Show julius caesar to date in our company said th returned actor was an exceedingly a 1 man who had been specially engaged for a high part in the play the remarks that outsiders made concerning that actor s length were often more than interesting but he always looked down upon the persons making them as if they were far beneath him and they were one day in a hotel at troy I 1 heard a chap say to his chum gee but that feller 11 be a big help to his mother when he grows up to which the other added 1001 s like some body had been hullm his leg both on em parts in a play are measured by lengths and sides often the actors bould perpetrate jokes on this long fellow arg ng the changes on lengths and lorg sides finally he got to be nicknamed hiawatha either because that tune 1 eld out so long or because longfellow wrote a hiawatha we played a week in portland oregon at another theater was a company with a young man at its head who had once been with booth and barrett he had determined to ake the places on the stage both ot them left vacant by those great tra medians at the time mentioned he was preparing to produce julius cae sar he invited myself and running mate to come in and see the dress re hearsay wh ch we did as bill nye would have said in the brutus tent scene a b g globe occupied a aromi nent place on a table after the re hearsay I 1 got my pal to ask the tra bedian if he intended to use that globe in the of course he replied why man I 1 ve had a prop boy hunting days to find that globe then he was ailed why he not have a telephone machine to the cent erpole 0 the tent he not cons dered the fact that in days of julius caesar people the earth was flat that it stood the backs of four great elephants one at each corner and that they stood on the bad s of tour monstrous turtles though they never got far enough down to discover what the turtles stood on but the tragedian used the globe and possibly the telephone and he may have come in on an automobile |