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de floor, fur dey was painters, an hail
evidently been on a strike an were
makin' up fur lost time. De uex' feller
dat cum in seemed ter be a misfit, fur
dey called im Little Billy. Wen he
cum in I saw der wuz ter be sum actin',
fur ho looked as if he had a pain an
kept snappin' his fingers. He held his
conk in his paw, an kind o moaned
like, and I tot der wuz trouble, but it
seemed ter be love dat wuz preyin- on
his vitals. Some one hollered 'Milk
below! 'Wofs dat,' says I ter Chim
mie, 'de milk train comin' in?' 'Xaw.'
says e, Mat's Trilby!' In cum a blond
beaut wearing de uniform uv de First
Regiment, wid nostockins, but a pair o'
skates a mile too big. Gee, but she
wuz a doisy! I wuz clean paralyzed-.
I'd seen nothin' Iike'er since Louise
Montague rode de elephant as de ten
tousand dollar beaut. But she could
give Louise cards an' spades an' beat
her banes down, an Louise wuz a tor-rowbred.-
'Her handle's Miss Crane,-
said Chimmie. I tot he wuz trying ter
string-mewid de Lincoln Park avery
joke, an' said: 'Crane be blowed. She's
a bird o paradise.' Well, me heart
wuz tumpin terribly; ibut de play went
on. Nobody ever has heart failure in
de gall'ry; but goodness knows, der's
reason 'naff. His whiskers put wood
on de fire an' Billy kept on bavin' growin'
pains, an' de Laird kept paintin' pic
tures to a dry finish, an makin' cracks
in his own peculiar style. Den de music
kinder brightened up a bit, de door
opened and a big beak, followed by a
man wid a laugh cum in. Dat's Sven
gali, said Chimmie. 'To 'ell wid 'im,'
said I, 'fer he's a dead bad mug.-' I
wuz onto his curves in a minnit, but it
took de audience tree acts ter get de
tip. Svengali's got a voice as big as
Bob Downing, but he don't pad his head
like dat tra-gedian. He's got wot dem
critic blokes call modulation. Oh, but
his mug! To tell de truth, it's a wonder,
wid a 'normous beak, snaky whiskers,
an' glims dat stick out like doorknobs.
As ter his laugh, it's mild compared ter
a riot in a drum factory, an' its wonder
fully endurin. He needed a bath pow
erful bad, but 'es an actor from way
bck, an' don't yer forget it. Well, wen
he gets on der stage de monkey an' par
rot ain't in it for trouble ho kin make."
I have been a raving lunatic for a
week, writes a young Chicagoan, and
my wife is sick in bed, all because of a
party of "forfeits" at our house one
evening a week ego. We compelled a
young man to pay his forfeit by re
peating a verse of poetry. But I don't
think he will repeat it i.ny more. Here
it is:
Antony and Cleopatra stood on the burning
deck,
Their feet wore full of blisters
She put her arms around his neck,
While a Kyrle Bollew through his whiskers.
Some of "The Merry World's" adver
tising material consists of miniature gas
balloons bearing the impress of the at
traction onthebag. Hundreds of them
are sent up daily from the roof of the
theatre where the performances are
given, and attached to the balloon is a
ticket for admission to the theatre, good
only on presentation of both balloon and
ticket. Being inflated with gas gener
ated by a combination of sulphuric acid
and zinc, the balloons ascend to great
heights, and are carried by the wind
currents long distances. One of the lot
that was sent up from the New York
Casino, where the attraction is now
running, landed somewhere in Dakota.
A few dayB subsequently Manager Led
erer received the following missive:
Bismark, Dak., July 20, "95.
' Manager Lederer: Sirr The balloon
and ticket came down here all right,
but how in am I to get to Jew
York to see your show? Respectfully,
W. F. Daxgburjj.
.y. : KUi, .t i. ,
The Creighton theatre, in Omaha,
opened this week, is a beautiful piny
house. The acoustic properties of the
theatre are excellent, a conversational
tono carrying perfectly to the topmost
seat in thogallery and tho loudest Bounds
from the stage creating no unpleasant
echo oven with an empty auditorium.
The horseshoe curvesof tho balcony and
gallery are brought unusually close to
the stage, a featureof construction agree
able alike to speaker and hearer. The
stage space, forty-one by seventy-six
feet, is all available for the purposes of
dramatic representations, none being
taken up by tho dressing rooms. These
apartments, thirteen in number, are
furnished with a completeness seldom
found even in the best appointed thea
tres. The four allotted to star perform
ers are just oil the stage behind the
boxes . They are tastily carpeted, and
fitted with gas and electric light, hot
arid cold water and individual closets.
The Temainder of the dressing r toms
are on the two floors of the little annex
adjoining the stage westward and reach
ed by the stage entrance on Harney
street as well as the door from the alley
and the archway leading from the
stage. These rooms are of good size,
and each is provided with an outside
window. Ihey are carpeted, well light
ed, plentifully supplied with shelves and
each has its hot and cold water bowl;
with a closet on each floor. The fact
that the first floor rooms are level with
the alley and the second floor windows
are only ten feet above, taken with the
further assurance that three exits are
provided from this supplemental struct
ure, would seem to show that the danger
from fire has been as well guarded
against here as elsewhere. From the
foyer, uninterrupted save by the pillars
of the graceful arches overhead,
a view is had of stage, par
quet and circle. A drop curtain
from the pen of William Grabach
is perhaps the most striking single
object in sight. Departing from the
usual custom, the artist has produced
not the shocking daub which too often
stares theatre audiences in the face and
harrows up their artistic souls, but a
representation of drapery, severe in dis
position anil in tone harmonious with
the dominent tints of the interior. This
curtain, the sombro beauty of which
will grow upon the public, is reinforced
by another, a massive structure of sheet
iron, braced and riveted, and so accur
ately balanced that a minimum of force,
lightly directed will move it in its ap
pointed channel. By means of this
ponderous wall of metal an impervious
barrier may be instantly set up between
afire on either side of the footlights
and the other regions of the theatre;
and the entire construction of the
building, both in point of materials em
ployed and in respect to the number and
convenience of exits provided in ail
parts, has been wrought out to the end
of assuiing absolute safety, so far as
might be, to audiences and players.
Augustin Daly's company is taking a
vacation after a short season in London.
William Farren, of celebrity in England
as an actor of old men, will come here
with Olga Nethersole. The London
Garrick Company, to come with John
Hare, contains Fred Terry and Julia
Neilson. A new American play will be
used by William H. Crane when he
begins his next New York season. Will
iam F. Hoey gives up "starring" and
goes into a farce called "The Globe
Trotter". Louis Harrison, not forgot
ten as a dioll comedian, will be in
"The Stag Party." Richard Mansfield
will shorten his season in New York to
aboi't six weeks, and devote the rest of
the winter to a tour. Chas. H. Hoyt
has three bran new farces ready. Min
nie Palmer and Mrs. John T. Raymond
will return to" the stage. The old min
strel, Dan Emmetti author of plantation
melodies, writes that it is true enough
that he is poor, but ho isn't dependent
yet on anybody but himself and will
join a troupe for next season. Rose
Coghlan, Maurice Barrymore and Henry
E. Dixey are members of a San Fran
cisco stock company. Maud Harrison
has left and Rose Eytingo has joined
Mr. Mansfield's forces. Marie Bur
roughs, unable to obtain a promising
play, has given up her projected tour.
Sara Bernhardt is writing more mem
oirs. John Drow has gone to California
where he will start iu with "An Impru
dent Young Couple." Henry Irving
has chartered a whole steamer to bring
his company and a great quantity of
scenery to New York.
At Haltnorth's Garden Theatre, Cleve
land, Ohio, recently a gentleman of
Teutonic origen had two lithographic
admissions and presented them to the
ticket taker, "Colonel" Will Moxon, for
himself, wife and son. The son was
about 15 years old. Moxon pointed to
the boy and said he would have to get a
ticket for him. After considerable dis
cussion on tho subject Moxon announced
emphatically:
"If you want tho boy to see tho show
you will have to get a ticket."
To this ultimatum the boy's mother
replied:
"Dat's all right, mister. He von't
look! he von't look! He yust vants to
listen to the music. Let him in, mister,
von't you?'
The colonel let him in.
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