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BERNARD DALY-
DION O.DARf

later The SuppoSitiOn is she has sought
refuge here from the storm.
At the first rehearsals of the play Mr..
Belasco experienced considerable difficulty
in his efforts to make this woman look
lust as he intended such Il woman to
look Something was missing from the
effect he desired. After considerable ex-
pertinent it occurred to him that If the
ostrich feather in her hat We're dipped In
water 1t might give the necessary de-
.iected touch to her fripperies! That
helped considerably. but there was still
something missing.
Then the manager thought of bunch
of faded flowers A bunch OF stale Vio-
let's was procured from a neighboring
florists shop, dipped in water and pinned
upOn the lapel of her shabby coat. The
effect was magical. Then for the first time
did she seem to represent to Mr.. Belasco
lust the type for which he was seeking,
SANS GENE. IN AMERICA.-It was in
her first performance of the title role in
the American premiere of Victorien Sar-
dou's comedy, Mime. Sans Gene 1t
occurred in Albaugh's Grand Opera
House later Aliens. then Chase's- and
now Polls.
Before that time Miss Kidder had star.
red in Held BY the Enemy" Little
Lord Fauntleroy,' School for Scandal
and Shakespearean and old English COM
edies.
Miss Kidder bought outright the Amer
lean rights to Mime. Sans Gene from
Sardou while it was in manuscript form
and before it was produced in Paris by
the great Rejane. She carried it around
for years, unable to get manager to-
even look at it. until Augustus Pitou,
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Columbia.

Eddie Foy viii come to the Columbia
Theater tomorrow evening IN Werba &c
LuesclIers musical success. .'ovcr the
River" This musical show played for
six months at the Globe Theater, New
York. last season.
The story of the play relates to the
predicament in which a wealthy man
about own finds himself after night
of jollity with THE boys" He wakes In
his own home to find that while obliviouS
to his surroundings he has been arrested
and sentenced 20 thirty days in the peni-
Tertiary. The scene takes place in New
York, where the prison is located ON
Blackwels Island and is referred to as.
over the river" The scene in the sec
ond act. showing the interior " the
prison, with Foy in stripes, is one OF the
most amusing acts ever designed for pub
lie entertainment. The large chorus OF
pretty girls is cleverly introduced into
the prison by dressing them as Salvation
Army lassies bringing flowers to the
prisoners. The third act shows a garden
party With every one in Mexican costume
to welcome the return of the hero, who
has written to his wife that he has been
spending thirty DAYS i'm Mexico. There
are an even score of Arcs in the produc-
ton and the music is Of the catchy sort
Surrounding Foy is "A large company OF
well known players. including Eleanor
Kent Marie Fanchonetti. Marie Horgan.
David Andrada. j. 5. kinslow, Charle
Swickard. William Pinkham.s William
Sellery, Milton Dawson. LeaVittS James.
James Davis Pearl Mathews, thefGanc-
ing Pages and chorus of fifty A tsa-
ture of the performance is a novel dance
by the eight madcaps.
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sham undertook 70 have the scenic PACK
ground represent the highest acnieNe,
ment of modern .stagecraft. TO ths emu
he commissioned the late Sir Anna Iaoe-
ma to design the seven massive seluilss.
and 10 paint more than 800 color plates
for costume patterns. The scenery ttSviA
was painted in the London atelier OF 10
seph Harker, the celebrated EnShsh
artist.
In painting the designs, Tadema en- ,-
phasiZed the note of orientalsm when
was making itself potently felt in the
architecture and street life OF Caesa AIS 5
Rome. Thus the prevailing colors are ricIi
maroons vivid yelTows, varegated hiues'
instead of the austere, unrelieved whlIe
which is often the erroneous methou en-
ployed in picturing the Rome Oh 'aesar
upon the stage in the present Ann 10
enhance the splendors of the produc-
ton. Mr.. Faversham engaged Chrlsto-
pher Wilson and Coleridge-Taylor. the
talented negro musician who recently
died. 10 compose an elaborate muslcai
setting which is rendered during me
course of the performance. Matlnees VII
be given Wednesday and Saturday aiter
moons.
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Poll s.

Two interesting vaudeville stars are
headline attractions at Polls this week
The first is Little Lord Robert the
smallest comedian on the stage. and
one of the cleverest. This diminutive
English entertainer is twenty-five years
OF age. weighs fifteen pounds and is
twenty -four inches high But his gifts
are not measured in inches and pounds
for he sings, dances with agility and
grace, and is mimic of unusual
ability.
Lillian Shaw one of the UNIQUE
women of the stage. who has devoted
her exceptional talents to the delinea-
ton of character types. will be seen
in a number of Yiddish representations
Miss Shaw does not ridicule, but she
injects a human and sympathetic touch
into all her portrayals The Kessner
Sisters Will offer clever acrobatic
dancing number in several changes of
costume. The Three Brownies a lively
trio of singers and dancers, work much
of the time on roller skates Charles
Weber, a comedy juggler. Will intro
duce some unique foreign specialties
Trovollo, assisted by two trained as
sistants. will offer ventrilouuistic
specially with special scenic effects
La Rex and La Rex, in thrilling
trapeze feature. will complete the
varied entertainment
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Academy.

Bernard DAILY. the young comedian and
singer. will be seen in the romantic irish
play, Dion ODare at the Acade my
this week
Mr.. DAILY is an Irish American. Nature
has blessed him with a sweet tenor voice.
pleasing personality and good looks.
The play Dion O'Dare'' is of his
torical nature in four acts. and takes
place entirely in the Emerald Isle. giving
both the scenic artist and co9tumer OPP
portunity to display their arts. The char
acter interpreted by Mr.. Daily is that OF
young Irish lad who takes up the art
Of sculpture, and, after travelling for
number of years, he is called upon to
make a statue of the Lord Lieutenant OF
Ireland In the last act. just the I'M
yelling is to take place a celebrated sing
who has been commanded to appear
disappoints the assembled guests. O Dare
asks permission to take the singers
place, which he does and sings an old
heart. She recognizes it, and, after many
complications are cleared up, ODare
comes into his own and wins his colleen.
Mr.. Days role suggests much that IL
prevalent in the Irish character 1t
breatheS of romance and ardent love-
making, yet comedy predominates, with
a dash of pathos to offset the humor.
Many songs are introduced that fit deity
into the story of the play. There are also
touches OF melodramatic interest, and the
scenic investiture of the play is elabo-
rate and beautiful.
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imagination a very definite idea of the
plays dramatic, poetic and PICTORIAL
charm. 1t is not, however, "a dramatiza-
ton of any one of Scheherazade's re-
markable stories Rather it is para
phrase of all Of them. The central figure
is Hail the Beggar. IA rascal OF Wit ana
resource, who passed MS life asking aims
at the door of the Mosque Of the Carpen-
ters, in the ancient city of Bagdad the
drama deals with but one day in the ca
reer of Haji-a day in which fate, or
''kismet," raises him from poverty to
momentary affiuence. delivers into his
hands his two enemies, gives to him
power admiration and love. grants him
the felicity of seeing his beloved daugn-
ter Wed to the caliph and then. at the
end of the day. fate strips him of his
gorgeous raiment and places him again
upon his beggar's stone at the door OF
the mosque.
Among the sixty other players in the
organization are Hamilton Revelle, owen
Mech, Fred Eric, Daniel Janett, Harri-
son Carter. Rita Jolivet Eleanor Cor
don. Georgia Woodthorpe and Merle Mad
dern. There are thirty speaking parts in
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the play. and the +, singers. musicians,
dancers jugglers and superpumeraries
who make up the rest OF the Ncast have
each definite character. for which, he or
she has been carefully selected. The
staging of the American production was
done by Harrison Grey Fiske. The seven
elaborate settings were designed ana
painted by Homer Emens, Frank Platzer-
Walter Burridge. Unit :. ~ Wickess En-
nest Albert and Gates & Morange. The
music was composed bv William Furst
and the costumes were designed by Percy
Anderson of london.
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Chase's.

Chase's this week will celebrate It's
fourteenth anniversary with a new array
of exceptional attractions headed by
Kathryn Kidder and company in an origi-
nal one-act comedy, THE Washerwoman--
Duchess" based upon Nine. Sans Gene"
Victorien Sardou's great comedy the title
role in which was created in this city by
Miss kidder number of years ago. Ia
it Walter Wilson appears as Napoleon;
John Marchant as Field Marshal Lee
febvre, and Mitchell Harris. as Count de
Morny. The action Is laid in the Palace
of the Tuileries in 1S0S and historical ac-
curacy in the matter of gowns. decora-
tons and settings of the NapoleoniC era
has been carefully preserved.
The next important feature will be the
noted Catalina Island deep sea pearl
divers and underwater swimmers the.
Three Travillas and their diving seal de-
scribed as The Seal With the Human
Brain In a huge glass tank they viii
give astonishing aquatic featS, the more
unusual because of the part the seal
plays.
The popular blackface comedians. Con-
roy and lie Marie, will offer their latest
farcical hit. The New Physician" Nor
gan, Bailey and Morgan. "A chic little mu-
stefan and two ''larkish lads" will enter
tain with tunes and talk. Charles Reisner
and Henrietta Cores will present 1T )
Only a Show. a laughable stage-life
travesty: the Bernvicis. The Venetian
Gondoliers.' an artistic and picturesque
Instrumental novelty, and Loughlin :
Comedy Dogs, viii appear in comic antics
on the whirling wheel. The kinemacolor
pictures Will present A Girl Worth HaV-
ing, ana the pipe organ recitals Will con-
tlnue at 80, 30 and intermssion
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National.

Klaw &, Erlanger and Harrison Grey
Fishes magnificent production OF t-dwaro
Knoblauch's oriental drama. hlsihet'
with Otis Skinner in the role on ha1J
the Beggar. is this weeks attraction a'
the National Theater
London first saw "kismet eishteeh
months ago. and great was ITS success
that it remained on view for year
In December 1911 the American produc-
ton was made in Washington ana latei
at the Knickerbocker Theater, New YORK:
ana from, the opening night until the enc
of Nav the house was sold out at almost
every performance. Subsequent produc-
tions of "I<ismet" in France, Germany
italy and Australia have been very sue
cesSful.
..Kismet'' is described as IAN Arabian
Night and the words conjure up to the
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COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Belasc0.

William Faversffam's spectacular pro-
duction of Julius Caesar" which will be
presented at the Belasco Theater this
week, with cast of prominent stars, in
Guiding Mr.. Faversham, Frank keenan,.
Berton Churchill. Fuller Mellish. Miss
Julie Opp and company of 200 persons,
is probably the most ambitious offering
vet made by any actor manager The
New York critics united in declaring the
presentation to be the most. notable
Shakespearean contribution in at least
half century. Mr. Faversham will
bring Julius Caesar" with the same re-
markable cast and ma gniticent scenic en-
Refreshments that characterized the met
ropolitan engagement.
In staging Julius Caesar Mr.. Faver-
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wright we have a barber shop, a restau-
rant and an interior set.
Then, says the playwright to the man
ager, l will take the barber shop and the
restaurant"
He does and he writes the play about
the scenery. 1t is rehearSed twice and
the manager decides to play the last act
first
Certainly not, certainly not" he said
in answer to an inquiry as to whether he
seriously thought of paying Hamlet.
THAT was merely advertising, and good
could not play Hamlet. Even If had the
ability. the public would not accept a
clown as Hamlet and that is what | am,
clown" he added, with a modest nod at
his interviewer
He paid word Of tribute to the critics.
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his package and. distributed candles. one

his package and distributed candles. one
to each, as he passed out.
ALLOW me- monsieur" said he, with a
bow-"Permit me, madam, they are very
superior candles, ! assure you; L paid 10
cents apiece for them. Goodbye
A NEW PRODUCING FIRM = At
Philip Bartholomae's request William
"a Brady has released Leander Rich
ardson. for the past two seasons the head
of his bureau of publicity, and Mr.. Rich
ardson will join Mr.. Bartholomae in
partnership capacity in his various en-
terprises as a producing manager. The
change is to take place next month.
The first independent production under
TIE new direction will be a musical COM
edy called, when Dreams Come True.
with book and lyrics bv Mr.. Bartholomew
and score by Silvio Helm. In it Joseph
Santley is to be featured in company
which will include John c. Slavin, May
Vokes, Rita Stanwood and others. The
stage direction has been given to Frank
Smthson, and the scenery, built by Bert
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When they don't have good plays and
good actors to criticise, how can they be
expected to know what is good and what
isn't?'
LIGHT TIPS''-E. NJ Newman. the
travel lecturer, has had many amusing
experiences during the many years he has
Travelled in foreign lands but none more
so than one of last summer
THE travelling American" he says,
seems to be lawful prey for every land
lord in Europe. Candles especially are
charged to him, though of each candle
lighted for him during his stay but one
half inch may he burned
"a tourist was shown to a room in a
hotel in Caen. where he found twenty
candles stuck in a chandelier. AS 1t was
dark, the attendant lighted them all. but
the guest made him put them out imme-
diately In his bill the next day he
found there charged twenty candles, 10
francs tS2.
Returning to his room, he took them
all, wrapped them in a paper and slipped
them into his oVercoat pocket. When
about to leave he found the servants
drawn up in two lines in the hall in the
usual European style, all smiling and ex
pecting a tip. It was then he drew out
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Lyceun.

At the Lyceum this week ''Zallah's own
Company" will be the attraction. and
Manager Mayer promises an entertain
ment that in many respects equals the Of
ferings in the high-priced houses. The
sponsors for this organization are among
the influential and successful factors in
the Empire circuit and are at the head OF
the movement to better the theaters in
which the circuits attractions are pre-
scented, as well as to improve the char
acter or the travelling companies.
one of the most popular dancers now
in burlesque. Zallah. heads her own COM
pany. and is surrounded with a lsrlge and
competent aggregation of singers, dancers
and comedians. George Totten Smith has
provided suitable vehicles for the enter
prise III "A Cabaret Rehearsal and The
Cnkissed Oriental The scenic artists
and the coStumers We're given liberal IA
cilities to properly equip the production.
The company includes Lena LaCouyier.
Belle Gordon. Marie Croix, Pert Croix.
May Mills. five handsome and talented
(COntinted on Third
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Tucman of Mr.. Brady's staff, is to. be
painted by Gates Il Morange. the scenic
artists of many fine productions, among
them The Garden OF Allah. Nv men
Dreams Come True will have its premier
at the Garrick Theater Chicago, for a
spring and summer run, with a large
Shubert house in New York to follow.
For production in a smaller New YORK
theater next october for the long lease
of which Mr.. Bartholomae now Is nego-
tiatingl a new comedy has been pur-
chased called The Bird Cage by Austin
Adams. 1t is said to be written with
fluent brilliancy. and has for its heroine
the daughter of an American admiral
! with marriage ideas not at all of the con-
ventional order, who abruptly upsetS ira
ditions We'll as the parental ambitions
for her future. The story is laid at
Coronado Beach. Cal, and the frankness
of some of the scenes and discussions is
described as quite startling.
\ farce in which Mr. Bartholomae has
collaborated with another well known
dramatist will follow 1.-The Bird Cage"
POPULAR ERROR CORRECTED
Eddie Foy. this season under the man
agement of Werba and Luescher, stated
in his dressing room during recent per-
Torrance of "Over the River that he
considered the talk about the high cost
know a man who lives on 10 cents day
Here's his menu:
1000 a.m.-Glass of beer, sausage,
beef stew bread cost. .Oo
900 pm.-Glass of beer. sausage,
beef stew, corned beef hash with
individual forks. bread COST. %
$3.50 D m-Glass of beer. sausage,
chowder, beef stew, roast beef,
onion salad, pickles. bread, cost. %
..TotaI .......... 10
Mr.. Foy advises that he is willing to
furnish the route and stops to any one
who will communicate with him.
CLEVER EXCUSE.-While motoring
in the Midlands with her husband. Ken
nerley Rumford, Nine. Clara Butt stop
ped at a country druggists for head
ache powder. The proprietor, recogniz-
ing the famous contralto, whose face Is
a familiar one in Great Britain, eXcitedly
begged her to try a throat lotion OF
which he was the compounder. Nine
Butt smilingly declined the honor and the
druggist. somewhat crest fallen, gave her
the headache dose and bowed her out
week later Nine Butt was amazed
to read a huge advertisement of So-and-
Sos throat elixir taken by Nine cara
Butt!'
Much incensed. the singer wrote, de-
handing an explanation. In reply came
a bland letter explaining that a small
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EDDIE FOY ON PLAYWRIT1NG.-
Eddie Foy has a habit of saying funny
things not in the play sometimes. Here
are a few, gathered in d recent inter-
view
I'm these days it is the speculative
manager who doesn't know anything
about the drama, but who pays the
salaries, or loses the money, but tells the
actor how to act.
1--WE want play, says the manager to
the playwright.
What sort of scenery have we in the
storehouse. says the playwright to the
manager
We'll says the manager to the play
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wiser than the rest, saw its possibilities
It's production was Miss Kidder's great
est personal triumph She had enjoyed
the unusual privilege of having Sardou
himself read the play to her, and she
saws her great success in the role was
largely due to the directions which the
French dramatist personally gave her
during that memorable recital.
After Miss kidder had won fame and
fortune with the play it was presented by
other stars, notably Ada Rehan and FL
len Terry.
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WILLIAM F'AVERSHAM. - William
Faversham is universally recognized as
one of the most eminent actor managers
upon the English-speaking stage
Although an Englishman by birth. Mr.
Faversham has been prominently identi-
ned with the theater in this country for
so many years that he feels himself i'm
every sense an American In fact he has
never acted upon the British stage.
Ills hrst real step on the ladder of
fame was acquired in 1s9f in the Empire
Theater production of ''Aristocracy.'' In
this piece he played Prince Emil Won
Haldenwald, while other important roles
were acted by Wilton Lackaye, Viola
Allen and Blanche Walsh. Engagements
of constantly greater Importance succeed
ePSwiftly IN sowing the Wind" John
A. Dreams and The Masqueraders
In 1880 came his dashng performance
of Gil de Berault in Under the Red
Robe" which was accomplished with
whole season IN New York. Brother Of
ficers'' and THE Conquerors" filled in the
seasons till in 1898 Mr.. Faversham gave
one of the greatest comedy performances
in the history of the American stage as
Algy in Lord and Lady Algy" Later in
the season he was the Romeo in the
special Frohman production of Romeo
and Juliet" in which Maude Adams was
the Juliet and James X. Hackett as
Mercutio.
Man. In which Mr. Faversham appear
ed for three seasons. is a matter of more
recent chronicl.ng. Then came his strik
ing character impersonation of the gloomy
Herod in stephen Phillips poetical drama
of the same name. Since then igh
comedy representations in The World
and His Wife" and 1.-The Faun' have
merely added to the luster of a career
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The famous last, act of 1.-The Governors
Lady" is replete, with those touches of
nature" which have made the name OF
the producer, David Belasco, one to con-
jure with
OF the many striking effects of the res
taurant scene there is one that leaves a
peculiarly lasting impression of realism.
Into the brightly lighted lunchroom
comes a woman from the streets, whose
cheap fnery has been bedraggled by the
snowstorm raging without. The clock on
the wall shows it is nearly midnight. The
unfortunate is without money and the
waters generously offer her cup of
coffee, which she promises to pay for
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portion Of the elixir really had been
dropped in the headache mixture.
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a policy which in any form of public
amusement is recognized as requiring pa
thence. He established a record for rigid
propriety on his stage and insisted on
courtesy and decorum in the auditorium,
with his own employees setting the ex-
ample. He supervised his bills with mi
croscopic care and never let a laugh
serve as an excuse for line which might
antagonize the promise implied In the
trade mark. polite vaudeville" He as
ISOLATED with him people not only of ex-
perience in theatrical amusement, but
those competent to advise him as to local
tastes and conditions. and long before he
was ready to move into his present pa
latial theater had established his enter
prise as one of the institutions of the
National Capital. The fourteenth ami
versary of Chase's sees the phrase 'po-
lite vaudeville" at first regarded with
iocose suspicion. a synonym for clean
conservatism in popular entertainment
Prophecy: Otis Skinner as the leading
member of the company presenting "Kis-
met will be found even more diabolically
suave than he was in the original pres
entation of this remarkable spectacular
melodrama Eddie Foy will have a large
quantity of new song and specially ma
terial in "Over the River which will
represent great improvement on the by
no means unsatisfactory performance
last year. Faversham will score a posi-
tive triumph as Mark Antony in Julius
Caesar" brilliantly fulfilling the promise
OF tragic power given in his wonderful
performance of Herod.
PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-03-05
BEMlDJI IS SAFE

Washington, March 5.-The public
building bill, which was finally agreed
to by both houses at an early hour
Tuesday morning, carries the follow
ing appropriations for Minnesota and
the Northwest:
ADMINISTRATIVE Falls, $4,000;
Montevideo, $4,000; Anoka, $780,
900; Bemidji, $4,000; Fairmont,
$4,000; st. Peter, $4,000. For
Moorhead the appropriation was in
creased from $4,000 to SOS, 900, and
an increase for Minneapolis Of $175,-
600 was agreed to. a. s@4s',@--
North DISQUALIFICATION, $780,
900; Jamestown, $4,000; Valley
City, $4,000. .....s.5. s.5.:...,.. H.
South Dakota-Redfleld, SOS, 900;
Madison, $4,000; Belle Fourche
$4,000, and Chamberlain, $50, 900.