Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-01-30

! chaplain OF Off Itines III MCGOWAN $
| brigade and was after promoted for gal
dantry in action. DR.. AIullally's letters
on Presbyterian doctrine attracted wide
! attention.
Henry W. Savage has purchased from
| Frank Pixley and Gustav Luders a new
and highly original fantasy called The
| Woodland" and will produce it in the
! spring. An odd feature of the work is
that not one Of the characters represents
| a human being. All are drawn from the
bird kingdom. The prima donna is n
| nightingale, the comedian a bluejay, the
s0ubrette a wren, the ingenue dove. and
so on. One of the scenes represents n
huge bird cage occupying the entire stage.
III dresses no masks or beaks or feathers
are to be employed. the different birds be-
ing merely suggested in the costume dc
| signs.
Robert Graves and Mrs Marguerite J.
! Plant. widow of Henry Il. Plant, mil
lionaire southern railroad. steamship and
! land owner, have been married at the
| Plant residence in Fifth avenue. There
were only about half Il dozen witnesses.
all relatives of the bride and bridegroom.
! \ small luncheon was served and then
! Mr.. and Mrs. Graves departed in spe-
cIal ear for a short trip. Every effort
was made to prevent any publicity and
| were in complete ignorance of the affair
until they were notified by telephone and
| telegraph. The groom is well known in
society and club life here. He is i'm
mensely rich, having inherited the for
tune of his father, pioneer wall paper
manqfactnrer of the country. The story
of Mrs Plants fight in the courts for
her dover rights in the will that she
contested and won is well known. IT
will be remembered that Mr.. Plant, de-
string that his enormous fortune. esti-
mated at $4,000 00 should become the
greatest IN the world, provided that the
entlre estate should remain undivided
until the Youngest unborn son of his
grandson 1.-THE latter then only years
OLD should reach his majority. An an
nuty of $4,000 each was set aside for
the widow and only son. Morton +.
Plant. Mr., Plant drew up this provision
of his will under the direction of shrewd
lawyers, but a legal flaw was found and
the instrument was broken. The ground
upon which the will was set aside was
Mr.. Plants seven years residence in
Connecticut did not establish a bona
fide citizenship iii that state. the laws of
which permit the entaihng of property
lie was declared to have been resident
of New York, where the laws forbid en-
failing, and the property was divided
under the statutes of this state.
4 sequel to the ''Wizord of Or" is be-
ing prepared in book form, in which the
Scarecrow and the Tin Wo0dman are the
heroes of more strange adventures.
Later the book will be made into an ex-
travaganza.
a large proportion of telephone girls
employed by the big companies here give
up their places rather than incur the risk
of becoming partly bald. This effect of
gbu
operators wear over their head is plainly
noticeable in the ease of those who have
sCanty hair On boys who act as tele-
phone operators it is even more notice
able than with girls. One boy, who
operates a switchboard in large office
in the Morton building. is almost entirely
bald in band running from one side
Of his head to another. He has been at
the telephone switchboard for two years
and now wears a cushion underneath
the steel hood TO protect his head from
the pressure.
Henry W. Savage will in the spring.
IN addition TO the new musical comedy
by Oliver Herford and Henry Waller.
which is called "McAdam and Eve
produce in Boston new musical fantasy
by PlXley and Luders. authors of king
Dodo' and THE Prince of Pilsen."
Woodland is the name of the new
piece, aud not one of the characters will
represent human being. The prima
donna will be nightingale, the CO.
medlan jay, and so on through the list
of the bird kingdom. The costume plates.
doubtless, will be based on Audubon.
Mr. Savage says there viii be no local
illusions. sometimes known as gags"
in this play. but ii will be as pertinent
70 Japan as to New York (barriug the
jays, perhaps a little more SOL One of
the scenes viii represent Il huge bird
cage. hlllng the entire stage, and other
scenes viii try to convey the forest Mt.
mosphere and the poetry which the sub
lect suggests. There will be no imita-
safely promised. The cast will be print
ed on playbillS.
When ]. Sergeant Cram returned from
Europe the other day there was ouite n
tlutter around Tammany hall. Mr.. Cram
alone of all the faithful has the dis.
tinctloh OF having refused Il job under
the new administration j. Sergeant
Cram is the Beau Brummell of Tam
many. He is the official horse show and
the only blown-in-the- bottle swell who
visits the hall every day and who is seen
around the Democratic club at night.
lie Is the warm. personal friend of the
mayor. the confident of Richard Croker
ana the tldus Achates of the new boss.
MT Murphy. He can wear a dress suit
without appearing To be in disguise. a
feat that few Tammany men can boast.
and he frequently mods To people in
autos. He is the pride of Tammany for
an these virtues. but most of all because
he does not want Il job.
Mrs William Tod Hehnuth has been
elected president of the New York Med
zeal college and Hospital for Women.
Mrs. Helmuth was one of the founders Of
the Hahnemann hospital, and also took
the initiative in founding the New York
Homeopathic Medical College and Hospi.
tai During the Civil war she was presi
dent of the sanitary commission, which in
those days did the work which hos SINCE
been taken up 10y the Red Cross Mrs.
iiethuth has also for a number of years
been president of the Women's guild of
the Flower hospital
y supreme court Judgment on failure
to answer, has been entered i'm the Sara.
| toga county clerks office i'm favor of Mrs
Frank Leslie against the Congress Snrinc
company of Saratoga Springs for The 10,
coYery of SGT. tS4 30, represented nv th;y.