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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

immensely. But, as I said, l don't really
have to act Jim Hackler-I just live over
my own experiences, and that makes 1t
easy"
A NOVEL SERIES OF PRODUCTIONS.
Ben Greet is to give unique series of
Shakespearean performances in New York
shortly. Beginning October 30, and con-
tinuing for four weeks, his English COM
pany will appear at Mendelssohn Hall,
temporarily converted into a theater like
those of the days of Shakespeare himself.
Performances will be given only on Monday
Wednesday and Friday evenings, and We'd
nesday, Friday and Saturday afternoons.
On the off nights the company will give
special performances at the East Side set
Elements, in Brooklyn, and at nearby col
leges.
The repertoire has been arranged with
the special view of interesting students, and
the series has already received the indorse-
ment of the city board of education and
the support of the large public and private
schools.
FROM COMEDY TO MEIODRAMA.-
anybody connected with the playhouse
seems to jump with alright when the word
melodrama is mentioned" said Frank Will
stach. the well-known manager and avant
coureur of famous stars The word
seems to have taken upon itself the nature
of a reproach. instead of something to be
desired OF late time the manager has
found new word for melodrama in the
phrase romantic drama which is nothing
else than melodrama with a sword and
cloak attachment. If somebody had the
assurance, good many of our best plays
would be called polite melodramas;' in
other words, meodrama without buzz-saws
fire engines and horse race scenes
Clyde Fitch, who has a way of keeping
HIS pretty close to the ground. has. it
appears, come to realization that the pub
lie wants something more than what might
rightly be denomnated a comedy of man.
ners. He tried this sort of thing last year
with rather unhappy results His early and
best plays had a strong heart interest In
them and situations which verged closely on
the melodramatic. In the new play for Viola
Allen. The Toast of the Town Fitch has
given over the light and frlsky and has
gone in for the strongly human with plenty
of heart-throbs.'
SOMETHING ABOUT GEO. CONAN
Geo. M. Cohan is twentyseven years of
age He was born in Providence, R. T.
About ten years ago vaudeville managers
began to set requests for the booking Of
an attraction known as The Four Co
hans"-Jerry J., Helen F., George NJ and
Josephine. Time was given them in the
better grade of houses, and their act be-
came popular. Some seven years ago the
announcement was made that the Four
Cohans would forSake vaudeville and be-
come stars on their own account Their
first vehicle was The Governors Son.
1t was followed by Running for Office"
About this time Josephine. the daughter
of the family, married Mr.. Fred Niblo and
retired from the Cohan firm. About six
years ago George Cohan met and married
Miss Ethel Levey, who has appeared with
success in all of his productions since
that time.
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will vary from his usual rule and will show
pictures for which he has to thank his
friends among the war correspondents who
were actually at the front during the siege
The travelogues this season will begin
Monday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the
Columbia Theater instead of on Tuesdays,
as heretofore. Sale of course tickets begins
at the box Office Monday, November @.
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Hermann the Great.

At Chase's next week the attraction will
embrace among its features Hermann, the
Great and Marie Hermann, Queen of Il
lusons;" Emmett Dewey and company, in
THE Sanity Mr. Billings" and The Vii
lage Choir" a way -down-east quartet.
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shepard,s Moving Pictures Tonight.

One of Mr.. Shepard's regular travelling
companies will be the attraction at the
Academy tonight, presenting the most elab-
crate and expensive collection of moving
pictures that he has ever exhibited in this
city, including the Great Automobile Rob-
berry, the Nihilists. dramatic portrayal of
Russian life, and the assassination of Grand
Duke Sergius.
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along with the knowledge Of stage craft
possessed by Mr.. Belasco
The cast of THE Darling OF the Gods
is headed by Percy Haswell and Robert t.
Haines, who play Yo San and Kara re-
spectively. Both are well known and pop
ular in Washington. Mr.. Haines originated
the part he plays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

"Wolfvnle" Clyde Fitch's latest play, a
dramatiZation OF the Wolfville stories by
Alfred Henry Lewis. had its Initial produce
ton in Philadelphia last Monday night with
Nat c. Goodwin in the principal role.
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darkness. and the next you see Of her is
her return to the green room. In Miss
Aliens supporting company are Isabel Irv-
ing, Mrs Fanny Addison Pitt. Harrison
Hunter, Hassard Short, Addison Pitt, G.
Leslie Allen and Alice Wilson. The leading
man is A E. Arson, new to America.
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Bertha Kalisch, the well-known Yddish
actress. made her debut in an English
speaking part last Monday night in New
York. appearing In Norma Wanna" Mae
terlnch's throe-act drama.
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Mrs. Sarah Green lie Moyne who created
the part of Mrs. st. Claire In Uncle Toms
Cabin and who was the first wife OF VIM.
]. lie Moyne, OF New York. died last week
a. her home at Onset Bay. Long Island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Wally Clark, the Hans Spiegelherger. ="
and Blanche Whitaker the Mother Goose
of Simple. Simon Simple" were married IN
Camden, n. j., last week while the COM
pany was playing in Philadelphia
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Playhouse Paragraphs.

Edward Mackay has been signed for the
part in THE Prodigal Son. recently played
by Aubrey Boucicault
Alice Niesen's supporting company, which
Is composed of italian artists, arrived in
New York from Genoa last Wednesday.
The Criterion Players a Washington dra-
matte club, now entering upon It's third sea-
son. is busily engaged preparing for the
winter season.
A special from Los Angeles says that be-
cause she wants to die in the east. John
stone Bennett will be taken to a sanitorum
in the Adirondacks in q few weeks.
Charles d. Herman, one OF the oldest
Shakespearean actors in this country, has
been engaged by Nine. Modjeska as her
leading man for her coming tour.
The first performance of THE White
Cat in America at the New Amsterdam
Theater, New York, will be given next
Thursday night instead of tomorrow night.
When George NJ. Conan produces George
Washington, Jr.,' he will probably have
James j.. Morton, the well-known mono
logue artist, playing the title role.
M. s. Rentham has forwarded to his
London agent contract to be signed by
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"Secret Service Sam. ("

Secret Service Sam" sensational de-
tective play in five acts and ten scenes.
will be the offering at the Academy Mon
day, November 6. The company is headed
by the actor-magcian, Charles I. Aldrich.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Frederic w. Thompson. managing director
OF the Hippodrome, New York IL 20 write
a three-act comedy from the material no
viii find in the novel by George Barr Nc
Cutcheon, entitled "Brewster's Millions"
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is finally wrecked in a storm. The third
act represents an island upon which the
ship has been wrecked and here number
of speciaaties are introduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

1t is said that Cool Burgess. the old
time minstrel. who died during the past
week at Toronto. got his nickname be-
cause he always demanded his salary In
advance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Richard Chapman. who has been playing
the role of King Herod" I'm The Holy
City throughout the west, deserted the
company in Burlington, Iowa, last week and
Joined the regular army.
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"The Education of Mr.. Pipp..

THE Education of Mr.. Pipp'' win be pre-
scented at the Columbia, with Its star,
Digby Bell and the rest of the cast seen
during its all-season run in New York last
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woman in Lottie Blair Parker's THE Re-
demption of David Carson" Her role is
that of "Pepeeta." Miss Taylor was ono
Of Richard Mansfeld's leading women last
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Mrs. James Brown Potter for a twenty
weeks engagement in vaudeville In this
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Miss Anne Sutherland has been engaged
for the remainder of the season leading
woman for the Yorkville Theater Stock
Company. She will begin her engagement
November in revival of Tolstoi's Res
direction"
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THE T0kT or
THE TOM"
N47IOHHL

for me, and have enjoyed my work in 1t
immensely. But as l said, l don't really
have to act Jim Hackler-I just live over
my own experiences, and that makes it
eaSyi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

George Lawrence has resumed the part
of Jennie in the burlesque of the Music
Master" now being played at Fields Thea
ter New York, and Grace Field now por-
trays Helen Canting. which originally fell
to Miss Blanche Ring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Edward Mackay has been signed for the
part in THE Prodigal Son" recently played
by Aubrey Boucicault.
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THE Genius and the Model" or which
Edna Goodrich is the star, has attained
considerable success on tour. William G.
Stewart is longer connected with the
venture having sold out his interest to Her
man l.. Roth, the latter now being the
manager and owner.
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@LUCKY Miss Nethersole, 1t Is diff
f,cult 10 decide which Is more worthy
of adniration--her genius or her
- courage II the term genius can
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M. s. Rentham has forwarded to his
London agent a contract to be signed by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Many prominent New York managers are
preparing TO give testimonial benefit for
the widow of Mr.. VIII Mcconnell, a thea
trical manager and writer. who died two
weeks ago. Daniel Frohman has consented
to become chairman OF the committee %
arrangements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Alice Nielsen's supporting company, which
Is composed Of italian artists, arrived in
New York from Genoa last Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Mr.. Maurice Campbell, whereby Miss Hem
rietta Crosman will begin her New York
engagement at the Garrick Theater in
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary" on Christ
mas day.
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Mr.. Pierre Berton, author of "Zaza" and
other plays, will arrive in New oYrk from
Paris next Tuesday to attend rehearsals
of his play la Belle Marseillaise." which
is to be produced by Mr.. Charles Froh-
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Miss Margaret Ellington is soon to star
on her individual account under the direo-
ton of Daniel Frohman. Miss Ellington
has resigned from the Mrs. Leffingwelrs
Boots" company and may not appear again
until the new play is at her disposal.
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To fill the gap in the cast of Comm
Thro' the Rye" made by Stella Mayhem
assignment to Fritz in Tammany Hall.
Klaw e. Erlanger have lent the services o
Josie Sadler to Will ]. Block for the for
mer production. Miss Sadler is under con
tract with Klaw e. Erlanger for THE Or
child"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

The actresses and actors with Savage's
Woodland" company. playing last week in
Cincinnati took "hunch'' last Tuesday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

Helena Frederick, the soprano prim;
donna, babe farewell to vaudeville In New
York last night. She has been engaged al
the leading prima donna Of the Tivoli OPP
era House. San Francisco, and leaves 70
the west tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Malthusian Theory.

There is a saying in India that the
plague is sent by God to punish man
for his evil deeds and for that reason
no remedy has ever been found for it.
The divinity does not intend that there
shall be-
1t has been suggested that the gov
ernments of the world. aided by the
scientists, who it IS asserted, will freely
give their assistance prepare hun
dreds of doses of this virus in anticipa-
ton of the coming outbreak of an cpl
den1ic In Theoretically sealed tubes the
virus will keep for years.
However this may be, and there are
few men in the West Who would not
scott at such an idea-idle superstition,
perhaps-nevertheless it IS undoubtedly
true that were it not for war famine and
disease the world. or rather mans part
upon it. must soon come to an end for
lack of nourishment. May not, then, the
plague be a necessary evil. an evil that
man ls bound to fight. but which is, how
ever, necessary? A hundred years age
Nautilus expounded the theory which has
since been called by his name. This
| theory was that the human race il
undisturbed, would increase in geometri.
cal progression, while the means of sub
sistence would increase in an arithmeti
! cal progression. If this theory be true
and there are many scientists that holG
| ii is true, it can readily be seen tina
! if sudden death and disease were eIimi
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Life Increases Too RAPIDLY.

Thomas Robert Nautilus, an English
man and an eminent scholar, was prac-
tically the first man to take up the con-
sideration of this law of nature in con-
nection with the Improvement Of society.
This law, he holds, is the constant ten
dency of all animal life to increase be-
yond the nourishrlent prepared for il.
Throughout both the animal and vege-
table kingdoms, nature has scattered the
seeds of life abroad with the most pro-
fuse and liberal hand Life on this plan
ct is so prolific that if allowed free room
to develop itself, it would fill mil
lions of worlds in the course of a few
thousand years. There is only one linn
| it to the indefinite increase, and that is
necessity In plants and irrational an.
| imals, which are impelled by blind in
stinct untroubled by doubts about pro-
| viding for their offspring, the problen
| is simple in their case; increase il
checked only by want Of room and nour-
| ishment AS regards men whose equal
| ly powerful instinct is controlled by rea-
son, the question is more complicated
| In his case increase must either bt
checked by a constant preventive re-
straint which too frequently produce.
vice. or a constant check from the off
| fculty of acquiring food must be in op
Grafton.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
The Plague in History.

The first historical reference to the
Observation-Disclosures agree that all of the
great pla CUES have been due TO the same
germ. that of the bubonic plague-occurs
In the fragments of the journal of a
doctor who lived about 200 B. c. The
doctor, who was a Roman, comments
or. the terrible plague in Egypt Late
Llvy speaks OF the plague destroying a
million souls in Africa. but there Is no
mention Of the plague ever having been
in Europe until the sixth century after
Christ, during the reign of Justinian.
Beginning in Palusium, Egypt, it came
next to Constantinople. where it is said
10 900 died in single day. Spreading out
like a fan. the plague swept over Gaul
and Italy and nearly all of the world
known in those days. Since then Con-
stantinopIe has been the starting peint
for nearly all European epidemlcs of the
plague.
In England the plague did not get
foothold until the fourteenth century,
when the terrible BLACK Death" over
ran the whole OF Europe. killing. 1t is
said, %, 100000, or one quarter OF its to-
| tai population. In England alone three
quarters of the population died from the
disease.
| Though the plague REQUIRED in many
| Of the European countries at intervals
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
In India Today.

How long ago the plague first appeared
in India is not known. The earliest
reputable reference to its being east
of the Indus river occurs in writings
of the fourteenth and fifteenth centu-
ries. But in recent years India has
borne the brunt of war of the Black
Death upon the human race In the
wears 1896 to 1899 millions Of Hindus
died of the disease in spite of the most
desperate efforts of the English govern
ment to give relief. This year promises
to be a bad one for the natives, too.
In the Journal OF the American Medi-
cal Association for the week of March
IS it is reported that in India for the
week from January 21-2S, there were
IS, 204 cases of plague reported and
g., 0S7 deaths. which means that during
the week there were somewhere between
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

periods in more countries than one
When he turns attention to the possible
rate of the means of subsistence he
holds that in twenty-five years under
the most favorable circumstances the
productiveness of given area might De
increased by the labor of the population
to double what it was. but instead Of
continuing TO double in the next TWEEN
ty-five --ears it would only increase as
much again as it mad in the first twenty
five; in other words, the rate of
increase would be arithmetical progress
sion.
With such disproportion between the
ratio of increase of population and or
the means of subsistence, population can
be kept down to the level of subsistence
only by the strong law of necessity
opera ting as a check on the greater
power. In fact, the ultimate check OF
, population is he want of food, but this
Is never the immediate check, except
| in the case of famine. The immediate
| check consists OF all those customs anc
| those diseases which are generated by
| a scarcity of food, and all the causes
! independent of the scarcity which tenc
! to weaken and destroy the human frame
! OF all these representatives., in the pas
centuries, mono has proved so effective
as the BLACK Death" which. IN a few
short months has swept millions of hu
man beings off the earth
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

ton for only. a fortnight After that
unless the dose be repeated there is as
much danger of infection as there was
before it was taken This curative
serum is prepared by injecting horses
with the plague bacillus in mild
form.
The next remedy to be advanced was
prepared by Haffkine. another French
man. 1t was a virus made from cul-
lures on the plague. The microbes are
killed by a heat process. After this
virus has been injected beneath the
skin its vaccine qualities do not develop
for about thirty days, and during this
period the subject is more readily at
tackled by the disease than at any
other time After this period the virus
protects for a year.
But the nloSt successful of all the
preventive remedies yet discovered is
the virus of Besredka. a Russian, who
is chef de service in the Pasteur Insti-
tute Besredka made his preparation
first about six years ago. His virus pro-
tects within forty-eight hours, and only
the thirtieth part of an ounce is re-
quired Immunity, as III the case OF
/ Kaffkine's virus, lasts a year. There
| is no disagreeable reaction.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23

mated ii would ne. take long for man to
reach his last real. AS no means has
vet been discovered whereby man can
live without eating there would be moth
ing left for him but to die.
The increase in the population of the
world in the past fifty years has been
tremendous. While it is true that there
are still many thousands of square miles
of territory undeveloped, both in Amer
lea and Africa, this fact has small bear
ing on the working out of the Nautilus
ian theory, for Nautilus merely contend
ed that if the human race were given a
good chance, the number of mouths TO
be fed would soon be far in excess Of the
food TO feed them because the race could
increase much faster than II could pre-
pare the earth for the production of the
necessary supplies. What, then, If the
time be near when history must of ne
cessity repeat itself and millions of men
be swept off the globe in order that
there may be room for those still IN
born?
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Eminent Authorities Declare That Plague
Has Done More Than Lie Dormant
and IS Now terminating at
an Alarming Rate.
an Alarming Rate.

who assert that the plague is only bid
ing its time, the medical reports from
widely separated parts of the world
show that there are men and women
dying OF bubonic plague at compara-
lively short intervals now. In India
where in recent years the plague has
been severe; in China, in the Philippines
in the Hawaiian islands, in South
Africa, in Australia. in Mexico in Peru,
where it is epidemic today; in Brazil.
in MarseilIes, France; In Glasgow, Scot
land; in San Francisco, in Russia, the
plague has a foothoId. The question is
when viii it overlap all barriers and
form complete net which will hold the
world in its grasp.
+ Knowing the peril. men naturally
ask themselves what can be done To
evert it. AS foresters protect their for
ests from the ravages of fire by them
selves setting burning narrow strips OF
woodland which they can control anC
when when once burned make il i'm.
possible for the oncoming flames t.
get a footing in their charge. so the
doctors OF medicine have learned e
! fight the most fatal disease by an
| tjcipating epidemics. Vaccination has
! rendered smallpox, which once carried
off hundreds of thousands of victims
| less feared than the grip, antitoxin ha4
| been similarly used for diphtheria
| Therefore, failing to find any sure rem
| edy, or indeed, any remedy at all, 70
! the plague, the scientists have Sc
| themselves to work to discover q pro
| tective remedy. They discover first tn
bacillus Of the pest. Since that discov
cry three preventive remedies hav
| been made.
The Washington times., 1905-04-23
Defoe's Plague in London.

No one has given more vivid de-
scription of how terrible a plague-rid-
den city may be than Daniel Defoe.
who wrote a journal of the plague year
in London. Although he did not see
the plague himself, ne has made a
wonderful picture of the horror which
beset the people.
Speaking of the terrible street
scenes at this time, Defoe says. when
10000 persons died each week:
The confusion among the people
within the city at that time was in
expressible; the terror was so great at
last that the courage of the people
appointed to carry away the dead be-
gan to fail them; nay, several of them
died though they had the dfstemper be-
fore, and were recovered; and some OF
them dropped down when they had
been carrying the bodies even at the
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