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Show I KING JEFF I AS AN ACTOR I W Fellow Makes Hit I on Stage. Strong in His oce,.es With the Show, "Davy Crockett." I Ho Actor in Company as Good a Pugilist as Jeff, None a Better Actor. Jojtis J. Jeffries, champion of the world of heav -wo i uiu pugilism, tackled 1 1 1 character of Davy Cre k, 11 in the play of thht name at tho Bijou theater. Jersey Clfy last week. There wan no other actor , in the company who was as good a pugi- lit n Jeffries, and none who was o better bet-ter actor. The houso was packed before 8 O'clock. Shortly after in fact, there was ' sign hanging on the gallery door, "All full." and th llckotlrss small box wall, d When th"1 pugilist made his first sp- pernancy? It Was Ilk. B So-lit ---Exterior of i.i "roi-k mi- tno. BackWOOdsmon i 1 1 1 1 1 14 (heir fal-r whiskers and saying tilings thai paved the way for the triumphant entry of M Distant votes WMee-yo-o-ow B Backwoodsmen (shading his eyes) BHVl There h- cornea swlngln' 2-yeer buck on his shoulder. CBnter "Davs Crockett." HH disguised as James J Ji ffrli 1 1 Davy Mollo, boys H Tho gallery Whr-r-rc-c-co-o-owl &0O IIIB i Davy modestly hows for 10 minutes. H Cries of "Speech, speech!") Davy Everj tlmi i draw me knife H across thn throat o one o them young things, it seems to mi . ti Jeffries Emotional Then the plav proceeded, m the second act tho heroine and the w,Hk suitor for lior hainl aro brought In. maimed, having boon hurt In tho forest when they wore traveling. Sho i Eleanor Vaughan. sh-wore sh-wore French high hois, highly typical of tho pioneer period Jrffrlos'a acinic then became '-motional. She road to him "Young Lochlnvar," ami and all the world was "raptured with tho gloaming " ot Jeffries'-, eyes Thon his love got tho bett r of him, and ho roars In tho girl s face- "Go away! Go away! Vvt had enough o' you heard enough from you!" She cowors heforn that sonorous loonlno note of despair. "I didn't nio.m to frighten you." says James tenderly. And sho is comforted. But the ond of the art was the climax of tho evening. Tho wolves attacked th hut "with tho ferocity of Jersey uiobquI-toee," uiobquI-toee," as iho tnti. inm Eiackensack re-marked re-marked Tho bar of the door was miss-lng. miss-lng. Tho weakling suitor for tho ha nil of Eleanor couldn't tlnd It. Then James .T. Jeffries cried: "All Is not vet Iom There Is stlU a bar that will stay these ravenous brutes. It is it is the .arm of a strong backw Ib- man." Bnres Famous Ann. So saving .Tam.-M hand the worlrl-fa-mow arm. ami for ten minutes the audl-once audl-once shrieked, the gallery jtreeplng for ebet-r Joy. and the heroin., waving hei arms a If sho was trying to make I,, r-ncf r-ncf heard In an Impassioned speo h of I hero-worship. AH the time the wolves were howling outside, and the or. hestra it may have been a mistake was playing Mendelssohn's Mendels-sohn's 'Spring Song." with drum effects. In the same net Jeffries made a tremendous tremen-dous hit when he sniit kindling wood, it hook tin- house the as did. Ariolht r cmotfonal i no In which James CXdel!cd was something like this So-iu Maj. iiojiton' hous, Eleanor IS about lo be in.ilTiort to tho villain S n. nhew. Many tears shod and blood on tin- horizon, also the looming form of Crockett, who hides behind a screen. i;h anor lok at this bridal vell-theso orange b-h-b-hossoms. It should he hla-k mourning and evergreens, for ine heart Is d-ib-ad. Davy Poor gal, she doesn t seem Jest happy thtnkln- so hard They sec one another. Groat emotion. More tears, more threatened biindshod .nid quotations from "Young Lochlnvar." Eleanor Mo heart acknowledged you from the (list but mo hand is bound to an-o-ther. Davy -You're mine an' I'm going to li ve .iii I'm sure I'm right, an' by tho 'Tarnal, I'm going ahead. "Sign," Says the Villain. Then "SOinobod COmes." and Lochlnvar Lochln-var Jeffries Crock) " (In s. The band plays the wedding march. "Sign, girl!" says the villain "Never'" cries James Jeffries, as he bursts upon tin- scehe, tucks the heroine Under his arm and goes to look for the parson. After the play Jeffries Illustrated how In- -did up" people, not In the manner of the plono-r Crockett, but In the slle of San Francisco, A. D, I9M At 11 o'clock the gallery was hoarse and still the arms of the champion of the world were swinging, with tho orchestra playing "Hearts and Flowers." |