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Kernan,s Lyceum Theater.

1.-THE Blue Bleods'' will be the at
traction at the Lyceum Theater all next
week. commencing with the usual Monday
matinee. The names Of the people COM
posing the company are so well known that
they need scarcely an Introduction to the
patrons Of the Lyceum Theater. The girls
Of the company are said to be an excep-
tionally pretty and talented lot, and with
the clever comedians OF the organization
serve to present an entertainment that
is . bright and pleasing. The en-
semble Is introduced in two up-to-
date burlesques, entitled 1.-THE Blue
Bloods at Paris and "Wu Ting both
Astounding IN catchy music and specialties.
They will be staged with fine settings, gor-
geous costumes unique and brilliant cleo
trical and handsome calcium effects. The
olio includes the Three Nudos in their SEN
sational trapeze act, "a La Charmion;'' Van
and Engstrom, singers and dancers; Sulli-
van and Huested. versatile comedy sketch:
Cooper and Reynolds, rapid fire comedians;
Carl Anderson, Illustrated songs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
"Under Two Flags"

The Ouida love story Under Two Flags"
which mas been so successfully dramatized
by Paul NJ. Potter, and the heroine of
which. the impetuous, passion-swept Cigar
cite, is played by Blanche Bates, is just
concluding its second long triumphant run
in New York city at the Academy of Music.
1t will be brought here by special train and
presented for week at the New National
Theater beginning Monday evening. April
% As is already known. Under Two
Flags deals with the love romance of the
Egyptian girl. Cigarette. and handsome Ber-
tie Cecil Of the guards. One of the nota-
Bile scenes of the play Is the sandstone in
Chellala gorge, where Miss Bates rides a
horse up the steep sides of the mountain
and is saved from the Bedouins by the
timely interference of a fierce sandstone.
Nothing like this sandstone has ever been
seen upon the stage. A strong company
assists Miss Bates
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
CHINESE EDGED AN ACTOR.
Celestial Edwin Booth Meets With
Rather Forcible Criticism

From the San Francisco Call.
The artistic temperament is, perhaps.
more highly developed in the Chinese thea
tergoer than in his American counterpart.
1t certainly was manifested strongly
enough last night. for Chew Foo. the great
Chinese star who recently came to this
city, after winning the highest praise from
the critics of the Chinese press In New
York was pelted with decayed eggs and
then made the target of innumerable light
ed hrecrackers. all because he failed TO
dress the part he was playing in a proper
manner.
Chew Foo stands In practically the same
light to the Chinese playgoer that Edwin
Booth stood to the English speaking public.
Yet there were occasions in the career OF
that great actor, when he played Hamlet
arrayed In a long frock coat his head COW
cred with a silk hat, in place Of the raven
hair of the mad Danish prince. There is.
however, no record that the audiences did
not make full allowance for delayed trains
and washed away bridges, which were the
causes of the lack OF costumes.
Hundreds of instances might be cited OF
indulgences shown by American audiences
to actors who failed to dress the parts they
were playing they should be dressed.
There are instances right in this city where
but never mind, these cases have nothing
to do with the riot which took place in the
Washington Street Theater last night be-
cause Chew Foo wore the dress OF a young
man when he should have worn that OF an
old man.
Sergeant Conboy was there. He is always
there when any trouble arises In China
town, but he cannot tell the cause Of the
row. He saw Chew Foo on the stage. For
a moment no one in the audience moved,
and then pandemonium broke forth. There
were yells and catcalls I'm Chinese, and then
a fusillade of Chinatown eggs began. The
eggs that a Chinaman will thrown away
are beyond description. Just plain. ordi-
nary stale eggs they eat and profess to
like. These had got beyond that stage and
were only fit to be thrown away. Chew
Foo got about a bushel basket OF them.
After that the men In the audience began
to throw lighted firecrackers on the stage.
To those outside the theater IL sounded like
half hundred men engaged in pistol prac-
tice. and word was sent to police headquar-
tiers that half of Chinatown was engaged
in battle. murder and sudden death, and
that the war of the Tongs had finally
broken out in real earnest.
Half a dozen policemen were rushed TO
the theater, only to find the place resting
in perfect peace. There was no noise, no
disturbance. and the play was going
smoothly along.
Perhaps twenty men are today nursing
sore heads and broken pates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
what Happened to Jones.

Harry Corson Clark. the we'll known conn
edian, will be the attraction at the Column
bia week after next. presenting undoubted-
~ one Of the best comedies the American
stage has ever had. What Happened to
Jones'" Mr.. Clark's methods as comedian
are well known to our local theatergoers
He played several engagements in this city.
and is regarded as the successor to the late
James Lewis, who was the principal COM
edian OF the Augustin DAILY Stock Com
pany.
"NNhat Happened to Jones'. Is guaranteed
to keep an audience laughing for two hours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
Human Hearts.

Human Hearts" will be the attraction at
the Academy of Music during the week of
April D. The various characters chosen
by the author to reveal his intentions are
woven into action that in itself has va
riety, and is alive with such elements as
rivet the attention. The play is clean, clear
and clever, and the fact that ii is in the
fourth season, warrants the statement that
1t has lasting power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
Union Calling Guards.

The Chase bill for week after next COM
prises the Union Calling Guards, Mcintyre
and Heath. the Serenaders, Elizabeth Muir
ray, Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Fields, the Aglos
Trio, Joe WEIGH and Macomber and En-
g.eton. The Union Calling Guards is a
company Of expert handlers of the gatling
gun, who appear in a thrilling and realis-
tic war scene that is said to provoke the
greatest enthusiasm, as the act is a scenic
and costume reproduction of an actual bat
tie epiSOde.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
Academy of Music.


AT the Academy next week Happy Hoo
Hgan,' that up-to-date musical farce COM
edy, will be interpreted by specially Sc
lected company of stars. The scenes are
the pen sketches of that famous caricatur-
list. F. Opper, the book by Frank Dumont.
The superior scenery Is by Gates 6, Mo-
range of New York, who have prepared al
most every production for Mr.. Hill for sew
eral seasons past, while that master hand,
Dazlen. the celebrated Parision costun1er,
has furnished the costumes. These are
facts which must bear sufficient weight to
insure fine production. The scenes are
laid in New York Central Park, everything
true to life. New and special novelties will
be introduced during the action of the
comedy, by the well-known artists, Ross
Snow. Whelan & Otto, Halliday & Quinn.
Joe Mitchell. Wilfred Gardes, Maggie Wes-
ton, the Pan-American four, Carrie Ezier,
Adelaide Marsden, Dora Price and others,
all of whom go to make one of the strong
est and most refined and catchy comedy
companies ever organized. The play Is a
succession Of laughs from start to finish,
and the novelties are original and complete,
specially prepared to suit the up-to-da te
taste Of the theatergoing public. chorus
of thirty young and pretty girls are intro
duced In songs and dances.
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The Stage kiss.
|ca1o interiors;

From the Chicago Inter-ocesn-
The dim misty past has been relieved Of
another anecdote concerning James O'NeiIl
which is worth the space.
II seems O'Neill was playing Romeo to
Adelaide Nelson's Juliet one time at Nc
Vicker's in Chicago. 1t was the lady's
custom In the final act. when she bends
over Romeo's body. to kiss the empty air
instead Of Romeo himself. Once MI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
Circus.

Sells Brothers and Forepaughs Circus is
scheduled for this city April 80 and May L.
An exhibition is announced that will be
worthy the combined regulations of the
famous showmen whose names are asso-
ciated with the enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

and a half. 1t is estimated that u.s. 900 peo-
pie saw Jones during its run of thirteen
weeks In New York Mr. Clark has sur
rounded himself with a most capable COM
pany and the costuming and scenery will be
adequate in every WAY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
Lafayette Square Theater.

The success of "A Midsummer Nights
Dream has been such as to warrant it's
continuance as the attraction for next week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19
Chase's Theater.

Captain Woodward's performing seals and
sea lions in their astonishing 'circus Of the
sea" will continue to monopoiize attention
at Chase's Theater next week. Captain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Mrs. Alice Shaw. the whistler, and hel
daughter Elsie are both confined to theii
home in New York as the result OF a fall
down a steep flight of steps at a Harlem
play house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Ellie Fay was always an enthusiastic at
tendant at the races. She sent regrets
to the officials of the Aqueduct race tract
on the opening day of the spring meetin,
last Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

So far as examples are encouraging young
actors may take consolation from the case
of Edwin Booth. When he made his first
regular stage appearance he was the direst
kind of failure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

THE Old Cabin Home is the title OF a
| new play of southern life written by II.
| Grattan Donnelly, which has been pur-
| chased by Jacob Lift for production next
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

play Baron RonellL Mr.. Morgan will re-
the season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Mrs. Langtry revived Sydney Grundy'
The Degenerates' IN London during the
week
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ABIDE

Nance O'Neil has scored big success at
Cairo playing "Magda."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Paris publisher has been sued by a
couple Of French actresses because he dared
to print their ages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Tom Sharkey, the pugilist, Is preparing
to be monologue entertainer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Clyde Fitch. the playwright. sailed for
England last Thursday. Before leaving for
the other side Mr.. Fitch bought back a
play he had sold to Anna Held and another
from William Brady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Edward J. Morgan will appear as David
Rossi In Hall Gaines 1.-THE Eternal City
during the early part OF next season al
part of Viola Aliens support in that play
Frederick de Belleville has been engaged K
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

The piano pupils of Miss Florence Ball,
assisted by Miss Saddle Herbert and Mr..
Rome c. Sheke In vocal numbers, were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

"Pudd nhead Wilson Is to be produced,
says rumor, in London this spring by an
son. Arnold Daily, Jane Oaker and Ada
Dwyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Toby Claude will have the role Of Fiji In
THE Chinese Honeymoon" when 1t is first
produced in New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

Marie Celeste was forced to relinquish
| her place in San Toy" during several days
of the week on account of illness, her part
| being taken by Elgie Bowen.
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with applause at the rescue of the heroine
or the discontinue of the villain he
stamped his feet, clapped his hands and
jumped UP in his seat in very ecstasy of
delight.
The waves of conclusion that may be
said to have rolled around that package
of dynamite might have been sufficient to
explode a million tons of It, but the fact
that just under him was enough of the ex-
plosive to have blown up large section of
the neighborhooo did not worry him bit
Just why that playhouse did not soar on
the winds of the heavens and the throng
Of playgoers find themselves instantan-
eously removed from their present sphere
of action can never be explained-that is
one of the queer things about dynamite. 1t
will do the same thing ninety-nine times
and something entirely different the
hundredth.
When the play was over and the shout
ing and the tumult had died the hired man
picked up his dynamite and boarded a train
for home
Did he find out that he had been fooled
and had brought home brown sugar or clay
or something of the sort, as might be
thought from his many escapes? He did
not! Next day he blew up the rocks. and
the dynamite was just good dynamite
and just as lively as the best dynamite
ever manufactured
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The Newspaper Gets There.

In the course OF a recent lecture in Hart
ford. Conn, on THE Making of a News
paper. Charles Hopkins Clark, of the
Courant, said:
How are you going TO get at the public I?
Mail them circulars, and the waste bas-
kets In 1000 homes give each a weary
yawn, and the circular disappears unread.
Call upon the people and explain the
merits Of your wares. The sign our
Busy Day, hangs In business Offices: in
private houses you must ring the bell.
Oftenest you are turned away If YOU
get In by any shrewd excuse you cannot
go beyond the hall or reception room-you
are quietly watched in the interests Of
overcoats and umbrellas.
But put a cleyerly worded advertise
ment OF these wares in a newspaper that
mas an established circulation in the
cltys homes and business houses and ses
Wnat happens. You couldn't get in there
yourself. but your advertisement is there
on the breakfast table i'm the library in
the parlor. In the sewing room and when
everybody Is inquiring for the paper which
can be found. IL is very likely doing duty
on the quiet in the kitchen. In is an over
Ine mouse and wanted there. You are not
similarly: In the Office IL is read and re-
read and part of the use OF This is our
BUSY Day sign is to get the chance TO
read the papers. And IL Is interesting
10 note the advertisement has another than
a commercial use 1t is printed for BUSH
ness purposes pure and simple but il is
often read as news
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destrians right and left with a 'swagger
stick and calling 'CommissiOnairer which
gave the populace TO understand that they
were to give way for a United States Of
ficial''
On their voyage home the ship in which
General and Mrs; Wright sailed was caught
in a terrible typboon which lasted from ?
o'clock in the afternoon 10 II at night with
undated violence. Mrs Wright gave
vivid account OF how the wind swept the
upper deck until IL became necessary for
eight sailors 10 make a chain down the
stairs and carry the passengers, including
herself. down the passageway while they
chung to the rail Her description of the
scene in the room, where all the passengers
were gathered in terror, was full of power
and deep interest since IL concerned so
nearly the safe arrival in port of General
and Mrs. Wright. whom the whole country
waited TO welcome, and for whom many
hearts were beating.
1.-THE fate OF poor All Sing. our faithful
servant. was truly tragic" said Mrs
Wright. He had bought for himself such
fine clothes-had even gone TO Shanghai TO
get them-and then TO be refused admis-
sion was a pitiful fate. His summing up of
the situation is that the Americans would
take the Chinaman 10 their heaven but not
to their country"
Mrs. Wright expressed herself as I'M
feignedly glad TO be at home again. and
certainly looked so i'm spite of her fatigue
Her enthusiasm over her husbands work
Is delightful. and her outlook on the social
and economic situation in the Philippines
too broad to be encompassed in one inter
view
light to her friends. and one is Immediately
impressed on meeting her with the woman
ly charm and refinement that distinguishes
her bearing and conversation. 1t had not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23
When Schwab Bought a Paper.

New York Letter in Atlanta Constitution.
The doings of Charles NJ. Schwab in
Europe recall to mind story about the
head of the steel trust that has not yet
full weekly paper in New York now which
would not have succeeded had not Mr..
Schwab. entirely without security. put
money into it.
1t happened that young man who was
working on the paper, at very small sal
airy, was sent to interview Mr.. Schwab.
After the interview Mr.. Schwab said:
never heard of your paper before"
of course not, replied the reporter.
Few people have, and it's great pity.
ing well handled. III they woulo do TINS
and this and that and that" mentioning
certain things which he thought might i'm
prove the paper lit would win"
The ideas were novel, and even to Mr..
Schwab, who knew nothing of the publi-
cation business, seemed eminently prac-
teal.
why don't they carry these notions
out?" asked Mr.. Schwab.
Il don't KNOW. said the reporter. i've
tried TO get them to; but they either dom
want to or haven't got enough money"
Would you carry them out IL YOU owned
the paper?" asked Mr.. Schwab.
Certainly l would" said the reporter.
Schwab.
The reporter smiled.
Why. how could 1 buy 1t on a salary of
SIS week.. he asked. Its hard enough
TO . BUY board and clothes"
Ill help you buy it," said Mr.. Schwab.
Find out all the details and come and
tell me about them"
The young man, doubling but anxious In
neglect no opportunity, furnished the facts
ried out. Noi
The paper is now one of the most proft.
able weeklies in America.
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HIS FIRST PLUNGE IN OIL.
Good story of the Early Career of
John I'D. RockefeIIer.

St Louis Republic.
Out in Western Pennsylvania more than
thirty years ago John ID. Rockefeller. bill
lionaire now, then a poor merchant, took
his first plunge in oil. He took it literally,
too, for he was immersed to the waist in
a mixture as black coal tar and smelling
as strongly as the numerous refneries of
petroleum that Mr.. Rockefeller has since
been instrumental in scattering throughout
the United States.
Prior to making this visit to the Penn
sylvania fields, Mr.. Rockefeller had dabbled
a little in oil. but he was not thoroughly
convinced that ii had a great future. He
departed for his home in Cleveland pro-
fOundly impressed by what he had seen,
and began at once to enter actively into the
oil market. His companion of that day,
who recently died at gainesville, o., at
tributed il TO the fact of Mr.. Rockefeller's
amusing mishap. He simply got into oil
and he couldn't get out" was the manner
in which Mr.. Rockefeller's first visit TO an
oil well referred to.
Franklin Breed, now deceased, well known
in the early days of the oil excitement in
Western Pennsylvania, and for the last few
years enjoying a wide acquaintance in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-23

Literary Bulletin.


The ex-President of the South African
bargain with the publishers of his memoirs
lehman. of Munich. Nighoff. of Holland,
and Unwin, OF LondOn). He Is said TO have
received in all at least 100000.
Michael Davitt in his history of the
South African war. 1.-The Boer Fight for
Freedom" adduces this trait of thriftiness
in Mr.. Kruger's character as an explana-
charge against him of corruption. he says:
1.-The gold of the Transvaal, which has
made millionaireS OF Mr.. krugers bitterest
enemies. has also, doubtless, enriched the
President and many OF his friends. Mr..
Kruger sold a farm, named Geduld, near
Boxburg. in 1SSS, for $4,000. 1t is now
worth millions TO its purchasers. He divid-
this sale among his numerous children,
gave certain sums to churches AID loaned
$4,000 to the TranSVaal treasury on the
very eve OF the war-not penny OF which
has yet been paid back. When leaving
Lourenzo Marquee for Europe. in 1900, he
took with him sum of only $4,000.
''Other Beers sold rich farms; the land
covered the richest gold reefs in the whole
world was owned by burghers and was
purchased from them by more fortunate
spectators. Possibly Mr.. Kruger has in
vested some of his money well and wisely.
Rumor asserts that the late Queen Vic
toria's savings were similarly set aside The
Presidents salary was E7.0o0 year, while
in keeping with his whole career, would
not draw upon more than one-tenth OF that
salary annually. Here there is another evil
dent source OF accommodating wealth. which.
when taken into account with the income
already referred to. would explain the
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THE EARTH DO MOVE"
Visible Demonstration by the Repeti-
ton of an Old Experiment.

Paris Letter in London Telegraph.
This afternoon COct. 22) a sort of scien-
tifc fete was held in the Pantheon. In the
presence of the minister of public instruc-
ton a representative of the President Of
the republic, and other Official persons.
seated on red velvet chairs. and over
thousand other guests grouped around on
benches, an immense pendulum was set
swinging to demonstrate that the earth re-
wolves on its axis. This is, of course, the
famous experiment of Foucault, with which
every schoolboy is familiar. 1t furnished.
in 1851. the first ocular proof of the earth's
rotation. The Astronomical Society OF
France had arranged to-day's scientific
fete. The proceedings began with speech
by NJ. Camille Flammarion, the popular as
tronomer. tn minister OF public instruc-
ton having also addressed the spectators.
then applied a lighted match to a thread,
which held the pendulum aloft on one side.
By this means IL was assured that the
movement would take place with mathe-
NAUTICAL exactness in one plane. The pen
dulum consists of BAH of lead weighing
twenty-eight kilos, fixed at the extremity
of a piano string, 72-l00 of a milimeter in
diameter, and sixty-four meters long, which
depends from the center of the dome Of
the Pantheon. When the flame of the
match had severed the thread as stated the
penuulum swung ma1eStlcalIy amid the APP
plause of the spectators The ball OF lead
bore sharp knife, which cut small heaps
of sand as il moved backward and forward.
At each swing of the pendulum a fresh line
was traced by the knife i'm the sand The
plane in which the pedulum swung re-
naming invariably the same this proved
that the earth beneath had i'm the mean
while revolved. The experiment was con-
Quoted exactly as IL had been first carried
out by Foucault fifty years ago IL will be
renewed twice again this week for the BEN
eht OF Parisians who may still refuse TO
believe that the earth turns on its axis
Some doubt exists as to the spot where
toucault carried out his experiments both
the Pantheon and the observatory being
mentioned in this connection. Ii is how
ever. pretty well established that, although
Foucault exhibited his pendulum in both
these buildings, his first trials were made
In his own house. situated at the corner OF
the Rue q Assas and the Rue de Vanguard.
The owner OF the house which now stands
on the site has affixed plate to the build
Ing with the following inscription: ION
TINS spot rose the house where died on Feb.
IL, 1863, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, MEM
Der OF the institute, who was born in Paris
on Sept -, 1919. 1t was IN this house that
In ls5l he carried out his first experiment
demonstrating the rotation of the earth by
observing the movements of pendulum"