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Bellefonte, Pa., February 27, 1925.
EDWIN BOOTH.
The Prince of Tragedy in America.
By Levi A. Miller.
Edwin Booth, the great actor, has
been before the public for many years,
and no lover of the drama will dispute
the fact that he was the best repre-
sentative man of the American stage;
and when we consider his personal as
well as his professional worth, we
must give him a foremost place with
the leading men of the country and of
the century. He made his first ap-
pearance as an actor, at the Boston
Museum, September 10th, 1849, in the
rt of “Tressel,” in Cibber’s version
of Richard III, his father, Junius Bru-
tus, one of the greatest tragedians of
his time, at the same theatre.
The eccentric and wonderful man
was on the stage from 1813 to 1852,
| when he died, aged fifty-six years.
Before he became an actor he had
been a sailor, printer, painter, sculp-
tor and writer for the press. Driven
from London by the envy and jeal-
ousy of Edmund Kean, he came to
America in 1821, and bought a farm
near Baltimore, where his son Edwin
(the seventh of ten children) was born
in November, 1823, “on a night mem-
orable for a great and splendid show-
er of meteors”—the precursors of a
star of the first magnitude.
Edwin accompanied his father in
his wanderings from town to town,
and shared with him the sorrows,
hardships and disappointments of his
travels. His sad and strange exper-
ience during these days of trial gave
a sombre color to his after life and
changed the tone of a cheerful temper-
ament to the gloom and melancholy
which later on assisted him so mater-
ially in portraying the intellectual
and emotional character of Hamlet.
In the beginning of his career as an
actor, Edwin Booth assumed the char-
acters of Sir Edward Mortimer, Sir
Charles Overreagh, and other tem-
pestuous parts, in all of which he ex-
celled. In the summer of 1852 he
went with his father to California,
from thence to Sandwich Islands and
Australia. He had four years of se-
vere experience and hard discipline of
labor, trial, sorrow and disappoint-
ment. But he was made of stuff too
stern to yield to discouragement and
disaster. The pure gold of the man
shone the brighter for the furbishing
of affliction and sore trial. The train-
ing of grief and suffering was a
source of education and polish, and
resent a refined and cultivated man.
One whose fine and delicate organi-
zation combines the tenderness of a
woman, with the majesty of “the true
prince.” The dark hair is brushed
from a full forehead; the heavy eye-
brows give a background of shadow
for the large brown eyes to flash un-
der in the tempest of emotion. No
man unendowed with imagination and
poetic sensibility can properly trans-
-| late the thought and feeling of a man
of genius.
He must be formed of the finest
ciay, moistened with tears and tem-
pered with smiles, to be a fit delinea-
tor of the characters created by the
true poet. He must be transparent in
his earnest endeavor, so that the fig-
ure photographed on his heart shall
be seen in his face and heard in his
voice. He must forget himself and
become the embodiment and spirit of
the subject he represents. In Hamlet
the actor must give soul and sub-
stance to shadows. The character is
one of the great creations of the poet,
so fine and flexible that the outbursts
of passion are as natural as the sound
of storms upon the air, and is the
most difficult to impersonate on the
stage. It is an expression of passion,
thought and feeling put into speech
that palpitates and bleeds if handled
rudely.
STATE FURNISHES LITTLE OF
ITS OWN PAPER WOOD.
Each year almost a half million
cords of wood are ground up by the
pulp and paper companies of Penn-
sylvania for the production of paper,
according to F. T. Murphy, forestry
extension specialist of Pennsylvania
State College. Of this tremendous
pile of wood only about 30 per cent. is
grown and produced in the State.
This small production of paper and
pulp from Pennsylvania grown wood
is due largely to the use of spruce and
other woods which are not found nat-
urally in any quantity in this State.
The native species of Pernsylvania
which are used to the largest extent
are: Poplar, beech, birch and maple,
black cherry, bass wood, hemlock,
gums and some few other woods. The
wood must be cut in four to five feet
lengths, peeled and allowed to season
thoroughly. It should be kept clean,
and no sticks should be less than four
inches in diameter. Wood should be
straight and sound, knots should be
trimmed close to sticks, and it should
be split only when too large to handle.
Pulp plants buying and using Penn-
sylvania woods are found in Elk, Clin-
ton, Blair, Potter, York and Philadel-
phia counties. Wood of the proper
species may be cut and marketed from
any point in the State providing it
does not lay too far back from a ship-
the young tragedian returned to the
East in 1856 “no longer a novice,” but |
an artistic actor of experience and |
great vigor of soul. i
He made the tour of the South and
ping point, county agent R. C. Blaney
points out.
This market for wood should be
aken advantage of by farm
woodlot owners, with rare excep-
tions, only as a means of getting rid
Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Sunshiny Weather brings your mind
to our Sunshiny Bargains
in all our New Spring Materials
New Dress Weaves
in Silk and Cotton—stripes in all the New
Colors, with White and Dark Grounds.
New Plaided Effects with the Hairline
Plaids. English Broadcloth, Silk Bro-
cades---all colors.
New Spring Coats
Spring Coats in all the New Colorings.
Special...
One lot of this season’s styles Silk and
Woolen Dresses—values up $1 3.50
AAAS
to $28.00—Sale price . . ..
Winter Coats
50 Winter Coats in Ladies and Misses
that must be sold now regardless of cost
---all this season’s styles.
STATE COLLEGE, PA.
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
was hailed as a prodigy of skill and ' of products from thinning and im-
genius in the principal towns and .provement cuttings from existing
cities of the Union. In the summer stands. Where spruce and poplar
of 1860 he crossed the Atlantic and | trees are planted for timber produc-
acted in London, Liverpool and Man- ' tion, thinning and clean cuttings for |-
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
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The New Spring
Top Coats
are here. We are
showing twenty dif-
ferent styles. By far
the Most Complete
Assortment of Mens
Spring Overcoats
ever shown in Belle-
fonte. Come in. Let
us show you. You
will be
more than pleased.
Price as Low as $20
A. Fauble
chester, returning to New York in'
the management of the Winter Gar- :
den theatre, and continued its control
until the building was destroyed by
fire in 1867. In 1869 he opene
Booth’s theatre,
time he has been acknowledged as a
star upon the stage in many of the
principal cities in the United States.
In San Francisco the receipts exceed-
ed $96,000 for eight weeks’ acting.
Here I may be permitted to say that
performers on the boards, who draw
their inspiration mainly from the bot-
tle, are not now, as they were former-
ly, the favorites of the public. They
must have a loftier and purer spirit
than they can find in their cup to win
the reputation which buds and blos-
soms and bears the fruit of fame. The
public may, for a time, bear with the
‘antics of a man of genius who goes
astray, but the confirmed sot will not
suit the fastidious and exacting au-
diences of the present age, nor excuse
him on the ground that he is alcibi-
ades defacing the images of the god,
Edwin Booth, who had inherited from
his father the insanity of intemper-
ance; but conquered it utterly many
years ago and nobly and grandly trod
it beneath his feet. And, as he ma-
tured in his career, through acting
every kind of part, from a dandy Ne-
gro up to Hamlet, he at last made
choice of the characters that offered
ample scope for his powers and as-
pirations, and so settled upon a defi-
nite, restricted repertoire: Hamlet,
Macbeth, Lear, Othello, Igo, Richard
the II and III, Shylock, Cardinal
Woolsey, and a number of others.
Edwin Booth has been tried by some
of the most terrible afflictions that
ever tried the fortitude of a human
soul, but he heroically outlived them.
Edwin Booth met with a great sorrow
when he lost his second wife, an amia-
ble and accomplished lady of great at-
tractiveness of person and loveliness
of character. Strong men are not ea-
sily crushed by afflictions and disad-
vantages. They rise superior to
events that would be disastrous to
ordinary actors on the stage of hu-
man experience. It is said by those
who are competent to judge, that this
prince of tragedy excels, not in ele-
gant comedy, but in fierce sarcasm
and “stimulated madness.” He has
intense poetic sensibility, and being a
“man of moods,” like all men of real
genius, he is equal to his efforts.
Even when he seems to lack warmth
and color, there is always artistic
treatment and poetic expression in his
voice and manner.
He studies, analyzes, and masters
every point in a play before its pre-
sentation on the stage. He is not sat-
isfied until the spirit of Shakespeare
| gives life to his ideal. The mere
memorizing of the words of the dra-
ma is but a small part in his prepara-
tion. The text in type is a mery body
without the animating life. He did
not rest until it contained a living
| soul, pulsing. in the heart and throb-
bing in the brain.
No detail of his study was neglect-
ed. Historic accuracy was demanded,
and the passion of the play is brought
| out as vividly as lightning from a
thunder cloud. His face and head rep-
1862. The following year he assumed |
d
which he managed |
until the spring of 1874. Since that |
pulp wood would be most profitable.
If our woodlots were properly
handled and our waste land planted
with trees of the proper species,
{ Pennsylvania should one of these
days be self-supporting as to its pulp-
wood requirements and the money
{ which is now being sent out of the
| State for raw materials would be
kept here to swell the income of wood-
land owners and citizens of Pennsyl-
vania.
A A ——
ASPARAGUS GROWS POPULAR
WITH KEYSTONE CONSUM-
ERS.
Supply and demand are not equal in
the case of asparagus. During the
past few years markets have not seen
enough of this delicious vegetable to
satisfy those who hunger for it.
“It is no longer regarded as a lux-
ury, which only the well-to-do can af-
ford,” says W. B. Nissley, vegetable
gardening extension specialist of The
Pennsylvania State College, “but it is
rapidly being thought as a necessity.
This vegetable merits a place in every
farm garden, at least, and also in
town gardens where space permits.”
Now is the time to order asparagus
roots for the spring planting, county
agent R. C. Blaney states. These
may be secured from a reliable seed-
man or from some grower.
Buy well-grown, one year old roots.
The most widely planted variety is
Washington. For a family of five, 75
to 100 roots will be sufficient. For a
family of two to three persons 50 to
75 roots are enough. For larger fam-
ilies add more roots proportionately.
Where space is available it is well
to plant the asparagus twenty inches
apart in rows four to five feet apart.
In small gardens where hand cultiva-
tion is practiced, plant in squares
twenty inches to two feet apart each
way.
Asparagus crowns must be set
deep. In sandy soils they recommend
twelve to fourteen inches and in heavy
soils eight to ten inches. When the
roots are planted cover lightly with
one and one-half to two inches of soil.
Later, after considerable growth has
been made, the trench or hole may be
filled gradually with soil.
Nissley urges all who plan to start
an asparagus bed this spring to send
to State College for a copy of Exten-
sion Leaflet No. 19, which tells how
to plant this crop.
GEORGE'S VALLEY.
Barney Eisenhuth, of Spring Mills, R. D.,
contributes a few items from his section
Another wish he expresses is that
spring will come early so the farmers
can get started with their work soon-
er than they could last year.
He says they have much sickness in
George’s Valley and James Reeder,
one of his neighbors, who hae been ill
for some time, is improving. reo
Under date of March 23rd Barney
writes to tell us that he is 74 years
old, still works on the farm, and is a
“har” Democrat, so “hard” that he is
going to stay that way until he dies.
—If you can’t find it in the “Watch-
man” it isn’t true.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
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