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Show ilG HITS IN STAGE BUSINESS, ACCIDENTS Jar row, tba droll trickster who ii nsystifviog audience - at tha Orpkeon this week and at the same time making then laugh, insists that all tha big hiti in stag business la vaudeville sre accidents. ac-cidents. He takes bia own act aa an iaatsaceT Every spontaneoua joke, movement and laugh he gets, he declares de-clares were accidental in tha Irst place and ha has kept them in his act ever since. J arrow was born is Berlin, Germany, and is a brother of Ueorge J arrow, now a aewing machine manufacturer of Chicago. Chi-cago. Yvhea a boy be started out alone to join bia brother. On reaching New Vork h waa nearly penniless aod decided de-cided to ride through to Chicago on a Pennsylvania freight train. . Near Wooster be fell ia with tramps. They beat him into unconsciousness, stripped him and threw kirn bodily from tha moving train. Early nest morning he was found by tha local editor and marshal and thev provided medical attention. Upon bis recovery be went to the home of a I U. -1. I 1 1 J M I aome time, to drop out of sight agaia. Later ke bobbed up ia a wild west i show. - One day ia Ambrose park, Brooklyn, during a performance, a Britiah lancer weighing over SAO pounds, dropped dead across his horse. Little J arrow ran Into the arena and carried the man off bodily. Mention of thie Incident ia the New York papers shewed J arrow the possibilities of his strength and he went oa the stage as a strong maa. He appeared in this act until one night, while juggling a barrel of water at the Chicago opera house, the stage caved in under bim and dropped him aad the barrel into the baaemena. For his injuries be received 12,000, aad the oae time pennileaa runaway salted it dowa aad continued oa his way to prosperity. When he took up sleight of head work be found that bia old experience aa a newsboy aad eireua attache stood him ia good stead wbea It cams to rapid re repartee. Ha has a ready aaawer for very-body, very-body, sad if you don't believe it. get a seat doara fa front at thw . theatre, study up a gag to shoot at 'him while be ia working In tba audienee and if he doesa t eorae back quirk as a flask and tura tha laugh oa to your devoted bead, ke is aot la good training. He got aome of hie beat business la jnat such faahioa. Aak kirn if he eaa do the lemoa trick with a bad egg aad sea what ke will say, for iaetaaee. |