Show alk 4 fl t 1 fal li ivi acie former miner tells of hu nor of early theater days in leadville hew york usually in alie small toxins it Is the actor who laughs up lils bleeve at alie audience but in the small town of leadville colo it Is alie audience which nine times out of ten enjoin more than one laugh up its sleeve at the expense of the actor A man who spent many years out in use est and moa of them min ing in colorado and Is now resident in sew ork cited this fact recently while reminiscing as very often he does over the earlier and more ad venturous adges of his career when instead of crimping his knees in the and under tea room tables he swung them comfortably oer a mex kan whenever he wished to to an where or stretched them lusu piously by a tow camp fire when air he wished to eat an thing chis man having ched at every al hude sea level up to feet Is well acquainted with alie ettelt pro on alie lungs and the tory organs by moie lel atmospheres than alie one in people live in new lork and he recalls quite clearly how on the first night lie slept at a height of he aw likened shortly after falling to r by a pounding in his left I 1 ceisl which turned out to be caused II 11 nothing more nor less than his 1 in which as his friends afterward t id alm ilm wi struggling for more oy pen thin he in his state w is giving it and manifesting its an a at the sudden deprivation in thild f ishlon till he became acell tinted to the ra rifled air which he not d for a matter of several dus lie wn under the necessity he of catching bis sleep only in 1 taul sn itches an old leadville theater luiere aed to be a theater in he sald nd for all 1 1 now it lt still there or perhaps it lias been replaced by a larger one they hive movies vaudeville KIS K IS operas plas and flux ardt pageants ants all for the arke of u half dollar as we do in awit t ur movie hereabouts iu la alio llio e ralis alie theater was a simple UK d t structure and were bool ed there aery once in so ofton alius u you see 1 lie anival f was a matter of great moi ifill und importance llie oi siou was usually attended u ceremony on the birst 11 nil of the that could pos tty he rimmed between the four r be hungry for the matter ix w good or n w hul it might be ready acx lou t te moved to to won tier or to tears of gursc the actors too wert I 1 by the interest limn on the put of the and so of the doltl of in eliat ill tl ei would if they to comprise Tom prise a song and dance team immediately launch into an intricate and lusty exhibition of dancing which left bliem at the end of several roo rients and as they tried to sing at the same time capping gapping for breath n a fashion to which they were totally they would alien endeavor to sing the second verse of their song nuin ber whatever it might be and find themselves too breathless to do so sometimes they would try and drug alic piece out to the finish their s1 sa babies and notes cut unintelligibly short and sounding very much like notes issuing from a wheezy organ pumped by one who lacked the strength reilly to keep it going or alicy would give up the second eversp in despair and stagger limply from the stage wondering what on earth was wrong with them if at the same time the the plans to be giving heroic and voluminously written melo diama with long pompous lines aft er the first few minutes on the strite they would have to slow up the ver bal action of the play in such a wd a to mal e it almost ludicrous al though truth to tell alie which used to find their way into es in days were to any one with g sense of humor ludicrous without iny supplemental ridicule being attached to them if ever these actors or actresses that town again or any other town at the same altitude they more cautious in their opening moments the and dance team for instance would come out at a walk sing both verses of their song and both choruses and then after an in tenal of several minutes go carefully ino their dance steps having per formed these at a modified pace they would exit from the stage and despite alie applause and every number al davs got applause they would not on again thi was sensible As forthe more dramatic players they not only learned to their opening lines more slowly but they saw to it that their were not so liberally written this in itself was an achievement of no small moment for the higher altitudes since under no oilier circumstances have 1 ever heard of actors or actresses actually asking of own volition to have their lines cut still further about the exigencies of a winter in the est at feet above the sea this westerner recalled for several n one occasion he was snowbound in a hotel neither lie nor any of he othar imprisoned patrons dired leave even to cros the street snowbound in a hotel die snow in that country he ei hits your ance like pin tides of glass and cuts it veo painfully SIH cover alie fury of the wind und the ahring brilliance of the siaw blind one so it Is im possible to pee where one Is euln lvin crossing sudi an ord barlly tiling us n e treet and if course alie main street in one of those western towns of alio das was wider than fifth avenue one was liable to be beaten down by the wind and numbed into by the cold thus it as a crossing not without its risks finally in order to establish some kind of contact with the stores aboss the way we dug a tunnel from lie hotel to the cellar of one of them and thus were enabled to secure grocery supplies and other necessities on one occasion I 1 was walking up the main street of leadville during the early stages of a pretty bad bliz zaid when I 1 felt a sudden ens atlon in roy chest as though some one had just pierced it with an icicle I 1 stag into the hotel md my friends bringing up a mirror showed me that the tips of my ears and nose ere white quickly they got some snow and rubbed them vigorously then the applied ice cold water to the frozen members increasing Inc the temperature of it till it got quite warm after this they got hold of me and poured down m throat all the whisky in the place for twenty four hours after that 1 was ancon when I 1 came to however they told me I 1 ind had a narrow cs cape an attack of pneumonia ban ly having been averted by their treatment and the administration ul whisky usually when a man bat pneumonia at that altitude be wj good for only about six davs in this world unless we could get him down tha mountain to a lower altitude of course when the weather permitted vc did this |