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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE SUNDAY, HAY 15, 1901. 1G seats at the table. Amfortas, however, does not join them. Nor does Parsifal, though he is invited to the board. The Grail is reverently borne out.

Amfortas and the rest of the Grail company withdraw, and Gurnemanz remains alone with Parsifal. Gurnemanz asks Parsifal: "Why standest thou there? Wist thou what tho-a saw'st?" But Parsifal does not answer. Gurnemanz, angered at his apparent stupidity, thrusts him out, bidding him performance. Since coming to this country some two or three years ago with bis company to present the old morality play "Everyman," Mr. Greet has found increasing demaud for appearance of his players in all the great literary centers.

Ini Philadelphia last season after giving 'As You Like It" at a matinee performance, requests for a special performance were so many that Mr. Greet was prevailed upon to give an extra matinee and was then not able to find room for all who wished to see the performance. The demand oi peats at the Lyceum box-office, -where the subscription list is open; indicates gre it interest here. The usual exhibition of motion pictures will be given' at the Baker Theater this evening. A number of new and entertaining films are promised.

The theater's popular orchestra of ladies the Fayette Orchestra will give a concert. By the way the Baker Theater orchestra has so large a repertory that it is able to announce a pleasing novelty in the way of entr'acte music. Every Monday it will announce a programme of twenty selections of good and new music to be played during the week instead of the usual half dozen. The musical interludes at the Baker are a distinct attraction since the Fayette Ladies' Orchestra Avas installed. Week STOCK COMPANY season so auspiciously last night, as described elsewhere.

"The Unforeseen" te'ls of an escapade into which an English girl is forced in Paris while visiting that city with a party of tourists. is placed in a compromising position. Later she meets and falls in love with one of the two men who have knowledge of it. He has become blind through too much study and does not recognize her. They are married.

The other man, a friend of the blind husband, turns up later and informs him of the state of affairs. There will be matinees on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. These will be the regular matineo days during the summer engagement. The cast and synopsis of "The Unforeseen:" General Sir Archibald Fielding.K.C.B. illiam Tooker in "The Auctioneer." Mr.

Canned twice married. Ills flm wife was Hatt'e Richmond and second was Sadie 8t bier. Both unions ended in the dl'vor courts. The remains of the actor were tak to his native town, Utlca, and were Interred. lIler Last month performances of King were given in Syracuse.

Anbum and lUhi. ter by students of Syracuse University hT ed by a member of the faculty, Profe. Frederick D. Losey. who appeared i th( tie role.

Syracuse University 1 a Institution. It was founded by the Method 1st Episcopal Church, It is under thVr)(ltr' age of that church, and It Is supported larV ly by the contributions of Methodists. chancellor Is a distinsruished Methodlitc' gyman, who Is a candidate for a lilshooru It is well known that the MethiKlIst En-pal Church condemns the theater nttfri and In its "Book of Discipline" unaiiaiiBti' ly prohibits theatergoing to Its meniN. The students' performance of King I therefore, constituted a conspicuous lllo. tlon of the glaring Inconsistency precept and practice that has Jong msrW the real attitude of Methodist churrbmp toward the theater.

It Is likely t0 thn movement for the elision of the olmoito anachronistic nnd ahsurd mle against tict! ter-ftoinir from the Merhixllnt Book of Di! cipline." New York Dramatic Mirror. A NECESSITY OF LIFE IS CONTROLLED BY NINE MEN The Standard Oil Monopoly and the Power Which Enables it to Pay Forty to Tifty Per Cent. Dividends. Ida M. Tarbell, bcfor the Twentieth Cn tury Club, Boston.

I am not here to discuss what are known as Standard oil methods. My own belief is that these methods, which hare given the company its monopolistic power, are the most important for the public to consider. The point in which the pulr lic is chiefly interested is a selfish one. What effect has all this combination hai upon the oil we burn? If it has made oil cheaper, then such is the importance of the cheap oil to the poor and hard-pressed masses we must let the moral wrong of the thing go. If a few cents weekly are saved to the thousands upon thousands in our cities who fight for bread and shelter and warmth and who God pity them get little enough of these things, theu let us close our consciences to the foul play and the relentless practices; to the bribery nnd the lies which it has taken to make this combination.

Personally I do not believe this view is correct. I believe that in the long run the material comfort of the poor is more quickly advanced by the practice of justice. Iiut why should we expect anything other than high prices? To keep up prices is what combinations are formed for to produce cheap and to sell high. To expect anything else is to argue a simple-mindedness that borders on stupidity. Certainly the candid members of the Standard Oil Company would be the last men to argue that they give the public any more of the profits they may get by combination than they can help.

One of the ablest and frankest of them, II. II. Rogers, whci before the Industrial Commission in IV.f.t, was asked how it happened that in twenty years the Standard Oil Company had never cheapened the cost of gathering and transporting oil in pipe iines by the least fraction of a cent that it cost the oil produces just as much now as it did twenty years ago to get his oil taken away from the wells and transported to New York. And Mr. Itogers answered, with delightful candor: "We are not in business for our H-f-jL-r 1 The pi- First Time in Rochester and Third Time in World of the Dramatic Version of Sublime KLINGSOR it i 1 1 111 Pictorial Scenes Starting Monday Matinee 14 Wagner's r-1 1 1 3 i hi An 1 fl iiva Matinees ft 4 A Li 4 A 1 i "i "5 i v.

iv rr-(r i a i tl 4 "A 11 IvO 1 1 1 S' i 11 Exquisite An An "leave the swans for the future alone. II. The Keep of Klingsor's Klingsor, who is a magician, that Parsifal is a menace to his Forewarned of his approach he Act Castle, knows power. awakes Kundry from the sleep into which she was plunged and summons her from the depths to do his bidding. Half obedient, half rebellious to the call, Kirdry rises, shrieking as though in pain.

Klingsor mocks at the remorse which tortures her, and commands her to put forth all her seductions to ruin Parsifal as had long since ruined Amfortas. Kundry vanishes into space. The scene darkens. The tower sinks into depths, and in its place an enchanted garden filled with luxriant flowers and hemmed in by a wall. The sirens rush in.

They bewail the slaughter of their lovers. But when Parsifal scales the wall and faces them their grief gives way first to amazement and then to interest. Arraying themselves in the likeness of violets, lilies and irises, they woo him. He resists their advances. But a more potent temptation in the form of Kundry, now resplendent and transfigured, comes.

Yet he does not yield. He adjures her to repent and lead him back to Amfortas, whom he now longs to heal. As a last hope, Kundry calls to Klingsor, who appears, brandishing the blessed spear, which he hurls at Parsifal. The spear halts in mid-air. The Fool grasps it, and with the weapon makes the sign of the cross.

Instantly Klingsor is annihilated. The castle crumbles into dust. The flowers wither. And Kundry falls senseless. Act III.

The last act of the drama is divided into two scenes. Dawn breaks on a siuing landscape. It is Good Friday. Gurnemanz, now aged, issues from a hut and finds Kundry, clad in the garb which she wore in the first act, lying in a thicket, rigid and seemingly lifeless. On being aroused she murmurs only the words, "Service! Service!" For, through the downfall of Klingsor and the example of Parsifal, she has been touched with grace, or stricken with remorse, and while she waits for her release from sin and pain she has reconsecrated herself to- the service of the Grail Knights.

Gurnemanz beholds a knight, in black armor, wending his way toward his hut. In his hand the stranger carries a long spear. Thrusting his spear into the ground, kneels in prayer, and Gurneinanz knows him again as the "Fool" whom he had ejected from the temple. Gurnemanz welcomes him as the messenger who is to heal Amfortas and restore to the knights the mysterious blessings of the Holy Grail, now long denied to them. Parsifal reproaches himself for the blindness which has delayed his coming and falls fainting.

Then Kundry helps Gurnemanz to relieve him of his" armor and brings water wherewith she lave his fret. Turning to the penitent woman, Parsifal baptizes her. From the distance is now heard the pealing of bells, as once before, calling the true servants of the urau to the mysterious temple. Kundry assistance, Gurnemanz Parsifal in the mail and mantle Grail knights, and invites him to With arrays of the follow him. The scene chamres for tho lnut- timo to the interior of the temple.

This time no tables have been spread. The knights enter, wearing mourning. The body of old Titurel is carried in and placed reverently in the center of the vast building. Amfortas also comes, preceded by the veiled shrine, while the knights solemnly intone a song in honor of the sacred cup and in remembrance of Titurel. liaising himself on his litter, Amfortas bewails the un-worthiness which has forced him to deny his sire the blessings of the Grail.

Parsifal has entered, unperceived, with Kundry and Gurnemanz. He advanced and with the blessed spear touches the still gaping wound of Amfortas. At the healing touch, the face of Amfortas lights up with rapture. Parsifal commands the Grail bearers to unveil the shrine. All kneel in adoration as the myotic cup glows red.

Titurel, miraculously resuscitated for a moment, rises in his bier, as Parsifal takes the Grail and weaves it gently to and fro. From the dome a white dove descends, hovering above the King's head. The voices of boy choristers are heard, proclaiming the consummation of the mirsion intrusted to Parsifal. The play ends. The Characters In "Parsifal Parsifal "The Guileless Fool" Symbol of Enlightened Pity Amfortas Ihe King of the Grail to.

A Symbol of" Mankind Titurel His Father An Invisible Symbol of Sorrow ivunary A Changing Enchantress A Composite Symbol of Woman Gurnemanz An Old Knight A Symbol of Sanctity Klingsor A Magician A Symbol of Evil Ihe Knights of the Grail Symbols of Holiness Ihe I.S'iuircs Wardens of the Sacred Forest of Monsalvat Symbols of Humilltv The I lower Maidens. Symbols of Temptation A Voice An Angel. A Symbol of Divine Love A Whtie A Symbol of Divine Favor Knights of the Grail, the Grail Bearer. Cup Bearers, Pages, Wardens and Flower Maidens. The principal characters will be impersonated by Bert Lytell.

David Hartford Charles Arthur, Peter Lang and Miss Adora Andrews. The Flower Maidens by Miss Adelina Raf-fetto. Miss Marihel Seymour, Miss Alice Hiils. Miss Alice Donovan. The Knights und Esquires by Messrs f'lnmnon.

Colby, Dale. Carver. Gardiner Keys, Eldrtdge. Cole, Hawlev. Weilder, Hippie, Harvey, Cace.

Ware. Kennv, Manjrold. Spurr, Nagle, Allen. Ludwicke. 4 The Grail Bearers and Cup Bearer hv Misses Horsey Kincaid, Anthony, Elder, Wiley and BadelhYe.

The Scenes. ACT I The to be located Forest of Monsalvat, supposed in the Pyrenees lu Northern spa in. ACT II The Temple of the ITolv Grnil. ACT III Scene 2. The Inner Keen of Klingsor's Macis Cast It Scene 2.

Kling- sor Enchanted Garden. ACT IV The Sacred Grounds vat. of Monsal- ACT The Temple of the noly Grail. Out-of-door performances such as ire announced to be given on the university campus early in June are by no means rare, although these will be the first to be given in this city. Mr.

Ben Greet, the manager of the company, has made a specialty of giving outdoor performances of Shakespearean comedies and such pastorals as Ben Johnson's "Sad Shepherd." He has to his credit over such performances in England, and Miss Edim Wynne Matthison, who heads the company to be seen here, has appeared lu many of them. A series was arranged for the spring of ltKKJ in this country, ami the results were so gratifying that Mr. Greet has been prevailed upon to repeat thet.t this year during the month of June, after which the company sails for England. The campus lends itself naturally to tlus form of entertainment. The spot chosen, in the circle in front of Anderson Hall, is inclosed in an arch of magnificent troes with a large open space in the center.

Twj of these trees on the west side of the circle, situated about thirty feet apart wjrh overhanging branches interlocked, will form the proscenium arch. Between these trees the platform will be erected for the Magnificent Costuming Orchestra of 18 Concert Musicians to Interpret Wagner's Sublime Music. Elevating Performance Dramatic Notes. Mabel McKlnley has written a two-act comic opera, the scene of which Is laid In Washington. It will be produced next season, with Miss McKlnley In the leading role.

Edna May will play In New York next season. She Is to open at Daly's Theater In September In "The School Girl," supported by George Grossmlth, 'and Fred Wright. "The County Chairman," at "Wallack's Theater, New York, Is Jocularly referred to as 'the laugh that won't come off." Mr. Ade's comedy has had New York on a broad grin ever since last November. George Ade and Gustav Luders's newest musical comedj-, "The Sho Gun," will be the autumn feature at Wallack's Theater, New York.

For some time to come It will continue to enchant large audiences at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago. Cherldah. Simpson has Joined the "Woodland" company at the Tremont Theater, Boston, playing the role of Prince Eagle, the hero of the idyllic story of bird life In the forest. "Woodland" looks like one of the very best of Henry W. Savage's unbroken chain of successes.

Ida Greeley-Smith, the pretty and clever Maggie in "The Other Girl" at the New Lyceum Theater, Is the granddaughter of the late Horace Greeley. Mr. Greeley employed Daniel Frohman In his office when the latter was a youth, and now Mr. Frohman, with a fine sense of appreciation for a past favor, does something for a Greeley. Jean RIchepin has provided Otis Skinner with a new play, Le Chemineau.

The Harvester Is Its English title. It Is said by those who should know to preserve the lyric quality of Riehepin's finest work. The scene of the play is In the valley of the Saguenay, French Canada, In the year ISoO. The Harvester is a dramatic Idyl of life and love among the humbler types of the soli. The stage pictures ere all framed amid the golden glories of harvest fields, and love Is treated with the originality, passionate power and fascination that have given popularity to the poems and plays of RIchepin.

Mr. Skinner Is surrounded by a company of well known players. The leading principals of the company which will appear In support of the Rogers Brothers in "The Rogers Brothers In London" in this city are said to make up the strongest aggregation of performers in this line of stage work In this country. They are Joseph Coyne, Lee narrison, Lillian Cole man, Carrie Reynolds, Melville Ellis, George Austin Moore, William J. Cale, Neva Ayinar, Frances Tyson, Minerva Courtney, Julia Eastman, James Cherry, Harry Brown and William Torpey.

In addition to these artists, there is a chorus of fifty-six young women and twenty men. "The Rogers Brothers in London" will be presented here exactly as it was staged during its ten weeks' run at the opening of the season at the Knicker-ooeker Theater in New York. The newspaper women of Minneapolis had a farewell party in honor of Janet Priest, formerly dramatic critic of the Minneapolis Tribune, on the eve of her departure to join Richard Carle's new musical farce, "The Maid and the Mummy," which Is rehearsing In Philadelphia. Pauline Kruger, the talented Western artist, was hostess, and the women Journalists present Included Mae Harris Anson, Martha Scott Anderson, Luclle Wetherell, Nina Vivian Rodger, Frances R. Sterrett and Mrs.

John Edgar Rhodes. Maud Ulmcr Jones, formerly the Maud Elmer of The Bostonians, was also a guest. George C. Tyler has gone to Europe on the Lucania to make final preparations for Eleanor Robson's debut there in "Merely Mary Ann." He will then go to Paris to see Madame Rejane, whom he will bring over in November. Then he will go to Florence to confer with Signor Novelli, Madame Duse.

and Signor Salviui about tours that he has planned for them. Miss Gertrude Miilington. daughter of Mr. Samuel A. Millington.

of this city, has risen to the front rank of her profession by her performance of the prima donna role in The Silver SlipiH'r," which she has sung all this season. The principal critic of Quebec said of her In the course of his remarks on a recent performance of The Silver Slipper in that city: "Miss Gertrude Milling-ton, as Wreune, scored a most decided success. She is pretty, chle in her acting and the possessor of a melodious and well cultivated mtLzzo-soprano voice which she knows how to use with good effect. Her duet, The Eyes of Blue," with Mr. Harry Burchcr, In tne first act.

was very prettily sung and fully appreciated by the uudlence. as was also her solo part of the song and chorus in the second act. "The Baby with the Dimple and the Smile," but what delighted the audience most was her song, The Girl You Ive." which was rendered with a voice beautiful In cadence as well as entrancing in sweetness." This is but a sample of the praise Miss Millington has been winuing all along the line. Eugene Canfield. the comedian, died In the New York Hospital on May 4th, after a short illness with pneumonia.

He was taken to the hospital only five days before his death, and from the first the physicians entertained small hope for his recovery. Mr. Canueld was born in Etlca, N. in ISol, and entered the profession when a lad of ills first regular engagement was with the Hol-lnan Opera Troupe in 1S07. W.

II. Crane was then a member of that organization. Next Mr. Canfield joined Bull's American Show and left that company to so into minstrelsy. He was successively with E.

S. Washburn, Cal Wagner, and with Haverly In England and America. Then he was part owner of the Canfield and RooUer company for several years. Mr. Canfield first came forward prominently on the dramatic stage in the Hoyt farces.

He employed in his acting the methods of the circus ring ami the minstrel stage, and by means of peculiar grimaces, whistles ami postures he made his Impersonations largely amusing. He played Grimes In "A Bunch of Keys," Rats in "A Tin Soldier," and for some time he starred In "A Temperance Town." He made his last appearance la New York with David Warfleld Reverend Walter Maxwell Paul McAllister Captain Richard Ilaynes Hardie Kirkland Henrv Traquair Frederick Kerby Robei-t Fielding Julian Noa Jules Joseph Rawley Henri Henry -Miller. Jr. Margaret Felding Miss Jessie Boustelle Beatrice Fieldinir Miss Edna Archer Crawford Miss Cauipion-I'ar Miss Elizabeth Morgan Mary Miss Florence Lester Synopsis. ACT I A room in the Hotel St.

Charles, Champs Elyees, Paris, April, 1S0S. ACT II The garden of General Fielding's, Ausrusr, 3Stl. ACT 111 The library of the Vicarage, April. ACT IV The drawing room at the Vicarage, June, The presentation of the dramatic version of Wagner's "Parsifal" by the Cook Opera House Stock Company this week is expected to prove the most pretentious production ever undertaken by a stock crnipany in Rochester. The work has boen in preparation for weeks, practically since the opening of the season, when the scenic artist, Max Greenburg, lirnt began, work on the scenery pint.

The version to be given is in five acts and six scenes, adapted and arranged by Fitzgerald Murphy from the original music drama of Richard Wagner. The incidental music, arranged from the Wagner score by Manuel Klein, musical director of the Lyceum Theater, New York, will be played by an augmented orchestra of seventeen pieces, under the direction of Professor Joseph Monk. Five of the musicians will be brought from out of town, there being no players of the required instruments in thic city. The orchestral music will be supplemented by the singing of a boy choir. Fifty people will appear upon the stage.

The total working force required for the production, including musicians, actors, electricians and stage hands, will number nearly a hundred persons. The performance will begin at and 7:55 P. twenty minutes earlier than the usual hour; and it is stated that no one will be seated after the house has been darkened for the overture. Every available foot of space on the Cook Opera House stage will be utilized in the staging of the play, which, from the standpoint of the scenic and the spectacular, is expected to surpass any production ever made in a Rochester theater. The following narrative of the play is a reduction of Charles Henry Meltzer't story of the opera.

The play differH from the libretto principally in regard to the division into acts. Wagner's "Parsifal" is in three acts. The play is in live acts. Act I. of the play is Act scene 1, of the opera.

Act II. of the play is Act scene 2 of the opera. Act III. of the play is Act II. of the opera.

Act IV. of the play is Act. seem? 1, of the opera, and Act V. of the play is Act scene 2, of the opera. Act I.

In the heart of a dense forest is the temple raised by the piety of Titurel in honor of the Holy Grail. With a company of knights, marvelously free from sin, who obeyed him as their king, Titurel has guarded the Grail until, growing old, he has intrusted it to the charge of his son, Amfortas. Before the opening of the play Amfortas has been lured into the enchanted gardens of his foe, Klingsor. Yielding to the seductions of the beautiful flower maidens who people the gardens, many of the Knights of the Grail have fallen from grace and become slaves of Klingsor. Amfortas himself, though armed with the blessed spear, has succumbed to the allurements of Kundry, a strange creature, half witch, half penitent.

Amfortas, having yielded to his passions, has lost his power, and been wounded by Klingsor with the blessed spear, which has passed into the possession of his terrible adversary. Since then the wound lias remained open and un-cured. It cannot and it shall not close till a "saver" comes and, with the point of the same lance that caused it, makes it well again. The "saver" is some day to come in the person of a "guileless fool, that is to say, a being absolutely pure and ignorant of evil. At the beginning of the play, Gurne-manz, one of the Knights of the Grail, is waking two of the Grail warders.

Amfortas is expected on his way to the daily bath in which he seeks vainly for relief from the agony caused by his wound. Kundry. clad in skins, comes, like a Walkyrie. galloping madly through the air. From Arabia she brings balsam for Amfortas.

For, in her remorseful moods, she actn as a servant of the knights. Am-fort as takes the balsam, though he hopes nothing till the long-for advent of "the Fool" who shall heal him. Gurnemanz relates to his followers the pre-curtain story above told. Parsifal appears, preceded by a swan which he has shot while hunting. Parsifal is an untutored youth.

A sur-pieion enters the mind of Gurnemanz that Parsifal may be the "guileless fool" awaited by Amfortas. He invites the youth to accompany him to the temple of the Grail. Ihe scene changes. Parsifal and guide, Burnenianz, are in the interior great temple. The knights enter in cession and take their seats at two of a laiues on wmeu cups are placed, rom a lofty dome, boy choristers ing the praises of the Grail.

Amfortas is borne in on a litter, preceded by his retainers and by youths carrying a veiled shrine. The voice of the now aged Titurel is heard, adjuring Amfortas to order the unveiling of the Holy Grail. Amfortas obeys. The cu: is uncovered, aril the light fades. As t'ie vast temple becomes dim, a shaft of light pierces the mist and cauees the cup to glow.

As day returns the strange glow- jaues dark fades away. Ihe knights, who have knelt during this mysterious episode, take their "Red Feather," with its star, Grace Van Studdiford, and the original cast, will return to the Lyceum Theater next Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Everybody who has seen "lied Feather" has admired its gorgeous stage settings. Lovers of music have argued as to its merits in comparison with those of the same composer's "Robin Hood." Those who delight in an evening's musical entertainment have expressed themselves highly in its praise. Reginald Ie Koven composed the score of Feather;" the book is by Charles Klein and th lyrics by Charles Emerson Cook.

There is no doubt that F. Ziegfeld, set the pace in comic opera production this season. The gowns in the ballroom scene are wonderful creations. The prima donna has scarcely a peer in this country in light opera. There is comedy, too, galore in "Red Feather." Louis Cassavant and W.

J. McCarthy supply that. The cast: Countess Hilda Von Draga Oiaoe Van Studiliford Anita Mile. Finne 1'rada Daphne Victorine A Baroness A luehess A Marquise Clara Rita Nana Maria Valarie Celeste Captain Trevors. 11 II.

Crown I'ura Dorothy Maynard Daisy K. Fimuct -Myrtle Wilkius Hutu 1'rautis Hesilt Merrill -Maude Iliirlowe Delia Henderson Helene Jordan Katherine AYheatou Evelyn )rnisby Iva Barbour Dorothy Bertrand Irene Carlisle George J. Tullma Prince of Koinancia B. MiGahen W. J.

McCarthy Cassavant Myron Davis Ernest Wall Thomas Wav Baron liulverstrauss Colonel Mel'atrlck. Bag-stock Colonel Fii rbis Colonel Neva Lieutenant Keger Fred J. Titus taptain Baget Philip Connor Signor Romboza Charles Fitz Chief of Police Fred J. Titus Lieutenant Detrleh William Harn This week the popular Davis-Bovle Stock Company at the Baker Theater will offer a recent melodramatic success, "The Price of Honor," which is new to Rochester. The play deals with the always popu lar in a great city" theme.

The first act shows the interior of a big New York department store, where Anna Merville is engaged as a cloak model. Tom Elliott, the store's private detective and Anna's affianced husband, is engaged in trying pi unearth a system of shoplifting which Has been in operation for some time. Henry Ferris, the superintendent of the store, is at the head of the gang and has an accomplice in Jessie Elliott, Tom's sister. Ma xy, the elevator boy, discovers the relations existing between Ferris and Jessie, who is none other than the notorious Madam Martin, who has long been "wanted" by the police. Maxy tells Anna of his discovery on promise that she will keep it a secret from Tom.

which she does. When a new theft of silk is discovered and Jessie is about to be searched Anna dons the skirt which contains the stolen silk, believing she will not be suspected, but Gertie, her sister, who is a cash gin in the store, accidentally exposes the on Anna's skirt. Jessie refuses to vindicate Anna, who is arrested, but discharged with a warning to leave the city. Ferris, who has been infatuated with her, takes her to California. On the way he has a bogus marriage certificate executed, which, he gives to Anna, declaring they were married in Denver at her request, while sfi was ill.

The second act discovers Maxy the guardian and bread winner for little Gertie. Anna returns to their home. Ferris, learning of this, determines to be rla of Anna and attempts to burn the house, but she and her babe are rescued in time by Tom, who still believes her guilty and the accomplice of Ferris. Gertie overhears Jessie and Ferris concocting a plan to be married and leave the country with their ill-gotten gains, informs Anna of it, and she having learned of the deception practiced on her by Ferris, goes to the rectory where the marriage is to be performed and denounces him. Ferris again attempts her life, and in the struggle Ferris is wounded, supposedly fatally.

Anna is held a prisoner. The last act takes place in Bellevue Hospital, where the truth ts brought to light. Anna is vindicated ana all ends happily. The cast and Tom Elliott Henry Ferris Maxy Mctiluf'kln John Roberts Captain Walsh, Rector Wilson Felix Wible Fred Mathews Rvaa Mrs. Elliott Certie Merville Jessie Elliott Nurse Anna Merville synopsis: Fmmett C.

King Edwin Ffrsberg Kingsley B. Hawkins Brandon Mitchell Drew A. Morton Walter II. Newman J. B.

Robertson 'J'onv Hodges Frank Ilroderick Miss Carroll Lift le Lillian Rosewood Miss Helen CourTnev Ina Rend Miss Maud; Edna Hall Synopsis. ACT I. Interior of department store. New lork city. 1 h- half hour betore In the morning.

its opening ACT IE The garret, home of Maxy and Gertie. III. Same as Act. II. ACT IV'.

Scene 1. Broadway before Trinity Church. Hcene 2. A room in the rectorv. ACT V.

ReoPption room, Bellevue Hospital. "The Unforeseen" will be the offering nil this the National Theater during nil this eek. It will be presented by the Nation- i mi i i ai j. neater mock company, ueaoea ty Miss Jessie Boastelle, which opened the health, but are out for the J. D.

Archibald was asked at the sam time if it was not true that by virtue of its great power the Sandard Oil Company was enabled to secure prices that on the whole were above competition, and Mr. Archibald said, "well. I hope so." Of course, he hoped it; that is what he ha worked for from the beginning. The ab'e and wary president of the great concern, Itockefeller, is more cautious in his admissions. On the witness stand in l.ssjj he was forced to admit, after some skillful evasion, that the control the Standard Oil Company had of prices was such that they could raise or lower them at will.

"Hut," added Mr. Itockefeller. "we would not dn it." Yet the power of the Standard Oil Company over prices has always been usel to the fullest extent possible without jeopardizing it. So enormous is the quantity of oil they handle that the merest fraction of nn advance in the refined market or of fall in the crude market results in great gains. This manipulation can be accomplished without the public realizin? it.

It is only the competitors who feel the screws. Any considerable study of th Standard Oil Company's use of its over oil prices must. I believe, lead to thi conclusion that we have always paid mors for refined oil than we would have doc if there had been free competition. The most curious feature of this qw-tion is the widespread popular notion tcit the Standard has made oil cheap. Mack ft the late VOs and '70s they paid ani cents a gallon for oil, which they no pay IS or 2 cents for.

They say this i the result of the combination. They do nnt know the meaning of the variation of line that it was forced down from 800 to S7i. when the first effective combination was secured by com pet tion nnd driven up in 1S7C. and 177 by the stopping of competition that it was driven down from 1N.N7 to 1S7! by the union of all sorts of competitive forces pndueers. independent refiners, the developing of an independent seaboard pipe lie to a point lower than it had ever been before.

They forget that when these opposing forces were overcome and the Standard Oil Company was at last supreme, for twelve years oil never fell a point below the mark it reached by competition iu 1STI though frequently it rose. To believe that there could be any other result argues an amazing gullibility. Human experience long ago taught us that if we allowed a man or a group of men autocratic powers in government, they used these powers to oppress and defraua the public, yet we have here in the I'nitM Slates allowed men, inspired only by green, and love of the game, practically autocratic powers in commerce. As a natural result of these extraordinary powers we see, as in the case of Standard Oil Company, the price of necessity of life within the control of a group of nine men. as able, as energetic and as ruthless in business operations a any nine men the world has ever seen combined.

They have exercised their power exactly as we ought to expect clever rnen to tlo this as a most cruel weapon stilling competition, as nn unfailing sourC of -10 to 5 per cent, dividends, and a 8 persuasive argument in hoodwinking the public. VVinfts Versus PocKets. Little Chronicle. Littlo Antony, aged three, was at Sunday-school, in his first pair of trousers. A picture of several little angels was before the class.

"Antony, would you like to be a litt.a angel':" asked the teacher." "No ma'am, replied after a careful inspection of the picture. "Not like to be an angel, Antony Why inquired the teacher. "'Cause, uia'aui, I'd have to give up my trousers. ill I I i 'I I i I ft 'B Sit1--- 1 5 V. a A s- J' -J.

1 5 I rl I Immense Production Curtain Rises at 1.55 P.M. and 7.55 P. M. Ca riages at 5 P.M. and 11 P.M Evenings 10c, 15c 25c, 35c, 50c 1Ac Monday Saturdaj Next Jk Prisoner of Zenda.