Travelling Players Tour Elates Managers and Cast
Charles Belmont Davis recounts a touring theater company of about 100, traveling through Washington Baltimore Cincinnati and Cleveland. Every principal had a stateroom and chorus members a berth, meals signed by owners, profits over 10000 weekly, and nightly ovations that made social life joyous aboard the dining car.
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Charles Belmont Davis
Washington
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Cleveland
America
Tarkington Epigram on Marriage Captured at Supper
The note records Booth Tarkington speaking at a theatrical supper where a playwright quotes a remark on marriage. The epigram notes a girl’s view of a young man mirrors her mother's before marriage and shifts toward the father’s views after marriage.
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Booth Tarkington
Youthful stars on stage defy age with secret kept
The essay outlines Sarah Bernhardt Ellen Terry and others who seemingly stay young as age advances It notes Bernhardt claims to be 23 and TERry describes staying youthful through acting demands and diverse roles It cites public fascination with perpetual youth among actresses and how fame often rests on youthful spirit.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Ellen Terry
Mme. Bernhardt
America
Leslie Carter
Patrick Campbell
Langtry
Julia
Amy Robsart
United States
Steers Eat Dynamite and Blow Up in Pasture
In Bremen Indiana a farmer found two prize steers dead after eating a pile of dynamite sticks left near a fence. A rock launched at one steer caused a blast, triggering the other charge. the fence shattered and grass scorched. Owner Oscar Huff escaped unhurt, though dazed by the explosion.
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Bremen
Ind
Oscar Huff
Huff
Gossip of the stage in Virginia vaudeville and West Coast links
Virginia notes Virginia Harned to appear in a one act vaudeville piece Mary Hall leads opposite Henry Miller on the Pacific coast Eleanor Duse tour postponed Heartsease revived by San Francisco stock Charlotte Walker back in The Warrens of Virginia cast Louise Dresser hired for The Girls of Guttenberg Algertat first produced at Atlantic City with William Pruvit and Ida Brooks Hunt in principal roles
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Virginia
Harned
Mary Hall
Henry Miller
Pacific Coast
Eleanor Duse
Heartsease
San Francisco
Charlotte Walker
Atlantic City
William Pruvit
Ida Brooks Hunt
Man Falls Asleep Inside Iron Furnace Near Newcastle
Perry a Manchester man slept inside a large Midland Coal Coke and Iron Company furnace at Apedale near Newcastle Under Lyme. Workers discovered him after dawn, he escaped by climbing over a dam and leaping through burning heat to the charging hole, narrowly avoiding fatal burns.
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London
Stafffordshire
Perry
Manchester
Midland Coal, Coke and Iron Company
Apedale
Newcastle- Under-Lyme
The Hero of Petticoat Pass Battle with Baboon Allies
An old South African tale recounts how Petticoat Pass near Leydenburg became a battleground when boers fought Macatees. Baboons in the kloof sided with their human benefactors, aiding in defense with stone barrages and engineered pits as war raged, ending with Stoffel the baboon leader mortally wounded returning to his store and dying beside his foster mother.
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Leydenburg
Kloof
Satan
Petticodt Pass
Steelpoort
Petticoat Pass
Max Pincus
Max
Mother Pincus
Stoffel
Pincus
Avith
Tate
Petticoat Pags
Cow eats bather's suit in Seaford lake incident
Victor Allen, junior partner at Arco Company, swam in a Seaford lake when a cow wandered from a nearby pasture. The animal chewed Allen's underwear to shreds, then chased him as he pursued the animal. After a mile he collapsed and the cow abandoned the trousers.
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Seaford
Del
Victor Allen
Arco Company
Hamlet Readings Scorns Words as Reading Material
A quip from Hamlet, “Words, words, words,” is noted with a wry observation in Cleve and Plain Dealer. The line suggests the speaker’s flippancy toward reading, lamenting if words were valued at a dollar each.
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Hamlet
Cleve
Plain Dealer
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