Who's who in New York City and State, 1st ed, Part 6

Author: Hamersly, Lewis Randolph, 1847-1910; Leonard, John William, 1849-; Mohr, William Frederick, 1870-; Knox, Herman Warren, 1881-; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: New York : L.R. Hamersly Co.
Number of Pages: 751


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ALDEN, Carlos Coolidge:


Lawyer, professor, author; born Wil- mington, Ill .. June 4, 1866; lineal descend- ant of John Alden, of Puritan fame; ed- ucated at Bangor, Me .; received degree of LL.B., 1892, New York University Law School and that of LL.M., in 1893, admitted to bar, 1893; professor of law, New York University Law School, since 1896; member of law firm of Alden & Carpenter, 170 Broadway, New York: Author of "Abbott's' Forms of Pleading," 2 vols., 1898, 1900; "Hand-book of New York Code of Civil Procedure," 1901. Residence, 480 Park Ave .; office, 170 Broadway, New York.


ALDEN, Cynthia Westover:


Author and journalist; born Afton, Ia., 1862; graduated from University of Colo- rado at Boulder; taught in public school at Boulder; inspectress of Customs, New York City, 1887; private secretary of Street Cleaning Commissioner, New York City; editor of the woman's page New York Recorder; editor of the woman's page New York Tribune; founder of the International Sunshine Society, 1896, and president general; it has a member- ship of over 200,000, besides 3,000 well. organized branches all over the world. Author of "Manhattan Historic and Ar- tistic." and "Bushy," "Money Earning for Women," and editor of "What One Woman Thinks." Editorial writer on staff of Ladies' Home Journal and other periodicals, married John Alden, 1896. Business office, 96 Fifth Ave., New York City; home address, Hotel Montague, Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y.


ALDRICH, Mary Jane (nee Johnston) :


Reformer; was born at Sidney Plains, N. Y., March 19. 1833; 1855 married John Aldrich, who traces his descent from the Aldrichs going with Roger Williams tc Rhode Island in quest of religious liberty not yet granted to Quakers; 1857 they re- moved to Nebraska, from thence to Cedar


Rapids, Ia., in 1866, and to Springfield, Mo., in 1894; is of Scotch-Irish ancestry; the great granddaughter of Rev. Wm. Johnston, a native of Mullow Malo, Ty- rone, who came to America before 1736; Mrs. Aldrich signed the temperance pledge in early childhood during the peri- od of John B. Gough's career and the Washingtonian societies; her active tem- perance work began during the Woman's Temperance Crusade of 1873-4; was chos- en vice-president of the National W. C. T. U. at its organization and was offi- cially connected with the W. C. T. U. of Iowa, from its organization in differ- ent offices; two years as president, two or more as corresponding secretary, etc., until her removal to Missouri in 1894; at organization of the Non-Partisan Nation- al W. C. T. U. she was made its sec- retary of evangelistic temperance work, to which position she was again elected in 1893. Address, Springfield, Mo.


ALDRICH, Richard:


Editor; born Providence, R. I., July 31, 1863; educated in the schools of that city and in Harvard, where he was graduated in the class of 1885; became a member of the staff of the Providence Journal in Au- gust of that year, first as reporter, then as musical and dramatic editor, and final- ly as editorial writer; spent the year 1888 in Europe in the critical study of music; in 1889 became private secretary to U. S. Senator Dixon; musical critic Washing- ton Star; in 1891 became member New York Tribune staff; in Oct., 1902, appoint- ed musical editor New York Times; writer on musical subjects in magazines and other periodicals; translated Mme. Lilli Lehmann's book, "How to Sing," The Macmillan Co., 1902; member Harvard Club. Address, New York Times, New York.


ALEXANDER, Charles Beatty:


Lawyer and author; born New York, Dec. 6, 1849; son of Henry M. Alexander and Susan Mary Alexander; married, April 27, 1887, Harriet Crocker, daughter of Charles Crocker, of California; grad- uated Princeton University 1870; received the honorary degree of LL.D. Princeton University June, 1895, and from Washing- ton & Jefferson College, at Centennial, Oct., 1902; trustee of Princeton Univer- sity; admitted to New York Bar June 17, 1872; California Bar Dec. 19, 1888; Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States Nov. 5, 1884; member of law firm of Alex- ander & Green, 120 Broadway, and coun- sel to the Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety of the United States, and other large corporations and firms; member of the Society of the Cincinnati and of nu- merous clubs. Author of Alexander on the "New York Law of Life Insurance." Residence, Tuxedo Park, New York; other addresses, 4 West 58th Street and 120 Broadway, New York.


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ALEXANDER, De Alva Stanwood:


Representative in Congress from Buf- falo; was born July 17, 1846, in Richmond, Me .; at the age of 15 entered the Army, serving three years, and until the close of the war, as a private soldier; upon leav- ing the service prepared for college at Ed- ward Little Institute, in Auburn, Me .; and took his bachelor's degree from Bow- doin College in 1870; afterwards located at Indianapolis, Ind., where he studied law and practiced in partnership with Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, now judge of the Court of Claims in Washington; was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1872; was secretary of the Indiana Repub- lican State Committee from 1874 to 1878; in 1881 was appointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Department, and during his resi- dence in Washington was elected and served one term as commander of the department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; on leaving Washington, removed to Buffalo, forming a law part- nership with his college class-mate, Hon. James A. Roberts, formerly comptroller of the State of New York; in 1889 was ap- pointed U. S. Attorney for the northern district of New York, holding the office until Dec., 1893; was elected to the Fifty- fifth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Con- gresses, and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, receiving 21,535 votes, to 16,- 016 for Ole L. Snyder, Democrat; 558 for Thomas Tomlinson, Prohibitionist; 263 for William R. Rohloff, Socialist Labor; 147 for Tom Fitton, Socialist Democrat, and 674 blank and scattering. Address, Buf- falo, N. Y.


ALEXANDER, James Waddel :


President Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety of the United States; born Prince- ton, N. J., July 19, 1839; son of Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander, pastor 5th Avenue Church; graduated Princeton University 1860 (A. M.); Nov. 24, 1864, married Eliza- beth Beasley, Elizabeth, N. J .; admitted to New York bar, 1862; trustee Princeton University; director Mercantile Trust Co., Delaware and Hudson Co., and other financial bodies; president University Club 8 years, Princeton Club 6 years. Author "Princeton, Old and New," 1898; "Chem- ical Factor of History," "Kurze Einleit- ung zu den Nitroverbin dungen," Leipsic, 1876; translation and revision of "Pinner's Organic Chemistry," 1883. Address 4 E. 64th Street, New York.


ALEXANDER, John White:


Artist; born Allegheny City, Pa., Oct. 7, 1850; studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich; awarded gold medal, Phila- delphia Academy of Fine Arts, 1897; also at Paris Exposition, 1900, and Pan-Amer- ican, Buffalo, 1901; has taken the Lip- pincott prize, Philadelphia; the first prize, Washington, D. C., Art Society; first Carnegie prize, Society American Ar- tists; medal, Munich Academy; represen- ted in Luxenbourg, Paris, gallery, St. Petersburg; private galleries, London, and


Edinburgh, Scotland; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; Willstach collection, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia; Elkins collection, Philadelphia; Boston Museum Fine Arts; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Cin- cinnati Fine Arts Institute; Princeton University; Harvard University; Con- gressional Library, Washington, D. C .; Chamber of Commerce, New York; Coop- er Union, New York; State House, Tren- ton, N. J .; City Hall, Albany, N. Y., and in private collections in nearly all of the large cities of the United States; painted a portrait of President Loubet, which hangs in the Elysee Palace, Paris; degree of A. M., Princeton University, 1892; chevalier of Legion d' Honneur, 1901; academician of National Academy, 1902; member of Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, and other European societies; also of Society of American Artists, of National Society of Mural Painters, Arch- itectural League, etc .; member of Cen- tury, Metropolitan and Union Clubs, New York City. Residence, 116 E. 65th St .; studio, 123 E. 63d St., New York.


ALEXANDER, William:


Secretary Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety; trustee Equitable Trust Co .; di- rector Mercantile Safe Deposit Co. Ad- dress, 4 East 64th St., New York.


ALLDS, Jotham P .:


Republican State Senator, representing the Twenty-sixth Senate District (Sul- livan, Chenango and Delaware Counties) ; born Claremont, N. H .; educated in pub- lic schools of that town, removed to the State of New York in 1876, and graduated from Colgate University in 1883; admit- ted to the bar in Jan., 1887, and began the practice of law in Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y., where now resides; Mr. Allds was first elected to Assembly in 1896, and at the sessions of 1896 and 1897 was chairman of the committee on Excise; in 1898 was chairman of the committee on Codes, and in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902 was chairman of the committee on Ways and Means and majority leader; Nov., 1902, elected to Senate from the Twenty- sixth Senatorial district; in 1903 as a State Senator he received the following Senate committee appointments: Fi- nance, Judiciary, Taxation and Retrench- ment, Forest, Fish and Game, and Roads and Bridges. Address, Norwich, Chenan- go County, N. Y.


ALLEN, Annie Winsor:


(Mrs. Joseph), born 1865 (Annie Ware Winsor), Winchester, Mass., daughter of Frederick Winsor and Ann Bent ( Ware) Winsor; went to Radcliffe College, Cam- bridge, Mass .; taught history, etc., in Breasley School, New York, 1889-1900; assistant secretary of the Social Reform Club, 1894-98; member of its council, '94- '02; secretary of Mercantile Inspection Committee. 1895-96; appointed member of Board of Managers for House of Refuge, Hudson, N. Y., 1903.


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ALLEN, Charles J .:


(Lieutenant colonel, Corps of Engi- neers) ; born New York, Jan. 31, 1840; ap- pointed from New York; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1860; graduated, June 13, 1864; actual rank- lieutenant engineer, June 13, 1864; cap- tain, March 7, 1867; major, Jan. 10, 1883; promoted lieutenant colonel, Feb. 5, 1897; brevet rank-captain, Aug. 24, 1864, for highly meritorious services in the sieges of Forts Gaines and Morgan, Ala .; major, March 26, 1865, for gallant and meritori- ous services during the campaign against the City of Mobile and its defenses; ser- vice-served during the Civil War, 1864- 66, in the Military Division of West Miss- issippi and also in the Department of Louisiana, being engaged in the siege and capture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, Ala .; in charge of the defences of Natchez, Miss .; and in reconnaissances and pre- paratory operations for the Mobile cam- paign of March and April, 1865; he was acting chief engineer of the Sixteenth Army Corps at the siege of Spanish Fort and in reconnaissances in the vicinity of Fort Blakely, Ala., and in erecting heavy batteries against Forts Huger and Tracy, in Mobile Bay, and during the march of the Corps to Montgomery, Ala., from March 27 to April 25, 1865; he was also in charge of the defenses of Mobile and from June 1 to Aug. 5, 1865, was chief en- gineer of the Army of Observation on the Rio Grande, Texas; he was thrice com- mended in official reports by his superiors in the field, including his corps and divix sion commanders; since the War of the Rebellion he has served continuously on construction of fortifications, on works for improvement of rivers and harbors, and construction of bridges, besides having been a member of boards of engineer officers, etc., on important works; during the Spanish War, 1898, he was in charge of the Defenses of Washington, D. C .; is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, U. S., and of other military associations. Present address, 2001 I St., N. W., Washington, D. C.


ALLEN, Ethan:


Lawyer; born Monmouth County, N. J., May 12, 1832; son of Samuel Fleming Al- len and Phoeby Goble; grandson of Capt. Samuel Allen, a minute man of the Rev- olution; his great-uncle, Stephen Fleming, was a captain the New Jersey line of the Revolution, and after that war went to Kentucky and gave his name to a coun- ty in that State; graduated Brown Uni- versity, 1860, and was orator of his class; graduated from New York University Law School, and was the valedictorian of that class; married, Aug. 20, 1861, Eliza Clagett, of Washington, D. C., who died Feb. 8, 1899; practiced his profession in New York City from 1870 to 1890, when he retired from the bar; never lost a case before a jury; from 1861-70, was deputy U. S. district attorney for Southern Dis-


trict of New York under Lincoln admini- stration; resigned, in 1862, to enter the army, but was ordered by Secretary of War to stay at his post of civic duty; ob- tained from governor, commission as colonel to recruit for the army, and or- ganized the "Blair Brigade" during such time as could be spared from official duties; was chairman, in 1872, of na- tional convention of Liberal Republicans to make Horace Greeley President of the United States; in 1870 was president of the Cuban League of the United States to secure justice to the Cubans; after the peace, following the rebellion begun in 1868, was constantly engaged in exposing the Spanish tyranny, until the rebellion was opened again in 1895, under Morti Gomez; again revived the Cuban League of the United States and became again its president; it numbered over a million of men, and was one of the greatest in- fluences that forced Congress, in defiance of the President of the United States, to proclaim war with Spain in 1898; its mis- sion being ended, the league at once dis- banded. Author of "Rozina," a society drama; also "Washington; or The Revolu- tion," in dramatic form, blank verse, also in prose. Residence, 35 W. 52d St .; office, 115 Broadway, New York.


ALLEN, Fred. E .:


Republican Assemblyman, representing the Second District of Broome County; son of James F. Allen, descendant of Ethan Allen; born in Lisle, Broome Coun- ty, N. Y .; received education at Whitneys Point High School; soon after leaving school entered dry goods store of Griffin Brothers; began business life in 1883, and now conducts one of the largest stores in northern Broome; has served several years as Town Clerk of Whitneys Point; was member of Board of Education for fifteen years, and president of board eight years; was trustee of Village for two years and has been secretary of Broome County Agricultural Society five or six years; long member of Republican County Com- mittee of Broome County; 1901 elected member of Assembly; re-elected in 1902, and appointed to following Assembly Com- mittees: Taxation and Retrenchment, stitutions. Address, Whitneys Point, Broome County, N. Y.


ALLEN, Fred. Hovey, LL.D .:


Congregational clergyman, author and lecturer; born Lyme, N. H., Oct. 1, 1845; father (Philander) came from the Ver- mont Allens and mother (Rhoda Lord) from the line of Hoveys; two or three winters spent in district school and then the Old Deerfield Academy served for early education; after learning the print- er's trade entered partnership with H. A. Wadsworth, in Lawrence, Mass., in the publication of the Lawrence Weekly Eagle, to which was added a daily edi- tion; selling this he next purchased the Suffolk . County Journal, which was edited at the time he was fitting for a univer- sity course; later studied in Boston Uni-


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versity; graduated at Hartford Theologi- cal Seminary, and completing general studies at Paris, Vienna and Berlin; while in Paris he represented the pub- lishing house of D. Lothrop & Co., of Bos- ton; on return to America became liter- ary editor for the house, and a year later became literary and art editor for the house of Estes & Lauriat, of Boston; filled pastorates in South Boston "E" Street Church; the Olivet Church, Bos- ton, Abington, Mass., and First Congre- gational Church, Rockland; took up resi- dence in New York in Jan., 1903; is an authority on modern art which he has studied exhaustively in Europe; leading American writer and lecturer on Art and Travel; brought to America the first suc- cessful photo-gravure process ever used here and made for a Boston publishing house the first volume ever printed from American plates; he also secured patents on a press for printing photo-gravure plates; also patents on gas burners for house ranges; is artist member of Boston Art Club; member of the Gesellschaft für Verveilfältigende Kunst, Vienna, of Maler Gesellschaft, Munich; ponding member of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Address, 2191 Broadway, New York.


ALLEN, James Lane:


Author, whose name is familiar to those who have watched the development of American literature in recent years, is a native of Kentucky; after taking his degree in Transylvania University, he taught for a time in the University of Kentucky, and later was appointed pro- fessor of Latin and higher English in Bethany College in West Virginia; since 1886, he has given his entire attention to literature, and his works have enjoyed a high popularity on both sides of the At- lantic; among his published works are "Flute and Violin," "The Blue Grass Region and Other Sketches of Kentucky," "John Gray," "The Kentucky Cardinal," "The Choir Invisible" and "The Reign of Law." Address, 4050 Grand Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.


ALLEN, Joel Asaph:


Naturalist; born Springfield, Mass., July 19, 1838; educated at Wilbraham Academy and Lawrence Scientific School under Agassiz; in 1865 accompanied Agassiz as assistant on the scientific expedition to Brazil; in 1869 visited Florida, and in 1871 the Rocky Mountain region with scientific explorers; 1871-85, assistant in ornithology at the Musum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge; received the Humboldt schol- arship in 1871; in 1873 headed the explor- ing party sent out by the Government in connection with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; 1876-83, editor of Bul- letin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club; 1884-1903, editor of The Auk, a quarterly ornithological journal; 1885-1903, curator of the department of mammals and birds,


American Museum of Natural History of New York; in 1886 received the degree of Ph.D. from the Indiana University; from 1883 to 1891 president of the American Ornithologists' Union; member National Academy of Sciences since 1876; foreign member Zoological Society of London; foreign member British Ornithologists' Union; member American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophi- cal Society and of numerous other Amer- ican and foreign academies and sciences. Author "Geographical Variation in North American Birds," "History of North


American Pinnipeds," "Monographs of North American Rodentia" (with Elliott Coues), "The American Bison, Living and Extinct," "Mammals of Patagonia" (in press), and of several hundred scientific papers on birds and mammals of North and South America; in 1903 received the Walker Grand Prize, awarded by the Bos- ton Society of Natural History; editor Bulletin and Memoirs, American Museum of Natural History, 1889-1903. Address, American Museum of Natural History, New York.


ALLEN, Louis J .:


Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy; born Mary- land; descendant on mother's side of Jacob Strembach, who served in Revo- lutionary War, and his son, Jacob Strem- bach. who served in the war of 1812, and Captain John Snider, who figured in


Colonial War; on father's side de- scended from Lieutenant Allen, of the English Army; appointed Third As-


sistant Engineer, 1895; steam sloop Dacotah, 1859-61; promoted Second As- sistant Engineer, 1861; special duty at Novelty and Morgan Iron Works, 1861; steam sloop Adirondack, until wrecked; South Atlantic Station, Senior Engineer of double-ender Conemaugh; participated in attacks of forts around Charleston and other places; promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1863; special duty, New York, 1864; special duty, Baltimore, 1865-6; dou- ble-ender Monocacy, as Senior Engineer, en route to China, 1866; left at hospital, Barbadoes, with yellow fever, 1866; Naval Rendezvous. Philadelphia, 1867; Naval Academy, 1867-8; ironclad Dictator, 1869- 70; promoted to Chief Engineer, 1871; U. S. sloop Resaca, Pacific Squadron, 1871-2; Inspector of machinery afloat, Mare Island Navy Yard. 1872; steam sloop Tus- carora, Pacific Squadron, 1873-4; Navy Yard, Pensacola, , 1875-7; steam sloop Marion, European, North American and South American Squadrons, 1878-80; wait- ing orders and temporary duty, New York, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1880-3; receiving- ship Vermont, 1884; steam sloop Quinne- baug, European and African Stations, 1884-7; waiting orders and New York Navy Yard, 1887-8; League Island Navy Yard, 1889-90; Chicago, S. A. Station, Nov .. 1891-5; member of Experimenting Board, New York, May, 1895-7; Continen- tal Iron Works, Aug., 1897; Union Iron


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Works, San Francisco, Feb., 1898, to Sept., 1899, then to Mare Island Navy Yard, March 3, 1899; promoted Captain, March 3, 1899; retired Rear Admiral, Jan. 14, 1902; member of Veteran Corps of Artil- lery and New York Society of 1812; Con- tinental Society of War of 1812; Washing- ton Light Artillery; Military Order of Loyal Legion, Grand Army of Republic, and Union Club. Address, care Union Club, 5th Ave., 51st St., New York.


ALLEN, Timothy Field, M. D .:


Born Westminster, Vt., April 27, 1837; graduated, 1858, Amherst College (LL.D., 1883); M. D., University of the City of New York, 1861; married Julia Bissell, 1862; M. D., University of the State of New York, and Hahnemann Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia, 1865; acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, 1862-64; president board of trustees New York Homoeopathic Medical College, also dean and teacher of materia medica of same; now president New York Ophthalmic Hos- pital; Fellow of New York Academy of Sciences. Publications: "Encyclopaedia of Materia Medica" (10 volumes., 1874- 79), index of same (1881), "Ophthalmic Therapeutics" (1878), "Characeæ Ameri- canæ" . (1800). Address, 3 East 48th St., New York.


ALLEN, Viola:


Actress; gained her knowledge of the stage in the best school-that of ex- perience; her father, C. Leslie Allen, a character actor of merit, and her mother, whose specialty for some time was ~old women parts," were in Alabama when she was born; this was in the late '60s; during most of Miss Allen's childhood her parents were connected with the Boston Theatre Company; Miss Allen received. her education, or a great part of it, in the City of Learning; and in that time she learned what would be well for many another actor to study, her Shakespeare; when she was about thirteen years old her parents moved to New York, where they obtained engagements and where Miss Allen continued her schooling; when she was fifteen her debut on the stage was made; her father was a member of the company which was playing "Esmer- alda" at the Madison Square Theatre in support of Annie Russell; Miss Russell re- tired rather unexpectedly from the cast, and by some chance or other Miss Allen, though a child, got the part; and though at this time she had never acted in a play in her life, and had seen but few, she made a success; her father's teaching probably had much to do with this; he had taught her how to read and how to give weight to her words, being especially careful about her Shakespeare; a season on the road with "Esmeralda" proved that Miss Allen had in her the material from which good actresses are made; the next season she went with John McCul- lough, playing leading roles; this was the


fatal season of the great Mccullough, his last; with him she played a round of parts, including Virginia, Desdemona, Parthenia and Julia in "The Galdiator;" she was, then, a slip of a girl, fragile and delicate, but winning and graceful; when Lawrence Barrett produced Browning's "Blot on the 'Scutcheon,'" she was in the cast; then came, the following sea- son, her engagement with the elder Sal- vini; her range of characters was widened here; she was Cordelia in "Lear," Des- demona, Neodamis in the Salvini ver- sion of "The Gladiator," and the wife in "Le Mort Civile;"' when young Salvini played she was the Juliet to his Romeo; the result of this engagement was to bring her more prominently before the public than she had been before; her fine work in Desdemona attracted much attention, and has lived in the memories of all who saw it; in 1888 Miss Allen be- came leading woman of the Boston Muse- um Stock Company; here she gained much more experience; she was in "The Bells of Haslemere," and created in America the part of Mrs. Errol in "Little Lord Fauntleroy;" Bronson Howard's "Shen- andoah" was put on, with Miss Allen in the leading feminine role; other characters were Minnie in Pinero's "Sweet Laven- der," and "Hazel Kirke," which she played at her own benefit; in 1889 she became a member of the Joseph Jefferson- William Florence combination, playing Lydia Languish to Jefferson's Acres and Florence's Sir Lucius O'Trigger, in Sher- idan's "Rivals," and Cicely Homespun to Jefferson's Doctor Pangloss and Flor- ence's Zeke in "The Heir at-Law;" Miss Allen signed with Charles Frohman as leading lady of the Empire Theatre Com- pany in 1893; she was seen in Bronson Howard's play, "Aristocracy," and was later prominently identified with the great successes, "The Masqueraders," "Liberty Hall" and "Sowing the Wind," in which she was the original Rosamond in this country; in the great sex against sex speech in this play Miss Al- len was seen at her best; she was the representative of outraged and down- trodden womanhood, crying against the injustice of the immutable law that up- holds different standards of morality for men and women; Grundy's problem play has been played many times, and there have been many Rosamonds, but there has never been one that approached Miss Allen in the strong emotional scenes in the piece. Address, Carl Zieber & Co., 1402 Broadway, New York.




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