New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-23

THE SORE TROUBLES THAT HE HAD
WITH THEM.
He rxrLA1xs TIE plFrlcrLTIEs TO TIE AUDI


ENcE AT THE uEHALD SQUARE THEATRE.
There was an unoommoAly .arge audience al
Frank Mayo's performance Of "Pudd' nhcad Wiz
son at the Herald square Theatre last night. IL
was drawn there by the announcement that Mark
Twain the author of the book from which the play
: taken. would be present and would probably
make speech. lie occupied the stage DoX on tHe
left O, the audience. Among others who were
rreson, were Mr. and Mrs. VI. l.. Brigman, Mr.
ard Mrs Murat Halstead. Mr.. and Mrs. 81. clair
Nckc'vav Colon.l and Mrs z. q. lngersoll Mr..
a,d Mrs + C. Stedman. Robert Bridges. Major
and Mrs j. r.. Pond. Richard Watson Glider and
= Hopknson Smith After the third act there
were repeated calls from the audience for Marx
Twain ana he in the box and spoke as fol-
lows:
am sure could say many complimentary things
about this play which Mr. Mayo has written and
Keen vel within the bounds both OF fact and of good
,asie; but | viii limit myself to two or three / ao
maj when Mayo's Pudd nhead walks this stage mere
clothed the charm Of his gentle charities OF speech
OF his gracious nature, the thought IN my h'Inu Is.
why bless your heart you eoudnt De any uTarer
Into that man whom al men love ana even satan -
I am grStned to see that Mr.. Mayo has been able
to manage those diincult twins. tried put IN my
last there was an Itahan freak on exhibition in
Philadelphia who an exaggeration OF the sam,
ese twins. This freak had one body. one pair OF
legs two heads and four arms. l thought he would
be usefu' in . book. put him in. And then the
Angelo ana Luigi. ana l tried to make them nice mic,
and agreeable. but 1t was not possible Iney wT ha
we're wholly unmanageable. and not day went
ishness-partcularly Luigi. Angelo was OF re-
iigous t,i of mind and was monotonously honest
Whereas Luigi hai no principles. no morals re-
ligon-a perfect blatherskite and an lneN'rlcdnie
ali mixed together. He was Of a malicious diSposI-
ton ard liked 10 eat things which disagreed with
They were so strangely organized that what one
but only nourished or damaged the other one. Luigi
was hearty and robust, because Ange.o ate he pest
and most wholesome food he could ma f9 9 MN,
but Angelo himself delicate and sickiy because
every day Luigi filled him up with mince PIES ana
salt junk. just because he knew he couldn't digesl
them Luigi was very dissipaed. but 1t i:dnt SHOW
on him but only MS er1sne bnt her MAS
drunk most Of the time on account OF Lu;sis nan
Getty but they had to turn him out. because every
time he appeared al the head OF the procession or
On the other hand. Angelo was trouble to Luigi
the ntidel. because ne was always changing ms re-
preferred sects that believed in baptism by INNER
sion and THIS was constant PERI an" nu Sac or n
and every time Angelo got baptzee Lung bo'
ei Luigi was irascible. yet was never wiling 10
stand by the consequences OF ms aSts, ne Wa s
angelo And when the kicked person kicked back,
Luigi would say: What are you kicking me for,
ro @1ie be sS SEns amy say ws ddn mean any
harm | thought !, was you; bur, You see, you poo
Die have only one body between you ana can't
20 discriminate. do not wish 20 be unfair hilt
40 there is no way Tor mo 90 10 but TO KICK one OF
Won ana apologize o. The other"
They we're troublesome pair IN every way
II they dld any work Tor you thty chAlk'u 10,
Two but AT the boarding house they ate ana slept
.or two and only paid FOR one. In ne trains ,hty
wouldn't pay Tor Two. because they only occupied
one scat Tho same the theatre. lug housnt
one ticket and dcadhcadod Angelo IN Ihcy couiun
put Angelo out. because they couldn't Iui lh'
deadhoad out without putting OUT me t",n 'ha'
had paid and scoOplng In a suit Tor damages
I.u.gl grew steadily more ana more wicked ana
I saw hy.and-by that the way ne was going on
ne was bound 10 land H. the eternal tropics ana si
he bottom was glad o. 1t; nut Knew ne Wpu,u
necessarily take his righteous brother down there
with him. and that would not be air did not
object TO Il. but | didn't want TO be responsible
for IT, | was in such a hobble that there was Only
one way out To save the righteous brother |
had to pull the consolidated twins apart ana make
as soon as did that they lost all their energy
and took further interest In life. They were
wholly futile and useless IN the book they became
mere shadows and so they remain. Mr.. Mayo
manages them. but II he had taken chance at
them before pulled them apart and tanned them.
he would have found out early hat II ne put them
ia his play they would take full possession ana
there wouldn't be any room Tor Pudd mead Wiz
anybody else. .
/ have taken four days to prepare these stats
their being strictly true. have not tod al the
truth about the twins, but just barely enough
OF IL for business purposes. for my motto sand
Pudd' nhead Wilson can adopt il If he wants to
we have; let us economic it,
After this there calls for Mr. Mayo ana he
spoke briefly in response.