Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 102, Hammond, Lake County, 16 October 1908 — Page 9

Friday, October 16, 1908. THE TIMES. successful as when it first appeared as a novel. There Is no question but that "Jane Eyre" will be as popular a play with our grand-children as it Is wUh us today. ON THE STAGE 4

AT THE TOWLE OPERA HOUSE. "JANE EYRE." The coming to Towle's Opera House next Sunday night and matinee only, October 18,61 "Jane Eyre," the dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's famous novel, retails the Interesting career of that celebrated author. Public interest of Charlotte Bronte was first roused In 1847. In that year there appeared in London a novel that created a sensation. Its stern and paradoxical disregard for the conventional its masculine energy and Us Intense realism startled the public, and proclaimed to all accounts unmistakably that a new, strange and splendid power had come into literature. And with the success of "Jane Eyre"

came a lively curiosity to know something of the personality of the author. The majority of readers asserted confidently that the work must be that of a man. The ' touch was unmistakably masculine. In some quarters it met with hearty abuse. The Quarterly Review, in an article still notorious for brutality, condemned the book as coarse, and stated that if "Jane Eyre", were really written by a woman, she must be an improper woman, who had forfeited the society of her sex. This was said in December, 1848, fo one of the noblest and purest of womankind. It is not a matter of surprise that the Identity of this audacious speculator was not revealed. But hostile criticism of the book and its mysterious author could not injure its popularity. The story swept all before It press and public. "Whatever might be the source, the worth stood

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CVBA KIDLO Selected By the New York World as the Ideal Jane for "Jane Eyre," Which Comes to the Towle Opera House for Sunday Only.

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AT THE CALUMET THEATEE. "THE OUTLAW'S CHRISTMAS." .Thrilled to the backbone for about two and one-half hours while being carried through the scenes of a strong melodrama, but at last happy ' in thought that the hero had reached shore and that the villian was safe in the hands of the law, is the feeling experienced by all those who witness the performance of "The Outlaw's Christmas." which will be presented at the Calumet theater for four days, beginning Sunday, Oct 18. Things come thick and fast in a very short time after the curtain rises on the first act. In the initial act, which is laid on the top of a New York apartment house, the thrilling struggle begins. The chum of the hero, In the role of a painter, is the first victim of the wiles of the villian and while

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he falls to his death, hundreds of feet below. The circumstances of the crime point to the hero as the guilty party he is on a scaffold, the rope is cut and

SUE MARSHALL, In "The Cowboy Girl," Now Playing at the Towle Opera House.

there and spoke for itself in commanding terms. At length the mystery was cleared. A shrewd Yorkshire guessed and published the truth and the curious world knew that the author was the daughter of a clergyman in the little village of Haworth, and that the literary sensation of the day found its source in a nervous, shrinking, awkward, plain, delicate young creature of twenty-one years of age, whose life with the exception of two years had been spent on the bleak and dreary moorlands of Yorkshire and for the most part in the narrow confines of a grim gray parsonage. There she had lived a pinched and meagre little life, full of sadness and self-denial, with two sisters more delicate than herself and her father, her only parent a stern and forbidding father. There was no congenial environment for an author, even if helpful to her vivid imagination. Nor was it a temporary condition; it was a permanent one. Nearly all the influences in Charlotte Bronte's life were such as these, which would seem to cramp if not stifle her sensitive talent. Her brother Barmwell, (physically weaker tUan herself though unquestionably talented, and for a time

the idol and hope of the family) became dissipated, irresponsible, untruthful, and a ne'er-do-well, and finally yielding to circumstances, ended miserably a life of failure. But Charlotte Bronte's nature was one of Indomitable courage, that circumstances might shadow, but could npt obscure. Out of the meagre elements of her narrow life she evolved works that stand among the imperishable things of English literature. It is a paradox that finds its explanation only in a statemenV of natural sources, primitive, bardic, the sources of the early epics, the sources of such epics as Caedmon and-goewulf bore. She wrote from a sort of necessity; it was obedience to the commanding authority of an extraordinary genius a creative power that struggled for expression and much of her work deserves in the best and the fullest sense the term "inspired." Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre" was not the book for a past generation, nor even only for the present; it is a novel that will last, last through generation and generation; it stands well forward in the list of the world's ten greatest stories. In dramatic form it Is proving as

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and he on being apprehended by an officer, makes his escape. The second act is laid in the Klondike in an abandoned gold mine. In this act the audience was thrilled and spontaneous applause continued throughout the act The third act proved the moat sensational of the play.. It was in this act that a huge tank of water was brought in to carry out the events of the play. A horse ridden by the hero jumps Into this large tank amid wild applause of the audience. The scene is realistic and has greatest effect The fourth act la on the Hudson river and results in the hero and heroine being happy and the villian and adventuress being shown up in their life. The play is full of striking scenes and for those who like melodrama, it can be recommended.

AT THE TOWLE OPEBA HOUSE.

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BELLE JEXNETTE

In "The Outlaw's -Christmas," Which Opens at the Calumet Theater, South

Chicago, Sunday, For a Four Days' Engagement

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FOR "MASHERS." Miss Sue Marshall, the clever come

dienne, who is playing the principal part in Kilroy & Britton's big musical ,

dramatic play "The Cowboy Gtrlt"

which is now appearing at the Towle

opera house, is noted for her love of a good joke and the following is her latest prank and one of the several sure cure receipts fr those chronic fas

cinators of the male persuasion who try to make a killing with every pretty girl they pass on the street

Not long ago as she was crossing Forty-second street. New York, to Broadway from the Grand Central depot she was qnickly conscious that a well-dressed man was following her. He was a well bred man apparently, and wai of middle age. At Fifth avenue he came abreast of her and, lifting his hat and bowing. Bald: "Good morning. Out for a little constitutional?" Without betraying the anger she felt Miss Marshall stopped, faced the man who fancied that he was making progress famously, quietly opening her purse, took therefrom a quarter and extended it: "There you poor man,' she said with sympathetic intonation, loud enough for passers-by to be attracted, "I am sorry that you have had nothing to eat for two days. Take this and buy yourself a square meaL"

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