Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 154, 11 April 1909 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AXJ SUN-TELEGBAM, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1909J

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PRESS AGENT FOR

STATE Young Woman After Varied Career Works for Fabulous Salary. WAS BORN IN CIRCUS TENT AFTER MAKING REPUTATION A3 VAUDEVILLE STAR SHE EN TERED JOURNALISM AND MADE A REPUTATION. Nellie Revell, who has just been ap pointed press agent for the State of Michigan, being the only woman press agent for the only state that has a press agent In the United States, is a woman of remarkable ability. Miss Revell has had a varied career since she was born in a circus wagon of the Barnutn show down in Mississippi some years ago. She was at one time the only woman press agent for circus in the world, and in that capacity she did some splendid work, be ing able to land much publicity for vhatever show she happened to be promoting H - A Vaudeville Star. It was an easy stage from promoting publicity to the vaudeville stage, where she won instant recognition by her brilliant and original monologues, and in a short time from an obscure performer on the three-a-day circuit, line was a headliner It was while at the very height of her success in this line that she turned her attention to writing for the press. She was sent on some big assignments, and the crowning feat of Journalism accomplished by this indomitable" woman, was a trip to San Francisco for a Chicago paper. Lands Big Scoop. Miss Revell, not only reported the stopping of the fleet on its world tour at San Francisco, but she was the only Woman who went on board any of the ships, and she did this on a wager. She was received with great warmth by the officers and men on board, and was photographed with a large group of jackies who girdled the globe for Uncle Sam. After returning from the West Miss Revell was engaged to promote the publicity for the Olympic Music Hall and her work for this playhouse was soon so prominent that she attracted the attention of promoters all over the country, and many flattering offers were made her. Fabulous Salary. When the-) promoters of the Stat? Fair of Michigan, which will be held in Detroit from September 2nd to the 10th, inclusive, were casting about for a promoter for the great state of Michigan, they went to Chicago, and they went to the Olympic Music Hail and sought Miss Revell. After talking with her for a few moments she was "engaged to do the largest press job that had ever been turned over to one Individual, and at a salary that seemed fabulous to all who are acquainted with the prices paid for publicity. Miss Revell is one of the most original characters In Chicago. She has a fund of bright anecdotes, is witty and is also level-headed. She has a personality that has won her a high place In the regard of the newspaper people of Chicago and of other cities. In her new position Miss Revell will write of the glories of Michigan. She will exploit the mines, the timber, the agricultural products, the manufacturies, and other features that make the name of the state notable. v A Lovable Woman. .While Miss Revell has never done anything but the work 'that usually falls to the lot of a man, she is a lovable woman, with a kind heart, and is noted for her charitable work among 'the theatrical people In all sections of the country. She has . never been Jnown to turn down a friend in need, and many poor thespians have cause to thank her for assistance when in tha direst need. Miss Revell has made her home In Chicago for the - past ; twenty years, and Bhe Is well" acquainted with every foot of the real estate in the loop district and is an authority on the price of property in Chicago. She has crossed the Atlantic six times and the Pacific four times. She has been in all of the larger cities of this country, and Is widely known in newspaper and I theatrical circles. Up Before The Bar. N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pittsfield, Vt., writes:-"We have used Dr. King's New; Life Pills for years and find them such a good family medicine we wouldn't be without them." '"" For Chills, Constipation, Biliousness or Sick Headache they work wonders, 25c. A. G. Lnken & Co.

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THEATRICAL CALENDAR. GENNETT. Week of April 12 North Bros. Tuesday, April 20 "A Broken Idol." Wednesday, April 21 "The Great . Divide." NEW PHILLIPS. All Week High Class Vaudeville. COLISEUM. Monday, April 19 Madame Nordica. The Palace. - Monday and Tuesday, "The Road to the Heart." This is a most emphatic demonstration that the road to the heart i3 through the stomach. It shows a Mexican father who objects to his daughter's marriage and drives her out. The mother follows, hence he has to depend upon hired cooks to dress his table, but, oh, the result is awful and he is glad to be reunited with his own. "A Broken Idol." The troubles of Otis Harlan, comedian of "A Broken Idol," the big musical farce presented by B. C. Whitney which has just completed a sensational run of nine months at the Whitney i opera house in Chicago, with his property automobile are not a circumstance to . the troubles of Otis Harlan, private citizen, with his real auto. From the first Mr. Harlan and his chauffeur had trouble with the motor. Finally the comedian got the car running so that he could leave his flat on the South Side at 10 a. m. and be reasonably sure of getting to the theater by 8 p. m. Then he invited his friends in the company to join him in a spin after the performance. George Richard's, who resides in a flat adjacent to Harlan's, ventured forth with him on New Year's night. But while the actors had been working the chauffeur had been celebrating and while they sat in the back they noticed that the machine was cutting a slice off the speed limit, and, at the same time, was endeavoring to occupy the entire width of Michigan Boulevard. They reached home without mishap, and the driver was told he could take a week's holiday. Mr. Harlan decided he would run the car himself and it was then his real troubles began. One evening the temperature had taken a sudden drop. Harlan entered the car in front of the Whitney theater singing "A Big Night Tonight," one of the song hits of the show, and bowled merrily along the boulevard. Richards was already in the back seat when Harlan took the wheel and he settled himself back for a nice comfortable ride, when the engine omitted a croupy groan and ceased chugging. "It's Love that Makes the World Go Round," sang Richards from 'another of the song hits, "but what will make the wheels go round? What are you stopping for, Otis, it's forty blocks from home, and I'm chilly." Otis ans wered never a word. He alighted, went to the front and cranked some. No results. He cranked some more. The sound of the voice of the engine was still silent. Then he felt of the atmosphere with his gloveless hands and decided it was cold. He remarked to Richards that the gasoline must have frozen. The temperature con tinued, to drop, so he said he was go ing to get some hot water to thaw the gasoline, when Richards suggested that he look into the tank and see how much gasoline it contained. The tank was empty. "The Great Divide." "The Great Divide." William Vaughn Moody's extraordinarily successful play, which has been declared by many critics to set a new high marc in American drama, will appear at the Gennett theater April 21 for an engagement of one night. Simple announcement of this fact will surely create a "run" on the box office, and an inrush or mail orders for seats, for this widely heralded play has provided one of the attractions which all discriminating patrons of the theater throughout all America are awaiting eagerly. The career of "The Great Divide" has been epoch-making in American theatrical history. Here at last is a play which is splendid literature, : great drama technically, and at the same time, fascinating to the spectator and of almost unprecedented commercial value. It has been called the "long awaited 'great American play. Undoubtedly, It is as big in conception and broad in treatment as the picturesque portion of the far West in which the first two acts are laid the Rocky Mountains, the great divide between our East and West. The different roles portrayed by the two leading players are most human and sincere, yet highly dramatic with al. A superb company has been pro vided, and the production is precisely the same that won such unpreceden ed praise during the 600 nights ruv of "The Great Divide" at the. Princess

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The impairment of the nervous force In men and women Is first manifested by extreme nervousness, sleeplessness, dread, worry and anxiety without reason, trembling: of the hands and limbs, with the slightest exertion, heart palpitation, constipation, kidney trouble, and a general inability to act rationally at all times as others with health in their bodies do. In a half pint bottle get three ounces of syrup sarsaparilla compound and add to this one ounce compound fluid balmwort, and let stand two hours; then get one ounce -compound essenee cardiol. and one ounce tincture cado mene compound (not cardamom); mix all tosrether, shake well and take teaspoonful after each meal and one at retiring. and Daly's theaters and Acadiy of Music, New York. A N.-th Brothers. The North Brothers comedians ar rived in this city this morning from Tipton and they will open their week engagement at the Gennett tomorrow Lpight. This company is well known in Richmond, in fact most of the people with the show claims Richmond for their home as the company manager i3 Mr. Ira Swisher, a well known Richmond man. The company is a large one this season. Twenty people are with the show, and they claim to car ry more vaudeville people than any other repertoire company on the roat Their opening play tomorrow nigbt will be a new one for Richmond, "John Jaspers Wife" an English com edy in four acts. According to the old familiar custom one lady will be ad mitted free with each 30 cent ticket. The New Phillips. Electricity is the most wonderful and most non-understandable thing in the study of the present-day science. To see a wizard handle electricity and make it do for him what he wills is not only entertaining but it is magical and bespeaks the stories of the Arab ian Nights. In the Great Electro & Company the Phillips has secured one of the foremost scientists to put on the stage some magical feats that will entertain the best of them. The first three days will see these people at the Phillips. For the fourth number the management has a comedy sketch which, is a "ding-buster." Chas. Hasty has made good all over Indiana and in many other states. He is the Hoosler boy who talks and sings about Indiana. "I'd Rather Die, Doctor, than have my feet cut off," said M. I Bingham, of Princeville, IU. "but you'll die from gangrene (which had eaten away eight toes) if you don't," said all doctors. Instead -he used Bucklen's Arnica Salve till wholly cured. Its cures of Eczema. Fever Sores. Boils, Burns and Piles astound the world. 25c. at A. G. Luken & Co. Most Common Class of General Delivery patrons Are People of Small Means The Giddy Girl and Her Love Letters Fraudulent Use of the Mails Reduced to the Minimum Disappointment is the Emotion Most Frequently Displayed at the Window The Gen eral Delivery Helps the Police to Trace Traveling Criminals. Failure of a College Education. "Well," observed old man Potts "I've spent a heap of money : on my boy Bill's education, more'n $900, Jest to see him through Yale, and I ain't through yet. It shorely makes mo sore to think of the money I'm wastin' on a boy who ain't got as much sense now as he had before he went to college." "What's the matter, father?" asked Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a Uttio hard on Bill." No, I ain't, Mary," answered the old man. "Just to show yon, a little while ago I says to him I thinks It was going to rain tomorrow. What fool answer d'ye suppose he made me?" "I'm sure I don't know, father." "He1 begged my pardon !" Harper's Weekly. ' . Vsry Bad Habit. A young mother asks us our opinion of "the alleged injurious effects of rocking on babies." We must frankly say that we consider It a brutal practice. As the father of a great many babies, w never rocked on any of them intentionally, and we would probably be arrested if we expressed our full opinion of any woman who would presume to do so. Lippineott's. He Would yonr mother object to my kissing you? . She My mother? Why, she would not hear of such a thing! Burpee's Bulk Sweet Peas NASTURTIUM a LAWN GRASS . HADLEY BROS. UJKfl

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