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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Notes of the Show World

Many professional musicians say the waltz is a thing of the past; that the various "bears," 'trots" and "hugs' have supplanted the ancient style. All of which may be correct, but q travelling salesman whose route has been closely behind that of "The Spring Maid" this season says the waltz has come into it's own again through the influence of melodies from the greatest of Werba and Luescher's operettas.
 It is q source of much pleasure to the- atregoers in this city to know that Don- aid Brian will be seen in Charles Froh- mans elaborate production of "The Si- rem at the Jefferson. This piece proved huge success in New York, Chicago Boston and Philadelphia last year. Eddie Foy will wear prison stripes in his amusing musical play lover the River" This piece derives it's somewhat unique title from the fact that in New York there is a slang designation for the prison on Blacl1wells Island. Convicts sent there are said to be doing time lover the river.' From this it Is to be inferred that the plot of Mir. Foy's new play deals with this particular prison. AS a matter of fact. Mir. Foy plays the role of man about town who enjoys himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
CHARLOTTE WALKER As June in "The Trail of the Lone some Pine," at the Jefferson


 novel in the extreme, and appeals to peo- pie from that standpoint as well as from good and the performers are excellent. The couple are Lydell and Butterworth, and they are well known to the vaude- vile patrons in all parts of the country,
 Comedy, singing and dancing will be the offering of Fennell and Tyson, and both of the mare said to be well euupped to amuse and entertain the vau- l deyille patrons. The act will include sev- l eral of the new songs, some graceful and 1 enjoyable dancing features and ia string 1 of the latest jokes and bright bits of repartee.
 The Booth Trio is known among the bicycle acts as being one of the best They claim to be among the leaders, and the audiences of Birmingham will be an opportunity this week to judge just how good they are. The act has some sensa- tional features and a fair sprinkling of comedy that is amusing and original.
 "The Battle of Too Soon" is one of the famous comedy acts of vaudeville, and it is presented here by Hilton and Bran non, who are known wherever there is good vaudeville. The Battle is a mili- tary travesty and it is always capable of producing a hearty laugh in any house and before any audience.
 There is matinee at the Orpheum ey- cry afternoon at 2:90 and two perform ances every night. at 7:90 and o'clock. The motion pictures are first run subjects and always good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
MADAME SHERRY"
 BIJOU ATTRACTION
"Eyery Little Movement" and Other Song Hits This Week at Pop
 ular Prices

Not very much of the story of Madame Sherry" is revealed in the advance an- nouncements. Mainly the thread of musi- cal and other incidents of this big mus ical success concern a young unmarried New York man-abont-town, sowing his wild oats on money sent him by an uncle W ho believes his nephew married and the father of two children. The uncle, nnex- pectedly pays a visit to the studio Of the nephew who, to support his story Of do- mesticity, is forced to gather unto him self a family. 11e presses his very unpa- trcan housekeeper into service to pass as his wife, and gets his own sweetheart to pose as one of his children, and an adult guest in his home to answer as his son. It is from the comic endorsements growing out of this first situation that the fun of the piece begins. or course attendant msadyentures consequent upon the first deception follow one another throughout the play.
 Tho main love interest is introduced at the very outset. with the arrival of the uncle, who brings with him relative, Yvonne Sherry, young maid just out of a convent It develops that the sweet heart of the young man-about-town turns fickle' and falls in love with the guest passing as her brother. a plight that opens the way for the mischievously scheming nephew and the visiting convent girl to become sweethearts, which they do in what is declared to be one of the odd est ways in the world. Incidentally, II is the love of the convent girl and the nephew that introduces in the play, as a love theme, the air of the production. .Ilvery Little Movement Has a Meaning All It's Own," that is now a popular num- Der all over the world.
 The company which will present Mad anne Sherry" in this city all this week, with matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at the Bijou theatre, is a com pany of talented performers who have won their spurs in many prominent productions. They, one and all, are play CTS of wide versatility, having been se- lected with a view to their peculiar fit ness to the parts they are called upon to fill
 This is the first appearance in Birming- ham at popular prices of Madame Sher- ry'' and Manager Semon states that 1t IS D genuine sl.50 production. superior in many ways to any production that has ever been to Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
TWO MIDGETS ON
 THE ORPHEUM'S BILL
Part of the DeKos Troupe of Sensa- tional Acrobats-Other
 Acts

An abundance of novelty and comedy will be featured at the Orpheum theatre this week. as one of the acts contains two midgets who perform sensations in lacrobatic stunts and there are three other acts which include the cleverest kind of comedy and music. The midgets are an act that will appeal to children, and It. tie folks will probably form a large DOT ton of the matinee audiences for this week.
 The headline feature is the Joseph DeKos Troupe, which includes two men end the two midgets mentioned. They perform number of sensational acrobat ic feats, with a liberal sprinkling of com edy in them. The midgets are used re- peatedly to perform novelty stunts which are impossible in any other way, and they are said to be performers of extraordinary ability. As drawing card for children they are said to be immense, and the matinees are always we'll patronized as a result.
 One of those clever novelty black face comedy acts, with a man and woman, is offered as another of the features. It is
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world! is the way great many persons refer to Sarah Bernhadt. And why not? It would be hard to name another mem- Der of her sex who has done so much, in such a splendidly successful way and with such infinite good humor. Her stock of optimism is apparently never at an end and her vitality seems to suffer no dminution in the flight of years. Madame Bernhardt is no more thinking of retiring to the chimney corner than the youngest star who is at present just beginning to twinkle in the theatrical Armament. She seems destined, like the brook, to go on forever It's a pity she can't. Madame Bernhardt has recently begun a yaude- ville tour in this country which promises to be memorable Her appearance before the moving picture camera was con summated some time ago and, by the way, we are to have in Birmingham this week her moving picture performance of "Queen Elizabeth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
MAJESTIC HAS
 MUSICAL COMEDY
"Frisky France" Will Be Offered by the Kelley Schuster Company
 With Plenty of Girls

The Majestic departs from the straight vaudeville route this week to offer it's patrons change which will probably prove most pleasing and entertaining. It is musical comedy every afternoon at 2'SO and musical comedy twice each night at 7:30 and o'clock. The music and the comedy are both in tabloid edition, just an hour and ten minutes worth of the two combined. but 1t is q pleasing fun and frolic and just enough to entertain.
 The Kelly-Schuster company will pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
At the Birmingham Pay1.ouses During the Coming Week
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

will marry her, and when she expresses
 the great love she bears him. and he tells
 her that he cannot think of marriage.
 poor little June imagines she isn't good enough for him, and pitifuly disilus ioned she sends for her father to come
 and take her away from the school i'll which Hale has placed her. Junes return
 to the cabin in the mountain causes gos-
 sin. and when she refuses to marry her cousin Dave, the feud starts between the Palms and the Tollivers, and a Falin kills a Tolliver.
 Hale who has started a reform move
 ment in the Gap, gets his police together and comes to the Lonesome Pine to find the murderer. Young Dave shoots at the policemen as they come up the trail, hit ting Hale's chum, Berkley Hale goes
 to June's cabin to find Dave, who has
 been concealed by June in a bedroom.
 June denies he is in the place and Berk- ley. who has been carried into the cabin
 suffering from a gunshot wound. denies that Dave is the man who shot him. Hale leaves the cabin, believing that he and June are permanently estranged. The foi-
 lowing morning BerlSley, who IS not Sc riously wounded, leaves the cabin to find Hale whom he encounters standing
 in the shadow of the Lonesome Pine. He halls June, who comes out dressed as Jack Hale first saw her. barefooted anu
 dressed in homespun. The humor of the situation appeals to both. and they are
 drawn together at the foot of the lonely tree, where they sit and wait for the old justice of the peace to come and marry them.
 Miss Charlotte Walker plays the role of June, and she is well suited to portray
 the most delightful stage character We have had in long time. She is support l ed by an excellent company.
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sent "Frisky France which is the name selected for jolly combination of vaude- vile specialties. song numbers, girls and pretty costumes. It is a melange Of those things which please and amuse, and which seem to be the favorite offer ings of the theatregoers of Birmingham.
 Frank Kelly and Milton Schuster are recognized as good comedians, the first naturally an Irish comedian and the sec ond Hebrew with a propensity for mak- ing people laugh. He is one of those com edians who creates laugh as soon as he appears on the stage, and is able to keep it up all the time he is there.
 The musical numbers are frequent and every few minutes there is a bunch of girls on the stage in new and different costume, singing new song, with live ly air and all the latest fads in dips and sways to the dancing.
 The management assures the public ttat the entire production is clean and nothing in the least objectionable will be heard.
 Tho chorus numbers 10 girls. and they are all said to be of more than average good looks and shapely, setting off to the best advantage the many costumes ir
 which they appear. Special care was exercised in selecting the girls for theii ability to look pretty, wear pretty clothes and dance.
 | The musical numbers are new and sew eral of them were written especially fol l the company. There are principals who
 can sing as we'll as those who can evoke 1 a laugh.
 1 The Majestic will have first run mo 1 tion picture this week, and the subJec
 will be one that pleases and entertains a
 the same time. There is matinee ever, afternoon at 2:S0 and two performance
 every night, the first at 50 and the sec | ond at o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

set" with an arm chair on a raised plat form was perfectly satisfactory throne room. The costuming and mounting of play at the present day frequently costs the producer more than does tho play itself, even when it is the work of a noted dramatist. One of the best ex- amples of the expenditure of money com bined with good taste is found in 'The Love Affair'' Frederick Pauding's clever comedy in which Adelaide Thurston will be seen at the Jefferson.
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It is to be inferred that the majority of local book-readers followed the wan derings and love story of the primitive mountain girl June, in John Fox, Jr's. delightful story of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' which will be presented at the Jefferson theatre Monday and Tuesday nights and Tuesday matinee, De- cember 16 and II.
 Few stories, even though they be part fiction and part truth. have been written with the compelling heart interest that the author of this thrilling narrative of the Virginia hills has sustained in every page of his story. Therefore, 1t was with some trepidation that Eugene Walter, clever dramatist though he is. approached the task set for him by Klaw & Erlanger, to bring out of the book a stage June that would appeal as strongly to the theatregoers as the book June appealed to the readers. That MT. Walter has acomplished his task is evidenced al- ready by the approbation of the producers of the play, as well as the author. Mir. Walter has taken q rough, uneducated, enormously superstitlous and imaginative creature and made her a delightful char acter He has brought out all the possi- bilities of the June of the book, catching the significance of MT. Fox's clean cut charac cterization, and the exquisite poetry of drama and of his dominating love theme The play contains no problem, no question of sex dominance, but is ab- solute in the purity of it's sentiment the uplift of it's moral, the poetry of it's TO- nance. genuine man takes an interest
 in a simple girl He anticipates her wish to be sent into the world to be educated, and in his great goodness arouses in the heart of the girl something stronger than mere affection, an overmastering love. In fact, June expects all along that Hale
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A City's Celebrity

From the Washington Star.
 Were you at Vienna when you were abroad?"
 Why should I go to Vienna?' re- joined the girl of icy hauteur, T care for neither comedies or sausage
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 wakes up unexpectedly and finds himself serving 30 days lover the river" for dis orderly conduct.
 During it's first tour of America several years ago. the Aborn English Grand Op- era company confined it's efforts to the older and more familiar repertoire, gen. orally called popular classics. On their second tour they introduced several mod ern novelties in their repertoire, and each succeeding season have increased the pro- portion until now the works of the mod ern masters predominate.
 Miss Mizzi Hajos, the star of "The Spring Maid,'' which comes to the Jeffer- son theatre on Saturday. December 8, has just recently returned to the United States from her home in Hungary. where she spent a months vacation from the strenuous role of the saucy Princess Bozena in werba and Luescher's merry musical comedy.
 Tragedy" said Macready. q am al- ways equal to, but comedy is serious bus mess" Margaret Anglin shares his view. In a recent interview she was asked (Which do you find easier, comedy or, pardon me. emotional roles?' Nothing comes more easily to me than the sim ulating O femotion. l can turn it on sl- most instinctively, just as l turn on this tap"-and she leaned over to the wash basin in the corner of her dressing room and switched on the water.
 On a wager she is said to have wept over an ice cream at luncheon.
 "Everywoman,' the dramatic spectacle which Henry w. Savage will offer in this city shortly, will bring the largest musi- cal and dramatic organization ever toured by that prolific manager Three carloads of scenery and effects are carried from city to city.
 l The day is past when cotton flannel | passed without comment for royal robes | and when the regular "drawing room
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
CCORDING to reports received A from the east, theatrical activity
 \ this season is unprecedented. New

"A from the east, theatrical activity \ this season is unprecedented. New plays are being presented with bewild- ering frequency and girl shows are nourishing in a way to make the tired business man" supromely happy. It Is regrettable that we are not sharing in
 the abundance down this way. The pres ent season in Birmingham has been con- spicuous for the lack of adequate amuse-
 ments, particularly of the better class.
 Birmingham has shown in the past that
 it is qiute capable of supporting all the first rate attractions belonging strictly to the theatrical category provided they
 are not booked for more than two or three nights. When we have an unusual
 run of shows. of course their merits vary and the weaker drawing cards suf-
 fer, but that is the fault of the producers and not of the theatregoers. The latter are quite within their rights in refusing
 to patronize something they know to be inferior. It is always the less meritorious offerings that are responsible for the loudest howls about poor business It is rare indeed that star of the first mag nitude fails to draw all the patronage he or she is entitled to in Birmingham. Dur ing the Shubert regime there were some notable and painful exceptions to this rule. but the state of affairs then eX- istent was due to the unfortunate choice of theatre that was unsafe, antiquated
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The day is past when cotton flame passed without comment for royal robes and when the regular drawing room
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At the Majestic

All the week. with daily mati- nees and two performances night. -"Frisky France" musical com edy.
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At the Blion

All the week, with matinees Tues day, Thursday and Saturday. Madame Sherry.
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At the 0rpheun

All the week, with daily mati- nees and two performances night. Vaudeville.
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At the Jefferson

Monday and Tuesday night, with Tuesday matinee-Charlotte Walker in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
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so freely on a certain night that he wakes up unexpectedly and finds himself serving 30 days lover the river for dis orderly conduct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

"The most wonderful woman in the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20
EDITOR HARTHUN
DIES SUDDENLY
Drops Dead of Heart Failure While
Attending Funeral Of Comrade,
Mr.. c. n. Wendt.
DEATH OF MRS. cHAs. JONES
Mrs. Geo. Hutchinson, Of Milford, and
c. II. Wendt. of Oenison, Are
Buried on Monday.

On Monday morning, Nov. IS, 1912
Mr.. Julius Ferdinand Harthun died OF
heart failure after attending the fun
eral Of his cOmrade and friend, Mr.. c.
H. Wendt Without moments warn.
ing death came to Mr. Harthun and he
dropped TO the sidewalk. He had re-
turned the night before from a visit
with his son, Herman, at Omaha, and
seemed in the best of spirits and
health when he arrived home.
Julius Ferdinand Harthun was born
Feb. IA, 1S45, at Christfelde, District
of Schlochan, Province of Prussia,
Germany. Under the careful guidance
OF his father, Ludwig, and his moth.
er, Johanna, nee Frank, he entered
the public schools at the age Of six
years, where he remained until he
was fifteen. He then entered the pre-
paratory institute for teachers at
Freidland and Jastrow, and after
wards, from 1864 to 1867, he attended
the Royal Academy for teachers at
Freidland. From this college the
young man graduated and took up
the profession of teacher. He taught
school from 1867 to 1870 at Baden
burg, Germany. During the Franco
Prussian war he served with distinc-
ton in the German army.
In the year 1872 Mr.. Harthun was
married to Miss Alvina Wilhelmine
Albertine Daer, who died Oct. 25, 1907,
in Denison, Iowa. To this union there
We're born ten children, namely: Ag-
nes, Alvina, Herman, Fritz, Anna,
julius, Hugo, Olga, Henry and Min
ME. Five children, Agnes, Alvina, o.
ga, Fritz and Minnie have died. The
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20
new BUILDING FOR
MAIN STREET
T. c. Mccarthy Purchases Mckane
Property and Is Tearing Down
the Old Building.
ERECT NEW BUILDING IN SPRING
Double Building, Full Two Stories
High With Complete Basement
Underneath to be Erected.

T. c. Mccarthy has finally purchased
the Mckane property on Main and
fremont streets, and on Monday be
gan tearing down the old frame build
ing, preparatory to getting the ground
ready for a new building in the spring.
The lot is one OF the most desirable
in the business section OF Denison, and
Mr.. Mccarthy will erect building
suitable to the location and demands
Of tenants. The new building will
be made part OF the one Mccarthy
erected this year, ond both buildings
will be two stories above the surface
with complete basement under the
entire building. The Mckane lot is
% feet wide and the new block will
be IS feet long. The front will be
similar to the one now in the kem-
ming room. A suitable stairway will!
lead to the commodious Office suites
to be made on the upper floors. In
structure the building will be of brick
OF the best, and practically tireDrOof.
Mr.. Mccarthy tells us he has ten
ants for the entire upper floors and
the offices will be arranged to suit
the wants of the tenants
Slowly but surely, the old frame
landmarks of Denison are giving way
to modern buildings, and this one is
but one of many that must make room
for up to date business blocks. We
congratulate Mr.. Mccarthy upon his
enterprising spirit and recommend
his public spiritedness to others.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-20

In the school departments there viii
be siXty-nine prizes, mostly cash.
In the boys corn 1S prizes amount
ing to about $4,000.
Spelling contest, $65.OO in cash ant
twenty-five diplomas
In the dor,estic science 95 prizes.
Corn and grain, SO prizes.
Several prizes for stock judging
The amount of prizes in the three lat
ter total about $1,000.
l wish to make this statement, thai
from the best information that car
be obtained this is the largest prem
ium list offered at any short course il
Iowa, and while the premiums are
large and a great many OF them, We
hope the exhibitors will appreciate the
fact that it is not the premiums alone
but the education derived during the
week that is the main object OF the
short course.
Glasses each day in each depart
ment, commencing at 9 o'clock a. NJ
and occupying the entire day, with
classes for school children at p. m.
Lectures and entertainments each
evening. Ten to twelve instructors
from Ames, bringing With Vshem three
car loads of stock and exhibits, in
sures the patrons week of valuable
information and entertainment.
Tickets for stock and corn judging
for the week are worth $3.50.
Tickets for domestic science for the
week $3.50.
Tickets for boys and girls classes
at p. M, 75c.
Single day tlckets-Women, soc;
men, 75c.
Exhibitors tickets, 75c.
Boys and girls tickets, o'clock
classes, so cents.
All holders of season tickets for
the week have a right to free entry
Of exhibits.
All holders of season tickets admit
ted to evening entertainments free.
All holders of single day tickets ad-
mitted to evening entertainment on
day ticket was purchased, free.
Holders of domestic science tick
cts will be admitted to corn and stock
judging if desired.
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