The San Francisco call., 1909-02-07

is to be 1000 1eer long over all anu
her cigar shaped buoyancy chamber
measures 700 feet from tip to tip. A
more graphic conception of this lies In
the fact that IL she were stood on end
beside the Singer building she would
overtop it's fiagstaff by 3S8 feet, and
that thus placed beside the tower OF
the Metropolitan Life building she
would rear her length 343 feet higher.
The principle upon which this levfa-
than OF the air is operated is that of
the annihilatfon of gravity. In other
words. the ship is given buoyancy
just sufficient to counteract its weight.
Pennington's airship, with It's buoyaney
chamber filled with hydrogen, will, for
all its 200 feet of steel. weigh almost
nothing. child could lift it with one
finger or toss 1T aloft like a rubber ball.
The ship will be equipped with II
propellers. five on each side, and a larg-
er one in sfront. The side propellers
revolve on a horizontal plane when it
Is desired to raise or lower the craft,
acting, in the parlance of aeronautics,
as "helicopters." To drive her ahead
the helicopters, which work on swivel
joints. are adjusted to the vertical
plane and propel the ship on her chosen
course. Eight propellers will drive the
ship at an average speed of 80 miles
an hour; IL propellers at a 40 mile clip.
The first voyage will be attempted
between New York and ST. Louis some
time within the current year IL the
huge aircraft can be completed within
that time.
Margaret Ellington, Mrs. Daniel Froh-
man, returned rather unexpectedly from
San Francisco a week ago. When she
left here several months since she an
nounced that she would remain on her
uncle's ranch in California until her
health was fully recovered. She had
announced also that never again would
she appear on the stage, but wished
to retire from a life of such hardship,
while she was yet in the heyday of
success. Whether she became home
sick on account of stories that were
printed limiting at an estrangement be-
tween her husband and herself. or
whether she longed for q sight of
Broadway with its lure of life and anil
nation. to say nothing of the theater,
is not known. Mr.. Frohman, answer
ing kilograms, in which she limited she
would like to return to New York.
yielded to her entreatieS, although he
was anxious that she should remain in
California until spring. But to the
great surprise of Broadway and her
many friends Miss Ellington was one
night this week in a box at Daniel
Frohmans Lyceum theater. when the
Dawn of Tomorrow" was first pre-
sented.
Miss Ellington found the cold weather
| in the east too severe. however, and
wes obliged to again seek the warmer
California climate, and after remain
ing here but a week left again Fri
day for San Francisco.
There have been many of the the
atrical profession to announce fare
well performances. but it is believed
that Mary Anderson de Navarro Is the
only one who has steadfastly resisted
the lure of the stage after having once
renounced 1t forever, and even she has
occasionally appeared in society and
charity entertainments. For these rea-
sons Miss Illingtons admirers hope
that the talented actress who made
such a hit in The Thief" will take
advantage of a womans prerogative
and change her mind Casually the
actress hints that to be occupied is
to be happy.
FIorenz Ziegfeld, husband of Anna
Held. and Thomas w Ryley are en-
gagged in wordy war that arises
from Ziegfeld's charge that Ryley has
been holding out monetary inducements
sufficient to entice from ziegfelds
Moulin Rouge" the pick and choice
of that aggregation of beauties.
Miss Innocence" and The Queen of
the Moulin Rouge" are the most in
teresting anatomical exhibits in the
city. Before he organized ''Fhe Queen
of the Moulin Rouge company Ryley
declared that his chorus would make
Ziegfeld's widely exploited beauties
look like a convention Of washerwomen.
When the curtain was raised on 1.-The
Queen of the Moulin Rouge" at the
Circle, experts were astounded at the
superior quality of Ryley's pulchri-
tude.
Matters came to a crisis when VIDA
Whitmore of the Miss Innocence COM
pany rendered her resignation to Zieg-
field, with the insinuation that she and
Grace Rankin were about to remove
their artistic temperaments to the CIR
Gle theater Ziegfeld did not accept
the resignation, but he gave his
charges a fatherly talk, placed identi-
fication tags on them all and hung
cowbells around the necks of his beau
ties. Then he took his secretary in
hand and dictated sizzling letter to
Ryley.
Miss Hattie Forsythe, the former
Chorus lady" has been i'll at her