THE OMAHA SUXDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 18. 1917.
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i AN' actor of distinction Edwin
Ardcn, is to be one of the
stellar attractions tliis wcr-k
a: ht Ornhcuir.. He will
divide headline honors with
the sons comedienne. Kav
.Samuels. "Close Quarters." a uno-act
play by Oliver White, is to be pre
sented by Mr. Arden, assisted by
Robert ayne. Of Miss Samuels it i
to be said that she is a comedienne
who sings units'jally well. One of the
special features is to be contributed
iiv Kcnney and Htllis in a skit called
' Frcsbv's Init'.itk i;." Collecc bov
pranks are related iiv means of nne!
and story. Hilled a "somewhat differ
ent singers." Horace Wright and Rene
Dietrich arc vocalist;- of attainment.
Mr.. Wright is a tenor of pure tone,
while his partner is a soprano equally
well endowed. In addition to'traincd
males, Mr. Fink has trained ponies
and trained dogs in his act. Mis mule,
"Jim Dump.'' is a laughable feature
of the performance. A skit, ''Comin'
Thro' the Rye," to be presented by
(hirles Irwin and kitty Henry, is
a hodge-podge of song and story,
Mario and Duffy have gained a
prominent position as eccentric gym
nasts and this season arc especially
diverting. A prairie dog village will
be shown in motion pictures by the
Orpheum Travel Weekly and other
features will be a storm on the Welsh,
coast and a town of north India.
In the "Winning of Barbara
Worth." which comes to the Kovd to
day for four days, with matinees today
and Wednesday, there is a most rea'us-i
tic picture of the great American
desert. Those who have -read the
book will remember Moonj and Texas :
Joe, stranded in this great wasfe of
sand, baked by centuries of tropical
heat. But a dipperful of water is left j
betweent them; their discovery of j
Barbara's mother buried beneath an j
avalanche of drifting sand, holding ir
her death grip her babe. I hey teed
the feeble spark of its life with the
last remaining water. They begin to
bury the dead mother, and as Jeffer
son Worth says a prayer for the soul
of her who prized her little one more
than her own life, the wind rises for
the second time, and the sand drift
ing in blinding clouds and relentless
fnry ' makes the shroud that covers
the body and builds a natural mound
above the spot. Mark Swan's drama
tization of Harold Bell Wright's book
is well done. Every important point
is retained. L. C. Yeomans has not
alone made a beautiful scenic produc
tion, perfect in every particular, bnt
he has paid strict atention to a cast
of artists which will give competent
interpretation.
"The Katzenjammer Kids" will be
the attraction at the Boyd next Sun
day for 6ve nights and three matinees.
For the week of February 25 the
Orpheum proclaims four acts that" are
usually distinguished with headline
exploitation in big-time vaudeville.
Eddie Leonard, the popular star of
minstrelsy, with his own company,
and Homer B. Mason and Marguerite
Heeler, presenting the one-act play,
"Married," will .divide the top-line
honors, while Stan Stanley and his
relatives will dispense a budget of
comedy calculated to jar the risibles
-while splitting the featured positions
with Anna Chandler as "The De
butant" 'in a study of song.
In The Spiegel Rente," which is
at the Gayety theater for seven days,
commencing yesterday matinee, is
a mammoth, with ten massive sets oi
scenery 'and a wardrobe that would
furnish three or four ordinaries.
Spiegel retained George Totten Smith
who retained the retainer to pro
vide a book that even critics would
regard as unusual, and he had the
music written by Ruby Cowan and
I. Strause. , Spiegel's cast is com
posed of Billy Mossey, Midgie Miller,
Callahan brothers, Marian Marshall,
Ben Holmes, Josephine Yonnge,
Marie Allen, Ida Lind, Anna Dare.
Anna McGraw and others. A chorus
of beauty as unusual as the book
forms an important part of the or
ganization and appears in bewilder
ing dance creations. The revue is in
two acts and ten scenes. There are
two big electrical novelties. One
snows Marie Allen, the modern
Venus, in a series of poses represent
ing the covert of the leading maga
zines. The scenery is from the artis
tic hand of P. Dodd Ackerman. La
dies' matinee daily all week.
Comedy, singing, dancing, erjuili
bristic novelty stunts and "syncopa
ted musikers make up the program
for the first half of the week at the
Empress theater, starting today.
Middleton and Spellmever head the
bill wtih a comedy singing and talk
ing act called An Ocean wooing.
KUiss and Waiman entertain with
syncopated music. D'Amore and
Douglas are equilibristic performers.
The Hanley girls complete the bill
with singing and dancing. The last
half of the week brings Gilroy,
Haynes and Montgomery in a nautical
tinging comedy, "The Good Ship
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Empress
(JraceSpeiineyer
Nancy Lee;" Weber and Elliott in a
novelty comedy offering; Ward, Bell
and Ward, circus performers, offer
Undr the White Tops." Harry La
Toy, the talkative juggler, closes the
program.
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"Griffiths' Birth of a Nation" is
coming for its third visit to the Bran
deis theater for the week beginning
next Sunday.
Place yourself off the earth at a
point somewhere off the southeastern
portion of the' United States. From
your vantage point you see the arrival
ot the first African slave, the north
and south develop rapidly. The breath
of 1860 comes and young men of the
north hasten to answer the call of
the president for volunteers to pre
serve the union, and the young men
of the south form rapidly under the
banner of the new confederacy. Far
flung battle lines advance bravely
over hill and plain. You hear the roar
of battle and see the ground strewn
with dead and dying heroes. The bat
tle lines have swept on. Two young
men, college chums, both wounded
to the death, fall in each other's arms,
the uniforms they wear alone the di
viding line of brotherhood. They
clasp each other about the neck and
die. Lee surrenders to Grant Lin
coln, his giant figure bowed with the
woes of his beloved union, signs the
famous proclamation and prepares to
welcome back the starving children of
the nation. False sentiment and
political cunning thwart his plans.
Things change rapidly. The radical
is in the saddle and ambitious at
tempts are being made to place the
newly enfranchised negro on an
equality, politically and socially,
with the white man. In the prostrate
south the negro tremendously out
numbers the white man. Degradation
and animalism sweep over the coun
try. Homes ruined by the civil war,
and on the eve of being re-established,
are sacked and burned. The scattered
white men organize . the Ku-Klux-Klan.
Clad in white sheets, with
cross-marked masks, mounted, they
sweep from plantation to plantation,
resolved to bring about the supremacy
of breeding and culture. Racial hatred
rises to the boiling point You see
things that ought never to have been
and wonder why they ever should be
among reasonable creatures. All this
you see in the wonderful panorama of
history, symbolized not by cold pages
of type, but written with human
beings for words and months for sen
tences. T. a. Gnbto JtoM Anmey.
T. 8. QamMa, aaetatant manacar of the
Maxwell Motor Balee corporation, has re
atcood to become a partner to the firm of
Benenn, Campbell A Slaten, adrertlelng
eft-enta, with offices In Chlcano and Cleve
land. Mr. Gamble will make hl headquar
ters at the Cleveland offlre and will handle
the eastern bualncai of hla firm.
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Music, Art and Drama
eaters
tJasephtne
YovTfG
Music
(('ontlfiiied from Pac Four.)
the time to the work of the others as j
supplementary.
The class lesson idea seems to flour
ish most in the department of siting
instrumnets, where in some places like
the University of Kansas credit is
given for work in violin classes. In
the schools of Boston, I am tod. class
lessons in violin work have been quite
successful. But at that thev arc slow
and expensive in the end. The violin
is one of the hardest o( all instruments
to master, and from its very hei?in-,
nings presents problems of bowing, j
intonation and fingering which must
be learned right or the pupil v ill never
learn to play. It cannot be taught, t
for instance, as the musical amateur
learned to play the 'cello in the book
of the same name, by pasting a slip
of naner under the fincerboard, with
the places for the different notes
marked upon it. and then just playing j
by putting his lingers at these places
and sawing away. j
Music study makes no record, which
the teacher can gather up like a pile
of examination papers after class and j
take home to correct. The sounds are !
heard and then vanish, the motions
which produced them are over, and in
class work much that is wrong is
likely to be passed by through lack
of time, and because faults do not
stand out as glaringly plain as they
would if they sounded through the
air alone. When one comes right
down to the very easiest and cheapest
way of studying music, it is simply
to hunt up a good, well equipped
teacher, a specialist in his line, and
to take individual lessons, and then
work with all one's strength to know
those lessons. Any one in doubt of
what one should learn in different
lines of music would do well to spend
an afternoon in the reference room
of the library, The American Ency
clopedia of Music is there and there
are two volumes on Essentials, which
will give one a good working idea of
what one should expect to understand
and learn in the pursuit of their spe
cial branch.
The Omaha Mendelssohn choir con
cert tomorrow night in conjunction
with the Minneapolis Symphony Or
chestra, is being looked "forward to
with the greatest interest. This last
number of another highly successful
and most gratifying series of concerts
presented by the Omaha Ketailers
association, will give lovers of the 6n
est in choral singing and orchestral
music a chance to indulge their
tastes. Both of these organizations
have many friends and admirers. The
Omaha Mendelssohn choir concerts
before the Omaha Retailers' associ
ation entered the field were for many
years the feature of the musical sea
son, and the fame of this wonderful
choral singing has spread to many
other cities, and has done more than
anything else to make Omaha known
as a musical center. The standard of
the singing done by this large choir
under the direction of Mr. Thomas J.
Kelly, is of the highest order, and
many of the numbers to be presented
tomorrow night are from the finest
of choral literature. Our Omaha choir
ranks as one of the few finest choirs
in America. Music lovers who go
east to hear other choirs come back
more convinced of this than ever. The
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra un
der Mr. Emir- Oberhoffcr is not a
stranger to Omaha audiences either,
having made an annual visit ret our
city for several years, and established
an enviable reputation with us. This
great choral and orchestral concert
will make a fitting close to this popu
lar course of concerts of which the
Omaha Retailers' association have
cause to feel justly proud.
For the Portmanteau Theater
S Tl' ART WALKER'S
ortmanteau theater is to
be unpacked for one eve
ning in Omaha, the Boyd
to lie the scene and Friday
iriiiiit the time. It comes
under the auspices of the Omaha sec
tion of the Drama League ot Amer
ica. Much interest is shown in the
aftair. which promises at least a break
in I he routine of the season, in that it
' worthily presents roniethins of intcr-
est. Principal of the plays to be
I Riven is Dunsanv's "The Gods in the
Mountain." Of this it is interesting
' to know vhat so keen and competent
a critic a-. Walter Trichard Katon
; thinks of "Gods in the Mountain."
To the editor ot the Dramatic Mirror
Mr. Katon writes:
"Since you ask what is the most
significant play I have seen this sea
son and not what American play or
new play. 1 have no hesitancy in an
swering "The Gods in the. Mountain."
produced by Stuurt VValk'er in his
Portmanteau theater. Though this
work was first shown in New York
by the h'crrer school and a year ago
by the Amateur Comedy club and
though other plays hy Dmisany have
been done at the Neighborhood play
house and elsewhere, to Mr. Walker,
1 think, must go the credit for put
ting Dunsany before the general pub
lic in Amcrna as a dramatist capable
ot bringing the crowd into the the
ater through the ordinary channels.
" 'The Gods in the Mountain' is a
work of singular dramatic simplicity
and force. It is a work infused with
the magic of poetic speech; it is a
work full of irony, touched with
i unique humor and carrying a tieptn
ot appeal linijtcd only ny tile intellec
tual capacity of the spectator. Above
all it compters, in its action, a cycle:
it ends a rylhm with that sense of
satisfactory finality we associate with
the perfect work of art. whether play
or poem or musical phrase.
"That it ii 'so utterly different from
the realistic drama of the day adds
to its significance, for to me it seems
to have restored imagination to our
stage. After a round of Rroadway
playhouses this fall I came upon one
blessed afternoon, as one comes upon
an oasis in the desert, or 'into the
slnidow of a great rock in a weary
laud.' 'tirerl of Sing Sing and Fort)
second street, and 'An English Coun
try House.' It was good to be with
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Omaha Musician's Union Purchases
Exquisite Victor Victrola at Mickel's
Nebraska Cycle Company
If an expert, talented and proficient musician doesn't know music,
who does? And if such a musician has a half dozen makes of tone re
producing machines offered him and finally settles down to a genuine
VICTOR-VICTROLA, what does that signify?
- Well, here's the answer. The Omaha Musicians' Union has pur
chased for iU own use, in its own cozy quarters, an exquisite VICTOR
VICTROLA XVI at $200, finished.in a delightful fumed oak, so as to
perfectly match the pretty fumed oak finishing of the rooms.
The illustration above shown the VICTOR-VICTROLA as it ap
pears placed in the rooms of the Union, and to say that it is proving
a joy all around is putting it mildly. The Omaha Musicians' Union is
highly pleased with its purchase and happy that it's a VICTOR-VICTROLA.
Now then, if the most expert coterie of music makers in this part
of the country decides to have a VICTOR-VICTROLA for its own'
use, shouldn't that influence YOU in your choice?
To be sure. You want a VICTOR-VICTROLA. You want one
soon. You want to derive just the sort of pleasure out of it that the
Omaha Musicians' Union is deriving out of theirs.
So it's up to you to stop in and tee the VICTOR-VICTROLA ex
hibit at Mickel's Nebraska Cycle Co., corner 15th and Harney streets,
Omaha, or, if you live in Council Bluffs, 334 Broadway will do just
as well, for Mickel's Nebraska Cycle Co. hat an establishment over
there, too.
MICKEL'S NEBRASKA CYCLE CO. it the concern that puts
"Vim into Victrolas" in other words, the Mickel boys have popular
ized the Victrola idea around here. When you get ready to buy YOUR
Victrola, (and that's going to be toon), tee that it's bought at
MICKEL'S NEBRASKA CYCLE CO.
THIRD ANNUAL FETE AND BALL, 1917
T. M. A.
Theatrical Mechanical Association
Omaha Lodge No. 38
MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 21
A program of dancing and theatrical nam bait. Something out of
the ordinary. Tha Mayor and MUs Roy Samuels, on tha Orpheum hill
this week, will lead the grand march.
GEORGE GREEN'S BAND WILL FURNISH THE MUSIC
Ticket: $1.00 the Couple. Extra Lady, 50c
green peaks of
Along with this will be two "inter-!
ludes" by Mr. Walker, "The Very
Naked Boy" and "Nevertheless," the i
bill to conclude with a dramatisation i
of Oscar Wilde's "The Birthday of I
the Infanta." In the company are a!
number of capable players, but its art-1
ing has a flavor quite removed from i
that of routine professionalism. It is in j
the fcenery finite as much as in the
acting that Mr. Walker seeks to set)
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whole obbject of this s to make the
audience imaguie rather han see.
J.? ' Cn?"Whl 'T.P , f C
setting or you he says, if you only
give It the cue.
lorm ins iiicories ami meats. i nc
Gregory Kelly, a young actor who
has been on the American stage since
he was 10 years of age and who won
recognition ior his excellent work in
Mrs. Fiske's companies, has been
especially engaged for the juvenile
roles. Mr. Kelly made his first pro
fessional appearance with Virginia
Harned in E. H. Sothern's romantic
drama, "The Light That Lies in Wom
an's Eyes." He was engaged as the
featured player in the famous melo
drama. "After Midnight," in which he
toured for two years. Charles Erob
man then selected him for the role of
John Napoleon Darling in the sup
port of Maude Adams in "Peter Pan,"
after which he was seen with t arlotta
Nillson in "The Three of Us." Mr.
Kelly forsook the dramatic stage for
a season to assume the role of Johnny
Bostonbeans in "School Days," in
which he gained popularity during the
long run of that musical comwly at
the Circle theater. New York. He
then acted with Mrs. Eiske in "The
Green Cockatoo," "Pillars of Society" j
and "Hecky Sharp:" with Ethel Harry- j
more, in "Alice Sit-by-the-Firc," and
with Otis Skinner in "Kismet." Being
an accomplished dancer as well as an
actor. Mr. Kcllv was chosen for at
prominent part in "Just Herself,' ill
which he danced with Lydia l.opo
kova, the celebrated Russian danseiise.
Psychology of Chicken
Thieves Peeves Woman
Just when her hens had started lay
ing 50-cent eggs Mrs. F. Roberts re
ported to the police that someone
broke into her lien house by forcing
the padlock and removing seven of
her choicest birds.
the gods on the
Marna."
Upon completion of its week's engagement the third in two years at the Brandeis
Theater, where it will be presented twice daily for the seven days, beginning next Sunday,
February 25, "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" will have been presented in Omaha, and at
the Brandeis Theater, exactly 107 times inr less than sixteen months a record which has
never been approached by any other attractions and never will, at least for many years.
Almost every person is familiar with this whirlwind combination of story, spectacle
and tense drama and most have seen it and heard its wonderfully effective musical accom
paniment SAME COMPANY SAME ORCHESTRA SAME EFFECTS
Half the Former Admission Price. Seats Tomorrow, 25c-50c-75c-$l
Omaha Extends Welcome
To Popular Rose Tapley
Omaha is to have an opportunity to
day to see a real live honest-to-good-ness
movie star. Rose Tapley is on a
tour of the United States on request
of numerous managers and in behalf
of the Vitagraph Film company.
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.?nc i uiic 01 inc popular rarraocrs
of the Vitagraph family and has ap
peared in many of the notable features
which have been released hy this com
pany. Sliei,s known as the question
iady, and will answer any questions
that may he asked her while she ap
pears at the Muse theater today.
She will have with her a reel of film
called "From Script to Screen," which
shows the development of a photoplay
trom the time the scenario is accepted
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iv. uic MIllMlCU uruumi is Bern
,,. 1 Incorporattd in this
wj1 b! , manv .. ..
f f h leading V.ta-
h , hj h . A Elr,
, fvUliam, Anil. Ste'wart. Pe,rrv Hv-
: land, Antonio Moreno and many oth-
ers equally as popular.
Manager "Hob' Shirley has espe
cially arranged for today a picture in
which she, Peggy Hyland and Antonio
Moreno are starred, "Rose of the
South." Looks rather like roses will
"OMAHA'S FUN CENTER'
Mats., IS-tS-M
2S-SO-7S
Mix 8iImI. KSaoff "The
The Spiegel Revue
Bltly Mum, HIMU Miller tH Fwtv AseotUtM.
"The Girl m tin MettulM." elMtriul wteltar.
Extra. ImUu tf FrUav Nlhw PtrtMt Fhtar Cm
ttstt. Open tt Omaha Veeuaae. Trtfhy aepa l wtaMrs
1 r ranormaMa rneay mn.
Latftos' Dim M all neaE very Weal
A Convenient and
Comfortable Place to Eat
Your Sunday Dinner
From 12 M. to 3 P. M.
DINNER, SOc
Cream of Tomato Soup
Sweet Pickles Olivet Radishes
Choice of
Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, au Jut
Baked Chicken with Dressing
Loin of Pork, Apple Sauce
Baked Premium Ham with Spinach
Mashed Potatoes
Early June Peat
Cranberry Sauce
Stewed Tomatoes
Waldorf Salad
French Rolls
Pitted Cherry Pie Apple Pie
Cocoanut Cream Pie
Crushed Strawberry lee Cream
with Cake
Coffee Tea Milk Cocoa
Miller's Cafe
P. P. MILLER, Prop.
1811 Faraara St
Matinee Delly SilS
Every Night tils.
The Beat of
WEEK STARTING SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18th
EDWIN ARDEN
In an Odd Affair of tb
Present Day in New York City,
Entitled
"CLOSE QUARTERS"
By Oliver White.
FINK'S MULES
Vaudeville's Equine Joy Feast
Tha Orif inal College Boys
KENNEY & HOLLIS
In a New Act, Entitled
"Froshy's Initiation" '
Chirlea -IRWIN
&
Kitty
HENRY
"Comin' Through tha Ryu"
Horace
WRIGHT & DIETRICH
Tha Somewhat Different Singers
In a New and "Somewhat Different" Offering
ORPHEUM TRAVEL WEEKLY
Around the World with tbo Orpheum
Circuit's Motion Picture
Photoarsphers.
BOYDS &utX FEB. 18
Matinees Sunday
"His Whole Life Work Had Become Centered
in the Reclamation of the Kings Basin Desert"
L. C. YEOMANS Offers
THE DRAMATIZATION BY MARK SWAN
OF THE WESTERN CLASSIC .
By HAROLD BKIX WRIGHT
'THE WINNING OF
BARBARA WORTH"
WITH '
VIRGINIA HARDY
A Strong Cast of Well Known Players
A Beautiful Scenic Production
See the Sand Storm In the Desert.
NOTE
This Is the Only Company in the United States
or Canada Playing This Play, Hence the Original
Company.
DDirTQ Evenings! Lower Floor, 75c, SOc; Balcony Seats,
JT rl,VX-eaJ 35c, 25c. Matinee Prices: 25c.
Next Sunday, "THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS"
be the fad today. Why not all wear
one in honor of her visit?
Please do not think that Ro Tap
ley is visiting every city in the United
States just a few. Manager Shirley
and Mr. Palmer of the local branch of
the Vitagraph think they should be
congratulated on the "success of their
effort in making this possible. We all
hope that Mist Tapley will have cause
to remember Omaha long after she
leaves here and that somewhere in
that big heart of hers she will reserve
a little spot for Omaha.
minimitniiiiiimiititiii'
i John Haynes Holmes -
" f Nnr York Z
Z Praphrt of a Nnr Sociil Orfer
i FEARLESS rOWERFUL FARSEEINC -a
"THE INTERNATIONAL MIND"
1 Wr and Pmc W.rkl Citlunihip -
BOYD THEATER FEB. U. I P. M. "
2 B(U Nnr UnlUriu Church XSc SOc I
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BRANDEIS THEATER
Tuesday Evening. February 20th
"THE AMAZONS'
3-aet farco,
hr Arthur W
Plnero
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DCSMlit
PiesoMloH By
Flavors' Club
American Ambulance Hospital
of Paris
TICKETS, SOc TO S1.0O.
BOYD1
kThurs, Fsb. X3
One Night Only
P STUART WALKER'S 1 1
ORTMANTEAU
In the Pollowlnt Short Plan:
Oerar Wilde's "The Birthday ol the
Infanta."
Triumph" N. Y. Ere. Sun.
"Nevertheless" "ltaonislU bit of
comedy." N. V. Herald.
"Very Naked Boy" "Unreservedly
amusing." N. V. Globe.
Lord Dnnsany's "Coda of the Moun
tain" "One of the great plays of our
time." -Bookman.
SEAT SALE NOW at has office.
PRICES SOc to M OO.
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eaVJ kj IX oas BmaaBj ru
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Omaha's Double Attraction
CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE AND
PHOTOPLAYS
TODAY AND 'TILL THURSDAY
KLAISS AND WAIMAN
m
Syncopated Muiihere Sketch
MIDDLETON 4 SPELLMEYER
in
Comedy Singing and Talking
"AN OCEAN WOOING"
D'AMORE DOUGLAS
Aa Equilibristic Novalty
HANLEY GIRLS
Singing and Dancing
CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG
h "THE SAVAGE INSTINCT"
ADMISSION, 20c and 10c
Twice Dally t lilt
SllS.
Doug. 4S4.
Vaudeville
RAYSAMUELS
The Blue Streak of
Vaudeville.
MARLO ft DUFFY
Originality in Gymnastics
Rene
PRICES. Gallery, 10e Best Seats
(except Saturday and Sunday) 2Sc;
Nights 10c, 25c, SOc end 7Sc.
end Wednesday
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