San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-13
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"Of course an audience laughs
heartily at any mistake we make, and
1 never blame people for roaring at
any break" said an oldtimer who is
summering on cool Lake Erie instead
of the hot Atlantic. But you people
in front of the stage don't enjoy them
as we'll as We who are back and don't
see half as many"
"The most trying position man
can be placed in is when someone
makes a break aud he is called upon
TO patch il. That is the time wheu
the coolest of us are liable to become
exited and make matters worse. l
knew one cool headed young Iellow
whose ability had never come to the
surface who got q start by doing the
right thing at the right time.
1--WE were with a tank drama, one
of those shows the principal feature
of which is one large tank filled with
water, and in our company there were
six or seven men who played the
tank, only they didn't fill up on wa
ter. About all there was to the play
was lpnatic asylum and real
steam boat that ran up and down the
tank.
The asylum could have been dis
pensed with and We could have got
ten along all right, but we couldn't
do without the boat. All there was
to the thing was q hull, a boiler, q
wheel, and last but most important,
q whistle. She couIdn't run an inch
and We had to push her and pull her
with rope that vas attached to the
bow. All the boiler was good for was
to furnish steam for the whistle, and
the steam was raised by coal oil
lamps.
lone night, as she was to make her
last appearance, she began to fill with
water and sank. The heroine was
saying: "Ah, the boat approaches.
We will cross the bay and be saved"
After she said that she saw that the
boat had sunk, but she didn't have
sense enough to smooth things.
There was a silence of about ten p e.
conds. during which time she looked
blaDkly in the direction of the bat
THE young fellow L spoke of
grasped the situation, rushed on the
stage and grabbing the heroine's
hand shouted: Come with me, I'll
protect you with my life, and rushed
off the stage, dragging her after him
II was in q company once that had
wreck scene, and we had to float
around the ocean on raft for two or
three weeks. The raft worked on
hinges and rollers, and when they
started her to pitching and rolling as
though she was on water man was
liable to fall off. One night q 'supe'
did tumble off into the wild waves.
Instantlythe carpet that made the
waves stopped plunging and the sea
was calm, but the raft pitched the
same as she did when the sea was
highest. One of the fellows on the
raft grabbed the 'supe' and yelled: Il
have saved him! Sail opn Everyone
in the sudisye supposed it was
part of the plencaud applauded'vigor.
ously.
"Thomas w. Keene is q quick one
to act in trying position. In Richie
lieu he examines the gun Of one of the
guards and says: "A trusty weapon
One night as the gun was handed to
him the hammer and . piece of the
metal fell of and ratified on the floor.
Three or four of the people snickered,
but Keene silenced them by saying:
"A worthless weapon! Better to be
used rs q club than gun. The
guard saw the point and acted sccor.
dinghy when the time came to use the
gun.
John Mccullough was knocked
out In Boston one night when he was
playing Brutus in Julius Caesar.
Mccullough was delivering the
GRAFTON that precedes Antony's, and
Caesars dead body lay before him
1t was in the winter and the stage
was cold. A supe was playing Caesar
dead, and he became chilled with
nothing on him but q toga. While
Mccullough was talking the supe
sneeZed.
Every body in the audience rosred
with laughter and it spread to the
Roman citizens vino had gathered to
hear the orstions. At last McCul-
Tough, who could hardly keep quiet,
burst out laughing. He was mad
clear through, but couldn't help
laughing.
"Do you remember the scene in "A
Parlor Match, where the drummer
gets q bucket of coal out of the safe
that the burglar had tried to blow
open? In Chicago one night the drum.
mer came on whistling, with coal
bucket on his arm and unlocked the
safe to get the coal. 'Humph, the
property mans asleep said Evans,
who played the drummer and walked
off with the empty bucket.
There was break in Under the
Red Flag that was given at Jacobs
Q couple of weeks ago by lot of
70 ell
ticed it. One enthusiastic man
appeared at the theatre under the in
fiuence of liquor one night, but there
had to let him 60 on. In one scene
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