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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1905
Page
11
Dramatic correspondent notes Charles Klein's play The Lion and the Mouse tackles political and financial intrigue. A financier conspires with a senatorial cabal to ruin an honest supreme court judge over a controversial decision. The work echoes current investigations and trials across states.
Plot notes reveal Susan Green visits Ryder to write his biography and uncovers papers affecting her father’s senate decision. Betrayal accusations fly between Shirley Jefferson and Ryder, leading to a climactic denouncement of Ryder’s methods. Critics say Mrs Ward’s novels falter on stage unless altered.
Grace George’s performance as Lady Kitty Bristol anchors a Garrick production of Margaret Mayo’s dramatization The Marriage of William Ashe based on Mrs. Ward’s novel. Edmund Breese and Richard Bennett deliver strong supporting turns. but the play’s pace occasionally lags despite Miss George’s vivid interpretation.
A weak start gives way to a powerful dramatic work praised as a pleasing production. Manager H B Harris stages it with liberal yet discreet spending and solid artistry. Grace Elliston, Edmund Breese, and Richard Bennett star. Elliston shines as Shirley Rossmore with convincing portrayal and stage presence.
Fragmentary text from a historical page mentions a tree event but lacks clear names dates places or outcomes. No coherent action or details to summarize beyond general reference to a tree and event.
The review notes that H. Reeves-Smith benefits by portraying William Ashe while Ben Webster, though capable, is miscast as Geoffrey Cliffe. Webster is praised as an able actor, but not suited to this role.
Cy Seymour earns two championships as pitcher and batter. He struck out 243 in 1898 as a Giants pitcher and follows with a .377 batting average in the recent season, surpassing Honus Wagner by 13 points and earning the title slugger of the world. The piece notes John J McGraw’s role in developing Seymour as an outfielder with the Orioles and mentions Bresnahan as a trade consideration for Cincinnati.
In England M Phipps sued after paying 300 dollars for a Scotch terrier lost while left in hotel care. The court awarded 300 dollars damages despite hotel denials of responsibility. The dog disappeared from a storeroom while the owner planned to travel to Scotland.
Cincinnati theater manager H. M. Ziegler, who introduced Hermis to eastern turf, has three 1907 racing weanlings at Highland Farm Lexington Ky first horses from his planned breeding stud. Two colts by Haggin sires Rapallo and Bendoran among the youngsters with strong breeding and potential. Ziegler’s eight yearlings were shipped to winter at Highland Farm after private purchase this year.
The article argues for association football as an Open game offering less mass play than Rugby. It outlines open play, fewer injuries, and the rules, field, positions, and a 90 minute match with no substitutes. It highlights the center as pivotal and notes scoring by kicking between posts under the crossbar.
The text explains football roles by position from right and left wings to center, halfbacks and backs, detailing how forwards drive the attack and defenders form the defense. It also cites a recount of guides receiving pay per deer, illustrating bargaining during a hunting trip.
A Maine hunting tale recounts a party of four approaching the deer country and speaking with two guides, John and Charley, revealing a harsher reality behind romantic myths of guides who love the forest over gold and sport.
Harry Tuthill, the trainer of the champion New York National League team, was put on half pay for winter by Manager McGraw and will be retained next season. He trained Young Corbett for his fight with Jimmy Britt and has broad experience with athletes across sports. His work contributed to the fine condition of New York pitchers last season.
London audiences applaud Taps at the Waldorf where H. B. Irving stars in Lights Out, a tragedy also known as Discipline in France. After this run he will perform under the Shuberts in C. M. S. McLellan's The Jury of Fate.
August Belmont sold the English mare in foal to Hastings at a fall sale and the resulting buckskin colt is a standout. Trainer Charles Hughes rates him highly, comparing his potential to that of the celebrated Penrhyn at the same stage last year. Milton Young’s public sale in New York last summer provided the dam Imp. Christmas Tree, which Hastings sired via Althotas.
Harry Hermsen in The Royal Chef says a notebook distich from a grave stone in England misgives the name John Woodhen by the rhyming need. The couplet notes Here lies aged three score years and ten and hints the epitaph uses cock in rhyme, near London cemetery.
Peter F Dailey debuts in a new musical comedy The Press Agent produced by the Shuberts. The plot involves a band of South American revolutionists with a novelty score by William Lorraine and songs including My Moonlight Maid. Kate Condon plays the leading woman.
Connie Mack weighs three American League offers for Lave Cross the veteran third baseman who has served twenty years in the majors. Elberfeld may go to Philadelphia while Washington and Cleveland also seek to acquire Cross and Hoffman. National League clubs would pursue him if AL clubs waive rights.
Jefferson De Angelis in Fantana draws large west crowds and has played without reprieve for a year since last August, becoming the most successful production of its kind seen in the country.
Bert Coote and company present a clever vaudeville comedy sketch titled A Lamb In Wall Street. The act riffs on financial wit and theatrical gags, delivering light humor and ensemble performances.
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