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Show TIIF. SUNDAY STAN DATD- THE 95 HOP GOOD - OGDEN. - I T AND The Work of Dutch Piayurij-Ii- t Ellen Terry In Leading Role Ml. rD VY. V.Mi IT 3. OTHER WEW PLAYS a Grim. Emotion Stirring Tragedy. Timely Dramatic Gossip falsity of llie new. A. loan as Boa cau Siam- - time from the examination of his insurance papers he comes forward and confirm the news. Knimje iiniirs and is upbraided for having two sons who lad mad trouble in the past fur Bo, the benefactor and guardian angel. Joe. too, comes and learns that fleert will never return again, that he w 111 never see his eiillJ. Carre- - New York Dramatic lrrw our spondee t .. jcided contrail to her first on her prevent Ameri-r- n I production tour. Ellen Terry put on at one ot the tbe Empire theater horror inspiring. drama, over wUnewed on emo-"rf'p- pi . ,, is the play title English translation troin Good Hope" - MB Profitable Pity. The chief clerk scnfflngly read aloud a prllflon written as l he turtuln by smack owner Bos. asking the townspeople to sulisciilie for the .benefit of "the families of the unfortunate victbns of tlie smack Uond Hope, lost with ail on board. Heljemian. a playwright o thU country heretofore. uukuown I a humble Dutch The scene of action ly . The native, are iiin village. at the mercy of uuacrupulou. their rotten shipowners who overinsure hu.lt.nd. id hulk aud .end father., where they BDd brother, to sea in them, more certain to ulV gn tuh. but are fttfi diTb The misery, suffering. aoul torture reand government licensed oppression vealed In the drama fasten themnelvea and m the very mtul. of the apectatara, no mat1 don't think any theater per, It ter how experienced, will nit through unmoved. The great strength of the drama. In all but part of the first act, I. shown It picture. phases of by the fact that life not familiar to Americana, form, uf oppression that never existed at any time in this country, and yet It lipid, one', attention and compel, sympathetic Interest. Of course th. fact that human nature la very much the ram. th. world over has a great deal to do with this. 8uann Sheldon'. Hit. Others In the rest were Kudge Harding. a. Clemens Bos; George Ellon, a. a. Cobus: Beatrice the daugliter of fins: George ingletmi, a. Billion, a drunken shipwright; Maud Blewnrt. as Marieije; J. bVrguraon. cs Jelln, a beggar, and W. T. Lovell, gs Kapa. the chief clerk. Net to Alisa Terry, ill feature id the play was the ruperb artistry id Forbes-Robertso- Busunne Kheldun, who dmnlnwled -1 -- uta "Nans. Oldfield." "The A nut Hope" Miss Terry gave her b'sbly amuuiug one m I comedy "Namf Did field." which is familial' In Aii.ri'iiiin licit i r goers. As Nance ( hittcl.i. Miss Terry skipped aiucnd a. I'lcly us a cricket. Kollowlllg ra nd fiat-en- ly sev- eral uf the must important scene. All of Hie compuny wen th. English and tlior sigbty hough Mr. ll.ii. bur's pl.'ying of Ho was not allogelher pleasing tmr inn .istcnlly efTcclive. interestIn general, llie play ing studies uf luwly Holland character. Herrera Not Moraly Damaatia, The Dutch playwright give, wider to hi. horror, than dor. Ihn n. th. depicting of doDwell', fad mestic tragedy, sometime, pure, and In fact, in his not always simple. greatest work he did not go outside the tunning limitation, of domestic ina But Heijertnan. choose felicity. broader field and exhibit, misfortune a. it affect, the public In general a. well as family life in particular. The English version of The flood Hope was prepared by Christopher 81. John. Th. Nature of th. Story. The flood Hope is thu name of n Dutch fishing smack, and the .mack owner, a now wheedling, now bully' ing. now cringing, now threatening. liypriN'Ite. has been informed that the rafl is literally falling to pieces, that her ribs are rotten," that she is a il. suing roflln.'' But alnce Hen must work and women must weep, why, it liecoine. a smack owner to get all the Insurance money he can. Knlrrtje. a fisherman's widow, is the rule played by Mis Terry. Her hua-hoand iwn sons were lost at sea iq me of the floating coffin, of Clemens Ike. Hie sinurk owner. Now two min. flwrl and (well played by J nines t'arew and David Powell). Urert. in love with Joe (played effoc-tiroby ftuunne Fheldon) the niece of Knierije. had been In the navy, as ;iu milinui'y seaman. One of hi. officers had ilanued with Joe, ami tu anger fleert nmdo disparaging n. ' ELLEN TERRY IN A SCENE THE IN POWERFUL sea. give place to humble gayeiy and friendliness when they are ualiore with their wives, children and neighbor. fleert and Barend are wheedled and deceived Into signing for u voyage on the flood Hoi by Clemens Bos. and he broke up a happy pnrty by threatening Th. Lowly Fisher Folk. them with arreat if they did not go Tbe home Life uf the simple Dutch aboard her in ten minutes. Burehd, the pe. flints I. shown with commendable younger brother, whose f.ilher' and attention to detail. The loneliness and brother.' fate has given him a dread worries of the women while, ten month, of the sea. a finally arrested and dragtif every twelve, the men folk, are at ged aboard the nulling old hulk. remarks about her. Gcert responded by knocking him down, and as a result was condemned to clime confinement In prison for' six months. Hi. return home la allow n in the first art, and the etory then develop, rapidly.. . MACD BTEWART. ELLEN TERRT. 8CZANNE SHELDON. TRAGEDY OF DUTCH PEASANT THE LIFE, Three Other Nw Plays. Other new productions are "Gcnesct drama of western life, uf the II Ills.'' I the Amor tliestsi-- . and The While Hiii.'' al the few York Cusino. In which lamls Mann is rtarrirg. "Tha known a. White lieu' wns "Tlie Hlrl From Vienna." "flenese cf llie Hills Is s dronuft liuit bin of Mary Kills llynu's novel "Told In the Hills," .The eeulnil figure of tlie play Is. of rourse. Demure Juck. tlie cowboy and hero of Mrs. Ilyan'M .Huy, and Ilia t centers around bla principal love fur beautiful eastern girl. Rachel llardy, who Is ul the Hind visiting her luntlier on Ills Monlana rsucli. Mrs. Ryan selrctsd for the period of her time whan tha In.lory tint! Iroubluu. dians In the northwest were fsr from twlng inu'lllitl, and the army outputs were keirt pratly generally busy. Henrietta t'rosnian also added her share to the list nf leading new attraction, by opening at the Bijou in Peggy.' . GOOD Thul act presents several highly During a storm that billows, when the passages, espwkdly where the flood Hope is htunewunl bound. that her lover, deert. is friends, woman folk, gather at fears lost In the storm overcome her. Then her house and recount their tragical in the paL This woman's she tell. Knierije that she 1. to become husband was lost at' sea. leaving her the mother f tleert'. child. wllli six cliililrrn; thul wonmus two Death as an Amt huslainds and Huwe.aons had been another's twelve- la the last act I. shown the shipping swept overboard: year-ol- d boy tun! never returned from office of Clemen Bus. The smirking, conscienceless old scoundrel slls ruunl-In- g his first voyage. up the amount of insurance caiTled "Yes, said Knirrfjn, "we pay dear , by the timid Iloie. He fear, she may for the fish." erno-li.in- ai Knt-ertj- of-Jo- . . - HOPE." possibly have nutlHsled the storm, but Ills chief clerk I. more optimistic and says: No cluinre for that old hulk. There'll be 14.UWI guilders coming The fatal from tlie iimlcrwiiicra. news tinally heard of the flood iluie is Hie following luemage, "Hpur mark ed forty-seve- n wsslual ashore, together with the body of llarend. badly decomposed. Mentlliiid by Hairing." By ones and twua llie terror stricken, heartbroken flslier folk come Into the shipper's office tu loam the truth or -- Inti-res- Some Scientific Points In Wrestling -- Painful Holds Are Very Effective; How Little Fellows Have a Chance Against Bigger and Stronger Men By FREDERICK R. TOOMBS. Author of "How to Wrestle."' people who are Informed In general have a MANY sport developed Idea that or strength and weight Hra the best asset, of w re. tier and lighten, other, say that some ih.iio element they call science la the Important thing for the boxer or wremler. but they don't this is or what this science I. It shy seem to llie writer that science plays ii bigger iwrt in wrestling sue ms than In biixmg, althuugh It. Importance In Hie latter sport should not be underknow-exact- ly estimated. Ix"! us try to find out a few evidence r iinlicatlon. of what scl.no wrestling I mill hoar It I. put into effect, AIM let ns see Just how it is that a few stuiiiuus but light and comparatively v'c.ik wrestlers manage to defedt larger aii'l si i onger men. regard to tlie guarding nr protection nf the man making the attack. The attacking man's arms and legs are the levers, and he seeks to apply them to the body of hi. npionent mi as tn lift and turn him nn his luck. But wrestling science Is made up largely, mi far a the attack Is concerned, of hold, and maneuver, that embody mm than leverage and force. A large proportion of scientific holds are very painful tn the defensive man. The Mientifie mat worker consider, pain a. a most valuable assistant. Many a man too heavy to be lifted or too strong to be turned over gives way readily when a grip causing undue strain and keen pain Is applied to him. Herein lies the secret of the victories of many "little fellows over men twenty-fiv- e pound, or more their superior In weight. Render Countering Impossible. The hold, that have for their primary use the giving nf. great pain usually render the defensive man Incapable for The Rulee of Leverage. the moment of countering wiLh another Eh "? on- know, that wrestling skill hold. This result I. one of supreme mi general consist, principally of applyImportance to wrestler and I. one ing the rules of leverage to tbe human which all of them have to study un"r'ly and al the same time having duo ceasingly. Every really sclenllflc man Is pinned down nn hla left shoul- Hungarian empire and three In the do. der he has very little chance to use his mlnlonn of tlie kuiser. The list follows: Joe Iticliurds nf Detroit. Mtch., who left arm lo advantage, unless it be to rode four seasons In Russia. Is now that of his opponent. dickering to rid for a German turfraal of weiillti. Defensive Soisncs. J. H. (Hksets) Martin, Baron A, Volumes could be written on the subRolh r child first claim and Count reaon on ths nf mnt science when the ject second defensive. Fonie famous w rcsllcr owe lities and Count Burthuny Joint almost their enllre reputation to their claim. Fred Taral,. Baron Fpringer Aral development of defemdva por.slbilttics. This branch of the game actually in- claim, and Herr von Pechy and Ilert cludes the vest array uf counter holds von Wilier Joint second claim. Harry Blrkenruth, Herr Victor Mant. and tricks, though strict analyst may in the class of neer von Markhuf first claim. put cnunlei hold C. L Bell, Herr Louis Kgydle. and "secondary attack." The defense has become fur inure scientific of late by Herr A. Kgydle joint first claim. Ji. Rigby, up lo present time no conthe development of fool, hold or blocks. Beverul years ago. In New York, when tract. John Taral, apprenticed to Burns won the world's lightfleorge weight championship and the tl.OGQ Springer's stable. silver challenge belt by defeating I:llry, Harry Lewis who rod very successthe English champion. In slralgli: fulls, fully during ihe past two years in lie be said tn have done if alinoRt Austria, bus signed to ride for Baron entirely with his feet and when on all Oppenhriin In Germany. W. Hhaw has signed to ride for tha four on the mst. Kerry time Riley got a hold and Weinberg brothers In Germany. Thin Klc.rtp.l I 'i put It Into effect he would is the leading stable In Germany and suddenly i.top and a surprised look has headed the list of winning owners winili! i lmw on Ills clarrle face. He In Germany for the past three years. coulj n il shift bis weight. Ilolhner'a Shaw's salary Is flS.fHIO. This is the feci end legs were pinning Riley's to hugest retainer ever paid a jockey on the continent. th" fl'Hir. uivstlera have been able to ferret out the secrets of these baffling foot M'MILLANB STABLE. blocks, but some have made highly C. M. McMillan, Vinton. Ia has progress. profitable several promising horses which he Is wintering. Among them ore the pacAMERICAN JOCKEYS TO RIDE IN ing mare Lula I.. 2:141s. the trotting EUROPE. mare Aunt Jerusha. both good winwill ride ners the past season, and several Nine American Jockey among Ihe flennun speaking people of green ones. Ills old breadwinner, Mlsa has been bred to Moko. Europe next season, rtx In the Austro- - Adrian, wrestler spend, as much effort In trying to render his opponent Incapable of getting hold, as he dues In getting the original hold, themselves. The painful holds make a man so anxtnuM to get over on his buck tlial he sinda no time In attempting counters. Gotch Hat Twa Ankla Twists. Many scientific wrestler, have pain giving holds. That they originated or Frank Gotch, developed themselves. ' the American heavyweight champion, use. two effective ones. Both are applied to the ankle, and so are not available In the Graeco-Roma- n style, where all holds below the waist are barred. In one fliitch grasps a man's foot when the latter le on hi. hands and knees, rroulis nn arm around the ankle, making a powerful vise, and with his free hand yra '.ps the too. cf thlji foot and turns them tliariily In either direction, placing a terrlSc strain on tlie ankle Joint. In the second hold Gotch. working from cither side of a men .who Is on ull fours, grasp, the near foot, turn. Ihe toe ir.wnrd and then either pull, upward on the lr.turnil foot or press", hi weight on Ihe calf of the near l g, muring unbearable pain In the ankle join:, nnd if the maneuver Is carried Into full effect .the ankle will either bnnk or become dislocated. It 1. evident to any reasonable person that novices should ,nnt try these holds or they may 1n some friend great harm. These holds should be barred in all . amateur matches. As Many t. Chancery Holds. alien throw their wfalmost time defensive every they obopponents tain a chancery ' hold of any sort. Chancery holds are those In which the attacker eiuirrlc. the heed or neck with an arm. The other arm is used in pulling the encircling arm lighter around the nerk or in combining chancery with a bar hold. etc. Other wrestlers seldom manage to throw a man with a hancery hold.' Ths successful one put such force Into the hold that the defensive man's neck I. severely strained, and he become, dls-x- y through the accurate directing of this f nve against the blood vessel, and tendons In the sldes'of the neck. A. the throat . is left free no strangle ran he claimed. The Dr inah. who puts most of the pressure on the less sensitive hack of the neck, wonder, why he fails, and not Infrequently fall, a chagrined victim to the familiar counter to the chancery holds, one of the most effective of all counters. . non-scle- FORWARD CHANCERY AND BAR HOLD. STAGE Tnii-s- t Lamson. who ha. the leading) The Heir to the Hoorah," is H "T'pesr next reason In a new pl.y, of l' hl' h he 1. the author, entitled A Ro- nHii.e of ihe Bright Angel Trail." Word comes from Part, that Sarah - raiiardt I. suffering from a 'tumor, i. may necessitate h- -r permanent flivim-n- t from the stage. At 'he must take a rest for a year, heat, her ln months' tour of the United Btates. playing in citle where there la a condoctors tell her. The great actress fell siderable Scandinavian population. her final His Eleanor Robson heavily on the stage not long ago and sustained injuries from which she has performance of .The Girl YVho Has suffered constantly ever since. Everything" at the Liberty theater. A special cable from Christiania. Kor-k.- y, New York, recently and followed with a new play, "Balomy Jane." say. that Ola Nellson. the "DanIn Ft. Louts recently Ednp Fassett of ish Duse. sailed for New Tork recently In fill a theatrical engagement. The the Mila. Modiste company, an unDanish -- American society in New York derstudy to Mis Frits! Bcheff. anhas a contract wi'h her to make a three nounced her engagement to Nelson DOINGS. - hold chh be executed In full, unle-- s llie Think later. defensive man iwi bow superior Ills method is to ihai In fon-arwhich Ihe left hand or left alone Is used ill furring down the head! But science in the-t attack does not. by any means, onri.- wholly ofH holds fredestined solely lo rive pain. quently is rlioi'-- In ihe most ordinary holds. HnckcnsrhmldL the greatest of all mat sharps, sin" advanced science in the manner In which he applies the Bay he Is working front the left sid". He will thrust hla left hand, a i usual, under hla foe's near arm pit. !iJ to the bock of his neck. Now. tn l nd down the head and stubborn "eck Hack brings over his massive right srm to the back of the neck, bend th" forearm toward himself and clasps both hands. His right forearm, backed by Hack's weighty chest and shoulders, will always force the head down, so that the common half nelson- Fterllng of New York. The ceremony Is to take place in the spring, and Mlsa Fassett says she will leave tlie stage. Negotiation are In progress looking to another iwiivai of Fantana." If the arrangement a' completed the "nt on tour musical comedy will Havlln houses, under of the Sinlr the direction of RV Gomslock. Toby Claude I to have the leading part. The Little si 'thus." a comic opera, book by Messrs. Van Loo and Duval, Bcisnca In Getting Hammer Lock. scientific wreslhrs have nn ef- -. fee live mode of getting a hammer on Fay they are working on .ihe mat. the left side of t'oeir opponent. When arm and they grasp his left Ohe near) bend It over so Hint the hand Is about at 1h middle "if Ihe bin k. they then pull him toward themselves, so that hp falls, leaning on Ms lefi shoulder, rendering it Impossible for him in most bark parh to et thp lfft ofHrm fw hiwI In Its first position safety. When a Borne - I : hk. f company that will support'MIrfs Worwill include den in her production Harry lame. Hul Foloinon. P. J. Wright lime Hint Percy Frnilh. Kills Williams is Lulu Glaser's leading comedian In her new day. and AnOriHka. Municn ' nie Yeamans, Marion Abbott and Anna American rlahts of "Burning i Shut. Johnson are in the supporting comI rave-- 1 y on unml Ihe Kerker-Burnsipany. opera, which v. .is originally pieoented The Orman righia of "Clothes" have at a Lambs' club gambol, In New asork,a been sold hv Wagenhul A Kemper to s furor and which ha f rented III aafirilll Frederic 8o)on. a well known Herman I'Sinlnullla had H" and music by Amlrc first pres'ntution ircciiily. In Hie K'.iuwiuc. Krnesi arc Messrs, Vi-d- mi and Mi William Elltu Proclor inis. agcr. al de In the Blshop'a Carriage' wifi be produced in Ijimdan in about a month by Charles Cartwright and the Licbler company In partnership. Mr. Cartwright will play tlie leading rale. Miss Alice Johnson Is playing a special engagement with th Krawjcy Bhu Stock company at Minneapolis. appears In Ibsen's Comedy of Love." a new play by a Chicago society woman, and three new one act playa that alia will use later In vaudeville. manager. |