The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-17
Genuine Newspaper Atmosphere
 In Latest NeU York Drama

scamp! He shocks her with the dis closure that he won't take her to a cottage for brown bread. skim milk cheese and poor husbands kisses, but to a mansion where the bread will be white except when daintily toasted. the and the kisses given by a doting mill lionaire husband in lazy languor. The miscreant
 "0h, grab the good thing, you silly girl said a woman next me. votcing the audiences feeling
 She did it, too. and the play was over without convincing anyone that pretty girls would. generally speaking. make efficient walking delegates, strike
 There is going to be a hot time in The Advance newspaper office tonight. That Is sure before The Fourth Es- tate" is an hour under way. The jour ney has been denunciatory of judges who--so 1t avers--have made unfairly favorable decisions for corporations against the. people. Editor Brand Is earnestly sincere in attacking Judge Bartelmy, whose corruption is fragrant Owner Nolan is appreciative of his edi- tors course. especially as it has made the paper prosperous, and has told hin to go ahead; hut the judge has brought influence to bear upon Nolan's ambi- tious wife and aspiring daughter, let ting them know that their way to so- ciety's center will be cleared of all ob- stacles if The Advance becomes kind to him.
 Well. perhaps we have been too hard on the judge" Nolan says at last. i've may have been. mistaken.'
 We have made no mistake" Editor Brand replies, he is rotten. If he att tempts to bribe us tonight-if he of fers to buy the papers silence--will you be convinced that he is corrupt?'
 Thereupon the editor kindles the fire that is to make The Advance office hot tonight He and the judge agree that a cessation of hostilities Is worth $10,- 900. The money Is to be passed in the editors room, which he sets as a trap to catch his visitor. while the audi ence. gets keenly interested. He fas- tens the receiver of a telephone open and places 1t on the corner of his desk between his seat and the chair the guest will take, and sends two steno- graphers to a distant room where they may take down the impending conver- sation.
 The judge walks into the ambush, but not carelessly. He seeA to 1t that all the doors lead to rooms containing no listeners. The phone though. with its receiver fixed open, escapes his sus- pocion. He takes a seat close to 1t al one side and the editor at the other The dialogue covers the purchase and sale succinctly For $10,00O in hand paid, the editor is to cease his expos ures. In none of the other muckrake dramas has the offer of a bribe been shown so graphically, or engroseed the audience so absolutely. The actors Charles Stevenson and Charles Wal don-give intensity to the scene, but 1 no noise nor any commotion. The money Is counted out. The men stand out The judge extends the handful l of bills At that instant, the fashlight Tor snapshot photograph explodes and glares. very sensational picture has been made by a concealed camera for publication in The Advance Few third acts fin excitant dramas end with less turbulence on the stage or more in the auditorium.
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