The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-23
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Deuth sf JinA churoHdn Broke Up %. 10
seph's "LnAy u Lyons" Company.
"What play Il Il - asked a man ut one Of the
theatres In broadway. II was In tho afternoon.
and there was nc crowd. The appearance o.
the man had attracted the gaze Of the thronE.
Evidently he did not belong 70 this section
The man 10 whom the inquiry was addressed
rave the desired information.
IT reckon / never seen II" said the stranger
Don't seem to be nobody goin' In"
"The play IL tonight" said the box-ofies
man.
"show paradin'. I reckon. prummin' M
customers"
The stranGer was informed that he was mis-
taken; that there are no show parades IN
New York.
what kind OF a play is III"
The box-oflce man answered this, and also
/ tho inquiry about the number Of theatres In
Greater New York. -
"Do YOU know what's Roln' on at all OF EN- p
asked the stranger. The young man called on
the list.
1T reckon the one I'm lookin' for Amt bein'
played" the stranger answered. Il reckon
I've run upagln another shell game. III tel
you how it was. They got mp an excursion
from our part OF the country. wasn't comm
until 1 happened to think that maybe I'd see
the show here / saw before the war. And y
was the first show / ever seen. and I've been
readln' the papers and the show bills on the
barns and fences In the country where l live
but amt never seen the name OF that SNOW
since. And so I axed the excursion man II ne
thought / could see 1t in New York. and ne
said they showed everything here, and II
didn't nnd It. and would call for 1t. sorne OF the
theatres would play II. 30 I bought q round
49, M y .t.tk kaar "A a thine NhOTt what II
"s.!$hst e The naYe, Of the plAy'"
Great Old play. No.. You won't see that In
Say. stranger, i does me ! power Of good to
hear you Gay y But you never saw our COM
paaH %b H.s tso II; . IeSf Is ttbfat-Ihave seen several9 Pr
psnT.'T No fhisi6ia}ptlh. ,xoSdss, e front 81, e T. 4
INV m5S fo %Sed b sa P before II Z they sHe played play Il they Would
give o parade. A four-horse wagon held the
SSa aadis and Sn Che ssSS% SEs %Ss s 2 o cids shs se froSn n
and M there was they had sIeds."'.
""PIdn,tAth company PLAY t SnythPtS ecD siss sIdp4
bmrsSkop t : S;S been playin' yet IL Jim Church
Who was jim churehilf"
why. the sign painter IN cur town: Every
body in our CoTnsTy fPeW oSS SI% Ehus Ssatb IN.
III Wunt wSy u,,N a.
tcsEtNSE sIi w JIM te SSPPlr SEi was funnier than a al
%SSs0hi he q ai. had ehs : b 5TsS iiae had Z dHsS 70 lsF as sf L.
held held { TIDd than HAND; ,rS Sdn his ef fSos out wfHs5 e T Sne az e
ways funny. He didn't dare 90 to church,
We'll, Jim Churchill vas the funny man In the
went to see him. l remember onet q hearip'
tor Of the 6voIe. why re didn't write somethin'
the company. and Col: Davis said the readers
body but Jim Churchill. Jim always had
more .~paintin' than he could do. and, he
come to our town from ondon But when
ever Fitton seen Jim. Churchill come. into the
shop he'd, begin to laf. so that; 1t kept the
work behind, and the firm, finally broke up
Jim Churchill would q, made money paintini
but the people wanted him in the show. and II
kind o. broke into both businesses. and he
didn't make money outen neither, one For, q
| long time after Jim Churchill. died the people
in our town didn't LAD. any. Jim CHURCHILL had
furnished the lafln' for the town so long that
it seemed as II It was his business. and when he
| died It was natural for the Lady OF Lyons tc
bust up. and for people to respect the mem'ry
Of the man that made 'em laf!"
IT don't think you told me the name OF youl
Sent Joe."
NO. Missoury. Before the war"