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years ago. and a. new ambition took
hold of me at once. mean to be an
actress of Importance, if hard work Will
accomplish the result / seek.
Polly gives me that opportunity in a
big measure. and since joining. this pro-.
duction with my motner and sister 4
have been very happy in my work.
=. II don't believe" she resumed, while
the scene shutters were getting ready
for the big circus scene that Cardinal
W.olsey ever said what is attributed to
him to Cromwell
The interviewer looked uncomfort-
able.
! ....He.said. or at least tits said he said.
Fling away ambition But he never
.safd.it. Tm sure. Nobody. nor angels.
neither, fails to grief from ambition.
Pride -suffieiency, arrogance and
other qualities like those do the dam
age, but not ambition. which is what
keeps people at their tasks. though the
work is hard and the compensation
nothing but. WEAKNESS and worry. Am
bftion and hope keep folk going and
whining
Miss st. Icons. particular ambition is
to excel IN the portrayal of sentimental
roles--roles which involve the human
heart and the emotions.
If her. accomplishments in polly of
the Circus are to-be accepted as eri-
terfon. it is safe to predict that she
will compass the aims she seeks.
= You must remember she says. with
Unnecessary apology. that have been
on the stage but a very, very short
while, and that there's vast difference
between being a horseback rider, or a
tight rope walker. or an acrobat in a
circus and being an actress. There's a
great deal of distance to travel from
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Whatever can be said OF. the
morals or lack thereof of
Three. Weeks" as stage
: presentation, it is certain that
!: the American -theater did the
2 business with It.
AT the time of its premiere
critics agreed that the play
had in it. the makings" of a
drama like "Du Barry or
"Zaza:' or others of the torrid
type of productions, but that
= Elinor Glyn had not realized
such an accomplishment.
Charles Swickard, who has
adapted At the Sound of
Taps Love Tales OF Hoff-
man and Fires of ST. John, ?
is busy. with the book of
"Three Weeks and the
American theater company is
going to play it a week hence.
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] might have known it.

] might have known it.
My father was Hungarian and nv
smother was a Russian said the little
soubrette, and | was born in St. Paul We
moved when | was quite young to Butte,
Mont, and it was there that my first stage
entrance was made, in Uncle Toms Cabin.
1t was stock company, and afterward I
played kid roles as often as there was
part for me,
The second night of Uncle Toms
Cabin | clean forgot my lines and couldn't
GO on to save my life. SO | stepped over
to the. footlights and lcared over to the
managers WIFE, who was seated. at the piano
to play the shivery music, and asked her
with complete composure what my next line
was. She told me, and the play went on. /
think even then that | must have had the
assurance of one who is bound for "a stage
career. At least l like to think that is the
case"
After stock experience in Butte, Miss
S@eli played in English pantomimes, and
then went to Los Angeles, where she was
playing in a minor company when Charles
Sinclair, stage director of the Princess, and
Jack Raines, musical director of the com
pany, heard her and threw the net of a
contract about her. She was too valuable
to lose. That happened during the soiourn
Of the Princess company in Los Angeles,
and San Francisco, l think, may be recon
ciled to the six weeks absence of the merry
makers because they found this doll SOU
bFette with the voice
TT HOUGH Frances Paon is compare
lively new to San Francisco play goers
she is not new to the profession; albeit
her stage experience is not as long as Miss
Olgas-. She accepted a position in the
chorus at the Princess before the company
went. to Los Angeles, and on its reorgani-
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Finally my money ran ont and it so
happened that about. that time the df-
rectors of the Pan american exposition
advertised for concessions for their mid
way. That was my chance. II entered my
Trip to the Moon and with Dundy's
assistance built it and made it the most
successful feature of the Buffafo fair.
Two years later I'VE built Luna park
A year after that;.I drew the plans Of
the Hippodrome, built it, managed. it.
and made it the most popular theater in
Inc world. Last year l. produced
'Brewster.s Millions, - the comedy hit
of the continent and this: year Polly
of the Circus has repeated Brew
ster's' success. i am not lifting in q
hall bedroom now. don't conk. my
own meals, don't tell people how
good was 10 years ago. and I don't
blame my shortcomings. on God or the.
weatherman.''
How did you do all this?9 asked the.
actor. who shall be nameress.
Il worked" replied Frederic Thomp:
SON, Snowman. Talk is. cheap and
strutting wears out shoes. Just at
present want barkers, not actors.
.lsI WANT to be a big actress-a real
big actress said dirninutive Ida
st. Leon; behind the scenes at. the,
Van Ness, during a breathing spell Of
Polly Of the Circus :.
Heretofore" she continued, II have.
known nothing but the. big tent and.
the sawdust ring. Since my infancy
have breathed the atmosphere of the
canvas covered show business.
Il Joined the company. this company.
mean. Polly of the Circus three
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prina donna soubrette And she's going
to study and get out of her voice all there
is in it, and she's going to-What are you
going to do, Olga?'
Stay here as long as can love it,
GAVE OCCUPY the same dressing
w room. But we can't wear each
y others clothes, 50 there's not the
smallest chance for quarre1ing, said Miss
Paon..
1t seems, indulgent one, that musical
comedy girls are wontato swap CLOTHES and
shoes and things. without the knowledge or
consent. Sometimes. iof the"one who. Is get:
ting the: w@rst. Of. tile~t trade. 8:
| DC. you .tlli1lll-i could wear: her shoes?
said + 1laldiq It: .sperutated OH file matter,
but was Interested VII ercpRon 1 discovered
Miss Olga's foot::.~ ! discovered. advis-
: eddy
S Size; please = dixie a clerk in a. shoe
store.i. ~ . ..s"* :. :" :.
{. ..TFlirfeeIls, -. H..
DO. NOT misunderstanding children's
.. Miss: Olga bltisiied as. though the fact
wefc,. somehow against. her, and insisted
that she .couldo tride on half fares, anyway
Which, ! say, IS pity. !:
+:*, 8:
Nm ISS ~PACsN- nlofllefed the iIltervew
.INl along graAeig, like: very old, a very
=. > large person indeed Thus eilcour-.
aged, Miss Sfecla resumed. {.
*==* One. can not 1iaxe..a long story about
tl1ems elves when one.is only. Is, but III Miss
Olga s. case. the faefs~ are more numerous
because She 1las. been on the stage since she
Was 9 years old That: is. to:say, she made
her debut seven years ago, which, when you
tlliRk OF IT: Is. quite. "a career :
Quill. lieY ef. guess what I*plaxed FIRST.
She. challenged:
TIL can't tFreal III give il up
rs: "fsittle Eva, 2 said She. ~. ~
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the canvas of tent to the canvas on
scene frames. I'm glad I'm on the
road. and III keep right on going
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4 o'clock in the morning L had worked
out the scheme of the Trip TO the
Moon. The next day my SO came and
continued to buy and cook chops,
eggs, ham and potatoes. / also con-
tinued to study at the league, for had
a lot Of things to learn and not much
time or money to spend learning them.
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that might dream of brighter flu
ture and thus forget my sore feet and
sorer heart. But couldn't sleep. and
while 1 tossed about on the only big
piece of furniture in the hall bedroom
an idea struck me. 1t struck me so
hard that L got out Of bed, lighted the
gas and got my drawing board. BY
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they are proof, thinks Wason Of the unreIiabty Of
tradition, There's nothing to the lamb and Mary
story. lamb is very hard beast to get intelligence
into lamb is stubborn. for one thing and per
fectlx cohtented with clouded brain Better dull
intellect than to have Dreaded and served on plate
says the lamb. However, as you may see for your
self there is possibility OF making sheep and lambs
do stunts the stage, and the butcher will be long
awaiting the coming of Less and Bill
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.tI lands oa. This Donksy Bite.e

81 1ANDS- Off. This Donkey Bites
That's the reassuring inscription painted
large and white on Tommy Tittlemouse's crate
wherein he rides from town to town in many lands
TomFnys crate reaches to hiSbelly His head sticks
over the front and he grabs everybody who comes
his way He doesn't think much Of footwork and he
never kicks You are safer at his heels. where I
stood, not altogether assured than at his head Like
Fitz, he is fighter with his heart in it, Only Wat
son himself is safe near him Some days he is worse
than other days, but his disposition is always mulish
and mean.
He is as bad lion to handle said Watson.
while moved away with leisure i didn t feel was
wise ~
And Watson ought to know
Watson was born in Londonderry and has been
an animal trainer for 80 years AS a boy he was
apprenticed to Sangers circus in England and has
travelled with animal organizations all over the world
He has trained. lions and tigers and elephants;
roosters, giraffesand kangareos; sheep and cocka-
toos and leopards, pigs and canary birds dogs and
eats, and almost everything that ereeps or walks or
sNyims. He never trained an. CONFERENCE.-The adj
nlits that.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
FlRESTONE TIRES GIVE
REMARKABLE EXHIBIT
Barney Oldfield Drives Tires Nearly
Two Hundred Miles at Mile a
Minute Clip

Never before in the history Of Amer
lean automobile races has so marvel
Gus an exhibition of tire endurance
been accomplished as was seen last
week at the indianapolis Speedway
when Barney Oldfeld, driving his 12O
horse power Benz racer. covered prac-
tically 200 miles without a single
change of tire.
The mile-a-minute clip frequent in
short spurts is never maintained IN
long races because so much time is
consumed in the changing of tires.
Under the most favorable track con-
ditions a racing car seldom covers 100
miles without stopping once or more
for fresh tires. The feature of the BOO
mile contest at the Speedway races was
the sight of Barney Oldfield on regular
Firestone stock tires, driving at a ter
rife speed without a hitch for 1876
miles. The tires at the time the race
was called off on account of the many
accidents looked practically as good
as when the race started. From their
appearance, they showed that they
could have repeated the performance
and made an even more wonderful rec
ord Of endurance.
It Is a known fact that racing gives
the tires the hardest usage to which
thew can ever be subjected, and the
accomplishing of this enormous dis
tance without trouble Is great tribute
to Firestone tires.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
MITCHELL RANGER FORTY
EIGHT HOURS AHEAD OF TIME
Car Bearing Dispatches for War De-
partment Cannot Loaf Away
Schedule Set for 1t

Forty-eight hours ahead of the
schedule arranged for the first trans
continental war dispatch trip ever at
tempted by an automobile, the Mitch
ell Ranger, bearing dispatches from
Mai. Gen. Leonard A. Wood, u. S. A,
commanding the department of the
east, and addressed to Maj. Gen. John
F. Weston, U. S. A., commanding the
department of California, which Is
speeding towards the Pacific coast, ar
rived in Chicago and left for the Sec
ond leg of the journey.
In charge of Private Malcolm 2.
Parrott, Tenth regiment, New York
National guards, the 1910 model ma
chine, first of that seasons output
turned out under the personal direc-
ton of Designer Bate at the Racine
CWis) plant, left New York city
Thursday, August 10, cheered by one
of the largest throngs that ever gath
cred to dispatch motor car on long
journey.
Although scheduled to make a leis-
urely trip, stopping nights and making
side trips to visit such military posts
as Private Parrott receives instruc-
tions to call at, Driver Zirbies found
the roads so good after leaving Utica,
N. Y, that the machine was "let
out" considerably, arriving at Elyria,
O., many hours ahead of the official
schedule and reaching Ligonier, Ind,
Monday night, thirty-six hours ahead
of the schedule time.
No mechanical troubles Of any kind
had interfered with the progress of
the machine. The speedometer indi-
Gated nearly 1900 miles, due to frequent
detours to avoid roads under repair.
No tire trouble was encountered.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
BUICK RACERS HAD
EVENTS POCKETED
Wonderfully Consistent Running OF
= Strang-Big Drivers Got Away
with Most of the
Prizes

Strang, Chevrolet and Burman of the
Buick team had things pretty much
their own way at the opening of the big
indianapolis speedway last week.
Burman won the rich Prest-o-Lite
trophy In the 250-mile race, driving with
remarkable steadiness and defeating
eleven of the best cars in America.
Strang won the 100-mile G. & J..
trophy event, covering the distance in
so minutes, and breaking all worlds
records from eighteen up to and in
cluding 100 miles. Strang's perform
ance was all the more remarkable be-
cause he did not stop or slow down
during the entire race, his two and
half mile laps never varying more than
one second. In addition, Strang won
the hotly contested flve-mile free-for-all
over a classy field.
Chevrolet contributed his share to
Buick victories by wining the 10-mile
free-for-all in the astonishingly fast
time of 1856, breaking by over sixteen
seconds the previous 10-mile worlds
record held jointly by Barney Oldfeld
and Ralph DePalma in the Fiat
Cyclone" In this race, although there
were ten starters, Strang and Burman
finished second and third with Bucks.
The cars used by the Buick team
were regular stock $3.50 models.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
AUTOMOBILE DEALER
DOES NOT APPROVE
Three Hundred Miles Too Much Strain
for Machines and Drivers, and
More So on Mile
Track

J. w. Leavitt of San Francisco, agent
for the Stoddard- Dayton automobiles,
has just returned from an extended trip
to the east, and during his stay there
the opportunity to see the Speedway
races at Indianapolis was afforded, in
which contests several lives We're lost,
Leavitt himself is some driver when he
is in the humor, and the limit of what
the machine will do is generally the
way in which Leavitt let's her out In
speaking of the Indianapolis contests
and the coming race at Tanforan on
Sunday next Leavitt says:
"The track was too rough, being full
Of ruts and holes. The 300-mile event
was too long for the drivers to stand
the strain. Bourque came to his death
just as he was entering the home
stretch. He had been driving wide
during the contest and for some rea-
son looked back, and before he knew 1t
was in ditch on the upper side of the
track and the next second was
through the fence. The strain on the
drivers when covering such a rough
course was frightful. The Jackson was
leading at the time it stopped at the
repair pit. When ready to start the
driver fell over exhausted. The mecha-
nician turned to the starting crank
and tried to turn it over, and he also
fell to the ground from exhaustion.
The two men literally were done up
from their exertion of riding over such
a rough course"
In speaking of the proposed 300-mile
track meet at Tanforan, LeaYitt said
that the men that were going into the
contest did not know what they were
up against. 1t was all right for ten
mile sprints, but when it came to long
distance events on track 1t was q
frightful strain on the cars, tires and
men, and more so on mile track.
Leavitt had an exciting ride in trying
out the new 1910 Stoddard- Dayton. He
made ths distance between Dayton and
Indianapolis, over rough roads of 110
miles, in three hours and twenty min
utes. He was within five miles Of In
oianapolis, when, turning to speak to
one Of the men in the tonneau, he al
lowed tho car to leave the road, and
when he looked back was headed for
a ditch. To straighten a car on the
road meant to hit a bridge in front.
He plunged through the ditch, over
swampy ground, through a creek and
up the embankment to the road again
beyond the bridge. In the wild ride
he took down several saplings, which
wrecked the glasses in the headlights,
but otherwise went through the ex-
perience safely.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
ARMY REGULARS LEAD
IN NATIONAL SHOOT
Capt. McDougaIl of California Marine
Corps Wins $500 Cup for Long
Range Work - Final
atch Today

CAMP PERRY, O., Aug. 91.-The ma
tional guard marksmen got the worst
of 1t again today at the National Rifle
associations tournament. Both of the
matches concluded went to regulars.
The handsome $500 cup which off,
GERS of the United States marine corps
gave to the National Rifle association
for annual competition. to be given to
the rifleman making the highest score
in twenty shots at 800 and 1000 yards,
was won by Capt. d. C. McDougall,
u. S. NJ. c., of California. Capt. Nc
Dougall scored 1877.
OF the ten leaders, only one was not
a regular.
The service skirnishers in the in
fantry team knocked out the crack
shots of the District of Columbia in
the Evans skirmlsh match which
stirred up more genuine enthusiasm
than anything that has happened here
since the shoot started on August 9.
The final event of the tournament,
the presidents match, opened this aft
ernoon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
MRS. ALICE w. DUKE UNDER
ARREST FOR AUTO CHARGES
Divorced Wife of Cigarette King Re-
fuses to Pay for Machine
She Rented

CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-Mrs Alice
Webb Duke, divorced wife Of Brodie
L. Duke, was arrested here tonight
She passed the night in cell at the
Harrison street station. Mrs. Duke
was arrested on the complaint of ar
automobile company because of her
inability to pay $40 for machine rent
ed during the day.
On her arrival at the Palmer House
she demanded the best suite in the
hotel and when asked to pay for 1t in
advance she admitted she had nc
money. but said she would have $1,000
tomorrow. She then tried to send tel
egrams to Governor Deneen and other
prominent men, but the telegraph op-
Orators refused to accept them unless
paid for in advance.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
VANDERBILT RACE ASSURED

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-It is now con-
sidered practically certain that there
will be an automobile race for the Van
derbilt cup in October. The incorpora-
tion at Albany of the Motor Cups Hold
ing company gives this assurance.
Back of this incorporation are many
millionaires interested in automobile
road racing, and their activity indicates
that the quarrel between the automo-
bile club of America and the American
automobile association has been per-
manently settled. Inspired by the men
back of the new Incorporation, the
manufacturers contest association re-
Gently started telegraphic poll OF the
automobile manufacturers of the coun-
try to ascertain how many would enter
into the contest for the Vanderbilt cup
in October.
The returns are said to have been
fiattering, and it is now expected that
the two automobile associations soon
will issue joint statement announcing
the contest
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
INSURANCE RISK
BIG ON DRIVERS
RACING MEN MOST HAZARDOUS
COMPANIES TAKE
aeaIize Their Dangerous Work, but
Consider Big Money in 1t, as
Shown by Young
Navarro

Automobile racers are the most haz-
ardous risks the insurance companies
dke. For instance, accident insurance
covering Montague Roberts, in the re-
cent Brighton Beach 24-hour contest,
cost $120 a thousand-odds of about
to 1, An authority on racing has said
that high as this price seems for a
single days protection, had every rae
Sng driver been insured in the same
way the insurance company would
have sustained a loss. None of the
drivers were killed, but five were in
jured, one of whom has been in the
hospital ever since.
To insure the two Locomobiles in
che last Vanderbilt cup race, premiums
were paid of about $l150. The cost of
repairing Florida's machine, which was
smashed up, is estimated at $4,000.
Florida and his mechs0ician, 1t will
be remembered, were unhurt
When asked about the great risk the
racing drivers took, George Robertson
recently said: "Of course, we know
there's some risk, but in a race we
are too busy to think of it. We just
put it up to fate, Wagner, winner of
the grand prize at Savannah, said, in
reply to the same question: Racing
is our business" That explained IL
all.
Many wonder why men adopt such
dangerous occupation. They do not
stop to think of the Sums of money
paid to these daring drivers. Many OF
them were chauffeurs. Navarro, the
young Italian, was a mechanic. After
becoming tester at the factory, he was
employed as a chauffeur by Chevalier
Florio, who is interested in racing, and
It was while in F1orios employ that
Navarro got his start. In 1907 he won
three great events of Europe-the
Targa Florio, Italy; the kaiser's cup,
in Germany, and the grand prix in
France, winning for himself about
aq6 mn
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
BIG LEAGUE EoR Killing

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 31.-John Killing,
the baseball catcher, former member of
the Chicago Nationals, will manage an
eastern team in either the National or
American league next year. This state
ment was made by King today after
he had wired Clark Griffith, manager
of the Cincinnati Nationals, declining
Griffiths offer to join the Reds next
year.
''I have two propositions now before
me-" said King, land 1 surely will ac-
cept one of them. Anyway, you can
say I'll be back in baseball next year
as the leader of an eastern club"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
JAILER is TOO LENIENT
TO RETAIN HIS POSITION
Kind-Hearted Man Allows Prisoners
to Wander About Country on
Leave--ls Relieved

GENEVA, Aug. 31.--M. Schaad. the
governor of the Thorberg prison in the
canton of Berna, has been dismissed.
During the last three years the
prison has been run on comic opera
lines by M. Schaad, who was too kind
hearted for the post. Prisoners and
criminals of the most desperate type
were given permission to wander about
the country "on leave" and were al
lowed to supply themselves with any
food and drinks they pleased.
Assaults, thefts and burglaries in
creased to an alarming extent in the
southern part of the canton; and most
of them were traced to the guests at
Therberg prison.
In his defense, NJ. Schaad said; IF a.
prisoner on his parole runs away and
crosses the frontier into another coun-
try we should be glad to get rid of
him, and if he is caught his temporary
absence cannot be termed an escape"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-01
WOMAN GOLFER PLAYS
IN REMARKABLE STYLE
Miss Isabella Smith of Evanston Club
Leads Field of Eighty In Opening
Western Tournament
HoMEwOoD CoUr

HoMEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB,
Flossmore, ILL.,, Aug. 31.-Miss Isa-
bella Smith of the Evanston Golf club,
Chicago, played remarkable golf and
led the field of eighty in the qualifying
competition of the annual champion
ship of the Women's Western Golf as
ISOLATION here today, with card of 80.
The score broke the woman's record
for the Homewood course, formerly
held by Miss Myra Helmer of the Mid
lothian Country club.
The winner of the gold medal for
qualifying honors played the last nine
holes in 43, and negotiated the thir-
teenth hole in 4, considered remarka-
BILE.
Miss Myra Helmer, picked by many
to win the championship, was second
with 96.
Mrs. Charles r. Deering of Chicago,
who held the women's western title in
1905 and 1906, made 104.