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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
Maiestic-VauceviIle.

The management of the Majestic an
nounces many entirely new and original
features for this week and the bill will
be literally supplied with plenty of COM
edy and high-class music. Eddie Grey
and company will present sketch which
deals with the romance of champion
prize-fighter, and the novelty about this
sketch will be that it will show the
actual battle taking place in the rear
of the stage. Everywhere this act has
been exhibited it has been of intense in
terest to the spectators. Other features
will be the Lutz brothers. armTess won
ders; the European novelty gymnasts, the
Nat Navarro troupe; Muriel Window, the
young American prima donna: Chevalier
Guile, the celebrated tenor who accom-
panied Madame Patti on several Of her
tours around the world; Fred and Bess
Lucier in musical comedy sketch; the
Musical Fredericks, comedy instrument
alists, and Herbert and Willing, black
face, team. There will be q matinee daily
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and performance every night, COM
/ mencing Monday matinee.
His Last Match is the title of prize
ring romance which will be presented by
Eddie Grey and his company of five peo-
pie. Charles Gutenberg. who was Bat
Ting Nelson's sparring partner, will be
one of the cast While the sparring con-
test at the end Of the act is the culmina-
ton of most interesting story, still the
incidents which lead up to the finish are
SO well connected that from the moment
the curtain goes up until the defeated
champion is counted out there is never
one dull moment There is very pretty
love story connected with the sketch.
The Nat Navarro troupe Is trio which
has lately come from Europe and has
been one of the big features in Hurtig
& Seamons New York production. They
were induced to enter vaudeville and
have met with success. Some of their ex-
hibitions are so difficult that one would
suppose that wires are used to enable
them to perform these feats.
The Musical Fredericks is a man and
woman team who play on quite a num-
Der Of Instruments. and who inject lot
of comedy into their number. Miss Fred
ericks makes a number of changes. and
has some stunning costumes. This act
has Just finished tour of the Orpheum
circuit.
Clarence A. Lutz Is the armless MEM
Der of the Lutz brothers team; the other
brother, William H. Lutz, being in the
nature of an assistant Clarence Lutz
can do as much with his feet as an or
binary mortal can with his hands-dis-
charging firearms, rowing boats and driv-
I.,rr I ole Low
instruments by the aid of his feet.
Herbert and Willing have visited this
city before but they are such favortes
that they are to be here again. Bert
Herbert is one of the best eccentric
dancers on the stage and Charles Will
ing is famous for the negro dialect that
he has. His expressions, 20, Man." and
Read that last line over again. are
very comical
Fred and Bess Lucier will be seen in
their laughable one-act farce, "a Rustic
Romeo The musical work of Mr.. Lucier
is very fine and Bess Lucier will sing
several comedy songs.
Chevalier Albert 7. l.. Guile is a
lyric tenor who was with Madame AIDE
lima Patti and has been knighted by both
the King of Portugal and Queen Victoria
of England for meritorious work Mr..
Guile sang at Queen Victoras jubilee
in 1887. He will be heard In high-class
operate selections.
Miss Muriel Window is young lady
who has just entered vaudeville She
is scarcely out of her teens and has
been called Americas youngest prima
DONNA" She has a soprano voice of much
quality and well trained and her success
has been extensive.
The management has secured some very
interesting new motion films for next
week.
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up an entertainment in which there is so
much to please both the eye and ear.
In a sartorial way the costumes and
trappings are on a par with the more
pretentious Broadway successes, the fire.
quent changes of tremendously blended
dresses, each one cut more bizarre than
the other, being noteworthy. And when
it comes to the dancing, groupings and
ensembles and brilliant fnales the orig
inator must be credited with an eye and
the ability for getting the best effects out
of graceful, ingenious and sprightly COM
binations
But all of this would not prove salts
factory to the lover of burlesque unless
plenty of opportunity Is given to laugh
over absurd and comic episodes, witty
sayings and ridiculous situations. With
Fields and Wooley, long popular In vaude-
vile and until recently stars in a
musical comedy this demand is fully met.
They appear in the two burlesques and
a sketch. Fields Is droll and unctious
and he is resouroeful in introducing new
business that keeps the disabilities of
the auditor excited throughout the per-
Torrance. He is one of our few come
dams who can exploit ridiculous humor
without appearing silly and back of all
his work the keen observer Will recognize
that he is presenting fine bit or char
acter study His mannerisms accentuate
his humor. Wooley proves a good foil to
his style. Ward Caulheld plays Irish
characters with JUNCTION and Ben Neff is
equally as clever as a light and eccentric
comedian.
Miss Clyde Darrow, who leads the FEM
mime contingent, is dashing, good to look
upon and possesses keen perception OF
the true spirit of burlesque. No woman In
this field of amusement displays more
handsome costumes or more of variety
than does Miss Darrow Florence Ell
lott Is versatile a good dancer and
singer. Anna Driver is dainty, demure
in action and is capital actress. The
chorus of two dozen women is comely
gingery and spirited in action.
The programme consists or Two new
burlesques, THE Girls from Rottenberg"
and 1.-The Joy of Living" The comedy is
sparkling, funny episodes follow In rapid
succession. picturesque scenes are height
ened by a variety of beautiful costumes
and the musical numbers and songs are
such that they stick In the memory of the
auditors The olio consists of Ave num-
bers that are diversified and entertain
ing. Elliott and Neff have comedy
sketch called THAT Boy and Girl"
Fields and Wooley present their scream
ingly funny burlesque on Salome, Caul-
field and Driver have a neat skit and
the California trio appear in well selected
and finely executed Instrumental selec-
tons Thursday night there will be
novelty new to Birmingham, BARRIERS
shaving contest.
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The Gayety.

Bright. snappy, colorful, with an abund-
ance Of catchy music. enlivening dances
and succession Of laughable comic
scenes, flttingly describes the performance
of Louis Robes Knickerbocker Bur-
lesquers which will begin a weeks en-
gagement at the Gayety at the Monday
matinee. No organization on the eastern
wheel shows such marked advance in
burlesque as does the combination con-
trolled by Mr.. ROBBIE and it is due to
his long experience in the amusement field
and unsparing expense that he has gotten
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"Flfty Miles From Boston,

Responding to popular demand Miss
Edna Wallace Hopper in a Cohan play,
under the management of Cohan &
Harris, is booked for an engagement at
the Jefferson theatre on Wednesday night
and will present Mr. Cohans newest mus
ical play, FIFTY Miles From Boston"
Seat sale begins tomorrow morning.
The players who will interpret the sew
eral roles are people with regulations for
conscientious work. In fact the company
might almost be called an all-star one,
including as 1t does such well known
players as Miss Hopper, who is one Of
Americas foremost condolences; Joseph
M. Sparks Susanna Leonard Westford,
sister of Miss Lillian Russell; w. Douglas
Stevenson. Thomas Emory, Charles Will
lard, Walter p. Richardson, Russell Pin
Gus. ALI Helton. Percy Helton, Ella Soth-
ern, Mao Hefton, Kathryn R. Perry. Les
ter Templeton, and Stanley G. Fields.
For the scenes of his new play, Mr.. CO.
han has gone to the village of Brookheld,
Mass, which Is about 80 miles from Bos-
ton, and he has there selected some of
the types that make up the inhabitants
of the little town. and has drawn them
30 carefully that they are said to live in
the atmosphere Of the play and plot he
has devised.
Fifty Miles From Boston" might per-
haps have been just as great a success
without the introduction of a song, but
Cohan's cohorts have come to the belief
that no play from his pen is complete
without music Therefore, he gave it to
them and in this, his latest handiwork.
he has supplied some fascinating num-
bers. They are entitled Jack and Jill"
which Is a down-to-the-minute version of
the old lullaby your mother was wont to
sing while dancing you on her knee. "A
Small Town GAL" Boys Who Fight the
Flames" Harrigan," and waltz With
Me-" They are all decidedly Cohanesque
in lyrics and melody and therefore will be
found mummy and whistly to a degree.
OF course there win be chorus and to
tho number of about 80 voices that have
been selected with special care, for they
not only have to render all the choruses
and ensembles, but In the second act they
all have small bits and q line or two to
speak, therefore the necessity of engaging
players with enough ability to read lines
1ntelligently. Miss Hoppers own role is
that of the Brookfield postmistress and
was especially written for her by Mr..
Conan, and 10 said to offer great oppoy-
funfties for this small lady's versatility.
John Drew in "Jack Straw" at the
Jefferson.
John Drew will pay his annual visit to
the Jefferson theatre on Thursday night.
His play is Jack Straw the comedy by
w. Somerset Vaughan, in which he has
1ust completed . most successful four
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The music ef Hook OF Holland" in
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Playhouse Gossip.

The singing contingent of Lew Dock
stader and his company of minstrel en-
tertainers this season is headed by Rees
" Prosser, w. H. Thompson, Will Oak
land, Wilson Miller, Edgar Won Roy,
George Vail. Herbert Wilson and James
B. Bradley. The musical numbers are
all of great beauty especially the bal
lads of the first part. The hit of the
show Is entitled when Matilda Sings"
and IL the subject of a full stage set
ting. It Is heard In the second act.
Clyde Fitch has adapted from the Ger
man farce "rhe Blue Mouse" of Alex
ander Engle and Julia Horst, much of
the original matter, but he has given
It thorough white-washing so that
1.-THE Blue Mouse Is a wholesome laugh
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The Jefferson.

Wednesday night-Edna Wal
lace Hopper. in Fifty Miles
From Boston"
Jack Straw.
The BijOu.
All this week and next with the
usual matinees Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday-Miss Cecil Spooner.
The Majestic.
All the week with daily matt
nees-High- class vaudeville.
The Gayety.
All the week with daily matt
nees-Robie Knickerbocker's Bur-
lesquers.
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John Drew in "Jaok Straw~ at the
Jefferson.

John Drew will pay his annual visit to
His play is Jack Straw the comedy by
w. Somerset Vaughan. in which he has
1ust completed . most successful four
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
ESKIMO WOMAN Is
A GOLD MAGNATE

Probably one of the most remark
able woman magnates in the world is
Mary Coonie, a full-blooded Eskimo
whose possessions of earthly wealth are
all within the Arctic circle. She is an
absolute opposite to Hetty Green, the
most noted woman magnate of the
civilized world, in that she knows no
civilization other than that of the Arc
tic circle, and cannot even read or
write her name.
Besides having an interest in large
number of rich mining claims, the dis
ooverers of which she "grub-staked,"
thus becoming their partners, she owns
valuable freight-carrying business
and the largest privately owned rein
deer herd in the world. Nearly 1000 of
these valuable animals, worth 500 each
in the Yukon region, bear her brand.
and she also has hundreds more in
young herds which will some day make
rich harvest.
From her appearance she would be
as Liable to be passed by as a woman
of ordinary means as is Hetty Green.
That is, according to the civilized con-
ception of things, but in the region
where she holds sway her dress and ap-
pearance are considered distinguished.
Dr. Seldom G.. Forsythe, full-blooded
English gentleman and a graduate
from Oxford university, is private Sec
rotary to Mrs. Coonie. Upon his Shout
ders rests the executive and clerical
part of the business, although the
genius for acquiring wealth is vested
in Mrs. Coonie.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
Relation OF Parents TO Children

thought of as book learning, now the
term must cover moral physical, indus
trial and social training, as we'll as
training of the intellect 1t has been
observed that the social awakening of
young people closely follows distinct
ly moral awakening. IF you wish
youth to be moral" says Rev. Charles
Wagner in the Simple Life, "do not
neglect its pleasures nor leave to
chance the task of providing them"
Girls and boys must have their sport,
and they are wise parents who let them
have it at home. A growing boy re-
quires much fun, and he needs to find
it in a good, wholesome way.
What is done to save the child from
harmful attractions, to keep him from
that which can soil and weaken him for
life for true sonship, what is done to
convert his possibilities for evil into
tendencies toward the good, is a saving
in the long run. To provide such
amusement may seem little sacrifice
on your part. We decided that it is
far better to have some scratched fur
niture and soiled carpets than to have
our boys characters besmirched by the
outside world.
Do not think that in order to keep
our children at home we are going to
surrender the reins of government and
let them do as they please. On the
y
from doing as they please that you
should make home so enjoyable to them
that they will want to remain there.
The child is bound to have amusement;
if he does not find it at home he will
find it elsewhere. But the temptation
of the street will be nothing to the boy
who looks forward from the joys of a
love permeated home, and perhaps the
wise and loving liberation on the part
of the parents will cause the children
to cherish them with unconscious graf
itude that will increase with the years.
Moreover, be companionable with
your children. Lives are better shaped
by influence than method. Everybody
understands more or less clearly that
in order to influence anyone for good
it is necessary to comprehend how that
person sees things. The child has a
right to his individuality We wish
ideas and ideals to grow in his mind.
Then we must understand him. You
cannot drive him, but you may lead him
through sympathy. The child is more
hungry for the mothers loving atten-
lions than he is for the largest slice of
cake on the table.
1t is essential for the welfare of the
child that he have some one in whom
to confide, some one to whom he can
tell his trouble, some one with whom
he can share his triumphs; so the par
ents must be daily examples of every
thing that makes true living worth
while; or, in other words, to accept
home as Gods kindergarten, where
souls are trained for humanity and
heaven. Equip home lovingly with at
fractions suitable to the ones to be at
tracted. Is not that home-making in
the true, deep, human sense, of the
uror50
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
so MANY THINGS | DO FORGET

So many things I do forget,
And fain would I remember
Bright things, glad things, my footstep:
BEFORE they touched December.
But the home where my childhood learned
Its songs,
And the trees where my father set them
And the brook and the bank where the
pine belongs
1 never can forget them.
So many things I do forget,
And fain would I remember.
Bright things, wise things my footsteps
BEFORE they touched December
But the friends of childhood's long ago.
BY the mountain Swallowed river
with a fadeless light their names shall
glow
Forever and forever.
So many things I do forget
And fain would I remember
Bright things, wise things, my footsteps
met
Before they crossed November.
But the blue Of my angel mothers eyes
And the tears of love that wet them,
And the kisses of one beyond the skies,
l never shall forget them.
So many things 1 have forgot,
Nor wish l to remember
sad things, hard things, I tell them not
To April December,
But the ivies of the mountain wood,
And the scarlet plums behind them'
would / forget them II I could.
Forgetting who could find them.
So many things we do forget,
And fain we would remember.
Ere feet that danced the minuet
Have walked to slow December.
But the songs that silent lips have sung
our memories silhouette them
we sing them over. We are young
And never can forget them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
WHEN WILL YOU WED?

Read over the calendar and decide what day
will be your nuptial celebration. The calendar
Is tabulated by authority
Lucky wedding days are;
January 2, T. IL, 10, Il.
February l. 8, TO- 10, o.
March 8, II. 49, 20, %.
April 2, 4, IL, 90 o.
May 2, 4. IL, 20, %.
June /, 8, II, 10, q.
July 1, 8 -, 10, q, 81
August 2, II, Is. 20. 30.
September /, 16, 49, 10, %.
October l, s, 15 II, n, 49,
November 5 H. %, rs.
December l. s, 10, 49, %, 20.
The most unlucky days are February H.
June 2. November 2 and December 10.
variation of marriage possibilities reads
thus:
Married in January, boar and rime
widowed you'll be before your time.
Married in Februarys sleety weather
Life you'll tread in tune together.
Married when March winds shrill and roar
Your home will lie on foreign Shore
Married meath ApriTs changeful skies
checkered path before you lies.
Married when bees O. err May blossoms hit,
Strangers around your board will sit.
Married in the month Of roses bloom,
Life Will be one long sweet tune
Married in July with flowers ablaze.
BItter-sweet memories in after days.
Married in Augusts heat and browse.
Lover and friend in your chosen spouse.
Married in Septembers golden glow,
Smooth and serene your life will how.
Married when leaves in october thin,
Toll and hardship for you begin.
Married in wells of November mist,
Dame fortune your wedding ring has
kissed.
Married In days of December's cheer,
Loves star burns brighter from year to
year
Marry in Lent
And live to repent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
UMBRELLA AND CANE HANDLES
HAVE CARRYING RECEPTAcLES

1t seems that English gentlemen are
as faddy as English gentlewomen, says
Popular Mechanics. Along with such
novelties as umbrella handles which
contain receptacles for the carrying of
small toilet articles, are ingenious
canes, the heads of which have recep-
tacles for smoking, toilet and writing
articles, as we'll as both canes and UNI
brellas that contain such gaming de-
vices as roulette wheels, petits chevaux
and mechanical fortune-tellers.
One of the umbrella handles holds a
toilet set composed of a looking glass,
powder-puff and a tube of lip salve.
Another contains a powder-puff and
scent bottle. One of the cane handles
contains a cigarette case and match
box, while another has a cigar holder
and match box, and still another a
match box and sovereign purse. Other
canes contain scissors, combs, mirrors,
mustache brushes, stylographic pens,
penknives, magnifying glasses and rolls
Of note paper in appropriate sets.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26

ny HE family man or woman will tell
you with emphasis that home is
II not complete without children,
Just as the spinster or bachelor will
affirm that children, viewed in the most
favorable light, are little less than
nuisance and cost a tremendous
amount of money, writes Matte Clev-
erly in Temperance Tribune. However,
it is something more than joke TO
bring up family, large or smaH, from
childhood to maturity, and the strain
is very great; but we cannot shut our
eyes to the fact that woman is on earth
for a definite purpose, and in view OF
that fact all the worries, troubles and
anxieties connected with children are
viewed by the average mother with
tolerant eye. On the other hand, there
can be no doubt that child or two in
the home makes for its betterment ana
improvement. 1t may be that child
on occasion proves a thorn in the par
entail flesh. Here and there is to be
found the lad whose parents wish he
had never. been born; but happily SUCH
cases are extremely rare and the great
majority of boys and girls prove to De
blessings to their parents.
The relations with which we nave 10
do just now are those that exist be-
tween the child and the parent after
the boys and girls are beyond the
boundaries of the nursery-that is, at
ter they have attained 10 or u years OF
age. 1t is at this time that the young
animal feels a desire for freedom, and
if not properly curbed this freedom Will
amount to lawlessness.
1t has been said that the father need
not be so much considered in this mat
ter as the mother, but l contend that
marriage and giving birth to children
and their education cannot be one
sided matter. The father must take his
part in the house and family discipline,
or, in other words, the home should be
a monarchy in which father and moth
err are king and queen, the children the
loyal and loving subjects, and the law
followed is the law of love. The child
must feel that love is back of every
thing, and if he neglects to obey this
law justice will step in. While young
children should learn to obey, and as
they grow older their sense of justice
will show them that love for them and
that unselfish regard for their develop
ment were the ruling powers of the
home. From the first, respect should
he exacted, and in this father and
mother must agree. The mother must
always uphold the good fathers au-
thority, and the father must be the
staunch ally of the mother in all she
demands of the children. One thinker
has defined home as corporation
whose preferrVd stock is contented
children" Contented children-aye
there's the rub 1t is not so very diff
cult to do what perfect children would
need done for them; but the test comes
when one must make home such that
the children who are not perfect may
be contented.
Once education was commonly
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
Musical


[kHT e will be pleased to set aside
w a special day for the Ameri-
can Music society,"" was the
message received yesterday from the
management of the Alaska Yukon-Pa-
cific exposition at Seattle by Eugene
Rowland, vice president of the Ma
tional Music society and president of
the local Music Center, who has been
commissioned by Arthur Farwell, pres
ident of the national society, to take
charge of the Seattle program and to
make all other necessary arrangements
for its successful outcome.
Mr.. Rowland will probably leave for
the north June 4, stopping en- route in
San Francisco, where, with the CO.
operation of William j. Mccoy, Albert
Ellxins and other prominent musicians
he will take preliminary steps toward
establishing San Francisco Music
Center.
Mr.. Rowland hopes to secure date
the last week in August for the Amer
lean music day, when works by Amerl-
can composers will furnish programs
for choral and orchestra concerts.
Los Angeles has been honored by rep
resentation in the person of Harley
Hamilton on the board of management
of the American Music society.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26

Miss Elizabeth Burke, Miss Daisy
Schlesser. Miss Mildred Taft Miss
Helen KIeinsorge, Miss Cecilia Nolan,
and Messrs. Jack Claypool, Arthur
Hill. Fernand Grass, David Ball, Eric
Eastman, Dorsey stephens, Winslow
Bushnell, Edward Trout, Will Candee,
Robert Mclaughlin, B. Y. Taft, Bishop
Spencer and Claude Gibbs.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Adair Brown of
Carondelet street left Monday for an
extensive eastern trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Foster and their
twin sons Charles and Edgar, jr., are
spending three weeks at Ocean Park.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
Of Los Angeles
Sateo Of
NOTICE OF
FORGED SALE

THIS MORNING. 8 A. M. AT ITO WEST THIRD STREET
having
Chas Bakey
clothing furnishings
merchandise having been shipped
he purchased above
with that
THIS MORNING. 8 A. M. AT 10 WEST THIRD STREET
clothing
THAN ONE-HALF