Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-11

works either now in progress or defin-
itely arranged for, and describes them
Mr.. Cochrane shows that In this vast
| total of undertakings the American
engineer demonstrates his supremacy
The article is illustrated with twenty
two selected photographs.
MIR, Cochrane's other article, prepared
on assignment for the Van Norden
Magazine and printed in the same issue
because of it's timeliness, is The Cost
OF Building Railroads.. After getting
his facts from railway contractors and
all other sources, Mr.. Cochrane was In
structed to prepare the article without
regard to what he thought was the
policy of the publication; he gives the
costs per mile of rails, ties, ballastlns,
| and for various classes of roadbed con-
struction; so that any reader may pc
able to make rough calculation, ana
come reasonably near true laea Oh the
value of a railroads track property
In an interesting article on Senators
IaFollette and Beveridge in the Lyceum-
lite and Talent for July, Willard French
| comments as follows on the tempting or
fers made to our public men to entice
them onto the lyceum platform:
| The public platform-in the sense OF the
| summer Chautauqua-for profit, or Ior
purposes of propagation, has been wieiu-
| ing a strong influence over some OF the
United States senators. If there Is no re-
treat in the temptations 1t offers. 1t Will
shortly come to pass that the real work
of the senators will begin when the session
| closes :
Tillman and LaFollette have been hard
at 1t for some time. Dubois look MS
burden there when forced retirement from
the senate deprived him of the oppor-
tunitv of unloading more upon the coun-
try through the Congressional Record.
Beveridge has been much sought after In
the same field but has been kept too busy
by Bryan and the Reader this summer TO
reap the benefit. And quite a few more
are in line.
I,aFollette made $4,000 lecturing last
summer-and short summer 1t was, TOO,
when the senate did not adjourn I'LL near
July He expects to double 1t this sum-
mer. in spite of calls to Wisconsin. Till
man brought back record of something
like twenty thousand and started out TO
double that One of the largest man
ayers in the country asked me, for MIN,
to offer Beveridge $4,000 for one month.
That is the way the temptation sparkles.
The first week in September A. G. NC
Clurg e. Co. of Chicago expect to have
ready an able and important work, In
three volumes on the strategic history of
the Santiago campaign, by Col. III. II.
Sargent. u. S. A. This is to be an ex-
haustive treatise on the conduct of that
decisive event. from the standpoint OF a
skilled observer, whose authority on such
matters Is accepted by the military
world. The author will be recalled as the
writer of two distinctly valuable WORKS IN
the same field published some years ago
NAPOLEON Bonaparte's First Campaign"
and ..The Campaign of Marengo"-which
contributed so much to an understanding
of the scientific side of modern warfare
The exact title of the work will be "The
Campaign of Santiago de Cuba, ana II
will have a number of maps, making plain
the operations about Santiago from the
beginning to its conclusion
In the Theatre magazine for August
Archie Bell points out what woman mas
done for the stage. He says:
"Woman has done more for the theater
than anv other single force. The theater
has done more for woman than any otner
institution.
"These are broad statements; but
glance at the facts in the case Will prove
them sound. Womankind rejoices in the
advances that her sex has made IN poll
tics. Apparently she forgets that FOUR
centuries ago woman had no connectioh
with the >theater, on the stage or in the
audience; today after a short period, as
time moves, she is the predominant rae
tor in the playhouse, and without. ner
the institution would suddenly crumbie
to decay.
"Woman found the theater house for
coarse testing and rendezvous 1or men
who today go to the barroom for SINH
lar purpose. She lifted it to it's rightful
place and established or re-established
acting as an art beside painting, sculp-
ture and poesy She cleansed ana purgeu
it of it's filth, and unwilling to let 1t go
its own way, thereafter she cast her own
fortune with it and became the chief fac
tor in it's evolution.
at is but little time since Shakes
peare lived and wrote his immortal
dramas, yet the bard never saw one OF
his female characters enacted by wo-
man. The Portals, Juliets, Desdemonas
and Ophelias of his time were boys-some
of them 40 years of age-and one jolly
old chronicler tells us that real kings
were sometimes kept waiting for the per-
Torrance to begin because the stage
queens were delayed in shaving. Snakes
peare wrote for an audience OF men,
hence the plausibility of the contention
that Shylock and Hamlet were conceived
and first executed as characters of broad
comedy, quite bereft of all the philosoph-
ical and psychological grandeur with
which time has encompassed them.
1.-THE role of Juliet, for instance, is full
of coarse retorts and vulgarities that
might have been nlBnly uiVertiHS " tho
wine-fushed crowd that heard her (himA
talking from the balcony. Woman be-
came Juliet and the world saw reflected
in her character all the beautiful and sa-
cred traits of feminine grace and mod
esty. This evolution of the italian maid
en- is fairly typical of what has resulted
from the appearance of woman on the
stage and her keeher perceptions at work
in the audience.
There has been a full compensation
for her mission, however, and II she has
raised the status of the playhouse to its
present high plane, she has derived equal
benefit for her labors. Today the author
Cf he chance to be a mani thinks first
of the woman in his audience and aims
to please her. His second thought is to
the female characters in his play. The
producing manager and the house mana
ger think of the women. If the play suits
the woman and If the actors please her
it is a success. The men will go because
she is there or to act as her escort.
ION the stage the question of 'women's
rights is passe and seldom mentioned,
It is generally conceded that she has at
tanned a full sway and crusade for
mems rights in the plays of the, day
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