Show Is m. m Ashman Inan man T Talks s f for r P Publication tion o Y Us of How Poor Rich Man Came Cam t to B Be P Produced Pro Pro- ro- ro II for Vaudeville and of His HISt Own Case With t Valet I if Poor e Poor Rich Man Ian had j just tin fin illis his first local performance last t when a visitor was ushered to too room f for a closer o of the movie g le lef star a who rh had pj Just justel t. t el essed him with the satirical play- play which is given as the Orpheum's e attraction this week There und the photographed and looking Francis X Bushman and amI exceedingly charming wife known as Miss Beverly DevErly Bayne stage was all set for tOr an inter- inter inters which began by Mr Ir Bushman Dushman dengg de- de s 1 r that he liked his and catered by the success It has met live Le er broke the records in Cleveland and this sketch Air Mr Ir Bushman dea de- de sd a id And the theatre there seats like persons If It it pt t for tor things like that the Lot 0 would be a two-a-day two W Poor Rich RichIn Man Ian in is n. n about lIt a I young oung man worth who has to nave a meeting of 0 his board of ot di directors dl- dl I rectors if It he wants to be friends with a pretty girl and who really doesn't I know how to think for tor or himself Then comes a shock that rouses him and makes him hm realize there are arc other people in the world beside himself people people people peo peo- his wealth might help The satire of the thinG thine is rather bitter bitter bit bit- ter and calculated to make the spectator spectator spec spec- think as RII we weir welli If as the poor rich richI richman richman man in the sketch You know there are three cases casE'S on I record Just like this man Bushman said It was rather lather curious the way we WP got this We Ye had been waiting waiting wait wait- ing in Los Angeles for tor nineteen weeks at a loss of in salary for Mo- Mo rosco to give us a play and finally gave it up In New York Tork one evening Eddie Burke came am in and wo WI were werl talking of ot I I the th three cases of men who here vere ere syn- syn The idea suggested Itself asa as asa asa a good one for tor a We talk talked J. J it over further putting in details and planning a lit little story to carry the tale of the unhappy ennui and Burke went want away to write itHe itHe itHe it He brought it back four days later and we started rehearsals We Wo had met many Just such men as the one Inthe inthe in inthe the play In taking pictures We Ve usually usual usual- ly get the estate of some rich man on Long Island or Newport and the host and hostess invite their friends from far tar and near to come and see the pictures pictures pic plc- tures taken There is my valet In the play I am an example of how one comes comes to depend on another in John my man Ive I've h had him l ten years and he looks rh f it r after r most s of the details of my life life life- what engagements I have when the Insurance comes due what letters I should answer and all that Ive come quite to depend on him When we are arc taking pictures he keeps track of what I wear for you know sometimes in pictures you go in a door one day and you dont don't come out on theother theother the theother other side for perhaps three weeks or so 80 It would be a dreadful thing If you want In Jn with gloves on and came out outon outon outon on the other side when the picture is finished with one hand and another necktie or a a. different a-different suit John always remembers these details details de details de- de tails and sets me right so I don dont don't t worry about them But Bush didn't t tell how low he had come down to the Orpheum yesterday esterday morning to supervise the setting of ot the scenery used in to Poor Rich Man or orI how he does this in every city visited I Nor did he tell of careful attention to very every detail of the stage settings even evento to the most minute ones The Orpheum stagehands told this so John doesn't doesn t do everything by any means I Sleeping outdoors makes one beautiful beautiful beau beau- I says ays a beauty hinter Oh seethe see seethe the Jl pretty policeman I |