Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 125, Hammond, Lake County, 12 November 1906 — Page 5

Monrlav. Xov. 12. 1906.

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One of the massive and magnificent Bcenea in Gf-n. I jew Wallace's historical romance, "Hon Ilur," now running' at the Chicago Auditorium. The brilliant an L The Lake Coii.ty Times is pleased to announce the decision of the judges in the Ben-IIur content for the best essay on "P.en-Hur" and the best essay on "Lew Wallace and His Works." The prizes were won by Klston Klliott and Win. F. Uvers, respectively, both boys it i in." 12LSTOX KLLIOTT, Hammond School. ;J In reading the classic story, BenHar, Its logical arrangement Is clearly diseerrfed. The whole theme is centered about the life and works of Christ; the story of the meeting in the desert , 'Of the Wise mm; Belthasaiy the- Egyp- j tian; Gaspar, the Grecian, Melchoir, the Hindoo; in their quest and ultimate discovery of the Christ, makes a fitting introduction to the story proper. In book second where the rising action of the drama really commences Jerusalem is shown under the rule of the Romans. The Jews have lost much of their independence of thought, and are beginning to take on more of that haughtiness and pride of their Roman , conquerors, shown in the demeanor of Messala before and after leaving his playfellow, Ben-Hur, for the Roman camp. Mifssala's attitude to -d Ben-llur's religion and people's cu: ms, is tinged with scorn, leaving a sting in the mind of Judah, effaced only by the eloquent appeals of his mother. He leaves, with her permission, to become a soldier. Thrilling events quickly follow; mother and sister thrown into Antonlas' tower; their house closed under the emporer's seal, and Judah on his way to the galleys, accused of the attempted assassination of the Procurator of Judea. Life as a galley slave and Quintus Arrues' interest in him prepares us for the sea fight and subsequent rescue of Arrius, which leads up to Ilur's gaining his freedom. Thenceforward Judah's main living objects are the finding of his mother and sister, and revenge on Messala for his words at the time of their arrest. The chariot race is the climax of action in the story. From start to finish the reader's interest is not allowed to flag. The completion of this race leaves Messala a physical wreck and Judah Victor. Through the aid of Christ's wonderful healing of the lepers. Ben-IIur has his mother and Tirzah restored to him. Judah's love of Iras, the Egyptian, and Esther, the beautiful daughter of Simonides, is interwoven most delicately through the narrative. The cold blooded, evil character of Iras is strongly contrasted with the loving, gentle disposition of Esther, and although the Egyptian sometimes seems to have gained the ascendency, yet the gontle Israelite finally wins the brave heart of Ben-Hur. The closing of the story is fittingly produced by a sublime description of the march to Calvary and the awful scene of the crucifixion. TOWLE'S OTEHA IIOLSE. The scenic equipment and mechanical effects Manager John Hirnmelein has provided for his popular Imperial Stock company far exceeds that of any previous season, a sixty-foot baggage car being required for transportation of the same. It should interest patrons to learn that during the company's engagement at Towle's opera house all next week tins entire outfit will be brought into requisition, very little of the house scenery being used. The opening play on Monday night will be "The Lost Paradise" and seats will be placed on sale at the usual time. CHICAGO SEASON OF ISEX-Hl 1L E.xns in rout AVEEKS. The closing days of "Ben-Hur" at the Chicago Auditorium are announced. Klaw : Erlanger's stupendous produeon of Wallace's mighty Biblical romance is to le withdrawn in four

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HI1 manner in which this spectacle has been stayed by the Klaw & Krlangor company makes it stand preeminent in American amusements. More than six ' being1 from the Hammond hish school. The Times acknowledges its indebtedness to Mrs. I). C. Atkinson of tin; Hammond Woman's club, and Trof. A. L. tSpolin of the liish school, who acted as judges. Following are the essays: "LEW AVAL. LAC" 13 A.D HIS WOIIKS." VM. L. EVERS, Hammond Hi&h School. General Lew Wallace is probably the most famous man Indiana has ever produced. He is known the world over as a statesman, warrior and writer. His fame as the latter is so great that he is classed even in other countries among the foremost authors. He was the son of David Wallace, ex-governor of Indiana. He practiced law until the breaking out of the civil war when he was made adjutant-general on the governor's staff. He gradually advanced until at the end of the war he was major-generaL A year later he was appointed minister to Turkey; it is interesting to note that "Ben Ilur" was written previous to this. It will be seen from these details that his life was one well adapted to give the author a wide range of scenes. Gen. Wallace has made good use of this knowledge. His books are written in a brisk style showing a ability to produce strong wonderful characters and effective climaxes. His first work was "The Fair God," which appeared in 1S73. It is a story of the conquest of Mexico. "Ben-Hur'' which was written seven years later is undoubtedly his master-piece. It is a tale of Christ and has proven to be, with the exception of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the most popular book in America. In this book the character of the hero both in love and adventure is graphically protrayed in a style characteristic of Gen. Wallace. This book has been sold by the hundreds of thousands and about six years ago was dramatized, making one of the greatest spectacular productions of the age, it being at the present time one of the most popular plays on the stage. In 1S93 his "Prince of India" appeared. This hook Is the only one of his works which can compare to "Ben-Hur," It is a tale of the fall of Constantinople and is written with the same rare insight of human nature which makes "Ben-IIur" so popular. Besides these books Gen. Wallace has written "The Life of ex-President Harrison," "The Boyhood of Christ" and a few more or less popular poems in blank verse. In speaking of Gen. Wallace's works as a whole it can be said they are the thoughts of a great imagination, graphically expressed and "Ben-Hur" undoubtedly will go down to posterity as a master-piece from a master mind. weeks' time. A special matinee is announced for Thanksgiving day in addition to the regular Wednesday and Saturday matinees of that week. The present engagement of "Ben-Hur" is the most notable in its career. Chicago's largest and most classic amusement temple lias never held more cultured and distinguished audiences. It is estimated that by the time the engagement closes fully 300,000 people will have attended. This is a marvelous record and indicates that this great semi-religious drama of Palestine, the product of the pen of General Lew Wallace, able statesman, gallant soldier, entertaining writer and courteous American gentleman, will remain a potent factor in the amusement world for years to come. It is advisable for those who intend witnessing this attraction to lose no time in writing Mr. Milward Adams, director of the Chicago Auditorium, for seat reservation. Mr. Adams promises prompt attention to rnn-i orders accompant! by -."" ""

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actment, while twenty horses, driven to five chariots, furnish the thrilling chariot race. An orchestra of lifty pieces, in conjunction with the Audi TOWLE'S CVSRA HOUSE. "The Lost Paradise" which will be the Imperial .Stoock company's initial production at the Towle Opera house tonight, will be followed on Tuesday by "The Christian" probably the heaviest scenic production in the entire repertoire, and the apparent interest manifested indicates that it will attract equally as large an audience as the opening bill, something unusual in popular price theatricals. "Jack the Giant Killer" will be the Saturday afternoon bill, and the young folks will doubtless pack the house on the occasion of its presentation. CO..AlCHT COHIXG. London, Nov. 9. The Dublin Express has been informed that the Duke of Connaught, inspector general of the forces, will make an official tour of Canada after visiting the far east. He will be accompanied b the Duchess and Princess Patricia. The duke starts on his tour next month. A thoroughly delightful dramatic novelty is being offered at the Garrick theater this week in the "Road to Yesterday." Its first audiences went to the theater with the vaguest notions of what would be really revealed in this curiously named play, concerning which it had been so mysteriously announced that it dealt with the spirit of fantasy with the id. -a of reincarnation of souls. What they have seen is a refreshing, whimsical comedy, half of which is told in the shape of a unique dream play. A young American girl on her first sight-seeing visit to London and the Old World falls under the superstitious spell of midsummer eve and, dizzy with the exciting peeps which she has had of a romantic past, falls into a sleep-like trance in which she is wafted back to the England of Elizabeth and Shakespeare. The odd part of it all is that she not only seems to be herself living a real life among the picturesque figures of that time, but she sees all her modern London relatives and friends moving around her in the strange guise of that bygone age. The metamorphoses, or changes of conditions are strikingly astonishing. Gypsy and witch, or wife and tapster, lord of the castle and maid of the inn, soldiers of fortune and all the typical characters of the England of 1603 enact a peculiar dream romance in which exciting melodrama, sparkling comedy and fantastic novelty are all co-mingled in as rare a treat as has been enjoyed before the footlights in a long day. It is just such a play in its whimsical originality as Barrie's "Peter Pan." only absolutely novel in its own kind, and in the fourth and last act the dreaming heroine and all her mystically reincarnated personages come back from yesterday to today again. New bewilderments attend the change back to modern scenes and personalities once more, and two love romances one serious and poetic, and the other happy and light-hearted are brought to a pleasant climax in curiously interesting fashion. The play is brimful of picturesque charm and dramatic surprises, with the spirit of comedy and fantasy over all from start to finish. Above all the piece is capitally enacted. Every role is interpretated by a well-known player. Minnie Dupree, that winsome comedienne, conveys the full spirit of the half-mystic dream scenes as the dreaming heroine and carries the incidental love romance in her most fascinating manner. Helen Ware makes a dashingly dramatic figure of the gypsy, Black Halena, and Julia Blanc gives a cleverly contrasted double portrayal of the superstitious Irish maid servant, Morah, and the old witch. Mother Gillaw. White Whittlesey and Miriam Nesbitt add a touch of tender romance as the strangely divided lovers. As all the old personages of the play are seen as two absolutely different characters being utterly different in acts two and three from their modern selves of acts one and four the odd dramatic values of the various roles are easily appreciated. This genuinely novel comedy of fantasy will hold the boards at the Garrick for a limited engagement of two w"Ui only

torium pipe organ, renders the impressive music of Kdsar Stillman Kelley, which has lent so much in making "Ben Ilur" the success that it is. TOWLE'S OPEUA IIOLSE. In presenting "The Lost Paradise" again this season, Manager John A. Hirnmelein makes no apulogy to his patrons, past experience having proven conclusively that there will always be a demand for productions of this class. The generous patronage always accorded this great play attests amply to its merits, and the light in which it is regarded by theatregoers. Those who have seen it will remember that the story will remember that the story is one of intense heart interest, replete with many extraordinarily strong climaxes, and a clever blending of comedy and pathos, and it is a generally conceded fact that its equal has never been written. It will be played on Monday night of next week. Ladies tickets are being issued for Monday night. TOAVLE'S Ol'EHA HOI SE. The repertoire of plays to be presented here next week by Himmelein's Imperial Stock company promises to establish a precedent in popular price theatricals, and if indications are correct the attendance will be more than ordinarily large all week. Plays like "The Christian," "The Lost Paradise," and others of equal merit cannot fail to rouse more than passing interest, and there will doubtless be an extensive "line-up" when the box office opens. 310MC Equine Star of the AA'orld. Frederick Remington struck a responsive chord in the heart of nearly every man when he declared that his tombstone would contain but one phrase, "He loved a horse." There are horses and horses; not only of different colors, shapes and qualities, but of dispositions as well. Some horses attract you to them; you c'on't know why, but there is something that excites your interest and, with association, your affection. This is true to a re markable degree with the horse "Monk", who possesses the most re markable record for having raced two thousand times without ever once being defeated. You look at the scene upon the stage and while you know that he and his fellow racers gain the advant age by a mechanical device, yet his struggle is so earnest and so magnificent that the illusion of a real victory sinks down deep into the mind "Monk" is the bay horse with black points and white blaze face that races in the chariot of Judah, the Prince of Hur, in the collosal production of Gen eral Lew AVallace's stirring romance "Ben-Hur" now running at the Chicago Auditorium. "Monk is the horse nearest the audience; he has always raced there from the first performance up to the present time, and now Is in his eighth year on the treadmills he is as active and speedy as ever. Not only has "Monk" raced two thousand times, but he has visited every city of importance in this country and Canada, and has traveled over 57,000 miles. He was the first horse to be taught to run on a modern treadmill and so intelligent is he that his trainer, Mr. Charles J. O'Brien, uses him to break in the "green" horses. Through long association he has been taught a variety of tricks. He is a high school horse with all its gaits, he will play "tag" with his trainer; he will lie down and roll over like a dog at the word of command; he will run into his harness like the hosrses at the fire station; and will trot, pace, gallop and singlefoot at command. Out of the twenty-two horses in the "Ben-Hur" stable, he is the only one that is not led, he follows by himself. Should one or two of the horses be left behind through any cause "Monk" always manifests the greatest uneasiness, and he lingers about until they appear. He is most jealous in his disposition; if a piece of apple or sugar, of which he is extremely fond, is not offered to him first, he will not take it, and he is resentf' for two or three days, acting as though his dignity had been offended. Hundreds of offers have been made for this horse and some very large sums of money involved, but the answr that has always been returned la

package National warranted you every case was that "Monk" was not for sale. Just recently overtures were made to secure "Monk" as the star of a dramatization of the famous story "Black Beauty." Last summer "Monk" spent his va cation in a large pasture at Hempstead, Long Island. He did not seem to thrive well there, and refused to as sociate with the strange horses with which he had been placed, but when some of his old companions of "BenHur" trouping days were sent down to the pasture he took on new life and seemed to thoroughly enjoy his sum mer's outing. When "Monk" becomes too old to win the laurel crown of victory for the Prince of Hur, he will be honorably retired and placed on the pension list for the remainder of his days by the Klaw & Eiianger company. I1LIXD COXFIIJEXCE. Is all right in some cases, but sick men and women cannot afford to spend money and time in experiments. Persons who think for themselves want to know in fighting diseases just how to go about it. In stomach, liver and kid ney complaints, and remedy to do good must act directly on these organs. Sootier or later they become deranged and clogged up, the system accumu lates quantities of impurities and disease germs, and to expel these from the system, a remedy must be used that reaches them. Quaker Herb Extract acts directly on the stomach, liver and kidneys, and thoroughly cleanses the entire system of all foreign and surplus matter. Rheumatism, catarrh, indigestion, bloating of the stomach, so-called blood and skin diseases, headaches, dizziness, etc., are entirely cured by the use cf this remedy. Quaker Herb Extract and a complete stock of the time-tried Quaker Herb Remedies can always be found in the stores of these enterprising druggists: Jos. W. Weis, E. R. StaufTer & Co., Otto Negele, M. Kolb. Free booklet and circular sent to any address upon request. ILLUSTRATED SOXGS AXD MOVING PICTURES. NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF CREDITORS. in the district court of the united states for the district of indiana. in bankruptcy. Before John Z'. Silvers, Referee. In the matter Vi John R. Opperman, Bankrupt No. 35, Si Bankruptcy, Hammond. To the creditors of John R. Opperman of the city of East Chicago, in the county of Lake, state and district of Indiana, a bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of October, 1906, the said John R. Opperman was duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that the first meeting of creditors of said bankrupt will be held in the office of this referee In the public court house in the city of Hammond, county of Lake, state and district of Indiana, on the 17th day of November, A. D. 1906, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, at which time said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the said bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come before said court. JOHN O. BOWERS, Referee in Bankruptcy, Twelfth Referee District of Indiana, Dated at Hammond, Ind., October 31, 1906. Note Creditors will please observe requirements concerning proof of claims. See section S7 of bankruptcy act 189S, General Order XXI and forma. Does your sewing machine need repairs? If so, call up C. V. Miller, the sewing machine expert, 241 East State street, phone 2061. 10-16-lm.

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