10.
Helen Bertram, Madge Lessing, Jes-
sic Bartlett Davis, and Alice Nelson
will be, it is said. entertaining Lon
doners on Easter Monday next.
Munroe.- November 3,
after a long illness, Susannat Munroe,
dearly loved mother of Maud Rivers,
serio-comic and male impersonator.
English theatrical advertising is a
curious thing to contemplate from this
side of the water. Witness an obit-
uary notice from a recent issue of the
Music Hall:
Kyrle Bellew has abandoned the
stage forever. he says. l learn he is
going to Australia with Frank Gardiner
to engage in mining operations.-New
York Tribune.
Manager, Rrady played Prince Engle-
bert in his wife's production of Her
Majesty" in New York the other night,
the regular player having been sudden
ly been called from the city.
Louise Noodle. whose graphic de-
notement of the innocence, character
istic self-satisfaction, good breeding,
inherent kindness, and senility of old
Lady Owbridge, in John Drew's THE
Gay Lord Quex," Is so keenly appreciat-
ed by critical spectators. says the New
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

The Bitter Bit.

The great playwright awoke with q
start He was one Of those great play
wrights who make 40 plays a year
comic operas, tragedies, dramas, come
dies, romances, adaptations; any
thing Where they obtain tho material
not pen, ink and paper, but plots and
the like-the admirlng public wonders.
But then the admiriDg public has no
memory and no library. Well, the
great playwright awoke with a start
Something unusual, he knew intuitive-
ly, was about to happen. He heard a
noise from down stairs. Burglars!
Creeping stealthily down the stairs, he
discovered a maGked robber at his jew
Ell casket.
"Ahal" cried the great playwright.
Stealing"
NO" replied the burglar calmly, for
he had recognized the great playwright.
Il am merely adapting.
The great playwright hung his head
and retreated. stung TO the quick
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
JOHN HARE
ProTo 81 IOroOh.
SIRE oSCop'( CO.

a brilliant career behind the footlights.
Her memory alone would be remark
able. without being united with unques-
tionable art. She is not an automa-
ton, merely speaking the lines which
she has memorized. She acts other
parts. Therein lies the difference be-
tween her and other child actresses.
Her tutors are often compelled TO defer
to Irenes own conception OF the roles
which she essays, and it not lnfre-
quently happens that her way even
though radically different, meets with
the hearty approval of the entire COM
pany.
Although Irene will not celebrate
her twelfth birthday until New Years,
her stage career has extended over a
period of more than eight years. She
was a diminutive little miss Of three,
when she made her bow 10 the public
in the Star Theatre in Philadelphia,
her native city, appearing IN char
acter change act, in which she con-
tinued for two years. subsequently
she went into vaudeville, appearing in
a singing specially with her father in
all the prominent theatres Of the coun-
try. They appeared for thirteen consec-
utive weeks N Chicago, and for nine
weeks in Cincinnati. Her first dra-
matte engagement was with Jim Reilly,
of Broom Maker" fame, where her
voice and talent began to attract at
tention. Will Myers, appeared in rep
ertoire, and for three seasons she has
been starred in her own company.
Little Irene Is always accompanied
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

the titled gentleman and one OF his
ex-fames, a married woman, thereby
getting herself into compromising sit
uations with Duck and the younger
lover o. Muriel, who turns out to be
the greater rascal of the two. Event
ually QueX gets the girl, and the other
man, unmasked, retires, discounted.
Among the characters are sentiment
tai duchess who makes an appoint
ment for midnight in her boudoir with
Quex, to say nothing of a senile and
repulsive old codger an ex-governor
from the west coast of Africa, who is
addicted to the habit of ogling in the
most suggestive manner imaginable
every woman he NETS.
While the propriety of taking 4
young girl to see play like The Gay
Lord CUES" might be questioned IN any
circumstances. some superficial pre-
tense of justification might be given if
the acting of MIR. Hare were so fine as
to make it incumbent upon those who
closely follow matters theatrical to see
him. AS a fact, his acting, while it is
precise and mparatively true, accord
ing to the yardstick test, is in no sense
remarkable. We have number of men
in this country who in the title role of
Pinero's play would make Mr.. Hare
look like the proverbial six nickels.
The role of Sophy Fullgarney is. how
ever, magnificently played by Miss
Irene Vanbrugh. Indeed her acting is
the only striking redeeming feature of
a representation which ought speedily
to be consigned to the oblivion which
it deserves. 1t is usually the case that
when the few really conscientious crit
les of this city infiict upon play what
is technically known as warm
roast" the sales at the box Office in
crease enormously. This is because
there is in every community certain
element which likes vulgarity and
certain other element which has not
the moral courage to stay away from
a prominent theatre for fear of being
regarded as squeamish. With refer
ence to THE Gay Lord Quex" any one
whip cherishes the hope that ne will
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
THE DRAMA.
"FLORODORA" Is Pretty-"TtiE GAY LORD
QUEX'' Is Vile.

The line of demarcation between mu-
steal comedy and modern comic opera
is so vaguely defined that not one per-
son in hundred is able to discern it.
.Floroda," the current attraction at
the Casino in this city, is billed as
musical comedy, which it undoubtedly
is. although had it been written in this
country it would have been labeled
comic opera. Incidentally, it has
much better right to that designation
than that queer conglomeration, Foxy
CUTLER
At the outset it may be said that
"Florodora" is one of the best works CT
its kind that this city has seen during
several seasons, for, while the llDretto
is not startlingly original or unusually
brilliant, it is clean always, even inter
esting at times and on the whole thor
oughly acceptable.
The music is of that bright, jingly
and yet musicianly quality which COM
posers so constantly strive after and
SO seldom achieve. There are any
number of airs which are certain to
become popular if not with the street
urchins, at least with the lady who oc-
casionally "favors' at the piano when
company calls. The cast of "Floro-
dora" is an excellent one, with the ex-
ception of Willie Edouin, whose fun
is of the prehistoric quality. Indeed,
some of Mr.. Edouin's efforts to induce
laughter only serve to elicit sneers of
commiseration. The hits of the piece
were made by Robert E. Graham, Edna
Wallace Hopper, Cyril Scott, Guelma
Baker and Fannie Johnston. The
stage management was something to
marvel at for the reason that the eff
feet of constant movement was pro-
duced without the slightest apparent
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

ever can write a successful play, pro-
vided he possesses the dramatic in
stinct. Writers of books seldom have
ule dramatic instinct. When the dra-
matte and the literary instincts are
combined you have a great playwright.
Charles FrohSnan in Washington
Post.
For thirty years Joseph jefferson
has preferred to make money without
risk. experiment or special effort, and
whatever progress the American
drama has made during that period
has been made in spit of his indifer-
ence and lack Of sympathy and with
out the aid of his remarkable talents
for Interpretation In Mr.. Jefferson
threadbare and limited repertoire
there is not one play written by an
American. Mr. Jefferson with his
wealth and popularity might have pro-
duced an American play from time to
time with far less danger of failure
than any lesser actors among his con-
temporar:es who have managed in spite
of disbursement and hostility, to
keep the native drama alive.-Harrison
Grey Fiske, in Dramatic Mirror.
The Washington Post says: The first
act Of Edna Mays THE Girl from Up
There" is laid in the northern-most
country inkthe Arctic seas. The vista
Is one of prf ice. in bergs and pfnnacles
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

but through long negotiation Mr. Field
was at last able to secure the tribe
from Constantinople and they are now
in America for a single season. The
expense of bringing them over and re-
turning them at the end OF the present
season, besides their board and salary
while here, is something enormous, but
that item never entered into the plans
of AL G. Field when he wanted spe-
clan feature for his big enterprise. In
securing this feature he has fairly sur
passed himself, and his Mamelukes ell
ther in the parade with their pictur-
esque attire and incompatible horse
manship OF on the stage with their as-
founding feats OF acrobatic excellence
will be sure 10 create enthusiasm and
wonder.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

mited by the police Not one OF the
low burlesque theatres, which no decent
person would think OF visiting, would
dare present such an unblushingly
bawdy work for fear of clashing with
the police And yet presumably respec-
table people not only go to see John
Hare in ''The Gay Lord Quex," but also
carry their wives and daughters. One
redeeming feature of this fostering mess
is that its power for harm lis limited to
the theatre as it would be simply i'm
possible to discuss it in the drawing
uoOm Most of the erotic plays to
which we have been treated, or, rather,
with which we have been insulted, in
recent years have made pretense of
pointing a moral. But there is not
even this fiimsy palliation in this Pr
nero play. 1t is dull, soggy nastiness,
pure and simple. Its basis is immo-
rality, it's development is immortality,
it's atmosphere is immortality and its
sequence is immortality. There is not a
single wholesome character in "The
Gay Lord Quex," and, if we except the
aged dOwager, not single decent one
If the play were intensely interesting
there would at least be some semblance
of an excuse for its existence, but it is
not interesting, and, excepting in one
scene at the close of the third act, it is
not in the slightest degree dramatic
The story is so lewd that it is impossi
BILE even to suggest more than sufficient
of it to render it vaguely Ineligible to
decent readers.
Sophy Fullgarney is a manicure who
learns that her foster sister Muriel IS
to be married, apparently much
against her will, to the Marquis of
Quex, professedly reformed roue who
is known as the wickedest man in
London" She determines to prevent
their union and in so doing spies upon
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
WHEELING REGISTER, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 2 1900

Within one Of these large pinnacles is
Olga Edna Mayl, maiden who, by
the wrath of the God of Storm, was i'm
prisoned three centuries before. The
curtain rises as a number of the inhab-
itants of this place are placing wreaths
on the pinnacle, and they sing to the
God of Storm to set the fair maiden free.
A party of explorers arrive on the scene,
and they include among others Yankee
inventor who has lightning machine
This. is used with good results on the
pinnacle of ice, and the maiden is
brought to life. The play then deals
with her experiences in various eoun-
tries and of her narrow escape from
being turned back to ice.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
ole Fuller may co me here.

Lole Fuller may co me here.
Barnum's circus is in Vienna.
Catharine Bartho is in Dresden.
Gertrude Elliott is to do Dendonma.
Beerbohm Tree is to do Twelfth
Night"
New York is to have permanent
circus.
Coquelin is to act gravediggger in
Hamlet"
Marie Halton is in Viennas San
Toy" company
Odette Tyler is to play Katherine in
Tanning of the Shrew."
In tits advertisement Maud neglects
to state her open ii me, or to give the
name of her agent
Actor Sotherns wound will cost him
$50 000 At least that much money lost
th~0"~h his inability to appear on the
stage.
$1,000 nee Bindley arrived in New
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

Another fact worthy Of comment IN
connection with the engagement OF the
unbrilliant Mr.. John Hare and his COM
monplace company in Pinero's uninter-
esting and badly lewd play is the in
crease in the price of the best seats.
Only few years ago, with single ex-
ception, seat in the best portion OF
the first class theatres of this city cost
$3.50. Then several of the managers
initiated the example of the late Au-
gustin DAILY by raising the price to 81.
Now, along comes Mr.. Hare with the
exorbitant charge of $3.50 each for the
best orchestra chairs If that isn't as
surance, / should like to know what it
is, and Mr. Hare's reported explanation,
to the effect that the raise is made neces-
sary by the fact that he has a very ex-
pensive production and costly COM
pany is nothing less than laughable.
The would be ''haut to" of this city will
stand this sort of thing for while for
no other reason than that it is afraid
if it protests it will be considered parsi-
monious, or, worse still, poor; but even
the IDIOTS who comprise this mythical
set will soon tire of this inexcusable
imposition, and then something fgura-
lively speaking, will drop. And, by the
way, it would seem that the prices of
seats in our theatres are already suffic-
iently high to make it unnecessary for
the grasping managers to attempt to
squeeze a few additional cents from the
reluctant sheep who follow blindly
wherever the willy bellwethers see fit to
lead. ARTHUR CRISPIN.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02

effort. The costuming was in excel
lent taste, and some of the color
schemes were really unique and eXcep-
tionally effective. A rather novel fea
ture OF "Florodora' was that it was
devoid of tights with the exception Of
a single pair worn by the prima don
ma, Miss Johnston, which, by reason
Of the fact that they were not COM
PEELED to vie with scores of others,
were all the more effective. The cast
was as follows:
Cyrus w. Gilfain. E. Graham
Frank Abercoed. ........ Bertram Godfrey
Captain Arthur Donegal. Cyril Scott
Tennyson Sims. George De Long
Ernest Pym. Lewis Hooper
Max Aepfelbaum ............ Edward Gore
Reginald Landale ...........Joseph Welsh
Paul Crogan. Thomas A Herman
John Scott.................. Joseph S. Colt
Anthony Tweedlepunch... Willie Edouin
Dolores Fannie Johnston
Valleda .Guelma L. Baker
lnez Elaine Van Selover
J0se Sadie hauer
Juahlta ..-..............,. AdeIa1ue GhlllipS
Calsta ......................M Mabel Barrison
Angela Gilfain. .................May Edouin
Daisy Chain ............. Margaret Walker
Mamie Rowe. Waugh TeXsmith
Lucy Ling ................M Marie L. Wilson
Cynthia Belmont..........M Marjorie Relyea
Lottie Chalmers .......Agnes Wayburn
care FitZetarence. Daisy Greene
Lady Holyroodr. -. Edna Wallace Hoppe.
John Hare, the English actor. is hold
ing forth at the Criterion theatre in
this city in Arthur w. Pinero's com
edy' in four acts entitled The Gay
Lord Quex," the cast of which is as fol-
lows:
The Marquis of QueX. John Hare
Sir Chichester Frayne. 49,. Gilbert Hare
Captain Bastling .-............,I Two Dawson
"Valma .......,..........Arthur Grenville
The Duchess of Strood. ........Ada Ferrar
Julia, countess of OWbrdge. ...........
.......-.............,... Louise Noodle
Mrs. Jack Eden. ........... Mona X. Dram
Murlel Eden..... Mary Mayhem
Sophy Fullgarney ........Irene Vanbrugh
Miss Noon ................ Florence Jackson
Miss liuddle ........... Bea trice Coleman
MISS Garage .......,.......D Dora RignOld
Miss Limbrid .......... Marjorie Grifhths
The Gay Lord Quex' is one of the
most uncompromisingly filthy plays
ever seen in New York, and it is a
shame that its representation Is per-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
IN THE PLAY HOUSES.
SOMETHING ABOUT CURRENT ANI
COMING ATTRACTIONS IN LO-
CAL THEATRES.
IRENE MYERS SCORES A HIT
Something About the Career of the
Most Remarkable Child Actress
Upon the Stage To-Day-Her Art
and Her VersatiIify-AI.F FIELDS Min
strels Coming to the Opera House
FOotlight Flashes.

Irene Myers has been delighting au-
diences twice a day at the Grand. and
tomorrow will enter upon the second
week of her Wheeling engagement.
She is a veritable little artistic. Unlike