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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1900)
THE COURIER. - vs U h y X about four minutes. He would look like one of these living advertisements ibat walk along on the cable car slot and gather crowds. And he would be taken up tenderly nnd landed in the clubbing department of one of the city'a popular health cures. For my part, these historical heroes remind me of the petrified eggs that Li Hung Chang carries about with him. They may be all rieht, but I'm willing to take his word for it. I tasted his tea and his lychee nuts, but I shied at the canned eggs. They balong solely to the dead past. He can have them all. Also the canned hemes. I heard one of the most finished ora tors of the day, a Jesuit priest, end a short summer sermon in a little Long Branch church a few Sundays ago in a manner so dramatic that it made a d ep impression on every world-hard-ened summer man and girl in the place. He asked a question, as though in dividually, of every one of hU hearers, keeping the interrogatory inflection on his period. Then he stopped and went down the pulpit stairs. It was the most tremen dously effective thing jou can imagine. Wo all sat there stunned by the sud denness of the urjpspocted ending. Jt was like one of Pinero's curtains. And his concluding sentence was burning before us. We could almost see the words ridging in the air, scarlet loud, brazen as a bell. It was a hold-up of our hearts ard souls and brains. Which impels me in my role of preacher to say: Let us, we who- write and act and pass upon plays, get to gether and ask ourselves: Are we alive or are we' dead? Is the aire we live in so empty that we must prowl like ghouls in gravejards f r the musty re mains of fuss-and-feather heroes? Some wise old adugdmak) r once said: Never praise one woman to another if you want to be popular. This may be right, but if ou want to be thought clever never praise one man's looks to another: that is, unless, like the Matinee Girl, you like to have some fun noticing how the time-honored yellow eyed monster works in the mas culine nature. You may speak of the other fellow's virtues, good qualities, courage, busi ness ability or brain, and your hearer will agree with you every time and add a few bouquets, for men as a rule speak well of each other. But when you touch on the subject of looks the atmosphere changes and grows frosty and congealed. And if you keep on in this lino you'll hear everything to the other man's discredit. The anvil will ring light merrily. You'll find that the man whose good looks you have alluded to is more than half devil, that he drinks, borrows money, wears corsets, pads his shoul ders, and has been put out of clubs. A lot of us were talking about actors the other day, and Thisbe, a Matinee Girl I know, foolishly remarked that be thought Jamks K. Hackett was too sweet for anything. There was a young man present who used to go to dancing school with Hack ett when they were little boys. He didn't object to the actor being de scribed as though he we were a choco late cream, but another M. G. said something about his hair. In a mom ent the old college chum was touched. "You know he curies his hair?' ho said. "Curls his hair?" wo all said in a chorus. "Does ho use a hot iron or kid crimp ere, or does he put it up at night in papers?'' I asked, for I really wanted to know. "Well, he curls it, anyhow," said the college chum. "It's perfectly straight; at leaBt it used to be, and a man's hair doesn't change like that." It was horrible to think of Hackett frizzling hie hair, so I clevorly changed the subject by asking if it were true that he wore attached collars and cutis. The college chum was thoroughly wrought up by this time. "Oh, Jim's all right," he said; "but he's grown chesty." "Chesty?" "Yes, he's a great actor now; he used to be a good fellow, but it's all over now. He's spoiled." "But he's so good looking!" 1 said. "Well, he may be good looking, but he won't do. Why, last season, Tom mie and I (it wasn't Tommie, but To ra mie ib a good name)- read one morning of Hackett making a hit in a new play. And we thought of the dajs when we were boys together, und we felt kind of proud of Jiin. And I said, 'Tommie, suppose we go down and buy bim a drink just for the sake of old times.' So Tommie agreed, and we started for the theatre. Well, talk of ceremony and state. We had to send in our cards, and then they couldn't be handed in during the performance or something or other, and wo weren't going to stand there like Johnnies, acd so we camo away. Ob, no, he's too chesty altogeth er! He's all right, but we bojs won't stand for this great actor business." "But he's got beautiful ejee!'' said Tbisbe. 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