Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-14

Stage Notes.
"CYRANO BERGERAC" AT GRIP
PIE CREEK.

Can Interview
cat the Palace, out in Cripple, we've
been playing repertoire
The Hidden Hand, The Fire Patrol,
Miss and many more
Of that same kind of dramas that L
can't enumerate,
My wife and and Jimmy being star
triumvirate.
We did right we'll? Oh, yes, sir, we
made tidy stack,
But lost it all producing this 'Cyrano
Bergerac.
Forget the dep Not much, sir You
see the fellows there
Are prejudiced against a name that
has an uppish air;
They know exactly what they want
demand the newest plays
So when the New York papers came
they caught the latest craze
And came around to warn us that
they'd rip us up the back
Unless we promptly gave 'em this
|Cyrano Bergerac.
I'VE sent for it-at last it came.
Great Scott says Jim, it's Greek
Or Latin or some foreign tongue that
none Of us can speak,"
That stumped us till we ran across the
chef of Wolfe's hotel
A greasy little aago, but he knew the
lingo well,
And so he took the drama to his evil
smelling shack
And turned his talents loose upon 'Cy-
rano Bergerac.'
HE worked like mad, that dago did,
through all the night and day
Translating and expurging and i'm
proving on the play.
He introduced some clever gags and
dances for Roxane
And raised the adaptation to high
artistic plane,
And, let me tell you, when twas done
there wasn't any lack
Of good dramatic action in 'Cyrano
Bergerac!
1.-THE costumes and the settings were
deliberately planned
That is, we did the best we could with
what We had on hand
And-well, to make the story short,
the evening came at last
And brought with it an audience I've
never seen surpassed.
From Pemberton and Victor, from Gill
lette and Rusty Tack
The boys came down in crowds to see
'Cyrano Bergerac.'
1.-The curtain rose amid applause-the
orchestra forgot
TO finish up the overture, excitement
was so hot
The play began-you'V seen it, sir?
It's beautiful-you're right
But you have never seen it as we put
it on that night.
OF course I played The title role, and
when | entered-back-
I swore we had winner in 'Cyrano
Bergerac.'
"But Bloody Bill of Pemberton up
from his seat arose
And laid bet with Canyon Kid he'd
amputate my nose
From where he stood. He drew his
gun-a shot-the bullet bore
My property proboscis clear across to
BENEFITS store.
He made a hit?" That's true, sir, but
after that, alack,
The boys showed little interest in 'Cy-
rano Bergerac!'
Chats all there is to tell, sir-it went
from bad to worse;
Whenever I came on the stage some
hobo, with curse,
Would rise up in the gallery, the same
as Bloody Bill,
And mutilate my make up with his
id revolver skill.
We closed the house and walked the
ties-Im happy to be back
And never will play again 'Cyrano
Bergerac!'
Randolph Hartley in Dramatic
Mirror.
Ladies will please remove their
large hats" call the ushers, as they
walk down the aisles from the orches-
ira to the rear of the theater at Col
onel Sims Montauk, in Brooklyn, re-
ports the New York Times. There has
been a moral force working in most Of
the theaters in the country in regard
| to the removal of Objectionable hats
during the play for some time, but i
was at the Montauk that they made
the innovation of having the usherS
make the general request just before
the curtain went up every night and a.
every matinee. That was
a year ago last winter, il
the middle of the season, and it has
become an old story now and theprac
tice has been adopted in other Brook
Ign theaters. But, looking at it after
year and a half of experience, the
managers believe that the practice is
very satisfactory. The request to re-