Evening journal., 1895-05-23
MARK TvgAla OH TMlaS.
He Sees "Puddnhcad wilson
Put on the Stage.
AND MAKES A SPEECH FROM A BOX.

he hau tors OF Trouble With Luigi and
Angelo When lie Put Them In a nooi
lie Is Going on Lecture "Trip Around
tho world.
New YORK, May e3-The two left pro
soenium boxes at the Herald square thea.
ter wore occupied last night by Mark
| Twain and party Of friends Among
/ them were Mr.. and Mrs II l. Bridgoman,
! AIR and Mrs. y g. Stedman. Rev Lyman
| Abbott Mr. and Mrs G. c. Bun Mr and
Mrs. 81. Clair MeKolway and Mr.. and
Mrs. Murat Halstead
Mark Twain was TO witness tho play Of
Puddnhead Wilson as dramatizud from
| his novel by Frank Mayo. The author was
/ prominent III tho box neaicst tho stage,
whence he was himself to oontr1u in
l person to tho ontertainmunt OF the audi
enco before tho close Of tho play. The
| house wGs crowded, and the stage people
evidently felt the inspiration 81 an atten-
tive audience supplemented By tho pres.
! once OF tho renowned author.
Whom ths curtain went down on the
| third act, the applause Of the play grew IN
70 clamorous call FOR a speech from Mark
Twain Rising in tho dusk OF the still
/ darkoned auditorium. Mr. Twain was al.
ready speaking before the lights were
turned on Greeted with hearty applause,
| he proceeded In his characteristic fashion.
He said;
His Trouble with the Twins.
II am Fratihed to see that Mr.. Mayo
has been able to manage those difficult
twins. I tried. but in my hands they
failed. Whom I WAS here the year before
last, there was an Italian freak on exhibit
| ton in Philadelphia who was an exagger.
alton Of the Siamese twins. This froak
had one body, ono pair OF legs two heads
and four arms. ! thought he would DO
useful IN a book, so l put him in And
| then the trouble hogan called these con.
solidated twins Angelo aud Luigi, and
tried TO make them nice and agreeable,
but 1t was not possible.
They would not do anything my way,
but only their own way They were who'll
| ly Interchangeable and not day went by
that they didn't develop some new kind
Of devilishness-partonlarly Luigi. An
| cello was Of a religious turn OF mind and
was monotonously honest and honorable
and upright and tedlously proper whore
as Luigi had no principles no morals, no
religions perfect blathe@kite and an in
extricable tangle theoretically - infldel,
atheist and agnostio all mixed together
Io was of a malicious disposition and
liked to eat things which disagreed with
| bis brother. They were so strangely or
gained that what one of them ate OF
drank had no effect upon himself, but
| only nourished or damaged the other one
| Luigi was hearty and robust because An-
| gelo ate the best and most wholesome food
| he could find for him, but Angelo was
| himself delicate and sickly because every
| day Luigi filed himself up with mince ne
and salt junk just because lie knew he
couldn't digest them. Luigi was very dis.
/ sipated but it didn't show on him. but
only on his brother His brother was a
strict and conscientious toetotalor but no
was drunk most Of the time on account Of
1 Luigi's habits.
About Angelo and Luigi.
Angelo was president Of the Prohibit
1 ton society, but they had to turn him out
because every time he appeared at the
head Of the procession on parade be was
q scandalous spectacle to look at On tho
/ other hand Angelo was a trouble Go Lui-
81, the inhdel, because he was always
changing his religion trying to find the
best one and he always preferred scots
that believed in baptism by immersion.
and this was e constant peril and discom-
fort to Luigi, who couldn't stand water
1 got baptized Luigi got drowned and had
to be pumped out ana rosuscitatod.
Luigi grew steadily moro and morei
wicked, and I saw by and by that the wayi
1 he was going on he was bound TO land INF
! the eternal tropics and ] was glad Of Il. \
but knew be would necessarily take his
righteous brother with him, and that
would not be fair. / did not object to 1t.
but didn' want to DO responsible for it.
/ was in such a hubble that thra was
only one way ont TO save the righteous
brother I had to pull the consolidated
twins apart and make two separate and
distinct twins OF them
We'll, as soon as ] did that they lost all
their energy and took no further interest
in life They were wholly futile and use
less in the book. They became mere shad-
ows, and so they remain. Mr. Mayo man
ages them, but If he had taken d chance
at them before pulled them npart aud
famed them he would have found out
! early that IL be put them in his play they
would take full possession, and there
wouldn't be any room in It for Pudd n
head Wilson or anybody else
Il have taken four days 60 prepare these
statistics, and as far as they go you can
depend upon their being strictly true /
have not told all the truth about the
twins but just barely enough Of it for
business purposes, for my motto Island
Pudd nhoad Wilson can adopt il II he
wants tony motto is; Truth is the most
valuable thing VIC have. Let US eoono-
mize It, "
Colonel Robert G. 1ngersoll, with his
family in a box directly above the Twain
party, was an amused listener.
The dramatist was noxt called, and APP
pearing before the curtain Mr.. Mayo
briefly thanked his hearers for the courtesy
Of their demand TO hear him, and then
took occasion to commend tho manage
ment Of tho Herald Square theator for the
! ample setting and furnishings Of the play.
Mark Twain on Aug. Is will sail from
Vancouver on a tour around the world
He will 90 directly TO Australia, whore no
l Will auliunr n aorina Of lnnt.,rn-