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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-17
Anti-semitIc Disturbances.

st. Petersburg, April 16.-serious dis
turbanees of an anti-semitic character.
in which soldiers OF the garrison Joined,
are reported to nave occurred at Chelye-
binsk. In orenburg several houses have
been sacked. Troops have been sent there
to restore order.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-17
FRISCO TRAIN IS
GREAT SUCCESS
''Tht Messenger Boy" Makes
Initial Trip
BIRMINGHAM TO WINFIELD
Aee-HeraId's Special Train Welcomed.
General Agent Lightner Pleased.
Jones Moore and Henry Gray
in Excellent Form.
BY SEYMOUR RANSOM.
"Creditable, enterprising, welcome. u

"Creditable, enterprising, welcome
That Is what Jones G. Moore. president
of the Birmingham Southern railway, said
last night of "The Age-Herald Messenger
Boy the new train running daily now
over the Frisco line from Birmingham
to Winfield and return.
Mr. Moore, when speaking these words,
was standing on the platform of one of
.'The Messenger Boys cars as the train
rolled into the union station on its return
run at $50 o'clock last night from its first
trip over the line
Accompanied by three score men of Bir-
mingham who well represent the railway,
financial, commercial and professional ac-
tlyities of the community Mr.. Moore had
made the journey. Throughout the twelve
hours-from 6:3J a. m. to $3.50 p. m.-he
had been the heart and soul of the
company. As we'll as, If not better than,
any other member of the party, he was
competent to speak of the significance of
this new departure in railway and news
paper enterprise.
viii Help the State.
We've had a bully good time" SAID
Mr.. Moore. '"This innovation is highly
creditable to the Frisco people, reflects
remarkable enterprise on The Age-Herald
and will be heartily welcomed by all
persons who live in communities along
the Frisco line between Birmingham and
Winfield. 1t has given me great deal
of pleasure to make this trip Though
II may be probematical that The Mes
senger Boy will pay Immediately I am
confident that the investment will in
time be wise one.
This new train is another tie that
binds the people of the greatest suburban
center in the state to their friends and
fellow citizens living at points in Jeffer-
son ana the neighboring counties of Wal
ker Fayette and Marion.
at multiplies once more the means
of intercommunication between the city,
the country and the country town, and
thereby makes closer social intercourse
and brisker commercial activity. As
resident of Birmingham and citizen of
Alabama I am glad that The Messenger
Boy has started on its course. hope all
its trips will be as enjoyable and as
profitable as this one has BEEN.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-17
Steamer Reports Firing.

Hong Kong. April 1.-THE steamer Tele-
machus reports that she heard firing 15o
miles north of the Natuna islands at 500
o'clock on the afternoon Of April II.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-17
powie Leaves roniaht.

Mexico City, April 16.--Dr. Dowie and
family will start for Chicago tomorrow
night.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
THE Mystic Message"

The McIvor-Tyndall Sunday after
noon lectures which have been given
throughout the winter at Blanchard
hall to very large audiences, will be
continued for a short time only, or until
such time as the weather becomes ex-
tremely warm, after which the lectures
will be delivered at the McIvor-Tyndall
institute, 1901 South Grand avenue, on
Sunday evenings instead of in the af-
ternoons, and to which only the Psy-
chic Science alliance subscribers will BE-
admitted, owing to the inadequacy of
the seating capacity of the institute.
DIR. McIvor-Tyndall, by reason of his
wonderful spiritual insight, and his
logical exposition of the obscurities of
psychic manifesto tions, has unquestion-
ably done more toward the spread of
metaphysical knowledge on this coast
than could ordinarily have been accom-
plished in years. The McIvor-Tyndall
philosophy is so thoroughly broad, all
inclusive and comprehensive that it
appeals as of practical help in all
phases of life.
For the subject of his discourse this
afternoon DIR. McIvor-Tyndall will lect-
ure on 1.-The Message of the Century"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Exit Howard Scott

Howard Scott, who makes his final
appearance with the Belasco theater
stock company this evening, has been
with that organization since it's start
and during that time has maintained
for himself standard in his art which
has made him a host of admirers in
Los Angeles.
While many of his characterizations,
such as the pipe mender in The First
Born" bore the marks of inspiration
his art was the kind which satisfied
because of conscientious attention to
detail. He realized as too few actors
do the immense value of such little
things as not saying "dook'' for "duke, "
"servus' for Service" "wimun'' for
women" "bulong" for "belong," and
by instinct or more probably by long
study he knew how to time his actions
and knew the power of reserve.
Howard Scott bore the distinction of
being the only actor who ever served
a stock engagement in Los Angeles
without having his photograph repro
duced in any public print. He objected
to personal notoriety. Private business
demands the actors presence in San
Francisco, and if he returns to the
stage it will not be until next season.
when he may be seen in Los Angeles
again.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
GreenroOn1 Gossip

The tour of Mr.. Sothern and Miss
Marlowe, which began at Chicago on
September 10. will close at Wheeling,
w. Va, on June "a. They will then
have acted in siXty-nine cities, pre-
senting only the plays of Shakespeare,
Charming Pollock has written a
play OH the life of Napoleon Bona
parte. which is to be produced, by and
by, With Thomas Il. Shea, as Nap
oleon, The play is i'm four acts, and it
appears to be an epitome of the story
of Napoleon's career beginning in 1893.
and extending to the year of Waterloo,
1915
For the first performance of the re-
vived "Trilby" with many of the orig
inal company. including Virginia Har-
ned and Wilton Lackaye, at the New
Amsterdam theater, a box has been
reserved by William A. Brady for the
actresses who have played the title
role since the play was first produced,
They include Blanche Walsh. Mabel
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Syndicate Prospectus

Klaw & Erlanger will present an
array of attractions next season, for
which they are making extensive prep
arations and engaging an eXtraordinar-
ily large number of people. Ben Hur"
will be continued and will begin its
seventh year in September. The Drury
Lane spectacle, "Humpty Dumpty,"
will be presented in several of the
principal cities for long runs, and in
addition to this the new spectacle. 1.-The
White Cat" to be brought over this
summer, will be the holiday attraction
at the New Amsterdam theater,. New
York. 1t may come west later.
Following their policy of the past
seven seasons. Klaw G. Erlanger will
make new production for the Rogers
brothers, to be called "The Rogers
Brothers in Ireland" Joseph Cav
thorne will be made full fiedged star
in a new comedy by John j. McNally
called I'm Tammany Hall" Mcintyre
and Heath the famous black face
comedians. will open the season at the
New York theater i'm new spectacular
farce comedy by George V. Hobart, to
be called THE Ham Tree" Other inn
portant musical productions to be pre-
sented by this firm are Seeing New
York" musical comedy by Harry b
Smith, 1.-The Butterfly OF Fashion" IL
new, musical comedy by C. M. S. Me-
Clellan and Gustave Kerker, and a new
musical comedy by George M Cohan
the author and star of Little Johnny
zones"
BY arrangement with George Ed
wardes of London Klaw & Erlanger
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

will present two OF his most important
successes, THE Duchess Of Dantzic,' y
which has just closed a four months
run at Daly's theater i'm New York and
"Veronique," which, like the former, Is
a light opera with an historical theme.
The cast of "The Duchess of Dantzic"
will be practically the same as that
seen at Days headed by Evie Greene
as Sans Gene and Holbrook Blinn as
Napoleon. The ehtire original London
cast of "veronique" will be seen in the
American tour of this piece.
In addition to the two Drury Lane
spectacles THE White Cat" which win
prove the greatest that Drury Lane has
yet sent over, and "Humpty Dumpty,"
Klaw & Erlanger will have third, n
distinctively American production py
Paul West w. w. Denslow and john
w. Bratton, to be called "The Pearl
and the Pumpkin"
Two very important dramatic pro-
ductions are in prospect-J. l. C.
Clarkes version of Gen. Lew Wal
lace's "A Prince of india" and Marion
Crawford's new play, by the Waters
of Babylon"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Coming Attractions

BELASCO THEATER - advance
Announcemen). For the coming week,
beginning Monday evening, the Belasco
theater stock company will offer one
of last seasons greatest successes,
"Harriet's Honeymoon" In this play
Mary Mannering added greatly to her
fame and the piece ranked high in the
list of popular favorites. 1t is not
impossible story of a young welded
couple who find themselves stranded
in German hotel where they are
forced to resort to all sorts of amusing
expedients TO help themselves out of
the difficulty and succeed at the same
time in getting themselves well talked
about" Everything, as is usual on the
stage turns out happily. 1t is a play
which will bring into use all of the big
Belasco company and find congenial
roles for each. In Mary Mannering' S
~ 4.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
JAMES A. BLISS, BELASco

round myself with a company of clever
people and give each member finan-
cial interest in the project"
Elliott Schenck. a young Brooklyn
composer, has the honor of being the
only American recently that will have
a grand opera accepted and produced.
1t will Abe done by the Savage Grand
Opera company in the autumn and is
founded on Hardy's romance, Tess OF
the D'Urberviles."
The new Actors union of England at
1t first meeting held last week passed
resolution forbidding any member
to appear hereafter at any of the ba-
zaars and charity socials that occur
with such great frequency in London
charging substantial fee that will be
added to the fun of the union, which
does not propose to raise money by
subscriptions. Performers have been
imposed upon in England in the past.
but now that they have the union be-
hind them they can defy even dowager
duchesses who may wish to enlist their
services for "sweet charity"
1t is rumored that Mrs. James Brown
Potter may come to America before
long to appear in vaudeville. She has
received several tempting offers and
the failures she has met with in Lon
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

by, and carries the lady of the mansion
back in memory to days when her life
was characterized by the substantials
of wealth without the present elabora-
ton that surrounds her.
The mistress of the great house rises
invariably at seven 1t matters moth
ing that one of her grand balls may
have kept her up till three a. IN. Her
habit is fixed. She is one of those
women who plan out their existence
and would be unhappy to depart from
the smallest title of their programs.
At eight she is dressed and ready for
the day, but for another hour she fasts
while she goes over her personal letters
and replies to those that need imme-
diate attention. This is one of Mrs AS
tors pleasures. While necessarily the
great burden of mail, begging letters
and appeals of all sorts, as well as the
mere formalities, falls to her secretary,
her methodical life has enabled her to
reserve her friendly missives for her
own pen.
On the stroke of nine she is at the
breakfast table. This meal is never
served in her room, Mrs. Astor prefer
ring always to take 1t in the company Of
her companion in the breakfast room
The bill of fare is of the lightest and
seldom varies. Mrs. Astor has no faith
I'm breakfast foods and declines cereals
of any kind, Eggs in different forms,
often an omelet, reinforced occasionally
by chops. with coffee and rolls. con-
stitute the sum of her desires. Mrs
Astor wastes no hours upon the hair
dresser the masseuse, the manicure
and the train that wait upon the wo-
man OF wealth to soothe tired nerves
after too many hours dissipation. Her
maid is the composite who fulfls all the
requisite service each day in the toilet
of her mistress.
One Of the early tasks is that Of
looking over her bills. Mrs. Astor pays
her own bills, and makes Il point TO
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

those other storehouses of her treas
ures in which woman's heart de-
lights.
Mrs. Astor does not in reality carry
the keys, but she is herself the motif
around which the keys revolve. That
linen closet is stocked by her, stocked
with the pride and care-Mrs. Astor is
famous for her linens-of one of the
shrewdest buyers in Europe. All OF
that wonderful collection of linen is
imported. Mrs. Astor never goes abroad
that she does not add to it. There are
tablecloths that have been in her pos
session for twenty-five years and are
still practically new. Dozens and
dozens of pieces lie folded away in that
vast repository in the big house at
Fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street, and
yet nothing is less than spotlessly
white. Mrs. Astor contrives this with
the same elaborate system that she de-
votes to every detail of her housekeep-
ing. One set is used after another till
all have gone their way to the laundry
and found their way back again to the
lavender of the shelf. Fast as the re-
Inducements come in they are put
through the same routine, and Mrs.
Astor's waiting list of linen is often as
long as her waiting list of guests to be
summoned to the various entertain
ments of ceremony that she gives
throughout the season.
1t is the same with her china. II
she has a hobby. Mrs. Astor would
doubtless admit 1t is for china. So
vast is her OUTFIT that II table OF ten
covers were laid three times each day
for three weeks no one piece would be
repeated.
The wonderful 100000 Dresden set,
originally designed for royalty takes
precedence. Of course. But of all its
vast muster of splendid rivals for her
private table Mrs. Astor uses the SIM
plest white dinner service, trimmed with
gold. II is of a fashion Of years gone
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Drama of Today
By &. S. Willard

Anyone who has known twenty-five
or thirty years experience of stage life
knows that certain theatrical condi-
tions recur at intervals more or less
regular. If you will take up an essay
on the contemporary drama" from the
time Greene wrote in censure of
Shakespeare to the latest tilt at
passing phrase, you will perceive that
the "palmy days" of the theater have
always been the exclusive property of
the generation of players Immediately
preceding the active one.
The drama is always in the process
of going to the dogs, If the censors
seriously. And yet the power and
profit of the theater have enormously
increased relative to other things IN
it's advance from the ''palmy days" Of
any given period to the present, its
palmiest epoch. This is my roundabout
way of answering a very old question
recently put to me: do 1 think the
serious drama has had its day?" When
the serious drama is quite done for the
theater itself will be moribund
Comedy and farce are the custard
and whipped cream of the dramatic
bill of fare, delightful as course,
perhaps but neither energizing nor
blood-producing to an extent necessary
to keep the theater alive and growing.
Comedy, farce and kindred attractions
are chiefly sustained by the blase the
ater-goer. The old theater-goer wants
something new and the play writer,
with an ambition to tickle the palate,
seeks novelty. If he cannot find it he
puts in some dashes of tabasco, or he
has recourse to comedy or burlesque.
Happily for the theater as an enter
prise and for the drama as an influence
no less than as an entertainment the
vast majority of theater patrons is
never blase. Three-fourths of the peo-
pie who go to the playhouse do not
go to be either critical or captious, but
to be entertained. And there is diff
ference between being amused anl
being entertained. They may begin by
wanting to be amused: but they de-
velop an interest in seeing the por-
trayal of emotions that compared with
their own conceptions of life, their own
ideals, their own aspirations, their own
trials and triumphs.
This great majority plumps for the
serious drama either heavy moralities
or problematic clinics; 1 mean whole
some stories of normal men and women
Interestingly and truthfully elaborated.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

at the Alcazar theater in San Fran
cisco, and opened on Monday. April
2s, as Queen Catherine in when
Knighthocd Was in Flower"
Charming Pollock has been secured
by the Beibler company to dramatize
I'm the Bishops Carriage"
Charles Frohman has obtained the
American rights of The Duel" a
drama by Henri Lavedan, which has
been success in Paris.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio is said to be
writing tragedy based on the life of
Nero
Eunce Clarke Drake and company
have made success Of a one-act com
edy, Winning an Heiress,' while play
ing at a Los Angeles vaudeville house.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Met His Match

A woman. while going downstairs to
dinner, had the misfortune to step
slightly on the dress of the woman In
front of her. The man OH whose arm
the former was leaning rudely said
aloud, so that the couple in front
might hear:
Always getting in the way like Ba-
laam's ASST
Upon which the woman, whose gown
had been trod on, turning round,
replied with a sweet smile:
"Parden me, it was the angel who
stood in the way and the ass which
poke."--Milwaukee Sentinel.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

HERE has been a new Hamlet dis
covered in London, for although
II. y. irving, the son Of the more
famous Irving, has never before taken
rank with the great artists the papers
Of the English metropolis are almost
unanimous now in sounding his praises.
The production was looked upon as an
event of unusual Importance In theat-
rical England. Sir Edward Russell, the
well known writer on dramatic and 9th
er topics, was enthusiastic over the lat
est impersonation of the prince of Den
mark. The following portions of his
review of the play are taken from the
Liverpool Daily Post:
III. Il. Irving's Hamlet Is the most
natural Hamlet I'm living memory. I
use the word, at the moment, not only
in praise, but in differentiation.
I'm the abundant Hamlet literature
there is extant discrimination of
Hamlets who had appeared up to the
beginning of the nineteenth century
One was Hamlet the prince; one, Ham
let the SON. one, Hamlet the lover; one,
Hamlet the gentleman; one, Hamlet the
scholar; and so on. But Henderson
Hamlet was Hamlet. Now, this was
strong thing to assert, then or at any
time. For who shall say ex cathedra,
what Is distinctively Hamlets charac-
ter? There is scarcely a line, gesture,
a glance of the part that may not be
enacted with differences feasibly de-
fensible. Not only each temperament,
but each generation will find its own
Hamlet variants especially acceptable.
"In circumstances so baffiingly
changeful it is mere epigram to say
that Henderson or any other is Hamlet.
One may say that one Hamlet is mys-
tical, another hysterical, another
princely, another deranged. II. b.
Irving's Is natural
Some would infer that his impersona- :
tion is therefore less emotional than
others. On the contrary. A sensitive,
highly strung person is just as natural
in his visible perturbations as a phleg-
matte person Is in his impassve de-
meanor. The old actors used to make
the 1.-The plays the thing" an elocution-
ary exit. Some of the best of the new
Hamlets have devised striking eccen-
trio action to accompany 1T. II. b.
Irving filings himself down at table
In a frenzy and begins writing in
deadly haste in a manner which, SO far
from conflicting with, is, artistically,
the finest example of his artistic nat
uralness.
"'There is only one of his predecessors
Edwin Booth-who gives me pause
when 1 award to H. B. Irving this trib-
ute; but in truth II. B. Irving's Hamlet
is as much more simply natural than
Booths as Booths Hamlet was more
natural than any other of his perform
ances; and that is saying a great deal.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

role of the young bride Miss Gardner
will find herself especially at home. as
it is exactly suited to her tempera-
ment.
MASON OPERA HOUSE-(Advance
AnnouncemenD. Margaret Anglin
comes to the Mason the entire week
duction, 1.-The Eternal Feminine"
During the same week the wonderful
emotional drama Mariana" adapted
from the Spanish of Jose Eschagarey,
will be given. 1t is the first English
version presented in this country of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

Amber, Rose stahl, Marian Grey and
Edith Crane.
r. Daniel Frawley, who is soon TO
begin a starring tour in "Ransom's
Folly" on the Pacific coast, has planned
TO present company in New York
next season under his own manage
ment. Mr.. Frawley says: II have
an option on two Broadway theaters.
am not going to star myself, nor
will I star for any other actor. am
going to exploit the authors of the
plays to be presented by my company.
II any of the plays to be produced have
no acceptable part for myself I will
remain out of the cast. hope to sur
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

contract to write two comedies this
summer, but says he will do no more
in the way of comic opera, as he
finds work like THE County Chair
man" less exacting and more salts
factory. He will return east after a
brief stay in California.
Ethel Barrymore tainted again from
exhaustion at the close of the thirt'
act of Sunday in Chicago" Saturday
night " +i
Florence Gerald, having closed the
season with 1.-The County Chairman
has Joined the Alcazar stock company
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Undreamed Of Extravagance

I'VE asked our wife the other day."
writes the editor of the Hickory Ridge
Missourian, "if she thought she could
dress herself on $50 year, and she
turned pale and asked us if some rich
uncle had died and left us an immense
fortune. ne."-Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

The man who says he can drink or
he can let it alone is so busy demon
strating the first proposition that he
never gets around to the second
Henry f. Cope in the Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Her Favorite Flowers

After luncheon if the weather is
favorable, Mrs. Astor drives from two to
four. She is strong believer in the
health giving properties of fresh air,
and walks great deal for exercise.
Sometimes her constitutional is taken
in the street adjacent to her home, but
more often she halts her carriage in
Central park and descends to walk in
the bypaths and watch the children at
play. This is part of Mrs. Astor's
charming side. Her love of children
bespeaks the grandmother and in the
role she is perfect-not the over in
dulgent grandmother, blind to all faults,
but the kindest of friends and counsel
ors.
In the John Jacob Astor house, the
twin of her own--which is so con-
structed that as everybody knows, the
two may be thrown into one for the
Astor fetes, senior or junior-the social
dictator is so completely merged in that
tenderest of relationships that the
world of fashion seems very far away
while the young person and the old per-
son make merry together. Some of the
grandchildren are in the great mansion
every day to knit into closest harmony
The most intimate joys OF Mrs. Astor's
life.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

There are nearly 22OO0,OOo horses
in European Russia. No other coun-
try in the world has so many horses
as Russia,