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Show Hy. Dtinnletsf. LcaTes From the Rose Bower. "You know I'm a hard workin' man," said Hy Dunn across tho casino table the other evening, "but occasionally I force myself from my desk to enjoy an evening at Mr. Pyper's gilded hall. "Well, I give a stall party the other even in, and me an' my guest goes up and stalls awhile before be-fore the curtain goes up. But we quit immediately immediate-ly when that Grace Van Stattering comes on. Well, sir, after she'd been singing a few minutes, I was sore at myself for going to the show. I'll tell you why. I knowed I wasn't going to have no rest. You know I'm awful impressionable, and it was a cinch I couldn't go to sleep for two or three hours, which the same worried me, I needin' the rest. First she come out in that purple rldin' costume, cos-tume, and it made me pretty mad to think about that guy goin' to the Crusades and leavin' that behind. be-hind. Then she began to sing; oh, tho best I ever tasted. I'll bet even that sick guy out at the Holy Cross who heard her every time she took off the soft pedal, fergave her. I'll tell you just how good she made with mo I bought a package of "nails" and smoked two. I got that noivous. I "In the next act when she showed with those green curtains I was just crazy to make a quick 6 trip to that country. And when she sang to that girl Amida, who was giving the Elk grip to the village adder, I was all in. Then in the last act that ice cream make-up caught me again, and unconscious un-conscious tears of sympathy for tho guy who had to buy the clothes sprang to my eyes. v "I was in a fever when I left the playhouse, and took a long ride on the front of one of our exilerating 'Dear Old Summertime' cars. Then I came back to Main street, walked to Ensign peak and back, gave a small personal banquet at John- E son's, went to the Rose Bower and retired. "When I goes iu I soz to John, you should have seen the queen at tho playhouse, her face, her figer, her voice, her " 'Come out of it,' he yawned, and I progressed to the next boudoir. " 'Chet,' I sez, 'you should have seen the vision; she was a regelar ' "Then ho interrupted me. You know aftor going go-ing to sleep, Chet is most unkind if I wake him, and on this occasion he said: 'Get to hell out of here.' Now you know I have feelin's as well as any one, and I wouldn't have him rude for anything. any-thing. "Them fellars ain't got no romance in their souls anyway. They don't pay no more attention to local beauty than they do to actresses. Fer instance, in-stance, I was telling them one night about a swell heiress who proposed to me. and do you know it, they wouldn't believe it. They're all the time handin' something. I asked them that in case we should stand in front of Hogle's and a lady come by, should we take our hats off. They said that they should, but I shouldn't. Now, what do you suppose they meant. I guess it's up to me to get under the sink with the rest of the pipes. T. |
