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THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY. JANUARY 3. 1910.. AGNES BOOTH NEWS OF. AND THE I I ONCE STAGE STAR The Annual Reduction Sale AT COWAN'S 1 1.

"TILLIE'S NIGHTMARE." A Musical Comedy in, Three Acts with Bonney Royal Pictures One Celle Presented in "Tilliets Nightmare. Actress Who Was Leader in America Decade Ago Succumbs Near Boston. 11 DANCER AT AGE OF 10. Libretto by 1 EDGAR SMITH and Music by A. BALDWIN SLOANE.

Presented in Chicago at the Great Northern Theater Under the roirection of Lew Fields. by Miss Marie Dressler and Her Company. The Cast: Tillie Blobbs, a boarding house Marie Dressler Sim Pettingill, a small town genius with metropolitan aspirations.Uorace Newman HanVy Tinker. an tnappreciated inventor Clarence Harvey Smiley Bragg. a New York commercial Drummer Burrell Barbaretto Harry Frost of the vaudeville- tem.

Frost and Snow George Gorman Maude Biobbs, 'Tillie's sister, too strdng to work, Octavio. Brosks Pullman. Leggett. foreign buyer for Pettingill's emp6rium Virginia Foltz Peroza Snow May Montford Broadway Bill, a pickpocket. John E.

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The stocks are larger arid the selections better than we ever have had before and ttie discounts are equally attractive. You will need to shop early to secure the best of these bargains. I 1 .0" i 0" I Iloston Jan. Booth, the famous actress of two decades or more azo. wife of John B.

Schoeffel. manager IA the Tremont theater. Boston. died at her home in Brookline today, aged 63 years. She had been ill for nearly a year of heart trouble.

The funeral will be held Wednesday forenoon and will be private. The burial service will be read at Mrs. Schoeffers country house in Manchester, where the actress had spent so many happy hours since her marriage twenty-live years ago. Agnes Booth was born in Australia, on Oct. 4, 1846, the daughter of Capt.

Land Rookes. The name of Booth waa taken alter her marriage to Junius Brutus Booth in 1867 after she became popular in America. Sketch of Her Career. She made her first public appearance as a dancer in Australia when a child of 10, and at the age of 14 she came to this country and joined Mrs. 'John Wood's company in Cal.

She appeared in dances as well aq speaking parts until Mrs. Wood left the west. Then she Joined the company at Maguire's opera house. San Francisco, and with this organization she played through Inuch of the then wild part of California. While in San Francisco she married Parry, an actor in the same company.

but he died in 1863. Appeared with Famous Neu. She came to New 'York In 1865. and made her first appearance at Winter garden with John S. Clarke.

the comedian. She Joined Edwin Forrest's company soon afterward and made her first appearance with him in Richelieu." She appeared with Edwin Booth and John McCullough in King John," and made one of her greatest successes in the role of Constance in that She also acted with Jefferson. the elder Sothern, and with Lester Wallack, and later bccarne a star. For several seasons she, was a member of A. M.

Paimer's companr at the Madison Square theater. and for a time she was with the Boston Theater company. Junius Booth died in 1883, and in 1883 she became the wife of John B. Schoeffel of Abbey, Schoeffel Gratz. One of the last important productions in which she appeared in New York was The Sporting Duchess." in 1890.

a was Ju beeo bey, pori Nev 189C I particularly so in the last act when she sings number called Dreams," with the aid of the chorus. The comedians, of whom there are several, seem balled by Miss Dressler's dominant methods, and they intrude but seldom. There are tons of scenery, no less than dozen sets being visible during the performance. and all of them- are bright and big. It is possible to curb one's enthusiasm concerning the costumes and their occupants, and we shall do so.

Tillie's Nightmare is a harmonious environment for Miss Marie, Dressier 's turbulence of face and figure, being a huge and rather unwieldly thing of song and dance, large rather than lovely. and funny rathee than fastidious. Miss Dressler was once quoted as of the opinion that whatever sue- cess she may have encountered upon the stage wae'due to bee realization; of this fact that beauty of form and feature were not among the assets bestowed upon her by her Creator; so we presume we may be pardoned if we say that her present entertainment should, by that token. be her most prosperous adventure. We have observed the lady in many grotesque manifestations, but In "Tillie's Nightmare" we think she reaches the heights of homeliness.

Occasionatly she looks like an amiable sea serpent and again her resemblance is to something prehistoric and All the time. It may be added, she is careless, good humored. full of one kind of fun or hard worker. With the audience last evening at the Great Northern she was definitely effective. Her present entertainment being in a formative state, we are told.

a suggestion or two concerning its ratite or virtues may not be amiss. For some time we have had a. suspicion that not a greet deal of comedy is to be found in the stage simulation of seasickness, and that there are funnier things in the theater the spectacle of a large lady in a a state of inebriety. Miss Dressier made tl this suspicion a conviction last evening, link- a trig the two in a prolonged debauch of nauseous fooling in which no unpleasant detail of either was omitted. Of course she had a encouragement from many in the audience: but there were present more.

probably, who did not care for the exhibition and with whose entertainment it interfered. It would be unkind. perhaps. to deprive the first mentioned element of its enjoyment. but the continued infliction of the spectacle upon the others is just as cruel.

So we'shall be reasonable and suggest that there be concessions made to both by tempering the violence of the scene and shortening it in duration; or by advertising the time of its appearance in order that those inclined may leave the the- ater while it is proceeding. The play opens like a rural melodrama in I a country boarding house with Mies Dress- ler as Tillie Blobbs. a drudge with aspire- I tions histrionic. Weary with work and disappointed because she cannot go to the thee- ter, she falls asleep in a corner, with the a spotlight playing on her face. as usual, and then the real business of the musical comedy begins.

For Tillie dreams that her village sweetheart has gone to New York and has 11 there become the millionaire proprietor of an Eighth avenue shop. She visits him in her dream, marries him. achieves a steam ei yaoht. goes to Paris, flies in an airship. gives broadly funny imitations of Bernhardt.

Tetrazsini and the symbolic dancers. and does many fantastic things while in her sleep. One section of her vision makes her the prima donna of a comic opera troupe, and a condensed burlesque of this old style of entertainment is given with fair success. One of Miss Dressler's beet numbers is a ballad a describing the adventures of an innocent village maid in New York City. The refrain goes hike this: You may tempt the upper Lees With your devilish demi-tasses.

But peaven will protect the Working Girl. Every now and then there are pleasant in- 1-2 terpolations of a vocal nature by Miss Virgin-la Foltz, who swaggers gracefully as a young man about town; by Miss Mona looks and dances like a sprite; by Mr. Burrell Barbaretto and by Miss Octavia Broske, the prima donna of the play. This young woman's voice, a true, clear. sweet soprano, is beard effectively in several songs, and a a Miss Katherine- Kaelred, who played the devastitting vampire lady with Mr.

Hilliard In A Fool There Was," has withdrawn from that organization suddenly, keeping the reason for her departure a secret. Everything in the store will be reduced- except dg English gloves and our own make furniture. 25 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on piece in the famous Cowan Collection of Imported FurnitureFrench, Italian and Englishin classic models; also on Hall Clocks, fitted with the best imported movements, with and without tubular chimes, etc. 20 PER CENT, DISCOUNT on our co- liectlion of rare English and Colonial Antique Furniture.

Each is a collector's piece. worthy of the most distinguished setting, and not likely to be duplicated. 20 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on our entire collection of Rare Jewelryno piece of which is tia be duplicated elsewhere, 30 PER CENt. DISCOUNT on all Bric-a-Bracrand smallMrt ObjectsaawonderfA -collection of Decorative Wares in-class.

china, bronze, brass, terra cotta, etc. 30 PER CENT. DISCOUNT 1Dn Paintings, original works and authentic gallery copies of famous originals; also on our spetially fine collection of framed English prints of celebrated subjects. singing great and exceptional. It suffered only by comparison with itselfcompared to others It was still supreme.

The program began with a group of five songs accompanied by organ. Mr. Middelschulte was at the organ and was of course satisfactory. The selections consisted Of the Handel "Awake Saturnia recitative and aria. Bache Longing for Death and a.

Nit'illst Thou Give Me Thy Heart." and Schubert's Du bist- die Ruh," and Allmacht." To these-were added as encore a setting of Abide with Me." The aloofness of the organ in Orchestra halt and the resultant spread of Its tone made the singer's voice seem left unsupported, and the group less effective therefore than it otherwise would have been. The Handel, number is not the most grateful in the world, but was sung with full appreciation of Its style and classic manner. In the Bach and Schubert numbers the singer came more fully into her own, and the second of the Bach and the Du bist die Ruh were beautifully given" Die Allmacht long has been one of Mme. Schumann-Heink's unrivaled achievements, and yesterday again proved such. The second group brought Miss Hoffmann to the piano as accompanist.

and with Brahm's Liebestreu and Meine LAebe 1st gruen the important 'leder selections ot the began. The second of the Brahma songs was made less boisterous than it usually is. quiet intensity being substituted for splurge, and the artistic gain was vast. Strauss' Allerseelen followed and marked the highest artistic reach of the entire recital. Rarely has the lovely song been so sincerely.

so earnestly, and so poetically terpreted. Ich trage melne Minn and I' Helmliche Auff4rdyrung completed -the group. which in Its entirety WillSa. delight. A Prayer by Saar proved uninteresting.

Taubert's In Exile and Cradle Song were both beautiful, and Prochazka's commonplace Wie dazumat showed the singer's voice to advantage. Three songs by Riedelsettings from Trumpeter of Sakkingen. "were pleasing, and Chadwick's Love and Joy When Northern Days Are Short completed the regular program. But encores were they bad been repeatedly during the afternoon and were responded to with the customary SchumannHeink graciousness and success. Miss Hoffmann, should look to her dybamics in accompanying.

She becarme obtrusively noisy in the Brahms and Strauss group. W. L. HUBBARD. OBrruAnY.

SARAH WOLF. wile of Leopold Wolf, a liquor mercharit. died yesterday at her residence. 4019 Michigan avenue, after an illness of three weeks. Mrs.

Wolf was 76 years old. he had lived in Chicago for the last forty years. Funeral services will be held from the residence. to Mount Maariv cemetery, Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber officiating. Mrs.

Wolf was a member of the Johannah lodge. the Isaiah Women's club. and. the K. A.

M. auxiliary. The husband and two daughters, Mrs. Henry Rubin and Miss Clara Wolf, survive her. MRS.

EMILY STRICKLAND, mother of Miss Kathryn Strickland, Harry Strickland, and Mrs. T. F. Manning, died yesterday at her residence. 909 East Fiftieth street, at the sge of 59 years.

Mrs. Strickland was a widow for twenty-four years. The funeral services will be held tomorrow. Interment will be at Oakwoods cemetery. CAMILLE S.

D'INVELL1ERES, civil engineer for the Pennsylvania railroad died yesterday In Cresson, aged 58. He was regarded the company's expert with refererice to bituminous coal beds. PS. liqu den of She yea the Rai Wo the Etta Mro vivo AI Mt and her age for wit OM gin yes res ere Mr. Singer reconsiders the title of his new spectacle for the Princess.

and that entertainment will not be called "The Belle of. Bald Head Row." Misis Bessie Wynn has been engaged to play the prima donnas reile with R. C. Herz as leading comedian. The play, is to be a cosmopolitan affair.

It is said. with scenes in half a dozen different lands. and the promise is made that It will be the most richly caparisoned of any of Mr. Singer's productions. PERCY HAMMOND.

Mme. Schumann-lieink's Recital. Mme. Schumunn-Heink had proof anew yesterday afternoon of the popularity she enjoys at the hands of he Chicago public. She then gave ber second recital this season in Orchestra hall, and despite the fact of holiday time and all the countless distractions it brings she was greeted by an audience which left not a seat.

except a few In the boxes, vacant in the hall. It was an audience which contained many of her estab- lished and ever faithful admirers and patrons, and it also included many newcomerspeople who evidently had not heard her before, although they had heard of her. They all joihed her admirers before the afternoon was ended, for such is the geniality of the great singer's personality and art that to sit In her presence and to bear her are to yield to her. She was not vocally at her most exceptional yesterday, the traces of a recent cold having left conditions which, while they did not Impair the warmth or beauty of the tone Itself In any marked degree. made singing a little less easy and spontaneous than it usually is with her.

She nevertheless 'teas mistress complete and absolute of her vocal resources and sang splendidly. It was not SthinnerillHeink at her actual greatest, but It still was G. A. R. HOLDS MEMORIAL FOR SOLDIER DEAD OF 1909.

George H. Thomas Post Holds Services Col. 3. T. Darling Says Southern Women.

Keep Sentiment Alive. G. Ge Mk, 4 1 Imo 11 30 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on all Lamps and Shades, including a very large collection of diniAg room domes, drary lamps, French bisque lamps, bronze lamps, etc. 30 PER CENT.

DISCOUNT on all Art Bronzes, mostly Italian pieces; also Italian Garden Marbles, I's eats, jardinieres, pedestals, and other pieces suitable for gardens or large hallsprincipally in Carrara marble. 20 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on all Sheffield Plate, embracing every piece in swhat is conceded to be the most distinguished stock of its kind ever shown in Chicago. 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on all Leather Goods (except Cross Gloves), including all the remainder of the stock of Cowan and "Cross" English Leather Goodsthe largest and in every way the finest stock of leather things in Chicago or elsewhere.

20 PER CENT: DISCOUNT very unusual stock of MirrorsColonial and of the best English periods. 1 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT on rare English Antique Solid Silver. The finest collection of its kind ever assembled. 20 PER CENT.

DISCOUNT on all Oriental Rugs. Specimen rugs only, and each piece represents definite artistic, as wen as useful, quality. I The etnnual memorial service of George H. Thomas post No. 5 of the G.

A. department of Illinois, was held yesterday afternoon in Memorial hall, public library building. The service wan in memory of the dead of the year 1909. The Rev. Leon L.

Hammitt of Park Avenue Methodist church' made the address of the afternoon. taking as his subject The Evolution of Freedom Through Sacrifice." He asserted that history shows that it has beers only through sacrifices that liberty has been gained. Mrs. Viola Smith played a harp and piano aeoompanIment during the reading of the names of the dead. The roll follows: I Th me 1101 log of 1 rui tho Ev He bee be A na Greatest of AU After-Inventory statue of Gen.

Robert E. Lee In the hall of fame at Washington Col. Jasper T. Darling was present. and after the adjournment he spoke further explaining his attitude on the Lee statue.

The unveiling of that statue Is not due as much to the influence of the confederate veterans as to the stand taken by the women of the south. The attitude of these women has opened the breach between the veterans of the north and the south. As an illustration of how these women support the rebel flag I can say that one of them told a member of our post that in her house they keep two confederate flags. She said. You ca.11 these rebel flags, but just the same at least once a week my daughter and myself take out these-emblems and placing them on the floor Itteel on them and pray for their Dr.

Allen W. Gray. who opposed the stand of the G. A. just wanted to let people know he was present." sh This is the most important sale of our career.

More value for the money than in any previous sale. This our ey th Charles A. Baldwin, Peter Hendrix. Elijah K. Blodgett, Charles lidadden, Thomas Carr.

Winfield Scott Mapes. William Caird, Robert E. Martin. Andrew W. Conners, William A.

Murdock. David H. Dickinson, James S. McDonnell, William E. Dorwin, Dugene P.

Palmer. Henry E. Eastman, Green B. Baum. George W.

Eggleston. Otho S. Sprague, Dwight K. Frost. E.

P. StIckney. James Finley, John M. Van Osdel, John Franklin. James Wilson.

William II Harker. George Willard. A prayer by the chaplain, the Rev. W. J.

Libberton, followed. The Park Avenue Methodist church choir rendered a number of selections. No mention was made during the service of the protest 'against the unveiling of the Cho Elt th WC An1 Da 'Mil Hal Da Jan Job Wil A Lib 'odi lee Zs of SPECTAL In every department there are many articles specially 'reduced for quick clearance, to which the above discounts do not applythese special reductions having been made without regard to original selling pricesin many cases being half and less than halt of original cost Jo us: We are confident that no such reductions on exclusively fine merchandise ever have been offered elsewhere, and believe the opportunity will be estimated at its true value by the many thousands who know and appreciate the character of this store and its merchandise. THE STORE OPEN'S AT 8:30 A. M.

Broken LinesOdd LotsDiscontinued Styles For Men, Women and Children Taxi Chauffeur Faces Charge. A charge of criminal carelessness has been placed against Thomas Lassen, chauffeur for the Chicago Taxicab company. who was arrested lam Friday night after running down P. P. LAW.

623 East Thirty-third street. He will be arraigned in the Harrison street court today It is charged Lassen was driving On the wrong side of the street when the accident occurred. I K. Cowan es9 Company Five Floors in the Fine Arts Building 203 to 207 Michigan Avenue Men's 3.50, $4, $5 and $6 Values Nti) 'IP El .45 now selling at Foreman's Men's Shoes need no introductionthey are the best the market produces. The sizes are mostly small.

Better come and look them over. Maybe we can tit you. You'll probably buy two or three pairs. Worden's $3, $4, $5, $6 and $7 415 Values, now selling at j1. it This stock consists of some of the best selling shoes of this season.

All styles and leatherslace and button. A few sizes missing here and there. Don't miss this opportunity. Misses' and Children's 3.50, i 2.50 and $2 Values now selling at I All broken lines. Sizes in misses' up to 6.

1 1 Patent and dull leatherslace and button. Children'snearly all sizes. MANY PRETTY SLIPPERS AT SAME PRICES Ei 4 5 fit You'll A -11. ,11 opportu How to Reduce Household Expenses 1 Jot Mira Trust 1 44 '1 I NOES The Original and Genuine FOR We also offer a fine line of VIII6LIOVS "THE CROWN HAS IT-Love to Be Clean? A Great Help Is BATHODORA Our feathery bath powder. It inrcantly r.turts.

11)gtTtlestly' PuritImi and perfumes be water. and la a tonic. Sold Everywhere. 40' ilm'N APSLEY RUBBER BOOTS Saving begins in the home and comes from avoiding waste in every-day expenditures. Those who what they spend learn quickly how to save enopgh out of what is ordinarily wasted to maintain a bank account of liberal proportions.

gA record of family expenses will show where this saving can be made. This bank has' prepared a household expense account book embodying a saving system, which has proved of value to many of our depositors. Copies may be had free OD personal application. All savings deposits made on or before Jan. 10 will bear interest from Jan.

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