Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — AUGUSTUS FOR CARNIVAL KING [ARTICLE]

AUGUSTUS FOR CARNIVAL KING

Gos Phillips May Be Chosen to Position of Honor Ii Coney Island. Coney Island, New York City’a greatest pleasure resort, is to have a Mardi Gras and carnival and the New York Evening World is conducting a voting contest for the selection of a king and oar popalar young actor, Augustas Phillips, leading man for the Spooners at Keith & Proctor’s * Broadway theater New York, has been brought out as a candidate by the matinee girls, and when the vote was published in the World on Aug. 20, he was eleventh in a list of forty candidates, and the World of that date published hia picture and that of Edna May Spooner, along with the following comment: “The most interesting later development of the contest is the sudden rising of Augustas Phillips toward the front. He has 1,044 votes to his credit today, and there are .three ballot boxes, one in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn Theaters, on which his candidacy is announced. The votes came in about in equal numbers from voters who sign themselves “The Phil Clnb” and other who call themselves “Spoonerities,” and it is only fair to say that these voters all expect King Aagnstnß to make Mias Edna May Spooner, the leading lady at Keith & Proctor’s Fifth Ave. Theater, his Queen. It is the Phillips and Spooner ticket they are voting. “Augustus Phillips Is the handsome leading man of Keith & Proctor’s Fifth Avenue players. He enjoys the distinction of being

the most popular matinee idol along the Great White Way, and looms up as a formidable candidate for the honor of being crowned King;of the Mardi Gras. The hundreds of matinee girls who throng to the Fifth Avenue Theater daily to see Mr, Phillips make fervid love to Miss Spooner are determined that he shall win the coveted honor, and yesterdqp over five hundred votes rained In upon the actor. A ballott box has been installed in the subscription department of the Fifth Avenue Theater where votes will be received for Mr. Phillips. In the event of his election Miss Edna May Spooner will be elected as Queen of the Mardi Gias.” If World coupons were available in Rensselaer everyone here would take pleasure in voting for onr popular former townsman, and they would mighty near see to it that he wears the Mardi Gras crown.