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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1913
Page
12
Ernest Albers, renowned wild animal trainer, describes the dangers of training fierce lions and other big cats. He notes that illness stops performances and a single unruly animal can trigger attacks. The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, billed as the world’s greatest collection, performs in Mobile on Thursday, October 23.
Irene Kingston argues that suspicion is a cold, deadly force feeding on doubt. It begins with small discontent, grows from imagination, and poisons love. courage and honesty are the cures, while the self blamed for nurturing distrust should act as its executioner.
The Lyric presents James K. Hackett in The Grain of Dust on Monday October 27. He plays David Graham Phillips’s dignified role, a departure from his past parts, and the tour reports it the most profitable yet with large receipts in many cities. Seat sales begin Saturday October 25.
The Huntley Stock Company stages Rip Van Winkle at the Orpheum Theater opening Monday through Wednesday with two matinees on Tuesday and Thursday. Mr Huntley stars as Rip with Miss Marguerite as Dame Van Winkle and Little Baby Lucy as Minnie Van Winkle.
An old-fashioned man who remonstrated about flowers on the table because he believed they were not good to eat appears in the scene. The remark highlights a humorous clash over decor and practicality within the household.
The remark suggests fashions vary in quality and appeal, not always favorable. It hints at differing tastes and standards influencing how outfits are judged over time.
New York editorial voices against censor boards praise the Drama League for guiding theater taste. Mizzi Hajes stars in Her Little Highness at the Liberty with mixed reception. Pollock Wolf De Koven adaptation features strong ensemble work from Guy Standing Chrystal Hearne and George Howell amid a courtroom plot with a mocked marriage and blackmail.
Dreamland announces a week of five first class vaudeville acts and three reels of motion pictures starting Monday. Highlights include the Peck Trio Roy James and Ela Peck and the La Pearls aerial trapeze act.
George Schambeau, charged with violating the city stable ordinance, surrendered at the county jail Saturday afternoon and was released on a new bond after his prior bond was forfeited. He had been fined $10 in the recorder's court and appealed.
Deputy Sheriff Keyes Laurendine arrested James Neese of Cottage Hill on a prohibition charge for selling whiskey illegally at his home near Cottage Hill Saturday night.
A mother recalls her four month old baby suffering severe eczema spreading to the face hands and arms by sixteen months. The child wore a cloth mask over the face and bound hands in a desperate state before Hood’s Sarsaparilla brought improvement over a few months.
The Lyric Theater will host the romance filled operetta Little Boy Blue next Saturday with matinee and night showings. Henry Berney wrote the score and Rudolph Schanzer Carl Lindau the libretto with an American text by A E Thomas and Edward Paulton. Otis Harlan will headline the principal comedy role and Gainesborough inspired painting figures in the story. Seat sale opens Thursday October 23 at 9 am.
The Mobile Clearing House reports weekly clearings of 1,853,349.24 dollars for the week ending October 18, 1918 and October 1913 monthly clearings of 4,521,280.14 dollars.
A fragment suggests a man follows lines from late novels when proposing, but the girl remains unaware of the exact lines or intent. The text hints at literary influence shaping courtship speech without explicit details.
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