golf for Sunday moringftomorrow)^ou will be interested to hear that the other 
day I shook hands with Purvis,the former professional of our oourse.^e was 
finely dressed,had on kid gives,a nioe hat and in every way looked the gentle¬ 
man. He is professional on a private oorse in Hew Jersey near Atlantic -' T ity, has 
a big salary,and in every way is prospering.He brought down hers a oouple of 
setters with whioh he won the field trials last fall. 0 ® took very kindly to you 
I remember on aoeount of your interest in sporting and dogs.He gave me a very 
oordial invitation to visit the course,and promised to show mw his dogs and 
everything he possessed,inoluding their clubhouse whioh cost a million of dol¬ 
lars and is owned by one man.He is so prosperous that it really was a pleasure tl 
to hear him talk. 
■This week I have bean visiting the new theatres down town, and really they 
are very fine.Large,well furnished,and well ventilated they seem to offer a so¬ 
lution of the problem of amusement for the multitude.The oohestraa are partic- 
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ularly fine.Think of payinf a quater for a two hburs entertainment by no means 
bad with excellent music as a spice,and,so to speak,thrown in.* 11 these theaters! 
are exopusivoly ftor movies,and while many of the pieces are silly and cheap 
very few are coarse or bad while many are really well put together and excel¬ 
lently acted.They are at least fully up to the standard of the stuff put on the 
boards of the two dollar theaters most of which are an affront to a mans’in¬ 
telligence. It is long since I have seen a really good play. 
I am glad you find added reasons fro liking the mss.Tour .judgment makes 
me feel perfectly sure of its reception by others' 1 , and while I at onoe admit it 
is not up to the' best I oan do I am not greatly djisturbed by that since the work 
was in a way perfunctory and I did not 3pend the time on I should have. 
®inoerely yostr friend 
