Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1909, Page 39

' Wi '\ Vs Bernstein’s Plays and Hackett's HEN Henrt Bernstein flashed acrose the sky of the American slage only a few months ago he eame with a burst of m, teorie splendor But it must not be supposed from this that Bernsteln wuddenly dawned upor On the contrary, he had already undergone a course in French letters and was really a well established dramatist of the modern school, but he had not been heard of in America beyond the path of the erudite few. 8o far, three of his plays, admittedly the strongest he has yet pro- duced, have been given to the Americ M world stage. Two of these have been seen in Omaha, “The Thief” and “Samson.” and these afford an excellent notion of the #cope of M. Bernstein's perception of hu- manity. While the alltea narrow sense, in a broader view very wide apart. plays are n a they are In “The Thief, a won possible loss of her husband’s affeetion steals thal she may bedeck herself so as to appear always attractive in the of him whose regards she most covets. is, perhaps, a shallow view to take, second thought forces the conclusion ) some extent M. Berstein s right. No one can say how many lives have been wrecked, how many hopeful launchers on the sea of matrimony have found thems selves ¢n the shoals, or on the rocks, be- cause one or the other ceased to attract the mate. The case is plainly and foreibly put In “The Thief.” The most prominent characteristic of M. Berstein's work, known to Americans, is the directness and clarity of the argument. His thought goes directly to the center and his postulate is supported by reasonin an dreading the It but that as —aotdis Samson” hes its central figure, the character of a man who has risen through the | eyes |6 |hardly escaped. had disgusted her, while the nobility of her husband had shown her that honor does not reside In empty titles |nor is strength of character the attributs | alone of those of proud lineage. She real- ized at last that “rank is but the guinea's stamp,” and that a man is & man, regard- less of birth, and again the mystery of love is expounded, for in the hour of trial | she gave to her husband what she had denied him when he was prosperous and powerful. Samson had pulled down the temple and overwhelmed his enemies, and had come up out of the wreck bruised and bloody, torn and battered, but triumphant and with a richer reward than he had |dared to hope—the love of his wife | —— The woman, M. Bersteln, here Introduces ue to, 18 not entirely novel nor is the man Prof. Willlam Vaughan Moody of Chicago, | gave us the type In “The Sabean Woman," which was afterwards christened The Great Divide” and played by Henry Miller In this case the wife, fogced by eireum- | stances into marriage wherein she h | cholce, revoiting at the thought of unequai {union, soclally and intellectually she was far above the man who thrust upon her as a life companion,— fled from her home to seek refuge In a fhome whose intelles al atmosphere had been at her sustenance and inspira- | tion, and here he came not the coarse person whose brutality had driven the delicately nurtured woman into flight, but |a man chistenea and ennobied by the love | he sustained for a good woman. She found, no on his own efforts from the lowest place In|too, against all apparent reason that her soclety to a top-most -position of power heart went out to him and that he was In the business word, at least. He Is a really the lord of her desires, master of veritable Samson because hec finds himself | her soul and body, and As such she gave surrounded by Philistines—fawned upon herself to him. The thing Is not strange and cafolédadn his presence, roviled and[that it cannot be imagined in real life Jeered at. his back is turned, but We continually ask “What could she see utterly in nt tumely, because he and how to use it. Just as Samson suc- cumbed to the blandishments of Delilah s0 does Brachard, the self-made king of finance, fall before the woman, only this to fawning or con- knows his strength woman happened to be his wife. She has contracted with him a marriage, on her part, entirely of convenience. Brachard ix of such low origin that he could not, stripped of his gilt, hope to aspire to the aughter of one of the oldest families in France. But the neccessity of cash to maintain an establishment commensurate with an anclent name bridges the gulf between the aristocracy and the slums, and the daughter is sold into a marriage that is detestable to her. Brachard Is, perhaps, the only one who falls to see the incongruity of the alll He madly devoted to his wife and fondly hopes to win her love. nee, is How this may be brought about short of supernatural Intervention 4 not apparent at the opening of the pla accomplished in a manner that is reason- ably and logieally possitle, if not preb- able. The result turns on the development o unexpected nobility on the part of the husband and unmitigated ignobility on the part of the lover. The wife has finally agreed (0 an assignation w.th the social adyenturer, who has thrust himself be- tween her and her husband. This man, with & fatuity scarcely possible outside of | melodrama, takes the pure-minded, high- souled bride of a few weeks to a scene of debauchery that ends in an orgy unspeak- able. Her nature revolts and she flées in utmost terror from the insult put upon her by the man who professed to love her and seek tress, dls- has only her disgusted at happiness. In the ignominy she escaped and highly indignant at the black- guardism of her lover, she enters her home to find her husband walting for her. Here ensues perhaps the strongest scene of the whole play, and Mr. Hackett and Miss Beckley did it with such artistic precision as to command the greatest respect for their ‘ability as actors. The husband ac- uses, the wife evades. Capnly he demands that she tell him where sne has been and with whom. Hysterically she dcnounces the man whose name she bears, him with taunts of his low birth, points out to him the disparity of thelr positions, | rege 0ds him (hat she has always sald that sif% did not love him, and finally hurls the wccusation that he knew all this when he bought her. Biung and tortured by ths woman's words, the man restrains his tongue until by patient and persistent in- quify he has learned from her where she spent the hours she has been abs.nt and with what man she went there, and then alone he formulates his revenge, R The man is a duelist fame who would welcome opportunity of tak- ing the wronged husband out and punetur: Ing him with & shot or sword thrust. He is & saclal adventurer ag@nst whom dal would have no weight. Any publicity that might be given the adventurer of the night, any scandal that might grow out of it, would merely fall on the woman the husband sought to shield. His mugt be of & character that w in the most effective way the bad sought to wrong him and of the man who yet would not in any wise react upon the woman he | loved. This could be done through a mani- pulation of the ruling stock on the Paris exchange, and to achie e that Brachard sets about. An intended trip to London is wbandoned. His business agent is in- structed, and the lover is invited to lunch in private apartments in & hotel, ana here, while the husband detalns him by cajolery, by tridkery, and finaily by brute foree, the last fortune is swept away through the fallen stock. But before this had been complished 1t had beéen made plain to Brachard that to achleve his purpose he must sacrifice his own fortune and that wheri' his vengeance is complete he will be left as poor as his vietim. Not only ihis, but the forfunes of many others must be wiped out, even all those who opposed him in his effort to sell down the stock to & point that will achieve his design. With the eertainty of ruih to himseif, he de- clinés to abandon bis objeet and gives the word to sell, and sell, and sell, until the stoek Is forced even below the poini at which he set. Panie involves the stock ex- change and foriunes crumbied to dust. Govaln 5 pauperized, und so s Brachard, but while the one rushes out in the madness of despair, the other glories in his deed. All but bimself who had been swept dowh i that gigamtic crash were those who had climbed by hanging on to bis garments. What they had gained through him they had lost through him, and he feit no compunction on this score, A pauper himeelf, he was ready to start again, supremely happy in the thought that ha,was revenged on the man he most despised —— It w Becessary for him to return to home before leaving Parls, and there found his wife waling for him. She had heard the news of the disaster ahd wiech, and wi it had come to her a wewer knowisdge. The grossness of th yet It is really | insuits | vestige of the adventurers | ac- | in him?" or “What could he possibly find in her?* None of us is able to see another |except through our own eyes. | ——e And so it is thet within the short space | | Cohan Play at the Krug and Us | PPEARING at the Boyd theater | on Thursday, . Friday and| Satucday fs Mise Blanche Bates in the new Belasco pro-| duction, “The Fighting Hope." a play of today by W. J | Hur'burt. Apart from the fact that the engagement of Miss Bates would rank as one of the most important events of the |local season, “The Fighting Hope" has an additional interest to the publle, In it David Belasco inaugurated his campaign | for the betterment of the Américan drama. | | For many years Mr. Belasco has worked | to develop the art of production and in | | this field has attained effects that others | | have failed to approach. As a contributor | to stage literature he has gained a notable position. His present departure, exempli- 131 In “The Fighting Hope” means the development of a school of drama by | Ameriean dramatists. In putting forward | | “The Fighting Hope” Mr. Be'asco did not | | aim for multifarious and varicolored scenic effects. In point of fact throughout the play but one scene, showing a library in the suburban home of the president of a | trast company, is used, and the east, in | | point of numbers, fs small. The remark- able vogue of “The Fighting Hope" is due | | primarily to the timeliness and simplicity of the story developed in the three acts| of the play and the brilllant acting of Miss | Bates. The central character of “The | Fighting Hope,” interpreted by Miss Bates, |'s Anna Granger. This role requires of | | Miss Bates that she depicit the conflict of | three intense loves—that for her children; that, of rather slender root, for an un- | worthy husband; that, which grows almost {mperceptibly and purely, for an em- plorer whom she has set out to hunt down as the suppesitional source of a‘ blotch upon the name borme by her little boys. | Miss Bates has not alone achieved all this | but has found in the roe of Anna Granger her largest opportunity and” her greatest | triumph. 'This is Miss Bates' first appear- ance in Omaha as a star. There will be a Saturday matinee of “The Fighting llopr."l i Trixle Friganza, the leading woman of | | Georme M. Cohan's “The American Ides,” which comes to the Boyd theater for four nights beginning Sunddy evening., Dece ber 12, the usual matinees, I8 perhaps the only person the world with & ecopy righted name. Miss Friganza was born Miss O'Callaghan of Cincinnati. Delia was taken on at her christening. In her | early teens she went on the stage and | found that Della O'Caliaghan was recetved | with more or iess mirth when it appeared | In the ‘ists of the merry-merry with which | she was identifled. Becoming a resident | of New York, Miss O'Callaghan invented'| the name “Friganza” and had it copy-| righted and registered at Washington. | Then she had her name changed by an| act of the legislature to Trixle Friganza. A short time ago her sister also went on the stag: and Miss Trixie allowed her to adopt the name of Friganza upon the pay- | went of a small weekly royalty. Miss Friganza is a shrewd business woman and owns considerable real estate. Bt In the evolution of extravagansza, greater trides have been made within the last two seasons than In any ten previous | ears. The ploneer of improvement is | Juck Singer, propristor and manager of | the Gayety theater, (formerly the Bur-| wood), for six days, beginning with the | sual Sunday matinee today. Novelty is| the Singer watchword, and this season’s | offerings will be the best he has yet presented. Instead of the stilted and threadbare skits—which he abandened even before he took up his notable “reviews' — there will be & bright and lively musical comedy in two scts. It is entitled “At Palm Beach,” the book a&nd lyrics being by Ballard Macdonald; music by Leo Ed- wards, the well known song writer, and ihe staging by James Gorman, who has especially designed all the dances iatro- |duced. The organization numbers fif five performers, including the double | chorus of forty young and comely women | Besides Miss Williams, the feminine con- |tingent includes Margaret King, a clever | | comedienne; Lililan Herndon, Fay and Florence Courtney and Hattie Dixie. The |comedians are Lon, Haskell who for sev- al years was principal comedian of the | Cecil Spooner company; Vic Casmore, late | |of May lrwin's company; Will J. Kennedy, | formeriy with Cohan & Harries; Joe Bar- ton and Willlam O'Day, formerly of “The Time, the Flace and the Girl™ Mfi‘ Armstrong, the Happy Chappy, the high- est salaried single act in burlesque, the English Pooy Ballet of eight and other | | his had m-pn" | Blanche Bates Comes to the Boyd in “The Fighting Hope; wood Disappears and the Gayety, with the Behman Show, Comes On; {eay, THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER of a daughter night of oldest and a day that the d-Andelines, one of the [ families in Franes found the whole course of her lite changed, her pride f ancestry fallen from her like a dis- carded garment, and the love of the woman for the man sprang up until it brought her close to the man who had been lifted through his lowly origin, first through own efforts and then through the great passion that led him to sacrifice all he possessed that he might protect the good name and fair person of the woman h loved. Annie-Matie, very At the time being offered Great Divide” was us as a novelty, it engen- dered a great deal of discussion pro and eon as to its peychological aspect. No conclusion Wwas ever reached, or at least, none was publicly anfounced, because each of the debaters pursued the tople from the attitude of conviction rather than specula tion, and it was other subject was presented son, perhaps, For this re the Bernsteln woman has not been so much discussed as the man, and vet she is certainly as worthy of consider- ation. Lovely woman, first gift from heaven, has the right to change her mind, and if Annie-Marie or any of her charm- Ing sisters desires to face squarely around »n any proposition, certainly no mere man should presume to question her conduct If for no other reason than this the action of Madame Brachard must be accepted without demur P As to Brachard himseif, he is simply a man and secarcely needs discussion. His habits of mind or of person would not excite special comment among real men. and were only objects of wonder in the artificial world Into which he was thrust. The pecullar quality of the thing called honor hasn't changed a great deal since doughty 0ld Jack Falstaff debated it with himself, but In the superheated atmos- At the Omaha Theaters Bur- ual Vaudeville Bill at Orpheum. the comedy. of Besides artists and performers, action of personnel the States, Behman show carries a full stage crew, | " There will be |consent dead letters in nearly every city operate the production. ladles matinee daily —— Messrs. Cohan and tiarris will present at the Krug theater, four days, starting Sun- day, December 5. George M. Cohan’s rural musical play, “Fifty Miles From Boston.” The action of the plece takes place among the Massachusetts hills in the littie village of Brookfield. The origin of the title is obvious as the place is exactly “Fifty Miles From Boston.” Sadle Woodis, the pretty postmistress, has been made the victim of a post office robbery In order to force her into a marriage with Dave Harrigan, whom she has rejected. Joe Westcott, the Harvard crack ball player, who is engaged to Sadie, learns of the conspiracy. A to a quarrel starts between the rivals and is|the trip was through the citrus belt of thereby re- | southern California. “That was a fifty-mile taken their fathers, Ueving liant flashes of Cohan humor. large and well selected chorus, Messrs. Cohan and Harris have engaged the fol- lowing artists to interpret the different characters: Edward O'Connor, Bruce, Flossfe Martin, up by Besides a Frank Buoman, Dan Edwin Belden, and Bobby Wagner. “Montana,” & rol plains, from the pen of Harry D. Carey, is the attraction at the Krug theater three days, commencing Thursday, December 9 — This week at the Uipheum theater “The Country Club,” a miniature musical com- will be presented. Thirteen people including a double mixed quartet, are re- quired in the performance of this musical and the Dagger,” will be presented by the Spanish artist, Rosarlo Guerrero, assisted by Sig. Paglierl. George W. Cunningham and Herman Marion will offer “An Acro batic Talkfest” which combines acrobatic comedy, singing and dancing. Luciano Lucca, “the man with two volces,” make this his first appearance in Omaha as @ singer. He Interprets several grand opers selections. A novelty in the way of gym nastic aets Is to be presented by Sanson and Dellla. As a sensational feature belane a pole on his chin and, perched on the end of the pole, his partner rides a bleyele. Les Myosotis will offer dances of the classic ballet type and Eddie G. Ross dancing banjoist, will also exhibit his abil- | ity as an entertainer. Some unique motion pictures will be projected by the kinodrome and the Orpheum orchestra of fifteen tal- ented musicians will play several concert selections. TRAIL OF RUINED SILE HATS (Continued from Page One.) they carried .44-caliber revelvers. broncos awalted them at every stop and they hugged the Taft automobile closely. These sheriffs were much more persuasive with a crowd than the ordinary Rolice: The blueccats could shout until they were blue in the face, but the crowd would pay | no attention. Let a Colorado sheriff gallop he |“Samson” a Drama of Virile Streng‘thi Dealing With the Eternal Triangle in a, | New and More Convincing Manneq | v orkings only dropped when an- | | wite's change of attitude, | | the dramatic strain by the bril-|jaunt over dusty roads. Richard Bartlett, Grace King, |of the day's run, but he had exchanged his | Laura Bennett, May Marice, Helen Young | appearan nce of the Western |ijnece committeemen were so dirty that they ¥ | Fresh | up with his hand on his hip and\he unmr’ diately commanded respect. There were about twenty-five of these through which the president passed. Mr. Taft thought so much of them that he posed with them for his picture when he sald goodby. These sheriffs used several hundred different horses on the trip throu Colorado. They had rounded the horses up at each town and had them in waiting for | & week or morve before the president en- | tered the state. | The automobile, while it was a great time saver, proved to be unsatisfactory in slow parades, especially when the president was leading a long line of marchers. It was & case then of start and stop, start and stop. Some of the automobile owners kicked on having their machines in these slow pa- | rades. They had to run all the time on low gear. “I have damaged my machine more in the last two hours” sald & Savannah man after the parade, “than I would have doune under ordinary ecircumstances in a year." When Carriages Were Used. The ideal cenditions for & presidential | visit was When carriages were used in the line of masrch and automobiles when there were no nirehers, but the poor old horse was recognized in this way in only one or two cities. On the really big day of the trip, however. the meeting between Taft and Dias st Bl Paso, the horse was king Mr. Taft had his plain livery coach and lovh. aifalr, from which she bad o [noveities will be iatroduced dusing the | dawm snd Dias his twe black beauties with |the Great Behman show, which comes to |sheriffs, one from each county in Colorado | 5, 1909. phere of high ft_has taken on a| peculiar application. Several modern writers have undertaken to explain this to us. The Casties were at some pains in The Seeret Orchard” to show us the halr- | line distinctions that may be drawn by a society pertectly hororable Frenchman of arls- tocratic birth and breeding, and again in “The Inner Shrine” the author was at much pains to give to the slow-working American mind & comprehensive knowled of that strain of henor which requires that & man stick to a falsehood, even though it blights & woman s life, In order that he | may be spared the shame of openly admit- ting that he is a cowardly lar. It was | against conceptions of honor of this char- | acter that Brachard found himself pitted, and it 1s not an especial eause for wonder that men and women who can subscribe to such & code Md not understand the plain | of a simple minded man, and therefore sought to bind the limbs of the modern Samson with the withes of de dent social usage. M. Rernstein shows his utter contempt for this false idea of Ind vidual responsibility by putting in the mouth of Brachard the most withering, scathing, searing denunciation of Govain, who represented within himself the very antithesis of the man he sought to wrong and of whom he accused of having no sense of honor. It Is, perhaps, a descent to melodramatic oxpadiency that Prachard should be stripped of eighty millions In or- der to denude Govain of only one or twe, passing this it is not extraordinary eon- @eption of the man that he should do so He had already been stripped of that which was dearer by far than money, or power, business standing. The home he had longed for was wrecked, and the only pos- sible good his money could do for him was to give him revenge on the man who had destroyed his only chance for happi- And so whether it took eight millions or nese. eighty mililons, little or all of his hold ings, he gave It for the one purpose. Hav ing aceomplished that purpose he was con- tent and stood just as dny other strong man would stand, with head up. shoulders back, eyes forward, rexdy to face the world and what it might contain. He had not reasoned and therefore had not ealculated on his and when he in this regard found how matters stood Playing of One he was just that mueh hetter off than he head counted on. PR Mr. Haekett finds in the Herstein piay something nearer to his mental and nys- feal caliber than anything hae lately had. When last seen in Omaha he was playing in ‘“The Walls of Jerico,” a play similar to the Berstein piece, and vet not possessed of its intense force and virflity The part Mr. Hackett had was not big enough to engay his entire strength, and he felt himaelt unhappy, o at least uneasy, in ite limitations. In nhis present role he | finds ample opportunity for the exercise of all his strength of mind and body, and the joy he has in playing it is made most mani. fest in the last act, when he exults, as Bamson, over the puliing d of the tem. ple. It is a splendid character, finely |drawn and perfectly visualized, and Mr Hackett can well feel proud of the work he Is doing this winter. s The announcement during the week that Brandeis theater will not be ready to open at the announced time did hot especially surprise anybody. No special hardship at- taches to the fact that for a few weeks longer we will have to turn to the Boyd for our high-class drama, for that good | theater ia still very popular and to remain so, no matter how many may be erected The managers of the | Boyd have secured the transfer of |tracts made for the Brandels, and the at- tractions will be offered to Omaha peopie under very encouraging conditions. An- other change that comes about i3 the pass- ing of the Burwood. Ths fallure of the Shuberts to provide attractions sufficientiy | numerous to keep this house open necessi- tated arrangements by its owners under which they could profitably operate. brought & deal wilh the Columbian Amuse- ment company covering a period of ten » be devoted to the uses of extravaganza, {torm of amusement that has grown ve: strongly In public favor. Tt combines the best of the old-time buflesque with the modern vaudeville show and provides cn- tertalnment that suits everybody. It s the intentlon of the management of the Galety, as the theater will hereafter be called, to present ouly such entertainment as can be patronized by all, this meaning. by women and children, as well as men. is others ars, during whieh time the Burwood will a gold mounted harness and waving cockade and his elaborate carriage. The president was mighty fortunate in getting through his long trip without a serious automobile accident. He covered tance buelness and eventually absord all of the constituent operating companies by taking over their franchises. This poliey has been carried out, only to the extent of taking over the Bell company in 184, a hundreds of miles In automobiles, but his machine broke down only once, That was when he was on his way from Denver to Thomas F. Walsh's house at Clonmel | The president had some hair-ralsing auto- the big |moblle rides—much too rigky his friends| thought for the president of the United The speed laws were by common that the president visited. In most places a police car went ahead to clea: the road and make sure that the president wouldn't be molested. On famous automobile racing track at nah the president's car made about fifty miles an hour. At Colorado Springs also the Taft machine made a speed of forty miles an hour when the president insisted upon taking a ride out to the mesa for & view of the famous Garden of the Gods. At Butte the president's machine climbed the rich copper hill and wound down a roadway where the slightest mistake by the man at the wheel would have sent tire machine plunging dowr the steep Ineline, Probably the hardest automoblle ride of the On the ride a good many members of the Taft party resorted to goggles, although the president stuck it out without them. Mr. Taft was coated with dirt at the end silk hat for his trusty golf cap and was able to derive real merriment out of the ot his Los Angeles escort— of 'em—who had clung to the con- presidential day garb. Some of thirty ventional were ashamed to go in to dinner with the president. RISE OF TELEPHONE COMBINE (Continued from Page One.) | teature. A musical pantomine. “The Rose |he pulled up stakes for South Ameriea to have a hand in the commercial develop- ment of the growing republics of the south- ern continent. While he was bullding street rallroads In South American cities und incidentally piiing up a substantial for- cune for himself and those Muropean capl- (alists who followed him into tuls fleld of nvestment, the telephone company was lghting its way along the eastern haif of the United States. The Western Union uit, perhaps the most famous of all pleces if corporate litigation, in that it is s.{ll in the courts, was brought shortly afteg Jay Gould acquired the control of the Western Union from the Vanderblits 1in 1881, It was technically a sult of the American Speaking Telephone company, a Gould coneern, for an accounting of a cer-| tain proportion of the profits of Bell Tele- phone business. Two or three courts h decided agains: the Western Union, but the last hearing resulted in a decision against the Bell company, and now many years after the death of the man who|phone and kindred subjects for the pur- | originated the litigation a referee's report| has awarded damages of about $,000,000 to | the Western Union company. | Unshaken Grl The American Telephone and Telegraph | company cagpe inte existence in 158 right when the bitterness of this litigation was | at its height. Jay Gould, it was perfectly well understood, was trying the same rt | of ame on the telephone combination that he had previously, with great success worked on the Vanderbilts, Owning a cer tain interest in the telephons company, he | could get certain information there which | was of the utmost impertance to Him in his efforts to beat it into submission Through the American Speaking Telephone | company he could lay claim to rival pat- | ents and conduet a guerilla waifare on 88 the outside. There were few in Wall street who Dbelleved that the would ever survive. the telephone company had under its work seriously and the system which It installed of granting franchis for a limited period only, retaining the right to tako over and operate these fran- chises at the end of five ars, kept its grasp upon all the Independents using I patents. The Dell system, while made up largely of semi-independent nevertheless represented a common interest at the bottom and as the development of telephone devices neared its perfection and the possibility of long-distance communi- cation begus o be realized this interest came to constitute the strongest asset of the various subsidiaries, because it linked | them ail together and by so doing in- ere; the value of their service to the subscribers. The A. T. & T. Orgunised. When, therefors, in 188, the American Telephone and Telegraph company came nto existence it was planned to have that corperation take control of the leng dis- telephone company taken step which was due to the fact that the attitude of the Massachusetts legislature, where the Beil company was incorporated, did not allow it to tnerease fts capital fast enough to meet the growing needs of the business. The American Telephone and Telegraph company, aceordingly, in the latter year mentioned, wcreased its cap ital stock and sold sufficlent shares for cash to purchase the stock of the American Bell Telephone company at $200 per share. ‘The nominal capital of the Bell concern was then slightly under $26,000000 and its stock had been sold from time to time for suffiélent premiums to have realized for the company In excess of $27,000,000. In | other words the stock of the American Bell Telephone company represented more cash pald in than its entire pdr value. Through thege years and in the vears that came after, the telephone combination became more and more closely bound to- gether by the extension of the long dis- tance telephone business, As fast as a new long distance connection was made, being operated by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, a new local tele- phone company was added to the fleld of direct telephonic communication, thereby enhancing the value of the service both to the local company and to the companies already within the long distance Thus the development has been continuous and new methods have developed as the conditions have changed. If each separate group of exchanges in any particular fleld had not been assisted and directed in the intreduction and development of the many new ideas, methods and inventions, there would have been now as many separate systems and as many methods of operating as there were separate companles. Control of Instruments. Not only would this have resulted in the isolation of the various groups from each other, and in the consequent degen- eration of the service, but it would have made it necessary for each group of tele- phone companies to go through by itself all of the experimental stages of the me- chanical development of the telephone, and to have made all of the mistakes that have been made in that process. As it fs, the American Telephone and Tele- graph company owns and maintains all telephone inetruments. It owns, either directly or through the Western Electrie company, which it organized to handle the manufacturing end of its business all the patents. Through this centralization it has been possible to apply the inventive genius and the enormous capital at the command of the dominating company to the needs of all the other companies in the system. A department was organized at the very e outset of the long distance business and | has been continued ever since, which does pothing but experiment with various pat- nts and inventions relating to the tele- pose of determining their value to the telephone industry. The engineering de- partment takes up all suggestions of this kind and passes upon (hem. It ¢learing house for all the troubles of of the subsidiary companies. continuous observation all meth- ods, and works out all problems involving construction and present or future devel- opment schemes. 1s also a all It has under trarfic The value 6f this system is obvious and through the patent and engineering de- partments, coupled with the manufactur- ing department, where all equipment and | appgratus are bullt that are used through- |out the Bell Telephone systems the coun- | try over, a uniformity 3f organization i3 afforded, the importance of which it is ditficult thoroughly to appreciate may be said that this unity of erganiza- tion is the thing which has largely differ- entlated the development of the telephone industry from that of many other indus tries, ere disorganized effort has The ordeal through which the she looks fi of motherhood. Every woman should know of child-birth can be avoided by the use of renders pliable all the parts, assisting nature in its work. By its aid thousands of women have passed Steelo b0 Fulbe T Ty st ! G likety | con- | area. | It | exgecum mother must pass is such that with dread to the hour when she shall feel the thrill | THEATER K R u G PRICES: 15¢--25¢--50c--75¢ FOUR DAYS STARTING MATINEE TODAY CONAN ™ GEO. M. COHAN'S MIRTEFUL MUSICAL PLAY SO MILES &~ BOSTON 50 _POPULAR 50 LAYERS"™ ASSISTED 3Y A CORANESQUE BRAUTY CRORUS J GIRLS - BOYS MUSIC NOISE THREE DAYS STARTING THURSDAY HOPP HADLEY Offers REINRY D. CAREY'S FRENOMENAL SUCCRSS ONTANA A ROMANCE OF THE PLAINS | Complete Scenic Production. A Oast of Exceptional Abllity. Natural, Sane, Plansible, Story of the Golden West. SUNDAY--AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. Omaha’s Only | SEAT SALE BOYD,S First-Class Theater ' TOMORROW THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, DEC. 9-10-I11 MATINEE SATURDAY THE DRAMATIC EVENT OF THE SEASON AVID BELASCO Presents BLANGHE BATES N HER GREATEST SUCCESS THE FIGHTING HOPE BY W.J. HURLBUT Be! o-Stuyvesant Th One Y * at the New York Cohan's—An American Idea—Dec. 12, 13, 14 and 15. The Virginian—Dec. 19, 20, 21 and 22, Victor Moore-=Dec. 24 and 25, The Merry Widow Week—Dec. 26. Mail Orders for all These Attractions Now Being Received. MARIE MEEK| Pupil of August M. Borgitm Piano Recital g s LY ADVANCED VAUDEVILL Assisted by Laura Goets. soprano, Ao Thursday evening, Dec. 1§, First Baptist | Matinee Every Day, 3:15—Night, 8:18 “hurch. _Admiseion by Invitation. = In-| itation Car lum Studic Week Starting Matines Today, “At the Country Club” s may be had al The Borg- after Thursday. | applied In many directioas by many in- laividuals and under conditions of unre- | Musical Sketeh by Geo. Spink. stricted competition to attain the results | Author “Bill Simmons. [thus far realized. In the telephone in- . |dustry, however, the remark has become R G osario Guerrero |contract relation with the American Tele- [| Assisted by Sig. Paglierl in the nd Telegraph company is the big- | Musical Pantomine, phone sC asset this company has.” ALL RAN FOR THE BABYI" “THE ROSE AND THE DAGGER." Geo. W. Herman Cunningham & Marion Somewhat Different Comedian. Exciting Few Moments on | York's Elevated, and the I Rescue. | Just From Europe Sig. Luciano Lucca “THE MAN WITH TWO VOICRS." Lansone & Delila Novelty Gymnas Eddy G. Ross ‘The Dancing Banjoist. Les Myosotis Premier Dancers of the Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Munieh, KINODROME Always the newest in motion pletures sila Snider, the 3-year-old daughter o" Paul Snider, an fceman, who lives at T | | Cherry street, fell from a window of a car on the Second avenue eleviited road between the tracks, where she lay until Bertha Rosenthal went to the rescu Bertha Rosenthal, herself, had a close call | and was pulled to the platform just as the train eame into the station | Snider with his wife and Celia and an | infant spent the afternoon In Bronx, park and about 5 o’'clock were on a Second avenue train going home. Just as the train | pulled out of the Ninety-ninth street sta tion something attracted the attention of the lttle girl and she leaned out of the open window near which she was standing. | Before her father or mother could catch her she tumbled head first. Snider and his wife began to scream, and when the reason became known ex- | cltement in the car was Intense. The train | did not stop again until it reached Ninety- | seond street and there Snider and his wite, followed by more than a domen curious persons got out, and ran as fast as they | could up the street. Others weré attracted | to the crowd and when it reached the sta tion at which the child had tumbled from | New Feature lxtraordinary. ORPHEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA 18—~Talented Artists—15 Prices — 10¢, 35¢, 50¢c and 7Se. the train several hundred persfons were | In the meantime Bertha Rosenthal. stand- {ng on the northbound piatform saw the Formerly the Burwood ehl lying between the tracks. She 4l t | wait to tell any of the emploves b i i i, rning i oot o [l 6 DAYS Shnagy Today the third rail, ran and picked up the gir Every Day. | When she looked about her for assist- ance the girl saw a train appromching on | the northbound track. That unnerved h | and unable to move, she stood, holding the child in her arms and screamed. Michaol | | Powers, the ticket chopper on the south | bound station ran to her. | Powers had just time to gét Bertha Rosenthal and the child to the platform when the northbound train came’ in | Cella Snider was unconseious and & po- liceman telephoned to the Harlem hospital JACR BINGER'S GREAT BEHMAN SHOW The Befi Mur of Extravagansa 60 FERL-E 60 GEO. ARMSTRONG bt Amertea’s Promisr Acrobats, THE 7 BELFORDS for an ambulance. Jt was found that th little girl was ot badly hurt, howeve: Feature with Blagliag xos.’ Olrcus ness. | Snider and bis wite, towever. ainoet| il COURTNEY SISTERS smothered her with kisses when they ar St~ —— | rived and Bertha Rosenthal came in -for V@S, 1o Sua. A few her share from Mrs. Snider.—New Y E Matinge ".'25."“":" 8 ew | T*MATS. 15¢ & 25¢ 3,4 R L T Four Kevopiancs Ave Burnes. Ml LADIES” § () a BT, | NEW YORK. Dec. 4—Four aercplanss TICKETS Matines. | stored In & shed near tie old Morris park race track were destroyed by fire today Diar Readen: | Experiments with aeroplanes have recently been held on the race track and ihe hines burned were awaiting a final test he loss v estimated at 325,000 The m chines belonged to Walter Kimball I saw The B sak City lash 16 from uie aba; it i3 @ Is the joy of the household, for without it no happiness can be complete. Angels smile at and commend the thoughts and aspirafions of the mother bending over the cradle. JEAN P. DUFFIELD Teacher of Pians that the danger and pain | Sulte 404-05 -t Boyd’s Thester Mother’s Friend, which OTHER’S EVELYN HCPPER TEACHER OF SINGING 303 Beyd Theatre Bldg. Wednesdays and Saturdays