Show THEATERS THEATER'S GOOD OLD DAYS of Methods Methods Methods Meth Meth- Example Rough Rough Ready Ready and of Stock Companies of the Olden Times David Belasco said zit nt a theatrical supper In New York I hear a lot of praise bestowed on the old stock companies Well WeH the theold theold old ohl stock companies were all right In their rough ready way way They'd Thed hardly go down with us nowadays Once in the SOs I dropped In at ata a a. a stock performance In a n western tot toWa to 1 The Time company had a n score of plays In its repertory and amI this play I h hurt hid t dropped in on went very rag rag- gedly Iii In the third act climax the hero forgot his part and ind after an nn embarrassing embarrassing embar embar- rassing silence of about two minutes hissed audibly to the prompter the line U 4 the play the prompter hissed d hack huck from his little box as ashe ashe aslIe he lIe grabbed up a n stack of two or three dozen books and anti began to run through them then feverishly |