Show THEATERS GOOD OLD DAYS example of rough and ready methods of stock companies of the olden times david belasco said at a theatrical supper in new york 1 I hear a lot of praise bestowed on the old stock companies well the old stock companies were mere all right in their rough and ready way hardly go down with us nowadays once in the SOs I 1 dropped in tit at a stock performance in a western town the company had bad a score of plays in its repertory and this play I 1 had dropped in on went very ra raggedly in the third act climax the hero forgot liis his part and after an embarrassing silence of about two minutes hissed audibly to the prompter I hats the line the play the ibe prompter hissed back from his little box as lie grabbed up a stack of two or three dozen hooks books and began to run through them feverishly |