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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-13
The Cane Crop.

Louisiana Planter.
The dry and cool weather
which has prevailed during the
week has been hailed with de-
light by the sugar planters who
were becoming very apprehen-
sive of green canes on account
of the prevalence Of warm rainy
weather up to about the begin
ming of October. The canes
are now ripening satisfactorily
and with . continuation of dry
days and cool nights the inaug-
uration Of the campaign should
lind the crop in condition to
yield q profitable amount Of
sugar. That . satisfactory crop
is on the ground seems to be
pretty well assured and the main
interest now centers in the price.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-13
COTTON DETERIORATES
IN SEPTEMBER.
Falling Off in Conditions Only
noderate. In Louisiana Boil
Weevil Very Disastrous.

The Times Democrat yester-
day presented it's correspond
ents' reports on the cotton crop
for the month of September.
The consensus of opinion is to
the following effect:
/. There has been a moderate
deterioration. taking the belt as
a whole.
2. Fine weather and an ample
supply of labor have combined to
make the picking pheEomenal'y
rapid.
3. There is IL general desire to
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-13
Personals.

Mr. and Mrs. Robley Duplex,
of Youngsville, we're in town
Sunday.
just received a fresh lot of
Neutriline, rice polish. rice bran,
and rice chicken feed, also seed
Oats.-D. P. Upton, phone 1872.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Doucet
became the happy parents of
= fine boy Thursday.
The place to get quick service
is Bernard & Meaux'-give them
an order for groceries.
Cyprien Monte has recovered
from the injuries sustained from
q fall from his wagon, caused by
bad roads. The road where he
sustained his fall is being worked
and put in good condition.
just received a new line of
post cards, also magazines and
all the latest novelties at M. P.
Moore's, Fortunes old stand.
Circulating library 10 cents q
week.
A. w. Hoffpauir of second ward
paid our Office a pleasant call
Friday.
Call at Schmulen's and see
what q nice stock they have and
then you will also find that the
sprices are very attractive.
Don't throw away q good
umbrella because the covering is
torn; we recover umbrellas and
parasols with any grade of cover
ing desired, from the cheapest
cambria to the best of silk.
Prices reasonable. Call and see
samples or ring up phone 216.-
A. j. Bonnet.
FOUND-One pair gold cuff
buttons at Tanner 4 Landry's
Hall on night of Odd Fellows
Ball. Owner can secure them
by calling on G. E. Harnisch and
Identifying same and paying cost
of this advertisement.
All kinds of cakes to order ut
Laurent's Bakery.
The Falk Mercantile Co. are
prepared to take charge OF
funerals and attend to all grave
yard work. A fine rubber tired
hearse in stock.
Best and purest fruit cake at
only 40 cents per pound, at
Laurent's Bakery.
WANTED-Furnished rooms
in which light housekeeping may
be done. Must be within eight
blocks of Advertiser Office and
rent reasonable. Address L. J..
L.; care Advertiser.
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Store For Rent.

Two.story building. Second
story may be used as residence
Desirable location on corner near
new High School. Will be ready
for occupancy about Oct. 10th.
Rent moderate. Apply to DR..
N. P. Moss, at First National
Bank.
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Church.

Regular services will be held at the
Presbyterian church every Sunday at
IL a. m. and 1870 D. m. Prayer meet
ing every Thursday at 7:3O p. m
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Rev. E. NJ. STEWART,
f. Pastor.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-13
THE RACES LAST SUNDAY.

The races at Surrey Park last
Sunday were very well attended.
and a good number we're present
from Opelousas, New Iberia, St.
Martinville and Sunset. The
track was in excellent condition
and the races we're fine.
The half mile pacing, best 3 in
5, entries Rex E. by A. Peck,
Walter Dillon. by r. Vailloir,
The Rosary by DR.. F. Boyd,
Crowley Mare by Jumonville,
was won by Walter Dillon. time
1:84.
The second race, half mile
pacing, best 3 in 5 With the fol
lowing entries, Anna by John
Clay. Bye by Peck. Nelly by
Broussard, Jack by Torian, was
not finished and will be complet-
ed next Sunday.
The running race, quarter
mile heat, entries Nellie Blond
by Luc Mouton, WaIkover by
Willie William, Henry May by
Tom PiMo, was won by Walk
over, time 264.
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For Rent.

Large front room, with heater,
near high school. Apply at this
Office.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-13

Get your fall suit from KahD's
and you may be sure you get
lyle, tit and quality.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-10-13

Try Laurent's pure clean and
nutritious bread. always good"
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Order Of the Eastern Star

Lafayette Chapter U. D., Mrs. 81.
Js9ou, w. M; /. J. Delmouly Sec'y;
meets on lrst and third Mondays OF
every month at 7:30 p. m.
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

time, as doubtless Mr.. CHM will realize
later.
William Desmond, too, will forego
his vacation.
Though she has not perfected her
plans yet. am informed that Miss Hall
has decided to go abroad and that
when her present contract at the Bur-
bank expires next August she will de-
vote year to foreign travel, perhaps
returning to the same house when her
passion for exploration has been salts
fed.
They are still telling stories about
the Edgar Temple opera company's
trip to Riverside and San Bernardino,
and probably they will be doing so for
many a day to come. 1t is always fun
ny when a big theatrical organization
visits a small place, but the humor of
the situation somehow seems never to
strike home to the people in these
towns.
At Riverside, for instance, when Ed
gar Temple himself appeared in his
open-front clothes at the theater he
was at once taken for the tenor; not
bad guess. as he is something of
tenor himself. But MacGahan is sing
ing those roles, and MacGahan, being
big and husky, was at once lined up
as the baggage master instead of Jim
Newman. You can easily imagine the
horror of the staid Mr.. MacGahan-and
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

I lie production was made in San Fran
cisco by Matthews and Bulger. in whose
company Miss Tannehill was then
playing leading feminine roles. The
piece was a farce comedy, with must
cal Interpretations, and was entitled
THE Night of the Fourth"
Miss Tannehill, by the way, has had
She began her stage work as a child in
Denver, under the tutelage of her
mother, Grace Anne Clark, in her day
one of the best known of American
actresses and singers. Mrs. Clark ac-
companied Ole Bull on his last Ameri-
can tour as soprano soloist. AS lead
ing woman of the old Bowery theater
In New York she appeared in support
of such famous actors as John Wilkes
Booth, Edwin Forrest and Edmund
Keene.
Subsequently she became leading
woman of the Curtiss theater stock
company in Denver, and 1t was upon
Tannehill made her debut. That was in
the days of travelling stars. and there
the little girl played In support of
Joseph jefferson. Oliver Doud Byron.
Barney McCauley, Mrs. Bowers and
other celebrities now dead.
For two years she played the name
part in "Evangeline,' with Dick
Golden, Fortescue and Moffatt in the
cast, following Louise Montague In the
role. The next year she sang Gabriel
III the same piece. following Fay Tenn
pletton.
She was in the original cast of Hoyt's
az Brass Monkey" with Charles Reed,
Tim Murphy and Flora Walsh. She
played one season with Hallen and
Hart in Later On" She was with
Savage two years, singing In both his
grand and light opera companies in
Chicago st. Louis and Boston. She
has sung in fifteen grand operas and
In 12O comic operas and musical come
dies
She played a season of three months
with Matthews and Bulger at the Cali
fornia theater in San Francisco. In
to the stars this company in
cluded on its roster Walter Jones,
Maude Courtenay, Louise Cunning, |
Mary Marble and Tony Hart. They
presented "A Rag Baby" "A Black
Sheep" 20. What a Night" "The Sad
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audacity. One of the cleverest tricks he
ever played on an audience came in
1.-THE Climbers" Here Fitch involved
himself in a situation where 1t became
necessary for the weakling in the play
to confess his misdeeds. Necessarily
the speech was long one and neces-
sarily 1t retold matters with which the
audience already was familiar. How
then, to secure the absolute quiet re-
quired by the situation?
Fitch solved the problem. He made
his man explain that he lacked the
courage to tell his disgraceful story in
the light. Then, presto, every light in
the theater was extinguished and the
speech was delivered in black dark
ness. Without this trick the scene
mus have fallen fiat.
There is a clever satirical touch in
THE Girl of the Golden West" which
has apparently been overlooked by the
critics In the school scene the Girl, as
teacher" suggests that her pupils, the
camp miners sing America" The men
beg off. They can't sing. They don't
know the air. And they don't know the
words. Then two Indians, a brave and
a squaw, stolidly arise and stumble
through the anthem:
My country, tits of thee,
Sweet land of libertyi''
There is a laugh in that situation,
but there is something more if you care
to hunt for it.
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you can appreciate 1t still more If you
know him-when the property man at
the Loring demanded of him:
"Say, teller, them trunks amt UP
yet, an it's nigh onto o'clock"
MacGahan promptly had spasm,
and Newman swelled up like a pizened
pup over his unexpected dignity
In San Bernardino one of the chorus
girls, who isn't bigger than minute,
anyhow, was stopped by policeman
on her way to the theater, who told her
that "curfew had been rung tonight"
and it was time for her to go home.
Not till he had escorted her to the
stage door and verified her statement
that she was a member of the opera
troupe" would he let her go.
1t takes a good deal to shock the
atrical manager, but the thing can be
done, as that distinguished and some
what rotund theatrical entrepreneur,
Thomas Baker, will admit If you have
the hardihood to ask him about 1t.
Baker finds 1t difficult to forget his
experiences on the kerosene circuit in
Kansas when he was
the cook and the captain bold.
And the mate of the Nancy brig,
The bos'n tight and the midshipmite
And the crew of the captains gig
In those days Tom served as mana
ger, treasurer, billposter, photographer,
stage director, ticket taker, usher, or
chestra leader and one of the actors
of a mediocre rep" show. When he
wasn't otherwise employed he sold
"Gunyon's Green Globules for Gullible
Guys" through the audience and short
changed the rubes whenever he thought
he could get away with it. OF course
Tom won't admit this, but it seems to
be in the part.
Anyhow the experience gained that
season has made the Thomas Baker of
today a habitual worker. Ostensibly
he's the manager of the Grand opera
house. In reality he's pretty much ev-
erything around the place that isn't
unionized, and occasionally he even
butts into the union game.
In particular he has bad habit of
going back on the stage. a place no
self-respecting manager should ever
visit; and when he does go back sparks
usually fly. They did Thursday night
and they flew plenty.
Baker wandered around behind as
usual. Sam Aten, the house electrician,
saw him coming. Sam is quick think
er, but this time he broke even his best
previous record. Baker took two steps
forward and accidentally brushed UP
against the switchboard. Aten made
just one little move. and then ITO am
peres Of the stuff from Kern river went
cavorting merrily along the Baker
watch chain, sputtered fitfully from the
Baker Masonic emblem and was lost.
With them went a few volts and ohms
and other things, but it was the am
peres that pioneered the way. The
watch chain, neatly severed, dropped
to the floor. Half of the Masonic charm
lad disappeared, when Baker, recovered |
from his fright, picked up what was
lefs of the wreck there remained be-
hind a neat little yellow pile molten
metal.
That was bad enough, but whom some
one gathered up the debris and took 1t
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

predicted that Harry Messenger. Maude
Gilbert, II. j. CHM and Blanche Hall
would be among the missing by au-
tumn. Since then the kaleidoscope has
turned and of the quartet named Miss
Hall Is the only one who has not signed
contract for another year in the
Main street house.
There have been concessions, of
course. For instance, Harry Mestayer
today begins a five weeks vacation.
Mr.. Mestayer has been suffering with
throat trouble Of late and is to have
an operation performed, following
Wnich ne expects to make short trip
either to Honolulu or to the Yosemite
ne hasn't yet decided which. He will
return in time to create role in "a
Society Pilot"
Miss Gilbert will have two months
vacation beginning June is, and will go
east to visit her family and enjoy the
not weather. She says she is going
for a rest, and as the family lives in
Philadelphia that would seem to be
making virtue of necessity. 4,
III. j. CHM Will continue to reside in
Los Angeles. He has been released
from his contract to Join one of the
Frohman companies, and has decided
that he doesn't need vacation. There
are, however, something like sixty
days in two months and that, as some
body once remarked, is "a very long
time" even in the good, old summer
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sung In La Scala, Milan, thus realizing
the ambition OF every singer of prom
inence. Also she has sung by royal
command before the king of Spain and
her name and fame are we'll known
through France, Spain and Italy. Her
repertoire includes such operas as
Faust, Lucia di Lammermoor,
Aida" I'll Trovatore," ''Traviata, "
'Rigoletto," Il Puritani," "Sonnambula"
and so forth. She never has sung in
any Of the German operas and never
in any language save French and ltal-
ian
However, Miss Dormoni speaks Eng
fish huently and has spoken 1t ever
since she was child her mother hav-
ing been an Englishwoman.
Her musical education was gained at
the Paris conservatory and under
Jean de Reszke. During four years she
studied art under Whistler in his atelier
in Paris.
Miss Dormoni has been in this coun-
try only four months She came here
not to sing, but to visit relatives in
the northern part of the state. Once
before she came to America, but then
merely passed across the continent on
her way to the Orient. Her voice is a
coloratura soprano.
The threatened upheaval in the ranks
of the Burbank stock company has
been averted. A few weeks ago 1t was
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

across the street Uncle Ike, upon learn
ing where IL had come from, refused to
waste good acid upon the stuff.
Now when Manager Thomas Baker
goes back upon his own stage he SHES
at that switchboard like a 3-year-old
Hambletonian just in from grass.
Harry Glazler of the Seasco compa-
ny will soon join the little theatrical col
on at Glendale. Glazier is building a
house in that suburb and he is building
1t by day labor, himself experimenting
the work.
The first thing Glazier does every
morning when he picks up his paper Is
to turn to the market page, not to ac-
quire information on stocks and bonds,
wheat or barley, but to scan the price
of lumber, laths, shingles, etc. When
lumber goes down Glazier buys. When
it goes up he builds. If it continues to
go down he probably will buy enough
to erect three or four houses, and no
man yet ever succeeded in building
house that didn't require wing or two
before many years had passed.
After he finishes the lumber quota
tons Glazier turns to the dramatic
news; but lumber has first call, just at
present.
Miss Bessie Tannehill, now leading
woman at Fischers theater, was a
member of the first cast that presented
the first piece George AIDE ever wrote.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12
MRlE7r
DoRroW1
OBSERVATIONS BY
A FIRST NIGHTER

rs Edgar Temple planning to give
1 Los Angeles a season of grand
u opera at the Auditorium?
This query is made pertinent by the
suggestion of Miss Marietta Dormoni,
one of the prima donnas Of the Temple
OF ganization, with whom l had little
talk one day last week. Miss Dormoni
! is grand opera singer. She never has
sung in light opera nor in musical COM
edy. What is more. she never has sung
in public in the English tongue.
In the course Of our talk l expressed
surprise that she should have deserted
the grand opera for the comic opera
Stage, and asked her how it happened
Il can't tell you, really" she said.
"Mr. Temple sent for me. Where he
heard of me l don't know; but he sent
and l came. He didn't tell me so, but
| think he expects to put on grant
opera here before his season Closes"
Confidentially, believe Miss Dor
mCni already has become Yankee
enough to have guessed shrewdly.
Miss Eleanor Kent, alternate prima
donna of the company, is a graduate
fl ON the Savage English grand opera
forces. So is McGahan, the tenor. In
fact, pretty much every one of the
notwithstanding of course the
comedians-has had some experience
in grand opera organizations Thus
the company would seem to be well
suited for the work.
In talk at Riverside the other night
MI. Temple himself spoke of the op-
portunities he thought awaited the
manager who should offer his patrons
English grand opera at popular prices.
Temple was one of the original pro-
prietors of the old Boston Lyric COM
pany, which preceded Savage by sew
eral years in the grand-opera-i Eng
lish field. The company made money
in Boston, in Denver, in Minneapolis
AND other cities where engagements of
varying lengths were played. Then Mr..
Temple suggested to his partners the
advisability of taking the organization
into New York to sing at the American
theater.
They would not listen to him, how
ever. The house, they said, had always
been a hoodoo, and they were afraid
to take the chance involved. Because
Of this and other differences Temple
withdrew from the organization. A
few months later Henry w. Savage
rented the American, put in grand
opera in English and thus laid the
foundation of his fortune.
With this experience in mind 1t would
not be at all surprising If the Auditor
ON impresario should decided to carry
tut here the plan frustrated then
through the cowardly short sightedness
If his business associates.
Miss Dormoni who will sing the pri-
ma donna role in "The Filibuster"
VI onday night and who will alternate |
With Miss Kent during the week, never
las sung in America. Abroad she has !
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

black bag which was the most cher
1shed possession OF the Swiss family
Robinson.
Belasco brings down his first act cur
tain upon the Girl, alone on the stage.
He says : have the face of an angel"
she says; and then, with an innocent
coquetry that robs the speech of Of
Tense, ooh, hell"
Then, in the second act, there is a
trick which for downright effectiveness
has had few equals on the contem-
poraneous stage. The girls road agent
lover has returned to her cabin, sorely
wounded She conceals him in a loft
and then answers a knock on the door
to admit the sheriff.
Now, note the skill with which this
trick is handled. Before the sheriffs
entrance, as Ramirez is dragging him
self along that makeshift upper floor,
an edge of the handkerchief he has
used to stop the flow of blood from his
wound protrudes through a crack. The
girl sees 1T and makes the audience
see it by warning him that the cracks
are wide, thus preparing the minds Of
her auditors for what is to follow
There ensues a colloquy of several
minutes between the girl and the
sheriff, contrived so that the incident
gotten. Then as the sheriff prepares
to go he extends his hand for parting
handshake.
The stage is darkened. Upon that
hand shines dimmed spot light, just
strong enough to serve it's purpose. AS
the sheriff stands there a drop of blood
falls from the ceiling upon his wrist.
In amaze he wipes it off with a white
handkerchief, but as he takes the linen
away 1t is encrimsoned by another
shower of blood from above. The
fugitive is discovered. Clyde Fitch,
with all his tricks, has given us moth
ing as effective as this.
OF course, the entire fourth act is a
trick in itself, but a trick of such
stagecraft that its anti
climax brings with 1t compensation.
In a lesser degree Clyde Fitch pos
sesses this same knack of dramatic
surprises and a similar ability to vio-
late the generally accepted rules of
but he lacks Belasco's
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

changed somewhat and the drama was
rewritten, Miss Florence Stone appear
ing here in the name role.
In its present form there seems to be
no good reason why Kate Shannon"
should not prove =. success. The play
was we'll liked here, despite certain
faults which were pointed out at the
time of its presentations and despite
an inartistic and clumsy ending. How
ever, even should the critical east" de-
cline to accept 1t the onus, doubtless,
will not fall entirely upon Mrs. An
drews' shoulders. At this distance she
seems to have been singularly unfor-
tunate in placing her work. Certainly
Miss Virginia Harmed seems lily fitted
to play Kate.
In constructing THE Girl of the
Golden West" which tomorrow enters
upon its second week at the Belasco
theater, David Belasco has drawn liber-
ally from his bag of tricks which, by
the way, seems to be quite as compre-
hensive in its contents as that little
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

In a lesser degree Clyde Fitch pos
sesses this same knack of dramatic
surprises and a similar ability to vio-
late the generally accepted rules of
playwrights, but he lacks Belasco's
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-12

Margaret Anglin produced her new
play, 1.-THE Awakening of Helen Ritz
chile" in Philadelphia
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
HAD QUIET CHRISTMAS

Washington, Dec. 25.-Christmas at
the national capital was marked by an
almost complete cessation of business,
both official and private, and in it's
stead there was substituted the time
honored observance OF the gladstone
day. Nature combined to give an add
ed effect to the joyous occasion by. Gov
ering the earth with a mantle of snow,
and the JOY of sleighbelis was every
where heard AS has been the case in.
years past. interest centered In What
the official families Were doing. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a large
family lunch to few intimate friends,
and tonight they dined with Rear Adj.
mir.ll and Mrs. Cowles. Most of the
cabinet folk We're here. the only alb
sentees being Secy. Of War and Mrs.
Wright, who celebrated the day at
their home in Memphis; Atty.-Gen.
and Mrs. Bona pai'te, who are at their
home in Baltimore: Secy, NewbeiTy.
who was the guest of the Detroit club,
In his native city, and Postmaster Gen
eral Meyer. who has gone on a brief
hunting trip. The vice president. his
daughter Mrs. John Timmons, and the.
CONS of the household remained here to
participate in the days Festivities,
while Mrs. Fairbanks Is visiting
criends in Atlantic iCty.