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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1910)
A 1 It t f 1 IT r illB OMAHA SUNDAY nKK:SKPTKMBKR 11. 1010. i f I . - -ll .. . ,. ' -- . - - r, , I ' ..g ' v n - - j ' . l . - . . . . : 1 . - c ' v .r !1 Vv si - i :. ' m ''''f.f':..':t. ! . v.-..vi- 1 : . " i : ''.' ... . - . . ffJi i I ; - i 1 V' C-X ::;-; ?Xi eutingeW 'f ;;;Vv . . , ' i ' ag5fs V DTEER BD5RKNDS VTIFE .' . i iill ' xr- ry--'rv -. AT TTR IPATFFl) Pi .y?fv . '"I.'oaitBHowi m If ii ,uSmj i " -. 'V v. &a mm&m wdske s"-j' -- ; " "rssw .,- :-- i1? i v The Thatr and . The Peopl j AST ?i1n? Mr. rhirlei Frnhmn mid murh houi the ejttbliFh mmt of theter on the Kat P!!e In Nw Totk. where Vie would present Lis p'oyers in tile p!y tli: hd 'ici-eeded on upper Hrodwy, and at prices that would permit any of tne poorer peop'to attend. Mr. Frohman'a project hat not aa yet taken on definite form. b-:t the New (heater Hre.-tr have antKHpated hla action, and announce that at a certain performance earh week tlie iteaia In the fine New thea er' will b placed on Fle at 10 cent. In thee ' performance the bent plays by the let j actora of the company will le preaented. I, I m,, of . ,h,.r on the K.; 11 V 111 , V X I H 1 1 ' with all the attention to detail of ncenery j and taee rcanage:nent that mark the pro- 1 't Iii:lr Tis.The v'n of the .Vew theater dm tlon hen full prii-e la being futlfil, J s in rom waya fior attracMve than that It I admittedly Iiii!alb1e for Uie theater prope1 hy Sir. Vrohman; t:rat of all. It to ho!, enouah peole at :0 eenla eath to i' lacl:s tiie potrnilal wbjeitlon of being con make I t.e vtntuie a paylnjc one. eo that It j ;r?cril en eff-t to patronlie "the poor; It can be acivjmed for only on the ru:id ) , -t,, trem -bante to ee and hear the of inire philanthropy. In the mr!leu8 of ' i,p-t. ni um'r t he Kaine condition a pro tiie ICaet fldc ai-e t be found the moi j vidd Tor tie more fortunate or aoclety. i-dent aiii.lrer of the drama, and by that t -it n tx lihotit prtoe. They ire Invited to eeme token It mo.M loyal patnn. The thealer there ciablllici re alaay ' - the anuenier. ! ley inoi aiiMc.Jate. I' 1- j pn oi lion uj'mi. n mi mi. - t. j and paicel of theetage liself. Jul where the f:rt effort to inculcate a teon through yml.oliin mi made IH never, perhap. be deternilnwl. and yet It la certain he oivl qio stlon that this meant of Imparling Instruction ha I teen known for many age. It I fundamental of the early re'lgioiiN of mankind, and Is still a patent factor In lit ceremonials of ntl.. ; not ao the teacnis or religion atone iv.iv i importan.-e In this problem, for familiar to It. but in every possible way It is made,art mty ferx. lo ,iiel mme of the effective In the etabli.chncnt of abstruse moral or ethical teaching. With this phase, of the theater'a usefulness estab lished beyond quet-tlon. the next point Is how to reach the people who ate lo be most directly benefited by Its ministrations. An unfortunate rendition has sprung up. especially In America, through operation ot which those who most need and most reiy on the, theater aie denied access to Its higher and better manifestations. The ex periment of a state thater l.a been avoided generally in this rotintry. and be cause of thla fact the belter elements of the stage are under control of and exploited for the pioflt of private pocket rather , than the general god. Nor la It especially desirable that ihix condition should be i changed. Many excellent arguments hae'fact that many objectionable features have been piet-enteu: in favor of the establish- I e-n eliminated. The manager are not l 1 ment and maintenance of theater at the I expense of the state, whtih would in some measure solve certain problema which hav pressed for recognition, but none of which have to do directly with bringing the beat of inodera thought as expieosed In the art of the actor within the reach of those who cannot afford to pay famy price for ad mittance to the theater. Ami yet. "nut only la It deiraUe. but actually necessary, to reah' these people. They most readily le ceive and most easily assimilate the lessons mat are tought through symbolism, and for this, if for no other reason, they should be given the very highest and noblest of dramatic production in order that they will I leieive toe most good po?ible from ilit ' teaching. ' i j To I ring This about is the pttrpo.e of the 1 uggeiion of Mr. Krohman and the action of the New theater management. If the j agencies ran be directed ao as to reach the denizens of the tenf.ueiit di.trict In New Y.rk. they ill be fulfilling belter than ever their destiny by making It of real t-enlce to the public good. It ia con celvat'ls that thiwutli this means a better notion of iumi of the forms of American 1 lire and tuauners nay I given to the fotelxn-U.tn ilium. huae ideas of our stHsaJ exUteme are necessarily formed on the line of his daily life, axd which (hereby become warped In greater or less degree. Social settlement workers among these peo ple have found them eaerly keen to grasp the idea of American life In all Its bear ings, and especially are they quick at sell ing ou ut h of ettbrtic forms as come within tlelr srasp. One of the features of experience among them that has aston ished Inquire not familiar with conditions la the fact that the better grade of books and pla. a are more sought after by the foreigners in proportion flian by the nattve Wn. even among these who are more cm foitably kituated. Whee such euil as this avails the seed it should be sown, and no ay tucre .xiveie,t for use nor more certain if result tbau ti e stage if it be It 2 ! : .. ; i - r M - v J ? , vosjsd come un froot the :ir-tundlns of their .vd-)b.c condili'.n and 'iare with the aeaitny in the n.loyntrnt or Ihe 'uxury or , SMn!je of. art: lo enjoy to the utterm..it rai or liglua ami muetv and com- j ."enable surrouodlnp. end tit reclve the i'i-;;eviuaj inei'i i a :on .ill lif iroin ' good play properly , presented. In all these things thev will hare eiually with the wealthiest have that the prlie will be j tet low enough to permit of their paying ; without feeling tliat they have been extrav aianl. In pric- on'y Is any suggestion of la distinct!. m made, and the likelihood of; biinglng the extrejne together I of some roollsh notions that grow up on both lde and now and again attain such proportions and permanency a to operate much to the disadvantage of both rich and poor. If It la possible for both sides to learn that The Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are plsters under their akin, something tig been done that will 'be In time found working against the tdt-a of class distinction in a demoitacy, and to a .better adjustment of social difficulties that now vex and disturb the progress of the race. The quality of drama to be presented during the coming season in the Vnited Mates lias recently been discussed In somewhet rratulatory tone because of the ! entitled to all '.he credit for the possible improvement in the tone of the theater, for candor compels the statement that it a as not until the police intervened that some of the gentlemen mho presided over the destinies of the stage Ml the impulse to denalu.elM their production After the a.itlnn Ities in Chicago and New York had closed the doors of tr.eateia at which ob jectionable plays were being offered and the courts had refused to Intervene In lie half of the producers. It became very ap parent to those who are merely concerned in exploiting the stage that they had finally gone too far. It Is true tl.at the public ha adanced in genera' enlightenment to thi point where the dl-cusioc of certain ri'latiors of human lif is pjmihU- along lines that are broader and more definite than seems permlh.able to an old-fashioned sense of modesty, but in the general aspect of daily life these things are accepted as ; a matter of course. The fine relation be- tseen individual, and especially between the sexes. I not destroyed bemuse of a better understanding of certain natural con ditions. If anything. It Is an Improvement. i.d In the higher seme the plays that have to deal with these relations are strong and virile. Just In proportion as they are frank 'id oeii. But thla itankne!s must not be mistaken for license, nor must the openness be misdirected to serve as an excuse for immodesty. The fact that men and women do mtet on the footing of belter under standing should not operate to destroy that splendid regard f r thj proprieties of life which clothes the women, even though she be naked, and enablea the man to alays reepect her because he respects himself. Neither actor, author or manager Is ever Justified In making any attemtpt to break down lata condition. It la the inisslou of the stags to support and uplift, and the plays whoe sole excuse for exlsicr.ee rests ea thetr lack of decent regard for thia are not to be permuted. 8otn things are too sacred to be macie the subiect of lest, and even though we are careless anj Inclined at times Ij disregard the good and ta iga siiTOLE-V ,-v-1 . KMILY MILES 1 . l.v:N,:,iJibL,- .X. I'LIMIlMIl tf -i:.- B at the scurrility of the meretriclou farce. 1. we cannot avoid the oncluFion In our aobtrer moment that the thing Is wrong The bttr way to avoid the effect of such a play is not to permit its production. That all the managers a- not a s ake to the fact that public intelligence and popular taste Incline to resent the insult of In decency Is too true. . Cue of the last mani festations of this manager'al indifference lo common decency 1" thus referred to in an edltoiial in the Washington Tost: , A New York theatrical manager makes i .11. . .... Ji V . . u",ev' iile on the stage of a metropolitan 1 theater. Tne onlv distinction attaching to thl youiig woman I the tact that she was the companion of a man who is al leged to have murdered bis srlfe because of infatuation with his cofuglllve. this girl who never would have been heard of If her na:ne liad not been linked with the Crlppen case. It is posninte that Theodore Roosevelt, the mnnt illustrious private American litixen no living, would draw a biggef crowd in the aei-sge A met lean cilv I an Jack Johnson, tne su'-cecsful negro pjgilist. I'ossibly President Tfl would Oram a bigger i road than ihe i t. ami ion of f niana but po other American au iie named who would get such an ovation as Jack John son, should he aprar here at the capital of the greatest nation In the world. A week or tmo ago funeral services itere held here over Ihe remains of one of tne greateet conntit utional lamer, one of the profound Kolni.al thinkers a man . l.n had ft!'e1 high Dittoes of state iih un usual ability and distinguished honor, and a hamitul ere In the .chjrch. but the funeral procesM-n that followed the mor tal remains of Joe Cans to the grave was three miles long, and It required six vans to convey the flowers for the occasion, some of them the niot costlv. public taste Is morbid, and alter nuterieiy. Marry Thaw would draw ti ww for. a single theatrical season l( ten weeks. At this moment a n-ore of -on- demned murderers are reclpie?Ma of msu.illn letters of vmMtl,v from fool women. a ell a n.eu. and their cell are oppressed Kith ili litn.A. . . f r in. ... C i. . ,. idiots of both sexes, mostlv female sent them. it is a pi ase of the national character that no patriot m'l contemplate s.th anv degree of complacency. j most every business and profeselon. it is Grass groas cm the face of the earth j not surpiising to learn that members of much as whiskers grow on the face of a j , fair Ktx wlll risk nu In th- warcb for wever. grass is al.ay. green, and nol'f'1 r.ed that sey.r-l women one ever aesr. green hiakera oept 2 J ruhbed BiUr C "-'k- n"r flapnick comedian j British Columbia, in the hope of being able However, again, tl ere is red grass and grny grass and brown grass and yellow grass and blire grass, which provca tnere are exceptions to all rules. For all Inai. hoaever, grass does not grow Galway style, nor a la Bu: jside.'oor in a mustache unj goatee. 1.. K . . Kw - 1 -, . .. . - mini voi anu dried, baled, it is called hav and ia im.A lo condensed mA cos Grass is rctnoied fiom the lawn bv tneans of the neighbors' children or a laaTi mower. Un nioaers are pushed by youog men who are studying for the ministry. No other men have the sturdy moral nature to run a lawn moaer. Im mediately after cutting the grass these young men collect for it. Taking collec tion la part of ministerial training. Grass is also vey prnt.tabie to sign painters, as it eia.blea them to dispose of placards ordering people to keep off of IL Ciiicagj fost. LLOYD INGRAHAM HAS HAD EXPERIENCE Sunday. September 11. la the twenty-first birthday on the stage of LJoyd lngraham of the stork company playing at the Boyd. Mr. lngraham took hla first part on tl e uay Indicated In. the year 1W at Ban Claire. Wis., playing Mother Fadet In Fanchon the Cricket." the old play which ! is linked with the name of Maggie Mitchell Mr. lngraham was then Just 1" rears of age. and hla voice not having cranged to its present timbre, ass able to impersonate an old woman with great success. He wss immediately afterwaid cast as Mother Frocbard In "The Two Orphans." From that time until now he has been continu ously playing both In traveling companies and in slock. Before coming to Omaha three years ago. he was two years with the Bush temple players in Chicago and for three years pre tlous to that with the Harry Bishop play eis In San Fiancis-o. In Omaha Mr. lng raham ha scored hla greatest success In the title part of "The Issvil," at the Bur- cr.A in tViA flt ttt and hla niacins: of 1 ... ... I he ro'e was votea on a far w nn mat o. George Arlis. But Mr. Ingralia-n himself thinks he has done better work and has at least played parts more to his pwn satisfaction. The two roles In hie career, which he most fan cies, are those of Pafnlta. the prime mln !atr in "Prince Otto." and Athos In "The 1 Three Huard.men " Three Ouardsmen 1 . WIDENING ACTIVITY OF WOMEN I '"r," Oce-e-atleaa I Hklrk They Hue Made j . sd i I i Now tl.at women aie to be found in al- I 1 lo VK oul ,be um" or 1 'luJ tor cla.tn. Hundreds of women followed the i D,ln'r from the eastern states or America ' across the continent to California and Col- 1 orado In their feverish juet for gold in : 1M: and during the rush to the Yukon and j Alaska the fair sex ere ery conp.cuous . ... ... ! sr.a women couia oe seen aoiking snouiaer i . , ... .. ., i.. ., I to shoulder with the men in the mines. Of the women who faced the peril of the fioxeu north in their search for prtcioui metal in the Klondike several have made fortunes while others are hard at work at their arduous toil with the thirst for cold still strung upon them. A year or two ago Miaa Frances Flu returned i her home In Boston with fl'iaeao. made by bar own ef forts In the gold fields of the Yukon during five years' work. It waa not so very long ago that Miss Louise Wllkiaa. who nu i gold mine, at 11 I " - i 1 ark 1 - X -A f) y xJ ...-S ; i I . , . if t 'A . V SILLY CLLfTOHD 3 -HBOIUCBLS - AX THE IVR-Cns Saisuma. Arix. retired at the age of U with sufficient capiUl to yield her ,) a year for life. 1 luring the last few eai women have taken largely to farming and market ar- dening in order to obtain a livelihood, and It Is interesting to know that Brock s ell farm at Wendover, in Burks, ahlch Is over ) acres In extent, I managed and aorked by the Misses Scott with notable luccee. The women are the daughters of the late Mr. Scott, a retired master mariner, a ho ran Ihe farm during the last frw years of his life. Hlnre his death they have carried i n the farm with very little male lebo.. The Misses Scott rear tlmr oan stock and train the animals as they reach maturity. They also plow their oa fields and break In the colts, the sisters being expert horse breakers. A young lady lu California makes horse shoes for a living. Specimens of her stork have been exhibited at all the promi nent cities In America, and a glided horse shoe beaten out by her waa forwarded as tTEKEDlXH. SISTERS at the ORPHEUK w HI 7 i. a present to the late Queen Victoria a shot t time before Iter death. A village smith in Australia 1 a rrmid-n not long out of her leen. Wlin her father died he left her unprovided for. and as she had learned shoeing under lier father s guidance she carried on In busi ness and became largely patronized Shaving poodle is a branch of Industry started by a lady I'vlng In Paris. The poodiei barber first established herself In. a rat dhome suite of roo-na in one of tlie principal thoroughfares of the French cap- ! ital. and her clients numbered over !! within tlnee mouths. This lady alao I ee'i i poodles' school, and turn cit canine' pets with highly completed educations. She has trained over SO poodle, and Ihev are! marvel, of and never-cea-sing ' source of amusement to their owner Another lady in the Gay City has set up In business as a dogs dressmaker, pro viding parapsred pets with fashionable coats colls rt, waterproofs and eien bcola. ' There sue aeveral women lo r'pelu who l f .l w v: j : 5-t t H X -; Slfc... make a livi ig h fi;ritii;K tciil and they aplie.t to le ijuite a adept al the Limine-' a1- thi ir male livalf. Joiina Mae. tiR-h. the tlaiicl.lt r of Cerma i pnreii'.s, wa e inoet aucecy.-fu' bull f..iter at 17 years of age. Hei fat.'ief hud liaised her hei a child a a toiierii. ami she nriJe hei first appearance in tlmt capacity at j Oporto. She killed two bulls in the rinir which her masculine rivals had failed tu slaughter. Jonna. who. by the wa. un fi'1 prixe at a beauty Mm held at 'Jtbon mine yeais ego. received as much u O.WO for o'.e ierforiaan c In the bull rifaV-iajtidon Tid-Hit-. Foiled. D'"lu, "" " ! ' . T''eJ . 'r or a iime. n nit tne manetT he ai-ked. Oh, I feel blue." she replied. "Nolixly loves me and my bands are cold." "You should nut say that." was Lib word of eoiis.ilatli.ii. - for (l.xl lovea vou. and oui lu.'llier lo ea y ou. and.lioil tail all oa our luuids." uccet-s klaaalusV