Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1909, Page 40

OMAHA SUNDAY BEE Blanche Bates---Player or Director-- NTEREST halts be es and David Belasco trifie difficult to is more responsibl that Hurlburt's rather medioere play “The Fighting Hope" Is as fine a collect! of improbabilities as one ls likely to find compressed within a similar imit. It has one redeeming quality. That Is the intense overpowering womanly attribute which its central figure is endowed love of a mother for . the ramifications plot that never tral thought is that tween Blax it which suc Mr 18 for the attended petformance. But when she gets into the| deep waters of the drama, when the really tense activities of the play swallow her then she comes forth with a strength | the more surprising because of judgment that, has passed on her earlier efforts. In the closing scenes of the second act and the compelling situations of the third act of “The Fight- ing Hope,” Miss Bates shows the true wo- man in a way so convineing, and so per- | fectly natural, that she deserves the highost praise. It s not a tigress fighting for Imr: cubs, it 18 not an animal of any sort,"but 1t is ey s it thelr | 4 mother, a human mother, a mother men ot s B i fas- | | ve and reverence, battling with her back tened on him. No other thought than this | gqinet the wall for the boy she loves and | e oA gt Qibriens o Bin cherishes above all other things. The | other thought than this connected with the | ¢y 1y nothing to her. The man who has | play, it s w of more than passing 4 : dbiitsbnfton)] attention. That Temple should fall In love | 2vOWed his love, and whom she coy | her tor nothing to her. No one with hly secretary is mercly dramatic ex- pedient. That should return this love | 8tound her counts. Only those boys at home | is of the same plece, and that It is the most natural, effective and rea- | should make his appearance sonable thing of the sort that has been Jjust at the close of the play and be re-|shown on the stage in a generation, and moved In a providential and expeditious |glving David Belasco all the credit for| maniier is melodrama of the kind in “)mvh\m.\ wonderful ability as an arranger of | witl the What simple of a ve up, that the wand afleld the ¢ been Auna Granger % mak- ing a fight for the two boy of her flesh, that she may bring them up to man- lood without a Stain on thelr and with no question s to thelr 1t does not matter whether loves or de- pises Robert nger. He is father of her children, and In order to protect n- names, pedigree. she « the she must, the po: ar been thy love is she Granger unexpectedly David Belasco especlally revels, situations and a director of movements, | yet there 1s so much glory left for Blanche | Bates, that if she never achleves any-| thing else, she will be long remembered for the effective expression, and the aqually effectjve repression, that makes the last half of “The Fighting Hope” one of the most powerful plays of human interest of | modern times. In this part of tie play's action the| hand of Mr Belasco is esp | To Miss Bates falls | of visualizing a really one passes in review the var femininity in differing degrees tress, ranging from hope to hog have paraded across the stage during the last decade, comfort wil certainly be found in the personality of Anna Granger. Miss Bates has had little opportunity for a wide range of stage experience. Grad- usted from a stock company where a reasonably firm foundation for her his- trionic education had been laid, she found | herself called upon-to enact the Interest- ing, but somewhat off-color heroine of | Oulda's, “Under Two Flags,” Clgarette ls | @ character more easily presented by the dancing soubrette than by a really capable actress. From Clgarette to “The Darling of the Gods,” was & long leap, and in this production.the real actress was more or less submerged In the Belasco scenery. In “The Girl of the Golden West," Miss Bates found material more worthy, and as the girl she showed a broadening view and a more comprehending understanding. of her art. This growth Is still in process, but In “The Fignting Hope," she has proven herself a possessor of abilities that likely never would have been suspected had she stuck to Gigarette. clally apparent the welcome fine woman work When us types of | of dis- | less, that The advantages of Mr. Belasco as a stage mansger have never shown so ef- fectively as it is at the closing of the sec- ond act. In fact, the situation here di- vides attention between the actors and the stage manager to a degree that the charac- ters of the drama are almost lost sight of in the curiosity to learn just how the situation is going to be handled so s to produce the proper curtain. Mrs. Granger has reached the point where her next step must necessarily involve the confession to Temple that she has burned the letter on which his future seems to rest. Noth- ing more can be sald between them, Her next words to him must be that the letter no longer exists. There I no one else on | the stage, nor is there any reason why any one else should enter. The curtain cannot descend on the situation developed, and | yet It must go down, for if the confession | is then made the story will come to an| abrupt ending, and the third act must, in| the very nature of things, be antl- climactic and absurd. The problem Is one | that can well engage the thought of any | one interested in stage management, and all except the business in hand. Certain|the masterly way in which Mr. Belasco | Jittle methods and mannerisms charac- | handles it is an evidence of the real genius terize her during her lighter passages |that has marked his career. Without | that really mar her otherwise excellent!doing any violence whatever to the proper- | She is not yet full mistre which conceals artifice, learned the trick of entirely forgetting of that art nor has she Acting the Silent Drama | | | | Special Gifts Are Needed for Moving Pictures—Better Film Plays Promised—Experiments with Trained Pantomimist—All Plays Re- hearsed in Costume—Scenes that Are Strange to Regular Stage. EW YORK, Dec. 4—In the moy- Ing picture theaters—the thea- ters where the picturés are made, not performed—the soclal | side of the players' lives differs very much from the lives players in the ordinary thea- ters. All the fmportant moving ple- ture makers now have regular stock companies of players. In this country those companies are recrulted from the ranks of the spoken play theaters and probably such fs the case in England. In France, | where pantomime is taught as a branch of theatrical training, the two great mov- Ing pleture makers have naturally taken advantage of the market open to them and to some extent at least recruit their companies from members of the profes sion who have had special training in pantomime. In this country the first experiment in that line was made recently by the Edison Manufacturing company, of which the moving picture business is a branch. The Edison théater is in The Bronx and fs| equipped with every appliance of, New York, the regular theater. There are four stage managers, because often in the big roomy stage sets of two plays are in position and In use at one time, while perhaps & third play is being rehearsed. PLIRAINR This fact suggests tne necessity which exists for a large stock company. The people of the moving picjure stage work in the daytime only, because as much as yossible the scenes are photographed dayllght. This working by daytime s the first great change made in manner of the players' lives. That the fact that it permits the players live in a regular home and not. as is the case with many of their ;u\.f.--.uum,‘*'"“'“"" t0-live usually in siceping cars and hotels, | makes engagement in this | @his glves an unusual appearance to the wery atractive for them. Another reason, | theater, unlike the stage of the regular and this the non-professional might never | theater during rehearsal. You find a lrmlp‘ think of, is that it gives the players|of people unemployed for the time, the opportunity to theatrical perforin- | light s not right or the stage hands have ane | not yet set the scene, all discussing foot B ARYe Dagh 1on. the s for twenty ‘ ball or fudge or some play they have them- | Joare remarked one of (he men in the | seives yeen tho night before. During their Edison company, working ho ey live 1 @1 not see from the front as many plays| "o L '8 hours they live in makeup and]| costume, and one might visit such a| performed as I have seen In the last six | { months when I have had all my evenings | Lheter & score of times and never become | familiar with the appearance of any of to myself. iAmother player referred | the players In their proper person. the best kind of training for For this same reason, the necessity to stage. | take advantage of proper light, the players | “When you to vealize," said he, | 8re held in the theater without a recess for *that every effect you arc expected to get | lunch. This fact adds to the social espeet across to the audience must be by ex of their work. At slon and action, that those wateh,| provides lunch for Four performance hear mever a to it where they give them a clue to your meaning. it makes | rooms or in the greenroom or scattered | about the stage, perhaps occupying some You value the Importance of acting as opposed to elocution at its true worth. of the sets which have been arranged for | vifpereni | scenes, Reference was made above to ex periment in the employment of & trained pantomimist made by one of the American | OP® day the writer noticed in the Edison manufacturers. Recently the Kdison com- | (Neater an actress made up in & poor splled | pany engaed Pilar Morin to produce be- | 4r€st and a ragged shawl thrown over her | fore the camera at the Bronx theater some Shoulders, her hair unkempt, evidently pre- of the pantomimes in which she made her Pared to go through her part as & woman | fame before her many years of playing in | Of the slums. A scene was set as @ music “Madame Butterfly.” In those plays, and | room in a fashlonable house, This seeming one or two others which Piar Morin had | woman of the slums had drawn o pretty | herself arranged, she was supported liitle table by the side of the plano on the regular Edison stock company. The|which she had spread her lunch and was writer, who witnessed some of the per- hergelf seated at thé plano playing some- formances, was struck by the lntense in- | thing of Lixat's and playing it very well terest the regular performers showed in| noo T Mme. Morin's work. arranged was the Interior of & backwoods | Meres eclprocal, for the This E gt Wi ‘"I"’"’““:“ cablu. On the backwoodsman's rough board | oo s srms ke table a little actress made up as & frontier Snstructing the players In some of the finer points of pantomiming. In her hands this | V!¢ Nad arranged her lunch and was read- ing—Henry James w Is not altogether faclal expression - ok s “The American makers frankly admit,” and action, but partakes of t t ot sug- | T . gostion. This will be understood by those | **° G. Plimpton, manager of the Edison ving pleture works, “that we who have seen her in the famous scene in *Madamo Butterfly” where the Japanese Not yet equal the two principal French makers in the presentation of some lines #irl walts apparently all night for the re- B of her lover, of legitimatg drama. But the best American & During that scene night falls, the little baby becomes sleepy, the nurse puts It to bed, lanterns are lighted and extingulshed, the child wakes up and daylight comes. The audience felt that hours had passed. The whole scene really takes seven minutes and during most of that time Madame | Butterfly is standing motionless looking | out of a window with her back to the spectators. By her art she suggests the | fight of time and makes you feel that hours have passed. ——0- The moving picture players work only | by daylight and preferably only in bright sunlight. Therefore the hours or even the minutes when the sun is shining on other- wise cloudy days are made the most of. This results in the necessity of the players being made up and costumed as soon after thelr arrival in the morning as possible and remaining so all day. The players also rehearse made up and In costume and always rehearse with full scenio effect. This is because the stage managers have found that they never can tell when the players engaged in a scene will have reached just the right point in the execution of their work to be photo- | graphed. Sometimes if a scene Is simple or If the action Is so striking that it sug- | Bests itself to the players promptly the | stage manager finds that after running tho people through the scene only two or ]lhrl‘u times—and a scene is never more than three minutes long—they are exactly m\!:i‘ | pat in their parts and he photographs them by |t onc. He realizes that perhaps running | dnd them through two three times more | 1y | Would muke their work go stale. Therefore the players made up and In of the or always bl S new industry soe the wark as the regular come by - noon hour the theater | the players and they | wish—in their dressing | word eat ene was { who will hope that when advancing years [T | Ne | his performance of “Kid Burns” in “Forty- ties, without detracting in any the Intensity of the situation, secures a curtain that keenest interest and holds the i full check for the opening of the final act. It as fine a bit of contriving to sustain the effect as was ever produced, and it 1s this, through all t that goes very far to redeem it f s manifest absurdl ties. way My rouses the from Belasco audfence John_Drew gave his friends a dreadful | shock by falling from his horse in Central | park and thé Inconsiderate animal very | materially added to the serlousness of the | affair by trampling on his prostrate mas- | ter, to the end that the collarbone was fractured and other injuries forced upon | the unfortunate gentleman, so that he is confined at present to his room. John Drew has deserved from his fellow coun- trymen too much, by reason of his efforts | to entertain them, to merit such un ending, | He has, throughout the length and breadth of the land, host of admiring followers, have rendered it no longer possible for him to enact the dapper and debonnair gentle- | ot | Pantages has put up the shutters because DECEM manly a lover, reinea that rnation passed beyvond, w by he profession the American we may find comedians i him 14 who L a revival of roles that are some of the lights Mr. Drew should adorn stage for many and nis early to his Interrupted play will be welcome news. No undefstudy hav ing been ded for Mr. Drew, the run “Inconstant George’ was indefinitely suspended and the theater closed. of essayed lesser return provi And now it appears that even vaudeville can be made too cheap. The string of houses that was to reach from coast to | coast has broken in the middle and one after another of the theaters controlled by the public would have none of the offering. | This failure may be ascribed to any one of several causes, but the wiseacres will | £ay mainly that it Is due to the prevalen of plcture houses. Another rumor of Interest to the vaude ville world ~omes out from the east in the suggestion that there is a likellhood of Martin Beck and Willlam Morrls getting togother on a working basis. Just what makers are lines. “We already have @ high standard for our stock companles, and for especially exacting parts we engage the highest'class | of talent we can. These, of course, come from the companies playing In downtown theaters. Their work here does not inter- fere with their night performances and we have no trouble in getting the best talent to help us. “Each year, however, we-have to call | in less outside help, for our own stock companies are so large that we are suc- ceeding in numbering among them people who are by training and physique well adapted to almost any character part. New members of the company find it awk- ward at first to act without lines. But we find them adaptable people, easily trained by our stage managers, who themsevles, of course, understand all the requirements of plays without words. We are improving in respect to the con- struction of our plays, too. At first we worked from bare scénarios, but now the manuscripts are written to some extent with lines for the people to speak. I am a believer in that myself, and it is not im- possible that we shall soon be rehearsing companies with fully written parts for them to speak.” rapidly improving in those At the Oma Trixie Friganza in a Cohan Piece at the Boyd—Burlesque at the Gayety, Melodrama at the Krug and Vaudeville Orpheum—Some Promised Attractions of Unusual Interest. ITCH a gatling gun to a kaleldoscope, turn on & search light and strike up Victor Her bert's, Sousa’s and Maurice Levi's bands, and you get a notion of George M. Cohan's latest, “The American Idea,” which comes to the Boyd theater for four nights, be- ginning this evening, with a Wednesday matinee. The audiences are kept busy try- ing to pace Mr. Cohan's mile-a-minute proceedings. The management promises to hook cyclometers to the dancing girls Just to approximate the mileage of the organization, which strikes a gait that any and all racers might envy. In “A Yankoe Prince” Mr. Cohun wrapped decadent Eng- land in the American flag. In “The Amer- ican Idea” he flaunts the national colors in the face of dissipated ‘‘Parce.” You may wager your green hat that Cohan never forgets to applaud Uncle Sam. In fact, he wrote his latest libretto with red, white and blue pencils. The chorus dues its best work clad in those hues, and be- tween the acts the Stars and Stripes are flashed on the curtain. The story impli- cates two Brooklyn millionaires (drawn from life), each with a son and daughter. The fathers are enemies, but the four offspring become engaged to be marrled, A bogus French count Is hurrled forward as a lure, and & frisky grass widow (Trixie Friganza) and her occasionally devoted dl- vorced husband, supply the counter plot “The Mysterious Stranger,” a combination of “Evangeline,” “The Lone Fisherman' and “Foxy Quiller,” walks through the three acts, talking continually in the third person and describing, as a rank outsider, the various episodes, and with the equally “Mysterious Girl,” who follows him, adds & wholesome amount of fun. This innova tion, with the two brothers and two sis- ters, who always talk in' pairs, are fresn Indications that Mr. Cohan's brain keeps a-traveling. The scenery Is showy and shimmering, and the big chorus works with the iIndefatigability exhibited by the Japs at Port Arthur. “The American Idea’ has the speed of & race horse, the excite- ment of & base ball game, and the good fellowship of a college night, when you want yourself, catch it. il The Relkins' Yiddish company will ap- pear at the Boyd theater on December 11 and 18 In high class Yiddish plays. This company wil} be remembered from preylous seasons for its excellent acting organiza. tions, and this attraction will be a great treat for the Yiddish community in Omaha. Mrs. Relkins has together this year of the hest companies that he the road. announced morning. reunion. Some to get away from | one | has had on | The name of the plays will be | in the dally papers Monday | The attraction for the Boyd theater, be- glning Sunday, December 19, for three days] will be Kirke LaShelle's great pro- duction of “The Virginian The Kirke LaShelle company s presenting this plece this season with a great cast and produc- tion. The sedt sale will beging next Thurs- | aday “The Talk of New York," of George M. Cohan, and In a measure a| sequel to “Forty-five Minutes from Broad- | Broadway," comes to the Boyd theater | comber 1 and 25 as a special Xmas at- | fraction after a long run In Chicago and York. Victor Mooret, fhe star of this occosion, came into general prominence by ew another work | five Minutes from Broadway, n the new play and his role 1a stfll that of the slang | The story of the plece follows the after he has become a successtul race track plunger and has succeeded In amassing a considerable fortune. He has fallen in love with the daughter of & mil- Nonaire and encounters all sorts of dif- ficulties before firally wipning the young lady's hand. The play s in foun acts and is sald to be presented with the identical scenlc equipment and the erigloal past | ana five | headline attraction, | verdiet in regard to a prisoner who had | | vieti The players in these silent dramas some- times see thelr work reproduced in a room of the theater when for some reason M. Plimpton and the stage managers have to see & film before It Is put upon the market. It may be found to run a few minutes overtime and must be cut. Then it s | produced in a darkened room for those who are to agree upon where the cuts are to be made. The players who have appeared in the scenes to be reproduced, if they are not | then at work, crowd into the little room to see the reproduction. But not all of them. | One actress did so once and saw herself g0 through an eighteen-minute perform- ance upon the screen and then declared that she would never repeat the experi- ment. “I shall go to the downtown moving ple- ture theaters, where plays I am not in are shown, but never again do I want to see myself reflected in such light, so to say,” she sald. "It gave me an awful creepy feeling to sit there in the dark and sec myself silently portraying a character's emotion with never a sound to convince me that it was not my own ghost. 1| helped myself some by pinching myself black and blue, but it wasn't altogether' satisfactory.” ha Theaters at the which was seen at the Coloniol theater, Chicago, and the Knickerbocker theater in New York City. ety One of the very best extravaganza com- panies on the road this season is the now tamous Rose Fill English Folly company, which comes to the Gayety theater (for- merly Burwood) for six days starting this afternoon. The organization contains everything new and bright and s most delfghtfully different from any similar company. The performance Is In three acts and a most attractive tone is given to each act by a chorus of twenty-four very attractive girls, in addition to which the company also carriés a large male chorus which is something out of the ordinary for attractions of this style. The skit of “Madam Ticklem's Seminary” tells an amusing story of the many complications that arise from the efforts of two young men to carry on a little harmiess flirtation with two young lady scholars and of the etforts of two servants to stop them. Humorous speclalties are introducted by such well-known and capable artlsts as George W. Rice, the quaint comedian; T. F. Thomas, John E. Caln, Van Bro Pasquale Mario, the Itallan tenor; James Bogard, George Britt, 1dyl'a Vyner, Blanche Newcomb, Henrletta Wheeler, Mile. Bea- trice, Brownfe Carroll, Mile. Vanita, Nina York and others. There will be a ladies’ dime matinee, starting tomorrow. e, Ay Of the many mew productions presented this season, one of the greatest hits has been made by Arthur C. Alston's company in “As the Sun Went Down," a new west- ern play by George D. Baker, which will be seen at the Krug theater four days commeéncing Sunday, December 12. The company is headed by Estha Willlams, whose work here as ‘‘Parepa,” the octoroon, in “At the Old Cross Roads” is so well re- membered, and she will be supported by such well-known people as Edwin Walten, W. A. Whitecar, Arthur E. Chatterdon, Phil Connor, Arthur W. Bentley, R. F. Sullivan, Willlam Sexton, Jenny Dunbar, Flora Byam, Margaret Millar and several others of equal note. The production, which is a very elaborate one, comes from the best artists of the Lee-Lash Scenic company of New York City, each scene belng gotten out under the personal direc- tion of W. F. Hamilton, formerly of the tirm of Moses & Hamllton. A special bag- gage car is necessary for the transporta- tion of the company's scenery and prop- ertles ““The Girl and the Detective,’ a new comedy drama by J. Searle Dawley and Charles E. Blaney, with Florence Ellfott in the leading role, will have its first presenta- tion In this elty at the Krug theater, com- mencing Thursday. There are four acts | scencs replets with dramatic situations and telling lines. The story | which the play unfolds is irresistible and retains them to the final fall of the cur- tain. A f | In Harrison Armstrong’s dramatic play- let, “Circumstantial Evidence,' ' which comes to the Orpheum this week as the there are & number of intense situations. The scene Is a jury rogm. Twelve men are seeking to reach a | been tried for murder. Eleven are for con- . The twelfth holds out. The others finally tive of trying to win him over. | They begin & game of poker which s to | last until he is willing to vote as they do. He still refuses, and at last, in an im- passioned appeal, he so demolishes the evi- dence as to convince his fellow jurors that the prisoner Is innocent. Another excel- lent act is to be contributed by Winona | Winter, who, in addition to her newest song successes, will introduce her very novel ventriloquist feature. Skillful wheel- ing and laughable comedy will be intro- Aueed by the Charles Ahearn troup. They come to the Orpheum circuit direct from a month's engagement at the London Hippo- drome. It has been two years since Charles ' Montrell, the European jugsier, David Belasco |Rare Combination of Talent Met When This Pair Struck Hands and Entered on the Work, of Presenting Intesting /Phases of Human Character for Edification of the Public| | blographically, | with Eawin Foi BER 12, 1909. foundation exists for but It is certaln (hat if Morris do strike hands and come to standing In vaudeville there in the U. B the Shuberts have that throughout the houses whers the Shuberts cannot attractions sufficient to fill all th the Morrls vaudeville will ba put in i a distinctly advantageous arrangement for the Shuberts, who found themselv quite put to it to furnish a sufficlent num- ber of to eupply the theaters that were willing to do business with them. In the east the condition was relleved to some extent by an arrangement between the Shuberts and Hammerstein where opera is to be furnished in Shubert houses that would otherwise be dark. With Hammer- steln and Shuberts working together in the sast and Morris and Shuberts working together In the the trust will not find the crushing of the Shuberts such an cusy r thil cannot ba sald v Beck under be an may Meanwhile [t west sme i busy times Morrls and o atters in tim This companies west, s The New York Clipper is preparing what ought to be a remarkably interesting series of articles. The plan is to take up the personality of great Amerlcan actors for the last fifty years and present one each week. It is an-| nounced the publishers that the first article will appear January 1 and will deal | Others will follow in turn. The serles should be of great Inter- est to people, both in and out of the pro- | fession. by has appeared in America. doubly entertaining by comedy which makes up an important part | of it. Charles Kenna, presenting his orig- | inal character, the street fakir, is a mono- logist of amusing personality. A pussle in black and white is to be presented by the novelty gymnast, Marsellles. Another excellent feature will be contributed by the vivacious comedienne, Pauline Moran. The | kinodrome will profect the newest of mo- tion pletures, and the Orpheum orchestra will contribute several concert selections. | SKY PILOTS COMING OVER| Wealthy Americans Create for Skilled Managers Alrships A new kind of talent Is being brought | across the ocean” from Europe. Pllots of the alr are older country to handle the flying ma- chines purchased by wealthy Americans | His work 18 virtue of the| Demand ot coming from the ranged | furaish | them | AMUSEMENTS, BOYD'S Th AMUSEMENTS. ea{er NIGHTS Beginning TONIGHT THE MERRIEST, | atchiest hatter erREs BEAUTY-MUSIC-LAUGHTER-FUN. TR A!—l LEIN’ Noxt Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Wednesdas Dec. 24 and 25—Epecial Christmas Attraction, Mat., HEENRY W. PRETTIEST DASHI ) MUSIC AND BEAUTY EVER KNOWN THE VIRGINIAN K “Victor Moore in ‘‘The Talk of New York’ ENTIRE WEEK OF DECEMBER 26 THE GREATEST MUSIOAL SUCCESS OF THE AGE, SAVAGE THE MERRY WIDOW RIOT OF COLOR, FU i PEERLESS POPWIAT Muuuillte W eulcSua, , 406 W L. LVEDINGS, Zud W 9100 YID! COMPANY. ats Tuesd With & Big Cast and_Production. MATS. WED. THUR SA’ sents With the Original New York Cast and Production. KRUG PRICES: },S who are interested in the latest sport. | Heading the list of those who have pur- | chased flying machines is M. Rudmuni Wanamaker, vice president of the famous | firm of John Wanamaker. Rodman Wana- | maker s a son of John Wanamaker. | During his recent stay in Europe Mr Wanamaker bought a Blerlot monoplane. | This is the kind of air craft In which Bler- fo:. made his record-breaking trip across the English channel. Mr. Wanamaker, who s a member of the Aero club of France, became 50 en- thusiastic over this remarkable exploit that he at once purchased one of the same kind of machines and It 1s soon to be tested In the new world. Mr. Wanamaker will not attempt to handle it himself. He does not regard himself as expert enough to at- tempt & flight. Hence he finds it neces- sary to bring to the United States some- body to sail it for him. This makes him only one of many rich men who will have to import air pilots untll the United States catches up and gets men who can do the work. Mr. Wanamaker has plenty of company in this respect. 1t 18 surprising how many rich men have taken up the sport of aerial navigation, Nearly all of these wealthy owners plan to enter their flylng machines in every event that is held, and they are intensely ambitious to win the meny prizes that are to be offered at meets soon to be held all over the country. The most important of the engineers who have been brought from the other side to look after the air navigation interests of prominent Americans is Louls Robeson, a Frenchman. He will take care of Mr. Wenamaker's monoplane. Robeson is soon to commence his prac- tice, for he will fly the Blerlot at the internatibnal contests that are planned for Long Island next year. Robeson is a very gifted engineer. Aslde from his knowledge of the construction and operation of a motor, he knows all about the material that goes into alr crafts, for he has done important work with some of the most noted aeronauts of France. He has made many important ascents, and has commanded about all the infor | mation that is now possible even in France, | where the science has been carried further tHan any place in the world. Getting up into the air s the last step in French method of developing aero- nauts. First 1s taken a man who has a knowl- edge of engineering and wmechunics. He | is the raw material. He must first master the fundamental laws of aerlal navigation Then he works In establishments where the airships are actually made. His next step 1s to associate himself with some pilot who has made ascents and knows all about | them. Then when he has served all this apprenticeship, he s thought fit to be in- trusted not only with his own life, which must of necessity be endangered in every flight, but with the airship itself, which \s a very expensive plece of comstruction, and which can readily be Wrecked if left to the hands of novice or fool A man must have native quallfications of coolness and good health, to be an air pllot. That goes without saying, for he is destined to be constantly exposed to perils that mean death for he who falters, Young Paulhan is a pllot who Is almost certain to be brought to the United States by some of the enthusiasts. He has broken record after record. Lefebre is another remarkable pilot of the air, one who is especially noted for his daring Guffroy, Laurens, Schreck, Gobron, Bu- | nau-Varilla, Rougler, Fournier, was | also & famous automoblle driver, Sanchez Boza, Legagneaux, Breguet and Fernandez are others who are likely to be heavily bld for. When the American rich man wants anything he is most likely to get it There s at present no chance to get the right kind of drivers in the United Stated In this country there is as yet no adequate Iibrary on the subject, there is no fund of knowledge, there are no teachers It 1s really the story ‘of automobile over again, and It will probably be a consider- able time before Uncle Sam catches up. This 18 not hard to understand. In the United States nearly the entire system of mechanics is based on automatic ma- chinery. In Burope there is still a large proportion of all mechanical work done by hand, and as & consequence artisans maintain their indiyldual skill to better ad- vantage. 1t 18 the ipdividual skill that carries along | new experiments to success. It {8 not Until | they have been thoroughly demonstrated in this way that it is possible to apply the automatic machinery, and make po sible & profitable production In the United States the automobile was produced slowly and poorly at first, but now it is standardized, and American auto- matic machinery is producing in this coun- try & popuiar priced car that no shop in who CHAS. B, BLANEY Offers His Massi THEATER 15¢--25¢- P S . oo B bttt AT~ 100—COMPANY—100 50-—Grand Opera Orchestra—50 Mail Orders for All These Attracticns Now Belng Received. With ESTHA WILLIAMS and a Strong Supporting Company INCLUDING EDWIN WALTER AND A _COMPLETE SCUENIC PRODUCTION. THREE DAYS STARTING THURSDAY WHITBOAR. ve Soenio and Comedy-Drama Sensation, THE GIRL AND Ly CERARLES BLANEY and J. SEARLE DAWLEY. THE EDITOBRIAL Two of the Most Presented.. DON'T THE DETECTIVE L OPERA' A N. Y. “WIRB." uotions Bver ONE. ROOMS OF THE Ui DOUG.46 TN Ajgn ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE Matinee Hvery Day, 8:18—Night, 8:15 WEEK STARTING TODAY Circumstantial Evidence An intense Dramatic Playlet, based on an interesting subject, by Harri- with a company of Winona Winter Late Star Feature of “The Dairy Maids,” “Little Cherub” and “The Golden Girl” companies. Ahearn Troupe European Novelty Chas. Montrell The Acme of Juggling Art 1% The Vivaelous Comedienne Pauline Moran Chas. Kenna Marseilles NOVELTY GYMNAST Presenting a puzzle In black and white KINODROME Always the newest i1 motion pictures New Musical Feature Extraordinary ORPHEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA 15--Talented Artiets-—15 PRICES—10c, 350, 500, 750. Baslistic Stage B G Formerly the Burwood I DAYS ey, 1oday Popular Prices, Matineo Every Day. ROSE HILL ENGLISE FOLLY EXTRAVAGANZA COMPANY Presenting the Festival of Fun, “Mme. TICKLEN'S SEMINARY" All Girls and annz Fellows BLANCHE NEWCOMB There with the Pipes. VAN BROTHERS In Comedy and Harmony. HARRY BURNS He is SOME Bag Puncher. ana_Sun. EVES.%3ac2%e 1€0,250,600 a fow WexMATS. 15¢ & 25¢ 2 5o ‘Matinee LADIES' |() Matin TICKETS ‘Week Day Dear Reader:— I took another trip City, Thursday, Saw Hill' show. Listen—Get quick; don't dally B, L. JOENSON, Gayoty The: A fow at 750 to the Ro tickets tor. EVELYN HOPPCs. TEACHER OF SINGi# 303 Beyd Theatre A&y 1 Wednesdays and Saturduys TEL. BED 5655 Burope could duplicate. 1t will be the same with the airghip, and with production will ceme drivers. But at present the forelgn pllot has the call.—Boston Herald. SPENDING WITH BOTH HANDS | Chicago Man Rivals the Record of Codl Ofil Johnny nd Death Valley Scotty. Coal Ol Johnny of half a century ago and Scotty of Death Valley of more recent date were acclaimed princes of the spend- Ing class, but their laurels will soon adorn the pulsing brow of & Chlcago man If his plle holds out. A few weeks ago Henry C. Osterman, milllonalre frelght car manufac turer of Chicago and Memphls, bfew into| Spokane and flung his money to the birds | of both sexes In the cataract town. Other | northwest towns were given golden | shower, but the natives made noise about it. Osterman turned up in Detroft and start- led the bellhops, chambermaids, barkeeps, elevator boys and saloon habitues of the town with a golden shower of coln and champagne lasting two days. Around the corner of the Pontchartraln hotel there are floating stories of $10 tips glven by Osterman to beilbeys on the night shift; of $50 bills handed to barkeeps, with Instructions to keep the change after all the habitues of the barroom had been pro- vided with a bottle of joy water; of yreen- backs of large denominations used as cigar lighters; of thousand-dollar bills cashed repeatedly by the car magnate as & neces- | sary accompaniment of his orgy of gen- | erosity in Detroit, which in sald to nhave | already cost him quite & comfortable little fortune. Ostermann is sald to have struck Detroit | for the express purpose of celebrating ihe | consummation of & blg business deal that | has netted him mang_thousands. He was accompanied by his friend, Thomas Cav- ansugh of Chicago, and lmmediately the golden shower was let loose. Ostermann stepped up (o the cashier's a less | everybody was served with a quart, ARIE MEEK }v Pupil of August M. Borglam. | Piano Recital Goetz, 8Uprano. 18, FMirst Baptist invitation. = Invi- The Borglum Assisted by Laura Thursday evening, Dec Church, = Admlission by tation Cards may be had at | Studios after Thursday 5 i, Kuhns the Orlent John Hay Recently Returned From Will Speak ot the Y. M. C. A, Sunday, 4 P. M. Upon the Association Movement in China and Japan. Fine Arts Sale A TYesday, Dec. 14th, 1909, Painted China and Water Reduced Prices. Mrs. J. W. Peters, 1316 No. Hand Colo: g4th Btreet desk and shoved a thousand-dollar through the grating for the cashier to change. When that flustrated indlyidual had finally dug up the coin he was tipped & % note for his trouble. The Ostermann festival Is sald to have reached its climax in the Burns hotel. There were elght men in the bar when Os- termann reached there. His order was champegne for everybody in the room and 'he astonished, but delighted, barkesper was given a 30 bill and told to keep the change. It was at the Burns that Ostermann is ald to have performed the stunt of burne ing up & $20 bill With a grace that has nct been equaled since John L. Sullivan used to perform the same feat when he was &% the senith of his fwme. bill ) / ’ 9 | \ ,