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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-03-04
Tuesday March 9 1909

Commencing at 100 o, o'clock, P. NJ,
the following yr berty:
80 Head OF Live Stock
2 head of HOSES; Brood mare,
Gelding 8 years old in May.
80 head of cattle: About 80 head of
Thoroughbre Short Horn cattle not
regis cred, consisting of cows some Of
them fresh soon, calves, young heifers
and 6 young bulls. Usual Terms.
Good Free Lunch at Noon
FRA NCIS ED WARDS
JONES & Son Aucts
OTTO WHITAKER, Clerk
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
COMING TO THE OMAHA rHEATERs
Attractions Promised for the Week at
the Local PIayhOuses,

There have been many delineators Of &C.
centric comedy on the stage during the
minstrelsy has been before the peo-
ple, but few, II any Of them, have APP
preached the position in this line held by.
Billy Clark OF the Al G. Field Greater
Minstrels, Entirely original in his con-
ception and characterization OF his part
of THE Man From Onionville, Indian Ter
try Billy Clark jumped az a bound from
a comparatively unknown comedian to one
OF the greatest on the stage. Clark is
what might be called a quiet comedian.
HIS work is as smooth as oil. He gets
laughs without effort and they are hearty
laughs.
Ihey come from the heart because his
wit is such as to touch the deeper feelings
In our nature. Billy Clark Is seen in the
INST part in which he sings his great hits,
There's Always Something Wrong" which
Is a quaint negro plant. and "Pd Rather
BE a Little Too Soon Than Just a Little
Bit Too Late"
Minstrel lilly Clark, THE Man Behind
the Fun will be seen here with the Al
O. Field Greater Mlnstrels at the Boyd
'hsater during the engagement OF two
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

pus OF the Columbus university. Here II is
that Mac, the hero, meets for the first
time a certain Lady Leslie from Scotland,
who has never in all her life spoken to a
man. She is entirely unsophisticated, and
Mac looks good TO her. Lady Leslie has
come to this country TO marry a man she
has never seen. having been bethrothed to
him during her childhood. The action Of
the piece hangs on the love affairs OF these
young people. Many brilliant song numbers
run throughout the piece. some Of them
being decided hits. one Of the best num-
bers is entitled when You First Kiss the
Last Girl You Love-" with other good ones
like Love Me Just Because" Whats the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Hamlet, which. to Judge from biographers
Of the day, seems to have been due to the
fact that she looked worried and nervous
by nature and thus offered an early ex-
ample Of tho doctrine OF physical suit
ability as opposed to art.
Mrs. Shaw, Fanny wailack, Mrs. Brous-
ham. Susan Denim, who later was an adj
mired actress Of old women parts until a
few years ago; Mrs. 2. y. Conway and
Julian Seaman were some of the women
actresses who took a try at the Prince of
Denmark annually. 1t is not so surprising
that they had the courage to do 1t as the
fact that the public enjoyed the plays
enough to come and see them and even
talked seriously about their conceptions of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

first at McVtcker : theater, Chicago in
Io'l' ana Lhen al 'he Union square theater,
New lUIk IN 1913.
His New lurn IHst night house amounted
10 less IMAM slOJ, ms inst week closed with
a Si,OO house. Nym Crmkle, the best known
critic OF ihat uay' desIsAated MN Unen as
me actor Or the future.
Late IN 1873 ne started a transforming
career OF fifteen years Duration, during
winch he was never seen in one OF the
larger cities.
~ p.dycd Hamlet" "Othello." King
Lear I'M Merchant Of Venice, Richard
~ and 'ltlcneIIeu."
And when cassie repertoire failed TO
draw he produced romatic drama with
such titles as Cousin OF the King The
Man n BLACK Zine Red COlktde, Heart
ana Sword and we are KING most OF
winch ne wrote himself.
During these fifteen years he was his
own manager as wen as his own stage
TWO years ago. he decided to sign a con-
tract with Messrs. Lieber d Co., the
managers OF Eleanor Robson, Viola Allen
ana a host OF other stars, and to desert
the little towns of the middle west for the
made.
HIS first play under the new regime was
called, The Magic Melrdy' by Gordon
keane, generally suspected TO be an
actor himself, and furnished Mr.. Whiteside
WIN the first modern role he had ever un-
dertakcn.
Last summer he went to England to visit
Israel ZanEWIll, and the latter's greatest
work, The Netting Pot was evolved.
on October 8. 1873, The Melting Pot
was produced In Washington, and President
Roosevelt; shouted irrm his box, Its a
great, great play
scores OF ot.crH ADDED words Of plaise and
when they reached Chicago Il was SO sue-
cessful that Il ran much longer mar any
serious play had ever run IN that city.
But the words Of praise lavished on The
play have been 70 more enthusiastic than
those used 20 describe the act OF Whiteside.
now a hundrcdfOld more mature and fine
than that which drew New York and
Chicago's abortion 10 a youthful Hamlet.
Walker Whiteside has taken a place In
the very foremost rank OF modern players.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Two Real Feminine Stars

Charles Frohman's during
which period she spent much time on
the read. A year in stock ensued.
Her first striking success in a part of
predomlnance was perhaps in "Glor-
lana at the Madison Square theater.
but after a few performances she was
taken i'll and did not play for a year.
For some obscure reason the road
claimed her after that until 1900, when
she began her career as a star. Since
then she has played with conspicuous
success in many productions, the best
known being Mistress Nell" "One of
Our Girls" Nance Oldfield," THE
Sword of the King and Madeline"
Miss Georges career has not been
quite so extensive. She is one of the
few stars who are graduates of a dra-
matte school, the American Academy
Of Dramatic Arts being her sponsor. She
made her debut fifteen years ago in
1.-THE New Boy" a farce popular at
that time. She was the Lucy in THE
Girl 1 Left Behind Me-" played an
ingenue in "Charley's Aunt" Madeline
in Frederic Lcmaitre," and then went
into vaudeville with Charles Dickson.
She returned to the legitimate stage in
a French farce called The Turtle"
the appeared in Mile. Fiji" and was
first starred in The Countess Chiffon"
She was scarcely ripe for that honor at
the time, but p~ersevered, her first real
success in a star part being achieved
in Her Majesty" Then followed
Pretty Peggy" "Frou Frou," The
Marriage OF William Ashe,' Clothes
"Divorcons'' and now "A Woman's
Way"
1t is not pretended here to enumerate
every part played by these W ac-
~tresses, but only to name enough of
those parts to indicate that these two
players nave arrived at their present
eminence legitimately, in the only way
In fact, save in the case of prodigies,
by which such eminence can be Justly
attained and securely maintained.
MISS Crosman in Sham" and Miss
George in "A Woman's Way are now
giving exhibitions of skillful work in a
field of hlstrionic endeavor in which
American actresses have of late seldom
excelled and in which the English are
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

for the most part far our superiors.
Miss Crosman, to be sure, has personal
limitations. which in the present in
stance prevent her from giving a thor
ough impersonation. She scarcely seems
the member of an old, aristocratic,
fashionable Knickerbocker family. But
this weakness in her representation is
more than atoned for by the deftness
and flexibility with which she indicates
the various moods that take possession
of the character which she plays. The
manner in which she reads a letter i'm
the last act Of the comedy is in itself
a liberal education In the art of light
comedy acting, and no young actress
who has aspirations in the same field
ought to miss seeing 1t. She is mistress
of mirth that rises above tears and of
tears that just peep through mlrth. Her
art is as strong and flexible as the arm
Of a skillful fencer.
Miss Georges art, while It is exerted
in the same field Of light comedy, is of
a less overwhelming character. The
lightning Of light comedy is just yet
not for her, but she is mistress of the
zephyrs and the sunshine. She gives,
moreover, a more genuine impersona-
ton han does Miss Crosman. She is
nearer being the woman that the play
wright drew. She makes her character
in "a Woman's Way" a very real and
humanity delightful person, and in her
serener manner she is quite as flexible
as the older actress. She has, more
over, the assistance OF that extraordi-
narily facile light comedian Frank
Worthing, who is probably today the
best male exemplar of that style of act
ing on the American stage.
Students of the art of acting, IL there
are any, will find food for reflection in
the careers and success of these two
actresses. 1t may be that the managers
who pin their faith on youth as against
experience and skill are right. 1t may
be that the public will pay more dollars
to look at a pretty girl making motions
that a stage manager has taught her
thar to see a skillful actress doing
things intelligently and uttering ines
beautifully, but If so it's a pity, and
one prefers to believe that it's a condi-
ton that will not endure.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
About Music, Musicians and Musical Events

of understanding" says our friend, must
come from within When one awakens
with that thought, when the soul, timid and
doubtful, asks that resurrection question,
there is going to be an answer. And the
answer will depend on the very honesty of
the asking.
When the question is asked in sincerity
and truth, and that, connecting with the
sources of development without, will de-
velop ones mind and enlarge ones being,
so that life will be more abundant and
the rules of man will be forsaken for
the laws of art. The man-made rules
are temporal and are changing every day
and in every place; one has a pet exercise
for this and another for that; one has a
notion and another has a nostrum. But
the laws of art are eternal. They are
laws, not made by man, but some of them
have been discovered by him, and others
are yet to be discovered.
In the matter of ordinary wickedness is
it not this question, why do | like this
and not that?" which must be asked, be-
fore one awakens TO a sense of wrong-do-
ing? And therein lies the beginning of
understanding, the entrance into eternal
life, the dawn of the resurrection morning.
When the ignorant and untutored youth,
under the spell of some other youth who
has turned his face from the Clod," stops
and asks himself the question, why do
l like this and not that?" his resurrection
has begun, and his is beginning to under
stand the meaning OF the word Easter.
When the music student who has been
addicted to the popular song habit, who
has heard nothing but the vaudeville
shouter, begins to ask. 'Why do l like this,
and not the music of the masters?" the
dawn Of a new life has begun, the pass
key to a new world" as Mr.. Kerfoot puts
IL, has been found, and who shall say that
this new world is not the eternal new
earth" which constitutes a part, at least,
of the Kingdom of Heaven"
This is the Easter morn, This, the Day
of Resurrection, This is the day to ask
the question. "Why do not?"
GLORY about thee, without thee, and thou
tulflllest thy doom,
Making him broken CLEANS, and a stifled
splendor and gloom.
Speak 10 Him thou, for He hears, and
Spirit with Spirit can meet
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer
than hands and feet"
Il hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping stones
OF their dead selves to higher things"
The Resurrection Spirit is in the air.
The hosts are singing Hallelujah!
The Feast of the Church is proclaimed,
The Joy Of Nature is so exuberant that
the very buds and blades burst forth in
sheer delight.
The Spring Of Souls Is here!
Hallelujah! THOMAS j. KELLY.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

~ ISCRIMINATING theatergoerI
who both enjoy and appreciate
2 light comedy acting of a high
4F order a at present more
- opportunity to indulge their
taste in this direction than for some
time. In fact, the theatrical season is
waning with considerably more dignity
than IT has exhibited at any time since
1t opened last September. In addition
now playing in this city with those of
players of quality the public has an op-
p%ortunity to compare the results in the
case of two. experienced women stars
now playing in this city with those Of
more youthful but far less well qualified
actresses who have been seized upon
and exploited by managers who think
that the public prefers youth to brains
and beauty to skill, says the New York
Sun.
The two stars who are at present en-
forcing this comparison are Miss Henri
eta Crosman and Miss Grace George.
Both Of these actresses nave achieved
stardom only after a long period of ap.
premiership and years of hard work
and intelligent study and exercise. They
furnish an instructive contrast TO tho
hand made stars with which theater-
goers have become rather more familiar
of late than seems necessary.
Take the case of Miss Crosman first.
since she is the elder actress. AS a
young girl she studied for grand opera
in Paris until Illness obliged her to
abandon her ambitions in connection
with the lyric drama. Then she came
back determined to a k up work on the
stage of her native country. She was
some time in getting. a hearing, making
her first appearance in 'The White
Slave IN 1ss9-which, 1t will be noticed,
comes pretty near being twenty years
ago, and was eleven years before she
became a star.
Her next appearance was a brief en-
gagement in what was then called ''vari-
ety. in 1890 she played subordinate
parts in Augustin Days company, then
still prosperous; the following year she
Joined Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Thea
ter Stock company, following that with
two years Of miscellaneous parts with
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

late Bronson Howard has been the stand
ard Of It's kind for over twenty years. It
first having been produced in New York
City at the Star theater on Broadway on Sep
TENDER 9, 1SS9, Viola Allen and Henry Mil
Ter sharing honors in the leading roles. The
play has not been seen in Omaha since
early in the theatrical season Of 1906. when
Il was given at the Burwood theater. In
addition to the big cast needed to present
the drama, that crack organization, the
Omaha Guards, will participate in the big
battle scene. Additional interest Is given
this production because OF the initial APP
pearance Of three new Members Of the Bur
wood company-Thaddeus Gray, leading
man; Hugh Gibson, comedian. and Lea Re
monde, character woman. 1t is believed
that all three will Immediately jump into
popular favor. There will be matinees to-
day, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
To follow the big revival of "shenan-
doah," the Burwood theater will offer
The Cowboy and the Lady" the title roles
in which will be played, respectively, by
the new leading man, Mr.. Gray, and Miss
Leone.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

! sepulcher that entombs the good, or to
break the seal which bears the impress Of
/ ignorance in high places, and let us seize
the key which will unlock the ''padloCks
of our prejudices and superstitions."
What a little key it is!
In the realm of music we are so often
confronted with that very statement: Il
don't know anything about that; l only
know what l like and what I don't" Or,
to be more accurate, in musical matters
we more often hear the latter part only:
II know what / like and what l don't"
In the realm of art we don't even hear the
frank admission, 81 don't know anything
about that" But, no matter, That will
come.
Is it not a remarkably encouraging thing,
however, TO think that even those who
know best and most about a subject, have,
at some time or other, stopped to think
''Why?"
The aforesaid monkeys in the zoo are
rot to be blamed for their limited knowl-
edge. They know nothing perhaps about
anything! Perhaps! Did you ever notice
that peculiarly quizzicsl expression an old
ape will wear. in looking at the human
ptluSS OulSlut lut GdBt' buI the sliIildH
tribe knows what it likes and what II
doesn't.
The first step upward is the question
WHY"
If. in the matter of music, we could get
our fellow men and fellow women to ask
themselves why they like one kind Of
music and not another, we would have
-4...-a .Lz.-I4 $500 --a4.l- -u-.fa
bear fruit.
One of the most prevalent excuses which
we hear, for a gross mistake or for a
cruel deed, is, IT'S too bad. but he didn't
mean to do It: he Just didn't think"
It is a great question whether the fact
Of not thinking is not the gravest of all
evils.
Evil is wrought from want of thought
as well as want of heart"
Thus saith the Poet, But that is not
said in excuse, for, or palliation of, the
lack of thought.
What has sent many a great soul through
Gethsemane, but the superstitious prejudice
Of people who would not stop to ask them
selves the question, "Why?" When you
read the life of Richard Wagner and real
lie what he passed through It makes your
heart sick because some Of those old must
cal pharisees, who should have welcomed
truth, would not ask themselves, why do
we not like his music? Why do we like
this that we have, and not that which he
presents to us?"
Read the lives Of most of the great com
posers and you will find that they were
the victims Of padlocked prejudices and
iron-bound superstitions Those who would
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priests and tie pharisees who sat in the
musical seats OF authority and set a guard
to see that the stone was sealed at the
door Of the sepulchre In which the Spirit
OF Music was entombed.
.
When the student begins to ask this
all-imnortanI littla nuestlnn he has hag1n
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

Use" "Adios, Senorita," and Don't Be
Anybody's Moon but Mine" The cast is
headed by Homer B. Mason, who previous
to his engagement with "A Stubborn Gin
derella' was a headliner IN vaudeville on
the Orpheum circuit. Miss Grace Edmund
has the party of Lady Leslie, and besides
her many other charms has a beautiful So
prano voice, which she uses effectively in
a number of songs.
Shenandoah will be given at the Bur
wood theater for the week starting this
afternoon. This truly great play by the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

James Thornton will be at the Orpheum
this week. His songs, when You Were
Sweet Sixteen and MY Sweetheart's the
Man in the Moon long ago attained great
popularity. Mr.. Thornton has been appear
ING with conspicuous success in a mono
logue. Another musical number is the
engagement Of Elizabeth NJ. Murray, whose
reputation as a singer of Irish and negro
character songs is second to none. Julie
Ring, supported by a little troupe of far
ceurs, will present '"The Wrong Room" a
piece said to abound in comical situations,
from the pen of Herbert Hall Winslow.
when Caesar C's Her is a travesty of
Caesar and Cleopatra" by George Bern
ard Shaw, and will be presented by James
and Sadie Leonard and Richard Anderson.
The Sisters Gasch are European gymnasts,
but have appeared in this country for short
tours, having been featured at the Victoria
Roof Garden and other prominent music
halls. A third musical number, but one
in which music is combined with comedy
Of the most grotesque type, is contributed
by the Vindobonas. A light an humorous
number will be that of Mack" and MA
RUS both former newspaper cartoonists,
who have Joined forces and are presenting
a little skit entitled Evolution" in which
they give free play to their talent and
fancy,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

performances Sunday afternoon and even
ing.
a
tn success OF THE C1ansman," which
will be seen at the Boyd Thursday. Friday
and Saturdas with the original New York
comuany and production. continues TO be
the sensation and surprise Of the theatre
cal world. The play has been the subject
Of newspaper comment and public and pri-
va { s'ssip everywhere. Ministers have
preached about 1t; politicians, big and lit
lie, h We b On nightly concerned and
worked up. In the larger towns the box
office scenes have been almost riotous. so
eager has the public been to get It's money
in ard obtain the first reservations. Au-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

The desire of appearing in a mans role
led Miss Barrymore two years ago to at
tempt the part of the boy hero of Car
rots," which did no more than add another
modest success to her large number. She
like other popular actresses of the day is
searching for the play that contains the
attractive male character that they are
anxious to play. If there are not more of
these representations within the next few
seasons il viii be because the drdmatists
have failed to supply the plays that con-
tain them.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

diences are worked up to a pitch of fren-
zied enthusiasm that campaign managers
of Taft and Bryan might we'll envy.
Leading all other native plays in point of
popularity, it is eagerly demanded in for
eign lands and productions in Japan and
Australia are now on the tapis.
Another of those big, breezy musical
shows from the metropolis of the west
comes to Boyd's April IS, 10 and 20. This
is one of the latest Chicago productions,
bearing the title of "A Stubborn Cinder-
ella" The opening scenes shows the cam
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
LATE GOSSIP FROM sTAGELAND
Interesting Bits of Personal Chat
About Theater Folks.

SADouN OIhHs
David Belasco was in his best mood at
a dinner at the st. Regis preceding his
vacation-his first vacation in twenty long,
hard years.
Mr.. Belasco, in the course of a learned
review of barefoot dancing, problem plays
and such-like ou"tcroppings of stage his
tory, smiled and said:
at may be true, as some have claimed,
that immoral plays are due to the immoral
taste of woman. Yes, that may be true;
but, gentlemen, did you ever watch at the
theater an elderly, staid, perhaps somewhat
unprepossessing wife, brooding over a hus-
band a little younger than herself9 These
wives, surely, are no supporters of the i'm
moral stage spectacle.
such a wife sat IN one of my theaters
during the production of a drama. The
heroine, a beautiful girl, said at a dramatic
moment:
'Merciful heavens. / am undone!'
"The wife rose hurriedly.
Come, Clarence she sternly,
we've had enough of this. I'm not going
to have you drinkin' in any Salome dance
or disrobin' act!
Word from Miss Florence Gerald is to
the effect that she has just closed her
season and will spend Easter at her home,
254 West Forty-siXth street, New York.
Mrs. Manning of the team Carl and
Manning has returned to her home in
Omaha after a seven months season on the
Keith & Proctor circuit. Mrs, Manning Will
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
usIcaI Notes.

Mr.. Max LandOw will give a plano recital
at the First Baptist church Thursday even
ing, April Is. Mr.. Landow will play Fan
TASTE in + minor, op, 49, nocturne. Etude,
and BarcaTole %, 90 by Chopin. and the
following numbers by Liszt: Harmonies
do SoiT, SOnette de Petrarca. Second Bal
lade, DeuX L~egendes, Cantique glamour
and Polonaise. Il minor.