Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-30
|ppENED IN FRONT.
TEL OF FUNNY EXPERT
 FLno .oes THEY HAVE HAD.

x AudieDSe x,., ro~o.t <, Irwin and "Ths Widow dow. 'ens', .s1,,,
 +sd 5, Burr Mcintosh to Soak A'Hl
 .. are affected almost as deeply
 sanines in the audience as IS the sps saes by happenings on the stage
 sp, stimes they are moved to wrath but E& # s'l. a1Donently to l-aghter. Occasion |''r they sse frightened out oi 'nei' lnes aot in an aisle seat, three rows nl.a upa front, at a performance of "Ei
 n .sa,, sr tbe other night. He was fat pl'el d ba gave a sneeze suddenly-s y iss an snaaze. It was followed by an
 lat that shook the plumes on the big ' / tha women around and made the .0 = ticker The audience suspended
 l's .;sn and looked at the sneezer, and ss' alsyers paused just as he snorted
 p +hird sneeze that ended in high .rob as seldom had been heard in ss ~ narts, though the Metropolitan 0ss s. House is near by. El Capitan s.shed s out his long arms toward the v rolled his big eyes heavenward I 'd said in a sepulchral voice:
 eHeaven bless you, sir. .
 qbis brought the audience back to the A ..;t,, 2 roar. and in second the ase sso,nance was running on at high sassnre while the fat man chuekled ss les'4 tbe fact that for brief space he ,sI sa been the star of the evening. A few s;nntes % later Sun reporter asked MT. Hooper how he was affected by the ranv rr things that happen in the auds. nce After getting @ grip on El Capi- anls nose and throwing down cup of ,ot coffee, as he does between acts. he 4answered:
 uAmerican audiences are not demon- .tratiye. and as rule things don't bsp- {ren in front. Of course the man who #sneezed ts=s;riza conldn't help it, but he made sucb a blasting success of 1t that \ affected the whole house and there Store tbe players. If an actor is playing 2 ! part where he can say something, il zjs fine best thing to do, for it makes them all laueh and keeps them from noticing Ea pause. \ Nav Irwin is an actress with whom zeyen metropolitan audiences take 1iber. 4es People have q habit of calling td End from the audience when they want &Bne to sing special song or to recite Something, she said the other evening. E One night man in the body of the kbouse called out to me to reeite sHia- Ewatha. He took me off my feet for #nnute I couldn t remember a line of It. h1t I called back: [ will if you'll gi7e ne my cue. I've forgotten how ii starts. He gave me the first line, and } Ehouted it for him.
 When I was playing the Widow Zones ono night, during the kissing cne between Rice and myself q mau kAouted, I'd like to be ill your place, M. Rice. would Rice and l were 4th conyulsed, and the audience roared. Ehen the piece is funny, it often adds b the humorous situation for some one in front to do something unusual.
 sIneyer shall forget an experience l E bad while playing the Widow in Gin Pnnati, though of course it isn t art for n actor to see anything that goes on in Font or to recognize anybody in the au- aenee, and never dol don't think. pne night, as l was saying, in the city
 clnders and beer, 1 noticed the queer.
 looking old woman down in front. Ene looked like farmers wife, and she fpt peering up at me over her glasses. pe didn't laugh once, and ill all my
 e never saw human being take ny so seriously. She was with another
 oaian who was equally serious. Final
 me old woman jumped up and, peer.
 g at me over her glasses and shaking
 hnger in my face, said, with a rasp-
 s western twang
 a Well, you don't look one bit like was fustered, but I managed Sc a Like whomY
 Like the Widow Jones, she an
 Fered. 'V ~
 Well, am, said I.
 loon t believe a word you're say sad She, for know'd the Widow E ass and her husban' nigh on to 20 1s ago l stood up with 'em when was hltched, and you don t look like
 .. ene went off from these parts, and
 ',u she was a widow and that Jones
 s'su' and then I heerd she was at
 me,ater, and cum to see. You ain't
 H aaaoW Jones, and I just want to say qA 4''us more-I don't see how you oa 'sAo Other peoples names and re al'n that she flounced out but the Il na usy when appeared at a rehearsal x VI nand to give me another " explained to her how it was dll e 9n Tsser i seen play before and had
 Row " 1 mics to see her old friend, the
 tb;s yonps There was time whel,
 mt m1ss I, frightened the life out of
 @ s@oa ve learped to turn them te \ staaa sps ehere IS not another man On Il dv.: Hu ~ phlegmatic as Burr McIn 1g ng pa unusual occurrences in ue laws hi, o1 ,,