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LOUIS JAMES IS A JOLLY JOCKER
James Crawford
LOUIS JAMES can't help being
a comedian. He was born that
way. and two score years of
strutting as some of Shakes
peare's most stern faced and stiff
backed characters have not affected
his inherent sense of humor. In the
profession it is alleged that the more
serious the part he plays the more
likely is he to be either planning or
perpetrating a practical joke.
"Humph, said a veteran actor of
my acquaintance, when I told him that
Mr James was extremely funny as
Falstaff. "that's quite natural. .What
proves him an artist is the convincing
manner in which he can look and act
-rcriously." . \ ". '\u25a0'\u25a0
And so say all the knights of the
sock and buskin who have been asso
ciated with him. There are enough
anecdotes of his alleged droll sayings
and doings to make a heavy volume
of light reading. To most of the
rJlegations he pleaded guilty as we
conversed one recent afternoon in
his apartments at the Savoy,, the other
persons present being his wife, Aphie,
and his manager, Wallace Munro; j
hoth of whom seemed to be infected
by his begone-dull-care spirit.
"But surely." I said, after he had
denied the authorship of several jokes
that are generally credited to him,
"you passed the oyster to Fred
Vvarde while he was playing Antony
10 j-our Brutus in 'Julius Ceasar?'"
He Denies the Oyster Yarn
"I was waiting for that," he replied,
"because the oyster story is the most
widely circulated of the funpy ones
concerning me. No, sir; E. L. Daven
port was the man who transferred
the oyster — which wasn't an oj-ster
at all. bufa huge quid of tobacco
pretty thorough]}' masticated.
"The senators had done Ceasar to
death and were standing in a semi
circle, with Brutus at either the tambo
«-r the bone end — whichever is marked
'L* in the stage directions for a
minstrel first part. Enter Antony,
•-arrowing o'er the assassination of
his friend. To test the feeling of the
senators toward himself he addresses
them collectively and then extends
to each of them his hand, beginning
v.ith Brutus. "Twas then Brutus de
posited in Antony's hand the quid.
Antony tried to place it in the hand
<>i the next senator he interviewed,
but not until he reached the noble
Demetrius, standing 'R,' did he get
rid/ of it. and then only because the
r.ctor who played Demetrius was not
in the plot. Ail the others merely
i ouched Antony's linger tips. 'Take
it. my boy, and may God bless you.'
•vhispered the grateful Antony, as he
flapped the pulpy mass into the palm
of Demetrius. I wasn't in the cast
at all, and I never passed an oyster
to Wardc"
"But you did something just as
i'.!can while you were playing Brutus
here in San Francisco," his better
half merrily prompted.
"If I did it has escaped my recol
lection," he averred.
Pranks at the Old Baldwin
She jogged his memory until it
yielded the story. He was a member
of the great company that opened the
Baldwin theater 30 years ago, with
Barry Sullivan, the English tragedian,
as stock star. The late Ed Buckley
was also of the corps, ,and in the
\u25a0Julius Ceasar' production James
played Brutus and Buckley had the
title role. When the swords of the
-cnators did their work and Ceasar
fell. Brutus adroitly dropped a pinch
of red pepper on the portion of the
toga that was drajvn across the face
of the prostrate man, and a few min
utes later, while Antony was deliv
ering his denuencia^pry speech, the
supposed corpse violently sneezed and
spoiled the scene. Buckley knew it
was pepper that tickled his nostrils,
and probably knew the maa who had
dropped it, but he pleaded a head cold
to appease the wrath of the mighty
SulHran.
"Sullivan was a magnificent actor,
but he didn't like me," said James,
musingly, "and I ascribe his distaste
only to the fact that I could not bring
myself to the point of paying the
homage he apparently had been ac
: customed to receiving in England.
| One day I addressed him as 'Sullivan '
and he ceased speaking to me for a*
week."
t'Maybc he suspected you were
identified with that footbath . incident
you have told me about," the better
half coached.
"Perhaps he did," was the chuckled
response.
Actor Sullivan's Footbath
Mr. SulMvan. it seemed, acted so
strenuously in "Richard III" that his
valet had a hot footbath ready for his
refreshment ere he donned his street
.attire. The water, contained in a big
' kettle, was heated over a gas jet in
; the property room and usually arrived
j at boiling point just as the final cur
\u25a0 tain fell, when the valet grabbed the
; kettle and ran with it to the star's
; dressing room, where the water was
; deposited in a large basin.
The arrangement worked charm
: ingly until one night James and Buck
• lej' decided to surprise the greatest
tragedian of his day. After the valet
; placed the kettle upon the jet Buck
\u25a0 ley called him away and James turned
( 'off the gas and dropped a chunk of
ice into the kettle. Buckley detained
the valet by telling him funny stories
• until the curtain, was about to descend,
.when James relighted the gas and
concealed himself. Away rushed,; the
valet with the kettlef ul of ice water
and sloshed it into the basin. A mo
ment later his master plumped his
nude feet into the chilling bath — and
• screeched as he instantly vvithdrew
them. The valet lost his job. but
James and Buckley got a better one
for him. . .
"There was only one man who im
pressed me as being more serious than
Pullivan," the reformed tragedian
•ent on, "and he was Augustin Daly."
Troubles of Augustus Daly
"I was in his company four years,
and during three of them he never
spoke to me nor I to him. The com
pany blamed me; for' provoking- the
long list of restrictive rules < that he
rigidly enforced, and I'll confess that
some of them were inspired by . my
actions. When he caught me drop
ping an amusing remark to a lady
who was just about to respond to her
cue to enter, and thus causing her to
go on smilingly instead of sorrow
fully as per book, he added a rule
which imposed a fine of $10 on any one
who indulged in sotto voce utterances
either in the wings or on the stage.
Every time I did anything not en
tirely in accord with his policy a new
rule prohibiting that very thing was
tacked to the list."
Mrs. James Neill, who as Edythe
Chapman was leading woman for
Warde and James several consecu
tive seasons, has several good stories
to tell of how the two tragedians
made Shakespeare endurable for its
interpreters on the dreary one night
stands, and James vouched for the
accuracy of those she. recounted to
me and I repeated to him.
They were playing "Othello" one
night, with James as the dusky Moor
and Miss Chapman as the fair Desde
mona, and after he had pretended to
I smother her with a pillow and then
bent over her in impassioned repent
ance he wiped moist burnt cork from
his face with one of his fingers and
transferred it to her upper lip and
chin until she looked as if she had a
fiercely curled mustache and a meek
goatee. Not until she was in her |
dressing room and before the mirror
did she understand why. she had been
restrained from responding to the
thunderous clamor that rewarded the
acting of the scene.
Unlooked-for Art Display
That season was closed at Norris
town. Perm., and "Julius Ceasar" was
the final play. In his dressing room
James was confronted by a litho
graph of a scantily attired burlesque
queen lacked to the wall, where it
evidently had been left by the. fair
original herself . the previous night.
He scissored the picture until it fitted
nicely into the concave^ side of his
Roman shield, and then . went forth
for the battle scene. Warde, as An
tony, was hot pressing him backward
down stage when suddenly he straight
ened out his guard arm and exposed
the dazzling work of art to his op
ponent's gaze. Antony gasped, but
whether in astonishment or admira
tion his adversary knoweth hot, and
the action pf the- scene was delayed
until the shield was again covering
the breast of Brutus.
But that did' not end the persiflage.
Antony, standing^over the prostrate
Brutus, should haVe said in sorrow,
"This was the noblest Roman of
them all!" but he deliberately substi
tuted "might have been" for "was,"
whereupon the presumed corpse
looked up at him and hissed in falset
to, "Covv-ard, how dare you?" Cur
taih.
One of the allegations. which neither
Mr.\ or Mrs. James nor Mr. Munro
would either confirm or deny waß one
which credits a once famous, actress
with having literally bitten tie biter.
She was Juliet to James' Romeo, and
in the potion scene, when he stooped
to kiss the poison from her lips, she
repaid him for several practical jokes
at her expense by fastening her teeth
in his nose with sufficient firmness to
pin him down until^ he was 'greatly
embarrassed and the audience much
surprised. Then she released him.
Fun in Staid Philadelphia
While he was the leading man of
Mrs. John Drew's company at the
Arch Street theater, Philadelphia,
James perpetrated many of the pranks
which are raked up when there is a
foregathering of "old legits" and the
"palmy days" of the Shakespearean
drama in -this country, are discussed
and their departure deplored. By the
by, -James speaks reverently of Mrs.
Drew as his early mentor. :-:
A favorite btftt of his r jokes v' was
the stage door keeper,, an: old Eng
lishman who was given to
that he had. been a close 'crony of
the . great duke of Wellington 5 , during
the 'peninsular campaign, and even at
atcrluo.
"The noight'-befawr : 'e hupset Na
poleon for ; hever," the aged ;:prevari-.
cator used to : inform the -'actors; "th*
dook an' me were aplayin' chess 'in
is tent, w'en ii •; horderly : c hofficer
rushes in wuth.th'" tidings that th'
bloomin' Corsican was a comih'/wuth
a tremen jous harmy. 'Let 'im : conic,'
~ez 'is graicc. co6l.asy.er pleaies:. 'T:n'
too much .-'hintercVicd •in 'this > 'ere
THE ; SAN '}\u25a0 pS^GIBGO^OMiLid 1 JStJCTA^IOQTOBM^^is^
gaime t' bother wuth 'im-nowV -'An'
'c plaiys hon an' hon till 'c 'as Ime
checkmaited; an' then 'c gaws hout
an' wins Waterloo."
One night James; simulated intoxica
tion as he passed by the old man;and
a few minutes later he was summoned
from his dressing room to the stage,
where Mrs. Drew.'s I maid • awaited; him
with a cup of steaming tea in her hand.
"My mistress'sent you this," said the
girl, "and hopes you will drink it) at
once, as it settles both the stomach
and the brain." Teacup in hand, James
stood dumfouhded : until the v iron
duke's friend tapped his shoulder and
whispered, "Drink th' tea, sir,; afore
yer goes hoh V hact. Th' dookallus
'ad a cup o' 'ot tea w'en 'c 'ad taken
a drop^too much o'isuthin' stronger
an' 'ad t' go inter battle!" ,
When Mrs. Drew Was Scared
In one of the plays at the Arch
Street theater it, was the leading man's
business to rescue', the" fainting,;hero
ine (Mrs. Drew) ; from a lofty and
perilous position by carrying her
down an 18 foot ladder to' the stage;
He had applied to her for an increase
of salary, arid • she' had v been/ tardy in
responding.' to ; the ; application; so one
: night;, ' when \he . had v conveyed; ; ; her j
about half ; - ( way/ down: the ; ladder,: he
stopped^an'dvwhispered^i^n^cingly,;
"Do I . get *it ?", "Get "what— descend—
descend," • s*he ;. whispered back. "If
my salary - does Z notarise, you -drop,",
he hissed ; '\u25a0:. "does , it go up ?" : l"Yes;
ycs;sanything! ; you; please,"; she' mut
tered.: v'TKen ; if i it . goes" up \u25a0 vve'll \u25a0 re
bume going i down,'' • he] said. ' • "- .
\u25a0 One of ', the bbit:g t : scenes - in ;: "Across
the* Continent",; was -that j inVwhich] the
s tar,/ Oliver^Ddudkßyron^T "and:;, -the
heavy man, Louis; James;. engaged liri
a. fight r b"n l a". railway,; track. ' : TirTheylbat--'
tied, -twith;.; knives V until- Ahe T {yiHain's
weapon Iwas^broken; ; and; the ; \u25a0 hero
i magnanimously."; cast * awayjhis bbwie
arid :pontinued^;the)sconibat\3vithj; his
hands", ohly>; That ;was' James'; cHance
for a:joke;«^liistead;off.pretending : to
strike^ and .placed ?;• his
hands uridef.ißyrori'sfarrnSiandUickled
hirii, and* Byron, :':wlio' of "course^ was
scheduled \u25a0'.. to V-,win" the.;; 'encouritef,"
could do \u25a0 nothing ; ; but ; writhe' 4*4 *; and
s wear xrv- l{ushe"d| tone'*'.j "S top I tickliri g
me," he'whispered,' \u25a0 "or ;; you'll]; spoil
.the;sceri^.'V^But|^HeHickling'wasi;not
stoppeci; until vjaltnes^had; his"; fill \of
fuharid^tlie; sceneiwasjalriibst spoiled^
Thch:he" ; all6wed;him|elf;tc^bcUlinSvvri
across; the "\u25a0:track^*iid;=_Byfoln"eyeVied
lup thc-lijoVfc: ;l)yi;;sittin^J*u'iKin'r : him;
seizing /his^cars'and'/iMKiUerisig^ his
\u25a0V'V- - :' T ' '", * " ,
head upon one of the wooden" rails
until he begged for quarter.
Mean Trap for Chamber Maids
: It "was Mrs. James' suggestion that
I see Mr. Munro's "chamber maids' de
light," : which turned ; out to be a con
trivance that Mr. Muhro kept: in his
apartment for, thereproof of inquisi
tive \u25a0' :
\ "You know," he explained, display
ing a; small plush covered; box. "that
hotel .chamber maids can't resist the
temptation of inspecting the contents
of -any jewel : repository that comes in
their way. It is : to cure them^of • the
habit" that I leave this little "device
on my dressing* table. , While \t has
all the ; external indications of ' con
taining a : : bracelet, you" have only to
press, they spring to discover that it
is loaded with something "else."
He pressed the* spring and the lid
flew up with a sharp^report. in
ternal mechanism consisted of a'spring
gun ; arrangement, ' which . , exploded .a. !
toy pistol cap when the button '. was :
pushed.
'"Our trail • across \u25a0 the . continent,"
said Mrs. James, • "can be followed by
finding; hotels ; in which the chamber
maids-jdo not pry" into the guests'
Jewel i cases." / J - \u25a0:;,"-' .' ,-.;\u25a0 v.^^
/£ "To say. nothing," her husband de
clared, ''of. the, sanitariums* in which
chamber \u25a0 maids are -being ; treated for
shattered nerves." r . V- v • :.
* '."I'd; hate to tell you," quoth; Mr.
Munro,': "of the number of chamber
maids who have swooned in my apart
ment.",^/ 1 ' \u25a0 •
Plga:Netnersolem,"Sapho f *
'- For the first week of her 'engagement
a.t% the j Van" Ness ' theater, commencing
tomorrow; evening, Miss Nethersale ;has
chosen V'Sapho." ~play= wwilyl y also
be f : presented > at]\' the* matinees .on
Wednesday/: and' Saturday ! and • on i Sun
day ; evening. .October,' 13* "'lt • isv the
original Clyde p Fitch \'K versl on, made
f jpm _£\u25a0 Daudet's ; famous fclasslc, v and? is
entirely ? different.f rom various Mmita
tions I that V have; been ; offered the ' public
under.the title ; of //Sapho." \u25a0 Miss Neth
ersole has achieved world wide fame (in
her,', characterization ;_ of Fanny" "la
GrandcV \u25a0' . ': \u25a0- :' ' \"- .'
The" first -act of "Sapho'V as it- will
be Y presented in the Van ; Ness theater
is one of .the most 'gdrgeous scenic' pro
ductions -_ever/ presented Ton V any i stage.
The^ scene shows a \ fancy-dress : ball , in
the';studlo; of: a 'artist, where
Fanny la Grande, : model \ f or: a ; famous
statue v of U Sapho. vis i the .center of \u25a0-: a
throng, of gay , revelers." Here : she ; meets
a i young; man; fresh from; the 'country
Jean \ Gaussin; : who"- loves J her.'; The' rest
of r the play^howing^lWiw) fchis 1 infatua
tion'; almost ruins ;tse|careers ; and i lives
of -both of : them is^a'powerfur dramatic
story/: r,...\-\ ;-:,(\i&:*£^.:~r \u25a0 •,--\u25a0.;'\u25a0.\u25a0.\u25a0•;-:
.^.Miss J repertoire for; the
second week^ of :h«rt engagement r will ' be
as '\u25a0% follows : f- On*^ Mbnday;' and Friday
evenings KCThe^ Awakening*'; on Tues
day evening J and VVVednesday. matinee
"Carmen" ; r , Wednesday £ evening "The
Labyrinth"; '.Thursday, .evening^ ."Ad-^
rlenne Saturdays matinee*
"Camllle'.' ; Saturday \u0084"The Sec
ond • Mrs. Tanqueray." : \u25a0\u25a0.
\u25a0' ':' " \u25a0 '\u25a0' *~: ; \u25a0•"•*•'': : ."• ' '- '\u25a0'': '
Louis^ames. as TSvo Drdmios :
: ; Louis James '.will '[ devote the second
week j of : : his - engagement ? at J the i Nov
elty theater. v with the exception oof
night i and * Saturday 'I mati
nee, to his production of Shakespeare's
comedy.y.'TheiComedyiofiErrors.VJ.The
first r) performance • will f. ; be - given * this
evenlng^^/; \-; .;:,-\u25a0; -.'s.'^'.'. .'•. :, : ' \u25a0\u25a0' r : .'\u25a0/.
Wednesday , night and Saturday* mati
nee?wlir f b« 'devoted i to '.'"Thel Merchant
of |y enlce" c ! and \u25a0 theater, goers ; will 'once
more^ have^i an f opportunity tof \u25a0 enjoy
ing; the i really* great) dramatio \ work : of
this .distinguished - actor . in : ; the ' role 'of
Shy lock. ; "Aphie James willbeseenas
Portia 1 and Frederick Paul ding as Bas
sanio.i • l >;• -.'-'._\u25a0' \u25a0\u25a0..'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0;-<:"\u25a0.:. .;>
j ."The o Comedy- -of ii Errors" .should
prove "t especially attractive. . - as ;'"; Mr.'
James I has ; decided tto ?"essay,V for the
nrstitimel in^ the t history |of |theXdrama;
theltwo* Dromios,! a f dual I impersonation
that^brings; intoj playj all |the\ versatil
;ityJthatlisfatUhe|dliposal; ofUhe ? player;
ii f jorgtn3 th^f d?d ?M n«n «* tl?"?lrOft l?"?lrOf *these>,two
resemblance' to; each ii other,- yet the! line
of - demarcation . must' be so delicately
drawn* .that.: .while the* auditor .is
cognizant of v^the duality, the charac
ters in ; contact with the two Dromios
must necessarily be kept , in ". Ignorance
of the same. Mr. James is said so
thoroughly to differentiate between the
two men that the spectator, many, times
feels T assured . that the < two • parts are
played by i two men who resemble each
other with wonderful. fidelity. .
Costume Play at the Alcazar
"At the new,- Alcazar,- theater tomorrow
evening Messrs." Belasco and Mayer will
put": on i TWhen " • Knighthood * "Was in
Flower/Lone' of the successes of the old
O'Farrell ; street ; house. ,It is a 'drama
tization , ; ; of 3 Charles t Major's novel . of
the same name, and is as pretty a cos
tume play as was ever written.
.' Miss * Thais ; Lawton ".will hava . an : ex
cellent fopportunity^Jln the role of Mary.
Tudor. .-There are* a number of emo
tional . scenes , In which ; she participates
that call,,. for; great histrbnic ability.
Bertram *Lytell . will I play - the " role of
Charles f Brandon, ", the cavalier who- Is
eventually/, raised to a dukedom".. and
becomes a brother in law of England's
kinr.V;/ Howard :. C. Kickman.V i the7 : neW
heavy^man,:. will: have ' a better Tbk&nc*
to s prove] his ability in'the role?of TtSaa^
koden than he did in the role of Charier
Stuart Min', ''GenesseeVof the .Hills."lln
wh ich . he made his initial ; appearance
last week." - ; A: .-• Burt * "Wesner, : Johnny
Maher, Ernest Glendennins, Adele Bel-"
?rarde, Daisy Lovering. Louise Brownell
and ; all ;the - other " favorites - off the. 1 ; new
Alcazar, .--y stock*; company '':.-_ will findj ac
ceptable^ parts iin \u25a0 the big - production.*//
" "When ? Knighthood? Was- in ; Flower"
will run the entire week, and is to be
followed by an elaborate revival of
"The Pit," which made such a decided
impression at the new house last
spring 1 -
• • •
Frolic and Music at American
The fall and winter season of the
American theater will be opened thi*
afternoon, when "Little Johnny Jones."
one of the beat musical plays ever con- !
tributed to the amusement world by i
that clever playwright. George M. j
Cohan, start* in on a week's engage
ment.'
"Johnny Jones" has a well defined ;
plot and a couple of love stories that'
run throughout the thre* acts, in which j
it has been " written. There are also \
22 special song numbers, every one of;
which has proved popular. As to j
scenery and costumes "Johnny Jones" ;
has a reputation for as elaborate and i
effective an investiture as any company i >
on tour. A scene which is particulariy^f
interesting to San Franciscans Is the , v
old Chinatown district of this city, and
"The March of the Frisco Chinks."!
given by the entire male and female
chorus, is most effective.
The company Includes Helen Dexter.
Willie L. B. Mordaunt and
many others. Seventy-five people are
in the cast, including a beauty chorus
of 40 girls.
• • •
European Hits at Orpheum
"Advanced vaudeville" 13 a partlcu- !
larly appropriate heading for this j
week's Orpheum bill, for it contains
some of the 'latest successes in Euro-;
pean and American vaudeville.
Mason and Bart, who will make their ,
first appearance here, present a comedy |
gymnastic .act that is original and
funny. One moment their capers pro
voke peals of laughter and the next i
the audience has its breath fairly taken
away by some daring feat on the hori
zontal bars. Les Aubin-Leonel, recent
Orpheum circuit importations from
France, are eccentric duettists and
dancers, and their performance has the
reputation of being novel and fascinat- ]
ing. The other new people will be the
Four Arconis. German acrobats, and
Murphy and Francis, one of the best
colored teams in vaudeville.
It will be the last week of the Eight
Vassar Girls. Lucy and Lucler, Madame
Bartholdi's cockatoos and of Minnie
Sellgman and William Bramw«ll in "A
Dakota "Widfflv." \
Tempting Fare at Princess
Heading the 'coming week's attrac
tions at the Princess theater are Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Esmonde in their
one act play, "A Soldier of Propville."
It is the story of a slightly demented
old S"-Hler. who cannot remember his
early life nor ev>n Ms nar.ie. being con
! tent with that- cf "OKI Jim." He 1*
th^. assistant proprietor of the Prop
} vllle hotel an.l the ttre i-partment of
the. village. The character work of
Mr. Esmoru!? Is said to be excellent ami
th^ playlet s'.:ow3 as nlc« a bit of act
injr as any one tould desire.
i Among the other features are an en
tirely new iind beautifully staged and
costumed musical absurdity, to be of
fered- by Sam Sidman and his company
of musical artists: Marconi, the elec
trical wizard, who is said to have an
net that is as mystifying as it is sen
sational; Leonard and Thornton, pre-.
sentlng a comedy sketch entitled "The
Girl and the Mi'lset;'* Mr. and Mrs.,
Ferrall, high class musical artists;.
\u25a0Wolf brothers, trapeze performers, and
new motion pictures. ;
New Thriller at Central
I f "The Amateur Detective, or the Best
I Man \Vin?."...to b<» played at the Cen
tral thi* week, with the first perform
ance tomorrow night, is the story of:
a' million dollar legacy. There are some;
exciting 1 scenes in this melodrama and
the last act shows a grand masquerade
[ball whore many beautiful costumes
will be displayed. Dan Kelly. Kernan
Cripps, True Boardman. Gus Mortimer, j
Benedict McQuarrie. T. X. Heffron. ;
Charles Baxter. Evelyn Selbie. Sadie J
Alnsley. Elsie Sinclalro ana Julietta:
Chandler all have prominent parts, and 1
quite a number of new faces will b«J
added for the lesser roles.
Oakland's Best Offerings
This week the iiberty playhouse.!
Oakland, will revive -Its biggest suc
cess. "The Pit," the play made by Chan- ',
nlng Pollock from Frank Norris* cele->\
brated novel of the same name. The!
novel was Interesting reading, but th« .
play .has turned out to be one of the!
greatest American plays ever produced.)
It is all so very human.* The story is
a dramatic picture of the day — a mirror'
held up to life under certain condi- f
tions in Chicago. The people are real.'
the events of everyday occurrence 1
yet they are charged with tragedy^
pathos and humor. The love interest 1%
the play ia charming, and when on*
considers all these facts, and that op-,
portunities are allowed for/ elaborate J
stage settings, it is no wonder that the'
play has proven such a wonderful sue-!
ces3.*?g£HEoSttHßoßfll
tM.anders Stevens, Izetta Jewell andi
Henry, C. Mortimer will again be seen.
leading roles and the same elaborate j
tductlon will be used. [•
XAt Idora,park tomorrow night the/ *"
opera company ; will appear :in Plan-;''
quette's romantic operetta, "Rip "Van \u25a0
Winkle," '• with \ Ferris Ha'rtman . in the!
title role and other members of the*
Continued oil Puce 27, Middle oX Coi. 4