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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-14

It's woman's plain duty to b
handsome as she can.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-14

A funny story gets more applause
than sersible talk.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-14

There's always room for few
more-at the bottom.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-05-14
Right in the Front q nix

With great line Of Spring and Summer goods Sp g Coh1
ing Slippers, Shoes Straw Hats Elegant line Laces and
Embroidery the things Summer Dress Goods Black
Goods speciality The creations millinery will easily sur
pass anything that has been shown store and this
means that our 1907 Hats have superior and but few
equals Our other lines complete and full of fresh goods
and as usual will find pr:ces just right Just think
New Drop Head Domestic Machine $780, New Defiance
Machine Drop Head, 20 years guarantee, $685. 3th car
making 1905 barrels of choice Tennessee Flour has just
arrived best patent $780, best half patent 81 co. fresh Grts
$l.75 sack
People Moseeys can't sell the goods price and
make profit What difference it make to you what peo
pie say as long you get the goods.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
Lyric Theatre.

While last weeks bill at the Lyric
theatre was a recOrd-breaker, the
bunch that Manager Donnellan has
framed up for the next seven days, to
entertain the crowds during conference
and the state fair, promises to eclipse
them.
Gilmore and Castle, two newcomers
in local vaudeville circles, are jolly
young fellows who it is claimed are
WOTld-beaters in dispensing the right
brand of dope" in black-face comedy
and topical songs. They will have sew
eral local gags" to explode on the
public
Miss Nellie Eltinge and company are
slated for a place in the heavy black
type" space, and will hand out a
smart rattle of racetrack junk in the
sparkling comedy, Picking a Win
ner."
Another strong feature of the bill is
the turn of the four Shades, an
nounced as high class entertainers"
and they must be good, judging from
the press reports which have preceded
them
Harry Tyler in a monologue hit;
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interest and the finish is said to be one
of the best to be found in one-act
plays.
Lew Hawkins, known as the Ches-
terrified of minstrelsy, is billed second,
and viii delight audiences as of old.
He is one of the most funny and pop
ular black face comedians.
Then there is Leona Thurber and her
pickaninnies. This act is one of the
really clever turns on the vaudeville
stage. There are two boys and two
girls among the pickaninnies, whose
dancing is said to be remarkably good.
Scott and Wilson are a couple of
acrobatic comedians whose work has
won kind and favorable mention wher-
ever they have appeared.
The Balzars are styled original up
tO-date acrobats and have just COM
pleted a successful professional tour of
Europe, where they are said to have
more than made good"
In Thomas Carey, a novelty banjo
list, the management claim to have an
artist who win perform on the banjo in
an entirely original and unique man.
ner.
The kinodrOme will fill its usual place
on the program. and the Orpheum or
chestra, under Mr.. Weihe, will render
popular numbers.
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through the minds OF admir1ng Watch-
ers. This was disDelled by a second
rapturous hug from the newly arrived
leading woman of the female COM
panion of the portly relative And while
the girl who had pleased all London by
her naivete and girlish daintiness
smiled and gurgled over the welcom-
ing pair the mystery was unraveled-
They were her American cousins Later
the relative told me the little story.
''She was more devoted to her father
than to any man on earth His name
was Billie Burke. Here is Ethel Burke.
When she went upon the stage she
thought to honor him as much as she
could by adopting for her sCIge name
his real one. Her life ambition is to
make the name Billie Burke nonorably
and worthily known. Every tina she
has won a triumph she has written
asking. DO you think papa would be
pleased@"
1t is early in the season, and the
story-tellers are fresh from their in
spirational vacations. Hence this sort
of thing is beginning to happen:
1t was the date of the first perform
ance of "a Yankee Tourist last sea
son, in the little town of ElyTia, o., the
birthplace of Miss Helen Hale, when
Wallace Irwin, the lyricist, and Alfred
C. RobyE, who composed the score of
"A Yankee Tourist" arrived in the one
night stand on a Pullman sleeping car.
They had travelled all night through
rain, lying under blankets that pos.
sessed the peculiar quality of cold flap =
Jacks. and the two men were anxious
to introduce something hot into the 2
innards. So they hustled to the neare 1t
hotel, seated themselves at the brea e.
fast table, hailed t1e sleepy waiter,
and demanded lamb chops and coffee.
Wouldn't you like to have a Htle
mustard?" asked-the waiter.
Loud unison chorus composed of Ir-
win and Robyn: mo"
In the course of a long hour the
waiter returned with the fodder.
IT did not order chickOry," said Mr..
Robyn, after slipping the cup
Il did not order sheep" said Mr.. r.
win, after tasting chop.
wouldn't you like to have a little
mustard?" asked the waiter.
mo" yelled both men.
Its very NICE" said the waiter.
at will take some Worcestershire
sauce" said Irwin. "to disguise the
sheep"
Questing the sauce, the waiter re-
NAMED ten minutes. He returned with
a lar of mustard I'VE got no Worces-
tershire," he said, apologetically, but
wouldn't you like to have a little mus
tard2'
Il think that scans" saidsIrwin. Re
peat it slowly"
"Wouldn't-you Ike-to have-a lit
tie mus-tard?"
why, that's good meter for musicT'
exclaimed Mr.. Robyn, and to prove his
statement he hummed a tune which
fitted the words.
They drove the waiter away, and.
with the mustard pot set in the tables
center as fount of inspiration, Mr..
Irwin began to lyricize and Mr.. Robyn
to compose on the tablecloth.
Suddenly Mr.. Irwin slammed his pen
Gil into the platter of sheep and said.
decidedly: Il absolutely refuse to write
verse about mustard" Then an in
SEPARATION hit him right in the middle of
the forehead.
why not change the word mustard
to sweetheart
''GreatP said Robyn, and their pen
ellis began TO scamper madly over the
cloth.
In half an hour they had written the
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as charmed bird stares at a serpent
that is about to swallow II. Looking
straight at me, she paused after one
poignant sentence long enough to
whisper. Gull cast your brigs on the
man in front
whose face was pouring flood of tears
she had set in motion"
X j.
There has been controversy concern
ing the authorship of Blanche Walsh S
play, The Straight Road" 1t was
written by Clyde Fitch especially for
Miss Walsh, but it has been suggested
in many quarters that Theodore Krem-
er had a hand in it. This same sug-
gestion has come up before in connec-
ton with some Of Mr.. Fitch's plays.
and, though it is not complimentary to
him, he has never before written d.
rectly on the subject
why discuss it, writes Mr. Fitch
in a personal letter. Il can't see that
it admits of discussion. The intimations
and direct statements that Theodore
Kremer has written one or any of my
plays, or cOliabOrated with me in any
way, are false and unfounded. The
Straight Road was written by me, as
were all the plays signed with my
name.
whenever I have coIlaboratad the
cOllabOratOr's name has appeared with
my own on the bill of the play. 1 i'm
agine that some friendly press agent is
having his little joke at Mr.. Kremer's
expense"
Joseph Sheehan, VINO was in New
York last week recruiting a grand ope-
"a company, reached Cleveland Frida 3
morning to direct the remainder Of he
rehearsals for Faust" Sheehan was
Joined in Albany by William Wolf, who
Will sing Mephisto.
AS the train was pulling out of AL
bany Wolf found Sheehan's state~oom
Joe" he said, as they shook hands
when l discovered you and got you a
job ten years ago l never thought you
would be hiring me-"
Until three years ago Wolf was a
member of the Savage companies. He
sang for a number of years in the old
Castle Square organization. In the
spring Of 1887 Savage needed a tenor
Wolf heard a performance of Pima
fore" in Philadelphia and singled out
Sheehan as a promising tenor. That
Friday Sheehan was given the tenor
score in "Cavelleria," with instructions
to be ready for a performance in Wash
ington Monday night. He had never
sung in grand opera and he cOnfesses
now to being badly frightened.
I went on at the Lafayette Square
theatre said Sheehan, land during the
opera had a scene with Wolf, whera ]
was supposed to give him his cue note
1 missed it about an octave. Wolf
found his way about somehow and we
got through the scene.
" Was I awfully bad, Billie?' I whis-
pered to him.
" You were rotten he told me out OF
the corner of his mouth.
Il was dressing in the Lafayette OF
the basement floor and 1 tainted dead
away when 1 got to the foot OF the
stairs"
Before returning to Cleveland Shee-
han bought a new home at New ROch-
ellie, just out of New York.
X x x
It is a pretty story, and true, this one
vouched for by portly relative who
went to the docks to welcome Billie
Burke to this country, writes the Matt
nee Girl. Miss Billie, who is to be Johr
DTeWs leading woman, embraced thu
relative so raptuTously that the vague
Iipremonition of her engagement to q
something or other magnate flashed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
Sis Hopkins Sayings.

A girl with a squint is often mistaken
for a fiirt.
Some men are so lazy they object to
living in a hilly country
Some men are even tempered by
being i'll tempered all the time.
People residing in glass houses
shouldn't stone the peaches within.
Ma says the more rings a woman
wears the less sense she seems to have
On account of the near proximity to
powder. women should not smoke cigar
cites.
1t is curious how a man will sit and
argue question that stands to rea.
SON"
Ma says man can't help his face
nor woman face her help, sometimes
If some women were charged for
more than ten words, their husbands
would be bankrupt
Ebert Hubbart Mudsock writes that
he is in New York running an elevator
in fiat house, and finds it as agree
able as working in an auto garbage
Rose Melville
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
"The Holy City.

THE Holy City" which will be pre-
sented at the Grand theatre all the
coming week, with Wednesday and
Saturday matinees. starting tonight,
was the first play IN the history of the
American stage TO win to the side of
the theatre priests and ministers of all
denominations, and thousands upon
thousands of lay people who, before
the advent of this heart-stirring play,
had condemned the playhouse; not only
have hundreds of prominent clergymen
recorded their praise of the fine influ-
ence of this sublime drama in writing.
but openly from their pulpfts have
urged the fullest public recognition of
THE Holy City" as a play Of uplifting
and ennobling theme. The scenes of
the play are laid in Rome, just before
4ts downfall, when vice and wanton
prodigality held full sway under the
despotic rule OF Nero. In contrast to
the luxury and excess of the Roman
court are the gentle modesty and sub
lime faith Of the little band of Chris
tians whose prosecution adds much to
the wonderful play. The rich splendoT
Of the Roman court is shown in mag
nificent scenery, costly raiment and
brilliant armOr and Jewels A fine
company will interpret the play. Miss
Luella Morey, who scored such a hit
last season, will still handle the diff
cult role of SaIome, the beautiful
daughter of King Herod. And this is
,the last season for Miss Morey on the
road, as In March she will leave for
New York to open in new piece be-
ing especially written for her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29

CLARA Morris is the only player I
ever knew whose acting affected me
while 1 was on the stage with her."
said Louis James recently. 'She is the
most moving player in the world. And
yet we say an actor must feel to make
others feel While Clara Morris Law
at my feet in Miss Moulton' crying in
a way that made me choke, For Gods
sake, Maurice, let me see my childrenp
was so moved I couldn't speak. The
wonderful. thrilling voice-the most
thrilling voice l ever heard-ceased.
The marvellous, mournful, eyes looked
up for an instant into mine, and she
whispered, Watts de matter, cuIl?' 1t
was as though some one had emptied
a barrel of ice water On me. Ny speech
came back.
"At another time she sat opposite
me seemingly searching my miserable
soul for its damned secrets, and I, over
come by her acting. was staring at her
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
SienkieWicZ Was Not Happy in
America.

Writing in the Theatre Magazine for
September, Mime. Tucholsky, with
whom Helena Modjeska studied Eng
Lsh when she first came to America.
contributes interesting "reminiscences
Of Sienkiewicz, the famous Polish nov
elist, who visited California in 1877.
Says she:
THE Polish colony in southern Cali
fornia had failed, and Nine Modjeska
had come to San Francisco to study
English with me, and to seek a. debut
on the American stage. Sienkiewicz
had also drifted north. The Promised
Land had rot yielded what they hoped
to find, so they journeyed to the city
OF the Golden Gate and demanded ad-
mittance. All the world heard of Mod
Jeska's welcome. but no one remembers
the young author who was then writ
ing short stories, contributing to a.
warsaw paper, and at work upon a.
play for Modjeska-the scene laid in
America. The locale may account for
the plays being neither translated nor
produced. as everything American
seemed utterly unsympathetic to him.
He diS!lked the country, was cynical of
our customs, manners Cor lack of
manners), and he was the one mem
Der of that remarkable foreign colony
who never acquired even the common
place phrases of English
Upon one occasion he sought aid
from text of English Self-Taught
and bowling low over my hand. gra-
ciously inquired, Good morningI How
is your heels? I possessed certain IA
ciitty in guessing at meanings but his
Ungrammatical concern for that par
ticular part of my anatomy baffled me.
He thereupOn produced the text and
pointed to the line, Good morning.
How is your health?' But how could
he know that each letter was not pro-
bounced? The sibilant was as near
as he could express our tongue-be-
tween-the-teeth digraph. In appear
ance young Sienkewicz was attractive.
and time has dealt kindly, for his pic
lures today are excellent likenesses of
the man I knew almost thirty years
ago. His one keen enjoyment was the
theatre, and he often sat with us in
the box placed at Modjeska's disposal
by the managers of the Baldwin thea
tre--John Mccullough and Barton Hill.
We were all tremendously interested in
handsome Charles Coghlan, then in the
heyday of success and giving brilliant
performances. His Hamlet had aroused
controversy. for he gave US an original
and really mad Prince of Denmark
nodJeska and / were enthusiastic. but
SienhewicZ refused to share our feel
inss. However, he showed certain in
terest, for, turning to Madame, he said
In Polish, Tell her l will make her a
picture of her ideal Hamlet The re-
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suit did bear resemblance to the orig
inal, and for that 1 kept it
'MOd1eska's triumph followed, and
the young eompatriot sent a detailed
account to the Warsaw paper Words
could not express the sensation of that
memorable night, yet Sienkiewicz again
searched the English Self-Taught, and,
according to his description, the crowd
in the foyer was heard to rapturously
exclaim, How niceP BY God, how
prettyP Today, in the zenith of sue
cess, SienkieWicZ finds America his
foster-mother country after ap For
tune deals strangely, and one wonders
whether he would have reached the
heights had he allowed us to truly
adopt him as we did Modjeska"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
Vaudeville at orpheum.

A list Of attractions that are second
to none is the promise Of the manage
ment at the Orpheum this week. As
headliner comes Julie Herne & Co. in
q playlet entitled Between Acts"
written by Miss Herne. who is a
daughter of Americas great. play
wright, James A. Herne. The play deals
with a vital question. The scene is
laid in the dressing room of a New
York theatre, and the'story is about a
young actress who is in love with
successful author. The plot is full of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
PROMISE OF PRESS AGENTS.
1.-THE Vanderbilt Cup"

Joseph Gates has added another pro-
Guction to his growing list of success
es. This time it is the much-discussed
automobile comedy-drama, 1.-THE Van
derbiit CUP" which will be presented
at the Salt Lake theatre next Monday
and the week of Sept 80. The prOduc-
ton is described as an enormous af-
fair. requiring three acts and ten
scenes. and comprising some new and
startling effects. It's drawing quail
ties are best expressed by stating that
1t had run Of eight months at the
Broadway theatre, New York, and a
three months run in Chicago, at the
- Colonial. 1t is said to be put on tour
with all the extravagant display which
Tarked it's metropolitan run. The cast
numbers sixty, and includes many IA
NOUS players. The music is catchy
and the ensemble of stunningly clad
automobile girls is promised to be a
great feature.
The story is built upon new lines
upon an automobile race. To be more
literal, it Is based upon the Wander
btlt cup race. an annual event at Min
cola, L. l.. where world-famous drivers
compete for the beautiful cup present
ed by w. K. Vanderbilt, jr.
The opening scene is laid in a quiet
village where pretty Dorothy Wilets
lives. The clatter of an automobile
brings Banting, a New York lawyer,
TO her door. to tell her that she is
named by her wealthy old uncle, Curt
Willets, as his heiress, and to accom-
pGny Banting back to New York She
goes, chaperOned by her strong minded
aunt, and escorted by the lawyer and
Dexter Joyce, an ardent admirer. Next
Is shown the rOtunda of the MajOrie
Wellington hotel, IN New York a IA
nous hotel exclusively for women,
where mere man is ignored, and save
the lone clerk, is neither employed nor
admitted. Here after many ridiculous
situations. Curt Willets, comes in
search of his niece.
Miss Clarinda LarkSpur, an adven-
turess who has unsuccessfully insti-
tuted breach of promise suit against
Willets, has infatuated "Gaspard, +"
Willets' French chauffeur. and in re-
venge tries to have him lose the race
for the Vanderbilt cup. Banting,
Joyce and Dorothy discover the plot in
time and set out to defeat it, which, of
course, they do, and the right car wins.
The big sensation is the auto race,
which takes place on the stage. Bar
ney Oldfield's daring was never so dis
played as here where he drives his
Green Dragon" The odor Of gasoline,
the honk honk of the horn, the chug-
ging of the massive machines, the rap
I'd sparkling Of powerful engines, the
outlandish dress of the automobiles.
and the furious speeding of the dare
devil drivers, are all in evidence TO
give the play it's needed atmosphere.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29

little Miss Dorothy in illustrated songs
and new moving pictures for the Lyric
scope are the other attractions.
A regular amateur night will be
started next Friday night by Manager
DOnnellan, and everyone desiring to
bask in the glare of the footlights and
peer into the mysteries behind the as
bestos curtain is invited to do his or
her worst
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-29
THIS WEEK
AT THE THEATRES

:: Salt Lake-AH week, matinees ::
p - Wednesday and Saturday. The :
= Vanderbilt Cup" :!
:: Orpheum-AH week, matinees =
- daily except Monday, vaudeville. :
% Grand-AIl week. matinees We'd =
% nesday and Saturday, "The Holy :.
- city" -
= LYRICAL week, matinee daily, =
= vaudeville. =
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-15
)0NEl DIVORCE | GRANTED
Mrs Amanda Willette Trumbley Got the Decree.

Only one divorce suit was heard in the superior court by Judge Sllas A. Robinson to-day. The petitioner was Amanda Mary Willette Trumblcy and the defendant, George Trumb'ey, and 1t was presented by Attorney Charles w. Bauby.
 The story of Mrs Trumbley was that she was married in Uncasvillc, New London county, on December IS, 1892, and two weeks after her husband Ill treated her and from that time until she left him a year ago last fall she had been crying. She said her husband was so often drunk that he hardly had time to get sober. She alleged infdelity, intemperance and cruelty and she asked for the custody of her two children, George age 13, and Joseph 10. She boards on South Main street and is employed by the Scovill Manufacturing com- pany
 After their marriage they went 10 live with his folks in Derby and from there they moved to Meridcn. One day Mrs Trumbley thought she would visit her sister, Rose Willctte, who boards on South Main street. So she came and stayed two weeks. On her return she was accompanied by her friend, Mrs Amanda Maud Towne, and they found Mrs Trumbley had been supplanted by a woman with two children. Trumbley made no attempt to hide the evidence of the other woman's presence and he did not object to his wife leaving then and there. But he did object to her taking away her horse and buggy and when she went to the barn to get them Trumbley sent one of his work men after her with whip and at his direction the man whipped her. Mrs Towne protested, but without avail. She told Trumbley he was nice man to strike woman and that if she were his wife he would not dare do 1t. George Trumbley," said Mrs Towne. .sshe Is still your wife Miss Willette burst into tears at the dra- matic recital by Mrs Towne of the pc titioners wrongs and i'll treatment. Miss Willette added to the testimony that frequently she saw Trumbley beat his wife and kick her and once she saw him threaten her with a hat Bchet.
 Mrs Emma Blair testified she knew the Trumbleys when they lived m Meriden and that she helped take care Of their last child when he was born, and for her assistance it would have died for lack of professional care. Judge Robinson asked her why she did not inform the health authorities of this and she said she did not wish to make matters worse for Mrs Iruln- hley. Witness believed Tr'imblcy IS now in Canada. His occupation 's wood contractor. Both n divorce and the custody ol the children were allowed.
 The divorce of Mrs Mary l. Doug. las against James Douglas. who was fireman at the Burton street engine house went over to next week.