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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17
Dairy Meeting at Lynn Lake.

The dairy meeting held at Lynn Lake
last Wednesday afternoon was largely
attended by farmers in the northwest
ern part of the county, and is reported
to be one of the most successful meet
ings of the kind ever held in the county.
A. P. Ryger, the dairy expert from
the Agricultural college at Brookings,
addressed the meeting, and it was evil
dent that his words carried much weight
with the farmers present. He pointed
out the many benefits derived from
diversified farming, and also gave the
faImers many valuable hints in regard
to the selection and care of dairy stock.
The farmers in the vicinity of Lynn
Lake are practically all interested in
dairying. They have one of the best
cooperative creameries in the state,
and they all evince desire for instruc-
ton in practical dairying. After the
meeting it was decided to hold picnic
and meeting in the Lynn Lake grove
sometime the latter part of June and a
committee was appointed to secure a
couple of government dairy experts to
address the meeting.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17

There was a fire alarm turned in on
Monday, the fire department responded
promptly. The cause of the fire was a
hot box in the shafting in the Farmers
Union elevator. The Webster Mill Co.'S.
fire brigade beat the city department
to it, and had the fire out when they
arrived. The damage was trifiing.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17
To the People of Webster.

| wish to express to the people Of
Webster my appreciation of the liberal
patronage they have extended to me
during the year | had charge of the
Family Theater.
Gust Breitkreutz.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17

plants-very fitting for the occasion.
Prices always right.-Webster Hard
ware Company.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17
EaStar mowers

We have ordered
for our Easter trade
a large assortment of
Easter Lilies, Azal-
cas-, Syeria, Pink and
White Baby Rambler
Roses, Hydrangeas-
oil larOa healthy
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17

last Saturday night:
Mrs. A. B. Meyer, Webster -. 7S, 725
Clara Flagstad, Webster .... 74,6OO
Alma Munson, Webster ........ 74,050
Mrs. L. South, Webster ....... $3.50
Ralph Lighter, Webster. .... 81, 125
Ella Carlson, Webster, Rt g.. 30,75O
Katie Wagner, Webster ...... $1,000
Madeline McKennett, Webster BOOTS
lone Dolan, Webster. .... 1850
Minnie Larson, Bristol. ..... l0,40O
Eulalia Wilcox, Webster. am. 1O,O75
Naomi Ahlers, Webster, Rt g.. 1925
Mrs. Guy McKibben, Webster 5,125
Emma Chapman, Andoyer $50. 1850
Mrs. Atlas Knapp, Webster 49,. 4,200
Ralph Halves, Webster. ...... 1850
Albert Akerson, Webster Rt g 1850
Ruby Cowie, Webster ........ $50
Mabel Brooks ................ $50
Ella Thompson, Bristol. ...... $50
Vina Gross Webster ......... 325
Annie Lesner, Granville. ....... 300
Mrs Aug. Erase, Webster $50. 300
Clayton Dyke, Webster. 275
Conrad Kjorsvik, Hanse. ..... 275
Alma Reetz, Webster .......... 275
Mabel Smith, Webster ........ 275
Anna Nelson, Webster ........ $50
Ivan Doland, Webster. ........ $50
Anna Amundson, Lynn. $50
Francis Wagner, Webster 225
Mrs. l.. w. Cooke, Webster, .. 200
Margaret Fosse, Lily....,..... $50
Belle Hit, Webster. .......... 125
Mrs. Hammerbacher, Webster, 100
Hilda Auseth, Webster ....,.., 80
Mrs. Olaf Sogn, Webster. .....,---. 80
Martha Eoeland w-Lgoer...,.. SO
;pda .In11cK, Bristol ....... so
Mrs. Mata Reiprich, Webster. so
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-17
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Regular Meeting of The City
Council of The City of Web.
ster, Monday, March 8.

The City Council met in regular ses-
sion on Monday, March 7th, 1910, at 8
o'clock P. nj.
Members present: Aldermen Becht,
Edmond, Forbes, Grue and Kading; H.
Olson, President, presiding.
1t was moved and carried to suspend
the reading of minutes of the last regu-
lar and special meetings to the next
regular meeting.
The following bills were audited, to-
wit:
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
WHEN SHAW APoLoGlZED

Before fame came to him Bernard
Shaw wrote dramatic criticisms for the
London Saturday Review. The follow
ing sample was preserved by the late
Clyde Fitch as characteristic:
Il am in a somewhat foolish position
concerning play at the Opera
Comique, whittier 1 was hidden this
week. For some reason l was not sup
piled with a program, so that l never
learned the name of the play AT the
end of the second act the play had ad-
vanced about as far as the ordinary
dramatist would have brought it in
five minutes after the first rising of the
curtain; or, say, as far as Ibsen would
have brought it ten years before that
event. Taking advantage of the second
interval to stroll out into the Strand
for a little exercise, l unfortunately
forgot all about my business, and act
ually reached home before it occurred
to me that 1 had not seen the end of
the play. Under these circumstances,
it would ill become me to dogmatize on
the merit of the work or its perform
ance. / can only offer the management
my apologies. ."-Everybody's Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
ROMANTIC REVIVAL
SEEN BY LORIMER

"a revival of the romantic drama is
many of the troubles that are worry
ing managers to death and keeping the
public on their nerves One thing is
very certain-the modern theaterSoer,
north, south, east and west, is dis
satisfied being, clamoring for some
thing different in his diet. You must
find some way out of the deadlock.
These interesting, though disputed,
doctrines, are put forward by Wright
Lorimer, who is to play David in 'The
Shepherd King" at the Mason opera
house all this. week. Mr.. Lorimer is
essentially an interesting man, from
the fact of his early struggles and
later successes. He has served long
apprenticeship in Shakespearean and
Ibsen drama. and has accomplished
great deal Continuing, he said;
81 claim that at least l know what
my public wants, and that is romantic
drama. [ say this with confidence, be-
cause great success has attended me
in such productions. The public is
tiring of comic opera. 1t has made its
sweet SAVIOR nauseating, and the people
are abandoning that form of entertain
ment.
"The problem play is quite another
thing. Ibsen, to my mind, is magnifi-
cent. but strikes the public in the
wrong way. 1t may be trifle depress-
ing, not enough optimism, but the
tvpe of ideal drama eXemplified in
THE Servant in the House is bound to
have long life and attain greater ana
greater popularity,
For the great masses OF playgoers
the tide must turn to romantic drama
and for a sound reason. The great
object with the majority in going TO
the theater is to escape from their
cares. to bark back to some fairyland,
to be lifted up by sweet sounds ana
music to live for an hour or two III
the dreams of childhood. The theater
should he an antidote for the hard PM
losophy of the average mans life.
That is what, in a large part, brings
neople to a play such as l am giving
In THE Shepherd King they can fol-
low the actor into a fairy kingdom;
can speak with him, laugh with MN,
and let their hearts take wild hlght
into the land OF imagination on! you
can't serve the theaters better, whether
Won be playwright or actor, than by
nraving for a revival of the romantic
drama" -
Next season Mr.. Lorimer hopes TO
nroduce another Biblical play on the
hook of Daniel, and says he will ac-
tually cary out the scene in the den
op lions by binding the animals with
strong calcium lights.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
George Edward Graham

There are men who dominate you by
sheer magnetic force, whom you admire
for their undoubted talent even as your
Judgment demands sober second
thought upon their message. And there
are others who capture your allegiance
by degrees, not by might or power OF
physical audacity, but by the winning
simplicity of their personality and the
undertaking justice and tolerance of
their views. Particularly is this the
case in the drama, where conflicting
types meet and converge and where tenn
peraments, bOisterous, enthusiastic and
judicial. find each in each a true cOun-
terpart.
George Edward Graham, for several
years editorial writer and dramatic re-
viewer for the Examiner of this city,
whose death was regretfully chrOnicled
last week, was In many respects the
ideal critic. To a practical experience of
the playhouse as manager and producer
he added the ripe Judgment of the stu
dent and the practical and sane sa-
gacity of the mingler among men. The
word Journalist" has passed for time
out of our current speech. 1t may well
he momentarily revived to describe our
friend who has left For MIR. Graham
was "a Journalist in no stilted and pat
ronizing but in quite accurate and
honorable sense. He took his work
seriously, and he did it well. He felt
personal obligation to the readers for
whom he wrote. With all his kindness
In criticism--and he was one of the
kindest men who ever penned line of
tempered disparagement-he wrote the
truth as he saw it. The men and women
who read his editorials and his criti-
cisms felt that they were dealing with
no mere time server or dallier with
words for their stylistic value. Mr..
Graham was too good a newspaper man
TO be a stylist, which was doubtless the
reason why he wrote remarkably
clear and lucid style. Leslie stephens
famous dictum in his case might well be
reversed. Far from the style being the
man, the man. in utter accuracy was the
styIe. The matter, the message, created
its own vehicle.
Knowing Mt. Graham in pleasantly
casual way through frequent meetings In
the FOunu OI uhlly uulSg ehc PAS7NA'"
writer was frequently impressed by his
good cheer and his unpretentious opti-
mism. Throughout his long struggle
with i'll health he never complained to
ms who met him. When illness forced
him reluctantly to abandon his work
for all too short intervals of rest he
treated II lightly or abruptly changed
the subject. Beneath his simplicity and
his candor one felt the courage OF the
man who endures. The iron of that re-
solve and that perseverance was impart-
ed to his work.
The English language is not kind to
unmeasured eulogy, and Mr.. Graham
would be the first to resent 1t, however
true to fact it might be. But in the
hearts of his legion of friends, of whom
the writer felt proud to count himself
one. his memory will linger as an in
sniration to better and truer work, and
more gracious daily living.
w. III. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
MATTERS OF CASUAL
DRAMATIC OPINION
BY w. HERBERT BLAKE

The more plays one sees, the more
one admires the verve and aplomb of
the orchestra director. At vaudeville
or musical comedy he is the true pivot
of gayety, the natural hub whence
radiate the smiles. Even at the more
serious offerings of. the Legitimate"
stage he bears much of the nervous
brunt of the action. Small wonder that
he disappears at times with almost
magical agility down beneath his cage
of notoriety. The strain tells ana
neighboring cafes lure. We miss him
when he goes and we watch for his
return.
The orchestra director must have a
jaw of iron and, preferably, pate in
nocent of unnecessary hair. He is
bombarded with witticisms from rise
to fall of curtain. He must smile at
them, one by one, but he must smile
naturally, not as a matter of obvious
habit. The orchestra leader cannot al
ford to be a critic. Every gibe that
comes his way he must appraise at a
value commensurate with it's intention,
not it's performance. For the eyes of the
front part of the house are on him.
Many time we take our cue from him.
If he stands the gaff, so can we. If he
once balks or is caught in a moment
of unconscious boredom, we know the
show must be pretty poor.
1t takes positive genius to be sue
cessful orchestra director. If l we e
the small boy who frequently sits near
me at a local playhouse L would SUI =
render that childhood dream of being
an engineer or a captain of artillery
and study the knack of manipulating
the baton. If our politicians would
only consent to play second fiddle to
Messrs. Frankenstein or Peterson for a
time, how much they might learn about
human nature and its caprices!
London dispatches report little move
than a success d'estime for Sir William
S. Gilbert's new comic opera, "Fallen
Fairies" for which Edward German,
composer of "Tom Jones'" wrote the
score. The libretto is a version of Gill
berts comedy, 1.-THE Wicked World"
staged thirty-six years ago. The lfbret-
tist was called before the curtain on
the first night. and in thanking the
audience said he hoped they would
agree with him that there is life in the
old dog yet"
Apropos of the incident, it is about
time for the old feud between the ad
mirers of the late Sir Arthur Sullivan
and his veteran colaborer to be revived.
Like the Dickens -Thackeray contro-
versy, it is one of those literary rows
that seem incapable of adjudication. In
the meantime many of us will go on
admiring the joint products with which
both men have enriched the English
speaking stage, and cheerfully saddle
the question of their relative merits
upon that accomplishing mule, Pos
terity.
Henry B. Harris comes out with the
interesting and admirable suggestion
that our leading universities install en-
dowed chairs of playwriting. Accord
ing to the bulletin sent out from his
offices, he further backs up his propo-
sition by offering to be one of ten to
put up $4,000 to carry out the idea.
Why associate the plan exclusively
with the university? Why not frankly
commercialize it to this extent, that
some manager introduce 1t as prac-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09

tical appendage to his theater? Better
still, a group of managers. We are re-
peatedIy told that the theater is
business proposition, although the ap-
palling list of recent eastern failures
seems to cast some logical doubt upon
that thesis. Granting the claim as
general and necessary limitation of any
form of human endeaVor, why not try
to produce good plays in the same prac-
tical way we try to produce good boots
and shoes, or salable mackintoshes?
There are hundreds of young men in
New York city, and not few else
where, who are willing enough to give
the managers what they want-if they
can only find out what they want. A
school of playwriting, run on sound
and business-like basis, with no frilis
and with a proper aversion for the cap
ital "a" in the word "art," would work
wonders in making that discovery. 1t
might also, in the long run, help to re-
fill some now sadly depleted cash regis
ters not a thousand miles from the
theatrical Bridge of Signs.
The Frohman bulletin informs US that
"John Drew is the great conservative
of the STAGE He clings to the old
ways and the old ideas. 1t thinks the
reason is the same which made Glad
stone a Tory in his youth, and s. g
gests. with some casual impertinence,
that when John Drew grows up he wi
doubtless be a radical. The particular
proof cited of Mr.. Drew's conservatism
is that he believes the best advertise
ment for play to be the ''spoken'w word"
He is grateful for the kindnesses of the
press, but thinks the pleased playgoer
is his best friend.
Drew ~
pears to be an astonishing revolution
ist. But then, we are sure this remark
was made before his recent cab acci-
dent. The wide publicity which the
press then gave him must have cured
him of his temporary distrust of its
influence. Certainly no American actor
has received more distinguished treat
ment from the newspapers, and per-
haps none of the present generation
has so merited it.
In Clyde Fitch's last completed play,
"The CITY" he wrote an apostrophe 10
the metropolis which for so many years
was his home, that sounds the Ameri-
can spirit in no uncertain tones. Mr..
Fitch was seldom in any sense the seer,
but in the following language there
rises a note of genuine conviction, too
long suppressed in his salad days as in
his later plays of conscious manufac-
ture:
"The city! A man comes to the gate
of it and knocks! New York or Chi
cago, Boston or San Francisco, no mat
ter what city, so long as it's big and
busy and selfish and self-centered, and
she opens her gates and takes him in,
and She stands him in the middle of
her market place-where Wall street
and Herald Square and Firth avenue
and theBowery and Harlem and Forty
second street all meet-and there she
strips him naked Of his DISCUSSES and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
STOCK AMENITIES

The rivalry of the Burbank and Be
lasco companies in this city, always
keen, has been pleasantly relieved by
the courtesy of Manager Morosco in
permitting l-anager Blackwood to pro-
duce, in the near future, three Broad
hurst plays, to which the Burbank
manager held the stock rights. The
three plays are "What Happened to
JONES'" "Why Smith Left Home" and
"The Easterner' and they include
some of the brightest lines ever penned
by the versatile George. With the Bur-
bank producing the best of David Be
lasco's storehouse and the Belasco re-
viving the clever Broadhurst farces,
the spirit of sweet charity certainly
appears to be abroad in the local stock
world.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
THEATER FOR MISS GEORGE

william A. Brady's new theater, for
which excavations have been begun on
West Forty-eighth street, New York. is
to be called the Playhouse. The Tudor
style of architecture has been adopted,
with interior finish and decorations of
the old English type. The Playhouse
will be the home theater of Miss Grace
George (Mrs. Brady, who VIII preside
at the laying of the corner stone. Miss
George will play an annual engagement
there with special company, and dur
ing her absence the house will be occu-
pied by one of the companies under Mr..
RradV's direction.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
EoR A YIpplsH THEArER

Local Hebrews who are justly proud
of the efforts of the Relkin players,
seen last week at the Mason, are hop
ing that in time they may throng a
producing playhouse of their own in
his city. Such an enterprise would
apper to be certain OF practical pro-
fit, and it's initiation Is being widely
Urged In the meantime the engage
ment of another theater for one night
a week would appear to be tempor-
arv way of satisfying steady demand
OF a large part of our population whose
devotion to the drama is matter of
common knowledge
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
CANCEL TOWN" A MYSTERY

"Angel Town." the Gamut club play
still is a mystery to the public. Thls
original travesty, to be staged Janu-
ary 1922, includes not only the band
commission and the new officials of
the good government ADMINISTRATOR
but also the Parent-Teacher assocla-
ton and the City club. The opening
night, January 10. will see the new
city officials and city hail employees
present. More than 600 seats nave
heen subscribed for this occasion. The
CITY club has voted to be present the
evening of January 20 to discover
what is going to happen to the new
administration.
More than 1000 reservations for seats
iieved that the Gamut club theater,
1o44 south Houe street, will be filed
for the four nights.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
DEMAND FOR OPERA

IT is to be hoped that the Ferris
Hartman company will not abandon
its announced intention to revive some
of the older and less widely known
light operas. "The Love Tales of Hoff-
man" met such cordial reception that
the feeling of the public on the subject
seems clear and imperative. 'The
Idops Eye" points in the right di-
rection. but another Offenbach revival
would be welcome.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
I
= Plal-Goer.G
DRAMA

OhfWH
MAsON-"The Shepherd King" a ro,
mantle melodrama of the life ana
times of King David, semi Biblical
and treated with view to its spec
tacular features, will begin weeks
engagement Monday night.
BELASCO-"The Genius satire on
one of human natures most amiable
and persistent counterfeits. by Cecil
and William c. De Mile will be pro-
duced by the stock company beginning
Monday night.
BURBANK-David Belasco's popular
drama of the Civil War. The Heart
of Maryland" will be produced by the
stock company beginning this after-
noon.
ITNIoUE-"Brown's Troubles" a com
edv of truth which was stranger than
fiction, by the Earl-Rauworth com
WALKER-''out of the Fold" pas
toraI drama, by the lie Moyne play
MUSICAL PLAYS
NAIEsTIC-"King Dodo," Pixley and
Tnders' best and most continuously
nonular musical comedy, with Elean-
or Kent and Zoe Barnett in two OF
the leading roles. First performance
tonight.
yiyed for a week by the Ferris Hart
man company First performance TINS
matinee.
FISCHER'S--"A Day at college, Husl-
cal burletta, by the stock company
NAUDEVILL
ORPHEUM-The Klein family, cyenstsi
Fsy. two Coleys and Fay, minstrels;
the four Readings. equilibrlsts anu
Carl Nobel, ventriloquist, are the new new,
con,ers Eva TAYLOR and company Will
he seen in a new farce. "Dreamona'
and three other acts hold over.
IOS ANGELES-Carotta is booked as
certain headliner of Mondays new plil'
other acts will be Tom Linton and MS
Jungle girls, Won Mitzel and Maynard
fine Rusticana troupe of Italian mu-
sicians, w. c. Hoeffler in cycle hu-
morisrns," and Grace Everett in iml-
lat'o w H B.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
A VAUDEVILLE QUERY

Who will occupy the present Or
pheum building, when that circuit
shall begin to house its attractions in
a newer structure? Rumor already an
signs the Spring street playhouse to
several managers. A logical receiver
would seem to be the Sullivan &
Considine circuit, whose patronage at
the Los Angeles already threatens to
necessitate a larger theater
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
MEIonRAMA LIVES

The popular reception accorded the
Earl-Rauworth players at the Unique
At least proves one thing; there is still
q Mace for melodrama and melo-com-
edy in the theatrical scheme of things.
no meet this demand the Unique APP
nears wisely to have abandoned it's
combination bills. and to have taken
it's place among the larger playhouses
which adhere to the legitimate.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
sHuHERrs STILL IN RING

San Francisco reports of an early
withdrawal from the coast field by the
Shuberts are emphatically denied by
Manager Behymer of the Auditorium.
Sam Bernard is promised for an early
appearance and later the big list of
eastern attractions are expected to
make the swing over the Great Divide.
The Shuberts show no sign of quitting,
so far as one can judge from the lam
guage of their official bulletin, or in
the quality of their recent attractions.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
STELLA II M0RRISIWI.
ID ORPHEUM

his hypocrisies, and she paints his am
bition on her fences and lights up her
skyscrapers with it: What he wants
to do and what he thinks he is! And
she says to him: Make good if you can,
or to hell with youn
"And what is in him comes out to
clothe his nakedness, and to the city he
can't lie"
There is a truth in this simple elo-
duence which will ring in the heart of
every man who has studied it's theme.
1t is but a hint of the powers that
might have meant so much to the
American drama, if they had not been
pent in by conditions from which that
drama is only now beginning to
emerge
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
aMIp-cHANNELp PREMIERE

Miss Ethel Barrymore will begin
her New York season in d. w. Pinero's
newest play, Mid Channel" at the
Empire theater on Monday, Janu-
.ary "a.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
HELEN WARE TO STAR

AS a result of her brilliant work in
.sThe Third Degree" Henry b. Harris
will present Helen Ware as star
next season in new play by Byron
Oneley. entitled 1.-THE Turning Point"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-09
sTgeER TALKS TO STUDENTS

julius Steger, now appearing on the
Orpheum circuit. addressed a class in
English at the University of Minne-
sofa recently on THE One-Act Drama
in vaudeville: Its Influences on the
Glasses as Well as the Masses"