Show t STORIES TOLD TOLI IN 4 4 44 4 4 4 5 4 a i Lak h L LL L A A A A 1 t- t I James T. T Powers comedian has never never never nev nev- er been been Caught caught in any save an Innocent innocent innocent inno Inno- cent white lie so 50 the following story of his concerning rig Lond London n society is worthy of of consideration he swears th that thit t it f Is true trpe London society as I have found it is a pipe lead cinch remarked Mr Powers I must tell teIl you of my ray experience experience ex ex- with a Duke when I was in London Landon last spring A friend nd of mine rather rathe an an aristocratic sort of chap said tp to me rne Jimmie I feel I 1 have not done m u y y by by you trip f Tonight inight I 1 am going to introduce you to some of ou o upper ten HereSa a- a acard card for a re reception re- re at atthe the Duke of s s W II of c course ure I was tickled to de death l by y the Invitation n and Immediately Immediate Immediate- ly after dinn dinner r we set out We were usher r into to a a magnificent house lined with f family portraits and flunkeys I never my sm smallness so much be he- fore At last we reached n immense room which was full of people There was a platform at one end of it but I before fore I could get my bearings a at all ills nis grace came forward arid and shook me by the hand liand He set me at my ease In Jn an instant and we stood there chatting chat chat- ting tins for tor five minutes Then his grace remarked By the way Mr Powers we have h heard rd such a lot about you wont won't you recite something for us Of course I slid said Id I'd be delighted His g- g grace gace ace was as such sueh a good fellow that Id I'd have done a good deal more mare than that for him so 50 I climbed up on the little platform and I kept his graces grace's guests In a good h humor mar for nearly haf half an hour hout After Arter that his gi grace ace and I 1 had hard another chat and a bottle of champ champagne cham cham- p and ana then my friend and I took our departure Old man said I as I grasped my friend b by the hand you rou have given me mez Hi tile the most charming evening of my I life About two weeks after my return home homel I received this letter My Dear Jimmie When are you coming to London London Lon Lon- Lon Lon- don again Although you do donot not l know no it Jimmie you were the means of getting getting get get- ting me out of the largest hole I ever fell feU into in my life If It hadn't been for the 50 J I received for your services at the Dukes Duke's that night heaven only l knows what would have become of me T TT like number of times In Wo Woman an Against Wom Woman n I ruined a home and nd in fn Rip Van Winkle I beat Rips Rip's wife and stole all aU the good goad old Dutchman's money The next week In Tennes sees see's Partner I was a little busier forat forat for forat at every performance 1 I shot shat Tennessee Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see and threw Nettle over the precipice precipice preci preci- pice not nat to brag about the bag of money money mon mon- ey and a box of treasures that I stole Then in Doris I abused my joy wife and stole and drank everything in insight sight In The Indian I tried to kill I three persons but was foiled Ion l Money y Mad was a n. play after my own heart I In that I killed my r father ther led d a band of robbers who had a real robbers' robbers den and stole stale millions yes millions-yes yes The next week I tried to steal Lord Windermere's wife In II Two Sisters' Sisters I I stole an innocent country girls girl's affections affections af af- at- at and killed d my father In Australia I stole the sacred nu nugget get worth more than tongue can tell In In InA InA InA A Young WIfe I killed my father athea and d stole hundreds of thousands and ended my career by oy taking m my own miserable ble I life In At the Bott Bottom rrt of the Sea 1 did so many mean things that I wont won't talk i about any of them except the terrible ter I duel at old oceans ocean's depths deaths where T r I thought ht I had killed a aman aman man The Th due duel I ended in suicide Then came Robert Emmet in which I did all the Informing inform Inform- ing lag that caused the end of Robert but they got me in the last act with a true- true aimed rifle ball This is the record of only one year and not a complete season at that Mr Mackley went tent on and you must re remember remember re- re i member that all thE these Se deeds were re repeated repeated re- re I fourteen times every eVen week v k There were many se sons of course I when I played Only eight or II nine times times' a week v Mr Maclay says pays th that thai t during his career ca- ca ca ca- reer in the he villain business he has frequently ftc fre received lett letters rs threat threatening him with personal violence and on OI one occasion a crowd of gallery gods awaited await awalt- ed him at the stage entra entrance ce bent on avenging the heroine he had abused in inthe inthe Inthe the play and and he was sas obliged to stay tay within the theatre for several hours waiting for it to to disperse |