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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
3
A fragmented memoir of Alce Bennett, brilliant student, detailing joyless life and painful struggle to pierce illusion between life and beyond. it recounts madness hints, memory vignettes, poems, and a farewell letter revealing fear, isolation, and a fanatical drive to endure.
The Columing Theatre opens its new season with Fernand Ellees and Edn Arden in a four act domestic drama about a wife confessing a past love to her husband. Mina Elisey plays the title role with a strong supporting company. The schedule includes vaudeville by Ryan Richfield, The World Beaters burlesque, and other acts at the Gayety and Majestic theatres with matinees and nightly performances through the week.
The National Theater debuts the new season Monday night September 16 with a Florence Ziegfeld extravaganza The Follies of 107 direct from Liberty Theater New York The satirical review has been a summer stage rage in New York and is billed as a major roustical production The original company includes Anna Held girls Gibson bathing Bell Mayfair Pacha Carus and others with reserved seats for advance sale starting Thursday at 8 o clock
Frank Barry vaudeville performer visiting friends in West Orange, Montclair area yesterday afternoon. While crossing Linden Avenue to avoid a trolley, he stepped into traffic and was struck by a speeding car. He was thrown thirty feet into a cornfield near Montclair Ferry. occupants in the auto fled, the trolley stopped, and passengers searched the field believing Ferry dead before he rose, asking for a cigarette.
A long feature describes the risks behind sensational film stunts. Scenes of robberies, wrecks, shipboard rescues, and especially perilous wildlife shoots reveal camera operators courting danger to achieve realism. A grizzly encounter in the Rockies and a rattlesnake incident near a Florida swamp illustrate how profession and art collide in motion picture making.
A tense sequence shows a snake striking near a recumbent man as an operator keeps a camera rolling. In Florida, a photographer nearly meets danger filming a large alligator as it nears the lens, narrowly avoiding a fall into the lagoon. The man recalls the danger with a smile, yet vows not to repeat such stunts for moving pictures.
Newfane farmers report deer trampling and eating apples as a herd damages fruit trees and vegetables. Witnesses including editor BF Houghton describe deer feeding from branches and ground, prompting state settlement offers such as $85 to farmer William Fanning in Dummerston. Vermont officials have handled similar damage cases, reflecting a broader protection debate.
A fragmentary OCR passage presents jumbled dialogue about a husband, a patient, and implied actions with unclear context. Names, places, or dates do not emerge clearly, leaving the core events and actors incoherent.
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