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country school mitil she entered S. H. S. as a Sophomore. Graduating from there with great fanie, she sojourned to New York, where she took up Grand Opera; but her voice heing naturally weak, failed entirely in a short time. Francis Fisher, successor to Belasco, her first manager in Grand Opera, gave her up with great reluctance. She then tried moving pictures and becaine the star of the Movies.

(Boy arrives with cablegram.)

L.—(Opens it; reads; sighs joyfully) then:

Say. B., ean you make a good front page and red letter story out of this? (reads) :

M iss Mary Bustard, while traveling in Europę, kidnaped by Gypsies. Rescued by Crown Prince of Poland, who was traveling in disguise. Resulted in romance—wed-ding datę not yet nnnounced.

B.—That surely will take the town by storni.

(Phone rings. B. hurriedly answers) O, yes, II. S. ()bservatory. Cecil Chessman bas found vahiable ways of using yolcano gas; great discovery—much fanie—to be surę 1'11 make it up in good form. By the way, bas Olarenee Farr found the right place to set the world so be can blow it up? No? Weil, tbat is too bad. Eh? Wbat? Ob, he says be still bas hope? Weil, Fm glad to hear it. Yes. Good-bye!

(B. writes busily for several minutes, at last L. asks) :

L.—Say B., did you attend the Chautauqua last nigbt?

B.—Yes, and 1 have to make a colmnn out of it. too, but that will be easy, for Nellie Lewis spoke several pieces in dialect and was vastly appreciated. Then there was a lecture by the well known bistorian, Dorothy Lease, who bas just completed a twenty-six volume work of “Exploits of Bacon Down the Mississippi.

L.—And, by the way, I forgot to tell you tłu* Gearhart O i mis will arrive herc sonie

time next montli. The manager, Mr. Gearbart, is a famous mandolinist and uses bis

talent in a tbrilling scene, where be cbarms a lion and ravenous cobra into submission.

There seems to be a great many celebrities in the troupe. One, Glenn Bates, is a favor-

ite clown, who produces much laugbter througb bis ability to stuinble over all obstacles

in bis patii. It is said be gained this ability by practicing on the study bali Hoor while

a Freslnnan. Another, Leab Burton, bas become (piite a famous tight-rope walker.

Sonic say she showed signs of gcnius along that linę while in high school, by ber well

lmlanced remarks in IIistorv IV.

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B.—Well, we surę will bave to push that, and sec it also.

L.—AVell, speaking of old friends, I met John Cavanaugh just the otber day. He said J. Rockefeller, Jr., bad just given bim the contract to construct a gigantic bridge connecting America and Europę for the Rockefeller familv\s private use. Ile says that be expects to make sonie money on it, and at the christening be will take a boneymoon trip across the bridge as a special concession from bis employer.

B.—That s great news. I hear that Russell Oampf is still working on a retłector whieh, when finished and applied to bis bair, will eliminate all need of matches, flasb ligbts, and electricity in bis borne.

L.—Tbose items surely will attract attention. I will give them plenty of space.

B.— Wbat did you say about society?

L.—I said your society colmnn was so meagre this season I madę it a little longer tban usual. 1 tbink with this important headliner it won't be so bad, (reads):

It is said that Miss Dorothy Fox bas decided to be a missionary in order to test ber ability as a charmer on the natices of Borneo. From ber marked ability so much in evidence in ber high school days her friends bave no doubt as to her success in for-eign fields.

B.—Here*s another item of interest wbicb goes with tonigbfs issue: Misses Edith Lentz and Augusta Snyder, foriner secret serviee agent in the employment of .Mexico, bave started on a walking trip around the world, wbicb tliey expect to accomplisb in 19¹!* days. Tbey are taking tbeir aeroplanes along in ease of accident.

L.—IIav<* you noticed how extremelv popular our Lukę McLuke's Random Sbots are becoming?

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