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lives in South Africa, and a benefit,
Jointly bestowed, for the widows and
orphans of the American soldiers who
fought in the swamps of the Philip
pines. McRae could not appear at the
benefit, so he sRetched the program
cover 1t is here reproduced. Also
he has done other pen and ink work
which is worth looking at. But mainly
McRae wants to be a sailor. All Eng
lishmen do" said he 'and am no
exception. Perhaps in my ancestry
there may be found sea captains and
pirates and buccaneers. I have the love
of the ocean in my system. and 1 can
not get away from my inherited prefer
ences. But since I'm to be an actor.
and not a sailor. 1 might as well con
fess that 1 like staging almost as well
as sea voyaging.
Next season I expect TO be at the
head of my own company I viii not
say that 1 am to be a star. I'm to
be featured. Now the difference be-
tween being a star and being featured
is quite slight, except in so far as the
salary slip is concerned. When a player
is starred his name is on the electric
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be was sent, lad of 10 years, to Eng
land and then to Boulogne- Mer,
France where he remained until he
was 16 years old Then he went to
New Zealand and was a cattle rancher-
While punching cows he learned to be
a skilled surveyor, and thus graduated
from the saddle TO a chair in the
government employ. He opened up
reservations for pioneer settlers. They
stayed there, but he didn't
CRAZE came to this country in 1890,
MN and his first impulse was to go
~ to cattle ranching again. The
habit, he told me. is easily acquired in
Australia. So it happened that the
EngIishman found himself in Fort
Laramie, Wyo., where he chased cattle
and was a cattle rancher for two years.
Then he went east and became an
actor. Just how he landed on the
stage does not seem quite clear. but at
any rate he landed and made his debut
October 5, 1891, at Proctors Twenty
third street theater, New York, in Sar-
dou's "Thermidor." He supported Elsie
de Wolfe and Forbes Robertson. After
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About Mrs. Fiske

q GER arrival on the American
n stage was an epoch. She was
/ Just years old at the time that
she played the duke of York in
king Richard III" After that fol-
lowed a long line of chiIdren's roles,
during which time Minnie Maddern de-
veloped her talents in King John.
Macbeth rip Van winkIe.' Uncle
Toms Cabin, Ten Nights in Bar
Room" Boucicault's Hunted Down
and other living and forgotten dramas.
She was the original Little Fritz, .
with j. X. Emmett. and she was Louise
in The Two Orphans She was asso-
Gated with Barry sullivan. Laura 4Neene.
Mrs Scott Siddons and T. L. Daven-
port. At the age of II years she
played Widow Melnotte successfully
When she was Is years old she ap-
peared at the head of her own com
pany and was first starred in 1882 in
"Fogg's Ferry. Then came Caprice"
and In Spite of ALL" wherein she was
supported BY Richard Mansfield. and
"Featherbrain." In the latter piece
Wilton Lackaye was her leading man.
she married Harrison Grey Fiske when
she was % years old and retired from
the stage temporarily Her retirement
lasted only three years. but during that
time she wrote some plays. for in
stance, The Rose played by the late
Felix Morris; Not Guilty" which was
accepted by the Kendals; "Fontenene. =
played by James o.Neill; Common
Clay and Countess Roudine.a The
latter piece was written in couabora-
ton with Paul Kester.
It was in 1898 that Mrs. Fisxe ap-
peared at charity matinee in New
York as Nora in Ibsens a DoFs
House" Her success was such as to
fire her with disposition to return TO
her profession. and for her first tour
after her marriage she selected "A
Dolls House." "Caeserine.'' .Divor-
cons" and Marie Delroehe." In her
second season she presented "Tess."
and then came Love Finds the Way
and two one act plays. a Bit of Old
Chelsea and Little Italy" "Frou
Frou" followed, after which came what
many believe was Mrs. Fiske's finest
bit of work up to that time-Becky
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actor. Personally, I am glad that he
has not achieved his ambition.
"A cRAEs father was a civil engineer
Al in the English army. His grand
father was a surgeon in the same
service; and, though McRae did not
serve under Roberts in South Africa,
there are two members in the Ethel
Barrymore company who did. McRae's
uncle is Sir Charles Wyndham. cele-
brated English actor.
Uncle said Bruce. lis now in New
York. It is likely that he will play
The Moilusc' there and he may pass
through this city on his way to Aus
tralia. though am afraid he will
take the northern route and miss the
sunshine and flowers"
After an early childhood passed in
India, where his father was stationed
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sign in front of the theater. If he is
featured the name of the play is bla-
man presents the Flag Lieutenant =
with Bruce McRae.' will be the way
the signs will read next season. Some
day, if I do not turn sailor in the
meantime, the signs may read Mr..
Frohman presents Mr.. Bruce MeRae' in
such and such a play. The difference
in the phraseology will mean lot to
my pocket"
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TIE VARIOUS BRUCE MsRAE

- WING to the circumstance that
pretty Ethel Barrymore, slim
~ ana sweet is quite invisible TO
interviewers. I met Mr.. Bruce
McRae. her leading man. We eneoun-
tered each other at the st James hotel
near the Van Ness theater and each
apologized for the intrusion. I begged
his pardon for disturbing a mere lead
ing man and he regretted the exi-
gencies which led him against news
paperman. To be polite I said:
If there's a thing in the world to
reconcile a scribe TO his inability to
meet Miss Barrymore it arises out of
the fact that he may meet her leading
man" Then we both bowed and Artist
Rorhand said something about Al
? phonse and Castor.
Rumor has it. you know. that Miss
g hel has not been advised of the fact
I rat the Frohmans have, put a paddock
on her lips and have thrown the key
away. She is willing to be inter-
viewed. it is said. and Is somewhat
mystifed because she is not. But, be
lieve me. she is surrounded by the
most concrete phalanx of inexorable
managers who have ever blocked the
way TO a stars dressing room. They
all refuse TO be parties 10 any intro
duction which involves Ethel Barry
more. There was once a st. Louis
story which emanated from Ethel and
slipped by her managers. 1t got into
The papers and il was copied here.
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this beginning Bruce supported va
riety of stars and created the role of
Doctor Watson in Sherlock Holmes
For two years he was Julia MarIowe's 5
leading man In when Knighthood Was
! in Flower" and then he became Miss
Barrymore's leading man. In her sup
port he has played Mr.. Leipsig in Car
rots.' Archibald vyse in "A Country
Mouse" Heath Desmond in Cousin
Kate" Colonel Brinthorpe in Sunday .
Helmer in "A Dolls House." Colonel
Grey in Alice sit by. the Fire." the
title role in Captain Jinks of the
Horse Marines Jones in silver Box
and Sir Martin in His Excellency the
Governor
~ UT McRae wants to be an artist.
X There was a benefit given for the
widows and orphans of the British
whose husbands and fathers lost their
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Tar west as possible, hence she has wired
her representative. Strassman. to gather
tickets for herself and company for the
trip over the Pacific to our island pos
sessions Before taking the ocean voy-
age Miss Doro will go to Seattle, where
she will write some stories for a news
paper syndicate about the Alaska-Yu-
kon exposition. She expects to gather
material also for new comic opera.
She has musical play now in prepara
ton in New York. book of poems now
in print and two OF her musical COM
positions viii be played by the Van
Ness theater orchestra during her en-
gagement at the Gottlob & Marx play
house.
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CT HE Morals OF Marcus" the four
act comedy in which Charles
Frohman will present Miss Ma
rie Doro at the Van Ness theater for
two weeks. beginning June 81. is a
dramatization by William j. Locke OF
his famous novel. The Morals of Mar
Gus Ordeyne." The plot deals with the
adventures of Carlotta. a young Eng-
lish girl whose childhood had been
spent in a Turkish harem She es-
eapes from the harem and finds herself
at last, penniless and bedraggled. in
the garden of Sir Marcus. rich Eng
Iish philosopher. somewhere near Lon
don. Sir Marcus is confirmed bach
elor who is surrounded by intriguing
match making relatives. The presence
of the girl is very annoying. But-to
use his own expressions .there are
homes for homeless eats and stray
dogs. but none for stray young women
he formally adopts her, to the great
scandal of his aristocratic relatives.
Carlotta develops into beautiful
woman. but the nafvete of the oriental
life to which she was 50 long aecus-
toned clings to her and her amazing
frankness is disturbing element in
the social life Of Sir Marcus and his
women folks Carlotta's charms. too,
interfere with the designs of an Eng
lish woman who is deeply in love with
the rich bachelor, and poor, trusting
Carlotta is made the victim Of a plot
and lured away from home. She re-
turns after pathetic experience to
ind that Sir Marcus has discovered
that his supposed pity for the girl is
but a veneer for his great love for
her. and the curtain falls on a happy
ending.
The role OF Carlotta is one that calls
for great amount OF delicate artistry
on the part of Miss Doro. Carlotta is
at times kittenish and again womanly:
it calls for the extreme OF grace and
the depths of sincerity, for Carlotta is
a lovabIe tantalizing child and a dear.
sweet woman.
Miss Doro's success in the role kent
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there and everywhere. Ethel had said
some things about New York which
might have been true, but which were
not discreet The interview which she
passed over to the inquiring news
paperman was frank honest and most
Interesting. but she said some things
about a certain metropolis in New
york state which made the society folk
Of that city writhe and shudder' and
protest. Then the Frohmans went out
and bought nice solid silver paddock
and closed Miss EtheTs conversation
mill Charles and Daniel fearing that
EtheIs willingness TO talk viii tempt
newspapermen to let her, have decided
that discretion is the better part Of
diplomacy. and So if you please. what
ever the very brilliant Ethel has TO
say for publication viii be consigned
hy the Frohmans TO the deepest
= vsses Of silence.
That's one reason why Ethel Barry
more is not interviewed in these pages,
and an explanation why her clever
leading man occupies the space which
Ethel might have filled with some more
COPY of a sensational nature-distress-
ing to managers. but grateful to
scribes.
1T is frequently true that leading men
are bores. Usually, they act all the
time. whether they are on the stage
or of. In a private conversation they
behave as though they were talking
to a multitude and facing a million
opera glasses. They assume airs,
speak in an important manner and are
very 1rearisome- When they face an
interviewer they are glorious. Every
pose is picture and every sentence
sliced from their conversation is an
epigram or a bit. of verse At for pub
Iication.
But McRae is not that kind of a
leading man. He is merely a man. and
he does not pose. ! forgot several
times that he was an actor. and at no
time did he even distantly hint that
he was. on the dresser in his room
were a flock Of sea pictures. There
were photographs of cruisers which
psswres were taken at the risk of
NAB lives. There were photographs
Of sailing vessels, schooners. brigs and
sIoops. McRae being an Englishman.
believes in his heart of hearts that he
should have been a sailor and not an
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Sharp. miranda of the Balcony - "The
Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch and Heyse's
poetic drama, Mary of Magdala." fol-
lowed. after which Mrs. Fiske went
back TO Ibsen and appeared as the neu-
rotic heroine in ".Hedda GabIer."
In 1905 came Leah Kleschna~ and
one act play. Dolce" After two years
in New York with Leah KIeschna"
came her appearance in THE New
York Idea" and the following year
Mrs. Fiske returned one more to Ibsen.
producing "Rosmersholm." which she
considers the best of all his plays. Il
studied it for two years" she says.
before I felt that I comprehended the
character of Rebecca.
That brings Mrs. Fiske mp 70 date
and down to salvation Nell" which
we are to hear this week.
g g @ .
Going to Honolulu
LBERT STRAssMAN assures me
~ that he is going to take Marie Doro
to Honolulu. The star of "The
Morals Of Marcus is a comparative
stranger out here and says she wants
now that she has started-to get as
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
UNITE IN PRAYER
OVER HORSES LIFE

Chicago.-Prayers for the recovery
Of a sick horse at Elgin were begun
today fy four Methodist ministers who
are visiting that city to attend a con-
ference of clergymen. AS yet no
change for the better has been OBJ
served in the condition of the animal.
The object of the parsons prayers
is the property of Byron Bean, 62S
Lincoln avenue, Elgin. 1t is big
brown horse named Billy, and it has
lockjaw. 1t has had lockjaw since
Sunday and many of the old residents
of Elgin, respite the prayers Of the
ministers, are of the opinion that 1t
will continue to have lockjaw for the
rest of its shortening span Of life.
The four ministers do not thing so.
They think that a little prayer will
cure Billy and return to him the abil-
ity to indulge in a horse laugh.
They are guests of Mrs. George
Pratt on the floor above that occu-
pied by Mr.. Beams family, and every
hour or so when two Of them are to-
gether, they fix their minds on the
restoration Of that horses health and
pray as If they were getting their last
chance at repentant sinner
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
TEST AER0PLANES
At WASHINGTON

Washington.-So far as air naviga-
ton goes. official Washington Is In
! the doldrums.
A. NJ. Herring, of New York, Is due
to submit an aeroplane for trial this
week. The Wright Brothers are to be
at the White House next week to re-
ceive their Aero club medal, but the
army signal corps, which is the or
ganization that has to do with aero
nautics, sits at its desks in the war
department BORDERING the usual two
spindles of wire from this or that
company and hoping against hope
that congress may wake up. Until
that happens, Genearl Allen will hang
out his sign. Nothing new doing
in aeroplanes or dirigible balloons"
The Washington aero club, however,
is still optimistic. 1t has elected Tho
mas F. Walsh, the Colorado million
aire, its president. John Barrett
director of the bureau of American
republics, who is worth $4,000 any
year as a publicity agent, is chair
man of the committee on arrange
ments And there is a whisper that
if the Laird Of Slibo ever gets within
hailing distance he will be seized and
shaken down for a million or so to
encourage the science of air naviga-
ton. Walsh is in the game for hum.
anitarian purposes in the belief that
perfection in air flight will put an
end to murderous warfare. John
Barrett Is in If for the cause of boost
ing in general.
General Allen has a large illustrat-
ed collection of data on what other
countries are doing. In Germany,
which takes the lead in this phase OF
world endeaver, companies have been
organized and routes have been laid
out for airship lines which will carry
passengers. France is airship mad.
over there it's an exquisite fever, an
obsesson. Even England has awak-
ened and is dividing attention upon the
aeroplane and the warship.
Secretary Of war Dickinson, strugg-
ling to bring the army estimates down
by $1O,O00,0O0 will probably see no
way of including aeronautics in the
amount to be asked of congress next
year. The other items Of the estimate
except that for building, refuse to
shrink, so that the airship item will
have to be side-tracked. In the mean
time the Wright brothers will be
getting rich selling their machines
to foreign governments. Under the
present appropriation they may sell
only one aeroplane to the United
States.
A good many military strategists
are doubtful whether the aeroplane
will, in its present stage Of efficiency
have a great value in actual warfare.
Before making a flight 1t must wait
upon favorably conditions. Even
then 1t will have difficulty In escap-
ing hostile bullets and shells. The
dlrigible, however, is in a fair stage
Of efficiency. 1t can soar at great
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04

America will enable him to be in the
Rose City, probably on october s and
8. although it is possible he will have
but single day for this city. The
grand old man of Salvationism has
not visited the Pacific northwest in
years, and for that reason the local
army leaders hope to extend to their
chieftain such honors as will befit the
dignity and Importance of his position
in the religious world.
General Booth will sail from Eng
land on Saturday, September II, and
will reach New York, Monday Sep
tember 20. After but day in the
great city, he will leave for Montreal
on the most extensive tour through
Canada that he has ever made. He
and his staff will cover the provinces
from Wednesday, September 22, to
Tuesday, October 5, and leaving Van
couver, he will arrive in Seattle, Oc-
tober 6. At Seattle he is expected to
deliver an address in the Natural Am
phitheatre on the A-Y-P. fair
grounds.
The great leader is scheduled to ar
rive here October 8, and from here
he will go down the coast, visiting
San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The
only other cities he will speak at while
in America will be Kansas City, Chi
cago, Cleveland, Washington and New
York with a more or less extensive
campaign in each city.
He and his party will sail from New
York for Germany, November ..
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04

The attraction booked at the New
Oregon theatre for tonight Is one Of
the largest and strongest colored min
strels travelling, opening with the reg
uiar minstrel, entitled, I'm the land
of the midnight SUM-" followed by
the strongest vaudeville novelties that
can be secured the dancing MitchelPs
late Of the Orpheum circuit of theat-
res, the great La She, the worlds
greatest slack wire performer, barring
none, the hoop rolling Johnstone's,
and the famous Nashville students
quartette. The performance ends with
a genuine cake walk where the man
agement gives a prize to the winner
every night. There you see some good
dancing. Secure your seats now at
summer prices of 25, 35, so cents.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04

heights under fair control. For scout
ing purposes it would be invaluable
to an invading army. 1t is not likely
that sufficient explosives can be car
ried in dirigibles to do great damage
or that they can be dropped with suf-
ficient accuracy to make it worth
while, but for spying out the enemy'A
position, laying bare the system Of
defense, the position of troops and
the weakness of the line, its help in
military operations will be invalua-
BILE.
Elaborate equipment is required
for dirigibles, however, Balloon sheds
must be constructed and gas generat-
ing plants and gas tubes for convey
the gas provided. All of these re-
quire large outlay of money.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
NEWS OF MILTON
PUBLICITY ASSOCIATION
ADOPTS NEW SLOGAN
Buttons Will Have Picture Of Famous
Poet and Bear Inscription, para
disc Foundation, Oregon"-All
Visitors to Strawberry Festival VIII
Be Given One-False Reports Are
Given Regarding Rain Storm.

Milton, Ore, June 2.-Dr. ]. Can
name, chairman of the slogan and but
ton committee of the Milton progress
i've association, today received a cor
rected sample Of the publicity insig-
ma of the Milton association. A large
order of these buttons has been placed
and they are expected to arrive any
day to be on hand next Tuesday,
Strawberry day.
Every visitor, who attends the
strawberry festival and horse show in
Milton will be given one of these but
tons and each so adorned will be ex-
pected to wear the same where ever
he goes.
The button bears the inscription
Paradise Found-Milton, oregon"
and in the center is the picture of the
blind poet, Milton.
Rains Do Not Damage
The citizens of Milton and vicinity
were considerably incensed this morn
ing by a article which appeared on
the front page of the Union, in which
it was stated that the heavy rainfall
here last night did considerable dam
age.
The facts of the matter were that
instead of doing and damage the rains
were a great benefit, although not
seriously needed. 1t was welcomed
shower by the farmers of this coun-
try. How the article appeared as it
did is unexplained.
Milton Personals
]. e. Jensen Of Pendleton is in the
city today looking for location where
he can make a home. Mr.. Jensen Is
very favorably impressed with this
locality and expressed his desire to
locate here.
S. E. Rinehart of Walla Walla was
in the city today.
Rev. and Mrs Rexroad will enter
tain the Epworth league Of the NJ. E.
church, south at their home in Mil
street, Thursday evening from eight
until eleven. This is the first of a
series Of social gatherings to be given
by the league during the summer.
Matt Hamilton Of Dayton is in the
city visiting relatives.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
Notice.

All members Of the Woodmen oil
the World with their families. also
ali members Of the Women of Wood
craft are requested to meet at the
hall in the Eagle-Woodman building
Sunday afternoon, June 9Th, at
o'clock sharp for the annual unveil-
ing and memorial services.
Neighbor ]. P. Winter will deliver
the memorial address. Music by the
owen quartette.
BY order Of Camp No. Al.
v. STROBLE,
Consul Commander
Attest: ]. r. WALKER, Clerk.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering 1t through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from repu-
table physicians, as the damage they Will
do is ten fold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by +. j. Cheney Co., To.
ledo, Ohio, contains no mercury, and Is
taken internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces Of the system.
In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine 1t Is taken internally and
made in Toledo, Ohio, by f. ]. Cheney Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
tion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
TronhIe Mal1ers Onsted.

When a sufferer from stomach
trouble takes DR.. Kings New Life
Pills he's mighty glad to see his dys-
pepsia and Indigestion fly, but more
he's tickled over his new, fine ap-
petite, strong nerves, healthy vigor,
all because stomach, liver and kid
neys now work right. 25c at Tallman
& Co. and the Pendleton Drug Co.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-04
FOUNDER OF SALVATION
ARMY VISITS PORTLAND

Portland.-Portland will have the
honor Of entertaining General William
Booth, the venerable founder Of the
Salvation Army, for one or two days
early In October. The Generals pro-
gramme covering his coming visit to