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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
Plan Elaborate
Metropolitan Opera
House at New York

New York, Jan. 12-(AP)-A new
Metropolitan opera house to eclipse
in size and beauty any maintained
by the old world governments Is be-
ing quietly projected.
Some of the directors of the Me-
tropolitan are understood, to be con-
templating change of site from the
present structure at Broadway and
Fortieth street to one uptown where
magnificent opera house can be
built to meet the ever-increaSing de-
mand of the musical public.
The erection of an opera house is
not the only problem which confrOnts
the directors in the production of
opera that requires several hundred
persons apart from the large cast of
singers. Not the least of these prob
lens, which the public never realizes,
Is the matter of supplying adequate
storage space for scenery and pro-
perties, and to accommodate the vast
mechanical departments necessary to
the company.
Because Of the fact that most Of
the scenery and properties of the
Metropolitan must be moved after
each performance, and often trans
ported across town to one of the
great storage warehouses used by
the company It has been declared
that the Metropolitan Is placed in the
position of a regular road show"
playing one night stands.
While New Workers. seated in the
Diamond Horseshoe" view the pro-
auctions with apparent appreciation.
they have little understanding of the
mechanical demands which make
the business of running the opera
"a hour a day job. Among other
things 1t is said of the METROPOLITAN
that the "spot light never sets" upon
it's stage. At all hours men are
working and while the seats, banked
row on row. are dark and silent, the
stage Is always aglow and the ring
of hammers resounds.
In addition to stars, regular
chorus of 80 persons is employed at
the Metropolitan. This chorus may
be augmented at any time by anoth-
er Of 120 persons. from the chorus
school. an orchestra ranging from
eighty-five to one hundred and
twenty pieces Is used and as many as
200 "supers" or extras" are often
employed for special productions.
All of the scenery used at the
opera house Is painted especially for
the purpose. and IL Of the worlds
leading artists. in Milan. Paris, New
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
DAUGHTERS AMERICAN REVOLUTION HEAR
ADDRESS BY GIRLS SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
ESTIMATE ESTATE
LATE ADDIE W. GAY
AT ABOUT $4,000

An estate estimated to be valued
at S2l,OOO was left by the late Mrs.
Addie w. Gay. according to the pa
pers, which were filed with the will
at the office of the Kennebec county
register Of probate. The greater part
or this amount is in personal prop
erty, but $4,000 being real estate.
The will provides that the sum
OF S5OOO shall go to her adopted son,
George F. Norris of Duluth. Mimi,
ana 5000 each to her cousin. Mrs.
Marcia Chase OF Chicago, ILL.,, and
Miss Mary Chase of Chicago. The
sum of $500 is left to the trustees
of the Penney Memorial United
Baptist church of this city to be
used for the purposes of the church
as they deem necessary.
To Mrs. Gertrude Upton and Miss
Hattie Holmes she left her clothing,
household furniture, jewelry and
other effects, they to take such
things as they may want and to di-
vide the remainder among her other
friends.
All the rest and residue Of the es-
tate is left to E. M. Thompson and
John w. Smith of Portland as trus-
tees without bond, to be invested,
the interest therefrom to be used for
the benefit of Emily E. Smith Of Au-
gusta, so long as she may live. Upon
her death the trust ceases and the
principal goes to George F.. Norris
OF Duluth, Mimi, and Daniel w,
Norris OF Brooklyn Center, MIMI, in
equal parts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
CHINA

Eugene Brann goes to Augusta
Tuesday. Jan. IL, having been drawn
on the jury.
Martin Hamlin who has been car
ing for Ruel Farris had to go home
and Fred Fall is expected to take his
place. Mr.. Farris can use his arms
a little. His many friends hope for
his speedy recovery.
The Boys and Girls club meet Sat-
urday, Jan. 16. at the home of Mrs.
Elmer Wentworth, who win be the
local leader this year. The boys and
girls did fine last year and expect
them to improve a lot this year.
Many of the townspeople are har-
vesting their ice.
The next Grange meeting will be on
Tuesday evening. Jan. 10. Two candi-
dates will be instructed in the third
and fourth degrees. The program is
to be furnished by the members
whose names begin with A or B.
Light refreshments will be served.
Among the sick or IS are w. B.
Bailey's two children. Many are hav-
ing colds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
Attending Washington Meet
National AerOnautic Assn.

w. H. Gannett of this city, govern
or for Maine of the National Aero
nautic Association, is in Washington,
D. c., attending the sessions of the
governors Of the association. called
by Porter Adams. governor-at-la large.
The visiting governors will be enter
tanned by the District of Columbia
chapter, N. A. A, and the guest of
honor will be General Patrick, U. S.
A. One of the topics to be discussed
at the N. A. A. meetings this week
will be the proposed establishment of
commercial air routes, including one
connecting Maine and Florida, and
Mr.. Gannett hopes to assure the pro-
motion of Names interests in this
connection.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
ROME

Men in town are busy packing
their ice. which is about IA inches
thick and very good. :.
Misses Leona and Leora Went
worth are working in the skewer
mill at Aliens mill.
Guy Wentworth. who has been
working in New Hampshire, has re-
turned home.
The clara Wentworth Sewing
Circle" will meet at the Hall Satur-
day, January 16, instead of Wednes-
day.
Thelma LeBaron and Wealthy
Richardson have resumed their du-
ties as teachers In Oakland.
Ernest Blaisdell has exchanged his
radio for a four tube one with a
loud speaker.
Rachel Wade, who has been work.
ing for Mrs. Lawrence Hill, has re-
turned to her home in Mercer.
Mark, Leon and Bunny Drury are
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
Kushner Completes
Duties at Miller's

Sam Kushner, who has been locat-
ed in this city for the past II years,
and who for two years has been as
ISOLATED with Miller's Candy store,
has severed his connection with that
business and on Tuesday left the city
on his way to Montreal, where he will
pass some time. Mr.. Kushner will
visit also in Boston and New York.
His plans for the future are not def
nitely made, but wherever he may To-
cate, his many friends iii this city
will wish him every suc' ess.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
BRIGHTON

The s. d. Warren's Tractor from
Hartland was in town today.
Harry Farrin and his boys, Thomas
and Lyman went to Scion to pass the
weekend with his daughter. Mollie,
who is staying with her aunt. Lena
Head, and going to High school.
Mrs. Edward Goodrich. who Is
working for Harry Farrin passed the
weekend with herr parents.
Bonnie Brazier was breaking roads
today for the first time. s.
Guy Hamlin. who has been work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

o'clock so her friends who came q
long distance were very much dis
appointed not to be In season.
Mrs. Carrie Clark, who has been
visiting her son. J. Sabif Clark, at
Readfield, has returned to her daugh-
ter's home, Mrs. Sidney IIumes at
Stickney's Corner.
AIRS. Sanford Jones Is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Glennie Dele
meter, at Augusta, for a few weeks.
Some are out with autos and some
with sleighs. Sidney Humes made
trip to Augusta, Sunday, in his car.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

ing In Hartland for the 8. d. Warren. /
Co., has come home; he Is going to
paint pulp the rest Of the winter. 1
William Malonson Is saving wood =,
here with his gasoline engine. $50
Harry Farrin purchased q horse,
last week, which he will use on the
stage route. ~-@
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
six Die In Fire

Ottawa, Jan. 12.-(AP)-Six per-
sons were burned to death when the
two-story dwelling of Mrs. Albert
Tanguay in Clarkstown. was Destroy
ed early this morning by fire Of
unknown origin. The victims were
all children of Mrs. Tanguay who
escaped by jumping from an upstairs
window 4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

n. and Mrs. Blaine S. Viles left
WI .sa 4O5 express for Boston yes
e on .r afternoon. Afte.' a brief visit
!eip WTaashinton thew will take a short
10 so,,tb. Miss Dorothy Viles a.
UP aa,ppnanied her parents as far as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

Mrs. Dana wilkins of Windsor
vile, who underwent surgical oper-
alton at the Augusta General hospi-
tai Saturday. is getting along very
nicely. Mr.. wilkins was in the city
yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

~ chabot OF the Sacred Eeart
rev. IN Waterville, called on h,s
church Rev. Armand Chabot, urate
bro, .ss St. Augustine church. Mon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
LOCAL NOTICE

y.s Goye's home cooked pies.
..s"s aoughnuts, baked beans, cream
saiod dressing cooked to order. 20
MYRTLE st. Tel. 936-M. nov21dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

..rr q Liable. manager Of the
A ,;,r shoe store. left Tuesday
Quan';s or Boston, where he will at
niga' .h ae annual shoe style sncw.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

aadison Seekins of Weeks
Mrs. ,as admitted to the Augusta
NILS y. WI hospital, Monday for surgi-
o'l treatment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

a.. katherine ouelette OF Lew
MISS ~ the city for several days
iston Is trends ~ and relatives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
Whe,, the
CHILDREN
cough

Give them PERTUSSIN at
once. 1t will soothe the cough
quickly, loosen the sticky, germ
laden phlegm that often clogs the
mir passages. tits absolutely harm
less and free from "dope" { such
as narcotics, chloroform, cannabis
orotherinjurious drugs). Children
like its taste, and it will not up
set the digestion.
Forever 20 years PERTUsSIN
has been the most widely used
remedy for whooping cough. tits
good for any cough Of any MEM
Der of the family-and it lessons
the severity Of baby's Group.
I'D by al druggists in large and small bottle,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

- Mrs. A. B. Morrison Of
Or. an Mills were callers in the city
Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

s,.. IT worcester, Mass. was
Len sn sx Monday and left Monday
In .a ivo for Rumtord.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13

| making shovel-handles IN New
| Sharon.
Pearl Drury Is visiting at Mrs.
Earl Witham's, in Oakland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-13
.1rcITsTA LOCALS

no ellen Small Of West Gardner
Fas winthrop street
Evening star., 1926-11-28

Dr George {. Owens of Brooklyn.
\. Y. who is president of the Lake
Placid Riding Club, recently an
bounced the opening Of the Pointed
Fir~ bride path. - miles in length.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

able spot. Gen. Tripp points out that
each home. no matter how far re-
moved from the CenterS of pOpula-
tion, can. through modern inventions,
be entirely independent of municipal
aid and its deniZens as well provided
with comforts as though they dWelt
in the heart of a big city, with its
noises. it's odor of petrol and the
thousand other drawbacks of the
present.
When Theodore Thomas started the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. in 1891,
il was located in what was deemed a
perfect replica of the popular beer
gardens of Germany. and the populace
could enjoy mug of cold ale and a
ham sandwich. and at the same time
have its soul uplifted by the music
The orchestra. which has f1Ourished
and grown miles beyond it's first mod
est environment. is preparing to Cele
brate its thirty-fifth birthday anniver-
Sary in appropriate fashion. For one
thing. the huge auditorium is to be
removed and building more beauti-
full and ornate in the architectural
sense is to be erected. Chicago. like
the remainder of the world where
good music is Il necessity and not a
luxury, has discovered that the art
w ttbuSlltS lS III lIS infancy. ne
late Louis Sullivan. designer of the
auditorium, scene of so many stirring
political conventions, as we'll as Of
musical numbers, planned the stage
and audience chamber in the shape
Of mammoth trumpet. the mouth
piece the platform and the remaining
space the reverberating sides of the
horn. But ugly and Impossible to
ornament, the auditorium did not
Evening star., 1926-11-28

The Grand Duke Cyril, who is living
IN a modest villa on the upper Seine,
IL planning to celebrate Christmas
at his home for as many of the Rus
sian exiles as his quarters and now
J limited income will permit. Russia
now keeps the same Christmas as
the other parts of the world. the old
calendar which made the Russians
begin their New Year 10 days later
than other nations having been chang
ed just previous to the fall of the
car. The former comma nder of the
Russian armies keeps a paternal eye
on all the members of his corps resi-
dents in Paris, and whenever he can
le foregathers jolly company. Many
Of the handsome, accomplished guards
mon are employed in restaurant and
In other positions which enable them
to eat while they try for better things.
In many fashionable cafes in the
later hours they are joined by more
fortunate comrades. who pay for the
dinner and for the regular service
and then have the walters sit with
them and enjoy the repast.
Col. and Mrs. Henry May, who have
withstood the temptation to foresake
the once popular residential section
opposite Franklin Park in X street
dIlI WHO SUN llelT llfe Olt
brick mansion as they did when it
was the center of Washington May
fair. have recently permitted some of
their wonderful collection of ancestral
portraits 10 appear in certain art
magazines. There are no finer SpeCi-
mems of Sir Peter Lely'S genius than
Two which Col May has in the main
drawing room. one presenting the
beautiful Elizabeth Wetenhall daugh-
ter of far-aWaE grandfather, in
the pose Of Magdalen, and another
OF de CourCey ancestor in medieval
,Hnery. The May family came orig
inally from Kent and Sussex, and
were abong those gentleman adven-
turers of the Catholic faith who arriv
ed in the train of Gov. Calvert. The
paintings and marvellous furniture
now in Col Mays home We're removed
L. Washington on his receiving them
bN the viii of an old uncle, head of
The family in Maryland. Contrary to
american custom, these ancestral pos
sessions have never been divided, but
each heir receives them intact on be-
coming head of the oldest branch of
the family. These portraits are, with
one or two exceptions. in the original
frames in which they were brought
from England in the first quarter of
the seventeenth century. Many of
these frames are jacOheam and several
:trc what is called pieCed Chippen-
. dale.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
old Gardens of Italian
Villas" Lecture Topic

"Old Gardens of Italian Villas" is the
subject of a lecture to be given by MIR.
Herbert W. Faulkner of Paris, Venice
and Washington. Conn.,, at 1772
Church street tomorrow evening at
SIS o'clock.
The lecture is for the benefit of the
Rector's Aid Society of st. Thomas
Church and is under the patronage OF
Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon. Mrs. Dun
can Fletcher, Mrs. Walter Edge, Mrs.
B. r. Hutchinson, Mrs. Charles j. Bell,
Nine. Ekengren and Mrs. Walter Still
son HutchinS.
Mr.. Faulkner's lecture will be of
especial interest to all lovers of beau
tiful gardens. as it traces the develop
ment of formal Italian gardens from
the time of the de Medici, and their
Evening star., 1926-11-28

furnish satisfactory results, and so
it goes the way of the discarded.
The new hall of the d. A. r., fash
ioned after the famous Regenten
Theater of Munich, bids fair to
furnish the Capital, at last, with
vast hall in which it is possible to
hear adequately and in every portion.
Sir Ashley Sparks, with a number
of Britons whose avocations make
New York more of a permanent home
than was the land across the sea,
nave been active in promoting the
North Country Horse Show this year
held at the farm of Mr. John +.
Bermingham at East Norwich, L. 1.
The North Country Club was organ
lied about five years ago for the eX-
press purpose of breeding horses on
Long Island and exhibiting results
twice year, in the Spring and
Autumn. The last horse show was
on October 1925. and was attended
by concourse, principally Britons,
who, after experimenting Satisfac.
torily, intend to introduce their stock
into racing circles in England and on
the continent. The late August Bel
mont really started this industry OH
Long Island, but about ten years
'NIci IllS utdtI Ht removed MS
stables to the blue grass regions
about Lexington, Ky Many other
celebrated breeders tried Long Island
and failed but this has not affected
the enthusiasm of the new promoters
of the North Country Club. Gen.
PerShlng was present at the show,
and was much gratified that of the
IA entries of the Army remount
service obtain major prizes. Will
liam du POnt, jr.. of Wilmington
Del, has breeding farm and was one
of the directors of the recent show.
Others well known at the horse show
held every Spring in Washington
were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert G. Win
mill, the former the master of the
hunt of the Warrenton, Va, club, and
Clarence II. Robbins of Bayside, L. |.
Mrs. w. Douglas Burden, whose
vivid descriptions of her battles with
giant lizards have recently been pub
lshed, is so fragile and girlish in ap.
pearance that her friends are amazed
at the tale of her exploits With her
husband and party of hardy ad-
venturers, Mrs. Burden spent nearly
all of last Winter in the Malayan
Island of KomOdo. where other trav-
eiers had reported actual dragons ia
miliar in the pictures of st. George
patron of England. and Of st. Theo-
dore. Joint patron with San Marco Of
Venice. These monsters really had
Evening star., 1926-11-28

ton for science and the latter being
a traveller and explorer of some re-
pute before her marriage. The photos
taken of these various monsters OF
Komodo are proof positive that these
lizards are almost the imaginary
winged dragons of fiction and tradl-
ton, and actual menaces to the adj
vance of civilization in the Malayan
Archipelago. Mr.. and Mrs. Burden
intend to return to these fascinating
outposts as soon as they have finished
their notes and reports on their first
expedition, and this will be probably
about the first week of February.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

to be attacked on a horse, and then
it required agility to avoid their
myriad feet and their awful jaws.
Mr.. Burden is the grandson of the
late William Douglas Sloane and on
the paternal side, of the late James
A. Burden, and his wife was before
her marriage Miss Ernestine White,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest |.
White of Albany. and the wedding oc-
CURED in that city just two years
ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Burden spent their
honeymoon in out f-the-Way pla.-s,
the former having a strong predileC-
Evening star., 1926-11-28

influence upon gardens in Europe and
later in the United States.
The committee in charge of arrange
ments includes Mrs. A. NJ. d. McCor-
mick. Mrs. Atherton Seidel. Mrs. c. +.
Humphrey, Mrs. Paul Fenlon, Mrs.
Sidney Morey, Mrs. Ralph Hills. Mrs.
J. w. Reilly. Mrs. Charles MacVeagh,
Mrs. William Weatley. Mrs. c. w.
Prentiss and Mrs. NJ. G.. Brooks.
Evening star., 1926-11-28

Refugees in Macedonia have estab-
lished there rose culture for the ex-
traction of altar of roses, and silk.
hemp and sugar beet production
Evening star., 1926-11-28

Count Narino Tomacelli. frequently
iu Washington during the regime of
Prince GielISio Ca"taniaS. Italian Am
bl%SadOr has followed the footsteps
a. his father. Duke Della Tore of
home. III seeking an American bride
Miss Esther PuGh. daughter of Mrs.
Charles T. Pugh of Overbrook, Phla-
delphia. Count Marines mother was
one of the reigning beauties of
Gotham in the early lS90s, Miss Nina
lIaiGht, a member of the Isein.
0akeS. ritfard families. and her home.
where her nuptials occurred. was one
uf the most beautiful in the then
fashionable section about Fifth ave
me and Fifteenth street. Mr.. James
Ford gives a vivid description of it IN
his Forty Odl Years in Literary
tW ork shop and notes that il was the
first of the famous mansions built by
New Workers in the middle nineteenth
century To be remodelled into an
apartment house. Miss Pugh. who
VIII in the course of time become the
Duchess Della Tore and preside over
ii splendid palaZZo in the Tiber
section Of Rome, Was presented 10 SO
CletN tMO years ago. and has been
prominent in the Overbrook and Ger
lnantOWn Country clubs and in the
older dancing clubs OF the city. TO
which three generations OF her fam
iIy have belonged. No date has been
set for the wedding. but it probably
will he a poSt-Lenten event. attended
by a large group OF Italians from this
city and many prominent New York
ers, relatives Of the bridegroom
through his mother.
Dr George {. owens of Brooklyn.
n y, who is president of the Lake
PHcid Riding Cluh. recently an.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

Niscountess Rhondda, whose patient
efforts to win the place held by her
father in the British IArliament's
House of Lords has been the object
of sympathetic interest by feminists
all over the world, has set "a new
fashion In discarding her title and
given name and signing herself mere
~ "Rhondda,' if the missive be for
nal and "Rhondda. coal dealer" if it
is a business communication. British
peeresses apparently think but little
of their titles these days, for the
energetic member of the Commons
from Plymouth never uses other
than Nancy Astor, NJ. p, in her com
munciations. She has long advocated
what has become an acute issue in
this COuntry-namely, the dropping OF
both Mrs. or the bracketed Miss,
and to appear plain and unadorned as
Mary Smith. The favorite Christmas
card of London today will express
the good wishes Of John Brown and
his wife Hannah Greene. Under this
new ruling, almost universally adopt
ed in Great Britain, the private card
of the President would read Calvin
Coolidge and Grace Goodhue." For
some years in Washington and other
American cities, Mr." and Mrs. p"
and Miss" have disappeared from
cards of greeting or of announce
ments. For five years at least the
many friends Of the daughter of the
late Speaker of the House and Mrs.
Champ Clark have had on occasion
engraved lines on paSteboard which
said James and Genevieve Thomson"
wish you thus and thus. In Great
Britain, at least. there VIII be here
after universal following Of the
King and Queen who merely say
"GeorEe and Mary" in engraved greet
inGs and no doubt in this country
the old formal way of Mr.. and Mrs.
with a string of the given names Of
the husband and not a word about
the wife. will pass with other discard
ed customs.
Evening star., 1926-11-28
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the Hair in Place

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