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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-09

The county commissioners have been
in session this week, all members pres
ent, and adjourned yesterday. Mostly
routine business including the consider
alton ofanumber of petitions for bridges,
has kept them busy.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-09

When you see man coming in at the
gate with sort of oblong fiat package
under his arm and business like lock
on his face-you may as we'll face the
muslc-it's the assessor-he is on rounds
through the towns.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-09

Marriage Licenses.
Thomas Trenbeath of Nechs and Elsie
Maud Fltzsimonds of Bay Center.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-09

The week has not been very warm, but
the snow is about gone and the roads
and fields are beginning to dry up. A
few days of pleasant weather and seed
ing would begin. Tuesday night was
pretty cold and the ponds all froze
pretty solid. Geese and ducks have been
flying northward all the week. Crossing
on the Red is done with boats from the
shores to the ice, which is still solid.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-01
SIGNIFICANCE OF The WANT ADS

The Want Ads" any other paper
in North Dakota papers cities several
times the size Fargo
1t is recognized advertising business that
the ads naturally gravita the
results such advertising easily they either
pull" apparent
results that gotten otherwise.
Forum the legitimate pulling
power of this newspaper schemes give
free insertions to force volume Practically the
number of Forum wants unsolicited; they The
the advertiser paper
brings results Thousands
page evenng-thats the only
pay grandly.
1t would be revelation advertiser the
testimonials results
1t indicate intelligent
has the circulation that
influences it's readers
Only conclusion be reached
when the are knoy@n--That
1t Pays to Advertise n The Forum
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-01


of commerce not only for this state but the
vast territory north and west should be proud
Of The Forum.
This newspaper has brought the business
of the greater part OF the state TO the doors of
Fargo business houses This Is our only claim
TO consideration the service we render to
those who use the columns of this newspaper
for legitimate business purposes; those who
In 50 great numbers look 10 for truthful
record Of the events Of the day.
The Forum Is Big Factor In Boosting
Fargo's Business---Wat 1t Do More
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-01
What 1t Means
To Fargo

Fargo is North DakOta's grea attest city. It Is
but right that Fargo should be the home of
North Dakota's greatest newspaper, and resi-
dents of this city, those who take pride in it's
remarkable growth, its business supremacy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-01
Extracts From the Report.

net paid circulation
" 1900 2o greater than the for the entire period
OF neWsdealerso
copies street gam OF o2 country agents. and gain
subscribers making total
the following thea
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-01

]. c. Aver Co.
The N. K. Fairbank Co.
DR.. Kilmer & Co.
Paris Medicine Co.
The PisO Co.
Quaker Oats Co.
Sterling Remedy Co.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-01
AS To The
Future

The Forum Is not idly setting back on Iau-
rels already won; it is aggressiveIy pushing for
ward in every department. Having greatly OUT
grown It's present quarters 1t will soon move
into It's new building, a magnificently appointed
Z Al IsrEnsn nnEEan -
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
A WOMAN DRAMATlST
TALKS OF HER IDEALS

New York loves the sinner The rest
of the country does not" Edith Ellis.
small, pale. with deep set, sparkling
eyes. tossed off this statement laugh
ingly yet with an undertone of pro-
found earnestness. writes an inter
viewer in the Theatre Magazine.
1T is true" insisted this female in
surgent dramatist. 1.-THE sinner is the
only person who is interesting to New
Workers. We go with as fast people as
we dare without going to Jail. We re-
gard the woman who doesn't drink
cocktails and smoke cigarettes as un-
interesting, or some dangerous kind of
reformer. The women are worse than
the men.
"And yet the cocktail-cigarette women
are the sort who are against Suffrage
for their sex. | wonder why it is?
haven't found out. But it is so. Look
about among your friends"
From suffrage for women the author
of Mary James Pa" whom some of us
have named Mary James Pas Ma"
flung back to sin.
New York likes the sinner, because
we are all sinners or as sinful as we
dare be. That is the reason that Paid
in Full succeeded i'm New York and
failed on the road. The play turns upon
the villainy of the husband. He was
sinner and so New York accepted him.
Outside New York they would not. TO
others he seemed unique, merely des-
picable cad, sui generis They would
not have him, and the play failed"
The little, cheerful, live-wire woman
admits being of the army of insurgent
dramatists. If she is not their leader
she is at least their vivandiere, bold in
her allegiance to the new, independent
acknowledgements of traditions, in
dependent of dogmas, Independent of
forms.
"'Mary James Pa has been criticised
because it is neither comedy, tragedy
nor farce" Miss Ellis threw gay chal-
lenge at grave critics who had been
by her play. TT isn't any one
of them. / did not intend any of the
three. It is life That Is what 1 in
tend my plays shall be-as near life
as l can make them. Life isn't com
edy. 1t isn't tragedy. 1t isn't farce.
1t has elements of all three. 1t is a
blend of all.
"A man who thinks he knows said
to me: You are too intelligent wo-
man to mind my saying this You
have written a rotten play. YOU
think so.' I said. We'll, I shall not ac-
cept your verdict. We will leave 1t to
the public The public reversed the
wise mans decision, as the appellate
court often reverses the decision of the
lower courts. I have always had in
mind when I wrote, not the owls of
wisdom, the dissectors of the drama,
but the public.
Everything I know l have learned
from the public. When any play with
which l am connected is on 1 go down
nto the audience and sit, first in one
part of the house. then in another and
40 matter whom ] am sitting beside l
always learn something from that per-
sons view of the play. Even If my
leighbor doesn't say word, can tell
low the points impress him. 1 can
ell when one point reaches home and
mother fails. The public is the judge,
md if the. public likes it what else
natters'?"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
VARIETY SUPERIOR
TO NEW VAUDEVILLE
BY JOHN RUSSELL

When yellow-headed youths tell you
how much vaudeville has improved on
the old-time variety show, which they
never saw, go and talk to some veteran
who knows. The vaudeville program is
a menagerie. The old variety show,
good or bad, was at least a school. We
used to graduate comedians. Now they
produce novelties. Jim Powers, Nat
Goodwin, George Knight, Willie Col
lier-I could fill a printers stick with
the names old variety has added to
stage history
Our farce in the old days may htve
been broad enough. It's certainly thin
today-in vaudeville. And, anyway, we
worked harder in twenty-four hours
than do any team Of modern twice-a-
day players. Every morning we were
on the stage, trying out new gags, de-
vising fresh burlesque. Show me the
modern vaudeville comedian who thus
tasks himself. l dom t myself.
In the two hours from 7:30 to $3.50 D.
m. every night the variety show staged
all the way from twelve to fifteen acts,
each of which was limited to one song.
From $3.50 till IL the feature acts We're
put on. There were no supper shows,
and in the recent discarding of that
folly modern vaudeville is simply re-
verting to type. Harrigan and Hart
used to spring new speciality each
week
Yes, we've changed our acts a great
deal since those days, but I'd give a
good round sum for new one that
would really take. We have cut out
most of the falls" for the public don't
laugh as they used to at that primitive
form of comedy. Perhaps the world
is getting more sympathetic and for
gets to smile at what equally claims its
pity.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
The MUCK RAkER

Il lunched at Claridges in London
with Charles Klein, the author of The
Lion and the Mouse" " said an actor on
the Cunard pier. "Klein was the hero
Of the London papers. He had got into
taxicab one morning and said calmly
to the driver, Edinburgh 1t was a
trip of a thousand miles-the taxicab
record"
The actor coughed.
Naturally. afterward," he said. "the
talk turned to advertising. Klein told
me of an interesting case.
"As he was conversing with a man
ager one day an evangelist was shown
In.
My dear sir said the evangelist to
the manager, 4 am taking notes and
gathering material for a lecture on the
evils of the stage. 1 hear that "The
Blond Widow" your present attraction.
is ecidedly-ahem-sen Nav |
ask you for a ticket of admission, that
I may gauge it's immortality person.
ally?'
THE manager beamed.
: Why, centainly, sir; certainly he
cried, and turning to his secretary he
said:
Rutherford. give this gentleman an
order for proscenium box and charge
it to Advertising"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

session by her since 1903. 1t is open
to challenge anywhere, at any time,
by any one, and Miss Beeson must
defend it. The medal is on exhibition
in the Orpheum lobby window.
Harry Girard has put the finishing
tounches on his latest musical COM
edy, 1.-THE Maid of Mandelay," which
will have its premiere in this city
probably about August 1.
Royalty certainly is holding forth at
the Orpheum this week. OF course,
there is the Countess Ross, who is
really a countess in her own right, in
Russia, but who would guess that Flo
Adler was one, too? She is, but she
never has claimed the title. II am
heir to an estate in Portugal, with
title" she said, but we looked it up
once and found that it would cost more
to keep it up than 1t was worth. So |
am still in vaudeville"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
BLAME THE PRESS AGENT!

"Over-advertised" is the latest con-
else explanation of Billie Burke's Lon
don failure. London is said to have
taken the glowing promises of the
American press agent too seriously.
When Miss Burkes art failed, perhaps,
to merit all the superlatives handed
out in advance, the suspicious Britisher
would have none of her. Charles Froh-
man is interviewed to the effect that
London will be ready to acclaim Miss
Burke in five years, when it becomes
accustomed to the new school" of act
ing. Miss Burke is to appear in Paris
next March in play written especial
ly for her by Messrs. CaillaVet and
FIors, authors of Love Watches" Her
character will be that of an American
girl, but she and her company will
plaV in French.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
PROMPT BOOK FOR
PLAYHOUSE BORES
1.-The Encore Fiend

What the inventor Of 'booing' was
to the science of British contempt the
encore fend has become to American
enthusiasm. He cannot forget that he
paid to get in. With him applause is
not mere approval, but a sort of un-
prohibited holdup. His frenzy is a
chronic, incurable disease.
He flourishes most luXuriantly in
the haunts of musical comedy. At
vaudeville he scoffs at lightning change
schedules, enters in droves and pre-
empts half the pit. Burlesque well
comes him and melodrama is indulsent.
Even the high brow houses meekly
suffer him, not gladly.
Everywhere his method is the same.
The first flaring entrance of the chorus
is his cue and he girds himself avidly
for the fray when the show girls
saunter on. At first he lets the or
dinary playgoer act as his stool pigeon.
The first recall granted, he enters the
lists ThencefOrth his calloused hands
are never idle.
You cannot satisfy him You can
drown his unQuenchable thirst if your
orchestra is brave. A better way is to
distract his attention by a sudden
blizzard or whirlwind back stage. 1
have always favored putting him in
lilC SAMMY uuAs bQL Ills bIdLtIl 6L-
frOntery might revel in the spotlight
One cannot call the encore fiend
human. He has no natural pity for
the aching legs of the weary chorus
nor the rasped throat of the prima
donna. Once l heard an overtaxed
comedian frankly insult him on the
ffty-seventh recall. He thought it was
part of the show and beloved for
more. AS a stand-patter he dwarfs
Uncle Joe Cannon.
We have laws to compel women TO
remove their hats in the theater and
we justify them on the ground that the
most edible confection of plumes, cher
ries and charlotte ruche, topping the
fragrant marcel. is an obstruction to
the view. This suggests a precedent
which a valorous manager one day
may invoke against the encore demon.
He is an obstructionist, pure and sim
pie. He is a noisy, clamorous minor
ity Most sensible theatergoers loathe
him, but walt in resignation for his
ardor to cool, gnashing their teeth in
impotence the while. In all sincerity
1 suggest a petition to the city council |
for a law limiting the number of en-
cores allowable for any given musical /
hit or comedy speciality. Then make |
the penalty fit the crime. For each
violation calmly hale the offender to a
prominent public square and force him /
to dance and sing at the pleasure OF |
humane committee composed of A. |
Byron Beasley. Bill Ham Cline and |
Dill. If he be Irish, make I
the melody Rule Brittania." If a |
Briton. "Kiilarney." Let no voice be |
heard. not a plying hand be raised
for him.
In the expectation of that glorious
doom let US meanwhile suffer and be
silent. w. II. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
FIRST AID TO THE
PUZZLED PLAYGOER
Being a few lines OF gentle counsel anent
current bills in Los Angeles theaters.)

BURBANK-"The Traitor" a drama-se-
quel to The Clansman," by Thomas
Dixon That the bitter sectional hate
with which the latter novel and play
reek is not altogether palatable TO
the present generation is shown by
the fact that 1.-The Traitor" is heralded
as free from any racial fanatlcism and
as merely a faithful picture Of recon-
struction days. 1t is hard TO imagine
Thomas Dixon as anything but a par
tisan, but the soothing powers of
Collaboration Claiming Pollock may
have accomplished even that incred-
ible task, The opening performance
is Sunday afternoon.
BELAsCO-second week OF "The Lion
and the Mouse" a strong, sane play,
in which the dramatic powers OF
Miss Florence Reed, Richard Bennett
and David NJ, Hartford are symmetri-
eally taxed. The other members OF
the company have little to do but,
in the main. do that little we'll.
MAJESTIC-'The Politicians" Kolb and
Dilrs best vehicle, Is their swan song
to Los Angeles admirers tonight.
The dramatization OF a DULY i'm
moral novel, describing a married
woman's seduction of a beardless boy,
IS billed to open Monday night pre-
sented by a travelling company. Mrs.
Elinor Glyn called the novel Three
Weeks" but fortunately the play is
booked for but one.
GRAND-Miss Lillian Mortimer's "Bunco
in Arizona" with Baby" Lewis a
band Of Apaches and certain desper-
ately real cowboys as the principal
charmers will try to play tattoos on
the spinal cord, beginning this after
noon.
MASON-"Pin Pan Pouf." Princess
Theater company, Monday night open
ing A clever musical comedy played
by clever people, produced here for the
first time: combination which should
spell success.
ORPHEUM-Natural Scotch accent and
comedy are reasonable to expect in
the Donald1Carson act. There Will be
a Sunny South" sketch and an Aus
tralian team-Frank and Jen Latona-
OF which much is prophesied by the
press agent.
Los ANGELES-The Elite Four, musi-
cal quidnuncs; a skit with that fas-
cinatlng name, XIX and Trix," and
Zay Holland. violinlst are three num-
bers which may offer the jaded appe-
tite a illip.
WALkER-The Elizabeth Houston COM
pany will appear in a one-act comedy,
and Wilbur Westerman will present
another echo Of fast passing min
strelsy.
UNIQUE-"My Uncle from Japan" is a
musical comedy with creditable plot
Vaudeville will hll in the chinks.
FISCHER's-"Diek's Return" is the
comedy Offering. Features are the
Roly Poly Girls and Mile, Swan Wood |
in dancing specialties.
AUDITORIUM-Dark.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
JEFFERSON IN VAUDEVILLE

1t is announced that Keith and Proc
tor have secured Thomas jefferson, son
of the late Joseph Jefferson, for a tour
in vaudeville, presenting one of the
scenes from Rip Van Winkle. 1t is said
that the legitimate star is to receive
$250O a week. He will present the scene
in the mountains, where Rip discovers
the dwarfs from the crew OF Hendrix
Hudson's ship.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
poNrs FoR A DRAMA CRITIC

with acknowledgements for the idea TO VIII
liam Collier, by close reader Of local dramatic
columns)
when / saw the play in New York;
Don't say that.
Writing for a great family newspaper -
Don't say It; perhaps you aren't
I'm all my experience."-Don't tax our
imagination.
THE role is inconsistent with the abilities
of Mr. Thingumbob PLEASE don't say that
History need not be ashamed Of yesterdays
cast. Don't say that. Avoid cumming with
antiquity
Miss Slush was not convincing. .'-Don't
LAS l entered the beautiful foyer Charlie
Frohman tapped me on the shoulder and said''
Help! A CANDID FRIEND.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

body hints at a Morosco- -Blackwood
Theatrical trust"
The same casual arrangement made
more general would give US openings
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday nights of each week and cor
responding days for ending the runs
The idea may be quixotic, but it is the
quixotic which, accomplished, meets a
practical need. Hush. Such q plan
might even relieve the congested la
bors of an actors apologetic creditors.
Every dayn be pay day by and by!
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
MANTELL TO TOUR WORLD

1t has been announced that next
September Robert Mantell will begin
a two years tour of the world, sailing
first for Australia and appearing later
in India, South Africa and England.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20
pIvA,s SON IN CHORUS

Henry Schumann- -Heink, son of the
prima donna of that name, has adopt
ed the stage as a profession, having
the Girl"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

1t was so dark last Sunday night on
the Grand stage in the marriage scene
of act two that Max Bloom, imperson-
ating a clergyman, could not see
through the leaves of the trees suf-
fciently to spell out the words of the
service from the prayer book.
With all due Difference to Richard Ben
nett, Mr.. Bloom now admits that the
natural method of acting and scenic
has its practical difficult
ties
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

Broadhurst's THE Law of Love" is
to be cyril Scott's vehicle next season.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

William T. Hodge has sent $1,000 to
the Metropolitan Temple, New York,
toward fund being raised to clear
the church of debt. Mr.. Hodge oceu-
pied the pulpit there few weeks ago
and gave a short address on the sub
ject of the theater.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

Pauline Louise des Loudes. known on
the stage as Bonita, was married last
week to Lewis Hearn, who has been
associated with her for several years
in "Wine, Woman and Song" Next
season they will play in a vaudeville
sketch together.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

Mrs. Annie Yeamans was the guest
If Buffalo Bill at the Wild West Show
n, Brooklyn. Mrs. Yeamans made her
irst appearance before the public as
| horseback rider in an Australian cir
;us in 1850, being then IA years old.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

If any young woman thinks she can
Guidance Lulu Beeson there is a gold
medal more than a foot long awaiting
her Miss Beeson holds the r.. X. Fox
medal, and has held it against all COM
ers for soft shoe dancing, and the
medal has bars on it showing its pos
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

The Germans take the theater seri-
ously, as a record of the performance
of the works of great authors during
the season 1907-190S plainly shows.
Schiller was played 1441 times, 'Wil-
liam Tell" alone having reached 292
performances; Sudermann was played
1902 times; Shakespeare, 945; Goethe.
7O5 Hauptmann, 476; Lesring, 370 and
Moliere, 1856.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

One of the most important produc-
tions this spring under scholastic
auspices was the revival by the Uni
versity of Illinois of the romantic
tragedy of "The Two Noble Kinsmen,"
by John Fletcher and an unknown.
"The Two Noble Kinsmen" was first
published in 1884 eighteen years after
the death of Shakespeare and nine
years after the death of Fletcher.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

There are nearly 10000 moving pic
ture theaters in the United States, the
average operating expenses of each
being $50 a day-a total of about $780,
900 day being thus put into the chan
nels of trade by the industry.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-20

The seats of the New theater in New
York are over subscribed long before
the date when the applications will be
closed, although the management has
play or that of one of the actors en-
gagged.
The Washington times., 1909-09-20
SAYS MOON DISPROVES
THE CLAIMS OF PEARY
Italian Astronomer Declares American Commander Could
Not Have Determined His Position From
Luna as 1t Was Below Equator.

ROME, Sept. 2O.-AccOrding to SignOr
Francesca Faccia da Schio. of Bergamo.
the astronomer. the moon absolutely dis
proves Commander Peary's claim to
having discovered the Pole.
In his dispatch the explorer states that
on April s, having accomplished the six
stages he had planned. he was favored
with an opening in the Odds, which
permitted him TO take astronomical OBJ
servations. From these he established
his position as latitude SO degrees. 81
minutes Signor Faccia points out, how
ever, that unquestionably accurate as
Economical calculations show that with
the horizon at SO degrees 81 minutes the
moon could not be seen at the time in
dicated by Commander Peary, because
from midday April 5. Paris time, or 6
O'Clock. central standard time, the dec
linatiOn Of ths-, moon became negative
that is 10 say. tie moon war below the
Equator. which is the rational horizon
Of the Pole.
On this day and for the days follow
ing, the moon sank still lower below
the Equator, and at midnight Of April
S. Paris time, that Is to say. s O'Clock
IN the afternoon American time, the
moon was already two and a half de-
srces below the Equator. Signor Faccia
denies that ref-action on the horizon
could have rendered the moon visible,
and he adds that no sailor would dare,
even in normal atmospheric conditions.
The Washington times., 1909-09-20

to determine his latitude by the stars
on the horizon.
In connection with these statements
by Signor Faccin the Tribuna TODAY in
terviewed Prof. Kappa, vice orincipai Of
the Astronomical Observatory of rhe
University or Rome. Prof. Zappa CON
firms tie statement that the moon vas
not visible at the Pole on ApriI ne
zon, even taking into account the possi-
bility Of refTactiOn. and only excepting
IN the case of strange atmospheric pne-
nomena, which again would have rem
dered any determination OF latitude
quite illusnry, and whose nature could
scarcely We seen mistaken BY a polar
explorer during several hours On
April 3.
ION the contrary" says Prof Kappa.
If the clouds prevented observation Of
the sun, II might have been possible to
use the moon for a somewhat unsatls-
FACTORY determination of latitude"
Commenting on these two statements,
the TribUna says:
The Conclusion is perfectly simple
either Commander Peary made a mis-
take OF a day. which would be an sx-
UaoTdmary error on the part Of an eX-
plorer, who should return with his diary
scientifically correct, or else he rea IIy
saw the moon on April s, and used 81 20
calculate his latitude In this ease the
result Of His observations was Incorrect
time in latitude So degrees 81 minutes
but was at least two or three degrees
further away from the Pole that day
commander Peary may have beaten TIE
Duca degli AbruZzis : record OF 1906. hut
did not reach the Pole.