Show FROM PROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN Comedian Crane declares that a te tenacious tenacious tenacious memory is a matter of training Just j st as is In another way the building up of ot the biceps or other muscles There was a time when the actor d the strength of his memory feared it to an extent that caused him agony agony It was when years agO he played the notary in The Daughter laughter of o the Regiment His st st speech was a long one filled with l technology and so afraid was he of forgetting it that he wrote it down and placed it in the book he carried so FO that he could read it The moment for tor his entrance came The lawyers gown he wore was vas built for f r a much WIeh mU l h taller taBEr r man As he lie stepped In view of ot the audience he tripped over the gown the book boo going in one direction and the thep Speech p h in another The audience howled thinking the fall taU a part of the business This gave the actor a chance to So think t Falteringly he began his speech and went through It without a mistake Ask Mr Crane today what those thos lines were and he will rattle them off oft as quickly as aa if it he only memorized them yesterday Many years ago Crane was called upon to replace the comedian of ot the Hooley stock company in Chicago in Led Astray A part containing for pages of 01 lines was handed to him hlin himat himat at noon He played the part that night without out needing the help of ot the two prompters one on each side of ot the stage who were there to save him from tripping The rhe part of David Harum was long longer er or than that of ot Hamlet and yet Crano Crane says Bays he have any trouble with it He Ho read the novel twice and the play twice and that was all The ac actor actor actor tor knows every line in every play in which he has ever appeared cues and business He gave a wonderful proof of at this only a short time ago The ar arrangements for the revival of She Stoops to Conquer had been made with Crane as Hard George Tyler of ot Liebler LI Co called caked on him to say that the rehearsals would begin next morn morning mornIng ing Will it be much effort for you to tog get g t up in Hardcastle asked Tyler Effort answered Crane Ha ha I good Why I 1 played the part parta a whole season nearly years ago and could go on and play It to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow Crane read the part that night and never ier had to resort to the manuscript manu after that The Tee dramatic shows in my mothers cellar said Henry Dixey were often otten broken up In the most unexpected swaps W ys We were going to play Jack p one morning I wanted to tobe tobe be Jack but my partner was bigger than I so 50 I thought it safer to com corn i and take the part of ot Jonathan i Wild Things went along swimmingly until the last act It was then that Jack was supposed to die on the gal gallows gallows gallows lows and an we strung him up with com commendable commendable commendable realism Had not Jacks father showed up with an ax about i that time I am afraid that it would have been all ail up with the actor When he was cut down he was black in the face tace That settled the cellar theatric theatricals als Before she became a professional singer Fritzi Scheff of ot Mile Modiste had planned to become a In Vienna Comedian Frank Daniels first ambition was to become a 1 wood engraver a craft at which he served three years in Boston before turning t actor David boyhood dreams of fame lay In heco becoming a cy cyclist cyclist clist list scorcher and his partners Part ers Fred Frederick Frederick erick Stones in getting on a professional professional baseball team Kyrle Bellew mastered navigation before turning player and Robert Loraine served a short term as an attorneys clerk Be Before Before fore tore the stage won her Mrs Leslie Car ter had hopes of becoming a trained nurse Victor Herbert the composer was born in Dublin Ireland Feb 1 1859 and as the grandson of the distin distinguished poet painter dramatist musician musi musician musician cian and novelist Samuel Samu l Lover he comes by his musical talents natural naturally ly When a child he was taken to Germany Ger Germany Germany many and at the age of 7 years became a student of ot music His first prominent prominent prominent nent position was was as first cellist of ot the court orchestra Stuttgart at the age of 27 21 His exceptional ability was not long pent up in the provincial German GermanI capital however and he was soon Boon I winning laurels in this country |