Show I 1 yr 1 a T S A TZ T CJ A qa ai 1 an early day incident included in her reminiscences rose eytinge tells of being a witness to a hooting scrape in cheyenne years ago when in the great west such things thing were not as serious as they are today to day I 1 was once wall ing alon along a street at cheyenne wyo wye writes miss eytinge when I 1 heard look out ware guns and none too soon was the warning given for at that moment a pistol shot was heard and something passed me with a most ominous whistle I 1 scuttled into a nearby shop door behind the counter brood a young woman calmly chewing gum and while discreetly withdrawing herself cloe to the wall behind the counter craning her neck and watching eagerly the direction of the shot two or three shots were fired in rapid succession then was two of the leading exponents of th the ert art ot of burlesque in america are irene iren verona and frankie raymond our heard the tall fall ot of a body after which there was silence after a pause ot of a few minutes the youna young woman who had not tor for a moment paused in her gum chewing passed around to the front of the chop shop went to the door looked out and saw what I 1 also saw a man lying apparently dead and without glancing toward me she said there he hes s done it hal said he bed d git him fore th end of the month and turned away from the door in doing this she saw me and said you kin go out now reckon won wont t be no mo aussin tonight to night and the young woman was quite correct in her brief summing up of the situation there was no more that night and I 1 learned after ward that the scene I 1 had witnessed was an episode in a domestic differ ence between brothers in law gustav luders na 1 I 1 4 1 I 1 pi il 41 I 1 b I 1 1 1111 IN 11 f 1 4 III 13 01 1 01 1 As a writer of catchy and sparkling light opera music gustav luders is 0 one tie of the best known ot of american composers he Is credited with the ambition to write more serious serious music than he has heretofore attempted three thousand for a song bernstein co the music publishers offered 3 for all rights and interest in the new story ballad written and published by al trahern and entitled they all spoke well of you air trahern declined the offer believing that he will realize a great er sum by controlling the song as the adice orders he has received in the past two weeks show every in di catlon catIon of a phenomenal selling hit thie this is the largest sum that has been offered for a song since P F A mills purchased ive I 1 ve waited honey waited long for you from george and hugo schlamm several vears ears ago M ss russell s bonnet As time passes the news relative to the ai at to mobile mishap of lillian bus rus sell and blanche bates is becoming more accurate and it now appears that far from being an exaggerated story miss russell was much more seriously hurt than at first imagined heretofore all stories of the mishap agreed that miss russell in a mirace lotis it anner escaped injury but this it seems was not the case she had her left shoulder dislocated and her right arm so badly bruised that it has hag since been kept in splints her neck and both shoulders were TWO QUEENS OF BURLESQUE mise 1 ka v 11 4 I 1 t illustration shows them in their most pleasing turn in the popular alad din jr I 1 I 1 figured for life was due to the fact badly cut and that she was not dis that she more a a hat very much like a poke roke bonnet As she struck the ground head foremost the peak of her hat bat was bent over her face and thus saved it from all injury curiously enough miss russell who has been an ardent adherent of christian set ence cried aloud and vehemently tor for a surgeon as soon as she could get her breath miss bates who went to her res cue had found her pinned planed under the heavy car in a manner that led led her to believe she was being slowly crushed to death with the assistance of the chauffeur and a passing postman miss aliss bate date succeeded in raising the car so that miss russell could grope her way may out when halt half an hour later six men tried to lift the car they were 1 nabie to move it L on swa lows money madame schalle a lion tamer Is 1 mourning lvie te loss of a roll of bills amounting to to and one of her pets is suffering from an attack of in digestion or greenback poisoning a very rare disease the trainer en th the e cage with the money carefully stowed away in her corsage during the performance it slipped out and fell to the floor brutus one of the biggest lions mistaking the roll for some new delicacy pounced upon it 11 and swallowed it before his mis tress could stop him of course madame schalle could have had the animal shot and dissected and so have recovered her greenbacks but butas as the beast Is worth a good deal more than she decided to let him live at a any ny rate she has the consolation of knowing that her money Is safe as far as burglars are concerned some coming melodramas here are the names of some of the promised melodramatic treats of the new season she would not sin through fire and water no wedding bells tor for her f down the old mill stream A working girls wrongs out in the cold world and when it Is known that the fall of the ten ton door will re sume its tour it will be seen that adequate provision has been made tor for this form of entertainment joseph jefferson has purchased the summer home of edward A tatt taft on buzzard s bay mr air jefferson s hold there now exceed acres |