New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-07

While 1.-THE Awakening of Mr..
Pipp: the musical comedy Of big pro-
portions and constructed on new and
novel lines, which comes to the Tur-
ner Theatre as a special Easter at
traction next Sunday, has never been
seen in this city, enough has been
heard about its merits to warrant the
belief that something in the nature Of
genuine surprise awaits those who are
interested in its coming.
This interest seems to be consider
ably accumulated owing to the fact that
''The Awakening of Mr.. Pipp' will
introduce for the first time to a New
Ulm audience Charley Grapewin, a
comedian whose name is delightfully."-
familiar in New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia and other eastern cities where
he has appeared as the star in 'The
Awakening of Mr.. Pipp" for several
seasons with results which must be
most gratifying to star actor. Mr..
Grapewin originally produced ssThe
Awakening of Mr.. Pipp' as vaude
vile sketch, which, through an adroit
and ingenius arrangement. has been
converted into regular musical COM
edy, with this difference, however,
that it is entirely removed from any
other style of so-called musical come
dy before the public. It's principal
| virtue seems to be in having well-de-
/ fined plot, which is not at all dis
turbed in any way by reason of gener-
Gus interpretations of song numbers
. and specialties of various kinds, all
of which are in the keeping Of a good.
! ly-sized organization, mostly girls,
whose vocal and terpsichorean accom-
plishments are made all the more in
teresting on account of their pretty
faces.
Ed Williams, Mankato man who
was arrested at St. Peter short time
ago and lodged in the Nicollet county
Jail to await trial on charge of
highway robbery, made his escape
Friday evening. 1t seems that during
the supper hour the jailer allowed the
prisoner to walk in the corridor of
the bastile and left the door of his
cell standing open. 1t was at this
time the prisoner inserted piece of
wood into the socket of the spring
lock, not large enough to prevent the
); door from closing but just enough to
prevent the spring doing its work
automatically. This enabled Williams
to open the door after the jailer left
the corridor, and when the after re-
turned about nine o'clock he found his
prisoner gone. No trace of him has
been found up to this time.
During a snowstorm in Scotland a
highland railway train was held up
for an hour or two. The guard, a
CHEEKY Scot, passed along the carri-
ages trying to keep up the spirits of
the passengers. An old gentleman
angrily complained that if the train
didn't go on he would "die of cold"
"Tak' my advice an no. dae that, /"
replied the guard. "Min' y, we
charge shillin' mile for corpses.
The visiting parson at Dartmoor
prison was handing one of the con-
victs consolation in small chunks.
'You should not complain, my mis-
guided FRIEND" he said; sit is better
to take things as you find them"
eyer on the wrong track parson,"
replied the prisoner. cit we're prac-
Using that theory that got me nabbed."
] The last club dance of the season
was held at the Masonic hall Satur-
day evening. An unusually large
number of people were in attendance.
Albert Bobleter, after spending a
couple of weeks here with his father,
started on his return trip to Portland,
Oregon, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Theresa Scheiderich returned
this week from st. Paul where she had
been spending the winter with her
daughter,
Col. Whitney, the assistant adju-
tant general, was in the city Friday
visiting his friend, Gen. Bobleter.