The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-20
HAMLET IN A SEYMOUR
COAT.

When the great Edwin Booth was
here last week we cid not get an
opportunity to see him on the stage,
owing to there being a paying house,
but we sat out on the steps and en-
ioyed some pleasant conversation
with Mr.. Edwards, business manager,
of the company. The talk ran on
the subject Of getting baggage from
town to town, and we asked him if
he ever got left about his baggage.
"Only once" said he, as the cold
chills seemed to run over him. at
was at Waterbury, Conn, last
season. I don't think l shall ever
forget that if l live to be as old as
a railroad restaurant sandwich"
What did you do?" we asked,
hoping to hear a tale Of woe that
would make our hair stand. 1t
would take a good deal of a tale to
make much hair stand on our head,
but that will be all right.
"Do?" said he, with the air of a
man that would do or die trying,
1--WE gave them Hamlet in every
day clothes. When 1 found the bag
gage, with the costumes, had not
arrived, 1 was just going to throw
myself in the river, when l thought
l would go and tell Mr.. Booth about
it, and bid goodbye to some Of the
people who had always thought
good deal of me, before killing my
self. To my establishment Mr..
Booth took it as cool as you would
take an invitation to drink. He
said, inasmuch as the people were
in the hall, he would make a few
remarks to them about the accident,
and then they would go on and play
three acts of Hamlet in the clothes
they had on. And so it was
fixed up that way. Well, the thought
Of Hamlet in a short tailed coat and
tight pants almost made me sick,
but when Mr.. Booth came on the
stage looking like an Episcopal
with a Knight Templar's
cheese knife that he had borrowed,
couldn't think of anything but
Hamlet. I forget all about his
and I believe if he had only
hadIon a pair of sailor pants and a
red flannel fireman's shirt, that the
people wouldlonly have seenHamlet.
tell you. he is the greatest actor
hat ever lived. The people sat
perfectly still. and seemed wrapped
lp in Mr.. Booth. That is, they were |
when they did not look at the other |
fellows. But when they took in |
LaeTtes, with a short ham fat coat |
N, a pair of la-de-dah pants, and a
pancake hat, it seemed to me [ could |
near them smile. And the king,
step-father, he was sight.
imagine king with a cut-awdy |
coat,a Pullman car blanket
brown over his shoulder for robe,
md leg Of a chair for scepter,
mashed on q queen with a travelling |
lress and grey wooden basque, with
)ig buttons Oh. And think of Pol
,nious with a linen buster and straw
lat with a blue ribbon on. y, it
made me tired. Ophalia was all
light enough. She had on some
razy clothes that she had been
in, and we got some straw
,ut of a barn, and flowers off of the
,onnets, and she pulled through
pretty well. But the ghost. You
would have died to see the ghost.
lie had on one of these long hang
ne-down ulster overcoats with a
,uckle in the back as big as a curry
omb, and the belt was hanging |
own on both sides. The boys got
i'm a green mosquito bar to put
yer the scepter; he fell over a
hair and came on. l should have
aughed if l had been on my deatn
,ed, when he said TO Hamlet, Il
IN thy fathers ghost" He looked
more like drummer for wholesale