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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
5
An editor profiles a city scene of voice specialists coaching hoarseness sufferers at $5 per hour and actors chasing stage craft. A bold performer boasts of a lucrative campaign spiel while a pessimist complains that theater curtain times across venues vary from 2:15 to 8:45 p.m., harming punctual attendance.
Thomas T. Crittenden Jr., a 44 year old Democrat, resident of 3240 Flora Avenue, Kansas City, is a real estate and loan broker with Brent & Crittenden and a stockholder in Mitchell-Crittenden Lumber and Tie. Former Jackson County clerk (1892 to 1900), he is noted for a clean character, strong ability, and broad business ties with public service support from public utilities.
A Metropolitan Democrat campaigns in fatigue and hoarseness seeks relief from a voice specialist. The Master prescribes rest and echoic exercises, while a harsh oracle warns against loud versus genuine oratory as a lesson in restraint. The scene shifts to theater timing debates and Willis Wood’s Gingerbread Man relocation.
The Metropolitan speakers warn voters that if Crittenden is elected he will oppose everything The Star favors. Applying that pledge to his past, they imply he would have opposed gambling protection, policy swindling, fake lotteries, the Game work grab, and loan sharks as mayor. A backward look suggests how pledges translate to actions.
In a rambunctious scene a character boasts of the Kansas City Star while another corrects him. The Master asks if he says it in speeches, the boast grows louder, and a joke emerges about rolling r sounds learned from a roller.
A Troost Avenue M E Church invites strangers to attend services at the South corner of Twenty six street. The note promises a sermon with spiritual guidance and hearty congregational singing of old fashioned hymns such as Joy to the World and A Charge to Keep I Have. The writer asserts visitors will be repaid for the trip.
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