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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-24

c. McClain has filed suit in the dis
trict court against NJ r. Smith to dis
SOLVE the partnership Of the firm
known as the Fike Smith & McClain
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-24

Chamber Of Commerce Band dance,
mt Convention Hail, Friday night. 1913
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-24
Make Your Bowels Behave

Make them function with gratifying
precision. If regulation Of the diet
does not relieve their torpidity DR..
Kings New Life Pills will. They are
perfect bowel trainers, cleanse the
system surely comfortably, 25c.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-24

Chamber OF Commerce Band dance,
al Convention Hall, Friday night 1913
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-24

Mrs Minnie b. Church, county dem
onstrator, went to Springer this morn
ing to visit the Sehools.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-09-19
HARRYMAN-LONG

A wedding of interest to friends of
Owosso and vicinity is that of Miss
Nina Long, only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ezra Long, east of Owosso, to
Russell ID. Harryman, southwest of
Owosso. The ceremony was perform
ed Tuesday morning, September Is, by
Rev. Allen, pastor Of the Methodist
Episcopal church of Corunna. The
young people were attended by Miss
Reta Virgins, friend of the bride and
Leon Slater, cousin of the groom
The bride was born and raised in Gale
dpnia township and the groom IL
Owosso township.
They both are graduates of the
Owosso Business college. The bride
has been employed for the past three
years at w, E. Hall & Son store. Ar
ter short wedding trip they will br
at their home to their friends at the
groom's farm, south Of Corunna.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

commercial producers. seeming a
popular success here, proposed 10 the
Theatre Guild that he guarantee them
$500 Week s-o move the play up
town to the Fulton Theatre.
The financial conditions OF it's pro-
ductlon are interesting. The Guild is
a cooperative theatre. in which all
the members of the company receive
a uniform salary, with sharing Of
profits when running costs and costs
of production have been paid and a
sinking fund provided. The mem bers
Of the cast each receive S25 a week.
The original cost of the production
was exactly 1884 In the twenty five
weeks run the receipts have averaged
$4,000 week, total gross income of
Slo0,000. of which the Theatre Guild
has received enough to show net
profit of over $4,000
1t sheds some light on the posi-
bilities of the cooperative theatre to
be self supporting, and it tempers
somewhat the popular notion that vast
amounts are risked in production.
Broadway regards John Ferguson"
with amazement not unmixed with awe
mprehensible as it is, It has earned
the respect due piece of paying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT or THE STAGE

thing I've had, and you talk about the
place | call hell as Heaven.
klng-Adam, why can't we change
places?
Adam-Change places-how do you
mean?
King-1 mean that I will go to Man
ouse-if you'll take over my family.
ADAM cure joking.
king-Oh, no I'm not. You're long
ing for a family, and I'm longing for a
rest.
Adam-You mean that you'd actually
leave me in charge of your family?
King meaan to install you here as
father. They don't think much of me
as father. so | would like to let them
try new one.
- Adam-lf you will pardon me. Mr.
hlng, think that is one of the widest
ideas l ever heard
|king-Not at all! 1t would be
liberal education for you-and
believe me, you need it. It's
really awful to think of a poor.
innocent fellow going about with the
Idea that if you want to stop women
from being extravaganza all you need
do is drop a hint! You long for the
touch OF womans hand. do your
You'll get it, boy, you'll get it, if you're
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
mes Rennie
By Rebecca Drucker

Gsh praise as 1t is to say Of an
.c,r, that he Is Finished" it is praise
that has double edge, with the deadly
,mplicaton that there Is nothing more
in process of making here. sense Of
no renewal. That is why, Of the two
most interesting performances of this
season. that Of Alfred Lunt in "Clar-
.ncs" and that Of James Rennie in
moonlight and Honeysuckle." not one
.eyiewer said that they were finished.
sne cannot be sure. The possibilities
that lie in these young moderns are
difficult to gauge.
James Rennie is vibrant, gray-eyed
Young man. SO recently out Of the uni
form Of captain of the Royal Flying
Corps that something of the airman's
insouciance still hangs about him. He
would rather you did not suspect him
Of harborng upsetting ideas, but if you
do he cannot help rising to the decoy.
decoy.
"You see. the fashion of acting flows
with the whole tendency of art. Elim;-
nation. economy, the reliance upon the
power of suggestion rather than that
Of portrayal-that is the new concept,
and 1t modifes all the old-fashioned
theories of acting. The play. it's de-
coratng, its acting are a whole, and
the actors whole art is to keep himself
in the picture. Paradoxically, you are
far more intensely an individual SUBJ
dued to your part in that whole than
you would be if you dominated it.
"These lessons in restraint learned
by constant experiment. The effects.
for instance, of pauses are the merest
stage tricks, but l did not know until
found out for myself how much more
effective pause can be than line.
But it is only effective when it is tense
with significance, charged with SYM
Dol. You can rivet an audiences atten-
ton, strangely enough, more by what
is passing through your mind than
By wha. you are saying. That was an
other great discovery. l came upon it
while was playing Hamlet. I had
come to the grave scene and the speech
about Yorick, and there rose before me
real picture of the boy Hamlet and
the Jester. WAS carried by it into
longer pause than l intended, and
suddenly became aware that the at
tention Of the audience was centred
upon me more intensely than at any
time in the play. 1t was a moment full
of intensity for me, and it became so
FOR them.
found that my imagination had the
power TO compel theirs"
Where did you get chance to play
Hamlet" asked.
AT the Northampton Stock Com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

not darn careful. You've done lot
Tor me, Adam: Your honesty and faith.
tuiness have helped NE to make Ia 700
tortune-so I'd like to do sometSine
Tor You. | want TO open your ewes be-.
Tore you've landed yourself with a wife
i"o'her-in-law and couple of kids.
AaamIbut what would your family
>, hing-We don't need to care what
they say; I've still got one hold over
m ny family. They all sit up on their
mn nlno legs and ''woof" when I hold out
this little book. Wv
/, AdamTfou rule them with a check
o0ok. mat isn't right, Mr.. King.
hlng-lf you can discover any other
s way 70 rule them, l shall be most CRATE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Who's Whom
Current PLAYS

In every season there are usually
few bits that stand out from the cur
rent theatrical successes and are re-
membered sometimes even when the
very name of the play itself is forgot
No single speech in this years pro-
ductiors has made profounder i'm
preston than that Of the drunken COM
poser in First Is Last" the comedy
at Maxine Elliott's Theatre Before
ard after this speech the audience is
laughing Il good part of the time, but
for few minutes Richard Dix reduces
the crowd TO q breath holding silence
and sympathetic attention that the
most famous of stars cannot always
WIN
Before this Dix had not won fame,
but ne had served thorough appren-
ssieeshlp and nobody that saw him in
The Song of Songs" few years ago
was surprised at the power and sin
cerlty shown in his present role.
Mr. Dix was born in Minneapolis.
where his father tried to make
banker Of him. But money. according
to the old saying. did all the talking
whereas lie wanted to talk himself so
he went to q night school Of acting and
presently graduated into the best OF
all schools-the theatre itself For a
and a half he s glazed .a stock kin in
~.''"t q pv.-S anu tot. dOI dHu tHSH
Joined company in Pittsburgh. After
tour through Canada, he got an en-
gsgement with william Faversham and
Nile. Dorzat in THE Hawk" and "The
Song Of Songs" 1t was his work in
the last-named piece that brought him
an offer from Morosco to play stock in
aos Angeles. Returning again to New
YORK, he did Juvenile part in "The
Little Brother" and later made de-
eidsd hl' as the vigorous young agitator
IN lie Baron's II Love You"
. Queenie Smith, the heroine of "Roly-
BOY Eyes" John Cort's musical COM
edy az the Knickerbocker Theatre, is a
product Of the Metropolitan Ballet
school. native Of this countryside
was born N San Antonio, Tex-Miss
Smith mas received her entire training
IN Aneric.. and she is proud of the
Tact that she is entitled to bear the
trademark "ail-American.'
AZ the age OF four little Miss Smith
began 70 show ability az ballet
dancer, and when only twelve years old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

Pany. which is. as you may know. the
oniy municipal theatre in the country
1t was not in their plans to rive Han.
let SO wrote let's to the local news
papers demanding why we were NOT
oeing given Hamlet at the municipal
theatre, and signed myself Indignant
Subscriber,' or something like that. A
lew people got stirred up about it and
wrote real letters, and the result vas
that l got my chance at Hamlet, The
funny thing was. though the man
ayers in their anxiety to prove that q
municipal theatre could be self support
ing, had been afraid to risk a Shake
spearlan production, we made enough
real money by it to wipe out the season
deficit incurred by the popular offer
lngs- 1t was a wonderful experience
and live in the hope"-but Mr.
Renune did not need to finish thu,
sentence
Alter two seasons in the more or
Tess rarlfled atmosphere of Northamp-
ton 4 mad a season with that charming
little pastoral, His Bridal Night It
was q robut, -slamming bedroom
farce 1T equalized things and l felt
better for having played. 1t established
healthy sort of balance in nv ex-
perience.
Then I Joined up and went to Eng
land In the air service. don't SUP
pose it's made NE better actor, but
IT'S been valuable part Of nv educa
ton. had for years been haunted bv
the romantic line, ooh, to be in England
when it's May and l had all Of the
sentimental young mans notions about
spring in England. Well, know now
that the English spring is about the
most overrated thing there is. | wish
had stayed in this country and kent
all my downy ideals intact, but, on the
other hand, all the hard hitting real
lties OF the war, of which the English
spring was not the only disillusion-
ment, has done much for one in a pro-
tesslon where a sense of reality some
times gets mislaid.
Il don't know whether have brought
anything new in acting. ! only know
mat | have the most amazing luck
me luck that brings me through every
thing on my feet. Once / drifted
around in the fog on coast patrol over
the English Channel when my engine
went wrong. | was due for long
trip down. l turned the plane
around to head for the direction in
which the compass told me Law
the land. | didn't expect to make land
so far as | knew | was somewhere in
the middle between France and Eng
land, the fog was so thick I couldn't
see my engine, it was bitter cold. and |
had a mental picture of foundering
around in the water until boat picked
me up. I drifted down somewhere on
the bosom Of the fog until ! felt that |
must soon hit bottom-and when I
struck, it was. would you believe it? on
the English shore not six feet from
the waters edge-on the shingle Of the
beach. rs been like that in my work,
too l think"
Luck or skill-it is obvious that
the resourceful. high-spirited M
Renaie has made his landing again.
R. D.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
John Ferguson
Makes Theatre
Guild Independent

broadway. that so knowingly COM
putes box Office receipts. does not know
what to make of "John Ferguson"
Last Saturday night the play broke the
fulton Theatre house records for re-
ceipts, when it took in nearly $4,000
A strange, gloomy play tisat started
out with furtive bid for recognition
from the intellectuals, its popularity
IS one of the freaks Of the season.
John Ferguson the second produc-
ton Of the Theatre Guild, opened at
the Garrick Theatre twenty-five weeks
ago. scheduled for only two weeks.
In spite Of the reviewers praise it was
difficult to believe that the play had
succeeded. and its run was extended
only a week at time. Finally Walter
Wanger, one of the younger Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

she persuaded her parents to allow her
TO Join the Metropolitan Opera Ballet
school. Under the able direction of
Nine. Verhoeven, the young girl
studied very hard, and after few
years was recognized as the premiere
danseuse of the school.
Miss Smith holds the record OF being
the first dancer to step from the ballet
school to a position of responsibility
ana prominence, for during the season
following her last year of training at
the ballet school Queenie Smith was
announced as the premiere danseuse of
the metropolitan Opera Company. AS
the solo dancer in the ballots Of
"Petruschka," lie Coo dor" and
aida" Miss Smith won the unqualified
recognition of the critics, and within
the short space of single season was
established as one of the leading ballet
dancers of America. She has perma-
nently deserted grand opera, however,
for the gayer field of musical comedy,
having discovered that her larynx is
as nimble as her toes
Back of Edith shayne's admirable
performance in AT 9:45," the owen
Davis meiodrama at the Playhouse
Miss Shayne being the frantic and fear
full mother of the boy who is myster-
ously shot as the hands of the clock
point quarter of TENS a long and
highly successful experience in mater
nal roles. She was the mother in that
amusing play, THE Dummy" during
its run at the Hudson some seasons
back, and later played another mother
with John Drew In "Pendennis." In
"As a Man Thinks" Miss Shayne was
not a mother, but, following her stage
instincts in that direction, played a
governess.
An alumnus Of the Sargent School of
Acting, Miss Shayne graduated a mem
Der Of the class which sent forth to
try their fortunes behind the footlights
Mary Nash, Doris Keane, Grant Nit
chell and Lucille Watson. Her first
professional experience was gained
with q company presenting THE Count
of Monte Cristo" on tour. Edmund
Breese played the Count, and one night
James O'Neill, who had witnessed the
performance, came back stage to say,
among other things, that the woman
playing the bag was too old, too much,
so to speak, in the picture. Miss
Shayne happened to be that bag, and
as she also happened to be still in her
Teens she felt considerably encouraged.
She has played "The Girl With the
Green Eyes" in "The Lion and the
Mouse" and with George Beban in the
latter's sketch, The Sign of the Rose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05

property. When i. goes out on the
road next week it will have. according
to Variety" The very best route
issued IN years from the kiaw and
Erlanger booking Office"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
Brooklyn

JESTIC-"Friendiy Enemies" plays
second week here, in response to =
large popular demand.
MONTACK -"The Rainbow Girl" Is tho
Offering here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
"Rosmersholm" at the
Neighborhood To.Niaht

Leigh Lowell and Octavia Kenmore
ehe English actors, who are presenting
a series of lbsen productions at the
4N.nelghborhood Playhouse, will give
fn.osmersholm' tonight, next Saturday
evening "S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-05
At the One-Week Houses

STANDARD Robert r. Mantell will
present Il week OF repertory at this
theatre
SHUBERT RINIERA-Alice Brady will
appear in Forever After" with the
same cast that supported her At the
Central Theatre.
BRONX OPERA HOUSE-The Woods
melodrama. The Woman in Room
IS" will be the attraction here.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1919-07-10

Mr.. Joe Royal was a business visitor
to GibSland Thursday.
Quite a number from here attended
court in Arcadia the past week.
Mrs. Kittic Lou Webb, Of Gibslaud.
visited relatives here Friday and Sat
urday.
Mrs. Annie Mae Fitzpatrick of Ath
ems, visited her pareuts the past few
days.
Crops are looking great deal bet
ter since the last few days Of sun.
shine.
Mr.. Jim Neal Woodland and daugh
ter, Miss Matte, of Dubberly, visited
his parents last Sunday.
Mr.. V. Pratt. of Mt. Lebanon, was
a visitor In the home Of his nephew
Mr.. L. Minchew, the past week.
The sun has shone bright and warm
for the past few days and it is to bt
hoped it will shine several more days.
Little Theron Royal, Of Shreveport
who is spending the summer with his
grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Royal
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1919-07-10
RNGGOLD LOCALS

Mr. Marvin vanden0urg who has
oeel the guest of his sister, Mrs
george Thomas lett Thursday to yjsit
relatives Ill Alexandria and Euuicp, La
MIS- L. 1. Sellers, of Lerado. Texas
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs
George Thomas, With her little son
f. L. Jr., left Saturday to visit rela.
tlVes Ill Calhoun, La.
Quite a number Of the Ringgold citi.
zelis attended the picnic and base ball
games between Rinsgold and HOPE at
hope, July 4th Rmgsold's first and
second team both played and were win.
ners III both games.
Rev. Pettus and family, Mrs. H. T..
rage ana sons, Ronald and Leon, Mrs.
l.. b. Cook and children, Lucille and
Phillip left Sunday to attend the B,
L. L. T., ellcampment at Pineyille this
week,
Misses Mary Lee, Ethel, Joe and
Hazel Thomas accompanied by Their
aunt, Miss Ella Lawhon, Of Shreveport
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1919-07-10
CALOMEL SAlIVATES AND
MAKES YOU SICK
Acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver
and you,lOse a days work.

There's no reason why a person
should take sickenins, salivatins Gallo.
mel when u few cents buys a large bot
tie of DOdsOn's Liver Tone-a perfect
substitute for calOmel.
1t is Il pleasant, vegetable liquid
which will start your liver just as
surely as calOmel, but 1t doesn't make
you sick and can not salivate.
Children and grown folks can take
Dodson's Liver Tone, because it Is per.
feCtly harmless.
Calomel is a dangerous drug. 1t Is
mercury and attacks your bones. Take
a dose Of nasty calomel today and you
will feel weak, sick and nauseated TO-
morrow. Don't lose days work, Take
q spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone in
stead and you will wake up feeling
great. No more biliousnesS, cOnsti.
patton, Sluggishness, headache, coated
tongue or sour stomach. Your drug
giSt says if you don't find Dodson'S
Liver Tone acts better than horrible
calomel your money is waiting for
YOU.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1919-07-10
LIST OF PETIT JURORS FOR JULY
TERM OF COURT

List Of Petit Jurors drawn for the
Third Week of the July, 1919 term OF
Court.
e. Il. Robinson, 3; NJ. l.. Noles. A:
d. Il. Blake, t; Jesse l.. Stew
art, /; W. &. Davis, 4; D.
Ellis Jones, .; A. \. Smith, 5; IL.
Nelson, =; +. NJ. Dodson, 3; Eli K. Loe,
Is; j. j. McAlichael, 5; ID. z. Lucky,
Is; i. {. Aycock, /; J. NJ. Corbltt, !:
A. Is. Bryan, t; K. L. Taylor, l; J..
W. Berry, Z; J. W. Nicholson, l; l.,
A. Walker, DR., =; Ira Nliley, I; l.. d.
llennigan, /; J. +. Powell, =; A. X.
Hennigan, 3; J. W. Rowel, I; Will
Gambler, >; W. G. Garlic, ); W. u,
Shively, 6; ]. A. Robinson, 6.
State Of Louisiana,
Parish Of Bienville.
/, J. n. Shelley, Deputy Clerk of
District Court and EX-Otlicio Jury Com
missioner for the Parish of Bienyille,
La. do hereby certify the above and
foregoing to be a true and correct list
Of NENlRE drawn for the July, 1919
term of Court for the said Parish OF
Bienville, converting On the Third Mon
day Of July, it being the list day there
Of.
Witness my hand and seal Of office,
this June 18th, 1919.
J. n. SHELLEY,
Deputy Clerk shrd cmwf vbgk Wig
Deputy Clerk District Court and EX.
OHicio Jury Commissioner.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1919-07-10
STAFFORD CALLS EXTRA
SESSION OF LEGISLATlR RE

f. NJ. Stafford, state senator from
Orleans parish, president pro temporc
Of the senate, and candidate for gov
ernor threw the state Into whlri OF
political excitement when during the
absence from the capitol Of both Gov
ernor Pleasant and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Mouton, he attempted to call al
extra session vi the legislature for AL
gust II, for 80 days, TO consider 1t sub
Jects, including Pine Island oil, an un'
limited constitutional convention, WO
mans suffrage and to WreSt from May
or Behrman and the New. Orleans Or
sanization their political power, by d
rigid civil service for all employees OF
The city Uf New Orleans.
Stafford was blocked in bis prelim'
inaries. He made a run to Baton
Rouge Tuesday night and appeared i'll
the secretary Of states Office, submit
ting to him Il midnight proclamation
calling the extra session. James j.,
Bailey, secretary, refused to accept the
proclamation, saying that he must have
proof that Mouton was out of the state.
Wednesday, Senator Stafford reap
peared in the secretary's office in Baton
Rouge and left the proclamation with
Richard Flower, assistant secretary of
the state, who still refused to promul-
gate it.--Shreveport Times.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1919-07-10
TAKEN Up

Taken up on my place four miles
Southwest Of Arcadia, three colts de-
Scribed as follows: One Sorrel mare
one red mare and one sorrel horse, all
having one or mOer stocking feet and
all appear to be about = years old.
The owner Of the above described
animals Is hereby notified to call and
prove property, pay keepers fees and
other costs and take same away or
these colts will be sold at public sale
to the last and highest bidder for cash
within legal sale hours on
SATl RDAY, AUG. 18th, 1919
in accordance with the provisions of
Stock Law of Ward l. Bienville Par.
ish, La. Sale will be held at my
farm. known as the Truluck place.
This the 10th day Of July. 1919.
q. W. GREEN,
Arcadia, Route 3.