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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
HOW SAVAGE WIDOWS
MADE STAGE HISTORY

A Broadway wag returning from At
lantic City the other day, where he had
seen the first performance of "The Gay
Hussars," said: Savage has got an
other success with a widow in 1t. It's
a wonder he doesn't change his name
to Henry Widow Savage"
Considering that the new European
operetta is the eighth Savage produc-
tion that features a widow, there is
some point to the suggestion. Eight
stage widows in a row is his record.
The leading female role of THE Gay
Hussars" is the widowed Baroness
Risa. AS in 1.-The Merry Widow" this
widow has wealth and owns a castle,
but, unlike Sonia, who was Tilted by
Prince Danilo, Risa has Tilted her ola
sweetheart, and the romance or the
opera tells how she endeavors to win
back her hero.
Widows. whether grass or sod, have
always been popular and fascinating.
They seem to be licensed freebooters
whose province and inclination is TO
turn the heads of silly young chaps
and still more silly old boys. The wild
ows are supposed to have their own
sweet way at all times, another reason,
perhaps, why they are so envied as
we'll as hated both by wives and maid
ems. Off the stage they have always
figured opuently in the worlds history.
Unchaperoned but not unsung, the
widow, If present. is queen of the ball,
If not queen of the May.
Henry w. Savage fell for the widow
several years ago and started in at
once to establish her in stage ltera-
ture First came the dashing widow
in THE Prince of Pilsen," making
fool of the "Zinzinnati" brewer. She
was supplanted by the buxom Spanish
widow of 1.-THE Yankee Consul" Then
came the charming college Widow"
the best female role George Ade ever
sketched, giving way in turn to the
Newark widow of "The Yankee Tour
ist." Even Madam Butterfly" was n
sort of widow that Mr.. Savage could
not resist. while the widow Sonia in
1.-The Merry Widow" surpassed in Sc
ductive charm every stage widow Mr..
Savage ever met. By this time widows
had become a habit with him and he
turned to Portia Perkins in Mary
James Pa" widow in name only.
Next came Olga in 1.-THE Devil not
yet a widow, hut a woman who did
her best to become a widow. Lastly
we have 1.-THE Gay Hussars' with Bar
oness Risa, another widow.
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thronged to see Nazimova at the little
East Side theater in New York at
which she humbly began her American
triumphs. Society discovered her,
and raised her to the dignity of star
dom through the newspapers devoted
to it's fads and caprices, but her orig
inal admirers still crowd the galleries
of the big houses where she now plays
in her own company. on second
thought, her discovery was really
theirs. The -four hundred merely
colonized her, as the English colonized
America, while Columbus was rotting
in a Spanish dungeon. We may even
say they invented her too, and have
been worshiping the image of their in
ventlon ever since, and not the actress.
The big, boisterous crowd kept Shake
speare alive and writing and keep him
alive today, when the managerial mid
dleman permits, as witness the stu
pendOus success of Sothern and Mar
lowe this summer at the Academy of
Music, New York city, while the best
people have been watching a variety of
''follies" and "revues" on the Great
White Way"
1.-The pre-eminence of a man of
brains is not in question. If it were
the triumph of sheer brains and little
else could be demonstrated by our
golden rewards to the intellectual bully.
The creator of the classic sometimes is
an egOtst. He is rarely a "Superman,' -
in all Difference to the old reliable house
Of Nietszche and Shaw. He is often a
fool, and sometimes a mailman. He is
vain and simple piteously weak and
supernaturally strong, glutted with
praise for his genius, and often denied
the common joy of honest friendship.
In fact he is usually a quite ordinary
man, whom his 'heroic worshipers" in
sist upon treating as mi-god, a
"Superman." The natural and whole =
some consequence is that he appears to
future generations very often as a most
amazing ass, and around this asininity
his cult wind an impenetrable sheath
of criticism" and thus frighten away
all but the most adventurous of their
fellow spirits"
1t is precisely critics of the temper
of the Chicago man whose cuteness
rankles in my blunt obtuseness who
are soaring away part of the public
from grand opera and Shakespeare. We
write of these things in such a technical
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birthright of honor by marriage to him.
Tess set out to teach the same thing,
but Hardy's fatalism turned the mes
sage into a wall of despair. Salvation
Nell'' taught it. with a clearer and
sounder denouement than Mr.. Ted
ford's. 1t would be interesting to see
Miss Hall in both roles, one of which
she has already played here in stock.
The other soon may be available.
Richard Bennett is responsible. for a
suggestion which might we'll be adopted
generally by the theaters of Los An
geles, as it has for some years been
practically tried by Manager Drown OF
the Orpheum. 1t is that the orphan
residents at the various public and
private institutions hereabouts be ex-
tended the courtesy of gallery seats at
all the local theaters of the first grade.
one at a time, at fixed intervals, when
some play of particular educative and
emotional value is on the boards. NO
kinder and more human way of pay
ing a little of the debt which society
owes to its less happy and fortunate
little brothers and sisters could be de-
vsed. If any other playhouse besides
the Orpheum has attempted this or
late years, or desires to initiate such a
project The Herald will gladly add
them to the roll of honor.
Did you ever wonder what sly secrets
were whispered between the actors in
the background while the main action
is blowing furiously along up stage
Did you ever fancy that the moving of
the lips was a mere bluff and blind to
delude YOU into the illusion that real
words were being uttered? Now and
then your skepticism may be justified
but in general an experienced stage
ger will tell YOU that the sotto
voce talk is quite consonantal. Some
times it's about gossip of the wings.
and sometimes it's casual criticism or
the acting going forward in front of
the footlights. For realistic purposes,
the latter brand of chit-chat is the bet
ter for it fits visually into the action
more fty. What do they say Oh,
well. they're usually praising the work
of their good friends who have relieved
them of the limelight. Eth? What
oh, no; nothing of the sort. Jealous
Well. are you happy when the motor
man yells, up 'front.'?
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iargon that most sensible folk think
Lucia" a new kind of breakfast food
and THE Tempest" an essay on Oar
winism. Naturally they fight shy of
both. Some day some daring critic will
tell what it's all about and write up
Faust" and Carmen" the way SEN
sible newspaper man would write them
as big, gripping "stories" of everyday
life. That night the Main street NOV
ing picture shows will be deserted, and
the real push will all be at the Mason
box and parquet.
In the meantime those of us who have
adventured and found in the classics
the very things we have thought bur
didn't know how to say will continue
to enjoy them as we enjoy our dinner
our pipe and our easy chair, and also
continue to be lambasted with the little
whips of the little critics who call us in
different to the worlds masterpieces be-
cause we do not choose to make
fetiches of their thoroughly human
creators.
Somehow the generally philistine
trend of that last editorial suggests the
fierce and awful name of Martin Beck.
1t was Martin who said one day in
particularly audacious moment that he
''Would give his vaudeville crowd grand
opera and make 'em like it," Well.
Martin did. This week at the Orpheunl
we are expected to like it. I hope we
shall. 1T" is THE Patriot" a one
act tragic opera. Tragic! And in
vaudeville! Messrs. STANCE and Ed
wards wrote it, book and music, and it
tells a simple, straight-t heart
story of the American revolutionary
war or at least so the advance notices
say At all events, it looks good as
headliner, and Mr.. Beck seems to have
won his bet Whether the public has
a right to share his hilarity Wen know
next Monday afternoon.
The program for the Auditorium, an
nounced by Len Behymer is an am
bilious and comprehensive one. With
out taking sides in the eastern theat-
rical war, one must welcome any and
every additional means of bringing
strong, vital drama to this city. Every
darkened stage is so much loss. Every
reopening box office is a sign of spring
time.
didn't say as much as l should
have, or meant to. last week about
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the principal role.
MlSCELLANEOU

Miss Blanche Halls acting in the part
of Miss Dorothy Fitzgerald in THE
Greater Claim" at the Burbank. The
battle in this mans play" ragged
around her so fiercely that she was
almost submerged in my review as in
the drama itself. Yet she conveyed so
subtly and so we'll the innate purity of
the woman who had sinned for loves
sake that her impersonation did much
to save the action whenever it got on
tickhsh ground, and to reassure our
faith in the playwright's main thesis
the right of woman who has erred
once by mans deception to regain her
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JOHN coRr,s PLANS

John Cort viii revive ''King Dodo"
next season and will present Max Fig
man in 1.-The Man on the Box" The
Substitute" and The Old Curiosity
Shop" Mr.. Cort will place per-
manent company in the new Cort thea
ter, Chicago which will open in Octo-
Der with "The kissing Girl" STANCE
Bryan-Von Tilzer comedy opera.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08

Ferris Hartman's company has been
appearing in THE Ameer" at the Grand,
Seattle
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-08
FIRST AID TO THE
PUZZLED PLAYGOER
DRAM


BURBANK-"The Hono- of the Family" -"
a play Of thrills and sound motiviza-
ton made famous by Otis skinner,
Farewell week of william Desmond.
Opening this matinee.
BELASCO-"The warrens OF Virginia. -
by William c. De Mile, an interesting
play, and up to the last act a fairly
plausible one, but of incredible and un-
convincing climax. Well acted. Mag
ni1cently staged. Second week.
GRAND-"A Man of Mystery" by Mark
E. Swan, a popular success with Rich
ard Buhler as star some years ago.
The plot seems alluring and the ele-
ment of mystery attractively employed.
Opening this matinee.
OPERA
MASON-An attractive repertoire. both
tried and venturesome, by the Inter-
national company whose individual
and associated merits have been thor
oushly tested this week a. Amlc"
Fritz" "Otello," Fedora" La Ira
viata," Faust" I'll Trovatoree" and a
composite bill are announced. Both
muslcaly and dramatically this com
pany is well worthy Of your patronage.
Second week begins Monday night
ORPHEUM-"The Patriot" a tragic
opera, by Stanislaus STANCE and Julian
Edwards shifts this playhouse into
the operatic brigade by headlining the
vaudeville bill which opens Monday
matinee Miss Helena Frederick sings
the principal role.
MISCELLANEOU
LOS GELES-Dversi1ed vaudeville,
headlined by Foster and Foster in
THE Volunteer Pianist" The new
bill opens Monday afternoon
UNIQUE-Kelly and Niolette hold over.
Carroll johnson. minstrel and The
Plumber" one-act comedy are the
new attractions. Opening Monday
matinee,
FISCHER'S-"His Wife's Family" musi-
cal burlesque. by the Allen Curtis COM
pany, opens Monday.
WALKER-Four extra exhibitions OF
the hqht Dictures todaV
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-03-12
: ARMY OF THE UNITED

of public interest, especially as that
interest applies to us as a race.
The great question which is agi-
tating the American people to-day is,
who shall be the next President of
the United States? There is no class
or section of the American people, who
compose the great American common
wealth that will be more directly af-
fected by the choice that shall be
made than the Afro-Americans If
Secretary Taft is to be nominated and
elected, then the race may expect
four more years of repression and in
justice on national scale, but with
a union of all the forces for justice,
fair play and good government, it is
possible to defeat him and thus put
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-03-12
FoRAKER's GREAT EFFORT
>auses Historic Senate to Resound
Thrills of BYuone DAYS.

The speech of Senator Foraker, of
Ohio, in the senate week before last,
in defense of his stand in the Browns
vile ARRAY, recalls the days when
Sumner electrified the world and
struck slavery in its most vulnerable
spot, the cause of his subsequent de-
mise
The Ohio senator was we'll poised;
he was calm and deliberate, yet di-
rect in his assault upon his opponents
in this notable incident in American
history.
His speech was a masterpiece of le-
gal argument; a rare literary produc-
ton, and his presentation of law may
be considered the excellence in legal
Jurisprudence.
He was fair, conservative and just,
but fearless and as bold as a lion.
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an end to this iniquitous program that
has been carried out to the detriment
of the African race in America.
In order that the true and honest
expression of large, intelligent con-
stituency may not be gagged and
turned into unwise channels, to be
used to our dishonor and our shame,
this call for a great Republican Rally
has been issued to the colored Re-
publicans of Montgomery County.
This call is issued not only to the reg
istered voters of the county, but to
every colored Republican who is
thinking on these questions that are
so vital to the future of our race. Let
the old-time Republican fire be kin
died in the breast of every black pa
triot in the county, and let there be a
great outpouring Of the thoughtful,
race-loving men at the County Court
House on Friday night, 8 o'clock,
March o. 19OS-The Colored Ala
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the discharged companies and urging
reinstatement by the Senate for those
soldiers who can establish their inno-
cence The Age maintains it past posi-
ton.
We have always claimed that
Brownsville was no race issue; we
have always believed in the honesty
and friendship of President Roosevelt
for the Negro race, but we have al
ways thought and said that the Pres
ident's discharge of the entire three
companies for the alleged offense of
a score of men at best, was summary,
hasty, and in short, an executive mis-
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DISCHARGED WITHO

take. AS such now and henceforth we
discuss it.
We have never denied the alleged
guilt of some of the soldiers, but we
have said and still say it is unfair to
place the innocent, even soldiers, in
the hard and perverted position of
establishing their innocence.
However, the Presidents attempt
to redress the wrong by reinstating,
apparently with back pay, all the in
nocent, is timely and statesmanlike.
We hope that the whole Brownsville
business will be dispatched with as
little friction and animosity as posi-
BILE. We believe that full justice will
be done.-The New York Age, Dec.
II, 1908, New York.
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IN HONOR OF THE BRIDE AND
GROOM.

Miss Hattie A. Cleveland enter
tanned last Thursday at her residence,
7O6 Ewing avenue, Mr.. and Mrs. Os-
car Harris. The hostess was as
sisted in serving by Miss Matte Jor-
dan
The following guests were present:
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Harris, Mr. John
Jordan, Mr.. Jeff Cheatham. Geo. Nor
ton, John Galloway, Paul Morton,
Lewis Davis, James Lillard, Charles
Stringer, Oscar Murry Dave Thomas.
Misses Bette West. Almira Shivers,
Bette Thompson, May Francis Blu
ford, Mrs. Matte Jordan, Mrs. Mar
tina McFerrin, Misses Mamie Cleve-
land, o. Cleveland, Lena Fulton and
Mrs. Anna Cleveland and Mrs. Louisa
Elders. Games were played until a
late hour A three-course menu was
served.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-03-12

It is sometimes we'll to hesitate be-
fore boarding the band wagon, to note
the sort of company with which you
are to ride and when you find that
your best friends, your sanest coun-
sellers are getting aboard and taking
comfortable seats, it is a good thing,
in our Judgment to rlsE our future
with such company rather than be
left by the roadside alone. President
Roosevelt's ac in discharging the Ne
gro soldiers 1T Brownsville was an
impulsive act We agree; but impul-
sive acts resisted and bitterly opposed
by impulsive acts, usually lead to acts
of a worse character.
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MRS. DUNCAN HoNoRED.

Friday evening, March 5, Mrs.
James Dabney, of S27 Tenth avenue,
South. gave an elegant supper in the
honor of her sister, Mrs. Afford Dun
can, of Hopkinsville, KY. Those
present were Mrs. Afford Duncan, Mr..
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Here We may observe the spirit of
Sumner, re-embodied in this cham
pion from Ohio.
This man has taken a stand
for what he conceives to be right,
thus exemplifying the highest type of
American citizenship.-May 2, 1908.
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FORAKER A MARTYR.

Senator Joseph Benson Foraker is
a hero and martyr to the cause Of
law and order. He is the only true
type of republicanism, defending and
asking a fair and impartial trial of
those Negro troops at Brownsville.
His manly courage, craftsmanship
and Christian heart, pure as the whit
est linen, only asked that Congress
would deal fair and just with those
Negroes, but seemingly to save the
President, even after he had at a
great expense secured secret service
men with all former official testimo-
MES, no clue as yet has condemned
or found those troops guilty, other
than the President. The South, in
no court would have convicted them
without true facts and when the
great head of the United States gov
eminent does an injustice to it's sub
iects, what may one expect of some
commonwealth? Those troops were
not wanted at Brownsville, yet the
President ordered them there and
should have given them fair trial
Who knows but that some MeXicans
shot up Brownsville? Negroes have
not yet learned to do and keep Sc
crets, and of the entire body of troops
some would have told the story but
the case has been thoroughly sifted
ard the world is no wiser to-day than
yesterday. Bad! bad! for liberty
loving America Senator J. B. For
ker, of Ohio, is a martyr to the cause
and defense of the Negro for justice.
Let the name of Senator Joseph Ben
son Foraker ever live in every Ne
gro's heart, and let the same be
handed down to all future genera
tions. and when he is dead let us rear
to his memory monument that will
instil Foraker into the lives of gen.
erations to come.-Negro World, Jan
uary, 1909, Carey, Miss.
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THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY RE.
PUBLICAN RALLY.

1t has been and is the policy of the
Albanian to contend for the rights
of our people and to rightly inform
and advise its readers on all matters
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-03-12

and Mrs. Hayes Moore, Mr.. and Mrs
James Dabney, Mrs. Lucinda Weeks
Misses Eugenia Moore, Alberta Dab
ney, Masters Sevelle M. Duncan and
James 3, Dabney, Jr. Miss Alberta
Dabney rendered many beautiful Sc
lections on the organ.
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cHRYsANTHEMUM ART CLUB.

The Chrysanthemum Art Club met
at Mrs. W. F. Robinson, 900 Eleventh
avenue. Business was opened with
song by the club and prayer by M, j.,
w. Steeles. After the business of
the club and a few hours work by the
members the club was served a de-
lightful two-course menu. Miss Car
ter assisted the hostess in serving.
The club adjourned to meet at the
home of Mrs. Thomas Vaughn, 919
Warren street, March 9rd, 1909.
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It is pretty clear to students of
political movements IN this country
tFat the Brownsville episode has been
greatly exaggerated by enthusiasts on
one side and by defenders of errors
on the other and has been used by
politicians as a trick to do injustice to
the Negro race. 1t is perfectly clear,
furthermore, that this Brownsville cpl
sCde has demonstrated, first that Pres
ident Roosevelt is not a man who will
admit openly that he has made mis-
take; that he was guided by impulse;
that he was hasty and eXerted in
accurate judgment. On the other
hand, it has demonstrated that the
Negro has very few friends or SYM
pathizers in the Senate or in the
House Representative and that it be-
hooves the Negro voter to act cauti-
ously in the matter of expressing his
preferences or pledging his support
to proposed candidates TO be selected
at the Chicago Convention. If the
Negro voter is not wise, if he refuses
to use good Judgment, he will, in this
crisis. find himself after the next pres
idential election left out in the cold
without a Party upon whom he may
depend and with very few true friends
or sympathizers in either branch of
Congress- We sincerely hope that
our men will not choose to be guided
ty ill-directed emotions rather than by
plain commonsense.
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bamian, March p, 1908, Montgomery
Ala
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Ramsay Notes.

Mrs. A. Henry, of Hazlehurst, MISS, accompanied
by her two daughters, has arrived and will spend
few weeks here, the guests of Mr.. E.. R. Greenlaw
Misses Ida and Dora Greenlaw have returned from
Hazelhurst, Miss, where they have been attending
school for the past six months.
Mr.. Val Fabian, of New Orleans, was visitor on
Wednesday.
Mr.. D. c. Holmes, representing the Hagardine-
few days here last week in the interest of his firm.
Mrs. ]. A. Richardson will leave shortly for
Houston Texas, where she will visit relatives for
period of three months
Mrs. j. Il. Tate, who has been on visit at Oman,
Miss, returned Monday evening.
Miss Maggie Clements, of New Orleans, is the
guest this week of Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Ford and
Miss May Lacey.
Mr.. A. H. Page visited Magnolia, Miss, during
the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Ball spent Sunday and Monday
with relatives in Angie, La.
Mr. l.. z. Dickey was a Crescent City visitor last
Tuesday.
Master Charles keenan, who has been attending
school In New Orleans during the last eight months
is expected home at the end of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Buquoi, with their two boys,
spent Sunday in Covington.
Mrs. L. Olivier, accompanied by her two daugh-
tiers, Misses Lucy and Bertha Olivier, of New Or
leans, arrived Wednesday evening, and are located
at Hotel ST. Joseph. Their brother Mr.. P. D.
Olivier, also accompanied them
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Mueller were visitors to Cow
ington last Saturday.
Mrs. Hunter Greenlaw spent Saturday afternoon
in Covington RAMSAYITE