Show A A FALLING STAR x A story comes cottles from California that Alic E Ki w gs- gs ury Coble Cobley is dying dring in Alameda My l how that brings the old days back When Alice Kingsbury came s to California o beautiful omen women were scarce 31 that country countr All An that were there were beautiful But th there re w were re not many of them Alice was a charmer sure enough When she was playing BF one one night llight in a a. certain little city it was two fifty years cars ago the theatre took fire Thea- Thea tres in those d days days' ys' ys were made out of sugar pine lumber r and aft after r a summer with no rain th the were a bout about as combustible as s flax or gunpowder r. r Alice and a sister actress had no time to change dresses Th They y ran from the theatre in their stage attire and perched ed ori on a pile of lumber to watch the fire The ct q d. d gathered ceased locking at the fire and turned star gazers The th theatre atre was quickly consumed but the crowd was occupied and did not care q The nc next t morning the owner raised the ice r on t that t part particular pile A of 1 t. t Baler Miss liss Ki r pl played p d by hy turns with l hi Barj Bar Bar- rL j E lwin Booth i h and Keane Her i Opnelia was was called called the finest ever seen in the golden state up to her da day And so she is going into the thes s shadows It is too bad Some people ought never to grow old an and she is one of them |