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GALVESTON TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1915.
DISCUSSES BIG WAR
AMUSEMENTS.
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AND ST. PATRICK’S DAY
A New Lease on Life 3c
The line has at least two meanings
Crystal Vaudeville
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Phone 65 and we’ll call.
6. K. Laundry
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SPruceby, the constable... .Vine Martin
CAN GET NO WARSHIP.
Dr
Sleep Again.”
Lee,”
Daisy Dean, “Let’s Toddle,” and
zone and intimating they would be
PROMOTION GOES
TO L. W. ELLIOTT
TOMORROW:
CLAIMS WILL GET
TIME EXTENSION
QUEEN
Galveston’s Busy Drug Store
PHONE 254-255.
NO INTERURBAN MAIL.
95
Best Theater
TODAY:
SESSION IS BRIEF.
PALACE
TODAY:
Billie Ritchie
Einjitohier
A Bird’s A Bird
Keystone Comedy
Big Shipment of
BURBANKS
Blanchard McKee
.George Murdoch
Vine Martin sings, “All Bound Around
With a Woolen String.”
Hiram Green
Uncle Josh..
war
glad
THE DEATH DICE,
Two-part Reliance.
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on
is
to
Any man who’s at all particular concerning his personal
appearance knows that clean linen inspires confidence and
brings a feeling of security.
Railroad Commission Issues
New Ruling on Claims on
Business in State.
Mr. Brown....
Aunt Jane....
Trixie.........
Miss Powell. ..
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper
So Says A North Carolina Lady in
Telling What She Owes To
Cardui, The Woman’s
Tonic.
Crystal Majestic.
The offering at the Crystal Majestic
theater today is “A Country Girl,” by
the popular DeAtley company.
No matter how soiled the linen may become, providing it
is not chemically stained, we are ready to give every one of
you men and every one of your collars a new lease on life at
3c per collar, 12%c and up per shirt, etc.
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Crystal No. l
HOME OF FIRST RUN KEYSTONES
TODAY:
... .W. F. Bowker
.....Clo Lanphere
.......Daisy Dean
.......Ollie Ende
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MY LADY HIGH AND MIGHTY,
Two-reel Victor.
THE BUTLER'S BABY,
Joker Comedy.
ADMISSION, 5c.
Coming Saturday and Sunday:
Special Two-reel Keystone De Luxe.
AMBROSE’S SOUR GRAPES.
Coming March 19 and 30:
A FOOL THERE WAS.
n
—IN—
PARTNERS IN CRIME,
L-Ko Comedy Uproar.
The Still
Small Voice
Two-part Vitagraph.
Ruth Roland in
SHE WOULD BE A COWBOY,
Kalem Comedy.
Grand Opera House
SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY, FEB. 38:
Direction, LeComte and Flesher, Mort
H. Singer’s Best Comic Opera Offering,
“A MODERN EVE”
"MY HEALTH
IS PEREECT
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WEDNESDAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT,
MARCH 3:
The Laughing Hit of the Century,
"A Pair of Sixes”
WITH OSCAR FIGMAN.
PRICES—Matinee, 35c to $1.00; Night,
25e to $1.50.
DIXIE NO. 2 Today
Tom Moore and
Marguerite Courtot
—IN—
THE SECRET ROOM,
Two-part Kalem, and Ford Sterling in
a Keystone Comedy, two parts.
ON TREMONT STREET.
TODAY:
MARY FULLER
CHAS. OGLE
—IN—
“The Second
Door Left”
Helen Gardner
—IN—
The musical director is Mr. Dunn and
the producer is W. F. Bowker, who
has made a record during his stay in
Galveston for good clean original
musical comedies.
Blanchard McKee sings, “I Went to
DIXIE NO. I Today
AND TOMORROW:
Chas. Chaplin
—IN—
ONE NIGHT OUT,
His second S. & A. release; also a good
Biograph and a Edison Comedy.
veston for Houston and Houston for I of mail during the middle of the day,
Three-part Comedy Feature.
Coming Friday and Saturday:
John Emerson in “The Bachelor’s
Romance.” Another Famous Player
Feature with a Famous Star.
Coming Saturday and Sunday Next
Door:
Two-part Keystone De Luxe, “Am-
brose’s Sour Grapes.”
To Cure A Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets. Druggists refund money if it
fails to cure. E. W. GROVE’S signa-
ture is on each box, 25c.
but in view of the decision of the
post office department, there is not
likely to be a change soon.
opportunity for a reasonably frequent
exchange of mails between the points
in question and the limitation made by
the electric car company on the class
of mail that would be carried, it is not
thought that the department would
be warranted in establishing the pro-
posed service, especially when taking
into consideration the -existing finan-
cial condition of the country.”
The extra mail service was desired,
according to some of the businessmen,
owing to lack of facilities for exchange
IS YOUR DAUGHTER PALE?
Does she inherit a delicate organizatien
from you? The anemia of young girls
may be inherited or it may be caused by
bad air, lack of proper food, insufficient
out-of-door exercise, hasty and irregular
eating and not enough rest and sleep.
It comes on gradually, beginning with
languor, indisposition to mental or bodily
exertion, irritability and a feeling of fati-
gue. Later comes palpitation of the
heart and headache. In a majority of
cases constipation is present. Often the
patient craves unusual things to eat,
such as starch or chalk. There may be
no loss of flesh but the complexion takes
on a greenish-yellow pallor.
There is no need to worry in a case of
this kind. The treatment is easy and
simple. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, non-
alcoholic and free from any harmful
drug, are just the tonic to remedy this
condition. Improvement begins with the
first dose. As the blood is made rich
and red the peculiar pallor leaves the
face, strength and activity gradually re-
turn and if the treatment is continued
until the last symptom disappears the
danger of relapse is slight.
A booklet, “Building Up the Blood”
which tells all about this treatment, will
be sent free on request by the Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
All druggists sell Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
A VOICE IN THE NIGHT,
Two-reel Eclair Feature; Also a
Roaring Nestor Comedy,
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SERIOUS.
if the authorities would send
The Merriest, Songiest, Danciest Play
on the Musical Stage Today.
Original Chorus of Beautiful Eves.
A Veritable Sensation Everywhere.
PRICES 25e TO $1.50. SEATS FRIDAY.
Best Paint
What is it?
Devoe.
How Devoe?
It’s 160 years old; but that isn’t how.
It has long been the best; but that
isn’t how.
It has been developed by use and
study, by study and use; that is how;
and approved by experience, many
years; that’s how.
It commends itself by long lasting
and small paint-cost; not cheap by the
gallon, but cheap by the job and cheap
by the year and ten years, cheap by
the lifetime.
That’s how.
V. L. Baulard & Co. sell it.
pented of his bargain. The program
also carries a good Keystone comedy.
battleship to convoy the vessel
lading forms used, by common carriers
operating in this state in connection
with the transportation of freight be-
tween points in this state, the time limit
therein specified within which “such
written claim” shall be presented to the
carrier, shall not be less than six
months after such claim may have ac-
crued.
This order shall take effect March 8,
1915’, and said cause No. 1,617 is held in
abeyance for such other and further or-
ders therein as may be deemed advis-
able.
Dublin and the voters of Vienna would
be electing aidermen to the council at
Cork.
“The sixinteenth of March! How dear
to me heart are the scenes of me
chil-1-1-ldhood, whin fond recollection
recalls thim to view. The little cot-
tage be the peat bog, and the twisting
white road to Limerick beyant; in the
cool, clear night the girl I left be-
hind me singing sweet while the will-
o’-wisps are chasing over the bog. And
thin me old fri’nd St. Patrick, trudg-
ing in from County Claire, with the
top o’ the morn’ for me, and God pity
the poor snakes qn such a day as this!
All the snakes I have iver seen, real
and fancied, battleship gray and Tar-
tan plaid,, w’uld seem but a can of bait
.beside the mob St. Patrick drove into
the North Sea, which was not thin
finced in. A glorious day, the sivin-
teeenth, a day of joyous battles with
Crystal Majestic
High-Class Musical Company To-,
night, 7:30 and 9 P. M.
The Country Girl
Matinees Tuesday, Thursday, Satur-
day and Sunday.
Prices, Matinee 10c and 20c; Night,
15c and 25c.
Coming Sunday:
Dan Russell
This laundry, with prices no higher than obtain elsewhere,
gives a modern, sanitary service and includes a special mend-
ing service that is a boon to single men.
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Ollie Ende, “Virginia
manifest just now, because the new or-
der becomes effective on March 8 next.
Circular No. 4,728, with the introduc-
tion and conclusion omitted:
Whereas, in the above numbered
cause, heard on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1915,
in pursuance of notice duly given there-
in, it appearing to the railroad com-
mission that there is embodied in the
forms of bills of lading, used by com-
mon carriers operating in this state and
in connection with the transportation
of shipments of freight transported be-
tween points in this state, the follow-
ing clause: «
“It is mutually agreed that as a con-
dition precedent to the right to recover
for any damage, or claim, or injury to
a partial or total loss of, or the depre-
ciation or declining of the market value
.of, the shipment during the transporta-
tion thereof, or prior to or after the
termination of such transportation,
party claiming such right to recovering
shall give notice in writing of such
claim, stating the nature and character
thereof to some officer of the carrier,
or the nearest or the most convenient
local agent of the carrier, or if de-
livered at a point beyond the carrier’s
line of road, the nearest or most con-
venient station agent of the carrier
making such delivery; such notice can
not and shall not be waived, except in
writing by the general freight agent
or auditor of the carrier, nor shall any
such claim for damages be recoverable
unless such written claim therefor shall
be presented to the carrier within one
hundred and twenty days after the
same may have accrued: the filing of a
suit shall not be a compliance with this
requirement or notice.”
And the commission, after due and
careful consideration of the matter, be-
ing of opinion that the time limit of
“one hundred and twenty days” as set
out therein and required by the terms
of said clause, is unreasonable to the
public.
It is now, therefore, hereby ordered
bv the railroad commission of Texas
that, in all cases where a clause, the
same as or similar to that hereinbefore
set out, is, for the same o” similar pur-
poses, inserted and embodied in bill of
which most of them will sail for Hol-
land.
An answer from Counsellor Lansing
of the state department, made public by
the leaf tobacco board of trade, fol-
lows:
“You are informed that the depart-
ment must for the present, in view of
the disturbed condition of affairs in
Europe, leave it to each person contem-
plating a visit there, to decide for
himself whether or not it would be
wiser to postpone his visit until affairs
therein shall have resumed their normal
state.”
As they pay import duties of almost
Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and
never suspect it.
Women’s complaints often prove to be
. nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition, they may cause the other or-
gans to become diseased.
You may suffer a great deal with
pain in the back, bearing-down feelings,
headache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, ir-
ritable and may be despondent; it
makes any one so.
But hundreds of women claim that
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
A good kidney medicine, possessing
real healing and curative value, should
be a blessing to thousands of nervous,
over-worked women.
Many send for a sample bottle to see
what Swamp-Root, the great Kidney,
Liver and Bladder Remedy, will do for
them. Every reader of this paper, who
has not already tried it, by enclosing-
ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham-
ton, N. Y., may receive sample size
bottle by Parcel Post. You can pur-
chase the regular fifty-cent and one-
dollar size bottles at all drug stores.
Copies of the Texas railroad commis-
sion circular No. 4,728, which contains
the new general order of the commis-
sion extending the time allowed for the
filing of notice of claims to six months,
have been received in Galveston. Local
railroad officials state that they are
now receiving numerous inquiries con-
cerning the new order from persons
who have never been privileged to read
it in full. Considerable interest is
The Best Croup Medicine.
Mothers who have had experience
with it will agree with Mrs. Gran A.
Swaidner, Roanoke. Ind., as to the best
croup medicine. She writes: “Cham-
berlain’s Cough Remedy is the best
croup medicine I know of because it
breaks up the attack.” For sale by all
dealers
Sergeant Hickey, who thinks that
the U21 is going to end the war by
keeping out the good old roast beef of
England, is of the opinion that when
the "beggillerents" start cutting down
rations the soldiers will go on fighting
on their stomachs while the women
and children will continue to fight on
their nerve, as usual.
“What with the high cost of living,
low cost of dying and the gineral
jackassness of the whole crazy game,”
the sergeant remarked, “it looks like
all the players was holding high, low,
jack and the game, and nobody win-
ning. But ’tis little difference it makes
to me whether the Germans capture
tin Russians or tin million so long as
a truce is declared on the sivinteenth.
I understand the matter has been ten-
tatively broached to the kaiser be way
of maharajah of Baroda and the king
of Italy, and there’s little doubt but
what all war will be at a standstill
from 12 to 12 on the day whin all the
snakes was drove out of Ireland and
over into England. The kaiser well
knows that if he sh’uld refuse so sim-
ple a request the Irish would get up
and fight, and thin—I’m not the one
sh’uld brag, but I feel safe in saying
that tin minutes after the whistle was
blowed Berlin would be a suburb of
alley off Tremont street between Mar-
ket and Mechanic. The fight, accord-
ing to his story, was with a pal ot
long standing and occurred over such
a trival thing as possession of a mag-
azine. As enmity was said to exist
no longer, the defendant was allowed
to go his way
The Crystal No. 1.
Today’s offering at the Crystal No.
1 theater is “A Bird’s a Bird,” Key-
stone, and “The Death Dice,” two-reel
Majestic. Friday: “Shorty’s Secret,”
two-part Broncho, and “Above Par.”
“The Death Dice” relates the story
of Baptismo, a ranch hand, and Sellers,
a cow boy, quarrel over a card game.
Baptismo gets the worst of it and de-
termines to kill Sellers. Sellers and
Bass, a newcomer, are rivals for the
hand of Florence Steel, daughter of a
neighboring rancher. On her account
they have a violent disagreement, and
Florence, fearing results, compels Bass
to surrender his knife to her. As he
moves off, Sellers tries to kiss Flor-
ence. She menaces him with the knife.
Then, as he strolls away, whistling
“The Dying Cowboy,” she drops the
blade in horror and runs into the
house. Baptismo finds the knife and
steals after Sellers. When, an hour
, later, Sellers is found, stabbed in the
back, suspicion falls upon Bass, the
owner of the knife discovered by the
dead man’s side. Believing that Flor-
ence had killed Sellers in defending
herself from his . advances, Bass does
not deny the charge against himself.
Lafe Johnson, ex-sheriff, observes the
effect upon Baptismo of “The Dying-
Cowboy,” which he happens to be
humming in the Mexican’s hearing.
This rouses his suspicions. He watches
Baptismo and finally arrests him. Pop-
ular opinion, however, is against Bass
and the idea that Baptismo is the
guilty man is jeered at. Johnson, in
desperation, suggests that the two
men’s lives be staked upon the dice.
By a clever trick the ex-sheriff makes
fate decide against Baptismo, who then
confesses. Florence asks Bass’s for-
giveness for misjudging him, and later
they are married.
Mt. Airy, N. C.—Mrs. Ada Hull of
this place says: “About six years ago
I got in very bad health. I suffered
terrible pains in my abdomen and back.
I dreaded to see the sun rise and I
dreaded to see it set, for I suffered such
agony. No one except myself will ever
know how badly I suffered. The doctor
said I was suffering, as a result of the
menopause.
As nothing gave me any relief, I
asked the doctor if I hadn’t better try
Cardui. He said, ‘It might help you,’
and told my husband to get me a
bottle. At this time I was so weak I
could not lift my head, and my voice
was so weak people had to lean toward
the bed to hear what I said. I looked
so bad and had such a dark color that
I looked like a dead woman, and my
relatives thought I would never get up
again.
I took one bottle of Cardui and it
relieved the pain and suffering so much
that my husband got another bottle,
and that improved me still more. I be-
gan to strengthen and gradually got
well. I have now had better health for
six years than I ever had in all my life.
I have taken no medicine since, and my
health is perfect.
Cardui is the finest medicine a
woman could use.”
Try it. At druggists.
Famous California Flower
and Garden Seeds just ar-
rived, consisting of his latest
creations in all varieties;
$1.80 Package, containing 12
different kinds, for only $1.
This is a special offer to in-
troduce these famous seeds.
Come in and make your se-
lection now.
The under dog gets a lot of sym-
pathy, but what he wants is help.
Dixie No. 3.
The day’s bill at the Dixie No. 2
theater carries “The Secret Room,” a
thrilling two part Kalem drama which
relates the story of a doctor who
bought a man, a derelict, body and
soul, by giving him money enough to
provide him with three months of
riotous living, and how he later re-
Galveston every afternoon to carry
mail and Postmaster E. R. Cheesbor-
ough took the matter up with the su-
perintendent of the railway mail serv-
ice at Fort Worth.
W. O. Davis, acting superintendent
of the ralway mail service, in replying
to Mr. Cheesborough’s letter, says:
“We are advised by the department
that considering the facilities avail-
able on the steam lines which afford
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard general strengthening
tonic, GROVE’S TASTELESS chill
TONIC, drives out Malaria and builds
up the system. A true tonic and sure
Appetizer. For adults and children. 50c.
$10,000,000, the manufacturers, it
stated, expected a different reply
their request for a convoy.
Dixie No. 1.
Today’s offering at the Dixie No. 1
theater is “His Night Out,” a two-
reel Essanay, featuring Charles Chap-
man; “The Heart of a Bandit,” Bio-
graph, and an Edison comedy.
Charles Chapman, the premier come-
dian, speaking of his work in the mo-
tion picture world, says:
“I never made a study of my acts.
All my action before the camera is
what you might call extemporaneous.
In no other way can you get ease
and spontaneity in your work, which
is absolutely vital to comedy. If one
tried to carry out actions planned be-
fore hand, in the few seconds before
the camera, it would be fatal.
“This does not mean that I make no
preparation before I go before the
camera. The outline of the comedy is
most carefully thought out. But I
spend my greatest time on 'the study
of the character I am to represent.
I have followed men for miles to watch
how they conduct themselves so that
I can feel and act as they do. I have
sat in a barber shop for days to study
a barber when I was to represent that
character.
“When I have been thoroughly im-
bued with the right atmosphere, then
I begin my work before the camera.
I forget myself absolutely. I concen-
trate my mind on the character and
try to do as that person would. This
makes the actions free and easy and
gets away from the stilted poses you
see in so many comedies.”
p. m. So you’ll have your usual issue
of cilibrations coming, and no back
Pay for the wan you skipped through
your carelessness in trusting a sacred
anniversary aboard a transport. As
Othello remarked to Hamlet after he
had smothered Macbeth for praising
Caesar, beware the ides of March!’
“Well, I will deal some black jack, no
bets more than tin cints, for ’tis a long,
long ways to the paymaster’s table. Of
course he was right. Leave it to the
top soldier to be right. He’s always
right, even whin he’s wrong. The
next time that line heaves in sight I
will make the captain stop the ship,
and thin we’ll all get out crawl under
that so said date line.”
dning Tig
Galveston-Houston Service Will Not Be
Inaugurated at Present.
Businessmen inaugurated a move-
ment several months ago to have the
1 o’clock interurban cars leaving Gal-!
The Palace Theater.
Today’s offering at the Palace thea-
ter carries, “A Voice in the Night,” a
two-part Eclair, and “It Might Have
Been Serious,” a Nestor film. Friday,
“Peggy’s Sweethearts,” L-Ko film, and
“The Master Key,” episode 11, in two-
parts.
“A Voice in the Night” is from the
pen of Arthur P. Kelly, the versatile
originator of photo-play plots, and the
story he tells is a stronge one of com-
pelling interest from the start. Mr.
Kelly wastes no time on introductions.
Rex Malden is the star reporter on
“The Times.” With a reporter’s pro-
verbial “nose for news,” he is walk-
ing home when he stops at the sound
of a girl’s voice pleading with a man.
The man breaks away from her, how-
ever, when she attempts to hold him,
and the girl, seeing that to plead with
him is useless, walks sadly away. As
she comes up to him, Malden looks
into her eyes and is struck by the
look of terror which is mirrored there.
He is about to speak to the young
woman when she turns and flees.
Malden then hurries down street
after the man, whom she has just left.
He finds the man who had been talk-
ing to the girl masked and struggling
with an armed figure in the street.
In the struggle the masked man se-
cures the revolver and a shot is fired
in the air. As the masked man flees
he admonishes Malden: “My cause is
a just one. It will be best for you to
say nothing of what you have seen.
Malden makes his way to the prostrate
body and finds that it is that of Pol-
lard, a government agent, whose name
has been connected with several un-
savory affairs but who has never been
“caught with the goods.”
Malden reports the murder to his old
friend, the sergeant at the West Locust
street police station. The sergeant or-
ders an investigation, but when Malden
requests that he alone be permitted to
handle the case the sergeant con-
sents, from which point the story de-
velops up to the discovery of the
murderer who proves to be a very
prominent man, and who has an in-
teresting reason for committing the
crime.
Tobacco Manufacturers May Make Trip
at Their Peril.
By Associated Press.
New "York, Feb. 25.—A committee of
tobacco manufacturers who usually go
to Amsterdam every spring to buy at
auction their supplies of Sumatra
tobacco for six months, recently sent a
letter to the department of state telling
of their fears to travel through the
shillalahs and fists, a day whin you
knock your bist fri’nd on the head and
he says nivir a word in reproach, and
will do the same, be you, gladly.
WEARS THE GREEN.
“Every Irishman knows the wan par-
ticular point to observe on this day,
and unfailingly wears a bit of green.
There is but wan rule others should
observe: do not wear a bit of orange.
A color scheme of green trimmed with
orange invariably results in orange be-
ing trimmed by green. Orange is a
sign of mourning. More funerals, mil-
it’ry and otherwise, have been made
possible be the apparently slight in-
discretion of an orange hatband or
necktie than all other maladies and
accidents combined. Just as Kentucky
is cilibrated as the home of mint so is
Ireland famed for its shamrock. Tell
me, now, does shamrock grow in this
seawall town? If not, could a lad get
a few clover? If I can do no better
I will go walking with a young lady
from Houston.
“For me the day has a sad signifi-
cance. It was on the sivinteenth of
March I discovered the treachery this
planet is capable of. We were about
two salt horses and three prunes out
of Honolulu, bound for Manila and
Mindanano to civilize ’em with a Krag,
and I’m wearing a bit of green. The
old man looks me over and asks to
know, I am shocked and surprised,
but of course I can only answer re-
spectful ‘ ’Tis the sivinteenth, and the
top of the morn’ to you, sir.’ ‘The
sivinteenth nothing,’ the old man snaps.
‘Yisterday was the siventeenth. Go
read your regulations about wearing
foolishness on service uniforms.’ For
three years I pondered that cruel-prob-
lem and I come to the conclusion that
the only way to get back that lost
sivinteenth of March w’uld be to sneak
up on the international date line the
day befur and stand there until the
two sivinteenths just frittered them-
selves away.
“This so said international date line,
you. know, is no line at all. ’Tis the
same as the line of least resistance,
the color line and the equator—none
of thim in the least resembling a
clothes. line or a picket line, but more
closely following the gineral appear-
ance of the tin feet of skirmish line
you send the recruit to fetch. On the
wan side of this semaphore that’s set :
out in the middle of the boisterous Pa-
cific to keep the yesterday and today ;
from having a rear end collision with
tomorra it is the sivinteenth, for ex- :
"A Modern Eve.”
An advance notice says: “A Mod-
ern Eve,” which comes to the Grand
Opera House on Sunday night, Fob.
28th, was first staged at the Neues
Theater of Berlin, in August, 1911, un-
der the German title of “Die Moderne
Eva.” Its success was immediate and
emphatic; the operetta soon become
the talk of Berlin, and operattas, com-
posed of Franz Lehar and Leo Fall,
scheduled to follow at the same play-
house, had to wait for production
month after month until the sweeping
vogue of “A Modern Eve” had run its
course. The waltz song, “Goodbye
Everybody” (known ip the German ly-
ric as “Liebchen Lass Uns Tanzen”, be-
came the favorite of the year in Ber-
lin, and within twelve weeks after the
premiere, 120,000 copies had been sold.
Notice has been received here of
the appointment of L. W. Elliott as
United States internal revenue commis-
sioner, effective Feb. 22, During the
past six years, Mr. Elliott has held the
position of deputy United States in-
trnal revenue collector for Galveston,
Houston and Beaumont and adjacent
Territory, and has a host of friends in
Southern Texas. According to federal
officials here, he has rendered most
efficiet service during that period and
has been instrumental in collecting
large sums for the government, from
parties violating the laws. He has
always borne a reputation for his ab-
solute fairness and is highly thought
of by the general public.
His new appointment is a decided
promotion and is due to his efficiency
record. Mr. Elliott was strongly sup-
ported for his appointment by Con-
gressman J. H. Eagle of Houston, A.
W. Gregg of Galveston, Martin Dies,
Congressman Slayden, Congressman
Garner, Senator Morris Sheppard, and
also by many prominent citizens over
the district heretofore served by him,
Mr. Elliott will continue to reside
in Houston. Temporarily, he is at San
Antonio, where he is assisting the
United States revenue agent at that
point, E. C. Yellowley. Although the
territory to be placed under the charge
of Mr. Elliott has hot yet been as-
signed, it is understood that his future
headquarters will be New Orleans.
plains—a wild man who shoots up
men and barrooms with or without
provocation. He rescues a settler and
his daughter crossing the desert, falls
in love with the girl and decides to re-
form. Tom Mix wrote, directed and
acted this Western story. It contains
lots of shooting and riding.
“She Would Be a Cowboy,” a comedy
of a girl who dresses in man’s clothes
and obtains a job on a ranch. Ruth
Roland is seen as the girl. On the
same reel is a short comedy called
“Tomboys.” It concerns the adven-
tures of four women who put on their
husbands’ bathing suits and go in
swimming. They meet with exper-
iences which cause hearty regret.
Corporation Court Has Only Brief
Docket Today.
A white youth', who gave his age
as 18 and who was arrested on a
charge of illegally riding on a train,
told the municipal court today that he
beat his way from California to this
city, with the exception of 6 miles
which he walked beyond Virginia
Point. He said he had good luck in
making “connections” with a freight
train at that place, after his lone
sprint of the long journey, but that
his luck changed when a railroad spe-
cial officer nabbed him upon arrival
here. The youth related a frank story
and was dismissed with admonition.
This morning’s session of the cor-
poration court was a brief one. Besides
cases of a few alleged vagrants and
one “affray,” there was nothing on the
docket to receive final disposition to-
day. •
One white “vag” drew $1 plus costs
for “mooching” and getting in com-
pany with a habitue of the local courts.
The latter, who was up again this
morning, charged with vagrancy, was
asked by the pudge whether he had
been dismissed or fined more times in
the corporation court. “Heavens, judge!
I’ve been fined most,” was the answer.
The case was dismissed.
A young white man, who said he
was a barber by trade, was charged
with participation in an affray in an
ample, and on the other the eighteenth.
So whin we crossed this line at 9 a. m.
on the morning- of the sivinteenth we
arrived pronto at 9 and split sicond
a. m. the eighteenth. And St. Patrick’s
day went a glimmering. If Ireland
iver gets home rule, ad, that line will
be wiped out.
FOOLED AGAIN.
“Well, coming back everything
seemed about to fall out just as I had
hoped and figured on—and I stayed
a year over me time for the chance
to get back that lost St. Patrick's day.
‘We will hit the line about 11:32 on
the night of the sivinteenth,’ I ex-
plained to the top kicker, who knows
little about any science except monte
and craps. ‘There you have wan St.
Patrick’s day. Check. Whin an in-
finitesimally small atom of time has
ensued we will be on the other side,
at the same hour but on the sixteenth,
and with another St. Patrick’s day be-
fore us. You can fool an Irishman
wance, but whin you set out to make
him an enduring monument to the bock
beer trade you have got some job.’
“The top laughs. ‘Hickey,’ he says,
‘you were born under the dawg star,
the houn’ dawg star, and misfortune
has been kicking you around iver since.
You sh’uld transfer to the war college,
where your faculty for figuring fine
points w’uld be more appreciated. I
have it from the skipper we will hit
the line March 16 at 11:58 p. m., and
prisently it will be March 15, 11:58
Queen Theater.
“The Still, Small Voice,” two-part
Vitagraph drama with Helen Gardner.
A girl in a Western mining town
comes into a fortune, and two men plot
to obtain it. One of them proposes and
is accepted after a faked rivalry with
his friend. Happening to overhear the
crooks congratulating each other, she
kills the one who has won her love,
and the other man is accused and sen-
tenced to be hanged by “Judge Lynch.”
Her conscience awakened, the girl
leaves a confession and hangs herself
at the place where the innocent man
was to have been executed.
“Slim Higgins,” Selig Western com-
eey. Slim Higgins is the terror of the
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Best Theater.
An advance notice on the program
at the. Best theater for Friday and
Saturday says:
“John Emerson, the popular charac-
ter actor, who won national popularity
as an able film artist in his first ap-
pearance in motion pictures, in the
Famous Flayers Film company’s pro-
duction, “The Conspiracy,” returns to
the screen in a four-part film adapta-
tion of Martha Morton’s celebrated
play, “The Bachelor’s Romance.”
“In this delightful, sentimental
comedy-drama John Emerson portrays
the role of David Holmes, a lovable
and eccentric bachelor, who runs at
the sight of a woman, only to be trip-
ped head over heels in “a violent love
affair with his young and pretty ward,
Sylvia, who secretly loves him. Un-
aware of their reciprocal affection and
believing that they love in vain, each
is heart-broken and miserable, until,
is a very unexpected and dramatic
climax, both the bachelor and the girl
learn for the first time of their mu-
tual love.”
Crystal Vaudeville Theater.
■ “My Lady High and Mighty,” a two-
part Victor, and “The Butler’s Baby,”
a Joker comedy are on the program
today at the Crystal Vaudeville thea-
ter. Friday: “A Woman’s Debt,” two-
reel Gold Seal, and "A Maid by
Proxy,” Nester.
“The Butler’s Baby” relates the story
of Miss Prescott, an elderly spinster,
who keeps house for her nephew, Algy
Fitzjohns. The butler and the house-
maid are secretly married. Their child
is with friends. The baby is unex-
pectedly returned to them.
Mr. Birkett, an elderly bachelor, is
enamored of the spinster aunt: he
sends her as love tokens a prize pug
dog. Algy has a horror of hydrophobia,
consequently he cannot bear a dog to
come near him. Later he is in the
vicinity of the dog catcher’s wagon,
when the dogs escape. They give chase
and Algy is bitten. He arms himself
and threatens death to the entire dog
kingdom.
The pug and the baby arrive at the
same time. They are hidden in com-
panion compartments of a large side-
board, and they become mixed. A
game of hide-and-seek between the
owners of the pug and the baby is
begun. Complications are added by the
arrival of Algy's sweetheart. She
charges Algv with the paternity of the
child. Mr. Birkett is also accused by
the irate spinster, and Algy in turn ac-
cuses the spinster. Finally the butler
and his wife confess. The butler gets
his baby, the spinster gets her dog,
and Algy gets his sweetheart.
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