The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-29
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

I
 l Those who have witnessed some of
 the latest theatrical productions of
 Messfs. Klaw & Erlanger. and their
 good friends, the Slluberts, have won dered when and where the limit of
 stage undress would be reached With 1 out essaying the role Of prophet, 1t
 may be stated that when Mare KIaw returned from his last trip to Europe | he gave voice to tremendous entlal1- siasm for a drammer entitled szThe l Tragedy of Man. which he witnessed
 in Budapest The principal characters
 in this play, Mir. Klaw explained, are 1 Adam, Eve and Lucifer. The senior
 member of the theatrical trust added l that he hoped to produce 1.-The Ira gedy of Man. in America, within a year or two, if he could secure the l services of Miss Erczi Paulay, who was the "Eve'' of the Hungarian pro auction. Although MT. Klalw refused
 to state whether the characters in this drama would appear in historic cos-
 tune, we may, at least, hope to see
 more of Miss Paulay.
 Marc-not Mark nor Marcus, as some
 insist upon writing it-EMarc, to repeat Kaw is g. KentucEdan, by birth and
 wdn celebrate totdap the{ dfty-hfth
 anniversary of his birth in Paducah. He was educated in Louisville, studied law, and was admitted to the bar but has been engaged in theatrical activi- ties since his twenty third year.. In launching the great firm of K1aw & Erlanger, which now controls a large proportion of the theatres of the Unit ed States and Canada, MT. Klawss le- gal knowledge was of tremendous ben- eft While Abe" Erlanger is the most spectacular member of the firm the fighting member, so to speak, since
 he has often been called upon to de- fend himself against professional ri- vYf K fzVV eS l. orally thought to be the chief execu- tive of the organization. The suave| and diplomatic Mare Is credited with erecting the reconciliation with the
 independents' against whom the trust long waged a costly war
 MT. K1aw is pictured by his friends and press agents as a. benevolent and highminded gentleman who has ap- piled business principles to an indus try previously carried on dn a hap hazard and chaotic fashion, and, in so doing, has been actuated only by the nobdeSt motives. All the jim dasEes in a linotype magazine would be inadequate to deserving what MT. K1aw,s enemies think of him and his methods.
 The war against Mir Klaw and his syndicate was declared some sixteen years ago, and, except for a brief truce, has waged fur'iously ever since. Both sides have lost tremendous sums
 
 manent peace has been arranged re- mains to be observed.
 Charles Richard Van Hfse, who made the University of Wisconsin "Ameri- cas- leading State university, ,s'-the de- scription was supplied by President Eliot of Harvard five years ago-was born at Fulton, Wis, on this date in 1857. pr. Van Hise was educated at the Madison institution. and entered a. gy in 1879. A few years later he be- came professor. of mineralogy, then professor of geology, and in 1903 as- stunned the presidency 'sIf the people 1 cannot go to the university, the nnf- 1 verstty must go to them,, declared pr. l Van Hise, in announcing his plan whereby the influence of the instftu- 1 ton was extended to every nook and corner of the State-a plan since adopted by many other institutions.
 The first of the English statutes di- | rected against witchcraft, which led to | such wild excesses in England and her colonies, was enacted S72 years ago to- day This act, put into effect by Hen ry VIII and confirmed by Elizabeth 1 and James I, declared all witchcraft | and sorcery to be felony without bene- fit Of clergy. Under these acts.~ in force for two centuries, some 30 900 | people were put to death in England. | In 1645 one Matthew Hopkins, who pos ed as a s'vvitch-finder," caused the Ju- dicial death of a hundred persons. In the latter part of the seventeenth cen | tury the craze spread to America, and | found it's most 1lorrid expression at | Salem, Mass, during the year 1892. | The first law against wftchcraft wasI probably the Jewish statute, of 1491 B. C., Exodus zzcii. 1s5 which decreed. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to Ifve. Pope Innocent VIII. Issued g f4<-I7<a and thousands of persons in continent tai Europe were burned or otherwise put to death. At Geneva 500 women were burned in one, year. The Eng-f fish laws against witchcraft were not F until 1736.