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Show HIS INVOCATION A SUCCESS Actor Finally Got the Gas Man Awak-1 Awak-1 ened and Attending to His Duties. "Years ago," says Guy Hates Post, the actor, "I appeared In an amateur performance of a play that had a distinct dis-tinct religious flavor. The leading player had studied for the ministry and had a deep and sonorous voice. In one of the scenes the lights were supposed sup-posed to be turned down and a raging storm simulated. The accompanying lines were: " 'Oh, Lord, deliver us from the powers pow-ers of darkness.' "The leading man spoke the lines, but darkness didn't follow. He spoke them again, and still the stage was distressingly light. Finally he roared: " 'Oh, Lord, deliver us from the power pow-er of darkness, and also give that fool gas man sense enough to turn down the lights.' "The gas lights went down and the audience roared." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. |