The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-06-27

and the supe gets nervous and for
gets his cue, and goes off tumbling
over the carpet, and the orchestra
leader is afraid the supe-will fall OF
him. But 60 out with a quie
dignity that is only gained by expe
rience, and take hold of the carpe
the way Hamlet takes up the skull
of Yorick, and the audience is para
lyzed. | kneel down on the carpet
to unhook it, in devotional sort of Q
way that makes the audience bow
their heads as though they were in
church, and before they realize that
| am only supe | have the carpet
unlocked and march out the way q
Piscopal minister does when he goes
out between acts at church to change
his shirt. They never guy" me,
cause | act well my part. But |
kick on holding dogs for actresses
Some supes think they are made il
they can hold dog, but | have an
ambition that pug dog will not fill
| held Mary Anderson's cud of gum
once, while she went on the stage,
and when she come off and took her
gum:her fingers touched mine and
had to run my fiugers in my hair to
warm them, like a fellow does when
he has been snow-balling. Gosh,
but she would freeze ice cream
without salt. shall be glad when
the theater season opens. cause we
actors get tired lying off,"
"Well, I'd like to go behind the
scenes with you some night" said
the grocery man, offering the boy an
orange to get solid with him, in view
OF further complimentary tickets.
."No danger, is there ?"
| mo danger if you keep off the
grass. But you'd a dide to see my
Sunday School teacher one Satur-
day night last summer. He keeps
books in store, and is pretty soon
week days, but he can tell you more
about Daniel in the lions den on
Sunday than anybody. He knew l
was solid at the theater, and wanted
me to get him behind the scenes one
night, and another supe wanted to
90 to the sparring match, and |
thought it wouldn't be any harm to
work my teacher in, so | got him a
job that night TO hold the dogs for
the Uncle Toms Cabin show. He
was in one of the wings holding the
chains, and the dogs were just anx-
ious to go on, and it was all my
teacher could do to hold them. |
told him to wind the chains around
his wrists, and he did so, and just
then Eliza began to skip across the
ice, and we sicked the blood hounds
on before my teacher could unwind
the chains from his wrists, and the
dogs pulled him right out on the
stage, on his stomach. and drawed
him across, and he jerked one dog
and kicked him in the stomach, and
the dog turned on my teacher and
took mouthful of his coat tail and
shook it, and | guess the dog got
some meat, anyway the teacher
crimbed up a step ladder, and the
dogs treed him, and the step ladder
fell down, and we grabbed the dogs
and put some court plaster on the
teachers nose, where the fire extin-
guisher peeled it, and he said he
would 90 home, cause the theater
was dehoraiizing in its tendencies.
| spose it was not right, but when
the teacher stood up to hear our
Sunday school lesson the next day,
cause he was tired where the dog Bit
him, | said "sick-em, in a whisper,
when his back was turned, and he
jumped clear over the Bible class,
and put his head around to his coat
tail as though he thought the Uncle
Toms Cabin party were giving a
matinee in the church. The Sun
day school lesson was about the
dogs licking the sores of Lazarus,
and the teacher said we must not
confound the good dogs of Bible time
with the savage beasts ofthe present
day, that would shake the daylights
out OF Lazarus and make him climb
the cedars of Lebanon quicker than
you could say Jach Robinson, and
90 off chewing the cud of bitter re-
Election on Lazarus coat tail. |
don't think Sunday school teacher
ought to bring up personal reminis-
cences before a class of children, do
you? Well, some time next fall you
put on clean shirt and pair of
sheet iron pants, with stove legs on
the inside, and | will take you be-
hind the scenes to see some good
moral show. In the meantime, If
you have occasion to talk with pa,
tell him that Booth, and Barrett,
and Keene commenced on the stage
as supes and Salvini roasted peanuts /
in the lobby of some theater. |
want our folks TO feel that | am tax !
ing the right course to become star. /
prythe au reserr0ir. | 60 hens, but
to return. Avauntm And the bad /
boy walked out on his toes a Ia /
Booth.