Steno and Clarke Craft a Tender Tale in a Quiet Debate
A writer named Fred Clarke debates how to reveal love in a story as a stenographer, Alice Claire, guides him with questions about whether the hero should propose and how the reveal should unfold. The scene blends fiction with hints of collaboration as they discuss timing and character names amid a playful, intimate moment. Separately, news from Roubaix reports that University of State students threaten to strike if ten sophomores are not reinstated after a theater incident.
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Fred Clarke
Chance
Clarke
Alma
Sui
Fred
Alice
Mr. Clarke
Claire
Roubaix
Peter Hania
The
State University
University Dramatic Club
University
The Sultan of Sulu Surprise Delights West Audiences
Man and David Belasco plan a lavish staging of Fyles' play with Ada transitioning from slang fables to tragedy. The West responds with surprise as Ada, once a comic librettist, broadens into more serious theater, while the production of The Sultan of Sulu garners acclaim as a major departure.
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Man
David Belasco
Fyles
George Ada
Sulu
Varied Vaudeville Bill at Grand and Park
A grand vaudeville bill features the Nelson family nine in acrobatics, Kath ryn Osterman & Co. in The Editor, and Mad dox and Wayne as comedians. At the Park, Only a Shop Girl stars Little Williams Salter with a capable cast, while The Halt Mother fills the late week with a New York tenement melodrama and a lively mix of acts and songs.
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Helen
West
Sally
Vaudevillle
Park
Mother
Empire—Rice and Barton Burlesquers
Nelson
Maddox
Wayne
Grand
Indianapolis
Phyllis Allen
Arthur Deming
Cleveland
Smith
Doty and Coe
Eva Mudge
Teason
Little Williams Salter
the Park
New York
East River
Madison Square Park
St. Mary’s Church
Rice and Barton Present Big Empire Extravaganza
The gaiety company brings Rice and Barton as lead comedians for a full week at the Empire. A strong supporting troupe backs a three act farce titled Brown among the daisies with Barton as Mr. Brown. Cast includes J Quigley Mitchell Vyner Olin Hood in the company.
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Rice & Barton
the Empire
Gaiety Company
Brown
Barton
Mr. Brown
Broadway
J. Quigley
Mitchell and
Vyner
Olin Hood
Majestic Theatre Opens With The Wizard of Oz Spectacle
The week centered on New York theater openings at the Majestic. A new piece titled The Wizard of Oz impressed audiences as a fairy spectacle with a field of poppies in bloom, one of the season’s prettiest attractions.
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New York
The
Majestic
Ives
Hoosierisms Wood by the Pound in Bloomington City
Bloomington residents report swindles on wood and coats and consider an ordinance to require selling wood by weight. Provisions would punish mislabeling elm and sycamore as beech or hickory, with customers burning the wood before refunds. Local items note canneries expanding in Southern Indiana and light regional gossip.
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Bloomington
Wife lashes attorney with horsewhip in Wisconsin city
ECONOMOWOC Wis Jan 4 On the principal thoroughfare of this city in the presence of many men women and children John A Kelly a prominent lawyer was lashed with a horsewhip by Mrs Thomas Ryan a known society leader Lash after lash fell until the attorney cried for mercy and fell down on the sidewalk at her feet In the trial of a case recently Kelly made uncomplimentary remarks about Mrs Ryan
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Economowoc
Wis
John A. Kelly
Thomas Ryan
Lash
Kelly
Mrs. Ryan
Death Follows Fortune in Finnish Miner’s Victory
Peter Hanila, a Finnish miner in Roubaix, after years of searching found a ledge of nearly red gold. In his joy he ruptured a blood vessel and died shortly after the discovery.
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Roubaix, & D
Peter Hanila
The Experience of an Indianapolis Woman With the Little Conqueror
An Indianapolis resident Mrs Beacham shares her account of kidney weakness and debilitation, attributing relief to a single box of Dean's Kidney Pills purchased at Henry J Huder's drug store. She credits the remedy for curing her condition and notes the price and official U S distributor Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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Chester St
Little Rock
Ark
Lydia E. Pinkham
Indianapolis
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