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"The Hottest Goon in Dixie' company
ii composed of two or three very good
dancers two or three good solo stagers,
an excellent, unusually excellent, chorus
whose voices are ringing and sweet and
they sing with admirable zest and ap
preciation of effect. A mong the com
pany is one actor, a man who enunciates
clearly and takes time to make his
points and succeeds every time. His
clear enunciation was emphasized by
the very rapid and incomprehensible
reading of his partner Fred T. Carey
who had all the faults Mr. Crawford
has eliminated from his enunciation.
Miss Nealo G. Hawkins, the soprano has
a remarkably sweet voice, in the upper
and lower register peculiarly sweet and
clear. Tho middle tonee, quite unusually,
are not of such pleasing quality. She
has allowed hcraolf to cultivate the
tremolo habit too extensively. Taken
altogether the company is composed of
extremely intelligent and talented
comedians, dancers and soloists
THE FUNKE.
. There are thirty members in "The
t Hottest Cbon in Dixie" Company. Miss
' NealeG. Hawkins, who w9 with Mil-
ler's TennisBjans that played tho Ep
worth Laaguo Asaetnblyjast yaar, is a
remirkdble soprano and made many
friends who will ba glad of uthis oppor
tunity ti fcee and hear her again. Tin
company gives a matines this afternoon
2nd a performance this evening. The
aorua 1b well trained. j
Mitinee prices, lOasd 25 cents even
in?. 15. 25. 33. and fifl nnnfcq. S
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1 Manager Zjhrung announce that
next Friday and Saturday, October 6th
and 7th. and Saturday matiner, jwill be
the big laughing hit of the theatrical
seasan of 1899-1903, whsn that' merry
jingling comedy, "The Two Merry
Tramps," will bo presented at The
Funks. This play has made more peo
ple forget their troubles for an evening,
and created more genuine laughter than
anyothsr. The author claims a plot
for the play, but wheu askod to define
it explains it to be a plot upon the part
of the comedians to convulse tho audi
encs with laughter. An unusually
large and capable company of com
ed)iaae, singers, dancers and musicians
have been engaged for this season.
,t New songs, musical numbers, etc., will
be introduced in quick succession' dur
ft ing each act, and as tb.9 company car
t rieB a fine band and orchestra, also a
splendid male quartette, the musical
f features will be much in evidence. ' ,
Prices 15, 25. 35 and 50 cents. Mati
nee 10 and 25 cents. Ssats on 'sale
Wednesday 9 A.M.
no.v it is a part of us. The strktly pro
fessional world has been looking fcr the
baloon to come down.fothe fad to die
out, for the impossible thing to stop,
but year by year these theatres increase
and multiply, till now they flourish the
country over.
Not over two per cent of an audience
remains longer than to see the perform
ance through once, but there are per
sons who secrete campaign' rations
about them, and camp there from 0:30 a.
m. to 10:30 p. n, thereby surviving all
of the acts twice and most of them fonr
or Ave times. The management calcu
late to sell out the house two and a half
times on ordinary days and four times
on holidays, and it is this system that
makes such eaormous receipts possible.
S3metiii.es the Vaudeville theatre is
an individual and independent enter
prise; more often it bolongs to a circuit.
The patronage, expenses, and receipts
are enormous. One circuit will speak
for all. It has a theatre in New York,
one in Philadelphia, one in Boston, and
one in Providence, and they give no Sun
day performances; and yet these four
theatres entertain over 5,000,000 people
every year, give employment to 350 at
taches and to 3 500 actors. Four thou
sand people pass in and out of each one
of these theatres daily. Ten thousand
dollars are distributed each week in
salaries to the actors and $3,500 to the
attaches. Take one theatre for example,
the house in Boston. It is open the
year round and it coBts $7,-000 a week to
keep it open, while its patrons will aver
age 25,000 every week. On a holiday it
will play to from ten to twelve thousand
people. From 'The Vaudeville Theatre,'
by Edwin Milton Royle, in the October
Scribner'e.
VAUDEVILLE.
The Vaudeville Theatre is an Ameri
can invention. There is nothing like it
anywhero elee in the world. It is
neither tho Cafe Chantant. tho English
music-hall, nor the German garden.
What has been called by a variety of
names, but has remained always "and
everywhere pretty much the same
reeky with smoke, damp with libations
gay with tho informalities of the half
world is now doing business with us
under the patronage of the royal Ameri
can family.
,v Having expurgated and rehabilitated
t the tawdry thing, the American invites
' loathe family and neighbors, hands over
to' them'' beautiful theatres, lavishly
decorated and appointed, nails up every
where church and army regulations,
. and In the exuberance of bis gayety
passes around ice-water. He hasn't
paintfd out the French name, but that
is because, ho has been, as usual, in a
f hurry. Fourteen years ago this may
have bean a dream in a Yankee's brain;
LETTERS TO .'REENBOY.
. You complain that so-called political
issues areso numerous and diversified
that it is difficult to draw the line be
tween old und new ones. To your mind
they are not sharply defined, shading
off into one another like the colors of
the rainbow.
In the main you are correct. It is
apparently quite as difficult for political
parties to shelve worn-out issues as to
introduce new ones. Look at the money
question for instance. As a matter of
fact the last presidential election set
tied that question, in favor of the gold
standard with or without the consent of
any other patten. I say as a matter of
, fact Nevertheless we behold the silver
.issue, ratio and all, bobbing up serenely
as the on overshadowing plank of the
next democratic, platform. The reason
forhisis not far to seek. The, gold
dollar is now the unit of value. It is
the standard and measure of all values
in the United States. In your opinion
this should settle matters." So it does.
But it does not and canjio.t prevent a
certain percentage of" our population
from cheering for and swearing by the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
"Free' and "unlimited" are two very
seductive words. They convey to the
average mind a promise of "something
for nothing and plenty of it." You will
probably hasten to say that a settled
question cannot be vitalized by mere
talk and propaganda. No amount of
galvanization or other form of elec
tricity will put life into either a dead
issue or a non-essential one. But I beg
you tefremember thatWe of the repub
lican party have'b'een burying the silver
question once a month for the last three
years and still its whiskers grow. They
have not been shaved off frequently
enough to remain out of sight perman
ently. Some supporting facta can be brought
forward for the grossest errors and tho
wildest theories. A yast majority of
people do not and never can understand
the financial question, try as they may
What they want is more money and
they are not concerned about the actual
fundamental value of the same. They
accept sophistical explanations with the
utmost credulity, being chiefly animat
ed by a burning desire to get more of
the good things of this world. So long
as any one prom ires them a share in the
accumulations of economical and thrifty
people, they look upon the mau who
makes the offer as a liberator of the
people. Something for nothing and
plenty of it.
You will have mastered tho first great
lesson of usefulneBd to society at large
when you cheerfully admit to yourself
that the other man has us much right
to his opinion as you have to yours, how
ever much you may suspect him of in
sincerity. The chances are that he
thinks the same thing of you.
Indeed it is quite as wholesome and
instructive occasionally to look at our
selves from the exaggerated standpoint
of our opponents, as it is to inspect n
well-drawn caricatures of ourselves in
one of the comic papers.
All I wish you to remember a this
time is that the final establishment of
the gold standard is simyly a legal recog.
nitionof a commercial fsct. Aleo that
it will only be a comparatively uhort
tlmebeforo all the arguments brought.
forward to back up the free and un.
limlttid coinage will be what the Hon.
John J. Ingalls felicitously designates as
"oratorical shelf goodB."
Tho so-called silver question, howover
will be sewed up at the next presided
tial olection for the second and !at
time, not becaueeit is a live issue, but
becauBO tho glamour of the question,
the temptation to be mildly dishonest)
has not quite exhausted itself. It will
last about long enough for a "second
battle."
J. H. TVNDALE.
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UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
L. I CRAWFORD AND F. G. ZEHRUNG.
COR. O AND TWELFTH. PHONE 355.
1lxisi Afternoon &xicl ISveralraig'
The Hottest Coon in Dixie
the LARGEST and BEST CHORUS SINGERS IN THE WORLD
AS WELL AS THE
Most gorgeously Costumed,
MATINEE 10 and 25 cents.
EVENING 15, 25, 30, and 50 cents.
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FRIDAY xl SATURDAY
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Bargain Matinee Saturday afternoon 10 and 25 cents.
The Monarchs of Comedy
WOOD AND WARD
In their Jolly Jingling Farce
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Usual Funke Prices 15, 25, 35, 50 ceats.
Seats on sale Wednesday 9 a.m.
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