The evening times., 1897-01-19

| apt anu cdIclly UltleS. Ine numerous prizes
recently offered by managers for good
titles to new plays is an evidence of the
value set upon them, and is not, as formerly,
a means resorted to in order to secure a
modicun of free advertising
After the performance last night balf a
dozen gentlemen, including Otis Skinner,
were supping at a prominent club. The
guest told good story OF a bad case of
fright which once attacked him.
81 was playing MacDuff to Mr.. Booths
Macbeth said Mr.. skinner. "At the line,
| Lay on MacDuff, and damned be he who
first cries hold, enough l rushed at him
with uplifted sword and brought down
crushing blow square in the center Of his
head. Mr.. Booth was magnificent swords
man, but age had told and his guard was
not strong. In my impetuosity / had for
| gotten, and the blow crushed through the
guard. Had il not been for the heavy iron
crown which Mr.. Booth wore the conse-
| quences would have been serious. AS it
was, when Mr. Booth took off his wig, there
" as a biE Jump Oh ms iiSoU ioiSNd Wy VIZ
blow. i was thoroughly frightened
Mr.. Skinner now owns both the swords.
All the Washington fans know Fred.
Pfeffer, and all the theater goers know
Anna Boyd. 1t will interest both contin-
gents 10 know that the burlesquer and the
basebaler are to be married. Fred. has
been a faithful son to his mother these
many years. She has always accompanied
him on his trips and shared his earnings.
AT Washington box office:
Matinee Girl-what are the prices OF
your seats?
Treasurer-Sl. so. 81 and soc.
Matinee Girl-whcre are the seventy-five-
cent seats?
That is why so many OF the young men
in theater box offices are prematurely gray.
In the glad moment when pugiist Jim
Corbett announces that he is To retire from
the stage and make a sad spectacle Of a
gentlemanna named Robert FitzsimmOns there
is heard oIt OF the mouth of Boston the dis
tressing news, truthful. alas! that John
Lawrence Sullivan is not going TO remain
dormant under the shadow OF the histrionic
bay leaves which hang in overShado wing
foliage over his head, but will once more
strut the stage and affect a renaissance
of the palmy days. A dramatic boat in four
rounds, with a knockout in the last, is be-
ing JuEgled together for the citizen OF Dill
litanteville, and it will be called The Man
from Boston"
Charles H. Hoyt is held in very higil es-
teen by his New Hampshire ncighhors
Few of them have ever seen his plays,
though they have read all about them, and
are so favorably impressed with the drama
fists work that they continue TO send him
to the legislature year after year, though
he is a Democrat and they are mostly Re
publicans The following is a unique DC
scription of him and his affairs, made by
fellow-to wnsman:
Charley Hoyt's a-gettin' quite a bunch
of live stock, SO he be. l read in the Bos-
ton papers bout Hoyt's Texas Steer
That critter must be bout six years Old
now. Then later see somethin' in the pa
pers bout Hoyt's Black Sheep and now
/ been reaLin' that he's got A Runaway
Colt What on earth man wants with
"A Texas Steer A Black Sheep and A |
Runaway Colt l swow if / kin make out; |
but they do say he makes money out Of EN- |
w.
couldn't give "A Texas Steer away. No |
one would give a Black Sheep paSter |
room, and if twas found out colt was "A |
Runaway v couldent sellit for morn what |
its hide and hoofs ud bring in Boston But |
Charley Hoyt's shifty little man. He |
Baby and A Tin Soldier and a Mix |
White Flag, and he took A Trip to China
town. and made lot o. money on the trip. |
Why, Bill Jones, when he cum back from |
Californy, told me ye' stan better chance |
to make banana farm pay ON top OF the |
of them pesky. Chinese. l VOW ef 1t don't |
beat my time how Hoyt does it, but it S not
any more wonderful than how he gifts enuff |
Democrat votes to elect him to the New
Hampshire legislature in a strong Repub-
lican district. The only real, downright
sensible thing have heard of him having |
is A Contented Woman. Now. there some
thing practical in that, an if he can sup
ply the demand for that article he's liable
to get richer a Vanderbilt
The news from New York about Nine. /
Melba is some what alarming. II appears
that surgical operation has been
performed upon her throat, and
some ave declared that she
will not be able to sing again
this season. 1t was announced, indeed, that
a stateroom on one of the transatlantic |
steamers about 10 sail had already been
booked for her. Her illness is explained in
this way: Firstshe was greatly disappointed
at her failure in 'Siegfned." This caused