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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

Mulvey are topnotch figures in vaudeville and their skit, "A Theatrical Agency" is novel and laughable. 1t is full of bright dialogue and interspersed with songs and eccentric steps. The whirlwind finish where Schrode and Mulvey do a cyclone dance and upset all the furni- ture and bric-a-brac is a sensation and has never yet failed to compel vociferous applause and unusual enthusiasm.
 When the reform bug bites a loving wife and sends her scurrying from her home to save the souls of cabmen and sailors by heart to heart talks after light lunch of coffee and rolls, the aver age husband is apt to rise upNand say things. But how to cure the wife and bring her to a realization that her ef- forts are needed at home? That is the situation presented and solved to the ac- compartment of irresistible laughter in Lesson in Reform" new comedy sue cess that will be given in this theatre next week by Florence Modena, the dis tinguished actress, supported by Charles Gardner and capable company. It made a great hit on the Orpheum circuit.
 The Bimbos are man and woman team of comedy acrobats and equflibrists, and they term their offering "The Tramp With the Hinges" It Is a succession of ludicrous pantomime efforts combined with acrobatic and equlibrists stunts. Both of the Bimbos have regulations and have exhibited with success In many large cities in the civilized world
 Keller and Klein are known as the Fashion Plate Dancers" ions account of the natty costumes they Wear and their general swell appearance. They do buck and wing dancing and bill themselves as "The Terpsichorean Wonders.S This team is among the best in advai.s cd vaudeville.
 MT. Lennon is an impersonator of fa- nous actors, who besides portraying his characters with surety and directness, relieves the assumption by introducing some of the original lines of the mono logue of the character he represents. Mr. Lennon will give new set of char acterizations on his present tour. He adds to the novelty of the act by making up for the different characters on the stage and in full view of the audience.
 Dorothy Dayne is known as a star in comic opera circles and as singing comedienne. Miss Dayne has a sweet voice and a keen sense of humor. She is pretty and wears some stunning cos tumes Magnetic as battery and pretty as a picture-why should she not prove strong attraction.
 The usual high class moving pictures will conclude the offerings. There will be matinees at 2:30 each afternoon and at S:3O every night the usual perform ance will be given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

Third Degree" now at the Hudson thea a series of stories for a New York paper on baseball as it was played 20 years ago. Mir Barnun, it will be remembered, was prominently identified with the great national game at that time, both as a player and umpire.
 The favorite books of actors are:
 Edmund Breese-"Taine's English Lit erature."
 Robert Edeson-"Heart of Midlothian" Helen Ware-'Lorna Doone."
 Rose Stahl-''Vanity Fair''
 Frank McIntyre-"Old Curiosity Shop" Edna Archer Crawford-"The Light that Failed"
 Grace Filkins-Memoirs of St. Simon. Herbert Corthell-Coopers "The Last of the Mohicans"
 Elsie Ferguson-Tolstoi's "War and Peace"
 Oliver Doud Byron-Balzac's Cousin Pons."
 Paul Everton-Schoenberg Gotta Stories Rosalind Coghlan-Stephenson David Balfour."
 Ann Murdock-'Mosses from an Old Manse."
 Maud Knowlton-Charles Reeds Peg Wellington"
 Diana Hune~er-"The Man Without a Country" .
 John Flood-Henry James Trans-At- lantc Sketches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

Homecoming" Curiously, this suite is rarely heard except in the repertoire or great orchestras,s even if its beauties are no less conspicuous than It's earlier con- panion.
 Mir James in summoning every sympa- thetic and intelligent attribute to en- nance this poetic comedy has naturally utilized all the Grieg music; this Is sup plemented by other Grieg compositions and Norwegian folk music which fur nishes the tonal background of the per formance. Equally discriminative has been MT. James in the selection of his supporting company, Aphie James, who has been his chief support for several sea- sons, playing 'Solveig, the faithful sweet heart, who for lifetime patiently awaits her wandering boys return. Miss James Is said to invest the character with a charm of wistful tenderness that makes her a splendid antithess to the bragging and arrogant Peer Gynt."
 The cast, chorus, auxiliaries, musicians and stage mechanics aggregate nearly 80 people. The comedy is revealed In five acts and Il scenes, necessitating the mus ical prelude to commence at 8:10 o'clock each night and the last curtain falls at Il o'clock or few minutes after if the stage hands are not familiar with the complexities of the production. The role of Peer Gynt' is one which requires an actor who is a comedian well as 0 tragedian, for 1t compasses every phase of human existence and emotion from buoy ant, careless youth, through the cynical worldly wiseness of middle life, to life shriven old age. Illustrating the opti- mistic theme of unselfshness, it tells a. story founded on the realities of life, but embroidered as poetic license permits with fairy and other supernatural characters and phases, which tells an optimistic story of the necessity of self-conquest and the resurrection of the human soul in the bath of pure love. MT. James in this protean character Is said to have made the hit of his career, and coupled to this, having obtained the original production, he is thus enabled to clothe his artistic success in the scenic environment that added so materially to the Mansfield tri- umph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18


 Ralph Delmore-''Martin Chuzzlewit. . Wallace Eddinger-"The Story of an Untold Love-" For the performance of ''What Every Woman Knows at the Grand Opera House, New Haven which will be given on Monday afternoon, April 19, by Miss Maude Adams and her company In aid of the fund that is being raised for Yale university theatre. the undergraduates of the college have already started sub-' scription fund of a thousand dollars as the price of one box that will be occu-, pied by President Hadley of the univer-, sity and his immediate family. The Cleveland Hungarian society last week gave a reception to Rosemary Glosz while she was singing '"The Merry Widow" in MT. Rockefeller's town. Over 800 Magyar Americans attended to honor the winsome Hungarian girl who has won so much praise in Lehar Ferelc's beauti- full opera
 The earliest Itali n tragedy was Gale otto's "Sofonisba." written in 1502 and had 20 acts.
 In the fourth century actors were ex- cluded from the benefit of Christian sae- raments, and eXcommunlcation was ex-i tended to those who visited theatres in- stead of churches on Sundays and holi- days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
Louis James In "Peer cynt.y

Louis James, in his latest and greatest success, Peer Gynt,' play in five acts and Il scenes, by Henrik Ibsen, will be the offering at the Jefferson theatre on Monday, April 26 Henrik Ibsen, deceased only two years, is best known to the stage as the author only of dramas of problems and discussion. He wrote Peer Gynt" in 1867 under warm Italian skies while travelling under the indulgence of a pension provided him by the Norwegian government. He was at that time ad- mired for his five poetic dramas of rare beauty and inherent strength, and the north believed shim to be another Shake speare, a confidence he has since then fully justified.
 The popularity of Peer Gynt' begot an insistent demand for its presentation upon the stage, behest to which he yielded, after long insisting that no player in Europe could compass the many require ments of the role, and that no stage could realize the pictorial exigencies. When, however, he did consent to it's stage presentation, and edited the manu- script for the Royal theatre, Christiania, more than half his principal text fell under his pruning knife.
 When Richard Mansfield presented his acting version of Peer Gynt" he re- stored many of the most famous episodes m tnlS fascinating comedy, making res toration of nearly one-third more of the original text to the prompt book than was used in the Norwegian theatre, and Louis James, ever faithful to the au- thor, has added additional text until now his prompt book is as nearly perfect as is possible to compile for stage purposes.
 He has successfully visualized the Mo- rocco scene with the theft of the yacht and the subsequent explosion; the ballet of 'Anitra" and her maidens; the scene of the ship at sea, the storm and the most realistic wreck seen upon the stage in years Grieg. the composer, wrote his first Peer Gynt'' suite under a pure emo- tional impulse after contemplating this drama of human life in it's not yet acted state. The first suite contains "Morn- ing" "Ase's Death" "Anitra's Dance" and "The Hall of the Mountain King" and is familiar to. all who have any ac- quaintance with good music. It became more famous than the play. When Ibsen prepared Peer Gynt' for the stage he invited his friend Grieg to write fur ther on tho same theme, and he produced the second suite which includes ''Ingrid's Plaint," "SolveiE's Song'' and Pears
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

numbers by the author of the play, George M. Conan, grew out of the situa- tions. Thus the play takes on a consist ency and unity which are usually wanting in the average musical comedy. Sporti- ness permeates the story, but Is not suf- f1ciently prominent to become offensive.
 In the first of the three acts offered a glimpse of life at the Hotel Cecil In Lon don on the day that the English Derby Is to be run and the arrival of the fa- nous jockey. Johnny Jones, and his pub lie denunciation of race track shark who is trying to win the hand of wealthy American woman by pretending to be gentleman. In the second act the docks at Southampton are shown, and the departure for American of all concerned is about to take place when Johnny Jones, who Is now In disgrace because of having lost the derby, Is arrested on a false accusation of theft against him. Tie sec- ond scene of this act shows an ocean liner at full speed at sea sending up rockets, which Is the signal that the innocence of Johnny Jones has been discovered. The third act is in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco, and brings not only justifica- ton, but sweetheart to Johnny Jones'
 The production is supptuously mount ed, while the cast and chorus numbers over seventy-five people and is one of the largest and most expensive organizations on tour this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
The BijOu.
The Maicstic
Flames Here Next Friday.

Mime. Emma Eames, the great Amerf- can grand opera singer, and Emilio de Gogorza, one of the leading baritones of the world, will be heard in a grand con cert at the High School auditorium next Friday night.
 Too much stress cannot be laid upon the remarkable opportunity that is presented to the people of the surrounding towns to hear these great artists. Mime. Flames means to retire from the stage at once. It is possible that this appearance in Bir- mingham will be the last time that this wonderful woman willNpour forth the gol- den notes of that voice with which she has entranced even the crowned heads of foreign countries. and by right of which she has won the title of queen of the opera. Think of the chance present. ed to hear her! It may be that the chance will never come again.
 De Gogorza is another American singer who Is proud to lay claim to the land of his birth. Although educated in Flu rope, it is his proud boast that he is a citizen of the United States, and that he first saw the light of day in the land of the Stars and Stripes.
 The sale of tickets to the Flames en- gagement will open at Jesse French Piano and Organ company on April 21. There Is Bure to be a rush for seats.
 The Music Festival.
 The music festival which will be held at the Hippodrome April 2S, 29 and 30, will be easily the most interesting in point of variety and altogether the most brilliant musical entertainment ever an- nounced for this part of the country.
 Damrosch and his splendid orchestra the New York Symphony-will be prom lnent on all the programmes and if there were to be no other attraction than the orchestra, the audience would be large. But a notable solo quartet of vocal art lsts, three separate choral rganizations, B fine violin soloist--Alex Saslavsky-and Mrs. Isabel Garghill Beecher, read er to orchestral accompaniment, will be heard, and as there are to be five per- formances those who attend will revel in music as never before. The vocal soloists engaged for the occasion are Madame Corinne Rider-Kelsey, a great operatic soprano; Miss Nevada Van der veer, contralto; Reed Miller. tenor. and Gustaf HolmQufst basso.
 The programmes were published in full in The Age-Herald of last Friday. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18
PLAYHOUSE GOSSIP.

Whatever concerns the theatre and the drama in Birmingham concerns R. S.. Douglas, manager of the Jefferson. The fondest recreation of Manager Douglas is work. He is in his finest form and In his best mood when he has ten per- formances in one week. one right after another, including about four matinees. So with the close of the season, which is near at hand Manager Douglas has sought recreation in the shape of work. But even as secretary and treasurer of the Birmingham Baseball association, MT Douglas talks of shows and what next season will hold out. He declares that he has bookings already and predicts many good things next year.
 Henry B. Harris will have IS attractions on tour next season.
 Frank Mcintyre, who plays Bob Blake in ''The Travelling Salesman" early in his life toured the small towns of Mich igan with glee club.
 George Barnum who plays Dr. Bern atsin h CharlAs Kein's masterpiece. "Ths
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

chorus numbers are beautiful but short and at each concert the orchestra will be heard in pieces at once artistic and popular.
 It is a pleasing coincidence that the orchestra will play Grieg's Peer Gynt suite, which is to be presented on APrli 2e in it's original dramatic form. The drama was written by Ibsen and It was at the authors suggestion that the com poser gave it a musical setting. NO programme music has been more popular than Peer Gynt."a Every organist, big and little. plays the funeral march-the second movement entitled "Asa's Death"
 Another familiar thing that will be heard on the orchestra is the Mendelssohn wedding march, It Is one of the pieces that is played and played but will never be played to death. Every music lover will be eagerly listening for 1t.
 Andre Tridon of New York writes:
 "Walter Damrosch's private life Is rather discouragfng for the writer in quest of good copy Just as vaudeville imitators are discouraged from imitat- ing him on account of his lack of man. nerisms so the sensational renorter must consider 'Damrosch the man as poor subject for a story.
 "He hasn't even any known fads, or rather should I say he has two fads: His family and the advancement of music.
 'Whatever time he doesn't spend with his four children and his wife, the daugh- ter of James G. Blaine, the great Amer ican statesman, is devoted to music con- ducting, rehearsng, reading new scores or preparing lectures on musical subjects
 'IIis summers he generally spends in Maine, swimming and playing tennis, when he is not thinking out t Q or three hundred programmes for the next year, directing negotiations for the various tours, engaging new artists, and carry ing on hiss vo1uminous correspondence with prominent men and artists of many countries; all of which is of little fn- terest to those craving sensation, but very illumining for those who appreciate achievements and positive results"
 "Litte Johnny Jones'"
 That this city is to be visited this week by last seasons biggest musical comedy success, Little Johnny Jones'" conveys with the announcement so much genuine pleasure to theatergoers and has already excited so much-interest with the general public that 1t is an assured fact that the Bijou theater will be crowded to It's ut most capacity on this occasion.
 Little Johnny Jones.' by its long run of six months in New York and over four months in Chicago, with the important engagements in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington. Baltimore and St. Louis, and all the lead1ng cltes lasI season and this, firmly established itself as one of the most notable attractions in America. It is described as one of the crispest, snap- piest and brightest musical comedies this country has witnessed for several years It is said to be superior to the majority of its kind in that 1t has more of story than have they. There is quite a hint of melodrama in certain of the situations, and these moments of seriousness but heighten the effectiveness of the breezy comedy that follows. The twenty musical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

George Barnum, who plays Dr. Bern- atsin h CharlAs Klein's masterpiece, "Ths
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-04-18

Henry B. Harris will have IS attractions on tour next season.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

ings wrecked were built by unfair la
Dor. A whole lot of people believed
these lies.
1t now develops that the bomb
throwing is merely one incident in
connection with the war between two
rival gambling organizations in the
Windy City, each one intent on de
stroying the property of the other
The Chicago police, always ready to
fasten any kind of crime on the
labor unions, supported the theory
that the unions were guilty parties,
and it would seem to the unprecedented
observer that they did not want to be
convinced otherwise.
But the daily newspapers that were
SO ready and willing to fasten these
outrages upon the labor unions are
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
STREET RAILWAY MEN.
Regular Semi-Monthly Meeting Will Be
Held This Evening.

Division No. 522, Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees, will meet at Bruises
hall at midnight this Saturday even
ing. lot of matters of supreme i'm
portance to the organization will come
up for consideration. 1t is imperative
that there be full attendance at this
meeting. in order that the business
may be transacted with dispatch. 1t
is probable that an international Off
Ger will be present to give counsel and
advice.
Naturally enough, the impending
. change in the control of the corpora
tons is interesting the men, and it
is subject of conversation whenever
three or four of them get together.
The Ivey case is still hanging fire,
the defendant having taking another
continuance.
Steam heaters have been installed
on six OF the big cars making the Uni
versity Place and Havelock runs. They
will be under the control of the motor
men. The company will install "Ys"
at the Havelock and University Place
ends in order to turn the cars.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

The daily papers recently had a
cock-and-bull story about the danger
of strike of teamsters, but the stor-
les only made the union teamsters
smile. While the daily papers were
talking strike the employers were sign
ing up.
The new scale is by no means extor-
tiOnate. 1t does not make good the
increased cost of living-not by any
means. But it does come bit nearer
than the old scale to affording the
teamsters chance to make fair
living
The transfers have a live organiza-
ton now, and it is up to the union
men of the city to give them boost
whenever possible. The way to boost
is to insist upon having a union driver
deliver your coal, and if the firm can
not provide union driver, patronize
a firm that can and will
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

decorated in keeping with the holt
day, and the entertainment was along
Halloween lines. Each gentleman re-
ceived souvenir supposed to be in
keeping with his mental inclinations
and games of various kinds were in
dulged in. The evening was so pleas
ant that ring around the rosy" was
INDUCED in on the spacious lawn and
although the guests were all staid
married people, they made as much
noise as an equal number of kids
could have made. The evening was
delightfully."- spent, and some of the
guests actually didn't get home until
morning.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
THE TRACTION SCRAP.
W. e. Sharp Wins His Fight for Con-
troll of Property.


w. e. Sharp Wins His Fight for Con-
troll of Property.
w. E. Sharp has won his fight for
the control of the Traction Co., and
in due time he will be elected presi.
dent to succeed w. E. Mcdonald, and
will have board of directors in sym
pathy with his plans. Some of the
most progressive business men in
Lincoln will be on the board, and it is
given out that the company will at
once begin the work of extension and
betterment. Interurban lines are
promised, and this is something that
would be of immense benefit to Lin
coin.
Mr.. Sharp has demonstrated his
business ability on more than one &C.
casion, but never to better advantage
than when he secured control of the
Traction company. His success in
business has been marked.
The Wageworker feels assured that
under his guiding hand, assisted by
shrewd and capable business men in
harmony with his policies, the Lincoln
Traction company will move forward
to better things
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
HERE'S BULLY NEWS.
The Shoeworkers' Controversy With
Douglas Settled at Last.

The two following communications
will be interesting reading to the
unionists of the country, because it
shows the amicable adjustment of the
long-continued and disastrous contro-
versy between the Boot and Shoe
Workers Union and the w. L. Doug
las Shoe Company:
Boston, Mass, October 26.-To the
Editor of The Wageworker:-We beg
to advise you that the controversy be-
tween the Boot and Shoe Workers
Union and the w. l.. Douglas Shoe
Co., of Brockton, Mass, has been set
tied to our mutual satisfaction. All
of the Douglas shoe factories are to
operate under the union stamp arbi-
tration contract. The factories of the
Douglas Co., in Brockton are to re-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
CIGAR GIRLS STRIKE.

Five hundred girls are on strike in
the cigar shop of Hirschhorn, Mack
& Co., in New Brunswick, N. J. They
demand Is and 40 cents a hundred
for the manufacture of small and large
and 35 cents they have been receiving.
Most of the strikers are of Hungarian
extraction, but the girls who scabbed
were nearly all Americans. The firm
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
THOSE CHICAGO BOMBS.

Newspapers That Charged Them to
Union Men Now Very Silent.
For some time past Chicago has
been the scene of bomb outrages, re-
sulting in the wrecking of buildings
and danger to life. When the first
of these bomb outrages was perpe-
trated it was broadly limited by GER
tain corporation controlled daily pa
pers that they were due to the ac-
tivity and meanness of union men. 1t
was declared that union men had
thrown the bombs because the build