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Show Had Her Safe. At the amateur operatic performance perform-ance of "The Mistletoe Bough" in which, as you remember, the heroine hides In a cellar chest anil Is smothered smoth-ered to death the lady who played this Jin rt was. vocally, a terrible llas-co. llas-co. Nevertheless, they struggled along until the scene where she climbed Into the box a real "property" "prop-erty" kindly loaned for the occasion by John Smith, president of the local safe-deposit company. The lid snapped down with a click that was only too realist ie. A frightened stage manager rushed out to where the owner of the box sat anil whispered. "(Minnie the key! The lid of your blooming box has sprung locked." "Is that womiui going to sing anymore?" any-more?" "Sure, she comes In as a ghost in the next net und sings two songs." "Thnt settles It," muttered old Jones Smith. "She enu Just stay there." |