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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
"MRS. DEERING'S
DIVORCE" AMUSES
BELASCO AUDIENCE

Mrs. behring's Divorce" with the
full complement of situations, enough
sparkling dialogue to keep the audience
on the alert and sufficient insight into
the shortcomings of human nature to
make the average observer recognize
the characters is the offering of the
Belasco stock company this week.
The play, a three-act comedy by
Percy Fendall, does not pretend to
settle the divorce problem with a
bound, but succeeds in proving the
frailties of a man and a maid, and then
laughs at them.
In the third act it. would SAVIOR of the
common if treated less sllillfully. Lii
liam Langtry, when she last visited this
country, appeared in the leading role in
which Miss Eugene That's Lawton was
seen last evening. The beauty who had
London at her feet and in fact half
the civilized world might have ap-
peared to better advantage, as far as
the beauties of face and form are con-
cerned, but it is doubtful if she could
have handled the disrobing scene in the
third act with more grace and modesty
than Miss LaWton displayed.
AT the opening of the play Mrs. Deer
ing and her husband, Capt Deering,
are divorced because of their mutual
eXtraVagant tastes. Mrs Deering has
spent year in mourning and in love,
ever believing that some day the hus-
band would come back and beg for
giveness, when she hears of his en-
gagement to an English heiress. The
English girl has an advanced" idea
about people and about men in par
ticular. She does not care for Capt.
Deering, but thinks it would be inter-
estlng to manage him.
The young woman calls on the for
mer wife to secure "a character" sus-
poets that Mrs. Deering is yet in love
with her husband and finally succeeds
in bringing them together after a sue
cession of quaTelS and misunderstood
ings. The captain finds he never loved
any one but his wife and is madly anx-
ious to "settle down." The wife learns
that her husband is even more to her
than she ever thought and there is a
general reconciliation. Miss Lawton
added to her former laurels as Mrs
Deering. She has a difficult part and
gives very creditable Interpretation
of it.
Miss Adele Harrington as Miss Yer
ner-the strong-minded Miss Werner OF
the blue goggles and the lecture plat
form, to say nothing of the millions
is also clever.
Joseph Galbraith as Captain Deerine
has part. the chief object of which
is to enable Miss Lawton to appear
to better advantage.
Richard Vivian has another chance
i'm his patented role of the eye-glass
Englishman who never succeeds i'm be-
ing anything but a harmless fool.
Miss Louise Royce as Lady Gran
pier Is the center of a pretty tableau
when the curtain rises on the second
act. Her performance is a little marreC
by unfamliarity with her lines, but
that can be put down as a irst-night
allowance.
George w. Barnum also gave a gooc
performance.
The other members of the company
are well cast.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
Chiaffarelli at Chutes

Chiaffarellis band commences it's
week evening series of concerts in
Chutes theater tonight, with a concert
that will be mainly Italian in character,
and of unusual strength. The pre-
eminent features of the program are
grand selections from Giordanos "Fe-
DORA" Leoncavallo's Il Pagliacci," the
great prelude to johanna d'Arco," and
the entire third act of Ponchielli's "Gio-
conda" Chiaffarellis own "Immor-
tally" Holsts beautiful Spanish
"Sequidilla," and 81 Lombardi'' are also
on the program. Solos will be given by
SignOri Giulii and Zannini. Tomorrow,
Wednesday evening, will be popular
nightfi and the numbers will include Di
Mitris' catchy milwaukee Girls" and
various other compositions of present
date,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
PETTY LEGISLATION
From the Atlantic.

From the Atlantic.
Local or private bills are the weeds
in our Legislative garden. They con-
sumo time, they sap energy, they dis
courage talent, they conceal iniquities,
they make law byword, they trans
form legislatures into tribunals of ad-
judication and courts into organs of
legislation. For legislature is created
primarily to make laws. It's entire
energies should be devoted to this i'm
portant task of statecraft. But our
legislative organs have become diseased
because we have required of them the
performing of abnormal functions. Ad-
ministration and adjudication are not
proper functions for an organ of legis-
lation, and our unfortunate habit Of
carrying all our local and private all
ments to the state capital, to have the
virtuous adhesive of special law ap-
piled, has transformed our law-making
bodies into quack commissions OF mon
grel duties.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
LOS ANGELES CoMPLIMENTED

From the California Christian Advocate
Los Angeles city is launching a great
system of water supply 1t proposes to
bring the water from Owens river, a
distance of POI miles, at a cost of about
$42, 100000. This enterprise almost rivals
the Panama canal The Los Angeles
people no doubt will easily accomplish
this great undertaking. For pluck, for
courage, for power to take the initia-
tive, the people of Los Angeles have
no superiors II San Francisco had
been similarly endowed it would have
built an aqueduct from Lake Tahoe a
long time ago. 1t would not only have
owned its water but a dozen electrical
plants generating heat, light and pow
er for the whole city.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
CURSE OF THE CIGARETTE
One Reason for the Large Percentage
of Failures Among the Students
at the Universities
LOS ANGELES. Cal. Jan II


Editor Herald: A dispatch published
in The Herald a few days ago spoke
of the dismissal of seventy young men
and one young woman from Stanford
university because they had failed to
keep up with the class studies required
by that institution. The fact that all
but one were young men led the editor
to suggest that the cause might be
attributed to the waste of time in foot
ball and other athletic games. This
doubtless was one cause, but not the
chief.
The principal cause may be found in
the use of the cigarette.
A year ago when nearly an equal
number were dismissed from the uni
versity, President Jordan informed the
writer that cigarette smoking was the
chief factor in their falling back in
their studies. He says that few cigar
cite smokers are able to graduate, and
if perchance they do they have no after
life.
After somewhat carefully studying
the effect of cigarette smoking for the
past two or three decades l am con-
Vinced that it has become a most seri-
Gus menace to the American race.
Perhaps nothing more alarming con-
fronts us. In organizing a regiment
for the late Spanish war in one of our
rejected on account of the cigarette
habit. Each had Cigarette heart ,''
which disqualified him for military SER
vice. Cigarette smoking creates a
weak heart, Bright's disease or some
other malady which scientific physi-
clans everywhere recognize as the nat
ural result of chronic nicotine poison
ing.
DR.. Kellogg, the eminent physician of
Qn hn 40 1Nin N "a
removed from a cigarette, making a
solution of it, and injected half of il
into a full grown frog with the effect
that the frog died almost instantly The
remainder was injected into another
frog with like effect. He says the con-
clusion is evident that simple cigar
cite contains poison enough TO kill two
full grown frogs. Hence a boy who
smokes twenty cigarettes a day has
inhaled enough poison to kill the boy
if not immediately he will surely die
later of diseases the cigarette poison
creates.
The cigarette habit tends not only
to stunt the growth of the youth and
to destroy mis- physical well being, but
it weakens his moral faculties. The
country is being startled in many
places by crimes perpetrated by cigar
ette-smoking boys, and they are filing
houses of correction all over the lana.
Here is a theme for the pulpit, the
school and the press. The cigarette
habit destroys everything upon which
the beauty and the fragrance Of the
boys life depends. 1t not only gives
him a cigarette heart but il gives him
a cigarette face, and he is as easily
identified as the drunkard.
Men who debauch our boys by sell
ing them cigarettes should be punished
by law. IF the law is not adequate
our next legislature should pass one
that is. Such men are on about the
same moral plane az the drunkard-
maker This is plain language, but
nevertheless ii is true. Unless this evi
is checked our country Ia bound Il
produce generation OF moral, menta
and physical dwarfs.'
STEPHEN BOWERS.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16

drought cries from central California
may be thought by the unknowing to
apply hereabouts, and the other be-
cause OF the Hatfield effort Of last
year. AS to the latter, Of course Los
Angeles believes It was n Joke; no In
telligent person pretends to believe that
q few ill-smelling chemicals. set Off Sc
cretly i'm the foothills, brought the
hounteous showers last spring. But the
yellow press, here and in the east, so
exploited Hatfield and his stunts that
really someone may be foolish enough
to credit his absurd claims. As a mat
ter Of fact, Los Angeles has had more
rain so far this season without Hatfield
than it had last year with him and his
chemicals.
SO far as middle California's drought
wall is concerned, the only fear here
abouts is that this region may he con-
fused with that. Here we expect need
and desire no rain TIL its proper time
which is now. In the midstate, they
have suffered considerably for water,
and the papers have complained loudly.
South Of the Tehachapi. however,
nothing unusual has occurred. unless
1t he that we are getting more than
our normal wetting California is
huge state, It should he remembered,
and the southern part is different in
climate, crops, customs and people,
from the middle or the northern
regions. What would be a serious
drought there would have no effect here
whatever.
Southern California is good and wet
now; wetter than usual. 1t has not
been dryer than was expected, and if
the present rate of rainfall continues
its total will so equalize with even
last years that the Hatfield theory
will be as thoroughly discredited as
are any walls of drought that the
midstate region may have emitted.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
Farce Comedy at Fisoher's

Fitz and Webster's "a Breezy Time"
was presented at FischeT's theater last
night by the Delacour-Fi company.
and proved to be one of the funniest
farce comedies ever presented at this
house. The play goes with snap and
the good comedy situations and numer-
Gus specialties kept the audience laugh
ing throughout the performance. This
bright farce is a good vehicle for Fisch-
er's comedy as it gives each member an
opportunity to do good work. The
vaudeville portion of the program was
headed by Gaylor, the contortionist, one
of the best in his line. He did some
wonderful feats of back bending and
contortion work. The Scoffields, who
bill themselves as the Fiddling Rubes.
have a splendid musical act and their
solos and duets on the violin brought
them several encores. The Barretts,
acrobats and comedy jugglers, and new
motion pictures made up one of the
best bills ever put on at this house.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
A PLENTIFUL RAINFALL

Up to and including the rainfall of
Saturday night, but not including that
OF Sunday and yesterday. the precipi-
tation in Los Angeles for this season
was well ahead of the average for this
region, and well up with the record
for last season, which was unusually
heavy. For the season. to the time
mentioned, Los Angeles and its vicin-
ity have had 4S5 inches of wetness,
which has come little at a time just
I'm the fashion most to benefit the
crops, The normal for the correspond
ing period is 455 inches.
For two reasons Il is well to give at
tention TO this fact--one, because the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16

iected suitor (Richmond) declares that
"On BosWorth field tonight another
than Richard may be slain" and the
duel scene becomes a battle for life
in earnest This gives the sketch it's
title, The Unmasking," for the two
men cast aside The sham Of the play
i'm the passion OF their private quarrel
and Richmond, not Richard, falls dead.
Davis Is the central figure Of the
drama throughout. He has the three
"Ps' Of the dramatic success-pres-
ence, personality, power. His acting
is no less scholarly than the sketch it
self, which is a little literary MASTER
piece in its own way. It is no easy
matter to write tragedy within a
tragedy, TO work out i'm a twenty-min-
ute sketch two scenes which contain Il
double plot, TO portray a character as
Davis does that Of Devries so clearly
that you sec the whole life of the man
standing out like n cameo.
The success with which Davis has
done these things cannot be questioned.
for the audience at the Orphcum last
night gave him round half dozen
calls. Now, a vaudeville audience as a
rule wants to laugh, and tragedy must
he very true, dramatic strength must
be very clearly drawn to hold a crowd
cd house of people out for pure amuse-
mcnt. Davis Is unqucstionaby In this
respect ono Of the most striking figures
on tho vaudeville stage today
The road show continues to he the
drawing card, The Unmasking" be-
ing tho only new act. The Garrisons in
travesty work. Bixley the baritone,
Winona Winter i'm her dainty songs
and the Colonial septette all have
changes in their acts. while Merian's s
dogs, Campbell and johnson, the COM
edy cyclists, and the Sisters and Broth
ers Ford are as nODtIlar as ever
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
CHICAGO FACES
From the Atlantic.

From tho Atlantic.
Probably in no city in the country
do the masses show by their counte-
nances less traces of Anglo-Saxon
blood than they do in Chicago. On the
thoroughfares, in the street cars, In the
parks i'm the public libraries, i'm the
city hall. in the court house, in the
railway stations, on excursion boats,
there Is the unmistakable, universal
foreign cast of physiognomy. These are
not so conspicuously the raw counte-
nances of new arrivals, but they are
those variouSly modified by a longer or
shorter identification with our social
customs. Only the faces tell the gen.
eral truth, for, of course, here, as
everywhere else in this country where
these exiles have settled, all national
distinction of dress, all individuality
and picturesqueness of costume is OBJ
liberated in a dull and cheap conform
ity to American standards. Yet in this
multitude the observer sees the Won
der of the evolution of minds and souls
in all stages, from the vacuity of ami
malism to a maturity of the higher
faculties. The observer can know
nothing of individuals, but looking into
the countenances of hundreds of Teu-
TONS Jews, Celts, ScandinaVians and
Slavs, the prevailing types seen daily
on the streets, he discernS the Ameri-
can quality in varying degrees creeping
in to supplant some of the more
marked native lineaments. A distin-
guishable homogeneousness is work.
ing out of the heterogeneous human
compound. Even two or three years as
janitor, teamster, gardener. junk
dealer or hod-carrier in large Ameri-
can city have an effect in molding
away the aboriginal inertness and de-
preston from the features of an alien.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
Tableaul

Charles is am obserVant boy One of
mammals friends came TO the home to
call. Mamma was out and Charles
opened the door.
mamma is not at home" he said.
"Will you please give her my card
when she comes?" inquired the caller.
"Yesth, maam," said Charles.
The caller opened her card case and
as she withdrew the engraved card a
bit of tissue paper nuttered down into
the steps
Grandly Charles picked II up and
handed II 10 her, saying you have
dropped one Of your cigarette papers,
ma am. New York World.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16

The city council, after blufing the
people with efforts to reduce the fire
and police departments to a state Of
inefficiency in order to achieve econ
omy, has just purchased $4,000 worth
of voting machines which nobody
wanted except a few machine politi-
clans, and which i'm a few years will
be disposed of to the junk man. Why
cannot Los Angeles learn something
from other cities? Why must II wade
through the labyrinth of failures else
where in order to find out things that
are apparent at the outset? The Los
Angeles city council gave the city six
months of intelligent service, but lat
terly II seems TO have lost its bearings
and Is now foundering about i'm per-
feet quagmire Of inehiciency. II ap-
pears only too willing TO buy any red
wagon that happens along. regardless
OF any service It night be TO the pub
lie.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
Leonora jackson Concert

The Leonora Jackson Concert COM
pany will appear tonight at Simpson
auditorium under the auspices of the
Los Angeles Teachers association.
Miss Jackson is not unknown to the
music-loving public of Los Angeles
neither are her assisting artists. The
seat sale has been very encouraging SO
far, and it is hoped the public will avail
themselves of the opportunity of hear
ing Miss Jackson, for she will be in
the city only one night, as her time
is solidly filed for the next three
months. Seat sale is now on at BirkePs
music store, 345 South Spring street.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
To Give international Night

Those who like variety of style and
school in music will find it at the Ell
lery concert at Venice this evening.
This will be international night and
operate music of various nations holds
a place in the interesting program. The
overture will be Schubert's ROSA
munde," and selections from the fol-
lowing operas will be given: La Clio
conda," "Poliuto," "Manon Lescaut,"
"Cavalleria Rusticana" and the "Bo-
hemian Girl" Chopin's Funeral
March" is also listed for performance
and Sig, Rise will play "Asthore."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16

Senator Lodge, on the floor of the
senate yesterday was compelled to de-
clare himself opposed to any dipping
into the Moroccan conference by the
United States government Neverthe-
less he defended the president and
secretary of war in selecting delegates
to that conference. the fact is that
the United States have no business in
that European row. and their inter-
meddling may easily lead to a world of
trouble. mo entangling alliances with
foreign powers" is still good watch
word for this country. 1t is infinitely
superior to the big stick" policy
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
GREAT BUILDING RECORD
FOR 26 LEADING CITIES
LOS ANGELES is EIGHTH IN
THE LIST
Aggregate Value of Improvements for
1905 Was $52s, tse,4t2, Against
$375,5H,t3o for 1904, a Gain OF
over $t52,ooo,ooo, or ID Per Cent

Figures compiled by the Construction
News Of Chicago, secured from twenty
six Of the principal cities of the coun-
try, relating to the construction Of
buildings, make a remarkable showing.
The aggregate cost of improvements in
the cities named for 1905 was S52s, 1856, o.
4t2, as against 1915, 1870 in 1904, or a
gain Of St52,6t5,2s2, or 10 per cent. The
News says: Never before in the his
tory Of this country has anything like
IT, ever been seen. yet, on the other
hand, there Is, i'm so far Ms one can dis
cern, no reason why building I'm 1906
should not exceed the magnificent
totals of 1905. All but four of these
cities show substantial increases: not n
small gain. but good healthy advance
I'm material development over 1904 For
example, Chicago had n gain of 80 per
cent, New York so. Philadelphia 81 and
st. Louis--and this the year after the
Worlds fair-a gain of 65 per cent"
The showing for Los Angeles Is high
ly creditable, when 1t Is remembered
that in the line of towering business
blocks, hotels and office buildings the
city really began to grow about a year
ago. During 1905 permits granted ag-
gregated 9543, as against 1850 permits
issued in 1904.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
Worlds

Never mind about the next world, nor
your chances of going there;
The thing that should be worrying you,
and occupying your care
Is: How are you doing in this world?
In the scramble mad for pelf
Are you doing your duty, here and now
Then the neXtll take care of itself!
Are you living your life in this world
just as a man should live?
Do you face your work with a smile on
your. lips ready for take and give?
Have you made your place in the scheme
OF things, or put yourself on the
shelf?
Be a man in the world that is-then the
neXtll take care of itself!
w Ii @
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16
Pi-LineS and Pick-UpS
venlee


'T stood in Venice, on the bridge Of
Sghs,
A palace and a prison on each hand"
SO wrote a poet in tho years that were.
! wonder what he'd think, could he
but stand
In Venice OF this newer world (near
horc);
ON ono hand is a Midway, to amaze,
While on the other, palm garden is,
Where one may wish another happy
days!'
on, Venice OF the palace-prison sort,
Perhaps we're not poetic here, v
know
But you can bet your Campanile, for
fun,
This latter-day venetia gets the
dough-
Still man bound for Chicago from
Los Angeles, Just at this time q year
especially. nut even at any other time,
could hardly be blamed for committing
suicide.
An Indiana woman who has earned
half million dollars herself now Is
about to marry But she can afford the
luxury of husband II she wants one.
Palm-Wonder why II. IT. Rogers OBJ
jected TO flashlights being taken OF
himself?
Pepper-Ever see yourself in a flash
light photograph?
With a brass band in Panama that
canal ought to be dug in Jig time.
Many a man would quit smoking, ex-
cept for fear others might think his
wife made him do 1t.
mo. 16" is the hazing signal at
Annapolis, but "23" is what the hazers
should get next.
How ever did the Chicago teamsters
overlook that chorus girl strike in New
York as an opportunity for sympathy
walkout?
Daniel Boone was granted a divorce
at Kansas City last week. At last ad-
vices Mr.. and Mrs. Davy Crockett and
the dog were yet living happily to-
gether.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-16

The mayors outfall sewer investi-
eating committee is still investigating
without finding anything wrong. The
labor unions that demanded the investi-
cation refuse to appear and give the
committee any of the facts they
claimed to possess. 1t was Houghtor
bluff, pure and simple, and should not
have been countenanced.