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The Lady From Lanes.

The opening attraction at the Lyric
Theatar, the week beginning Monday,
Aug. 10, will be Broadhurst and Cur
rte's, production of THE Lady From
Lanes a three-act comedy with mu-
sic. The book and lyrics of this new
offering are by George Broadhurst, who
after winning fame by writing such
successful mirth-provokers as what
Happened to Jones" why Smith Left
Home" left the field of farce and
wrote one of the strongest and most
successful dramas of recent years,
THE Man of the Hourl Neither is he
a novice in the art of libretto writing
for he was one of the authors Of
Nancy Brown" the greatest success
that Marie Cahill ever had, and besides
writing several successes for Nat Wills,
he has rewritten many Broadway mu-
steal pieces which afterwards develop
ed into great successes. In 1.-THE Lady
From Lanes" he has furnished a book
with a real PLOT, one that would be a
fine evenings diversion even without
the music, which is in Gustave Kerk-
er's brightest vein.
The company Of funmalkers Is head
led by Thomas Wise, who scored so
strongly in THE Little Cherub," last
season; Truly Shattuck who followed
her clever work with George M. Cohan
with another hit with Anna Held in
"The Partisan Model; Ida Hawley
with FRITZ scheff, THE Pearl and the
| Pumpkin" and other Broadway sue
cesses; Georgia Lawrence, Mrs. e. A..
Eberle, Robert Peyton Carter, Walter
| Percival, F. V. Bronson, Lionel Walsh,
William Burrows, Frank Kelley and a
chorus of forty, who can sing, dance
and make merry as well as be the
cynosure Of all eyes that delight in
beauty,
1.-THE Lady From Lanes" was writ
ten for laughing purposes, an antidote
| for the blues. The characters are
unique comedy creations and the sit
uations are extremely ludicrous. The
play is booked for an indefinite run
at the Lyric. The sale Of seats will
open August 10, at the box office of
the Lyric, and all mail orders will re-
ceive prompt attention.
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formanees. Bayonne Whipple has
reclaimed the drunkard of THE Nine
ty and Nine" on 1927 separate and
distinct occasions and will have pass
ed the 1000 marke before the holi-
daYs.
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instrument; but in those davs-at
least according to the ehroniciers of
the tlmes-the musical instrument
makers were trying to reach as nearly
as possible the perfection of the hui
man voice, While the process TODAY.
according to the laudator temporis
acti, is just the contrary. In appear
ance, the trombone is tube twice
bent, ending in a bell and in the
middle section it is double, SO that
the two outer portions can slide upon
the inner one. Mendelssohn concluded
the Hymn of Praise" which a from
bone phrase, considered to be the
most magnificent he ever wrote, To
descend from the sublime to the al
most ridiculous, WombWell, the Eng
fish Barnum of his day, had band
of trombones attached to his show Of
wild beasts, which is said to have been
very fine. 1t may have been the
origin of the steam calliope of the
country circus.
With the trombone the trumpet
adds greatly to the splendor of a full
orchestra The true length of a from
pet is five feet seven inches, and when
the musicians were angels, as may be
seen in the early Italian masters and
there was plenty of space in which
to blow ones horn, the trumpet was
used at its full length. But as soon
as it got into the orchestra, its inor-
dinate length was found inconyenient
SO it was twice turned back on itself
ending in bell. This is the fate of all
metal instruments that outgrow them
sedves, otherwise they could not be
manipulated in the prescribed limits
of an orchestra.
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leading roles being sung by Nine, Mol
di and Signor Albert.
Strauss beautiful work Die Fled
ermans" will hold the boards during
THE week of September % and Miss
Magda Dahl the Swedish nightingale
will make her first appearance then in
the role of "Rosalinde."
Later in the season 1 will have the
honor to present the following operas:
Lohengrin, Haensel and Graetel
lTannhauser, Aida, II Trovatore,
Romeo and Juliet, Faust. F'idelio, l.
Pagliacci, The Jewess, CavalIeria Rus
ticana, Der Freischutz, Crown of
Diamonds, Merry War, Black Hussar,
Boccaccio, Robin Hood, Ermine, Nine.
Angot, and many other grand and
! light operas,
1t will be my constant effort to
please my public in every particular
| Like every one else, | have my own
Ii ideas but it is not my desire to satisfy
myself at the expense of my patrons
they shall have what they want and
all they have to do is to let me know
| their desires.
| The FislSe Aggregation,
| The productions to be made by Har-
rison Grey Fiske during the coming
season will be more numerous and va
ried than in any previous dramatic
year. Mrs Fiske early in October will
begin a tour of the South, where she
| VIII appear in 'Tess Of the D'Urber-
villes," Leah Kleschna" and "Hedda
Gabler" She has not acted in the
Southern States in nine years and will
/ be seen there for the first time in these
three plays. The Manhattan company,
including many of the players who
have been with it from its foundation,
will be associated with Mrs. Fiske on
the southern tour.
In December, Mrs. Fiske will appear
in new play, which will be the fea-
ture of her annual New York engage
ment at the Lyric theater. For this
production, Mr.. Fiske will surround
her with special company peculiarly
adapted to the requirements of the
play. An interesting development of
this will be the appearance of the
Manhattan Company as a separate or
ganization, in furtherance of Mr..
Fiskes plan of giving it an individ-
uality of its own. In the four seasons
that it has supported Mrs Fiske the
company has been generally recognized
as the best-balanced and most effec-
| tive dramatic organization In the coun-
try The Manhattan company viii be
seen in New York in January in a
play that Langdon Mitchell, author of
"The New York Idea" is writing. This
dissertation from Mrs. Fiske is only
temporary, as the following season
the Manhattan Company will again
appear with her.
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The Trombone.

To return to the less popularity
known instruments in modern or
chestra. There is the trombone which
attracts a good deal of attention
among the brass instruments, because
of its restless habit of growing bigger
.or smaller 1t is the sackbut of Scrip
ture-that is of the James 1. version
and specimens of it are said to have
been in the ruins of Pompeii. Its
peculiarly is that by means of a
slide a complete chromatic scale has
been evolved from the open notes of
a simple tube. 1t used to share this
peculiarly with the trumpet, but of
late years the trumpet has ceased to
slide and no self-respecting orchestra
today would contain trumpet that
was not fitted with valves or pistons
which perform the duties Of the slide
with much less trouble. And it may
be that before long the leaders Of
orchestras will forget how perfect and
useful that most simple of instru-
ments the trombone was. in spite of
its slides, and will adopt the valve
trombone, which is on the market and
is asking for itself a bigger price
than its ancient rival. A
perfectly played trombone was said in
old days to more nearly approach
good voice production than any other
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Saxophone and Bassoon.

The saxophone is a conieal brass
tube with 20 lateral orifices covered
by keys and with six finger plates.
that is played by means of a mouth
piece and single reed In shape it is
usually something like one of those
German pipes with a porcelain mouth
piece, though it can be and is made
to look less conical. 1t is generally
used in military bands but has been
employed a good deal by Massenet in
lie Roi de Lahore" "Werther' and
"Herodiade." Bizet also used it in the
suite in "LArlesienne.
One of the most ungainly looking
.of instruments is the double bassoon,
the contrebasSon of the French. If
stretched out ait full length it would
'mesaure Is feet inches, but in or
der to make it possible for use it is
curved four times on itself. 1t is a
reed instrument. and, as with the bas-
soon proper, its reed is inserted in a
crook through which the player blows
into it. The instrument, probably on
account of its ugliness, disap-
peared for many years, but turned up
at Handel festival in London in
1871. 1t was used by Haydn in The
Creation and has obligato passages
in the grave-digging scene of Bee
thoven's only opera, "Fldelio, and
has returned to the modern orches-
ira.
The bassoon itself can be recognized
in the orchestra through its being
supported by q strap around the neck
of the player. 1t is a wooden, don
BILE reed instrument, a little over four
feet long. The reed is inserted in a
crook about II inches long, the other
end of which is inserted in the lower
half Of the instrument, Its musical
value is great and it has been used
by composers for more than 200 years.
lit is very prominent in all Mozart's
lmusic, and in the incarnation scene Of
Robert the Devil" Rossini opens
The Stabat Mater" with phrase for
bassoons and cellos which occurs
again at the end of the work.
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Green Room Gossin.

1t isn't generally known in this
country that the Lyceum theater in
London, the home of Sir Henry Irv-
ing's greatest successes, is now con-
Quoted as a popular price theater
where the most thrilling melodramas
are presented. The theater was
about to be torn down after Sir Hen
RVS death, for it was acknowledged
that England had no actor to fill the
great Irving's place. At the eleventh
hour a little band Of capitalists and
theatrical managers FORMED a syndi-
cate and took over the lease of the
theater for the home of melodram.
Tyrone Power Miss Crosman's lead
ing man next season in THE Chris
ton Pilgrim" is spending the sum
mer in the Canadian woods with his
wife, Edith Crane. Some one has
estimated that since Bunyan wrote ii
the Pilgrims Progress has been read
by one billion, two hundred and fif-
ty million (1.250, 900, 000) persons.
This makes the circulation of the
modern magazines and novels look
like the edition of a country newspa-
per. The same authority estimates
that 100000 people read the Pill
grim's Progress every year.
Those interested in statistics per-
tanning to the theater should rejoice
in the following list of figures: James
| O'Neill has played the title role in
"Monte Cristo' about 5000 times
This estimate is approximate only, be-
cause Mr., O'Neil himself is not alto
gether certain of the total. Denman
Thompson has personally given over
1000 performances of The Old
Homestead" Phoebe Davies has
spoken the lines of the fearful hero
inc of '"Way Down East" at 1900 per-
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Butcher-Come, John, be lively now;
break the bones in Mr.. Simpsons chops
and put Mr.. Smiths ribs in your bas-
ket.
John-All tight, sir; jus; as soon as
I've sawed off Mr., Murphy's leg.-Tit-
Bits.
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and pathetic, but is somewhat treach-
erous in an orchestra.
Clarinets and Flutes.

ClaPlnetS ana tIuteS.
The clarinet, or claionet, is a fairly
recent member of the wood wind band,
and in appearance is very much like
an oboe, only that it is a single reed.
Weber used it a great deal in the over
ture Of Der H'reischutz," where the
weird, low notes of the clarinet come
in with great effect. One trouble about
the instruments is that the player is
at the mercy of a bad reed which is
liable to be the cause Of the production
of fearful Shrek, the goose, or couac,
as the French call it. In military
bands, the clarinet takes, the place Of
the violin, although the tone is entire-
" different. Saint Saens makes use of
an alto clarinet in f fiat in "The De-
luge' and in Henry Will" the i'm
strument having been made especially
for that purpose.
The flute, the last of the so7called
wind instruments, none can fail to rec
ognize. The real tenor and bass flutes
have entirely disappeared from the or
chestra and the one in present use, in
vented by Boehnl, a. Bavarian flute
player, only date from 1882. 1t general
~ goes with the xiolin in an orchestra,
sustaining long notes with the other
wooden instruments or is used in con-
vocational passages with other in
etruments. The piccolQ, 81. octave flute,
which is an octave higher than the
flute proper, is the one usually en-
ployed III an orchestra. 1t is very shrill
and without great care may give a
vulgar character to music, and that is
why Sir Arthur Sullivan. in a scene in
'Tvanhoe," replaced il, with a high c
| flute. The so-callcd fife. used with the
eide-drum in the military drum and
five bands, is really a small flute which
has replaced the old cylindrical ear
piercing flfe,
The extraordinary Improvement eff
fected during the nineteenth century
in the wind Instruments has given
them an Importance, hardly exceeded
by that of the stringed. in the forma-
/ ton of modern orchestra.
Strlnged Instruments.
AT the Manhattan Opera House,
l&Dcn Giovanria has been performed
/ this season with a pianoforte accom-
paniment to the recitatives. What
should have been used was the harpsi-
chord, for which Mozart wrote all his
recitatives In Paris, the clavecin, as
the French call the harpsichord, is in
variably used for these accompani-
ments. The particular form OF clavecin
employed in Paris is the double-bank-
ed, that Is, it has two keyboards, one
above the other. There is a magnificent
lot Of harpsichords, single, double and
| triple banked, in the Crosby Brown
collection of musical instruments at
the Metropolitan Museum, and the
front board of one at least having been
removed, it is possible to learn from it
how the sounds are produced from the
strings. The principle is that of the
plectrum The strings are plueked to
produce sound, whereas in the piano
/ it is made by a hammer. The result is
| that there is a monotony--too much
uniformity in the sound. The player
gets the exact value Of the sound
nothing more, nothing less. But it held
an important place in its day in the
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Oboes and English Horns.

The bassoons belong to the oboe
family, the bassoon proper being the
natural bass to the oboe. The oboe
is the hautboy Of Shakespeare. 1t Is a
graceful looking wood instrument,
played with a double reed that orig
mated far back in antiquity in the
Iflattening of the end of an oat or
wheat straw The Scotch bagpipe is
another, if less musical, specimen of
the same principle. A curious tradi-
| ton connected with the oboe is that
lseriptive right of giving the A to the
orchestra when it is tuning. This
fright probably originated in the oboe
having been the only wind instrument
that was used in an orchestra before
the days of Handel 1t is at once the
oldest historically and unsteady the
most important of the reed band. An
oboe bass, called the heckelphone, af-
ter its inventor Heckel of Bieberich-
am hein, was used for the first time
in orchestration by Richard Strauss in
the now notorious opera "Salome."
There is a sad note in the history of
the hecllelphone. Heckel, whose bas.
soons have a worldwide fame de-
voted himself so much to the perfec-
ton of the instrument that soon after
| he had completed his masterpiece his
brain broke down and, according to
the latest reports from Bieberich, his
family had decided to put him in a lu-
| matte asylum (sanitarium).
! Another new instrument introduced
| in "Salome," and which tinllles all
through the opera, is the celeston
German celestial. 1t has been heard
only once before in public in this
country, at Russian concert given
last season at Carnegie Hall. PUG
chi introduced it in most of his
scores, if not in all but for some rea-
son or other 1t has not been used in
the performances of his operas here.
1t is a keyboard instrument of four
octaves. 1t stood at the extreme
right-facing the stage--of the orches-
ira in the "Salome" production. It's
strings are of steel and they are struck
| by hammers, It's effect, more delicate
and refined than that of the glocken-
spiel, rather suggests the big musical
boz
The cor anglais, or English horn, is
a tenor oboe, The only reason for call
| ing it the English horn appears to be
the same as that for naming a certain
/ beautiful French lace point d'Angle-
terre"-that it was neither invented nor
made in England In William Tell it
! represents the alpenhorn, and in Iris
tan und Isolde Wagner made most eff
fective use of it in the scene when
Kurwenal is vainly looking out to sea
| for some aid to come to the dying
Tristan. The reed pipe of a careless
| peasant is played in the orchestra on
an English horn, and gives pathetic
color to the painful situation. Again
did wagner use it in somewhat sim
| liar situation when Wolfram's lament
over the fall Of Tannhauser, in the
opera of that name, is interrupted by a
goat-herd's song with a cor anglais OBJ
| ligato. Its tone is peculiarly wailing
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days.
Flora Browning has been engaged
to play the leading role in George
AIDES campus comedy, 1.-THE College
Widow" this season. Miss Brown
ing is a sister Hoosier of the Humor-
list and was a real college widow her
self at the Indiana University only a
few summers back She belongs to
THE Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority
and her sister rooters have notified
her that they will charter a car and
welcome her with banners when THE
College Widow" plays at indianapolis
in October
During a high-browed discussion at
the Players Club in New York the
other day, friend asked, Raymond
Hitchcock to define the difference be-
tween a tragedian and a comedian, to
which the yankee Tourist star re-
piled: well, hate to talk about my
self, but I have come to believe that
a comedian is simply an actor with
| blonde hair, while a tragedian is a
| vi uliHLJG WIZ LlllIlkS ue 10 Ill eN lOl.
How about the brunette comedians
and the blonde tragedians9s"
They're nature fakirs."
Scene shifting has become an art. In
many plays dark changes are made
when an intermission is not allowed for
the scene shifter to accomplish the re-
suit, In very few cases is the setting
from an interior to an exterior at
tempted,so difficult it is of accomplish
ment, but Messrs. Burnside and Com
stock have in Fascinating Flora" an
example Of this perfection Of scenic re-
moval that bring applause nightly.
The first scene Of the last act is laid
in the office of a Wall Street broker
An instantaneous dark change is made
to the second scene which is the exter-
Tor of the Manhattan Beach Hotel and
Caslno-with, the chorus seated on the
veranda Of the hotel This change is
complete and realistic in its details and
! the effect is startling when the lights
are raised and the scene revealed.
! EDWARD German popular EngllsH
opera tom Jones" that Henry w
Savage brings to this country in Octo-
Der, has passed its Tooth performance
at the Apollo in London and is now
| galloping toward its second century
| The lbretto is built on Henry Field
ing's famous Eighteen Century novel
and the production is described as one
of the most elaborate shown in Eng
land this year. OF its music the Daily
| Telegraph SAYS:
ITO such a theme there is no living
composer capable of doing greater jus
| tice than Mr.. Edward German. whose
score is a model of what such things
should be. Mr.. German seems to live
in an atmosphere of Old English mel
ody, and yet his music, while thor
oughly characteristic Of the period il
represents, possesses all the charm Of
] originality Number after number
comes trippingly from his pen, each as
dainty, as rhythmical, and as capti-
waiting as Its fellow. Last night, when
the piece was given for the Tooth time
th4 audience waxed enthusiastic over
all, and encores were numerous"
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orchestra as an accompanist to thH
voice, from the time of the productio
in Italy of the first opera and oratorl
about 1900. Handel and John Sebastia
Bach used 1t before Mozart to supporz
the 'dry recitative,' as it was called
The bass notes being weak, were reinE
forced by utes and violo, and then bJ
vieloncellos and double basses. 1t is onN
of the voices that has gone out 81
modern composition, although, as stat
ed, it Is still to be heard in Paris.
But two stringed instruments tina
are plucked by the fingers still remaii
in use; they are the harp and tn L
guitar the later Of a class that pred
vailed in the fifteenth, sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. OF the hard
family the only one that Is now i'll
vogue and which recent composers
have used with great advantage and
beauty is the double-action harp thai
Sebastian Erard patented toward thA
close Of the eighteenth century. BeforJ
this invention metal crooks (erochetsH
were screwed into "the neck that isl
the carved bracket between which thd
sounding board and strings are stretchs
ed These crooks could be bent bach
upon a string to sharpen its tone. Thd
Cousineaus, a French father and sonl
made instruments without crooks, prod
duced half-tones by pedal action, and
Erard perfected their discovery. Thd
harp was for years neglected by amaI
teurs. In the days OF the First Empirei
it was tremendously affected by woi
men on account Of the singular beauty
OF the instrument and the opportuni-'
ties it afforded the players of showing
off their figures in the costumes Of the|
day. Suddenly the harp has come intd
fashion again; some say because vol
men have grown tired Of the piano.
others declare that it's popularity rel
/ turned with the Empire costume; that
it is to show themselves off, and not
/ for pure love Of music, or for "the
sonorousness Of the Iarp's mysterious
tones, to quote Berlioz that the mod
ern woman has taken to her heart and
i bosom the instrument that her grand
] mother discarded and her great-grand7
/ mother loved SO we'll; that it excellent
I ly displays fine arms and pretty hands
| and well-shaped foot, which would
not despise the assistance of a harp'S
pedal for exhibiting itself. Be this as
| 1t may, the harp is all the fashion
again, and is selling like hot cakes''
at from $3.50 up into the thousands. The
best harps in the world are made in
| Chicago.
VioIins and Their Bows.
But, of course, the most important
Of the stringed instruments are he
violns both in power and delicacy of
musical expression, in fitness for ex1
act intonation, and in arriving at
structural perfection almost at once,
sirce no change has taken place in the
violin from its invention more than
/ three centuries and half ago. Thus
| is pre-eminence generally accorded to
the violin family. It's invention is at
tributed to Gasparo da salo Of Brescia,
and the date given is about 1850 I'M
mediately after this we find Maggini
OF Bresoia and Andrea Amati of Gre
mona making yiolins The CreInonese
! School eliminated in stradiyari and
Guarneri del Gesu, in the early years
Continued on Twelfth Page)
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Public Sale of Certificates of Stock.

On Monday, the 18th day of March,
1907, at the front door of Tazewell
Courthouse, will sell to the highest
bidder at public auction, for cash, A
shares of the capital stock of the
Buckhorn Iron & improvement Com
pany, which shares Of stock are evil
denced by certificate No. Sc for 4
shares.
Said certificate of stock, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, will be
sold to pay balance due to b. w. Stras
on a note, for the payment OF $115.7O
dated the 21st day of March, 1901, due
II months after date with interest
from date, made by T. H. Johns and
negotiable and payable at Bank Of
Clinch Valley, Tazewell, Virginia.
March 7, 1907. b. w. STRAs.
8 s q