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Show 'A Ninety-Dollar Umbrella. "On .Mme. Bernhardt'B last visit to us," said a manager, "sho was beguiled be-guiled one afternoon to a charity bazar ba-zar at the St. Regis. She was beautifully beauti-fully dressed in gray, with an umbrella um-brella of gray silk, -and as sho stood at tho embroidery booth sho laid the umbrella on the counter. Instantly tho girl who conducted tho booth seized tho pretty umbrella, waved It over her head, and cried: 'How much am I bid for Mmo. Bernhardt's umbrella? um-brella? Fifty? Twenty-flvo? Ten?" And while tho actress looked on smiling there ensued n spirited auction auc-tion that ended In tho umbrella's salo to a western brewer for $90." |