Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-03-16
!. STAGE FRIRHTENED IECr URERs.
Burdstfe, ReeGher, Tilton and Phillips
4 8s5 Afraid Of Their Audiences.


Afraid Of Their Audiences.
NJ. ! went the other evening and caught
Robert ]. Burdetts IN the ante room at
{ Ghick ering hall, Just before going on the
stage with his funny Lecture writes o New
York correspondent OF the Indianapolis
Journal. s Ah," he exclaimed, with 9
tremend ous respiration. Well, but am
glad You have eonlel Now: talk to nlei
Ialk TO mel" and he continued walking up
and down the floor after shaking hands. ~
What's the neatters WLas ais YOUR
1 What do you mean r. said. Are YOU ra-
hearsing? Have I interrup pied Won? Do
you want to be alone2n
NO! no! he exclaimed eagerly, walking
up to me- Don't leave me. Don't 90
away" .E S.jS J@i1 " @ s. =
Mhat on eafrh IS the natter?n I asked.
Scared" he said, with q queruIous
laugh. Then laughed You don't j,a.
heFe me. Its true, though, I'm afraid 10
go on the stage q. j. ..4
! shaw, man! I said, awhy. you ara
Joking; you have lectured for wears,
Yes, seventy-fve times this winter. b,1t
IT don make any difference I have TO 60
through this absurd experience every tune.
a 4 here g no getting used 10 il. :
: How does 1t make you feeIan
Ieal2 Light as a corkt IF I was out.
slael could fly right over the building,
Honestly and seriously, if [ knew I had COT
TO die TO- night, I should pray that the lord
would take me just before + went on the
stage
Many haze tbs same experience That's
some abstraction Isuggested, sif misery
loves company. Z
Yes, he said. = told Beeeher about NV
tN lhS - Has,
thing for your consolation: you'll never eet
over it. 4 suffer every time / go before an
audience, and am afraid of my own aongre-
CATION. !" But his experience doesn't aiYa
ane much comfort
Does your fears vanish when YOU get on
the stage?n
No, it lasts sonae time, usually
! poke around among the audience for 4
familiar face, and when [ find friend 7
lecture night at him and dent notice any,
body else. Cough tells me that he does
tns same thing, He says he often hnds
hlnaselt talking to some sympathetic and
responsive Little group III one corner, tell
ING ms stories to them alone, as il they wera
II, little room together"
. he looked at mis- watch. TT is almost
TIME to so on the sage. IT it was respect
able ia run away. The notion OF feigninr
sickness often comes over me as it does
over school boys who wont to play hookev,.
Are you my iaiIor? looking uo at a gentle.
man IL swallow tail who seemed waiting
for him.
Yes, you have four minutes yet"
Can't / get reprieve2@ asked the oul-
PIT, forcing grim smile
Not this evening. Any othea evening,
You remind me of Theodore Triton. When
ne appeared here, though he had lecture,5
five hundred times, he vas 80 frightened
that we couldnt get him on the stage for 3
long time. The hall filed up, The audience
slamoreei, and he, Insulating to face them.
walked up and down this room. deaf to our
ensreaties washing his hands with inyisi-
bic soap in inpeceptible water Finally
We got him through the door Mt half-pasa
eight, z es
g told Burdette thaa Wendan Philips as
sured me once that he had similar experi~
ence; then [ slipped around tue oxchestra.
Ine funny man came on the stage. began
III 8 trenlulous voice, and his
troubled eye wandered over the audience
till he found friends, WITH whom he
quietly settled down and made himself at
home