The Billboard 1902-07-26: Vol 14 Iss 30 (1902-07-26)

THE BILLBOARD —— Tre BILLBOARD. Published Weekly at 420 Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.,U. 8. A Sp er Obaeee ECC e Mi Zed ab Adaress ali communications for the editorial or business departments to THE BILLBOARD PUBLISHING CO, Subscription, $4.00 a year: 6 mos. $2.00 o mos., $1.00, in advance. ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents yd line, agate measurement. Whole page, #70; half page, $35; quarter page 50. premium on position. 7 + The Billboard is for sale on all trains and newatands throughout the United States and Canada which are supplied by the American News Co, and ats branches. When not on sale please notify this office. The Billboard is sold in London at Low's Exchange, 57 Charing Cross, and at American Advertising Newspaper Agency, Trafalgar Buildings, Northumberland Ave., W.C. In Paris at Brentano's, 87 Ave. de l’ Opera. 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F. and transient advertisers alike, and will take effect (August 1) in the issue dated August 9. We have always contended that the page of “The Billboard’ in point of size was the handiest and best of any paper in its class. We are no longer alone in this belief. Last week Harpers’ Weekly discarded the old unwieldy blanket sheet and came down to the size of “The Billboard.’ The result is a distinet improvement in appearance. The English bill posters sailed for home from Montreal, July 17. Their last word was a promise to return again. The visit may result in an international alliance be tween the two associations and an annual exchange of delegates. It will be a dis tinet advantage to both organizations if. it can be brought about. The valne of an agricultural fair is well nigh incomprehensible. The facet of our having annual fairs and expositions throughout every nook and corner of this great country is not merely consequential to the fact that no other industry—no, not all other industries combined, contribute so much to the wealth of our land as does agriculture. The fair is not merely the complement of success. It is and was primarily an institution designed for the purpose of ameliorating the industry by the comparison of means and methods and of results. Has it served its purpose? The very question is ambiguous and supertluous. From the farm comes nearly all the raw material that feeds and clothes mankind, and from the farm and the woods nearly all the raw material, either in a state of nature or wrought upon, which is the subject of sale or exchange. Farm products constitute the great piston that moves traf fic and travel, besides supplying much of the freight conveyed by common carriers. One single season of general agricultural adversity would result in stagnation of trade everywhere, and the repetition of such a calamity would be conducive of almost universal bankruptcy. Such is the important part that the industry of agriculture plays upon the stage of business and enterprise. There are numberless side issues and ramifications dependent upon it, as the twig and shoot are dependent upon the main trunk for life and support. Agricultural fairs and shows are indissolubly allied with agricuitural prosperity—not merely as a sequence, but rather 2s a potent factor in bringing that pros perity about. Favorable weather conditions will not make a profitable season in a see tion where the breezes of progress have never stirred into being the knowledge and practice of scientific application by the farmer. A profitable season, when feed is plentiful and disease is unknown, will not produce the finest of stock in a section where the producer of stock is still in the thrall of iznorance. What a great medium the agricultural fair has been in overcoming these obstacles! The fair is the greatest agricultural stimu lant known. The fact of the competition aroused is only one spoke in the wheel. It is at the fair that the most momentous discoveries are made known and where in controvertible testimony is given as to the value or otherwise of scientific experiment, and the results attained by its ingenious application to material that could not be so thoroughly promulgated in years without a fair. The fair is the farmers’ diet. Its resnits are cumulative. The rivalry excited is incentive to a higher standard of labor. The common farmer is ameliorated and the followers of the whole craft are enlightened. It is the height of folly to allow a fair association to become disorganized. The locality should never permit it. The county or district fair should be locally fostered and contributed to. The attractions at a fair besides the regular exhibits are a sort of spice and dessert which afford a recreation that sharpens the mind of the agriculturist, render.ng it receptive of the advanced ideas which the exhibits and comparisons suggest. Besides, these attractions bring many to the grounds who would otherwise remain away. NERVES VS. FLESH. Considering the question of adiposity on the stage, Hilary Bell, of the New York Press, says: Generally considered thin people are of a nervous temper, while fat folk are phlegmatic. It is the nerve force rather than the brain that aids in the drama. Actors of a sensitive disposition seldom eat much, drink much or sleep much. Leslie Carter, the greatest of modern emotional actresses of the native school, lives on her nerves rather than on victuals and drink. She is a thin woman. Maude Adams is thinner still, but she has no appetite for anything except study. Joseph Jefferson is t Walking shadow. Edwin Booth was fleshless. Sir Henry Irving could play castanets ym his ribs if he were of a musical quality. Eleonora Tuse is next door to nothing below her chin. Lawrence Barrett was gaunt. Sol Smith Russell was emaciated. Mrs. Patrick Campbell has no dimples. The hinness of Sarah Bernhardt is a French proverb. Annie Russell weighs 100 pounds. Willinm Gillette little more, Cora Potter will need a small soffin. All of these are or were nervous in temperament, to which inheritance a great part of their fortune in the drama is or was due. Such performance is the strenuous life. It entails dancing, fencing, athletics in varisus exercises and continuous effort of head ind body. These endeavors, combined with ibstemious living, mortify the flesh. Maude Adams has no time to become symmetrical. She throws more force into one performince than the plump leading lady of a ‘heap stock company can arrive at in a year. When the play is done Miss Adams s almost done for. Throughout the long run of “Zaza,” Mrs. Carter was so much ‘xhausted by the fourth act that almost ‘very evening she was carried off the stage n hysterics. Mme. Duse puts so much of rer soul into her performance that she is norbid, inelancholy and out of health. In the ys of her artistic prime Clara Morris was a physical wreck, but since she ceased acting her frame has zrown robust, plump and = hearty. Rose ‘oghlan and Ada Rehan made their fame while they were slender, but lost it when hey lost their lines. Fine acting is hard vork, hard work does away with superlnous flesh, and there you are. Bad acting s easy work, easy work is fattening, and here you are again. If one of the rural ‘irenit heroines had a chance to appear vfore a New York audience and a proper mbition to win its applause, she could take n her waist line four inches before a week vas over. Even Mrs. Fiske trembled on her irst night at the Manhattan Theater and aded visibly in size. The actor on his nettle must throw away all impedimenta, s Greek runners cast aside their cloaks in 1 race, Yet it must not be supposed from these ‘vidences that dramatie genius clings to vones and abhors dimples. There = are vorthy actors who are fat and execrable ictors who are lean. Constant Coquetin, ‘or example. is ruddy and of a fair counenance, and no finer comedian treads the yoards. Richard Mansfield is well favored vith calves of the rounded proportions denanded of footmen, and he is one of our nost considerable players. Hilda Spong vas as full of dimples as an egg is of meat, nd no more engaging actress ever won miles at Daly's. Lillian Russell is as round s she is beautiful, and so clever in comedy hat David Belasco means to star her next eason. Before her recent severe illness, Blanche Bates was a heavy weight, and he is a remarkably gifted actress. Poor teorgia Cayvan used to worry over her ivoirdupois at the Lyceum, yet she was its nost distinguished leading woman. May rwin is a good deal the shape of a barrel, ‘et nobody on the stage displays finer skill n farce. On the other hand, Dan Daly is a clumsy ietor, alchough in form he resembles a lamp yost. Bessie Tyree never has had much necess in acting, although she is slender to i degree, Yvette Guilbert could have crept hrough an alderman’s ring, yet she failed is an actress. PBeerbohm Tree is emaciated n frame and not of great merit in talent. Mr. Faversham and Mr. Hackett have not »umnel weight in the seales or in art as fr. Sothern. Going further back into these iesnes, it may he observed that = Amelia Summerville, who was an exceedingly amus ag comedienne so long as she remained fat, ost ber humor when she became thin and locrensed in fame as she fell in weight. AJinnie Maddern Fiske, however, has come nto plumpness and completeness of art torether. Therefore, in this matter there is no exact iwte ge by. The rural actresses to whose vart our correspondent objected, while he pplauded their nature, are not poor players wenuse they are plentiful in flesh, but be sause they are deficient in talent. Maude Adams is not a fine astress because she is thin, but because she has a big soul in a small body. MARRIAGES. Albert Smith, privilege man, and Lizzie Blair, side-show announcer, both of Sipe’s Liliputian Shows, were quietly married at the residence of the Rey. Mr. Smith at Warren, Pa., on the night of July 11.) Jakie Mandelbloom and Eda Arnold, who acted as vest man and bridesmaid, respectively, vere married the night previous at Titusville, Pa., by the Rev. Geo. A. Wakeman. With both these weddings coming so close together, it is needless to say there has veen great rejoicing around the Sipe Lilliputian Shows. OBITUARY. William S. Hartley, editor of the New York Clipper, died in Atlantie City, N. J., Muesday, July 15, after suffering for a long time from Bright's disease. Mrs. Elizabeth Daly, 73, mother of Dan Daly, Icky Daly Ward, Margaret Daly Vokes of the Ward and Vokes team, and ‘apt. Bill Daly, died at her home in Revere, Mass., July 15. All of her thirteen children vecame well known in one way or another. Thomas Grant, an aerial artist with the Lowery Brothers’ Show, died at Lebanon, Pa., July 15, from concussion of the brain. rhrongh the breaking of the rigging at the ifternoon show the previous day he fell wenty feet, striking the ground on_ his head. James J. Kelly, an old-time minstrel, lied in Boston, July 20 after two years’ liness from complication of diseases, aged i vears. He was born in Bury Lancashire, ind came to Boston when 11 years old. He began his professional career in 1864, with he first minstrels, and later on played with the Morris Brothers, Moran and Dixie, Simmons and Slocum, Dan Bryan, Haverly, Barlow, Wilson, Primrose & West and the Standard Minstrel Cempanies. His last enragement was with Haverly in Chicago in 1SS5. INDUSTRIAL REPORT. The freight handlers’ strike in Chicago was settled in favor of the railroads last yveek, but there is some chance of the strike wing renewed because of the failure to ‘einstate old employes. It is estimated that he strike has already cost the business nen of Chicago $10,000,000, A big railroad boom is on in the Big Sandy Valleys. General business and industrial conditions ire excellent in the South. Settlement of enormous labor contro versies and prospects of early agreements is to other struggles have greatly improved he industrial outlook in New York. Many mills in the South have curtailed heir production of woven material, the endeney being to wait until the new crop f cotton comes forward. Generally industrial conditions are much improved over last week, CROP REPORT. Very favorable temperatures have pre ‘nailed during the past week in all districts ‘ast of the Roeky Mountains, except in the ‘entral and East Gulf States, which have nffered from heat. The corn crop gener ily in the principal corn States has made ‘avorable progress, though it lacks ecultiva ion in portions of the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys and lake regions, as a ‘esmlt of continued rains. In the Southern States late corn has improved somewhat, uit the early crop is very poor. In New England. New York and North Dakota corn s very backward. Kansas is a blighted wheat State this ‘<enNsSon, The crop in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois vill be a trifle hetter than last vear. Michgan is also improved. These States raise ver half of the winter wheat crop. The ‘rop in Hinois will only be fair as com vired to its standerd production, and good is compared to last season's production. tains bave dore much damage the pest nerth. Tt will take half of the low grades © feed the farmers’ stock. Taken as a whole, the wheat crop will be nferior to last year's. Oats continue in a promising cond'tion, hongh considerable lodging Is reported in Nebraska, lowa and Ohjo. Harvesting was ‘arried out under generally favorable con ions, except in the lower Missouri Valley. A general improvement in the cond tion if the cotton crop has evolved. Tobaeco is doing well, thongh it is small n the Middle Atlantic States. The apple crop ing New Enelend and Michigan will be very good, judging from resent conditions. rhe wheat crop in the Millcreek and Big ind Little Miami Valleys of Ohio was rreatly damaged last week by storms. The wheat, which had just ripened and was unent. was beaten down, and many acres of t were ruined. Great damage was also lone to hay by rain and hail that had been nt but not stored in the barns in these see jens. Conditions in Arkansas are probably bet ter than they are in any other Southern State, where the prospects are very good for a large cotton crop and a large corn ‘rep. The cection of Minnesota contiguous to Vergus Falls and Henning suffered greatly eset week from rain and bail storms. Crops within a radius of fifteen miles are a total loss. and farmers who were expecting the inest crops are now plowing their fie'ds. Ip the ‘flat lands” of Ohio labor is so caree that the farmers are unable to house ‘he'r crops, which are suffering greativy on hat aecount. In some sections wives and lavebters have found it necessary to go pto the harvest fields, a thing which the women of Ohio have never done since the Civil War, LETTER BOX. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. Aug, Jacob, Jr. penheimer, Altredo, lero W. Tlarry La Kosa, Frank. Adams, K. Leavitt, BL, American Carousal Co. Lenard, Burt, Atkinson, Lert. Lawrence, Mr. Andrews Curnival fat Marr, Frank, Co., E. JDauwrence, Ed, Allen, J. A. Lewis, G. IL., Mgr. Aboun, Guston, Lemunon Bros, Circus Ammons, Prof. Theo. Co. Ash, Joe. Lawrence, Luckie. Adkins, C. D. Luvette, Geo, Automobile. Luwrence, Scott. Benetield, F, C., J.ewta, J. C. (Box 233). Lampson and Buckley Brown's Babe Gay Ludivico, Mous, Pars Burlesquers. La Clair, Mons. towers, EL G. Leury, Jerry. Black, Louis. Lingi, Geo, Bryant, Geo. B. Liles, Chas. Boyd, James W. Mestea, J. Vv. Britt, David. Manager Opera House Boyd, Charke. MehWee’s Rock, Pa. Bristol, Jack, Jr. Monroe, Wm. EF. Barnes, Jos. Mallory, rot. PW. Barry, Buteh. Minor, Kenneth. 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