| Show J A HERO HE WOULD BE I Sullivan will Retire from the Prize lUng and SHINE AS A DRAMATIC STAB He 1 Play the Part of a Blacksmiths i Helper Shoe a Horse and Win the Hand t of a Beautiful Heiress I ISpeclat to TnE HERALD Examiner DIspatch1 NEW YORK June HJohn L Sullivan announces today that he will temporarily retire from the ring and become a member of the dramatic profession He has been the feature of Harrisons play The Paymaster Pay-master for the last six weeks and his mastr te drawing powers have been fully demonstrated demon-strated Now he proposes t blossom out as a fullHedged actor Tho difficulties in the way of realizing his ambition do not occur to him Hjs conceit is overweening Harrison of course encourages him in the idea because he thinks he can make money out of John Ls notoriety Perpaps ho is not mistaken The play in which John L is t star has been written by Mr Harrison and the big fellow has along a-long speaking part The playwright will spend a month in the Ardiondacka touching touch-ing up the text of the new pl which will be mounted very elaborately and advertised adver-tised with very starling lithographs ThL briefly is the idea of the play The hero is a blacksmiths helper propablylje i cause this used to be John Ls traded trade-d j here will be real a forge on the stage c When tho curtain rises Harrison and the bid fellow will be discovered making a horseshoe Sullivan of Sulhn course swings the heavy sledges and pretty soon a super leans in a horse which needs shoeing With great care the hero removes tho old shoes and replaces them with the shoes jast completed During this time Harrison Har-rison keeps the bellows going and an invisible in-visible male quartette sings The Old Tillage Blacksmith Shop or some other appropriate song while the horse is supposed t submit gracefully F t the operation In accordance with the logic of a bad melodrama tho horse belongs t a beautiful young heiress I whom the blacksmith has sworn to wed John the helper has also dared t love the II I charming young woman The boss of the II I shop knows he has rival but does not discover dis-cover his identity until in a moment of I L dispondency John L confesses that he loves the girl and asks his advice The I I noise made by the heavy sledge which the blacksmith drops at this juncture will serve to announce to the audience that the climax clma has arrived A quarrel of course ensues and his employer challenges John t mortal mor-tal combat with knives or axes as the surroundings sur-roundings naturally suggest Sullivan modest mod-est replies that nature has furnished him with weapons of defense I is finally agreed that they should fight with foul ounce gloves for the girl Joe Lannon will take Harrisons place The supposed blacksmith black-smith is knocked out by a straight right straijht rijht hander and the young woman arrives onto on-to scene just in time t throw herself into the arms of the victor and declare that she has already loved him Absurd as this hdgepodgc is there is no doubt Harrison is entirely in earnest in his determination t put it on the road One thing is certain John L would rather do anything than train or fight Muldoon practically admitted that but a few days ago Sullivan will begin t study his part as soon a Harrison hands him his lines and if the grand jury of Marion county Mississippi Mis-sissippi finds a fresh indictment against him next Friday and the court sentences him to two months t imprisonment anticipates an-ticipates he will have ample time to learn fhis lines it ever he can learn them befor I be makes his debut All the sporting fra ternity here are aghast at this fresh evi dence of Johns swelled head |
