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THE ANNIVERSARY OF
CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN
(.Fiftieth Anniversary of the Great
American Actress.
New York, Jim. 30.—The* fiftieth
anniversary of the death of Charlotte
/Tushman. who lives in history as the
rat great American actress, will be
(tserveil early next month by the dra
-J*tic profession and the various or-
I. ganizations of: professional women.
I Wreaths will be > deposited about the
bust of Miss Cushman in the Hall
of fame. Tile famous actress is one
of seven women whose busts adorn the
Pantheon of New York University
and she was the first stage star to be
so honored.
Charlotte ('ashman has not been
dead so long as to take the memory of
her histrionic powers back into the
traditional past. She died February
18, 1876, in Boston, her native home,
and many are living today who can re
call the nobility of hey acting. Miss
Cushman began her public life as a
singer. She had n fine contralto voice,
and friends had aided her in having it
cultivated. Soon after her debut as a
singer, when she appeared as the
countess in the "Marriage of Figaro,”
she went to New Orleans to fill an
engagement, and there facet! the trag
edy of her life. She lost her voice
through the -effects of the change of
climate and'an efort to force her voice
to n soprano. ... ~
44i this .crisis Charlotte Cushman
shoved her,-strength of Character and
her determination not to be crushed
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by defeat. She turned her attention
to dramatic art, and made her find
appearance as Lady Macbeth, in New
Orica ns. ' Then she returned north,
and began her career ns an actress.
Then she was to play Lady Mac
beth with the great Macready. Char
lotte said she had a desperate fear of
him. She asked questions everywhere
as to his methods of acting, his maiv
ners. and his artistic ideals; and filial!
ly heard that he practiced all his
parts in front of a mirror.
So she went into retreat for some
days, and began to study in the. same
way. The result was that she saw
herself so- 'self-conscious, so stilted
and unnatural that she determined to
drop such methods, to forget her fear,
and to play Lady Macbeth with the
insight of the character gained by
careful and intelligent study.
When the dreaded evening came,
and she knew that Macready was
standing in the wings listening to her
first net, she showed her nervous fear
by the trembling of her bands, but
lier voice was clear and steady, and
she gave a remarkable impression of
individuality to the character. Mno
rendy complimented her generously,
and told her she must go to England
to act.
In the early part of her stage life,
when she belonged to a stock com
luttiy in New York, she was east to
play Nancy Sykes in "Oliver Twist.”
manager disliked Miss
Cushman and hoped the giving this
part to her would cause her to
break ber engagement with the cone-
pany. \
But Miss Cushman went for day*
through the slums of.the lower East
Side, making careful note of such
characters as Naucy. and her perform
ance was so remarkable that the play
held the stage for weeks, and Char
lotte's genius was thoroughly recog
nized. As Nancy had little place in
the play as a talking character, Miss
Cushman made her acting n marvel
of realism and powerful, yet silent,
force.
When she was going to England lo
play, she asked the older Booth if In
thought she ought to play Nanev In
London, and he told her “no,” de
cidedly, He said that the very power
of her realism made the vulgar char
acter so pronounced that it would in
sensibly give the public a distaste for
her. So she never performed the
part on an English stage.
The Mexican Big 8011.
T. B. Lauey in Monroe trournal.
Tom Broom came in to the Journal
office all excited seemingly and tlie
though uppermost in his mind was
Mexican big boll cotton. He states
the’mills want it because it has a line
3 1-10 inch long and the government
test shows strength and strong fibre.
Tom Broom is an authority on this
subject ns he has studied the question.
Through curiosity I began to ask
farmers if they knew anything about
the Mexican big boll cotton. And ev
ery man seemed to think that this Is
the cotton seed to plant.
The plant is healthy and strong,
early enough, and good fibre. I asked
C. N. Gordon what he thought of it.
The answer —“None any better.” O.
L. Biggprs, “The Mexican big boll
can't be bent." Mr. Biggers lives at
Brief and is a sensible young man.
I asked one what he thought of this
cotton standing up under the trouble
some boll weevil. He said be did not
think at the time of putting on squares
it was any better. But after the boll
began to grow it was a stronger fibhe
and stood the boll weevil better. Boyce
Helms, a good farmer, says there is
none better. You can pick almost
twice as much in a day and it turns
out more seed cotton aud brings a
better price on the market. ,
George Hart, a real farmer, and a
man who has a good farm, plants
Mexican big boll. He says the yield
is better, the lint brings from 1 to '2
cents more per pound, and the lint
yield is above the average and all
round he believes the Mexican big
boll the best cotton to plant.
Now I have been writing slush and
it may have pleased the people or it
may have not. But from this on for
awhile I expect to devote some of my
time to something tvortbwhile. I have
informed myself as to this Mexican
big boll and I feel it is the cotton seed
to plant from a yield standpoint or
price standpoint. ,
The birth rate of the United States
is decreasing.
' T ’* • THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE
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{MORRISON WILL DO HIS
OWN TAIKING, HE SAYS
| Taken, a Gentle Dig at the Washing
ton Correspondents.
Charlotte Observer.
| Former Governor Cameron Mcr
< risoit last night took a gentle dig at
■ the Washington correspondents who
1 hud him running for the legislature
| in their dispatches yesterday.
| In a statement last night the for
mer governor declared he would do
his own talking about his political
plans and views.
“Statements in the press regard
ing my political policies or criti
cisms are merely the speculation of
my newspaper friends,” lie added.
Mr. Morrison's statement follows:
“I have not made, or authorized
any person to make for me, any iioli
tical statement whatsoever, except
such statements ns were made in my
public speeches at the opening of the
bridges nt Elizabethtown and over
the Pee Dee river some time ago.
“AH statements appearing In the
press as to my political policies or
criticisms are merely the speculation
of my newspaper friends and are
twisted and inaccurate statements of
private conversation which I never
expected to see in public print.
“When I have any statements to
make about public mntters I will do
so directly, and I hope that the pub
lic <ri!l understand that the news-
UAPfiJt reporters, statements ot what,
they think are my views are a very
different matter from my own state
ments, and that unauthorized publica
tion of private conversation may be
very inaccurately made and ought
not to be considered legitimate news.
“I have refrained for some time
from talking politics. Recently sev
eral things have been reputed to me
as serious purposes of mine which
were absolutely without any auth
ority and recent denials of them are
of the same character. I have simply
not been talking for publication and
do not expect to be for the present.”
Kudzu.
Monroe Enquirer.
I came pretty near fillin’ this col
umn without saying anything about
Kudzu. Word comes that a farmer,
W. C. Burleyson, who lives four miles
west of Albemarle, two years ago set
half an acre to Kudzu. Last fall he
secured such an amazing mass of fine
hay from his small patch that he has
ordered 200,000 roots and will set
his entire farm to Kudzu. Mr. Bur
leyson has made the statement that
had he done this ten years ngo he
would have made a fortune.
So it goes. . One hundred or more
Unio'n county farmers this Spring will
set small acreages to Kudzu. But
some of our people are so conserva
tive, and want to wait and see how
their neighbors come out, I am fear
ful some of them will not want to
go to heaven until they are assured
they would find supreme happiness in
elysian fields.
Corn and cotton rotation with cot
ton and corn will in the end impov
erish any community, in the South
land.
Why' not let’s do a little experi
mentation? Let’s get out of the rut
father, fell into following grandpa. If
a mistake is made now and then in
farming operations no particular harm
will come of it.
Seriously,, folks, let’s get ready for
low priced cotton. Few farming
communities in this country are real
ly prosperous without cattle. Cattle
cannot be successfully grown on a
dairy farm operated without sufficient
and good hay supply.
Saturday I will have on hand at
The Enquirer office samples of the
Kudzu roots, together with literature
as to its planting and cultivation.
And the growing of the Kudzu plant
is much mere simple and infinitely
less work than growing cotton or
corn. Every ope is welcffine to drop
in any time and discuss the wonder
plant.
Mr*, p. M. Hunter Dies in Charlotte.
Jan. 31.—Mm. Pickett
Myere Hunter, aister of Mrs. Hamil
ton C. Jones, Sr., died this morning
at a local hospital after weeks of ill
ness. The funeral will be Monday
afternoon at St. Peter’s Episcopal
Church, of which she was a devout
and active member. Mrs. Hunter jwas
a daughter of the late Col. W. R.
Myers, of Charlotte, her mother a
sister of the late Col. Baxter
Springs, father of Mrs. John M.
Beott, of She would have
been 60 February 10. She was one of
seven children, of whom only two
survive—Mrs. Hamilton Jones, Sr„
and Mrs. Walter P. Myers. Beside
her sisters, she is survived by a,son,
Dr. Myers Hunter, of Charlotte.
STATEWIDE EIGHT MONTHS
SCHOOL TERM PROPOSED
Issue Will Be Paramount Before the
Next Legislature; Burke Superin
tendent Dissctisscs Matter, Empha
sizing Its Importance.
Monroe Journal. v
When questioned in regard to the
proposed eight months school term for
North Carolina, a question which
doubtless be one of the paramount
issues before the next session of the
State Legislature, It. L. Patton, su
perintendent of the Burke county
schools, gave the News-Herald the
following statement:
One of the most important meas
ures to come before the next session
of the General Assembly will be the
proposal for a constitutional amend
ment giving the State a minimum
school term of eight months. The
measure ought to be submitted to the
people for ratification. All candidates
for seats in the next session of the
General Assembly ought to be men
with vision and backbone enough to
allow this matter to go to the people
for a vote. No -greater issue could
be brought before the people. If t*ae
people can get a vote upon the propo
sition, it will carry.
The only argument that is offered
to such a proposal is that the State
is too poor to finance it! It is esti
mated that it Would tnke about $3,-
000,000 to give all the Statte an eight
months’ term. That is $3,000,0600
additional to what is already being
given by the State. This is a big
sum of money, but when we consider
that North Carolina ranks about
fourth or fifth in (he amount of tax
es paid the federal government, pay
ing a total amount of around sl6i>,-
000,000 annually this small sum sinks
into insignificance. Among the ag
ricultural states North Carolina takes
about sixth place in the value of her
farm crops. Yet in her crop of
children it ranks forty-second in the
opportunity it is giving them.
It is estimated that the federal re
duction of taxes this year in North
Carolina will amount to approximate
ly $6,600,000. Therefore if the State
would increase its income tax rate
to just one-half of this amount, it
would be able to finance the two ex
tra months of school. If the two
months of school beyond the six
months’ term, it would enable a great
many of the districts of the State to
decrease the special rate voted, or
enable them to provide better build
ings and equipment and render better
service from this standpoint.
There is no doubt but that the mat
ter of financing the term can be done
without, any extra burden. It will
be a matter of distributing the bur
den. and equalizing the opportunity.
The question "What will you do
about lt.”« should be proposed to ev
ery candidate who aspires to repre
sent his county or district in the next
session of General Assembly.
But most of all, t’iiose who go to
Raleigh from the poorer counties of
the west, and the sandhills and dunes
of the east should be those who will
go there and fight that the children
of their counties, the children of the
byways and out of way places shall
have opened to them the doors of a
greater opportunity. They should be
men who will have courage enough
to put the burden the training the
future citizens of the State upon the
State as a whole, with guaranteed
equality in the length of school term.
Church at Jamestown Burned to the
Ground.
High Point, Jan. 31. James
town’s only church was burned to
the ground by fire which broke out
there about 2 o’clock this afternoon.
The value of the building is esti
mated at $9,000 or SIO,OOO and the
edifice wins a total loss.
Hundreds of people traveling on
the High Point-Grecnsboro highway
stopped to sec. the blaze, the build
ing n wooden structure, burned like
cardboard in spite of a drizzling
rain.
Much In a Name.
Salisbury Post.
In Concord they are completing a
handsome hotel and the nugget ion
seems to prevail that it. is to be
called Concord. If the directors have
settled on auch a name they ought
to change their mind and the name
forthwith. It would be a mistake
mean nothing and add nothing to;
the hotol. Call it the Stephen Cabar
rus, oreaome other name that will
add a dignity and lift it above the
commonplace. Your directors are
fairly glutted with all sorts of small
and insignificant concerns called
Concord, do not add another.
NOTED SCREEN STAR
• DIES IN CALIFORNIA
i Barbara LaMarr'g Death Comeg Un
expectedly Although She Suffered a
Breakdown.
Altadena. Calif.. Jan. 30.—Barbara
I.nMarr. motion picture actress, died
at her home here this afternoon.
Miss LaMarr's death resulted from
, complications following a nervous
breakdown several mont'as ago, her
father, W. W. Watson, said. Her
death was unexpected as until yes
terday’she seemed rapidly improving.
Thursday she was able to leave the
home for the first lime in many
weeks. j
Miss LaMarr’s breakdown was in
.Tilly while she was completing three’
pictures in New York. She returned
to Hollywood to make the fourth nnd
it was while she was engaged in this
ltjst October that she suffered the
i second collapse.
The drama of the screen stories in
which Miss LaMarr appeared pales
i before the drama of her own life story.
She is said to have been born in
Richmond, Va., and to have played
■ her first stage role when she was
seven, but she made her first of hun
dreds of first page news when she
was 15, the occasion being one of her
i many marital entanglements.
The beautiful film siren was mar
■ ried five times.
l SPEAKER PHARR NOT
TO BE IN RACE AGAIN
Charlotte Man Says He Thinks He
Has Served His Time in the State
General Assembly.
Charlotte. .Tan. 30.—Edgar W.
Pharr, speaker of the house of repre
sentatives in the last general assem
bly, will not be n candidate for re
election in the primary this summer,
he announced tonight. Mr. Pharr has
been a member of the house for the
past ten years and served as speaker
at the last session.
“I think I have served my time in
the legislature and therefore do hot
expect to be in the race again.” Mr.
Pharr said tonight "I am very grate
ful to my friends for the honor con
ferred upon me and the confidence re
posed in me by their sending me to
the lower house for ten years. I hope
I have been of some service.”
Mr. Pharr, along with Miss Julia
Alexander and W. R. Matthews, rep
resented this county in the last legis
lature. Neither Miss Alexander nor
Mr. Matthews have announced for
re-election, therefore Mr. Hanson’s
candidacy is the only one on the slate
at the present.
Miss Alexander did not want to
be quoted on political matters last
night and Mr. Matthews could not
be reached.
SUICIDE THREAT
NOT CARRIED OUT
Young Woman Returns to Boarding
House; Landlady Mystified.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan 31.—Amelia
Martin, formerly of Greensboro, N.
.C., 'and roused in the Miller Orphan
age at Lynchburg, Va., who wanted
to die to “atone for somebody clse’s
sin,” and who disappeared from her
boarding house here Saturday, Janu
ary 23. leaving a note in which she
said she wanted nothing from the
world except a place to die, has re
turned.
“I am in a rooming house starving
to death. All I ask this world for is
a place to die,” was the message Miss
Martin mailed to a newspaper in
Atlantic Oity Wednesday. Accom
panying the letter was a poem
which she had composed, likening
herself to a flower that had been
plucked and cast into the roadside.
In the letter Miss Martin said: “I
have been a little lamb Jed to the
sacriflcal slaughter, to atone for
somebody else sin, which I had noth
ing to do with.”
Mrs. Catherine Ellis, with whom
Miss Martin boarded here, said Miss
Martin’s leaving her home was as
much a mystery as her returning
alive after the suicide threat. At the
time of the interview Miss Martin
was reported to be dressing
The girl’a letter to the Atlantic
City police named a man against
J whom she said she had a grievance.
Condemn me,” said the letter, “but
go out and see if you can find an
other girl at whom the world may j
throw stones.”
In order to develop a left hand!
punch and improve his footwork in
his early days as a professional
boxer Jack Dempsey tied his right
arm to his side and fought three
lightweights at a time in his train
ing sessions with only his left hand
| free.
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