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LEFT MATTO GBOSSO 156 MAUDE title role in "Everyman," and has ap- peared in Greek and mystery plays, old English comedies, and modern plays. In the United States in 1904 she appeared in Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer," and she has done good work in the plays of her husband, Charles Rann Kennedy (q. v.). MATTO GROSSO (mat'to gros'so) ("dense forest"), an inland state of Bra- zil, bordering on Bolivia, second to Ama- zonas alone, in size and sparseness of population; area, 532,683 square miles; pop. about 125,000, nearly all Indians and blacks. Within this vast territory several great rivers rise, including the Madeira and the Paraguay; but in most parts there is a scarcity of water during the dry season. The vegetation is generally scanty, grass, bush, and low trees cover- ing the sandstone plateau; high trees and rich vegetation are confined to the river valleys. The chief products are mate, sugar cane, and rubber. The gold and diamonds which formerly constituted the wealth of Matto Grosso have been exhausted, and agriculture (insufficient for the wants of the state) and cattle raising, with the gathering of medicinal plants by the Indians, are now the prin- cipal industries. The capital is Guyaba. The former capital, Matto Grosso, on the Guapore, greatly decayed with the gold mining industry. MATTOON, a city in Coles co., 111.; on the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis rail- roads; 56 miles W. of Terre Haute, Ind. There are gas and electric light plants, waterworks, high school, public library. National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It contains the machine shops of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi- cago, and St. Louis railroad; has broom factories, grist mills, grain elevators. Pop. (1910) 11,456; (1920) 13,552. MATURIN (ma-to-ren'), a section of the Venezuelan state of Bermudez, W. of the Orinoco delta, and consisting al- most entirely of llanos. The town Matu- rin, on the Guarapiche, has plantations of cacao, and a trade with the West Indies; its port is Colorado, 25 miles below, and a railway has been constructed to this point. MATZOON (mat'-), a milk food used by the inhabitants of Armenia; prepared by exposing cows' milk in open vessels to a heat of 80° or 90° F., and when coagulation takes place the curd is broken up by a churning process, and a little salt is added. MAUBEITGE, France, a fortification of the first class on both sides of the Sambre river. Once the capital of Hai- nault, it passed to France in 1678. Was invested by a Prince of Saxe-Coburg in 1793, but was relieved in the battle of Wattignies. Population before the Eu- ropean War 25,120. A key point in 1914, when the German army drive was made toward Paris, owing to its position as the junction of several important rail- ways; from Paris to Brussels by way of Mons; Paris to north Germany and a line to the eastern frontier. The Ger- mans held Liege and Namur, and the conquest of Maubeuge would give them a good line of communication by rail to Aix through the Meuse valley. Just before the Germans invested the fort the garrison had been reinforced by detach- ments from Lanrezac's French army and a British field battery and numbered over 30,000 men. The Germans having smashed all the outlying forts took pos- session of Maubeuge on Sept. 7, 1914. MATJCH (mak) CHUNK, a town and county-seat of Carbon co.. Pa., on the Lehigh river, the Lehigh Coal and Navi- gation Company's canal, and on the Cen- tral of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley railroads; 46 miles W. by N. of Easton. It marks the extreme boundary of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania; is famous for its striking natural scen- ery; and in the summer is visited by thousands of tourists. The coal is now carried through a tunnel, but was for- merly transported to Mauch Chunk by a gravity railroad known as the Switch- back, which has become famous as an exciting pleasure route for tourists. The town contains a county building, Y, M. C. A. building, the Dimmick Memorial Library, electric street railroad, electric lights. National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has a number of foundries, a shoe factory, car shops, etc. Pop. about 4,000. MAUDE, CYRIL, actor; born in Lon- don in 1862, he appeared in the United States in "East Lynne" in 1883. He scored much success in "Racing" in London in 1886 and joined Henry Arthur Jones's company. Was co-manager of the Haymarket, London, from 1895 to 1906, and until September, 1915, was manager of the Playhouse, which he rebuilt. In recent years has been starring in the United States, particularly in the title role of "Grumpy". MAUDE, SIR FREDERICK STAN- LEY, born in England in 1864, was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and entered army in 1884, becoming captain in 1896; major, 1899; lieutenant-colonel, 1907; colonel, 1911; and major-general