quite unwittingly pays 
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to our credit and benefit. 
PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS 
Governor Baldwin of Connecticut 
this state a 
compliment when he says that we are 
more impulsive than the people of 
Connecticut. This is probably so, and 
We do not 
stand for the abuses that are current 
in the neighboring state, and when 
there are big matters to come up for 
our consideration, we do not let them 
take their own course, as they do in 
Connecticut. 
Almost any railroad or corporation 
could go into Connecticut, we believe, 
and buy up the Legislature. Nearly 
any measure to the benefit of the in- 
terests could be railroaded through 
in that state. Yes, we are impulsive 
when it comes to defending our rights 
and trying to get a square deal in mat- 
_ ters of politics, and we respect our- 
last dozen of years 
_ This inscription reads: 
_ Vernon, for having brought the au- 
selves for it. 
CorPoRATE Honesty INCREASING 
Major Henry L. Higginson is right 
when he says that corporate honesty 
is increasing with the process of 
time. Perhaps it may be tighter laws 
which are bringing the big corpor- 
ations to the straight and narrow 
path, but it is to be believed that a 
sense of honesty is beginning to be 
appreciated and realized as a necess- 
ary asset for the successful conduct 
of any business. 
“There has been much talk and 
criticism of corporations of late 
years,” he says. “I have been con- 
cerned with corporations and their 
officers all my business life, and I will 
say to you that the men are getting 
_ better, and there are less abuses in 
_ the conduct of corporations than there 
Particularly in the 
the conduct of 
corporation affairs has improved, 
and a corporation official who feathers 
his own nest at the expense of 
the owners of the stock is a rarity 
and growing rarer.” 
were years ago. 
EMPIRE THEATRE, SALEM 
Much of the credit for the great 
success of “Milestones,” which Klaw 
& Erlanger and Joseph Brooks will 
produce at the Empire Theatre in 
Salem on Monday evening, March 3, 
is due to Mr. Frank Vernon, the fa- 
mous London producer, to whom the 
authors, Arnold Bennett and Edward 
Knoblauch, have inscribed their play. 
“To Frank 
thors together, instructed them to 
collaborate on a play and who, when 
they had obeyed him, put the play 
on the stage with an art which evoked 
their liveliest gratitude.” 
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TELEPHONE 254 MANCHESTER 
Mr. Vernon is a stage manager and 
producer. He studied Shakespeare 
and English literature under Anthony 
Wilson Davies, the eminent Oxford 
Shakespeare scholar. As a young 
man he spent several years traveling 
in India and the East. He played in 
London under the management of 
Sir Charles Wyndham and Sir Her- 
bert Tree. For three years he was 
leading man for Martin Harvey. 
Turning to producing, he staged “A 
Winter’s Tale” and “Cymbeline” for 
Miss Viola Allen in New York; Mr. 
Arnold Bennett’s first play, “Cupid 
and Common Sense” at the Shaftes- 
bury Theatre in London and “King 
Lear’ at Haymarket Theatre, Lon- 
don. Of+late years he has produced 
most of the plays of the authors of 
the advanced English school. At 
present he is associated with Vedrenne 
and Eadie as their producer in the 
Royalty Theatre management, Lon- 
don. 
Mr. Vernon rehearsed the company 
that will present ‘Milestones’ here 
at the Royalty Theatre, and came with 
it to America. 
THE Ricut THING 
He (at masquerade ball)—That’s 
a singular looking costume you’re 
wearing. What do you represent? 
She—Opportunity. 
He—Indeed! Then let me embrace 
you.—Boston Transcript. 
No ALTERNATIVE 
Wife—Why did you tell the Batsons 
that you married me because I was 
such a good cook, when you know I 
can’t even boil a potato? 
Hubby—I had to make some excuse, 
my dear, and I didn’t know what else 
to say!—London Opinion. 
“My grandfather laid down a tun 
of wine when my father was born.” 
“A fine old custom. Now what have 
you done with your son?” 
“Haven’t done anything as yet. I 
might put a crate of eggs into cold 
storage.”—Washington Herald, 
