| Show Wakens His Hs Wife at Night to Tell Her His Brilliant Thoughts I Isn't this enthusiasm though 1 Frank Byron the dude det detective cUve who appears at the Orpheum next week awakens hI his wife at 3 o'clock In the time morning to tell her hel some somo new now idea that has Just struck him Ho writes all the nonsense that keeps folks shriek shrieking In while he ho Is on the tho stage Poor Mrs 1 Byron who In theatrical life is Miss Louise Langdon not onla only a assists him on time the sta stage c but gets all nil his bon ben first hand Sometimes he awakens mo me in tho the dea dead of ot night and says saya Listen Lou Ive I've got a new ono one Isn't this a l dandy Of Ot course se Im I'm terribly In Interested Interested interested In- In at that time of ot night lIes lIe's Just crazy over thinking up new things to put Into hl his sketches But even thou though h she doesn't enjoy hearing the new ideas In the middle of ot tho the night Miss Lan Langdon lIon has to laugh at her husband on the tho stage Sometimes he springs new things while were we're doing our act and I have to laugh in spite of ot myself sho she said eald Where here did you ou get the Idea for tor tho sketch 7 Mr lr Byron was asked One da day I was standing with a n. friend on Pennsylvania avenue Washington Wash Wash- ington D. D C C. Across the street was waa a hobo a typical Wear Weary Willie I said aId Heres Heros a touch for tor us us' us Pretty soon the hobo started acro across s the street towards us and said In iii the feeblest voiced sissy tone tone- Sa Say mister kin you OU give me inc a dime alme I aint had to cat eat for tor three whole days das I looked and saw my friend In Inthe Inthe the tho gutter doubled up with laughter I said said- Heres 2 Its It's worth that much and more to me Coming In that faint dandified voice from that burly hobo It was waD tho funniest thin thing I had ever heard I said nothing to my friend at the time and did not see ace him again until f S t S t S 11 5 tho the next season I met him on the street and asked asket him to to come como an and see m my sketch it was called Th The Thie Dude Dulle Det Detective But the and manner I those of tho the hobo wo had seen that da dayI dayI day I 1 have havo changed the lines so often that our act now is nothing like the th first presentation But tho thio l Idea ea of ot tho the thoth and ana manner Is always th the tho same I thInk I get ct as much fun out Ut ot of It as my audiences do ao nJ Ir Mr lr Byron n Impersonates a rube and an n Irishman also with great success sue sue- cess cess- cesse e lIe ways says ho things his rube rubo Is better than tho the If Dude Dud Detective but M the time managers want the dude I guess uc r Ill I'll stick to It It too he added It Is making money moncy for tor me now flow and that Is what every vaude vaude- rule ville actor is looking for Wo We played in the East all last year ear an and went back to some somo cities the I second t time me meVo Vo We always got get laughs but In some somo I Places tho the audience nearl nearly tears the house down Wo get our heartiest reception n In blase Gotham eV J Next t Id I'd like 1110 to put on an entirely N year ear new sketch that Ive I've got aU all thoU thought ht out Its It's The Dude I r want to put him out on the tho plains an and have ha a 11 broncho girl part for tor my wife Tho cowboy has a great secret ecret which ho refuses to divulge In tho the on end n hS he tells teUs her her- Im no cowboy I T think it will be great Mr D Byron ron has haa a number of or sketches that arc are being played Se by other aU raude e- e villa ville actors Ho says scarps oi ot verse verse erse and song and bits Of ot talk tall for sketches are running through hi his head all the limo He lie Is In eVer every Va way the exact opposite of the dude ho he Impersonates He is manly and fine tine looking His hair is grey and ana gives him a a. scholarly look It is tho the last lost thing In the world I you you'd oua d think of this of-this this ma man acting the time part of ot ofa a 1 sissy |
