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ular.
A. W. Thompson who promisea
Fairmont a new B. & o. station here
Is now located in Pittsburgh. Better
watch out for Jadwin there.
We can sleep better with a bigger
navy at that.
Man named Coffin gave the prohibi.
tion party $4,000 campaign money.
Something to bury it in.
Won't be long until we'll be spending
Sunday afternoons at Opekiska. hav.
ing gone there on a river excursion
boat.
Opekisks may be no AS gard but the
trip would make 1t worth while.
That s pound igrl which the stork
brought Lester Sherrard the other day
may not live to be a lieutenant but
she will make a>grand R. C. nurse.
Apparently the news about the Ger.
mans being whipped is true, but Eng
land never sent a submarine to our
shores for our trade.
Was not necessary to go In swim.
ming yesterday to get wet.
Aid as usual the Loop park crowd
amounted to two persons.
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Russians captured Gumuskhanch In
the region Of Djwizlyk which explains
why 1t rained yesterday.
You noticed the members Of the
Deutschland ware feted at Kanstatter
Park as a farewell.
kanstatter Is right.
No shur, We (hic) don't want no
Shulzer!
At that It would be hard to accuse
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait Of pussy.
footing.
Morgantown nan paid $50 for fol.
lowing a Morgantown girl. Not worth
It.
Not content with the amount of
tears already shed, the Germans want
more It seems and r using tear pro.
ducing shells.
After the activities OF the Anti.pre-
paredness nut at San Francisco, the
prohibitionists might take their anti
plank out Of the platform.
Second regiment not to leave Char
lesion before August is, II then
Wheeling Register.
In the meantime all orders will DO
given by The Times.
The Baltimore and Ohio refuses to
act as an aquaduct for West Virginia.
800
Major Nicely will speak on movies in
October, Better walt ninth Noyember
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patch that Mr.. Watkins noticed had
grown particularly tall. He took no
great pains to cut It near the ground,
and had no thought OF measuring It
until he had taken 1t home. Its ex-
IRENE length attracted his curiosity
and he found It to be the great length
of over six feet. Mr.. Watkins this
year had an especially fine yield OF
hay. He says he had plenty OF stalks
as tall II not taller than the specimen
he brought US. 1t shows a splendid
maturity, with a large head well filled
with seed.
For several weeks, says the West
Virginia Argus, printed at Kingwood,
a story has gone the rounds Of the
county, state and out of state press
to the effect OF the finding Of a large
sum Of money in a jar at her home
near Albright, this county. by Mrs. F.
l.. v. Marsden. The money was said
to have been discovered among the
effects Of the late Mrs. Alpheus Mich.
ael, an aunt to Mrs. Marsden, and
who had made her home with her
niece for q year and a half before
her death, which occurred a few
| weeks ago.
The Argus had heard the story be.
fore 1t appeared in print and in an
endeavor to verify the facts found
there was absolutely no truth what
erer in the tale and Of course did
not publish the story. Some one man.
ufactured the yarn and practically CIV.
cry newspaper in this section gave 1t
publicity.
The Charleston Post printed the fol.
lowing: Correspondence which has
been going the official rounds OF the
railroads in the regular course OF
tracing a lost car, and the final re.
ports on which have Just come back
home to the Offices Of the X. & NJ. rail.
road show this road. to have been put
to considerable trouble by the Next.
can revolutionary troubles and to have
a neat sum coming to 1t from the Car.
rama de facto government Of Mexi.
co.
1.-THE lost car referred to. X. & M.
No. 1867, left It's wi lines loaded
with freight on September end, 1912,
and after performing service on vari.
GUS railroads finally got onto the Mex.
lean Central railway tracks on Feb.
ruary 5. 1915, and isstill down there,
probably Communicated by C%arranza,
Villa or some OF the leaders Of the
various Mexican revolutionary fac.
tons.
CLERKS OF the a service depart.
ment Of the X. & NJ. in the Kanawha
National bank building headquarters
here figure out that there is due the
X. & NJ. company the neat sum Of
$4,000 mileage services for the use
Of that car down there.
1.-THE question is, will Carranza pay
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BITS OF
STATE NEWS

The Spencer Times Record says
Mason Van Devender Cleavenger.
local t~axidermist and fowl fancier,
Is the proud possessor Of a fine pet
crow, which he captured In the foot.
hills, some few miles back Of town.
Mr.. Clevenger Is teaching the crow
many tricks and 1t would not be sur.
prising to see this precocious bird
performing IN the stage, the very first
amateur night that rolls around"
Eight.year.old Charles Willingham,
Of Pleasant Plain, the champion snake
killer Of Berkeley county, brought to
Martinsburg recently a t%lve-foot black.
snake. Charles was picking berries
when he discovered the snake up a
tree and fearlessly went after 1t.
A stick one and 'one.quarter inches
In length was removed from the eye
OF E. E. Schirmer, Of Calhoun coun.
ty, by DR.. c. B. Blubaugh, Of Parkers.
burg. A few months ago he was driv-
Ing along a road behind an autoist,
when the latter struck the branch OF
a tree, a piece Of which few back,
hitting Mr.. Schirmer in the eye, and
becoming imbedded in the lower lid.
1t was removed Thursday by DR.. Blu.
baugh. ~affording much relief to Mr..
Schirmer.
A scarcity Of decklands for the
boats operating on the Ohio is inter.
fering with the packet trade. On one
Of the Pittsburgh baats which landed
at New Martinsburg wharf recently,
1t was necessary for the captain and
other officers to assist in loading and
unloading the freight. The owners
Of the various boats, In accordance
with the increase being given employ.
es in the Industrial plants have rails.
ed the pay Of the deckhands but the
men will not stick to the job.
A bulletin has Just been issued by
the West Virginia university giving
the report Of the products OF the uni
versity farm garden. in which some
unusual crops are declared to have
been harvested
The report sets forth that the av.
erage yield Of string beans was ISL
bushels to the acre; pole and bush
limas yielded III bushels; beets 1856
bushels: cabbage 1889 pounds; cell
cry 2.040 dozen punches: sweet corn
$50 dozen ears; cucumbers 1885 doz.
en-; eggplant 555 dozens; kale 1928
bushels; lettuce 9,274 pounds; onions
from seed 3l5 bushels; peas 146 bush
els, and tomatoes, early and late, $40
bushels.
John N. Watkins Of sandusky, last
week brought tho Tyler County News
q stalk Of timothy that measured six
feet, two and one.half inches In length.
Thu staflr swo. aaL ~~naorn knnl
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1t is easy to believe that parade of British women who
since the war began to have taken up the burden that the
man now in the trenches laid down was an impressive
affair. Much more impressive, in fact. than the window
smashing, house burning tactics of the militant suffra.
gists.
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That seventy.fve mile tramp in two days which the
Boy Scouts Of the city plan 10 take looks like a big I'm.
dertaking. But 1t Is a safe bet that 1t will not make the
youngsters suffer half as much as did the first five miles
under the Texas sky which the guardsmen from the
northern states took.
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DR.. Mcneil who was fired out Of the PITTSBURGH ros,o,
nee says the charges filed against him were a mere
pretext. It's all one to the politics ridden postoffice de-.
partment at Washington when it comes to a deal wbetb.
er the charges are trumped up, as in the Pittsburgh case
or ignored, as in the Fairmont case.
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ly, the opposition of Protectionist Is
dying. The South is abandoning that
ground fast. It was because Of this,
more than anything else, that the
Democratic party meeting at st. Louis
came out rs far as 1t dared for a Pro.
tective policy.
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With an out and out progressive platform and n million
dollars IN Its campaign chest the old Prohibition partv
expects to make a brave showing in November, The
wise voter will remember, however, that in this campaign
every vote given to Hanley is a vote taken away from
Hughes and half a vote given to Wilson.
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infantry at McAllen, Texas. he viii
have to salute his son, Robert, Jr.
who is first lieutenant In the first aeli
artillery at the same camp.
CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank our professional
and spiritual friends. kindred and
neighbors for their helpful service and
kind deeds rendered during the sioS.
ness and death Of our mother. i.
DIR. EDWIN f. FLOYD,
MYRTLE M. FLOYD.
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Evidently the only way in which Professor Vincent
WILDE able to give a Sunday band concert at Loop Park
10 to adopt the surprise attack tactics of the European
armies and do it while the weather man is not looking.
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the bill; II so. will he settle with Mexi.
can. or good American money; and
will the X. & NJ. ever get that car
back out Of the troublous war zone?"
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John N. WATKINS Of sandusky, last
week brought tho Tyler County News
q stalk Of timothy that measured six
feet, two and one.half inches In length.
Tho stalk was cut at random IN
The Washington times., 1916-02-13
Music Events For
This Week

Nine Gadski. soprano. and clarencc
whitehiii. baritone. stars from the Met
ropolitan Grand Opera. will appear IL
q joint recital at the National Theater
next Friday afternoon ut An o'clock
This will be the third concert in the
Artists Course" under the manage
ment Of Mira. wilson-treene. -s
The program Is as follows:
Aria. .'Evenine star" from Tam
Aanser." Mr.. Whitehill; aria, "Dieh
Tbeure Halle" from t'-Tannhauser.
and "Eisa's Tranm," from 'Tohengrin. .
Nine. GadslSi; "Wahn. wahn Mono
logue." from "Die Meistersinger." MI.
whitehill; aria "DuT bist der Lenz"
(siegilndel, from "Dio awalkure." apd
scene, act ], '.Wie lachend gle mir
Lieder singen' ("IEelde's Narratiyel }.
from Tristan urd Isolde," Nine. Cad
ski. and closing sccne from last act
Die Walkure. War eE 50 schmaer-
Gadslki and Mr.. fWhitehili. S
Anton Hoff is.to be the acconhpanisl
for Nine Gadski. while Charles, Albert
Baker will accompany Whitehiii.
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Attractions Coningto
Capital Theaters
Melodrama.

Mel0drama.
Lovers of Stevenson will have spe-
clal treat next week, when the much
.heralded characterization by Jules Eckart
Goodman OF Robert Louis Steyenson's
eyer-popular Treasure Island" Is pre-
scented at the Belasco Theater. The
producer Is Charles Hopkins. director
OF the Punch and Judy Theater. in New
York.
Treasure Island" the play, calls for
cast OF twenty-four speaking parts
in fact, not ono of the characters In the
book has been omitted: they are ali
here, Captain Bill, Long John Silver.
Black Dog. Ben Quinn. Jim Hawkins.
DR.. Livesey. Blind Pew, Squire IRE
lawney Mly. Hawkins, Captain Smol-
lett; all the bnscaneers; George Merry,
Hands. Arrow, O'Brien. Mcrgan. Dick,
and. of course. Long John Silvers par
rot, Captain Flint, who goes TO sea with
his master and screams, "Pieces OF
eight. pieces OF eight"
George Fawcett. as Long John Silver
Is featured In the cast, MS iE also Ruth
Vivian. who interprets the role of Jim
HawlkinR.---iOthefs In the company are
Geofrey Stein, Edward Sea, Harry
Hadheld, Ruby Hallier. Harry Ingram
David Burton. John Trevor, JohT
Lovett. Clarence Rockefeller, Ernes
Sprankle, Frank Hauston, jr., .IohI
| Williams, Viola Knott. George Man
! ming, Lewis j. Epstcins Thomas Tracey
| George Rolf. Carl Rogers, Rober
Thorne, and j. Homer Hunt.
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Newman Lecture On "Bo
Ii1ia" at Belasco Theater
Tonight.

s'Boliyia--The Land of the Great
Plateau" In Central South America.
win be presented for the first time In
the history OF travei-Iectures by p. M
Newman in the concluding subject pr
Ills present series. at the Belasco
Theater, Sunday evening and Monday
afternoon, February ls and H. In coll
orful views and motion pictures, which
he took last summer. he will portray
the indian life in La Paz, the highesf
seat of government in the world. and
around Lake Titcaca. the highest Of
ali nayigable lakes. Then the tour
ists- will visit. Guayaauil, the port Of
Ecuador. tho last port of call in South
America, whence the long journey
homeward Is begun.
Arrangements have been made by the
Belasco Theater with II. NJ. Newman 70
give as a special extra feature his
trayeltalk on "Wildest Africa" tonight.
For his final traveltalk OF the season
Mr.. Newman will, in exquisitely color
ed slides and motion pictures, show the
tropical grandeur OF the jungles OF
Animal life. from the hunting OF the
hippopotamus to the tracking OF q lion.
ess to her den, viii be shown. Numer-
GUS other wild animals will contribut.
| toward making this traveltalk one filleJ
with thrilling and exciting adventure
| Life among the Zulus and the primi
/ tive savages In the remote interior will
| be an added feature and most beautiful
of ali the reproduction In realistic mo
4 tIon pictures OF Victoria Falls. the larg
est and GrandeSt cateract In the world
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This Weeks
Calendar

BELABco--"The Princess Pat"
Musical comedy by Victor Herbert.
with Eleanor Painte.. Evenings.i
is:20 Matinees. wednesday and,
Saturday. 2:70 Tonight at e;ib and
tomorrow at 4. Bolivia" Newman
traveitallS.
NATIONAI,="On Trial" New York
dramatic success. Bvenings. snb.
Matinees. Wednesday and Satur-
day. 2:IS. Friday. $50. Nine. yo-
anna Gadsiu and Clarence White
hill in Wagnerian program.
, POLPS-"oid Heidelburg." Stock
production. with A. VI. Van Buren.
Evenings. s:i5. Matinees. daily ex-
cept Monday. 2:1b.
KEITHs--vaudevi Weber and
Fieids and others. Evenings. SIS.
Matinees. daily. 2:iS. Today's per-
formances. 3 and o:lb.
GAYETY-Buriesdre. SPORTING wid-
Sbop'' and ''Ail in Fun" Evenings.
S:ib. Matinees. daily. 2:1b. Today 8
performances. 3 and 3.
LoEw's COLUMBIA-Films. Today.
John Bsrrym9re IN Hear,y ea,ay,ns :
Monday. Charlotte Walker In The
Trail OF the Lonesome Pine. from
1870 a. m. 20 II .. m.
GARDEN-Films. Jane Grey and
Tnlly Marshall IN For a Woman'l q
Honor" TO 1870 .. m. today. Il
q m. to II o. m. during the week.
sTRAND-0eorge Fawcstt IN The
q. m. 70 II y. m. during the week.
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Ardent admirers OF premiere produc-
tlons viii welcome this respite from the
duty OF passing judgment Two pre-
miere performances take place on next
Monday night. I'm Walked Jimmy" az
the Poll Theater, and "Beveriy's BaiT
ance," at the National. with Margaret
AnsIin in the leading role. Both are
comedies.
Roth st. Denis. who has cancelled two
single performances here this season,
wili arrive via the Keith circuit in the
near future. 80 Manager Robbins
promises.
George Arliss. in a new comedy.
,'Paginini," Is promised for the week Of
February 2s at the National Theater.
The new vehacle Is by Edward Knob
LAUGH, author of "Kismet." Marie
odiie." and co-author OF ''AIiiestones."
The Greatest Nation makes its bow
In New York tomorrow night. Other
plays which had favorable openings In
this ci.S. including 'sybil," The Cen
derei,R Man." Otis Skinner in Cock o
the Walk" and Margaret Schiller" are
sstting along nicely. Indeed the l6otf
performance OF the Skinner play tool
place last week. ana '1sybil'' has an en-
gagement on the other side, at the
Adelphi Theater In London, in May.
FLORENCE Il. YODER.
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and Thursday. Richard Buhler will
hold the screen IN q vivid story OF life.
entitled "a Mans Making" winifred
Greenwood. In "A Modern sphinx" will
be the secondary attraction on these
days Florence Reed will headline the
program on Friday and Saturday In a
visualizstion OF New York;. william
Hurlbut's famous Broadway success.
Wayne Arcy, and Hazel Kirk. In n
clever dNmatio comedy. ''Outwitted."
VIII form the auxiliary feature, This
Garden Symphony ORCHESTRA will fur
iiish musical accoInpanimcnts. -
Strand: George Fawcett In Il
'The Corner" Films.
a T Moore's Strand Theater on
~ Sunday. Monday, and Tuesday.
~ George Fawcctt will lead the
double feature program in "The
Corner ~.
Mr.. Fawcett appears as David Walt
ham. a, stock speculator, who. baste,l
ppoh the stock exchange in a nerve
The Washington times., 1916-02-13

wracking bear movement" sets about
TO revenge himself upon those who have
caused his ruin.
In Mr.. Fswcett's support are Clara
Williams. Clarence Miller. Louise
Brownell, and others. ''Ths Spirit
OF the game" comedy drama OF col
lege life, featuring Kathryn Adams and
Edwin Stanley will form the auxiliary
attraction on these days. Willard Mncs.
author and star Of ''Kick In" will De
seen on Wednesday and Thursday ir
j.. W. Griffith's latest production. Tho
Conqueror." "a Movie Star" a travesty
upon studio life and studio players fca-
turing Mack Swain will constitute tina
added attraction during this engage
ment. On Friday and Saturday, Norma
Tnlmnge will be starred in the Tri-
angle Aim play. Tho Missing Links" a
mystifylng detective drama. The sec
ondary attraction will bring to the
screen Sam Bernard. In Because lie
Loved Her So" Special music will DO
: rendered by tho Strand symphony Or
chestra. ,% 9.- ...., ..-,fs.. =
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Music.

T. Arthur Smith has completed ar
rangemcnts with the Metropolitan Opera
Company OF New York, whereby Serge
de Diaghileffs Ballet Russo. the most
remarkable organization OF its Kind in
the world. will te brought to Washing
ton for three performances.
The performances will oe given In tho
National TheatAr beginning on the
through March %.
II Is five years since the first EFFORTS
were made 20 bring 20 America this
extraordinary Organization OF dancers
and mines from the Imperial Opers
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Portmante,au Theater.

The PortmantAau Theater comes TO
Washington On February p, and will
give two performances in the New Will
lard Ballroom, This newest novelty. IN
the dramatic Held is undor the direction
OF steuart Walker. for six years stage
director for David Belasco.
For the matinee performance the pro-
gram has been made especially attrac-
tive for children and will consist OF
three one-act plays. ''The Trimplet. :
six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil,
and Nevertheless" For the evening
performances there will be presented the
old English comedy. "Gammer Gurton's
Needle in conjunction with the 'SiA
Who Pass While the Lentils Boil"
The Washington times., 1916-02-13
BurIesuue.

Rose Sydell's London Bellies company
comes to the Gayety next week on its
annual tour. "pinkle's Honeymoon is
the vehicle In which Johnnie Weber, Ica
Emerson. and their fellow-workers will
entertain the audiences with Dor.
trayal OF the experiences OF a newly
married. couple.
Others in the cast are Gertrude Dud.
ley, a prima donna Jerge and Hamll-
ton. James Wilson. Harry Dudley, and
q chorus whose members We're choser
for their beauty and ability TO sinl
and dance.
The Washington times., 1916-02-13

A LII or the dramntlc cNcnub plN Tue
N season are by no means con-
~ fined to the legitimate stage
There's many a good amateur
bit done informally that, is most Pleas.
inS and creditable. S F
A poem of Kipling's. entitled .'Boots.y
recited bysa ypunE man by the name
OF Robert DAILY. some time ago at the
meeting of the Southern Society. when
the Readers Club provided the enter
tainment. was one OF these.
ON several occasions. both formal and
informal. Mr.. DAILY has rectted Boots
the past year or so. that he will prob
ably give Il on the occasion OF his ap-
pearance IN the vaudeville skit at the
comi * ,Beaux Arts ball
Mr.. DAILY is a member OF the .Heaeern
most interesting organizations IN the
city Mics Maud Lee, the president, Is
sort OF second Beatrice Herford. Jndg-
ing from several OF her original mono
logues which the writer mas wstns1sSa s,
with other local but provokinaly
shfinkinf, talent Into that vaudeyille
sketch fif will be well worth the entire
price. of admission and supper
A. Little Light On the Cast
Of sPrincess Pat" 81
! 80 LEANoR PAINTER. who sings
H. the title role in the Henry Bios
Bom-Victor Herbert comic opera,
.The Princess Pat" 10 mot the
only agreeable personality in that de-
! lightful organization. There are at
least three young men. who have much
to do with the success Of the onehnk.
They are Sam b. Hardy, Robert ober.
and the extremely temperamental Joseph
r. Lertora, Sam b, Hardy. as Bob
barrow in the play. has had a long and
careful training in dramatic stock. such
cities as Toledo. Minneapolis, Spring
i field, Brooklyn, and a few others know
him as q most agreeable and gifted
leading man. But that II not all that
l Mr.. Hardy has done. He created the
role OF Rodney Blake In ''Hawthorne OF
4 the II, s. A." at the Astor TheaiN,r
New York. on November 4. fol2 He has
however, played leading roles in tile
support Of such stars AZ Heurietts
crosman, j. X. Haekett. Richard
Golden, Nance o'Neill, MargaEet Anglin
Marie Cahili, DiBby Bell and others
lie was leading man. also, In "'rh'
CONTINUED on Page Fourtssn.).
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Lectures.

Timely and interesting 10 the last de-
gree will be Dwight Elmepdorfs new
series OF illustrated travel talks. to be
given Mt the New National Theater. on
Ave successive Thursday afternoons ~
ISo. beginning Febuuay "a.
Starting from Queenstown. he Will
conduct his armchair yoyagcrs first
through the British Isles, showing a
bit of unspoiied ireland. much, OF rural
England, and enough of Scotland to de-
light the lovers OF the land of Bruce
and Wallace, OF Robert Burns. an6
Walter Scott other lectures in the
course win be. Holland. from Flush
ing TO the Helder." "switzerland ~
SurumeE and Winter" "Norther!
Italy. From the Trentino In Rome
and "Snuthern Itnly aud Sicily"
The Washington times., 1916-02-13
Princess Pat" Herbert and Bios
som Concoction, With Eleanor
Painter, Comes to Belasco, While
Bona Eide Melodrama Of the
Good Old Kind, /" On Trial, is
Scheduled For Appearance at the
National.

period covering nearly the prepndeance Of
~ New York have been musical comedies and elc
dramas these, meodrama
: musical comedy, come the theates this week.
Victor Herbert Henry Blossom musical
-dy with original company and Eleanor Painter
leading role the cast, may be at the Belasco.
Trial. meodrama, which in New York all last year.
Boston, National
the original with the exception Of but
promised.
The Washington times., 1916-02-13
Vaudeville.

Lillian Russell. the comic opera prima
donna and stage beauty. will make her
debut here in vaudeville at Kelth's next
week. Another feature will be Melville
Ellis and Irene Bordoni In a musical
interlude. Next comes ''Her Wedding
Gown" also never seen here, with a
fine cast and special production. Other
attractions Will be Henry Lewis In "A
Vaudeville Cocktail" Kenneth Casey,
the "Nitagraph Boy;" Kramer and s--[-
Statues: olympia 'DesvSii: the pine
organ racitals, and the Pathe news pic
torieL There Will be three performances
on George Washingtons birthday, at
Z 5. and S:l5 d. m.