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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-09

county convicts on the roads. A CON-
petent guard has been employed and
placed in charge of the men. This
move is likely to bring results OF a
satisfactory nature. If it is shown
that the roads can be improye1 with
convict labor the same will be true
with free labor, and the fact nat we
need roads worse than almo Il any
thing else, will likely start 9 move
ment that will result in in proved
conditions in Marshall county
Estimators are still figuring "a the
visible supply of cotton as well as
estimating the crop for this year. The
best that any of them get is twelve
million bales for the present crop.
Now if they are anything like cor
rect, the crop is worth fourteen OIL
fifteen cents whether the farmer is
able to get that for it or not. The
world next year will need in exces:
of fourteen millions bales to supply
the normal demand and If the crop
falls two million short of that amount
it is plainly to be seen that the price
should be pretty high. 1t is to bt
hoped that our people will continue
to push the education of the farmers
of the farmers as to the handling oi
this great crop, putting into execu
ton a system whereby it is all no
dumped upon the market in few
weeks. Our people are becoming in
terested in thi subject and profitable
developments are promised soon.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-09
THE BUSIEST STORE IN

betterment of the conditions surround
ing the agricultural people and upon
them depends the greatness of our
state. The warehouse campign is a
move that deserves the commenda-
tion and hearty approval OF every
nan, woman and child in the state.
If our great money crop, cotton, can
be handled in a sensible manner and
kept out of the hands of spectators,
it will mean many millions of dollars
to Mississippi every season. A large
number of these warehouses are now
being built for the crop of this fall
and it Is safe to assume that more
will be put up next year. 1t IS a
practicable plant that means a grea1
deal to those engaged in agricultural
puruits.
Have you ever seriously consider
them from going to other states =
start life when they attain a major
! ty. We need them here to assist u
the work of developing our incompar
able resources. Mississippi offer
more to the young man or young lad1
than any other state in the Union
and the idea is to impress this fac
upon their minds. This is a worl
that should enlist the hearty co-opera
tion of every loyal citizen.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-09

The Farmers Union is a "Greater
organization in every
sense of the word. 1t stands for the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-09

the newspaper men. They are having
their inning now.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-09
Equal Y alues
at Lower Prices.
GS
FOR GREATER MISSISSIPPI

Devoted Commercial Ag icul urai
Develonment of the the State.
of Interest
By H. L BLAKESLEE, Jackson. Miss
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-09

The Marshall county board of su-
pervisors at their meeting last month
contracted for mules, wagon, plows
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
COMING Attractions

BELASCO-The Belasco company's
Offering for this week will be Willie
Golfers comedy, 1.-THE Dictator" 1t is
Richard Harding Davis play, which
is sufficient warrant for an ample sup
ply of stirring scenes intermixed with
lots of good, wholesome up-to-date fun.
Lewis S. Stone will have the role
originally played by Willie Collier;
Richard Vivian will be the wireless
telegraph operator and George Bar
mum will play the part of the valet.
A feature of the performance of THE
Dictator" will be wireless telegraph
outfit in working order on the stage
and forming one of the important
scenes in the play.
MASON-James ONeil will produce
for the second time on any stage his
new Biblical play "The Voice of the
Mighty" at the Mason opera house on
Monday and Tuesday evenings only.
This new four-act play of Mr.. ONeils S
was produced for one night some weeks
ago In Minneapolis and scored an i'm
mediate success. The author has based
the play upon the life and movements
of John the Baptist, and has shown a
John OF character and strength, un-
moved and unshaken by persecution or
temptation. The supporting cast in
cludes number of competent and tai
ented people and the production has
been described as being one of the most
sensational and spectacular that money
and modern stagecraft can effect. Mr..
O'Neil will be seen in Monte Cristo'
at the Mason opera house for two per-
formances only next Wednesday and
Thursday evenings.
BURBANK-"Dorothy Vernon OF
Haddon Hail." play that Is decidedly
popular with Los Angeles patrons, has
been selected as the Offering of the
Burbank theater stock company for
the week beginning this afternoon
Miss Mary Van Buren will be seen as
Dorothy, the role originally assumed
by Bertha Galland at the first pro-
duction In New York city in 1908 The
cast will include William Desmond,
Maude Gilbert, Henry stockbridge,
John Burton, Harry Mestayer, Rupert
Drumm. Elsie Esmond, Arthur Rut-
ledge. Robert Morris, Robert Homans,
Willie Marks. Carol Marshall Carrie
Clarke Warde and Gerald Hareourt.
Special scenery has been arranged and
large auxiliary force has been en-
gagged.
ORPHEUM--This week the Orpheun,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
Writing Methods of Piaywrighfs

DLAY writing affects various play
- wrights differently. When the
i great Honore de Balzac wrote
he robed himself in a monks robe with
a cowl and attended by countless cups
of coffee he shaved at his desk all
through the night. When Charles
Dickens essayed the drama as vehicle
of his genius he did as he did when ne
wrote novels. he worked at a desk the
pen points upon which were arranged
symmetrically. He could not work ex-
cent upon a desk upon which all was
neatness and order. Dion Boucicault
wrote as David Belasco writes TO-DAY,
upon the backs of letters. envelopes
playbills, any surface that came 10
hand. Belasco makes notes upon MS
cuffs and his shirt fronts, ana once
when he sent a shirt to the Laundry
without looking at the inscriptions
,non the cuffs and the bosom, two acts
had been lost in the laundry.
bronson Howard's writing is done III
an ordinary fashion. This also Is the
case with Henry Arthur Jones, whose
mind while 1t retains some of the clerl-
cal leanings 1t secured in his youth mas
room also for an excessive sense OF
neatness totally unlike that OF that Ola
churchman, Dean Swift.
Plays have been written under rev
circumstances as queer as those Whlch
in South Africa surrounded the writ
ing of the plays of Charles E. Werner.
This writer, actor and soldier of for
tune wrote some of his plays while
camping on the veldt in South Africa.
Although De Musset, author OF great
French prose, once had SO little money
that he was obliged for his support to
write a song for Is francs, out of which
the publisher afterward realized 100000
francs, the rewards of dramatic authorp
ship are not all small. Henry M. Bios
som has made himself rich with Mile.
Modiste." 1.-The Red Mill" and 1.-The
Yankee Consul" Still he knows
enough about the insurance business to
90 hack into it with his father in ST.
Louis and make a good living If the
public ever turns against him and re-
fuses to accept any more of his work.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

strew their arms and shoulders from
coming off on their coats. Many a mad
stage embrace has given rise to an
other sort of madness as the lovers
have drawn apart and the marks of the
ladys whitewashed arms still appear
upon the gentlemanly hero's broadcloth
shoulders. When Henry Jewett was
supporting Virginia Harmed he used
to brush any amount of rice powder
from his shoulders after the crucial
act. All leading men have to be care
full of the powder shower, and they
have other trials to go through while
they are making love. One of the
greatest of these other trials is the con-
stant danger they are in of destroying
or injuring the garments worn by the
leading woman or the star actress.
Blanche Walsh had several experiences
of torn draperies with Charles Dalton
! in "Salammbo" and other actresses that
wear ornate and elaborate gowns know
that many stitch hides in their folds
the reminder of the ungainlineSs of
some actor. Few actors who know
enough about their art to be intrusted
with lovers roles know so little about
department that they walk on ball
gowns, but some of them have accom-
| plished this faux pas. Usually it is
the costume play that causes the ac-
tress to bemoan the lot of her finery.
Those actors whose names first come
to mind when one is thinking of the
best known players are in most cases
those actors with whom love making
is a strong point. E. H. Sothern, James
X. Hackett, Robert Edeson, Orrin
johnson, Otis Skinner and the rest of
the romantic actors all are love maxi
ers first of all, for romantic plays are
love plays.
Mansfield makes love well, but too
often with a touch of condescension
that hardly would attract a proud girl.
Wilton Lackaye makes love in a
straightforward, business like fashion
that makes friends for him not only
among the more sensible women but
among those men in the audience that
have no patience with fuss and frills.
The Italian and the French actors are
love makers par excellence. The lead
ing man that Eleanora Duse brought
to this country a few years ago and
who played in Francesca di Rimini'
could evidently make successful love
to steam roller, so impassioned was
he.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

from the Chateau DIFF by a piece of
dusty green carpet, under which stage
hands moved energetically in their
strenuous but scarcely lifelike attempt
to impersonate waves. This year in a
production of "Brewster's Millions
Frederick Thompson, who was the
directing genius of the stage at the
New York Ilippodrdme, presents a rep
resentation of a storm at sea that is
the most wonderful thing in its way
that has ever been achieved upon the
stage.
Between the two extremes there lie
many interesting bits of nautical his
tory as it is applied to the stage, for
the waves of the sea ever have beaten
through the drama and water has
played such a conspicuous part in the
affairs of the theater that one class of
plays is called tank dramas in honor
of the water employed in their exploit
tation.
In this department, "A Dark Secret
was easily first This stirring old
thriller enlisted the services of several
champion oarsmen of the world. 1t
was produced at a time that the public
took more interest in single SOULS than
in crew contests, and it enjoyed a long
and prosperous career. It used real
water.
When Steve Brodie, who jumped on
to the stage from the Brooklyn bridge
went starring, his vehicle was named
The BoWery After Dark" In il
Brodie jumped on to a mattress. A
stage hand who splashed a board with
a pail OF water supplied the realism.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

into the bank accounts of the foolers.
1t is surprising to learn the number of
persons who within one week will
crowd into a theater to see magician
take white rabbits from a silk hat or
to hear a lady mind reader tell the
number of the watch in the pocket of
the fat gentleman in the aisle.
Good magicians get long engage
ments at fat salaries, while poor ma
gicians starve to death. There seems
also to be fine middle ground for him
who is no world beater, but who is a
little too good for the supper show,
According to the most reliable figures
obtainable, a pretty good magician
with a fairly complete box of tricks
and no bad habits to keep him out of
the bill may make about as much
money, taking the year as a whole, as
capable motorman on street car
OF course there is more variety in the
life and he has the fascinating priv
ilege of doing his tricks before plenty
of people. Still, when one comes to
think of it, so has the motorman.
Europe has sent many magicians to
the United States, but the home grown
American magician is just as mysteri-
Gus as his foreign rival.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

they? All persons do not think alike,
and after all, there is no absolute stand
ard in judging a drama or an actor
However, The Herald's critic tells me
that his view-and it was that Mllls
was none too good-was shared by
Louis Nethersole, who presumably re-
flected his sisters ideas, and who
walked up and down the foyer cussing
the unfortunate Mills the opening night.
Mr.. Nethersole and the critic afore-
said exchanged opinions, as friends OF
years standing will, and agreed per-
! fectly that Mills was obseSsed by his
term in London and that he wouldn't
do. l don't know as that will be any
satisfaction to Mr.. Stevens, but here
it is if he wants it. Steve" by the
way, has the reputation of being so
gentle hearted a chap that he hates to
| say anything bad of a player if he can
help it. | am not sure that this is true,
but | hope so; a gentle hearted critic
is all too rare, and certainly his prede-
cessor was about as far the other way
as a human being could be and hold
job 1t was awful-and foolish. Criti-
cism doesn't necessarily mean roasting
though some tyros think so.
Sparks Berry tells me that he will
follow the Ferris company's season at
the Auditorium with one of light opera
Just what 1 have urged since the
Auditorium became fact. Wonder
who got that through Berry's head?
Some one is going to take that Peo-
pies theater some day and put small
but good musical stock company in
there, give two shows a day, with
vaudeville between the acts. and make
money. Wonder who will be first to see
the gold mine?
This town needs a good brass band
led by a good man, such as Innes or
Weber or someone of that standing.
There would be lots of money in it,
Here will come the Shriners, and not a
high-class band in town to welcome
them, or care for them while here. 1t
ought to be looked into.
md maybe Fischer will get the
Hotchkiss yet. Well, he'll be the first
who could bring it's owner to time. 1
hope he succeeds, but have me doubts.
Wait till Jack lockwood brings back
his new leading woman. No, l don't
know who she is, but 1 have an idea
She will be worth while; of that I am
certain.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
Dramatic Notes

Mrs. Anne Hogan Rice, the creator
of Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
and "Lovey Mary has drawn nearly
stories and the play founded upon
them. Liebler & Co., who own the
piece expect to continue to pay Mrs
Rice a yearly fortune in royalties for
a long time, as the play increases in
popularity and drawing power.
There is possibility that II. V. Es-
monds play Kathleen" in which Ethel
Barrymore was to have been seen in
November, but which was quietly
shelVed, will see the light of day later
in the season. Under the name of the
"OGrindies," the piece has been pre-
sented in London, where it has had
some success.
The Stolen Story" the newspaper
play, ended its engagement tour In
Columbus last week. The play won
favorable notice by its fidelity to news
paper life in its scenes, but is said not
to have proved attractive to the public
at large unfamiliar with such scenes
and episodes.
Ralph c. Hertz. to whom Lulu Glaser
is soon to be married, is an English
man. and came over TO this country in
the support of Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
lie was in the Dolly Dollars" company
last season, and is the leading comedian
with the Tourists" this year.
Five important successes of the New
York season-"The Great Divide" THE
Three of Us" The Love Route" THE
Girl of the Golden West" and The New
York Idea'-are all by American dra-
matists.
"The other Girl" by Augustus
Thomas, is TO so ON tour with Thomas
Ross In the role of Kid Garvan, which
was originally played by Lionel Barry
more,
The proposition to star Viola Allen
and II. b. Irving Jointly has been
given up.
Henry r. DiXey has written Shake
spearean burlesque. which he will try
next summer in Chicago.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

offers a program that for variety and
quality fully equals the all-star bill
presented last week. Six acts from
the road show are held over. Emilia
Rose offers a novelty acrobatic act
which is said to make even the dead
ones sit up and take notice. May
Edouin, daughter of Californias fa-
vorite Alice Atherton. makes her first
appearance here with Fred Edwards
in a sketch entitled "a Bachelors
Dream" The road show holdovers are
"Menetekel,'' the Rain Dears, Ed f.
Reynard, Walter c. Kelly, Jessie and
Work and Over.
GRAND-Will H. Vests Old Time
| minstrels are the bill for the week
commencing with the matinee today
| 1t lacks just one day of being a year
| since Vests Jubilee minstrels opened
their last engagement at the Grand
opera house. On that occasion they
gave a good and enjoyable entertain
ment, which was well patronized by
/ lovers of blackface mirth. This year
they are featuring George S. Van and
Dick Mitchell, comedians, and Wright
and Graham, soloistS.
PEOPLES-The bill for this week
for the Peoples theater is "The Gam
bler's Sweetheart" a melodrama con-
tanning love story of real life, possible
situations and thrilling tableaux. The
action of the play is in the sunny south
at the home of Gov. Hawthorne, a
wealthy planter, and turns upon the
close resemblance of twin sisters. one
of whom is engaged to the governor and
the other married to the villain. The
company is headed by Miss Leota How
ard, with an excellent support, Paris
ian wardrobe and a scenic investiture
superior to anything yet seen at the
Peoples. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
| FISCHER'S-The musical travesty of
| Olga Nethersole's famous play of
"Sapho," which was the bill at Fisch-
er's last week. proved an amusing We
hicle for the display of the abilities of
the company. The new bill on Monday
night will be another farce comedy
from the pen of Fred L. Griffiths en-
titled "Dooley's Vacation" The plot
has an owner of a nice home going
away and sending his butler off on a
vacation, only to return home uneX-
pectedly and find that the butler has
rented the house to another party for
the season. This is the resume of the
plot. All the favorites will be in the
| cast.
| AUDITORIUM.-"T Holy City"
will run another week at the Auditori-
um 1.-THE Cowboy and The Lady" be-
ing postponed accordingly.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
Public Pays to Be Fooled
IYBODY who can fool all of
people some of the time or some
nf tho nonnln oil tho Tina 90 N

n people some of the time or some
of the people all the time can
make plenty of money on the stage at
the present moment. To any one who
possesses the ability to fool all of the
people all of the time fortune will
come easily.
p. II. Barnum, called by most experts
the greatest Snowman that ever lived,
furnished a predigested quotation for
thousands and thousands of easy
thinkers when he remarked that the
American people like to be humbugged.
He said just exactly what he would say
If he We're alive today and saw throngs
of people paying all sorts of prices to
be mystifed and bewildered and fooled,
like the man in Mr.. Kipling's poem, to
the top of their bent.
Now the business of fooling the peo-
pie today is turning plenty of money
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
Good Love Makers Scarce

NYBODY who can put up a con-
II vincing article of love making on
the stage can get a good salary.
There are stage lovers and stage lovers,
and theatrical history fails to record
the name of one who really could make
stage love and who had to hunt long
for engagements
When Robert Edeson, now starring
in "Strongheart," quit selling tickets in
the box office of theater In Brooklyn
and became an actor one of his strong
est suits was his love making. He
made love so well that he may be said
to have hugged and kissed himself into
stardom. Some of his love scenes on
the stage have been played with Ellen
Berg, his clever wife, who acted in
German before she did In English.
1t is easier for a star to make love
than 1t is for a leading man. The ex-
planation is simple. The star, If he lie
a man, takes the center of the stage by
right and goes right ahead with his
love making. knowing that his leading
woman will keep out of his focus and
will subordinate her position to his.
Now when leading man makes love
he has to think much about giving Of
Tense to the high spirited star actress
by getting too close to the center OF the
stage himself and by detracting from
the attention that should be hers. So
most of the feminine stars that make
love making a speciality in the attrac-
tions they offer make the love them
selves. BY taking the aggressive they
are able to force attention from the
audience and to keep the leading man
in his subordinate place. Olga Neither
sole, whose stage kiss became famous
In "sapho," Mrs. Carter-Payne, Blanche
Walsh and emotional actresses Of that
type do the love making themselves
The leading men have hard time Of
1t trying to prevent the rice powder
with which actresses plentifully be-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13

he represented the ocean out of which
he rose after his marvellous escape
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
The Weeks Bills

Haddon Hall"
ORPHEUM-Vaudevi
GRAND-west's Minstrels.
FISCHER Buresque.
PEOPLES--"Tho Gamblers Sweet
heart"
CHUTEs-outdoor amusements,
TT is amusing to one versed in things
dramatic to watch the petty jeal-
ousies and stockings for place and
position among theatrical people, and
then to see how fate in it's inexorable
way, puts all man-made schemes and
plans to fault.
one is reminded of this by episodes at
two theaters last week. At the Mason
Miss Isabel Irving headed a clever little
company I'm a bright farce, but MISS
Irving was by no means the star
though her name was featured ana ner
pictures went up" Jessie lett was
far and away her superior, and every
one in town who wrote about the skit
had to admit 1t. And yet in the cast
was Marie Wainwright, who has done
more In her day than either OF them,
who scarcely drew casual attention.
Then, again, the leading man OF the
same company may have drawn the
salary ana Claimed lne pIeStiBS Va tH"t
position, but was he the leading man
in fact? Hardly. Ernest Mainwariilg
was: he far outshone the other. Yet he
couldn't be featured nor draw the
larger salary, just because he didht I
have the name of being leading man..
1t Is one of the odd features or the
stage; n person isn't placed or paid Tor
what he or she may really do. but ac-
cordingly to arbitrary arrangement
made by the powers that be, and often
the result of personal pull or strong
backing.
And vaudeville offers no exception 10
this rule Take the Orpheum road
show. Who made the hit in that? A
man who did a new monologue. Where
does he come numerically on the blll!
Perilously near the last. Yet he drew
the real applause and got the genuine
appreciation. though he merely did MS
little stunt lin one" while the stage was
setting for a big" act to follow.
The day has hardly come, after the
commercialization of the stage, Wheh u
player can appear wholly on ms nerlss
and succeed financially and blll-poaru-
edly. according to his powers. IL is 100
much n case of drag" even yet. But
the public is becoming wiser every year.
and perhaps some day 1T Will learn:
The hits made by Rose Stahl ana
Frances Starr in New York-and the
latter was run almost off the stage IN
San Francisco, remember, though not
for bad acting-encourage one to believe
that things are progressing, even along
this line
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
Staging the Sea Difficult Work

XX TIEN James O'Neil began to
wv play Monte Cristo" way back
in the dim days of antiquity