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Saturday, November 11, 1911. , THE ASHE VILLE GAZETTE-NEWS. - V . . . f , . - .. - . , -'. y v., r, V,. h-1.-'' Amusements 1 ee M ssl ssl M IHMHMIBW PAGE SEVEN THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL v Vs.;?;-,.. .. i - JF '.;S..'- 1 vl'r , r I'l'-ht. if ' SCENE FIIOM "EXCUSE ME," AUDITORIUM, TONIGHT. 'Excuse Me." In connection with "Excuse Me," the farce which comes to the Audi torium thin evening, the circumstances of the plot and the execution of the stage munager of the author's design, are responsible for a feature which, while It Is not meant to be an adver tising feature, might very well construed as such, . , who Is to become his wife lust as soon us they can find a minister who will perform the ceremony, and a young woman who was engaged to the nttt cer before he plighted his troth to his fiancee of the moment. ' The erstwhile liancee wears a brace let whicii was the gift of the army heonicer, prewntud during his courting days, and tit., sight of the bracelet h'--M i ll (J ;rn q I j i ... .., ...... auditorium Is what would be the rail- roud right of way, the bracelet thrown from the window lauds umong the audience and the one fortunate to catch the bauble is allowed to curry it uwny for n souvenir. "The Country Hoy." Edgar Selwyn's popular comedy "The Country Hoy," will be the at traction at the Auditorium next Mon day night, November 13. The story of "The Country Boy" is that of a young man from a small town In New York, who goes to the metrop olis to win his fortune. In New .York he is enthralled by the maelstrom and Joaes sight of the stimulus for his ambition by attaching himself to a chorus girl. He soon comes to the end of his rope and is about to make away with himself when he is caught In the firm grip of a man with a healthy and optimistic view of life. This man labors hard and succeeds In restoring the boy to his original self-respect and enthusiasm. The company with which Henry I?. Harris will present this notable com edy includes Grace Campbell, Wil fred I'tell, Stapleton Kent, Lovell Oldham, Muriel Bishop, Lizzie Mc Call, William Morren, Rosamond Car pentier, William Levis.- Marie Pert, Mart E. Mann and others. Tickets arc aelUiuBnRi. Whltlock's. ,1 for the three acts and the company comprises people well known to the dramatic stage and only those who have been ldcntllled with strictly tlrst class productions. The scenes are I laid In Palm; Beach, 1 Florida, New York city and the Adirondack Moun tains, and the action of the piece closely follows the events as described in the book, portraying as only Mr. Chambers can, the Intrigues of society, at the same time injecting an element of romance that holds his auditors I from beginning to end. "The. HolienUan Girl-" The production of Balfe's master- piece "The Bohemian Olrl", which the Aborn Opera company will offer! Is said to lie .highly spectacular. We are promised not only a meritorious mu- siclunly rendition of Balfe's exquisite lyrics, but lu the Incidental detail of live massive stag pictures, Ed ward P. Temple who staged the opera la said to have consistently Introduced a cavalcude of trained horses, pigs, monkeys, geese, whirlwind acrobats, etc. New York Herald and The Oazrtte News. THE RANCHMAN'S INVITATION. WILFRED LYTELL AND ROSAMOND CARPENTIER IN EDGAR SEL MYV8 COMEDY OF CITY LI FE, "THE COUNTRY 1HY," AUDITORIUM, MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 13. At every performance of "Excuse Me" there. Is a bracelet tossed into the audience, and as the ornament i an attractive and comparatively valu able one. It can be readily understood that the success of the farce, by Ru pert Hughes, la addition to other pro duction expenses is likely to cost Mr. irouses the Jealousy of the bride-to-be to the point where she refuses to fur ther consider the officer's suit tn . a ravorable light, - until by hook or crook, he has managed to obtain pos sesion of that gift and to have re moved It forever from the owner's arm and sight The prospective bride- 8avage s, pretty price for armlets thus groom does succeed in gaining pos- "lU-verly." K'earlv everyone must have read Ing novel "Beverly of Graustark" as the sale of the book has exceeded half a million copies, and the publishers' estimate that fully 25 people read ev ery cloth bound book is probably very nearly correct. Undoubtedly all who have read the story have formed a mental picture of Beverly Calhoun, the American girl who visits Graus tark qnd succeeds In upsetting the traditions and formalities surround ing a. European court of royalty, con sequently, when A. G. Delumeter and William Norrls, who produced "Bev erly" as a play, looked about for an actress to Interpret the part. It was no easy matter to procure one who would not only look like the "Bever- ot Mr. McCutcheon's story and Harrison Fisher's famous portrait of her, but who would also be sufficient ly experienced and versatile to play this extremely difficult role. How ever, It Is the concensus of opinion among the dramatic critics that they have found . the Ideal "Beverly" . In Marie de Trace, who is at present playing the part Miss de Trace Is young, beautiful and extremely talent ed. Her" recent engagements have been as leading lady with Nat Good win In his extensive repertoire and with Cyril Bcott In the original New York production . of "The Prince Chap. Beverly comes to the Auditorium next Tuesday. November 14. Prices 50 cents to $1. a few at $1.60. Tick ets are selling at Whltlock's. The Lax-Foe Way. If you had a medicine that would itrengthen the liver, the stomach, the kidneys and the bowels, and at the same time make you strong with a systemic tonlo, don't yoil believe you would soon be wellT That's "The Laz-Fos Way." We ask you to buy the first bottl on the money-back plan, and you will ask your druggist to sell you the sec ond. It keeps your whole Insldea right There U nothing else made like Lax-Fos. Remember the name LAX-FOS, MARIE I'EHT. MIILIAM I.EUIS AN D POHMONI CARPENTER IN ED GAR hi IAVV.VH COMKUY, THE COUNTRY HOY," AT Till: AUDITORIUM, MWIU1, Brief Mention of Her - Move ments Since Her Marriage to Cavendish. ' "Tlio Firing Line." At the Auditorium Saturday, No vember IS, will be seen the much talked of dramatisation of Robert w. Chambers famous book "The Firing Line." The dramatisation la the work ot Richard Walton Tully co-author with David Belasco of the Rose of the Rancho and In presenting the play to the theater-going publld Mr. A. G. thrown away. All the scenes Of "Excuse Me" are laid on an overUiud limited train bound from Clil.'ego to Hun Francis, o. Among the pasK. nK-rs are a youns army lieutenant, th young woman 13. omdon of the bracelet nJ, determln- ed to destroy Its power of interfering j rurthcr with his happiness, ne raises a window of the sleeping car . and loem's It out by lha wayside. The scene shows a crone section of the sleeping car and the window from which the bracelet is thrown being on I the si. I., w hich faces the auditorium L,f the tloM'T In of coiirw, nn Imairl- I v one ii ai " It"' r" 1,1 ,u, l" ' . ,. t h 1 hi ,f A ii. : l -a f - !'! -'J MYSTERIOUS LETTER I-ord Sholto Douglas, conducting a modish cigar store in Seattle, denies emphatically, according to the press reports, that he Is Maurice Stuart, who committed suicide In the Hotel Astor Jn New York Monday, and that Maurice Stuart Is he. 1 have not the slightest Idea." he said to the Associated Press, "who the New York suicide Is but undoubtedly he Is one of the numerous men who had impersonated me and caused me endless worry. As two persons post tlvely Identified Maurice Stuart as Lord Sholto Douglas, he must have used my name at some time." But the New York coroner Is still unconvinced that the man , was not Lord Sholto Douglas, brother of the Marquis of Queensliery. He notified the British consulate of the evidence he had received to show that Douglas and "Maurice Stuart" were the same MyHUiious Letter. ny "Lord Douglas" mystery at tracts attention of Ashevllllans, for was not one bogus "Lord Douglas,' slayer of many wives, supposed to be the "Cavendish" whom the beautiful Josephine Hood married In Louisiana? The Cavendishes disappeared, and af ter dlllfgent search It was supposed by the family that Mrs. Cavendish must have been slain. In the wilds of Mex Ico. , However, It Is not so long ago that Mrs. Hood had a letter from her daughter a rt ther mysterious letter It was. 'We have crossed the ocean six times," she wrote. She said they presumably herself and husband had enough money for comfort She had written several times to her mother, could not understand why there had been no reply. They were on their way to China and expected to go later to California to live, and her daughter wished Mrs. Hood to coem and make her home with them. The letter was postmarked New Orleans, but bore no address. It was about six years ago thst members ot her family last saw Mrs. Cavendish, when she was married. Harry Van Demark, in the Texas Mag azine. When yuh're in West Texas, now don't pass me by; Yuh'll be tired from yor Journey p'rhaps yuh'll be dry, Yuh've heard o' my place It's called Blue Devil Ranch; Just west o' the Pecos, and right by th' branch O Wlggletull Creek, and the Zlg-Zag Coulee Is lost to th' north'urd, not far frum: what say? Yuh never can miss It! What! Don't understand? Well, listen, then, pardner see here. watch my hand; We'll sny this is Kloty Station right here; Jest nudge me like that If my meanln' ain't clear; Fer not fer th' world would I lead yuh astray; Yuh can't miss th' road, fer it's there plain as day. Olt off at Kloty, then hit th' north trail Till yuh come tuh a place they calls Mary's Vale A cute little spot, 'at's sot down twixt the, hills Eh? Lord! yuh can't mlsa it yuh'll see the windmills! rhen yuh turn tuh th' left, an' cross Little Creek, Where she winds through gullies, a white, shiny streak, An' th' fust thing yuh knows yuh'll And a cow trail 'At leads down tuh Wlndyman's Gulch. If yuh fall Tuh find It the fust time yuh trye. there's BUI Yates What lives near the Gulch yuh can see his big gates; He'll show yuh th' trail. What! Too far, d'ye say? Why, man. It ain't nothin'! Why, I've seen th' day We'd ride tuh El Paso that's three hundred mile An' think It was nothin', yet folks sweat an' bile An' think twenty mile is a monstrous long Jaint- Whatfl Think yuh can't coma? Well, I'm sorry yuh can't! whether you serve 30 days In the county prison or be discharged?" "I certainly will tuke a chance," said the negro, smiling. "Well, remember if you do not make your points to prison you'll go." The magistrate then told Officer llanna to hand the man the dice he found In his pockets. The table which is used by members of the bar wns cleared, the colored man stepped from the dock and took the dice, while lawyers and others watched eagerly the outcome. 1 Baldl spun the hones and cracked his fingers- with each throw. In a few. 'seconds he made his point and the crowd cheered. : i "You took your chances and won," said the muKixtrate, "so I will keep my word and discharge you." Baldl walked nut of the hearing room smil ing and declaring that the method of the magistrate was the fairest way to dispense justice he had ever seen. T'other Judges should do the same. were his last words. There is little danger from a cold or from on attack of the grip except when followed by pneumonia, and this never happens when Chamber lain's Cough Remedy Is used. This remedy has won its great reputation and extensive sale by Its remarkable cures of colds and grip and can be re lied upon with Implicit confidence.' For sale by all dealers., . , i An'uuempt to use wooa diock tires ' on nuitor trucks In France has tailed, ' moisture causing the blocks to swell ' unevenly, producing a rough tread.' Change of program nightly at Theato. . SHOT CRAPS FOR LIBERTY. Judge Gave Prison "Trial by the Bone, and He Won. Philadelphia Record. Magistrate Scott In the central po lice court, gave Frank Baldl a chance to decide by the throw of the dice whether he would walk out of the dock a free man or serve SO days in prison. Baldl, a Jovial colored man, was arrested by Traffic Officer Han na, charged with shooting craps, and he magistrate told the man it was a wrlous crime, especially among tne men of his race. , Do you shoot craps?" asked the magistrate. The prisoner replied that he did, and that It was a mighty ex citing game when one Is In the blues. "If I let you throw the dice are you tiling to take your chances to 1 an V ii SCHIjO6 THEATH6 CIRCUIT I A I'lay of Clly Life ami Typical Broadway One Night Only I Characters from Life ONE NIGHT, MONDAY, NOV. 13, IIKNRY B. HARRIS PRESENTS COMEDY SUCCESS OF THREE SEASONS The Country Boy Tlf EDGAR SELWYN With an excellent company of players and elaborate scenic production. Laughs from First to Last. PRICES-50c, 75c, $1.00, $150. Tickets at Whltlock's. MIKB LILLIAN IHAFFNER In "Tlw Firing line," at tlie Audito rium, KntunlM)', November 111, Delartiater has spared no expense In providing eery detail to furnlah an ml. 'Mil. iii' s-enle pnulm linn. A car- loiiil or t . i.i inc! y I Decennary Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets do not slckea or gripe, and may be taken with perfect safety by the mst delicate woman or the youngest child. The old and feeble will also find thent a most suitable remedy for 1,1 Ing and strengthening ttiflr weakened diKestlon end for ren- alatlriK th ijoneia, For aula by all deniura AUDITORIUM TONIGHT HENRY W. SAVAGE oflcri A Pullman Carnival In three sections "Excuse Me" I Br RUPERT HUGHES ' ' " Direct from one year ra New Tort city. NIGHT PRICES 0c to 1 1.50. Stats Thursday at Whltlock's. I HI CHCO THfcATK CtCUT Tuesday, Nov. 14 ' A. G. Delamater Announces . For tho First Time Here Geo. Barr McCutcheon's Fascinating Romance BEVERLY of Graustarli Damatized from the novel by Robt. M. Baker. A wealth of Beautiful Soenery. Direct from Nights at the StudehaLer Theatre, Chicnffo. PRICE3-S0c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50. Thlu-t-t wllin nt Whitlock's. 100
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