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Show TI1E mOUX'IMJ EXa.mINKI:, OODEX, I'TAII. ;V;V.!V!VlJ. W Sl'MiAi', AivuL. f, lWj. aVaVI. i V 3 Vi -- ra I1! JaVe Y. T - Vo Blanche Walsh Lillian Russell, at the Grand, Thursday, April AT THE UTAHNA. Following la the program at the Utahn theater, which changed Ha bill at yesterday's matinee 1 1. Saratoga and the aconle aettlnge are very pleasing to the eye BLANCHE WALflH : APRIL 1 Overture. 1L Kipp and Comedy Klppy, Jugglers end Laugh Producer. III. Leon L Chartlen, Favorite Tenor, Singing "Moey 'Long In 81 Beautifully Illuatrated. IV. Qulgg and Mack, Real Iriah 1. Lillian Russell, at the Grand, Thursday, April In tbe tree, end Ua eyes light and fade aa It tuna It head from aide to side. Then, there are the ' dainty- fairies, quite like thoee we have read about in ve, and the the old day of - make-belie- FS-to- CLUBB THAT MAKE YOU KEEP . .. .. MUM. m In "The Butterfly," the new comedy will bo seen et tho Grand on Ehlch April 11, Mins LUllan Rue-kplays Mrs. Elisabeth Kllllgrew, the koung widow of old Petor KUlgrew, "who gathered up a great many millions by stealing railroads and Invested n few thousand in salvation by Supporting a church." At the opening of tbe play, the financier has been dead Just a year and a day, and bin beautiful young widow, "Betsy," la btoasotlng out of her mounting Into brilllaut colon. Butay haa never been In love, and never experts to find happiness from Infatuation tor any man; but she means to find it. and imagines that a title will bring It to her. She seeks a coronet which belongs to the Earl of Dexminater, who la only too anxious to bestow It on her and transport her with her fortune to British sol). Betsy la duly elated at the esri's proposal when a new will la . . INVENTS PUNCTURELESS TIRE. Actress Patents a Wheel in Which Spring Supplies Place of Pnsu-mati- n Air Cuahion. BlaachtWaMi Is on tho eve of People who travel by road or rail muat have been surprised at the number of curious clubs formed amongst those who spend much of their time in frame or railway carriages. For the most part auch clubs as these are more, a matter of tacit- recognition than of entrance fees and printed yules. . . A season ticket. holders' dub was formed solely for the purpose of preserving silence In ttfb carriages of a certain train on the' District railway, were wont to , In which the members make their morning Joruney to town. Thla club flourished for years, only ' becoming defunct when the reoent electrification of the line brought with It the Introduction of open cars of the d American type Instead of the compartmentod one. Needless to say, this alteration did away ' With tho club's usefulness. The method the dub adopted to rid the compartment occupier by It of objectionable persona brat on making conversation waa simple In the extreme. It was simply that of answeraa ing with such a degree of eurtaess reto make farther Interchange of mark Impossible. It was. Indeed, a bold man who required more than twe such consecutive ranks to make him ' effectually dry up. ' .The dub was but a small affairi moreover, it was of a strictly private, not to say confidential,' character. Very different la tbe Lytkina, 8L Annes, and Blackpool Traveling dub, to give It Its full official title; at any rate, ae far aa Its dimensions are com earned, though Its objects ara practically the same as those of Its humbler metropolitan relation. . In thla caae tho dub is a really swagger affair, boasting ax Its headquarters 'no fewer than three private eelooa can oa the Yorkshire pad Lancashire railway, while Its membership numbers the grand total of eighty first class season ticket holdera, to say nothing of Its registered name and heavy entrance foe. But, besides all then advantage!. It boasts the rule that no member may have the window open oa ray pretence whatever. Under then curcuns stances, considering that the run from to Manchester occupies Blackpool about an hour and n quarter each way. It la as well that the care are as roomy and commodious ns they are said to older-faahlone- Blanche Walsh, at the. Grand, Tuesday; April 16 be- coming famous for the second time. Not as aa actress, for while her nightly uudkmres at the Astor theater may b ready to acclaim the aoul beneath the aoil of her "Moll of Houston Street." there are waiting thousand j who will hall her latest achievement with even greater mthualaam. The dramatic alar has given the world a puncturelese tire, applied for a patent thereon, and her Invention will presently be available for all manner of wheels that run on mother earth. Two year ago Mis Waleh was en routs from Doming, New Mexico, to play an engagement in Silver City, five hours away. In the Mojave Desert, a tire of her auto was "winded" and she was delayed for two maddening hours. discovered. It waa then that she conceived the Idea Old Peter Kllllgrew, before hie of a spring In place of sir. death, had determined to put up tbo "Every wheel that turns," said Mias bars agsinst fortune hunters, and hla Walsh, who demonstrated the uses of j method was to decree In hi will that her wheel at her home. No. 250 Went should hi widow marry a second time, . Forty-Flft- h street, yesterday, must the happy man must be a native burn have a cushion somewhere between the American cltisen. If she should take body of the vehicle and the point of for a second husband any man not an contact. In mine the cuaion is brought American, then the fortune should pass Into direct communication with the to a nephew. point of contact for the first time. This She first threatens to go Into a con- makes punctures and blowouts Impostent, but a few moments later is o?et sible. Flat wheels are out of the quesjoyed by discovering a way, out of con- tion as la slicking and slipping; tbs forming to the will, and launches her- speed of su auto or other vyhlrK-- Is self on one of the most extraordinary Increased 5 per cent: and the noise Is and complicated matrimonial adven- decreased by half. I don't pretend to ture that ever convulsed New Yorit or be mechanically gifted, and 1 had to Newport, the twin playgrounds of have my Idea put Into form. It la so hasty marriage and convenient divorce absolutely simple it seems strange It an adventure that keeps all the char- has not been done before. acters of tbs comedy In a swift swirl In the new wheel highly tempered of excitement and croea purposes up steel springs in the shape of clrrhlar to tbe very moment of tho final Ml of bands an Inch wide and two Inches tho curtain on tho happiest solution of greater in diameter than the rim In which the spokes are set are placed InBetsy's problem. Bhenld she marry an American who side a solid tire. The construction, as would agree to a convenient divorce, Mias Wal says. Is marvelously simthen she could later marry her tilled ple. The Idea is applicable to all love. This plea she adopts, taking for wheels, and expert say It will revoluher fembaad of convenience a young tionize present methods. Amerioea composer without fortune, which results la a ridiculous sad exANNIE RU'SELL COMING. v citing tangle of draumstanoea, In which Betsy discovers that she does Although so much has been said not want a coronet at all but some- concerning the gorgeous production of A Midsummer Night's Dream." with thing Car better the love of her nominal husband. She leans that there which HAOagens Wagenhals & Kemper Is something bettor then being a but- have surrounded Miss Russell this sea terfly, sad the curtain falls oa a very son, there are some Individual fea'iires sentimental conclusion. that seem to strike more forcefully Mr. Joseph Brooks bus surrounded the theater-goe- r who look for both pic. Miss Russell with an exceptionally turesquenese and pleasant good oast la tbe company are: EuThe general way In which tho gene Ormond. John Flood, Frederick play haa been staged; its manv splenL Tiden, Charles Lamb, Roland H. did pictures, rich In color, and its Hill, Isabel Richard a, Kate Griffith and music, stands stmnclr dig. Rosalie de Vaux. The gowns worn by Then there are clever effects ohainel Mias RuassD are creations la v by the use of countless ciirrsd sense of the word. . Mere man oaaaot lamps, ss when Pock klhs.tiny s the slow-erI describe them. The soenes of the and lights bob no In them, nr when comedy are told la New York and aba teases aa owl that dismally hoot s be. Another curious traveling dub, though with very different objects, was the one which had lta headquarters on a penny steamboat plying between Charing Cross pier .and Chelsea. It was tbs custom for the member to sseemble on board Tightly for the trip, during which time a sumptuous dinner was served in the saloon by special arrangement with the steamboat owners. The club had the reputation of being one of the smartest, tf not altogether the most reputable, of thoee patronized by the gilded youth of tbe town dining its brief existence. Pearson's Weekly. AUTOMOBILE MOTOR A MECHAN-ICA- L TRIUMPH. But a comparatively few yean ago the prediction that auch a motor as la now in common use on the automobile could be produced would have been ridiculed. Including Its bedplate, a of tbs modern gasoline engine tlonarj type rated at but six horsepower weighs from 1.100 to 1,500 pounds. Assuming that tbe bedplate acouats for at least 50 per cent of i's a Blanche Walsh, at the Grand, Tuesday, April 16 this, It may ttlll be said that englsti of thla type will average close i iw It is suiri pounds per horse-powethat not alone thla. but half at it, would ba an excessive unit of edkt for tbe autonoMi per horse-powand though ten years ago the staties-arengine dealgner would bate ridiculed a motor that weighed not Mt than ten to twelve pounds per kon power, as nothing mors suUUiihl than an Inventor's dream, this lx come to pas and a still rests ductlon Is being sought for. A new influence Is at work to Brin n motor In which the weight bean n even more remarkable ratio to Up power output, not only a posslbBq but a practical reality. This Is the Is mand for a motor suited to tk is qulremeuta of aerial navigation h brief, these are merely that the auto shall produce the greatest power vttl the least weight, und though la lug through tbe. throes of Invent! such aa as ipti'ed the automobile bilker several years ago, designers d aerial motors have brought forth mm truly wondrous creations, they Ism also achieved some very remarkabb results. Every expedient hnowa t the designer has .been resorted to h Order to Increase the power aad dues the weight, aad auch flgurai n three arid . four pounds to the horse power have been attained.. This u urally .represents a standard could ably below the safe practical limits' In fact; It haa not been found pn tlcal to . design a motor having lw B than alt pounda per horse-powewhether above or below thla Hon the chief stumbling block that thads signer of motors for serial purpose hss had to contend with la ths fw of reliability: It baa bam found pos this to build motors of thass awx moton lngly Impossible weight and that would run but their opemwa haa been fitful and uncertain. there appears to be no reasos f doubt that eventually luceraa win am ward efforts In this direction aa It In the case of the automobile. i Automobile. r. bands of elves who disported themselves la true elfin fashion. All these and the many other features will be Included when Miss Russell Is seqn hero aoon. Gur-geou- miss waLsh 1. TUESDAY, Blanch Walah and her new Clyde Fitch drama of New York life will coma to the Grand opera houae Tuesday. April 16th. The play won the stamp of complete metropolitan approval during iia long and euoeeeaful Comedians. run it the Astor theater, when It wan ' V. The Great Martynne, The generally conceded to he the most e Pari dan Mirror Dancer In talked of dramatic offering along Electrical Spectacular Dancea. Broadway. The one scene which was Le b) (a) The Silver Butterfly.1' received as a distinct novelty la the Dance de Cokmer." (e) 14 Dance de whispering scene in Moll O'Hara'a Flamme." (d) "L Dance de Aurora room, where for twelve minutes the Borealis." action U carried along with voice no VL Cbeveral, The French Comiqne low that the audience all but refrains and Trick VloHnlat from breathing, no that nothing of ImVH Armetrong and Holly, The port to the story bo lost to them. In Stare of Vaudeville Present their Orig- order that this seen may not be Ininal Comedy Ruoeeaa entitled, "The terrupted, the management of the theIkpreaaman. ater will place a gaurd at every enThe Utahnaaoope, Preeentlng trance of the house, who will forbid laughable Motion Comedy. to outer ur leave the theater Oomln neat week, commencing liuyohH liatil the scene la finished. The play Murttr Matinee, April II, nnother comes with It Now York cast and proof European attrac- duction. under the management of mammoth act a featura. The great-e-at Wcgeuhala A KomiN-r- . tion!. Bachurty of all great vaudeville acta. LILLIAN RUSSELL THURSDAY. 1 - r. , -- IN INSURING TURWS VESSEL A. The Monlteur Offlde! du Commerm leading trade journal of France, LIBERAL a t Calling nitration to tbe fact that Cunsrd company in renewing M1 ancea on Its fleet for the son places them upon a valuation It I But thing like 518,000,000. the enormous sum Involved that sate the writer In the French papjj hut the fact that the Mauretania Lusitania, the new turbine ahlM, ued each at a little leea than M. 000 have been Insured for pmeticaw 'w 58,000,000- - or for 14,000,000 each, coina In and Caronia, Camanla eoustructioB, are entered at araw 000,000 each. The ride njK four ehlpe fa placed at I W per annum, the marine Insuring poltqr pules conceding. In the suranefc, protection, the riekaa demnlty, and cover the total collision fabordage). To show the confidence felt F marine assurance companies a Mauretania and Lusitania. It tea necessary to point to the fart rqasaurances against total l08vi been placed on the London at the ridiculous rate of threewajl of 1 per cent per annum. that Lloyds will cover all ri raw , bln ehlpe at 2, per rent. The the other Cunard ship atare dkaat... per cent. Some assurers n4 fled because the Msuretanla Itaula carry only fl,000,000, should be twice as much, aad double sum would have augweu premiums. The assurance wP January 1. 1907, except that ere In course of ronstrncu them It begins after they a d. Thus It seems that the propellers are growing In vor, both In the Britiuh'navv the merchant murine. Ii compute confidence In the new mcib'd yr J f nu g0, propulsion. |