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Show IN 3UT0 FOR 75 fllLES ney completed, the machine balked: wouldn't ."move another foot. The chauffeur could not discover what the trouble was. After he had looked the machine over Beveral times. Miss Johnson, John-son, who herself owns a.. machines, and who is an experienced driver, suggested j looking at the sparking "piece. Thls j proved to be the source f the trouble, and after it was "filed down and replaced, re-placed, the machine tore Into Butte and landed the actress at her theater at 9 p. m. Th curtain was at once. raised and Miss Johnsortsfent ' through the first. act in her street clothes. Nfwsr comes from Helena. Mont., of . an exciting automobile ride In that city, - in -which the charming actress, Alice Johnson, viho Is. well known to Salt Lake;, theater-goers, for her clever .p'er-forrnaiire .p'er-forrnaiire In, "A Friend of 'the Fam-lly'siT Fam-lly'siT Appeared as the principal figure. The auto ride In Question was over the distance of seventy-five miles which separates Helena and Butte. Miss Johnson, Harrison T. Wolfe, her leading man ln-The Marriage of Kitty" com-. com-. pany. nnd Fred P. Nilson. manager of the .troupe, left their Helena hotel in time to catch the morning train to Butte! Oi account of the State fair, they were unable- to secure a carriage, and so boarded a car for the depot. The street car went so slowly that they missed Jhelr train by Ave minutes. As, thh was the only train that could take .them into Butte in time for the evening 'performance. Manager Wilson hired it fifty horse-power auto and they started;on their cold auto ride across the: mountains. Kverything proceeded smoothly, and wherever - the roads would permit a speed of forty miles an hour -was maintained. Witti all but fifteen miles of the Jour- |