Show I I P PLAYS LAYS I AND P PLAY LAY P PEOPLE EQ P LE I I II I I Seats Rescued at lt rime Tho opening tin day at tho box office at ot the lie yesterday was productive tive of oC no less les than seats scats being re reserved ye- ye served for various nights each week during the sen season on which extends until un un- til June 14 H The first to have hav tl their names entered In the register were ere Mrs T. T F F. Farrell Farrel anti and Jake Jak r Groenwald Greenwald the time latter Insisting that unless he had the same seats seals he ho re- re nerved last season he would boycott the show ghow During the day lay a number of or old patrons of the house homo Inspected the transformed promises premises and were wele delighted de do- lighted at nt the Louis XVI decorations and various vamious valous color schemes of or cream ivory ory red ree and greens leens which dead walls of have the old wals white plaster plater The Time opening bill bi S se selected so- so Is essentially one of oC comedy coined throughout with with some sortie high class clas acts that run time tho gamut from a a. dog doS and monkey show to a n X v Ne t York Merchants i end ma mils Its Protest The Tho Merchants Merchants' association of ot the tho cl city of Now New York has hao entered a formal form form- al protest against the continuation Irot all al summer of performances of or tho ho play pia The Time Lion n and amid the Mouse on the ground that lint it i hurts their In In- In They s say that at this ge season season sea sea- son o of the year buyers come comae core to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York from treat all al parts o of the country and amid when the time local merchants offer to show them courtesies they In Invariably Invariably invariably In- In variably express a n wish to go o anti and see seeThe The rhe Lion and ane the Mouse Anxious to please the merchant has hns to get tho the seats scats an and one cravat manufacturer complains that hat he has been to se sethe seethe see seo the play pIa no fewer than seven forty times limes It was upon his protest that the Merchants Merchants' association its is action acton The coming publication o of The Time Lion Ilon and tho time Mouse In book form orm will wi relieve tho the pressure to some somo extent as instead 1 of or spending four dollars on two scats seats tho the merchant will only have havo to lo spend for tor a n copy of oC tho the novel S 18 ils Harper tin un unI Ait I 1st tbt The TIme Grand theatre will wi open the regular season sean August 12 with the popular favorite Georgia Harper as tho the attraction Corallo Coralo has been chosen for or the opening play pla It I Is Isone one of Miss Harpers Harper's favorite roles A critic after seln seeing her In Coralie Corle writes As ai an ni alt artist t Miss Harper Is entirely worthy of oC all al that has been heen said sattl sid in praise of or her hem As a star her brilliancy has Increased front from sea season ol to season until the effulgence once of ot its Hs way permeates every vr part of tho ho and hol holds over her audience a spell pel dazzling in Imi its is effect Her leadIng leadIng leading lead- lead Ing man Mr I lCk Dete Is an actor of oC ability anti and much power |