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Show ACTORS MAKE QUICK CHANGES Some Record Trips From City to City, Which Have Been Made by Noted Thespians. Hnvlous persons have been known to pooh-pooh the nctor who thinks that Ids life is not nil cakes and tile. Many years ago vve thought the limit had been reached when K. I,. Davenport acted at a matinee In I'ldladelphla and duplicated the performance In New ork the same night. Later came the sensational Jump of Lawrence Itnrrett by special train from New York to Kr.n I'ranclsTo in less than four days and the Joseph Hrooks-.Tanausehek leap from Milwaukee to Philadelphia between Saturday midnight und Monday Mon-day In time for n regular performs ance In the hitter city. Once ltichard Mansfield's energies commissi ,1 m,.,.y trip between New Orleans and Chicago. On n Sutnnkry evening he presented "Julius Caesar" In the Crescent City nnd on the next succeeding Monday evening he repeated repeat-ed the experience In Chicago. Meanwhile Mean-while be had traveled n thousand miles and transported all the ponderous Impedimenta Im-pedimenta of his well-remembered pro-ductlon pro-ductlon of the Shakespeare classic. This Is how It was done: A special train in ten curs was under un-der steam In New Orleans at the close of the engagement. As soon ns n scene of the play wns worked off It was conveyed on trucks to the uniting special. When the curtain fell on the last net the players who appearel In It without changing their costumes, were driven to the railway station, and the train wns out of sight of New Or-leans Or-leans before midnight. Illght of way was given for the entire distance, und relays of fresh engines were provided from division to division. Thin u new-record new-record between the gulf und Lake Michigan was made. The running time for the 1,000 miles was 1 hours. |
