| Show STAGE NiI VIANDS ANDS tiie the ikino of rood food furnished to actors la in tho the plays when actors par partake talce of a repast on the stage the mus mis mu mi s of many mank in the audience ask I 1 are the viands real the answer is sometimes they are and sometimes they are not one of mr salvines Sal vinis recent productions was friend fritz in which there is a typical stage breakfast the writer lter happened to be behind the scenes on the first night of the play in philadelphia andee and be overheard a conversation not intended for the ears of the audience between fritz and canezo while seated at the table from the remarks it will be 1 learned earned precisely what constituted the menu just taste this bisque and give me your opinion I 1 ion said fritz aloud the soup was tasted in silence then canezo remarked sotto voce it its awful governor theres no salt in it then aloud 14 Delici delicious oust delicious to which frederick replied perfect perfect enter catherine with the fish which wasa was a half loaf of rye bread cut in the form of a fish and garnished with lettuce and floating in a gravy of soup josephs violin was heard by the audience while the fish was being served but not fritzs remarks when hewlis he whispered eat the fish boys 1 I cant governor said canezo rye bread agree with me the pork pie was next served but instead of pork it contained apples ahall ahal exclaimed fritz aloud this is your favorite dish a pork pie to which canezo replied with a jolly laugh and then whispered governor I 1 cant eat pie rul im banti banting ug the rhine wine and claret were genuine and the glasses were always set down empty this is accounted for by the fact that salvini is too good an italian to drink a poor quality of wine and the bottles generally contain the best that can be purchased in new york said mr Salvi salvini lii to the writer a little later a friend of df mine presented me with a bottle of port poa that was said to be forty years old and the company drank it before the audience which no doubt thought it to be cold tea or burnt ugar sugar Ein and water awater but bat the breakfast scene was played with sn an unusual sual amount of earnestness and so accuracy that |
