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Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06

| filled to overfiowing at every perform
ance, and protracted runs have become
the rule rather than the exception.
The New York record has never been
duplicated in theatrical history. The
eighteen successes l mentioned are
dramatic and musical plays, and are
Madam X" 1.-The Arcadians," "Seven
Days" "Alias Jimmy Valentine" "The
Fortune Hunters 1.-THE CITY," 1.-THE
Jolly Bachelors" Blanche Ring in
"The American Girl" Francis Wilson
in "The Bachelors Baby" "a Mans a
Man" "Children of Destiny" "The
Dollar Princess" Montgomery and
Stone in 1.-THE Old Town. Willie Col
lier in "a Lucky Star" Billie Burke
in Mrs. Dot" Ethel Barrymore in
mid channel" Maxine Elliott in 1.-THE
Gentler Sex" "The Chocolate Soldier"
and Forbes Robertson in 1.-THE Passing
of the Third Floor Back" Does such
a list spell financial ruin to producing
managers?
In every city of Importance in the
United States and Canada the Actors
Fund benefit will be held April %.
Los Angeles will share in the benefit
for a performance will be given here
on that date. The patronage should
be large for the cause is worthy. All
the money derived from the perform
ance will go to the general relief fund
for INDECENT and distressed player folk.
Some of the greater lights among the
New York managers have levied as
sessments on all in their employ. Let
Los Angeles add again to it's fame and
it's name for liberality by making the
local benefit performance the best from
a box office standpoint of any given
anywhere!
From an eastern exchange the fol-
lowing article is taken;
The greatest thinker on education
which the world has ever had is Froe-
bel Froebel discovered the great
truth that the mind acquires best and
most easily when it is being led by
interest, not driven by discipline, and
this truth he derived from the theater.
Froebel invented the kindergarten, in
which the child mind is expanded by
ideas which entertain while they in
struct. F'roebel outlined the whole
system of modern education which
might be called education made pain
less" He also repaid his debt to the
theater by proving that concrete visual
suggestion is the basis of all sound
education. Viewing the stage as
means of education, Augustus Thomas
must be regarded as one of the fore
most American educators, and his
election by the American academy in
dicates that the foremost men of the
country so regard him. His work
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06

| give the public something worth think
| ing about in every entertainment
Why not give such men as Julius
Steger more encouragement? Why moi
appeal to mans intelligence rather
than his passions? Eliminate inane
acts and driveling songs. Give music
| that is music; drama that is litera-
ture; and impersonations that do not
| disgust Then, and not until then, will
vaudeville be vital force for the bet
terment of the people. Then will II
be uplifting from the commonplace
Then will it become permanently last
ing, ranking with the best in the ar
tistic world.
Martin Beck, there's work for you
to do.
1t will be but q week and a day be-
fore the first curtain will be rung up
for the presentation of the Passion
play, probably the greatest drama the
world knows. For it 1 bespeak the
hearty support of all. The funds de-
rived from the Passion play will go
toward rehabilitating the missions of
California and in other ways none the
less worthy. We take pride in pratt
ing about our California missions,
Soon we will have the opportunity of
showing that pride is not of words,
but of deedsA
The Passion play will be presented
twice, for it takes two nights for each
presentation. A single nights per-
formance will whet the appetite for
more. Go at least one night.
William Stoermer will be surround
ed by company of capable players,
albeit they are amateurs. The veri-
est tyro could speak well the lines of
the Passion play, for they are lines
which impress deeply by the mere read
ing. Among the players is one-Mir-
lam Meredith--who though but II years
of age is a recognized actress of abil-
ity. She is almost uncanny in her abil-
ity and her knowledge She acts and
speaks Shakespeare with more under
standing than leading women old
enough to be her mother. Her work
has been commented on favorably by
dozens of critics. Miss Meredith will
be the First Angel. Her work will be
watched with considerable interest.
There's a great hue and cry being
raised by some managers that this
season is the worst in thirty years.
hear 1t several times each week when
some of the genial and entertaining
representatives of travelling shows call
upon me. Just for the sake of silenc-
ing the croaker let me say there are
eighteen successes now running in
New York, every one of which is do
ing capacity business, not with pa
per-" but with actual patrons. Here
in Los Angeles, also, there is no room
for complaint. The stock houses are
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06

when all this comes there also comes
to him the one thing that was lacking
to make him a great man. Through
the power of great, pure love he
finds the missing element. He is en-
dowed with a soul.
In the dramatic version of Sir Gill
bert Parker's novel, which will be pre-
sented at the Majestic theater March
1S, this feature of the story is brought
out with particular emphasis and the
end of the play-differing from the
novel in this respect-shows the re-
generated Steele with 1.-THE Right of
Way to peace and happiness in his
craps.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06
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DRAMA

BELASCO-"The Man of the Hour" will
be continued for a sixth week. Lewis
Stone and the Belasco company are
presenting the comedy-drama Fur
ther comment is useless.
BURBANK-"Sweet Kitty Bellairs,"
the delightgul David Belasco comedy
of the heart, will be continued an
other week. 1t is one of the best, If
not the best, stock productions ever
made In Los Angeles.
MASON-"The Test" in which Miss
Blanche Walsh is starring this season.
gives a deep insight into the soul.
The play deals with the sex question.
but not offensiYelY.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06
VAUDEVILLE

LEVY'S-E. c. Kammermeyer will as
sumo direction Of the Cafe Chantant
orchestra. A new program will be
rendered by last weeks favorites,
Edith Helena, operate soprano; Helen
Byron, comedienne; Rose Hoey Ste
vens "the girl with the baton" and
the Spanish trio.
Los ANGELES-seere Nlrd, the diving
beauty; Hickey's comedy circus, in
Guiding Obey, the bucking mule; AL
fred Jackson, poster cartoonist; Ro-
berta and Fulton in isis in Service"
and Marie Fitzgibbon. comedienne,
will form the Sullivan and Consldine
vaudeville bill for the coming week.
Miss Nord's act should not be missed.
ORPHEUM-Paul Seldom's models in
plastic poses; the five Mowatts, club
swingers; Charles Kenna, who has
new monologue, 1.-The Hoosler Girl"
sort of Sis Hopkins sketch, and Julis
Steger in "The Fifth Commandment"
will be the new things at the Beck
house. 5 o.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06
MUSICAL PLAYS

FISCHER'S-The battles of a German
and Irishman for supremacy in
"Grogan's Alley" will furnish the
theme for Manager Workman's COM
pany AS usual. the offering looks
like mirth- -provoker
GKAND-Ferris Hartman and his COM
pany will inaugurate a new season of
English musical comedy successes with
THE Geisha Girl" Miss Edith Mason
will be reintroduced to Los Angeles
theater- goers as the Hartman prima
donna, and Thomas Presse as the new
tenor. 1.-The Geisha Glrl' is one of
the prettiest stage pictures and wor-
thiest musical offerings far at
tempted by Mr.. Hartman.
MAJESTIC-"The Red Mil" with a
score or more of big singing numbers,
the quaint Dutch klddies, and all the
other elements which made il a great
success, will be Manager Morosco's
offering at his Broadway house. The
play has intrinsic worth. If the COM
pany is as good as the play, the offer
ing will be worth while.
OLYMPIC-Charles Alphin has gone in
to the classics. and as a result his
"Othello for a Day" will probably be
a scream. Lunatics who are funnier
than they are crazy figure prominently
in the production. All the Alphin-
Fargo players will have good oppor-
tunities to display their talents.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06

ICt Asst thy bread upon the waters
and it will return to thee after
~ many DAYS"
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
SOCIETY CAR EVOLVES
A SAFETY TWOSTEP
Ned Greenway Evades Elevator
Boy of Pugnacious Intent

Ability in side stepping was all that
saved Ned Greenway from being alb
sent from the closing Greenway bail
last night.
1t befell that while leaving the Kohl
building yesterday evening the So
ciety king found himself engaged in a
vulgar alteration with the elevator
boy-one James Thompson. The row
was the elimination of previous diff
ferences.
You are insolent," RACED Ned, 'and
I'll have you fired tomorrow"
You will?" queried the pugnacious
James.
Il will" responded Ned.
Then if this is my last day. you
Bing,
The fist of James shot forth. Green
way ducked and caught the blow on
his shoulder. Whereupon he went
spinning around like a top. only stop
ping when he crashed into a wall.
Seeing Thompson advancing with up
raised fists he dropped his dignity and
fed through the swinging doors,
jumped into his machine and drove
away. shouting vengeance.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
STEEL MAGNATE SUES
FOR DIVORCE IN RENO
GayIey Alleges Desertion as
Ground for Separation

RENO. New, Feb. 4-Suit for divorce
on the ground of desertion was filed
this afternoon in this city by James
Gayley, second vice president of the
United States steel corporation.
The complaint merely contains the
date of the marriage, an allegation of
desertion and the names of the three
children ofrthe union.
No mention is made of community
property and it is therefore presumed
that settlement has been made and
that there will be no contest on the
part of the defendant, Julia Gardner
GayIey. whose place of residence is
given as 20 Washington square, New
York.
During his residence in Reno Gayley
has lectured at the University of Ne
vada on the iron industry and has been
q party to many social gatherings. He
is building $4,000 residence here.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
SOLD PLANS TO
RIVAL COMPANY
IS ACCUSATION
George S. TuIIoch Charged With
Betraying the Pacific States
Telephone Corporation
Position of Trust Gave EmpIOye
Access to Information of
Value to Competitors
Positive Denial of Shortage, but
Emphatic Assertion of
FIagrant DisIOyaIty

.Ek~ EORGE 5. TULLOCH,
who was for many
years the trusted en-
pioye of the Pacific States
telephone and telegraph company,
betrayed the company to rival cor
.poranon. He was disloyal to it and
.4Fe suspended him. He offered his
resignation to the company. but it has
mot yet been acted upon,' declared
p. II. Coolidge, assistant general
manager of the Pacific States tele-
phone and telegraph company, yes
terday afternoon.
Tulloch has been suspended from
: his position as district superintendent
OF plant, construction and operation
Of the Pacific States telephone com
pany. a. was announced exclusively
in The Call yesterday After he had
been suspended he offered his resigna-
tion. but the company has been in no
haste 10 accept il. and it was an open
question yesterday whether it would
5e accepted or not. Before his suspen-
~sion. Tulloch and his superior. P. ID.
Fullerton, division chief. had breezy
: session. in which the alleged disloyal
7esl1pEoye was severely censured by the
chief
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
Betrayal of Company

.sTulloch's betrayal of the company
, consisted. it is said, in selling plans of
the corporation 10 a competing tele-
phone company. AS district superin-
<eNdent Tulloch had a mass of infor-
nation regarding mileage, rights of
slay, conduit systems and other de-
sifS of construction work, which
: would be helpful to a competing line.
The chief, if not the only, rival Of
. THE Pacific States company in the dis
/. tlcii.t IN which Tulloch was superin-
PENDENT OF plants. construction and
. operation, is the Home telephone COM
pany of this city and Oakland. with
~ 1eadQuarters in this city G. B. Ochel-
!. tree. secretary of the Home telephone
company. denied yesterday that TuIloeh
.Itad any dealings with the Home.
:Oeheltree said that he did not under
sfand what secrets of the telephone
company business Tulloch could con-
: S-ez to the rival concern. The Postal
"a elegraph company is said TO be plan
l5ing telephone invasion of this state,
SMUT its plans are indefinite as yet
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
OAKLAND CHANNEL
PROJECT FAVORED
Appropriation of S250.O0O by
Congress to Begin Work
Seems Probable
Especial Dispatch to The Cell

WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-Judging by
present indications, it is likely that the
Oakland so foot channel project viii
be approved by the rivers and harbors
committee and that an appropriation
of $25o.O0o will be voted in order that
the work may be begun in the near
future.
A radical enlargement of the harbor
facilities to accommodate the great
traffic there is contemplated in the
project which is recommended to the
house by the war department, involving
a purposed ultimate outlay of s1,1OO. 900
and $4,000 annual maintenance, of
which 100000 is to be spent in first
constructing a ehauael to the draw
bridges.
1t is also likely tnat the rivers and
harbors committee Will approve the
Suism project and that an appropria-
tion of $4,000 will be made. An ap-
preparation will be asked of the com
mittee in order to remove certain rocks
from San Francisco bav
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
SINKING SHIPS
CREW IS SAVED
BY WIRELESS
Thrilling Aerial Call for Aid
Brings Rescuing Vessel to
the Scene
Captain and 46 Men Taken Off
Steamer Kentucky in the
Nick of Time

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Thanks again
to the wireless, and the international
distress signal, IS. o. S. Captain Moore
and his crew of 46 men are. safe on
board the Mallory liner Alamo, bound
for Key West tonight, while their yes
sci, the steamer Kentucky, is at the
bottom of the sea off Cape Hatteras.
Wireless Averts Disaster
1t is another case of a disaster avert
by the same medium. The Kentucky,
a wooden vessel of 996 gross tonnage
and 203 feet long, was bound from
New York to the Pacific to carry pas
sengers between Tacoma and Alaskan
ports for the Alaska Pacific steamship
company.
tress was received at the United wire
less company's station at Cape Hat
teras at 11:30 o'clock this morning.
There the operator heard the IS. o. S.
quickly followed by this message:
.we are sinking. Our latitude is
32.IO, longitude 1880"
Almost simultaneously the operator
heard the steamship Alamo respond to
the kentucky's call for help, inform
ing Captain Moore that the Alamo was
making all speed to the sinking vesseis s
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
Hard Work Brings Results

OAKLAND, Feb. News of the fa-
vorable consideration by the rivers and
harbors committee of the house of rep
resentatiyes of the recommendation of
the war department that an appropria-
tion of 81, loo, 900 for the Improvement
of Oakland harbor be granted by the
government caused general rejoicing
here, today.
Approval of the recommendation was
secured only after the hardest kind of
work by Mayor Mott. the California
delegation in congress and a committee
of the chamber of commerce, the mer-
chants exchange and other civic bodies
This committee. confronted with the
reported probability that the project of
deepening the harbor would be turned
down by the board of army engineers.
worked night and day for more than
fortnight under the direction of the
mayor. to compile a statistical report
setting forth the various reasons why
the appropria tion should be granted.
The report which was finished while
the army engineers at the urgent So
postponed their final action. was rushed
to Washington and submitted as a sup
plement to the formal recommendation
made by Lieutenant Colonel John Bid
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
SOCIETY GIRL is SUED
FOR BREAKING PROMISE
Spokane Architect Wants S25,-
600 From Miss E. Kelly
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

POUGHKEEPSIE. N. y, Feb Miss
Elizabeth Kelly, a prominent society
girl, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
]. Kelly, has been served with papers in
a breach of promise suit for SIS, 900
Pond, young architect of Spokane,
Wash. Ponds complaint alleges that
about June 2 1908, he and Miss Kelly
agreed to be married June %, 1909 1t
tells of the postponements and final
breaking off of the match and says that
he incurred large expense in the way of
gifts to the defendant and in travelling
between Spokane and Ponghkeepsie.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
BRAZIL PLANS TO MAKE
LOAN FROM ROTHCHILDS

RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 4.-The govern
ment today authorized the minister of
finance to negotiate with the Roth
schilds for loan of s5o,ooo,ooo the
funds to be used for the conversion of
the outstanding external debt, issued at
per cent, into per cent bonds.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
Herders and Their
F1ockS Hudd1ed
Together in Death
TWoMen nd3,OO0Sheep
Slain by Blizzard That
Sweeps Mountains
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

Special Disedfch 10 The Call
RENO, Feb. 1.-Two sheep
herders and 5000 sheep are dead
in vicinity of Donnelly noun
tain, in the northern part of
Humboldt county, as a result of
the severe storm which has ragged
in that vicinity for several days.
The information was brought
here today by a number of
French sheep herders who were
forced TO leave the plains be-
cause of the blizzard. There are
several thousand sheep in that
section and no feed can be found.
The snow is four feet deep on
the plains.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
FUNDS ARE COLLECTED
FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
Sacramento Contributions Are
Over $1,000
TSpeciol Dispotch 10 The Call

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 4.-The fund
that is being collected in this city for
the relief of the Paris sufferers is
growing rapidly. At noon TODAY the
total amount collected was sl.234.55.
The greater part of the money was
brought in by the committee of citizens
which started on campaign 9or funds
yesterday afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
Decisive Battle Expected

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. An
dications point to the imminence of a
decisive battle between the government
forces and the revoIutionists.
Fighting is of almost daily occur
renee Yesterday the insurgents cap
tured Boaca, so miles east of Managua,
forcing back the government troops
to their main army at Las Garitas in
the. mountainous district between La
Libertad and Acoyapa. In turn the
government troops defeated a band of
insurgents numbering 500.
Colonel Valdez of the national forces
threw out an ambuscade and into it
walked the revolutionists. He then in
,flicted serious losses upon them and
finally, after an hour of fighting. forced
them to take refuge in the mountains.
Nothing daunted, however, the revo-
lutionists the same day made other
fruitless attempts to take Las sGaritas.
Mary Killed in Battle
MANAGUA. Feb. "Details received
tonight of fight at Santo ITomaso
show that the insurgents lost 100 Killed
in the fighting that continued until
dark. Santo Tomaso is 5 miles north
of Acopapa and 10 miles southeast of
La Libertad. >.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
BIBLE TWO CENTURIES
OLD is DISCOVERED
Fine Specimen of Book Binders
Art i'm Good Condition
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

ARBUCKLE, Feb. 4.-In rummaging
over pile of old books brought from
Europe, Julius Kraft today discovered
bible printed in 1903 The book is
in German with large type and well
bound in brown leather. 1t is remark
ably we'll preserved for book over
200 years old.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
Place of Trust

Tulloch was district superintendent
N the plants, construction and opera
tion Of the Pacific States telephone
company for the district embracing the
counties around San Francisco bay, in
oIuding San Francisco and Alameda
counties, and the San Joaquin valley.
While the plans for great part of
prospective work are as yet in the en-
gineering Offices. Tulloch, on account of
his position and the trust which had
been given him by his superiors, would
have had free access to the plans The
only rival Of the company in that dis
trict with the exception of small
farmer lines" is the Home telephone
company of this city.
While the Home company has not yet
entered the long distance business field,
II is an open understanding that it in
tends. as soon as practicable, TO paral-
Iel the wires Of the Pacific States in the
more closely settled sections Of the cen
.tral part of the state, particularly in
the sections which were included in
*TulIoct's district.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
TROUBLE OVER
THE DISMISSAL
OF FTHR[EWOMFN
Commissioners Break Open Hor=
nets Nest by Discharging
Telephone Operators
One Victim Was Vice President
of the Union and May
Make Fight

That the deoapitation of three pretty
girls, and union girls at that, is much
different and more serious matter than
the filling of many baskets with the
heads of mere men in payment of po-
litical debts has been made apparent to
Mayor McCarthy's new police commits
sion.
Miss Gertrude Foran, sometime first
vice president of the telephone oper-
ators' union, and Miss Mollie Mcmahon,
an ardent member of the same union,
are ready to invoke the machinery of
the law to hold the places taken from
them by the police commission if Mayor
Mccarthy does not come to their as
sistance and decree that noncombat-
ants security is assured to girls-in
any event to union girls.
Miss Amy Schiller, the third tele-
phone operator dismissed without
warning by the new police commission,
is quite as angry as her colleagues, but
for sentimental reasons is not prepared
to prosecute a legal fight for her rights.
Have Powerful Friends
The young women have powerful
friends both inside and out of the de-
partment and are credited with political
friends who can at least make the dis
missal of the girls an uncomfortable in
missioners.
1t may have been mere coincidence
or it may have been bad politics that
caused the newly installed police COM
missioners TO begin their campaign of
departmental reorganization not with
high police officials or heads of depart
ments, but with the dismissal of three
supposedly demure telephone girls at
the central station. In any event, the
order worked yesterday like boom
erang.
Two of the three discharged oper-
ators were among the earliest callers
yesterday morning at Mayor McCar-
thy's Office. They were Miss Gertrude
Foran and Miss Mollie Mcmahon, who.
with Miss Amy Schiller, constituted the
Thursday night, when the ak de-
scended without warning upon their
necks.
One question the mayor was asked to
answer was, why one of his visitors.
Miss Foran, had been awarded an order
of dismissal ir spite of the fact that she
was formerly vice president and one of
the most prominent members of the
telephone operators union.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
posrMAsrERs APPOINT

+PosTMAsrERs APPoNTED-wssbing Feb.
:. 4.-Calffornia postmssters have been sp-
.poiuted as follows: Greenhood. Monterey
eouuty-Marion A. Morgan, vice c. NJ. Mad
dock. resigned; Long Valley, Lassen county
Arlington C. Herring. vice A. J. Hall. re-
signed: Oakville Nspa county-Emma 81.
Riecken. vice McF. Riecken. deceased: Red
man. Los Angeles county-Pesrl Y. Jarrett,
vice s. M. Kuhn, resigned.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-05
CRfYTOWN SHFlLfD
BY REBEL GUNBOAT
Nicaraguan Revolutionists' Ship
Withdraws When Batteries
Open Fire

SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicara qua,
Feb. 4.-Advices received here are to
the effect that the provisional govern
ments gunboat Emetepe endevored to
lombard Greytown, but that it stood
too far off shore and its shells did not
reach the city. The land battery i'm
media tely replied to the fire of the
Emetepe, which left the scene after an
hours action.
The advices say also that Thursday
night big fire broke out in Greytown
and destroyed nine houses and that the
flames were eXtinguished finally with
the aid of British bluejackets.
Because of the interruption of tele
graph lines news has only just been
received here of the arrival at Grey
town Wednesday of members of the
Managua Red Cross from Corn island
where they had been held prisoners
by General Estrada, provisional 'presi-
dent.
Reports from the department of
Chontales say that the column of the
revolutionary general. Luis Mena, is
surrounded by government forces at
Santo Domingo, nine miles from La
Libertad, and that Mena must fight or