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FOR RENT-To suitable couple, rooms, hallway, front and back galleries, water and electric lights; all modern conven- ienoes ;->separate upstairs in owners residence $16.O0 per month. Apply at house No 14l2 North 20th street
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TWO rooms furnished complete for light
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ELEGANTLY furnished front room with all modern conveniences; gentlemen pre- ferred; references required. 1019 17th street, south.
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FOR RENT-Nicely furnished room cheap at TOT North 18th street.
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GENERAL Agents-Best seller on earth; exclusive territory Sample 25c. Pitts burgh Coffee Filter Co.,, Pittsburgh, Pa
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FOR RENT-Nicely furnished room in private family. 1914 10th avenue, South Highlands; convenient to four electric cars
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NICELY furnished room and board in private family for two gentlemen;
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FOR RENT-Large, light, front office on second floor of centrally located build ing. R. F. Manly & Co, 201s 1st avenue. FOR RENT-Office space, ground floor, 25x5O. Birmingham Real Estate Ex- change.
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FOR RENT-Comfortab room with pri- vate bath; excellent table board; suit able for couple or two young. men. 1926 South 18th street.
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IF It's a typewriter you want, we can suit you. Think of a new $105 Fox at SS5, or a No. Remington for s35, or new Pittsburg Visible, price $75, for $40; Yost for s20. E. E. Forbes Piano oon,,oo,r 1onn oa -o,.aa,,o
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FOR RENTING nicely furnished rooms;
 modern conveniences; gentlemen only.
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AGENTS-s30O every month sure, selling our wonderful seven-pieee kitchen set;
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WANTED-Small set of books to keep
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A NICE couple can secure room and board with a private family; no other boarders, select neghborhood; electric lights, hot and cold water. S27 s. 18th street, or telephone 2097 Peoples.
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 2-8-2t-sat-mon
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WANTED-To supply you with a home; we have some nice ones and would like you to see them before you buy or rent. R. F. Manly & Co.,, 201S 1st avenue.
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AGENTS-THIS MEANS YOU-$25 to sSoo weekly. Men, women, boys and girls. We furnish everything. None too poor. Cripples welcomed. No talking. can wasting, experience or capital necessa- ry Daily pay Request brings first sup ply. Free Supply Co.,, Box 1144, Pitts burg, Pa.
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S3250 = Coming business property stores all around it; Sroom house, lot
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NEAT comfortable room nicely furn- ished, every convenience, hot and cold water, private family. 2305 5th avenue FOR RENT-One room and kitchen or two rooms and kitchen. on ground hoor, completely furnished for light house. keeping. 2016 4th avenue.
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LADY AGENTS are making s25 per week selling our great line of necessities; no scheme; particulars free. Write us now. Young, 1S4 Dearborn St., D. 150, Chicago. $4400-Bargain, rents s550; 100X24O with four good dwellings,, 10th ave nue, north; easy walk of center; half cash, 1 and ? years. B. F. Eborn, Ground floor, Norris hotel.
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REFINED YOUNG MAN with large plantation and city home wishes to cor respond with young lady from IS to 25 with view to matrimony. J. D. Woods worth, care L. & N. yard office, Mont eomery Ala
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$5500-A modern, comfortabIe, Deaull- fully located, new 2-story, 7-room, furnace heated home; 14th avenue, west of goth street. South Highlands; rents $40 a month. Terms tomorrow, $500 cash, $50 per month. B. F. Eborn, ground floor. Morris hotel.
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WANTED-Agents to sell suburban real
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-09

Cured years before, or describe
infinitely the mental processes by
which we arrive at the determine
ton to do a certain thing. All
this would take a great amount Of
time, and time is genuinely pre-
ciOus on the stage. Under the
modern tenets Of naturalness, il Is
ever a risky thing. and generally
an inartistic expedient to resort to
a soliloquy to convey the thought
of the stage person TO his audi
tors. All these things must be
shown by physical action, by in
Election of the voice, or mobility Of
countenance 1t is for these rea-
sons that Balzac is unsatisfactory
material from which to draw ou~
plays, unless we do as Mr.. Potter
has done In The Honor Of the
Family take the characters Of
Balzac and create for them new
and more dynamic situations"
us it easier, then, to write a
play outright than 70 dramatic a
novel successfully" I asked.
Il should say yes, unquestion-,
ably. For then you have your ma
terial at first hand, and you can
make of it what you wish. And
why should we have to depend
upon the dramatization OF novels
when we have capable and original
dramatists like Mr.. Thomas and
Mr.. Fitch to give us material for
the stage2"
do you expect to have a plNy
from one Of these authors next
season.
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Why. I have made no definite
plans for next season as yet.
shall have to open in my present
play, for 1 still have = great deal
of ground to cover-Boston. Phila-
delphia, Cleveland, Buffalo, and a
number of other cities of equal
Importance"
Aren't you rather late in get
ting into New York this year?"
"Yes. I go to the Hudson Thea
ter two weeks from tonight, but 1
am rather glad that I have been
delayed in my metropolitan open
ing"
son account Of the bad season.
Eyes. But, after all, it has not
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tie a Balzao novel successfully.
Balzao wrote a number Of plays
himself, believe. but they we're
exceedingly poor attempts at play
writing. There is a vast difference
between play writing and novel
writing. In the latter the author
has ample time and space to give
you the innermost feelings Of his
characters. He can describe the
incidents which lead up to GER
tain line OF action, can go into de-
tails of heredity, environment, and
influence. In a scene between the
characters he is permitted TO tell
the reader just what is passing in
the minds Of each individual.
"Such things are impossible on
the stage. In our longest plays we
have but two hours In which to
convey all our story and our per-
sonality to the audience We can't
tell our audience what las Oc-
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Philippe snences interviewer.

Philippe sHences interviewer.
I have seen vaudeville on more
than one occasion when I really
enjoyed the performance, but I
dared not intimate such q thing to
this D'Artagnan, who scorned and
whipped with the back Of his
sword anything so inartistic as
clowns, musical numbers, ubIqui-
tous mOnologists, and other mem
bers of the vaudevilIian tribe.
sat in silence while this philippe
wa being hurled at that ever
growing number Of players who
are desepsing the legitimate for
the sake Of the two-a-day. I was
one Of the culprits SO lacking in
artistic temperament as to 60 to
see vaudeville once in while.
cw, If the playwright can
catch the ear Of the vaudeville
frequenter and at the same time
interest those who Ike the best IN
our art, the play has achieved
something out of the ordinary.
And believe that thsmodern playa
are doing this more and more each
year. The stage is much better on
today than it was forty years ago.
And merely because Shakespeare
wrote in the latter part of the six
teenth century does not argue that
the audiences Of that age were
more apPreciattve Of the best In
our art than the playgoers Of to-
day. AS a matter Of fact, Shake
speare, Beaumont, and Fletcher
had a very small following smonK
the common people and their
plays were seldom presented as
public entertainments.
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Disturbed From slumber.

Recovering as quickly as l
could after my blunder, we walked
into Mr.. SINNERS sitting-room,
where from the disordered appear
ance of his couch 1 readily sur
missed that the bellboy who had
brought my card had disturbed
sound slumber.
II suppose you are very weary
ran over TO New York, Of
course, TO spend Sunday, and re-
malned until the very last minute,
as al the rest Of the Broadway
satisfies dol"
mo, mol" he replied, rather
ierHiiy, at the same time rubbing
his eyes and looking longingly at
a rocl1ing-chair while motioning
me to a straight chair, and at the
same time offering me the one he
coveted. "No. I was not able to
get over to New York this time. I
have just come in from Chicago, a
run of twsnty-three hours, and I
had q rather busy time before leav-
ing there"
I'm what respect?" asked.
well, The Friars gave me a
dinner Friday night, and, Of
course, did not get to sleep until
nearly o'clock Saturday morning.
Then there were two perform
ances Saturday, and the long ride
Sunday and Sunday night"
After such an explanation it was
impossible for me to take the
rocker.
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Plenty Of Trash.

Il say that we are much better
of today than we were forty years
ago, but DO not mean By ShsA we
have no trash today. We have q
lot of it--slwsys ha~o had. and al
ways Will But W have less to-
day than We have ever had before.
1.-THE theaser cannot be better
than the patron. The one depends
primarily upon the other, and as
our public OF 1908 Is more broad
minded than the public Of 1898, or
Ises, so our plays are better"
It was almost time for Mr.. Skin
ner to appear at the National. and
as I realized this hurriedly beat
retreat from ons OF the few real
scholars and critics OF our modern
ssa9A. RALPH GRAVES.
paGs Five
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ed But from the expression on
the a,tor's face I do not think the
public viii ever be permitted 10
hear that particular specimen Of
blank verse
And here are other playwrights
who insist upon handicaPPing
themselves by trying to write
plays in rhyme. Wherein is the
reason for all this rhyme? I am
sure the average person does not
sneak IN verse, and the stage is
supposed to set forth the daily
conversation Of men and women.
That is one Of Ibsen's strong
points, his realism in dialogue, and
it is just this sterling point that
enables him to present upon the
stage more of the mental attitude
Of his characters than most play
vrights.
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shon al Toe COMMONPLACE.

Il haven't seen your new play,
and so / can't begin to catechise
YOU about how you like your pres
ent role as compared with dozen
others. OF what you think Of such
and-such a situation or any num-
Der of conventional questions as a
starter for real conversation, and
interviewing. and as both of US
presumably wear warm clothing
the weather is not of vital inter
est" said, as we took our seats
on opposite sides Of a table
"Oh. I could talk of my play, but
it is so conventional and common
place to talk of that" replied the
actor, with a tone of depreciation.
1T is a Balzac adaptation, is It
not?" I ventured.
Eyes, Balzac in a way The char
acters are Balzac's. but the Incl
dents are all the dramatist's. He
has merely used the Frenchman's
creatures in lie Menage de Gar
con-" around whom TO weave his
stage story. Tou know, it is prae-
tically an impossibility to drama
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been such a bad season as people
are prone TO suppose. There have
been several really big suecesses,-
Tie Thief, The Witching Hour.
When knights We're Bold MY
Wife. Madam Nazimova's revival
OF several TbseE plays, and, Of
course, the phenomenal success of
The Merry Widew.'
"Have you seen The Witehing
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pointed YEARLY toward a pie OF
closely typewriter sheets lying on
the table, It resembled in point of
size one Of our latter day Presi-
Dental messages, as it appears in
manuscript. Thrice Mr.. SINNERS
allotted two hours would not have
suficed TO allow that playwright
TO have his actors say all he want
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HourT There is a play which
understand coabats your theory
that action, rHther than thought,
mSles the successful play"
"Cn the contrary. the subject Of
mental telepathy is merely worked
in by Mr.. Thomas as an incident to
the moving play. None but an ar
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n n r. SKINNER says
OS won't you come
up to his apart
ment, No. 5o6," said
bellboy at the
shOreham about $3.50 last Monday
evening. After ringing the bell at
No. 500 there was a brief pause,
and then the door was thrown
open silently. and there stepped
from behind it a smallish. heavily
set man, wearing a brown smok-
ing jacket, collarless, with a gray
muller about his throat, and his
feet encased in carpet slippers.
There was a rather formal bow as
I stepped across the threshold.
us Mr.. Skinner"
"How do you do. Won't you take
of your eoat?"
As soon as he spoke I knew it
was not the valet, as ] had sup
posed, but Mr.. skinner himself, for
who could mistake for a moment
that rich, well-modulated voice
that makes this actor known
throughout the country as one Of
the best readers on the American
stage, 1t was that tiny gray eye
brow of a mustache which now
adorns his lip that had misled me,
for the last time / saw him he was
PLAYING in "The Duel" in which
the clean-cut visage of the priest
became fixed in the memory. And,
then. too. a loose smoking jacket,
wide open at the neck, and your
stage hero shod in carpet slippers
instead of glistening. high-toPPed
boots. are not to be classed as first
aid to a crippled memory for
faces.
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Not Action Entirely.

when I say tfat the stage Is
primarily devoted TO action, I do
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fist could have presented even this
suggestion, however. He keeps the
subject Of mental transfsrenee of
thought in the background, and it
is only brought out st the crucial
moments In the play. We must al
ways remember that the stage is
designed essentially for action.
That is one reason why blank
verse is such an unwieldy vehicle
for the modern stage"
"But people win write blank
verse, I get st."
And as Mr.. Skinner said this he