Life — June 7, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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488 A Rub of the Green. PON the grassy links one day With Mabel I was playing; The caddie was too far away To hear what we were saying. I gathered sand and made a tee When, fired by inspiration, — This ball should read my fate for me,— And then in trepidation, “This, Mabel, is my heart,” said I, “See at your fect 'tis Lying She, laughing, raised her dri And sent the ball a-tlyi I lightly veiled my deep intent ; To her it little mattered That in my heart she'd made a dent And all my hopes were shattered. Now oft when with the ball I start ‘To place it in position, Demure she asks, ‘Is that your heart In evident contrition. For though I can’t help seeing ‘She likes to play with hearts, Lown I lack the sand for teeing. * George Gilbert Cranford, MICUS: This famine in India is a terrible thing. Everybody is talking about it. Manacer: Eferypody talking apout it? I vonder if ve couldn’t get Belasco or Strange to dramatize it for us. Evidence Under Oath. LThas been the fashion for the sub- Aidized critics who represent the Theatrical Trust in the columns of the daily press to sneer at the charges against that Hebraic syn- dicate as having no foundation in fact, The following statcments from testimony “before the United States Industrial Commission go to show that the | newspaper advocates of the Trust may be mistaken or dishonest. Mr. Lee M. Hart, fieneral Secretary-Treasurer of the National Alliance of Tileatrical Employes, is on the stand. } ° ° ° What the ‘rust does for the public: Q.: Task you what, in your judgment, has been the regult? Has it been advantageous oF otherwise to the general public or not? A.: Well, I do not think it has been very advuntageous ; I thiok it has been a detriment to some extent. Q.: Do you'think it has had any tendency to elevate the class of performances? A.2_ It has In some ways and in others it has not.’ During the last year or two the produc- tions have not been of a character that have beea morally or artistically above the standard, but they have been rather of a mediocre kind and sometines below the standard. Ifa man and lis family desire to go to a first-class theatre that ix all they can get. Q.2! He has got to take what the syndicate giveshim? | A.: Got to take what they give him, 8 the Theatrical Syndicate, gener- ing, practically control the theatrical Q. ally sper business of tha country? A.: They do; they control practically the Mrs. wroductions of the country. Fiske and Mir: Herno are about the only people that aro going independently and playing independently and producing thelr own plays independently. .: (By Mr. Mantle.) So that they exist, Mrs. Fiske and Mr. Herne? 41; They are successful, bat the; A, are put to a great deal of inconventence, suppose ; AERIAL REPARTEE. “MAN | YELL Lose YRRE LIFEI” The Bird : NO SMOOTING ALLOWED, Kil! I GUESS I'LI, MOVE MY PAMILY HERE TO-MORROW. “NOP—1'M FINDING MY LIVING."