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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05

Miss Kate Claassen, who has been
visiting at III. Poppen's, returned Ia
HafroId, this state, Tuesday morning,
Rev. Drake, of Holland, Iowa,
preached Sunday morning eight
miles east Of De Smet, in the after
noon at Spirit Lake, and in the even
ing in Willow Lakes.
Miss Annie Meyer, of Willow Lakes
visited her sister, Mrs Adam Poppen
several days last week.
Mrs, H. A. Poppen was a visitor at
Q, 81 Hooyer's Tuesday.
Mrs. Nelson Hoover, from Nebras-
ka. Is visiting with her son, o. S.
Hoover, GEAR Bancroft.
Ike Bruser, a nephew Of Fl. Sprang )
who has been in this vicinity three
months, left for Sheldon, Iowa, Mon
day morning.
The Halloween young folks did
some splendid jobs IN this neighbor-
hood.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05

Something doing here always.
August Gehm and family drove to
De Smet Sunday.
A. Greipp was e e tramping AL
brecht's pillow toward Pat Galatians.
Rev. n. Brun visited at Gehm's
Monday.
Bill Fredricksdorf, we are informed
got his hind leg caught in Julius
Gehm's gopher trap Saturday night.
Julius is too sharp for Hallowe'eners.
He has been on the grindstone be.
fore.
Louis and Kate Gehm drove to
Belle, TINS state, Sunday.
Soon you viii hear the sound Of
wedding bells.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
NO MORE CHECKS UNDER 800

If you want TO go to Jail after
january 4, you need not steal . ham,
Just vs;s5 4 check for any sum less
than 81 and put il in circulation, and
you will subject yourself 70 the posi-.
bility 81 j fine Of $500, Or being i'm
pisoned Tax six monthS ia Jail.
81 RfopTiSlois 81 u Srsansat stores
aud elsewhsse, whp % . large mail
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
EXCURSION RATES NATIONAL
Apple Show. Spokane Wash.
November ff-2Oth, 1909, Via
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Tickets On sale Nov. sth, 10th and
18th; return limit 80 days. Variable
routes; favorable stopover privileges.
For tickets and full information
apply to any ticket agent Of The
North Western Line.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
A TIP TO RURAL REUTERS

p. V. DeGraw, the fourth assistant
postmaster general, who is in charge
of the rural route service, has given
the patrons of those routes a tip which
they will do well to heed. If those pa
irons desire to have uninterrupted
services during the coming winter,
they will see to it that their township
supervisors comply with the sugges
tons made from the postal depart
ment. He has written the following
letter to Postmaster d. w. Wilmarth,
of this city.
Washington, d. c., Oct, 20, 1909
Postmaster, De Smet, S. D., Sir:
Your attention is invited to chapter
$50 session laws of South Dakotag
1907, providing for the destruction of
weeds upon the highways and pre-
scribing a penalty for noncompliance
Herewith.
You should in some convenient way
and without expense TO the depart
ment bring this law to the attention
of patrons of rural delivery out of
your office. Inform them that weeds
growing in or at the side of roads in
vite convenient Judgement for drift
ing snow, and make the roads difficult
of travel and impossible to rural car
rier, and should be removed before
the winter sets in. lie patrons do not
comply you should take up the mat
ter with the board of supervisors or
of county commissioners. Patrons
should also be requested to open up
the roads as soon after heavy SHOWS
as practicable.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
IL. No other regular examination
will be held until March.
A. II. Seymour, Co. Supt.
Living Rooms for Rent
Inquire of Chas. E. Ely.
THE MARKETS

Thursday Nov. 4.-No. l Nor.
90c; No. 2, SIC; No. | V. G. Sc; Nc. 2,
SEC; barley Acc; oats 30c, fax $1,47.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05

An examination for LIST, End and
3rd grade certificates will be held at
this aG;cs ofSthc County Superinten-
dent, THURSDAY and Friday, Nov. III
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
Respectfully.

Fourth assistant postmaster general.
Cut down the weeds, keep the roads
open, and thus get your mail every
day.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05
PIANO

The following contestants have en-,
tered our piano contest and up to
Thursday noon the vote stood as fol,
Lows.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-11-05

GOING WEST.
No. 61T, Passenger a.......... 6;35 a. m.
No. BOB, Passenger"."...... TAI p. m !,
No f2t Time Freight......,. 2:55 a, M
No.t5, Way Freight ....,,... 4;e0 .. I'M
GOING EAST.
No,516, Passenger .......a....10:0S p m.
No. 5t4, Passenger ..,,,....,..... a:4S a. m.
No. IA, Way Freight............. 7;80a. m.
Nos, 517. sos, SIG daily Others daily
except Sunday. All trains carry pas.
sengers except Time Freight Nos. 121
A.C. JOHNSON. General Agent.
H. X. STIMS0N, LocaIAgent
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
GOSSIP OF THE
LOCAL BOARDS

It is said Sam Loverich of the
Princess company soon will head syn
dicate that is to build great new
temple of comic opera in the new down
town district of San Francisco
THE Upstart," new play by Thomas
Barry. a Californian. had a favorable
premiere last week in Hartford, Conn.
The divorce problem is its theme
1t is rumored that Fred Mace may be
a Sam Lovcrich star next season in a
new musical comedy.
The Sisters Gasch, gymnastic fea-
lures at the Orpheum next week will
be recalled by veteran New Yorker )
for their engagement at Roster and
Balls and the Victoria roof garden
The Princess companys transit from
the Mason to the Grand will be ac-
complished for this afternoon per-
formance at the Main street playhouse.
The engagement will terminate a week
from tonight.
Sheldon Lewis and Miss Helen
Holmes. new members of the Belasco
stock company, will begin rehearsa IS
for "The College Widow" Monday. The
opening Of the AIDE classic of college
life has been positively set for a week
from tomorrow night.
Louise Royce probably will be kept
at the Burbank, despite her success
full impersonation last week in Ser
geant Kitty" The stock company at
the Burbank is left shorthanded by
the exodus of so many comedians to
the Majestic, and the engagement OF
Miss Maude Beatty for the Morosco
musical company permits Miss Royce
to return to the legitimate.
Miss Adele harrington will take MISS
Florence Reeds role in the Hoyt tarce
al the Belasco. Mr.. Giblyn, the Belas-
co.'s new recruit, will succeed De Witt
c. Jennings as Routt Booker.
The Empire theater on Third street
will reopen this afternoon with the
Nelson-Hyland fight pictures, Shown
last week at the Peoples theater, as
the attraction.
After the close of the Princess COM
pany's engagement at the Grand, a
week from tonight, the melodrama
stock company will return for a week S
performance Of Kate Barton's Temp
tation." by Lillian Mortimer, opening
Monday evening, July 10. Other Mortl-
mer melodramas will follow, and soon
a play from the Theodore Kremer
granary.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11

Maybelie Baker, Maude Beatty, Grace
Marvin and Fred Huntley. The cos
tuning is elaborate and the scenery
picturesque. The usual Wednesday
and Saturday matinees will be played.
ORPHEUM-The resources of the Or
pheum circuit were never better DEM
onstrated than by the local plans for
Elks' week beginning Monday mat
inee. Dance and song, the keynotes of
carnival revelry, predominate on the
program. Heading the new bill comes
Adelaide, erstwhile La Petite" but
now accorded the dignity of a grown
up star She has a little company of
girl danseuses. and appears in THE
Billposters Dream" a clever conceit.
with much music and dance. Adelaide
only recently has returned to vaude-
vile after successful appearances with
Eddie Foy and Jimmie Powers in mu-
sical comedy. Elizabeth NJ. Murray
will sing her familiar Irish and negro
melodies in her own way and wear her
dreamy gowns, and smile as only she
can. Mildred Warren, Bert Lyons and
Louise Meyers appear in another mu-
sical conceit, when Dreams Come
True" impersonating respectively a
prima donna, her sweetheart and her
maid. They have song numbers in
plenty, much fun and dancing. The
whole act is a miniature musical COM
edy in tabloid, The sisters Gasch are
European gymnastic imports, blessed
with much personal beauty and charm,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE LOCAL DRAMA WORLD

estng to know the source Of his inspi-
ration.-New York Press.
Twenty plays nave been with
drawn from the London stage in eight
weeks The season there has been as
disastrous as with US, and the same
note of pessimism is heard. English
audiences no longer suffer mediocre
play.-Providence Journal
AS dramatic critic Arthur Sy-
mons has fairly invented method by
which brief words may convey the
feeling of music played by particular
artist or the flavor of some particular
evening when Irving, Bernhardt or
Duse acted magnificently. Possibly the
most vivid memorials of these mo-
ments, for posterty, will be these tcrse
paragraphs of Symons'. He was never
merely the eulogist of the art of the
nerves He can be enthusiastic about
Maeterlinck without denigrating Ibsen.
His idol Duse does not blind him to
the admirable qualities Of Julia Mar
lowe. Exploring Richard Strauss, he
does not forget Bach and Beethoven.
Symons retained his zest. Every con-
tact with art to him was great ad-
venture.-New York Evening Post.
The most offensive play, moral or
immoral, is the stupid and unnecessary
play.-The Theater Magazine.
Shakespeare shows in his work no ex-
elusive nationality In Macbeth he
presents himself as Scotchman, in
Hamlet" as Dane. in Merchant of
Venice" and in "Othello' as Venetian,
in Julius Caesar" as Roman He
changes himself with the subject, and
Identifies himself with it, In this way
actors should represent the different
Misunderstanding themselves, try to
penetrate the bones, nerves, blood Of
the character. in accordance with the
NATURALIZATION Salvini in Sud
deutsche Monatshefte (Munich).
The actor has ceased to belong to
caste society has long since adopted
him, and as a member of it he grad
ually in his daily life renounces the
means of his art. He who speaks to
us only through the diversity of voice,
expression, gesture, has forgotten the
reason for that diversity, and no longer
says anything TO us. This is the root
and origin of the decline of the mimic
art. The modern man wears the uni
versal mask. Lightning flashes illumi-
nate it--and betray him. The new art
of the stage must lie in wait for them,
snatch and retain them.-Herman Bang
in Nord and Sud (Berlin).
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
An IdeaHSt Who Realizes
Dreams Is Frederic Thompson

Frederic Thompson, proprietor OF
Luna park, the man who built the New
York hippodrome, and the manager of
Polly of the Circus" as well as owner
and inventor of the shipwreck scenes in
via Wireless and "Brewsters Mil
lions, is one of the most interesting Of
the younger generation Of American
amusement producers.
Luna park has been the means Of
regenerating Coney Island. Mr. Thomp-
| son made Luna park. Time was when
| Coney Island was A rendezvous for
| hoodlums, pickpockets. the lowest st@a-
tum of the deml-monde; and every
| known variety of thug and blackleg.
| Those days are past. Not only Is Mr.
| Thompson responsible for Luna park,
! but he is responsible for many of the
| amusements there which have found
their way to other similar amusement
| places throughout the United States
and have given millions of people an
opportunity to enjoy themselves.
While Mr.. Thompson admits that ne
is engaged in foolng the public, he as
serts that fooling Is legitimate and that
! IL is direct and honest answer to the
| demand for popular amusement In
venturing into the theatrical field, Mr..
Thompson has followed the same
theory, and the success of Polly of the
Circus his production, seems to jus
| tify his theory.
| Too many dramas of today are worm
eaten, and strangely enough it is the
so-called literary dramatists, which list
numbers some of the brightest and
| Cleverest writer's of plays, whose pro-
| ducts are rotten at the core" Mr.
Thompson said recently:
! Whether it is a form of degeneracy
do not Know but their narrow world
is world of compromises, and they
become sideshow men running a cham
Der of horror. They jauntily, without a
blush pull forth. horrible morbid ar
ray of family skeletons, and in glib lam
guage clothe them with a pleasing vir-
tue. which. they say, olnts a beautiful
moral, and playing on the gullibility
of the average person they force the
putrid thing into the presence of in
nocence.
Henry Arthur Jones said at the din
ner given to Charles Klein that vitality
was better than style ! agree with
him, if 1t is the vitality stimulated only
by pure fresh, red blood. Permitting
the French and English drama all liber-
ties of immortality, the American drama
If we are ever to have one-should be
built on a foundation of courage, verac-
ity, sincerity and purity.
MANY may smile at the idea of a
Coney Island Snowman preaching NOR
ality but Luna park, with clean shows,
did at Coney Island what the pulpit,
the press and the public of New York
failed to do-regenerate it. On top of
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
THEATRICAL BREVITIES

f. H. Sothern has sailed for Europe
Marie Dressler has returned to vaude-
Vile.
Lew Fields is writing a new musical
review.
Gus Thomas is writing a new musical
comedy.
The Shuberts will build new 100000
theater in ST. Louis.
Nazimova has ended her tour and is
resting on her New York farm.
Dazie, the dancer, will appear in j.
NJ Barrie's playlet, "Pantaloon.'"
A Seattle paper has discovered like
ness between Ferris Hartman and
Francis j. Heney.
Ellaline Terri defines stage success
as a mystery to your enemies and
disappointment to your friends"
The San Francisco season of the
Princess company probably will be re-
opened with a revival of "The Belle of
New York"
Leo Cooper, well known in the east
as a lecturer will be at the Los An
geles theater in a few weeks in his
sketch act, THE Price of Power"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11

the program of Polly of the Circus
at the opening performance, I had
placed the following:
Whether Polly of the Circus" is a
light comedy, farce or melodrama, the
audience must decide. The effort has
been> wholly to amuse and incidentally
to uplift by presenting a play that is
good and wholesome. It's faults may
be, many-but it has the virtue OF
cleanliness This will be my keynote
and l will win greater success than the
fakir in the chamber of horrors or his
brother sideshow man presenting a vul-
gar dance"
THE tendency of most dramatIsts is
to become too literary. They take
themselves too seriously" continued
Mr. Thompson. "A literary classic that
fails to entertain has not the value,
either commercially or for the good it
goes, of one good joke, for the public
will listen to the joke.
The dramatist is merely the archi-
tect, and when his plans are finished
1t requires the master builder in the
person of the producer. and the fault
is that we have more architects in the
drama today than master builders"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
PROMPT BOOK FOR
PLAYHOUSE BORES
". The. Superior Person

What is the fendish property in hu-
man nature which makes it love to
gloat over that which it despises? In
other words, why is the cynic so stuck
up, the normal man who enjoys life
so humble? If you have the right an
swer you must also know why cer-
tain school of supercilious playgoers
find their chief delight in sneering at
the unrefecting glee of the gallery boy
at the melodrama.
Where others go to weep, the super
ior person hies to jeer. His smile at
the heroine's terror mirrors the viii
lain's. And when he glances at the
rapt faces around him his appetite for
contempt is fully gratified.
But melodrama is not his only pri-
vate preserve. At the high priced
houses 1t is he who snaps the spell of
a tragic scene with ill-timed glee over
it's pitiful incidental comedy. Some
times it is she who giggles into her
gloves of immaculate fit because that
creature on the stage is concealing her
life sacrifice by hysterical raillery that
would ring untrue to any but a brazen
ear. But she atones for even this un-
conventional enthusiasm by being i'm
pressiVely bored at the broad comedy
of the vaudeville stage. as her ances-
tors were affronted with the common"
character types in TON Jones" and
the shocking stable humor. my dear"
of Sam Weller and his immortal
parent.
But 1 think l detect the smothered
voice of conscience. Is not the dra-
matte critic also that same superior
person." or at least a near relation?
Who more than he is bound to laugh
Gnwardly, perhaps) while others cry
and weep in impotent wrath at the
momentary triumph of mediocrity? If
he doesn't pretend to be superior"
what are his credentials as a critical
counselor?
The only possible reply is after the
pattern of the Yankee. Who of us is
not the superior person? Why do We
laugh at the man who slips on the
banana peel if not because we stand
like Gibraltar on the scornful soles of
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
MY STAGE DEBUT
AND ITS REASON
BY MAY BOLEY
ComedIenne of the Princess company at the
Grand Opera house.

Grand Opera house.
You ask me to write of my hrst
sta ee experience. All right, here goes
was not born upon the stage nor
was I forced into being an actress.
have only been foolish for seven years
was born in Virginia, and the hrs'
time I can remember of having glVer
signs of being able to entertain was
at the Old Soldiers home at Richmond
when I used to appear as child pne-
nomenon, and all that sort of thlng
Once when l was s years old l was
taken to a swell affair in Baltimore by
my mother. 1t was the graduating
exercises of a prominent girls boarding
school. l remember well, they told me
I would have to recite-oh, it was
something like "Oh. Bobolink," and
lovers strolling down a shady lane, l
forget Just what. And when 1 went
back on the platform and heard some
of the older entertainers telling how
nervous they were, and there were
some quite famous singers there that
night, thought it was the proper thing
to get nervous, so I just up and cried
and raised Cain. But when they final
ly got me out in front, and I saw all
the flowers there, and finally met fond
mothers gaze as she glowered upon
her precocious kiddie, I forgot the tears
and blurted my old Bobolink junk right
out. Every one said l was good eX-
cept my big sister who was in the
graduating class, and she thought l
was rotten; anyhow, she said so; jeal-
Gus thing!
You didn't know l was song writer,
did you? Well, l did venture into the
lyric field once, and you can blame that
frightful song for my professional ap-
pearance. A girl friend of mine and
ground out a melody while we were
living in Washington, D. C. When I
next went to New York l took it ia
Isadore Witmark, whom l had met,
and he asked me to play it and sing
it over for him. I did as l was told
and he simply said the song was a
good one, to leave it, and he would let
me know.
He hasn't yet.
But he did tell me I could sing finely
and was a natural born Comedienne
You see, even great composers can go
wrong sometimes. He told me he had
just finished The Chaperones," and he
wanted me to take a part in it. I was
crazy-yes, that's the word-to go on
the stage, so with mammals permission
obtained after threats to kill, steal, run
away and all that, l was given small
part. Madge Lessing, who was cast as
the leading lady, was taken i'll at the
last moment, and Mr.. Witmark in
sisted on my studying her part. 1t was
hard work, as ! did not then know just
how to go to work, but I finally mas
tered it, and they tell me I was really
pretty good.
After that | starred in THE Maid
and the Mummy" and then Martin
Beck induced me to go into vaudeville
1 have been vaudevillian ever since
until, after an engagement at San
Francisco house, 1 was loaned to the
Princess company. I guess they liked
me, for I have been there continuously
ever since
Yes, like the work. but I feel like a
Shine" in some of the parts come
dienne of stock company is compelled
to play,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
DRIFT OF THE DRAMA
AS THE CRITICS VIEW 1T

THE Woman in the Case" has be-
come popular in London, and is to be
presented in half a dozen continental
centers, This is proof that there is still
virtue in old shioned melodrama
The English find their entertainment in
the duel between the wife and the
chorus girl, a situation which also
meant the success of the play in New
York. The wife, aiming to free her
husband of a charge of murder leads
the chorus girl to drunken debauch,
and then, with whisky giving rein to
the tongue, the chorus girl makes the
confession that proves the innocence
of the husband. II is an incident on
the order of Theodore Kremer, and
once led to the report that the king of
melodrama" had a finger in the plot
Eugene Walter might have written the
play; it seems wholly foreign to Clyde
Fitch. with his pretty ways, his I'D
ding femininity. 1t would be inter
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
That Could Happen in This Town

our own good feet? Our very ele-
mental joy in the incongruous is based
on the barbarous instinct of the saw
age. Like the child, we get more fun
out of smashing our dolls than fondling
them.
the soul of humor is in the saving
sense of a perfection to which all in
congruities are family related. We
laugh at the man who tumbles, but We
pick him up. And we smash our doll
because we have found another.
The superior person is not hopeless
He may even be happy, in that moment
of eXtravagant joy in which he dis
covers that he is hopefully inferior.
w. II. =.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
SOME STAGE FRIENDS
WHOM WE NEVER SEE
Continued from Page Tcn)

"Ships That Pass IN the Night" That
classification might well apply to tho
stage characters we actually see. IN
the case of the unknowns, why not
paraphrase, and refer to them as
"Ghosts That Pass in the Wings?"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
CURRENT BILLS AT
LOCAL PLAYHOUSES

(Readers of The Herald may be assured
that the statements made in this column are
not paid for as advertising, but published as
unbiased and as near as may be, accurate
information. The dramatic editor of The
Herald wishes to be responsible for every
wish to publish a premature eulogy of a
play he has not seen, except ms he knows its
assumed merits to be real. Press agents
will please remember these facts In prepar-
ing copy for submission to The Herald
W. II. b.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11
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