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. The Argonaut. t LEVI Wholesale Distributors STRAUSS & CO. PRODUCTS. tANcXLNCs^ f ©OLDEN Jtate TED Follows the short and scenic route between Cali-fornia, St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago byway of El Paso Low Rates East For Round-Trip Tickets IN EFFECT May 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 31. June 1 to 4, 14 to 19, 25 to 27, inc. July 1 to 7, inc. August 9 to 13, inc. September 7 to 10, 13 to 15, inc. RATES New York $ Washington Boston New Orleans Chicago More rates to other points on application. Ticketsgood for a three months trip and stopovers. Choiceof routes. Write or call for descriptive matter and details. SOUTHERN PACIFIC-ROCK ISLAND LINES Ticket Offices SS2-SS4 Market Street 14 Powell Street Third and Townsend Sts. Market St. Ferry Depot 13th and Franklin Streets, Oakland May 29, 1909. THE ARGONAUT. JOHN DREW IN JACK STRAW. By Josephine Hart Phelps. We are informed that W. SomersetMaugham, author of Jack Straw, enjoys, atpresent, the distinction of having four of hisplays simultaneously running for the enter-tainment of the London public. And afterlohn Drew and Jack Straw have departedwe will see Ethel Barrymore in anotherMaugham play. Truly, the new comedy authoris It. In the meanwhile Jones, Carton, and Pineroseem to have dropped out of it. They haveevidently learned that the fount of inspirationis running dry. Captain Marshall has come to the foresince their day began its decline, and haswritten a number of plays that put us inhigh good humor with the drama of laughter,and Henry Hubert Davies, author of Cyn-thia and Cousin Kate, and—let me see—didnt he write Mrs. Leffingwells Boots?Well, at any rate, it is to the Marshall-Daviescategory of dramatists that Mr. Maughamvery evidently belongs. Of this latter trio,Marshall, comparing his plays with JackStraw, the only specimen


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