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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
THE CHORUS LADY" WILL FOLLOW
IMAM OF The HOUR AT NEWARK
First Appearance Of Rose Stahl Here in James ForbeS'S Comedy
George ~BrOadhurSt Appreciates the Newspapers.

Il III wasn't for the papers, the peopled never make any trouble Tor
Is. But they read the Jews and then they get silly ideas about their
- rights and a lot Of them come here to see they don't get swndled.
Lord! If the papers would only suspend publication for on month, d guar
anteet to pt the whole State in my vest pocket. They're always outing IN 10
spoil the organizations honest profits"
Thus. in his wrath, quoh Boss TIorngan, in "The Man of the Hour and
thus IN his erspcacny, George Broadhurst hands out the glad bouquet After
that appreciation ofsthe power OF al enlightened preSs is there n cause o
wonddr vt a general disposition to slide overt the rough spots in comment on
the play and exaIt it's undeniable merits. Mr. roadhurst would got fun
recognition anyway but a little genial palaver like this sometimes increases
the favorable predispostion (
Mr.. Broadhurst like most other dramatic authors. has reason to re-
to politics. Mostp people ave already forgotten that there c ws such "a
play as "The Mills of the Gods" which Mr. Broadhurst put forth last spring
in the full lush Of his success with THE lar of the Hour" 1t vas the pride
Of it's creators heart, but it died a sudden death, and it was unanimous news
paper opinion that supernduced its disintegration. What sins arec committed
under the name of drama are numerous enough as it is, heaven knows, but
how much more trash would We have to do with if there weren't n news
pers! A play that gets a thorough squehching in the public prints has a little
bit more chance than a snowflake in July.
That sangful but sweet ispostioned young woman, The Chorus Lady,
follows upon the heels of "The lar of thu Hour at the Newark Theatre
She will have 10 set a rapid pace to catch up with him in local popularity
but she will doubtless accomplish that feat with ease She a already broken
10 many records for runs that she makes the average dramatic success look
like a last weeks seat check. She first doomed above the horizon as the
heroine of a magazine story, donning her dramatic swaddhng clothes in the
varieties and graduating into a mn-fedged comedy oer a year ago, when
she made herself and James Forbes, who fathered Ter. famous in a night. In
the person of Miss Rose Stah, she will probably breeze along for som time
to come. She deserves to. She is a verya amusing young woman to get wfse
TO- and when it comes o the job of handngo nut the georseadefsns she is the
goods. AS to h story in which she fgures-that familiar old story about
the girl whose little sister is naughty, and, who, to shield hr. takes the
naughtness upon hersel-its a bit fine spun, and not by my means SO
this, however, and III other lev plays in Newark theatres mex week more
below.
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the title role, is supported by thirty
five people.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
THE CANDY KID"
AT THE COLUMBIA.

a MONG the scenes introduced in
A the new Parker musical melo-
"A drama called "The Candy Kid'
are the following: Campus grounds at
Yale College; hotel, New York city
o dock on the East River. a big crane
in operation. the home Of the American
consulate in Colombia, South America.
The music was written by w. r..
Williams. Some of the songs are:
"Hark to the Scream OF the Eagle"
''Take Your Hat Off to the United
States Marines 1.-THE Past, the Present
and the Future" y Would Like to
Feather a Nest for YOU" "They Gall
Me the Candy Kid" 81 Am the Cap
tain of a Baseball Nine college Boys
and Girls and Others which give Ray
Raymond and the Bon-Bon Girls OPP
portunity to afford relief to The more
serious parts of the play. The Candy
Kid will be here all next week at the
Columbia Theatre.
The chief mechanical effect Is seen in
the final act at the American c~onsul's
home in Colombia, which is torn to
pieces by shells from b%sttleships In
the harbor. Fay Raymond, who plays
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schuster, George Pugtt, Frank Fox. M.

Schuster. George Pugtt, Frank Fox, M.
Stepner, Frank Peck and the chorus.
The opening piece, The Main GAIA
bo," is followed by an olio, In which
are the Bowery Quartet of Singers;
Monahan and Monahan, minstrels;
Marion ard Thompson, %cornetists; Mil
ton Schuster, parodist, and. as a
special feature, the Livingstons, Euro
pean Risley acrobats. The added at
traction is "The Girl in Black" Miss
Estella Rose, in limitations of Anna
Held. singing Miss Held's famous song,
Il Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave"
by permission of Florence Zeigfeld, ir.,
and Gus Edwards. She will also sing
my Roguish Eyes" written for her
by Manager Peter S. Clark. After the
olio is an extravaganza entitled "a
Pair of Kings"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
FRANCES LITTAU IN NEW
SONGS AT THE ARCADE.

~ HE success attained by Miss
Frances r. Littau at the Ar
cade Theatre on Wednesday,
Lincoln's Birthday. has caused The
management to reengage this dainty
singer as q special attraction today.
Miss Littau will use an entirely diff
ferent repertoire of songs from that
offered at her first appearance. In
when It's Moonlight. Mary, Darling"
"'Neath the Old Grape Arbor Shade"
George G.. Grunewald has scored a hit.
The song is by j.. Fred Helf, of New
York, and it's attractiveness is en-
HANGED by the Illustrations presented
during its rendition.
The different programs underlined
for next week possess pictures educa-
tive as we'll as entertaining with a lib
eral assortment of both vocal and in
strumental musical features. Histori-
cal, military and patriotic features will
predominant next Friday md Saturday
i'll commemoration of Washington's
Birthday.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15

IVA OsE STAHL is "A Canadian of
X French. Scotch and German
descent. the daughter of Il. c.
Stahl, editor and proprietor of the
Trenton Herald. Her early education
was gained at a convent in Montreal,
and her first dramatic experience was
with the Girard Avenue Stock Com
pany in Philadelphia. where she gradu-
ated from minor roles to the position
of leading woman After q. season in
Men and Women" Miss Stahl be-
came the star of several stock com
panies of the Middle West, then sue
ceeded Mary Mannering in Janice
Meredith" She made her vaudeville
debut in The Chorus Lady a drama
tization by James Forbes of of his
short stories, THE Extra Girl" Her
success. both in America and England,
was so phenomenal that Mr.. Forbes
ampli1ed' THE Chorus Lady" into a
four-act play. which was first pro-
duced at the Savoy Theatre, New
York, on September /. 1906.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
REMARKABLE RECORD OF
THE CHORUS LADY"

a n attraction of especial interes st
AZ is %announced for the Newark
40 Theatre next week. when Miss
Rose Stahl will be seen here for The
first time in James Forbes's comedy OF
stage life, 1.-THE Chorus Lady, Some
thing over W years age Miss Sta1l
stirred up something of a sensation
when she appeared for the first time
AZ a star In New York In the role Of
Patricia O'Brien, member of the chorus
in this play. Both star and play proved
an instantaneous success in New York,
playing at three different theatres, and
ran for an entire season. This was fol-
lowed by an a1l-summer engagement
ut Powers Theatre, Chicago. The
production is under the management
of Henry B. Harris, who gives assur-
ance thu it will be presented precisely
as it was during its New York run.
The play is in four acts. The first
act is laid in the home of Patrick
O'Brien, a trainer in charge OF racing
stables. He has two daughters. one
Is at home, and the other Is a m
OF a. chorus in a rather shaky musical
organization which finally becomes
stranded. This act discloses tn Birl
on her arrival home, wher she nnds
that her young sister is being @co
strongly influenced by a mai who mas
become a partner in the racing gable
of her own hance. The second act
shows the dressing-room of the Long
Acre Theatre, with the girls making
up for their stage work. The third act
takes place in the apartments OF a
bachelor. The fourth act clears the
story, and is set in the clearinghouse
of the two chorus girls, Patricia
O'Brien and her sister Nora. To the
breezy. happy. honest, slangy character
of Patricia, Miss Stahl brings all her
talents. ripened by years Of experience
in the part. The company which VIII
appear here in support of Miss Staal
Is the same as was seen in New York,
and includes the following players:
Nilfred Lucas. Eva Dennison, rank
Bvrne, Maude Knowlton, Giles Shine,
Alice Leigh, Amy Lee, and other we'll !
known players.
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DOCKSTADER'S MINSTRELS
AND OTHER COMING SHOWS.

- EW DOCKSTADER will black
up and don his famous misft
A clothes at the Newark Theatre
the week after next, and lead his merry
minstrels in dance and jollity. Lew Is
an "amoosin' cuss.n as Artemus Ward
would have said. and there are many
who will hail his coming with pleasure.
He promises an entire new outnt OF
jokes and special features.
One of the features to ,be seen in con-
nection with Lew Dockstader's min
strels, which will soon come to the
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
The CAREER IN BRIEF OF THE STAR
OF THE CHORUS LADY" SHOWS

Newark Theatre. will be the specially
of Mr.. Do%ckstader himself, who will
appear in a sketch called "a DUH Day
at the White House In this Mr..
Dockstader assumes the character of
the President, and the result is said TO be
very funny. All the latest developments
are touched upon by the minstrel in his
role of Teddy, though only the best OF
good nature is displayed in h fun-
making. The President had no cause to
complain when he witnessed the enter
tainment in Washington, as he does
every season, when MIR. Dockstader APP
pears there. In fact the minstrel king
is a personal friend of the Presidents.
Robert Mantell will play an engage
ment at the Newark Theatre, the
week of April 6, during which he will
present the following plays of Shakes
peare: "Macbeth.' king Lear"
Hamlet" "King Richard Ill, THE
Merchant of Venice and "othello."
He will also probably be seen in a re-
vival of "Richelieu."
At Blaney's Theatre the week of Feb
ruary "a. Charles Z. Blaney will pre-
sent 1.-THE Curse of Drink" P. Aug.
Anderson, who plays the drunken engi-
neer, suffering from delirium tremens, is
said to impersonate the character with
vivid realism. The fourth act shows q
fuIl-sized locomotive running at fun
speed across the stage.
Vance and Sullivan will produce Lem.
e. Parker's melodrama, "The Card King
of the Coast" at the Columbia Theatre
February "a. On the same date the
moonlight Maids will come to the
Empire, and the Bachelor Club Bur-
lcsquers'' will be at Waldmann's.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
A LAURA JANE 1IBBEY
PLAY AT BLANEY'S.

~OMETHING new in melodrama
will be seen at Blaney's Theatre
next week. with nightly per-
formances and matinees on Monday,
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. of
Charles e Blaney's new play by Laura
Jean Libbey. Parted on Her Bridal
Tour This is the first OF the dramaf
tizations of Miss Libbey's novels, and
has been taken from one of her forty
seven books, called Miss Middleton's
Lovers
Mr.. Blaney has provided a cast headed
by Miss Katheryn Roth.
Parted on Her Bridal Tour was
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
CLARK'S RUNAWAY GIRLS"
AT WALnMANN'S.

LARK's "RupawayI Girls will
play Waldnann's Theatre next
week, beginning with a Monday
matinee. This company has been en-
tirely changed in its makeup, cos
tunes. scenery. etc. 1t contains many
girls and comedians. among others
Georgia Cunningham. the ginger girl
who heads the list. accompanied by
Amy Thompson. Emmini stewart,
Ruby Marion, Cora Monahan, Lottie
Livingston, william Monahan, Milton
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given a preliminary season last year
of fourteen weeks in the popi1lar-pric
playhouses of New York, and attracted
considerable attention.
on Thursday Miss Roth will hold a
stage reception for the benefit of all
the women of the audience to whom
she will present her autographed photo,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15

f 1T wasn't for the papers. the peopled never make any trouble Il
us. But they read the new and then they get silly ideas about the
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-15
NEW CENTURY GIRLS
IN EMPIRE BURLESQUES.

G<~ HE NEW CENTURY GIRLS"
open a weeks engagement
at the Empire Theatre be-
ginning Monday afternoon. The com
pany is declared to be stronger than
ever, having many new names on Its
roster this year besides a new equip
ment in costumes and scenery. There
are twenty-five girls in the chorus 20
sing and dance to the music by MI.
Maurer. "The Hotel T%hespian" is the
title of the opening piece. Then comes
an olio of vaudeville acts, followed by
the closing burlesque, entitled "A Thief
in the Night"
There will be the usual performance
of amateurs on Friday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-19

desk. 1 caught sight of a policeman
in the corridor, and in a frenzy of dis
may l stationed him at the door, re-
solved that no person should leave this
office till the contract was found. I
then telephoned to you"
Does BlagdOn know the nature OF
this contract?"
He does. He is in the confidence of
his employers"
who was here when he brought
it?"
"Only my four clerks, my stenOg-
rapher in the private office, and a pa
per hanger, still at work there. You
observe that our offices are being re-
nOvated, in conjunction with the work
now going on outside"
The serene gaze of Mr.. Morris Don
aid wandered over the attractive outer
office. A new floor had recently been
laid. New counters and a fresh bras
grating surrounded the clerks encios-
ure. The walls were newly hung with
a rich imported paper, heavily en-
bossed. The peculiar Odor of newly
hung paper and paper hangers paste
still pervaded the room.
Private Detective Donald evinced not
the slightest interest in the decorative
improvements.
Upon the four clerks gazing at him
With anxious, apprehensive eyes
through the brass grating he bestowed
the merest glance. With his hands in
his trousers pockets, he quietly asked
WHO has entered or left this office
Vellum, since your loss was discov-
cred ?"
"Oniy the stranger mentioned -
groaned Vellum, wringing his hands,
Did he enter your private Office
mo. l stepped out here.
Did you ask his name?"
I did not. l was in haste TO return
to my desk"
who here. besides yourself, knows
of the secrecy and peculiar value OF
this contract?"
Not one" protested Vellum; (which
makes the loss the more mysterious
Why should any person steal an ordin
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Paige. The project has been under
way for months, yet it is but half
completed. The utmost secrecy is in
perative. Even, my clerks know moth
ing of it. Control of two of the larg-
est railways is as yet far from Sc
cured, and our accumulation of their
stock in the open markets has been
conducted with the utmost caution and
secrecy. Millions already are invested,
and any premature exposure of our
designs-Oh. my Cod | faint to con-
template it! If the stipulation of the
lost contract becomes known to the
great opposing interests, my own ruin
is inevitable, as well as that Of"
stop again." Donald quietly inter
posed, checking the frenzied whispers
of the other. when did you first miss
this secret contract?"
Velluma CHASTITY to the lips, glanced
at a clock on the wall.
1T was brought here at quarter past
(, just fifteen minutes ago. by Thomas
Blagdon, private secretary for Ring
gold & Paige. 1t bears their signature,
and those of the great New York in
terests 1 was to have signed it today.
returning it to New York by a special
messenger tonight
Enough of that" nodded Donald.
Now, state how you lost it,"
Il took it from Blagdon and went
into my private office to examine and
sign it. A few moments later, a
stranger entered, and asked to see me.
stepped out here, leaving the con-
tract on my desk. The stranger mere
ly wished to learn what margin we re-
quire on certain local stocks, and l
was absent from my Office less than
two minutes. When l returned, the
contract was gone"
what did you do then"
Il hardly know what l did. I was
distracted. 1 felt"
BE brief, if you please"
L made a vain search, questioned
Emy clerks and stenographer, also a
workman in yonder. No trace of the
lost contract could be found None
knew anything about it, yet only two
minutes before it was lying upon my
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Thought likely I'd go myself" re-
turned Stout.
Its a bad road to drive over at
night" observed IS. B." after a pause.
Them road commissioners ought to
be took up" said Stout. us paying
taxes and no work done on our roads. >"
81 haven't been to a ranicaboo in
two years." went on S. B. Bates, or
dinarily more than ready to give any
county official a verbal hammering.
People will begin to think 1 am too
old to dance if 1 don't fox up and turn
out once in a while"
II suppose your beau will be taking
you, g. B." said Stout loosely.
me? Ny beau? 1 haven't any more
beau than a rabbit" There was a
note of bitterness in her voice which
Stout did not detect. He was wonder
ing if it were not nearly time for her
to bring out the dOughnuts He waited
until $3.50, a half hour later than he
usually stayed, but S. b. Bates knit
ted stolidly on a wooden mitten and
seemed TO have quite forgotten that of
all her culinary achievements none APP
pealed to Stout quite as did her dough-
nuts.
The night of Uncle Sam Boucher
ranicaboo was admitted to be chilly,
the thermometer lowering around Is
below, with a wind blowing. When
Stout drove across the pole bridge in
his lumber, wagon. S. b. Bates in a
bearskin overcoat and a ST Prime cap.
with earlaps, was just leaving the
yard in her lumber wagon.
Chilly" observed Stout genially.
Cold" replied S. B. Bates, and
some of the frost in the atmosphere
seemed to have got into her voice.
The dance was on when they en-
tered and Stout's rowing eye took in
the fact that the tall girl from the
Half Way House was present. The
welcome S. B. Bates received upon her
appearance into society was all that
the most sensitive and exacting could
have desired.
Hello, Batesiei" shouted Bill
Barnes from the corner of the set
where he was hoeing it down until the
stout plank floor shook.
Proud to see you, Miss Bates" and
Uncle Sam Boucher bobbled up to ex-
tend cordial hand
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Dad" Schwenk. saving furiously on
his violin from his seat on a chair on
the kitchen table, bowed low and all
but upset himself without losing a
note.
Divested of her ST Prime cap and
bearskin overcOat, S. B. Bates looked
almost feminine. She was buttoned
into a blue plush basque which fitted
somewhat tighter than her skin, and a
blue ribbon bow adorned her hair. Also
she had exchanged her boots for con-
gress CATERS. With her rosy cheeks
and flashing black eyes, S. B. Bates
was not bad to look upon. She came
out with a look of anticipation upon
her face and sat down upon the plank
placed on two nail kegs which served
as a kind of anxious seat" for the Ia
dies who thereby announced them
selves as candidates for the next
dance.
Snow, who rustled horses over the
Montana line when circumstances
were protitiOus, was calling off the
figures of the square dance then in
progress. His red and perspiring face
rested on a high and lustrous collar,
which had been laundered in Billings
and freighted in with the ranch sup
plies.
Swing your PARTNERS, don't be
slack, balance all and take a back
track First four forward and back
Pass right through, balance to, and
swing the girl behind yOul Birdie hop
out and crow hop in, take holt of pad
dies and run around againl Aliemande
Joe! Away you go! Swing when you
meet and promenade seat"
S. B. Bates kept time to the music
with her foot and head, waiting impa-
tiently for her turn to ''pass right
through and balance to-" Uncle Sam
stirred the coffee boiling in the wash
boiler with the clothes stick, and
Dad" Schwenk, still saving furious
ly on his violin, kept time to the
rhythm of his music by the waving to
and fro of his lank body. Hank Ste
vens made numerous trips to his cache
under a sagebrush, returning each
time visibly refreshed. He took his
seat on a barrel of ''sourcrOut' in the
pantry and sang Bury me not on the
lone prairee," in q minor key, until he
finally fell a-weeDing at the nathos of
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his own song. Ben Richter, who had
ridden over from the Gypsum Rim, a
little scamper of sixty miles, disap-
peared az frequent intervals with the
remarks that he was going out to run
a rabbit" After several of these dis
appearances he could find relief for his
exuberant spirits only in the Co
manche squaw yell, a sound which
made the horses in the corral fall back
on their tie-ropes in fright
Ripping up the sod tonight" said
S. B. Bates, making a visible effort at
small talk.
Sure are. replied Stout. his ~~eyes
following the movements of the girl
from the Half Way House.
"She's timber on her feet" observed
IS. B." noting his intent gaze.
"Sure is" replied Stout heartily, and
IS. B." lapsed into silence.
When the quadrille ended Uncle Sam
Boucher came out with an ak and
hammered in a few nails which had
ripped the soles from several of the
"Planks is wearin' down." he ex-
planned briefly.
Partners for a schOttische" called
the master of ceremonies.
"Schottisches is my long suit" said
s. B. Bates wistfully, but Stout did not
hear her. for he was making a bee line
for the girl from the Half Way house.
a flood of red turned S. B. Bates
cheeks a still deeper hue, but she sat
proudly upright, a fixed smile on her
lips. The set was made up and no one
had asked IS. B." to assist" him. 1t
was the same with the next waltz and
the next polka; then Hank Stevens
ceased to sing, and, wiping his stream
ing eyes, claimed her for the next two
step, the pleasure of which was spoiled
for her by glimpses she had of Stout
and the girl from the Half Way house
sitting side by side on the barrel Hank
Stevens had vacated.
Between dances the men gathered
about IS. B." and discussed the out
look for the coming season. They ask
ed her opinion as to the fattening
qualities of the Hereford breed and the
ACCESSIBILITY of feeding horses first
crop alfalfa. They praised her thrift
and energy, her blooded stock; but they
continued to dance with the girl from