The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-08-24

ager had agreed with her conclusions
wanted. But there is no possible chance
that anything Of the kind really hap
pened, and Lady Francis Hope undoubt-
edly compromised for a much smaller
sum than she originally named.
Miss Grace George (Mrs: W. A. Bra
dy), who has just returned from q trim
which embraced nearly all the important
parts of England and continental Eu-
rope, has some very decided views about
the famous Passion Play of Oberammer-
gau.
1T would be atrocious and blasphe-
nous to attempt to produce the Passion
Play in America with the commercial
sense uppermost in the minds of the pro-
Queer. said she yesterday. 'In the
quaint little German settlement the Pas
sion Play is purely a religious ceremony.
1t is SO regarded by the performers and
by the inha bitants. 1t is only the strag-
Cling visitors to the town who have any
money making idea in connection with it.
Every one of the seven hundred and if
ty actors in it looks at the thing with
only religious fervOr.
Il myself was struck with the same
sort OF reverence and awe as must actu-
ate them. To me it was series of pic
lures showing the life and death Of
Christ ihe music is not very inspiring
or beautiful, but it seems to perfectly fit
in with the ensemble. To this you have
natures own scenery-real mountains
and meadows and woods forming the
background for the production. I don't
thing there is an actor living who could
play the role of the Christ as did the
humble; and tly-lcoking wood-carver
was the picture of the Christ without the
use of wig, false beard or grease paint,
and all the other characters We're as fit
tingly played without those aids
palatial clubhouse to cost 100000
is to be built as the outcome of a move
ment begun tWenty-seyen years ago to
provide the boys of the crowded tene-
ment district on the east side a place for
healthful exercise, social enjoyment,
reading. instruction and recreation. Any
boy, by the payment of l cent week,
may join the Junior class and enjoy the
privileges of the Boys club. which be-
gan with a membership of SO and now
includes about 600 youths on its rolls
The structure will be built at Tenth
street and Avenue a, fronting upon
Tompkins Square park. The building
will be five stories in height. The roof
of it there will be constructed a court
for handball, while chairs and settees will
occupy the remaining space. This will
afford place for the members Of the
club to take refuge from the heat on sui
try summer nights. The facade of the
building will be Of ornamental brick
trimmed with stone, and the structure
1925, 1000 will be spent in fitting the in
terror. Athletic training is one OF the
principal features of the club.
a statement has been made that Mrs.
Yznaga had written to her dearest friend
at Newport-which might mean either
Miss Leary or possibly Miss Maria de
Manchester would marry Miss Helen
Zimmerman, the daughter of Eugene
Zimmerman of Cincinnati. Miss Zim~
norman is utterly unknown to New York
society. She has been at the Astoria,
and other hotels with her parents for one
or two winters. She is the niece Of a
Miss Effie Evans, who has been connect
not be out of place to say that Miss Zim-
norman has been doomed q little by her
relatives. and that it was absolutely af-
frmed from some mysterious authority
last winter that she was engaged to a
Mr.: Johnston, who came out with the
Duke of Manchester as a secretary. and
then was absolutely denied This Ell
gagement to the duke is an old story
and it was telegraphed from Paris in an
equally mysterious way some weeks ago,
when it would have looked as if the
source from which it proceeded was very
near to the Zimmerman family. Mrs
Yznaga, who is in sunny Tennessee, prob
i! ably read the account there. The
Yznagas are not ardent correspondents
and possibly the rumor is based on this
state of affairs. The Duke is not very
we'll known in New York, but interest
| is taken in him on account of his moth
| er. He has been engaged number of
times before, and he likewise has been