davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
MISS DORO WINS APPROVAL;
FAVERSHAM IS WELCOMED
GRAND OPERA SCORES
ON THE CHASE BILL
The Patriot by Julian Edwardes
and Stanislaus STANCE,
a Treat.

With the invasion of vaudeville by
many high-Class artists comes Ameri-
can grand opera, and patrons of Chase.
will this week enjoy one of the sea-
sons rarest musical treats. The Pa
triot." as the tabloid opera is called,
is the joint work of Julian Edwardes
and Stanisiaus STANCE. and is written
ou a SO-called legend founded on the
life of George Washington. The incl
dent occurs while the Continental
army was oncamped at Valley Forge.
According to Tie story. Washington
goes to the house of one, Mannheim, a
Tory farmer and is detained by a
storm. He stays overnight. Man
helm, with others, plot to kill Wash
iugton. but their scheme is overheard
by Mauheims daughter Marion, a pa
triot. The cOnspirat5rs draw lots, and
IL falls TO Mannheim TO Kill Washing
ton. Knife in hand. me goes up stairs
and stsbs form he sees lying in q
bed. In the morning Washington, Un-
harmed, comes down. JnanEs mis- now
terror-stricken host, and departs. Mar
ion, the daughter, occupied the bed IN
tended for Washington, and it was she
who was stabbed by her father.
Helena Frederick was the Marion
William SCuusteE, the Mannheim, ana
the role of General Washington was
sung by Huntington May. All are pos
sessed of good voices. Others assist
ing in the production. which IS one OF
the most preteutiOus IN vaudeville are
Percy Ripple, Fred Hanley, and George
Aside from the tabloid opera, which in
itself is almost q whole entertainment
the entire bill at Chdses is filled with
good things jefferson De Angels and
his assisting COmT9uy appear in a mu-
steal a5surdity entitled The ReheaT-
sal" This clever operate comedian
kept the audience in a continuous up
roar with his three burlesques on The
Thief" The italian Director Ga la
CreatOTeJ, and Blue Jeans Jp-to-
Date Not only was the latter up 70
date. but it vas q little ahead.
The Bounding GordOns appear in a
sensational acrOhatic act and were
heartily app1auded. ALI Grant with his
funny Hebrew stories, was compelled To
exceed the time limit, so well was his
act received. Arthur Huston. in a gOr-
EeOIsIy-staged juggling act presents
. Stanley in Africa others on the
bin were MOTrisseT and Ayers plano
and singing act and the Doherty sis
tiers. i'm songs and stories. The Vita
graph presents a lengthy series on the
American Fleets visit To Australia.
A medley overture. "SuubOunet Sue.
and an intermeZZO. Sweet Ni0lets,' are
among the orchestral numbers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
IudLcious Pruning ReauiIed.

There is TOO much needless eNpIana-
tiou I'm that first ct-explanation of
facts that are obvious OF develop them
selves ia the course of the play Two
explosions are really required 10 make
the audience sit up and take notice IT
takes too long in the last act for Miss
D0rO and Mr.. Johnson, VINO hold the
stage alone, 10 reach the inevitable
conclusion. For a comedy this Offering
is little too long, anyway. and
iudicious pruning would be highly
effective All the rest Of the comedy
is as enjoyable as IL is innocuOus.
Not only is Miss DoTo deliCiOusly dTOll
as the wIIful and capricious daughter
OF NJ M0uuieT. the millionaire candy
king and stiI more so as Sister Ben
famine, but she is intensely human at
all stages. And IL is this factor which
raises ..The Richest Girl" above the
fsrce-comedy class into a real play of
heart interest. Two situations were
particularly effective. Miss Doro. with
boiled ham as a stage property and a
man for a background. won over her
audience while she ate q make-believe
luncheon. But even more enjoyable
was this perveTse maiden I'm the gray
I ga ~B Of glSraTIGgG.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
Rises to Dramatic Power

The last scene is laid in Don JuHan's
home. where he has been taken dam
gerouSiy wounded by his brother. VINO
refuses to allow either the wife or the
former friend 70 see him. The sick
man. however hears and fenounces
them, refusing 10 believe their prOtes-
tati0us. and carried back 10 his room.
where few minutes later lac dies. Then
comes the eIimas. i'm which Faversham,
as Don Euestc proves himself easily
the star. rising TO a height in emotional
acting that in his former romantic
roles he has never E.-en promise of
In a bitter dcUunciation of the gossip
and slanderers that wrecked home
EeedIessIv. and caused the deata OF Don
Julian, he declares his love for D1na
fedora, a love which has been given
birth bE this continued gossip. During
this impasEiOueI 0utburst the audience
broke into enthusiastic applause that
did not sgbSl1- until the curtain had
risen again and again.
Not only does the power of the drama
itself, so Eiri.e and human. appeal 20
those who saw IL. but the cas-. Itself IS
so strong and the acting so cOnvinC-
ing that with even "a far less powerful
and interesting vehicle the performance
must perf0Tce stiII be far above avera &c.
Then. too. the strong moral OF the whole
10 blacken characters, ana the futIutv
or trying 70 disregard appearances gives
the play a peculiar significance.
Little but praise can De said for those
with whom Ar Eaversham has sur
iugIy portrayed. and Mss ODD arE Mr.
1 CIiTe especially rise 10 the occasion
ln the powerful emotional situations
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
Sc Yard for TOrChOl Point de Paris and CIuny LaCeS
8ro.en Sets Of zoe to zoe Laees Up to Inches Wide

o
in
tie nov 5 is
all widths are not here in each pattern They 10
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
MAJESTIC-MovIng
NaudevllIn-
Pictures and

varied line of vaudeville numbers
~ tire Majestic this week IS supple
Hented by an unusually rich array Of
moving pictures.
fitzpatrick smith and Emerson scored
r. decided uit lu their drum major acr
They are a clever trio Of 5uzEIer=, and
specialtes added interest o. their NUM-
Der.
Raymond Hitchcock was the subject
81 4 series OF CameraphOne pictures
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
The Richest Girl Affords
Wide Range for Deli
ciOuS DrOIlery.
Supported by Capable Cast,
of Which Orrin Johnson
Is Leader.
Now, no cat has two tails,


This is logic as expouuded by Miss
Marie DOrO. the chocolate girl, in de-
iCious CONNECTION entitled 1.-THE Richest
Girl" and presented at the National
Theater last evening
And upon this motif Miss Doro rings
an infinite variety of changes, but 1t IS
the same motif i'm various tempos and
i'm divers keys that sounds through ne
four acts of this new comedy. as Taglie
and as quaint as Mr.. Frohman
youngest star" herself
In The Richest Girl GaVault ana
Morton have compiled a comedy that
may not be destined TO long life. but
which will bring enjoyment 10 theu-
sands for a season or two Compiled Is
the right word. for there is nothing
startling or nothing original about TINS
comedy. Its elusive plot and many on
lis situations reCallsuOVels OF motoring
through France and the CollaboTatoIs
have but listened carefully for year or
so to stray bits of current conversation
for many of the epigrams and all OF the
quaint pIatitUdes that abound IN the dia-
lOgue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
Motor Vehicles Abound.

Not that this comedy as one bit be-
hind the times. No, indeed. A touring
car with the most modern kind of tires
which is 10 say, the kind that eN-
pIOde-and a giant Mercedes TO the res
cue. are CO-staTs in the first act ray
ing opposite these with telling erect is
vance of the times. For a motorcycle
that could make its way on the stage
so quietly aad decorOusly may violate
some rules of the exhaust valve. but de-
serves TO be introduced on Washington
streets without more ado.
All this is merely designed TO lnQl-
cate that the critic was on lis job For
he enjoyed this offering as much S a
Eo0dly company of Miss DOro adj
uirers who welcomed her last evening
And The Richest Girl furnishes wide
opportunities for an exploitation Tor
Miss DOTO's peculiar type OF droIlery-
This unbTidiuE of a Wins0me person
alitE through four acts OF play ADAPT
ed TO her capabilities might not be an
achievement for one experienced In the
art of acting But Miss Doro is young
enough 10 develop her gracious person
melt of heavy box Office receipts with
out seriously eudaugeriug her future as
an actress In more eEacuug parts
There is yet time for submeTglng her
personality after IL has fully rpened-
Ii IS rather difficult task to keep
an audience in a TOllicking 5ood humor
until 1880 o'clock, but Miss DprO did
this. and did III I'm spite OF the fact that
her PLAY draEs numerically i'm two
UlaeCs-aL the beginning and at the very
end
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-16
The World and His Wife"
Repeats Former Tri-
umph Here.
FaVerSham Rises to Heights
Unknown in Roles Pre-
viously Attempted.

Not lacking tn numbers. b-lliaucy or
enthusiasm was the audience that
greeted William Faversham and his
company last night at the Bclasco in
their return engagement of THE World
and His Wife and its success was hut
a reproduction of the enthusiastic re-
ceptiou that was accorded IL upon its
premiere production here i'm September
and its presentation i'm New York and
elsewhere. Nor is this to be wondered
at for 1t is but the just recognition of
the true merits of this powerful drama
and the perfect manner in which a
strong cast presents il.
From the time the curtain goes up,
through each of the three acts TO The
powerful climax at the end. the audi
ence listens with almost breathIess al
teTests applaudiug with heartfelt en-
thusiasm at the fall of each curtain.
Possibly the only real criticism one can
md Is the fact that at times the sit
uations pail just a bit and the play
drags, but so poignant is the interest
thee audience takes i'm the characters
and SO wildly and humanity are they
portrayed by the members Of the cast
that this slight drawback is hardly
auEFngiahle
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09

. In the spring when the green q
. gets back on the trees,
. And the sun comes out and Z
. stays,
. And your boots pull on with a Z
. right good squeeze
. And you think of your bare Z
. foot days; 9
. When you ort to work and want Z
. 10 not, .
. And you and your wife agrees
It's time to spade up your gar .
. den lot .
. When the green gets back on .
. the trees, .
. Well, work is the least of my .
. idees, .
. When the green, you know, gets .
, gets back on the trees. Q
. james Whitcomb Riley. .
3 D D n q q q q
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
EARLY ROAD WORK

In its report to congress submitted
February 9th the Country Life Com
mission lays stress upon two things
as of most Importance for the better
ment of country life. These two things
are education and good roads. While
each one may have some particular
hobby which he thinks is the all I'M
portant panacea, the great Importance
of these two things and their close re-
lationship one of the other.
To establish the centralized system
or materially improve the country
scools n any way it is first necessary
to have good roads. Rural delivery of
mail and the demand for parcels post
also call loudly for better roads. Many
plans regarding state and federal aid
are being suggested and some of them
will eventually come through state and
national legislation but all this takes
time.
In the mean time let no local ef-
of the country roads while waiting
for the state and government to act.
The old lark moved her nest when the
farmer and his sons concluded to do
their harvesting. If the split lOk drak
is kept busy all over the country tho
next few weeks the effect will be no.
ticeable in much better roads all the
year. Drain the water off and drag
the roads early and often. Don't wait
until the farm work iss all done ana
the roads are dry and dusty to do
your work.-Rural Spirit.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
THE LAND OF NEVER CARE.

Here rises the road between two
fields,
And the city's spires behind
Are soft in the gray of the winters
/ day
And the world seems good and
kind.
The stark trees face the distant blue.
Far off in the eastern sky,
Then the road dips down in a ribband
brown.
Luring me on from the calling town,
With the cricket's counter cry.
The first star shines through the
gathering gloom,
And a cottage window CLEANS
With the dancing light from hearth
side bright,
But the suns in my heart If 1t has
come night
AS I tramp toward the land of
dreams.
And, o! it's fair and a lovely land
At the end of the good brown road,
All the folks are kind and it's Mature
mind
To your sins and faults they're all
quite blind
And there's never a gibe or goad.
And a maiden stands at the city's
gate
With hands outstretched to me,
And the blue of the sky is in her eye
And her lips are red with the autumn
days,
And sailing grace has she.
And. o. I've seen her in dreams be-
fore
And I've yearned for the touch of
her hand
Now at last I'm here in the city
where
Wen live and love and it's Never
Care
That they call the pleasant land
John A. Morosc.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
MUNICIPAL RIGHTS.

Through a suit filed in the circuit
court yesterday the right of a munici-
pality to engage in bushes activities
is brought into issue. The complain
ant seeks to prevent the city Of Mil
ton from selling electricity outside
OF its own boundaries and to prohib-
It it from selling electricity for pow
er purposes within the city limits.
Evidently the suit was brought for
the purpose of hampering the people
of Milton in the development and ex-
tension of their electrical plant. Those
who brough the suit can scarcely hope
to have their contentious sustained by
the courts.
1t is generally regarded that a mu-
ricipality may engage in such bust
ness enterprises as it sees expedient
to undertake. At one time cities left
the control Of all utilities to individ-
uals or corporations. But nov there
are few towns or cities that do not at
least own their own water systems
Many of them own electrical plants,
while in some places municipal trac-
ton lines have been established.
How far a municipality should go
in the field of business operations
should be guaged entirely by circum-
stances of expediency. Those enter
prises that may best be carried on by
individuals or corporations should be
left to individuals. But when the
public good may best be served by
municipal ownership the latter should
prevail.
Naturally a city should act with
caution in undertaking new enter
prises. When good service at rea-
sonable prices is furnished by indi-
viduals or corporations there is no
need &C municipal action. Experience
shows that cities do act with caution
in this matter AS a rule they are
over timid and suffer through their
timidity.
But the right OF municipality to
control utilities should be unques-
toned. II the present laws Of this
state do not permit such, then the
laws should be changed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
A GOLDEN FIELD.

Up in the Milton country a 1900
acre ranch has just been sold for
$85, 900. A few years ago that ranch
was probably valued at about one
tenth this price. Down in the west
end Of the county Umatilla project
land that was selling for $50 per acre
a few months ago is now going at
;125 an acre and upwards. Nearly
ali the property Of the west end has
more than doubled in value during
the past year and the development
has only commenced. Some lmprov-
ed land near Hermiston is now held
at $400 per acre. Within a few years
thousand dollar an acre land will be
common in that section. Such prices
now prevail in other irrigated sec
tons that have no advantages what
ever over the Hermiston country.
In view Of these conditions why
should local money go abroad for in
vestment Merely because distant
fields look greener than do those at
home. But some day the people who
have gone upon the stampede into
Canada win look back and they will
observe that they left far better
pasture than they knew. From an
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
BALZAC BY THE YARD.

A we'll known author not long ago
stepped into book store, but for
some time could not attract the atten-
ton Of a clerk, all interest being CEN
tered in stout gentleman who was
jotting down figures on a pad. The
author strolled over in that direction
and heard the head clerk remark:
"And now, sir, you have almost
completed a library of which you
will be proud; but, Of course you will
want Balzac?"
wall. 1 don't know, now. You
see, we've only got two feet and sew
en- inches space left the old gentle
man replied. GO ahead and meas
ure him, though, and If he isn't too
wide I'll take him too" he added
Selected.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09

As these figures show, the guam
tity of coal used in any one decade is
equal to the entire previous produc-
ton. If this rate keeps on, as it
probably will, the aggregate consump-
ton Of the ten years from 1905 to l.
915 will approximate to the aggregate
of consumption during the preceding
IS years. And in still later decades
1t may swell to proportions far ex-
ceeding our imagination.
Here we must consider the fast that
our methods of mining are wasteful
in the extreme. The geological sur
vey found that in many coal mines
only the best parts Of the so-called
pay streaks" are removed, while in
ferior qualities and such portions as
are difficult to mine are never touch
ed.-Rudolph Cronan in McClures.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
FORTUNATE.

Castro left Venezuela and his job
was taken from him while he was
absent. The powers tina, be now
won't let him return to his native
land. But Castro is fortunate. The
usual method of deposing a South
American president is for a mob to
drive him from his palace, the house
hold guards assisting IN the fun. The
retiring president then wades
swamp in the darkness and makes his
escape on a passing sailboat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
investors standpoint Umatilla county
Is a field of gold.
TO THE WEST END.

In the announcement that the O,
II. & n, company will use gasoline
cars for handling local traffic. mem
ton is made only Of service be-
tween Dayton and this city. Such a
service will be very beneficial for it
will permit the people of Umatilla
county, living northeast of Pendleton.
to run into this city at their con-
venience,
But a gasoline car service is also
needed between Pendleton and the
west end of this county. In the Echo
Stanfield- -Hermiston-U -Umatilla coun-
try is where the great growth of the
future is to occur. Already there IS
heavy volume of traffic between
that section and Pendleton. This
traffic would be increased and the set
tlement of the west end facilitated
through the establishment of a gaso-
line car service between Umatilla and
Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
Good Friday was not bad.
THE COAL SUPPLY.

According to careful Investigations
and estimates made by competent ge-
ologists. our coal supply amounts to
approximately two trillion short tons.
If nodded into a single block, this
would form cube seven and a half
miles each side. But this enormous
quantity, seemingly inexhaustible, will
be gone before the end of this CEN
tury, if our nation keeps drawing on
its coal supplies with the same reck-
lessness as it has done in the past.
The consumption of coal by de-
cades was as follows:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
A FABLE PERHAPS.

When George Ade was coming from
New Orleans last winter he noticed
among the race track men on the
train, one tan-shoed sheet writer with
the largest feet he had ever seen
And he Furthermore testifies and
affirms that the. sheet writer, on ris-
ing in the morning, discovered that
the porter had shlned one shoe and
suitcase.-Success.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
Infant Progeny.

Whats Johnny been doing" ask
ed the patient father.
HE had an alteration with the
ne!ghbors' children, was warned by
the police, broke the cellar window
tried to put a cartridge in the fur
just now"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09

Newly painted houses, well kept
lawns with flower bedecked walks
these things help out greatly in max
ing Pendleton a nicer place in which
to live.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09

An ogden gambling house has just
been held UP and the operators re-
lieved of $500. Another instance of
the truth that sometimes the stingers
themselves are stung.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09

These are the days when the small
boy begins to look forward TO the
time when the school bell will jar
him no longer and he may splash
water on the fellow who is on the
bank.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09

TITS absolutely marvellous, isn't it?"
What 1872"
THAT anybody should have the
nerve to kidnap a small boyl"-Wash-
ington Star.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
THE PLAY.

Through countryside and teeming
towns
Captains and ladies. trulls and
clowns,
Live out their farce, their tragedy.
Half lookers-in, half players, we
Bewildered, wonder wnat the scene
And all its pagentry may mean;
Crudely commingled, bad and good.
Nothing complete, naught under
stood
Are we thus doomed till death to
gaze SiF
Distraught on lfe's chaotic plays?
Are there no spectacles more fair?
Yes. in those blest dominions where
The flying strands of life are caught
By magic, and by art are wrought
To fabrics for the still delight
OF eyes that shine with spirit sight,
Here from the soul springs question:
ings
Straight to the inmost heart of
things,
Here all the sons of Shakespeare
dwell
And all the daughters of Rachel.
To every baffled fugitive
From life's disorder still they gaze
Laughter and tears-and grace to
see
The truth in life's epitome.
M. A. DeWolfe Howe, in the At
lantic.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-09
Wnman's Work .

yep, woman is certainly de cause
Of me being dis way. If me wife
hadn't lost her job, I'd had a home
right now. New Oreleans Picayune
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-14
WESTERN STATES
STILL INSURGENT
Iowa Man Declares Congress
Cannot Influence
Politics.

That the States of Iowa and Nebraska
are more enthusiastically insurgent than
before the passage OF the tariff bill was
the statement Of S. simon, prominent
business man Of ida Grove, Iowa, who
passed through Washington from New
York city.
1.-THE people Of the West are not will
ing to accept everything the Republican
party turns out down here in Congress. 10
he said. Times have changed, now.
The people viii no longer shout for any
thing which bears a party label They
want the facts. The people of Iowa have
been reading and studying this tariff
matter for the past ten years and they
want something more than party sol
idarity' i'm answer to their demands for
revision.
I have been in Germany many
times. / was born there and lived there
for years, / have made many trip
back there and / have studied conditions
there. Why is it fhat the American
manufacturers are flooding the markets
of Europe with their goods and are
giving great reductions on all Of them
o. ar what they get in America The
people of Iowa are asking this very
question of the men who voted to in
crease the duties. I asked about these
things from the German merchants
when ] visited there and they told me
they always got liberal discounts from
the American manufacturers"