Newspaper Page Text
a ?THEr ROCK TStfANTT !ARGUS, SXTLTRDXY, XOVKnSETT 5;' 1910. 1 SHIP SCENE IN "MISS NOBODY FROM STARLAND" 1 K J I ' i rfL if 1 v. V -';JV' ' Sliss OUt Vail, Ijawrence Comer and Ralph Riggs, Iieading Characters in Tomorrow's Musical Comedy at the Illinois theatre. ,r ILLINOIS BOOKINGS. v- Oct 31 to Nor. 5 The Flints. w Nov. 6. "Miss Nobody From Star land." BARRVMORE, MOLINE. Nov. 8 Frances Starr in "The Easi est Way." GRAND, DAVENPORT. Nov. 9. Frances Starr in "The Easiest Way." " Nov. 13. Return engagement of Frederic Thompsons "The Spend thrift." Nov. 14. Henry Miller in "Her Husband's Wife." Nov. 19. Maude Adams in "What Every Woman Knows." - Nov. 22. Charles Froh man's "The Dollar Princess." Nov. 24. Georg-e Evans' Honey Boy Minstrels, -with James J. Corbett. "MISS NOBODY FROM STARLAND." r The Springfield (III,) Evening News of Oct. 31 contained the following re f'Jbt'.'WW!-!1. Jiuwt.,M'P.il n iJii..mi i.ijjipi'IUMI in m.m.mn ihjw n jil Wednesday Night, Nov. 9 David Belasco Presents FRANCES STARR ;ii In Eugene Walter's Greatest Play, "The Easiest Way" Prices 50c to $2.0 0. Seats Monday morning. Telephone and mail orders will receive prompt and careful attention. ARRYMORE THEATRE, TMOLINE Tuesday, Night, Nov. 8 David Belasco Presents FRANCES STARR In Eugene Walter's Greatest Play The Easiest Prices 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50, $2 Seats now on sale. Old phone E. 990. " 2 I k view of "Miss Nobody From Starland, which is to be presented afternoon and night tomorrow at the Illinois theatre: "'Miss Nobody From Starland,' open ing with two performances yesterday, concludes the engagement at the Chat terton opera house this evening. It is undoubtedly one of the most laughable and entertaining musical shows of the season and presents a great variety of entertainment most beautifully staged and mounted, with a company that for snappy action and ability to sing and dance is not often equalled on the local stage. While the entire produc tion bristles with good things, the one best hit is the second act, which rep resents the stage of the Princess thea tre, Chicago, as seen from behind, dur ing a final dress rehearsal and first production of a new musical comedy. Here the brunt of the work falls upon Harry H. Jones, who, as the stage man ager, has troubles all his own with chorus girls who come late, stage Way -V 1 L 1 4:31 V- i' St I hands and actors who forget their cues and effects that refuse to work when wanted. Oh, he has a glorious time. The action of the scene is con siderably abridged, of course, and the lines are necessarily expurgated un der the circumstances the make-believe stage manager can hardly give free rein to his profanity but in view of the general total depravity of all things animate and inanimate with which he has had to deal, there is not the most straight-laced person In the audience who will not forgive him his 'Where in hell is the rain storm?" with which the scene closes. The final act of the show has a hard time of It, com ing so cloeely on the heels of the high ly entertaining second it is ended, however, by three dancing numbers, principal of which is offered by Bertie Beaumont, who will be remembered as the French girl of the original 'A Bro ken Idol' production. In the first act she had offered a Hungarian dance in a most pleasing style, for which her costume as an Italian girl did perhaps as well as any, but the dance following her later song. 'I'll Be Your Honey When It's Moonlight, was done with such grace and effectiveness that it really made the biggest hit of all. Miss Olive Vail, principal of the company, sang in fairly good voice. She will be remembered from a former appearance here in 'Honeymoon Trail' some two years ago. Lawrence Comer, last seen here in 'Florodora,' together with Ralph Riggs, Otto Koerner, Katheriae Witchie, Joe E. Niemeyer, and a dozen others, made up a cast of unusual ability which was supported by a eho rus probably the best the Princess management has ever sent out in a road company." MAXWELL-HALL STOCK CO. The Maxwell-Hall Stock company, which comes to the Illinois for a week's engagement, starting next Mon day night, is said to be a somewhat different company under a manage ment observing changed methods from the so-called week stand repertoire companies. Managers Maxwell and Hall 6tate that their policy is to con duct their business on the same busi ness lines as any other commercial en terprise and give to the public just what they advertise in way of plays, producing them under their original titles, following the original manu scripts, and not presenting old, worn out, plays that the public ha? seen time after time under as many different titles. They also state that they hold the contracts for the exclusive produc tion of their plays, and also hold the exclusive rights for the use of the printing, advertising the plays under their proper titles, thereby not mislead ing the public to believe it is to see some play which its finds to be some thing else. Miss Gertrude Maiiland, the star of the company, will have spe cial opportunities. Vaudeville features will be presented at every perform ance. LAdies will be admitted free Monday night under the usual condi tions, providing the seats are reserved before 6 p. m. on that date. "THE EASIEST WAY." In the course of a recent lecture be fore the California club in San Fran cisco, Dr. Richard Burton of the Uni versity of Minnesota, taking as his theme "The Modern Drama." spoke In terms of the highest praise of "The Easiest Way," the remarkable play by Eugene Walter, the author of "Paid In Full," in which David Belasco wfll present Frances Starr at the Barry more next Tuesday and the Grand Wednesday. What particularly com mended "The Easiest Way" to Dr. Burton were the play's bigness, vital ity and truth. Dr. Burton attributed the prejudice existing among certain English-speaking people against the stage to the Influence of Puritanism, which In the 17th century was so strong as to close all public theatres for nearly 20 years. Only within the last quarter of a century has the thea tre come into its own In the matter of appreciation. Dr. Burton did not hes itate to declare that as all the best blood of literature a few years ago went into fiction, so now it is going into plays, and as a result the minds of people are turning more to appre ciation and discrimination in the mat ter of plays. The subject matter did not determine the worth of the play. Dr. Burton said, for it might be of the mean, the petty and the squalid, but if the master mind were back of the subject matter, bringing out the worth of even the meanest, as a part of the scheme of life, it would be worth, while. "The Easiest- Way." in which Miss Frances Starr has achieved such a brilliant success, has had an unusual record. For one year and a half it was played to crowded houses at the Belasco theatre In New York, and thia success has been repeated in every city where it has been seen. "The Easiest Way" depicts that aspect of New York life which is concerned with the trag edy of those women who are so wed ded to luxury that they will pay almost any price for Its enjoyment. Its pro duction here will be exactly the same to the minutest detail as characterized the long run in New York, and in Miss Starr's support will be the members of the New York cast, including Joseph Kilgour, Edward H. Robins, John P. Brawn, Louise Randolph, and Violet Rand. ;OST OF PRESS BUREAUS. The press bureau maintained by Henry B. Harris in his offices in the Hndson theatre, New York, entails a cost of over $300 a week, exclusive of such items as photographs and special printing. The amount spent for the photographs totals $5,000 a year. The items of flashlights of scenes from the productions are in excess of $4,000 a MISS BELLE MITCHELL, V l - - , -s V ' r I i s.t it One of Principal Performers in Stock Next Week at the year. The amonnt of clippings from newspapers that come in. as a result of the publicity campaign in the height of a season, are over 0,000 a week. ANTICIPATING CHRISTMAS. Actor to manager: "Well, what are you going to give me for a Christ mas, gift?" Manager: "From the way things are going, it looks like I will hand you your two weeks' notice." AN HONEST CONFESSION. Actor to manager: "Where do we go from here?" Manager: "It all depends on whether I can raise the money to pay the rail road." ROSE IN DENIAL. Oklahoma City, Okla.. Nov. 5. "En gaged to marry F.oseniary Glosz!" ex claimed David S. Roso, former mayor of Milwaukee, who arrived to aid the anti-prohibition forces. "What will come next? The report is absolutely false. I have mot Miss Glosz, in fact have known her In a way several years, but she is merely an acquaint ance. We aro not in love and have nver discussed matrimony. I deny the rumor as absolutely groundless. Why, I do not know her enough to have even' a platonic friendship for her. I am reminded of the story of the Irishman who consulted an oculist about his eyes. 'Pat,' said the oculist, 'you have used your eyes too much and thy will go out if you don't quit. 'Ivet 'em go out,vsaid Pat, 'I have seen everything there is to be seen, any way.' I have been accused of practi cally everything else and I purpose it was time for some one to start the story that I am engaged to an actress." GOSSIP OF THE STAGE. Jessie Graham, who plays Mrs. FRANCES STARR, IN m.nn uwiifv"""-m I'D'Py" "'-gHi y ",Mn v- riii." f - mi iii. j in J - jR::- ' . . - , ....... , .... ' Welf-Known Star u'ill Re Seen at Head of Company Appearing at Barry more Next Tuesday-and at Grand Wednesday. MAXWELL - HALL COMPANY ' 3f t 1 t"ll , &r Organization That Appears All Iflinois Theatre. Phelps In the Chicago company of "The Country Boj" before going on the stage was socially prominent in Pittsburg. John Prescott, who plays Pedro In "Where the Trail Divides," made his New York debut at the Madison Sonare theatre in Rachel Crothers The Three of I's." Fernanda Eliscu. who plays Annie Jeffries in one of "The Third De gree companies." appeared in New York at the Kalish theatre as Ham let and was the first actress who t-'ver played this part in Yiddish in New York. Gertrude Coghlan. who plays Beth Elliott in "The Traveling Sales Man." is the daughter-in-law of Augustus Pitou. Sr., who at one time was a partner of John D. Rocke feller in the oil business at Oil City and Titusville, Pa. Robert Edeson, who Is starring in "Where the Trail Divides," play ed Drage in the original production of "A Man and His Wife" when it was given at the Empire theatre, New York, on March 6, 1897. SHE ' LOVED SNUFF. Remsrkb!e Will and Funaral of a Qutsr Englishwoman. Tht-. v.;l! of Mrs. Margaret Thomp son, wl'i.'li is preserved, as a curiosity at Somerset Iluse, England, is a trib ute to the di-'ll.hts and consolations of snulT. The ti'stntrix directed that in her coffin should be buried with her all ti"r handkerchiefs and sufficient of the best Scotch snuff to cover her body. This she preferred to flowers', as "noth ing could (e more fragrant and so re freshing tci me as that precious pow der." Further, the six greatest snuff takers in the parish of St. James, Westminster, were to be her bearers. Six old maids, each bearing in her hand a box tilled with the best Scotch "THE EASIEST WAY." 3L snuff to take for their refreshment' an they walked, were to bear the pall. Before thej-corpse the minister was to walk, carrying v and partaking of a ponnd of snuff. At every twenty yards a handful of snuff was to be delivered to the bystanders, and at the door of the testatrix's house were to be placed two bushels ct the same quality of snuff for gratuitous distribution. In order to insure the carrying out of her wishes the testatrix made the legacies given by the will dependent upon an exact and literal fulfillment of the conditions above named. In closing she bade all concerned to regard snuff as the grand cordial of nature. TYPHOID GERMS EASY TO KILL New York Stat Health Departmeat Instances Protection in Ic and Water. The current conception of typhoid germs as something almost Impossible to destroy as having most remarka ble powers of resistance is far from true. Science has long known that except In the places mo6t favorable to their growth, they die quickly and easily. Scientists and the public have each, however, failed until recently to see what Importance the change of en vironment Is to germs and what a pro tection to mankind both ice and wa ter are. . Evidence of the comparative ease with which the dreaded typhoid bacilli Is destroyed when kept out of its nor mal environment, is given In a recent bulletin of the New York state depart ment of health. The studies of Dr. A. C. Houston, director of water examina tions, metropolitan water hoard, Lon don, England, of the effect of storage of water undisturbed, on typhoid germs, gave these results: Eighteen separate portions of water were in fected with 40,000,000 to 80,000,000 typhoid bacilli and bacterial counts made every week until they had en tirely disappeared. In one of these series of tests, 10 portions of water failed to showi any bacteria at the end of three weeks, 16 showed none at the end of four weeks, and in five weeks' time the whole 18 portions failed to show any signs of the deadly germ. Most of the water from which na tural ice is cut, is of as good quality or better than the average town or city water supply, and has practically no typhoid germs In it at all. In the case of lakes and ponds, artificial or nat ural, the water Is quiescent for more than five weeks before the ice forms, and so would be entirely free from ty phoid bacilli had any been there orig inally. Furthermore,, in the process of freezing, over 91 per cent of the bac teria in water are removed if all the water is not frozen, so that natural ice is always from 91 to 99 per cent purer than the water on which it formed. Srlc-nHntn Arr Natural le GfrralfM. Many scientists now agree that Dr. W. T. Sedgwick, professor of biology in the Massachusetts Institute of tech nology, the highest bacteriological au thority in the country, was right when he said: "Many typhoid germs are killed by freezing and after two weeks exposure in the ice, upwards of 99 per cent die; the remaining germs, while quite hardy, gradually are weakened and eventually die. As a vehicle of dis ease natural Ice is plainly far less dangerous to the public health than Is either water or milk." The deduction from this is that the more natural ice used to keep milk and water so cold that no germs w-ill thrive In them, the better for all who drink milk or water. COLLECTOR LIMiT SET Entitled to Only One Per Cent, Say Attorney General Stead. Springfield, 111.. Nov. 5. One per cent is all that any county treasurer Is entitled to for collecting munici pal taxes, according to an opinion rendered by Attorney General Stead in response to an Inquiry by State's Attorney Robert H. Scholes of Pe oria. The attorney general explains that while the law provides 3 per cent. 2 per cent or 14 per cent for the collection of county taxef, ac cording to the class of county, the amount for collecting municipal taxes Is specifically fixed at 1 per cent. Bee Stings Kill Aged Man. Chico, Cal., Nov. 6. Attacked by a swarm of bees, which he was trying to hive, Frank Lyons, aged 65, was stung HLLUNOIS TMEATRE Sunday, November 6, Matinee and Evening. W. A. Singer Presents Miss IMobody r From : ST'AKLANID- With OO YE VADL Direct from the Princess Theatre Where It Played 300 Consecutive Nights. Prices Matinee 25c to $1. Evening 25c to $1.50. Phone West 224. AMUSEMENTS. Sunday, Nov. 6. Matinee and Evening. Chicago's Greatest Musical Comedy William H. Singer's "Miss Nobody from StarlancP With OLIVE VAIL Dazzling deluge of clever stars, beautiful women, gorgeous gowns, striking original chorus features, stunning stage pictures. Tintlnnabulant Music and Big Song Hits. Biggest musical revue that has ever played Sixty-five people. Prices Matinee, 26c to $1.00 Evening1, 25c to $1.50. 6 Laughing Nights 6 TONIGHT Closing1 Saturday Night. MR. HERBERT L. FLINT The Eminent American Mes merist, presenting his unique, amusing exhibition of mes merism, assisted by ALICE HTTE HUGHES Hypnotic Musical Director. PRICES 15c, 25c. 3 5c and 50c. One Jiig Week, Commencing Monday, Nov. 7 The Maxwell-Hall Stock Company In AH New Plays and Vaudeville. Opening play a four-act comedy drama, "A JEALOUS WIFE" Six Rig Vaudeville ,rt as an Added Feature. THE Git EAT RENOS A show in themselves. Prices 10c, 20c, 30c. Ladles free Monday night If tick ets are paid for before 6 p. m. Mon day. MAJESTIC THEATRE Have you teen the BIG AIRSHIP - and The Five Rah Rah Boys Ia.st Chance Today. FIVE OTHER BIG ACTS Free $." In gold and five pound box of candy to 60ine one Sunday matinee. Coming 1'irit Half of Next Week. The Yokatfama Troupe. Novelty Jap Art. Old phone 16S5. so badly at his home rear Centerville yesterday that he dk-d within an hour. FOn REST, BEFORE going houne hunting cmi atid tre our lUt "f vacant !iou'. We har th c"tnJft list of th trl rltiPH. and will ait ou to grt lo cated without "tif cent of opens. SummoruVId . 113-lli East second street. Davenport. M IIOOI.. LEARN prsrtlrnl rtremB ktr.R n1 In dicji' tnlioririK mi'l ni.I'..'-ii.l' ' t an. I elf-fiirPnrt1iir. V 1'.i li von t u t . fit. I'Iki an.l niMk-- ur k" " fi"in v.iur own nmi'TiiiH. Siait riant, ami Hunt now. f.-r tli.- full i-'H-.-n. J II. ;rHbe. Lmli'' T:.ilir a-il IirrM m.Tker. Soiitli l't;tn.im lnnl'lmt. Iav enport. 1I phone K.SJ-M. K-t.ili-llshr.l lf02.