| Show Stories of I The Stage 6 I Otis Skinner tell a good story of a wait occurred In the stage The trouble o tt character I I cotirw of a street scene In the r ter of a rector Mr Bklnncr hall jut I bidden a friend goo < lby and should have been Immediately Joined upon tho exit I of tho latter by a Physician When the I friend made his exit by the left side I I I Skinner turned to the right and exclaimed ex-claimed I liters comes the doctor now How fortunate Hut nn doctor came and ho prepared to hold the scene4 Well I Vvelirilow I slow lie Iswralk Ing said Skinner the rector Did Veil ever see such a man r There he stops In pat a a little girl on the head How kind hcartedl Ha hat Here he comes at last No nul Ho stops to look Intohop Inlow 1 wonder Hut ho got no further for while he was looking to the right the phvsl vlan rFhed on from the Itt and glop ied him on the back A rueful expres Ion rame oCr the rectors toe but he saved himself and exclaimed wonderIngly wonder-Ingly Well doctor You root around that corner mighty spry The following letter was lately mailed mail-ed to Charles H Huyt from Blooms bury Ills IMy I Dear Mr lIoyt1 saw your Stranger In New York last month and laughed nt It Still It cant last forever for-ever 110 written a play here at home and my wife and partner who Is I a college col-lege graduate tells me It Is I just as good as A Hag Baby which Is I the only on-ly Play at yours i they have seen 1 nm irilllnit tin the manuscript hy express I nm willing to let you buy It outright and play It as your for SMO Of course I know your name in I worth more than mine In the theatrical world and I wouldnt object to our chancing the dialect now and then to suit yourself Mr Frank McKee Mr lloyts partner I part-ner who In the latter absence opens all businests communications say I simply replied for Jlr Hojt that the manuscript was too good to leave the family lie was an Intellectual looking lnd vlduil with a wild mop ot black hair and a pAir ot Aid eyeglasses Ho entered en-tered the car with a tat pudgy woman old enough to be his mother The place was crowded but she managed to squeeze Into n sent with the Young man hunting to a strap with a sollilt His air over her She gave a preparatory prepara-tory stare around the car and then glanced up sweetly at the young man Ho looked uncomfortable and appeared to bo waiting for a break of some kind It came Dont you think the play was lovely love-ly 1 she said with a smile Intended for I a heart twister Ieifectly he replied especially the Inulc Oh yen that charming music It was so much like ShoIan I do so like F he ran with the accent on the Sho Dont You rheroh the sa oh jes i said the I InalTwIth 1 n i torlle1 look > m roan nunhe1 1 painfully nnd beads of per a raitdrin his 1 hrnw Chopin sp ration Jlutcrho docs notnncr Oli es ho late composers with out compire entnrOlI Veil I houldn nnt WaR the In dy8 reply Why those lovely Saaa nrrbe are Just dellrlotisl n Bellilom repeated tho Jung innn filntly and with a Jaundiced look Lh V In said with an 1 Ilv I tho way she qullln glaciate nt him hkhls I the bowsa7 to ropcrcst Taasa or SOI Incident happened during A humorous recent engagement In Otis Skinners New OIan Ile had been presenting plays In which the Incidental mulc composed ot old German songs was a feature The leader of the orchtra ho hall no love tor Frenchman IIIIS n anything German lie went through the week rendering such GermAn Bongos Vnrht am Ilheln and others perfectly as fectly but evidently with considerable violence to his feelings In fact he and i Mr Skinner had several tiffs but the Actor was obdurate On Saturday night the Frenchman aw the chance for revenge It man the lat thing In the play when the prince and princess were reunited and everything every-thing vas ending happily The time had come for the grand triumphal march ot the GermAn army to victory The air should have been The Watch on the Ulilne but after the company had marched upon the stage the mus a to pped a seeond arid then the stirring trains of The Marseillaise rolled out from the orchestra and the German army marched to victory keeping time to tho Frenchmans national hymn Frederick Bond was leaving st Lou Isis Is-is t long ago for New York He hall JuV nettled himself comfortably la the buffet car for a quiet smoke and hall opened his newspaper to read when a commercial e drummA inquisitive I kind entered The drummer took a seat near the quiet traveler and made several sev-eral attempts by his movements to attract at-tract his attention Finally unable tu stand the silence he Inquired Traveling eaU Slightly elevating his eyebrows as he looked at his questioner Mr Bond is piled thoughtful Yen I New York Yes I 11auro Yes and no Great place New York Ever bn there before No Im going home this trip New York you know Others In the ear had by this time become be-come Interested In the situation owing to the humorous persistency of the < drummer and the amused annoyance at Mr Road The conversation wu nearIng ln the end although the drummer did not know It as he continued firing his questions Finally he asked Excuse me but might I ask what you are going to New York for laln his newspaper to one side and looking his Inquisitor steadily In the tc Mr Dond replied with much deliberation de-liberation I am going to New York first because be-cause the train 19 I taking me there see and becalle 1 litlave plenty ot money anti can afford It and list because < It I like the place I Intend to buy It That ended the ncancc i Mr W J Lemojne who Is I In the cast supporting Herbert Kclcey and Fltl Bhannon In A Coat ot litany Color had a harrowing experience In Chicago recently According to the story sto-ry Chicago Is I entertaining a varied As Pertinent ot hat are known III police parlance as stick up gus Having heard of the many hold upoi Mr Lemojne crew wary ot his chances and BO selected room at the Great Northern hotel which was tho nearest hotel In the city to the theater where ho was appearing His fear of toot pad leaked out and Harry Somme the treasurer of the Columbia fixed up a Job on the actor He squared the matter with the po fireman on the local and one night when Iomoyne uneIl out ot the stage entrance he was accosted by two supers md upashlglivvnymrn Two property levolvers were shoved In him I taco and the stern command to stand and deliver grated on the actors earn Up went his hands and at the earn Imtant he lustily cried for help Intone atone a-tone of voice that could be heard for blocks At this Juncture the stage doorkeeper rushed to Lomyno ulll and rescued him from the bold boll highwaymen t T The doorkeeper wan given SI I for file bravo died and during the rest of tile Windy City engagement Mr Imuyno slept In his dressing loom and only ventured out In tho daytime |
