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The San Francisco call., 1898-02-27
HOW TO SUCCEED AS AN ACTOR
Advice of William H. Crane, the Comedian, to
 Those Who Contemplate Going

such a prospect? How many weeks are they willing to work at nothing week-with no part? How many years are they willing to study, on a small salary, with only expectations?
 Why, short time ago a young man in my company objected to understudy- ing three or four parts. 1 reasoned with him, and at last 1 got mad, think ing of my own experience, and l said to him:
 My young friend, the last week was with the Hooley Comedy Company I played nine parts in four nights" |" That settled 1t.
 When l made up my mind to give up comic opera and to devote my life to comedy, l realized that was giving up a good deal of cash in hand for the sake of possible recompense. 1 was looking ahead to a prospect. of excel lence and deliberately throwing over an offer to have my name printed in big letters as first comedian of the Alice Oates Company with parts that would divide. honors fairly with her. What is more, I was giving up $125 week for salary of just s65 per week, but little more than half as much.
 A good many young men would take that extra s60 and immediate popular favor. But I think it paid me not to do 1t. I was ambitious; and I am more ambitious now, to-day, than I was then. And after I was married my wife was more ambitious for me than was for myself.
 Ambition? I should say so. I fear deterioration in my own work, in my company, in my productions, as much now as ever in my life. Why? Be- cause I am proud of what I have achieved by work, sheer honest work, work that has never Jagged, and that will not as long as I am acting. I am determined people shan't say I "got it by luck" It was work-and ambition. Cranes luck" said Joe Jefferson not long ago, when somebody spoke of me in that connection, Cranes luck! Non sense; it's Cranes work" And that's just the reason why I am not ashamed to speak of it. I have never to my knowledge said, T can play that part just as well as So and So" But I have always played every part just as we'll, just as hard, as I possibly could and let the result take care of itself. And what's more, 1 am just as afraid of failure to-day as I ever was in my life, just as eager to guard against it.
 That's all, my young friends Once started on the stage, don't sacrifice a possible future for present cash. Don't try to star just because you have made a hit. Don't think about .'the rla. mour of the stage" Don't expect anybody to make the opportunity of your life" ready to your hand Study. study, study and wait your chance.
 Whether you should start or not de- bends largely on how anxious you are to work. Don't you think so?
 WILLIAM H. CRANE
 Copyright, 1898. by s. s. Mcclure.
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STRANGE MESSAGES SENT OVER THE TELEPHONE

Chicago Exchange. A man in the city had fox terrier of which he was very proud, while the dog was as complete ly devoted to him. He had to go to some place in Michigan on business which kept him away for several days. As soon as he had gone the dog began to suffer from severe attack of lone Illness. He wouldn't eat, and lay about mcping until the mans wife was afraid the terrier would die before his masters return. One night the man went into the station of the town where he was stopping and said that he wanted to talk to his dog. So con- nection was made with his house and the receiver was placed to the terriers ear. Instantly he recognized his mas ter's voice and began to frolic about and bark at great rate. Two or three times after that the Chicago man repeated the performance and he didn't mind the $10 or SIP that 1t cost him in the least.
 There have been various fiction stO- ries written which involved proposals by telephone but I know of at least one instance in which such thing ac- tually occurred. The young man was so pleased that when 1t was over he told me all about it. He had been courting a girl in an Ohio town, the name of which it isn't necessary to give here, had quarreled with her for some foolish reason and had come east, intending to sail for Europe. He had been thinking the matter over on the way, decided that he had been fool, and when he heard that another fel- low was after the girl made up his mind to heroic measures. So he sent message to the girl asking her to come to the telephone, but not giving his name When he came to the office to keep the appointment he was the most nervous fellow I ever saw, and I'll bet that no man was ever more agitated in the actual presence of his charmer But he managed to get through the business somehow, and the result was
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I had been with the Holman Opera Company good many weeks, at noth- ing a week, and I mean it, when my first opportunity came. It was in Will Transport, Pa, in 1863. l was sitting in the first entrance watching the stage, as 1 had watched 1t night in and night out. studying every bit of business. every change of costume, thinking which role I should like to play best, when the stage manager told me Ben Holman was ill The opera was Son nambula," an English version. and young Holman had been singing Alles- sio, the basso, a good comedy part. .
 T can do it," I said, without a mo- ment's hesitation. They all looked at me in astonishment, some in. amuse- ment.
 70 pshaw;;" said the elder Holman, you'd have to be rehearsed and you'd have to learn. the music. We've got to have somebody now"
 Well, can do it now," answered. T don't want any rehearsal and I know the music.'
 That was true, too. I had learned every part in the piece sitting there in the first entrance watching the con- pany. And l got every laugh, and never missed a word or note. The next night Ben Holman was cast for Caspar in Der FreischutZ," the heaviest basso part I know of. I sang it right through, and the next night sang Devilshoof. Ben heard what was going on, and he made an effort and came to the theater to take his own part, but the exertion killed him. He died not long afterward. His illness gave me my opportunity.
 I was with the Holmans for seven years, and when 1 wasn't at the theater I was with them at their lodgings. I never left 'em, and kept right on trying to learn every part in every piece in their repertoire, studying until toward morning, instead of skylarking after the performance was over.
 But all the time I realized that I would never make musician. I didn't know the notes. I wanted to be an actor. So I left the Holmans and went to Crowe's Theater and played there in legitimate comedy. I didn't get but $20 a week, but I was satisfied. I was. learning something all the time and I was sitting up until o'clock, plenty of mornings, studying the old English comedies, putting ice water on my eyes to keep 'em open and begging away at rehearsals next day.
 Not much "glamour" about that, eh?
 I was taking every chance that came my way and waiting for more. l was studying all the comedy parts in the range of old English comedy with the hope. and on the chance. that I might some day have an opportunity to play them. I remember learning letter per- feet seven parts in a single piece, for I couldn't tell which one of them I might get a chance at, some day.
 The young men who want to Ego on the stage" nowadays-do they fancy
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little stuffy room. up two or three steps from the main floor of the house.
 She was lying in some filthy rags and was badly frightened when I en- tered, doubtless thinking 1 was one of the Indians coming to torture her. told her I was her friend and had come to help her, but she did not believe me at first. I then compelled some of the members of her family to return to the house and care for her after I had washed her, bandaged her lacerated arms and back and dressed her injuries as we'll as was able. She told me that they had come for her on Friday and taken her to a corral where burroS are kept dashed her hands behind her back, and then hanged her so that her feet just touched the ground. Then they beat her most unmercifully and in ficted all sorts of fiendish tortures that savage mind can think of, until, finally, to escape further torture for the time being at least, poor old Ma-u-ri-ta confessed that she was the witch. They will confess to almost anything that is required of them to be released from torture.
 "The priests charged her with having caused the death of Wahwoh, who was a somewhat notable creature, and with other misdeeds usually attributed to witches The Zunis believe that the witches can cause a plague of grass hoppers or other pests, or the death or disgrace of any one toward whom they have a grudge. These Priests of the Bow cause all the trouble, for they are the ones who declare that there is witch and who seek her out. They in- variably select some poor old person who is in the way. Any Indian who has attained wealth enough to own wagon need have no fear of ever being found a witch, as he is too important member of the community after that.
 Miss Ferrote is also in the employ capacity of field, matron. She visits all the houses in the village, treats the sick consoles the Sorrowing, ministers to the wants of men, women and chil- dren in a perfectly impartial manner and is called Mother" by the entire tribe. Miss Ferrote, according to Ka-pa-te-wi, or Mormon" the pres ent Governor of Zuni, is beloved by every resident of the village, old and young.
 She said: "I dressed the old woman's injuries, which were frightfully severe, and have attended her repeatedly since that time. So far as know, no other woman, except of her own family, has evidence of danger toward any woman in the employ of the Interior Depart ment since I have been here, and do not believe it exists. I am perfectly sure that if the soldiers were removed
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so satisfactory that the first thing he
 wanted to know when he came out of
 the booth was how soon he could get a1 train back to the west. 4
 We have a good many queer ordersj to fill and they are becoming more nu-i merous as the telephone comes intol more general use. Last fall an operal singer had negotiations under way with some New York managers. They didn'tt want to engage her, however, without first hearing her voice. She was sing, ing in Chicago at the time and couldn'tl leave. The difficulty was adjusted byj telephone. The managers came to myj office, the woman sang before a bigI transmitter in Chicago and her tonesl were heard with perfect clearness herel in New York. The test was so satis-l factory that she was engaged on the1 spot.
 "The newspapers printed accounts of our reproduction of Niagara's roar atd the electrical exposition and of thej sounds of the great sound money} parade in Chicago last year, and, as r3 say, such orders are becoming more numerous
 "One class of men with whom the. long-distance telephone is in high favorl are the politicians. Perhaps it is be- cause they prefer to trust to spoken words rather than written ones, even where time is not consideration, perl haps it is because of the facilities which the telephone gives for keeping In con-I stant touch with events that are oc-i curing at distant places, but certain itj is that the politicians are among our most liberal patrons.
 During the last Presidential cam- paign Major Mckinley kept constantly in touch with the Republican head quarters both in New York and Chi- cago by means of the telephone, and he received the first official notice of his election in that way When important, bills are under consideration in Albany the telephone wires connecting that city with certain offices In New York are kept hot most of the time.
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not present a more picturesque appear ance than do the winding lanes in the pueblo of Zuni. Although they own thousands of acres of level land, yet they huddle their dwellings together in the oldest possible fashion. If. a Zuni builds a house in a certain place in the village and another likes the To- cation, he does not buy it, but simply builds his own. house upon the top of the other, which, according to Zuni custom, he has a perfect right to do: Another Indian also likes the site and builds a third house on top of the sec ond. Each leaves a hole in his floor, through which a ladder leads down into the house of the original posses sor of the lot, who, with his family,
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ET\HE Zun1 people were aroused 4:->: ::*seYeTal months ago by the dec -: -. federation of their priests that a #: witch dwelt among them. The .: witch was seized and tortured, :: .=1..: and would perhaps have suffered :. an awful. death had not the appeal of :. the: Indian agent been heard at Wash < %in gton. As a result, a squadron and a : half of. cavalry, with perhaps 10000 rounds of ammunition and a mountain !: battery, drew up one bright morning < Opposite Zuni and called a halt to the torture: by arresting the four priests : and sending them off to prison.
 >. A permanent military camp is still : : nlaintained there, and the Indians are
 @danc1ng. in their village. One author
 ity believes that hostilities are likely @ to break out at any moment; other au-
 <thGrities laugh at such fears.
 :: ::- In the center of a broad, sandy plain
 in:.N@w Mexico, about forty-five miles
 from: the point where the San
 ~ta.-**<Fe Pacific Railroad crosses the line into Arizona, is a -. qteer- looking altar of stone, hol-
 low: fin the middle and filled with gor-
 -SeltuS. prayer plumeS. This altar IS De- .lLeNed: by these people to mark the cen
 taF~0f the earth, and within half mile oft stands the Indian village of Zuni
 --tle largest Indian settlement, by the way within the boundaries of the United States.
 !rE;fiE. earliest record of these people is
 fCyli1ld is the writings of Don Esteva-
 nj eo.> who was ofAcfaI relator, or chrCni- :e elzt=.cf: events with the army of Coro- nado, who set out from Mexico in 153S
 tQ[ QUnduer and subdue the seven cit
 ies<. of. Cibola, which were said to lie $ rlreXy here within what is now the Ter
 FIt0fY~ of New Mexico. Unfortunately :: f fQr e 0r0nado, he found five of the cit ,feSs he searched for but instead of con- :Qllerfng any of them, suffered defeat .:7|:l eTeNer he started a TOW.
 :::.: THerefores. Estevanico is mournfully of the people they didn't conquer. :: :. .,Etle history of the Zunis, however, is *e0nlp ara tiXeIy complete, from that time f the present, for the reason that the fIsanctscan missionaries who were with :h1nf eSta blished a mission there which Was: occupied for centuries, and the fiins# Of which still stand, facing the :plazd h. Zuni. When the Territory of
 New Mexico was ceded to the United
 States. the 'ZUnis dwelt upon the grant /. W hich:4 they: still occupy, and their ::YEQperty rights were provided for in : the treaty. They are therefore not res -el yation Indians, but citizens, although
 fe L accorded the right of suffrage : The streets of Tunis or Morocco do
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contain but one room, perhaps twenty by thirty feet, although in exceptional cases two and even three rooms are to be found The side walls of the houses adjoiu and tiny doors connect one with another, so that it is possible to go quite a distance through the village without going out of. doors.
 They have a. religion. if their odd be- liefs may be. so termed, but it is re- ligion of fear rather than of love. If they can butt succeed in driving out the various devils that beset them the bad will be averted and the good will take care of itself Superstition rules them. The word of their priests is held at all times in highest reverence and is their supreme authority. They. are
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= h# ERE not sure that can #:k "A play the leading lady parts :: AEAI. in your pieces better than N they are now presented" a :. - young woman wrote me in .-.. Chicago a week or two ago, :. TT would not offer my services. I am
 living with a refined family as cook, 7 d-should you not agree with me as Ito my dramatic abilities they would :, be glad to take me back into their :. service, "
 If I erred in declining to permit this : lady: to substitute Shakespeare for
 bacon-and eggs. I hope she will at
 least fnfuse into her culinary career
 the same patience, energy, talent and
 tact which would have been essential to her success on the stage. She Is
 one of hundreds of her sex who honor s 4le-for l feel it to be an honor, by asking my advice about life on the
 stage: Many a good cook is spoiled to
 make a bad actress, and the young men who persist in embarking on the theatrical sea after passing by the ;. tannery or the ribbon counter won't mind, 1 am sure, if I try to point out to others just where they are apt to make shipwreck. Thirtyfive years of : hard work in any profession ought to make a mans experiences valuable to his fellows. There need be no sugges- tion of vanity in telling some or them where they may do good. The only thing I am vain of is hard work.
 Hard work" to ambitious ears, may sound harsh. he glamour of the stage-there's no use making fun or 1t, for it eXists-draws toward the stage door so many women who want to exploit their vanity, so many men who covet ready reputation and big salaries, that l sometimes think there are actually more aspirants for honors in this profession than in any other, especially than in those, such as law and medicine. where the laws require thorough and systematic preparation.
 Now, young man, or young woman, I'm not going to preach to you. l get a. good deal of fun out of life, even If l am a Hectic bit" past 90 and play under my own hair and my own name. But l Will tell you, my young friends. the hard work that, according to my theory is necessary to success on the stage, no matter how well equipped you are by nature and education.
 Nature did very little for me l am the first of my family on the stage, and 1 got from my father who was mechanic up in Connecticut, very little except the ability to work and the de- termination to stick to 1t. His name A Aas Crane. and when, as 9 boy, I made up my mind that l wanted to be an actor, l decided that l would still be a Crane. I've never had stage name. .. So I started in with no capital. no fine clothes, no special education and no influence. I didn't even have an opportunity, but I thought one would come If l waited long epnuTh.
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telephone system, and we have something like 250,000 subscribers. It isn't strange that some peculiar things happen over the long distance lines," said the telephone man, as he leaned back in his chair after connect ing Omaha and New York just to show how easy it is to talk across 1900 miles,
 "The other day the papers printed a story of how bank president in Min neapolis presided over meeting of di- rectors in Lowell, Mass" he went on. That was correct enough, but 1t wasn't such an unusual thing as one might infer from reading the accounts of it. It has become quite the regular thing for a railroad or bank director who can't get to the regular place of meeting to be connected with the meet ing place by wire; bv the use of a large transmitter he is able to hear every thing that goes on, and to take part in the proceedinos almost as we'll as though he were on the spot: I know too. that the distance phone has been used to close some of the largest com- mercial transactions that have taken place in the country during the past five years.
 'The use of the long range telephone for great business affairs seems natural enough. for the high charges are trivial comnared with the interests involved But anybody who hasn't had chance to learn from being in the business would be astonished at some of the messages that go over the wires and for which the senders pay good round sums in the way of tolls. I suppose the reason for this is that the telephone ia still comparatively new to most peo- ple: they lock upon it with something of wonder and they like to experiment. with it to see if it will do all that is claimed for 1t.
 UIJora Tor insfance ia a case that ue
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Interior Department request the War Department to order four troops of cavalry to Zuni, post haste, arrest the four Priests of the Bow, subdue any uprising that might follow the arrest, and then remain at Zuni until such time in the future as would insure the safety of the white people living there. Miss Dessette said:
 the old woman until Monday, and she was tortured first on the preceding Friday I took one of the teachers. Miss Ferrote, with me, and found the house by direction of relative of the
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OF THE ZUNI.

to discern witches, cast out devils, make rain. cause crops to grow, bring about fruitful marriages in fact, provided their work Is not in terfered with by some designing witch. Therefore, when anything goes wrong: it is the witch who Is to- blame and not the priests. Then it is that the quiet Zunis, urged to anger. by the statement of the priests that a witch has been found, rise as one man and demand the life of the witch by torture. Then it is, also that Uncle Sam steps in and calls a halt. This Is exactly the. situation in Zuni to-day
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nominally governed by a head man. known as the governor, who Is ap- pointed by the priests. He serves un- til they instruct him to vecate in fa- vor of a successor.
 But their secret order, known as the Priests of the Bow, comprises the real governing power over the people. They believe that the priests have the power
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U. s. TROOPS CALLED OUT IN
 A ZUN| WITCH CHASE ,"
White Women Teachers Take a Hand and the Whole Trouble Ends in a Peculiar Tdng|e-The
 Soldiers Compelled to Remain

passes in and out by means of the lad der route, for outside doors are the ex- ception rather than the rule in Zuni:
 AS a result of this plan the houses in the center. of the village are four or five high, while only on the extreme outskirts are single houses found In- terior decoration or furnishing Is scant in a Zuni house. Usually they
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in Zuni, went to the village as a mis- sionary about ten years ago. She it was who first reported the torturing of the witch, to Captain c. B. Nord- strom, Tenth Cavalry, who (until his sudden death a few weeks ago). was Indian agent at Santa Fe. Captain Nordstrom, upon the representations of Miss Dessette, recommended that the
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Scientists assert that the fly can, make 600 strokes a second with it's ! wings.
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Mary E. Dessette, who Is employed by the Interior Department as princi- pal teacher in the school established
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URRIEDLY GOVERNMENT IN CAMP
 THE zUNI CITY PREPARED FOR DEMONSTRATION
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Zuni people were aroused . :*"several months ago by the dec :: laration of their priests that a
 I.:.==wftch dwelt among them. The
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ERE I not sure that I can play the leading lady parts . in your pieces better than
 they are now presented" a