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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1908)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1903. . .. . " : 1 1. v luKi.v. (MthlJON. l& ' ' ; ' " I 1 11 i 1 HmmMmmmrnmim mm: m ! dowser is overcome Special Sale of PATTERN HATS. At the La Mode CS2 Commercial St, AMUSEMENTS. .Astoria Theatre., " '' ONB NIGHT SUNDAY Oct. 25 WILLIE DUNLAY. '",.. 'IN . GEORGE M. COHAN'S Brilliant Comedy Hit With Music "The lloneymooners" Elaborate Production Cohan. Songs, Cohan Boys, Cohan Girls, Cohan Noise. The Cohan Songs Hits "I'm a Popular Man," "Make a Lot of Keise," "Kid Days," In a "One Night Stand." "Nothing "New Be neath the Sun," "The Mysterious Maid," "'Don't Go In the Water, Dafighter," "San Francisco Is My Home," "An Old Fashioned Walk." The Incomparable Company, and the Bisqne Baby Ballet Prices Evenings, 25c to $1.50. Ma tinees, 25c to $1.00. Mail orders rilled Mow. THEGRAND THEATRE Commercial and Ninth Street. TONIGHT EX-CONVICT NO. 900 A GREAT TEMPTATION KIDNAPPING A BRIDE ' . "TAFFY" GRAPE AND WINT INDUSTRY, GERMANY ; ' MATINEE 2:30 AND 7:00 P. M. This Theatre is equipped with the latest and most improved, electri cal Machines. Don't fail to see these pictures. , Ths Prccariousnoss of Existence . Fills Him With Sadness. HE REFUSES T0"bE CHEERED. Mrs. B. Finally Solves ths Puts) of i Her Husband's State of Mind, but DoesnVSympathhte With 'Him In the Least Puts Him to Bed. Copyrfcht. 1908, by T. C. MoCluro. Mrs, Bowser and the cat were on watch for, Mr. , Bowser as he came horns tho other evening. As be drop ped off , the car at .the corner It , was seen that his ceneral attitude was one ot dejection. , Halfway down to his gate Mrs. Bowser could see the care lines In his face. As he reached the toot of the steps she realised that he must have got word that all his broth ers and platers were, dead. , He. was passing by her to enter the house, with the most lonesome look Imaginable on his face, when she exclaimed: ' "Mr. Bowser, will you teU me what In the name of goodness has happen ed?", ,., ..,:.,..,., . r ,.;,W, i "Nawthln,", be drawled out "But something surely has. Are any of your relatives deadf;- . ""I dunno., ','" , . "Have youi lost a large amount of money?" ' '..."'.'. .:'.., ' "NO." " -.'-" "Then what Is It? Ton look as If yon hadn't a friend left on earth." "And I haven't,' he replied as he hung up bin bat and tears came to his eye. .' . "But I am here I, your wife." "Yes. but,, what of it? I teU you, Mrs. Bowser, this Is sad old world. A 11 m ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAM MONDAY, THURSDAY AND , SATURDAY. ADMISSION, 10c Children, Sc "Bint can't ptjt hkb ixrma i&m abound MI VVCX. iKD CAIJi KB A GlSZlUVV, A3 Ha vast to", : I hadn't much to do at the Gee this afternoon, and I Juat sat down ar.i thought of things sad things. I I feel as If I could weep." 5 f 8usplcious of Him. ' She looked at him suspiciously and led the way down to the dining room and then started In to teU him that the police had arrested four boys that afternoon for playing boll in the street "Yes, but what do four boys and the police amount to?" he wailed out "Mrs. Bowser, every day around us men and women are dropping dead and being borne to their long home." "But that is what we all expect" she replied. "They say the butcher on the corner must fall If the price of meat doesn't cpnie down." , ' . " "But what have I got to do with the butcher on the corner and the price of meat? I tell yon there Is sadness in this world oceans of sadness. As It says in the Scriptures, we are here to day and gone tomorrow. I left the house In the best of health this morn ing, but how did you know that I would return alive? How could you ASTORIA THEATRE F. M. HANLIN, Lessee and Manager. Tliursdayj f iGtpbpr 29 JOSEPH and WILLIAM W. t m r"3 f"3 ms i I i ! I f ! J LJ3 U U L-13 Jit U M ind?an exceptionally talented company in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classical comedy, PRICES: 50c, 75c, $1.00; JL50 toll that at this very tnotnontyou would not be a w idow with scalding tears of grief chasing each other down your cheeks?", '. : ' ."Yes, lift Is a risk, but we should not be sad over It. There came pretty near being; an awful dog fight la front of the bouse hnlf an hour ago. I wish you had been here to sick the little dog on." "Oh, what's the user he said as he nibbled at a ploce of bread and turned his face away. "When I am thinking of how my dear old mother died do you think I want to hear about dog fights; Yes, she she died.' v 'But you were only four year old then, and you are forty-eight now. ,! Misses His Mothsr. ' "It doesn't make any difference. My poor mother was called home. I cant go to see her, and she can't put her lov ing arms around my neck and call me her cherub, as she used to. Had a con gestive chill and passed right away. And my father is dead, too, and my hrother Jim Is dead. I te)l you there's grief and sadness abroad in the land." i Mrs,. Bowser looked at him for a full minute across the table and sniffed at the atmosphere suspiciously and then atd'K :. -i : Tm sorry about your father and mother and your brother Jlra, but of course you couldn't expect them to keep right on living. I have lost my. own fa ther and a sister, as you must know." ... "Then why ain't you sad J What are you talking about butchers and dog fights for?, Here we sit in the best of health and surrounded by happy influ ences, and not two blocks away there art, housef of mourning. I tell you, Mrs. .Bowser I tell you" But before he could teU her she rose up from the table, and be followed her upstairs. She wanted to do something to effect a change In htm, and she be gan to play with tho cat. but after tak ing two or three turns across the floor he said:.-. - ' "And my sister Mary Is dead, and my I'ncle Jim, and my Cousin Betty-ryes, lead and gone. I don't 'pose I could Jnd their gravestones 1 I set out to look for them-dead and gone, and you are playing with that blamed old yaller cat as If nothing bad happened." Sho Refuses to Mourn. "But what do you want me to do?" the retorted. "Is it going to bring th dead to life If I sit down and weep?" "Hark to that!" he exclaimed after a moment and without having an swered her question, There la a ped dler shouting: Watermelons!" s at .the top of bia voice! Just .bear bJmfu . "Why, you have 'beard him every evening for days and days. He has got , watermelons to, selt Probably nine out. of ten of them are as green as grass, bnt let him sell them if be can. The more4 cholera morbus the better for the drug stores and doctors." "But the cry goes right to my .heart." protested Mr. Bowser. , My . poo -' ther died after eating a watermelon and my Uncle Jim, because ha hadn't any . teeth to ea one, with. The ped dler knows it and Is hollering to add to my grief." ?,. .,'-v, ..-' : "Don't childish, Mr. Bowser. The man doesnt even know who Uvea here. Did l tell you that J. wanted to get at my houaecleaning next monihT, "And - now be'a yellin g , 'Gooseber ries!" .... S- "Well, let blin yelk". "But I tell you be knows that Bow ser lives here, and be wants to spite me by adding to my grtcf. It was gooseberry tarts that killed my sister Mary and plain goose berries that killed my cousin Betty. Betty ate four quarts of 'em right down and next day was no more," "I don't wonder at It But let's talk about something more cheerful. , Do you think the next congress is going to take up the tariff question?" Stirred Up by a 8ong. Mr. Bowser might or might not have answered the question, but before he could get around to it a hired girl in the next back yard who was taking clothes off the line commenced singing at the top of her voice: , ; "In Scarlet town, 'where I was born, ; There was a fair maid dwelling, And she was known both far and near As lovely Bar-baro Allen." f ' Great snakes, but must I submit to Ollef ' groaned Mr. Bowser as be start ed up. "Here I' come home loaded down with grief and sadness, and a peddler must yell 'Watermelons!1 and 'Gooseberries r at me, from the front and a hired girl must warble a song at me from the back!" "But have patience," counseled Mrs. Bowser. "These people know nothing of your sadness. See, the peddler has driven on and the gbl has stopped singing. Let me ask yon a question, please. Did you partake of any fall tonic today V "And my sister died after eating gooseberry tarts!" he murmured as be wiped his eyes anew. "Answer my question. Did you have any fall tonic this afternoon? Did any one recommend a tonic to take yonr grief away?" "T-e-s, Just a little tonic. It was for my lame back. I took about a table spoonful." "Urn! I thought so." "And it has made me sad s-a-d." "I see. Well, let me put you to bed, and you'll wake up in the morning feeling all right" "And I won't be sad -o more?" "Not a sad. You won't even remem ber whether it was gooseberry tarts or pumpkin pie that did the business for your sister. Come on." "Yesh, I will come on. Mrs. Bow sher, you are sho good sho g-o-o-d ishat I cry for you!" M. QUAD. A Social Affront "Wasn't their divorce a shocking af fair?" said Mrs, Feathergllt "Inexcusable," answered Mrs. Smart sett. "They both had the most unfash ionable lawyers they could find." Bniart Set - THE JEFFERSOjjSe (Continued from pag 11) greatest things an actor can hope 'tn attain; a tiumMinh knowk4; of nil that can be attained in theatricals: a knowledge ofjust how they could be attained, and the : power of in tanUneously grusping a situation in order that none of tho comedy points be lost r- ' ; The Young Joe Jefferson. These different talents are the price less 'heirlooms of the sons, and to one has been given that which was denied the other. Joseph has a most brilliant under standing of tho technique of the drama, In this line, he was always a most pro found student, and in it, he was greatly helped by his father, . When the old gentleman was work ing on a play, young Joe was bis con stant companion. . It was nothing else than this close study of his father's methods that perfected him in hii knowlcdjre of theatricals and the drama. The elder Jefferson, too, was a most astute business manalways upright iu his dealings.--never making a bar gain unless it was entirely satisfactory to him, but, once that bargain was made, fulfilling it to the letter and de manding as much of him with whom it had been mude. Young ToM'ph inherited too, this talent, and although business does not Appeal strongly. to him, when he does enter its realm, he is keen, shrewd and his father over again. .: i Genial Willie Jefferson. The younger, son, . Willie, is the personification of the characteristics of the, father that were best known to the intimate friends of the loved actor. "..', . In the language of the day, if there was ever a Tittle Imp of merriment mischievous and prankish full of effervescent humor and an uncontroll able and gigantic fondness for practical Jokes and good fellowship, it is Willie. In a professional way, he is bubbling over with merriment and can gntsp the comedy situations in an instant, Yet when he endeavors to arrange things beforehand, to map out a campaign to be strictly followed, his plans al ways fail. Willie Jefferson is spontaniety It self. His methods of procedure during a performance are totally different from that of his brother, yet his results are as eminently satisfactory, ; , . ,-... Favored of Providence. For business, he has not the slight est desire and to enjoy himself is his delight ,.., After his worV ,n the theatre is done, and for a goodly portion of his time before it has commenced again, his entire idea of his private Lie il to enjoy himself to the absolute limit. Willie Jefferson is one of those lucky individuals." whose . geniality, whole touledness' and . absolute loveableness, seems 1 1 have, won the gods themselves, and Providence takes forethought for his welfare, . :y- 1 -... Every, business venture in which he embarks seems to turn out success fully and Joe insists that if Willie fell down in a well,.. Willie would probably find a half-peck or so of lost diamonds at the bottom. ' . ' Willie Jefferson is the happy-go-lucky side of his father, with all of the , illustrious sire 'a " ." catch-as-catch-can methods, while Joe is the busi ness man, the artist, the planner, and the possessor of the father s marvelous knowledge of technique. These are the mental legacies inherited by the young men, men whose place on the stae is already . amply' secured ; and whose names will be Jong remembered. The physicaT resemblance "ot these two boys to their father is marked, Features are absolutely the same end one who has looked into the face of the lamented Joseph Jefferson sees the dear old features again in the faces of the boys. In the accompanying profile pictures of the father and his sons, this resem blance is easily seen. In the center is the father. Before him is Joseph Jefferson, his elder son and on the other side is his younger boy, Willie. All that is in the face of the father is found in the face of the one boy or the other. Did one not know that these pictures had been made from three photographs, taken from life, it would be easy to believe that some artist, studying the two boys, had drawn a composite picture lor that central figure. In Joe, there is -less of the humor and the twinkle of the eyes which were so characteristic of his father. , In Willie Jefferson, this is found to a marked degree, and though the years have not yet been sufficient to work the familiar wrinkles about the face, one knows of a certainty that will come there. In Willie, there is less of the sterner sides of the father, and this, in its turn, is found more fully develop ed in Joe. It is a fascinating study this study of portraits, with its contrasts and resemblances, its likenesses and its opposites. The more one studies that picture the more there is that he sees hidden there. "I Am a Jefferson." This, in brief is the wonderful life story of the Jeffersons. This is a little insight into the romance of The Rivals and the Jeffersons and the more one thinks over the story, the more wonder ful it becomes. A play and the names of the players inseparably connected for 133 yearsi Five generations of actors in one fam ily! That in itself is a wonderful record, and yet, how doubly wonderful is it when one remembers that each repre sentative of each generation has ap peared in the same role. Each father has,, in turn, handed down to the son a priceless legacy of talents, genius and a knowledge of technique of the drama. Bach has handed down likewise, his own prompt book of that master piece, The Rivals. The first Jefferson he with whom we began the story away back there in 1774, walked penniless into London and the second and third generation found it necessary to act as a means of livelihood. The fourth generation was more favored with the goods of this world and the elder Jefferson, at the time of his death, left a goodly fortune) This the boys among whom are Joe and Willie have ail turned to good account. Yet one and all insist that the most valued legacy left them is the fact that they can look the world in the face and say proudly and in all truthfulness, "I am a JefTsr'gon," ' - Fiolic3fdtteraJ Company" SOLE AGENTS 5 . , . ; T , 1 Marbour nd Finlaysort Salmon Twines and Ntting McCormlck Harvesting; Machine .., , Oliver Chilled Floushs fi' 1 , ' , ( Sliarplei Cream Separators ' " ' ' 1 ! Rtecolith, Flooring Storrttt's TooU 1 Hardware, Groceries, Ship Unanalery ; Tan Bark. 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