The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-31

would have to give up wine and midnight
suppers and other little luxuries. 1t was
at the end OF a season In New York and
there was no opportunity for an engage
ment. My finances dwindled day by day,
and finally we were compelled to take up
pork and beans as our daily bill OF fare.
Finally my wife and I occurred an engage
nient in vaudeville, and she Is still In that
business because OF the very point We make
in our present farce--the dislike of mana
gers to engage man and his wife.
The second act of Mistakes Will Hap
pen, as far as the situations are con-
cerned. is of course, exaggerated. but the
points leading UP to II are not Mr.. Hun
ter Chase is taken from real life. There
was Just such literary hypocrite had
rooms in tho same fiat where my wife and
boarded In New York, and he was con-
tinually trying to make love to my wife.
I have Dorothy Maryland the actors wife,
do exactiy In the play in her efforts to
help her husband as know my wife would
do II she were placed In similar position.
The world is full OF such women as Mrs.
Hunter Chase. I have met hundreds In
my time as an actor, and am continually
meeting them. The character is dupli-
cate OF the average society woman as l
have seen her. The rehearsal. as far as
1t concerns her attempt at acting, is not
in the least overdrawn from experiences
have had
THE scenery OF the second act is al
most an exact reproduction of the coach
house at Billy Vests home at Benson
hurst. Billy West is the we'll known min
during tho summer visit Vests coach
house to take gymnasium exercise. He has
a fine gymnasium fitted UP in the loft, 1t
was while there one day two summers
ago that conceived the idea of the second
act.
THE cockney coachman of the fTrce and
the German servant girl have hundreds Of
duplicates in real life. There is but little
In the piece, with tho exception OF the
hide and 70 seek business in the second
act, that ] have not at one time or another
seem the original of
I'VE are moro than gratined with the
reception accorded u.s. and We shall come
again"
That David Belascos "zaza" is one OF
tho theatrical triumphs OF the century Is
conceded by all who keep posted upon
things theatrical.
Tho story is an intense one. and the
theme carries the audience in breathless
suspense right up TO the final fan of the
thoughtless woman OF the vaudeville stage,
bestows her heart upon a man who, UNI
known to her, Is already the husband OF
another woman and the father OF little
girl about eight years old Zaza learns
that he is married Blind with rage, she
seeks to know the truth and to punish
her deceiver II II Is true. She learns the
true state of affairs from the innocent
prattlin.. lips of her lovers child. The
bar nd oil n Ia
of vengeance leave her mind.
From tho early love scene between Ber-
nard and Zaza throughout the passionate
scenes when she learns of the perfidy
OF the man she loves up to the heart break
ing climax where zaza gives him up. her
womans heart bounds and beats with joy.
or is quivering with pain, from the rise
of the curtain to the final fall thereof.
The play will be presented here by
Charles Frohmans company soon.
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| An advance notice says: One of the
most weird sensations a person could ex-
perience IS to watch the moving picture
representing tho crossing OF Brooklyn
bridge. AS you sit In your chair something
begins to move; you seem to be on the
front of train on the bridge, and the
bridge appears Mt first 10 be passing YOU;
YOU involuntarily grasp the arms of your
chair till you feel that you are firmly To-
Gated, then you notice that the bridge is
stationary and that YOU are passing 1t Mt
a constantly increasing speed You trem-
| BILE as you see another train approach
/ ing, for il seems to be on the same track,
but 1t passes safely and on you go; by
Orders, uprights, stringers and all the
/ wonderful mechanism of the bridge on,
on swiftly silently though you seem to
hear tho rumble of tho train, till the sec
/ ond abutment is passed and you slacken
your speed as you finally stop in Brooklyn
/ station.
With the laughing comedy OF Casey
! Troubles" there are presented two of these
/ machines the War-o-graph and Cneo-
graph. which are used to while away the
time between acts
"Casey's Troubles will be the attrac-
tion at the opera house Tuesday, jan
uary ..
IT Is reported In the East that tho threat
ened suit OF Miss Florence Crosby against
Millionaire b. p. Cheney. the husband of
Julia Arthur, for having her evota ID from
the Broadway theater on December Is,
while Miss Arthur was playing there. was
Med last week. The sum asked is $50, 900.
Miss Crosby says that she has been an
! noyed by detectives employed either by
Mr. Cheney or his wife. and also threat
ems to institute other suits against the
former for defamation OF character.
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The Toledo Blade says: That Jolly farce,
Who Is Who" opened Mt the Lyceum
last evening. and made roaring hit
Many improvements in lines and company
/ have been made since last season and IL
Is now one of the best OF the farces vau-
deyilie features form large portion of
the entertainment and for this work there
has been gathered together company of
artists that 1t would be hard to improve
upon.
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| Miss Anita Brdger, formerly In What
Happened to Jones" has been selected by
the Broadhurst Brothers to take tho place
In their why Smith Left Home" com
papy, made vacant by the retirement OF