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New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
WEDDING OUT POOR PLAYS

Il mean Just that answered Mr. Brady
confidently Let as say that Play No il
a huge success. Play No. = is only a sue
ces 'estime. Play No. Z Is a failure Play
No. il fairly good. ana Play so turns
cut bis winner Cnoer ordinary circum-
stances / admit il would be foolish 20
shelve Play No. ! even temporarily thereby
exchanging a certain profit for success
sion of losses But my aim in This ia
stance IS wider than the immediate profit
or loss. When Play No l is withdrawn
IL goes right into Miss Georges repertory.
the same with Play No g. and also with
. Play No. . II that mas a countrywide au-
dience On the other hand. the failures
are shelved quickly and for go.d. Thus at
the end of the season ! shall have a rep
ertory of proved successes for Miss George
works with which she can entert ain audi
ences in other cities for much longer runs
than heretofore. and in which, moreover,
she will always be welcomed back TO New
York
In Other words. ! aim 10 do for Grace
George what Augustin Daily did for Ada
Rehan Judging from her recent plays. the
public has come to look upon Miss George
merely as n comedienne-a fluffy young fe-
male who has trouble with her husband
and wants TO win him back again. But |
intend 10 show her in serious plays as well
az in comedy and in some plays Of the
classic period also"
''Brander Matthews points out that mod
ern actors are unified for classical pro-
ductions." suggested the doubling Thomas
ntervieNer Doesn't the failure of The
New Theatre company il Merry Wives OF
Windsor and Antony and Cleopatra bear
Cv-a biz. ststement?'
Competent classical actors are rare.
admitted Mr. Brady. Professor Matthews
is right 10 that extent. But ] know eight
persons who can be got together to play
the cIaesics-to play anything in fact. that
they NAV be called on 10 play. | am in
touch with them now and shall assemble
them for The Playhouse repertory organi-
Zation next September. You refer 10
Merry Wives Of Windsor That requires
an actor Of great personality for the part
Of FalstaT II would tax the physical and
mental resources Of any artist. yet the
player who impersonsted the fat knight
was a sick man az the opening and played
his part while the victim OF a raging fever
OF I04 degrees. Antony and Cleopatra
! failed for quite different reasons. the in
side history Of which l am not at liberty
10 disclose The success OF the Twelfth
Night and School for Scandal reviyals,
in the latter OF which Miss George ap-
peared as Lady Teazle, shows that under
favorable conditions the best modern artists
are capable OF rendering the old plays ef-
fectively"
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
BRADY AS A FIGHTER.

Apropos or Bill" Brady's fighting qual-
tiles. his peculiar combination OF courage
and inesse. a world of stories goes the
round Of the Tenderloin. He was reared
In a polite school. the associate of the
Ralascos. Booths. Barretts. Sheridans and
Boucicaults Of the Pacific Coasts dramatic
hevday: but later as a theatrical road
ster'' his experiences were OF the rough
est %otbing worthy the name o, theatre
existed IN the Rockies or In the great
Northwest
Seattle. now city OF a third Of a million
inhabitants. could offer only library nall
sans footlights. scenery and dressing rooms.
4 miners hall in Butte and song-and-
dance place in Spokane were the tempo
rary homes Of Thespis when the stock
came 10 town. The manager carried
gun" having double need OF II: disputes
over moneys in the box Office and disputes
over winnings and losses in the gambling
palaces where the travelling actors as
regular stunt. submitted every dollar
Of their salaries 10 the arbitrament OF
chance.
pelasco was a that time a So week
stage manager. Charles Frohman was MAX
agent of Calender Mlnstrels: Joseph
Grismer was manager OF one Frisco
theatre ard Al Hayman treasurer OF an
other Brady worked for Haymsn at slc
q week. subsequently for Grismer al 81
a week But he didn't stay the hireling
very long A. an age when most youths
are still AZ their lessons ne was out for
himself on the mining camp and gambling
hell circuit. a boy manager bossing hs
actors and when occasion required jump
ing in himself and playing any part from
the Second Gravedigger up TO Hamlet. As
a last resource was the ''weepun In ms
righthand breeches pocket. final 'argu
nent" rarely resOrted 10. but mighty nanny
10 have around when the bad men OF the
Far Western country got nasty.
The most peaceful times OF Brady's tenn
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
GRAFT IN TICKETS.

81 didn't discuss the critics IN Chicago
,b,,. are an eminentlv fair lot OF men, like
the critics here. In Chicago ! called at
tention emphatcaly 10 the fact that ON
account of the grating in tickets the the-
aires wire being ruined. on the one hanh
tho cbeaper grade OF tickets were oelns
peddled out through advertising agents I'd
cigar stores and scalDers. while the more
extensive tickets were held al heaES
premium by spectators and agencies. ~
consequence. audiences had dwindled.
There are at this minute five theatres closed
in Chicago. though the evils / spoke OF
have been partly remedied
.T want 10 tell the New York public mat
the same thing which happened in Chicago
is beginning to happen right here in New
York II IL continues, theatrical conditions
here will become just as intolerable az they
usra in Chicago I refer TO the enormous
craft in the disposal OF theatre tickets by
devious. Illicit channels. / could give YOU
some startling revelations on this subject.
but shall wait till l have collected all the
details Theatrical stagnation-closed the
aires and starving players-will be the in
evitable result OF this underground trahc
in tickets. this failure TO deal directly and
fairly with the public at the box ONCE
As the writer was leaving the brady
Office he noticed an old man working over
account books at a far desk. who Is that'
he asked an attache. Why, It's Burt
Frederick W Burt" was the reply; man
ager of the California Theatre in San Fran
cisco when W. A. Brady was $40 Week
callboy. Funny. isn't it? He handed OUT
Brady his so week then, and he hands
ont Brady his thousands now. for ever since
BRADY has been metropolitan manager
himself he has kept his hold of Burt "a his
signer Of checks and dispenser of moneys
Which shows that even fighting man.
ager may have a streak or TWO of warm-
hearted sentiment in his makeup.
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
Such Actors Are Rare in These Days, He Agrees with
Brander Matthew'S but He Knows Eight of Them
and VIII Assemble Them at The
Playhouse in September.

tatng, great character actor of the
Wilton Lackaye or George Fawcett type
and FIVE other players Of calbre equal to
The very best. These will appear in each
OF the productions. The minor actors
can get any time or anywhere. New plays
viii be produced al short intervals until
the repertory il completed.
DO YOU really mean" asked the skep-
teal inquirer. that YOU viii withdraw a
successful play in the height Of its run TO
put oa another, an untried play. FOR an ex-
p.rimepf 49,
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
Brady Saws He'll Show New York An Octet Play Classic Drama

pestuous career were, paradoxically enough.
those OF his pri.ehght explorations. 1
never had any trouble with lighters ne
said recently. High priced actors have
caused me a whole lot more worry. why
were the lighters so easy? Oh. | simply
could think more quickly than they did;
that's ALL
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
DEs PRUNELLES.

His old stock experience stood MN III
good stead. likewise his wonderful tacuitS
~ "winging" part. as it is called. Ihis
Iotter consists OF standing in the wings
manuscript in hand. and menoil%'"e '"e
lines tor a. least the cues) OF eaon
lust before going on TO play IT,
come TO worst. II the cues are "tii'IS -.
IN the memory. the lines can oe
that is. their substance reproduceu
actors own language, and the peru. IL
ance passes off without hitch. w. W.
Rradv was right on the job as the rrei''-
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16

less tangible theatrical property. ne -
force 20 be reckoned with.
Hc got his training in California stock
quarter OF century ago, IKE DaVid
Belasco and other adopts who came 10
New York out OF the great West. strahs-
~ things have happened in New YORK
theatricals than the coming true OF Will
lam A. Brady's optimistic ambition TO re-
vive an obsolescent art-form OF his boy
hood davg
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
IN NEW YORK.

The woman acre So the hall from US is
dead"
How did you find that OUT"
Why. happened 10 see 1t in the paper"
Lie
New-York tribune., 1911-04-16
REPERTORY NOT OUTWORN.

Then repertory is not outworn?'
No indeed" smiled Mr.. Brady Il hope
for the time when repertory organizations
vii become as popular in New York as
they have proved in other cities where the
public welcomes established favorites week
after week and month after month in
succession of plays and characters
But not az s. seat
why. the first stock company ] was
ever in" exclaimed Mr.. Brady, charged
81 a seat and got away with it, That was
the old California Theatre stock. in san
Francisco. Of which Dion Boucicault was
stage manager and TommasO Salvini Ed
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26

It costs no more than tin
That Enameled Ware at Con.
molly Bros.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26
Agents Wanted

A young man or woman who
can devote all or parteof his or
her time driving through the
country and taking orders for
an article of value to every
farmer. No investment requir.
ed. Position permanent with
an assured god income. Ap.
plicants will please give the
names of three responsible
business men for references as
to ability and character and at
the same time state whether
you can devote all or part of
your time to the work and what
territory you can cover.
+ o. Box 907, Des Moines, la.
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Which "O': pot: Money O

In its appeal to the supreme
court of the United States for
protection against the initia-
tive in Oregon. the Pacific
States Telephone & Telegraph
Co. gets right down to the
quick-to the livest spot in the
rising controversy between
money and men. It pleads:
"The despotism of the multi
tude is as arbitrary and com
plete as the absclutism of q
despot."
The majority of the electors
of Oregon is "the multitude"
and their will, expressed at the
polls after full and free discus
sion, is "the deepotism."
What kind of a "despotism"
does the telephone monopoly
believe in7 The despotism of
money!
To what does it appeal to
maintain the dePotism of
money! To the despotism of
the court-nile men, any five
of whom may. according to
theory of the telephone mono.
poly. override and overthrow
the solemnly expressed will of
a great state.
In world of law, of ordered
liberty, some power must rule.
In the last analysis, all else
must give way to one supreme
interest.
What shall it be, money,
courts or nlen-the interest of
the few, or the good of the
many?
Our fathers fought this bat
tie out in 1910 with reference
to political rights; we are now
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26
This Is Insurgency.

When you spend a dollar and
get dollars worth it is not a
bad bargain.
But when you spend a dollar
and get 20 cents worth back
you are losing out pretty fast.
During the year ending June
80, this year, it cost just 81, O44,-
014,3 to run this govern
ment. That means SIP so from
every man, woman and child
in the country. Cong. Cullop
of Indiana has called attention
to the fact that this is equal to
81 for every minute since the
birth of Christ. But that is
not the point of this editorial.
OF this vast amount about
$40, 100000 was contributed by
the Payne tariff.
But while the Payne tariff
was yielding the government
$340,000,00O, the protected in.
dustries of this country were
taking from the people the en-
ormous sum of 81, 7OO,OOO,OOO or
$?1.25 for each man, woman and
child.
That means that you paid q
tax of 1875 in order that the
government should get $12 so
You paid the difference of $2l .25
because the high protectionists
assert that it is worth that
much to you to help our ain
FAINT industries" If there are
four in your family it means
that you contributed $50 to
maintain the government and
$50 to maintain the factories.
Your $50 went to pay the sal.
aries of the laborers in the pro-
tected industries and to pay
profits to the owners of the pro.
tected industries.
Now, if you were assured
that this industry actually need.
ed your $50 to exist, you might
be willing to be separated from
the money. But when you
learn that the wages of those
laborers have not be, n in r. es-
ed under the tariff and that the
majority of your $50 is going to
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- Il . ! ! 6 (. q =.
fighting it out with reference
to property rights. "The multi
tude" prevailed before; it will
prevail again.
p. S.-lf the people Of Ore.
gon owned their public utili
ties, as they ought to. there
would be no ease before th..
court. We are putting our
selves to great deal of trouble
(aad some dange,) in order to
give a few enterprising gentle.
men a chance to own ard oper
ate things essential to the life
of all. 70
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Editors Rsoourse.

There are bright prospects
/, for the country editor at last.
The News was not the only
paper in the country that got
into trouble with the govern
ment for subscribers getting so
far beck on their pa, ments, the
government came to the deiin
quents rescue by excluding the
papers from the mails unless a
one cent stamp was put one
each paper, by which means
The News lost about 800 SUBJ
scribers who were delinquent
So to SIS. Consequently this
paper lost ST 900 or more. Lots
of our delinquents took advar.
tage of the blow, but every
dog has it's day, and the editor
has his, too. No doubt but
what the correspondence The
News had with the govern.
ment was the means of bring.
ing about the new postal law
For in our correspondence
with the government we ex
planned that we sent our pape r
in good faith and we expected
to be paid, but if tire govern
ment cut Us out in such mar.
ner we would have no recourse
and would be heavy loser,
and we believed that a pers n
who took paper for any length
of time and did not intend to
pay fer it was using the U. S.
mails for fraudulent purposes,
and the editor should have
some recourse. The following
is the new ruling we just re-
ceived
"The latest postal laws are
such that newspaper publish
ere can arrest any one for fraud
who takes a paper and refuses
to pay for it. Under this the
man who allows his subscr;p.
ton to run along for some time
unpaid, then orders it discon.
tinued or marks it refused and
have post card sent notifying
the publisher leaves himself
liable to arrest and fine the
same as for theft"
Oh, my. if the above only
had been a law last winter
Fairmount News.
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Taft sovs tho Wind.

AL an iowa town bearing the
onninous name of Waterloo Mr..
Taft unburdened himself of
what is doubtless his true NEE.
sage to the country. In brief.
est terms, it amounted to this:
Let big business alone, or
you will have a panic and q lot
of you will starve to death.
To be more specific, he dealt
with four aspects of big buei.
ness-railroads, trusts, tariff
and currency-to this effect:
AS to railroads, we have eolv.
ed the problem of reasonable
and equitable rates by means
of the interstate commerce
com MERGE commission. It's no
use to bother the railroads any
they're all right.
AS to trusts, we have that
splendid decision of the gu
preme court. The oil and to.
bacco trusts are now but
memories. IF any more real
bad ones are discovered they
will promptly be squelched in
the same way.
AS to the tariff, we've got
some men at work finding out
if it is too high. If 80, it will
be very gently lowered in a
way that will not disturb busi.
ness or interfere with any body's
profits.
As to currency, we need the
Aldrich central bank worse
than they used to need pistols
in Texas. It has been recon-
mended by a number of estim-
able gentlemen who certainly
ought to know what they are
talking about. Take it, and
currency will be out of the way,
same as railroads, trusts and
tariff.
If this settlement of vexed
questions is accepted, capital
will employ labor and all will
be we'll; if it is rejected, capital
will refuse to do business, panic
will ensue. and the president
will doubtless say of the situa-
ton, as he did once before in
somewhat similar circum.
stances:
"God knows-I DON'T"
There never was a president
of the United States so utterly
at sea as William Howard Taft.
In threatening the people with
panic and starvation unless
they heed the bidding of the
m listers, he is inviting some :
thing worse than panic.
He is counting revolutions!
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26

pay excessive profits to the
overs of the protected indus
tries it makes you hot. It
makes you hot to learn that the
employees of the steel trust are
the poorest paid of all work
men in spite of protection. It
makes you hot to think that
your $85 helped to pay an Is
per cent dividend lin nine
months only to Sen. Aldrich
and his friends, and that the
poor laborers who are employ
ed in the factories turning out
rubber goods had no protection
against the cheap imported
Italian labor.
In other words you don't OBJ.
ject to helping real infant in
dustry that needs your help.
but you do object to paying
tribute to industries that are so
powerful that they can charge
you their own prices for their
products and set their own
prices for labor.
Insurgency is q rebellion
against this unjust distribution
of your money!.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26
FINDING THE comsTock LODE
Far Reaching Results Of the Riot
| Strike Of Silver Made In
June, 1859.

you've struck 1t. boys" Thus said
Henry Paige Comstock to Peter
O'Riley and Patrick Mclaughlin, who
were his fellow prospectors in. q search
for gold in Six Mile canyon, now the
present Virginia City. the capital Of
Nevada.
The date was June 10. 1859: In that
remote spot in the American wilder.
ness. by these three obscure men, was
made on that day discovery destined
to affect the current Of American pol.
dtics for score Of years, says writer
In the Atlantic Monthly, and to have
for long disturbing influence on the
worlds finances.
The thing which was 'struck" on
that June day Of 1859 was the vein COW.
ering what came to be known az the
Comstock lode. in which we're hidden
the richest deposits of silver ever
found anywhere on the globe. Their
development. years afterward, stimuli.
taneously with that of the silver mines
Of Colorado. started the downward
Hood in the price Of silver, which
broke the old ratio between the money
metals. changed the monetary system
of the leading nations from the double
to the single gold standard; melted
the movement beginning in 1877, un.
der the leadership of Richard P. Bland,
for the reopening of the mints in sill.
yer on the same terms as to gold;
led hence to the passing of the Bland.
Allison limited silver-coinage law of
1873. and to that of the Sherman sill.
ver-bullion-deposit act Of 1890; and
was the issue which split the two
great parties and made havoc among
the smaller ones in 1895. resulting In
fhe act OF 1900, which gave statutory
Eecosnition to the gold standard In the
Omitted States.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26
BIacksn1lthlnu.

Having Bought and taken
possession Of 0nlan's bIack.
smith shop Just north Of the
flour n:lll. ! take this means
OF letting my friends and the
public know that l have opened
up a shop In Wahrston and
would like to have a part Of
their patronage.
6. A. r. Nickel.
Wahpeton, N. D.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26

Sick headache is caused by a
disordered stomach. TAX
Cbamberlain'a Tablets and cor.
rect that and the headaches
will disappear. For sale by all
dealers.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26
Uhr mahprtn1t Ti1t,ra
By E. S. CAMERON

Published at wahpeton, N. D., on Thurs.
day of each week, and entered as second
class matter under the act of Congress, of
March 3, 1879.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
On motion duly seconded and carried
the board adjourned. T rs; TT s.%..
Approved July Z, 1911. j. B.
J. H. FLEMING,
OFFICE OF BOARD OF EDUCATION
Independent School District of Virginia

OFFICE OF BOARD OF EDUCATION
Independent School District of Virginia
Regular Meeting, August 4, 1911.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Education was called to order
by the Chairman r. J. McGhee at $50
o'clock. Roll call. Present. r. J.. Nc
Ghee. G. H. Moore, Lafayette Bliss, c.
". Hendrick, Joseph Rosl1illy, j. H.
Fleming. Absent, Helen E. Coffman.
The minutes of the regular meeting
of July were read and approved, as like
wise the minutes of the District Annual
meeting of July Is, and of the special
meeting of the board of July Is the min
utes were read corrected and approved,
Reports from special committees we're
heard.
Moved by &C. E. Hendrick that the
chairman and clerk be authorized to pe-
tition the city council to construct a. &C.
ment sidewalk and assess the cost there
five equal annual installments, all ex-
cavating, grading, filling, material and
labor to be furnished by the city as fol-
lows: six-foot cement walk on the
east side of the Central school grounds,
Block Al. Seconded and carried
The clerk presented the. school treas
urer's annual report, also the annual re-
port of the clerk of the Board of Edu-
cation.
On motion duly seconded and carried
the reports of the treasurer and clerk
were approved, and ordered to be spread
on the minutes and published.
TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT.
For the year ending July IA, 1911.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
CHANCES In Mems Dress,

According to the opinion of MI.
Thornton, who presided at a recent
conference of the foreman tailors of
London. mems dress will soon under,
80 q great change. and the present
styles will give away to more classic
garments" Knee breeches and fancy
waistcoats will be introduced, and the
superiority of these garments over to-
days long trousers and waistcoats
will insure their popularity. A Rus
sian nobleman who visited London q
few weeks ago said that he cared it,
tie whether the style was Introduced
or not: ne would adopt it. Two things
were necessary, he said, "shapely
calves and courage" He took with
him 48 waistcoats made of various
p,tterns of embroidered silk.
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to science in operation, the Virginia
school authorities can be said to be fully
alive on the great question of school
sanitation.
On motion it was decided to paint the
high school building. which room Is to
be used as school museum, the work to
be done under the same conditions as OBJ
tanned in the four rooms now under pro-
cess of being decorated. Seconded and
carried.
On motion the board adjourned.
third floor corridor Of the Technical
Approved August 4th 1911.
j. H. FLEMING,
Clerk.