Catoctin clarion., 1899-11-09
FORD'S GRAND OPERA HvUSE.
Week Noy. 18th. Another laughing nov.
city, the merriest of modern comedies
MILE FIFI.

Week Noy. 18th. Another laughing nov.
city, the merriest of modern comedies
Nj L Z FIFI.
Eight months at the Manhattan Theatre
New York. Fifty consecutive per.
formances in Boston.
mile Fiji" the merrest of modern comedy
successes importations will be the laughing
attraction at Ford's week November 18th &.
This captivating French farce has had re-
markable career Of success in this country.
In New York ii ran eight months crowd.
ing the theatre nightly and in Boston was
no less enthusiastically received during a
brilliant engagement offifty consecutive per
formance.
Mile Fiji" was adapted and arranged for
American production by Joseph Grsmer to
whose effective work may be attributed the
enormous vogue of Way Down East" "a
Fair Rebel" Humanity etc,
The story deals with the amusing yicissi-
tudes of loving but extravagant young
couple, deeply in debt, the young wife is lett
an inheritance to which she can only sue
ceed upon her widowhood or Divorce, neither
Of which she is desirous of obtaining, but
desperation drives them to the expcdient of
divorces which they will forgo as soon us
the money is obtained, the complications are
roarngly amusing, their plan is accidentally
discovered, and the fun continues thereafter
to the fall of the curtain.
TIE echaractcrizations are delightfully."- drawn
and charmingly interpreted such artists rs
Marie Wainwright, Alice Judson, jeanette
Lowrie, Dore Davidson Thomas II. Burns,
and others.
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday,
Admission 2J and so cents.
Week Nov. Goth. First time here the
famous comedy success THE CUCKOO"
From FAR OFF MANJLA.-.We have before
us a copy Of The american, a daily news
paper published in Manila, P. /. II is No.
217 of Volume II, and is therefore about 10
months old. The paper was sent to Mrs
Emma X Rouzer by her son, Charles, ma
rine in the U. s. service now at Cavile: Mrs.
Rouzcr has also permitted us to read two let
ttrs written by her son, the first under date
September 7, on board the steamship "City
of Sydney" at Yokohama, Japan; the second,
under date September 22nd, at U. s. Naval
Station, Cavite, =. l.
Mr.. Rouzer's two letters are brimful of in
terest and written in vein that cap,ivates
the reader He has promised THE CLARION
one or more for publication and we more
than regret that we are not privileged to give
these two to our readers; we will place moth
ing before them this week of equal interest
or merit in the way of general information
on subject that is now prominently before
the American people. He is one ofa second
detachment of marines sent to the tPhllip
pines to form regiment. He expected then
(Sept 22) to be sent out on the firing lines
In few days, For this duty each man will
carry one hundred and eighty rounds of am
untion, rubber blanket, two khaki uni
forms, two suits Of underwear and besides
only what is absolutely necessary.
The american, referred to above, is pub
lished daily except Mondays and days fol
lowing bank holidays; the copy at hand DC
ing that of Sunday, September Gath, The
subscription price of the paper is $s a year
single copy cents. AS a purveyer of new
it is first class; as an advertising medium i
is calculated to make the publisher OF
Frederick County country weekly greer
with envy. We find Painless Dentistry" ii
practced thereof course by an American
ginger beer and Automatic Bluet1ame Oil
stoves, along with American canned fruits
brooms, tomato catsup, Kentucky bourbon
whiskey and Anheuser-Busch beer; tire
dozen prints of the latter costs from 81 to 50
The U. s. pension agent is already cstab
lished there, the attorney and the doctor an'
the fact that every advertiser has the great
est possible number of things "American" ii
his list of wares, goes to prove that in Ma
Mia at least, the name is popular.
Mr.. Rouzer met in Yokohama some of hi
former comrads on the Columbia and int
mates the possibility of seeing some of tn
Thurmont boys in Manila, as 'this old worl'
is so small" He likely will meet one of ou
bows over there as Lieut. Lee Landers of th
4lst expects to be ordered to the Philip
pineB.