White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-05

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THAT sounds like good business
chuckled wallingford What you real
ly want is for somebody TO invest q
hundred thousand In such a place. a.
it up and run it according to your
ideas and turn 1t over to You for about
eighty thousand. II you like it."
We'll yes agreed Henri with .
shrewd twinkle.
"Hello. Blackie. How Ia Violet Bon
nie?' inquired "a thick man who had
peer stunted lengthwise.
Hello. pop" hailed Blackie. "vfO
let Bonnie is SO healthy she's mislatd
her makeup box Are you running
this show?"
"Don't you see ny gray hair?" de
manded pop. who could ave a
ed his height with the outstretch Of
his low cut white waistcoat. and from
whom care had long since fed dis
c%ouraged. Coming inf"
Couldn't get tickets" explained
Blackie. so Jim and | came over to
see the procession of dress suit lollops
Meet my friend wallingford. pop. Mr.
Hickey. Mr.. Wallingford.'
II know pop" laughed WaIlingford
shaking hands with him. He was one
of the loudest knockers when we put
on .Lama's Goat and 1t was after he
laid down his hammer that | went out
and cleaned up a hundred thousand
on my belief in the success OF the
piece
1--WE fumblcd." acknowledged Mr.
Hickey with pride $50 many people
won out coppering my bets that now
I'm doing it myself. ! took out this
company jsst because ! knew 1t would
be a frost"
ut looks like an artistic box Office
troup.' admired wallingford. watch
ing the money flow past. Pretty good
company" -
Medium weights" replied Hickey
indifferently Il couldn't afford the fat
singers. but II isn't the singing that
pulls these cooks. its art make
spike tails and open face bosoms com
pulsory in the first twelve rows Say
where do o eatg"
olul Dbtti- tpiittHCo "Hiuh~AVso
gloomily.
81 thought So" groaned Hickey. Eek
cuse me a minute. and we'll edge in
I've got a pair Of sure enough Spanish
dances. and I've split their hot spe-
cialty into the second act. It's the best
part of the opera"
He waddled hastily into the box Of
A.. I'D VyoyIsrfnr1 ard Rfaab{o ufnoX
interestedly watching the solemn pa
rade. These people look the duties OF
wealth quite seriously. The women
wore their rich capes and the men their
stiff gloves with a brave determination
to be at aristocratic ease. no matter
how painful. They exchanged gay ban
ter and laughed lightly and moved
with careless rae and occasionally
~apoIogized for it. and did all the other
things which persons Of wealth and
breeding do.
1T is indeed a gay and festive
! scene" observed Blackie. admiring It.
nevertheless. II will hand them one
thing. Jim. They built this theater re-
gardless."
Il saw a finer one-" agreed
Wallingford seriously. as his eye roved
froln the magnificent marble lobby to
the glimpses of carmine and gold re-
vealed through the open doors.
Hickey came back to them AZ the
overture began and led them past
the doorkeeper. Blackie. catching the
sound of the music. Immediately surg
ed into the auditorium. where he found
a dark corner and promptly proceeded
to forget the world. but WaIlingford's
commercial mind was caught BY the
costly foyer. and be hung behind with
Hickey to examine ii In detail.
Hickey led Wallingford back into the
lobby. where. to the right and to the
left just outside the entrance to the
foyer. wound beautiful marble stair.
cases. He stopped at the box Office .
moment and came back with a key.
Il was so paralyzed when | saw this
new shack that | want to see some
body else struck stir" be remarked a.
he led the way upstairs.
He opened IN electric switchbOx at
the head OF the stairway and flooded
the place with light Even WallIng-
ford. used an he was to lux uri0us IN
t~eriors. was amazed by the richness
and beauty Of the ~extravagantly dec
Grated suit of ooins all OF them
ablaze from the light OF crystal chan
deliers, leading up to an immense re-
| cital hall In white and gold. the panels
between its pilasters embellished with
fresco paintings. in soft pastel coiors
Of more than usual breadth and
strength.
For highbrow stuff" explained
Hickey with "A grin. They had a few
lectures and recitals and readings for
the fourteen story intellects here. but
the real brainy people of this town
haven't any money. and the other kind
would rather sleep Mt home: so they
cut out the classics. and the last thing
they held in here was a barn dance.
Shame. too. amt it,"
IF old Cap Churchill could see this.
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