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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

promise that he viii send Anthony back
as a present.
Through the minor characters Mr..
Shaw works out his characteristic sa-
tire There is Brittanus captured on
the island. Mr. Shaw is so fond of sa-
tirizing- rs it true" asks Cleopatra,
that when Caesar caught you you were
painted all over bIue?' Blue" re-
Sponds BrittanuS, lis the color worn
by all Britons of good standing. In war
we stain our bodies blue, so that though
and our lives, they cannot strip US of
our respectability."
The unctiOus humor, authority and
genuine distinction which the role of
caesar demands are so perfectly met
in the personality and acting of Mr.
Robertson that detailed comment on his
performance viii not be needed here.
And Miss Gertrude Elliott was admir-
ably suited TO the demands of the lit
tie queen, Brittanus. a part which any
actor might weep for, now that the
public has been educated up to thinking
Jokes about English insularitv funny
was in the capable hands of Ian Rob-
ertson, who played 1t capitally. As Ap-
polodaria, Alexander ScOtt-Gatty was
excellent
E'The Love Leash
If It happens to be your lot to be in
possession of plenty of money, a doting
wife. a fussy mother, numerous silly
friends who are impairing your social
standing, and you happen to become
bored with the whole situation, the
best thing for YOU to do is to arrange
at once for a trial divorce. I advance
this on the authority of Anne Steese
Richardson and Ed Edmund Breeso,
who set it down as the very best little
remedy for material ennui, is their pIay.
The Love Leash" produced Monday
night at the Harris theater, under the
management Of the New Era Produc-
ing company.
Of course those who slipped the love
leash, Monday night were carried
through three acts Cor two months) of
feverish unrest and narrowing heart
breaks, but it proved to be highly eff
feetive. Still we suspect that a sound
spanking or the services of a capable
guardian have been more effective.
Vera and Theodore Nash are the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

young people in question. They have
been married for years and years, but
have remained very young through 1t
all So young that the husband chafes
under the loving solicitude of his wife
and the constant tender care Of his
mother, and yearns for freedom. He
yer, one of his friends, and wiley over
hears. It is all very terrible, but
she hides her pain and matches up
wonderful scheme for a trial divorce.
Everything is arranged All for free
dom.
They both go out to seek a new in
terest in life. The wife becomes all
wrapped up in boosting a musical
prodlSy, ana the husOand 1lndS a TEN,
permental authOress- They also find
out, by means Of separate interest, how
much they are in love with each other.
Then after numerous complications are
unravelled they throw themselves into
each others arms and avow themselves
cured forever.
Grace Filkins played the doting wife
and Maud Granger the equally doting,
If not more so, mother. Elliott Dex-
ter was the depressed husband, and
Harry Stephenson was an interesting
family lawyer. As the excitable musi-
clan F. HoWSon gave a good exhibition
of nerves, and Ann Meredith, draped in
the latest fashion, played the Turing
novelist The scenes were very attract
i've and on the whole the play afforded
some amusement.
'SThe Great Adventure.S
The new Booth Theater, a handsome
little play house and built by Winthrop
Ames, and uamed in honor of the great
tragedian was opened on Thursday
night with 1.-The Great Adventures
the dramathized version of Arnold
Benefits most amusing book,
Buried Alive"
Lyn Harding, who is now recognized
as one of the best actors on the con-
temporary stage, played the part of
liam Carve, the artist, and while his
work was very interesting and his
reading admirable, he gave the i'm
preston of being too virile for the
role of a timid, vague and dreamy
artist. Janet Beecher, as the wife, was
hardly the ideal for such a role. OF
course Miss Beecher is a sterling act
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

she turned to the stage, and for sew
eraI years she played mediocre parts
with various stock companies There
were several short periods when she
played leading parts. But most of the
time" she says, Il was only receiving
sufficient salary to stave off the wolf
Then came that awful season when
crash followed crash, road shows were
called in and stock companies closed
when thousands of theatrical folks
were listed in the great army Of the
unemployed.
MY means ran low, and being urged
by a friend, I tried posing before the
camera" she said AT that time L
called it posing but now L am con-
WINGED that we do real acting. l seemed
to get on from the start Excepting
a few brief periods when 1 returned to
the stage my work before the camera
mas been continuous
MY success. if you call it that, is
the result of the hardest kind of work.
I doubt if I could have made any kind
of a name had I remained on the stage
Now I want to do the big thfngs-fn
motion pictures-the bigger the bet
ter
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
DAYLIGHT BURGLARS
RANSACK TWO HOUSES

Daylight burglars and other thieves
were busy Saturday. while occupants of
1875 Prospect avenue were away, burg
lar broke out the glass in a rear win
dow. lifted the catch, entered and ran
sacked the entire house. Dresser draw
eTs were pulled out and thrown about
the floors. Every trunk in the house
was broken open and their contents
pulled out and strewn about. Only
81 IN cash was missed
A daylight burglar armed with
passkeY opened the front door of John
Powers home, POI Chihuahua street
Saturday afternoon and walked in. A
complete canvass was made of the house.
and while things were upset nothing was
reported missing.
Saturday night burglars using a pass
key entered Angel Reyes's tailor shop,
Second and Oregon. They carried swav
three pairs of trousers and an overeoat,
When J. G. Brown, who had been out
OF town for several days, returned to
his room at 1910 Texas street. Satur-
dav afternoon. he missed a light gray
suit of clothes
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
Portrayal of Cleopatra as a
Is Year Old Girl Is
Unique and Pleasing.

= EW YORK, Oct 25.-I am going
~ to plunge at once into the bust
ness Of this letter for an full Of
what I saw Monday night at the shu-
bert theater. It was sir Forbes-Robert-
son, in Bernard Shaw's immortal farce,
Caesar and Cleopatra" The play was
presented here several weeks ago, and
the occasion is therefore what is some
times called a revival" although just
where a piece that has twice the vi
tally and a hundred times the wit
of most plays Of the moment needs
any revival is not easy to see.
Mr.. ShaW's objection to the popular
idea OF the story Of Cleopatra and the
noble Romans was that il took An
thongs infatuatiOn too seriously. All
of Shakspere's rhetoric was strained
to give sublimity to what Mr.. Shaw re-
garded as decidedly an inglorious af-
fair. The very name Cleopatra he ex-
planned, suggests a tragedy Of Gree,
with the horrible difference that
whereas the ancient myth represents
Gree as turning heroes into hogs mod
ern romantic invention. would repre-
sent her as turning hogs into heroes.
So instead Of the usual siren from a
popular poster, Mr.. Shaw made Cleo
patra q charming but rather in-na-
tured little girl of 16, when, according
to Mr.. Shaw was the age of the Egyp-
tan queen when Caesar came to Egypt,
while Caesar himself was a calm. ur-
pane rather witty anu a ulSuly el-
ficient elderly man-equaI to every
occasion and to treating Cleopatra's
Tagaries with the understanding Of
father.
This unique reartangement Of con-
ventional notions is maintained from
the moment when the little queen
awakened from her sleep on a bed of
peoples at the feet Of the sphinx by
Caesars midnight apostrophe to it, in
terrUpts his oratory with a pzzled "old
gentleman" to the final scene in which
Caesar departs for Rome with the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
C0TRICK" photography was known

6STNRICK' photography was known
before the birth of the motion
picture. Thomas Hardy made
effective use Or d GeIusiye photograph
in one of his novels. But it is through
Internationally the camera has
art of creating illusions for the delu-
sion of the spectator.
The skill reached by operators in
this form of camera manipulation has
enabled them to attain results that
seem to verge on the miraculous, even
when the methods they employ have
been thoroughly explained, and seem
wholly miraculous when the spectator
remains innocent of knowledge of those
methods.
The tricks had their beginning in a
mechanical popularity of the moving
picture camera The photographs, each
one inch wide and seven-eighths of an
inch deep, are taken on a continuous
moving film. The makers found that
the apparatus could be stopped at any
point so that each picture might be
taken separately or a group together,
or that substitutes and changes in the
scene might be made between the ex-
poSures.
When the manufacturers realized
these possibilities. the earlier styles
of trick picture began to appear thick
and fast. A French magician named
Males originated the Socalled magical
pictures, in which persons and objects
appeared or disappeared in an instant.
Of course, these were merely placed
in or removed from the scene while
the shutter of the camera was closed
between the photographs.
Trick of Substitution.
Then the trick of substitution was
brought to perfection. It has survived
as one of the best of the devices. In
the picture of the Great Train Rob-
berry" for example, dummy was sub
stituted and thrown from a moving
train in place of the living fireman
who had been knocked on the head
with a piece of coal. In later pictures
this substitution was carried to such
perfection that the spectators fairly
rose in their seats in excitement. Two
men seem to be fighting on the edge
of a high wall of 2 castle. One over
powers the other and throws him from
the parapet to the ground far beneath.
A dummy has been substituted for the
living performer so neatly that the
illusion of the fall cannot be detected
in scene of startling realism.
BY other devices known to the pic
ture man the impossible marvels Of
Alice in Wonderland" have. been made
possible the wildly fantastic imag inings
of Lewis Carroll have been transmitted
into realities and children unfortunate
" afflicted with precOcious scepticism,
who may have doubted the truth of the
story as they read its pages, have been
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

ress and whatever she does counts, but
as the practical minded wife of the
artist she seemed to be lacking, in the
illusion of mOtherliness.
The story, of course. is as humorous
as may be- An artist who has lived a
very secluded life, finds himself taken
has just died, is buried in Westminster
Abbey under the impression that it is
the great artist who is thus being hon
ored.
The play is full of bright, whisical
lines and satirical thrusts, which are
a delight.
After IS months of investigation and
reflection, Oliver Morosco has decided
to establish in the east three resi-
and Philadelphia, after the manner of
his Pacific coast organizations, which
in the past few years have become in
ternationally notable, and at least ma
tionally effective.
Mr.. MOrOsco's proposed New York
company, which may be considered the
pattern upon which the others will be
modelled, will be the climax of the
stock idea It will, in fact. be a super
stock, stock according to the Illus
triOus ideals of Wallack and Daily.
But the Californian hesitates to use the
term stock" since the name has fall
Los Angeles companies are known as
production companies. Here he pro-
poses-at least tentatively-to call
them resident organizations. 4
stock" company originally signified
a potent body of versatile players
banded together for the able and in
telligent Interpretation of a number of
plays; a stock" company nowadays is
generally a herd of inefficient stage
persons, gathered indiscriminately to
throw on superficial representations
OF old or otherwise released pieces
as rapidly as may be.
The metropolitan company which
Mr.. Morosco has determined to create
here will be both all-star and no.
star. He will have no player in the
company who is not of unusual caliber;
yet no player at any time, will either
be billed or proclaimed by the Organi-
cation as a chief luminary.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
PLAYWRIGHT JOINS
THE PICTURE ACTORS
Sidney Ayers. As1thOr Of ''Texas.' Be
comes Leading Man For American
Film COmpany-FiIm FlicEs.


comes Leading Man For American
Film COmpany-FiIm Flielxs.
Sidney Ayers, who has enjoyed a sue
cessfuI career on the legitimate stage
and is well known in the moving pic
lures, has been engaged to play leads
for the American Film Manufacturing
company. Mr.. Ayers wrote the play
Texas" and himself played the lead
under the Erlanger management He
has also played the title role in Ben
Hur' for several seasons. Under Nor
CISCO as also under BelascO, Mr.. Ayers
played stock in all principal western
cities
The Grecian theater will observe its
first anniversary today. Included in
the program is the picture made in Ell
Paso by the management of this theater
showing FL Paso's schools and school
children.
-
With at the White Horse Tavern"
1.-The Senator" and THE Vanderbilt
Cup" to his credit, as well as a score Of
more recent successes, Sidney Rosen-
field has completed a strong drama
entitled THE Heart Of a Rose"
The faithful love of an old brick
layer for his pet goat through all vicis
STUDIES of fortune is the central theme
around which the comedy photoplay
Always Together" produced by the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26

doors epeopf Po a in
f th dtanr ngHi
1ugfr atnatrv
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isGndin
music lIreor and
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
WINS SUCCESS BY
HER HARD TOLL
Work Before the Camera Is
Not Posing, but Acting,
Says Mary Fuller.

There is a very warm Garner in
my heart for my motion picture public"
says Mary Fuller, a star of the screen,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
Come Today and Help Us Celebrate Our
Anniversary. A Big Time for the
Riddles and Grown Ups, Too!
Chocolates Free to All the
Ladies and Children Today
from 1900 M. to 6P. M.

a fine program has been arranged. A pretty
circus picture In two reels, good comedy and
our own reel Ell PASO MOVING PIC
LURES showing Mesa. Villas. Lamar and
High Schools and many other FL Paso scenes.
We are gong to make our anniversary the big
gest day of the year.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-01

clothes and jewelry on the instalment
plan, at State and Quincy streets.
Mccullough makes SIS a week, is
married and has three children, the
oldest three years old and the young
est three weeks.
His first experience with the JOS
eph Company was about April, 1909.
Mccullough was to be married, and
went to the instalment house to pur-
chase wedding ring and suit of
clothes. For the ring he paid $40,
for the supt $27
He was to pay at the rate of 81 a
week.
Mccullough says he paid his bill
in full, and got his final receipt He
was annoyed by an agent from JOS
eph's, but showed his receipts, and
was let alone.
At this time Mccullough had lit
tie business of his own. His estab-
lishment burned down, and the re-
ceipts were destroyed in 1912.
October 8, 1912, Mccullough began
work for the Valvolne Co., S. Dear
born street.
Three months ago, he says, an
agent of Joseph & Co. came to him
and threatened to garnishee his
wages unless he paid 81 week. Nc
Cullough says he had not purchased
anything from 1909 until the time he
was threatened. He claims he had
paid his bill in full
The receipts were burned up, but
his assertion that he had paid in full.
is borne out by the fact that he was
let alone from 1909 until 1918, four
years. If he had not paid up his /
wages would have been assigned lon
= zAd[
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-01

A WL6 assigns Q6T tnuSDd0Q S We
necessary, the instalment house files
Lawyers differ as to whether such
contract is binding. ..
In one case an instalment house
even tried to collect on a mans wages
for bill his sister-in-law had. con-
tracted. ......- -a.--
The Day Book has discovered the.
system by which these instalment
houses prey on their purchasers.
From day to day it will uncover the
procedure, and show up these self
styled philanthropists in their true
light.
All the records of the cases which
will be related are on file in the Of
fees of the Legal Aid Society, which
is doing it's best to rescue the victims
of the wage assignment oppression.
1t is significant that in the majority
of cases it undertakes the Legal Aid
Society is successful in forcing the
instalment houses to stop bounding
the purchasers, and take only a fair
weekly payment.
Inc lnSCalmenL houses 90 not ike
publicity. They do not want Itiga-
ton.
Weber's Department Store, Clark
and Van Buren, streets, one of the
chief flers of wage assignments, will
have nothing to do with the Legal
Aid, according to an attache of that
office. They prefer to deal with the
victims, realizing that the latter are
frightened by printed form which
has the appearance of legal docu-
ment.
The experience of Edward McCul-
Tough, an expressman, 4214 Normal
avenue, is typical of the system of
Herbert L.. Joseph & Co., who deal in
Tt4r CsSSg
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-12-01


Office.
ignorance legalappeang
the victim picking for the sment house Put the test with the
assignment
is placed the purchaser.
majority assignments
procedure money
allows himself be
wife husbands when making purchase
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27

Notice is hereby given that | will ap-
ply to the Mayor and Board of Alder
men of the town of Melville, La, for a
license to operate a saloon for negroes,
for the year 1914, in the building on
Front Street near Church Street, at
present occupied by me as a saloon.
nov % At PAUL ARTALL.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27

the country, The Haven" and
not one shot touched it. She
says I feel that the kind Father
sent an unseen guard to take
care Of it. When | went out
there this afternoon and saw the
place untouched and the garden
in such bloom, my eyes filed
with tears at the thought of our
Fathers tender care for his
own"
There were several other
homes almost completely demo-
ished near here.
Truly He taketh care Of little
things.
When our Father shows such
miraculous power in our daily
lives why should we ever doubt
and fear? We have His promise
that He will be with us always
even unto the end Of the world,
if we do the things He COM
mands us.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27
The Possibilities for Beef.

1t was the settling up with
farms and agriculture of the
Western plains that has made
beef costly, where once it was
cheap, and the notion has grown
that cattle cannot be raised in
sufficient numbers to feed the
people since there are no longer
any vast regions for free graz
ing grounds left in the country.
Belgium is perhaps the most
densely populated country in
Europe, if not in the world, and
it still has large number of cat
tie.
Here is an official statement
of the number of cattle to the
square mile in several countries,
incl lding our own, and it shows
that there is still room in the
United States to raise cattle,
thus:
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27
Missionary Notes

In a letter from Miss Lizzie
dated Nov. il, q missionary TO
Mexico, she tells in a very
graphic way how they were kept
from harm during a severe bat
tie just out Of the city of Chi
huahua, where she is stationed.
They did all in their power to
save their property and their
lives if possible. Then they were
able to abandon it all to the
Master.
The fiercest of the battle was
fought around her little house in
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27
Grand Coteau.

Grand Coteau, Dec. A.-The
frst issue Of the Borromean a
college magazine published by
the students of ST. Charles Col.
Iege was issued this week. It is
atl up-to-date magazine Of nearly
100 pages containing several
stories in prose and poetry and
gives an interesting account
of sports and Of the college dia-
mond jubilee. The editorial
staff il as follows: Curtis Breaux,
editor III chief; "A. Arceneau, j.
Troy, r. Young, R. VOORHEES,, A.
VOORHEES, and G. Smith,, associ-
ate editors; j. St. Cyr, @. OAR
deau, L. Lassalle, A. Leblanc,
business managers. The price
ENA
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27

to the large proportion of cattle
to fertilize the land.
Without doubt the people of
the United States can raise cat
tie enough to make beef, and do
dairying enough to feed its peo-
pie, but they must do as is done
by the people Of other countries.
N. O. Picayune.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27
No. of cattle

If the experience of these
countries is worth anything,
then there is no ground for the
feeling that as population in
creases and the demand for more
food products from the soil be-
comes more urgent, the live
stock must be crowded out. It
is simply a question of increased
production, of the limits of
which we have not yet reached
even the outer fringe. These
countries all produce more to
the acre than we do, and no
share of the credit is due
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27

Misses Laura Villio and Rilla
Of the Mallet Graded
School, came to Opelousas on
to catch a train for their
in New Orleans and Need
more. respectively.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-12-27

Divine Services and Holy Com
munion at the Episcopal Church
by Rev. Tucker, Sunday Dec.
18th, at II a. m.