New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-09-11
'.Was it the same manager, we wonder.

''Was it the same manager, we wonder.
to whom Mr.. Sala's small super
came crying for a redress of his griev
ance? He has been cast to play double
FOUR in a pantominic game OF animated
dominoes: but the dresser had allotel
double four to his brother Jim, and in
sisted upon his being contented with don
ming the tabard of 'stour and blank.
He had protested, he had howled, he had
punched Jims head, without effect
s'What am I to du2" the little pantomi-
mist cried. I'D sooner give up the pro-
fession than be took down so many pegs
without never 'ayin' done muffin"
"Never mind, my boy" replied the
amused stage-manager, ''you shall play
double four; and if you behave yourself
properly till Boxing Night you shall play
double-six.'
That little fellow would never have
made such q 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 Dip in country town
Led on BY the ear by Lizzie Stofel, and
asked, ''What for you call me Dutchy?''
the debutant blurted out. "'Cause YOU
told me tor to the immense delight of
the house. AS soon as the act was over,
he was told he might go in front; ana
before any one could stop him he pulled
back the curtain, climbed over the foot
lights into the orchestra, and coolly lief
tae theatre.
Boleno, the clown, never evoked
heartier merrjmen1 than that caused by
his first appearance in public as one Of
the "princlpal waves" in the nautical
piece ''Paul Jones'" It was at Saders
Wells Theatre, soon after the 'sreal water, y
for which that house was long famous,
had given place to the conventions: can
vas sea with it's 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 gone we'll had
not Master Harry discovered 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; the
waters of the Atlantic divided, and dis
closed a 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 sh.ok his fist at the ap-
palled offender, causing the uckless
yourg rascal to disappear from view, and
bob with such vigor at remote distance
that sudden storm seemed to have
broken over the ocean far away.
Al American critic, disguised with
the mob in ''Julius Caesar" when the
play was acted lately at Booths Theatre,
because they showed no discrimination,
cheering the meanest soldier walking in
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 much
Of them; like the actor manager who
called upon his supers to assume an oily
smile of truculept defiance; and the au-
thor of ''Jeanne d. Arc who, in his
stage directions, requires the representa-
tives OF the English spectators at the pro-
session to the pyre to give vent to buz
and murlnur of hatred and exultation !;
and the representatives of the Amazon's
countrymen to express their feelings in a
buzz and mursnur of love, pity and sym
pathy. Such exacting gentlemen remind
one of the French manager who fined
one of the supernumerarles engaged in
:" Paul ct Virginie " for not making him
SELF black enough, and afterward discov-
cred that the man he had fined was a
negro born. a'