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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Sheriff Sale
State of Louisiana, Parish of Madison,
Ninth Judicial District Court.
MARTIN j. AUSTIN
VS. No. 2048
GEORGIA. SPENCER, ct ais

BY virtue of Writ of Fieri Facias to
me directed from the Honorable Ninth
Judicial District Court for the Parish of
Madison aforesaid, in the above entitled
cause, will proceed to sell, at public
auction, at the principal front door of
the Court House IN the town of Tallulah,
Madison Parish. Louisiana, on the third
Saturday, the 9Th day of June,
A. D., 1917, between the hours pre-
scribed by law, all the right. title and
interest Of George A. Spencer, Gertrude
L. Spencer and E. B. Barton in and to
the following described property, to-wit:
The south two hundred and forty acres
in section nineteen; township sixteen
north range thirteen east, in Madison
Parish. Louisiana seized in the above
suit.
Terms of Sale: Cash with the benefit
of appraisement.
A. ). SEWER, JR.,
Sheriff Madison Parish, La.
Sheriff's Office, Tallulah, La,
May 9Th, 1917.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02

enough protein for good muscle or
good work. The digestible carbyhy-
drate figure of corn-66-burns him
up under sunny skies, and needs to
be reduced to the cooling and mystic
Al. This is not curious chemistry. 1t
is common sense with a strain of
humor on the side.
President Wilson
The people who raise corn and the
people who raise cottonseed united
to elect tbs present commander-in-
chief IF the U. S. Army and Navy.
He has appealed to both to in
crease greatly the food and feed
supply for ourselves and our allies.
We should remain united for this
purpose. We should sacrifice our
agricultural prejuGices in view of
the nations need, as already we have
sacrificed old military prejudices.
We should cheerfully and patrioti-
caliy obey the commander, build high
and ever niger the throne Of King
Corn, remove the noxious insect
pests from the fair form of Queen
Cottonseed and foster a royal, an
offensive and defensive War Alliance
between the two. l suggest as a
anifahle SLOGAN for all honest farmers
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
A BATTLE CRY
FOR FREEDOM
President Wilson, King Corn,
and Queen Cotton
seed

A horse! A horse! My king
dom for a horse" king Cotton)
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-02
Estray Notice

| have taken up one red and white
male yearling. The owner can have
same upon paying expenses and cost
of this advertisement.
MRS. V. X. SCOTT.
Tallulah, La, May II, 1917. -j2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
The Weeks GriSt

THE PROFESSORS STORY" evening at the hnker
twelve years since the late l. D
Willard appeared in America Even then Mr. Willard
repertory the piece has mad
Ice tbsr fftv performances the interest
in the niece comparatively unknown to the ma
thagoersthe present production VIII De OIL
interest Arises embodiment OF PROFESSOR Good-
willie.
Mr. identified with the sadonic and the SIN
i,sr his brief appearance be set down
he is radiate kindness
Of melowness he Is man VINO
somewhere the forteh ore5
Of the kind that
vab draws huge audiences man Mr. Barrie has touched
the revised version is now extremely
B. acting the leading role
will include Molly Pearson Jeanne Eages,
Kembe Cooper Grant Stewart Reginald
Denny Edgar Kent, Arthur Eldred and Malcolm Morley
FIRST tomorrow evening This comedy IN
with several things IN ITS
of these Tom Wise who has ceased MS
saHn labo the moderns Also present VIII be he
handsome William CourenayMessrs Wise and Courtenay are CO.
starred.
ont Of Bunker Dodd adapted story Franc
Elots having furnished the inspiration The producer Is D.
Fred emOccason venurer into the hed oil e
atrcal management
will be Ann Macdonald Marion Kerry
A Lee Charles Stevenson COnlan, Lye Chambers
Llewelyn ames j. Ryan and Lawrence Eddinger
81 R.F.E. tomorrow evening This by Henry
Bernstein English few seasons ago under the
title Of THE Whirlwn" company which will present in
French be headed By GHda Dry Edgar becHan
Georges saulieu, Cerny and Robert Tourneur
drama Anton Wdgans and mas never On
widely hailed The cast
al the Irving include Crete Meyer Hams Unerkher Hem
rich NARROW and Christian Rub
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

IL after the third act and makes a
speech. He talks directly to the indi-
vidual in the audience; he urges that
individual to tell some other individual
about the play. Thus he keeps his
theatre going. Between acts he IS In
the foyer, ready and eager to answer
all questions as to how he came to do
il. In the course Of the evening he
manages to talk TO nearly every men,
Der of his audience. He gets their
names and addresses, their telephone
numbers. Every member Of the audi
ence receives a personal letter from
Butler Davenport the day after attend
ing the Bramhall; many Of them b 3
calls on the telephone.
Butler Davenport is building a ellen.
tele; his mailing list already contains
thousands of names. He is a hard
working and highly sincere gentleman
with two singularly expressive eye
brows, and it is his ambition 20 con-
troll a regular theatre. When he gets
it he is going to produce many plays
that are not masterpieces, but lis thea
tire is going to be interesting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
FXPL AIMING THE BRAMHALL

He cleaned out the entire interior and
nut in a new set. He invented his own
lighting system and installed it; be
even equipped his theatre with ball
cony. There are only twenty-one
seats in the balcony, but it is bal
cony. The entire first floor is given
over to the foyer and auditorium, the
second holds the balcony and parlor
or two. on the third are the dressing
rooms and Mr.. Davenport's office, and
on the top floor are Mr.. Davenport's
sleeping quarters. 1t is small thing,
admits Butler Davenport, but his own.
All his life Butler Davenport had
longed to have a theatre. His first
year around the playhouse was spent
with Augustin Daly-nothing to do and
no salary. For q year he lived on
promises; then he obtained bit In q
Charles Frohman production. He was
an actor for two years, and then hap
penings at home made 1t imperative
that he enter some business or profess
sion in which he could make money.
He went into real estate, abandoning
the stage.
He was a real estate agent for years
he ceased to be one only few years
ago. in fact-but the craving for the
stage persisted. He began to write
plays. He wrote about twenty. Five
of them he sold, but only one was pro-
duced. This was Keeping Up APP
pearances," put on at the Comedy SIX
years ago. 1t failed, although there
is ground for the belief that it was
not produced under the most favor
adj. circumstances. A little over two
years ago Mr.. Davenport built the
Bramhall--it was opened in April OF
last year. He is more than its man
ager and more than its owner. He is
its soul.
Mr.. Davenport takes the stage night
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

ROBABLY no person now in Amer
lea has been thrown into more
freauent contact with the Leading Eng
!ish dramatists than o. P. Heggie. 1t
has been Mr.. Heggie's privilege to chat
with Chesterton and drop in on Doyle,
70 browse with Barker and to gossip
with Galsworthy, to handy with Barrie
and to shrug with Shaw. Indeed, he
has even been the recipient Of an occa-
sional pleasantly from Pinero-the
great Sir Arthur Wing himself.
Mr. Hecgie has worked with them all.
Nowadays, when an English play is
announced for New York, it Is quite
the usual thing to read that "the lead
ing role will be taken by o. P. Heggie,
who created the part in the original
London production" OF such, for ex-
ample, is Magic" Chesterton's only
play. London saw it three seasons ago
and it was 0. P. Heggie who had the
role Of the Stranger. And so ne met
Chesterton.
The great esssyist, says Mr.. Heggie'
was the only one of the septet vho
did not scrupulously attend every re-
hearsal Of his play. He went oecs-
sionally. but he invariably became
quite bored after a short period, and
then arose and departed. Chesterton,
Of course, does not pretend 70 know
anything about the mysteries OF the
stage; accordingly, he took no hand in
the direction. IL was his custom 10
ensconce himself, with much putting,
sauarely in the centre Of the first row.
Throughout the rehearsal he would
humble 20 himself. and occasionally
these mumblngs would get across the
footligh... They were TO the effect
that "Magic" was a very bad play in
deed. and that ne could not see how
the actors ever could make anything
out Of il.
At IN. opening performance IN Lon
oon Chesterton was called befor. the
curtain for . speech, and, while his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
AROUND BROADWAY

HTHOSE WHO are interested in
i statistics announces William
Fox's Woodworking press department
"will be glad to know that the arm Of
Georges Benoit. photographer of K. A.
Walsh's The Honor System travelled
more than twenty miles in swapping
the Fox picture. For every foot Of
film which he took, Benoit's arm Gov
cred a circle of twelve inches" And
Immediately thereafter, if the same
folk happen still to be interested in
statistics, which is unlikely, they
might be glad 70 know that the foot OF
a conductor on a pay-as-you-enter car
travels one inch every time it rings
up a fare, to say nothing Of the fact
that white paper is extremely expen-
sive and going up all the time.
The wise men Of Broadway. who are
sometimes correct about things and
just as frequently wrong, have it that
David Warfield will appear next season
in play by-hold your breath-Wil-
lard Mack The piece is the one recent
ly tried out on the road under the title
Of "Alias," once known as "Aliss Santa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

notes arc taken up one at time and
discussed. With Granville Barker Mr..
Heggie has had extensive experience
abroad in "Prunellq.' in addition TO
the Galsworthy plays, and here in
"Androcles," The Doctors Dilemma"
and "The Man Who Married Dumb
Wife"
Strangely enough, Mr.. Heggie has
played but little Barrie. despite that
trace Of the whimsical which is evident
in so much of his work. After the pro-
duction here Of THE New SIM" in
1912, Mr.. Hegge returned 70 London
and was promptly invited to call upon
Sir James. The latter explained that
he was writing a sketch on the censor
ship question, entitled THE Dramatist
Gets What He Wants" which was to be
produced anonymously as part OF an
English revue. This production, ex-
plains Mr.. Heggie, was a typical Eng
lish revue, the cast being made up eX-
clusively Of Americans except himself,
who is an Australian The Barrie
sketch was hugely humorous, and alto
gether so enjoyable that no one had
the least doubt of its authorship, de-
spite the attempted anonymity. Later
Mr.. Heggie appeared in another Barrie
playlet "A Slice of Life" well known
here, but he has never appeared in a
full length Barrie play.
Sir James, says the actor, is an assid-
uous attendant at rehesrsals, but he
never has been known to say anything
either before. during or after. He
merely sits, lights his perennial pipe
and continues to sit. Dion Boucicault
produces all Of the Barrie plays in
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England. and all instructions come
from him.
Mr. Heggie appeared in two plays by
Sir Conan Doyle-"The Speckled Band
(as Sherlock Holmes, in which part he
was reported TO have been excellent)
and "The House of Temperley,"
piece never produced on this side OF
the water. Doyle is too well known
here to require description; he, too
likes TO be present at rehearsals, but
takes little hand in the direction.
Pinero, in whose "Trelawny Of the
Wells" Mr. Heggie appeared, IS
stern taskmaster at rehearsals. lie Is
a man of decided opinions as 70 the
manner in which he wants his plays
performed, and to attempt TO perform
them otherwise invariably moves him
70 anger. On occasions, IN fact, he has
threatened to discharge the entire com
panv and 10 recruit another in five
minutes from the passersby upon the
avenue, giving IL as MS OPINION tuaS
the company thus gathered would De
infinitely superior to the first
or the foregoing group Mr.. Hessie
is perhaps closest to John Galsworthy'
The lstter's latest play, in fact, has
been written with this actor in mind
at all events, Galsworthy has sen. him
the manuscript, and for once this
country will have the first view of a
Galsworthy play. It bears Barrie
title, ineidsntally--"A Bit o. Lsve.' For
all that, IL Ia o drama
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
O P HECGIE AND OTHERS

director stood in the wings and wildly
begged some one TO head him off, ne
proceeded 70 acquaint the audience
with his belief that the play was ex-
tremely bad.
Mr.. Heggie's impressions Of Shaw
are unlike any which have drifted
across the water hitherto. The actor
rehearsed with Shaw on three coca
sions-at Charles Frohman's Duke Of
York's in "Mesalliance" (the piece in
which he made his first great hit; IN
Captain Brassbound's Conversion and
in "Androclcs and the Lion Shaw
does more than attend all rehcarsals;
he is his own director.
Heggie found him quiet, patient and
competent. "He is a wonderful d.
rector declares the actor, "and he
would make a wonderful actor When
matters are not going TO his liking
Shaw will halt the rehearsal with no
trace Of the Shavisn acerbity that the
perusal of his writings might lead one
70 think would attach to such a pro
ceeding), leap upon the stage and 80
through the scene himself "ten times
better than the actor did it, accord
ing 10 Heggie. Also, II appears that
the shavian mania for letter writing
has been greatly exaggerated. IL Is
reported to be the playwrght's custom
70 write long screeds TO his actors in
the course Of rehesrsals, but Mr.. Heg-
gle is one performer who never has
received Shaw letter.
John Galsworthy is characterized by
Mr.. Hegrie az "a charming man, very
ouiet." While at the Duke Of fork's
Mr.. Heggis created role in Justice
and also played in the first production
Of Strife Granville Barker generally
directs the Galsworthy plays, and the
suthor attends the rehearsals, but does
not interrupt them. He makes numer-
Gus notes during the progress of an
act. bovever-that il also Mr. Bankers
method OF work. At the end OF the act
the author, the director and the COM
pany gather around q table and these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
IN VAUDEVILLE

PALACE-Adelaide and Hughes, Meln-
tyre and Heath in Waiting st the
Church." Belle Story, Sallie Fisher in
"The Choir Rehearsal Dainty Marie,
Joseph Howard and Ethelyn Clark,
Bernard and Janis, Karl Emmy's pets,
"Patria."
COLONIAL-Carrie De Mar in The
Girl of To-day" Wilfred Clark, Bob
Albright.
RTVERSIDE-Grace La Rue, Chic Sale,
World Dancers, Bennett and Rich
ards.
ALEXANDRIA Belle Baker. James Il.
Carson in The Models Abroad" Jas
per, CLARK and Verdi.
ROYALe-Rock and White, Walter Van
Brunt, Clark and Verdi.
AMERICAN-Ruth Roye, Clara KimbalI
Young in "The Price She Paid"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

THE Bramhsll Playhouse is stu
i ated on Twenty-seventh Street,
somewhere between Lexington and
Third avenues. II seats 22O persons
sometimes. On November 6 play
called Keeping Up Appearances" was
presented there. The management OF
the Bramhall uses none Of the Gus
tomary means of calling the attention
Of the public 70 its wares. II cannot
afford to. And yet to-day, along around
the end Of February, keeping Up APP
pearances" is still being given eight
times weekly at the Bramhall One
seldom hears Of it, but it is there. All
OF which makes the Bramhall Play
horse one Of the theatrical mysteries
Of the age.
Il is not desired TO convey the I'm
preston that Keeping Up Appear
ancese is a sensational success. Not
even its author, Butler Davenport
would insist that it is. But the facts
are that the patronage at the Bramhall
has recently been decidedly encourag-
ing, and that for several weeks past
the piece has shown a profit. tx
peases, Of course, are kept at low ebb.
Mr. Davenport used to be in the real
estate business, and he is still good
kssiness man. Keeping Up Appear
sacss" requires a cast Of only seven
ard Mr.. Davenport is his own box once
ssn, his own director, his own gen.
sral manager, and on occasions his own
electrician.
The building which IS now the Bram-
ksll began life quite humbly as pri-
vsie house. Some years ago 1t became
knights Of Columbus clubhouse, and
then Baptist church. Thereupon II
vas turned into a spirituslistS meet
.ng hall, and then Il became an Ar
senisn place Of worship. Mr.. Daven-
per- rescued II from the Armenisns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
The Coburn Repertoire

The Coburns revival Of Moliere's
"The Imaginary Invalid" will replace
yellow Jacket" for a single perform
ance at the Harris tomorrow evening
and will also be played at a special
matinee on Tuesday. This is the final
week OF the Coburns' tenancy of the
Harris, "The Brat" being scheduled 20
onen on the following Monday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
500 for a Bathing Suit

Annette Kellermann offers 500 for
the best design for bathing suit. Her
address is the Hippodrome. Incidental
ly, she desires 10 hint that patterns
calling for a paucity of material will
not necessarily be thrown out Of the
cnntnst IN that arrnunf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
BROOKLYN DRAMA

MoNTAUK -- Sir Herbert Tree IN
Henry VIII with Edith Wynns
Mstthison and Lyn Harding.
MAJESTIC-"So Long Lefty
TELLERS SHUBERT-Lins Abarbansli
in Flora Bella
ORPHEUM-Ev Tanguay, Emily Ann
Wellnan in Young Mrs. StanGford";
Bert Baker.
BUsHwICK - Gertrude Honmanns
Revue Of 1917" With cast OF thirty
Eve; Lydell and Higgins.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
E. NJ. Newman Series

T. VI. Newman's series of illustrated
talks on the Orient will begin at Car
negie Hall tonight and each travelogue
will be repeated on the succeeding
Monday afternoon. Mr.. Newman's hrst
subject is Japan To-day"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
~ HAYWOOD BROUN

uSHg BIBLE. which contains every
thing. undoubtedly refers to Paul
c,.-rst. Of "Pierrot the Prodigsl,' in
,As thirteenth verse of the sixth chap
,,r Of the Book of Proverbs, wherein
= :, recorded: ale winketh with his
.r.s he speaketh with his feet, he
10th signs with his fingers
ssuece.sful libretto writing is more
Erieult than in the past" says Otto
E,usrbseh in recent interview in
sTbe Evening sun" "Many persons
xbeu the subject of musical comedy
.0uss I'D. think II clever to speak dis
,.-,ringly Of anything that was not
rr;tten by Gilbert and Sullivan. In
,..lity the librettists of to-day have
.,o-e restrictions in their work. am
taking nothing away from the great
rs.s Of W. 5. Gilbert when say that
,o,s,tions are entirely different to-
day."
This seems 70 US extreme consldera-
ZION on the part Of the author Of
-Katinka.'
Somebody asked Jacques Copeau, the
distinguished French producer, what he
had seen in our theatres and the VS.
tor answered that he had seen Canary
cottsgey at the Morosco and that he
liked il very much. The man who put
the question was shocked, for Copeau
;s one OF the leaders Of the little the
stre movement in France and Canary
Cottage" is a somewhat loud and rowdy
musical comedy. At least, the objectoI
said IL was when ne took Copeau to
task. But Copeau stood his ground
He said he could not fail TO like
"Csnary Cottage" in spite of obvious
,rusities. because il was fun not only
for the audience, but for the actors
TOO. There was joy in il There may
be jov without art, but there can be
no art without Joy.
HrettN SoOl Ll4t NbiAf1A 7eN-~t+
fast. furious and French. Our Frencr
is geared so high that We are lost II
the sprints, and we could not ever
catch a phrase to which we might hitter
on behind. However, We will say or
our own responsibility that there vii
never be an adequate public for the
fine things of the theatre until empha
sis is put upon the fact that they are
thoroughly enjoyable.
"Pierrot" was as exciting as a bal
game. In fact, it was more exciting
than the last worlds series. This PLAY
found lis public and made a success
but there are a number Of plays which
anguish, not because people don't like
them, but because people are atraic
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Claus Both these titles have been
abandoned, and the piece has been
called in. presumably TO be rewritten
for Mr.. Warfield.
Quotation from an important dis
patch:
A gentleman wearing clothes Of a
cut that proclaimed the man" strobe
up % the manager Of THE Thir-
teenth Chair" az the Fortv-eighth
Street Theatre the other night ard
in an impressive manner inquired,
DO you recognize the profession ,"
Why, yes said the manager,
curly. an fact, | could have told
you a block away that VIC aren't
giving passes for a sell-out'
Augustin Daily, when he told that
story, used TO say "a mile away"
One never knows where an attack
Of acting is likely to break out. Jack
Merritt, the red haired youth Who
causes the Princess 70 rock with laugh
ter these days, was lately saying who
do you want TO see?" 20 callers at G.
NJ. Anderson's offices in the Longacre
Theatre.
Inasmueh as this portion Of The
Tribune 10 not complete without a
reference TO LAurette Taylor, this Is
probably as good spot as any to
mention her. Very we'll, then. She
will produce fairy fantasy hsreabouts
next Christmas time. IL will be writ
ten by-you never could guess.
Hartley Manners. The information is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Japanese Dance Matinee

A matinee Of japanese dances will
he given at the Comedy Theatre
Wednesday by Michio Itow, assisted by
Tulle Lindahl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
THE WEEK STANDS

STANDARDIZED Your Step.
BRONX OPERA HoUSE-Chsuneey OIL
colt in "The Heart Of PADDY "haek-'
CoLUMBIA-"The sigh.seers.
LEXINGToN-"Pedr the Italian.
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from the p. a., and strictly confidential.
The Experience" company will have
an afternoon off this week, and they
will spend it by coming to town on a
special train to see a matinee of "The
Wanderer" G.SK.