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THE NIAGARA ICE BRIDGE.

1t is said that not more than third
of a piece Of ice VIII float above thst
surface. but the Niagara ice bridge is OF
such wonderful construction that thei
data applicable 10 other rivers cannot bel
applied 10 it, Admitting that only hairl
the thickness OF the structure IS reveal
ed by the 50-fOOt crevassss. that would
make the bridge 100 feet thick. Sound
ings taken of the river at the point
where the bridges form show that the
depth OF water there is about $50 feet. a
depth ample enough TO allow the bridge
being 100 feet thick but hardly leaving
channel enough to carry of the down
pour Of water over the falls Thus il
is probable that the thickness OF the
Niagara ice bridge varies.
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FRENCH Y. M. c. A. BRAncH.

James Stokes recent gift which W q
provide for the proper housing OF Il =
New York Y. NJ. c. A work for Frenc Z.
young men. brings toward fulhllmenE
the purpose he formed when a boy, o
show an Americans appreciation q N G
noble service Lafayette rendered Is thi 5
repuhlic in the hour Of its greatest neecL
This was the beginning OF Mr. Stokesf
general interest in the young men
France. How much this interest Ia s
grOWn IS seen in the magnificent build :
ing Of the assOcia ton IN Paris. and hi s
constant service in connection with IN :
worlds committee. and in establishinfs
assCcia tions in Rome and ST. Peters
burg This building in New York city
will be an adequate home for the F'renchl
branch of the association.
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FAVORITE CAPTURES
THE FEATURE EVENT
Margin Brady, at odds-on, Leads Field
In Long Beach Hurdle
Handicap.

ASCOT PARK. Los ANGELES Cal.
March 26.-The weather was clear and
the track fast this afternoon.
Summaries:
First race-Mile; selling Dug Martin,
to /. won; FalmerO, to l. second
Chemist. to l, third. Time, 1:43. Bas-
Sanio. Little Secret Innsbruck. Legal
Maxim. The Covenanter, Sherry, and
Major Hooker also ran
Second race-Eleven-sixteen of a
mile; selling. Estado, II to 5, won; Rose
Leaf, TO l. second: MeteOra, TO /,
third. Time. lee. Jack Richelieu jr
Ttoleta, Ragnarok II Constantine Fem
Fem, Aunt Gertrude and Golden Ivy also
ran.
Third race-Slauson Course: selling
Jim Hale 2 to l. won: Dunbar. 10 TO l.
second; Rodan, even. third Time, 1:102s
NanOn, Ultrada. and KtnlOch also ran.
Fourth raSe-Long Beach Hurdle Han
dicap; mile and three-quarters Margin
Brady. 4 10 5. won: COnnel. 3 to l. sec
ond; DR.. Worth, to I. third. Time. 3:22.
Cambacerss also ran
Fifth race-Eleven-sixteen Of a mile
selling. SceDter. 3 to I. won: HindOO
Princess. to !. second; Wager. y to J.
third Time. 1:085z. McFlecknoe. Mill
tary. Japalak. Profitable, Geisha Girl.
Lady Usk, and Monstone also ran.
Sixth race-Afile; selling. Invietus. 10
I. won: Jingler, 3 to J. second; Merwan,
TO l, third. Time. LAB. Headstrong,
Red Damsel. and Erne also ran.
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=WS AND GOSSIP OF THE DAY IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS
Funds Badly Needed
For Georgetown Crew
Prom" at New Willard March Is to Raise
Money For Rowing Heroes--DistnctiveIy
a University Function

Every effort is being made by the
Georgetown Alumni and undergraduates
to make the university prom" at the
New Willard ballroom on April 1S. for
the benefit of the crew. a success. both
socially and financially. This is the
fifth year that the Blue and Gray has
been represented on the water, and as
the rowing association is without any
regular revenue except the membership
fees Of the students. the dearth Of funds
has been sorely felt.
Last years remarkable showing at
Poughkeepsie. when the local colleg-
ians finished second to the Cornell eight
and rowed away from wisconsin. Penn
sylvania, Syracuse. and Columbia
greatly popularized rowing on the
heights, and the present Indications are
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GOOD CARD PROMISED
TOMORROW AT BENNING

BENNING. March 26.-Six races are
on the card for Benning on Monday All
the events are well filled. and some
horses of good class are entered.
Among those that VIII start are Wash
ington horses. which should do as we'll
as they did on Friday
The entries are as follows:
First race-Sening; three-year-olds
ana upward; five and one-half furlongs.
Andrattus, 80; Athlana. 80; Hilarity
IO4' Chlcle, lOl; High Heels. "a; Con-
gress, 50; Maru, 80; Setucket, ia: Eloim
TO, M0rrZ; 80; Alpaca, 90; Sadducee
Trebla, SO; Orion. 1O2; Julia NJ. 96:
brotherhood. 81; Mr.. Pickwick. 100;
Mary Aud 50: Bashful. 81
Second race-Selling; two-year-olds;
four and One-half furlongs. Fergus 90.
Little Woods IO2: Jack McKeon. IO2 /:
Red Ruler 10: Bedelia, 81; Pygmalion
"a; broadway Girl, 81; Miss Galore. I02;
81 ResOlute. 81; All Scarlet IO5; Garrett
Wilson, SO.
Third race-Three-year-olds six fur
longs. Spring, l0I; Blush IS Toi San,
son, Sc.
Fourth race-selIing. three-year-olds
and up; seven furlongs. Annie Grace,
lO4, Iugai Bay, 10; Thorneycroft. ia;
PreekueSs, l04, Pittacus, 1O6: Nellie
Forrest, LOG; Punctual; Jos; Meistersin-
ger, III: LOcket, 10. Ailine Abbott. 80:
Nlnespot 80; Red Light. 80; Early Eve,
lI3; OHagen, 100: AIiladi Love. lO7.
Fifth race-Selling, four year-olds and
up, six and one-haif furlOngs. Ben Bat
tie. lOI; Sweet Jane, 100: Iridescent. 10;
Pipe, l0f; Unterock. 105; Love Note, 1O5;
Kite 100, Jessie Lynn. 100; Erda, 100;
Blue Victor. 1O7; Charley Moore. 107:
Boney Boy. 107
Sixth race-Maidens. three-year-olds
and up; one mill and forty yards Cay,
49, MOhican. So; Mr.. Churchill. f12; Mann
mon. 80; Tlreless, III; Clarence, 92; Lady
%; Falmouth. 1l2
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that another fast varsity can be devel-
oped If sufficient financial suppo..t Is
forthcoming for the maintenance 0 ? the
boat club.
All the arrangements for the IRON
are In the hands OF the undergradu Rtes.
Unlike social affairs OF the past, the
crew ball viii not be conducted byI the
club or fraternities. but Will be 0Is-
tinctly a university function. the diff
ferent committees having representa- tives
from every department OF the old ana
honored institution.
Georgetown men have responded ! fber-
ally to the appeals of Director OF
Aquatics ZappOne and Manager S hep
ard. who are sanguine that the rem eain-
ing deficit Of the rowing association viii
be wiped out by the proceeds of the
prom.
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phanU, 10 8, won; Meistersiuger, ia
tHlcks), 4 to ], second: Rough Rider. lO7
lWade), to !. third. Time las
Dark Planet, Eclectic, and Rabunta
also ran
Firth race-CheVy Chase Hunt Handi-
one-half miles. Twilight $50 CAdr Knutl
II 10 >, won; Lepida. $50 CMr. D. Kerr.
20 !. second. la Touraine, 152 AIr
Clark, 10 !, third Time 5:45
The Hawk and Montrip also ran Both
finished
Sixth race-Steeplechase: purse, $500
Gum Honey 146 (HeideD. Z to g. won:
honey Boy. l53 (Seaton), TO /. third
Time. 4.l5.
Strlke-a-L Light. Harrow. and Captain
hayes also ran. Last two fell
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MEXICAN KNUCKLEDUSTER
KNOCKS OUT KID" ABEL

CHICAGO. March 26.-Aurelio Herrera
knocked out Kid Abel. of Chicago. in
the third round Of what was to have
been a six-round contest. Herrera
knocked Abel down in the first round
and battered him all over the ring until
ne landed the knockout blow in the
third
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The standing of the teams follows:

John F. Madden, who came here with
thirty-One horses. mostly two ear-oIds
has sold 10 Andrew Miller, half inter
est in Robin Hood. three-year-old BY
KingStOn-Belle OF haywood and there
fore a half brother 10 Tenny. The horse
was good performer at the meeting
here last fall, and gives much promise
this year
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Gossip of Turf
And the Paddock

Harrow was going very easily in front
when he fell in the steeplechase. The
horse has worked well. and was played
by many good judges to beat the gray
Gum Honey Harrow is an English
horse that holds the record for a mile
up the hill at one of the English courses.
Strike-a-Eight ran a remarkably good
race for his first time out, and ought
to improve on this showing: He will
likely capture purse before the meeting
Is over.
Many Washingtonians who remem-
bered the good form displayed By Mrs
Frank Foster at Benning last spring
were attracted by the liberal odds laid
against the little mare and put down
large Wads of greenbacks. They got as
good as 10 10 tor the place and cashed.
Starter Cassidy did not like the way
Hennessy acted in the fourth race, and
after repeated warning the starter set
the boy down for two days. Hennessy
had the mount on Eclectic.
Both Melrose and Fergus stumbled in
the stretch in the two-year-old race. but
they were beaten at the time. MeIrose
is a good looking horse. and viii proba-
bly, win before the meeting is over.
Arrahgowon was in the front rank as
the field rounded the big turn IN the
third race. but he was cut off and
dropped back last. He came again in
the stretch. but the interference settled
whatever chance he had TO win
McCue put up a very vigorous finish
on Only One in the second and was
rewarded with the place. This boy is
riding hard these days. and may be ex,
pected 10 hold his own with the best
in the saddle
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LEAD
RAILWAY LEAGUE
Will Probably Win Out by
Good Margin.
WHITNEY HEADS INDIVIDUALS
Track and Roadway Tied With North
ems for Second Place-Clerks and
Southerns Also Tied.

The Eastern team still leads in the
Railway Relief Association, and has
such big advantage it is safe to say
1t will not be Overtaken by the end of
the season.
The Track and Roadway team dropped
two OF the three games bOwled against
the Easterns, and relinquishes the adj
vantage which II had gained In the past
twO weeks.
There will be a hot fight for second
and third places. The Track and Road
way and Northern teams are tied for
second place, and the Clerks and
Southerns are tied for third. with the
\ ortheasterns only one game behind
them.
Whitney Steady Bowler.
Whitney. Of the Clerks, Who led the
bowlers in individual averages last sea
son, Will turn the same trick again.
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FIRST RACE, , p. M.

~ B---obIectionaDle Characters Positively Excluded.
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Gus disposition, and finding the tele-
gram where her husband has unwit-
tingly dropped it, she starts forth to
face down the hussy who has sent 1t.
AS for John Brown, he is the as
sistant in the hair dressing establish
ment where the young Mrs. Tempest
has her hair dressed. He comes to the
conclusion that she has fallen in love
with him and he HES himself to the
appointment arrayed in his best bib
and tucker. Situation follows situa-
ton, until finally faith as to her hus-
band is restored in Mrs. Tempest, and
the Browns are ignominiously elected
and depart to spread their separate
stories.
In. the new comedy Mr.. Morris is the
Frank Fuller, the accommodating
friend who passes as John Brown in.
order to get his chum out of trouble.
thereby getting himself entangled COM
pletely..
Margaret Drew is the jealous Mrs.
Tempest, Harry Mills is Jack Tempest.
F. Owen Baxter (from the Haymarket
theater, London), plays Wigson, a but
Ter, Thomas Mcguire, is. the hair dress
er, the real John Brown and Carey
Hastings, the latters wife. The play
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VAUDEVILLE ARTIST INDEPEND-
ENT

II doubt whether all-this theatrical
art is really worth all the notice that
we take of it," said the weary reviewer
at his club. 1T is just as 1T is with
writing books. The number of people
who have a little talent for acting in
creases with the number of births
Really, half believe that everybody
has some bit of acting talent or thinks
So" Which may be just the reason
why we take so much notice of actors
and actresses" retorted the tireless
first nighter.''
The other day a manager wrote to an
actor who, for a year or two past, has
been appearing in little plays in the
vaudeville theaters, asking him to re-
turn to the regular stage. There the
actor had always been sure of good
parts and the manager promised hirn
new ones still better. But this was the
reply:
I work forty six minutes a day.
work as many or as few weeks a year
as I like. / go where like and when /
like. | take the train l like, on the
road / like l have no rehearsals. /
have no stage manager over me. /
have better dressing rooms and ac-
commodations than the legitimate
houses afford. I play what / like, and
in the way l like, and make SO much
money. Now, when you can show me
something to beat it I will come back
to you.'
In London they are discussing vague
ly the revival of stock companies to ac,
many plays and change them often,
much as we like to talk about all that
in New York. But there, as here, no
manager cares, or dares, to take the
first step-and take is wiseiy.-New
York Globe.
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ment to quiet the suspicious of jeal-.
Gus wife.
The young husband, Mr.. Tempest,
spends the night at Earls court, May
fair, London, stalled in midair in
car of the Ferris wheel that refuses TO
work. This cock and bull story is the
truth, but the jealous wife will not be-
lieve it. and the husband is forced to
tell the wife a large and detailed lie,
explaining that he spent the night with
his good friend John Brown at Elm
cottage Pickleton. The wife forthwith
telegraphs to that supposed fictitious
person and address, beseeching John
Brown to come to her at the earliest
moment, as her life's happiness is in
volved. The unhappy Tempest rises
to the emergency by getting his friend
Frank Fuller to impersonate John
Brown. of Elm cottage, Pickleton, who
calls on the suspicious wife with the
confederation of the aforesaid detailed
lie.
But there happens to be Pickleton
in the time table and an Elm cottage
in Pickleton and likewise a really and
truly John Brown, who lives in Elm
cottage, This John Brown also pos
sesses a life partner with a most jeal-
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herr and. hle the chances it gives her to
sing &Bedelia," Claudio "The Belle
of Avenue A. . "She Walks Like This"
Kate Kearney'' and other songs that
have become widely known.
Vivian is put forward as healthy.
vigorous, willful, capricious but good
natured young American girl, who
finds herself put to the test by the
pitfalls of Bohemia and who instead
of pulling a wry face, laughs her way
merrily through it all, secures dinner
parties and diamond sunbursts from
soft-hearted admirers, and who event
ually refharries the only man she has
ever loved, an amiable and enterpris-
ing champagne agent. None of this is
brought to pass, however, until Mr..
Ditrichstein has introduced us to life
in Bohemia. We are introduced to an
English aristocrat, tip-gathering
waiter in the Waldorf Astoria hotel,
an easy going owner of racing sta
BILE, a fighty retired actress and vari-
Gus, other amusing personages. None
of them is so boldly projected, how
ever. as the magnetic Vivian and the
two entranced old ''papas" who fit
about her like the proverbial moth
around the candle. These two round
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THE LIBRETTisT,s ANSWER


An incident connected with theat-
rieal gossip is amusing Westerners
who read theatrical columns. It re-
fers to a reported conversation between
Gustav Luders, the Flying Dutchman,
and Frank Pix1ey, his librettist. They
DR.. Richard Strauss. and particularly
of the production of the Symphonic
Domestica, dedicated to the Austrian
composers wife and child.
ITS a tone poem" remarked Luders.
representing the family life of Strauss
for one day-the life of papa, mamma
and baby-for one day. Great idea,
isn't it, Pixley p,
"Oh, I suppose it'll do. But can tell
you better"
WAS ist das?s
"A tone poem representing the family
life for one day of President Joseph +.
Smith, of Salk Lake City.
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PAPAs" AT THE NET
RoPoLlTAN

Messrs Rich and Harris will present
Miss Blanche Ring, supported by Harry
Conor and their company of come
dians, in Leo Ditrichstein's comedy of
'svivians Papas'' at the Metropolitan
this evening for an engagement of four.
nights and Wednesday matinee. The
cast and production will be precisely
the same as were associated with Miss
Ring during her engagement of 101
performances of this play at Powers
theater. Chicago.
Miss Ring, who has become famous
in New York and London within two
pears, having appeared as feature
of no less than seven musical comedies
in those two cities within that period
of time, asserts that as Vivian, the
arch and wayward show girl who gets
everybody by the ears in this play. she
has the best part of her career both
in the acting opportunities it affords
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The STAR

The next attraction at the Star the
ater will be the Rose Sydell London
Bellies dressed UP In new attire. w.
S. Campbell, manager of this organiza-
tion, has made departure from for
mer lines in burlesque, and this season
offers a two-act musical comedy writ
ten by Barney Gerard, entitled sDaz-
zling Nancy or A Trip to the Bot
tom of the Sea-
The first act is laid on board the
steamship "Mudlarkp bound for Eng
land Aboard the ship is Nancy Hanks,
Broadway prina donna, and her COM
pany who are to play an engagement
at the Shaftesbury theater. London. On
board also are Snitz Harzenfeffer and
Michael Hogan. an eccentric German
and a wealthy Irishman, respectively.
who are madly in love with Nancy
Hanks. They are both married and
tell their wives weird tales of being COM
PEELED to go out of town on important
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presented at the Metropolitan for three
nights, beginning Nov. 8.
Kyrie Bellew will appear at the Met
ropolitan for a haff-week engagement
in November, presenting "Raffies," in
which he scored so heavily throughout
his season in New York.
Hamlin & Mitchelps latest musical
extravaganza, Babes in Toyland," will
play three nights enga cement at the
Metropolitan next month. This pro-
duction,- played over six months at the
Majestic theater. New York. last sea-
son.
Frank Daniels, in "The Office Boy
comes to the Metropolitan for his an
nual engagement next month.
The Wizard of OF" will be seen at
the Metropolitan for half week in
November.
First False STEP" which comes to
the Grand for the week following isis
Hopkins" Is melodrama by Joseph
LIE Brandt. The play deals with the
trials of a young man. Jack Walters,
and his sweetheart, Edna Allen. Dan
Matthews, the son of the country min
lister and naturally the villain, is also
suitor for the. hand of Edna.
The attraction. election week at the
Grand will be the new melodrama,
Hearts Adrift." A big scenic produc-
ton and a capable company are prom
ised Complete election returns will
be given on election evening.
BY Right of Sword" a romantic
nselodrama in four acts, by Mrs
Charles Doremus, introducing the
handsome Ralph Stuart, is coming to
the Grand. The same cast and scenic
equipment as presented at the Amer
lean theater. New York city, will be
seen.
The w. j. Fielding Amusement COM
pany will offer an attraction entitled,
Welded, but No Wife, Selma Her
man, an actress of ability, heads the
company.
.'KelIar, the Magician" is coming to
the Grand soon. Mr.. Kellar is said to
offer this season an entirely new pro-
gramme of illusions, and his engage
ment Will doubtless prove one of the
events of the season at this PLAYHOUSE.
Williams and Walker, the colored
comedians, and their big company in
their musical, In Dahomey," that made
such hit for 800 nights at the Shaftes-
bury theater, London England, are
among the Grand bookings.
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business, and promise to return in
few days. The wives, however, learn
of the deceit practiced and follow both
husbands to the sMudlark" Many.
funny complications arise, as the two
wives give their husbands a merry
chase.
The second act is laid on mythical
island under the sea, and the various
characters in the first act are trans
formed into fishes and become inhabi-
tants of the island.
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is in three acts and the scene is laid
In London.
ISIS HoPKINsa AT THE GRAND

The attraction at the Grand this.
week, beginning with matinee today
at 2:30. is the pastoral comedy drama,
Sis Hopkins which Miss Rose Mel
vile has made famous. SO pronounced
has been her success in this play that
Miss Melville's manager had decided TO
continue the production on a more
elaborate scale, and to that end an en-
tirely new dress. it is said, has been
provided for the play.
The chief charm of Sis Hopkins
lies in its fidelity to nature in portray
ing the people of a little country yil-
lage in Indiana, whose simple lives are
untrammeled by the wiles of the OUT
side world or the affectations of mod
ern society. Sis is the. only child of
Pa Hopkins, and receives her first in.
sight into the wiles Of the world when
a railroad agent comes along to secure
the right of way for his road through
the Hopkins farm. He pretends to love
Sis and finally FORCES her name to a
deed Of the property. When she learns
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of his dupiicity she goes away to be
educated and ..be like other people"
Awkward and uncouth. walking pi-
geon- n-toed, with her hair done up in.
funny little pigtails and held In place
by odd red side combs, she presents a
quaint figure dressed in the old-fash-
ioned ginghaIn pinafore of the long
ago. When she comes back it is to find
her father has lost his memory and
cannot recognize her. The scene is pa
thetic, but Is relieved when Sis dons
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WHEN SHAW RIDIcuLEs SHAW

In the repertoire that Arnold DAILY
will present in the Studebaker during
MS Forthcoming engagement there (to
IolloW Woodland) is new one-act
play, How He Lied to Her Husband. /"
which has aroused both comment and
interest where it has been seen. One
writer describes it as follows:
When Arnold DAILY enters at the be-
ginning of How He Lied to Her Hus-
band,0 he is not a bit like the pale face.
long haired, dream eyed poet that he
was in Candida He is smartly
dressed, white gloved, carries a bou-
quet of orchids, and his pink and white
makeup fits his description of a boy of
eighteen. The woman he is to take to
theater is in distress because some
amorous verses of his have been ex-
plained to her husband. The poet
would go with her, hand in hand, to
her husband and there have her choose
between the two lovers. She objects
that her spouse. is a practical business
man, and incidentally good fighter
All this is worded brilliantly, and very
Whims1cally, too, when the youth sizes
up his pugilistic against his poetical
abilities She decides against a refer
ence of the matter to her husband, and
prepares to start for the theater.
You got seats for "ParsifaP'? she
asks.
No he replies; not one left
What then?'
Why, the only other play that
could appeal to you and me, Can
dida,
And there it all was Shaw was
burlesquing Shaw, DAILY was ridiculing
DAILY, the fantasy of the prose poem
was suffering under the searchlight of
practicality. This curious joke was
played for half an hour ludicrously."-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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ers are played by Harry Conor and by
Thomas Burns, who impersonates the
more sedate of the two suitors.
Mr.. Ditrichstein is the author of
'.All On Account of Eliza Are You a
Mason?' and other well known sue
cesses, and "Vivian's Papas9 is re-
ported to be the liveliest and merriest
piece that has yet come from his pen.
Miss Ring will wear number of the
latest specimens of stunning gowns
devised in Paris.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS

The musical comedy Jewel of Asia"
that had a long run at the Criterion
theater, New York, last season, has
been booked at the Metropolitan for an
engagement of four nights, beginning
Oct 80. The priTna donna. Miss Vera
Michelena, is assisted by company
of seventy-five people.
Henry w Savages musical comedy,
.syVoodiand, . that enjoyed q -four
months run at the Tsenon. tieater,
Boston. last spriIsg. and is TOW al the
Studebaker theater, chicago, VIII be