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The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17
N0RDlCA TONIGHT
Noted Prima Donna Soprano Will be Guest of Mrs. A. Heaton Robertson This
 Afternoon.

No musical event in years has so stirred the people of New Haven as the "all-Wagner'' concert at 8:15 tonight in the Hyperion, by Mime. Lillian Nor dica, the great operatic soprano and Mir. Walter D1mrosch, with the New York Symphony orchestra of eighty pieces. Society, town and gown, will be out in full force to do honor to these most famous opponents of Wagner, vocal and orchestral. Mme. Nordiea has many friends in the city and this afternoon she will be entertained at the home of Mrs. A. Heaton Robertson on Grove street who is an intimate friend of the prim, donna. Mime. Nordica will rest at Mrs Robertson's house un- til the time of the concert. MT. Dam- rosch and the orchestra will come up from New York about the middle of the afternoon in their private car and will remain in New Haven over night, returning to New York in the morning. Among those who are expected to at tend the concert Is Professor Samuel s. bdulOlu Ol ANSN lOih OiiC VI tliV SoN- erning board of the New York Sym phcny orchestra.
 It is announced by the management that besides the Wagnerian part of the concert, which includes scenes from six of the operas, that Mme. Nordica will sing a group of ballads, with piano accompaniment by MT. Damrosch. In the Hartford and Springfield concerts the enthusiasm was so great that she was absolutely obliged to respond to encores before the concert could be continued. Among these encores were At Parting" by Rogers: Lovely Month of May" by Hammond: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal.' by Quilter and several others. light in character but very beautiful when touched by the art of the great singer. It will be an opportunity for the teachers and sing CTS of the city to get lesson in inter pretation from one of the greatest sopranos of the age.
 The great interest in the concert was evidenced by the remarkable sale which, in the first few days took all but a hundred seats for the perform ance A few good seats are still left in the orchestra and orchestra circle but the entire balcony was sold out four days ago. To take care of the inevitable rush the management has converted several of the boxes into individual seats and will put these on sale this morning. At ' o'clock in the evening several hundred rush seats and standing room down stairs will be of fered at the box office for the benefit of those who do not wish to pay the high CT prices of orchestra chairs and box es. Only a limited number of standing room can be sold.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17
WRESTLING TEAM WINS.
Close Match With Pennsylyania Re
 suits in i to 2 Victory.

The Yale university wrestling team deefated the University of Pennsylvan- ia at Philadelphia, Saturday night by four bouts to three. The summary:
 llS Pound Class-Yerger. Pennsyl- vania, threw Cellar, Yale. in 6;24.
 l25 Pound Class-L. Dole, Yale threw Cox. Pennsylvania. in 3:24.
 l35 Pound Class-G. Dole. Yale given decision over Peters, Pennsylvania. af- ter nine minutes.
 l45 Pound Class-Waite, Pennsylvan- ia, got the decision over Yates, Yale, after nine minutes.
 l5s Pound Class-Parker, Yale, re- ceived the decision over Prensky, Penn sylvania. after nine minutes. 1I5 Pound Class-Foster. Yale, threw Braddock, Pennsylvinia, in 2:4S.
 Heavyweight Class-Pike. Pennsyl- vania. threw Brides. Yale. in S;i5.
 Folwell and Dwyar of Pennsylvania. because of recent injuries, were unable to compete
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17

ate in securing the original manuscript and music because of personal ac- quaintance with the man who owns II and who was with the late Frank Mayo in the original production of the play. This man is H A. Huse of Bath, Me, and he has come here to assist in pro- ducing the play and take part in the production.
 The title role will be played by MT. McGill, who in general appearance bears a striking resemblance to the late Mir. Mayo. Miss Shipman will be seen as Roxy" There will be the us- ual daily matinees and souvenir mat inee on Friday. Seats now selling for the entire week. ..,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17

The soothing spray of Ely's Liquid Cream Balm, used In an atomizer, Is an unspeakable relief to sufferers 1t as a Godsend, and no wonder. The thick, foul discharge Is dislodged and the patient breathes freely, perhaps the first time In weeks. Liquid Cream Balm contains all the healing, purify ing elements of the solid form, and 1t never falls to satisfy Sold by all druggists for 75c including spraying tube, or mailed by Ely Bros, 56 War ren Street, New York.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17
BIJ0U.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson" Created by
 Mark Twain, Put On.

4 superb production of "Pudd'nhead Wilson is to be this weeks offering at the Bijou theater by Miss Gertrude Shipnan and the Bijou Theater Stock company. 'Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a play seldom played by stock companies first because of the fact that it's en- tire production requires a prologue scene and five acts and secondly be- cause of the fact that the original man. uscript is hard to secure.
 Lawrence B McGill has been fortun-
The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-17

Catering in all its branches by skilled and experienced people; weddings, banguets, dinners, parties, teas, etc. Good taste; good quality. Mince Pies and Plum Puddings to order. Experi- enced walters and cooks furnished.
 The E. ]. Williams Catering Co.,, i5 ELM STREET, OVER NESBITS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-02
In Small Town First.

4 ara going to be in love with
Opheha strong. because you know
Hamlet was young and she was pretty
and I q ink he loved her lots"
"wiH you open here" 1 asked
NO; I want TO Try myself out in q
small place. where the people hardly
know me I want to get into the part
and get easy before 7 come here. but
I am coming, and I believe I can make
the people of washington listen to
me-"
Are you studying the part with any
one2"
with myself. he replied abruptly.
That's the trouble with lots Of our
actors, They don't take their own
view Of Shakespeare people Now.
saw Nat Goodwin as shyIock. He
was all right. I thought he was
mighty good. but be had too many
teachers and professors telling him
what TO do and they spoiled him. Now,
when produce Hamlet IT is going to
be Foy's Hamlet and no one else viii
have had anything to do with it. I
don't think I know all about Ham
let. I guess I wouldn't know It If I
played it 100 years. but am studying
and have my own ideas, and they are
going"
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After Reflections.

And as I left his dressing -oom %
take my seat out in front again aud
watch him cavort through the weary
absurdftfes Of Artie Choke. I sud
denly thought Of the determination
Of that young commoner who many
years ago was laughed to scorn the
first time he attempted to make
sDeech in parliament but who moth
ing daunted, turned upon his scofTers
and cried. = shall sit down now, but
the time will come when you VIII
hear ne"
II spite Of the apparent ridiculous
ness of an Eddie Foy Hamlet, for
one extend my hearty congratula-
tons TO the man who attempts the
seeming impossible because he has an
overweening ambition to be sODaAthins
bigger than he now IS II Foy could
only develop an ability commentaries
with his nerve and his yearning for
HIGHER things. the stage might be far
the richer for this mans having seen
Edwin Booth as Hamlet the night
after he BACKED the great trasedian's
boots out in Chicago. This was at =
time when the fatherless urohin was
SUPPORTING a mother and sister left
destitute by the great conhagration Of
1871 RALPH GRAVES.
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In His Dressing Room.

Later in the week I went behind the
scenes at the Relasco and saw Mr.
FOy in his dressing-roOm. and there
for the first time I was brought face
20 face with the intense yearning Of
the man for something outside the
sphere of the clown.
Il study Hamlet every summec in
my home, at New Rochelle" he said,
speaking Immediately Of the subject
uppermost in his mind.
You have a number of actor neigh
bors at New Rochelle, haven't YOU" I
said.
"Oh, yes. but they have handsome
homes. Mine is just a plain little
farm of three acres with a comfort
able little house. 1 do all the farming,
and in the winter Mrs. Foy and the
seven children look after things and
seem to enjoy the life there. Ny old
est boy is twelve. and maybe he will
play Hamlet some day If 7 don't.
Anyway, I don't want him to be q
comedian.
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Tired of Being Clown.

Now you won't get the idea that
am vain because I want TO play
Hamlet. viii your You know
wouldn't think of producing It II we
had such actors today as Booth Mac
ready. and Forrest. Why, 1 would be
scared to. FOR the people would sand
bag me as soon as I should come on
the stage. I would have to wear
sieve for protection. But with all
sorts of actors playing Shakespeare
WIN shouldn't I crafty my life's big
gest wish? I don't want to be
clown always. You think I cart play
Hamlet because never have played
it. wen. I am not an old man yet by
anv means and I think am plenty
young 10 try.
Understand me. do='- expect to
make a h-howling success Of ii, but
I can beat these stock actors, because
I have had thirty yeas experience
on the STAGE. even if tney have been
thirty years Of clownishness-
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play Iago 7 saw Booth and Salyini
in 'OthelIo' once. Then would Ike TO
play Tombstone in AS You Like It.
have never seen a Tombstone that
I thought was the kind Shakespeare
meant
''Touchstone isn't any clown He
isn't an old man. He IS a poor philoso-
pher, a mighty poor one. but q philOso-
pher Just the same. RE is ike an
actor VINO is aghting the syndicate.
He isn't good enough to make a HIT
and then he explains his failure by
putting il on the Theatrical trust.
NOW if I played Touehst'ne 1
would, OF course. make it tie bis part
would throw aside all these tradi-
tional prompt books which say now
YOU have an entrance here, or an ext
there. I would cut uD all Of Touch
stones long speeches into lots OF anti
climaxes. and get a laugh for eaeh
one OF them"
The and-climax proposition was not
unite clear to me, but was not en-
lirhtened. for Mr.. Toy continued with
animation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-02
LAND TRACT
IS OWNED IN MEXICO
BY U. S. CAPITALISTS

HE largest tract Of land owned
by a single person is probably
in Mexico or some Of the South
American states, where tracts
containing hundreds Of square niles
are not unusual. but the largest pro
ducing farm in the world lies in the
extreme southwest corner OF BOUisi-
ana
Measuring 100 miles north and south.
and twenty-five miles east and west,
1t is owned and operated by a syndi-
cate Of Northern capitalists The
100000 acres Of the tract were pur-
chased IN 1888 from the State OF
Louisiana and from the United States
Government.
At that time it was a vast grazing
land for the cattle of the few dealers
of the neighborhood, over 5000 head
of half-wild horses and cattle being
thereon.
Now this immense tract Is divided
into convenient pastures. stations, or
ranches, existing every six miles
The fencing alone cost IN the neigh
borhood of $4,000. The land is best
adapted for rice, sugar, corn, and cot
ton. All culuVaIlng ana oitchlnB -
done by steam power.
A tract, say half a mile wide. IL
taken, and an engine is placed on each
side.
The engines are portabls. and oper-
ate a cable attached to four plows.
and under this arrangement thirty
acres a day are gone over with only
the labor Of three men narrowing.
pla ating, and other cultivation IS done
in a like manner. There is not single
draft horse on the entire place.
Of course. horses are used for the
herders of cattle, Of which there are
u. 600 head The Southern Pacific rail-
way runs for thirty-six miles through
the farm. The company have threS
steamboats, operating on the waters
of their estates, OF which there are
300 miles navigable- They have also
an ice house. a bank, a shipyard, SRS
a rice mill
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-02
Compares Self With Irving.

cot course I know everybody says,
WHY even If he weren't so Identified
with burlesque his voice wouldn't per-
NIT him to play Hamlet But did
Sir Henry Irving have a voice? / saw
him. and I saw him play Hamlet.
When he first came on the stage you
couldn't hear anything but humble,
but he ACTED Hamlet, he didn't read
it, and that's what I am going to try
to do.
Now. don't YOU think the public
is going to be cheated, for I am going
to Lave the best sort of a company
to support me. Besides, anybody who
viii pay s. to see Eddie Fey in Ham
let. knows lots less about the play
than I do. and ] can teach them
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-02
Just Plain FOy.

rs your Hamlet going To .e 90
the Forbes-Robertson or the Soth-
ern style of Melancholy Dane, Mr..
Foy?7 1 asked. q learned that it
was all press-agency, this talk of
Foy's demanding that he be called
Edward Fitzgerald these days.
since he conceived the idea of play
ing Shakespearean roles. He ac-
tually spoke Of himself, his wife,
and his seven children as Foys)
My Hamlet is going to be FOY's
Hamlet, " was the reply. And while
don't care to criticise other in
terpretations, I viii say that I am
going to ACT Hamlet, not read
him. I've held back from attempt
ing Shakespeare for many years
because { never had a college edu-
cation" he declared, with much
feeling. Throughout the interview
Mr.. FOy's conversation was charac-
terized by greater force than
grammatical accuracy.
Don't get it into your head that
/ don't know what / am up
against. They're going to laugh at
me. expect a lot of outlaws the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-02
Made Torch of HIS Cigar.

Then came another impetuous wave
OF the hand with the cigar imper-
scnatng the torch. I sank a little
deeper into my corner OF the I5aage.
7 can get every. scene now except
tlat one with his mother. I say the
whole play over in my room, but
can't get that closet scene. 7 don't
know just what erect I want. but I
viii have it before the time comes.
Y haven't got any modern standards.
Why, we don't know how to do any
thing compared with Forrest. Mac
ready. and Booth. Those are the men
whose work made me go on the stage
and those are the men am going to
follow. You can't play Hamlet mod
ern. You have got to play him an
Gent It don't sound right modern.
You can't say the lines in a converse
tional tone, You've got TO put force
and backbone to 'em.
why, 1 know I am going on in
Hamlet worse handicapped than any
other actor who ever played in any
role. Nobody expects to take me
seriously They are all going to come
to the theater to give me the laugh.
If I catch 'em and hold 'em. then I
shall have done something of which /
can feel proud. If I only make 'em
laugh why. what's the odds? They'll
come to see it anyhow. and I'll play
to big money. So you see there's a
sort Of method in NY madness. too.
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The YearnIng Of the Man

The tears almost came into HIS sysA
as. with great vehemence. he weui on
now and again striking me Or the
chest with his paint-smeared hands,
and making rather a SAD plight Of my
clothes. But 1 didn't realize it al the
time. for I was looking into the faos
of the motley. whose lips habituaIiy
assume the upward curve of simple
humor. and beneath this idiotic make
I'D there was the pent-u2 longing Of
an unsatisfed man.
was fascinated by ths almost
tragic pathos and yearning in the
mans eyes and IN his voice, as he
struggled with his emotion and his
lines
As he spoke those words OF the poet,
How weary. stale. tat and Improbable
Seem 70 ne ali the uses OF this world!
he gave a wave Of his arm that
seemed 10 embraces his own circum-
scribed field Of olownland, and as he
closed the speech with;
II is not. nor It cannot come 70 good:
But break my heart. for must hold ny
tongue
I hooed with all sincerity that this
was not prophetic OF his attempt to
p,ay the Melancholy DaLs.
.-Oh. / can't get all the lines now.
he finally said, as he stopped alb
ruptly and wiped the moisture from
his brow. But an going TO try
/ am going to try. Let them laugh
if they want TO"
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VIII Not BurIesque Hamlet.

But viii tel you one thing, If my
won't continue 60 play it as a bur
lesque. That would be sacrilege. Even
if I played to capacity business, I
would not let the people make a per
manent Joke of my highest ambition
If 1 do get away with it. however, I
am going to abandon all this burlesque
rot and go in for Shakespeare for
keeps. No Falstaffs or Gobbos for me.
either I am going TO play serious
parts. Iago. for example. is a great
part. simply immense. I would like 70
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something. I'm not going TO have a
managers wanted me to use the Soth-
arn settings. but I don't think I like
them"
Are you much Of a swordsman?' I
asked.
NO. but I know enough TO make
the last scene realistic. And I am
going TO die dow stage as near the
audience as I can get am not go
ing to have that business OF blood on
the arm. either. don't like it. don't
like It bit.
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mother like some of these present-day
tragedians do?
"The Foy Hamlet is going to be
very gentle with his mother. very
gentle"
urged Mr.. Foy to give me his soil
lOquy.
no. I cannot he said. 4 am go
ing to have a surprise in store for the
public
Are you going ~ deliver it stand
ing. or sitting I asked.
u don't know. haven't thought
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out all the stage business yet. The
only thing 1 can say about it is that
l am going to say 1t very slow-very
slow. I am going 90 introduce a good
piece OF business in the grave scene.
When I jump in with Laertes, and
cry This is 7, Hamlet the Dane, I
am going to grab a torch from one Of
the attendants and throw It around
my neck"
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minute 1 say y little more than
kin, a little less than kind But
if I can get them serious" and
with this he made an impuIsive
gesture with his right hand that
threw cigar ashes over me as
though a Nesuvius had broken
loosen eight or ten minutes. [
shall haze done something big
don't YOU see?'
/ saw.
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- F COURSE you,
. 9 like every other
newspaper man,
believe that /
am Joking when

newspaper man,
believe that l
am joking when
l say that 1 am going to play
Hamlet" said Eddie Foy, as he
curled one foot up on a lounge in
the lobby of the Shoreham one
afternoon last week. and placed
his derby at an angle of forty-fve
degrees on the side of his head.
But YOU are wrong. dead wrong.
I am sorIU1s for one time in my
life. and I'm going to play it. You
think because I haven't done any
thing for thirty years but run
against gaspipes, shuttle around
the stage in big feet, and do other
burlesque stunts. that 1 can't do
Shakespeare. Well, maybe I can't,
but 1 believe can, and you viii
see me.
Why. 1 have been yearning to
play hamlet ever since 1 BACKED
Edwin Booths shoes in Chicago in
the early seventies, and went to
the theater that night, sitting way
up in the peanut gallery. That's
what started me to yearning for
Hamlet. And now l am going to do
him. went on the stage just after
l saw Booth, went on as a clog
dancer, then as a mimic, a clown.
and lots of other things. Why, I
was a regular dancing master
once. 1 did a whole lot of things,
but didn't do any of them well.
Now, l am going to change. and 1
believe I can give a Hamlet that
will grip the audience.
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yard at night and say in a CONVEX
sational tone, How long viii a man
lie l. the earth ere he rot?' Why.
there's got to be something behind
those words. There's got to be force.
and 1 believe L can give it to +em.
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Where Actors Make Mistakes.

And then in the closet scene WITH
his mother. That's another place
where the modern actors make big
mistake. Who would roar at his
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~ Ut I'm going to fool these
people who are coming to
guy me. Why, they won't
know me when / walk on
the stage. My voice will be the only
thing that will give me away They
won't know me because I am going 10
make up mighty young. and ] amt
going to walk ike everybody has seen
me in burlesque for years And 1
am going to wear a dark brown wig.
Black Is too heavy. entirely TOO heavy
for the part.
IF It takes-ah. if it takesr' And
as he ruminated blissfuHy upon the
possibility the Foy haIf-moon of a
mouth became almost d full moon Of
JOY. If his nose had not been in the way
I believe the lips would have completed
the circle.
Hamlet is being played all wrong
these days" he continued. why,
look at that graveyard scene! Do
you think any young man who has
killed his sweetheart's father. been
grossly deceived in his mother. ban
ished from the kingdom, and haunted
by the suspicion that his father was
murdered-do you think, I say. that
such a man would walk into a grave
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by ths way. isn't that great when
Hamret says:
On. that this too. too solid flesh would
melt.
Thaw and rssolvs itself into q dew
And then, forgetting that he had de-
cllned 20 deliver the big solilOQuy for
me. Foy continued with deep emotion
to read the magical lines Of the play.
It was grotesquely Pathsic-not q
burlesque. not for a moment. But te
see this man. garbsd in red nannsl
tights, with short white undsrskiTt
about his waist he was dressing for
the second act Of The Orchid'D. hs7
face covered with grease paint ard
the daubs Of a clown. pouring out -
very soul IN the tragic lines.
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February 2. 1910 5
The Washington times., 1908-08-23
PLAY HANGS FIRE
IN TENNIS EVENT
Three Days More May Be Required
to Settle Championship in Ma
tional Tournament.

NEWPORT. r. l.. Aug. with only
eight players left in the struggle for
all-oomers The national tennis tourna-
ment was postponed today by rain.
Probably three days II next week viii
be required 10 settle the championship.
On Monday there will be some great
tennis. Alexander who many pick for
the challenger will play Frank Sullo-
way, OF Boston
Clothier is matched against Q. F.
Touchard; Emerson, OF Chicago, viii
meet J. z. d. Jones. the Rhode Island
champion. and Besls wright viii play
II. Torrance. II. It looks now as II
either Alexander or Clothier viii meet
Wright in the hnal match to decide VINO
shah play william A. Lsrned for the
championship.