Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1909 — Ade Has An Enemy Some Place Among the Critics. [ARTICLE]

Ade Has An Enemy Some Place Among the Critics.

When George Ade’s new play “The Old Town” was first produced at the Studebaker recently some critic who had access to the press association wires lit into it with deep-rooted vengeance, and many of the papers declared that Mr. Ade had lost his magic pen and that the play was altogether devoid of comedy. The music by Mr. Luders was praised but the critic could see nothing good about Mr. Ade’s part of the performance. It is possible that the critic was too dense to understand the Ade variety of comedy but it is more probable that he is trying to do Mr. Ade an injustice, for the Chicago papers are praising the play highly and it is said to be keeping its record-breaking audiences in an uproar of pleasure, in which the playwright and the composer are sharing the praise of better critics than the one that seems to pounce with such delight onto Mr. Ade. It may be remembered that his play “Artie” was similarly condemned, but it had a good run in the cities nevertheless, and "The Old Town” is likely to break all Studebaker attendance records.

Edward Ford’s third trial for the killing of Joel and Frank McCoy at a woodchopping near Unionville, on Thanksgiving day, 1907, is to be called in the Monroe circuit court during the term which opens next Monday. Ford waited in jail a year for his second trial. The result was a bung jury again and he was released on bond. Sacrificing his farm to defend himself, he was compelled to move his family to Bloomington and is now employed at a factory in that place. The drys of Kokomo feel that a strong point was scored for their side when the city council in fixing the tax rate for the year made it |1 on each hundred of taxable property, a reduction of 16 cents on the hundred from the current year’s rate, A married man enjoys attending a wedding almost as much as'he does a funeral.