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Newspaper
Postville Review
Location
Postville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
4
The New York World notes Mrs Carter did not profit from a self run trust or theft schemes and laments a misinterpreted scandal. It cites other theatre anecdotes including Edmund Kean and actors like Jeffarson and Boucicault, reflecting on personal failings and public perception in the entertainment world.
Professor E Cook argues that taste in music hinges on temperament and surroundings, not just scholastic training. He contrasts Mendelssohn and Mason, notes differing conductions by Webb, and critiques the lowest form of taste as rapid rhythm. He recalls 1865 plantation singers transforming Old Hundred into a march, illustrating cultural bias in music appreciation.
A theatrical company headed by a famed actor was disbanded and its planned performances canceled amid concerns over the star’s sobriety. An leading actress from several top companies, starring this year, was warned that any indulgence at the table would be punished by measures of restraint. Knox, the actor who played General, was also noted in the discussion.
Adele Ritchie walked from Broadway and Forty-second Street in New York to Blakey's office in Brooklyn seeking an engagement in a melodrama. An actor later worked as an electrician in the Broadway theater during Beauty and the Beast and was later assigned to the Savoy where The Way of the World played. James Henry Stoddart, veteran actor, died at 80 in Sewaren, New Jersey, after a career spanning decades with the Union Square stock company and many noted names. He had not acted since 1905 due to paralysis. He was born in Yorkshire on October 13, 1827, and began in England before coming to New York in 1854.
Actor's job hunting irks him more than any other part of the business. Many leading men, including Joseph Galbraith now a stock company leading man at $150, endure agency hauntings and take uncongenial work to live.
A New York visitor learned that the city’s fire companies answer far more alarms than London’s. Truck 18 at 84 Attorney Street logged 1,122 alarms in 1906, with 699 fires. Engine 17 at 91 Ludlow Street had 206% calls that year, 227 of which were fires. London’s Whitechapel had 376 calls, Shoreditch 269, Manchester Square 266.
Howard Greene reports in The Technical World Magazine that after a measure removing the internal revenue tax on denatured alcohol little progress has been made toward alcohol competing with gasoline. Alcohol vaporized and mixed with air burns slowly compared with gasoline, requiring high compression and low engine spend to be advantageous, keeping alcohol from being a viable fuel for internal combustion engines.
The article discusses Japan’s effort to match American and German ceramic quality by sourcing and recreating the right clay. It highlights government pottery schools and labs in Tokyo and Saga, advanced ceramic education, and the aim to produce durable wares at home, reducing dependence on foreign materials and methods. It notes Japan’s focus on industrial education and scientific study of clays, glazes, and firing to develop native potteries and related industries.
A rare lithograph of Abraham Lincoln, once linked to a presidential campaign, hangs in a Lewiston office, per the Boston Globe. The fragmented notice suggests the image dates to 1860 and was used in Lincoln's first presidential bid, highlighting its historic campaign ties and sought-after provenance.
William F. Shiebler who received the first message over the Atlantic cables from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan on August 17, 1868, died recently at his home 753 Greens Avenue Brooklyn after a complication of diseases.
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