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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

the whirl of Paris in a town where she
is unknown But we know her, so
when the sprightly young lieutenant
asks her if she can sing a song he has
composed we ourselves are not bit
anxious. We lOll back secure in the
fact that we are about to- hear a voice
such as rarely trills through lighter
operetta and method MUCH above it,
But beyond that, we know. though we
accept the pleasant fiction that the
handsome young officer composed the
song. that Victor Herbert really was
father of it.
That is the feeling when We sit back
TO hear the chief number in The
Prima Donna" 1t is prepared for as
obviously such: it is repeated. its motif
runs through the opera. II is charm
ing In a few weeks we all viii be
singing it: or thinking we sing it. anG
enjoying the delusion just as much. II
is simple: a slow hesitatfny, magma
tive waltz movement such as the IA
nous aria i'm Mile. NOdisJe. Unde-
scriptive praise is dull: but | must put
in a word of admiration for the music
of Herbert and not for this sample Of
II merely But The Prima Donna" Is
not only a matter of music Blossom
has supplied one scene of tense, cumu~
lative. mounting drama.
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Devil When Anna was about to make
a debut, posters said Go TO Held" The
lmpishness of these ladies is profession
al of course. and not at all personal.
trltZl divorced her husband, not he
her, and now she is the new bride of
John Fox, jr., the Kentucky novelist.
Anna has been the wife of Florenz
Ziegfeld, jr., ever since he began to
make stage shows for her. 1t is said
that Fox is writing a dramatic play
for his bride, but she wiz stay a while
in musical jollity. Both FRITZ Scheff-
Fox and Anna Heid-Ziegfeld are bright
faced, small formed young women, with
that foreign soubrette chic which no
American actress has more than imi-
tated. One of their merits is the fault
of their bad English. FRITZ from Ber-
lin speaks with a German accent, and
Anna from Paris with French one;
they would lose value if they were to
get our lingo pat; and most positively
they must not out any fat on their
present curves. They must keep their
deviltry physically delicate and not
broaden their humor visibly. However,
don't worry. The $4,000 or so put into
a new play for each looks like a safe
investment.
The salient thing by Anna Held in
Miss Innocence it seems to me. is her
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

She lays her head in her arms on a
table and when her face is lifted to
the light. the ghastliness of death from
horror is on its distorted features.
a palpably brainy audience crowded
a theatre at the beginning Of THE
WinterfcaSts initial presentation.
and for an hour was delighted alto
sether by the skilled speaking of Mrs.
MatthisOn. Arthur Lewis. Frank
Mills. Robert Cummings and Walter
Hampden. II YOU need blank verse
elocutionists you can't do better than
hire them. They viii be freed from
their present job soon. A second hour
tired the listeners With their loquacity.
q third hour brought bored fatigue and
many quit the house before the addI-
tlonal half hour. and at the end the
second OF the two views / have men,
tioned was the prevailing one. The
fare at THE Winterfeast'' was not so
deadly to the people i'm the auditorium
as to the characters on the stage. but
scarcely less cloying with its gore. Mr..
Kennedy strides bravely away from
beaten paths and endeavors 10 break
ms way 10 dramatic heights. His pur-
poses, conceptions. ideals are high. and
his struggle to achieve them is ardu-
Gus: but there is no genius in his COM
position. nor much more than ordinary
accomplishment. His dietion is no,
nearly good enough to serve his am
bilious scheme. That is the prevailing
view of this remarkable play
X <
Mimi Aguglia. the wild young SfciI-
ian actress. is prOvoker of bloodshec
this week in the familiar "CavaIeria
Rusticana' not only. but in Il Carbu-
nara. q short tragedy of gore newly
clotted here; but no more than in 1.-THE
WinterfeaSt' was / permitted TO see
her husband and her lover fight with
axes She isn't in the least wicked.
but when the lover is likely to be
caught Fostering her she hides him In
her bedroom. That looks bad to her
brother in-law. who wants to kiss her
on his own account. and betrays her 20
the husband when she won't LEI him.
Then the husband hands an axe to the
lover. takes another himself and thew
go out TO fight a duel. She shows a
deal of her own agony. but the chop
ping of the lover 10 death isn't seen.
Couldn't an illusion be contrived to
show that duel? 1t would draw And
I'm not sure but a Sicilian actor could
be spared at each performance. if only
AGuglia be saved to US
FRITZ Frislly Schen and Anna Hades
Held. The interpretations are not i'm
pertinent. When FRITZ was in grand
opera. she liked the nickname of Little
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tall, slim wearer toppled over. she had
TO be lifted to her feet. In this stage
full, Anna Held contrived to keep her
small self distinct by dressing not fash
ionabiy, but in a quaint style of her
own. Clever woman, Anna, whatever
you may say.
The part of Miss Innocence at the
Abbaye was a rollicky jollity-a show
ing of reckless reveIry. 4 chap brought
over from the genuine Abbaye jigged
wildly; a Spanish troupe of dancers
sensually; a plenty of ballads was run
in; a brief burlesque of Three Weeks
was given; a row of girls played tunes
on bells hidden in their clothes. and
through it all a detective, hired ~ the
parents. was searching for the run
away girls from school. Before l for
get it, the libretto was by Harry B.
Smith and the score by Ludwig Eng
lander. They sent the company for the
last act to d Vienna dancing school,
where a sharp change of aspect is
gained by putting the girls into the
plain, white and very short skirts of
ballet pupils. An original effect is
wrought by suspending with ribbons
from the flies as many tambourines as
there are girls, who thump tambos
while so dancing in and out as to make
a mayDole sort of interlacinS of the
ribbons. The end is a view OF peach
orchard. with full blossomed trees, I'M
der which danced girls who, l suppose,
are peaches.
/ would hate to have to tell you the
name of FRITZ Scheff's latest charac-
ter The play that Henry Blossom
and Victor Herbert have put together
for her is called THE Prima Donna -
But whatever they may call the star
part, believe me FRITZ Scheff plays
FRITZ Scheff. 1t is role i'm which she
is often successful. and justly SO; 10
one could play ii so well. On the first
night, one of the most fashionable au-
diences possible this side of grand
opera cheered through its CUR
giles of admiration She was the IA
miliar, chic, alluring FRITZ; still the
little devil OF grand opera" as the
heavy Wagnerian prima donnas called
her when she sprinkled gaiety all along
the trail, from Mozart to Puccini. This
time she bursts into a tawdry cafe
chantant in "A small French town. Some
fourth-rate performers from Paris arc
rehearsing their specialties. One, a
hollow-chested girl, coughs too much
TO sing; she would leave them in the
lurch but that she is too poor to give
up the pitiably small monetary reward
Up jumps FRITZ with the necessary
money in her hand and the voice in her
throat. That is the first view of the
mysterious priIna donna, resting from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06
THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

:. salt Lake-Tuesday and We'd :
:. nesday and Wednesday matinee, +:
=. The HOneymOoncrS; Thursday, ::
:. Friday. Saturday and Saturday ::
:. matinee Ben HuT." :.
:. ColOnial-AIl week, beginning to- ::
:. night, matinees Wednesday and ::
:. Saturday. ION Parole I:
=: Orpheum-All week. beginning ::
:. tonight. matinees daily, vaudeville. ::
:. Grand-First half of week, be :.
= ginning tonight. matinee Wednes- ::
:: day. Roanoke" last half of week. ::
= matinee Saturday, The Avenger." ::
:. New LYRICAL week, matinees ::
:. daily, the cameraphone. ::
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

During BENIN UR the curtain will rise evenings
o'ciOc Matinee o'clock. No seated
during opening pre- lude. The Star of Bethlehem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
NOT ONLY MOTHER
 BUT FATHER LOVE

Some weeks ago an application for child reached the Delineator, which Is conducting an active campaign for the placing of homeless children in family homes. It was signed with the writer's surname and the initial of the Christian name, and the reply was directed Mrs. -" An answer came promptly:
 There is no Mrs. -, and l suppose that settles it. Why a man, sane, sensi- ble and of good character, should not want a little child, even though he IS unmarried, passes my comprehension I am a bachelor and I want to adopt boy, but I suppose the rules will for bid"
 There has been a good deal written about dormant mother-love, but the fact that there is a sentiment as father-love seems to have kept we'll in the back ground Masculine America flies from sentiment or from the avowal of senti- ment as from a plague or the confession of crime.
 Yet it would be a poor country that confined it's sentiment to its women. The natural emotions are the inheritance of both sexes, even if it is but one which has the courage to confess them. The desire for children is as legitimate in a man as in a woman, and the desire to complete an imperfect life by the love and affection of a little child is but an expression of the hidden father-loye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
St. Clair News Notes.

St. Clalr Springs, July 11.-(Special.)- MT. and Mrs. Walter Kirkland of Bir- mingham and Mrs. Lucile Helton of Co., lumbus. Ga, are at Mrs. Perkins cot tage.
 Miss Minnie Wright and Mrs. Claypool gre at the Springs again, after stay of two weeks at Asheville.
 MT. and Mrs. Chadwick Dr. and Mrs. Florence and the Rev. Dobbs and family are at the Ratliff cottage.
 Mrs. M. J. Perkins and Miss Birdie Lee McLendon of Springvlle and Miss Susie Bradford of Birmingham are at the Springs for a few weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. White of Gadsden and Miss Gussie Herring of Springville are at Mrs Lovett's cottage.
 Mrs. Snyder and Miss Mamie Snyder have returned to their home at West End.
 The Misses Chapel and Miss Robertson ere at the Montgomery cottage.
 Miss Lucie Dennis and Mrs. Rogers of Woodlawn are at the Massey cottage.
 The Misses Henderson and Miss Ware from Woodlawn are at the Barnard cot tage.
 Messrs John Taylor, John Prude, liar ITS. Fanchoir, Gillespie, Fike, Carter. Copeland, George and pr. F. E. Perkins spent the week end at the Springs.
 The Fourth of July dance was greatly enjoyed by all. MT. Walter Kirkland and Mrs Thomas Moughon led the german
 One of the most delightful affairs of the season was the progressive euchre party given by the Misses Well at the Lesser cottage Wednesday, afternoon. Mrs. Walter Kirkland won the prize and the consolation was drawn by Mrs. M F. Perkins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
SOCLE7T
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14l

their honor. Among the out-of-town guests were MT. and Mrs. S. L. Folds of Birmingham, Mrs. J. s. Malone of Mo- bile, Miss Mabel Moore of Orrville and Miss Bertha Schmidt of New Orleans.
 MT and Mrs. George W. Jones and son, Master Aston, have gone to Asbury Park, where Mrs. Jones and son Aston will spend the summer.
 Miss Juliet Jones of New York is the guest of her relatives, MT. and Mrs. R. Dreyfus and family.
 Miss Eloise Washburn left on Friday for a visit to Pass Christian and New Or leans.
 Miss Annie Paul Halls, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. A. l.. Mcleod, in Selma, has returned home, accompanied by her friend, Miss Young, who will be her guest for some days.
 Mrs. Katherine Meehan and Miss Fan- nie Jenkins have gone to Baltimore, where they will spend some time with their sister, Mrs. George. Later they will go to Canada for the rest of the summer.
 Miss Louise Wright of Columbus, Ga, and Miss Laura Belle Joiner of Macon. - her home on South Perry street.
 Mrs Robert Cunningham of Atlanta, who is representing the Agnes Scott in- stitute in Alabama, is stopping at Mrs. Mickel's on Madison avenue.
 Miss Dolly Kirk is in Anniston, the guest of her cousin, Mrs. J. B. Caring ton.
 Mrs Archibald Ludlow was the guest of honor at a card party given on Mon
 
 Ludlow will leave soon for Texas to make her future home.
 Mrs. J. M. Riggs has returned home after spending some time with relatives in Mississippi.
 MT and Mrs. Joseph Lee Rhodes have moved into their new home at Capitol Heights. and have as their guests her sisters, Misses Page, of Gastona, N. C.
 Mrs E. c. Andrew and Miss Mildred Andrew have returned from Perdido Bay, where they spent two weeks
 Mir. and Mrs. Rance Cantelou are en- tertaning number of friends at house party at their country home, Cantelou Hill which is admirably suited for such entertainments. Among those enjoying their hospitality are MT. and Mrs. John Ham, MT. and Mrs H. M. Austin, MI. and Mrs. M. c. Hall MT. and Mrs. Archie Ludlow, MT. and Mrs. E. Dough- tie, Miss Emma Clayton of Meridian, MT. Bert Ludlow and MT. I. H. Ludlow.
 Miss Fife Mae Wagner leaves shortly for Point Clear, where she will be the guest of Miss Virginia Norwood.
 MT. and Mrs. w. F. West and children have returned from visit to Louisville, Ky, and Decatur.
 Miss Ernestine Patterson, who has been visiting Miss Bessie Miles, has returned to her home in Decatur, Tex. Miss Pat terson was much admired in Montgom- cry, and while here was the recipient .f al at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
The Dangerous Drug Habit.

Are We becoming modern lotus eaters?
 Literature is full of reference to those fabled beings who lived on the fruit of the lotus-those who forgot cares and the lapse of time and gave themselves to indolent pleasures.
 The Iotophagi of fable have their counterpart in the modern drug-eaters. The lotus flower of our day is opium and its products, or cocaine, or absinth, or any number of preparations.
 It is said intemperance is the greatest evil of our day. The drug habit is a large part of that vice
 If you will talk with a retail druggist who will tell you the facts or consult the best medical authorities, you will be shocked and startled.
 One might expect, for instance. that large quantities of morphine or cocaine would be sold In the drug stores of the tenderloin districts. It is also true that the pharmacies in the fashionable dis tricts have a large trade In these and other drug stuffs. Besides, the drug habit is prevalent and growing among all classes of our people.
 The society woman is tempted to the use of stimulants because dissipation drains her vitality. She must keep the pace and be vivacious. The flesh is weak: the temptation is great. On the other Idnu, llt lOW anu llllpON- erished both in body and mind take the drug to forget their misery.
 But there are others.
 Besides the high and the low the mass of the common people are coming to be large drug users.
 The temptation is an insidious one. Per haps the stimulant was first prescribed by a physician. It soothes racked nerves When the pain comes, use it. The pain comes often. Perhaps one cannot sleep. There is the drug. Perhaps one has a great weakness-the drug again. And, finally, almost every phase of the vic- tim's life makes a special draft on the dangerous drug.
 And so the modern lotus flower makes dreadful inroads on our society.
 The drug habit has almost ruined the French people. The government, fright ened over the ravages, placards the dead walls of the cities, warning the people against the use of drugs and intoxicants.
 The habit will ruin any people. It saps vital forces. It ruins generations yet to be. What hope is there for a race that inherits the vitated blood and sodden brain cells of drug taking mothers?
 The press and the pulpit must fight this growing vice.
 Because the evil is intrenched in se cretiveness. Unlike drunkenness, it does not manifest itself. It shrinks from pub 1icity. It must be dragged into the lime light.
 Sound the alarm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
MCCLURE I0c STORE
 INSTALL SODA F0UNT
In Operation Middle of This Week. 10c Drinks for 5c-A
 New Front.

The Mcclure Ten Cent store at 1908 Third avenue are installing a first-class soda fount The fount will be ready for business about the middle of the week. It will be thoroughly modern and perfect in every detail. Only the purest soft drinks and ices will be served. A special feature is that all the popular 10 cent drinks will be served at the Mcclure fount at cents.
 In addition to the fount other marked improvements are being made at the Nc Clure store. The front windows are be- ing considerably enlarged and interior decorations have been renewed. The store is now one of the prettest on Third ave- rue. This concern mas been quite suc- oessful during its business life in Bir- mingham, and the fount is sure to draw a large share of patronage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
As to L. E. Wright.
Nashville American.

From the Nashville American.
 Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War before the war, but Luke B. Wright, who did his full share in an effort that was made to destroy the United States government 40-odd years ago, is to be Secretary of War after the war. That is a distinction. It also shows how far from the war we have travelled. If such thing had occurred 20 years ago many northerners would have tainted, wnlle others would have rushed forward with loaded mouths to defend the nation. When Gen. A. P. Stewart, representing the Secretary of War, received the Ten nessee monuments at Chickamauga, It seemed that there was no further need for comment But now we are to nave Luke Wright in charge of the army. We'll they couldn't get a better whiter' broader. a braver or an honester man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
aAs a Man Thinketh." :"


 Remember the almanac of your boy hood?
 You can see it now, in your minds eye, invariably occupying it's place of honor near the kitchen stove, household ooacle often consulted as to the phases of the moon and the probabilities of the weather. Remember how you puzzled over the signs of the zodiac, whose diagram and hieroglyphies appeared on the inside cover? And how you laughed over the anticipated jokes? And how, in the dearth of reading in the household, you read the dismal description of diseases for which the exploited patent medicine was an un- failing panaeea?
 For instance:
 You read that "shortness of breath and palpitation of the heart after vigorous exercise were symptoms of heart dis ease. Surel You had all the symptoms, and so on. For every i'll described you found the diagnosis and the remedy.
 Only you did not worry about 1t much. And ill that respect you differed from the adult who gets a like suggestion from reading the advertisements of cure-alls and testimonials of marvellous recovery. Think of that scripture which de- clares:
 "As d man thinketh in his heart, so is he"
 A man gets it into his head that his heart does not do it's work just right He worries about it. Worry prevents sleep. It interferes with digestion. There is lack of nourishment, Arrangement. Each con- dition aggravates the other. The man is run down." He is really sick. And tn- ally there is functional disorder. The man has real trouble with his heart and other organs. He has brought it about by persistent wrong thinking.
 "As man thinketh in his heart"
 He who suggests to himself that he Is suffering from heart disease or liver trouble or stomach Arrangement and who goes on thinking so until 1t becomes settled belief is pretty sure to get that disease
 In large measure the converse is true. He who suggests to himself that he is in vigorous health and persist in think ing so is likely to be in health. He says to himself over and over, q am strong. I have plenty of vitality. I am healthy. And then, somehow, by the mysterious power of mind over matter, he finally comes to be what he thinks himself to be.
 That is all there is to the so-called new thought" or "auto-suggestion," or "sug- gestive therapeutics' and there is a great deal of truth in them all.
 The medical world is just beginning to admit that other things being equal
 Crooked thinking makes disease.
 Straight thinking makes health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-12
The Country Girl In Town.


 She is coming to the city-alone.
 In the country nothing occurs. Life Is about the same every day. And the girl has not yet learned that the greatest boon in life Is to be content and that the quiet places are the best.
 It is the monotony that tires her, she thinks. The same faces are to be seen at the church every Sunday and at the p,cnics. She knows this one as "Bilf' and that one as Sarah" Familiarity has bred contempt And over all the country side is the never varying look of things. ffhe familiar has grown trite and finally distasteful.
 But wonder in the city!
 An, everything happens in the city. There are plenty of new faces there. The scenes change like those of a kaleidoscope Lots of new sensations in the city: Its air is tonic. Surely life must be fuller there.
 The girl is young and innocent. In her inexperience she dreams fanciful dreams. Perhaps she Is ambitious to get on in the world, or impatient of restraint, or she is .ured by the glamour of the town. She does not realize how safe Is the sheltered life she has always lived in the quiet neighborhood. She cannot appreciate the verity of the present certainty.
 
 What does she know of the swirl of city l life, of the dangerous undertow of it's oeceitful currents?
 She does not know the wickedness of the metropolis. She does not even know herselfi
 And just there is one of her dangers.
 The girl does not realize the fact tha. her very virtues under strong temptation may lead to her betrayal of herself. She does not appreciate the fact that her very gentleness of nature prevents her bring ing to bear upon the decitful tempter the force of scorn which the sophisticated can summon to their aid. She does not know her own weaknesses.
 Poor lassiel
 Her loving disposition does not hardly know how to deny. Her sweet unsel- fshness scarcely is able to refuse. Every best quality of her being may lead to her undoing. Her innocence of real life, her youthful enthusiasms, her disposition to sacrifice herself-ah, the pity of iti-all these are the stuff by which she may be ruined.
 Because
 Where the defenseless chicken strays, over that place circles the cruel hawk and swoops upon its prey. Poor grill
 If she falls into the wrong set of as- sociates and there Is no one by her side to warn and guide, God help the child!
 If, on the other hand she Is strong of character, wary, capable of restraint and self reliant, she will take care of herself and rise above the undercur- rents of temptation. But if not