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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.
Theatrical
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.. _>E FEATHERS" PLEASES WIL
)L, MINGTON.
Ip’ine Feathers,” the powerful drama
scored such a tremendous hit
ttt the Grand last season returns again
to the Grand tomorrow matinee and
evening. The Morning Star of Wil
mington, N. C., in speaking of the play
this season had the following today:
“Full of action and intensely dra
matic situations is "Fine Feathers,”
which was presented at the Academy
of Music last night by a company of
players that Is much above the aver
age. There was not a large audience
but those who did go expressed
no regret. It's tragedy for the. most
part, but there is enough comedy to
furnish many laughs. There are times
when the interest is keyed up almost
to the breaking point and occasionally
the ladies found a handkerchief con
venient.
The cast is well balanced and each
and everyone plays his or her part un
usually well. Marise Naughton as Jane
Reynolds has a hard part to play, but
she is always equal to the occasion.
Allen Leiber as Robert Reynolds and
R. E. Lee Hill as John Brand, a busi
ness man, both are fine. By no means
should Marjorie Maxwell, the neigh
bor, be left out. She is typically
Irish to the core and always ready to
have her say. Thurlow White as
Dick Mead, the young newspaper man,
is bright, breezy and always ready
with just the right suggestion. Agnes
Elliott as the servant, who constantly
says ‘yessum,’ to every question
brings many laughs.
The play deals with those problems
that are supposed to confront many
young married people—-and no doubt
do. The press agent advertised the
play as one of rapid action and with
many changes in atmosphere. In that
he is right and because this is true it
requires real artistic ability to itre
sent the play.
The play seems always to be point
ing towards a moral, but is true to
human life in that it never reaches a
concrete moral truth in just the form
that the story books would, have It.
The different influences involved be
come twined and intertwined so that
one wonders how they are all to be
dissected and as in real life they are
left at the end of the play unsolved.
For those interested in the questions
that confront those living in the midst
of a complicated civilization, the play
furnishes an ideal means and is well
worth seeing.”
Mclntyre and heath scores
BIG WITH WASHINGTON.
Mclntyre and Heath in their great
musical comedy success, “The Ham
Tree,” tvill be seen at the Grand next
Tuesday evening only. Mclntyre and
Heath have with them the most won
derful chorus ever seen with a musi
cal comedy. The Evening Star of
Washington, In speaking of these two
noted comedians, the company and the
play, had the following to say:
“Admirers of Mclntyre and Heath
had another opportunity last night to
see these famous old “Georgia Min
strels,” as they have come to be
known, in “The Ham Tree,” at the
Belasco Theater. They are always
funny and they always arouse the
heartiest laughter in their audiences,
particularly among those who remem
ber the old-time minstrelsy.
Aside from their work last night’s
audience found in the antics of Ebe
nezer, the trained mule, the greatest
opportunity for new appreciation. He
was a whole show in himself.
Hoary with age, and mellow, too, as
the “Georgia Minstrel” sketch is, there
has been grafted on to it, by some
I.uther Burbankian trick of stage
craft, a trained, up-to-date chorus
which, so far as dancing goes, is one
of the most finished products of the
stage today. For the training of this
chorus the program says Ned Way
burn is responsible. He is to be con
gratulated.
Most of the mirth-provoking lines
of the show center about the mythical
“Ham Tree,” and the visions of pos
sible food for the stranded and hungry
minstrels conjured by the declaration
that there is such & tree. Absurdity
is carried to Its height, comically to
its limit. It may be questioned
whether there ever was a funnier
piece of farce.
Theatergoers will undoubtedly be
attracted by the magic names of Mc-
Intyre and Heath as long as they are
presented. Their ideal presentation
nowadays, it might seem, would be in
something not quite so familiar as
“The Horn Tre,.”
“BRINGING UP FATHER.”
“Bringing Up Father,” a musical
comedy based on George McManus’s
cartoons now running In over five
hundred dally and Sunday newspapers
throughout the United States and
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A Tense and Gripping Scene in “Fine Feathers,'’ at the Grand Tomorrow, Matinee and Evening.
Canada will be the next attraction at
the Grand next Thursday. The best
recommendation that can possibly be
given "Bringing Up Father” is the fact
that Mr. Gus Hill is the producer, if
the cartoon did not show pronounced
assurance of success as a play, Mr.
Hill never would have considered the
proposition to produce it for the stage.
Theatrical history giver reason for the
assertion that a Gus Hill play is a
success before the first curtain rises.
So much for experience and judg
ment as to what the public' demands
in the shape of musical entertainment.
Mr. Hill is the first producer to in
troduce a Vaudeville cast into a mus
ical comedy. In fact "Bringing Up
Father” is a high-class vaudeville
show with a comedy plot, interspers
ed with specialties and "gingered”
by the inevitable chorus of pretty
girls, who sing and prance about to
connect the various vaudeville acts.
“THE TOLL OF LABOR,”
REALISTIC STORY OF
THE MINES, AT STRAND
"The Toll of Labor,” adapted from
Emile Zola's great novel "Germinal,
is being shown at The Strand at 5
and 10 cent prices today and tonight
only. It is a five-part Pathe play,
and is one of the most wonderfully
realistic stories of the mines.
A synopsis of the story follows:
The mechanic Etienne Lantier is a
competent workman, out of a job,
whose tempestuous disposition is mu'e
than atoned for by a good heart. With
bundle in hand he looks for work,
from town to town and in vain until
he comes to the coal mines of Mont •
sou. Luckily for him there is a va
cancy because of a workman being
absent and the foreman Maheu hires
him at the suggestion of his daughter
Catherine who dressed as a man is
wont to work like a man in the mines
Lantier creates an impression on her
and she takes his part much to the
chagrin of her accepted lover, Chaval,
an unworthy and violent man. Lau
tier fails to recognize her as a woman
until after sharing her lunch with him
in the depths of the mine, her hair
falls from under her miner's headgear.
Ffom that moment he devotes his
whole heart to her.
At the end of the day’s labor, Lan
tier, who has excited a fierce jealousy
in Chaval, is invited by Maheu to be
come a boarder at his home and he
joyfully accepts.
The Engineer Negrel, making his
daily descent into the mine finds the
shoring timbers holding up the earth
in a bad state and ready to fall. He
makes a report recommending that
the woodwork be immediately and
properly repaired so as to avoid acci
dent. The company, however, posts a
notioe saying that because the wood
work has to be repaired the price re
ceived by the miners per car of coal
mined will be decreased. This arbi
trary and unfair notice causes much
discontent and anger among the mi
ners. A mass meeting is called for at
the Cabaret Hasseneur; Souvarine, an
anarchistic workman advocates violent
measures. Lantier opposes this and sug
gests concerted action. The anger of
the workmen breaks out afresh when
they begin to receive their reduced
wages and urged on by Lantier,. whose
influence' Is growing, they vote to
strike.
In the meantime Catherine, though
in love with Lantier, dares not go back
on her word to Chaval and marries
him.
The story runs on, absorbingly in
teresting, and before the end the
workmen and their employers, forget
ting their animosities, unite. Through
an abandoned pit they come near to
Catherine and Lantier. Their signals
being answered by the prisoners they
redouble their exertions. By impru
dence, however, an explosion takes
place which kills many of the res
cuers and sets back the work. Among
those killed is Catherine’s brother.
When the workers finally pierce the
intervening walls they find only Lan
tier alive for Catherine lies dead in
his arms. When the unconscious man
is brought into the daylight and at
last opens his eyes It is the bereaved
Negrel who with a heart of sympathy
comforts him in his grief when he sees
the body of his dead sweetheart.
Broken in spirit he sees injustice rule
and the poor pay’ the piper.
GIVEN GERMAN CARE.
Berlin (by wireless). —According to
Information given out officially today
the German military authorities, when
they discovered that certain dwelling
houses in the neighborhood had been
burned down by the French, took care
of the French civilians to the number
of 140, who had been living in the
open. Among them were many women
and children. All tvere sent to Ras
tatt, near Karlsruhe, where they were
given shelter in hte arsenal.
Acme Play Today, “America,” Wonderful N. Y.
Hippodrome Success
The New York Hippodrome Com
pany. announces for presentation at
the Grand today, afternoon and night,
a mastodonic photo-play production
of "America,” which introduces with
marvelous Illusion the many wonders
of our glorious country, and that, too,
in a manner never before attempted.
This brillit nt spectacle which marks
a new epoch in realism, was repro
duced directly from the Messrs. Shu
bert's masterpiece of the same name,
which taxed the capacity of the New
York HippodroYne during one entire
season with enraptured audiences and
was unanimously acclaimed, by critic
and layman, to be the most dazzling
exposition of artificial scenic investli
tore and novelty ever conceived by the
brain of man. “America” is recorded
on 7,000 feet of photo-play film with
a new thrill in every foot and pro
vides almost two hours of unprece
dented enjoyment.
“America,” even on the vast Hippo
drome stage was considered stupen
dous. In tho film it is even more so.
The cumulative effect of the manifold
features leaves the spectator gasping
in wonder and astonishment by its
unparalleled magnificence. It por
trays with absolute fidelity the in
finite wonders of this great land and
‘ ‘AMERICA”
“Acme” Play at THE
GRAND Tonight.
BO YOU KNOW THAT:
It is possible now for the first time
to bring the New York Hippodrome
to you? Since the opening of this
great institution, ten years ago, every
body was obliged to go to the Hippo
drome. During that period over 27,-
000,000 people paid admission to seo
the glittering spectacles produced
there.
An elephant opens the Hippodrome
entertainment, “America,” by bowing
"How d'ye do” to the audience and
closes the show by nodding, “Bye,
bye.”
There is a truly wonderful Inven
tion utilized In “America,” which per
mits scores and scores of pretty girls
to walk Into the famous Hippodrome
tank and disappear remaining under
water for a period of ten minutes.
Over 500 stage hands were required
to manipulate scenery and properties
for the moving picture production of
“America," and that a thousand per
sons compose the cast of characters.
A very Interesting fact in connection
with the film production of "America"
is that it could never have been made
anywhere else on earth except in the
mammoth New York Hippodrome. The
vast size and the admirable equipment,
together with the military-like discip
line maintained in every department of
the institution made it possible to do
that which anywhere else would have
proved a waste of time. The filming
of “America” is to the cinematograph
industry what the construction of the
Panama Canal is to the science of en
gineering and reflects only the high
est credit on those responsible for its
realization.
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Acme Play at Grand Monday,
Scene From “Arizona.”
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
yet, at the same time, embellishes
and idealizes them so that a compre
hensive description is impossible: they
must be seen to be appreciated in all
their remarkable impressiveness.
For years and years the slogan of
patriotic citizens, and Secretaries of
Boards of Trade and Chambers of
Commerce, has been to “See America
First." for not even In the most pic
turesque countries of Europe are the
natural marvels of this continent
equalled, much less surpassed. Here
tofore, however, to see America prop
erly, Involved some two years of In
convenient travel, to say nothing of
the cost in good American money,
whereas today, ydu need only sit In
a comfortable opera chair and watch
this tremendous panarama of start
ling magnificence unfold Itself before
your astonished gaze. And mind jspu,
in the theater you get dramatic thrills
that beyond doubt will raise the
hackles of your spine, and which you
would unquestionably miss if travel
ing personally, unless you w'ere unfor
tunately in a train wreck.
The plunge of tho big red automo
bile over the embankment and into
the Colorado River in the Grand Can
yon of America; the passing of the
great trans-Atlantic steamer through
the Panama Canal and the disappear
ing of scores and scores of beautiful
girls under the surface of the water
in the great Hippodrome Tank scene,
are a few of tho things that defy
graceful equilibrium when seeing the
sights for the first time.
PD A Lin TOMORROW
unflNU Matinee & Eve.
F. A. WADE PRESENTS
“FINE FEATHERS”
By Eugene Walters.
A Stirring Drama in Four Acts.
Seats Now Selling.
Prices—Matinee, 25c, 35c, 500,
75c, SI.OO. Evening, 25c, 35c,
50c, 75e, SI.OO, $1.50.
School Children at the Matinee,
25 cents.
GRAND
Tuesday, Oct.
jomn'Sort presents
mgintyre
and HEATH
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In a Massive Rev|val dt.' j
Their .Biggest Musical
Comedy Success
THE HAM TREE
Company of tob.
Special Ham Tree Orchestra
The World’s Greatest
Dancing Cho|us
, Staged by Nrd Wnybilru
Prices: 50c to $2.00.
SEATS SATURDAY.
STRANDcontimiously
That Wonderful Story of Emile
Zole’s "Gorminal,” Dramatized
into
“TheTollof Labor”
In Five Stupendous Parts. A
Wonderfully Realistic Story of
the M'nes. Gripping and In
spiring.
Prices—sc and 10c All the
Time.
THE BEST—BO COME!
LOWEST PRICES OUR CHIEF ATTRACTIONS
SCHNEIDERS
THE PEOPLED STORE - A STORE FOR EVERYBODY
If You Are Economically Inclined, Try Us
This Store Always Open Until 10:30 Saturday Night
BARGAINS!
LADIES’ GLOVES
Ladies’ two-clasp, French kid
gloves, in black, white and tan,
at before-the-war QQ
prices—pair »
SILK GLOVES
Ladies’ trllk lisle gloves, the
two-clasp kind, in black, white
and colors —buy them C _
tomorrow at, pair
£ I -j Now buys a Suit of
Boys’ Clothes all
wool.
FINE CORSETS
R. & G. make Corsets, all styles
and all sizes, 49c
BLACK SATIN
Full, 36-inch, black satin, every
thread pure %llk,
at, yard w C
(C $ fl Q Now buys a good
*P1.90 misses’ School Cloak,
worth $6.00.
BED SPREADS
Large size, Marseilles pattern
bed spreads, worth QQ.
SI.OO, at 7CC
HANDKERCHIEFS
Ladles’ white handkerchiefs,
made of good quality handker
chief lawn, a special for V
tomorrow, at, each IVe
MEN’S SHIRTS
Men’s best quality work shirts,
made of blue chambray, collars
attached, 39c
j |r"v Now buys children’s
1 Union Suits, ribbed,
fleeced lined.
SALE OF GOOD
BLANKETS AND
FINE COMFORTS
Cotton Blankets
Largs, 11-quarter Cotton Blan
kets, and large, heavy Comforts,
covered with good QQ
satteen, at 7vv
Mixed Blankets
lairge 11-quarter, wool mixed
blankets, extra heavy, good
Plaid Blankets
11 -quarter, plftfrl find plain, wool
mixed blanket*. Theft* are beau
tl**e. Re* them O Q
at, pair
Wool Blankets
All pur* lamb’s wool blankets,
11-quarter size, extra good values,
and a good buy •% Qfl
at, pair
Fine Comforts
Flxtrw quality, wittf«*n covered
rom forte, filled with good cotton,
and a big CO Oft
buy at
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$11.75 and $17.50
Misses’ Coal<|* Q *T C
Suits at J
One lot of Misses’ all-wool Suits, worth up to
SIB.OO. These are guaranteed satin-lined, and a big
value.
Serge and Satin d* A C
Dresses at
Ladies’ regular SIO.OO Dressses, made of good
quality all-wool serges and satins, special.
FINE SKIRTS |
Ladies’ all-wool serge and poplin Skirts, $5.00 to
SIO.OO values, all made in the very newest styles and
a special value. We have divided these in two lots at
$2.95 and $3.98
SAMPLE WAISTS
Another lot of sample Waists. Just three hundred in
this shipment of Waists worth up to SI.OO, or
all kinds. Don’t fail to see these at I*O C
NEW FALL HATS
AT
98c
Ladies’ Velvet Hat Shapes
and Silk Plush Hats, in
black and colors, worth up
to $3.00, at 98^
Silk Crepe De Chine 49 QC
Waists at JO
Ladies’ pretty silk crepe de chine Waists, in black
and all colors, and good quality satin-lined Waists,
worth up to $5.00, to sell tomorrow.
Children’s Hats |Qg
Two hundred Children’s Silk Velvet Hats, worth $2.50,
and special for this big sale at $1.68
Children’s Wash TAr'
Dresses at OJv
Children’s Wash Dresses, made of good quality ging
ham, madras, percales, etc. Sizes two to fourteen
years, values up to SI.OO, to sell tomorrow at .. . .39c
Women’s House
Dresses at
Ladies’ House Dresses, a new make, fine quality mate
rial used in these. Regular $2.00 values and
special at 98c
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Women’s and Men’s I AJ?
RAINCOATS
Ladies’ and Men’s Rubber Raincats, extra long and
guaranteed rainproof. Special tomorrow.. .. $1.98
Ilj^
New Fall
Coat
Suits
Two hundred
Ladies’ new fall
Suits just un
packed—the cream
of the season's
styles, handsome
sal In finish broad
cloths, beauti
ful all-wool
serges, rich pop
lins, fine gabar
dines, pretty di
agonals, etc., all
lined with Skin
ner's and gunr
anteed s.a 11 i.
These stilts are
worth $25.00 to
$35.0a
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