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Full line of Men's and Boys' Clothing, Fand Shoes. ~ Call and get our prices before e buying: Price, 40e Joots " In A BLAse BY ITSELEY hers in quality and fla LR the is made differs from others ol} is deli St Jeg i dis oN PLAYS, | PLAYERS AND PLAYHOUSES William * Medan Critic of the New York Stage----America is Not | Developlug a Dramatic Literature io Jae jist "closed {is les AWiiey has secured the Chal rights tor "Seven Kéys to ci ere will be eight. "Phtash and Perlmutter" companies on tour next vear inthe States. Cyril Maud has bought Miss Croth- oh pla, as Wisdom," for nis Ty to act ip London, Probably he the, René will be shifted to fra} and. Louise Dresser has heen engageu 'or the title part in the new comedy, 'Cordelia Hlossam," . The . other pembers of the . large cast include sure. Mcluiosh as Colonel Blossom, ind Jane Grey as Fleecer. as Mrs. Bo. delightful is Miss Ruth ont | el orton in "Daddy Long Legs," ittle comedy which was thonght too rail for any success, that it is mak- ng a record run in Chicago, "The Blue Mouse" had a London reduction this week with Madge .scing in the title role. The critics iifferpd regarding its merits and de- eribed dt varioust® as amusing, old aghioned and ridiculous. Charles Frohman has secured the American rights for the musical 'omedy, "Sybil," which had such a success ih Budapest that it has heen nailed as "The Merry Widow." Ethel Levy in a London produc-| tion of "The Girl From Ciro's," "The | Grass - Widow," a musical play by | Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf, "The High Cost of Living," a farce adapted 'from the German; and | "rugged," a new drama by Onvis with Robert McQuade, Char 'otte Ives and Vivian Martin ave 'ew of A. H. Woods' productions for next fall. Melodrama for the crowd, tragedy vhich analyzes passipn for the wo men and for the thinkers, plays that saint human pure. The Women are sight in wishing to have their hearts couched; the thinkers are right in' lesiring to he taught snd the crowd { mot, wrong in wishing to be amus- id. From these established facts the laws of the drama are deduced. -- Vietor Hugo. Pluline Frederick is about to go 0 an extreme in dramatic morals, She is abotit to desért her part as the ravishing, sensual wife of Poti- phar in "Joseph and' His Brethren, where her appearances in the cling- ng costumes of the character were sensationally successful. Next fall the will enact the title role in "In- aoceit,"" an adaptation by George Broadhurst from the Hungarian of Arpad Paszter. Oliver Morosco is soon to produce "The Lady We Love." The lady re- erred to in the title is none other than the popular miss whose fdce is engraved upon the silver dollars af this country. Its scenes are laid n lower New York, and the theme has to do with the rivalries of that ection between the different na- tionalities represented in its citizen- ship. The principal characters are nembers of a family who were all harmony and happiness in their pov- rty, but became estranged in a sud- den acquisition of wealth. "The Clever Ones," Mr. Sutro's new play, is the story of a young 'ellow (Mr. Du Maurier) who pre- tended to he an anarchist vegetarian 30 as to win the affection of a "high- brow" Girton girl (Nina Sevening) with whom he thought he was in love. He was really in love with his ousin (Marie Lohr), who pretended to. be "high-brow" herself, and make the others so sick of it that they grew sick of each other. So the faithful cousin married him after all. The "Agamemnon" of Eschylus, which has now been performed in the old Greek theatre at Syracuse, was first produced 'at Athens in 485 B.C., with the other plays of the great Oresttean tetralogy. The official 're- cord of the year which has been dis- covered, runs: "Tragedy: Choregus Xenocles of Aphidna; poet, Eschy- lus." So we see, says the London Chronicle, that the modern order of precedence--"So-and-So presents -a J new play by A. N. Other"--is an- clent enough. For the choregus was merely a wealthy citizen who pro- vided and paid for the chorus and a room for rehearsals, and nobody re- members Xenocles of Aphidna to- day. But there was one difference in ancient Athens. The leading actor's name did not appear in the record. David Belasco' s latest offering "What's Wrong," a comedy by Fred- erick Ballard, was revealed last week in Washington with Janet Beecher, Frederick Burton and Richie Ling in the chief part. 'In "What's Wrong" we have the story of George mith, an overworked business man, who drivés qveryone .in his office to the point of rebellion. Miss Jennie Brown appoints herself as his guar dian, brings him around to a more; aormal mode of living and in the end , marries him. The last act shows the! Imiths_ (now numbering three) liv- ing quietly and happily in the sub- arbs.. To them comes an erstwhile rind or George, who has heen West nd acquired "Americanitis," the disease whieh George had. George, cppes his friend. The New York revival of Sardon's "A Berap of Piper," by John Drew and Ethel Barrymore, and an all-star cast, just gave the younger genera tion a for a laugh on their elders, deelared Alan Dale. Then he went on: It was a real case of an other illusion shattered. Here was made her: American name and laid the very play in which Mra. Kendal; the foundation of her American for: tune. And cat the Empire lately it sq i and "it shivered, and it erac led, and it groaned, in the very ecstasy of old age, as it were. With : tiresome | | | i blue pusty, willow taffeta. illogical and theatrical, ous." William Archer, one of the most famous of -English reviewers, now a reviser and placer of plays, was in New York not long since to con- sider the current sake. One of his impressions is interesting. Here it is: "One thing that always strikes me about the drama when I come to New York, while everything is new 'and fresh, is the rapidity with which You use up your dramatists. Every ile I come to New York there is a new generation. So many men dis- appear, one after another, and are never heard of again. It puzzles me to know why there should be this great fertility in dramatists. One batch seems to drop out and another appear. I cannot think it quite a lrealthy sign, (his waste of talent; this using -up of talent. Yeu ought ito find an explanation and a. remedy. You are not developing a dramatic literature. In the last twenty years we have had in England a contem- porary dramatic literature. Most of your popular plays are not printed, or, if they are, they are not read, because they depend so much for their interest upon the character act- ing of the players. Yon ought to try to develop a dramatic literature. Why should you not have an Ameri. can, Bernard Shaw, a 'ynge, an American Galsworthy ?" it is Ingeni- THE SPORT REVIEW Notes About Baseball, Pugilism and Golf. Ty Cobh, the Detroit outfielder, has' a broken! rib and will 'be out of the game for a week or ten days at least. Barrow, of the Interna- tional Baseball League, has announced that no players jumping to the Fed- eral League need expect to return to the International. Lace sse, President "Willie Ritchie, the kingpin of the i lightweight division, realizes for the first time in his Tile that he will have a battle on his hands on the night of May 26th, when he meets "Charlie" White in Milwaukee. The American goliers' invasion of England has accomplished something. It has taken the professional British- er"s mind. off the German peril. for a week or two. Over one hundred and fifty players have heen signed up hy the clubs in the Art Ross Baseball League, of Montreal, which opens its: season on Saturday afternoon. Next Tuesday the formation of an Ottawa Valley Lacrosse League will be ! discussed when a gathering of the { Prascott, Almonte, Carleton Place, Ot- tawa and Shamrock elubs will he held m Ottawa to straighten ont lacrosse alisirs of Ottawa and the district. Varsity lacrosse tdam leaves, Mon- day, for Carlisle, where ii plays its first ggatme of the annual four through the states on Tuesday. On Thursday it phar Hwarthoore College at Phila: delphia, goes to Atlantic C ity on Fyi- day, and on to New York, where it plays' the Cvestent A.C. af Brooklyn on. Saturday. State of Oho, City of, I'v ucas, Coun lean: "Frank - Cheney oi th hat te 8 Senior ane of di fF. % ts te afore- "pay, the i 1 ase ennnot cured b. SEER i Swor 0 before Hin in ny Eo this "itn oe 2 thea AW. GUEASON. ¥ Notary Rac. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken $nter- a and acts directly oh the blood amd milcous surfaces of the system. Send or Rs Eh free, ENEY So 3 olen, oO. & oi oe all druggists, ke Hall'y Family Fas tor consti- pa 2% "af Cdtarrh ih t he of Hall's Fie IY. Wid fortes ia SASH BOWS ARE: POSEDON THE COAT JAP FASHION This Geisha girl effect is very much the mode just now, for are the erase, und ohe sees them not only on lingeries frocks and sill frocks, but also tailored suits for street wear, This charming bench tailleur of white mohair and worsted mixture has a collar and sash of The white parasol is hemmed with blue also, and the suit is accompanied by a white hat, white gloves and buttoned boots with light tops. on embroidered silk WMillions Poured Into India Annually and None Comes Back. London Mail The report of the Royal Commis- sion on Indian finances and currency, which has just been issued, settles some controversies and starts others, but it does not clear up ithe mystery of the hoarded gold of India. From time immemorial India absorbed water. alwe has gold as a sponge absorbs The flow of gold to India has vs continued. In the last twelve vears she has received £136.000,000 in gold, partly in sovereigns and partly in. bullion, in addition to enarmous quantities of silver. It all goes into the country, but very little ever comes out. Lord Rothschild observ- ed some years ago that he had no- ticed that none of the smooth gold bars sent to India from this country over came back. What happens to this great stream of precious metal which continually disappears like those rivers in desert lands which lose themselves underground ? The testimony of experts is most conflicting: Some day it is hoarded, while a few jare ready to prove by'a formidable array of "statistics that it cannot be extensively hoarded. Those who believe that India possesses a vast store of hoarded treasure make the wildest guesses as its probable total. The most popular estimate of the hoarded wealth of India 'puts the total at £300,000,000, whieh would ymotnt. to £1 per head of the popu- lation, but some ereditable estimates are far higher. . The experts quarrel, again, about the probable effect of India's absorp- tion of gold upon the .world's money markets and the prices of commodi- ties, Some say that all gold-using countries benefit thereby, while oth- ers, such ad Sir Edward Holden, ap- pear to hold that "the drain of geld to- India" is a potential menace. The commission, while declining to in- dorse either of these mutually de- structive contentions, 'has declared in effect that an increased use eof gold in India should not in future be encouraged by the government, but India already seems disposed to re- sent this recommendation. Whether gold is hoarded in India is really a question of terms. All nations hoard gold upon occasions. If England were threatened with a great war to-morrow we may depend { upon it that there would 'be a rush for gold on the part of those people who possessed both feresight and a balance at the Bank. = It is estimat- ed that during the Balkan erisis the peoples of Ceniral Europe obtained and hoarded £60,000,000 in gold. invasions and 'innumerable internal wars, plately lost their héreditary "Sense of insecurity. Banking facilities ave ing if Indians did not hoard. mean burying in the ground or con- cedlment in.the roofs. of houses, though those practices are- doubtless extensive. J. M, Keynes, a member Brahman in Eastérn Bengal even hoards éurrency notes | roof. Hy and spreads them out in the sun to remove the damp. proportion of the hoarced wealth of India is, however, in the form of gold and silver ornaments, in his bullion and soverdigns, as well as much of the silver, disappears. ap---------------- "Living straight is like building a railwi§-there are a lot of cuts and fill% to be Wade. Min eannafl regulate the weather, but he san spend a lot of time growl: ing about it. senérally speaking, tof a fad than an ion, AAA AA AAA A A At At Ae WHAT BECOMES OF THIS SoD? india has 'been sithjected to repeated | and her people have never com- | fof the commissioh tells a story of al 'who | A very large} F charity 8 more still sparse, and it would be surpris- But hearding does not necessarily |' ~Once a woek he retires priv-| 1t is into! Ahese ornanients that the bulk of the}: . I We Have? in stoek a full line of rough and dressed lumber, shingles, lath, ete. 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