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REVIEW OF
MAJESTIC BILL
Did Favorites, Good Comedy
and Plenty of Wall Paper
and Paste
One need not really attend the Ma
h'stic for the ilrst half of this week to
Ret the opinion of the audience as to
(lie worth of the bill. On all sides are
heard expressions of approval. And
the show is really one of the best to
grace the local boards thus far this sea-
Bon—and there have been some good
ones here at that. Opening the show
Is the act of Francis and Ross, two
lively chaps who do some unique dance
steps, some of them brand new. They're
almost "dancing contortionists," if there
is such a thing. Granville and Mack,
in Italian Characteristics, add a touch
of distinctiveness to the bill with their
hurdy-gurdy and Italian chatter, and
the act goes well with the house. Wil
lard Slmms, an old favorite with Har
lisburg lovers of vaudeville, is back
with his side-splitter, "Flinder's Fur
nished Flat." Mr. Simms' stunts with
wallpaper and paste is positively the
funniest act that has struck the Ma
jestic since, let's see—since the last
time he was here. Herron and Arns
man, in comedy, song and chatter, do
Bome quick change stuff, add some
blackface comedy and help keep the
audience in high snirits. The head
liner, however, is the act of Mcintosh
and his Musical Maids. This act is
wholesomely clean and 'way, 'way above
the average "musical maids" order of
vaudeville offerings. It's Scotch dances,
songs and music from start to finish.
One wonderfully sweet-voiced little
maid sings a song in a clear contralto,
a trifle lacking in strength, but beauti
ful in tone. Their vocal quartet work
is excellent. If you've been waiting for
tile season's best show to come along
before Joining the Majestic's patrons,
now's the time, the ilrst half of the
present week.
MAX ROBERTSON.
ORPHEUM To-night Cyril Maude
in "Grumpy."
Monday (Christmas), matinee and
night, December 25—"When Dreams
Come True."
MA J ESTlC—Vaudeville.
COLONIAL—"Sins of the Parent."
REGENT—"The Kiss."
VICTORIA—"The Pirate."
The attraction at the Orpheum to
night wil be that of the noted English
actor, Cyril Maude, who
"Grumpy" will appear in the title
To-night role of "Grumpy." a char
acter with which he has,
for the past three seasons, in America,
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Santa Claus
has sent thousands of his most beautiful
Christmas Trees!
from away up North, down here to Harrisburg.
THEY ARE HERE NOW, AT
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and deliver it when you say.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
Cyril Maude in *Grumpy 9 at the Orpheum Tuesday Evening
A performance that will be sure to captivate every lover of fine acting and
brilliant comedy will be that of England s foremost character actor, Cyril
Maude, who, this evening will be seen cess, "Grumpy."
at the Orpheum In his international sue-
piled up an enviable record of success.
It was not until three years ago that
the theatergoing public in this country
was given an opportunity of witness
ing the fine acting that had been in
strumental in placing Mr. Maude in a
commanding position on the English
stage. At that time the actor left his
London Playhouse and came to
America, with the intention of playing
only a twenty weeks' season here. Fol
lowing a brief preliminary tour in
Canada, Mr. Maude went to Wailack's
Theater, New York, where "Grumpy"
was produced. •
The very latest musical comedy offer
ing, "When Dreams Come True," with
book and lyrics by
"Wlien Dreama Philip Bartholomae and
Come True" .music by Silvio Hein,
is announced as the at
traction at the Orpheum Chirstmas Day,
matinee and night. "When Dreams
Come True" was produced originally in
Cleveland, Ohio, and then taken to Chi
cago. where it played for more than six
months at the Garrick Theater. At the
conclusion of the Chicago engagement
the company went down to New York
and opened at the Lyric Theater, where
they stayed three months. They then
| transferred to the Forty-fourth Street
Theater, and after ten weeks at that
house engagements in Boston and.
Philadelphia Followed.
i
"Sins of Her Parent," the new Fox
play that was so well received at the
Colonial yester-
Kxeellcnt Koi l'lay day will be pre
it the Colonial sented again to
d a y . Gladys
Brockwell, who will be remembered for
her work opposite Douglas Fairbanks
and William Hart, makes her initial
appearance on the Fox program in this
play, and won many new admirers by
her clever acting. The story of "Sins
of Her Parent" tells how a girl learns
that her mother is a worthless dance
hall woman of Alaska. The discovery
almost brings unhappiness in its path,
but all is finally righted by her mother's
sacrifice. A powerful love drama pre
sented by a capable company. A new
comedy and the latest Pathe News are
on the same program. Wednesday and
Thursday, Dorothy Gish will be starred
in a new five-part Triangle play, "Chil
dren of the Feud," a thrilling love
drama, staged in the Kentucky moun
tains, and founded on the notorious af
fair at Hillsville, Va„ when a gang of
mountaineers shot up a court that had
sentenced one of their gang. A play,
which from all advance information,
will prove one of the best pictures that
has ever been presented on tiio Tri
angle program. A new two-reel Key
stone comedy will be on tho same pro
gram.
To-day "The Kiss" will be presented
at tho Regent for the last time. A
young American, who
"The Klxs" at has won many medals
It event Today for bravery as an avia
tor in tho French
arpiy, kisses a girl at a masquerß.de.
Sne is lost in the crowd and his efforts
to> And her again prove inure than
amusing. He decides upon the delight
ful process of trying to kiss them all
until he found the right one again!
Finally he finds her, the police in pur
suit. There is a thrilling rcscuo in a
hydro-aeroplano.
'Anivs pi H
ANN PENNINGTON
Celebrated "Ziegfeld Follies" star, at
Regent to-morrow and Thursday in
The Rainbow Princess."
La Belle France
by Burton Holmes
Last night brought to this city the
last of the series of Ave travelogs given
by Burton Holmes. This last lecture
he devoted to a tour of France, and
what a tour it was! And what won
derful direct photographic process pic
tures he showed. The only pity that
has attended these lectures has been a
somewhat lethargic audience, and an
audienoe that has not been at all in
keeping with the quality of the lec-
T ,le hous c for every lecture
should have been full, so good they
were. And right now let us express the
fervent hope that Mr. Holmes may see
fit to include Harrisburg among those
cities in which he will lecture again
*\ ex t season. And thanks, too, to Mr.
Burllngame, through whose enterprise
Mr. Holmes came to this citv.
MAX ROBERTSON.
CITY OF VERDUN DECORATED
11V ALLIED RULERS
Verdun, the city which for months
bore unflinchingly the brunt of the
terrific German offensive in the west
ern theater, has been decorated by
France and Its allies. This extremely
unusual, if not unique, honor was con
ferred upon the town as a tribute to
its defenders in which all might share.
The idea was proposed by the Czar of
Russia some time ago. The medals
consist of the Russian Cross of St..
George, the British Military Cross, the
Italian Gold Medal for Military Valor,
the Belgian Cross of Leopold, the Ser
bian Gold Cross for Military Bravery
the Montenegrin Obilitcli Gold Medal
tho Cross of the Legion of Honor, and
the French War Cross. The Emperor
of Japan has also awarded a sword of
honor.—From the Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
| THE VISCOUNT'S VOCABULARY
I have Just had a most illuminating
and Interesting interview with Vis
j count Kaneko, one of the leading
j statesmen of Japan. He is at presoot
.la member of tho Privy Council of
! which Prince Yamagata is now presl
[ dent, though Viscount Kaneko held
j that position from 1888 to JB9O.
He hoped that I was not unduly
praising the Japanese, feeling that
such an attitude was not that of the
truest friendship.
"Every nation has its faults," he
j said; "and unless a writer admits
faults in those whom he describes, his
readers know he is not stating facts,
but trying to prove something or to
confuse his readers. I am very care
ful in speaking of Americans not to
i overlook their faults, but that makes
the more forceful my statements of
! their frankness, straightforwardness
| charity and altruism. Tho Japanese
respect and like the American people
In spite of the scalawags that are
; found there,". >
j "Scalawag" is a favorite word with'
I tho Viscount. When it is not an Am
| erioan scalawag it is a. Japanese
j scalawag, Mr, Kaneko is not given
to slang, but "scalawag" is an lm
; portiyit word in his vocabulary,
| Maynard Owen Williams, in The
Christian Herald.
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HARRISBUFwG TELEGRAPH
JAI'AX'H NAVAL MIGHT
At tho BTout naval review held In
Toklo Hay recontly before the Emper
or of Japan, eighty-four vessels with
an aggregate of 467,572 tons partici
pated. They ranged .from the super
droudnaub'ht Fuso of 30,000 tons,
through battleships, buttle-crulsers,
cruisers, destroyers and submarines to
seaplanes. The Emperor with live
hundred guests was on board the
cruiser Tuukubu. First the great fleet,
vessel by vessel, passed In review be
fore the Emperor's ship, each tiring
a.i Bho passed an Imperial salute,
while tho submarines rose from tho
sea and thfeo seaplanes circled on
high. Thon tho vessels ranged them
selves In the familiar manner on each
side of r long lane through which the
Emperor'B craft slowly steamed. It
furnished a splendid spectacle. The
Japan Advertiser notes editorially the
progressive growth of the navy of
Nippon during recent years:
Tons
1894 (War with China) .... 61,000
1904 (War with Russia) .... 283,713
1916 628321
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December 4th, 1916 will go down in Studebaker history as PROMINENT
BUYERS'DAY. "
On that day, a few hours after the announcement of the new Series 18
Studebakers, from reports now in, over 6,000 of the most prominent business,
professional and public men in America placed their orders for Studebaker
automobiles.
This list of buyers is national from every State in tHe Union, an' 4
includes:
Members of the President's Cabinet Bank President's
Governors of States Noted Lawyers
U. S. Senators Bank Directors
State Senators Supreme Court Judges
U. S. Congressmen College Presidents
State Congressmen Officials of Great Corporations
Great Manufacturers Famous Educators
Technical Experts Nationally Famous Clergymen
Mechanical Engineers Famous Authors
(A "Blue Book," containing a complete list of these buyers is now being
compiled.)
THIS IS THE GREATEST ENDORSEMENT EVER GIVEN ANY
AUTOMOBILE BY THE MOST PROMINENT AND REPRESENTA
TIVE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
It establishes Studebaker definitely as a fine car—a leader in style and
quality.
It has proved beyond doubt that the day of high prices for fine cars has
passed. \
1 liese buyers of Series 18 Studebaker cars are discriminating, exacting and
critical—they are the keenest judges of quality and value.
They are the kind of people who have owned the highest priced cars, and
their endorsement of Studebaker cars means that the value of a motor car is not
judged by its price tag.
THIS ENDORSEMENT OF STUDEBAKER CARS TRULY SHOWS:
—the obvious value of Studebaker cars.
—the obvious quality and style of Studebaker cars.
—the great confidence the, American public has in the name
of Studebaker.
the high standing of the Studebaker dealers' organization
* and its ability to inspire the public with confidence in its
service.
These prominent buyers, in spending $7,000,000 for Studebaker cars in a
few hours after the new models were announced is the greatest evidence of faith
in a product in the history of merchandising.
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an automobile of any kind at any price.
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article, except food, fuel and clothes.
It is the first time the public has ever so significantly stamped with'
approval the leadership of automobile value and quality.
It means more to the prospective purchaser of a motor car than any record
ever made on a speedway, on a hill-climbing contest, on a cross-country run or
through various "stunts," by specially prepared cars, in the hands of profes
sional drivers.
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BUDDHIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS
The Buddhists of Japan have been
greatly aroused by the success of the
Christian Sunday schools, which have
been stimulated to activity through
the plans for the next World's Sunday
School Convention in that country. In
the last two years there has been an
increase of 89 8 Christian Sunday
schools in Japan, with an added en
rolment 0f>41,753 students.
To offset this Christian advance, the
Buddhist at the time of the corona
tion of the Emperor, dedicated a sum
of money, said to be a million yen, for
tho organization, of Sunday schools.
The abbott of West Hongwanjl tem
ple issued the order for this Buddhist
Sunday school movement having as
its objective the organization of one
new Sunday school every day. Before
the coronation there were only seventy
Buddhist Sunday schools. By Decem
ber, 1915, tfiere were 680, with 111,-
000 children, an increase of 610 Sun
day schools in two months. By April,
1916, the number had reached 800,
with 120,000 children. The hope is to
reach 1,200 schools and a registra
tion of 228.000 by April, 1917.—The
Christian Herald.
DECEMBER 19, 1916.
TUSKEGEE'S \V K.\ I.TH
"Harvard University was not as rich
after living 200 years amorig the peo
ple of Massachusetts as Tuskegee Is
to-day after having lived twenty-five
years among tho people of Alabama."
This was the tribute paid to Booker
T. Washington's efforts by Charles W.
Kliot, president of Harvard, and
chronicled in the biography of the
great Negro educator written by Em
melt J. Scott and Lyman Beecher
Stowe, just published by Doubleday,
Page & Co. Tiie occasion was the
twenty-fifth anniversary of tho found
ing of Tuskegee Institute.
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FIIiTKRING GAHOIJNK THROUGH
CHAMOIS IS ItANGEROCS
From a well-known authority comes
the statement that to strain gasoline
through chamois is dangerous for the
following reasons: When gasoline is
poured on a chamois, static electricity
is created and it is apt to lire the
liquid. As long as the funnel lits the
tank opening a ground is formed and
there is no spark, but, if for any rea
son the funnel is held up or is not In
contact with the. tank, a spark is like
ly to jump across from the funnel to
the metal of the tank with disastrous
results. —Popular Science Monthly.