Lucille Mulhall, the fair "bronco buster," who gives her clever exhibitions of high-school riding in "Cheyenne Days" at the Orpheum, is fresh from the ranch. Miss Lucille does not have to wear a label to prove that she is the genuine article. She wears her buckskin and pistol as gracefully as a society belle with a Parisian gown, and she knows more about riding horses and roping steers than the average woman knows about embroidery.

Theodore Roosevelt is responsible for her being on the stage. A few years ago, Roosevelt, then President, visited Zack Mulhall at his place about 48 miles north of Oklahoma City. He saw Lucille ride, and witnessed some of her marvelous feats at roping.

"Delighted!" he said, "before that girl dies or gets married, you ought to put her on the stage and let the world see what she can do. Zack, she is simply great!"

Zack Mulhall took the hint. He not only arranged for the appearance of Lucille, but took part of the ranch with him. He corraled a bunch of his meanest broncos, and had an act fixed up in which his three daughters and their brother Charles appeared to advantage. There was not much stage play in Charles, but when it came to handling the pistols or breaking a bucking horse, he was there with the goods, but he could not get used to the stage. "Me for the tall grass," he said. "The stage is all right, but give me a good horse and the grass, and I am right in society."

STAGE IS CRAMPED
The act opened at the Orpheum theater in Kansas City. It was a little raw at first. The ponies and the broncos were as green as grass on the rach. They did not like the lights and the music, of which there was a plenty. They could not understand it. It was also a new thing to Lucille. She had no trouble in going through her stunts, but after being out on the open prairie, felt "cramped up" on the stage.

She could not get used to it and thought it funny that people should be interested in seeing them ride on horses. There was nothing marvelous about that on the ranch.

"Hully gee, pop," said one of the younger girls when the audience applauded them the first night. "I guess they never saw any one ride a horse or throw a rope. Isn't that the greatest ever."

"Perfectly killing," said the others in chorus.

Lucille was the hit. She wears three gold medals that she won in rope throwing contests.

MANY ARE TRIUMPHS
Miss Mulhall has scored almost incredible triumphs in lariat throwing, roping the wildest steers in record time, and having under perfect control, the wildest broncos that ever held a saddle. She holds the world's record made at South McAlister, Indian Territory, in 1905, for roping and tying three steers. The time was as follows: First steer, 30 1-4 seconds; second, 40 1-5 seconds; third steer, 40 4-5 seconds. This was for the championship of the world, in which the most famous cowboys from all parts of the country competed.

She there won a diamond studded medal and a large cash prize. Her peerless work has won hundreds of other prizes and premiums in the most stubbornly contested tournaments throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Kansas, Arizona, the Dakotas, and other States throughout America, in the past seven years.