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10 CEc.bMB£j^ W id‘l AMUSEMENTS AT THE ACADEMY COMING NEXT WEEK. Frill Schetftf, in “The Ouchvs*.’ “Dante's Inferno.” EXCUSE ME! DrawnBy M.MYER 'Edited by T. P. Nath, Jr.) •The Thief.” “The Thief,” seen the Academ'y yesterday alternoon and night, was an admirably acted story of human interest which offered a number ot ronsiderabie obsta'rleB to impressive presentation. HrieHy told, the theme iR that of a woman who lovesr her husband so dearly and withal so des perately that she steals large sums (»f money from her friends where with to dress handsomely, in the nils taken notion that only by this means *he ma> retain her husband's admir ation and affection. It Miss Edythe Ketchuin, who had the leading role, were not an actress of mc’re than or dinary ability and rcs«)urce, the ef- fe'rt of the piece \NOuld have been triflinK indeed. As a tact, she showed surprising (upacity for feeling and expression, and brought out tiie morale of the play in forceful method. i'*»ank .1, flarvey, the husband, also had plent> of opporiunity to negative Mi«s Ke»'huni s work, but instead «Rfue U!> to sratch in Hue fashion.' The acilon of the entire cast was characterized by restraint, where over dramatic effort might not unnaturally have been expected. Fritxi Scheff” Coming. M iti indeed a welcome announce ment which 'omes from the manage ment of the Academy of Music that Krltzl Scheff will play an engagement In this city Wednesday night, Decem ber ♦>, and will maUe her advent in a new comic opera, entitled "The Duch ess,” for which Victor Herbert uud Joseph Herbert and harry B. Smith have collaborated upon asr (*omiK>ser and authors. This is tlie tirst joint work of these different authors, and their union is enaiul\ an auspicious event in the \\orhl of light tuusical writing. This time Krltiti Scheff will be seen as a flower girl, in scenes of which there are three, laid In and about Paris The story of the play reveaN how Kosita is the daughter of the keeper of a flower siiop. She Itas i many admirers, but her father favort: | Adolphe, an old Comte, because he; has money and position. Just as liiej final arrangements for the marriaxu are being made, Adolphe’s father of fers objections. He will not permit his son to marry anyone of lowly birth. She must have a title. A clever Idea cumes to Adolphe. He will hire a titled personage to marry Rosita, and then have them divorced so that he may gain her after she has been ele vated to the place of a titled person age. Philippe, Mari|ulg de .Viontreville, a poor officer with many debts, for a conaideratlon agrees to become the husband, and Kosita signs the papers without knowing w ho her liege lord ( i». Immediately after signing thi doc ument he leaves to jpin his regiment, and when he returns three months later, the flower girl discovers that he s the same person with whom she h.id carried on a flirtation in hei* fath ers ghop. This meeting between Lus- bartd ifTid wife, who did not know that they are marriwd. is said to furnish one of tile prettiest touches found in the play. On learning the truth, Rosita becomes highly Indignant with ail w’ho were in the scheme, including the husband, but iu the end her love for him prevails and all is well. .Mme Scheff g supporting company in cludes some excellent singers as well as some clever (comedians. Seats will go un s-ale tomorrow morn- Inic at the theatre box-oflSce at 10 o’clock sharp. Mail-orders from out- of-town people a'^epted now. “Danteos Inferno.” f’ommencing with a matinee Thurs day afternoon at o’clock, and con tinuing daily for the rest of the week, nante'g "Inferno" will be shown at the Academy with one matinee at 3:30 oclock and the evening pedfor- manre at 8:80 o’clock. Dante’s ’’inferno” Ig the same clne- raatographic production which was witnessed and emphatically praised by the king of Italy and the royal house hold. A special musical program haa l)e»n prepared sublime in character and well adapted to the spirit of the poem. The pictures wiil be accompa nied throughout by an explanatory lec ture, and a Dante student has been engaged to direct the production and deliver the lecture. All the Incidents in the Journey throunhout the Inferno, told with un exampled powep by the poet, are re produced In the most like-llfe manner. It Is one of the greatest monuments of th world's literature aitd the story l» well known. Dante, when a boy, at a festival of flowers and prayer, met a little girl named Beatrice. Dante was a little more than nine, Beatrice scarcely nine. Dante’s Intensely poetic soul, his passion for the good, the true and the beautiful, wa.s set aflre by the deeply spiritual charm in Beatrice’s face. In this love there was no alloy of sen»tial affection. To Dante as hr grew older Beatrice became a living incarnation of woma:ily purity, a type in flesh and blooa of the uplifting in fluence* of womanhood. The poet saw her only a few times and then for brief moments only, after their first meeting at.the festival. Beatrice ac cepted the tribute of Dante In • the spirit in which It was offered, as a homage not to her sex, bttt to the virtues of her sex. it is said that ehe recognized hla excelling genius and urged him to l^ve to th« worid an undying memorial of his lofty Ideals^ Dante early felt the inspiration that came of thli urging and planned to make Beatrice immortal as an eral>odi- ment of womanly perfection In a spir itual sense. To accomplish this he made her the central figure In the "Dlvlnla Ck)mmcdla.” In “The Divine Comedy" Dante journeys from earth Into hell, through purgatory into par adise. Beatrice gives him as his guide through the Inferno a pious pagan poat of antiquity. Virgil, the writer of the Immortal "Aeneld.” The opening scenes in the picture at once convince the spectator of the high artistic standard' of the whole production. The wandering of Dante through tk« dark and gloomy forest. JU2rr‘THEKlND0r' ACSIRIIAM. LOOKIM& FOR,." IEWW MYUVIN& BYseaiNe THESE UTTLa OOOKS-SKnTLC ''HOW Tt) MflWS LOVE UTO OF WEftTH6R 'WffWS HRYIK^J . -DO-YOU-DO HAVA AH0TH«P» KOV/MC/CH, /IRC THEV'? 5 I’LL BUY one 5 com ON OE-A OPORT mo euYoNE - ONiyim DOURM the appearance of the three beasts impeding his w'ay toward the summit, his meeting with Virgil, are depicted with a vividness and loyalty to ' the poem the portals which defy descrip tion. All through the country about the valley to with the fatal legend, down into the circles between the Acheron and the Styx are seen wonder fully exact reproductions of th sens in Dant. Th Stygian Lake and the ad- venures on Its shores are marvels of pictorial art. The descent into the City of DIs after the conquest of the opposing friends again closely follow's the poem. Virgil and Dante pass through the City of Malebolge, down into the lowest circles of Judas and Lucifier, in the lake of ice. Words are quite Inadequate to give an idea of the splendors of the films. Washington The Mmiapal Guinea Pig in The Labomtgiu Of Government Development (By JONATHAN WINFIELD.) "Naughty Marietta” Coming.' Described as an attraction of un usual, merit, “Naughty Mariett,” a new comic opera by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young, in which Oscar Hammerstein presents Mile. Florence Webber, will be seen at the Academy of Music soon. It is claimed that “Naughty Mariet ta” is far above the ordinary operatic attraction in cast, chorus, authorship, management and equipment, that the range of its many musical numbers is remarkable and displays not only the natural versatility of Mr. Herbert, tut the acdor with which he has applied himself to the study of detail and mus ical effect. And that Miss Young has dlspla.ved much originality in her ro mantic book, for she has laid the scenes In the city of New Orleans, back in the year 1780, when wood men ranged the forests, and Spanish senoritas and beautiful quadroon slav es mingled amid picturesque sur roundings, and chivalry and heroics were common places of life. A variety of handsome costumes will add to the striking stage pic tures of the period they will mark, to gether with special scenic equipment and an augmented orchestra. 1 Basket Ball Games Of Last Night The basket ball game last night at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium resulted in a victory for the y’s and for the C. H. S. teams. The Y’s and C’s game was one of the best seen on the local floor for a long whiie, and the C’s went down to defeat by the score of 23 to 19, The first half was a very close affair, the half ending 11 to 11. Both teams played good b^H throughout and the pass work of both was a feature. The teams’ line-up were as follows: Y’s, E, Stewart, C. Ross forwards, Be atty center, Jone and L. Ross guards. C’8, Player and Wiley forwards, Avev- ett center, Rutxler and Harry Temple ton guards. The C. H. S. and Bairds game was a rather a one sided affair, the game go ing to C. H. S. by the score of 31 to 2. Daveapdrt and Andrews both play ed good ball for C, H. S. • The line up follows: C. H. S., Davenport and Nisbet forwards, Andrews center, Rhyne, Fore and Neal guards. ^ Bairds, Ray apd Millersham forwards, Llllard center, Berryhill and l#edlock guards. Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock the representative team of the boys’ de- pirtment will play the- DaTidson scrubs. The game promises to be a good one. The admissk^ will be 15c. American Troops for China. Manila, Dec. 2.—In spite of advices from Peping declaring it improbable that American troops from the Phil ippines wiU be sent to China, prept^ra- tions continue to send the 15th infan try, which will arrive here tomor row. V OflScial circles are reticent. Washington, Dec. 3.—Try it out on the capital. That ij the primary principle on which the government officials pro ceed in making administrative chang es destined to become law, if sucecss- ful throughout the coui^try. So, in remedying out^^orn customs or improving existing Conditions, in establishing new methods of discard ing the old, Washington is a sort of municipal guinea pig in the labora tory of government development, and is innoculated yearly with scores of re form baccilli, some of which “take” and some of which do not. “Doc” Wiley does it. Postmaster Hitchcock never ceases doing it. But there isn’t much use enumerat ing the government “doctors” who flash the new idea on Washington for it is much easier just to take the gov ernment list for it, and let it go at that. Mr. Hitchcock is one o^ our best lit tle experimentalists. His experiments, too, have largely proven successful. Within the past few weeks he has tried out a mail box device to be attached to street cars, and to form a sore of post- ofBce-in-transit, available at any street corner where the car stops, and the little device proved Quite efficient. ITie street car mail boxes, however, have not as yet bee... put in general use here, but the idea has been vindi cated by trying it on Washington. Automobile collection and delivery of mail is not an entirely new thought. System ufter system of mail handling with the motor van as the motif have been devised. In every large city there has been automobile mail service of a limited sort, but the entirely new phase of this system, which Washing ton will within the next few months demonstrate {^s satisfactory, or re ject as worthless, is sending carriers out on their routes in automobiles. “I believe t^e service will prove its efficiency” said the postmaster gen eral In discusing his latest experiment. “It will be one of the aids which wiil 4ieep the postal service on the crest of progress.” As Washington sees the new auto mobile service, there are coll$ctioni and distributions during 16 hours A day, and at present there are three big automobile vans engaged in the test. On the first day that this new Ser vice was put in practice, each of the big cirs carried 24 letter carriers out to the beginning of their routes, b«fore t^e driver and a lone letter carrfsr started the collections. Eight trips a day are scheduled for the machines. Dr. iTarvey W. Wiley, pure food sxpert extraordinary and government chemist, finds Washington eyen more fruitful as/a field for “try outs” than the Postmaster general. Dr. Wiley, as everybody - knowft, keeps an argus-eyed watch upon the health of the nation, and is ready at a moment’s notice to spring upon and throttle any nostrum, beverage, foods, solid or liquid, now or hereafter to be offered tor sale and consumption, which in thi least particular appears to bear a suspicion of taint and adul teration. Now this is the usual pro- gi’am. Not long ago, 'Dr. Wiley advocated the “collarless” schooner of beer, ^^o was it first tried out on? Why on the bartenders of Washington, of course, and on such of the population of the vity as enjoy “suds” with thSir free mid-day meal. It wasn’t done by offi cial order—-Oh, no. “Doc” Wiley Just felt them out, as ’twere. It dida’t go. Next, Dr. Wiley conceived the idea that cordials—blackberry, wild cher ry and other “ma$queradei”-^are not made in strict conformity with the pure food laws. He declared that th«y were not cordials at all, taking as a standard the recipe that mother u««d to use. He held thiit they were merely a cheap grade of wine, doctored by coloring matter and flavoring extracts. Having arrived at this point, “Doc Wiley” through his ai^nts, sallied to the district supreme court, and obtain ed the authorization of the District supreme court to snoop around ker” stores and obtain therefrom sam ples of cordials, to be tested, analysed Academy, Wed. Dm. 6 ONE IMIGHT ONLY The Messrs. Shubert Present America's Svweetest-Singin^ P^rtma Donna Beauty Fritzi ScKeff (HERSELF) And the Frltzl Scheff Opera Company and’ Complet* OrcKestfa In VictorHerbert’s New Comle Opera ‘THE DUCHESS” X Original New Tork Company, elaborate scenic detaiL “Equal to the best Gilbert and Sullivan melody.”—Bost0h~6l6b«. Gorgeous array of Paris and London gowns. Pf^lces $2.0a, $1.50, $1.00, /be Tfid SOe Seat sale begins Monday at the box office at lO'-a. m. Curtain 8.30. , ^ ^ Vehicles. 11 p. m. 25 Goods Sale :-H.\LF, ONE-THIRD, ONE-0U\RTER ORDINARY STORE VALUES Jewelry, Neckwear, Ribbons, Novelties, Stationary, Books, Toys, China, Holiday Candies, Glassware, Knit Goods, Sheet Music etc. Two thousand square feet of counter space piled high with the choicest things in Holiday Goods that our powerful buying organi zation for over one hundred stores could selec: and, assemble in 'eleven months from Foreign and Domest c rnarkets, and a hand some store brilliantly illuminated, lavishly trimmed and well venti lated, is but a I ortion of the bid Kress mikes for your Christmas Patronage. The meat of the nut is the prices. 5c tp 25c Nothing Over on articles that hav^ been so thoroughly tested for quality and last ing satisfaction that an unqualified guarantee of Satisfaction or Money Back goes with each and every sale. An early visit to Kress*s will give you abundant evidence that it is preeminently ' The Christmas Store SPECIAL DISCOUNTS TO CHURCH COMMITTEES AND MERCH- ANTS BUYING IN QUANTITY. OUT OF TOWN PURCHASES PACKED AND DELIVERED TO FREIGHT STATION WITHOUT EXTitA CHARGES WATCH KRES:^ WINDOWS ilid eataldffued iul to their ingredient a&d consistent parts, for the benefit o^ tile hlMilth of the country at large. Wfiea "t)oe” Wiley determines the question, ‘‘Whtt is cordial,” having dia- poaed of the quostion, “What is whis* ^ith the aid of President Taft, and ,^lth the .query, “What is beer,” without tfi* aid of any one other than himi^if—Wft8hi«»ton will again have c^htilbuted her quota to the welfare oi t£e nation by being again used as th^ municipal guinea pig, of the na tional laboratory. 'Examjples of this sort are myriad in WashMigton. Nobody mentions them, usuAlly becaufce they are really rath er ^monplace. But, outside^f instanc es ot tliia character, there are other de partments whose entite work is experi- mentui ani, located in or near Wash- ingtojH, the results of whose tests, ex- perinbttits, plans and systems are &ent broadcast ovef the country, affecting every man, woman and child in the entire tlnited.dtatM in some manner or other. There Is the government experiment statioii 'at Bethesda, Md. Out there animal expert* are continually trying out new treatments and new systems of breeding, whlbh in the forms of peri odic bulletins And their way into the bands of t^ farmers of the land. , It hain’t b^en so very long since Washington was not only the birth place but th^ very spot of origin for a peCjLilUr little animal, a cross between a zebra ailui a Jitck-ass. It is called the sebrafti, ind the. government experts aeeure us that is a draft animal it is unequalled. It has another distinc tion, too,, for it is about the only mean* of transportation that Mr. Hitcl^cock haen’t • tried out yet as a meaiH»^Qf htodlihs his mails. .Thft kgrteultural experiment stations, toot, produce wierd freaks sometimes, imd for the first time in history a per- simmoh witliput a pucker has been pro duced, and it was grown in Washing ton. 8o, until the end of Time, or govern- nient, it will be Just about the same. Try it out on the capital. Chxcken-lhevery Is Epidemic ^ Clckte stealing, the police say, is becoming a very common offence in the ci4f, calls being almost daily sent 1b to police headquarters for an of- ioir to trail and apprehend a thiet who has a weaknees for chicken. Yes terday the earliest call came from the home of Mrs. s. C. Ross, stat ing that severaKfine Plymouth Kooks and Bhode Island Iteds had been stolen. from: him last night. ; “I ifish you would say in the pa- Rer,” Mid Chief Christenbury this morning in talking about/the hen- etealing epidemic, “that the police department would appreciate it very nuoh it those missing chickens would 'ffh^e away and not wait tor tev^l l^urs until the thief has had plenty pf time to escape. Often a long after the ^iiMeiit has happened, and it is im^a^ible or next to impossible to l^ick .up a Clue, whereas if the com- plamant t?ould co-operate .quickly by to headquart^yg 'the guilty r^es^^couia more often be appre- Job Dept Phone 1530 wreathed with *^ake again; T^ha ea^ly and the later rain. ' ^ —Whittier. thanks, and pray to Sole Leather Cas^, price formerly $7.00, will sell for .. .... $3.85 Sole Leather Case, formerly sold for $5.00, will sell for Imitation Sole I^eather Case, formerly sold for $4.00, will sell for $2.75 Heavy Canvass Leather trimmed Case, formally sold for $2.00, will sell for $1.25 These are closing out prices on these cases and must be cash. None of these will be charged on our books unless at an advanced price. If you contemplate presenting your father, husband or brother a gun case for a Christmas present now is your time to save money on it. WEDDINGTON HARDWARE COMPANY Twenty-Nine East Trade Street We have rounded out eleven months of, by far, the most gnccessful in the long history of our business, and it is our ambition to make banner month of alLthe months. Come right here for real worth in ru ture, Rugs, Cook Stoves, Ranges, Window Shades, in fact, an.' thin^r tor home, whether moderate or elaborate, will be supplied at liberal prices a terms to suit. Eycj’rythl nii: foi^ th© Home
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