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Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

the various senator's besides the principal
ones with actors who will be even moder-
ately convincing. The characters may be
OF minor Importance in the play, but what
ever illusion-not great in most cases
these Washington plays Of the past have
created as to its really being the capital,
has been nuilified by the appearance in the
roles OF United states senator's, Of actors
who would not be good as church sections.
This was rue in "A Gentleman from
Mississippi" as we'll as In other and less
likely plays. For in this case the actor
who played 'the king Of the senate" was
scarcely adequate. II the dramstists had
any drive at Senator Aldrich in mind the
Rhode Island potenRte would hav good
grounds for libel suit on his stage picture
and although he is supposed to be dis
liked by some people in some sections Of
the country, he could get damages where
ever the case was tried.
1t is possible and pleasanter to speak
otherwise than this OF James Lackaye,
who was the senator from Mississippi.
Mr.. Lackaye is a good comedian and he
had a part which, II not a wonderful bit
of character sketching by the authors,
was not the usual stage political hero,
whose agitation in behalf Of the peo-pul is
as tiresome on the stage as It sometimes is
by the demagogue in real life. Mr.. Lack
eyes senator was required not to rescue
a downtrOdden proletariet, but to be firm
for simple honesty.
%
Another Omaha girl has Joined the ranks
of the professional actors through the
of the Boyd school of Acting.
Miss Fitch has sent Miss Vivian Pates
away with the Bathing Girls who were
at the Orpheum last week. One of their
number tired OF the stage and took on
herself the obligations of matrlmony. and
Miss Pates was given the place. She is
the daughter Of Frederick Pates, the
singer, and will be well recalled by all
who nave seen the public performances of
Miss Fitch's pupils during the last sea-
son. She showed much aptitud e for
comedy at the matinee at the Boyd last
spring.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

with a matinee on Wednesday. The work Is
a translation Of Pierre Veber's famous com
edy, 'Loute," by Paul H. Potter. who be-
came known to American theaters-goers
by his dramatization Of Du Maurier's
''Trilby." THE Girl from Rector's"
is declared by the metropolitan crit
les TO be one OF the funniest OF
high-class production made there in
many years. The plot deals with
the actions OF a young society woman Of
Battle Creek, Mich, who is charitably
Inclined. She spends most Of her time IN
her own circle at home, but her husband,
a judge Of the court OF Shanghai, is away
for such long periods she decides to go
TO New York for recreation. She Is at
tracted BY the giaring lights at Rector's
and there she makes her headquarters.
In the course OF time she earns the sobri-
qUet Of The Girl from Rector's," and
on her next visit TO Battle Creek she
meets at the home OF a society friend
many OF those OF the Rector circle. She
bad been posing as the daughter Of a
Buffalo man, and while The Girl in a
way, is e~ndeavoring TO explain her dual
identity, complications arise which reveal
a series OF situations that keep the audi
ence In a roar 10 the final curtain. The
company is the one that played the piece
at Weber's, and include Carrie Weber,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

Thus the original French title OF The
Thief" lie Volsur,' delighted him. and
equally so does Samson admittedly
the newest and strongest Of his plays,
and Of which, by the way, Charles
Frohman has the English and American
rights.
The following is related by his init
mates as typical OF Bernstein: One
morning, after having breakfasted with
two friends, one an art printer and the
other q publisher, and both very dear
TO him. he came TO the theater attircd
in a handsome suit Of dark maroon. To
most minds a maroon suit is indicative
OF eceentricity. Bernstein had probably
read OF some embargo on maroon suits
and concluded hat what might seem
eccentric today, might. on another day,
denote absolute taste. Hence did he
c-Ourageously undertake to establish a
fashion or craze for maroon clothes for
his s~eX-constitutc himself the cham
pion OF a hue that the b~oulevards Il
Paris so vigorously tabOoed.
Charles FTohmRn naturally feels a
warmth Of interest in Mr. Bernstein
hat is only less cordial than the at
tachment he harbors for the greatest
OF English playwFights, j. M. Barrie.
There is as little in common between
Bernstein and Barrie as there is be-
tween their manuscripts and plays. But
In popularity, e%Xtravagant almost to tho
point Of ecstaey, Bernstein lie to The
French Wha Barrie Is 10 the English
theater going public.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

- upon the stage settings OF An
tony and Cleopatra 9TH Cottage in tine
Air" Strife" and "Werther," saying that
he and his colleagues have really worked
together, it is known that he is in reality
the final court of appeal in such matters.
Mr.. Bell is a Londoner by birth and
looks #. Not only is he English in ap-
pearance, but his standards Of art have
been firmly grounded on the other side.
He is in the late thirties and, aesthetic In
%trifles, he is discovered awaiting the inter
viewer with a very becoming gabardine of
champagne colored crash over his Sunday
suite in his work room, whose principal
furniture consists OF diagrams drawn from
time to time during the twelve months pre-
ceding the opening of the New theater.
He was trained as an art student I'm the
Slade School and afterward in the studio
of his uncle, Sir Edward J. Poynter, Bart,
A. r. A. He was thrown into intimate
acquaintance there with many interesting
people, among them w. g. Gilbert, who
was instrumental in urging his dramatic
novitiate, and under the management Of
Sir Charles Wyndham he made his initial
appearance in one OF the Gilbert comedies
The glare Of English footlights did not
entirely blind him to the possibilities Of
American success, and shortly afterward he
came to this country to play in Pinero's
Magistrate and several other productions
under Augustin Days management. He
afterward supported Nine. Modjcska for a
season.
Asked why the staging Of Antony and
Cleopatra had been entrusted to Viennese
concerns Mr.. Bell says that the Cont
mental firms, not only in price. but in quail
ity of their wares, outbid their American
competitors.
1T is absolutely true that we cannot get
in this country stuffs that compare with
those easily procured in Europe" he TX
plains. THE reason Is simply that there
Is no demand here, consequently no sup
ply.
You take, for example, the material for
the cloaks of the Roman soldiery. Coarse
and comparatively unimportant as It might
seem when you first study the oostuming,
the artist knows that there must be a quail
lily suggested in the material. otherwise
II would not be archaeologically correct.
That quality Is based on the fact that the
Roman soldier used his>eloak for every.
thing-it was his blanket at night, II was
his tent cover by day; It was practically
his sole piece OF baggage in the march. a
something that must answer satisfactorily
his many needs. l tried to get just what
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

Beth Tate, Laura Lyman. Isabelle O'Madi-
gan, Marie Tower, Grace Barton, the PEN
dleton Sisters, John j. Clark, William
SelleTy, Burt Wesner. Edward Burton,
Harry Fowler, Charles Sherman, and
many others.
James X. Hackett in Samson" the Paris
and New York sensation by Henri Bern
stein, the author OF THE Thief" will be
tho attraction at the Boyd, beginning
Thursday night and for the balance OF
the week with a Saturday matinee, under
the direction OF Mr.. Charles Frohman, who
freely acknowledges that Samson" is one
OF the most attractive bills he has to
offer the American theater-going public
this season. Briefly. the plot Of the play
tells of Jacques Brachard, who, brought
up i'm poverty and risen to wealth, has II
forced upon him that money will not buy
his wife's love. He Sacrifices his whole
fortune to bring about a panic on the
exchange to the ruinatiOn OF the man who
has robbed him OF the love Of his wife.
Like Samson OF old, he pulls down the
walls OF IN gotten wealth upon the de-
stroyer OF his home and like samson, too,
upon himself. but he does win back his
wife and begins life and fortune again In
renewed happiness. The aim OF the play
has been unhesitatingly applied to the
weakness OF domestieity. Mr., Haekett's
supporting company is OF the strongest
material, each member carefully selected
BY both Mr. Frohman and the star. Il
includes Mr.. Arthur Hoops, Mt. Frederic
de Bsllevile. Mr.. Basil Hallam, Ar. Hay
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
Bernstein, the French Barrie

ENRI BERNSTEIN, the author
IN Of Samson is a man with
superstitions as well as powers
7F0F o. character analysis. Henri
Bernstein. now world famed
as tho author OF Samson" VThe
Thier' n Israel" Immediately I'm
presses even the passerby IN the street
with his personality. which is one OF
distinction. He Is a man of splendid
presence and elegant manners, M his
friends say that he expends as much
thought upon the cut OF his clothes or
the turn OF his cravat. as upon the ar
rangement OF an act OF the drawing Of
a character.
Bernstein's Samson has established
tina author as the most inventive and
the most resourceful Of modern play
wrights. He has the finest sense for
almost mathematieally built climaxes
OF any present day writer for the stage
-yet Bernstein Is anything but
practically and scientifically inclined
rather Is he a mystic with a sharp eye
for observing human nature, but per-
sonallv is mora subject to extra human
influence than any other person who
comes under his own microscopic eye,
AS an example OF Bernstein's curious
whimsicality. he viii never content
himself with a name for one Of his
plays until he has found n OF six
letters or less, being positive that no
success can come 10 anyone OF his
works should the title. aside from an
article, an adjective. or some qualifying
word. contain more than six letters
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
Sobeski, the Singer, is Dead

Words of Tribute to the Memory of a Man Who Lived in
Omaha for a Time Max LandOw, the Poet at the
Piano" and His Coming r ecital - other Announcements
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
At the Omaha TheaterS

Boyd Offers "The Girl from Recor's' with the Original Company
and James X. Hackett in "Samson"-Wiiam Grew Comes to the
BurwOOd-KrugH Has Two Good Plays and Orpheum a Strong Bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
Real Art in Stage Settings

Hamilton Bell Tells What the New Theater is Doing
Contrast Between the Newest Antony and Cleopatra"
and One Which Was Produced Twenty Years Ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

a successful engagement
at Weber's Music hall New
York, during the past season.
THE Girl from Rector's" comes
to Boyd's theater tonight for
an engagement Of four nights,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

CIV YORK, Nov. G.-While Ed
ward Hamilton Bell, art direc.
tor of the New theater, mod
estly disclaims an undivided
right to the praise bestowed
upon the stage settings Of IAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

over the book in which
the writer of this column
keeps his Sunday emusic col
umn" clippings he came across,
the other day, his Thnnksgiv-
ing article Of last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28
Eleanor Robson, Apostle of Cheerfu1ness

Charming Actress is Winning New Fame in Her Part of Glad in the Francis
Hudson Burnett Story of the New Thought, 1.-THE Dawn of a Tomorrow"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

Mr.. August Mothe-Borglum will present
Miss Alice Virginia Davis in a plano re-
cital, assisted by Mr.. Edward Ross Bar
stow, baritone pupil of Miss Anna Bishop.
and Madame Borglum, accompanist, at
the Schneider & Mueller auditorium, on
Monday evening. November 70.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

Some day someone may write a play of
Washington life which will be wholly salts
factory, but none has done so yet. 1t is
to be hoped that when this Is done that
an astute producer viii fill the parts of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

Continued on Page NlRs,l
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-28

REALLY notable engagement
came to an end In Chicago last
night, when Miss Eleanor Rob
son played In The Dawn OF a
Tomorrow" at the Grand in
that city. IL was not the long
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
The Negro on the Farm.

After all, where can the negro do
better thar on the farm? The negro
on the farm today is better off by far
than those of his race living from
hand to mouth around the towns. In
Cabarrus there are a good many ne
groeS on the farms doing we'll. Those
who can plan, work faithfully and at
tend strictly to business as a rule are
doing we'll farming. We know Of a
n Of instances where negroes
are making a success farming. They
live we'll. have plenty, and where any
thing like good management is the
rule, they are making more than a
living. A we'll off Cabarrus farmer
recently old us Of a lumber Of cases
where he a taken negro families in
debt, and where they would submit to
his planning and follow him for a
few years not only paid out, but had
money and food supplies ahead. In
western Cabarrus is a large tract of
land owned by n man who died a
few years ago. The and was sold and
there are on that land today half a
dozen or more thrifty negro farmers,
owning the land, improving it and
making a good living and better cit
liens than they would otherwise have
made. They support a good church,
school, and have the respect Of every
one who knows them or deals with
them. The white people are always
ready to aid them. AS one said, they
need some one to plan for them,
hold them down for a few years and
guide them to independence. The ne
gro who is willing to work, has a good
family and will attend to his work
constantly can do better farming
than at most anything else. If dis
posed to lay hold earnestly he can
nearly always get the help necessary
to make a start. We do not doubt but
hat a large majority of them dis
posed to do the right thing can make
a better living on the farm than any
where else.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
Raise Hog and Hominy.
(RaefOrd Facts and Figures

(Raeford Facts and Figu1ee.)
If conditions were as they should
be, the farmers here in the South
might grow cotton and buy their food
supplies and not suffer, but there are
too many go-betweens, and it has
come to pass when our folks must do
something in se1f-defense. Think OF
paying 5000 barrel and often more
for -four that costs $3$or less to make
$40 a ton for mill feed, that is
worth about $15:~and bacon and lard
retailing at Is cent per pound. and
the dealers say they aren't making
anything. If cotton goes to Is cents
and stys there. but few farmers Will
have very much left after paying ex-
nenses this year.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
COST OF CORN ROWIN

All! here is another of those crack
ing good stories of progressive farm
ing that The Index is always glad to
print. The story tells Of a Cumber-
land county farmer who was growing
corn at a cost Of 60 to rs cents a
bushel, but learned hat he could
grow it just as easily at a cost Of 80
cents a bushe The same farmer has
learned that he can grow 7k bales
of cotton IN the same five acres Of
M that he used to raise two bales
on. He has learned the lesson that
tens Of thousands Of farmers need to
learn-that intensive farming pays
better than extensive farming.
The farmer in question is Mr.. Geo.
A. Hall, of Cedar Creek township. His
postoftice address is Autryville, r. +.
D.. 2. He. vas in Fayetteville Monday
and was telling us about hat fine
corn on the farm of his neighbor, Mr..
jeff d. Seasons, Of Stedman. Mr..
Hall say lie examined Mr.. Seasons
corr and he believes it will make 100
bushels to the acre. He says it has
more ears to the acre than any corn
he ever saw. Now their neighbors
say that Mr.. Halls two acres Of "brag"
corn is better than Mr.. Seasons VIZ
acres, but Mr.. Hall says he has eX-
amined both and hat Mr.. Seasons
is ahead Of his by rs per cent. That
is to say, if his makes 100 buShe to
the acre, Mr.. Seasons will make 1875,
and he says he is certain his own
will make 80 bushels to the acre.
But the important thing about Mr..
Halls two acres is that if it makes
ne more than 80 bushels to the acre,
that corn will have cost him only 80
cents a bushel, including all cost Of
preparation Of land. fertilizers, Gull
tiVation and gathering. He used
5000 pounds Of commercial fertilizer
and six wagon loads of rough manure
to he acre. He says heretofore he
has been using 400 to 500 pounds of
fertilizer and planting the corn three
feet in the drill and it mas been cost
grow and gather the corn or the
same land. The present crop is
planted about s to II inches in the
drill in rows Q 5 feet apart.
But Mr.. Hall has earned a thing
or two about raising cotton, too. Last
a he had five acres of "stumpy"
land under cotton, land that had not
been heretofore improved and land,
too, Of which it had taken ten acres
in years past to make four bales.
But last yea he decided to try farm
ing on the intensive plan on that five
acres. Instead Of "breaking up" the
land only four inches deep-the old
wayne plowed it eight inches deep.
Then he planted cotton in AZ feet
rows. The cultivation Of it required
less work than he had been putting
on the same land. But 10 and behold,
when the crop was gathered he a
~ bales from five acres and sold the
cotton and seed for ~$335.11! The fer
tiIizer used on the five acres cost $1O3,
leaving $232.11 net for the work done
on the five acres, or over $46 an acre.
These facts were pulled out" of
Mr.. Hall after Supt. b. t. McBryde
had put us on to the fact that Mr..
Hall was doing some stunts in farm
ing, 100.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10

has recently grown. to be so big an al
fair that 90, 5000. bales does not make
much Of an impression -upen-it. Trad
ing has been so heavy during many
days recently. that 100000 bales
would disappear as if by magic, and
leave not a ripple on the surface of
the market. Surely no man is big
enough to manipulate such a market
as tina unless he be some man such
as the cotton market has never known.
I'm the end the real value Of cot
ton will be known, and it is being ar
rived at in the best and only practical
WaV'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
THE RIGHT KIND OF FARMING
Tobacco. Cotton. Hogs, Wheat, Oats,
Corn and Potatoes.
(GreenVille ReflectO!

(GTo0nV1lle Rc1ieCtOC.
In my ~canvassmg trips a few days
ago it WIS my pleasure to spend the
night W tn Mr.. Will Macarthur and in
looking around over his farm. L found
an example worthy of invitation by
our best farmers. In fact all MS
neighbors point to him as the only
farmer in that section, yet none imi-
tate or profit by the example set
them. In his fields he a a moderate
crop of tobacco. cotton, corn, oats,
cane and potatoes. none to the extent
of over cropping, but all we'll worked
and in the highest state of cultiva-
ton. In the pasture he haC ninety
six head of hogs, some fine ,nilch
COWS, and a few beefs FOR the winter.
In his crib was plenty OF old corn
and fodder and oats and in the gin
merry was 1877 bushel of nice wheat
just thrashed out and nicely put away.
He has several large grape vines and
sells much Of their product, a fine
orchard and sells a bushels of
peaches and apples. His good lady
had over 500 Of the finest chickens I
have ever seen. 1t was a sight to see
Grandpa Sarkey feeding them, with
the whea screening.
And when I went to the table and
partook Of that homemade flour,
good brown ham gravy, fat chicken,
and Jersey butter and every vegetable
self this is living nine days to the
week.
Here is an example thai will do to
point to. Our people have it in their
own hands to solve the living prob
lem, trust questions, or. any other
question. Our lands and climate will
produce all that mankind could ask
and by a proper Investigation, none
Of h crops woul be o~verproduced
and higher prices could be main
tanned. I sincerely hope that our peo-
pie may be stimulated to the neces-
sity Of adopting such methods of
farming.-J. R.. Hutchings.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
A BASIS.
(KinStOn Free PreSS.)

That we do not now have the boil
WeeVil in our state but hat he is
likely to appear in some ten or
twelve years is an opinion expressed
by Mr.. Franklin Sherman. Jr. at the
Farmers Institute at Holy InnOcents.
This opinion is confirmed by a
writer in Success Magazine, who says
hat within fifteen years. as certain
ly as the sun shines he (the weeViD
will be in every field where cotton
grows The weevil travels at the
rate of forty miles a year He is
niw in the southwest, and is quietly
making his way into the mississippi
valley. The boil weevil is a curse,
but at the same time he is working a
beneficial change in agricultural
methods in the cotton states. He is
compelling crop Investigation and
crop rotation. Planters are produc-
ing their own supplies to an extent
heretofore unknown. They are~Sra-
duaIly, .forsaking the expensive credit
system and adopting the cheaper cash
system.
Somehow in the of nature
these pests and so-ca1led miSfOrtuneS
such as bad crop years, etc, are not
such great scOurges after all. Usually
such Visitations are really the only
forces of sufficient persuasion to
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
SOME A CORN.
The Land of Goshen in Eastern North
Carolina Grows Corn Tha Egypt
Couldn't TOuCh.-

To the Editor: Mr.. J. r. Sutton.
of the Goshen section, near Faison. N.
c., has a field of corn that would AL
most cause us to imagine ourselves in
the old ancient Goshen in the delta
of the Nile.
The corn has a distance of one by
four feet. By actual measurement its
average height is sixteen feet. The
average height to first ear is eleven
feet. If it fully natures, the writer
thinks that Mr.. Sutton will not be
disappointed in his expectation of one
hundred bushels per acre.
Mr.. Sutton's cotton is far above tho
average. The writer has travelled ex-
tensively this summer taking particu-
lar notice of the farming industry, but
in no other section has he seer such
successful farming as is being done
in this.
Look out for Sampson and the land
OF Goshen. RameSeS no linger op-
presses and M%anephtha no longer pur-
sues, but the Goshenites are still farm
ing.
Three cheers for the Goshen farm
ers. C. G. PAGE
FaisOn. N. c.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
MIR. aXt a Successful Potato
Grower.

Mr.. J. A. Laxton, of Rufus, has
proven by experience hat growing
Irish potatoes can be made a profita-
bic business in Caldwell county. Last
year he planted 6 bushels of potatoes
on "a Of an acre and made III
bushels. on which he cleared 500 in
cash. He figures that he would have
made $50 bushels if he had planted
all Of one variety.
How this extraordinary yield was
accomplished will be of interest to
many of our readers. Early in March
Mr.. Laxton broad-casted on this lot
about five tons of stable manure;
later he turned it about 8 inches deep.
and by means of the wheat drill
broad-casted a liberal amount Of com
mercial fertilizer. Following this lust
before planting he prepared the
ground thoroughly by the use OF the
disc harrow, drag harrow and plank
drag. The seed were planted in a
furrOW and covered with a c%uItiyator.
Then as soon as the potatoes were up
they were covered with a corn cuItiva-
tor and were later covered a second
time. leaving the rows about the size
of the ordinary potato ridge. After
some cultivation peas were planted be-
tween the rows and these make a
good shade for the potatoes during
the hot months Of July and August
LenOir Topic.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10

bring us to realize some weakness in
our methods, and to move US to adopt
a beneficial change change which
will place US and out industrial I'M
dertaking on a harder. firmer basis.