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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
GOOD VAUDEVILLE
IN ORPHEUM SHOW
Three of the Acts Are Distinct
1 Features and One a Big
Novelty

-Four sons of Japan, equilibrists and
hand-to-hand balancers, will form one
of the three feature acts at the Or
pheum this week and it is promised
that this act will contain some sensa-
from the audiences. Their efforts are
entirely different from those of any
other team OF equilibrists. and 1t is
said that they start where the average
team leaves off. The act is the Ishi-
kawa Bros
Coupled with them in the feature
roles are John Delmore and company,
a blackface comedy company, which
Is said to be exceedingly clever, and
it is certainly one Of the highest priced
teams that has been in the theatre re-
Gently. Fun always flows freely when
there is a good blackface act on the
bill. and this team is said to be among
the very best. The act is entirely new.
original and novel, and has never been
seen in Birmingham before. The title
of the sketch they offer Is THE Mon
day Afternoon Rehearsal"
With lightning rapidity. Les Yosts
moulds clay in natural colors into
tusts. heads and figures to give life-
like appearance that 10 said to be re-
narkable. The man and woman were
artists of the French quarter In Paris.
but found that a career on the stage
was more lucrative than following art
for arts sake. and went into vaude-
Vile. They are said to be artists, as
great in their way as famous car
toonist is in his. The Orpheum has
never offered clay working act In
colored and lifelike clays and this will
probably prove of great interest to the
patrons Of the house. 1t makes the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
Indian Braves Tell No Tales

If the 1ointists and bootleggers Of
Topeka and other parts of Kansas had
only Indians for customers they would
be happy and their lawbreaking life
would be a long round of Joy, says
the Hartford Times. The Indian who
buys a drink of 40 rod" liquor from
a Kansas jointist never tells the police
who sold the liquor. He will tell any
number of his own people, but not
white man will learn who furnished
the 'booze" 1t is seldom that the gov
ernment ever is able to bring into
court a man or woman for selling liquor
to the Indians.
Twelve miles north of Topeka lies
the Pottawatomie Indian reservation,
all that remains in tribal form of this
once powerful people. At one time
the Pottawatomies inhabited all of
Northern Illinois and southern Wiscon-
sin, and numbered about $4,000 persons.
There are now les than 400 on the res
ervation, and it is asserted that about
eco have returned to Wisconsin and
now are living there.
There are two railroad stations on
the reservation and no train ever comes
to Topeka without bringing from one
to dozen Indians. Many of the In
dians get drunk every time they come
to Topeka, and they come to Topeka
every time they can raise enough
money to pay the railroad fare and buy
liquor
1--WE have arrested scores of drunk
en- Indians, but not once has one of
them ever given us the name or the
lo ocation of the man who sold him the
liquor" said j. w. +. Hughes, chief
of police of Topeka "The Indians will
actually work on the rock pile rather
than tell us the name of the man or the
place where they got drunk. They
generally won't tell why they refuse
to give us this information, but the
other day an Indian said he was afraid
the supply would be shut off. But we
never have been able to make an arrest
on information obtained from an In
dian. A white man that gets drunk
usually tells where he got the liquor,
oven before he is sober, and is always
willing to tell as soon as he is sobered
up. But an Indian never turns in
former.
"The Topeka police have never had
to fight a drunken Indian as they Of
ter have to fight white men. The In
dian doesn't mind being 'pinched' or
even being put to work on the rock
pile for three or four days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

chief, and the proper rendering of the
latest and newest popular songs of the
familiar Coon variety will be heard A
woman with a personality that fairly
radiates to her audience will sing them,
and people will hear many of them as
they should be sung. She is a great fav-
orite in vaudeville. 1t is rare that she
escapes without singing dozen songs
at each performance. She responds TO
the encores by singing any song the audi
ence selects.
Milton Pollock and company are the ex-
ira added features of the bill, and they
Will present the newest and many consider
the best of the George AIDE one-act farces
Speaking to Father" Mr. Pollock ap-
pears as Septimus Pickering. a pickle
manufacturer and the sketch is said to
sparkle with cleverness. Mr. Pollock was
stage director and an actor with Froh-
man for several years and was thrown ind
touch with Mr.. Ade while producing his
plays.
George Felix, and the Barry Girls, are
combined in a vaudeville act called 1.-THE
Box Next Door," which is merely an
opportunity for Mr. Felix to display his
abilities as a comedian of the broad farce
lines, and for the girls to sing chat
dance and look pretty
The mirth provoking qualities of tIrs
Joe Boganny Troupe of Royal LunatiQ
Bakers" are so great that this team was
selected as one of those to entertain the
King and Queen of England at com
mand performance at the Palace theatre
last July, the highest honor that can be
paid vaudeville act in England. The
act numbers seven people, Mr. Boganny
and his dimnutive assistants. 1t Is origi-
nal throughout and clever
The Tuscano Brothers will present
Roman battle juggling specially in
which they are said to be the peers OF
the world and which is thrilling, dan
gerous exhibition of skill.
Harmony and comedy is the offering OF
the Van Brothers. one q genuine COM
edian, and both of them musicians who
can even get soulful music out OF the
common mouth organ.
The seventh act of the bill will be Lew
and Mollie Hunting. formerly of the well
known team of the Four Huntings. known
far and wide for their cleverness In sing
ing, comedy. talking and dancing. It
rounds out the bill in nice shape.
The Lyric has a matinee every after
noon at 2:30 o'clock, commencing Monday
afternoon, and performance every night
at $50 o'clock. By making reservations
in advance, the patrons of the house may
secure the same seats any given perform
ance in the week for every week In the
season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
PEG O. MY HEART" is
SOON TO BE HERE
Comedy at Jefferson Monday and
Tuesday Night and Matinee,
January 1927

Since December, 1912, with Laurette
Taylor in the title role pet o. My
Heart" has been delighting capacity
audiences at the Cort theatre, Now
York, and it promises to do so for ar
other year
Peg comes from New York. where
she has been living like street tad
with her ne'er do well Irish father and
is sent to England by an uncle, her
mothers brother, to be educated and
brought mp as the daughter of an En-
glish gentleman should be.
The poor little Irish American girl
comes into the drawing rom of her self
ish, snobbish and cultured" English
aunt, carrying a disreputabe telescope,
several packages, and Michael, her cur
dog.
Pegs" advent causes CONSERVATION
in the home of wealth, propriety and
iciness She sits down, with the simple
statement that she has been told to
wait. Her aristocratic cousin. Ethel.
directs the butler to take Peg to the
kitchen, and she meekly follows in her
sha abby clothes.
Later Pegs aunt discovers that she
has been beggared by the failure of
bank. and that her brother has sent
Peg to her to acquire culture. for which
the aunt is to receive $4,000 a year
things commence to happen with great
rapidity In the Chichester household
Peg possesses all of the Irish virtues
and also the faults, and her wit humor
philosophy and longing for love. sym
Dathy and tenderness, wins her audi
ence from the start.
oliver Morosce came from Califor-
MIA to engage the cast which he is
sending out on the road to produce tho
j. Hartley Manners comedy of youth.
and has taken as much care in it's selec-
tion as that of the original company.
Delightful Blanche Hall plays the
charming heroine; Lionel Glenister Is
Jerry, her lover and guardian. Vivian
Gilbert is Alaric, Herbert Ashton iG
Jarvis. Ruth Garland is Ethel, and the
rest of the company is of equal merit.
Mr. Morosco is sending Peg O. Ny
Heart to Birmingham, where il viii
make its initial appearance at the JEFF
ferson theatre January 26 and 27, play
ing an engagement of three perform
ances, including Tuesday matinee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
ISHIKOWA BROTHERS

time to be the guardian angel of the
girl in trouble. The other members of
the company will be excellently cast.
The following from the Rochester Her
aid gives a description of. the play:
What Happened TO Mary is series
of incidents in the life of an orphan girl
who was left on an island in Chesapeake
Bay when a baby by schemers, who thus
sought to defraud her of a fortune left
her by her father. She has dreams OF
life beyond that my island; she is sure
that the old miser with whom she has
always lived is not really her uncle and
she yearns to find that mother whom
her instinct tells her is somewhere long
ing for her. That, to sure. is a COM
monplace situation for the starting point
of a story, and it leads through a va
riety of painful scenes until the sorrow
ing mother again finds her long lost
daughter, the painful scenes including
an incident of theft in which the un-
sophisticated country girl is successfully
made to appear by her enemies as having
stolen $1,000 from the office where she Is
employed
But it is not necessary to find fault
with the play because of the common
placeness of much of its story Its char
acters are human, its heart interest is
genuine, ana lts healthihess OF IhotiNe ~
untainted. Nothing more is needed to es-
tablish 1t firmly as worthy contrbu
ton to the class of plays to which it
belongs.
..Mary's flight from the island to Now
York city where she comes near falling
into the clutches of young Henry Craig,
her rescue by the rough but true hearted
young lawyer, John Willis, the inciden.
OF the theft, where the money is Sc
creted In her cloak and her employer
believes her the thief, her return to the
island, heartbroken. and the ultimate dis
covery of her true parentage and of her
love for John Willis. form the principal
incidents in the play.
MARY is one of those ingenious. con
fiding, inexperienced characters which can
so easily be made too highly sentiment
talized on the stage. and which are favor
ite with writer's Of melodrama."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
"OFFICER 666" is
COMING THIS WAY
Great Farce Will Be at the Jefferson
Theatre Thursday and Friday
Nights and Matinee

When "Officcr 6G6n appears at the
Jefferson theatre Thursday and Fri
day nights and Friday matinee (bar-
gain ratlnee), local theatregoers will
have afforded them the opportunity of
witnessing again one of the greatest
farce comedy successes of New York
Engagement of "Officer 666" will
ess prove one of the comedy hits
present season This comedy,
onal in the laughing success it
I'd on Broadway, is by Augustin
gh, and in its three uproarious
clean, wholesome merriment,
hor has crowded terse, brilliant
g, strikingly original charac-
ters novel story evolved from an in
tricate but consistent plot and a per-
rect whirlwind of absurdly funny sit
uations and bowling farccal compli-
cations. which it appears are impos-
sib1e of untangling and Strengthening
out.
Following the present dramatic craze
for "crook plays" Officer G66" is built
around crook, but from a basis of
comedy. This crook is one Alfred Will
son. an expert picture thief who has
plotted with butler to obtain Illegal
possession of the most valuable paint
ing in the collection of TraVers Glad :
win. 2 millionaire art collector, who at
the peSlhhlns OIL the conspiracy is IN
Europe. To better accomplish his de-
sign Wilson poses as the absent Glad
win, falls in love with a lovely girl
who consents to elope with him to es-
cape a hateful forced marriage with
another. With this double plan about
TO be conSummated. Gladwin secretly
returns. learns of his buffers treach-
cry and the girls danger. Falling in
love with her himself, he and his
friends determine to fruStrate Wilson 6
double plan, but in such a way as 20
avoid newspaper publicity for the girl S
sake. To do this he disguises himself
as n policeman and becomes known as
Officer 666. With this back ground of
mistaken identity and conflicting mo-
tives the two men battle for the picture
and The girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
POWERFUL PLAY TO
BE AT JEFFERSON
"The Blidness of Virtue" TO Be Seen
Monday and Tuesday Nights
and Matinee

The original London Little Theatre COM
pany and production will be seen at the
Jefferson theatre Monday and Tuesday
nights and Tuesday matinee in Cosmo
Hamilton's four-act sensational play.
''The Blindness of Virtue" The Ameri-
can tour Of this organization is under the
direction OF William Morris So great a
sensation did Mr.. Hamiltons powerful
play create at the Little theatre, London,
that Mr.. Morris brought over the entire
company to this country last season where
1t ran for 10 weeks at the Studebaker
theatre, Chicago. and for 12 weeks at
the Park theatre, Boston. Returning to
England for brief vacation the same
company has recently arrived and will
appear here as stated.
The Blindness of Virtue" is said to
be a great play, compelling, vital, pow
erful. 1t represents what is new phase
of dramatic phase that deals frankly
with things as they are. It's theme is an
arraignment of the folly of bringing up
children in ignorance of certain natural
impulses. Mr. Hamilton is artist enough
TO have combined perfect franllness with
rate delicacy, and in no word or stua-
tion does he offend the most sensitive.
+ The scenes are laid in the garden and
various living rooms of an English clear
age near lschuOn. / ne Hpleluid cast IN
cludes: Gerald Henson, who appeared in
the original runs of The Blindness OF
Virtue" and .Mlestones" in London;
Henry Douglass, who previous to his en-
gagement in this play. appeared for sew
eral years with Sir George A1exancer.s
London company John May, former
prominent player with Rutherford and
Son" in London; Miss Helena Parsons,
Miss Marguerite Cellier, Miss Marie Ault,
who also a mpmhpI pf hRntbprfnrd
and Son in London and New York;
Misses Louis Emory and Beryl Henson OF
the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, His Maj
esty's and st. James theatres. London.
1t is not white slave" play. Large
audiences are expected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

ond season in the title part. Nazimova
in Bella Donna" comes TO the jefferson
theatre January 81.
Vaughn Comfort will again be found
in the interlocutor's chair when the cur
tain rises on the new minstrel programme
which George Evans Honey Bows will
offer eft the Jefferson theatre shortly. 1t
is doubtful If there is another man in
minstrelsy so well fitted for this impor-
tant position. Comfort is a past master
in the art of directing the First Part,
programme, he is one of the principal
soloists as well, and an expert stage man
ager who knows all the tricks of value
in vocal shading and directing.
There is a great deal of interest hero
and elsewhere in the American tour of
Anna Pavlowa and the opportunity it
gives in the United States and Canada
TO admire once more the exquisite artis-
try of this Incompatible dancer. The
ballet in which Pavlowa is supreme is a
riot of beauty whose fascination is all
embracing. 1t is the most effective of
any dancing for it combines all the quail
ties that delight in the dance. 1t is spec
tacularly entrancing with it's grace and
color and lightness of form, 1t charms
with its music, it stimulates the fancy.
There is no dancer like Pavlowa. She
will be admirably supported when she
comes to the jefferson theatre soon.
Birmingham playgoers will be glad to
learn that Manager Douglas of the JEFF
ferson theatre has secured for them a
return visit of ''Within the Law by Bay
ard WELLER, the play dealing with present
day conditions in New York city, which
has remained for a year at the Eltinge
theatre, and which has had the dstin-
guished Endorsement of the President. not
to mention many other notables.
The play will be seen here again next
month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

third of the features for this week $
bill.
The comedy, singing and converse
tton Will be offered by Smith and
Farmer, a man and a woman, who are
reputed to possess those abilities which
make an act of that kind a success.
They are featured on many bills for
their personality and cleverness and
present new stunts at all times. The
fifth of the acts will be the Woods
Musical Trio. another very clever and
acceptable speciality.
The Orpheum has a matinee daily at
$780, commencing Monday, and two per
formances nightly, al 1880 and o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
THEATRICAL NOTES

Edward Sheldon's youth gives him cour-
age, vigor and strength. He may have
some of the faults of mmaturity, but he
has none of the shortcomings of senility.
In The High Road he has seized
boldly upon a question that daily grows
more important to the women, and
through them. to the men of the country,
and he has handled it with the most
modern sense of justice and right.
Mrs. Fiske. to be at the Jefferson Jan
uary 80, has rarely appeared to better
artistic advantage than as the ill-treated
child of the farm who at II starts upon
her eventful pilgrimage, and she surely
has never appeared to more appealing
or sympathetic advantage. Nor is Mr..
Shedons play a dry-as-dust thesis on a
moral question. On the contrary, it teens
with the tensity and interest that is
SO frequently lacking in the stage offer
ings of today.
Three years ago. at the time of its pub
hcation, Bella Donna was the most widely
read fiction of its day. 1t was the second
of Robert Hichens' novels to have been
adapted to the uses of the stage, and the
distinguished Russian actress, Madame
Hazimova, is presenting the play with a
great deal of success-this being her Sec
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
FOUR BIG FEATURES
ATLYRIC THIS WEEK
Seven Acts of Keith Vaudeville for
Birmingham's Newest Theatre
Beautiful

Already several box parties are planned
for this week at the Lyric, and Jake
Wells is providing an entertainment which
promises to equal that of last week. 1t is
a bill of features, with four great acts,
and three other acts of varied and clever
entertainment
Sophie Tucker will be the top liner in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
"CASCARETS" # CONSHPATED, SICK,
HEADACHY, BILIOUS DIME A BOX

Turn the rascals out-the headache
bfliousness, constipation, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases-turn them out
tonight with Cascarets
Don't put in another day of distress
Let Cascarets sweeten and regulate
your stomach; remove the sour, undi-
gested and fermenting food and that
misery-making gas; take the excess
bile from your liver and carry off the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
ANU SEMENTS
At the jefferson

At the Jefferson
The Blindness of Virtue" Mon
day and Tuesday nights and Tues
day matinee.
"officer ee6''-Thursday and Fri :
day nights and Friday matinee.
At the Lyric
All Week-Keith vaudeville.
At the Biiou
All Week-"Mhat Happened To :
Mary
At the Orpheum
All Week-Naudeville. #z..=..-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18

decomposed waste matter and constipa-
ton poison from the bowels. Then
you feel great.
A Cascaret tonight will straighten
you out by morning. 10-cent box
from any drug store will keep your
head clear stomach sweet, liver and
bowels regular and make you feel bully
and cheerful for months Don't forget
the children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
The Smart Set

The entire theatre will be given over
to the colored patrons Wednesday matt
nee and night wehn The Smart Set COM
pany will be seen at the Jefferson theatre.
The company is stronger this season than
ever before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
Debt of Gratitude

From the Washington Star.
"They are always tallkin about the Won
ders of electricity" said Farmer Corn
tossel. but there's one of its greatest
achievements they don't mention"
ITO what do you refer?"
"The way it has killed off the fellers
who made jokes about people who went to
town an blew out the gas"
American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-10-10
A n o X D. IN nee
Paving District No. 2

An ordinance re-fxing u time when
the City Council will meet and hear
protests and objections to the Great
ing OF paving District No. 2 In Am
erican Fork City. Utah. and providing
for the laying OF pavement therein,
and OF levying a tax to defray the ex-
penses OF said pavement, and provid-
ing for the republication OF Notice
OF Intention OF the Council to levy
said tax. and to defray the expenses
thereof; and to approve and accept
the pavement laid therein by Messrs
Boley and Singleton, and to provide
for the levying of tax for the pay
ment to them for paving done.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the CITY
Council OF American Fork City. that.
WHEREAS, on May 8th, 1913. by
an ordinance OF said city duly passed,
paving District No 2 was created and
established In American Fork City,
Utah, and provisions made for the
laying or cement pavement five feet
wide on all sidewalks embraced with
In said District, and providing for the
making ora levy against 'abutthsg
property Tor the payment thereof, and
WHEREAS. afterwards bids were
received by said Council for the max
ing OF said improvements, and a CON
tract let to Messrs Boley and Single
ton for doing the work for the sum
OF SlS,O94.OO; and afterwards said
Boley and Singleton constructed said
sidewalks in said District as agreed.
and are entitled 10 be paid therefore.
and,
WHEREAS, a question has arisen
American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-10-10
Ado|ph Hunger, I.
still Holding Out

The latest reports from the Holy
Cross hospitol is that Adolph Hunger,
the young man who was last week
seriously injured by falling from an
Interurban work car, is still lying In
a comotose state, and that the doctors
hold out but little hope for his re-
covery. His attendants were able to
give him little nourlshment in the
form OF milk early I'm the week, but
the last day or so they are unable to
get him to take any more.
Once or twice he opened his eyes
and his mother asked him II he knew
her His reply was to place his arms
around her neck. This IL the only
sign of consciousness that he has ex-
hibited In ten days since the accident.
American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-10-10
Sugar Factory Likely TO Close

The recent storms have greatly In
terfered with the digging of sugar
beets. There was a diminisher sup
ply Wednesday. but few came IN
Thursday and none were dug yester-
day. II the storms prevent digging
today, there will be none dug Sun
day and by Monday the supply In the
sheds will have become exhausted,
and the factory will have to close
till the weather permits resump-
ton of digging.
Had the sugar people been able to
forecast the storm, II Is probable the
lay of from digging last week would
not have been ordered. However.
while the beet farmers are feeling
gloom over the situation. the dry
farmers who have just planted their
fall wheat are all smiles,
American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-10-10
OHRANs MOVING TO IDAHO

Az and Mrs. Charles Ohran Will
probably sell out in Lehi and locate
,n Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mr.. Ohran ar
-,v.d ,bis week from the bustling
idaho town, where he is foreman OF
oon.,ruction work on the new federal
hr,,d,ns now being erected there. He
Recently finished supervising the con-
str,,c,ion of large business block
there He Is negotiating the pur-
cbass of 40-acre tract but 20
minutes walk from the center OF town
and will probably erect home on IT,