The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-10

gave, in voice of plaintive protest,
this Delphic utterance: "Hully Gee!
That was a bum slug"
The theatrical trust has suffered
setback in it's attempt to bring into
line all of the New York newspapers.
Most of them are strongly Influenced,
if not controlled by the trust, which
has succeeded in securing the discharge
of such critics as are obnoxious to 1t,
as in the case of Mr.. de Wagstaff of
the Herald. who was recently dis
charged without notice for no other Of
Tense than that of writing favorable
interview with Minnie Maddern- Fiske,
who is independent of the trust. the
theatrical syndicate, however, made a
mistake when it tried to whip the Com
mercial Advertiser into line. 1t de-
manded the discharge of critic named
Hapgood who has been in its bad books
since he wrote a magazine article ex-
planning the methods of the trust. The
Commercial Advertiser declined to dis
charge Mr.. Hapgood. Thereupon the
trust withdrew all it's advertising and
printed in its organ, the Dramatic
,, News, an article embodying the follow
ing remarkable paragraph:
ut has been demonstrated in Bos-
ton, Providence, Washington and De-
troit, that it is an unwise policy TO
patronize a newspaper which constant
~ antagonizes the best theaters. And
now that a start has been made with
the Commercial Advertiser it behooves
the other daily papers to behave them
selves.
Truly the theatrical advertising in
the Commercial Advertiser is an object
lesson"
This Af hof ha
behaviour demanded of the newspapers
is absolute submission to the will of
the trust. The Dramatic News took the
trusts victory for granted so precipi-
lately. When the trust found that t
could not browbeat the Commercial
Advertiser it meekly withdrew its de-
mand for Mr.. Hapgoods discharge,
apologized, and put back its advertise
! ments. 1t does not appear. however,
that the paper is behaving ITSELF any
less independently than hitherto.
There died in Auburn, N. Y, last
week, at the age of So years, a man
whose face was known not only to
thousands of New Workers who had
never seen nor heard of him, but to
people in many parts of the world
where he had never been. Dr. Samuel
NJ. Hopkins was a theologian of note,
but it was not from that cause that
his face was so widely known, but be-
cause his singular personal beauty had
made him what photographers call an
involuntary model" For their show
windows photographers strive to get
as many striking and beautiful pictures
as possible, whether of women, chill
dren or men, though the latter are in
the minority, and these they formerly
exchanged to great extent, so that d
photograph taken in Boston might APP
pear in Honolulu. DIR. Hopkins, with
| his more than six feet of stature, his
leonine face, with it's snow white hair
and beard, and his bearing and ex-
preston of indestructible youth, had
been for ten or fifteen years a subject
for photographing seldom equalled. de
had few pictures TAKEN and these few
| Travelled far and wide, appeared
in Boston, Philadelphia, st. Louis,
Chicago and other cities with the
names OF various photographers at
| tached thereto; were enlarged and
displayed prominently in Broadway
and Fifth avenue show cases, In COM
pany with matinee heroes, low bodiced
society women and the latest queens
| OF beauty" n somewhat embarrassing
! juxtaposltlon for the venerable theo-
logue. Being personally one OF the most
modest OF men, he was greatly annoyed
by this publicity and once called a
Fifth avenue photographer 70 account
for displaying his picture without
warrant The man Of the camera pur-
sued him 20 the door begging him for
a sitting and offering 10 give him as
many prints az he wanted free Of
charge Later Dr. Hopkins began 20
] hear ~ his photos in England ana
/ Germany but the sllmaN came when
q globe tr0tunE friend 81 hls, meetlnR