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WV-' THE MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE: JULY' 3 1910 FORMER STOCK FAVORITE SPENDS TEN DAYS IN CITY Harry 0. Browne, who will be re half an hour their triplicate affair is good sentimental comedy. Enter sow the tiger tragedian. He is drawn to the center of the stage in an ornate cage by priests, for he is some sort of a prelate in the worship or Buddha. It is a part of a rite to feed sacrifleial kids to this brute god.

He licks his chops, gnashes his teeth, lashes his tail in hunurv niet.v. Th membered by Minneapolis theater patrons as a member of the Ferris Stock company in 1907, accompanied by hie wife, is spending ten days in Minneapolis, Mr. ana Mrs. Brown are the guests of Mr. and Mrs.

(1. H. McMul-len, 3205 Irving avenue south. wild gypsy, seeing that the poet has Mr. Urowne nas been playing witn the Neill Stock company in St.

Paul for eight weeks, and will leave July 5 with the Minneapolis delegation for the Klks' convention at JJetroit. After a five weeks' sojourn in New London.be will go to New York and continue in uniiiBu nis love to tne princess, stabs her to death. Thereat the tiger becomes excitedly voracious. He would rather kill a live girl to eat than accept a dead one, however, and he glares at the gypsy with snarls and growls that makes the spectators shiver. That gives a vengeful idea to the poet.

He binds the girl, carries her to the top of the cage and drops her in. That is to say. while it looks as though he thus throws the pleading, shrieking girl to the beast, for there the part of Adam ladd the Klaw A Eriancer production of Robecca of Bunnybrook Farm. MINNEAPOLIS ACTOR IS aoesn i appear to be an instant of hocus-Docns. he sllns her down bark ADMIRED IN PORTLAND John Junior, the well known juvenile actor and son of Mrs.

H. W. Armstrong, 1300 Linden avenue, Minneapolis, opened an engagement with the Keith Stock company in Portland, last week. The Portland papers speak very highly of his work in "Men and Women." of a partition and it Is a perfect imitation of her that falls before the devouring god. This tiger is a fine tragedian.

He springs on the dummy gypsy, the play in which ha made bis first mi-men nis ciaws into nor nare shoulders and bites deep into her breast. The people allow themselves to be hor- 4 VV, i S5551 .7 'Vl'. I'll! tU- 'X- 1 'Vtf'l -s JJ wn i ir -A W. 2- VkXVw? tf pearunce there. The Portland PaUy rress says: rlnd when they see bleodlng mouthfuls or nesn torn out and ravenously eaten.

Well, why should they lose the thrill by calmly observing that the beast's meal of meat has been placed for him to tear out, as usual, from under the doll's skin of wax. Would that be "Much interest centered in the Portland debut of John Junior, the new juvenile man of tho company, and the Hay-goers were in no way disappointed-Junior is an actor of great ability! has good stage presence, clear enuncia-tiou aud a captivating manner. In the role of Edward eabury, especially in the emotional scene. Junior does a fine bit of work that brings him one of the heartiest bursts of applause of the performance." any way to get their money's worth Besides. "The Tiger's Temple" might become a tragedy genuinely grewsome if the poet, gotting.

careless with four performances each weekday 'and six on Sunday, were to drop the live gipsy Hanue! Xornain, uu mo tiger sine or tne partition. TJus Elephant -J Zonotellorr Gardens JtncL Jtthr The 3tdl PERRY J. KELLY STEPS INTO MANAGERIAL FIELD ttw. "PROPS" AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE THEATER lb III 4 1 There is no maiabout the theater 9 lll BW.Kfc,,.. III street operator who constantly accom wno owes more to the development of modern stage craft than "props," declared Manaircr Gatta of thn fime LYRIC -Frances NetixiL JUKI Corliss panied her.

Lillian now rides down the center aisle and across a bridge to in "Facing Tim Jfualc" the stage on the back of a pony. La I Hayward company the other night as ho was standing in the wings and watching the stage hands set the stage for the second act. "Time was, and lian's talent has been discovered by Ziegfeld and he utilizes it thoroughly In the course of the evening she is Killarney colleen, a Kidland cutup, a Perry J. Kelly, well known to local theatergoers through his connection with different local playhouses and who was for a time treasurer of the Bijou opera house, Minneapolis, has branched out as a manager and on hts own account. Following his Minneapolis show experience, Mr.

Kelly went to Chicago, where he was associated in an executive way with the Mort Singer theatrical enterprises. For the coming season he has joined hands with Gerald Fitzgerald, and the firm will Bend out the La Salle theater, Chicago big musical comedy success, "The Honeymoon Trail," with a first-class company, including some of the origins! principals. not so very many years ago either that 'props' was a sort of hanger on about the theater but now he has be raised to the dignity of an important Cavalierian prima donna, a chanti deer's pullet and a Goddess of Liberty to welcome Roosevelt home, ior iunctionary." "'Props' is responsible for everything moveable about the rod net. on millionaire's betrothed, Lillian is work Local Amusements PLAYHOUSES. In the old days this did not amount to a great deal but now the list is a long ing hard for a living.

Fun Off Stage. 1 A A considerable portion of this show METROPOLITAN Hayward Stock company in "When Knighthood Was in Flower." LYRIC Lyric Stock company in "facing the Music." is off the stage anyway. The chorus girls throng up from the story below one. In a stock company production, 'props' generally gets a list about Thursday of the things which it will be necessary for him to procure for the new attraction. Some of the things he may have on hand for nowadays a theater carries quite an assortment of articles all the time.

But it is more probable that 'props' has to go out and got them. Here is where he has to VAUDKVILMANS several times in garb less modest than their street suits at their entrance and sing their way to the stage. The chorus 9 VAUDEVILLE H0USE3. -Vaudeville, with The Allen in "Keeping the Appolnt- Motion Pictures. fellows, too, come out among trie peo pie often.

During an intermission SCENIC- show that he is a true artist. Fre calithumpian band imtbsTrrdmake up, quently there are goods amounting to with nondescript musical instruments, march around and through the auditorium. A racket is heard from one of AMUSEMENT PAEKS. WONDERLAND Outdoor Amusements and Vaudeville. the stairways and a stagehand, person Tk' III III Selby Lake car.

FOREST PARK Outdoor Amusements and Vaudeville. ated by George Bickell, riss into view with a bulky piano on his Kick. He Take Co- III Mi; J- It 111! with it to the stage, where fun is got out of his torture while caprici lumbia Heights car. LONGFELLOW GARDENS Zoological Exhibition, with Mile. Marguerite and Her Five Trained Lions.

Take Minnehaha Car. RIVER VIEW PARK Outdoor Amusements. Take Minnehaha or Riverside car. ous musicians dispute where it snail oe set down and finally he has to lug it downstairs again, a it is not exactly "Tho Plrtur of IV.r'in firr," I iiw fotimt-, npon the pnre nf th. aam nmn bj tip- Ute.

Oncir W1I1, In now htin tl" Wt' Tiurfcrlll circuit and x-ea I Mlu-nmp'illa StrtiiK llm 'tt'ulug wanon. 1 Nell O'Brien nd 0rge Prim roue bntlj won In vaudevlllo tht -tvn. d'Hrlen It to hr rout ove tlx Or(iliun irrtngril for him. Iw 1 will 81 mm (to out ltie4 ot trot at hli own. nirrnplo m.

KIU ind M. Gillintwml. th litter prvraltra dmmH fur tS Manbuttia (l(fi bouv, will fiur tli Wot thl coming to tli liK-ial Orpktnia with a Dw ftot-mlmn. St. Ella (r fnixt lue iwrltivil wit Mil.

(in I In a hlghl n-t-ftil panux nilme cntltH4 "Tb Carnival of ll Tlirw tbmiaand dollar a week 1 I tie rf mnOrat prl wtilfb Nora llajr and Jrk or-wotli iru aatd ta place nprn their rle- for viurtevtlln tui) imt-ly ilnrlfif ttie coto-Inf c-hwhik. The are rrporM to la troatt 11 bej offk twsinlt for th houe la wtoltl torf have reeentlj been playing at two ho-aod At htimlral. William OlSIette It reported i htvlcj un.Jcr rontlrteratlon a raiHletliU nnr of th Kngilati He will apiar la a brlitht litti aaeleb fnuuilcd the well kun. a Hnrl Uvliur Morten whk he ule fxmoui In dramatic form. ll-orr K.

lililR la auotht-r wi-ll known trior who It KOlnt: to uiako Vf at raullle. Ho aecn reeeutlx la akt-trh but thla time Is to pper In "one" a monuloglat pr' ntln a lino of tulk which he deiWert-4 not k-ug at mwtlnc of th I-aiui-n' club. Th IrropreenlW Simoner famllr. wbn chief at of operation i Hr-nklvn ar1 who likewise merry ut N'w Orlean lu aloek, hn-plr will not behave to unllnary at 'ik. Iimtrad taking- a varal.n a a the instrument desired The action on the stage is interrupted frequently by mock auditors.

A solo singer's voice breaks at a high note anil a fine tenor voice at the left of the Ni jwJ JjAV Lmw 'j parquet rises to it easily. At the next METROPOLITAN I Metropolitan-franR TcMn. ZeadinQ tfavenlle verso failure a woman in an aisle several thousands of dollars used during a production, and it is no easy task to persuade people that valuable articles are free from risk of damage or that their use is really not worth very much. There was a hard chase for the rapiers used in 'When Knighthood Was in After much search, 'props' learned that an officer at Fort Snell-ing had some which were exactly 'in the period' as the phrase is. Nothing daunted 'props' proceeded to interrogate him and to such success that the rapiers will be used today.

They have a historic value and are supposed to have belonged to the duke of Buckingham, "The bane of 'props' is the perishable prop. If the piece calls for anything to eat and the articles are not fresh then the actor enters a vigorous protest. On the other hand if the tilings be fresh props runs the risk of having them eaten by some practical joker. For that reason, stage wine is generally made of-water and burnt sugar. Ginger ale replaces beer anil so on.

As tor those plump turkeys of which the aetors are supposed to eat heartily, they are most frequently made of bread moulded into shape and then varnished. It is not very often that real birds are served, although everyone remembers the story of the aetors who became ill because they were forced to eat turkey every day for several this being with 'Old With Hay ward t3locK Co. seat sends the note aloft in excellent soprano. By this time you don't know Whom to jtuspect and wouldn't be surprised if the man next to you were to stand on his head or th cirl at vour ly for this circuit is "Before and After the Ball," a musical sketch in two scenes, which introduces the famour ballad singer, Manuel Romain, who will be assisted by Badye 1'almer and Roiy La Boco, the latter being the most noted harpist with the Metropolitan orchestra of New York. With a bunch of laugh producing junk, Williams and Weston will help make the week a memorable one.

A spirited eiuilibristie feature will be the offering of the Brothers Zerelt. Finished bicycling and broad comedy make up the number in which Grey and Peters will appear. other side go pirouetting and kicking Btock Company In "When Knighthood Was in Flower." V7HENT KNIGHTHOOD WAS in FLOWER" has been se- lected as the attraction to be presented at the Metropolitan theater this week by the Grace Hayward htoek eompanv. As the reader is no doubt ware, the piece has been adapted from the well known and widely read book of the. same name bv Charles Maiors.

away over tho tootlights. An ingenious showman at Coney Is land blends his hired actors and audi The same program, with the exception of the fireworks, will run throughout the week. There will be two daily performances in the arena by Mile. Mareuerite and her trouoe of five train way, large refactory and picnic grounds. Take Minnehaha.

Fort Snell-ing or Riverside car, get off at Twenty-seventh avenue and walk one block to the river. The Minneapolis cadet band will play every evening and Sunday afternoon. Admission free. ed American lions, and afternoon and ences differently aud thriftily. It costs nothing to get into his theater, unless you go into a box; but the waiters won't let you stay in peace and eom- evening performances bv the big ele Whsu the play was produced by that finished artist, Julia Marlowe, and her phant, "Empress of India." On the night of the Fourth there will be a Longfellow Gardens big display of fireworks.

These special features are, of course, only additions to the many regular attractions of the gardens, which include animals and birds in great variety, several sea lions, which will make daily appearances, and other ornithological and zoological objects of inter-rest and raritv. atork eaaon w.niitt eent to merit, titvy ar now about to UmikU forth aa auilerlliiaua wlit a ik'U'li, bordering on farce, entitled "Tb Ofiitloile laniiljr." The plrro waa tried out la New Orlraua and was voted auccra thai time, Gi-ntle reader and loier of TjnteWle! Hour would you like to bo inhered to juur at at hj- a relte jomig lady, neatly drrwd In a liuple bia lrej with a trim while apron It may b- that you will I' ru how thin would aem at me Orpheum Beit aeawm. Maoiet-r Kaymoud nerlonaly eonnldertna th innovation It will he riK-alled the plun haa been worked In th Eafcf with fuueh anereea. Indeed, tiiw-sr employed women Instead of boy at hli Manhattan 0T borae and It In reporie that the patron were mre than pit a-d with Ui change. Vnjrif, glrla are aald to be morw courteoua and far lesa nolay than their brother and to morn about with considerable mor flia-pntrh.

At any late the plnn may be given trliil hero and ths reault would lie will Intereat by mannyer aud patron alike. RF. JONES, manager of Longfellow Zoological Gardens at Min- iituatta la Mauuiii nu (Til- tertaining and sane Fourth of July for patrons of his outdoor amusement park. At the Scenic. With the Day of Independence so near at hand, a picture well calculated to rouse enthusiasm is being featured at the Scenic theater.

It is calied "The Star and Stripes" and tells a love story of one John Mayrant, a friend and follower of John Paul Jones, and Dorothy Hall. The films take up from the scene' of Burgoyne's surrender to the world-famous fight between the English man-of-war, Serapis, commanded by Captain Poarson and the American merchantman. Bon Homme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, which took place off Flanborough Head the night of Sept. 23, 1779. The Scenic has provided several supporting pictures of merit and with 15 large fans running full blnst patrons will be kept comfortable and cool.

Grace Carlton will render the latest New York song successes with appropriate slides. FRANCES NEILSON GIVES SOME HOT WEATHER ADVICE "Of course acting is hot work in hot weather," says Frances Neilson, leading woman of the Lyric Stock company, but it is isn 't any hotter than any other kind of work, and not nearly so hot as some kinds. Anyway, I don't believe working people who are interested in their work suffer as much from the heat at peoplo who dash madly around "Sixty Anna Held Girls All rort unless you buy a drink once in a short while; and hefore you get out you may have contributed personal service on the stage. In that particular lies the singularity of the place; for In other respects it Is a free concert hall of the kind usual in the seashore city of amusements. Baiting the Amateurs.

Tho show that costs the manager any money is a "burlesque," tawdry and talentless, except for a man and a woman with persuasive magnetism iu their singing, dancing and tomfoolery. The company otherwise consists of a dozen cheap but neat and pretty chorus girls and half as many young men with strpng voices. The persuasive two leaders coax the audience to join in the choruses of popular songs. yes," the smiiing soubrette says, when a fair-sized audience has become responsive to her jollying and she points at a gay young fellow and his girl near the Iront, "come right up here with us." own excellent company, Miss juariowei achieved one of her most conspicuous; successes in the role of Mary Tudor. Upon the road, where the piece was.

played for several seasons, Effie Ellsler end Roselle Knott both attained a large degree of public, attention and favor in all parts of the country. In the role of Mary Tudor, Grace Havward has a part after her own hea'rt. She herself bing full of life and gaiety, may be depended upon to depict with accuracy these traits in It will be the first time that her admirers have had a chance this eason to see her in a role even remotely resembling this one. To Albert Morrison, the popular leading man, falls the part of Charles Brandon, the deb-onaire, the romantic. Joseph Greeno will be seen as Henry YI1I.

and there are excellent roles for Frank Ieni-taorne and Frank Tobin. Agues Blial. Ada Nevil and Miss Gayety are well cast. The piece is one which appeals with especial force to the eye, as the costumes and the settings are picturesque to a degree. Every effort has been tnade to tecure accuracy and fidelity to detaiL Worthy of Their Godmother" GERMAN STATE INSURANCE Comprehensive Scheme for Codifying the Existing Systems.

The project for reforming and unify This Catch Line Used by Ziegfeld in Advertising trying to keep cool or who have nothing to do but sit down with their other non-working friends and exclaim about the high temperature. "People laugh at you if you say, 'Don't think about the out it is good advice and possible to follow after all. If one's work is pleasant, one's ing the various systems of state insur ance in Germany has been approved His New Summer Show, "Le Jardin de Paris" Roof Garden Players Are Having Fun With Audiences. by the council of the federated states and sent to the reichstag. It is a very comprehensive scheme, containing over WONDERLAND "I dare you," Bays the fellow to the 1,700 articles, an example of the thor oughness with which Germany carries out her social legislation.

gin. The girl bashfully assents. They are hired by the week to personate visitors and they have sufficient facility to join By FRANKLIN FYLES. All the existing laws regulating sick, EW YORK, Julv 3. (Special.) the police would permit at Coney Island, and then clunked with a splash N' accident, old age, widows' and other -A companions agreeable and one's surroundings fairly comfortable, it is possible to go through the week industriously and find at the end that you have net felt the heat as much as your sympathizing friends who write you notes from their country places.

"Use the same philosophy about hot weather that the sensible man or woman uses about a headache. Get your mind off of any trouble and really occupied in accomplishing something wpnh while and extraneous troubles will retire into the background. "My dear friends," said the head comedian of a musical farce to its tne party on mo stage. in a song and dance with an amateur manner, yet not so elumsily as to excite ridicule. insurance and pension systems are LYRIC That is apt to bring out genuine volunteers.

If it does not. two more FOURTH OF JULY hag held the record at Wonderland Park for large attendance for five seasons. It might be said to have been the pioneer of the sane and safe way of celebrating the nation's birthday in the Twin Cities. While the big feature of the day has always been a fine exhibition of fireworks in the evening, the firecracker fiend and tov pistol nuisance has been successfully suppressed. Its many amusement features and open air recreation devices at moderate prices, band concerts, free acrobatic and aerial acts have always consti Lyric Stock Company in "Facing the Music." codified and arranged in a homogeneous system.

Among the projected reforms is the replacing of the various officials who at present administer the different systems of insurance by new insurance departments, the mainte employes pretend to be impulsive amateurs. A waiter or two may doff their aprons and become comically awkward and rollicking A MERRY, rapid into water which was made by motion pictures to look like surf. A more appreciated novelty, though, was the mingling of the Helds with the audience. The place was the roof garden that Oscar Hammerstein built above his bankrupting Olynipia. Queer man, Oscar.

He covered it with glass, on which water was to flow throughout the evening in a cooling flood. When the apparatus was installed, a trial proved that the noise would drown the farce. "Facing the Music," will "We have a good deal to do here at final and very small audience, "we are a nice, cosy, little gathering. A pleasant family party. Not so small, perhaps, as to denote race suicide, yet not big enough to indicate grossly profuse propagation of the genus homo.

And it is such a satisfaction for congenial spirits to get together not too snugly close on a hot night like this to be in no vulgar crowd, nor involved in the sordid rush and crush of commercialized volunteers, ny this time probably the whole house is hilarious and a score of he the offering of the Lvric the the Lync, but have round time, or made it, during the recent hot davs to interest mvself in a family of little nance of which would cost $1,637,500 annually, presenting a considerable saving over the present administration. tuted an ideal program which would The reform extends the existing sick be enjoyed by the multitude at mod erate price. For next Monday Mana folks and their hard-working mother who live near the theater. My efforts in their behalf have resulted in having them sent to the country for two weeks ater Stork eompanv this week. It is just the sort of light and frothy dramatic entertainment calculated to make everybody (except the actors) forget the hot weather and luih away two pleasant hours.

Since the members of the Lvric company showed themselves such "talented farceurs in the recent production of "Hello. Bill!" Manager RaichrHee'ii mail has been crowded voices on the stage; that the quantity insurance to agricultural laborers, foresters, casual laborers and others, also to actors and musicians whose salaries are under $500 a year. The premiums ger ump nas engaged unusually strong acrobatic acts for the platform and will provide an elaborate display of Greg of water required to chill the sunbaked Where tho children Jearn that milk comes from a cow and not from a bot ory nreworks the evening. Tele tle and their mother can look at green paid by employers and employed are grappic returns giving details of the trees instead of red bricks. expanse of glass would be unbearably costly at Croton rates; and sc unwittingly lie had provided discomfort instead of solace.

Another roof had to bo put under the glass one. with requests for another good farce, real novices are singing, marching, waltzing and even jigging on the stage with the professional company. That condition of jollity never fails to be reached every midnight. Once in a w'hile there comes along what the manager calls a wine party to distinguish it from the beer average. I was present on such an occasion, 'lwo motor car loads of smart folk had dined at one of the many modish restaurants down Coney Island way and afterward gone slumming among the free shows.

Their mooa was merry. They were from the very core of New York's smart set. They took possession of all the proscenium boxes and bought bottled cider labeled and priced as champagne. Their taste was too sophisticated to swallow much of the jettnes-jotinsou tight will be meea "And, really, I believe my interest phoned from the platform during the dramatic art." So one of nine musical plays placed along Broadway for the summer died with a grin on; but two more were ready to be brought merrily into life; and the Saturday night audiences were so large at the continuing eight that tickets for all the choice seats had been sold at advanced prices. "Le Jardin de Paris." On the opening night of a show that ana the production oi -racing iuh is the result sf tbot-e them has relieved me from the heat as much as their outing will them.

Do equalized instead of remaining in the present relation of two to one. This equalization is also to apply to insurance against disability. Employers and employed will be equally represented in the management. anernoon. A new tun factory is to be dedicated.

It occupies the site where formerly stood the Tickler, adjoining the Airdome building, and is a "Facing the Music" is bv that em your work, get interested in someone less well off than yourself, take two inent Enclish farce writer, James Hen baths and one head lettuce every day combination of cake walk, maze rv Darnley, who has to Ins crodit some of the nioft successful farces of the and you'll never have a sunstroke." The proposal to reduce the age for squeezer and serpentine slide, Four stairways lead from the garden to a etory underneath, from which refreshments are carried up to the audience; and those entrances are used by the chorus girls in excursions to and from the stage. Tho play's start is at a rehearsal and the first view of the girls is when they troop down the contemporary English stage. The story A. L. Snvder and his MintinRnrn HOME TRUTHS ARE THE KIND THAT YOU HEAR AT HOME tftate band will give a program of patriotic music.

pensions from 65 to 60 is rejected on financial and technical grounds. 'To meet the wishes of the more prosperous among tho insured the principle of voluntary increase of insurance is adopted There is nothing like being around "home" to hear the truth and other aisles. In the travesty of drilling thin ps. FOREST PARK on a scale which insures an addition promises racy oamty, nuuureas or spendthrifts will pay five to ten dollars as readily as two for a front chair. It was like that at "Le Jardin do 1'aris" because an display of young women was expected.

I told you a fortnight ago of the boldly advertised "sixty girlies all under twenty and not one married" as shown in "The Aerial Garden." In the newer play we get "sixty Anna Held girls all worthy of Julian Mitchell, the irascible stage director, is caricatured by Harry Watson; to the pension of $46.50 annually whero At least that is what Manuel Romain ascertained with a vengeance last month while resting in the picturesque little Virginia town where he has always lived. It appears this little more orest Forei while later Mitchell, in a pantomimic bit, makes his reappearance as an actor VAUDEVILLE program at park this week includes "Latha Twins, juvenile sonir and ilani an additional supplementary premium of 25 cents monthly has been paid for bogus wine, but the genuine they had drunk at dinner W8s still effervescing in high spirits. The persuasive comedian and soubrette, working together as a team, with the company behind them, soon struck up "Has Anybody Here Seen Riley The slummers chorused with them lustily. Then the trick of imitation volunteers was played with unusual care. It was successful.

Two husbands bearing famed family names swapped wives and the quartet stepped to the stage to help in ce 30 years. than village is made up of a group of cultivated persons, men who run down alter a dozen years out of sight. Mitchell's Dancing. The widow and orphan insurance is to take part in the annual gatherin of their class at Yale or Harvard, an somewhat changed from the first proj-oct. Where the deceased head of tho Julian Mitchell's reappearance may not have been of worldwide interest, artists; never l.onkey, "comedy juggler;" Merwin and company, in 'the playlet, "Who Stole That Ham;" Leverne Monsch, songstress; Swedish National dancers, etc.

The Swedish Dramatic society have arranged to give their operatas and dances today and tomorrow in the Swedish Mma. women who while shopping in New their godmother." It was reasonable in the rounders to look for variants of deviltry in a Held of a show even though the Heldisb Anna would not bo turns, as do the stones oi so manyi farces, upon a confusion brought about by persons of the same name. In the Mona mansions in Kensington, London, live the Kev. John Smiih and hi wife and another John Smith and his nife. The latter is known as "the other Mr.

fcniith." There comes a night, supposedly (iust before the action of the play, which takes place next morning, when the Mr. John Smiths and the Mrs. John Smiths get into sorts of a tangle, mixing up husbands, wives, servants and apartments in an unbelievable ronfuion that InkeB the entire two hours of t'le farce to 'straighten ont, much to the amusement of the spectators. Not onlv is the etory well told, but the characters so we'l drawn that each seems an actual 'imng being, oddly contrasted with ail the ret. Corliss Giles and Frances NeiNon will be sen as Mr.

and Mrs. John Smith. Bou McQuarrie and Jlelej Wil ton will appear as Rev, and Mrx, John mith. Others in the fust wre Bert Waiter, Wayne Arey, William H. Took-er, Jane Me'eaith and Louise but to tho whirly section of New York it was of much account, lie took a York find time to devote a tew minutes each day to brushing up in their music or painting.

Notwithstanding, Manuel Romain is in the quest of Riley. Eight others of their party followed. The women covered their faces with thedr automobile veils as they marched and sang with in it. silent but active part in a travesty of "A Fool There Was," the drama of This is the lax season in propriety and I'm sure you will permit mo to break my rule acainut writing about a man's infatuation by a sirenic worn the only one whose tenor voice has i widespread reputation. As a star mem Gagnee has been re engaged to take the leading role.

The beautiful electric fountain will le on display every evening. TIia managers. It was Frederick Thomp ber of many minstrel organizations he has sung himself into the hearts of tho people and his engagement at the son who exploited the "girlies" and an; and the skit carried, also, a variant of the now too familiar apache dance; but this time a foolish man was entranced in the hypnotic waltz and a knowing woman did the enchanting. on tho first night Mrs. Mabel 'lalia Unique this week is a special feature-but back to Virginia.

family has had a right to a disability pension and where the widow herself is disabled from work she has a right to a pension for herself till death and for her children up to the age of 15. Illegitimate children have equal right to pensions on the death of the insured mother, whether the father is living or not. Tho supplements paid by the stato to widow's pensions is $12.50 a year, and to each child pension $8,25 a year. The pensions are so arranged that where a man earning $250 a year pays 1,500 weekly premiums his disability pension will be approximately $72.50 a year, that of his widow in case of death $30.50 and that of each child $15.25. ferro Thompson sat in a corner of a box facing the audience to be sung to Despite the fact of his being in the "show business" Mr.

Romain con fountain is the onlv one of its kind in the Northwest. A large consignment of fireworks hare, been received for the celebration for the Fourth. In the afternoon there will be races, games, for which prizes will be awarded, sending up of ballons and air-ships, seven vaudeville acts in the airdrome, and dancing in the open air piiMlion. Wednesday evening has been set aside for moonlight dances. tinues to enjoy his social prestige.

The fortnight or "rest" consisted in rusn ing from house to house doing a monologue that embraced charming South too, in harmony with the prescribed action. No doubt the sport had for them the same sort of zest that the London and Paris ladies of quality felt when they reveled in masks at Cro-morne Gardens and the Jardin Ma-bille. A Tragic Tiger. Coney Island has a curious new" thing In dramatic art, too. A big tiger down there is a f.etce tragedian on the stage.

The menageries have lacked booming summer boosts by beasts since, four years ago, a lion ate off its trainer's hand in the view of a thousand persons. Subsequent outbreaks have been been palpable fakes, or trivial if real; and now a tragedy of savage illusion, "The Tiger's Temple," introduces a tiger as a rousing actor. It Is a romance of tho Orient. The place is out-eide a Buddhist temple to which an ern norms nnrt nmuainff stories On the evenini? m-inr to the day of his UNIQUE RIVER VIEW PARK HOSE who laughed merrily over departure a large affair was given at the home of the banker. In the atmosphere of the beautifully appointed home Mr.

Romain sang with great brilliance and related the best stories Tho actress was Louise Alexander, the original introducer of the apache waltz in New York and a notably pliable pantomimist; yet Mitchell proved that ho could practice supple dancing as well as direct ballet girls how to do it. Mrs. Bessie Clayton Mitchell beats all tho women 1 have seen in limber rapidity of motion and the question passed 'round why she wasn't in this modification of the apache dance with her husband. A divorce item in next day's papers snid Mrs. Mitchell had sued for a divorce for jealousy of "a woman with him on the stage." It was quite a society function.

Lillian Lorraine was once an object of keen scrutiny in the Lobster Square he sparkling little plvet, 1 be directly by a topical balladist. Hitherto Ziegfeld 's annual summer fierce frolics have been similarly matronized by Mrs. Anna Held Ziegfeld; but she wasn't on view; and the knowers or surmisers gossipped why sho wnsn't in her usual box pose. The lobby report was that Anna had telegraphed from Paris to her husband: "Send for your wif( if you would not lose her." At times tho sixty girls in "Le Jardin de Paris" didn't wear much that was more palpable than the invisible Anna Held labels. In a seashore scene a dozen appeared in long mantles on a bank at the edge of real water in a big tank.

One after another they threw off modesty with their drapery, stood for a moment poised like the statue of la in hia repertoire. As a finale, by re Traveling Man," pre.ented here 1VERVIEW PLEASURE park will st season by Sarl and Violet Allen, open today for the approval and ill be yiven an opportunity this wek I entertainment of the public, quest, he sang a famous aria and was roundly applauded and praised. Dur to enviv an euuruiv never larep lrooi intr the eonorratulations a prominent "Why do you call yourself a distinguished Kentuckianf" Because I've lived there 10 years and I am the only man in our town who isn't called colonel." Dioegnes had just been out with lantern, searching for an honest man. "Did you find one!" they asked him. "Yes.

I found one as I supposed" he replied, "but when he left me ha stole my lantern," EaBt Indian princess goes of a morning lawyer, whose light tenor had also been heard in several selections, mshed up, took his hand, shook it violently and mvomew is nist what the name implies. It is fituated on the banks of the river between the Franklin avenue bridge and Twenty-seventh avenue south. The view up or down the river from the park is magnificent. The park will have boating, a roller the pen of Mr. Allen, called "Keeping nu Appointment," to be pr'Mtited I'V tho Viob-t Alhn company, Miss Allan's ciovemers as a comedienne is well known and she will have the support Henry Stanley, accounted an ambitious vouug fcetor.

One of the brilliant acts recently secured especial- exelafmed: II II "Vr, nil to worship. Jsho is tagged by a poet who sings ardent ballads to her! and he is trailed bv a gypsy girl who dances at him with voluptuary passion. The princess is beautiful, the dancer graceful, the singer tuneful and for Wily, eo.y, xtnaiiuci, luab vi, great' Why, if you had lessons you neighborhood, not alono on account of her juvenile prettiuess, but because she was kuown as the fiancee of a Wall The Bather' in scantier attire than could sing as well as any ot usi" coaster, merry-go-round, miniature rail- 1.