The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-24
TWO ANECDOTES OF RAYMoNp.
(Interview in Boston Herald.l


 CT shall never forget an event con- was member of the stock company at we used to always end up performance with good roaring farce. The one in which played this evening in question was running over with fun, and whenever l had played in it it took like fire with the audience. Well, we had got about half through with it, when 1 noticed man in front get up and put on his over coat and go out; pretty soon another man followed suit and then another, and then some ladies, and in the course of i've or ten minutes l think half the audience left the house. When got of into the wings said: Good Lord is it possible this thing has fallen flat here ' All the people going out l could not understand it. found some of the peo- pie attached to the theatre standing in the wings, and expressed my feelings on the subject pretty warmly to them about the farce being such failure that the audience couldn't stand it and had gone home. There was roar and sev- eral most significant glances exchanged between my hearers, and then one of them, skipping me on the back, said: Well, you are fresh one. Don't feel badly about your piece being failure, though, old boy. It's railroad night. Railroad night We'll, soon learned to know what that meant You see, in those days there were no regular late trains every night such as there are now, when all the big suburban population of RnSfAYa ha0 had fhA aAuaHkanA Nf into the city to see performance any night and afterward getting back to their homes all right. Instead, once or twice a week, a late train was put on for them to come into the theatres, and these oc- casions were designated as railroad nights
 old stock company. Carlotta Leclercq was a member of it, and shali never forget a circumstance in which she figured. They had prompter who was continually playing jokes on some of us, and one 6ne day determined to pay him back if 1 could. Miss Leclercq had gone to New York about that time to act as support to Booth in special engage ment, so fixed up telegram purport- ing to come from her offering the prompter a position with Booths com pany, and telling him to telegraph back .c Booth the loves: terms crcc =.:ch he would accept the offer. There was a great time the prompter of course went about telling of his excellent future pros- poets, and 1t got into the newspaper theatrical paragraphs, but, like all murders that will out the joke was soon discovered, and then there was an uproar. Carlotta Leclercq was so indignant be- cause l had used her name that when she joined the company again she would not speak to me. That was a dilemma. r said to myself, this will never do she is too good girl to be offended with me, so walked up flight of stairs that led to m- dressing-room and deliberately fell down the entire length of them, and found myself almost at her feet on the back part of the stage. lay very still, thinking she would come out and inquire as to any injuries l might have received. But she didn't come Instead she turned her back on me and walked away. did not give up yet, however. Soon after that we were playing on the New England circuit, and one day while she W s dining at her hotel and just eating her soup, 1 1 "oAASA HI ooSA Oi uCiJ anu ICACuluR over her shoulder attempted to remove her plate.
 "'What are you doing p said she; q have not finished my soup
 Oh, yes, ye have, ma'm,' said l, and what'n ye have for yer desert?'
 ''' But don't wish any desert yet she said, taking hold of the plate.
 |" Now, don't ye. Sure ye don t know at all what yer does want
 "' How dare you speak SO to me2 said Carlotta, angrily, rising and turning around to me as stood without moving a muscle of my face, my attitude the very counterpart of a hotel waiter. 'Oh, you villain, said she, as she gave in with burst of laughter. Sit down and behave yourself and I'll do anything to be friends with you
 | "And 90 she did. We never had a quarrel from that day to this"