Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1895 — Page 14

THE INDIANAPOLIS'' JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 189a

HOW PLAYERS STUDY

SQHV STARS I,EAn EASILY, OTHKIIS have: TO SIT TP SIGHTS. The Msh(mar That AVorrled Edwin Booth Tanard the Iat I'lay Hills Thli Week.. New Tork Telegram. . A great many persona who go to the theater constantly often wonder how actors learn their parts. In the old days actors had very different methods of committing their parts to memory, and to-day of the few actors who still piay in repertoires probably each, has his own pet method of learning his lines..; . A. In the matter of "recovering parts" actors differ very much. Soma study very quickly and some are very slow, and it Is an accepted: rule; of the theater that actors who learn their parts easily lose them with equal ease, while the actor known as a "poor tudy" gets tils lines to keep them. John aiason was a very quick study, and could learn a part with any 'number of people about him, , chatting and cluing. It has many times been a mairvel to -iose who knew him well that he learned a part t all, as he would walk about a room full .'of people;; ty- turns studying and talking, and finally fling the book from him and take part In the sport, tad yet, on the first night, be quite perfect. Indeed, he was an unusually good first-nighter, Every, one knows that in his later days, when Edwin Booth was taxed with not giving any new. parts to the stage and was urged to play some novelty, he frankly owned that it would be impossible for him to learn a new part. Nor is this strange. Th actors of Booth's time learned most of the leading Shakspearean and other roles from hearing them over and over again. Booth must have imbibed his Shakspeare jnoro, by an oral process than. In any other way, and never was quite able to know .1ua when or how he learned it. Booth used to say that if he missed a word it was well-, nigh impossible for him to go on, and that, In the last years of his life, accounted for the often hurried ana monotonous delivery of his-lines. His fear of stopping overpowered him. This was because the saying of the words ; had become purely mechanical. Of course, all this merely con cerns the learning of the lines of a part, which to-day is but a email fraction of the art of acting. In the old days the ordinary actor had one of two things to do. If he were playing for the first time an old role he had all the traditions of the part to learn, or usually he had seen it done by so many other actors that they came' to him as second nature. If it were a new part he had to make up in his mind what sort of a man he was to play, and then he went ahead on traditional lines. . To-day there are methods very different for the actor of rank ana the actor in the ranks. Every one knows the famous CoqueUn method. Pages have been written about the creative processes of the great actor, In which he bothers not at all for some time with " the actual words of the part, bf 'Kfiilfin nn hefor hla montal vialrtn tha man ne is to may sees mm in ail nis uarta his physique, his face, his manner, the color of his hair, of his eyes; hears the tone of his voice, knows even what he eats and drinks, and when the image Is jfixed in fast, fadeless colors, proceeds to learn such cf his words as the author has written out. . - COQUKLIN'S METHODS. -Coquelln", before he acts a part, knows not only what the man he is about to play does In the circumstances the author has set down, but what he would do In very different circumstances, Indeed, in ail circumstances. But actors of less rank have not this license. Some one else does all this conceiving for them. If it Is a Plnero play, it Is the author. If you read Pine ro you will see that he leaves the actors very little discretion In conceivinir the narts. He tells them exactly how old all his people are, what they look like, and sets down the .salient points of their character, so that the actor's skill is in patching , the author's conception, and his failure in not doing so. Three weeks -are by no means considered long for the rehearsals of a play to-day, and often an even longer time. Is given, although it is becoming a conviction that overrehearsirig is even worse than underrehearsing a play. To-day actors do riot go to rehearsal letter perfect. That Is a rather foolish thing to do, although from a force of habit old actors will still do it. Usually they simply carry their parts, and It often happens that they have not really read them. It is not uncommon for actors not to know their lines until the last rehearsal. The business Is of much more importance than the word3 in the eyes of the modern stage manager. There is much excuse for actors who do not karn their parts until the last minute, for the modern play Is never sure of being quite shipshape until the last rehearsal is called. Very often the entire piece Is rebuilt at rehearsal, so that if actors have teamed their parts before those parts are really completed they have the difficult task of wiping out the lines they have learned and putting new ones In their places. Robert Taber is a slow, laborious study, acquiring his lines with the utmost difficulty, but once they are fixed in his memory he is able to hold them; He requires not only the utmost quiet and application to master his lines, but he takes an unusually long time, and has never yet been able to ta!ce an engagement on a short notice to "jump i.ito a part," as It is called in theater vernacular as so many actors, like Maurice Barrymore, who has more confidence than accuracy in this matter; or Lackaye, or John Mason, or John Kellard can do. 'Mrs. Taber is also a rather slow study. Curing . their recent preparation for "Colombe's Birthday" they tooth found Browning's verses so difficult to commit that they were nearly in despair over it. In the days before Sydney Armstrong went into the forces of Charles Frohman to play the same parts year in and year out ehe used to declare that the only way she could possibly learn a part quickly was by lying flat on her back with her heels in the air. , ..... Her favorite position was lying on the tied with her feet on the top of the footboard. She confessed to this fact when taxed With It, and was much amused when it was suggested that this effort to keep her thoughts frem running out of her head was doubtless the same principle-that always actuated collegians when they cram for their midwinter "exams." At the time, if you make a tour of tha Harvard dormitories, you will find that more than half the fellows who are at work have their heels on the mantelpiece or en the table, while the. nearer they are to being reversed the better able they arc to study..,- - . v' A " trrvw TT.T.raxr ttdw-v c-TimTio (No one who knows Ellen Terry would doubt how she learns her parts. "Lady Nell," as her friends call her, would, of course, lie down among many cushions in the , cheerfulest tJlace in her lovely house, and keep quite still, if it, were wintertime!' but In the summer she would study out of dOOrS. -i..' v; v; . :: f'. : . ,' When she Is at her town house, at Barketori Cardans, she studies in her tiny little sitting room. It Is just off the dining room, and is said to contain more chairs In a small space than any room in the t'nlted Kingdom. In one corner there i a divan. Italmost takes up the entire room, and It Js covered with cushions of every ehape end-size;. Near the divan is a shelf of Shakspeare alone, and here Ellen Terry reads and studies In winter. But many of her parts Flie has learned in summer, when she deWorld's Fair MEDAL And Diploma Awarded CHERRY PECTORAL FOR v-V. THROAT and E.USMG c::.:?Lfl!;iTS

lights to be out or doors,- e own in "JViricheleea. In her pretty flower-f iled gardens. Some actors can read a part once or twice, and." it . seems as It It were photo- : graphed on their memory, while others cannot acquire a role of any length in a week.; It,- will be remembered that George Alexander, during the second engagement of Irv-'. ing, Jumped-into Benedick at a few hours" notice."- v, .;.. - -.'-.-.. He had been supposed to understudy Irving, but the Idea that the chief would ever be out of the bill had not. occurred to him, so when, after he had gone to bed one night, a messenger went over from the Vendome,. Boston, to the Tremont House to tell "Alick," as he was called, that Mr. Irvinsr would not play the next night, he found , Alexander absolutely unprepared to play the ; part, and with only the next day to get his lines. Benedick is a very long part, but he did It, and with hardly a slip. . Yet even that: was not a task as hard as it looked at first,, for the young actor had heard the lines so many times that the hardest task was to let slip his own cues and remember that he was no longer Don Pedro, but Benedick. Eben Piympton has done some very amazing work as a "quick st udy," while Maud Harrison's task of learning Kate Kennison on the train between this city and Pittsburg in the night and playing it the next day, 'with one rehearsal, and that without scenery, costumes or properties, is too recent to need repeating. But for that matter, the annals of the stage, tooth local and otherwise, are full of examples of "quick study" and absolutely lightning-like jumping into parts. It is an equally Interesting fact that the more used one becomes to a role the more likelihood there is of going to pieces in It. While a part is r.ew it is easy to pick one's self up after a slip, but when a play has a long run the least error is likely to throw every one out. It is recalled that during the last run here of "Jim, the Penman," when it had-been played at least three seasons, some one made a slip in the third act, and it was fully two minutes before those in the scene got straightened out in their lines. ;', ;

AT THE L.OCAI, THEATERS. Marie "Walnwrleht In Her Delightful . ,. Piay, 'DaiiKhteM of Eve," Miss Marie Wainwright, who has not been seen in this city for several years, will be the star during the first half of this week at the Grand Opera House, in the new and very successful society drama, "Daughters of Eve." Miss Wainwright is one of the most attractive anu accomplished of . our actresses. Gifted by nature with a beautiful face and form and a voice of singularly musical quality, she has the advantage of years of training asv leading woman with such masters as Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett. and the elder Salvini. For six years she has now been an acknowledged star, and has been identified with many successful productions. Her greatest triumph has, however, been won this season in "Daughters of Eve," which w-as written for her by A. E. Lancaster and Julian Magnus. In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and nearly all the largest cities this play has made a profound impression, and has been praised as one of the strongest and most interesting of modern pieces. While the main thread of the story is serious, there "Is a plentiful comedy relief, much of which falls to Miss Wainwright, who has the novelty of playing the dual role of . twin sisters. Special scenery Is employed, and the costuming of Miss WainwTight and the five other women of the cast Is frequently spoken of as particularly gorgeous. Miss Wainwright has always had the reputation of bringing an able supporting company, and the leading man, Nathaniel Hartwig, has held that position for two seasons. The engagement is for three nights and Wednesday matinee at popular prices. The New York Herald of Oct. 23 last said: "Miss Marie Wainwright appeared last night at the "Harlem Opera House In Messrs. Lancaster . and . Magnus's play, Daughters of Eve.' There was a large audience, and the piece achieved a pronounced success. It is admirably constructed, the interest never flags and the story is told in a very direct manner. Moreover, the dialogue is crisp, and epigram, quip and repartee in the comedy scenes succeed one another in rapid succession. , The authors of 'Daughters of Eve' have evidently made a study of Augier, Sardou and Dumas, and have, consciously or unconsciously, adopted their methods with brilliant results. The story, which is on the strongly emotional order, is of twin sisters, one of whom has erred and wandered from home, and the other lives under , her;, father's roof and eventually marries the man of her choice. Miss Wainwright, in the dual characters of Roee Wyeherly and Rhoda Daintry, acted with much feelinsr and intensity, and differentiated the oharacters with judgment and discretion. She was particularly strong In the final scene, where, after declaring her love for her sister's lover, she leaves and enters a sisterhood. Miss Wainwright was adequately supported by Mr. Nathaniel Hartwig as Kobert Hawthorne. A word of praise is due to Mr. Cecil Magnus for his performance of ; Fred Bantam. The other characters were in competent hands." Walker. Whiteside Cainlnj? Thursday. The announcement that Walker Whiteside, will appear at the Grand next Thursday, in a production of Shakspeare's sublime tragedy, "Hamlet, w41J afford theater-gOers here an opportunity to study one of the most brilliant young candidates for the mantle of Edwin Booth of any before the American public. Mr. Whiteside has gained .flattering praise from eminent critics and discriminating patrons of the highest form of dramatic art. During his engagement of three weeks in New York and four weeks in Chicago last season he was lauded as the greatest living exponent of "Hamlet." Perhaps the most pronounced, and, withal, beneficial transition made in the annals of the theatrical history of America was the acceptance of the school of acting in which intellectuality reigned supreme, as expounded by Edwin Booth. Mr. Whiteside has followed closely that school of acting, and in which its adherents study nature and place naturalness paramount in the art of acting. It is perhaps on this account that Mr. Whiteside has been hailed as the coming legitimate successor of Mr. Booth. The repertoire for his engagement at the Grand is: Thursday night and Saturday matinee, "Hamlet;" Friday night, "Richelieu;" Saturday night, "Othello.". The sale of seat's will begin to-morrow morning. . Sonsa, unit 111m Hand. The announcement of the return of John Philip Sousa and his concert band of fifty musicians to English's, next Saturday night, is tantamount to the declaration that a splendid welcome awaits the magnetic conductor. Sousa Is now on a tour which promises to exceed his triumphs of last season. The merits of the organization or the talents of the peerless Sousa himself need no enlarging on., It is enough to say that the organization is playing in superb form, receiving the enthusiastic plaudits of critic and public in a manner which sets at rest all doubt of Its superior greatness. There is yet- further cause for the musical public to congratulate itself cn the coming Sousa concert, and that is the appearance of two artists of superior talents with the band in the persons of Miss Marie Barnard, soprano, and Miss Carrie Duke, violinist. Miss Barnard brings the combination of a splendid voice and method, with a fine stage presence, and Miss Duke is all that the most enthusiastic can claim for her. The advance .sale opens Thursday morning next. Lillian nomell ttt AVeek. The most important event of the season at English's will occur next week, when Miss Lillian Russell and her. comic opera company will appear In Qffenhach's masterpieces. This will be Miss Russell's first appearance in this city for several years. She is not only the most popular exponent of light opera in America, but also probably the best known, and certainly the most handsome, a3 well as the most capable, singer on the stage at the present time. Her right to the title "the queen of comic opera" Is not disputed. It is safe to say that there is no singer living who is eo well calculated as she to fill the role of the Duchess of Gerolstein in "The Grand Duchess." This role, originated in Paris many years ago by the great Hchneider, requires a woman of most prepossessing appearance and . exceptional beauty. It also requires an artist of line voice and a com-, plete knowledge of the vocal art. All of these qualities are combined in Miss Russell, and not one cf the many characters in which she appears suits her better than "The Grand Duchess." It Is staged in magnificent style. At Abbey's Theater, NewYork, which production will be given here, the sumituouiine.! of the costume, -a well as the elaborate stage appointments, caused the highest praise, and the enthusiasm of the public was almost boundless. The company Is under the management of Messrs. Abbey, SehoeiTel & Gran. "The Grand Duchess" will be the bill Monday and Tuesday nlKhts. "La Perichole" will h given Widne-ulav tiisht in as superb a rmtnrier as

"The Grand Duchess." There will be no matinee. The sale of Beats opens next Thursday morning.

1 The Park's Offerfna. : . At the Park J. C. Stewart's "Two Johns" Comedy Company wiil appear the first half of this week, opening to-morrow afternoon, lri' an up-to-date presentation of that -mirth-provoking-comedy, "The Two Johns." The company is headed by that ever popular comedian, John C. Stewart, and the management has surrounded him with a strong company of dramatic, musical and specialty artists. "Among the special features in this great laughing success may be mentioned the singing of Miss Mabel Meredith, the Star Quartet and Edward Schofield, the Irish comedian. The play Is too'well known to need any. special recommendation. On Thursday the musical farce-comedy, "Hoss and Hoss," which has been seen in this city at the Grand, will be given a three days' engagement at the Park. In "Hoss and Hoss" laughter is king, and all the situations, dialogue and surroundings are conceived and executed for laughing purposes only. Carrie Sweeney, of comic opera fame, and Harry Crandall, the German comedian, are in the cast. . Empire Thenler." Lovers, of athletics will have a good opportunity, at the Empire this week, of observing the merits of Peter Maher, of Dublin, whose improvement in the past two years has created much interest in sporting circles," and has earned for him the title of the "coming" champion. Mr. Maher will be at the Empire Theater all week. In conjunction with his own company of vaudeville stars, among whom are the following: Conley and Madden, clever Irish comedians; the charming little soubrette, Miss May Rhea; Lew C. Mettler, the mimic; the Keegeans, - ; comedy duo; Campbell and Beard, the" "emperors of music;" Price and Mack, black-face comedians, and the two character singers, the lire. Mayo. The performance concludes - with the laughable comedy entitled "McCracken's Reception," In which the Irish champion is Introduced, in conjunction with Billy Hennessy, of Boston, and Peter Lowery, of Dublin, Ireland. These men will meet all comers for scientific points, i Amherst Hoys' Programme. Thirty-two Amherst College boys will give an entertainment at Plymouth Church Tuesday evening. The three clubs of Amherst glee, banjo and mandolin are represented by these boys. They will render a programme selected for this occasion. Among others . these will be given: "Old Amherst," Glee Club; "Columbian March,"' Banjo Club; "A Highly Educated Man," solo toy Mr. Mossman; "La Mano Nera Waltz," Mandolin Club; "Three Beggars" and "Daddy Longlegs," Glee Club; "March of the Janizaries," Banjo Club; "The Three Glasses," octet; "A Singing Tragedy," solo by Mr. Porter; "Schneider's Band," Glee Club; "Molly Bawn," solo, Mr. Loud; "Gitanella," Banjo Club; "Amherst Medley," Glee Club. The Amherst boys visit this city for the first time, and should be greeted by a large audience. Leading society women have arranged a reception for the boys after the concert, and to which invitations have been issued, but this will in no way interfere with the concert, as it is purely a public affair. Tickets at Baldwin's music store. "Vote of the Stnpre. ' The name of Sydney Rosenfeli's new comedy, written for Stuart Robson, is "Lightfoot's Wife." An Eastern critic suggests that DeWolf Hopper might make a hit In London, especially in "Dr. Syntax." Mme. Rhea's new play, first presented at the Coates Opera House, in Kansas City, recently, Is called "The Parisians." It is said to be of the French Frenchy. New York's 400 turned out in large numbers at the first night of Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew in "Charlotte Cor.lay" at the Herald-square Theater in New York. The land of the sacred cod and of the worshipers of Browning Boston is said to have given to DeKoven and Smith's "Rob Roy" even a warmer reception than did New" York. Yvette Guilbert, the French music hall singer, about whom foreign correspondents have raved for a year or two, is coming over next fall for Oscar Hammerstein's new music hall. Jessie Bartlett Davis.-the celebrated contralto of the Bostonians. used to sing the role of Buttercup in "Pinafore." She was married shortly afterwards to W. J. Davis, the Chicago manager. Clever Clssle Loftus has been stumped In her effort to imitate one of our American artists. The little English girl cannot "Trow down McClosky" so that anyone is even faintly reminded of Maggie Cline. , John Hare, Henry Irving, Charles Wyndham and possibly George Alexander will come to America next season, but Mr. and Mrs. Kendal Will leave us alone, and Beerbohm Tree has not yet made up his mind. Miss Helene Mora, who Is to appear next season in Indianapolis at the Grand Opera House in her new play. "A Modern Mephlsto," is singing with success "The Home of My Childhood." composed by Barclay Walker, of this city. Paderewskt is alleged to have declared recently that there are two musical nations in the world, the gypsies and the Jews. With all others the love of music la acquired by cultivation, but gypsies and Jews are naturally musical. Sybil Johnson is engaged by William A. Brady to play "Trilby." It will be remembered she made a sensation a few years ago by appearing undraped as Iza, the model, in the "Clemenceau Case." But that was before living pictures or bronzo statues were heard of. Mrs. Langtry will return to England early in May so as to attend the yacht races on her schoner. She will take Effle Shannon with her to- tour England in "Gossip," and will return to America next fall, when she promises to appear in an English version of "Caimlle," written by herself. Mrs. Potter, Kyrle Bellew, Mrs. Langtry, Charles Frohman, Jacob Litt, Myron B. Rice, Mr. and Airs. Charles Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, Marie Wainwright, Katherine Grey, Grace Kimball and Alf Hayman are among the theatrical people that will go to Europe and back this summer. Camille D'ArvIlle says that the reason she got that infernal machine, which some crank sent her last week, was because same person from Holland was angered at her changing her name. Miss D'Arvllle's real name is Neeljte Dykstra. Instead of setting a bomb for this change she should have been sent a bouquet. Marie Wainwright feels that she has accomplished something that is rather remarkable this year. She is the only American star that has appeared throughout the entire season in one play, "Daughters of Eve," written by American authors. Here and there she has given occasional matinees of "Camille." but to all intents and purposes "Daughters of Eve" has been the medium for the display of her ability during 1834-95. Henry Arthur Jones, the famous English playwright who wrote "The Masqueraders," "The Bauble Shop," "The Case of Rebellious Susan," "The Middleman" and "The Dancing . Girl," Is not one of those dramitists who think the actors that impersonate their characters are mere puppets. ''I gladly admit," he says, "that it would be impossible to overestimate the advantage it has been to my plays to have the -chief parts in them impersonated by such actors as Ecerbohm Tree, E. S. Willard, George Alexander. Charles Wyndham, and, from what I hear, Qenry Miller, John Drew and E. H. Sothern7' Senator Call's "Pants' Baltimore American. One of the best stories of the day Is one that William K. Curtis sends from Florida. It is about Senator Call, the iaol of the crackers and the uero of the stocking incident in the United States Senate. Curtis says Senator Call . makes an election tour through the State and always dresses in ragged breeches. -- Reaching an humble home he will put up for the night, and in the morning will say: T snagged my pants on the brush to-day, and I'd be under everlasting obligations if your good wife would mend them for me." Jn a day or two he rips off the patch and plays the same old game again. "The name of the women in Florida who have mended Senator Call's pants is legion, and it Is i...e proudest event of their lives." This story is good enough to be untrue. Woman's Courtesy Title. Margaret Deland, in Ladles' Home Journal. The use of the term "lady" is plainly courteous. Even when the street-car conductor cautions uf, "Don't get off. lady, till the car stops," or the cash girl wails at us. "Here's your change, lady," and we feel half impatient . and half amused, we .hardly know why, even then, we do realize, I think, and srpreciate, that it is meant courteously.. "Woman, here's your change," would be distinctly unpleasant, even though strictly true, and not meant to be impolite. There is, however, another terra which i3 coming more and more into use, which saves us either of these extremes. I mean the old, dignified, noncommittal word, "madam." "A conventional term of address," the dictionary declares it to be, "to women of any degree." With Each Purchase Of the special lot of high class sheet music, one extra copy goes free on Tuesday next at Wu:schner & Son's,. 43 and ii North Pennwlvftnla. street.

GOSSIP OF THE TOWN

INCIDENTS PICKED IT ALO.W THE BYWAYS OF IXDIAXAPdLIS. A Woman Solicitor Causes Speculation in the Xorth End A Local DWtillerr. Some of the people of the north and northeastern portion of the city have been somewhat exercised recently over the appearance of a woman in the role of an agent for a building and loan association. She has asked so many pointed questions, wherever she goes, that a suspicion has arisen that she is the detective of the county, gaining information) for the tax assessors. At the county offices it is denied that there is any woman out for that purpose, but nevertheless the persons who have met the woman cannot see what the answers to the questions she asks can have to do with the success of any building and loan association. When she enters a house she does not announce her business, but gives her name and Acts as if she had come to make a call upon the lady of the house. In the parlor she makes perself perfectly at home and does not mention her mission until she has chatted for a time on matters of everyday interest. More than one woman has been deceived by her, thinking her to be an acquaintance whose face and name is difficult to recall. After the woman agent, if such she be, has made herself at ease, she begins to ask questions and point out the good qualities of the company which she represents. At one place where she asked that shares be taken she was met with a blunt refusal. . "Have you any building and loan stock?" asked the agent. "Some," replied the woman of the house. "How much?" asked the agent. "Well. I don't er " "Ah, you don't remember," remarked the agent in a tone which implied that the person being questioned could tell if she would. "I do remember,! replied the woman of the house, "but frankly, I can't see that it Is any of your business." The agent was not squelched. She asked more questions and had to be asked to leave the house. At another place she was told by the woman that the latter's husband transacted all the bus-ness. " "You surely don't mean to say," remarked the agent, "that you don't know how your husband has his money invested?" The wife replied that business was -no worry to her. "Can't you tell me whether he has any building and loan stocK or not?" asked the agent. The wife replied no. After asking more questions, the agent withdrew seemingly much disgusted with the little business ability which some women show. The female agent asked the same kind of questions every nlace she visited and one or two husbands were vexed wnen they learned that their wives hau given information, whicn was no one's concern, to a stranger. . One day the last week a trust deed was filed at the county recorder's office by the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company, better known to the public as the Whisky Trust, for five acres of ground west of the city and south of the Insane hospital. ' The deed was but one of the many filed in this and other counties where the trust has property, and it was made at the order of the court, which directed the trust to deed all of its property to the receivers. It may not be known, but at one time In-, diahapolis had , the promise of being an ' Important whisky center. On the ground deeded-is an old dilapidated still, which has not been operated for years. The distillery was built early in the seventies by a farmer living west of tho city, and it j paid well for a time. - A 'two-story building was erected, which at present is almost ready to fall down. - It is now a favorite retreat for tramps. After the still had operated for a time It was purchased by a Cincinnati man named Feffer, who enlarged the building and increased the capacity of the plant. It is reported that Peffer made money and also manufactured a fair grade of whisky. He had no competition here, and, this being a good corn center, the business promised to grow. Mr. Peffer was on the point of enlarging the distillery again, and it is said that a company had been formed , to invest quit a sum of money, when the Whisky Trust was organized. . About -the r year. .1884 the trust commenced to buy up the small distilleries, and the property west of the city was taken In. It is not known whether the trust bought the property outright or paid Peffer for- keeping it closed. Anyway, it gained control, and ever since a still of four hundred bushels . capacity has remained idle. The apparatus is now almost worthless. The trust found It cheaper to buy the still or purchase its use than to have it running in competition with the distilleries of the trust. - - - - - They , had an Italian locked up at police headquarters for theft; He was an ignorant fellow, and could speak very little English. During the afternoon; a fellow-countryman of the prisoner called and asked to see him. The caller was as Ignorant of English as the prisoner. He approached Superintendent Powell, and In poor English asked for the privilege of speaking to his friend. Mr. Powell looked sternly at the caller and said: " "You may speak to your friend, but what . you have to say must be said in the pres ence or tne turnKey. men turning to tne telephone man Mr. Powell gave instructions that Al Talte be present at the interview. Mr. TafCe stood at the door and listened to the two foreigners talking; and he failed to understand a word. "I wonder what Powell wants me to stand here for. I don't know what they are talking about, and the bars keep them four feet agart." ' Telephone man Doss Shafer appeared at police headquarters one day the past week with ah ugly scar on his forehead. The other officers asked for an explanation. Shafer said: "I don't know how that scar came there, but it came while I- was asleep, and the dream I had was horrible. I thought something was falling. The sensation was the most dreadful I have ever experienced. It seemed as if there was a great weight hanging over me ready to fall. I saw It coming and tried to get out of the way, but could not. I never suffered more. I screamed and something struck me, and I put my hand to my torehead to find that scar. There was not a thing in the bed, and how that scar got there I can't imagine. I believe it was caused by my dreaming1 that something did strike me." Several of the officers laughed, but Shafer said he would take oath that he had told the truth. "O! Ah! I beg pardon, sir, but is the mon on the 'orse there the ladies' groom or her escort?" questioned a healthy-looking gentleman with florid face and side whiskers whose accent plainly showed his nationality. The question was asked of a passerby as a white lady and colored man cantered up North Meridian street side by side on horseback a few afternoons ago. When informed that the colored man was supposed to be acting in the capacity of groom, the Britisher added: "Beastly, beastly. Very Impioper form, you know. The groom should keep in the rear no matter how fast or how slow the lady pushes her 'orre. The only proper form, you know." and the gentleman from the country of proper form spoke with indignation at the queer things happening in this blarstea country. The Christian Endeavor Society of one of the leading churches of this city enjoys the reputation of being an active force in the matter of Christian society. Last Sunday evening after the regular services by tho society on of the members observed a young man and young -woman in close companionship, whose loneliness Indicated that they were strangers to all present. Animated by the spirit of Christian fellowship and desirous of aiding them to make acquaintances, a pleasant voiced young lady C. E. member addressed the couple and remarked in query, "You are strangers here?" Receiving an affirmative response, the young Christian said, "It agreeable tcr you, I will take pleasure in introducing you to our members. By the way, have you ever met our pastor, Rev. Dr. T' The young gentleman was slightly embarrassed and looked downward to the floor. His companion glanced to his face, but before a blush had a chance to enliven the situation, she recovered her coinage and replied.. "Oh. yes, he married us last Friday." OH Me OK My! On next Tuesday music given away at Wulschnel- & Son's. See their ad in tbia paper. ... ' . - -: " Great eale- of Diamonds at Marcy's. Watehes great Rale, this week at Marcy's. '

A $3,000 STOCK OF MILLINERY To be Sold Regardless of Cost or Value 2,000 bunches of FLOWERS at almost given-a way prices. Flowers at 5c, 10c, IBs, 20c, 25c and 50c. Ladies1 and Children's Straw Hats, 5c, 10c, 25c, and 50c. Fine Ribbons, plain andN fancy, cost 50c, 75c .$1.00; all 25c. , ? . OSTRICH TIPS AND FANCY FEATHERS AND STRAW BRAID FOR A SONG.

New Style Wrappers Have come in perfect beauties in Percale, Lawn, Mull, Sateen, Dfmity; very latest style and newest sleeve. $1.25, $1.48, $1.75, $1.98 and $2.25. Good Calico Wrappers, 57c and 75c.

New Silk Waists, $2.75 to $9.75. New Separate Dress Skirts, 98c to $10. 35c tip to $5. New Spring Capes, 98c to

1PAIP9 "You Open city. PARK PRICKS.. ...IOC, 20C. HOC "matinees Dally To-Morrow, Tuesday and Wednesday, "Two Johns" J. C. Stewart and Company of Sixteen. The original funny production. , Tbur8day-"HOSS AND HOSS." ENGLISH'S TO'viorrow Eue. German Theater Company, of Cincinnati, In Sudermann's Four-Act Drama, 66 lOffisTdn 99 Followed by a Grand Itlsiuartk Celebration. r-RICF.fi Orchestra and Orchestra Circle. SI; Dress Clrc-le and Balcony (reserved). Toe; Balcony (admission), 50c; Gallery, 25c. EMPIRE ONE WEEK COMMENCING TO-MORROW MATINEE, PETER MAHER Athletic and Specialty Company 10 BIG SPECIALTY ACTS 10. PETER MAHER Ireland's Champion. BILLY HENNESSY Boston Welter Weight. PETER LOWERY Ireland's Bantam Weight. Will Meet AH" Comers for Scientific Points. PLYMOUTH CHURCH Wagner Recital WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3. Miss Annie E. Griffiths, Soprano. W. A. Donley, Organist. ADMISSION ........ .23c PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Amherst Boys Coming The Amhernt College Glee, Banjo and Mandolin ' Cluii will give an entertainment at Plymouth -Church, TV K 8 DAY KVENING. APRIL -J. Admission 50 cents, with reserved seats. Heats on sale at Baldwin's. Friday morning. March i.".). PEARSON'S mSk piAisros Easy : Monthly : Payments Wim U H. ST., RDIHIPOLIS.

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ENGLISH'S SAT. EVE. NEXT. One Grand Concert! SOUSA'S MARVELOUS BAND! It is the hand of matchless Manhart an i'.er.ch. It is the baud of the great St. Louis Exjxwitiou. It was the great band of the World's Fair. It was the great band of the California Midwinter Expcwttion. It Is the crreat band of America and ST '.. of the world. It leadr W me maaneuc jonn VPrC- Philip Kiia. who made, the fame of the t. S. MartueJiand world-wide. As a band-master and a band comiKwer he stands alHla"AVashInKton Pct March" has xold by the million. . Hi ?Hlgh School Cadets" i a close second in the ra'e. His "Beau Ideal" i having a almply phenomena! sale His new and still more iular "Libert Hell," "Manhattan Heai h." and "The "lUrei toiute.' ure already in enormous demand. ' . . . Heme. am rtKhtrullv. I Sousa proclaimed the "March King." ami hU Irand without au existing rival. SEATS ON SALE NEXT THURSDAY. POPULAR PRlCEii Lower floor, "ic; balcony, 50; gallery. Sunday Jottntol,

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New Styles Boys' Suits Have come in pretty things for the 2-3-4 -ii-ti-year tots hi Junior, lleefer and Jersey .Suits, in fancy trimmed and embroidered Jacket $2.98 to $7.50. One special lot very lino Suits, were $7.50, go for $3.75 Two Junior Suits for Boys, 4 to 15, at....... $1.39 to $7.60 New Children's Dresses, 25c, 30c, $10. ILLINOIS AND. MARKET STREETS Y & CO. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY First Appearance in Several Years of AINWRIGH 1 "the success of the season" the brilliant Society Drama,

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Matluc Lower SPECIAL ENGLISH'S OPliMA The Elite Event of the Season! Bcgiiitiiiig Monday, April 8, THREE NIGHTS ONLY-No Matinee. The Reljrnlng Queen of Comic Opera, I SSELL AXD HER STTPEXPOrS COMIC OPERA CO. DlRKCTlON .AH15EY, SCHOEVFEL AND OUAlV lJKPEKTOIUE: mtaad . . THE GRASD DUCHESS KSS . . LA PERICHOLE . . THE ADVANCE SALE BEGINS NEXT THURSDAY AT 9 A. M. by Mail, 02 o Yesr

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