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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1896)
--- THE COURIER. i& r L'? " yf what never has been accomplished never will bo. Men will probably dis cover the north polo, make good flying machines and live under a regime such as socialists dream of, beforo the tired world burns up. History to tho con trary notwithstanding. Ben Bolt himself must have been a cad to frown at a girl as sweet as Alice until she "trembled with fear." Pudd'nhead Wilson is attracting largo houses and favorable press comment wherever ho plays. Frank Mayo deserves his success. It is pathetic, however, that recognition should como so late. He has been a conscientious artist all his life, worked hard and had ideals, but fame has only beckoned him until ho arrived in Mark 1 wain's play, wherein famo takes hold of his hand to walk with him through tho rest of his life. Puda'nhead and Frank Mayo are aliko in character. Mark Twain's hero is a keen minded old scientist slightly em bittered by a life-long snubbing from his neighbors and relatives who think him daft becauso his ways are not their ways, nor his thoughts their thoughts. The6nubbing has only sharpened his epigrams and set him apart from them to pursue his own course unhindered by friecship or love. This biography might be Mayo's. The two old men have arrived at the 6ame point when tho play begins. Tho play itself is a good one but it does not quite explain itself as it proceeds. The appearance of tho twins is unintelligible. They aro not connected especially with any other person in the play. They neither mako love nor are made love to. They aro picturesque acd effective but as pre viously stated, not directly connected with tho action of the play. They should not bo left out, but their entrance might be managed differently. With this and one or two other minor changes it may becomo a great American drama like that of Rip Van Winkle. New York critics aro trying to dis cover why Miss Yaw should sing60 high and sing so low. Her highest note is above high E, her lowest is not recorded. They say it must be becauso sho has such a very long neck that her vocal cords have the range of a piano. A picture of her in evening dress shows a swan-like neck but nothing extraordi nary enough to make her. as she is, unique among the singers of the world. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Sol Smith Rus sell and Richard Mansfield are becom ing so used to making speeches beforo the curtain that when they learn a new part they write a speech to go with it as a matter of course. Those actors who are not orators should require the playwright to prepare them a sparkling, jovial tactful before-the-curtaic speech. Richard Mansfield uses the opportunity to convince the public of its own short comings principally as regards matters of dramatic taste. When he was forced to take to the road again after losing money in his New York theatre he made his New York audiences pay for his chagrin and disappointment. Mr. Mansfield has a sharp tongue and a shrewish temper which make his short speeches like the small bottles of ta basco a little flavors a very large dish. Mr. Seabrooke's and Mr. Russell's speeches are genial expressions of good will. None of these actors requires to have speeches written fo em. They draw from their own rich stores of ex perience and humour. The Nebraska Sugar school of which Professor Nicholson is director, sends out an announcement of the fifth an nual session of the school. It will open at the university on the fourth of next month. "Its objects are to give instruc tion in the best methods of sugar beet culture and in tho details of factory methods of sugar-making." Laboratory and lecturo courses aro opon to every one irrespective of provious education. The farmers of tho state have already begun to seo tho results of beet study. The study of languages, literature and history enriches tho stato just as sure ly, though a little raoro slowly. Ne braska commerce seems to bo sinking. It needs a spar or a rope at onco. Prof. Nicholson offers beets. If tho stato might pick and chooso it could find no better means of prosperity. Mark Twain tells of a visit to Hawaii whero tho onion is the chief article of diet, tho chief occupant of the ground. Tho parents place iho glistening vegetablo before their growing Bona, comment on its qualities; its strength, beauty, integ rity and finish by tho exhortation "Bo an Onion." In tho days when the beet triumps over over-produced corn tho grateful Nebraska farmer may, in tho Hawaiian sonse, exhort his son to bo a beet. Tho New York Sunday World has a page devoted to dimo museum novelties with tho freak's picturo at tho head o the column. This is a regular feature of its Sunday issue. Two or threo columns arc generally devoted to tho latest tools for breaking into safes with a full description of tho moduB oper andi. If tho boys of criminal parents lack knowledge of what to use or whero to procure tho best safe breaking in struments it will not bo tho fault of tho Sunday papers. If foreigners judge of the intelligence of the reading public of this country by tho Sunday papers, no wonder they go homo and write about America-degenerate. Tho meeting in Chicago on Tuesday to boom McKinloy laid the prostration of trade to the Wilson bill. Thomas Dolan, tho president of the convention, spoke to an audience representing many billions of invested capital. Ho advo cateJ protection. Tho eastern part of this country wants barriers erected be tween England and the west so that the manufacturers thero can get here sooner than England. Mr. McKinloy may be able to do what no man in America has done before. 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