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Show CHARLES BAY R! "THE HOMIE ILGY" At the Ogden Theatre Tomorrow To-morrow and Monday. Algernon, the youngest of four sons, is sent to America to contract a good marriage and bring money into the family, in order to save the estate of his father, tho Marquis of Monteith. A fortnight later he starts, after bidding bid-ding farewell to his sweetheart) Patricia Pa-tricia Leslie, the Vicar's daughter, who is of course poor. On board ship he meets Lord Rock-more, Rock-more, who has a bad name, women, cards and all that Rockmore is accompanying ac-companying Dryker, a millionaire, and his wife and daughter to New York. Algernon is introduced to the Drykers. They have placed for safekeeping safe-keeping considerable jewelry in the pursuer's safe, including a rope of pearls, a diamond necklace and ihe big Capo diamond, valued at 60,000. Dryker has been followed since purchasing pur-chasing tho Cape diamond by Bud Harvey, a shrewd crook, who sees the purser order a brandy and soda and sandwich. This is his chance, and, meeting the steward returning with the tray, collides with him and drops unseen, a pill into the glass. The purser drops asleep, and Harvey secures se-cures his keys and steals the Dryker jewels. The robbery is discovered on the following day, and Harvoy, knowing his cabin will be searched, ties the jowels in his handkerchief, which he attaches to a st.lng, and drops them down one of tho ventilating funnels on tho upper deck. Algernon, sitting down through tho ventilator, reaches ' up and unties it, and drops back in amazement when he sees tho jewels. He decides to keep them, and for safekeeping safe-keeping puts the big diamond in the bowl of his pipe, covering it with to-vacco, to-vacco, and the other jewels he hides in his tobacco pouch underneath the tobacco. Harvey reaches New York with tho jewels, undiscovered. Rockmore and Algernon put up at the same hotel. Rockmore's picture is published in the society columns, and Belle Delmore, a dancer, with whoui ho used to bo thick in London, learns of his arrival and intentions with regard to Miss Dryker, and swears that she will send his letters and a statement to the Dryker girl. Algernon decides not to keep tho jewels, and puts them in a box, which ho malls to Miss Dryker, Rockmore plans to Intercept tho package of letters, let-ters, and watches the letter-carrier, and just before tho package is delivered, deliv-ered, rings the bell of the Dryker residence, res-idence, and Is talking to the butler when tho postman delivers a package, which he steals without the knowledge knowl-edge of the butler. Algernon arrives a few minutes later and discovers that Rockmore has evidently taken the package, whereupon he bundles Grace and her father Into a machine i and tells the chauffeur to drive hell-for-leather for the hotel. They arrive in tim to capture Rockmore and recover tho jewels. Algernon Al-gernon tells Grace Dryker of their rotten rot-ten luck back homo and of Pat dear, faithful Pat and of the family council coun-cil and the whole bally rot. He asks her what he should do, and she suggests sug-gests that he go to work. He has never thought of this solution, but it appeals to him, and he is eventually mnnlnvnfl ns .a hrnknr's elnrk with a tidy salary. He ventures his all in speculation. When Christmas conies he is invited in-vited to the Dryker house, and after all receive their presents, Miss Dryker Dry-ker and his employer, who is engaged to Gi'ace,-announce the last present is for Algernon. His present is Pat. His employer whispers that the "spec" is a big success and Monteith Hall is safe. He is pushed toward Pat, and the curtains drop together, and Algernon hears Grace crying in her lover's arms and knew that they were tears of happiness for him. He gathers Pat into his arms, which have been hungering for her these many days. Advertisement. oo ' R. G. Knowles told a good story recently re-cently of an actress who is taking a minor part a very minor part in a certain well-known musical comedy. One day, tearful and trembling, she burst into the manager's room. 'My diamonds!" she gasped. "They have been stolen from my handbag." The manager smiled ever so slightly. Then he remarked soothingly: "Oh, well, I shouldn't worry about a trifle like that!" - "But," replied the actress ruefully, "there was a two-dollar bill in the bag, and that's gone, too!" Tho manager's face became suddenly sudden-ly grave. "That's a different matter," said he. |
