The evening world., 1889-02-06

IfoubIe Began Wheu the MUSICAL director
Struck the Morton House-A Catastrophe
which Nearly Postponed the show In
dennitely-Terriblc Breaks In the Tenn
perance Ranks Mt Toronto.
About four or Ave years ago / was starring IN
apiece called 1.-THE BARRIERS Scrape." We were
10 open ct Yonkers on a Monday night and had
our last rehearsal the previous Saturday. Before
Diminishing the rehearsal gathered my company
around me and in q short speech, which /
made as pathetic as my line Of business would
allow. solemnly warned the male members of
the company against tho use of liquor in any
shape or form. The boys all agreed to stick by
me and swear off from too much liquor. l went
away happy in the belief that / was on the road
TO success.
The next day was Sunday, and shortly after
my musical director at the Morton House. This
director. whose name was Connolly, had been
reform and had congratulated me most sincerely
on my own determination to stop drinking. As
i was passing the entrance to the. Star Theatre
on Broadway my attention was attracted by the
antics OF = Group OF street uTsshlRE: ! sttopped
SSypiscs. He had a cigar N his mouth and the
i5IstiSs' the cigar; "Siys It tST him:
bali and. better aimed than the rest knocked the
ashes off the cigar, Dat was a good un, I" were
AAftsoMr a time I droVc the hoy boys S' OF and icy came rs' to
was hoTrfasd to discover that The ineS5ipte was
Thought, and made up my mind 70 take him
my shoulders, he ieered tipsiiy at me and husiilyy
m sn9 bs bsa. Like Set got TSat AZ ho ny bsyd I dT6nns VIZ me"
The. bundle which he had been holding con-
tanned the entire score Of the music specially
written for the piece PIECE and =, the various num9ers
gathering, all within reach and sight i made the
startling discovery that had only one-half Of
meant no show, and forgetting all about "fI the
SSonTduetor IN :, my anxiety e recover the music ]
the corner Of Thirteenth street towards Fourth
s sTsno one | pi cay so%9 e NH gfo %hiso e on w the o psvs n ont;
songs. On my way down Fourth avenue / found
another piece, and in a corner saloon another,
down Fourth avenue and tie Bowery to Hard
make the Journey, and when 1 reached home
4 WI n nSii55ly yos z S,Gls Sfand 4 II h, and raod ! was Sc Sc
the music but one or two pieces and was propo !.
fSsd lost at' Sight Of my musical director, but
evening found me at the theatre in YonKers.
p psif8e SS pSs 'n Rts o e shsp The s0 time nns ff or ing.
ing up the curtain, the director was still absent,
knew he was somewhere ip the town, as no had
come up OIL the same train as myself, and | de-
s miSs,ss l. tsp he st. to 3 sTIf iSta hin he H. tSe,l Fifteen Hsq,
,,lyzed drink, and with his left optic so swollen
use trying to get any work out OF him, so l APP
pointed myself property-man and assumed
charge Of the properties We finally rung up at
man, and Mlau gave 'f the pe nfo %inSs as pfSS ess We
could. Two knockouts from drink the first day
However, we continued on our tour, and at
Toronto we were Joined by q musical director.
s STGsf3 D Gbo ! T fi%s o6 out , al the .r &{ aHT & d.
The fihlsi People ts'1 Who had f E5Sset1r" tRe. d iSmaiasd;
eratea into something awful, The performance
Eork, r@piorins my backer. NJ. TFf pilers. TO c Gss
R Msst r ysan l'KK Hi ( em night on s2a. TIaea yca e.
not, not rsefass to Keep on. 30 things soptinued
i5,2ofhio. think i was called Xenia. II was
1 M fT.;n f% n %sEs. got ,dissasssd and tecF S' re
for permission TO close the show and received
, ySs sfn Eli Hld !s IspIly' i ASont till you get seH We; = and Nd
door proceeded 70 look around the hall, Il
where they had been concealed since supper
time in the hope Of seeing the show for nothing.
] drove them out and was proceeding to my
dressing groom. when l discovered a portly
figure behind the stove, ! dragged him out and
WAS proceeding to send him outside with the
others when. the gas-man legged me to allow
him to remain, saying that he was foolish and
would, laugh at most anything. / told him to
keep the man in the hall at all hazards.
We rung up the curtain and proceeded to give
ance our foolish friend could be heard scream-
ing with delight. A sudden break in his direc-
noticed that the people about him were in a
state Of excitement. ] sent the eastman out to
inquire the cause. He returned with the laconic
andwer, Hes dead-choked in a tit Of laugh.
ter" He wasn't really, dead, and after a time
came to. But / thought il was too good an OBJ.
portpnity to lose. SO ! wired Fuller, "Your
prophecy yeriied-man saw the show and the
second act killed him."
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