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Show They are telling a story about Manager Lum-berg Lum-berg of the International theater, Niagara Falls, and it listens good. It seems that Fred C. Whitney was asked to bring Madame Schuman-Heink up to the Falls last season, but he poo-poohed the proposition as ridiculous, saying: "We couldn't get railroad J fares out of it" '.J1 "How much are your expenses?" asked Mr. j Lumberg. ; "It costs me a thousand dollars to raise my iv curtain every night," quoth Whitney. "I'll give you a thousand dollars," said Lumberg, "and that's a flat guarantee." Of course Whitney . jumped at the proposition, and the statement that i was rendered Lumberg for the Schuman-Heink night showed that he had played to $1,997. This is the first time on record that a com- , pany playing Niagara Falls split fifty and fifty, and Freddie is angry yet. |