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MYSTERIOUS CRIME.
A Man Found Stabbed Through
the Heart at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND (O.), Feb. 13.-Peter
Gerbrandt, might fireman at the Shunt
Stamping Works on Hickox street, was
found dead in the boiler-room of the
plant early to-day, having been stab
bed through the heart. The crime is
shrouded in mystery.
The motive for the crime evidently
was not burglary, for Gerbrandt's
money and watch We're found on his
body. Appearances indicated that the
murdered man made valiant strug-
gle for life.
The only clew found was a woman's
knit fascinator, which was lying near
the body.
The theory advanced by the police is
that Gerbrandt may have been hold
ing clandestine meetings with the wo-
man, and that lover or husband wit
messed the meeting and killed. Ger
brandt. The murdered man was 40
years of age, and had wife and three
children.
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National Council OF Women.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 13.--A binding
snowstorm did not prevent the meeting
of the National Council of Women at
the Church of Our Father to-day. About
fifty ladies were present. The session
was devoted exclusively to business
matters, the report of the President,
May Wright Sewall. being the princi-
pal feature.
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Two Divorces Granted at London.

LONDON, Feb. 13.-Baron Carl de
Merck has secured a divorce on the
ground of adultery committed by his
wife with her maids brother. The
Baroness was formerly Miss Lillian
Young, and is said to be an American
woman.
Francis c. Barring was to-day award
ed a decree of divorce on the ground
that his wife had been guilty of adul-
terry with his cousin the Hon. Reginald
Thomas Dudley Brougham, brother of
Baron Brougham All the parties to
this suit are well known in society.
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Authorizes the President to APP
prove by Selection and Promo
tion an Admiral Of the Navy,
Who Shall Not be Placed Upon
the Retired List Except Upon
His Own Application, the Office
to Cease Whenever Vacated by
Death OF Otherwise.
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Smallpox at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13-The Health
Officer has several suspects under
quarantine, but there are no cases or
smallpox reported. Patients Mt tha
pest house are all recovering.
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Pioneer of Marysville Dead.

MARYSvILLE, Feb. 13.-Colonel Ed
ward woodruff, a pioneer resident, died
last night He was plaintiff in the
famous Injunction suit brought against
the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining
Company in 1881. 1t was decided by
Judge Sawyer in his favor. He leaves a
son. DR.. E. H. Woodruff, who resides In
San Francisco Colonel Woodruff was
born in New York in 1924.
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CONTINUED on Eighth Page.)
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NEW YORK, Feb. 13-The storm
which has been raging since Satur-
day night increased in violence to-
day, becoming a thorough blizzard.
Snow fell all day and is still coming
down. A bitter northwest wind drifts
the snow in clouds. The street cleaning
department. after struggling thirty six
hours to clear the principal streets.
gave up entirely, even surrendering
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abounds in lewd, lascivious and libidinous
dialogues and situations and Is unfit TO be
produced In a first-class theater or else
where. and the play as actually produced
contains laScivious and libidinous dia-
logue; such situations are represented and
the attention of the public is drawn to the
character of the play by the defendants
in the advertising columns of the public
press advertising and representing the
said play to be naughty. BY the produc-
ton and representations of the play the
reputation of the theater has been greatly
impaired, and if it shall continue to be
produced or represented at the theater
the reputation of the theater as a first
class theater would be permanently de-
stroyed and It's value greatly impaired, as
will also be the value of the California
Hotel, situate in the same building with
such theater and which hotel as well as
said theater belongs to these plaintiffs.
Upon hearing the petition. the Judge i'm
mediately issued q temporary lnJunctlon
and the case was assigned to Judge Heb
served upon Manager Friedlander at AN
p. m. and Immediately there was sour
rying among the theater employees Hur-
ried conferences were held with the Mac
donoughs and their agents, Friealander
summoned his attorneys, but the box Of
flee was never closed.
At o'clock the theater was in dark
ness, although the foyer was dimly
lighted and the sale of tickets went stead
lily on. Manager Friedlander paced up
and down the lobby. anxiously awaiting
word from his. attorneys. Mr.. Baldwin,
the Macdonoughs' agent, came in and the
two held a long consultation.
At 7:3o the doors were still closed and
the theater was dark. Holders of tickets
stood about on the sidewalks and dis
cussed the prospects of getting their
money back In case no performance was
given. but the uncertain outlook did not
deter others from investing. On the con-
trary, the line leading to the box office
constantly heightened and it was, indeed,
truly cosmopolitan crowd. Blase young
men about town jostled gray-haired old
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SCENE FROM 4CT II OF II he Liars"

+. j. Morgan, who plays Edward Falk-
ner the lover. Mr. Morgan we knew for
| an actor of immense promise when he
played here at the Baldwin a couple of
seasons back. Now he has made that
promise good and must be reckoned
among the big ones. He had the part
last night, a part that in the usual first
rate company might readily be made
subsidiary to that of Sir Christopher
Deering, played now by Mr.. Miller
But with Morgan as Falkner, I don't
think the actor acts who can make this
young man play second fiddle.
1t is no reproach to Mr. Miller to say
that the lions honors fall to his young
colleague in this play; indeed, it is
rather a graceful triumph of another
sort for Mr.. Miller that they do, and a
generous tribute to his actor manage
ment.
Morgan's performance is an occasion
for adjectives. He has the presence, a
fine natural presence; the voice, rich
and companionable and now under
surer control than in the other days:
the intensity and repression and mag
netism and authority of his art; and the
almost divine quality of being always
human on the stage. He has fewer
tricks and greater effect than any other
actor that l have seen in seasons His
PRESERVATION in this piece is simply
sensational in it's straightforwardness
and IN its spell.
AS the squire of DANES" of the
piece. Mr. Miller played in a surprising
ly light and graceful vein. He was es-
pecially good in the scenes with Nor
gan where a certain amount of strenu-
Gus sentiment was called for.
The leading woman, Miss Margaret
Anglin, showed great delicacy and
keenness in the part of the hayward
wife. She has few personal blandsh-
ments, but she has the magnetism and
the tact that win. Others in the cast
who must be at least listed for admira-
bic work are Blanche Burton, Marie
Derickson, Charles Walcot, Frank E.
Lamb and Louise Thorndyke Bouci-
cault Yesl Mrs. Boucicault, who still
poses and ogles and makes a vizor of
her front hair, but who, nevertheless,
made a mentionable study of the hero
ines worldly sister.
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THE TURTLE" cLEANsED OF FILTH BYLEGAL PROCESS

n ECENT people may attend the Cali
| fornia Theater now without qualm;
| for the French comedy now on the
boards there is quite a delightful
little performance to what it was on its
initial presentation Sunday night. 1t is
only half a Turtle now, as it We're.
Not a shock, not even blush is left in it
and moral San Francisco may so openly
and boldly to see it without fear.
But will San Francisco go now?
Judging from the comments of the
seemingly disappointed audience that
filed out Of the playhouse last night at
the close of the abbreviated performance
with its elongated costumes. it would be
safe to answer that question in the mega
tive.
Yesterday was a day of expectancy, of
injunctions, of dissertations on morality
and art and what not in local dramatic
circles. The public awoke to find that
a real uneXpurgated, up-to-date French
play that New York has relished for two
years steadily had been transplanted in
their midst, and instantly the public
prepared to descend in a body upon the
box office. Later there were circulated
rumors that the play was to be sup
pressed and shade of disappointment
oVerspread the male public's features
even as the public voiced approval OF this
step in the direction of decency.
Not until afternoon was anything
done. but then a petition was filed in
Judge Daingerfeld's court by Agnes NJ.
Agar, Joseph NJ. Marlborough and VIII
liam OBJ. Macdonough. by their attor-
neys asking for an injunction restraining
s n Friedlander, William Bogen and
Harry D. Parker, Harry Elmer, Ulric B.
Collins. Charles b. Burton and others
from producing the play known The
Turtle at the California Theater. The
petition sets forth that the plaintiffs are
The owners of the property. that the play
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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Casimiro and Mary Antonioli to Dina Essen
bach, lot on line of Union street. 37:6 w of
Laguna, w so by 100; SO.
City and County Of San Francisco to Roman
Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco P. w.
seph avenue (extended) $50 of Turk street
and 100 " from E line of St Joseph avenue
Jennie c. or Jennie and George E Sexton to
William j. and Anna Krase. lot on w line of
Fair Oaks street, 122 N of Twenty-second. N
Orvile c. P. Cioodspeed, Annie A. Stanford
and Jennie NJ. Snowgrass to William F.
Thompson. lot on E line of Howard street. 125
n of Twenty-fourth, n 80 by E 1926 quit
claim deed; IS.
Estate of Lucy c. Goodspeed Cby D, suli-
van. executor, and o c. Goodspeed. admins
TRAITOR to same, same; $2105.
Hebrew Home for Aged Disabled "a corpora
tom and Morris Dettiebach to Jacob f. Lewis,
lot on line of Twentyfifth street, so w of
York. W % by n 1O4; $500.
Merssa C. Whitney to Elizabeth Dean. lot on
S line of John street, 1SS w of Powell. w % by
S GO, quitclaim deed: $40
James and Elizabeth Dean to Anton Robricht
Jr. same; SO
Mary Friedman to Isaac Friedman. lot on f
line of Larkin street, 100 n Of Pacific. N 1915,
E 1875, S 77:6. W So N 40. w $50; $40.
line of Federal Frederick street, 1872 SW of
First SW % by NV so; SO. )
Maurice Balm to Henry and Anna Lehman.
lot on w line of Rhode Island street, 1868 n
of Napa n % by w 100; SO.
E. B Pond and H. c. Campbell (trustees
David Jacob to San Francisco Savings Union.
1887 346, lot on line of Point Lobos avenue,
26S W of Twenty second avenue, w 1874 by S
100 trustees deed; $1,000.
Benngna Bauer to Henry and Lizzie Buehn,
lot on W line of Naples street. $50 S of China
avenue, S % by w 100. block A. Excelsior
Homestead So
II. w Taylor to Ruth S. Taylor. all real es-
tate in San Francisco County gift
Gaetano RATIO to Clemente Lombard lot on
s line of Shields street 80 w of Vernon, " 80
by 100. lots 90 and 80. block 10. City Land AS
ISOLATION; s275
William NJ and Laura NJ Fonda to Seth
Thomas Clock Company "a corporation), lot 20.
block 10, Market Street Homestead: $40.
Edward j. LIE Breton to Jennie M. Snowgrass
(wife of r. b 1895 m 2S2. all interest in estate
of Lucy c. Goodspeed, probate No. 1853. $l10o;
also 1867 26s. same $500; $40.
Alameda County.
Catherine L. Reilly to Regina Reilly, lot on
NE corner of Eighth and Adeline streets, e 40
by n 1875. block $40, Oakland: gift
Mary E. McCloskey (Burns) to James Burns,
lots 10 and Il. block A, Hemphill Tract, Brook
lyn Township; $500.
Winifred Maoney to Daniel Curry lot on E
line of lands OF Winifred Maloney wife of
Peter), 267 of Charming way, 49, w so.
n 80, E 50 to beginning, being portion of
lot I, block 3, College Homestead Tract Berke-
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BY ASHTON STEVENS.

The Liars" is. I believe, described as
a comedy of manners. 1t is that with a
vengeance, and still it is something
more Under all its glittering modish-
ness runs a stirring heart story A
strong man, man Of character and
conscience, loves for all that is in him
u woman who is another mans wife,
and does not finally possess her; and
she goes back to the husband she de-
spises.-Gonventions conventions of
the society in which we live-Mrs.
Grundy-in other words manners-do
the trick. A smooth, worldly gentle
man of easy resources intervenes,
paints a plausible picture of conse-
quences (social damnation and all that
sort of thing) and the lovers separate.
He Will give her up for her sake, she will
do as much for him. And so they sepa-
rate he to go TO Africa, or some remote
place where he has already performed
half a noble mission; she to go back
to the man whom she despises. Comedy
forsooth. This is a tragedy of man
ners.
OF course there is lots of comedy in
it, brilliant comedy. and intrigue, and
lying, that cannot but present a comic
aspect; but the only character that
comes to the surface with violent Sc
robustness is the man who loves; and the
other characters are very cynical, even
when they are sympathetic-but the
tragedy is there. The happy ending
that will be reveled in by moralists and
other specialists in cant. is really no
happy ending at all The stage is
swept clean with the falling of the last
curtain, but in your mind are the desc
late, unsatisfied futures of two miser-
ables
The play was a late one and l have
little of the night left in which to detail
the acting at its proper value. To
bunch things. the acting, the seeming.
the stage management were splendid.
There was a hint of nervousness in the
opening. which is perhaps the most
diffuse and least vital portion of the
whole play; but that was soon over
and then the performance ran on oiled
wheels.
The individual victory was scored by
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* UCCESS was written all over the
Columbia Theater last night when
the curtain fell on the first act
~ of The Liars" The company
showed itself to be all that
Charles Frohman and Henry Miller had
promised; the play opened as big as
its reputation-which is very big-and
more than made good as the night wore
on; the audience-well. the audience
was worthy Of the play and the per
Torrance. and that is saying a great
deal, and it filed the last seat in the
house. Altogether the night was a
triumph. and not only are the play
ers and promoters to be congratulated.
but the people of San Francisco. as
well-the educated, fastidious people
who for a long time now have been
making it their business to abstain
from the indefinite pleasures of play
going. With this company and this
list of plays, we are in luck indeed,
and in behalf of the readers Of The
Call I take off my derby to the open
ing Of the Miller season. Step up
ladies and gentlemen. step up, and see
this production Of THE Liars and I
think that you will bear me out.
First comes the piece, an almost
model gem in modern play writing, the
nearest to the impeccabe that Henry
Arthur Jones has ever accomplished A
droll paragraphist once wrote-whether
in jest or earnest l do not know-that
Oscar Wilde had had an important
hand In the writing Of The Liars"
cannot hope to cope with that compli-
ment. To say the play is not Wilde's
is only another way OF saying that
Jones is not yet the brightest comedist
Of manners since Richard Brinsley
Sheridan | do not know that Mr.
Jones is even an Irshman to start
with. But he is certainly dazzling in
this piece and a much more telling
somebody than the Jones" we knew in
the earlier plays He quits the preach
er business in The Liars" He handles
modern society-weH. at closer range
than he used to do and with more
conviction. He takes less account of
middle class prejudice, convention, even
cynicism and gives Us an urgent pic
ture of contemporary life as it might
easily exist that is both entertaining
and moving.
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TiVoli.

Clever acting and excellent singing went
with the champagne music of Lecocq' $
The Daughter of Madame Angot.'
Oracle Plaisted's Clairette was Frenchy
enough and frisky enough TO please an
exacting critic, and Tillie Salinger looked
so pretty as Mile. Lange-that the audi
ence We're surprised that Phil Branson
did not make love to her at a more furious
pace. There was a host of volunteers
part on the slightest provocation. There
was plenty of ginger in the opera and II
went off with a snap and readiness that
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men old men with no hair at all: a
few, very few women were there, but
heartily wished they had followed their
sisters example and bought tickets ear
lier.
At a quarter to s. when the ticket
holders were showing unmistakable signs
of Impotence, Manager Friedlander came
downstairs from his private office and gave
a sign to his assistants who were in wait
ing. Instantly the doors were opened, the
lights turned on and one of the largest
crowds the theater ever contained began
to file in. Every seat was sold down
stairs and upstairs and 1T was not long
before they were all occupied Then came
another wait. The orchestra did not file
in and the people wondered what was
going to happen next. Everybody knew
about the injunction. and everybody i'm
( agined that the management was trying
to run some sort of a bluff on the
court
But it wasn't: it had merely secured a
dissolution of the injunction on the under
standing that all the Objectionable fea-
lures OF the play would be eliminated. 1t
was only after many conferences that this
concession was secured, and. not until 7:3O
did Judge Hebbard dissolve the Injunction
lout of chambers on that agreement Mr.
Friedlanders attorneys, however, finally
obtained the order and hurried to the
theater. Then it was that the doors were
opened.
1t required some little time [, carve
The Turtle so that IL could be served TO
the satisfaction of the court and San
accomplished. however, and at $50 the
overture struck up. The audience not
pectantly, though fearful that a squad of
Deputy Sheriffs would break up the per-
Torrance at any moment. But nothing of
the kind occurred. The management kept
its agreement 20 the letter. and when the
curtain fell the audience departed feeling
that it had bought gold brick
For THE Turtle" as dished up to them
was fiat and insipid to what they had ex-
pected.
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were delightful. Frank Coffin made his
debut as Trenitz and received a warm
welcome-one which he soon proved he
deserved Edwin Stevens. in the small
part of Pomponnet. the barber, and Will
liam Pruette as Larivaudiere were up to
their usual excellence and there was re-
greet that the restrictions of their roles
SO little acting to do. The opera is well
staged and costumed and its presentation
Is a credit to the TiYoli.
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Alhambra.

The Lambardi Germany repeated its ex-
cellent performance of Lucia" in the
Alhambra last night to an enthusiastic
audience. "Ernani' will be given tonight
with Avedano. Barducci, Ferrari and
Travoglini in the cast.
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between Tacianu, the female imperson-
ator, and Fred Niblo, the monologist
That Tfcianu is an artist in his line there
can be no question. He sings both So
prano and barytone, excelling possibly as
soprano. Fred Niblo comes with a
string of stories both new and old (mostly
new). but in either case he tells them we'll.
The Wartenberg brothers have novel
act combining acrobatic feats and music
The best of their work, however, is their
foot juggling. Hanley and Jarvis go fair
ly well, but might have more modern
jokes. Houdini continues to be the sensa-
tiona feature. Others on the bill are
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The Chutes.

Stanley and Scanlon, musical comedians.
extracted all sorts of music from all sorts
of instruments at the Chutes Theater last
evening, the flying Banvards tossed
each other from one side of the building
to the other, and Mr.. and Mrs. Keesing
changed their songs. The rest of the bill
was p0od
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Grand Opera-House.

'EI Captain" was revived with signal
success by the Southwell company at
the Grand. The recentness of the former
production makes an extended review I'M
necessary. Enough to say that the same
strong production was given.
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tombstone Bennett, Henri French and
McAvoy and May.
Alcazar.

Lewis Morrison, assisted by Miss Flor
cnce Roberts and the Alcazar Stock Com
pany. presented at the Alcazar last night
1.-The Master of Ceremonies which had
such a successful run on Its first produc-
ton last summer. The cast was the same
with two or three exceptions and nothing
was lost by the change. The two princi-
pals met with flattering reception and
tain after the close of the second and
third acts. The support was excellent.
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Olympia.

Querita Vincent scored a hit at the
Olympia last night. Arrayed in the most
dazzling costumes ever seen on the Olym-
livered her "coon" songs and buck and
wing dances in a way that won many
encores. Herbert and Weston came in for
a goodly share of the audiences enthusi-
asm, and the same fortune favored the
La Rose brothers,
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Orpheunn.

OF the new people at the Orpheum last
night honors were about evenly divided
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

NEW WESTERN HOTEL.
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L Fiuks. Wash J p Campbell.
Mrs A Eastman. Idaho II Hall. Sacto
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II Plat Napa r E Broe. Chica.
l. S Johnson, MERGED j Peterson. Chic
Mrs Henry. Livermore Miss Nj Brown.
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PALACE HOTEL.
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F Barbour, Cal Lady Udney. 10
3 Stahl. n Y NJ Segin, SactC
w H Abbott. Chicago A F Jones. Orc
Mrs F Burke, Gilln, Butte
Miss Burke, n W B Turner. 3
f Burke. n Y Mrs Turner. Bo
A Burke, \ Mrs Paul. Engla
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Mrs Epperly. Portland " A Frost, Chic
f w Schmidt, Astoria Mrs Frost. Chica
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