Show off STRIKE when I 1 as out with an uncle tom company in the southwest said a well known knockabout comedian in a chop house we were a little sav on bloodhounds so we paid an old dutchman with a megaphone voice to conceal himself in the wings and start up a loud barking when liza started across the lee all worked smoothly for man days the old man putting up an excellent imitation of a canine bark that fooled the audience every time it was so natural you could imagine the most ferocious blood hound in the south was about to devour the fleeing woman on the ice cakes one day however our manager held back the human barker s pay and that night something happened the scene opened where liza bids uncle tom goodby and rushes out on the ice to cross the river this Is the juncture in which the bloodhounds are supposed cup posed to arouse the dead with their dismal baling but not a sound came from the wings the stage manager was in a frenzy hushing back of the cenas be hunted up the old dutch man and demanded to know why he was not barking out wobbled hans to the footlights and bowing clumsily to the audience he said ladies and I 1 don t mind being a dog yen I 1 vas baid for ut but I 1 von t be a dog for elder I 1 ged baid yet or der all be u barking by hans baumbarten tonight and the old man got more ap from the gallery than uncle tom liza and little eva combined new york globe |