Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-05

alton. do not, cannot offer you none,
but can crafty a laudable ambition
| Hitherto you have ranked only as an
accessosre; from this time you are an &C
tor. / give you the right of entering the
green room. You are permitted to cal
Monsieur Lemaitre mon c0narGde; to thee
| and thou Mademoiselle Theodorine. |
am sure, Monsieur Fombonne, that you
will thoroughly appreciate the distinction
/ have conferred upon yOu."
The manager read his man rightly; the
promoted accessible was more than salts.
fed.
Not so we'll pleased was the English
SUPER who asked for rise, pleading that
he had been playing his part with the ut
most care and zeal for hundred conse.
cutive nights. The manager inquired
what part he played.
"Why, SIR" said he, 81 am in the fourth
act; have to stake twenty pounds in the
gambling scene"
Very WE'LL" quoth the manager: "from
to night YOU shall double the stakes.
"Was it the same manager, we wonder
to whom Mr.. Sala's small super
came crying for redress of his griev
ance9 He has been cast to play double
four" in pautomimic game OF animated
dominoes; but the dresser had allotei
double four" to his brother Jim, and in,
sisted upon his being contented with don
ming the tabard of "four and a blank
He had protested, he had howled, he had
punched Jim's head, without effect.
"What am to doG" the little pantomi
mist cried. nd sooner give up the pro-
fession than be took down so many pegs
without never 'avin' done muffin"
"Never mind, my boy" replied the
amused stage-manager, ''you shall play
double-four; and if ycu behave yourself
properly till g-Night you shall play
double-six."
That little fellow would never have
made such mess of his "business" as did
street urchin who made his first appear
ance on any stage under the auspices Of
Mr.. J. G. Williamson, when the latter was
playing Struck Oil" in country town
Led on by the ear by Lizzie Stofel, and
asked, "What for you call me Dutchy9'
the debutant blurted out, "'Cause you
told me top to the immense delight oil
the house. AS soon as the act was over,
he was told he might go in front; ano
before any one could stop him he pulled
back the curtain, climbed over the foot.
lights into the orchestra, and coolly lief
le theatre.
Boleno, the clown, never evoked
his first appearance in public as one Of
the "principal waves" in the nautical
piece paul Jones'" 1t was at Sadler'S
Wells Theatre, soon after the ''real water,
for which that house was long famous
had given place to the conventional can.
vas sea with its wave rolling boys under.
meath. The last scene represented the
ocean, bearing on Its expanse of waters
two ships preparing for action. The
waves rolled as the boys bobbed up and
down, and all would have gens we'll had
not Master Harry discovered a small hole
in the canvas above him.
Into this hole he put two fingers, in.
tending to take peep at the front of the
house. The rotten stuff gave way; tht
waters of the Atlantic divided, and dis
closed small head besmeared with blue
paint-the result of friction against the
painted cloth. Catching sight of this
young Joe Grimaldi, who was the cap
tain in command of one of the vessels
called out, "Man overboard!' when the
stage-carpenter shook his fist at the ap,
| palled offender. causing the luckles'
yourg rascal to disappear from view, anc
bob with such vigor at remote distance
that a sudden storm seemed to have
broken over the ocean far away.
An American critic, disguised will
the mob in "Julius Caesar" when the
play was acted lately at Booths Theatre
because they showed no discrimination
cheering the meanest soldier walking IL
procession, while they let Caesar and An
thony go by unrecognized, insists upon
the supernumeraries being better taught
1t is certainly the duty of the stage man
ager to see that they are properly in
structed, but it is no use to ask too mucl
| of them; like the actor wht
called upon his supers to assume an oily
smile of truculept defiance; and the au
| thor of Jeanne d. Arc" who, in hi:
stage directions, requires the representa-
tives of the English spectators at the pro
session to the pyre to give vent to buz
and murmur of hatred and exultation
and the representatives of the Amazon
countrymen to express their feelings in 1
buzz and mursnur of love, pity and sym
pathy. Such exacting gentlemen remino
one of the French manager who fnet
one of the supernumerarles engaged il
d" Paul ct Virginie for not making him
self black enough, and afterward discov
cred that the man he had fined was
negro born.