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Show m Modjeska, when she appears at the H . Thatcher opera houso Monday night H ' f will say farewell forever. The work M t which this great artiste lias done for, B tiicAmcricanstagostandsaboNcth.il' 1 ' of any accomplished by any other wo- H . i man Shu has helped dignify tlie the- H i ' atrc, making it a place where one H may go for intellectual pleasure, and , H establish it as one of the Institutions 1 j which should be fostered by the pco-, H I pie along with the church, tho college i H J and tho museums of ait. Mora than ! H this, by hci gracious womanhood and I H winning personality she has endeared (herself to playgoers throughout tho land In u peculiarly closo manner I When she is gone, there will be a! H sense of personal loss on tho part of H 1 1 thousunds. It is too bad that this H I j. tour is not one of the kind of "fare- H ' wells" to wlilch we aio used- that is, 1 i the Kind tliat LOino every year. Some , actresses and singers have been saying j good-bye overy twehc months for the HHj il last quarter of a century. That will H ' not be the way with Modjeska, morc's jH the pit) Rvcnts hae shaped thorn- jH selves so that it will be an Imposslbll- jH i ity for lici to play in this city after H the appin.ii'lilug performance. More jH than th.it. slii has placed herself un- jH dcr certain obligations to manager jH .lules Murry by terms of which she jH can never play in tills country again HH after the expiration of her contract with him. Tims it Is a certainty that jH with Modjeska It it to be adieu and jH not "au reolr." |