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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
MAUGHAM'S SUCCESS
AS WRITER OF DRAMAS

Lady Frederick" the new comedy in
three acts in which Charles Frohman
is to present Miss Ethel Barrymore at
the salt Lake theatre, was written by
". Somerset Vaughan, a young Eng
lishman. Mr.. Vaughan was born III
1874 in Paris, where his father. the late
r. .. Vaughan, a distinguished law
yer, acted for many years as solicitor
to the British embassy. He received
his early education in Paris and later
was sent to school at Canterbury. afcer
which ne became a student at Heldel-
berg He spent several years in the
picturesque old German city, and THEN
returned to England. where he studied
medicine at St. Thomas hospital. Dur
ing his residence in France and Ger
many Mr.. Vaughan acquired a ms
terry over the languagese of these EWO
countries. As an instance of his In
guistic abilities, it is recalled that he
wrote in German a playlet which was
produced in Berlin some six or seven
years ago, under the title of ''SChiff-
bruch" (Shipwrecked). The dramat;st
lives In London, in the neighbOrhood
of Grosvenor square. A friend &c
scribes Mr.. Vaughan as man OF me-
dunn height. with dark hair and eyes.
of spare build and affable manners. He
Is most unassuming, and nothing could
exceed his simplicity and modesey of
bearing. It is a hard task to get MIN
to talk about himself. IT, for instance.
one asks him how. when a medical STU
dent he came to write his first book,
Liza of Lambeth" he will reply that
he was surprised at the success of this
work, which. as he says, has no plot
and is simply record of things he saw.
He wonders that any one should be IN
terested in his literary and dramatic
career. He seems to set too small store
on the keen sense Of observation he
displayed or the tact with which he has
contTived to reveal to Iondoners the
existence in their midst of an unknown
world. and to create. as it were. an At
mosphere redolent Of the factory and
of the workshop. in which live, move.
act. weep and laugh in turns men aud
women of real flesh and blood. For
about six or seven years Mr.. Vaughan
wrote novels only; and then. in 1903.
came his first play, "A Man Of Honor
which has successful and marked aim
out as playwright with a promising
future. Those critics who expressed
confidence in his talent and on the de-
velOpment Of his dramatic instinct
were not mkstaken: but none of them.
however. could foresee how rapidly his
talent would ripen. At the present ia
ment, that is within FIVE years of the
production of his play. Mr.. Vaughan
is the happy author of four successful
plays being acted simultaneously on the
stages of four of the leading London
theatres. This is probably without pte-
cedent. and II constitutes A record -
which any dramatist might justly feel
proud, the more 50 when. as in the
present case, the author is scarcely 81
years old. Perhaps his most successful
play is LADY Frederick" in which
Miss Ethel Barrymore has made SUN
brilliant success. The scenes of the
play are laid in Monte Carlo at the
present day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
VaudevlIIe at orpheum.

Saturday night next will close the
Orpheum season of 190S-09 a season
that has been marked with such sue
cesses that 1t may be called the banner
season Of the local Orpheum.
In order TO commemorate the close Of
the season the general management has
given an excellent bill.
s. Miller Kent and company are going
10 appear in the headline act. This IS
a little comedy playlet, Marriage I'm a
Motor Car" marriage takes place,
ostensibly for mercenary purposes only.
But the man learns his mistake. Love
comes. and when IL comes there is a
delightful little denouement.
Almost" is a dramatic playlet pre-
scented by the Whittier Harries Compa-
ny. II is laid out on the theory that
murder VIII out" and teaches a whole
some, moral lesson. The playlet was
written by Frank I. Whittier and IS
graphic pen picture, portrayed by
very clever company.
Jolly NiOietta is a European favorite.
Abroad she has been compared 10
Guerraro. Otero. Cleo de Merode ana
others For her grace. her beauty and
her dancing she has received the high
est praise She is assisted by Mons.
Arnaud, a Brazilian dancer.
The Sandwinas are pair of remark
Ole performers lHey are aStOuHOiilB
in THEN. feats of strength Nine. Sand
winas Is called the most wonderful
woman physically, that has ever APP
peared here. either in circus or in vsu'
deville. The smiling ease with which
she does her most difficult feats adds
much to the interest of the perform
ance. This couple. however, are not
freak" strong people.
Dorothy Drew, after a very success
full sea son in South Africa returns 20
America to conquer audiences. She
sings her way into the hearts of her
hearers. Her most pronounced success
is. perhaps Clever Mister Man." one
of her original songs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
Roy Knabenshue andtiIs sea- AIrshIp.

his ability to control the great ship at all
times.
Not many years ago il was bad form
10 talk OF airships. They were supposed
10 be the creatures of diseased minds.
Now they are the height of scientific
achievement.
When Nat Reiss landed Roy kns ben
shue-the man who has been the talk Of
the country for the past year-he Sc
cured the biggest bird of the bunch.
Knabenshue viii make daily ascensions
from the Salt Palace. circling the city
and performing aerial acrobaucs of which
he is a master II will be q wonderful
sight and the first of its kind ever seen
in Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23

frontiersmcn, Indians and sold -rs.
with twelve horses. Mr.. Stuart, who is
without a superior as a stage director.
Is attending personally to every detail
connected with the presentation. and
Is working night and day 40 make the
play a success.
The adobe houses Of the Mexicsns.
the Indian tepees and the mountain
tepees VIII furnish material for stage
pictures of the west worthy of a REM
ington. All the scenery is built especial
~ for this play and is of peculiar
beauty.
The play will run for a full week at
the Colonial. with the usual matinees.
For the week following Nj. Stuart VIII
offer The Christian" in which he has
been seen elsewhere and has made de
cided successes. He viii give this great
drama worthy setting and viii pl5y
the part of John Storm, with Mary
Hall as Glory Quayle
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23

Salt Lake City is TO have 2 big carnival
Nat Raiss. who has earned the title Of
Carnival King Is bringing his big show
20 the Salt Palace. where they will open
The amusement season with a weeks en-
EaEpment.
This is not the first visit Of Mr.. Reiss
20 this city. which indicates that he has
confidence in his ability 10 please.
Mr. Reiss this year presents as his
premier attra ctiOn, Roy knabenshue and
his great airship. which costs more every
day than all the free attractions Of other
ng companies combined. Roy Knaben-
shue viii soar high above the city every
lay dgrinS the week and will demonstrate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
The Theatres
Continued From Page 5.

r--.rse the great dramatic writer.
Hr Pafph Stuart viii offer at the
M,ii,i1--isI during the coming week. There
-,ora picturesque character in the
l - If the west than this border
and no Drawer, trueT figure among
hg' ~ mon who blazed the way TO the
dli vest The sterling nature of the
Ia sr,ntiersman is admirably depicted
oo'I FvIcs I'm his play, and in its in
os -l+atiou Mr.. Stuart has a role for
'ILfb his physique and dashing man
"H.- Iii ri him. He will appear TO
Ie- ,r a5vantage than in anything in
t-t no has been seen in Salt Lake.
VIZ, the Rainbow's End" is new
II will be given its New York
l--@-sssrtation during the next season.
80 Mr. Stuart firmly believes, il viii
.1s Of the great successes. MiDGe-
--,Iis where Mr.. Stuart gave pro-
,.,etior Of it, was enthusiastic in its
praise. -. - ~. ,,,o,ao,s,,,
..,rnev made by Kit Carson, when he
Jl----i-f irnDortant news to the president
ar washington, and won the love OF the
S---,-+ifuI girl who became his wife. It
,-- hen told i'm song and history. but
-.,.s~ eo delightfully."- as Mr.. Fyies has
L.--,ta5 fl. There are Old-timers 81
- lake today who remember well
~. o15 santa Fe trail, at the time the
I,- gateway to the southwest.
vi-for Carson is about to start TO
,,-.sfingron from Albuquerque on a
-~i-gion which is really to inform the
---,sids0t that Americans have occu-
~ california. a party of 'Gringoes''
---s tn accompany him. among them
se.r- Young man and woman. The
--.r15reI1v Mexican governor, Ramon
~, .-ante 10 detain these latter. hav-
49, rabbed them and fearing mat they
IN disrIosa his villainy. Carson helps
.t.77 tn escape and IS arrested as an
American spy. He escapes, and with
Elm the two young people. Don Ra-
non has much influence with the
snarbes and arouses them against the
rsrtv making the journey one contin-
raI hazard. The Indians capture Car
son and put him TO the torture. but he
makes his escape through the devotion
IF Marion Kent. the young girl. After
i1nun7ersbIe adventures, the party
-ss~hss old Fort LeavenwOrth. where
ne Governor continues his machina-
ions hut is finally outwitted and eK-
Dosed Carson reaching Washington in
ssfetv and winning the love of the
,oIiog eirI whom he has led in safety
over mountain and plain.
The love interest i'm the drama is ex-
-ee5ingiv strong. and the role of Marion
Kent acted I'm the sympathetic manner
In which Mary Hall can handle it, ~ill
make am equal appeal with that Of Kit
carson. I'm which Mr.. Stuart will be a
delieh. ~ his admirers.
The production will be the greatest
ever seen on the Colonial stage. There
will be- twenty-five people in the cass.
with a host of cowboys, Mexicans,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23

city, he announced that he will place
some man in q hypnotic state. place his
head on one chair and his feet on an
other. leaving the body suspended, and
that he win then place a large rock on
the mans chest which he will break
with a sledgehammer. This is but one
Of the many remaTksbl tests which he
proposes to give during the week. The
engagement will open tonight, and will
run for the week with the usual We'd
nesday and Saturday matinees.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23

Wells and Sells are a team that IS
piled as comedy acrobats.
Jarrow IS a magician-not one Of the
hdckneyed. time-worn chaps who do
the same old thing in the same old way
but a fellow who has the knack OF
doing things his own way. He shows
some tricks-and then shows how they
are done, but only as a burIesque. Then
he gives some tricks of his own. invGTr-
ed BY him. and shown by him ex-
clusively. He has a keen humor, a
timely Wit. and he enjoys his tricks as
much as the audience does
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER.

The Raleigh News and Observer
has recently entered upon its eighty
eighth semi-annual volume, which is
to say the paperis going on forty-
four years old. But it must not be
inferred that the present editor has
been at the helm anything like that
long. Mr.. Josephus Daniels is scarce
ly so old as his paper-certalnly he
does not look it-hOwever old a head
he may carry on his shoulders. The
News and Observer is one Of the in
stitutions of the State-as fixed and
necessary as the State House or pen
itentiary. We do not always agree
with the policy of the "Raleigh pa
pert would not be the strong,
virile paper that it is il we did-but
we admire its honesty and independ-
ence, it's enterprise and public spirit,
and appreciate the earnestness and
ability which characterizes its edltO-
rial utterances. As a gatherer and
dissemination of news it is indefatiga-
BILE and discrimin ating-while in the
matter of special editions it leads all
others. 1t is not enough to say that
the News and Observer has rendered
some service to the State-it has
rendered it great and lasting good
and well deserves ali the prosperity it
pniOVS
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
PATENTS NEW TYPESETTlNG
MACHINE.

Daylight appears to be in sight for
the weekly newspaper publisher, from
all accounts. That is typesetting
machine which will put him on an
equal footing with the city publisher
and his high priced linotyper. A
State exchange informs us that Rev.
Balus Cade has patented a typeset-
ting machine with which he claims to
solve the typesettiny problem of the
weekly paper. His invention is
modelled somewhat after the modern
linotype machine now in use and
when completed will sell for 5000.
He has received several offers from
Northern capitalists to back the ell
terprise and has goneto Philadelphia
to take the matter before them in
person. Mr.. Cade is we'll known
throughout the State and his friends,
and the weekly newspaper publishers
everywhere, hope his new invention
will prove all that is expected of it.
Mr.. Cade is prominent Baptist
minister who has held charges at
Raleigh, Louisburg, Waynesville and
elsewhere, and now living at Boiling
Springs. He has practical knowledge
and experience of newspaper work
and an inventive turn Of mind.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
STANDING OF NORTH CARO-
LINA'S SENATORS.

The Asheville Gazette News, Repub-
lican. OF May 9th, pays our North
Carolina Senators an unintentional,
but high compliment, when it says
this in commenting upon the con-
firmation of Judge Connor's nomina-
ton as Judge of the United States
District Court for the Eastern Dis
trict of North Carolina:
The nomination of Judge Connor
was promptly confirmed yesterday.
This closes the last chapter in a
contest which must be regarded as a
great personal triumph for the North
Carolina senator's. No Republican
would ever have been able to run the
gauntlet of the senate judiciary CON-
mittee. even if he had been looked
upon with favor by the President.
No charge was ever made against
Mr.. Seawell, of any character what
soever. verbal or written, but for
some reason not known outside the
minority cloak rooms, the nomina-
ton papers never got any further
than the committee pigeon hole.
There was not q moment at any
stage of the game that a Republican
aspirant would not have found the
cards stacked against him, if he had
pushed his claims far enough.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
Officers of the North Carolina
Bankers Association.

The following named were elected
officers of the North Carolina Bank
ers' Association for the ensuing
year, by the convention in session at
Charlotte last week:
President, John 0. Ellington,
Fourth National Bank of Fayette-
Vile; vice-presidents, W. c. Wilkinson,
Merchants and Farmers National
Bank, Charlotte;J c. Braswell, Plant
ers Bank, Rocky Mount, and L. S. Gov
ingtOn, of the Farmers Bank, Rock
ingham; secretary and treasurer.
William A. Hunt, cashier Citizens
Bank, Henderson, elected for the
fifth consecutive time.
In pursuance to an amendment
to the constitution, one executive
committeeman was elected from each
Congressional district.
This committee is composed OF
Jno. d Biggs, WILLIAMSON. chairman,
first district; George A. Holderness,
Tarboro, second district; H. F. Pierce
Warsaw, third district: H. w. Jack
son, Raleigh, fourth district; r. G.
Vaughan, Lexington, fifth district;
II. NJ McAllister, LumbertOn, sixth
district; W. H. Mendenhall, seventh
district; E. S. Pegram. Statesvile,
eighth district; W. II. Wood, Ameri-
can Trust Company. Charlotte, ninth
| district; John II. Carter, American
National Bank, Asheville, tenth dis
| trict.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings That
No Henderson Citizen Can Afford
to I1nCre

DANGER SIGNAL No. l comes from
the kidney secretions They will warn
you when the kidneys are sick. Well
kidneys excrete clear amber fluid. Sick
kidneys send out a thin, pale and foamy,
or a thick, red, ill-smelling urine, full OF
sediment and irregular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL No. 2 comes from
the back. Back pains. dull and heavy,
or sharp and acute, tell you of sick kid
neys and warn you of the approach of
drOpsy, diabetes and Bright's disease.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys
and cure them permanently Here Hen
derson proof:
Mrs. Henry Pnlston, 1872 Hamilton
street. Henderson, n. c., says: 81 used
Doan's Kidney Pills and found them so
beneficial that do not hesitate to speak
in their favor. Dull, nagging backaches
and pains in my kidneys annoyed me for
a long time and | was also bothered by
frequent passages OF the kidney secre-
tions. l always felt tired and languid
aid had so little energy that my house
work was a burden. Reading about
Doan's Kidney Pills, obtained a box at
kerner-McNair Co.'S drug store and had
only used them short time when the
backaches and kidney weakness were
disposed of. Isoon regained my strength
and energy and | now feel better in
every way"
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no other
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
THE ELKIN BLANKET.

A paragraph in the Wilmington
Star recalls the fact that cotton is
not the only product manufactured
in North Carolina. The State does a
little business in wool, as for instance:
"On Friday the Chatham Manufac-
turing Company of Elkin, shipped
eighteen solid carloads OF blankets to
different places in the United States,
about half going to Chicago and st.
Louis, from which point they will be
distributed to different cities on the
Pacific coast. The other half goes
to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York. Each car contained LOO
pairs OF blankets and made a grand
total of 19, 800 pairs or 30, 600 single
blankets. At 81 a pair, which is
rather under the average, it amount
ed to SO, 200 for this one shipment. "
The Elkin blanket has long been a
famous article on the home market,
for it has been known to bean honest
blanket, all wool and no adulterant.
1t is not surprising to learn that the
Elkin blanket is being stretched out
in an effort to cover the United
States .-CharlOtte Chronicle.
The GOLD LEAF has known for
many years that the Chatham Man.
ufacturing Company is one OF North
Cardinals leading industrial enter
prises and that their product, the
Elkin blanket, has a reputation all
it's own, but single shipment OF IL
solid car loads, 10, 800 pairs or 3d.
600 single blankets, aggregating
$50, 900 or more in value, will be an
eye-opener to our readers.
Nor is the Chatham Manufacture
ing Company the only manufacturer
OF wooden products OF which North
Carolina has cause to boast by any
means. The Leaksville Wooden Mills
is another institution whose products
blankets in observation-disclosures done
much to add to the fame of North
Carolina as a producer of high grade
woolsn goods. And "there are
Others
AS the Chronicle says cotton is not
the only thing manufactured in North
CaroIina-by a long shot.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
Judge Connor's Successor.

Charlotte Chronicle.
In view of the responsibility de-
vOlving upon Governor kitchin of
appointing aSupreme Court Judge to
succeed Judge Connor, the Green's
boro Record dips a little into past
history. In making this, his first
appointment it says, "Governor
kitchin has fine opportunity to fol-
low in the footsteps of the wise
Governors who preceded him. When
Vance first named a Chief Justice, he
named Hon. George Davis, of Will
mington, the greatest lawyer of the
Southeast. Mr.. Davis declined the
office. Gov. Vance then named Hon.
W. n. Fl. Smith, the greatest lawyer
OF the Northeast. When Governor
Jarvis named billiard and Rutfin he
named the greatest lawyers in the
middle centre of the State, and
when the Eastern Governor named
Judge Burwell he named the head of
the profession in the Charlotte sec
ton. When men like Merrimon, Ashe,
billiard wereplaced upon the Supreme
bench they were not named on ac-
count OF church relations, nor on
account OF special political activities
None OF the great lawyers who have
adorned that bench were appointed
or nominated because of political ac-
tivities, but each of them because he
was at the head of the bar in the
State and was justly regarded as Il
little higher up than the best of their
associates at the bar" And that is
the truth. For one, the Chronicle is
satisfied that Governor kitchin will
select his man on the same sound
principles that governed his predeces-
sors in office We do not believe the
hurry-call made for endorsements of
this or that lawyer, a call, under the
circumstances, in exceedingly bad
taste, will influence him one whit.
The office under consideration is
above all Others one that should seek
the man. The men mentioned are all
able lawyers, but there is some mighty
fine material that might be routed
out OF the silent corner.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03

SOME Of the newspaper reports ger
it confused every year. The Soufn
observes Memorial Day. The North
observes Decoration Day. The spirit
is he same but the Southern senti-
ment embodying both remembrance
and decoration, we take 1t, Is the
finest.-Charlotte Chronicle.
Nav 10th is Confederate Memorial
Day and May 31st Federal Decora-
ton Day. As the Chronicle says we
rather like the Southern sentiment
embodying both remembrance and
decoration. But the spirit Is the
same in both and it is beautiful and
cOmmendable custom, patriotic IN
spirit, ennobling, inspiring and up
lifting to the manhood and citizen
ship OF those who practice it-a sentl-
ment and custom that should beper-
petuated throughout the ages. And
we predict that the time will come
when the North and South will unite
in Jointly observing the same day,
whether It be May 10th or May 31st
or Nav goth, a fit compromise be-
tween the two.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1909-06-03
1T STUNNED US.

The newspapers of North Carolina
and other States have received letters
from the Gre alter Charlotte Club eX-
pressing thanks for the support and
cooperation they gave in spreading
information as to the Goth OF May
celebration The Greenville, :. C.,
News thinks that the manifestation
of appreciation from Charlotte is
rather unique in its experience. Even
in its own town where IL newspaper
has labored hard and long to attract
public interest i'll some sort OF cele-
bratiOn or function of Il public ma
ture, it says. ''it is rather out of the
ordinary for due thanks to be render
ed to such newspapers for having
contributed such service In the
Charlotte instance, the News does not
remember to have seen anything like
it. The Greenville News, the editor
says. did contribute i'll Il small way
to the informing OF the public as to
the celebration which they were plan
ming to have: but to be directly and
personally thanked for the favOrs
shown is without precedent in IL case
of the kind" But that. you know,
Is CharlOtte's way-Charlotte ChrOn-
icle
The GOLD LEAF received similar
letter, duly signed 10y the proper Off
cial, and when we read it and took
in the full purport OF its true signiti-
canoe we could hardly believe our
own eyes. TO be thanked for any
thing that we had done in giving
publicity to and promoting the in
terest and success of any enterprise,
thing or individual-was a strange
and unusual occurrence indeed and
we could scarcely believe we read
Alright. Unjust be foreign language
certainly it was n foreign" thing
to dO-and maybe we were mistaken
We read again. But there it was-a
word of thanks and expression of APP
probation for what this paper had
done Ia very small part, we confesS)
in contributing to the success of the
event under consideration.
Surely there is something new
under the SUM-" and it pleases US
nightly that a North Carolina town
and people have discovered and put
it into use. But as the Chronicle
APPLY says. that is 1.-The Charlotte
way, and no surprise need be either
felt or expressed. 1t is "the little
things that go to make up life and
we are frank to admit it is this sort
OF thing that warns the cookies of
the newspaper mans heart and
makes him ready and willing to do
so some more-and go to a longer
length next time.