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PLAYS/tf PLAYERS Grace Merritt, in "When Knighthood Was in Flower.' WHY LACKAYE WAS PERFECT. Claim That He Couldn’t Play Jewish Role Aroused His Pride. "The late Lewis Morrison was di rectly. though unconsciously, respons ible for Wilton Lackaye’s being letter perfect on the first night of ‘Children of the Ghetto’ in Washington seven years ago,” said Frederick Donaghey, Robert Mantell’s manager, in a talk about the dead actor. "Nine years be fore Morrison had unsuccessfully tried to do the same thing that brought Zangwiil to defeat—to set forth on the stage a story of Jewish domestic life as affected by an ignoring of the Mo saic law. "The play was called ‘The Schat chen’ and was tried out in Philadel phia. M. B. Curtis, then the popular stage ideal of the Hebrew, and Charles Dickson, who had a hand in the au thorship. were in the east. Morrison's artistic success as an orthodox patri arch was immense, but the play died as it was born. “When in 1899 Liebler & Co. an nounced the Zangwiil play Mr. Tyler was swamped with suggestions that Morrison should be the actor of Reb Shemul. the veteran rabbi, those mak ing the suggestions having in mind hi3 fine portrayal in ‘The Schatchen.’ When Tyler said that he had engaged Lackaye there was a road of laughter and the protest against the latter took the general form of ‘he’s not of the race. He doesn't understand the type.’ “This criticism, with the praise of Morrison, got to Lackaye's ears, rous ing in him all his professional pride and Celtic pugnacity. He determined to make Shone! the role of his life. And he did. Whra an hour before the curtain went up on the premiere Tyler asked Lackaye what he thought of the venture the actor yawned and languid ly replied: “ ‘It is up to Zanwill.’ “It was. Lackaye by actual count got 31 calls that night. When the curtain down at last, Zangwiil hurried to congratulate him with a ‘You were splendid!' Lackaye again yawned and said: “ ‘What a pity you didn’t get Lewis Morrison for the role.’ ” PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Frank Worthing has been engaged to support Miss Grace George. It la rumored that Marie Cahill soon will desert musical comedy for ’ straight” comedy. Leo Dttrichstein will himself ap pear in the role of Dr. Page in his own farce, “Before and After.” Sir Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore will be seen in “Capt Drew on Leave” when they come to America. Otis Skinner has begun his road tour at Hartford in “The Duel,” in which he made a favorable impression last season. EDDIE FOY AS A CLOWN. Hi* Turn on the Elephants Was N01 Enjoyed by Himself. A good story is told of Eddie Foj of “The Earl and the Girl” in connec tion with the Baraum & Bailey circa: in Madison Square garden. Foy, witl | a party of friends, made a visit to th< circus and in a jesting way Foy wa: dared to make up as a clown anc i jump over the elephants during th( i acrobatic leaping exhibition. Alwayi j ready for a lark, the comedian toot the wager. He was taken around tc j the circus dressing room and intro duced to the clowns, who, seeing thr humor of the bet and the expressior on Foy’s face, entered heartily intc i the plans. In a few minutes the trum j pets sounded and 50 odd clowns en ! tered the arena. The elephants were brought in anc the tumbling began. All went wel until Foy tried to jump over two ele phants. He slipped and struck square ly upon the back of one beast. I' jumped aside and he slipped betweer the two monsters. Then this comica incident turned to a serious situation His friends hurried to his rescue anc picked him out from among the ele phants in the nick of time. He lookec i more like a tragedian than a funnj fellow. "Never again for me,” he gasped. “IU stick to the stage and allow the sawdust arena to take care of itself." “Gee!" said Steve Macco one of the clowns, “you certainly were funny.” “Funny?” said Foy. “If that's what you fellows call comedy I'm gb ing to study for an undertaker.” Not at All Surprised. Reginald De Koven. the composer entered a New York cafe one after noon and ordered his luncheon, when I he noticed that the waiter was lin [ gering as if to say something. “Well, what is it?” asked the com I poser, looking up from his paper. “Beg pardon, sir,” said the garcon "but do you remember me?” “Can't say that I do.” “Well, sir, I used to sing in one ol your companies.” “Oh, yes,” responded De Koven | after a survey of the waiter s counte i nance. “I remember you now. You | had a part in ‘Foxy Quiller.’ ** “Yes, sir. I suppose, sir, you're sur prised to see me now as a waiter." “Not at all,” replied De Koven; “1 heard you sing." New Theater for Shuberts. The Shuberts have secured control of Daly's theater. New York, and will enter into possession of the house on May 1. 1907. This will be the eighth theater in New York city controlled j by the Shuberts. The others are Hip podrome. Lyric, Casino. Princess, Her ; aid Square. Lincoln Square and Majes | tic. WARFIELD’S FIRST APPEARANCE. Well-Known Star Ha* Awful Attack of Stage Fright. David Warfield was telling of bis first appearance on the stage. "After some *rae," said be, *‘l persuaded the managte of the Wigwam, a vaudeville bouse ta San Francisco, to allow me to give an audience an exhibition of my powers. It was an exhibition, all -ight. I shall never forget that night. • Feeling that my whole future de fended upon the outcome of this first real appearance, I grew more and more frightened as the hour ap proached. As I stood in the wings waiting for my time to go out and en ;ertain that big crowd with ‘stories *nd imitations’ my legs felt so wabbly .hat I was actually afraid that I would (way and fall down on my way to the .-enter of the stage. The act of the man just ahead of me seemed very tong, and yet I wished that he would never stop. At last the comedian came rushing off, flushed and exultant, amid applause and laughter. The orches tra twang into the music for my en trance. I cleared my throat, threw back my shoulders, and tried to walk out briskly, with an air of smiling confidence. But it was a'weak smile, and when I tried to speak I discovered that there was something the matter with my voice. It sounded strange and hnsky. I started to tell a lively story; but in my efforts to keep my knees from sbaking I lost the thread of it. The people out in front began to turn toward each other with grins. Try a song,’ cried a shrill toice from the gallery. This was followed by other jeering remarks. I commenced my story all over again. “‘Forget It!’ somebody shouted. ‘He has,’ answered somebody else. Then I heard stinging hisses. Glancing to ward the refuge of the wings, I saw the manager beckoning. I bowed, tried to smile, and walked off.” Warfield Begins. After over two years in Sew York “The Music Master” with David War field in his portrayal of the title role hss started, “on the road.” A month will be spent in Boston, one in Phila delphia, and then comes the nawjpy engagement for a similar period. The Pope and Spain TROUBLE SAID TO BE BREWING BETWEEN THE TWO. Unless Reduction in Clerical Budget Is Obtained from Vatican Rupture Is Likely to Take Place. The struggle which the Vatican has been carrying on with Fi-ance has re sulted in many of the exiled orders taking refuge in Spain md this has created a condition of affairs there that has brought the question of the relations of the Vatican to the church in Spain to a climax, so that there seems to be no doubt that, unless the present government of Spain can suc ceed in inducing the Vatican to accept a reduction of some $200,000 in the clerical budget and acknowledge the regularity of the civil marriage, a rup ture will take place between Madrid and Rome which may even lead to the denunciation of the Concordat of 1851. In the meantime, the cardinal primate Monsignor Sancha, Cardinal of Spain. Primate , of Spain, Mgr. Sancha, archbishop of Toledo, is doing his best to efTect an understanding by reminding the gov ernment of the obligations for moral support both monarchy and dynasty are under, and see Icing to impress upon the Roman curia the necessity of making certain concessions toward the liberal movement in Spain. The problem to be solved is really more of a financial and a social than a religious one. The financial side is aggravated from three sources. The money which the government pays outright to the clergy, the expense to X---. I the country at large of the thousands of monks and friars who hare estab lished themselves after being driven out of France, and founded schools and callages for both sexes; and the immense amount of treasure which the Vatican annually takes out of the country—however high may be the ex change from paper money into gold, in gold the Vatican is paid, and the tithes which it gathers from all sources in Spain are said to represent annually some $9,000,000. The state spends annually for the church some 41,000,000 pesetas, o: $8,200,000. According to the latest sta tistics, the total number of religious communities throughout the country is 2,115, containing 50,933 members. Of these, 2,586 communities are for women, with 40.188 members, and %29 for men, with 10,745 members. The number of those which sought and ob tained registration by the gov ernment was 2,611, the registra tion being of a permanent and definite character in the case of 1,201, and of a provisional kind for 1,410. Registration was temporal ily withheld in the case of 150, pend ing further examination of their titles and description. Of the 354 which re main, the greater part are orders ol the Concordat and exempt from regis tration. Of the 41,000.000 pesetas paid by the state to the church, about $6,000,000 is devoted to the payment of income; $750,000 to building, maintenance, and repair of churches; $225,000 is de stined for religious seminaries; and some $25,000 is allotted to religious congregations, cloistered nuns, and others. The sum of a little over $1, 000,000 is divided among the higher clergy. leaving less than $1,000,000 for the ordinary priesthood. As the latter must number considerably over 20.000, the average income of the secular priest cannot be more than $50. Nor does there seem to be much more margin for economy in the sal aries paid to the superior clergy. There are nine archbishops, whose in comes range from $8,000 to $5,500; there are 51 bishops who receive from $5,500 to $2,000; there are 50 deans and 500 canons, whose average yearly income is less than $1,500. But even out of this poverty the Spanish church contrived to donate to the govern ment last year $750,000. Meanwhile, the native orders and their French guests barely make a living; the vil lage curate starves; the towers of Cuenta Cathedral crumble and fall for the want of timely repairs; and the country, which has so long regarded such matters with indifference, is be ginning. especially the liberal, progres sive part of it. to be disgusted with the whole question of religious domi nance. —V»— ••nr>" HftH T/yi« T/Vii ^/V A Wonderful Tunnel - * BORE UNDER RIVER AT NEW YORK MARVEL OF SKILL Successful Completion of Gigantic Task That Has Taxed the Inge nuity of the Best En gineers. The railroad tunnel which has just been completed tinder the North river from New Tork city to Weehawken, N. J., is a marvel of ingenuity and skill, for it was found when the two bores made from opposite ends ap proached within 125 feet of each other that they were only one-eighth of an inch out of alignment and only three quarters of an inch out of grade, which, considering the size and the length of the tunnel, is something never before heard of. The completion of this seventy-five million-dollar tunnel now makes it pos sible for one to walk from New York city into New Jersey, and it will not be long before trains will be speeding through them. It is now five years since the first announcement was made of the project of building the tunnels, and it was only after a stren uous campaign of criticism and oppo sition that work was begun. The route of the tunnel is from the Jersey Meadows, beyond Bergen Hill (Weehawken), to Thompson avenue. Long Island City. A special safety feature will be the concrete walkways, or sidewalks, built inside the tubes on a level with the car windows. If there is an accident or a long delay, the passengers will be able to reach these walkways from the car windows or doors. The cables for power, water pipes for protection against fire, and part of the signal wires will be bedded in the concrete beneath these sidewalks. The construction of the tubes has been designed with a view to safety. Instead of resting upon the river soil, they are supported by iron founda tions known ms screw piles, such as are used for lighthouse props. In the case of the trolley tunnels built further south, the tubes rest in the soil, for they will not have to bear trains of great weight. The Pennsylvania tun nels, on the other hand, must support 100-ton electric locomotives, and hence it was necessary to provide iron foundations extending all the way down to bedrock. Much has been told of the Manhat tan terminal. It has been decided that this is to be a railroad station from top to bottom, with only such sub sidiary' departments as are necessary Interior of Tunnel, Showing Safety Walkway* of Concrete. to the comfort* of railroad passengers. There will be restaurant* and arcades of small shops near the waiting room, 300 feet long, but there will be no theater or hotel or beer garden despite frequently published rumors. To the various train platforms, below ground, the passengers will descend in elevators, and at the top of each elevator shaft will be electric signs showing what trains are due or wait ing. In short, there is to be no con venience lacking, and the plans seem to provide for roominess and comfort enough to. supply the demands of the future New York, however fast the population increases. BUGS OF UNTOLD AGE8 AGO. Fossils from Colorado Exactly Like the Insect of To-Day. .a all the world the greatest de pository of fossil insects is at Floris sant. Colo. Dr. W. M. Wheeler of the American Museum of Natural History spent his vacation there and has just brought back some 2,000 specimens. The layman sommonly thinks that fossil insects are found only in amber, which affords a protecting medium for the preservation of their delicate bodies. There are two or three places in the world, however, where peculiar conditions have preserved fossil in sects in stone. One of them is Radapoj, in Bohemia, another Oeningen, in Bavaria. But by far the richest depository is at Florissant, 30 miles west of Colorado Springs. Samuel Scudder partially explored the region in 1890, since When no one touched it till Dr. Wheel er went there this summer. He was accompanied by Prof, and Mrs. Cocke rell of the University of Colorado. The place they explored was an old lake bottom ten miles long. Some hundreds of thousands of years ago a tranquil, shallow lake lay there, steaming in a bed of dense vegetation! for the climate was then like that of Louisiana. All round great volcanoes smoked and spit, and their ashes sift ed down into this lake. The ashes caught and held the in sects, and later discharges bedded the fossils in rock. This rock now pro trudes all over the old bed, masses of shale which can be split into sheets with ease. In between the leaves of shUe are found the fossil insects, and they show that the insect tribe has bean the most changeless ol all types. Bees, beetles, spiders, flies, and ants which lived before man appeared on earth can all be instantly recognized, and even-lfleir family told. Many ants are fount, all of which must have fallen in^c, the lake in the marriage flight, since the ant is a land and the. workers are wingless. Many specimens are so well pro served that they show even the hairs on the insect’s body. The is fall at fossilized sequoia also and fa-fi The woman hasn't been married ▼err long, and so she has not ret learned all of her duties. She has learned that she is expected to be in good humor most times, and to pal away certain things that her lord and master has used and then left where they dropped, with an abiding faith that when he returned that way they would all be nicely again in thei! places, but when a function required that he put on his evening clothes the first time after the wedding day a bright light was thrown upon certain of her wifely cares. It was on the evening of the day of the function that the heroine of this story began leisurely to prepare for it. She had arranged her tresses, and. ar rayed in a kimono, was slowly beauti fying her nails when her husband rushed into the room. "Well, I’m ready to begin," he said. "Good; you’re a little late; you’d better hurry,” replied his better half, absently. The man flew out of the room with his shaving mug in his hand and dis appeared in the direction of the bath. He humped around in there a bit, while his wife finished her toilet, and, reasoning that she had better get out of the way*of a person in a hurry, went down to the library and, taking a book, began to read. Directly a very cross voice floated over the baluster to her. “You didn’t get out one of my dress shirts for me.” it said. ‘T don’t know where your dress shirts are,” responded the woman in the case. “Well. I’ll be—blamed.” said the voice, and now to the crossness was added a note of astonishment. It was such a resonant note that the woman felt it would save unpleasant ness if she went upstairs. She found her husband sitting on the edge of the couch swinging his feet. “It's the most curious thing that you forgot to get out my shirt,” he said, aggrievedly. “I didn’t forget,” replied his wife, spiritedly, “what do I know about your dress shirts. Where are they?" “I don’t know; mother does.” “Pity she's in New York, isn’t It?" asked the bride. Then reluctantly, seeing that the en tire toilet of the man depended upon her efforts, she went to some packing boxes, and, by dint of ruining her coiffure and tearing a rent in her best net gown, succeeded in finding therein a pile of the missing garments. She brought one to her liege lord ungrar ciouslv and handed it to him with uplifted brows, then started again to ward the stairs. “You haven't got out my pearl studs, have you?” asked the man. “I have not, indeed. I thought per haps you would be capable of so much exertion.” “Oh! mother always attended to those things, and I haven't an idea where they are. Just look them up like a good girl.” The good girl looked up the pearl studs. She found them under some racetrack cards and a razor strop in a seldom-opened drawer. “What else?" she asked, but the irony in her tone was absolutely lost. “A white tie,” replied her mate, “i hope there’s one here somewhere. Yoi don't know whether there is or not, dc you?” “I haven't worn any of your ties foi some time,” replied the victim, sedate ly—and found the cravat after an ex haustive search among the man’t stockings. “Well.” said that person when she had handed it to him, bolding up hb chi*. "Well?" queried his distinctly bettei half, sharply. “Mother always tied it for me.” “O!” said the woman; then she at tempted to do that deed, and after several false starts finally accom plished that feat. “If you’ll just look me up a pair o' white gloves now I think I’ll be all right,” said the man in a conversa tional tone. In a silence which boded no good thing the woman found a pair of white gloves. “Shall I put these on you?” she asked frigidly. “Now, don't be cross, dear,” entreat ed the helpless one in a silky voice. “Are you quite ready?," “Quite, I believe.” “Then sit here on this chair while I make another toilet,” said his better half, “and don't you dare move, or I may have to do you all over again.” But the remainder of the tirade was lost as madame smoothed her rumpled tresses and violently powdered her nose.. So it was thus painfully and resist ing! y that this matron learned a part of her wifely duties, but now she’s re signed to her fate, and she always un complainingly helps her husband make a state toilet and sits him by the fire to keep clean before she even starts on her own.—Baltimore News. Small Debt Worried Him. Edward Goyette, who lived in Mon treal 16 year* ago, returned recently and paid the water department $13.25 which be owed when he left. He said that the debt had worried him ever since he left and. having made $200, 000 in New York, he decided to come back and pay his score. Many Visit Sacred City. Benares, the sacred city of India, is visited annually by nearly 2,000,000 pilgrims. Spider's Wonderful Strength. Recently in the Tillage of Havana, in New York state, an insignificant looking little garden spider pounced upon a milksnake, bit it, entangled it in her threads and actually hoisted it off the ground. The fact that the snake weighed 96 times as much as its captor makea this achievement a moat remarkable one. Reward of Diligence. The man%ho attends to his own business will have leisure later to en joy meddling with other people'si ansaijE ooujhk 8TOBJER—ZML Veils in Many Styles. VERT <?MAKMNG dHOWZNG THE KNOT AY THE BACK, —;-a: ' * Veils were never more in vogue, and they wen; never more varied or more beautiful. The little face veils come in hundreds of designs. Just what kind is becoming to you is a matter which you must decide for yourself. The heavy, thickly dotted veils are not suitable for summer wear, but they I are charming with velvets and furs when the snow ilies and the winter girl appears in complete radiance and glory. If one is troubled with weakened eyes a veil with widely scattered dots may be selected. One of the smart est of French veils has but three or four dots to the yard, each one fully as large as a silver quarter-dollar. A new arrangement for a chiffon veil is displayed in one of the pictures. It shows how the veil is brought about among the hat trimmings, then tied in a loose knot at the back, the long ends of the veil meeting in front under the wearer's chin, where they are folded in little loops. There is something so soft and so distinctly feminine about a veil of any kind that one is sure to be fascinated with an arrangement so becoming as tliis. OF AID TO HOSTESS SUGGESTIONS FOR NOVEL AND PLEASING ENTERTAINMENTS. How to Get Up a Delightful Fruit Luncheon—An “Expert Angler” Party—Prizes for the Best Answers. Nothing is prettier than a fruit luncheon at this season of the year and it gives u variety from flowers. For the centerpiece have a dish or basket filled with assorted fruit. The invitations may be decorated with designs of fruit done in water colors, clusters of snipes are very satisfac tory. Iced grape juice is the firs; course the glasses resting on natural grape leaves for doilies. Then serve tomato soup, which is appropriate as in olden times the tomato was classed as a fruit and called “love apple.” Put a snconful of whipped creatu on top of each cup just before sending the soup to the table. For the first course the sauce tartare is placed in lemon halves, hollowed out and the ends cut off so they will re3t npright. Chicken or lamb chops, individual com pudding in ramakins, fried sweet potatoes and hot biscuit complete the substantial course. A fruit salad, am brosia and small cakes form the des sert. Black coffee ip small cups served with cognac may follow as is so often done in New Orleans. Tne spoon Is balanced across the cup. a square of loaf sugar placed in it, then saturated with cognac which is light ed and the sugar allowed to slrwly drip Into the '•offee. For place cards grape leaves are cut out of carbosrd of green then lettered with gold ink. For souvenirs give the charming fruit shaped candy boxes, which are most realistic in form and coloring. If any contests are provided for en tertainment, there are pin cushions which come in exact duplicates of the real fruit. “An Expert Angler” Party. Decorate the room with nets and fishing poles, and send the inTitations on fish-shaped cards. Pass pro grammes containing the following questions, the answers are ail well known to denizens of the briny deep. For prizes give fish-shaped candy boxes, filled with bonbons. The table centerpiece may be a sailboat and the place cards pebbles or shells inscribed with the name. For refreshments serve creamed fish in fish or shell-shaped ramakins, oysters, in some form, coffee, sand wiches, pickles and salted nuts. Questions: 1. A favorite color—Salmon. 2. The name of a country road— pike. 3. Part of a soldier’s equipment— sword. 4. An animal of the companion of old maids—Cat-(fish). 5. O domestic animal and part of the human body—sheep-head. 6. Part of the solar system—Sun fish. 7. To ridicule or make light of— carp. 8. The opposite of strong—weak fish. ft. An accompaniment of buck wheat cakes—butter-fish. 10. My fii-st is to pull, my second to go wrong and my third is a letter of the alphabet—pickerel (Pick-err-L). 11. A favorite Scotch fish often salted—herring 12. A Scotch prefix, an ill-bred dog and the twelfth letter of the alphabet —mackerel (mad-cur-L). 13. Collect on delivery—COD. 14. The favorite color of many peo ple—blue-fish. 15. The of a northern lake— 16. A chain of mountains—white fish. 17. Part ol* a bird's cage—perch. 18. A man of whom to beware— shark. 19. A crea ture much discussed in theology—whale. 20. A noted blower and puffer— porpoise. 21. First green, then red, to be good food—lobster. 22. What oarsmen sometimes catch—crab. 23. One uho is proverbially close mouthed—cla m. 2*. Only to be eaten in the month with an R—oysters. 25. Slow but sure—tortoise. 26. A solitary traveler—quail. 27. The guide of the Wise Men— Star-(fish). 28. Red. and an article used on. clothes—red snapper. 29. A fish describe^ .. s flat— flounder. MADAME MERRI. Cloth Costume Sure to Win Popularity. Has as Chief Effect One of the Smart est and Newest Coatees Seen This Season. Costume of biscuit-colored cloth, which provides, as a companion for a well-hung pleated skirt, one of the smartest and newest coatees. A bolero effect is outlined by a curved band of silky black braid centered with a narrower braid, which repeats i the soft shade of the cloth, and in troduces shining threads of gold, a big button or two in the combined braids doing duty as trimming as well as fastening. And then, to mark its po sition as a. shading novelty of the season, there comes below the braid a cleverly shaped little basque, cot to show the iraist, to which it gives an appearance of special slenderness by reason of its slightly outstanding curves; while at the back it is ar ranged in a series of little pleats. This is going to be a very popular model. Pelerines of Fur, Pelerines and capes made of all of the fashionable furs are going to be much worn, and the new season’s models an? distinguished from those of former years by flchu fronts and every imaginable shoulder trimming. Less expensive bnt wonderfully smart are shoulder capes of rich velvet and plush, trimmed with collars and stoles of the fashionable skins, bnt there seems to tie a special call for i» this connection.