The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-11-02

be benefited by the system.
To Dine Sir Thomas.
The Brooklyn Yacht Club will give
dinner to Sir Thomas Upton tomor-
row evening at Delmonices. There
will be $50 guests present. among
whom will be Sir Percy Sanderson,
the British Consul; Mayor Mcclellan;
President Tucker o. the jamestown
Exposition, and the commodores of
every yacht club within a radius of
twenty-five miles of the metropolis.
Distinguished Visitor.
Among the distinguished visitors
now in this city is Thomas P. O'Con-
ner, the Irish member of Parliament.
He made speech at Carnegie Hall
Sunday night, advocating home rule
for the Emerald Isle. Twenty thous-
and dollars was subscribed to the
cause as a result of his eloquence.
Photograph in Politics.
A unique feature of the guberna-
torial campaign in this city is the
prominent part thai the photograph.
is playing in it. 7ammany Hall is
sending out its speakers in automo-
biles accompanied by graphophones
that between speeches give forth vo-
cal and orchestral music. The Hughes
faction will employ twenty-five phono-
graphs to reproduce addresses made
not by the Republican candidate him
self, but by some ot his supporters.
Each machine will I've mounted on a
wagon and at the conclusion of each
discourse, brass band will play pop
ular airs. AS all this is done to in
fuence voters on the East side, there
of the city for the next fortnight.
The Scotch Presbyterian Church of
this city is this week celebrating its
150th anniversary. When it was es-
tablished in 1856 its congregation
worshipped in a little wooden struc-
ture twenty by twenty-five feet on
Cedar street between Broadway and
Nassau street. They now occupy an
edifce of stone at Central Park West
and SO tn street worth at least half a
million.
Among the Play Houses.
Such glowing accounts of the beau
ty of Puccinis Madam Butterfly
have been coming over from Europe
for the last two years that American
music lovers can scarcely restrain
their eagerness to hear it. New York
ers will have that opportunity next
month when Harry w. Savage's Eng
lish Opera Compan' will present it
at the Garden Theater with gor-
geousness of setting that will make
if a delight to the eve as well as the
ear. Washington, where the premiere
was given. is ecstatic over the pro-
duction both from vocal and scenic
point of view. An idea of the eXquis-
tie stage pictures it will present may
be obtained from a set of souvenir
postal cards representing scenes from
this idyllis japanese opera now on
sale here.
The Shuberts have acquired anoth-
er theatre here, namely the Lincoln
Square, which will open on the goth
ance with "The Love Route" by
Edward Peple, who wrote THE Prince
Chan" one of the pronounced success
es of last season.
The Berkley Lyceum has undergone
thorough transfo nation and Will
henceforth be konw7 as the Berkley
Theatre. 1t will open tonight with
revised edition of "Mazelle Cham
pagne," in which play May Yhoe has
the chief role and one act sketch
entitled 1.-The Day Before" which will
introduce Ethel Hunt to New York
playgoers.
ALLEN Dale" who is the most caus-
tic of Gotham's dramatic critics is
unstinted in his praise of THE Three
of Us" written by a woman, now play
ing at the Madison Square Theatre.
| II is so rarely that a production es-
canes his ridicuIe that it is worthy
of note when he has naught but COM
: mendation both for play and It's
. cast. Charlotte Nilsson has made
tremendous hit as the heroine.
The novels that excite the most dis
cussion do not necessarily make good
plays. This is the case with The
House of Mirth," which was present
ed this week at the Savoy Theatre,
| and is admitted by every one to be a
dismal failure although the dramatiza-
ton was made by Clyde Fitch, who is
conceded to be specially at home in
dramas dealing with society"
After several seasons of misfit plays
Nat Goodwin has found in THE Gen