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REPEATS HER OLD SUCCESS ,MISB BUSLEY RETURNS TO THE MA«QN RIDES BACK "IN THE BISHOP'S CARRIAGE" Play Is a Dramatic Adaptation by Channlng Pollook of Miss Miriam Mlchelson's Story Similarly Named SIDLE LAWRENCE Miss Jessie Busley returned to the Mason last night in the play she pre-« sented at that house last season, Chan nlng Pollock'B dramatization of Miriam Mlchelson's novel, "In the Bishop's Car riage." Save for the characters of Nance Olden and Tom Dorgan, Mr. Pollock's •work seems to be more an adaptation than a dramatization. He has taken nu merous liberties with the story, but lib erties which appear to have been Justi fied In view of the preferences of cur-, rent day theater-goers. The play, however, retains with fidelity the character of Nance, and as It, Was Nance who made the book a success so It is Nance that makes the drama worth the playing. A curious personality hers; Btrong, as a girl with her experience must needs be; inconsistent at times— perhaps that Is the woman of It — and with an astygmatic view of life which even her two years of regeneration fail to correct. Nance is introduced first as an exceed ingly bold and audacious thief, the "pal" of a crook whose only redeeming trait Is his past loyalty to herself. She steals, as she herself explains, sometimes for Tom, sometimes for the love of the game, but always with the recollection that her first theft was committed so she might eat when she needed food. The Play's Motif She Is detected in thievery by William Latlmer, a criminal lawyer, whose hobby is the reclamation of criminals. He com pels her to restore her plunder, but lets her go. Before her exit, however, there Is a brief colloquy that embodies the motif of the play. "I wonder," ruminates the attorney "what a man like me could do for a girl like you?" "Reform her," retorts Nance with a sneering laugh. "Teach her how to get diamonds honestly." "Or go without them," he answers. Then Nance jumps Into the waiting au tomobile. "WheTe to, lady?" ask* the chauffeur. "Where you damn please," she replies; and the curtain falls. This Is the first act, and the succeed ing acts are concerned In working out Latlmer's answer to his self-propounded problem. He does not each the girl to go Withdut diamonds, but he shows her a way to earn them honestly, as a mimic on the vaudeville stage. In so doing he falls in love with his pupil, and though tne course of his love runs much less smoothly than the cushion-tired carriage of his friend, the bishop, In the end he wins her for his wife. This is not ac cording to the book, but they manage such things differently on the stage. To Mr. Pollock more than to Miss Michelson is clue the credit for making Nance's transformation assume the guise of reality. Her philosophy In the earlier acts Is summed up briefly. It Is this; "Everybody Has a Graft" "Everybody has a graft; and It's everybody's graft to get all he can and k«ep out of Jail." Ultimately she discovers that honesty is- the best policy; which perhaps in » volves no very radical change from that lrst viewpoint after all. There are big truths In the play, truths that strike straight to the heart of the modern social system. Yet Mr. Pollock is too clever a man to preach. He In dicates conditions, epitomizes them in an epigram, and wisely permits his gj.idlence to do its own thinking. In the character of Ramsay, also, Mr. Pollock has departed from the book. Ramsay is made a typical rounder, but without the usual exaggeration. He never comes upon the stage sober, yet his, Inebriety is not burlesqued. In the second act someone mentions the name "Nance Olden." Ramsay hears It and begins to sing: "It was not the same in the olden days." He Is still singing as he goes off .ne stage. As it is written the part might easily be made offensive, but Mr. Ueorge Rich ards keeps it well within bounds. His foolery with a seltzer siphon and a lamp chimney which he has mistaken for a, glass is excellently managed and his own appreciation of the Joke when it is explained to him Is very natural. Miss Bueley's Fine Work t As for Miss Busley, her Nance remains a finely conceived and finely presented character. So much has been said and written of her work in this role that there seems little need to repeat the praise. Perhaps the cleverest thing she does is the', sneering laugh, frequently used In the earlier acts; the least artistic, her malicious Jabs at her hat when matters fall to movo to her liking. A woman, even If she is ft thief, does not treat a hat so despltefully. Mr. Hallet Thompson as Latlmer gives a consistently even performance of the part. He never reaches any marked ex c*ellence, but neither does he fall below a certain, level. The Tom Doigan of Harry English is a clever piece of work. Mrs. George Barnum, wife of the former stage director of the Belasco theater, plays Latlmer's mother, but the role gives her little to do. As for the others, they do not much matter. Nance Olden, Lati mer and Dorgan make the play, with Ramsay thrown In for good measure. Miss Busley and her company remain at the Mason for only half the week. The play makes no great pretensions, but It Is well worth seeing. STONE AND BOBWORTH MAKE BELASCO (SHOW 'The Mills of the Gods" as presented by the Belasco company last evening: is a cleverly planned and executed play without being ln any sense original. Great It Is only in that it furnishes a most enjoyable evening's entertain ment and is right cleverly acted, but its situations and mechanics are all familiar. James Clark, a bookkeeper, Is told by the doctor who is attending his sick sister that only a change of climate can save her life. Penniless, he sesorts to embezzlement to secure the funds. Discovery by a fellow clerk forces him to further crime. Arrested and placed on trial, Clark receives a telegram an nouncing the death of his Bl«ter, and his incentive for lighting punishment being gone he confesses the crime. He and hla fellow embezzler are sentenced to live years In prison. After two years he escapes and be gins life anew under an assumed name. His talents bring him an honest suc cess and the respect of all who know him. His fellow convict having com pleted the five year sentence finds him. Exposure la threatened and is avoided by Clark's submission to the blackmailer's demands. When, how over, the torturer attempts to force Clark's sweetheart to marry him fhe ¦worm turns, and as the only menna of LOS 'ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1907. escape plans a surrender to Justice. Thn powerful political standing of an official In the glass trust, who seeks Clark's services as an expert designer of cut glassware, Is effective in secur ing a pardon for the reformed embez zler and all ends happily. Stone and Bosworth By lonW odds the most consistently clever work of the play are the Inter pretations given by Lewis S. Stone in the role of Clark and of Hobart Bos worth as the blackmailing fellow con vict. Both men are artists, and their good work makes the show. True, there are a host of other characters, most of them well played, but the work of Bosworth and Stone Is ln a class alone. ' As the weakling, seeking to avoid punishment for his past crime, Stone's repression stands him well ln hand and his acting is telling. When, finally goaded to the turning point by the un reasoning demands of the snake who tortures him, fhe bursts forth in a mur derous frenzy, the elemental man Is wonderful to see. Bosworth Is no less clever In the sneering 1 , taunting role of the black mailer, whose cowardice Is pitiful to see when his victim finally defies him. Miss Blanche Stoddard has little to do as Catherine Gordon, Clark's sweet heart. However, her one moment In the play, when she demands that the man she loves and who loves her. ex plain the reason which forces them apart gives an opportunity for the display of rare emotional ability, and she responds nobly. Vivian In a Good Bit Dickie Vivian does wonders In the makeup line for his bit as a lawyer in the trial scene. Also he plays the bit to the very life. Thomas Lowell was not so happily placed ns tho prosecut ing attorney. His opening speech to the Jury Is a very iong and trying one. Doubtless he will appear to better ad vantage later ln the weok. Harry Earle returns to play a bit, nppoaring as the clerk of the court. Harry Spear Is the Judge. Both are satisfactory. Howard Scott and William Yerance as the prosecuting witness ln the trial scene both contribute excellent bltß, carefully separated as to Identity from the roles assigned them ln the later acts 1 when Scott plays the leading of ficer of the glass trust and Yerance poses as tho discoverer of the talents of Clark, and fills the position of presi dent in a large glass manufacturing! concern, later bought up by the trust. Alfred Allen and Dickie Vivian offer satisfactory Juvenile parts for the last acts of the play, and with the others make a background for the work of the two main characters. John Daly Murphy as the village simple bent upon being a "sleuth" is extremely clever. The play Is well mounted and staged ln a manner doing Director Bosworth much credit. Harry Glazier was cast for the part played by Bosworth, but nt the last moment wns unable, through Illness, to appear and Mr. Bosworth, on re markably short notice, played In his strnd. Mr. Glazier Is confined to his home by a severe attack of rheumatism. Physicians are in attendance and the situation Is somewhat grave. HANDCUFFS LACK POWER TO RESTRAIN HOUDINI The Orpheilm was packed last night to witness Houdlni triumph over number less pairs of handcuffs, two leg shackles such as are used by the police depart ment on the chain gang, and an Oregon boot. Loaded down with all that hard ware, so he could scarcely back Into the cabinet, he nevertheless released himself in about seven minutes. His Is the really clever act at the big vaudeville house this week. Leona Thurber, with her plckanninles, still delights the gßllery gods. Her little darkies are very quaint in their flaxen wigs and wooden shoes. The singing is a lot of noise with loud music, all done at a mile a minute gait that Is sure to drive away the blues. The disrobing act In the Geisha girl's dream provokes much applause, -though the audience is somewhat apprehensive lest the curtain miss Its cue. Domenlco Russo Is a veßy good tenor who sings in Italian, much to tho dis gust of the occupants of the upper part of the house. He was encored five times last night and the last time responded with an English selection. How In the world Chris Richards ever escaped carrying a hod for a living and contrived to inviegcl a manager Into paying him for a vaudeville stunt is one of the dark secrets. He does get ln a little clever work with the aid of a hat, but of the rest of his act the less said the better. The Balzers are well trained acrobats, and their work is well received. Nothing pretentious Is undertaken, but they elicit well deserved applause with several dif ficult turns. Blanche Farrell and the rest of the Farrell trio show to good advantage ln a razzle dazzle black face stunt. Very little of their work Is new but they have n few novelties, notably the gas Jeet, and n pretty good line of talk. Not even after they had responded to four encores were the sky pilots satisfied to let them go. Fred's monkey actors do nothing start ling nor funny till the close of the act, when the barber shop scene Is a howling SCENE FROM "IN THE BIBHOP'B CARRIAGE," •'RESENTED AT .THE MASON '(.ABT NIGHT 12+ c Beaded RucKing \ r j ~ Z^SZTTI I 121 c Emb. Beading and Edges | c ....... yr^Af* fJ rl \Uj r^TY^ I /Cy>tt£ M on Rood grade of swiss and cambric; well Beauhful ruching, trimmed With white, black /^|YY rt |MSf (O)\HlSb worked designs and colored edges; widths to 4 and gold beads, n several colors and combina- \^J JVW Wglf M^V* W so i d regularly at 12*0. On sale 2 hours, tions; worth to 12* c yard. On sale today, Bto 10, „„„,„„„ con. k.ftii ht. Bto 10 today lc yard . ' : ' ; ¦ ¦ at lc yard. Limit 20 yards. : ' -. :\,^V-->^7.' ' .\ . ... .' " .¦ ¦. '' • ¦¦¦•-¦- ¦ ¦ ':¦¦¦'- ¦¦ ¦¦'-' ¦¦'' ¦ - ¦¦ " : ' --•¦¦¦—-—¦' *£&?£&££z\ Ijl1 jl I ?=Hnur Sales :8 to 10. 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' ' : V: i; i 35c Jelly glasses, tumbler shape, dozen - 4C . at -OC. -«ar * '* .« * . v . . _t , , HOUDINI, HANDCUFF KING, AT THE ORPHEUM success. The curtain falls just in time to prevent hostilities between the barber and his customer, while the children fairly scream with delight. GILMAN GIRLS REMAIN AT THE UNIQUE THEATER The Gllman sisters still remain the headliners of the new bill at the Uniqye, which opened last night. They have tmado some changes in the act. Of the newcomers the three Dots easily take first place. The troupe, consisting of two pretty girls and a man, put on one of the cleverest exhibitions of acrobatic work that has been seen at this house for many a long day. The third act on the new olio. Elmore nnd Litho, In a comedy sketch, "The Sudden Surprise," also made a hit. Tracy McDermott sang the illustrated songs, the Unlque-o-scopp showed some new moving pictures and the Unique comedy company presented Richard Cumming'a farce comedy, "The Mistaken Identity." "THE LOST VOICE" IS THE BILL AT FIBCHER'S There is never a minute that the Fischer "Beauty chorus" Isn't to the fore in this week's musical comedy of fering at the little First Street theater F. Clifford Harris consents to shouldering the responsibility for the playlet yclept "The Lost Voice." Just how the voice was lost doesn't ap pear very clearly, but In any event the skit provides a vehicle for the appear ance of the company's favorites in several musical numbers, and the chorus gambols right merrily in attractive costumes. Lew Dunbar, Natlne Stuart, Kate Carl son, Dan Kelly, Jolly Zeb, the company's producer, and all the others appear to advantage. A good vaudeville turn and new motion pictures complete the bill. CUTB FINGER ALMOST OFF; SURGEONS BEW IT ON AGAIN With the Index finger of hisieft hand dangling by a small bit of flesh L. C. Bell, an employe of the California Cor nice works, was taken to the receiv ing hospital yesterday. The bone of the finger had been severed by heavy metal trimming shears with which Bell had been working. Bell thought he had lost the finger. The doctors thought differently, how ever, and after half an hour had sewed the finger on. Bell lives at 205 East Fifth street. REGISTRATION OF OPENING DAY 33,000 BOOK STORES ARE PACKED FOR HOURS New Curriculum Necessitates Entirely New Set of Books — One Firm Sells $2500 Worth In Short Time Yesterday was the first day of school. The enrollment began at 9 o'clock, and when the board of education summed up the results of the day late last night it discovered that the enrollment this year was 33.000, as compared with the enrollment of 30,000 of the last session. Thousands upon thousands of pupils crowded the book stores yesterday. One store alone sold ?2000 worth of books in three hours. The new curriculum adopted by the board of education, B. C. Moore, super intendent of city schools, and the prin cipals 'ami teachers generally at the meeting held last Saturday morning ne cessitated the purchase of new books throughout. While thousands of scholars were pur chasing school books, scores of children were being vaccinated by the city health department. Vaccination began as early as last Friday and has continued un ceasingly. Sometimes me rush was so great that from the health office,, which is located on the second floor of the city hall, there was an unbroken line extend ing half a block down Broadway. The vaccination will continue for sev eral days yet until all the scholars have undergone the operation. Drs. Powers and Garcelon are in attendance with a few nurses. HARRIMAN SUPERINTENDENTS MEET TO ADJUST STANDARDS Men Prominent In the Motive Power Branch of Vast System Hold Con. ventlon In Pacific Electric Building The superintendents of the motive power of the Harrlman railroad system met at the Pacific Electric building yes terday informally. Today they will get down to real business. The superintend ents meet at different times to readjust old standards, and aid progress in mo tive power lines throughout the Harrl man system. Those who were present yesterday were H. J. Small, San Francisco, super intendent motive power Southern Pacific; W. R. McKeep Jr., Omaha, Union Pa cific; J. F. Dunn, Salt Lake, Oregon short line; J. F. Graham, Portland, Ore gon Railroad and Navigation; F. C. Da vidson, Los Angeles, Salt Lake road; J. Kneufter, Chicago, Illinois Central; P. Bheedy, Los Angeles, southern division Southern Pacific; T. W. Heintzelman, Sacramento, northern division Southern Pacific; J. J. Ryan, Houston, Southern Pacific east of Ei PasorVJ. W. Small, Tucson, Harriman lines in Mexico and Arizona^ H. "Stillman, San, Francisco, engineer of tests. ATTACKS CROWD THAT REFUSES TO 3UY FOR HIM Because a gang: of men In the saloon at the corner of Fifth street and Cen tral avenue refused to treat him F. A. Bias is alleged to have attacked them. The complaint sworn out by Ed Car son charges Bias with disturbing the peace. The. defendant was let out on |15 ball. Unsold Bonds Distributed By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 16.— The Union Pa clflc syndicate, which underwrote the $76,000,000 convertible bonds, dissolved to day and the unsold bonds, which amount ed to about 170,000,000, were distributed to the syndicate participants. 7 MEXICO'S 4TH CELEBRATED DAY MARKED BY PICTURESQUE CEREMONIES FESTIVITIES BEGIN WITH GUN ATSUNRIBE Lively Program Rendered at Historic Plaza Church — Hundreds Listen to Patriotic Exercises — Fete Sur. passes All Others Yesterday was the Mexican Fourth of Ju".y. Hundreds of citizens of the republic located here in tLos Angeles ctlehrtted the ninety-seventh auatvariary ot thl freedom of their nitlrs land. Nerer before la the history of Los An gelus was there euch a demonstration made by the Mexican population. At eun rise twenty guns wore nred under the direction of General Agullar, a veteran soldier who was identified with the brav est resistance the Americans, met with when Southern California was Invaded by General Fremont. The morning was given over to demon strations in Sonoratown, Including flre worke. In the afternoon the Porflrio Dlaa club, under the supervision of Ralph J. Do minguez, had arranged for an elaborate programme of addresses. Among the chief speakers were Mayor Harper, Oscar Lawler, United States district attorney; Senator Flint and J. Gulllermo Domln guez, mining promoter and prominent lawyer of Mexico. All of the speakers commented on the cordial relations existing between the two republics. The various addresses were punctuated with repeated applause, until old Turner hall echoed. A musical pro gram was presented, the main partici pants being Miss Be&s M. Welch and Miss Kate Wallace. Hundreds Present In the evening at the historic Plaza church on North Main etreet hundreds gathered to attend the program that had been arranged by Rev. Juan Cabaljerla, pastor of the church. It was filled to tandirg capacity when the curtain rolled up. Various Spanish dances were performed by pretty senoritas. There were the ca chucha, la horta, and the famous som brero bianco dances, all dono by Grace Larleux. The program afforded quite a bit of pleasure to a great number of American spectators who had congregated at the old mission to catch a glimpse of the old time life of Spanish days before the ad vent of the American. Mrt. Gonzales' in terpretation of "La Golodrina " and "La Paloma" was received with applause. Profe&sor Gallegos of th« University of Ecuador read an original poem and de livered ar address on "The History of Mexico." This was followed by an ora tion delivered by Rev. Juan Caballerla, who spoke on "America and Mexico, the Sister Republics." The stage was prettily decorated with flags of both nations, and an arrangement of variously colored electric lights. The whole was outdoors, giving an unusual character to the affair. At the conclusion of the performance the entire audience mingled with the Ce clllan society of forty voices and sang the Mexican national anthem. This was followed by a salute of guns by the vet eran Mexican soldiers, under the direc tion of General Agullar. Last night, whl'.e the Plaza mission was holding Its program of festivities, the Friday Morning club ballroom was the scene of a gay ball at which all the Spanish families of Los Angeles and vi cinity were present. The bnll was held under the direction of Rlcardo Uribe and the Friday Mor ning club. The club was well represented by the presence of a majority of Its nii-mliiTs, all dressed in handsome ball costumes. Celebrate at Jamestown By Associated Preaa. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 16.— Mexico day was celebrated at the Jamestown expo sition today. Jose T. -Godoy, charge d'affaires of the Mexican embassy, and L. O. Materelia of the Mexican army participated. A notable feature was an automobile parade with twenty-one young women representing in foreign costumes as many nations. Appoints Western Postmasters OYSTER BAY, N. i., Bept 18—Presi dent Roosevelt today appointed the fol lowing postmasters: W. S. Johnson, Manhattan, Nev.; Henry B. Stewart, Myrtle Point, Ore.