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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-17

FORECAST FOR ALABAMA: FAIR SATURDAY AND SUN DAY; NO CHANGE IN THE TEMPERATURE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14

more than any actress in America, she IS at the moment penniess and desolate.
 In the memory of those who saw her-and the memory need not be particularly vigorous one to cherish her for she. was supreme as short time IS ten years ago-she is without rival Once pos sessor of wild beauty, at forty she is marked by time and battered by circumstance
 What is the real story of Cissie Loftus?
 She sprang into fame, girl of fifteen. Her earning capacity was tremendous. She achieved the impossible by drifting back and forth from vaudeville to Shakespeare and of being star in both fields. America while it delights in English actors, has never been very kind to English ac- tresses yet as nation it cast it's worshippng heart beneath Cissie's tiny feet.
 jst. She had many seasons of swift conquest and then she returned to her native London and for nine years virtually disappeared. To-day out of this eence issues the sombre statement of her downfall A concise thing, tragedy very like news ar ticle after ai with anything which seems unneces- esary to it's dark import eliminated. simple item h the press, but one remembering that thistle down mimic of few years ago wonders at the gull of suffering and mystery that must lie between the days of Cissie Loftus's triumph and these days of her degradation.
 One may wonder. but it is difficult to secure any facts For in all her host of acquaintances one, with one exception, seems to have known her in timateiy She was frail fower-like being of deli cate beauty and possessor of real genius for i'm personation. Her very ability to present the tenn peramental idiosyncrasies of companion artists likewise served as cloak to hide her real person. ality from all who called themselves friends asked a man with whom she once appeared Tn Shakespeare "She was . darling" he said. Nbut I never feit actually knew her." manager for whom she played reported, "She was always slip
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Cissie oftus: Most Tragic of Broken Idols
How This Frail, Flower-Like Actress With Her Genius for Impersonaton Fell From the Top of Her Art Into Her Terrible Plight of To-Day.

she told me, "a music hall performer She vas exactly what that term represents in most minds. Cissie the strange ethereal product of such sur roundings, had miserable childhood She hated the halls so much that in later years when salary talent and fame ought to have kept her in yaude- vile. she preferred legitimate drama although it offered her little To her the music halls were associated with too much that was sordid to ever give her happiness, though her genius car red her to the top.
 "Her delicacy was at once her protection and her betrayal. When she was tiny child, Father Bernard Vaughan saw her and through his inter- vention she permitted to enter convent school although at that time an actress's child being in such precincts quite unheard of. She had to leave when she was fourteen, however, and start acting.
 "A year later all London had acclaimed her. She was the biggest box office attraction in the metropolis and yet off stage she her hair in pigtails and her dresses to her knees.
 sShe met Justin Hartley Mccarthy, the of the Irish M. F., and fell in love with him. 1 believe I the only person who knew of it. Certainly was with her when she let down the hem from her little white dress and piled her hair on top her head and eloped with him to Edin- burgh at 6 o'clock in the morning. She was play ing one of the halls at the time and great was the consternation when she did not appear that evening. She remained lost for two weeks though, and then popped back to London, joyous in her new happiness For her then were the halcyon days of her life. She and Justin, who was, as you will remember, author of If Were King, wrote each other daily poems Cissie had real literary ability and she had real musical ability too, and her days were spent between the composition of harmonies and verses, of deae love and of nightly appearances. But genius shouldn't mate with genius, and that exactly what happened in her case.
 @Cissies fame spread afar. She impersonated every famous person in London and then began on the world of Paris, giving limitations of Yvette Guilbert and Sarah Bernhardt that won the ap- uroyaI of those two artists. There was remark able quality about Cissies impersonations Not only were they uncanny in their naturalness but they seemed go into the very soul of the original and reproduce that Celebrities bowed to each other through Cissies art She had no limits She could be Bernhardt as easily she could be the iowiiest clown in Piccadiliy. And withai she herself remained painfully shy and painfully mis- understood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-14
By Ruth Waterbury.

SSIE LOTUS, the great est mime the stage has ever known, has been ar rested in London as being an unlawful possessor of drugs. She, who was ac- claimed by the royalty of England and the democ- racy of America. is now in a nursing home, guarded by friends, on temporary parole for this drug charge.
 Earning at one time
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GENTLE soul. surely, fired by beauty and

Uy o<auby oo haunted by tragedy. And in the end mys- tery m Q cking me with its leer. But enc day Fate was kind and I found Cissie Loftus's ex- ceptional friend. Not only had she known Cissie but she had understood and loved her
 "Cissie's mother was Marie Loftus."
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ping quietly in and outs An actress who once played at tho same theatre with her told me, "l ean only remember that she was the headliner and I 2 marc filler on the M, yet my dress be- cane unhooked as l stood waiting in the wings and Cissis ca m . over an d hooked 1t for mo, shyiy, as though I were doing her . favor in permitting such kindness-
Evening star., 1923-10-29
COTTON FUTURES
ARE HEAVILY SOLD
Week Starts Off With Price
Drop Due to Poor Liver
pool Market.
BY the Associated Press.

Ds tie AssOclaleu
NEW YORK, October 29.-rhere
was heavy realizing or liquidation il
the cotton market during the days
early trading. which appeared to be
inspired by weakness in Liverpool
and reports that spot cotton was be
ing marketed very freely at the 30
cent level in the south. The opening
was barely steady. at an advance of
13 points on November, but gen
orally 2 to 80 points lower, and
showed net losses of 35 to 40 points
during the first hour. with December
declining to 1924 and January TO
29.75.
There was some buying on unset
tied weather conditions in the south,
but the selling was more or less gen
eral, and stop orders were uncovered
on the decline. Liverpool made u
fairly steady showing, but broke be
fore the opening here. and private
cables said there had been American
selling in that market.
New Orleans Prices Lower.
NEW ORLEANS, October %
by cotton in the first half hour of
the session today, the market being
affected by the weakness of Liver
pool, prices there breaking suddenly
at about the time of the opening OF
the American markets. The decline
was made in the face of complaints
of further wet weather in the west
ern belt and a private crop estimate
of 10,03S, 900 bales.
Cotton Prices at Noon.
NEW YORK, October 29.-Eleyen
forty-five am. bids steady; Decem-
ber. 3035: January, 1880; March.
1885; May, 30 SO; July. 2928
NEW ORLEANS. October 29-Noon
bids steady; December, 3O.0S; Janu-
airy, 1884; March, 29.S7; May, 1918
asked; July, 1926.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
VOTE STREET EXTENSION.

CUMBERLAND, Md, October e.
The city council passed an ordinance
calling for the extension of Front street
from Frederick to Knox. James G.
Powell, Michael D. Reinhart and
Charles G. Holzshu were appointed
commissioners to assess damages and
benefits should the Improvement be
made.
The commissioners will make a report
after which there will be a public hear
ing before the council. There is such
a congestion of traffic on Center street.
the only street leading west, that it is
felt the extension of Front street is
imperative. as it would give another
way out Of the city and relieve the
congestion in the heart Of the city.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, October 29.-F'oreign
exchanges easy; quotations lin United
States dollars): Great Britain, de-
mand, 4.4Sas: cables, 4.4S9s; sixty y-day
bills on banks, 4.46b. France, de-
mand, .05S51s; cables. .05S6. Italy,
demand, .O4491s; cables, .045o. Bel
gium, demand, .0504; cables, .0504k.
Germany, demand, .0000000000125;
cables, .000000O000125. Holland. de-
mand, 1888; cables, 1887. Norway,
demand. 1922. Sweden. demand,
.2631. Denmark, demand, .1730. Swift
garland, demand, .17S2. Spain, de-
mand, 1885. Greece. demand. .015S.
Poland. demand, .eoo000A. Czecho-
sloyakia, demand, .0292. Jugoslavia,
demand, .0117. Austria, demand,
.000014. Rumania, demand, .0O471a.
Argentina, demand, 1920. Brazil,
demand, .0930. Montreal, .9S 11-16.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
CLOSING is IRREGULAR.
Buying Orders Increased in Days
Final Trading.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 29.-Stock
prices displayed reactionary tendency
I'm the early part of todays stock mar
ket but stiffened later on short cover
ing apparently induced by the concerted
buying of special issues, notably du
Pont. Sales approximated $4,000
shares.
The closing was irregular. Buying
orders increased in the late afternoon
with a good demand noted for several
railroad shares, notably Northern Pa
cific, Baltimore and Ohio and Chesa-
peake and Ohio. Marine preferred was
conspicuously strong.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
DEAL BY PRAIRIE OIL.
nu .,,a Associated A Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 2s.-The Prairie
Oil and Gas Company has obtained
approval of the directors OF the Pro-
dueers and Refiners' Company to OBJ
tain control of the latter company by
an exchange of stock, It was learned
Refiners. the Prairie company will
enter the marketing business.
By the offer of the Prairie company.
it Will exchange one share Of its com
shares of Producers and Refiners, par
value $50, to the extent of 81 per
cent Of the latter company's common
capital stock. This proposal Is now
going out by mail TO stockholders.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
CALL MONEY RATES.

NEW YORK, October 29.-Call
money firm; high, 8: low, "; ruling
rate, Az; closing bid, o; offered at
5A; last loan, 5; call loans against
acceptances, Az. Time loans easy;
mixed collateral, sixty to ninety days.
5; four to six months, 5 a; prime
commercial paper, 5a5A.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
TODAY'S METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, October 2s-Copper
quiet; electrolytic spot and futures,
l2ha12M. Tin easy; spot and near
by, 41.62; futures, 41.37. Iron steady;
No. 1, northern, 22.00a23.00 No. 2.
northern, 220pa22.50; No. 2, southern,
21.00a23.00. Lead, steady; spot, 6.75.
Zinc quiet; East st. Louis, spot and
nearby, 6.35a6.40. Antimony, spot,
SOOaSl0.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
|F|RMNESS NOTED
IN BOND PRICES
Market Steady as Week
0pens-Liberties Strong.
Some Issues Follow Stocks.
BY GEORGE r. HUGHES.

special Dispatch TO The star.
NEW YORK, October 29.-The bond
market was quiet today but firm. at
least. as far as hfgh-grade securities
were concerned. ...
Activity was on not so great a
scale as last week, but the underlying
tone was good. United States gov
ernment loans appeared stabilized
around present levels, but there was
good inquiry with fractional ad-
vances in the prime rails and indus
trials. Examples were Illinois Cen
trail 5s. Atchison General As. Canadian
Pacific As and Union Pacific first IS.
Canadian Northern 61s was an
other illustration: Here the invest
ment rating depends upon the guar
antee OF the government Of Canada.
1t Is doubtful whether this bond
would sell to yied such a high re-
turn as 1T does. more than 51a per
cent, If 1t were not selling at a
premium. The opportunity for ap-
probation of principal is limited in
bonds which sell at a premium. 1t is,
on the present investment market
when more than 51a per cent may be
obtained on non -callable bond with
twenty three Years to run bearing
the Endorsement pf the Dominion Of
Canada.
seek STOCK Levels.
An interesting feature was the re-
action of Industrial bonds Of various
grades to the fortunes OF their re-
specttve stocks. For instance, Ana
conda Copper 6s,: an issue OF estab-
lished investment rating. sagged be-
low 95 to a new low record since
issued.
The debenture ss were equally de-
pressed. The influence at work was the
weakness in the :market for copper
metals and the recent decline in copper
stocks.
In the same manner Chile Copper 6s
dropped back fractionally. Union Bag
and Paper Gs and United States Rubber
5s are other illustrations. AS a matter
of fact the investment status of all
these bonds is probably just as high as
ever, but quotations in the present state
of the market are sensitive to develop
ments that would ordinary be ignored.
Central Leethers Heavy.
Among the short:term issues Central
Leather 5s and Market Street Railway
5s continued heavy
There is active demand for short
term obligations 3ust now, but they
must be of the Very highest grade
Central Leather 5s are secured by a
first mortgage on: all the company's
property. but the effect of the recent
poor earnings statement shows In the
market for the bonds. There is no
known reason for the break in the
Market Street Railway bonds as earn
ingS are good.
Much the same conditions prevailed
today in the market for foreign se-
curities. Czechos1ovak SIS and Re-
public of Bolivia SIS were depressed
without any new reason. There was
little change in the French group
and what there was was toward lower
levels. On the other hand there was
no real weakness.
Rails Drift Aimlens
Speculative rails dsifted aimlessly. The
outburst of selling last week in the
st. Paul and the Missouri Pacific is
sues seemed to have abated, but the
rally.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
APPLE DEMAND FAIR,
Liberal Receipts Arrive in New
York Over Sunday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 29.-Fresh re-
ceipts of fresh barreled apples were
fairly liberal from New York and
other states today The early morn
ing demand was moderately active for
large-sized greetings of fancy quality,
and well colored Mcintosh was re-
ceived in slightly firmer market,
with dealers asking higher prices for
these varieties. Most other red ap-
pies met sharp competition from north
western boxed fruit. miscellaneous
"A' grade two-and-one-half-inc ap-
pies sold from $3.50 to 81, while un-
classified brought from S1.50 to $3.50.
"A" grade two-and- nd-one-half-inch green
ings realized from $5 to $3.50, while
Mcintosh ranged from 81 to 50 per
barrel
Evening star., 1923-10-29
RAW WOOL ACTIVE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BOSTON, october 29.-The sto5ng
position of cross-breds featured the
day's raw wool markets. With stocks
running low at time when London
is bidding to 10 cents above re-
Gently prevailing prices, holders of
this class of wool see visions of good
profits. Export business continues
strong, but mills still are taking only
wool for the manufacture of booked
orders. The chief fly in the dealers
ointment just now is the failure of
any sizable lightweight goods bust
uess to develop.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.

NEW YORK, October 29.-The visi
BILE supply of American grain shows
the following changes:
Wheat, increased 100000 bushels.
Corn, increased $4,000.
Oats increased 511,000.
Rye. increased $4,000.
Barley, decreased 10000.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
TREASURY CERTIFICATES,
touotations furnished by Redmond & Coz
BAR SILVER QUOTATIONS.

LONDON. October 29.-Bar silver,
32 pence per ounce
Money, 21s per cent.
Discount rates: Short bills. 15-16a3
per cent; three-month bills, 31-Sa
. 3-1e
New York October 29.--Bar sill
yer. G92i; Mexican dollars, iS3s.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
Washington Stock Exchange
CATES

Potomac Eec. r. & r. ss '53-s1 600 at $780,
Commercial Sationaiz Bank-10 at l4I, 10 at
Ill, 10 at III. liz at t4i, 10 at ILL
riggs National Bang-10 at c97 10 at 296.
10 at .9J.
AFTER CALI.
Washington Gas 6s '33-s1o0 at lOOit 500
at 1OOl4, 500 at 100.
Noney-Call loans, s. and 6 per cent
Evening star., 1923-10-29
It's Pronounced Coupe.
From the Spokane spokesman-Review

Settling a question of pronuncia-
tion propounded several days ago, j.
" relays the Information that 1T is
q Cadillac coopay, but a Ford COOP.
Evening star., 1923-10-29

CIT MVHoy. o 41s
HOURLY SALES OF STOCKS.
IL a.n..... 209 600 IL ..3l9 200
lp.m..... 414 500 2p.m... .4jS 100
Evening star., 1923-10-29

Russia leads all other foreign coun-
tries i'll railroad mileage.
Evening star., 1923-10-29
Grain, Produce and
Live Stock
LOCAL WHOLESALE MARKET.

flrmer was reported of the condi-
ton of the egg market this morning.
Fresh eggs are exceptionally scarce
ana hard to get. and the demand is
prisk. Storage eggs are not in great
demand. and 1t was reported that
many complaints as to quality have
been heard.
Poultry prices remained practical
ly unchanged, and the demand is
anything but brisk. Chickens and
cents.
Prices of most commodities were
the same as at the close Of last
weeks market
Eggs-strictly fresh. selected. can
a,ea, at per dozen. 46a4S; average receipts.
Live poultry-Roosters. per lb., 18;
turkeys. per lb.. 3sa4o; spring chickens,
per h.. 25; keats. young, each, 5Oa60;
fowls, per lb., %.
Dressed poultry Fresh killed
spring chickens. per h., 30a35; roast
ersi trs; per per lb, soas5; hens. per lb,. Soa32;
each. S0as5; roosters, per Ib, 21a22
Live stock-Calves. choice. per lb..
II; medium. per lb., IL; thin. per lb..
oaIo' Lambs, spring, per lb., 13. Live
pigs, S.Ooa5.oo each; live hogs, per lb..
Green fruits-Apples. new, per has
ket. 50a250. California oranges. per
crate. 6.ooa7.oo: Florida. 3.oOa5. 90. Lem
ons. per box. 3.00a4. 90. Grapefruit, $50
a4.5O. Grapes. Concord. twenty-pound
oasket, 75al.00; two-quart basket, 22ha
26; Colorado flats. 50a75: honeydew mel
ons. L25a1.75.
getables-Potatoes. per bbl.. No.
/, 2.l5a3.00; No. 2, 1.50a2.00 Potatoes,
round. per bag, 2.50a2 Is; sweet pota
toes, 2.50a3.50 per bbl. New York lettuce,
per crate. 1.50a2.50: nearby, 50a1.00: Ice
burg, 4.OOa5.50. Cabbage, northern, 2. GOA
20 per 100 lbs. nearby, 1.00a1.50 bbI.
tomatoes, half-bushel basket, nearby,
2oal.25. Beans, 5.00a7.00 per bbl.
Peas, per basket, 3.50a6.00. New
york celery. per crate. washed. 4.0oa
1.39; in rough, 2.50a4.00. Squash, 800
aS.5o Peppers, per crate, nearby,
o0al 90. kale, per bbl.. 75a150 Spin
ach, per barrel 1.50a2.50. Home
grown lima beans. per, quart, 35a45.
Lima beans, per basket. 2.50a3 %.
New York cucumbers. per bushel.
2o0a3.O0. Sugar corn. per dozen.
l5a35
Evening star., 1923-10-29

TOTAL SALES {Par vaius):
liam. 1924 900 IL noon 4 PIT 600
1p.ms. 64l3 600 2p.m.. 1868 600
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-07
CITY NEWS
building HOuse.

N. o. Nelson has begun construc-
ton of bungalow OH North Fourth
street
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-07

having claims against said deceas ed,
to exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after
the first publication Of this notice,
to said Administrator at his resi-
dencc Mt six hundred (G00) 18th
street in Bismarck, in Burleigh
County. North Dakota.
Dated December 9Th A. d., 1923.
william J.. Pencil,
Administrator Of the
Estate Of Roy o. Pencil
Deceased.
(l2r7-l4-2l-
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Az THE MOVIES
CAPITOL.

CAPITOIs
A fascinating Romeo is Tom Mix
at the Capitol Theatre currently in
"Milc-A- Minute Romeo" his latest
William Fox production. Shake
speare would undoubtedly be sur
prised to learn that profound love
tremens can be conveyed to an au-
dience without the use OF tumultous
signs. heaving bosoms, lachrymal
Establishments ard hysterical gesticu-
latiCn.
Tom Mix as lover is typical of
his age. He is fast and furious,
practical and electrical, man of
action finding his love and marry
ing her without to much ado about
nothing.
Instead Of going into corner
to bewail the cruelty of Fate and
the vcnaity of man, and offering
supplications to conciiate the DEF
ties and their disciples in his favor,
Tom Mix roars, Bunk! and hops
aboard his horse-flesh locomotive
Tony With a bound he Is out in the
thick of things playing with kismet,
as if they were his consangune
brothers, teasing, tempting them, yet
always keeping them, as if, to keep
the figure, they had been his young
er brothers, under complete and SER
vile submission.
To Il man of Mix's calibre. Fate is
a ''Fag', something created for no
other purpose than ones amusement
This is how he manages the unruly,
sometimes rebellous fellows in
Mile A Minute Romeo. His name
is Lucky Bill and he has had as his
target more men than hearts.
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EPISC0PALIANS
TO MEET HERE
Clergy and Laymen From All
Over State Will Gather
in 1924

The North Dakota Convocation of
! the Episcopal church will meet in
Bismarck next June. The convoca-
ton through its bishop, the Right
Rev. John Poyntz Tyler has been in
vited by the rector, DR.. Ryerson, and
vestry Of s.. Georges church to hold
its annual 1924 meeting in Bismarck.
This will being the clergy and a
number Of prominent laymen Of the
| church to the Capital City from all
parts of the state. All departments
of the work Of the church will be
represented on this occasion. Mrs.
Tyler, president of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the state; Miss Mae
Marsh, nat .onal organizer of the
Girls Friendly society; Miss Bow
man, who has charge of the Indian
work, and Mrs. Margaret Hefferty,
head of the church home for girls
at jamestown, will be present and
make their reports.
The Episcopal church diocese of
North Dakota could almost cover the
New England states with the state of
New York thrown in for good meas
ure :Sineteen bishops with numer-
Gus secretaries are required to look
after the church in that eastern sec
ton, while Bishop Tyler covers the
entire North Dakota section which is
much larger although the population
is not so great. Bishop Tyler with
his clergy and faithful laymen are
laying broad and deep the founda-
tons of the church all over the state
in the six parishes are forty organ
lied missions and a large number of
lnorganized missions and six great
ccAters for Indian work.
1t is the aim of this church which
has done so much for culture and
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
THE MATTER or THE

ESTATE or
Roy O. Pennell, Deceased:
Notice IS hereby given by the un-
|dersigned William L. Punnell, the
10. Penncll late Of the City Of Bis
|marck, in. the County cf, BnEleigh and
State Of North Dakota deceased to
the creditons Of and AZ persons
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THE EITINGE

''TO the Last Man" from Zane
Grey's thriller based on the encmity
between the sheep raisers and the
cattle men Of the great southwest,
with Lois Wilson and Richard Dix
as we'll as Noah Beery, Robert Edeson
and Frank Campeau taking part gives
promise of all the action and excite
ment one could ask. The picture
was made in the beautiful Arizona
country, whose rugged hills make a
background of both romance and
strength. "To the Last Man" shows
at the Eltinge theatre today and to-
morrow. Friday and Saturday.