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The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-02-28
POOR SAINTS, DONATION DAv

DOlo'VloH udy lOT JNe POOR Saints
Home was observed last Monday. The
occasion goes down as one of the big
successes along benevolent and char.
liable lines for Nashville. This af.
fair was under the auspices of the
Ladies' Sewing Circles, subdjvided
into North South and West. together
with the Home Mission Societies of
the Mt. Olive Baptist Church PRO
visions, linen, household goods and
cash amounting to a total that was
pleasing are reported to have been
received Rev, DR. Clark, pastor of
the church and promoter Of the Poor
SAINTS Home, announced this week
that he is still working and hopiug
that his plans for the Poor Saints
Home, controlled and operated Jointly
by all the Baptist churches in the
city, such as he advocated and has
been advocating for number of
years, might soon materialize. He
SAID, 81 want one great big and mag.
nlhcent home for the poor saints OF
our churches The concert that was
10 nave been given Wednesday night
for the benefit Of the Home by the
students Of Meharry Medical College
and practicing physicians was post,
poned on account of insufficient dine
to make the necessary advertisement
The general reports as to the assist
ance being given from the public at
large which has a standing invitation
TO visit the Home, were satisfactory.
One physician, DR.. S. S. Carutbers
donated his professional services to
"a, me inmates of the Home for one year.
rms is regarded by the management
as the biggest donation the Home has
yet received. '''''
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-02-28
ONE NEGRO KILLS

Columbia, Tenn, Feb 9e"Wiu
Johnson It son, was placed in jail today for
Gne Killing of another Negro at tbe
frierson phosphate plant, in the sew.
enth district. The men fell out over
tne loading of tram car and began
looking for each other with shotpIns
dead ~ 'nelu IS
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
FOUR CHARACTERS
In SINGLE PLAY

The part of Robert Stafford played bv
Frank Mills, in George Broadhurst.s now
erful drama, Bought and Paid For
which will be seen for a return anSa1o-
ment at the Belasco this week, is one or
the most difficult roles ever pictured by
a dramatist. The play is in four acts.
and each act shows a different side of
staffords character.
In the first act Robert Stafford. the
dignihed business man, the maSnate q
power in the financial world-a man for
NAL. forceful, but suaye and refined
An entirely different Stafford ia shown
in the second act. He has beep MAJ
ried two years. Throughout this act ha
is under the influence of LIQUOR. Here
Stafford is the beast. the selfish. brutal
husband. His worst nature is upper
most
In the third act Robert Stafford is a
nervous, irritable man. He is now suf-
fering from the effects of his debauch
of the night before. He orders his wife
to do things for him. He declares him
self to be the head of the family. He
reveals the domineering commercial in
stinct OF his nature, side of him here
tofore only suggested.
In the last act still another strains of
the mans nature comes to the surface.
He has been mellowed by the separation
from his wife. He has got a view OF
himself and seen his defects. He has
become tender. He has relaxed his re-
lentlessness- He is genuinely generous.
without having become sentimental. He
is more human here than in any other
part Of the play-less the bully-and vet
there is no diminution in his forceful-
ness.
1t is no easy matter for an actor to
portray 30 complex q character q thls-
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Weeks Amusements.
NHtionl-GeOrge NJ. Cohan, in
"Broadvay ,JoDe,n

At the National this week George M.
Cohan and his own company will present
Mr.. Cohan's American play, Broadway
Jones' comedy that found favor last
season in New York and Chicago. where
it enjoyed long runs.
George NJ COhan is perhaps the most
popular author-actor on the American
stage, a distinction that has been won,
not alone by the products of his pen, but
by his general stage department, which
IN pursuing has endeared him to a fol-
lowing unusual in the annals of the the
ater.
The cleanliness of Cohan's comedies il
their greatest recommendation, and in
none of them has this wholesomepess
prevailed to a greater degree than in
broadway Jones'"
George NJ. Cohan's engagement here
will be his farewell as an actor on the
local stage. 1t is announced that he will
continue to present himself in broadway
Jones IN the larger cities not yet visited
until the end of February, 1914 after
which it IS his intention to devote his
entire time to writing.
In March of the coming year Mr.. Co.
han, together with his wife and babies.
and accompanied by Mr.. Francis X. Hope,
his PERSONAL representative, will begin a
tour Of the world upon which he plans to
be gone year, and perhaps longer.
The broadway Jones" company will
consist of the same players who have
supported the author-actor since the play
was originally produced, and includes his
father and mother, Jerry J. and Helen F.
Cohan, Edith Luckett, Ada Gilman. Mary
Murphy, George Parsons, Clarence Heri-
tage, Daniel Burns, John Klendon,
Fletcher Harvey, NJ. J. Sullivan, and
others.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Current Weeks Attractions Leading Washington Iheaers
Pre-HOLiday Depression
HOperS Over the Thedters
Columbia Is Dark for Want of Suitable Piece;
Belasco Plays Return Engagement of "Bought
and Paid For" Because of Disappointment
In miss Jennie OJoneS."

than has hitherto been hers, but lust be-
cause Miss Burke is only a charming
ingenue comedienne, with a personaIn,
as dainty as a bit of Dresden china. al
ways rainbow in the theatrical season
to which her large clientele looks for
ward, which is just cause for public re-
sentiment when Mr.. Frohman pushes her
out on the stage in a typical Margaret
Anglin role.
In all this depressing atmosphere there
is a mighty optimistic spot this week,
however, in the person of George M.
Conan, who comes to the National in
broadway Jones'" the four-act comedy
by himself, which was first presented in
his own theater in New York September
2S of last season, a play in which he so
far broke away from his musical song
and dance methods Of yore as to have
won the most enthusiastic praise of the
public.
Still in his thirty-fifth year, yet with
the remarkable achievement of having
written and produced seventeen success
ful plays, George NJ. Cohan states that
the stories that have been flying about
as to his retirement as an actor from the
stage are positively true.
You know I never did care for the
acting end of the game" SAYS Mr. Cohan.
thespian, but rather as an author, and
now that 1 have harnessed up a small
piece of change. at least sufficient to
guarantee me coffee and rolls for a few
weeks ahead. am going to stick to my
determination and try to become a
farmer. OF course, I am not going to ac-
tually till the soil, or anything of that
Sort but II is my intention to acquire
a fairly good sized piece OF property near
Providence. R. l., an option on which
| have at the present time, and transform
it into home that l have had in nv
minds eye since boyhood
Il want comfortable quiet pIace
where ! can read and write, and think.
and one tflt will be alluring enough to
make IT attractive to my growing family
and myself for the year round, il need be
or course, l do not intend to eschew
Broadway-the dear old street has been
very good to me, in fact. it has been nv
inspiration for many plays beginning
with Johnny JONES' and ending with
Broadway Jones'
1T is my ambition to read a whole LOT
and every once in while when I feel
an inspiration. I will grind out a play.
For instance, next year / am going to do
an original play for Raymond Hitchcock:
this, of course, will be musical more or
less
Il hope to turn out two or three original
plays a year, and possibly do a drama
tlza1on now and then. So that's the real
reason why I must give the acting game
rest and get busy as a playwriter
fellow"
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Casino-NaudeNiIIe.

Nine rough riders of a musical type.
with histrionic accomplishments, COM
pose the Rough Riders Band, which will
present spectacular patriotic tableaus at
the Casino this week. featuring the
Battle of San Juan Hill" and ''the
Spirit of 70" Jack Hendley and his
three players will present the Troubles
of Mr.. and Mrs. Brown a farce, and
Walter Milton will be the third feature.
Others include Wilson and Bundy, COM
edy acrobats, and a sketch interpolating
songs and chatter. The added features
for the week include the surprise party
tomorrow evening: the country store,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings; the
prize dancing contests, Thursday even
ing. and the amateurs, Friday evening,
with the Christmas speciality, The
Children's Toy Store" Friday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock, when fifty toys will be
given away to children in the audience.
Motion picture comedies are shown at
every performance.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
BALTIMORE HAS "THE
WHIP" THIS WEEK

A letter last week from Mr.. Tunis F.
Dean, the manager Of the Academy of
Music, Baltimore. gives information of
the engagement there this week of THE
Whip" the rip-snorting melodrama which
last year made blase London and New
York rave with enthusiasm Magnif1-
Gently gowned women and stylishiy
dressed men frantically cheered the win
ming race horse; groaned with horror at
the train wreck; Missed and "booed'
the villain at every performance.
Through the vagaries of booking Wash
ington is not to have THE Whip" this
season, a fact which suggested Mr..
Deans notice of its Baltimore engage
ment this week.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Bela.co-.withIn the Law

within the Law" Bayard Veiller's
absorbing play OF modern American
life, which is a dramatic sensation of
the year in New York and Chicago, is to
be presented by the American Play Com
pany at the Belasco Theater next week,
with Helen Ware in the leading role.
This drama, which has been critically
commended as possessing the most en-
crossing human interest story given the
stage in a decade, has for its central
character a pretty and quick-witted
young woman who is falsely accused and
wrongly convicted of stealing from her
employer. Within the Law" is q world
wide success, as the play is at present
equally popular in England, Germany,
and Australia
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07

first appearance with the Poll Players
tomorrow night in the role of Sassafras
Livingston, the quaint negro character
originally played by Willis Sweatman.
William D. Corbett will be seen as Elias
Rigby, the district attorney, the role he
created in the original Western produce
ton. 1.-The County Chairman" tells an
interesting story OF backwoods politics.
into which are woven the themes Of two
romances. The story is laid in Indiana
George AIDES own State. and it is an
open secret that he has dramatized many
of the quaint characters he knew in his
boyhood days. An elaborate production
of the comedy is promised by the Poll
mauagement.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
BeIa.cO-"BouEht and Paid For,

Bought and Paid For" written by
George Broadhurst and produced by WILL
lam A. Brady, which will be presented
for return engagement at the Belasco
Theater this week, is a social problem
play in which a telephone girl marries
the millionaire financial operator, Rob-
ert STAFFORD. He is a man who loves his
home, and showers luxuries on the girl
of his choice, catering to her slightest
wish. Her rise from a ten-dollar-a-week
salary to indulgence in steam yachts,
automobiles, jewels, furs, and boxes at
the opera, while gratifying, are not who'll
ly satisfying to the girl. The husband
has one serious fault. Occasionally he
INDUCES in champagne. a shortcoming
which she refuses to tolerate Although
he is considerate in all other respects.
when she demands that he abstain from
his periodic spells he refuses to accent
the dictation of his wife, and she leaves
him to return to the prosaic life of a
store girl at 800 per week. The change
is SO rapid and severe, after a life of
luxurious ease, that IL almost DESTROYS
her courage, but, being firm of purpose
she declines to return to him. A bogus
message telephoned to the husband by
the brother-in-law brings the couple to-
gether and reunites them.
Bought and Paid For has been in
dorsed by the clergy Of nearly every re-
ligious denomination and has been the
subject for many sermons delivered from
the pulpit. Its wonderful appeal to all
classes is best attested to by its run of
fifteen months at the Playhouse in New
York City. six months at the Princess
Theater, Chicago; six months at the
Adelphia Theater, in Philadelphia, and
six months at the New Theater. in Lon
don, England.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
"THE LURE" WILL
LEAVE DECEMBER 6

''The Lure will end its long and sue
cessful engagement at Mexine Ellfott's
Theater, New York, on Saturday night,
December 6, and will move to the Shu-
bert Theater in Newark for the week of
December s. This production will con-
tinue in the vicinity of New York for
some weeks thereafter before going to
succeeding THE Lure at Maxine
Elliott's Theater viii be ''The Things
That Count" under the management of
William A. Brady, Ltd. This play by
Laurence Eyre will open its engagement
In New York on Monday, December &
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Cosmos-Vaudeville.

Woodland Memories" an act of spec
tacular beauty and song, will be the
leading attraction at the Cosmos this
week. Besides. company of eight peo-
pie, elaborate scenery and lighting ef-
fects are employed in presenting the art
features and the musical incidentals.
The features of the production are the
opening scene showing THE Woodland
Nymph' and introducing bird songs and
the sounds of the forest and fields, and
the closing tableau. Evening" a scene
of great beauty with its fading and
changing lights. William Lampe and
his company of six players will present
a little comedy with a real dramatic sit
uation, entitled "A Dinner for Five.
Douglas and Douglas, with a remark
able dog, are billed for an exhibition of
mixed acrobatics; the Stillings, for banjo
specialties, and Garden and Gerrish, for
an Offering Of songs and chatter. The
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Columbia - Photo Production o.
"The Last Days of Pompeii.-

Although George Kleine's photo
drama production, THE Last Days of
Pompeii," which comes to the Columbia
Theater next week, is more of an idyllic
love story than spectacular sight,
there are nevertheless some keen thrills
and awe-inspiring moments These are
notable in the episodes in the arena
when the mounted giadiators fight, and
in the scenes showing the terrible erup-
ton of Mount Vesuvius. The pande-
monium following the eruption is mar
velously illustrated and demonstrates
wonderful stagecraft The Last Days
of Pompeii" will be presented through
out the week, with matinees daily.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
B. r. KeIths-High-clR Vaude-
willie.

Foremost will be Jack Wilson, with
Ada Lane and Jack Boyle. The trio of
funmakers will offer "An Impromptu Re
vue," embracing songs, dances, and
smart talk. The extra added attraction
will be the latest production by B. A
Rolfe,- called ''The Purple Lady" In this
tuneful medium, there will be Ralph
Lynn, the English comedian. Helen JUL
iette, and a host of other more or less
notable players from the Rialto. Ger
trude Vanderbilt and George Moore will
take part in this weeks festivities. They
will be seen in "A Singing Dansante,' -
concocted especially for this engagement
Another inclusion will be Josephine
Dunfee, the prima donna of comic opera,
giving some of her famous songs and Sc
lections. Those who like dramatic
sketches in every bill will find their need
met by Louise Galloway, who. with her
company, will play Edgar Allen Woolfs
hone-life comedy drama, Little Moth
err" Other features of interest will be
De Lasso Brothers, French casting
adopts; Alberta Moore and Myrtle
Young, who offer charming interlude;
Eddie Love and Jeanette Wilbur, THE
Flying Meteor and the Aerial Venus
the Pathe motion pictures of current
events, and the pipe organ. recitals.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Coming Attractions.
NntionaI-wiIIIam Collier I'm -
Little Water ON the Side.''

William Collier is TO come to the Ma
tional Theater next week, when Charles
Frohman will present this comedian in
a new comedy entitled "A Little Water
on the Side" Mr.. Golfers newest We
hicle in the work of himself and Grant
Stewart, collaborators-also responsible
for one of the comedians earlier sue
cesses, Caught in the Rain
The company chosen by Mr.. Frohman
to support Mr.. Collier includes Paula
Mari. William Collier. jr, Jessie Glen
denning, Dorothy Unger, Hazel Section,
Beatrice James, Eleanor Goodspeed,
Grant Stewart, Charles Dow Clark,
Henry Weaver, Nicholas Judels, John
Adams, Edward Moore. William Ward,
and James Sheeran.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Gaycty-"The RoseIand Girls

The Roseland Girls appear at the
Gayety next week in a two-act burlesque
entitled Society a la Carte" Butch
Cooper. comedian and producer, is re-
sponsible for the book.
The cast Is headed by Sollie Ward and
Eddie Swartz. comedians. while the sup
porung members include Walter Pear
son, Ben Hilbert, Harry d Mach IN
Ian Fitzgerald, Nina Schall, Jeanette
spellman, and Jane Pearson.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
b. F. Keith'.-HiEh-cIa.. Vaudeville

Belle Story, a popular comedienne.
will be the chief attraction at B. F.
Kieth's next week. Next in Importance
will be Edward Abeles and company in
his latest farcical- hit A third, Harry
GilfoiI, will offer as The Baron" new
line of stories, songs, and whistling.
Other numbers will be Prince Lai Mon
Kim, Lola Merrill and Frank Otto in
Her Daddy's Friend" His Secretary"
the Congressional comedy by Mrs. A.
s. Burleson; the Four Bards, Lo Lotte,
the roller skating Russian bear. and the
Pathe motion pictures Of current events.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Acadcmy-"The shepherd of the
.-' HiIIs.,

Harold Bell Wright's novel, "The
Shepherd of the Hills" has been made
into a play by its author, with the as
sistance Of Fishery w. Reynolds The
second presentation of this play in this
city will take place at the Academy
next week.
The play is practically a true nara
tive of life among the humble dwellers
Of the Ozarks. 1t touches all the emo
tions, and its influence is wholesome
and helpful, notwithstanding several
rough characters that figure more or
less prominently.
THE Shepherd Of the Hills" is =
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
NatiopaI-"Le. MisernbIe.."

This afternoon and tonight at the New
National Theater the famous photoplay
OF Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Mis-
erables," will be shown for the last time.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Acndemy-"7he NcwIy-weds and
Their Baby.

"The Newley-weds ard Their Baby"
which will be seen for the first time in
Washington at the Academy next week,
teens with songs and dances 1t is the
latest addition to the class Of cartoon
comedies. The show is in two acts and
four scenes, the finale of the first act
proving most distinct innovation. The
credit of the book goes to Aaron HOff-
man and Paul West. The music is by
Seymour Brown, and John W. Bratton.
There are sixteen musical numbers, in
Guiding the finale OF the second act
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Poli,.-.EIeyating a husband. !,

Polls Theater announces for next
week revival of "Elevating a Hus-
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07

Pathe weekly news pictures and a series
OF selected photo-comedies will COM
plete the bill
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Anna Held on Paciac Cca.t.

Anna Helds Variete Jubilee is attract
ing capacity audiences to John Cort's
theaters on the Pacific Coast
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07

man and Samuel Shipman, in which
Louis Mann was seen three years ago.
The play tells the story of a crude man
of business who has made a huge sue
cess as the proprietor OF string of FIVE
cent stores. His wife goes in for the
uplift in art. She becomes infatuated
with an artistic soul The development
OF the story tells of the wife's efforts to
elevate the rough diamond she has mar
ried, and its disastrous result.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
PoIr.-"The County Chairman.

George AIDES comedy, THE County
Chairman" will be revived at Polls to-
morrow night with Theodore Roberts in
the character of Jim Hacker, the county
chairman, the role he created in the orig
inaI Western production. Izetta Jewel
will have the role of Lucy Rigby, daugh-
ter of the district attorney. Richard
Buhler will be seen as young Tflford
Wheeler, the county chairman's youthful
partner, Stanley James viii make his
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07

splendid story OF real life among the
Ozark hills of Missouri. If you go there
you will easily find a Mutton Hollow, a
hill like Dewey Bald, and people like
Sammy Lane, Young Matt, Little Pete,
and Dad Hewlett. Clinging to the beau
tiful story simply told. is the atmosphere
of the life of picturesqueness Of the re-
gion which is So sadly unfamiliar to the
travellers in search of new scenes.
Messrs. Gaskill and MacVitty, the
producers, have given the drama beau
tiful mounting and a cast of players in
cluding Roy Sutherland. Ray Brown,
Jean Ward. Harry Nelson, Z. C..
Sprague, Mabel Thorne, James Baber.
Edwin Clark, Maud Norton Curtis. Fred
W. Roth, William Easterbrook, L. South
worth, and Will Morton.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
Gnyety-GoIden Crook Company.

The Golden Crook company, in two
act musical entertainment entitled
From Riches to Rags" is the attrac-
ton at the Gayety this week. Frank A.
Burt, character dialect and tramp COM
edian; Frank Dobson, comedian and
dancer, and Maude Rockwell, prima
donna, are featured in many scenes and
special features.
Act I is in four scenes, the first two
in New York, the third In Vienna, and
the fourth showing the palace OF Rayo,
the queen of light, in the Milky Way.
Act II is laid in Paris at the chateau
Des Reeves. All of the principals appear
in separate feature specialties, while
the Hippodrome four, the Golden troup
of Russian dancers and acrobats, and a
European ballet are among the vaude-
vile numbers. The Apache dance by
Burt, Rockwell, Dobson, and Hall is
feature fresh from a Paris dancing hall.
George Totten Smith wrote the book,
and Jack Strouse. one of the present
company, wrote the music.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07
CALENDAR OF THE WEEK.

NatiOnaI-Geo. N. COhan, in
"BrOadWay Jones'"
BelascO - "BOuEht and Paid
For"
umbia-Dark.
Polls - "The County Chair
man,"
B. +. keIth's High-cIass
Vaudeville.
Academy-"The Shepherd of
the Hills"
Gayety-GoIden Crook Co.
COsnIOs-EaudeVili
CaSinO-EaudeViIIe.
The Washington herald., 1913-12-07

Bought and Paid For" with its theme
or modern marriage from the woman
angle. is a serio-comic drama with every
element Of popular appeal, the problem
itself being frightened throughout with
a persistent comedy element. When seen
here last season with Julia Dean in the
leading feminine role, the acting through
out was admirable and consistent AIDING
greatly to The interest of the drama
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-28
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