Show PROM BEHIND TUE CURTAIN Not Ion ao the mana or of a the ate I i a big e stern city was talkIng to a concernIng the Darling of the Gods I see that Ferey THan Is to to featured by this said th frn PL the and he heIs Is C or seen him Li T e friend who n s ye Miss d ard re Ic I INo No I no e hao but sho ought to tobe be ho as Is Percy t ii she She y mi ai 1 the friend and unless ou tant peo le to think that yer dOn t ng you hd totter not reer to her an as he Not has MIss been the of fren tat esta to of the new spring st los lit gent cloth and sometimes even she Is at ed the rn I I y lying polItical ta an port them in the vi vimary mary It Is no dIets to say that such literature no a lug for the actress She takes it all good luping tat nho are gal ably not of the n class will a he nit of their mIstake and come to are lir actS I neo however Mii even tern er was somewhat Care les y revIewing the list of mall In the dead letter printed In a daily news she came uon her own name in the column lu black letters Men This she thou ht vas a Ut too far and ste told the C erk so went to get the delayed letter DurIng he of with the O era 4 Mire not lose a from cod or She Is an ana a ostle of fresh t Ir Fresh air she or is an antidote for all kinds of colds to which human flesh Is heir on this the other day the nadane said saidI I ri have a why because I o e the fresh ahr nd in al I can of it I have mY win dowe up all the year round es vh o I a ep and I wal c everywhere When Mr Whitney toot cliare of mY business affairs and observed that I IWa Wa koch to the theatre he was It never do he said for a donna to ha o a car iIa c No I dec ared I bit o always wal ed I sali continue to walk o matter where theatre is I I Igo go to it oi foot and n health I do not en a automobiles I wish to reach my is It that you call shanks mare 0 Comedian Al H WI son tolls this of hi He was on a e ro t he was ap reached I y elm of his friends I Itell tell you what Wilson ive ot a girl teat loves 1110 I v a just I as her home when she stepped out into the and s that I Itoh her one on the ii S right ri she stand for it Mr Wilson smi Ing Pid she sand for It the ye n man she got up On ho toes There i a ht to y fr n the far by ethI JUSt returning from I We were rende ln tie Phar Star ma e in Man ti t El ever everIn In and a the p era so d d not a eular of em byes wc a young farmer to the lit we ph Bans ai we aId bin wasP hastily rehearsed In the art of shifting the hg ice cc es that were Ir he was quiet all I No matter what calm tre manager dont tou touS S eak out laud no the can li ar you Hans we thought no noI more of him until the o scene I Pon when yoi could have beard thO ili Ii s n y en e and he l owed in a taut coatI Lo a bluck Tarn suen a ho Hete I vas mit dis Le oar y mit heat out from his q arters be had the t strut the enter of toe running off I iLe a bath 00 It is often case in busIness an I IOs Os e in ly so in j c to thao that you c alwyn hire the person you vant sait to a lart of th th thor or ft lit litow ow Is that Well re hiel the actor t would I 11 e to engage tim editor of t ky o a ut there Is at att t 0 chance of in Vho in the U lie I ope of his 1 ie te wo bt all those that tithe T saId hiat has thit tuo wiLt It asked I his ion Just iii Uk hat a hed mao lied Graewin The hardest ork I have to do in inThe The RolLicking Girl is to keep laughing at Sam Bernard says Hattte Sam lB there to make the fun and in my scenes with him I have to keep a straIght face and a more or hens mood if 1 laugh his laugh But Ito Isso gunny that I often have to bite my lips to keep form giving vent to loud One would think that after three sea seaSons Sons association with the comedian I would be used to ins and that his fun would not move me But Buthe he is and hardly a night passes he does not spring fresh surprise of word or action that catches me off my guard guardI I In The Girl From Kays 1 heard Sam tell the jellyfish story over OO times and there a single one those times that he give it a new twist and make It torture or me to keep a straight face In The lug Girl ite has several funny things of that sott 1 defy a wooden t stand alongside Mr Bernard on the stage when be is going through the letter has came scene and laugh at life antics Ho nev r does it twice the same way Of course it is sur I prison of that sort which constitute humor and mirth You dont and they tickle your into t laugh before you you are att Being supposed not to at Santa joke lie and I have an a recent matinee he In a new gesture and garnished it with witha a squeal when we were going through the lesson In acting and I had to join the audience in a roar o laugh tet He was furious over j should you laugh he angrily You might as well ask should the audIence laugh I Alt said Sam It I not the same thing They pay for the lIege If they see you laughing for forI I nothing they wilt thInk are being Overcharged 00 Nat Wills who has put aside the that ho ba baI I a star t Yle Duk f Duluth back t tIt hint a story at a German cellist with whom o co canue t vl player relates as at same hotel and we in the l thrust In Inthe the door and shouted The opery house is op the musician a Sh Li la t thiH mine fiddle and he rushed madly for forthe the there he hur vied through the stage door and into the pit The theatre was a mIlan of flames In the rigging loft but the was Still Safe Its Owner seized It and started to make his escape the way be came Too late the stage Itself was now a roaring fur furnace nace The German staggered to a win failed Acting be dued on the page but it Is that the vI befar more tha has with be conveyed oZ and Tite Punt verdi t wilt not hilm fame to the play In made his last appearance a not The actor of melodrama dues not establish himself in the hearts LIt his public One does not Ioe Irving be because cause of of in The but one cannot the tender curate In Olivia without an ac access cess of personal feeling for the great actor Without intensity sincerity and great As an actor as an artist his personal of ut utterance terance would have d him Lr I Ic c 2 JI r ri rJ rr rI i J I r I William P Carleton in When Comes Marching Home at the Theatre dow that street and raised It T standIng outside with the NatI ito gasped Lake do fiddle und be thrust the neck through the window The body of the violin seas too large it stuck fast A dozen trilling hands seized it there was a sound t splintering wood a awil wil from the German Mine Gott we all tell back backwards wards only the neck in out grasp We were forced to reach in inand and drag that German Liem the remainder of lila beloved Iii and with the broken clasped In lila arms and the tears roll rolling ing down his blistered cheeks he turned te inc and is dot de way to save a maits fiddle Fiddle be hanged Youre lucky to escape with your iah ut do Tue plans are given as by Judge The 15 being by L a prominent author It is to be a play on words t Dade a distinct nov CIty for th third act o his comedy The Prodigals A fatted calf will be the audIence The Girl a rollicking eat show was produced for the first on at last Monday night The chorus large and there was lao one new joke Theodors latest mob drama of Crimes is es to it Is said to be a B who lust season played the title role in The Courtly King will appear this season in the tame part ot A Typical Mr Tys is considered an exceedingly vor player k kOne One of the early offerings of the sea Ion trill be entitled Time Calendar The announcement is that all the trill be thoroughly date the clever and viva ous ha seen this sea at the head of a specially selected In an elaborate production of Birds Bottles and Bouquets The Bad CIga closed its season recently For or other It did not draw well 4 Barrels of Money is to be mitt on tour as a cam PhaY to Why She Loved Hint flesh is to be the laconic title of ofa a new musical comedy It Is described ast affair which will contain a little ot everything C 0 IdOO new laughter play and will have Its first presentation on any stage at Parsons theater Hartford Conn Nov 6 under the direction of Lew Dockstader and Robert rite is ad chosen for farce Williams Thomas A Vine Leo and Florence FlorenceS S S 0 Mr repertory this season devIsed to test the versatility f himself company Including as asIt It doe Othello The Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew it covers the entire field from tragedy to farce 05 In time Theater Magazine for her is tim following tribute to the late Sir Honi Irving Henry IrvIng is dead Th life and career of the English actor nOw enters Into history He enjoyed living a never before accorded to an actor and a dominating influence on the of the stage that is wholly with without out precedent When his bIography Is written as it wilt be by his Stoker this con arid will be con confirmed firmed Tue will be of Interest tivo inspiring That he was a great actor canot be denied Posterity undoubtedly rank him among the worlds great The fact that he succeeded in Pite of man mannerisms and the oddities of lila ton that he possessed other which more tItan compensated for bo a man he was ly In hi j as an artist he was splendidly above the cial spirit which up to bin time hat bean t 01 the stage It wOuld be at this to pay distinct comparison in this respect with let us say and was pot the first to bring to his of painters he was more con anti ne er gt ci U mi fi with ridicule He was of nature a man to love He was loved by all who came In contact with hint with a close affection that falls to few men hi public life and the of respect and affection that belongs to this gen will be imparted to This is something rare In the history of the stage 0 Amelia lisa bad her to mances as as her victories and defeats Just the Other 1157 when F Proctor who controls time stock in New York with which Miss Is leading women intro the various players of the or the to be pre were Amelia and Will J Dean the stage director Each acknowledged the others bow aft ci the Miss took Mr Dean aside Maybe you can help me to advise a friend of mIne Miss alto JUtS a remarkable voice hem studied abroad under tile bt for opera She boon able to connect tr lion however and he wants to go into vaudeville What is her name asked Dean Mary Donovan odd said Dean musingly I to know a little girl of that name way out in Ohio who lint a won Not Delaware 0 asked Miss where title Mary comes from Thea the one said Dean what a coincidence I used to togo go to school with bet when I was a little shaver A light broke in uOn Miss suddenly Why you dont to My youre little Billy who used to work In tIme drug store ies and sit out in time hack yard of the school with you eating green apples and making kit love to you be under your pink helmet Amelia For lie recognized her heras as hits first sweetheart blithe Amelia to lie nhen lie was that heLl never never never marry another girl And lie 0 0 George M Cohen is tolling a story that ho got from George Ado while the pair were discussing it cold bottle ant anta a warm bird at the Hotel Astor one night recently The son of a family became with his lot lotIn In life and at the mature age of 14 rami away front home Ito was only away over night but of course the was much Just Justas as the family were sitting down to din the day after the heir to the house had the father spied his hopeful coming up the street nonchalantly as he swung and he immediately gave orders that when the boy at the house no one should to him Mind now he said dont notice him in any tray and we will teach hint a lesson In came the truant and shying his hat Into a cornet of the room he sIki sheepishly into time vacant chair Not Nota a word was spoken to him and the midday was all but over when the house cat came Into the room and be gall cIrcling around the kids legs a the while Time runaway looked down at her asid stretChing his arms and assuming it manner be yawned Well I see youve get he Sante old cat 0 Margaret is soon to star on her account tinder the dime of Daniel Miss tiling ton has resIgned the Mrs Boots company and may not appear again until the new play Is st her disposal CC Speaking of tunes of other musical though there II a rather familiar stor going rounds which to point to the poe session by Mr Pa Koven of at last moderate powers for absorbing other mens tunes A well known musician whose wife is not as conversant with the work of modern composers he had taken his companion for life to the The first half of tte bill was which in the of b few struck the lady as somewhat George said she finally leaning over and whis huskily in her husbands ear Reginald do Ioven that The husband waited for to regain her position when lie leaned in her direction and ms plied in a sorrowful tone No Sarah At least not yeC 1311 who Is playing Jane lit Babes in tIme third of the original HOAd lone in girls whom has lifted tnt prominence The was liesle Wynn riho cit time beau and he liquid voice anti tWI I a II of laureate iii time Wizard of rib Mabel wh was th I aut Jc j SUIt girl i lit Ii jilt irm lit tu t ii I I 0 1 Th its beim ii ed lv the to star I play I b ait I 1 uil I L lt Ir Jail vi hia of a a I tt i L t ic Louise to legi a In Raima Voi II direction of has ill rhe Circus I I li lIoi Bound a a a Bell It t pm 4 u I tm h if 1 ii i I Ireum reum theatre dm t I he I oi Sie tie I lIt It I I I i anxious to see tL mi Ill applied to r lm fr seat he was ii nd ti t t house wag m Never mind t t a m perfectly m a up Sorry L Mt i L I Ionly only attaches ili iii l ie lowed to do thai 11 1 Then taSke ii I 3 night only Consider A few rein th Ii 1 usher and the tf Mr Ii was complete t lam r gravely t young ina 1 boat girt to seats l the no ushers iI Urn nj gravely pressed a plOt lila hand this Mr I Your pity 1st the ening a aNon Non stand up with rest f ushers and th noy 1 a Gerge Murray a well know j agent I I ers production of I found himself I I tt a scant I els He wired a printing I i York to that es of sheets What shall I I IA A in I Ilance lance is 1 bIl that cornea ii separate pieces em shoots Mr wai at rem 1 reply Lu Ida chiet m Try another haberdasher I It was not until he taxed tIme hii he printing concern Joking hi that he arrived at tion of the answer That n showed Mr Murray the t ts it bed been delivered to him operator had Out of three shirts What I IilO ilO Murray MurrayS S When I ent upon the stage hi the r sine I was 1 and had the usual parental obstacles and t change from fetid had thought was a Predestined cart cartI I had wished to be a priest had cv begun studying the priesthood Mr father was the only one who 1 from my view that I had such a v A as we regard ii a different from a call A call i au i to get alt you can but a cation Is giving up everything hart My father thought I was it adapted 10 the life I believe ho hi 1 already concluded that the vow of t would be my chief block But it had been I should go to that school for priests the Propaganda in Rome au 1 we had got as far on our journey New York and engaged our passage t Havre But lingered for two In New York and went to time every night I contracted that dise everyone acquires at some tim Often It does not last but everyone h hit it sonic time or other I was struck The germ entered my i time night father and I went to th theatre to see 1 I b is LottIe Blackford Singing and Dat cing at the Lyric aida Annie was playing fri i iI I remember and Eben watching act I c not to go to Borne I would z main in America After all I ham vocation but It was not what I first thought My vocation was II sInge After myself I to convince my lather I Isaid said Your vocation Is the padded c cAnd And back we went Ingloriously to B and mother a a a aHenry Henry B IrvIng son of the late Henry Irving will follow In the 1 o stops of his distinguished father i make an occasional o this cue try Thomas W Is out with U announcement that ho holds a contra with Mr Irving to appear hi ew 1 in The Jury of Fate at the of the run of the piece so Violet Holls |