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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
One Effect of Publicity

NY7vERY much wish" remarked
EI one of the most eminent OF
A New York theatrical man
085Q2 ayers one day last week, that
- persons who know what sums
successful playwrights are now re-
ceiving for their work would take
some pains to Keep this knowledge to
themselves" He Immediately ex-
planned that this wish was not based
on any idea that there was anything
improper in publishing such infor-
nation.
my complaint against printing that
sort of thing" he continued, "is that
IL makes such a lot of useless trouble
for us managers and inspires such en-
untold quantity of useless, futile labor
on the part of scores and scores of
well meaning but mistaken persons.
/ read in one of our theatrical papers
a few weeks ago a little paragraph to
the effect that Eugene Walter, author
Of The Easiest Way who was sleep
ing on a bench in Bryant park three
or foul years ago because he hadn't
the price of a bunk in a Bowery lodg-
ing house, was now receiving in royal
ties somewhere between $4,000 and
$4,000 a week. The paragraph stated
that Mr.. Walter had on tour three or
four companies in The Wolf and
four or five in Paid in Full not to
mention the New York company now
playing The Easiest Way and that
the total of his royalties was made
up of receipts from these companies.
Now 1 am not in a position to say
whether Mr.. Walter Is getting as
much as this or not. I certainly don't
begrudge 1t to him If he is. But l wish
to heaven nobody would print things
about 1t for the following comprehen-
sive reasons: This paragraph has
been copied in other papers and period
icals about half a million times, l sup
pose. Away down in Podunk or out in
Medicine Bow Mrs. Bill Boggs, wife
of old Bill Boggs, who runs the cor
ner grocery store, reads about Mr..
Walters big winnings, 1t looks
awfully attractive to her, and moth
ing will do but she must write a
play. She has never tried to write a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
Musicni Nafea

Music lovers should be sure to hear the
Menoelssohn music TO Midsummer NIGHTS
Dream" played by the Russian Symphony
Orchestra OF New York under direction 81
Modes A~ltsehuler. There win be thirteen
ruses and some solo work. This will be In
connection with the famous Ben Greet3
players at the Boyd next week. See an
nouncements In DRAMATIC column. Don't
miss the rare opportunity to hear this beau
tful music OF Mendelssohn.
Mr.. Martin Bush announces his third
organ recital to be given this afternoon at
: O'CLOCK at the First Congregational church.
He VIII be assisted BY Mr. Fred q. Ellis.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Let us revert a moment TO that idea of
this busy man about heavy music.
Now there is a very prevalent notion that
classic Music is heavy; that heavy music
is classic; that everything that a great
writer did is necessarily great; that great
writers and classic writer's are far above
the people, immeasurably distant on the
heights. to which the people can scarcely
look, and certainly to which they can never
aspire.
These notions are wrong, All classic
music is not heavy. All heavy music is
not by any means classic. Every great
master has written things which are far
greater than other things he has written;
music has been written by men with great
names which could not get a publisher
today under your name, or that of John
Smith, (even if he spelled it Johann
Smythe).
Great writer's and classic writer's are not
above the people mt all times. They are
not always immeasurably distant. Let a
word or two of explanation be offered.
Handel ranks as one Of the very greatest
Of the oratorio composers.
An audience, invited unfortunately, ia
fiji the Auditorium would applaud the
"Halleluiah" Chorus from The Messiah
To the echo, even il they had never heard
II before. The "somethine'' in 1t would
reach the Something in the audience
We call 1t Soul. The chorus, For unto
us" with it's long runs. and It's repeti.
tons might provoke even laughter. But
why? Just because that style Of costum.
ing a thought is old-fashioned. The people
would also laugh at a chorus OF womcr
walking In with hoop skirts, funny old
sleeve effects, side curls, and al that STYLE
OF thing that belonged to our great-great
aunts. The real stuff is there. just the
same. but the dressing is different.
Mendelssohn was another great mastel
Of the oratorio, He was a great composer
IN his dap He was a composer al0nl
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Beginning on Monday, March l, the
Messrs. Shubcrt established a new rule by
which no tickets for any OF the New York
t~hesters under their management are 20
be put on sale at any OF the Tyson & Co.
ticket agencies In hotels or elsewhere. This
step was taken by the Messrs. Shubert
after having satisfactorily tried the expert
ment for the two weeks Immediately pre-
ceding at Days and at the Casino. The
Shubert theaters for which no seats are to
be had at the agencies are: The Lyric.
where 9TH Blue Mouse is the offering
the Casino. where James r. Powers appears
I'm Havana - Days, where Julia Marlowe
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
LATE GossIr FRoM sTAGELAND

Little Notes end Anecdotes OF Plays
and Players.
Miss Lorna Elliott has resigned from the
Bijou Stock COMPANY In Chicago, and viii
go into vaudeville. billed as Lorna Elliott
q CO. Sully Guard will assist her In an
act which has been booked for several
weeks at the Chicago vaudeville houses
and for a season I'm the west. II wanted.
Mr.. Askin. of the producing firm OF singer
g. Askin Is now negotiating with MISS
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
PLAlER TELLS OF PLAYWRIGHT
David WarGeId Speaks of David BE-
IuscO and His work.

IuscO and His work.
Thus tht music master writes in the
Green Book Album Of the man who made
'"The Music Master no one knows bet
ter th1B DAVID Belasco that what the fates
held for d man must be wrested from him,
and no man ever worked harder for his
hearts desire than he. That he loves his
labor. has, of course, rendered 1t less ardu-
Gus, but patient toll has been his portion
always, and will be, I have no doubt, I'M
I'll the end. Day and night are one to him
time to be utilized, to be bent to his viii,
to serve as a slave in the creation OF
that upon which he has set his heart. l
have known him TO work day after day
without leaving his studio, Degrading the
minutes necessary to snatch a bite of food
from the tray that is brought to him.
Many are the occasions, when, completely
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Townsend Walsh, the young literateur,
who precedes Otis skinner on his tours and
IS himself a Harvard man. has issued n
HARVARD book Of the theatrical profession.
He finds that John Corbin, rs. Is literary
adviser OF the New theater; Percy Mackave.
", rs more or less necessary to Henry Mil
Ter In a like capacity, and John Daniel VIII
iams, 'O8, editor OF Charles Frohman's
press work. Others are Julian Bltinge. '@,
a bright iuminary OF the Honey Boy Minis
trels, and Harry Woodruff. 80. who is a
Primo at the Princess In Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

night. March IS. II Is one OF the best plays
Of this prolific author and producer. There
will be the regular Saturday matinee.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

preciated. Those who have tolled up the
heights, have done so at great cost; the
progress has been slow and painful; often
the way has been lonely; often the foot
prints have been placed on rough ground,
full many times the weary feet have been
bleeding. and the heart aching. Let those
who wish to understand follow in the foot
steps of those who have gone before. -
Shall we adopt that idea? 1t is glorious,
it is exalted in a way. it sounds logical.
1t seems to be true, and yet-well, and yet,
somehow it seems selfish. What was all
this painful progress for? What was this
self-denying renunciatory process for? Was
the ultimate goal Satisfaction for SefP
Does not that narrow the idea of Music
to a Fine Art for the delectation of the
Artist and the Select Few? Does IL?
o
On the other hand, let us take the Path
of thought.
Let our friend speak; "You musicians
must know that to the average person who
would fain be a music lover, music is like
a foreign language. You who are constant
students thereof, can converse with ease
on the mountain tops, but here are a lot
of strangers in your country who would
like to know your language. What are you
going to do to help them understand you? %
Now, musicians are not any more selfish
than other people. And still here is an
accusation which truly makes one sit up
and do some meditation.
Assuming the same Illustration. does II
not seem as though the point is we'll taken.
and that the people who are prominently
known in the concert and recital world.
are like foreigners giving lectures on the
Forms Of Construction of the language
essays on Prosody and Parslng, to people
who wish to understand the language and
be shown the beauties Of the foreign realm.
Should music be a language which we try
to interpret and explain, a language by
which soul communicates with soul?
Should Music, in this sense. be an Art
which would be classified as a Useful Art
for the people, rather than a Fine Art for
the few?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

The announcement of the production of
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights
Dream with Mendelssohn's music at
Boyd's theater Friday evening, Saturday
afternoon and evening, March 20 and q,
under the auspices of the Association of
Collegiate Alumna or Omaha, has inter-
ested many different kinds of people, more
so than almost any other theatrical af-
fair in recent years. Ben Greet has a spe-
cial following that is not of the theater;
"Everyman" and the woodland productions
gave him a strong hold on the interest of
the serious minded Shakespeare and Ben
Greet together should suffice to draw a
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

"The Lion and the Mouse" built of such
excellent material and put together in such
admirable fashion by Charles Klein that It
bids fair to hold its place in popular favor
for several generations comes to Boyd's
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday March 81.
% and %, with Tuesday matinee. Heading
the company is oliver Doud Byron as
John Burkett Ryder, the giant of finance,
who has no ambition aside from making
money and who to that end does not hest
tate to crush even his friends, his adver-
sary in the struggle that forms the basis
of the Klein play.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

married. reposes in a correspondent the
following wifely confidence; III a married
man is called a Benedict IS a married
woman called a Benedictine9' And he an
swers; Not always. my dear, Sometimes
a lemon ~harauguc."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

At last Blanche Bates seems In a fair way
to realize an ambition to play Rosalind.
1T may be two years before | get around
to IT," David Belasco said last week, but
] am going to present Blanche Bates in
AS You Like IL and Twelfth Night 1
am going to have a presentation OF Romeo
and Juliet with Frances starr as Juliet,
and | hope TO give the public a chance to
see David Warfield as Shylock la The
Merchant Of Venice
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

gardens Of the parsonage and the last
transpires IN the court room at WATERFORD.
Mr.. Figman will be supported by a thor
oughly capable company including Messrs
Ernest c. wnrde, Sydney Price, Frank J..
Kirke, Hugh Dillman, Stanley Wood. Her
bert Charles, Harry Lavian, Ernest Mack.
Ray Raceford, Jack Perry, Fred Allen
and Lolita Robertson. Lillian Rhodes
Wheeler, Agnes Everett and Myrtle Tame
hill.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Lincoln J. Carriers play. '-roo Proud TO
Beg" will be the attraction at the Krug
theater for three days. starting Thursday
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

-N conversation last week with a
HtS.N Y man who ana a great insti-
t1EH tuition the subject under discus
esSsaks~r=A sion was the attitude of the
WSGTSa1H musical profession to the public.
SsszS1-sssB This man is one who deals with
men, one who is possessed of executive
ability which is continually drawn upon
through the necessity for quick action; q
mar who is a trained thinker, and who,
while not q close student of the greater
things in music, Is a lover of music, as he
is Of literature and of the drama.
AS the musical department of The Bee is
trying TO rot a Enc on the musical world
and on the musical profession, drawn from
an OUTSIDE point. a few pertinent questions
were asked. One was this: Wherein do
we fail in getting the great public inter
ested in the development of music in
Omaha"
The man answered by an Illustration. He
told of an arduous climb which he and
some friends made in ascending a noun
tain. Two of the party were athletes and
the others were not. Through much eXer-
ton and through much patient helping of
the others the entire party finally reached
the dizzy height, largely because of the
power of endurance possessed by one man
in the party.
Then the gentleman left the application
to be thought out. There are various ways
OF interpreting the parable.
One thought was given clearly and dis
tinctly by the speaker. and that thought
was along this line: Musicians live on the
heights so much that 1t discourages those
who might wish to climb. They present the
very highest peaks OF their art, and those
alone; and when the inexpert public sees
the difference between where they are eX-
peeted to be and where they know they
really are. the distance Is discouraging. ant
frequently the dear pconle turn back with 9
sigh of dependency "a desist from tn,
perilous climb"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

is IN he seen I'm THE Goddess OF Reason;
the Herald square. where Kathryn hidder
is sopcsriuC in "a Woman Of impulse
N,Vipr I%Iiott's. where Carlotta Nilsson IS
nloVinR In This Woman and This Maai
The Majestic. where Three twins are
SIN 10 he found. and the West End, where
tbc biu changes weekly. Relative TO the
natter Of canceiling arrangements with inc
agencies, Mr.. Lee Shubert said; our. put-
pose i'm refusing to deal longer with the
TYSON company il to give the public a
fair deal. The hotel agencies expect 20 gct
certain blocks OF seats with the privilege
o'clock In the evening Therefore, people
who come to the box office during the day
are unable to buy seats which arc AZ the
agencies. but which may he returned later
unsold. This Is an obvious injustice 10
those who come to the box office Tor &C.
commodations and for whom the RUE OF
first come first served should strictly pre-
vail"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

.
or the new plays " the year, none has
ongendereG more discussion ana won more
cordial approval than 9TH House of Bond
age" i'm which Florence Roberts and a re-
markable supporting cast will appear
Mt the Boyd for three nights and a Satur-
day matinee, beginning Thursday. March
IS. The House of Bondage is by Seymour
Obermer, who seems to have won, both as
a dramatic ltterateur and craftsman. ex-
ceptional honors through this work. Miss
Roberts portrays the wife of an English
peer, the latter, a brilliant parliamentarian,
but rather a neglected. consort. Philan-
thropic pursuits throw the wife frequently
In the company of n great surgeon, n man
who, in the kiLdlier qalities of heart and
hand, is a happy contrast to the peer.
The husband is stricken with a vital brain
trouble, and the surgeon is called upon to
operate on him. The dramatic force of this
! situation adroitly worked out can readily
be appreciated. Tho wife, of course, figures
principally in the climax. There are other
characters Of practically co-importance.
and these are acted by such artists as
Arthur Forrest, Thurlow Bergen, Hallet
Bosworth. Harry Gibbs, Ann Warrington
and Mary Bertrand.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14
what do YOU think about 1t?

What do you think about It?
Really, as this study of the relation of the
people to music and of music to the people,
opens up, it presents to the writer one
difficult problem after another. and not
the simplest one to answer is the one that
has been pressing itself to the front this
last week:
us music really an art which should be
developed with the idea Of being useful
in ministry? Or. is music an art which
should be developed only for the devotees
of a cult?'
1t seems to be a question.
Certainly, as this gentleman OF whom
we are speaking, has said: What is
there for the average person, in the aver
age best recital of the average best
musician Your great singers sing great
programs Of great arias, from great operas;
your pianists play the greatest compositions
of the greatest aud most difficult to under
stand OF the great masters. and your great
violinists play the most elaborate and
most involved sonatas and cOncertos OF the
most ponderous composers; your orches-
tras play the most complex and most ex-
treme masterpieces by men who wrote
things which are only open to the trained
intellect Of the dvanced student. Why.
even our brass bands have caught the cue,
and one hears heavy overture, after heavy
overture, and you don't know a thing about
what It means, or whether il means any
thing
Musicians, There is a thought, and il
assumes the shape Of a very large and
pregnant thought.
What shall one think about it2 Well,
about the first think is this: lis II
trueT'' Must We admit that 1t is true?
1t looks as though the burden OF proof
lies In favor OF the complainant. Our pro
grams are heavy. Not for YOU. perhaps
possibly not for your neighbor, but Tor IN,
public. YeSD
Then, II so. what is there for the aver
age person. who would like to love music
Now. that leaves two roads open on
which 10 allow our thoughts 70 wander.
Shall We take. this path on which w
hear the sentiment: Certainly that Is al
uueLbut music must BE- studied to be ap
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

The suffragette play, Votes for women
will be given in Wallack's theater, New
York, next week, Mary Shaw will play the
principal part. The play has been popular
In London, and because OF the interest In
this country in that movement. it is ex-
pected to excite attention. One of the fea-
lures in 1t is a mob scene, In which 200 or
more persons are employed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Mrs. Penelope Smith. dramatic critic OF
the CnlIHahns Dispatch. who was ranantiV
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

his enemies will be glad TO
know that David Belasc0 is
not responsible for a remark
put into his mouth by a para
graph that fioated to the sur
farn during the Mnnk Mr..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

Nat Goodwin believes he has happened
upon another accidental success in a play
called THE Master Hand" with which he
says he has startled the south. The Mas
ter Hand" is by Carol Fleming and was
first produced IN Boston more than a year
ago. 1t was Withdrawn after a short run
and was on the shelf until Mr.. Goodwin
took it down.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

There appears to be some doubt regard
ing Mrs. Brown-Potter's retirement from
the stage. Last week she issued this state
ment: Mrs. Brown-Potter is in good
health. She has much work ahead of her
in England. She does not desire to make
any other statement about her affairs.
as she does not consider them of public
interest" To which her manager, William
Morris, added: Il have a contract for eight
weeks with Mrs. Potter. She has appeared
for three weeks and / have no doubt she
will complete the other five weeks when
ever | call on her"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

At the end of the short play, "Gringoire,"
which Laurence Irving, his wife. Mabel
Hackney, and three other persons gave for
the first time in Boston recently, young
Mr.. Irving held the stage for a speech of
some length. He explained his good purpose
of bringing into American vaudeville such
worthy effort for dramatic art as has been
the constant aim of his father. His refer
ence to Henry Irving brought out hearty
and long continued applause.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-14

There is a play now running in New
York which is teaching a great lesson. This
is Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's great
play The Dawn OF Tomorrow" played by
Miss Eleanor Robson. 1 wish | could preach
from the pulpit as great a lesson as that
play teaches said the Rev. Charles F.
Aked in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church,
New York.
The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-04-17

TO Il watcry grave hundreds of human
beings and giving to history another
tragedy OF the sea.
Among those whose conduct stands
out as worthy of the highest praise
are Captain William |. Sealby of the
Republic. who stood by the doomed
vessel until the waves closed above
her: Captain Ruspini of the Florida
who stood by after the collision anG
took off the passengers of the Repub
lie in spite of the injury his own ship
had sustained; Captain Ransom Of the
White Star liner Baltic. who FASTENED
to the relief of the Republic as soon
as the signals told him of her distress.
and Jack BinnS. who stuck to his pos
as wireless operator on the Republic
regardless of his personal peril, and b.
his skill and courage summoned tn
rescuers to the vicinity of the shil
Captain Ruspini transferred the pns
sengers of the Republic to the Balti
on the arrival of the latter vessel and
with the Florida's bow stove in anG
several dead sailors lying in the ruin
of that part of the vessel, headed hi
ship for New York and brought hei
safely into port without assistance.
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small one as Mr.. Knox as the right
hand man of his administration. The
two men afford a striking contrast In
physique, though as to brain capacity
they are perhaps very nearly on par
Mr.. Knox is one of the smallest men
in the senate, he and Mr.. La Toilette
of Wisconsin being rivals for honors
in that direction. But he is big men
tally, and his friends call him the Lit
tie Giant.
Although undersized, the next Sec
retary of state is muscular and strong
for his weight. He lives much in the
open, walks much and, like his friend.
the next president, is devotee Of golf
AS a member of the Castalia Fishing
club Mr.. Knox spends weeks every
summer on its reservation near San
dusky, o. He carries his work With
him there, and some of his most pOlu
minous and able legal papers have
been prepared in its clubhouse. One
Of the interesting pictures in his pri-
vate office in Pittsburg represents him
in golf trousers and negligee shirt on
the bank of the trout stream on the
club reservation in Ohio. He is just
landing fish, and the expression on
his face is one Of such deep and In
tense interest in the work at hand
that 1t would seem almost impossible
that greater interest could be aroused
in the most important case that ever
commanded the attention Of bench or
bar.
Since the announcement that he
would be the next postmaster general
there has been renewed interest in
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The Republic
Disaster.
The Courage and Intelligence of The Officers
of Vessels and Their Success IN Res
Culng Lives s-Captain Ransom and
the Baltic PathetiC Incidents.

FWHE rescue of the passengers and
H crew of the White Star liner
III Republic after the collision be-
tween that ship and the Flor
ida of the Lloyd Italiano line forms
one of the most interesting stories in
recent records of the sea- One of the
most remarkable features of the case
was the courage and presence of mind
displayed by all concerned, including
the captain of the i'll fated ship, the
commanders of the vessels which came
to the rescue, the Marconi wireless op-
orators, the crews and the passengers,
all this resulting in the saving of the
hundreds of lives imperiled by the ac-
cident. By keeping level heads the
officers in command of the various YES
sells were able to make use Of all the
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Household Hints.

The quickest cleaner for sticky
bread or cake pan is a crust Of stale
bread.
A dish of water kept on the radiator
will improve the air of a steam heated
room.
A scratch on polished furniture can
be almost obliterated by rubbing Wig
orously with linseed oil.
Fringed doilies are kept in better
condition If the fringe is brushed with
a small nail brush rather than with
comb.
The darkest stain on mirror or VIM
dow pane can generally be routed
with flannel dipped in spirits Of
camphor. Rub until dry.
A good silence cloth for the dining
table can be made with double thick
ness of white flannel laid with the soft
side on the inside and quilted on the
machine. Edge with binding Of
white tape.