The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29
HOW FAMOUS MEN LAUGH.
A Famed Comedian Writes About
Grover Cleveland.
Richard Croker's Hal Hattie Way
Mckinley Was Nearly Elected From
Theater for Loud Laughing.
(Copyright

IAlc abstract, Is very luUereSblQg IN con-
nection with character studies of famous
individuals, l hope it is not egotistical
to say that believe have had more op-
portunities of studying the different
ways in which famous men from Grover
Cleveland to Richard Croker laugh than
most people. The results of my observa-
tions, which give here, form, of course,
impressions produced upon performer
on the stage.
President Cleveland isn't a pretty
smller, but his laugh is all right. He
smiles like a Chinaman enjoying a big
streak Of luck at fan-tan; the outer cor
ners of his eyes so up and the inner cor
ners 90 down; both lids are sutfused with
sort of tiuttersOme glee, while prize
pumpkin-like glow fills his cheeks and
his lips bow up and are braced tight, as
II he was afraid he was going
to spill something. His smile
isn't far-reaching; ii is suspiciousr
but his laugh is hearty and honest, and if
1t was not that he has to treat it with
certain measure of dignity it might be-
come a mild sort of welkin-ringer. He
was in a box at the Standard theater,
New York, one night, enjoying perfor-
nance, and when in the play a bogus old
garden, the President threw his head
back and emitted a several horsepower
gunaw, such as he must have INDUCED in
unresergedly when he was the sheriff of
Buffalo. Unlike most fat men Cleveland
doesn't yell when he laughs. His cacchi-
nation is all of the thoracic quality and
there is no twinkling of his waist-band
while the spasm of uncontrolled merri-
ment has hold of him.
80, n a.
measured at a recent performance, is
another loud Laughter when he wants to
be. The cartoons which have been
printed depicting him in a high white
hat with wainscoting of Grape around
1t give the impression that he is funereal
and as undesirable as a tombstone, but
mirth always has a warm welcome. and
his ha ha is as healthy and get-there-
alive as any in the land. Still there are
some anti-snappers who say that Hill
can smile and smile and be a william
still"
Ex-President Harrison isn't much of a
Laughter. He doesn't thaw to any wild
extent under the rays of fun. He acts
as if the laugh was going to cost some
thing and he approaches it very eau
tiously, throwing out smile for feeler
and then venturing into B fat intona-
tion of his JOY that is good distance this
side of being boisterous. Harrison s
laugh, whenever it does soar into sound q,
seems to ooze out of a kazoo. There is too
much frappeeness in it to be infectious
Gov. Flower of New York has
well-fed laugh. 1t is robust and resonant,
and yet there is something decidedly
cherubic about it. When you see the
governors face all lit up with glowing
good nature between his Jolly side whisk-
ers, you cannot help think of those curly
heads with wings that COreggio and those
other chaps used to paint.
Senator PETER laughs tight down into
his whiskers. So much has been written
about the corruscating Kansans wind
gatherers that this statement may be
looked upon as a further attempt at
cOmicality in this direction, but it is a
positive and Pefferian fact. When the
senator finds anything to laugh at he
bows his head low, inclines it to the right,
and let's gentle, gqrgling
laugh percolate through and per
meate his beautiful and abundant wbis-
kers. 1t is not a cyclonic laugh and the
luxuriant ''lilocks" are startled by it.
Silver Dollar Bland has a bgosh tn
mighty laugh, but its backwoodiness has
had the corners taken off in Washington,
and when the first surprise that it ex-
presses at the joke that has provoked it
passes away, it SINNERS down to an ana
pestic, diplomatic acquiescence in the fun,
and lets the rest of the crowd keep up the
dithyrambic end of the merriment.
Henry Irving holds his sides when he
laughs and tries to make 1t appear that
he is enjoying himself, but he laughs
through his nose and there is too much
catarrh and brogue in his cacchination.
Ellen Terry has deep and dismal Lady
Macbeth laugh. One would think a
woman like her had Wholesome, silvery
laugh. but she hasn't. Neither has Ada
Rehan, who couldn't sing the tenor end
of laughing song if she got $40 note
for doing it,
, While stage women are on the point of
the pen, it may as well be said that Viola
Allen, of the Empire Theater Stock Com
pany has as cute and catching laugh as
anybody ever heard, and she can give it
with many variations while Maud Ad-
ans, of John Drew's 1.-The Butterflies"
Company, is unapproachable in staccato-
ing laugh and letting it out of her sys-
tenn in the sweetest and most irresistible
of timid and tiny shrieks.
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, the vice ex-
plOrer and all-round reformer, is good
fellow and fairly brims over with jovial-
ity There is nothing shad-bellied or
Stigginsy about him. He is as far re-
moved from the sanctified asceticism of
Cardinal Gibbons as the moon is from the
pole star DR.. Parkhurst will slap you
on the back when he asks after your
health, and if you tell him a funny story
he will laugh at it with all the entlusi-
assn of a school boy. His eyes glisten
when he tells of the queer things he saw
when ne went dive discovering.
Rev 7. Dewitt Talmage has a theat-
rical laugh 1t is in three acts and at
points it is spectacular. 1t begins with
he! he hel developes into climatic ha I!
ha ha! and denouements with no no
no! in the last gust of which there is a
facial transformation scene with some re-
sponsive red fire from his tonsilatic re-
gions.
Commodore Gerry looks his laughing
best when be has his fur cap on and the
earlaps are tied under his chin. He is
not the ogre he is painted. He has quite
a sunshiny nature and really loves chill
dren, although he seems to be cruel to
them sometimes. Little Zelda Saunders,
the wee actress, got up an anti-Gerry So
ciety and actually wheat him before
the New York legislature, but when he
was in Paris last summer he paid $50 for
a talking doll and sent it to her He
chuckled consic 3rably over the way in
which he got even with the child. His
chuckle is the best he can do in the
laughing line.
Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio, is freetrader
when it comes to fun and laughter. He
leans back in his chair and roars when
ANYTHING tickles his fancy. The manager
of New York theater one night heard
peal after peal Of merriment roll over the