Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-01-06

. s.tsns "a :
eteat imltator % the redoubtable
Hungry Joe." Ills listeners never
Aeaf him tell thu same tale twice.
Hof : colossal memory hath the Ad.
vance. Agent Humorist He has q
lcftY scorn for the wit Of Others and
~ stories he tells afe ss1ll his own"
(This with . rebate.) What he hears
IN Maine he retAils In California, and
yise versa. The result II that his
yarns are generally new. They have
not reached the sese and yellow stage
IN the locality where they are used.
C0n0ert halls have yet to greet them.
u naf.r0om box otiices and newspa-
PR oljces alone are they spun.
Hence the teller soon acquires q
reputation for originality and humor
that really Is not his hut does he
deny II? Bless you. no! He feeds ON
the Wit OF others apd struts IN the
plumago Of the brainy.
He II q sort Of Bunthrone, Is the
Advance Agent Humorist. A sham,
To be sure-but q sham who profits
BY the spurious LAUGHTER he creates
hence . sham for a.fevenue only"
Pretty shrewd II he, too; in fact,
the man ahead OF the show who can
spin . good yarn and then see it in
print Ii to-day the best paid advance
representative in the theatrical pro-
fessi0n. After all, why shouldn't he
bo?
People are tired aof stereotyped no
tices Of the play, and every line In q
newspaper which mentions q star or
attraction ID more Or less OF an 'taf."
Why, then, shouldn't the man who
accomplishes this end In q manner
satisfactory 10 q newspaper aud en-
tertaiping to the reading public be
appreciated, whether his ways be
original or not?
You know some one has said:
ssNext to being great Is the ability
to b. 60 considered" With the Ad.
vance Agent HumOrist the next thing
to being funny 10 to be 80 regarded.
Orsss Actors oi Past sad Present.
The noted Kcans we're Edmund,
who Was born In 1857, and who died
In 1881, his son Charles John Kean,
and tho sons wife, Ellen Tree. Ed
mund was one of the greatest TRACE
dams Of any aye. He excelled his
ron Charles In the chief Shakspearian
parts. - he did oil Of the kembles
except John Philip Charles Kean's
beat representations were those OF
King John, Richard III. and Mac
beth. His wife won fame 10 tragic
md comic roles. her best parts being
RosaiInd, POTtia and DesdcmOna.
0dmund Kcan, In the 47th yearof his
age, collapsed upon the stage when
playing Othello to his SON Charles
Ia9n and dice soon afterward. At
his death Fanny Kemblc. dropping
the 1ealousies and rivalries existing
Between the families wrote: "kean
b rome, and with him are gone Othel-
To- Bhylock, Hamlet and Richard"
The other noted ~tragedians who
appeared in the Kemble and. Kean
period or who came on the ccA soon
after were George Frederick Cooke,
VIM. H. Betty and VIM. Charles Ma
cready. Cook for years was . rival OF
John Philip Kemble and Edmund
Ksan IN Richard III, Macbeth, Lear
and other Shakspearian parts. Betty
was strong Ia Hamlet, and Macready
II Ghylock, Macbeth, Coriolanus, vir.
giniuA Othello ana Richard. Con-
tempofaneously with Macready ap-
peAred Junius Brutus Booth, father
Of Edwin, and Edwin Forrest,
Booths best im~personati0n was Rich
ord. but he Wal popular 10 Macbeth,
Lear aud OthellN too, while For
r00t alao excelled In these parts, "a
we'll = In Richelieu, Virginius and
0particuA
This brings the list of the great
tragodians Of tho English speaking
world down to our own day. E L.
Davenport G. A. Fechter, Barry
Sullivan, John Mccullough and Law
renee Barrett have died In recent
yearA and the greatest Ut the men
now eaaaying the chief Shakspearian
parts n Henry Irving. who Is only .
second 0r third class actor compared
with most Of those whose names have
been mentioned in this article. When
Edwin Booth, . year ago. stepped
down from the boards, the last OF the
real successors IT Burba9e, Betterton,
Garrick, John Philip Kemble and Ed
mund Kean left the stage.
zAe WarsA'S . stass.
AZ : gathering Of players q ofthe
party told . little story that amused
them ~. ut. was m London that
I heard II, said he Three actors
were dining together and one OF them
left tho table . little early. Poor
old Hicks says one. thinks he can
play Hamlet! Why. he isn't up to
naolodramA' That's So says the
other. II saw him DO . serious part
once and II was tho funniest thing Of
the season. Well, lmust get to the
theater. Good night, old man. The
one who Was left at the table gave
him good night, and as he watched
him receding- down the room he folded
his arms across his breast and solilo
quiaed: Poor old Tltx! Thinks hi