The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-09

Ulysses g. Grant
TIE devil you say. General. beg your
pardon I'm an awful fool about forget
ting faces. bur II you'll forgive me I'll
never forget yours again
Fred Meek. the business manager for
Mr. and Mrs. Russ whytaL. accused news
fheafsrs. Of discrimination. IN q little talk
with me few days ago. on things in
general and the theater IN particular.
You Use" said Mr. Meek. "the ssereo-
typed expression the dressing was con-
sistenf. or words 10 that effect, IN re-
ferrlng 10 the costumes of play Now.
] should ike 30 know II audiences are not
SUBJECT 20 criticism from the actors stand
poinTg l saw man come IN here tonight
who had on knickerbockers. golf stock
fngs. bicycle shoes. a white lawn tie and
derby hat. Can anything be more in
consistent than THAR II Was an insult 10
well-brsd. well-dressed audience. and
public exhibition Of bad manners and bad
taste in dress" Mr.. Meek then changed
the conversation
Those attachments" said he. ARE
painful things IL was only few years ago
that / was with a wouid-be extravaganza
in Canada. and we were attached in St
Thomas. Canada AS you surely know.
IL Is the practice OF many constables 10
hold the curtain down and keep you from
playing. making you glad 10 pay up rather
than refund the people their money and
queer both house and show. Well, at ST.
Thomas four husky guys rushed on the
stage when the curtain was due TO rise for
the second act and seized the weighted
bottom-lt was one OF those barrel cur
tains. The stage hands hove nightly. but
the sheriff's men wouldn't let go. By this
time the COMPOUNDED curtain had obtain
ed too great feeway TO be stopped and IL
went up about twelve feet, while the as
tonished public beheid four pairs of legs
kicking and dangling in the air. The four
consfables didn't dare TO let go: the cur
tain stuck right there and could neither be
raised nor lowered and the house, taking
in the situation, screamed like demons
mad with giee. For eight minutes things
remained in that position. Then the four
fellows UP in the air grew reasonable and
declared that they would let Us alone IL
we would cali it off. And We got step
ladder and took them down and the show
played on to more encores than it ever re-
ceiyed before or after"
Speaking OF audiences, ]. C. Pringle,
editor of the Port Townsend Gail. gives a
lambasting to the citizens Of the port Of
entry for the non-support of charity
benefit given by q number of clever Port
Townsend amateurs at the Townsend the
alter. The notice started out as follows:
"A HOT SHOW TOWN.
what Resulted From Grand BENEFIT
Performance.
Look on this and weep. We enthusiastic
theater-goers and charitably inclined peo-
pie Of Port Townsend:
Observation-Disclosures sales. $3.50: general
admissions. $3.50: total $40
'fExpenses-Hall rent, s21: printing.
$l0.5: sundry costumes, etc, $50: grease
paints. $50; expressage. S.; wigs, ISIS;
kilograms. so cents. and coal Oil, Is cents;
total. $50.s5.
NET loss, paid by members of the cast.
$s5."
After paying a compliment TO the partic-
ipants in the performance and generally
roasting the audience. the Cali winds up
It's notice by saying: ''It will be matter
of satisfaction for the people here to
know that no strangers were present. and
this circus simply went on among our
selves"
THE GALLERY GOD