Show HARRY L UJ SAYS HIS THROAT 0 That Is How flow Orpheum Actor Is Able Abic to Do Dolis His lis Remarkable Drinking Act ActIS ActIS IS SHAPED liKE It GOAl COAL SCUTTlE 11 It By AMY ARMSTRONG If any wan luan thinks Harry Gilfoil does docs not Dot drink all li ho hI pretends to in his sketch h at nt tho Orpheum this wc week l ho he is very much mistaken And AntI what ismore is ismore ismore more Mr Ir Gilfoil drinks four a week at tho the fourteen performances s forty forty for for- ty fingers a performance Nor XOI i is it col colored ored water that ho lie takes but prune prUD prUDI I wino ino an imported concoction concoction warranted not to ferment This popular actor says that th tho reason rca rea son ho he can swallow wallow a 3 whole glass class of wino ino at ono one gulp is because his bitt throat j is peculiarly constructed It is more like a coal scuttle than the shapo shape of the tho ordinary throat according to his de dc dc- dc And ud it is because of this thi construction con con- perhaps P than he can do his fatuous famous imitations Mr Gilfoil says he lie could not talk until until un un- un til he I was 1 years ars old oW but instead ot of read reading ins in his bis childrens children's books ho he I would imitate the lambs do dog doys cats aud other r animals he saw pictured th there re It is a 1 natural gift and ho he has cultivated it it Everything he ho talks about he be illustrates with an In imitation which cannot be bo told toM from the tho real real thine thing if a n persons person's eyes ces are arc shut hut And Anti yet et hi his speaking sneaking oj voice e whilo while it is rich richand nail and full inti i is is not hot ont out of the t ordinary The Tho show bUt business 5 i is not a pro 1170 lc sjon today today- said aia Mr r Gilfoil it Hit i ia 5 a 1 disease when hen I learned what J I know about acting I went to school I 1 learned overy every little thins thing about how to enter a room how to shake sh hands how ho to smile Wh Why there is a great art ar in m in how to knock on ou a n door The modern tendency i is toward a hur lair rah it has hat developed specialties not actors I remember the old days w won en we c used to tremble at the first performance and wonder vonder ho how the I death watch would voul result That is what wo we u used ed to say ny about the people sitting out in treat front Wo Q felt that they all had bad hammers ham ham- mers m ill in their hands and we were afraid th thy they would light ht on u us lt It is a funny thing thine that the name of ot the character by which MJ r. Gilfoil is b s so 50 we well known Baron Sand is ig incorrect Tho original name in A Stranger in iii Now iNow York lork in which the character appears ap ap- p pears are i is is n Barren Sands typifying typifying- tho character itself which is a humorous satirical one ODe I Mr Ir Gilfoil's of some seine of the time older actors and of tho days clays when lloyt Hoyt wrote arid and I staged his own plays au arc very W interesting cresting Every Summer r I the tho whole company would go o to hoyt's homo honio for tor several weeks and live hive tero while the tho play was 13 rehearsed Tio acton actors ac ac- ac- ac tors ton themselves were developed c part part- H Were written especially for them Why H ho no laughed 1 can remember when hn people would stand stanel around a theatre theotto the the- otto atre for au an hour trying to catch n a glimpse of a H good actor as ho he left the door for his carriage No Now people ask I Do the tho actors cat All AU they want is isa ISn isa a n lauch I This afternoon I fount found myself kid din ding tho audience alon along They were thero there for fun fUD and I gave it to them But hut if I feel that tho the por persons ons out in iu front are aro r Barin saying I Now ow hero is a n manLet man Let us ua see sec what he be can an do if they thov seem serious then I give gic them the best cst I can do tie o the tho acting it ha has taken rue ruu years to learn |