Show I I THE CRITIC WAS BAR BARRED I I i 9 The Star Refused to Go On Unless I He Was Refused Admission f St Rt Louis they talked of what it takes to tomake t make a good show th the man who laughs said ald Its t smatter mattei or of Its the point of view the he WU way it t strikes you ou The show which sticks In your OUI mind time the and t hest mURt mud have the best you OU over saw or heard hearl The one ona which holds that su preme place In iii m my I 1 en encountered countered in a low It a m melodrama played by local anat tours More iconoclasm groaned the cri tic lic It WM wms in the tho third Bois Bale cam cain campaign went on time the nina man who Iu laughs s sr r 1 was coming down from Sioux City to Council Blurts Bluffs find and at a little june junc junction tion point I luaU to la lay over oel nil 11 night When 1 got oft the train time the boY from th the little hotel who me e fo the tue two since tIme tho second g I run took m my grip and asked G Gem ln Lv Lu the show Sure SunA said I it if tl re one here hat is it itHome Home talent said he Sand and rye 10 got th time boys part In it itYe I Ye We all through supper that night for fOl e everybody us going ong rho play pIny Wits to b be pr S nt cl in hl an aIm empty I t three doors down time the little street Time proprietor loft m me in the o ol of I I flee l smoking n a cigar with the assur tI I n need od have hae no fear of loo bay bayIng i ithe Ing the office untenanted wh when n I got r rady to go an hour later inter I pre presented m myself self at that place In time the front of time the store eu curtained oft off rO n time the r n wlmer a hun some old man sat count in lug tickets and cash 1 I laid down the price and said I wanted to go f in old oid and signs of Ex Excuse cuse me sir sil lie saId but are you from St Louis LouisI I hind to admit It IL This Is VOl very mortifying to Il mime said he rising om his chair chah aLn and n nervously around It h hut but I nun nm to refuse you ou adt admittance II have I done I 1 1 m my astonishment had worn away to permit n nH H Its time the fault of that boy bov at the hot hotel l lie he answered He is i taking n a apart part in the tho play anti and a as soon ou ai a tie ne go ge behind time the curtain he told all of them that a newspaper man from St S1 Louie Loule on the way to Omaha would ouid be here hereto to see it The young oung lady Indy who is tak Ing time the leading part and who is CA and fears criticism hItS has n stage fright and will not 1 play 1 if you arc in th the audience As she knows everybody else els who Is here It wm will he be to deceive liar her and tn 1 I know Slit she Will quit If you go in lun 1 tun very sorry lorr sir Dont mention it ft I saId al 1 hi his evident distress and heroic effort to maintain my rn gravity b because of It t r felt that some somo of my buttons were werA at ft 8 dAngerous tension because beau of time the suppressed l mirth beat me like a sea san at hIgh tide against m ribs It Is perhaps for the thc young lady ludy to feel so but it is hard or orm orm m I cant go to betl beti till time the hotel folks set get hom 4 It is dreadful said the old gentle gentIe man finn in ft a dun dull little town like this timis to toman a aman man not to it He gave me a 11 look hook of com compassion whiCh touched me meto meto to the point of saying suying I would give gie It up when a light broke brok upon his trou troubled troubled bled countenance and I saw that me hal had a plan Tal Taking up the chair in which whid lie he had been sitting ho step stepped fl oj one corner lorner It t a screen crt n and bid me in n a whisper to 10 On Oa turn turnIng I Ing time the corner of th time screen I saw Q that for tor some raison two screens h had HI c been put up tip which h converged at a dl dis of about twenty feet foet from the point where we entered the space sute bl be between tween t h lU Time rho doorkeeper carried the chair chall d down wn this narrow aisle until he had reached the point whore time the p chair filled all th time width of the speen J 1 b twe n the where hear hearin As in big everything tAr but unseen n anti and seeIng nothing I mus as left lett I bowed m my R ac or o his courtesy when J I saw him w waving his hand and smil smilIng Ing as he turned the le corner The Th l next W five minutes wore were passed by mo me in with after wave of ii 11 tle As one would rf r cede another l WoUld arise until in thi th Y effort I put upon m myself to avoid an exploSive outburst m my side Sid were grow growIng Ing bl I night might ha have i calmed mY myself Elf sooner but for th tito handsome and benignant fitce or of m my friend nd looking around the corner to s se I how I was 38 getting along I b came composed enough nough to listen to tonn nn a 8 false falso heir who was Imper r on one whom he thought he had i 7 effectually r disposed d of oC was VIlS making love JOP to time the young oung lad lady who had shut I Ime me out of th the light And put me ame in iii the little end or 01 this telescope But slit clearly afraid or of him as she was of m me and would have none llone ot of hint him himI I The he flume scorn seorim she put Into her i In letting him Imo know that be was with without without out hope conrin convinced ed me inc that I mIght hay broken up the made ins lf unpopular had I 1 man managed Ilg aged d to get Jp ip The rhe lm In which she bin and the way In which he hl hissed sed that she should yet be him hlo mere er pieces or acting which r I fC ed The only thing my enjoyment was to hear the hotel bo boy Will had luul got me the only box seat itt In Inthe the hruse greeted with cries nf ef rats go 0 soak your our head and other like crIticisms from time the other town hoym bor J when he said saltI his lit little tiE I piece leee FinallY th the rea real heir appeared on the scent j u and It WitS not long until he was hug hugging ging time the young oung lad lady who had inte Interdict 1 ed me until I could hear th tho stays or of orber 1 her ber corset t crack corack In tj time hen time the false a asked ked Who then I the true heir red You ou You Youal al are a b beggar gar t The Tor audience roared and so did I 1 ii It was time the first general laugh or of HUI lIi night and It ga e me the Chance I 1 had 1111 been waiting for tor But was It art r I m i nd that it was but unconscious art ot of course lOUlS The amatEUr actor In Inthe Inthe the Iowa Iown town was us as dramatic as pos sible He had no Intention or of eV eVa n a laugh h But time the joke jok was on 00 time tIle false e l hair hll it He had played a mean game and lost anti ana It was Wag up to some somi somebody body to gl give him time the horse laugh loush It If the actors on the stage di nt kno Li enough about art to do It the human nature In time the audience saw time tho point and rose to It Richard Mansfield Mans eld in inthe th the sauna same lines lIns c make an au thence laugh where they ought to as that owa boy did that night you OU go again said time the critic but how did you get out or of there thoro Cot up an and walked out said the theman mar man who ho laughs iy friend at tin tbt doo asked me how I liked It aria I Itol i tol told 1 hIm that I hall had never nel aY s theatrical performance as pH hl 1 which was the truth And I hare never tH seen one since which hi 11 Un gelS gers in my Iny Uon as that one I dos does b |