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Show THE PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION ' Tho big delegation of theatrical managers who sought tho presldont on the revolutionary Garfield order, re- 1 turned to Broadway with many stories of tho president and their democratic reception. David BelaBco admits that for the first time he suffered from 1 stage fright. Wilton Lackaye, too, had things to say as usual, while E. F. Al- bee, the big vaudeville magnate, tells I the most amusing incident. I "As wo entered, the president re- coived us standing, and immediately after meeting the members of tho committee invited us all to find chairs. The president himself took a piano i stool, and drawing it up to tho center of the group, which was-circled around ! him, gazed from one to the other. We I woro all standing, awaiting his move- j ment to seat himself. His sense of hu- ! mor overcame a very embarrassing j pause, but glancing down the line, in a most business like manner, said! " 'Gentlemen, be seated,' and tho laugh which followed placed us all entirely en-tirely at our easo." |
