Show ACTOR WITH A TRADE lames T Kelly Comedian Has Good Pluck STRANDED IN SALT LAKE IVirks as a Boilermaker at the I New City Jail Something of the Man Who Has Hade Ifilillions laugh but Who Remembered How to Work James T Kelly the veteran comedian nmi manager declares that he IB 0 living refutation of the popular Impression that actors wont work Kelly Is i having in Sail Lake his first experience In the oleof a stranded actor and he fiends learned when a boy hat the trade he 1 hat of boilermaker stands him in good toad In the hour of need For several wrecks past he bus found employment at pounding rivets in the steel t4 a day pounding rivet cages which are being put In place in the Jail It Is the first time in new city jail J frst tmc twentvflve years that he has done nanual labor but he says it ngreeH with him and he rather likes it for n change It will put him in excellent physical condition he declares for a seasons starring tour MADE MILLIONS LAUGH work in blouse and the As seen at his work overalls of a laboring man Kelly is ocmls hardly recognizable as the t man who has made millions laugh in his own peculiar vpe of stage Irishman but he Is yet a rood representative of the Irishman of mother type The fact that he has nade and lost several fortunes has no nore effect upon his appearance when IP resumes the role of workingman than it has upon his naturally exuberant spirits or the quaint Irish humor tor which he is noted In his own personal 1 character when oft the stage as well as in the character created by l others HOW HE CAME TO WORK How did I come to be working hero repeated Kelly yesterday In response tot to-t question when he had lain down his riveting hammer for a moment Why r just got broke and needed the money thats all I butted In here last spring lth a Doings of Dooley company on it i the 1 wrong steer and went against ort wrong Iend If you have ever seen the Doole play you will remember that in one act the servants all go on n spree ind leave Dooley and Hlnneay to perform per-form their duties at a swell function with very humorous results Well the cople of my company entered too literally lit-erally into the spirit of this particular part of the play they all went on a drunk and this In the face of bad business busi-ness left me in a situation which was Almost too serious to be humorous After getting things pretty well straightened jut I awoke to a realizing sense of the I tern fact that T owed my landlady l r little matter of 18 with no treasury to I draw on about this time T ran across the contractor here an old friend of I mine who remembered I was a boilermaker boiler-maker In my young days and he offered of-fered me a Job which I lost no time in I accepting WORK IS HARD Yes the work is pretty hard but its doing me a world of good During the first two or three days I thought every time I stooped over that I would never bi > able to straighten up again but now my muscles are hard and I feel like n orlzefighter and Kelly displayed a brawny forearm and an expanded chest which would be a credit to a welterweight I welter-weight When surprise was expressed that I fame of his old friends In the profession I profes-sion had not offered him an engagement engage-ment to tde him over his financial difficulties dif-ficulties Mr Kelly said HAS PRIDE LEFT Well they might It they knew where I was But if I should have a job offered of-fered me in the East T would have to ask some one to furnish the money with which to get to the Job and I have never done anything of that kind No under the circumstances I thought I would prefer to just drop out of sight as it were until I could get on my feet again I MADE LOTS OF MONEY What was the best business I ever did Well some way I never cared a great deal for money but the first season I sea-son I was out with The Railroad Tlc ct I cleaned up SOOO and the second season 46000 more to the good but I consider my Jiveyears star engagement at the I Tlvoll In San Francisco as my biggest success from 0 professional standpoint I made 200 f week there NO FUTURE PLANS I Have you any plans for the imme diate future No nothing very definite but I shall I probably drift L to Denver I dlJt DemC prettj soon and possibly get an engagement on the Orpheum circuit which opens there In September I still have great faith In my Dooley play however and may organize I or-ganize another company for the road GOT HIS START Mr Kelly was born and raised in Har rteburg Pa where he also learned his trade of a boilermaker At an early age however he displayed an aptitude for stage work and soon drifted from amateur theatricals Into vaudeville and then arose suddenly as a star in the legitimate making great hits in such companies as A Baggage Check A Railroad Ticket and The Widow u urien About tent two years yoars ago he married Georgia Kane an actress wellknown in Salt Lake and to them two daughters were born Eva who Is now in England with Frohmans Peggy From Paris company and another who Is yet aschool girl Mrs Kelly died a year ago a agoHAS HAS PLATED IN ZION Mr Kelly has played In Salt Lake man tImes his last vlslt before the present one having been two haing years ago when he was here with his own Bag gage Check company Some of his fa vOlite reminiscences are of experiences In this city > one of them having been in connection with a four havIng engage ment which he played whih c about ten years ago In a tent opposite the hotel lenttopposite Knutsford 110tel During this D5 engagement his com pany put on < or Ole 1VGRk for the bene fit of the W C T U the play Uncle Ioms Cabin In thIs Production Mr Icly waf Marks his wife played Tonsv and their y little daughter caught thc dauJhter C1ght wdih with her precocious interpreta t Ion of Little Eva precocous ton Lllte Eva It was at the time when thy song McGlnty was at the height of its popularity and the Incident which Impressed itaelf so Indelibly upon Mr Kellys memory occurred In the deathbed scene on the second night the play was presented The company had surrounded Little Evas bed with the longdravn countenances which befit the solemn scene and the waxlike figure of the pretty child in her white robe had assumed the attitude of prayer preparatory prepara-tory to singing the song Papa Sot Uncle Tom Free Just at this moment a waggish member of the company whispered something in the childs ear and Instead of the touching words she was expected to sing the little one broke the tense silence with the rollicking lines Down went McGInty to the bottom bot-tom of the sea This of course broke up the play for that night and Mr Kelly Bays that during the succeeding performances per-formances the audience displayed n tendency ten-dency to break out in laughter at Inopportune Inop-portune times which proved very annoying an-noying to the actors |