The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-14
AN Across soERows.
Not Hungry, Yet Compelled TO Eat Fur
an the stage.

Not Hungry, Yet Compelled to Eat Fur
an the stage.
New York Tribune.
II we mistake not someone once re-
marked that one-kalf the word does not
know how the other half lives Certainly
few of US know how much of the joys and
sorFows-especialiy the sorrows--of any
large number OF our fellow-belngs. Take.
for instance, the gay and holIday-rejoicing
actor. as he smiles and bows himself back
hehi.d the curtain. whence he has ecme in
response to our applause, which OF US can
say what sorrows may not Turk within his
breast9 lie struts his hour upon the stage
10 entertain US, but his own heart may be
breaking. For our thespian friend has his
troubles.
IL a suit brought in this city few days
since 10 dissolve a certain theatrical part
nership most strange cause Of grief on
the part of the leading man was brought 10
light. IL seems that the former leading
lady, over the discharge of whom by the
actor the trouble arose. was in the habit OF
wearing boa around her neck while play
ing her part Now, this boa, so the lead
ing man alleges. was not q tirst-ciass arti--
Gle, one in which the hairs were firmly
fixed, bat rather q negligent, happy-go-
lucky sort of affair, which was rapidly, IS
we may say, growing bald; accordingly,
in some part OF the play, probably when he
took the lady in his arms to
shield her from the wicked
and obnoxious villain, the vagrant
hairs OF this boa were very troublesome to
the leading man, and in the gords OF the
report, ''the fur got into his mouth 50 that
be could not speak plainly" Could any
thing be more annoying? AT the very time
when he needed his voice the most to be
obliged to stand there in the middle OF the
sage with his mouth full of boa fur.
Nothing clogs the organs Of speech aad
interseres with clear articulation so much
as a handful Of fur inserted in the mouth.
II greatly iinpairs the volume of the
vowel sounds and destroys the consonant
sounds almost completely. Yet this poor
actor was expected by the manager 10
90 through q whole scene with his
mouth encountered with the herspte cover
ing of cheap and gaady boa. For 1t was
the manager who ipsisted on the boa, the
actress being willing 30 wear a plush jacket
or boa which was not shedding lis hair.
Indeed. she proprosed applying an APP
proved hair restorative TO the present boa,
but the manager would not listen toit. lie
seemed to think that an artist, instead Of
going through his part untrameiled,
..cheainc the gum OF sweet and
bitter fancy" should so Through il
masticating the wandering fur from
an old boa, which should have been thrown
In the ash-can. But the actor at last re-
belied. discharged the leading lady, and he
and the manager now seek in the courts the
dissolution Of their partnership in the
ownership 81 the play.
As We said at FIRST, how little DO We know
OF the SORROWS OF others. We hiss the
faulty snuaeiatson Of an actor when for
aueht ve knox his mouth mas I've fuf Of
fur or other foreign substance, for which
he Is rot responsible. Should not this in-
cidant, trifling though il may seem. teach
rs 10 cultivate charity for others and TO
look on their shortcomings with kindly