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Brooklyn Lifei
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Brooklyn, New York
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BROOKLYN LIFE. 6 Bedford Park, Brooklyn Avenue and Prospect Place. Week days, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sun.

2 to 6 p.m. Free. Columbia University Library, Amsterdam Avenue and One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Free to adults for consultation; introduction necessary. Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Park, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street west of Broadway. Reference Library open to holders of readers' cards from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., every day except legal holidays and in August Museum in the gallery open to the public from 1 to 5 p.m. every day, Sunday included, except Independence Day, Christmas Day and in August.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue and Eighty-third Street. Week days, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 10 p.m. 2 to 5 p.m.

Free (except Mon. and 25c). Birtbj. In Manhattan. Astor 45 8:20 W.

2:20 $2 "The Beauty Shop." Booth 45 w. of B. 8:15 Th. 2:15 $2 "Panthea." Casino B. 39 8:15 W.

2:15 $2 "High Jinks." Cohan's B. 43 8:15 W. 2:15 $2. Perlmutter." Comedy 41 w. of B.

8:20 Tu. 2:20 $2. MacKay." Cort 48 e. of B. 8:20 W.

2:20 $2 "Peg o' My Heart." Eden Musee 55 w. 2310 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. 50c, Waxworks, Cinematograph, Magic, Music. Elliott 39 w.

of B. 8:30 W. 2:30 $2 "Help Wanted." Eltinge 42 w. of B. 8:15 W.

2:15 $2. Yellow Ticket." Empire B. 40 8:30 W. 2:30 $2. Legend of Leonora." Fifth Avenue B.

28 8 2 $1 Vaudeville. Forty-fourth St. w. of B. 8 W.

2 $1.50. Midnight GirL" Forty-eighth e. of B. 8:20 Th. 2:20 $2 "To-day." Fulton 46 w.

of B. 8:30 W. 2:20 $2. "The Misleading Lady." Gaiety B. 46 8:20 W.

2:20 $2. Keys to Baldpate." Globe B. 468:15, 2:30.. Motion Pictures of "Neptune's Daughter." Grand 23 8 Ave. 8:15 W.

2:15 "The Sunshine Girl." Garrick 35 n. B. 8:15 W. 2:15 $2. Governor's Boss." Hammerstein's 42 B.

8:15 2:15 $1 Vaudeville. Hippodrome 43 6 Ave. 8:15 2:15 $1.50 "Pinafore." Hudson 44 e. of B. 8:30 W.

2:30 $2 "The Dummy." Knickerbocker B. 38 8:30 W. 2:20 $2. "The Crinoline Girl." Liberty 42 w. of 8:30 W.

2:20, "Lady Windermere's Fan." Little W. 44 8:45 W. 2:30 $2. "The Truth." Liberty 42 w. of B.

8:30 W. 2:20 $2, Longacre B. 48 8:30 W. 2:20 $2 "A Pair of Sixes." Lyceum B. 45 8:30 Th.

2:20 $2 "Jerry." Lyric 42 w. of B. 8:15 W. $2 "The Red Canary." Manhattan Opera House 34 8 Ave. 8:15 W.

2:15 $1, "Omar the Tentmaker." Madison Square Garden Madison Ave. 26 8:15 2:15, (beg'g Tues.) "101 Ranch." New Amsterdam 42 n. B. 8:20 W. 2:20 $2 "Sari." Playhouse 48 e.

of B. 8:30 W. 2:30 $2, "The Things That Count." Shubert 44 w. of B. 8:15 2:15 $2, "The Belle of Bond Thirty-ninth St.

110 w. 39 8:20 W. 2:20 $2, "Too Many Cooks." Vitagraph 44 B. 11:30, 2:30, 5:30 and 8:30 $1 Photoplays. Winter Garden 1646 B.

8 Th. 2 $2, "The Whirl of the World." Special. Empire Thurs. and Fri.) 2:15 "Peter Pan." Premieres and Openings. Empire, May 11 "A Scrap of Paper." Bishop Mr.

and Mrs. Merrill (Helen Stanton); a son, James Lord; April fourth. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. William Joseph; a daughter, Alice Theresa; April Death.

Fin lay Mr. Hamilton Rowan, 15 Bay Thirty-first Street, Bensonhurst, April seventeenth. Mr. Fmlay, who was in bis seventy-fifth year, was the son of the late Francis Dalzelle Finlay of Belfast, Ireland, the founder of The Weekly Whig and a very well-known margin his day. Mr.

Finlay came to this country forty-five years ago and for many years was connected with the firm of Stavert, Ziga-mala and Co. of 66 Leonard Street, Manhattan. Mr. Finlay knew Charles Dickens well, acting as secretary to the famous author for a time. He is survived by his wife, formerly M.ss Betsy Ridge-way Lamb of Philadelphia, and two daughters, Mrs.

C. Robert Dewey and Miss Frances A. Finlay. Howard Mr. Francis Edward, 1414 Pacific Street, April eighteenth.

Mr. Howard, who was in his seventy-sixth year, made his home with Mrs. Augustus T. Carpenter (Harriot Howard). Juhring Mr.

Henry 62, Hart Street, April seventeenth. Mr. Juhring was well known as a leading deaf mute, and had been a member of St. Anne's Church in West One Hundred and Fortieth Street for many years. He was the son of late John C.

and Lena Juhring and was born in this city. The present John C. Juhring, a director of the Coal and Iron Bank of New York City, a trustee of the Citizen's Savings Bank, a member of the Merchants' Club of New York, and president of the firm of Francis H. Leggett is his only surviving brother. Mr.

Juhring possessed an independent fortune inherited from his father, and had no business connections. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Catherine Weiderholt Juhring. Lines Mr. Theodore Truesdale, 200 Hicks Street, April fifteenth.

Mr. Lines, president of the Keystone Varnish Company of this borough, was born, in New York City, September 1844, and was the son of Major Lines of New Haven, and Martha Truesdale. He was educated in the public schools and afterward attended the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York. In the year 1859, he removed with his parents to Philadelphia, and went into the varnish business with his father. At the breaking out of the Civil War, he joined the Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, known as the Gray Reserves.

At the close of the war, he bought the Keystone Varnish Works in Philadelphia, which had been established in 1828, and changed the name to the Keystone Varnish Company. The business continued to grow and in 1882 he opened a factory and branch in Fourth Street, Long Island City. In 1890, he spld. out the factory in Philadelphia and moved fhe plant to Long Island City. In 1895 the Keystone Varnish Company was incorporated, Mr.

Lines being elected president. June, 1901, fire destroyed the entire plant in Long Island City, and the business was moved to 71 Otsego Street, in the Erie Basin section. In 1869 Mr. Lines married Miss Anna Milnor, Klapp, daughter of Dr. Joseph Klapp, a prominent physician of Philadelphia.

She died in 1888 and on July 1, 1891, he married Miss Virginia Herbert Hottes of Richmond, Va. Mr. Lines is survived by his wife and two sons, Mr. Harvey K. Lines of Flushing, L.I., and Mr.

Ernest V. R. Lines of Philadelphia. Mr. Lines came of an old New England family, the founder of which, Ralph Lines, settled in the New Haven colony in the year 1642.

Mr. Llnes's father served in the War of 1812 and his grandfather was an officer in the Second Company, Governor's Foot Guards, of New Haven, during the Revolution. Shattuck Mrs. Etta 160 Clinton Street, April fourteenth. Mrs.

Shattuck, who was in the eightieth year of her age, was the widow of S. Shattuck. Wkstpall Mr, Samuel St. Mary's Hospital, April fourteenth. Mr.

Westfall, formerly tennis champion of Kings County and a very well-known resident of Flatbush, where he made his home at 185 Stratford Road, was the son of Arthur S. and Etta E. Westfall. He was born in Newark, Wayne County, N.Y., on May 21, 1883. He is survived his father and mother, a sister, Mrs.

Childs, and one brother, Mr. Herbert L. Westfall. Brooklyn Life's Blue List of Current Plays. For the convenience of playgoers the following list of current plays is submitted as representing in the opinion of Brooklyn Life the best now running in New York, considered both as to intrinsic merit and freedom from objectionable features.

No production, however meritorious in other respects, that might reasonably exert a harmful or unwholesome influence is admitted to the list. Gaiety "Seven Keys to Baldpate." Cohan's "Potash Perlmutter." Cort "Peg o' My Heart." Fulton "The Misleading Lady." Liberty "Lady Windermere's Fan." Playhouse "The Things That Count." Shubert "The Belle of Bond Street." Thirty-ninth Street Theater "Too Many Cooks." Miss AKne MacManon Makes Her Professional Debut. MISS ALINE MACMAHON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.

M. MacMahon of 1565 Forty-eighth Street, who made her professional debut as an. entertainer on Wednesday evening of last week, was presented in a recital by Mr. Jerome Schaeffer, her teacher, in the Green Room of the Hotel McAlpin. Assisting Miss MacMahon in her recital were Miss Edna Schaeffer-Kellogg, mezzo-soprano, and Mr.

Herman Eisenberg, cellist. Mr. Albert Kirk was the accompanist. Although Miss MacMahon is only fourteen years old, she gave a very finished program. Her selections from Shakespeare were particularly good, her best being the potion scene from "Romeo and Juliet," which met with much applause on Wednesday evening.

Her other selections were "All the World's a Stage," "Neddy's Holiday," "Heartsease," "On a School Day," "Nothing to Say," a scene from "Within the Law," "Papa and the Boy," another scene from "Romeo and Juliet," "In the Morning," "Mother's Three Ages of Man" and "Peach Pie" and "The Day is Done." Schedule of Plays. (From April 27 to May 2, Inclusive.) Broadway B. 8:15 W. 2:15 $1.50 "Along Came Ruth." Crescent Flatbush Ave. 8:15 2:15 50c.

Governor's Lady." DeKalb DeKalb B. 8:15 W. 2:15 $1, Mantell in Shakespearean Plays. Duffield Street Theater Duffield Fulton 1 to 11 p.m. 10c and 15c Photoplays.

Gayety B. Throop Ave. 8:15 2:15 75c. Majestic 651 Fulton 8 W. 2, Motion Pictures of "The Life of Our Saviour." Montauk Liv.

Han. PI. 8 W. 2 $1.50, Motion Pictures of "The Life. of Napoleon." Orpheum F.

Rockwell PI 8:15 2:15 $1 Vaudeville. There was a young woman named Cholmondely, Accounted exceedingly colmondely; But though anxious to marry, Too long did she tarry, So now she can suffer but dolmondely. 1 Clarence Mansfield Lindsay..

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