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Show ME PLAYED. I low 5 tltrnnUtl Attar CHI Cn llh It., (irf at Il-wItU VAvrin Booth, .ctp1t hli rfpotallon for UAag cold o unapiroKhiiUe, lift a ..uucrouf ld nl cwi UH n fanny ttory, ren t1ipu Itionhlmwlf with 11 colitnnltr that t-i rtfrrihin A laeraber of tho tralan commny , rclaUi tho following. Ho onco tol 1 mo abont a weitcrn cxperienco of hU la Hip fifllM Booth wm then tho itar cf n cetUln Hock company ilaylnR tho Ua1I fornU town. It wm rough ont lhro then, nndthOMino company did every thins from Uunlct to a Mtz nnl daijco all nt tlio time tUiUr ud often with In tlio tamo eett In till corofany thrra wa ftyonnj man of mnch hUtrfvtito Ulent, who, iw loon to tLo Adrent of IlooUi, I UytA tho lonJlDrolc, hut who was thrown Into tlio ihoilo by tho turn itAr, Jealousy an 1 liot words fullowcd. Tito tnAoaRcr nud thodlsiinlitd tracillan wcrocoutlo ually nt war our tho distribution cf part. "When tho tlmofor r-rodnclnj 'll.im. let arrlred H wm fonml tliat tlio rait woold necctvir'ly matter Into act Yry onofrotn tho tlcVet seller to tho lamp man. Tho lonjr snlTerinK manatrcr had rctolrcxl topunUh thorccalcllrnotftclor, anlhow&sftlreu tho fatt of Unllden stern. "Thcro was soma muttering, tut nil went well enough until tho ciiIg night. Tic houo was filled. Tho set n try wan crude, anJ for that matter so wit tho audience, but tho aprlauso was generous. Things reached n climax in tho wcond tccno of tho third Oct, whero lloftncrana jidOnildcniternuro sent by the tln tofy hi tho Allovd malnwiof Hamlet. ' The unual f utlla endeavors to get any Information ont of Iho lnelaucholr Dtno wero gono through with atil then, of course, cams Ikxth's pncrful iccnoln which tho muikdl lostrnmeut la Intro dntolthoVJp4or, this occAiton being l clomiy tin otlalr, painted to suit tho cnthetlo aool of tho I ropcrty man). Tho audlwco lUtenl In brMthlrai expectation, nud the dlaloguo 1 rixwrdtd as fuUown Jlamltt Will jou tby upon this life? UulMenitern lly lord, I cannot. II Ip&y you. 0 Ueliero me, I cannot. "And hero tho prond Uino HftM ) 1m ttt rrrct, preparatory to hQrlliu rt Uulldenitern that crescendo of mluslod razoAud scorn which brains with'Tli Asiuy Aslyin;, do. ttut tho crescendo aovcrcatna ' Hamlet 1 do beseech you. auildomtcni rhen 1 don t mind If I do. "An 1 selling the oUtrcpcron horn, hi broke fwrt h I nto a wd nl, unearthly strain of onke Uuodlo and what not, "'1 stood thcro dired,' nald Hooth, 'for It rwtnod to mohours, trj In to con ticct tho lines or collect my thoughts so as to go en, but It wns of no iiw, for llto flendwith tho horn 1'it right on with lid rcDntd torture, until At last, In sheer mercy, tbo curtain went down tb rUo i.o more that night , "Mr. was jromtly dlimLwctl, hut ho had had his rfjicnjp?."' iNvw Voilv Itccorder. |