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Show THE ENGLISH OF ROLLER M. D. The aggregation of athletes headed by Jeffries and Gotch having left town on the last leg of a theatrical trip that is to net the former a paltry fifty thousand dollars, with the sporting editors back to earth and the hearts of several hundred embryo sports resuming normal pulsations alter their two days of hero worship, there seems to Bessilee Merrill as Jack of Hearts in "The Land of Nod" , be a chance of getting a word in edgewise on the coming meet of the two heavy weight bruisers here July 4th. " The majority of those who turned oui. Lu ue the brawn probably figured they had their money's worth for a chance to get the face of the great undefeated thoroughly Imprinted on their memory before the smoke alters it in July, though, of course, everyone knows what will ultimately hap pen to the gentleman with the unbleached hide. Gotch and Farmer Burn.sBcruffed around on the mat for a few moments, and the latter, with a Kansas City wrestler, presented an interesting little lit-tle match that cost the company a hundred dollars' dol-lars' forfeit, as Burns failed to down his man in fifteen minutes. Second to the appearance of Jeffries Jef-fries after the Intermission, the feature of the evening was probably Dr. Roller's monologue. The way the Doctor a little later threw his wrestling mate around the stage and gracefully stepped on his face, was nothing compared to the manner in which he knifed, hamstrung, and slaughtered twenty twen-ty minutes of perfectly good English that had never done anything to him and which it is equally equal-ly certain the Doctor has never done a great deal with. The Doctor, in talking, gives considerable evidence evi-dence of being muscle bound as far as English Is concerned, As for giving those present Saturday evening any tip of Jeffries' fitness for his coming encounter encoun-ter with Johnson, the former's appearance in a few training stums on the stage was valueless, of course. He looked big and husky, and his trainers train-ers say that in the next three or four months his u wind will be all right. The Jeffries-Gotch aggre- J gation disbands on the coast, where they are now f showing, and after a bear hunt down in Mexico, 'V Jeffries has announced that he will start training either in Ogden or on Henry Harrison's ranch in Parley's Canyon. Meanwhile it looks more and more as if Salt Lake will be fprtunate enough to secure the bout, and that July 4th will see the two men together at Saltalr. Maxine Elliott began her regular New York season at Daly's theatre Monday evening of this week, appearing in Frank Stayton's three-act comedy, "The Inferior Sex." Arthur Byron Is Miss Elliott's leading man this year. New York first nighters are awaiting with interest in-terest the first production in that city Tuesday evening, February 1, of Eugene Walter's latest play, "Just a Wife," in which Charlotte Walker, 'his wife, will star. In the company are Edmund Breeze, Bobbie North, Ernest Glendenning, Frederick Fred-erick Burton and Amelia Gardner. Bertha Kalish has been engaged as a member of the New Theatre company in New York and will make her first appearance In that much discussed dis-cussed house, February 14th, in "The Witch," a drama adapted by Professor Herman Hagledorn of Harvard University from the Norwegian. ' |