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Show A MISDEMEANOR. At a recent matinee performance of Henry Blossom's comedy, "The Yankee Yan-kee Consul," Albert Parr, the tenor, sent a telegram to the stage director, Frank Ranney, conveying the information informa-tion that he was confined to his bed and could not appear for the performance. perform-ance. "It is up to you," said Ranney to the understudy. Among the things the understudy forgot for-got to do were to give proper "cues," to ignore all the "business" of his part and neglect to take up one of his songs until the orchestra had given him the opening bars three or four times. The afternoon was an anxious one for the members of the company. There was one person, however, who did not think he had done so badly the understudy and, when the final curtain was down, he walked to where Hitchcock and Ranney were muttering soft imprecations impreca-tions on the afternoon's performance, and in a confident tone said: "Well. I got through it, didn't I? For a little while I was staggered, but I got through it." "Yes," said the star, "you got through with it," and then turning to Ranney he said: "Fine him $3 for playing play-ing the part." Harper's Weekly. |