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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12

The 400 people who attended W.
A. Harris opening speech at f. Scott
did not uncomiortably crowd the ball,
which holds 5000. but they were no
more lonesome than Harris will be
next Novem Der.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12

1t appears from the junction City
paper that the man who ordered an
Autom obile before breakfast in I'M
married. That explains some things.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12

"ChiCAgo as a Summer Resort" is
the title Of a new Rock Island booklet.
1t takes good deal Of faith to do that
until the packing house scandals are
forgotten.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12
Republican County Ticket

Congressman Calderhead has re-
turned from Washington and is at
his home in Marysville.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12

A Paris artist 10 In America looking
for a girl with perfect face He
will Of course end his search In Kan
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12
diplomatic Relations Resumed.

London. July 10.-Diplomatic rela-
tions between Great Britain and Ser
via. which were terminated BY Great
Britain three years ago following TIE
assassination Of King Alexandra ard
Queen Draga. were formally resume
Monday evening whom King Edward.
received In andience Michael Miiipche-
Witch the Ssrvian minister.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1906-07-12
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

Members Of the Supreme Court. W. A.
Johnston six years., r. A. Burch six
years., s. R. Porter -four years. o. Is.
Graves -four years.
Superintendent of Insurance. ~. W. barnes
For Railroad Commissioners. H. l.. Ryan,
5 O.. W. Kanavel, O. A. Ryker.
For Congressman, 9th district.
......W. A. Calderhead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

year 20 A. D. The prelude takes place In q
rocky country near Jerusalem. Mr.. Sotheru
Is cast for the role OF John the Baptist,
while Miss Marlowe will be seen as Salome.
the daughter OF Herodias.
Arthur W. Pinero's play. His House In
Order, is to be produced during the winter
both In Paris and in Copenhagen. Tho
playwright has sold the rights for the pro-
auction OF the play in Paris to the Theatre
Antoine, where 1t is to be presented by tho
famous stock company associated with that
playhouse. The drama is to be brought
out In Denmark by Madam Ide Nelson, the
actress. who Is known as the Danish Duse.
Among the productions that are being ar.
ranged for by Charles Frohman are Alfred
Sutro's "Mollentrave on Women" Lorrimer
and Potter's "Old Gorgon Graham" in
which William H. Crane 10 to appear after
his tour In She Stops TO Conquer" Tn.
der Mr.. Frohman's Nance Oldfeld,'
Good Hope and George Bernard Shaw's
Captain Brassbound's Conversion" are to
be produced by Miss Ellen Terry. In De-
cember he is to produce a new musical play,
THE Dairy Maids" and early in the spring
new productions are scheduled for Francis
Wilson and Otis Skinner.
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"Mrs. Temples Telegram"

The play at the Belasco week commence
Ing Monday. October 8. with Wednesday
and Saturday matinees. will be Mrs Tenn
pies Telegram" the work Of Frank Wyatt,
who has achieved success in number OF
other similar enterprises. 1t was produced
in Madison Square Theater, New York,
where 1t enjoyed a long run, and later 1t
was made welcome in Chicago. where 1t
prospered for several months In one Of the
better class theaters. The story deals
cleanly and refreshingly with an old theme
the jealousy Of young wife. The hus-
band in the story takes a ride in a Ferris
wheel, which gets out of order to the ex-
tent that passengers have to remain in
their seats all night. When in the morn
Ing the distracted man Is released he
hastens home and tells his wife OF the mis-
hap She is too wise to believe any such
fimsy story and SO he resorts to hction.
which seems more probable. According to
the old rule. one falsehood has to be fol-
lowed by another, until the resourceful nus
hand finds himself at his wits end, and
all sorts of complications arise An entire
neighborhood, including persons Of humble
degree are involved. The company in
Guides Harry Coaor and Sadie Martinot.
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being his first invasion of the comic opera
field The story has to deal with the many
adventures of Don Pasquale de Mosquito,
the Spanish governor OF a South American
settlement during the picturesque sixteenth
century This will be the first time in
many years that MIR. De Angels returns
to that old-time style Of comic opera char
acter which made him prime favorite
over twenty years ago. When Mr.. De An
CELLS has not been provided with sufficient
comedy in the lines given to him. he can
always be depended upon to entertain from
his own personal storehouse OF eccentric
dancing and comedy methods. Among the
favorites appearing in the support of the
star are Estelle Wentworth, Maude Leak
ley, Lillian Rhodes. Richie Ling and H.
yogel. The music for the entire produc-
ton was written by Julian Edwardes VINO
is responsible for the success OF Brian
Born" THE Jolly Musketeers" and Dolly
Warden" There are twenty-five big mu-
steal numbers in The Girl and the Gov
ernor." During the engagement at inc
Wednesday and Saturday.
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Why Everybody Likes Sand.


The love of sand is universal. felt by all.
and at all ages The child finds in 1t q
ready and plentiful material for giving
something OF definiteness to the world OF
his childish imagination; and when expert
be less pleasant and not expressible In sand,
he, neverless. as grown man, tacitly ad.
mlts the attraction OF the old-time medium
and spends his holidays upon 1t. No water
If 1t has a broad forefront of sand.
Probably so general and ingrained a love
is only to be accounted for as the result Of
sympathetic and unconscious barking
back to the feel of the life on the dry
sandy soils Of the east. upon which man
He can sit or lie with greater comfort and
ease-as he originally sat, without chair.
or lay. without couch-upon sand than
upon any other kind OF earth, and upon
sand he reverts readily. and without fear
Of convention, to primeval barefootedness.
Possibly even the charm OF the "sanded
fioor"-in the concrete to our forefathers.
the comfort and cosiness OF cherry inn par
lors and kitchens, warm with the rudy
heat of glowing logs. on snowy nights-may
also be due to vaguely assertive instinct.
In proof 1t may be readily concluded that
far distant man would not have been long
in finding out the advantages OF dry cave
as dwelling place: II would be found
natural and further easy expansion OF the
cave to meet growing demands for house
room, by scraping down OF roof and sides,
would result in a sanded floor. Litter OF
rude cave living and housekeeping could
be more easily swept out, with the leafy
bough or bunch of sedges acting as the
original broom, when mixed with sand
than without its aid. The savage family
which swept its cave out oftenest and most
would certainly be the healtht
asf and etron1eSf
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Coming Attractions.
New National Theater.

Beginning tomorrow night the New Ma
tional Theater will be tenanted for the first
time this season by a brand-new musical
production. which has never before been
seen on any stage 1t is the new comic
opera. The Girl and the Governor with
Jefferson De Angels, that ever-popu,ar
comedian, as the bright particular star. Mr..
De Angels evidently does not believe in
trial performances, for he is bringing the
big company to Washington before 1t has
ever appeared before any audience. thus as
surfing playgoers that the performance has
been we'll prepared for the ordeal of a
first night" The libretto of The Girl
and the Governor" was written by 3. M.
BIZ enner, a merchant Of Baltimore, this
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Academy of Music.

Daniel L. Harris latest comedy drama,
"A Rocky Road to Dublin will be at the
Academy all this week coherent. inter-
esting story with sane, well-written dia-
logue, and ably drawn character studies is
promised There is not an eviction, in
former cruel English landlord or English
soldier in the entire play. There Is an
Englishman, however, a cunning gambler,
who for a time succeeds in getting the hero
and the brother of his sweetheart into a
series of somewhat equtvocal positions. OF
course, the villain is COMPOUNDED in the last
act; the characters of the wrongfully sus-
pected young men are re-esta blished and
three sets of lovers prepare to journey to
church to get married.
Barney Gilmore, as the hero, Robert Da-
plays the harp and utters the wit that Is
characteristic of the young Irish gentle
man. A real Irish jaunting car, a genuine
harp and Irish bagpipes and realistic
Irish picnic are some of the attractive fea-
lures in "a Rocky Road to Dublin
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a favorable impression in the part of Lady
Frobisher in Alfred Sutro's play, THE
Walls of Jericho

Frobisher in Alfred Sutro's play, THE
Walls of Jericho"
Because of a disa greement in regard to
prices of admission to the theaters at which
he was to play, Arnold Daily has severed
his business relations with the Shuberts
The models for the eight scenic sets that
are to be used in the production of Marie
Corelli's play, "Barnabas," are pictures OF
scenes in Jerusalem at the time of the cru
cifxion.
Ada Rehan has decided not to return to
the stage this season. She Is now at her
cottage in Cumberland, on the shore of the
Irish sea, and plans to spend the winter in
London.
Leslie Allen, who appears in the support
of his daughter, Viola Allen, in her produc-
ton of "Cymbeline,' was a member of the
old National Theater stock company in
Washington in 1865.
Richard Mansfield's season begins in Chi
cago in "Pere Gynt' the latter part of this
month. Later in the season he is to add
modern French comedy to his repertoire
and also "Rhodion the Student"
E. S. Wizards impersonation Of Colonel
Newcome in Michael Morton's dramatiza-
ton of Thackeray,s novel, has been highly
praised by the critics. His company is de-,
clared to be an exceptionally strong one.
One of the chief incidents in Paul Gill
mores new play is a race between the var
sity crews of Yale and Harvard The play
had its premiere in Orange, N j., last week,
and gave promises of being one of the big
successes of the season.
Charles E. Richards, a well-known theat-
rical man, who acted as general assistant
manager of Luna Park here, will shortly be
in Washington acting manager for Mr..
Francis Wilson during his engagement in
1.-THE Mountain Climber"
Dwight E1mendorf, whose delightful
hours of travel have proven so enjoyable
throughout the country, will lecture at the
New National Theater five Monday after
Moons, beginning November II. The first
lecture will be devoted to Holland.
George Clarke, one of the original men,
bers of Augustin Days company, died
last Wednesday night at his country resi-
dence in Norwalk, Conn. His last public
appearance was last winter when he made
a tour of the New England states. He was
born June %. 1910, in Brooklyn, N Y, but
later removed to Richmond, Va, where he
studied for the stage.
John Bovello, the popular leader of the
Greater Washington Band which en-
joyed an engagement of seven weeks at
Luna Park, has decided to keep his band
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This evening Lieutenant Amers and his
British Hussar Band will give a concert at
the Columbia Theater. This is a musical
organization which stands high In England,
and has also made protracted tours OF Ger
many, and been received everywhere with
the utmost enthusiasm
Lieutenant An1ers Is a young officer of the
Northumberland Hussars, which Is often
referred to as one OF the most swagger
regiments In England.
The soloist with the band Is Miss Edith
Serpell, soprano The program follows:
Overture, William Tell" Rossini; ex-
cerpts from Verdrs operas, including III
Trovatore," La Traviata." 'fNabuco,"
'Rigoletto," and ''Un Ballo in Maschero:"
concert polka, The Two Devils" Solomon;
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novelty which consists Of a huge sus-
pended tablet. upon which a small ball Is
placed. The director Of the exhibition
moves among the audience and receives
whispered words for the ball to transcribe
upon the tablet. Nexa Aymar. singing
Coincidence. and THE Dain-Dears" have an
lar embellishments. Four scenes permit Of
special scenery and brilliant electrical eff
fects. Walter c. Kelly will offer new
docket of comic cases as THE Virginia
Judge" The four Nightons will introduce
foreign classic poses. Jessie" 1.-The won
der monkey will be seen and admired for
her really extraordinary intelligence.
Claude and Fannie Usher will play the
Over will indulge in eccentricities and the
motion pictures will show THE Tomboys."
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Fay Foster Company.

The attraction at the New Lyceum for
the. week commencing tomorrow matinee
viii be the Fay Foster Company. The
company includes in its membership many
graceful dancers who appear in two lively
travesties entitled "Do-all. or in Merry Old
England" and 1.-The Seaside HOTEL The
variety portion Of the bill is sustained by
the four Nelson Comiques in a comedy aero
batic act, Stanley and Scanlon, in mu-
steal act: Daisy Reiger. the Western Night
ingale; the Great Carroll, male soprano, and
the Mccall trio, singers, dancers and rope
shippers
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Columbia Theater.

Washington will have its second view OF
THE Clansman'' at the Columbia The
alter one week beginning tomorrow night.
The interest in 1.-The Clansman' Is due
partly to the great popularity of the novels.
THE Leopard's Spots" and THE Clans
man." on which it is based. and partly to
the violent controversy 1t has aroused.
Manager George H. Brennan will present
THE Clansman' here with the same scenic
and electrical effects that were SHOWN last
season.
The cast comprises forty principals and
sixty supernumeraries. Matinees Will pc
given on Thursday and Saturday.
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and Albert Chevalier Is described in the
Morning Telegraph by the catchline. Forty
Cities in Forty Days" During the six
weeks of their engagement In this country
600 miles.
George E. Gill. recently manager Of Luna
Park stated on the closing night that next
season the park will open May Is, after the
expenditure of over $4,000 in improve
ments. Among the many new features next
season there will be miniature theater
with vaudeville performances afternoon and
evening.
Cort and Kronberg, the managers of
Leoncavallo's American tour, have insured
the Italian composer against accident or
death for 100000. The policy went into
effect the day the composer left Milan for
Cherbourg, where he will take the steamer
for New York.
A particularly pretty bit of managerial
enterprise is the set Of picture postal cards
sent out of Madame Butterfly" depicting
scenes in that opera founded on the pathetic
story of the little oriental lady, her trust in
her American lover and her awakening from
her poor little romance.
Cosmo Hamilton is engaged on an Eng
lish version of the French play, lie True
du Bresilien," for Charles Frohman. He Is
also making an adapta ton In English OF the
Partisan success, Les Plumes du Geai,"
which is to be produced IN London and
New York by the same manager.
Henry B. Irving and his wife. Dorothea
Baird, who is the leading woman. were en-
Enthusiastically welcomed at their initial ap-
pearance in this country in New York on
Monday evening. The drama they selected
for their premiere was "Paola and Fran
cesca," Stephen Phillips version of Fran
cesco da Rimini."
Frances Starr has signed five-year con-
k,-no It'll TO- D41a md te 20 hao6
the author-manager's company in the play
on which Mr.. Belasco is at present engaged.
Miss Starr became a member of the Belasco
forces last year, when she was engaged
as leading woman in THE Music Master"
She had her initial training on the stage as
a member of Los Angeles stock company.
E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe are to
go to London for a ten weeks season in
Shakespearean plays when their season in
this country ends. They are also planning
for one-night appearances in Paris, Brus-
sells, Rome, Vienna and Berlin, and are to
close their season abroad by the perform
ance Of Hamlet at Elsfnore. in Denmark.
the scene of the Shakespearean- tragedy. -
John the Baptist or Johannes" as the
play is known in Germany, by Hermann
Sudermann, Is to be played here by E. H.
Sothern and Julia Marlowe. 1t is In five
acts and q prelude. The time u about the
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Playhouse Paragraphs.

David warfield is playing in 1.-The Music
Master in Boston.
Rehearsals of Clyde Fitch's new play
Truth are under way.
Bessie Clayton has been engaged for a
role in 1.-THE Belle of Mayfair
merly taken by Louise Rial in "Mizpah."
Marie Tempest's season under the direc-
ton of Percy Williams opens on Christmas
eve.
The scenes of Augustus Thomas new
four-act comedy, "Sister Mary" are laid
In Kentucky.
William Gillette and his company will be-
gin their season in "Clarice' the middle of
this month.
Dallas Wexford is appearing in the title
role of R. c. Carten's English farce. Mr..
Hopkinson.'
Fife Fay has made great hit as the
Chorus Girl in Will ]. Blocks production Of
1.-The Land of Nod
Maude Granger has been engaged for an
important role in the support of Lena Ash
wen in ''The Shufamite."
Evelyn Willard is to have the part of Maid
Marian in the forthcoming production of
robin Hood in London.
Lulu CHASER is to begin rehearsals next
week for 1.-The Beauty Shop" the new play
that has been written for her by Paul Pot
ter.
John Bulls Other Island" one of the
Shaw plays that was failure in this coun-
try. is being successfully revived in Lon
don.
Manager Ira j. LaMotte has resigned his
position with the Majestic Theater to ac-
cept the management Of an important road
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07

THE COMPOSER OF MADAM BUT
TERFLY."-GiacomoP uccini. the composer
of Madam Butterfly" the tragic Japanese
music setting of John Luther Long and
David Belascos little heart story, is an in
teresting personality. His style has been
rendered familiar to American theater-
goers through the many artistic perform
ances IN this country of his 'Tosca' and
La Boheme." A certain individuality Of
expression is readily detected in all the
works OF this modern Milanese master of
composition and all Of his various musical
schemes follow the post Wagner custom
of continuous melody with a general trend
towards the Impress nistic, as will be evil
dent in Madam Butterfly" when 1t has its
first American presentation at the Column
bia Theater on October 10. Some years ago
his opera "Manon Lescaut' was performed
in Philadelphia under the direction of Gus
tav II nrichs, but prior to the Spanish
American war none of his music had been
heard In either the opera or concert-rooms
of New York After that the production OF
La Boheme" and '"Tosca'' brought him
rapid fame among American theater -goers.
Puccini is of the fifth generation of his
name which has won place In musical his
tory. Father, grandfather, great-grand-
father and great great-grandfather are all
known in the musical annals Of Italy. At
the theatrical and musical exhibition held
in Vienna in 1892 there were performances
from Giacomo. the first of the name to
make mark In music. down to the present
Giacomo. Like his rivals. Mascagni and
Leoncavallo he enjoyed the instruction Of
PonchieAi. Before La Boheme'' he pro-
duced three operas, lie WILL" "Edga'
and "Manon Lescaut." Since then he has
produced ''Tosca" and, last of all, Madam
Butterfly" which produced two years
ago at La Scala in Milan. and last year in
London at the Covent Garden and in the
Hungarian capital Budapest, at the Royal
Grand Opera with Frau Eliza Szamosy in
the leading role. 1t was upon Puccinis
recommendation that Mr.. Savage engaged
Frau Eliza Szamosy as one Of the leading
Madam Butterfiys' of his American COM
pany. She created the title role of the
opera when it was produced under Puc-
cinis personal direction at Budapest and
the Italian composer declared her to be
ideal. She is one of the youngest prima
donnas in Europe, and achieved fame as a
AS child she was a phenomenon, and her
musical education was confined to the
piano. She played and sang for Carmen
sylvia, the queen poet of Roumania, who
was so pleased with her voice that she in
sisted on her vocal education Her Ameri-
can debut will be made the opening night
of the production Of the opera in Wash
ington.
OF FIGHTING FAMILY.-M'ss Ruth
Hart, who appears In THE Clansman' as
Nellie Graham, the girlish messenger of the
Ku Klux Khan, is said to be really men,
her of the South Carolina family pictured
in the play as a Graham. The real name
of the family is Macdonald, and they are
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MADAM Butterfly"

Monday night, October Is, Henry w.
Savage will present at the Columbia
Theater for the first time on any stage In
English the new japanese opera, Madam
Butterfly" which is the latest work of Puc-
cini, the noted Italian composer Of "Tosca"
and La Boheme." Eight performances of
the opera will be given during the weeks
engagement in Washington, and the exact
ing nature of the score necessitates three
complete casts Of principals, and conductors
The sale Of seats opens next Thursday, Oc
tober IL, and reservations accompanied by
remittances are now being filed at the box
office,
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intact during the. winter. He has been
booked to appear at O local playhouse for
several Sunday evening concerts during the
winter.
One Of Harry Bulger's latest stories con-
Germs a member Of Henry B. Irving's COM
pany, who was asked by the comedian how
he liked New York. II say" remarked the
Englishman, in response to the query, Il
think 1t is a beastly gallop."
The presentation OF RIP Van Wrinkle" by
Thomas Jefferson. the son Of Joseph Jener-
son. at Boston last week, marked the
eleven thousand nine hundred and sixtieth
performance Of the American classic by
member Of the Jefferson family.
Wright Huntington, who Is taking the
part formerly played by Wilson Lackaye In
1.-The Pit" has signed five-year contract
with his manager, William A Brady, who
is having a play written in which Mr. Hunt
ington is to be starred next season.
The stage version of Upton Sinclair's nov
ell. THE Jungle Is to have its initial pro-
duction in Trenton early in November:
There will be thirty persons in the cast, and
a realistic reproduction of scenes in Pack
ingtown will require large number OF
supes.
Tho Forthcop,ipp tour NJ Yvefte Gutlhert
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will support Miss Day as Charles Brandon.
Ogden Stevens appears in the role of Henry
the Eighth, the much-married monarch,
and Miss Lorle Palmer as Jane Boiling
brook, the ever-constant companion OF
Mary. The costumes for the historical fig
ures in the play are complete In every
detail The old furniture, tapestry, armor,
wall scenes books and accessories have all
been selected because of their special nit
ness Old-fashioned court usnces are in
troduced in the first act. Miss Day has
appeared this season in New York, Phil
adelphia, Boston, Baltimore and other
cities and has received high praise.
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suite, Looking Upward" Sousa: (0 by
the Light OF the Polar Star" (bl Under
the Southern Cross (c) Mars and Venus.
Intermission. Scenes from "Pagnacct.
Leoncavallo; song, "Good-by Tosti, Miss
SerpeM: "A Motor Ride Descriptive
Synopsis: Early morn; meet at Z; go for
ride: dog run over: collision: blacksrndths
for repairs; home again. SONGS and Dances
OF Scotland arranged by F. Godfrey.