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Light Musical Show at the Atlanta
• Theater Lives Up to Promises.
Well Balanced.
By TARLETON COLLIER.
“Clever" is a greatly misused and
abused word. They have applied It
to everything, even to some newspa
per reporters, until It means about as
much as a story of the death of King
Menelik or the dissolution of a trust.
Too bad. With its primitive sig
nificance It might have been a handy
term for “The Merry Countess” show
which opened at the Atlanta Theater
Friday evening for two night per
formances and a matinee.
A considerable show-starved au
dience was there. Most of those who
attended came experimentally, as
“The Merry Countess” was practical
ly an unknown quantity. It promised
much, with Its Strauss music and
with glowing announcements from
those cities where it has been pre
sented. So Atlanta went, tentative
ly.
The promise was realized. “The
Merry Countess” proved bright and
entertaining, Its music fascinating
and its lines sparkling. The show
Is very light. It is true, but even
w'ith its farce-like triviality it is to
be accorded a place somewhere near
that indefinable line that technically
separates musical comedy from light
opera.
There is spice enough in the show.
Pitched in fashionable circles of Aus
tria, there is that essence of attrac
tive naughtiness in “The Merry
Countess” that in the popular imag
ination is attached to the gay life
of the Continent. But there is nothing
in the humor—and it is all humor—
that smacks of vulgarity, although
the sense of fitness was Jarred now
and then by the introduction of rank
Americanisms into the talk of these
Austrians.
Much is being said here in praise
of “The Merry Countess.” Still, it
is necessary to go a bit further, and
Bay that the voices of the cast were
excellent, easily up to the harmonious
standard of the Strauss music; that
the dancing of the well-drilled and
not too-evident chorus was pretty,
and that the costumes had an at
tractive freshness. Hence, the en
sembles naturally were pleasing.
Two dances particularly were at
tractive, that of Veta Florenz, premier
of the ballet, in the second act, and
the dance in the third act of the two
young women, whose legs—ho; your
eyes did not deceive you—w r ere frank
ly bare.
Ability to sing must be accorded
Dale Winter, who played Ilka, the
parlor maid, and Mabel Baker, as
Countess Rosalinda Cliquot, Strauss’
score was not exacting, but it was
full of nice melodies that demanded
vocal ability.
Among the men, Carl Haydn, who
played truthfully the part of Gabor
Szabo, a Hungarian flirt, and Arthur
Clough, as Count Cliquot, had capa
ble voices. The comedy characters
■were sufficiently funny, especially
Harry Carter, as Prince Orloffsky,
and Jack Henderson, as Mattori, the
Bad-eyed warder of the prison.
The story of tne show is that of
harmless love intrigues and flirta
tions among gay Austrians. At times
the foreign tone is true, but in the
second and third acts there is little
evidence of it in any of the lines or
situations.
“Pape’s Diapepsin” Ends All
Stomach Distress in Five
Minutes—Time It!
If what you just ate is sourins
on your stomach or lies like a
lump of lead, refusing to digest, or
you belch gas and eructate sour,
undigested food, or have a feeling
of dizziness, heartburn, fullness,
nausea, bad taste in mouth and
stomach headache, you can get
blessed relief in five minutes.
Ask your pharmacist to show
you the formula, plainly printed
on these fifty-eent cases of Pape’s
Diapepsin, then you will under
stand why dyspeptic troubles of all
kinds must go, and why they re
lieve sour, out-of-order stomachs
or indigestion in five minutes.
"Pape’s Diapepsin” harmless;
tastes like candy, though each dose
will digest and prepare for assimi
lation into the blood all the food
you eat; besides, it makes you go
to the table with a healthy appe
tite' but, what will please you
most, is that you will feel that
your stomach and Intestines are
clean and fresh, and you will not
need to resort to laxatives or liver
pills for biliousness or constipa-
°This city will have many "Pape’s
Diapepsin” cranks, as some people
will call them, but you will be en
thusiastic about this splendid
stomach preparation, too, if you
ever*take it for indigestion, gases,
heartburn, sourness, dyspepsia, or
anv stomach misery
Get some now, this minute, and
rid yourself of stomach trouble and
; indigestion in five minutes.
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ANSLEY CHEF LOST EYE IN DUEL
OVER DISH PREPARED FOR KING
Jean Peyrat, “The Dueling Chef,” who rules hotel kitchen
like a Martinet and swells with pride over his dainty cookery.
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Announce Home-Coming Services
for Week Before Coming of
Evangelist Bridges.
St. Paul’s Methodist Church, with
its membership of 2,000—one of the
biggest In the Southern Methodist
Church—is planning to establish a
record for attendance on home-com
ing day services in Atlanta by hold
ing a great gathering of present and
former members on Sunday week,
September 21.
The rally will be in anticipation of
the opening on the following Sunday.
September 28, of a two weeks’ series
of revival services in which the famed
evangelist, L. B. Bridges, will be the
principal preacher, and of the dedi
cation of the church on October 19,
the Sunday following the close of the
revival.
It is expected that the home-coming
day services will be attended not
only by hundreds of present and for
mer members of the church, but by
eight or ten distinguished former pas
tors.
Rev. B. F. Fraser, the pastor of
the church, during the past year has
increased the church roll by more
than 200 names. Through his efforts
also the church has become free of
debt, making possible the planned
dedication on October 19. The church
has prospered in every other respect
also. Its Sunday school Is attract
ing particular attention as one of the
most flourishing in Atlanta.
This Sunday there will be the us
ual services at the church, corner of
Sidney and Grant streets, at 11 a. m
and 7:30 p. m.
The revival will open the following
Sunday with a sermon by Evangelist
Bridges, who will be assisted during
the services by the Rev. Mr. Fraser,
the pastor, and a corps of well-known
singers.
Italian Lawmaker
To Defend Charlton
COMO, ITALY. Sept. 13.—Judge
Paul Charlton, father of Porter
Charlton, the young American ex
tradited to Italy to stand ttial for
slaying his wife, to-day retained Si
gnor Porzio, member of the Cham
ber of Deputies, to defend his son.
In spite of efforts to rush the case,
obstacles are cropping up wiiich
make it apparent the trial will not
begin until April, and perhaps later.
Charlton has given a second ver
sion of the slaying, which probably
will compel the prosecution to alter
its plans.
Recruits for Navy
Break All Records
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Reports
to-day show that since January the
Navy Department has succeeded in
getting 2,200 recruits, 600 of whom
were obtained within the last two
months. These figures break all rec
ords and are attributed to the inter
est the department is taking in the
sailor class of the navy.
The difficulty remaining with the
navy is that they have not officers
enough for the vessels with sufficient
complements.
InvestigationF ollows
Death by Live Wire
SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—Following
the death of Daniel Baran, foreman
at the Savannah Brewery, who was
electrocuted when he went to turn on
a switch, the City Electrician to-day
started a rigid investigation of wir
ing in all manufacturing plants.
Baran had only a few minutes be
fore thrown the switch off and re
ceived no shock. When he returned
to put it on, 3,000 volts passed through
his body.
French Banks Raise
$900,000,000 Loan
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
1 PARIS. Sept. 13.t—French bankers
have about completed negotiations
for gigantic loans amounting to $900,-
000,000. according to The Journal to
day. This paper states that the
money will go to the Turkish, Rou
manian, Servian, Greek, Russian,
Austrian and Spanish Governments.
A Turko-French accord has been
signed it was learned to-day.
STILL THEY DON’T KNOW.
PASSAIC, N. J., Sept. 13.—Follow
ing an argument over the amount cf
varnish in a barrel, Harry Slager
and Louis Bienfleld lighted a match
to see. An explosion followed. Both
were badly burned.
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 13.—The
arrival of General Alfred Beers, com-
rtiander-ln-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic, Friday afternoon set
in motion the program for the en
tertainment of the veterans in blue
who go into their forty-seventh an
nual encampment Monday.
The arrival of General Beers and
his staff practically opened the re
union. Veterans are coming in on
every train. The vanguard arrived
Thursday.
Chattanooga is ready for her task
and does not anticipate as much dif
ficulty aa was the case when the Con
federate veterans assembled here in
May. The managers learned how to
handle a reunion at that time.
Transportation facilities now are
greatly improved with the completion
of the surface line up Lookout Moun
tain and the one to Signal Mountain,
on Waldens Ridge.
The fact that the Grand Army re
union is devoid of social features ne
cessitating the presence and enter
tainment of maids and sponsors also
greatly lightens the work.
From external appearances, the city
is ready to open the encampment at
a moment’s notice. The decorations
all have been completed. All the
streets are arched with American
flags and festoons of electric lights.
Jealous Aide
who tried to
destroy culina
ry masterpiece,
stabbed five
times by cook
in terrific battle
vdth carving
knives in kitch
en of hotel in
France.
Last Narrow Gauge
In State to Go Soon
When the Georgia Railroad Com
mission on September 2i grants to
the Gainesville Midland Railroad the
right to issue $233,000 worth of bonds
and $325,000 worth of short term
notes, the initial step in the aboli
tion of the last narrow gauge railroad
In Georgia will be taken.
The application for the issue has
been filed with the commission with
the view of substituting standard
broad gauge equipment between Bell-
mont and Monroe, 32 miles.
$250,000 Kissimmee
Cattle Co. Formed
Chubby Frenchman Made Reputation With
Great Dinner Served Edward VII of England.
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 18.—Arti
cles of incorporation have beeen filed
at Kissimmee by the Carson Cattle
Company with capital stock of $250,-
000. C. A. Carson, J. M. Carson, C.
A. Carson, Jr., and Elizabeth B. Car-
son are the incorporators.
This company has taken over the
large herd of cattle formerly owned
by the Lesley Cattle Company. C. A.
Carson, president, is also president of
the State Bank of Kissimmee.
Opera - Star to Sing
For Minimum Wage
PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 13.—Ma
dame Schumann-Heink is to sing at a
political meeting next Tuesday night
in the interest of Everett L. Colby,
who is seeking the Progressive nom
ination for Governor.
Madame Schumann-Heink in ten
dering ner services said she was
strongly in favor of a minimum wage
for both men and women, also mu
nicipal recreation places.
Purchaser Loses
Suit Over Hotel
Charging he had been misled re
garding the character of the Eureka
Hotel, M. L. Rockmore, defendant In
a suit on a $200 note brought by
Henry Ergens, former proprietor of
the hotel, lost In the court’s decision
and asked for a new trial.
Rockmore gave Ergens a note for
$200 as part payment, but refused
to pay.
Man, 80, Drives 1,250
Miles in 46 Days
WILMINGTON, DEL., Sept. 13.—
Driving one horse and accompanied
by a dog, George W. Grant, aged 80,
arrived here from Bellaire, Ohio, hav
ing completed a drive of 1,250 miles
in 48 days.
His children live in Wilmington. He
will reside here after being absent 4G
ye&rs.
When first you enter the kitchens
of Hotel Ansley you think you are
in an inferno of clanging pans and
Jangling pots; your brain reels with
the effort to understand the French
words that are hurled back and forth,
and your neck aches with the strain
of trying to catch more than a pass
ing glimpse of the flying cooks.
But before you have time to col
lect your thoughts and remember that
when they yell “cafe noir,” “parfait,”
and “pomme gaufette,” they are talk
ing about black coffee, ice cream and
potatoes, you catch a glimpse of a
little, short, fat man, whose one good
eye twinkles with good humor, and
whose bald, shining head and brist
ling mustache, covering a perpetually
smiling rrtouth, invites confidence and
friendship.
He sits enthroned on a chair at a
little desk—the monarch of the
kitchens.
You’ve seen “The Duelling Chef”—
Jean Peyrat—and instinctively you
smile at him and with him.
It was Pcyrat’s pride in his cook
ing that caused him to fight a duel
with another cook in the kitchens
of the Hotel D’Angleterre, In Biarizt,
France, while King Edward of Eng
land sat in the dining room and wait
ed patiently for the Peyrat marvels
to appear.
It was this duel—his last—that
gave Peyrat the name of “The Duel
ling Chef,” and it was also where
he lost his right eye, his opponent
having Jabbed him in the optic with
a fork after Peyrat had hurled his
weapon from him with his own blade.
According to Peyrat’s story, he
fought the duel with another cook of
the Hotel D’Angleterre because the
latter tried to destroy a kitchen mas
terpiece he had created especially for
the dinner to King Edward.
Mad© Great Dish for King.
Peyrat moulded a monster deer and
lion, with the latter representing
England, crouched over the body of
the deer, victorious. Around the
sides of the deer and lion were placed
the lobster, the caviar and the other
good things.
As the waiters took up the master
piece to carry it into the dining room,
the jealous cook, an assistant of Pey
rat, tried to throw it to the floor.
The duel followed, In which Peyrat
lost his eye and the other cook re
ceived five knife wounds in the shoul
der.
“The dish I fix for the King,” Pey
rat says, with both tongue and shoul
ders, “it was a what you call mas
terpiece. Magnificent! Grand! Noth
ing like It had ever been seen in the
world. The King, he send me that
word I exceedingly proud when I fix
that dish. I make my reputation all
over France. This other cook was
a jealous fellow. He liked me not,
because I was not so many years as
he and yet I am chef. This fellow
amount to nothing; he is what you
call a bum, a loafer!
“I fix the grand dish. This bum
come up and say the di*h no good. I
call him a liar, a grand liar. Then
this bum try to push the dish to the
floor and destroy. I become enrage,
angry. I lose control of myself. I
strike this bum cook in the eye, and
give what you call a black peeper.
He strike back at me, but he mifs me.
He yell that my dish is not fit for the
pigs.
Fought With Carving Knives.
“Then I challenge this bum for a
duel, to fight for my beloved dish
which the King eat. I have served
in the army of France. I can fence
wfith great cleverness. I ask him
if he want to fight with the rapier
or the broadsword. He say he fight
with carving knife.
“Carving knife suit me. I handle
carving knife with same expert I
handle the rapier < nd the broad
sword. We take the position. We
begin. I laugh at this bum. He be
come greatly enraue He lunge; his
knife miss me. I laugh again. Ha!
I also am enrage. I thrust! I
lunge! Voila! I stick him in the
shoulder. I repeat- five times I stick
the bum in the shoulder. I become
tired with the sport; I disarm him.
The bum call me pig, but I laugh, for
I am victor
“Then this bum cook grab a fork
from the table and lunge at me when
I be not watching. Twice he jab
my eye with the fork. I lose the eye.
but he stay two, three months in
hospital, and never again do he cook.
He can not stand the heat of the
kitchens any more.
“But the dish for the King, It not
be destroy, so I am glad. I take pride
In the dish. The King of England
thank me for the dish.”
Burlesque, Columbia
Theater, Monday 7:30 p. m.
EXCURSION TO BIR
MINGHAM.
$2.50 round trip, Septem
ber 22. Special train leaves
Old Depot 8:30 a. m. SEA
BOARD.
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Night School at Georgia Tech
Will Open September 17. Enrollment and
Registration September 15 to 19 Inclusive
Courses in Architecture, Mechanical Draw-
i n g , Electrical Engineering, Woodwork,
Carpentry and Joinery, Foundry Practice,
Macnine Shop, Mechanical Engineering,
Mathematics, Chemistry, English.
This Night School Is a Regular Department of Ga. Tech
Contingent Fee $5 Per Term. TUITION FREE
For further information write J. N. G. Nesbit.
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Hoke Smith Plan, Favored by Wil
son, Likely to Supplant Clarke
Amendment to Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Devel
opments sine© the passage of the tar
iff bill the other day are Interpreted
by students of the subject to indi
cate that the conferees of the bill
will reject the amendment of Sena
tor Clarke, of Arkansas, taxing cot
ton futures, and will substitute in its
place the amendment of Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, which ac
complishes much the Marne effect by
a different means.
The Clarke amendment levies a tax
of one-tenth of 1 cent a pound on
the quantity of cotton described In
an agreement of sale for future de
livery, and provides heavy penalties
for violation of the statute.
Senator Hoke Smith’s amendment,
which was offered In the Senate dur
ing consideration of the bill, is in
tended to forbid the delivery on fu
ture contracts of cotton other than
according to the standards of quality
fixed by the United States Govern
ment, with the further provision that
if the seller Is unable to deliver the
quality of cotton specified In the
agreement he must pay to the buyer
the difference between the price of
the cotton he offers and the price of
the cotton specified.
Wilson Favors Smith’s Idea.
The Clarke amendment, which was
adopted by the Senate, provides that
the tax will go into effect September
1, 1914.
The conferees have not yet taken
up that part of the bill which in
cludes the Clarke amendment, and
will not reach it for some time. Nev
ertheless, great interest Is being
shown in the question, and specula
tion is rife as to what the conferees
will decide to do.
The intimation is obtained from
Majority Trader Underwood that
President Wilson is opposed to the
Clarke amendment, being apprehen
sive that it will disturb the vast cot
ton business of the South, and if the
President confirms this belief to the
conferees the amendment Is as good
as defeated.
Asa matter of fact, the reason why
Clarke and other members of the
Senate voted for the amendment was
that they believed the Farmers’
Union wanted It. Furthermore, it is
the impression here that in reality
they were personally opposed to it,
and feared it would do harm to the
cotton business. •
Conferees Oppose Amendment.
Another theory for the enactment
of the amendment is that it was put
in simply as a trade proposition, with
the expectation of giving it up if the
House would make a concession of
equal Importance. This is compli
cated by the development in the
House of quite a sentiment in favor
of the amendment which may have
some influence on the conferees. The
House conferees, however, are under-
stood to be opposed to the amend
ment.
The most important factor at pres,
ent is the attitude of the President.
It becomes particularly significant
when It is considered that SenatoT
Hoke Smith’s amendment can be
supported as an alternative. Senator
Hoke Smith is very close to the ad
ministration, and more than anyone
else is the President’s spokesman in
the Senate. Accordingly there are
good surface reasons to believe that
the President is behind Senator
Smith’s amendment.
FIVE CHILDREN
TO WORK FOR
Quite an Undertaking For
a Lady, But Mrs. Wright
Doesn’t Mind Now.
Asheville, N. C.—Mrs. Minnie
Wright, of R. F. D. No. 1, this city,
says: "X don’t think there Is any
medicine made that would have done
me the good Cardul, the woman’s
tonic, did. I have five children to
work for, and I praise Cardul for giv
ing me the good health to do It.
"I was in a delicate condition, on
account of a relapse of measles which
left me in a bad shape, and I also
had severe headaches and backache.
Was In too bad a fix for anyone to
live, It seemed to me.
”1 was told that my only chance
was an operation, but I decided to try
Cardul instead. I only took two bot
tles, and now I am well and strong
again.
“I don’t believe there Is any medi
cine on earth that will help suffering
women as Cardul will. I have already
gotten several ladies to try it, and I am
going to continue to recommend your
medicine.”
For more than 50 years Cardul has
been successfully used In the treat
ment of womanly Ills. It has been
found to relieve women’s pains and
strengthen women’s weakness.
If you are a woman and suffer
from any of the ailments peculiar to
your sex, we urge you to give Cacdui
a trial. It has helped more than a
million women in the past half cen
tury, and will do the same for you if
given a fair triad.
Your druggist sells Cardul.
N. B.—Write to: Chattanooga Medicine
Co., Ladies’ Advisory Dept., Chattanoo
ga, Tenn., for Special Instructions on
your case and t>4-page book, “Home
Treatment for Women,” sent in plain
wrapper.—(AdvLJ
The Tale ol
A Gold
Plated People
is stranger than that of the fabled
El Dorado. It deals with a wonderful
vanished race whose ruins have been
discovered in South America by Pro
fessor Saville, the distinguished arch
aeologist of Columbia University, and
will be told in
SUNDAY’S
MERICAN
This alluring discussion, combined
with the regular features—sporting,
cable, financial, theatrical, society and
news of the modern world in general—
will go to make up an
CARAT
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NEWSPAPER
which can not he duplicated at any
price. And it is delivered at every
door in Dixie for five cents. There are
dozens of features in it that are each
worth twice the money. There’s a
striking color page concerning
The Most Forgetful
Beauty in Europe
and a fashion article by Lady Duff
Gordon on
Autumn Oddities
From Paris
Moreover Madame Lina Cavalier!
will answer beauty questions; so what
more could a woman want. The wise
reader orders early from the dealer or
by phoning Main 100.