davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
MESTSKA RADA sNIzUJE,
PODvYSUJE PLATY

Nasa mestska rada v posled-
nych niekol'ko mesiacoch ma
t'axkd pracu $ ustalenfm poctu
mestskych zamestnancov a ich
place. Nedavno zrusila mnoh6
pozfcie q mnohym zamestnan-
com boly snikene platy. Teraz
Ease ustanovila, he mokno naji-
mat l'udf do mestskej prace .
podyySila niekol'kym dradnf-
iplaty . All 1900 rocne. Predttm
i'm snfxila platy 0 asi 400.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
Vsetci bezrobotni
budd mat pracu
starci, mrzaci q nsmocnf budt
dani statom, olresom q mest&m
X opatsre.

Vsetci bezrobotnf, ktori ME
sd vstaye pracovat' pre- starobu,
zmrzacenie alebo nemoc, budd
vrateni jednotlivym station, o.
kresom mestam do opatery
behom tohto mesiaca, oznamil
Harry l.. Hopkins, administra-
tor FERA, a vlada Spoj. Sta
tov sa bude starat' o prace-
schopnych, ktorf su bez roboty.
Takto sa vlada zbavi vydav-
kov udrzovania asi 20 percent
n1dznych Pudi. Ostatni bud1
zamestnani ma verejnych pra-
each a priama podpora bude i'm
zastavena. X tomuto zaiste pri-
slo preto, ze mnohf bezrobotni
nechceli prijat' ziadnu pracu,
lsbo podpora v peniazoeh a
potravinach i'm zabezpecovala
pohodlny zivot bez prace. Me-
novite cernochom sa do prace
nechcelo ist'.
Ze co budd praceschopni ne
szamestnani robit', to sa este me-
vie, ale prszident to vyzradf vo
svojom posolstve kongresu. My
slf sa, ze zamestnani budd vac
sinou ma stavbe lacnych robot
nfckych domov, ma eliminacii
zeleznicnych krizovatiek atp.
Podl'a ddajov Americkej Fe-
deracie Prace, koncom novem-
bra bolo v Spoj. Statoch bez ro-
boty II, 1885, 900 osob, do coho
ME sd zaratani robotnici, ktori
pracuj1 deh-dva alebo Wac do
tyzdna.
V Mahoning okrese podporo-
vane je 14,703 rodin. 2 toho po-
ctu je 2,O69 takych os6b, ktore
nemozu pracovat' a preto by
pripadly ma t'archu okresu. A
okres nema penazi, preto je
ma okresnom dome hodne sta
rosti, kde vziat' peniaze.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
SUD s HAUPTAGANNoM
sA W ZAPOGAL

Vo Pennington, N. j. zap2ca-
ty Dol toho tyzdna sud mad
Brunom Richardom Hauptman-
neAl, ktory je obvineny z 1nosu
a zavrazdenia Lindberghovho
synceka. 0 tento sud je ohrom-
ny zaujem v celom svete. Mnoz-
stvo zpravodajov sa dohrnulo
ma sud nielen 70 Spoj. Statov,
ale Europy. Vysledok s1du
je neisty, lebo statny zalobca
nema priznanie cd Hanptman-
ma a d6kazy s1 len okolnostne.
Ma s1de bud1 syedcit' rodcia
zavrazdeneho diet'at'a.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
1850, 900 AUToMoBILOv
VYRoBENE VLANI

Americke automobilove to.
varne vyrobily v roku 1884 do
hromady 2,850,O0O automobilov,
Go bolo Q As percent wac, ako
Y roku 1883 . duplom tol 'ko, a
ko roku 1882.
Vyroba automobilov tohoto
roku bude Ease ya6sia Cd Ian
skej.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
MADARSKi ROJALISTI
UZ NECHCU OTTU

Vel'ke prekvapenie vzbudilo
v Europe osvedcenie NADIA
skych legitimistov (privrzencoy
Hapsburgovcov), ze oni uz ne.
chcn Ottu Hapsburga "a ma.
d'arskeho kral'a a sice preto,
ze sa on osvedcil "a fasizmus.
Otto vyhlasil v casopise Petit
journal v Parizi, ze je prot
parlamentarnej demokracii a "a
fasizmus a korporacny stat ma
podobu Talianska a Raknska
Mad 'arski CROFT v tom vida,
ze by i'm Hapsburg obstrihal
moe, ktord teraz vzdy pred
tym v Mad'arsku uzivali a pre-
to sl proti Ottovi. Udavaj1, ze
pred rokom sa Otto vyslovil "a
demokraciu a teraz obratil ka-
bat.
(V Mad'arsku sa robia teraz
ohromne zmeny v smysPani pa
nujncich kruhov. Mad'ari vi
dia, ze Cd Mussoliniho alebo
Hitlera nemozu eakat' pomoc,
ze ich ii potrebujd len "a capov,
preto sa zacinaj1 sblizovat' S
Malou Dohodou. Obavame sa,
ze "a to Slovensko zaplati ku-
som svojho uzemia. Red.)
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
DEMOKRACIAM SA
LEPSIE voDf

Anglicky markyz Lothian pc.
vedal rec pred Vychovnou Spo.
locnost'ou V Londyne, v ktorej
tvrdil, ze sa demokraciam lep.
Sic vodi v tejto depresii neil
diktaturam predpovedal take
zlepsenie zivota behom niekoP-
ko rokov, o axiom sa lud'om a.
nj nesniva. Markyz Lothian ne
yeri, ze diktatlry bud1 trvale,
lebo ony nepotlacuj1 len osob-
MI, ale al dusevnn slobodu. A
dusevne otroctvo sa media nadl-
no udrzat'.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
Vyroba ocele
ma postllp
25,625, 900 ton ocele vyrobsnl
vlani.

Vyroba ocele' je ma posture
nieleL Spojenych Statoch, ale
" celom svete, dokazujd vyka-
zy, vydane koncom minuleho
roku. v spoj. StatocL vyrobcn2
bolo v 1884 roku 25, ,625, 600 ton
ocele, co je o IL percent viacA
ako v 1888, kedy vyrobene bolo
%, 1874, 1856 ton. Ma celom svefe.
vyrobene bolo ocele 79, 1855
ton, 0 20 percent Wac, ako
1888, kedy vyrobene@ bofo S.
III, 900 ton. Oceliarsky priemy-
sci musf ale este hodne doh6-
nat, aby dosiahol vyrobu 2 ro7
ku 1929, kedy vyrobene bolo ma
celom svete 117,9sO,0N ton. Vo|
vyrobe ocele Spoj. Staty sd sta
le ma prvom mieste. Ma druhon
je Nemecko vyrobou 1885,
900, ma tret'om Rusko $685.
600 tonami, potion Anglia 81
100000 tonami, Francia SO 81.
05O, 900 tonami, Japonsko 8 81
000,00 tonami, Belgicko-L Luz
cemburg !. 1886, 900.
Zeleza vyrobilo sa v Spoj.
Statoch lanskom roku 16.-
O57 900 ton, celom svete 6l,
49,, 900 ton. | tn SINE ma prvonl.
mieste. Ma druhom mieste je
Rusko S 1O,5OO,OOO tonami, po-1
tom Nemecko 8,650,000 tona-
mi. Francia> vyrobila $3.50, 600
ton, Anglia 100000 q Belgi-
cko-L -Lucemburg 1855, 900 ton.
| Vyhpady ma zlepseni4 n oce-
liarskom priemysle tohto rokR
by boly debre kehy nebol a!s
| zor zachm1reny bojom medzI
uniou a spoloenost'ami. q toho.
boja moze povstat' strajk. Gee
liarska unia ziada uznanie a o..
celiarske spolocnosti nechcd o
tom ami pocut'. U Carnegie
| Steel Y Mcdonald v Duque-
sne ma byt' hlasovanie robotnf-
ctva, ze ktord uniu chce, aby
| ho zastupovala. Hlasovat' sa ma
3. februara. Unia zamysl'a svo-
lat konvenciu marci do Pitts
burghu ma najdenie sp6sobu, e.
ko vynntit' jej uznanie. Spoloc~
nosti nastoja ma tom, aby konl-
panicke unie zastupovaly ro-
botnfctvo.
| T. M. Girdler, predseda Re-
public Steel korporacie a Frank
Furnell, predseda Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Co. sa vyslovi-
Ii, ze robotne pomery oceliar-
skom priemysli budd tohto ro-
| ku lepsie, ako lanskom, ked'
bude pokoj medzi robotnfctvom
a spolocnost' ami a ked' vlada
Spoj. Statov ustali svoju finan-
emu politiku. Obaja ocak&vajG
vaesie objednavky cd automo-
biloveho stavebneho prie1ny-
slu.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
kongres Spojenych Statov sa
sisiel, vynesie vyznamne zakony
Prezdent Roosevelt prednese posostvo patol ktorom
d& poyny x&konodarnej nost o6aava "a Se konaes
odhlasuje biiony dol4rov ma versjns pr1ce

Novy kongres Spojenych Sta
tov sa sisiel vo stvrtok k zimne-
mu zasedaniu, v ktorom vyne-
sic vyznamne, zakony potrebne
k hospodarskemu ozdraveniu
krajiny. v prvy den bolo len
organizacne zasadnutie, ma kto-
rom "a spikera zvoleny bol kon-
gresman Byrns z Tennessee. v
piatok toho tyzdna prezident
Roosevelt osobne prednesie svo-
je posolstvo, v ktorom da poky-
NY kongresu, axe zakony bude
treba vyniest'.
Vseobecne "a ocakava, ze jed
nym 2 prvych buds hlasovanie
o vyplatenie vyse dvoch bilio-
nov dolarov veteranom svetovej
vojny. Predloha prejde dome
zdstupcov iste vel'kou vacsinou,
ale senate mensou, takze ked'
ju prezident bude vetovat', So
tva tam prejde ponad veto. Ale
tento IA. kongres bude inac Ste
drejsi, nezli Dol minuly - to
sa ocakava vseobscne, preto ne
bude ziadnej rozpoctovej row.
novahy, ktor1 81 obchod a prize
mysel ziada. Kongres iste odhla-
suje zakon poistenf v neza-
mestnanosti, zakon o starobnej
penzii a povoli biliony dolarov
ma romantic vsrejne prace, Je
verejnou tajnost'ou, ze prexi-
dent sam bude odporncat' roz-
sirenie verejnych prac tax, ably
vsetci nezamestnani, ktori ne
m6xu dostat' praeu ' priemy-
sli, mali pracu v,srejnd. Tiez
50 spomina, ze v GCC dostane
pracu cely million mladencov.
V novom kongrese demokrati
majI 322 kongresmanov, repub.
likani 1O2, progreslvni Z, far
Observation-Disclosures strana 3. Sc
natorov demokrati maj1 So, re-
publikani Is, progresfvni !,
farmari-robotnfci /. Nasledkom
ubudnutia, republican, budd
mat vo vyboroch len stvrtinu
clenoy, v pomere k demokra-
tom.
Kongresman Smell, vodca re-
publikanov vyhlasil, ze jeho
strana bude podporovet' prezi.
denta V potrebnych veciach, ale
' spornych otazkach povie svo-
ju mienku smele.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
Predstavenia boly
vel'mi krasne
V Haseltone bola skolska sieii
nabita. Minstrel show Dol tri
razy hrany.

Divadelne predstavsnia yo
dvoch osadach v nedePu a pom
delok bo!y vel'mi uspesne. " O.
sade sv. Alzbety Haselton
skolske dietky predstayily dra-
mu v 3. dejstvach, 'sVianocny
stromcek'' a previedly al inc
pekne vystupy. Toto predstaye-
ME bolo nacvicene vel. sestrami
ucitel'kami. Bolo tax vyborne
preyedene, re obecenstvo S ma
pnutost'ou no sledovalo cd "a.
ciatku do konca a malych her.
Gov herecky odmenovalo vel.
kym potleskom. Kazdy sa rado,
val, kazdy NAL dusevny pozi.
tok. Mali herci smele vystupo.
vail, dobre po slovensky hovo
rili jako rodeni herci 81 pocf
nall. Start herci budu mat ma
sledovnikov. ..s...
Pc predstayeni vystupil ns
javisko Rev. Jozef L. Kostik
duchovny osady zapaliste rec
nil 0 potrebe Yoangstownskycl
Slovenskych Novin, ktore vzdy
bojovaly "a vieru narod.
Minstrel show
V nedePu vecer a v pondelol
popoludni i ve6er bol takzvan.
minstrel show Cy-Me Klub,
V osade sv. Cyrila Metcda
Minstrel je smes dialogov
spevu tancu mladez z osad,
sv. Cyrila a Metoda preukazal'
sa takym predstavenim, axe a
nj v riadnom divadle neyidno
kazdy spevak a spevacka, ka
zdy herec, tanecnlce j tanecnic
preyiedli syoje ulohy prvotried
ne, takze l'udia prftomni v ne
dePu Ma predstavsni, povedal
inym ii prisli pondelok. Vel
| ka miestnost' skoly bola zaka5
| dym zaplnena. Zvlastne cisl,
NAL oktet osady sv. Jana
Campbell, ktoreho spev Dol u
chvacujdci. Slecny Helen Shin'
a Paulina Balla zatancovaly vo
jensky tanec. Maly Jozko Bal
cak z Warren sa preukazal spe
vom a "kozacikom", ktoreh,
zatancoval ako starry kozak. p
pondelkajsom predStavenf mno
hi hercov a cely oktet siel NJ
sylvestrovu zabavu do Sokolov
ne, kde zaspievali viacere pie
sne.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
KTO KtPI OD osADY,
NEPLATf DAN

z Columbus prisly dodatocne
dpravy ohl'adom predajovej da-
nj. Dan sa nebude platit' "a We
ci, ktore predava nabozenska a.
lebo dobrocinna organizacia, t.
j. osada, podporny spolok atp.
Tiez nemozu byt' zdanene veci,
ktore s1 kdpene postou z dru-
heho statu.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
HORvATSKA oRaANIzkUIA
zALUU URADMfKA

Horvatska Bratska Zajedni-
ca, najvxcsia horvatska podpor-
nd organizAcia ma svete dala a.
restovat' svojho hi. 1ctovnfka,
Vincenta Soliea, ze spreneveril
vySe $4,000 10 sirotsksho fon-
du. SOLID boil hl. 6Gtovnfkom
HBZ. % pxtn6st' rokov. SOLID
zapiera sprenevern.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
FzEI.EZNICIAKI DOSTAIL
PODV1$KU MZDY

Asi million zeleznicnych "a
1mestnancov obdrzalo /. janua-
ra podvysku mzdy o So, ,25O, 900
ma mesiac. Je to vlastne ME
podvyska, ale vratenie o stvrti-
nu ku starej mzde r. 1882,
'ked' i'm bola mzda snizena 0 10
percent. Jedna stvrtina uz i'm
bola vratena predtym a ma l.
aprila majn dostat' uz eeld
mzdu, akd naval pred r. 1882.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
sxDEM zkTlEkllf
sINKAs y IRSIACA

l Toho roku bude PIT zatneni
slnka q dvoje zatmenf mesiaca,
20 je najvi6Sf pocet Cd 100 TO
kov. 2 ttchto zAtmenf bude '
Gpoj. stktoch viditel'ne len
dvoje. Jedno uvidia len na pa.
'csn kom pobrsN 3. ,febr. q dru-
s. SA}de viditel'ne celfch spo-
6tltoeh, IS. jfla.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
sLOVAK DoSTAL
$4,000 oDMENY

Frantisek Romancik, 25-roc-
ny Slovak fanny ned 'aleko
Weatherly, Pa, dostal ma Via
noce krasny dar - cenu $4, 600
v konteste Model Home Draw.
ing Romancik pracuje Sill
yer Brook uhl'odole. Peniazmi
vyplati morgic ma otcovom do
me, poyedal.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
GUVERNER sLUBUJE
LACNEJSIU PALENKU

Guverner Martin l.. Davey
vyhlasil, ze stat Ohio musi sa
uspokojit' alebo len S palenko-
YOU danou alebo len so ziskom,
ktory v palenkovych predaj-
mach zarobf, ze dan al zisk je
primoc a pomaha len butlege-
rom a nezakonitym vyrobcom
palenky, lebo statna palenka je
pridraha pre- vacsinu Ohioca-
nov.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
oTcoM ~ DETf

William Platz, 6s-rosny, 20
scottsbluff, Nebr., stal sa po.
tieto dni otcom "a. diet'at'a,
ked' no jeho druha manzelka
obdarila 1Q-funtovym synom. q
-tych "a detf 16 HE. Najstarsi
.jc syn 43+roGny
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
PRfPRAVY K EUUHARIsTI-
OKEldU KoN0REsU

V septembri toho roku bude
eucharisticky kongres v Cleve-
lande, ku ktoremu sa uz robia
romantic pripravy. Vsetky O.
sadly 2 Mahoning doliny So no
zdcastnia ' plnom pocte. Ku
tel prflezitosti konajd sa al O.
pravy a mal'by kostolov, sk6l
atp.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
SENATOR DONAHEY
BUDE NEODVIeLX

Senator Vic Donahey, od-
chadzajIc do Washingtonu W.
dal osvedcenie, ze nezabudne ma
.svoju "neodvisl1 povinnost' "
voGi ohioskemu l'udu.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
LICENsovANIE PsOv
BoL0 PREDLzENE

Vydkvanie licensov ma psov
bolo predlzenA do 20. janu6ra.
,Po tom d6tume bude pokuta.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1935-01-04
DLH v1.ADY sss. .5oo. a. l

Deficit vlady spoj. Stitpv ri N
posledny polrok Dol III, ,700, ,Q0o {.
600 takxe cely dlh yzrSstol III
$28, 500, COO, 900. .||
Evening star., 1935-05-05

Goodwin, he was 30 maddened that his friend
Peacock wrote of him:
He might we'll have said. after seeing Mary
Wollstonedaft Goodwin, The moment saw
her, that moment perished! Nothing that l
ever read IN tale or history could ever present
a more striking image of sudden, violent.
uncomfortable passion"
Payne would never be the supesnal poet,
never the divine madman that Shelley was.
but he could suffer like onslaught on what
soul he had. and the little kingdom within
him was in complete turmoil, as his colleague
was drawing him to the stage door, pleading:
For heavens sake, don't mix with the
Goodwin gang You've heard of Mary Woll-
stonec1aft?"
Didn't she write a book or something
about women having rights to call their souls
and bodies their own, and choose their hus-
bands, and to earn their own livings?"
THAT and no end more of rot"
is it rot? Wasn't she only trying to give
other women the rights that actresses have
always enjoyed1 Not much harm there"
But she didn't stop at writing her crazy
iOkNQDs SASC uVCo NSCA1! NACt OliC Va yOO
Americans "a business man named Inlay;
Didn't trouble to marry. Fool enough to 60
ahead and have baby - that girl on the
right. Fanny. Inlay soon tired of Mary and
her blue -stockings. Left her cold. She tried to
drown herself. Somebody fshed her out. Then
she took up with William Goodwin, philosopher
of all sorts of anarchy. BY and by. another
baby comes along. 50 they both forsake their
principles and get married. Their child is the
middle one. Mary. Her mother died of her.
Then the philosopher. with two brats on his
hands, proposes to nearly every free woman in
London. Finally marries Mrs. Canmont,
regular Corgon with two more children, a boy
and that girl ON the left Clare Clarmont
she calls heIself.
Mrs. Goodwin drives poor Codwin into the
publishing business. Shop in Skinner Street.
The whole pack kennels abovestairs. They
publish weird things by queer people - such
things As Tales From Shakespeare by that
drunken Charles Lamb. with the maniac
sister. Another of their friends Is the poet
Colezidee. He takes opium. They all do the
stI1ngest thmgsr'
1--WE met Colzidee," Payne said. per
haps hen introduce me to Mary - Miss
Codwim."
Evening star., 1935-05-05
May S. 1885

and so scared that he was afraid to look at his
face. But he saw his thighs goosefleshed with
fear and was trying to tug his kits down over
them when Mr.. Raymond, like an executioner
calling him to the block. opened his door and
said: "Mr. Payne. please"
He flung his head high. and his plumes
tossed their 0ests far above him, as he
marched to his doom.
orably let in a wind of murmus from the
huge jury room, and set free cold draft that
seemed to express the verdict in advance.
Among all those crowded faces there was
scarcely one he knew. He closed his eyes to
collect his faculties for the crucial moment
of his entrance. Strangely, inside his eyelids
he saw Mary Goodwin staring at him with her
strange grey eyes.
She had wished, as he had wished, that she
might be in the audience. Now he was glad
that she was not there. In the frantic state of
his soul this was less because of his own pride
than because he wanted to spare her the pang
he knew it would give her to see him defeated.
He had heard her say: Il can't bear to see
Americans abused"
Thinking of her. seeing her grey eyes on
him. he was forgetting where he was in a
swooning sense of dream, when he opened his
eyes with start and saw not her white. white
beauty. but men and women he knew hardly
better. He heard from the stage the traffic of
the play. He clutched Yarnolds arm. Plead
ing: Heaven help me. I've forgotten my first
line!'
Yarnold whispered it to him and when his
cue came. gave him little push that launched
him on the sea of light and the dark eli ifs of
people. whom he challenged with his first
sonorous words:
MY name IS Norsal: on the GyaSsbian Hills
My father feeds his Jaock. -"
The audience, as anxious in its way as he
in his, widened its eyes before his boyish
grace. the almost unearthly warmth of his
perfect features. the bell-toned richness of his
voice. The women shivered little as if
Apollo had appeared. The men were uneasy
for the same reason, with a hint of jealous
menace. In the pit, beefy Britisher NUT
tered to his wife:
The damned Yankee swine; wot rights
he over erel"
"Noice lool1in', thow?"
CONTINUED on page TO-
Evening star., 1935-05-05
THIS WEEK

'ln heavens name. man! paint you an
insane asylum and you're all for forcing your
way in! Isn't your theatre madhouse enough?"
MY theatrel" Payne gasped. MY tomb!
They give me one rehearsal and the leading
lady, Miss Smith. treats me as if were a
Mohawk about to scalp her."
And good thing if you would. You'd do
us all a service. But cheer up, laddie, she may
not play. She has way of sending word that
her mother is ILL.,"
Payne forgot even the Goodwin girl in the
staggering realization that he was to appear
in few hours before an audience that knew
nothing of him. He was the first American
actor ever to star in London. and his disguise
had already been penetrated.
Why had he crossed the ocean during the
war? Why had he ever gone on the stage1 His
poor father and mother had always tried to
suppress his childish ambitions. They had
thought of the theatre as the devils play
ground. But when his mother died and his
father went bankrupt, he had seized the
chance on the pretext that he must earn
living. Such life to call living! He had made
vast stir as boy actor and had taken in
heap of money at first. only to encounter long
delays, cold cities. big success, dire failure.
After years of such, the outbreak of war had
found him penniless, the theatres in bank
ruptcy. Friends had subscribed enough money
to send him abroad - TO ripen his art" The
war was 50 unpopular in many parts of
America that none thought it strange for him
to visit the enemy. The British themselves
50 despised his country's powers that when he
landed. they merely put him in Jail for fort
night as the governors guest, then permitted
him to appear at the great Druy Lane! Self
confidence or modesty audacity or fear. had
led him to insist on being billed merely as "a
young gentleman"
In his panic he decided that the perhdious
British had been saving him for a public
disgrace. He was in a swirl of tezrors as he
sought his dressing room. Though he did not
appear in the first act, he was made up long
before the overture began.
The audience that night fell into an omi-
nous mood, nagged by the overture repeated
and repeated, sick of the sight of the listless
curtain. blaming the unknown foreigner for
his insolent indifference to their rights.
Backstage, there was dismay. The actors
and the crew stared at poor Mr.. Payne's
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dressing door. and when the stage manager,
MIR. Raymond. put forth his knuclles to
knock. he drew them back in pity. At last he
tapped. A faint voice bade him in, and he
found Payne in Scottish costume, his skin out
side the edges of his paint frogbelly white
with fear, his bare knees shaking
my dear Mr.. Payne" Mr.. Raymond said,
1t gives me pain - no pun intended, ha, -
humph - ahem - Miss Smith has sent word
her mother is i'll -"
God bless Miss Smiths dear soul Now
don't have to appear"
He began to whip off his costume. Mr.. Ray
mond checked him.
''Oh. but you do! The house is sold out. I
sent call of distress to Convent Garden and,
by the best of luck. found Mrs. Powell free.
She does much better Lady Randolph than
Miss Smith. Shell be here at any moment"
but you can't ask me to make my first
appearance in England with woman I've
never laid eyes on!''
''You are an actor, sir. And we do not dis
fright"
Payne rebuckled his belt Was that knock
ing at his knees. or at the door? Mrs. Powell
abundant and beautiful, and flushed with
haste. swept in like drifting balloon She
bowed in acknowledgment of her introduc.
ton. questioned Payne as to his handling of
this scene and that. then fled TO her own
dressing nom.
Mr.. Raymond withdrew to squeeze out in
front of the curtain and apologize to the noisy
audience. while Payne slapped his unruly
naked knees and cursed the luck that kept
him from choosing some long g-robed role of
cloak and sword instead of scant kilt and clay
more. He fitted to his black curls the helmet
with the upright plumes two feet tall.
His mirror was trying to tell him that he
was the handsomest youth it had ever replied
to among the great faces that had stared into
it. But Payne saw only the poor school,
masters son who had come so far to stir the
ridicule of the great lords, the cleaning ladies,
the ancient aristouacy of old England. They
could do nothing but jeer at the antics of the
backwoodsman who had blmdered across the
sea to strut and stumble where the most emin-
ent Of actors had too often failed. He dared
not watch the first act from the wings, but
kept to his room in stupor of terror.
His mirror showed him to himself all awry