Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-12-06
The Deadhead.

perhaps be has relative
Upon the daily press.
~ Irree-istn doesn't keep him out
H7 knows it's but sham;
And when there's "Only Standing-room"
Hes happy as a clam.
He rriticises all the scenes,
Papeating every line;
Ana shows you where the play is bad,
Put never where it's tne.
t1e nuns the musiS of the songs
Until the singers dr. " ed
A~f makes himself a perfect pest
For twenty rows around.
Hetllnks the premier's getting old,
And mas a bOuy look;
The Tran sfOrmatiOn' isn't new,
Rr+ stolen from THE Crook
He calls the actors Tom and Jack,
And saws he knows them WELL
And all their private histories
lie then proceeds to tell
n fact he finds so many faults,
That what he has 70 say
Prov0kesa lively discomfort
Among the folks who pay
They never would have seen the flaws
f'-hey had not been told,
So go away dissatisfied,
Believing they've been sold"
Oicoursc, there is full many a one
Who viii among the mass
ReciprOCate a hundred fold
The favor Of d pass"
But be mention should be placed
Beneath a social ban,
As rurtful % the theatre
And % his fellow man.
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Like everything else, New York is
the centre OF the theatrical business.
The millions who laugh and cry over
PLAYS 90 so because New York helps
them. In that city a play Is read, cast,
scenery provided, and its rOnteS booked.
Even the rehearSals occur in that city,
and I'm the hot summer months every
little hall is taken up by some OrganiZa-
ton preparatory to their taking the
road 10 make or break. Very few COM
Uanies reach US but that have New
York endorsements. Ii is almost essen
t.a', for II New York likes il the whole
country will The men, who in many
respects, permit these plays to exist,
are the critics. Their judgment is al
most final Out Of a hundred plays
condemned by the press not FIVE succeed
90 other cities.
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Some time ago Hermann gave a per-
iormauCe in Montgomery, Ala. II was
his first appearance In that city. The
audience was a very small one, an6 the
Professor was disguised. During one
Of mis- feats he needed the assistance Of
some one from the audience. When
the man reached the stage Hermann
said:
"Did you ever see me in this city be-
fore?'
NO, sir"
"Weu, take a good look at me. You
viii never see me here again"
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There Is greater nuisance In the
theatres than the high hats OF the Ia
dies, and that is the man who goes out
between acts. And it is particularly
unpleasant in any theater for ladies' to
be forced TO rise Just before the curtain.
goes on an act and to receive the full
benefit Of the odor of liquor imbibed by
the nan who has just returned from a
Iegaboring bar room.
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10 three weeks time Chas. E. Locke
had cuc0untereD three sherifIS, been de-
ayed by accidents twice, and diSap-
pointed audiences on three different
occasions. II lie keeps up he will sur
pass his record as a remarkable man.
The Emma Juch company has not met
with much success.
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Frank Girard. of DOckStader's Min
s,re.S, has headed a movement toward
erecting a suitable monument over the
grave Of Billy Manning, at PiQua, Ohio.
The resting place of the dead veteran
minstrel, 20 whom minstrelSy owes a
great deal, is wholly unmarked at
present.
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young woman from Chicago, named
RAINY Mills has been blessed by nature
with foot that fits a No. 80 shoe. She
feature in a New York museum.
New York is getting even with Chicago
now. The man with a tweuty-one inch
ear Is also In a New York museum, but
he is not from Chicago.
comedian in company playing
through the South has TO represent
himself as so drunk that his breath
@aeS fire when he approaches a light.
4-e elect Is prOdvced by gasoline and
ya6am. A few nights ago his breath
badly.
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"H.s Nibs, The Baron" went to pieces
.9f a day or two shortly after leaving
+S city. Some changes were made in
,Te personnel Of the company and His
N.o> was soon In shape for business
-.5,a' Last week the company played
4'Harris' In Cincinnati.
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Inc night of poor Billy Flor noes
ss'a'A Joe jefferson did not give a per-
ny. nance out of respect TO his memory.
-,s meant a loss Of over 81, 900 to Mr..
Emerson. How many men would give
~. NJ -1at amount to show their appreci-
-'ol OF a friend?
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Lew DOckstader says: 1.-THE incest
.loor / ever had was an undertaken
v- -o lad his shop next door. There
t- -S nothing stiff about him except his
9slssS' and be said to me many a time,
10y Time you run short of ice let me
-'" and will send you in a block"
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b. aunie Ward Tiffany, who appeared
5s,, last season, claims the honor of
Aux ,l. '2e only female Irish star on the
C.S1'.Can stage. There may be no
I ,,.L IKE Annie, but the gang OF male
ero I s.arS(?l make up for all defc-
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