The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-17
Wall Street Looks
 Askance at RooseUeH.

ly. But really Mrs. Astor is getting old: we are told that she hasn't given a ball this season and thaA her health is very bad. Mrs Astor has given lavish entertainments year after year. until 1t became tradition that whoever was invited to Mrs. Astor's affairs was henceforth one of the elect.
 The first ball she gave was some twenty-o odd years ago in her old houss down in rhirty-ffth Street It was given to celebrate the coming out of her daughter Carrie. now Mrs. orms Wilson Since then her balls have been annual affairs and Mrs. Astor. the social queen, and the list of eligi- bles she was supposed to make up for the social season. were annual features of the Sunday newspaper supplements
 If Mrs. Astor has done nothing else for which we will remember her with mingled feelings Of regret and disgust, she has introduced to the world Harry Lehr. erstwhile wine agent, and now the husband of a rich woman. 4 man who wears bracelets and gives monkey dinners Is something that we are not blessed with every century.
 "Mrs. warren's Professton.-
 A year ago last October Mrs. War ren's Profession" was produced at the Garrfck Theatre. The house was packed, specuIators having stood on the sidewalk for hours beforehand ssli- ing tickets for s25 and $3o pair. Po- lice interference closed the theatre af- ter one performance.
 A few nights ago the same play was produced at the Manhattan Theatre with the full authority of the law. There was the same bunch of specuia- tors on the sidewalk, but they shouted their wares in vain. unable even te sell them at par Inside the audience was cold and cheerless. There were no thrills, no one seemed very much amused and no one seemed very much shocked.
 The critics say that Mrs. warrer's Profession" is one of the best plays Shaw has written from the structural point of view, but the unpleasant sue- iect treated Is enough to damn 1t. It would be hard conceive Of more heartiess brutal set of characters than those which carry this play Had the police not interfered when t was first produced. 1t Is doubtful If It would have lived two weeks any way.
 Some one has suggested that 1t may have something of run now oecause the theatre in which 1t Is being pre- duced. Is not far from the Haymarket.
 Thavr Trial sideIights.
 No matter what the verdict is In the Thaw trial, whether Harry TiIaw is acquitted on the ground of insanity or whether he is convicted, tho case has contributed It's share to the slams af the day. The most striking contrt- button is the word "brainstorm.
 Lay folk had never heard of the word until 1t was used by one of the alienists in describing Thaw's condi- t.1a oh the night he killed Stauforu White, though 1t may occur soinewhsre in the literature of insanitM Tho ex- ss-k n mental Illumination. but the public didn't desire any explanatton. Brain storm was good enough forrit The barber who barbs you. the bootbtack who shines you, and all the folks you meet are talking about brainntorm If anybody allows his temper to get the best of him he has got brain storm The jag no longer has It's place in the speech of tho day. The man who too freely fills up on thes Joyous fs said to have a spirituouS hratn- storm. Tn fact everything's brain storm.
 One of the lively press agents of I the T3arnum and Bailey show declares | that one of their elephants has brain storms regularly.
 Singulary enough many big murder trials have contributed to the vocabu- ary of American slang. 4 year or SO ago a young man named Woods nlsir- dered a New Jersey grocer in a most atroeious manner He readily con- fessed. when arrested but said that he had not willingly committed the act. He had been driven to 1t. he said. by a little man who pursued him and ] gave him no peace until ho had done murder. Thereafter the little black l man" became a popular expression. "Dont shoot ! am coming down the stairs" was a catch phrase along in | the early '7os The expression came out in the testimony at the trial of Ed Stokes for shooting Jim Fisk. The shooting took place in what is now the Broadway Central Hotel but which was then known as the Grand Central. and the words quoted were uttered by Fisk just before Stokes shot him.
 The Green Goods King,