St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 9, 1908

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“Classmates.” torie. years, Musical PLAYGOERS’ GUIDE. CENTURY—Robert Impossible West peint melodrama. ny handicaped by play. OLYMPIC—James O'Neil in rep- Competent productions. Company stronger than in past GRAND—“The Isle of Spice.” comedy. Edeson -in Good compa- Bright and CARS BEGINNING TO MOVE NUMBER IDLE DECREASING Railway Association’s Report Shows Decline in Trafic Has Been Checked. NEW YORK, March 9.—That the de- cline in railroad traffic, which reached such heavy proportions in January, was checked early in February is indicated by the most recent reports of the Com- * oS that the number of idle cars in the United States and Canada was smaller by over 20,000 cars on Feb. 19 than it was two weeks earlier. That the number of idle cars is still so large as to give much concern to railroad managers cannot be gainsaid, but some encouragement, at least, ts found by railroad men in the fact that there are fewer aa orgy now = — the beginning of the year. e ne surplus of cars on Feb. 19 was 319,264. 500 Men Wanted To send their shirts and collars to Mon-

Wife, Who Was His Model, Finds Painter Dead. CHICAGO, March 9.—Frederick War- ren Freer, painter of beautiful women, who had won world-wide fame, died suddenly at his home from heart dis- ease. Mrs. Freer, whom the artist first met as his model, was prostrated when she found her husband, whom she had left i is L

well and happy, dead. arch Laundry. Famous flexible finish. Mrs. Freer was m.del for some of the mittee on Car Efficiency of the Ameri- Both phones. 2719-25 Franklin avenue. can Railway Association, which shows

-INCLASSMATES! Weird West Pointers Tread the Boards at the Cen- tury This Week. Amend, UVut it will cure rheumatism. ee eee clean, with catchy music. Well staged and costumed. AMERICAN—New vaudeville bill opens today, with McMahon’s Minstrel Maids as topliners. COLUMBIA—New vaudeville bill opens today, with the Fadette Women’s Orchestra as leading feature. IMPERIAL — “Through Valley.” Thrilling melodrama, Real Pleasing specialties. HAVLIN’S—‘‘The Gambler From the West.” Frontier melo- drama. Company fair. Musical specialties good. STANDARD—The Gay Toreadors. Burlesque and vaudeville. GAYETY—Fred Irwin’s New Ma- jestics. Burlesque and vaude- ville. a ES wea =

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ALL’ TALK—NO_ FIGHT

$6 Steel Couches, $2.98} = Guaranteed never-sag material link springs; Tuesday at..., 25c Corset Covers, 0c Women’s Corset Covers of soft nainsook, lace trimmed back and front; values for Tuesday 5c Drawers, &5¢ Children’s Drawers of’ quality muslin, neatly ished with cluster tucks f years; none sent (2 pair to a customer); , C. aa only ¢aaastsees for Tuesday only ors $12,00 Suits for $5.95 50c Bread Dox, 29¢ AF Misses Spring Suits, the very newest Nicely decorated ; regular re models, including Prince Chap: 50c value for only..... None sent C.O.D. style Skirts, gored, plaited style, ie | if | With 3-inch fold of self Even China Could Wallop Us If Such Were Our Army Officers. | a = " ~~ —= —— u {~ => exp Whe, > Heavy Iron best guaranteed for 2 (’ West Point fn reality produced such fin- ] material for American army officers as is pictured in “Classmates,” which began its engagement at the Cen- tury last night, we'd be in danger of a licking every day in the week. ~ Any little old measly country that could fight hard enough to keep itself warm would be able to “put it all over us,” as the slang phrase has it,- because our wearers of shoulder straps would be talking bombast and making grand-stand plays to the gallery and in- dulging in mock-heroics before admir- ing girls or flattering mirrors when they should be attending strictly to the fighting business. Honestly, you never Saw such make-believe sons of Mars in ail your born days. ~-It isn’t the fault of Mr. Robert Ede- gon, who's a right manly chap wher he has the chance, or of any of his as- sociates in the cast—the trouble seems to be that “Classmates” is written by @ man and a woman—Mr. William C. De Mille and Miss Margaret Turnbull ~whose conception of the ‘West Poini product is a weird combination of fudge-fed four-flushers and mamma- made mollycoddles calculated to tempt even China herself to invade this coun- try and wallop us every little while just ‘to prove that there’s one other nation on earth less militant than she. Never ‘for a moment can you doubt this—see- ing “Classmates” and its amazing West Point output.

nee eae OO SOV? oF Socwety $000 0000000 eeeed N unusually interesting engagement A announced Monday was that of Miss Lucille Kelley, daughter vf Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Kelley, and Mr. Charles R. Bluffs, Io. Hannan Jr. of Council Mr. Hannan is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hannan of Boston. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is prominent in society and business circles of Council Bluffs. Miss Kelley is a graduate of Mary and later spent two years at a fash- ionable school in Pittsfield, Mass. The lurcheon was given at the Buckinghan), where Mr. and Mrs. Kelley and their fainily have had apartments since clos- ing their Lindel! boulevard home. The table was graced by a big cular mound of jonquils, from which ra. diated pale blue ribbons to the guests’ places, where there were dainty water color sketches of Cupids, hearts and arms. The yellow

Broadway and Franklin Saturday, 10 P. M.- DecoratedJ oilet Sets, Only 42 sets of these, consisting of a large Bowl, Pitcher, Slep Jar, Chamber and Soap Dish; regular price $2.75; Tuesday....«.. Brussels Room Rugs, $ Beautiful floral tal patterns; size 9x13; while 50

Store Opens 8 A. M., Closes 6 P. M. 98 ( - Wall Paper

Material: very special $4 Spring Jacket, ¢ Jaunty Short Jackets; fitted and semi-fitted styles; well lined, neatly tailored; special, Tuesday only

=“) 3 rolls | 3,98 75c Pants, 27¢

12 rolls plain Duplex, Border, 8 rolls Ceiling to match; $8.60 value; Tues- day only 75c Boys’ Pants, made with double stitched tape, patent waist- band, strictly all-wool materials; bloomer styles; sizes 3 to 97 15; Tuesday only a C Second Floor. 4c Joilet Paper, Ic We will place on sale 200 rolls of Toilet Paper, soft finish, Tuesday in Base- ment; each

—— 25c Window Shades, Window Shades; size 3x6; made of heavy opaque cloth, on _ good spring rollers; worth 25c; Tues- day’s rapid selling, complete c; Dip iT WITH MY LITTLE HATCHET ” on = cen fa

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Communion Wreath, ' dozen Communion Wreaths; worth 50c and 75¢; all go at one price Tuesday (Millinery Dept.)... lsc Ladies’ Gauze Vest, 5c 39¢c Embroidery. rare Suet tod only" 5e | 8c Gmbrellas llas ad Embroidered Flouncing and Cor- 19c Ladies’ ose, 5c Main Floor—dAisle set-Cover Embroidery, 15 and 18 Hem top; in gauze, liste ATF 75c Jhirts, 25¢ inches wide, on Swiss and Nain- sook; dainty patterns; Tuesday... ; . and medium-weight Men's and Boys’ Flannelette Night- shirts and Pajamas; Silk Crepe de Chine, 27-inch All-Silk Crepe de Chine, Main Floor—dAijisle §8. J2:¢ Curtain Swiss, We place on sale 300 yards of Curtain Swiss: double width; regular 12%c value; Tuesday's special at only

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our reg- ular price; double value Ta ma errantry prevails. The Point cadets at no time sound the true note of young iron-blooded manhood that they should; vou never feel that there’s one among them who could give a good account of himself in a real shindy. And after that, especially in the play’s ‘‘big scene,’’ the jungles of the Amazon, where Mr. Ede- son as Duncan Irving, the hero, rescues Mr. Waliace Eddinger, as Bert Stafford, the villain—well, of all the spiteful, un- manly bickerings and cat-spittings, the ‘vou dids’’ and ‘‘you didn’ts,’’ that ever you heard in vour life, it’s right here! It’s a great pity, too, because a mighty good play could be written along the lines attempted in ‘‘Classmates’’~but it will have to be written by someone who really knows what West Point training amounts to and the excellent quality of soldierly manhood turned out by the Point. Mr. DeMille and Miss Turnbull do not possess this knowledge—in addi- tion to all their other sins in the play, they couldn't have shown us such a ca- det as the low-comedy fat boy, ‘‘Bubby”’ Dumble, conscientiously played by Mr. Frank J. McIntyre, and expected to es- cape justified ridicule if they had the faintest idea of the West Point of actual reality. Players Pinay in Vain. And so, because of these plain truths, “Classmates” is not to be seriously con- sidered as a drama. With a few, a very few, changes, it might pass muster in musical comedy, but nowhere else. Messrs. Edeson and McIntyre and Ed- dinger and Ainsworth and Misses Pau- line Anthony and Marjorie Wood and Maude Granger and others do their level best to make the play seem like the real thing, but they're attempting the im- possible. The audience last night was most amicably disposed toward the of- fering.. It tried to applaud enthusias- tically at certain moments, only a few men in the house laughed at certain other moments when the West Point “bunch’’ was indulging in posing stunts that would have made a genuine West Point lad sick at the stomach, but it was all a mere question of endurance. When the last curtain fell it was upon an audience that had never really “thrilled” for one moment. And ‘“‘Class- mates’’ calls for thrills or nothing— it's sheer melodrama in every inch of its warp and woof. Only it's poor melodrama—that’s the unpardonable sin. Wherefore the enmity between Duncan Irving and Bert Stafford doesn’t impress ‘| you very much, and their tribulations in the Amazon swamps fail to strike you as being so terrible—they talk vou dog- tired, don't you Know—and you never really care whether Duncan Irving res- cues Bert Stafford and wins Sylvia Ran- dolph or not, and you go away from the playhouse grievously disappointed. All because you've seen a lot of im- possible puppets labeled “West Point- ers’? and behaving like anything else in all the world but West Pointers. It won't do—nature can not be fooled with in this manner. a summer encampment at West Point, The “Real Thing” Never Materializes. | t® the play's very ending, when the hero From the rise of the first curtain on | wins the heroine and all ends happily, the scene showing a company street in this atmosphere of parlor-carpet knight- and blue thus artistically used carried out the University of Michigan colors. The eighteen guests in- cluded Miss Kelley’s classmates and fm- timate friends. No date has been an- nounced for the wedding.

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49c Linen Squares, 50c Union Linen 5 B0xB0; hemstitched, with ome of drawnu- work; double value for Tues- eeeeeee een weeeede

in many colors, with floral de- signs and plain shades; special (in Silk Department) at 20c Plaid Suiting, 9:30 to 10:30—1200 yards of Scotch Plaid Suiting, in’ light, dark - and medium effects, and some Shepherd check; per yard th | Visit Our Basement Juesday for Genuine JZargains ) | toc Challis, | 1 200 yards of all-new Challis, just arrived, in latest patterns; remnant lengths; Tuesday, per yard ’ The engagement of Miss Addie Cole- man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Coleman, 4215 Russell avenue, and Mr. Henry G. Chapman, is announced. The wedding will take place in June, *e ef 75c and 50c Shirts. 8 to 9 O’Cleock—50 dozen Men's Negligee Shirts; big Me ane 7 of patterns; one hour only (Main Floor, Aisle 8) veers

EATING WITH HIS ~STOMACH That’s what the man who bolts his food without thoroughly chewing it, tries to do. This is particularly true when he uses soft, starchy foods, which seldom get the necessary digestion by the saliva, as nature intended, be- cause most people swallow such foods as quickly as possible. This leads to weakened digestive organs, fermentation, imperfect nutrition, and sometimes appendicitis. Grape-Nuts must be chewed, and for this as well as other reasons, this food has saved many from chronic intestinal troubles and all the misery that means. If there’s one thing about Grape-Nuts of greater interest than its scientific food qualities, it is its remarkable practical adaptability to all weak- ened conditions of the digestive organs and its power to build them up quickly. “There’s a Reason” ~_ A barn dance will be given Thursday at 8.30 p. m. by Union Club members. Members, old and young, are requested to attend in appropriate costumes. All the old-fashioned dances will be in- dulged in, as well as the waltz and two-step. Joc Silk Thread, 5: 100 yards best Machine Silk; assorted colors; Main Floor, Aisle 6

The Eight Bells Club wags entertained at the home of Mrs. O. A. Vogel in Cora avenue. Euchre was played. Those present were: Mmes. H. R. Conthwaite, John Menke, Peter McNiff, L. McBride, J. Magrath, R. Fitzgerald, O. H. Vogel, L. J. Nidrist.

Clark’s Threads, J: Assorted numbers; on sale Tuesday, in Basement, 6/2c Musiins, 1800 yards Unbleached Muslin; 2 to 10 yard lengths; regular 6c value; on sale Tuesday, per Miss Bertha Kugel of Farmington, Mo., and Solomon Wall of Doniphan, Mo., were married Monday at the home of the bride by Rabbi Spitz of St. “Louis. Miss Kugel is the daughter of M.. and Mrs. A. Kugel. The bridal couple ex- pects to go to Sandusky, O.. on a wed- ding trip, visiting relatives there. They will reside in Donophan. The G. A. B. Club were entertained at the home of Miss Eleanore Paul of 1198 St. Louis avenue, Sunday _ evening. Those present were: Misses Mae King. Mary Lewis, Hettie Moris, Alice Worth, Eleanore Lewis, Eleanore Paul: Messrs. Jim Burke, Jack Connor, Robert Moonv. Harry Lewis, Gordon Marks, Will Cleffy. Miss Marguerite Ready entertained at her home, 1808 Bacon street. Those present wére. Misses Margue- rite Ready, Celestine Wobe, Elsie Miller, Maude Collins., Mae Burke, May Burns, Belle Conrath, Messrs. Jerry Leahy, Hick Shantz, Will Me- Kay, Ed. Goodale, Jack Hudson, Norman Devoy, Arthur Benda.

$8) 5) SB) 88) )) 5 OS) 6) WH) Me) MM) MS SWS MMMM MMe) Sxtra Special (io 50c Jable Cloths, 25¢ boot Covers, 10 Turkey Red Table Cloths, 8-4 size, dozen Ladies’ Hemstitched Corset Cov- fringed all around, new floral de- ers: while they last (in Basement), 0c 40-9nch Lawns, signs; while they 25e each White Lawn; nice and sheer; regu- 4 last, Tuesday we RO | i ) (me () m EEE™ — 5

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3631 Olive St. | AUCTION OF PIANOS and Player Pianos A land avenue, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Rose, will depart Thurs- ' 4 day for ~hicago, to attend the wedding of their niece, Miss Rose Moskowitz. March 9th, 10th and 11th ety lends spice to any meal—vary or Spaghetti, ing @m accessory after the fact in the : peg send Miss Rose will be bridemaid for her cou- sin. A DIFFERENT WAY—EVERY DAY m af roth ie SEREAGLt Ie boat the, onl . erved in a different E ° h - NAUGHTON, REFUSED RETRIAL, 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 5 p.m. Every night 8 to 10 p.in, APPEALS TO SUPREME COURT . 4 - “pated tee = Any Make You Want at Your Own P tewed, fried, baked, wi ‘ Bond Lowerad From $6000 to|mitim’ “sey ‘aire aeie “ele, ny Make You ant at Your n rice : ers or mus ; $5000 Upon Protest of At- ane of the poesthtlitien ng ea for our booklet, 4 , D dl LMS I [IANO | lise pd and Warner bribery case, | “§ oe and Some of Its Uses.” ppeaied to the Supreme Court Mon- w sent postpaid anywhere on oe da after Judge Fisher over- i : ad n,n Juan Finer ove: rege. ak ree went H. L. SUTTON, Auctioneer. “I will fix the bond at $6000," said way every res f There are so many in torney Moore. Spaghetti. You the Court. yon eee 1 li : 3631 Olive St. A surprise party was given to Miss Jennie Josephson of 1018 North Six- teenth street. ‘Those present were: Misses Rose Raskas, Rose Toporows- ky, Ida Gedansky, Esther Rothman. Jennie Josephson, Rose Goldston, An- nie Biank, Dora Josephson, Ida Feter. Jeanette Goldman, Messrs. I. Bierman, Charles Johles, Abe Cohen, Meyer Mil- ner, J. Boxerman, Harvey Lieberstein, Harry Lieberstein, B. Toporowsky, D. Goldstein, George Weizelman. Mrs. Blanche Walker of 1020 Hamilton avenue, after a delightful visit to her gon in Minneapolis and relatives in Chi- cago, has returned home. Mrs. W. C. Willis, now residing in Kansas City, is visiting her sisters, Mrs. . C. O'Rourke, 3500 Vista avenue, and Mrs. A. Osgood, 4261 Olive street. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Kulage sailed from New York Saturday for Genoa via Gibraltar and Naples on the steam- ship Friedrich Der Grosse. . BE RR i ioe Ot We tal NY" svg 7 2 arse . ee fal oe ts, i rm " ier . yt ae . a * Dae 4 RE Sp Nes a Sa Sree i NS RN NR RI 1

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Red Cross -'- Cough Drops. Make the throat feel giad. Sc per box.

From ST. LOUIS to California This low one-way tate in effect via the Union Pacific— Southern Pacific Daily to April 30th , Fine service—quick time. - United States Fleet in San Francisco Bay the latter part of April Let me tell you all about this. - Address L. E. TOWNSLEY, G. A. 903 OLIVE ST., ST, LOUIS, Mo.

recipes for coo ¢ it—each one pleas- ing, appetizing and wholesome. Vari- ‘ 2. If you would lik Danny Naughton, Clerk of the the K bali reales House of Delegates, convicted of be- our in k- “I think that's pretty high, Judge,” zes—half-pound ’ ahd said Hiram Moore, attorney for | poun teday—you wil! Try the 5 bay a lo omy

Naughton. “That. so?” said the Court. ‘Well, tomorrow, St. LOCUM, Mo. i'll make it $5000," and so it ‘stood. |

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