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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-22

Chicago, Ill.-To the officers and
members Of Estella Chapter, No. 3,
Springfield. Illinois:
In behalf of the Grand Chapter of
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-22

the Grand Court above where sick
ness, sorrow nor pain will never more
be felt, we say farewell to Sister
Annie Parker.
This grand old Masonic family
throughout the state, will miss the
voice of Sister Parker, who was al
ways sunshine to our order.
We feel that she has performed a
brief, though sad mission. The
memory of her life will be an un-
framed picture as part of our ex-
istence. May we place the hand of
faith in the hand of mercy and be
led by the sweet influence of that
higher fellowship, into the richer
comfort thatsGod has in store for all
whose loved ones are in safe waiting
and learn the lesson: "Thy will be
done"
We bow in sympathy with the be-
reaved husband, son and relatives.
and az a Grand Court of Heroines,
say to them. look higher for consola-
tiOn.
IDA M. DEMPCY, G.. M. A. NJ,
JENNIE G. MCC LAIN, q. Sec
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elites, and Weihe's great orchestra for
full measure.
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atre. April = and IS, has one of the
comedy hits of the year. Kellett Cham
beTS, the young playwright, has util-
lied a subject in which the public is
deeply Interested, that is, international
maria ges and divorce laws. In a clever
SatiTical vein, he he's told a laughable
and interesting story i'm The Butter
fly" The action of the play treats of
a young widow of a millionaire who
made his money in railroads and
soothed his conscience by giving to the
church. Betsy Killigrew has lived all
her days in a restricted atmosphere.
Young and beautiful, she is full of life
and eager to spend the money which
the old magnate boarded so carefully.
With her wealth she wants a title. A
fOTtune-hunting earl is willing to eX-
change his COronet for dollars. The
play opens a year and a day after the
death of the railroad king. Mrs. Betsy
has thrown off her mourning and is
about to plunge into the gayeties of
New York and Saratoga. Her engage
ment to the earl is to be announced. In
the midst of her plans a second will is
found, which provides that if she does
not marry an American the estate is
forfeited to a nephew of the dear de-
parted. Betsy is plunged into grief and
disappointment. Suddenly she recalls
third marriage. At this OpDOrtune mo-
Inent a musical genius calls upon Betsy
with one of her best friends. He pro-
poses that they marry and part at the
church; she will produce his opera; get
q quick divorce: marry the title and
Illustrate the will. The genius accepts
the offer. His opera is "a great sue
CO IS. But when the time comes for
Betsy TO get her divorce, the title is
not so alluTing as it was. An Italian
prima donna of Irish descent cOmpli-
Gates the situation and causes more in
decision on the part of Betsy. Mr..
Chambers has worked out the plot to an
amusing ending. Joseph Brooks has
surrounded Lillian Russell with one of
the best companies of comedians that
has ever been assembled. In the cast
is Eugene OTmOnde, john Flood, Fred
L. Tiden, Fred Tyler. Roland II. Hill,
Grant Mitchell, Isabel Richards De
Vaux and Kate Griffith.
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life he conducted. with much success,
grand opera in Zurich, Lubbock and
Leipsic; also the great Gewandhaus or
chestra.
Marie Zimmerman, who viii be the
soprano, has made a special study of
Oratorio, and has been selected from
Smong the best singers in her particu-
lar line for this tour. She has been
coached by some OF the best masters
of Europe and America. Miss thinner
mans voice possesses marvellous vol
ume, and withat sweet and full of
beauty and tenderness.
Elaine De Sellem, contralto, is a
singer whose success during the past
few years has beal most pronounced.
Her voice, one Of remarkable range as
well as quality, has been trained by
such masters DIS Randegger of London,
and in this country by oscar SaenSer,
Max BendiX and Madame Ragna Lime.
She has appeared with Campanari,
FRITZ SCheff, Emil PaUr, and others.
+. c. TOWne the tenor. has been Sc
lected for his adaptability to oratorio.
He stands high among the leading ten
ors of the east. Mr.. TOwne was
coached by such masters as Nannucini
of Florence, Italy; RandeGgeT and
Shakespeare of London. He has APP
peared as leading tenor with the Anton
Seidle orchestra, the Boston Symphony
orchestra and the New York orchestra,
under the direction of Walter Dam
rUsch. His voice is of a clear, high.
ringing quality, of extended range and
great dramatic power.
DR.. Hugh SchussleT, the bassO, is a
young singer of marked ability. Dur
ing his short stay in Chicago he has
won a name among the best singers of
that city. His repertoire includes
works by the best masters At the fes-
tivaI DR.. Schussler will sing the pro-
logUe To "PagIiaCCi."
Franz Wagner, the 'cellist, is an artist
of the highest order. and has been as
SOCiated with the Chicago orchestra
since its organization. Wherever he has
appeared his work has been received
with marked appreciation, and the
press has been loud in its praise of
his artistic style of execution.
The violinist, Edmund FOerstel. like
the 'cellist. is an old member of the
orchestra. and is a finished artist in
every particular. Mr.. FOerstel will
render n concerto by the great COM
poser, BazinEi.
The program for the festival follows:
First Concert, Monday, April 8.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Alexander
Won Fielitz, conductor.
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San Carlo Opera Company.

The great success achieved by the
San Carlo opera company in eastern
cities has been duplicated during the
past four weeks in Los Angeles and
San Francisco. and more unanimous
verdict from both press and public as
20 the merits Of an organization has
seldom been known. and the perform
aDces to be given. at the Salt Lake tho
atre during the coming week win I'M
qucstionably attract every music lover
not only in this city. but from all over
this section According to all press re-
ports. the san Carlo opera company has
proved to be not an OTgdniza ton Of
two or three good singers and an in
different support, but d thoroughly
well-balanced company in every depart
ment
OF course. Nine. NordiCa. that Won
derful artist is n stronghold in her
self, and fully maintains and upholds
her grand reputation, while dainty
Alice Nielsen has charmed and won all
hearts and proved her right to be in
the grand opera field. Nile. Dereyne,
the handsome French singer. and Sig
norma Tarquini. the little Italian VO-
calist. have also become favOrites with
the public all through the tour. The
greatest SUR rise and sensation, how
ever. has been the singing of what now
all belteNC 10 De. bHc must MollutIi ul
tenor of the present day, Sig. Constan-
tiao. Such enthusiasm and such ova-
tons have seldom fallen to the lot of
any operate artist. and the west GER
tainly has one great advantage over
the east Of which it can be proud I'm
that this grand artist has never been
heard east of Chicago, but from that
city through to the Pacific coast there
has been but one verdict as to his re-
markable talent, and it is safe to say
that there will not be a small house at
any of his appearances during the en-
gagement. Mons. Martin has also shown
himself to- be a very brilliant and eff
cient artist. rs has also Sig. Alemanni.
One of the best bassOs of late years is
the verdict on Sig. Segurola, who has
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his appearance never failed to make a
hit"
X x K
Francis Wilson was talking to the
graduating class of the American AGA
denny of Dramatic Arts in New York,
and with the diplomas the aspiring his
triOns were also given this advice.
Il would have you bear in mind that
in private life you are not the heroes
and herOines any more than you are
the Williams and adventuresses which
the creative mind of the dramatist has
drawn for the diversion of the public"
he said
I would have you remember that the
greater the knowledge the greater the
modesty. and I would have you act ac-
cordingly. I think it is DR.. Johnson
who says that a gentleman should not
bear the stamp of his profession about
him
$50 then leave the trappings Of the
theatre i'm your dressing rooms and lay
aside your affeCtatiOns and attttudiniz-
ings with your paints. Have a Just re-
gard for your powers, that's human
but don't display il. that's vanity.
Smother egotism in yourself and frOwn
it down in your comrades. 1t is not
uncommon to hear an actor say; / De
long to the profession To the actor II
is and should be the profession. but
such remark is a reflection upon any
other profession, and is egOtistical and
indicate.
4 WELD to no one I'm the affection and
aDpraciatiOn I hold for our art, but 1 am
confident il does not usurp the place OF
the Deity. The ethics of law and medi-
cine for bid its practitioners to advertise
by fictitious methods. You viii under
stand what 7 mean when I say I hope
none Of you in private life will sink his
self-respect sufficiently TO resort TO long
hair. cowboy hats. bOisterOUs manners,
bIeaChed locks. painted lips and pen
ciIle5 eyes. and that loud laugh which
betrays the vacant mind.
THAT sort Of thing is not art. 80 is a
cheap. unworthy effort to attract atten-.
ton, to advertise. and as 1 meet II on
Broadway I never see 1t but want TO
cry out: Me and the sandwich man:
Don't waste time uselessly repintnS
because, as you think, you are nightly
carving statue in snow that fades
with the fall of the cUrtain-that the
masterpiece Of your genius. which more
than likely will be the masterpiece OF
the dramatist, are never TO be seen by
posterityi 4.
"Posterity can stand IT,
but. instead, give that time ever. to
! the crea zion OF masterpieces that ought
to live and which pOsterity will be poor
er for not being able 20 see.
you are better off than the average
! poets, painters and scUlptOrs (thoue6
/ swift rewards to these are looking up
| for you get your applause and financial
| return here, while they frequently get
/ it neither here nor hereafter You cam
not have your cake and eat it, too.
| In brief. then, let me recapitulate:
Act on the stage, not off
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nlncoq" at Grand.

The phenomenal success and patron
age that has marked the opening Of Mr.
Harry LeightOn's enga cement of stock
at the Grand theatre has served a dOu
bic purpose-society is coming back to
the familiar and popular playhouse in
geodly numbers and Salt Lake is as
sured Of 4 season of plays for the spring
and summer months that will number
some Of the greatest successes.
Before putting on the heavier plays
Of his repertoire Mr. Leighton has ar
ranged for week of fun and meTri-
ment at the Grand. Beginning tOmOr-
row evening, one of the cleyerest and
most popular farce comedies ever writ
ten will hold the boards. The play is
'-Incog," a three-act comedy that hash t
an uuinte1esting moment from the
opening to the final curtain.
The story of the comedy has to do
with the efforts of a happy go-lucky
young fellow by name of Tom StanhOpe,
Who attempts to circumvent his faith
er's opposition to his marriage TO the
pretty companion of an heiress. As
Stunning a disguise, StanhODe proceeds
to lay plans for securing his fathers
consent to the match by strategy. IN
Willingly in Disgusting himself he has
obtained an appearance identical with
that of Dick and Harry Winters. twins.
both of his circle of friends. Dick is
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PROMISE OF THE THEATRES,
Musical Festival.

The big musical festival to be given
in the tabernacle Monday and TUESDAY
next of three performances. is attract
ing much attention The famous Chi
cago symphony orchestra of fifty men,
under the direction of Alexander Won
FielitZ, and six solo artists, VIII take
part i'm each concert. Both nights VIII
be devoted t9 oratorio' and Tor me
matinee Tuesday a miscellaneous pro-
gram will be given by the orchestra
and soloists.
Doors TO the tabernacle will be open
one hour before each performance
Night performances will commence AT
$50 and the matinee on Tuesday at
3.f5 o'clock In looking over the pro-
gram of each concert, as published
herewith, one will readily see that those
in charge of this must al event propose
that il shall be the greatest of IT'S klhu
ever held in this state
The demand for seats has been enor-
nous. and with the great influx of out
Of-town people who are here Tor con-
ference. II looks as if the great audito-
rum would be entirely filed. The solo
lists engaged are artists OF undoubted
ability
The Chicago Symphony orchestra has
been Organized since 1899, and has made
successful tours each year since It's or
sanitation. NtSiung All tnS hiipoi 1eiit
cities of the United States and Canada.
Four years ago it was heard in this
city. when il made a tour to the Pacihc
coast. giving over 100 concerts, visiting
every city OF note N the west. The san
Francisco press spoke in the highest
terms of this orchestra, comparing ITS
work with the orchestra that appeared
in the SOS when Theodore Thomas gave
the weli-remembered series.
Alexander Won Fielitz, the conductor,
has been in America but few years
during which time he has gained
place among the leading conductors OF
the country. Mr.. Won Fielitz is OF
French and Russian descent, but was
educated IL Germany under the Famous
Jules Schulhoff and Edward kretch-
mer. Kary Banck. the critic. was his
friend and adviser. During his early
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Orpheum.

Modern vaudeville in the fullest ac-
cepted term of the word will hold the
boards at the Orpheum this week,
commencing tomorrow night. offering
for the headliner Ned Wayburn's IA
nous Dancing Daisies. Ned Wayburn,
who has staged some of the biggest
scenic extrava ganzas, has now turned
his attention to vaudeville and has al
ready launched several miniature pro-
auctions, of which the Dancing Daisies
is one. The act is one of those seem
ic effects that rely on pretty girls we'll
costumed, agile, dancing and tuneful
music and singing. Louise Mink, the
prima donna. is supported by six girls
who fill the bill, and dance and trill
through a daisy field, a japanese villa
and an encampment and, incidentally,
change their costume with each scene
and introduce in appropriate costume
the latest successes. Daisy Mine"
Lady of Japan "Fandango Fannie, ="
and yankee Boys in Blue
Elizabeth Murray, one of the prime
favOrites of the Orpheum circuit for the
past three years, will make her first APP
pearance here. She is a singing come
dienne, who makes both floors sit up
and take notice. Among the songs she
will sing is Sam, Her Fighting Man"
As an exponent or the negro ana irish
dialects she is said to be immense and,
taken all III all, she is a strong attrac-
ton.
Quigg. Mackey and Nickerson is an
aggregation of mirth- provokers whose
long suit is music and comedy They
play divers instruments I'm divers clever
fashions, and are said to be up TO the
Orpheum standard in every respect.
Dave Nowlin. the man with the fieX-
ible voice, has a hilarious turn devoted
to vocal effect. He recites, tells sto--
ries, sings character songs and then
renders burlesque opera, solus.
La Belle Veola is a handsome young
French woman, who is making her first
trip to America in vaudeville. On the
other side she is a favorite. She sings
and dances, or, as she prefers to put ii,
she IS a :'chanteuse legere danseuse ac-
robatique.'
Lamonts Cockatoos will be somewhat
of novelty here. This bird act is said
to be excessively clever and the Aus
tralian feathered beauties go through
their stunts with the gravity of human
beings showing off fheir best behavior.
Then there viii be the kinodrofne
with some excellent motion picture nov
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BE modest in bearing and speech. d.
Speak English, not 'TenderlOin.'
BE earnest in your acting.
BE prudent with your earnings. The
period Of the average actors earning
power is brief
Know a great deal about your own
profession. and as much as you can
about everything else.
Don't accept success as too personal.
Hamlets and Juliets have come and
gone, but.the plays go on forever.
Don't ascribe failure to bad luck.
Luck as Lowell says. is the prerosa-
tive. the reward of valiant souls
so be valiaGt-and lucky.
BE true TO your art and, above all, be
true to yourselves"
William J. Kelley, Clara Bloodgoods
leading man, has remembered another
story:
when Thomas A Edison was living
at Menlo Park a visitor from New York
said to him one day.
by the way, your front gate needs
repairing. 1t was all 1 could do 10 get
It open. You ought to have it trimmed,
or creased, or something
Mr.. Edison laughed.
-- oh, no. he said, oh, no.
"'Why not?' asked the visitor.
&" Because was the reply, every one
who comes through that gate pumps
two buckets of water into the tank on
the roof
Every one knows the persons that
don their wraps and CHATTER out Of their
seats and up the aisles the moment it
dawns upoa their minds how the story
is going to end" They are wholly OBJ
livious TO the suppressed resentment Of
the rest Of the house, and Mrs. Fisse
plans to correct them. The now uni
versaI custom of women removing their
hats in the theatre was not adopted un-
til pointed and even drastic measures
were resOrted to. But the nuisance
was finally abated. Mrs. Fiske cher
ishes the hope that managers and ar
lists generally will endeavor to remove
the annoyance or at least direct at
tention to it. Beginning in Washing
ton, where she opened a weeks engage
ment on Feb. %, and elsewhere there
after. the following note appeared be-
meath the cast of characters in the pro-
grams:
spectators are requested respectful
" to remain seated until the curtain
falls on the last act. This considera-
ton is asked in order that the en5oy-i
ment of the audience may not be I'M
haired by isolated examples Of thought
less discourtesy, and for the further
reason that the final moments are re-
garded as the most delicate Of the
play"
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also received great praise for his ex-
Cellent work, as have also SignOrs FO-
ranTi and Galperini, Mime. Baldini and
Nine BOTlinettO.
Monday evening the short season will
open with Puccini's brilliant and most
popular work, La BOheme,' with Miss
Nielsen, Mile. Dereyne, Signors Con-
stantinO, SegurOla and FOTnaTi in the
east. Tuesday evening Nine NOTdica
appears in Faust" which will be given
rendition more perfect and brilliant
than has ever been seen before in this
city. A double bill, Don Pasquale"
and "CavaIleria Rusticana," with Miss
Nielsen and Mile. Dereyne in the lead
ing parts, is promised for the last per-
Torrance. Wednesday afternoon.
The seats sale opens Monday morning,
April s. at the box office
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fastening to join his wife at the Sea
View hotel, and Harry is hurrying to
tie side of his betrOthed, Molly SOmers.
The two Winters arrive at the hotel
shortly after Tom StanhOpe has as
sumed his disguise. and forthwith there
ensues a series of complications, mixed
Identities and furiously funny scenes il
which three distracted women succeed
in getting three fully as distracted men
so mixed that laughs are piled one atop
the other until the pretty love story
that forms the central theme of the
play crops out Obligingly and sets
things partially right. 1t all ends hap
PLY, but not until every ounce of fun
has been extracted from situations ana
scenes cleveTly handled by the author
Mr.. Leighton will, of course. be seen
as Tom StanhOpe, and the role affords
him unlimited scope for clever comedy
work. The engagement opening tOmor-
row evening will continue through next
Sunday evening. the opening nights for
all the Leighton plays hencefOrth being
Monday evenings. The Wednesday mat
mess will start at 2:30 o'clock hereafter.
instead of o'clock, as was announced
last week. Saturday matinees will also
begin at 2:30 o'clock.
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THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

:: salt Lake-Wednesday and :.
:. Thursday evenings, ElkS' Min -
:. strels. Friday and Saturday and -
:. Saturday matinee, Lillian Russell =
= i'm The Butterfly" :.
:. Orpheum-AH week with mat -
:. inees except Mcnday-Va =
:. Grand-All week beginning Mon =
= dan. with matinees Wednesday :.
= and Saturday, 'IncoG." -
= LyriC-All week, with matinees =
= daily-NaudeVille. =
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FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

Some one asked Wallace Irwin, the
verse writer, who furnished the lyrics
for "A Yankee Tourist" in which Ray
mond Hitchcock is starring, for 200
word story of his life. Irwin thought
for a moment and then said: "All right
here goes. / was born in Oneida, n.
Y, but never got acquainted with the
city, as my parents took me to min
ing camp in Colorado when 1 was 4
years old. Later we moved to Denver.
whence 1 was sent to Leland Stanford
university. in California. 1 worked my
WY through college. During the first
two years took all the literary prizes.
During the third year / was fired for
stealing chickens. Tally?"
about a hundred"
VERY Wen. After the chicken steal
ing episode I landed in Frisco with 50
cents and a friend. My friend had 81
cents less than had. He was another
Of the chicken thieves. We lived to-
gether on nothing week in a house on
OFarrell street, and then 1 landed
some rhymes with the News Leader at
5 cents a line. Later I worked on the
Examiner writing rhyming heads
Meanwhile 1 wrote The Love Sonnets
of a Hoodlum.' The first edition sold
some foolishly enormous number and
furnished my own apartment.
Mr.. Savage asked me to write the
lyrics for "A Yankee Tourist This was
my first attempt at stage writing, saw
ing a few stunts at college. Taily?"
1.-TWO hundredr'
"Finer'
x x x
Few persons know how the end
men, with their jokes, happened to be-
come a part of a minstrel perform
ance," declared the veteran burnt-cork-
ist AL Field. "Way back in 40 Daniel
Emmett, the first man to black his
face, also composer of Dixie, and
Frank Brauer accidentally introduced
the custom. Brauer had broken the e
string on his fiddle one night. That
stopped the performance. Emmett sat
next to him and, as the audience ST
lently waited. he began to joke Brauer
and make fun of him. Both were witty
and their impromptu jokes made a hit.
They repeated the aside remarks the
next night. and thus END men and
their Jokes became a regular thing.
"And 1 might add that Emmett, the
original American minstrel, was the
greatest we ever had. He gave me my
first Job in 1872, and in '93, when he was
so years old, took him with my COM
pany on a farewell tour. He was only
introduced on the stage each night, but