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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18
SEES VIRTUE IN THE PADDLE.
Oregon Newspaper Sounds Praises Of
Corrective implement.

II boys must be fogged. the paddle
seems to be an almost divinely APP.
pointed implement to do it with. That
area Of the body which 1t most aptly
fits is not very susceptible to mortal
wounds; II has merely a sufiiciency
of nerves to unlock penitentlal tears
by their tingling when temperately
fiagellated: and the bones which 1t
contains are so abundantly swathed
about with muscular tissue that there
is no danger Of breaking them. 1t Is
fashionable in these degenerate days
to deny the hand of Providence In ar.
ranging the affairs of the world; but
II there is one piece of evidence more
convincing than another that the AL
mighty actually did fit this and that
together and adapt one thing to an
other In our mundane sphere, It is
the perfect adaptation of this portion
Of boys body to receive impulsive
stimulation from paddle.
But must boys be logged? What is
the ultimate effect of padding upon
the boy himself and upon the teacher
upon paddler and paddlee. to borrow
legal Technology? In the opinion
of the Oregonian, the paddle is dis
tinctly and unequivocally means OF
grace. II edifies not only the physical
and intellectual parts of the boy. but
also his soul. Many an unruly youth
apparently foredoomed to perditior
and predestinated to wrath, has been
plucked like brand from the burning
by regenerative padding. The world
is full of men Of light and leading
whom Satan thought he had bought
and paid for in their early youth. bu,
who were redeemed and washed o.
their sins by good. sound whipping
Marvellous are the virtues of the pad
die. salutary is the smart thereof, ant
the parent who rails against 1t is mo-
wise.-Portland Oregonian.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18

You can not substitute any epithet
for great, when you are talking of
great men. Greatness is not general
dexterity carried to any extent. nor
proficiency in any one subject of hu.
man endeavor. There are great as
tronomers. great scholars. great paint.
ers, even great poets, who are very
far from great men. Greatness can
do without success. and with 1t. VIII.
liam is greater in his retreats than
Marlborough in his victories. On the
other hand, the uniformity of Caesars
success does not dun his greatness
Greatness is not In the circumstances
but in the man.--Arthur Helps.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18

Doubts About II.
Bangs daughter had such expensive
tastes that suppose 1t is relief
to him to get her married off 80 we'll
Il don. know about that"
"Why not?"
"She was always on his hands, but
when | saw him taking her up the
aisle, she was on his arm"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18
The Woman Amanuensis.

The male amanuensis has been
hopelessly beaten in the race by the
busy woman scholar. Her industry Is
tireless and her knowledge absolutely
thorough. Her winning qualification
is patience-the dry details which
slacken a mans attention are vigor-
ously grappled with in her case, SO
that the demand for her labor and
knowledge is on the increase.
In a few years, however, she will
have wiped the male amanuensis out
OF existence. But 1t Is characteristic
OF her that the British museum Is the
only great building in London in which
one never sees pretty costume-ex,
cept inside the cover of a book
Woman's Life.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18

Dear Sally" wrote Miranda
Jane, a.
Between you, the gatc-post and
me,
l owe my good complexion to
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea.
Ritter Bros Drug Co.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18
Partnership Dissolved

Inasmuch as have dissolved part
nership with G. II. Baker invite all
my old customers and new ones to
again call at my old stand, SO West
First North. by Ed Pohl, the railor,
where tirst.class Shoe Repairing is
neatly done. Work guaranteed and
prices reasonable.
HANS ID. HANSEN,
The Shoemaker ,36 West First North
street, Logan.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18
p.p.w as Side Show Attraction.

Senator Depew made speech in
support Of the Alaska-Seattle exposi.
ton bill, In which he said that while
serving as orator of the day at the
Omaha exposition he went into side
show, which soon filled up. and he
learned that the barker had been
shouting through a megaphone. Come
in. ladies' and gentlemen. and see the
orator Of the day, only ten cents"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18
Give. Money to Flsh. Whit. Plague.

The largest contribution by one per-
son to the fund for the prevention and
relief Of consumption In this country
was made by woman. Mrs. Grace
Leattie. said to be the richest woman
in Missouri, has given 100000 to the
st. Louis society that devotes its en-.
ergies to the prevention and cure Of
the white plague.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-07-18
Poor Bobby!

my son." said Bobby's father. you
should always remember and emulate
the busy bee"
Ten minutes later Bobby was caught
In the neighbours apple tree gathering
blossoms. After being peppered with
salt by the irate neighbor he was
taken down behind the barn and
soundly thrashed
That's what you get for emulatine
the busy bee" he sobbed. Next time
| am going to emulate the lazy toat
and sit in the grass and do nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

as ready to play the role, besides twice
as eager, as though she had been as
signed TO it at the outset. The boom-a-
laddie of the show blared his trumpet
mouth loud and long for the novice who
AS in plays and stories-took the place
of principal all of a sudden. And
Mary was so sweet and clever that the
opening night for her was a whooping
night The hurrah for Mary, though,
didn't put THAT Affair at Boyd's''-
that was its name then-under momen-
tum enough to run we'll to the end of
the week. The natter was tinkered
some on its way to Chicago, where it
was called ''Ticey." and there Mary
was liked, the play was not and the
company was disbanded. l can't tell
only guess. why "Ticey" had a repeti-
ton here in New York. Its owner, Fred
erick Thompson, is the husband of the
lovely Mabel TaliaferrO, of whom he is
fondly making a star actress. and he
may have hoped to show the play as
possibly suitable for her use. Mary
Ryan may have been glad to demon
strate her charm. This was Christmas
time. when many charities appeal for
theatrical aid, and so the house was
given over TO be filled by women in fine
array.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

cited Saturday night audience, I am
still unable to say that 1t did or did
not get prospecting boost You know
from the tftle-don't you?-that Reds
kentucktan is d sturdy mOuntaineer.
but you may reckon that he is such \
romantic pioneer as Frank Mayo de-
lineated in 'Davy Crockett" and II
that's your calculation, then you are
mistaken: for this Kentuckian doesn't
fight wolves, and Davy die. for his
sweetheart, but is involved in a feud
between her family and his Now thar
is an appealing subject to fictlonists
who like to create lovers with MOntagu
haters TO keep them apart. Such fam
lily affairs have been presented IN our
best war plays Of val0r.
Reds characters talk reminiscently
of the war, but at present their liveliest
activity is connected with game Of
hide and seek with Uncle Sans Teve-
nue. officers over whisky. The Kentuck-
ian is not for or against the moOnslin-
ers; he is a candidate for congress,
that explains his reticence on that sub
ject; but when federal soldiers nab ms
fathers assassin at an Illicit distil-
lery-the grisIy enemy who has taunt-
ed him as coward for having let the
feud lag and not Staying him in repris-
al-he stands forth like a vaIOrOus strut
and says in stentOrian tones. This IL
hcit still is mine. Take me-" So he
goes to prison instead of his prospective
father-in-law and deadly foe whose
waning old life would fade out soon IN
a cell. Doesn't that strike you as
pretty tolerably good third-act climax
So indeed 1t is; and Reid isn't scared
by the gallery's lately acquired habit OF
chirping at lovers who COO and snug
gle: he makes this Kentucky Romeo
WOO his Juliet very ardently: but ne
should have gone to see a real feud
killing bee in Kentucky before writing
his play: and even now he might wei
take a night off to watch the SiciliaH
players smear a tragedy with the gore
OF an Italian feud; for his Observations
might save him from using guns thai
never go Off His Kentucky mountain
GERS, like the Rocky mOuntaineers q
whom the theatrical multitude are slcA
and tired, talk fight fiercely. but tig-,
none at all, and nobody is hurt. ne
nero gets the drop on his aSsailant eY-
cry time, and then's it's hands up and
bloodless victory. That trick VIII not
win applause any more; not even when
Reid plays with an odd throw Of ths
dice. AS the spOt-lit star actor uh,
armed, he Is faced suddenly by two on
ms Toes With cOcksure rifles aimed. -
the Jg up with him? No indeed. IL
sweetheart is behind his assassins Sh5
rushes between them, seizes from eacn
MS rifle as she passes, hands one %
ner lover, retains the other, and VIII
MN puts up conquering front. ~
was a rather ingenious variant or IN
once potent but now despised "gOt-ln-
orop-On-you" device Of melOdTama. Al
er moments hesitation the audience
gave 1t the laugh. I wondered il a s'g
OF gore from a tragedy Of Italian Ieu'
might not make The KentUckian 81
furiously.
Continued on Page s.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

The reason for ''Ticey's" failure isn't
obvious in the bright, brisk first act
Dallas Wexford, the English comedian,
with a face so comic that, upon his
first American round, he had merely to
show 1t and the people laughed. On
this occasion he is found in a restaurant
near stage door. He has brought a
girl there, SO that, when the players
come in from rehearsal for a bit of
luncheon, he may point them out as ac-
quaintances and scandalize them. At
ter he has chuckled and chortled glee-
fully over his lies for a While, he is
overheard by a stalwart actor, who
filings him out. Bully for Gillette. He
let's it be asserted thus loosely. yet for
chilly, that not all the gossip about
actresses is true. Winchell Smith comes
in with the theater's manager who
hands his last play back with the opin-
ion that it's ideas are good. but ex-
pressed in oracular flights rather than
natural conversation. Won't he take
help? No, indeed; his work is his own,
and must succeed or fail with him. Yet
in an ensuing act. Mary and Winchell
are collaborating easily and effectually.
By shrewd tact and a pretense of naive
ignorance, she leads him away from
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
THIS WEEK
AT THE THEATRES

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\ Wednesday and Wednesday matinee,
4 Facing the Music" Thursday, Fri 4
J. day Saturday matinees Friday and \
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+ stitute."
! COLONIAL-Au week, matinees I
\ Wednesday. Friday and Saturday,
y THE Devil"
= ORPHEUM-An week. beginning
; this evening, matinees daily, vaude- =
y Vile
! LYCEUM-All week. beginning this I
= evening, u.atinees Wednesday. Fri 4
\ day and Saturday. Too Proud TO :
\ Beg" 7
b GRAND-All week. beginning to-
, night. matinees "Wednesday and Sat
\ urday, vaudeville. drama and pic =
y lures.
\ LYRIC-AH week. matinees daily, Z
: pictures and illustrated songs
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

came so large that he could well af-
ford TO laze as an actor, and for l
don't know how many years he mere
ly kept his account books posted anG
smoked the cigar of affluent Solstice.
Last seasons figures Of the sudden
slump in gun-pop melodrama may have
jolted him out of his somnolescence.
Anyway, he has been here with a new
play and himself In the midst of it.
Something else than the election of Taft
needed to be done 10 restore prosper
ity TO cheap melodrama, and Reid IN
dertook TO do it. Has he done It?
Well
I have left the answer to that ques-
ton in suspense because, although
watched the effect of The Kentuck-
IAN on a crowded, receptive, easily ex-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

stilted verbosity to eloquent simplicity.
AS thus done over, the play is produced,
the actress triumphs as its heroine and
the author wins wife along with fame.
Then why the failure of a play that
thus neatly encloses a successful play?
The audience is asked TO believe that
a keen-eyed, quick-hearted fellow, so
deeply in love with his childhood sweet
heart that he follows her along her
route of an actress. and gazes raptly
at her as she assumes various guiss>S
on the stage, yet does not recognize her
when she comes as d servant in the
house he lives in, although assOciating
with her intimately. Oh, yes, we &C
cept such absurdities in Shakespeare,
and in modern farces and eXtravagen-
Zas: but as presented here in sober
earnest it gives quite sufficient rea-
son for the rejection of a play from
a master hand. Mary puts on the
garb and accent OF an English cOuItry
Wench-the locality is LOndOn-takes
service in a kitchen and in that dis
guise is not suspected by Winchell o.
being the girl he has known and loved
a dozen years; nor does any resem-
blance to his long familiar sweetheart
strike him, although her very sweetly
feminine face has not so much as a
shadow its wistful love. 1t is a quaint
and original conceit, to be sure-the
opinionated, wrong-headed young man
of culture controlled unawares by the
seemingly shy, dull-witted kitchen maid,
whose expert suggestions he mistakes
for flashes of untutored genius, and
whose acting out of them does not help
him to catch her at her game. 1t was
all sentimentally lovely, and with the
amiability of a thousand women I'M
tainted by the cynicism of more than
hundred men, the applause was as
loud as gloved small hands would per-
nit: but 1 did not wonder that WASH
ington and Chicago had killed ''Ticey'-
beyond revivication.
From William GiEette's "Ticey'' to
Hal Reds The Kentuckian'' was
transfer from lulling zephyrs to bowling
whirlwinds. Reid used to be a melodra-
matte spellbinder. He wrote plays 70
exploit his own mimic herOism and the
multitude hung upon his words en-
thralled. Like David Belasco, he was
strong for "a heart interest first. last
and all the while. other considerations
to the contrary Notwithstanding. After
time his royalty as a dramatist be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

tude of playgoers are passing through
an era of socialistic. pseudo-psychoiogi
cal drama Scratch the thin veneer or
vital contemporary thought" and we
find our old friend, the sentimental COM
edy-drama of the middle eighties. That
is WY the average auditor likes IL. He
gets his established morality. tradition
al love interest, comic relief. great third
act. in short. the whole bag of tricks;
and beams snugly under the delusion
that he is exercising and exploiting
great perspieaeity the while.
All this is not to the dispaTagement
of AIT Moffet's play. 1t is a commend
able drama. And IL the public wants.
while enjoying it for what Il is, to rais-
cy itself iInbibing intellectual stlmu
liant, why SO much the better for play
goers and producers the paying and
the paid; and what harm done? The
manager, author, star. company. all
wax wealthy; while the spectator fiat
tiers his mind and nourishes his natural
appetite. enjoys. in short, two thoughts
with but a single theme.
Wilton L.ackaye's role in 1.-THE Bas-
tie" sketches in broad, accepted lines
the popular conception OF the modern
multi-millionaire, the relentless trust
king. Opposed TO him is young. ene--
getic master-diver. Unrecognized. the
magnate gains from him the theories
the contentious of the underdogs, claim
ing, on his side, the survival of the fit
test. that might always has ruled and
always win, that the downtrodden arc
such because they consent to be he
is about to sail for a long cruise N
his yacht but instead he takes up ms
abode in one of his own Wretched ten
ements. to work out. under an assumed
personality, the problem that would con-
front him If he at the moment actually
did face the need of making his way
without a penny. Here is an interest,"
ing basis for a work of fiction, with
socialistic significance for those VINO
set out to find it there. The boy is, or
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. DECEMBER q. 1905

course. the financier's son. kidnapped by
his mother in early youth She couei
not bear with her husband because ne
mercilessly crushed out competitors IN
forming his great trust. She died. bur
left the boy. who does not know tire
man TO be his father, the happy hertz
age of the dramatic problems of the
eighties. Only he discovers that the
girl he is engaged to marry is the
daughter of the man the powerful f.
nancie- ruined Learning this. she
spurns him, revealing to him at the
same time. the true identity of the
man who has worked with him so Ste
cessfully in lettering the conditions IN
the slums. Lovers divided; fatiysr
against son. A dlsgruntled socialist
dashes in, denounces the millionaire,
shoots. The boy. still dismayed at the
revelation Of the remorseless Million
aire as his father. jumps before him.
receives the bullet. falls apparently iife-
less. The father grabs up the limp
form and exults that the boy has real
~ learned TO love him after all Thus
the curtain falls on. need hardly add,
the great third act.
William Gillette is an American actor
and dramatist both. There are others,
for instance, Hal Reid. and Reid is
louder of voice and noisier than Gillette.
l was at Gfllette's "Ticey' of an after
noon and at Reds THE Kentuckian"
the same days evening. 1t was con-
trast with no competition Yet Reid
was applauded and Gillette was not,
for he didn't appear in his new play
Still. as its distinguished author, he
might have been acclaimed There were
two reasons why not. 1t was a charity
audience of women. whose thought did
not go beyond Mary Ryan; and the
play didn't make any praise due to its
writer. Gillette had suspected thSt II
was worthless as soon as it was COM
pleted, was sure when IL was being re-
hear~ed and desired to stop il before the
publ Tresentation Cecilia Lotus,
priced at hundreds per week as mimic
in vaudeville, but unable to develop
any special value IN complete roles. was
10 be the starred actress. She lost in
terest on learning of the authors lack
of faith: and, as she is eccentric at
such junctures. Mary Ryan, cast for
smaller part. was told to hastily get as
ready as she could to take that of
Ticey. Sure enough, on the Sunday be-
fore the Monday, word came from c.
elias hotel that she couldn't get to the
theater.
Now, Mary had been watching and
praying for something like that to hap
pen for her, and no doubt she was quite
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

The living pictures at the Empire u
connection with high-cIass moYin5
pictures are drawing large audience
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

New York, Dec 25.-An Irish country
fair. Gossoons and colleens in frolic
on the green. They dance and sing
nerrily. AS the time of the fiction is
away back in 1850, and for a present
fact the boys and girls are a ballet
chorus in 1908, the exercises of tongues
and legs are an idealization of the
original possibilities. The house is
crowded by Irish enthusiasts-from silk
and seal in the parquette to cotton and
cat in the gallery-and. from gloves
down at the bottom TO bare palms up at
the top. almost everybody in the Broad
way theater is ready to clap hands at
the new showing of old Erin life
young lady from a mansion OF the
county quality looks on at the joility
Of the youngsters from the bog cots
until she itches and aches TO get into its
merry midst. So she puts on the clothes
ami brogue of a mimic Peggy Machree
to fool and f1irt incog with Harry Ire
vor, gentleman. They make 1t look like
love at sight. and In a half Joke. half
serious impulse, agree TO a make believe
marriage for sport. They tell fellow
10 don an absent priests robes and con-
duct a mock ceremony; but by a blum
der the rite is performed seriously by
the man of holy function, and there
they are-husband and wife. They sep
arate at the altar, and II their exploit
were here now in New York, the divorce
laws would relieve them of their en-
barrassment: but 1t seems that in
naively green Erin, century and half
ago, they regarded themselves as we'd
locked quite as hard and fast as though
padlocked.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

That is the layout Of Peggy Mach
rec" very costly Irish musical come
dy. It was ready last winter and the
Irish singing actor, Dennis O'Sullivan,
was brought over from Ireland His
sister had written the play under the
name of Patrick Bidwell Death re-
moved him, and now we have Joseph
O'Mara, another Irish melodist. as Peg
gy Machree's accidental husband
O'Mara isn't Irish handsome, but he is
Economically Irish In makeup. has
plenty of Irish fervor as a blarneying
lover, and as balladist of Erin he is
Chauncey Olcott and Andrew Mack
with a blend OF Enrico Caruso. The
story runs in Peggy Machree'' that
O'Mara. unaware that the roguish Peg
gy is a bogus peasant. goes away for
five years of English warfare Yes,
this Irishman sings at the beginning
about the glory OF fighting under the
British flag, but on his return as a tat
tered minstrel he let's his fervor out in
The Wearing OF the Green" This is
no play of Irish pugnacity, anyway,
but OF Irish wooing, and the concluding
half of il is devoted TO hanging harps
again in Tara's halls and twanging thin
dead souls into life again. The sumptu-
BUSINESS of the settings makes this I'M
precedented in Irish plays. OF course it
ends with happy contamination in
love of marriage begun in fun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

To predict whether or not The Bat
tie the new socialistic play by Cleve-
land Moffet. viii achieve the great and
enduring success which some enthusi-
asts vehe-nently foredeclare for II would
require an expert appraiser Of public
taste rather than a trained critic OF
the drama The vast, profitable multi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

While Adrienne AuSarde as the lady
of the mock wedding sang back at
O'Mara, and the play was made spec
tacular. a streak of laughter was car
ried along by Dan Fitzgerald and John
O'Hara as Irish versus Scotch rivals for
the hand of Jennie Lamont as a brogue
widow. The lone Scotchman, with his
dialect and kits in a community other
wise all Irish. cleverly travestying the
Scotch thrift and sobriety. is odd and
effectual. OF course. Dams Irish hu-
NOR takes a final fall out OF Johns
Scotch lack of it-for no thistle can
be permitted to prick the shamrocks in
Peggy Machree's" big hurreo for old
Ireland
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Empire Theatre.

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