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Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21

ponies go, and both Miss Golf and Miss
Schuyler wear pretty and appropriate
gowns. Miss Blondell chooses her cos
tunes with much the same idea of color
harmony entertained by the man who
said he liked any color so long as it
was not red. She appeared yesterday
in a directoire gown of cerise, scar
let hat and carrying a rose colored
parasol while slippers and hosiery dis
played pale shade of pink.
The musical numbers, which were
specially we'll received, included II
Want a Gibson Man." by Miss Golf
and Charles w. Giblyn; Little Sloe
Eyes" Aubrey Carr and Miss Blon-
DELL in which Miss Blondell wears one
of the handsomest kimonos ever seen
on a local stage; 1.-The Bachelors
Night Key of New York" Charles w.
Giblyn; Harry Wardell's specialties,. in
GLIDING his version of Love Me and
the World Is Nine" and the "Petti-
coat" song by Miss Elise Schuyler.
More than usual interest attends the
production of "Strongheart" at the
Belasco tonight, as the play will serve
TO present to Los Angeles audiences
A. H. Van Buren,, new leading man of
the company, and Miss Lowell Taylor,
ing woman.
The first of the regular Tuesday
matinees at the Auditorium will be
given tomorrow, and reports from the
ticket department of the theater are
to the effect that the demand for seats
is just as great as for the Thursday
and Saturday afternoon performances.
The Auditorium seems to have Won
fRD 100 a. n Or
that perhaps the uniform charge of
25 cents for the best seats as well as
the location of the house may account
for.
May Mersch, a young local actress
who has been seen at the Belasco
theater, is playing in vaudeville in the
east with Byrne Bros. Eight Bells COM
pany, and from all accounts is MAX
ing good to such an extent that she
has been offered contract for a Sec
ond year.
When the Lewis S. Stone company
presents Jules Eckert Goodman's new
play, 1.-THE Test" next week, Mr. Stone
will be found out of the final picture
when the leading woman gives her
heart and hand to the man she loves.
Stone has chosen to play a character
part-that of a young man who has
just finished a ten-year term in the
penitentiary for stealing for the hero
inc of the play. George Farren, who
has not had much of a chance to dis
tinguish himself in the Stone company
productions thus far, will have what is
ordinarily regarded as the leading"
role OF the piece-that is, the man who
has the heroine nestle close to him as
the audience gathers up its wraps.
Florence Oakley will have an oppor-
tunity to distinguish herself in the
chief part in Mr.. Goodman's play, and
she ought to find it a role very much
to her liking, inasmuch as it affords
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
THE CAST
BY sIDLE LAWRENCE
KNIT IZPAH," a play which has be
N presented for two earlier ru
MI A.. Ioa.rln fhnn ter w

kkNT IZPAH,' play which has been
vE presented for two earlier runs
0A at the Burbank theater, was
revived at that house yesterday AFTER
noon, with Blanche Hall as Esther'
William Desmond as King Ahasueras
and Katherine Kirkwood as Queen
Vashti. Byron Beasley played the
crafty and scheming Hannah: Inc
verse play was staged with all the pic
turesdue pageantry that ordinarily
marks similar works at the Burbank
A considerable number of extra play
ers was employed and the theaters
scenic department provided an elab-
crate series of stage settings, truly
barbaric in their coloring and tremen-
dously effective.
AS for the drama, it should by this
time be too familiar to local audiences
to require much comment. Its story
is based on Biblical history, and is pre-
scented during four acts and nine
scenes. This makes it somewhat cum
bersome judged by modern standards,
nor does Mrs. Wilcox's verse lend it
self readily to celebrity of action.
have heard "Mizpah" termed a poem
play. It is not. It's dialogue, or much
of it, is couched in verse form, but it
is far from poetic. Thus there are
periods when the action halts COM
pletely and where there is not the COM
pensating beauty of lines in extenua-
ton. However, "Mizpah'' has proved
a favorite bill with Burbank patrons,
though l am inclined to the belief that
this is as much due to the lavishness
of the productions granted it as it is
to the merit of the play itself.
Miss kirkwood's Vashti
AS for the acting, William Desmond,
Blanche Hall and Byron Beasley all
have played the roles they assumed
last night in earlier performances of
Kirkwood, however. is a newcomer to
the company. Her Vashti proved an
interesting portrayal of a woman with
an essentially masculine mind. Most
actresses, I surmise, would make
Vashti a cat woman, softly insinuating,
with perhaps a sudden, sibilant anger
in the banquet hall scene of the first
act. Miss Kirkwood chooses another
Interpretation. She shows us woman
who is cold, cruel, calculating; who
would pause at nothing to attain her
ambitious ends. She is bold, not
stealthy; a creature of mind rather
than a creature of heart. The inter-
probation challenges attention and
holds it.
Mr.. Desmond exhibits his customary
difficulties with verse forms, but apart
from this is eminently satisfactory to
the Burbank clientele in the role of
the king. Miss Hall as Esther and Mr..
Beasley as Hannah repeat their former
successes in their respective roles.
Harry Mestayer is grotesquely humor-
Gus as the septuagenarian Mehuman;
and John w. Burton handles the role
of Mordecai satisfactorily. 1t is, how
ever, asking rather too much of Mr..
Burton to expect him to be impressive
in a heroic part. For wholly physical
reasons the thing is impossible.
The extra players are we'll drilled
and the minor roles are acceptably
played. Whether or not you care for
verse plays-and personally l don't
if you go to the Burbank this week
you will enjoy the production, and you
will be interested by the acting.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
The CAST
BY sIDLE LAWRENCE

ONE of the largest audiences that
IL ever gathered within the People
" theater waited yesterday after
noon a good forty-fiVe minutes after the
appointed time before the first act cur
tain rose upon Texas" The train on
which the scenery arrived in Los An
geles was late and at one time 1t looked
as though the matinee performance
would have to be omitted. A little
patience on the part of the house, how
ever, met with it's own reward, for
"Texas" proved an interesting and en-
PERTAINING play, a melodrama of the
plains, revealing nothing particularly
new either in plot or character, but
presenting a Well-told story, which for
the most part was effectively acted.
The people of the play are cowboys,
ranchers. their woman folk and an
English lord who is accompanied by his
sister, Lady Cecilia, and his cousin,
Lady Francis. With these dramatis
personae the author, Miss Jane Maud
lin Feigl, has constructed melodramn
which, while it is not free from gun
play, still does not rely upon the smell
of burning powder for it's success.
Characters Are Familiar
1t is inevitable, l suppose, that the
presence of British visitors at a Texas
ranch house should suggest a somewhat
similar occurrence in 1.-THE Squaw
Man." though Texas" I believe, was
written and produced several seasons
before the Edwin Milton Royle play
saw the stage 1t is not surprising,
either, that the greaser desperate who
wages a gun fight with the cowboy
hero and who, in the end, is killed,
should remind you of Cash Hawkins in
1.-THE Virginian"; nor is it cause for
wonderment that Texas West, the
breezy daughter Of an old ranchman,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21

this part Miss Brownell was highly
praised by the New York critics.
Marion Ballou has been a prominent
member of PHtsburg stock company
and is a great favorite in the city of
the big smoke. Prior to her engage
ment there she starred for a year as
June in "Blue Jeans" and played the
French maid in the naughty Turtle"
Miss Augusta True, the only blonde
of the quintet, was leading woman with
the Baldwin Melville company and
with a stock company at Pawtucket.
She started in ''Maude Muller" with
Emmett Corrigan, for two years played
leads with Daniel Sully and for one
season played the lead in Arizona.
She was a prominent member of the
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
MISS JOSEPHINE SHERWOOD

Lackaye in Law and the Man" Dur
ing one season she also played Anna
Moore in "Way Down East" Another
year she was with Nat Goodwin. Her
stock experience has been in New Or
leans, Buffalo, Portland, Me-, and with
the famous Castle Square company of
Boston.
During the summer season just closed
Miss Mabel Brownell has been leading
woman with the Orpheum stock com
pany of Philadelphia. She also played
leads at one of the Proctor houses in
New York city, and as understudy for
Margaret Ellington in '"The Thief;
played Miss Illington's role in the
metropolis during the three weeks of
the stars illness. For her acting In
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21

coy. Besides, he has acquired the photo
graph habit and he is beginning to take
considerable pride in his collection.
1t is quite possible that not one Of
the seventeen young women now under
consideration will come to the Bur-
bank. If one does come, however, the
successful candidate probably will be
the, original of one of the photographs
printed upon this page. Each of
them has been highly praised by Mr..
Morosco's eastern representative, and
each has had an extended and success
full experience in stock organizations
elsewhere.
Miss Josephine Sherwood, strihngly
pretty girl of the brunette type, played
the leading feminine role with Wilton
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
HAS SUDDEN COLLAPSE AFTER
TAKING HEADACHE POWDERS

Emma Dempsy, wife of Frederick
Dempsy of 1853 Merchant street, took
two patent headache powders within
a few minutes of one another last
night. The consequent depressing eff
feet on the action of her heart alarmed
her husband and friends so much that
a hurry call was sent to the receiving
hospital.
1t was found that the woman was
not in serious condition, and as she
refused to be taken to the hospital
she was left in her rooms. Police sur
geons stated that the case was import
ant only as calling attention to the in
discriminate sale Of poisons under the
guise of simple remedies, large and
growing traffic which should be stopped
by law.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
MISS AUGUSTA TRUE

cast which produced George AIDES ILL
fated bad Samaritan" at the Garden
theater, New York city.
Miss Gertrude Shipman is credited
by an eastern agent with being liable
to play anything from Little Eva" to
la Tosca," which seemingly is rather
large order. She played in stock
under Poll management for four years
and for five years starred in the east.
She sings and dances.
It may be that none of these players
will be engaged for the Burbank, and
1t may be that some one of them will
come here within a few weeks. Mr..
Morosco himself doesn't know. Mean
time Miss Hall is anxious to get away.
The situation is curious and decidedly
Interesting
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM
THE CRUISER milwaukee
Should Reach San Francisco Early
This Morning, and Wires That
All on Board Are
Well
IRv United Wireless. ]

SAN PEDRO, Sept 20.-The cruiser
Milwaukee was passed 100 miles out at
sea Sunday morning at 10 o'clock en-
route from Honolulu, via Panama, to
San Francisco. She is due in San Fran
cisco Monday morning at 9:21. All
aboard are well.
The United Wireless station has been
in communication with the vessel since
Wednesday last, sending messages,
but the cruiser was unable to reach
the local station until Sunday morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
MISS MABEL BRoWNELL

LIVER MOROSCO, manager of the
Burbank theater, is engaged in
" the pleasing occupation of making
a collection of photographs of leading
women. Mr.. Morosco is searching for
a successor to Blanche Hall. He has
enlisted several agents in the east to
aid him in the search, and scarcely
day passes now that the name of some
new aspirant, accompanied by photo
graph, does not arrive at the Burbank
offices.
To date Mr.. Morosco has received
seventeen photographs of seventeen
young women whom their sponsors de-
clare to be abundantly able to fill Miss
Halls place. Morosco, however, Is
skeptical, and skepticism has made him
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
Entomoloaist Dies

LAWRENCE, Kan, Sept. 2o.-Dr.
Frank Huntington Snow. former chan
cellor of the University of Kansas and
an entomologist of world wide reputa-
ton, died at Bellefield, Wis, today,
aged 60 years. He was native of
Fitchburg, Mass.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
Sc tor 81

For every dollar paid up to $50 as
first payment we will give receipt
for twice the amount on any piano
sive piano house. Open nights. Bart
lett Music Co., 231 Broadway, opp.
City Hall s-1S-x
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21

gagement. At Fischer's 1.-THE Re-
hearsaP' will be the bill. The Unique
will offer Miss Maude Beatty's new
musical comedy, "At Gay Narragan-
sett." Harper and Willard are given
the honor place on the Empire pro-
gram.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
PLAINS MELODRAMA
COMES TO PEOPLES

TEXAS" melodrama in four acts by
J. Mauldn Feigl, presented for the first
time in Los Angeles on the stage of the
Peoples theater yesterday afternoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-21
VERSE PLAY REVIVED
ON BURBANK STAGE
STOCK COMPANY PRESENTS
"MIZPAH"
Miss Katherine Klrkwood Gives Inter-
estlng Portrayal of Queen Vashti.
others Repeat Former Sue
cesses In Old Roles

"NfJzPAH," play in four acts and nine
scenes written in verse by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox and Luscombe Searelle revived upon
the stage of the Burbank theater last night
by the Burbank stock company.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-10-01

Richard Bennett has had cement
walks laid in front of his home in
Dearborn road. thus cheating the bor-
ough out of the right TO levy on him
when the work is made general.
Benjamin Kleins new store at the
Junction will contain a large hall for
public meetings, dances, banquetS and
the like.
Miss Marguerite Temple is at Welles-
ley College where she is tutoring for
a special college course at Bryn Mawr.
The burning of leaves near the W.
d. Lemmons home one evening re-
Gently about dusk. caught the air just
so balanced that the smoke rose some
twenty feet. then tiattened out ana
spread itself over block or more in
thin LAYER of gossamer looking vapOr,
giving as pretty a setting to the land
scape as could be imagined. 1t was
poetic and beautiful.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-10-01

To show that Garfield May was born
lucky he allowed ton rock to bowl
him over the other day, fall on him,
mash his hand, and he paid no atten-
ton to it whatever. Not a bone was
broken. Any one else would have been
killed
Miss Anna Cadmus, of Bayonne, \.
j.. was guest of Mrs. Garfield May
October II.
W. J. Foeppel has added Il number of
beautiful evergreens to his lawn this
fall
Captain Robert Lloyd, of New York,
was a guest of his niece, Mrs. Garfield
May. October II.
Mr.. William Logan, of Jersey City,
was guest of the Quigleys October
II, with his two young children.
The Palisades Amusement Park of
flee has been treated to new shingled
loof.
Little Miss Cole, just a year old, is
now walking around.
Miss Cecil Potter. of New York, was
a guest of Miss Silva Frey October 4.
Randolph Brown was visiting the
Binner boys one evening lately. He
left his wheel on the side of the house,
and when he came out it was gone.
He could find no trace of it.
Richard Bennett made a distinct hit
with Maude Adams in J. NJ. Barrie's
new play, What Every Woman
Knows which opened at Atlantic
City October 16. The newspapers
speak III high praise of his work.
Garfield May got dead loads of honey
out of bee tree he cut down the other
day in the PaliSade woods.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-10-01

The Theodore Kemms are to have a
lot of new evergreenS.
Major" Garfield Mays fine Arabian.
took Il little run on his own account
last Sunday. but did no damage.
Papa X Baer. the very lively phi
losopher and sage of Cumbermede
road. almost an octogenarian. had 4
pleasant surprise on October IS. His
old chum and friend. s. Frank. on Nor
folk. Va, accompanied by his son-in-
law. Max Borg. paid him visit. which
pleased him much. The "reminiscences
that passed between these old friends
at the reunion were like foam flakes on
the river of Time, which has drifted
on beside each so many long years.
Miss Baer. of Cumbermede road. has
new Maltese kitten-a perfect
beauty.
r. r. Brown has returned from
trip South
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-10-01
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Miss Gladys Gray sprained her arm
early this month, but is walking all
right now.
The Walter Dinners. of Edgewood
lane were at Bennington. VT, from
October 10 to 10.
The H A. Collins moved into the Nc
Clure house October 20. Good
Mrs. Higgins, of New York, was a
guest of Mrs. Pencil at luncheon Oc-
tober H.
NJ. C. Gilman went to the effete Hub
on a business trip last week.
Miss j. f. Pencil is convalescing
from Il recent severe illness.
NJ C. Gilman had Mr.. Ogden. of
Staten Island, as Il guest October II.
J. X. Waterhouse, of Portland, Me-.
spent a week as the guest of the Pen
nells recently.
There are forty-two voters in the
Palisades Park side of Palisade.
Towns growing.
During the Anderson avenue inn
provementS Edgewood lane is the main
thoroughfaTe on the west side of Pail
SADIE. Anderson avenue is being ma
cadamiZed and cement sidewalks laid.
Mr.. Meyer Baer has returned from
successful business trip through New
England.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-10-01

Elmer Z. Gerard is Il hustler from
away back. They say he has made
first class selling agents out of very
raw material by his brisk talks on the
business of life. He appeals to a
mans pride in coaching him, and to the
faint hearted he says the darkest hour
comes just before the dawn. Grand
philosophy.
Frosts came much earlier this fall
than usual.
The Improvement of Anderson ave
nue. continues to progress as fast as
conditions will allow.
The very rough hill on Central Boule-
ward. Palisades Park, is being put III
good condition once more.
The Fredericks house. Cumbermede
road and Columbus avenue. has been
much improved by the addition of a
porch on the east and south end.
A Nav day in October Sunday the
18th. with the thermometer up to -
degrees.
The p A. c. boys gave a delightful
serenade to several Palisade homes
October Is, following their meeting in
House No. l. They sing delightfully."-
in chorus. and their music was melodi-
Gus in the extreme.
Paul T. Brady, Esq. went to Georgia
October ii to look after the interests
of his company there, which are large.
Otto Hunicke has just given his
pretty home a fresh coat of paint.
That killing frost came October Is
and laid low most of the tender plants
and vegeta ton. There was frost also
on the 14th.
Wilbur Gray is now at the Ohio
Wesleyan University for complete
college course.
The sale of lots in Warren avenue,
GrantwOod. October 10, proved Il big
success, every lot being sold.
The Elmer Z. Gerard agents are
leaving no stone unturned to get Pail
SADIE before the public the right way.
Their efforts must win in the end.
Mr.. Price. of New York. was a guest
of the Hallingers last Sunday.
w NJ Hollinger says one of the fin
est tennis players he ever saw was
One-handed, the other having been lost
in a sugar press. He held the odd ball
when serving under the left arm, then
held one ball in the other hand with
racket hand and played n wonderful
game that everybody was afraid of.
Buster Flagg. the big black mastin
of the Flaggs in Edgewood lane.
would not make friends with We re-
porter this week and freed him shin
ming up a porch post
Clarence Hunicke started working in
a New York law office September -.
and has worn out two pairs of shoes.
Gee. but this lawyer business is hard
on leather
The George III. Frews spent October
II and Is with the Walter FrewS, at
Hampstead. Long Island The latter
have Just returned from a long stay in
Europe.
A meeting of the Palisade voters OF
Palisades Park Borough was held in
House No. / October Il. at which it
was decided to support the present adj
ministratio which includes Mayor
John G. Edsall and w. r. Germaine
81,
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-10-01

Allan Carson had another N
October II, and this time th
his years is, S-2+1-7. WIN
you're getting big!
Styles Dickinson is back 4,
Palisade after a visit to Cuba
with the Richard BennettS.
The view of the f. Yancr
home in Brooklyn lane from
way is very attractive just
HANGED by the autumnal fOliag
The Newcombs, who have
the past summer in the Z.
Cohen residence. 'Eastclifp
gone to New York for tie wIt
are at 225 West End avenue
Mrs. Kuhn and Miss Mildr5
of New York, were guests CT
Freys October IL.
The Charters home will be
by a retaining wall on the eat
the property, and driveway
I'D from Bluff road past The
and out on the Beresford PaI
A band of typical gyp@E
through Palisade Saturday, OFT
telling fortunes and their own
uneS.
DR.. r. Burton OpitZ WIS d
by the last Council as Records
Borough of Fort Lee. Now eT
up here will have to walk Oh
Policeman Carney was laid
tober - and Is from "paR
misery" he says.
Nobody has bought the ID.
house. though several are
of it.
The great bridge over The
will start at Washington Heis
York. 1S1st street, and plunge
edge of Fort Lee. Look out IeI
Lee boom the like of which
New Jersey never saw.
w. d. Lennon petitioned
Lee Council to look into the \
road sewer at the last meetlH,
backed up into his cellar.
The Union Church of Ld4'
in hot water over the propo%
TO the Presbyterian del0-
Those opposed to the change
a recent election WElcn us-
matter was not representa-
majority. and large bunchts
have resulted. This malorlq
is a source of much trouOF
places besides EdgeWater'
be peace.
Fort Lee played a game %
against the celebrated uU'-
the colored professionals
them by a score of > to / %
1 Ten innings were playeu.
Our budding orator, pa.%
Carson. councilman in ron
ough from Palisade. mace
the Republican ratification u'
tober IA. ,rt
Ever run a splinter aOOu,
of an inch up under the us
third finger while funlolln-
the dark on a rough raItel =
and have it break of 50
get the pinchers on, ana n~5
see the doctor about II, ana
him poke those pesky lltuy
under the nail and pierce ~
vank the burned thing OUT n
whiz. That's what yotlhS
did to Ye Editor last WeeN
The Arthur Carsons alu
Dopnottc went on regdle
The Falls City tribune., 1908-02-28

BILE, in advising with Nebraska
farmers who desire to become
familiar with the advanced meth
ods of selecting seeds and the cul-
ture of crops. Similar work was
carried on last year to n linn ted
extent, and wherever this was
done there was n material increase
in the yield.
The increase in the appropria.
tion necessary to enable the de-
partment of agriculture to per-
manently locate an expert in Ne
braska, was secured through the
efforts of Congressman Pollard,
and any farmer who desires to CO.
operate in the demonstration, can
do SO by sending his name and
address to Congressman Pollard. -
Auburn Republican,
The Falls City tribune., 1908-02-28

broadly. They discuss questions
in which you have a personal in
terest, and as rule they present
the facts, no matter how distaste.
full they may be to you, even at
the risk of perhaps lifelong COM
panionship.
individuals, acting for them.
selves strive to accomplish what
they believe to be right. True,
they may be actuated by honest
motives, but representing as they
do only an individual position they
ere naturally influenced by what
their associations and interests
suggest.
These individuals do not stand
before the limelight of public
opinion, and which expects de-
claratlon covering every phase of
every feature of proposition.
THAT position is given to the
editor of your daily newspaper,
and he must view question from
every side, and then give the peo-
pie the truth; and he does it, too,
Notwithstanding the filings of the
croaker and trouble. maker to the
contrary.
Eyes, the daily newspaper is
universal educator, and the man
or woman who does not find time
to each day spend an hour in
careful perusal of a home news
paper is doing himself or herself
grave injury, and at the same
time is untitled to properly rear
children or even instruct children
as common public school
teacher"