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a musical play entitled "Mr. Pipp."
Mr.. Tuck carries two large auto
trucks upon which the scenery and
effects necessary to the production Of
the comedy are transferred from the
baggage car to the theaters in the va
rious cities visited by the Grapewin
company. He has a special 65foot
baggage car in which to transport the
autO-truck.
Mr.. Tuck figures that the saving in
transfer bills alone, not to mention the
wear and tear on the scenery, will
more than repay him for the outlay.
It is possible that when Signora
Duse comes over to America again she
will be supported by an American
company instead of her own players.
The experiment will be tried first with
Tomasso Salvini. who is to have Miss
Eleanor Robson as his leading lady
and a company Of English speaking
players. If this is as much a success
as expected it is quite possible that the
same arrangements will be made with
Duse for her tour. In that case e: j..
Morgan would in all probability be
her leading man. 80 ,a-.. .
"Zoroaster," pictorial, spectacular
play founded on the story by F. Ma
rion Crawford, will be produced next
season. Mr.: Crawford and Ferdinand
F'ontana, a well-known Italian dra-
matist, have written the play which
Mr.. Crawford brought with him to
America last week. Mr.. Crawford says
that the play is not a dramatization of
the book, but is merely founded upon
the same theme. -./
+ Henrietta Crosman is to be starred
by David Belasco in his New York
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THE TIGER LILIES
They Are Coming Back to the Dewey
for a Week

LOT a week.
In booking the Tiger Lilies com.
pany for the week of Oct. %. the
management of the Dewey has selected
both wisely and we'll. The majority
OF the patrons Of the house viii no
doubt remember the Lilies When
they played here last season a favor
able impression was left behind. An
envlable reputation has been gained
ny this organization wherever It
played, and in order to maintain the
nigh standard reached every effort has
been made to present something new
and novel this season.
Inc musical portion will consist Of n
two act musical comedy during the ac-
t1on OF which many dance novelties.
up-to-date songs and a bevy Of fasci.
mating young women are introduced.
The1r efforts alone add much to the
gayety of the occasion, novel electric
cal and scenic effects are shown in
profusion and the general stage set
t1ngs are gorgeous and bewtlderine.
The vaudeville portion Of the pro-
gram will consist of the following we'll
known artists. Mr.. and Mrs. James
-. Cooper, the Morrisey Sisters. EDDIE
Estus, Clarence Wilbur & Co., the
original Patsy Julia ,Natus, Olga Or
loft, Vic Milo Tom, Robinson and Stel-
la Mack.
AS an extra feature the management
has secured that wonderful trio OF
musical artists, Howe, Berry and WAL
ters. -..--0
Regular evening and matinee per-
formances will be given during the en-
gagement.
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Not an Equal Start.

I'VE did not start equally; we did
not possess equal opportunities; we
did not have an equal area of produce
tive land; and we had great physical
obstacles to overcome. To start with
we had a race problem which the
United States never had. At the time
the United States became independent
the population Of Canada, about 10000
(the English-speaking population was
less than 100000, was almost wholly
French, who were either fur-hunters
or peasant-farmers of the French type,
whose instincts and aspirations were
not of the aggressive and commercial
The white, English population of the
United States was 100000, almost
wholly Anglo-Saxon and 200 times
greater than ours.
They had the advantages Of
country embracing all varieties of eli
mate, and conditions making to self
sufficiency. They had large and COM
pact areas to settle. AS the larger
BODY always attracts with greater
force than a smaller body of a similar
kind, so the United States with it's
larger population, it's more inviting
natural conditions and greater attrac-
tons drew population rapidly. The
law or the movements of population
is like any other natural law-it is ir-
over hundred years ago to a west
ern movement to the country south of
us, and that movement had to expend
itself before reaction set in. Canada,
which was affected thereby and deep
ly drained, was powerless. AS the
movement spread farther west, the
eastern states felt it the same as Can
ada did. The people of the United
States for years flowed on with the
tide to wealth and prosperity; Canada
had to struggle against it. There were
the three critical periods in the his
tory Of Canada since the date of in
dependence-in 1871, when old Upper
and Lower Canada (Ontario and Que
bec) were united under one consti-
tuition; about 1910, when responsible
government was obtained; and in 1857
when confederation took place. It is
interesting to note the population of
Canada and the United States respec-
lively, at the dates nearest those
three periods. They tell their own
tale:
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Eootlieht F1ashea.

For the first time in fifteen years Crestou
Clarke has decided not to be a star, and has
signed contract to appear as the leading man
with James ONeill when the latter produces
1.-The Adventures Of Brigadier Gerard"
Fay Templeton has new song in 1.-THE Run
Always that has caught all Broadway. It was
written for her by Robert 81. Davis, and the
two lines which are most widely quoted are the
following:
How much wood would woodchuck chuck
II Woodchuck would chuck WOOD
Adelaide Thurston was presented with badge
by General Fitzhugh Lee In behalf of Richmond
chapter of the Daughters Of the Confederacy,
or which Miss Thurston Is an honorary member,
last week. during the progress of her play,
Polly Primrose at the Academy, Richmond,
Va. -
White Whittlesey is about to play Lysandsr
to Nat Geodwin's Bottom in "a Midsummer
Nights Dream He will return to the Alcazar,
ment, and will then begin five years starring
tour In romantic plays under Belasco & Mayors
direction.
Mrs. James Brown Potter has decided ON m
American tour, and will reach this country
about the first of the year. She will be seen in
limited number Of presentations Of "Church
and Stage
The new play Of American life written by
William c. De Mile, son of the late Henry De
Mile, has been taken by Henry b. Harris Tor
production next season. Robert Edeson viii
star in it.
Frank Il. Perley has arranged to star Robert
billiard in a new play by Mrs. Frances Hodpson
Burnett. This means that Mr. billiard viii
forsake vaudeville as soon as the new pla1 N
ready for production. -
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Of Sim" This last is just what it's
name implies, a cheap melodrama.
The Tiger Lilies are billed at the
Dewey. This last playhouse has i'm
proved the character Of it's bookings
considerably of late, and the result
is shown in the big attendance at the
little Washington avenue theater.
The week in New York has been sig
nalized by the appearance of Ethel
Barrymore in a brand new theater and
with a brand new play. The theater
was the Hudson, and the play, Cousin
Kate who is no relation to Kate
Kip" nor yet to the cousin Kate
Georgia Cayvan exploited some years
ago. 1t is an English comedy by HUI
bert Henry Davis and, as the talented
daughter of the late Maurice Barry
more has never yet scored a failure,
it is safe to predict for it a successful
run. 5f'
William Collier, having met with
disaster in personal" and Are You
My Father" presented rival Of "A
Fool and His Money" the Broadhurst
farce in which Jameson Lee Finney
appeared last season.; and Charles
Frohman opened his French Vaude-
vile theater, with Nine. Wiehe (pro-
nounced Vee) and a French company.
At the Academy of Music Frohman
produced "The Best Of Friends a
spectacular melodrama, the scenic eff
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u p What is the matter with
~ Canada? Why have our
~ neighbors got their backs up
IA " at us? For several weeks
have been travelling thru
the Dominion, asking ques-
tons right and left in the en-
deavor to establish the Canadian
viewpoint. The United States and
Canada are about the same size and
about the same age. Why should one
have 100000 people and the other
only 100000; why isn't Vancouver
as big as Seattle and Victoria as large
as San Francisco and Winnipeg as
great as Minneapolis? Nations, like
men, are known by their works, and
how can the Canadian explain away
the greatness of the United States and
account for the lack Of development
In his own country? Isn't Canada's
ambition to compete with the power
full nation that has grown up by her
side about like a small grocery trying
to Guido department store? Would
it not be wisdom for Canada, whose
resources are similar to ours, to act
with us instead Of against us, and thus
enjoy the benefit Of our prestige as
a world power? These are the ques-
tons [ have been asking our neigh
bors, and in reply again quote r. E.
Gosnell, the Dominion historian and
politician, whose statements are made
In accordance with an intimate knOWl-
edge of Canadian sentiment:
1T is the invariab1e rule in the
United States to look upon Canadians
as being slow and unenterprising. You
say we are not sufficiently progressive;
that we began life as country before
the United States; that our country is
as large; that our natural resources
are great; that the increase Of our
population has been insignificant COM
pared with that of the United States,
which has progressed tremendously in
wealth, population, commerce and in
dustry. The inference to your mind is
plainly that, with similarity of prod
ucts, institutions, people, etc., had we
been part of you we would have
shared that prosperity in a proportion
ate degree. I admit that on the face
OF It there IS a strong plausibility in
such statements; but it involves a mis-
conception Of facts and conditions
Your premises are wrong and your
conclusions are wrong.
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original parts in plays from English
authors than any other woman now on
the stage. - * r.e.z,. +, s-,..
She was the original Drusilla Ives,
in Henry Arthur Jones' comedy. 1.-THE
Dancing Girls originated the role of
mantle comedy, THE Adventures Of
Lady Ursula; first impersonated Tril-
by in Paul Potter's dramatization of Du
Maurier's novel; the first to play Fan
ny in "Captain Letterblair,' produced
and played by her, husband, Mr.. Soth-
ern, tho she created this part before
she has become Mr. Sothern's wife.
Miss Harmed was also the first to
play, in this country, the leading fe-
male role in LADY Windermere's
Fan This part she originated about
the second or third year Of her career.
She was also the original Iris Bellamy
in Mr.. Pinero's,play;. Iris
Charles Frohman if all goes we'll, is
to have another tjinks play. It will
bear no resemblance to Miss Barr, =
more's recent production, but will
come to New York fresh RI from the
great redwood trees of - California.
was a guest of the Bohemian club of
San Francisco when "Montezuma" was
feature of the regular summer
links Greet liked it so we'll that he
notified .Frohman, who in turn in
structed the author, Louis Robertson,
to get into shape for a regular produce
ton. ~
Eleanor Robson for her engagement
at the Garden theater, New York, in
January, will have two pieces, one a
dramatization by Israel Zangwill of his
Merely Mary Ann and an original
play. by Mrs. Humphrey Ward and
Louis N. Parker, entitled "Agatha.' -
She will open her season at Ithaca, N.
Ann" Edwin Arden will be Miss
Robson's leading man, supported by
Charles Cartwright, the English actor.
Bataille's drama, of which La Valliere
IS the heroine, probably will be pre-
sented by Miss Robson next season.
The New York Morning Telegraph
has been puzzling of late over the
Identity of the original Florodora sex
tet. Visits to the different theaters
where musical comedy is being given
disclosed the fact that more than 100
young women now singing in New
York were members Of that original
sextet-and the provinces have not
yet been heard from.
The Telegraph statistician has been
inspired to rhyme as a result of his
nvestigations-and Wordsworth,
asked a little chorus maid, "
All frills and winks and kicks:
J Pray are there any more like your"
She answered, 1--WE are six.
Nineteen are in the Silver Shoe,'
Twelve in the Jersey Rose
And thirty in the 'Runabouts',
Disport in gorgeous clothes.''
1.-THE Prince Of Kensico' has eight,
At Days there are three;
And other theaters in town
Have fifty six quoth she.
"Ah, prithee, tell me true L cried,
| And play me no rude tricks,
How many maids are there in all?'
She answered: There are six.
Nineteen won wealth down Wall street
| way,
/ And twenty-five are wed;
/; In Paris there are thirteen more.
And some, alas! are dead
How many are there, Them I asked,
ION either side of StyN?''
And still the simple sextette maid
Insisted, We are six
Sir Henry Irving and the eighty-one
persons who are to assist him in his
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Canada U. S.
1871 ................. 100, 900 $50, 900
1910 ................ 1,OS0,00O 1000, 900
1867 ................ 3,575,O0O SO, 526, 900
A Great Trekking.

Low 0IU,UOC
A Great Tre]xking.
From 1855 to about 1895, or a
period of about thirty years, nearly
two millions Of people found their
way from Canada to the United States,
drawn there by the rush Of popula-
ton, by the glamor and rush Of the
large cities and by the nuInberless
superior opportunities afforded by the
rapid growth and development of an
immense stretch of territory, follow
ing in the wake Of the transcontinen-
tai railways. No such trekking was
ever known in the worlds history.
What would have been the progress
Of Canada had it shared the political
fortunes the United States at the
very start, it is, Of course, impossible
to say; but the movement Of the peo-
pie, the exodus from east to west,
during those eventful thirty years or
more, would have, without any doubt,
been the same in any event.
Annexation Not Good.
II do not think we would be as we'll
off annexed to the United States, and
I'll tell you why. At present our trade
lines are from east to west and west
to east. Trade is necessarily between
dissimilar parts. Ontario differs from
Manitoba and Manitoba from British
Columbia. They are compliments of
each other. North and south of the
line we are competitors and not COM
plements; Oregon and Washington
produce the same things as British
Columbia; Dakota and Minnesota the
same as Manitoba and our northwest;
Michigan and New York the same as
Ontario; and so on. We are building
up a trade with different parts of the
empire in those things we can supply
them with to advantage. The United
States produces everything we do and
a great deal more. I do not say we
could not trade with the United States
in some things to our advantage, but
the United States would have a great
deal the best Of it, especially in all
manufactures. With the boundary
line obliterated our trade with alioin-
ing states Of the union Woul' cAnter
in Boston, New York.. Buff .. Chi
cago, Minneapolis, st. Pau 'sp ,hane
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Hackney and Miss Lancaster. The
performance will be the same as that
we gave at Drury Lane. The spectac-
ular effects, especially the scene in
hell, are the most wonderful I have
ever been associated with
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
brought over the first detachment Of
the singers of the Metropolitan Opera
company, this week. Nine. Marie Ella
Sembrich, accompanied by her hus-
band, Professor Stengel, has come
appearance at the opera will be made
on the opening night, Nov. rs, when
she sings Gilda in "Rigoletto.' The
new roles in her repertory this season
at the Metropolitan, will be Elsa,
Amina and Leonora-
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Another passenger on the steamer
was Anton Fuchs, Of Munich, who is
to be stage manager for the German
operas at the Metropolitan. He pre-
pared the eight performances Of
"Parsifap' given in the Munich opera
house for the special benefit Of King
Ludwig of Bavaria. Nine. Wagner
wrote to the crown prince Of Bavaria
to ask him not to allow Herr Fuchs to
come to this country.
Olive Fremstadt, the American con-
tralto, formerly Of Minneapolis, en-
gagged by Mr.. Conreid, was also a pas
senger.
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- The Drama -

"~HE coming week holds out little
promise to patrons Of the local
theaters. The Metropolitan
announces another in the ex-
tended list of musical COM
edies with which we have been sur
feited of late. In truth the "melan-
choly days have come, the saddest Of
the year." for if there is anything
sadder than some Of the alleged mus
ical comedies which have been pre-
scented at this house recently it has
not been exploited in Minneapolis.
The Nets latest is "The Tenderfoot"
At the Bijou, Ward and Vokes will
present "A Pair of Pinks," which,
judging from the comment Of papers
in cities where it has been played, is
nicely calculated to give the audience
the "blues'; while the stock company
at the Lyceum will offer 1.-THE Wages
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Gle, with the wife Of DR.. Baer, a resi-
dent of the adjacent fashionable neigh
borhood. Mrs. Baer Is paid hundreds
of dollars, possibly near thousand,
for the weeks use Of her maiden name
Of Mabel Mckinley, along with which
is emblazoned the fact that she is the
martyred President McKinley's broth
er's daughter. DR.. Baer is but mod
erately prosperous and Mrs. Baer as
sociates with people Of mode and
money; so 1t is likely that she finds
the salary q handy thing to bring into
the house. The report is that the Nc
Kinleys opposed her exploitation Of
she is said to have replied, "and have
a right to use it."
She meant, probably, to draw dis
Etnction between her case and those
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tour here this winter, arrived from
England this week on the Minne-
apolis. This is the first tour Sir Henry
has ever made in this country with
out being accompanied by Miss Ellen
Terry. He refused to give it the par
ticular interest that attached to a
farewell tour.
~"I do not consider it that in any
way" he said. II shall probably re-
turn here for other tours; at least I
hope SO. Now that the Lyceum the
alter is no longer my property, I shall
be more at liberty than ever to travel
outside of England.
There is no part in 'Dante,' writ
ten by Victorien Sardou for me and
by my son adapted he said, (which
suited Miss Terry at all. The princi-
pal women parts are mother and
daughter, to be played here by Miss
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pluclzed up little more courage. We
never hear from them nowadays. The
chief reason for the absence of the an
nexation feeling is the remarkable
has taken place of late years. The
strong resentment made by Canadians
at what they regard as persistent I'M
fair treatment by the United States has
had a great deal to do with the rapid
development Of this sentiment. The
fact that it might and probably would
pay us IN financial sense to join
the United States has nothing to do
with the question. Canadians are a
cOmmerciaP people, eager to increase
their wealth, but they will not let
financial considerations affect them in
an issue in which their honor is en-
gagged. We propose to keep the
name Of Canada on the map as that
Of a. distinct nationality. To do that
we have made many sacrifices in the
past, and are prepared, if necessary, to
repeat them. If it could be demon
strated to every elector in Canada that
annexation would treble his, wealth,
take Immediately afterwards, the af-
firmative vote would be insignificant.
Hostility to the United States.
GAS to the attitude of the Canadians
towards the United States it is true
that there is on the part of a con-
siderable section Of the people a
strong feeling of hostility. Much of
this is hereditary: Ontario and the
maritime provinces were settled orig
inally by loyalists from the American
colonies who lost their all by reason
of their devotion to the crown, and
the next generation had to defend
Canadian soil against the invasion of
United States troops. Hereditary
antipathies die out slowly, as is in
stanced by the anti-British feeling of
many Americans who come from Rev
| dictionary stock. The anti-American
feeling in Canada has been added to
by the resentment caused by the COM
mercial policy Of the United States,
policy which it is believed on this
side of the line was deliberately
adopted with a view to squeezing us
into Joining the American union. The
extent of this feeling might, however,
be easily overrated. 1t is discour-
aged by our wisest leaders, who ad-
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and San Francisco, instead of st. John,
Halifax, Quebec: Montreal, Toronto,
Winnipeg, Vancouver and Victoria, the
cities which we are building up north
of the line. Branch lines of railways
would tap us at every vantage point
and draw the trade to the greater
centers south of us. We should be-
come so many states of the union, and
have lost our individuality and our ma
tionality. By the struggle to main
tain our independence and create our
destiny we have become greater than
would be possible otherwise. The
Scotch, tho their country was hard,
bare and inhospitable as compared
with fertile England, by the very ad-
Verslty OF circumstances they had to
overcome, became "a power and an in
fuence in the empire or wherever
they have gone. :It<produced charac-
ter. 81 f..
What Independence Has Done.
Besides, by our independence of
the United States;fs and with our i'm
perial connection, we have been able
to project steamship lines to Australia,
and the orient, and to construct a Pa
cific cable, and later on to have a fast
Atlantic line with Canadian terminal,
competing with New York and Bos-
ton. This ocean trade, together with
our interprovincial trade east and
west, has rendered two transconti-
mental lines across canadian territory
possible, with the prospect of third.
This trade would have been diverted
on the west to San Francisco and Sc
attic and on the east to New York
and Boston. j. Connection with your
country would have simply made it
greater, and Canada so much less.
II sincerely believe that two indie
pendent, hberty-loving, God-fearing
nations side by side on this North
American continent, by acting as a
stimulus upon each other,s can work
out a better and a greater future for
both than if theyHwere- united: With
the Alaska boundary settled,' and a
general treaty embracing the ques-
tons at issue between the two gov
ernments, every. possible cause of fric-
ton will have been removed. If ever
union takes placeGit will be on the
basis-sof an, alliance among Anglo
Saxon communities banded together
for purposes of peace,. the promotion
Of interests that may be made reci-
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Of Mrs. Leslie Carter and Mrs. James

OF MIS-. Leslie Carter and Mrs. James
Brown Potter, who retain for the stage
the names Of husbands from whom
they have parted. She begins with a
selection from la Traviata," follows
that with a sentimental ballad of love
in moonlight and ends with a jovial
dltty about an "Anoma from Arizona"
described in the rhymes as the one
particular Indian maiden of a certain
ardent braves heart. Mabel McK1n-
ley would be well worth 500 a week
on her vocal merits as a vaudeville
vocalist. That she is the late presi-
dents niece nultiplies her cash value.
of course, and the Circle has been
crowded where before it was sparsely
occupied.