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Show T THE CITIZEN AMONG THE NEW BOOKS If You Care Anything at all for your hat never trust it in the hands of incompetent hat fakirs trying to get by. Least of all the bootblacks. In either case, we guarantee good work at nominal cost to you. , Your Automobile Troubles Are at My Fingertips s. We Call For And Deliver SMYTH'S HAT SHOP 1 ously for Irving for this and other REC0LLECTI0N8 OF CLEMENT things besides. The night he left tho 8COTT. By Mrs. Clement 8cott. Lyceum after having Quarrelled for Frederick A. Stokes Company. the last time 4 1th the Chief, they say that he somehow managed to stick Mrs. Clement Scott (Constance Mar a notice up over the stage door, and garet Brandon) In her Old Bohemian when Irving arrived these words in Days (alias Recollections of Clement large red letters stared Impudently at Scott) has '.written an extraordinarily him: 'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Eninteresting volume of reminiscences. ter Here. The book is as full of anecdotes as a Always ready with an anecdotal cue, strawberry of seeds. One hundred Mrs. Scott caroms from celebrity on would be a conservative estimate. to celebrity, just as though she were There may be 200. And they are what clicking balls on a billiard table. She are known as inside stories, tidbits devotes considerable attention, a that all persons interested in the thea- whole chapter in fact, to the Labouch-eretre will enjoy. As a First Aid to Mrs. Labbys London house Conversation it can be put at the top she characterizes as a modern of the list of this season's, books. School for Scandal, only much witMrs. Scott (who, by the way, was tier and more cynical, where, if you Clement Scotts second wife, her pre- -' entered with a character, you emerdecessor being Isabel Bus son Du Maur-ier-, ged without it. a sister of George Du Maurler) Mrs. Labbys afternoons in Lonso an is enfante terrible. She is very don were always amusing. We were frank in places that you would surmise such a cosmopolitan that one or two of the stories verged crowd. No formalities. Take me, or on the libellous, were it not for the leave me, as you please, and if you fact that most of the persons in her dont know your neighbor, introduce book, Irving, Tree, Wilson Barrett, yourself and get acquainted quickly. Labby and others, have passed alOn one of these jolly days, almost ready to the Great Beyond. the first of the many I went to, a Her husbands old fashioned views number had crammed in to hear on the drama were shared by Mrs. large a new singer; it was part of Mrs. Scott, who admits that she herself to push hitherto was once something of a dramatic Labbys philanthropy unknown musicians or any talented critic and wrote reviews for Labouch-ere- s well up the course to the brilliant journal Truth, succeed- youngster winning post. I had picked out a ing C. S. when he devoted himself quiet comer for myself near the temexclusively to his work on the Daily porary platform so that I might thorTelegraph. As a student of the stage the treat. Mrs. Labby Clement Scott loved sweetness more oughly enjoy never introduced a failure; her finds than he did light. were always of the best. But in his preface to The Drama of To my Intense disgust a most im- - ' Yesterday and Today, written in 1899, and his magnum opus, Scott admitted pertinent man planted himself beside with sorrow that the laugh was with me, and commenced, in loud tones, to the other fellow and that the realistic slang Mrs. Labouchere and her bordrama has come to stay. He saw the ing parties. He took exception to her taste in the choice of friends and he light of realism before he died but to him, poor man, and to his wife also, declared he didnt know why, in the it seemed like the handwriting on name of everything disagreeable, she could possibly inflict people with such the wall. tedious nonsense. One of the actors that Mrs. Scott At that moment the handsome criticises frankly is Henry Irving. For an actor of his intellect and im- novice (Clara Butt) mounted the Bteps and prepared to sing. A heavy fusilagination, Irving was an extraordinarlade of objectionable adjectives pourily selfish one. He never gave any other artists a chance on the stage ed forth from my noisy companion, deand I have known William Terriss who apparently took a diabolical and George Alexander, the one as light in my terrified, crumpled condiChateau Renaud in The Corsican tion. Now for if, I thought, as I saw Mrs. Brothers and the other as Faust, play in absolute darkness when Irving was Labouchere swooping down on us. (Continued on Page 14.) on the scene. Terriss used to go furi OLD DAY8 IN BOHEMIAN LONDON: -- Ladies Or Gentlemens Hats 9 16 E. 2nd So. Wasatch 2352 You are going to buy a Phonograph n happy-go-luck- y, Automotive Service Station Automotive Machinists and Electricians Workmanship of the Better Class Guaranteed Wasatch 4690 i we go anywhere 333-3- 5 about the grief and troublea of your ear. Bring it to m and I will hand back yous sar more satisfactory thai you can imagine. Particular Work for Particular People. My Ouitomen Gome Bade. Edward Moyle Sueeasaor to HARRY E. EATON Expert Auto Medhanica In Our New Home 170 So. Second East Wasatoh 4402. iiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiuuumiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiHiuiiHmiiimuuuuuiiuiiiiiiniiiinii WE PRINT THE CITIZEN Century printing Company W. G. ROMNEY J. Q. 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