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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAV -MORNING, f. FEBRUARY 2, 1908:
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LACK OF -IDEALS BASIS OF
AMERICAN HUM-DRUM LIFE
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Owen Wister Sounds : 'Keynote r of LA larm-rPursult , oi
J, ' Wealthy HtSays,' Deadening Cloud (on Tills ;
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T N. A LECTURE which he lately delivered at, Harvard, Owen Wister,
I i the novelist and 'essayist, spoke on the ideals,' or, as he put it, the
JL lack of ideals, of the - American peopled; .?, 5 V: . V ,-
t -The reason -why the Americans i who would be accounted great
thinkers or artists in ,the perspective of a century are so few. in number
that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand is that' the ideal is
oracticallv an -unheard of ouantity in the lives of most of us, said Mr
Wister., ...... - - ' '. " f.- ' "'
.It seemed to.' be the speaker's impression that never before had a race
of people been so swayed by a common impulse as are Americans-by the
desire for wealth.
Sydney Smith, writing nearly a century before, made the same com
plaint of the English. Referring to the motive power of life he said that
if one were to watch, the throngs in Bond street or the Exchange and take
out those who were moved by the love of power, the love of wealth and
the love of esteem, in half an hour the streejuwould be empty.
Everybody plaints of art and of ideals. The difficulty lies in distinguish
ing between that ideal that strives, for good as the extreme object of
knowledge, and that miscalled ideal which seeks the gratification of the
verv common desire to be thoueht well of.
Not everyone can comprehend and still fewer can be sure of them
selves feeling that exquisitely homely reply of Burbanks Italian gardener,
who when the Californian asked him what he would do if he had the
million dollars he had heard him wish for, answered that he would build
greenhouses and'hdt beds ' so 'that Re might furnish the poor with all the
vegetables and fruits that tirev could want
He was uneducated and unlettered. His life's, horizon was bounded
by the vegetables, over which -he puttered and toiled. But his work had
hot consisted in merely hoeing potatoes or grafting fruit trees. While he
worKea ne naa reasoned mat me iruit wnicn ne woncca to Dnng to per
fection was something intrinsically, good and that by . rights it should be
distributed to rich and poor alike.
He was unintelligent, as the word . intelligence goes. And yet Plato
in his, Republic classifies intelligence into four stages, of which the first
might be called imagination and conjecture, the second certainty, the third
intellect, with its formal rules and laws, and the fourth pure ideal. The
Italian had not failed to conjecture, he may have revelled in the certajnty
of his knowledge of his own craft, in his modest sort of way, and he
was not oblivious to the fact that life has its aims as well as its daily
routine.
But however great the number of those who have no ideals may be,
the number of idealists who caA't see the 'forest for the trees is almost
a disconcerting.
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The young actor, or writer or artist of any kind is rather prone to
consider the routine as inconsequential. For instance, the stage manager
of a stock company will tell you that all his people are occasionally good
but that few of them can keep their enthusiasm and bring it into play to
help out a part that does not appeal to them.
Perhaps once a month they are cast in the way they approve of. The
other three weeks are spent in uncongenial labor. There is an element of
pathos in the effort of Eddy Foy, the comedian, to turn from the burlesque
parts -which he has played so long and to take up with that most deeply
metaphysical of Shakespeare's characters, Hamlet.
Foy has made thousands laugh by his absurd antics as a clownish
comedian. He has won fame and wealth in that way. And yet all through
the years he must have had a feeling of repulsion for his work, which
grew and grew until he is finally able to attempt that which he has aimed
at through thousands of nights of buffoonery.
It is said of the playwright, Alfred Sutro, that when a young man he
had a consuming ambition to write plays. He realized, however, that the
way of the young dramatist is usually a lean and hungry one and so he
calmly set about to make enough money to insure himself from starving.
Always keeping his ideal before him, he worked up a chemist's business,
becoming finally a manufacturer. When he had made enough money to
insure himself of a. comfortable income he gave up his business and set
about seriously to the writing of the kind of plays he desired.
Robert Louis Stevenson relates of Thoreau that once the Sage of
Waldon Pond tried the manufacture of lead pencils. When he had gained
considerable success and his friends began to congratulate him on his estab
lishment in life he said he would never make another.
,"I will not do again what I have done once," said Thoreau. "When
a thing has once been done as well as it wants to be it is of no further
interest to the self-improver."
But later on when his family needed money he went back to his cast
off art and went at the distasteful work of making pencils again until
something more congenial came to him.
Thoreau was not a man who liked business. He was a worthy prede
cessor of Mr. Wister. "The whole enterprise of this nation," he wrote,
"is not illustrated by a thought, it is not warmed by a sentiment, there is
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Cherldah Simpson, in "Red Feather."
ciently clad, improperly nourished, waiting on table, doing the work of
servants between recitations and lectures, not only undergoing hardships
themselves but enforcing hardships on their families at home, all that
they may attain some position in life which has been idealized by their
imaginations.
The 6i'lly faddists are largely responsible for this. They insist on ro-
mancine about the beauty of this and the nobility of that, hold their idiotic
exhibitions of one kirfd and another and chatter until the head of the
honest artisan who if unmolested would do- his work and do it well, becomes
turned. Then, the mischief done, they run away, and leave their victim to
follow the ignis fatuus kindled by their talk of art and fame and wealth.
"Every kind of work tends to be lowered by becoming a professional,"
exclaimed Socrates, moved to anger by the Sophists. Arfd one kind, sen
sible person, doing his day's work well, whether it be the mere "filling in,"
of a minor part in a cheap stock company, the teaching of school, the
clerking in a store or the bringing up of a family is probably credited with
more in the ultimate reckoning than the art of Paderewski and all his
votaries taken together.
The stage-struck school girl who raves over the mummers she sees
each week would probably be crestfallen to know that most of them are
very nice comfortable people indeed, who live in unromantic boarding
hquses and sit at the table with Brown, the shoe clerk, and Smith, the
assistant paying teller at So-and-So's bank, and usually support their moth
ers, provided their mothers need supporting.
They find something more in me tnan a cnange ot costumes and the
reolacinir of "a blond wig by an auburn one. And having done that they
have started on their way to the fourth stage of intelligence, which is
the much sought-for ideal.
eupled a bo il'Mn.' tfifca't perform
no of ,Komrholm," t th Lyrlo
thrtatr, at th conclusion of which h
Vlaltcd Mri. Flak In her dreading room
nd expressed har dollcht' and apprecia
tion. This was the first visit of tht
Spanish actress to New York, thoufh
she has mad many toura to South
America, Mrxleo and Cuba. On of
Senora OuerYero'a most successful roles
ts that of Marta, In "Marta of the Low
lands," which ttertha Kallch Is now act
Ins; so triumphantly under Harrison
Grey Flake's direction. She wss grat
ly interested in Madam Ka Hen's suc
cess In the play, and aaked that she
might hare portrait of Madame Kalich
a Marta and a set of photographs of
the production. Angel Oulmera, the
author of "Marta." la at work upon a
niw drama fop Ouerrero. unon the Amer
lean lights of which Mr. Fiske ha an
option, ;
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The empress of Austria has . eon
ferrd th golden cross for merit on
Lllll Lhmann, th noted German song-
stresa
Henry B. Dlxl is to star In a new
play called "Poltohe," under th man
agement of th Sbuberta.
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Mrs. Sarah Cowell La Moyne rturna
to her former field, the reading of
Browning and Shakespeare.
If 'Th Jesters" proves th success
expected, Maude Adams win proDSDiy
D seen in the play in ixmaon.
Marie Doro is to appear in London,
but first will be saen in the larger
American cities In "The Morals of Mar
cus. Itonnld Brian, who plays Prince Dan
lto to Mlns Ethol Jackson's flnnla In the
New York The Merry Widow" com
pany, mud his first lilt as lMerre In
"The Two Orphans," which was written
by Miss Jackson's father.
Musical friends of Henri Oressttt,
who was lar.t year axaoclated with the
gubllclty coips of Puccini s "Madam
utterfly," will be glad to learn thai
he. has resumed his position with this
company. Mr. Urcesltl'a blue-grass
courtesy haa made him a column of
irienas. streieninc rrom Maine to Cali
fornia, and he has received from them a
stack of congratulatory messages on his
return to the staff of Mr. Savaae's
great operatic success.
Another former member of Henrv W.
Savage'a English opera forces lias en
tered unon what promises to be a brlcht
career in Europe, Marlon Ivel, the young
American contralto, maue ner deDut at
Nantes recently In "La Favorita" and
will remain there all season, appearing
in 15 dirrerent roies.
Miss Ivel commenced her musical ed
ucation in Paris In 1800, studying with
Scrlglla for a year and a half. Mr.
Bavage heard and engaged her as prin
cipal contralto for his English grand
opera company. She made her Ameri
can debut as Amnerls in "A Ida" at the
Broadway theatre. New York, In 1901.
fcihe remained for four seasons with the
Bavagb company, singing the contralto
roles In "Lohengrin," "Trovatore." "Ai
ds," "La Gloconda" and "Faust." also
"Carmen." For the last year she has
PORTLAND PLAYLRS
-SUCCEED IN LAST
(Wssblngtea Boreas f The JotroaL) -'Washington,
D, C, Feb. l.PopuIar
Portland actors have-been in Washing
ton thla week and othersrecently, and
one, Bennett Southard, formerly of th
Baker Theatre Stock company, gives an
account -of what these thesplans hav
been doing since leaving th Ros City.
Southard, who was with Morosco 1n
Los Angeles, came east a year or so ago,
and, appearing in New York for th
first time as an aspirant for Broadway
honors, laid his card on th desk of
Charles Frohman.
"I hav been looking for you. Bennett
Southard, for two weeks; I have heard
of you from the west and I want you
to recreate your part as th judge In
The" Judge and the Jury at the Savoy
theatre."
Straightway the former Portland fa
vorite was signed for the opening of the
fall of 1908 and played the summer be
forehand In Chicago in "The Coward."
When "Th Man of the Hour" was
Etit on at the Savoy for H road hurst by
rady & Grtsmer, Southard was cast
for Henry Thompson, the private sec
retary of the capitalist Watnwrlght, th
part which Broadhurst, the author, as
sert "makes the play." providing the
element of mystery which keeps tnu
ti H ( n r milnr
A proof that he "made good," he re
mained in th original cast of the New
York company until tnis ran, aucr
unprecedented winter na lummer un
Interrupted run "to capacity when he
w. transferred at his request to the
eastern road compariy. .
wk. H.i,hrA onsned here, ac me
v.. i .1 .h.Qtr. with President Koose
"nd. "'"J., ? e.r v.Klee?vatTonn
and waa recalled half a dosen "e
has perfected hi an, ana vl""'r
conscientious work in Portland.
. Lillian Kembie. anotner """l'
i a.-.b ...k.. nt rrat noDUlarltV
la iMrilm woman of the New xora
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Man of th Hour" company, and opened
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v.tv..i.r '-nnntlaa. who WBS leading
woman of tne Baaer ineairo
pany. recently was married to Mr. Price
n iha in.tiirata.ta Amusement
company, unu i w,o - , .
. n,..ni,iMnm in the east. Miss
r'nnntlaa lately opened as imuius
woman of a stock company in Pittsburg,
under Price's management, and 'J real
ising every pledge of her fin abilities
and faithful work In Portland.
Elsmeth McNeill, formerly of the
Baker Theatre Stock, played the Indian
girl in the "Girl of the Golden West"
company, which cover th middle west
states.
Charles Wyngate, leading man when
Catherine Countlss was leading woman
at the Baker, ts here with 'The Great
Divide" company at the Belasco theatre.
PKOMISES MADE BY
THE PRESS AGENTS
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"The Wolves of New York."
There will be a widespread interest
felt in the performance of "The Wolves
of New York," that famous metropoli
tan melodramatic success, in which th
Allen stock company will appear at th
I.vrlc commencing Monday night am
continuing- throuah the week, with mat
nothing in it for which a man should lay down his life, nor even his gloves. nnrAtliy ni
it our mercnants did not most oi tnem ran ana tne Darius, iuu, uiy rami
in the old laws of the world would be staggered. The statement that
ninety-six in a hundred every such business surely breaks down is per
bans the sweetest fact statistics reveal."
As Stevenson adds, the wish was probably father to the figures, but
there is a great deal of truth in the statement after all, and Thoreau did not
fail to nerceive the lesson thev contained for him. He, however, was a
man of exceptional strength of character. It sounds romantic to go off
into the woods and build one s own cabin and furniture and live entirely by
the labor of one's hands. Actually there is a deal of hard work in it, con
siderable privation and more inconveniences than most dreamers ot dreams
are willing to undergo.
Pacts are disillusionmtr.
The world is overrun with people who see before them the ideals of
wealth, or . power, or learning, or art. They strive and work " and suffer
now as they always have and always will.
Take the very-common" instanee-of the poor boy struggling to win a
higher education, that he may shine in some profession or possibly some
art. It is one of the most pitiful things one sees in the universities and
(Colleges of the country. Boys toiling from morning till night, insuffi-
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Xee'Willard, In tha ."CountySqulr,"rt the Mafauam brand.'
Sunday. The management has provlden
a rnmnlntn Investure or eiaoorate ana
beautiful scenery and effects, and some
of the most famous localities in Gotham
will be reproduced with marvellous
rnll8m
Tfc. laarilnir rnla la a rolllcklns- SOU
brette, such as Katie F.mmett made so
popular, and in me pari em rm"'"
will have an opportunity to display
her remarkable versatility in a role
somewhat different from anything shu
has done before. Rupert jjrumm win
ulun h a surnrlse to his friends and
admirers, for he will appear as tho vil
lain oni rivA a crest nrrf ormance. For
rest Seabury will appear as a darkey
and will make one of his customary
hit Mrs. Clara Allen will play the
ni haa- snA Marin ThomDson and Irv
lng Kennedy will be well cast Better
a-o Monday night and enjoy tho big
show.
The Best at Pantages.
Even if you have not seen the mar
velous Florense troupe at Pantages this
week, there-Is little doubt but that you
have heard people talking about them
The three inimical Kuhns have proved
another big drawing card of the past
week and the bill throughout haa been
good.
Music, burlesaue and lively comedy
combined in one act will be the whole
snmA feature nt the new week, especial
ly when it is taken Into account that
the producers of the act are the famous
Colby rour.
Something novel and pleasing in the
comedy quartet line is the act put on
by the u. s. tour.
Mnw nnea mvslicuh cnanKH me vuiui-
in- of his clothes, hat and aloves rigm
before your very eyes without your dis
covering the secretr Mysucus nas puz
zled tne whole country. He Is very
careful of his secret and works only on
a hnxerl stare so that not even uie
tarn hands can have any chance of
learnins- his nrocesses.
Cal Stewart and troupe will put on a
lively comedy, uncle joe on me cow
ery.'' Stewart, by the way, is the leader
In the Kube comeay Business.
Herman and Race, comedy acrobats,
are a lively brace of clever comedians.
They come from the east, demand a
good salary and are sure of making
good. Fred Bauer, the Portland tenor,
will sing a new illustrated song and the
blograph will depict a new motion pic-
mHv -wpiiA Trtah RlArkamlth."
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"Jack Wells" Today.
The closing performances of "Jack
Wells of Wyoming" will occur this aft
ernoon and tonight This play has
ben one of the biggest successes in the
history of the Lyric, and the Allen
stock .company has certainly Increased
its hold on popular favor by its splendid
work in the various roles of this great
est of all cowboy plays. Go this after
noon or tonight.
Grace George in "Divorcans."
Grace George in Sardou'a "Divorcans"
will be the attraction at tha Heillg the-
Stre for three nights beginning Thurs
ay, February 13.
DeWolf Hopper at Heilig Sunday.
An attraction that gives promise of
being one of the most enjoyable of
ferings of the season is no less than
the favorite comedian De Wolf Hopper,
supported by dainty Marguerite Clark,
In the most successful musical produc
tion -Reginald De Koven and Frederic
Ranken'a comic opera de luxe, "Hap
pyland." "Mappyland" cornea to th Heillg the
atre for four nights beglnlng next Sun
day, February 9. The advance seat sale
will open next Friday.
"Kerry Gow."
Born of Irish parentage in Lynn,
Massachusetts, twenty-six years ago,
Bernard Daly, who is Dan O'Hara in
the new production of "Kerry Gow."
which comes to the Marquam Grand
nexi ween, is naiiea in ineatricai circles
as the sweetest singer of Irish songs
on the stage, and a worthy follower of
William J. Scanlan. '
"Dream City" Coming.
Little Chip and Mary Marble have
scored splendidly in Joe Weber's pro
duction, "Dream City." These clever
little stars and their merry associates
will undoubtedly draw a capacity audi
ence at the Marquam Grand, for they
have never had so fine a vehicle. Th
management is entitled to much praise
too, for the stunning manner in which
It Is mounted and cast and the chorus
Is remarkable for the number of pretty
and graceful young women.
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t "Charley's Aunt" Released.
"Charley's Aunt." after being with
drawn from stock for" nearly four years,
has been released for use In the high
class companies, and is announced for
me Bauer ror the week following David
Harum. It will open next Sunday mat
inee. February, with Howard RnHseli in
his popular role of the young college
boy who plays the bogus Aunt. Mina
Gleason as the real Aunt and William
Dills, also of the original Baker produc
tion, as Spcttigue, the Oxford lawyer.
"As Told in the Hills."
"As Told in the Hills." which follows
Peck's ad Boy" at the Empire, tells a
story ol emigrants who, crossing the
plains, aro attacked by Indians and
killed, while their beautirul little daugh
ter is taken captive and brought up by
me inaian. n is n neauurui tale.
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with " Henry ; Miller ana. Marg-
Angelln. - . ': .
, Whit WhltUesey la leading man wl
Julia aiarlowe.
Lillian Rhodes, another popular TUV
stock member, who played ingoi.
part, ha been In comlo opera in
York, to enter which she cams eust
from Portland several year ago.
Fred Eatnelton, another Baker sto U
favorite, waa her recently a th buiio.,
with Wilton Lackey . in th Utv r -i
"Law and th Man,'1 his dramatisation
of Hugo' "L Miserable"; in the sain.
company was "Billy Lamp, who wh
one of th matin girl fsUchea at lin
ker's theatre, .
ank Mc Vicars, who wa wall-known
In Portland, was Horrlngton In "Man of
th Hour." said to hav don Incompar
ably the beat work (Ion la that role; he
died lately In New York. -
Lincoln Hart, known in Portland
publisher of at theatrical paper there, h-.
an amateur comedian doing "stunt'
with Rea Irwin, later a manager of the
Empire theatre on Morrison and Twelfth
streets, recently established Th Broad
way New" in New York, and for m tlmt
enjoyed thereform an abundance of au
tomobile ride and sumptuous- repast
at the Casino cafe; but he wan 'com
pelled to witness th enforced folding of
the editorial tripod, and turn hi atten
tion to other thfngs.
A. H. Ballard, one member Of th ad
vertising firm of Ballard A Lee, later
also ownersAof Hart's theatrical Port
land paper, II syndicating dramatic let
ters out of New York, and sella thnt
each week to a Washington paper. -
"Broadway has been kind to Paclfls
coast actors," says Southard, and ap
parently the record bears out hi state
ment. Southard will be heard from In
the future, as he Is more than merelv
"making good." His manager says be
counts htm a coming quality In theatricals.
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Bowen Brothers, Singers and Dancers, at the Grand.
rilled with excltlnc events, anil last
season made a splendid ImDressinn with
all patrons of the Empire. It will ODen
next Sunday matinee. February 9.
THEATRICAL NOTES.
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Nat Goodwin is to reorganize his com
pany, keeping some of the old members.
Kdna Goodrich will remain his leading
lady.
studied with Jean da Reszke, perfecting
herself in the French repertoire.
In view of the fact that It never
ceases to rain in musical prodigies in
London, some one facetiously suggests
that that cltv should have u new con
cert hall, called after the Salle des
Enfants des Arts ' In Paris.
John Drew, who is starring in "My
Wife," is collecting material, with tho
Intention of writing- a history of the
Drew fftmtlv which has been Identified
with the staee in this country for
nearly a century. .
In Paris
BDDeared
lyrical fairy play.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Is
writing a new play for Eleanor Robson
founded on her story, "The Dawn of a
Tomorrow."
Sarah Bernhardt a
on December 25 in a
"La Belle an Bols Dormant'' "The
Sleeping Beauty,') by Jean Rlchepin
and Henri Cain, with music by Kranci
Thorne. M. Judic was leading man.
W. L. Hubbard, who for many years
has been dramatic and music editor of
the Chicago Tribune, haa resigned tho
dramatic side of his work, but will re
tain the music editorship of mat jour
nal.
Mme. Simone le Bargy, the well
known Parisian actress, will hereafter
be known as Mme. Simone. Le Bargy.
leading man at the Theatre Francalse
from whom she was divorced, has re
Robert Edeson has now been a tar '.I8eJ to Permlt her t0 cntinue to
for six vears. His Mir treat hit htnr- . "Is name.
his starring days was in the title role
of "The Little Minister," as leading man
wun Mauae Adams.
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A one act melodrama by Owen Davis.
The Battle of Port Arthur," has
opened at the New York Hippodrome.
Six hundred persons took part and the
military and naval part made It a big
spectacle
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Pietro Mascagni. like most other Ital
ians, is said to be extremely supersti
tious. He carries about with him a
regular battery of charms and mascots.
One of his mascots is a livlna diva.
Mme. Calvi, whom he always tries to
secure to sing in the first production
of his new works, because he believes
Manager Henry W. Savage has
leased a theatre in Paris in which to
continue the production of musical
comedy in the French capital. He felt
warranted In making this arrangement
by the success of -The Prince of Pli
sen." to which he recently invited the
attention of Parisians. His next
duction there will be "Woodland."
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she is an Infallible magnet for success.
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Austin Strong, who Is a nephew of
Lloyd Osbourne, and who wrote "And
What Happened Then?" for De Wolf
Hopper, has jn his home a tiny theatre
which just fits the top of a large table.
It is completely eaulDDed as to scenery
and lighting effects, and in this theatre
he puts on with casts composed of
pieces of pasteboard the plays which
he afterward takea to the managers.
Ua.lo nit..a.n t V. a fotvtrhita Snatitalt
actress, spent, a faw days In New YoVk
last week on her way from Havana;
whero she has just closed a brilliant sea
son, to her native Spain. On Monday
evening, January 6, Senora Guerrero oc-
A company has been formed of Am
erican stars to start on a globe girdling
tour, beginning in April and visiting
nearly every country in the world.
These stars include Mile. Dasle. the
famous dancer; Josephine Cohan, sis
ter of George M. Cohan; her husband.
Vrort Nlhln And Henrv Lee. the char-
! acter actor. A composite program ha
been arranged to suit an places, ins
tour will be under the management of
Mark A. Luesher. the husband of Mile.
Daxle. .
Paul Armstrong, who has written two
successes, "8alomy Jane" and "The Heir
to the Hoorah," and oneawful failure
called "The Superstitions of Sue," has
Just bought a place near Annapolis, to
which he has retired while he writes a
tragedy. Raymond Peck, who draws
royalties from many musical comedies
with which his' nama aa a librettist and
lyric writer is- not publicly connected,
haa- bought a place on Lond Island,
where he and hi wlf, Edith Decker,
the prima donna of th Anna Held com
pany, do thefr resting. ;; : r-.-.. ru ..
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SOCIETY LEADERS TO
BE LIVING PICTURES
New York, Feb. 1. Mrs. Waldorf As
tor will be stage manager at one of the
most gorgeous living picture shows ever
given in New York. It will take place
February 26 and 27.
The enteretalnment is to consist of
tableaux vivants, and it is probable that
John W. Alexander and several other
artists will aid the posing. Society
women whose families and names are
known well In tills city and London will
take part In the tableaux, posing In gor
geous costumes of long-ago centuries
to represent compositions oi the old
masters.
Mrs. J. J. Astor will pose In several
of the pictures, as will Mrs. Clarence
Mackey, and probably Mrs. Reginald
Brooks, a sister of Mrs. Waldorf Astor.
The duchess of Sutherland, the famous
beauty of London society, will be in
New York at that time, and It Is ex
Dected that she will consent to dupli
cate the art pictures in which she has
posed abroad. ftilss rora Langnorne,
the "baby" of tho beautiful Langhorne
coterie, will pose.
Mrs. Astor and Mrs. uulnness ar
ranged for the grand ballroom at the
Plaza yesterday.
"It will be for charity," said Mrs.
Waldorf Astor.
NEW BOOKS FOE THE
LIBEAEY
BIOGRAPHY.
Gosse Father and Son; Biography.
biographical Recollections, 1907.
Hamilton lanma. unay namuion;
From New and Original sources and
Documents; ed. by Walter Slohel. -Ed.
rev. 1907.
Lever Charles Lever. HU Llf and
Letters, by Edmund Downey; 3 v., 1966.
Lowell Lire ana ietters or Charles
RusseU Lowell. Captain Sixth United
States Cavalry. Colonel Second Massa
rhusetts Cava! nr and Briaadler-Oen.
eral United State Volunteers; . by E,
W. Enrtrson. 1907. ,
DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL. ,
Chart Story of Dublin; 1907. ' '
Gould A Boole of the Pyrenees; 1907.
Low A Vision of India; 1907. 1 - '
Shaler, ed. Th United : State - of
America; - a Study of th American Com
monwealth; Its Natural Resources, Peo
ple, ludustrtes. Manufactures, Com
merce, and It Work In, Literature, Set
ence. Education and Self Government;
8 v., 1894.
fiction. ",;
Jennings Under the Pompadour.
Morris The Pagan' Progres. , , .
Mott To th Credit of th Sea. 2'
Rldeout Admiral's Light
Tarklngton His Own People. '
Wllkins Th Fair Lavlnl ; and
Others.
FIXE ARTS.
Baker Color-Correct Photography,
1906.
Morse Venetian Iron Work, 1907.
Shoemaker, Comp. Humorous Dla
Iogues?mnd Dramas, 1906.
Street Good Bridge; a Classification
and Analysis of the Best Play as
Played today by the Best Playar. 1907,
HISTORY.
Davidson Reference History of th
United States, for High School and
Academics, 1892.
Fling. Comp. A Sourc Book ot
Greek History, 1987.
Helmolt History of th World, . .
1907.
McMaster A School History of the
United States, 1897.
Politovskll From Libau to Tsushi
ma; a Narrative of the Voyag of Ad
miral Rod jesven sky's Fleet to Eastern
Seas; tr. by F. R. Godfrey, 1907.
woodward A Short history of th
Expansion of the British Empire, 150U-
1902, ed. 2, 1907. l t .-
LITERATURE. ;
Christmas Antholoav: Carol' and
Poems, Old and New, 1907.
Drummond The Habitant, and Other
French-Canadian Poems, 1907.
Gummers The Pooular Ballad. 1997.
Kellog. Ed. How to Celebrat
Thanksgiving and Christmas, 1894r.
Nicholson, Ed. British Songs for
British Boys, 1906.
MUNICIPAL AND STATE REPORTS.
Boston Parks, Department of An
nual Report of the Board ot Commls- .
sioners, 1902-1907.
Chicago Civil Service Commission
Twelfth Annual Report, 1906.
Chicago Electricity, Department of
Annual Report, 1906. v-
Chicago Finance, Department Of
Annual Report, 1906.
Chicago Fire Department Report nf
the Fire Marshall to the City Council.
1906.
Chicago Health, Department of
Biennial Report, 1904-1906.
Chicago Mayor Annual Message;
and Annual Report of the Department
of Publio Works to th City Council,
1906.
Chicago Park Commissioner An
nual Report of the South Park Com
missioners, 1906.' - . " ;
Chicago Police, Department of Re
port of the General Superintendent of '
Police to the City Council, 1906. -
Detroit Controller Annual Report,
1906.
Indianapolis Mayor Annual Mes
sage, with Annual Report of Head of .
Departments of th City Government.'
1905.
Iowa Public Instruction, Department
of Biennial Report of the Superintend
ent of Publio Instruction, 1906-1806. V
Iowa Public Instruction, Department
of Iowa Educational Directory for th
School Year. 1906. ' .v..
Kansas City., Missouri Controller
Annual Report, 1906.
Kansas City. Missouri Education, .
Board of Annual Report, 1906.
Nashville, Tennessee Annual Report
of Departments, 1906. 1 -
Nashville. Tennessee Education,
Board of Annual Report of th Pub
lic Schools. 1904-1905.
Nw . Jersey Stat Sewerage Com- .
mission Report to th Legislature.
1907. ,,
New York (cltyV Education. Depart
ment of Annual Report. 1905. .- - .!'
rr.uaaeipnia Mayor Keport, 1908. r "
Philadelphia Publio Education. Board
of Annual Report, 1906. . . .
Salt Lake City Sixteenth Annual Re
port ot tho Publio Schools, 1906..
RELIGION. ' i,
Genung Hebrew Literature of Wis
dom in the Light of Today; a syntbe!,
SCONCE. . ,.'
French & Ives Stereotomy. ed 1.
1906.
Hull Volcanoes. Past and Present.
1904.
Iddlngs Rock Minerals.-Their Chem-.
leal and Physical Characters and Their
Determination in Thin Section. 1906.
Keane Alan, past and Present. 1800.
SOCIOLOGY. ( ' t I
Batch A Manual - for ' Boards of
Health and wealth Officers, 1907,
Chancellor Theory of Motives, Ideals -
and Values in Education, 1907.
Dealey Our Stat Constitutions,
1907. - ;.
Direct Legislation Record, . March,
1898-December, 1903, v. 5-10,- ,
Dun mora Ship Subsidies. - an Eco
nomic Study of th Policy of Subsidiz
ing Merchant Marine, 1907.
Hamlin, Comp. Th Act to Regulate
Commerce and Acts Supplementary
Thereto, Indexed and Annotated, 1907.
Haynes presentation - in s Stat
Legislature-, 1900. -
Jordan College and th Manr an Ad
dress to American Youth. 1907
Marx & Engels Manifesto . of th
Communlrt Party, 1888. v- -. .
Morritt Federal Regulation of Rail
way Rates, 1907. .
. USEFUL T ABTS.
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Transactions, 1906, 1907.
Forel Hygiene of Nerves and Mind
In ; Health and Disease; tr. by IL A.
Aiken. 1907. - . - t
Graphic Arts and Crafts, year book,
1907, . '
Harper-r-The utilisation of wood wast
by distillation. 1907,
Hlscox. ed. -Henley Twentieth Cen
utry Book; of Recipes, Formulas !
Processes. 1107. . ,
Kellogg The Art, of - Msag; It
Physiological Effects end Therapeutic
Applications, E1. 4. ltS.
New Jersey Health, Board of. Tut! I
Health Laws. ,1907.
v BOOKS ' FOR CHILDREN,
-Church Th Odyssey for Boys ant
Girls. "
Greene Pickett' Cm- . ;
4 Houghton Telling Bibl ftnr'es,
' International Sump . Albuui . (f I.
twentieth century); .. , !
Pier Harding of fit Tlmolftv's
: Pottar Tale of Kr. Jtroiy i i, c.
Scott Ivanhoe.
Shackleton ar,d Others ft.f
Stortea of the Civil War
v jomllDson Th JUr n