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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
DEN0UNCES THE LAWYERS
FOR CONDUCT OF HIS CASE
Religious Fanatic Complains to Court
That His Instructions Arc
Not Followed

KANSAS CITY, May 24.-During the
fanatic, for the murder of Patrolman
Michael Mullane, Sharp arose and
said:
Judge, 1 want to have something to
say in this trial. I am being tried for
my neck here, and 1 don't want any
blood on my hands. These witnesses
are telling different stories from what
they told at the preliminary trial They
ought to be called down for it. I want
to do it, if nobody else is going to.
They are swearing my neck away"
The judge said, sharply: Tell your
objections to your attorneys and let
them present them to the court"
MY lawyers won't follow instruc-
tions," Sharp said. Il told them to
call these witnesses down and they
won't do it,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
Adana Is Quiet

MERSINA, Asiatic Turkey, Sunday,
May 23-The situation at Adana, the
scene of rioting during the recent anti
Christian outbreaks in Asiatic Turkey,
has shown definite improvement in the
last four days. The commission of in
vestigation is occupied busily. A con-
siderable number of moslems are in
prison, but they do not include men
of important position. The Rev. Her
bert A. Gibbons Of Hartford, Conn, a
missionary of the American board of
commissioners for foreign missions,
had testified before the commission on
the killing of Armenians at government
headquarters.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

LEXINGTON, KY, May 24.-It is
stated today that negro miners who
were brought to Jackson, Breathitt
county, to succeed white miners in the
coal mines there were preparing to
leave, and will get away as rapidly as
possible. This decision follows an at
tack on their boarding house Saturday
night in which the house was riddled
with bullets and one building partially
DESTROYED by dynamite.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

II you want to go east C. Haydock,
Agt. Illinois Central r. r.. 11S w. Sixth st.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
SOUTH PARK OWNERS
OPPOSE CONDEMNATION
ALLEGED That Property Affected, with
Buildings, Is Valued at
100000

A voluminous and numerously signed
protest was filed with the city clerk
to be presented to the council today,
complaining against the project to
condemn a portion of land fronting on
South Park and known as the j. Il.
Burton Park Front tract.
The protest represents that the piece
of land in question has been built up
with fine homes and that it would
cost approximately 100000 to condemn
this land with buildings. AS there is
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
Remove Prisoner; Mob Feared

LIMA, Ohio, May 24.-Reports that a
mob was forming with the intention of
lynching John W. Beam, the colored
attorney under arrest here on the
charge of having murdered Mrs. Maude
Diltz Sunday night, caused Sheriff Van
Gunten to remove his prisoner from the
city hospital to the county Jail tonight.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
A Book by Arthur symons

The position of Arthur Symons as a
critic and Interpreter, both in literature
and art, has been advancing steadily
for a number of years, and now he
stands so high that the simultaneous
appearance of a new book by him
and the reissue of an old one is of
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

1t may be of interest to Los An
gelans to know what the Chicago Trib-
une says of the cab drivers now on
strike in Chicago, in refutation of these
made-in-Los- Angeles direct wire" hal
lucinations. In summing up the stu
alton and commenting on the financial
loss to the drivers because of the
strike, the Tribune says:
1.-THE strikers are compensated for
their loss of wages by the fact that
they have enjoyed the first weeks va
cation in many years, and have had an
opportunity of getting acquainted with
their families. Only three strikers de-
serted the union during the week, and
nearly 300 strikers returned to work
for employers who have signed the
agreement calling for $12 a week of six
days.
This leaves from 700 to 800 drivers
still on strike. No driver has been ar
rested during the conflict, and no funer-
ais have been interfered with. Bust
ness Agent Gibbons in the afternoon
gave a lecture to the strikers in which
he complimented them on their good
behavior
You have behaved remarkably well.
better than 1 though you would, and |
ask you to keep up the good work, and
show the people of Chicago that we
are men with brains and ideals, and
not lot of hoodlums.'
| 1.-THE following notice was posted at
! the strike headquarters, las Randolph
street:
Members of the union on strike
need not register at this office on Sun
day. Attend church with your fami-
! lies and friends. Keep out of saloons 3"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

Typographical union No. ia of this
city held an election of officers for
the coming year at the Labor temple
Wednesday, which resulted in the sue
cess of the following members: Presl-
dent. c. u. Howe; vice president, H.
II. Eads; ecretary-treasurer. G. W.
Bowman; sergeant-at-arms, ]. G. Tun-
nell; board of directors-H. j. Harper,
]. P. Lees, N. w. Young; delegate to
convention, +. w. Rowe; alternate, f..
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
Rich Strikes Made

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, May 24.-Re-
ports of two new and y )nderfully rich
gold strikes in the Allegheny distric
have caused much excitement in Grass
Valley and Nevada City and tomorrow
will see rush for the new diggings.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
Taft to Attend Church

PITTSBURG, May 24.-President
Taft, who will attend the fifth annual
convention of the Associated Yacht
clubs next Saturday, has also accepted
q congregational invitation to attend
services next Sunday at the First Uni
tartan church.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25

only about three acres in the tract
they believe this is entirely too much
TO pay They say the only property
directly benefited is on the north side
of Forty-ninth street
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-25
CHINESE MAKES CHARGES
AGAINST THREE OFFICERS

Charlie Chong. one of the best known
Chinese in Los Angeles, preferred
charges before the police commission
last night against Sergeant Sebastian
and Patrolmen ]. e. Edven and u. l..
Mcintosh.
Chong charges that the three officers
met him in Chinatown May IA at about
1880 o'clock, and without provocation
attacked him and severely bruised him.
He charges further that they placed
strap around his neck and choked him.
If Won want to 10 east c. HaydocIk
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pletely out Of their wits and their play
writing intention

writing intention.
Anybody with good brand Of intelli-
gence and what is called a sense Of dra-
matte values can write some kind Of a
play If he is sufficiently Industrious; and
among this mass of persons who can
write some kind of a play never doubt
but that there are many who can write
top-notch plays. They must serve an ap-
premiership, but SO must a tailor They
must learn how to handle the tools OF
the trade, but so must any tinker.
They Will fall into the same old ruts.
the beginners at the trade. but isn't this
plays, plays in which the characters stand
still and converse about life and death
and the sadness thereof: but they will be
learning all the time. And. learning and
front, they will win: the best among
them, I mean. There are some highly
unprosperous tailors and thinkers. you
know.
when first began to write plays I
used to hear great deal Of this talk.
and read good deal of 1t. too. about the
alleged colossal difficulty inhering to the
art Of play-writing, and I confess that
there were times when 1 was greatly dis
couraged by It,
"'These chaps who write the plays I
would say to myself. must have some-
thing supernatural about them
4
You see. they'd intimate as much, and
I believed them because I didn't know
any better at the time. Then. when be-
gan to write plays that succeeded. why I
fell into the way of putting two and two
together. 1 knew very well indeed that
there wasn't anything supernatural about
me; and yet there were my plays being
played and drawing good audiences; and
there were the orders on the hook for
more plays. And If I were not super
natural. how could 1 rightfully grant that
the other fellows who wrote plays were?
1T was then that l began to make up
my mind that there Is more rot written
and talked about the business OF making
plays than about any other field Of human
activity.
Intelligence is what is needed; intel
ligence and industry. Perhaps a little
conceit is a good thing. too. for the am
bilious playwright to possess. I know I
possessed a lot Of it and it served me in
fine stead at times. One needs his SOUP
con Of conceit to venture upon the soil
which, according to- the declaiming OF
some Of the playwrights. is such sacred
and yet bowlder-Strewn groundr'
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many sided and accomplished man at
the Lambs in June, before he went
abroad to his death.
Mr.. Fitch never failed to make the
most liberal acknowledgement Of the debt
which he insisted he owed to Richard
Mansfield
Mansfield taught me nearly all I know
Of what might be termed inside stage
business" said the playwright on that
occasion. He had remarkable mental
eye for what we call the picture Occa-
sionally, though. he would lean too heav-
lily in the direction Of the strictly theat-
rical This, think, was due to a certain
excessive floridity of imagination which
was one Of his traits. There were times
when he showed that he lived in the ar
tificial ether which is so likely to warp the
Judgment as well as the sense of humor
Of actors. 1t is difficult for seasoned
man Of the stage to take symmetrical
proportionate view OF ordinary matters
The emotional life he leads. both on ano
off the stage is against his acquisition OF
level-one might almost say normal
views.
There was a good deal of the Berserk
in Mansfield when he was wrought up
hut he was easily soothed and amenable
to reason. There was something very
boyish about him. He was boy. think
with a bruised heart, for he was badly
| misunderstood by his profession general
". and this fact cut him to the quick
He was ashamed Of his uncomfortable
Teutonic temper. I know this positively
because once in his dressing room l saw
him. weep tears of chagrin because he had
lost his temper at a dress rehearsal anG
rounded severely upon an incompetent
actor.
X
"Tell that man that am sorry Mans
field said to me on that occasion I,
was a difficult thing for him to apologize
| This was not from any lack OF generosity
| He had horror OF the mawkish. and 1,
seemed to him that the rendering Of ar
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CULLEN TELLS OF TALK
WITH LATE CLYDE FITCH

apology was bound to involve certain
| amount of mawkishness. But he made
! many a proxy apology for his outbreaks
| of temper, which, in his final years, were
certainly due almost wholly to his tangled
nerves. The people to whom these proxy
apologies were made If they knew Mans
| field well and understood his peculiar
temperament. always took them in as
good part as If they had come from the
lips of Mansfield himself.
1--WE had our disagreements, Of course.
For example. once, during a dispute over
| one of the situations of Beau Brummel,
Mansfield, suddenly losing control Of him
self, broke into torrent of abusive Ger
| man. He did not then know that I was
acquainted with the German language.
waited for him to finish his German i'm
precautions. Then l replied to him in
German. Ignoring his imprecations, but
starting to go over the point in dispute. l
we'll remember how chapfallen poor Mans
field looked. His jaw positively hung as
If suspended from wires and his eyes
popped humorouSly as l continued to
argue the point with him in German.
"'Wait a minute he finally broke out
in English. L am an ass. Never forget
that Now go ahead, always remember
ing that /. Mansfield, am an insupportable
ass l went ahead in English, and he
granted me my point of view without
another word of objection. Really Mans
field was one of the biggest-hearted men
in the world. But his nervous organiza-
ton was always more or less of failure.
He was a tremendous stickler for his
| torical accuracy in the plays portraying
real figures WHICH he produced. He
would make prodigious pother over the
| absolute accuracy even Of minor points.
You may remember that one of the tell
| ing situations Of Beau BrummeP occurs
| when the Beau, at outs with the Prince
| of Wales. meets the prince on a stroll.
| The Beau, walking arm in arm with
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan, superciliously
| inquiries of Sheridan, I say, Sherry, who
is your fat friend?' at the same time nod
ding in the direction Of the Prince of
| Wales.
| well. Mansfield wasn't going to have
| this at all. He acknowledged that II
made good picture and a good line. but
he said that 1t was impossible; declared
that such a thing had never occurred. and
| couldn't have occurred, and that the
| sharps familiar with the 'Brummer period
Woud be getting after us with a stick for
| introducing anything SO foolish, His view
was that the Beau never would have
dared to make such a remark as that in
the hearing Of the adipose Prince of
| wales. had to produce all the historical
evidence that I could lay my hands upon
| showing that Brummel really did make
| the remark to Sheridan, or at least was
| said by the wits Of tho time to have said
| 1t. Finally Mansfield reluctantly permit
! ted the situation and the line to stand.
The scene was one Of the hits Of the play
when 1t was produced"
Mr.. Fitch was thoroughly familiar With
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of coils. which anybody can easily adjust.
inside the case of the lamp; it requires no
knowledge Of electricity to make the at
tachment. An alternating current passing
through the coils causes a steel tongue on
the side of the case to vibrate rapidly
with whirring sound. A screw In the
side OF the case regulates the buzzing,
heard all over the house or Just loud
enough to be heard in the next room. IT
is a. common occurrence to forget to turn
out light after momentary trip to cell
lar or closet: but the buzzer gives the
memory FLIP.
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Obliging Cocher.
From Life.


Although he overcharged me terribly,s
says the returned traveller, ''the cab-driv.
err who took me oyer Paris was most po-s
iite."
"All Frenchmen are" we observe
Eyes. but this one got OF his box and
helped me find the necessary profanity In
my French-English dictionary, so that
might say what I thought OF him"
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correspondence
quoted Clyde Fitch
the recently de-
ceased playwright
In his mood of ir'
ritation against the
English for theil
methods of mani
Testing their dis
like for Americans
1 had a smoother
talk wit h this
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SAVES LIGHTING BILLS

Buzzer Announces When Unneces.
sary Lamp Is Burning.
Hereafter only deafness will be an ex.
cuse for leaving a light burning in hall
way. closet or cellar after its usefulness
is over. An electric buzzer has been In.
vented which keeps up an incessant and
penetrating buzzing all the time the leb,
is lighted. 1t is hardly necessary to say
that this device is for use on electric
lamps. The apparatus consists of a mai,
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Railroad Pronunciation

From the San Francisco Argonaut
A conductor and a brakeman on a Mon
tana railroad differ as to the proper pro-
nunciation Of the name Eurella. Passen-
gers are often startled upon arrival at this
station to hear the conductor yell:
You're liar! You're HARP And then
from the brakeman at the other end of
the car: You really are! You really ars!'
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Miss NJ. Edith Strong, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Christopher Strong of Queens
euts by. Rev. w. n Jones' OF. Felt0nsrDel
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"A good deal Of solemn nonsense Is put
forth about the purely imaginary insuper-
able difficulty of building plays that have
a chance to succeed" he was accustomed
to say. II grieve to observe that play
wrights themselves generally are the dis
seminators Of this presumptuous humbug
To listen to the dicta Of some of them on
How to Write a Play you might easily
suppose that they view it as something
positively sacrilegious for the man who
Is not already a playwright'-yes. some
Of them have been guilty of that HI
bernianism-to attempt to write a play
This is something like the old catch Ques-
ton. Which was first, the egg or the
chicken? PlayWrights have got to learn
to write plays. haven't they, just as
plumber must learn to fix leaky pipe?
Their meaning, however. seems to be
that the art of fashioning play Is
heaven-bestowed gift, and that therefore
1t is pure presumption on the part or any
body not in possession OF this gift to at
tempt to write play. l wonder how one
is to find out whether or no he have this
gift If he doesn't at least make an effort
to locate it? He must make a start,
mustn't he? And, really. knowing play
wrights very we'll in this country and
abroad, and knowing myself exceedingly
well, too, / am frankly Of the opinion
thaC tnef6 Ism any InlHB Ol d HedNeH-
bestowed character in the exclusive keep
ing of any of us. We've worked to solve
a certain kind of problem-the problem
Of how to write an acceptable play-and
we've won out. That's all. Other per-
sons-utterly earthly persons, like all the
rest of us-will tackle the same problem
with industry and determination, and
they'll solve it far better than we ever
solved 1t.
You don't hear or read the same nom
sense about the unimaginable difficulty Of
writing a novel. Why. then, a play?
True. it is very different thing to write
living. acting play, and to write NOV
ing, readable novel: but both of these
tasks require simply experiences. and ex-
pertness is a thing to be achieved; 1t isn't
q flame that descends from the sky and
enwraps its possessor like a nimbus. AS
simple matter of fact, it is far more
difficult to write a worthwhile novel than
1t is to put together an actable and &C
ceptable and successful play. The first
rate novelist must have far higher quail
ity. Of mind than the successful play
wright.
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Mrs. F. A. Warner, a native OF Bedford
county. Va, died at her homo In Page
county.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, September IS, 1909.
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decidedly, not to say grotesquely. Then
you have flubdub-and modern theater
audiences have ears very keenly attuned
to f1ubdub. They know 1t the instant
they hear it and they dislike 1t intensely"
Fitch was of the opinion that intelli-
pfring playwright needed chiefly. The
pretentiousness Of the school Of play
wrights who maintain that there is some
thing mysterious. occult, in the making
Of a successful play always amused Clyde
Fitch.
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Yet they try to throw a sort of Brah-
ministic aura around this thing Of writing
plays, thereby, I haven't the least doubt,
frightening many persons who are per-
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"a playwright who merely Skins the
surface of things doesn't really depart
from the rule of actual life. That's what
the great majority of us do nearly all
the time-iust skim the surfaces of
things Most Of us are a bit ashamed
of or emotions and most Of US success
full, sock TO conceal our emotions. We
don't go about numbering, or bowling, or
denouncing. or telling each other about
the perturbed state. Of our hearts and
souls. We are skimmers to the general
yiew NO matter what we may be private
ly because we have a sense Of humor and
we know quite well that nobody Is par
ticuiarly concerned as to our private
emotions. When. for the purpose of be-
INC .nsvchoIogicar or moral or whatnot,
YOU begin to depict people who are re-
vealing their emotions to their friends
through three or four acts you depart
from the actual conditions Of life very
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the character Of the accusation which
some critics and others leveled against his
work, namely. that his characters lacked
depth, which therefore must indicate that
the playwright himself did not take a
very sincere or profound view of the
meaning of life. He was reticent in adj
verting to this, the commonest charge
preferred against his work. but he touched
upon the matter in a conversation with
some friends a few months before his
death.
X
II can't get myself to believe that the
stage Is the place from which sincerity
and psychology should be preached" he
said. Most people who attend plays OF
any kind have their minds pretty well
made up as to their course in life, their
behavior. their whatnot. before they enter
the theater. The play isn't likely to
change them. They do not visit the thea
ter to hear what Hubbard calls preach
ment,' but to see play that at least at
tempts to reflect some phase OF life. Life
itself, as most Of us lead II, Is neither
very sincere nor excessively profound.
Most Of us are concerned with very ordi-
nary matters throughout our existence.
Not many of us go in for the big mo-
ments,' to use a frayed phrase. In fact,
after having experienced a very few of
the big moments, we are henceforth per-
fectly content, not TO say eager, TO live
very smaller moments. much less fevered
moments. The great moral lesson as
enacted and sought to be taught on the
stage, has always seemed to me to be
bit of an impertinence. I believe that
am within the mark in estimating that at
least four out Of five normal human be-
fngs, men and women who play the game
of life as it is given to them to play it,
distinctly resent having any great moral
lesson whatever tossed at them from the
stage. l prefer to have it said Of me that
in my plays 1 merely skim the surfaces
Of things than to have it said that l am
a preachifying bore. Moreover, any play
even any play of mine-offers some sort
Of lesson. TO clinch the lesson. it is
not necessary that it be hurled at the
pie who attend plays are perfectly capa-
BILE of drawing their own differences and
conclusions, and this Is exactly what
they do.