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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1906 NUTHER LFT * 10 THE PARK LR wn Crier Picture Which Won Honorable Mention in he Salon Goes to Museum SAYS A THOUSAND BARDS SANG IN IRELAND. GAELSTEACHEUROPERHYME Doctor Douglas Hyde Tells University Students How Ancient Poets of Erin Loved Nature and Wirote Melodious Verse. G e l'H.\H,.\\']‘I]LL DONOR e e BERKELEY, Feb. 16.—iifting the veil Vindmill Near the Ocean b, baion, e Sie e e ing ground of barbarians, Dr. Douglas Spreckels founder of e added charged squares Hyde to-night pointed out at the univer- sity the precfous heritage each Irishman is entitled to share, and to be proud of. The famous Gaelic scholar continued his series of lectures on Gaelic Mterature, address this evening being the third concluding of the series. The programme called for a fourth to be delivered in Harmon gym- um on the campus to-morrow after- nouncement was made to-night, t this lecture, dealing with 'ales of Ireland,” is to be de- Saturday afternoon of Feb- Hyde Dr theme ight took up d of in his lecture last night, It with three centuries of rature in Ireland. Yre spoke of bards f the latter a superior class of their supremacy in es ago, at flourished, and in- 1 making poetry was common. Irish Dr. Hyde quoted the claim r by eminent German and Itallan scholars, that they gave to continental rope the art of rhyming, thereby rev- lutionizing the art of poetry. Th h came to hear the Gaelic scholar was given glimpses of the y that was the G in olden time, ature was their birthright poets, Ireland elr at a time e s of Burope were in- to the delights of wood and stream, field and mountain, sea and sky. The audience glowed with the fervor that animated Dr. Hyde, as he pointed out the richness of poetical feeling and skill in poetical technique which distin- uished the Ireland of many, many cen- s ago, and the wisdom of learning to appreciate and understand the noble his- tory of the Gael, which includes so many splendid chapters of literary achieve- ment. DR. AYLEY SPEAKS, Professor Charles Mills Gayley of the English department of the university in- troduced Dr. Hyde to the assemblage in Harmon gymnasium. An ‘explanation made by Dr. Hyde, to stead of discussing in 1k Tales of Ireland,” as nced by Professor Gay- _that would be reserved for he fourth = of the series, while the address about to be delivered would deal with a continuation of the subject of the h the effec his 1emurn the had been anno ley, ject . \rrigate | literature, and especially the poetry and A Bhiigeinois of the Ireland of old. Dr. Hyde e in part as follows: Dutch treating of this topic, the develop- the Time best ever made referred to the Li the Board of Supervisors of poetic literature in Ireland, we ing of the only European coun- outside of Greece in which we can ce with perspicuity and grace the de- pment of a nation’s poetry. In the his y of the literature of any country, verse very. earljest development.” Verse in Izs beginnings. When I say lit- erature, T mean not only that literature which is put- on paper, ‘but also that which is stereotyped in the mind, no matfer whether read from parchments or from tablets of memory. It is the vul- garest idea possible that pen and ink are necessary concomitants to the de- of literature. They are mere- invention, designed to fur- r the perpetuation of literature. n all countries, then, the first verse rude, shapeless. poems in were thus rude and shapeless, devoid of | all rhyme and alliteration. There is nothing in them to distinguish the verse ¥ was granted the Olympic |, prose except the use of dis-syllabic g BBy Vot v g The first poem was written by = oy r",p, St b the son of Milesian. Milesian came to Ire- T e will be asked | 1and C. Of course that is not : ; true = have no poem as old as that, ot 5 o but it is still the old poem in the o Celtic language. No word of it is intel- HEALTH BOARD DIRECTS ligible, except under the heaviest glass. ARREST OF TWO DAIRYMEN A Chemist Reports Samples of Milk Are Below the Legal Butter Fat Standard. So also with the first satires written in Ireland. All verses, too, quoted in cor- roboration of satires, up to 500 years A. D. are unrhymed verses, differing from prose only in accentuation. St. Patrick e City Chemist yesterday reported | wrote poetry that is acknowledged to be » mples of milk taken |genuine. It has no rhyme nor allitera- . Kennel, proprie- | tion. b D; at the Six-| “There have been preserved from the w e butter fat | cataclysm that followed the Danish in- ined but 2.7 per | vasion four anclent parchment volumes, the other 2.8 per cent butter | containing the course of study pre- the Health Board ordered two ts to be sworn out for the ar- | nnel. This makes twenty- ons of the milk ordinance el, twenty of his sam- ng been below the on the previous day. e Heglth Board also ordered three sworn out for the arrest of k of the Guadaloupe Dairy, be- se three of his samples of milk | wed, respectively, 3 per cent, 3.1 cent and 0.6 per cent of butter fat. paucity of butter fat in the last | e was explained by Crook, who it was taken from a can of med milk, but the can was not so t should have been. Under Police Judge Shortall the ne warrants for Kennel's ar- not be issued simultaneously, after the dtsposition of each | for which a single warrant will issued. ————— For Mothers and Teachers. | Ci rnia Club announces an mee g this afternoon at 8 lock, to which they have invited the eachers of this city to Mrs. Jane Brownlee talk on a for the Moral Training of Chil- | Schools and Homes.” Mrs. Brownlee came to the coast with Mrs. | Platt Decker's party, and was the most | speaker at the State Federa- | n in Ban Jose. Mrs. Brownlee is en- | usigstic on the subject of the proper training of children and very gladly consented to talk this afternoon in the California Club house, 1760 Clay street. There is no charge attached to the lec- ture, and it is to be hoped that a rep- | greet Mrs. | 2 that The mothers and resentativé audience will Brownlee. GRAFPE-NUTS. Begin the Day Grape-Nuts au get the elements that make strong body and brain. “There’s a Reason.” ecribed for the old Irish poets before that invasion, at about 800 or 90 A, D. By perusing these parchments, we see that with no race or country on the globe, now or at any other time in history, was the art of poetry so cultivated, so revered or #o remunerated as in Ireland at that time. The elaborate complexity of the rules, the subtleties and intricacies of the poetical code, are all calculated to astound us when we look at them. TAUGHT EUROPE TO RHYME. “Ireland, it is alleged, taught Europe the art of rhyming. If that is so—and I do not claim it as an Irishman, but quote most eminent German and Italian scholars—all that Ireland has done in lit- erature pales before that achlevement. That achievement revolutionized the poet- jcal systems of Burope by spreading the art of rhyming. “The earliest recorded rhymes in Eu- rope are those in Latin, written by Au- gustine. He composed them while sur- rounded by & Ceitic-speaking people, in the south of Gaul. In the year 750 A. D. we find the Irish people making perfect and elaborate rhymes. It was not done in other countries for two centuries later. The Irish gave the lead to Europe in that matter. “Now, in Ireland, there were two classes of poets, the ‘file’ and the bard. The lat- ter was the inferior to the file. There were two classes of bards, too; the free and the unfree, and eight ranks of each of these classes. The meters that cach | rank might use was regulated by law. It was as though Yeats could now be prose- cuted for using the meters of another poet, or as though he should be con- strained by law to use only the one or two sorts of meters. “The flle was pald three milch cows | for one poem, and the bard but une calf. | The file were seated by law at the side | of the prince or bishop. There were seven | grades of the file, and the top grade was | only to be reached after twelve years of | study. Then he could make verse in 300 different meters, and know 350 prime | tales of Ireland, and about 150 secondrs | stories. Imagine what you were in for it | you were seated at dinner by one of those file. 1 “Those books of olden time I spoke of gave the names of each meter and speci- ‘ mens of each. In the Danish and Norman | Invasions, then wiped out, you will see 2 civilization as complete and intricate and perhaps as Interesting as that of Babylon. It 3s by pure good luck that these books 1 mention exist now, ““The poets then in those days were en- | titled to be judges. They lost that right lwhen a certaln king, hearing two poets | dispute for the right to wear a coat of jieather-. intended for the chiefest of the anew the ! a time | land | poets, found he could not understand |to rhvme with any other what they said. He decided that if they were of that sort, they were not fitted {to be judges and ordered that the dis- tinction thereafter be denied to all poets, unless qualified. A THOUSAND IRISH BARDS. “In the first century after Christ there were 1000 poets in Ireland. Each poet had a retinue: the head poet of thirty persons, and then on down. They were all a heavy burden on the sofl of Ireland. The pro- ducers, finally arose, and with perhaps a touch of Americanism surveyed these poets and perhaps said: ‘Are they doing any business, or doing any good? We should not support them,’ and they got rid of the poets, who fled away into the north, where the king sheltered them. In the sixth century, it was found that one-third of the well born people were poets, and again the poets were driven out, the people wearying of them. Again they were protected by the king of the north, “"And here I think I find the first clear indication in history that a nation’s men- tal characteristics, the characteristics of a race, cling to it and cannot be got {rid of. I find the first clear indication of the tendency, in history, that drives the Irish into honorable rather than into lu- crative professions; a tendency that drives them now into the press, the bar, the bench, or medicine, rather than into— well, you know what lines are lucrative in America. “Well, when Charlemagne was trying to recover the rude ballads of his Norse | ancestry thousands of Irish poets were studying in universities more than 300 meters and reciting a multitude of epic poems. In the next century the poets be- came incredibly audacious. In bands they roved over the land, levying a spe- cies of blackmail. They carried a silver pot, hung with bronze chains, and thelr spears were held in the links of this chain and thus carried to the house of some man whom they proposed to meet. The pot was called the Pot of Avarice. The chief poet, upon arrival at the selected house, composed a panegyric, and the other poets composed verses. Each poet then chanted or recited the verse he had written, while musiclags chanted an ac- | companiment to the panegyric. Then the | man who was thus eulogized came forth | and put a guerdon of silver or gold into | the pot. If he neglected thus to do the | nimble poets promptly satirized him, and | then he was likely to give, for no Irish- man can bear to be satirized. Rather he would give all he possessed. Imagine sending poets from Berkeley to thus deal with the Mayor of San Francisco. It has }never been tried, but it might be. I know | | | you can satirize, for all college boys can. KING OPPOSES POETS. “Well, the king of the north was about to get rid of these poets, when it was de- | clded to give them fixed lands and col- |leges for them were established. These | restdent colleges continued in operation until the break of Gaelic polity, till Cromwell came and conquered the land in about 1648. The bards were especially | | good at satire. There are many storles of the éffectual satires they wrought, and | the Irish dread of the satirical form of | attack 1s almost proverbial. There is a story of a King with a nephew, and the nephew loved the king's young and pret- ty wife. The king refused to give the nephew an heirloom, and the nephew, pleased at the chance, promptly satirized | the king, whereupon three blisters ap- peared on the king's face and he dled, the nephew coming into all his posses- | sions, including the young and pretty | wife. There was a belief prevalent that | | the bards could kill with their satires. The belief lasted until about 1414. Sir| Philip Sidney writes: ‘I would not have | | you hanged or rhymed to death, as in | Ireland.’” You will recall that Shakes- | peare makes Rosalind say: ‘I was never | | s0 berhymed since Pythagoras’ time when I was an Irish rat.’ | “If the bards could not really rhyme | others to death they could do it for them- selves, Some were killed for their satires, It was continued, however, until modern times an Irish mode of revenge. An old Irish gamekeeper I knew, who thought a woman at a fair had stolen from him his silver, pald for a pif, wrote verses in English, which he had his grandchild re- | clte. Butchers who sent bad beef were | satirized. It was a natfonal pastime and | art. “But to return to the bards, They flour- ished equally with the church. When the Danes came there was a change. For nine or ten centuries they were permitted and then the distinction between bards and files died out. They were all poets. There is a parchment containing a poem written then by a poet who saw in battle the passing of that great King, Brian Boru. The parchment has never been edited. We have no university where it could be edited, and no one will give us such a university. Imagine what a great stir there would be if a manuscript poem by King Alfred. who was contemporane- ous with this poet, should be discovered. What a stir it would make in universi- ties, and how scholars would work upon it. Nothing is done with this manusecript I speak of, though, because we have no university, as I have sald. The only uni- versities we have are colleges of the Eng- lish language, maintained and controlled by a people to whom the very name of Irish is loathsome and everything per- taining to Irish is distasteful except it be Irish rents. MASTERS LOVED NATURE. “We may consider how in those early days the Irish poets revealed a love of nature. Humboldt has called attention to the fact that not until Christianity leav- ened Europe did writers indicate a feel- ing of sympathy or admiration for nature, This was not o in Ireland. I have ex- tracts from those old Irish poets, written at the time Humboldt speaks of, wherein nature's beauties are written of in most appreciative and sympathetic wogds. “The early Irish thrilled with emotion. The grandeur of nature thrilied them. They sounded it in their writings. It is a unique distinction of Irish poets of the ! period. You will not find it in the poets of any other nation of Europe. Well, what became of the poets? It is a myth, we know, that King Edward I slew the ‘Welsh poets. It is no myth but a stern reality that the Irish bards were slain by an allen people. The English killed them, authorized to do 80 by a law which described the bards as inciting, by their writing, rape and other dreadful violence, I know that the law which thus described the writing of those poets was written by the, lying Ministers of Queen Elizabeth, than whom there were no greater liars in Burope. I have read the works of those bards at that time and therel is nothing of the sort advocated by them, Spenser let the cat out of the bag when he wrote that the contemned Irish bards ‘were ‘desirous of their own lewd liberty.’ That they were, and I think them the better for it. “People now sometimes think of these bards as pipers. That is a ridiculous no- tion. They were poets and knew their. business. They did nothing else but write MNUALBENERT } BIG SUCCESS San Francisco Theatrical Mechanics Realize Goodly Sym for Charity Work ALL ACTING FOLK AID Give Entertainment Full of Variety and Berger and Britt Pull Off Knockout —_— The San Francisco Theatrical Me- chanics gave their thirteenth anmual benefit at the Alhambra yesterday after- The affalr was a thorough suc- noon. cess. The theatrical fraternity lent free- ly their services, and the mixed pro- gramme ran from tragedy, through farce and vaudeville, to melodrama. But still more prominent personages gave their graclous aid. Mayor Schmitz was there with a speech, ‘and Jimmie Britt boxed Sam Berger three ferocious rounds, end- ing in a double, simultaneous and con- vineing knockout. The house was large, and the charity fund of the assoclation was swelled by a lump seven hundred dol- lars. The programme, which was a heavy one, started with an overture by the or- chestra of the association. Mayor Schmitz followed, giving a summary of the work done with the charity fund, and received a rousing reception. The West minstrels, from the Grand Opera-house, came next with songs, joshes and a special waltz clog. They were followed by Leon Errol- lin, Dutch monologue; by Miss Frances Slosson and Reginald Travers, from the Majestic, In a sketch, “A Pair of Luna- tics”; by _George Thatcher, from the Columbia, ‘with a touching. song, “The Old Brown Pants”; by Ida Nicolai and the Orpheum Trio in dance and songs; | and by Fox, Douglass and Hart, in a mu- sical fantasy. The double quartet from “Old Heldel- berg,” playing at the Alcazar, sang Ger- man student songs; ‘Phroso,” from Fischer’s, gave the people a guess as to whether it is man or doll, and the little dwarfs from the Chutes, Count and Baron * Magri, sang mock grand opera, while the celebrated Mrs. General Tom Thumb gave a sketch of her life. The Central Theater gave the services of {its entire troupe; and they played the first act of “How Baxter Butted In,” a farce that raised laughter. The big success of the day, though, went to the little maldens from the Al- hambra who call themselves the “Yan- kee Doodle Boys.” They sang and danced and were recalled till ready to drop from sheer fatigue. Berger and Jimmy Britt, refereed by tiny Count Magri, also won the hearts of the audience with their double knockout. DT —— CITY FATHERS CONSIDER FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU Judiciary Committee Hears Arguments For and Against Proposed Estab- lishment of Institution. The Supervisors’ Judiciary Committee vesterday heard the protest of the City Front Federation against the proposed establishment of a free employment burean as a public utility. The protest says that the institution named is im- practicable and injurious for many rea- sons, including one “that it. would create a center of political and indus- trial agitation on -the part of a non- resident population and would’tend to further the development of ‘the open shop.” " ‘Walter Macarthur sald the bureau would be unconstitutional and would subject the municipal administration to much untavorable criticism. The Cali- fornia State Federation of Labor fa- vored the establishment of the bureau. M. Wilson sald that the scheme had been tried successfully in other citles and would make union men of the thou- sands of unemployed men in the city. Donald Bruce said the bureau would be a benefit to all citizens. Supervisor Gallagher said it would be unwise to bring municipal officers into the controversies between capital and labor and he thought the point raised that a free employment bureau would force city officials to take an ac- tive part in any struggle of the two forces named. The committee took the matter under advisement. —_——————— “Bring Them Out to California.” Bring out your folks and friends to Cali- tornia while rates are low. The Santa Fe wfl} telegraph ticket and see that they get special attention. Conductor will look after them all the way to California. $50.00 from New York. $33.00 from Chicago. $25.00 from Kansas City. Low rates from ail Eastern points. Write to Fred W. Prince, City Ticket Agent Santa Fe Ry., 658 Market st., San Francisco, Cal. * ——————————— READINGS AND MUSIC AT Y. M. C, A.— The Eva Bartlett Macey Company gave an en- joyable entertainment composed of readings and musical selections to a big audlence at Y. M. C. A, Hall last night. Those in the com- pany were Miss Macey, Miss Eleanor M. Piper, R. de Armond and Ora A. de Armond. —_—————————— Miss Phoebe Couzins Advocates the Canteen As a temperance measure. If our sol- dler boys would drink the wine of the Italian-Swiss Colony they would neyer get full. based upon a system of acoustics. “The complexities of the meéters used by the anclent Irish poets were discarded, however, in the seventeenth century and the Irish poetry was then revolutionized. It was no longer swathed or swaddled. It suddeniy stepped forward -..e a maiden clad in all the colors of the rainbow. Then the populace burst into passionate song. There was a sensuous attempt to convey music into poetry. They attained the perfection of hermony, using col- locations of vowels in amazing combina- tions, OLD MODELS USED, ““When the Irish began to make English verses a century ago they worked on these models. The gecret of that kind of versi- fication which was in danger of dying out ten years ago IS In no such danger now, thank God. It is here to stay. I may also say that no poet in Ireland now who uses the English models may expect recognition. I speak feelingly, for I once tried it, vmh unpleasant and unprofitable | result: At the cunulullon of Dr. Hyde's address Dr. J. Maher of Oakland,.a prominent member of the committee Which has wel- 'son from Philadelphia, Pa., are at the ‘PERSONAL. L. R. Vance of Mare Island is at the Occldental. John Ofterman and wire of New York are at the Palace Hotel. Mr. and Mrs, M. Andrew of Cleveland, O., are at the Palace Hetel. Dr. B. H. Earle of the Marine Hospital Service is at the Occidental. T. 3. Kirk, State Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction, is at the Palace, Carl Spuhn, largely interested in can- ning interests in ‘Alaskg, is at the St. Francis. Captain H. ’I‘hompson, commander of the steamer, City of Panama, ig at the Qccldental. A. D. Edson and wife and Miss A. Ed- Palace Hotel, Registered at the Palace Hotel from St. Louls are M. E. Duncan, wife and two children: Among the recent arrivals at the Pal- acs Hotel is Mrs. J. M. Lynde from Brooklyn, N. Y. W. C. Ripley, manager of the Pacific Grain Company, will leave for a ten days’ trip to Portland, Or., to-night. J. F. Adams of Goldfield, general man- ager of the Southern Nevada Consoll- dated Teleohone and Telegraph Com- pany, is spending a few days in town. A party from the Bast touring Califor- nia {s now at the Palace Hotel, composed of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bigelow, Miss Bigelow, and Mrs. Charles Higby from Cleveland, O., and Miss A. Wing of Cin- cinnati, O. Dr. Henry Kreutzmann and family are in Berlin, where the doctor is visiting hospitals and clinics, seeing the latést in gynecology- and being warmly wel- comed by the various faculties. Mrs. Kreutzmann and her daughters are sight- seeing and being extensively entertained, Miss Etta having made her debut at the cadets’ ball In Lichtefelde. The doctor and family cOntemplate returning home about the beginning of March. George J. Dennis of Los Angeles is at the St. Franels. George F. D. Raine and wife of Boston are at the St. Francis. Eugene E. Hay, United States General Appraiser, and wife are at the St. Fran- cis. W. G. Sickel, who has been Mayor of Trenton, N. J., for four terms, is at the St. Francis. L. F. Garnsay, president of the Los An- geles and Redondo Railway Company, I at the St. Francis. Roderick L. Macleay, capitalist and clubman of Portland, Or., has returned from Monterey and is at the St. Francis. Edward Chambers, general traffic man- ager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque, with head- quarters at Los Angeles, is at the St. Francis. R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—The following Californians have arrived in New York: From San Francisco—N. J. Brown, at the Cadillac; Miss A. Denning, at the St. ‘Andrew; J. Jacob, at the Herald Square Hotel; W. R. Milton, at the Ho- tel Empire; C. A. Rand, at the Hotel Imperial; Miss Draper and Mrs. F. W. M. Draper, at the Park Avenue; C. E. Roberts, at the Holland House; H. L. Tracy, at the Hotel Imperial; M. Man- son, at the Astor House, From Los Angeles—F. Eischler,. at the Holland House; M. S. Lazard, at the Hotel Normandie; E. W. Gillett and wife, at the Holland; Mrs. N. E. Smith, at the Imperial. —————— FAREWELL PIANO RECITAL IS GIVEN IN LYRIC HALL Miss Mary Carrick Appears for the Last Time Before Her Departure for Europe. Miss Mary Carrick gave her farewell plano recital in Lyric Hall, street, last evening, preparatory to her departure for Europe. For one so young Mis® Carrick has proved herself a wonderful master of technique, and her interpretations are clear and in- telligent. In many Instances her exe- cution is of unusual brilllancy. There is little doubt that Miss Carrick has a brilliant future in the musical world. Miss Carrick will leave in a few weeks and will go direct to Naples and Rome. She expects to be gone for three or four years, during which she will give recitals in many of the prin- cipal cities of Europe. She is above the average clever student, and is de- serving of success in this undertaking. RAZOR DOCTOR I have in my employ the best RAZOR SPECIALIST on the coast. Sick or disabled razors doctored and restored to first-class condition for .a trifling fee. All broken Razor handles re- placed for the small sum of Razors honed ...........25¢ Razors ground . .25¢ Sc:ssors ground and sur- geons’ instrume sharpened by my cutlery specialist. THAT MAN PITTS F. W. PITTS, The Stationer, 1008 MARKET STREET, San Francisco. Always something new ~gt the— PALACE HOTEL SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES UNDER CROCKER, WOOLWORTH BANK . 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THE BLACK CROOK 50—Ballet of Fifty Graceful Danoers—350. Marvelous Mechanical and Blsctrical m Scenery of Unequaled Magnificence. “:ag:::o—mnlumm Matinees 100, ACADEMY OF SCIENGES HALL m"mr\hlflm lornia Promotion Committee’s LECTI]RBS ON CALIFORNIA ed by Stereopticon Views and FOR WEER PEG FESETTRy 1, 5 RNIA 1N Presented by ¥ Edwords from 2 to 2:30. ~S0LaNg no?."’; by Rev. Fras- rom 2:i BANFA —Presented by M. CLARA Jo!dn trom § to l' BAN J m covm——rr-—m by D. Five lln\l!n Afllr Each Lecture for Ask Questions. Audfence to OQAKLAND RACE TRACK ot ”@“_“E&& st cars, H. WILLIAMS. President Nellie St:ewart. And Musgrove’'s Dramatic Co. In Sweet Nell of 0ld Drury Seats §1 50, $1. 50c and 25e. Commencing Next Tuesday— OFF THE ROAD A_Jolly Farce. EXTRA! EXTRA! Gadski The Great Prima Donna MONDAY EVE., FEB. 19, WED, AND SAT. MATS) FEB. 21-24. Seats, $1, §1 50 and $2, now on sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s, cor. Kearny and Sutter sts. QMMTW@UH@M MATINEE TO-DAY. LAST TWO NIGHTS THE GEISHA Y NIGHT SPECTAL MAT. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY FIRST TIME IN THIS CITY. The Plquant Musical lflxtm Isle of Spice "lm ap) ice GILBERT GRIQOXY and SBDATS NOW ON SALE—25c, 50c, TSe. A COLOSSAL SHOW! Lew Sully; Mignonette Kokin; Galettt’s Pantomime Monkeys: Les A-b-u. ll-‘ll'! and Barns. and Orpheum M ton Pietures. Times of Luigi Rossi, With His Musical H. Anaist by Dorothy Bremner and Elkl M: and James H. Cullen. Regular Matinees Every Wadnesday, Th day, Saturday and Sunday. o PRICES—10c, 26c and Wde. COLUMBIA 5o MATINEE TO-DAY. TO-NIGHT, Sunday Night and ONE MORE WEEK. SPECIAL MATINE® BIRTHDA Edward A. Braden Offers Hanry W. Savage's Production of GEORGE ADE'S Comedy, THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN GREAT CAST AND PRODUCTION. Goming _FLORENCE ROBERTS in Her New “THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK. GRAN D HOUSE MATINEE TO-DAY. LAST NIGHT WH. H. WEST BIG JUBILEE . MINSTRELS/ Beginning TO-MORROW MATINER, MURRAY and MACK In “AROUND THE TOWN.” chLIFORN, 4 Chas. P. Hall, Propr. and Mgr. Tel. Main 137. ONE CONTINUOUS LAUGH! 25c—MATINEE TO-DAY—28c TO-NIGHT—ALL THIS WEEK. Matinees Every Tues, Fri, Sat. and Sunday. The Up-to-Date Extravaganza Company, Miner's “BOHEMIAN BURLESQUERS™ In & Two-Act Musical Comedy Entitied “A BOHEMIAN BEAUTY” Also a Strong Otio of Vaudeville Artists -Evenings, 1k 28c, 35e, 00 T oot Maties, ™ ".!Q—' “THE YANKER D()t DL.B GIRLS."” ALCAZ POSITIVELY I.A'l rou- TO-NIGHT—MATS. TO-DAY AND SUN. nmnmmAmormmnm.._. ALMA MATER nother Romance of German University e e P G BT e !fllm TSc; Mats, Sat., Sun., 250 to S0e. m Mon.—~Washington's Birthday THBRB AND BACK The New York and London Farcleal Hit e e S ¢ WASHINGTON s MRS. GENERAL TOM THUMB Assisted by Count and Baron MAGRIs BOTHWELL BROWNE'S GAIETY GIRLS [ Theater, at s and Evenings at 9. A HOST OF ATTRACTIONS ON THE GROUNDS. 3 BABY LIONS IN THE Z0O. Lysic Hall, Matines TO-DAY at 2:30 "mdmnflmhn-kumwlm‘ a—:hmm,- Various Galleries, .—-nmmmu-h-:m Clay & Co. Weekly Call

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