Williams news., 1903-08-29
C. NICK STARK
 BOBS UP AGAIN
Now the Publicity Promoter and Utility Actor of Academy
 Stock Company.

c. Nicholas Stark has been heard from, whereat great many Arizo mains will rejoice. He was quite we'll known during a brief career in this territory and was for a time connected with the Republican and later with the WILLIAMS NEWS. A great deal of his time was taken up with attempts to do something in the theatrical way.
 Following is a story of his tragic life published in the theatrical page of the Buffalo, (N. Y.) Cour- fer along with two-column picture of him which might serve the pur- poses of Willie Hearst, if he hap pens to have no cut of his own. Those who are acquainted with the facts of Mr. Starks' life in Arizona will fear that he has forgotten some things and remembered others that neglected to happen:
 70. Nick Stark, the publicity promoter and utility actor of the Academy Stock Company, has had picturesque and varied career. Born upon his fathers schooner during a terrific gale on Lake Erie, Stark seemed fated for a stormy existence; and his life voy- age has been streaked with adven- ture and experiences that do not come to the lot of the average stay at-home person. After he had learned the printers trade he grad uated into reportorial ranks, and he was for some years employed as a special writer on the Detroit Free Press. He has served other prom inent papers in similar capacity, but his most interesting journalistic experience occurred away out in Arizona, where for five years he led an adventurous and strenuous ca reer. Often, he says, he found the Winchester mightier than the pen; and on more than one occasion he laid down the quill and paste pot to accompany sheriff's posse upon an Indian chase or the trail of a train robber. Stark served one term in the Arizona legislature and for time officiated as secretary to the governor. When the Spanish American war broke out the late Captain Buckley" O'Neil, whose heroic death while leading a charge up San Juan hill thrilled the hearts of newspaper readers, and whose last words, "Who wouldn't die for another star in the fag?" deserved to be cherished along with final ut terances of the distinguished dead, sent Stark a request to organize a regiment of rough riders in his town. This the young editor did, his newspaper office serving as a recruiting station.
 Stark had previously had con- siderable stage experience, and, concluding that anyone with hardi- hood enough to edit a newspaperin the uninviting Arizona field ought to be able to cope with the most un- friendly audiences. After the war he decided to adopt the theatrical calling permanently. Before leav- ing Arizona he tired Hamlet on the Indians. They settled the question of the melancholy Danes mental condition by declaring that he was 'Mucho loco,' which means that he was very crazy. Stark has never played the part of Hamlet before an audience of palefaces, but he has played King Claudius and Laertes in the same tragedy with good success He was connected with stock companies on the Pacific coast for two years and is versatile to degree. He is especially well equipped in voice and tempera- ment for the legitimate drama, hay ing been highly commended in such parts as Antonio in The Merchant of Venice,' Mercutio and Tybalt in