Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — LIFE IN PHILIPPINES TOLD IN WAR DRAMA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIFE IN PHILIPPINES TOLD IN WAR DRAMA.

Local Talent Will Portray Bealls tie Story Written by Man Who Plaited Far Off Islands. How little the great public knows of the conditions which now exist in the Philippines. How seldom they stop to think of the hideous warfare and savagery prevailing every hour of the present time in our insular possessions. To the great public concerned in business or political functions, the war is over, and though they may read the short descriptions of conflicts in the islands of the Pacific, it is all vague and unreal to them, but to the brave boys who face death in its most dread form ia the jung.es

of the Philippines, it is very real indeed, and when the little yellow message brings to sweethearts and mothers the tidings of a dear one’s death, it is all real to them. To take up the hopes, the fears, the ambitions, the loves and the hates of a soldier’s life amid the strange environments of thesApriental islands has been the task wnlfeh the author of “Under the Stars and Stripes” has set himself to do. Himself a soldier, has filled the place with the true spirit of the soldier. Having himself lived under the shade of the balm, he has succeeded in investing the drama with the gorgeous coloring and dreamy atmosphere of the Orient. All the languorous, sinuous grace of the Castelian half-cast is seen in the love making of Jose as he sings his serenade to the little American. All the fierce brutality of the mixed blood is shown in Sylvestre’s thirst for ho blood of the American officer whose wife he covets. Filled with the spirit of war, colored with the splendor of the oriental foliage, invested in the atmosphere of the languid Orient, this great story of love and war and passire must leave a lasting impression upon every person so fortunate as to see and feel its hypnotic influence. “The new possessions of Uncle Sam in the far east have been the inspiration of many a story and drama since their dominion by the stars and stripes, but one of the prettiest dramatizations of the life in the Philippines is the love story as given in the melodrama, ‘Under the Stars and Stripes,’ ” says the Lima Times-Demo-crat. A great cast has been secured to support Geo. H. Hoskyn, the author, and a magnificent chorus will sing the music, accompanied by a picked orchestra. Wednesday, Feb. Bth, is the date. Tickets now on sale by members of the company. Considerable interest is being created by the announcement that Mr! Perry Griffith, of Lafayette, is to start a school in dancing in Rensselaer. The fact that he is considered the leading dancing instructor in Lafayette and has given satisfaction at schools conducted during several year 3 past in that and neighboring cities, gives him a standing that is certain to secure many pupils. Mr. Griffith will have two classes, one in the afternoon at 4 o’clock for bpys and girls, and one in the evening for ladies and gentlemen at 8 o’clock. All will be treated as beginners and the school will not be turned over to dancing at the expense of the pupil's. This will be an opportunity to start right at dancing and it is probable that a class of fifty or more will be arranged, divided into the afternoon and evening sections.

Prof, Otto Braun was down from Lowelf last evening instructing the band boys. Several new members were taken in lately and they are making fine progress and the band this year should be better than it last as most of the old members are staying with the organization and they are much more proficient than they were last year. Prof. Braun expects to give the boys two or three excursions this year and has practically closed arrangements to have them play at Tecumseh Trail, a pleasure park near Lafayette.

GEO. H. HOSKYN.