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Show AMUSEMENTS NEW GRAND THEATER "A Home-Spun 1 i .irt," melodrama. "A Home-Spun Heart" opened a three night'.-, mgKgeinent at the New Crand theater 'i nurs-day nurs-day night. The play Is a melodrama, with a Comed) Htruln running throiiKh It, and wns well received by a large audi. nee. The story told Is the old on of the mortgage 01. the old homeclca I and the v illain, who wants to marry the daughter of the honest fanner, and. falling In this, turns the family out of doors. The miser alfo knows that the daughter; who Is .nly un udopted daughter after all. Is the h Ir to a vast estate and thn play centers around his efforts to secure her property. John Ksbgbi who plays the paj t rf a half-witted 'boy. and "Rahy Marlon." a little girl of 3 years, are the star A Home-Spun Heart" will be lira bill tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday matinee. Commencing with iho uual Saturday mat-lne mat-lne the l.vrle will offer as Its attraction "The Jolly Grass Widows." an organization of the extrnvaganJi strip" and which has pleased Its pair ms wherever presented. Trier axe two burlesques and of that nature whph Ion. Is merriment mer-riment to the occasion from heglnnlng and continues con-tinues to end. There ore nbundance of specialties spe-cialties us well as handsomely costumed choruses that please tho eye and catch tho ear. Special Interest Is attached 10 the 'engagement of this combination from the fact that Mr. 'hiirios Burkhart, a general favorite of salt like and ono of that class of fonmllans that never falls to entertain. Is among ihe acting people. The party are to hold the Iv-urd for the weok nnd will offer matinees on Wednesday and Saturday At tho Lyric lost night the Slnr Show girls" drill r.u-ps had a Competition drill with a Corps of L'nlted Stales regulars. The crowded house was admirably pkas-d and when the Judges decided It a draw the audience felt that tho girls outdid thv boy In blue |