The Goliad Weekly Guard. (Goliad, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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lieved to Be Hiding in Hungarian
Settlement in North Vernon.
Though the priest is held a pris-
oner, charged with attempt at suicide.
spent the greater part of his time in
the New York theaters, originating
new character parts.
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where he had worked one summer
as an operator when stage positions
were rare.
Two or three times in the dots and
dashes of the system he ticked off
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went to the Pacific coast, where he
became popular in stock companies
playing San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Seattle, and Portland. After three
I years he developed a yearning for
Broadway and returned to New York
where he secured an engagement
caring for his interests.
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utes later Mrs. Marklan went up
CE C IT HQTEI 'stairs to demand that he leave. The
JLLI Al 11V 1 LL restaurant proprietor heard them
quarreling and called a policeman.
_______ The policeman left, thinking it was
a family matter that would settle of
girl. Upon finding the children miss-
i ing, Mrs. Marklan at once hurried to
i Hastings and locating the little ones,
i returned with them here.
। Marklan was seen to enter the
1 stairways leading to her rooms to-
i night at seven o'clock, and ten min-
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“Handbook of Rural Telephony.” Sent free. Showa
how to organize a company, construct lines, ete. Ad-
dress Dept. A.
Yankee Girl” and a dozen other mu-
sical comedies and plays.
AGED PRIEST SHOT
mer of 1892 he contracted stage
fever and determined to become an last Thursday.
its own accord without assistance.
Later Pazlier, wishing Mrs. Marklan
! to come down and assist with the
j evening rush at the lunch counter,
Burress started successfully. After
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for the role of a paralytic old He- connestion with the investigation of
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brew in a play called “Lenora, ’ resulted in an immediate investiga. THE OLD RELIABLE MANDRY TANKS
which was a revision of the old sue- tion by the Louisiana Prison Reform
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Yonkers, N. Y., Saturday.—Follow-
ing a quarrel with her husband, from
a quarrel with her husband, from
whom she had been separated for
nearly a year, Mrs. Anna Marklan
was found dead here with her throat
cut. The husband, Andrew Marklan,
was seen to enter her apartments,
but when the body was found short-
ly afterwards he could not be located
For about ten months Marklan has
worked and lived at Hastings, four
miles north of this town. Mrs. Mark-
lan was employed here in a restaur-
ant owned by Joseph Pazlier and liv-
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WHOLESALE DEALERS
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
were detailed on the case and from a
bartender in a saloon at North Ver-
non, learned that Marklan had been
there half an hour after the body was
found. It is five miles from the scene
of the murder. The bartender's sus-
picions were aroused when a nervous
man, acting in a strange manner
presented himself at the bar and
demanded a drink of whiskey. He
took a large drink and hurried out
of the place.
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In a character role and his success
has been so consistent that he has Gen.AFrakin seh, an. GanHal.
the duties of chief of staff of the
rooms. The room bore evidence of
a struggle and stains were found on
the walls and floor. An empty razor
case was discovered in the hallway.
Mrs. Marklan’s watch, which she
wore pinned on her dres, was miss-
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Every ambitious player on the
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the theaters along Broadway. New
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dther thoroughfares in the bigger
ities which are incandescently il-
1uminated by the names of stage
using his knife I
with a hearty handshake cemented ed. in the .rooms above the place.
“.211 , j I This morning Marklan went to her
a friendship that has been continued rooms while she was at work below
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actor. Forthwith he wrote to his
mother anent his decision. She re-
plied with an attempt to dissuade
him from his intention, and it re-
quired six months of correspondence
before he could win her half-hearted
consent to his plans. His first en-
gagement and stage experience was
with the Maude Granger company.
When he applied to her manager for
position Mr. Burress was asked,
“What parts can you play?”
“Any parts,” he replied.
“Do you think you could do an old
Jew, who always appears in an in-
valid’s chair?”
“That would be easy,” was the
his stage debut bear witness that Mr. F; S. Shields, president of the
Louisiana Prison Reform Association,
. , . tonight addressed a letter to the may-
a checkered career the young actor or denying the declarations.
stay in an asylum the Kev. Richard
C. Gragan, sixty-three years old, a
Connecticut secular priest, shot him-
self. The wound made was slight,
though the scalp was torn, and in
Bellevue Hospital the sugeons said
no serious results were anticipated.
The weapon used was a revolver of
small calibre.
When porters rapped on Father 1
Gragan's door he opened it, and they
saw that he was wounded. He said
he had shot himself, but could not
explain the reason for so doing.
“I must have had a brain storm,”
he said. “If any one had been in here,
this afternoon I probably should not
have done it.”
The hotel management did not re-
port Father Gragan's attempt to the
police. He was hurried off in a cab
to Bellevue in charge of two porters.
The first notice to the police came
from Bellevue.
Father Gragan gave his residence
as St. Mary’s Home, West Hartford,
Conn., a Roman Catholic home for
the aged, and he has been boarding
there since last June. He occasionally
performed pastoral duties as substi-
tute in the neighborhood. He is very
well liked there. Mgr. Edwards of
St. Patrick's Church in Mott street,
who has known Father Gragan for
many years, said, “he is as fine as j
gold,” but explained that because .
of a prolonged attack of melancholia |
Father Gragan had been cared for in
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considering two or three parts.’
“ 'I should like to have you with
us.’
“ ‘I am open to offers.
“ 'But we have no Chinese part in
the piece.’
“There is a sample of the char-
acter actor's handicap. He had seen
me pay a Chinaman in ‘A Chinese
Eaeymoon,’ and mentally he had
identified me with Chinese parts. I
confess I was nettled by his observa-
Hot Well 108 degrees Fahr. Natural Gas. A Beautiful Shady Park.
A large Lake. Railroad and County road through the property. A
depot. Broad graded street. A lovely Townsite. Plans are being drawn
for Hotel, Natatorium, and Sanitarium.
The other telegrapher was and took away their two children, a
it is not believed that any charge you
will be pressed. Mgr. Edwards is
New Orleans, Jan. 13.—Reports of (‛ —
the testimony of Hamilton Douglas •e •
before the city council committee in
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Mrs. Anna Marklan Found with
Throat Cut in Her Rooms in
Yonkers.
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far superior training in Short- ♦ DO IT RIGHT! GET HER A
Typewriting, .Bmoxkeeping; ♦ Flne Box of Huyler’s Candies
army in April to Maj. Gen. Leonard ।
Wood, will be the next commander*
It was a few days after his elec- o the Army o the Philippines. ■
. . .. , . . . .1 . . i —eneral Bell will succeed Major
tion to the Lambs club that a singu- General Duvall, who retired from the
Alone and service in January. It has also
been determined that Maj. Gen. Fred
Absentmindedly D-.Grant, pow commanding the De-
1 partment of the Lakes, will be assign-
ed to the Department of the East. '
The boy, aged nine years and a baby
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rivaled in Texas. Unsurpassed any-
where. Has a National reputation
ap, AI eo,Ir » 111.’ ccu„e went to her apartments. He was hor-
BRAIN STORM, HE ASSERTS rified to stumble over her dead body,
lying near the door leading to her
character role he is engaged to play
another part, essentially different
from the one that has gonsore,
and in contemplation of Sh the
first is forgotten, unless hVKicks to
one line of parts, and refuses to
make his career a kaleidoscopic re-
view of Frenchmen, Irish, Spaniards,
English, Chinamen, Japanese, Ger-
mans, Indians, negroes, and all the
other people that a playwright may
marshal before the public.
“Among the great stars of my gen-
eration* Richard Mansfield was the
only onle I recall who was a big suc-
cess as a versatile actor and who
continued-to play a number of es-
sentially different parts throughout
his career. He made his first hit
with a character role—Baron Chev-
rail in ‘A Parisian Romance’— and
his remarkable triumph made him a
star over night. Run your eye down
the list of the other stars who have
graced our stage for the last few
years and you will find them all,
season after season, projecting the
same personality over the footlights,
even though their costumes may be
altered and their make-up slightly
changed.
“Occasionally they try to abandon
the type of character with which
they have been identified, until the
box office informs them that the pub-
lic and, women are much alike,
neither likes to see one with whom
she was in love, and whom last she
saw with smooth face and light curly
hair, return home, after a year’s
wandering, with fierce black whisk-
ers and a bald head.
“David Warfield plays David War-
field year after year. John Drew is
the same John Drew that he was
ten years ago, and he is playing
the same sort of parts; Sam Bernard
is Sam Bernard season after season,
and it is with the most successful
stars on our stage. They specialize
the thing they do best. The army
of playgoers who hold fortune and
success in their hands refuse to greet
as a gray haire1 father one whom
thy have lear e1 to Icve as a bonny
youth in knickerbockers and silk
stockings. Imagine Andrew Mack
playing a red coated English tyrant.
“David Warfield became identified
with the Jew character, and in shift-
ing to the lovable old German in
“The Music Master” his personality
was the same basically his charac-
ter was utterly like the old Jew,
whom he so delightfully depicted in
‘The Auctioneer.’ Sam Bernard al-
ways has played a low comedy Dutch
man, and John Drew has strolled
about for the last ten years as a
gentleman to the manner born.
Would the public accept either of
these three players in the role of a
Chinese laundry man next season?
Most improbably.
"Specilization has become a fea-
ture of our stage and to reach the
starry heights a player must stick to
one thing. This is true of all pro-
fessions in America. An attorney or
physician may be comprehensively
equipped for every demand of his
profession, but it is in one class of
cases that be comes famous and his
name publicly is identified with some
specialty.
“A theatrical manager who was an
intimate friend of mine met me at
the Lambs club in New York a few
summers ago.
Translated to letters the symbols
meant “P HO.” That had been the
call he used to identify a certain
operator in Portland Suddenly from
another corner of the grilroom there
came ticking the reply from
another knife and fork: “- . . .
Port Houston is located right at the Turning Basin, on the north
side, where the City and our several railroads are developing their
holdings.
Go with us to Port Houston and see the great development that
is being done by our City Administration.
You are interested in it.
Don't Wait! Buy Port Houston Lots for a Sure Investment.
The new $12,000 cement block hotel is now almost completed
and a part of Contractor J. A. Owens’ eamp located on block
seventy-eight at Port Houston. There are now at work about
100 teams and over 300 men at Part Houston on the North
Side of the Turning Basin. We show Port Houston by boat, auto-
mobile or carriage. Buy where development is most rapid. The
Clinton road, which is one of the first to be shelled, runs through
Port Houston. It will cost you nothing to let us show you.
But Houston is the only subdivision in the vicinity of the Turn-
ing Basin that is subdivided into lots 50x100 feet.
$10 Cash, Balance Monthly, No Interest, No
Taxes. Buy a Lot—That’s Easy. Buy Today.
STEREOTYPING OUTFIT
Worth $100.00, never been used for
$50 ca sh.
CYLINDER PRESS.
One S ott, 7-column cylinder press,
in good condition; $300.00.
Pi ices like these should untie
the purse-strings of every
New York, Jan. 13.—While suffer- ing and her dress torn if the
Seem or -
Detectives Higgins and Gilberti
meant in letters “B BU” the signal
by which Burress was identified at
the Boston end of the wire.
Then the knives and forks of the
two former telegraph operators
sent the following dialogue across
the room:
Buress began: “You worked in
Portland about ten years ago?”
“Yes; you worked in Boston?”
“Yes; your name is Hobart?”
“Yes; your name is Buress?”
“Yes; glad to meet you again.”
“Same here—let’s have one.”
“All right.”
And the men rose from their tables
met in the center of the room and
tion and told him so, because there
is hardly a type or nationality
that I have not represented on the
stage. So it is when the public
identifies a man with the role of a
Chinaman. If he comes along the
following years as an Italian duke
they forget his Chinese Impersona-
tion of the preceding year, which
they considered excellent. So the
character actor must win his public
anew every time he plays a new
role.
“Two most important gifts of a
versatile player are a fine sense of
hearing and a pliable voice. I con-
sider the auditory organ of more
value than the voice, for in order to
depict a French, Italian, Spaniard, or
any other character where a dialect
is of importance, the vocal character-
istics of these types must be caught
in detail and reproduced on the stage.
It is only the keenest sense of hear-
ing that these characteristics are ob-
tained and retained.
“Any voice I have ever heard I
can remember, any face I have ever
seen I can recall and after a little
work I can reproduce both approxi-
mately. Four years ago I took din-
ner at a hotel in Union square, New
York, which is patronized almost ex-
clusively by South Americans. My
host was a Venezuelan, who spoke
English but retained his native ac-
cent When I arranged for my pres-
ent role in ‘The Yankee Girl’ I dis-
tinctly remembered the dialect of my
Venezuelan friend, and I have used
it as a part of the character I am
playing in support of Miss Ring at
the Garrick theater.
“Frequently I follow interesting
types upon the street and study their
costumes and their features. I never
forget the high lights—the striking
things about people —with the result
that it matters not what I am cast to
play, immediately I have a mental
picture of what my character should
look like. When a youngster it was
the same.
“I lived in a little Ohio town, and
continually was dressing up for and
imitating the numerous rube types I
met upon the street. My mother
tried to stop this habit, as she feared
I might become an actor—a fear that
worried her a great deal, as I was
considered by my parents excellent
material for the making of a Pres-
byterian minister, and in my own
mind I was convinced that some day
I should have my own church and
my own congregation to work for;
but before I had reached a seminary
hard times set me to work, and
changed the course of my' career
from the pulpit to the stage.”
Mr. Burress began work as a mes-
senger boy in Wheeling, W. Va.,
when he was 16 years old, at a salary
of $30 a month. Within a year he
had acquired a knowledge of telegra-
phy and obtained a position as oper-
ator with the Ohio Central railroad.
During his idle hours he read the
Bible and studied Presbyterian theo-
logy, for he still contemplated a min-
isterial future. Gradually becoming
more proficient as an operator, he
was recognized as a valuable man
and given a place in the general
offices of the Pennsylvania railroad
in Pittsburg, where he was put on
the Pittsburg-Chicago and Pittsburg
Philadelphia duplex wire.
After witnessing a performance of
Sol Smith Russell during the sum-
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our entire stock. From US
you buy through the mail as
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$12.50 Suits and Overcoats $ 8.95
$18.50 Suits and Overcoats 12.95
$25.00 Suits and Overcoats 17.95
$30.00 Suits and Overcoals 21.95
play them all well, has less
ice of becoming a star than any
ible actor, who plays only him-
no matter what he is expected
lay, and who porjects through
y part he plays only his own per-
lity across the footlights.
An actor is lucky to be ver-
e." said Mr. Burress in discuss-
he work of the character actor,
I he is foolish to let anybody
v it. My words may surprise
y facts and good arguments. The
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