Evening star., 1921-09-25

father. williamH. Baker, is living at
Sawtelle, Calf, and his son Eddie"
Baker is prominent in the movie
business.
GOING back into the early COS, the
~ Rambler finds accounts of two
local dramatic clubs which have here
| tofore escaped mention in these an
| mails. One was the Capital City Dra-
matte Company and the other the
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Dramatic
Company. Among the players in the
Capital City company were Alice Ir-
win. Jenny Young, Louise Ennis, Grace
Boss, RUBY Try Irving; ,,e;. r H. Bqskier' Kirhr
Bramwell Davis. Ebert Richmond
and d. NJ. Edwards. L have this un-
dated clipping: ''The Capital City Dra-
matte Company made its first bow to
| the public several weeks ago at Mar
+, tyn College Hall and it bids fair to
rank among the most prominent anna
teur organizations of Washington.
The programs to be presented by this
company will be in the form of
triple bill similar to the performances
presented by the late Rosina Vokes.
The plays will be in one act and of
a very refined order. such as are now
being presented by the Linthicum In
stitute boys. Nine dates have been
| made for the month of April
Among the players in the Richard
Brinsley Sheridan Company were Mary
T. Lloyd. Lena Bright. Sara Wheeler,
Jennie Lloyd. Mrs. ]. r. Neely. John
R. Neely. William H. Myers. Fabian
| Fred Dalton. John A. Bresnahan and
Guy E. Jenkins. Three of their bat
tie horses were Our Boys" I'm Honor
Bound and .The Midnight Charge"
And speaking OF battle horses"
reminds the Rambler that he has in
horse friend, Charlie Harris. whose
formal name Is Charles T. Harris ad-
visory member Of the Harness Horse
Association. Charlie is not really in
oughbred race horses. but for the past
hundred years or so he has been an
| authority on trotting horses. 1t may
interest you to know that the hon
orary president Of the Harness Horse
.. Association is f. F. Geers (Ed Geers),
who has held the reins over the fast
est trotters that ever pulled a sulky
against stop watch. Ed Geers and
Charlie Harris go back to the days
when Flora Temple gave us thrills
Mich. in 2.1s%. You remember that
that event came to pass October 10,
1859, and 1t occasioned more talk
among the American people than Con-
gress can get off in week. Eight
years years, after Flora Temple made her
ping a mile in 2.17A. Four years
later G87D Goldsmith Maid, at Mil
waukee. September 6. 1871, brought
the time down to 2.17.
The next summer (June 9. 1922 the
same wonderful mare clipped a quar-
ter second off the record at Mystic
Park. Boston. Two years later (JuIy
10. 1S74). at East Saginaw, she brought
the time down to ZIG fiat. August Z
that year she lowered it 215h at Buff
brought 1t down to 2.14%. and on
September 2 of that year, at Mystic
Park, she cut her time for the mile to
2.14. Then followed Rarus, st. Julien,
Maud s., Jay-Eye-See, Sunol, Nancy
Hanks. Alix, The Abbot, Cresceus and
Readville. Mass. August "a, 1903, in
two minutes. Cresceus clipped off
quarter second at. Wichita two months
later; Lou Dillon retaliated by doing
a mile at Memphis October "a, 1903, in
1.5sk; Uhlan brought it down to 1.5s
by a running mate, at Lexington Oc-
tober 10, 1918, that great horse
! brought down the time to 1.54k. Well,
Charlie drops in to see me at The
Star when he is down my way. but
last Sunday. when he read the ram
| US, Billy Birch, Dave Wambold, Kate
Fisher and the others he sat down
and wrote me this letter:
Your. theatrical "reminiscences OF
this date mention many old-timers
that have known. OF the Thorne's
think there was another son, Edwin.
! ii am not mistaken. Emily, the only
daughter of Charles R., sr., was an
accomplished actress and married
John Chamberlin of this city. The
Hamblin you mention as member
of Kate Fishers company was Tom
and he was an actor of the robust
school. OF all the Mazeppas, Adah
Isaacs Menken was the most beauti-
full One Of her several husbands was
my old friend, the late Robert H.
Newell (Orpheus c. Kerr). whose
heart she broke and who died with
her name on his lips. Her poem,
Resurgane,' is q classic.
-'The second wife of Charley Back
us was Kate Newton, who was once q
member Of Miss Fishers company and
was for many years connected with
stock companies in New York city
You remember that generous-sized
mouth was one Of Charley's most
valued possessions? have heard him
say that when he saw It In mirror
It reminded him Of a red morocco
pocketbook.
Dixie was originated by Dan EN-
nett previous to the civil war ana