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THE PITTSBURGH POST. DECEMBER 29, 1007. Three SUNDAY MORNING, i 'erf' 77tf Week's Attractions H5OHHWH0HftftKXH FRITZI SCHEFF, performers for their great double-bill that has never been equaled in an amusement resort of this sort. Vaudeville of a most varied and delightful character will be given in continuous performances from 10 a. m.

to midnight. Florence Bolton numbering four, will present an original musical comedy sketch, entitled "The Funny Story." Darragh Leslie and Mabel Pattee will appear in a comedy playet, called "The Tragedian's Revenge." The characters are a luckless tragedian and the village poetess. The idea is said to be quite unique. Billy Cross is a clever singer and dancer and has an act that is much in demand among the vaudeville houses. Mills Mayfair, eccentric comedians, are coming with a specialty of original wit.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Marcotte will show Family Theater patrons a Charles Horwitz sketch, entitled "Jones' Tenth Anniversary." The Marcotts have been winning praise from press and public. Lanigan and Coovert have an eccentric comedy concoction. Emerson and Wright vvilUentertain with a grotesque travesty.

Dolan and Dillon are high grade entertainers. There will be illustrated songs and moving pictures and a number of other features to make New Year's week joyous. I Stop! Loold Readl-Y I MID-HOLIDAY -SALE mwiBittHWttgBanB TEDTC worth, 25c a week Lv" EiUfp. $25 worth, 59c a week II i 4 -H Passes to the A Notary's Advice to Water Wagon Men About to Swear Off. Who will appear In the Nixon Theater next week in "Mile.

Modiste." a The Alvln Theater. Over 50 years ago a' little book came from the press. It was by Mary J. Holmes, and "Lena Rivera" was the name the book bore. Its success was Instant and has continued ever since.

Now comes the announcement that a dramatization has been made of "Lena Rivers," and has proved as popular and successful as the book. Miss Beulah Poynter. the dramatist, will play the title role In the Alvln Theater this weeK. Miss Poynter la an actress of high In tellectuaj attainments, a thorough student of the drama, and of solid, conscientious Ideas regarding her profession. An actress of considerable beauty and of rich versatility, she gives her audience the delight or feeling: a peculiar svmiathv ifor a character.

Miss Poynter's success (in "Lena Rivers" overlaps all her pre-'vious efforts. There will be a special matinee New Year's day. I The BIJou Theater. The, attraction announced for the Bijou Theater this week is "The Great Express Robbery." The play is in four acts and nine scenes, and Is full of startling situations, thrilling climaxes and much humor. The story Is powerful, and deals with the lives of common, everyday people, who really lived in those exciting daya when, men were judged by deeds and not words.

Axnong the many scenes and Incidents may be mentioned the holdup of the Overland limited; Western gambling hell; the burning cabin in the mountains and the sensational rescue of the hero, realising that unstinted scenes are essential to the welfare of any play. The cast is an exceptionally good one, and includes such well-known players as Isabel Fenton, Guy Durrell, Grace Vinton and Rose Eraham, Dan Williams, Ed Nannary and others. In "The Great Express Robbery" all lovers of melodrama are assured of a rare treat. The usual Monday, Wednesday and Saturday matinees will be given. Blaney's Theater.

The new play for Will II. Vedder Is a sensational melodrama by Charles E. Blaney. entitled "Kidnaped for Revenge." It appears here during this week, commencing to-morrow in Blaney's Theater. The play was written specially to fit the talents of this well-known, character actor, and is an original melodrama in four acts and ten scenes.

The story is replete with dramatic Interest and stirring situations, the comedy is refreshing and the pathos tender. The plot is complicated, but it is absorbingly Interesting and Is enlivened with many comedy situations. Some new and startling specialties are introduced. Mr. Blaney has given Mr.

Vedder an excellent cast, and consists of several star actors from Mr. Blaney's other attractions. Handsome souvenirs will be given to the women tomorrow night. The Academy. Taylor's Parisian Belles will be the attraction in the Academy for next week.

It Is one of the largest and most complete burlesque organizations in the field. This season's offering is "A1 Pair of Plums," which is a new musical comedy, and "Whtrlie Girlie," a funny burlesque. A number of high grade specialty acts are cleverly interspersed between the two burlesques, among which are Morgan and Dutch comedians, presenting "The Alderman:" the Seyons, singers and talkers; La Petite Duseth, novelty dancer; the Sidonias, presenting "The Tramp and the Golf Girl;" Taylor's Scotch Lassies and Miss Gladys Sears, who Will offer a very novfl singing and talking act. There Is a large chorus of pretty show I 1 1 1 1 MM gins wno reriuer many ul wic iaicaL auu most popular songs. A special reature In Louie Dacre has been added.

The Gsyety Theater. New Year's week in the Gayety Theater will wltnes-s another big burlesque and vaudeville production. The attraction will be Al Reeves and his world-famed beauty show. This year manager Reeves prides himself on having the best organi- i zatlon of entertainers in his career. The Al Reeves choruses are always noted for their beauty as well as for the fact that every member has a good voice.

The comedy roles this season are in the hands of fun-makers or estannsnea reputations. Andy Lewis is this season being featured, The oliqi will give a number of high-class acts. Among them will be Delmore and the world's greatest acrobats; "Eight English iirignt iignts; me savoy quartet; Almeda Fowler, unquestionably the handsomest formed girl in burlesque; the clever burlesque comedian, Edward Morris; the talented soprano soloist. Miss Blanche Martin; Mae Powers and everybody's favorite, Al Reeves. The Duquesne Theater.

Ono should pee Ibsen's "Ghosts" twice. It is a play, the greatness of which cannot be comprehended-at once, and at the first seeing one's emotion are so wrought upon, one's mind Is so filled with the concrete thoughts compelled by the action of the play, that it is difficult to take In the full import of it all. Mary Shaw will present this in conjunction with "Candida" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession." in the Duquesne Theater this week. Miss Shaw's presentation of Mrs.

Al-ving. perfect In its smoothness, shows evidence of the deepest study and understanding. ShH enters into the spirit of Ibsen, who seeks to show a human soul In torment, such as souls do sometimes xflnd on earth, and yet not presuming to foist upon the hearer a manufactured cure which might be only the expression of a commenting student, whether the pessimist or optimist, who has made his choice. It is contrived to present the problem, the thinkers who see the I j.lay are left to solve it. That is why itcere from "The Great Express Theater in Pittsburgh will be greatly enhanced by the presentation of her new play, entitled "The Submarine," which has proven a valuable addition to her repertoire.

Harry Bulger remains in vaudeville and will be one of the Grand's star attractions during February. The Four Mortons are: appearing thl3 season in a new musical comedy. "The Big Stick." said to be the best of their long career. It will be seen in the Bijou. Marion Ballou, who is! underlined for the Bijou, is one of the present day actresses whose success may be traced to the training she received in stock work, her experience in this line covering a number of years In Pittsburgh, Boston, Denver, and other large cities of the country.

Among the successful business men of the stare Is David Hiffgins.who is com ing to the Alvin in "His Last Dollar." His Investments consist largely in Southern land and mule raising; has been found most profltaWe. Wallace Munro. business inanager for Louis James, recently acquired for Mr. James from the Mansfield estate. "Peer Gynt." in which production lKuis James will be seen next season.

The intention of Mr. James is to let the Shakespearean repertoire rest for a season or two. In a 'letter received a few days ago from Charley Case, the comedian announces that he has retired from the stage and will henceforth devote his energies to the real estate business at Lockport, N. Y. Mr.

Case's health has not been very good for several ponths past, and his physician urged upon him the necessity of seeking some niew occupation. Arrangements have been made for AND ALBERT WARNER, 33 Hi K. 1 1 the Grand next week. Blanche Walsi to appear this season in the Astor Theater in Jean Richepin and Henri Cain's new play, "La Belle au Bote Dormant." The title will be changed to "Prince Charming." Sarah Bernhardt produced the play in Paris hist week. Fanny Rice is tired of vaudeville, and announces that next season he will return to the legitimate stage, appearing at a Brortdway theater in a new comic opera written for her by well-known authors.

The Hippodrome. Several celebrities of the vaudeville world will make their first appearance In the Hippodrome Theater next week. The attractions booked for this week will include several entirely new acts, among them the Kentucky Rosebuds, a quartet of singing and dancing comedians who have just completed an extensive tour of the South, playing nothing but the highest-priced houses. The act? is not only full of originality and brimming over with humor and good; songs, but it is one of the best representations of the slave-day minstrelsy on the stage to-day. Clara Cubitt, a delightful little comedienne, who possesses her full share of good looks and attractiveness, will present a "Teddy Bear" act.

Good opportunity for the song3 so popular now, those of children and school days, is given her. Leonard Larke, equilibrist and balancer, late of the Larke and Adams famous troupe of barrel jumpers, is appearing in a new act he has just completed. Beecher and Maye will present their "Military Man" and Frederick the Great will demonstrate his abilities as a legerdemain artist and illusionist. He brings with him an entirely original act, with all the old tricks omitted and new, better and more startling ones substituted. William Arto, acrobatic dancer, will also appear.

"At Yale" Coming. The manliness of Dick Seeley and the cowardice of Dave as shown in Jules Murry's new college play, "At Yale," the attraction in the Alvin next week, is a stronger plea for the right living of ur boys at college than could be found in 20 newspaper articles. Abu ity to do right in time of temptation and the power to unearth vice and set it forth in its true light is the basis of this new college play. There can be no greater reason for the great popularity of this one. "M'lle.

Modiste" Coming. Charles Dillingham will present Fritz! Scheff in the Nixon Theater next week in the comic opera success, "M'lle. Modiste." This will be the farewell tour of Mme. Scheff in "M'lle. "Modiste." Exactly the same company that supported her in New- York will be seen here including Robert Michaelis, Claude GilMngwater.

Leo Mars Robert Chambers, William Pructte, Josephine Bartlett. Blanche Morrison, Bertha Holly and others. There will be a specially augmented orchestra. This offering has been called the highest type of light opera entertainment. The Grand Next Week.

The first week of the new year, beginning Monday, January 6, brings to the Grand the latest Weyburn novelty. THE ASTRELLA SISTERS HP' Who are coming to "Phantastic Phantoms," a unique and thoroughly original conception, garnished with music and pretty girls. Seven girls and two boys work in the act. The lightning-like acrobats of Hilnrion and Rosalia Ceballos, formerly of the "Hump-ty Dumpty" spectacle, is said to be the point of chief interest in this odd con-celt. Kitty Traney, a clever and very versatile European performer, is another headliner in the bill.

Hers is a sporting act in which she jupgles, does some gymnastics of an unusual sort and performs on a beautiful horse. There are many surprises in Miss Traney's specialty. NOTES OF THEATERS. Harry Davis is to give a New Year's morning vaudeville performance In the Grand, following the custom inaugurated here last week by the Grand. New Year's day is really more a day for recreations away from home than Christmas, and on that account it is expected the performance next Monday will come as a welcome to those who wish to have some enjoyment for the morning.

The 15 acts on the Grand's continuous performance, bill will be presented at the New Year's morning show, beginning at 10 o'clock and concluding at 12:30. A decidedly interesting event of the present week will be the banquet of the Pittsburgh Theater Managers' association, tendered the loading players In Pittsburgh this week and the owners and theatrical representatives of the press of this city. The event will take p'ace Wednesday night after the performance in the various theaters. It will be given at the Fulton restaurant. Louis Mann.

the popular comedian whose German dialect wa tho richest thing in "The Telephone- Girl" a few seasons ago. has finally cast his lot with the vaudeviUians, and will bring his company to the Grand Opera House the week of January 13. On this occasion Mr. Mann will play "All On Account of Eliza," condensed into one act. Margaret Ang'-in and Henry Mll'er will present "The Great Divide" in the Nixon the week of January 13.

The return of Olga Nethersole will be one of the stellar events of January in the Nixon. Miss Nethersole's popularity A is "few i I- i fern Vu-ffHte Pity i 4 vt it provides so much discussion and such an endless controversy. In "Ghosts" Ibsen proclaims the law of heredity. He demonstrates that the sins of the father are visited upon the child. The Norwegian dramatist Invites his audience to think.

His work is powerful In the printed page. Translated through the intelligent and illumining medium of such art as Miss Mary Shaw and her associates. FROM "AT YALE," Which will be seen in the Alvln Theater next week. it is for the seasoned appetite. Miss Shaw as Mrs.

Alvins brings to the part the interpretive qualities of a keen intellectuality. Miss Shaw will give "Ghosts" during her engagement here, which opens in the Duquesne Monday in "Candida." She will present "Ghosts" Tuesday and "Candida" Wednesday matinee and evening. The Nixon Theater. The unprecedented success of the musical comedy, "The Rogers Brothers In Panama," indubitably proves that tha theater-going public recognizes real merit ana win patronize an oneung that gives value received. It comes to the Nixon Theater this week.

Robbery," this week. to be seen in the Bijou It Nor has it been the name of the Rogers brothers alone, that has been instrumental in bringing this about. While It is true their name is a big asset, gained only after years of hard work as stars, their keen business perspicacity has taught them that the public wants more than a name. They want results; amusement, entertainment, and they know when they get it. The Itogers brothers have given this and more, too, this season.

They have been lavish in their expenditures and have secured the best producing and acting talent that money would buy. No expense was spared in equipping and staging the piece. The scenic environment, sartorial display, electrical embellishments are elaborate in all the word implies; nothing that would add to the success or beauty of the production was, slighted, let alone overlooked. Aaron Hoffman and Sylvester Maguire wrote the book and their lines are the best and funniest they have ever contributed. They have given the two stars parts that have 'never failed to convulse their audiences with laughter.

The company itself is one of rare merit, selected after careful study. Each Individual member is admirably fitted to the part portrayed. Miss Marion Stanley has bee ni re-engaged as leading woman. Flo and May Hengler, Avita Sanchez, Marlon Mosby and Lottie Greenwood also have been especially engaged for the production. The male contingent comprises Alfred Hickman, George Lydecker, Walter Ware, James A.

Bliss, William Morgan. Robinson Newbold, Alexander Kleinman, John M. Coughlin and other favorites. There is a chorus of SO. The Grand Opera House.

An extra New Year's morning performance at popular afternoon prices, and with a show that has seldom been equaled In vaudeville, is the somewhat belated but none the less welcome gift that Santa Claus Davis has slipped into Father Pitt's capacious stocking. The show for the week, which is the same on that will be presented in the morning Wednesday, is of such a diversified character as to fully emphasize the Grand's precedence in the vaudeville procession. It is international in scope, and will introduce stars from many of the world's capitals. A distinct novelty of the week's offering will be the presentation of "A Night on a Houseboat," a tabloid spectacular musical comedy, introducing Jesse L. Lasky's company of 10 versatile artists.

On the gorgeous scenic setting of an elaborate double-decked houseboat, gayly festooned with garlands, flags, buntings and lanterns, a party of young folks and their chaperon are summering. The time is the Fourth of July, and Reginald Doubleday, a rather foppish Englishman, pays a visit to the boat. The character is played by Mr. O'Malley, a well-known English comedian. One of the prettiest novelties Introduced is the "Searchlight Song," in which a searchlight is operated from the upper deck of the boat, and thrown upon the young couples spooning on the lower deck, and also upon the audience.

In fact, all the elements of a spectacular musical comedy of the most modern type are contained in "A Night on a Houseboat." William H. Thompson, the veteran character actor and star. supported by Thomas II. Ince and company, presents Clay M. Greene's one-act playlet, entitled "For Love's Sweet Sake." It is this intense human-Interest story which Mr.

Thompson and his associates employed upon the occasion of their last visit to Pittsburgh, about a year ago, a play that the critics have agreed is the best one-act drama in vaudeville. It is a powerful narrative of a New York banker's groat love for his son. Belle Blanche, the clever and popular mimic, is returning with some new impersonations of famous players, and a bouquet of songs that will further emphasize her marvelous mimetic powers. The He Itas family of European acrobats will appear in a veritable carnival of athletic and physical culture exercises. It Is said that every feat in their program is original with them and is accomplished by no others.

Sabry D'Orsell. one of the most fetching little women that ever donned the Highland plaids, will be in the bill with a potpourri of songs from favorite operas. Miss D'Orsell was formerly prima donna of the "Fortune Teller." Asra, the billiard juggler, is going to do an act that is not duplicated by any living man. Asra uses a small billiard table on the statre, and has himself decorated with pockets, on his shoulders, on his on his elbows, in the small of his back, etc. With an ordinary cue he shoots the billiard balls against the cushions and into the "spotted" pocket.

Swor Brothers are to introduce an act in which a ludicrous wench character will be featured. In songs, dances and witticisms these talented young men will make themselves agreeable. Arthur Dunn and jrarie Glazier will provoke laughter with their funny skit, "The Messenger Boy." Lew Sully, the monologlst. is coming back with a lot of new parodies and stories. Lew is a pa-rennial friend of the seeker-after-laughs and never fai's to stir the risibles.

The Rinaldos are going to amuse with their unique hoop rolling stunts. Armstrong and Ashtotn do a singing and dancing specialty with numerous costume changes. Espe, Dutton and Espe are a trio of very funny acrobatic comedians. The Two Macks are clever juvenile entertainers who have some interesting specialties. The Moving Pictures will add to the enjoyment of a New Year's week show without a parallel in refined vaudeville.

Avenue Family Theater. New Year's week in the Fifth Avenue Family Theater will mark an epoch in the career of that popular house, for tha management has engaged a company of THE head man of a typewriting bureau in a downtown building is a notary public. Probably, during the next few days he will be the busiest notary public in this city. He always is Hu-Vit at this season. He catches.

COm- I inn- an.1 p-iiln? the business and notarial fees of a large percentage of the swear-ersoff. He was busy stacking In a drawer a freshly printed lot of blanks a couple of afternoons ago. "The rum blanks of the usual kind," he explained, exhibiting one of them. "Filled in, and duly signed and stamped and scaled, they'll be going like hot ta-males presently." "What proportion of them stick it out? I don't 'know. I'm not a statistician.

I start 'em off on the right road for themselves. But I can't keep tab on how or where they finish. "Of course often I'm there with a bit of advice, if they look as if they'll take advice. For instance, the great majority of them want to swear off drinking with the beginning of the New Year. Now that isn't any good scheme, in this town where there's so much doing on New Year's day.

If there's ever a day when an earnest and Eealoue rummy wants to drink it's on New Year's day. "Uually 1 call the attention of my swearersoff to thi3 phase of it. I advise them that the better day to swear off in this town is January the second. Few of them seem to have thought it out this way themselves. But nearly all of them Fee it, and see it at once when the thing is pointed out to them.

It gives them one final blowout on one of New York's chief blowout days. "If they look as if they're amenable to reason I frequently offer them a bit of advice, too, as to the length of time they'd better embrace in their swearoff papers. You see, most men, when they reach the swearoff stage, are so low spirited from remorse and alcoholic depression and things that they demand that be sworn oft for life, or five or ten or 20 years, or other unreasonable periods of time. 'Say, fix it these say to me hoarsely, "so that I can never take another drop as long as I live without making a perjurer of myself. "Well, these chaps have got to be reasoned with.

You see, a rummy who ties himself up for life that way has really got small chance to stick at all. "Now, it's different with a fellow who has sworn off only for a year, say. The job doesn't look so infernally difficult. He always has the fun he's going to have at the wind-up of his abstinent year to look forward to. "He has no excuse whatever to make for himself for taking a drink.

The for-lifer can and does say to himself: 'Well, as long as I'm tied up for life and there isn't a chance on earth of my sticking for life, why, I might just as well begin again right now as any other old and then resumes his habit just as soon as his gloom wears off. The man who is pinned merely for a year of course hasn't that sort of oil wherewith to unloose the wheels of his indeterrnination. "He has a far better chance to win out by sticking throughout the year nominated in the bond, and while I'm not giving out' statistics. I don't mind saying that the chaps who stick to their swear-tiff paper for a year very often come right back and put up their hands for another year. They're in shape to do that, you see.

"I put it in the same way to the fellows who come rushing in and saying that they want to swear off for five or ten or some other unreasonable sum of years. "A great many of the swearers-off who take out their water wagon papers at this season say they want those documents as New Years gifts for their wives. The women folks are behind most of the swear-offs. "The women whose husbands are drinking too much for their own or anybody else's good connected with them tell their spouses that they'd appreciate a duly recorded and witnessed swearoff first-class houses and in productions that have their premier on Broadway. It is not far to seek when a reply to the question is forthcoming.

It all lies in tho fact that they get more money and are surer of their engagement. An actor who is at all competent and reliable can, with almost absolute certainty, count on 4" weeks of solid work. There appeared in the Academy last week a young woman, Miss Lee White, a new recruit to the burlesque ranks, ho has been attracted there by the face that she gets more money and has a contract with her manager which insures her work for the following several seasons. Only last season this young woman was In vaudeville, where she was billed as a headliner and was drawing a comfortable salary. One day her present manager sought her out and offered her considerably more money and a long time contract, which she readily accepted.

Miss White was born in a little Missouri town and never thought of a stage career until about three years ago when she took it into her head to begin a dramatic career. She had just finished a course of voice culture at one of the leading conservatories in her native State, which somewhat influenced her selection of a stage career. She started out for New York, determined to succeed. She was fortunate In securing an engagement with a reputable manager, who was impressed with her voice, and from that on she has been at her work. paper more than any other New Year's gift that could be made them.

This gets the over drinkers to thinking, and the more a conscientious chap thinks about the spick and spanness and the binding-ness of a swearoff paper the more likely he is to fall for one of them. "Plenty of fellows do the swearoff thing at the instigation of their sweethearts. They're forced up to the be good bench by the girls, and they take their medicine like little men, particularly when circumstances are so framed that they've got to. By that I mean that there are chaps whose sweethearts force them to take the non-drinking pledge for a year and sometimes for longer periods, on peril that if they don't stick to the oath, there'll be no wedding bells. v.

"I have yet to see one of these fellows thus bound to fail down. Men may-do, gTieve fo say, break promises to the wives of their bosoms in a matter of this sort; but not to their fiancees. If I know anything about the sweac-off busi ness, and I've been filling in those blank for a long time now, "Not infrequently a man's wife will actompany him when he drops in to swear off. I never considered that good business. You can make a Jumping horse hop a hedge, even if he's balky, but you can't make him win a race.

A swear off, to have any of the good gravy of absolute intent in it, has got to be voluntary. "A chap led up to theswear oft line by his wife always has the grouchy hold out to excuse a lapse that he swore off under wifely duress. The fellow who swims right in, all on his own hook and initiative, without having told his wife a word of it, is the boy who's most likely to stick. "I never have made out swear joff papers for a drunken man, or even a man partially intoxicated. You see, while swearing off is a thing that we talk about lightly enough it really isn't much of a laughing matter when you look it over.

The man who gets to the swearing off stage always has hurt himself and hurt others a heap, or he wouldn't be meditating swearing off. And swearing off is a job for a sober man, not for a fellow whose senses are obfuscated. "No determination framed up under the influence of a strong emotion, much less while under the influence of drink, ever can amount to very much. That's my view, anyhow. Swearing off is a matter for a man to lie in bed and think over for a bunch of nights in a row, and while his thinking apparatus is in regular working kilter, too.

"The pickled ones who come here to go through the motions of swearing off really make a good deal of bother for me, and they're hard to get rid of. I always request them to come back when they're right. Few of these chaps really want-to swear off, for they rarely come back in their sober senses and stick their hands up. "Mean swear off on plenty of other things besides rum at this season. I have to have the papers typewritten for these side lines of swearing off.

"Generally at this period I swear off at least a dozen follows who undertake on oath not to touch a playing card for varying periods. 'Say make me stop playing poker for a year, will you? is the usual greeting of these chaps when they step in, and I send 'em away cheerful in the belief that if they're broke at the corresponding period next year it won't be on account of the game of draw. "Last year I swore off two downtown business men who took their oath that they'd never again buy or sell a share of stock on margin as long as they lived. They'd been pretty well stung in the market, those two, and I guess that there is not much chance that they've broken the terms of their pledger "I don't have enough New Year's swearers off on cussing to need a separate blank for notarial patrons of that kind, but I always catch quite a few of them at this season. "A man with a curious sort of a hunch toward virtue dropped in on me along toward the close of the j'ear in 1905.

He wanted to take oath that he'd never 'lay a hand to his wife' again as long as ha lived. "Trig, well groomed sort of a chap, too, he was probably a wifebeater in prosperous circumstances. But I wouldn't make out any swear off papers for him. "I told him that I thought a normal man ought to be able to make up his mind and stick to it not to beat his wife without taking any oath to such a proposition. "He took it huffily and told me that he hadn't dropped in upon me for advice, but to get a paper made out and executed.

But he didn't get his paper from mo. "Another man this was last year-wanted me to swear him off on ever getting up and giving hia seat to a woman in a public vehicle, elevated, subway or surface car, again as long as he lived and It seemed that he'd given up his seat in a car that forenoon to a woman who hadn't even given him a nod of thanks, and he stormed around that the same thing had happened to him about a dozen times during the previous month, and he wanted things fixed so that he wouldn't make a fool of himself by favoring a woman again as long as he was on top of the earth. "I didn't swear him off, eithar, for ha was too substantial a man to be bound by any such frivolous oath. I told him ail the same that he ought to be ablo to hang on to his seat without doing any Oath taking in connection with it. "Jlel have perjured himself sure if he'd taken that oath, for a few forning3 ago I rade down witht him and although he's Co years of age, he sprang up and surrendered his seat to a fat woman with a market basket and she never even looked her thanks, if she felt any, at tha fine old boy, either The Stajge and Its People Continued from Page 2, This Section the most intrepid and resourceful chiefs that the Sioux Indians ever had, and the one that possibly gave the United States troops more trouole than any other until his subsequent change of heart, which brought him over to the side of the whites.

It was Bird Necklace who led the Indians against General Custer on that fatal July day in 1STS. when the entire command was massacred. Sitting Bull, who is commonly supposed to have been in command of the. Indians, was not ply a medicine man and, according to tiie interpreter, a half-breed himself, was not in an authoritative position. Shortly after this terrible massacre Bird Necklace manifested a friendly disposition towards the whites and upon several occasions befriended them.

It was through his intercession that peace overtures were made that ultimately resulted in establishing friendly relations between the Sioux and whites. In recognition of his valuable -services President Chester A. Arthur bestowed a medal on Bird Necklace, which he wears around his neck and fondly cher- ishes as coming from the "Great White Father." The Call of Burlesque. The question is often asked why it comes that the burlesque houses are attracting so many of the actor folk who have heretofore appeared only in the hit? vg1- "9L.