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, 1904-12-01
PRETTY DESIGNS ON
THE OFFICE LAWN.

The mounds Of earth on the lawn at
the Western Union telegraph office. u.s.
have been converted into pretty and
attractive signs by Gardener Swager
OF the Union Pacific system, who has
worked III a number of designs with
pieces of marble, bits of colored stone,
pieces of Stag from the rolling mills
and small Jumps of coal.
, 1904-12-01
Cured Paralysis.

w. S. Baily. P. o. True Texas
writes: my wife had been suffering
five years with paralysis in her arm
when | was persuaded to use Ballard's
Snow Iiniment, which cured her all
right. have also used it for old sores,
frost bites and skin eruptions. 1t does
the work" Csc. soc, $1.00. Sold by
Red Cross Pharmacy.
, 1904-12-01
FORMER LARAMIE GIRL
MARRIED IN CALIFORNIA

Friends here have received news OF
the marriage at Los Angeles, Cal, last
Sunday of Miss Gussie Tesching and
Tesching came here last May and
spent the summer here with friends,
leaving for her home in California in
the city some years ago and was quite
popular among the young people, all of
whom will wish her all manner of
happiness.
, 1904-12-01
MR.. BARRETT RECEIVERS
FROM SERIOUS ulNE

T.J Barrett, a business man of Raw
Inns, Wyo., who has been ill with blood
poisoning at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Charles X. Mcclellan, in Denver,
has passed the danger point, but it will
be some time before he can return to
his duties.
, 1904-12-01
SECRETARY APPROVES
SELECTION BY STATE

The secretary Of the interior has
approved the selection by the state OF
Wyoming OF 1,272 acres in the aban
dcned Fort Mckinney military reser
walton to be used for charitable, edu.
c%ational, penal and reformatory insti.
tutions.
, 1904-12-01
NO COUNTY PATIENTS
AT COUNTY HOSPITAL.

There are no county patients at the
county hospital, according to Health
Officer S. B. Miller. who keeps the
would-be patients moving to the towns
from when, = they come. There are
some private patients at the hospital.
, 1904-12-01
NAMES CANDIDATE FOR
THE HIGHEST OF

Albany lodge, Odd Fellows. last
night nominated Joseph B. Mckee as
the candidate for noble grand to be
voted for at the mex meeting of the
lodge. There was a good attendance
of members. Candidates for all the
Offices were nominated.
, 1904-12-01
WORK BEGUN ON
THE BREWERY WAREHOUSE,

Work has been started on the foun-
dations Of the Anheuser- Busch Brew
ing company's warehouse on Univer-
sity avenue, between First and Second
streets.
, 1904-12-01

FOR SALE-Modern house of nine
with bath and pantry; good
good ou%tbuildings; two lots,
one a corner, each 66x132. All at a
price. With or without furniture.
Inquire at this office. tt
, 1904-12-01

Some miscreant threw baling wire
across the electric light wires Friday
evening, Nov. 25th. The company will
gay $4,000 for information leading to
the conviction of the guilty party.
n26d26
, 1904-12-01

WANTED, MAN-Under So, to pre-
pare for Govt Position. Salary $500
with promotion to $500. Fine open
ing. Box $40. Cedar Rapids, la. d1O
, 1904-12-01
MORE MACHINERY FOR
THE PEARL SHELTER,

Another carload Of machinery and
material for the smelter at Pearl has
been received here by Agent Breisch
and the Colsignees notified.
, 1904-12-01

$3.50 overcoats for $3.50, at Wood
ruff & Terry's.
, 1904-12-01

Mother. attention, Buy you boys
clothing, etc, at cost from Woodruff 4
Terry.
, 1904-12-01

Buy a suit now Special prices at
Woodruff & Terry's.
, 1904-12-01

For fine job printing leave orders a,
he Republican office.
, 1904-12-01

The big sale is still on al Woodruff
& Terry's.
, 1904-12-01
Parisian Land Value,

Partisan Land value.
The value Of land in the city OF
'sris is slightly less than II cents a
0uare meter (about 10A square feet).
trta' # S1,402. $50. 500.
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aid. 1t was readily granted that the
combination Of two such accomplish
ed actors as Miss Rehan and Mr.. Skin
ner would produce most artistic re-
suits in the presentation Of Shake
Spearian plays, but, truth to tell. hard
ly manager along Broadway believ-
ed that they would draw good sized
audiences. The most knowing, most
astute, most experienced men in the
business, accustomed to forecast the
atrical failures or successes, all agreed
that Liebler & Co., were up against
it, in offering Shakespeare to a city
that was whistling "Hiawatha" and
humming "Bedelia." Had Liebler &
Co. got Harry Smith to write a good,
rollicking libretto about 1.-The King of
the Zim-Zim Islands," with Miss Re
han in nine changes of costumes; had
they got Ludwig Highlander to inject
some two-step music into it. and had
John ]. McNally been hired to scratch
off some topical song for Mr.. Skinner,
such as I'm the Dandy of Broadway"
the wiseacres could have seen in their
minds eye the money coming in at
the box office. But Shakespeare? The
classics? Nonsense!
Hadn't Nat Goodwin tried 1t lately
at the New Amsterdam with a fine
company, superb setting and magnif-
icent theater surroundings, and gone
down quietly to the Grand Central
station to buy ticket to take him out
Of town? Hadn't Sir Henry Irving
come in here from London with
Dante" and after a brief stay asked
the janitor of the Broadway theater to-
call cab to take him by the most di-
rect route to some outgoing train?
Were these individual straws in the
wind sufficient to suggest which way
the. storn1~was heading, or must Lieb-
Ter & Co. be hit with a whole sheaf to
enable them to see the drift of popular
taste?
All the same they brought Miss Re-
han and Mr.. Skinner here, and, mira
bile dictu New York has packed the
house nightly during the last two
weeks. Every manager in the city has
been astonished at this happening of
thezunexpected Hardly three theaters
in New York have been doing a really
good business this season, and some
of them have had a most heartbreak-
ingT experience in the collapse of costly
productions, but Shakespeare, despis-
ed, sure-to-spel-ruin Shakespeare, and
Richard Brinsley Sheridan have been
standing them up" nightly at the
Lyric.
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Stock company. Mr.. Frohman, then
young manager, had severed his con-
nection with the Mallory Brothers, of
the Madison Square theater, and be-
came manager of the Lyceum theater.
Phe venture was not proving successful
until one day Sothern brought to Froh-
man play that had been left him by
mis- father, and suggested it as good
vehicle for the stock company 1t was
found that the play contained an ad-
mirable part suited to Sothern him
self, and simply to supply an enter
tainment and keep the theater open
for fortnight until the summer the
play was produced with Sothern fea-
tured as star. The play was originally
called Trade but was rechristened
The Highest Bidder 1t was produced
in May, 1885, the date commemorative
Sothern's first appearance as star.
Success was immediate. The theater
was crowded for a year, and Sothren at
bound became one of the most sue
cessful stars before the public. A short
tabulary of the original plays produced
from that date to this is of interest.
Season 1885 81, 1.-The Highest Bid
DER" 1888-89, Lord Chumley;" 1890
80. THE Victoria Cross 1890 81,
Master of Woodbarrow;" 1928,
Captain Lettarblair;" 1S93-94, "Sher-
idan;". 1894 95, THE Way to Win a
Woman" 1896, THE Prisoner of
zenda;" 1Ss6-97, AN Enemy to the
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THE STAR.

THE Merry Maidens" burlesquers
organization, which comes to the Star
theater this week, beginning with to-
day, is an entirely new departure from
burlesque attractions this season in
having plot 1t is entitled "Mr. Bugs
Busy Day." and is an amusing story
told of an old mans trip to New York
and his infatuation for a chorus girl
whom he chances to meet. After his
return home, his son, on his way home
from college, meets the same girl and
marries her, and the many complica-
tons that arise on his arrival home
are told in a highly amusing manner
and give rise to many laughabIe situa-
tons.
An act that is new this season to this
city is contributed by 1.-THE Duffin-
Redcay Troupe" of European acrobats
an act that is a sensation wherever
presented Other features are the
Johnson trio, including the well-known
comedian, Charley Johnson, in a COM
edy sketch; the HATS In their pleasing
musical comedy sketch entitled IAN
operate Rehearsal; Sam Rice and
Sheppard Kamp; the dashing little
soubrette, Miss Alice Leslie, and others,
including an attractive aggregation of
chorus girls. ~ 40
special ladies' matinee will be
given Friday.
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gian girl, whom he takes back to Eng
land with him. He is happy in the love
of loyal wife, yet at the same time
infatuated with variety actress. Lady
Winsleigh, who is in love with and
wants to marry Errington, is jealous,
and tries in every way to separate
''Thelma" from her husband. She is at
last successful, and Thelma, after
learning of her husbands duplicity,
goes back to Norway.
Errington soon learns of his wife's
flight and the cause of it, and Lady
Winsleigh, when confronted with the
truth of what she has done, denies
everything. Her husband, Lord Wins
leigh, contradicts his wife and con-
fesses his conspiracy. Errington goes
to Norway, where he sees Thelma, tells
her the truth and is forgiven.
Between the acts of this production
will be introduced several vaudeville
turns among them being the Otora
troupe Of Japanese aerial artists and
Nellie O'Neil in a new singing and
dancing specially.
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W. }. HENDERSON ON aPARslFAL."

w. J.. Henderson, the well known
music critic, writing of "ParsifaP' in
the Theater Magazine for February
says
AT each disclosure the opera house
has been crowded with a curious
tf1rong, made up partly of habitual
music drinkers. partly of people who
regard it as their duty to find out,
what's going on in town, and partly Of
deluded curiosity seekers from Har-
lem, Hoboken, and way stations, all
filed with a faith in the statements
of press agents, critics afflicted with
Wagneromania, and hysterical ladies
who once visited Bayreuth. 1t is both
amusing and pathetic to see an audi
ence sitting with bowed heads at the
performance of this Kiralfy spectacle
of holy things If Wagner had really
hurled into the world work Of genius,
masterpiece, in this. his swan song,
I, too, should cry Ave Imperator,'' and
bow the knee; for no man worships
more deveutly at the shrine Of Wagner
than I do But 1t seems to me that
there Is something defective in the
vision which fails to penetrate the
tinseled garb of professionals, ballet,
transformation scenes, steam and pur-
pie light and to discern the emaciated
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Ginger and Mary, factory hands, and
Charles Wilde, the insurance agent, "a
mighty good fellow when you know
him. are some of the principal char
acters.
Two ssixty-foot cars are required to
carry the scenery and mechanical eff
fectS, among the latter being COM
pletes electric plant and the machinery
used in the. factory scene. The ma
chinery and dynamos are the real thing,
and SO heavy and complicated that,
once set up, they remain 50 until the
end of the. enga gement, the scenery for
the other acts being built in front
of it,
The first act opens with pay day at
the factory and the, effect of the crowd
Is described as very realistic. Act III.
is in. four seenes-a street1in the mill
district, a vivid bit of co1oring, and
here it is that little Cora Turner, the
drunkard's child, gives Mag Wiggles a
thorough thrashing; interior Of the
county Jail showing the realistic fight
between Rodger Hartman and Charles
Wilde and the Sensational escape of the
latter; a corridor leading. to the court
room proper, showing the various types
which go to make up city's popula-
ton.
Act III. shows the interior of the fac
tory in operation. The noise of the
turning wheels, the clatter of the belts,
the humming of the dynamo and the
flashes from the electric switchboard
are all there. besides an immense steel
plunger rises and falls with clocklike
regularity.
The villain, discovered in the act of
robbing the safe of valuable papers
and the will which disinherits him, kills
his father by forcing him against the
electric switchboard, and attempts to
cover hs hideous crime by throwing
his brother senseless upon the moving
carrier of the great steel hammer. His
rescue by his sweetheart, the little fac
tory girl, who hurls herself through a
solid glass partition, is one Of the SEN
sational episodes.
The last act takes place at the little
cottage home of the now happily mar
ried hero and heroine. The wicked
brother returns and confesses all, re-
stores the stolen will and is saved from
the pursuing detectives.
There will be an extra matinee on
Friday, Lincoln's birthday.
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come traitor to the cause his wife has
at heart, having from base personal
motives become Northern spy On
learning this, Charlotte utterly repudi-
ates him. To expose him would be to
condemn him to be shot after a drum
head trial. This she cannot do, but
she uses her woman's wit to thwart his
plans for betraying the South. This
course of action throws her in with
the scouts of Capt Ferry. who has
loved her from afar, and whom she
learns to love amid their common dan
gers, triumphS and defeats.
1t is a love story, with the shadow
of war merely making the sunlight of
romance much brighter and happier.
Wallace Munro, who has been Tit
tells manager since her days as star
with a competent company and ade-
Quate scenery
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07

King" 1878, Change Alley, 'eThe
Adventure of Lady Ursula" and "The
Lady of Lyons" 1s9S-99. "A Colonial
Grip and THE Kings Musketeer;"
$4,000, THE Song of the Sword" and
THE Sunken Bell 1900-01, Hamlet"
190102, Richard Lovelace" and IF !
Were King" 10000, "The Proud
Prince
Sothern's twenty-four years career
upon the stage has been memorable for
steady directed effort towards the high
est ideals of his art, for incessant labor
and unttring ambition. Each year
has seen him grow in artistic purpose
and importance. His personal traits OF
refinement and modesty, as well as his
power of dramatic expression, have
completely drawn to himself the hearts
of theatergoers. Sothern has been re-
peatedly described as "the artist whom
men like and women love-" and he has
always been referred to as "the ideal
lover of the American STAGE
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rittell Bruno. who is favoraDly known


Tittell Bruno. who is favorably known
here.
1.-The Cavalier" is a war play, deal
ing with incidents of the civil con-
f1ict and Notwithstanding that the war
sentiment is a strong motive in the
action, the battles are only in the dis
lance, the war a mere background to
the love story of Charlotte and the
Confederate officer, Edward Ferry.
The heroine is a spirited and roman
tic Southern woman, whom circun1-
stances and her temperament convert
into rebel spy. The obstacle in the
course of true love is the fact that
Charlotte has been tricked into mar
riage with Capt. Oliver and on the
evening of her marriage has discovered
his true character and that he is de-
void of all honorable instincts. Oliver
is not bad lot in his private life, but
at the time OF his marriage has be-
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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY. Z. 1904.

and anaemic form which is beneath
1t is both difficult and easy to believe
that this music was. written sby the
composer of ''Tannhauser," die
Meistersinger." and the other great
works 1t is difficult to believe it. be-
cause of the utter lack of the native
fire of inspiration found in the other
scores. 1t is easy because of the con-
tlnual echoing and paraphrasing of the
thoughts conceived for the making of
the greater. works. This is the product
of a man at hard labor. 1t is unques-
tionably the work Of a genius. but not
work Of genius. But it is tremen-
dous popular success, and it il like
Katisha's left shoulder blade, in that
people come miles to see it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07
IF SHAKESPEARE CAME TO
TOWN.

In an interview with. Otis Skinner.
concerning commercialism in art and
what Shakespeare would be doing If
he were alive today, the New York
World quotes the actor as follows:
You didn't give particular fits to
theatrical commefcialism, as might
have been expected at a N. A. t. S.
meeting
mo? Well why should II" replied
Mr.. Skinner. II have nothing against
commercialism. and / take every occa-
sion to tell my idealist friends that
they need a little of it in their bust
ness. AS Mr.. McAdoo well said, let us
have art for arts sake--on business
principles. William Shakespeare was a
great commercial success, because he
owned theaters, was an actor manag ger
and staged his own pieces. He han
pened to be also an immortal poet, but
that wasn't his fault. He couldn't help
1T. God made him that. He never
wrote for poSterity, nor with deliberate
educational intent. Shakespeare was
a true romantic until we made him a
classic. If he were alive and here to-
day what do you suppose he would
be doing?',
Not dramatizing novels p"
+ Yes, in all probability he would.
1t was his favorite and most successful
knack. AS You Like It in it's original
form was one of the best selling Eng
lish novels of his time, and SO was
The Winters Tale Others Of his
plays are adapted from the Italian.
His Histories are based on Holinshed
and other chroniclers who might prop
erly be called historical novelists or
romancers."
Great snakes! Shakespeare a COM
mercial manager, a foreign adapter and
a dramatizer of historical novels? No
wonder. then, that BILL" as the coun-
ty chairman calls the Bard of Avon, is
quite at home on Broadway today.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-07
"THELMA" AT THE METRoPoLI-
TAN.

For three nights, beginning this even
ing and including Wednesday mat
inee, a scenic production of Marie Co
relli's "Thelma" will be presented at
the Metropolitan opera house. The
story of the play is well known to the
majority of the reading public.
There are five characters directly
concerned in the story-Thelma, the
Philip Bruce Errington, the unfaithful
husband, and Violet Vero, the variety
actress with whom the husband is in
love. The plot is an old one, telling
of the errtng husband and the true and
loyal wife, who believes her husband.
Sir Philip Bruce Errington, while
in Norway, meets, falls in love and
marries Thelma, a beautiful Norwe-