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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
6
A terse remark contrasts physical exertion with the exercise of the imagination, suggesting practical activity over speculative thought. The line underscores a preference for concrete effort rather than mental or creative wandering.
The Clarke County Rifles establish a regular officers and noncommissioned officers school at the Athens armory with instruction led by Lt Dobbs. Sessions occur each Wednesday for NCOs and enlisted men to prepare for promotion, with prizes funded by Capt Arnold and Lieutenants Anderson and Dobbs. Drills and examinations will accompany weekly recitations for improved readiness.
In the Baltimore American a caller jokes that the best way to settle the Morocco dispute is to give someone a good beating. The witty exchange reflects wartime sentiment and playful aggression in a letter to the editor.
The season features William B. Mack as General Grant in The Littlest Rebel with C Aubrey Smith and Billie Burke, Florence Nash leading in An Every Day Man with Thomas Ross, and Edwin Arden with Mme Simone in Rostand s Lady of Dreams. Edmund Breese stars in A Man of Honor in New York midmonth. Fred Stone returns from a polar bear hunt. Grace George opens in Just to Get Married. James K Hackett heads a new drama A Grain of Dust under his management. Aubrey Boucicault joins John E Kellerd in New York repertoire. Edgar Atchison Bly stars in Billy s Tombstone once played by Sydney Drew. Sarah Bernhardt may produce Faust at her Paris Theater. Hallie Erminie Rives s Satan Sanderson to be dramatized with Norman Hackett. Plymouth Theater in Boston opens Sept 23 for Liebler & Co. Thomas E Shea adds A Man and His Wife to his season. Louise Drew joins her father John Drew on stage again. David Warfield opens season midmonth with The Return of Peter Grimm at the Belasco New York. Lawrence D Orsay revives The Earl of Pawtucket with a star turn this season.
The production begins September 18 in Poughkeepsie New York featuring Billie Burke in The Runaway a play about a fifty year old man and an eighteen year old girl with an accidental similarity to the Astor Force case noted as coincidental and unrelated to current events.
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