Show not Mil tons great work when william morris was playing in the lot iol paradise some years ago the company happened to bo be booked in a western town noted tor for its religious tendencies chere here theatricals mere ere viewed askance companies played there a only when the exigencies of booking made it absolutely necessary what A IBS as our surp ise ilao therefore said sa ld mr morris when we got to the theater and were informed to by the manager that the hous I ouse ewas was sold out say he asked abat hat sor toa tofa show Is this anyhow sort 0 religious aint aln t it I 1 our manager outlined the plot to him never did I 1 see such a transformation in a mans face then with one short powerful expletive be started down the street on a dead run that night me ine theater was filled to overflowing fineu with fill elongated locks and clerical hearing a perfect pel feet symposium ot of parsons preachers and ant th every last one of them held a book open berate before him for an overture tile the orchestra played near or er my god to thee a and n it the au audience 1 I I 1 raised its voice in chorus well ve get far in the first act before pandemonium broke loose one old preacher lumped jumped over the footlights and called me every pame name in both testaments and se several veral that were in neither f and what do Y you in think it was all about y the town was the seat of a theo logical institution and every mothers son soil ot at them and daughter too seeing the name of 0 the play the lost paradise had come to hear bear a reading from Mil tons paradise lost that was the way the manager had billed IL 11 we left on a freight that sight light and play a return date new yolk times |