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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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WEEK'S BILLS ATI
PLAYHOUSES
SCHOOLS GET DOWN TO REAL WORK;
SIX BUILDINGS ARE CROWDED BADLY
Good Vaudeville at Forsyth and
Lots of Entertainment at
Other Local Theaters.
By TARLETON COLLIER.
Should ypur fancy direct your feet
toward any one of the city’s show
houses this week, you may be sure of
a very pleasant occasion, you folks
that stayed at home yesterday. This,
at least, is the verdict after a sltting-
ln at the Monday opening of the For
syth and the Lyric, and after a con
sideration of the promises that the
other houses hold out.
At the Forsyth, now, there is a good
bill. If you like dancing, there is a
revelation for you at the Forsyth;
singing, it is there. And even if you
are a hardened vaudeville .goer, with
the spiritless eye of a catfish for the
daring of the vaudeville acrobats, you
must confess a thrill at some of the
things they do at the Forsyth this
week. All with much comedy.
Perhaps you will notice the lack of
those little play sketches that usually
are put on a vaudeville bill to give it
a substantial tone. You make this
note with something of relief, most
likely. The brain-weary person who
goes to the vaudeville show is not so
very eager to wait and watch for the
development , of anything that bids
fair to be complex.
Something New in Dancing.
All this is by way of telling that
Frank Hale and Inez Patterson, a
slender, handsome young couple, who
are billed as “the World’s Greatest
Turkey Trotters and Tango Dancers,”
have something new and unusual in
their exhibition of tl\e new dances,
which becomes things of pretty
rhythm under their interpretation.
It is a notable fact that the audience
at the first show’, after sitting appre
ciatively through the first part of the
bill, straightened in their seats, leaned
forward, and breathed faster when
the Hale and Patterson act was an
nounced. Here was something to in
terest everybody—the famed turkey
trot and the tango, berated and
abused from coast to coast. Abused
no more in Atlanta, it is safe to say,
or, at least, far less than heretofore.
Three sisters—Doris, Dot and Alma
Wilson—have a pretty act. Qeyond
the fact that they can sing and
dance, they' look alike and are ena
bled thus to perform a mirror act in
which one sister, singing and making
up before the mirror, seems to be re
flected in the glass. At least the
image follows faithfully every move
ment, even to eyes and hair and
graceful swaying. Then the girl leaps
through the open space, showing that
there was no mirror at all, and that
there really were three persons in the
supposed reflection.
Comedienne Makes Big Hit.
Miss Lydia Barry makes fun and
sings. Real fun it is; not that toler
able—or near intolerable—wit of the
usual comedienne. One of the big
gest hits of the first show was that
scored by her songs and interpolated
monologue.
As to the aforementioned acro
batics—don’t be alarmed, because
three of the acts are those of hard
working. clever gymnasts. There is
Paul Gordan -and Ame Rica, by far
the best bicycle pah* of the season;
Delmore and Lee, with a spectacular
study in black and white on a flying
ladder, and Wentworth, Gesta and
Teddy, a team the least of which is
not Teddy, the dog. A tabloid min
strel show, Russell’s Minstrel Come
dians they are called, completes the
bill.
Human Appeal in
“Call of the Heart.”
You probably were frightened from
even considering the Lyric last night
because of the too sensational name
of the show’ there. It is to be con
fessed that “The Call of the Heart” as
a name is not the best asset a show
can have, but this week’s attraction
at the Lyric rises above its name, re
vealing occasional real strength.
The play is one to appeal to Ameri
cans. It reveals the story of a de
generate English household whose
head, the twenty-first Baron of Wolf-
ston, married a real, red-blooded
American girl for her fortune. That
was 30 years before the time of the
opening of the play. Two of their
children are true offsprings of degen.
eracy, the eldest being a scamp of the
first degree, the second a drug fiend.
Another American girl comes into the
old house, convoyed by an aunt with
social aspirations. A match is ar
ranged by the parvenu aunt and the
dissolute baron, between the girl and
the eldest son.
The fact is that the girl gloves the
youngest. He is a puzzle, being un-
]ike his brothers and his father, a
puzzle that is not solved until his
mother reveals the story of her true
love for a vigorous, heroic American
John Nicholson, as the scapegrace
Lord Everlow, is a consistent type,
exaggerated a little, perhaps, but still
convincing. And Ann Hamilton, as
his unhappy American wife, has a real
appeal. Miss Billie Shay is a charm-
’ ing type of young American girlhood,
and you follow her fortunes with a
true interest. C. B. Waters, Clarence
Bellair and Corwin Luskmoor as the
three widely differing sons of the no
ble pair are convincing actors.
Pattern Church After
Atlanta Tabernacle
COLUMBUS, GA V Sept. 9 —The
membership ot the First Baptist
Church of this city will spend about
$25,000 in making improvements on
the church. It has only been two
years since the Miurch underwent
repairs costing $12,000. It was built
in 1844 and is one of the hand-
someest and most substantial build
ings in the South.
The object in making the new im
provements and increasing the size
of the building is to make it-a great
institution, somewhat on the same
order of the Baptist Tabernacle in
Atlanta. / I
HERSELF. THEN
Mystery in Suicide of Wife of
Wealthy Chicago Broker in
Lake Michigan.
CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Mystery to
day shrouded the death of Mrs. Wal
ter B. Smith, wife of a LaSalle street
broker, granddaughter of Marvin
Hughitt, railroad builder, and
wealthy in her own right.
Mrs. Smith, clad in a costly silk
dress and wearing several hundred
dollars worth of jewels, left her home
in the fashionable suburb of Lake
Forest, went to the shore of Lake
Michigan, molded a grave in tho
sand, placed a bouquet of roses on it
and plunged to her death in the wa
ter.
A coroner’s jury of neighbors of thd
beautiful Lake Forest society woman
did not attempt to clear the mystery.
Byron L. Smith, president of the
Northern Trust Company, one of vthe
largest financial institutions in Chi
cago, father-in-law of the dead wo
man, said his sons wife must have
been temporarily demented. He said
there was no trouble in the house
hold of his son and that Mrs. Smith
had not been ill
CHARLES LYNCH.
Scores of Pupils, Failing to Start
Monday; Register Now, Add
ing to Congestion.
The first flurry of school’s reopen
ing over, Atlanta’s thousands of
school children settled down to hard
work Tuesday. Practically all of the
teachers in the city began the regu
lar routine, textbooks having been
designated and lessons assigned the
day before.
By Wednesday the classes in all of
the buildings are expected to be run
ning as smoothly as in the middle
of the school year. All preparations
were made to enter into, the work
with as little delay as possible.
Every scholar was furnished with a
list of the books he or she would re
quire and was instructed to pur
chase them at the earliest possible
moment. It was announced that the
pupils would be held as strictly ac
countable for failures in recitations
Tuesday as they will be later in the
year.
Scores of new students, who fail
ed for one reason or another to ap
pear Monday, applied for tickets of
admission from Superintendent Sla
ton Tuesday forenoon. The increase
in the number of pupils in the
schools of the city *has resulted in
considerable congestion in several of
the buildings. No effort will be made
to solve the problem for the first
three days of school, as it might in
many cases be necessary o do the
work all over owing to later addi
tions.
A meeting of the principals will be
called Wednesday afternoon, how
ever, and the matter will be taken
up. Some of the children in the
crowded buildings will be trans
ferred to nearby district* where there
is no congestion. Superintendent
Slaton probably will make a recom
mendation for additional new schools
In his next annual report to the
Board of Education.
Among the schools which were
badly crowded on the first day were ,
the Peeples’ Pryor, Georgia Avenue, j
LUCILLE HO LLINGSWORTH.
European Pellagra
Expert in Carolina
CHARLESTON, S. C.. Sept. 9.—Dr.
Louis W. Sambon, British School of
Tropical Medicine expert on pellagra,
is in Charleston to-day studying pel
lagra conditions. He will address the
Medical Society of South Carolina
to-night.
The theory that pellagra is caused
by an insect rather than by inferior
corn is held by Dr. Sambon, who is
seeking further proof here.
Senator Hoke Smith
To Stump for Adams
GAINESVILLE. Sept. 9.—It 1m re
ported here that Senator Hoke Smith
will stump the district for Colonel
John O. Adams, should Mr. Adams de
cide positively to enter the race for
Congress in the Ninth District next
year.
Kentucky Man Held
As a Double Slayer
RUSSELLVILLE, KY.. Sept. 9.
Ellis Clark, a prominent young mar
ried man, is being held to-day fol
lowing the killing of Charles and Mar
tin Foster, brothers, at the village of
Shakers, near here, yesterday.
Clark declared that the brothers,
following a quarrel, came to his home
armed and intended shooting him. but
he was too quick for them.
Macon Boosters Off
For South Georgia
MACON. Sept. 9.—Nearly 200 mer
chants are represented on the Ma
con trade train that left this morn
ing for a four-day whirlwind tour of
94 towns and cities of South and
Central Georgia.
Grays, in Jones County, was the
first stop,'and to-night the train will
be at Brunswick.
Cat and 4 Kittens
Travel in Mail Bag
ROCHESTER. N. Y.. Sept. 9.—A
mail bag from New York City opened
in the local postoffice was found to
contain under the mail matter a cat
and four kittens.
All were alive and apparently un
injured.
Copper Strikers and
Non-Union Men Clash
CALUMET. MICH., Sept. 9.—Strik
ing copper miners to-day attacked
-ion-union employees going to work
In mines at Red Jacket and Laurium.
Fists and clubs were freely used, but
none was seriously injured.
The militia dispersed the mob.
Inman Park, Edgewood and Highland
Avenue. The large attendance of the
first two days indicated that the to
tal enrollment for the year easily
will reach the 26,000 mark.
OOF, OOF! A “NUTMEG" BEAR!!
CENTRAL VILLAGE, CONN.,
Sept. 9. A large black bear has been
seen two days in Griswold and near
Plainfield. It is believed to be the
same animal farmers have seen in
Groton and Stonington.
BIRMINGHAM AND RE
TURN.
SEABOARD, round trip
$2.50. Leaves Old Depot
8:30 a. m., September 22.,
Arrives Birmingham 1:30
p. m.
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
$2.50 ROUND TRIP.
Special train will leave
Terminal Station 8:00 a. m.,
Thursday, September 11th.'
Return any time until Sat
urday midnight.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY. I
FALL OPENING
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Sept. 10-11-12
A Display of the
New Millinery
and
Autumn Ready-to-Wear
Ve e invite you to come
Smith & Higgins
Walter St. or Lucile Ave. Cars
Hurtsboro Wins in
Union Depot Fight
COLUMBUS, GA., Sept. 9.—-After
a lively fight Hurtsboro, Ala., near
Columbus, has won a victory over
the Central of Georgia and Seaboard
Air Line, in its demand for a union
depot, the Alabama Railroad Com
mission having ordered the roads to
proceed, as early as possible, with
the construction of such a station.
Heretofore each road has had its
own depot, widely separated from
the other.
Mrs.Pankhurst Faces
Deportation from U.S.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—Mrs. Em
meline Pankhurst. • militant English
suffragette leader, may be deported
as an undesirable alien upon her ar
rival in this country’ early next month.
Representative Burnett, chairman
of the House Immigration Commit
tee. thinks the immigration laws
cover her case and that Mrs. Pank
hurst will not be allowed to preach
her doctrine of force.
Burlesque to Open
Columbia Theater;
First ShowSept. 15 1
Burlesque will make Its appearance
in Atlanta September 15 at the Co
lumbia Burlesque Theater, just oppo
site the Union Depot, at the foot of
Wall street.
Work of fitting out and decorating
the Columbia has been in progress
for several days, and the playhouse
is now us pretty as can be found
anywhere. It has a seating capacity
of more than 1,000 and is conven
iently arranged and comfortable. Pa
trons will be allowed to smoke. Nu
merous fans, with ventilators in
abundance, will make the place com
fortable.
The White Way Burlesque Com
pany, direct from Cincinnati, will
make the opening, and Tom Holland,
who has just returned after making
the contract, praises it highly.
It has been more than four years
since real burlesque has been seen in
Atlanta. The prices will be 15 to 50
cents, and there will be three show’s
a day—one in the afternoon begin
ning at 3 o'clock, and tw’o at night,
at 7:30 and 9 o’clock.
New Orleans Mayor
Takes Home 5 Waifs
CHICAGO. Sept. 9—Mayor Behr-
man, of New Orleans, wdth William
Allen, president of the New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce, and Theo
dore Grunewald, owner of one of
New Orleans’ finest hotels, stopping in
Chicago on the w r ay home from New
York, read of the plight of five lads
from their city who were held here
for sleeping in a park.
The three rich men, with five little
vagrant’s, occupied the best sleeping
car berths on the finest train to New
Orleans last night.
ClIILIl HIES JUTO. OUTMMIIC
PUt II Jilt CELL POLICE, SAVES LIFE
Will Be Tried as Wife Slayer on
Code Presuming Guilt—Pay
of Jurors 35 Cents a Day.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COMO, ITALY. Sept. 9—Porter
Charlton, the young American who
will be placed on trial here soon
charged with killing his wife, has
begun to write a play in his cell, 4
was learned to-day.
Charlton will be tried under th*
Napoleonic code, which prevails In
Italy, and under which the defendant
is generally presumed to be guilty
until proved innocent. The jurors w r i!l
get 313 cents a day for their services.
The dramatic effect of trials in the
Criminal Assisio Court generally is
heightened by the customs. The
King’s procurators w’ear red robes
and the president of the court wears
a black robe with gilt galloons.
Charlton has begun to study tho
Italian language.
Beware, Mashers!
Here’s a New Fate!
LOGANSPORT, IND., Sept. 9.—
Mrs. Jesse James stopped on a street
corner to speak to her father. As
she started on one young man of a
group of five said; “Where ye go-
in’?”
“Who spoke?” asked Mrs. James
pleasantly, and when the young man
admitted that it was he, the woman
struck him several times in the face,
turned to another in the crowd and
struck him. The five young men
fied.
Fire Marshal Joyner
Inspects Columbus
C’bLUMBUS, Sept. 9.-Columbus
will be inspected by the executive
committee of the Georgia Fire Pre
vention Society Thursday and Fri
day. September 25 and 26, according
to a decision reached by the members
of the committee at a meeting held in
Atlanta a few days ago.
There has not been an inspection in
Columbus in some time, but the large
number of disastrous fires of the past
two years has led State Fire Marshal
W. R. Joyner, to come to Columbus
on a tour of inspection.
$15,654 Shortage Is
Laid to Boat Captain
MEMPHIS, Sept. 9.—Charges of
his being short in accounts are made
in a suit to recover $15,654 filed
against Captain R. A. Agnew* by tho
Memphis and Arkansas City Packet
Company.
Agnew had been captain of the
steamer Kate Adams for twelve
years, but recently resigned.
Sues Husband Who
Tickles Her Feet
MAYOR CHAPPELL DELEGATE.
COLUMiBUS, Sept. 9.—Mayor
Chappell has gone to Washington,
D. C„ where he will attend the Great
Council of the Improved Order of
Red Men, being one of the two rep
resentatives from the Grand Council
of Georgia.
PITTSRURG, Sept. 9.—In her suit
for divorce filed here Mrs. Betty Kil-
lingsworth, wife of a prominent oil
operator, alleges that her husband
took delight in tickling her feet,
pinching her and dragging her from
bed while she was sleeping.
She never had a full night’s sleep,
she says, while he was home.
With Knife in Chest, Stabbing
Victim Reached Hospital Just
in Time, Surgeons Say.
Grady Nunnally, 22 years old, was
In a serious condition at Grady Hos
pital Tuesday, suffering from a deep
out in the bpeaat inflicted by James
Conklin.
The cutting took place at midnight
near the corner of Mitchell and For
syth streets, and Nunnally probabl"
owes hia life to C. C. Allen, who
rushed him to the hospital In an aa-
tomobile.
Allen made a record run, and trav-
Pled at such speed that a general
police i-larm was turned In. He
passed police headquarters at a spee 1
of 70 miles an hour, and several m >-
torcycle policemen started In pursuit
The knife was still In Nunnally'*
breast when he reached the hospital.
The surgeons said that had he been
a minute of two later in arriving
there he would have died. He ;*
expected to recover.
Allen is the autolst who was at
tacked by highwaymen Saturday
nignt while going along Garnett
street.
Macon Election Set
For September 26
MACON, Sept. 9.—Macon will elect
a Mayor on Friday, September 26,
choosing between Bridges Smith, wn<>
represents the administration: Wal
lace Miller, the candidate of the
business men's party, and Arthur L.
Dasher, an Independent. Twelve Al
dermen al9o will he chosen.
On September 17 there will be a
special election for Waterworks
Commission and Judge of the new
Municipal Court.
Gasoline Flotilla
For Ocmulgee River
MACON, Sept. 9.—A new erft. was
marked here to-day in Southern river
navigation by the departure of the
gasoline steamer Red Eagle on its
maiden voyage with a .cargo of 30
tons of merchandise for Hawkins-
ville. Lumber City and other points
on the Ocmulgee.
The channel was not deep enough
the year round to permit larger
steamboats.
FIX TIFT TAX RATE.
TUFTON, Sept. 9.—At a special
meeting of the City Council of Tifton
the tax rate for the ensuing year was
fixed at $13.50 on the thousand.
Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.
To-morrow You May Buy
Any Madame Irene Corset
in Stock at Half-Price
We are closing out these Corsets and have cut the price half in two to insure imme
diate disposal.
There are many good models to choose f rom, all sizes.
And they are just as good as if you w ere paying their regular price—$5 to $20—
instead of $2.50 to $10.
A Mustering-Out of the Last of Summer
Dresses for Girls
$1.98 for Dresses up to $5.00
Such Dresses as can be worn all fall to school, with the pretty short coats, so pop
ular with girls now.
Beautiful materials are used in the making of these dresses. Fine Gingham, Cham-
bray or Percale. Some have hand-embroidered sprays, others are trimmed with em
broideries or linen laces and velvet bows. 6 to 14-year sizes; of wonderful value at this
price—$1.98 each.
A Sale of Baby Caps at Half-Price
Fresh, beautiful Caps of fine, dainty materials—they are crisp, immaculate
—just ready to be put on a little head. There are all sizes, and instead of the
regular prices, $1 to $5, they may be ha d at 50c to $2.50.
Girls’ Rain Cape and School Bag
at $2.49— Value $4.00
No girl should consider herself ready for school until she has been provided with a
good waterproof cape, with hood, to protect her entire body. These of good mercer
ized sateen, rubber-lined, in solid colors, red or blue, have school bag which is fitted
with ruler and pencil. Sizes 6 to 14. Regular $4 value, priced at $2.49.