The Detroit times., 1911-05-02

and Jenny st. George. Mr.. Callahan
represents. John McCord. an old sol
der, who gets much enjoyment out
OF flute and In telling OF the way
he lodged and intercepted bullets
and cannon balls. Miss st. George, as
a neighbor and daughter OF a fellow
soldier OF McCord. visits his shSnty
and entertains him and incidentally
the audience by her singing and man.
tpulation OF harp.
Chic Sale. DOWN on the program as
comedy protean entertainer" has a
laugh-producer in his sketch, "A
Country School Entertainment" He
impersonates the prim and somewhat
aged schoolmistress, a number OF pu-
pills and others, including the omni-
present village "constabule," who
takes part in the entertainment. The
'contsabule" is especially amusing. He
makes a speech, in the course OF
which he raps for order with his big
boot and tells the girls IL they don't
keep quiet he'll have to put them
in the henhouse."
a playlet In which Harry Linton and
Anita Lawrence appear. There is
some genuine. wholesome comedy in
the skit. and 1t is cleverly carried out.
The shadowgraph is used to depict
one OF the interesting scenes, an os-
culatory engagement between the
couple.
Eugene and Willie" Howard have
a rapid-fre fun-maker In their skit,
THE Porter and the Salesman" They
cut loose some real humor and also
do some good singing.
Juggling of most remarkable
character is done by the original
Blank family. Of whom Terese Blank
is one OF the stars. She does some
clever work. as does also male
forms cleverly and amusingly on the
wire, and the Columbia Comedy Four,
dealers in harmony and fun" enter
tain satisfactorily. he Microscope
pictures bring an excellent bill to
close.
MILES.
To see a mans arm practically
turned to stone before your eyes, the
flesh growing paler and paler and the
muscles more and more rigid with
each passing moment. and then, at
another mans will, to see the blood
come rushing back to the finger tips.
restoring the natural color to the
flesh, Is a spectacle new to the To-
cal stage and one that cannot help
but arouse wonderment. II caused a
large audience in the Miles theater.
Monday afternoon, to almost hold its
breath and the feeling experienced by
the average beholder was something
akin to awe.
feats performed by Pelham, the hyp-
notist, who is the headliner on the
current Miles bill, and his exhibition.
which he styles a scientific demon
stration of thought concentration. Is
as~apusing al II is wonderful. Be
tore Id had been on the stage three
minutes, Pelham had the audience
laughing HISTORICALLY over the antics
Of his subjects nearly dozen In
number. Thestunrs- these young men
Performed, apparently under the
spM of the hypnotist, We're ludicrous
in ths extreme and striNngly realis-
tic. One imagined he had been eat
ing green>apples to-vXcesb, and the
yesult may >hs->e easily d6njectured.
Then they were all led to Believe that
box OF snuff had BEEN opened In
their midst and all beggh 70 sneeze
violently.
The act reaches a Sensational ell
max when Pelham converts Que OF
his subjects into a human bridge. Qhe
young mans body, under the spell
becomes as rigid as steel. Pelham
places him over the backs of two
chairs, about four feet apart, and
three OF the huskiest young men on
stage are picked out to stand on him
On the whole, Pelham's act is one OF
the most wonderful demonstrations
given on the local stage In many a
day
Another entertainer entitled to