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Show I JOHNSON REFUSES $1,000 A WEEK JOB Washington. Oct. 18 Walter John-eon John-eon has turned down a tneatrlcal engagement en-gagement which would have netted him $15,000 In ten weeks He was made a proposition by the agent of a booking firm to do a monologue turn on a vaudeville circuit at $1000 per week and a ten-week contract John son did not as much as give the mat ter consideration, but turned it down flat, much to the surprise of the axent, who argued that it was easy money All Johnson was to have done was to speak about 115 words which would have been written for him; but he does not take kindly to anything that si'.vors of the limelight, so he refused Johnson is now in the same class of ODodesty with Frank Baker and Hans Wagner, both of whom had such of fcrs. but have not accepted them. Johnson insists that while he is playing play-ing ball he Is going to attend 6trictly to business and that no sort of a proposition can lure him on to the stage Even Griffith would not have objected to having Johnson pick up this easy'monev but the agent found it useless to waste his breath trying to sign his contract . ,,. |