Show THEATERS THEATER'S GOOD OLD DAYS Example of Rough Ready dy Methods Methods Methods Meth Meth- of Stock Companies of the Olden Times David Belasco said at a n theatrical supper In New York I hear a lot of praise bestowed on the old stock companies Well the theold theold theold old stock companies were were- all nIl right They'd In their rough ready way hardly gd g 5 down with us nowadays Once In the SOs I dropped In ata at nt ata I In a n stock performance In a n western town The company had a score of plays In Its repertory and this play pIny I had hod dropped In on went very raggedly rag rag- gedly In the third-act third climax the hero forgot his part and after an embarrassing embar embar- i rassing silence of or about two minutes hissed audibly to the prompter It the line It the play the he prompter hissed back from his little box as ashe ashe ashe he grab grabbed ed up a n stack of ot two or three dozen books and began to run through them feverishly |