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Show Training a New Actor Borne years ago a famous sctor-man-sger was playing "Macbeth." A minor member of the company suggested that a stage hand of more than ordlnury Intelligence might be coached to spouk some of the lines. The actor-manager was not so sure shout it, but the stage manager proceeded pro-ceeded to drill his pupil, making htm repeat bis words over and over again, and imprinting them on his memory so completely that he could almost say tlietu backwards. The scene changes. Behold the famous fa-mous actor declaiming in his very bent style, when the cnm-actor-cum-stage hand makes his entry and says: "My lord, methlnks that Blrnam Wood dotb rnme to Dnnslnane." "Thou loon-faced vsrlet, where culn'm thou that Intelligence?" "Why," attHped the tstonluhed stae iinnd, "the stare manager told me to tell you." Cblcugo Herald. |