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Show SAVED HER CLOTHES. Actress Rides Through a Burning Tlioater on Back of Fire Chief. May Howard, the burlesquer, has become be-come famous In Denver through the theater Hre there. Miss Howard had engaged a company for a summer sen-son sen-son at the Curtis Theater and had already al-ready begun the engagement when tin house caught tire at S o'clock In the morning. Miss Howard was residing near the scene and the momont she heard the sound of fire she Sherlock-Holmes-llke made a deduction which convinced her that It waj the Curtis Theater that was blazing away. She hurriedly donned some street tlothes, rushed to the scene and found the building build-ing a mass of flames. But May Is a dating woman and refuses to let anything any-thing go unnoticed that is worth sitting up and observing. Her stage clothes, which, of course, did not take up much-room, much-room, a S1200 costume this was not her .regulation burlesque costume which she hre brought all-the way, . ' . V . " from Paris Just to show Denveritvs that she could wear eeveral garments other I than fleshings, and her stage Jewels were in the dressing-room. She wouldst I have them. So she hied herself to the chief and told him that she must risk her sweet little existence to recover those treasures. "I will help you," gallantly declared tho chief. "But there Is only one way InN'hlch human being can roach that dressing-room under the stage," ho said, "and that Is for you to hang on my back while I wade through the water wa-ter that If, rushing into the basement j like a Hood." May was equal to the oc- caslon. She only weighs 170 pounds in her street clothes, and she was game. In a Jiffy she had pounced upon the man's back and the perilous Journey was begun. Through smoke and water t,hcy trudged while the crackling of Umbers being swept by the fiery demon, the burning embers falling nil about them and the awful flashes of fire wore about them. They ne'er faltered. fal-tered. At last It seemed like hours they reached the door, nnd In a few moments mo-ments they were within. Another moment and they were without, with-out, but. the fair burletviuer clutched in her pretty hands the costly gown, her wardrobe of stage costumes, and between be-tween her pearly loath there clung those priceless Jewels, which. In the Intense dight almost dazzled the eyes of the firemen. "All were saved, e'en though the theater did burn. |