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Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1918-11-02

4 Mrs. ]. T. Sweeney, of Chicago,
Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jack
Laffan. and Mr.. Laffan in Bel
gravia Court.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1918-11-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles f. Taylor
Jr., of Chicago, came to the city {,
visit Mr.. Taylor's father ant
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles f
Taylor. 23S East College street, ant
to be with his brother, Sergt. Car,
B. Taylor. Charles f. Taylor. Jr.
returned to Chicago and Mrs. Tay
Tor will remain here for another
week.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1918-11-02

Louis scherry, who underwent a
successful operation at SITS. Mary
and Elizabeth Hospital, is now con-
valescing at his home, 1906 South
Seventh street.
Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1918-11-02

The many friends of Miss Tillie
Cuniff will be sorry to learn that
there Is no improvement in her con-
dition and she is still seriously i'll.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Tauiie Beige

Opera House in Antwerp singing Wag-
merriam roles.
At this point Miss Beige ceased being
prlma donna in process of being in
tervicwed and became contemporaneous
and human. She had returned from a
summer season of light opera at one of
the German baths--it was here she lefi
the 'torever-to- be mourned pressbook- -
co Antwerp. 1t was then the middle Of
July. Neither at the gay resort in Ger
many nor in Antwerp was there any
talk of war. When the blow fell every
one was stupeted, but recovered
quickly. 1t could not last, everybody
reassured one another The Germans
would soon be beaten back, and so on,
with ever decreasing confidence
On October the Germans began
hammering at Antwerp. The popula-
tion took to the cellars. After four
days of bombard,nent Belgian civil off,
GERS went from house to house warning
the inhabitants that the town would be
evacuated. Those who could must ro
at once. Miss Beige was alone with
her mother, her brothers having left
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

II sounded workable and practicable to
Mr.. Tyler, and forthwith an arrange
ment was entered into whereby Mr..
Rose was to write the play, and tele.
gram went out to Indianapolis urging
Mr.. Harrington to call off the proposed
moving picture deal
Now, Mr.. Rose is an old hand At
dramatizations He did a great many
for Charles Frohman many years ago
David Harum" being, perhaps, his
most famous. He is also rapid
worker. He completed "Penrod" in
something less than three weeks. His
version follows the "Penrod Jashbar"
SERIES generally, though he has in.
vented several entirely new situations
Borrowing an incident from one of the
earlier stories in which Penrod and
Sam had an experience with a revolver,
ne ingeniously linked it up with the
Herbert Hamilton Dade pursuit and
contrived the entirely new situation at
the end of the third act which made
possible the wonderfully effective final
act, unquestionably the best act in the
play. Mr.. Harrington went over the
final manuscript with him, suggested
few changes and took pains TO have all
the boys speak precisely the kind Of
"boy talk" that he writes himself.
In a breezy letter to Ny. Tyler Mr.
Harrington paid high tribute to Mr..
Rose.
Rose has done great work. he
wrote. "He has pulled the thing into
acts and got actual shape to it where 50
many others Topped fiat and consid-
cred it just about impossible myself.
He certainly is structural horse"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
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for service. Her mother had the Flem-
ish calmness of purpose. Her daugh.
ter was to leave at once for London,
for no one could tell what disorder
would come with the German occupa-
ton. Since no money was to be OBJ
tanned from the banks, she was to take
her jewels. Antwerp would soon be re-
covered from the Germans, and in the
mean time she, the mother would re-
main to guard their home. And she has
never heard from her mother since,
though her efforts to get news of her
have been unceasing.
SO Tavie Beige came to London, a
refugee. Here she was befriended by the
Duchess of Limerick. Her reputation
on the Continent was we'll known in
London, and she sang there for war re-
lief. Then, with company of Belgian
artists, she was sent by the British
On this tour she sang at 104 concerts
for Belgian war relief.
She finished up in New York-with-
out funds. Her expenses had been paid,
but she took no pay for her singing.
She had to get work, and she found it
at the Strand. She then made what she
considers her great mistake-the mis-
take of thinking that to sing in New
York picture house was a fall in dignity
for an opera singer. She did not know
then, she said, that the standard of
music at the New York picture houses
is higher than that of musical comedy
here. She therefore changed her name
at the Strand to Rosa Lind, reserving
her own name for better engagement.
But when she was presented in Gid
dlers Three" as making her first ap-
pearance in this country, somebody told
and then some ill-natured people put
their own construction on the story.
But, whether as Rosa Lind or as Tavie
Beige, she is a distinct acquisition to
the light opera stage here.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
VAUDEVILLE

PALACE.-Lina Abarbanell, prims
donna comedienne, comes as the head
line attraction in musical comedy
tabloid called "Philopena." George
White remains for a second week
Theodore Koslof, the Russian dancer;
Lew Dockstader in a new monologue
and 7. Roy Barnes make up the rest Of
varied and interesting bill.
RIVERSIDE.-E Emma Carus shares
headline honors with Dooley and Ruge.
Hermine Shone and Regan Hughston
Will be seen in travesty called "Ths
Best Seller" Herman Clifton, femsl.
lmpersonator; Lester Sheehan and
Pearl Regay, Eddie Weber and Marion
Ridnor and several other numbers COM
plete the bill
COLONIAL.-Sophie Tucker heads
the bill. Leo Beers in a pianoogus,
Joe Jackson in pantomime, Lillian Fis
gerald in impersonations and songs,
Charles Irwin in a skit called Coming
Through the Rye" and Cartmell and
Harris in singing and dancing act ars
a few of the numbers on the bill.
ALEXANDRIA Eddie Foy and the
younger Foys come from the Palace
Theatre in a new act called 'Slunn'
where in New York" For PHYS
Sake travesty on the old mel0
drama; Ames and Winthrop in a thumb
nail revue called lone Minute, Please
and Dolly Connolly in new songs BY
Percy Wenrich are part of the IT
tractive supporting bill
ROYAL.-Jack Norworth's COMEDY
war skit Somewhere With Pershins
will be seen, with E. F. Hawley and
cast of five people Other features On
the bill are Hugh Herbert in COMEDY
sketch called The Question" HsH'
Breen in songs and chatter 'as
American Beauty Ballet, Olsen anu
johnson, Brian Lee and Mary CranSfop
in skit and the Kirksmith Sisters.
ORPHEUM. Blanche Ring heads 'ns
bill, in new Offering of songs DIV
monologue. Blossom Seeley sings ray
time, Bob Hall makes up extenlporale
Gus verses, Eddie Borden does sN'
called The Law Breaker" and Beau
mont and Arnold present comeo.
sketch entitled The SergeanNe
Others are Bobbie Gordone, Tilu sn'
Ward and Chinko and Kaufman.
BUSHWICK - Hobart Bosworfh
the feature attraction. Janet Ao'
will be heard in songs. Hallen ~
Fuller in a satire called THE Corfius'
of Time," Bert Baker and company ~
farce, "Prevarication," and Frank VIZ
and Anne Cody are supporting fea'a''.
Others on the bill are Fred Hllle0iss'
Jack Morrissy and Jack and Klt'!
maco.
LOEW'S AMERICAN.-The first ps
OF the week the headline act VIII 10 .
Telephone Tangle,' farce eonsi
Other acts will be Jack Kenneu
company in a play by Willard aasA
titled Don't De IA7
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
By Rebecca Drucker

She was nervous and so was |. It
was my first interview with a prima
donna in her dressing room and her
first interview with an American re-
porter.
We eyed each other warily and
spared for an opening.
Oh yes; Miss Tavie Beige adored
America. Did like the music of "Fid-
alers Three? l thought it lovely.
Miss Beige feared she had not been
in good voice at this matinee perform
ance. She had just finished reading the
reviews Of the opening of "Fiddlers
Three" the night before, and one of the
reviewers had intimated that she was
not a Belgian at all, but German. She,
who had suffered so much at the hands
of the Germans, called German. 1t
was Infamous. 1t had ruined her per-
formance.
Miss Belge's performance, which I
had just seen, had not had the air of
beng ruined. In fact, she had gone
through it with many smiles, and her
beautiful singing had startled the audi
ence out of a good -humored tolerance
into wild applause
Nevertheless, Miss Beige continued
to mourn. If | but knew what cause
she had to hate the Germans | would
understand how deeply she was cut bv
the lnsinuation that she was a German
m po1-
lost everything at their hands-home
family. position-evcn the pressbook
OF her notices (there was a deeper
note of anguish in her voice ut this J
from the time Of her first appearance
as Little Lord Fauntleroy to her last
as Elsa in "Lohcngrin" at the Royal
Antwerp Opera House.
| pricked up my ears at this.
could see that something interesting
was TO be CLEANED from prodding Miss
Beige into obography
She was born in which is
SO close to Holland that the people re-
semble the Dutch in their language
and in their Aaxcn type-a type some
what akin to the German. Miss Beige
is blond, and, we'll, bit ample, and
her accent is shade Teutonic.
"You began your career as Little
Lord Fauntleroy, you said" I gently
urged her on.
"! was six them was q child
actress at the Repertory Theatre in
Antwerp"
Immediately visualized her as a
plump, very blond, very cherubic in
FAINT
And did you play Little Eva, too ."
i asked hopefully.
| was not disappointed She had.
Il was playing the blind girl in The
Two Orphans when some one dscov
cred | could sing. had song to sing
IN the street, you know So l gave up
acting and studied singing"
When the war broke out she was full
filling six-year contract at the Roval
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
The New Plays This Week

sansd a the . cF0 teri That[ 1hom M Wise mr.
sented by Charles Dillingham; the early life of
the circus genius in the middle of the last He
Mississippi River before play takes him
the time of his greatest triumph the introduction of Jenny Lind
.toa AT the the BIO" rhsatrs lone Of U.s. written by Jack
n" ration with jos 'oseph sweins presented by Oliver MOo
ssR are sa tn cn'aSo hi ago the the first act being laid
Bradley Charles Gotthod Helene Mon Edmund curney
by Brady The occasion marks h h
devoted sns SPOKEN o stage Alice Brady who has for three
Frank Latch Mrs. Russ Whya Isabel Lamn
Evans Walter George Kaufman presented by Geo
Monday play a sSs eemsd psss M@
pfoms9 % to be comic rather than meodmac In the
r,7rspAyna snasSn and M Mona p.Sanes Kingsley
MAKES Wlsn lhe play though it the
totally unlike Seveneen it youthful ambi
the It'll. role in the new 1p p 'rS% % % BAXTER lin in
lad of fourteen and the d
vagabond of taken bv George
ul Edgar steh Ans~ Arnold Margaret Mower Maude
abott ~ ~ ~ Jon"
At the Here" four.act pla, bv Oliver
aey presented by OLIVER D. Bailey and Nathan Smith 1t
as war play seriously humorous
The cast includes William lngerso Ralph Evelyn
vrnNSs%.I rnsGn Lily :. cahil .a and others
ROM e0edy Drama set to music by
run run OF almost two years in London where the
last last OF the George Edwardes musical comedies
on planned by him before his death Maid Of the
Mountains is by Frederick Lona by Harold Fraser
WhO acts
u' o0es not sing sidonie Espeo the
tc role Carl Ganvcor William
Dert olarKe Miriam Doyle Evelyn andC
At the 59th Street Theatre
ny rreoerc Mckay 1T by Laura Ferris and
based upon Saturday Evening
In M and written by Miss Hnckey
peal story of love featured
leading part Playing opposite him will The cast
include Ethel Wilson, Gda
oacku rau Porter Cyril Raymond
~ 4NNN- civ
At Theatre "Crop and Croppers - an Aus a
" war tlne by Theresa Hburn The plav
es IN an amusing style
avenue neetes to do their bit
Is 10 De acted by selected
direction the play produced Eileen Ilubn brilliant
success last "Gasshoppe
georges flateau French
performance the Service
called another Ben Johnson
Charles Kennedy, Vernon Kso, NJ
Eleanor Louise Cook
clair and others in the
SAIUkDAf-At the Lyric Theatre
prologue and three Roland Moore
by Richard Bennett The purple
which has
of the action The
permits be locked
whom she has she afterward
Mr. Bennett the
The
Frank Mccormack Lorraine Ashto Mario
Curtis Benton Edward Van Sloan and
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

IN the war aroused tremendous en-
thusiasm.
In his story Of the American ex.
peditionary army, Mr.. Gibbons de.
lighted his audience with frst-hand
stories of men, some of whom were
even known to those who heard the
speaker. He is able to call by first
name many of those who have already
proven themselves the heroes of our
forces. and his description of the fight
at Chateau Thierry and in the Villers-
Cotterets Forest on July 1s, the day
the tide turned and the Germans be
gan the retreat which is still in prog
ress, is thrilling in the extreme.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Floyd Gibbons Will
Tell of the Yanks
War Correspondent Brings
Many Stories From the
Front to Carnegie Hall

Floyd Gibbons, "The Chicago Trib-
une" war correspondent, who returned
only a few days ago after being wound
ed at Chateau Thierry while going
over the top with the United States
Marines, will deliver his first lecture
on the scenes through which he passed
and which were enacted beft re his eyes
along the Western front at Carnegie
Hall this afternoon and evening. Mr..
Gibbons spoke last Sunday night at
Washington before a most dstin-
guished audience, and his stories Of
the part the American army is playing
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
At the One Week Houses

"The Copperhead," with Lionel Bar
rymore, will be the attraction at the
Shubert- Riviera this week
"The Eyes Of Youth" with Alma Tell,
is scheduled for the Bronx Opera
House.
"The Little Teacher" with Mary
Ryan, will be the attraction at the
Standard.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Long Season for Luna

Luna Park has broken all records
for attendance this season. The park
Will remain open throughout the month
of Scpyenber.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
REGATTA and Horse Races.

There were the regattas with thou
sands of people along the canal and
trains carrying the crowds abreast OF
the racing boats just like at New Hay-
en-, and racing boats here from all
over the Mississippi valley.
TT was considered commonplace
then. but would be considered excit-
ing now. when every evening during
the horse races here pools We're sold
in the lobby of the Hotel Keokuk
which was crowded with track hao-
tues.
And from Blind Tom to Richball,
we used to have some real horses on
the track. too. And there was the
state fair held here once.
Come up to the house some time
and I'll tell you all about old times
here. I can't remember much about
them on the spur of the moment, you
know"
And the old settler started over to
read the war bulletins on the board In
front Of The Gate City office with his
mind farther away than France.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

day to see a good show inside the
theater and in the park, ending with
Pains biggest fireworks at night.
Hubinger contracted for lot OF spe-
cial excursion trains on the T. P and
W. railroad, and the management
thought he was crazy and arranged
for only half the number When the
trains they started from Peoria filed
up quickly and platforms full of peo-
pie were being left at all stations, and
the railroad could not beg, borrow or
buy any more coaches, its manager
nearly went crazy under Hubinger's
commandment of yells for his contract
ed trains.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Keokuk People Justly Proud :,
OF St. Joseph's Hospital
Local institution has Won Reputation orb
the Best In, tho State Of Iowa.

pes,o enn being e1sasa s
eoSuS - this section q me oo1y,
OFT carried daily In an eueee
tnsttudon Is Jneepnfs hoepttal -.sr,
attention to tho physical aIsoos OF $3.50 s
suodsn and ssdsn q on oano az al
The s.ne an<snds q pases
hspas building E"m Time 70
from
the
speedy relief from ne eeos o.
go efficient work
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
KEOKUK'S WAR
WORK IS BIG
The City Always Does More Than Its
Share In All the Activities Of a
Patriotic Nature In the
War.
MUCH WORK; NOT TALK
e Does Not Make Much Fuss About 1t,
80 But Never Allows AN Oppor-
tunity to Pass to be of
Some Benefit.

"Keokuk flies fewer flags and talks
less about the war, and at the same
time does more war work and
gives more money to help whip the
Hun than any city have seen," said
q man the other day.
He glanced UP and down Main
street. and not flag was in sight.
He said he sometimes found it almost
impossible to find flag flying to the
breeze in Keokuk.
But he knew what Keokuk does
for her departing soldier recruits,
what she has done for, the Liberty
loan, the Red Cross, the Red Tri-
angle, the knights of Columbus, the
medical corps and the nurses corps,
and so he said Keokuk is doing more
to help win the war than any city
he knows.
Always Ready With the Money.
In every financial campaign Keo-
kuk has contributed much more
than her pro rata share, and fur
nished the major part of the contri-
buttons from this county.
In the first and second Red Cross
campaigns, she raised three times
the normal per capita. In the Lib
STty lOdu SdHipdlSi, SLc nuDSSiipcu
about twice her actual fair share. In
the Red Triangle campaign, she gave
all that was asked and then a lot
more. And so on, throughout the
list
In every appeal for money to help
win the war, Keokuk has done two
or three times as much as some
neighboring cities have done.
Doing the Real Thing.
Every time any selectives entrain
for the army, be it only two men or
a company of two hundred, Keokuk
turns out with bands and drum corps
and hundreds of marching citizens to
properly escort the recruits to the
train. The fact that this is gener-
ally at 6 o'clock in the morning does
not affect the attendance.
The Keokuk Red Cross chapter has
made and shipped so many carloads
of things for the soldiers that it is
Impossible to catalogue them here.
It's home service bureau takes care
Of the soldiers dependents while he
Is gone.
Keokuk has sent one doctor to
every thousand of its population into
the medical corps of the army-and
II is believed no other American city
Or town has done this. 1t has sent
dozens of nurses into the army hos
pitfalls. 1t has hundreds Of volunteer
soldiers in the army, beside the Sc
lectives, and many of its boys are in
the navy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Some Real Excitement


THE note said that the Kuklux were
approaching Keokuk to kill all the
negroes in town. and were only a
short distance away
Each preacher warned his congre-
cation in few loud words and then
vamoosed. One jumped through the
church window, sash and all with the
words: Save yourselves; as for me,
Use gwine!'
All the negroes in Keokuk became
wildly excited. Most Of them hur-
ried into the country by the wagon
roads, but hundred or SO gathered
On the levee with shotguns and
rifles. Just then the Kennedy Kom-
edy Kompany boat appeared with
three big letters K on her. Her pilot
sheered over toward Illinois when the
bullets began to whistle across the
decks to his amazement. It was the
next day before the negroes were
stopped from milling in their STAN
pede, and weeks before some of them
got back home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

ishes, celery, tomatoes, etc. Thes
foods will be found quite palatab5
when chilled to the temperature 1
the refrigerator. These little eco,
omies practiced in tie home will !
of material aid in solving the difficu,
problem presented by an inadequaS
supply Of ice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

which. if practiced, will insure plenty
Of ice for all.
The refrigerator should be kept
clean. doors tightly closed, and the
drip trap in place. The doors should
never be opened except when neces-
sary. and then for the shortest pos
sibIe time. No hot foods should be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31

placed in the refrigerator. Cracked
ice should not be put into glasses to
cool drinking water and other bever-
ages. A bottle of water kept in the
refrigerator or water drawn from the
cooler will furnish a sufficiently cool
drink. Crushed ice should not be
served in fruits, sea food, salads, rad
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
Failing Buildings.

When the three-story building at
Ninth and Main fell down one evening
and buried three men under twenty
foot of bricks, crowd collected that
nlled over a block of Main street so
tight that a man could not force his
way through it to save his life. It
took a half hour for a half dozen
policemen to make a passage for the
stretcher bearers carrying the first
man rescued, and that was four hours
after the building fell.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
FIFTY-FIFTY
FLOUR RULE
Release from Voluntary Absoluteless
Pledge Does Not Affect Obli-
cation to Use Wheat
Substitutes.

Housewives throughout the country
who periodically put their homes on
wheatless basis last spring have
been released from their pledge to
the food administration to go abso-
lutely without wheat.
AS no change has been made in the
ifty-fifty rule, housewives will con.
fnue to purchase equal weight of
wheat substitutes with their wheat
lour for the present.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
TO CONSERVE
ICE IN HOME
The Shortage of Anronis Lessons Pro
duction of Artificial Ice in Some
places and Suggests This
Advice.

Because of the shortage OF ammo
MIA and Manufacture of artificial ice
there are G1EEr household economies
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-31
In the Good Old Days.

81 have seen the tine when there
would be from four to ten accidents
a day for a couple of months in Keo-
lux factories and lumber yards. Such
accidents were so common that the
newspapers gave them about the same
space as personals. On several occas-
ions several men were killed in one
accident The safety first movement
of later years seems to have stopped
all that.
NO; we never did have any real
conflagrations in Keokuk. No; nary
bank robbery either, although there
was a long series of safe burglaries
one year.
"Oh yes; there was the time the
dizzy blonde troupe came to town to
show in Gibbons opera house and
Mayor Irwin forbade it. and the men
were bound 10 see it, and Jack Hard
in stood in the stairway with big
gun and held off hundreds, and every
the show did not show, and every
thing.
THE fact Is, that we used to have
SO much rea! excitement in Keokuk,
that I can't pretend TO remember all
its incidents that tore the town up at
the time.
When Hubinger Fooled the Railroad.
"Of course, there were the big
things staged on purpose and adver;
tised far and wide, like the opening
of J. c. Hubinger's new casino that
covered most OF the later ball ground
and enclosed a large residence as
dressing rooms; it had the largest
stage in the world at that time.
at opened on the Fourth of July,
and had $4,000 paid admissions that