Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-21
forgetfulness, and there isn't q spectator
but could be glad to chew up that awful
glass and save the COLL

but could be glad to chew up that awful
glass and save the goil
The Merry, Merry at the Temple.
Scene OF Act s finds the RELENTLESS
villains and their prey outside the temple
Of Ajaib-Gahr. In Upper Burmah. They
have done some tall travelling to get there
so soon, but they're there all right. for
isn't that the familiar old temple before
us and the big volcano In the background?
The sunset revels OF the naidens Of the
temple are the next thing on the program,
and forth from the temple come three
Hindoos. who look like the original men,
bers OF the Mystic Shrine, and cute little
graceful dances, while the men folks go
through some steps that might be a cake
walk by camels in disguise. Then a trio
OF plump. good-looking American girls
ness that rouses the sweating spectators.
After this the trouble call is sent in again.
1t Is learned at last that Svengali has
brought Marion SO far from Hoboken. in
treasures of the temple have been buried.
She does this in a trance without the aid
OF divining rod Then the villains are
ready to put her in the discard. But no,
not all or them. That awful Silverton wo-
men is jealous of the captive because Wayne
mas been making goo-goo eyes at her.
Marion Is reclining on a box couch In the
marble chamber of the temple. talking
Inc orchestra here gets in its work and
peels on a few measures of soft. jiggley
music. The electrician turns down the
lights Then that Sllverton woman enters.
she brings the cheerful tidngs that Marion
is to die by fire.
20, blisters!" mentally calculates the
nervous spectator.
Marion quakes, but not SO badly as the
earth does little while later. The Sill
Verton woman says 'Ha. Ha" in just the
meanest manner. and the candy and peanut
boys get ready to shy a sack Of his wares
at her.
But no." says the feminine tormentor,
you shall not die by fire. will stob YOU"
and she actually starte to make good her
threat when little back Rosie appears with
her trusty "weepon" and the viliainess de-
sists While she is being driven away, Sven
gall appears and slips Marion a proposition
of matrimony.
What! do you refuse meh?" he cries,
then for the glass of forgetfulness."
But Marion by this time has had enough
OF that horrfd glass. SO she makes one quick
grab for 1t and-splash!-thereit lies on the
moor broken into three million four hun
dred and seventy-one thousand five hun
glass business all right, and 1t is out Of
the game for good.
Volcano Takes a Hand.
Just as the Hindoos are about to thrust
Marion into the burning jaws OF an idol
monster and try her by fire, dear old john
ny-on-the-spot Jack, and Jasper and Rosie,
too. sprint into the limelight and begin
shooting up everything in sight. The vol
cano breaks out In a glazing eruption just
then, too, and the earthquake slams the
noted temple down into the dust and 1t is
all .over with the temple of Ajaib-Gahr. in
Upper Burmah. 1t wasn't needed there any
more, anyway, for Jack wiped out the whole
blamed tribe Of worshipers.
That Is he thought he had. But in the
final act old Svengali Omar, together with
Wayne and that naughty oilverton woman.
again flash on the scene back in little old
Moo Yawk. Every time they were killed
they were not. the audience only just
thought they were. They are the most re-
lentless prosecutors ever invented. But
Svengali finally gets his up at Mr.. Grey's
house. where he tries to kidnap Marion
again. Marion runs away to room In a
hotef where her father has been trapped
into going to meet Wayne and Diane Silver
ton. Wayne again soaks him on the head
piece and then turns his attention to Mar
ion.
and out for keeps, and now what will the
poor girl do? Wayne Is about to shut off her
supply Of ozone when old man Grey con-
vinces the audience that ne was only play
ing dead, for he pulls out a pistol and
pumps some cold lead into the frame of Mr..
Wayne. Jaspar gets on the job again and
starts to steer the party home. At foun-
tain in Centrai Park Diane and the badly
bronze water nymph. They Jump out and
say "Boor' at Marion and her father and
attempt to sever their esophaguses. but
Jack Fearless drops down from the sky
and takes the last Of Svengalfs nine lives
and let's Diane escape. Then old man Grey
gives Jack the 10000 reward and Jack puts
that and Marion in his pocket and goes of
to find the parson, while the orchestra
Wrings few soulful melodies out Of their
It is ended Joy in large packages!