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! THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1907. Next Weefa’s Offerings at the Local Playh ouses OH, LOOK WHO’S HERE! CHIP AND MARY COMING THE HENRIETTA” OPENS GRAND’S STOCK SEASON “The Nancy Hanks” at Casino All Next Week. / Little Chip and Mary Marble are ~ coming: to the Caetno next week. That's enough to make any theatergoer sit up and look Interested. Little Chip is a ehow himself, and Mary Marble has filled many a big house without her partner. But the two of them—well, that's a bill that ought to pack the Ca sino from orchestra to the roost. '-The Nancy Hanks'* Is the bill for this season. If It Is half as tuneful as "Babes In Toyland" or half as funny as "Wonderland," It should be a winner. And the papers seem to think “The Nancy Hanks" Is very, very good, ac cording to press notices. There will be performances every night at 8:30 o’clock, and matinees on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons, starting promptly at 2:30 o'clock and closing before 4 o'clock, when the baseball enthusiasts may cross the street to the baseball park when the game begins. During the action of the three scenes In the play there will be specialties In which Little Chip and Mary Marble will appear. Of course Chip will go It alone for a time, and Miss Marble will also give an Individual specialty, but there will be a group of musical mai dens to aid both at other times. It Is said by critics in Richmond. Norfolk, Nashville. Memphis and Chat tanooga that "The Nancy Hanks" Is one of the most cleverly constructed farce comedy successes of the period. It Just fits the ability and the talents of the players selected for the production Pastime Theater. For fun, fast and furious, the Pastime Theater on Peachtree street, the home of vaudeville In Atlanta, will prove the mccca for hundreds In search of amusement at a moderate expense. In order to secure the program which will be presented for the'first time at the 3 o'clock Inatinee on Monday afternoon and again at 4 o'clock. Manager Hol land has taken some of the best artists from .the famous "Pike" at Jamestown and brought them to this city for the As an added attraction, besides the vaudeville bill In Jhe Pastime thea ter, the management has arranged for a free act Jn the lobby of the theater on the first floor, where DeWItt and Kissinger will do a novel acrobatic act from 10 o'clock a. m. to 10 o'clock p. m. In the theater on the second floor the following wide range of vaudeville acts will be presented: Tommy Wilks, In Illustrated songs; Professor Conners, the “Hindoo King." He promises to perform some startling tricks which are a little short of mira cles. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Willy, In songs and dances, will follow. A. Cortes Brown, the baritone singer, who has tnade a hit with his song. "John Hen ry," will remain for another week as a coon shouter. Oscar Huston, the mirth-muklng monologylst comes fat ' a week's engagement with a whole trunkful of new Joke*.- Wilkes. the .Wonder, who sings In costume airs from different grand operas, will be the nest featurp. A playlet, by Rom Mayo and Leonard Rowe .entitled "Husband or Lover—Which. will bring to a cloke the biggest and beet bill ever offered for the money In the Sooth. Amuse U Theater. To begin the new week In the moving picture world, Manager Robins ha* se- Icctcd a trio of picture play* for the Amuse U Theater, on the Viaduct place. At the Amuse U Theater on these day* there will be presented a drama en titled "Woman’s Sacrifice.” Those who have seen this Him In other cities de clare It to be one of the best ever caught by the camera. The next to called “Horse Stealing," nnd shows the quick and sure punishment which be falls os malefactor In the West. The third is "Wife’s Revenge," and con trary to the name, the play Is » comedy nnd not a heavy tragedy. It shows how a woman gels even. LITTLE CHIP TAKING LIFE EASY. All of you hsve seen the diminutive setor in his msks-up, but this pic ture shows him as hs looks st Homs. Fawcett Stock Com pany Makes Appear ance on Monday. Tha Twin Theater. For Monday and Tuesday the man agement of the Twin Theater has se lected three moving picture plays, which are sure to delight the shoppers who make this llllle theater ‘resting place on Ihelr dally Jaunts. Nowhere else It It possible to And a place so cool and restful ns this little theater, which Ik swept by electric tans. II Is the endeavor of this Ilttls theater to pre- MARY MARBLE. Mary to Just going for a little walk after the matinee. sent only those moving picture* which will appeal to the greatest number, and this means to the ladle* and children. The first picture plsy will be en titled "The Unfortunate Policeman." Burglars are only human after all and many humans are eccentric. So It Is perfectly proper that there should be in eccentric burglar and he has been located and photographed. “The hc- rentrir Rurglar" will be tha aecond pic ture shown. The third film will be "A Mischievous Sketch." This Is one of the funniest films ever recorded and has to he seen to be appreciated. Foreigntra Do the Work. In t’allfornla utmost all the actual labor of planting and harvesting seeds is done by Chinese and Japanese men. The overseer* ure Americans, but the little seeds ure stowed away by deft Oriental fingers, to the tune of endless Oriental chatter. One big Chinaman In California has had phenomenal suc cess growing sweet peas and produclty, new varieties. He- has more now col ors and shapes to his credit than any American grower, and his love for Mow ers borders on fanaticism. Much for Little. When It Is remcmliered that n little 5- rent pm-fmge of ruhlsige seed will make JJ0 pin id* loo many for a single garden, and that each pouts! will supply fifty gardens! the enormity of these figures will lie real J*cd. Ilf course, many of the seeds which are sold do not produce vegetables, ns they nro prevented by Inseels, Impurities of Mill nuil cllmatlr hardships. Iiul If every seed the beef trust. Double Petunia Valuable. The Inability of the double petunia to hold Its need nukes It very valotlhle. Its retail price I, no an ounce, or 11.120 a pound, la worth more than ten times Its weight la gold. This seed Is much finer than gnn P wder nnd almost ns flue an rooking flour. Is almost Impossible to dlstlngnlsh I he separate seeds, and Is the moat exnenalva kind bundled by the dealer. The cheapest seeds sold by the pound are those of the beet end mustard, wblrh rest only S refits t pound. In plentiful seasons sweet pens sometimes sell for 7 rents s pousd. A GEORGIA SOLOMON. In McIntosh county, Georgia, there was a law suit about a cow. The cow woe dead, but the law suit went on. It was decided by the Justice of the peace, appealed, remanded, decided again and once more appealed and re manded. This went on until the rise came back to the 'squire for the elev enth time. It was a Jury -case, and when the last trial was on, the ’squire astonished the attorney by announcing an Indefinite postponement, saying: This case has exhausted the whole jury venire of the county, and you will have to wait until the coming genera tion gets old enough for Jury duty." Then the litigants compromised.— New Tork Sun. For the opening offering of their season at the Grand opera house, which begins Monday night, the George Faw cett Company will present "The Hen rietta," that delightful comedy which Bronson Howard wrote for the well- known comedians, Wllllum H. Crane and Htunrt Robson, and In which they were remarkably successful, playing for two years In New York, and then for u tour of tho country. It Is one of the rare plays which never grows old. Its originality of theme und freshness of treatment make It suitable for every clime and every time. Its deep heart Interest has made It a prime favorite among theatergoers. Several Interesting stories are Inter woven and go to muke up the on iro and remarkably Interesting plot of "The Henrietta." Henrietta Is the noma of a- mining and htnd company, of tho Witch of Wall street, of a race horso and of a ballet queen. These lieconio confused and cause a great deni of merriment and many hearty laughs. Regun Hughston will be seen us Ro*- tle. the lamb, and ho gives a very ft 1 - tolled und creditable performunce. Brandon Hurst will assume the role of Nicholas Vunalstyno, Jr., the older brother. His death scene, when an at tack of heart failure to brought on by the excitement caused from feverish speculation, to said to be an artistic triumph. Miss Rose Curry, the beauti ful leading lady of the company, will he seen In the sweetly sympathetic role of Agnes, Bertie's sweetheart: Miss Ethel Conroy will appear to espcrlu! advan tage as the wife of Nicholas, Jr.; Miss Grace Hherwood as the dashing young widow, who marries the elder Vanal- styne, and Miss Phyllis Sherwood us his daughter, who marries an English lord. Nicholas Vanalstync, Hr. will he In the hands of Burr Caruth, and Frank Craven, DcWftt Jennings. George Shrader and Allen Fawcett, four prime favorites, will be seen to excellent od- vuntugr In the rolee for which they have been cast, os will also Stuart Beebe, Sidney Parsons and Frank Johnston. All Indications point to a very bril liant opening for I he George Fawcett Company's season In Atlanta. Made Fortune in Corn. Cora growing tor seed purposes has made great strides In this country, and more of It to sold than any other kind. An Instance of Mother Earth's kindness to the corn grower le shown In the ex perience of a prominent seed grower In Ohio. Thirty-five years ngo he had one acre of land and IS. He Invested the |5 In seed corn. Ills profit for his first year’s work was only 118, but now hs produces yearly 150,000 bushels of corn, und hus become Independently rich. Lawyer's Hot Shot. distinguished lawyer of Indluna, when a struggling young attorney, hud a client whoae mental soundness was questioned. There was u lunacy in quiry and the client was adjudged In sane. The 'Bqulre asked the lawyer: "Do you wish to appeal this case, which has been derided by a Jury of your client's peers?" "No." replied the young lawyer; since your honor says that the Jury men are his peers I think we will let It go at that.”—Philadelphia Record. FILLERS AMERICAN HUMOR. A bit of the kind of American humor that has thrived since the days of Ben jamin Franklin comes from a Montana mining camp. Said one miner: ‘Tho rock down in that shaft to so hard they used atx barrels of drills the other day and barely scratched IL" "Ugh!” said another. "I saw 'em working on a ledge once where, the rock waa so hard that after they had used nine barrels of drills on It the hole stuck out six Inchex."—Kansas City Journal. Novelties Cost Mors. There to a great difference In price between the seeds of an unnamed va riety of flower or vegetable and some so-called "novelty." which grower* hare produced from the generic plant. Three "novelties" are produced In va rious ways, by selection, by rroeslng the seeds, and they are sometimes de veloped Into distinct varieties. There are only forty-two original, distinct vegetable families, though 818 varieties of vegetable seed are now sold by retail dealers.