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Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Musical Notes

THE first of the four historical con-
certs given by the newly formed
Beethoven trio will bring compost
tions by Scarlatti, Bach, Handel, Mozart,
Haydn andn other masters of that
quaint, old-fashioned time from the in
Vention of the violin and clavichord I'M
til the French Revolution. In the Sec
ond concert the trio will devote an en-
tire evening to the greatest of all mas
ters in music, L. Won Beethoven the
third concert will bring solos from
Schubert, Sophr, Chopin, Schumann,
and Mendelssohn, to finish with the lat
ter's splendid trio Op. 40 in d minor,
the fourth concert has modern music
by VieuXtemps, List, Wagner, Saint
Saens, Gounod, Svendsen, and the love-
ly F major trio by Gade. The trio
consists of Miss johnson, piano; Mr..
Muskat, violin, Mr.. Bierlich, violoncel-
10, and Miss Oviatt, accompanist.
Rehearsals are now in progress for
the opening concert of the season to
be given by the Los Angeles Symphony
Orchestra under the direction of Har-
ley Hamilton at the Mason opera
house. The season ticket sale for this
year is much better than that of any
previous year.
Rehearsals are occurring regularly
with the Apollo club membership, and
Mr. Barnhardt reports success in con-
nection with the forthcoming produc
tion of "The Messiah" Arrangements
for soloists are complete.
A number of local singers have ar
ranged for series of grand opera en-
tertainments in Los Angeles this sea-
son. The first to be rendered will be
Gounod's Faust" with full cast, cho-
rus. and orchestra, at the Mason opera
house. Particulars will be announced
later.
Miss Alice Nelson has returned from
England and will give her first Amer |
lean performance in Washington early
in November. She will be heard at
two special matinees at the Casino in |
New York the week of December. Her
company will appear in this city during |
the middle of the season.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Gladys Kingsbury, Grand

Kate" and Mrs. Carriages Necklace"
has now finished a new play. 1t will
be done in London by Sir Charles
Wyndham, who likewise has been miss
ing for a considerable time-since in
fact, he had the misfortune to be
knocked down by a car in Broadway,
New York.
Tolstoi has finished a new drama en-
titled Behind the Scenes of the Russo
japanese War" 1t was to have been
produced at the Alexandra theater, st.
Petersburg, but the censor prohibited
the performance, declaring it a menace
to the public peace and insulting to the
czar. Tolstoi has now offered his work
to foreign theater managers.
1t is announced that Paul West has
been engaged to write a new play for
Edna May, to be produced next season.
Ben Greet announces that beginning
November l his company will be seer
in New York in a series of Shake
speare's plays acted in the manner OF
the Elizabethan period.
Once more is Edmond Rostand ac-
cused of plagiarism. According to a
despatch to the New York World,
Georges Polti, a French dramatic au-
thor, states that he submitted to the
Gymnase, Odeon and other theaters
four years ago a piece containing roles
for lion, wolf, deer, hen, dog and other
animals; that the directors of these
institutions, who are great friends o,
Rostand, must have known the play,
because they had read it, and probably
communicated the subject matter to
Rostand, who plagiarized it just as he
"stole Cyrano from the Chicagoan
Gross play, The Merchant Prince of
Cornville'" The World correspondent
telegraphed Rostand, who answered
geographically from the south of
France: Il am a doomed man. APP
parently all my ideas are stolen. This
time 1 thought myself surely original.
l may say my original idea came from
the old French play called lie Roman
de Renart, but l found by the Gross
experience that it was useless to make
excuses; let them call be a plagiarist
if they think best: However, | never
heard of Polti or his play" M. Polti
is the author of work entitled THE
Thirty-six Dramatic Situations"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Anti Syndicate Plans

THE opposition to the Theatrical
syndicate took on renewed i'm
petus lately by the acquisition to
the ranks of the independent managers
of the Shubert Bros. firm control
ling a large number of theaters
throughout the country and who al
lege that they have been unable to
obtain good terms from the Syndicate
for booking their attractions, and are
thus forced into active OPPOSITION.
1t is known also that David BelasCo
and other Independent managers have
lent the new corporation financial and
moral support. In this connection the
Messrs. Shubert have sent to theater
managers all over the country a cir
cular letter, as follows:
I'VE want to play in your city and in
your theater. If we cannot arrange for
time with you we shall he compelled to
build or lease some other place of amuse-
ment where you are. We don't want to
go to this expense, and we don't want to
create this opposition to YOU. 1t is GER
tain that you do not wish to encounter
such opposition as we are prepared to
offer if necessary, 1t Is also certain that
the people of your city will not care to
Madame Bernhardt, Mrs. Leslie Carter,
Mrs. Fiske. Blanche Bates, David War
field and other. stars in the same rank
simply to crafty I[law & Erlanger.
There is no doubt that the people in
your city will go to see these attractions,
whether they are at your theater or else
where. Wouldn't you prefer that they
should be at your house? or do you pre-
fer to sacrifice the opportunity of present
ing them, to let your clientele know that
YOU are willing to deprive local theater-
goers of the visit of these stars simply
to crafty the theatrical trust?
SAM S. & LEE SHUBERT."
There have been many futile at
tcmpts in the past to curb the power
of the Syndicate. 1t remains to be
seen in this latest effort will be more
successful.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
IMMORTALITY

What time the wanton hand Of death
shall still
The song upon my lips, and close my
eyes
To all the beauty of the world, devise
No futile epitaph to mar some chill
White shaft above the narrow cell / fill,
But bear me to a flower close that lies
In fragrant beauty open to the skies;
Where quick ming suns and winds may
work their will
On my cold ear that l may come to
hear
The breeze-blown blossoms gentle mur-
murngs,
And learn, from drowsy petals dropping
near,
The secret of their never-ending springs,
Then, sweetly dreaming through the
winter drear.
Await the life that comes on vernal
wings.
George Crcel in Metropolitan Maga-
zine.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
What the TheaterS Are Offering This Week
Coming Attractions

MASON OPERA HOUSE-Miss Ele-
amor Robson will present Merely Mary
Ann every evening of the week. We'd
nesday afternoon she will be seen in
Browning's "In a Balcony"
BELASCO THEATER-William Gill
lette's famous play, Secret Service"
will be given for one week beginning
, Monday evening. 1t will be presented
with an unusual display of scenic eff
fects and will require the entire cast
of the Belasco company. William
Bernard, one of the most popular ac-
tors of the city. will make his debut
with the company in this piece.
BURBANK THERTER-"MayB Bios
SOM" comedy drama in four acts,
VIII be the attraction at the Burbank
theater for the week beginning this
afternoon. The play has never before
been seen in this part of the coun-
try. Every Burbank favorite will be
in the cast, and the usual matinees
VIII be given this afternoon and next
Saturday.
ORPHEUM-Captai Blum, an cleo
trlcal expert, will offer a novelty at
the Orpheum next week in a series of
demonstrations of wireless telegraphy
The three Nevaros. will come back with
their acrobatic novelty, introducing
barrel jumping and parlor gymnastics
Dean Edsdall and Arthur Forbes will
present Miss Edsdall's latest sketch
THE Two Rubes" Browning and
Valley, aerialists, will show some nov
elites in trapeze and ring feats
Arthur, the ventriloquist, will have new
tricks and Leslie and Daley will con-
to rrvst1
Melani trio will have a change of act
and motion pictures will complete the
bill
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-The Frank
Cooley Company, always favortes in
Los Angeles. will return for an engage
ment of one week only at the Grand
opera house, commencing Sunday
matinee, in Mark e. Swans latest mel
odramatic success, "At Risk of His
Life" This is one of the most thrilling
pieces of sensational playwrighting
which has been produced at the Grand
for long time, and should be highly
popular. Miss Gladys Kingsbury will
be seen in the leading feminine role.
CHUTES-In pursuance of his "best
music" policy. Chiaffarelli has pre-
pared two programs for Sunday at
Chutes Park which are more than re-
plete with artistic and novel interest
For afternoon consideration he will first
offer the Poet and Peasant" overture,
the andante from Mendelssohn's Fourth
Symphony, the prelude to Faust" and
the grand selection from "Pagliacci,"
the waltze from Victor Herberts "Ser-
enade." the prelude. dance of the hours
and galop from "Gioconda," with Tad
deo, Croce and Giulii as the soloists.
In the evening, in the theater, Chiaffa-
relli will play Mendelssohn's March
Athalia," Mercadantes "Il Lamento
del Bardo," the new Butterfly" march,
the overture to Joan of Arc" his own
new Indian march," and Massenets
gorgeous Scenes Picturesque" The
piece de resistance will be the great
fantasia from La Boeheme," with
Taddeo, Croce and others as the SOLO
lists.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29

TNHIS city is to have the pleasure of
seeing Miss Eleanor Robson in
Merely Mary Ann" at the Mason
tomorrow night. This young
woman has conquered both New
York and London and now stands
in the foremost ranks of in
ternational stars. Miss Robson
has been before the theatergong pub
lie only few years, but she has accom-
plshed more than many players do in
a lifetime. She went to London in
September, 1904. practically unknown TO
the British theatergoing public, ana
in a single night she spread into po-
sition such as it has usually required
months at least, and oftener years, Tor
the most talented players to gain.
For three months she remained at
the Duke of York's theater and during
all that time the House Full' boards
were in constant evidence. indicating
her popularity and the desire of the
English playgoers to avail themselves
of the opportunity offered TO witness
the triumph of this, to them, new
luminary in the dramatic armament.
The play in which Miss Robson had
made her success and i'm which she will
Zangwill, entitled Merely Mary Ann
The spectator is first introduced to
Mrs. Leadbatters lodging house in
South London, and there he meets, in
addition to a drunken medical student,
a Jolly irish Sunday journalist and a
couple of music hall song and dance
sisters, Lancelot and his friend Peter,
and the maid-of-all-w works, Mary Ann.
LanCelot is a talented composer, who, ii
fss Ia tod f- 1,n nf -
titled family. and who has been unable
to induce music publishers to accept
his work; one publisher in particular
backs up the opinion of Peter that
Lancelot ought to write popular music
that is not difficult at performance or
comprehension. Mary Ann seems to
have the only appreciative ear for
Lancelot's music, and on account of
this, a friendship springs up between
the two. which ripens on the girls
part to absolute worship. Fortunately
for the girl. news arrives that Mary
AIMS brother, who went to America
years before has died, leaving her half
a million pounds sterling.
The poor girl at first does not well
come her change of fortune as it means
separation from her idol. But six
years later finds Mary Ann blossomed
under careful tuition into a talented
young lady, to whose house Lancelot,
now a successful composer is induced
to come. He does not at first recognize
her though he has found in the mean
time that his fascination for the ser
want maid was in reality deep affec-
tiOn. She makes herself known to him
at last and the charming little story
is brought to a very pleasant ending.
On Wednesday afternoon, November
1, Miss Robson will give the first
Browning performance ever seen in
Los Angeles, when she will present I'm
a Balcony
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Not Days Enough

every day"
oh, Jack! Why aren't there more
days?"-Life
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
ABSENT-MINDED

Dear me, Bridget isn't it time you
/ think that after 1 have trained you
for a year I ought not to feel Obliged
to always look at the table before a
meal is served"
afther schouldin' we for forgittin whin
I was back home in County Galway.
Bridget she'd be sayin', it's yerself do
pig a-walkin' round the corner wild yer
timle in his mout.' .'"-Lipplncotts.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
Forcing Towser to Howl

Some people, when they own a dog
that would peaceably sleep around the
yard and make no trouble, tie it up to
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
The Weeks Bill S

MASON OPERA HOUSE-Eleanor Rob
son in Merely Mary Ann
BELASCO-"S Secret Service"
BURBANK-"M May Blossom"
ORPHEUM-Vaudev
GRANDPA Risk of His Life
CHUTES-Chiaffarel Band.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-29
LIFEs HIGHWAY

EIFE . T1IGTWAr
Dusty, down the valley way,
The riband of the road,
A long, brown streamer in the sun,
Leads off from my abode.
I sit. a loafer in the shade
Before my house of clay,
And wonder wonder as | sit,
Where leads that long highway.
Frank harrington, in Lippincotts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-01

thicker.
very good" she said, controlling her
voice with an effort" and then I've
been extremely babyish, but -"
Her words died on her lips; she start
ed at Gray unbelievingly.
you. she gasped- You herein
American"
Gray paled under his tan Its
where I belong-here in America" he
said slowly.
at him as If she doubted the evidence
of her own senses. ssI-dou't under
stand" she said helplessly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-01
FABLE OF TIE WISE HEN.

How She Discounted an Arbitration
Committee and Avenged Deceit.
once upon time Every recently a
hen went upon a strike and refused to
lay Other hens followed her example
and the scarcity of hen fruit which re-
suited caused eggs to retail for some
thing like so cents per dozen. In 9TH
er words, strictly fresh eggs laid by
scab hens were worth about cents
each in the shell. Even cold storage
eggs, which were deadly explosive and
had to be handled with care brought
80 cents.
The people got together and remon-
strated with the hens, but it did no
good. Finally an arbitration commit
tee waited on the hens and tried to
persuade them to go back to work.
The arbitration committee pointed out
that only the rich can afford to eat
eggs, but the hens refused to work
The arbitration committee then told
the hens that if they persisted in the
strike they would bring race suicide
on themselves.
Then wise old hen arose and spoke
a follows:
I'm the spring when us hens wish to
sit the people give us porcelain door
knobs to sit on. If porcelain door
knobs are as good as eggs to sit on
they ought to be as good to eat as
eggs. Tell the people to eat porcelain
doorknobs.''
The arbitration committee could not
answer this argument and departed in
tears.
Moral-Deceit will come home to
roost.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-01

QiS pay q HOSl npOIIdHL part
in the wardrobe of the well dressed
woman of to-day, their natural beauty
and their potency in enhancing femi-
uine charms alike endearing them to
womankind. Furthermore they serve
as a medium for unlimited expendi-
ture of money unaccompanied by the
slightest approach to ostentation.
A woman may wear furs worth
thousands of dc-lars and give no I'M
cue indication of the costliness of her
attire, and at the same time she may
| rejoice in the knowledge that unless
she has deliberately made an insult
| able selection she has added the fin
fishing touch to her costume with her
| coat. scarf, toque or muff of beautiful
fur.
Furs are becoming to every woman
and the range from the white of fox
and ermine to the deep, rich brown of
squirrel and the glossy black of lynx
and Persian lamb gives every wearer
an opportunity to secure that fur
which will best harmonic with her
coloring and particular style
While furs are a general possession
of American women, the kind and
.
OF the wearer's purse strings, little is
known of the habits or the ways or
the native habitation of the fur bear
lfS animals. Few wearers bother
their heads TO trace the steps by
which the marten and thu mink the
erRiae ohinchilla, fog and others
of the r%T bearing animals are lured
from their 1airs in America, Europe
and Asia to pay tribute to human
needs and the demands of civilization
The use of the pelts of fur-bearing
animals as covering for the human
body is not one of the developments
traceable to civilization, for the abor-
igine knew of and highly valued the
warmth giving properties of the skins
of their four-footed associate dwell
ers in forest primeva1. The processes
that develop all the possibilities of
beauty and softness of the pelts, not
to mention the nianipulations of the
dyer. were unknown. however, to the
earlier wearers of furs and the ex-
qulsite collections that fascinate the
eye and tempt the purse in the fur
riers' windows of to-day tell the story
of the progress that has been made in
the fur industry with the advance of
civilization.
NOW LOT DrleI reference 10 the lit
lie animals which figure most con-
spicuously in the fur industry, taking
the sable as the leader of the group
A representative of the weasel family,
the sable, whose skin commands the
highest market price, is found in
Asiatic Russia and the fur is in great
est perfection during the coolest
month of the year. A really perfect
sable is a rare find and an exceedino-
ly high price is asked for such when
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IL is found. An ordinary skin is esti-
mated to be worth from S25 to 500,
while $500 is the value that has been
set upon one of the finest skins. In
order to obtain these much priced
skins the sable hunters are forced to
undergo terrible privations and many
lose their lives in the snow covered
wastes in which the sable loves to
roam.
The home of the sable or marten
covers a most extensive territory. in
Guiding Kamschatka as well as Ash
attic Russia and also the northern con-
fines of Canada and the forests of Lab
rador. The American sable or river
marten is about the size of a large
house cat, though standing much low
er on account of the shortness of the
legs. The length of the head and
body is about a foot and half and
the tail is very full and bushy. The
home of the pine marten is under
ground or among rocks, though by
preference it seeks the hollow of a
tree, frequently dispossessing a squir-
rel from its burrow by driving Off or
devouring the rightful occupant. The
fur of the American sable is gray
spotted with black, and, while it is
highly valued, it is much less costly
than the rich fur of the Russian sable
The fur of the Arctic fox is worn ex-
tensively in winter. particularly by
the debutante and the schoolgirl.
This is one of the most beautiful and
at the same time the smallest of the
foxes, the pelt being silky and a blu
ish or brownish gray in summer and
pure white in winter. The tail is
very full and buShy and the frr COW
ering of the animal extends even to
the soles of the feet The Arctic fox
is found in Labrador and Newfound-
land and throughout the Arctic re-
gions of North America and also in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-01
Grand Duke Advocates eoIdness.

Some critics of Russian autocracy
say that the Grand Duke Vladimir has
some excuse for his hatred of popular
movements and secret societies. His
father, Alexander 1.-THE man who on
his accession to the throne at once
made peace in the Crimean war and
emancipated the serfs-was assassi-
mated by nihilist bombs. The grand
duke is said to have carefully studied
the details of the history of the French
revolution, with the express object of
avoiding the perils and dangers of
any such catastrophe in Russia, and
he is convinced that if Louis XvI.'s
ministers had been holder they might
have saved France as kingdom
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-01
Joke Carried Too Far.

This artificial limb business is get
ting to be som ething wonderful" said
George Moore, of the Gilsey house.
When man can wiggle the fingers
of an artificial hand it is uncanny
Practical jokes of terrible effect are
possible with the artificial limb, and
the victim is such in the true sense of
the word.
"A man came in here not long ago
and walked UP to the clerk and in a
friendly way reached across the count
er to shake hands. Then he wheeled
away and left his hand in the grip of
the clerk
1.-The clerk fainted-actual1y faint
ed. although he realized, believe, that
the hand he held was but an artificial
one. The man who wore it had de-
vised a scheme by which he might
throw it off b. pressing a spring. The
delight he took in the joke ceased
when his victim collapsed.
York Telegraph.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-04-01

Siam is about to pay the penalty of
virtuous endeayor. Having closed up
all the gambling establishments in
the kingdom, which paid large reve-
nue. to the state, the government finds
itself sadly in need of funds. Siam
has hitherto enjoyed the distinction
OF having no external debt. The Brit
ish officer who occupies the post of
financial adviser, has asked advices
from London and Paris with a view
to floating in those cities a loan of
SIC, OOO,0 900. The gambling revenues
which Siam voluntarily abandoned
when she abolished the gaming estab-
llshments amounted annually to about
100000 ticals, or 81 600, 900.
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ship with this fur giver on the part of
many people. Then, too, the fur is ex-
ceptionally well known, for in days
gene by it was Fashions special
favorite, and though its prestige has
of late been somewhat dimmed it has
by no means been relegated to the
background and its cost has been in
creased 80 to so per cent during the
past few years. Formerly the seal
was to be found as far southwark
along the Pacific coast as California,
but now is concentrated in the vicin-
ity of Alaska. The fur of the seal is
nearly black in tone, varying to gray
Upon the shoulders and reddish brown
below The female is lighter in color
than the male and the young of both
sexes are glossy black.
Squirrel fur is used extensively for
sets, toques, Innings and trimmings,
the gray and white striped variety
known as lock squirrel being utilized
for lining purposes. The blush gray
skin is the most valuable and the
variety known as Siberian squirrel
has enjoyed considerable vogue dur
ing the past few years. Squirrels are
found in various sections of the
United States and Canada in Mexico
and Guatemala as well as in Europe
and Siberia, and at present Germany
is actively interested in the business
of preparing squirrel fur for the mar.
ket.
The fur of the sea otter, of which
certain iSlets and reefs in Alaska
form the hunting ground, is prime at
two years of age, although the animal
is not full grown until its fourth OIL
fifth year. The mother otter sleeps
III the water on her back with hel
young clasped between her forepaws
FL equent attempts have been made
by the natives of the islands where
the otter abounds to cultivate the ami
NAL, but it manifests intense shyness
and aversion to man.
the lynx is highly priced for it's glossy
texture. The lynx of Asia Minor has
many jet black spots on the breast
and on the thighs the fur grows in
tufts that suggest rosettes. The
northern lynx of the old world and
the varieties that have been discovered
in North America should be ranged
under one species, as after an examf
nation by experts of the skins of each
no difference can be detected.
In the category of the fur bearing
animals are some not mentioned nor
pictured here, but those portrayed
represent the principal ones from
which American maids and matrons
derive the most decorative acces
series of their attire for winter.