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Show DRAMATIC NEWS AND COMMENT Although Sousa's band is now on u.; 'round-the-world tour, you can hear this famous organization play three the March King's own selections on the now Victor records now on sale--two new marches, "The Federal March" and the "Glory of the Yankee Navv"; and "The Red Men," the first part of Mr. Souza's new suite which he has entitled "The Dwellers in the Western World." Pryor's ban 'I renders Rossini's "Italian iu Algier Overture": the Victor Concert ore lies tra distinguishes itself in its delicate plnving of tho dreamily beautiful "Midsummer Night's Dream Over tnre" and its effective rendition of the "Birth of Passion Waltz" from "Madame Sherry," and the Victor Dance orchestra ' offers ihe tuneful "Boston Virginia Reel," played very loud and in proper tempo for dancing this popular diversion. A new vical waltz, "Printcmps. " is delivered by Lucy Isabella Marsh with the purity of tone and faultless method which always characterize her work. Elizabeth Brice sings a popular darky song. "Lovie Joe." in a clever and amusing manner, and another darky song. "Mighty Laic' a Rose." is sung by Marguerite Duulap. A splendid ren dition of the "Two Little Love Bees from the "Spring Maid" is given by Elizabeth Whpeler and Roinald Wer-renrath. Wer-renrath. .Mr. Werrcnrath also sings as a solo the favorite old Molloy ballad, "Tho King's Highway." Murray K. Hill gives 11 very funny monologue, "A Bit of Drama," and a comic specialty, "Through tho Hole in the Fence"; Monroe Silver offers a humorous dialect, dia-lect, song. "That's Viddisha Love," and Ada .fones and Steve Porter present an amusing skit entitled "The Piano Tuner." An unusually brilliant and attractive attract-ive modley of gems from that charming conipdy, " FIordorn," is given by the Victor Light Opera company, and another an-other record con tuns eight favorite numbers from the fascinating " Er-minie." Er-minie." The "That Girl" quartette record rec-ord of "Honey Love" and "On San Francisco Bay" is sure to be a tremendous tre-mendous success. The 1'jsk Jubilee quartette presents an old jubilee song. "Po' Mo'ner Got a Home at Last," and one of their number gives a favorite favor-ite Dunbar poem, "The Old Tunes." Tho Peerless quartette presents a harmonious har-monious rendition of the new darky song, "Emmalinc Lee"; Adn Jones and the American quartette render the favorite "Come. Josephine, in My Flying Fly-ing Machine": Billy Murray sings to perfection "That's .Why I Never Married," Mar-ried," the amusing "matrimony" song from the "Slim Princess"; and two melodious hymns are offered on a double-faced record "The Valley of Peace." by those favorite dnetisls, An. Ihony and Harrison." and "Still, Still With Thee," by the Chicago Glee club. Less is said to bo known concerning the early life of William Makepeace Thackeray than almost any other English Eng-lish author of note. Scant fads which have been gleaned show that ho was born in Calcutta in 1SH; that he was left a fortune of $100,000 by his father, who died when he was five years old; that he was sent to school in" England; that ho was prepared for college at the old Charter Mouse school; ilia I. he was graduated from Trinity collece, Cambridge, Cam-bridge, iuid that while in college ho J showed much ability as a writer of' verso and prose, although he look no honors and won no prizes. After reading' law he decided to become be-come an artist and pont some lime in travel on the continent. But this delightful de-lightful life was rudelj- cut short by the loss of his fortune and he was forced to cam his living by literature and journalism. Under various pseudonyms he soon gained a reputation as a salir-ist salir-ist and humorist, his first success be-in be-in "The Great Hog'garty Diamond." Then years of work for Punch and other papers followed before he won endur ing fame by "Vanity Fair," which he styled "a noval without a hero." Thackeray was a giant physically, with a mind that worked easily, but he was indolent ami always wrote under un-der pressure, with tho printer's devil waiting for his "cop-." He was a thorough man of the world, yet full 01 tho freshness of fancy and I ho tenderness ten-derness of heart of a little child. AH children were a delight, to him, and he never could refrain from giving them extravagant tips. The ever-present ricf that could not bo forgotten by fame or success made him very tender to all suffering, especially the suffering suffer-ing of the weak and helpless. Yet, liko many a sensitive man. he concealed con-cealed thfs kindness of heart-under an affectation of cynicism, which led manv unsympathetic critics to stylo him hard and ferocious iu his satire. A complaint and attachment .have been filed in the district court at Reno by the Clny Peters Building company against, the. Nut C. Goodwin company for alleged unpaid rentals on a suite of rooms in the Peters building amounting to $107.5. It is understood that office furniture and mining stocks made up the properly sought to bo seized to satisfy the claim. The Goodwin company, which was in reality George Graham Rictj. came into being with ihe Rawhide 'boom four years ago. Sumptuous offices were taken and within their walls many lurid si ones were conceived and written. writ-ten. Although Goodwin Tent tho weight of his name to the cpneern, the actor was seldom a personal partici- pant in its affairs. He visfl a few times, made spectjfl to the new cam) and maB in the sale of mining utockjfl Francis Wilson says "TiB Baby," in which he hasifl 'fully playing for scvcraljM offered to almost everyJM the country and refused belfl ly considered, the piece :aj vehicle for himself "Jm "Actors are unknown. 'toS I said E. H. Sotheru the offaffl matter how much spacpj'B dead walls or how maDjjH columns arc printed abotilH remain unknown. I doaS know why. It, seems "tOH wo are tho, most widely a'dH pie in the world we shonlH widely known pooplc. BjH And then Mr. Sothcru tofl illuslraio the point he tnaj last trip across tho ceajH with a very pleasant, ifU companionable chap. TheU decks together, discussed'tlB board topics, and took thaw drink in good fellowslB thought of asking the oth'S Just as the steamer waa(J port the other follow profl change cards. Neither cfl illuminative line, buOcanjM of the owners nnlv. "I anW of Blinks & Pinks,, tho manufacturers." said thpM by way of further introaM Sothern followed suit- "S "am an actor." fl "Yes?" politely inM 'and how long have yM When Florence Reed -ffljifl the profession she one an idea which she coriB liant. Shn arranged to jB fonnancc in which sho from tho front of the H this end she pretended shfl evening and allowed her-nM jump into the pari, yS "I was onlv scventeon M she said, in telling the stotfl featured as 'the youdgfl woman,' etc., but I fanctB other reasons why I was GM porta ut and wanted to h;ftB were. At curtain time I PH self at the pa I lory door aiM chasing n ticket went uV ! show, with iho result tliatM unhappiest evening of for much to mv surprise study got quite as many MM been' getting, if not ft t5M "1 was so overcome jJB when T left the theater got all precaution and "ffll mv veil and the mnnaglM pened to be taking a str8lB was fined a week's pnlnrpj good calling down and. uovor repeated the expcnsgBJ Regan's proposal .of girl of his choice H anything but an effort he mannges to mako do? he wishes to bring ""jM that is necessary. .9 "I ain't seen ve more he begins, "but I'm no 1VM it comes t' makin up JHH here goes. I'm 3S yPar never hail a sick day m when some guv laid mr. H nn' mostly I cat" sav it s way 'round. T 'lrink. but. havin' been a young, r know t a finger can carry. tiaVJ " T don't gamble nor piJH for the reason that the slow alongside 0' my ..b.uaiM never got mixed hp W' ,... .H size or color. ,i-nuo iump, I s'nosc, an f'H takes a lot 0' time. "f fin' along, an' I vo I feel like .ctthn' 'JjJM somo one pour my cotxegjM Continued on rollctoWj DRAMATIC NEWS AND COMMENT Continued From Preceding Page. in and put my slippers 011 the radiator at night." Upton Sinclair tells the following poker story: "Once In a Tin Can poker game a tenderfoot saw a pla.ycr give himself four aces from ( he bottom of thc pack. The tenderfoot flushed with Judication Judica-tion and, turning to a Tin Can native, whispered. " ' Did you see that?' " 'Sec what?' '"Why. that hound dealt himself four aces.' "'Well,' said the native in a surprised sur-prised tone, 'wa'n't it bis deal?' Charles Klein, tho plaj-wright. author of thc season's most successful success-ful serious drama, "Thc Gamblers," returned from a two months' tour of IOuropo on Satunbry. Majr 6. During bis trip abroad Mr. Tvlein devoted much lime to the study of relative conditions as thc.y exist iu the writing and production pro-duction of plays in Europe aud America. Amer-ica. He visited many theaters in ltal3', Austria, Germany, Paris and London, and vith the advanced knowledge that he gained he is certain that in writing his now pla3' for production next October Octo-ber by thc Authors' Producing com-pan3, com-pan3, of which he is gcncrul stage director, di-rector, ho will sureby succeed in surpassing sur-passing his previous efforts. Should he do this it will give bim a record of scoring three consecutive big ro3'alt-carncrs ro3'alt-carncrs within a 3rear, thc other" two being "Maggie Pepper" and "Tho Gamblers." John Cort, president of the Authors' Producing coinpaii3r, is arranging routes for four companies that will bo sont out in "The Gamblers" next season by thc authors' organization. "ISve- important im-portant cifv iu tho United States and Canada will sec Charles Klein's gripping grip-ping pla3' which ran through thc entire season at Maxiuo Elliott's theater, New York. |