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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Rtouuctlon OF cinderella" at the California
s,noa neater on the 18th inst. The cast includes
TSn NJ eII-known children as little Rosina
TAT nneIy, little Gustave Levick, little Gus
lie ba tele ateI Jimmy Horn, little Nina Cook. lit
Ei te DAISY Grogan, little JENNY SAWYER little
~ ioSsy Sy sawyer, little May Lawrence iittis Mel.
'-e sawyer aud little Alice Condor, -
nl.,, &c WOOD says Of Chauncey Olcott's new
raa.s sweet Inniscarra'': "When a man has
snrra,s r1,eu 'he melodramatic point at which he
uglv Lus 81 Us himself with beautiful doc t1yo
women tIeh' several pretty but ineficient +
OF whoro ~ .t great manv mediocre men nj
for him - iurns aAe turns in creating opportunities
OF har.o " slhg songs, he has reached a SIaoe
mia Happy vanity from which no go q, sLage
oF any other person will nnve hi1, " -
star - Aceu that Louis James is the only
and tbnAS visiting the coast this season
canoe uioeinent carries its own sienifi-
visited tho easoh several traeedians of note
other ot nI coast, and several - Sr,as - 80 % Iio1e "
OF all thess enealers offered classic drsma
tlnctly successful Sihehts only one was dis
ance thai of = u ut rom the point of attaDd
H., ina, Oh Louis James Tbi oo oi atteiiu- i
1tai llnli teo the numhar oF sSaspu MT
ana selected the one LIS lass OF
Inc hiaiVelous acrobatic clown pob,
the Ola d1ppoorome, was oroa .I4, aC
Parls, ana MS letter-box each -, tuoA Vi
crammeo with billets-doux from bjs aa-s was
Ohe oay last week some sailors 6Sboa --I1 0-
bToKen-down wretch out of the Sninu Sneu poor
boathook and after drying him sent n9 with a
MS business. Next DAY he crawled ipto ~
police station and begged for food - INTO q
1t was poor Behamo Riches fsrnn aaa shelter.
mirers had all forgotten him ~ anu ao-
moral about all this somewhere - d
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during the season. and made something
OF one OF them-the role OF the old Re-
gisseur in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" His
Chancellor IL "Magda" was not a happy
effort Mr.. Osbourne did not seem to have
any mental grasp of the requirements of
the role On the opening night he played
the Chancellor as "solo' character study.
without regard to its bearings on the other
characters in the play; later in the week
change came oer the spirit of MIR. Os-
bourne's dream, and he made the ChanciI-
ior less bourgeois and banal, which was a
distinct gain to "Magda" as a whole.
The Regisseur in "Adrienne" Is one of
the richest, juiciest parts for the portrayer
OF elderly roles in the whole range of
standard drama. 1t gives unlimited scope
for the exquisite touches of tenderness,
pathos and truth to nature, which are the
highest prod uot of French art. and though
Osbourne was far from playing the Regis
seur with the finish of Coquelin, he sue
ceeded in giving a stikingly honest and
sincere rendering of the role. The way in
which the house broke into applause when
be stood at the wings and clapped the
imaginary performance at the Comedie
Francaise showed how he swaved his
audience.
am watching with deep interest the
struggle between Gustav Walter and the
popular vaudeville taste in music Mr.
Walter longs TO be musical missionary
he has not confided the fact to me, but
by their fruits We shall know them, {"
and Walters visit east has borne fruits in
musical turns" that soar above the cafe
chantant style. Vaudeville audiences
proverbially do not want natural voices,
bel canto, or such musical nonsense as
virtuosity of any sort. What they want
is something freakish and cute; if it is
seasoned with dash of suggestiveness
so much the more attractive. As for a
singer who can sing, vaudeville audience
is not supposed to have any nse for him,
and phrasing, correct intonation, musical
expression, and other trif1es of the kind
would be repudiated by most vaudeville
artists with an eye to business. The sort
of plima donna that a music hall
audience wants is dashing young person
in abbreviated skirts, with voluminous
chiffon lingerie, who chortles, more or less
true TO the key, about tho advisability of
keeping the grass green on Willie's
grave, or tells, in grating tones that
Mother Was a Lady"-a statement by
the way, which 1t requires good healthy
imagination to swallow, udging from the
appearance and behavior of the daughter.
If mother was lady, what would she
have said to the abbreviated skirts and
the chiffon lingerie2
1t is mystery to me why people who
are always severely critical when they go to
grand opera or symphony concerts invari-
ably clap their hands and stamp their
feet with delight at vaudeville show.
when Miss Triptoes chortles about her
mother being lady, full half-semitone
off the key, and in voice harsher than a
bnzzsaw. 1t is 8 fact though, that diet
tanu and artists, too. whose opinions are
respected and looked up 10. give them
selves airs at symphony concerts. and
say OF some great virtuoso: "ohi he's ef-
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An Enterprlsing Actress.

Margaret Mather has spent large por
ton of the money she got from young
Pabst, her one time husband, on q gor.
geous production of "Cy beline" at Wal
lacks. The actress intentions were evil
IDENTIFY so artistic that the New York pa
pers have treated her very kindly, but il
one can read between the lin es neither
Henry Irving, Daily nor the Tabors have
any cause to tremble for their laurels,
though the production was more costly
than any they have shown TO New York.
Like the great Sarah Bernhardt. Miss
Mather was her own stage manager, though
she had a little assistance from Eugene
Pres bury. She also bore the burden OF
the acting on her own shoulders. E. J.
Henley seems to have made greater hit
than anv other mem Der OF the stars S sup
port. A grandson and a granddaugh ter
of Lester Wallack appeared in minor roles.
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Columbia Theater.

"Chimmie Fadden,'' with Charles Hopper
in the title role, and the company whi h
supported him in New York, will open an
engagement at the Columbia Theaier to-
morrow night. This play was one of the
few emphatic successes of last year.
While the scenes are all laid in New York,
and many OF the characters belong 10 that
famous locality, the Bowery, still 1t is said
that the story has been so well told and
the types so well chosen, that the piece
may be appreciated and understood bv the
residents of any American city.
Charles Hopper. in the title role of
Chin mie Faiden." has plenty of oppor-
tuntty for displaying his versatility. At
one time he has 10 make love with all the
ardor and intensity of leading man, and
at the next moment he dances a Jig. An
other piece of Characterization that won
the unstinted praise of the New York
critics was the work done by Marie Bates.
The company includes George Nash, John
Flood, Will Cowper. w. H. Sheldon, Bar
ney REYNOLDS. Harry Rswlins, J. R. Fur
long, Sydney Price, Beth Franklin, Bere-
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Baldwin Theater.

Louis James engagement at the Bald
win Theater commences tomorrow night
with revival of Robert Montgomery
Birds famous play "Spartacus, which
has not been seen here for years, not since
1t was played here by John Mccullough
in the old stock days.
Fifty people are used in the production
OF the play and the company Is headed by
Guy Lindsey. Alma Kruger, Florence
Everett, Collin Kcmper and w. A Lincoln
are also in the cast. DR.. William Sprague
who left San Francisco TO join the James
Company, is said to have made an excel
lent impression in the role of Lentulus
During the second week of his engage
ment James will present his new play,
MY Lord and Some Ladies'" as well as
Shakespearean ncharactelizations
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XGT2HEN the history of contempo-
NhfSo rary drama comes to be writ
WN!N ten San Francisco will be
pioudly set down as the town that
Helene Modjeska loved best. It was San
Francisco that first recognized her talent,
and when, after nearly twenty years of
triumphs. the great actress, enfeebled by
a long and wearing illness. wants to try
her pinions again, it is to San francisco
that she comes as to an old friend. And
what an ovation awaited her! They say
the American public is fckle and loves
iavorites, but did the reception on Mod
jeske's opening night-the reception that
made her shed tears-look like fickleness
The actress was eble and worn and
timid on that opening night, as il she
doubted herself and her powers. and,
moreover, she had chosen TO appear in
"Magda, part which is not her best
But as the week went on and the public
continued to rally round her Mod ieska
gained courage. and on the last night OF
the first week she shone forth with all er
old glory in "Marie Stuart" Since then
there has been no doubt about the succs IS
of the Modjeska season. The Polish act
ress has shown once again that her great
est roles are those calling for pathos,
dignity and tenderness, such as Marie
Stuart and Adrienne. She is cast, both
mentally and physically, in too fragile
and delicate mold to make a convincing
Magda or great Lady Macbeth, but her
reading of both parts is full of interest for
students of the drama.
The stars supporting company "did
itself proud, " considering that, with the
exception OF Haworth, it was made up of
beginners and actors of local fame. Lon
ergan made the best record, for out of four
important parts he interpreted three wit
skill. These three were the rector in
''Magda. Macduff. and the Earl o Leices-
ter in Marie Stuart" His Marshal SAKE
in "A6rienne Lecouvreur' was hampered
by the Queen Anne costume. Lonergan
did not know how to wear that trying
garb; few actors do. They may look like
emperors when they wear togas, they may
win the devotion of matinee girls in Eliza
bethan costume, and they may be mis-
taken for belted earls in the dress of to-day.
but nine-tenths of them shrink into utter
insigniticance when they are put into the
costume that prevailed at the beginning
OF the last century. 1t is one of the pret-
tiest styles of dress in The wardrobe of his
tory. but for man to wear it gracefully
seems to be a lost art.
In "Adrienne" Lonergan gave me the
uncomfortable impression that his Mar
shall SAKE costume was too tight. He wore
red boots, red coat and face to match
and every movement seemed to be
achieved at the eminent danger of break
ing something. Stevens, who was manly
and heroic In Macbeth" wrestled with
the difficulties OF his "Louis XIV" costume
even less successfully than Lonergan. II
princes at the court of lie Grand Monarch
looked and walked and talked like that,
Voltaire's pen must have been guided by q
more rosoate Imagination than the nine
teenth century society editors.
George Osbourne had two opportunities
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richs symphony orchestra. Mile. Ire.
belii is touring under the direction OF
Vert Haurwitz, one OF the best-known
firms of impresarios in Europe.
The following programme will be per-
formed:
PART L.
Prelude, "Hansel and Gra.el" Humperdink
Cavatina from Semiramide, .'Be. Ragg 10" .Rossini
Mile Trebel-
loiIco
(al Prelude (o) Minuette. (c) Adagietto.
Id Carlton.
Song, "Lol Hear the Gentle Lark" with flute
Mile. TrebellL
Interval.
PART II.
In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of
Schubert's Dirt thday, born an usry 81, 1897.
(G) Entr'act, "Rosamun Ie": (b) Moment
Air oe salome, from sHerodiade,T Ii est doux
Ii est bon.--.- -Massenet
Mile. Trebell
DdHbc 1n bCAOre. rdtnI-o us
solveigs song. from Ibsen's Peer Gynt- Greg
Mile. 1rebelIi
Ballet music. from Lakme .Delibes
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ance till they do like it," So the Orpheum
audiences this week, in addition to the
regular variety turns. are being nourishe d
on Hungarian baIu, and on the singing
OF Guile, who year ago was driving his
manager to despair at the Baldwi with
his caprices OF primo tenore assoluto of
the Tavary opera troupe. Next week the
orpheum is to have grand opera quar-
tel, and shall not be surprised at any
thing IN the musical line hereafter, even
at finding the Orpheum announcing Wag-
ner cycles and HandePs oratorIos among
its attractions. But will Gustave Walter
ever be able to make vaudeville lovers
admire singing more than chortling? He
is bold man and deserves success in his
missionary eff ort. May he achieve it.
MARIE EVELYN.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Tomorrow night Gillette's funny COM
edy 'The Professor" will open weeks
run. Il was seen here some years ago,
and at that time was received with con-
siderable interest. The author has taken
Tor his plot the story of a man OF learning
who Is SO thoroughly wrapped up in his
studies that he foreets the little details OF
lie, with the result that he becomes en-
tangled in a most amusing manner to the
audlence, but a very complicating one for
himself. While at summer hotel near
boston he unconsciously makes love to
every girl stopping at the hotel and en-
cages himself 10 marry each one.
1t is stated that there will be bevy OF
pretty girls in the play 10 represent the
characters 10 whom the Professor makes
love, including Juliet Crosby, Gertrude
Ildbal, Edith Cook, Sue Blanchard and
Bertha Foltz, who will De seen in the
unique character of Daisy Brown. a child
OF the woods, who becomes the "speci-
men" and wife of the hero
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Tivoli Opera-House.

Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp" has
caught the fancy of theater-goers. and is
drawing large audiences at the Tivoli.
Ferris Hartman, J. J. Rafael, Rhys
Thomas, w. II. West, Maurice Darcy, w.
II. Tooker, Fred Kavanagh. Arthur Boyce,
Master Jack Robertson, Elvia Crox Sea
brooke, Bernice Holmes, Josie Intropedi,
Anna Schnabel and Jennie Stockmeyer
are entertaining in the various roles as.
signed TO them.
Several of the ballets are very taking.
series of revivals of Gilbert and Sui
livan's favorite works is in preparation
also production of Nicolais comic opera,
the merry Wives of Windsor"
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A California Actress.

Miss Pearl Berry, who has temporarily
joined the company at the Grand. is said
to be one of the types of native beauty in
California.
Her debut as an amateur was made in
1890 at B'nai Birth Hall. After an engage
ment at the Marquam Grand, Portland, Or,
Miss Berry devoted her time to the serious
study of her profession. Miss Berry has
an engagement as leading lady with one
OF William Brady's companies and leaves
for the East in March. Her many friends
and admirers predict a brilliant future
for her
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At the Chutes.

Weather permitting there will be BAL
loon ascension and parachute drop by
Emil Markeberg this afternoon and the
Hagihara troupe of Japanese acrobats
will perform on the big stage at the foot
OF the lake both afternoon and evening.
<Brown. the one-legged bicyclisr, and Ord
way, the trick rider, will also give exhipi-
uons.
pictures every night, and the roller skat-
ing-rink is open continuously. rain or
shine
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AT the Orpheum.

This week Guile will sing Goun cd S
Ave Maria" accompanied by Miss Nina
de ST. Hubert, a young local violinist.
Abra, Zebra and Vora, European equi-
liorists of relown, and John and Bertha
Gleason, young novelty dancers with a
record OF success in New York, are the
new features for the programme, and
Ward and Curran, the funny singers, will
continue in their eccentric act. This will
be the last week of Bessie Clayto the
boneless dancing wonder; the FrantZ fam
lily OF male and fem ale acrobats and Arnold
kiralfy's big ballet The Royal Hunga-
rian Court Orch stra is establishing a
strong clientele of music lovers.
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Grand Opera-House.

"a Mile Minute" a melodrama with a
strong comedy strain is 10 be given its
first production tomorrow. 1t tells the
story of a miser murdered by his greedy
son. Through five acts of excitement, the
complications caused by this base deed
run on and at last the parricide is pun
ished. There are to be some interesting
scenic effects that it is promised VIII in.
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Brice Testimonial.

A testimonial benefit will be rendered to
D. w. Brice by the Garrick Club in Native
Sons Hall. on Mason street, on the 10Th
inst. The club will perform the popular
comedy, "Little Puck" with music up to
dae. d. w. Brice organized the club
which counts in its ranks some of the best
amateur talent in the City.
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tensify the interest materially. Among
these s the pursuit OF the fleeing villain
by the hero in special engine that dashes
across the stage at full speed. Lorena At
wood has been engaged to play the
heorine in "a Mile Minute" John j.
Pierson is cast as the miser's wicked son.
The Phoenix Quartet has been specially
enga, ed 10 sing and the funny knock
about Four will appear for the first time
in comic songs and eccentric dances. The
strength of the regular stock company
will appear in the cast.
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Native Daughters of the Go,s,

Mrs B. Bruce, second vice-president of
eoden state Par, PaTlo+ t.6s1as having gone to Prescott
and Mrs. NJ. Randall was elected to fiji tba -
cancy. At the last held meeting of this NO
lor three candidates were initiated and ia.
are still several applications to act upon.
last Friday for San Miguel, San Luis Obisno
County, for the purpose of institutlng a new
parlor there.
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Italian Opera.

AZ the Bush-street Theater tonight the
italian Musical Society will repeat its
successful performance of lie Educands 9
di Sorrento" recently given.
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Trebelli Concert.

Mile. Antoinette Trebelli, the famous
soprano, begins her American tour on
Tuesday at the California Theater. when
she will be supported by Gustav Hin.
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The Eastern tour Qncluding Canadian Gen.
ters) OF Mile. Trebelli is now being arranged.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

JUST opened. 25 pieces alI-wooI eta ,
menes, latest shades, 75c yard. City Of
Paris.
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Alcazar Iheater.

nice Wheeler, Irene Vlsncourt, Fanny
Denham-Rouse and Marie Bates.
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fective enough, but tricky, you know, very
tricky in his playing. Joachim would
never have phrased it like that" And at
a vaudeville show these same connoisseurs
go into ecstasies delight when Weary
Willie-looking person stands on his head,
and in that position fiddles Home, Sweet
Home" or gentleman in red plush and
spangles knocks a faint and tremulcus
stanza of "Ben Bolt' out of row of beer
bottles.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Caroline Miskel Hoyt was the guest of IL
New York Sorosis at dinner last Friday.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

So many good actors are going into the
variety business nowadays that some good
dramatists compelled to go after them,
and writing sketches is their little specially
The amount of money they receive for them
is very large, and so it ought to be, to CORE
spond with the salaries OF those who play
them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Gustave Walter has evidently said to
himself: This thing must end; if music
hall audiences do not like anything more
artistic than chortling and freak virtuosi
they must be made to hear better music
as part of the regular vaudeville perform
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

The Heart OF Maryland may extend 1t
Chicago engagement.
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Odette Tyler has completed her novel and
it will soon be published. 1t is story OF the
South.
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Drew will bring Rosemary" to the Baldwin
this year.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Richard Mansfield has turned over the play
1.-THE First Violin" to Charles II. Meltzer for
a lite rationS
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Coque in seems to be no nearer to finding a
draw for the Porte st. Martin, for George
Ohnets "Colonel Roquebrune" is doomed,
just as have been CCquelin's other six at
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Marie Bates, whose impersonation of the
bibulous Mrs. Murphy in "Chimmie Fadden"
is regarded as a very clever characterization,
attained her earliest fame as Topsy In uncle
Tom Cabin.p
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One of the reasons why Fanny Davenport
did not secure 'Spiritisme," the latest play OF
Sardou, was because sarah Bernhardt stipu-
lated that she would not create the leading
role in Paris If the foreign rights were sold
to her American rival.
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w. n. Crane will have q series of new pro
ductons to show when he comes to the Bald
win this year.
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Miss Laura Millard, who is singing at the
Caste-squsre Theater in Boston, will shortly
rejoin the Tivoli Opera-nouse Company, ap.
pesring as Mrs. Ford in a production OF
NicolaPs merry Wives of Windsor"
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Great preparations are in progress for the
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07
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Miss Tidbell, one of the Alcazaras debutantes.
1s showing considerable aptituoe for the career
she has ch hosen. She is San Francisco girl
and a graduate of Mills College.
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Dramatic Brevities.

Drew will bring Rosemary" to the Baldwin
this year.
'The Heart of Maryland may extend Its
Chicago engagement
Caroline Miskel Hoyt wss the guest of the
New York sorosis at dinner last Friday.
The Eastern tour Gncluding Canadian GEN.
ters) OF Mile. Trebelli is now being arranged.
Odetre Tyler has complet ted her novel and
it will soon be published. 1t is g story OF the
South.
Richard Mansfield has turned over the play
'The First Violin" to Charles II. Meltzer for
alterations.
w. n. Crane will have series of new pro-
ductions to show when he comes to the Bald
win this year.
Amelia Bingham has been engaged by
Charles Frohman to play the leading part in
Two Little Migrants"
The Grand Jury has indicted Oscar Hammer
stein for giving burlesque called the "Sily
Dinner" at the Olympia.
Smyth and Rice have cleared a profit of
$21 900 in "My Friend From India" and still
the shekels come rolling in
j. E. Dodson asserts that theater- goer who
is philosophical can overio look almost anything
except womsn'S high hat
Annie Russell has been engaged to create q
part in Madeline Lucette Ryley's new plav
soon to be presented in New York.
E. A. Barron has received an oroer from
Julia Marlowe Tabor for a three-act romantic
drama. Mr.. Barron is now in London.
Marguerite Merrington is putting the finish
ing touches 10 "Polly's Jack" and will give
David Belasco the manuscript by March !.
"Angeline, the Circus Queen" the new circo-
opera spectacle which the Tivoli will present
alter Easter, is new departure in the opera atic
field.
Won Suppe's bright operetta, Lovely
Galates" Will precede Gilbert and Sullivan's
Patience" to be presented shortly at the
Tivoli.
After having tried to marry off Maud
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Amelia Bingham has been engaged by
Charles Frohman to play the leading part in
Two Little Migrants"
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-07

Adams to Charles Frohman, the gossips no,v
have it that Richard Harding Davis is the
lucky man.
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Modjeska and her supporting company will
leave this morning for San Diego, where the
stars tour begins on Monday night. Alter
playing that city Modjeska appears at Los
Angeles, Fresno, Stock ton and Oakland.
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lot OF English horses are expected to ar
rive in New York very shortly and will be
used in a racing play. This causes Charles A.
Bigelow to observe that the imDnrtation of
foreign talent is driving the American actor
out of the profession.
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The Grand Jury has indicted Oscar Hammer,
stein for giving burlesque called the "Silly
Dinner" at the Olympia.
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Smyth and Rice have cleared a profit
$2l 900 in 'My Friend From India" and sti
the shekels come rolling in.