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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30
IL you have tears, prepare

IL you have tears, prepare q
Il them now. What fiGure
appealing than the noble "a
whose face and language are
toughest. hut whose heart iB
softest? Father is an old 90
Newsy surely is a hick, but 4
tear here for the boys mre
kindness to his poor old moth
The scene OF "Squarins Acc
is the real estate office OF an
Immediately recognizable as tn*
ent head or the house OF p"
intorbrcd with other Scroo5es.
terrifying person upbralds Ne~|
having failed to deliver the p
evening s papers 10 him. The
plains that lie was 'pincne3
shooting craps. The unfsmih1.
interests The miser, Newsy
founded that anyone should
grown to old age without leeII.
shoot craps. He teaches
Esquire, winning 20 cents of
] need hardly tell YOU tiat e.
pleads to have this money app.
his mothers rent. nov three
overdue. 4 while ago. II Sec
good old dad rceled home Wiz
one and beat up his old To
that what WAS left of her pa.
busted into an ambulance ~
riod 10 the hospital. where Il
been slowr, coming To herseif'
10 work and pay rent
Now. Newsy having hao
ana dissolved The genuer suu
tcars. old Scroose takes ln
He. too ''has a story; ana
author of tho sketch. he s,an9
M and tells ". Boiled doWn u
2 point that The happy actoa
would not recognize his tow
flowing narrative. the mlse
kind and genial Senll.msu
wears or more ago. bu, n'
wife. oddly enough. II vas
possession OF her that harosp
and spoiled his disposition.
loss Of her. She ran u"'
protractod recital of nus
moves the ncws6oy 80 W
that nc a asks 10 he the om
friend: which generous repu
only aCccdcd 70. but also
clasps a receipt for tnrre
ront into tho outstrc:ched haa
then the curtain fluiters
gently as the while wiIlss oi
OF pcucG
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

"HE bill of Levey vaudeville,
which opened at the Colonial
Yesterday afternoon, offers an
entertainment of exceptional
merit throughout. The headliner is
Golden, violinist who extracts more
musical comedy from his instrument
than that dignifed musical instrument
is generally thought to be productive
Of. Golden is also a singer and cccen
tric dancer. and his act is solid enter
tainmcnt from beginning to end.
Grace De Winters, the girl ventrilo-
quist, has clever line Of laugh-making
material. and her act is entirely differ
ent from the general run of ITS kind,
The kidders appear in a rural comedy
sketch entitled "When Circus Comes to
Town, in which are introduced num-
Der OF clever specialties.
Fred Palmer Intermingles Juggling
with dancing. interpolating some
snappy witticisms.
Three first run motion pictures com
plete the bill. The apparatus installed
by the management Of the Colonial Tor
cooling and veutilatlng the house is
working perfectly. resulting in an
even, inviting temperature in all parts
Of the house, no matter what the tenn
perature is In the street
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

ing treat in the act Of Mons, del
Franco s miniature circus. Ponies, dogs
and monkeys comprise the troupe. Bes-
sic Naldarc 5 Bicycle Bellies are an
other feature. and they are q sextette
of girls who do about all that can be
done on bicycle.
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big Bison liIm calling Tor 1000 men
and horses is entitled son the War
path ~ and deals with the Apache and
Yuma Indians in Arizona.
BY way of an introduction, the old
Indian chief. Arrow Head, is shown
selling beads at railroad station. Al
ter the train rolls out he lies down in
the shade and dreams OF ms youth The
story Of the dream is vividly shown.
The fumas and Apaches as allies had
been wagIng war against the isolated
whites until Uncle Sam takes a hand
AT council the Yumas sign treaty
to behave. providing the soldiers will
guarantee protection against the
Apaches.
At this conference Arrow Head
meets Red Feather. daughter Of an
Apache chief. Latcr she oycrhcaIs a
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

moro cilng1rg qualities, harksr
Dorothy Steele's notion nIot,,~-
called Suffrage and the Man :
was recently revealed al IA.
hall long known and overcrou.
the home of Weber & FIald,.
pany, which. for this occas,o.
festoonod in purple, green ana
the suffrage colors. In III.
Frankie Bailey the Ieaain.
played by Harriet Stanton r
rernaps | should explain thnf-
the term leading" in Its
sehsc-that Is, heading a rno,|
OF procession, OF grand march
the amazonS. For Mrs al
pictured In the performancs
daily duties as president
Womcn's Political Union. 3
the sentimental story centcrs
younger, unnamed woman q.
a presentablc sweetheart. Win
however, she quarrcIs over II.
right 20 vote.
Thus cut adrift. the inf.
man falls into the GLUTEN
spangled adventures who
give q Whoop for the vole.
she clings To the dear old III.
bleeding him TO the last eIron e.
suing for breach of promise
What more ne turnl than H.
man should be tried before h
Jury. Of which his x-fiancee h
woman? Happily he is ac1|
And now pause before gain
the last and loveliest OF the h
Having been told that won1r
,lnally Won the right 10 voI|
ias' sight of the contrite man (
opposed girls SO Wickedly and
ally 10 himself is of his me>|
TO his fjancee, her masnanlmo||
eiVeness and their happy a.
hand In hand. to vote togethc.
T ONDON has a nasty way
IL mlndine us. from time fo
or the good things our Yankee
loses for us. The latest music>|
cesses over there are .'Gypsy
and THE Autumn Maneuyefx
when those plays were introdu
vienna, American managers n
one another TO secure the W.
Us, nor were we any slower
preciate the rarely lovely M
Franz Lehar. composer OF 9TH
WIDOW, and Emerich Kalmau|
we could not help bemoan th|
thar, whether admirable or h.
In their original form. both boot|
stupid as they reached us, an
takes and mlshaps in the car|
lshed off New York failures n
instances. London took its DIM
hbrcttists and performers. and 4
suit is complete success In hotf
All this is made pertinent n
Introduction Of '0The Melody Of +
None has failed TO realize u
song of that name. In "Gypsy L
Is the most beautiful ballad
sort heard here for many year
by itself II makes a visit TO =
Love worth while. In "A ~
Widow" the much talked of d
wbirl around 70 It, people v11
never heard the opera whistle 4
part OF breakfast. The latest &
ance Of the song is as title 4
motive OF the newest one-act |
by Edgar Allen WooIf. Tho inI
air runs all through q playieI
a wife who has become Inf
with public violinist and hn1
him 10 call He has been III be-
for only q short time when h<|
band Unexpectedly returns -
converts the musician into a d
a very clumsy butler. PresouI|
wife of the violinist turns IN.
has had a poor time being /
half" TO a genius. But, unfortu
she knew the other man hefor|
rather intimately, And so q
running In and out OF doors u
sary before a happy ending u
cd. Yet no such thing as q
ending" can be coIncident. WI
conclusion Of music SO allurinB r.
har's "Gypsy Love"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

STORY of the old frontier days
when the Indians fought among
themselves is the headline Of
tcring at the Rex today. The
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

A r about this point the purple
chsperon ushers a strange. gen
tleman into the very bosom of tbc
plot. lie wears a Scotch plaid waist
coat. Immediately we know that lao.
at least. is disiuterestcd and kindly
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

ATEw YORK. June 2o-And
N speaking OF the time OF the
VI year, have YOU heard Willie
- Golfers remark, the other day
IN PittsburG 10 Lillian Russell,
on the occasion OF her most recent
matrimonial high dive? What do
you mean" queried The volatile VIII
nam TO the Incompatible Lillian. "by
mot waiting until July TO celebrate
the tourth?'
That. of course. has nothing to do
WIN Cecil Spooner, Yet, in a way,
II has. For no sooner did the Weber
d Fields jubilee tour come TO It's
end and the famous merry makers
return to New York minus only Lii
nan fourth. who had dashed off
TO Chicago for the convention, than
many OF them ambfed up to the Len
Lew Fields nine vanquish the Cecil
Spooncr Corners by score OF 10
D. I'm tcnlnnng game.
For three seasons the Lew Field
eTs have held the theatrical cham
pionship In Greater New York. in
which time they have won thirty
two games and lost but one. At
the final triumph, Lew Fields him
self led the rooters: but Cecil Spoon
er was not there Why?
Well. you know. playing two per-
iormances every day and Il new role
every week since she was little
child might be a good reason for
Cecil Spooner missing one or two
things. That Is, 1t might be for any
one but Spooner. But the younger
daughter of the shrewd and tireless
Mary Gibbs appears to have found
so much timc on her hands that she
turned to playwriting, as a pastimc
The result is that n sort of Spooner
cycle has been s:nrted north or .hc
Spuyten Duyvil. and. for a few weeks
anyway. the Bronx has becom. the
Baireuth of New York The initial
drama. is called The Price She Paid"
though II bears no resemblance, so
lar as | know. to the late David
Graham Phillips's current story: In
deed. the intrepid press depa rtmenr
announces 1t as comparable Onl;, with
The Price" and Bought and PAID
For The George Broad.lurst OF the
occasion proves to be, like all GauI.
divided into three parts, an original
work hy Louis bipsly and Avon Ross
having been rewritten by Cecil
Spooner."
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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-10
Misses and Ladies' Separate Goats at
Exactly Half Price
Choice of Our Entire Stock of Trimmed Hats at
Exactly SOC on the Dollar

OF Lord Beaconsfeld. and as such, is
Very interesting, but it is not a great
play. Like all Mr.. Parker's plays. it
is Well written and has a number of
excellent scenes. but will not live.
Tho Garden of Allah is no play at
all. From beginning to end. it is moth
ing more than Il monstrous pageant
of Oriental and desert scenery, and
this is all that has made it succeed. 1t
wa even so bad as a play that Mary
Mannering and Lewis Waller, who
were brought over from England to
play the leading roles. retired from
the cast before the season was over.
Mary Mannering returned to her fami-
ly duties, while Mr.. Waller contribute
ed a number of Very excellent per-
formances in other plays.
The Return Of Peter Grimm is an
excellent example of what a great &C.
tor. Xix David Wartield, and a great
producing manager. like David Belas-
co, can do to make a play succeed.
They had d poor piece of work to be-
gin with. but they saw in it POSSIBLE
ties n made the best of them. The
results have been highly satisfactory
from a financial standpoint.
The Woman is from the pen of Will
liam c. DeMille. While not a literary
success. il is one of the hest plays that
have been produced for some time. 1t
deals with the old theme of political
corruption. but the denouement is
brought about in a new way-through
the efforts of a hotel telephone opera
tor.
The Quaker Girl furnishes an excel
lent lesson. It is the only musical
comedy success included in the list
and stands out as a warning to man
ayers. 1t is truly an artistic produc-
ton and contains nothing distasteful.
IT this is any criterion of the change
of opinion regarding musical comedy,
We should have some excellent pro-
auctions next season.
kismet. Edward knnblauch's dra-
matte version of the Arabian Nights.
while not in the list of seven. should
be counted as m of the seasons sue
cesScs. 1t is a big scenic production.
but. unlike The Garden of Allah. does
not have to depend on that. The role
of Hail was acted by Otis Skinner. and
II added greatly to this popular actors
accomplishments. The same cole was
portrayed in the London production
by Oscar Ashe.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-10
BELATED RECOGNITION.

To Wilbur Wright has been given
almost universal credit for being the
first man 70 navigate the earth's at
mosphere in a machine heavier thar
the air. and unauestionahly he was
tn. first man 20 accomplish this feat.
Tut while commemorative his great
achievements it Will not l." amiss to
direct attention :" another inventor
who ALI but won the renoWn which
FELL ~ the modest man from Dayton,
and who has done almost AS much for
aerial flight. When the first mar
CARRYING aeropiane over built Was
launched at Tidewater, Va, on octo-
her !, 1908. III" man who had beer
the able assistant. almost the copart-
ner. Of Prof. Samuel =. Langley. IT
perfecting the invention. occupied the
na,igator's seat in the frail sky-craft
and steered II on its first disastrous
Eight. He was Charles NJ. Manly
then of the Smithsonian institution.
Manly took the first plunge intf
unknown pac risking his life il
the cause of science, as he did later
in the same year. of Arsenal Point
when he again attempted I" fy at {"
ClIHe WHEN NV i 49, No.
over, and the danger WIS greater
than it had been at Underwater. Both
times he tried 10 fy ne failed, his ma
chine leaving the launching appara-
tus Of the old h%ouseboat Euzzard onlI
to fall with crushing force. Rut il
vas not only as the navigator of this
Inflated Langley machine that he
won a place high up on the honor
roll Of the conquerors of the air. II
was Charles NJ. Manly who designed
and built the engine which supplied
power TO the Langley a%eroplane. This
was the highest engine per horse
power that had ever been construc:
ed. II was far in advance "f the gas
oline engines of hat day. and Mr.
Manly, deciding Ia devote his talents
to its Improvement. contributed tr
the general development Of motor!
Of this type. without which the sue
cessful %aeropiane of today would he
impossible.
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by states. This space will be enclosed
h Il railing and closely guarded bv a
large force Of Scrgeants-at-arms. Back
OF this are the seats for the 1.7SO al
ternates enclosed by a railing. ON
hoth sides and in the real of the space
occupied by the delegates and alter
mates are 1000 elevated seats for WISH
tors, AT the north end of the build
ing a special hand stand will he erect
ed. In the balcony. which extends
around the four wallis of the building
there VIII be 100 seats for visitors.
10 avoid confusion in seating the
crowd each entrance will be picard
ed showing tn" sections for which it
Will he used and each ticket will bear
the letter of the entrance for whom
j. is Intended. by this plan delegates
and visitors will enter the door nearest
the seats assigned them.
The platform. aisles and all omen
spaces will he covered with mating to
insure the maximum of quiet while
the convention is in session. Five
hundred public telephones and a large
number of telegraph instruments are
being installed in various parts of the
building for the accommodation of
delegates and the public. Architect
Arthur q. Brown has arranged the
seats in such a that the chair
man Pihtioih may DE seen from
every section of the large hall. Ser
geant-at-Arms William r. Stone will
be assisted by a force of 500 deputy
|sergeants-at-arms, doorkeepers. ushers
and attendants. a special telephone
system is being installed which will
enable Sersean,-at-Arms Stone. from
his desk on the platform, immediately
to communicate with his assistants / in
any part of the hall.
In the two story annex, adjoining
the main building on the south. are
the offices of the republican national
committee private rooms for the use
OF the chairman. secretaries and ser
geant-at-arms. quarters for the COM
mittecs on permanent organization,
credentials and resolutions, and a full
ly equipped postoftice.
In addition to this. there are rooms
Tor n press wher scores Of private
telegraph wires will be installed on
the second floor there will be a FULLY
equipped emergency hospital in charge
OF a corps of physicians and Red
Cross nurses. There will be numer-
Gus retiring rooms for men and WON
en- in the annex.
In the basement Of the main build
ing there will be a lunch counter with
Several thousand seats. The building
will be deliberately decorated in the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-10
Where the Republican
Convention Will be Held

For the third time since its erection
thirteen years ago. the doors of the
Coliseum will he thrown open june
Is for the accommodation of a re-
publican national convention in Chi
cago. In 1904 the republicans nom
mated Theodore Roosevelt for prcsi-
den in this building and in 1908 UNI
der the same roof William II. Taft was
chosen as the party's standard bearer.
The Coliseum is on Wabash avenue
between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets. less than a mile from the cen
ter of Chicago's retail shopping and
hotel district and is accessible from all
parts Of the city by elevated roads and
surface lines. The Coliseum is 3O5
feet long. 10 feet wide and 20 feet in
height. built of stone. brick, steel and
concrete and is fire-proof.
1t stands on the site of the old Lib
by prison which vas brought to Chi
cago from Richmond. Va. in sections
and rebuilt the year of the worlds fair
by Charles T.. Gunther and used to ey-
htbit a valuable collection Of civil war
relics. 1t is of modern Romanesaue
combined with the English costellated
type of architecture and cost $500. 900.
IT has been the scene of many notable
assemblages. 1t has eleven large ex-
its n can be emptied in five minutes
in an emergency.
The subcommittee on arrangements
of the republican national committee
under the direction of Col. Harry s,
New has expended $4,000 preparing
h building for this years national
convention of the republican party.
The building has Hiss seats of which
1855 are on the main floor and 200
iE the balcony.
h speakers platform is built
against the south wall Of the structure
and extends across the entire width
of the building. 1t is Is feet dcep
and contains 1882 seats. which will
be occupied by the chairman, officers
Of the convention. members of the ma
tional committee and distinguished
guests.
The seats back Of the chairman's Ia
BILE will be slightly elevated. directly
beneath the chairman's table is "A space
for o noiseless telegraph instrm-
ments and their operators. by which
news of the conventions proceedings
will be flashed to the world. On both
sides and extending in a half circle
around the front of the platform are
seats and tables for 400 working
newspaper men ana correspondents
from all parts OF the country.
Directly in front Of these are the
seats for the 1.07s delegates arranged
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-10
WHAT WILL THE DEMOCRATS
DOn

AS a result of the action of the
democratic majority in the house in
eliminating tho appropriation for this
tariff board from a sundry civil bill
there is bound TO he great interest in
the tariff plank in the platform To he
adopted by the democratic party Il,
baltimore. Will the democrats advo-
cate a sweeping and general reduc-
ton of the tariff. or will they conten,
themselves with a sliding scale tina.
will insure space of inle That is
the question that confronts the party
and il is of absorbing interest to the
public.
1t will hardly he possible for tho
democrats to advocate scientific revi-
sion Of the tariff. schedule by sched-
ule. since they have repudiated their
own action in favorine the creation
of the tariff board. When that board
was created. il was as A result Of
democratic support. AfferWard. how
ever, the party relsanted and ignored
the findings of the board. and nov;
the provision for the continuation of
the work has been abandoned.
There has never been any charge
that the tariff board played politics.
With two democrats and three re-
publicanS in its membership. there
was Il general belief that the board
acted conscientiousiy. What the dem
ocrats Regulated was not the mem.
bership of this particular board. but
the system itself.
How can tho democrats in their
platform advocate scientific revision
OF the tariff? How can they do 9th
erwise than to advocate either q
sweeping or a graded scale reduc.
ton? n can they afford to take
a very pronounced attitude on the
tariff when the sentiment of the
country has always proved TO he over
whelmingly in favor of the protec-
tive principle? To say that there
will be A sweeping reduction will be
TO promise a long business disturb.
nce and this is just what the coun-
try wants t o avoid.
The experts of h tariff board
cannot be reassembled easily. The
board has already disbanded and the
experiment has been discontinued
The republican party probably will
stand on its record and advocate A
continuation of the schedule-by -
schedule revision. In his the demo-
cratic party will find an opportunity
for the blunder that Is always ex-
pected when hopes seem brightest.
Tho party will have to proceed eau
tiously II the blunder is to be avoid
ed.
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The latter part of the season ha.
brought us a few plays that promise
to be good. Among these are Walker
Whiteside in The Typhoon. a study Of
Japanese life; FULLY Marshall in
The Talker; Margaret Ellington
in Kindling: Office SOS, melodra-
matte farce; and Henry Miller in The
Rainbow.
The season has also given us Win
throp -Ames' Little Theater, but that
can never be called a great achieve
ment. We have also had a number
Of revivals. such as Oliver Twist, H. NJ.
S. Pinafore. Robin Hood and Patience.
So when all is said and done, we
can count the season but fair. We
must he optimistic. however, and look
for better things next year. And who
can tell, we may get them.
The Usher.
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national colors. The exterior of the
structure will be profusely draped
with red. white and blue bunting sur
mounted by hundreds of large Ameri-
can flags.
Practically every foot of available
space for the interior will be draped
with bunting and flags. over the
speakers platform there will be a
iifty-foot presidents flag fanked by
two large American flags. The space
on both sides of this center piece will
be heavily draped with festoons of
bunting ana batteries Of small flags
and shields. The walls of the build
ing will he draped with bunting and
flags. The rail of the balcony also
will he draped with festoons of hunt
ing with small flags. shields and
Wreaths at every steel arch. The
large bandstand at the north end of
the building will ne deliberately draped
with flags. bunting and wreaths.