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6 THE JIOCK: ISEANIT ARGTJS. S ATURD AT, AUGUST 26, 191T. SAFEST THEATRE IN THE COUNTRY Likewise the New Empire Among the Very Best That There Is. Is WILL OPEN UP TOMORROW People of Three Cities Hare Been Invited to Visit and Inspect the Flace. Elegant in its simplicity, beautiful In its decoration and arrangement, safe in ita protection against f.re, ex tensively provided with seats of com fortable size, sanitary and well venti lated Is Edward T. Dolly's Empire vaudeville theatre which is fast near Ing completion under the capable bands of workmen who are putting the finishing touches to the play house today, so that it may be ready for the inspection by the public to morrow from 2 o'clock in the after noon ti'l 10 o'clock in the evening, when Ihe owners will welcome peo ple of the tri-cities and show them through the place. Monday evening at 8:15, the curtain will rise for j the first performance in the Empire! theatre and !t is the fervent hope of j ROCKISLANDER WHO BUILT NEW EMPIRE '-.TV - f X v-- y 4V ? 11 ? - -1 t. T. Ioi;y. jar. uoiiy ana nis inenas mat every one of the seats will be occupied. OBJHEU3t ciRcrrr SHOWS. As has been the custom of theatre owners in other cities In the past, Mr. Dolly has arranged a special price for seats for the initial per formance. Prices of 50 cents, $1 and $2 will be charged. Beginning Tues day afternoon, however, the standard price which will be maintained throughout the season, will be charg ed. Ten, 20 and 30 cents will be the regular admission charge. Through out the season, a five-piece orchestra, at least, will furnish musical num bers and accompaniments. Two mo tion picture films will be produced and six real acts will be staged. The quality of the acts will be maintained throughout the season. Bookings have been arranged with J. C. Mat thews controlling one of the best met ropolitan circuits in the country. The program for Monday evening in cludes the overture, motion pictures, the Zeb Zarrow troupe, which pre sents "In the Isle of Joy"; Three Masquerln Sisters, dancers and In strumentalists; Clara Knott and company, presenting "Wall Street Battle;" Mrs. Bob Fitzsimmons, fa mous lyric soprano; Alice Raymond and company !n a spectacular musical production. "A Night in Egypt," and Shayne and King, comedians and parodists. BIT 0K FLOOR. Besides offering a first-class vaude ville bill, Mr. Dolly deserves patron age because of the splendid play house which he has erected. The seating capacity is 1,310 and every i scat is on the ground floor and com mands a view of thex entire stage. There are six boxes, decorated with grape arbors and foliage, set off to advantage with electric lights. In -tiite of the large capacity, the the re may be readily emptied in four .i invteB at the outside, and in case of danger, in a little more than one minute. Nine rxi:s have been placed on the ground Poor p.nd all are read ily accessible. The seats are placed In concrete. Therp is 9,000 square feet of rowrete in the floor. FILM .MICHI-XK PROTECTKD. v i The cage from which the calcium J light and motion pictures are shown,, is abovi? the middle portion cf the house. It is seven feet square, lined j with iron shet-ts and so protected j from the nous:. Fire extinguisuci s I are in conspicuous places and two j hose, DO feet in length, are kept in j readiness on the stage. 1 he turnate is outside of the buildings, as there is no cellar under the entire theatre : building. Therefore, there is little j danger from hre and the protection against it is maximum. PRKTTV IK'OKATlUS. The decoration of Ihe walls and leiiiug of the dome of the theatre is of old rose and ivory colors. The light fixtures are simple and pretty. The arbors about the boxes, help to set off the beauty of the house. The office is in the east room of the building. A large arc light was NEW EMPIRE THEATRE ON FOURTH AVENUE WHICH WILL FOR MALLY OPEN TOMORROW WITH FIRST BILL MONDAY "DQCDIUlIU lQQCr DDDH DC blBnnn oidiai DnDnuu, - 1 empire! 1 I i ii i i a r"mBff f rri! i iht 1 I'iSJi ID IDLJHliysLJffi rHKdjM.i " mi in i i a u i THE COLUMBIANS, FEATURE ACT AT THE MAJESTIC THEATRE, WHICH OPENS TOMORROW r: What Everybody has been waiting for the opening of the n naenc i no 1 heatr Davenport, Iowa The House Where You Will Always See the Best pfetiWv - MSU til lg Vaudeville Acts 8 Ionday Afternoon, August 28. Prices Iatinee 10 20c Eveningf, 10, 20, 30 50c Seat sale opens Saturday After noon at 2 p. m. Phone 657 N. suspended today irr front of the the atre. Car lines, including every one in Rock Island, are but a block from the playhouse. Tomorrow, residents of the tri clties will have an opportunity to see behiDd the scenes as well as in the playhouse proper. No effort has been spared to make the stage and dressing rooms as good as possible. Mr. Dolly states that $2,000 has been spent for scenery and he is cer tain that the effect of the drops and props will merit the expenditure. The asbestos curtain is &s good as can be procured. The dressing rooms seven in number each have hot and cold water, a radiator and a window. The stage opening is 36 feet and arranged in such a manner that large acts can be played and will be shown to the advantage of the act itself. 0E BILL A WEEK. There will be but one change of bill each week, the shows to begin on Monday and leave after the per- okATo will Vw. tri i . a ti Aav tho I matinee beginning at 2:30 and the' evening performance at 8:15. The j acts are of the quality that will not warrant more than two shows daily. ' This same class of show will be main- ! talned throughout the season and the 1 seating capacity is such, that the owner can afford to continue the pro duction of the same class of show. PLAEU HOI SK HIMSELF. Mr. Dolly himself suggested the plans for the entire house, and has assembled in It, all of the conven iences in many houses which he vis ited before going into details for his building, lie says that he Is in the theatre business to make a reputa tion for himself as well as for the city and those who have already had the pleasure of viewing his play house, will agree that he has already surpassed anything of the kind in the vicinity. A CO!VETIOJT HALL. In addition to giving Rock Island one of the finest theatres in the west PI! or la the country for that matter. the Empire affords as fine a conven ' tlon hall as any place In the middle j west can boast of. With an lm i menae seating capacity all on the ' ground floor. Rock Island has a place I that will enable it to go after any i size convention with the assurance that It can be properly handled. The Theatre BURKE IN "THE RUNAWAY." Everybody concerned in the first re hearsal of "The Runaway." the new Billie Burke play which was seen on the stage of the Lyceum theatre last Monday, experienced something of a shock after the first reading of tho play at the similarity between its story and the announced Astor-Force wed ding. The subject of "The Runaway," which is a comedy in four acts by Pierre Veber, adapted by Michael Mor ton, is the account of a man of 50 who proposes to marry a girl of IS. The unraveling of "The Runaway" Is Pierre Veber's attempt to tell whether such a social happening has any jus tification. It was quite a dramatic moment when it fell to the lot of Hen ry Miller, Jr., to declaim the play wright's preachment ac-ainst such marriages. Rverylody c-lse in the com pany, that includes Miss Desmond Kel- C. Aubrey Smith, Ivan Simrhon. Edwin Nicandcr and Emily Wakeman, stood spellbound, while Mr. Miller ear nestly road his part as Pierre Berton. the principal speech of which is level ed at the character Maurice Delonay, played by Aubrey Smith. Miss Burke's Pleasant Sunday Trip. Steamer Helen Blair to Muscatine and return. Leaves at 3 p.m.; returns 10 p. m. Fifty cent round trip. Call j phone 188. ACTOR'S WIFE HAS BAD HEART ATTACK Mm. - - . A - tour will open City. Sept. 11, at Atlantic FINE SHOWS ARE . TO BE EXHIBITED Majestic Theatre Which Opens Tomorrow Has a Strong Bill as Starter. PLAYHOUSE IS IMPROVED Additional Stgr Room, Nfw Scen ery and Xei Balcony Anions? the Feature. Majestic bill in Chicago sevev! times. The Ballet of Roses a trans formation scene is said to be t'ae most pretentious thing attempted m vaudeville. TWO riCTIRE RKEI.J. Thiessen's Pets, a canine act. will introduce novelty to the bill whrIe Elizabeth Otto.' known as "the Piano Girl," will sing, talk and play. There will be two sets of moving pictures, one to open and the other to close the show. Manager Quinn has a now machine and has arranged for the best films. The Majestic will change Monday and Thursday as usual. The Orpheum vaudeville shows will be displayed at the Majestic theatre, which opens for the season Sunday afternoon. The house has been re decorated, more seats added, addi tional stage room provided and is now a much improved theatre. In-' to Woodward's grove. There NAZIMOVA'S NEW PLAY. It thus became the good fortune of the unknown Algernon Bqyesen to have his new play, "The Other Mary," chosen as the season's vehicle , for Madame Alia Nazimova. It will be the first play of American life and of American authorship ever performed by that actress, who has been so long identified on the English Bpeaking stage with the William Archer ver sions of Ibsen's plays. "The . Other Mary" will be staged and personally rehearsed under Madame Nazimova's direction. In workmanship the play is not unlike that form of dramatic structure perfected by Ibsen, but of course never even approached by any of his followers. The significance of the title lies in the thought recurring through the jriay, that," In nature's scheme of things, Mary Magdalen has her place In life as well as Mary the j virgin; there Is a different kind, but i just as potent a good in the one Mary ! Ei in 1k rtthpp -Ml lh crpnoi rt "Tha 1 Other Mary," which is ia three acts, are laid in the New York of today. The cast that will support Madame Nazimova in "The Other Mary" is fi nally completed. Its principal mem bers will bo Brandon Tynan, Malcolm Williams. Frank Goldsmith, William Hasson, Lucia Moore and Grace Reals. Last Monday the company was assem bled at the Garrick theatre and Mad ame Nazimova read the plot aloud In the presence of its cast. Madame Naz imova's first season under CharleB I Frohman's management will begin Sept. 21. spection by Chief of the Fire Depart ment Newberry and Architects Whit sitt and Peterson have resulted in a clean bill for the Majestic. The house has been pronounced perfectly safe from every standpoint. The Majestic, located as it is in the very heart of Rock Island's busi ness center, will doubtless prove the same popular vaudeville theatre that It always has. This year it should draw better than ever on account of the extra pains taken to give high class shows. Manager Joseph Quinn will again be in charge of the house which assures patrons careful atten tion and good treatment. MRS. CASEY TO SIXO. Mrs. Mae Richards Casey, Rock Is land's popular singer will sing illus trated songs at the Majestic. Mana ger Quinn had considered" eliminating this feature but when he found that ho could engage Mrs. Casey for the season again, he decided to give the songs. There will be many other good fea tures at the Majestic this year. New scenery has been provided and the house is as good as new. The the atre will be open for inspection to nlsl t at which time there will be a band concert at the house. MI'KMNf. BILL GOOD. Joe Deming and company, a "big time" act will be one of the features of the opening show. Mr. Deming and company of six will appear in Searl Allen's farce, "The Traveling Man." The first scene is laid in the Grand Central station, New York, and the second In a Pullman car go ing 0 miles an hour. Mr. Deming la pssisted by Miss Cllre Murry, C. Van, William McAvoy, Fred Jackson and ethers. The Five Columbians, Introducing the Caro Miller family. Lew PIstel. the sure fire comedian, and La Mar Ily, the "miniature Genee," will pre sent their sensational success iu six sceneB. They were the bit of the BRICKLAYERS IN OUTING Will Go to Cordova on Steamer Sid ney Tomorrow. j uriciusyers or me in-ciues togei ti er with members of their farailio. are planning an -all-day outing to morrow. They will board the steam er Pearson at the Eighteenth street landing In Moline at 9 a. m., going pre more than one hundred bricklayers in the three cities and the day 'a being looked forward to with consid erable expectation. Dinner will he served at the grove and there will be a program of sports and other entertainment. Ohio Colleges Are United. Steubenville. Ohio, Aug. 26. Sclo and Mount t'nion colleges of the East Ohio Methodist Episcopal conference were finally united at a meeting of the trustees here. The unified college will be at Alliance and an academy will be conducted at Sclo this year. The fac ulties are to be unified and the endow, ment fund IncreHsed from $350,000 to $500,000. LOCAL SINGER CON TINUES VAUDEVILLE ' ; r. -I .Mrs. Mao Ricliartls Casey at the Majentlc When the digestion Is all right, the ICUOn OI uie uuwcu niiuu, lurre ib j a natural craving and relish for food. When this la lacking you may knovr ; that you need a dose of Chamberlain's j Stomach and Liver Tablets. They I , strengthen the digestive organs, lm- j prove the appetite and rwgMiate the : bowels. Bold by ail druggist. GERMANS WILL PICNIC At Central Park. Davenport, on La bor Day. The societies of the German-American alliance In this city and Moline will gather for their annual outing at gram of speeches, music and dancing j is being prepared to embrace the en t tire day. Members of the alliance and their families will gather at the park in the morning and spend the j entire day and evening. Albert Huber has been engaged as i speaker of the day. He will deliver j an address In German. There will be several speeches in English. I All the 1 aJjTsa- news aXJ the time Tb, 00 rs: Robert' BC0ar?te I When Robert Xlantell, the Shake spearean actor, takes the stage this fall, it will be without his wif and leading woman, known profes sionally as Maria Booth Russell. Bhe Is seriously 111 at her home In At lantic Highlands with an a3ecUon of the heart. JAPAN PREMIER RESIGNS! t Count Kalfcura, Minister of Finance ' Leaves Post. Tokio, Aug. 2fi. Count Katsura t tendered his resignation as premier, i He recommends the appointment of j the Marquis cf Saloni for the post.) The cabinet of which Count Katsura : is premier and in-nister of finance : was formed July 14, 1908. His res ignation was forecast nearly a month ago and it was known that many changes in the cabinet bad been un der considers.. on. MAJESTIC THEATRE Seats now on sale for f GRAND OPENING Sunday Matinee "AUG. 27th Phone West 739 THREE SHOWS ON SUNDAY. 2:30, 7:30 and 9:30. All other days two shows. Matinees 2:30, 10c and 20c Evenings 8:15, 10c, 20c, 30c Orpheum Circuit Vaudeville 6- Big Headline Acts 2 Reels of Pictures -6 BIG FREE BAND CONCERT IN FRONT OF THEATRE SATURDAY NIGHT. AUG. 26.