Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-08

smart set" will take any part in the entertainment of the Queen, since her
 Majesty cares little for the mere gay ,eties of social lte. The probabilities are that the royal visitor will accept
 few invitations except from those women of society who are allied with
 the great charitable and pnilanthro-
 pie enterprises at home and in the
 Orient
 Yelling styles this season are noth- ing if not unique. A number of ef-
 lects which even year ago it would have been thought impossible to sell
 are now being slown and are said
 to be proving popular with the buy CTS. Variations of the beauty spot idea snow the greatest latitude in uesign One of tue prominent houses
 n the traue is now bringing out these elIecys with a question mark taAms tue place -ot the ordinary uOJ, and for the girl who likes base Dail there is another effect in which bat and ball are worked into the veil Another popular effect made by
 the same house shows a lizard in place of the dot
 A large number of fine books, rare manuscripts and important auto graphs from the library of the late Bisnop DOauc of Albany were sold at auction here this week mcluued among the beautiful old manuscripts were marriage contracts signed by the members of the royal family of France. including Lotus AIV. There were also first editions of Dickens, Tnackeray and George Eliot and Orl- sinai manuscripts by Mark Twain" letters to Mrs. Doane from harriet Beecuer Stowe about the health of her son, wuo was wJnded at the Gettysburg and a letter from William Nordsvoth. the poet, to Bishop Doane, in 18t5, on literary and matters.
 When Italians sail from this port in the steeerage Of the big liners to see tueir families in the mother country they are searched at the gangways by expert seamen who Jane away all revohers and knives and give each man a check with which he can reclaim his property on arriving at the port of destination. The same rule is applied by the steamship agents when the emigrants embark in Italy for America The object of the depriving these pass engers of their weapons is to pre-. vent any trouble arising among them while aboard ship On one steamer recently where the men were allowed to keep their clash knives. small fire was discovered in the forward steerage, and before the officers re. alized what had happened, the Sici- lian passengers rushed on deck, rip ped the canvas covers off the life boats, and set in them waiting for them to be launched
 The winner of the s10000 prize of. fered by Winthrop Ames of the Lit ue Theatre for the best American play by an American author is eX. pected to be announced next week. The contest was begun a year ago and closed last August, when more than 1,5OO manuscripts had been sub. mtted The plays were submitted anonymously. The prize was the largest ever offered in a contest of this kind or the srcat number of plays submitted a surprisingly small number were rejected as ineligible. which left the judges with much work to do in selecting Che best manus- cript The judges are Mrs Ames. hdolph hlauber and Augustus Thomas.
 We'll known members of the thea trical profession who make up the little summer colony of actors at Slasconget on ,hs islauu ol Nan.