Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-27

| ~0t0 tAS b hooCAJ IL su III 0t7S tob,
"wheu y III played with Nc u :
loughl What did you do?"
what did / d.? Why, you
old cucumber, the whole play
centered around me. D, you
remember the scene in the Roman
forum, where Mccullough ad-
dresses the populace Of Rome. |
was the populace Don't you re-
| me :nher q small fellsf standing IL
front Of the orator taking it in
with night shirt on. with bare
egJ and arms? Thst was me,
and everything depended on me
Suppose 1 had gjne of the stnge
It the critical moineut, or laughed
when l should have looked f-rc
It the inspired word, Of the Ro
man Senator, il would have been
dead give away on Mccullough
As the populacs Of Rome / con-
sider myself a glittering success.
and Nc took mo by the hand
when they carried Cmsar's deaf
,ody out. and he said. Us three
lid ourselves proud Such
praise from Mccullough is sci lom
,csorded to a supe But | dom.
consider the popnlace Of the im
periaI city Of Rome my MASTER.
piece. Where / excl is coming
,ut before the curtain. between
the acts, and unlocking the
carpet. Some supes go out and
turn their backs to the audience
showing patches on their p.nts,
ind rip up the carpet with no
style about them. and the dust
flies, and the boys yell 'supe, and
the supe get- nervous. and forget
his cue, and goes of tumbling
,ver the carpet, and the orche. trs
leader is afraid the sups will fall
on him. But l 60 out with a
quiet dignity that il only gained
~ experience, and / take hold o
tue carpet the way Hanlst takes
up the skull Of Yoyick, and the
u sace is paia'yzed. I kns+l
down n the carp t, to unhook it.
in devotional 8 ,rt of a way,
that makes the an Hence bow their
heads q, though they were in
church, and before they realizs
that l am only a supe. 1 have the
carpet unlocked and march out
the way 'Plscopal minister does
when he goes out befween the
acts at church to change his shirt
rhey never guy ne cause / act
we'll my part. But I kick on
holding dogs for actresses. Some
lupes think they ar- made il they
can hold dog. but I have ali am
bition that a pug dog will not fill
[ held Mary Anderson cud Of
gum once. white she went on the
stage. and when she came of aud
took her gum her finger. touched
mine, and Ihad to run my fiogers
in my hair to warm them, like a
fellow does when he goes sno "
i'alling Go,h. but she would
freeze ice cream without salt! l
shall be glad when the theatrical
season opens, cause we actors get
tired laying of .
"Weil. I'd like to go behind
the scenes with you some night"
aid the grocery man. Offering the
bad boy an orange to get solid
with him, in view Of future CON-
plImentry tickets. mo danger,
is there?"
mo danger, if you keep of the
grass. But you d q die to see
my Sunday school teacher one
Saturday last summer. de keeps
books ia a store, and is pretty
soon week days; but he can tell
you more about. Daniel ia the
llon's den on Sunday than any
b ,dy. He knew / was. solid at
tie theatre, and he wanted me to
get him behind the scenes one
al ,ht; and another supe wanted
to go to the sparring match, and
thoughtit wouldn't be any harm
to work my teacher in, SO | got
him the job that night to hold the
To- FOR tie Uacle Toms CABIN.
de was in one Of the wings hold
iDg the chains. and the dog, were
Just anxious to 60 on, anu it wa
all my teacher could do to hold
them. l told him to winI the
h lin around his wrists, ami he
lid so, and just then Eliza began
60 skip across the ice, and we
,icked the bloodh ,unds on before
my teacher could unwind the
.hains from his wrists and the
logs pulled him right on the
stage, ON his ssomach, aud drawed
nim across, and he jsrked one
log and kicked him ia the stom-
,ch, and the dog turned on my
eacher and took a m,uthful Of
Ms coat, and / guess the dog got
0 ne m A., any way the teacher
cnuled up step ladder, aud .ne
logs freed him and tie step Ia l.
ler fell down, AMI we grabbed
che dogs and put some court
plaster on the teachers nose !,
where the fire exiting nsher pseieu
l., aud he said he would go home,
,au . the theatre was dem oraliz
ing in its tendencies. / 'spose il
II was not right, bat when the
teacher stood up to hear our Sun
lay school lesson the next day.
cause he was tired whers the dog
nit him sail s-;,,L .,s T..