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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12

election laws until additional legiela-
ton shall be provided
referendum petitions may be filed
with the secretary of state not later
than 90 days after the adjournment
of the session of the legislature at
which such measure was enacted.
(Sec. rs Of the constitution.) Sec.
aS9,\ compiled laws of 1918, requires
the secretary of state to transmit to
each county auditor blank forms for
election returns at least thirty days
before the date of the election.
Section a79 provides: Whenever
a proposed constitutional amendment
or other question is to be submitted
to the people of the state for popular
votes. the secretary of state shall, not
less than thirty days before election.
certify the same to the auditor Of each
county in the state. and the auditor
of each county shall include the same
in the publication provided for in
Sec. 975.'
It Can't Be Done.
IT do not see how this office ear
send out blanks and certificates until
the time for filing petitions has expir-
ed. n if not sent until such time has
expired. of course it is impossible to
send them thirty days before the cleo
ton. If the election is held June IS.
IT am in receipt of the following
opinion from the attorney general:
"'Your letter Of May / to the attor-
ney general has been referred to me
for consideration. You request opin-
ion of this department upon the fol-
lowing questions:
."'1.-Do sections $50 and se7, c. L.
1918. apply to special elections held
pursuant to provisions of section rs
of the constitution. as amended?
"'2.-1s the method of publication
provided by section Is of the consti-
tuition. as amended, exclusive, OIL
should the measures be submitted to
the people be published by the county
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12
Frazier Declares
He Can Call Special
Referendum Election !.
On June Twenty-Sixth
election laws until additional 1egsl;
ton shall be provided

CONTINUED from page y
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12
CANADA TO RAISE BoARs.

Winnipeg, Man. May 12.-State-
ments by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the
Arctic explorer, that the dominion
government could probably intro
duce the raising Of reindeer and
musk OK in northern sections of Can
ada have been followed. by ar an
nouncement that the government is
considering introducing the Siberian
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12

boar into the prairie regions Of the
northwest.
The Siberian animal formerly fur.
nished a large portion of the bristles
used in Europe for making brushes.
When the Russian market collapsed
the industry in Siberia was neglected.
1t is understood that boar ranchers in
eastern Asia are arranging to ship
their stocks to other countries where
the business might be profitable.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12
DRESSED F14EAs NOT BOLD.

Ell Paso. Tex. Nav 12.-Dressed
Mexican fleas have disappeared from
the curio market here. These little
insects once were popular with, tour
lists for mailing back home. The only
dressed flea in the curio stores here
is one being held by a wholesale deal
er as a souvenir of the days when he
sold the insects. skillfully dressed by
keen-eyed Mexican women. by the
gross.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12

4 Free Trial Of Pyr.nla rile Treat-
AeAt Will Be just Like Meet.
ing q Coed Old Friend.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12
Belgium Wants Help.

Brussels. Sunday, May IA DEM
onstration organized by patriotic So
cieties has sent addresses to King
Albert expressive of the Belgian
peoples disappointment to find the
country had been gagged and mu-
tilated' and is obtaining neither the
guarantees nor the r%eparation prom
Used by the Allies. The addresses
complain that indemnities provided
are inadequate and ask the king to
save Belgium from the ruin which
threatens her."
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12
BRUSH HAY'' HARVESTED.

Ell Paso, Tex. May YUCCA and
bear grass are being harvested on the
desert beyond Fort Bliss like wild hay
baled and shipped to st. Louis for
making course fiber brushes. brooms
and other fiber articles. A st. Louis
company has contracted for all the
yucca and bear grass fiber to he
found on the plains near here and il
is being cut by Mexicans. baked and
loaded on cars for shipment.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12
ADVERTISEMENT.
Resident Has Awful
Experience

IT was twice confined in hospitals,
in the last one nothing but Cruel
water was injected into me 4 times a
day. as my stomach would not retain
any food. I suffered terribly: was re-
duced to a skeleton. My folks raw
an ad of Mayf's Wonderful Remedy
and 1t has surely saved my life. I
weigh $50 lbs. now" 1t il q simple,
harmless preparation that removes
the catarrhal mucus from the In
testinal tract and allays the inham-
nation, which causes practically all
stomach. liver and Intestinal ailments,
including appendicitis. One dose will
convince or money refunded. For
sale by druggists everywhere.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-12

Dunbar.
Liberia. little African republic, Is
represented at the peace conference
by two colored men, c. B.. D.. King,
secretary of state. and M. B. Dunbar.
Their country has one sea at the
table and the men have alternated in
representing their people. Liberia is
located on the west coast of Africa
and has an area of 4 1000 square
miles, about hat of Guatemala
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

ADJUSTMENTS.
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R. MEaRUE, FIRST N1aHTER.

A well known writer of articles on
the drama published book not long
ago based on the premise that second
nights at the theatre are infinitely
more interesting than first ones. Prob
ably this Is true to the rank and file
Of confirmed theatregoers; but II GER
tainly cannot be to Roi Cooper Mesrue,
author of Tea for Three" the comedy
now playing at Maxine Elliott's Thea
tire.
Mr.. Megrue may lay claim to being
exceptional among first nighters Of the
United States, not merely in that he
goes to all kinds of plays with the spe-
cific purpose Of learning something
from each--which is not in line with
the habit of the Tired Business Man
but because he manufactures" his
own first nights. Manufactures Is a
term to which he will not object, be-
cause he works nightly in writing his
comedies and dramas and doesn't pre-
tend they are the result of anything
other than hard mental and manual
work.
1t is in viewing these fruits of pro-
longed labor that Mr.. Megrue has his
unusual experience in the theatre. 1t
Is not SO much the fact of his pres
ence at his first nights that makes the
circumstance interesting, as 1t is the
naivete of his point of view. When
the first night comes and he has done
everything in his power to make the
drama a success, he acquires a de-
tachment that makes him one OF the
most unprejudiced persons in the thea
tire.
Mr.. Megrue's experience with "Un-
der Cover" on the opening night is now
a stock anecdote at the F'riars and the
Lambs. Nevertheless 1t will stand re-
| telling. When the play was produced,
Mr.. Megrue was reader for Elisabeth
Marbury, and he naturally felt that
upon his identity becoming known
there would be those to find in his pro-
fession the Source of every fresh idea
his play contained. On this account
he determined to keep his name secret,
at all events, until the play had shown
claim to popularity. So when I'm
der Cover" began its career in Boston
there was no one to claim authorship
save a determined lady who sat behind
him in his balcony seat, and as each
fresh incident disclosed itself, ex-
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the leading man and stage manager.
He played Ed1rdrd Middleton, the
drunkard. and Adelaide Phillips, after
ward so popular in the operate world,
played the angel child. Julia. Every
one of the temperance dramas had an
angel child" in its list of characters.
l played Julia, too, in the early COS,
and among my fathers were such
actors as Edwin Adams, Bernard
Macauley, Joe Nagle and William
E. Sheridan. "The Drunkard" was
first acted in New York city at
the Chatham Theatre in June
1850. Harry Watkins played Ed
Udrd Middleton and Joseph Jeffer-
son Bill DoDton, the good low come
dian of the play. Like angel children"
Later 1t was produced at the American
Museum New York city, 1850, with
william r. Goodall in the leading role.
He was one Of the most brilliant and
gifted actors of his time, but alas! his
was but a brief hour upon the stage"
He was his own enemy and passed
away in his prime. Quoting from an
old time review of its performance in
Boston: There could not have been
a better time chosen for the produce
ton Of this most successful and Do
nestle Drama (sic) than the season it
was first performed at the Boston Mu-
scum. No unprecedented person will at
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mer hotel where he overheard SOW
eral persons discussing his successful
farce ut Pays to Advertise" then cur
rent at the George NJ. Conan Theatre.
One experienced person was rec
ommending the play to the others.
"Oh yes, I've heard it's good" said
another. Anyway. it must be. be-
cause It was written by George NJ.
Cohan."
NO" retorted a third, mot written
by him; he plays in it."
So it is that Mr.. Megrue can tell
with equanimity about Under Sen
tence," play written in collaboration
with Irwin s. Cobb. IL failed because.
to use his own words, the last act
turned up its toes and died" But
until he was able to place his finger
on the cause of that failure Mr. Megrue
did not rest. And when he did it was
a pretty safe bet that he never would
fail for the same reason again. In
connection with the premiere OF a mo-
ton picture version of Under SEN
tence" at the Strand Theatre, New
York. Mr.. Megrue made his flrst-and,
he declares, his only-curtain speech.
Even then he says he couldn't have
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
BY WILLIAM SEYMOUR.

n the summer of 1866, at the The
L atre Royal. Halifax. n. S., acted
the part OF the "angel child" Mary
Morgan, in the great temperance
drama. Ten Nights in a Bar Room"
When I saw the display posters on the
billboards announcing the same play
at the Lexington Avenue Theatre, dur
ing the past week, a flood OF memory
impelled me to go there and live in
the past" for a few hours. And there
was the old play, and the old situations
and the pathetic ballad Father, Dear
Father. Come Home With Me Now"
which had sung fifty-three years ago
to my stage father Joe Mor0an, in the
person OF Joseph e. Nagle-"Joe
Nagle." an unpublished, but wonder
fully magnetic actor Of that time.
found another old friend heading the
cast the other night in the reformed
evangelist, Robert Downing, whom
last saw, oh! twenty years ago in the
role of Spdrtdcus the Gladiator, a part
made famous by Edwin Forrest and re-
f'ected, after him by John Mccullough.
We didn't present Ten Nights" in
those days with any reformatory mo-
tive, but in order 10 draw money to
the box office. Most, If not all the
actors who played Joe Morgan then
were good, honest drinkers, and the
moral influence OF the play was not
apparent in the methods of their ordi-
nary lives. The first temperance play
l appeared in was, few years before
1866, in New Orleans and it was called
The Drunkard." 1t was produced
originally in 1874 at the Boston Mu-
scum, Boston, Mass.
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found a thing to say had It not been
that Irwin Cobb failed to put in his
scheduled appearance, and he was able
to tell the audience about that.
There is no better Illustration OF
Mr.. Megrue's detachment in viewing
his audience on a first night than
little happening at the New York
premiere of Tea for Three" There
Is one rather tense moment which is
sustained on the stage in absolute ST.
lence, when a husband visits bach
elor's apartment expecting to find his
wife there.
When this moment arrived Mr.. Me-
grue, who sat in the extreme rear OF
one OF the proscenium boxes so as not
to be seen by the audience. and con-
sequently could not see the stage him
self, heard the voices of the actors
stop abruptly. His heart sank within
him at what he declares was the most
appalling gap in his literary life. He
thought the players had forgotten their
lines and the play was going to smash.
1t was only when tho dialogue began
again that he realized that he had
written that pause in the manuscript
himself.
Out Of this ability to forget himself
at an opening Mr.. Megrue has made
some interesting discoveries about the
behaviour Of audiences. For instances.
he has noticed that members Of an
audience. animated by that quality that
may be described best as a group"
feeling, always rock back and forth
when they are amused, and from side
to side when excited by earnest emo
ton. When they are bored they
cough. s..lI
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
Vaudeville and Burlesque.

PALACE-Eva Tanguay will
drop in on the old folks here, fol-
lowing her annual custom of keep
ing in touch with the home settle
ment. Miss Tanguay has new
songs and costumes and a new
style of curling her hair, and
though she feels her mission is
to become an evangelist after
leaving vaudeville, that isn't 60
ing to stop her just now. 1t is
said that her voice and her spirits
are higher than ever, and the
management expects to have no
call for the acousticon instru-
ment this week. Mile. Dazie, &C
companied or the toes by Con-
stantin Kobeleff and Ed Janis,
will toddle through popular and
classic dances; Whiting and Burt
will hawk their 1919 edition of
"songsaying." Leo Donnelly will
tell soldier stories picked up with
the Seventy-seventh Division,
which a wild rumor says are new,
and Emma Haig and Lou Lockett
will revolve around a musical
setting.
RIVERSIDE-Marie Dressler
will hold the front line, blocking
all retreat with her songs, her
stories and herself. Julius Tan
men, retired from the firm of
potash and Perlmutter." will
carry out a few reforms with the
help of smiles in Speaking the
Public Mind" Maude Lambert
and Ernest R. Ball will back up
the house piano.
AMERICAN - "The Great
Howard" will project his voice
around as a ventriloouist just as
he has projected his melodies
around as a song writer. Others
will include Barron and Burt,
who are Hebrew comedians, de-
spite their names, and the Romas
Troupe. who are said to he even
more acrohstic than Charley
Charlin in police"
-, COLUMBIA - Twins Big
Show. with girls. scenery and the
other necessary trarpines- will
rvesent LET En- OF" which will
show what lot of fun one can
have on New York's transit sys-
tens. if one only has a profess
sional comedian along.
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DRINK AND THE THEATRE

and II the Sons and Daughters oil
Temperance are true to their cause
they will search the highways and
take the Incorporate to Gee it." They
evidently, did not, for the play never
had the popularity of Ten Nights
in Bar Room" or The Drunkard,
and has not been acted within fifty
years, to my knowledge. In "The
Bottle" unlike other temperance
plays, the hero Cor victim) does not
reform. quote two speeches from
scene before the end:
"Thornlev (the drunkard)--Oh! for
the strength of former days. am en-
feebled. helpless. The warning vo:ce
has not spoken In vain; but, oh! my
bitter curse-
"Dognose Ca sort of Nemesis), 1t is
too late; II you must curse. let it be
upon the cause of all your miseries-
the bottle"
Thornley, sinks into a chair. Close
in" The final scene is in 1.-THE Mad
house"-realizing Cruikshanks pict-
ure. Thornley,, chained, mailman
dies in the arms Of his children.
In recent years one play has been
presented possessing more dramatic
effect. and literary strength, than any
of the above mentioned. Drink
(LAssomoir), tho character Of Cou-
peau, in the hands of Charles Warner
having been a great triumph in Eng
land
One OF the greatest and most sue
cessful reform dramas ever staged was
THE Ticket of Leave Man" by Tom
Taylor. 1t was first produced at the
olympic Theatre, London, by Henry
Neville, in the sixties, and in this
country by Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Flor.
ence.
did not read Timothy Shay Ar.
thurs story Ten Nights in a Bar
room" until many years after 1 had
acted in it. l believe 1t was writer
in 1859 or 1860. I don't know when II
was first acted, but ] have an old copy
of the book with queer and wonderful
wood-cut pictures. The play did no
seem old-fashioned the other night
and the appeal 1t made was genuine
and effective-and I suppose 1t "fit'
the times" But the stage has had al
advocate for temperance these man.
Jears-centuries. even--and l Canno
better perorate than by using tn,
words Of our Immortal Bard-spoker
by Cassie in "Othello": "Oh! that meI
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claimed, Just like minel" But this
lady, who afterward brought suit al
leging plagiarism and lost, had moth
ing to do with the events Of the eve
ming.
During the entr'acte Mr.. Megrue,
encouraged by the reception Of the
first part, ventured to show himself
in the lobby. and, when hailed there
by a local critic, accounted for his
presence by saying that his firm had
sent him over from New York to have
n look at the evenings performance.
He inadvertently admitted that he
knew the anonymous author, and in
his effort to disentangle himself de-
scribed him as young Westerner,
making up few fictitious biographical
details with no idea that they were
to be published as authoritative next
day in a leading Boston paper.
1t was on this very evening that
Mr.. Megrue instituted his little Hou-
DIM disappearing act of finding a seat
in the theatre where his own play
was holding forth, without any one
connected with the management being
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able to ind him. In this. like all good
magicians, he had an accomplish. his
mother. She had her chauffeur pur-
chase a seat at the box Office and
with the coupon issued there, Mr..
Megrue entered. He stood about the
lobby before the curtain rose, chatting
with friends, and then suddenly, Just
a moment or two before the chimes,
slipped into the theatre and on NY
into the balcony and. to all intents
and purposes. utterly vanished. His
object Is to profit by the comments
Of those near him.
Mr.. Megrue has no illusions about
what the public thinks Of an author.
He feels that in the case Of a novel
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tempt to deny that it was the cause
of much good and materially aided the
temperance movement it was meant to
advocate. It was a powerful and liv-
ing picture, and all that saw it felt 1t,
for it was true. 1t was performed that
season for upward of one hundred and
forty times and was by all acknowl-
edged to be the most successful play
ever acted in Boston" And this in
1914.
THE Drunkard" was revived at the
Museum for many consecutive sea-
sons, and it's last production there
was in the summer of 1884 Il had
made a new arrangement of it,.
Charles Barron played Middleton and
Sol Smith Russell BIZ DolptOn, a role
formerly played by that eminent
comedian, William Warren. 1t beinA
Il holiday week with an extra holiday
matinee-and for all such the actors
being paid an extra salary as the
stage director, cast myself for a small
part, Farmer Gates, and played it in
feeble imitation of John L. Owens's
| inimitable Salem Single have
! found a record OF the performance at
| the Chatham Theatre. New York city,
of a prize temperance drama by c..
| w. Tayleure called adrian Grey, or
the Redemption" The principal char
actors were acted by Mr.. and Mrs.
| w. q. Jones. The author received
as prize money $500. At the City OF
London Theatre, in 1S47, there was
produced:
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There is nothing about temperance
in this descriptive title, but in those
days / presume that domesticity and
temperance were synonymous terms.
W. II. Tedley Smith, the adapter, was
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
AT THE HIPPODROME..

Though the performers In
Everything" are just beginning
to catch their breath after the
celebrations of the gala ami
versary week, Charles Dilling-
hams production is by no means
going into a decline, even though
the spring zephyrs are calling tho
elephants to the great outdoors
for a frolic. The big show 10
being speeded up for the final
sprint, and novelties in the diff
ferent acts are being introduced
even at this late date under the
watchful eye of R. H. Burnside,
general director; Mark A.
Luescher, manager, and E. H.
Conway, who is the most Grecian
of all the metropolitan press
agents.
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This was produced at the Park
Theatre, this city, the same year,
OF this play an editorial review
states: This intensely interesting
drama will probably be performed in
nearly every theatre in the country:
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readers are apt to familiarize them
selves with the name Of the writer
for the purpose of finding other works
from the same hand, but with a play,
II the inclination is there. there is
not the opportunity. In this connection
he is fond of telling an anecdote
about his presence one time at a sum-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20

should put an enemy into their mouths
to steal away their brains" and Every
inordinate cup Is unblessed, and the
ingredient Is q devil"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-24

We can tell you about the styles-and
we can tell you what the materials are,
but you will only be able to appreciate
what wonderful values these Suits really
are when you see the fine workmanship
when you see the quality of the ma
terials-when you see the grace of line in
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-24

the smartly fashioned garments that only
the better designers can produce. This
is truly great sale. When we quote
$500 and $500 values this is based on
our conservative prices, but many of
these suits are selling today at 5000 and
$500.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
TAX INVENTORY
BLANKS SHIPPED
Will Be Mailed at Once by Town Clerk
Listers to Begin Work Tomorrow
in Selectmen's Room.

Advices from the state department to
County Clerk Carl S. Hopkins are to the
effect that blanks for the fling of tax
inventories should reach here today
Envelopes already have been addressed
and the blanks win be mailed immediate
ly upon receipt, and the inventories must
be filed on or before April 20.
The listers have arranged for an Office
in the seleetmen's room and Abram J.
Cmrier will be there from 8 to . o'clock
each day, beginning tomorrow, and the
office viii be open Monday, Wednesday
and Saturday evenings. Walter J. Syl-
vester and Henry f. Shipman will begin
their duties tomorrow also, doing the
outside work
Although Town Clerk Carl S. Hopkins
has acted as clerk for the listers several
years, they will do their own clerical
work, or provide for it, and Mr.. Hopkins
win not receive inventories as in former
years.