Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-14


be no longer in a budding condition. 1t
would have to be regarded as full blown.
Unhappily not one 1.-THE Of vt is correct,
more s the pity. Still the American dram
atist has nothing to complain Of Those
Of national reputation arc up to their cars
in work. and most of them, besides exact
ing large cash payments in advance, are
also in position to demand very liberal
royalties after tho production of their
plays. Those whose compositions promise
10 be most in evidence during the coming
season are Bronson Howard David Belas-
co, Henry Guy Carleton, Franklin Fyle,
Paul N. Potter, Augustus Thomas and G.
7. Darcy. OF course Henry Arthur Jones,
a Londoner, will have almost as much on
view as all of the Americans named put
together. With Sardou, Pinero, Grundy,
Chambers and Law still to be heard from,
the foreigners will still have decidedly the
better Of the argument.
/ heard a very good story the other day
about Hermann, the magician. He was
in need of an advance man who was also
required to be o first class press representa-
tive. The first applicant appeared to fill
the bill to a L. He stated that he did not
''go in much for fancy stuff" but that he
could write matter that the newspaper
men would simply tumble over one anoth-
CIR to get hold Of Hermann was delight
cd and engaged the fellow at once, telling
him to get right to work. = As the young
man was leaving the room it occurred to
the prestidigitatcur that as a precaution it
might be well for him to glance at his
copy before the newspaper men were per
mittcd to begin their expected ''tumbling
over each other" match. The man of
original ideas said that he would return
that evening at 7:30 to show the professor
what he had done. Then he left. Prompt
~ at the appointed hour Hermann was
pleased to see him enter the stage door Of
the theater. AS he drew near however,
his pleasure was slightly marred by the
discovery that his great literary find"
was accompanied by what Steve Brodie
would designate as Sudden able bod
led jag " Dismay followed when the
magician read an exceedingly well written
and circumstantial account of how he had
numerically beaten his wife that morn
ing. The press agent was surprised at the
Indignation aroused by his story, and when
told that he wouldn't do went away NUT
tcring something about Jays in the per
fcsh' who haven't the brains to appreciate
a really able and original man." Since
then Hermann has struggled along with
out press agent.
During the summer run Of Tho Mika-
do>' at the Fifth Avenue theater, New
York, which came to an end recently, Yum
Yum was played by young woman who
was down on the bills as D. Eloisc Morgan
No one paid any particular attention to
her beyond remarking that it was strange
shat such an excellent actress and compe-
tent singer had been kept in the back
ground mp to that time. A little later 1T
was learned that Miss d. Eloiso Morgan
was mono other than Ollie Archmere,. q
farce comedy player who had made some
little reputation in the companies of Hoyt
and Thomas, John Russell and Evans
and Hoey. Notwithstanding this discov-
cry, Miss Archmcre, or Miss Morgan, had
succeeded In making pronounced hit in
Tho Mikado,'' and she was promptly
snapped up by the Bostonians, ono of
whose prima donnas she will be during
the present season. Miss ID. Eloise Nor
gan is a San Francisco girl, who, unable
to crafty her operate aspirations at the
outset of her professional career conclud-
ed to do the best thing possible. So she
began with musical comedies and soon be-
canlc SO web known in that line that she
despaircd Of ever reaching the goal of her
ambition. Then she dropped out of sight,
and it was announced that she was in
Europe in charge of one of the worlds
most famous voice culturists The next
seen Of her was when she emerged from
the Archmere farce comedy chrysalis as
the d. Eloiso Morgan opera butterfly. The
rest of the story is known and serves to
show what woman can accomplish if
she only be possessed of an unlimited sup
ply of pluck and sticktoitiveness, allied, OF
course, to some original ability.
OCTAvUs COHEN