Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-03-14

roy because it's so nice and long, and love
the last part Of the first act and the very last
of the second act best Of all in that Why,
sometimes there are real tears in my eyes, and
I can't help it, you know"
"Who teaches you your partsg'
"Oh, learn them myself now, and it Is
very much nicer. Mamma used to teach me,
and Annie and my other sister, They are
pened to 60 on the stage when | was so
small"
'Do you have to study hard to learn the
inesf'
"Not very. 81 learned Lord Fauntleroy in
one week, and that's pretty long to learn"
In THE DRESSING ROOM.
Tommy in the dressing room lives up to all
the traditions Of boyhood. His mother
dresses him on the fly much as one would cos
tune young cyclone on the wing. First,
there is the scrubbing, against which Tommy
rebels with all his boys nature. With his
sleeves rolled above his elbows and decided
Mamma, don't stand there worrying me-"
Tommy plunges in. There's enough splutter-
ing and splashing to bathe a baby elephant,
and Tommy comes up dripping, with his
nose, chin and a little patch on each cheek
and his finger tips very thoroughly cleansed,
but his mother is armed with the wash cloth,
and while he is yet blinded with water seixes
him unawares, and, as Tommy says, isn't
satisfied with scrubbing of the dirt, but takes
the sldn and all" Then he dances into tho
rest Of his clothes, which are similar to his
regulation every day dress, save that they
are Of white jersey instead Of blue, singing at
the top Of his voice, and when he Is ready,
and has been persuaded to clean his nails
with the maneuvering and strategy that only
mothers Of real live boys understand, be gives
final tug to the curly bang Of bis wig and
hangs on the arm Of your chair with
charming air Of frank good fellowship, which
is the most delightful trait In . boys char
acter, and which girls do not possesA A
little girl steals into your lap and puts her
arm about your neck in very fetching way,
but boy objects to being treated like ht-
ten, and meets you, Il You half understand
him, on equal ground a. friend with friend
Tommy's conception Of the part Is essen
tally boyish from first to last Elsie Il ths
ideal Cedric, but Tommy, it must be con-
ceded, Is more what real Cedrics are apt to
Be- There isn't 50 much stage business, but
there are the most natural Of boyish attitudes,
and he talks to his grandfather In a chummy
sort Of way as II he was one Of the fellows,
while bis eyes wander inquiatively around
the room He IS q very conscientious little
fellow, and the determined effort he makes to
be heard sometimes roughens his voice, but
he Is very much appreciated by the people
who cannot afford orchestra chairs, and who
sometimes fail to catch EGie's silver tones
Before one Of the acts somehow Tommy
fell against a stone step and made an ugly
black bruise on bis leg, and while it yet stung
and smarted he heard his cue and skipped on
In his artistic velvet and lace dress, all smiles,
and no one knew that the little fellow who
sat rubbing his leg in an of hand kind Of
way on the arm Of the chair, and talked
about earls being brave, was himself brlvely
bearing pain that most people would have
groaned over.
One night he forgot bis handkerchief in the
act where he needs to use it, and when he
found he had forgotten it be said. carelessly:
"Oh, grandpa, I've forgotten my handker-
chief" dashed of the stage in his noisy, boy
ish fashion, and came back as unconcerned
as q veteran.
Then when the play is over be shakes hands