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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
11
Miss Sophia Kittlesen of Evanston Illinois reports twenty five years of chronic catarrh relief after using Peruna. She says her throat and cough improved and the illness is gone. The ad promotes Peruna tablets and Manalin laxative with a 1909 almanac offer.
The Grand presents a varied week of acts including a fight scene in a playlet and a love story with Will Cole as Skeeter. Comedy by Miss Julia Mingsley and timing by Timid provide laughs. Spectators see a novelty circus, the Rubes in knockabout act, the Melanis musicians, and a black-face duo. Madame Sandwina performs strong-arm feats and aviation and boat race films close the program.
Williams De Mile play Strongheart opens a three day run at Park Theater with Robert Gaillard as the Indian student leader. The story set at Columbia University follows a clash of culture and love as Gaillard’s character chooses duty to his people over a romance. Robert Lee Allen as Billy Sanders adds bright comic balance with strong supporting cast performance.
A vivid stage portrayal titled Strongheart blends college life with a football scene as players rehearse in the dressing room and a coach urges tougher play during intermission. The piece leads into a Thanksgiving game and a student society function, followed by romance.
The Majestic presents The Christian by the Fere rpaugh stock company with Edward Morgan as John Storm and Miss Spinney as Glory Quayle offering strong dramatic staging and Manx setting. Next week David Belasco's The Warrens of Virginia with Frank Keenan and Charlotte Walker arrives, followed by Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall in the stock lineup.
The Empire Theater bills The Red Moon by the Dreamland Burlesquers as the best production of the year. Written by David Marion who also stars, the production features a large company, bright songs, and elegant stage settings with notable vaudeville acts. The closing tableau includes oriental scenes and a Salome dance.
At the New Gaiety the Talk-A-Graph company presents The Ingrate a thrilling pictorial playlet with northern woods scenery and sensational acting. Williams and Culver perform a singing and dancing act titled An Auto Trip. Leo C. Philips provides a musical novelty act and Miss Bartlett offers comic pictorial songs. The bill includes additional motion and talking pictures accompanying the feature.
The Rivals at the Manhattan theater is a realistic moving picture show by Frank Lux mixing comedy and tragedy. Joseph Jefferson’s earlier success is not this version which centers on a fisher man and a city chap with stormy family scenes and lifelike scenery.
Mrs. Lou Stagle becomes the new stenographer to Governor elect Marshall after prior service with Marshall McNagny Clugston law firm. In Marion a veteran merchant policeman Thomas McNair dies at home after 5 years service. In Perl George Bowman and Henry Holtz escape jail by breaking lever and wall. In Franklin Mayor Ridгes fines Curt Rairdon 200 and sends to jail 90 days for bootlegging whisky. In Elwood Walter Clapp sustains injuries in runaway accident.
Paris reports Prince Oroussof a czar related noble and husband of Prince Sani's ex wife is sentenced to five years in prison and fined 600 dollars for swindling tradesmen over a luxury flat. He previously received two years in default and fled to England where extradition failed. He allegedly swindled buyers of 2500 in goods and 5500 in furs with a third party's help. He may be in Russia now facing other actions by the czar.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt attends her New York debut tonight at Sherry's hosted by the Junior Cotillon. Though recently entering society, she has already become popular and is predicted to evolve into a noted society belle.
Mendal Hazer, 16, heir to $300000, wanders New York streets for nine months living in hallways and basements. In children's court he faced a charge of improper guardianship as Miss Julia Richman reports to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The boy, traveling from Russia with unclear guardians, is now in the care of the Children's Society while authorities seek his mother.
London dispatch reports novelist and poet Miss Charlotte Mansfield intends to become the first woman to cross Africa from Cape to Cairo. She plans December start, four month trip, traveling by railroad east of Victoria Falls then by caravan and Nile boats. She will carry 30 carriers, shoot only for meat, and hopes to publish a book later.
Over the last decade pension schemes spread from one railroad to about one third of US railway mileage and to most major industrial firms. Andrew Carnegie has donated nearly 20 million dollars to pension causes as adoption accelerates, with International Harvester among recent adopters.
London Dec 1 The British navy has suspended recruiting due to an excess of applicants beyond parliamentary authorization. Higher standards and required references accompany new entrants, while better pay promotion and food in service attract skilled mechanics who might not join under normal civilian demand.
Chiefly the trusts and the railways have taken up the pension concept with enthusiasm. These corporations, long viewed as epitomes of hard-nosed commercialism, now show unexpected concern for their aging workers.
More than a thousand men will be employed in the construction of the tunnel under the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden. When they can begin depends on approval of franchise by Philadelphia and Camden councils.
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