Show I AUTHOR I OF DOLLY GRAY GRAYL L SINGS IN SALT LAKE The l e mf who wrote UDO Dolly I Gray ru p the song son which the boys sang when wuen they the w nt to the Philippics and Tom Tommy Tommy Tonij my AtKins At ins chortled when he hA boarded the troop t ship at Southampton en cn route to participate in the Boer war here since Sunday in Ln fact tact he has been here hete since Disguised as a tramp he lie is doing a monologue turn at the Orpheum this week and a good goodone one Q e too tooSI SI No Goodbye e Dolly Gray was not notS S my first offense Paul P ul Barnes arnes smiled at his reflection in the mirror in his dressing at the theatre last night lt t was possibly my hundredth It made nade a hit lilt the third thin biggest in Amer AmerIca lea Ica but it did me little HUle good financially You know After the Ball Bal Balls Sweet Marie and Dolly DoIly Gray Gra are tho th three most famous or it your youl own way songs written in Amer America America ica I got good royalties all right but butI I left them In the th firm the firm buste bustel 1 and find it was goodby dough It was to t t tears years ears ago when I was out west w st on the Orpheum circuit that the publishing firm went under and I lost They the firm not the money were friends of oC mine old pals and I just let the tIle money m ney stay st y there intending to o draw it out when I got off the circuit Paul Barnes is a good story teller tener as aswell aswell well as a writer of songs Yes 1 I write words to other fellows songs and music to my own or vice versa he said in answer to a question ff Buz Buzzin Buzzin Buzzin zin Around is the only latter day coon song sonS I have written My latest is now in print and will be out in ten days It Itis ItIs I is entitled I Am Very Very Fond of You and I think it will come out pretty well vell butane one I think will hit them is Say Sis Give Us a Kiss I That song got me into a peck of trouble the last time I was in New York I went rent it to my publisher F B 8 Haviland and he lie turned me inc over to a n stenographer I got along nicely with my dictation until I came cameto cameto cameto to the chorus for the thc verse said noth nothing nothing nothing ing about osculation Say Sis Give Me 1 a Kiss I droned The next minute the young lady arose in a dignified manner ma and reported me inc to the boss Before or coming oming west Mr Ur Barnes sang ang Paul Barnes at a dinner given by E H Harriman at his residence at street and Fifth avenue New York He sang the same song he lie sings here Never to which he has written he lie says verses at different times Among those thos he took off in iii verse much to the hi hilarity hilarity hilarity larity of those others present were FInlay Peter Dunn George Mavis Chappie Navarro Jack Bordie Harriman and Mr Broughton of W V W Rogers ot of the Standard Oil who were ere guests of the evening Prior to the dinner Mr 11 Barnes met Mr Harriman in his office where he furnished him with some ma material material on the tile of his hi guests When the song was sung suns E EH EH H Harriman enjoyed himself immense immensely nse ly as he lie was the only one not bur burlesqued burLesqued a |