Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-07-08
0pFyED IN FRONT.
-ri1 OF FUNNY ExPEHi-
 |s's oes THEY HAVE HAD.

.rs affected almost as deeply
 s,inss in the audience as is the sls ty appenings on the stage 'sss they are moved to wrath, but sssuently to laughter. Occasion bey are frightened out of thei'
 ;. sat in an aisle seat, three rows \, ssa front, at a performance of "El sn inc other night. He was & fat .a be gave a sneeze suddenly--a soeeze. It was followed by an ...t shook the plu1nes on the big tba women around and made the soker. The audience suspended |4ap and looked at the sneezer, and [',vers paused just as he snorted ,L;,d sneeze that ended i'll q high .eh as seldom had been heard ip oarts, though the Metropolitan House is near by. Fl Capitap Isd out his long arms toward tho Tailed his big eyes heavenward id in sepulchral voice:
 snen bless you, sir .
 brought the audience back to the .qith q roar. and in q second the |mance was running on at high Irs while the fat man cfuckled ibe fact that for a brief space he the star of the evening. A few Igs later q Sun reporter asked MT.
 how he was affected by the Things that happen in the auds. l After getting 8 grip on El Gapi- lse aid throwing down ss cup oti otit |8ee, as he does between acts. he Epd:
 berican audiences are not deIpon-
 aud as q rule things don't bzp- Ihont. Of course the man who ] tonight couldn't help it, but he 3nch q blasting success of it that ed the whole house and there 3 players. If an actor is playing 3Ehere he can say something, it est thing to do. for 1t makes them sh and keeps them from noticing 3Irwin is an actress with whom Ietropolitan audiences take fiber. 3People have t habit Of calling to E the audience when they want 1mg a special song or to recite 3ng, she said the other evening. Light q man ill the body of tha 8alled out to me to recite 'Hia. ] He took me off my feet for 2 3 couldn't remember a line of Healed back: I will if you'll
 my cue. I've forgotten how if T He gave me the first line, and ] 3 1t for him.
 3An I was playing the Widow lone night, during tho kissing etween Rice and myself a man I'd like to be iii your place, e. l would. Rice and l were 5avulsed, and the audience reared. 3he piece is funny, 1t often adds humorous situation for some one
 to do something unusual.
 yer shall forget an experience l He playing the Widow i'll Cin-
 though of course it isn t art for
 to see anything that goes on in
 to recognize anybody in the au- and 1 never dol don't think. ht, as was saying, ill the city s and beer, I noticed the queer. ng old woman down in front sed like a farmer s wife, and she Arlng up at me over her glasses. ht laugh once, and in all my Hyer saw a human being take a Seriously. She was with another who was equally serious. Final 'd woman jumped up and. peer. ae over her glasses and shaking Fr in my face, said, with q rasp- Eern twang:
 Il you don't look one hit like s fustered, but I managed to whom?'
 Et tho Widow Jones' she an
 ], l am, said I.
 a't believe word you 're say
 She, for 1 know q the Widow ad her husban' nigh on to 20
 l stood up with 'em when
 Mtched, and you don t look like
 went off from these parts, and sLe was a widow and that Jones
 and then 1 heerd she was at aler, and cum to see. You ain t
 IVY Jones, and just want to say
 more-I don't see how you EXC other peoples names and
 that she hounced out, but the
 when 1 appeared at a rehearsal 0h hand to give me another
 explained to her how it was. yer seen play before and had
 miles to see her old friend, the sones. There was il time whei ass Frightened the life out of I've leareed to turn them te punt. ,
 N there is not another man on
 so phlegmatic as Burr McIn- ang unusual occurrences ill ae lays his eoolness all to the
 ae got on tho football field