Life — April 6, 1905 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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listed and starved out by the Trust, and on account of the personal spite of its members, can’t be heard from on the subject of this tender solicitude. One very intelligent writer on a weekly magazine has lately had something to say about high prices and hotel premiums on theatre tickets, and this, too, has been laid at the door of th Mr. K syndicate, not “syndi- Thank yor y, only Lire said Trust, cate, Remember that in America the critic is always cordially welcome, no matter how severe his critique may be, ad that cordial welcome called to its quite frequently of late. attention IFE was mistaken in its estimate of the courage of the Harrises who run the Hudson Theatre. Lire's repre- sentative wa ness a per‘orm- ance of Mr, Robert Edeson and his excellent: company in “Strongheart,” and printed a review of the piece with complimentary allusions to the wisdom of the Harrises in running their theatre in their own way. Since then the Theatrical ‘Trust has brought its deadly influence to bear, and Lirr’s critic was excluded from the first representation at the Hudson. Another fine illustration of al spine. admitted to this house to wi . . * S$ a question which is the more re- the wonders of the Barnum and Bailey Circus or the verbal magnificence Mr. Todie Hamilton displays in describing them in the advertisements of the circus. It would be and doubtless is difficult for either of them to live up tothe other. Sometimes we think Mr. Hamilton is ahead; for instance, when we read such rhetor- ical gems as ‘Bidding a bold defiance to Death, two di hero artists undertake a fearful frolic ful flight with fate."” “An astounding and audaciously mal act. with a fascinating, furious, flitting fight, doubly discounting all dev ever done “A peerless, perilous, preeminent, puzzling, prodigiou plunge, perfectly and prettily performed —the dip of death, markable ing and fright- awful aby fugacious, This makes is rather a large order, but the circus as remarkable as the strenuous efforts to fill it, and is descriptions in the quantity and quality of entertainment provided, OMPLET ties, added. 2 as the circus is in acts and curiosi- 1 group showing “ Lawson Defy Herr Conried simultaneously taming two tenors and the Boston public. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan in his £ mon steel, Bishop Potter mi Lire and its highly amusing troupe of perfort 1 manager: Mr. Gas Addicks refusing Senator from Delaware. President Vreeland and a collection of New York men n be done in ous tricks with com- ing drinks on the parallel bars, ning t rica an election as United Si and women showin packing a street-car, hanging acar while in motion, ete. Mrs. Cha “The Millions What Wasn't. Theodore Roosevelt and his celebrated trick elephant, SGLOnPe* John W. Gates entering a den of s: Andrew Carnegie tossing seventy in the air without the aid of a net The American Board of Foreign Missions handing back $100,000 to John D. Rockefeller. John D, Rockefeller refusing it. Villiam J. Bryan, the Nebraska laugh-me little donk ‘The Democratic Party.” Russell Sage presenting six million dollars for the en- dowment of a national the age bears. even public libraries ker, and his Dex? frightened, Mr, District Attorney, by Oscar Hammerstein's threats to kick you out of his variety show. Oscar's bark is worse than his kick. Metcalfe. comicbooks.com