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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Shakespeare an Irishman.
icago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Gael. an Irish American publication,
has satisfied its own editorial staff that VIII
Ham Shakespeare was an Irishman The
interesting conclusion is based principally
on the poets name and coat of arms.
'Shakespeare's crest consisted of a fall
con, or hawk, holding a spear in it's claws
says the Gael editor.
Now, the word hawk Games from the
Gaelic 'seabbach,' pronounced 'shawk,' and
when aspirated, hawk. 1t is not says the
writer in Gael unreasonable to presume
that an Englishman as well informed about
Ireland was Camden, the herald of arms
who championed the right of Shakespeare's
family To coat armor, pronounced the fall
cons name in Irish manner 'shawk,' and
therefore gave John Shakespeare n punning
crest having reference to the origin of the
name-a practice very common in the
writer's OF those days.
AS for the 'speare' part of the name 1t
comes from the Irish spar, a staff carried
by those who hawlSed afoot to enable them
more easily to leap bitches and streams
The habit of carrying such a staff would
nave suthced to give the ancestor a nick
name, 'Shawkspar'
After many years continuance in Eng
and. the writer conjeCtures that the Shakes
pedres lost their original clan name and
came TO be known exclusively by their
nickname"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Man Unfit to Be a Hermit
From the National Magazine.

rum the Ndtlonal Magazine.
When he abandoned his hermitage he
did 1t in this fashion: Il had imagined T
could live happily alone with nature. and
largely independent of the rest of tho
human race. l couldn't | don't believe
anybody can. Nature has taught me bet
ter FOUND that the birds went in pairs
and IN fiocks; that plants and trees grew in
families; that ants live in colonies, and
That everything of its kind had a tendency
TO i've and grow together. But here I was
a single bit of the human race, trying to
i've alone and away from my kind. The
BIRDS and trees were possibly glad of NV
admiration for them, but they said: You
don't belong to us. You shouldn't try to
belong to us. You belong to your own race:
go join them again. cultivate them. We
live our own lives; you can't get wholly
into our lives. You're not a bird that YOU
can live in a nest and on uncooked seeds
or squirrel, that can live in hole in a
tree; or tree, that can root itself in one
place and stay there, as you've been try
ing to do. hermit is one who tries to be
a tree, and draw nourishment from one
spot, when he is really a great deal more
than tree, and must draw life and recrea-
ton from many persons and places. A
bear is not SO foolish as to try to live
among foxes; neither should a man try to
live entirely among trees because they
cannot give him all that he must have to
get the most out of life So left my her
mitage, I presume forever, and carted my
bed and pots and pans to the house of a
friend perched on the brink of the palisades
opposite Tinker's.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

anniversary of the establishment of the
theater, and one of the guests was Gen.
Linevitch. Now the old general is In COM
mand OF the defeated forces of the car in
Manchuria.
When l saw the general at Paris he
impressed me an unusually mild man.
rered and pleasant old gentleman. There
were present at the dinner a hundred or
more distinguishing patrons of the drama
in addition to the members of the COM
pany playing al the theater. General Line
witch, was told spent a good deal of time
in Paris, and was personally acquainted
with great many members of the profess
sion. In Russia the ideas of etiquette that
prevail SO rigidly make society very stiff
and formal. and the Russians are very fond
of going to Paris. where they meet bright
men and women on basis that is more
favorable to good fellowship. Gen. Line
Witch made little speech. which / did not
understand because he spoke in French, but
1T seemed to make great hit. 1t was
very brilliant affair. that dinner in Paris,
and I'll bet the old general finds things
very different out in Manchuria, considering
the activity and success of our little friends,
the Japanese"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

From the Detroit Free Press
Some one drew Forbes Robertson into a
discussion of the authenticity of the Shakes
peare dramas, and he was quite emphatic
in scouting the theory of the Bacon adher-
ents.
Shakespeare is Shakespeare" he said
Il have no doubts. Read and compare for
yourself. Shakespeare was the master of
many subjects of which Bacon apparently
knew nothing and to which ne makes no
reference. For instance, Shakespeare refers
continually to sport, and always in the
most correct manner. Bacon never speaks
of 1t but once. and that is in the planning
of house. one part of which is to be de-
voted to hawks for falconry. Shakespeare
shows the country-bred boy many many
times. If he mentions dog or bird or
morse, he does so in manner which can
not be conveniently assumed in the writ
ings OF one who knows but little about
these subjects.
That Shakespeare was an impostor is an
utter lmpoSSibility. man of his rank in
life would not dare claim the authorship of
the works of great chancellor like Bacon;
and again, the great chancellor could never
have concealed his ownership of the plays.
They were too well known. The group of
dramatists and writers surrounding Shakes
peare were too jealous to have permitted
him unlawfully to pose as the greatest
dramatiSt of his time
las for the book which fellow named
Donnelly wrote, The Cryptogram it is
great rubbish, and nothing else. Any one
could make just as much sense out of any
newspaper of today. The only member of
our profession who ever condescended to
give the subject serious attention was Sir
Henry Irving, and the occasion was a
speech delivered before the Clover Club of
Philadelphia, in which he demonstrated how
foolish those Baconian theories are''
Mr.. Robertson also classified the Juliets
of the past with whose characterizations he
is familiar.
Mary Anderson was a beautiful and
clever actress" he said. II was her lead
ing man for three years, seven months of
the time being spent In London. I also
played with Modjeska, and I must say that
shall always consider her the best Juliet
of my time.
What of Adelaide Neilson?" asked the
writer Il am continually told that her
Juliet had no rival. Did you play with
her?'
mo, l did not; but saw her as Juliet
many times. She was a beautiful and
charming actress. and every one loved her;
but Modjeska was the ideal Juliet. Miss
Nelson was sweet and womanly but Mod
Jeska played with an intelligence I have
never seen in another's work"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
A German Theory of Hamlet.
the Pittsburg Dispatch

From the fittSburE Dispatch.
Herr Heinrich a German professor, has
Just set forth what is about the queerest
theory yet propounded regarding Shakes
peares Hamlet The professor believes
that all the characters in the play were in
tended by Shakespeare to be representations
of the various sides of Hamlet's tempera-
thcu,. and this belief he Celebrates in q
brochure consisting of over ninety pages
of close type, which has just been pub
Ished in the fatherland under the title of
Die Namen Hamlettragodie."
Ii demonstrates again that there is prac-
tiCally no theory too absurd to be sub
stantiatcd. in a way. If you only devote
enough patience and ingenuity to the bust
ness. Professor Heinrich endeavOrs 20
Justify his assumption by tracing the names
of all the characters in Hamlet" to their
source. The heros own appellation he
traces back through almost countless gen
spelled both Hambet and Hamlet and
further declares that the name of Shakes
peares son. Hamnet. is only varia ton.
Herr Heinrich considers that Hamlet was
derived originally rom the old English
word "hamclian," to halt or be lame, and
maintains that the name, therefore is in
tended TO be symboical of the hating or
indecisive side of Hamlet's character.
The name OF Gertrude the professor fol-
lows indefatigably through the Gertrude"
of Belleforest to the gerry" Venus Of
Chaucer's knights Tale" and he makes
this name mean the inconstant." ''Laer-
he derived from leo" and heart and,
therefore, TO stand for Hamet's bravery.
PoloniUs, the professor thinks, stands for
Hamlet's lack of youth: HoratiO represents
the philosophical and skeptical sides of
HamlCts character; ROSenCrantz and Guild
eastern stand for cTaftiness and lack of
will power, and Osric, through the Latin
"os'-mouth-and German ''reich"-fun Of
for the love of self communing.
Most remarkable of all, however Herr
Heinrich declares that the name OpheIa
must have been derived by Shakespeare
from either "Mephistopheles' or ''ofal."
and in support of the latter supposition he
quotes the Danes comment. "a good kissing
carbon" He says that Ophelia represents
the womanish side of Hamlets character
and asserts that have numerous in
stances in Shakespeare of her poor opinion
of women.
Herr Heinrich brings his extraordinary
thesis to close by asserting that Shakes
peare undoubtedly found the germ of his
tragedy in the history of Mary Queen of
Scots. Darnley and Boutwell,, with James
/ the Prince.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS

The choir of St Thomas Church is re-
Eears.ns Stainer's "Crucifixion,' which VIII
be sung Good Friday night and Mendels-
soEn's oratorio of 'AthaIe." which. it is
expected. it will sing some time after
Easter. Both works will be sung by the
regular choir and soloists of the church.
Miss Margaret L. Veitch will be heard in
n song recital in the ball room of the Raj
eigh Hotel next Wednesday night. She will
he assisted by Mr.. Johannes Miersch, vio-
Iinist with Mrs. Emma Prall Knorr and
Mr.. Henry Xandcr at the piano.
Miss Veitch will sing the BATH Battf
aria from Don Giovanni II group OF
German songs, a group of English songs.
CEarminade's "Lete'' and Guy D'Harde-
lots Sans TOT" Mr.. Miersch will play
Vfeuxtcmp's "Ballade ct Polonaise, Paul
Micrsch's Romance in G. Minor" Faures
"Bcrceuse" and Weniowski's "Scherzo
Tarantel.e.
The musical clubs of Georgetown Uni
verSity will give a concert at the New Will
lard ball room next Tuesday night. The
program: ''The Steel King St. Clair, man
doln club; The Blue and Gray Carmen
Georgiopol. glee club; (a) Songs Without
Words" Mendelssohn. (b) Gavotte. Pepper,
solo for V!Oloncel!o. Mr.. Ernst Lent; That
Little Peach" Neidlinger. glee club; or
pheus and His Lutte" Sullivan, Mr.. Battle
"A Summer Romance for guitar. ca Zone
Night in June" (b) "Since We Must
Part Fcote. co. Mr.. Foote; A moi les
Plaisers. Faust" Act |. Gounod, MIR. Bat
tie and Mr.. Ouimet; Old Folks at Home"
Cox theme and varia tons for flute. Mr.
Burke: My Pretty Maid" Neidlinser, giee
club: Vision Fugitive" Massenet.. Mr.
Ouimet; Southland Lullaby Smith, glee
club Potpourri. Babes in Toyland," Her
bert, mandolin club: "Obiter Dicta.' Foote
'o6 glee club; NAH Foldin' Bald Anon
George FL. OConnor; Sons of George
town. Carmen GeorgiopOl. combined clubs
\ piano recital by the pupils of Mrs
Routt-Johnson. assisted by Mrs. Bradley
McDufie dramatic soprano, was given at
the Hotel Normandic Thursday evening
The pupils who participated in the program
were Miss L. Love. Miss Andrews. Miss
Wallace. Miss T. c. Andrews. little Roberta
Amies and Gladys Aline Strong. Mrs. Nc
Duffie sang a waltz song, by Pattison, Sui
livau's My Dearest Heart" and Bohm's
Calm as the Night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02

resday. preparatory to being shipped. the
she'd took fire and the scenery was among
the things destroyed. The property In
cludsd the material used by Mantell in SIX
different Shakespearean productions.
The engagement was announced IN new
York lust Tuesday of Mary Welsh, VINO
plays the role of Sally Water in Babes
in Toylaud." to Lieut.. Edward Cole OF the
United States Marine Corps. Miss Welsh
Will remain with the Babes until the
close Of its season and then join Lew
Fields company for few weeks 10
Chicago She will then leave the stage
permanently to become the wife of Lieut.
cole
After a run of fourteen weeks. The
Duchess of Dantzic" will close its New
York engagement April 10 and MISS EVE
Greene aud several of the prominent mem
beers of the cast will Immediately return
To London. where they are wanted py
George W. Edwardes for his next big must
cal comedy 1t was at first intended to
B. continue the piece. but it was found I'M
pos BILE 20 secure people to take the places
of the ones called back to London.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
A Distinguished Predecessor.

From the ROstOn Herald.
Joseph Greene of the Babes in Toy
land" company says that a few years ago
he was connected with a small company
appearing in legitimate plays that was
making tour of the very small towns in
the. middle west. One day they arrived in
a village that was even smaller than usual
and he and the manager took stroll
through the main street.
They dropped into the general store over
which the hall or "opry house was sit
uated and which was presided over by the
local impressario. Getting into conversation
with him. they asked the usual questions
as to the advance sale, etc. Finally Greene
said to him:
What was the last theatrical company
that played your town.
The manager of the ''opry house tried to
think for a minute and then called out to
a towheaded youth in the back of the store:
bill. what was the last troupe we had?'
The answer came back at once The
educated pig, father"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
A Slight Mistake.
ON the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Raymond Hitchcock of the Yankee Con-
sur tries to be polite to everybody and
the other day when he sat down in street
car in Toronto by the side of an elderly
looking man Hitchcock said
Pleasant day, isn't it?''
'Hey?" responded the old man, with his
hand to his ear.
What say?"
Il simply said it was a pleasant day"
Please speak little louder; I'm a trife
hard o hearin.''
Pleasant day" roared the comedian. an
noycd by the giggles of some girls opposite
him.
These COMPOUNDED cars make so much
noise l can hardly hear at all. If you'll
be so kind as to speak little louder"
It's no consequence screeched the
actor"
''Hey?"
Nothing. Nothing at all sir"
What is it? What did you ask for?"
'Oh, nothing much of anything" howled
Hitchcock. Whereupon the old gentleman
took a couple of coppers from his pocket
and offering them to the comedian, said:
We'll, [ don't often give, an it looks to
me as if a weil-dressed. healthy-lookin'
man like you ought to he above beggin, but
praps you've been unfortHI.it, an here's a
couple of coppers for you
Hitchcock suddenly remembered that he
had an enga cement at the corner he was
passing and hastily made his exit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Succinct.


From the Boston Herald.
THE most sarcastic dramatic criticism
that ever read" says Russ Whytal, was
that which appeared in a Texas newspaper
in course of an engagement in Austin of a
company with which L was associated in
my early days.
Tho morning after our debut in Austin
I picked up q local sheet and as | SKINNED
over its pages my eye was caught by a
short paragraph bearing the head Current
News Items They read as follows:
Transform in Galveston lasting twenty
eight minutes
'FTailstorm in Langtry. ten minutes
" 'Windstorm in Houston. two days
'Barnstorm in Austin opera house, one
night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Stage Salaries.


From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
You can't always tell manor a woman,
either, for that matter-by the salary he
draws. Forty years ago Sir Henry Irving
was being paid only s13 a week at the
Queens Theater. London. where Sir Charles
Wyndman got SO. and Ellen Terry $50. At
about the same time J. II. Stoddart re-
ceived SIS a week from the management
of a place of amusement in Glasgow. Most
astonishing of all. however. is the rapid
rise of Lillian RusselPs figure-on the pay
roll, of course. Miss Russell got $50
week from Tony Pastor in 1878 1880. and
the late Edward Marble is said to have de-
clineG to give her more than this If she
went on the road. The Shuberts have
contract with Miss Russell at present by
the terms of which she appears seven times
in Lady TeaZie" for the sum of 81 O01.
The singers wages. therefore, have grown
6,6G0 per cent in twenty-five years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
A Hard Luck Story.
r1m the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
Il have heard of hard luck Stories" said
Jess Dandy of The Prince of Pilsen" COM
pany recently, but one a stranded actor
told me last summer I believe carries off
the palm. This actor had been out with
one of those barn storming aggregatons
that move from town to town whenever the
sheriff will let them. Salaries were long
overdue. and in fact this actor acquaintance
OF mine hadn't been able to get laundry
money since the season opened. Finally
In desperation he went to the manager and
demanded SO.
Twenty-Five dollarsv said the manager
why. III had S25 I'd put out No. COM
pany.'"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
An Interesting Souvenir.
From the Boston Transcript.

One of the most sentimentally interesting
knicknacks in the home of Maxine Elliott
on Riverside drive, New York, takes the
shape of framed telegram. 1t is dated
six or seven years ago and is signed by
Nat Z. Goodwin. at that time Mr. Good
win had not yet met the handsome actress
who subsequently became his wife, and
when his manager wrote to him suggesting
Or for the position of leading woman the
STAR, who happened to be In Pittsburg wired:
"All right, but is she not too talI? That
is the dispatch Miss Elliott has had framed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-02
Impressions of Lievitnch.

from the Boston Herald.
What little world il is said Charles
Rlchman. the co-star with Miss Annie Irish
for the stock-star season OF society drama
at the New Alvin Theater, the other even
ing. when he happened to be in a reminis-
cent mood. Just a few years ago / was
guest at dinner given by the manage
ment OF one OF the famous Paris theaters,
the occasion being the celebration of the
The Irish standard., 1905-03-04
would have been nominated, with
Davis in the runniGg, had he said the

would have been nominated, with
Davis in the runniEg, had he said the
word, or had those who managed his
fortunes been as skillful as Frank
Blair or Gratz Brown. And had he
been nominated it is quite likely he
would have been elected. Greeley
would have been elected if he had got
the Democratic vote-had that party
supported him as loyalty as it had
supported Seymour in 1868, or was
destined to support Hancock in 1880.
In 1S76-77 Trumbull, now Demo
crat, was of counsel for Tilden and ap-
peared before the Electoral Commits
sion, with Charles O'Conor, Jeremiah
S. Black, M. II. Carpenter, George
Hoadly, John Randolph Tucker, John
A. Campbell and others who made the
ablest array of legal talent that ever
appeared to plead cause in any age
or any country, and representing one
Of the greatest lawyers the English
speaking people have produced.
In his latter days Judge Trumbull
practiced law in Chicago and William
Jennings Bryan was his pupil. Bryan
says he got good deal of his politics
from Trumbull too
The Irish standard., 1905-03-04
PactS About Gods.

The common theory that all colds
are the result of exposure of some
sort is great mistake. Exposure is
not the direct cause of the disease.
Scientists tell us that colds are
caused by a hostile microbc, which
gains foothold when our vitality is
lowered by exposure, and that if we
inure ourselves to exposures we have
an effective remedy against the mi
crobe of cold, as well as many others.
There are many evidences to prove
this theory. There are many places
where it is impossible to catch cold,
because there is no cold to catch We
have not yet forgotten that Nansen
and his men, during the three years
they spent in the Arctic regions were
immune from cold, though they were
constantly enduring exposure of every
kind. They passed day after day in
clothes so saturated with pcrspiration
that day by day they frozc into a
solid mass, so that they cut into the
flesh. And at night, in their sleeping
bags, the first hour was spent in thaw-
ing out. They returned to civilization
none the worse in health, but soon
contracted severe colds upon reaching
there
Then there is the remarkable in
stance of st. Kilda, that lonely, rocky
island, which was visited by DR.. John
son when he and Boswell were max
ing their famous tour of the Hebrides.
There are about one hundred inhabit-
ants on the island. The coasts are so
precipitous that for eight months in
the year it is practically inaccessible.
Several vessels from the mainland call
there during the summer. And,
strange to say, whenever a ship reach
es the island from the mainland, every
inhabitant, even to the infant, is seized
with colds. This fact has been known
for more than two hunderd years, and
was of great interest to DIR. Johnson,
who was sceptical concerning it.
The question Of this st. Kilda cold
The Irish standard., 1905-03-04
A Home Shampoo.


Washing the hair is task most
women dislike, and even the girl who
can least afford the dollar month
necessary to a professional shampoo
prefers to pay 1t Mt a sacrifice rather
than bother to wash her own hair.
Yet If the work is gone about in the
right manner Mt home it need not he
difficult at all. The first thing is to
prepare a shampoo liquid. Take a
square inch of some good saop, shave
it inc and dissolve it in half a cup of
hot water. Then add teaspoonful of
violet ammonia and the raw white of
an egg. Beat these thoroughly and
strain through a wire sieve. Now
stand with the head over basin, pour
little Of the shampoo over the scalp
and rub briskly with both hands. Use
all the liquid in this way, rubbing it
thoroughly on the scalp. After this
wash the scalp with several basins of
warm water and then wash the long
hair in the basin of wafer. Rinse by
holding the head over the bathtub and
pouring over it stream of warm
water keeping this up until the water
that drips from the hair is perfectly
clean. Then dash with cold. You are
now ready to dry the hair. First
wrap it in a thick towel and wiring
thoroughly. Then spread dry towel
across the back, throw the hair back
and rub the scalp well and dry. 1t
may take some time, but it is the best
possible means Of drying, acting as a
massage, too. Call in the aid of the
sun if possible, but never use steam.
Do not brush the hair until it is thor
oughly dry. Then, as you brush, raise
the hair, that the strands mey be sep
arated After this combing will not
be difficult and when the hair is
ready to 90 up it will be soft and fluffy.