The San Francisco call., 1896-11-15
see a well-fought struggle, and resents
being baked of it's gore
MARIE EVELYN.
Green-Room Gossip.

Mccarthy is name 10 coniure with at
the Orpheum. The man who proudly
wears that appellation is a stagehand,
who is beloved by the habitues of the
theater on account of the accomplished
way in which he does a modest turn
Wnen any OF the teams stand in need of a
tall man to be knocked off a table. have
MS hat kicked off, or otherwise make him
sell invaluable from vaudeville stand
point.
But Mccarthy has aspirations. He
often thinks he could ip prove on the acts.
lie does not say so. at least he never did
say SO TIL the other day, when Mccarthy
was heard TO murmur that if Jasper were
MS, ne would each that intelligent ami
maj 10 perform In way that would SIM
plv paralyze the audience
No one paid heed to McCarthv's aspi,-
ing remark at the time, for no one guessed
what the vaulting ambition which was fer
menting in his brain would lead to.
Inc other morning, when the stage was
deserted, Mccarthy led out the gentle
Jasper-who, by the way is a trick dom
key-and began to urge him to go through
the accomplishments he performs with
his masters, Jenkins and CLAYTON. One
OF Jasper's chief feats is pretending to
bite and chasing his would be rider across
the stage. Mccarthy soon found to his
sorrow that Jasper possessed even more
Tor. The donkey saw at a glance that the
stagehand was not one of his owners and
chased him across the stage and bit him
in dead earnest. Then ensued terrible
scrimmage. Jasper tried to annihiiate
Mccarthy and Mccarthy lodged him
around scenery scenery and property-tabIes and
chairs When Jasper could not get
around the scenery fast enough he broke
through 1t as easily as circus-rider bursts
through paper-covered hoop, and the
way in which he cleared tables and chairs
would have done credit to a steeplechase
McCarthy's cries finally brought assist
ance to the scene in time to save him from
heIng strewn about the stage in fragments
but ne presented torn, bitten and alto
gether pitiable appearance. The stage
looked as If it had passed through the ST.
Louis cyclone, and the only thing in sight
that had not suffered from tue fray was
the triumphant Jasper. He was led away
looking as good as new.
Della Fox has discovered since she be-
gan her stellar career what vast number
OF persons there are who have zone of the
best things on earth" which would be
helped most materially by her written in
dorsement. She has received enough
samples of face powder to keep her chorus
in makeup for year, and the supply of
fancy soaps has been of a wholesale de-
scrlptlon. bottieS OF new perfumery have
become drug, and all these things are
forwarded with request that the lady
will kindly sample them and return a
written Endorsement to the sender. Comic
opera hbrettos from unknown authors
and usually with insufficient postage on
them, arrive. To those must be added
large patches of songs-comic. pathetic
and sentimental-exactiy suited to Miss
Fox's voice. and all guaranteed (by the
composer) to make hit. Hats chiistened
for her as rule annoy Miss Fox more
than any other of the multifarious arti-
cles to which people have attached her
name, for the reason that she has never
yet seen one of them in which she dia not
look like fright