Eureka Reporter | 1907-05-10 | Page 5 | Fuentes Had a Straight Tip

fuentes had a stra tip that american actors are not the only stage heroes is proven by the following anecdote of the recent earth quake in mexico city luckily the principal theater was empty the play goers and players were gone i the shock came not so at the arbau there the performance was in full blast the lights in the theater went out for a moment there was silence then was felt the shock panic strick en cries went up from all portions of the house the situation was critical in case the audience attempted to leave the house hundreds would be killed in the melee fuentes the leading actor was equal to the emergency with re promptitude and self posses slon sion he advanced to the front of the stage and while the building was rock ing assured the audience that the shock would soon be over and that there was not the slightest danger just where fuentes got the tip that the thing wouldn t last long and would not be violent he did not divulge but the audience voted him a trump and kept its seats till the thing was over