Evening journal., 1907-05-14

Night" in which trained nurse is
mistaken by the son-in-law of the pa
tient as a thief. The situation, while
overdrawn of course, are we'll present
ed, and Olive Briscoe and Edgar Allen
really do some very creditable acting
in the sketch. Hayes and Suits, duett-
lists and dancers; Wixon and Eaton, i1
a high class comedy act. and The
Kinetograph are all on the program.
The star feature Of the show is Of
fered in the person of DeLoris, the
French crack shot who gives an eXhi-
hition of workmanship that is simply
marvellous. The Frenchman has a pro-
gram mapped out which he carries out
to the letter. All sorts of seemingly
impossible shots are made and he
holds his audience spellbound with
feats Of daring in which the slightest
err in aiming might prove fatal TO his
assistant. DeLoris is a wonder with
the rifle and no mistake, and local
shots will hardly fail to be much in
terested in his performance this week
In a conversation between r. w.
Crook, general manager Of the Peo-
pies Railway Company and Prof. j.
/ S. Egan, bandmaster Of Egan's Band
of Delaware, which is 20 give a series
of concerts during the opening weeks
Of the season at the Springs, the claim
was made by Mr.. Egan that his drum
mer will bring more traps, props and
instruments with him for this engage
ment than can be packed in one Of
the winter cars of the Peoples Rail-
way Company.
Mr.. Crook, thinking that Egan was
exaegerating, offered to wager a sum
/ of money that there would not only
be room for all of the drummer's
| hardware" in a car but there would
be space enough left to comfortably
seat dozen good-sized men.
Egan at once took the wager and
! communicated with the drummer, who
| is at present located attle state Street
! Theatre, Trenton. n. j., and he SAYS
that already three large cases of the
noise producing outfit have arrived
| and he claims these are merely so
many drops in the bucket.
The bandmaster is quite sure he will
win the wager, but he is taking no
chances and is making a list of names
and addresses of all the large men
that he can think Of. in the event Of
that he is mistaken in the amount
of space required for the noisy goods.
with a dozen such men as Harry
Bothman, Harry Schnepf, Louis
Koehner. William c. Cole and n. Du-
shane Cloward on his side, Egan feels
sure that he has made safe bet.
At the Grand Opera House this sea-
son Dumont's Minstrels will give their
famous entertainment on Wednesday
evening for the benefit Of the Brandy
wine Fire Company. This is the old
est and best minstrel organization in
the world. every member being a star.
/ They will present the same program
here that they win present in their
! Eleventh street Opera House, Phila-
/ delphia. for one week during the ElSs'
/ convention. All the favorite comed-
/ ians. Frank Dumont Hughey Dough-
erty, Vic Richards. James Burning
/ ham. Charles Tuner. j. l.. Dempsey,
Ward and Fox. PhiladelDhia's favorite
vocalists: McCool. Loose. Kane, Gold
rick, Ben Franklin and little Toodles,
I and the great burlesuue actor. William
Henry Rice and their own orchestra.
under the direction Of Professor r. p.
/ Lilly. viii be here. Theatregoers Of
the city should commend the local fire
/ company for bringing such an attrac-
tion TO the city.
l A large and enthusiastic crowd
/ greeted the well-known professional
/ skaters, Eddie Mcdowell and his
talented pupil. Nellie Mcdowell. at the
| Country Roller Rink last night on the
occasion Of their opening night in the
series of one weeks enga cement which
win include the matinee on next Sat-
urday Promptly at $50 Mr.. Lindsey.
the superintendent of The rink, led the
two skaters to the floor and i'm a mo-
ment their graceful skating won tho
I audience as evinced hy the rounds Of
applause. It was evident that although
Mr. Mcdowell is caster ~ all the
I tricks of fancy skating that he has
never lost sight. in his years Of train
ing. Of the fact that grace is an art
i in itself and in every rnovement this
happy feature Of his work predomi-
/ mated
Mr.. Mcdowell included In his act his
original toe work which was done with