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Show IS ''fiH At a meetIn& o the board of managers of the 1 iSiR Press Club yesterday afternoon Waldemar Young j'.jKHBa an(1 Hace Whitney presented the first two acts of 1 'BmHI tho new burlesque, "The Old Homestead," along I ' Jfjuflli wI"n a cast o cnaracters which will Insure the 1 Iffs! funniest show ever played by that organization. 1 T, Jilflr 11 is the object of the author to parodlze the I rJj BHj rural type of drama without particular reference i ' BBf! to any one of them. They have therefore out- 'H Ihhw lined the plot, which will be entirely new and j -lllflH original, and one which looks like a "scream" in I i bHe every line. Among the characters there will be 1 jWSbBb Fearsford Sope, the polished villian; the flower f 'wHH! glr1, driven mt the blinding snowstorm; the I 1 aBff chore boy, always to the rescue; the manly black- li'BwBffi smith, forever trying to save the family honor; ''j JmflEI the station agent, doing all he can for the Stubbs 'HH family; the kind-hearted sheriff conducting the uiJmH auction of the bedstead and a few others- on f '''I'MB which the authors have agreed without making 4laB known their exact intentions to the board of 'inB Behearsals will begin on the afternoon of I 'jjfrliffi August 15th. The burlesque will be produced on '''''fflH the evening of Thursday, September Gth. |