The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-26
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''Mr. Legree was coarse man who
laid his pie at the Thormburgh House in
the palm of his hand ut table and fed
it in among his whiskers as one would
feed IN ichthyosnurus. Oh, how low he
wasl He breathed hard while he ate,
and what custard he could not eat he
carried away i'll his beard.
II have often thought that the Door
performance given by this company had
much to do with the small house which
Mr.. Booth had the following autumn.
Finally the evening came for the show.
I had scared and SCARED my soul by
giving the company the moral support
of the paper, and so at last the time
came and quite good audience. Peo-
pie had faith i'll me, for they knew I
would fine them severely if they did not
trust me. So they came even from rs far
away as Red Buttes, Tic Siding, Owl
Creek and Independence Mountain.
'Mr. Marks was evidently suffering
from alcoholism, and his bald head was
made for the following morning; there
fore it did not fit him at night. al
ways hate the stage bald head anyhow.
Possibly it is envy OH my part, but the
average bald head of tho one night
stand won't do. 1t is little worse than
the stage whiskcr. The thrifty whiskor
not only grows OH the chin, but fades
away along the throat and clings low
ingly to Adams apple, but the stage
whisker does not do that 1t leaves the
under jaw exposed to the night air, and
tho bleak windpipc looks like poor
boy ut frolic. n stage beard looming
up over the bare waste of windpipe and
the tremulous Adams apple of young
canvas covered Hamlet fatigues me u
great deal and drives me into the omen
air.
"1t is so with the stage badness, which
is apt to wrinkle across the front
breadths or drift around to lcoward. L
do not know what part of tho cow is
used in making the foundation of the
stage bald head, but judge that it is
tho first stomach.
In this instance Mr.. Marks was
quite full, partly, suppose, to benumb
the pain which he must have naturally
felt at being compelled to witness his
own acting night after night. So his
stage bald head got over one eye and
gave him the appearance of man who
has taken brief siesta under n pile
driver. 1t gave him the low, retreating
forehead of the muskellunge, and as he
stood there i'll the full glare of the foot
lights, miserable ham envelopcd III
tripe, l said to him soto voce, You
ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Scarcely had the words escaped my
lips when frozen cucumber disnrranged
his front teeth, which were artificial
Removing them in maudlin way, he
wiped off the cucumber seeds with his
pocket handkerchief and resumed them;
also his lines. He had tho GOODNESS and
poise of trapped clam and the Jag of
petit juryman.
Little Eva, who was supposed to
have just entered upon lifes young
morn, really had with her long waist
ed son with whiskers, who took care of
the bloodhounds daytimes and OH the
stage took other light parts. He got his
board and associated mostly with tho
bloodhounds, rather holding himself
aloof from the rest of the company.
He was tall. meaty boy, who wore
his mothers name, rs his father had
forgotten to register before he went
away
Little Eva, therefore, had to make
up IL good deal, ana i.er voice needed
pairing down. She was a slight thing
and wore her hair down her back, but
her 'deathbed had been so Id drafty
mt Denver, SO she said, that it had
stiffcncd her knees SOS that she was
dead sore on the town.
SHE told me this tho next day in
order to excuse her rather stiff death
the evening ijcforc. Little Eva unfor-
tunatcly had to die rather late in the
play and did not receive the indorsc-
mcnt which she might have received
had she done it sooner BY the time
that her second lung was gone, and
Uncle Tom had almost ripcned for the
tomb also, the people of Laramie had
about decided that if Little Eva could
only die of some contagious disease
which would also wipe out the entire
company it would be good thing for
the people of the coast.
"Sociablc Titus, one of our leading
draymcn, house movers and first night
ers, i'll going out between the acts had
acquired other groceries aside from car.