Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-09-04
ADJUSTMENTS

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Stanford d Western have selected the
powerful drama "a Great Tempta-
tion,n to be played at Bakers theatre,
September 7, s, 8, with Miss Emily
Smiley and Earle Western in the lead
ing roles. This play will mark the
closing of a most successful season here
in Wildwood, and it If very evident
that The Stanford d Western Stock
company have retained all their old
friends and made q host of new ones by
their clever work. On Saturday, Sept.
10th, they reopen their winter home,
Empire theatre at Frankfort, with the
military play by David Belasco, "rhe
Girl l Left Behind Me- and will be
pleased to welcome all old and new
patrons. A splendid line of plays are
under consideration for the coming sea-
son at the Empire theatre whichshould
assure Messrs. Stanford & Western a
repetition of last seasons phenomenal
success
l.. 8. johnson, the manager of the
Ocean Pier, was a victim of a holdup
last Friday night. While going through
q dark passage about midnight Mr..
johnson was surrounded by a number
OF supicious looking characters; he
being and all round athlete, disdained
to call for help and defended himself In
. lusty manner but was overpowered
by force of numbers and dragged into
the front part Of the pier where he was
forced to listen to q canful of war talk
by Eddie, OF silver tongued fame, who
on behalf of his fellow employees pre-
scented him with q valuable gold
mounted fountain pen, a 8 and q
box of cigars. 1t was q complete sur
prise and In q voice choked with emo
ton Mr.. johnson thanked the donors
and spoke feelingly Of the pleasant as
sociations that would end only too
soon.
Once more the Crescent basket ball
team ~journeyed down from Philadel-
phia to wallop Wildwood, but the To-
cal boys looked them over and found
Art. Kiefaber's shoes were not mates
and decided not to let them do II. The
game was sensational from beginning
to end, rapid fire passing, blocking long
shots happened every minute. Some
feeling was displayed by the players
and for a time 1t looked as though
rough house would spoil the game but
after q few short arm jabs and q little
setto between Kienath and Bacon all set
tied down to play the game which was
won by Wildwood. The cor was 81
to %. Penino administered to q couple
OF sport loving men on the side line
that caused them to take the under the
board walk route for home realizing
they knew more about ping pong than
basket ball. The last game of the sea-
son will be q benefit for the local team
on Tuesday evening, Sept. 8, between
them and the Wildwood A. A. A
number Of tickets have been sold and a
large turnout is expected.
The double attraction of roller skat-
ing and a strong vaudeville bill drew
many amusement seekers to the Ocean
Pier rink last week. Pope's musical
dog Uno proved to be a mighty clever
animal, the disrobing scene where the
dog gets from under its merry widow
hat and out of its cloak skirts and little
pink s'straight front" was amusing to a
degree. Carl Beema was in fine form,
mystifying the people with his wonder
working feats, and when he produced
a large American flag from a bundle of
ribbons the audience arose in q body.
Johnny Lyons, the French juggler,
was very amusing all of his funny
tricks going in a snappy and pleasing
manner. Especially good was his work
with three silk hats and his wig. This
week Walter g. Wroe's, 5 Wroe's
Buds, are proving to be the attraction
Of the season. The singing and dane
ing of these talented little ones brings
rounds of applause, in fact the audience
cannot get enough and bring them to
the front time and time again. Harvey
nd Parker, acrobats, very clever in
their work. This act is worth a good
place IN any bill.
Notwithstanding the bad weather of
last week, the Floral ball room of the
New Ocean Pier, was a ~favorite place
Of the lovers of the festive dance. The
Children's parties of Monday and
Thursday are still well attended.
Souvenirs of various kinds are dealt out
to all with a lavish hand. Little John
Zeller, n of Philadelphia's foremost
child singers and dancers, was in at
tendance. His singing, triple waltz
clog and wonderful buck dancing made
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